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Home News & Views News Briefs Anti-Semitism in Austria 'Highest in Years'
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Anti-Semitism in Austria 'Highest in Years'
Anti-Semitism is rising in Austria as well as elsewhere in Europe; new Muslim migrants may be part of the cause.
Hana Levi Julian
4 Nisan 5776 – April 12, 2016
Photo Credit: Johannes G. Hauer / Wikimedia Commons
Wall of the synagogue in Baden (Austria), naming the Jewish communities in Lower Austria before 1938.
A Jewish organization in Vienna says anti-Semitism in Austria is at its highest level in years.
The group representing the Jewish community is an NGO (non-governmental organization) called the Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde, or IKG.
Data presented to the IKG by a second group, the Forum Against Anti-Semitism (Forum gegen Antisemitismus) indicates last year there were 465 incidents involving anti-Semitism, as compared to 255 such incidents in 2014 – an 82 percent rise.
In 2015, nearly half of the incidents involved Islamic anti-Semitism online (205 cases), according to IKG President Oskar Deutsch. There were 85 anti-Semitic incidents online in 2014.
Around 15,000 Jews live in Austria.
"There is an increasing concern in our community that – if the proportion of Muslims in Austria continues to rise due to immigration, due to the refugees – this could become problematic for us," IKG secretary-general Raimund Fastenbauer told the European Jewish Press.
The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has urged the European Union and its member states to increase efforts to combat widespread anti-Semitic cyber hate.
Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz reacted to the report by affirming, "Jewish life must be protected in Austria. It is the duty of the state to make Jewish people in Austria feel secure; that is for us as Austria a great responsibility."
However, Sebastian did not outline any concrete plan to address the issue, nor did he offer any suggestion to the Jewish community on how to mitigate the threat.
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Hana Levi Julian is a Middle East news analyst with a degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Southern Connecticut State University. A past columnist with The Jewish Press and senior editor at Arutz 7, Ms. Julian has written for Babble.com, Chabad.org and other media outlets, in addition to her years working in broadcast journalism.
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INSIGHTS > New Articles > SECURE 2019 > [Insights Secure – 2019] Daily UPSC Mains Answer Writing Practice: 15 February 2019
[Insights Secure – 2019] Daily UPSC Mains Answer Writing Practice: 15 February 2019
INSIGHTS NEW SECURE – 2019: YEARLONG TIMETABLE
Tomorrow's Static Topic: Probity in Governance: Concept of public service; Philosophical basis of governance
and probity; Information sharing and transparency in government, Right to Information,
Codes of Ethics, Codes of Conduct, Citizen's Charters, Work culture, Quality of service delivery,
Utilization of public funds, challenges of corruption.
Topic– Climate change
1) The Green New Deal is the kind of impetus that climate action requires today. Examine. (250 words)
The Green New deal in discussion in USA seeks to address the issues around historical responsibility and the one inevitability of taking action against climate change. The article delves into the details of the deal and examines why it is so important.
The question expects us to explain about the green new deal, highlight why it is important in arriving at a solution to the climate crisis, discuss its impacts and talk about the way forward.
Introduction – Highlight about the severity of climate change problems and USA's reluctance so far in driving the world towards a solution.
Explain about the green new deal and the details of it – The Green New Deal "is a four-part programme for moving America quickly out of crisis into a secure, sustainable future".Green New Deal audaciously aspires to make sweeping changes to the environment and economy and meet all of the U.S.'s power demand from clean, renewable and zero emission energy sources by 2030, while at the same time addressing racial and economic justice
Highlight why USA is important for climate negotiations and the setback that it gave to global action against climate change by withdrawing from the Paris accord
Thereafter, discuss about the implications of the green new deal and how it would provide an impetus to action against climate change
Conclusion – Give your view and discuss way forward.
Topic– Distribution of key natural resources across the world (including South Asia and the Indian subcontinent).
2) Discuss the issues with sugarcane farming in India and suggest way forward?(250 words)
India is the 2nd largest producer of sugarcane in the world and despite that the woes of the sugarcane farmers in India are often in the news. This article gives an in-depth analysis of the issues faced by sugarcane farmers and also discusses the way forward.
The question expects us to discuss in detail the issues faced by sugarcane producers in the country and discuss solutions to their problem.
Discuss – Here the discussion expects you to delve into the problems faced by sugarcane producers of the country and discuss ways to alleviate those problems.
Introduction – Highlight that India is the second largest sugarcane producing country in the world and despite that fact the woes of the sugarcane farmers are neverending.
Discuss the issues faced by sugarcane farmers in the country
Non payment of arrears due to supply demand gap of sugarcane and ineffective policies of the government
Resource intensive nature of sugarcane and the problems that it leads to
Mill owners barely make profits, thanks to additional GST and transportation costs, among other woes etc
Discuss solutions tries by the government for upending the problems such as sugar subsidies, exporting excess production of sugar, production of ethanol from sugarcane to use in cars and buying excess sugar and hoarding it as buffer stock. Highlight that introduction of HYVs has further added to supply demand mismatch. Highlight that Brazil has successfully implemented ethanol production policies to effectively reduce oil import. But implementing the same in India poses a grave threat to groundwater levels, the depletion of which is already a grim ecological catastrophe to be fix.
Discuss some potential solutions
The Tuteja, Thorat, Nanda Kumar and Rangarajan committees have all contributed to sugarcane price policy in the country
striking a balance between ethanol blending policies and shifting farmers away from sugarcane etc
Topic– India and its bilateral relations
3) India Saudi ties require the maintenance of a fine balancing act. Analyze. (250 words)
The upcoming visit of Saudi crown prince to India has brought the focus on India's bilateral relations with Saudi Arabia and the tightrope of bilateral relations that has had to navigate in West Asia. The article examine India Saudi relationship and helps us in preparing for the same.
The question expects us to discuss the contours of the bilateral relationship between India and Saudi Arabia and expects us to bring out the fine balancing act that India has had to maintain in its relationship with west Asian countries. The question expects us to discuss the issues and provide a way forward.
Introduction – Highlight the upcoming visit of MBS to India and how this has brought focus on India Saudi relationship.
Discuss the contours of the bilateral relationship
Modi's visit to Riyadh in 2016 gave a fillip to security and economic ties with Saudi Arabia. More recently, Modi met MBS on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Argentina, and the latter spoke of Saudi investment in India's national investment and infrastructure fund.
India, for its part, has refrained from even a hint of disapproval of Saudi Arabia disastrous military intervention in Yemen or its misguided attempts to isolate Qatar
Discuss the tight balancing act that India has had to navigate in West Asia in the context of its relationship with Saudi Arabia
India's own tightrope with Iran, and Pakistan's recent manoeuvrings with the Saudis create a tricky set of issues for New Delhi to navigate with the Saudis.
Discuss the close ties of Saudi Arabia with Pakistan and how saudi stand on terrorism in India has been an irritant
Highlight the complexities associated with India Iran Saudi triangle
Discuss the humanitarian crises and how India has had to maintain a stoic silence
Conclusion – Give your view on India Saudi bilateral relations and discuss way forward.
Topic– Information sharing and transparency in government, Right to Information,
4) Sharing of personal information should be governed by certain rules. What do you think should be those principles. Discuss.(250 words)
The question wants us to write in detail about the principles which should govern information sharing i.e how governments should regulate information sharing of citizens, customers in the increasingly digital world.
Introduction– write a few introductory lines about the increasing importance and generation, use of personal information in today's world and mention the nature of entities holding and sharing such information.
Discuss in points about the principles which should govern information sharing. E.g
Such rules should provide a framework to ensure that personal information about living individuals is shared appropriately.
Be open and honest with the individual (and/or their family where appropriate) from the outset about why, what, how and with whom information will, or could be shared, and seek their agreement, unless it is unsafe or inappropriate to do so.
Seek advice, if you are in any doubt about sharing the information concerned, without disclosing the identity of the individual where possible.
Where possible, share information with consent, and where possible, respect the wishes of those who do not consent to having their information shared.
Consider safety and well-being etc.
Topic- Information sharing and transparency in government, Right to Information,
5) RTI act faces several issues and constraints on demand side as well as the supply side in its implementation. Discuss those issues and constraints.(250 words)
The question wants us to write in detail about the issues and constraints faced in implementation of the RTI Act from the point of demand side as well as the supply side.
Introduction- write a few introductory lines about the RTI Act and mention how it has empowered citizens and when was it enacted and implemented.
Discuss the issues from the demand side. E.g
Low public awareness
Quality of awareness
Constraints faced in filing applications
Poor quality of information provided etc.
Discuss the issue from the supply side. E.g
Failure to provide information within 30 days
Inadequate trained PIOs and First Appellate Authorities
Obsolete record management Guidelines etc.
6) Discuss the measures that need to be taken to enhance the accountability and clarity in role under the RTI act, 2005. (250 words)
The question wants us to write in detail about the recommendations that we have for improving the working of the RTI Act and how accountability can be improved and what roles need to be made clear.
Introduction– write a few introductory lines about the RTI act and how it has increased accountability of the government and the bureaucracy and new roles it has created.
Discuss the measures that need to be taken to enhance the accountability and clarity in role under the RTI Act. E.g
Creation of RTI Implementation Cell by appropriate Governments.
Strengthening implementation set-up at Public Authority
Annual self assessment by Nodal Departments
Conduct branding and promotion campaigns to educate the citizens about the use of RTI Act in order to increase citizen involvement in the decision making process
Alternative Channels for submission of RTI requests etc.
7) Discuss the role played by key stakeholders under the Right to Information Act of India.(250 words)
The question wants us to write in detail about the key stakeholders in implementation of the RTI Act and define in detail the role played by them.
Introduction– write a few introductory lines about the RTI Act. e.g mention the huge role played by the RTI Act in giving the citizens of the country access to public information and empowering them.
DIscuss the role played by the key stakeholders. E.g
Civil Society Organizations.
enhancing the reach and awareness of RTI among the masses. I
it is mostly with the support of the social activists and Civil Society Organizations that a person in a village is able to use the RTI Act for ensuring his basic rights.
However given the geographical size & population, the reach of Civil Society Organizations and social activists is limited.
contribution towards training of PIOs and AAs and made them aware of their roles and responsibilities under the RTI Act. Media
It has played an important role in generating awareness at a mass scale.
While there has been no major media campaign for promoting the usage of RTI Act, nonetheless the awareness on the Act has been generated through news articles based on RTI investigation.
Journalists at times have played a dual role – as the users of RTI Act and as watchdogs, monitoring and scrutinizing the implementation of the Act.
Basic institutional structure/processes has been set up as per the RTI act requirement
Department of Personnel & Training has been made the Nodal Department for the RTI implementation at the Central level.
State governments.
Various State Governments had already enacted laws for access to information in some form or the other,
some State Governments have taken innovative initiatives in line with the spirit of the Act. The key initiatives are: – Jankari Call Centre, Government of Bihar etc.
Topic– code of ethics and code of conduct
8) Critically examine whether code of ethics should be made legally enforceable for politicians and civil servants in India? (250 words)
The question expects us to highlight the pros and cons of making code of ethics legally enforceable for ensuring probity in public life. Finally we need to provide our fair and balanced opinion and discuss way forward.
Critically examine – When you are asked to examine, you have to probe deeper into the topic, get into details, and find out the causes or implications if any . When 'critically' is suffixed or prefixed to a directive, all you need to do is look at the good and bad of something and give a fair judgement.
Introduction – explain about what is meant by code of ethics – Code of ethics represents certain values and norms that standardise one's behaviour in different aspects of life. It leads to morality in actions and thus ensures fairness and justice to all.
Explain why making code of ethics legally enforceable would be beneficial by highlighting what kind of situation can be avoided
Prevalence of corruption
Lack of probity in public life
Horse trading, defections often show lack of integrity and organizational ethics. Officials taking prejudiced decisions or favouring a ideology while discharging official duties
Discuss the relevance of code of ethics
It helps one in situations of dilemma. One may follow the code and function ethically.
Sets benchmark for appropriate behavior. Provides a framework for reference in case discretionary powers are to be used.
The relevance is more in present society where values and ethics are on decline either seemingly because of greater awareness or in reality
Discuss the limitations
A law will have limited utility, improvement of morals is required
Add to litigation
Not possible to define everything in a code, loopholes will be there etc
Conclusion – give your view and discuss way forward by talking about the recommendations of 2nd ARC
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U.S. WOMEN'S OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP
Angela Stanford
NORTH PLAINS, OREGON
RHONDA GLENN: How long was that putt you made on the 72nd green?
ANGELA STANFORD: I think it was about 20 feet.
RHONDA GLENN: Was that "Wow"? It had to be "Wow", that you said, when it went in.
ANGELA STANFORD: Well, I said, "Oh, my God." (Laughter.)
RHONDA GLENN: How did it feel, what was it like when that ball started rolling toward the hole?
ANGELA STANFORD: It just seemed like the closer it got the bigger my eyes were getting, and the more real it was becoming. And I'm so glad it didn't turn out of the hole, because it was moving to the left, and I thought, please hit the hole before it goes too far left. And when I saw it disappear I just screamed.
RHONDA GLENN: Any plans for tomorrow? What you have planned going into your round?
ANGELA STANFORD: Well, you know, I think we're pretty lucky to have another shot at this golf course, because I did not play it very well today. I put myself in so many bad spots. And that's the good thing about getting another chance tomorrow, because I.
We won't make those mistakes again.
Q. The way your afternoon went, the fact that you had a shot to tie or at least to have a shot to even come close there on the 18th hole, did it surprise you the way everything sort of fell into place for you, despite the way your afternoon had gone?
ANGELA STANFORD: It did, because I was not playing well. I thought I would play better today. And it was tough out there. But coming down the stretch I knew -- I mean I knew Annika was there, and I felt like if we just kept backing up and backing up, I'm sure she was ready for that. And I was disappointed that -- I was disappointed that I fell back so far that she was in the tournament then. So to have a shot coming up 18 was pretty cool, because I felt like I didn't deserve it at one point, but just lucky to have it. But I'm glad I took advantage of it.
Q. I'm just wondering if you could sort of describe -- I don't know, what happened in your mine, your body, the whole thing, from the whole 18th hole from standing in the middle of the fairway to watching Annika's drama play out, knowing what's been happening with the lead, just the whole swirl of everything?
ANGELA STANFORD: Well, I kind of started thinking, okay, if Annika makes par, I knew Hilary could make birdie, but then it only was -- it was just Hilary. And I could see what she was doing. But I kept telling myself, three solid shots, three solid shots, get a good tee shot, get it in the fairway, hit the second shot and as we were walking up, I could see that the crowd was kind of moved, they shouldn't have been there. So I knew something was going on. And fortunately they told us that there was a ruling. So I kind of walked back and just kind of kept walking around. I didn't want to talk about the shot that we had to hit until we had to hit it. So I think that was good. I pulled out a 6-iron, was swinging that, stretching. So until we had to hit it I didn't want to think about it. And actually hit one of the best 5-woods of the week, because I've been struggling with that club a little bit. I only have to hit it once, but I finally got it right today. And then the last shot was about -- it was 45 yards to the front, 60 yards to the pin, and we knew everything kind of funneled left, so I said to Jeremy, "50 yards? Yes". So I thought 50 yards, I hit that shot all the time. It's just never to try to tie for the U.S. Open. So actually missed it a little right of where I wanted, but right was the spot to miss.
Q. If we walk out there right now and put a ball in that same spot on the 18th green and you putted that thing 25 times, how many times do you think you'd make that putt?
ANGELA STANFORD: You know, actually I think I would make it more than I -- I'd probably miss more than make it. But it was a good putt to have. There wasn't much break to it. The speed was very obvious, it was downhill and fast. So cross that off the list. And really from one side it looked pretty straight. And then from the other side it looked like you had to move a little left if anything. So fortunately, it was downhill and the speed part was taken care of.
RHONDA GLENN: How much break did you allow for, if any?
ANGELA STANFORD: You know, I want to say I played it right edge, but where I think I'm playing and where I'm actually playing can be two different things. But I wanted to start it right edge, half in, half out, because I knew I was going to hit it so softly, that if there were any break at all it would move.
RHONDA GLENN: It was just a feel putt, basically?
ANGELA STANFORD: Basically, yeah.
Q. So much happened on the 18th hole with the last two groups, does that surprise you at all or do you expect that 72nd hole of the U.S. Open?
ANGELA STANFORD: I didn't even know it was the 72nd hole. I didn't expect Annika to do what she did. I didn't expect that at all. And I did not realize that that putt was for bogey. I'd actually looked over into the crowd, because I wanted to know if it was for par, and they said it was for bogey. And I didn't expect that at all. But I knew -- I think Jeremy was upset with me because all day I wasn't exactly focused on just what we were doing. I was kind of -- I was concerned about her. Obviously when the best player in the field is in the field -- the best player in the world is in the field, if you continue to back up, it's just like any sport, if you let a team in that hasn't been in it the whole time, they're going to jump on it. I knew if I backed up far enough she would take advantage of that. And that's why I was so upset with myself. I should have never -- me, personally, should never have given her that opportunity to be in the tournament:
RHONDA GLENN: What's Jeremy's last name.
ANGELA STANFORD: Young.
RHONDA GLENN: Y-o-u-n-g?
ANGELA STANFORD: Yes.
Q. What happened throughout the day, obviously you've been solid for almost two weeks straight, what happened to the swing today and what was going wrong?
ANGELA STANFORD: The swing didn't really feel that bad. I think the way we were trying to play shots into greens the ball was releasing much more than I expected, because I felt like we were hitting spots for the most part. But we just -- I think the one thing I learned today is that I need to find the best place to miss it, like the best place to be chipping from or putting from, because I don't think I thought about that. Because I thought, well, I expected to hit every shot perfect and hit them exactly where I wanted to and forgot that it was the last round of the U.S. Open. So there were some funny hops out there we haven't had in the last couple of days or last couple of weeks. And it just seemed like the ball just kept releasing through the greens and not doing what I had in mind. So it wasn't that I was hitting it bad.
RHONDA GLENN: Was there at any time while you were waiting on the 18th fairway, that you wished you had been asked to play through.
ANGELA STANFORD: No, no. I was happy that she was doing her thing and taking care of her business. And I didn't want to be up there when all that was going on. So I was very happy with what was going on.
RHONDA GLENN: Did you have as much fun playing with Hilary as you thought you might.
ANGELA STANFORD: You know, unfortunately I got so focused in on what I was doing that -- but there were times out there that she would make a putt and I was happy for her. And she made the putt on 17, that was huge. So I was happy for her there, because I kind of started thinking, if I'm not going to win this, if I'm not going to be in the playoff, I would like her to be there.
RHONDA GLENN: You are in the playoff.
Q. Angela, can you give us some idea of what it feels like to be playing the way you're playing two weeks straight? What does it mean to you and how does it feel at this stage of your career to be contending for one of the biggest championships in women's golf?
ANGELA STANFORD: That is a good question. You know, it's funny when you're playing in tournaments and you're missing cuts and you're kind of going about things, it feels like forever. It feels like you're never, ever going to make it to a final group. It feels like you're never, ever going to win a tournament. And when it happens you're like, wow, that happened really fast. So I think to get the opportunity to play tomorrow, knowing that I'm only 25 is really cool, because at times out here I feel really old. I mean with 13, 14, 15 years old, and even on the LPGA Tour, everybody is -- if you're not 19 or 20, you're old. So it's neat for me that it's happening when it's happening. And God's timing is perfect, and he -- I've learned so much. And to get to play all four years of college and to be in my third year on Tour and all of this to be happening is really neat for me because I think if you've ever spent time at the bottom, you enjoy the top much more.
Q. A lot of times when players are in a group and they're both playing well, they feel like they feed off of each other. Did you guys kind of -- did the struggles sort of feed off of each other? And the second part, is what was going through your mind as you were watching her putt to win?
ANGELA STANFORD: Well, I think unfortunately our struggles did kind of playoff of each other. I think if one of us would have started playing well, I think both of us would have started playing well. And you know, to make that last putt and to be on such a high, and to realize now I'm in a playoff to win, and then to remind myself, oh, wait a minute, she has to miss hers. That was hard to stand over there and watch that, because I couldn't imagine going from that high to that low in all of, what, two or three minutes.
Q. Since you won last week and since you made that clutch putt on 18, do you think you've got the momentum going for tomorrow?
ANGELA STANFORD: I think so. Obviously Kelly must have had an amazing round today. I don't even know what she shot. Was she the only 1-under par today? There were a couple. That's just an awesome round. Hilary held it together, when she could have gone south. But I think -- I'm excited about tomorrow because I know that I can play better. I know that I can play this golf course much better, and so that's why I'm excited about tomorrow and feel like I have some momentum going in.
RHONDA GLENN: Congratulations, what an exciting finish. Good luck tomorrow.
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How do you find the coordinates of an object in an image?
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1 : an outline especially of a curving or irregular figure : shape the sleek contours of the car The map shows the contour of the coastline. also : the line representing this outline. 2 : the general form or structure of something : characteristic —often used in pluralthe contours of a melody…
How does OpenCV determine contours?
How to Detect Contours in Images using OpenCV in PythonConvert the image to a binary image, it is a common practice for the input image to be a binary image (which should be a result of a thresholded image or edge detection).Finding the contours using findContours() OpenCV function.Draw these contours and show the image.
What is threshold in OpenCV?
Thresholding is a technique in OpenCV, which is the assignment of pixel values in relation to the threshold value provided. In thresholding, each pixel value is compared with the threshold value. If the pixel value is smaller than the threshold, it is set to 0, otherwise, it is set to a maximum value (generally 255).
How do you find the threshold of an image?
The idea is to separate the image into two parts; the background and foreground.Select initial threshold value, typically the mean 8-bit value of the original image.Divide the original image into two portions; Find the average mean values of the two new images.Calculate the new threshold by averaging the two means.
What is cv2 threshold?
The function used is cv2. First argument is the source image, which should be a grayscale image. Second argument is the threshold value which is used to classify the pixel values. Third argument is the maxVal which represents the value to be given if pixel value is more than (sometimes less than) the threshold value.
What is threshold value?
[′thresh'hōld 'val·yü] (computer science) A point beyond which there is a change in the manner a program executes; in particular, an error rate above which the operating system shuts down the computer system on the assumption that a hardware failure has occurred. (control systems)
How is threshold value calculated?
Data is collected for first statistic. When compared with the Threshold value, if the Threshold type is percentage (for the second statistic) data is collected. Both will be divided and the result will be multiplied by 100, thus giving a percentage. This resultant value will be compared with 80, i.e., Threshold value.
How do you set threshold value?
To set a threshold, click the slider icon to the right of the metric title in the left column of the metrics row. On the page that appears, enter the threshold values you wish to assign in the text boxes to the right of the metric name. You do not need to assign thresholds to all metrics.
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Below are some of our frequently asked questions. If your question isn't answered please don't hesitate to contact us.
We run lessons across a range of pools in Chester, Wrexham, Ellesmere, Delamere and Macclesfield. Please use the 'Venues' drop-down menu to find out more about our venues.
What if my child is ill will we be able to reschedule a session?
We are unable to offer alternative lessons for minor illness, however, should your child have a prolonged illness or as often happens a limb is broken we are happy to offer a credit for missed lessons which can be used for the next term.
What can I do to get my baby/small child ready for lessons?
A really easy way to get your little ones ready for swimming lessons can be through some everyday bath time fun. Using a little watering can and sprinkling it over your child's head is a good way to get them used to the splashes in the pool environment. Another excellent way to get them comfortable with water being on their faces is to practice to blowing a few bubbles in the bath water through their nose or mouth. You can demonstrate first and they will soon follow and start having fun too! Family trips to the swimming pool are also great for getting the children accustomed to the swimming pool environment so they can be comfortable in their surroundings on their first day.
What are the term dates and how long is a term?
We have 4 terms each made up of 12 weeks which means we run swimming lessons 48 weeks of the year without a summer break. This makes us different from other swim schools because we provide children with that important continuity which they need for developing their ability in the pool.
At Making Waves we are really enthusiastic about getting children swimming from an early age. Swimming is a very important skill to have and at the same time it provides a great way to keep fit and have lots of fun too! The ASA recommends children start in the water at 6 months old. Making Waves are currently taking children from the age of three.
How much are the lessons and do I need to pay in advance?
The first lesson with Making Waves is always free. We invite you to come along and see what we do. Once you're convinced that we're right for you we take payment in full for each term. Lesson rates vary dependent on pool so please contact Bob for more details.
We use direct debits powered by GoCardless. Find out more on this page.
Can I come along to see what you do?
Parents and little swimmers are always welcome to come along and see what we do. Having the opportunity to see some of our lessons in action and chat to our teachers and parents will help you see if we are right for you. Call Bob or Kate to let them know you will be dropping by and we will look forward to seeing you there!
Do you operate a badge scheme?
We believe that all Making Waves children should be rewarded for the big effort they put into their swimming lessons. This is why we follow the ASA Learn to Swim Programme which is a great scheme to clearly monitor the development of each child whilst at the same time providing incentives and rewards to the young swimmers.
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Ave atque vale, Father Gus
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By Father Eugene Hemrick • Catholic News Service • Posted October 12, 2018
Listening to shouting protesters at the Supreme Court and U.S. Capitol during the hearings for Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh got me wondering what Father Romano Guardini would say about the unsettling events we are experiencing.
In 1951, he wrote the book "Power and Responsibility," in which he envisioned such experiences. To maintain balance in the midst of mindlessness, he called for the age of the "ascetic man."
He starts by pointing us to ourselves and first recognizing the wrongs within ourselves and setting about righting them.
He then goes on to spell out the role of the ascetic man.
"He must regulate his physical as well as his intellectual appetites and educate himself to hold his possessions in freedom, sacrificing the lesser for the greater. He must fight for inner health and freedom — against the machinations of advertising, the flood of loud sensationalism, against noise in all its forms.
"He must acquire a certain distance from things; must train himself to think independently, to resist what 'they' say. Street, traffic, newspaper, radio, screen and television all present problems of self-discipline, indeed of the most elementary self-defense — problems we hardly suspect, to say nothing of tackling.
"Everywhere, man is capitulating to the forces of barbarism. Asceticism is the refusal to capitulate."
Finally, Father Guardini states the end result of asceticism is to hold "life high in honor so that it may be fruitful on the level of its deepest significance."
At the moment, we are experiencing an age of craziness and the unthinkable. No doubt some would object to Father Guardini calling our age barbarous, arguing this is democracy at its best with people airing their sentiments on what is right for our country.
But are those who protest ultimately guided by an inner health and freedom founded on asceticism? Do they reflect the discipline, time and sweat it takes to study and think through their convictions at the deepest level possible?
Asceticism requires the discipline of contemplation and fighting against noisy, useless distractions to judge prudently. If this asceticism were employed, I believe we would experience a "higher life of honor" and fruitfulness.
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The basis for asceticism is to cast all of our care on the Lord and being anxious for nothing (see 1Peter 5:5-7 and Philippians 4:6-7). This gives us the peace and strength to deal with our human weakness and to do the right things.
Peter speaks of "having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust" (2Peter1:4). Lust is what keeps us inordinately attached to anything. Unconditional trust in God, which is the opposite of lust, brings us the peace and strength to counteract this lust.
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Emerging from the Tel Aviv underground, ATELLER moved away from the drummer's seat and the percussive instrument that took him around the world, and relocated himself to Brooklyn, NY. There, he discovered the world of beat-making, producing and band leading. He delved head first into a fruitful solo career. Continually gaining momentum and worldwide recognition, ATELLER has been steadily releasing music over the past two years with labels, such as Soul Etiquette, Cascade Records, Heroic Recordings and many more.
ATELLER is bound for a 2016 European tour, as well as releasing his 3rd EP. Listen to "Montreal" and stay tuned for more from the chillwave artist!
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TOOWOOMBA GHOST HUNTERS CLAIM A MEMBER SNAPPED A PICTURE OF A GHOST
A man hiking near a local suicide spot in rural Queensland has snapped a picture of a shadowy figure that some claim is a ghost.
The image, posted to ' Facebook page on Thursday evening, appears to show a bald man, with a short beard, wearing a red jumper standing among a stack of fallen branches.
The group claim that a member, who goes by Brokc David, was hiking in a national park near Goomburra, Toowoomba, in rural Queensland, when he started to feel as if someone was watching him.
The ghost hunting group said that while hikers frequent the area, it is rare to see someone dressed in red in the middle of remote bush land.
Mr David said he has been experiencing a 'feeling of dread' since he took the eerie photograph.
'Oddly enough I've been experiencing a similar feeling of dread every once in a while over the last week.'
'I'll be walking down the street and all of a sudden feel like something is about to jump out at me from behind a tree,' he wrote on Facebook.
Several people have commented on the photo testifying to its authenticity.
'Definitely a bearded man there in red!' one woman said.
Another man commented: 'Wow that's a great catch.'
Others claim to see several other 'spirits' in the image, including that of two young children.
'Oh boy, in one of the pics there are spirits sitting on tree branches a girl and boy. In the other pictures around the spirit man there are many spirit faces.'
One man even claims he felt a sharp pain in the side of his head while viewing the supernatural image, which makes him believe the man may have been struck before he died.
'Picking up the worst energy from this photo and it's giving me a headache. So much darkness in that area.'
'Picking up a sharp pain in the side of my head so this would be the area that caused someone's death in that photo.'
For those who can't see the unearthly figures, one woman suggests quietly focusing.
'Don't just look but focus, sit quietly and just keep your focus for as long as it takes of course if you're still there tomorrow morning then I'd give up.'
Brokc David
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Losing your dog is every owner's worst nightmare. This section is here to give that little bit extra help in finding and reuniting dogs with their owners. Specifically designed for the North East region only, you will find a list of 'Lost' dogs, and a list of 'Found' dogs.
To add a dog simply click 'View all Discussions', and then 'Create New Topic', there will be a drop down menu for you to select either 'Lost' or 'Found'.
Try and include as much detail as possible, and if you can upload a photograph of the dog.
Leaving a reply- Do you recognise this dog, or have you had a sighting? Have you got something else to add? Have you got another photograph?, then leave a reply by clicking on 'View all replies' and then click 'Leave a reply'.
Please leave any relevant information that may lead to the reuniting of this dog with its owner.
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Le vieux pont de Vouvant, appelé localement le pont roman, est un pont en arc situé à l'entrée est de la commune de Vouvant, en Vendée.
Historique
Le vieux pont de Vouvant, daté entre le et le pour les parties anciennes, est constitué de trois arches : deux possèdent des arcs en plein cintre tandis que la troisième est en arc brisé. Entre chacune de ces arches, des avant-becs en pierre sont présents.
Ce pont donnait accès à la « porte aux Moynes », l'une des trois entrées de l'ancienne ville fortifiée.
Il est inscrit à l'inventaire supplémentaire des monuments historiques depuis .
Notes et références
Voir aussi
Articles connexes
Liste des monuments historiques de la Vendée
Liste de ponts de la Vendée
Liens externes
Vouvant
Monument historique dans la Vendée
Vouvant
Monument historique inscrit en 1927
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In the recent case of Capcelea v The Owners – Strata Plan No 48887 [2019] NSWCATCD 27, the Tribunal found that it was unreasonable for an owners corporation not to approve a lot owners by-law for work to a terrace area.
The decision provides valuable insight into how lot owners and owners corporation should deal with disputes in relation to common property rights by-laws.
If you are reading this and you are a lot owner, or a member of the strata committee of an owners corporation, it is important for you to be to aware that your actions or omissions in dealing with a proposed by-law may ultimately form evidence in legal proceedings and have ramifications down the track.
This article provides some guidance on how you may attend to the situation so that if legal proceedings arise you are able to put forward the evidence you need to succeed in your position.
The facts of the case
Capcelea was the owner of a lot in Strata Plan No. 48887 which is a residential strata plan located in Bondi Junction. The strata plan comprises of a 13 storey building containing 76 individual lots.
The lot in question includes a terrace which forms part of the street boundary. At the time there were bushes along the edge of terrace which provided screening and privacy from the street.
Capcelea wanted to undertake some internal renovations to the bathroom, replace the sails over the terrace area and install some additional features on the terrace. The additional features necessitated the waterproofing of the terrace area.
A by-law was prepared in relation to the proposed works and an Extraordinary General Meeting was convened on 18 September 2018 for the purpose of the owners corporation resolving the by-law. However, the by-law was defeated at the Extraordinary General Meeting and thus the by-law was refused.
Capcelea commenced proceedings in NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal claiming:
That the owners corporation unreasonably refused to make a common property rights by-law.
That the Tribunal order the owners corporation to consent to the work proposed in the by-law.
How does the Tribunal determine what is unreasonable?
The Tribunal reasoned that:
The test of unreasonableness is an objective test based upon its ordinary meaning as found in the Macquarie Dictionary – "agreeable to, based on, or in accordance with sound judgment"(in particular the Tribunal placed emphasis on the words "sound judgment").
The test concerns the unreasonable refusal to make the by-law however the Tribunal may also consider whether the content of the by-law itself is reasonable and the Tribunal may make changes to the by-law accordingly.
The test is applied to the state of affairs which existed at the time of the refusal, in this case, the Extraordinary General Meeting held on 18 September 2018.
The test involves the Tribunal weighing up not only the interests of the owners who refused the by-law but also the rights of the owner wanting the by-law and their expectation that the refusing owners take their rights into account when making a decision.
Minutes of the Extraordinary General Meeting may be relied upon as evidence however a lack of detail or incomplete minutes may compromise the weight of the minutes as reliable evidence.
Individual owners, who voted for or against the by-law, may also give evidence as to their reasons for doing so and this may be taken into consideration by the Tribunal.
The chairperson of the Extraordinary General Meeting may give evidence which may be accepted as the owners corporation's reasons for refusal in the absence of any views to the contrary.
Personal dislike between the person wanting the by-law and members of the strata executive may also be relevant.
Did the owners corporation act unreasonably in refusing the by-laws?
The Tribunal ruled that it was unreasonable to refuse the by-law because:
The owners corporation did not have evidence that there is any existing restriction, by way of a by-law or otherwise, which confined the use of the terrace. Accordingly, there was no basis to the owners corporation arguing that the terrace should be maintained as it was when they purchased the lot.
The owners corporation did not have evidence that changing the terrace would impact upon the original design intent of the building or its amenity. The main point here was that the terrace was not visible from the street due to it being screened by bushes.
There was no evidence from the owners corporation that the changes to the terrace would increase disturbance due to additional noise or privacy intrusions as compared to its current use.
There was no issue raised by the owners corporation that passing the by-law created a precedent as there was no other lot which had a similar terrace.
Apart from members of the strata committee, there was no objection from any other lot owner to the original and amended development applications submitted to the council.
As the by-law provided for a new waterproofing membrane, which is common property and therefore the responsibility of the owners corporation to maintain, the installation of new waterproofing was a form of compensation to the owners corporation as it saved the owners corporation the cost of maintaining the waterproofing membrane.
The by-law included a professionally prepared design with detailed plans and expert reports which were not assessed by an expert on behalf of the owners corporation and were not criticised. It was unreasonable to oppose the by-law without supporting it with technical assertions.
The Tribunal Member said in his decision that:
"A lot owner has a right to enjoy and add amenity to an external part of his or her lot and a reasonable expectation to use and equip it as he or she reasonably wishes to do. It will improve privacy from overlook."
"There was direct evidence from the applicants of their complaints about the descent of bottles, glasses, an umbrella, food, vomit and other items from the levels above onto the terrace, some of it landing very close to the applicants or their guests. This was a clear safety hazard and a detriment to amenity."
"There was also direct evidence, not contradicted, from the applicants about the inability to stand on the terrace's current unshaded surface in hot weather because of the heat in the surface material."
"The applicants' proposed by-laws placed the burden of remediation and maintenance of the terrace waterproofing and drainage on the applicants, with appropriate indemnities."
The Tribunal found that the owners corporation had acted unreasonably withholding consent where there was no material before the owners corporation at the Extraordinary General Meeting which provided a sound basis for that decision.
The Tribunal ordered that the by-law be made and that the operative date for the by-law was the date of the Extraordinary General Meeting at which it was unreasonably refused, 18 September 2018.
The take home point
Both lot owners and owners corporations need to conduct themselves reasonably from the outset when dealing with disputes in relation to the approval of by-laws.
The lot owner should ensure that the owners corporation is provided with all of the information required to properly assess the by-law in advance of the Extraordinary General Meeting which may include a professional design with detailed drawings and engineering reports.
Owners corporations should ensure that they undertake their due diligence and consider all of the information presented by the lot owner and provide reasons for refusal which may later be relied upon should legal proceedings eventuate.
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Les Bupleureae sont une tribu de plantes de la sous-famille des Apioideae dans la famille des Apiaceae.
Nom
La tribu des Bupleureae est décrite en 1820 par le botaniste allemand Kurt Sprengel.
Liste des genres
Selon NCBI :
Bupleurum (Buplèvre)
Hohenackeria
Notes et références
Bibliographie
Sprengel, C.P.J. 1820. Caroli a Linné ... Systema vegetabilium: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species. Cum characteribus differentiis et synonymis. Editio nova, speciebus inde ab editione XV. Detectis aucta et locupletata 6: XXXIII
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Lien externe
Tribu de plantes (nom scientifique)
Apiaceae
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Church Bodies
Conference of Church Presidiums
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Home Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zurich
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Director, Board's and Director's Office
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Protestant-Jewish Dialogue Commission EJGK
Commission on New Religious Movements
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"The Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zurich is based on the Word of God, which was given form in the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
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Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zurich
The Reformed Church of the Canton of Zurich is based on the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Reformation of Huldrych Zwingli. It builds on its parishes and is open to all people in its diversity as a people's church. Through its diakonia agencies and international organizations, it is connected to the worldwide church of Jesus Christ. It is recognized by public law and committed to the principles of the democratic rule of law. The church is committed to these norms in its own structures, and fulfills its responsibilities for diakonia by collaborating with public and private institutions. In ecumenical openness, it works together with other churches.
Number of members | Parishes
396,876 | 130
public-law
www.zhref.ch
Contact president
Michel Müller
Hirschengraben 50, 8024 Zürich
[email protected]
Evangelisch-reformierte Landeskirche des Kantons Zürich
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A new 'Dumbo' featurette welcomes you to Dreamland
By Silas Lesnick | Mar 11, 2019
In just a few weeks, Walt Disney Pictures is set to bring to theaters a new big screen take on their 1941 animated classic, "Dumbo". Today, the studio has released a new behind the scenes look at the live action version, specifically at the film's Dreamland sequence. Check it out in the player below!
The new "Dumbo" expands on the original story in which differences are celebrated, family is cherished and dreams take flight. Circus owner Max Medici (Danny DeVito) enlists former star Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell) and his children Milly (Nico Parker) and Joe (Finley Hobbins) to care for a newborn elephant whose oversized ears make him a laughingstock in an already struggling circus. But when they discover that Dumbo can fly, the circus makes an incredible comeback, attracting persuasive entrepreneur V.A. Vandevere (Michael Keaton), who recruits the peculiar pachyderm for his newest, larger-than-life entertainment venture, Dreamland. Dumbo soars to new heights alongside a charming and spectacular aerial artist, Colette Marchant (Eva Green), until Holt learns that beneath its shiny veneer Dreamland is full of dark secrets.
Directed by Burton from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger ("Ophelia," "Dream House") and produced by Justin Springer ("TRON: Legacy"), Kruger, Katterli Frauenfelder ("Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," "Big Eyes") and Derek Frey ("Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," "Frankenweenie"), "Dumbo" flies into theaters March 29, 2019.
Silas Lesnick is the Senior Editor of Moviebill. He has been covering entertainment news out of Los Angeles for more than a decade. You can reach him via e-mail or on Twitter.
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Nutcracker syndrome: symptoms, causes and treatment
Our body is a very complex organism, made up of a large number of systems that work in unison to enable us to survive. However, sometimes these systems can become damaged, fail, or have their functionality altered or reduced due to injury or illness.
As for the latter, some are more or less frequent and well known, while in other cases we find strange and unusual situations of which we are less aware due to their low prevalence.
An example of a rare and rare disease can be found in the so-called nutcracker syndrome, kidney and vascular disease which we will talk about throughout this article.
Nutcracker syndrome: what is it?
Previous nutcracker syndrome
Posterior nutcracker syndrome
Combined nutcracker syndrome
the causes
This is called Nutcracker Syndrome or a rare kidney disease that occurs. due to compression of the left renal vein by the blood vessels surrounding it and / or other parts of the body.
This compression generates entrapment and stenosis of the renal vein, which results in a sharp increase in pressure in this vein. This in turn facilitates the onset of internal fistulas and kidney bleeding.
This syndrome sometimes appears asymptomatically, however the presence of symptoms in the genitourinary system is often observed. Specifically, it is common for hematuria to appear macroscopically visible, that is, red urine to appear when blood is also expelled during urination. Internal varicose veins and legs also appear, as well as pelvic congestion.
It is not uncommon for this to appear unilateral low back pain, A discomfort whose intensity can be very variable depending on the case. In addition, in women, dysmenorrhea or menstrual cycle dysregulation may occur.
Dyspareunia or pain is sometimes seen during sex and can also lead to emotional disturbances. You may also observe proteinuria or expulsion of protein through the urine, especially in young people.
Even though it is an illness that tends to be mild and do not cause major complications (in fact, the prognosis is almost always very good), the truth is that sometimes complications can appear in the kidney which can be life threatening or become very debilitating. For example, if recurrent and regular bleeding occurs, it is easy to fall into anemia, kidney disease can occur, and it can dangerously alter blood and blood pressure.
It is an alteration which it can appear at any age and regardless of gender, although it is more common in women. It is also more common in the third and fourth decades of life and, according to the available literature, it is more common in the Far Eastern population.
Nutcracker syndrome can occur in different ways, Highlighting as the most common the following elements (and in particular the first).
The most common form of this syndrome occurs when compression of the left renal vein occurs by the aortic and mesenteric arteries.
Unlike the previous case, in posterior-type nutcracker syndrome, the renal vein is trapped and compressed. between one of the two arteries and the spine. The associated effects and symptoms are generally the same.
On this rare occasion, the left renal vein is pinched in its anterior branch by the two arteries while the posterior vein does the same between the aorta and the spine.
As we have seen, nutcracker syndrome is an alteration that occurs when the aortic artery and the superior mesenteric artery pinch and compress the left renal vein, like a nutcracker with walnuts (in fact, hence its name).
Symptoms appear when the pressure level in the renal vein increases, damage the septa between the veins and the kidney tract and get blood in the urine. In turn, this would cause venous circulation to areas such as the gonads (which would influence genital and sexual symptoms) and the urethra.
