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Much has been said about Sri Lanka's uniqueness among developing countries; no one can deny that the oldest population pyramid outside of wealthy countries.
The demographic transition implies an aging of the population, but before old-age dependency becomes an issue, there is an intermediate period of a demographic dividend when a larger proportion of the population will be at the prime working age. The success to managing the long-term age-dependency effects of the demographic transition is to use this intermediate period of demographic dividend to conserve resources for future use and to plan for a more cost-effective strategy to deal with the future age burden. This will allow older people to live a happy productive life.
The challenge is to develop a strategic approach that takes advantage of the demographic dividend period both in terms of making strategic decisions for future cost-effectiveness and save resources for future use.
Continuing the dialogue on population aging in Sri Lanka, a cross section of representatives from various civil society organizations met on 28 October 2009 to deliberate on matters pertaining to meeting this challenge and I thought of sharing with you some of the points discussed.
Shouldn't Sri Lanka be Improving Worker Productivity to reap the demographic dividend?
Sri Lanka's history has been as a labor surplus economy and dependent on large inflows of new unskilled workers to the labor market. This is reflected in its labor intensity and low productivity levels. Sri Lanka is already experiencing the first effects of a demographic transition, which is a reduction of students in primary school and lower secondary schools. The country will soon move to the stage of fewer new entrants to the labor force creating spot labor shortages in some industries.
Could the Quality of Education be increased in a cost effective manner?
Given the early signs of a demographic transition in Sri Lanka as I mentioned with regards to education, the need for a better educated work force will rise – the challenge will be to improve education especially at the upper levels to prepare more productive workers while at the same time trying to contain fiscal costs. This will require careful planning perhaps increased use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) to improve education quality and cost effectiveness.
The increasing cost of care for non-communicable diseases
Sri Lanka can boast of a very effective health system that prevents Lankan households from being driven into poverty and serves as a functioning safety net. The aging population will create an increased burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) which will require more intensive medical care. There has been an increasing phenomenon of Sri Lankan medical facilities running out of medicines as demand for medication for NCDs rises. More families are being forced to buy medication at market value the phenomenon of health care costs driving households into poverty is starting to appear in Sri Lanka. Thus, families who are willing to look after elderly relatives are facing this new increased burden which may increase their reluctance to care for the elderly and forcing them into expensive institutional care at a greater economic and social cost to society.
Increased stress on the provision of Family Based Care of the Elderly
Sri Lankan social and cultural norms are geared to taking care of the elderly relatives. However, this has come under a series of challenges. First, the demographic transition itself means that there are fewer children and grandchildren to look after the elderly in each household thus each of them must bear a higher share of the costs (both time as well as out-of-pocket costs) of elderly care at a time when the costs of human capital investments needed for their children are sky-rocketing. Secondly, many working age people work overseas out of economic necessity and cannot be around to look after their children, let alone their parents. Thirdly, the increasing proportion of women who need to work to support their households reduces the principal supply of care givers. Finally, the increased out of pocket health care costs also make it hard for people to look after their elderly relatives.
Retirement should be a choice and not forced
Early retirement imposes high costs on society through lower production, lower taxation and in the case of pensionable workers longer pension payments. Of course, retirement is not really an option for the informal sector as people work as long as their health permits. [Note. One of the appeals made at the civil society meeting was to avoid the tendency to label the elderly as a homogeneous group]. But this is nevertheless an important issue for Sri Lanka as the economy gets more formalized and more and more workers come under pension coverage. A question that remains unanswered is whether healthy workers should be given incentives to continue working longer through actuarially fair changes to their pension payments and through providing suitable conditions for older workers.
Conserve the Fiscal Dividend from the demographic dividend for later use
The considerable fiscal burden of the age-dependency effect of a demographic transition can be reduced in part by taking advantage of initial period of demographic dividend. During the period, the Government will benefit from higher tax revenues and relatively low expenditures provided it can assure employment prospects for the working age population. Rather than to treat this as a fiscal windfall spend it on additional recurrent spending or tax cuts as some developed countries have done (e.g. the USA), it would be prudent to set some of the dividend aside to finance spending during the old age-dependency phase of the transition (e.g. the German approach). This will require good effective long tax and expenditure planning.
