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This month's collection of music for yoga is quite the eclectic mix. Most of these albums were not written specifically for a yoga practice, but with some creativity you can mix these tracks into an interesting and immersive soundtrack for your practice.
The Code of the Flowers by Ayla Nereo
If you've ever wondered what "circle songs and roots music meet tribal beats and folktronica" sounds like, check out this new album from the beautiful songstress Ayla Nereo. Layers of vocal melodies soar and drift over sparse yet hypnotic arrangements of guitar, piano, orchestral strings, and percussion in these sweet and inspirational songs.
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Bunburang by The Wooden Log
Inspired by a seven-day trek through Aboriginal bushland, these seven acoustic guitar and percussion arrangements invoke spaciousness, joy, introspection, and peace.
Ana Ndi Angambo by Nelson & Friends
Nelson & Friends is an Afro-fusion musicians' collective based in London that combines jazz and funk with Mozambique music. Adding a few of these tracks to a playlist will spice up your flow and propel your practice with the sounds of marimba, bass, electric guitar, saxophone, and percussion.
Tambacounda Express by Diabel Cissokho
This West African kora player, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter has created a rhythmically, lyrically, and melodically diverse collection of songs on his latest CD. The tracks featuring blues harmonica are my favorites. This album pairs perfectly with the Nelson & Friends CD mentioned above.
Solo by Andris Mattson
These eight solo piano tracks would work well at the end of a yoga playlist to transition into Shavasana pose. This album would also be great for massage, healing work or relaxation.
Heaven and Earth by Simon Wester
This album was specifically created as a tool to relax and de-stress. These ten tracks have a strong cinematic feel to them with soaring orchestral strings, gentle piano, floating synth pads, and electronic percussion.
Devotional Songs I & II by Ruven Nunez
These mellow and sparse arrangements of acoustic guitar, violin, and Eastern string instruments are perfect for the quiet and introspective moments at the beginning and end of a yoga practice. Many of these tracks are quiet enough to use during Shavasana and meditation.
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It's seed annual time!
{This post has been sitting in my drafts folder for 7 weeks... thought I might as well put it up and move on as half of these seeds are now quietly germinating in coir pots in my living room window}
It's that time of year again when you can momentarily pretend that it isn't freezing cold outside and that spring is juuuuusssssttttt around the corner (even if it is actually months away)... it's seed annual time!
I imagine that every gardener has a favourite vege seed source that they are fiercely loyal to - mine is Diggers. For our cooler climate, I feel that Diggers provide much better seeds with a greater germination rate than their more northern competitors. And so, as my Diggers seed annual arrived last week, it was the only reading material I bothered to open all weekend. I circled and tagged with abandoned, and got stupidly excited and ambitious and placed my order. A big, middle-of-winter, clearly-forgotten-the-parameters-of-time-and-space kind of order. So now I have to figure out how to make it all fit into our 8 raised garden beds and random assortment of pots and discarded vessels in The Coopermarket (our kitchen garden), and/or how many new ground beds I need to construct.
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2. Legumes - greenfeast, sugar snap and snow peas, and broad beans
3 & 4. Solanum - tomatoes (two full beds and many many individual plants in pots this year)
5. This is our old asparagus bed, and we have some really productive 4 year old crowns in here. We will leave the crowns in until the new ground asparagus bed has had a few years to establish, but we will also plant the other solanum in here - chillis, eggplant and capsicum. I'm not sure how this bed will fare with that combination....
6. Asterace - lettuce, but we will also grow our rocket and mustard in this bed (as I said, we don't have a perfect crop rotation system in The Coopermarket)
7. Allium & root crops - leeks, onions, shallots, beetroot and carrots
8. Cucurbits - cucumber and zucchini
We also have a few ground beds that are just a bunch of bricks backfilled with dirt and enriched annually with compost. We grow all of our berries in these beds - strawberries, blueberries and a long row bed for other berries (raspberries, tayberries, loganberries and thornless blackberries). I constructed another two brick beds last year but never got around to filling them - this year I am hoping to use them as a dedicated herb bed and a corn and pumpkin patch.
Things that I haven't worked out spots for are: rhubarb and chard, which are perennials (or semi-perrenial) so it won't work in the raised beds... perhaps we will build a new ground bed, or we might incorporate it into the gardens around the house; and watermelon, which we are going to attempt to grow for the first time!
There's heaps more room in The Coopermarket to one day add some more beds or other planting solutions, but so far this amount keeps us very busy and well fed all spring and summer.