The reason for this pinching is not clear, but it may be caused by alterations at the embryonic level. Although it is more common in the Far Eastern population, it has not been proven to be related to genetic inheritance, Being the majority of sporadic cases. In the case of children, it can sometimes occur in the face of bodily changes (which do not occur in proportion to the whole body) of growth.
In adults, some of the possible hypotheses in this regard suggest that it could be caused by abnormalities such as duplicate renal vein, presence of tumors or inflammation that push the arteries in such a way as to compress the left renal vein, too little body mass (the fat in this area makes more space between the two arteries easier), hyperlordosis or problems with the position of the kidneys during changes posture.
As we saw above, nutcracker syndrome is generally a mild behavior, although it can sometimes pose a threat to the life of the affected person.
Sometimes this condition may not require treatment beyond monitoring, observation and control of the patient's condition, but in others it will be necessary to perform some type of intervention, usually surgical.
Among the most common and recommended, there are implantation of an intravascular or extravascular stent, A device that keeps the affected vessel open. In case of severe renal hemorrhage (visible in hematuria), blood transfusions and other interventions may be necessary to maintain the condition and keep things constant. Kidney self-transplantation or renal vein bypass surgery may be necessary.
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Gulleroglu, K., Gulleroglu, B. and Baskin, E. (2014). Nutcracker syndrome. World J Nephrol., 3 (4): 277-281.
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Not everyone has a house or apartment with a large kitchen, which can be frustrating not only in terms of the space available to do anything different but also when you are trying to maximise what bit of space is available.
So if you don't have the funds or space to build an extension to your kitchen, the following tips will reveal that there are plenty of ways to make a kitchen more spacious without breaking the bank.
One of the first ways to add a sense of space is to use mirrors. Mirrors are one of the most effective ways to bring the illusion of space into any room in the house. Add a mirror to the room and you are doubling what the eye sees as well as the perceived depth of the space.
Next up is to use glass. Glass tables are great for small apartment kitchens because they are transparent and don't interrupt your line of sight as you gaze around the room. While not the best choice if you have children, glass tables are often less expensive than heavy wooden tables and will probably look good for longer.
When it comes to kitchen worktops, opt for lighter coloured granite or quartz worktops. The former will help reflect light and will also be a good long term investment due to its inherent durability.
Can you believe it's 2016 already? It doesn't seem that long ago since people were popping the champagne corks and welcoming in the new millennium. If that was the last time your kitchen had a makeover then now could be the time to look at bringing some new life into your kitchen.
More and more these days the kitchen is where people spend a lot of time. The kitchen is the place where we entertain guests and the first place people look for when they are viewing a house. Many people even use it as an office space to cut down on the costs of renting an office!
So modernising a kitchen is certainly worth the investment particularly if the fittings and fixtures are starting to look a little bit dated and space could be better organised. Despite the obvious attractions of a new kitchen many people put it off due to the expense.
Yet updating your kitchen needn't cost the earth – even in 2016. If beneath all the clutter there are some high quality cupboards and other kitchen fittings already in place. Revitalising your kitchen may only require an update to worn out worktops.
Granite worktops work particularly well because they not only look good, they are also durable and add a touch of class to any kitchen.
If you're planning to make a fresh start and sell your house in 2016, then the first advice is to set your asking price as high as possible as the property market is set to grow. The second piece of advice is to take a hard look at your kitchen to see if it could do with an upgrade or remodel.
At least this is what the estate agents have said when they have looked through the what home improvements can make all the difference when you're trying to get that important sale. Tired old kitchens are unlikely to impress prospective purchasers as they try to imagine themselves spengin a lot of their time in this popular area of the home.
Worktops in particular can become shabby over time and not in a chic way. A good quality granite worktop on the other hand will not only provide a facelift but buyers will be impressed that you went to the trouble of adding what most people see as an expensive material to your kitchen.
The survey of over 100 estate agents found that more than half of them 57% saw kitchens as offering the best return on investment followed by the bathroom.
Quartz worktops can be found enhancing kitchens all over the world, but have you ever wondered how they are made?
Quartz is actually the second most abundant mineral in the earth's crust and there are several different types ranging from more common varieties to precious gem stones such as amethysts.
Its attractiveness lends itself to a variety of uses including in recent years kitchen worktops. Quartz was first used for this purpose back in the 1980s and its popularity has grown to rival granite and wood based alternatives.
Quartz worktops are made from what is initially a destructive process. The stone is ground up into a fine material that is then bonded together with an acrylic resin and a small quantity of glass.
The material is then moulded and placed under approximately 100 tons of pressure before being put into a kiln. Once the material has solidified, then the material is polished and made ready for use.
What you end up with is a versatile material which can be manufactured to achieve various combinations of colours and finishes. From sparkly worktops to matt and gloss finishes, quartz worktops can enhance the design and appeal of any kitchen.
If you have just moved into a new property, the chances are you will be considering updating your kitchen or fitting a new one. The cost of this can often be a barrier as the kitchen is put to one side in favour of other areas of the home that don't cost as much to improve.
1. Choosing you kitchen is one thing, getting someone to fit it can be another. Like other DIY tasks, doing it yourself is an option as long as you feel confident of doing a good job. This can save several hundred pounds. If on the other hand you're not confident with DIY, trying to save money doing it yourself can end up costing more in the long run. The best advice for people with limited joinery skills is to get a few quotes from kitchen fitters until you find one you are happy with.
2. Appliances for kitchens can be expensive and there is no shortage of expensive brands to choose from. If you're on a budget, lots of money can be saved by opting for brands that are more basic and still have all the functions you are likely to need. Also make sure they have a good energy efficiency rating so you also save in the long term.
3. Updating your kitchen may not involve ripping out the old one. Some kitchens can get a new lease of life simply by fitting modern worktops. Granite worktops as well as quartz worktops are durable and will be highly cost effective in the long term.
With 2014 now behind us, it may be a good time to start looking again at the kitchen.
It was once the case that people would spend most of their time in the lounge. Guests would be entertained there and the kitchen would just be a place to cook and prepare meals while people would gather around the TV.
How things have changed. The kitchen is more often than not the focus for get-togethers. The kitchen is now the hub of most homes and a place to eat drink and socialise. As life gets more casual, grabbing a quick bit to eat in the kitchen is preferable to a formal sit down meal in the dining room.
So perhaps these are just some of the reasons to consider giving your kitchen a fresh, new make-over this year. Updating your kitchen needn't cost the earth either. Often a kitchen can be revitalised simply by updating worktops, cabinet doors and fresh coat of paint.
Replacing tired old work tops with granite could be an option. Granite work tops now come in all sorts of colours and styles and can add a touch of style and glamour to any kitchen Granite is also incredibly durable and strong so you won't need to worry about the wear and tear you might get from wooden surfaces.
Please have a look through our range to find a finish that is right for you.
Unless the person is a close friend and knows your personal style, don't feel pressurised to go with their preferences unless you are absolutely thrilled with their suggestions. You may regret it later.
Don't be afraid to ask for swatches or samples of materials to take home to investigate how it reflects the light in your home. How it looks on the tin will NOT be how it translates in your home. It really matters!
If you rushed into a decision about one area in your kitchen, don't compound the problem by making another rash decision to rectify the first faux pas. Chances are, you will be throwing good money after bad and ending up with a new kitchen that you don't enjoy. Take your time and choose wisely.
It's surprising how much of a difference great hardware makes. Again, choose carefully as you may end up splashing out a large sum of money on seemingly inexpensive cabinet and door knobs. They can add up quickly if you have lots of storage space.
Try to envision your kitchen as a triangle, where you can move smoothly between oven, sink and refrigerator. If you cook or entertain often, you'll know how important this is.
Everyone has their own personal style, but unless you are not planning on ever selling your home, it's best to stick with classic styles and materials for flooring and countertops and express your personality in paint, wallpaper, window dressings, decor and furnishing. It may be detrimental to the value of your home when it comes to resell if you've chosen layouts and materials that don't appeal to the masses.
For help with your countertops, call the experts at Grantech.
Spend Most of Your Time in the Kitchen?
It's no secret that the room people spend most of their time at home is in the kitchen. Historically, the practical reason for this was because the hearth was the centre of family life where people kept warm, cooked their food, dried their wet clothes and was the only source of light when darkness fell.
As homes became more elaborate during the Victorian era, it was highly unusual for the affluent residents of the home to step foot into the kitchen, but in order to keep up the appearance of wealth, massive kitchens with all the latest gadgets of the time were clear indicators of the status of the homeowners as belonging to high society.
1. Find a reliable kitchen fitter. Don't decide on your fitter based on price only. As the old adage says, you get what you pay for. Do your research and check the internet for consumer complaints.
2. Keeping the basics of the kitchen simple will ensure your style of kitchen will never grow old. Opting for extremely flashy designs may mean you will need to completely replace your kitchen as styles change and evolve.
3. Don't go overboard when choosing which appliances to install in your kitchen. Think about what are the 'must-have' and 'nice to have' items. Over-spending on unnecessary items at the onset of a refurb is the fastest way to blow your budget.
4. The most visible and most used area of the kitchen has to be the worktops. Granite worktops are the perfect material because of how durable they are as well as being aesthetically beautiful. This is where you should invest wisely, as quality granite could last a lifetime.
If you are thinking of a kitchen redesign, contact Grantech . Come pay us a visit and walk around our showroom, check out our large selection of granite kitchen worktops on display and have a cup of coffee while you browse.
When considering new countertops in your kitchen, most people immediately think of granite as the only option. And there are plenty of positive reasons for choosing granite. It's durable, beautiful and comes in a vast variety of colours. But another option for homeowners that they may not have considered might surprise you. It's quartz.
You'd be forgiven if the first thought that popped into your head when hearing quartz is a watch. But the very reasons quartz is used to make exquisite time pieces are the same reasons that make it an ideal material for your kitchen.
Because quartz is polished during the manufacturing process, engineered quartz does not require sealing or resealing. Regularly buffing of the quartz surfaces with a gentle all-purpose cleaner or with a mild soap and a non-abrasive cleaning pad or cloth will keep them in excellent condition.
To eradicate germs and enhance the shine, quartz manufacturers recommends wiping your quartz surfaces with a half-and-half solution of water and rubbing alcohol. Although scorch-resistant, quartz can be impaired by intense heat. Always use protective pads or a trivet when putting a searing pot, pan or any other type of cookware on your quartz countertop.
•The look of your quartz surface depends on the proportion of the quartz pieces to the size of the kitchen. The larger the granules and the smaller the room, the busier your countertop will look.
•All quartz is created equal. Before you decide on a specific brand and colour, see if the sample stands up to scratch and stain tests. Let some coffee, oil, and red wine sit on the sample overnight.
If you are considering quartz for your new kitchen countertops, contact Grantech . Walk around our showroom and ask out team of experts what would work best in your home.
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Marie edits "The Female Conscience"
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Marie edits "The Female Conscience," the Fall 2012 Issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review, featuring Jean Bethke Elshtain, Sylvia Earle, Reeve Lindbergh, Jonathan Yardley, Joyce Carol Oates, Judith Warner, and many others.
Marie reviews "Jack 1939"
Posted in Book Reviews, Other Work, Washington Post
I once heard a master of suspense say that the craft was actually quite simple: Take a perfectly normal situation, a trope readers know well, then throw in a wild "what if?" What if your mild-mannered, homebody spouse — so familiar to you — is the midnight stalker in the black balaclava? What if the buttoned-down banker, the one who always takes home the civic awards, is knee deep in sex and depravity? What if your president — he who died martyred and tended to be a wee sickly — was a thrill-seeking spy at a pivotal time in history?
It's a lesson Francine Mathews seems to have learned well.
Her "Jack 1939" is most assuredly a work of fiction, but it takes skeins of history we all know well — Churchill's England, Hitler's Germany, Roosevelt's White House, the rise of the Kennedy family fortunes — and ravels a hair-raising tale.
In it, John F. Kennedy is young Jack, a junior at Harvard languishing in the Mayo Clinic and eager to board the Queen Mary for a much-needed rest in England. His father, Joe Kennedy, is the ambassador to the Court of St. James; his father's rival, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, is angling for a third term; Hitler is busily cooking up a pact with Stalin; Himmler is madly devising the Final Solution; and war is in the air. But Jack is less driven by battle drums than a broken heart. The girl of his dreams has just thrown him over, and he is off to to Europe to stanch the wounds. Maybe even write his Harvard thesis. So far, all this is true. We're in the comfortable zone of history.
The Queen's Lover.
Posted in Journalism, Other Work, Washington Post
A society dame with the shrill voice of a street vendor hides her lover upstairs, then steals up for nocturnal raptures. A gay king who can't stomach his queen sends his most trusted courtier to impregnate her. A palace congested with vermin and lice harbors lamb chops and cakes tucked deep into the upholstery. A queen fleeing the scourge of revolution relies on a careless hairdresser to get her to safety. What's not to love about history!
History is what you get in Francine du Plessix Gray's deeply intelligent novel "The Queen's Lover." Not history of the Sofia Coppola variety, mind you, in which Marie Antoinette is a bubblehead, giggling her way through a fog of silliness until her head is removed from the finery. This is History with a capital H, served up with relish. Packed with names, dates and research and bristling with a lively correspondence, du Plessix Gray's book gives us fiction with a full dose of fact.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's "A Lovesong for India"
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Quick: Name a writer of Polish roots who immigrated to London, learned English on the fly, wrote about hard-to-parse, faraway places, and became one of the most distinguished English novelists of the 20th century.
Joseph Conrad? Well, yes. But you might have said Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, a prodigious talent who has brought India alive on page after page of remarkable fiction in the course of the past 60 years. Ironically, Jhabvala is far better known for bringing alive not India, but England and America in the Merchant Ivory films "A Room With a View," "Howards End," "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge," "The Remains of the Day" — a phenomenally successful run of movies for which she was the lead screenwriter. Known for her resonant dialogue, emotional subtlety and deadeye aim, she is a master of narrative no matter what the medium, plucking her stories from a vast store of life.
Hari Kunzru's "Gods Without Men"
In Hari Kunzru's dazzling new novel, a desert is the setting, hero and villain. It isn't the first time this landform has played such a starring role. Throughout history, deserts have had a powerful grip on the human imagination: Jesus walked one for 40 nights. Moses for 40 years. Muhammad spent his boyhood in the sand, among Bedouins. Even Coyote, the trickster god of Native American lore, darted nimbly from cactus to cactus. A desert is where bombs go up and UFOs come down, where mirages, misadventures and miracles unfold. It is siren and slayer, everything and nothing. "The desert," wrote Balzac, "is God without men."
Kunzru's "Gods Without Men" is a great, sprawling narrative, as vast as the canvas on which it is written. In it, half a dozen stories play out on the gaping expanse of the Mojave Desert, where a miscellany of lost souls seeks salvation in the shadow of a three-fingered rock formation.
Daniel Sada's "Almost Never"
Sada was, without a doubt, a writer's writer. Like Faulkner or Joyce or David Foster Wallace, he produced rich, dense, diabolically difficult novels — some written in octosyllabic and hendecasyllabic meter, all punctuated with a set of bizarre rules. But the rewards, for anyone in love with the Spanish language, were legion. These were gargantuan masterpieces, clear rejoinders to the stark, minimalist work of Juan Rulfo, whose "Pedro Paramo" had dominated the Mexican literary landscape for more than half a century. They stood in clear contrast, too, to thin, bleak novels by young Mexican writers of the Crack Movement, who fought hard to distance themselves from Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Mario Vargas Llosa or Julio Cortazar and then self-destructed in the fray. Just as Sada's weird, culturally incorrect novels began to be noticed — just as Mexico conferred on him its most coveted national prize — a renal malady took him. And so we are left with the Sada we have.
On Immigrant Culture
Three marielitos, three manifest destinies for immigrants of cuban boatlift, freedom rings — in distinctly different tones.
By Marie Arana-Ward, Washington Post Staff Writer.
Every year about now, the memories rush back. The knock at the door. The police. The neighbors shrieking "Escoria! Gusano!" ("Scum! Worm!") and wielding rocks. The bumpy bus ride through the Cuban countryside to the port of Mariel. The regiments of rifle-toting guards. The fierce-faced dogs. The biblical mass of humanity huddled beneath the hiss of a nearby electric plant. And then the heart-stopping sight of thousands of American boats bobbing in the water, waiting.
Sixteen years ago this summer, the Mariel boatlift brought 125,000 Cubans to the United States in one of the most remarkable waves of immigration in recent U.S. history. It began when a driver seeking asylum rammed his van through the gates of the Peruvian Embassy in Havana on April 1, 1980. A fight broke out. A guard was shot. When Fidel Castro pulled Cuban security out of the area, 10,000 Cubans flooded the embassy grounds, clamoring to leave. Furious, Castro opened the borders and announced that anyone could go. American adventurers took to their boats, descending on Cuba by the thousands, eager to be saviors of the oppressed.
The Freedom Flotilla, President Jimmy Carter called it, and it was an invitation as clear and open as the one carved in stone: "Give me your tired, your poor . . . the wretched refuse of your teeming shore." The new arrivals poured into Florida, jamming immigration facilities, straining police and welfare services and giving Americans one less reason to reelect their president.
The lives of Eduardo Barada, Pedro Santa Cruz and Carlos Buergos converged in 1980 when each boarded a boat bound for Florida with nothing but the clothes on his back. Months later, fate brought them to the streets of Washington. They were led to the same destination, given the same chance to reinvent themselves. And yet, somewhere in the decade and a half between youth and middle age, they took divergent paths. Barada today is a radiantly successful entrepreneur. Santa Cruz has worked in dozens of jobs and found little reward. Buergos's drug-soaked trajectory has led him to forfeit the very freedom he thought he had won in coming to this country, a paradox he contemplates in prison now.
"America," George Santayana said, "is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences." For many Marielitos, life has been good and work rewarding, but for just as many, the road has been bewildering and hard.
By any measure of success — money, love, status — the three men chronicled here occupy points far from one another on the grand American spectrum. Together, they offer a window on the perils and possibilities of immigrant life in the 1990s. Each has struggled, found love, encountered his weaknesses and strengths and discovered that in undertaking to become an American — a voyage every bit as stormy as the 90 miles from Mariel — he has traveled farther than he ever dreamed. The Convict
Although Castro implied that anyone who wanted to leave Cuba was either criminal or insane, most Marielitos were law-abiding citizens who passed themselves off as "antisocials" to qualify for the exodus. Of the 125,000 who came, according to Tomas Curi of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the great majority hailed from ordinary lives in Cuba and proceeded to ordinary lives in the United States. A small fraction of them — about 2,500 — were criminals and mental cases thrown into the mix by Castro.
One of those was Carlos Buergos, eldest son of a stevedore, a wiry, blue-eyed descendant of Spaniards — happy-go-lucky guy and convicted thief. He was hardly 25 when he clambered onto Florida soil but already had accumulated a history of misadventure.
His family was hardly the reason. His parents had raised nine children, a tightly knit, responsible group of siblings ("I was the only bad one"). But by the time America got him, he had fought in the war in Angola, been put in prison for stealing and butchering horses, and then, on his release, been imprisoned again for attempting to escape Cuba. He was exactly the kind of Cuban that Castro did not want.
On May 9, 1980 — one year into his 12-year sentence — Buergos's prison threw open its doors, and he was taken to the port of Mariel. There, with very little ado, his wildest dream came true: He was put on a cargo boat bound for Key West. Forty-eight hours later — sunburned, sun-blind and dehydrated — he was whisked through a processing center with thousands of other Marielitos and put on a bus to Fort Chaffee, a military base in Arkansas. Five months later, he was in Washington, free to go out into the October afternoon. The Functionary
Pedro Santa Cruz, a 25-year-old accountant in Havana's transportation department, got his first American break in the Krome detention camp at the edge of the Everglades. There he was spotted by Penn Kemble, now deputy director of the U.S. Information Agency, then doing research on Cuba's war in Angola. "I was looking for Afro-Cubans. . . . There were not a lot of blacks in the Mariel camps. Pedro was a real black. He stood out."
Kemble befriended him. "He was depressed and didn't think he'd ever get out. But he was very smart. And well-educated, well-versed in world affairs."
In fact, Santa Cruz had graduated second in his high school class and had garnered honors at Jose Marti University. The only child of a seamstress, he was one of nine inhabitants in the two-room house of his mother's second husband, a gas station attendant who adopted him as his own.
He held several government jobs, but he never made much headway because he refused to join the Communist Party. "I was having trouble with the revolution,' " he says in a lilting Cuban Spanish.
When the Mariel expulsion began, he got a call from an old professor. " You haven't built a good political base, Pedro,' he told me. The best thing you can do for yourself is go.' " He began soliciting letters from friendly officials who were willing to lie on his behalf and say that he was antisocial, lazy and a liability to Cuba. He presented the papers to the police; two days later, a bus appeared at his door.
In another week, he found himself incarcerated at the Krome camp. As the weeks dragged on, he tried to forget his anxieties by helping fellow Cubans with their paperwork. When Kemble came to his tent asking about Angola, he decided to help him, too.
Kemble didn't forget Pedro Santa Cruz. Months later, he offered to be his sponsor. By September, Santa Cruz was in Kemble's home, scratching his head over the electric can opener and wondering how he would ever learn which bus to catch. The Dreamer
Eduardo Barada crossed to Florida on a 50-foot shrimp boat as a storm whipped the sea into a fury, sending streams of salt water across the deck. When he looked down, there was little left of his well-worn shoes. "I took them off and threw them overboard," he says. "The next day, I arrived in the United States barefoot, walked onto my first airplane barefoot and stayed barefoot for the full first two weeks of my American life.
"My great good luck was to have grown up in Cuba," he says. "It taught me discipline." When he was 7, his mother died, and his father placed him in an orphanage. For the next 10 years, he was a ward of the Cuban state. When he graduated at 18, he got a clerical job and began dreaming about owning his own business. "Many of us were frustrated by the communist system, but of course we never said that out loud. And life went on. I got married; we had a baby. But one Sunday when I was 23, I was out having lunch with friends and someone mentioned that they were taking applications at Mariel. I said: That's it. Let's go.' "
His young wife was unwilling. They were black, and she had heard things about the way black people were treated in the United States. But she didn't try to stop him, and he left, thinking that someday she would follow.
Barada convinced Cuban officials that he was a drug addict. They took him in one of the first roundups.
As soon as he passed through Key West, he was transferred to Miami International Airport and ushered shoeless onto a flight to Pennsylvania. They took him to Indiantown Gap, a National Guard training center where 20,000 Marielitos were held behind barbed wire.
In August, after several strikes in holding camps across the country, the INS began processing Marielitos rapidly. They gave Barada $20 in pocket money and asked him where he wanted to go. He pulled out a scrap of paper with an address someone in Key West had scribbled down for him. It was in Washington. The Slow Slide
When former convict Carlos Buergos walked out into the crisp October afternoon in downtown Washington, INS staff members had done three things for him: They found him a job as a busboy in American University's cafeteria at minimum wage, no tips. They gave him a monthly stipend of $150 until he was settled into the routine. And they rented a room for him in a Mount Pleasant boardinghouse.
After a few months, he landed another job with a caterer to augment his meager salary. Coming home late one night from that second shift, he was robbed by three street toughs and shot in the stomach. For two months, he nursed eight perforations in his intestine. He underwent a colostomy and was unable to eat normally.
He had survived a shooting before. In the Angolan jungle nine years earlier, a well-aimed lead slug had pierced his skull, grazed his brain and exited the rear of his cranium. It took three months in a Mozambique hospital cot to bring him around. The scars are clearly visible on his forehead and crown.
When he recovered from the stomach wound, he started in on a carousel of short-lived jobs — waiting tables, tending bar, putting up drywall. But it was with a difference now: He'd sniff a bit of cocaine when he was out with friends. He had never taken illegal drugs before.
And he began collecting misdemeanors. INS correspondence shows arrests in 1982 and 1983 for carrying a concealed weapon. "I was with a group of Cubans both times," he says, "and we were a little drunk in a 7-Eleven parking lot maybe. The weapon was my drywall knife."
One day in 1984, he was offered several days' pay to deliver a packet of cocaine across town. Before long, he was taking packages here and there for anyone who asked. On Sept. 24, 1984, according to Buergos, he was sent off with a thick stack of $100 bills to Springfield, Mass., but when he and his traveling companion checked into their motel room, the other man pulled a pistol from his belt, shot Buergos in the back and ran off with the money. Rushed to the emergency room, he was hospitalized for two weeks. The bullet is still lodged in his hip.
Within a few months of his release, he began buying cocaine regularly. By 1987, he was doing errands for small-time dealers, keeping himself in gold chains and designer clothes, feeding a spiraling habit. He robbed a store and a private house in Ocean City, Md., and served 12 months in prison.
In 1988, he met a young Venezuelan woman who was cleaning houses in Bethesda. Responsible and hard-working, she tried to instill some order in his life, and for a while he was off drugs and working regularly as a drywall finisher. The two were married and had a baby boy in May of the following year.
Buergos got his best job yet — as a waiter at Rockville's Woodmont Country Club — but it didn't last long. He quit in a huff when the headwaiter complained that he was too slow. To take the place of one job, he now found two: working room service at a Bethesda area Marriott hotel and then heading out with his best friend to work as a waiter in a Baltimore Holiday Inn. "I was getting right," he says, "trying hard." But when that friend died of cancer in 1991, Buergos stopped showing up at either job. Soon he was back on cocaine with a vengeance and into the netherworld of freaks and thugs who traded in it.
When a big-time drug dealer moved into his apartment building on 16th Street NW, he began running drugs for him. Before long, Buergos's wife and their 3-year-old checked into a shelter for battered women, and then she moved into a separate apartment altogether, resolving to do something for her sickly little boy, who was exhibiting acute signs of attention deficit disorder and emotional confusion.
On his own, Buergos surrendered completely to his habit. He was, he says, pocketing no money, just getting from one snort to the next. By the time he landed in Lorton prison for selling cocaine, he was a ghost of the young blond boy who had marched off to Angola 20 years before — a gaunt, twitching, 130-pound basket case.
Buergos's 6-year-old son died last summer of heart failure; his wife has drifted away. He speaks now, in rapid-fire Spanish, from a meeting room in Lorton. "I can't blame this country for my flaws," he says, his arms resting on a bare table. "This place has given me nothing but opportunities." Dreaming about a possible parole next year, he is hopeful about his future: "I'm ready now to be responsible. I can do it, I'm sure of it, if God and this country will just give me another chance." Gridlock
Pedro Santa Cruz eventually figured out the bus schedule from Penn Kemble's comfortable Northwest Washington home and began an English as a Second Language program at Georgetown University. He had friends in high places: Frank Calzon, for instance, director of an organization called Of Human Rights and a prominent anti-Castro activist, had secured him the place at the university. He studied by day and washed dishes in the school cafeteria by night.
Santa Cruz was among the best performers in his class, and when he finished, Kemble offered him a job in his Institute of Religion and Democracy, a group helping Latin Americans. But when Santa Cruz found himself stuffing envelopes and being paid a pittance, he left.
He began a series of menial jobs — running errands at a Rosslyn printing shop for $3.50 an hour, making sandwiches in a L'Enfant Plaza deli, cutting grass at Arlington National Cemetery, even flipping hamburgers at McDonald's. In those jobs, he often was tossed in with other Marielitos, among them Carlos Buergos, whom he still calls a friend. But unlike Buergos, he was never caught up in the lure of the illegal.
"Pedro was always straight," says the woman he eventually married, Carolina Santa Cruz, a white Honduran. "He was quiet and tranquil, a man with good manners and a good nature. His problem was not any given temptation; it was that he never understood what it takes to make it here."
Although he was constantly signing up for courses — computer skills, insurance sales, real estate and banking — his career never seemed to take off. He found employers became nervous when applicants identified themselves as Mariel Cubans, something Santa Cruz always did openly, proudly.
When he and Carolina were married, he was still working construction, taking odd jobs as a salesclerk in the evenings to augment his income. She was a university graduate, but she cleaned houses in Potomac for a living. "That sort of thing never bothered me," she says. "I was studying insurance on the side, and the people I worked for were so nice to me."
By 1990, when their daughter, Mariel, was born, Carolina had landed a $26,000-a-year job selling insurance for Allstate. Shortly thereafter, Pedro became an $8.50-an-hour part-time accountant for a printing company in Virginia. They moved into a three-bedroom town house in Arlington, acquired an assortment of credit cards and sent for Pedro's mother in Havana to come live with them and mind the baby.
Pedro's mother did come, but she balked at the baby-sitting responsibilities. She felt hoodwinked and complained that she hadn't come to the United States to be anybody's slave. She wanted to go out dancing, have some fun. And she insisted on being paid. Within weeks of her arrival, there was all-out war between the two women. Before long, Pedro was driving his mother to Miami in a car he could barely afford, hoping the Cuban environment there would be more welcoming for her.
The setting was definitely more Cuban but hardly more welcoming. Miami Cubans were largely from pre-revolutionary Cuba's upper classes. And they were largely white. "When I started looking for an apartment, it hit me how racist the established Cuban community there was. I'd call and people would be pleasant on the telephone. Yes, Mr. Santa Cruz, how nice, a Cuban from Washington. Please come over, have a look.' And then we would show up, they would see that we were black, and suddenly the apartment wasn't available anymore." Santa Cruz eventually did find a Miami home for his mother, and after a rocky period of adjustment, she settled down in the job she still has: ironing clothes in an apparel factory.
By the time he returned to his wife and daughter in Arlington, however, his world had changed. He began to miss Cuba, to resent the standoff between his wife and mother, and to hop from job to job again.
Amid rampant credit card debt and day-care costs for the baby, he and Carolina found themselves fighting about money, fighting about work and contemplating separation. In February 1995, after years of unhappiness, they were divorced.
Today, Carolina is still at Allstate, making $44,000 a year. Pedro, after a series of jobs, is a sales representative for First National Bank of Maryland, making $21,000. He lives in a rent-controlled building in Arlington, where he often spends time with 6-year-old Mariel. Life is simpler now, he says.
"He'll stay at that job for a while," his old friend Penn Kemble says, "and then he'll start to wonder why he's not getting anywhere. He'll get angry and discouraged, and he won't realize that he has to promote himself. That he has to go out and do the middle-class American thing of hustling, doing favors, getting in with the boss, getting noticed, pushing his way up the ladder."
"Maybe it's because I'm from a communist country," Santa Cruz says, "but I think it's very difficult here. It's not the racism. There's racism in Cuba, too, though everyone there is trained to deny it. What's hardest for me about the United States is the lack of security. You can get the pink slip any time. There's more to life than a job, but you'd never know it living here. This stressed-out, work-obsessed, credit card culture is not for me. I can do it, but I don't like it. . . .
"Sometimes I think that if all 125,000 of us had stayed," says Pedro Santa Cruz, leaning back in the mauve chair of his bank's tidy little conference room, "Cuba might have been a different place today. All the unhappiest ones, all the frustrated ones left. We could have been a force for change.
"No, I don't want to die here. Someday, when Fidel's gone, I'll take my mother and go back to Cuba, have a little house on the beach, teach English and business and be free of the tyranny of the almighty car and dollar. Jose Marti said it long ago, but it has taken me 16 years to appreciate his words: Nuestro vino es amargo pero es nuestro vino.' " Our wine is bitter, but it's ours. The American Dream
Across the Potomac, a Marielito with a fraction of Santa Cruz's advantages was thriving. Eduardo Barada arrived at the scrawled address, settled in with a Cuban family and took a job with the garbage and floor-polishing detail at Blair House, the U.S. government's guest house for visiting dignitaries. "You had to be careful in those days. People would hire a Marielito, ask for his Social Security number, then throw him out and use the number for somebody else. The Latins especially treated us badly."
It didn't seem to matter. Barada was making his own opportunities. For a while, he did menial jobs at the Four Seasons Hotel, the place he calls "my school." He credits Omar Cardenas, a Peruvian waiter there, with teaching him everything he knows about the business.
"I met Eduardo Barada in the hotel personnel manager's office one day," Cardenas says. "He spoke no English, and the manager wanted me to explain to him that there were no openings. He was just sitting there, understanding nothing. But there was something about him. So honest." Cardenas persuaded the manager to hire Barada as a kitchen boy, and then trained him up the ranks.
Three years later, pursuing his dream of owning his own business, Barada decided that he needed to know how goods moved from wholesale to retail, and so he offered to work at Potomac Wines in Georgetown for nothing. "I was more interested in what they could teach me than in what they could pay me, but they paid me anyway. Eventually the owners even trusted me with the store's money." He worked there for two years.
In 1987, Barada opened Altagracia, a small shop in Adams-Morgan, selling herbs associated with Santeria, an Afro-Cuban religion. Four years later, he had raised enough money to open Habana Village, a scruffy little bar and dance spot that would change his life.
On Thanksgiving 1995, when the nightclub was closed, a fire consumed the premises. Barada had no fire insurance. But this apparent disaster turned to his advantage when two investors came forward to help him rebuild.
Today, Barada is a legend among Cubans in this city, and in recent years, his fame has reached back to Havana. Even the diplomats who represent Fidel Castro in the Cuban Interest Section at the Swiss Embassy can be found raising a glass or smoking a cigar at his new Columbia Road bar. Barada's nightclub is a throbbing center of Latino culture, where classes and exhibits are held, where you are likely to find a law partner dancing with a garage attendant, black with white, rich with poor, young with old, where "at least one night at a time," Barada says, "we can all be equals."
Last year, when he returned to Cuba for the third time, Barada went through a grueling week of ordainment into Santeria. He is a high priest, a babalao. Even his management style verges on the inspirational. "The most important asset is the human component," a recent memo to his staff says. "No pessimism or negativity allowed."
At first, he says, he had problems with white and Latino police officers. "All they could see was this" — here he points to his cinnamon skin — "my exterior." His face breaks out into a wide, sunny smile. "And now that they see this part of my exterior" — he flings his arms about to indicate the pleasant ambiance of Habana Village — "they are my friends."
He and his wife divorced last year, but he continues to support his 16-year-old daughter. He sends money to the Cuban school that helped raise him. And he wants to help the Marielitos who keep appearing at his doorstep.
Someday Carlos Buergos may be among them. "Si si, Barada. I've heard all about him," Buergos says, his blue eyes shining momentarily out of a haggard, tic-tortured face. "When I get out of here next year, I'm going to go see him. I hear he helps Marielitos like me. Maybe he'll let me work for him."
"If they come to me," Barada says, "I help them. But I have no sympathy for people who waste the chance this country gives them. The addicts, the hoods. They are incompetents, irresponsible. There are 9 million people sitting in Cuba right now who can do exactly what I have done, if given the opportunity. I feel sorry for the ones languishing on that island with no chance at all."
Someday, he says, he will marry Julia Aymerich, a serious young Spanish woman who is finishing her doctorate in linguistics at Georgetown University. Barada himself is almost entirely self-taught. His success in America is not a result of any particular credential. It seems to be a direct result of his state of mind. "Live with love and act from discipline, and life will treat you well," he says.
"I feel sorry for my sad fellow immigrants who came to this country chasing the almighty dollar. I want to shake them and tell them: Don't think so much about the money. That's not what's important. Destiny's the thing. That's what you can change in America. I've done it. I know.' "
1,400 Marielitos Detained in U.S. Official Says Crimes Here, Not in Cuba, Are the Reason
Today 1,400 Marielitos remain in detention in the United States, 963 of them in federal prisons, the rest scattered among Immigration and Naturalization Service facilities and county jails. Keeping Marielitos in correctional facilities has cost the federal government half a billion dollars since the 1980 boatlift.
"Nobody is being held based on their criminal records in Cuba," said Tomas Curi, of the INS. "Everyone who came in 1980 was released at one time or another. If they are being held now, it is because they have commited crimes in the United States, some of them repeatedly. Five or six hundred of them are very violent, with records of assault, murder or rape."
In 1984, the INS got Cuba to agree to repatriate 2,700 of those the service categorized as "the worst offenders" — Marielitos repeatedly found guilty of serious crimes. But after 1,300 were returned, Cuba's Fidel Castro refused to admit any more. In the last three years, the INS has managed to repatriate about 100 Cuban criminals a year.
Besides Carlos Buergos, five Marielitos are incarcerated in the Lorton Correctional Complex. Until last year, 100 or so with serious mental problems were being held at St. Elizabeths Hospital in the District. They have been dispersed to halfway houses and federal prisons.
— Marie Arana-Ward
CAPTION: Cubans crowd the deck of a boat in the Straits of Florida during the Mariel boatlift of 1980, which brought 125,000 Cubans to the United States. CAPTION: Eduardo Barada relaxes in his Columbia Road nightclub, a center of Latino culture that even attracts diplomats representing Fidel Castro. CAPTION: Pedro Santa Cruz, once an accountant in Havana, works in a bank office after a series of menial jobs. He dislikes the "work-obsessed, credit card culture" here. CAPTION: Carlos Buergos, a convict in Cuba, has ended up in prison in this country, losing the freedom he had sought in coming here. CAPTION: Carlos Buergos's drug habit led to a prison term. He is hoping for parole next year: "I'm ready now to be responsible." CAPTION: Pedro Santa Cruz's plans for a post-Castro Cuba: He'll teach "and be free of the tyranny of the almighty car and dollar." CAPTION: During a visit to Havana, Eduardo Barada pauses in the neighborhood where he was born. Word of his success in the United States has reached his homeland.
A Russian at Large
The Epic Saga of Writer Vassily Aksyonov's Life.
Vassily Aksyonov. Say it to a Washingtonian and you're likely to get a blank stare. And yet Aksyonov may well be the most important writer in this century to hold a Washington address. He has been hailed as a Salinger, a Dostoevsky, a Hemingway, a Tolstoy. Aksyonov is one of the giants of 20th-century Russian literature, but after 16 years of Washington tenure, hardly anyone seems to know he is here. (more…)
Posted in Book Reviews, Journalism, Other Work, Washington Post
The Museum of Innocence, by Orhan Pamuk. Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely.
One of the trickier subjects in fiction is that of the hapless suitor, besotted with love, locked in a lifelong obsession with a woman he can neither leave nor have. Yet, for all the perils of that soupy scenario, great literature has come of it. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote memorably of just such a man in "The Great Gatsby"; William Styron, in "Sophie's Choice"; Gabriel García Márquez, in "Love in the Time of Cholera"; and Mario Vargas Llosa, in "The Bad Girl."
Now, adding to those triumphant chronicles of the lovelorn, comes Orhan Pamuk's mesmeric new novel, "The Museum of Innocence." In it, the Nobel Prize winner proves his own dictum that a lover's best hope, like a writer's, is patience, or, even, stubbornness. In loving, as in writing, you dig a well with a needle. You're in for a long haul.
As familiar as the subject of love might seem, "The Museum of Innocence" is a startling original. Every turn in the story seems fresh, disquieting, utterly unexpected. Like the old Turkish legend of love-struck Ferhat, who literally tunnels through rock to reach the object of his affection, Pamuk's hero, Kemal, finds no obstacle too daunting in the single-minded pursuit of Füsun.
Those obstacles can be formidable: First, Kemal, an urbane bachelor of 30, already has a fiancée, Sibel, an Istanbul woman of his own class. She is sophisticated, beautiful, and, by his own agency, no longer a virgin (which in Turkey means that, if he doesn't make her his wife, no other man ever will). Second, the sudden angel of his dreams, Füsun, is a schoolgirl from a poor neighborhood — a distant relative — barely 18. Third, and perhaps most vexing of all, their story begins backward: bedding Füsun is surprisingly easy. It's winning her heart that proves devilishly hard.
So, as strange as it may seem, the novel opens with Kemal and Füsun in bed together: "It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it," Kemal recounts. "Had I known, had I cherished this gift, would everything have turned out differently? Yes, if I had recognized this instant of perfect happiness, I would have held it fast and never let it slip away. It took a few seconds, perhaps, for that luminous state to enfold me, suffusing me with the deepest peace, but it seemed to last hours, even years. In that moment, on the afternoon of Monday, May 26, 1975, at about a quarter to three, just as we felt ourselves to be beyond sin and guilt so too did the world seem to have been released from gravity and time." Sadly, as Kemal later ruminates, we never recognize life's happiest moment when we are in it. We always believe that there's a brighter one on the horizon; that the "golden instant" of our now is but prelude. For the rest of his life, Kemal will labor mightily to recapture the bliss he wins so easily on the first page. The genius of Pamuk's novel is that although it can be read as a simple romance, it is a richly complicated work with subtle and intricate layers. Kemal's descent into love's hell takes him through every level of the social order, past countless neighborhoods of sprawling Istanbul, in a story that spans 30 years.
At first, he believes he can have it all: a rich fiancée and an earthy shop-girl; his father's enormously successful business as well as long, self-indulgent afternoons. The scene of his engagement party at the Hilton turns out to be as glittering as any in Manhattan, replete with black market whiskey and all the Western trimmings, from miniskirts to revolving doors. All Istanbul society is there. He goes through the motions with Sibel, making his parents happy, but it is clear that this nuptial revelry is headed for disaster: He cannot live without Füsun.
It's impossible to tell more of the plot without giving away the story. Suffice it to say that as Kemal struggles to win and rewin his true love, bewildering things happen. But he finds strength to carry on.
Along the way, we learn a great deal about Turkey: its advertising business, its film industry, its brothels, the Turks who are driven to prosper and the Turks who are driven to drink. And as Kemal becomes more and more obsessed, even ill, in his irrational pursuit of happiness, we cannot help but see that he is utterly blind to the dire politics of his time. Is it lovesickness or innocence or just plain apathy that so distracts him from the bombs, the riots, the crackdowns, the unfortunate ranks among his schoolmates who are being dragged away to jail?
Eventually, one obsession leads to another and Kemal begins to swipe and hoard knickknacks that have any slightest relation to Füsun: mementos from her house, objects she merely touched in passing, keepsakes from outings they made together, cigarette butts from stolen afternoons. With frightening prescience, he sees very clearly where this will lead: "I sensed this room mysterious with old objects and the joy of our kisses would be at the core of my imagination for the rest of my life." And so it is. By the end of his bizarre journey, he will chase down the past, even overtake it; and he will transform his love for Füsun into a museum of relics, keeping the rapture alive.
All Istanbul, too, is alive in this wonderful novel. From the mists that rise from the dark waters of the Bosporus to the creaky old houses on its shores, from self-satisfied merchants in luxury apartments to out-of-work artists in shabby bars, from the brisk cologne offered by the city's bus drivers to the stench of life's waste in the bay, the city fairly breathes on these pages and, in one way or another, so do its eccentric inhabitants. Even Pamuk himself makes an appearance: first as young Orhan, a gawky writer in the '70s, then as the Orhan of these 2000s, the famous author of "Snow."
