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I have composed this article to try to articulate the danger to the future of our system of governance that we face should Obama win the Presidency along with an increased Democratic majority in Congress. My purpose is to motivate us more strongly as to the utter necessity to elect John McCain.
Or failing that, in the battle for our country's soul and heritage that will ensue following an Obama victory, we need to understand the key elements of our opposition's strategy – as we face the most serious threat since our nation's founding to the preservation of our liberties in the face of the seduction of security, the tempation to passivity in the hope of being left-alone (for a while longer, at least), and the forces of intimidation coupled with threats of violence, imprisonment, and death to ourselves and/or our families.I know this is an alarming potential for our future that I am painting. Clearly, as my (shorter) companion article The Impending Rise of a Trade Unionism Movement under an Obama administration outlines, we will face the rise of a trade-unionism movement that will have deleterious effects on our economy and diminish our world standing. However, in light of the radicalism (of the left) that so many of Barack Obama's confidants and mentors affirm, combined with his repeated declarations in debate and in speeches that capitalism has failed and that we need government to run our economy, we face a very real prospect even more revolutionary change, indeed a drive to impose a leftist dictatorship on our country in order to usher in a totalitarian dystopia following the failed historical models that so dominated the 20th century.
Others have written (and I may also) regarding the disastrous consequences that Obama's domestic and foreign policy program will have on our country. However, when the country has erred in the past in Presidential choices, the check and balances in our political system have enabled such damage to be mitigated and eventually enabled electoral reversal.
However, what I am listing here are not simply febrile scenarios, but rather extensions of actions and pronouncements that the Obama campaign and supporters and some Democratic leaders have already employed in the current election, except that their intention after November 4th will be not simply to win an election but to enshrine a permanent one-party system that will make elections and electoral representation a sham.
However, the actual events that will take place will depend heavily on what happens with our economy, the competence and effectiveness of the forces of tyranny to gain control over key structures in the face of bureaucratic and institutional inertia, interventions by foreign forces (either nations, such as Russia, or terrorists) – and finally the response of the American people and private entities when (and if) they see what's happening.
That is, I'm not writing prophecy as to outcome, just outlining the plans and intentions of the other side.
The path to dictatorship will include the following three key steps:
1) Tilting campaign money overwhelmingly to Democratic party operatives and choking off donations to the Republican party. In this way, Republicans and other opposition elements will be increasingly unable to compete on the national (and later state) level. We already see a tremendous cash imbalance in this election, and much of this cash may well be held in reserve for the next elections.
We have also witnessed the hardball tactics of Congressional Democrats who demand that donors contribute exclusively to the Democratic party in return for legislative favors. With Obama leading a strong Democratic majority in Congress, this pressure will intensify to the point of becoming a tourniquet around the neck of the Republican party that will evoke an irreversible death spiral over the next several electoral cycles as declining Republican numbers and consequent loss of political influence scare away qualified candidates and donors in a bandwagon effectg.
2) Restricting and eventually eliminating dissent as unpatriotic and/or sedition
3) Developing and institutionalizing a citizen vigilante structure complete with informers to identify and neutralize the emergence of dissenters and maintain dictatorial control
Specific steps to effect the above will include the following:
A) Executive Branch
1) Stick and Carrots: utilize the IRS, Department of Justice/Federal prosecutors, and various regulatory divisions to intimidate, find material for blackmail/embarrass and/or institute investigations or other legal activity against past or potential donors to the Republican party (individual and groups) – well as requiring the targets to expend money and time to defend themselves (which also means the target can less effectively carry out their intentions). Conversely, offer various carrots for donating to the Democratic party, either in terms of favorable regulatory action or prophylaxis against ongoing or potential tax/legal investigations. Such treatment will likely be expanded to include political leaders and their political organizations.
2) Expanding investigations into political speech critical of the current administration through aggressive enforcement of and expanding the definition of hate speech, libel and slander – or plain intimidation by threatening prosecution – or attrition by setting the resources of government against the limited financial and time resources of the targets.
3) Using the "bully pulpit" of the Presidency to label opposition as unpatriotic, racists, unloyal, and eventually enemies of the state. Creating and nuturing a virtual "mob" (and later on a physical mob) to violate the privacy of and expose and humiliate selected targets who exercise their civil liberties (e.g. Joe the Plumber), to shout down and deny a platform to dissenters (e.g. Jerome Corsi).
4) Intimation and/or seduction of media to a) promote the administration programs and b) to deny a voice to opponents and/or attack them mercilessly.
5) Over time, ever-increasing surveillance of the populace
B) Legislative Branch
Creating new laws and expanding current laws regarding:
1) Expand copyright protects to archives of historical events (writing, film, recordings, etc.) and eliminating fair use of such materials. No more "unauthorized" YouTube videos, for instance. In a grim fulfillment of "1984" this will enable the ruling party to control and shape history itself in a quid pro quod alliance with these corporate owners by severely inhibiting (at best) dissenting views by denying them source materials.
2) Expand definitions of hate speech, discrimination, etc. to put an increasing range of speech and topics off-limits.
3) Rewrite campaign finance laws, especially in terms of complexity and disclosure and inclusion, to inhibit and intimate grassroots organizations. Also will increase disclosure requirements that will remove anonymity for citizen donors. This will be targeted to spare favored Democratic organizations: especially labor unions will have fewer or no disclosure requirements, less protection for workers as to the use of their dues for political purposes, etc. – again to tilt the money playing field.
4) Not to mention other laws enabling a rise in forced unionism (card check being just the first step) and increased union power in formulating the economic policies of our nation. (More on unions in my companion article The Impending Rise of a Trade Unionism Movement under an Obama Administration)
5) Regulation of internet and other communication media, including forcing service providers (e.g. Google, Yahoo, and other ISPs) to police the content of communications on their networks by making them liable for that content violating laws, introduction of fairness doctrines, giving private parties standing to file complaints and or initiate legal actions against perceived "bias" and other restraints on free speech. Again, favored media companies will receive more lenient treatment so long as they play ball.
6) Later on, repeal of posse comitatus and/or establishment of new citizen militias in conjunction with laws to confiscate of citizen firearms (especially once the courts reverse Heller).
C) Judicial Branch
1) Appointment of a flood of compliant judges who will manipulate the law to expand governmental reach, using either existing law or new laws, and to facilitate prosecution of unfavored parties. Political speech will be a prime target, as well as political donations. Property tax/tax-exemption laws may be utilized to control non-profits agencies, including churches.
2) Expansion of "rights" and creating of new "rights" (via emanations and penumbras) to impose judicial will on legislatures, who will be ordered to write laws to judicial specifications (e.g. court-ordering of prison reform, gay marriage, budgets) in areas that had previously been under their purview in response to the wishes of their constituents. Expect new "rights" to health care, to education (as well as a right of government to set curriculum, to force students to attend government-approved schools = end of home schooling rights, as is the case in Germany), to home ownership – and perhaps a right to "fair" or "living" wages, etc. These "rights" will cement the Socialistic/Communistic programs that will ensue and insulate them from legislative reversals.