Sri Lanka has some built in advantages and disadvantages in addressing the demographic transition. It has a strong cultural tradition of family based elder care which persists to a large extent even though it is coming under challenge from changing demographics and economics.
Historically, the cost of community based or household based care of the elderly is lower and the care is generally more effective except for very acute cases. Thus, the challenge is to build on Sri Lanka's historical tradition of family based elder care by finding ways for families to cope with the additional burden imposed by fewer care givers and cost of maintenance drugs for degenerative diseases. At the same time the country must work on diet exercise habits of the more sedentary population in order to reduce the onset of costly degenerative diseases.
What do you think?


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Just a couple of days after "Sergeant Massacre" left his base in southern Afghanistan and singlehandedly perpetrated the My Lai of the Afghan War, shooting and evidently in some cases stabbing to death 16 Afghan villagers, including nine children, a district police chief in Kapisa Province reported that a NATO air strike had killed three civilians and injured two more. Mistaken for insurgents, two shopkeepers had, he claimed, died on the spot, as had an elderly man later. A NATO spokesman responded that the dead were, in fact, insurgents, though "additional information" on those deaths was being collected.
Since then, while the media has been filled with discussion of the until recently unidentified sergeant's atrocity and what it means for America's war in Afghanistan, those other dead Afghans have typically faded into obscurity. There have been no further reports on what happened to them, nor, as far as we know, has one of the scores of U.S. and NATO "investigations" so-thorough-they-never-manage-to-see-the-light-of-day been launched. But those three contested deaths, not the sergeant's grim, up-close-and-personal slaughter, best catch the nature of America's Afghan War, ever since in December 2001 a B-52 and two B-1B bombers took out 110 of 112 Afghan villagers celebrating a wedding. Though the sergeant's acts have been headlined, Afghans have been dying, largely unnoticed here, for a long while now. The truth is this: from the air and on the ground, Americans have been profligate with Afghan lives.
Now, thanks to the Koran burnings and those 16 deaths that have refused to fade into obscurity, Washington faces its destiny in Afghanistan, long written in dead bodies. The Obama administration, which doubled down on "the right war" in 2009, confronts a situation that was guaranteed to end badly from the moment George W. Bush and his top advisors decided that taking out al-Qaeda wasn't enough, that the U.S. was going to stay in Afghanistan and dominate the Greater Middle East for generations.
Sergeant Massacre, like those charred Korans, is simply a harbinger of the arrival of the predictable endpoint of that disastrous decision. Even Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta knows that if we stay in Afghanistan, so, after a fashion, will the staff sergeant. As he said recently, "These kinds of events and incidents are going to take place… in any war… and this is not the first of those events, and it probably will not be the last." Yet the Obama administration seens incapable of stopping. Panetta finished his comments this way: "But we cannot allow these events to undermine our strategy." That sums up the folly of Washington today. "These events" are, in reality, making a mockery of that strategy, but the momentum of these last years still carries them toward an Afghanistan forever policy, even when their eyes tell them otherwise and the panic sets in.
Not surprisingly, this leads to a striking set of inanities. A New York Times piece on the debate in Washington about speeding up the troop pullout, for instance, included these bizarre passages from an assortment of typically unnamed American and European "officials." Speaking of an upcoming Afghan War meeting in Chicago, they claimed that "Mr. Obama and the NATO allies… must… present a picture of success that includes… a NATO withdrawal that is coming only after a job well done… A European official said… that it was imperative that the United States and its NATO partners project a public face to the Afghans that while NATO troops will be leaving Afghanistan, the West will not abandon the country. 'The most important thing now is the messaging,' the official said."
As it happens, whatever "face" they choose to project, the messaging is already clear. But the momentum is real, too, and the Obama administration clearly has little idea how to put on the brakes. Domestically, there's a similar grim momentum at work, also set off in the early Bush years, and still operative. TomDispatch regular Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, catches Washington's unnerving national security "messaging" of this moment with uncanny accuracy. (To catch Timothy MacBain's latest Tomcast audio interview in which Greenberg discusses a new American state of "legal limbo," click here, or download it to your iPod here.) Tom
Ever More and Ever Less
By now, you'd think we'd be entering the end of the 9/11 era. One war over in the Greater Middle East, another hurtling disastrously to its end, and the threat of al-Qaeda so diminished that it should hardly move the needle on the national worry meter. You might think, in fact, that the moment had arrived to turn the American gaze back to first principles: the Constitution and its protections of rights and liberties.