There is a magical sense of the Ouroboros in all of this, as the novel begins to swallow its own tail. The Orhan Pamuk who lives inside this novel is eventually persuaded to tell Kemal's story. That involution gets even more interesting when you know that there was once a writer named Orhan Kemal, and that, at the very start of Pamuk's career, Pamuk was conferred a prize bearing his name. Orhan Kemal was also a collector; his flat, too, a quirky museum. There are myriad such Turkish delights for those familiar with the country.
For all of its many layers, however, this is a book wholly centered on love and our desperate need to make sense of it. Like Kemal's instinct to pilfer Füsun's trifles, the human impulse is to grasp at love, as if it could be a concrete thing held by fingers. As Nietzsche once said, "There's always a drop of madness in any love, but there's also a drop of reason in any madness." Kemal's love drives him to acts of momentary irrationality, but it's on that tiny plunder that his very sanity depends.
In sum, "The Museum of Innocence" is a deeply human and humane story. Masterfully translated, spellbindingly told, it is resounding confirmation that Orhan Pamuk is one of the great novelists of his generation. With this book, he literally puts love into our hands.
From The Washington Post
Jane Smiley
A little more than midway through Jane Smiley's extraordinarily powerful new novel, "Private Life," the childless wife of a prominent astronomer becomes fascinated with a family of coots, ducklike birds that live on the pond near her house on Mare Island, up San Francisco Bay. So taken is she with that happy brood that she insists that Mr. Kimura, a Japanese friend, paint it for her. He does so, quickly and delicately, in a scroll that delights her with its urgency. (more…)
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We launched Longing For A Liver in the middle of June this year, asking for donations, but stressing the importance of living liver donation. The Cleveland Clinic reported to us the first of August that 46 people who met the initial criteria of blood type, age and height had offered to be tested. Two people emerged as possible donors, the first was a gentleman from Texas who knew Greg from his service in the Navy. We flew him into Cleveland multiple times for tests, paying for his airfare, hotel, meals and transportation.
The second candidate was a bit of a surprise and lives here in Canfield! David Crawford and his family have been involved in Canfield athletics for years, from wrestling to baseball and football. His decision to offer to donate his liver was based on his feelings about the people in our community and his desire to give back in a positive way. He met the basic criteria, underwent ongoing tests and biopsies the Clinic needed to be sure the transplant would be a success. His unselfish desire to provide this life giving opportunity also allows him to get back at Greg. As Dave puts it, he and Greg have butted heads for years - this allows him to really get under Greg's skin. Literally.
The transplant surgery is scheduled for Monday, October 29th. Check back here for regular updates.
And when you see Dave, be sure to shake his hand, give him a hug and thank him for his amazing gift of life for Greg.
Greg and Dave served as Honorary Co-Captains for the Canfield-Poland game just 3 days before their scheduled surgery. The weather was a challenge, but it was a great way to honor these 2 deserving members of our community.
We wish you both the best as you continue on this journey of life.
Greg's shower at the Cooper house needed updating in order for Greg to use it after surgery. Two very generous local professionals donated their time and materials!
Josh Cohol and Youngstown Tile & Terrazzo donated all of the tile for the renovation.
Dave Frisbie of D. Frisbie Tile Designs donated his labor to build this beautiful shower.
When you need tile for your home remodeling, please remember D. Frisbie Tile Designs and Youngstown Tile & Terrazzo. And be sure to thank them for their generosity.
Thanks to Craig Olson and Olfield Graphics, we ere able to spread the word on living liver donation, hopefully helping others in need of this life saving procedure. They went above and beyond for all the printed documents we needed. From the flyers and tickets for the Taste of the Valley dinner to the flyers we distributed detailing Greg's journey. Olfield Graphics professionalism and attention to detail made everything look great.
Greg graduated from Boardman High School in 1973. A multi-sport athlete, he earned honors his senior year as an undefeated AAA division 185lb state wrestling champion.
Graduated in 1977, Greg was a two-time NCAA wrestling tournament qualifier.
During Greg's thirty years as a naval aviator and officer, he accumulated over 5700 flight hours and 517 arrested landings while flying from eight different aircraft carriers. Commanding a jet aircraft squadron from 1993-1995, he later earned a Master's Degree in International Security from the Naval War College in 1998. Achieving the rank of Captain, Greg served in various billets ashore and abroad before his final military assignment as the Naval Academy's Deputy Director of Athletics/head of the Physical Education Department from 2003 -2006.
Relocating his family from Annapolis, Maryland to Canfield in 2006, Greg accepted the position as Athletic Director. He has maintained an active liaison with the OHSAA and has served for twelve years on the Executive Committee of the NEOIAAA. In 2015, Greg was named an NEOIAAA Athletic Director of the Year and Ohio Athletic Administrators' District AD of the Year. He was a "Fundamentals of Coaching" course facilitator and is on the OHSAA's "Competitive Balance" committee tasked with reviewing changes in school athletics classifications.
What is Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Cirrhosis?
This disease can affect just about anyone, causing severe scarring of the liver. Fluids build up in the body causing edema and infections. A drastic change in diet to reduce fats and sugar intake, along with an exercise regimen can slow the progress, but ultimately, in extreme cases like Greg's, a liver transplant is the only option. Find out more at the American Liver Foundation.
How Is A Liver Transplanted?
Patients who are waiting for a liver from a deceased donor could potentially be on a transplant list for years. Patients with a more immediate need could benefit from a living donor. Once a compatible living donor is identified, surgeons are able to remove the diseased liver and replace it with a node from a healthy donor liver. Family members are usually the first to request to be tested for compatibility, but complete strangers have also stepped up in certain situations with satisfactory results.
What Happens To The Donor's Liver?
The liver is the only human organ that is able to regenerate to its original size. So for both the patient and the donor, the liver will grown to correct size and function normally.
And After A Successful Transplant?
Greg's health will immediately begin to improve drastically. There are medications, like immuno-suppressants that he will need to take the rest of his life, some are covered by insurance and some are not.
Who Can Be Tested As A Possible Donor?
Anyone with an O+ blood type can be tested as a donor for Greg. There are age and weight restrictions, you can find out more details - and how to be tested - at the Cleveland Clinic Liver Transplant Guide.
There's a lot involved in living donation - it's important to know the facts if you are considering becoming a donor. Click below to see information from UNOS, the United Network for Organ Sharing.
The Cleveland Clinic Liver Transplant office is an excellent source of information, as well.
Huge THANKS to Studio Oxygen and everyone who participated in Yoga Under The Lights! You have no idea how special this is to the Cooper family, to experience this amazing Canfield Community support!
Join Us Before the Canfield-Poland Game!
During a special pre-game recognition, we will have a moment to wish Greg and his donor, Dave Crawford, well as they head to the Cleveland Clinic in preparation for Monday's transplant surgery. Hope you can join us to cheer on the Cards and honor Greg & Dave!
Step out for a delicious pancake breakfast on Sunday, November 4th, from 9a-2p. Proceeds help with Rotary's philanthropical endeavors. We'll be there with updates on Greg & Dave.
Every donation helps us continue on this journey for a liver for Greg. The Cooper family is responsible for out-of-pocket costs for potential donors, including travel, meals, hotels and lost wages. Once Greg receives his new liver, any funds remaining will be paid forward to another person needing help. Thank you so much for your consideration!
Send your check to: Longing For A Liver, PO Box 13, Canfield, OH 44406.
This fund is a short term non-profit designed to provide financial assistance for expenses related to Greg Cooper's current health condition as well as any potential expenses related to a liver transplant: including uncovered expenses incurred by a liver donor.
1. Medical/travel/lodging expenses related to Greg Cooper's current health condition that are not covered by his medical insurance.
2. Medical/travel/lodging/food/lost wage expenses related to a potential donor that are not covered by Greg's or their insurance policy.
Any payments from the fund must be approved by at least 2 members of the funds board.
Any funds remaining will be donated to another community member in need.
Feel free to contact any board member for more information.
Copyright © 2018 Longing For A Liver - Greg Cooper Transplant Fund - All Rights Reserved.
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I went to a bible study this morning, and I think there was some shock that I was there. This was actually my second time there and when I walked in the first time, it was quite a surprise. I was by the far the youngest person in the room. I would say that most of them were a good 20 years older than me, and retired. Grandchildren and great grandchildren was their reality, mine is just finishing getting my children out of the house.
So I sat, and they were all introduced to me and I to them. It was funny, and while I felt a bit out of place, they were all more than kind to me. After the study, I was not sure if I would go back. It had more to do with how they ran the study, than anything else, but I had decided to go at least the one more time before their August break.
So today, I walked into the class and was warmly greeted by all. After the class, I made conversation with one of the ladies as she had asked prayer for her daughter and a job decision that was coming up. From the way she spoke, I assumed her daughter lived in the bay area, and since that is where I am from, it gave me an "in" to have a conversation. We spoke of her daughter, where she lived and the decision she would be soon making. It was a nice conversation, and I was glad that I had found an opening to speak with her.
At that point, the teacher of the group walked out with me and made a comment that made me smile. She handed me the binder of study materials that they were using and said that it was OK if I did not come back. She said it nicely, and I know it was because she recognized that this group was not my peers, and not out of a desire to get me out of the group. Whatever my feelings were before, by that time, I knew I would be back. Really, how could I not? This is a group of women that I could learn from, and like I told her, I might teach them a thing or two also.
Meeting these ladies also fits into the scheme of the new me. I want to be challenged by who I know, and seek out those who ha ve a different experience than I do. I want to hear their stories, and see from their perspective. This is important to me. Why? I think it is so I can meet people where they are, and not where I think they should be. I think that is a lot of the problem with the world. We expect everyone to be like….well us.
How fun that would be! I met an Anglican Vicar the other day…it was very PBS.
Thanks Lynda! Trying to get out of that comfort zone.
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Prospect Deep Dive: Cam York
by Tony Ferrari on June 4, 2019
Hockey Card Stats
Name: Cam York
Club Team: USNTDP (USHL)
D.O.B: January 5th, 2001
Nationality (Place of Birth): American (Anaheim Hills, CA, USA)
Fun fact: Cam York is a big fan of the Kardashians. I can't confirm that he's never missed an episode of Keeping up with the Kardashian's but this is on his NTDP player page.
Ranked #17 by CAM ROBINSON'S April Rankings
Ranked #13 by HOCKEYPROSPECT.COM
Ranked #14 by FUTURE CONSIDERATIONS
Ranked #11 by ISS HOCKEY
Ranked #15 by MCKEEN'S HOCKEY
Ranked #12 by NHL CENTRAL SCOUTING (NA Skaters)
Ranked #20 by ELITEPROSPECTS.COM
Ranked #15 by TSN/McKenzie
Skating and Transition
York is a fluid skater who has good technical stride. He doesn't possess the highest top-end speed, but he does an excellent job getting up to speed and working off his edges. He does a good job skating himself out of trouble with the puck on his stick. He has the ability to change directions both north-south and east-west. The top USNTDP blue-liner was a solid player in transition. Preferring to defer to his high-skill teammate, he puts crisp passes right on the tape of the low forward to transition the puck out of the defensive end. Despite the tendency to allow his teammates to do the work through the middle of the ice, he was very fluid when he decided to break the puck out himself through the neutral zone. A strong skater with good balance, he doesn't lose the puck when pressured by opposing teams. He stays very poised when both exiting and entering the zone.
This is a Patrick Moynihan goal, but check out the play of defenseman Cam York.
York displays the type of talent that has him a sure fire 1st rounder in the upcoming NHL Draft. #NTDP. pic.twitter.com/L8EN2n5zTO
— Stars n' Stripes Hockey (@StarsStripesHKY) October 28, 2018
The video above shows York realize he had a forward coming high to cover him, skating in from the point to retrieve a loose puck before faking a shot and making a play towards the front of the net. Once the pass is made and York transitions back towards the blue line. Once there he finds space and receives a pass back to the point, one-touch passing it to a forward at the top of the circle of the opposite side of the ice for a scoring chance and goal. This is the type of reliable and responsible play that York provides when he uses his high-end hockey IQ to make decisions on when to be aggressive in moments that allow for it.
Everything that makes York a good player comes from his solid base. His ability to pivot and change direction with speed and efficiency is among the best of the rear guards in the draft. He has an advanced hockey IQ which allows him the ability to jump into a play or pinch from the point without finding himself out of position for the most part. When he does get caught too deep in the offensive zone, he is able to pivot and accelerate to get back into the play. He does a good job at pressuring from behind when the forward does get behind him on occasion. His extremely mature way of thinking the game allows him to adapt his game to what unfolds in the play at hand.
Play in the Offensive Zone
Cam York's offensive game is adaptable. His elite ability to think the game allows him to read the play and make the proper play to ensure that the puck continues moving in the right direction. His passing is excellent and he is able to pace the pass appropriately in order to put the puck on his teammates stick while at top speed without issue. He does a good job moving the puck in the right direction and looks for the most aggressive play that won't result in a turnover. Refusing to force passes that aren't there, rather he makes the pass that is available. When the stretch pass is available, York is able to send a crisp pass to the forward. In the video below, York goes back to retrieve the puck in his own zone. Once the puck is on his stick he immediately recognizes the broken coverage and does an excellent job at putting the puck on the forwards stick, leading to a dangerous scoring chance and a goal.
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When in the offensive zone, York does an excellent job at using his smooth skating to effectively patrol the blue line. He floats down the wall when he recognizes the puck coming around the boards and he is able to capably contain the puck and make an effective pass back into the zone. When at five-on-five, he doesn't use his shot much, often settling for a strong pass deeper into the zone to keep the puck in a dangerous area. When he does shoot the puck, it's often a well-placed wrist or snap-shot in order to create a rebound or tip opportunity for the forwards down-low. When he gets the puck at the point he doesn't have a hesitancy to take advantage of an open lane. Below you can see York get the puck at the point and drives to the circles drawing both the attention of the defenders and goaltender before threading a pass across the slot to set up the goal.
As a power play quarterback, York is an excellent facilitator. He keeps his feet moving and travels across the blue line to allow for a safety valve for the forwards on the half walls. York's understanding of dangerous scoring chances means he often defers to teammates in the slot and down low. In order to get the puck to those dangerous areas on the ice, York uses a variety of methods including both passing and shooting. While his passing is evidently his greatest strength in the offensive zone outside of his IQ, he does a good job at shooting the puck for rebounds when shooting from a distance. When the reliable American defender gets the puck in the high slot, his mindset is much more dangerous. He knows that he is in a dangerous position and takes advantage by locating his shot around screens and into the corners of the net. In the video below, he does an excellent job on the power play by coming from down low in the zone, moving towards the center at the point for a pass. When he gets the pass, he realizes he has space, moves towards to top of the slot, allowing a screen to develop in front of the goaltender before firing a perfectly placed shot for a goal.
Play in the Defensive Zone
Defensively reliable and responsible, York has a great stick and uses it to break up oncoming rushes at the blue line before the attack is able to penetrate deep into the zone. A better defender off the rush than within a sustained setup, the young American uses his ability to fluidly change directions staying in front of attacking players. York doesn't engage physically because he lacks the upper body strength to pin opponents against the boards but he's efficient with using his stick to disrupt the puck on his opponents stick. Once the puck is knocked loose he is able to consistently recover the puck and find an outlet.
The fact that York doesn't take the body as often as some defenders mean he can often move the puck up the ice because he isn't putting himself out of position. Exiting the zone with a high rate of success both with his agile skating or a smart pass. Able to take advantage of the opposing team making a line change or not setting their defensive structure, York is adept at getting the puck from his defensive zone to the offensive zone. In the video below it shows York patiently waiting for the play to develop in front of him before firing a beautiful pass to the forward waiting at the opposing blue line.
Cam York sends a pass down the ice to Bobby Orr Bink, who makes it 6-0 USA. #U18Worlds pic.twitter.com/5NdkUeQ4AE
— Steven Ellis (@StevenEllisTHN) April 25, 2019
When in his own zone for extended periods of time, York can get outmuscled at times. His strength should continue to develop over the next few years, but at the moment he struggles in the corners and along the boards. Thankfully he doesn't find himself in those situations very often because of his high success rate at defending zone entries and stopping plays with a solid poke check and recovery.
Season with the USNDTP
Coming into the season, York was known for his offensive prowess and maturity with the puck on his stick. Knowing that maturing defensively would be his biggest task for the season, York began to work on his defensive positioning. Understanding his own strengths and weaknesses, York knew that physically engaging opponents wouldn't produce the results that he was looking for. Instead, York began to develop his stick work and angling technique. He was able to play the opportunistic offensive game that he's always thrived at as well as growing and maturing defensively.
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Beginning the season with 10 points in his first ten games, York was cementing his place as the top rearguard on the U18 USNDTP. His ability to facilitate the play and allow his high-skilled forwards to make the dynamic plays that led to scoring chances. As the top defender on the team, York played in all situations. His role on the power play was to consistently filter the play towards the half walls where players like Jack Hughes or Trevor Zegras set up to allow them to make plays. Being able to willfully defer to some of the most elite play-makers in the draft class wasn't a factor of York not being confident in his own game, but it was the ability to recognize that the play would develop more dangerously from a better position. As the season wore on, his focus shifted towards playing a reliable and solid two-way game.
As the new year came and went, York continues to have success at both ends of the ice. In a mid-January game against the Youngstown Phantoms, York put on an absolute clinic. Putting up three goals and four assists, York set a USHL record for points in a game. At one point he was given another assist and then it was taken away again which would have been an outrageous eight-point night for the defender who had just become an 18-year-old ten days prior. The video below shows all seven points that York was credited with during the game against Youngstown. As can be seen in the video, York uses a variety of methods to create offence. From pinching down low into the zone to creating chances in front of the net by shooting for tips and rebounds, York's full arsenal of offensive tools was on display.
Cam York had a record setting #USHL game last night. He recorded 7 points (3G/4A) in the #NTDP's 11-2 routing of Youngstown. The whole NTDP team had a great game with Caufield and Hughes moving up the all time scoring leaderboard. Here are all 7 of York's points:#2019NHLDraft pic.twitter.com/MW47V26d22
— TPEHockey (@TPEHockey) January 16, 2019
Showing up against NCAA Competition
One of the most impressive things about York's year was his performance against NCAA competition. In 16 games against the collegiate level York performed quite well, with seven points. In the defensive zone, York excelled and proved that despite his size not being quite ideal for a blue-liner, he was able to handle larger opponents. The fact that York plays an intellectual game defensively, using his smooth skating and strong stick, rather than choosing to throw his body around at all times is the primary reason for his ability to succeed. A reason for optimism in his performance in the games against NCAA competition is that he played well against them as a 17-year-old for 13 of the 16 games. Although this doesn't seem like a huge deal, at this stage of a players development the difference that a few months have on a players development can be extremely large.
While he wasn't without his faults, including a game against the University of Minnesota early in the season. While not a complete stat, nevertheless, York was a -4 and seemed to be intimidated by the size and speed of a very good University of Minnesota squad. The game didn't go well for the defender who was clearly still learning and adjusting to playing against players a few years older and more physically mature than he was. Working through this game was a learning experience for the developing two-way blue-liner. As the season progressed, York did an excellent job at developing the defensive side of the game, using the games against the
more mature NCAA competition as a gauge for how his development was progressing. By season's end, York wasn't merely competing against collegiate opponents, rather he was pushing the pace of play and holding strong defensively.
All-Star Performance at the U18 World Championships
Despite not winning the "Defenceman of the Tournament" award, losing out to Philip Broberg of Sweden, and settling as one of two tournament all-stars on the backend. York was arguably the best blue-liner at the U18 World Championships leading defenders in scoring by a wide margin. York was a force at both ends of the ice. Scoring at least a point in every game of the tournament, York racked up four goals and seven assists for 11 points in just seven games. York's outstanding performance helped teammates and frequent power play companions, Jack Hughes and Cole Caufield, to tournament and team records.
Photo courtesy of USA Hockey
As the tournament progressed, York took more and more control of each game. Defensively he was stout and offensively he was efficient. Despite the loaded American team running into a hot goaltender in 16-year-old Yaroslavl Askarov of Russia in the semifinals, York helped the US U18 team to a dominating tournament. Blowing out almost every opponent, seemingly owning the puck at all times, York was a major catalyst in the U18 World Championships.
Saving his best for last, as you can see in the video below, York recorded a two-goal, three-point night in the bronze medal game against the rival Canadians. York was a force to cap off the U18 tournament. Defensively he displayed an excellent closing ability, playing tight gaps and cutting off plays at the blue-line before they could enter the zone. Offensively, York uses his skating ability and excellent vision to take advantage of deficiencies in the Canadian defensive zone coverage.
#U18Worlds | #TeamUSA captured a medal for the 16th consecutive year with a 5-2 win over Canada today. pic.twitter.com/COCtpCZdkW
— USA Hockey (@usahockey) April 29, 2019
On York's assist, he jumps into the rush as the fourth attacked and does an excellent job executing a give-and-go with American captain Jack Hughes. In the second period, Hughes returns the favour. Noticing York creeping down into the faceoff circle, Hughes puts a pass on a tee for York to show off his one-timer to the back of the net. To finish off his outstanding tournament, York adds another in the power play from a creative pass from Trevor Zegras. York steps into the drop pass and fires home a shot from the top of the high slot. York capped off his record-breaking tournament with an outstanding performance in a big spot, showing that he is one of the premier players on the back-end available in this year's NHL Entry Draft.
Conclusion and Draft
Coming into the season as the number one defenceman on possibly the best U18 USNTDP team ever, York was expected to have a good year. The development of York's two-way ability this season helped power this stacked U18 team to a very good season. York did an outstanding job understanding where his development needed to focus and did just that. Improving defensively by leaps and bounds, he understood where his limitations were (physical play), developing good gap control and containing and controlling the puck before it enters his zone.
His transition game has been a strong point of his game, utilizing an accurate and crisp pass to move the puck in a positive direction. He did an excellent job facilitating the puck at both five-on-five and with the man advantage. Understanding where the dangerous scoring chances come from and ensuring that the puck flows to those areas. In the offensive zone, the reliable blue-liner does an excellent job picking his spots. Understanding when he has support form the high forward in the offensive end, York is able to glide deep into the zone drawing defenders towards him and then using his outstanding vision to find forwards on the back-side or in the slot for high-danger scoring chances.
Overall, Cam York is one of the best young defenders in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft and warrants a selection in the first round, likely in the top half of the draft. The best blue-liner from the USNDTP put together a solid season in which he set the record for most points by a defenceman in a single season with 65 points, surpassing Adam Fox's 59 points. He set the record for points in a game by a USNDTP player with his seven-point performance against Youngstown. Whichever team makes the selection of York will insert a reliable, two-way defender with high offensive upside and an extremely smart style of play into their prospect pipeline and be better for it.
Thank you for taking the deep dive on one of the most productive blue-liners in this upcoming draft, Cam York. Come back soon for more draft prospect deep dives from the Dobber Prospects team! Leave comments below and you can always reach out to me personally on twitter at @TheTonyFerrari!
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In reply to DrummerboyWolf • 11:27a, 7/19/21
DrummerboyWolf said:
FlossyDFlynt said:
wolfman18 said:
Jen Psaki just suggested that people spreading misinformation be banned from other/all platforms if they're banned from one. pic.twitter.com/SlNXJTXi0I
— jordan (@JordanUhl) July 16, 2021
Yea...this is straight out of 1930's Germany.
Exactly right. Anybody who pays attention could have seen this coming.
The hearing yesterday in Arizona proved fraud without a shadow of a doubt. Now more states are going to do a forensic audit. So buckle up for the next few months. The media will try to distract you with lots of false flags. Hopefully some of the people on the left will wake up and see what is happening to our Republic.
Patrick Byrne, a noted Libertarian and former CEO of Overstock.com says that Arizona should recall it's electors.
https://rumble.com/vjwv4j-patrick-byrne-calls-on-arizona-to-recall-their-electors.html
He's not alone, an Arizona state senator said the same thing.
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11:57a, 7/19/21
More news coming out of Arizona. Apparently an election official in Maricopa County, Arizona has an email where she told her clerks to hand out ball point pens for every day of early voting up until November 2nd. She explicitly says that on voting day, sharpies should be given out. Most Conservative and Republicans usually vote on election day.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/busted-maricopa-county-elections-official-demanded-pens-elections-sharpies-election-day/?utm_source=Gab&utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons
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1:00p, 7/19/21
So for those of us that aren't following it daily, when is the Arizona "recount" supposed to be completed?
They've been "counting" for months. *** are they counting that's taking this long?
Are they still running cutting-edge bamboo forensics on the immaculate mystery ballots that appeared by magic?
Are they trying to re-animate Frankenstein Hugo Chavez to help with the recount?
cowboypack02
In reply to Civilized • 1:11p, 7/19/21
Civilized said:
I wouldn't judge how long it takes to count votes....it took way longer than it should of the first time to count them during the election after all. I would also wonder how much their efforts have been held up by things like election officials obstructing by not giving up the voting machines, or the administrators on the machines not giving up passwords to access the voting machines....or, as the audit officials have said, data was just missing or deleted
In reply to cowboypack02 • 1:52p, 7/19/21
cowboypack02 said:
Bingo. It's even worse in Pennsylvania where the state attorney general and the department of state are willfully obstructing the state legislature's attempts to review the election of three counties in the Philadelphia area. The Penn department of state has gone so far as to tell those counties not to cooperate with the legislature.
In reply to Oldsouljer • 4:15p, 7/19/21
Oldsouljer said:
I think I would be able to stomach everything a bit better if it just wasn't so one sided.....
None of the states that did any of the weird things like just stopping vote counting went to the republicans as all.....every single one of them went to Biden.....the law of averages would say that at at least in one of these places the vote would of going to Trump but just didn't happen.
Its the same with the media...you never saw anyone publish a positive story about Trump and then have to go back and publish a clarification on it....but that always happened the other way. Think of all of the negative stories that were published about Trump and then the publisher had to have a second release about it....that never happens the other way.
If it went both ways I would say that maybe we have a system wide problem.....but it never does
caryking
Civ, what I'm hearing is that the discrepancies were so bad, they couldn't believe it. Now, they are counting everything again and also are using simple paper counting machines to confirm some of this.
I don't know if I have heard a new date; however, one thing of note: 75K more ballets came in than were sent out. That is so unbelievable they are doing everything they can to confirm what they are seeing.
Again, these types of initial inquiries are showing the same things across multiple states. We have a freight train of audits heading across the country! I am confident as I have said since January... Biden did NOT win this election!! We have so much cheating that went on, this is an absolute requirement to clear up for this Country! Whether Biden gets removed or not is less important than knowing the truth. We have to break the permanent establishment class!!
You are starting to see how partisan this country is all the way to our judicial system. Trump was hated, by the establishment, for his policies, not his personality!!
Hang on for a really bumpy ride!! Also, watch Rachel Madow... she is reporting what's going on every night and is in a complete meltdown!!!!
The dissenting opinion has been sidelined!!!!!
Look at Oklahoma! They are working on an audit and Trump won ~70% - 30%. I don't know what they might find. Cowboy, the systematic cheating was mostly done in the states Biden needed to win.
As Joe Biden said: it's not who votes, it's who counts the votes!
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11:05p, 7/19/21
Something I didn't even think about that makes Biden's tax proposal look even more terrible. This is one of the reasons wealth envy is terrible monetary policy
https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-capital-gains-tax-hike-inflation-investment-11626639335
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6:49a, 7/20/21
The best thing that Biden could do to help the economy longterm would be to revert back to everything that Trump had in place regarding our energy policies...
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Biden's use of Socialism
Not long ago, Sanders was little more than a radical oddity that Vermonters sent to D.C. Today, he's the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, guiding a reported $3.5 trillion budget resolution that Democrats plan to cram through using reconciliation. Yes, it's less than the $6 trillion Sanders first proposed everything looks "moderate" in comparison to Bernie's proposals but larger than any spending bill in American history. If voters want an octogenarian collectivist running the budget, that's their choice, of course. But if socialism really isn't a "very useful substitute" why is the president leaning on socialists to drive his agenda?
Anyone want to talk about Pelosi not allowing certain republicans to sit on her select committee to investigate 1/6 and then McCartney pulling all of the republicans off of the committee?
The only surprising part is McCarthy being strong...
In reply to caryking • 4:50p, 7/21/21
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I was thinking the same thing. Good for him
Ha ha, you got that right. House GOP never going to be worth a damn unless they're led by Jim Jordan.
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Let's go lefties... I need some help translating your leader's babble from last night. Seriously can one of you comrades lend us uneducated, anti-vaxxers, redneck rubes a hand. We ain't real learned at translating that thar' high educationated talkin'
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"All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility" - John Stuart Mill - renowned SOCIALIST....
In reply to BBW12OG • 1:38p, 7/22/21
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Sounds like a 10 year old speaking...
I disagree.... Hell my 10 year old saw it this morning and asked when they were going to take his keys like we did from Grandma.... LOL..
Not really.. but she did laugh her ass off at it and said..." what is he trying to say.." I changed the channel.
SOCIALISM/MARXISM on full display.... "we can SPEND our way out of inflation..." What is sad is that the sheep believe this nonsense after hundreds of years of it being proven to be false.
Go look at Capital Blvd and 540 underpass. You see that lefties? That's what you are creating for this country. Hope all those crocodile tears that the Big Mean Orange Man made you shed are worth the next 1 year and 5 months of destruction you and your party are doing to this country....
Biden: Our multi trillion dollar spending bills "will reduce inflation, reduce inflation, reduce inflation" pic.twitter.com/NcKVVaBxxZ
Enjoy.... Lighten up lefties... I know you missed me!
Sleepy Joe's town hall in a nutshell...😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/xWLvleYVE4
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Good lord how embarrassing, but hey at least he doesn't send out mean tweets.
I love that the government is arguing that businesses should pay more to fill empty positions while at the same time the government is taking our tax dollars to pay the same people to sit at home and trying to artificially force businesses to pay more.....Gotta love that...
Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki to small business owners trying to find workers: "May be that you have to pay more wages" pic.twitter.com/3m9t6UJ1QZ
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 22, 2021
Guess I would want to pull my kids out of public school as well after this
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-ed-nominee-touted-diversity-speaker-who-claimed-schools-spirit-murder-black-children-source-says
Ummm...you first, Jen.
They are... highest paid admin on record. Still happening with so many out of work and are wanting, so badly, to shut the country down again...
In reply to caryking • 10:15p, 7/22/21
I know that everyone seems to hate it when BBW starts yelling socialism and communism....but.....that's how you get that.
In both Socialism and Communist countries the government and party officials always live high on the hog while the rest of the people starved.....
In reply to cowboypack02 • 10:59p, 7/22/21
Congress approves the total White House budget, which is then parsed per the president and his staff's determinations based on experience, education, etc. just like any normal job.
Also, with COLA increases to match inflation, shouldn't we expect every administration to be the then-current "highest paid admin on record?"
I'd bet we have the "highest paid Congress on record" currently, and the "highest paid Supreme Court justices on record" too.
What am I missing here? Is there additional, more nefarious information I'm missing that Cary needs to include to better contextualize his statement?
In reply to Civilized • 8:00a, 7/23/21
But that's my point.....millions and millions of folks are out of a job, tens of thousands of businesses shut down. People have lost their livelihoods but the government workers aren't impacted by it at all.
Instead of showing a bit of understanding for what the rest of the country is going through those folks are this highest paid of all time. Congress even made it so they didn't have to come to work at all and could have someone vote for them and still get paid. (except of course when the speaker of the house needed their votes to maintain power).
Think about it.....politicians enacted policies through either executive fiat, which caused close to 40 million people to lose their jobs (DOL statistic from last year), tens of thousands of businesses to close, millions of people to go into poverty......and the politicians who helped make that happen went getting their checks benefits. They didn't suffer at all with the rest of the population. If that ain't a "let them eat cake" moment i don't know what it.
In reply to BBW12OG • 8:04a, 7/23/21
Authentic prairie gibberish.
In reply to cowboypack02 • 8:38a, 7/23/21
The more people are reliant upon the government the more power the government has and the less responsibility the lefty minions have to worry about.
The laziness and lack of self responsibility of the majority of lefties is very telling. These are the same people that parrot their MSM propaganda machines and then claim to "never watch/listen to them" but yet they repeat their talking points verbatim.
Like many of the "independents" on here they are all full of malarkey. The end plan has been exposed and it is to move this country to single party rule and have absolute power for their SOCIALIST/MARXIST regime lord over the country and tell everyone when, where, how and exactly how much money they are going to earn.
Many of the comrades on here welcome that. Would make their lives easier. You know, thinking for oneself can take away from telling us uneducated rubes how stupid we are that we support self determination and all that racist babble that is in the Unites States Constitution.
Glad to be back comrades... khoroshego dnya!!!!
In reply to cowboypack02 • 10:50a, 7/23/21
I agree, but if you're not going to mind spending for gov programs and departments, why would you mind spending on salary too?
It's all out of control at this point. The federal government doesn't have a revenue problem, they have a spending problem.
In reply to hokiewolf • 10:59a, 7/23/21
hokiewolf said:
They have a SOCIALIST/MARXIST PARTY problem... and a mindless sheep base problem that can't think for themselves enough to not vote for them.
Never underestimate people's laziness and desire to be told what to do and how to live their lives. Look at the supporters of the party.... they slurp up everything the MSM spouts off and then come on here to regurgitate it. So damn sad that supposed educated people are that damn blind to see how they are being sold a false narrative.
But... God loves stupid people too.
That party is THE problme.
I have a problem with most of the government spending but we were talking about government salaries so I put in my two cents for that.
I don't believe that we should have any type of large omnibus bills at all in the government. Every single like item in a budget should be voted individually so we the people can see where our politicians are spending the money that they have taken from us through taxes. For instance I want to see which politicians were ok with studying male prostitution in Vietnam ($442,340), or the 2.5 million that was spend on a super bowl commercial by the US Census Bureau, who could ever forget the 800,000 that was given to NIH to study the impact of a genital washing program in South Africa. Don't forget that we are running a 20 Billion dollar deficit when money was spent on all of these things.
I also believe that every bit of government funding should only last a year, and it should have to be voted on to be renewed every single year. Every layer of government should also have to have a balanced budget every single year as well, with any overages coming out of their direct pay 1st, and then starting to come out of their benefits second....
But that's just me....
In reply to BBW12OG • 11:48a, 7/23/21
here's where I disagree with you, I don't put the blame on just one party
In all fairness to BBW I kinda think that 99% of the politicians are on the same side, regardless of the letter in front of their name.
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Theresa May is an unlikely fitness celebrity but last week she was praised for 'incredible core strength' after a particularly deep curtsey to the Queen.
May is no slob. She apparently has a personal trainer and goes to the gym several times a week. Does she really have a strong core? And what does that mean?
— The rehabilitation/physical therapy profession understands the core as the cylinder of the body that makes up our trunk.
— The sports performance sector regards the core as any long chain of muscles, from the feet all the way up to the hands, functioning systematically together.
It is important to recognise that core strength plays a major role in the body's ability to perform optimally and is crucial in helping us to be pain free.
Training for core strength comes down to a variety of exercises. Below are a few examples that train our core for strength according to the two definitions.
Your current fitness level should help determine where you need to start. If you are recovering from an injury it may be wise to begin with the rehabilitation exercises.
If you are Theresa May, and you are faced with the task of carrying the nation on your back, then progressing through all of these exercises will be of great use.
Performance — Exercises that require the body to connect chains of muscles when faced with the task of generating force against resistance.
Rehabilitation — Exercises that focus directly on the muscles of the trunk.
I'm not far off my 40's and I've got a 6-pack. I know a lot of you will be jealous. Please don't abuse me. Thank you.
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The BEST way to find the right Alaskan Malamute puppy for your family is thru a responsible breeder. Responsible breeders take their dogs and breeding quite seriously, and work very hard to assure proper placement of their puppies to homes they feel are good ones. If you choose a responsible breeder… this means you can consult with them about grooming, veterinary care, health issues, training, exercise, diet and any other dog questions you may have. If there are any problems, your breeder will be willing to work with you. In your search for your new puppy, be sure to speak with, visit and consult with several breeders. A quality breeder will provide you with a contract that will state your responsibilities as well as theirs. It will outline their guarantees and any requirements of you as the new puppy owner. Contrary to public opinion, puppies that are purchased from responsible breeders, will most always be less expensive than those from pet shops or puppy farms.
One who will take the puppy back if the owners can't keep it, or help and assist finding a home for the dog.
One who breeds for the betterment of the breed, not for making money. For the betterment of the breed means breeding to the AKC standard, using healthy breeding dogs, proving them in some area (show ring, working, performance events like obedience and agility), and trying to breed for that elusive 'perfect dog'. Betterment of the breed is not breeding for a particular size, for long hair, or for a certain color.
One who will often be a member of the national breed club (Alaskan Malamute Club of America) and/or their local breed club. They will care about the future of the breed as a whole. Members of AMCA agree to the club's code of ethics.
One who will not mind you asking for references and will refer you to another reputable breeder as well as help educate and aid you in finding that perfect puppy for your family.
One who does proper health clearances – hips, eyes, Chrondrodysplasia certification thru the National Club. They will have had all puppies veterinarian checked, as well as proper worming, shots and records including certification certificates and numbers on the parents of the litter.
Encourages continued contact with the new puppy parents for any concerns, questions through the puppies life.
A quality breeder often has a long wait list. Don't be put off by this. They also will require a deposit; this is common practice A quality breeder does not have a lot of litters, so the demand is usually greater than the "supply" -patience is a virtue!
Avoid anyone saying they have 'rare' anything. Red malamutes are not rare, neither are white or long coated malamutes. Beware if you see anything referred to as "rare". Malamutes do not have blue eyes. It is a disqualification. Blue eyes means there's a Siberian Husky in there somewhere. Remember: "Rare" = gimmick to sell puppies. Look at the condition of the dogs in the photographs. Are they cleaned? Well groomed? Do they look healthy or are their coats looking a bit dull? Dull coats can indicate thyroid problems or dirty conditions. Coat is one of the first indicators that there is a problem. How are they kept? Do the dogs look healthy or are they scrawny and lack definition to their bodies? Are they fat and their stomachs hang? Do they look happy? The occasional cute picture of a muddy dog caught digging is fine; if most of the pictures on the website show dirty dogs it is not. Is a pedigree listed? Commonly disreputable breeders will list a few famous kennels that appear behind their dogs, often it's one or two dogs in the 5th or 6th generation of the pedigree. That can be very common in most dogs. It's not a sign of quality! Be leery of sites listing their methods of payment and prices. Disreputable breeders often list both; it's clear what is most important to them! Run, run away from kennels advertising that the pups are sold "As Is". Clearly they do not stand behind the health of their puppies. Breeders who care will ask questions about your experience with the breed, your home situation, and may even request to do a home visit so they know their pup is going to the proper home. Many quality breeders will have you fill out a questionnaire, because it is important to place the correct puppy with your family. They will have spent time with the puppies and know which ones have the right personality for you. A good breeder won't sell a puppy to just anyone. The puppy's best interests are #1! Are there multiple breeds of dog on the property? Breeding is a passion and learning pedigrees is very time consuming….but reputable breeders enjoy searching for the right combination. It's possible to be quite knowledgeable in a couple breeds at the same time but if a kennel is breeding more than a couple breeds, it's highly improbable that proper research is being done and most likely it's a puppy mill. Avoid kennels who publicly bash other specific breeders. Or better, the ones who say "mind your own business" or protest on the website that they are not a puppy mill. If they feel the need to say it…that should raise some warning flags.
Reality – As much as we wish they were all Best In Show winners, in every litter there are dogs who are not destined to be show dogs. That doesn't mean they aren't EXCELLENT as pets, obedience, agility or working dogs.
Reality – Malamutes are not meant to be 150#'s. If you want something of this size you need to reconsider your selection of breed. Newfoundland, Great Pyranese, St Bernards are just a few that would better serve you if you want such a large dog. The average weight for a malamute is 60-100#.
Reality – Look for the certifications!
Hips: OFA – www.offa.org PennHIP – research.vet.upenn.edu/pennhip/ Eyes: CERF – http://www.vmdb.org/cerf.html Thyroid: OFA www.offa.org Elbows: OFA www.offa.org Cardiac: OFA www.offa.org Dwarfism: Please see the information about dwarfism available on the AMCA website.
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H. NEAL WELLS III, ESQ.
November 18, 2017. "Andrea, I wanted to tell you that the case settled today. We appreciate your help. It settled for $315k. We did it with your excellent handwriting analysis and demonstrative exhibits. Judge Lewis read Paulson the riot act about denying writing the anonymous letters. We are glad to have a resolution that hopefully brings an end to Paulson's bullying. Also, I posted your name on the Consumer Attorneys' message board last week because an attorney was looking for a handwriting expert and you do such excellent work." (Klein vs. Paulson, Case No. 37-2016-00003044-CU-DF-CTL).
July 13, 2017. "Andrea, yesterday was a 9 hour mediation on the case. It settled! Your report was a big part of it as it removed the forgery claim from any discussion. My client and I thank you so much for your help in this case. I look forward to working with you in the future." (Estate of William J. Wagner, Case No: 16PR00245).
BAILUS COOK & KELESIS, LTD.
August 3, 2015. "Thank you so much, Andrea, for the Exhibit 'training' and for your great testimony today. I also thank you for working with us for many months to achieve our goals. It has been great working with you once again." (Re: Patel vs Sonal, Inc., et al, Expert Testimony August 3, 2015 in the Superior Court of the State of California For the County of Kern-Metropolitan Division, Case No.: S-1500-CV-280609LHB, In Department 17, before Judge Lorna Blumfield).
February 22, 2015. "Andrea, thank you for you professional work in this matter over this long period of time. I appreciate your efforts on our behalf and am so happy we retained you as our expert." (Re: The Matter of Esther Hasson Revocable Living Trust, LASC case No. BP134478. Expert testimony at Los Angeles Superior Court, January 21, 2015 at 111 N. Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA, Dept 11 before Judge Leslie Green).
February 10, 2015. "Andrea, I am pleased to advise you that the referenced matter has settled and will be dismissed and not proceed to trial. I would like to thank you very much for your help and guidance in this matter. It was a pleasure working with you." (Re: Palm Development Group vs. Farahani et al., Los Angeles Superior Court Case: 11U00171).
December 2, 2014. "Andrea, you perform a valuable service and I appreciate the quality of your work and dedication to your craft. You bring honor to the profession. Should I ever have occssion to recommend you, I will do so without hesitation, and with much pleasure."
February 10, 2014. "Andrea, I wanted to let you know what happend in this file. The carrier denied the claim to the insured for various reasons, including the falsification of the lease which you evaluated for us. Thank you again for looking at this on short notice." (Re: Coverage-Ogrodzinski).