3) At the same time, unfavored existing rights will be trimmed or eliminated, such as the 2nd Amendment as an individual right, private property rights, commerce rights, and other rights regarding private actions in the public sphere.
The above is not a comprehensive program, but should give a sense of the dangers that lie ahead and the areas that we need to defend. Again, the first targets will be money and speech and communication venues, in order to destroy the ability of Republican candidates to mount effective campaigns and Republican Party's ability to articulate political issues (or have them disseminated to the American public).
With the remarkable technological advances in the areas of surveillance and monitoring behavior and communications, along with advances in weaponry, our checks-and-balances are more fragile than we might think, and the ability to maintain any kind of sustained resistance for long will be difficult if not impossible.
Again, the best option is to keep the camel's nose out of the tent in the first place.


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The Pacific Calling Partnership (PCP) supports the efforts of Pacific Island communities to make their voices heard and educates the Australian community about the impacts of climate change on the Pacific. The PCP supports the efforts of Pacific Island communities to make their voices heard through training programs for young activists from Kiribati, Tuvalu and elsewhere in the Pacific, such as the annual Kiribati-Tuvalu-Australia Exchange Program (KATEP). The PCP also supports Pacific Island communities' participation in international conferences such as the 2015 Paris conference (COP21). To educate Australians about the impacts of climate change in the Pacific, the PCP runs workshops and presents talks for schools and community organisations.
The PCP often collaborates with people, governments and organisations who work on raising awareness of the impacts of climate change, both in the Pacific and more broadly. The PCP is open to forming new relationships.
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Hackdays and hackathons are a fantastic way to engage your development team in new challenges. At Comic Relief, we're pretty pleased with the outcomes of our hackdays – while we may not always get a product out of the day, we never leave a hackday without gaining clearer view of what we need to do to solve user and business problems.
This post is just a few practical tips for anyone who's looking to organise a hackday – sharing what we've learnt from organising our latest hackday.


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If a computer could morph into a piano, or vice-versa, it might well resemble a Yamaha like this one.
We've been watching the development of this futuristic set of ivories for awhile now, ever since it made the leap from made the leap from a self-contained digital instrument to a networked system that can stream music live. And now the "Disklavier" has literally cut the cord in the latest stage of its evolution by adding Wi-Fi connectivity.
The piano can download tunes from a computer to its own hard drive or transmit files to a PC so that they can be burned to a CD. Or, as Gizmodo points out, you can program it to play itself while you're on the bench so your parents won't assume they wasted all that money on lessons.


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Destroy All Humans "Crypto-137 Edition" Xbox One
The cult-classic returns! Terrorize the people of 1950s Earth in the role of the evil alien Crypto-137. Harvest their DNA and bring down the US government in the faithful remake of the legendary alien invasion action adventure. Annihilate puny humans using an assortment of alien weaponry and psychic abilities. Reduce their cities to rubble with your flying Saucer! One giant step on mankind! The Crypto-137 edition contains the game, a 23" (60cm) tall Crypto-137 statue, a Crypto-137 backpack, a unique Crypto anti-stress toy, a keychain, 8 lithographs and in-game Crypto skins.
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XQD G Series cards no longer come supplied with the dedicated USB 3.0 adapter, now sold separately, which offers convenience and efficiency for professional workflows. It dramatically reduces ingest time by over 50% when compared to the fastest Compact Flash card, even for large quantities of RAW images or data-intensive 4K video files!
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"Damnit Vincent I'm serious! Don't go down there." Samuel says, "They already got willie! Them sheep ain't like other sheep."
Vincent laughs, "You must be high." as he trots down the hill toward the herd.
Samuel follows reluctantly.
"Look Samuel, there's no Shepard. These sheep are sitting ducks."
"Don't you think that is a little suspicious?!" Samuel insists.
"You're starting to piss me off!", Vincent snaps.
Vincent disappears into the herd. A few seconds later sounds of fighting erupt from the block of sheep. Then the sound of a dog yipping and whimpering. A sheep skips out to the edge of the herd, its face drenched in blood and the leg of a wolf hanging from its mouth. The sheep chews calmly as it stares unflinchingly at Samuel.
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Customer Stories Xercise4Less
Xercise4Less earns its place as "The People's Gym"
Since opening the doors of the first Xercise4Less gym in 2009, the company has worked to revolutionize the fitness industry. Offering all the features of full-service health clubs—professional staff, spacious and well-outfitted facilities, generous class schedules—at rates that are often 50 percent less than what other gyms charge, Xercise4Less is proving that cost does not have to be an obstacle on the path to better health.
Customer-centered values are at the core of the company's success. Xercise4Less refuses to compromise on customer service in its quest to keep prices low. "We pride ourselves on giving the best customer service to all our members," says Jon Wright, chief executive officer. "We work very closely with our members to help them achieve their training and weight-loss goals."
Taking Member Engagement Seriously
The Xercise4Less team believes that great customer communication is necessary for the company to fully deliver on its brand promise. But Liam Dawes, Marketing Executive at Xercise4Less, says, "We noticed that, across the industry, there was a distinct lack of communication between staff and members."
Determined to make every facet of their gym operations "people-focused," Xercise4Less took steps to make it easier for members to connect with the company, such as launching custom Facebook pages for each location where members could communicate with staff and ask questions.
They also implemented Listen360's customer feedback system for a more systematic way to gather customer feedback. Now, feedback requests are sent to members automatically after important interactions, such as when a new member joins, or after a member checks in for a class, ensuring that operations managers can stay on top of customer sentiment.
"We strive to work as hard as we possibly can for our members, and the recommendations we're receiving through Listen360 are fantastic." — Jon Wright, CEO at Xercise4Less
As a result, Dawes says, there has been a marked increase in communication, resulting in a deeper level of customer engagement. "With real-time feedback from members, Listen360 allows our club managers to pinpoint and address any issues right away," Dawes explains.
"Our operations managers review feedback and respond to member comments on a daily basis using Listen360's task pad. We believe following up quickly has aided in retaining members."
Xercise4Less has also been pleased with the rate of response to their surveys. "There is an increasing trend for the consumer to favour online methods of communicating over traditional practices," Dawes points out. "Health clubs need to understand that feedback delivered through an online survey is just as important as a customer raising an issue face-to-face."
"We're very impressed with the management insights Listen360 is providing. Hearing what our customers think helps us stay true to our brand identity." —JON WRIGHT, CEO, Xercise4Less
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Equally as important as improving communication at the club level, Xercise4Less needed a way to measure and analyze customer data across all their clubs in a quantitative manner. Management knew this could translate into operational improvements across the chain.
"Here at Head Office, we always want to know our members' ideas for improvement in our clubs," Wright says. "But our data was inconsistent and entirely qualitative."
"Now, in addition to having information about specific issues that need to be addressed at an individual location, we also have insight into performance at all our clubs and can spot trends that might affect the entire organization."
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Xercise4Less gets more mileage from their customer reviews by streaming them to the company Facebook page, where they can be easily located by prospective members.