Yet warning signs abound that 2012 will be another year in which, in the name of national security, those rights and liberties are only further Guantanamo-ized and abridged. Most notably, for example, despite the fact that genuinely dangerous enemies continue to exist abroad, there is now a new enemy in our sights: namely, American oppositional types and whistleblowers who are charged as little short of traitors for revealing the workings of our government to journalists and others.
Here and elsewhere, it looks like we can expect the Obama administration to continue to barrel down the path that has already taken us far from the country we used to be. And by next year, if a different president is in the Oval Office, expect him to lead us even further astray. With that in mind, here are five categories in the sphere of national security where 2012 is likely to prove even grimmer than 2011.
1. Ever More Punitive (Ever Less Fair-minded).
Those who imagine the era of overreach in the name of national security coming to an end any time soon would do well to remember that some spectacular national security trials are on the horizon — and that we may be entering a new age of governmental vindictiveness. Among the most newsworthy of those trials: the military commissions at Guantanamo that will bring to the docket Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attack, and his co-conspirators, as well as Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged point person in the 2000 suicide attack on the U.S.S. Cole in the port of Aden. These will likely include capital charges and be prosecuted in a spirit of vengeance.
But that spirit won't stop with al-Qaeda ringleaders and operatives. A series of cases not involving attacks on or the killing of Americans will also be argued in the name of national security and in a similar spirit of vengeance. To begin with, there is the upcoming court martial of Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused of downloading classified U.S. government documents and leaking them to the website WikiLeaks. And then, of course, there is the potential prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in federal court — a federal grand jury is now considering his indictment — for his alleged collaboration with Manning.
Both cases have been hailed with a righteous anger that might strike an outsider as akin to frothing at the mouth. Top officials have insisted that the WikiLeaks materials threatened American lives and left "blood" on the hands of both Assange and Manning (though no one has yet pointed to a single individual physically harmed by the release of those documents).
At the more bloodthirsty end of the American political spectrum, former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and Congressman Mike Rogers (R-MI), among others, have called for Manning's execution. As Rogers explained, "I argue the death penalty clearly should be considered here… [Manning] clearly aided the enemy to what may result in the death of U.S. soldiers or those cooperating. If that is not a capital offense, I don't know what is."
A similar, if less lethal, desire for punishment lies behind the Obama administration's determination to aggressively pursue and crack down on leaks to the media from inside the government, even when they don't involve the actual theft of government documents. Obama, of course, entered the Oval Office proclaiming a "sunshine" policy when it came to the workings of the government, only to move beyond George W. Bush in attempts to clamp down on whistleblowers.
The pending trials of two former CIA officers exemplify this pattern. Jeffrey Sterling is charged with leaking classified documents to the New York Times' James Risen about plans to release flawed information to Iran in a potentially counterproductive effort to subvert its nuclear program; John Kiriakou just pled not guilty to releasing information to the media about Bush-era torture policies. All told, the administration has gone after six suspected leakers — more than all previous administrations combined — using the draconian Espionage Act.
In the matter of leakers, the message couldn't be clearer or more vengeful. The government's position has been this: expose us and we will turn on you with a fury you can't imagine. As terrorists have been warned that new laws and legal systems can be built to deal with them, those accused of leaks to the press are being told that even the full extent of the law may not be the limit when it comes to punishment.
Witness the treatment of Bradley Manning in his first year of punitive captivity before he was charged with any crime: he was kept in a Marine brig in total isolation and forced to sleep naked. Or consider the attempt not just to prosecute but to destroy the life of former National Security Agency official Thomas Drake. He was accused of leaking classified information on what he considered to be a wildly wasteful NSA program. In the end, though charged under the Espionage Act, he pled guilty to the misdemeanor of essentially borrowing a government computer — but not before his life had been turned upside down and his job lost.
