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"A free trade zone is a complex, very complicated issue requiring thorough consideration," Putin said after a visit to Germany during which he met Merkel as well as German business leaders.

A day earlier, Putin had suggested in a guest article for a German newspaper a bold idea of a vast free-trade zone from Vladivostok on Russia's eastern edge to Lisbon in Portugal on Europe's western extremity.

"In essence, we will get a continental market with a volume of trillions of euros," Putin wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Merkel, however, quickly made clear she was unimpressed with the idea, citing Russian tariffs and Moscow's creation of a customs union with former Soviet republics Kazakhstan and Belarus.

"Of course we support the idea of a free trade zone between the EU and Russia but I have to pour a bit of cold water on it. The steps that Russia has taken recently do not point in that direction," she said Thursday.

Merkel toned down her hostility after her talks with Putin, saying that such a zone would make sense, but stressing that it was something for the longer term.

"This is more of a question for the future. I basically share it (the aim). We are neighbours and just like in other areas we will intensify our partnership step by step," Merkel said.

Putin too sought to stress that his relations with Merkel were warm, noting that the two leaders had hugged and kissed at the meeting. "We are good, old friends," he said. "We do not have contradictions here ... Here I fully agree (with Merkel)."

But he said that closer commercial ties between Europe and Russia were essential and inevitable.

"I do not know what form our cooperation should take - will it be a common free market or will it be our associated membership in the EU," he said earlier.

"But a rapprochement between Russia and Europe is unavoidable, if we want to be preserved as a civilisation, if we want to be successful and competitive.

"Can we assume that Russia together with Europe will one day be in a single currency zone? I can assume that."

He also defended Russia's customs union with Belarus and Kazakhstan, saying it was a considerable achievement and telling business leaders before meeting Merkel that it was "enormous, difficult hard work".

"You have to urgently go to a store and buy us a bottle of schnapps because it was indeed a complicated, exhausting procedure," he said.

Putin also said that good relations were a two-way street, complaining Europe was putting up barriers to Russian firms. "Sometimes it is difficult to (expand) ... due to reasons that are completely unclear to us ... One cannot work like this," he said.

Putin voiced hope on Friday that Russia would complete its quest for World Trade Organization membership next year, an aim that Merkel said she supported. "I think this is possible and this our wish," Putin said. "There are virtually no unresolved issues left."

Russia, which opened its bid to join the WTO in 1993, is the last major world power not a member of the Geneva-based global trade body.

The United States endorsed in October Russia's bid to join, and on Wednesday Russia said it had wrapped up a deal with the European Union that should enable membership next year.

"It is also desirable for us because of the G20, with Russia being a member of the G20. We would like finally to complete the Doha trade talks, and we would very much like to do this with Russia as a WTO member," Merkel said.

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- "I hear you put Laelette out of her misery."
- ―Alva[src]
Alva is a Nord vampire and a resident of Morthal. She lives in her house in Morthal with the widower, Hroggar, and can be seen wandering around Morthal after dark.
She is a vampire who was sent to Morthal by the master vampire Movarth to turn some townsfolk while preying on the rest. She is seen as uncaring and sees the townsfolk as nothing more than cattle, but her journal reveals a desire, at one point, for love and romance.[1]
She came to Morthal on orders from a master vampire named Movarth, with whom she fell in love. Her primary objective was to establish a presence in the town and then seduce and enslave the guards. After she had done this, Movarth and the rest of the vampire coven would enter the town and use it as a constant source of blood and protection from the sunlight.[1]
She seduced Hroggar so he would guard her house during the day, and turned Laelette to serve as her handmaiden. She ordered Laelette to kill Hroggar's family and make it appear as an accident, but Laelette burned the house with them in it, causing suspicion amongst the townspeople. She can be found sleeping in a coffin in her basement during the day, and can also be seen in Movarth's Lair during the night.[1]
Laid to RestEdit
After finding and killing Thonnir's wife, Laelette, and discovering she is in fact a Vampire, the quest marker will point to Alva's House. Alva is in the basement, lying in a coffin. When the room is entered, she rises and immediately attacks if one is not sneaking. If it is nighttime, she may not be in her coffin. Her journal, which is lying in the coffin, reveals that she was the one who changed Laelette and also plans to enslave the entire town of Morthal with a coven of vampires which had sent her to the town.
- Alva is one of the few owners of the rare Tavern Clothes.
- Regardless of the stage, if the Dragonborn is a vampire during the quest involving Movarth and Alva, she will have a special dialogue, where she says "I know you for what you are. This town's blood is ours. Leave it!" referring to Movarth's coven.
- Being a vampire, she is extremely vulnerable to fire dragons during attacks on the town.
- If Alva is forced to fight, she will use her vampiric powers to defend herself, revealing her for what she is. Strangely, the people of Morthal don't care about, or even notice, this occurrence.
- During the quest "Laid to Rest," if Alva does not die while searching in her house, she can be found in the lair. She will not fight unless attacked, though she can possibly be found dead in the cave as well, killed by a fellow vampire (related to bugs listed below).
- She, rather often, makes very seductive comments towards male characters, even females, presumably so that she can enthrall them, as per Movarth's plan.
- If Alva is killed before Laelette, and someone sees it, the bounty is 40 gold, not 1,000, because the guards realize she is a vampire, yet they will still attempt an arrest for assault.
- Killing Alva, even in self-defense and during the related quest, will lower Lami and Hroggar's disposition by two points, even when they find out she is a vampire.
- During "Laid to Rest," if the Dragonborn hasn't killed Alva before entering Movarth's Lair, they can sneak attack one of Movarth's followers beside him at his table with a bow. Sneaking then to the left, down the ramp behind the rocks through the small sleeping area, the Dragonborn can see Alva engaging a Vampire Mistwalker in combat. If the Dragonborn does nothing, the vampire will kill Alva, providing a means to obtain her Tavern Clothes without needing to kill her at all, and without the risk of obtaining a bounty.
- Alternatively, if Alva survived after completing "Laid to Rest," she can be found sleeping inside the coffin in her house and neutral to the Dragonborn, the Dragonborn can choose to pickpocket her Tavern Clothes with Perfect Touch perk, as a means of obtaining Tavern Clothes while keeping her alive.
- Alva does not have the usual appearance of a vampire, lacking the red, (or with Dawnguard installed, orange) eyes.
- If Dragonborn use Voice of the Emperor to Alva while in her house, may cause her to run to Movarth's lair. If power's effect expire before she reach it, she will go back to Morthal and attack everyone.
- She is not actually a vampire by race, and her race is instead that of a normal Nord. This means that her appearance will not change with Dawnguard installed. However, she will still use the Vampiric Drain spell, and the Sun Damage and Turn Undead effects do work on her.
- If you have already killed Laelette, Alva will comment "I hear you put Laelette out of her misery."
This section contains bugs related to Alva. Before adding a bug to this list, consider the following:
- 360 PS3 Alva may be found in Movarth's Lair as a human after completing "Laid to Rest"; attacking her will result in a bounty.
- If she is not killed before the Dragonborn goes to Movarth's Lair, she will go there and will be friendly to the Dragonborn but all the vampires will be hostile towards her. If she survives there, Hroggar will still be thankful for saving him from her, but after she returns home he will immediately become hostile and fight Dragonborn alongside Alva.
- Sometimes, when entering her home she will not be there, and when assaulting Movarth's Lair she may not appear there either though she may reappear back in Morthal later and will not be hostile.
- Even after the Jarl learns that Alva is a vampire, attacking Alva when she is not hostile will gain a bounty and guards will attack if there are any around.
- Alva's appearance does not change to the new updated appearance of vampires found in the Dawnguard DLC, and according to Creation Kit, she is not a vampire.

