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- Rated 5 out of 5It's all OK. Very good.
But with the last Firefox version (70.0.1) I lost all favorite site groups and in the GSD Option I didn't find the possibility to load the old saved setting.
So I downgraded to Firefox version 70.0.0 and all is now OK.
If you are not using Cloud server in my addon, then make sure to export your dials to a file as a backup (just in case).
Have a nice weekend.
Best regards,
Juraj Mäsiar
- Rated 5 out of 5Excellent add-on, i like that is compatible with other discotninous add-ons and the free cloud sync feature. Highlly recommended.
- Rated 3 out of 5Everything was perfect until I updated FF several days ago, and then Speed Dial started to crash FF and itself also. Now it dont even show my bookmarks and groups, and shows an error.
Environment health-check error: Error
Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist.
Error: Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist.
Environment: Group Speed Dial 14.0; info: os: win, arch: x86-64; name: Firefox, vendor: Mozilla, version: 70.0, buildID: 20191016161957;
Running time: 4712 / 22017769
Stats: NA - 12,12,11
Runtime errors:
error getting runtime errors: Error: Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist.
Version: 14.0; OS: {"os":"win","arch":"x86-64"}; Browser: {"name":"Firefox","vendor":"Mozilla","version":"70.0","buildID":"20191016161957"};Hello,
Please contact me to my support email if the problem persist.
But in general this is a Firefox specific error that often disappears after restarting Firefox or whole PC.
If you can see it even after the restart, then I would suggest you to reinstall my add-on. But make sure to export your dials to a file first - from the Options page / Import backup tab (you can export also your thumbnails).
Best regards,
Juraj Mäsiar
- Rated 5 out of 5The Best speed dial.
- Rated 2 out of 5I used to love this add-on until the moment I updated my Firefox to 70. Now it is a crap working full of problems. Are you trying to fix the issues?Hello Oshoreiki,
Please contact me to my support email with additional info (what exactly is not working as expected).
I haven't made any changes for last 4 months, so things should work as before (I'm testing it with every new Beta / Nightly release).
Also there will be a new version 14.0 released any day now so if you found some bugs, please let me know and I can include the fix in the new version.
Best regards,
Juraj Mäsiar
- Rated 5 out of 5Best speed dial we've ever tried. And we've tried them all. It does everything it promises and has no bugs as far as we can tell. It even allows animated gifs as speed dial thumbnails which we love. Fun stuff. It's the only one we use now. Very highly recommended.
- Rated 5 out of 5I'm having crashes on Nightly 71 each time i'm trying to open new page, no matter dial or address bar with addon activated.Hello,
I've just tried it with my Nightly and I can confirm this strange auto-closing tab behavior.
However this 99.9% not caused by my addon. There is no code for handling addressbar actions (not even permission), so this must be some Firefox bug.
I tired to reset my profile for Firefox Nightly using Reset button in the about:support page only to find out, the button doesn't work :). Yet another bug... Luckily reset button on the official support page works:
Resetting profile fixed the problem in my case (make sure to user Firefox Sync. to backup list of installed addons and make sure to backup any addons data, because these are not backed up! So export your dials first).
Lastly I would like to mention that Nightly is NOT recommended for daily usage and should be used ONLY for testing. You should stick with Release version or Beta (Developer Edition), which contains much less bugs, but sometimes some serious appears as well.
If you have more questions, feel free to contact me to my support email.
Best regards,
Juraj Mäsiar
- Rated 5 out of 5I have set this as the New Tab page on my Android tablet, and it is exceptionally good with a wealth of settings for further customisation. I use groups in the same way that I use folders on the bookmarks toolbar of my Windows Desktop.
The only small point - which has been mentioned by another user, is that it could be even better if it were possible to rearrange the thumbnails within groups, but the developer's response suggests that this may not be possible. However, it is nonetheless still a superb extension.
- Rated 5 out of 5Excellent add-on permettant l'organisation des marque-pages dans des onglets totalement paramétrables, leur synchronisation entre différentes machines et dans le cloud.
Impossible de s'en passer quand on l'a essayé.
- Rated 5 out of 5This extension is great, I love it.
My requests.
1) Allow to cloud sync our settings too.
2) Allow to create dials not only for http links.
I am using an extension for creating dials/bookmarks that link directly to a container.
When I create a normal bookmark I can open this kind of links properly from my bookmarks toolbar.
This is the extension I am using.
The link looks like this
Cloud sync for settings will come, I already started working on it but it got a bit complicated so I had to stop it for now. I want to make it flexible, allow users to share same settings across all devices or just backup each device setting separately.
Regarding your second request, this may be possible, but I will need a bit more info. Could you please contact me to my support email?
Best regards,
Juraj Mäsiar
- Rated 5 out of 5Superb extension and the best of its kind (by far) that I have tried.
Highly customisable with loads of excellent features, and it's easy to use too.
Thanks :)
Only issue I'm having is that when refreshing the thumbnails for a couple of sites, the images are sometimes blank. This happens regardless of how long I set the delay for. It's most probably a site issue and can be resolved by 'refresh image by visiting the page +5' which is only a minor inconvenience.
One feature request would be to load thumbnails in dark mode if possible please. That would be awesome.
Edit: Wow...the new refresh method is amazing!
Thank you so much.
I will contribute when I can. You are doing an amazing job :)Hello,
The issues with thumbnails generation should be fixed in the upcoming version 14.0.
Regarding dark-mode - you mean you use some other addon for making pages look dark and you want to use it for thumbnails as well, right? The Refresh by visiting page should work fine (right?), also there will be a new refresh method that should work as well (I will add some switch to the options page to change default thumbnails generation method).
Feel free to contact me to my support e-mail to discuss this further.
Also I'm really busy with a new release so I'm replying very fast these days...
Best regards,
Juraj Mäsiar
- Rated 2 out of 5drag & drop feature doesn't work in android.Hello,
Yes, I'm really sorry but this is very hard to do... I have no idea how to implement it right and there is so many other features that needs to be done.
Until then, you can do this on desktop and let changes synchronize over the cloud.
Best regards,
Juraj Mäsiar