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Iraqi Kurds have been voting today:
September 25, 2017
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi Kurds cast ballots on Monday in their autonomous region and in a wide sweep of captured territories on whether to seek independence from Baghdad, a historic vote that has also raised tensions and fears of instability.
The referendum is non-binding and will not immediately bring independence, but it would mark a definitive stance by the Kurds to break away, and Kurdish leaders say they will use a "yes" vote to press for negotiations with Iraq's central government to win statehood.
From Istanbul, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened military intervention in Iraq in response to the vote, stressing that Kurdish independence was unacceptable to his country and that this was a "matter of survival."
The Iraqi Kurdish push for independence has been made even more combustible because Kurdish forces captured extensive territories in fighting with the Islamic State group in the past year. Those territories run from northwest Iraq across the country to the Iranian border on the east — including the oil-rich city of Kirkuk. Baghdad claims those territories, but the Kurds say they are part of their zone and residents there are participating in Monday's vote.
More than 3 million people are expected to vote across the three provinces that officially make up the Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region and in the disputed territories, according to the Independent High Elections and Referendum Commission, the body overseeing the vote.
Lines began forming early in the day at polling stations across Irbil, the Kurdish regional capital. Tahsin Karim was one of the first people to vote in his Irbil neighborhood.
"Today we came here to vote in the referendum for the independence of Kurdistan," he said. "We hope that we can achieve independence."
The Kurdish region's president, Masoud Barzani, also voted at a polling station packed with journalists and cameras. On the eve of the referendum, Barzani said he believed the vote would be peaceful, though he acknowledged that the path to independence would be "risky."
"We are ready to pay any price for our independence," he said.
The referendum is being carried out despite mounting opposition from Baghdad and the international community.
The United States, a key ally of Iraq's Kurds, has warned the vote will likely destabilize the region amid the fight against IS. https://apnews.com/cfca314fc77548a981a2fa936ad1307d/Iraqi-Kurds-vote-in-referendum-on-independence-from-Baghdad
The USA has long treated the Kurds differently than most would feel it would. The Bush Administration used to claim that the USA was in Iraq to promote democracy. The hypocrisy of the USA related to the Kurds is obvious to anyone who looks at this.
While the Kurds have tended to be a more loyal ally to the USA than the USA has been to the Kurds, the USA has often tended to defer to the governments of Turkey and Iraq–despite the fact that the government of the USA considers that the Islamic State is terrorist threat and that the Kurds are not, as far as the USA is concerned.
The Bible warns that destruction is coming to "an hypocritical nation" which it will end up being destroyed (Isaiah 10:5-11, KJV). While there are serious problems and conflicts in ISIS, those who think that the USA will not reap what it is sowing by often betraying allies (cf. Galatians 6:7-8; Lamentations 1:1-2), are in error (Daniel 11:39).
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Despite how the USA seemingly defers to Turkey and Iraq on the Kurds (and maybe now Syria's Assad and the Russians), eventually the Kurds and others in the Middle East and North Africa will plot to eliminate the USA based upon the 83rd Psalm.
Notice the following rendering of that Psalm with the modern national identities shown in [ ] which mainly come from an article titled The Arab World in Prophecy from the Plain Truth magazine dated December 1979:
4 They have said, "Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation,
That the name of Israel may be remembered no more."
5 For they have consulted together with one consent;
They form a confederacy against You:
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The above shows a coalition of North African and Middle Eastern peoples, like those that will initially support the coming King of the South in Daniel 11:40-43. They will want to eliminate the USA, its Anglo-Saxon descended allies, and the tiny nation of Israel. They will then make a deal with end time Assyria, the main power in Europe. And this will be successful (Daniel 11:39; see also USA in Prophecy: The Strongest Fortresses), but not completely (Jeremiah 30:7).
Regarding Iraq, it probably should also be mentioned that some others consider that the Iraqis are better identified as Ishmaelites or being Hagarenes. Some consider that the Hagarenes are better identified with Iraq–yet since Ishmael's mother was Hagar–Genesis 16:15–they would all tend to be related. Whether they are identified better as Hagarenes or Ishmaelites or descendants of Lot, Iraqis and other Arabic peoples are prophesied (along with others) to be part of a confederation that will decide to eliminate Israel (and not just the area in the Middle East). Turkey is represented in Psalm 83 as Edom–other prophecies show that it will ultimately break its alliance with the Arabic peoples and primarily support the European power (Daniel 11:40-43; cf. Daniel 11:26-27).
Notice a little bit more about a coming confederation involving the Arabs in Ezekiel:
1 The word of the LORD came to me: 2 "Son of man, prophesy and say: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
"'Wail and say, "Alas for that day!" 3 For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near- a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations. 4 A sword will come against Egypt, and anguish will come upon Cush. When the slain fall in Egypt, her wealth will be carried away and her foundations torn down.
5 Cush and Put, Lydia and all Arabia, Libya and the people of the covenant land will fall by the sword along with Egypt. (Ezekiel 30:1-5, NIV).
5 "Ethiopia, Libya, Lydia, all the mingled people, Chub, and the men of the lands who are allied, shall fall with them by the sword." (Ezekiel 30:5, NKJV)
So a confederation will form, Iraq and Syria will be part of it, and many of the nations that enter into a confederation with Egypt will suffer. This includes Iraqi and Syrian peoples, and possibly the Kurds (the Turks escape this per Daniel 11:42; but have other problems later; cf. Obadiah 8-11).
Why might the Kurds be referred to in Ezekiel 30? The word translated in the NIV as Libya, Puwt, may be referring to some of the peoples of Iran as Puwt was a Persian tribe and the Kurds are an Iranian people with mixed heritage. There are estimated to be at least 30 million Kurds, most of which are in the Middle East (with the largest populations in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria). The Kurds could be part of the 'mingled people' as the NKJV translates a portion of Ezekiel 30:5.
Although the Kurds themselves have long wanted independence, they have a history of making many alliances. Like the Turks, the majority of Kurds are Sunni Muslims. Despite the fact that the governments in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Iran have caused problems for the Kurds, the Kurds may well support a future Arabic-Turkish alliance (Daniel 11:40-43), especially if they get some protection of autonomy to do so. It is also possible that they could be among those that escape the wrath of the King of the North (Daniel 11:42). But that power also will end (cf. Revelation 11:15; 18).
The time will come when God will call all people in the world, including the Turks and the Kurds. That will be a time of peace (Isaiah 2:3-4; Revelation 21), but until then war and destruction appear to be part of the expected fate of that region of the world for some time (though a temporal peace will come per Daniel 9:27; see also The 'Peace Deal' of Daniel 9:27).
But for now, the Kurds are hoping that their vote sends a signal that they want independence.


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Google kicks off a public pilot for Hands Free mobile payments
Heads up, Silicon Valley residents: the days of pulling out your credit card to pay for Big Macs are numbered. Google just announced that the pilot program for its Hands Free payments scheme has gone live for certain stores in San Francisco's South Bay, so all you'll have to do is tell the cashier you're "Paying with Google." We're trying to figure out if there's a cap to how many people can sign up, but for now, it looks like all local residents need is an Android device running 4.2 or newer, or an iPhone 4S and newer.
Google's Hands Free payment ambitions aren't exactly secret — the company first spoke about it in front of developers and enthusiasts at last year's I/O conference. Here's how Google envisions the Hands Free process working. After installing the Hands Free app for Android or iOS, you'll add a photo of yourself for identification and either add a credit/debit card or choose one that's attached to your Google account. (That's right, this is totally separate from Android Pay.) Once that's all done and you've rendezvoused with a cashier, mention you're paying with Google — the app uses Bluetooth LE and WiFi (among other things) to tell whether you're in a store equipped for Hands Free payments and passes your information along to the cashier's point-of-sale system. The cashier confirms you are who you say you are using that photo and your initials, and that's that. Payment complete.
Neat? You bet. There is, however, a pretty significant rub: you can't use Hands Free in many of the South Bay's storied haunts. For now, Google's open-minded payment partners include McDonalds, Papa John's and a handful of other local eateries. There's no word on how Google plans to expand this thing, but that's probably a question for another time — the big deal now is making sure this all works properly in the field. There are already a few potential upgrades being kicked around, too, like installing cameras in participating stores to automatically identify your face. That may seem creepy to some, especially when all they want to do is pick up their Spinach Alfredo pies, but Google promises all of those images are "deleted immediately."


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Christmas Bazaar
December 3-4, 2016 - Saturday @ 11AM-6PM, Sunday @ 11AM-5PM
Big Lake Lions Club
East Lake Mall, Big Lake
FREE Event
The Big Lake Lions Club will hold their annual Christmas Bazaar at the East Lake Mall in Big Lake on December 3rd and 4th, 2016. Saturday's bazaar will run from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm and Sunday will be from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Plan on spending the day shopping for that perfect gift, visiting with Santa, lunching in either of our local restaurants and grocery shopping - all in one great location!
Santa will be there from 1:00 to 4:00 pm on Saturday and 1:30 to 4:00 pm on Sunday with goodies for the children.
For additional information/vendor spaces, please contact Kim at 907-892-7268.


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It's been said that the only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution. Maybe not when it comes to IT threats. 97% of the exploits in the report had a remedy available for more than a year. This means despite solutions being available, they aren't finding their way into the field, whether that mean better patching strategies or even user education like being aware of phishing scams.
90% of the issues in the Verizon report can be attributed to four categories all associated with human error or misuse:
- Misc Errors
- Crimeware
- Insider Misuse
- Lost/Stolen Devices
Getting humans out of network management can go a long way toward making networks more secure. Routine, repetitive tasks are always ripe for shortcutting, and shortcutting often leads to inadvertent security risks. For example, closing out sessions on a device. It only takes a few seconds, but it's easy to just unplug and move on to something else. Tools like Uplogix can ensure that all sessions with devices are closed out, eliminating that risk.
When it comes to human errors, the report included a friendly sounding chart that summarized human errors that are actually very serious:
- "D'oh!" Sensitive information reaching incorrect recipients 30% of incidents
- "My bad!" Publishing nonpublic data to public web servers 17% of incidents
- "Oops!" Insecure disposal of personal and medical data 12% of incidents
Pretty much the same story in the Internet of Things. Lots of press, lots of concern about vulnerabilities, but not a lot really actually going on from an attack perspective. No big new threat vectors - just the same core challenges that sit squarely on people being the biggest threat. Still, the goal of the IoT is to get people out of the way and let machines talk to machines. See how Uplogix can help out there too.