To help drive additional business, Listen360 makes it easy for satisfied members to spread the word to friends online. When customers respond positively to Xercise4Less feedback requests, they are immediately presented with a social sharing page that encourages them to share their recommendations and company promotions via email, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, generating dozens of online mentions every week. "It is definitely working," says Dawes. "And going forward we will be setting monthly targets to further boost our online recommendations."


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Title: Seek & Find (D.C. Files, #1)
Author: Megan Linden
Buy link: Amazon.com (Second Edition)
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Genre(s): Military/Politics
Page Count: 167
Reviewed by: Gigi
Heat Level: 4 flames out of 5
Rating: 4 stars out of 5
What happens when you fall in love in the heart of politics?
Sam Daniels' life turns upside down when he meets an amazing guy and gets a job offer he can't refuse almost at the same time. Working in politics and sustaining any kind of personal life is never easy, but when you're running a campaign to elect the first woman to the office of the President of the United States, it may become nearly impossible.
Blake Morin, after spending years as a SEAL, lives a quiet life with his daughter and he's fine with that. He can't deny the attraction between him and Sam, but is he ready to enter the world he used to avoid?
Campaign manger MC Sam Daniels is hanging out at a Washington DC bar, lamenting the fact that his boss is retiring and he doesn't know what to do next. Ex Navy SEAL and current flight instructor at the US Naval Test Pilot School, Blake Morin sees Sam and asks if he can have a seat at Sam's table in the very crowded bar. The men have a nice, casual discussion and Sam starts to feel a lot better about his future unknown. Eventually, the boys flirt a little bit and find out they are both gay and the attraction is mutual. So, this is the part where the run off to fuck like bunnies and eventually fall in love, the end. Right? Not even close!
One of the many things I found so refreshing and sweet about Serve & Protect was the fact that these boys decided to take their mutual attraction down a few notches and actually have a few dates before jumping into bed. It made for a serious hot first time, filled with emotion. As it turns out, Blake (view spoiler) Meanwhile, Sam has just taken a new position which will include long hours and lots and lots of travel for the next 2 years. Sam is up front with Blake right away too, telling him that this job is very important to him and if he and Blake start a relationship, it might not be smooth sailing because of all the time they will be separated. But after voicing each of their concerns, they decide to give a relationship a go. The rest of the book spans 18 months, until the end of Sam's position.
I really, really enjoyed this book, especially with how mature and honest the MCs were and how hot that made the sex. They struggled with many common obstacles and dealt with them calmly with lots of discussion. As much as I love a good lover's quarrel, ending in awesome make-up sex, that just did not happen here. The boys really wanted to make their young, fragile relationship work and did a great job communicating their frustration and needs to one another.
There were a few problems I had with the book. The fact that the boys never did have a big blow-out fight was kind of a bummer. I found myself waiting for everything to blow-up because of the incredible stress both men were under, but it never did. Another big problem I had is that since the story is told from Sam's POV, we never got to go to work with Blake and see what he does as a Navy pilot. And since the two rarely talked about it, were got next to no information. Also, even though the HEA was implied and both men were deeply in love in the end, the book ended after a very stressful moment so we weren't able to see any of the fallout and/or peace after said moment. This is definitely a book that I'd read a sequel to see exactly how the boys ended up. Since the book is the first in the DC Files series, I may get my wish.
I can recommend this low-angst love story to all M/M romance fans. It was honest and mature and very real. I wish nothing but love and luck for Sam and Blake in all their future endeavors!


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"The Lannisters always pay their debts" is the favored catchphrase of what's currently the dominant House and family in Westeros. However, the dirty secret of the Lannisters - different from the other dirty secret between Queen Cersei (Lena Headey) and her twin brother Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), which is more or less common knowledge these days - is that the Lannisters are deeply in debt. For centuries, Casterly Rock and the vast gold deposits in its mines made the Lannisters the wealthiest family in Westeros. The family's deceased patriarch Tywin (Charles Dance) used that wealth to acquire power and influence, launching a series of events that have resulted in three Lannisters seated upon the Iron Throne, including Cersei, its reigning occupant. However, all of this grasping for ever-more-power came at a literal financial cost: the gold mines of Casterly Rock ran dry years ago and the family coffers are depleted. In short, until this week's episode of Game of Thrones, the Lannisters were broke.
In a macro sense, the Lannisters' debts are also the Iron Throne's debts, and there is no entity the Seven Kingdoms owe more money to than the Iron Bank of Braavos. Located across the Narrow Sea in the Free City of Braavos, the Iron Bank is the most dominant and powerful financial institution in Game of Thrones. Its influence spreads across Westeros, Essos, and the unseen reaches of the known world. What's more, the Iron Bank has a catchphrase of its own, one that is rightly feared by all indebted to it: The Iron Bank will have its due.
In this week's episode "The Queen's Justice," a rare instance of the Iron Bank coming to collect a debt occurs. The Iron Bank's primary representative Tycho Nestoris (Mark Gatiss) visits Cersei at King's Landing to discuss the Crown's overdue accounts. The financial peril facing the Lannisters manifests across the entire Seven Kingdoms they are trying to secure their dominion over. To understand how the Iron Throne came to owe untold millions of Gold Dragons to the Iron Bank, we have to go back to uncover the gross malfeasance of Cersei's predecessors.
The Iron Bank and Westeros
The legacy of King Robert Baratheon (Mark Addy) is as a drunken, whoring misanthrope who had no interest in ruling the Seven Kingdoms. He left the actual hard work of running Westeros to his Small Council. Robert's Master of Coin, Lord Petyr Baelish (Aiden Gillen) paid for the Crown's corpulence by borrowing heavily from Tywin Lannister's fortune. Tywin was more than happy to financially support the Iron Thone, and thus the Seven Kingdoms, since it consolidated his personal power, his grandson Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) was heir to the throne, and his daughter Cersei was the Queen. However, Littlefinger was also secretly borrowing money from the Iron Bank, to the point where the Crown was 6 million Gold Dragons in debt to the Lannisters and to the Bank by the time Eddard Stark (Sean Bean) briefly became Hand of the King. Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) discovered the Seven Kingdoms' financial peril when he assumed the duties of Master of Coin in season 3.
The War of the Five Kings further increased the massive debt the Seven Kingdoms owed to the Iron Bank, worsened by how deeply intertwined the Lannisters' finances were to the Crown's. This was further exacerbated by the fact that Tywin, who became Hand of the King at the end of season 2, was guarding the secret that Casterly Rock's gold mines depleted 3 years prior, and he himself was borrowing money from the Iron Bank to fund the Seven Kingdoms. When Joffrey married Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer) and made her Queen, Tywin intended the union between the Houses of Lannister and Tyrell, the second wealthiest House in Westeros, to provide some financial relief. (It's possible Tywin was plotting to eventually gain control of House Tyrell's wealth and resources to supplement his own, which Cersei would eventually accomplish.)