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Mismatch - aspirations and expectations
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Chris Targett
31 March 2016
There have been several articles written with regards to the mismatch between the labour market and the aspirations of young people over the last few years, with an underlying assumption that if young people knew what jobs were available they would aim for them. This assumes that young people are making decisions based on their prospects for work; that they are pursuing career paths with the highest likelihood of employment and avoiding training for jobs where there are few opportunities. Unfortunately there is an inherent gap in this logic as many of the opportunities which are available, our young people consider to be boring. That is compared to their hopes and dreams for the future which have been significantly influenced by the mass media.
There is perhaps scope for a research study to see whether our current generation is less pragmatic than their forebears. I recall seeing a Billy Connolly show where he described his youth in Glasgow. These were the days when the schools opened their doors and the students walked from the schools straight to the shipyards. Billy's dreaming to be a performer came after (and not before) the need to find work. In the intervening years Billy's career has evolved as has Glasgow; both are now very different.
Some young people will seek local opportunities straight after school and be happy with this but, many will consider the fact that a small chance to follow their dreams is still a chance, no matter how slim. Consider the perennial favourite of young people to "work with animals". We know opportunities can be limited in this area, yet young people are still eager to pursue the dream. Even if the only experience of this dream they have is to work with animals at college or university over a few years before transferring their skills into another line of work. Whether this is a positive or negative depends upon your view on these matters.
What we can see is that the gap between the available opportunities and aspirations of young people isn't the fault of young people but ours as a community. We provide them with examples of aspirational careers through the mass media as well as at open days for schools, colleges and universities, careers websites and similar; we then expect them to turn a blind eye to this marketing and look at the available jobs. Should we be that surprised that their aspirations don't match with the available jobs? In addition we disregard how young people develop and how fantasy develops into reality through exploration.
We know from Donald Super that young people reach vocational maturity at different rates and that many young people will enter an explorative phase which lasts from their early teens to their late twenties. It is during this time that their ideas and goals will repeatedly change as they grow and their sense of self and values emerge. Asking a young person at the start of this cycle, when they are about fifteen, to make a logical choice based on the local labour market needs alone, having fed them a diet of dreams, is an imprudent goal. However, educating a young person to understand how their ideas may develop and how the labour market could change, alongside clear information with regards the available opportunities, is less foolish. Plus, there needs to be time for young people to explore and understand different strategies to take advantage of these opportunities at different stages and at different times in the future.
For example, if a young person knows they can make choices at post-16, with an understanding of where these choices could lead, alongside the possibilities and the opportunities to make different choices at different points later in the future (as they change) they are empowered through knowing how the systems in place operate.
This is where Labour Market Information (LMI) and Careers Guidance can work in partnership, not to fit or force young people into the immediate labour market but, to help them chart the changeable waters of their career paths. It is the difference between hurtling along in the dark and having a light to guide you. Part of this is access to good quality LMI but equally important is being able to make sense of it through professional Careers Guidance and weighing the data up alongside all the other factors which affect our choices at different stages in our lives (including our aspirations).
Such Careers Guidance and LMI should not be a one off but should be available from primary school through to adulthood so, as our young people transition at different stages, they have information and support. Some will reach their aspirations but others may find their aspirations tempered by reality or reprioritised, as they shift from dreams to putting food on the table. In later life, it may mean a shift from one career to another due to illness or disability. In an ideal world, a labour market which allows for accessible and affordable retraining at an older age or, at multiple times, to upskill for the emerging opportunities, would be ideal; this however may be a pipe dream. Instead, help in navigating not only the available jobs but also available training to access these jobs in later life is essential. It is this which makes the work provided through the National Careers Service vital, as long as the contexts allow for careers management and guidance to take place.
One way to ease these transitions through life is a greater awareness of how the skills which have been developed in one area can be transferred from one occupation to another. Imagine being able to assess the skills and see which other occupations needed the same or similar, as well as where the labour market shortages were which needed these skills. It is a concept which is in harmony with the ideas found in careers guidance, of encouraging clients to be more open to related occupations.
It is a step forwards from linking young people to directly related occupations, for example if you like carpentry you might also enjoy bricklaying. If we had the tools, we can then identify those which are also related through their transferable skills, for example teaching and business management are relatable (both requiring leadership and problem solving skills), but we could measure the extent to which they are similar and different. This is whereorganisations like EMSI are developing interesting new approaches to LMI data, building exciting tools which begin to do exactly this.
Yet, we need more than just local data when people transition. An assumption which is sometimes made is that people only need local LMI and won't travel or look further afield. Whilst some people do stay local, not all do; for many graduates and those who seek to relocate, regional LMI is not enough. We need real time LMI (showing the current labour market needs) alongside predictive LMI at regional, national and international levels, balanced with professional guidance for clients on how to identify the opportunities in these different locations.
This is the future we need. The mismatch which is most damaging is not between the hopes and dreams of our young people and the available jobs but, between the LMI which is freely available to our clients and the LMI tools envisaged above. As professionals we can analyse the data available in the public domain but, for young people it is a minefield. Instead of accurate LMI they have television, magazines and social media which show them a fantasy labour market. How can we blame them for a mismatch when their hopes and dreams are based on examples grounded in a mediated fantasy? Finally, we have a mismatch between having enough careers professionals to help young people navigate the systems in place and reality; we are aware that not every school in this country provides in-depth support to young people by professional careers advisers.
So what can we do?
- Careers organisations and LMI organisations can work closer together to support our young people and develop integrated approaches.
- Schools can provide access to professional careers guidance and education, alongside high quality LMI from a young age, to help young people make sense and identify the evolving opportunities.
- LMI could also be embedded into the curriculum at Primary, Secondary, Further and Higher Education so it becomes normalised.
- Employers, Government and those supporting the unemployed can provide access to the same, to help those moving through the labour market and those removed from the labour market, to thrive or re-train respectively.
Let's hope we can move forward together to make this happen in the New Year ahead.
Originally published on the CXK blog, Tuesday 8th December 2015
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Under what conditions should we expect states to do things radically differently all of a sudden? In this book, David Welch seeks to answer this question, constructing a theory of foreign policy change inspired by organization theory, cognitive and motivational psychology, and prospect theory. He then "test drives" the theory in a series of comparative case studies in the security and trade domains: Argentina's decision to go to war over the Falklands/Malvinas vs. Japan's endless patience with diplomacy in its conflict with Russia over the Northern Territories; America's decision to commit large-scale military force to Vietnam vs. its ultimate decision to withdraw; and Canada's two abortive flirtations with free trade with the United States in 1911 and 1948 vs. its embrace of free trade in the late 1980s.
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The Outdoor Symbolic Memorial alongside the interactive museum commemorate those individuals who died during the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995. Five years after the bombing, the memorial was dedicated to honor the victims. The interactive museum was dedicated a few months after to tell stories of each bombing victim.
To further enhance how the museum engages with the public, the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum will be planning an $7 million renovation project. The museum will be upgraded with expansions including more facilities and added insights.
Renovation is expected to last for 11 month. Currently, the museum is starting with the first part of the five-phase project. Expected completion month will be November 2014.
Based on the master plan, the museum will be expanding the Gallery of Honor to accommodate videos from family members of the victims. Investigation evidence will also be displayed to give insights on how the said bombing happened. Added facilities include an overlook balcony, which provides an added view of the memorial. More artifacts and stories will also be added to the museum.
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There's this fun little debate going on in Washington about tax rates for households earning over $250,000.
Some would have you believe that those earning over $250,000 are not rich, but those people would be lying to you.
I'll start with the conclusion to save you some time. $250,000 per year in household income makes you rich. Period.
Welcome to the 2%
If your income is in the top 2.9% of American households, sheer math tells you that you are rich. For every one person that earns more than you, there are 49 who earn less. In world income, you're in the top .1% of earners*. You say you're not elite? That's rich.
I understand that everything is relative and that you may not feel rich, but that doesn't change the facts. If you're so envious of those living in undesirable areas, change places with them.
How much is it really?
There are a few ways to look at it:
– $250,000 is five times the national household average.
– $250,000 is over $120 per hour.
– $250,000 is $20,833 per month.
– $250,000 is what 16½ minimum wage employees earn combined.
But I can't live off $250k!
Whenever a debate as to whether or not a quarter-million are a lot of dollars for one to have, invariably some dull jackass shows up to complain about the high cost of living in some extremely specific, exclusive place.
Here's an example from Reddit. The point was made that $250,000 is in fact quite rich, to which came the following response.
AlmaWade: No, no it isn't. That $250k a year paycheck sounds amazing, until you find out your job is in a dense city…
– You're paying $100k a year in various forms of federal, state, county, and city taxes.
– Your mortgage payment for a comfortably sized condo is around $75k a year, god forbid you want a house.
– The rest of your money gets spent on high priced goods and services, transportation, insurance, unexpected medical costs, and saving for your retirement and your kids education.
Meanwhile, some guy in the rural Midwest is earning $50k a year and having a higher standard of living than you.
Oh boo hoo, your pile of gold is too heavy. First, realize that people living in those same markets are surviving off the national average of $50,000 per year, and many more are living off of minimum wage. If you imagine they have no sympathy for you, you're right. Is it time to raise minimum wage so they can afford to eat more than saltines from their job serving you at the diner?
To the points, though:
You're paying $100,000 in taxes… No you're not. Not unless you include gas tax, and guess what brother, we're all paying that. A two-income household at minimum wage is likely spending $400-600 a month just on gas, and they're only making $2,500/month. That's 16-24% of their income just on transportation fuel, to say nothing of the cost of cars and the repairs that come with cheap, used cars.
Mortgage payment for a condo is $75,000/year… No it isn't. That's a monthly payment of $6,250. Even assuming a 95% loan with mortgage insurance, taxes, fire insurance and $7,200 a year in homeowners dues, that would still be a $910,000 condo. That's not "comfortable", that's fan-friggen-tastic.
The rest… spent on high priced goods and services… Right, but only maybe about double what it costs in impoverished places. That against your income with is 5-16 fold greater than the people living elsewhere.
(high priced) transportation… which is bullshit. The whole reason for living in a high-priced, high density place is because it's close to your job. Many of the most expensive markets have easy, affordable mass transit. If you buy a million dollar property that's also inconveniently far from your work, it's a choice you made.
(high priced) insurance… Right, right, right. This must add, what, a good $100 a month? That will take you a whole 50-minues a month to earn.
(high priced) unexpected medical costs… You're telling me you earn $20,833 a month and you don't have medical insurance? This claim is preposterous on its face. If you think that's a legit concern then you need to take a deep breath, swallow your balls for a minute, and consider how the family earning $50,000 will handle it. Unlike the minimum-wage family, they don't get discounts from the hospital unless they want to default on the debt and ruin their credit for 7-10 years. In which case, no car loans, no home loans and limited future financial prospects.
and saving for your retirement… Rich people problems! I agree that saving for retirement is of extremely high importance, and you're right to want to do it… but saying you're not rich when one of your biggest concerns is having enough money left over to capably save for your retirement… well, I'm sorry, but that means you're rich.
(and saving for) your kids education… More rich people problems. You need to realize that very few Americans can afford to pay their childrens' tuitions, especially now that tuition is so unprecedentedly high. If you can afford to pay your childrens' tuitions, then you're rich.
So that's the end of my Reddit jag. Now let's hit up Google and see what kind of opinions we find.
Hey Google, is $250,000 rich?
I asked Google, and the number one result was CNBC. They said "no it isn't", and my god was their logic flawed.
The CNBC story makes a number of assumptions about what it costs to live in certain places, say for instance, seven of the nicest neighborhoods in the country (all with "top notch schools".)
They point out that if you buy a home, hire a housekeeper for $5,000 a year, spend $4,000 on your kids' sports and activities, take a full, real, one-week vacation, spend $1,200 on dry cleaning, and fully invest in your IRAs and 401ks, then there would be very little, if any, leftover.
This assumption is fundamentally flawed because it starts by assuming a rich people's lifestyle and works backwards. If you own a home in one of the 7 nicest neighborhoods in the country and incur expenses like those, you are living a rich person's life. You are rich. Not as rich as you could be, or might like to be, but you are still most definitely rich.
$5,000 a year for a maid is exactly a rich person's expense. That expense would be impossible if you lived in a median income household, and you'd still need your house cleaned. In fact, at $50,000, you'd be more likely to be a two-career household than you would at $250,000, where the air is rarefied.
I've been $80,000 rich before
From 1998 to 2002 I made a lot of money. No wife, no kids, just me and my toys and a maximum income of about $80,000, and that made me rich.
I ate out frequently, never brought my lunch, wore only expensive suits, dated lavishly, and eventually traded in my Lexus for a showroom new Viper RT/10. I maxed out my retirement investments, bought over a dozen rental properties, and never worked more than 3-hours on any given weekend.
I had few deductions, paid mad (Clinton-era) taxes, and still had money for pretty much anything I wanted. I had no wife and kids to pay for, but I was a household, I made $80,000 or less, and I felt rich.
Fast-forward to 2008, when I got back to $80,000 (in combined household) income. This time with a significant other and three kids to provide for. In 2008 I had no want for food or clothes, bought a new (gently used) van, moved to a nice, big-ish house and had enough money leftover to pay off my last $15,000 of debt.
I didn't have enough to buy a house (height of the real estate bubble) or buy a brand new car, but even with a total of 5-mouths to feed, I felt pretty rich. I could do anything. I took my kids on two separate three-week vacations.
Maybe I wasn't rich, but my perspective was that, even with paying off $15,000 in debt, I was doing pretty well.
And now you want to tell me that if I had earned THREE TIMES as much money, I still would not have been rich? That's just not a credible argument. I live in Seattle. This is a fairly pricey market.
How much tax are we really talking about?
This is the part that really kills me. When people say that $250,000 a year isn't rich, they're failing to understand that this isn't even the question. If you earn $250k and congress raises taxes on those earning more than $250k, the change will not impact you.
So how much money are we really talking about?
If marginal rates go up 3% on income earned over $250,000:
– $260,000, you'll pay an extra $300/year. That's $0.14-cents out of your $125 bucks/hour.
– $300,000, you'll pay an extra $1,500/year. That's only $0.72-cents of your $144.23 big ones.
– $500,000, you'll pay an extra $7,500/year. That's only $3.61-cents out of you $240.38 hourly smackeroos.
So really, we're talking about pennies on the dollar, or at worst, dollars on the hundreds of dollars.
In light of all this, I do not think that rich people are too good to be paying their taxes. I think it's high time. More than that, I think this whole debate is ridiculous.
* If you run the numbers using the chart linked, the number comes out mathematically impossibly small. It is my belief that they are mistaking .001 with .001%, creating an error of 2-decimal places. Feel free to double-check the math, find additional sources, and cite them in the comments below. I'll post a correction as needed.