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You wouldn't know it from its modest adobe-and-brick-tile headquarters on National Avenue, but like a lot of its larger neighbors in Mountain View, Calif., AnchorFree aims to change the world. Not by becoming the biggest search engine (and advertising machine) or the most prodigious professional network on the planet but by letting you browse the Internet anonymously–protecting you from the prying eyes of malicious hackers, governments bent on stealing your private data or even your everyday snoop by offering so-called activity encryption for anyone who accesses the Web. "Just like an antivirus protects your computer, we protect everything you do online," says David Gorod?yansky, the 31-year-old cofounder and CEO. "We wanted to make the world a better place."
Making the world a better place can be a pretty good business. AnchorFree has been buoyed by dissident movements in the Middle East, Thailand and Turkey. But it's also gained fans in the U.S., with heightened concerns about intrusions by relentless data gatherers, from the NSA to Google and Facebook. The company's virtual private network app, Hotspot Shield, has been downloaded 200 million times since late 2007; another 250,000 people sign up every day. With net margins of 30%, AnchorFree pulled in revenue of $35 million last year, up from $25 million in 2012. Half comes from almost nonstop pop-up ads and paid content; the rest from a sliver of its 25 million monthly subscribers who pay $30 a year for its Elite (ad-free and faster) service.
It took a while for Gorodyansky and cofounder Eugene Malobrodsky, also 31, to find their focus. Both the children of computer engineers who immigrated to Silicon Valley as the Soviet Union crumbled, the two met at their Palo Alto synagogue 18 years ago and have remained inseparable. Gorod?yansky, an intense, fast-talking Muscovite, and Malobrodsky, a laid-back techie born in Lithuania, founded their first venture in 2002: Intelligent Buying, a network-equipment sales platform that reached $1 million in revenue.
The duo aimed higher. While keeping the business and their college courses going, they met in coffee shops–and groused. "This paid Wi-Fi stuff has to die," Gorodyansky recalls thinking. "It has to be free, and it has to be secure." Why not provide such a service–and get advertisers to pay for visibility on their network, covering infrastructure costs and leaving a little profit? AnchorFree lumbered into the world in 2005.
In classic entrepreneurial form, they maxed out their credit cards, spending $50,000 or so to finance Wi-Fi antennas in downtown Palo Alto and San Francisco. The ploy snagged a few thousand users and caught the attention of then San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, who invited Gorodyansky to advise his tech council, which included Craigslist founder Craig Newmark and Google folks. Through their lawyers, Wilson Sonsini, which took its fees in equity, the founders met former MCI Communications CEO Bert Roberts, who convinced RENN Capital of Dallas to lead a $6 million Series A round in 2006.
Great idea, but little money in it. "The cost of upkeep and infrastructure just doesn't generate enough revenue to pay for itself," explains Malobrodsky. "So we started thinking about what kinds of products would."
AnchorFree jettisoned everything except Hotspot Shield. Here's how it works. When you download and activate the program on desktop, tablet or mobile, you visit websites via the company's servers in the U.S., the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and Japan, which scrub any information (including IP addresses) that could determine your location or identity. After you log off, your data are deleted. The free download caught fire. "We had to add servers literally every two days because it would get oversaturated," Malobrodsky recalls.
The slimmed-down company rises in popularity whenever repressive regimes crack down. In 2010, after Chinese authorities blocked the site, AnchorFree figured out a bypass: It sent e-mails to its entire user base with links to download Mac and Windows versions of Hotspot Shield; because Web surfers rode Gorodyansky's servers, they steered clear of the censors. "That helped us quadruple traffic," he says.
During the 2011 Arab Spring, when governments shut down websites like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, protesters flocked to Hotspot Shield. That January, as crowds in Tahrir Square tried to oust Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, Hotspot Shield downloads there jumped literally tenfold overnight to 1 million. "We were the only way to get to social media, to communicate and to share," says Gorodyansky. Last year, when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to raze a park in Istanbul, thousands of people discovered the AnchorFree loophole, boosting usage 1,000% nationwide.
You might think the two ex-Soviet founders had been inspired by legendary dissidents Andrei Sakharov and Natan Sharansky. Gorodyansky, a onetime Forbes.com contributor, shakes his head. "We pretty much grew up here." He points to his paternal grandfather, Aaron Leonid, a Red Army reconnaissance photographer in World War II, who used to tell him, "Don't just stop because there's a wall or a door in front of you. Keep going!" The Arab Spring uprisings, however disappointingly they turned out, clarified AnchorFree's mission. Says Gorodyansky: "We wanted to be a business with a soul and a real social mission, instead of just a financial one."
Making dough sometimes clashes with that higher goal. Hassle-free communication and browsing come with a price–a relentless barrage of ads that follow you like black flies wherever you go on the Web. Some are content teases by publishers; AnchorFree distributes content for the likes of AP, UPI, PC World, Mac World, National Geographic and News Distribution Network, which pay for the service. Many ads are annoying and random–getting hit with an ad for a dating service, say, when you're visiting a musical instrument site, served by an ad network from Google, Yahoo or AOL. Says Gorodyansky: If you don't like the ads, pay for the Elite service.
But the app can be a challenge for some advertisers, too. Because AnchorFree doesn't collect an individual's data and deletes everything except page cookies, brand advertisers glean only the most minimal information about potential customers. They know you've come to a site via the app and hope they're hitting you with something you'll click on.
AnchorFree may have to reconcile its competing interests at some point. In three rounds of financing it has raised $63 million. Its biggest backer is Goldman Sachs, which led a $52 million Series C round in May 2012, giving AnchorFree a valuation of $250 million. (Goldman declined to comment on its investment.) Half that wad went to pay off some early investors and staffers. Roughly one-third of the equity is still in the hands of the founders and their 70 employees.
Bert Roberts, the onetime MCI chief who owns more than 10% of AnchorFree, is letting his money ride a while. There may be an acquisition of a company or two that develop security and identity management apps for mobile. AnchorFree is also beta testing a portal called KaboomIt.com that lets users express themselves and share information, pictures and videos before disappearing them, ? la Snapchat. Roberts talks about achieving a user base on a par with some of those other Valley titans trying to change the world. AnchorFree, he insists, "has that kind of potential."
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Sometimes events occur like buses turning up: not a lot of activity and then suddenly two or three arrive in one go. Well, I can gladly say this applies to quality books on Git.
Several weeks ago I received from Amazon my long awaited copy of "Version Control with Git: Powerful tools and techniques for collaborative software development" by Jon Loeliger. For about £18 and at 328 pages it's fairly good value; it contains a good deal of tutorial style hands-on examples and also the in-depth know-how that one expects from a good technical book. Not bad at all really.
Pro Git" (Amazon, £19.24) by Scott Chacon and published by Apress. This book is available on-line under the Creative Commons license as well in printed form too. The great feature of this book is that it's been put up on GitHub and then forked and translated into other languages such as German, Chinese, Japanese and Russian. Anyhow, this looks to be another great Git book, and well worth looking at too.
So now there's no excuse for not getting to grips with git - here are a couple of quality text books to help new and experienced uses with daily git usage!


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While visiting with some old friends this came up once again. As a smart ass I am tempted to say something like, "on my way to my challis in the south of France", or "was just released from the psych unit at the state hospital - hopefully this time I will be stable" or "ordering the next round, what will you have?"
Seriously I should just say "unemployed", trying not to look desperate as I try to find some form of employment. And, if one more (well meaning) person says "oh there are plenty of things out there you could do" I am going to poke my eye out. Yes, I can "do" a lot but the issue is finding someone who will employ me to "do" these things. From the outside it looks so simple, so reasonable but reality sucks.
The fifty something black hole is real. And for those in other parts of the Galaxy it is hard to imagine. For our generation it has always been study hard, work hard, and you will be rewarded. No one bothered to tell us that the rules would change and there is nothing we can do about it. Oh sure there are opportunities out there. You just hope you are in the right place at the right time and know the right person on the right day and pray you are not left handed.
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Ace the USMLE Step 1 with these unique "flashcards in a book"!Students who just aced the USMLE Step 1 reveal what it takes to excel!This book was excellent, and well organized. The make the diagnosis section was great--lengthy andMoreAce the USMLE Step 1 with these unique "flashcards in a book"!Students who just aced the USMLE Step 1 reveal what it takes to excel!This book was excellent, and well organized. The make the diagnosis section was great--lengthy and thorough--just like Step 1. It was nice because it was compact enough that you could fit it in your bag and review it anywhere. Great! -- Sarah Fabiano, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Class of 2010I like the fact that embryology for each system is given at the beginning of each chapter. This series is a wonderful compendium throughout the medical college years, particularly preclinical years to prepare for Step 1. -- Ali Rizvi, MPH, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Class of 2010Deja Reveiw: USMLE Step 1 boils down your coursework to just the critical concepts you need to know for exam success. This unbeatable guide features a quick-read, two-column flashcard Q&A format--specifically designed to help you remember a large amount of pertinent information in the least amount of time possible. The format allows you to zero in on only the correct answers to promote memory retention and get the most out of your study time. Great for last-minute review of high-yield facts, Deja Review provides a straightforward way for you to assess your strengths and weaknesses for USMLE Step 1 success.You will find everything you need to ace the exam, including:Active recall Q&A that allow you to understand, not just memorize, the content"Make a Diagnosis" clinical vignettes that put the material in clinical contextMnemonics and key words to help you focus on core conceptsPortable size for study on the go--fits in your white coat pocketBookmark included to help you work through easy-to-use flashcard presentationThe Content You Need to Ace the USMLE Step 1:Basic Principles,Immunology,Microbiology and Infectious Diseases,Neuroscience,Cardiovascular,Pulmonary,Gastroenterology,Reproduction and Endocrinology,Renal and Genitourinary,Hematology and Oncology,Skin and Connective Tissues,Musculoskeletal,Behavioral Sciences,Make the Diagnosis,Abbreviations.
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I'd forgotten how nice these are. I haven't made them for years but a bout of intense boredom this afternoon brought on a culinary frenzy. The alternative option was cleaning the bathroom, so I had no choice really.
This is my Aunty Mary's recipe. Her biscuits live on in sunny Tooting.
Aunty Mary's ginger biscuits
Makes 8-10
60g / 2oz butter
60g / 2oz golden syrup
30g / 1oz sugar
120g / 4oz self raising flour
half tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp ground ginger
Preheat oven to 180°C / 350°F / Gas 4. Melt butter, sugar and golden syrup together in a pan. Sift flour, bicarbonate of soda and ginger into a bowl. Mix butter and syrup mixture into the flour until it forms a slightly sticky dough. Roll into balls and press down with a fork onto a lined baking tray.
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June 30, 2016 – Picture: 34-Year-Old Nigerian Man Married 68-Year-Old European Grandmother
Check out this cute interracial couple.
The man is a 34-year-old Nigerian man from Anambra while his new bride is a 68-year-old Grandmother from Europe.
Those who shared the photo on the social media say they are truly in love.
This kind love get as e be….
Happy married life to them **wink**