May 23, 2013. "Andrea, I heard great things about your testimony in the deposition yesterday from Mr. DeBolt. He said you were phenomenal and that after awhile he relaxed and tended to other work because he knew you could hold your own against the opposition." June 5, 2013. "Andrea I just wanted you to know that we settled the Sims matter most favorably and we cannot thank you enough for your splendid work with us over these many months. You are great to work with. I'm sure your deposition testimony did the trick. We have another case for you coming soon. Thanks again." (Estate of David/Florence Sims, Los Angeles Superior Court Case Nos: BP111811, BP111812).
March 2, 2013. "Andrea: It had to be you (I am singing this as I write). Anyhow, Mr. Morrison finally broke down and admitted he must have signed the Share Repurchase Agreement-even though he still doesn't remember...Therefore, you are released from further work on the Goverman matter. Thank you so much and I will keep you in mind for the future." (TRADEWIND CONSULTING, LLC v. WILDCAT DISTRIBUTORS, INC, Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. BC458005).
January 5, 2012. "Andrea, thank you for this report for Homeland Security. The report is very clear and comprehensive. I also thank you very much for your extensive efforts throughout and will certainly contact you again for any needs that we may have in the future. Thanks, again."(Immigration matter of Emmanuel Dizon).
--PETER MILIANTI and DONALD PASULKA, Esqs.
OLIVAREZ, GALLAGHER & PADILLA, P.C.
"Ms. McNichol: Thank you for your vital help in our Franco trial. The jury believed every word of your testimony. We are very grateful for your good work." (Expert testimony February 22, 2011, Franco v. Risco, Case No.: BC 387228, Los Angeles, Superior Court, 111 N. Hill Street, Department 28, 3rd Floor, Los Angeles, CA, before Judge Yvette Palazuelos").
July 1, 2009. "Andrea, I wanted to thank you today but did not get a chance because I was still working when you left the courtroom. I just wanted to tell you that your testimony was great as you already know, and everybody loved it; the clients loved it; the jury loved it; the judge loved it; everybody loved it! And, I also wanted to tell you how I am so grateful to you because you really made this case so easy for me, and today when I got stuck, all I had to do was go by your exhibits which I had already figured out and it all tied together so beautifully. And, through it all I knew exactly that I did not have to worry about anything with you because I knew you would always give the right answer whether I asked the question or someone else asked it. Really, it was such a pleasure so I just wanted to tell you that and thank you so very much. I will let you know how it comes out. Please put me down on your list of admirers and I will definitely use you again if the need arises. Thank you again for everything." July 13, 2009. "Andrea, We won the case! The jury came back 8-0 with a completely favorable verdict for our clients in less than three hours! We were totally successful and I want to thank you again for all your help and support throughout these many months. We look forward to working with you again." (Expert testimony July 1, 2009, Federal Court House 312 N. Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012, Judge Valerie Baker Fairbank, Courtroom 9, Alcini v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Case No. CV08-2889 VBF).
"Andrea, we received the jury's verdict last Friday and our clients were found "Not Guilty" on the forgery charge. I am sure the jury keyed in on your professional presentation as to why there was no forgery. We and the Aguayos appreciate your hard work." (Expert testimony August 11, 2008, People v. Aguayo, LASC Case No., BA 320 295, State Court located at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center 210 W. Temple Street, Los Angeles, 9th floor Department 108, Judge Michael Johnson).
--JOSEPH L. DEMER, M.D., Ph.D.
BROWN WINFIELD CANZONERI ABRAM, INC.
"Ms. McNichol, I want to tell you that the other side in our case just offered us a miraculous settlement and I have no doubt it had a lot to do with your deposition testimony the other day. We cannot thank you enough and very much look forward to working with you again. " (Gilbert Mercado v. A & B Specialty Foods, LLC and La Donna Corporation, Los Angeles Superior Court Case No.: BC 352 285, May 14, 2008).
"Andrea, you can add another win to your resume and another notch on your belt. We won our case. The jury thought your testimony was very important and persuasive and did not believe the other expert at all. Congratulations and thank you so much!" (Expert testimony February 27, 2008, Rofeh v. Soumekh, Case No. BC 354765, Judge Jane Johnson, Los Angeles Superior Court, 111 North Hill Street, Los Angeles, California, Department 56).
ISAACMAN, KAUFMAN & PAINTER, P.C.
--HELEN WONG, MARTIN SIMONE Esqs.
-- JOEL J. LOQUVAM, Esq.
"We are writing to thank you for your incredibly prompt assistance and testimony that was instrumental in the Judgment in favor of our client. As you will recall, our client was sued by an attorney based on various breach of contract theories as a purported guarantor of an "Employment Agreement" for services related to the practice of law.
"With little more that forty-eight (48) hours notice before trial we noticed an issue raising a question whether signatures had been forged on the contract. We were lucky enough to contact you since on receipt of the contract at issue you pointed out additional issues not considered. Since ours was a trial de novo, discovery was virtually non-existent such that the purported original contract was not available. Nevertheless, you agreed to act as our expert remaining flexible in the event an original contract was introduced by the attorney Appellant.
"As it turned out, the original trial date was continued for approximately thirty (30) days. On the first day of trial before the Los Angeles Superior Court Judge, the Appellant introduced what was supposed to be the original contract. Our request that your testimony be taken out of order was granted and with only a ten (10) minute break for you to review the "original" contract. Your superior skill and knowledge allowed you to testify not only about the inconsistencies between the photocopied contract and what was newly introduced as the "original" how the "original" had been signed and dated by the same person and how all of that was entirely inconsistent with the testimony of the attorney Appellant. Your testimony was devesting as reflected not only in the faces of our opponent and his counsel, but also during the cross-examination, which you handled as a seasoned professional.
"Your fee was very reasonable and the adjustment made for our client's benefit both generous and appreciated. We certainly feel fortunate to have contacted you. Little did we know in our initial call that we had reached the finest profession who is plainly at the top in her area of practice.
"We look forward to working with you again and will recommend you to others with confidence. Thank you again for helping us achieve a judgment in favor of our client."
-- J. BRUCE ROBERTSON, Esq.
"This is to advise you that the jury in the above matter returned a unanimous verdict in our favor in under 40 minutes! The jury was fascinated by your testimony concerning the plaintiff's signature on the Informed Consent documents as well as the other documents bearing the plaintiff's signature in the doctor's chart. They concluded very quickly that she was being less than honest in her stance that she did not sign one of the Informed Consent documents."
-- DAVID J. WEISS, Esq.
"The court found that there was a 'battle of the experts' and that 'after reviewing the testimony, the reports, and the exemplars produced' that the signature was that of the decedent. In short, the court found in our favor. Again, I wish to thank you for your assistance and professionalism on such short notice. I will call on you again should I need an expert in the field of questioned documents or handwriting analysis."
-- STEVEN A. SIMONS, Esq.
"Your designation as a Diplomate, is limited to a select group of professionals who, by virtue of their extensive training and expertise, have demonstrated their outstanding abilities in regard to their forensic specialty. The rigid requirements for recognition attest to your personal integrity and professional accomplishments."
"My clients and I have truly enjoyed working with you and believe that you were the key to developing our case and settling this matter in such a favorable fashion."
-- KIRT J. HOPSON, Esq.
"Once again, I wish to thank you for your assistance and help throughout this trial. Your guidance and insight while we were preparing for trial helped me understand the nature of what you do so that I could effectively cross-examine the adversary's expert. Observing how well prepared you were at trial, leaving no room for much cross-examination, made it only easier to find the best places to attack our adversary's expert. I look forward to working with you again."
-- ANGELA D. ROBLEDO, Esq.
"Your professionalism, preparedness and extensive knowledge and understanding of the subject matter, as reflected by your testimony, make you an outstanding expert witness. I feel that your testimony proved to be the key factor to our successfully defending this matter."
-- WENDY L. SLAVKIN, Esq.
"On behalf of Mr. Brent Lesjak and myself I extend to you my sincerest thanks for your professional expertise given in the above referenced matter. The report of your findings and conclusions served as the most significant factor in obtaining the dismissal of the case against Mr. Lesjak."
-- MICHAEL C. CARNEY, Esq.
"I'm speaking for all of us at TIME when I say that we appreciated your joining us last Wednesday evening in Hartford to meet with some of our customers and their wives. I was particularly interested in your observation that your TIME articles in our Behavior Section tended to build your "credibility." This kind of reaction has broad implications for our many advertisers. Thanks again for making last Wednesday a memorable evening for our friends in Hartford."
"Your presentation to the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts was informative, entertaining, and thought-provoking. The feedback we received from all our participants was so positive, they only wished you had had an eight-hour time slot. We truly appreciate your time and expertise in helping make our meeting such a marked success."
"We wish to thank you for the excellent work you have done for us in the authentication of the signatures in Republic Bank vs. Simpson et al. Your report to us was professionally done and presents the facts in the case in a very clear manner."
Vice President, CONSOLIDATED GENERAL CORP.
"Thank you very much for your expert services in this litigation and I will keep you in mind in the future. Place me on your list of satisfied attorneys."
-- Lawrence R. LaPorte, Esq.
"Thank you for your input and information on the Timothy Lee Case…We are extremely grateful for your assistance with the case. Your assistance is the determining factor in this case."
"The educational program at our conference in Hawaii last month was a whopping success as evidenced by the evaluation sheets and hearing discussions by attendees. Thank you for participating and making it one of the best attended programs ever."
"On behalf of the American Society for Industrial Security, I would like to extend our deepest appreciation for your support and contributions at the ASIS 32nd Annual Seminar and Exhibits. Thank you for your efforts in helping make this our most successful Seminar to date. I look forward to working with you again on future educational endeavors."
"Your presentation at Law Guild of Beverly Hills' Membership Luncheon this afternoon at Mountain Gate was exciting, dynamic and educational! We have had many speakers, but never one that was so organized and entertaining."
"It was with much enthusiasm that I first heard someone describe your speaking abilities -- energetic, interesting, informative, and stimulating. And you certainly lived up to that description!
"We would like to thank you for your analysis of the handwriting samples of Mary and Ann Previtera. Your findings brought important information to our attention of which we were previously unaware. We are quite fascinated by the detail which only the expert eye can see."
"Wanted to say how much we appreciate your help with the recent thefts at our dealership. The guilty person has been dismissed, and we feel our organization will be much stronger thanks in large part to your efforts. Your quick attention to our problem is most appreciated as we were able to put a fast end to the speculation and rumors."
"I'm very grateful for your help...but under no circumstances are you even allowed to peek at my signature! God knows what it says!"
"In a confused sea of accusations, denials, conter-charges and stalemates, your statements brought insight and clarity to the current circumstances and focused a number of vague impressions and unconscious hints into coherent comprehension. Thank you so much."
"Thank you once again for the immediate attention you paid to this most crucial matter. Should I, or anyone else, ever need the services of a questioned document examiner you can be assured that your name will be at the top of my list."
-- Scott J. Corwin, Esq.
"Our firm would like to thank you again for your expert testimony and assistance in the above-entitled case. In discussing the case with the jurors, it was clear that your testimony was very persuasive in determining the invalidity of the financial documents resulting in the substantial verdict for my clients."
"I wanted to report back to you on the above noted matter in which you served so ably as my client's expert witness. Judge Gafkowski reached his decision on August 19th, 2004. At that time, Judge Gafkowski noted that there was a natural affection between the decedent and respondent and that the descendent had on a number of occasions indicated her desire to pass her property to respondent upon her death. However, based almost entirely upon your expert testimony, the court concluded that on the date she executed the deeds, the descendent did not have adequate mental capacity to lawfully perform that act. As a result, he ordered the property transferred into the estate, where it will be passed through in testate succession.
During his decision, Judge Gafkowski, though he only had your transcript to work with, repeatedly praised your education, background and experience in dealing with questioned documents. Without your significant expertise, I strongly suspect that he would have ruled against us.
Needless to say, I am extremely pleased with your work and professionalism. If I may be of any future assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me."
-- Thomas M. Davis, Esq.
My Client brought an action against another party for forging a deed We selected our own expert, who agreed the signature on the document was a forgery. Opposing counsel selected you to examine the document and our expert forwarded the documents to you. I researched your office and your curriculum vitae. I had read the testimonial section of your website and was preparing for the usual "battle of the experts". About a week before trial, opposing counsel called me to concede the document was "non-authentic". This statement came about three years after the document was "found" and after the start of the trial.
I write this letter because I have an extremely strong suspicion that you gave an evaluation that the document was fictitious to opposing counsel. At the very least, you did not make an evaluation that favored the opposing party, which is evidenced by the fact that the opposing attorney stipulated that the document was "non-authentic" shortly after you received the document.
As an attorney you have to face the reality experts will have opposing views on the same issue. There is a perception that some experts can be purchased (or rented) for the right price to say that which will aid in the client's case. It is a credit to your integrity that a party may (desperately) want you to make an evaluation in their favor, but you give them the truth.
There is no doubt that the case would have continued longer than necessary and made the decision of the court uncertain had you given the opposing counsel even the slightest hint that you could have testified to the document being authentic or inconclusive. As a legal provisional I appreciate your integrity and honesty. It's a credit to you and the professionalism of your field."
-- James T. Raetz, Esq.
"I am pleased to inform you that today, the Honorable Emilie H. Elias granted defendants Avaya Inc, and Larry Holt's motion for summary judgment and dismissed the above-referenced action in its entirety. Thank you so very much for your assistance at the deposition. We will maintain your information in our expert files in case we require your services in the future."
-- Sara N. Trivedi, Esq.
"Thank you for your assistance in this matter. We kept NatureWell in a tough game long enough to accomplish the objective. The case settled today."
"Andrea, you did an AMAZING job on our case! Just wanted to say a huge thanks to you."
"Andrea, just wanted to let you know that as a result of your analysis, we took another look at (name omitted here). Last night we set up a sting to see if she would steal money that was "found" and turned in to her by a customer (actually our agent) in the store. We caught her leaving the store with the money at the end of her shift and she admitted that she stole it and was going to use it to pay bills. She was arrested last night. Thanks again for your excellent work!"
"Andrea, guess what? I am the Chairman (again) for what is now called the American Society for Industrial Security's Retail Security Council...I still recall, with pleasure, how you wowed them (especially all those CIA, NSA and FBI guys and gals) with your presentation."
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This course strictly covers all the Cisco CCNA Security Exam objectives.
Ken is a Microsoft Certified Trainer as well as a Cisco Trainer, Linux Trainer and Security Consultant. He started his career in computer technology in the 1980's and has gone on to offer a wide variety of IT training and high level consulting projects for Fortune 500 companies across the United States and Western Europe. Ken has been involved in nearly all aspects of the Enterprise Network Architecture, from the Network Operating systems of Microsoft, Novell, and Linux platforms to the infrastructure design, implementation, and management using Cisco and Juniper products. His many certifications include MS Networking Trainer & Consultant - Windows 2003/2008, Microsoft Certified Instructor (MCT), Cisco Certified Instructor (CCSI), CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CISSP, Juniper Certified Instructor, Juniper JNCIA, JNCIS, JNCIP (M-Series), Juniper JNCIS (Enterprise Routing), Juniper JNCIA/S (FWV/SSL/IDP), Certified Ethical Hacker (EC Council) certified trainer and consultant, Certified Computer Examiner (Digital Forensics), Certified Pen Testing Specialist and Instructor.
Why Do You Need a Security Policy?
Who Uses the Security Policy?
The SQL Slammer Worm 30 minutes After "Release"
Example: Creating a View Named "NetOps"
Why Use Cisco Secure ACS?
Why Worry About Layer 2 Security?
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Hypnotherapy for Weight Loss – Stop dieting and start living!
Our 'Hypnotherapy for Weight Loss' programme can help you lose weight, and most importantly, keep it off!
What if you could feel in control of what you eat, lose weight safely and effortlessly, and increase your confidence at the same time? With hypnotherapy for weight loss, you can!
We all know that being overweight is bad for our health, and most of us know what we should be eating and how much exercise we need. But many of us still find it hard to keep the weight off. In fact, most of the people who come to us have tried many diets which have failed.
The reason that most diets fail is that they ignore the root cause of your weight problem – your mind! Our unique hypnotherapy for weight loss programme works by using the power of hypnotherapy and NLP techniques to help you understand and change the thought patterns that drive your behaviour, allowing you to achieve your weight loss goals permanently.
Perhaps you are one of the many people who want to lose weight but just can't seem to shed the pounds. Maybe you have had success on various diet plans, but watched in despair as the weight came back once you stopped. Or maybe you started your diet or exercise routine full of motivation, but ended up feeling miserable.
and many many more. Many of these statements encourage us to either feel guilty, or associate food with comfort, love or acceptance. They act like software programs and get 'installed' in our young minds, out of conscious awareness.
Our minds are very powerful, and our thoughts affect the way we feel, which in turn affect the way we behave. If you no longer associate food with comfort or feeling good, and no longer feel you must clean your plate, it then becomes natural for your eating habits to change, and you will lose weight because you stop meeting your emotional needs with food.
Feelings might not just be about food. Some people find it easy to eat the right foods, but find they lack motivation to exercise. This is often as a result of negative experiences at school, which the unconscious mind wants to avoid you repeating.
Our hypnotherapy for weight loss programme is designed to allow you to take control of your mind allowing you to feel in control of the rest of your life. By taking control of your weight in this way, you will not feel that you are losing out or being deprived of food.
Just imagine starting to believe that you can be what you want to be… and doing what you want to do with confidence and energy.
Our hypnotherapy for weight loss programme is a one-to-one programme which you can complete via hourly hypnotherapy sessions, or you can also jump start your progress by taking a breakthrough session.
If you are ready to stop dieting and start living, please call us on 01474 740724 or contact us via email here.
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Danuta Róża Pietraszewska (Ruda Śląska; 8 de Maio de 1947 — ) é um político da Polónia. Ela foi eleito para a Sejm em 25 de Setembro de 2005 com 9841 votos em 31 no distrito de Katowice, candidato pelas listas do partido Platforma Obywatelska.
Ver também
Membros da Sejm 2005-2009
Ligações externas
Danuta Pietraszewska - site do parlamento
Pietraszewska, Danuta
Naturais de Ruda Śląska
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LSport Vereniging Voorwaarts és un club surinamès de futbol de la ciutat de Paramaribo. El club va ser fundat l'1 d'agost de 1919.
Palmarès
Lliga surinamesa de futbol: 6
1936, 1941, 1952, 1957, 1977, 2002
Copa President de Surinam de futbol: 1
2002
Clubs de futbol surinamesos
Paramaribo
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Michael Milnes is an experienced physical therapist attended the University of Minnesota for his undergraduate degree. Michael Milnes is based in Rochester, MN, from where he attends to clients seeking his knowledge of physical therapy.
Improving the quality of life for his patients is Milnes' core goal every day and doing this requires catering to every individual's needs.
This entry was posted in Michael Milnes Rochester MN and tagged Individual Therapy, Michael Milnes, Michael Milnes Rochester MN. Bookmark the permalink.
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This open call for evidence complements a review of the peer-reviewed scientific literature. Stakeholders are invited to upload relevant evidence (e.g. policy briefs, recommendation papers, scientific conclusions, scientific papers) published in English from 2010 onwards through the form found here.
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Languages of resistance in Kashmir A lecture by Tanveer Ajsee
RE-LOOK [42] : Lectures on Indian Art
curated by Pushpamala N
Languages of Resistance in Kashmir
a lecture by
Tanveer Ajsi
Art Historian, Bangalore
@ 6.30 pm, Wednesday 2 October 2019
at 1. Shanthi Road Studio/ Gallery,
Shanthi Road, Shanthinagar, Bangalore
About the lecture:
Upon the hard rock of oppression, humiliation, war, subjugation and injustice, a young generation of Kashmiris have forged a culture that has enabled them to articulate their deepest feelings, hopes and dreams. Away from the institutionalised cultural practices meant for keeping culture as a fixed condition, they mobilise the ability of culture to react creatively and responsively to the realities of life. The music they create, the songs they write and sing, the art they make challenge convention, shatter complacency, shift awareness and question the ways people outside – and they themselves – look at and understand the troubled world around them. This lecture will focus on the work of a select set of hip-hop performers, visual artists and poets who continue to create something unprecedented, altering the course of dominant official narratives on Kashmir.
Tanveer Ajsee is an art historian and arts professional whose recent work reflects his interest in the political and cultural history of Kashmir. As an art historian, covering a range of artistic practices, his essays have appeared in various national and international journal and magazines. He has served as Consultant, Publications and as gallery in-charge, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi. He was visiting professor at the Department of Art History and Art Appreciation, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Following this, he was appointed as curator of the MF Husain Art Gallery at JMI. Tanveer also co-founded a series of provocative, experimental performance pieces, titled Harkat, along with performance artist, Inder Salim. He sits on various Boards and Advisory Panels.
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By Azah Given Mphago and Manola K. Gayatri
Badimo and These Letters shapes a yearning of the living and the dead to find creative utterance in and through each other.
Callings sent and unsent, heeded and ignored,
riff through space, struggle, land, language and love.
Could Indian and South African experiences of teaching, creating and becoming reimagine the emergence of a decolonial aesthetic and pedagogy from the South?
Duration - 1 hour (40 min Performance, 20 min discussion)
Azah Given Mphago
Tinyiko Mpho Mphago wa Mabasa also professionally known as Azah is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, musical director cultural activist, educator and philanthropist from the South African Jazz capital Mamelodi in Pretoria.
He is a brilliant, versatile and multitalented musician and is known as one of the finest South African
percussionists of our generation – and for good reason. Born into a family of traditional healers, he began playing drums at the age of 8 and formed a decidedly passionate bond with drums and percussion as not only healing instruments but also as a way of artistic and spiritual expression.
Azah pursued musical training at the Musical Theatre of the Tshwane University of Technology and this gave him the traveling future he had dreamed of, seeing him perform across Europe and South America with Gregory Magoma's Vuyani Dance Theatre productions Ketima and Beautiful Us. He then joined Dr. Philip Tabane's famous band Molombo – a moment he cites as one of the proudest of his life. He then formed Azah, the 8-piece band which continued to grow his musical diversity as a singer and composer by exploring and incorporating genres such as high life, soukous, jazz, Afro-soul, Afrobeat and indigenous folk sounds into a world music offering.
Manola K. Gayatri
Dr. Manola K. Gayatri is a praxis-oriented writer, researcher, performer and teacher.
She has immense faith in the creative arts as the most dynamic medium of helping us a society
become the most generous, healing and exciting version of ourselves, especially when allied with
innovative pedagogies in the Humanities and allied with progressive social and political movements.
She is currently Asst Prof at Centre for Development Practice, Ambedkar University Delhi and Postdoctoral fellow, at Witwatersrand School of Arts hosted by Drama For Life. She received her doctorate in Theatre and Performance Studies at School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University where she traced a feminist genealogy of womxn's poetic utterance. She was a postdoctoral project partner in UGC-UKIERI project "Gendered Citizenship: manifestations and performance" (the University of Warwick and JNU) where she conceived seminars on "Negotiating Solidarities Through Difference" and contributed a chapter on "Witnessing and Embodied Empathy: Sexuate Agency and Autonomy in Kashmir Violence" co-written with Kashmiri academic and activist, Inshah Malik.
She was a resource person for body empowerment in Panchayat leadership training programs with Aagaz Academy, Karnataka.
She has taught at the Drama Dept University of Pretoria, School of Arts and Aesthetics JNU and co-founded The Institute of Leadership and Transformation, South Africa. She is co-current convenor of the Performance as Research Working Group, International Federation of Theatre Research.
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From Disney to puppies and so much more, we've got all you need to stay busy with the kiddos this week!
Disney On Ice: Dare to Dream celebrates your favorite Disney princesses with a top-notch skate show.
Meet modern day princesses Rapunzel and Tiana; the always elegant Cinderella; and the princess who started it all, Snow White. You'll also see new favorites, Elsa and Anna, and Moana, plus Beauty and the Beast. Of course, Minnie and Mickey will be on hand, too!
Great Swamp Outdoor Education Center, Chatham Township Learn the reason that you've been looking at apples upside down your entire life, and help make fresh apple cider by hand with an old-fashioned cider press. Taste the sweet cider.
Disorderly duo Scott and Joan Houghton and their hilarious pack of pooches create a canine comedy stunt show like no other, featuring high-flying frisbee dogs, tightrope dogs, dancing dogs and of course, the one and only Sammie the Talking Dog.
Kids 10 years and up will create authentic Italian dishes, using the latest craze: zucchini noodles! Also on deck, bruschetta and lemon cookies.
Join a museum educator at METC to explore the different skills of craftspeople, and to handle historic tools. You will design and create projects and learn how craftspeople are still working in New Jersey today. At the last session, you will play the part of your favorite craftsperson in a special presentation for your families.
From Tony Soprano to Meryl Streep: Who knew it happened in Madison NJ?
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Lauren Tarshis
About Lauren Tarshis
Lauren Tarshis often wonders how she came to spend most of her waking moments thinking about disasters, as the author of the children's historical fiction series "I Survived." Each book takes readers into the heart of history's most thrilling and terrifying events, including the sinking of the Titanic, the Shark Attacks of 1916, Hurricane Katrina, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the San Francisco earthquake, 9/11, the Battle of Gettysburg and many more.
Lauren conducts extensive research to bring her topics to life. She has traveled to most of the locations where her books are set. Her goal is to open readers' eyes to new chapters in history and to inspire them with stories of hope and resilience.
Lauren is also the author of the the award-winning Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree, and is the editor of Storyworks Magazine.
For more information about Lauren, go to www.LaurenTarshis.com
To learn more about Storyworks, www.scholastic.com/storyworks
And check out the I Survived Website: www.Scholastic.com/ISurvived
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Books By Lauren Tarshis
I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018 (I Survived #20) Sep 1, 2020
by Lauren Tarshis
The people of Northern California were used to living with the threat of wildfires. But nothing could have prepared them for the devastating 2018 fire season, the deadliest in 100 years and the most destructive in history.
In the 20th I Survived book, readers join eleven-year-old Josh as he leaves his New Jersey home for the rural northern California town where his cousins live. Still reeling from the life-changing challenges that propelled him and his mother across the country, Josh struggles to adapt to a more rustic, down-to-earth lifestyle that couldn't be more different from the one he is used to.
Josh and his cousin bond over tacos and reptiles and jokes, but on a trip into the nearby forest, they suddenly find themselves in the path of a fast-moving firestorm, a super-heated monster that will soon lay waste to millions of acres of wilderness and -- possibly -- their town. Josh needs to confront the family issues burning him up inside, but first he'll have to survive the flames blazing all around him.
Sold by: Scholastic Trade Publisher
I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 (I Survived #15) Aug 29, 2017
Bestselling author Lauren Tarshis tackles the American Revolution in this latest installment of the groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling I Survived series.
British soldiers were everywhere. There was no escape.
Nathaniel Fox never imagined he'd find himself in the middle of a blood-soaked battlefield, fighting for his life. He was only eleven years old! He'd barely paid attention to the troubles between America and England. How could he, while being worked to the bone by his cruel uncle, Uriah Storch?
But when his uncle's rage forces him to flee the only home he knows, Nate is suddenly propelled toward a thrilling and dangerous journey into the heart of the Revolutionary War. He finds himself in New York City on the brink of what will be the biggest battle yet.
Other Formats: Audible Audiobook , Library Binding , Paperback , Preloaded Digital Audio Player
I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (I Survived #1) Oct 1, 2011
by Lauren Tarshis , Scott Dawson
The most terrifying events in history are brought vividly to life in this New York Times bestselling series! Ten-year-old George Calder can't believe his luck -- he and his little sister, Phoebe, are on the famous Titanic, crossing the ocean with their Aunt Daisy. The ship is full of exciting places to explore, but when George ventures into the first class storage cabin, a terrible boom shakes the entire boat. Suddenly, water is everywhere, and George's life changes forever. Lauren Tarshis brings history's most exciting and terrifying events to life in this New York Times bestselling series. Readers will be transported by stories of amazing kids and how they survived!
Other Formats: Audible Audiobook , Library Binding , Paperback , MP3 CD
I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011 (I Survived #8) Aug 27, 2013
Visiting his dad's hometown in Japan four months after his father's death would be hard enough for Ben. But one morning the pain turns to fear: first, a massive earthquake rocks the quiet coastal village, nearly toppling his uncle's house. Then the ocean waters rise and Ben and his family are swept away-and pulled apart-by a terrible tsunami.
Now Ben is alone, stranded in a strange country a million miles from home. Can he fight hard enough to survive one of the most epic disasters of all time?
I Survived the Children's Blizzard, 1888 (I Survived #16) Feb 27, 2018
Eleven-year-old John Hale has already survived one brutal Dakota winter, and now he's about to experience one of the deadliest blizzards in American history. The storm of 1888 was a monster, a frozen hurricane that slammed into America's midwest without warning. Within hours, America's prairie would be buried under ten feet of snow. Hundreds would be dead, thousands terrified and lost and freezing.
John never wanted to move to the wide-open prairie. He's a city kid, not a tough pioneer! But his inner strength is seriously tested when he finds himself trapped in the blinding snow, the wind like a giant crushing hammer, pounding him over and over again. Will John ever find his way home?
Other Formats: Audible Audiobook , Hardcover , Paperback
I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916 (I Survived #2) Oct 1, 2011
Based on true events! It's the summer of 1916 and the Jersey shore is being terrorized by a Great White shark. Can 10-year-old Chet and his friends survive a swim in the local creek?In the summer of 1916, ten year-old Chet Roscow is captivated by the local news: a Great White shark has been attacking and killing people up and down the Atlantic Coast, not far from Chet's hometown of Springfield, New Jersey.Then one day, swimming with his friends, Chet sees something in the water. . .
I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967 (I Survived #17) Sep 25, 2018
No grizzly has ever killed a human in Glacier before . . . until tonight. Eleven-year-old Melody Vega and her family come to Glacier National Park every year, and it's always been a place where she can forget her troubles. But this year is different. With Mom gone, every moment in the park is a heartbreaking reminder of the past.
Then Mel comes face-to-face with the mighty grizzly. Now her only thought is one of survival. Mel will soon be a part of one of the most tragic seasons in the history of America's national parks - a summer of terror that will forever change ideas about how grizzlies and humans can exist together in the wild.
I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 (I Survived #14) Aug 30, 2016
Eleven-year-old Jessie Marlowe has grown up with the beautiful Mount St. Helens always in the background. She's hiked its winding trails, dived into its cold lakes, and fished for trout in its streams. Just looking at Mount St. Helens out her window made Jess feel calm, like it was watching over her somehow. Of course, she knew the mountain was a volcano...but not the active kind, not a volcano that could destroy and kill!
Then Mount St. Helens explodes with unimaginable fury. Jess suddenly finds herself in the middle of the deadliest and most destructive volcanic event in U.S. history. Ash and rock are spewing everywhere. Can Jess escape in time?
The newest book in the I Survived series will take readers into one of the most environmentally devastating events in recent U.S. history.
I Survived the Battle of D-Day, 1944 (I Survived #18) Jan 29, 2019
A battle that would change the course of World War II...
Eleven-year-old Paul's French village has been under Nazi control for years. His Jewish best friend has disappeared. Food is scarce. And there doesn't seem to be anything Paul can do to make things better.
Then Paul finds an American paratrooper in a tree near his home. The soldier says the Allies have a plan to crush the Nazis once and for all. But the soldier needs Paul's help.
This is Paul's chance to make a difference. Soon he finds himself in the midst of the largest invasion in history. Can he do his part to turn horror into hope?
I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944 (I Survived #9) Feb 25, 2014
In a Jewish ghetto, Max Rosen and his sister Zena struggle to live after their father is taken away by the Nazis. With barely enough food to survive, the siblings make a daring escape from Nazi soldiers into the nearby forest.
Max and Zena are brought to a safe camp by Jewish resistance fighters. But soon, bombs are falling all around them. Can Max and Zena survive the fallout of the Nazi invasion?
I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 (I Survived #3) Oct 1, 2011
The horror of Hurricane Katrina is brought vividly to life in this fictional account of a boy, a dog, and the storm of the century.Barry's family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their home in New Orleans. But when Barry's little sister gets terribly sick, they're forced to stay home and wait out the storm.At first, Katrina doesn't seem to be as bad as predicted. But overnight the levees break, and Barry's world is literally torn apart. He's swept away by the floodwaters, away from his family. Can he survive the storm of the century -- alone?
I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 (I Survived #4) Oct 1, 2011
70 years later, the bombing of Pearl Harbor comes to life for a new generation of readers!History's most terrifying moments are brought vividly to life in the action-packed fictional I SURVIVED series! Do you have what it takes to survive ... the bombing of Pearl Harbor?Eleven-year-old Danny Crane is alone on his favorite beach in Hawaii when the world is torn apart and World War II officially hits the United States. Does he have what it takes to find his way home in the midst of the bombs, the smoke, and the destruction of the day that will live in infamy?
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Fotofest follow up ~ Erika Diettes
April 9, 2012 Jane Fulton Alt
I am back from Houston, where the Fotofest venue started in 1986. The festival was cofounded by Wendy Watress and Fred Baldwin, photojournalists who have changed the photographic world with their vision. There are now numerous spin offs of the festival of light, a collaboration involving twenty-three photography festivals from over 20 countries around the world. And there are numerous festivals in the US too, Photolucida, PhotoNola, Santa Fe Review, and Filter Photo (Chicago's own).
One of the many benefits of having participated was seeing some really great work. I thought I would share the work of a few artists. I only saw a very small sampling of what was there as my visit was short. What I did see was truly inspiring.
Erika Diettes is a photographer from Columbia. I had a brochure of her work in my packet but it came to life in the installation she did at the Trinity Episcopal Church. It was deeply moving and something I will never forget.
The following description of the exhibit is drawn from a report in the Columbian newspaper El Tiempo by reporter Melissa Serrato Ramírez, who wrote about the exhibit last year when it was installed at its permanent home, the Museum of St. Clair's Church in Bogotá:
"Erika Diettes's show, Sudarios, depicts twenty women witnesses to violence of the "disappered" in Columbia. Diettes realized that the sorrow of these women was so intense that there was always a moment in which they closed their eyes. "It was a gesture that demonstrated that still, and probably forever, they would live closed within the world of their sorrow." This is the moment that she captured on film."
"Sudarios, or "Shrouds," is a term which also alludes to the artist's desire, impossible to fulfill, of covering and wiping the sorrow away from the faces of all of those women. "Although at times I think that they don't need that," she says. "After looking at them for so long, I discovered that in the midst of their sorrow, I can see a certain resignation." In deciding how to mount the photos in this show, Diettes decided not to print them on paper, but rather on a delicate silk and cotton blend fabric, black and white, and in large format, to hang in the Museum of St. Clair's Church in Bogotá, a space that used to be a women's convent and in which, in an interior of stunning gold leaf, a number of images of saints and martyrs from the colonial era are displayed. In that venue they are left to hang from loose, almost invisible threads; they hang loose, the bottom unattached and moved by ambient air, which gives them an ethereal character."
"Although to a much lesser degree than these women, we've all experienced moments of such strong sorrow that gives us a feeling of such fragility that it feels as if our body leaves the earth, leaving behind only the weight of what can't be undone," she comments. Diettes opted to leave them like this because she wanted to show how Columbia is inhabited by ghosts, or souls in pain, as "violence leaves people in an intermediate state, unable to ever trust in anything ever again."
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Home > English > Latin America and the Caribbean > LATIN AMERICA - The Sunset of U.S. Empire Building: The Rise of a New Latin (...)
LATIN AMERICA - The Sunset of U.S. Empire Building: The Rise of a New Latin America
Michael Hogan
Thursday 13 April 2006, posted by Michael Hogan
A century and a half of interventions, costly miscalculations, even outright invasions, did not do much to push Latin America away from its sometimes passive-aggressive, sometimes envious, but always dependent relationship with the United States. It took the generalized failure of neo-liberalism, coupled with four years of U.S. indifference to the region following the events of 9/11 and the unilateral megalomania of pre-emptive war, for Latin Americans to decide it was time to determine their own destiny.
Increased poverty, the failure of the Washington consensus and the IMF, privatization and corporate greed, the marginalization of large groups of people-in what Washington touted as democratic reform and free trade-led to a gradual rejection of the advice from U.S. economic and political experts pushing the neo-liberal agenda throughout the hemisphere. The perceived hypocrisy of the United States government which, while condemning torture by the Latin American military in the past, exceeded the worst examples of it at Abu Ghraib, the failure to consult allies on a massive preemptive invasion, the callousness of a government which deported Central Americans during one of the worst hurricanes in history and then failed to provide significant humanitarian aid, all contributed to the loss of U.S. moral authority in the region.
It used to be that the more the U.S. blundered, the angrier Latin Americans would become Now, they are mostly grateful. Global television satellites carry pictures and narratives describing a government they no longer envy, and behaviors they find deplorable. The governmental indifference they see as they view America's own poor in New Orleans slighted by elected officials, the incompetence which is apparent as they view $300 million in mobile homes abandoned at an Arkansas airport, the intransigence which they observe as they watch American marines dying in what is essentially a civil conflict in an Arab country, the violation of basic human rights which they read of as America citizens have their phones tapped to provide more "national security," has made Latin Americans turn inward in recent years and rely on themselves, and on their neighbors with whom they share common cultural backgrounds and common goals. It has also helped them to avoid the ideological dichotomies and rhetorical traps which are so ubiquitous in U.S. public discourse, and to openly question the sacredness of strong executive democracy, global security, free trade, and privatization, creation of more ownership wealth, while taking a second look at socialism, community action, regional alliances, Bolivarian revolution, public resources, common space, state utilities, and equitable distribution of wealth. They have moved beyond traditional formulations and clichés, and toward a more pragmatic approach to true democracy "of the people, by the people, and for the people," in the proto-socialist language of Abraham Lincoln.
The result has been more autonomous action in recent years: characterized by more self-reliance by Latin American republics, the growth of regional alliances, the use of true democratic instruments such as referendum and recall to change a constitution, unseat presidents who were toadies of the IMF, and to curtail the abuses of state power. It has made political leaders more responsive to the people, resulting in a new recognition of indigenous rights, ignoring IMF guidelines and World Bank suggestions, partial discounting of debts which were bleeding the populace of social services and basic subsidies, and a refusal to privatize water and other resources which properly belong to the citizens themselves, and are their legacy to their children. It can be seen in the almost unanimous condemnation of the war with Iraq by Latin Americans, a general distrust of the hemispheric security alliance proposed by Washington, a rejection of U.S. corporate theories maximizing profit at the expense of people, most significantly seen with Wal-Mart, which has devastated the landscape of the U.S. and undermined small businesses, but has been rejected by much of Latin America and may force it to close its doors permanently in Argentina because of declining profits.
A SIMPLE CORRECTIVE
What the U.S. government and pundits (both conservative and liberal) characterize as a Leftist movement and a resurgence of Marxism in the region, most Latin Americans view as a simple corrective, much like that implemented during the era of Franklin Roosevelt after the disaster of the Great Depression and the incompetence of the Hoover Administration. What North Americans view as unholy alliances such as those being formed between Venezuela and Cuba, most Latin Americans see as practical solutions to real problems of survival, no less pressing than that of the United States which formed its alliance with Russia in the 1940s to insure the survival of its people. What North Americans see as disorderly and chaotic, for example the labor strikes in Nicaragua, the indigenous blockades of highways in Guatemala, the removal of presidents in Argentina, the constitutional reforms in Venezuela, most Latin Americans see as true democratic processes where the people are finally having a real voice in governance, correcting plutocratic republics which have long been tilted in favor of inherited wealth and privilege, much as our U.S. activist labor organizations operated as a corrective against the abuses of the Carnegies and Vanderbilts in the early part of the 20th century. For too long Latin Americans have been denied their own history while the U.S. forced them to operate as adjuncts to the North American story. Now all that has changed. Latin Americans are writing this new chapter of continental history and they do not want U.S. editors or spellcheckers involved in the process.
EROSION OF NEOLIBERALISM
Throughout Latin America grassroots reactions against globalization policies promoted by the U.S. multinationals and the IMF, have been having their effect. The voices of organized labor, the unrepresented working poor, university students, indigenous people, environmentalists, professors, middle and left political candidates, are finally being heard. The regional press, which used to call any such opposition "global-phobia" and demean the protestors as unorganized and without a clear agenda, has now begun to report more seriously, occasionally even editorializing on their behalf. Moreover, the protests are having concrete results as more and more governments are beginning to see the futility of trying to lead without "the consent of the governed." Some notable examples:
Bolivia. The election of Evo Morales with his commitment to indigenous rights, his plans to nationalize gas, his alliances with Cuba, and his commitment to building a more inclusive nation.
Venezuela. President Hugo Chávez spearheading regional trade agreements, promoting intercambios (medical training for oil), and facing off against U.S., interference in the region.
Argentina. President Néstor Kirchner forcing international bond holders to accept losses on their investments as part of restructuring the Argentine debt, thus reserving some of the country's wealth to fund needed social programs; paying off the entire IMF debt funded in part through sale of bonds to Venezuela.
Costa Rica. Candidate Ottón Solis, a vocal opponent of CAFTA, forcing Oscar Arias (who supports the initiative) to a run-off, following the February 12, 2006 elections, despite Arias' international reputation and his outstanding record of achievement in foreign affairs.
Peru. Ollanta Humula, the presidential candidate who has expressed his support for both Evo Morales and Hugo Chávez, is currently the front-runner in the up-coming April elections.
Mexico. Worker's party candidate Andrés López Obredor leads both the centrist PRI candidate and the conservative PAN candidate for elections this July.
Uruguay. A progressive party which received popular support for its position against the privatization of water is now working as an elected government for social reform.
Nicaragua. As conditions in that country worsen due to fiscal policies imposed as a result of the Washington consensus, former Sandinista Daniel Ortega and other leftist leaders are becoming more popular and likely to have a major impact on the November elections.
Cuba. Agreements with Venezuela appear to be resolving Cuban energy problems which may lead the island nation to a new era of prosperity. Other regional alliances such as the proposed associate membership in Mercosur, and trade agreements with China make the socialist nation a viable economic and political force in the region.
A BROADER DEMOCRACY
When Abraham Lincoln gave his celebrated Gettysburg Address, the oft-quoted "four score and seven" referred to the American Revolution, and the principal defined in the Declaration of its principles. He observed that the Republic had failed. That was why they were meeting on this "great battlefield" in Pennsylvania to dedicate a massive graveyard with tens of thousands of dead on both sides.
The failure of the first revolution which proclaimed that "all men were created equal" was apparent by the 1860s with 13% of the population enslaved (47% in the South), Lincoln wondered whether "this nation or any other nation so conceived and so dedicated" could endure. Even then, of course, indigenous people were not even in the equation, nor were women. While the Republic was a government "of the people," that is, ostensibly a democratic republic, it was certainly not for the people, except for white men, nor by the people, except for the landed gentry, merchants, the plutocrats of Washington and their minions. He hoped on that battlefield in 1863 that the country would experience "a new birth of freedom."