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Kiwis Fume At Haka Marketing Spoof By UK Fashion Brand
A UK men's fashion retailer has turned the All Black's famed haka into a camp version of the macarnea and, hardly unsurprisingly, sent Maori traditionalists into a tizz over what they believe is a highly disrespectful parody.
With the Rugby World Cup to start in the UK this Friday, the fashion brand, Jacamo, decided on a little fun and enlisted English rugby legend and 2003 World Cup winner Matt Dawson to front the campaign called the 'hakarena'. Dawson is backed by portly players from local British rugby team, the Battersea Ironsides.
However, the stunt's not gone down well in New Zealand, where the haka is revered by the Maori.
Sir Pita Sharples, former co-leader of the Maori Party, said the stunt was insulting a tradition that goes back to 1888 when a touring Kiwi team first performed it at a match in the UK.
"The haka is done as a way of honouring the enemy," Sharples said. "You don't do it in those sorts of circumstances — you do it if you're up for a challenge.
"By doing a haka as the All Blacks do, it's recognising the worth of the other side. So if they're doing something to mock the haka, I think that's pretty shameful.
"The haka is very meaningful to us. To actually mimic it and deliberately bring it into ridicule is, to me, insulting," he said.
However, Jacamo has questioned all the fuss, saying the ad is clearly about having a bit of fun and not intended to cause offence. The brand said it "acknowledges the sheer might of the reigning champions while having a bit of a giggle".
Even rugby loving Kiwis have got the joke with All Black great Keven Mealamy calling it "actually quite funny".


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HDI Bulletin
The Humpty Dumpty Institute Welcomes New Board Member
November 26, 2012 - For Immediate Release
New York, November 26 -- The Humpty Dumpty Institute is pleased to announce that Jennifer Diamond has joined its Board of Directors. Ms. Diamond is President of the Diamond Family Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that develops unique methods to improve and increase access to education and healthcare, by supporting those who fall outside traditional, government-sponsored assistance programs. As President, Jennifer helps determine the direction and mission of the organization, sets the strategy for how to best tackle issues most important to the foundation, reviews results from past projects, and continually seeks compelling new philanthropic opportunities to explore.
Under Jennifer's leadership since its establishment in 1997, the Diamond Family Foundation has supported a range of projects that particularly emphasize educational development as a vehicle for poverty reduction. Examples of missions the Foundation has funded include research projects aimed at developing gifted and talented primary school programs in the USA, financial literacy training programs in the UK, and campaigns supporting HIV education and awareness in the USA and sub-Saharan Africa.
Jennifer holds a B.Sc. from Michigan State University and an M.A. in Anthropology from University of London. She began her career working as an engineer in the pharmaceutical industry. In addition to her role with the Diamond Family Foundation and now with the Humpty Dumpty Institute, Jennifer serves as a trustee on a number of boards, she is a US-UK Fulbright Commissioner and she is a partner in Cobble House LLC, a multimedia development company.
William J. Rouhana Jr., Chairman of the Humpty Dumpty Institute, said that "HDI's mission will benefit greatly from Jennifer's thoughtful approach to finding solutions to tough problems around the world. And her years of international experience will make us even more effective. We are very excited to have Jennifer join us in our work". Ralph L. Cwerman, President of the Humpty Dumpty Institute, added that "Jennifer Diamond brings new depth and expertise to HDI's Board of Directors and we look forward to advancing our current work and exploring new directions under her guidance and leadership".