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If you Google 'cause and effect' you come up with a list of millions.
It's a complicated subject, and the relationship between the cause and effect on the Google price chart is just as complicated.
It's convenient to associate the recent price pullback with Google's current dispute with China. However, a closer look at its stock chart would reveal other technical factors at play, including Google's well-established historical resistance level near $600.
Chart analysis doesn't concentrate on cause and effect. That's for fundamental analysts. Chart analysis concentrates on understanding trend strength and identifying the trigger points which indicate the balance of probability has shifted.


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Love, Etc.
Adopting: "Grey's Anatomy" star Katherine Heigl and singer-songwriter husband Josh Kelley, who are on the verge of bringing home a new daughter from South Korea, the actress announced on an episode of Ellen DeGeneres's show to air Friday. People reports the 10-month-old girl has an unspecified disability. Heigl's sister was also adopted from South Korea.
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So this is the real reason she is taking off for a few months for GreyA. I dont care as GreyA sucks. ER was & will always be better. No stupid mcthis mcThat gimmick.
Relationship experts say a kid in the 1st 2 1/2 yrs of marriage is a bad idea for normal marriages/ppl. These 2 rnt normal as
- Josh tours the US,
- Kat works 10hrs days 8mo of the years. They're adding a 10mo old baby. They've been married 4 2yrs this December.
Good luck. Hope it lasts, especially since a child is involved.
Also I hope Nayleigh grows up with a sense of her Korean culture.
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I flew with Aerosparx - and it was unbelievableSubmitted by Adam Landau on 13 February 2018 - 4:08pm
Formation flying is one of those things you can never really portray in a video. You can be the best cameraman in the world, using the most advanced technology, but it will still be impossible to convey just how unbelievable, beautiful and faintly unnerving it is to look out the window of an aircraft and see another one so close alongside that its wingtip is just a metre or two under your feet.
Who on Earth is writing local news?Submitted by Adam Landau on 31 December 2017 - 9:00am
My disdain for the local press is perhaps remarkable for someone who willingly chose a career path which will almost certainly see me working in that field. It's not that I think it's a poor concept – indeed, localised news is a fantastic resource in many ways, and of great value to many communities. My problem isn't even with the content, lacking though it often is. I have nothing against totally trivial front page headlines such as "Newport man grows huge tomato" (South Wales Argus).


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NZTA's passive electronic tracking system
Updated: see note below. Further updated 13/8/2013 to add commentary about the security of hashing. Further updated 5/11/2014 to link to NZTA letter showing that data is being shared with CERA, Police and Ministry of Transport.
One of the issues with modern technology when it comes to privacy and tracking is that it isn't always obvious what data we should be worrying about.
The latest example of this is the NZTA's trial of a passive monitoring system called Blip Track to monitor traffic congestion on the Puhoi to Warkworth road.
The BlipTrack system relies on the Bluetooth functionality built in to many mobile phones and related accessories, car stereos, and mapping devices. Each Bluetooth device broadcasts a unique MAC address if the device is set to be visible. By detecting the same MAC address at different locations, the Blip Track system can work out how long it took for the device to travel between the two points and therefore make some assumptions about how congested the road is. (See the BECA report (PDF) for more information about how the system works.)
With mobile phones being very personal devices that we tend to carry everywhere we go, it seemed obvious to us that this sort of technology could be used to track people. We asked NZTA about this and their response was:
We do not consider that the Privacy Act 1993 applies. This is because the information collected is not personal information.
NZTA declined to give us a copy of the legal advice they have received on the privacy issues.
The BECA report linked before also touches on the topic:
Although there may be potential sensitivities for using Bluetooth, the MAC address numbers can only be identified / observed if the Bluetooth device is active and the privacy settings have been set to allow it (i.e. the Bluetooth is set to 'visible'). Also, unlike number plates or cell phone IDE numbers, there is no way of tracking the MAC address number back to the owner as there are a variety of types of device with Bluetooth, and no database matching these devices to their owners.
What is "personal information"?
The Privacy Commissioner defines personal information as follows:
Information about a living human being. The information needs to identify that person, or be capable of identifying that person.
While the Bluetooth MAC address can't be used to work out who someone is, that's not to say that someone who already has a person's MAC address can't use it to find out where they've been. For example, an NZTA employee with access to the database could look up the MAC address of their partner's mobile phone to see if they were telling the truth about where they were last night.
We reject NZTA's interpretation; we believe that the Bluetooth unique identifier is personal information, that the NZTA is collecting it without consent and storing it without permission. This is in breach of the Privacy Act.
We also note that there is no need to store the unique Bluetooth address in the database after the match has been made. Anonymising this would remove much of the potential for misuse. (See Update below.)
Sharing data with law enforcement
More interestingly, this data could also be made available to the Police. While the Police are limited by the Search & Surveillance Act in the use of electronic tracking systems, is there anything stopping them from asking NZTA to look up their database?
Of course, even if NZTA did count it as personal information, we note that the Privacy Act has some very large holes when it comes to sharing data with the Police and provides no real oversight of such sharing.
We're not trying to say NZTA are bad people or that what they are doing is particularly wrong. They're currently using the technology for a reasonable purpose and at least already have some protocols around what data they can share with other agencies.
However, even though they've tried to think about the privacy implications of the technology they're using, they still haven't fully understood the risks of collecting and storing data of this type.
The technology involved in this type passive tracking system is continually getting cheaper. It would make perfect sense for NZTA to extend it across the road network to help them with their planning. At the same time, this would establish a national database that would enable NZTA or anyone else with access to it to track people. In particular this data could be made available to the Police with no significant oversight.
We believe that our privacy and data collection/sharing laws need to be updated to take account of new technologies and the power of big data.
We have been sent further information (PDF) about the BlipTrack system. From the document:
When a BlipTrack™ sensor detects a Bluetooth Device in its proximity, the sensor will generate a one way hash code from the Bluetooth address of the detected device using a SHA-256 algorithm. Only Bluetooth hash codes are transmitted to the central server. There is no way to revert hash codes back to real Bluetooth addresses, thereby preventing access to the Bluetooth MAC addresses of the tracked devices.
In case the BlipTrack™ data was compromised, the attacker could try to correlate data between multiple systems and possibly, over time, be able to link a hash code of a Bluetooth device address to a record in another system, that could contain user information. To prevent this, BlipTrack supports Re-Hashing of Bluetooth Address device Hashes. By Re-Hashing the Hash codes using a new salt on a daily basis, a detected Bluetooth device will only have the same hash code for one day. The next day that user will be seen as a new user.
However, people familiar with this type of cryptography expressed grave doubt that the protections outlined would be sufficient to protect the information from even basic attacks. Details of the BlipTrack implementation are vague, but the number of possible MAC addresses are small making it likely that without very careful precautions a brute-force attack against the hash using modern computers could reveal all the original MAC addresses even for days when the salt is not accessible.
BlipTrack, in an example of having their cake and eating it too, then go on to claim that MAC addresses do not link to personal user information. If this was the case, you might wonder why they go to such lengths to stop them being available in their database. More to the point, we've already explained why we believe that they are personal information in the terms of the Privacy Act - and therefore would require permission to capture them in the first place.
Update 2
In response to an OIA request (PDF), NZTA has revealed that BlipTrack data has been shared with NZ Police, CERA and the Ministry of Transport. They say that this is just aggregated statistical data.
I'm not sure what sources they used to confirm that no person or organisation keeps personal information that could identify a person by their MAC address. I think that this statement is actually incorrect as, for one example, Apple devices (when activated) send the MAC address along with the other information required for activation. This activation is then tied to the users account (which may contain email address(s), credit card number(s) and physical address(s)).
So many things wrong with that report.
Just because someone doesn't set their Wi-fi settings right, doesn't mean everyone has a right to spy on their internet traffic, no matter how easy it may be. Therefore the same should apply to Bluetooth – we shouldn't track people who most likely aren't aware of their leaking data.
There are many ways of matching a MAC address to a person. Not least of which is through their weakly encrypted Wi-fi router, or a public wi-fi network matched with some other data (eg. surveillance camera photos, library card usage, EFTPOS transactions). All existing databases which when paired could match devices to owners.
I'm more worried about tracking based on information that we can't simply stop broadcasting (such as license plates).
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Model Overview:
Initially introduced as Fenders top of the line model in the late 50's, the Fender Jazzmaster was the deluxe instrument intended to supersede the Stratocaster. Designed with jazz players in mind, it actually found favour with alternative musicians from the 60's onwards, contributing heavily to the sound and aesthetic of Surf, New Wave and Grunge to name but a few. Drawing on the history of the model and combining some of Fenders 50's features with 60's style Faded Daphne Blue finish, the Fender Custom Shop 2018 Journeyman Relic 50's Jazzmaster is an inspiring new take on a classic Fender instrument.
Constructed from an Ash body paired with a Maple Rift Sawn Neck, this "Journeyman" finished instrument is engineered to represent a well loved, and a well played guitar, handed down through the years but not leaving the house often, with a few marks and some checking. The neck is a 1957 Soft 'V' profile with a 9.5 radius, 6105 Narrow Jumbo frets, combining a true vintage feel with modern playability. The body is fitted with Custom Shop Hand-wound Jazzmaster Single Coil pickups, that provide all the balance and definition that you would expect to find in a Jazzmaster.
Other features include a 50's style gold anodized pickguard, vinatge style Jazzmaster wiring, vintage style tuning machines and a deluxe hardshell case with Fender Custom Shop Certificate.
Model Specs:
- Model Name: 2018 Journeyman Relic 50's Jazzmaster
- Series: Time Machine
- Color: Faded Daphne Blue
- Weight: 7.86 lbs
- Body Shape: Jazzmaster®
- Body Material: Premium Ash
- Body Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Neck Material: Maple Riff Sawn
- Neck Shape: 1957 Soft 'V'
- Scale Length: 25.5" (648 mm)
- Fingerboard Radius: 9.5" (241 mm)
- Number of Frets: 21
- Fret Size: 6105 Narrow Jumbo
- String Nut: Bone
- Nut Width: 1.650" (42 mm)
- Neck Plate: 4-Bolt Vintage-Style
- Neck Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
- Fingerboard: One Piece Maple
- Position Inlays: Black Dots
- Bridge Pickup: Custom Shop Hand-Wound Single-Coil Jazzmaster
- Neck Pickup: Custom Shop Hand-Wound Single-Coil Jazzmaster
- Controls: Lead Circuit: Volume, Tone. Rhythm Circuit: Volume, Tone
- Pickup Switching: 3-Position Toggle: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup; 2-Position Slide: Up: Lead Tone Circuit, Down: Rhythm Tone Circuit
- Pickup Configuration: SS
- Bridge: RSD Jaguar/ Jazzmaster
- Tuning Machines: Vintage-Style with Fender Logo
- Orientation: Right-Hand
- Pickguard: 1 Ply Gold
- Control Knobs: Aluminium Knurled Relic
- Included Accessories: Deluxe Hardshell Case, Certificate of Authenticity