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About Us
|Southern Indiana Scuba has been in business since 1975. The company was started by Charles Beeker, who ran the business until 1991. During that time SCUBA grew in Bloomington.
Charles started the store and joined PADI in 1975. Selling Dacor, and Sherwood SCUBA equipment, he started in a small corner building on South Walnut Street. Later it expanded to a larger building across the street, then moved into 1023 S Walnut Street where we spent the next twenty plus years. Charles had an opportunity to expand his role at Indiana University and sold the business to Robert Kessler in 1991.
Robert Kessler ran the business from 1991 to 1998 when he also had an opportunity to expand his role at Indiana University. During this time, Southern Indiana Scuba becomes an SSI training center as well as a PADI Dive Center. Taking on his role at Indiana University he sold the store to Mark and Kim Brooks.
Mark has been involved in Southern Indiana Scuba since 1989, helping with services, sales and training. Mark's background prior to owning Southern Indiana Scuba was working for a major computer company, and working part-time at the store. Mark's real love was diving, but computers paid the bills. Kim worked at Indiana University as a Office Manager. Mark and Kim took over ownership January 1, 1998. Kim is the president and Mark is the vice-president.
Mark handles daily operations and is in charge of the training program. Under Mark and Kim's ownership, the business has grown, we now carry ScubaPro, DUI Dry Suits, Dive Rite, teach PSI, SSI classes. The store has moved to 6500 S Empire Rd, Bloomington due to the need for more space. The store now does in-house hydro testing, Nitrox fills and trains cylinder inspection as well as offers compressor sales and service.
Travel is a main part of our business, Rotaan, Bahamas, Cayman, Mexico and many more places, including local dives. We consider our divers as family and we enjoy having them stop by for a visit or joining us on our trips!
We welcome all to our family of divers.


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By Jed J. Jacobson, DDS, MS, MPH, chief science officer and senior vice president, Delta Dental of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana
Your mouth is the gateway to your entire body, and it may be the best place to start when evaluating your overall health.
More than 90% of common diseases have oral symptoms and can be detected in the dental chair. This means that skipping your regular dental exam isn't only putting your mouth at risk, but also the rest of your body.
Signs and symptoms of more than 120 non-dental diseases can now be detected through a routine oral exam. These include cancer, diabetes, heart disease, HIV and many nutritional problems. During your oral exam, your dentist examines your head, neck and mouth for signs of something more serious going on elsewhere in your body.
Dentists also monitor symptoms like breath odor, unexplained sores and tooth erosion. Other oral clues that may indicate a serious health problem include:
- Anemia: Burning, fiery red tongue, inflammation of the corners of mouth or pale gum tissues
- Diabetes: Dry mouth, distinctive breath odor, burning tongue, high rate of tooth decay, inflammation and infections in the mouth
- Anorexia nervosa and bulimia: Chemical erosion of tooth enamel, fillings that appear to be raised above the eroded tooth surfaces, sensitive teeth, enlargement of the parotid glands making the face look full and round, and sweet breath aroma
- Kidney failure: Delayed tooth development in children, dry mouth, odor, metallic taste and ulcers on the tongue and gums
- Deficient immune system (HIV positive): Unexplained sores, red mouth due to opportunistic yeast infections (thrush mouth), non-removable white areas on the sides of the tongue
- Heart disease: Pain radiating to the jaw caused by insufficient oxygen to the heart muscle
Dentists are disease detectives, and they are at the forefront of saving lives. Not only can dentists detect non-dental diseases, but the clues they find often identify these problems in their early stages. Early recognition of these serious health problems is key for receiving appropriate diagnosis and referral for treatment.
Help your dentist detect serious health problems by visiting regularly for your exams. Provide a complete medical history, and inform him or her of any recent health developments, even if they seem unrelated to your oral health.
For more information on the connection between your mouth and body, watch Delta Dental's brief and entertaining video, "Dentists are Disease Detectives."
ABOUT DELTA DENTAL: As the state's largest dental benefits carrier, Delta Dental of Indiana offers a full range of individual and group dental plans for more than 660,000 people. Through education, philanthropy and advocacy, Delta Dental of Indiana is bringing oral health within reach for Indiana children and adults.


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I sometimes think there is an unwritten agreement for church membership. We are to put our brains out of gear at the beginning of Advent. We are to sing and listen to selected readings from scripture, but no theological inquiry is allowed until the decorations are safely packed away. It is during Advent and Christmas, the most celebrated season of the year, that we seem to substitute a theology about Jesus for the theology of Jesus. We talk more about who he was than what he said and did. This leaves me wondering, What is a proper theology?
I used to think theology was something stored away in my books. Week by week, I would take one off the shelf and look for something fresh and interesting. I would dust it off and preach it to my congregation. I knew I was successful when people filed out after church saying, "Thank you Reverend, That was fresh and interesting."
I know better now. Theology is not in my books. Theology is in you, whoever you are. It is known in how you live and how you relate to your fellow human beings. You don't learn theology in church, you discover it as you live in the world.
I used to think "church" was something we did up front in the sanctuary. I know better now. You don't come to church, you bring church with you when you come.
I think it was John Calvin who said something like, theology is the spectacles though which we see God. Maybe so. But I don't believe that any more. Theology is the spectacles through which we see the world as God intends it to be.
My fear is that what I learned in seminary was a fixed theology. I studied until I got it right, went out as a young pastor and dished "it" out one spoonful at a time until my sharper church members also got it right. I invited the world to come and get it. I had it and the world needed it.
I now believe such thinking is short sighted. Theology is not something we have, or get or even something we believe. It is something we do. It is something learned by following the teachings of Jesus and if we don't do our theology, it makes little difference what we believe.
If we want the world to take us seriously, then we must show Jesus to be relevant and that we are faithful. Jesus teaches such things as "love you enemies, turn the other cheek, go the second mile, feed the hungry, defend the weak and set at liberty those who are oppressed." When the world sees us doing these kinds of things, we might then claim a proper theology.
Now, what does all this have to do with a blog dedicated to justice and peace for the Palestinians? Just this. We go to church week after week while our brothers and sisters in
Palestine are persecuted,
and we hear very little, if anything, about it.
Our theologians tell us that we must present "both sides" in the name of fairness. I confess; when families are driven out of their homes in the middle of the night, I cannot see another side. When children are deliberately frightened by soldiers with guns and clubs until they cannot sleep, I cannot see another side. When people are denied access to a doctor or hospital at checkpoints, I cannot see another side. When water is confiscated and shipped out of
Palestine and into Israel, when settlers are allowed
to shoot holes into rooftop cisterns, I cannot see another side.
What I can see is that until the church speaks up, in a loud and clear voice to defend the oppressed and humiliated, we have no theology worth sharing.
"But the church is doing so many things right," I am told. This is true. However, if all parts of my body function just right and only one tiny clot forms on my brain, I am not 99% healthy, I am 100% sick. If the church does everything else just right, but fails to defend the weak and oppressed, we are not almost healthy, we are totally sick.
So, what is a proper theology? Jesus got it right. "Love God and neighbor." And who is my neighbor? The one who needs my help. He said nothing about taking someone else's home so he might come again (Christian Zionists) or that Yahweh might fulfill a promise to one set of chosen people, (Jewish Zionists) over any other people.
A proper theology is not just saluting the "General", and admiring his medals, It is following the General's orders. It means looking at our world through the spectacles of God's love. If the church doesn't speak up, somebody else will and as soon as that happens, the church will become irrelevant.
Thomas Are
December 20, 2014