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|Source: The Real News- Naomi Klein-
When Barack Obama ran for President as back in 2007-08 as Senator Obama from Illinois Democratic candidate for President, most of the entire Far-Left, the social-democratic faction of the Democratic Party threw all of their resources into electing then Candidate Obama President of the United States. Because essentially they saw him as one of them. A McGovernite Democratic Socialist a European style Democrat who was one of them. Anti-war, protecting the welfare state and if anything expanding the welfare state in America and making America more like Europe. Breaking down what they see as the national security state, etc. But if you look at the presidential campaign then Candidate Obama ran in the Democratic primaries he was running to appeal to that movement. But if you look at the policy positions he took even in the primaries, he was running more like a traditional Center-Left Liberal Democrat in the mold of a John Kerry or Jack Kennedy or Walter Mondale.
Instead of running to the George McGovern Far-Left wing of the party. Like a Dennis Kucinich, Jerry Brown (from 1992), a George McGovern Democratic Socialist. Then Candidate Obama wanted to be seen as one of them. Someone who came from the progressive socialist faction of the Democratic Party. Instead of someone who comes from the faction of the party that generally nominates the party's presidential candidates. The Progressive Liberal faction of the party and they are two different factions, that are similar on social issues, but are very different on economic and foreign policy. Remember then Candidate Obama ran on keeping the middle class tax cuts and expanding our role in the War in Afghanistan. Two things President Obama has already done. Whereas Democratic Socialists want all of the Bush tax cuts to expire and to get all of our troops out of Afghanistan now. Essentially Candidate Obama wanted to be someone who would be seen as the Democratic Socialist candidate, but someone who was mainstream enough to appeal to the rest of the Democratic Party as well as Independent voters.
And then Senator Obama did that brilliantly. Winning something like 35 States in 2008. No one has ever accused Barack Obama of being an unskillful politician. He's clearly one of the most skillful politicians America has ever produced. He managed to unite both the Far-Left and the Dead-Center (as I put it) behind him running for president. Something he'll have a much harder time doing in 2012 as he runs for reelection as president. As the country has a much better idea of what type of politician he is as President Obama. I don't believe Democratic Socialists in America can accuse President Obama of misleading them. If you look at his policy positions that he ran on to become President back in 2008 and his policy positions he has as President, except for Guantanamo Bay, they are very similar. Barack Obama is clearly not a Democratic Socialist and never has been, as a U.S. Senator and now as President of the United States. His faith in the welfare state is clearly limited. He's not a dove on national security or law enforcement. He believes in tough enforcement in those areas.
If it's a Democratic Socialist that the Far-Left was looking for back in 2007-08, never existed. Even though Representative Dennis Kucinich was there for them the whole time. Both in 2003-04 when he was the strongest opponents of President Bush at least in the House if not Congress as a whole. Representative Kucinich should've been who they thrown their support behind. They had a couple of options in Representative Dennis Kucinich and former Senator Mike Gravel in the Democratic Party. But they selected then Senator Barack Obama, because he sort of talked like them and they saw him as a winner and the anti-Bush. It was a political calculation on their part. So they really don't have anyone they can blame. But for one thing at least you can't blame the Far-Left in who they supported in 2008. Because their candidate wouldn't have gone anywhere. The Democratic Party is still a Center-Left party and not the social democratic Green Party that is a third-party. And maybe they decided that Barack Obama would run to the center and govern from the Far-Left.


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Small continuous still.
3kw continuous still.
Cider processing still.
How to run detailed version.
How to run a continuous still
Continuous distillation Stills vs Batch Stills.
Continuous still - how to build.
First option is to drain all the awfully smelling stuff and get rid of it when it cools down and loose precious hours because it 's going to take a lot of time to cool it down.
Second option is to dispose it while it is still hot and get a lot of steam and smell plus it is not really safe.
The efficiency of pot still is low and natural loses of spirit during distillation is around 30%, thus at the beginning of distillation you will get the peak of spirit content in the distillate and during distillation the spirit percentage will drop drastically, it is means that you getting less spirit and more water, which was involved in the chemical reactions of fermentation and distillation and carried all the periodic table wit it into your final product. Thus there is yet another option: to stop distillation and loose some spirit or at certain point start to collect the stuff into the a separate vessel for the further re-distillation, but anyway some spirit will remain in the pot, a lot of precious space is occupied with machinery and a lot of time just wasted. This is reality of the pot still.
Continuous Stills
In comparison with a pot stills the continuous stills are more compact and light constructed machines.
Lets say that we have the same situation as we had described above. So your distillery is limited in space but you have a few of one ton fermentation vessels in the separate room and to distil one ton of mash with a continuous still you will need a relatively tiny distillation machine that weight no more than 50kg under two meters high and occupies around 60cm2 of the floor area, which can be moved to the storage after distillation complete.
The continuous distiller is connected to low pressure pump that constantly pumping the mash into the distiller and only couple of litres of mash is needed to fill the machine for distillation, and it will take only five to ten minutes for the machine to give you the first spirit.
With the application of continuous still the speed of distillation will be determined by the size of the column and heating element in the steam generator, also a few columns can be arranged into one common frame and work together, the high speed production still on the video will process 900L of mash in just 6 hours, the spirit that constantly produced never has any contact with heating elements plus instead of boiling for hours in more and more concentrated by products of distillation it is separated from the stillage and in reality constantly washed with fresh portions of water steam, and as soon as separated from the mash the spirit is leaves the column and collected into collection vessel.
When distillation is complete you do not have to deal with tons of boiling mash, the empty spirit free mash was separated and reduced to drain during distillation and if you are planning the next load of wash to be distilled - you just switch the supply hose to the next vessel and start your distillation in no time.
The efficiency of continuous still (spirit vice) is close to 100% and in comparison with pot still you will get more spirit from the same load of the wash, the spirit percentage will stay the same from the start to the finish of distillation, and because the spirit in the continuous still is always bounded with fresh water this means that spirit produced with continuous still is almost free of those nasty chemicals that naturally occurring in a mash during fermentation.
The work with continuous still will let you to start or finish your distillation just when you need it, because to preheat the column and get the first spirit will take only a few minutes, and also to finish the distillation will take a few seconds - just switch power off and carry on your distillation when you've got time to do it; it is like - today you get only two hours for distillation and tomorrow only four and you distilling today and tomorrow to complete your distillation and your mash is stays in the fermenting tank. Or your have got the arrangement with a few fermenting vessels that interconnected via the pipeline that constantly supplies the ferment to the continuous still and staff is working in thee shifts then the continuous still will produce the spirit 24/7. Thus no precious time and spirit is wasted at all which is very convenient.
Continuous Stills
Despite of economical crisis some further work has been done and I am happy to admit that our continuous stills are getting a bit smaller, while there was some interest in a big machines that are capable to process enormous amounts of ferment many people were asking about some really small table top continuous still that can replace a bulky and heavy pot stills I don't want to repeat all the benefits of the continuous still over the pot still, but one benefit is obvious - size, thus the small continuous still, one meter high and 8kg of weight can replace a 500L (halve a ton) pot still, so for your primary distillation the continuous still is the must thing, on the picture you can see our latest creation: "Alex C.D/1.5" (stands for "ALcohol EXtracting Continuous Distiller 1.5kw") with this little beauty combined with Alex 25 or Alex 50 stills you can satisfy enormous thirst of all your friends, or supply your small business with all the products that can be made with distillation equipment.
Micro continuous still.
Big size continuous still
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continuous distillation part 2.
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What's New > New! Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit for Providers
PEHSU and Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) have just launched the Pediatric Environmental Health Toolkit (PEHT). The PEHT, endorsed by the AAP, is based on material in the AAP "Green Book".
This free and up-to-date toolkit web app is a resource that offers trusted information at your fingertips to educate and guide parents about environmental health during well child visits.
Three key sections cover the basics:
- Briefs of health environmental hazards found in the air, water, food and consumer products; includes sections on health effects, routes of exposure and prevention strategies.
- Key concepts including the unique vulnerability of children, how the chemical, built and food environments influence health, and environmental justice.
- Anticipatory guidance keyed to thirteen age groups from prenatal through teen years.