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When you're ready to take diving to the next level, Suunto Vyper Novo is the perfect new dive buddy to take along. Super-solid and nitrox-capable, it's packed with advanced features that open up new possibilities for exploring the depths, including optional wireless air integration, a digital compass, and gas switching. Just like you, it's ready for anything.
The Suunto Tank POD is a wireless tank pressure transmitter that allows you to view current tank pressure with just a glance at your wrist. The robust digital communications technology brings not only improved stability but also new features such as multiple tank pressure readings.The reworked pairing procedure is very intuitive; just pressurize the system, hold your Suunto EON Steel close to the Tank POD and after a few seconds a menu pops up on the screen showing the serial number, battery status and the tank pressure.


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(Reuters) - Indian generic drugmaker Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd's response to an import ban on one of its plants lacked "sufficient corrective actions," the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a warning letter published on Tuesday.
The FDA banned imports from Sun Pharma's Karkhadi plant in Gujarat state in March, but the reason for the ban was not clear at that time.
In the warning letter dated May 7 and posted on the FDA website on Tuesday, the regulator said Sun Pharma failed to ensure laboratory records had complete data and that manufacturing staff had inadequate training and experience.
"Your firm frequently performs 'unofficial testing' of samples, disregards the results, and reports results from additional tests," the FDA said in the letter addressed to Sun Pharma CEO Subramanian Kalyanasundaram. (link.reuters.com/pyx49v)
A Sun Pharma spokesman told Reuters on Tuesday that the warning letter shows that the U.S. FDA does not agree with the company's response.
The Karkhadi plant, which makes the antibiotic cephalosporin, is one of Sun Pharma's 25 manufacturing plants.
Sun Pharma, which is planning to buy its struggling rival Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd for $3.2 billion, had said in March that the import ban would have negligible financial impact.
The FDA has unleashed a wave of restrictions, warnings and bans on Indian generic drug firms over the past one year, citing serious manufacturing and quality control problems.
Reporting by Esha Dey in Bangalore and Zeba Siddiqui in Mumbai; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila


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About this Research Topic
Thanks to recent advances in synthetic biology, the interest in genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is exponentially increasing and their applications for real life appear virtually endless, ranging from the manufacture of drugs and vaccine to their use in the agro-food field.
Hundreds of living sensors, named whole-cell biosensors, and cell-based bioassays have been in fact developed based on genetically modified cells, finding applications in several fields, ranging from environmental monitoring to food control, from forensic science to drug screening.
Inevitably this poses serious regulatory issues and represents a continuous challenge for researchers, especially concerning the potential spreading of GMOs into the environment. This GMO "duality" represents an intriguing aspect and this Research Topic is intended to provide the readers a glance in this fascinating field. Conscious that it's impossible to embrace all aspects, this collection will cover on the one hand the great potential of genetically modified microbes, especially for environmental applications, and on the other hand the tools and methodologies that are now available for GMO detection as well as regulatory issues and challenges.
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.


