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This is Part I of a multi part series in which I will take an in-depth look at the role decentralization plays in Crypto Networks. In this article I will explore the tradeoffs between decentralized and centralized networks and the role decentralization plays in blockchain protocols. I will also highlight some of the key factors that influence how distributed a network is in both number of participants and power. The remaining parts of the series will be a collection of 6 case studies of existing protocols that explores the different strategies they have employed to decentralize their networks, how that has influenced the behavior of network participants, and some of the pros and cons of these decisions. Now let us get into Decentralization!
Decentralization is the essence of blockchain technology. Ever since the release of the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2008, the idea of a decentralized, peer-to-peer network for exchanging digital value has been the cornerstone upon which all other subsequent protocols have been built. However, it seems that the reasons why Bitcoin had to be decentralized from the start and what decentralization actually accomplishes are consistently overlooked. Instead, decentralization has become inherently associated with 'good' and centralization has become analogous with 'bad'. Yet, decentralization is not binary, nor simply a state of being. It is a far more nuanced concept that comes with varying degrees and serves as a tool to meet a network's needs.
Decentralization, and the degree thereof, influences everything from a blockchain protocol's architecture and physical distribution, to how consensus is reached, and how network governance decisions (i.e what is updated and when, how incentives are aligned, etc.) is managed. ( A great breakdown of these different components of decentralization can be found here). Seeing as decentralization touches every aspect of a blockchain network, it is understandable why this is such a hotly debated topic. It is still far too early to tell which approach, or approaches to decentralization will prove the most optimal in the long-run, but there are a plethora of lessons to be learned from the strategies different networks have tried and the outcomes (culturealley, technically, and economically) of their decisions.
In an effort to provide a comprehensive overview of the ways protocols are approaching decentralization, I will present case studies on several blockchain networks and assess the strategies used to decentralize their network, the implications of these decisions economically, technically, and politically, and extrapolate some lessons learned. In sum I will explore the role of decentralization in the following six networks: Bitcoin, Factom, Cosmos, Celo, Terra, & Kusama (Polkadot's experimental 'Canary' network). However, before we dive into the different shades and hues of decentralization, its first important to understand the goal of decentralization and the different factors that it influences in a blockchain protocol.
The Goal of Decentralization: A System's Level Perspective
Systems are put in place to create a reproducible set of outcomes with constraints that optimize for certain criteria. Hence, when building a system, it is critical to identify the desired end goal and then what optimizations are needed. From this perspective, centralized systems and their distributed counterparts are simply different system designs optimizing for different criteria.
Consider the outcome that most crypto networks are designed for at the most fundamental level: recording digital transactions. Is this not the same outcome that more centralized payment processors seek as well? Both of these methodologies strive to maintain accurate accounts of all transactions they process. The difference, however, is in the design of these systems and what they are trying to optimize for. Centralized payment processors are designed to record as many transactions as possible, in the least amount of time, and do so by assuming total control of the process and responsibility for the data and its security. In short, these systems are optimized for speed and control. Decentralized systems, on the other hand, are meant to optimize for trust, immutability, and uncensorable transactions by giving participants sovereignty over their own data. The process of signing transactions, verifying they are legitimate, and arriving at consensus takes time. However, because of this, all transactions have finality, the ledger is immutable, and people have full control over their funds and what is done with them through their private key. Centralized systems like Visa can process over 60,000 transactions per second at peak demands, but take days to clear and they have the ability to freeze funds, move them, or edit the transaction history if they suspect fraud or otherwise. Hence, it is less a question of if centralization is bad or good, but rather one of the value of complete participation in a system by all participants and their ability to control their own funds.
Factors Influencing Decentralization
As you can see, decentralization is not simply a yes or no decision, but a design choice for a blockchain protocol that determines how the network will behave as it records transactions. So how do protocols factor decentralization into their network design? As we said earlier, decentralization touches every part of a crypto network and fundamentally shapes how it operates at scale. Consequently, it is important to understand a few of the key mechanisms by which protocols attempt to engineer and control the decentralization of their networks before we dive into an in-depth examination of the decentralization strategies of the six networks mentioned earlier.
Governance is perhaps one of, if not the strongest shaping forces in a blockchain network for how decentralization will propagate at scale. At a high level, governance refers to how network participants decide on what changes are made to the network and what needs to be done across the broader community. Governance decisions often result in changes to the code base for the network and consequently correlate with major updates, or hard forks. A network must decide if it will have on chain or off chain governance. If they elect for the former, they must decide on factors like how voting power is distributed, if all participants are included, and how proposals are made by network participants for network updates. This also brings with it a sizable technical investment as all of this logic must be programmed into the network itself. All proposals are written in code and broadcast to the broader community to vote on over a particular time horizon. If they elect for an off chain governance model they must determine what is made transparent to the community broadly, if they should include community members in decisions, or if only core devs should be included in the discussions on updates and product roadmap.
Economics/Financial Incentives
The financial incentives structure for how network participants are rewarded is another one of the strongest forces for shaping the decentralization of a crypto network. How a network rewards its participants defines how the network will perpetuate. One of Bitcoin's innovations was creating an incentive structure for miners to 'play by the rules' this allowed the network to grow to the strength it is today. There are other factors to consider as well; are all participants rewarded evenly or is it only advantageous for a small handful? Are the largest investors in a protocol or top technical contributors the most rewarded (Think Proof of Stake or Proof of Work)? Are developer efforts rewarded in the community, or are only the core devs compensated? How a network answers these questions determines how wide a reach the network will have, how many different parties run their software, and the motivations behind the participants running their software. It also determines what kinds of technical contributions are made to the protocol and signals what types of projects or community members are valued.
Tiered Architectures
Lastly, a network must decide if all of its participants operate at equal levels or if there are tiered classes of participants. For example, many Proof-of-Stake Networks have different layers of network participants that come with different levels of responsibilities, requirements, and rewards. Validators are rewarded for participating in consensus, investing in high quality infrastructure to support the network, ensuring network uptime, and handling updates and governance. Others, however, can still be rewarded by trusting their funds with a Validator and being proportionally compensated for the amount they 'stake'. This provides the network with decentralization though may consolidate the majority of the economic and political power in a smaller cohort of participants. In other, typically proof of work, protocols participants are divided between miners and node operators. Miners are rewarded for their donated computing power and while node operators are not directly compensated, they chose what version or fork of the software to follow and thus can control the outcomes of software updates (see BIP 91 and SegWit2x). If miners want to increase their economic rewards, they must invest into more of the same infrastructure, but this seldom comes with added responsibilities like governance as is seen in a more tiered infrastructure like the proof of stake model. Instead any committees or pseudo governance structure tend to be a self-formed group of motivated participants who work together on upgrading and evangelizing the protocol.