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Recently I was asked to configure a web application using client certificate authentication. I did this is using Weblogic Application Server version 10.3, however the concepts for this apply to most application servers. The following sections describe the configuration changes that must be applied to the environment for this to work.
Web application
The web application needs to be modified to restrict access to resources and require the use of a client certification. In order to do this modify the deployment descriptor of the application by adding a security constraint:
... <>> <>>Sec_Constraint_1> <>> <>>ResourceName> <>/> <>>/*> <>>POST> <>>GET> > > ...
Notice that the deployment descriptor above will secure all URLs that accessed using
POST or
GET. Modify this to match your application requirements.
After the application has been secured, you have to configure the application server to enable the SSL port. In Weblogic, this is done by performing the following steps:
- In the Weblogic console open the server configuration Environment --> Server -->
(usually AdminServer). Open the Configuration/General tab and check the option "SSL Listener Port Enabled". Save your changes
- Next configure the server identity and trust stores. This is done by going into the console and selecting Environment --> Server -->
. Open the Configuration/KeyStores tab and select Custom Identity and Java Standard Trust. Provide the keystore and password where the identity for the server is located.
- Now you must specify which entry in the keystore provided must be used to identify the server, for this go to Environment Server
and select the Configuration/SSL tab. In the Identity section provide the alias and password for the key to be used.
- In the same tab as the previous step (Configuration/SSL) expand the Advance section. Update the drop down for the "Two way Client Cert Behavior" to Client Certs Requested and Enforced. Notice that depending on your environment you may need to disable Host name verification in the same section.
If you follow the steps on the previous section, your server will require that all clients present a client certificate and use the corresponding SSL port. Once the SSL Handshake successfully occurs then the user must be authenticated. Here are the steps to authenticate a user based on the certificate presented:
- Modify or create a Default Identity Asserter. By default the asserter is setup to assert AutheticatedUser tokens, you must modify it to authenticate X.509 tokens. For this go to the Weblogic console Security Realms -->
(by default this is called myrealm). Select the Providers/Authentication tab and either create or choose the DefaultIdentityAsserter. In the Configuration/Common tab for the asserter, modify the Active Types to include only X.509.
- In the Configuration/Provider Specific tab for the asserter modify the "Default User Name Mapper Attribute Delimiter" option to , (comma), set the "Default User Name Mapper Attribute Type" to CN and check the "Use Default User Name Mapper" option.
The Default Identity Asserter will use the embedded LDAP server to map authenticated users. This implies that all the clients that want to authenticate using certificates must be added to the users in Weblogic (in the console go to Security Realms -->
and select the Users and Groups/Users tab). If you want to use a different LDAP server you must create a different asserter of type
Once a user has been authenticated, the next step is either to authorize or deny the usage of the web application to the user. This is done by modify the security policy of the application deployed.
- Deploy your application into the application server.
- In the Weblogic console select the application from the Deployments list.
- Navigate to the Security/Policies tab and click on "Add Conditions". This will open a new page for you to select a "Predicate List", select Users from the drop down (depending on your setup you might want to select a different option from the list e.g. Groups, Roles, etc.) and click "Next".
- In the next page, type the user name in the "User Argument Name" field and click "Add". Continue adding as many users as needed.
- Once all the users have been added click "Finish" and then "Save"
- Restart the server
After performing these steps your application should require the use of certificates and, if the client presents the correct certificate, the user should be able to access and use the application. Obviously not everything goes as planned, so if you have problems during this setup try the following:
- Add the jvm option:
-Djavax.net.debug=all. This should provide you details regarding the SSL handshake and related errors.
- Change the Severity levels for the log messages in the server. In the Weblogic console go to Environment --> Servers --> AdminServer and select the Logging/General tab. Expand the Advance section and modify the "Severity Level" drop down to Debug for the Log file and/or the standard out.
- Also you can display further information regarding security events in Weblogic (such as the Identity Asserter interactions). In the same Logging/General tab as the previous step change the severity priority for the Security category by typing
Security=Debugin the "Logger severity properties" field.


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UW spinoffs and startups from the external community
UW spinoffs and startups from the external community
Discover the Startups in our Incubator
CoMotion Labs startups represent multiple industries such as IT, Engineering, Clean Tech and AR/VR. Our startups range from pre-seed to Series A.
Jeanette Ennis supports UW researchers pursuing grant money to commercialize their innovations, and helps CoMotion secure economic development grant opportunities. Ennis joined CoMotion in 2009 after more than 15 years of broad research experience as a scientist, entrepreneur, and manager. Her areas of expertise include pharmacology, biochemistry, molecular biology, tissue engineering, and medical devices. She has worked with a variety of start-up companies as project manager, grant writer, and intellectual property manager, and held senior research positions at Cornell University and the UW Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery. She earned a doctorate in medical and molecular pharmacology from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she trained with Louis Ignarro, Nobel Laureate in Physiology. She also holds a certificate in technical writing and editing from the UW Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering.


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The High Rolling Hot Rods Vintage Vehicle Show is taking place next Saturday April 28th 2012 at the Quinault Casino in Ocean Shores WA. Showcasing everything from custom cars and hot rods to some of America's finest classics, The Vintage Vehicle Show is the longest running car show on television. Each episode focuses on an automotive museum, a car show, or a private collection somewhere in the United States.
In order to prepare for the event, technician Cameron Hope was called upon to complete touch-up restoration to many of the show's classic vehicles. Using our flawless repair systems, Cameron was able to perfectly match the custom vintage colors restoring them to their original showroom look and feel.


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How To Build A Pond With Only Fish Pond Liners
Before modern rubber fish pond liners became available, people would just use concrete. Without a doubt, concrete is strong; but it tends to crack over time. Even the slightest earthquake, or ice pressure in winter can crack concrete. The new fish pond liners are made of the kind of synthetic rubber called Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer, or EPDM. You get sheets of these to line your pond with, and they stretch over any unevenness that there may be. If there is ice pressure or a slight earthquake, these rubber liners just stretch to accommodate it all. when it comes to durability, you might be surprised to know that EPDM can be as tough as concrete.
Perhaps people are surprised to hear about how durable it can be, because they think when they hear the word "ethylene", that it must be something like polyethylene – the ubiquitous plastic that we find in it everything, everywhere. In truth, the two have nothing to do with each other. EPDM is a completely different thing and it's very tough.
You could actually use fish pond liners to build a pond above ground just as you can build something more traditional below ground level. But there are specific ways you do need to follow instructions for how the pond is to be shaped. Let's say that your plan is to build a belowground pond. You need to make sure that it is at least 2 feet deep, that the sides are straight, and that the floor itself is slightly sloped to enable water drainage.
EPDM can get really tough and inflexible when it's cold. It's usually a good idea to leave it out in the sun so it can soften. That way, when you lay the liner down, it will hug all the curves of your pond and really fit snugly. Snugness is pretty important; if you can't get it as snug as you would like it, you can be pretty sure that once you fill your pond with water, that the weight of the water will settle everything nice and tight.
Now with fish ponds, the liner does need to the fish safe. When the synthetic rubber comes into contact with the water, it's possible that there will be a certain amount of water contamination that will take place. Most experts recommend that you wait for some time after you fill your pond for … Read the rest