What we are seeing in Latin America is exactly that: a new birth of freedom, a more inclusive democracy. We are also seeing the end of ideology, and a different kind of social enterprise. The new models are certainly not socialism as it was known in the past, with indigenous workers excluded from the process, with bureaucracies and party bosses calling the shots. They seem instead to be genuine attempts at government by the people and for the people, which demand that political leaders, business owners and corporations behave responsibly and in the best interests of the governed, that do not condone privatization of the natural resources of the country, which are concerned with neighboring alliances, that encourage indigenous participation at every level and condemn the cronyism common to U.S. politics where lucrative contracts are awarded to friends and pristine lands are exploited at the behest of Washington lobbyists on the payrolls of coal, gas and oil companies.
THE SANCTITY OF PRIVATE PROPERTY
The U.S. has expressed concerns about investments in the region and has invoked the sanctity of private property which appears to have been violated with workers taking over an abandoned hotel, a private school and a factory in Argentina and running them successfully. It has also raised this issue when indigenous people reclaimed untenanted hectares in Brazil and Bolivia, or forced corporate timber cutters to leave ancestral lands. However, in the case of Argentina, these properties were deserted by absentee landlords, and in the case of Brazil and Bolivia, these ancestral lands were either left fallow or in imminent danger of being denuded and destroyed.
Meanwhile, in the United States, good houses and profitable small businesses are condemned so that Wal-Marts can be built, in clear abuse of the true spirit of eminent domain statutes. In addition, this same company and others like it, having destroyed businesses and put people out of their homes, often abandon their own sites within a few years to avoid paying municipal taxes.
Who is instructing whom on the sanctity of private property? Ownership of property is a right which carries obligations. When property is neglected and becomes an eyesore and a health hazard, it is the right of the people in that neighborhood to take action. When a public forest is being denuded, streams polluted, and fertile lands expropriated by international corporations to grow soybeans for China, it is certainly the right of indigenous people to protect their heritage. This is democracy and this is what we are seeing in Latin America. In the U.S., Wal-Mart using its economic clout to manipulate the courts into condemning perfectly good homes and businesses is a clear corruption of the system, and clearly undemocratic. The U.S. invocation of the sacredness of property shibboleth is clear hypocrisy.
PEACE MOVEMENT
The demilitarization movement in Costa Rica, spearheaded by Nobel Laureate Oscar Arias, is an example of the winds of change in Latin America. I spoke with Arias in San Jose last October and he said that he envisioned Costa Rica as a regional leader in demilitarization which would set an international example of peace, regional cooperation, social welfare, and environmental efforts. Costa Rica has replaced its armed forces with a national brigade (focused mostly on rescue operations, border and airport security, and disaster relief), has thus reserved millions of dollars for its education budget, and spearheaded international aid efforts and peace initiatives (Arias brokered the treaty in Central America which ended a decade and a half of war). Meanwhile, Costa Rica leads the world in environmental custodianship, while the U.S. Congress debates such measures as whether or not it should ravage its pristine arctic habitats for the last remaining drops of oil.
Mexico's refusal to support the U.S. invasion of Iraq, most of Latin America's reluctance to be part of the Security Alliance of the Americas, a distrust of American military intervention, including a century and a half of invasions throughout the Americas, leaves only seven countries out of the thirty-four in Latin America as reluctant supporters of U.S. presence in Iraq, and that support largely based on trade accords, and not ratified by the populace.
Most people in Latin America feel that the Administration's use of 9/11 as the causa belli for invasion of Iraq makes as much sense as invading Canada in retaliation for the Oklahoma City bombing. They see the 9/11 attack, like that by the home-grown terrorists in Oklahoma, as one perpetrated by individuals and not by a sovereign State, to which the logical response should have been to investigate, track down the perpetrators and their supporters who, the world knows, happened to be Saudis not Iraquis.
The latest Washington-inspired proposal for the region, an "Inter-American Convention Against Terrorism" seems to most people in Latin America as patently absurd. Central America has real and present problems with public safety in the form of trained-in-the-U.S. Latino gangs which have infested their communities and are a far more real and much more imminent danger than Osama Bin Laden. The U.S. seems to have little to offer in terms of help for the problem of these hemispheric terrorists. People in Venezuela and Brazil are much more concerned with problems of crime and delinquency fostered by inherited social problems, than they are with U.S. threats from the Middle East. To them, the hemispheric security alliance is just another U.S. nationalistic plan which will draw off funds, security personnel and technology from areas where it will be most effective for their own citizenry.
CURRENT U.S. LATIN AMERICAN POLICY
There is no consistent policy for Latin America. Most of it has been neglect in recent years. There has been, of course, promotion of trade agreements beneficial to international corporations and U.S. economic interests, the creation of maquiladoras (which, while destroying the environment and putting female workers at risk, insure low costs to U.S. consumers), and a refusal to end U.S. agricultural subsidies which deprive Latin American farmers of a fair price for their produce. In some cases such as Venezuela and Nicaragua, there has been leverage applied to the electoral processes, in Paraguay an installation of U.S. troops, in Colombia a massive amount of funding to impede drug traffic, which has also hindered the growth of leftist opposition, while at the same time insured the relative immunity of right wing vigilantes. For the rest, mostly ignorance and neglect to such an extent that few Latin Americans take the U.S. seriously, just as no one takes an elephant seriously. One has respect, of course, for its size and power as an entity, but not as an intellectual, cultural or moral force, and certainly not for its leadership abilities.
THE COLOMBIAN EXCEPTION
Despite some justifiable criticism of Plan Colombia (noted above) and the continued presence of right-wing security squads, Colombia has gone from a war-ravaged, drug-infested, insecure country in the 90s to one of the most prosperous and mostly safe regions in Latin America. I spent a month and a half there last year and was impressed by the cosmopolitan excitement of Bogotá which compares favorably with Boston in term of cultural activities, music, museums, documentary film-making, fine universities, and continental cuisine. The young people are stylish, educated, and multilingual. It has a strong middle class and, while it has its poor, there is little evidence of homelessness and beggars which one can see any day in Washington or San Francisco.
Medellín, once considered the "murder capital" of the world, is now one of the most attractive cities in the Americas. It has the feel of an Austrian metropolis surround by pristine farms, lushly wooded hills, and crisp mountain air. It has a well-maintained infrastructure, with clean streets, excellent public transportation, and one of the most prestigious medical universities in the Americas. Medellín is, in fact, so safe that it was the city Secretary of State Rice chose to visit last spring on her visit to the region.
Much of Colombia's success is due to its president, Alvaro Uribe, whose family was a victim of drug-related violence; he has since been committed to its eradication. But, in fairness, it is more than that. There also has been a genuine effort by the U.S. Department of State to work in a cooperative way with local officials in the country, not only to help contain the violence and eradicate drug cultivation, but also to eliminate corruption in the police and armed forces, and to secure the already-strong educational system. U.S. representatives in the region have also exhibited respect for the culture while engaged in these activities. There have been virtually no negative incidents involving U.S. personnel.
Colombian universities are now attracting new students from all over the world; secondary schools are involved in the Advanced Placement program; the president has implemented a plan to stop the brain-drain of the best and brightest and is also offering financial incentives for the 4,000 or so Colombians with masters and doctorate degrees now living abroad to return to their native country.
While I was there last spring a local newspaper conducted a survey asking whether the readers felt more secure now than a decade ago, whether they trusted the police, and whether the president was doing a good job. Affirmative responses were in the 70th percentile. This fall I went down again to visit a school in Barranquilla and I continue to be impressed by the quality of education, the determination of young people to get ahead, and the enthusiasm of those who attend the (sometimes free) concerts offered by Juanes and Shakira, two Colombians whose international acclaim and wealth have not distracted them from their obligations to their homeland, and who have made significant financial and moral commitments to building peace and aiding Colombian youth. Shakira's Pies Descalzos (Barefoot) Foundation has given aid to thousands of children displaced by civil wars and violence; Juanes has brought global attention to landmine removal, and has turned paramilitary rifles into guitars to highlight the disarmament process.
I have read (and have myself written) a great deal of criticism of the U.S. in Latin America, most of it justified. However, for those who criticize our cooperative efforts of the past decade with Colombians to work for a safer and more prosperous country, I would say come to Medellín, come to Bogotá. You will see what can be accomplished.
NICARAGUA AND BOLAÑOS
Nicaragua is now experiencing its third month (February, 2006) of strikes by medical workers, and all surgeries and outpatient services have been suspended. President Enrique Bolaños, when accused by hospital workers (most of whom make less than $300 a month) of being indifferent to the suffering, responded with the same kind of rhetoric which lost two Argentine presidents their tenure. He said that he was simply following "the fiscal policies which had been set down" by previous agreement. He was referring to the neoliberal matrix which has prescribed a diminished role for the state in social and economic affairs, privatization, deregulation and labor "flexibility." There was simply nothing he could do, the president stated; his hands were tied and there were no funds available. His family, of course, can afford to go to the United States or Canada for treatment, although as the days progress, he might find it more and more difficult. As of last week, the transportation workers have joined doctors and nurses in the strike, effectively blocking the highways with buses and tractor trailers.
This is the indirect result of the U.S.-sponsored military destruction of the Sandinista Revolution, failure to provide for transition or reconstruction after a decade of war, influencing elections (with a veiled threat of loss of remittances), so that the pro-Washington choice is installed with a neoliberal agenda which dismantled social institutions formerly established by the Sandinistas such as public medical clinics, literacy brigades, child care programs, and subsidized transit. All of this resulting in the effective abandonment of the country to the ravages of poverty, destroyed infrastructure, an education system in shambles, a populace with no safety net, starvation wages for the employed, unemployment for the remainder, while savage gangs operate in the barrios with little or no police protection for their victims. Meanwhile, the rich head for their privately-guarded mansions in the hills, while U.S. and Canadian expatriates buy up coastal properties advertised in International Living where they live in gated communities feeling cheated now that they have no access to health care, and frightened out of their wits as they read that the drive to the airport (as of last week with piles of tires burning and buses blocking intersections) is as perilous as that to downtown Kabul.
THE BOLIVARIAN ALTERNATIVE
Just as Abraham Lincoln who invoked the hope of a "new birth of freedom" in the United States, José Martí, hero of Cuban independence, also called for a "second independence" in the Americas, this one from U.S. dominance. Now, President Hugo Chávez seems poised to make that happen. The new "alliance for progress," popularly known as ALBA (Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas), is a plan for regional alliances and sharing of resources. It has resulted in a Development Bank of the South and a Latin American Development Fund to replace dependence on foreign capital and expand Latin American trade with Europe and Asia. For Venezuela, it has also spearheaded the construction of 600 comprehensive health clinics with Cuban assistance, and sent 30,000 Cuban medical technicians to train cadres of health workers. In Cuba, aspiring Venezuelan doctors and nurses will receive free training at Cuba's prestigious School of Medical Sciences where 43,000 students from 17 countries (including 71 from the U.S.) are now working to get their medical degrees. In exchange, the Venezuelan government will provide 90,000 gallons of oil a day to energy-deprived Cuba, and invest in Cuban electricity production and oil refining.
Meanwhile, energy sector agreements between Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay have been enacted which include PetroCaribe in the entire Caribbean region., In addition, Mercosur, the South American trade block consisting of Argentina Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay (Bolivia, Chile and Peru are associate members), is poised to induct Venezuela as a member. It is also considering Cuba as an associate member. With all this in mind, it is worth point out the, despite U.S. efforts to discredit Cuba in the region and in the international arena, Cuba now has diplomatic relations with 32 of the 34 Latin American nations, the only exceptions being El Salvador and Costa Rica.
THE RISE OF A NEW LATIN AMERICA
Latin America is poised to become more independent, making regional alliances, promoting a more participatory democracy, with more rights for indigenous peoples, more use of referendum and recall by the people to push through social legislation or remove corrupt leaders. Socialism will be regional in nature and look quite different from its historical forms (even that of Cuba's in the past) and a bit more like Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal in some aspects, a bit like direct democracy in others. Labor unions will merge into companies where labor and management share decision making, or are even form worker-owned companies. There will be more worker rights in terms of on-site health care, on-site day care, and worker-managed retirement investments. Vacant land and abandoned buildings (from failed Wal-Marts to absentee landlords) will continue to be expropriated and made productive.
Government leaders will demand more corporate responsibility from users of the environment or put at risk their legitimacy and tenancy in office. Natural gas, petroleum, water and other national treasures will remain the property of the people and be managed by the State or as cooperatives.
The United States will become less and less influential in the region as countries form local partnerships, and form trade blocks for negotiations with China, the European Union and Southeast Asia. Investment in education will increase with some of the smaller states developing (much as Ireland has over the past twenty years) into significant economic entities, raising the quality of life for their citizens. As Costa Rica has already done, some will abandon armies and armaments and invest those funds in education and social development. Those states with no natural enemies will also become more important on the international scene by offering advice to other nations wishing to dismantle military institutions whose primary function has been to control a marginalized populace.
Countries which have weapons of mass destruction (U.S., China, North Korea, Great Britain, France, Germany, India, and Pakistan) will find the burdens of "defense" expensive, redundant and superfluous as the year go on. The real threat to the social order and the average person's security on the planet will come from those nations with the most marginalized people and, while most of those threats will be internal (gang violence, crime) some will be external (international terrorism). Nevertheless, experience will be convincing from the Latin American examples that these problems will be far better handled by trained police forces and by international security arrangements than by occupying armies, missile strikes and bombing of civilians.
Latin America will continue to be a world leader in literature, music, film-making, architecture, sculpture and painting. The region will produce new works of political and social thought, explore new dimensions in philosophy and re-write the history of the hemisphere. It will become one of the most important locations for studies in medicine, pure and applied science, engineering, and-most importantly-in the humanities. While the U.S. may invest, as President Bush recently suggested in his State of the Union address, in "more advanced science and math" initiatives," Latin America will balance the teaching of the sciences with investments in the humanities. Time and time again local leaders and the independent press in Latin America have cited the need of citizens to think critically, to analyze their societies, to develop an appreciation of their rich cultures, and to help create a better world. They know that a society composed only of scientists, mathematicians and engineers will not give them that. A truly educated populace is one that can take its leaders to task when they offer absurdities, can form arguments to disrobe injustice, and can instill values and respect in its children for many different cultures. Such a society would be multicultural and multilingual, it would value humanity over property, and culture over development. In the words of the poet Jaime Sabines, Otros saben las palabras del canto, nosotros cantamos. "Others know the words of the song, but we sing." Throughout Latin America, those songs are being heard.
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1. LATIN AMERICA - The Sunset of U.S. Empire Building:The Rise of a New Latin America (by Michael Hogan), 13 April 2006, 20:02, posted by Riodog66
Great article. I haven't read anything quite like that in many, many years. Good insight. Cuts to the core.
2. LATIN AMERICA - The Sunset of U.S. Empire Building:The Rise of a New Latin America (by Michael Hogan), 23 April 2006, 18:39
Dear Mr Hogan
I have realy liked to read your article about de Sunset of the empire. I agree with you in many many points but what you said about Colombia sound very strange to me. It appear like another point of view write by someone else. The present goverment Alvaro Uribe is not realy a great defensor of the democracy, social justice en human rights. So, I imagine than you have visit Colombia for a real short time and stay with the upper class ? Isn't It ? Please informe yourself to NGO Faith and Justice of Colombia.
With all my respect.
Yves Carrier
1. LATIN AMERICA - The Sunset of U.S. Empire Building:The Rise of a New Latin America (by Michael Hogan), 2 May 2006, 19:58, posted by Dr. Michael Hogan
Dear Ives,
Thank you for your response. I agree with you that the Colombian exception is noteworthy. However, it was not based on a single short observation, nor by being with the upper class. I visited Colombia five times in the past two years. On this most recent occasion it was for 28 days. I went to Bogota, Cali, Medellin, Categenna, Barrranquilla and Bucaramanga. I spent time at 28 different universities and 12 high schools. I also visited Hogar Nueva Grenada which is for children with limited resources. I spoke with professors and students at all of these, including the Universidad Nacional and Universidad de Antioquia.
The change in Colombia in terms of personal safety, quality of life, and hope for the future was apprent from conversations with just about everybody from shop owners, restaurant patrons, students, teachers and local newspaper people. Colombians are proud of the changes in their country. More needs to be done certainly in the area of human rights, I agree. But I felt it would be inaccurate for me to portray the negative simply in support of ideology. Too much of that has been done by both sides and has presented such a distorted picture that to much of the world Colombia has been seen as a dangerous, crime-ridden, drug cartel ruled area, even in a recent National Geographic article. That is not the case and
the truth is important.
View online : LATIN AMERICA: The Sunset of Empire Building
3. LATIN AMERICA - The Sunset of U.S. Empire Building:The Rise of a New Latin America (by Michael Hogan), 26 April 2006, 04:14, posted by Mojado.
Dear Mr. Hogan
Latin Americans are more educated now then ever, and now we know what democracy really means. We too have a dream, Bolivar's dream.
4. LATIN AMERICA - The Sunset of U.S. Empire Building:The Rise of a New Latin America (by Michael Hogan), 27 April 2006, 19:03, posted by Don
These Central American street gangs called maras originated in El Salvador - not the US.
Medellin is ridiculously safer than it was, but it's worth noting that you only mentioned one side of the city and it's still far more dangerous than say, Los Angeles.
While the composition of the mara salvatrucha is largely El Salvadoran, the gang itself is a U.S. export. To understand how this apparent contradiction came about, please read my article below on the gangs of Central America. http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/hogan210106.html
View online : Dismantling the Central American Gangs
5. LATIN AMERICA - The Sunset of U.S. Empire Building:The Rise of a New Latin America (by Michael Hogan), 14 September 2006, 01:44, posted by Julio Cesar
I've got to say you are well informed and extremely bright. Thank you for this article to read. I'm glad that I was able to find it over the internet. I believe that Latin America is moving towards a time were the US empire no longer can rape and abuse la Raza. I hope soon the US will just get out of Latin America and allow Latinos to rule the way we want and need to rule. One day all Latinos will be under one flag and stronger than ever with a society that realizes that a society run by foreigners and racists is not a society, and if by force of arms is the only way to extract these invaders than let it be so. Let Latinos RISE AGAINST oppression.
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The White House opposes the proposal of purchasing Ericsson Nokia, and the 5g construction depends on itself
2020-02-09 05:38:47 category:Internet
Foreign media CNBC pointed out that such a proposal also made the shares of the two companies rise on the same day. Nokias shares rose 4% on the New York Stock Exchange and Ericssons shares rose nearly 5.4% on the NASDAQ. So far, the combined market value of Nokia and Ericsson has exceeded $50 billion. It is not clear what funds the U.S. government may use to acquire shares in the two companies, or whether it has the approval of foreign regulators.
However, regarding the proposal, White House economic adviser Larry Kudrow said on Friday that as an important partner of 5g infrastructure construction in the United States, the United States is working closely with Nokia and Ericsson. But Mr Kudrow also said: the U.S. government does not engage in acquisitions, whether domestic or foreign.
Vice President burns also said: we have great respect for attorney general Barr, but we think the best way is the proposal put forward by Ban Kit (Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission) in the past few days.
U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman ban kit said recently that the U.S. will pay about $10 billion to allow some satellite radio and television companies to recover part of the C-band spectrum, so that the U.S. telecom companies can build 5g communication network in this band. After recovering these frequency bands, the U.S. government plans to auction them to telecom companies at the end of the year, so as to cooperate with the telecom companys 5g network expansion plan.
It is reported that in 5g network deployment, Huawei, ZTE, Ericsson and Nokia are core manufacturers, and the latest data released by each company shows that:
Data released by Ericsson in December last year shows that: 78 5g network construction contracts have been obtained in 14 countries and regions around the world, 24 of which are in progress;
According to the data released by Huawei in October last year, Huawei has obtained 65 5g network construction contracts in the world, half of which are from Europe, and the shipment volume of 5g base stations has exceeded 400000;
According to data released by ZTE in November last year, ZTE has won 35 5g network construction contracts in the world and has launched 5g cooperation with more than 60 operators around the world.
It is worth noting that Ericsson is a Swedish Telecom manufacturer, Nokia is a Finnish Telecom manufacturer, and Huawei and ZTE are Chinese telecom manufacturers. At present, although the United States has gathered a large number of technology giants, the 5g layout is slightly weak. On the other hand, at the beginning of this year, under the pressure of the United States, the United Kingdom finally gave Huawei a green light on 5g infrastructure construction - approving Huawei to carry out 5g network infrastructure construction in the United Kingdom. According to Lei Fengs previous report, on January 28, the NSC meeting chaired by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and attended by senior ministers and intelligence personnel decided to approve part of Huaweis work on 5g network construction in the UK. Thats why U.S. attorney general Barr will propose a stake in Nokia and Ericsson. However, Burns said the US could use the power of free markets and US companies to expand 5g.. Read the White Houses proposal against the acquisition of Ericsson Nokia, how will the construction of 5g rely on its own coronavirus affect the global telecom industry grand meeting MWC? 5g life starts from Jingdong. Source: Lei Feng. Com editor in charge: Liao ziyao. Nbjs10040
It is worth noting that Ericsson is a Swedish Telecom manufacturer, Nokia is a Finnish Telecom manufacturer, and Huawei and ZTE are Chinese telecom manufacturers. At present, although the United States has gathered a large number of technology giants, the 5g layout is slightly weak.
On the other hand, at the beginning of this year, under the pressure of the United States, the United Kingdom finally gave Huawei a green light on 5g infrastructure construction - approving Huawei to carry out 5g network infrastructure construction in the United Kingdom. According to Lei Fengs previous report, on January 28, the NSC meeting chaired by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and attended by senior ministers and intelligence personnel decided to approve part of Huaweis work on 5g network construction in the UK.
Thats why U.S. attorney general Barr will propose a stake in Nokia and Ericsson. However, Burns said the US could use the power of free markets and US companies to expand 5g..
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19.5 + 250 = 269.5
I need result 269.5 in Column B, Row 1
A: =A1 * 0.15% * 13% + A1 * 0.25%
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Download a free printable pdf of the image shown as my gift to you!
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Category: Self Help & Personal Development, Spiritual Thought and Practice Tags: ancient history, Buddhism, codes, japan, martial arts, ninjas, ninjutsu, signs, techniques, ninja.
Born in the post-civil war era of Japan, a ninja known as Fujibayashi collected and combined information from the ninja clans of Iga – regarded to be the homeland of the ninja – and compiled it into an authoritative book. Known as the Bansenshukai,this book has now been translated into English by the Historical Ninjutsu Research Team, which is headed by the authors Antony Cummins and Yoshie Minami.
Adding to the mix for the spycraft lover, there are sections on capturing criminals, performing night raids, making secret codes and signs, and even techniques for predicting the weather using an esoteric Buddhist system of divination.
The Book of Ninja will appeal to historians, martial arts enthusiasts, the business community and anyone with an interest in warfare, strategy and espionage, and includes a foreword from Dr Nakashima Atsumi, a renowned collector, author and researcher of medieval ninja culture.
Antony Cummins is the founder of the Historical Ninjutsu Research Team, which has previously published the first two manuals in its ninja series – The Book of Ninja being the last in the trilogy. Antony also works as a consultant and co-presenter of Urban Canyon Films to produce high-end documentaries on Japan that are distributed by National Geographic. He has been recognized by peers as a leading expert in the discovery of military arts of medieval Japan.
Yoshie Minami was born in Tokyo and currently lives in Saitama, Japan. She has a BA degree in Linguistics from the International Christian University. As a translator, she has published True Path of the Ninja, Secret Traditions of the Shinobi, Iga and Koka Ninja Skills, Samurai War Stories and has worked with Antony on various projects including the Japanese book True English.
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Congrats to Kim and Kanye West on their new member of the family!
Keeping Up With The Kardashians star, Kim Kardashian West, and American Hip-Hop artist, Kanye West, are expecting their fourth child via surrogate this year.
The couple welcomed their daughter, Chicago West, via surrogate last January 2018.The couple together have three kids in total. North West, who is five years old and the oldest of the West bunch and Saint West, who is three years old.
Kardashian West also announced that she and West will be having a boy! When she announced on Watch What Happens Live, with host, Andy Cohen, her sisters seemed shocked that she would announce such news.
"I mean, I knew that, but I didn't know you were saying it and telling everybody," Kourtney Kardashian exclaimed.
"Well, it's out there," Kardashian West replied, referring to the surrogate rumors that occurred early in the month of January.
"Cohen told the star that the name "Kalabasas with a K" won a baby name poll. The reality family is from Calabasas, California" – CBS News.
"I think it's very exciting for her and Kanye and their whole family for this moment." – Ariana Ross, LHS.
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When Do Collection Agencies Report to the Credit Bureau?
If you fall too far behind on repaying a debt, a creditor can consider you in default and turn the account over to a debt collection agency. Once your account is reported to the credit bureaus as being in collection, that negative information normally sticks to your credit history for seven years after the original default date.
Collection agencies aren't required to make a report, although they normally do. There is no waiting period before a debt collector can report you to the credit bureaus. A collection agency will contact you after a creditor sells or transfers an account. Typically, collection agencies have already reported to the credit bureaus by the time you hear anything. Your credit report will show two accounts for the debt. The original account will be listed as inactive. The second account shows that the debt was sent to a collection agency.
According to Kiplinger.com, the FICO credit score software used by the three major credit bureaus was changed in 2009. Since that time, a debt reported by a collection agency of less than $100 is ignored when credit scores are calculated. A collection agency may still report such amounts, but this won't hurt your credit score if it does. Another change to the FICO system in 2014 counts unpaid medical bills sent for collection less than other kins of debt. Again, these collection reports will stay on your credit history for seven years -- they just do less harm to your credit rating. However, some lenders may calculate credit scores using earlier versions of the FICO software or another credit scoring system. These lenders may assign you a lower score than the credit bureaus as a result.
Check your credit reports at least once a year. You can do this for free at AnnualCreditReport.com, the provider authorized by law to make free reports available to the public. If you find an erroneous collection report, you can file a dispute with the credit bureau to correct the information. If the report is accurate, contact the collection agency. You cannot remove the negative information, but the collection agency can. You'll likely have to negotiate and agree to more stringent repayment terms in exchange for getting a collection removed. There's no guarantee a collection agency will agree to remove collections from your credit record, but it can't hurt to try.
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CAD Drawings to PDF with SolidWorks, eDrawings and VBA . An automated solution to make Acrobat PDF files from CAD drawings. The solution handles SolidWorks and AutoCAD drawings. The problem The company had a solution for plotting engineering drawings. Employees in production had a fast utility to lookup CAD drawings. There were tens of thousands of drawings. Printing was a … sheetfed offset printing process pdf Or maybe you have SolidWorks but don't want to spend the time to open the drawing in order to print it. No problem, you can print straight from the preview tab from the Right click menu. EPDM uses a number of different applications for previewing and viewing different file types. eDrawings viewer will be used for drawing files, whether they're AutoCad, SolidWorks, or other 3D CAD drawings.
SolidWorks is known for it's exceptional 3D design functionality, but what if you want to take some of those amazing products you've created and get them printed for a display, brochure or screenprinted t-shirt? You can get a print quality image straight from SolidWorks and it's simple as saving a file. what is print to pdf 17/10/2012 · Any closed shape can become a viewport. Draw out a circle, then type MVIEW and choose the Object option. Then just select the circle and it will become a viewport. Or you can use the Convert Object to Viewport button on the Viewports toolbar.
1/10/2008 · I have a layout Sketch with a mix of geometry, and a ton of dimensions and Driven Dimensions I use for a master ref for many models. I can't seem to find an easy way to print this sketch to fit an E size drawing.
14/09/2009 · In essence you end up with a 20 sheet drawing and then you can print that to pdf. However, the file size might just cripple your computer and the safer option is to take Mihail's advice on this one. However, the file size might just cripple your computer and the safer option is to take Mihail's advice on this one.
17/10/2012 · Any closed shape can become a viewport. Draw out a circle, then type MVIEW and choose the Object option. Then just select the circle and it will become a viewport. Or you can use the Convert Object to Viewport button on the Viewports toolbar.
Print Conductor can automate printing a large number of documents created by AutoCAD and SolidWorks. The program can also print PDF, XPS, HTML files, images, plain text, Microsoft Office and OpenOffice documents - all in batch mode.
SolidWorks is known for it's exceptional 3D design functionality, but what if you want to take some of those amazing products you've created and get them printed for a display, brochure or screenprinted t-shirt? You can get a print quality image straight from SolidWorks and it's simple as saving a file.
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Today brings us the full original and decoded episodes of "Dooku Captured" (Ep. #11) from season 1 of The Clone Wars at the main site. You got a week, so watch 'em while you can!
Next up, "The Gungan General" (Ep. #12).
UPDATE: Just pointing out that both versions of "Dooku Captured" (Ep. #11) still seem to be online. We'll keep you posted as to when "The Gungan General" (Ep. #12) shows up.
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While the espresso alfajore ice cream was very delicious, I think that the recipe I'm sharing with you today is even better! I really wanted to transform a traditional South American recipe using Nespresso's Cauca capsules. Technically, brigadeiros are Brazilian (and usually served at birthday parties), but they are so easy and I felt certain that the espresso would bring the classic brigadeiro to a new level, as coffee brings out the taste of chocolate so well.
This is the new cute and tiny Inissia machine that Nespresso loaned me to create some new recipes. I don't actually own any Nespresso machine (any loyal reader would know I'm a coffee-presser at heart!), so this was really generous of them. Luckily, I have a friend who gave me a handful of other Grand Crus (the blue capsules in the photo above) so I'm not only making espresso for recipes, but also to drink!
My espresso brigadeiro recipe starts with one freshly extracted capsule of Cauca that has been allowed to cool to room temperature.
In a small saucepan, combine one 395g can of sweetened condensed milk, one teaspoon of slightly salted butter (or unsalted butter, plus a pinch of sea salt), one teaspoon liquid glucose (or light corn syrup), 4 tablespoons of sifted cocoa powder and the cooled 40ml espresso. Give it a stir, then heat it on the stove for 10-40 minutes, stirring constantly. The time it takes to cook will be dependent on the heat and type of pan you're using.
The key to this recipe is knowing when the brigadeiro mixture is done. It needs to be really, really thick. When you cut the mixture with your spoon across the bottom of the pan, the mixture will very slowly come back together, or using your spoon, scoop up a spoonful and turn it upside down; it should very slowly start to drop out of the spoon. This video from Street Smart Brazil should give you a good idea as to what the consistency should be (it's around the 7-minute mark on the video).
When you've got the right consistency, transfer the mixture to a shallow plate or bowl, and you may want to give it a rub with a little bit of butter beforehand so it won't stick when you go to roll the mixture into balls. Let it sit until cool and firm.
This is the fun part – grab a small chunk of butter and rub it on your hands. Use a spoon and scoop up about a tablespoon (I used a digital scale to measure each brigadeiro at 25g) and roll it into a ball. You'll absolutely need the butter on your hands, you'll discover, as the mixture will be impossible to roll without greasy hands!
After rolling the mixture into balls, you'll need to roll them in a bowl of sifted cocoa powder (or chocolate sprinkles, as is more traditional). I like the slight bitterness of the cocoa powder, however, with the sweetness of the brigadeiro.
My brigadeiros are not perfectly round, but I wasn't aiming for perfection; I'm more of a rustic kind of gal! Also, the day was warm and the heat kept the mixture a bit soft which left indentations of the baking cups in them, as you see in the photos of the stacked brigadeiros.
So, how do these little guys taste? Amazing! They are super chocolaty with a sublime background note of the Cauca espresso. The texture is like a soft, chewy caramel. They are just stunning, I loved these so much! No wonder the brigadeiro is a feature at every Brazilian birthday party! I think I'm going to have to bring this tradition to Australia, as it's the perfect excuse to indulge in these delicious morsels!
And even though my brigadeiros have their own hit of espresso, they are wonderful with a cup of coffee as well!
Traditional Brazilian brigadeiros are taken to a new level with the addition of Nespresso's new limited edition South American Grand Cru, Cauca.
In a heavy-bottomed saucepan, combine sweetened condensed milk, butter, liquid glucose, 4 tablespoons sifted cocoa powder and espresso and stir until combined. Place on the stove and heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Reduce heat to low and stir constantly for 10-40 minutes. The length of time will depend on the heat and type of pan used.
The mixture will be ready when it very slowly comes back together when cut with a spoon across the bottom of the pan.
Transfer the mixture to a shallow plate or bowl that has been rubbed with a bit of butter to prevent sticking. Set aside and allow to cool, about 30-40 minutes. The mixture will continue to firm up.
Rub hands with a bit of butter, scoop out a tablespoon (I used 25g for each brigadeiro) of the mixture and roll into a ball. Toss the brigadeiro into the ⅓ cup sifted cocoa powder, tap off excess cocoa powder and place into a mini baking cup. Repeat until the mixture is used up.
Serve immediately. Can be stored in an airtight container up to 3 days in the refrigerator, but the coffee flavor won't be as strong.
* If you don't have slightly salted butter, use unsalted butter and add a pinch of finely ground sea salt.
* You can use light corn syrup instead of the liquid glucose.
I love it! I am a Brazilian small Brigadeiro owner in Sydney and would like to introduce you my Gourmet version of brigadeiros!!!
I love it! What a perfect combination! Yummy brigadeiros!
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When Cross Game initially aired, the small handful of western Mitsuru Adachi went to work, attempting to spread the word of a bestselling Japanese artist who was an unknown in the west. Touch, a domestic phenomenon in Japan, was cited in tandem with Cross Game as his most influential and greatest work. Although Cross Game is more accessible — especially for western anime viewers — and modern, Touch is Adachi's magnum opus. Mix: Meisei Story is Adachi's latest, set in the same universe as Touch, decades later.
It's impossible to talk about Mix without mentioning Touch, but not for the reasons you may think.
Like most things in Devilman Crybaby, its use of flowers is not subtle.
A lot of people like to condemn Naruto and I've never understood the appeal, although its overwhelming popularity and ubiquitous presence in anime fandom at large does make it an easy target. There's something relatable about Naruto Uzumaki's dorky nature which translates surprisingly earnestly within the series itself.
I personally enjoyed my time in the Naruto fandom. When I became bored with the pace of the anime, I turned to fanfiction. Time passed, I became interested in other types of anime, and whenever I thought back to Naruto, I checked in with what happened in the manga, never really caring about spoilers since I was long past wanting to watch or read it immediately.
Then a friend told me that Masashi Kishimoto had begun writing a sequel: Boruto. She also told me that it was hilarious.
Robot high-school student Nano Shinonome is late for school. She calls back into her house — a small, older unit close to the train overpass — not to a parent but to her young professor before dashing out the door. Running, she checks the small digital watch set in her forearm. It's 7:50 a.m.. "Maybe if I run, I'll just barely make it," she says.
As she nears the first intersection, a blond boy with headphones appears. He hums along to his music while walking. Nano begins flailing her arms like pinwheels in an attempt to stop suddenly. "Watch out!" she yells. It's too late. The collision causes an explosion felt all over town. A few moments later, debris hits fellow high-school student Yuuko Aioi.
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The Blast reached out to LAPD and they were told that they believe it is not their officers on the tape for several reasons. One of the reasons is that they believe it is not their officers is because they broadcast on a digital frequency, and the audio in question appears to be analog. The website was told that digital frequencies cannot be intercepted on a 2-way radio.
The other reason is that they pointed out is that the lingo used in the audio is not the typical vernacular of LAPD.
The LAPD wants to be clear that they are not taking these accusations lightly, and while they are certain that it is not their officers, they will continue to investigate and find the sources of the distasteful comments.
Let's hope that those involved are reprimanded for their actions.
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We are made in the image of God – as the Bible says in Genesis. Tzelem Elohim in Hebrew, Genesis 1:27 but also James 3 – you find it! Somehow or other we are created like God. How?Well as a species we are notoriously creative. Gardening is key in that. Joanna arrived with her brother Malcolm on Thursday at midnight. Thursday morning I was frantically watering the plants. Why don't they recover immediately when I have just left them. I'm sure I watered them only a few days before. I wish I worked with Ezekiel – where God would take the dried out tree and make it flourish. God uses us, of course, but ultimately God is in charge whatever rubbish we do with the world. The Bible starts with a garden, it was mostly an agricultural world. Jesus is arrested in a garden, buried in another garden, Mary meets the gardener who is Jesus and it no accident that the last chapter of the last book of the Bible is focused on the tree of life by an eternal stream –the same tree of life as in Genesis. Do gardening and you plant and allow the natural processes, set up by God, to take the mustard seed or young tree and develop it into something wonderful. In reality there is almost as much mystery about how it does that, in most of our eyes, as there was then. But there is also harmony here. Hand in hand the creator human with the creator God. So Jesus tells the mustard seed story and that of the farmer who sows and harvests. Both are hard work, as is the removal of weeds and irrigation, but being concerned about the biochemical activity inside the seed, the complexity of matching genes, the physics of osmotic pressure of water on the husk – it is all irrelevant. In practice, in reality, the farmer trusts – almost as much now as they did then. There are many interpretations to such parables, but surely one is – as Jesus calls it – the kingdom of God is like. We are that kingdom and the skill is knowing when to sow the seed. Leave the rest to God. At a zoom forum yesterday one lady was talking about the number of children that have not returned to Sunday School after the pandemic. What will happen to the church if we don't get them back, she said, almost in desperation. Don't get me wrong, I love a full church and a burgeoning Sunday School, but ultimately, ultimately that is not about our efforts. We absolutely must trust in God who takes the most meagre seed we sow and sometimes creates greatness out of it, and sometimes sees it pass away on the desert air. The mystery of the growth of the grain, provided we do not botch up the process by leaving it to become a desert wilderness, the mystery of growth is in the hands of God. We can wring our hands in sadness or raise them in joy, but the basis for optimism about our future rests in God, the giver of growth and the sole determiner of the time for the harvest. The whole context of all life is in the creation of God, and we are co-creators. Music, art, architecture all hum with the same nature of God when we do the same creation. Paul uses some clear imagery that takes us one step further. He says that we are a new creation. Of course the body and brain are the same but the spirit, each of our spirits is, as Jesus describes to Nicodemus, newly born from above. Growing in faith happens – we know it does, and that growth is also mysterious, in each of us, given the space, the minimum water for life, the faith seed grows in us and others, to God's glory.
The parable of the growing seed
26 He also said, 'This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. 27 Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. 28 All by itself the soil produces corn – first the stalk, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. 29 As soon as the corn is ripe, he puts the sickle to it, because the harvest has come.'
The parable of the mustard seed
30 Again he said, 'What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it? 31 It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth. 32 Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds can perch in its shade.'
33 With many similar parables Jesus spoke the word to them, as much as they could understand. 34 He did not say anything to them without using a parable. But when he was alone with his own disciples, he explained everything.
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Our Lacey Cotton Shells are perfect for the layering trend! These shells go great under transparent or short sleeve top and dress, even to wear alone over a skirt and pants.
The shells are available in these sizes XS-XXL. Sizes L, XL & XXL are looser fitting.
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I want to start studying HR but i can't decided which place is better. Riti or the AUC which one is better and why?
AUC is triple-accredited and is probably the best business school in Egypt. I don't think you can really compare it to Riti.
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module SS::Addon
module Markdown
extend ActiveSupport::Concern
extend SS::Addon
included do
field :text, type: String
field :text_type, type: String
permit_params :text, :text_type
end
def text_type_options
[:plain, :markdown].map { |m| [I18n.t("ss.options.text_type.#{m}"), m] }
end
def html
return nil if text.blank?
if text_type == 'markdown'
SS::Addon::Markdown.text_to_html(text)
else
ERB::Util.h(text).gsub(/(\r\n?)|(\n)/, "<br />").html_safe
end
end
class << self
def text_to_html(text)
return nil if text.blank?
text = text.join("\n") if text.is_a?(Array)
html = Kramdown::Document.new(text.to_s, input: 'GFM').to_html
ApplicationController.helpers.sanitize(html)
end
end
end
end
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A good point well made
Posted on May 26, 2014 by Rev. Stuart Campbell
We're rather kicking ourselves for not having spotted this one when it was staring us in the face, so kudos to Welsh professor of political science Roger Scully for the catch.
In the 2009 European elections, UKIP got 16.5% of the vote in the UK as a whole, and 5.2% in Scotland – a gap of 11.3%. In this year's election the tallies were 27.5% in the UK and 10.5% in Scotland – a gap of 17%.
In other words, despite all the bluster from Unionists about how Scotland can no longer claim to be different to the rest of the UK in terms of supporting Nigel Farage's party, in fact the degree of difference has substantially increased, by a whopping 55%.
It just seems worth pointing out.
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A good point well made | Scottish Independence News
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Hugh Wallace says:
You might also like the take from this chap who concludes 'Scotland is a very different country' and goes on to say "if I was a resident of Scotland I'd much rather brave the uncertainty of independence and self-determination, than risk facing a Tory-UKIP coalition ruling over Scotland from down in London."
http://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/12-things-european-election-2014-results.html
Domhnall Dods says:
If the tory share is up that also marks us out as different, just not in a good way
Croompenstein says:
posted on last thread but..
Hold the front page – balanced and truthful report from BBC shocker. Allan Little reporting from Edinburgh telling it like it is ukip came 4th 10% of vote and England ukip 1st 30% Scotland's result looking more like Germany than England and Wales. If you want Scotland to stay in EU then you might want to think about voting for independence in September..picks self back up…
Thinking about it, UKIP getting a footing in Scotland may be exactly what the Yes side has been needing.
We've been behind in the polls since the get-go of this campaign. We've been pulling back ground to a point where we're not far off 50-50, but have not been quite able to reach over into the 51 mark quite yet. Some people have been hefty undecided, and as of UKIP's footing in our beautiful wee country last night, we've heard that this has encouraged some undecideds to declare support for or sway further towards Yes. Even on Twitter some hardcore No people have stated that the result last night might just make them think twice.
Put it this way, if Gideon Osborne's currency threat gave Yes a surge, imagine what UKIP's involvement could do.
Adrian B says:
I think that with Scotland now having this UKIP MEP things are about to get a whole lot more lively.
Scotland has seen the future under the Union with a Tory/UKIP coalition as a distinct possibility in 2015. Add in all the taking UK out of Europe and I think that small business is going to start squirming. An Indy Scotland does not look very scary a prospect in comparison to the UK right now.
I think we must also recognise the possibility that some who voted for UKIP came from both the Yes and No camps who would rather see Britain/Scotland out of the EU and used this opportunity as a protest vote. A small number I grant you.
I have heard David Coburn on the BBC today and he floundered in response to basic questions. He is a buffoon who is more a threat to UKIP itself than he is to the YES Campaign.