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Hopefully, you're not the last to hear about Luggage Forward — a forwarding service that ships your luggage worldwide before, during or even after your trip. I heard about the service some time ago, but didn't initially understand the value of it. I kept thinking: I could just take my suitcase with me on the plane, so why ship it?
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Shipping luggage ahead to your destination creates a true luxury travel experience. Luggage Forward can send luggage to your hotel, cruise ship, golf course, vacation home or any other destination worldwide. Or in my case, I was able to make arrangements while I was still traveling, which allowed me to lighten my load. Sending luggage also allows you to save time at the airport by avoiding the long check-in lines and skipping the wait at baggage claim.
They offer a streamlined online booking process or, if you prefer, you can call them up. When I contacted them, I used the online system and their booking agent wasted no time setting up my international shipping. She sent the custom forms via email, told me a pick up date and guaranteed delivery date. Within a half hour, everything was completely set up and scheduled. I was pressed for time and leaving the country in a few short hours. I packed my luggage, attached the required documents the booking agent had sent me and left my luggage with the hotel concierge.
I admittedly felt strange leaving my belongings behind, but I was confident that the wheels of the process would work efficiently and without a hitch. They did. I received an email when my luggage was picked up from the hotel in Iceland and another when it was delivered to my destination (which happened to be the doorstep of my house). Traditionally the service was set up to send luggage ahead so that it would be waiting for you when you arrive, but I loved the flexibility of the service and the ability to use the service how it work best for me. That in itself was my kind of luxury.
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|North Ealing
|Local authority
|London Borough of Ealing
|Managed by
|London Underground
|Number of platforms
|Fare zone
|London Underground annual entry and exit
|0.86 million[1]
|0.89 million[1]
|0.89 million[1]
|0.91 million[1]
|0.83 million[1]
|Railway companies
|Original company
|District Railway
|Key dates
|23 June 1903
|Station opened
|4 July 1932
|District line service replaced by Piccadilly line
|Listed status
|Listing grade
|Entry number
|Added to list
|30 October 2003
|Other information
|External links
|51°31′03″N 0°17′19″W / 51.51750°N 0.28861°WCoordinates: 51°31′03″N 0°17′19″W / 51.51750°N 0.28861°W
|London transport portal
North Ealing is a London Underground station on the Uxbridge branch of the Piccadilly line between Ealing Common and Park Royal. The station is located on Station Road, a short distance from the junction of Queens Drive and Hanger Lane (A406, North Circular Road). It is in Travelcard Zone 3. West Acton station on the Central line is located about 550 metres to the east at the other end of Queens Drive.
Despite its name, the station is geographically located to the east of Ealing Broadway; the areas of Gurnell, Pitshanger, Montpelier and Hanger Hill/Hanger Lane are more geographically suited to the term "North Ealing". There is even a primary school named North Ealing within Pitshanger.
North Ealing station was opened on 23 June 1903 by the District Railway (DR, now the District line) on its new extension from north of Ealing Common to Park Royal & Twyford Abbey (closed and replaced by Park Royal in 1931), where the Royal Agricultural Society's Park Royal show grounds had been recently opened. The line was opened fully to South Harrow on 28 June 1903.
This new extension was, together with the existing tracks between Ealing Common and Acton Town, the first section of the Underground's surface lines to be electrified and operate electric instead of steam trains. The deep-level tube lines open at that time (City & South London Railway, Waterloo & City Railway and Central London Railway) had been electrically powered from the start.
North Ealing was the only station on the South Harrow branch not rebuilt in the 1930s to the "Holden" style for the start of the Piccadilly Line service. As a result it retains its slightly rural air. A 1930s railway sub-station is built alongside the Eastbound platform and is typical of the LPTB brick and concrete architectural style of the period.
On 4 July 1932 the Piccadilly line was extended to run west of its original terminus at Hammersmith sharing the route with the District line to Ealing Common. From Ealing Common to South Harrow, the District line was replaced by the Piccadilly line and, from this date, District line trains west from Ealing Common ran to Ealing Broadway only.
In 2018, it was announced that the station would gain step free access by 2022, as part of a £200m investment to increase the number of accessible stations on the Tube.[3]
The peak time service in trains per hour (tph) is:[4]
- 12tph to Cockfosters (Eastbound)
- 6tph to Rayners Lane (Westbound)
- 6tph to Uxbridge via Rayners Lane (Westbound)
The off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is:[4]
- 6tph to Cockfosters (Eastbound)
- 3tph to Rayners Lane (Westbound)
- 3tph to Uxbridge via Rayners Lane (Westbound)
London Buses routes 112, 483 and night bus route N83 serve the station from bus stops on Hanger Lane (North Circular Road) (A406).
- ^ a b c d e "Multi-year station entry-and-exit figures" (XLSX). London Underground station passenger usage data. Transport for London. January 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
- ^ Historic England. "North Ealing London Regional Transport Underground Station (1390751)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
- ^ "Huge boost for accessibility as further 13 stations to go step-free". London City Hall. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ^ a b "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 July 2016. Retrieved 31 May 2016.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
External links
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to North Ealing tube station.
- "North Ealing". Photographic Archive. London Transport Museum. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014.
|Preceding station
|London Underground
|Following station
towards Rayners Lane or Uxbridge
|Piccadilly line
towards Cockfosters
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|Preceding station
|London Underground
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|District line
towards Upminster
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Vankaya Pachadi ~ Brinjal / Eggplant Chutney
There are hundreds of recipes with Brinjal / Vankaya. It has been said that Brinjal is the king of vegetables. You will be surprised to know that brinjal is the favorite vegetable of most of the Andhra People. I am one of them hahahah..... Today am here with a simple yet spicy and delicious vankaya pachadi or brinjal chutney. It can be served with roti, naan, rice or as a spread on toasted bread. Here goes the recipe....
Blogging Marathon: 72
Theme: Dips, spreads, chutneys.
Week 4, Day 2
Vankaya / brinjal 6
Garlic cloves 4
Green chili 4
Onion small 1
Tamarind small lemon size
Salt to taste
Oil 3 spoons
For seasoning:
Udad dal 1/2 spoon
Red chili 1
Mustard seeds 1/4 spoon
Cumin seeds 1/4 spoon
Curry leaves 4
Oil 2 spoons
Heat oil and add chopped brinjal, green chili, garlic cloves and onions.
Cover with lid and cook for 10 minutes or until brinjal becomes soft.
Remove from heat and let it cool for 10 minutes.
Now transfer the mixture into blender and add tamarind and salt to taste.
Blend it into course paste, do not add water.
For tempering, heat oil and add cumin seeds, mustard, curry leaves, udad dal and red chili.
Saute for few seconds and add to the pachadi / chutney.
Serve with idly, dosa, chapati or can be used as a dip or spread.
I love to have it with hot rice.


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Icom, Iridium Partner on Satellite PTT Product, Service
Japan-based Icom entered into a partnership with U.S.-based Iridium Communications to develop and sell a new satellite push-to-talk (PTT) communications product for the Iridium network. The partnership will provide a professional radio communications solution to enable users to communicate wherever they are on the earth, the companies said.
Iridium and Speedcast Partner to Deliver Next-Generation Satellite Broadband Solutions
Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:IRDM) announced today that Speedcast has signed an agreement to become a land-mobile service provider for its next-generation satellite broadband technology, Iridium Certus.
Iridium NEXT Launch 3 Webcast and Memorabilia
With less than a week to go, we hope you are as excited as we are for the upcoming Iridium NEXT launch targeted for Monday, October 9 at 5:37AM PDT. The launch will take place at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, with a back-up date of October 10.
A new firmware release, version 1.5.2, is now available for the Iridium GO!®.
A new firmware release, version 1.5.2, is now available for the Iridium GO!®. This release includes the following user experience enhancements:
Full Payload of Satellites for Third Iridium® NEXT Launch are Onsite at VAFB
Iridium Communications, today announced that all 10 Iridium NEXT satellites for the third launch are onsite at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California.
Iridium® NEXT Launch 3 Date Announcement
Iridium Communications Inc. announced yesterday that the upcoming Iridium NEXT launch has been targeted for September 30, 2017 at 6:30 a.m. PDT. This launch will deliver another 10 Iridium NEXT satellites to orbit on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and will bring the total number of Iridium NEXT satellites deployed to 30. SpaceX selected the September 30th launch date based on rocket and Vandenberg Air Force Base range availability. SpaceX's targeted launch schedule accommodates completion of the Iridium NEXT constellation as planned in mid-2018. In total, SpaceX will deliver 75 Iridium NEXT satellites to orbit. In case of inclement weather, a backup launch date has been scheduled for October 1.
Iridium and SpaceX - A Partnership Launching a New Generation of Space
In this industry, innovation, precision and collaboration are key in bringing revolutionary technologies to market. As Iridium CEO Matt Desch has said, "In the satellite space industry, we have to work with others. Partnerships are crucial, and ours with SpaceX proves how important it is to work together to be successful."
Second Set of Iridium® NEXT Satellites Arrive in Orbit and Provide Telemetry
Iridium Communications announced today that the second set of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites, launched yesterday by SpaceX, are functioning nominally and have begun the testing and validation process. This batch of 10 satellites was launched out of Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, increasing the total number of Iridium NEXT satellites in space to 20.
Iridium® Makes it Easier to Extend the Internet of Things (IoT) Beyond Cellular Limits
Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM), the only communications company with 100 percent global coverage, today officially launched Iridium EdgeTM, its new, cost-effective global asset tracking, safety and fleet management device. A plug-and-play designed solution, Iridium Edge enables companies of all sizes to rapidly expand their IoT applications beyond cellular coverage. With over 80 percent of the earth lacking cellular connectivity, Iridium Edge is an ideal device for companies in need of a reliable, global IoT solution.


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Warwickshire College, Pershore Campus
- College: Warwickshire College, Pershore Campus, Worcestershire
- RFS Division: Worcestershire Division
- Name: Ryan Shaw
- Course: Level 3 Extended Diploma in Forestry & Arboriculture
Pictured: Ryan Shaw, Andrew Woods (RFS Management Committee) and Tamsin Jones (Interim Principal for Pershore College)
What the lecturer said: In addition to demonstrating an excellent level of practical ability Ryan has shown unfailing commitment and enthusiasm for all practical sessions with a cheerful outlook. He has significantly developed his skills and confidence during his time at Pershore College and can look forward to a rewarding career.
What the college said: The RFS Silky Fox Handsaw Award offers the opportunity to recognise the huge efforts that the students have made during their time with us, rewarding them both with a useful tool for their career and membership of the Royal Forestry Society for a year, allowing them to continue their education beyond college.


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Fashion History Classics: Who invented the Men's Tuxedo?Mai 14th, 2013
The men's tuxedo, aka tailcoat was invented by Henry Poole of namesake Tailor Company Henry Poole & Co. in London in 1860. Located on London's famous Savile Row, Poole created a less formal version of the tailcoat, a short smoking jacket for the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII of the United Kingdom) to wear it to informal dinner parties. Due to the Prince's recommendation to tailor a dinner dress only at Henry Poole & Co Company, the tuxedo became quickly famous in 1886, when New York's millionaire James Potter brought the dinner suit home with him to the Tuxedo Park Club, a newly established residential country club for New York's elite. Read the rest of this entry �
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Today's Scripture: Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Romans 3:19
Many people think living a good life is what is needed to get to Heaven. That is what "religion" is all about – man's attempt to "bind" himself "back" to God. All the religions of the world teach salvation by works – the only difference is which works are required.
Many people will tell you that they think they will go to Heaven because they are pretty good, and they keep the Ten Commandments. The problem with their thinking is the purpose of the Ten Commandments isn't to tell us how to earn eternal life, rather, it shows us what is required for eternal life.
God is perfect and requires that His laws be kept perfectly. No one can truly claim to have kept the Ten Commandments – there is not one of us who has always placed God first in everything, honored their parents, and not stolen, lied, or coveted. Though many may claim they have never killed or committed adultery, the Bible says, " Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer:" (1 John 3:15a) and Jesus said, " But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." (Matthew 5:28)
Instead of giving confidence of salvation, the Ten Commandments prove we are all sinners. When we stand before Him, we won't even have an excuse – we will know we are guilty. God is not willing that any should perish; He provided a way of salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ. Much of the world thinks they are okay, but they are in danger of spending eternity without God. We need to show them their need so they can trust the Savior. Share what Christ has done for you with someone today.
Devotional by Jim Scudder Jr.


