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They aren't actually anything new, just a variation on long-standing labor-organizing practices that have come back into prominence. "Micro union" is a recently coined term of art for bargaining units that encompass one category of workers at a business — the cosmetics workers at a Macy's, for example — instead of the more traditional model of organizing all the workers for the business into one single bargaining unit.
In 2011, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decided a group of certified nursing assistants at a nursing home constituted an appropriate bargaining unit in themselves, in a decision called Specialty Healthcare. In 2013, that decision got the stamp of approval from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. In 2014, the NLRB applied its logic to the aforementioned Macy's cosmetics workers.
Since then, union critics and business interests have been scrambling to respond. Retail industry groups told The Hill that the NLRB's Macy's decision would "pave the way for micro unions at thousands of retail stores around the country." Isakson has made multiple attempts to pass his bill rolling back NLRB's decisions, with the backing of GOP heavy-hitters like Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
SOURCE: Meet the new workers' movement that is terrifying the wealthy and the powerful.
Micro-breweries are quite the rage right now and I admit I am one of their fans. When we travel I often order local beers when I come across them. It is nice to see these types of cottage-industries rising up again. It is even nicer to see the micro trends more to work unions. One of the big problems with unions in the last half century or so is that they just grew too powerful for their own good. They quit looking out for the workers and instead become just anti-owner organizations.
You don't need giant unions to help you get your fair share from an employer. micro-unions seem to be a natural evolution in employee-employer relationships. But the thing that will make micro-unions effective is that all workers in an indirect way support the right of an employee to address grievances with their employer. They do that by not frequenting establishments that lord it over their workers. They do it by not rushing in to snap up a job after a worker has been fired. Money talks…
The sad thing in the last few decades is that American business have been thriving with increased sales but not sharing their prosperity with the ones who generate it. We seem to be a owner-society now. Those with the money demand more and more of the pie. I hope micro-unions will reverse this trend…


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Saint Croix Sailing School is going strong in its fifth season located at the corner of Buckeye and First streets next to Hudson's Lakefront Park boat launch.
The first four week-long classes were mostly filled, but there are still some spots available in the remaining sessions. There's room for up to 24 students per class. The school runs through Aug. 16.
"Skill, fun, safety and team-building for youth from the ages of 6 or 7 through high school is our main focus," says Tom Vandervort, a member of the nonprofit school's board of directors.
The school also offers sailing instruction for adults.
The school will hold an open house on Thursday, July 18, from 2 to 4 p.m.
The fee for a week-long class is $225. The sessions run from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with both outdoor classroom and on-the-water instruction.
The school also offers three-week, half-day sailboat racing sessions for youth.
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Theresa May confirms Crown dependencies will take part in Brexit talks
Theresa May has written to Britain's Crown dependencies to assure them they will play a part in negotiations to leave the EU.
The Prime Minister said it was right for Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man to contribute to Brexit talks where "appropriate" - despite their not being in part of the bloc.
Mrs May said she appreciated the islands' belief they would be "best served" by existing arrangements, which have a knock-on effect on their trade with the union.
And she added: "I also note the particular relevance of the grandfathering of rights of EU nationals that reside in your jurisdictions."
The islands had requested to be consulted on Britain's exit negotiations after it voted to quit the bloc in June.
Guernsey States' President, Gavin St Pier, said Mrs May's letter was "very welcome".
"I am grateful for the reassurance that Guernsey's interests are well known and understood, but also that we will be engaged and involved in the process, rather than merely consulted," he said.
Chief minister of Jersey Ian Gorst said he was "very pleased to receive this assurance".


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Every year, millions of car accidents take place across the country. With so many cars on the road, the issue of vehicle safety is of the utmost importance. Vehicles are constantly being tested for their safety. To determine the safety of a vehicle, such areas as the brake system performance and stability control are assessed. If you are looking for a safe car, listed below are the top ten safest cars to drive in the U.S.
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- Honda Odyssey 2009 (Minivan): At a MSRP of $26,355, the comfortable and eye-catching Honda Odyssey has excellent antilock brakes, rollover sensor, electronic stability control, and scored high on rear-crash protection. This is a popular family vehicle for parents who want added safety when driving with their children.
- Toyota Camry 2009: At a MSRP of $19,740, the stylish Toyota Camry has a number of safety features. It scored high in NHTSA's front- and side-impact tests and has great stability control.
- Volvo C30 2009: At a MSRP of $23,445, the classy Volvo C30 is a popular car that scored high with such safety features as padded dashboards, laminated windshield glass, excellent stability and traction control, and six airbags.
- Honda Fit 2009: At a MSRP of $14,750 – $18,960, the popular and stylish Honda Fit contains such safety features as six airbags, antilock brakes, electronic stability control, and a strong and durable body.
- Honda Accord 2009: At a MSRP price of $20,755 – $30,755, the Honda Accord has scored well for safety for its Vehicle Stability Assist with traction control and six airbags. It also scored well for frontal collisions and side impacts.
- Ford Focus 2009: At a MSRP price of $15,520 – $18,265, the Ford Focus is a popular vehicle that comes equipped such features as quality Antilock brakes and electronic stability control. It also has a SYNC system allowing drivers to control their cell phones and iPod with vocal commands. The device also reads texts messages out loud.
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Bruised hearts belong to the brave and the willing.
The ones who open wide to pain and shake hands with fear.
The ones who love so fiercely we cannot help but savor every last drop of lust and love.
The ones who are abused and used…
Left to be broken and battered in ash filled memories that drift like haze into our lungs.
Bruised hearts beat stronger than the rest.
We know what it's like to feel heartache with every beat per minute- counting to ten over and over again until the day is done and we can finally breathe in our sleep.
Bruised hearts do not lack self-worth.
We value our beauty and brains because we know exactly what we have to offer and what we deserve.
We aren't afraid to walk away from anything less than a HELL YEAH and we will never settle for mediocre.
We value the person we are and push against all odds to cling to our dreams.
Bruised hearts exceed exhaustion.
With sweaty palms and empty lungs- we pace ourselves in a life long race of self love and self empowerment.
We constantly remind ourselves how far we've come and the strength we've tirelessly built along the way.
Our bodies and our minds are a fortress that cannot be destroyed by those who try to manipulate and change us.
Bruised hearts are willing to do whatever it takes to be the person we know we can be.
A person who loves everyone so recklessly that smiles are ignited wherever we go.
A person who inspires those around us to lift others up instead of falling into jealousy's arms.
Bruised hearts have been damaged and ripped to shreds.
We have ricocheted countless attacks and we are still sewing the pieces back together as we grow.
We will never stop growing.
Our lights will never be dimmed.
Bruised hearts will always glow.
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Production at one at Fox's Biscuits in Batley will be hit next week when engineers walk out in a dispute over pay.
A Labour parliamentary candidate has weighed in and urged the company to work with its staff on the row.
Batley and Spen candidate Jo Cox said: "Industrial action is the last resort for workers who are desperate to be heard, especially when you consider the impact of lost wages on staff and their families who are already struggling with the Government's cost of living crisis.
"I urge the management at Fox's to work with their employees and their union representatives to resolve this issue so that no one suffers.
"Labour is committed to making sure everyone who works can afford to live. Making sure all work pays a decent wage will make our economy stronger."
Unite regional officer Sarah Mitchell said: "We believe that the offer for the pay year due to have started last August is paltry and insulting and the offer for year two is not much better.
"The fact that the company did not even come to us with an offer until November 17, despite two previous meetings makes it worse and leaves a sour taste in the mouth.
"We expect biscuit production to be disrupted and we call on the management to sit down with us to discuss a realistic pay offer from this profitable company before our members strike next week."
The 42 Unite members plan to walk out on Tuesday, 4am-10am, and Thursday, 4am-10am.
Unite said its members at Fox's, in Wellington Street, had voted 65 per cent in favour of the strike.
A spokesman for Fox's parent company, the 2 Sisters Food Group, said: "We note the news from Unite about potential action next week by engineering colleagues at Batley. We are still in dialogue with Unite and their members and working hard to reach a mutually satisfactory resolution and avoid this. However, in the event of action taking place, we do not expect this to impact on our service to customers."