It will be interesting to see if BBC continue their UKIP sponsorship leading up to the Eastleigh by election in a couple of weeks.
Grouse Beater says:
Cockroaches have a way of flattening themselves to scuttle under the gap of doors. They can move very fast, tend to come out at night, are very noisy feeding, and sustain themselves on rotten detritus humans leave around.
Annie: Newark.
Schrodingers Cat says:
bbc labour scotland hate ukip
brooster coburn is out of his depth, no doubt about it
we should bum up his better togher credentials, and let bbc scotland destroy him
i think they will discredit him fast before he gains any traction in bettter together camp
he is poison to them
he is a gift to us
get digging folks, i want to know where he buys his socks
please, could someone please produce a photo of him with a bt logo or banner behind him? this needs to be shared on face book
Retro_Rabbit says:
What was the overall turnout figures for both years… very low turnout this year I thought… could be wrong. A low turnout would increase percentage share of outlying parties as proper protest voters didn't vote and lazy buggers that don't see that, like it or not, EU elections aren't a joke and does affect us all.
im not going off topic, sarwar counted the ukip votes in his total
they cant have it both ways
eezy says:
Scotland's 'actually' bucking the trend!
http://www.eezypeezylemonsqeezy.com
mjaei says:
Another Angry Voice makes a really good point about this:
'UKIP took just 10.2% of the Scottish vote, and UKIP and the Tories combined only managed to get 27.7% of the vote between them. Meanwhile in England the two Tory parties took significantly more than 50% of the vote between them.
The hugely different voting patterns between Scotland and England are demonstrated by the fact that the Tories and UKIP bagged 65% of the seats available in England, but in Scotland they were quite lucky to even sneak away with 33% of the seats.'
http://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/12-things-european-election-2014-results.html?spref=tw
Doh! Just spotted the 1st comment. Sorry.
Interesting to go back to the 2009 European election. This took place when the Labour Government was in chaos. Ministers plotting to get rid of Gordon Brown the week of the election. Expenses scandal broke before the election was a recipe to depress the Labour vote for that election and many Labour supporters stayed at home, hence the lower turnout than the previous election.
The media darling in the run-up to that election was not just UKIP but the BNP which resulted in the BNP gaining 2 seats. UKIP's vote share was only slightly up.
Last Thursday a lot of Labour voters who sat on their hands in 2009 came out but not enough to reverse the 2009 figures which flipped the SNP/Labour share from 2004. The SNP vote share more or less the same percentage share as 2009 despite the SNP being in Government from 2007 and open to a protest vote. It is easy to say that the increase in the Labour or UKIP vote came from X party. What is needed is an academic study into the election as I suspect votes went between all the various parties.
cearc says:
Grouse Beater,
You are surely not suggesting that Coburn could flatten himself to get under a door?
goldenayr says:
The BBC at lunchtime today said that Coburn had been resident,solely,in Scotland since December last year.
Glen Campbell on the John Beattie Lunchtime prog on Radio Scotland.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0444z8c
Did Edinburgh Eye catch that?
heedtracker says:
BetterTogether C4 news was weird tonight with big report oop North, Farage stood for Westminster MPness 5 times!, yougov poll says England was a better place to bring up children 20 years ago, an EU ruined Grimsby fish industry, white English people on Clethorpes bank holiday BUT the mere 10% UKIP vote in London was because London is so sophisticated, cosmopolitan and clever.
Absolutely nothing at all about the 10% UKIP vote in Scotland, ofcourse. Cathy still quite doable though.
heedtracker
"Cathy still quite doable though."
You nicked my wine?
He is pretty capable of limbo dancing under any question from the media no matter how low they set the bar, even to the extent of showing openly he's a class airhead.
A really interesting piece from the Guardian which all the regulars here should read:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/26/ukip-founder-alan-sked-party-become-frankensteins-monster
@ goldenayr, Cathy's nae bad. C4 need to send her to Washington like what they did with oor Sarah Smith. She came back fair glammed up, big hair, whitened teeth etc. Check it all out tomorrow as Sarah tries fill old Sweaty Brewers cheezee shoes and may god have mercy on our Yes voting souls.
Murray McCallum says:
Very good of Professor Scully to help Murdo Fraser see that he got it totally wrong.
Well done the Welsh education system and WOS for communicating this information.
Sent a complaint to the beeb last week when I saw the trailer for the new show.
"It's only sweaties,just give them some sport and the rest can be One Show guff"
Still waiting on a reply,probably think I'm agreeing with them and wondering why it's in complaints.
I met Murdo Fraser once, he was lost on a back road in Fife and asked me for directions. It looks like he's still lost,
Adrian B
It did leave me with the feeling that this guy shouldn't be teaching though.
Brian Doonthetoon says:
Alan Little, from Edinburgh, was on the main BBC news at the back of 6. I was waiting for his very even-handed and true account of the results in Scotland to be interrupted but it was allowed to be completed.
I thought, "We won't see him again."
Well blow me down with a white leather feather! He was on again with, more or less, the same report at 10.30!
Could it be that all the criticism of BBC bias is striking home?
More on UKIP, this time from Left Foot Forward:
http://www.leftfootforward.org/2014/05/15-reasons-women-shouldnt-vote-for-ukip/
Cindie says:
Thanks to Rev and all you wonderful Wings folk for the positive comments and articles today. Last night, having stayed up to see the voting results, I went to bed with a very heavy heart.
I live in Highland and couldn't believe that over 7000 people voted for UKIP. I was shocked and disgusted, I still am.
But, having seen a number of people that I know were apathetic, undecided or no voters suddenly decide that this was the last straw and become engaged, or even state that the results last night have made them decide to vote yes.
I think a number of people have not really been engaged until now, but what happened in England has been a wake-up call.
I've been away for the last few weeks in the South West of England and saw UKIP posters everwhere, I found it chilling. Scary, that a significant number of people were not only ready to vote for UKIP, but they were willing to put huge billboards in their gardens and tell the world that's what they were planning to do. I have been so very heartened today to see so very many people, upset by what has happened. Good. They should be upset. So many folk are re-evaluating their previous apathy and realising that if they are against the increasingly right wing politics in rUK then they have to do something about it and the only thing that they can do is vote yes in September.
CameronB Brodie says:
At last, balance from Better Together. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you oor Anas and oor Murdo.
P.S. What more can Scotland expect of political representatives drawn from a deficient gene pool? 🙂
P.P.S. We are all diminished. 🙁
Good post Cindie.
Democracy Reborn says:
Coburn is now Murdo, McDougall et al's new best pal. Will they now be saying at Indyref debates, "I agree with David"?…
Newark – where did Eastleigh come from, I stand corrected.
Monty Carlow says:
@Croompenstein
Hold the front page – balanced and truthful report from BBC shocker.
P45 for Alan Little.
Ian Brotherhood says:
@Adrian B –
Cheers for those links. That's important documentary right there, and will no doubt come back to bite mssrs Coburn/Farage.
Of course UKIP have failed, relatively, in Scotland compared with the rest of the UK. Even the BBC's figures show this –
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27576104
The Scottish increase in UKIP's vote share is the lowest of all the constituencies at 5.2%, nearly half of the lowest rUK increase outside London and less than a third of the highest.
Scotland is different and Murdo Fraser is talking bollox.
James123 says:
@Brian Doonthetoon
I'm afraid not, Alan Little has been the sole voice of sanity at the BBC for several months now. The rest of his colleagues will continue to peddle the BT message all the way to September.
Check out tomorrow's Scottish Daily Mail front page:-
"Farage : I'll Fight Salmond to Save Britain"
Folks, Coburn winning his seat & UKIP topping the poll in England is a gift for us. I have grown cheerier as the day has gone on. And the beauty is – for once – the MSM have done the job for us. They've given hours & hours of exposure to UKIP.
All we need to keep saying is Vote No = Get the toxic Tories & UKIP in 2015.
Lesley-Anne says:
Can I just say that I think 24 hours on we are all a lot calmer regarding our Nige's representative in Scotland.
Whilst last night a few of us appeared, to me at least, to be getting a bit fraught about our Nige's rep. Personally I thought our Nige's arrival on the scene would actually help us in our fight for independence. From snippets I read around the web today I think this may actually be coming true.
Anyone who hasn't seen how their council vote count went can check them out here.
http://tinyurl.com/le7wexa
Thanks Goldenayr x
Cindie
Looks like our Nige thinks Alex salmond actually cares a jot about anything he, our Nige, says or even thinks. Apparently when no one speaks to him our Nige resorts to threatening to to fight them. Unfortunately for our Nige the First Minister has far better things to do like run a country than *ahem* fight with Farage. Come to think about it I think our Nige will be doing a lot of fighting with his new unionist best mates to get a foot in the door of Better Together HQ. 😛
http://tinyurl.com/l5x6avp
You have to feel for Nick Cleg, He has physically aged a year for every MEP he has lost. What a cheek Nigel Farage quoting Ghandi/Wings "First they ignore you" on Sky News tonight in reference to UKIP results.
There are very few positives to be taken from Westminsters manipulation and disenfranchisement of democracy.
The UKIP one however is a startling slip up by the Ox/Cam dons and their failure to fully appreciate human nature.
Harry Enfield expressed it best on Sunday night with his parody of Seventies OU progs and spectrum deficient academics.
Tam Jardine says:
Am getting a bit bored with the self determination of Scotland being reduced to these UK terms.
I see the plusses and minuses of last night's results but ultimately the issue is unchanged – are we best looking after our own affairs with double the representation in the European parliament or are we better continuing in our diminished role?
I have 2 bros making the best of their emigration (but then they are the good kind of immigrants, ie not polish, not asian).
I hate using the UKIP threat on my polish, pakistani or Indian friends but Fuck me there cannot be an immigrant who can vote no after this.
My main man, a great packistan newsagent is fully Yes and these guys have sway over their family.
I don't think the MSM understands anything about what is happening on the ground.
Nobby Power says:
Given that BT rejected Farage's 'offer of help' out of hand; it will be interesting to see how they cope with Coburn, when push comes to shove.
Whether they like it or not, he's on the boat now. And all that bluster and hot air he's notorious for, won't fill the sails to their benefit. He'll have the net effect of chucking the rudder overboard.
For me the only question is whether it'll be the sound of the penny dropping, or the sound of implosion we hear first!
Appreciate the sentiment but your newsagents family,and him,are now probably fully integrated into the Scottish psyche.
I agree goldenayr, the Westminster *ahem* elite have been screwing this country, I mean UK here, for decades and no has been watching what has been going on. Even after the SNP appeared on the scene they were just seen as a toy political party for the nutty few Scots.
Now however things have taken a serious jerk to the right and every politician worth their salt from a UK political party is jumping through hoops as and when our Nige says jump!
I think most of us on here and other independence sites have seen this UKIP destroyer steaming in unfortunately for the unionists they were blinded to its imminent arrival. Well guess what Mr unionist, the destroyer sitting at the end of the quay is HMS UKIPPER! 🙂
As others have said I think the arrival of UKIP in such a storming fashion will be the fillip that YES needs to really get going once the real war starts at the end of the month. UKIP are, in my view, the best possible present any unionist could give us who are fighting for a YES win. 😉
The Ox/Cam dons are going to rue the day they tried to rewrite history.
After the ref the British establishment will hold no sway at all.
As I said to the unionits online 12 yrs ago(jeez).
"The wolves are circling London,the question is do you..roll over or join?"
Steve C says:
As a suggestion why does Alex not debate with Farage on independence?
Two belief politicians, confident, charismatic, aggressive and both flying high would give a fascinating debate and enable Alex to put Farage in his place or not, once and for all.
In terms of the debate. Farage will be able to discuss without being limited by the subservience to EU that LibLabCon all have to follow. The UK Oxbridge politicians are all the same and are tied to the same dictated mantra. Do not the Scottish people deserve a real debate a capable UK politician, noting such a debate could provide a decisive moment in the referendum.
Whilst EU membership needs to be Scotland's decision, the EU question is the elephant in the room in Scotland's independence debate and I believe should be discussed by people driven by beliefs and not UK spin masters.
Farage: I'll Fight Salmond to Save Britain"
So, Ukip completely unlike the SNP, after all.
Thepnr says:
Listen! Fear not. The truth will prevail.
And you are part of that. Call, and what you see is not a busted flush, but a pair of twos.
Farage and Cameron, potentially our next government? Are we that mad that we could vote for that?
Nah, I'm saying AYE!
Truth says:
I don't reckon Coburn will get a look in frankly, for a couple of reasons.
One, he would be immensely damaging to the BT campaign, so that's a good enough reason for the media to ignore him.
And two, what coverage do ANY of our MEPs get anyway? Next to nothing except every few years when there's an election on.
He will be hidden from view and never discussed.
You forget the London line that anything anti-indy is good.
Don't think for a second that what's shown up here will be announced down there.
The establishment has created clear guidelines for the hard of thinking.
"Go with us or your fucked."
Trouble is,most of us grew up in the malcontent years.
joe kane says:
Let's not forget it was MP Jim Murphy's New Labour which first introduced immigration onto the UK political agenda as an important issue for no reason anyone can figure out, in the same way it adopted and ramped up welfare bashing as an issue as well as whole host of other traditional right-wing obsessions.
Here is Richard Seymour quoting Dan Hodges –
"How successful did this strategy for managing immigration as a political issue, as opposed to the management of migration itself, prove to be? At the time of the 1997 election, MORI's Issue Tracker recorded the number of people citing race or immigration as the most important issue facing the nation at 3%. By last May's election it was 38%. In 1997 the BNP stood 54 candidates and secured 36,000 votes, at an average of 664 votes per candidate. In 2010 they stood 339 candidates and obtained 566,000 votes, an average of 1,663 votes per candidate. A YouGov poll taken in March found that 69% of those questioned believed Labour's management of immigration had been bad for the country, compared to 21% who thought it had been beneficial.
"Set aside principles or morality. Even on its own terms, our political management of immigration has been a disaster. Trying to ape the language of the BNP succeeded only in boosting the BNP."
http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/patriotism_a_dead_end_solution_to_a_non_problem
fifer says:
Interesting numbers from the BBC
Smallest increase in UKIP vote: Scotland 5.2%
Largest increase: E. Midlands 16.5%
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-27583545
Ken500 says:
All the Unionists/Westminster's tax evaders have done is to turn bankrupt Britain into a corrupt State in order to line their own pockets. They just can't get enough. Pathetic failures.
Barrel scraping time
"Labour msp Jackie Baillie says Alex Salmond should spend less time telling us why he hates the UK and more time explaining the consequences of separation"
BBC news this morning
Be careful what you wish for Jackie.
but just for any pedants on here (I know there are none)
Anyone recall Alex Salmond saying he "hates the UK"?
James Kay says:
My apologies if anyone else has done the same calculation, but there is another measure which shows how small was the UKIP 'success' (and different from the voting pattern in rUK).
They won the 6th seat of 6 on offer. The margin of victory was so small that, even if there had been 13 MEPs to be elected, there would not have been a second Kipper. On the votes as cast, the d'Hondt system gives an allocation of 4 each to SNP and Labour, 2 each to the Tories and one each to UKIP, the Greens and LibDems.
I have read an opinion that iScotland's will be entitled to 13 MEPs, and that the extra numbers will be allocated from the results of this election. So the calculation is not an empty one: there is a real chance that it may be used.
Ivan McKee says:
@James Kay
Yep, looks like your d'Honte calculation is right.
That assumes they would keep it all in 1 big Scotland-wide constituency and not split it into 2 or 3 smaller ones. It they did split it up into smaller constituencies then there might not be any Kippers (as their vote was fairly evenly spread throughout Scotland compared to other parties).
The majority of 'immigrants' coming into Britain, are the Brit ex pats coming back from Spain because of the banking crisis caus by the US/UK controlled banks and Merkel's EU policies not being effective. The affected countries needed time to recover not austerity, causing further economic collapse.
The ConDems were elected to cut the deficit and protect NHS/Education. They have failed. The debt is reported to be increasing, NHS/Education have been cut. The Westminster tax evaders have increased the wealth of themselves and their associates from Public monies. The reason they went into politics. Never have so many been promoted above their capabilities.
The Ghost train to nowhere is underway, wasting £Billions of Public monies, but increasing the Wedtminster's tax evaders wealth for friends and families. There is absolutely no business case for the train track to nowhere at present. The train service should be taken back into public service and the public monies should be invested in improving the service, especially in the North.
bunter says:
Saw a nice map of permitted participants in the referendum and where they are based. There are no pro Union organisations based in Scotland, and no sign of the entities known as "Scottish Labour, Libdums or Tories. There are however Labour, Conservative and LibDums who are all based in London. How telling!
Just to round it off, other delights listed are EDL, BNP, Britain First, OO, Apprentice Boys of Derry, and some other YES vote producing delights!
Tattie-bogle says:
The Union has just handed itself the longest rope in history. A few interviews with coburn should give folks a jolt or will he be binned to the side and give the Fridge a platform. happy days 🙂
It appears Murdo opened his mouth and inserted his leg. After the tweet fest that he and certain members of the press participated in, do they really think they did themselves any favours in the public's eyes? All they've done is reveal for all to see, just how low they're willing to stoop to score political points.
And boy is that ever low. I hope to hell Murdo cringes every time he looks upon that tweet now.
I can hear the sound of pennies dropping all over Scotland.
Deeply shocked lefties, Labour supporters, immigrants, genuine undecideds and otherwise sensible soft NOs are waking up to the fact the a NO vote in September will be catastrophic.
JLT says:
It makes me wonder…
All those 'Undecided's'…obviously, they weren't voting UKIP before, or else, they would have said so. We are guessing that what (speculating here) that 10 to 15% of the country are still 'Undecided'.
I think it is fair to say that most folk who voted UKIP were disenfranchised Tory-Labour-Lib supporters, therefore, the UKIP vote came from the 'No' camp. In one sense, the 'No' camp is no longer looking all-out democratically and moderately Unionist …it now has serious Racist and Bigoted elements within its core. Excellent. Just what we needed!
Now that UKIP have barnstormed England, but just got a toe in Scotland, it makes me wonder how many of those Undecided's' feel now. In fact, with the UKIP wolf at the front door, I wonder how many 'Undecided's' have just edged into the 'Yes' camp. Obviously, the prospect of a Tory-UKIP coalition must be alarming to them.
The old term in Chess of '…sacrificing your queen' to win the game. UKIP win a seat in Scotland, and all the 'Undecided's' move into the 'Yes' camp …You win the game.
Not the worst bit of strategy…
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Arabs for Independence says:
John King @06:38
Of course Mr Salmond has never said that he 'hates the UK'. However, the BBC have put that phrase in every GMS bulletin this morning presumably to counter anything positive the First Minister has to say about an independent Scotland.
Never drop your guard with the BBC; they are constantly attacking the Yes side at all levels
David Wardrope says:
Did I miss something on BBC breakfast at around 7:50 the bloke from Brown Shipley saying, "…….so it's a good idea to get out before the Scottish referendum vote" just as I turned on
Just seen your comment, mate. Totally, totally agree!
In fact …a part of me wonder if it is a win-win scenario that the SNP thought out. If we can't win that 3rd seat (which 'implies' that half of Scotland will vote 'Yes'), then keep saying in your own statements 'UKIP, UKIP, UKIP …bad' and let the buggers win a seat, thus scaring the horses (undecided – Soft No's) into the 'Yes' camp.
The tax evading Unionists have lied so much about immigration, it has come back to bite them. Still laughing all the way, the right wing Tory bankers, benefiting from the lies. Nigel uses Botox and is a lying alcoholic.
T222Deracha says:
Consider that the SNP vote more or less stayed static from 2009, despite the efforts of the Rev and other interweb media.
What would the results be without the contribution of all these YES stalwarts?. It is complacent to say that the SNP maintained their vote despite being in government for seven years. The sad fact is that not enough Scots have been convinced that the SNP are good for Scotland. We need to remember that without the SNP, there NEVER would be any independence referendum for Scotland.
There is a hell of a lot of hard work needed in the following months to counter the UKOK propaganda machine. 🙁
@David – He was talking about Lloyds floating TSB shares and getting them out before the referendum.
caz-m says:
The quote from Jackie Baillie that "Alex Salmond hates the UK", is an example of why the SNP and even the YES camp should have a direct line to Pacific Quay to nip these lies in the bud.
The SNP/YES press offices really need to start justifying their wages here. They must hear the same shit that we hear.
We will soon be inside the official campaign, and allowing Scottish Labour, aided by BBC Scotland, to spout out whatever lies they like, must stop.
Thanks for that, guy looked quite pleased with himself when he said it I thought
The YES campaign will be reputing the lies. It will not be reported. The MSM is Wetminster controlled. The UK does not have a balanced Press, as required by a Democracy. Thatcher saw to that. Selective viewing. Don't watch it. Boycott it. Viewing/listening gives it a voice.
The driving age should be increased to stop deaths and accidents. 10% of drivers age 17-24 caused 25% of accidents.
@JLT
I think it is fair to say that most folk who voted UKIP were disenfranchised Tory-Labour-Lib supporters, therefore, the UKIP vote came from the 'No' camp
There's a section of society for whom politics is a series of basic prejudices. Ukip has tapped into them.
The English have always been suspicious of foreigners, and intellectuals, for that matter. It's the least likeable aspect of the national character. A good number of countries control immigration tightly, mostly because there is not enough jobs and houses for them, and they don't have a medical service wealthy enough to cope. That's a fair policy, in my opinion. But Ukip go further, they advocate English is best. Whatever way you look at them they are a racist party.
Fergus Green says:
O/T poll in the Courier right now asking if the European election result will make you more or less likely to vote YES:
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/
YES currently on 45%
Giving Goose says:
Jackie Baillie hates the UK, or more specifically the people of the UK. The Labour party retreated from it's own people centric core values and essentially rejected those people to the rapine results of ultra Neo Con economics.
The electorate are the living, breathing heart of every state and by walking away from them you betray them. Labour adopted the London centric, Neo Conservative economies of division. That to me indicates a deep hatred of the UK. Her pal Murphy is equally wrong;
http://whitefeatherclub.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/jim-murphy-is-an-ostrich/
Famous15 says:
BBC at 8.30am repeating Jackie Bailley's vile sound bite that Alicsammin hates the UK.
I am so glad I no longer pay for the BBC.(my neighbour plays his radio sooo loud,wee smiley thing)
Taysideterrier says:
Coburn is an extreme liability for the no campaign and everyone knows it.
I agree with the comments earlier that he will be completely ignored by the MSM and i think farage will be told to keep out of the debate as well.
Mind you, saying that, the media could push for a farage/salmond debate because they would love to frame the two as the outlying, on the fringe buffoons. (Tar the SNP with the same brush as ukip ect) think torrence has already went there?
Torrance!
Someone in BTUKOK must be getting patted on the head this morning.
How would anyone even begin to get the statement 'Alex Salmond hates the UK' in the main news bulletin on national airwaves at peak listening time? The presenter can't just come out and say it, so it has to be done in the form of a quote. And there's the rub – you would need a truly shameless desperado to repeat such guff to order…
Anyone else think that the latest narrative from the msm/BBC is an anti-English one. "English voters may hold key to referendum" "3 1/4 of immigrants are white English" BBC sponsoring the rise in Scotland of UKIP and just this morning on Good Morning Scotland at 0801 they played Fe Fi Fo Fum, I smell the blood of an English man".
I'm offended, if that was me in England and this kind of narrative was pushed I'd be a bit worried and offended. Complaint going in!
Training Day says:
Of course when Unionists like Fraser (and David Torrance, much beloved of Newsnet Scotland, on GMS this morning) say that there is 'no difference' between England and Scotland what they really mean is that there's therefore no reason for Scotland to exist at all.
gerry parker says:
The UKIP result pissed me off to such an extent I went out and delivered another 200 Yes papers last night. Was dying for a pro unionist encounter but didn't meet a soul.
Well, now that I think about it, it was Saturday evening, and most people were out imbibing.
Watched the Lanark live stream. No got trounced.
Fergus Green
I can't see the poll you are talking about in the Courier.
Do you have a direct link to the poll. TA!
the statement 'Alex Salmond hates the UK'
Did someone actually say that? I did see and hear Darling, in front of the Scottish Economic Committee say to SNP's Biagi the SNP hates Labour, but that's typical of his thinking on all democratic issues affecting us. By what criteria does Salmond hate the UK? Opposition to Scotland's ambitions is getting really shrill.
Helena Brown says:
@Grouse Beater, the opposition to Scotland's ambitions are ignored furth of Scotland. The media down south are completely involved in their own concerns only mouthing off when someone reminds them to. I do think that Murdo's wee remark may work to our advantage as how many Scots do you know who like being said to be just like the "English".
I have never heard Alex Salmond say at any time he hates anyone. I have heard it from the opposition all the time how much they hate the SNP and alicsammin, well he is the devil incarnate.
Gerry parker
I'LL be doing likewise tonight Gerry. Another 250 newspapers will be dropping through letterboxes tonight.
This little UKIP setback will now be turned on it's head and used as another reason to get out of this rotten union.
That's all true, Helena.
Like others, I find Ukip's rise on the back of exteme prejudices disturbing. But voter apathy is a key element in such candidates getting elected. Folk think European politics of less importance than domestic problems – Ukip encourage that outlook – hence voters sacrifice one for the other no matter the cost to integrity and honesty.
yerkitbreeks says:
Yes, Jackie baillie's comment stood out this morning.
Viv a vis the post, I think the gap would have been wider if UKIPs soon to be Shadow Chancellor had lined up with the other three.
Ian Brotherhood
Aye Ian, it's Paul Sinclair, Johann Lamont's puppet master.
David Harvey is always relevant and might help shed a little light on what the future might hold for a society dominated by the financial sector.
A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhzkBRyhjlc&list=PL34DCA397A00E6144&index=4
Arithmetically flawed. 2009, UK more than three times Scotland, 2014, less than three times Scotland. I'm a Yes supporter, but there's no denying the gap is narrowing.
Well, racism has stopped the career of many a smart politician, but Coburn is the least able of any politician I have ever encountered. He'd be welcomed by the Tea Party.
I enjoyed his inability to articulate a single Ukip policy other than to say, by way of a croaky voice, "70% of Europe's immigrants" are heading our way.
ronnie anderson says:
Rev, Im having problems getting into Of Topic ( continues loading )
Flower of Scotland says:
O/t
The vote in the courier is now 46% yes to 19% no . Would the result in the Euro election make you vote more for Independence or against.
It's underneath Lochgelly, Cowdenbeath both say YES! Made my morning!( sorry I can't do links )
We are Better Together but not with anybody of European stock?
Alex and Nigel debating Scottish independence would sideline the whole of the No campaign leaders. Think of what people would feel about David Cameron, think of linking UKIP to No – and linking them to the next Westminster government/coilition, think of how David Cameron would feel having to sit back and watch a debate taking place that he has refused to take on. Think of how pleased Nigel would think himself at getting important air time.
The idea has its merits.
Craig Brown says:
The people from other countries in the EU that are resident here are able to vote on Sept 18th. Will they vote to remain in the UK and risk being thrown out of the country or will they vote for Scotland, a country that WANTS them here? Yes, the BBC has promoted Ukip so much they now have a seat in Scotland but from their own personal experience they will know they are valued as part of Scotland.
Robert Louis says:
Not sure what you are saying there, a bit abstract.
The poll is in the right hand column not very far from the top.
X_Sticks says:
@John King et al
I heard the bbc Baillie quote "alicsammin hates the UK" quote as well – it was on both TV and radio. Baillie and the beeb should be asked to back up this quote with substance. It doesn't exist. Typical bbc north british branch spin. Good message from Alex? Bookend it with piece of nastiness from the BT mob to taint the message.
PS – tweeted the Courier poll – thanks for the heads up.
@ Grouse Beater 08:15
re English Xenophobia
The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
Journeys to England and Ireland (1835)
OT – Also in the Courier:
A public discussion on the Scottish referendum organised by Yes Kirkcaldy is to be filmed by Al Jazeera, the Arabic TV channel.
Royal United Services Institute reports that the UK has spent £34 Billion on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and branded them as "strategic failures".
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/04/24/359858/military-operations-cost-uk-billions/
Les Wilson says:
I am concerned that Coburn will make such an arse of himself on behalf of Scotland in the EU, that he will drag down the whole Scots effort.
Which of course may be his sole purpose for being!
That £34 billions was only the variable cost, and not the cost of having all the equipment bought and the cost of the troops wages. The logic is that these fixed costs would have been necessary whether we had fought the wars or not.
I reckon that makes Scotland's saving would have been £3 billions plus.
Re the bbc – remember the new newsnicht with Sarah Smith starts tonight. I will be watching with interest to see if her union underwear will be on show 😉
Papadox says:
When will people understand EBC is a arm of government (UK). The YES campaign can contact the EBC/MSM till they are blue in the face but EBC does not have to broadcast it. EBC is a propaganda organ of the state. They are neither fare or honest and ar'nt ment to be they will not change so don't be surprised at anything they say. They are just part (a big part) of the corrupt Westminster propaganda machine. Lies damned lies and bile that is their stock in trade.
English Xenophobia
I remember a comment from a French actor, one who could never understand English jokes, preferring French wit instead. His English pal's hat blew off his head and disappeared over a hedge.
His friend said, "Hell, I've lost my bloody hat. Oh well, nevermind. At least I've kept my head."
His French companion replied, "Ah, so zat eez Eenglish humour. Now I understand."
Grouse Beater
You going to the Counting House in Glasgow this Friday?
Bugger (the Panda)
You can buy an awful lot of school books for £3 Billion.
FFS, every time UK expenditure is looked into, there are £Billions of pounds to be saved in EVERY department. So much waste and overspend within UK. Scotland is getting ripped off left right and centre.
Clootie says:
I'm still down after the election. Not because I fear any impact on the YES vote. Not because of any value to BT in this vote.
It is far more basic – I cannot believe my fellow Scots would align with such an openly racist party.
140,000 people living in Scotland listened to that poison being spewed out night after night and thought "just what we need".
I don't care if it was a protest vote. In fact I respect a protest vote if you retain your thinking process i.e. The Greens would have made the perfect choice for a 6th MEP
I hope those UKIP voters reflect long and hard on what they have announced to the world as their values.
It will have no impact on the referendum outcome but it will leave a stain on Scotland in that enough of us(Scots) voted to put a bigot in Europe as our representative.
Papadox 9.48am
SURELY the SNP press office have a direct line right into Pacific Quay to arrange interviews with the FM or other Scottish Government ministers.
Now can this same press officer not get in touch with BBC Scotland and tell them that the story they are running is a complete and utter lie and must be withdrawn immediately.
X Sticks
the new newsnicht with Sarah Smith starts tonight.
I don't know about you but I am not impressed with the jokey nature of the trailer; exactly what is to be the tone of the programme, or is it the Sarah Smith Show?: Sarah gets her make up applied, Sarah walks down a corridor, Sarah smiles, Sarah goes to the …"
Personality presenters seem inappropriate on the occasion of an historic plebiscite.
@Tom Steele
That came third in a list I constructed yesterday of reasons why some non homophobic or non xenophobic people might vote for UKIP, but for some reason it wouldn't post on Wings.
Re Ian Brotherhood
I'd be careful with that acronym BTUKOK in case of a typo 🙂
I think we must also recognise the possibility that some who voted for UKIP came from both the Yes and No camps who would rather see Britain/Scotland out of the EU and used this opportunity as a protest vote
It's difficult for me to accept that any thinking person would vote for Ukip even as a protest vote. We appear to have reached the stage where folk vote for Hitler because he builds such great autobahns. Control of our nation's affairs can't come soon enough, as far as I am concerned.
Last occasion I assumed it the one in Edinburgh, near the uni – d'oh! Don't think I can make it though I'd like to say hello to all.
By the way are Blair McDougall and David Coburn related in any way? They look awfully similar.
Clootie
Cheer up. Just think how funny it will be once Scotland votes Yes. No more UK to become independent of the EU. And how funny will it be for Coburn to defend unionism at the same time as campaigning for independence. What party will he be representing? I'm not sure if UKIP strategists have thought this one through fully. 🙂
@caz-m says: 10:04 am
Who are you going to complain to if they do nothing? MSM/HMG/UN? I agree with your sentiment but it ain't going to happen.
I got that a bit muddled but I hope you get the drift.
@Giving Goose –
Indeed, the casual deployment of acronyms is a dangerous game – in this case, a game of two halves (and we all know what two halves make). Of one thing we can be sure – Alistair Darling is at the centre of it all.
@MajorBloodnok –
They've never been spotted together. One way to distinguish between them would be to find out what instrument Coburn plays. Looks to me like a comb and Izal man….brrooowwooot!
I agree. But then not everyone is a 'thinking person'.
I reckoned the top reason for those who don't hold with UKIP's more repugnant views but who still voted for them to 'send a message' is likely to have been those who would seek to damage the indy campaign by stopping the SNP getting that third seat.
I reckoned second place would probably be those doing so to give the main Westminster parties a kicking. BTW I think (and hope) a lot of UKIP support in England was for that reason as well.
@Clootie
Don't let it get you down Clootie. Bear in mind it is 140k sphincters out of 5.5million, so hardly a spit in the ocean. Unless we resorted to ukip policies we'll always have some sphincters in the country and maybe we need some to remind the rest of us how to be civilised 😉
@Grouse Beater
Yeah, I know what you mean, and I do not have high hopes about the new format or presenters. I will reserve judgement until I've seen for myself. Sarah was good on C4, but then the news was London/international. Whether she can overcome her establishment upbringing (dyed in the wool establishment) and give a fair crack of the whip remains to be seen. I kinda doubt it though. I suspect she, like Naughtie, has been brought in to 'do a job'.
Robert Kerr says:
Yes acronyms can be traps for the unwary.
When I was a student the Tories had to change the name of their student umbrella body from "Federation Of Conservative and Unionist Associations" if my memory holds.
Alistair Darling is at the centre of it all.
Labour MP Hamilton, creator of the 40% devolution rule, electorate dead or alive, disappeared from public view once his anti-democratic ruse won the day for those who wish Scotland kept docile. One wonders where Darling will scuttle to after the Referendum.
@Major
Mark Coburn just cycled 1500 miles to raise money for the Yes campaign, the other one looks like he would struggle to cycle 1500 feet.
@Ian Brotherhood
You're right, but to my mind David Coburn has the look of a flugelhorn player, whatever that is.
However, apparently there is a hybrid instrument called a fluba, which I have just learned of, although its genesis in this context is too distressing to contemplate.
Duggie says:
"In the 2009 European elections, UKIP got 16.5% of the vote in the UK as a whole, and 5.2% in Scotland – a gap of 11.3%. In this year's election the tallies were 27.5% in the UK and 10.5% in Scotland – a gap of 17%"
Or, alternatively, you could say that the Ukip vote in Scotland has increased by 50%, whereas in the UK as a whole its only gone up by 40%.
And Scotland is (currently) still part of the UK, so you can't really compare Scotland's percentages to the UK's percentages, since the former are included in the latter.
Surely you should be comparing Scotland's percentages to England's?
"In other words, despite all the bluster from Unionists about how Scotland can no longer claim to be different to the rest of the UK in terms of supporting Nigel Farage's party"
The fact that more Scots voted for right wing parties than voted for the SNP certainly puts to bed any claims that Scotland is uniquely left wing and doesn't 'do' right wing.
is likely to have been those who would seek to damage the indy campaign by stopping the SNP getting that third seat.
Could well be right, I hope so – I need something to wash the bad taste from my mouth!
The irony is, it was the Tory's (a different sort from the unreconstructed Thatcherites we know) that first agreed upon Home Rule as appropriate for Scotland, although many Scots thought the conditions attached inferior to that offered to Ireland.
And it was Gladstone, a Liberal PM, who supported the Bill, ultimately defeated by the UK parliament.
In the next few months up to the September vote, we are going to have UKIP and the SNP linked in the same phrase – a la Mags 'furriners' Curren.
The BBC/Brit establishment will now turn against Farage – after al they made him, as his job is now done – all parties will move to the right.
We are going to have more of 'it's the English voters which hold the balance in the indy ref vote', in order to turn us against each other.
It works easily, only the other day, the Green and SNP voters were blaming each other for letting in UKIP.
We must keep the heid – don't let them divide us, it's what they want.
BTW, I despise Labour, Scottish branch.
GrahamB says:
The Labour MP was George Cunningham, don't know if he devised the 40% rule or just had that bit of the legislation pushed through in his name Whatever, it was the complete Labour Government who passed it and are therefore collectively guilty.
Cunningham fairly soon after left to join the LibDems or SDP or whatever incarnation it called itself then. He disappeared into nonentity after that.
Duggie
The rUK's 2009 percentage support for UKIP, must have been higher than the UK's 16.5%, as this average will have been lowered with the inclusion of Scotland's low 5.2% support. No?
If you wish to contribute sensibly to this site you had better sharpen up as only 27.6% of the vote in Scotland went to right wing parties (and I doubt if the 10.4 who voted UKIP are all right wingers)
Duggie says: "The fact that more Scots voted for right wing parties than voted for the SNP certainly puts to bed any claims that Scotland is uniquely left wing and doesn't 'do' right wing."
SNP 29.0%
Lab 25.9%
Green 8.1%
LD 7.1%
Tories 17.2%
UKIP 10.5%
Others 2.3%
Duggie, I suppose your assertion holds if you count Labour, the Scottish Greens and the Lib-Dems as right wing parties.
(my numbers came from Wiki – there may be rounding issues).
And I should have added that over 50% of the vote in England went to right wing parties which represents as chasm of difference
In the event of a Yes vote and considering the costly "UK brand" implications, I believe what remains of the UK should continue to be called the "UK".
It's full name will be the Untied Kingdom.
Now, I just need to find a firm that specialises in country re-branding.
@ Liz, I have to say that as someone who does not have a twitter account nor Facebook, the one thing people should be careful of is someone suggesting you do something without thinking through the consequences. I noticed a few people here talking about voting Green in order to keep out Ukip, surely a moments thought should have persuaded them to think how that would work.
You are right though, we need to keep the heid and keep focused. We must not be divided or we are conquered and that is what the Establishment in Britain wants. Neither Farage or Salmond is on the paper in September it is Scotland or Greater Englandshire, the people have to choose.
seanair says:
O/T but hope you don't mind Rev Stu.
For those having trouble connecting to Derek Bateman's blogsite try this. Go to the Bella Caledonia site and scroll down the right-hand side, where you will find a link to DB. Now showing a piece from yesterday, complete wth comments, but don't know if it will continue.
WOS still the best RevStu, don't know how you do it!
pmcrek says:
Comparing the entire right wing vote to the SNP vote is cherry picking, UKIP + Tory + BNP + B1st got 29% of the vote in Scotland.
Higher than I would like I'll grant you but the political consensus in Scotland is still center left by miles.
Duggie,
For comparison rUK minus Scotland, the Tory + UKIP vote was 54%.
Duggie says: Or, alternatively, you could say that the Ukip vote in Scotland has increased by 50%, whereas in the UK as a whole its only gone up by 40%.
By that logic, if UKIP's share went from 1% to 2% you'd be hailing it as a remarkable 100% increase.
'Or, alternatively, you could say that the Ukip vote in Scotland has increased by 50%, whereas in the UK as a whole its only gone up by 40%."
You could say that, but it would be totally meaningless as you don't get elected based on how much your vote's gone up, you get elected based on how much of the total vote you get. And you'd probably find that as such, people would question your motives for saying it.
I see the Courier referendum poll dissapeared very quickly 😀
John Beattie show asking incomers to Scotland how the referendum is affecting them and something about the Sarah Smith show too.
crisiscult says:
A lot of commentators obsessing over the differences, or lack of differences between Scotland and rUK. Can't be bothered doing the calculation but could we say that when you add new Labour votes to Tory and LibDem votes, we can say that generally Scotland votes Neo liberal/Right wing economically?
Specious commentary like that is surely just a wind up. My interest is not so much where we are right now, politically, but where we are going. How different is Scotland to England, Germany, South Korea, or anywhere else in terms of voting preference, I don't really care that much. Do I want Scotland to vote like England, or should I say, certain parts of England, in 10 years time? Eh, no.
So looking forward to the next BT photo op.
Ali, Ruthie, Johann, Willie and Nige.
Oh dang. 😀
As I suggested yesterday the destruction in the media of David Coburn as the political fanny he very obviously is has started already.
He has served his purpose in preventing the SNP or the Greens getting the third Scottish MEP and is now expendable.
Unintended consequence however is already very obviously in full flow and the establishment which colluded in UKIP promotion into Scotland are about to find out how their behaviour has contributed to a new determination by many Scots to vote YES in September.
crisiscult,
To be fair to Lib Dems and Labour almost every party and country in Europe including the SNP, support a capitalist economic model.
@Dave McEwan Hill
Regarding your latter point I spoke to an English left-leaning northern-solidarity definite NO colleague this morning and asked him (jocularly) whether he had been brooding over UKIP's gains.
He immediately told me that he was seriously contemplating YES now (as a least worst option) because he knew fine well that Scottish votes don't make any difference to the complexion of the UK government.
The penny is dropping…
Cymru Rydd says:
This a shame-faced Welshman's explanation for the 14% rise in UKIP's vote in Wales.
1. The main reason has to be the fact that the vast majority here consume media produced in England, and that people have been force-fed a UKIP diet for weeks on end. I know that the bias shown against Scottish independence in the media in a Scotland is a constant refrain on this site-but at least you have got a nominally "Scottish" media in place! The lack of a proper Welsh media( we only have one "national" daily paper, The Western Mail, with sales at around 25,000) is one of the main problems facing our Welsh democracy at present. People here don't actually know what is really going on in Wales, and without that level of involvement in Welsh affairs, people are easy prey for UKIP propaganda from English papers such as the Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express etc.
2. We also have to face up to the elephant in the room- that 25% of the people in Wales were actually born in England. With the Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dems signed up for the devolution project, along with Plaid Cymru of course,it could be argued that UKIP are now providing a natural home for people who really want no truck with Wales at all, and who are still primarily attached to England. It seems to me that this group is growing in political confidence- even though Wales has had its own form of self-government for 15 years. It's one reason that nationalists in Wales are maybe more concerned about immigration than our counterparts in Scotland. For example, people from England moving to Welsh-speaking areas and making no attempt to learn Welsh has also led to a significant fall in the percentages of Welsh-speakers in such areas over the past 30/40 years.
3. Labour's poor governance in Wales is another reason, with people also voting UKIP to register their dissatisfaction with Labour's record on health, education and the economy here. Labour seem content to run Wales as their own fiefdom- secure in the belief that they can not really be voted out, unless all the other parties get together in an unlikely coalition. This has led to a massive sense of complacency and worthiness, which is totally at odds with the real situation in our communities.