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Robert Brooks 2006 Deaths
Robert BrooksAge: 69
businessman who was chairman of Hooters, the restaurant chain that features scantily clad, buxom waitresses. There are now 430 restaurants in 46 states and 20 countries. "Good food, cold beer, and pretty girls never go out of style," he said.Died: Myrtle Beach, S.C., July 16, 2006
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Did Obama cut $300 million for school safety? Not really
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, says to prevent school shootings in the future, the country should look to the past. In 2013, Cruz and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, proposed legislation that Cruz said could have prevented the Feb. 14 Parkland, Fla., shooting.
"One of the things Grassley-Cruz did was increase funding for school safety by $300 million," Cruz said on CNN March 7. "The Obama administration had cut $300 million from school safety. You know, if that had been in place, that might well have meant that another armed police officer could have been in Parkland and could have stopped that killer before he murdered those teenagers."
Cruz's comment about Obama cutting $300 million from school safety caught our attention. We wondered if Cruz was right.
Cruz's office pointed to Obama's 2010 budget.
That year President Barack Obama called for the elimination of the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities State Grants program as part of his budget request. The savings by cutting the program: $294 million.
"President Obama's 2010 budget zeroed out $294 million in school safety funds," Cruz spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said. "That is a fact."
Congress went along and defunded the program.
So that's about $300 million.
But there's more to this story than just the dollar figure.
The particular state grant program Obama and Congress cut was formula-driven, essentially providing guaranteed money to states and school districts.
However, in the same budget that eliminated the formula program, Obama requested an additional $100 million for a companion program that handed out grants on a case-by-case basis.
Congress ultimately only added $51 million to that, but in any event, the cut Obama sought was closer to $200 million, not $300 million.
It is also important to note how that money was spent.
The Safe and Drug-Free Schools program had a focus on preventing both drug use and violence. It covered "health education, early intervention, pupil services, mentoring, rehabilitation referral, and related activities."
William Modzeleski, who headed the program through 2011, told us the program funded a variety of things that went far beyond armed guards or security.
"We were involved in a wide range of activities, ranging from working with the Secret Service on how to identify students on the pathway to violence to one where we spent millions to ensure schools had emergency management plans," Modzeleski told us.
The program also funded mental health and responses to the H1N1 flu.
Obama wasn't the first president who wanted to end the program. President George W. Bush tried the same thing in his FY 2007 budget proposal. A 2001 study by RAND had said the program's structure was "profoundly flawed." University of New Hampshire researcher Todd DeMitchell told us that Obama's budget reflected a different strategy.
"The emphasis appears to have shifted to a broader perspective of improving the culture and climate of the school with an increased focus on bullying, health, character and possibly less emphasis on hardening the school site," DeMitchell said.
Cruz's statement focuses on one budget decision by the Obama White House in 2010, but doing so ignores what happens in the years that followed.
In 2013, after the killings of elementary schoolers and their teachers in Newtown, Conn., Obama rolled out a plan to prevent such slayings from happening again. The package was expansive, including an assault weapon ban and changes to the background check system.
But specific to schools, it included $385 million in new spending. It offered "$150 million to school districts and law enforcement agencies to hire school resource officers, school psychologists, social workers, and counselors." There were $30 million for schools to design emergency management plans, and $40 million "to help districts work with law enforcement and other local agencies to coordinate services for students who demonstrate need." There were at least $75 million aimed at boosting mental health interventions at schools.
Like the Safe and Drug-Free Schools program, the proposal covered a lot of ground, but it had more big-ticket line items aimed at violence alone.
It is worth comparing Cruz's plan to put $300 million into school safety. He sought $30 million a year for a decade to pay for more police to protect schools. Obama's plan called for $4 billion to pay for 15,000 more police officers.
Of course, neither plan -- Obama's nor Cruz's -- became law. Cruz and Grassley have re-introduced their bill.
As a final budget note, Obama ultimately ended the Safe and Drug-Free School program entirely, and folded it into a new program called Successful, Safe, and Healthy Students.
Cruz said the Obama administration cut $300 million in school safety money. That fits with the elimination in 2010 of the formula-driven Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities State Grant program. A fuller look at Obama's proposed 2010 budget puts the cut around $200 million.
In addition, Cruz ignores that in 2013, Obama called for $385 million to respond directly to mass shootings in schools, and $4 billion to hire an additional 15,000 police officers.
Cruz's statement contains an element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it Mostly False.
Update: After we published, we heard from Cruz's office. The fact-check reflects their comments. The rating remained unchanged.