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Blog Post #4
In the old days, those long-ago days when I home schooled our five children—back, back, during the 1Jurassic Period of home schooling, before home schooling was integrated into the educational world and accepted as a viable option as it is today—our house was bustling with creative energy and vibrant learning! (…Our kids had great creative energy, too.)
We studied all the disciplines….yup!…integrating them into a year-long theme. History, literature, math, music, science, geography, art, and more, all blended naturally via year-long themes, such as "Adventure Down the Mississippi," "Raiders of the Renaissance Minds," and "The Voyage of the Frugal Frigate," to name just a few.
Scientific inquiry was something that came naturally to our kids, making it an easy task to identify principles and laws associated with daily activities. At any given time, our children (five to be exact—three girls, two boys) were busily engaged in dynamic and scientific learning associated with movement, gravity, heat, and potential forms of energy.
Example #1—Kinetic Energy
Teaching five siblings of varying ages and temperaments can be like trying to spoon-feed soup to a troop of monkeys while riding a roller coaster. The kids were ever in motion—kinetic energy in abundance.
The proper tools and materials funnel that energy into useful occupation. Those tools were always plentiful and readily available to our children. Naturally, my best (and only) steak knives were needed to saw a refrigerator box into pieces in order to build a 2pirogue for use at the local marshy area near our house. (They wore, rather than rode, the boat; stepping into its bottomless hull, and holding it up by hand around their waists. Their free hands were needed to juggle clipboards and pencils for recording sightings of flora and fauna, to hold the orienteering compasses, and to push and shove each other and their cousins, who were also wedged into the pirogue, to insure they were all "rowing" in the right direction. Fortunately, our children were each born with an additional set of hands, or so it often seemed.)
Access to premium workspace was a must for such a large-scale, and energy-funneling project as carving out and building a pirogue, which is why said sawing took place in the most spacious room in the house—the living room. The back-and-forth motion of the knife sawing, of course, was a splendid example of reciprocating motion. The din issuing from knife on cardboard was equal to the roar of a helicopter overhead, creating the useful educational illusion of simulating real chainsaws when only using steak knives.
This activity was followed-up with an equally scientific display of pressure differential: that of suction. I ably demonstrated this necessary scientific principle by running the vacuum cleaner as quickly as possible after the completed study in reciprocating motion, restoring my front room to its former state of disarray by sucking up every particle of the cardboard shavings created by my very productive children. (All of whom had scattered at the sight of the vacuum, allowing me a few precious moments of not-so-quiet time to myself.) An impromptu and energetic lecture by our school principal (my husband) was later given to an innocent looking, but guilty group of spectators on the avoidance of clogged vacuums.
Examples of kinetic energy representing the physical prowess of our sons was particularly evident, and remains recorded for posterity on the multitude of videos they created illustrating ninja techniques, and back-flips off the block wall in the backyard. Extremely effective was the dubbing-in of sound effects to staged fight scenes in which they clearly missed striking their opponents by a good arm's length, yet the THUD and BANG sounds appeared right on cue—about two seconds out of sync with the action.
Example #2—Gravitational Energy
1. a. the force of attraction between any two masses. Compare law of gravitation.
b. an act or process caused by this force.
2. a sinking or falling.
3.a movement or tendency toward something or someone: the gravitation of people toward the suburbs.
Not to be outdone by Galileo's experiments on gravity at the Tower of Pisa, our boys were great experimenters in illustrating this principle of physics, dropping everything from small toys to themselves from the second floor landing. Their enthusiasm for learning was so great, they were often found conducting experiments after school hours.
On one such occasion, I had strategically maneuvered myself into the kitchen, where I was performing my own experiments in chemistry as it pertains to cooking, when I heard an enormously loud KERTHUNK! near the bottom of the stairs. I turned to see one of the boys lying prostrate on the floor—arms sprawled out to the sides. I cried out and ran to the motionless body, heart in my mouth, only to hear laughter above me.
The boys were apparently performing two experiments at once: one on the effects of gravitation on a large, homemade, stuffed doll (dressed in their clothes), and the other following definition number 2a as listed above: "a sinking or falling." The sinking and falling had more to do with the condition of my heart and stomach than with Newton's apple. Definition #3a was exceptionally illustrated as my "tendency to move toward something or someone" standing at the top of the stairs defied all principles of gravitation and speed. In spite of all the "fallings and sinkings" I've experienced, I'm lucky to be alive today—and so are my boys!
If dropping dolls didn't satisfy their gravitational objectives, dangling from the top of the stairs themselves was a good alternative. However, they did this when I wasn't looking. (Probably one of those rare moments when I retreated into my room for a few minutes of quiet time—called "using the restroom.")
Principles of gravitation and momentum continued as the kids were often seen zooming down an inclined plane (our street) on a "Cool Runnings" type of sail-bedecked and wheeled bobsled of their own making. A separate scientific experiment on the effect of friction was conducted simultaneously, as they did their best to see how quickly they could completely wear out the soles of every single pair of shoes they owned in stopping the contraption. (Their feet proved to be excellent substitutes for failed brakes. I'm happy to report that an alternate lesson about heat and friction was not lost on their feet.)
Example #3—Potential Energy
Our children were expert in their demonstrations of potential energy, especially when sitting at the dining table working together on collaborative learning projects. As one child used his or her power of expression to stress the importance of certain learning options (AKA bossing the other kids), the others were building up a good store of potential energy. This stored energy was later released in the form of a combination of kinetic energy, definition #3a of gravitational energy, and an arm (or fist) perfectly poised to demonstrate potential energy.
Example #4 – Heat Energy
Our next-door neighbor approached me when we were both tending our front yards one day, and with an abundance of good nature said, "We never know what is going to explode from your back yard!" I smiled sheepishly, and waited for her to explain. She continued, " Sometimes rockets on strings come blasting through the gate, and sometimes it's kids on skateboards and other contraptions…[such as the sail- and wheel-bedecked bobsled before mentioned]….We never know what to expect!" She was very kind and even particularly cheerful when telling me this. At first, I took it with a small sip of pride in my children's inventiveness and accomplishments. Later, as I pondered her words, I gulped down gallons of humility as I wondered if she were really issuing a gentle warning: "I may appear to approve of the goings on at your house, but inside I am as frightened and poised for action as a coiling snake just waiting for disaster to strike my home!" Being so close in proximity to the unpredictable activities bursting forth from the other side of her fence, I'm almost certain the latter was the more correct message she intended to send. I'm sure she also heard the cacophony of noise that accompanied all our activities—especially since my sister's six kids sometimes spent their days at our house, as we participated together in school activities. The decibel level of eleven rambunctious children was sure to have rung inside her house like a clanging bell, and probably created a ruckus all the way up the street. I was so used to tuning out incessant racket I didn't even notice it.
Many years have passed since the Jurassic Period of home schooling. Our kids—all of whom are grown—now tell stories about that time period that make my hair stand on end. Where was I?! Right there, at home, wearing a plethora of hats, (mother, cook, spiritual advisor, chauffeur, guardian, teacher, seamstress, piano instructor, nurse, nurturer, counselor, and on and on), and always savoring with relish their creativity and the time I spent engaged in learning adventures with our wonderful children. Although I hide the gray hairs accumulated during those twenty years, I am not about to hide the fact that I would do it all over again! It was worth every white hair, and every second.
2pirogue: A small boat used in the bayous.
My sister Karen has developed her own Home School model, loosely based on our experiences with ITI, called *EPIC ADVENTURES, which can be found at her Courageous Beings web site.
+ We home schooled so long ago, those from whom we gleaned so much inspiration have also retired. Such is the case with Susan Kovalik. It appears she has passed on her mission to The Center for the Future of Public Education (of which we were never affiliated). We were involved with her ITI model in the late 1980s and 1990s. It was wonderful–inspiring innovations of our own.
*One of the innovations prompted by ITI was Karen's EPIC ADVENTURES–which was, essentially, what we produced from year to year during our home school days. Karen tweaked it to fit her own personal agenda, created a web site, and continued our former enterprise of putting on workshops for home schoolers for many years afterward. My dear sister, Karen, passed away in November of 2015. Her web site is no longer active, so I have removed the link.
From the bottom of my heart, I thank you, dear Friends, for reading.