4.A poor performance by Plaid Cymru( losing 15,000 votes from 2009), even though the European seat was retained. Yes, of course Plaid had a huge problem getting its message across compared to the megaphone media attention given to UKIP. But, it was an uninspirational campaign, which did not really stand out in any way. No effort was made for example to link Wales with Scotland, and the revitalized grass-roots political awareness which the referendum campaign has sparked off in Scotland. That could have made Plaid's campaign more distinctive and given people a sense that things could be different here in Wales as well.
It would seem to me that UKIP are going to be a force in Welsh politics for some time to come. The only consolation for nationalists is that they are now likely to challenge Labour in some of their heartlands as well, making it more possible for Plaid Cymru to win such three-way constituencies.
Greannach says:
Not at all fair to claim Jackie Baillie doesn't like people. She seems to mix very happily with the Cowal Conservative Ladies' Lunch Club where she was recently guest speakers. Very at home amongst like-minded people.
Grahame says:
I'm noticing a lot of people jumping off the fence to YES now as a result of the UKIP result, on my Facebook, in my work and among my friends, perhaps the best thing that has happened to the YES campaign.
on another note :
I'm taking the YES advert trailer out this afternoon to Stirling – i'm doing a reconnaissance mission of the Albert Halls, if anyone is in the vicinity please come out and see me.
please donate to the YES Scotland Advert Trailer Fundraiser
Thing about Coburn is he says the same stuff that Scottish Conservative voters say all the time, hate Salmond, ballly windmils ruining Scotland, cybernazi blighters, outrageous EU rules killing business, Scotland too poor and so on. I hear Coburn's schtick ll the time up here in Aberdeen from wealthy old Conservatives and that's why UKIP are here. UKIP are not daft and a lot of very vocal wealthy English people retire to Scotland with all that Thatcher/UKIP fun and games throbbing away between their ears.
@ Dave McEwan Hill
I know you live in Dunoonish but I fancy having a drink with you at the Counting House in St Vincent Place on Friday Night.
I am a guy, btw, so don't panic.
Tomorrow's Cardonald livestream has been postponed. Bummer.
@Cymru Rydd
No need for apologies my friend, I think most of us here are well aware of what you are up against in Wales.
We are still in shock at ukip getting a seat here in Scotland, but are hoping that it will ultimately help the Yes cause.
I think if we can get a Yes vote in Scotland it will hopefully galvanise the Welsh to move in the same direction. Many of us here will have more time and resources to join with you (at least online) to help your cause after September.
Good to get a view from the ground from you. Onward and upward!
I know how over the moon we all are with UKIP winning their first seat in Scotland. Well folks, our new UKIP M.E.P. has spoken. He has issued a statement concerning our need for immigration here in Scotland and here it is. ;P
http://tinyurl.com/na58ykf
Noticed a couple of claims on recent threads that the Greens needed less votes to stop UKIP than the SNP, a minor point, but I don't think that is right.
By my reckoning the SNP (being 10,700 short of beating UKIP) would have required a top vote 32,100 more than they got, where as the Greens needed 32,230.
Apologies if this has already been pointed out.
@Lesley-Anne
Oh dear, Coburn appears to have been monstered by the Edinburgh Evening News.
alexicon says:
I like many others have posted, in total, hundreds of thousands of YES newspapers over the last year and has it done much?
I'm not saying give up, or they're no use, what I'm saying is the message they're carrying working?
I've been a bit frustrated of late delivering the YES newspapers with the oh so positive message on them, it's about time some of the articles had a bit more negative and fear content in them.
Give them the scarestory headlines just at the right time. It seems to work for the no camp somewhat.
Time we came out fighting a bit.
Aye Major, the poor wee fella never even saw it coming. 😛
I wonder what his next *ahem* announcement will be about. 😉
scottish_skier says:
@Lesley-Anne, Major
Looks like it could be rather fun having our own wee Skipper.
You know that wee question I asked in my last post Major, well you can forget trying to answer it cause our Nige's representative in Scotland has already answered that question, the drug fuelled homophobic idiot that he is!
http://tinyurl.com/ojj4zzc
alexicon says: I agree what we need is a bit of scaremongering, well more like telling people what they are actually doing when they vote NO. Better Together are all for telling them what Independence will mean, though like everyone else they do not have a crystal ball but we can see the picture on the horizon if there is a No vote and it isn't nice.
Yes, another thumbs up in the work this morning. Directly citing the Euro results and the thought of a very blue and purple 2015 as the deciding factor. 🙂
Who knew? 😀
I wonder what size the largest THANK YOU card is. I'm only pondering this cause I'm sure we'd all love to sign it on the 19th of September before we send it off to Brussels addressed to a certain Mr Farage. 😛
Damn I forgot to add that I hope we can send it FREE POST to Brussels. 😛
KOF says:
Major Bloodnok 10:58 says
Well, the Greens aren't certainly and the SNP is a slightly left of centre party, but considering this then he may be right.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/ukparties2010
Just because a voter thinks a party may be "left wing" doesn't make it true.
That you winding up our new ukip toy on twitter – lol 😀
You're a very naughty girl, but I like it!
@alexicon.
I was a wee bit disappointed with this issue too, thought it would have more meat in it. I've been slipping in "Aye Right" cards that Patrician gave me.
One more issue before the referendum, I hope they can make it a goodie.
Who…ME…wind someone up…anyone up…even our utterly fantastic UKIP M.E.P. …NAH think you've got me confused with some one else X Sticks. 😉
call me dave says:
Here is that information in Courier.
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/politics/courier-roadshow-finds-resounding-support-for-yes-in-lochgelly-and-cardenden-1.390328
I don't think some people in Scotland quite got the message on Sunday night. We are better together, our Nige says it is so so it must be so! Looks like the message hasn't reached the Scottish Borders Council yet thank goodness. 😉
http://tinyurl.com/pmvx8df
@ pmcrek
Hi. I was thinking more of the Milton Friedman type model that the Tories since the 80s and Labour since the 90s have subscribed to. If political compass have it right, then the Greens and SNP are the only mainstream parties (are Scottish socialists mainstream?) left of centre.
Whether people on this website agree with that or not, I would think they will agree that this obsession of the media with trying to gain traction with listeners/readers that Scotland is not different from rUK is pretty meaningless, unless the message they want us to accept is that we shouldn't be so narcissistic in thinking that somehow we can get better than what we're currently getting. In other words, belt up Jocks, you're going down with the rest of us, so just accept that it's actually what you want anyway.
Debbiethebruce says:
Im pretty depressed by the UKIP result in Scotland,however im out canvassing on thursday and im sure the result will be mentioned on the doorstep.
My English friend,who has been in scotland 2 years, told me last week she is a NO "and you wont change me either".But she is also anti UKIP , and was worried they would do really well in Euro elections.
I think I might work on her a bit now!
The Borders coming out for YES. YES, there is hope for us all. Well done Mr David Parker.
Peebleshire close to a lot of hearts. Impressive.
manandboy says:
Nigel Farage.
Member of the EU Fisheries Committee for 3 years.
The Committee had 42 meetings in that period.
Nigel Farage attended 1 – that's one, out of forty two.
Well, you can't really blame him – Nigel's more of a pie 'n a pint man. Probably doesn't like fish.
By the way. Nigel draws £78,000 p.a. as an MEP.
http://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/ukip-fish-and-ivory-voting-record.html
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/eu-elections-what-moneyed-meps-get-salary-expenses-1449492
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/may/24/mps-expenses-ukip-nigel-farage
During a debate about Europe at the Foreign Press Association, Farage was asked what he had received in non-salary expenses and allowances since becoming an MEP in 1999.
"It is a vast sum," Farage said. "I don't know what the total amount is but – oh lor – it must be pushing £2 million."
Farage insisted that he had not "pocketed" the money but had used the "very large sum of European taxpayers' money" to help promote Ukip's message that the UK should get out of the EU.
2 million quid in expenses in ten years – to help promote the UKIP message that the UK should get out of the EU.
To the 140,534 people in Scotland who voted for UKIP, I hope you don't make the same choice again.
To Scotland's voters in the Referendum –
Buy a ticket for the YES to Independence train.
Tear up your ticket for the Tory, Labour,
Lib Dem, UKIP Gravy train.
David Coburn,
of uncertain address,
with very limited abilities
but shed loads of attitude,
has lived in London for 20years,
stands for UKIP in the Scottish EU elections,
gets 140,534 votes,
is now a voice for Scotland
in the European Parliament,
on an annual salary of £73,000
plus pension,
plus annual expenses of anything around £200,000.
This is an alarm bell.
Vote Yes.
UKIP have had an easy ride. They cream the EU for expenses and absolutely no work. That and their propensity to say outrageous, inaccurate and offensive things will ensure that the Scottish media will have a ready made (and not inconsiderable) target in Coburn.
It will be entertaining watching Murdo and Anas and Severin defend their poster boy.
Andy-B says:
A very good point by Roger Scully, showing that the gap has actually grown. Though to look at the front page of the Express, you'd have thought Nigel Farage, was a certainty to become the next FM of Scotland.
http://www.express.co.uk/scotland
What a lying conniving little shit rag the Express newspaper has become.
Annie Lennox pictured with the Union flag, make of it what you will.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/478402/Cybernats-go-for-Annie-Lennox-over-Union-flag-photo
Phil Robertson says:
Given that you regularly criticise others for a cavalier use of statistics, you should be careful with figures. Frankly your statistics are mince.
The ratio of UK:Scottish votes for UKIP was about 3.2 in the last election. It was about 2.5 last week. So the gap has narrowed.
I await the retraction.
Sorry I forgot to add that we are all under the misconception that pro Independent websites will answer all our prayers. They help, but the sooner we all realise they won't do it all the better.
Too many people, including the YES campaign, are resting on their laurels in this respect and there's no use anyone moaning about unionist corruption, lying leaflets etc. after the effect, the job will have been done. whereas we all should have been out there countering these tactics before they take place. Strike first.
I hope this is a wake up call for many, especially the YES campaign leaders.
@Phil Robertson – link please..
Phyl says:
It still looks pretty different to me – even on the BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27576104
I found this info-graphic quite informative.
https://infogr.am/scottish-eu-election-results-by-population?src=web
Paula Rose says:
Phil Robertson darling, what exactly is the point you are trying to make? Is it that Scotland has a few gullible people?
Kestral says:
Oh look thankfully I have run out of my twenty free reads of the telegraph
I so refuse to pay a subscription to the paper that might result in 1p of my money paying the wage of this man
So I won't be able to read the rabid foaming ranting drivel of Alan Cochrane
Petulant Nats cant face up to their role in boosting Ukip
But there's an idea of what the article contains – probably just as well for my blood pressure that I can't read it 🙂
I do think we really ought to have more police patrolling Alex's area, that man is exhibiting hatred bordering on deranged
Croompenstein – there is no link, the figures are all in the post at the top of the page.
It states "the degree of difference has substantially increased, by a whopping 55%" trying to make the point that support for UKIP in Scotland has become relatively less last week when compared with the previous Euro election.
If you do the arithmetic properly, the figures used Rev Campbell indicate the opposite. Relative support for UKIP has, in fact, increased.
The point (Paula Rose) is you should not claim something when even your own statistics indicate the opposite. It's got something to do with honesty.
Oh I see – you agree that the difference has substantially increased, but not by as much as 55%. I'm sure someone will be along soon to explain it to us non-statisticians.
Oh I see – you agree that the difference has substantially increased, but not by as much as 55%"
No, the difference has substantially decreased. The final sentence summarising the post is wrong.
"Substantially decreased"? Please see my previous post.
Phil darling – a 17% difference seems to me to be substantially more than 11.3%, wouldn't you agree?
Oor Wullie says:
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
Numbers are easily twisted any way you want when you start using percentages and making spurious comparisons.
The UKIP vote in Scotland is up by 102% – in the UK it's up by "just" 67%.
This really was a pointless post Rev – just one more example of you, erm, "preaching" to the converted.
Spin it any way you want but UKIP's popularity in Scotland has more than doubled, despite Mr Salmond's boast that the SNP would freeze UKIP out of Scottish politics (and the SNP would have 3 MEPs).
Sad, very sad indeed. But true nonetheless.
Erm, real maths shows that in 2009, 31.5% of UKIP voters were Scottish. And this year, 38.1% of UKIP voters were Scottish. And whilst I'm doing GCSE maths even the stated 55% is 10% too high (or 5%, whichever proves your point better since most people don't understand maths anyway). You'd be in uproar if statistics this bad were on a pro unionist website.
If you're going to troll, at least troll on stuff that hasn't already been answered in the thread, eh?
You get seats based on your share of the vote, not on how much you increased your OWN vote by. Otherwise you could get a single vote one year, then get five votes the next year and be guaranteed a seat because you'd gone up 400%.
Comparing how much UKIP's vote, as opposed to vote SHARE, increased is just idiotic. We don't have much tolerance for idiots around here, so mind how you go.
"Erm, real maths shows that in 2009, 31.5% of UKIP voters were Scottish. And this year, 38.1% of UKIP voters were Scottish."
Eh? Don't talk such utter pish.
2014 UKIP VOTES
UK – 4,352,051
Scotland – 140,534
140,000 isn't 38% of 4.3 million, you ridiculous arse. It's 3.2%.
"If you wish to contribute sensibly to this site you had better sharpen up as only 27.6% of the vote in Scotland went to right wing parties"
You missed out the 2.3% who voted for the BNP, No2EU, and 'Britain First' (I'm assuming the latter are right wing).
In total, including the Tories and Ukip, that makes 30% of the vote for right wing parties – which is more than voted for the SNP.
Duggie – your point is?
Come on Duggie the SNP polled the highest number of votes and this after seven (yes seven) years in Government, absolutely phenomenal result and I'm sure you will give credit where it's due 😀
My point is it is a fantasy that Scotland is uniquely different from the rest of the UK in regards to voting for right wing parties and its attitudes towards the UK.
It certainly is less eurosceptic and less right wing than other areas of the UK, but certainly not to any great extent.
Of course its obvious why the SNP like to portray Scotland as being a nation of EU lovers – because they think that somehow justifies their plan to force Scotland to become an EU member after a yes vote without giving the people of Scotland our democratic sovereign right to have a say on that issue.
"Come on Duggie the SNP polled the highest number of votes and this after seven (yes seven) years in Government, absolutely phenomenal result and I'm sure you will give credit where it's due"
Indeed. The SNP have done very well to keep getting people to vote for them.
By comparison, after 7 years in power in the UK, Labour got 22.6% of the UK vote in the 2004 European elections, so the SNP's 28.9% certainly compares well.
Duggie dear – I think you'd better get your act together and do some homework, I suggest the 'New readers start here' page might be a good place to start, otherwise you are going to look very silly and we don't want that do we?
"You could say that, but it would be totally meaningless as you don't get elected based on how much your vote's gone up"
My apologies. Given that you yourself are talking about how much the SNP's number of voters went up in the election over on the 'kiss of death' I thought it was okay to discuss how much other party's votes went up too.
"Duggie dear – I think you'd better get your act together and do some homework"
What do I apparently need to do some 'homework' on, in your opinion?
Duggie dear – here might be one…
Yes, we'd like to make that decision for ourselves – in Scotland, not have it decided for us – as it could be if we remain in the UK.
"Yes, we'd like to make that decision for ourselves – in Scotland, not have it decided for us"
Presumably therefore you're strongly opposed to the SNP's plan to force Scotland to become an EU member after a yes vote, despite not having a mandate to do so, and without giving the people of Scotland any opportunity whatsoever to make a decision on that issue?
Yawn – as opposed to another party's plan to force us out? When we are Independent we will democratically decide such matters for ourselves. You really are being rather silly dear.
"Yawn – as opposed to another party's plan to force us out?"
What other party is planning to force us out? Even Ukip would give us a referendum first.
I see you're yet another SNP follower who pretends to believe in democracy and the sovereignty of the Scottish people, but is quite happy to actively support your party's plans to override our democratic rights.
"When we are Independent we will democratically decide such matters for ourselves"
No we won't. The SNP are planning to force Scotland to become an EU member (and Nato member and form a currency union), before the next election, without giving us any democratic decision whatsoever, and without having a mandate to do so.
Funny isn't it – we're already in those things, when we have a GE we can elect parties according to their manifestos. Where do you get your silly ideas from?
"No we won't. The SNP are planning to force Scotland to become an EU member"
Oh FFS. We're ALREADY IN THE EU.
Oh and btw dear I'm not a member of the SNP – which party do you support?
"we're already in those things"
Scotland isn't a member of either the EU or Nato, and it isn't in a currency union with a separate state.
"when we have a GE we can elect parties according to their manifestos"
No we can't, the SNP are planning to force us into those things before the next election.
"Where do you get your silly ideas from?"
What exactly is 'silly' about the idea that the people of Scotland have a democratic sovereign right to have a say on whether we want Scotland to become an EU and Nato member and form a currency union with a separate state?
"We're ALREADY IN THE EU"
Correct. Where did I suggest otherwise?
As you're well aware, Scotland is not currently a member of the EU, it is PART of an EU member state called the UK.
Even that Irish minister whose views the SNP put such stock in last year admitted that going from being part of a member state to being a member state in our own right would result in our EU status being "somewhat different" to the status we have currently.
No one who believes in democracy and the sovereignty of the Scottish people would deny that we have a democratic right to decide whether we want Scotland to become an EU member state.
In the specific context of refuting the Times's claim that it hadn't. And that was about numbers of votes, not percentages. You're really starting to try my patience.
Lets cut to the chase. Do you think Scotland is a country and do you think countries should govern themselves?
Here's some factual stuff for you to digest Duggie…
http://www.bbc.scotlandshire.co.uk/index.php/city-news/739-fury-in-u-kok-hq-as-treasury-sabotages-the-union-and-does-it-deliberately.html
"Do you think Scotland is a country and do you think countries should govern themselves?"
Yes and yes, which is why I support independence.
As you'll see from my previous comments, I also support democracy and the sovereignty of the Scottish people, which is why I don't support the SNP's plan to override our democratic rights and force us into EU/Nato membership and a currency union after a yes vote, without giving us a say and despite not having a mandate to do so.
Rather a rude response Rev surely? Why didn't you just delete my post if you felt so strongly about it. It's your blog after all?
Sorry if you felt I was trolling but I was just pointing out what I believed to be the pointlessness of your post. It seems I'm not entitled to an opinion?
How about I put it in simple terms for you?
Compare last time – no UKIP MEPs from Scotland – with this time – one UKIP MEP from Scotland. Get it now?
There you go – hopefully you'll be able to understand that without taking a hairy LOL
I feel you're actually doing good work with your arguments for the "yes" campaign – just that this particular post was a bit pointless.
Apologies if I touched a nerve enough for you to accuse me of trolling – I suppose, judging from all the other congratulatory comments on here maybe I came a cross as being a bit too negative, somhhting this site doesn't really see that often but accusing me of being a troll and an idiot is a bit much don't you think?
I'm afraid that reflects rather more badly on you than it does on me.
I will continue to pop by though to see how things are going.
Lad to hear it and I did try to be careful with mt question. 😉
Glad, doh.
Duggie – campaign for an Independent Scotland and then for the party that best reflects your views on what you think is best for Scotland. That is the way things will work, we want to join the world not retreat into isolation.
I put it a bit more earthly. Which do you do first, unzip or pee? Each to their own though, so long as we get over the line. 🙂
Duggie – I feel for you.
You're facing an uphill battle on here if you try and put across any view contrary to that of the Rev and his acolytes – even if you're a supporter of the "yes" campaign.
I was accused of being a troll and an idiot and you are trying the Rev's patience.
It seems what started as a good idea (WOS) has become entrenched in self congratulatory belief of its own hype – to the detriment of the independence debate.
Maybe, just maybe though, the contributors can try and get things back on an even keel.
I look forward to more of your posts.
And to the Rev maybe just calming himself down a wee bit LOL
You're exactly wrong. I've got no time for stupid whether it's on my side or the other side. You're both officially warned.
"Apologies if I touched a nerve enough for you to accuse me of trolling"
Actually, screw the warning. That line'll do it.
Rock says:
"Yes and yes, which is why I support independence." (Duggie)
But you are voting No because you hate the SNP right?
morgan mc says:
The SNP's 389,500 votes is only 9.48% of the 4.1Million entitled to vote in Scotland's referendum.
@morgan – What is with the SNP obsession? the referendum is not about the SNP
Seems the post EU election rain has brought out all the wee bugs.
"You're both officially warned"
What am I warned for?
David Smith says:
An infestation of sympathy trolls?
Alistair says:
Explain UKIP hate to me please!
I stumbled across this site as part of my educational reading in prep for making an informed yes/no vote later this and I have a question.
There are a lot of anti UKIP comments here such as "Chic McGregor says: "It's difficult for me to accept that any thinking person would vote for Ukip" and Cindie says " couldn't believe that over 7000 people voted for UKIP. I was shocked and disgusted, I still am.
I think the rationale on why people are voting for UKIP is very very clear, even if you do not agree with it, it is no secret…. but….
Can someone explain to me in a succinct manner why UKIP policy is not aligned with a scottish Yes vote?
And, probably linked, is the YES vote toally aligned with staying in the EU? Or is there an argument for a YES vote, but for leaving the EU?
I'd really appreciate reading explanations for the above, not everyone is as politically savvy as this sites demographic but I'm looking to wise-up before voting 🙂
And, probably linked, is the YES vote totally aligned with staying in the EU? Or is there an argument for a YES vote, but for leaving the EU?"
The two things aren't inherently linked. It's perfectly possible and legitimate to want an independent Scotland to leave the EU. People's antipathy towards UKIP is based on their attitudes to immigration and a host of other issues, but as the main party opposed to EU membership anyone holding that view tends to get associated with UKIP.
Before slagging off other people's maths you should check your own figures. The statement "the degree of difference has substantially increased, by a whopping 55%" is, on the evidence of your own figures, factually wrong. The degree of difference has narrowed significantly.
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Adventure lamb with Mark Sargeant
April 7, 2014 InterviewsFood, International foods, Interview, Lamb, Mark Sargeant, recipes, Siren FMCharlotte Reid
British food has become more than just your meat and two veg as international flavours are influencing home cooking.
Research by Simply Beef and Lamb has found that British people, especially children, are more adventurous at mealtimes.
The Michelin starred chef Mark Sargeant has been working with Simply Beef and Lamb to create some easy lamb recipes and spoke to Siren FM about the changes in our tastes.
Tagines, curries and enchiladas are just some of the international dishes that have become popular in our kitchens. Research found that parents are also making these dishes for their children, admitting that their kids are eating more exotic foods than they did at their age.
Mark encourages children to try new foods and says: "I get very excited by the prospect of my daughters growing up with a really wide and varied palate. It's very important for me to get in there at a young age and that wasn't done so much certainly when I was younger."
Being creative in the kitchen helps when it comes to being more adventurous with food. Mark says: "That's where it's so good to be relaxed in the kitchen. Understand that you've got a lovely piece of lamb and understand what goes with it and what you like and hopefully you'll end up with some really good adventurous recipes."
Mark's top tips when it comes to cooking lamb this spring are:
Quality — "Try and get really good, organic good quality lamb. That's the most important thing. If you start with good lamb then you're going to end up with a fantastic dish," he says.
Be adventurous — "If you want to keep it simple that's completely fine… but try and be a bit more adventurous." Mark mentions that the Simply Beef and Lamb website is filled with plenty of recipes and promises: "Your spring lamb will never taste as good as it has before."
You can listen to the full interview with Mark Sargeant below. This interview was originally broadcast on Siren FM.
Cooking to save lives recipe book
January 15, 2014 Food for ThoughtCharity, Charity cook book, Chocolate and Lime marble cake, Cook, Cooking to Save Lives, Food, Food for Thought, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Lives, recipesCharlotte Reid
Excitingly one of my cake recipes has been published in a local recipe book.
The Cooking to Save Lives book has been published by the Lincolnshire based first aid charity Lives. Over a couple of months they collected recipes from local restaurants, cafes and people to create this guide to the county's food.
Back in the summer Steve Hyde from Lives visited Siren FM to talk about what the charity does and to explain their project. Essentially Lives need to fundraise almost a million pounds a year to keep running and Steve thought a recipe book would be a good way to raise some money. He approached Chris Strawson, who works for local printing company DPS Printing, and he had the idea to fill the recipe book with dishes from restaurants and cafes from around the county.
You can listen to that interview on Food for Thought from last summer here.
It was after that meeting that Sam Pidoux, who regularly helps out on Food for Thought, came up with the idea to submit some of our own creations to the book. Sam came up with gluten free chocolate brownies made using beetroot as one of the ingredients so the pressure was on to come up with something good.
Usually when I am baking I will follow recipes but I couldn't submit someone else's recipe and pretend it was my own. There was one cake that I had come up with myself for my Dad's birthday. He loves those chocolate and lime sweets and I wanted to use those flavours in a cake. After some experimenting with how to use lime in cakes, I created a delicious chocolate and lime marble cake. The recipe was different and something special to me so I thought it was a good choice for the book.
In early December Lives and DPS Printing held a party at the Electric Bar in the centre of Lincoln to celebrate the launch of the book. It was my first chance to see the book and I was very impressed. It was great to see people interested in my cake and to see all the other dishes that were in the book.
You can pick up a copy of Cooking to Save Lives from a few local cafes and restaurants including Angel Coffee House, Burton Road Chippy and The Old Stables. Alternatively you can buy the book online as well on the Lives website.
Hollywood's hunger
March 25, 2013 Fun stuffBBC, Bread, Food, Great British Bake Off, Paul Hollywood, recipes, television reviewsCharlotte Reid
Paul Hollywood likes to stare. It's a wonder he manages to make any bread in between all the staring. Yet he does, and he now has his own BBC cookery show to tell us how to make bread too.
Each week Hollywood offers up a different slice of bread history and culture. In the first episode Hollywood explored the bread classics: bloomers, ploughman's and malt loaf. He occasionally flirts with meat and cake recipes, but the series is predominantly, as the title suggests, about bread.
This week his focus was on flat breads. They might be really interesting but it looks like making them will be more effort and hard work than my little kitchen could handle. He started by visiting different restaurant kitchens to learn how to make impressive looking flat breads.
It was all very educational but then Hollywood began to act like he was in his own episode of "The Generation Game" all about bread. He would see the experts doing it and then decide that he could do it better. Annoyingly Hollywood didn't end up plating up some rubbish, like Generation Game contestants normally would.
Hollywood has landed this series after showing off his baking skills on "The Great British Bake Off", playing the bad guy to Mary Berry's comforting figure. Innocently it makes sense that Hollywood, a keen and knowledgeable baker, wants to get the nation making their own bread, as he says: "I can't just be beaten by a piece of dough, it ain't going to happen."
Not so innocently, the Hollywood stare seems to have caught some people's attention. Nicknamed the 'Silver Fox' he seems to be a bit of a sex symbol. Looks aside, he does end up playing up to his reputation. He likes to get his hands messy, demonstrating how he likes to use his hand as a mixer. He also started to pound his dough roughly against the table, instead of just rolling out his flat breads. He isn't doing himself any favours.
The important test for any cookery show is does it make people want to cook. Hollywood surely knows that he has a battle on his hands. Any person watching a heavenly chocolate cake being made on the telly would surely try making it themselves? You show someone how to do meat, potatoes and veg a bit differently then someone will give it a go. But even if you show how amazing it is to make your own bread, then almost everyone will say: "That's nice but it costs about £1 in the shop."
However, he does make it look simple and that's encouraging. Make your own judgement and watch "Bread" on BBC iPlayer.
When food means more than eating
June 13, 2012 Food for ThoughtCafe@Lincs2Nepal, Food, Food for Thought, Garry Goddard, Lincoln, Lincolnshrie, Lincs2Nepal, recipes, Siren FMCharlotte Reid
I use this radio show to find out about some of the best food that Lincoln has to offer. Sometimes though the purpose of a cafe is more than to make good food but also to try and help out others. This is the message of Cafe@Lincs2Nepal and I met up with the owner Garry Goddard to find out more. Also there are some more recipes for you to try out this week.
Listen to this week's podcast below:
Cafe@Lincs2Nepal is not run for profit so everything raised goes towards helping under-priveledged people in Nepal. The cafe, which is on Burton Road in Lincoln, does seem very far away from Nepal but there is a good reason for the charitable efforts. The owner Garry Goddard spent some time in Nepal and after what he saw felt as if needed to do something to help out.
The cafe is the most recent way for Lincs2Nepal to help out the people of Nepal. There is already a small shop which sells Nepalese crafts. The cafe is also completely vegan friendly. Garry started off by talking about the recent opening of Cafe@Lincs2Nepal.
You can listen to the interview with Garry, in full, below:
This week's recipes include chicken teriyaki and toffee muffins. You can hear the recipes scattered throughout the show and find the details online.
It isn't a authentic Chinese recipe, nevertheless it is a delicious dish and only needs a few ingredients.
You can check out the recipe and a video guide here.
Toffee muffins
These muffins aren't too sweet, instead they use fudge pieces to add a nice gooey centre.
In the meantime you can listen to the show live with songs and on the radio every Wednesday at 2pm on Siren FM.
Interviewing the Greenhouse Coffee Shop
June 6, 2012 Food for ThoughtBurton Road, chocolate brownies, Food, Food for Thought, Garlic dough balls, Greenhouse Coffee Shop, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, meals, Pauline Moore, recipes, Siren FM, tomato pastaCharlotte Reid
In the second episode of Food for Thought I speak to Pauline Moore who runs the Greenhouse Coffee Shop as well as trying out how to make a three course meal that you could try for yourself at home.
Listen to this week's podcast just below:
Burton Road, which is just beyond the famous Steep Hill of Lincoln, is home to the Greenhouse Coffee Shop. Pauline Moore's cafe is a little different to what you would expect as she serves up hearty portions of curry as well as a huge variety of cheesecakes. In our conversation Pauline and I speak about what it is like to get people in Lincoln trying out different places by trying out special evenings and using Twitter.
You can listen to the interview with Pauline from the Greenhouse Coffee Shop, in full, below:
Also on the programme is some recipes for a three course meal spread out amongst the show. If you want more information then you can follow these easy recipes.
Garlic dough balls
These dough balls can be made quite easily earlier in the day and then just need to be warmed up and covered in heated garlic butter.
You can find the recipe and a video guide here
Tomato pasta
It is a really simple recipe but very yummy and can be made really quickly. And of course the meal has bacon in it which is a guaranteed success.
You can find the recipe and a video guide here.
These brownies are delicious and very chocolatey, and of course there will be plenty left over to spread across the whole week and not just one meal.
In the meantime you can listen to show every Wednesday at 2pm on Siren FM.
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How to select nodes with no children?
Is there an equivalent of //[not()]?
I realize I can do an except once I have a full set, but what I want to do is select the first task of all leaf tasks under any given project as a next action.
That means I need to be able to do this before slicing within the xpath, so set operations don't work–I need an exclusion within the xpath.
Perhaps (all nodes) except (parents of anything) ?
// We now have a list of firstborn.
Set operations should work together with slicing. You just need to use parentheses. So maybe something like to find first item with no children.
rather than the first-born of each lowest-level parent ?
Yeah, that's basically the issue. Jesse's is like the final example in the Query docs where if you put the whole expression in parens you get one next action instead of one per project. I want one per parent project.
…then I want it to pick Foo-1, Foo-A-1-a, and Foo-B-1-a. In other words, the first childless task found under each project. These would be my next actions assuming any subproject can be done in parallel with its siblings, but subtasks cannot. I use this setup a lot, coming from OmniFocus.
In Xpath I'd do this with a node predicate of no children i.e., //*[not(*)], but the bracket constructs to test for attributes/parent/child/etc aren't part of FT/TP as far as I can tell. We have attribute tests broken out into the = syntax, but no way to test for parentage.
Instead, to select nodes based on parentage you have to do something like *//*/child::*/parent::* which effectively gives you all nodes with children by dipping down and back up.
But that technique doesn't work when you're trying to select something without children at all, and I'm guessing this is a clear gap in the query syntax.
Complexpoint's script will work, but being able to select a leaf node is important enough in xpath selectors that I hope we might find a built-in solution here too for the same reasons. It's also how I would select Projects with no next actions under them for review, and a few other things like that.
Edit: fixed example tabbing, I hope.
Think that'll give you back Foo-A-2-a and Foo-B-2-a too, but I'll try them.
Yeah–looks like it did pick up the two Subtask 2-a nodes. You really do need to be able to flatten all the childless tasks under a project to make this work as part of a selector.
Anyway, not stumping for "make my scheme work, pls" so much as that the node selection syntax is somewhat incomplete by not letting you select on not having children of a given type (or at all). There's a lot of queries in which that's useful, and outside of pre-processing in a script I don't think there's actually a workaround.
The flagging as @next from a script works, I guess, but I really liked the idea of just being able to query for next actions and mark them for @today. I didn't want to have to mess around with an extra tag. Jesse's doc example was so close to that for me.
I guess this can be solved by just adding a new built in item attribute? For example I can add "@leaf" which will only be present for items without children. If that's the case does "leaf" seem like a good attribute name to everyone?
Another alternative would be to add a some sort of "count" attribute value. Child count or descendent count? Would be able to solve this problem and maybe be useful in other cases too.
Is child count less expensive than descendant count ?
I like count as an attribute better than @leaf, so long as all the usual < > type operations work on it.
One downside in making this an absolute attribute vs. a query predicate like Xpath is there'll be no way to express something like "node with no subnodes that have the @done attribute", since the "no subnodes" part isn't dynamic. I think that's why Xpath lets you put what amounts to a descendant subquery in the node selection brackets.
One possible compromise here is to make it absolute but automatically exclude @done from the count, since that's probably the one attribute nearly everybody would want to filter. That's starting to get pretty esoteric as behavior goes, but maybe it's the right esoteric?
My XPath skills are rusty and incomplete. Can you show me what the "node with no subnodes that have the @done attribute" query would look like in XPath?
Ok… I think I get what you mean now. You mean another option would be to add support for some Xpath functions such as not and count? That would be the most generic and powerful solution, at the expense of adding a new construct to TaskPaper's query language. I'm going to think about this for a bit, but think I might go in that direction.
Sorry for the late reply, but that's what I meant, yes. I'm only really as good at Xpath as Selenium expertise demands, but afaict it amounts to a lookahead query on the subtree (or lookbehind on the parent path) of the candidate node in question.
Where it differentiates from stuff we've talked about before is its ability to prune a selection traversal at a given node based on related nodes' characteristics.
Does that syntax look reasonable?
Sorry for the extremely late reply (again). This looks perfectly reasonable!
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Spotify is the world's largest music streaming service though it is not available everywhere. The Swedish company is yet to arrive in countries like India. The company has been in talks with major record labels in the country for a while. Now, recent reports say that the service will finally arrive in India within the next six months.
The number of Indians streaming music has been increasing since the data plans became more affordable in the country. The main source of music for most of the people is Youtube. Also, people stream music from various local services like Hungama, Gaana, Saavn, Jio Music, and Wynk Music. But, there's only a certain amount of users who pay for the premium subscription, whereas most of them settle for free service only.
Now, that is a serious problem for Spotify. Not only that, Indians prefer their local music which is licensed or distributed by various local labels. The first task for Spotify is to sign deals with these local labels and that's what the company has been doing for the past few months. But, there's no information available regarding the deals yet except for T-Series whose managing director confirmed the deal.
T-Series is one of the major players in India and almost all of their music is available free on the Youtube which Indians love. Also, their channel is about to gain the top spot in subscription count dethroning the longtime champion PewDiePie. Spotify could be working or even signed several other labels other than T-Series, but that information is not yet public.
Anyways, Spotify will be officially arriving in India within the next six months. Possibly, they would offer a free trial for a subsequent time period, then lure the users to pay for the service. Only time will tell whether Spotify will survive the Indian market.
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ABUJA, May 29 (Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in for his first full elected term at the helm of Africa's most populous nation on Sunday, faced with the challenge of driving reform and trying to heal regional rifts.
Heads of state from across Africa, foreign dignitaries, religious leaders and traditional rulers gathered in Eagle Square in the centre of Abuja for the ceremony and a military parade to mark the start of his four-year term.
"Together we will unite our nation, improve the living standards of all our people, whether in the north or in the south, in the east or in the west," Jonathan said in a speech after taking the oath of office.
The former zoology student won elections last month which, while far from perfect, were deemed to have reflected the will of the people in a nation that had known virtually nothing but military rule and rigged votes for the past half-century.
But the polls also threw religious and ethnic fault lines into sharp relief. Jonathan, a Christian from the south, swept to victory in his home region while his rival, ex-military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, performed strongly in the mostly Muslim north.
Hundreds of people were killed in riots and sectarian violence in northern towns after Jonathan's victory was announced, with homes, churches and mosques razed.
"President Goodluck Jonathan's election has seriously polarized Nigeria along ethnic, sectional and religious lines and this will be his challenge," said Shehu Sani, president of the northern-based Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria.
Jonathan first came to power after the death of his predecessor, northerner Umaru Yar'Adua, last year.
He emerged from the April polls with a credible mandate, having won 59 percent of the vote, but with his ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) chastened by a weaker parliamentary majority and the loss of several powerful state governorships.
Buhari, one of the few living former heads of state absent from Sunday's ceremony, has challenged the result.
Jonathan pledged to create jobs and drive economic growth, voicing commitment to banking reforms, the privatisation of the domestic power sector and promising to develop infrastructure and agriculture in Africa's third biggest economy.
He also vowed better management of the OPEC member's oil revenues, saying the creation of a sovereign wealth fund he signed into law on Friday would avoid "boom and bust" cycles.
"It is a delicate balancing act," said Dapo Oyewole, director of the Centre for African Policy and Peace Strategy.
"He has to balance out the regional interests to ensure the cabinet displays a federal character, he has to reflect a religious coloration that ensures different parts of the country are carried along, but he is also going to have to reward some of the people that backed him," he told Reuters.
Jonathan is the first president from the restive Niger Delta oil region, where expectations are also running high. He brokered an amnesty in 2009 which ended years of attacks on oil facilities, but thousands of former gunmen remain without jobs.
"People are very optimistic based on hope rather than reality," said Bismarck Rewane, head of Lagos-based consultancy Financial Derivatives.
"If those expectations are not managed, a few months down the road he will be getting the blame for things that are beyond his control," he told Reuters.
Jonathan is serving what would have been the second term of late president Yar'Adua and there is an expectation in the north that at the next elections in four years, a northern candidate will take the ruling party ticket.
But should Jonathan succeed with his reform plans, particularly privatising the power sector and ending chronic power shortages, popular opinion could again swing behind him.
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"Israel, since its inception, has relied on external support, particularly from the Western world, for justification of its policies in Gaza and the. These relationships are contingent on many things, including values the West claims to hold dear like freedom, democracy, civil rights and equality. The prospect of a negotiated agreement based on two-states has allowed Israel to stave off the confrontation between the myth of these values and the reality on the ground. But as the notion of a two-state agreement fades firmly into history, the apartheid reality becomes impossible to ignore, and further episodes where Israel will confront masses of mobilized Palestinians demanding their rights will continue to highlight this contradiction."
— Yousef Munayyer
Yousef Munayyer5
American writer
"Throughout its history, Israel has been anxious to make peace with its Arab neighbors. If successful, the current peace process is a potential opportunity for Israel to increase its security, normalize relations with its neighbors, and create a more stable and prosperous Middle East. Resolution of the conflict depends on direct negotiations between the parties based on mutual respect and recognition. The United States' commitment to Israel must continue so Israel can negotiate with its former and current adversaries from a position of strength... Israel can take risks for peace only because of unwavering American support."
— Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961
CityPAC Questionnaire, 2000 Congressional Primary http://www.democrats.org/page/speakout/unfit
"The holocaust tragedy has been abducted by Israeli strategists, with few Jewish protests, for Israel's ideological acrobatics. As Palestinian recent history has shown, no Palestinian engagement with the holocaust will be satisfactory to Israel and its supporters. Israeli demands that Palestinians recognize the holocaust are not about the holocaust at all, but rather about the other part of the package, namely recognizing and submitting to Israel's "right to exist" as a colonial-settler racist state. The Palestinian authority has given up, but the Palestinian people should continue to resist this Zionist package deal. Their resistance is the only remaining obstacle to a complete Zionist victory, one that seeks to be sealed by Zionism's rewriting of both Palestinian and Jewish histories."
— Joseph Massad Associate Professor of Arab Studies 1963
"Pluralistic democracies that respect human rights do not find themselves resorting to using lethal force against demonstrators. That's what apartheid states do. But Israel has sold itself to the world as something else, a beacon of liberalism and democracy. Few things expose this image as a sham as well as massive non-violent mobilizations or civil disobedience."
— Yousef Munayyer American writer
"As a Palestinian today I speak of a Palestinian and Arab demand for a state on 1967 borders. It is true that in reality there will be an entity or state called Israel on the rest of Palestinian land. This is a reality, but I won't deal with it in terms of recognising or admitting it."
— Khaled Mashal Palestinian terrorist 1956
Khaled Mashal cited in Hamas softens Israel stance in calls for Palestinian state http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2144060.ece at Independent.co.uk, 11 January 2007: Mashal on Isreal recent work in another interview.
"Western democracy has to be ruled out. For me that's cut and dried: there's no question of setting up democracy in Israel, because democracy means equal rights for all, irrespective of racial or religious origins. Therefore democracy and Zionism cannot go together. And Israel's Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed this state to be a Jewish state, is a totally schizophrenic document. You just can't, on the one hand, want a Jewish state and at the same time give non-Jews the right to become a majority."
— Meir Kahane American/Israeli political activist and rabbi 1932 - 1990
G-d's Law: an Interview with Rabbi Meir Kahane https://web.archive.org/web/20090219141224/http://kahane.org/meir/interview.htm
"Israel is the Middle East's only legitimate democracy, surrounded by cadres, warlords and villains that do not respect democracy or human rights. These bellicose nations jealously regard Israel, envying its success, stability, and might. Israel faces an impossible calculus between defending itself and facing angry outcries or risking its own destruction."
— Stephen Harper 22nd Prime Minister of Canada 1959
Stephen Harper, as quoted in " We Must Support Democracy in the Middle East http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/2014/01/31/we-must-support-democracy-in-the-middle-east" (31 January 2014), The Barrie Examiner.
"The hostility is aroused largely because America and Israel represent democracy, equal rights for women, a higher quality of life, and a willingness to confront despotism"
— Dennis Prager American writer, speaker, radio and TV commentator, theologian 1948
Context: It is small surprise that among tyrannical regimes and their defenders, America and Israel are so often identified as the same enemy. This is not merely a consequence of America's standing along behind Israel; the United States has aided various Arab countries very generously, and it has on some critical occasions backed Arab regimes, such as Nasser's Egypt in 1956 and Saudi Arabia in 1981, against Israel. The hostility is aroused largely because America and Israel represent democracy, equal rights for women, a higher quality of life, and a willingness to confront despotism. That is why the two non-Muslim countries that have suffered the heaviest lossest from Islamic suicide murderers are Israel and the United States. pp. 194–195
"I believe that this nation will be continuously cursed, until the leadership of this Government changes its accursed policy of Pacific Revised Apartheid and of not supporting Israel."