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Are you using log4net in an existing application and feel that you got no control over your errors? We've now created a seamless log4net integration. That means that we will automatically report all exceptions that you are logging.
In legacy applications you typically have services that handles business logic like the one below, where all exceptions are logged.
public class SomeService { private ILog _logger = LogManager.GetLogger(typeof (SomeService)); public void DoSomeStuff() { try { //[...] } catch (Exception ex) { _logger.Error("Failed", ex); } } }
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The Miami Heat's LeBron James and the Los Angeles Clippers' Blake Griffin were today named the Kia NBA Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Month, respectively, for games played in February.
In helping guide the Heat to an NBA-best 9-1 record, James averaged 30.8 points (second in the conference) to go along with 8.1 rebounds and 6.7 assists. James, who missed a game after he suffered a broken nose, also shot .575 from the field, becoming only the second player (Wilt Chamberlain) to average at least 30.0 points, 8.0 rebounds and 6.0 assists while shooting at least .570 for a calendar month. In a 111-110 win at Golden State on Feb. 12, James recorded 36 points, 13 rebounds and nine assists, and hit a game-winning three-pointer at the buzzer.
Among Western Conference players, Griffin ranked third in scoring (30.0 ppg) and sixth in rebounding (10.7 rpg), and was one of only two players in the league to average at least 30.0 points and 10.0 rebounds for the month. He recorded eight point-rebound double-doubles, and extended his career-best streak of 20-plus-point games to 19. In a 116-112 loss to Miami Feb. 5, Griffin recorded 43 points, 15 rebounds and six assists.
Here is a closer look at the month for James and Griffin:
Feb. 3 vs. Detroit: Tallied 24 points, 11 assists, eight rebounds, two steals and two blocks in a 102-96 win over the Pistons.
Feb. 11 @ Phoenix: Collected 37 points, nine rebounds and five steals in a 103-97 win over the Suns.
Feb 20 @ Oklahoma City: Scored 33 points to go along with seven rebounds and four steals in a 103-81 win over the Thunder.
Feb. 1 vs. Utah: Posted 25 points, 11 rebounds and four assists in a 102-87 win over the Jazz.
Feb. 12 vs. Portland: Netted a 36-points, 10-rebound double-double in a 122-117 win over the Trail Blazers.
Feb. 26 vs. Houston: Posted a 23-point, 16-rebound double-double to go along with three assists and two steals in a 101-93 win over the Rockets.
Other nominees for Kia NBA Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Month were Brooklyn's Deron Williams, Charlotte's Al Jefferson, Chicago's Joakim Noah, Houston's James Harden and Dwight Howard, Indiana's Paul George and David West, Minnesota's Kevin Love, Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant, Phoenix's Goran Dragic, Portland's Damian Lillard, San Antonio's Patty Mills, Toronto's DeMar DeRozan and Washington's John Wall.
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Chris Paul talks about his work off the court with the community through his foundation and the CP3 Afterschool Zone.
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Aragon is a wonderful collection of well-maintained pre-war middle-class homes, with tree-lined streets and old-fashioned streetlights. Even the apartment buildings just off El Camino are handsome and well cared for, with minimal impact on their direct environment. Aragon's remarkable architectural unity suggests a carefully planned neighborhood. That architecture, while appealing, was something of a throwback even when new. The area was built primarily in the late 1930s, when the typical home was evolving into the stripped-down, sober rancher, yet Aragon's main theme is the romanticism of the 1920s and early 1930s. Even Aragon's Spanish street names are more in keeping with an earlier era that romanticized California's Mexican heritage. Homes are spacious for the time, often over 2000 sq.ft. Lots are small, usually in the 5000 to 7000 sq.ft. range.
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History's terror bombings. This article reviews some of the most infamous:
-- Guernica - 1937;
-- the London Blitz - 1940 - 41;
-- Dresden - 1945;
-- Tokyo - 1945;
-- Hiroshima and Nagasaki - 1945;
-- North Korea - 1950 - 53;
-- Southeast Asia - 1964 - 73;
-- Iraq - 1991 to the present;
-- Serbia/Kosovo - 1999;
-- Afghanistan - 2001 to the present;
-- Lebanon - 1982 and 2006; and
-- Gaza - 2008 - 09.
Strategic bombing involves destroying an adversary's economic and military ability to wage war. It targets its war making capacity and related infrastructure. Terror bombing is another matter. It's against civilians to break their morale, cause panic, weaken an enemy's will to fight, and inflict mass casualties and punishment.
more - Steve Lendman
Visionary Outrage: Piercing the Blue Smoke on the Potomac
...It now appears that the response of the Obama administration (and of most of its already dedicated defenders) to the horrors of the past eight years will be what I have predicted all along -- the response that is, in fact, necessitated by our corporatist-authoritarian-militarist form of government: a return to "camouflage" and better public relations, and a return to "plausible deniability." And the torture will go on, as will the wars of aggression.
more - Chris Floyd
Israeli soldiers chanted slogans before entering Gaza on Sunday. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel was closer to its goals.
Interactive - The Israeli Attacks on Gaza - Guardian UK
Watching Streaming Middle East TV including Press TV
Unusually Large U.S. Weapons Shipment to Israel: Are the US and Israel Planning a Broader Middle East War?
It is highly unlikely that the bulk of the weaponry included in these two large shipments, scheduled to arrive in Israel in late January, is intended to be used in Israel's military operation in Gaza. The GBU-39 is lightweight (130 kg). The entire shipment of GBU 39s (1000 units) would be of the order of a modest 130 tons. In other words, the specifications of the GBU 39 do not match the description of the "unusually large" and "heavy" shipment of ordinance.
Whatever the nature of these large weapons shipments, they are intended for use in a future military operation in the Middle East.
more - Michel Chossudovsky at Global Research
S.L.C. ziostan moves to exclude Arab minority from knesset - Some Democracy huh!
Kadima party decided Sunday to support a proposal to disqualify Israeli-Arab Balad party from the election race on February 10.
"The goals of Hamas and Balad are the same: to destroy Israel," said Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman MK Avigdor Lieberman. "The difference between them is that the Hamas is outside of Israel, in Gaza, whereas Balad is not only within Israel, but sits in its parliament."
This is great timing, right when the ziostan propaganda machine is in full tilt "We're the only Democracy in the middle east " mode.
Any illusion of a multi ethnic state is gone and it's only a matter of time before the native Semitic Arabs in ziostan get marched off to a Bantustan or exterminated Gaza style.Claymoremind's blog at WUFYS
911 Commissioner Slips Up: Pentagon Struck by Missile
Tim Roemer has let the cat out of the bag, referring as did Donald Rumsfeld to a 'missile that struck the Pentagon. In addition, there were the early news reports before 'officialdom' was able to insist that the media report ONLY the official conspiracy theory. Those early reports consisted of anchors like Dan Rather and Peter Jennings talking about 'controlled demolitions', field reporters declaring that no airliner had struck the Pentagon, and, of course, the famous BBC report that WTC7 had fallen even as it was seen still standing behind the reporter.
9/11 commissioner slips up: Missile hit Pentagon
more - Gaither Stewart at Thomas Paine's Corner
more - There are No Sunglasses
Is the Theory of the 'Final Confrontation' with Iran Going to Become a Reality?
I have also hinted that Israel may be prepared to use, or at least threaten to use, its ultimate weapons in order to achieve their Greater Israel. I have written many articles that predict that Israel will build up to its Final Confrontation with Iran via wars with Iran's so-called proxies; Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria. I have come to these conclusions by simple virtue of asking myself what I, if I were an extreme right-wing Israeli Zionist, would ultimately want, within the bounds of possibility, for my ideal nation. When I say 'within the bounds of possibility' I mean to say a Greater Israel that could actually be feasible today. Forget the 'Nile to the Euphrates' dream of the original forbears of Zionism; I mean something that is actually achievable in the twenty-first century.
more - Damian Lataan
The Federal Reserve has been pumping hundreds of billions of newly created dollars into "the economy." Much of that money has been sent to Wall Street to bailout large, struggling firms. But that's just the beginning. President-elect Obama says that since he needs to "stimulate the economy" we can look forward to trillion-dollar budget deficits for years to come. Even before the financial turmoil began, the deficit had approached $500 billion. (Not to worry, though–Obama says deficit spending will impose "fiscal discipline" in the future.)
Of course, when the federal government spends more than it taxes, it has to get the extra money somewhere. Therein lies the treachery. The government's vendors and other beneficiaries demand to be paid on time. So it borrows from the credit markets by selling Treasury securities to investors. The Federal Reserve in turn monetizes the debt by buying Treasury securities in the marketplace. It pays for those securities by creating bank reserves–money–from nothing, or as John Maynard Keynes suggested, by performing the "miracle … of turning stone into bread."
Since we, like the rest of the world, have long lived with a fiat-money system–that is, a system in which the paper money is not backed by anything–there is nothing remarkable about this for most people (if they are aware of the procedure at all). But before long, they will pay a steep price whether or not they know who the culprit is.
more - Sheldon Richman via Strike the Root
A "Missouri Plan" to contract the Debt Bubble
To be sure, the necessary reforms will require more than simply declaring specially privileged Federal Reserve Notes to be unconstitutional, and loan-contracts to be void when made by banks within and through the Federal Reserve System in those Notes or bank-credits payable therein. America will also need to employ an alternative sound and constitutional money, to put into operation new financial institutions, and especially to promulgate rules for revaluing outstanding contracts that should not in justice be held void.
more - Edwin Vieira, Jr.
Welcome to the new era of eugenics
So on Monday, President-elect Obama will be visiting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon. I don't expect much of real value to come from this meeting.
But still, the lede in the AP story appearing in papers all over the country was depressingly, yet unsurprisingly, incoherent.
MEXICO CITY -- With violence spilling over the Mexican border into the U.S., President Felipe Calderon should have little trouble securing support for his battle against drugs when he meets U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Monday.
Even ignoring the nonsensical "battle against drugs," there's quite a disconnect in this sentence. Note that AP writer Alexandra Olson didn't say "Given Obama's pro-prohibition statements, Calderon should have little trouble securing Obama's support for his drug war." That would be depressing, but factual and reasonable.
No, she says "With violence spilling over the Mexican border into the U.S. as if it was the fact of the violence that should, obviously, mean that Obama would support the drug war. and that makes no sense at all.
In the meantime, just in case the violence "spills" into the U.S., Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, known for supervising such tactical masterpieces as the U.S. response to Hurricane Katrina, and the banning of shampoo on domestic flights, is prepared to provide a "surge" (whatever that means), which will include bringing in the military.
Yeah, that'll end well.
more - Pete Guither at Drug War Rant
We're the Only Ones proving Being Disarmed is Safer Enough
The Orleans Parish coroner said Grimes was shot 14 times, including 12 times in the back...See? What more proof do you need?
Family members said they want to know why officers descended on a young man with no criminal record, who graduated from one of the most prestigious high schools in the city...
Grimes did have a gun. His family and the lawyer, Jenkins, said he had a legal permit to carry the weapon. [More]
Forget his assailants were plainclothes officers, indistinguishable from street thugs.