As you can see, there is much for a network to consider as it attempts to engineer decentralization into its network, and this is just scratching the surface. In the next article, I will start diving into the case studies surrounding different networks' approaches to decentralization. I'll go back to where it all began with the Bitcoin network, and assess how the network decentralized over time, what approaches it took, and how that has translated to the network being what it is today.


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Singha Saijaidee from Thailand has just sign up for the World Championship in Massage 2019 in Copenhagen. He is 42 years old and started his career as a spa therapist in 2008 in a luxury spa in Munich. From 2008-2018 Singha has been learning in different kind of massage techniques by visiting Spa academies in Bangkok Thailand, Munich Germany, Bali Indonesia. Now he is working in the most famous hotel in Germany, well-know Hotel BayerisIcher Hof in Blue spa. He really loves his job and he looks forward meeting all the other participants at the World Championship in Massage.
A description of Singha Saijaidee's Massage.
Thai Warrior Massage is an ancient tradition Thai therapy. This massage was used to heal injured warriors returning from war. As far back as the 13th century, this massage was used to heal injured warriors returning from battle. Warrior Thai massage was officially prohibited because Government considered it to be primitive. In the middle of the reign of Rattanakosin (King Rama VI, 1880 -1925) teaching and practice of this art were forbidden in public places as part of an effort to transform Siam into the modern Thailand by incorporating western ways. Nevertheless, teaching and practice of Thai Warrior Massage continued in private. During the reign of King Rama IX (Bhumibol Adulyadej, 1950 to 2016), the King enthusiastically supported all types of Thai holistic traditional medicine and massage approaches.
In 1999 the Thai Patent Protection Act and Thai Traditional Medicine Institute was established along with the new Ministry of Public Health. This period witnessed a renaissance in ancient Thai (or Siamese) Warrior Massage. Modern Thai warrior massage therapy is a unique combination of traditional massage, Ruesri Datton (Thai Hermit Exercise, also known as Yoga Massage) by Experienced Holistic Practitioners, originated by Master Jack Shaman (Mr. Pathompon Aiyarattanaruk).
The combination of rhythmic massage and soft tissue/manipulation domain, acupressure, gentle twisting and deep stretching 10-15 second on each position to aid tension relief and to promote the balance of circulating life force energy in the body. This massage and stretch technique bring you to feel an extrardinary sense of health and well-being. This therapy creates extraordinary feelings of euphoria and benefits the recipient and therapist alike.
In 2017, Thai Warrior Massage has been known worldwide because antoher therapist won Gold in Both the Asian category and the big finale. The massage terapist was Mrs. Naree Seume who was trained by Master Jack Sharman from Thailand.
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- It's cool.
- A pound of GOOD coffee costs about $10 in the store. When was IT roasted? It's still good, but home roasting you can get a pound of green beans for about $4.
- It's just SO much better than what you can get in the store.
- It's cool.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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22 comments:
Roasting my own coffee beans is something I never considered doing - until now. For me there is no life before coffee in the morning and I totally agree with you, life is to short to drink bad coffee. Now off to check out the websites you mentioned...ReplyDelete
A small coffee purveyor here is at the heart of a local legal battle, due to the offensive smell. The neighbors near the business claim the smell when beans are being roasted is intolerable. Officials have told the business owner she must install odor-inhibiting equipment, and she says her small business has no money for such expenses. She has a lovely shop, and GREAT coffee, but is now faced with being shut down. Her shop is on the opposite side of the city from where I live, so I've never experienced the roasting smell, but I've wondered, how BAD is it??ReplyDelete
Jayme, you so amaze me! I swear you're from another time in life. The next time I come to your house I'm going to look for covered wagons or something that shows me my thoughts are correct. :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2009 at 12:02 PM
I LOVE COFFEE TOO. I MISS MY CAPUCCINO MAKER... ECONOMICS. HEY DOES THAT SQUIRREL HAVE A NAME? HE IS SO CUTE!ReplyDelete
Awww...a picture of your two favorite things! :) I am not a big coffee drinker...and probably couldn't tell the difference between good and bad coffee! I buy the Wal-mart store brand and doctor it up with that Almond Toffee liquid creamer when I do drink it. The kids love it too! :) LOLReplyDelete
Unfortunately I do not like coffee, but I could sit and smell it all day! Go figure! Love your squirrels!ReplyDelete
Jayme - I understand perfectly your love of coffee. I worship regularly at the church of Starbucks. How about you come on out for a visit to Seattle, and I'll show you the very first store near Pike Place Market. I raised my daughter to love coffee too. When she was still small enough to ride in the grocery cart, she made me get close enough to the coffee beans so she could smell each and every variety. Her husband won't touch the stuff...so sad.ReplyDelete
I love coffee too. I love Starbucks too. Mocka with vanilla. Sweet.ReplyDelete
I was just wondering what is it that you DO NOT do!!??? Your really do amaze me! I absolutely love the smell of roasting coffee.
When My Guy retires, I am going to have him start roasting coffee.
Oh my gosh I can smell the fresh roasted beans from here. I must go now and make me a cup of coffee.ReplyDelete
Very interesting post...I'm going to think about this. I only drink two cups in the morning but I like it to be good! I finding even Starbucks coffee is not as good as it used to be (I grind it at home)Maybe I need to upgrade from my little four cup Mr Coffee...lol...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Check out this website: www.deansbeans.comReplyDelete
They sell fair trade organic coffee, beans or ground. The fun part is that you can make and name your own blend. Makes a great gift. Maybe you could make your own blends for friends for Christmas and slap on a fun little handmade label?
~Andrea in NH
PS I enjoy your blog. We could hang out. I like coffee, you like coffee, I like to shop at Goodwill and Sal's (Salvation Army), you like to shop at goodwill, I got chickens, you got chickens...