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The government launched its Great Repeal Bill (GRB), at the same time as Article 50 was invoked, to incorporate all EU legislation into UK law at the exact point when the UK ceases to be a member of the European Union.
Policy-makers and the wider public are being encouraged to view the effect of this new bill – currently in the form of a government White Paper – as an ambitious but [logically] straightforward administrative and legal step.
The Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, David Davis, presented the bill as a necessary umbrella Act of Parliament to bring all EU legislation under the control of the United Kingdom legislature, prior to formal exit from the European Union.
A government in power seeking to negotiate a Brexit deal for the UK has little choice but to create some form of comprehensive mechanism for doing this. The GRB is, essentially, a mechanism to buy time for future administrations to unravel the EU laws that currently enjoy legal supremacy over all domestic legislation in the United Kingdom – where there is a conflict or dispute.
The difficulty for the British government, and indeed for any government trying to negotiate a withdrawal from the European Union, is the approach to giving effect to such a bill. Without fully considering both the legislative and political implications of the Great Repeal Bill, and its underlying principles, there is a risk that policy-making could be affected in the years ahead.
From a policy-making perspective, the Great Repeal Bill will require future governments and the UK parliament to consider all EU regulations and directives – the two key legislative instruments of the EU – as they have been transposed into UK law.
At the precise moment the UK leaves the European Union, the full body of EU law in the form of regulations, directives and statutory instruments, become 'domestic' law. This is the legal effect of the Great Repeal Bill.
What does this mean for policy-making?
A key argument during the UK referendum in 2016, on future membership of the EU, was the legal supremacy of the United Kingdom parliament.
The issue of 'taking back control' was contested throughout the referendum campaign. The British politicians who advocated withdrawal from the European Union argued for the legal supremacy of the UK parliament, by negating the supremacy of EU law over UK law.
The nature of law-making, legal supremacy of parliaments and national courts is complex for member states of the European Union. In particular, the 'highest court in the land' for all EU member states is the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg.
The impact of the Great Repeal Bill, if enacted in the British parliament, will be to end the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice on any aspect of UK law – unless the final Brexit agreement involves single market membership and membership of the customs union.
In wider terms, it would be reasonable for policy-makers to conclude that UK policy-making will be liberated from the constraints and considerations of potential conflicts between UK policy and legislation and EU policy and legislation. Since 1973, the British civil service has developed clear protocols to ensure that new domestic policy, in the early stages of drafting government White Papers, does not conflict with existing EU law.
When the full body of EU law becomes, in its entirety, UK law – the legal effect of the Great Repeal Bill – the challenge for future governments and the British civil service will change.
Policy-making will require future policies, enacted into law, to consider the primacy of existing UK legislation – including the full body of EU law covered by the GRB until the point that the UK leaves the EU – and any conflict that arises between new policies and this body of legislation.
This is not a straightforward process.
Embedded in this body of EU legislation are regulations and directives that cover everything from products and standards for manufacturers, workers rights, environmental standards, quality standards, the regulation of services, consumer protection and a wide range of other areas affecting day to day life in the UK.
Many legal experts, including Professor Catherine Barnard at the University of Cambridge, have argued that the legal status of EU law, adopted into domestic law en-masse via the Great Repeal Bill, is not necessarily law can be treated in the same way as UK law, initiated and enacted through parliament.
In addition to the role of future government and future parliaments in determining which aspects of this body of law will be kept and which laws or their constituent parts will be revoked, the British courts could be required to rule on the exact status and legal effect of the Great Repeal Bill.
The civil service will be tasked with ensuring that no conflicts arise between this 'new' body of 'domestic' legislation and new policies and legislation being drafted by government departments.
One of the ironies of leaving the European Union is that the British parliament, the civil service and future governments could find themselves spending a large part of their time, sorting through this body of law, created as a result of EU membership. This has the potential to slow the process of policy-making in the future. One of the key arguments put forward in favour of ending EU membership, was the liberation of the British parliament to determine its own laws and the affect this would have on freeing up businesses and wider-society to advance without legal constraint from Brussels.
If the practical affect of the Great Repeal Bill is a focus on sorting through the body of law created by EU membership, perhaps taking years to agree in Parliament and legal challenges in the British courts, the whole policy-making process would be slowed considerably.
At this stage it is too early to conclude that this is the most likely outcome of the Great Repeal Bill. The fact that the new parliament assembled after the UK general election of June 2017, will scrutinize the Great Repeal Bill and its future impact, suggests that there is a danger that this Act of Parliament has the potential to create unintended consequences.


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Crack of a whip and a sty in your eye,
Midsummer's trip on the Fourth of July;
Living off soul and the food of guru,
Trickle-down process, six pack of Blue Moon.
And if your wish could be granted,
What would you say?
To live in peace forever and a day.
Dog days of summer, mirages kick in,
Double-dipped ship, aqua fantasy (yeah),
So what would it take to tickle your mouth? (mouth)
Troubled and tried, rambling south.
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Editor's note: Taylor Townsend withdrew from the tournament after the original publication of this story.
The Girls' 16 & 18 Nationals are about to descend on the Barnes Tennis Center in San Diego, Calif., for the third year in a row - as the tournament dubbed "SoCalamazoo" looks to be as exciting as the previous two.
Players from the Girls' Nationals have also done well in the professional ranks. Christina McHale, the 2009 Girls' 18 champion, has made her way to the top 30 in the world and recently represented the United States at the London Olympics. The 2008 third place Girls' 18 finisher Irina Falconi went from Nationals, to a run at Georgia Tech as one of the top college players in the country, into a growing professional career with a ranking at 104 in a short time. And Melanie Oudin, who has placed in singles and doubles at Nationals in recent years, remains on the border of the top 100 in the world.
One of the stars of the 2012 championships looks to be Taylor Townsend of Jonesboro, Ga. As one of the most impressive junior tennis in recent years, she is returning to better last year's fourth place result, which she achieved after upsetting third-seeded Madison Keys of Boca Raton, FL. Since the 2011 tournament, Townsend has won singles and doubles (with Gabrielle Andrews) titles at the Australian Junior Open Championships and also won the Easter Bowl ITF Championships. Townsend goes into the Girls' 18s as the No. 2 seed.
Receiving top seeding at the USTA Girls' 18 USTA National Championships is Krista Hardebeck. The Santa Ana, Calif., native took the bronze last year after beating Townsend in the playoff. It's been a busy year for Hardebeck, who has been playing the professional circuit and international events while preparing for her first year at Stanford University.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Sophomore starter Scott Randall was dominant on Sunday, throwing eight shutout innings as Sacramento State (12-7) cruised to a 7-0 win over the visiting Rider Broncs (5-12).
Randall was in control of the game from his first pitch to his last, throwing eight shutout innings against the Broncs on Sunday. Randall threw just 92 pitches - 62 of them for strikes - while giving up just two hits and one walk. He struck out eight.
"Randall was outstanding today," said head coach Reggie Christiansen after the game. "This was the first time this year where he's had a full week to prepare with a bullpen day and I just thought he was outstanding today."
The sophomore right-hander had five 1-2-3 innings on Sunday and never faced more than four batters in an inning. He echoed Christiansen's observation about having a full week of rest, as well.
"I hadn't had a normal week since my first start of the season because of the rain and our schedule," added Randall. "So coming into today with a full week, that helped my arm out a lot."
For the season, Randall improved to 3-1 while lowering his ERA to a team-best 1.45. He also increased his strikeout-to-walk ratio to 5:1 (35 Ks, 7 BBs).
Behind Randall, Tanner Dalton threw a scoreless ninth to close out the game.
Offensively, Sacramento State scored the game's first two runs in the fourth inning, but the big difference, said Christiansen, came in the inning prior.
"Even though we didn't score in the third, I thought that inning made the difference in the game," he said after the win.
"We put their guy on the ropes, got him to throw a lot of pitches, and that was a big part of the reason we were able to score in the next inning and get him out of the game."
Leading 2-0, Sacramento State added two more runs in the seventh before putting the game out of reach with three more runs in the third.
In all three innings in which they scored, Hornets hitters drew at least one walk, and continued to show patience at the plate and work good at bats. They had five walks and 11 hits in Sunday's win.
"The approach is always to just have good at bats," said Christiansen, "and I feel like we've done that well recently. Put together good at bats - series of them."
Seven different starters had at least one hit, while Bronson Grubbs, Trevor Doyle, and Dylan McPhillips each had two.
Grubbs drove in a team-high three while Evan Gibbons, Martin Vincelli-Simard, and Nick Iwasa each drove in one.
For McPhillips, Sunday's game was the sophomore catcher's first action of the season. He made his debut with a strong 2-for-3 performance with a double, a run, and a walk.
"We can really pitch, and we're starting to have better at bats, and starting to play better defense," Christiansen added in regards to his team's overall performance Sunday. "And shoot, we've won eight in a row. I really like the way things are heading right now."
Sunday's win was Sacramento State's eighth straight victory, passing their season-long streak of seven games from a year ago. Under Christiansen, Sacramento State's longest win streak is 12 (2014).
The Hornets will have a chance to extend their streak when they host San Jose State at John Smith Field on Tuesday, March 17. First pitch is scheduled for 7:00 pm.
More details on Tuesday's game and all upcoming Hornets baseball games can be found online at HornetSports.com by visiting the 2019 Sacramento State baseball homepage.