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I did a great "field research" in the evenings of this week to test the current situation and mood in the Ladyboy Go Go bars, as well as to find the prices for which one can take with you.
I'm not the biggest fan of Patpong (mainly because of the many scams and rip-offs, many of which are connected to ping-pong shows) but the famous King's Castle 3 Go Go Bar (next to Pussy Collection in Patpong Soi 1) This bar was even a filming location of the movie "Hangover Part 2", there dance many sexy ladyboys, some of them pre-op, other pos-op so just ask before you know what you are.
Nana Plaza still has most of the Ladyboy Go Go bars and some of the best are Obsession on the ground floor and Temptations and Casanova on the first floor (respectively second floor in English). Casanova is probably the best ladyboy go go bar in Bangkok, the dancers are damn hot and almost all of them have big and beautiful breasts.
There is only one Ladyboy Go Go Bar in Soi Cowboy and is also very popular: Cockatoo. The bar is relatively small with just a medium sized dance floor on the five ladyboys dancing. When I went there last night, the ladyboys ran right to me, three of them jumped off the dance floor, so I was surrounded by a dozen half-naked ladyboys within a few seconds – and each one of them tried my own tricks with my own tricks To be allowed to sit next to me. Have fun with the hottest Ladyboys here at the Ladyboy Blog


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Diaz, Angel; Claes, Björn; Solis, Luis and Lorenzo, Oswaldo
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This paper describes the findings of an exploration into the adopted best logistics and supply chain practices in Spain. The aim of this paper and the related government funded research project has been to propose suggestions for improving Spain's competitive position through enhanced logistics strategies. More specifically, this paper presents an evaluation of the current state of logistics and supply chain practices in Spain that were identified by means of an elaborate survey instrument directed to operations and supply chain executives of large Spanish companies. The results of this evaluation are then benchmarked against the global best practices identified in the literature in order to identify any potential gaps. This paper concludes by pointing towards various opportunities for improvement in several different areas.
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How to Determine the Insurance Needs of Your Nonprofit
Insurance is a vital component of risk management for every business — for profit and nonprofit — but a nonprofit organization's insurance needs vary according to the following:
Whether it has employees
Whether it makes use of volunteers
Whether it has direct contact with clients, students, patients, or audiences and the nature of that direct contact
Whether it offers services within its own (or a rented) piece of property
Health insurance for the employees of your nonprofit
Beyond the employee benefits required by law, you'll want to provide health coverage for your employees if possible so they can afford medical attention if they're sick or injured. Offering this benefit also helps you recruit better-qualified employees.
Insure against nonprofit workplace injuries
If an employee is injured in the course of performing duties for your nonprofit, workers' compensation insurance covers the cost of medical treatment and — in some cases — the cost of retraining the employee for a different profession.
The cost of your workers' compensation insurance is calculated according to the number of employees you have, the number of hours they spend on the job, and the nature of the work they do. Rates for office clerks are considerably lower than rates for lion tamers and trapeze artists.
In most states, workers' compensation insurance is required by law. Therefore, as a nonprofit manager, you don't have a choice about whether to buy it. As you plan, don't forget to consider the following:
Do you use docents or other consistent volunteers? Include them in your workers' compensation insurance coverage.
If your organization's staff size or the nature of the work your employees do changes during the course of the year, contact your workers' compensation insurance carrier and change your coverage accordingly. Don't forget to make this change in coverage if you make temporary changes in the nature of your employees' work.
For example, do you conduct an annual fundraising event for which employees are working on ladders, stringing lights and garlands? If you plan ahead to change the definition of the type of work they perform, you can be confident that they're covered.
Workers' compensation insurance is a specialized field of law. If you encounter a legal problem about your coverage, seek assistance from an attorney with workers' compensation expertise.
Purchase liability insurance for your nonprofit
No matter how minor it may seem, if you make a mistake while performing your organization's duties and someone is injured as a result, you can be sued.
By purchasing liability insurance, you have access to a source of revenue for settling a lawsuit if someone sues you for this kind of mistake. Your insurance company also may provide legal defense, if it's needed. Most businesses purchase liability insurance as a matter of course. You may be required to get it if you meet any of the following conditions:
You accept a contract or grant from a government source.
You rent offices or other facilities.
You seek a city or county permit to use public property.
You seek an operating or construction permit.
You need to purchase specialized kinds of liability insurance if your organization has significant direct client contact that involves a potential risk. Health clinics and therapy programs need such insurance to protect them if a client is hurt or handled inappropriately. So do programs offering activities with possible physical dangers, such as rock climbing, sail boating, or horseback riding.
If your organization occasionally produces events or conducts work in locations other than its central office or building, check to make sure that you're covered for these off-site events. rider to your regular liability


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I am watching maid of honor, and i can't stop thinking about Patrick Dempsey! I love him when he act in Greys Anatomy! From the first season, until now, which means : The Sixth Season.
And guess what, yesterday is my 31months' anniversary with my boyfriend, and i forgot about it. So sorry darling! I hope i can make it up to you later :D love you, lanang sigit!


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- HIV is the human immunodeficiency virus. It is the virus that can lead to acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS.
- HIV damages a person's body by destroying specific blood cells, called CD4+ T cells, which are crucial to helping the body fight diseases.
- AIDS is the late stage of HIV infection, when a person's immune system is severely damaged and has difficulty fighting diseases and certain cancers. Before the development of certain medications, people with HIV could progress to AIDS in just a few years. Currently, people can live much longer – even decades – with HIV before they develop AIDS.
- It takes around ten years on average for someone with HIV to develop AIDS. However, this average is based on the person with HIV having a reasonable diet, and someone who is malnourished may well progress from HIV to AIDS more rapidly.
- Since 1996, the introduction of powerful antiretroviral therapies has dramatically changed the progression time between HIV infection and the development of AIDS. There are also other medical treatments that can prevent or cure some of the illnesses associated with AIDS, though the treatments do not cure AIDS itself. Studies are now underway to determine how long the development of AIDS can be avoided by using these drugs.
- HIV can NOT be spread through casual/household contact. HIV is not spread through hugging, kissing, shaking hands, sharing toys, sneezing, coughing, sharing food, sharing drinks, bathing, swimming or any other casual way. It has been proven that HIV and AIDS can only be spread through sexual contact, birth, breastfeeding and blood to blood contact (such as sharing needles).
- HIV is now considered a chronic but manageable disease. With treatment, people who are HIV+ can live indefinitely without developing AIDS and can live long and full lives.
- People who are HIV+ deserve to be treated with love, respect, support and acceptance as all people do. If anyone wants more info, there is great info HERE, HERE and HERE. You can also go to the CDC website Here. Help end the stigma. Become educated about HIV/AIDS. Know the facts and SHARE them with others.
We did not have to tell anyone about Luisa's HIV status. But, we believe God has given us this opportunity to educate others about the precious children like Luisa {and adults too} that are living with HIV and AIDS and help raise awareness and truth instead of ignorance and fear. We did not want her to grow up thinking she has a 'secret' that she needed to hide. We did however spend lots of time in prayer before telling 'everyone' because we do realize that once it is 'out there' we can't take it back, and we pray that she will be okay with that decision too. But, if one day she does not understand why we were open about her status, I will have to tell her that if others had kept silent, we may have never learned the facts about HIV, and may have never even known it was possible to adopt an HIV+ child!! Some may think it is for our "glory" or that we sacrificed her privacy for a cause. So be it. But God knows our hearts and we pray that Luisa will someday realize we spoke up with the hope that we could help to end to the stigma of HIV.