It may be unbelievable, but in my 52 years, I have never had a cup of coffee!!...Neither has hubbs. So....if you stop to see us, you get tea!!ReplyDelete
I'm so not showing my hubby this post. He *loves* coffee. Me? Only with tons of artificial sweetened creamer flavored like marshmallows or chocolate fugde or caramel....or, anything that covers up the coffee taste. It needs to be like a dessert. I like dessert. Can I roast dessert?ReplyDelete
- CynthiaDecember 2, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Jayme,I don't like coffee but I love the smell, go figure. I do really enjoy herbal teas. That squirrel is adorable! Thanks for the pretzel goodies. I will make loads of them to give away at Christmas. I really appreciate all the great ideas you give all of us. Take care.ReplyDelete
Anke, did you check out the websites? I can totally see you doing this, you do so much other homemade stuff!ReplyDelete
Sparky, I don't think the smell is bad. In the house it just smelled like someone burnt popcorn. I didn't really notice outside much at all. Poor lady, I feel for her.
Linda...if I start to try and GROW my own coffee, then we have something to worry about ...LOL
Julie, I don't have a name for that Squirrel, I call it the Happy Squirrel, it was the inspiration for my camper being called the Squirrel and decorated thus.
Jennifer, I'm a pretty new coffee drinker really, only like the last 10 years. I used to drink those gas stations 'cappucinos'. Oh dear, I can't anymore.
Tammy, Beverly, Cindy and Cynthia...I don't understand.....YOU DON"T DRINK COFFEE? :-/
Sharon B...I'm making my flight arrangements today!
Dogwood...there are a lot of things I DON'T do. I've never learned to tat. See, there is one right there.
Andrea...we could hangout! I'm planning on roasting beans as gifts this year as part of a gift basket.
Lone Star and Ain't for City....you should SMELL THESE beans. I know it's not good for the coffee, but I keep opening the container after I roast them and sniffing. It's heavenly. I only drink two cups a day (that is all my heart can handle, but it's espresso, not regular coffee), and I find it totally worth it to roast my own beans.
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2009 at 5:58 AM
You are my hero and a nut too! I love it.. and yes what you are doing is not dissing Mr. Bucks at all.. but doing what most of America should be doing..ReplyDelete
Love love love this post!
Thanks for the ah.. 'red eye'.
I'm stopping over after my next cold run! Watch out Donna!!! lolReplyDelete
- dani rayDecember 3, 2009 at 9:27 AM
oh your coffee is heavenly!!!! specially with homemade muffins and good company!! i wish my kids would allow me the time and expence for things like that. someday. hopefully soon. youll have to teach me!!!ReplyDelete
Oh gosh, Jayme, now you've introduced yet another great idea into my little pea brain :) I like to consider myself a coffee snob - it's truly about the only thing I'm persnickety about. We have a nice grind and brew type machine... Mmmm. I rarely drink coffee anywhere but home - love it! So, the next step makes sense! Let's roast! Thanks for the cool links and inspiration :) -TammyReplyDelete
- JenniferDecember 4, 2009 at 7:16 AM
Hmmm. The whole process sounds so wonderful and delicious maybe I could like coffee after all!ReplyDelete
Goodwill on 93rd? Don't ya love awesome thriftin' finds? I'm on the hunt for a grain mill. So iffin' ya run across one of those for cheap...will you get it and call me? I'll be there in 10 minutes flat! serious. You make coffee and I'll bring homemade bread!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 2, 2011 at 4:45 PM
I really appreciate the fact that you've made your own website and have factually posted your thoughts. I like your work and feel I can refer to what you've done. A lot of folks can't even imagine having such talent. I hope that you know how lucky you are. :) Good luck to you in all your aims. :)ReplyDelete


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Sea Legs in the second act.
Breezed past OPEN WATER 2: ADRIFT on cable one night and stopped to watch the trainwreck, thinking, "this might be good for a laugh"… However, after the tiresome first act, ADRIFT gets surprisingly good. Surprisingly fast.
To be fair, you must know some things going into this movie. It was originally called simply ADRIFT, and not connected in any way to OPEN WATER, Chris Kentiss's 2004 indie classic. Distributing Company avarice was behind the decision to rename it OPEN WATER 2, after that movie's cult success. So ADRIFT suffers at the outset in looking like a cheap copy, which it isn't. It's a cheap original.
Three couples with absolutely no chemistry and barely any acting chops sail out to the open sea on their friend's yacht and promptly get stranded just off the yacht when they all dive into the water without thinking to put the ladder down. Daft. Rhymes with raft.
Dan (Eric Dane), who owns the yacht, has brought a slut, Michelle (Cameron Richardson); married couple James (Richard Speight Jr.) and Amy (Susan May Pratt) have brought a baby daughter, which screams plot device louder than the baby screams for breast milk; and Zach (Niklaus Lange) and Lauren (Ali Hillis) have brought an utter lack of conviction.
Like its tenuous predecessor, ADRIFT is also supposedly based on a true story – of six people lost at sea. Six BORING people. Expositing like mad in the opening scenes, trying to grip some kind of credibility on who they are and how they came to be here.
If you can make it past the yammering banter of the first act, the movie suddenly engages us. Four of them dive off the yacht for a dip, leaving Amy (so aquaphobic she wears a constant lifejacket) and Dan onboard. When Dan grabs Amy and pulls her overboard as a joke (to scare her out of her fear of water) the six friends realize there is no way back onto the yacht.
It's as simple as that. The movie is suddenly disturbing and horrifying and primal all at once. And let's face it: stranding these people in the water was what we came to see – so no sympathy from US.
As they try everything conceivable to get back on the yacht, their situation grows more strained; panic sets in, accusations, arguments, people injured, the plot device baby cries, a boat goes by with drunk topless chicks waving at them, not realizing their plight. James sustains a skull fracture – this event leaves us shaken, as we feel the full weight of helplessly floating there with no prospects of rescue, while blood pulses out of his ear, as he remains as calm as possible not to exacerbate the pain of his head being broken.
There are genuine moments of numbing terror in ADRIFT, when we realize how close we are to death even in this technological world – something as silly as not putting the ladder down before jumping off a high yacht deck is the difference between having a future and slowly starving to death or dying from exhaustion in open water.