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Tomorrow Daniel Cole's Ragdoll is finally published and unleashed onto the world. I am thrilled that I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to read this book 3+ months early and this was one of my favourite reads for 2016.
I did review this book at the end of 2016 on the blog but in honour of its publication, I'm sharing my review again as part of this mega blog tour with 39 other victims….sorry bloggers 😂
About Ragdoll
Published: 23rd February 2017 (Trapeze)
The nation is gripped by the infamous 'Ragdoll Killer'
Your friends, your family and your neighbours are all talking about it.
A body is discovered with the dismembered parts of six victims stitched together like a puppet, nicknamed by the press as the 'ragdoll'.
Assigned to the shocking case are Detective William 'Wolf' Fawkes, recently reinstated to the London Met, and his former partner Detective Emily Baxter.
The 'Ragdoll Killer' taunts the police by releasing a list of names to the media, and the dates on which he intends to murder them.
With six people to save, can Fawkes and Baxter catch a killer when the world is watching their every move?
My Review
This book is going to be HUGE – it is amazing and worthy of all the hype that it is receiving – and it's not even published for another 3 months!
Ragdoll is everything that a reader wants from a crime thriller; gruesome, a high death toll, so many red-herrings and a fantastic detective in the form of DI William 'Wolf' Fawkes. This is crime fiction at it's very best. It is amazing to think that this was turned down as a television series however thank goodness Cole had the desire to finish one of his stories and give us Ragdoll. I hope he does the same with other unfinished works (and, just for the record, this would work fantastically as a television series!).
Ragdoll opens 4 years prior to the events of the 'Ragdoll-Killer' with a prologue surrounding another investigation which should have been a foregone conclusion. We are then thrown in at the deep end with Wolf being called to a crime scene whereby the body parts of 6 victims have been sown together and posed into a macabre ragdoll – but who are the victims, what's the connection behind the stitching together and why is it pointing towards Wolf's apartment?! – gruesome and completely creepy! If that's not enough, Andrea, Wolf's ex-wife and journalist, receives a letter containing a list of the next victims and the dates they are due to die. What ensues is a race against time not only to protect the individuals on the list but to also understand who the parts of the ragdoll belong to and why the killer has chosen these individuals.
It is hard to believe that this is a debut novel, it has such intricate detail which is plotted out superbly right through to the end. It truly kept me guessing through to the final pages and is addictive, just one more chapter turns into half the book! Ragdoll is full of action and cleverly planned murder scenes which seem impossible but are entirely possible – scary stuff!
Wolf is a great character, he's a bit of a maverick with his own ways of working, such a flawed individual but has the best of intentions for justice to prevail.
I am so pleased and honoured to have received a proof of this book which is going to be one of the biggest books of 2017 and Daniel Cole is definitely one to watch!
About Daniel Cole
At 33 years old, Daniel Cole has worked as a paramedic, an RSPCA officer and most recently for the RNLI, driven by an intrinsic need to save people or perhaps just a guilty conscience about the number of characters he kills off in his writing.
On writing his debut novel RAGDOLL, which began life as an unproduced television pilot, Daniel says: 'After five years of rejections, I had a yearning to actually finish one of my stories rather than leave it collecting dust with the others under my bed. With no formal training at all, I feel I wrote the book very selfishly, with the aim of creating something that I, personally, would love: as shocking as it is humorous, as thought-provoking as it is relentlessly entertaining, and with a cast of characters who feel like friends by the end of it.'
He currently lives in sunny Bournemouth and can usually be found down the beach when he ought to be writing book two instead.


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The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) will join the nation in observing National AMBER Alert Awareness Day on Tuesday, January 13. AMBER stands for "America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response," and was named for of 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, who was kidnapped and murdered in 1996 in Arlington, Texas.
In the wake of Amber Hagerman's death, law enforcement and media representatives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area created the first AMBER Alert program, which served as a model nationwide for alerting the public about abducted children. Every U.S. state has an AMBER Alert program, along with several other countries. This year marks the 19th anniversary of Amber Hagerman's abduction, which the U.S. Department of Justice designated as National AMBER Alert Awareness Day.
The Texas AMBER Alert Program was established by Gov. Rick Perry in 2002, complementing existing local AMBER Alert programs. DPS manages the statewide program and provides law enforcement a mechanism for rapid notification of the media and the public in these serious child abduction cases. Visit http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/dem/documents/amberAlertProc.pdf to view the Governor's proclamation.
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Like Nintendo's technique of speaking to sentimentality with the "Alola Forms" of great Red and Blue Pokémon, so too is wow Warmane outland Blizzard going for your affection for Warcraft. At the center of the contention stands Gul'dan and Illidan, two backbones that are presently secured battle with the approaching danger of the Burning Legion out of sight. Furthermore, similar to the Death Knight saint class tied intensely into the tale of Wrath of the Lich King and the ensuing wrapping up of Arthas' story, the expansion of the Demon Hunter legend class (just the second legend class in more than 10 years) is a flawless fit.
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Peter Caine
New Works
Jack the Pelican Presents September 8–October 8, 2006
Time was there were things that one just didn't discuss in polite company: bodily functions, religion, and politics. Culture, at large, was supposed to filter out the grosser elements of life, but now we brandish our expertise in the latest and greatest outrages with pride. Aw shucks, doesn't the obscene shock and awe us any more?
With this, his fifth New York solo show of animated sculpture, Peter Caine welcomes us into the new millennium. In his "George Washington Crossing the Delaware" (2006), a rollicking Marquis de Sade, with a face like a pile of gravel, straddles the bow of a battered rowboat beside an economy-sized jar of Vaseline and a Bible open to Deuteronomy 23:24. Britches undone, his erect penis spews an endless flow of simulated semen, while a silver-faced George Washington dangles Barbara Bush's decapitated head over the frothing fountain, "I don't know if I can fit that in my mouth. That's naughty, so naughty, lip-smacking naughty," squeaks Caine's voice in his best First Lady imitation on an endless tape loop. Behind them, an aroused Honest Abe in blackface flails a Confederate flag over the portside gunwale. Other crewmembers on this macabre boating party are Dorothy from the "Wizard of Oz," her head a cluster of flashing, gyrating gadgets, the axe-wielding Tin Woodsman, and Prince Whipple covered in a skin of Wheat Chex.
After "Crossing the Delaware," we pass through "Cabana Boys," a grove of tall, irregularly cylindrical columns that mock Giacometti and Brancusi by twisting and jutting like fabric-covered hoochie-coochie dancers. In "Rudolph and Friends" (2006), our red-nosed hero is a dope-smoking reprobate taking a stovepipe-hatted Lincoln, who's brandishing a Hitler mask, and a chocolate-brown Shirley Temple for a ride on his back. But Shirley's been shot in the head, with her eyeball popping out. Rudolph's sleigh is a ratty shopping cart filled with white fleece and trashcan pickings, and bringing up the rear is a green-lipped, hip-swiveling Rasta-Santa toking a huge joint and singing Christmas carols.
But "USS Sperry" (2006) is the showstopper. Its black lights and fluorescent paint engulfs the entire back gallery, submerging the viewer in a cartoonish, radioactive lagoon. Glowing barrels imprinted with nuclear symbols litter the ocean floor between rock outcroppings and coral blooms. A frogman monitors atomic levels with a Geiger counter among schools of tropical fish, floating bubbles and anchor chains. Based on Caine's own experiences in the Navy while serving aboard the USS Sperry, this scene, aside from a bug-eyed sea horse, should be viewed as a serious take on radioactive waste disposal by way of his trademark insouciance.
As a child, Peter Caine dreamed of three career paths. One was to be a veterinarian, which he's pursued through a love of, and caring for, animals. Second was to be a stand-up comedian. He'd stay up late and tape comic routines from the "Johnny Carson Show," then work up his own acts. Third, after visiting a Van Gogh exhibition, the child Caine knew he wanted to be an artist. (Poor Vincent. If he could see what his work inspired, he might well chop off his other ear.) A fourth career the artist might have picked is cinematographer. Each of his ambitious tableaux is designed with an eye for the dramatic. Characters are cast, the staging is blocked, actions programmed, costumes chosen, props selected, lighting devised, dialogue written and recorded. Smoke and bubble machines, electric balls, antique fans, and mechanical gizmos of all kinds lend the shebang the sensation of a grungy mad professor at work on some diabolical passion play.