By the time Tommen Baratheon (Dean Charles-Chapman) became King, the Crown was even further in debt to the Iron Bank - said to be "a tremendous amount of money." The Iron Bank called upon the Iron Throne to pay back one-tenth of the money that was owed. The new Master of Coin, Tommen's father-in-law, Mace Tyrell (Roger Ashton-Griffiths), noted that the Crown only had half of the one-tenth the Iron Bank demanded. Mace was dispatched to Braavos to meet with the Iron Bank and managed to negotiate new terms, but this only delayed full payment of the ever-increasing debt.
A different would-be king of Westeros visited the Iron Bank in season 4. Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane) and his Hand Davos Seaworth (Liam Cunningham) called upon the Iron Bank to fund their failing campaign in Westeros. At first rebuffed, Davos convinced the Iron Bank that the Lannisters were unloved by the people, untrustworthy, and incompetent compared to Stannis' steady hand and true claim to the Iron Throne. The Iron Bank agreed to an arrangement for a provisional loan and Stannis used the influx of funds to finance his campaign to help the Night's Watch defeat the White Walkers in the Battle of Castle Black. When Stannis died in his foolhardy attempt to siege and take Winterfell from Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon), the Iron Bank's investment went up in smoke.


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The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee cleared the way Tuesday for Robert Wilkie to become the next secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs in a vote that pointed up the challenges he will face in implementing a massive reform bill aimed at expanding private health care options.
By a voice vote, the committee moved to send Wilkie's nomination to the full Senate with a recommendation for approval in a floor vote that could come as early as next week.
The lone "No" vote in the committee was cast by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, who told reporters he was voting "less against Mr. Wilkie than against President [Donald] Trump."
Sanders said he fears that Wilkie, with Trump's backing, would "move to privatization" of health care at the VA under the recently passed VA Mission Act, which calls for extending the VA Choice Program on community-care options for one year while consolidating and reforming the way it is administered.
The VA Mission Act also includes significant changes to the VA's caregivers program for severely disabled veterans. The caregivers program had been limited to post-9/11 veterans, but the changes would extend caregivers benefits to veterans of all eras over four years.
Major veterans service organizations (VSOs) initially balked at supporting the VA Mission Act over their own concerns about privatization.
The VSOs eventually backed the bill after receiving assurances from the Trump administration and bipartisan members of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee that the VA would remain the gatekeeper on health care and that private care would be an option when it is in the best interests of the veteran.
Wilkie, 55, of North Carolina, a Republican who previously served in several staff positions on Capitol Hill and at the White House, was not Trump's first choice to replace ousted VA Secretary Dr. David Shulkin, who was either fired by Trump or resigned in March.
His path to the nomination also was marked by several detours.
Wilkie had been undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness and was moved over to the VA as acting secretary while Trump pressed for the nomination of Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, his personal physician and head of the White House medical unit.
Jackson withdrew his name from consideration after allegations emerged questioning his personal behavior and administration of the medical unit. To date, these allegations have not been proven.
Once Trump settled on Wilkie, a bureaucratic problem arose under the U.S. Code, which bars an acting secretary from succeeding to the permanent job as head of a government agency.
Wilkie had to step down as acting secretary. Peter O'Rourke, who had been chief of staff at the VA, moved into the acting secretary's position pending Wilkie's confirmation.
At Wilkie's confirmation hearing last month, Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Georgia, chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, warned him that he would face a major morale problem at a department riven by political infighting and lingering concerns over the scope and direction of private health care options.
In addition, Congress has yet to identify the funding sources for the VA Mission Act. The bill signed by President Trump allotted $5.2 billion to extend the VA Choice Program for one year, but the projected cost of the VA Mission Act is $55 billion over five years.
At the confirmation hearing, Wilkie said he favors private and community care when the VA cannot meet the needs of the veteran, but "I am opposed to privatization" and would keep the Veterans Health Administration fully funded.
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by Dov bar Leib from End of Days
At least 578 dead in Egypt with hundreds of bodies remaining uncounted from violence yesterday. At least 18 Coptic Xtian churches have been destroyed with untold numbers of Xtians murdered by Muslim Brotherhood "protesters" because they are frustrated by their own death toll at the hands of the Egyptian Army whom they accuse of acting on behalf of the Xtians.
This just exploded into an event of Biblical proportions right after the first of 4 releases (of unrepentant Palestinian murderers) by Mr. Linguine Spine of 26 murderers per release (forced by the United States and Secretary of State John Jerry).
I won't bring up the obvious that the Name of HaShem has four letters, and the Final Redemption is with all four letter in His Name not just the First two letters of the first redemption. I will not be bringing up any Xtian motifs from their book lest I be accused of turning Yinnonism into Danonism and the 2nd Coming and the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse.
The Jewish source is clear. It is the Pesach (Passover) Seder where the four cups of wine are the four letters in HaShem's Name that will ultimately be expressed in full during the Final Redemption. One cannot ignore the striking proximity of the release of the first group of 26 thugs with the unleashing of a massive death toll on the nation of Egypt. At the Seder the first cup of wine corresponds to the Yud in HaShem's Name and the corresponding 10 Plagues inflicted on the nation of (drum roll) Egypt. No coincidence here unless you were Paro (Pharoah though referring to US President Obama) who was out on the links playing 18 holes of golf as untold numbers of people were dying in the nations whose government he helped to overthrow in order to install the Muslim Brotherhood.
We can't talk about the son of Gigi since he is our big end times military secret from Medrash Sefer Eliyahu. I don't think that he is El-Sisi. With the POTUS playing 18 holes of golf as Egypt was flowing with blood, I can't blame the next interim leader/ strong man from refusing to take his phone call. From what I can tell thousands could be (are) dying in both Egypt and Syria, and Obama/Kerry will concentrate their focus on dividing Jerusalem and throwing a couple of hundred thousand of Jews out of their homes (in Judea and Samara aka the West Bank). Neither of them seem to be even one bit interested in the flow of Arab blood in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and countless other places in the world.
There is a halakhic (Jewish religious law) injunction that applies to the Pesach Seder which does not apply to the wine used to sanctify all the other Sabbaths and Festivals. The wine at the seder must be red. It must be the color of blood. I believe that this is to remind us of the blood of Brit Milah (circumcision) and the blood of the Korban Pesach (the passover sacrifice at the time of the Holy Jewish Temple). Now we see that this is also the color of the blood spilled during the Final Redemption, and this is only the beginning of cup number One. There are three cups to go.
In every canard there is a little bit of Truth. The most common accusation during the Middle Ages against Jews was that we mixed the blood of Xtian children with matzot during the Pesach seder. What seems to be the case is that it is HaShem (G-d), not us, who is using the motif of the Pesach Seder to bring about the Final Redemption which involves spilling the blood of the wicked in association with the 4 cups of red wine at the Seder. Oh but wait, we will be accused ultimately of using black magic at the Seder to bring about this judgment. This was what the original accusation revolved around. Expect it to be brought up again.
At the Seder we do take a drop of wine out of our cups for each of the ten Plagues which of course starts with Dam (blood). When we recount the miracles that will occur at the Final Redemption we take out three drops of wine again starting with Dam (blood) and ending with Aish (Fire) and Timrot Ashan (Date Palms of Smoke or Mushroom Clouds). So expect more blood then fire and then at least two mushroom clouds.