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Choosing When to Use Who and Whom
The whole topic of pronouns is enough to give you a headache, but the time has come to put to rest one of the peskiest pronoun problems once and for all. (Get the skinny on pronouns in Pronoun Tips for Proper English Grammar.) The rule for knowing when to use who and whom is simple; applying the rule is not.
First, the rule:
- Who and whoever are for subjects.
- Who and whoever also follow and complete the meaning of linking verbs. In grammarspeak, who and whoever serve as linking verb complements.
- Whom and whomever are for objects — all kinds of objects (direct, indirect, of prepositions, of infinitives, and so on).
(If you need to refresh your parts-of-speech memory, head to English Grammar Basics: Parts of a Sentence.) Before applying the rule concerning who/whoever and whom/whomever, check out these sample sentences:
Whoever needs help from Lochness is going to wait a long time. (Whoever is the subject of the verb needs.)
Who is calling Lulu at this time of night? (Who is the subject of the verb is calling.)
"I don't care whom you ask to the prom," exclaimed Legghorn unconvincingly. (Whom is the direct object of the verb ask.)
The mustard-yellow belt is for whomever she designates as the hot dog eating champion. (Whomever is the direct object of the verb designates.)
For whom are you bellowing? (Whom is the object of the preposition for.)
Now that you know the rule and have seen the words in action, here are two tricks for deciding between who/whoever and whom/whomever. If one trick seems to work, use it and ignore the other. Here goes. . . .
Trick #1: Horse and carriage
According to an old song, "love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage." Grammarians might sing that song with slightly different lyrics: "A subject and verb go together like a horse and carriage." (What do you think? Grammy material?) To use Trick #1, follow these steps:
1. Find all the verbs in the sentence.
2. Don't separate the helping verbs from the main verb. Count the main verb and its helpers as a single verb.
3. Now pair each of the verbs with a subject.
4. If you have a verb flapping around with no subject, chances are who or whoever is the subject you're missing.
5. If all the verbs have subjects, check them one more time. Do you have any linking verbs without complements? If you have a lonely linking verb with no complement in sight, you need who or whoever.
A linking verb begins a word equation; it expresses a state of being, linking two ideas. You can think of linking verbs as giant equal signs plopped into the middle of your sentence. The complement completes the equation. (Linking Verbs versus Action Verbs can help if you're confused about these different types of verbs.)
6. If all subjects are accounted for and you don't need a linking verb complement, you've reached a final answer: whom or whomever is the only possibility.
Here's a sample sentence, analyzed via Trick #1:
SENTENCE: Who/Whom shall I say is calling?
The verbs = shall say, is calling.
The subject of shall say = I.
The subject of is calling = Okay, here you go. You need a subject for is calling but you're out of words. You have only one choice: who.
CORRECT SENTENCE: Who shall I say is calling?
Pop quiz
Now you try: Which word is correct?
Agnes buys detergent in one-ton boxes for Lochness, who/whom she adores in spite of his odor problem.
Answer: Whom, because it's the direct object of adores. Agnes buys, she adores = subject–verb pairs. Both are action verbs, so no subject complement is needed.
Trick #2: Getting rhythm
This trick relies on your ear for grammar. Most English sentences follow one pattern: Subject–Verb–Object or Subject Complement. Trick #2 is to say the parts of the sentence in this order, even if you have to rearrange the words a little. Here are the steps to follow:
1. Identify the verb in the sentence that seems connected to the who/whom choice. Usually it's the verb nearest who/whom. It's also the verb logically connected by meaning — that is, in the same thought as who/whom.
2. Say (aloud, if you don't mind scaring your classmates or co-workers, or silently, if you plan to keep a reputation for sanity) the three parts of the sentence.
Anything before the verb is who or whoever.
If you're working with an action verb, anything after the verb is probably whom or whomever.
If you're working with a linking verb, anything after the verb is probably who or whoever.
Here is a sample sentence analyzed with Trick #2:
Who/Whom will Lochness choose for the vacancy in his nuclear spy ring?
The verb is will choose.
Will choose is an action verb, so forget about linking verb complements.
Say aloud: Lochness will choose who/whom.
Choice = whom because the word is after the verb.
Whom = direct object of will choose.
CORRECT SENTENCE: Whom will Lochness choose for the vacancy in his nuclear spy ring?
Pop quiz
Which word is correct?
Who/Whom do you like better, Lochness or Legghorn?
Answer: Whom is correct. Change the order of the words to you do like whom. Choose whom after an action verb. In this sentence, whom is the direct object. (By the way, the answer is Legghorn, no contest. He's much nicer than Lochness.)
See also:
English Grammar Tips for Subject-Verb Agreement
Living Better with Better Grammar
How to Locate the Verb in a Sentence


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Along with showing general symptoms of AS, these characteristics below, combined, are generally used in diagnosis:
- Grade 2 bilateral sacroiliitis OR, Grade 3 or higher unilateral sacroiliitis via Xray - in layman's term this means the signs of damage caused by inflammation of sacral joints (sacroiliitis) seen in both of the sacral joints, OR a definite vision of damage or complete fusion, seen in at least one sacral joint.
- HLA-B27 gene or family history of AS - 80-95% of people with AS have the HLA-B27 gene. Note having the HLA-B27 gene doesn't meant you will have or get AS. Only 9% of the population have this gene, and only 5% of those develop AS. You can have AS without this gene, or any previous history.
- High levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) and raised erythrocyte sedimentation rates (ESR) - determined by a blood test, these levels indicate inflammation. Not everyone who has AS actually show high levels of inflammation in their blood. This is only seen in 50-70% of people with AS.
If you have any suspicions that you may have AS, please speak to your General Practitioner to get a referral to a Rheumatologist to run the necessary tests.
A description of the sacroiliitis gradings can be found here: http://radiopaedia.org/articles/sacroiliitis-grading