After a couple of visits and a period of Kantian contemplation to clear my aesthetic palette, I concluded that much of Caine's staying power springs from a double-edged nostalgia. To one side are innocent memories of visiting Christmas window displays featuring Santa and his elves making toys, Mrs. Claus baking cookies, and reindeer flying over rooftops. The darker, more magnetically disturbing side recalls the bawdy humor of bathroom joke books—or the pioneering, sexually explicit provocations published in Zap by the great underground comic artists S. Clay Wilson and R. Crumb at their most puerile. Childlike ingenuity and the desire to create a fantasy world slam up against an over-the-top indecency that rivets the viewer with an almost masochistic challenge to probe his or her levels of personal propriety.
The recently closed Dada exhibition at MoMA, with its rugged materials and abundance of repugnant subject matter, exposed one root of Caine's anti-aesthetics. Pollock's piss-like dribblings or Twombly's fecal-like globs, which morphed during Proto-Pop into Peter Saul's garish cartoon heads, might be another. Satirizing racial stereotypes has been acceptable when it comes from established African American artists like Robert Colescott or Michael Ray Charles, but what kind of response is appropriate when these jibes are posited by a white guy?
Among the questions nettling the viewer is whether Caine is a cutting-edge transgressive bad-boy, tweaking both the middle class and the intelligentsia while making a mess of art market civility, or is he just some wacky, overly energetic hayseed with a perverted sense of humor? Whether the world beyond the precincts of Williamsburg is ready to validate Caine's vision, who can tell. Meanwhile, we can amuse our selves by taking bets on whether the avant-garde's covenant with unbridled creative expression trumps its current commitment to the politically correct.
ContributorJames Kalm
JAMES KALM has written extensively on the Brooklyn art scene. In 2006 he began posting video reviews of local art exhibitions at his two YouTube channels that have generated over six million views.
A Life Defined by Political EngagementBy John Garvey
DEC 19-JAN 20 | Field Notes
Noel Ignatiev, the author of the following essay on Frederick Douglass, died on November 9th of this year. Although he had been ill, he wasnt expecting death in the immediate future. In fact, he was looking forward to the publication of the essay in The Brooklyn Rail. The brief period of time since his death has witnessed a good number of formal obituaries and less formal reminiscences in The New Yorker, Commune, and The New York Times, which provide both biographical facts and descriptions of his impact and influence on students, friends and political comrades. I will try not to repeat too much of what has already been written.
Keith Tyson: Life StillBy Daniel Pateman
SEPT 2019 | ArtSeen
The still life paintingthat most quotidian of art genresis given a modern makeover in Hauser & Wirths latest exhibition
Life as a CabaretWalter Corwin with Dan Kelley
OCT 2019 | Theater
Walter Corwin has been hanging out and having his plays performed at Theater for the New City going on 40 years. A protégé of Ed Bullins in the 60s at the Public Theater and a veteran of the Actors Studio and The Herbert Berghof Studio, hes never been afraid of weaving politics into his writing. The last decade of his practice has been an investigation of short form theater seemingly tailored to life in New York.
Gina Beavers: The Life I DeserveBy Charlotte Kent
JUL-AUG 2019 | ArtSeen
The lighting for Gina Beaverss exhibit The Life I Deserve is Instagram perfect. That seems only fitting for paintings based on social media posts and aware that they will return there as #art #museum #artselfie or even, in a potential throwback to 2015, #museumselfie. The artists #Foodporn series from 2014 gets particular attention, though the newer series based on makeup tutorials had some snapping pics as well. All this begs the question, what are we looking at?


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Two big Gmail changes were announced at this week's M3AAWG meeting in San Francisco, both of which could reduce the volume of mail that sparks complaints. Google unveiled a Gmail Feedback Loop (FBL) for email service providers (ESPs) and made it easier for users to unsubscribe from marketing email.
Getting subscriber feedback from Google has always been a challenge, but select ESPs can now get a better look at how Gmail users react to messages thanks to the new FBL. For now the Gmail FBL will report only aggregated daily complaint rates – not message-level data – and only to ESPs that are M3AAWG members and recognized by Google for maintaining good sending practices. So it may reduce complaints overall, but it won't help marketers find and remove individual complainers from their lists.
A Google spokesperson explained that spammers take advantage of ESP sending infrastructure and the Gmail FBL is intended to help ESPs identify those spammers more quickly. At this time the FBL is not available to individual senders.
Google's second announcement may have a more direct effect on marketers: Gmail's own unsubscribe link will now appear prominently at the top of commercial messages to make opting out simpler. This saves users from having to scroll into messages to find senders' unsubscribe links. It's not a new feature, but Gmail's UI change will make it easier to find. The result could increase the number of overall unsubscribes, but marketers may also see fewer complaints lodged by users that find it easier to report a message as spam than to opt out of lists.
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Waves of change are washing against the hull of the Western-dominated global order that has existed since 1945 – and the ship's officers are denying there's a storm.
The Ruling Class elites of the West have become totalitarian – on "both" sides of the ship's bridge. This is why Brexit and why Trump. It also will be why Italy shortly exits, and why the Dutch, the Czechs and others are preparing to cast off.
This kind of childish blather from the EU is aimed at low-info voters and those who have not been paying attention for 20+ years, who think the media still can be trusted and who disdain all new media.
It is meant for the yearning consumption of those who somnolently await the next swing of a regular pendulum even though the ship's clock is falling over and the next swing will be disconnecting as the pendulum shatters the glass and lands… no one knows where.
These "leaders" see millions of poor coming to the West to not be poor – and they support it. They do not see that these people are coming not to become Middle Class in a Middle Class culture – but to destroy that culture and expand their own, devolving the West to a pre-Enlightenment culture of brutality, poverty, intellectual squalor, illiteracy and superstition. For that is what they bring – and what they demand.
The world of islam is Hobbesian, run by any local, usually illiterate, dictator requiring on pain of death complete submission to his personal interpretation of a long-dead barbaric sovereign who brutally raped and slaughtered his way across his world. In the West most no longer can comprehend this level of barbarity, even as we allow in a cohort intent on implementing exactly that and making our own lives nasty, brutish and short.
These globalists have no stake in the future (a defining character of the Left is their lack of fertility) and are Progressive to the core: The average person isn't smart enough to govern themselves so the (self-appointed) experts will need to rule the rest of us (this idea is the core of Progressivism).
Too many people in the West lack the knowledge of HOW the West became the West, WHY we are different, THAT we are different from other cultures. The takeover of the Liberal Arts (why we are who we are and how we became that way) by the Left – allowed by a Right too lazy to fight back – is the root cause of this. Lacking the knowledge of who we are and how we came to be, they find nothing exceptional or worth defending.
The left doesn't care at all about the future of Western ideals: With their policies and legislation they steal the living standard from a future they refuse to populate, why not steal its liberty, too?
The idea that those in other cultures want what we want is an ignorant projection of Western mores and culture onto non-Westerners: Human rights, children's rights, women's rights, the rule of law, self-government, individual liberty, etc. There is a name for this: Western Imperialism – and the Left are absolutely guilty of it. "Multiculturalism" is, at root, a projection of Western attitudes onto non-Western peoples who do not believe in what we believe; the Left loves them simply as they add to their ability to achieve totalitarianism, which is THE goal of all leftist political parties, including today's Democrat (no, it is not "Democratic") Party.
These people actually believe that everyone is essentially the same in desires, behavior, goals, etc.. The Left's "multiculturalism" is nothing more than a belief in a Western monoculturalism in which some just eat and dress differently.
The Left believes, against all historic precedent, that if these invaders – which is what they are and all they are – are given the opportunity of coming TO the West, they will become OF the West – and their doing so will help alleviate their poverty and lack of education, and turn them into good citizens of Western Liberal Democracies, joiners of the PTA & Chamber of Commerce, payers of taxes, etc.