I believe it is the Vilna Gaon that notes that the word Bechor (Bet Khaf Reish) is filled with the number two because as everyone knows the bechor (the first born) always receives a double portion from the inheritance of his father. Bet is gematriah 2. Khaf is gematriah 20. And Reish is 200. One might think that this is Room 222 a popular television show from the early 1970s. No it is the word Bechor telling us 3 times that a first born son gets a double portion as his inheritance. So let us look at the word Dam (Dalet Mem). This time we see the number 44 (Dalet=4 and Mem=40). I think that this might be the secret of the release of 4x26= 104 bloodthirsty murderers. The Blood from Yo'el chapter 3 must be repeated four fold in order to bring judgment on the world.
And the judgment during these nine months which began with the first prisoner release will be Dam (blood).
The Aish (Fire) and the Date Palms of Smoke will follow. It seems that for each release of blood-thirsty savages here for Piece talks, the world will find itself chest deep in blood. This is not the pleasant Gog W. ben Gog Bush way to bring redemption that was rejected here by far too many, but it is still redemption in the merit of all of our suffering and the deeds of our righteous forebears.
Yehonatan ben Malkah a.k.a. Mashiach ben Ephraim (a description of the biblical prophet role possibly being fulfilled by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu right now) speaks volumes. Pay attention to every word that he says. We are a truly lowlife people right now. And based on our merits, he remains for now stuck in his dungeon of almost 28 years. Does Mashiach ben Ephraim live (biblical prophecy seems to say he will not survive)?? I don't know although I pray very much so.
But G-d is bringing Geulah anyway despite our lowlife selves because of the unspeakable pain and suffering of Jewish history and a promise that He made to Avraham, Yitzchak, and Ya'akov (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) that this Land will be ours forever. I am not speaking about Brooklyn, New York.


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David Eckstein's batting stance is sheer defiance. He crowds the plate like a swimmer awaiting the starting gun, his posture perched somewhere between a lean and a lunge.
He is up there to hit or to be hit, to put the ball in play or to incur a strategic bruise should the pitcher miss his target by a few inches inside. Though Eckstein presents one of baseball's tiniest targets – he's not quite 5-foot-7, reputedly 177 pounds – he has been hit by 125 pitches during his eight-year, big-league career.
That's more than the career totals of such pugnacious players as Ty Cobb and Pete Rose; more even than Barry Bonds, who crowded the plate to the point of claustrophobia. Eckstein is the last player to lead the American League in getting plunked in consecutive seasons and the patron saint of crash dummies.
"I'm not afraid to take one for the team, I can tell you that," the Padres' new second baseman said Thursday. "If I'm going to stand that close to the plate, that's part of the game for me. I'm willing to wear the pain."
Though Eckstein has spent most of his baseball career in the middle of the infield, his German surname means "cornerstone." If his future with the Padres is as a temporary expedience rather than a foundation piece, Eckstein's influence is bound to be benign.
He signed a one-year contract to return to his natural position at second base and to provide the Padres a daily example of diligence and a recurring source of inspiration. You can hardly watch Eckstein at work without wondering whether you're exerting enough effort at your own job, or tapping enough of your talent. You can hardly fail but come away impressed.
"What separates David is his stature," St. Louis manager Tony La Russa said while Eckstein was earning the Most Valuable Player award for the 2006 World Series. "He's not especially big and especially strong, and he gets beat up. And if you're bigger and stronger, maybe, it still hurts, but you have a chance to deal with the blows a little more.
"And he is just a man of iron. I look at ways guys slide into him and the way they beat him up and everything else he does and the way he responds (and) I think he's the toughest guy I've ever seen."
Though his arm is barely adequate, Eckstein was twice an All-Star shortstop in St. Louis. Though he has hit only 32 major-league home runs, he led both leagues with three grand slams in 2002. He has made a career out of making do, compensating for his physical limitations through competitiveness and craft, toughness and tenacity.
One exception: Presented a yellow Corvette Z06 upon winning the World Series MVP award, Eckstein confessed that he did not know how to drive a stick shift. Rather than adapt to the manual transmission, he conferred the car on his brother, Rick.
No, David Eckstein does not tip the balance of power in the National League West. Heck, he barely tips a scale. But if you don't like the guy Larry Walker once described as a "hyper little bugger," you don't really like baseball.
"First and foremost, he's a good player," said Padres manager Bud Black, who watched Eckstein break in with the Angels. "He's going to bring an element to our club that we need. Offensively, he has a knack to get on base, a great handler of the bat. He gets big hits off of good pitchers.
"And the way he goes about the daily grind of playing baseball, it's going to be great for our younger service-time players to watch that."
Those Padres fans who regularly express irritation with the Home Team's apparent indifference to manufactured runs can expect a renaissance of small ball. Eckstein twice led the American League in sacrifice bunts, owns 42 career bunt singles, and is regarded as one of the game's foremost practitioners of the hit-and-run play.
"My biggest strength as a hitter is getting to two strikes," Eckstein said. "I'm not afraid to get to two strikes. I'm not afraid of striking out. Pitchers throw a lot of strikes to me, a lot of fastballs. Most power guys might not be seeing a fastball on a two-strike count, but these guys don't want to walk me."
All hitters are compromised when they fall behind in the count, but Eckstein shows less slippage than most. Over the past three seasons, he has maintained a .231 average in at-bats in which he started 0-and-2, and has struck out only 45 times in those 255 plate appearances.
By comparison, former Padres shortstop Khalil Greene hit .187 over the same three-year span in at-bats in which he started 0-and-2, with 145 strikeouts in 316 at bats.
One guy chokes up on the bat. The other guy simply chokes.
"I feel freedom (with two strikes)," Eckstein said yesterday. "That's why you see me take a lot of pitches."
That he takes an unusual number of those pitches in the arm, the hip and the leg is proof of his perseverance. Plus, it puts him on base.


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The Power of Prayer
In just about every issue of Priority!, there has been a Prayer Power section. The only two issues that didn't have one were '9/11: We Remember' (Fall 2011), and 'After Sandy: One Year Later' (Fall 2013), and those two issues were shot through with prayer. The intention of Prayer Power articles was to lift up the power of God and encourage our readers that prayer makes a difference. Here are a few excerpts from the scores of Prayer Power articles that we have featured over the years.


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SPOILER WARNING: This article contains spoilers concerning "Green Lantern Corps" #42 and 43 .
Don't say we didn't warn you. Last week in "Green Lantern Corps" #42 - a title currently crossing over with DC's blockbuster mega-event "Blackest Night" - Green Lantern Kyle Rayner apparently sacrificed himself in an effort to protect the Central Power Battery on Oa from a Black Lantern attack.
The death fills Guy Gardner with such rage that he bolts from the Green Lanterns to team up with the Red Lanterns in issue #43, while the impact the loss will have on Soranik, Kyle's current love interest, has yet to be revealed.