— James Ah Koy Fijian politician 1936
"The day will come when the two-state solution collapses and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights. As soon as that happens, the state of Israel is finished. The Jewish organizations, which were our power base in America, will be the first to come out against us, because they will say they cannot support a state that does not support democracy and equal voting rights for all its residents."
— Ehud Olmert Israeli politician, prime minister of Israel 1945
Financial Times (30 NOV 2007)
"The public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor.... I have lived in this country and visited it dozens of times. I support Israel. First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including Auschwitz, second because it is a democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of defense.... This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating Islam's territorial advance. Israel is facing the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia. Israel is simply in the way. The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War."
— Geert Wilders Dutch politician 1963
"This conflict has been going on for too long. It is essential that the parties start new direct negotiations and negotiate a sustainable peace, with the support of the Quartet. The path will be arduous, no doubt, but the objective is worth it, for the Israelis and the Palestinians and the entire region: an independent, democratic, contiguous and viable State of Palestine, living side by side with the State of Israel in peace and security."
— Henri of Luxembourg Grand Duke (head of state) of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg 1955
Address to the United Nations (26 September 2012)
"I think it is necessary to say that what is basic and what is needed in the Middle East is peace. Peace for Israel is one thing. Peace for the Arab side of that world is another thing. Peace for Israel means security, and we must stand with all of our might to protect its right to exist, its territorial integrity. I see Israel, and never mind saying it, as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world, and a marvelous example of what can be done, how desert land almost can be transformed into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy. Peace for Israel means security and that security must be a reality."
— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
68th Annual Convention of the Rabbinical Assembly for Conservative Judaism, March 25, 1968, less than 2 weeks before his death. Source: Martin Luther King's pro-Israel legacy by Allen B. West on February 15, 2014 at AllenBWest.com. http://allenbwest.com/2014/02/martin-luther-kings-pro-israel-legacy/ 2012-01-15 Youtube video Martin Luther King Jr: "Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world" by Youtube user Israel SDM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvr2Cxuh2Wk 2014-06-09 Youtube video Dr. King's pro-Israel Legacy (in 5 minutes) by IBSI - Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dd7pIB0CP0
"Israel is a colonialist-imperialist phenomenon. There is no such thing as an Israeli people. Before 1948, world geography knew of no state such as Israel. Israel is the result of an invasion, of aggression."
— Muammar Gaddafi Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist 1942 - 2011
Time (9 April 1979) " World: An Interview with Gaddafi http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,920211-1,00.html"
"No army in the history of warfare has done more to avoid harming civilians in a combat zone than the Israel Defence Forces in Gaza."
— Richard Kemp British Army officer 1959
As quoted in The Jewish Chronicle, 26 December 2014, p. 20.
"If the Jews are denied the right to live in freedom and peace, soon we will all be denied this right. If the light of Israel is extinguished, we will all face darkness. If Israel falls, the West falls."
Speech delivered in Tel Aviv in December of 2010, quoted in The Blaze: "'Marked for Death': Beck Interviews Anti-Islamist Dutch MP Geert Wilders" (2 May 2012) http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/05/02/beck-hosts-anti-islamist-dutch-mp-geert-wilders/
"This is are to be protected in Israel's basic laws, it should be no surprise when the country embodies those values. This bill and the government that supported it are a danger to Israel's future."
— Daniel Sokatch CEO of the New Israel Fund 1968
About the Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People, NIF CEO: Israel's "Nation-State Bill" Is Tribalism At Its Worst; Completely Incompatible with Human Dignity and Equality https://www.nif.org/news-media/press-releases/nif-ceo-israels-nation-state-bill-is-tribalism-at-its-worst-completely-incompatible-with-human-dignity-and-equality/ (10 July 2018), '.
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In 1972, at the Munich Germany Olympic Games, Lanny Bassham failed in his attempt to win the Gold Medal in International Rifle Shooting. He had a mental failure resulting in his taking the Silver instead. Frustrated, Lanny wanted to take a course in controlling the mind under pressure. After looking for such a seminar and not finding satisfaction, Bassham began to interview Olympic Gold Medalists to discover what they were doing differently to win.What he discovered was truly remarkable. Bassham created a system of mental control he called Mental Management®. Within the next 6 years, Lanny Bassham dominated his sport, winning 22 world individual and team titles, setting 4 world records and winning the coveted Olympic Gold Medal in Montreal in 1976.For the past 34 years, Lanny has been teaching Mental Management® to Olympians, business owners, Fortune 500 Corporations and the elite of sport and business community.
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Students will immerse themselves in the communications and media scene in London during this 5-week summer programme. Designed to take advantage of opportunities for students to experience some of the unique communication headquarters in London, excursions include visits to BBC Television and Radio, and attendance at major sports and arts events held throughout the summer. Courses are designed with special emphasis on journalistic skill-building as well as theoretical analytical components. Guest speakers are a major feature of this programme. Students live in university halls of residence near the GEO in London Centre.
Summer schools are intense, with the same number of teaching hours as a standard term-time programme but squeezed into 5 weeks! Because of this, students may take no more than 2 courses from the below lists (either A or B; you cannot choose one from each).
See the Summer Journalism page on our main GEO site for more details.
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For all the reasons we have for Freeman not doing well, honestly I don't think they should really apply, especially with the scheme. I watched Brandon Weeden move the ball pretty well and make some really great throws last night against the Ravens. Why can't Freeman do that?
Yeah that's why I see us moving on from him next offseason. Many of us forget that freeman was considered by many a huge risk to take in the first round back in 2009. I personally thought we could reap the rewards but he never picked up the speed of the nfl it seems.
Unfortunately this also could cost mark dominik his job as well. For I think he's improved with better decision making recently he missed on some big free agents that were busts ( A Bryant, kellen Winslow, Michael Clayton, Derrick Ward). But he missed on the most important position and I blame Raheem for it as well.
Clayton and Ward were terrible moves but Winslow and Bryant?
Ya Kellen was different but he produced. His first season in he broke the frachise receptions record AND setting the bar for the most yards ever by a Buc te. What did he do the following two seasons... led the team in receptions.
Bryant after signing for the minimum posted a 1,200 - 7td season and led the team in receptions with 83. Those numbers were posted with Mr. Noodle arm himself Jeff Garcia, Bryant should of probably had another 2-3 tds that season if his qb had half an arm. Mark didn't give him a long term deal but did offer the franchise tag which I would say at the time was a smart move.
I'm not sure I understand that. The scheme does play a big part of it. We play almost exclusively 2 wide out of the I-form and the Browns, despite having little to no talent at WR, went 3 and 4 wide most of the game last night. I mean, Richardson only got 18 touches (and only 14 rushing attempts) - they let Weeden air it out 50 plus times. Has Freeman even attempted 30 throws in a game this season?
This isn't to excuse Freeman because he definitely has a lot to work on, but historically when we have spread it out Freeman has been very good.
When Freeman is out of the shotgun with at least 3 wideouts, he has actually looked pretty solid usually. I think he is just more confident out of the gun and sees the field a lot better.
Naturally this means we will continue to see I-form play actions all game.
DRD the scheme has nothing to do with the following that I've stated.
It's not that he's learning a new offense but his flaws out there make him look like a rookie who hasn't played in the nfl before. Holds the ball still has a long release his footwork has been a work in progress and still hasn't improved. He stares down his Wrs and doesn't go through his progressions leaving possible big plays on the field by not seeing guys open. He waits too long for his Wrs to get open and does not throw on anticipation. Cannot throw his Wrs open ever. I question his ability in reading the defense recognizing the coverage. Horrible pocket awareness.
No matter the formations he's still going to stare down his Wrs. Check out Steve Whites film break down. His poor vision and awareness and inability to throw on time and anticipation and even not reading the coverages presnap cost us big plays.
So many are looking at the scheme but these are aspects in his game that have nothing to do with it.
My main point is that if a rookie can come in and produce in his scheme, why can't Freeman do it? I know the scheme is important, but the fact that it's new shouldn't really be an excuse if you can have RG3, Luck and Weeden all stepping in and frankly outperforming him. They have had just as much time with their OC and gameplan as Freeman has.
For the record, I wasn't trying to compare Weeden's stats to Freeman's. But Weeden had pocket presence, he made the right reads, he threw the ball on the run, he was accurate... really haven't seen Free do those things this year.
Yes, the WRs need to play better. Yes, the gameplan needs to improve. But almost any other reason to justify his poor play is just an excuse.
OK...that's fine. I wasn't responding to your point. though.
And I hear you, but these OCs are building their schemes around their QBs. RGIII played in a spread-option attack at Baylor and now that's what he is playing in Washington. Weeden played out of the spread at Oklahoma State and as we saw last night, the Browns are utilizing the spread quite a bit. Even with Cam last year, Chud made Cam comfortable with the spread-option which is what he did at Auburn.
What are Freeman's strengths? His arm and his mobility. When has he looked his best? When he is moving around in the pocket, taking shots down field in a spread attack out of the shotgun. What does our offense look like now? A run based attack out of the I formation where Freeman plays second fiddle to a struggling rushing attack.
Now maybe our offense will evolve as the season goes on, but our base offense is not conducive to Freeman's strengths.
Thing is you look at Cam Newton and teams are figuring out taking away your athleticism and see how you respond. It's good to be an athletic. Qb. But you can't always rely on it and need to become a pure qb. Look at reothlisbuerger. Only uses it when he needs it but he's become a pocket passer. RG III is a rookie and that offense is eventually going to have to be scrapped.
Freeman has been figured out. Te reason he's not running isn't schiano it's just he doesn't see the field well. You can't be successful beig a running qb constantly. I wish he used it when it's available but that's totally not the point with freeman nor the issue.
It's just kinda funny about how last week we were talking about Freeman playing his best ball ever, and the first two weeks Lorig was an absolute beast. He was hammering Kuechly almost every play in week 1. People have such a short memory.
I remember hearing people saying "I'll be happy just being competitive," which is what we've done. Those same people are now having a meltdown.
Game planning. Rob Ryan pointed out in Pregame look where freeman looks first then blanket that side of te field bc he never goes throug progressions nor looks off Wrs. If he can begin doing that awesome but that's easier said than done.
Freeman has never been considered a running QB. He's been pass first as long as I've heard of him.
Freaking Brandon Weeden throws over 300 yards against the ravens defense on the road and my buddy who was watching the game said his Wrs hurt him with some bad drops. Like come on. He improved that quickly in 3 weeks.
Another Freeman thread on how he can't be a starting caliber QB in the NFL. Yawn!!!
I don't need 300 yd games exactly. I want to see him basically carve up defenses move the ball down fields make quicker decisions go through progressions and recognize the defensive scheme and give his guys a chance to make a play.
Good qbs Atleast throw on anticipation and go through progressions. Josh does neither.
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Potions And Profits: Modern Witches Making A Living In Gainesville
By Amanda Rosa
April 26, 2019 Arts and Entertainment
Every full moon, Jessica Webb brings out her soaps.
The 28-year-old witch, also known as Jemathyst, brings her tools next to an herb garden in her backyard in Gainesville. Webb places a mirrored tray of soaps shaped like chubby goddess figurines on the ground. She lights a sage bundle to bless the space and her products. As the moonlight bathes them, she meditates and prays to bring good health to those who need it.
"Anything soaking up under that full moon has this really nice energy to it," she said.
The products soon appear on Webb's small apothecary business online, Three Sleeping Eyes on Etsy, or in the space she set up two months ago in the back of Blu Crystal, a metaphysical and CBD store on Northeast 23rd Avenue.
Webb is among 1 million practicing witches in the U.S., and one of several in north central Florida, who uses her knowledge and craft to make a living. Considered taboo for centuries, witchcraft and metaphysical beliefs have re-entered pop culture and the economy in America.
Jessica Webb, a 28-year-old kitchen witch, of Gainesville, sells handmade soaps, essential oils and tinctures, which are concentrated herbal extracts that can be used as health supplements. Webb said she has been drawn to plants since she was a child and hopes to expand her business, Three Sleeping Eyes. (Amanda Rosa/WUFT News)
In July 2017, singer Lana Del Rey placed a hex on President Donald Trump. In October, Netflix premiered "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina," an adaptation of the '90s series "Sabrina the Teenage Witch." Meanwhile, pricey fashion brand Urban Outfitters sells astrology guides, cat-themed tarot cards and a practical spell book on its website.
By summertime, Webb plans to start teaching her own classes on plants and herbs in Blu Crystal's upstairs loft. In 10 years, she wants to open another location in St. Augustine.
Jessica Webb holds a bowl of burnt sage and palo santo inside Blu Crystal, at 1801 NE 23rd Ave. Webb became close with the store's owner, Linda DeLaney, and now sells her products there. "We realized that we were kindred spirits," Webb said. (Amanda Rosa/WUFT News)
Like other young entrepreneurs, Webb looks forward to making a living off her passion.
"I don't think everybody wants to work for anybody anymore," she said.
The exact number of witches anywhere is unknown because the U.S. census does not track religious affiliation. Estimates are typically based on those who practice Wicca, a pagan religion with several traditions. According to a 2015 report from the Pew Research Center, the number of North Americans who practice "other religions" – particularly Wicca – is projected to reach 6.6 million by 2050. Although many Wiccans practice witchcraft, not every Wiccan is a witch.
Webb had worked on her Etsy store on and off for four years, but she struggled to grow it while dealing with depression and raising her infant son. She walked into Blu Crystal about two years ago. The owner, Linda DeLaney, 67, who now considers Webb a "surrogate daughter," encouraged her to jump-start her business after getting through a difficult divorce.
"This has healed me," Webb said. "By helping others heal themselves, I'm healing myself."
Webb follows many Wiccan, Hindu and Taoist beliefs. While she enjoys seeing more people learn about paganism, witchcraft and spirituality, she is wary of those who use witchcraft as a fad or a quick fix for their problems. Witchcraft isn't something to play with. It takes responsibility.
"Don't just be throwing all this energy out," she said.
DeLaney walks around Blu Crystal showing off Webb's section to an old friend. The store owner smiles as she points out the new clothes, soaps and crystals sitting in glass counters. Both businesses, just like Gainesville's metaphysical community, are growing.
"This is Gainesville," DeLaney tells her friend. "People are into all this."
Linda DeLaney, 67, of Gainesville, opened Blu Crystal, a CBD and metaphysical consignment store at 1801 NE 23rd Ave., about two years ago. DeLaney makes 30 percent of the cosigned products and allows different spiritual groups to use the store's loft to teach classes. "I'm a seeker, which means I go in every direction," she said. "I believe in everything." (Amanda Rosa/WUFT News)
On Wednesday nights, a small group of witches and spiritualists meet upstairs in the store's small loft with notebooks in hand. Kami Landy, a 56-year-old witch, joins them and takes out her notes. She is a priestess in Odyssean Wicca, a tradition with origins in Canada.
The free class typically lasts two and a half hours depending on how talkative the group is. Odyssean Wicca teaches pagans how to worship deities without having to hide, Landy said.
In the old days, when paganism was condemned, she said, "if you wanted to live a pagan life, you turned over a whole lot of rocks" before finding other pagans to practice with.
Landy sticks to her notes as best she can while speaking. She swings her arms out wide to resemble the universe, then quickly recoils them to mimic the molecules that form humans. She rattles off names of gods and goddesses she has memorized from decades of study.
As Landy discusses spirituality, she sprinkles advice: Don't rely on love spells to find a partner. ("Desperation isn't sexy," she said.) Not every household pet is an animal spirit guide. If you hear insightful voices in your head, they might be spirits. But if the voices tell you to do something dangerous, you should see a shrink.
"Just because somebody's dead or disembodied, doesn't mean they're wise," Landy said.
The pagan community has always had a strong activist voice, she said.
"The time when Wicca and Neo-Paganism came to the United States and just blossomed was the same time as the women's movement in the '60s and '70s, and this whole sense of not wanting to be in the shadows," Landy said.
Erin Prophet is a lecturer who teaches about religion, nature and health at the University of Florida. She said while witches traditionally had practiced in groups, they now tend to be solo practitioners who use the internet and social media to learn their craft and interact. As movies and shows about witches grow in popularity, so does public interest in paganism as a subculture.
"That's probably why it's been able to adapt as much as it has, and I expect that to continue," Prophet said.
About a half hour away from where Landy discusses Wicca, Sharron Britton's crystal collection sparkles as customers select smooth rocks to take home. High Springs Emporium, on Northwest Santa Fe Boulevard, is a yellow house turned rock and crystal store. Britton, the 68-year-old owner, said she opened the location 15 years ago after her old store burned down.
Britton noticed over the years that practitioners of different religions would come for supplies like crystals, candles and sage. She keeps a supply of Florida Water ready for those who practice Santeria, a Caribbean syncretic religion. A rainbow of candles is organized by color. Christians from a nearby church often visit, she said.
"We can say with absolute truth, God made the rocks," Britton said.
Learning about crystals helped witch Teketa Shine, 32, of Gainesville, connect to her higher self. A decade ago, after an abusive relationship ended, she found peace while holding a quartz as she lay on her bedroom floor. Crystals are now organized by shape and size in one of her closets.
Every pocket and compartment in Shine's car is stuffed with crystals and stones. She keeps a deep honey citrine rock the size of her hand in the front seat. Citrine is good for prosperity.
She runs her thumbs over the rock's sharp edges and into its grooves as she recounts her journey as a witch and a small business owner. In her 20s, Shine worked at metaphysical stores and witchcraft boutiques in New York. She once worked at a store that was "straight up ripping people off" by selling 2-inch-long amethysts for $30. Today, Shine would sell that rock for $5.
"I wanted to get the stones into the hands of the people that could really appreciate them and could work with them," she said.
Her Etsy store, The Crystal Mind, will someday have a storefront in Gainesville, Shine said. She wants a space to sell homemade candles and crystals and to host classes, workshops and events.
"That's my vision that I've been working on," she said, "but I'm just taking it slow until I find the right place, because once I'm in there, I don't want to be budged."
In the meantime, Shine's weekends are booked and busy. On a recent Saturday, Shine drove downtown to a marketplace hosted by Swamp City Gallery Lounge, to set up shop for a few hours. Next to a box of sage and palo santo, a sign promotes: "Psychic readings. $1 per minute."
Shine keeps a sage bundle in a coffee mug in her car for markets like this. She lights the already burnt end to bless her table. The sage smolders in the mug until it slowly snuffs. Shine closes her eyes behind Ouija board eyeglasses, her hands clasping a deck of tarot cards. She shuffles the deck with you in mind and spreads the cards across the table. Pick three, she says.
While religions like Christianity have portrayed God as an old white man for centuries, witchcraft allows women to connect with the divine feminine, Shine said.
"With the amount of trauma that a lot of women have been through from the masculine," she said, "there needs to be sort of a feminine uprising, and witchcraft sort of allows women to step into that place."
Those who want to explore witchcraft should determine their core beliefs, Shine said.
"We're starting to trust ourselves; we're starting to listen to ourselves when nobody else will," she said. "And that in itself is an act of rebellion."
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"Come Back to Me with All Your Heart"
Each year, when Lent comes near, I easily return to my old instincts that Lent is supposed to be a time when I do some sacrifice to please God for six weeks. I know, in my head and heart that this isn't the meaning of Lent, but it is deeply ingrained in me, and I suspect it is for many of us.
We are invited to await the Three Holy Days - Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday - "with the joy of minds made pure." Rarely does it seem that we are going through Lent with joy, or that this joy comes from "minds made pure." And, rarely is it so clear that the "fullness of grace" to which we are led comes from being "more eagerly intent on prayer" and "on the works of charity." Finally, this journey is framed at "participating in the mysteries by which they have been reborn."
I want to begin Lent this year, using Ignatius' naming of a grace I desire: "Lord, lead me to the fullness of your grace." I want to ask that I might be more intent on prayer and works of charity. And, I want to experience, through the readings and the liturgies each week during Lent, that I'm really reliving the mysteries of my rebirth and salvation.
I desire that this be what I "do" during Lent. This gets me closer to a Lent experience that is about what God wants to give me, rather than what I try to give God.
When we are more "intent on prayer," what will that look like? If we let our prayer become more personal - more about our relationship with Jesus - we will discover all we need for our Lenten journey. We will discover who we are. We will discover pockets of independence, areas of resistance, patterns that are unhealthy and sinful. And, if we stay open to graces being offered us from Jesus who always desires a deeply relationship with him, we will be drawn - reading by reading - story after story - into admiration and affections for Jesus, his way, and his invitation to us. Lent can become a day by day process of being more and more aware of the gift being offered us. The gift becomes a person, and a more intimate relationship with him. We will be drawn to greater freedom, and deeper self-sacrificing, dying-to-self love.
It is in this context that sacrifices will come. The Preface above suggests that what flows from this kind of prayer is "works of charity." It seems to imply that when we desire to be closer to Jesus in prayer, we live that out, not by giving up candy or alcohol, or even by chipping away at our bad habits. It appears that the next step in living out a closer relationship with Jesus is to offer ourselves in service of others - that is, to love as Jesus loves us. Lent will lead us to ask who we are called to love and serve. Often, it will be those who are closest to us. Sometimes, it will be purifying and transformative to let our hearts be open to and compassionate for those who are deeply in need in our city, or in our world. Almsgiving has long been a central part of Lent. It allows us to exercise compassion. But, there may also be times when we can find ways to do more - to let ourselves experience greater proximity with those on the margins of our world. Sometimes we may only be able to exercise that desire by intentionally reading more about their plight, and growing in compassion that way. At other times, we may take acts of solidarity that lead to political advocacy on their behalf. We may even decide to take the step of going to and serving in a place when we can meet, and let my heart be touched by, personal encounters with people in need.
When we let ourselves fall in love with Jesus, and then let our hearts desire to be more like his, Lent comes alive. Then, Lent moves quite directly to celebrating his love for us on those major feasts, and a profound desire to love as he has loved us. What a fruitful Lent that could be!
Lent with all my heart we be a journey to desire that my heart be more like his.
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A multifunctional resort hotel on Burny Cape will become a pearl of our region owing to its unique high-class spa center.
The designers of the hotel put an emphasis on marine theme. The building that looks like a cruise liner will be featured with architectural elements inspired by marine style.
The resort hotel site is located on Burny Cape in Vladivostok.
The hotel is composed of two buildings linked with an air bridge. The main building provides space for the hotel lobby, hotel keys and restaurants. The other building will be used for a health club supplied with all necessary equipment for an active life, such as gym, swimming pools, fitness club.
It is planned to have a hotel beach and an open air pool fenced with a glass wind screen. There will be a parking lot for 77 cars under the air bridge.
The maximum height of the hotel building is 14 floors (250 hotel keys). The hotel capacity — 375 guests, the health club capacity — 113 guests.
It is a modern public building combining the hotel and health club functions with a café and high class restaurants inside.
The resort and city hotels will be operated by Hyatt International — an international hotel operator managing more than 750 hotels and resorts (140 000 keys) in more than 45 countries under its trademark.
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USJ 1 (also known as Taman Subang Mewah) is a town located in UEP Subang Jaya, Subang Jaya.The built-up available in this town is 1,170 sf to 1,800 sf for houses. It was developed by Sime Darby Property Bhd.
Sime Darby Property Bhd is a very large-sized real estate company listed on KLSE, and it has undertaken around 243 real estate projects in Malaysia. Other similar projects by the same developer are Bandar Bukit Raja, Bukit Jelutong, Denai Alam, Elmina, Melawati Town Centre, Oasis Damansara, SS15, SS19, Saujana Impian and USJ Heights.
As for hospitals, there are Qhc Hospital, Qhc Medical Centre, Sunway Medical Center, Sunway Medical Centre and Sunway Medical Centre Tower C. There are also some schools here, e.g. Excel Edu International (Home School), SJK (C) Chee Wen, SMK Seafield and SMK USJ 8.
Lastly, the metro transport stations here are BRT South Quay, BRT SunMed, BRT SunU and LRT Taipan.
The current market prices for USJ 1 are from RM530,000 to RM880,000 (about RM420 psf) for houses; while the monthly rentals are from RM1,400 to RM1,800 (about RM1.08 psf) for houses. The highest median price psf ever recorded was RM554 psf in Q3 2014 (House); while the lowest one was RM169 psf in Q1 2010 (House).
The most popular layout and size combination at USJ 1 for houses is 4-bedroom / 1,300 sf with a median price of RM420 psf. For price wise, the most expensive one is 4-bedroom / 1,800 sf with a median price of RM490 psf; while the cheapest one is 4-bedroom / 1,500 sf with a median price of RM390 psf.
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Established in 1870, VSA helps thousands of the most vulnerable people and their families living in communities across Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire. Today, VSA provides vital support and services to people of all ages across four core areas - Children and Families, Adult and Community, Education and Learning, and Carers' Support. VSA supports a person's physical, mental, emotional and social wellbeing through a range of residential and outreach support services.
The Corporate Fundraiser is responsible for achieving budgeted income and targets through proactively securing and managing fundraising partnerships to maximise income and publicity for VSA. Working closely with the Fundraising and Events Team Leader you will assist with the planning, development and implementation of an exciting corporate fundraising strategy which will increase corporate income and retention through engaging and high-quality supporter journeys.
You will thrive on delivering first class service to corporates, understanding their requirements and how best to foster a mutually beneficial relationship. You will be able to harness the enormous potential surrounding the anniversary year and beyond as a hook for corporate partners both old and new.
If you have experience of working within a corporate fundraising, communications or sales and marketing role, and produce your best work delivering to deadlines in a fast paced environment, then this is your chance to join something special. VSA offers great career potential, a friendly and focused workforce and the ability to really shine in the sector.
If you think this is a perfect match for your values and skills set then please contact [email protected] as soon as possible for further information prior to making your application.
This search is being conducted exclusively on behalf of VSA by BTA. Our leadership team have all worked in the voluntary sector and we use this experience to match organisations and individuals to create great appointments.
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Do you have strong business acumen and sales affinity?
Are you looking to develop your skills and career by working for one of the world's leading hardware company?
Our Client is an American multinational information technology company, developing and providing innovative hardware components for small to large enterprises across a wide range of industries.
They are currently recruiting for native Norwegian/Swedish speaking candidates for their international partner in Barcelona, to reinforce their sales team and growth their revenue on the Norwegian/Swedish market.
As a Sales Representative, you will have full responsibility of your market and portfolio of clients, reporting to the Sales Manager.
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Baptistery
(Redirected from Baptistry)
Battistero di San Giovanni, Pisa
In Christian architecture the baptistery or baptistry (Old French baptisterie; Latin baptisterium; Greek βαπτιστήριον, 'bathing-place, baptistery', from βαπτίζειν, baptízein, 'to baptize') is the separate centrally planned structure surrounding the baptismal font. The baptistery may be incorporated within the body of a church or cathedral, and provided with an altar as a chapel. In the early Church, the catechumens were instructed and the sacrament of baptism was administered in the baptistery.
DesignEdit
The Lateran Baptistery, Rome, 440
Further information: Mathematics and architecture
The sacramental importance and sometimes architectural splendor of the baptistery reflect the historical importance of baptism to Christians. The octagonal plan of the Lateran Baptistery, the first structure expressly built as a baptistery, provided a widely followed model. The baptistery might be twelve-sided, or even circular as at Pisa.[1]
In a narthex or anteroom, the catechumens were instructed and made their confession of faith before baptism. The main interior space centered upon the baptismal font (piscina), in which those to be baptized were thrice immersed. Three steps led down to the floor of the font, and over it might be suspended a gold or silver dove. The iconography of frescos or mosaics on the walls were commonly of the scenes in the life of Saint John the Baptist. The font was at first always of stone, but latterly metals were often used.
The Lateran baptistery's font was fed by a natural spring. When the site had been the palatial dwelling of the Laterani, before Constantine presented it to Bishop Miltiades, the spring formed the water source for the numerous occupants of the domus. As the requirements for Christian baptisteries expanded, Christianization of sacred pagan springs presented natural opportunities. Cassiodorus, in a letter written in AD 527, described a fair held at a former pagan shrine of Leucothea, in the still culturally Greek region of south Italy. This shrine had been Christianized by converting it to a baptistery (Variae 8.33). There are also examples of the transition from miraculous springs to baptisteries from Gregory of Tours (died c. 594) and Maximus, bishop of Turin (died c. 466).[2]
Baptistery in the Basilica of St. John in Ephesus, Turkey
Baptisteries belong to a period of the church when great numbers of adult catechumens were baptized and immersion was the rule. They did not seem to be common before the emperors Gratian, Valentinian, and Theodosius made Christianity the state religion in[3][circular reference] the Edict of Thessalonica (i.e. before the 4th century). As early as the 6th century, the baptismal font was commonly built in the porch of the church, before it was moved into the church itself. After the 9th century, with infant baptism increasingly the rule, few baptisteries were built. Some of the older baptisteries were so large that there are accounts of councils and synods being held in them. They had to be large because a bishop in the early church would customarily baptize all the catechumens in his diocese and the rite was performed only three times a year, on certain holy days. Baptisteries were thus attached to the cathedral and not to the parish churches.
During the months when no baptisms occurred, the baptistery doors were sealed with the bishop's seal, a method of controlling the orthodoxy of all baptism in the diocese. Some baptisteries were divided into two parts to separate the sexes;[4] or sometimes the church had two baptisteries, one for each sex. A fireplace was often provided to warm the neophytes after immersion.
Though baptisteries were forbidden to be used as burial-places by the Council of Auxerre (578), they were sometimes used as such. The Florentine Antipope John XXIII was buried in the Baptistery, facing Florence's Duomo, with great ceremony. A tomb was erected here. Many of the early archbishops of Canterbury in England were buried in the baptistery at Canterbury.
St. Giovanni Baptistery in Florence, Italy
According to the records of early church councils, baptisteries were first built and used to correct what were considered the evils arising from the practice of private baptism. As soon as Christianity had expanded so that baptism became the rule, and as immersion of adults gave place to sprinkling of infants, the ancient baptisteries were no longer necessary. They are still in general use, however, in Florence and Pisa.
Baptistry, Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania)
The baptistery of the Lateran must be the earliest ecclesiastical building still in use. (Main article: Lateran Baptistery.) A large part of it remains as built by Constantine. The central area, with the basin of the font, is an octagon around which stand eight porphyry columns, with marble capitals and entablature of classical form. Outside these are an ambulatory and outer walls forming a larger octagon. Attached to one side, toward the Lateran basilica, is a porch with two noble porphyry columns and richly carved capitals, bases and entablatures.
The circular church of Santa Costanza, also of the 4th century, served as a baptistery and contained the tomb of the daughter of Constantine. This is a remarkably perfect structure with a central dome, columns, and mosaics of classical fashion. Two side niches contain the earliest known mosaics of distinctively Christian subjects. In one is represented Moses receiving the Old Law, in the other Christ delivers to Saint Peter the New Law charter, sealed with the XP monogram.[5]
Baptistery in Žiča Monastery near Kraljevo, Serbia
The earliest surviving structure that was used as a baptistery is the tomb-like baptistery at Dura-Europas.[6] Another baptistery of the earliest times has been excavated at Aquileia. Ruins of baptisteries have also been found at Salona and in Crete.[7] At Ravenna are two noted baptisteries, decorated with fine mosaics. One was built in the mid-5th century, and the other in the 6th. A large baptistery decorated with mosaics was built in the 6th century at Naples.[5]
In the East the metropolitan baptistery at Constantinople still stands at the side of the former patriarchal Church of Holy Wisdom. Many others, in Syria for example, were found in late 19th and early 20th-centry archeological research, as were some belonging to churches of North Africa. In France the most famous early baptistery is Baptistère Saint-Jean at Poitiers. Other early examples exist at Riez, Fréjus and Aix-en-Provence. In England, a detached baptistery is known to have been associated with Canterbury Cathedral.[5]
Famous baptisteriesEdit
The 5th century baptistery of Albenga
Famous Italian baptisteries include:
Lateran Baptistery, Rome, the most significant and architecturally most influential baptistery in the Christian West, founded by Pope Sixtus III
Parma Baptistery
Battistero di San Giovanni, Florence, Tuscan Romanesque-style structure associated with Santa Maria del Fiore, the duomo of Florence, rebuilt between 1059 and 1150; it contains Ghiberti's Doors of Paradise
Pisa Baptistery, circular domed Baptistery of St John clad in white marble in the Piazza del Duomo, Pisa, built in stages from 1152 and combining Romanesque with Gothic.
Lomello Baptistery of San Giovanni ad Fontes
The Merovingian Baptistère Saint-Jean, Poitiers
Famous French baptisteries include:
Baptistery of Fréjus Cathedral
Baptistery of Aix Cathedral in Aix-en-Provence
Baptistery of Poitiers, reputedly the oldest Christian building in France.[8]
Byzantine baptisteries of the Holy Land: Emmaus Nicopolis
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Baptistries.
Renaissance architecture
Medieval architecture
Pieve (church with a baptistery on which other churches without baptisteries depended)
^ Brandt, Olof (2006). "The Lateran Baptistery and the diffusion of octagonal baptisteries from Rome to Constantinople". In Reinhardt Harreither (ed.) (eds.). Frühes Christentum zwischen Rom und Konstantinopel: Acta Congressus Internationalis XIV Archaeologiae Christianae, Vindobonae 19.-26. 9. 1999. Studi di antichità cristiana 62, Archäologische Forschungen. Vatican City: Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana. pp. 221–227. ISBN 9788885991422. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
^ Barnish, S.J.B. (2001). "Religio in stagno: Divinity, and the Christianization of the Countryside in Late Antique Italy". Journal of Early Christian Studies. 9 (3): 387–402. doi:10.1353/earl.2001.0037. ISSN 1086-3184.
^ Edict of Thessalonica
^ Augusti; Coleman, Lyman (1842). The Antiquities of the Christian Church. Translated and compiled from the works of Augusti with numerous additions from Rheinwald, Siegel and others, by Rev. Lyman Coleman. Mainly an abridgement of Augusti's "Handbuch der christlichen Archäologie.". T. Ward & Company. p. 86.
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lethaby, W. R. (1911). "Baptistery". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 370.
^ Mailis, Athanassios (2006). "The early byzantine baptisteries of Crete". Antiquité Tardive. 14: 291–309. doi:10.1484/J.AT.2.302435.
^ "Baptistère Saint-Jean - Poitiers". Tourisme Vienne. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
Interactive map of early Christian baptisteries based on Ristow, Frühchristliche Baptisterien (1998)
"Baptistery" . Encyclopedia Americana. 1920.
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The Amazon Kindle app on Android hit version 3.0.0 today, which is fitting, especially since the update brings it into compatibility with Android 3.0 (Honeycomb). A new layout for newspapers and magazines is introduced along with a seamlessly integrated shopping experience, all of which were designed for tablets and larger screened devices. The Amazon team also tossed in the ability to pause and resume downloads, made it easier to look up words, and decided that Germans might like reading books too.
I'd show you a bunch of screenshots, but my XOOM has decided to hate this update and will not allow the app to fully display or view pages others than the main landing screen. And apparently, I'm not the only one with this problem. Hoping for a fix! In the mean time, you'll have to enjoy the picture above that I stole from Mr. Kameka over at Androinica.
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Can More Potassium in Your Diet Reduce Your Risk of Stroke?
Worried about your risk for stroke? Then bring on the bananas. New research shows that getting more potassium in your diet from sources such as bananas may reduce your risk of stroke - and keep your heart healthy too.
More Potassium to Reduce the Risk of Stroke?
Researchers did a meta-analysis where the pooled the results of 11 studies looking at dietary potassium and the risk of stroke. They looked at information on almost 250,000 men and women using food-frequency questionnaires to determine how much potassium the participants ate each day.
The results? They found that those who got at least 1.64 grams of dietary potassium daily reduced their risk of stroke by 24% and lowered their risk of heart disease as well.
This would be the equivalent of eating two medium-sized bananas each day.
Why Does More Dietary Potassium Reduce the Risk of Stroke?
There are several ways potassium reduces the risk of stroke. Potassium offsets some of the negative effects of sodium on the heart and blood vessels. It also helps to lower blood pressure, which has an impact on stroke risk. In addition, potassium is important for regulating the heartbeat and reducing the risk of abnormal heart rhythms that are linked with stroke.
Bananas are a well-known potassium-rich food, but tomatoes, Swiss chard, spinach, squash, sweet potatoes, potatoes and beets are excellent sources too. If you get five servings of fruits and vegetables, you've got your potassium for the day covered. Unfortunately, not everyone does. Too many Americans eat packaged foods that are high in sodium and low in potassium. No wonder the rate of hypertension is so high in this country.
More Potassium to Lower Stroke Risk: The Bottom Line?
If you can't fit in five servings of fruits and vegetables daily, eat a banana in the morning and another one in the evening to make sure you're getting at least 1.64 grams of potassium each day. This is especially important if you have high blood pressure. If you're taking blood pressure medication or have a history of kidney failure, talk to your doctor before eating too many potassium-rich foods. Otherwise, enjoy the health benefits of a potassium-rich diet.
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Remothered: Broken Porcelain
Psychological horror series Remothered returns next year with Broken Porcelain
By Andy Chalk
The psychological horror game promises 'evolved' gameplay with new and returning characters.
Remothered: Tormented Fathers is a third-person horror game released by Italian studio Stormind Games in 2018, and while it didn't get the attention of, say, the Amnesia games, it did very well critically. It must have done reasonably well commercially, too, because Stormind is working on a sequel, this one to be published by Modus Games (Tormented Fathers was put out by Darril Arts) called Remothered: Broken Porcelain.
Broken Porcelain will feature characters returning from the first game as well as new ones "inspired by iconic protagonists within the horror genre." It will take place in the decrepit ruins of the Ashmann Inn, a place filled with puzzles and horrors, and promises "evolved gameplay, hugely expanded lore for the Remothered universe, and enhanced storytelling through the series debut of real-time cinematics."
Creepy cinematics are cool, but the "mature content description" provides a more functional rundown of gameplay: "The game involves a young woman escaping oppressors in confined environments. The horror elements are psychological in nature. Enemies will chase the player as they run, hide, and try to oust them with environmental resources and weapons."
"The truths buried in the Ashmann Inn will not be discovered easily—its many mysteries are intertwined and guarded by the looming threat of the stalkers, powerful hunters trapped in time and the confines of its walls. Survival will take more than just quick reactions as a strategic and resourceful approach will quickly become critical in this haunting adventure," the Steam listing says. "Be smart—knowing the best time to sneak, flee or fight imminent dangers can quickly make the hunters become the hunted."
Remothered: Broken Porcelain is expected to be out in summer 2020.
Andy Chalk
Andy has been gaming on PCs from the very beginning, starting as a youngster with text adventures and primitive action games on a cassette-based TRS80. From there he graduated to the glory days of Sierra Online adventures and Microprose sims, ran a local BBS, learned how to build PCs, and developed a longstanding love of RPGs, immersive sims, and shooters. He began writing videogame news in 2007 for The Escapist and somehow managed to avoid getting fired until 2014, when he joined the storied ranks of PC Gamer. He covers all aspects of the industry, from new game announcements and patch notes to legal disputes, Twitch beefs, esports, and Henry Cavill. Lots of Henry Cavill.
Industries of Titan review
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Develop scripts, and re-useable libraries to enhance the SharePoint user experience.
Provide documentation on all systems development activities performed i.e., User Guide, FAQs, Technical Documentation.
Diagnose, isolate and debug software problems and perform problem resolution and application of patches as necessary.
Provide assistance to users, facilitate resolution of assigned incident tickets, and service requests.
4-year Bachelors' degree in (Computer Science or related field).
3-4 years' directly related experience.
Good understanding of SharePoint server side components and architecture.
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NASA Provides Coverage of Vice President Pence's Visit to Kennedy Space Center
Filed under Commerce, exploration, NASA HQ, US
NASA will provide television, still image and social media coverage of Vice President Mike Pence's visit to the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, July 6.
NASA TV and the agency's website will air live coverage for parts of the visit starting at noon EDT with Air Force Two's arrival at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility runway, followed by a special address to the center's workforce in the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building at 1 p.m.
The Vice President will tour Kennedy and learn more about the center's work as a multi-user spaceport for commercial and government clients, as well as see the agency's progress toward launching from U.S. soil on spacecraft built by American companies, and traveling past the moon, and eventually on to Mars and beyond with the help of NASA's new Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket.
Media should plan to pick up their credentials Thursday at the Kennedy Badging Office on State Road 405, east of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, and then proceed to the Pass and Identification Building on State Road 3 for security screenings and transportation to the event locations. Media who have selected to attend the Vehicle Assembly Building event, should arrive at the Pass and Identification Building on State Road 3 at 10 a.m. Media who have selected to attend the event at the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building should arrive at 12:30 p.m. Additional details will be provided during the accreditation process.
Questions about accreditation may be addressed to Jennifer Horner at [email protected] or Amber Philman at [email protected] For other questions, or additional information, contact Kennedy's newsroom at 321-867-2468. Media must present two forms of unexpired, government identification to enter Kennedy. One form must include a photo, such as a passport or driver's license.
For images of the Vice President's tour, visit NASA's homepage and the agency's headquarters Flickr account.
Coverage on NASA's social media accounts will include Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat.
Jen Rae Wang
Headquarters, Washington
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A silk scarf is an essential in your wardrobe, and it is a very versatile item. This is why it makes so much sense to invest in a quality item that will stay with you over the years. A true accent item, it can be used with countless outfits to tie the look together while also offering practical benefits.
Victoria Ragna is a designer who uses authentic and quality silk, helping you to reap the benefits that come with wearing silk that hasn't been overprocessed or damaged. If your skin is prone to irritation, then you will love that our silk is so soft when compared to other common materials for scarves.
Of course, all designer brands are renowned for quality but Victoria is renowned for the beauty of her designs. A truly talented fashion designer, Victoria pours boundless creativity and effort into fashioning stunning designs that can truly make a statement and help the wearer to express themselves.
The Victoria Ragna collection is diverse and exciting, offering customers a range of invigorating designs that are born from a blend of Brazilian and Norwegian ancestry. The unique combination leads to some stunning designs ranging from geometric shapes to solid colours and intriguing textures. Whatever your preference, you will be sure to find something that you love.
Every item that we produce is of the highest possible quality, created using the best methods and superior raw materials. You can rest assured that our products are made from sustainably sourced materials that will last a lifetime.
We are very proud to offer international delivery to mainland Europe and the rest of the world on all our designer silk scarves. Our products have international roots, so it's our pleasure to provide them to a global audience.
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