These rulers do not comprehend – nor can they, given their worldview – that these people come not to become Western, not to alleviate the poverty of their culture and societies, but to become parasites ON the West by taking its largess but not partaking of its values of Human Rights, education, self-reliance, individual liberty and freedom, and by destroying that West – and expanding the rule of islam, which is their reason for coming in the first place.
That these people are enemies intent on destroying a West not populating its own future is incomprehensible to these "leaders," regardless that is it an absolute truth proved over the millennia of the existence and expansion of islam.
Contrary to the (uneducated) opinion of the Ruling Class, these people not only do not what we want, they demand that what we want be destroyed: Liberty, Human Rights, literacy, law, art, science, self-government…
As I have noted before, the influx of muslims (per the UN the most illiterate cohort on the planet) to a europe not populating its own future will cause the collapse of the european economy: When the only future workers are illiterate, a first-world economy cannot be sustained (and the subsequent hit to our economy will be huge due to the loss of millions of jobs created by trade with europe if we do not transition to Asia or bring home manufacturing quickly enough).
Once the economy of the West falters under illiterates unable to compete or hold jobs in a first world country and economy, the tax base collapses – and, with it, the welfare sustaining the illiterate population.
The only thing that can follow is continent-wide anarchy and vicious family-on-family fighting as those without sustenance fight to take it from those who have it.
Nasty. Brutish. Short.
The globalist elite don't care. For the most part they are childless or have one "designer child" living in luxury and so protected from the results of their policies. (I give you Chelsea Clinton.)
For them, the results will occur after they have awarded themselves various Peace Prizes and other "honors" and died off.
People are beginning to grasp that the ruling class is destroying the West and must be stopped before they succeed. Brexit and Trump only are the embers of a smoldering anger against the ruling class. It is an anger that, if not damped soon by the return to the citizens of the West of the Western Civilization that is their birthright, of liberty and government of, by and for the People, will result in a conflagration of rage that the Ruling Class will not be able to contain and that will destroy them – and us.
And amid that confusion, the world may well go up in flames.
The West has created a society unwilling to protect itself by doing the hard things done by our parents and grandparents only a couple of generations ago: Killing our enemies in the masses required to prevent their killing us. Defending our freedoms from those who would destroy them. Ensuring to our posterity the liberty our ancestors left us.
Imperial Japan and NAZI Germany both were ideologies of murderous totalitarianism – and we annihilated them. Today all one hears is that we can't annihilate the ideology of death that is islam – a far more repugnant, uncivilized, barbaric and murderous ideology than either we destroyed in WW2. (At less cost than we thus far have spent in Afghanistan and Iraq against illiterate, untrained, ill-equipped savages. Why? Ask our ruling class, for it is they who do not want to defeat our enemies. If we wanted to defeat them, we'd have done so over a decade ago.)
This is of course arrant nonsense. Of course we can defeat islam. But – so far, anyway – we are not tough enough to choose to do so, even in defense of all we have attained since Ancient Greece & Rome.
It is doubtful that Russia and China have lost the will to defend themselves. Russia is Westernizing. China is dependent on Western trade to modernize. Neither will sell-out their own citizens as the Western globalists have sold out theirs. Both need a prosperous West to prosper themselves – and they know this.
If we do not kill the ideology that is the enemy of all the West has built over millennia, if we do not stop the civilizational war against the West that islam is fighting (and that we are not) – and to which half our country wants to surrender – Russia or China (or both) will annihilate islam, doing the hard work that must be done for their nations to continue to progress.
Our continued liberty and progress will be a collateral benefit – but it will be Russia and China who will have done the heavy lifting.
Some may abhor their actions in doing so, but the result – the utter annihilation of an ideology that actively is destroying everything it touches – is necessary for the world to move forward.
If destroying a barbaric, murderous, savage ideology attacking their future is required, the East may act. The West, unless something unforeseen changes, will not. The West doesn't even believe in its own future enough to populate it, so why would its leaders defend that future from its existential enemies?
The Western Ruling Class is the existential enemy of the West's own future…
Islam cannot be "contained' as were the USSR and Communist China. It is too late for that. Islam is spread far more broadly across the globe than even the combined empires of Imperial Japan and NAZI Germany at their height. But it can and must be destroyed. We flattened Berlin. We burned-down Tokyo. Britain sent 1,000 bombers against Cologne in one night. We annihilated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We know HOW to kill our enemies (destroy their centers of ideology and finance) – and can do so with enormous productivity, losing none of our own while destroying them utterly in a microsecond.
But – we lack the will. Soon we may see if the same can be said of China or Russia.
Given that the Left loves islam, that the Western Right is (not yet) ready to kill it, more than likely it will be Putin or Xi doing what needs to be done.
Americans who believe their birthright is to steer the course for the world as we essentially have been doing since 1945, likely will awaken after this storm to a new world order in which Russia and China have saved their own jobs and trade and futures still reliant on the West – and Western Civilization – by taking the helm.
Europeans, against all logic and history, still think they are relevant to the world order. They have started and lost the most destructive wars in history, rejected populating their civilizations or their own future, given the world communism, fascism, NAZIism, "democratic socialism" (the seed from which grows the kudzu of communism), and the Holocaust. They created (to stop european religious wars) the force which has pulled more people from poverty than any other: capitalism… and then abandoned it. And yet still they think anyone cares what they think or that their ideas have merit. This is insane, but is the basis of the profound idiocy of the current head of the EU.
When those (Putin, Xi) who – rightly – put their own people and nations over the violent detritus of other nations and other civilizations and decide to act, Western Civilization will be changed in some minor and some major ways as a relevant presence in the world.
It will be different on the other side of the storm. How different no one knows. No one knows where the pendulum will land.
As we pretended to protect the world in our Western Liberal benevolence and gazed at our navels in our safe spaces not wanting to trigger anyone, even in defense of ourselves and our posterity, and someone else actually saved the world from this barbaric Stone Age ideology, we will be shocked, angry…. and irrelevant to the vast population of the world who saw others do what needed doing.
History has not ended. Darwin always wins. If we don't fight to keep modernity in place someone else will, displacing us as we displaced the British Empire in the mid-20th Century.
The storm is coming.
The West had better take the helm – or be prepared to be a passenger in someone else's ship.


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23 July 2012.
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Something that I have been made very aware of over my time here is God's timing. Before I came here I prayed for somewhere to go, and just as I began to think nothing would emerge this placement In Uffculme came up. Again, as I've been applying for jobs recently I've prayed about what to do and where to go, I've lamented failed applications, been impatient and haven't really put all my faith in Gods plans, but now God has answered my prayers. I prayed for a job working with homeless young people, in the South West and that I'd still get to do at least one week of youth camp over the summer - I got all that and a second week of camp too!
In Ephesians chapter 1 Paul writes about God's plans coming together, about how we are known and chosen my God and how we have received his blessing and grace. In seeing what I believe to be God's plan for my life coming together I feel I get a glimpse of another facet of God's bigger plan, and of His love and mercy and his desire to make all things work together for goodness and I'm reminded of Jeremiah 29:11 where is says "for I know the plans I have for you, plans for good and not for evil."
It's been wonderful to have been a part of so many great things and feels so odd to have all these 'lasts' - and to be preparing for so many 'firsts'! I'm soon to be moving house and starting a new job. I'll be working in Somerset at a YMCA helping to house and support young people and adults.
As well as looking forward to a new job, house and everything that'll come with it, I'm also looking forward to seeing what will happen next here in Uffculme - I'm already anticipating coming back to visit and find out how everything's going! I was delighted to interview and enjoy a hand over day with the new trainee Claire Stoney and I think she will be brilliant!
Through out my time here I've been tremendously blessed by great mentors, hosts, young people, colleagues and friends and I don't think I'd have been able to get to where I am now if hadn't been for the people here who have invested so much in me. So a massive thank you to everyone who has supported me practically and financially over the last two years.
Vicki Highet


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Penn's Landing, with its dazzling views of the Delaware River and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, is one of Philly's go-to summer hot spots for food, drinks, and play. A sprawling park with colorful lights and hammocks, spectacular cuisine, and roller skating, it has all the makings of your favorite hangout.