Like OPEN WATER, ADRIFT is most definitely a one-note indie, yet playing that note well, crashing tension against fear in a wholly natural situation, not stooping to helicopter explosions or villains with guns, or even shark attacks.
Amy's unnecessary backstory and flashbacks are straight out of Movie Writing for Dummies. And ADRIFT starts drifting away from our interest once again.
The ambiguous ending mistakes us for people who care more than we actually do by that stage.


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Tony Humphries – champion of the 'little guy'… [July 1992]
Tony Humphries has been one of the most committed house music pioneers for more than a generation, commencing his DJ career at Zanzibar in New York in the early 80s before becoming 'remixer of choice' for acts such as Soul II Soul and Chaka Khan.
As this interview from I-D Magazine in 1992 points out (taken from Apiento's collection on the excellent Test Pressing blog), Humphries has also long been a champion of the little guy, as evidenced by the range of unknown artists he broadcast on his former show on Kiss FM New York.
"We're here to take care of the UK and the independent companies 'cos the majors can really make a record a hit by themselves – we're worried about the small guy, the really obscure or local records that won't get any play or regular radio. Somebody can give us a tape that was done two days ago and it's on. Definitely."
He's also one of dance music's unsung heroes – shunning the limelight in favour of getting the job done right. As the interviewer discovers, his choice of residence (New Jersey, instead of fashionable New York) underlines this.
As Humphries explains, "A lot of people say, 'he's not sociable, he don't hang out, he doesn't rub shoulders with anybody'. I just try to stay away from all that. I have three, four, five friends and that's it. That way I stay honest…"
[Kudos to Test Pressing for publishing the article, photo by Matthew R Lewis]


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Final Mental Health Parity Regulations Expands Coverage for Individuals In Need of Behavioral Health Care
Peter J. Domas
On Friday, November 8, Kathleen Sibelius, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, announced final regulations implementing the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 ("MHPAEA"). These final regulations, along with the requirements of the Affordable Care Act, greatly increase access to behavioral health services by requiring that such services be covered to the same extent as coverage for medical and surgical health conditions.
In 2008, the MHPAEA required that most insurance plans offering behavioral health services, including mental health and substance abuse treatment services, must provide such benefits on par with the covered services for physical medicine. However, while the law prohibited payors from imposing annual or lifetime dollar limitations on mental health benefits on terms less favorable than such limits imposed on physical medical benefits, there were several significant exceptions that limited the effectiveness of expanding behavioral health coverage.
The largest of these exceptions is that the law only applies to insurance plans that offered behavioral health coverage. As a result, most plans eliminated behavioral health coverage to avoid the increased cost of providing additional services. However, under the Affordable Care Act, behavioral health services is now required as an essential health benefit, and thus must be included in all plans offered on the health insurance exchange and any non-grandfathered individual and small group policies. Medicare and traditional Medicaid are currently not subject to the new regulations, but guidance has already been published for Medicaid managed-care plans and further guidance is being implemented which will likely incorporate additional behavioral health coverage under these programs as well. Therefore, the vast majority of policies will now require behavioral health services, and under the MHPAEA, these must be on par with other covered services.
The final regulations further limited the loopholes for payors covering behavioral health services by removing the ability of payors to impose "non-quantitative treatment limitations to the extent that recognized clinically appropriate standards of care may permit a difference." These non-quantitative standards include those relating to medical necessity, network design, standards for provider admission, reimbursement rates, and methods for determining usual customary and reasonable charges. The final regulations realized that this exception was likely to be abused by the payors to justify significant restrictions on the availability of covered services. The final rule now requires that a plan may not impose restrictions unless such limitations are comparable and are applied no more stringently that the limitations imposed on medical and surgical benefits in the same benefits classification.
For limitations on services that are quantifiable, such as frequency of treatment, number of visits, days of coverage, days in a waiting period, there may be no difference between behavioral health and physical medical coverage. Furthermore, the final regulations identify six classifications that must have "substantially all" the same restrictions. These six classifications are in-network inpatient, out-of-network inpatient, in-network outpatient, out-of-network outpatient, emergency care, and prescription drugs. A plan will possess "substantially all" the same restrictions between behavioral and physical medicine if restrictions on behavioral health services also apply to at least two-thirds of the medical/surgical benefits in a classification. Plans are also required to perform the parity analysis annually in years when a change in benefit design, cost-sharing structure, or utilization affects the analysis within a classification
Finally, the regulations specifically address that "intermediate services" must be provided. These services include residential treatment, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient care. As a result, behavioral health providers will now be able to provide consumers with treatment options on an equal basis as those provided by physical medicine providers.
While the MHPAEA and the provisions of the Affordable Care Act will greatly increase the accessibility to behavioral health services, there are some important limitations that may allow a plan to exclude such coverage. Some plans may apply for exemptions from the laws if an employer-based plan can demonstrate that the Final Rule increases its healthcare costs by 2% in the first year that the new rule applies to the plan, or by at least 1% in subsequent years. However, such exception will not excuse the plan from being required offering behavioral health services as part of the essential health benefits under the Affordable Care Act.
The increase in the coverage for behavioral health services presents an excellent opportunity for behavioral health providers to provide services to an increasing number of consumers, and plans covering these consumers will be required to pay for such services at a rate on par with those paid to physical medicine. This increase in coverage by third-party payors will change the landscape of the behavioral healthcare delivery system. Managed care networks will need to grow to include behavioral health delivery options; contacts with third party payors will become increasingly important; and the delivery of integrated health services will be critical. Our Behavioral Healthcare Attorneys work on these issued daily and can assist your organization in taking advantage of the new opportunities presented by the Affordable Care Act and the MHPAEA.
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Situated adjacent to the world renowned Kruger National Park of South Africa is the Sabi Sands Game Reserve containing top safari lodge destinations and the ultimate luxury safari experience.
This private game reserve, often referred to as part of the "greater Kruger", is divided into several traversing blocks so that the rangers and trackers of specific safari lodges can also take guests onto neighbouring properties for game drives.
The Sabi Sands Game Reserve/Kruger National Park boundary is unfenced so animals can roam freely to and fro.
The luxury safari experience is quite different from the Kruger itself. Day visitors are not allowed in the reserve and vehicles are limited to two per any sighting - so you could enjoy the antics of a mother leopard and her cub without your view being crowded by other tourists.