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Feb 25, 2007
Air Canada Centre conversion from hockey to basketball
From the Toronto Star, here's a stop motion video showing the conversion from a Toronto Maple Leafs hockey game to a Toronto Raptors basketball game at Air Canada Centre. A crew of 18-25 workers takes about 8 hours to make the transformation.
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Crunch invite Britney Spears to Syracuse
Via CP/NHL.com:
More from a team press release:
Also: Read Jon Cudo's comments on the GameOps.com Blog
An American Hockey League team is offering pop star Britney Spears a break from the party scene and paparazzi madness in Hollywood - an all-expenses paid trip to snowy Syracuse.
And fans of the Syracuse Crunch are also getting a Britney offer: women who shave their head will get into Saturday's game against the visiting Manitoba Moose for free. Howard Dolgon, owner and president of the Crunch, said Tuesday he would be happy to fly Spears in, cover her hotel and meals and give her the best seats in the house at Crunch games.
More from a team press release:
In an effort to provide tranquility for troubled pop star Britney Spears' turbulent lifestyle the Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League have invited the newly separated icon to spend an all expense paid trip in snow- buried Syracuse, NY.
In recent weeks Spears has been the subject of negative publicity surrounding late-night partying, a very short stint in rehab and being photographed without wearing any underwear and a new shaved look.
In a show of support the Crunch is offering any woman that comes to the War Memorial Box Office with a shaved head a free ticket to the club's February 24 game against the Manitoba Moose.
"The team and community want to provide Britney Spears with a stress free environment and the chance to experience a high level of hockey," said Crunch President and CEO Howard Dolgon. "In addition to being 3,000 miles away from Hollywood, Syracuse is light years away from that pretentious environment. There won't be paparazzi within a 100 miles."
The Crunch's offer of an all expense paid trip will begin with their game on the 24th. Also if Spears accepts the Crunch's invitation each member of the club's front office staff will shave their heads.
Also: Read Jon Cudo's comments on the GameOps.com Blog
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Behind the Scenes: Penalty box guy
Ever wonder what it would be like to be a penalty box attendant? Kevin Kaduk from the Northwest Herald (Chicago) found out:
The first penalty is called on the Hounds, and it's on Chris Busby, 2 minutes for hooking. I lean down on the lever and pull the door back. Busby skates up and steps in. I slam the door, slide to the left on the bench and remain unsure of whether to greet him. Finally, I decide to say something....(via Kukla's Korner)
Busby mumbles something about the blue line, and that's the extent of our conversation. Two minutes of awkwardness begin. I wonder, is there supposed to be chatting in the penalty box? Should I ask him about the weather? His life away from the ice? Britney's new bald head? Read more...
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Feb 19, 2007
Howard Berger on Montreal crowds vs. Toronto crowds
Blogger Howard Berger has this to say about the differences between crowds in Montreal and Toronto.
...First off, the winning tradition in Montreal far exceeds anything that is evident in Toronto, for obvious reasons. The Habs, though they haven't sipped champagne since 1993, have won ten Stanley Cups since the '67 Leafs upset them to win their last championship. Also, there are cultural differences among people in Ontario and Quebec that lead to a more passionate, noisy hockey crowd at Habs games. Here in polite, conservative Toronto, people do not start making a fuss until the Leafs win a first-round playoff match -- at which point Yonge Steet, the main north-south drag in our city, is closed to vehicular traffic. Montreal, because of its rich French-Canadian heritage, is more reminiscient of the culture and custom in Europe. And anyone who watches soccer from England, Italy, Spain or Germany knows how demonstrative and zealous good European soccer fans can be. Montreal's hockey audience reflects that trait, and it frequently carries over to the devotion for past heroes. There will never be a Rocket Richard-like ovation in Toronto for any hockey player, past or present. It just isn't in the genes...
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Cudo on in-game marriage proposals
Jon Cudo writes about in-game marriage proposals on the GameOps.com blog:
Previous: Animal rights activist sneaks message onto scoreboard
I think if I would have proposed at a sports event on the jumbotron not only would my wife had said no….but she might have killed me. In my days as a mascot I have been a part of over 20 proposals over the years, which means I have been (literally) right in the middle of two people's most intimate moment. It's something that always gets me emotionally. It's really an honor, yet totally bizzare. I also have been the "best man" in costume for a couple I never met nor have never heard from again. Again…and honor, and totally bizzare.
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File under: miscellany
Feb 18, 2007
Too many NHL jerseys being retired?
Columnist Rick Wile asks this question in Kamloops This Week: "Is there glorifying for the sake of image and marketing? Jersey retirement nights in hockey are far more prevalent than they are in the other major sports of football, baseball, and basketball. Is it overkill in hockey?" (via Kukla's Korner)
I think Rick is on to something here - it seems like since the NHL lock-out, we've had a jersey retired about once every month.
When/how/why should teams retire jerseys?
After his #29 jersey was retired in Montreal last month, Ken Dryden said:
What criteria should be used for retiring numbers? Here's an idea from the "Bitter Leaf Fan Page" blog:
What do you think?
I think Rick is on to something here - it seems like since the NHL lock-out, we've had a jersey retired about once every month.
When/how/why should teams retire jerseys?
After his #29 jersey was retired in Montreal last month, Ken Dryden said:
"It used to be ... that when a special rookie arrived in a team's training camp, that player would be given No. 9 or 7 or 2, whatever the number that was special to that team. One of the great and surprising thrills for me was seeing goalies wearing No. 29 after me. For a few, it may have been because I wore that number, but over time it became a goalie number."And in Toronto, they prefer to "honour" players, rather than retire jerseys:
It was felt that not retiring player sweaters gives the Leafs the flexibility of honouring more of these individuals than would be the case if the Leafs took the sweater numbers out of circulation.