Image by Guy Ginn
For something new and fresh to do, head to the roller rink for some retro, old-time fun. The Delaware River Waterfront Corporation repurposes the popular Winterfest ice-skating destination in the warmer months into the aptly-named Summerfest, an outdoor riverfront destination. The ice-skating rink transforms into a roller skating one with a hockey-grade flooring system, and the cozy Winter Lodge becomes a beach-themed, crab shack hangout with food and bar service.
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Guests can grab classic summer eats like crabs, shrimp, and steamers, then go relax in the lounge chairs at the urban beach area overlooking the water. Sweet treats from the candy shop—like ice cream, cotton candy, popcorn and fudge—bring old school charm, and the arcade and new mini golf course provide fun for the whole family. Of course, don't forget to lace up and try your moves on the rink—admission is only $3, and skate rentals are $10. Head to Summerfest, which opens on May 27th, for an afternoon or evening of skating, eating, and relaxing on the Delaware riverfront.
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Just a five-minute walk from the rink at Summerfest, Spruce Street Harbor Park is Philly's not-so-hidden summer treasure. Free and open to the public, the park boasts a variety of areas and activities that come together as a bustling temporary village. Restaurants float on barges, a beer garden keeps drafts flowing, live entertainment provides the sounds, and thousands of LED lights create a kaleidoscope of colors across trees, umbrellas, and flowers. Visitors can relax in dozens of hammocks, stroll the boardwalk, or try their hand at bocce or shuffleboard.
Image by Matt Stanley
Besides the relaxing atmosphere, the food is the highlight of Spruce Street Harbor Park. Garces Group hosts a pop-up restaurant called "Chifa" that dishes out delectable Chinese-Peruvian options, like Asian-style barbecue spare ribs and pork belly bao buns. The S.S. Franklin Fountain, a cargo container outfitted to look like a battleship, serves up a mean ice cream waffle sandwich. Also, the fried chicken sandwich at the Federal Donuts location, which was highlighted as one of our best sandwiches in Philly, returns again this year. Be sure to check out the many fantastic culinary options, grab a beer, and find a spot to unwind.
Cover image by Matt Stanley
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Black Hole Recordings :: Packs
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|Something for the Pain
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Championed by Ferry Corsten, most recently on his Once Upon A Night 4' album, 'Thrive' begins to hardwire more driving, floor-facing tones into 'Something For The Pain's system. Co-produced alongside Miami studio-head Stan Kolev, the pair incorporate a grooving feel-good bassline nature, tying it idiosyncratically to cool trance-progressive tones. 'Tears' meanwhile is a rare instrumental from Brown. Basing itself around a chiming xylophonic leadline, it deals complex yet memorable note movements. Hung off resonating piano notes, reverberant stormy FX (recorded in Indonesia during his travels) and drum-free immersion, 'Sorry's half-whispered/half-sung lyrics, deliver 'Something's midpoint interlude. It's an ephemeral rest-up though as 'Pulse' (produced alongside stateside Shawn Mitiska) plunges into big, sonic tubular mainlines, bringing greater force and stridence to the album. The trance-toned, Kerry Leva sung 'One More Night' and the transposing riffs and ever-exacting production of 'All I Need' deliver the album some of its most uplifting moments. 'Been A While' brings further contrast through its classic Chicago house themes, whilst vocalist Arielle Maren infuses both list and lament on 'Like The Sunrise'. 'Lie Awake' again highlights Ad's innate ability to pair catchy vocals (Hannah Ray again) with accessible productions, while 'Tonight' gifts the album its pensive, touching, poignant dénouement. Across 14 advanced-beyond-his-years pieces of music, Ad Brown delivers a flawless first album. Flush with lyrical depth, an inspiring lack of cliché, vocal turns from class-of-tomorrow singer/songwriter talent and cornered around his precocious, hyper-polished studio work, 'Something' is a blueprint for a debut album. - 20 Bass Loops - 10 Bonus Content - 40 Drum and Groove Loops - 20 FX - 40 Music Loops List One Shots - 10 Shakers - 20 Percussion - 10 Kicks - 10 Hits - 10 Hats - 10 Claps and Snares Total Samples: 200


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Maatran Vs Thuppaki
Two big budget action movies from two big stars of kollywood Surya and Vijay.Two of them are included in the list of most awaited tamilmovies of 2012.
Whats special in Maatran
1.Surya's biggest movie to realese till date.
2. Surya in dual roles as hero and villain
3. Directed by the mass director K. V. Anand who has done Superhit movies like Ayan and Ko.
4. Maatran songs composed by Hitmaker Harris Jayaraj.
5. Performance capture technology
What's special in Thuppaki
1. Vijay's new hairstyle and makeover.
2. The most stylish movie from Vijay till date.
3.Vijay playing the role of a cop.
4.Vijay Singing for this movie.
5. Harris Jayaraj Composing music for this movie.
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Blackbird (Beatles song)
Cover of the song's sheet music
|Song by the Beatles
|from the album The Beatles
|Northern Songs
|22 November 1968
|11 June 1968
|EMI Studios, London
|George Martin
|Audio sample
"Blackbird" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as "the White Album"). It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney, and performed as a solo piece by McCartney. When discussing the song, McCartney has said that the lyrics were inspired by hearing the call of a blackbird in Rishikesh, India, and alternatively by the unfortunate state of race relations in the United States in the 1960s.
McCartney explained on Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road, aired in 2005, that the guitar accompaniment for "Blackbird" was inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach's Bourrée in E minor, a well-known lute piece, often played on the classical guitar. As teenagers, he and George Harrison tried to learn Bourrée as a "show off" piece. The Bourrée is distinguished by melody and bass notes played simultaneously on the upper and lower strings. McCartney adapted a segment of the Bourrée (reharmonised into the original's relative major key of G) as the opening of "Blackbird", and carried the musical idea throughout the song.
The first night his future wife Linda Eastman stayed at his home, McCartney played "Blackbird" for the fans camped outside his house.[1] The fingerpicking technique that McCartney uses in the song was taught to him by folk singer Donovan.
Meaning and interpretation[edit]
Since composing "Blackbird" in 1968, McCartney has given differing, contradictory statements regarding both his inspiration for the song and its meaning.[2] In one of these scenarios, he has said he was inspired by hearing the call of a blackbird one morning when the Beatles were studying Transcendental Meditation in Rishikesh, India.[3] In another, he recalls writing it in Scotland as a response to racial tensions escalating in the United States during the spring of 1968.[4]
In May 2002, following a show in Dallas, Texas, McCartney discussed the song with KCRW DJ Chris Douridas, saying:
I had been doing some [poetry readings] in the last year or so because I've got a poetry book out called Blackbird Singing, and when I would read "Blackbird", I would always try and think of some explanation to tell the people … So, I was doing explanations, and I actually just remembered why I'd written "Blackbird", you know, that I'd been, I was in Scotland playing on my guitar, and I remembered this whole idea of "you were only waiting for this moment to arise" was about, you know, the black people's struggle in the southern states, and I was using the symbolism of a blackbird. It's not really about a blackbird whose wings are broken, you know, it's a bit more symbolic.[5][6]
A third scenario came from the recollection of his stepmother, Angie McCartney.[3] She said that McCartney wrote it for her elderly mother, Edith Stopforth, who was staying at Jim McCartney's house while recovering from a long illness. Angie recalled that McCartney visited the house and sat at Edith's bedside, where Edith told him that she would listen to a bird singing at night.[3]
The lyrics have invited similarly varied interpretations – as a nature song, a message in support of the Black Power movement, or a love song.[7] Writing in the 1990s, Ian MacDonald dismissed the idea that "Blackbird" was intended as "a metaphor for the black civil rights struggle".[1] Noting instead the composition's romantic qualities, MacDonald said that the early-morning bird song "translates … into a succinct metaphor for awakening on a deeper level".[8] However, during an informal rehearsal at EMI Studios on 22 November 1968, before he and Donovan took part in a Mary Hopkin recording session, McCartney played "Blackbird", telling Donovan that he wrote it after having "read something in the paper about the riots" and that he meant the black "bird" to symbolise a black woman.[9]
Along with McCartney's "Helter Skelter", "Blackbird" was one of several White Album songs that Charles Manson interpreted as the Beatles' prophecy of an apocalyptic race war that would lead to him and his "Family" of followers ruling the US on countercultural principles. Manson interpreted the lyrics' repetition of the word "rise" as a call to black Americans to wage war on their white counterparts, and instructed his followers to commit a series of murders in Los Angeles in August 1969 to trigger such a conflict.[10]
Composition and recording[edit]
The song was recorded on 11 June 1968 at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London,[11] with George Martin as the producer and Geoff Emerick as the audio engineer.[12] It is a solo performance with McCartney playing a Martin D 28 acoustic guitar. The track includes recordings of a male Common blackbird singing in the background.[12][13]
Only three sounds were recorded: McCartney's voice, his Martin D-28 acoustic guitar, and a tapping that keeps time on the left channel.[14] This tapping "has been incorrectly identified as a metronome in the past", according to engineer Geoff Emerick, who says it is actually the sound of Paul tapping his foot. McCartney also said the same in The Beatles' Anthology documentary. Emerick recalls as being mic'd up separately.[15] Footage included in the bonus content on disc two of the 2009 remaster of the album shows McCartney tapping both his feet alternately while performing the song.