All game drives are done in open 4x4 vehicles, with a hop-on seat on the left front of the bonnet, from where the tracker scans the dirt roads and bush for signs and spoor of animals. All the time he communicates with the ranger who is driving and together they will lead the guests to large as well as smaller game.
Rangers within the various traversing areas are also in constant radio contact with one another, increasing their chances of being able to show you that pride of feeding lions or the rhino you have been wanting to see all safari long.
Good rangers (and most at the Sabi Sands lodges are) will not only show you the "big 5" - although they usually manage to do that across a few game drives - but inform you about the animals' behaviour, interesting plants and birds and even the night skies.
The Sabi Sands Game Reserve is one of the best places in Africa to see a wild leopard. It's a very elusive animal and people can often only talk of fleeting glimpses of the spotted cat. Here, however, the cats have been habituated to the safari vehicles and they go about their usual business, allowing you to observe their behaviour for longer.
The daily program at most of the lodges is similar:
The lodges do vary according to their location, localised game, number of guests accommodated in total, accommodation and guest area layout and style. Service and personal attention at the Sabi Sands Game Reserve lodges are of the highest standards, so it is a challenge for them to keep coming up with that special touch to differentiate themselves from the rest.
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Law Enforcement and Racial Profiling
I am going to talk about racial profiling. There are a lot of cases where police shoot and abuse people because of their skin color. I think body cameras and more training and testing should be used.
There are many cases of racial profiling in law enforcement all around the world. This is not fair but citizens are not just being racially profiled by law enforcement, but by others around them. Color shouldn't define how someone should be treated. There are bad people in every race. We need more training for law enforcement officers to avoid racial profiling. I feel that the future president should make it mandatory for all types law enforcement to wear body cameras, for the safety of the officers and of the citizens. The training should be practiced and tested before an officer is out on the streets.
Racial profiling also violates international standards against non-discrimination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_profiling. I have friends and family that have been racially profiled. My cousin's boyfriend walked into a bus station and was walking to the car, got in and the police surrounded the car and told him to get out of the car and not my cousin. He was an African American and my cousin was white ; that happened in Kansas City, Kansas. This doesn't just happen in Kansas, it happens all over the world. If you look up racial profiling there are thousands of stories. You could support this issue by making a bill and by making speeches getting his or her word out to the people.


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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly voted Thursday to suspend Russia from the world organization's leading human rights body over allegations of horrific rights violations by Russian soldiers in Ukraine, which the United States and Ukraine have called tantamount to war crimes.
The vote was 93-24 with 58 abstentions, significantly lower than the vote on two resolutions the assembly adopted last month demanding an immediate cease-fire in Ukraine, withdrawal of all Russian troops and protection for civilians. Both of those resolutions were approved by at least 140 nations.
Russia is the second country to have its membership rights stripped at the Human Rights Council which was established in 2006. In 2011, the assembly suspended Libya when upheaval in the North African country brought down longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi.
U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield launched the campaign to suspend Russia from its seat on the 47-member Human Rights Council in the wake of videos and photos of streets in the town of Bucha strewn with corpses of what appeared to be civilians after Russian soldiers retreated. The deaths have sparked global revulsion and calls for tougher sanctions on Russia, which has vehemently denied its troops were responsible.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP's earlier story follows below.
Ukraine's U.N. ambassador urged members of the United Nations on Thursday to suspend Russia from the world organization's leading human rights body, saying it has committed "horrific human rights violations and abuses that would be equated to war crimes and crimes against humanity."
Sergiy Kyslytsya introduced the U.S.-initiated resolution before the 193 members of the General Assembly vote.
"Russia's actions are beyond the pale," he said. "Russia is not only committing human rights violations, it is shaking the underpinnings of international peace and security."
Russia's deputy ambassador Gennady Kuzmin urged members to vote "no."
"What we're seeing today is an attempt by the United States to maintain its dominant position and total control," he said. "We reject the untruthful allegations against us, based on staged events and widely circulated fakes."
Approval would require a two-thirds majority of the assembly members that vote "yes" or "no," with abstentions not counting in the calculation.
Kyslytsya responsed to Russia's complaints about the proceeding saying: "We have heard, many times, the same perverted logic of the aggressor trying to present itself as the victim."
And his message to those who would abstain: He quoted the late Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel: "Indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor — never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten."
U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield made the call for Russia to be stripped of its seat on the 47-member Human Rights Council in the wake of videos and photos of streets in the town of Bucha strewn with corpses of what appeared to be civilians. The deaths have sparked global revulsion and calls for tougher sanctions on Russia, which has vehemently denied its troops were responsible.
"We believe that the members of the Russian forces committed war crimes in Ukraine, and we believe that Russia needs to be held accountable," Thomas-Greenfield said Monday. "Russia's participation on the Human Rights Council is a farce."
General Assembly spokeswoman Paulina Kubiak said the assembly's emergency special session on Ukraine would resume Thursday morning, when the resolution "to suspend the rights of membership in the Human Rights Council of the Russian Federation" will be put to a vote.
While the Human Rights Council is based in Geneva, its members are elected by the 193-nation General Assembly for three-year terms. The March 2006 resolution that established the rights council says the assembly may suspend membership rights of a country "that commits gross and systematic violations of human rights."
The brief resolution to be voted on expresses "grave concern at the ongoing human rights and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, particularly at the reports of violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law by the Russian Federation, including gross and systematic violations and abuses of human rights."
The General Assembly voted 140-5 with 38 abstentions on March 24 on a resolution blaming Russia for the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and urging an immediate cease-fire and protection for millions of civilians and the homes, schools and hospitals critical to their survival.
The vote was almost exactly the same as for a March 2 resolution that the assembly adopted demanding an immediate Russian cease-fire, withdrawal of all its forces and protection for all civilians. That vote was 141-5 with 35 abstentions.
Thomas-Greenfield urged the 140 members who voted in favor of those two resolutions to support Russia's suspension from the Human Rights Council.
She issue is simple, she said: "The images out of Bucha and devastation across Ukraine require us now to match our words with action."
"We cannot let a member state that is subverting every principle we hold dear to continue to sit on the U.N. Human Rights Council," she said.
Supporters of the resolution were optimistic about its approval, though not necessarily with the support of 140 countries.