The consulting group determined that the former player's number would be deemed an "Honoured Number" but remain in circulation. As a means of adding significance to this, the sweater of the current Maple Leaf that has the "Honoured Number" wears a special shoulder patch with the honouree's name inscribed for the balance of that season. The special banner for the honouree remains on permanent display at Air Canada Centre.
The Leafs historically only retired numbers of distinguished players that have died or had their career shortened due to tragic or catastrophic circumstances while being a member of the team. Irvine (Ace) Bailey (No. 6) and Bill Barilko (No. 5) are the two represented in this category.
What criteria should be used for retiring numbers? Here's an idea from the "Bitter Leaf Fan Page" blog:
...to be eligible to have a number retired, the player has to meet both of the following two baseline criteria:
1. Member of the Hockey Hall of Fame
2. Spent the majority of their NHL career as a Leaf...
In addition to the above, the player would also have to meet at least 2 of the following 3 criterion:
1. Won or been nominated for one of the major NHL trophies such as the Stanley Cup, Hart, Vezina, Jennings, Calder, Rocket Richard, Conn Smythe, Norris or Lady Byng while playing as a Leaf
2. Lead (or have lead) the Leafs organization in at least one major statistical category (e.g. career games played, career goals, career assists, career +/-, career points, shut outs, GAA, wins, etc.)
3. Been a pioneer or transformational player for the organization
I think the team should also have special dispensation to retire a number in the event that a player had promising career cut tragically short a la Tim Horton, Bill Barilko...
What do you think?
Posted by Unknown at 2:55 PM 1 comments
File under: ceremonies, miscellany
Feb 4, 2007
Austin Toros mascot loses his head, gets suspended
The Austin Toros (NBA Development League) mascot "Da Bull" lost his head during a recent game, almost cost his team a win. From ESPN.com:
The Toros suspended the mascot, and assigned him to 50 hours of community service, according to a team press release:
The mascot, known as Da Bull, prematurely ran onto the court and hung from the rim with .4 seconds remaining, apparently to punctuate center Loren Woods' breakaway dunk that gave the Toros a four-point lead over Colorado.Click here to see a video of the incident from CNN.
While hanging from the rim ... Da Bull collided with a Colorado player. At the point of contact, the mascot's head, to his horror, fell to the floor.
The Toros were assessed a technical foul. The 14ers' Von Wafer made the free throw, but Rick Rickert missed a 3-pointer that would have tied the score as time expired.
The Toros suspended the mascot, and assigned him to 50 hours of community service, according to a team press release:
Da Bull will return to action on Friday, February 2, when the Toros take on the Bakersfield Jam. The Toros will have a replacement mascot for Friday's game against the Arkansas Rimrockers at 7:30.
Community service for Da Bull begins this weekend at the Bastrop Hoopstars basketball clinic on Saturday and Sunday at the Whataburger Youth Basketball clinic from 1-3 at the IH-35 and Wells Branch store.
(via GameOps.com Editor Blog)
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Interview with Krazy George
GameOps.com has an new interview with Krazy George -- professional male cheerleader and inventor of the wave. Read about how Krazy George got started in the business, how he started the very first wave, and the time that Wayne Gretzky invited him out for dinner.
I met George for the first time in January 1999. We booked him in for an Ottawa 67's game. We spent the afternoon taping tv promos -- with George yelling and screaming to the tv cameras.
As it turned out, the 67's game was cancelled becuase the visiting team bus got delayed in a snowstorm. I took George out for dinner, and not once did he yell, scream, or try to start the wave at the restaurant.
I met George for the first time in January 1999. We booked him in for an Ottawa 67's game. We spent the afternoon taping tv promos -- with George yelling and screaming to the tv cameras.
As it turned out, the 67's game was cancelled becuase the visiting team bus got delayed in a snowstorm. I took George out for dinner, and not once did he yell, scream, or try to start the wave at the restaurant.
Posted by Unknown at 9:25 PM 0 comments
File under: miscellany, the wave
O Canada sung in Cree at Calgary Flames game
From cbc.ca:
A 13-year-old Alberta girl is about to make NHL history, when she becomes the first person to sing O Canada before a game in Cree.
Akina Shirt, who lives in Edmonton but is originally from the Saddle Lake First Nation, will sing the national anthem in Cree before the puck drops for the Calgary Flames-Vancouver Canucks game on Saturday night.
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It is not uncommon for people who are victimized by domestic violence to
have a criminal record themselves. This is because domestic violence victims
are sometimes coerced into committing criminal acts. Other times, this
is because the criminal justice system does not react appropriately to
a domestic violence call and ends up arresting both the victim and the
abuser — or only the victim — of committing domestic violence.
What many Maryland residents do not realize is that simply being arrested
and being held in custody for a certain amount of time is enough to give
them a criminal record. The arrested person does not even have to be charged
with a crime — the arrest will still show up on his or her history
(which is easily available for view in online searches). Things get worse,
however, when accused individuals are actually charged with a crime.
If a conviction occurs, an accused person not only has to worry about his
or her criminal records — now he or she has to worry about punishment.
A conviction happens after a guilty plea is entered or if the court finds
the accused person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in trial proceedings.
Having a domestic violence arrest or conviction on a criminal record could
cause serious problems for Maryland residents while looking for work.
Employers might choose not to hire them if they find they have a criminal
past. A marred criminal record could also cause social problems if friends
or relatives decide to look up their criminal past in easily accessible
online records.
If you have an arrest or criminal history on your record, a criminal defense
attorney might be able to help you
clean up your criminal record and get certain items expunged.
Source: Center for Survivor Agency & Justice, "Criminal Records and Employment Rights: A Tool for Survivors of Domestic Violence," Erika Sussman, accessed Oct. 08, 2015