The mono version contains bird sounds different from the stereo recording, and was originally issued on a mono incarnation of The Beatles (it has since been issued worldwide as part of The Beatles in Mono CD box set). The song appears on Love with "Yesterday", billed as "Blackbird/Yesterday". "Blackbird" provides an introduction to "Yesterday".
Live performances[edit]
In 1973, McCartney included the song, along with the Beatles track "Michelle",[16] as part of his acoustic medley in the television special James Paul McCartney.[17] Starting with his 1975–76 world tour with the band Wings, McCartney has performed "Blackbird" on every one of his concert tours.[18] A solo performance of the song, followed by "Yesterday", appears on Wings' 1976 live album Wings Over America.
McCartney also included "Blackbird" in his set at the Party at the Palace concert in June 2002. In 2009, McCartney performed the song at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, commenting prior to singing it on how it had been written in response to the Civil Rights Movement, and added, "It's so great to realise so many civil rights issues have been overcome."[19]
A live version appears in the multi-CD collection Good Evening New York City, which was released in 2009 and recorded inside the American stadium Citi Field.
Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of its release, Jacob Stolworthy of The Independent listed "Blackbird" at number five in his ranking of the White Album's 30 tracks. He said that its "beautiful calmness" was at odds with the growing racial tensions that allegedly inspired the song, and concluded: "For many, it's the apotheosis of McCartney's career and remains a standout in his solo live shows."[20]
- Paul McCartney – double-tracked lead vocal, acoustic guitar, tape loops, foot tapping
Cover versions[edit]
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|Beat the World
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According to music journalist John Elmes of The Independent, "Blackbird" was one of the top ten most recorded songs of all time up to December 2008.[21] The following artists have recorded "Blackbird" in a variety of styles:
- Jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis used it to close his record of songs from the Beatles' White Album, titled Mother Nature's Son.
- Pop/jazz singer Kenny Rankin covered "Blackbird" on his 1974 album Silver Morning.
- Pop rock/R&B singer Dionne Farris included an acoustic interpretation of the song on her debut album Wild Seed – Wild Flower.
- "Blackbird" appears on the Crosby, Stills & Nash 1991 box set, having been recorded during the sessions for the album Crosby, Stills & Nash. They performed it often in concert, also at their performance at Woodstock festival 1969 and a live version appeared in 2014 on the CSNY 1974 album.
- The Dandy Warhols released a recording of the song in July 2009 following the death of Michael Jackson, fulfilling a promise made in the first and title track of their 2003 album Welcome to the Monkey House ("When Michael Jackson dies, we're coverin' 'Blackbird'").[22] The line was thought to partially reference Jackson's ownership of the Beatles' back catalogue of songs[23] when he bought Associated Television (ATV), which had previously acquired Northern Songs, in the mid-1980s.
- Sarah Darling recorded the song in November 2011 for the album Let Us In: Nashville – A Tribute to Linda McCartney, and it was released as a single.[24] Darling's version was later featured in the 200th episode of Criminal Minds.
- Neil Diamond interpreted the song for his 2010 album Dreams.
- Justin Hayward recorded the song for his 1994 Classic Blue album.
- In 2001, Canadian musician Sarah McLachlan recorded a cover version of "Blackbird" for the I Am Sam film soundtrack. It also appears on her 2008 compilation album Rarities, B-Sides and Other Stuff Volume 2.
- Bobby McFerrin released an a cappella version on his 1984 album The Voice.
- Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau recorded what has been described as a "haunting version of the Beatles' classic"[25] for his 1997 album The Art of the Trio Volume One.[26]
- Swedish classical mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter recorded the song for her "Love Songs" album, with Brad Mehldau in 2010.
- The Paragons featuring Rosalyn Sweat recorded a ska/rocksteady version in 1973.
- Jaco Pastorius recorded the song in 1981.
- "Blackbird" is performed by Phish on the band's 1994 Halloween album, Live Phish Volume 13, which includes a rendition of each song on the Beatles' White Album.[27]
- The song is sung by various members of the Templeton family in the animated film The Boss Baby.
- In 1972, Billy Preston released a version of the song on his Music Is My Life album.
- Carly Simon recorded a version for her 2007 album Into White.
- Sylvester included the song on his live Living Proof album in 1979.
- Evan Rachel Wood vocalised the song in the 2007 film Across the Universe.
- Dave Grohl performed the song during the In Memoriam tribute at the 88th Academy Awards.[28][29]
- Sara Gazarek recorded it as part of a jazz medley with Bye Bye Blackbird on her 2005 album Yours and her 2016 album Dream in the Blue.
- Jon Batiste performed a version of the song during a taping for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, in honour of the 52nd anniversary of the Beatles' American television debut at The Ed Sullivan Theatre.[30]
- Marillion did a version for their live album Unplugged at the Walls.
- Petula Clark covered the song on her 2016 album From Now On.[31]
- The Waterboys' 1988 album Fisherman's Blues includes a cover of Van Morrison's "Sweet Thing" which ends with Mike Scott singing the lyrics of "Blackbird" to the tune of "Sweet Thing".[32]
- The Guess Who performed the song on their Canadian TV show Let's Go and released it on their 2014 compilation Let's Go, featuring recordings from the show.
- American singer Chase Holfelder performed the song in a minor key version in 2015 on his YouTube channel for his album "Major to Minor: Vol. 1"
- Julie Fowlis performed a Scottish Gaelic version of the song in 2008.
- ^ a b MacDonald 1998, p. 256fn.
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- ^ MacDonald 1998, pp. 256, 256fn.
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- ^ a b Lewisohn 1988, p. 137.
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Dress In Blue Day a day to wear blue to raise colon cancer awareness. This movement came from the Colon Cancer Alliance and for everyone to wear blue this one day of the month to help raise awareness for colon cancer.
Dress In Blue Day
Date: First Friday in March each year
Company: Colon Cancer Alliance
Web site: ccalliance.org/awareness-month/dress-in-blue-day
March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month. 'Dress in Blue Day' was first launched in 2009 by the Colon Cancer Alliance in a massive nationwide campaign to raise awareness of colon cancer. Colon cancer is always known as colorectal cancer. Anita Mitchell is the founder, diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer and lost a close friend and father to the disease
A blue star symbolizes both the memory of loved ones lost to colon cancer, those fighting with the colon and cancer for those future patients of colon cancer too.
Observed on the first Friday of March each year, the Dress in Blue Day program promotes awareness about colon cancer and encourages individuals to get their colon checked. Some businesses and schools will allow students and workers to wear blue on this day for a small fee, such as one dollar. Then the money raised would go to help colon cancer research.
I see a Gastroenterologist on a regular basis. I get both colonoscopy and endoscopy done every five years. After I reach a certain age. That is when, I will have yearly screenings instead. I do have digestive medical issues. I have since I was a teenager.