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Pastor Jeff Kapusta (Ka-poo-sta) is the founding and Lead Pastor of Lifepoint Church. God has called him to mobilize a movement of believers to live beyond themselves and reach the world for Christ.
After graduating from Liberty University with a degree in religion, he spent 8 years in youth ministry (2 at a camp in Alta Vista, VA, 3 in Albemarle, NC at Centerview Baptist, and 3 in Clayton, NC at C3 Church). God began birthing a desire to plant a life-giving church and in 2005 he answered that call and founded Lifepoint in Wilmington, NC.
He and his wife, Michelle, married in 1998 and have three amazing kids: Riley, Kenly, and Emery as well as a 3 lb dog appropriately named "Brutus" and a 100 lb dog named Cabo. Pastor Jeff loves CrossFit, surfing, coffee, anything Apple makes, and exists to point people to life in Jesus.
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PHILLIPS STATION -- The monthly survey of the Sierra snowpack confirmed what people could see with the naked eye -- snow levels are way above average.
In recent days, Sierra highways were closed by winter storms. Driving toward Echo Summit on Highway 50 there were ample clues to how the state's monthly snow survey would go.
The meadow that comprises one of 260 snow measuring stations in the state was covered in fresh snow. The hollow tube used for snow measurements had to be extended to 12 feet to reach the ground under the snow.
Last year at this time, snow readings were at a paltry 20 percent of average.
"153 percent of average for this date," said Department of Water Resources spokesman Chris Orrock.
It was not just the 10 feet of snow laying on the ground. When samples were weighed it measured out at 43.5 percent water content.
"If we melted all the snow in the field here we'd get 43.5 inches of water," Orrock said.
As picturesque as it is with all the snow, state water watchers were still cautious because there is now the danger of too much snow.
"You've got to take the good with the bad and this week we have seen elevated levels in our streams," said John Paasch with DWR's Flood Operations Center. "We're starting to see some of our reservoirs starting to release water to make space for what's eventually going to come as melting snow."
In 2017, similarly heavy snowpack melted quickly, causing widespread flooding. The same has begun to happen in locations in the valley.
Still, with most reservoirs at 100 percent of average for the season, it can't be a bad thing for a state that too often runs low on water during the summer months.
Earlier this week, the DWR its Flood Information Center, which it runs with the National Weather Service to monitors water flows and potential flood danger in the state.
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The DuBois men's basketball team will host New Kensington tonight for a battle of the first. Each team in tonights contest is winless in PSUAC play, so after onight one of the teams will have a positive lift going into the long conference stretch. New Kensington comes in at 4-4 on the season, and 0-2 in the PSUAC. DuBois sits at 3-5 on the season, but with an 0-4 PSUAC record.
New Ken has 6 players averaging double-figures in scoring, including leader Jakob Richardson with 18.1 ppg. DuBois furnishes 3 players averaging double-figure scoreing, led by junior transfer, Zack Dahlstrand (Erie, PA), averaging 15.5 ppg.
DuBois has the edge on the boards as they have average almost 8 more rebounds than tonights opponent.
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What word comes to mind when visualizing a teenager living without rules? Chaos. It may be difficult for a teen to realize that parents establish house rules due to love. The parent does not exist to be her child's best friend for life. It is her job to provide an environment with structure and guidance. A parent's ultimate reward is raising an independent, successful adult.
Keeping a Curfew
When a teen is given a curfew, he's also given the ultimate choice of breaking it or upholding it. Breaking curfew lets parents know that he handles independence irresponsibly. This choice will probably come with the consequence of spending many weekends in the house, instead of around friends. Making the correct choice and respecting the rules of the house gives the teen more freedom and builds parents' confidence in his decision making.
No Unsupervised Friends
Teens tend to be social and love being around friends. It's great if your house is the best house in the neighborhood to "hang out," as long as you're there to supervise the gathering. Inviting friends over while parents are absent is a recipe for trouble. You could have the most trustworthy teen, but peer pressure has a strong and sometimes damaging attraction. It's also important that a parent has met all the friends in the circle and has some idea of what the friends do when gathering.
Complete Chores
Completing chores may be last on your teen's list of preferable activities. Assigning chores is more than making sure the bathroom is sparkling clean; it's a lesson in discipline and survival skills. Junior won't always live under your roof and needs to learn to live as a mature adult. Determine a chore schedule and even set up a chart, if having a visual helps. Doing chores a little at a time makes the concept of cleaning less overwhelming.
No Texts or Calls After Bedtime
Too much texting late at night can rob a teen of adequate sleep, leaving him irritable and unable to concentrate. Establish a texting cutoff time on school nights. His peers need to understand that he's not fully accessible 24 hours a day. To limit temptations, take your teen's phone when he goes to bed and return it the next day.
Complete Daily Homework
As your teen completes his high school years, homework will become more challenging. Establish uninterrupted study time after school to limit procrastination. He should study in a quiet, uncluttered area, without blaring music and television. It may seem juvenile to him, but check his homework for completion. You might not comprehend the majority of it, but this gives you an overview of what he's doing in class.


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News that Ripley Entertainment is capturing sharks for its Toronto aquarium was a tipping point for animal rights activists opposed to the facility's construction.
A petition began circulating online and a group popped up on Facebook after the Star published an article on Aug. 12 detailing the methods Ripley's is using to catch sand tiger sharks off the coast of South Carolina for its aquarium, set to open in 2013.
The petition, addressed to city council, has a goal of 10,000 signatures. Created the same day the Star article came out, it had received more than 1,100 signatures by Monday from all over the world.
Its creator, Bob Timmons, said he has been expressing concerns over aquariums for years, but it was only after reading the Star article that he felt he needed to put added pressure on decision-makers.
"The capture of endangered sharks stirs up a lot of angst in me," said Timmons, the Ontario coordinator of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
The organization is mired in controversy due in part to its Canadian founder, Paul Watson, who is wanted by international authorities for protest-related activities in Costa Rica and Japan.
Timmons said he and other groups are still in the "early stages" of gathering information. One organization, Toronto Aquarium Resistance Alliance, which sprang up on Facebook over the past few days, told the Star they are not speaking to media for now.
Ripley's vice-president of communications, Tim O'Brien, confirmed the company has been receiving emails expressing concern. He said that ultimately, Ripley's wants the same thing as animal rights groups: to ensure the well-being of marine life.
"Ripley's Aquariums has worked with third parties, like biologists and government agencies, over the past 15 years to ensure that all our marine animals are cared for in a way that meets the highest welfare standards in the world," he said, noting that veterinarians are kept on staff and the composition of the water is closely monitored.
Trinity-Spadina Councillor Adam Vaughan, whose ward will be home to the aquarium, said the city has very little jurisdiction over the rules and regulations governing aquariums. He described the facility, at the foot of the CN Tower, as a boost for tourism in the area.
"I understand why it was proposed. It could have a capacity to retain tourists, which would be good for all other businesses in the area," he said. "Aquariums have proved to be a successful component of the tourism infrastructure in other cities, and I'm sure it will be very successful here as well."
The city supported the aquarium by providing property tax incentives valued at $8 million to $12 million over a 12-year period.
The province contributed $11 million to its construction. At the time of the funding announcement last August, Tourism and Culture Minister Michael Chan said the Dalton McGuinty government was "proud to support the development of the first Ripley's Aquarium in Canada." His spokesman directed questions for comment this week to Ripley's.
Sand tiger sharks are a protected species in the United States, and Ripley's had to receive government clearance to catch them, citing educational purposes as the reason.
Angela Shintani, an animal rights advocate who signed Timmons' petition, said there are other ways in the 21st century to bring sea creatures to people, particularly children, without removing them from the ocean.
"We have great computer programs that can show children live feeds of the animals in their natural habitats without having to remove them," she said.
But O'Brien at Ripley's said "seeing an animal on a screen and seeing it eye-to-eye just isn't the same experience."
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"Dear Arizona: If you don't change your immigration policy, I will have to stop drinking your enjoyable brand of iced tea," Twittered Jody Beth in Los Angeles.
"It is the drink of fascists," wrote Travis Nichols in Chicago.
Now I have partaken of Arizona Ice Tea from time to time, and I have always found it to be a very tasteful and satisfying beverage. But this is not the reason I am going to go out and empty the stores of this fine product. No, I am going to buy Arizona Ice Tea because I have come to the realization that whatever it is they are thinking they want to do in San Francisco, I would prefer to do the opposite. And I for one am not going to go quietly into the night while some cappuccino sipping sophisticate in a Star Bucks in San Francisco decides what beverage selection I should make, based on his own ass backwards view of the world.
And by the way, Einstein, Arizona Ice Tea is manufactured and bottled in New York.


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