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Zille calls on Health and Crime
By Mandisi Tyulu
26 September 2008
The Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille says where crime is concerned President Kgalema Motlanthe can send a powerful message to South Africans by distancing his government from the denialism that characterised crime fighting under Thabo Mbeki.
Zille said this in her weekly letter to the President and his new Minister of Safety and Security, Nathi Mthethwa, must work to bring down levels of crime, improve conviction rates, and expedite the review of the criminal justice system.
Zille says in the health portfolio new minister Barbara Hogan's challenge is to rid the Ministry of the last vestiges of denialism that sowed confusion about how HIV/Aids is transmitted.
She says this attitude prevented the universal rollout of antiretroviral medication, and diminished South Africa's reputation internationally.


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What do thoughtleaders in fair labor, intellectual property and corporate social responsibility think of CREATe.org?
After the CREATe-hosted discussion on these topics, we spent a few minutes gaining the perspectives of CREATe.org advisory council members Richard Locke, Head of Political Science at MIT Sloan School of Management, and Keith Maskus, Economics Professor and Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, along with Jane Nelson, Director of Harvard Kennedy School's Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative.
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This site is for educational purposes. Slavery in the new world from Africa to the Americas.
Friday, October 5, 2012
Chicago's 1968 Democratic Convention
10 comments:
- AnonymousOctober 6, 2012 at 1:01 PM
OK, what great lesson are Black citizens supposed to draw from this event? Nixon's southern strategy was born out of the victory of the Civil Rights movement and the riots sparked by police violence such as the Detroit riot of 1967. There is an elemental quality to such events that defies the plans of the cleverest politicians.ReplyDeleteReplies
The lesson from the DNC 1968 in Chicago closes a tumultuous year whereby the Right-wing emerges victoriously. The LEFT went off the rails of life, and the RIGHT emerges for the next 30 years as the ruling Party.Delete
It's not JUST the Detroit Riots, but after MLK's assassination in 1968, 110 US cities were engulfed in riots. Robert Kennedy was assassinated, President Johnson quit his job ... there were riots in France, Poland, Mexico, Nigeria ... there was a worldwide revolution and the LEFT was defeated (mostly from within) and the RIGHT won victories in France, Mexico, Poland and the USA.
As for black citizens, the lesson learned is not to be confused by goofballs like Tavis Smiley and Cornel West. The stakes are too high to play Politics of Personal Grievances.
--Ron Edwards, US Slave Blog
- AnonymousOctober 7, 2012 at 12:16 PM
Ron, we've got to stop agreeing on the main points. Yes there was a worldwide revolutionary upsurge that year. You left out the most important one: The Tet offensive. Now it's my turn to say GET REAL. Smiley and West aren't confusing anyone BHO is. In a previous exchange on the dear leader and these gentlemen you came out with your self help program and criticized West for not starting some kind of education program. In a shocking bit of crab barrel thinking on your part you wrote that West ought to recruit his friend Jay-Z to finance your scheme. As a believer in capitalism and the individualist ethos that system requires you ought to know that Jay-Z and West's main concern should be what profit rate they should expect from such venture. You should send your plan to BHO, as President he could just tell HUD to make the properties available. He could order the Federal prison system to release non violent offenders to do the work. He could justify the whole program as a bold initiative to reduce poverty and teach good citizenship to a deprived group. You could ask him to eliminate the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine convicts. Why, oh, Why have these ideas never entered the dear leader's head.ReplyDeleteReplies
You and I probably agree more than we disagree.Delete
The Tet Offensive is in an upcoming post on the year 1968. You just keep getting me off my game. This should be a discussion on the 100 years post-emancipation when ALL blacks FINALLY gain citizenship rights.
You said: {{{ In a shocking bit of crab barrel thinking on your part you wrote that West ought to recruit his friend Jay-Z to finance your scheme. As a believer in capitalism and the individualist ethos that system requires you ought to know that Jay-Z and West's main concern should be what profit rate they should expect from such venture. }}}
Oh my, you missed the point entirely. I'm not talking about PROFITEERING off of poverty. There is no PROFIT. No PROFIT motive. It should be considered a "charity." JayZ, Beyonce, MosDef, Prince would DONATE their services to raise "seed money" for the CHARITY.
Not a Venture Capital investment, but a charitable donation. All materials, all services would have ZERO profit.
If Cornel West and Tavis Smiley are SERIOUS about their poverty tour, then they would demonstrate the simplest economic formula: A-L = W (Assets - Liabilities = Wealth). The seed money is to procure assets to redistribute to the poor. You don't need a bunch of government bureaucratic red-tape to restrict your wealth building plan. Even under the BEST CASE President Obama will only be in office for 4 more years. And we all know what happens when another administration takes place, the funding gets cut, or there will be too many hoops to jump through and ladders to climb ... it never works out very well. So, if you want something sustainable, then you need to consider grassroots low/no cost. HUD houses are $1.00, rehab materials are almost at zero cost, the poverty people need building trade skills and THEY do the labor...the pay a nominal "rent" to put some skin in the game and after 7-10 years the ASSET is theirs. You will change their status as homeowners, owners of real estate, and skill building.
What the heck is crab barrel thinking about that. I'm not keeping folks from rising, I'm offering them an escape route. I think its better to go below the radar and off the grid. Remember what happened to Fred Hampton when he fed the ghetto children free breakfast.
If my timeline is correct, in 1969 Chicago's finest gunned him down while he was asleep in his bed about 1 year after the DNC Convention meltdown.
--Ron Edwards, US Slave Blog
- AnonymousOctober 8, 2012 at 10:32 AM
Your scheme is predicated on the notion that rich Blacks have a special duty toward lifting other Blacks out of poverty. I labeled such thinking crab barrel thinking because, as I see it , crabs who attach themselves to other crabs in a barrel do so not out of a leveling instinct but as a way to break free from the confines of the barrel. Being the "wonk" you claim to be a little bit of grade school math should have disabused you of the viability of your scheme. The 10 richest American's combined wealth in 2012 was $347.1 billion (http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/). Contrast their wealth to that of the 18 richest Blacks $9.425 billion (http://www.therichest.org/nation/wealthiest-african-americans/). The Whites were 36.82 times richer than the Blacks. If you invested the combined wealth of the richest Americans and got a 5% return on it in one year you would have generated $17.355 billion a year, that's almost twice the wealth of the richest Blacks in 2012. You wrote "Even under the BEST CASE President Obama will only be in office for 4 more years. And we all know what happens when another administration takes place, the funding gets cut, or there will be too many hoops to jump through and ladders to climb ... it never works out very well." The Emancipation Proclamation, The Voting Rights act, etc. ,though not perfect, have worked well enough. Who told you Obama won't cut funding for programs benefiting the poor?ReplyDeleteReplies
Have you ever even READ the Emancipation Proclamation? That document didn't free anybody, the 13th Amendment freed the slaves, not the Emancipation Proclamation. It did change the tide of the Civil War, but it took a Constitutional Amendment to actually free slaves.Delete
The Voting Rights Act is under CONSTANT pressure, even with the 15th and 19th Amendment the Constitution doesn't seem to apply to black people. I've posted plenty of times how RIGHT NOW, TODAY, that massive disenfranchisement is occurring as the Republicans treat voting rights like dog droppings on the bottom of their shoe.
As far as your mislabeling of "crab barrel thinking." Cornel West and Tavis Smiley pimp-poverty. I'm not driving around on some stupid poverty bus throwing spitballs at the president. My premise rests upon the qualifying statement: "IF THEY ARE SERIOUS..." The evidence does not prove to be conclusive about the seriousness of either Smiley or West.
It's not about aggregating black wealth vs. white wealth. The proposed measures represent a low cost method of growing assets. I NEVER said for JayZ et al to write ONE check or take ONE dime out of their own pocket, just give a benefit concert or two and DONATE the money as charity. That's one hour of time. Nonprofits give fundraisers all of the time, why can't we raise funds for ourselves.
--Ron Edwards, US Slave Blog
- AnonymousOctober 8, 2012 at 12:42 PM
No sir I did not read the proclamation and I don't need to. I know that with that policy The North turned the property of the slave owners into freed men instead of returning them to their "rightful owners" and got the ball rolling toward making Blacks American citizens. Without the protection of the law how long do you think that your scheme would last. In your desperation to let BHO off the hook you keep coming up with more fanciful dodges. " I NEVER said for JayZ et al to write ONE check or take ONE dime out of their own pocket, just give a benefit concert or two and DONATE the money as charity. That's one hour of time. Nonprofits give fundraisers all of the time, why can't we raise funds for ourselves." You want them to DONATE their time instead of using their time to make money to enrich themselves, how is that fundamentally diferrent from asking them to write a check? As an individualist I would think you would find that they are the only ones qualified to make such decisions.ReplyDeleteReplies
The "Confiscation Acts" turned the former slaves into CONTRABAND of War, they weren't necessarily "FREE".Delete
The IRS taxes income donated to charities different from time donated to charities.Delete
It's like volunteering your time at a soup kitchen vs. writing a check to the soup kitchen. Volunteer time is not taxed, while the IRS taxes income and allows for a certain percentage of charitable contributions to be deducted from your 1040.
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Group calls on Colorado delegation for immigration reform Wednesday in Aurora
The Fast for Families tour bus made a stop Wednesday morning in Aurora, urging Congressman Mike Coffman and others from the Colorado delegation to push for immigration reform this year.
The press event was held at the Mountain View United Church in Aurora. Among those who spoke were faith and immigrant leaders as well as Aurora Mayor Steve Hogan, who told the crowd he's a Republican and wants immigration reform.
"I would call on Congressman Coffman, I would call on the entire Colorado delegation to do the right thing," Hogan said.
Rudy Lopez of Fast for Families and Fair Immigration Reform Movement said the current immigration system is "broken" and that too many families are being torn apart by deportations.
"We want to thank him for the encouraging dialogue he has had with our community," Lopez said of Coffman. "We are also here to urge him to do more."
Coffman, a Republican, has proposed anti-illegal immigration legislation in the past. But he has also acknowledged that his stance on the issue has changed, saying he supports a path to citizenship for children who were brought to the United States illegally and later serve in the military.
There are more Latinos in his 6th Congressional District now than before, after the lines were redrawn. Coffman is facing Democratic challenger Andrew Romanoff in the November election.
"Mike Coffman has been working hard to fix our broken immigration system," Coffman spokesman Tyler Sandberg said in a written statement. "He will continue to push for his bipartisan bill that would give citizenship to Dreamers who serve in the military. As Mike says, there is no higher expression of citizenship than serving our nation in uniform."
Last November, Fast for Families reignited the immigration debate when several members abstained from all food for 22 days at the National Mall. The tour bus will be in Minneapolis on Thursday and end up in Washington, D.C. April 6.


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Maguire, Tom (1995) The Possibilities For A Popular Political Theatre. In: Popular Theatres? (Eds: Merkin, Ros), Liverpool John Moores, pp. 51-60. ISBN 0952797801 [Book section]
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