On Dress in Blue Day, and throughout National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, you can join our mission to end colorectal cancer within our lifetime. By wearing blue and raising funds to support the Colorectal Cancer Alliance, you and your peers become part of a nation of passionate allies, taking on this senseless killer. In 2018, more than 135,000 people will be diagnosed with this highly preventable disease. Tomorrow can't wait. Visit dressinblueday.org to get started.
Why Blue?
The Dress in Blue Day program engages allies with information that saves lives while celebrating survivors and remembering loved ones lost too soon. In addition,
organizing a fundraiser in your community forges stronger bonds between friends and neighbors while supporting the Colorectal Cancer Alliance mission.
How to Help
- Ask friends and family to show their support by wearing blue.
- Hold a contest for the most creative blue outfits.
- Share colorectal cancer awareness materials (on blogs, social media, anywhere you can).
- Decorate your home, workplace, or town in blue lights and blue accents.
- Share why this cause matters with friends, family, and the community.
- Promote the event with flyers, newsletters, verbally, and elsewhere.
- Invite speakers, such as a local gastroenterologist or survivor.
- Print flyers, fact sheets, or other resources to share at the event.
Colorectal Cancer Facts
- Colorectal cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths.
- 135,000 will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2018.
- Colorectal cancer affects men women equally.
- One in 23 will be diagnosed in 2018.
- 90% of new cases occur in people 50 and older.
- The young-onset rate has increased 51% since 1994.
Wear Blue to raise awareness!
This year, 2018, Dress in Blue Day is March 2, 2018.
Future Dress in Blue Days.
- 2019 – March 1
- 2020 – March 6
- 2021 – March 5
- 2022 – March 4
Past Dress in Blue Days
- 2017 – March 3
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I enjoy listening to nothing but Christian Music. Camping and hiking is something that I enjoy. I guess that is because I am an Eagle Scout. Blogging is something I enjoy doing too. I have been blogging since 2004. However, I have been blogging on Courageous Christian Father since 2012. I am married with 1 daughter and 2 step-sons and a step daughter.


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Thursday, July 21, 2011
Nathan Schmiedicke on Studying Scripture
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Me and Jesus
Most merciful Father, we humbly pray and beseech Thee, through Jesus Christ Thy Son, Our Lord, to accept and to bless these + gifts, these + presents, these + holy unspotted Sacrifices, which we offer up to Thee, in the first place, for Thy Holy Catholic Church, that it may please Thee to grant her peace, to preserve, unite, and govern her throughout the world; as also for Thy servant N . . . our Pope, and N . . . our Bishop, and for all orthodox believers and all who profess the Catholic and Apostolic faith.
Be mindful, O Lord, of Thy servants and handmaids N . . . and N . . . and of all here present, whose faith and devotion are known to Thee, for whom we offer, or who offer up to Thee this Sacrifice of praise for themselves and all those dear to them, for the redemption of their souls and the hope of their safety and salvation: who now pay their vows to Thee, the everlasting, living and true God.
In communion with, and honoring the memory in the first place of the glorious ever Virgin Mary Mother of our God and Lord Jesus Christ; also of blessed Joseph, her Spouse; and likewise of Thy blessed Apostles and Martyrs, Peter and Paul, Andrew, James, John, Thomas, James, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Simon and Thaddeus, Linus, Cletus, Clement, Sixtus, Cornelius, Cyprian, Lawrence, Chrysogonus, John and Paul, Cosmas and Damian, and of all Thy Saints. Grant for the sake of their merits and prayers that in all things we may be guarded and helped by Thy protection. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
O Lord, we beseech Thee, graciously to accept this oblation of our service and that of Thy whole household. Order our days in Thy peace, and command that we be rescued from eternal damnation and numbered in the flock of Thine elect. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Humbly we pray The, O God, be pleased to make this same offering wholly blessed +, to consecrate + it and approve + it, making it reasonable and acceptable, so that it may become for us the Body + and Blood + of Thy dearly beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
Who, the day before He suffered , took bread into His Holy and venerable hands, and having lifted up His eyes to heaven, to Thee, God, His Almighty Father, giving thanks to Thee, blessed it +, broke it, and gave it to His disciples, saying: Take and eat ye all of this:
For this is My Body.
taking also into His holy and venerable hands this goodly chalice, again giving thanks to Thee, He blessed it +, and gave it to His disciples, saying: Take and drink ye all of this:
For this is the Chalice of My Blood, of the new and eternal testament: the Mystery of Faith: which shall be shed for you [pl.] and for many unto the remission of sins.
As often as ye shall do these things, ye shall do them in remembrance of me.
And now, O Lord, we, Thy servants, and with us all Thy holy people, calling to mind the blessed Passion of this same Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, likewise His Resurrection from the grave, and also His glorious Ascension into heaven, do offer unto Thy most sovereign Majesty out of the gifts Thou hast bestowed upon us,
a Victim + which is pure, a Victim +which is holy, a Victim + which is spotless, the holy Bread + of life eternal, and the Chalice + of everlasting Salvation.
Deign to look upon them with a favorable and gracious countenance, and to accept them as Thou didst accept the offerings of Thy just servant Abel, and the sacrifice of our Patriarch Abraham, and that which Thy high priest Melchisedech offered up to Thee, a holy Sacrifice, an immaculate Victim.
Humbly we beseech Thee, almighty God, to command that these our offerings be carried by the hands of Thy holy Angel to Thine Altar on high, in the sight of Thy divine Majesty, so that those of us who shall receive the most sacred Body +and Blood + of Thy Son by partaking thereof from this Altar may be filled with every grace and heavenly blessing: Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
Be mindful, also, O Lord, of Thy servants and handmaids N . . . and N . . . who are gone before us with the sign of faith and who sleep the sleep of peace. To these, O Lord, and to all who rest in Christ, grant, we beseech Thee, a place of refreshment, light and peace. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
To us also Thy sinful servants, who put our trust in the multitude of Thy mercies, vouchsafe to grant some part and fellowship with Thy holy Apostles and Martyrs: with John, Stephen, Matthias, Barnabas, Ignatius, Alexander, Marcellinus, Peter, Felicitas, Perpetua, Agatha, Lucy, Agnes, Cecilia, Anastasia, and all Thy Saints. Into their company we beseech Thee admit us, not considering our merits, but freely pardoning our offenses. Through Christ our Lord.
By whom, O Lord, Thou dost always create, sanctify +, quicken +, bless +, and bestow upon us all these good things.
Through Him +, and with Him +, and in Him +, is unto Thee, God the Father + Almighty, in the unity of the Holy + Ghost, all honor and glory.
Okay, so, after having helped offer the sacrifice of Calvary for the whole Church, we then approach the communion rail with a bit of an "I-thou" perspective? I see not the problem. Unless we are taught, like we are so often nowadays, that the Eucharist is a primarily a meal and so if you aren't acting and thinking fully communally when receiving, you aren't acting or thinking communally at all. Because that whole middle bit about the sacrifice of the communion of saints isn't the focus.
Okay, so, after having helped offer the sacrifice of Calvary for the whole Church, we then approach the communion rail with a bit of an "I-thou" perspective? I see not the problem. Unless we are taught, like we are so often nowadays, that the Eucharist is a primarily a meal and so if you aren't acting and thinking fully communally when receiving, you aren't acting or thinking communally at all. Because that whole middle bit about the sacrifice of the communion of saints isn't the focus.


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The Office of Academic Affairs promotes excellence in teaching, research, scholarship, professional service, and community engagement. Academic Affairs is led by Dr. Patrick O'Sullivan, the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, who provides oversight to the three academic deans, and other programs across the campus, including the Office of First Year Experience, the Campus Library, and the Office of Sponsored Programs.
Under Dr. O'Sullivan, the goal of the Office of Academic Affairs is, as he says, "to obtain the most current, thought-provoking and illuminating information available today and to work with my colleagues to teach it to our students so they can discover their own leadership abilities and move forward as successful, contributing members of society."
Dr. Patrick O'Sullivan
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Campus Center, Room H-410
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i have four forms created in a website since a few years (since v1), wich all are creating an article by sending the forms in different categories. three of them are correctly creating an automatic "readmore"-tag in the article after a few words. one of them didn´t do that and I have no idea where i have to search for the problem. On the first look there are still the same preferences in all forms...I have updates the site in january from Joomla V2.5 to Joomla 3.7, maybe the problem exists since that.