If only the "Only Ones" had guns, this wouldn't have happened.
David Codrea at The War on Guns
The Rise of the Jewish Empire in North America
America may have lost the war against Vietnam but it has never been invaded or conquered by external forces since its declaration of independence. But since the second world war and, in particular the establishment of the terrorist state referred to as Israel, it has been conquered from within. Wasps no longer have any significant control over american politics or its foreign policies
The israelis in america control the republican party and the democratic party and even the green party. They control the left wing of american politics (noam chomsky, stephen zunes) almost as much as they control the extreme right wing.
Israelis own and control the american media. They compose the largest group of billionaires in america who fund a vast network of political research organizations which determine the views of america's jewish owned media and america's jewish funded politicians.
The israelis have even transformed christianity in america. There are now tens of millions of so-called christian zionists who have come to believe in the zionist god of vengeance rather than the christian god of forgiveness.
There is not the slightest doubt that the american military is by far and away the most
formidable military power in the world. But who controls that military is an entirely
different matter. The american politicians who dictate military policy are not wasps but
israelis - agents of the jews-only state in palestine. So, in effect the jews-only state
controls american politicians who control the american military which wages war for the
sake of jewish world domination.
more - Bob Finch via Revelations
Israel's Gaza Atrocities Recall America's Atrocities in Vietnam
As we hear the horrifying and sickening reports of the atrocities in Gaza by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), and as ardent Israel backers predictably justify each one or contest the facts it's worth reading a new book ("The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth about US War Crimes"), by a former Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington bureau investigative reporter of the LA Times named Deborah Nelson.
The conclusion can only be that these atrocities--things like just herding 20 women and small children into a ditch and machine gunning them, and then calling them all VC "killed in action"--were really just the tip of the iceberg, and that many many more such incidents were simply never reported by anyone. In Vietnam, atrocities and massacres of civilians by American forces were not aberrations, they were part of the battle plan.
Of course there are atrocities being committed in Gaza by the IDF. That is the point of the invasion, which is to terrorize the 1.5-million people of Gaza into turning against Hamas. It is the same policy as the American "pacification" program in Vietnam. It didn't work there, and it won't work in Gaza, but in the process, many, many innocent civilians, including little children, will die horrible deaths.
more - Dave Lindorff
Suicidal Terrorist: Book of Judges and Talmud Hero, Samson
He killed a lion and wiped out an army with a jaw-bone (insurgent?)…. and …. he destroyed a temple, in Gaza, killing thousands of civilians. For what you ask? They took his eyes. That's it.
"Then Samson prayed to the Lord, 'O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.' (Judges 16:28)." Wiki
"Samson said, 'Let me die with the Philistines!' (Judges 16:30) Down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more as he died than while he lived." (Judges 16:30).
Look at how the people run as the Temple falls on their heads. This is a Hebrew story, told to little children. Nice, huh? How a Jew became a hero by killing thousands of civilians in Gaza.
We are dealing with a country, Israel, whose leaders and some considerable portion of its population exhibit a severe mental health problem. Consider the opinion of a political psychologist:
Political psychologist and former deputy Mehmet Bekaroğlu can be labeled a concerned left-wing intellectual when it comes to the Palestinian tragedy. Bekaroğlu thinks the imagery being aired on world televisions will have a deep and permanent effect on the psychologies of future generations, particularly with respect to how they perceive the Israeli and Jewish identity. "You don't need to be a psychologist to see this; I assume that the Israelis have well-educated psychologists to analyze the impact of their activities on world public opinion," he told Sunday's Zaman.
Bekaroğlu thinks Israel is intentionally trying to create an impact on the psychologies of future generations. "They are trying to create a psychology of despair, a psychology of slavery. They want people to think that they can do nothing against Israel, that they are helpless vis-à-vis Israel. They realized that they cannot have the world accept their existence and ambitions with love, so they are having the world accept them through hatred and fear," he claimed.more - A. Peasant at Twelfth Bough
Advantages of Slaughter
There are a few advantages coming out of the slaughter:
- Jewish apologists no longer have any possible ammunition to argue against academic boycotts, as the Israeli version of a boycott is a bomb dropped on a university or school.
- There is nothing bad you can say about Israel or Jewish support for Israel, no comparison you can make to the worst holocausts in history, that can live up to the blood-dripping from-the fangs evil. Israel and the Jewish people - and Jewish support for the Palestinian holocaust puts the full blame on the Jewish people - are as evil as it gets, and everybody knows it.
- I've been called an anti-Semite for daring to speak of Jew-controlled politicians and Jew-controlled media. No more of that. I blame the crypto-Zionist 'progressives' for much of the horror, all because they couldn't accept the truth about Jew control and wanted to show off how 'progressive' they were. When every mainstream media outlet and every major politician spouts exactly the same made-in-Israel words, words that are patently bullshit, which everybody knows are patently bullshit, and in direct contradiction to the knowledge and understanding of the vast majority of the population (less vast, of course, where decades of Jew-controlled media malfeasance have misled the people), there is only one possible explanation: Jew control. Let's shout it, unapologetically, from the rooftops. I await the abject apologies from everybody who has accused me of being an anti-Semite. more - xymphora
US Army says IDF Adapted Hitler's tactic of "Blitzkrieg"
From the Nazi Blitzkrieg of WWII to the Israeli Blitzkrieg being used against Gaza:The Israeli War machine studied and copied the Nazi Blitzkrieg. The Israeli Blitzkrieg of Gaza is designed to foster a broad-front annihilation of Gazans and their towns.
Just like the Nazi Blitzkrieg, the Israeli Blitzkrieg of Gaza was designed to hit hard and to create panic amongst the civilian population, by killing and maiming as many as possible.
After the IDF Command had selected targets, American made F-16 fighter bombers and American made Predator drones were sent in to 'soften' up the enemy, destroy all of Gaza's infrastructure, targeting power stations, water treatment plants, sewage facilities, schools, mosques and health care facilities.
The Israeli Blitzkrieg was designed to install maximum terror in Gazans, since they have no way to evacuate the area, with Israel controlling ALL access points into and out of Gaza. Then came thousands of rounds of artillery shells, followed by waves of IDF Merkava Tanks, followed by Israeli Storm Troopers.
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Bertie's Birth
Ok, so you may not particularly want to have an unplanned home birth, but …..
I met Kate and Pete when they were pregnant with their second child. Their first birth experience had been traumatic and this meant that both of them were anxious, but also realised that there were things that they could do to prepare for this one without spending the entire pregnancy feeling fearful. They weren't just going to wing-it and hope for something better. They wanted to get more informed and learn skills that they knew would have an impact on labour and birth. Kate said afterwards that it had been Pete's understanding of the Emotional Map of Labour that meant he was able to hazard a confident guess at how far along Kate was, even when she thought she was waaaay off actually birthing her baby!
Here's their story:
"I wholeheartedly recommend a course of hypnobirthing to all parents. I am sure it made my experience of my second birth the hugely empowering and positive experience that it was.
I decided to take the course as I had such a terrible experience with my firstborn and was hugely apprehensive about giving birth again. I ended up haemorrhaging and losing consciousness after an emergency forceps delivery, and had to spend 3 days on the HDU (high dependency unit). It was such an awful experience which definitely contributed to suffering from postnatal depression. Luckily my son was fine, so small mercies.
I was overdue again with my second son, but trying not to get stressed about it, staying nice and calm and chilled out to encourage him to come along! I had gone out with my friend and her son with my toddler that morning. I was feeling tightenings every so often but put it down to Braxton Hicks as they weren't particularly uncomfortable. At home I noticed I had the show, but still thought labour could be days away. I remember texting my husband but telling him not to worry as I was sure baby wasn't coming anytime soon! The tightenings did continue but they still weren't painful and were really sporadic, so I just carried on with life as normal.
That evening the tightenings became stronger, though I still wasn't convinced as they were so far apart. I told my husband I was going to go to bed, but realised I must be in labour as I couldn't get to sleep as the tightenings had definitely become pretty uncomfortable. My husband texted his parents who live 2.5 hours away as they were due to babysit our son when I went into hospital.
Things progressed extremely rapidly after that. The contractions began to quicken and last longer. We called the hospital but they told me to stay at home. I'm sure they said this as I was so calm on the phone, and I don't think I realised how far along I was either! I had based myself in our living room lying on my side, with a blanket, lavender pillow, eyemask and my hypnobirthing music and was just concentrating on each wave and counting through it.
It was only when I screamed that I couldn't do this and needed an epidural that my husband realised I was going into the second stage. I guess I was just thinking of my experience with my first son, which had taken around 16 hours to get to the second stage. This has taken less than two hours. I was just thinking 'oh no, the hypnobirthing is not working anymore, and I can't cope with this' and thinking I still had hours to go, when in fact I was just in the transition stage and having the normal negative feelings.
My husband called the hospital back who said to call 999 and get paramedics out asap, which he did. He also had to call my friend (from the morning!) at midnight to ask her to come over as his parents were not going to make it to our house in time.
I remember feeling relief during the pushing stage. The feelings were incredibly intense and yes I did make animalistic noises, but I felt completely in control, not panicked at all, and just so completely focused in the moment. The paramedics arrived about 5 minutes before my son arrived. They asked me if I could get to the ambulance, and I even said yes I would try, then had another contraction, and the paramedic said 'oh no I can see the head. Stay there!' I didn't push my son out. I breathed him out. I vividly remember doing this and feeling so privileged that I didn't feel so out of it that I couldn't remember (like I did with my first son) or blocked it out as it was too traumatic.
So my son was born at home, with no pain relief (other than five minutes of gas and air when the paramedics arrived – oh yes I took that!) in 2.5 hours. I had to go to the hospital anyway to get myself and baby checked over and have some stitches but otherwise everything was fine.
There were a few things that I took away from hypnobirthing that I found extremely helpful. First was how to quickly get yourself into a relaxed state – the self hypnosis. Second, were the practical breathing techniques. Third, was how to encourage yourself to feel positive and empowered in your body's ability to do what it needs to do and to cope with whatever happens, and lastly, it helped me feel really prepared as I was encouraged to go through all the scenarios that I may be worried about and think about what I would do if it happened. I would definitely do a refresher course if I have another baby. It was one of the most empowering experiences of my life."