Created by writer Ron Marz and artist Darryl Banks, Kyle Rayner was first introduced to DCU continuity as the Modern Age Green Lantern in "Green Lantern" (Vol. 3) #48. As part of the "Emerald Twilight" storyline, Silver Age Green Lantern Hal Jordan became the supervillain Parallax and Kyle Rayner assumed the mantle as the sole Green Lantern.
"Green Lantern Corps" writer Peter Tomasi is no stranger to deaths in the DCU, having penned "Final Crisis: Requiem," a one-shot tie-in to "Final Crisis," which told the events of Martian Manhunter's ultimate demise at the hands of Libra. CBR News spoke with Tomasi about the death of Kyle Rayner, the repercussions of the loss throughout the DCU, and how the event triggers Guy Gardner's leap to the Red Lantern Corps.
CBR News: Well Peter, you've done it again - first J'onn J'onzz and now Kyle Rayner. How do you keep landing these assignments, and was it your idea to kill off Kyle?
Peter Tomasi: As J. Robert Oppenheimer once said: "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
Seriously, let me start by saying that since this interview comes out before "Green Lantern Corps" #43, and only a week after "Green Lantern Corps" #42 hit stores, there's a lot I could say but won't, since I don't want to spoil what's coming incredibly soon.
Now, I know it may be hard to believe sometimes because of all the "deaths" that occur in comics, especially right now in the DCU, but there's not always a mandate where we sit around and say, "Who we gonna kill this time out?"
Kyle's death came to be simply by the organic flow of the story. I was doing my outline for the issue and suddenly I had written Kyle sacrificing himself and Guy becoming a Red Lantern because of it. It felt right and I called Adam [Schlagman], Eddie [Berganza] and Geoff [Johns] and they were all on board with it, so we did it. There wasn't a "bump in sales" mind-set or a "can we get more press" attitude. Character and story drove it. That's the big secret.
Since Hal Jordan's return, Kyle has taken a back seat to him in terms of the Green Lantern mantle. Did this make him expendable, or, as you said when J'onn J'onzz died, was Kyle "a big-gun death that would make a difference and have future repercussions."
Actually, I don't see Kyle as having taken a back seat to Hal at all. Through "Rebirth," and even some key moments in the 'Sinestro Corps War,' coupled with Kyle's current starring role in "Green Lantern Corps," Kyle is simply a main part of the Green Lantern mythology. Just because a monthly book and every page in it isn't solely devoted to him doesn't mean he takes a back seat. He doesn't suddenly become expendable or inconsequential just because Hal Jordan is back. All the main Lanterns are important parts of the Green Lantern tapestry, and all serve the Corps. They all have stories to tell, some bigger than others at different junctures.
Make no mistake, Kyle isn't killed to make room for Hal or because he is one of the "big guns" and most recognizable Lanterns. His death at that precise moment serves the story, and my job is to make sure that it's heartfelt and has an impact when it occurs.
No one took Martian Manhunter's death worse than Hal Jordan, except for maybe you. What kind of impact will Kyle's death have on Hal?
That's true, I did take J'onn's death hard, that's why I'm so glad I was able to write the "Requiem" issue and give J'onn a proper send off. In regards to the impact on Hal, we're in the middle of a war, so the only effect it's having is on the immediate people around Kyle when it happens.
OK. What about Guy Gardner? Is it safe to say, Kyle's death is the "horrible loss for the Green Lantern Corps that results in Guy Gardner becoming so enraged that he becomes a Red Lantern" that has been teased in the solicitation for "Green Lantern Corps" #43?
Without a doubt. Kyle's death pushes him over the edge. He sees red and becomes red. That kind of rage is easy to understand when someone you're close to is killed and killed not far from you. It's an immediate gut reaction which transforms itself into murderous mayhem thanks to a red ring being in the vicinity. Let's just say that heads will roll.
And in regards to the solicitation "tease," there were discussions about having some secret mysterious cover that wouldn't reveal who the Red Lantern would be, but in the end I said screw the spoiler; let's just show Guy as a Red Lantern so readers can start to form an immediate equation, an equation that says something terrible must happen to someone for Guy to suddenly become a Red Lantern. Who or what equals a Red Lantern Guy Gardner?
Soranik is, of course, another Lantern who will be greatly affected by this loss. How will she respond?
Kyle and Soranik are in love. This loss will hit her hard. That's all I can say this early on since the issue just came out last week.
In terms of his importance within the GLC, where do you rank Kyle's status, and how big of an impact will his death have on the wider DCU?
As I said earlier, in my opinion, Kyle's just as important as Hal or Guy. For a generation of fans, he was their Green Lantern, just as for an earlier generation Hal Jordan was theirs. Now, to me, they are all equally important and have all been redefined for future generations to come, and that's a damn exciting thing to be a part of.
Because I have to ask, will we ever see Kyle Rayner alive and well in DCU again or is this really it for the Modern Age Green Lantern?
Time will tell.
If we can circle back to Guy Gardner for a second, the fact that he will transition from a Green Lantern to a Red Lantern makes perfect sense, as he may be the hottest-headed superhero in the history of DCU. Is writing Guy Gardner in full on rage a different experience than writing him as he was before the switch, or is this just the Guy Gardner we love to hate ramped up to 11?
You hit it right on the head. It is Guy turned up to 11. Imagine Guy Gardner with no moral or ethical filter, and that's the Guy Gardner you will be seeing as a Red Lantern. Fun to write, to say the least.
How do his fellow Corps members respond to Red Lantern Guy Gardner?
Well, the first thing they have to worry about is how to make sure they don't get in his way, and the second thing is how in hell they can get the red ring off his hand without killing him.
We're only about halfway through "Blackest Night." Have you enjoyed the process working with Geoff on this massive event, and what more can we expect in the months ahead? There has to be a light at the end of the tunnel, doesn't there?
Yeah, it's crazy how fast this has all gone, I can't believe we're basically in December and coming on 2010. Working with Geoff is great. It was great when I was an editor, and it's been great working together as writers. It's too damn easy and way too much fun. And there's major stuff heading everyone's way, with reverberations that will be felt within the DCU in a big way.
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Abuse isn't just about bruises. Not all forms of abuse leave bruises where we can see them,What Happens When You Get A Domestic Violence Charge in South Africa . Although physical abuse is terrifying and needs to be addressed immediately there are other forms of abuse that can cause significant damage. One type of abuse that is very difficult for outsiders to detect is financial abuse. Marriage should be a partnership but when one spouse completely dominates the finances to the point that the other spouse has no control and no options financial abuse may be occurring.
What Are Signs of Potential Financial Abuse?
Every married couple handles their finances differently. In some cases one spouse handles the majority of the finances. They manage the accounts, pay the bills and deal with creditors. That does not by itself equal financial abuse.
Financial abuse occurs when one spouse is treated like an irresponsible child and Domestic Violence Network . They are cut off from funds and their knowledge about the couple's finances is severely limited. Some signs of financial abuse include:
•Strict Allowances. This isn't an amount that the spouses have agreed to limit themselves to but is instead a set amount that is grudgingly handed out from one spouse to the other and is all that will be given.