Russia called on an unspecified number of countries to vote "no," saying an abstention or not voting would be considered an unfriendly act and would affect bilateral relations.
In its so-called "non-paper" obtained by The Associated Press, Russia said the attempt to expel it from the Human Rights Council is political and being supported by countries that want to preserve their dominant position and control over the world.
Those nations want to continue "the politics of neo-colonialism of human rights" in international relations, it said, saying that Russia's priority is to promote and defend human rights, including multilaterally in the Human Rights Council.
Russia's ambassador in Geneva, Gennady Gatilov, called the U.S. action "unfounded and purely emotional bravado that looks good on camera — just how the U.S. likes it."
"Washington exploits the Ukrainian crisis for its own benefit in an attempt either to exclude or suspend Russia from international organizations," Gatilov said, in comments relayed by a Russian diplomatic mission spokesman.
Russia and the other four veto-wielding permanent members of the U.N. Security Council — Britain, China, France, and the United States — all currently have seats on the Human Rights Council, which the U.S. rejoined this year.
The only country to have its membership rights stripped at the council was Libya in 2011, when upheaval in the North African country brought down longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi, said council spokesman Rolando Gomez.
No permanent member of the Security Council has ever had its membership revoked from any U.N. body.
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Is it our civic DUTY to go out and spend to save our shops and help the economy?
Since the big crash of October '08, we have all been trying our very best to watch our spending and to be frugal. This is a great thing in many ways. We are finding other hobbies, most likely one that are more fulfilling than shopping. We have gone back into our kitchens to actually cook instead of microwaving a ready meal.
Many of us have been valiantly working on getting our finances in order, just in case the worst happens and we are made redundant, but what happens when we stop shopping?
Many stores have reported major losses over the past few months, especially the higher end department stores like Harvey Nichols, who has recently reported a 40% drop in profits. In the US, Saks reported sales to be down by 14.9% and Neiman Marcus Group, which also own Bergdorf Goodman in NY is showing a $509m net loss. It is obvious that the wealthier clients are keeping their purses closed most likely because they are the ones that have lost the most in the crash.
I find it particularly worrying when John Lewis, where we go for so many of our life basics, is showing a 26% loss. We still need pots, pans and underwear but we seem to be making due.
What will happen if we continue to not shop? Will the stores that we take for granted, still be around when we are ready to open our wallets again? What about the suppliers to the stores, will they be able to continue to produce goods if we are not buying what they have already produced? Are we going to come out of this recession to find we have less choice in the market place?
What will happen to the smaller retailer that doesn't have a huge financial cushion? These are the lovely shops and boutiques that truly enrich our lives. Is it our duty to go out and shop a bit? According to this article in The Guardian, which proposes that there will be as many as one in seven empty shops on the United Kingdom's high streets by the end of this year. Will we be living in ghost towns where will only Primarks thrive? Yes Primark is doing very well in this recession as are supermarkets.
I know it is a daring proposition in a blog like this one to tell its readers to go out and spend a little but maybe it would be a good thing. What do you think? Can you spare £20 to help the economy and get something new?


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Lost in the Woods - Halloween blog party 2012
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Thank you! :-)
Girls named Alice seemed destined for adventures don't they? Bu I must say, if I were there, I'd be following right along--that forest IS magic.ReplyDelete
Thank you for the story-and I'm so glad Alice made it back!!
Oh I just know that Alice will not stay safe for long.ReplyDelete
If I came across a red mushroom like that, I'd have to pick it - not eat it - just pick it... :-) Happy Halloween!ReplyDelete
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Wise and ancient trees are just gorgeous sights, aren't they?! How lucky for Alice that she had one to help her through the wild and scary woods!ReplyDelete
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Front Row Vs. Photo Shoot
We've seen Twinkle sport the Nicole Miller dress in blue during the HDIL Couture Week and now spotted her donning the same dress albeit in a different avatar for a shoot in the latest issue of Hello magazine… Which do you prefer on her?
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The AL West had a tumultuous offseason, which saw a good deal of turnover. The Rangers lost Josh Hamilton, the Angels SIGNED Josh Hamilton, the Astros moved in and got comfy, and much more. Let's take a look at what this division has been up to.
Rangers had a final shot at Greinke?
Despite many thinking that the Dodgers had trumped all other offers for the right-handed pitcher, it sounds like the Rangers were given a chance to make a better offer for Greinke at the end. The pitcher had said that money was the biggest factor, so the offer was likely higher than the one he took from the Dodgers. He was linked to the Rangers for most of the offseason, but ultimately the team decided to go in a younger direction.
The Rangers appear to be committing to getting younger, which means that not signing Greinke might have been a blessing in disguise for the franchise. They now get to try out some younger arms, and see what they can get from guys like Martin Perez, Justin Grimm, and Cody Buckel.
Balfour on track for Opening Day
After injurying his knee early in Spring Training, there was some doubt as to if Grant Balfour would be ready for Opening Day. It appears now that Balfour is ahead of schedule and could be ready for the Athletics' first game of the season.
Balfour reportedly threw 30 pitches on flat-ground, which went well. If he can be ready for Opening Day it would be huge for the Athletics, as they would not have to carry anyone North with them that they did not plan on keeping on the roster.
Hamburger suspended
Right-hander Mark Humburger was suspended for using a "drug of abuse," which means that it will be difficult for the right-hander to latch on with a team. It is reportedly for similar reasons to when Jonathan Singleton was suspended for failing two drug tests. Both were in the Astros' system last year.
Other than his awesome name, this is notable because Hamburger is actually decent pitching depth, and it will hurt any teams that were looking to acquire him. The suspension also will not begin until he signs with a new team, which sets him back even further.


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"A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do."
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Don't forget to say thank you. Throughout our childhood years, most of us had been prompted with this statement—or variation of it. Many have assumed saying Thank you was simply a polite, socially-customary interaction. But research is revealing much more. Showing thankfulness has been proven to affect your entire being. Actually, this basic virtue holds the power to physically rewire the brain.
Gratitude helps the individual focus on the positive, training their mind to concentrate on the good areas of their life. Living in a state of constant thanksgiving impacts the brain and consequently, the emotions. A study, published in 2016, required some participants to write notes of gratitude and the rest to write expressive thoughts. After twelve weeks, those in the gratitude condition reported significantly better mental health than those in the expressive condition.