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Major General Cantwell is a skilled and engaging public speaker. His compelling interview for the Four Corner's television program A Careful War in 2010 dealing with the conflict in Afghanistan won wide praise. He lectures on command, leadership and crisis management to a variety of defence, business and academic audiences. He sits on the Advisory Board of an international defence-related company and provides one-on-one mentoring to senior executives. His book Exit Wounds: One Australian's War On Terror was published in October 2012.
Previous experience
Retirement : John Cantwell retired from the Australian Army in early 2012 after a unique career spanning almost 40 years. Starting as a private soldier he rose through the ranks to become a Major General. Along the way he held and excelled in a diverse range of command and senior management appointments, including Commanding Officer of the Royal Military College at Duntroon, Commander of the 1st Brigade comprising combat units totalling 3000 troops, Deputy Chief of the Army, and most recently he was the Commander of all Australian forces in Afghanistan and the wider Middle East area of operations.
Skills : When not in command appointments, Cantwell acquired a diverse skill set in other key areas of Defence including training, personnel management and capability development. He led multiple reviews across domains as varied as national munitions stocks, force readiness, amphibious operations and submarine warfare. He headed delegations representing the Australian Defence Force in a host of international fora in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific rim.
Chief : His experiences go well beyond the normal run of military appointments. In 2008 he was appointed by the Chief of the Defence Force to head the Force Structure Review which was at the heart of the current Defence White Paper, and which defined the structure and capabilities of the Australian Defence Force for the next 20 years.
Bushfire : In 2009 he was appointed interim Head (and later, Chief of Operations) of the Victoria Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority, a role in which he coordinated all Commonwealth, State and non-government efforts to recover from the deadly Black Saturday fires. The Premier of Victoria characterised Cantwell as "a hand-on tireless leader and organiser with a remarkable ability to gain the respect and cooperation of disparate groups." The Prime Minister described Cantwell as a leader possessing "exceptional skills in coordination, guidance and organisation."
War : Cantwell served in three distinct wars: combat duty in Operation Desert Storm in 1991; as the Director of Strategic Operations of the Multi National Forces in Iraq in 2006 (for which he was awarded the United States Legion of Merit); and as the Commander of Australian forces in the Middle East in 2010. For his service in the latter role he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his "inspired leadership, deep commitment to his people and superior performance on operations." He has been made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM, 1990) and an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO, 2007), in addition to two Commendations for superior performance.
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text: Study support at UCB helped me overcome dyslexiaFebruary 2016 A former student with dyslexia has paid tribute to the library assistant who helped him to make the grade. Tyrone Fowles, now regional organiser for Unite in the West Midlands, was reunited with Bernadette Carter to thank her for helping him throughout his studies. Tyrone, 23, joined UCB when he was 16 to take a BTEC national diploma in Travel and Tourism. He then progressed to study a degree in Events Management and said Bernadette helped him overcome his mild dyslexia and get the most out of his times at UCB. "I gave Bernadette trouble for five years," jokes Tyrone. "I was a thorn in her side." Tyrone went through school without being diagnosed. When he joined UCB, he discussed his symptoms with a friend who happened to be dyslexic and suggested Tyrone might have the same condition. Tyrone was given advice about making adaptions to his study methods and time management. "I needed more time to reflect and for proof-reading. The discipline was to get my copy down on paper and then edited it rather than second guessing what I should write," says Tyrone. He used the study support service provided by the University to help with his work strategies and Bernadette gave him additional encouragement and tips. Tyrone says: "If you have dyslexia, don't be afraid to get support. I think back to school when I used to struggle. I could not understand why I couldn't get on with a task. I am just so happy my dyslexia was discovered at UCB. With Bernadette's help and support, I wanted to progress. "If you have dyslexia, don't be afraid to get support. There are people like Bernadette out there. You will make mistakes, everyone does, but don't get in a mental frenzy. That is not what university is about." Bernadette encouraged students to come forward and seek help. "If you need support, we will be your champion," she says. About Us Our Campuses Moss House Summer Row The Link McIntyre House Richmond House Virtual Tours Our Schools Why Choose Us? Our Industry Links History of UCB Awarding of Degrees and our Partnership with The University of Birmingham Policies and Procedures OFS Transparency Return Accolades and Awards Mission Statement Enterprise Hive Latest News University League Tables Statement Job Vacancies Contact Us By Phone or Email How to Find us Social Media Directory Request a Prospectus


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September 6, 2015
Third sermon in the series: A SPIRITUAL EKG
Scripture Text: 1 Samuel 1:1-20
In Old Testament times there was a belief that if a woman could not have children she was not right with God. This was not written anywhere in the Word of God, but was more of an oral belief or tradition.
Elkanah had two wives. "The name of one was Hannah and the name of the other was Peninnah; and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children (vs.3)." Once each year Elkanah would go up to Shilo to offer sacrifice to the Lord of Host. Two of Peninnah's sons were priest to the Lord there. "When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed he would offer up to Peninnah and all of her son's and daughter's; but to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but the Lord had closed her womb." (vs.5)
So each year Peninnah would torment, and tease, and ridicule, and provoke Hannah to tears. Hannah wept and would not eat for she was without a child.
Hannah rose up and being greatly distressed she prayed and wept bitterly. She didn't run and hide and have a pity party; no, she made a vow and said, "If Thou wilt indeed look upon the affliction of thy maidservant and remember me and not forget thy maidservant, but will give thy maidservant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life…"(vs.11)
While she was praying she encountered Eli, one of Peninnah's son's, who was a priest in Shilo. He considered her a drunkard and asked Hannah, " How long will you make yourself drunk? Put your wind away from you. But Hannah answered and said, "no my lord, I am a woman oppressed of spirit: I have not drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have poured out my heart before the Lord. Do not consider your maidservant as a worthless woman; for I have spoken until now out of great concern and provocation." Eli responded as any good man of God would. "Go in peace and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of Him." Hannah replied. " Let your maidservant find favor in your sight" so she left and went and ate and she was no longer sad. (vs.12-18)
When the day after sacrifice was made they got up early and returned to their home in Ramah. After returning home Elkanah "had relations with Hannah and the Lord remembered her. And it came about in due time, after Hannah had conceived, that she gave birth to a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, 'Because I have asked him of the Lord.' "(vs.19-20)
After Samuel was weaned Hannah took him up to Shilo. She took a three-year-old bull and one ephah of flour. The bull was slaughtered and Hannah brought Samuel before Eli and said, "Oh, my lord! As your soul lives my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the Lord. For this boy I prayed and the Lord has given me my petition, which I asked of Him. So I have also dedicated him to the Lord, as long as he lives, he is dedicated to the Lord." And he worshiped the Lord there. (vs. 24-28)
How Hannah's grief turned to glory.
- We see a perplexed or Puzzled Hannah (vs. 2-6). A heavy cloud darkened her home and spiritual life.
- There was a problem that troubled her; she could not conceive.
- There was a person who taunted her; Peninnah. (1 Peter 5:8)
- We see a praying Hannah (vs. 10-112).
- She prayed earnestly (vs. 10). (James 5:16)
- She prayed specifically. (vs. 11) (Philippians 4:6)
- She Prayed continually (vs. 12). (Luke 18:1-8; 1 Corinthians 10:13)
- She Prayed expectantly (Matthew 13:58; Mark 6:6; James 1:6-7) When pour hearts are grieving it is so that we will grow closer to God.
- We see a Praising Hannah (vs. 15-20)
- The assurance she received (vs. 15-17)
- The answer she received (vs.20)
The Lord closed Hannah's womb. Not because of sin, rather to allow for the timing of God to bring her a son who was blessed. Hannah did not quit praying until she received her petition. So it is with all God's children. When we experience perplexing times in our lives, it is time to go to our knees and pray. Our prayers should be like Hannah's, earnest, specific, continuous, and expectant.
Hannah's grief turned to Glory in Samuel, a great man of God. Samuel means asked of the Lord.
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