Documents, documents, documents. Written evidence is incredibly strong and can range from credit card bills showing that there is a credit card but that you aren't named on it to emails from your spouse that show the financial abuse.
Other witnesses can be incredibly powerful on your behalf. Financial abuse is hard for people outside the relationship to detect. So when someone credible comes in and tells the judge that it is happening and they can see it the judge will listen and Abuse Classes Near Me .
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When the economy dips, domestic violence often increases, affecting your workplace. This is the first of two articles on preventing DV from hitting your office.
Workplace Policy
A proactive approach to domestic violence should include designing and implementing a specific domestic violence in the workplace policy. This will not only protect your organization from liability, it will protect your employees, and help victims of domestic abuse feel supported.
Your policy should, at a minimum:
- Mitigate the effects of domestic violence in the workplace by providing victims with a link to community resources that offer counseling and advocacy. (Your organization is not required to do this itself.)
- Heighten awareness about domestic violence among all employees.
- Address issues related to the need for time off and security.
- Design an appropriate workplace safety plan, including resources, materials, and training or educational programs, as needed or as funds and time permit.
- Establish links between your organization and the local domestic violence advocacy community.
- Review existing employment policies and manuals to ensure that the domestic violence policy and program make sense in the organization's culture and environment.
- Review your EAP's policies and identify those providers who possess the requisite knowledge and experience to identify and respond appropriately to domestic violence.
- Establish and train an internal Domestic Violence Response Team, composed of designated managers, supervisors, and employees identified as the "go-to-team". Ensuring that your policy complies with the applicable laws in every jurisdiction in which it conducts business.
Safety Procedures
There are a number of security measures you can take to protect both the victim of domestic violence and all your employees. These procedures will also add protection in the case of a disgruntled former employee seeking to harm the past employer.
Imperative for the Targeted Individual:
- Consider adjusting parking and office situations (is she in an office with a window on the street; or is her office far from the main cluster?)
- Arrange for a security escort to and from buildings.
- Give temporary assignments if possible, so employees can leave on short notice if necessary.
- Be sure she knows what she can and should do if the abuser comes to work.
- Attempt to prevent gossip about an abused individual's situation
- If she has a protection order, be sure security guards and the front desk have a copy, as well as a photo of the individual.
- Help her develop a safety plan (Legal Momentum Organization website has some examples.)
- Minimal security against unauthorized persons (check-in or badges help.)
- Provide informational pamphlets in private places, like restrooms.
- Establish staggered, flexible work hours.
- Raise awareness: Use posters during October (Domestic Violence Awareness Month); organize clothes or toy drives for battered women's shelters; or otherwise connect with the anti-DV community to let employees know you care.
- Increase sensitivity: Provide training for managers, and for the DV contact team-- about how to recognize the signs of domestic violence in their staff and how to discuss the workplace policies around the issue.
- Educate: Employee training, brown bag seminars, newsletter articles, and brochures on domestic violence all create an environment where it is safe to talk about domestic violence.
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Domestic Violence: Victims of Domestic Violence
If you are a victim of domestic violence or if you know someone who is a victim of domestic violence you may not know what to do in this situation. If it is an emergency you may want to consider calling 911. If you feel trapped in an abusive relationship that involves domestic violence, know that there are many ways to get away from domestic violence. Here are some ideas for victims of domestic violence that are worth exploring.
First you may want to consider a way to get away from the abuser and perpetrator of domestic violence. Right from the first domestic violence act, you may want to consider leaving the place that you share with the aggressor. Whether it is the first act of domestic violence or not it is much safer to get away from the abuser and find another place to stay. Too often, victims of domestic violence are afraid of leaving his/her place of residence resulting in more abuse by the perpetrator of domestic violence.
If you are a victim of domestic violence you may also want to consider obtaining some external help such as requesting assistance from the police or local law enforcement. If you are in need of legal advice, you will want to consult an attorney. You may also wish to consider contacting a friend or a neighbor to get away from the situation rather than try to get trough it alone. Sadly, victims of domestic violence, who are in a very vulnerable situation, will often be persuaded from attempting to obtain help. External assistance is often very critical to help keep the victim of domestic violence protected.
Local police officers and sheriffs are often trained to handle domestic violence cases and can be extremely helpful to the victim of domestic violence. Additionally, law enforcement personnel or city attorneys can provide victims with helpful information related to domestic violence or provide referrals to other local assistance centers such as emergency shelters or safe houses. There are also many local group activities on domestic violence for women which can provide counseling and legal assistance to women.
Another consideration would be to obtain a temporary or long-term restraining order in order to stop the domestic violence. A protective order generally provides that the abuser or perpetrator of domestic violence be restrained from having any form of contact with the victim, has to move out from the residence shared with the protected person, and should stay at least 100 yards away from the protected person at all times. If any children or family members live in the same place, they may also be included in the category of protected persons.
Anyone can be a victim of domestic violence whether you are rich or poor and whatever your background, such as a school drop-out or university graduate. Therefore it is essential to know how to get help with a domestic violence situation for your own health and safety as well as the health and safety of those close to you. If you are seeking legal advice regarding domestic violence and protective orders, you will want to consult an attorney in your jurisdiction.
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In the Cotswold woodland that we visit, the scene has changed and is suddenly autumnal. Now that the cover of the undergrowth is starting to collapse and die back, far more can be seen of what goes on beneath. With the dampness of autumn, fungi have popped up over night, making meals for various types of wildlife. Mammals eat fungi and clumps can be found which have been partially consumed, only the stems remaining. Why did they not eat all of it, one wonders.
Slugs are also partial to fungi and I found this one making a quiet meal on its own. You can find out more about slugs here.
It's a very good year for puffballs, but they don't appear to be attractive to wildlife and none I've come across have the marks of being sampled.
Elsewhere, badgers show their presence in the form of the pathways they've made in the grass. Their routes never seem to vary, even if a log is laid across them, and the paths are well trodden. Another sign of badgers is the shallow latrines they dig at particular points along their territory boundaries. Badgers are cleanly creatures, but these are a rather unpleasant thing to come across, generally being full of sloppy droppings which are coloured according to what has been eaten.
The presence of an active badger sett can also be seen when the badgers air their bedding, pulling it out of the sett and spreading it around. The bedding I was lucky enough to come across was primarily made up of dried grass and animal hair, which would make quite a soft and comfortable bed. I've yet to see a badger gathering bedding for myself but have seen video showing them dragging balls of grass backwards towards the sett, much as a dog would do with bedding. I found it almost as frustrating to watch and recalled how our dog Toby would scuff up the rug in his bed, changing it from being neatly spread out to a lumpy heap.
At home, the robin still visits us several times a day, alighting on logs in the open fronted wood shed and then making short hops from one perch to another before flying into the garage for its treat of mealworms. The two blackbirds which had also been visiting disappeared suddenly and we suspected they had not been predated, but had gone off to the hedgerows to feast on the abundance of berries available there. They returned today and have gone straight back to their usual routine of speed-eating as many mealworms as possible. The robin, in comparison, is positively genteel, taking only a few worms at one sitting and allowing a few moments between each one.