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The Thanksgiving holiday is approaching, and that means we're entering a season charged with brisk temperatures, crowded grocery store lines, and pumpkin spice everything. While this time of year lends beauty—with the trees' foliage arrayed in spectacular colors—there also comes a busyness. The days get shorter and our to-do list gets longer. In our frenzied rush, we tend to neglect the most important things that fill our lives. Counting our blessings is not only a positive habit to form, but it also can improve our health.
Researchers have found a connection between gratitude and wellbeing. A study, published in 2003, revealed results suggesting that those who consciously focus on blessings have emotional and interpersonal benefits. When we are thankful for the good things that satiates our days, our minds and bodies respond.
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LIKE MOTHS TO FLAMES have been teasing fans with lyrics and musical snippets over the last week and today, they finally unveiled their brand new single 'SELECTIVE SACRIFICE'. The frenetic track showcases the band's heavy-hitting breakdowns while delivering a message of battling through the conflict of religion while living in the moment.
"'Selective Sacrifice' encompasses my on-going struggle with faith and religion. Anyone who's listened to the band over the years knows that I am no stranger to being vocal about my concerns surrounding the topic. I think as I've gotten older, my tolerance for the lack of compassion that's often shown is almost nonexistent," shares frontman Chris Roetter. "There are some morbid realities written within the song but mostly cover the conversations I have internally with myself. I think too much of the focus is what's next or what comes after. The reality is that no one really knows and we genuinely have one opportunity here to make the best of what we've been given."
Fans can stream 'Selective Sacrifice' today HERE
'Selective Sacrifice'joins 'YOTM' and 'Habitual Decline' from the band's fifth full-length album No Eternity In Gold, whichwill be released October 30, 2020 via UNFD. Produced, mixed and mastered by Carson Slovak and Grant McFarland (August Burns Red, Rivers Of Nihil), this is a record that showcases Like Moths To Flames like never before. Displaying their trademark foundations of incisive technical dexterity and uncompromising heaviness – all underpinned with earworm melodies – their fifth studio album is the result of challenged perspectives, fully-realised ideals and lessons learned.
Recorded at the turn of the year, prior to the global Covid-19 pandemic, at Think Loud Studios in York, Pennsylvania, Roetter describes No Eternity In Gold's conception as a process that was both "challenging and overwhelming."
"This record has been a long time in the works," explains Roetter. "This is our first album for which we held an abundance of material going into the recording process. For the first time we were having to examine a huge body of content rather than stretching to force more and chase something down. That allowed us the space to really examine these songs and to focus on exploring and showcasing the true values of Like Moths To Flames, and how to spotlight them."
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For the first time ever in Australia, the popular children's book writer Geronimo Stilton comes to life in a 90-minute theatrical and musical adventure.
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Given the dearth in newbuilding orders, Chinese shipbuilder Jiangsu Yangzijiang Shipbuilding has set its sights on the booming ship demolition business.
Given the dearth in newbuilding orders, Chinese shipbuilder Jiangsu Yangzijiang Shipbuilding has set its sights on the booming ship demolition business.
Yangzijiang Shipbuilding teamed up with Chongqing Iron and Steel to form a ship demolition company, Jiangsu New Yangzijiang Metal Recycle, with a registered capital of Yuan600m ($88.2m).
The project is scheduled to be operational by the end of 2010 and total revenues are expected to reach up to Yuan10bn.
Chairman of the group"s listed arm, Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Holdings, Ren Yuanlin told local media that the company"s shipbuilding business is at a saturation point so it has decided to diversify into ship demolition.
Mr Ren set a target for the company to become one of the top three ship demolition companies in China, although he did not give any indication regarding the volume of vessels it hopes to scrap.
A spokeswoman for the shipbuilder confirmed the reports, but declined to give any further details.
China"s ship scrapping industy has experienced a sharp upturn in business this year. According to the China National Shiprecycling Association, Chinese yards demolished a total of 1.5m dwt of vessels in the first six months of this year, equal to their accumulated demolition volume over the past four years.
Given the sharp downturn in the global shipping industry, many owners are now looking to scrap elderly vessels which they kept operating during the boom times.
Jiangsu province is one of the main ship demolition hubs in China. In the first six months of the year, 100 vessels totalling 758,000 dwt were placed at Jiangsu shipyards for demolition, up 4.6 times as compared with the level in the same period last year.
A newspaper under China"s Ministry of Transport quoted sources as saying although Jiangsu Yangzijiang Shipbuiling already owned facilities and land for ship demolition, the government authority has not issued the license to the shipbuilder for it to scrap ships.
Yangzijiang Shipbuilding recorded a 30% year-on-year increase in net profit in the first quarter of 2009 to Yuan483m and operates two shipyards in Jiangsu province.


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Scott Fire officials told our news partners at KATC that one fire fighter was injured, but none of the family members were hurt. They were all able to get out of the home when they smelled smoke.
Officials say that there was major damage to the attic of the home, and there is minor damage to the living room. Scott Fire Chief Chad Sonnier says their firefighters were able to get into the attic and quickly put out the blaze.
Lafayette fire investigators came to the scene. They say the fire was accidental in nature. The fire went up the side wall of the outside of the home, then it spread to the attic. Investigators say that improper disposal of the fireworks began the chain of events.
All of this happened at around 12:30 a.m. on July 5th.
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The Faculty of Arts Department of English at the University of Calgary invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of Transatlantic Literature 1600 - 1900. The anticipated start date is July 1, 2016.
The University seeking candidates who will establish and maintain an active research program with the ability to secure external research funding; produce high impact research and scholarship in their area of specialization; teach graduate and undergraduate courses, and supervise graduate and undergraduate students in the Department of English; and engage in meaningful service activities within the department, faculty, university and community.
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- November 14th, 2015
- Sacramento, California
- Beat The Blerch
- Sharon: 2:31:10
- Tim: 2:30:15
This run made both of us realize how much we missed doing races. Given how I felt about the last month of races during our HM project this was a surprise to me. We have decided to try to do a HM about once a month leading up to our full marathon.
We got a late start (because we are getting old and dotterly) Friday morning so we didn't get to Sacramento until after 5pm. I think we hit the after work rush at packet pickup. Although the line was long it moved pretty fast. At one point a guy in a blerch suit worked his way up the line, handing out candy and encouraging everyone to carb load.
We got our packets and jumped into another line to get Matt Imman (The Oatmeal) to sign our book and Exploding Kittens card game. There was blerchy merchandise for sale. Tim got another t-shirt (!?) and I got socks. We both got blerch stress balls.
Tim also got a picture with The Oatmeal like the fan boy he is (his words).
Race morning was perfect. It started out a little chilly but was perfect running weather.
A lot of people dressed up. The pre-race was very festive.
Our packet came with temporary blerch tattoos but we forgot to put them on. I found a girl who put her tatto in the same place I had planned to put mine and she graciously let me take her picture.
They did a great pre-race party. This was the funnest race I have ever done.
There was a pretty long line to get a picture with these guys so we skipped it. I want to know where to get Nutella in the, bigger than a yeti's head, size.
The race itself was great. Tim had a bit of a flareup with his afib at the beginning but it settled down and he was able to run most of the race. They picked a nice route. I was surprised at what a beautiful city Sacramento is. There are lots of paths by rivers and great bridges.
We ran past the capital building.
I heard lots of people laughing when we went by this sign. I wish I had a pen on me so I could have written, "Don't Jump!"
As awesome as the scenery was it was the people who were the most interesting.
Me and Tim ran together most of the race but I had to stop and go to the bathroom around mile 6. One of my only complaints about this race was the lack of bathrooms on the course. I was directed to a building (after asking at 2 aid stations) and there was someone with a blerch suit pointing out the bathroom. Because I came in the wrong door I lost about 5 minutes to 5 seconds of peeing. Tim ran ahead but I did manage to catch back up to him but I ran faster than I should have, trying to do so and payed for it that last 3 miles. I was sore and had to slow down towards the end. A race with cake and Nutella should have more bathrooms, in my opinion.
Most of the running surface was smooth pavement and nice bike paths but there was one section of bumpy wood boardwalk that tried to trip me.
Once we got close to the end Tim was trying to speed up while I had to slow down so I told him to go. Coming through the finish chute I got boxed in by a group of people in banana suits pretending to fly.
Tim was waiting for me across the finish line. The finish line and food line were too close together. This was the only other thing about the race (bathrooms being the first) that was less than ideal. I discovered that banana with Nutella is a perfect after race food.
- A couple more bathrooms on the course would have been appreciated (although they did have a few)
- Finish line chaos
- Great pre-party fun vibe
- Pictures and book signing at the packet pickup
- Great shirt and swag
- Well organized
- Great volunteers
- People dressed up
- Awesome food (during and after the race)
- Beautiful course
- Bridges and rivers
- Ending on the track
- Cool medal
- Fun
- Free pictures
This was one of the funnest races I have ever done. I was never bored even though I forgot my music in the hotel room. It was so fun to run almost the whole way with Tim. This race would be the perfect gateway drug into racing. It was beyond beginner friendly with many half marathoners coming in over 3 hours. It was almost completely flat and had lots of aid stations. Did I mention how fun it was?
Here I am looking like a beet dressed like hipster, posing in front of the Tower Bridge on our way to dinner Saturday night. After dinner we watched the Ronda Rousey fight. I was shocked that she lost.
And here is Tim on our way to dinner and the fight.
When we got home as soon as Tim sat on the bed he was wearing a cat.
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Together with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Mystic River Watershed Association (MyRWA) issued the 2016 Water Quality Report Card for the Mystic River watershed. Since 2015, we have implemented a water quality analysis that provides ratings for 14 river segments or tributaries. The report card grades are based on bacterial contamination from water quality samples collected by MyRWA volunteers and the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA).
This year's grade shows very good water quality for the Mystic River (both fresh and salt water), the Mystic Lakes and Chelsea Creek. It also calls out the water quality improvements at Belle Isle Inlet in Revere/Winthrop, where water quality conditions moved from a C grade in 2014, a B in 2015, and an A- for 2016. This progress, however, is inconsistent. Areas such as Winn's Brook, Mill Creek and Alewife Brook received failing grades and represent locations where infrastructure improvements are needed. The culprits here: illicit sewer discharges to storm drain systems and stormwater runoff.
"This year's grade shows, once again, that the Mystic is a great place to recreate. From swimming at Shannon Beach in the Upper Mystic Lake, to renting canoes and kayaks at Somerville's new Paddle Boston location, to walking or biking along its banks, it's an excellent time to explore your Mystic," said Patrick Herron, Executive Director of the Mystic River Watershed Association. "The report card also shows that there is still work to be done, and we and our many partners are committed to making these improvements."
The report card is a group effort, and we are happy to collaborate with the EPA, MWRA, and Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection to make improvements in local water quality. This work would not be possible without our dedicated team of citizen scientists, who take water samples at 15 locations throughout the watershed each month to gather this important data.
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Journalist Tina Brown falsely claimed on MSNBC that Planned Parenthood provides mammograms, and that defunding the abortion giant will harm "hard-pressed women" who depend on Planned Parenthood for mammograms.
Speaking about Trump and women's issues Monday morning, "Morning Joe" host Mika Brzezinski said, "He has been holding these events at the White House. There have been at least three that I've noticed but I think there have been more, where he has a room full of women talking about access to capital. I know for a fact that Ivanka is trying to set up a real kind of arm of the White House that will focus on these issues. Does that not make any difference at all?"
"Well, here's the problem," Brown replied, "You can't really talk about empowering women and lifting women up at the same time as taking away their ability to go to a clinic and have a mammogram, which is what happens when you defund Planned Parenthood." (RELATED: Chuck Schumer Falsely Claims Planned Parenthood Provides Mammograms)
Brown suggested that "hard-pressed women" will "die of breast cancer" if Planned Parenthood's funding is distributed to other women's health centers that do not perform abortions.
Unfortunately for Brown, the truth is that Planned Parenthood does not provide mammograms.
Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards admitted during congressional testimony in 2015 that the abortion giant's clinics don't even have mammogram machines.
"We do not have mammogram machines at our health centers, and we've never stated that we did," Richards testified.
Neither Brzezinski, nor her co-host, Joe Scarborough, called out Brown's lie, leaving viewers with the false impression that Planned Parenthood provides mammograms.