'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness' it may have been to the poet John Keats, but I suspect he didn't do much gardening. Autumn is certainly beautiful, but to me it also means the emergence of biting midges and once more resorting to insect repellent. This autumn has been especially midgy and working under shrubs has found me tormented by these wretched creatures and itching for days. How they get through my hair is a mystery. I searched out the repellent I'd mislaid after summer, Stupidly Simple Midge Repel. It contains pine tar and has a faint smoky odour, but it works and I've never been happier to smell like an old bonfire.


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Second branchial cleft cyst
The vast majority (95%) of branchial cleft anomalies arise from the second cleft . At least three-fourths of these anomalies are cysts , which typically occur between 10 and 40 years of age, in contrast to fistulas or sinuses, which manifest most commonly during the 1st decade of life . No gender predilection has been reported .
Bailey classified second branchial cleft cysts into four types.
Most second branchial cleft cysts are located in the submandibular space. However, because of the anatomic relationship of the second branchial apparatus and the cervical sinus, they can occur anywhere along a line from the oropharyngeal tonsillar fossa to the supraclavicular region of the neck .
These cysts usually appear as painless, fluctuant masses in the lateral portion of the neck adjacent to the anteromedial border of the sternocleidomastoid muscle at the mandibular angle . The mass enlarges slowly over time and may become painful and tender if secondarily infected . In a young patient, a history of recurrent inflammation in the region of the mandibular angle is highly suggestive of a second branchial cleft cyst. If a fistula is present, the ostium is usually noted at birth just above the clavicle in the anterior neck .
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JAMES CONEY: What happened when I tried to find the interest rate on these three cash Isa accounts?
This week Money Mail's savings expert Sylvia Morris set me a challenge.
'See if you can find the current rates on these three Isas that launched last year,' she said.
The accounts in question were: Nationwide Easy Isa 2, Virgin Easy Access Cash Isa Issue 4, Britannia Select Isa 2.
Merry dance: A truly transparent organisation would make the current rates on all accounts as readily available as possible
I like to think I'm pretty proficient at navigating the websites of banks and building societies — it is, after all, what we at Money Mail spend part of our days doing. But there is nothing intuitive about finding where the rates on now-closed accounts are.
Virgin was the easiest, requiring three minutes on clicking backwards and forwards through its savings pages before I finally found a menu that let me pull up the details of what the Cash Isa Issue 4 now paid — 1.5 per cent.
At Britannia, I quickly (and confusingly) found myself in the depths of the website of parent company Co-operative Bank.
Finally, after spotting a reference to 'Previous Rates on Britannia Accounts' and much hunting through a blurry list of accounts there, at the bottom of page three was Select Isa 2 (now paying 0.25 per cent).
After five minutes clicking here and there on Nationwide's website I was at the point of giving up when, out of the corner of my eye, a little label shot in to view, and then disappeared again off the side of the screen. There it said: 'Previous Interest Rates.'
And after a bit more searching I found Easy Isa 2 (now paying 1 per cent).
As an experiment I typed firstly 'Easy Isa 2' and then added the words 'current rate' into the search bar on Nationwide's website. It yielded no useful results.
Now, I don't have any of these accounts, so perhaps you think it's a little unfair of me to suggest that customers in accounts like these wouldn't know their rate.
They'd regularly be sent statements highlighting what their earning wouldn't they? Well, no, they wouldn't.
A study published yesterday by the City regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, lays bare how billions of pounds of savings cash is left languishing in old accounts by banks who pull the wool over our eyes.
Nearly half of easy access balances are held in accounts that once offered a bonus. Just 24 per cent of savers have switched deals in the past three years.
A whopping 60 per cent of easy-access cash is sitting in accounts opened more than five years ago — they earn about 0.3 per cent.
The FCA says: 'Few firms provided such information [on how to switch or close the account] when notifying customers that their bonus rate was coming to an end . . .'
I can't think how long Money Mail has been banging on about this, but it's terrific that the regulator has finally opened its eyes to the widespread deception.
Finding out what you are earning on old accounts remains dazzlingly difficult. I suspect that for bank staff it remains a jolly old game in which they can lead loyal customers a merry dance through the maze of their websites.
Sadly, for customers it's no fun. Worse, it's harmful to their finances.
A truly transparent organisation would make the current rates on all accounts as readily available as possible — not try to leave customers languishing on as low a rate for as long as possible.
PS: When I gave my answers to Sylvia Morris, it turned out I got one of them wrong.
The Select Isa 2 actually pays 1.75 per cent — you only earn 0.25 per cent on the same account if you make two withdrawals in a year. That's clear then!
Cash grab
Amid the reams of data published by the Financial Conduct Authority in its investigation into savings accounts is this statistic: 69 per cent of savings accounts are opened in a branch. Just a quarter are opened online.
Of course, the number being opened on the web is rising — but it just demonstrates how far we have to go before we reach the place where banks seem to think we all live already: The Magical Land of Cashless Britain. Banks seem to think we're using our debit and credit cards for every transaction, and using the web for every other service.
There is little doubt many people are using the web far more for their banking. Go to cities such as London and you can get by for days just paying by plastic.
But we are a long way from this being the norm.
Take this official statistic: the average debit card is used 94 times a year. That's roughly once every four days — that doesn't seem very often to me, particularly if we're all going cashless.
The average credit card gets used 42 times a year.
Money Mail reporter Holly Black went to King's Lynn (as featured on pages 38 to 43) because it is pretty typical of many UK towns.
The small retailers there couldn't have been much clearer about the way they feel pressurised by the banks into offering card services that cost them a small fortune.
For many it's an expense they cannot afford.
There is a new European directive that could come to the UK which should reduce the cost of card transactions for shopkeepers — but it still won't help.
Of course, the more bank branches are shut, and free cash machines disappear from the High Street, the more retailers will be left with no choice but to accept cards. In many cases, though, they'll have no choice but to close.
Banks are hastening us towards a destination that many people are not ready for — and the price we'll have to pay is the loss of our small communities.
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Turtle Hill Banjo Co. You'll find a really great selection of new and used banjos at this site.
Banjo Collector. Derek Kindler's interesting new site highlights his collection of four string banjos.
Skanktone Guitars. My brother's "fun" site with lots of cowboy guitars, plastic toy guitars, etc. No banjo ukes, though.
Banjos Unlimited. This organization for four string banjo players is "dedicated to the preservation of the banjo and its music."
Parts, Supples, Instructional, etc.
Curt Sheller. Curt's site offers books, lessons, TABS, songs and links for builders, manufactures, strings, uke Sites and more.
Windy Strings. This is "The" place to get Gotoh banjo tuners and instructional material.
Repairs, Restorations, etc.
Vinnie Mondello. Vinnie is one of the "good guys" in the business. He does repairs and restorations, and also sells banjos.
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Palm Tree Ukuleles. John Ramsey builds wonderful ukuleles (not the banjo kind, though).
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Catfish's Closet. An interesting site, with lots of infomation about ukes. Check out the "banjo-uke gallery" also.
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