2. Ever More Legal Limbo (Ever Less Confidence in the Constitution).
By now, it's old hat to acknowledge that the indefinite detention of those once deemed "enemy combatants," now termed "unprivileged enemy belligerents," has become as American as apple pie. Like the Bush administration before it, the Obama administration insists on its commitment to holding nearly 50 Guantanamo detainees in indefinite detention without charge or trial.
In May 2009, in a speech at the National Archives, the president couldn't have been clearer: indefinite detention, he stated, would remain an option in the national security toolbox under his administration. In this way, he guaranteed that an American version of offshore (in)justice and the essential character of Guantanamo, which he once claimed he would shut down, would continue intact.
In 2012, however, there is a worrisome new indefinite detainee category to worry about: U.S. citizens. Previously, Americans were exempt from incarceration at Guantanamo and so from its policy of detention without trial. In 2002, Yaser Hamdi, a Saudi-American citizen, when discovered at Guantanamo Bay, was hurried to a plane in the wee hours of the morning and whisked away, a sign of the rights still accorded American citizens. Similarly, the "American Taliban," John Walker Lindh, apprehended on the Afghanistan battlefield, was brought into the federal court system.
Lately, however, Congress has shown less respect for the distinction between rights accorded to citizens and non-citizens. Last month, Congress passed the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The debates over its passage reflected a concerted effort to make American citizens as well as foreigners subject to indefinite military detention.
Ultimately, citizens supposedly remain exempt from the new law, but even so, it was a close call and a signal about where we may be headed. As a recent Congressional Research Service report on the NDAA explained, it is "not intended to affect any existing authorities relating to the detention of U.S. citizens or lawful resident aliens, or any other persons captured or arrested in the United States."
Still, there remain many fears and much confusion about what protections are retained by U.S. citizens under the Act. Nor did President Obama's signing statement, asserting that he would "not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens," assuage those fears and confusions. If American citizens were indeed protected from indefinite detention under the new legislation, why was such a signing statement necessary?
There is yet another place where the law seems to have plunged into legal limbo without in any way abridging U.S. actions: the high seas. Earlier this year, the Obama administration announced that it was detaining 15 pirates captured off the coast of Somalia — and that they were being held without reference to any legal status whatsoever. According to New York Times reporter C.J. Chivers, "where interdiction ends, an enduring problem begins: what to do with the pirates that foreign ships detain?"
According to the State Department, the pirates will be tried. But where? In the words of Vice-Admiral Mark I. Fox, "We lack a practical and reliable legal finish." In other words, the U.S. has not yet found a country under whose law it can try them. In the meantime, according to the latest reports, the U.S. Navy continues to confine them. Think of this, conceptually speaking, as a floating Guantanamo intended to hold for-profit enemies.
3. Ever More Secrecy (Ever Less Transparency)
"Necessary" secrecy has been the fallback explanation for much of the information that has been withheld from public scrutiny since 9/11. The military commissions at Guantanamo will proceed, for instance, in part on the claim that, if the accused, many of whom have already been held for a decade, were to be tried in federal court, too much would be revealed that could somehow compromise the country's security.
To counter civil libertarian claims that secrecy is only an attempt to hide embarrassing or wrongful behavior, the current administration has promised "transparency" in the military commissions scheduled to begin later this year. Efforts at transparency, announced last fall, included a website where documents — filled with redactions (blacked-out sections) — could be accessed by the public, and a closed-circuit viewing, albeit with a 40-second delay, for the media and members of the victims' families.
It has taken next to no time, though, for the government to contradict those vows of transparency, ensuring that, in the polite words of Spencer Ackerman of Wired's Danger Room blog, Guantanamo will remain "not a place of openness." Meanwhile, all mail between the detainees and their military defense counsels is being screened, a practice that understandably has those lawyers in an uproar.
In the category of non-transparency and the growth of secrecy as a first principle of government, there is the administration's elaborate dance of nondisclosure over a memo produced by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). It was evidently written to justify the assassination by drone in Yemen last September of American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, alleged to have been the "bin Laden of the Internet."
Until recently, the administration has ducked questions about al-Awlaki's killing and that of another American citizen, Samir Khan, the editor of the al-Qaeda magazine Inspire. In January, the government announced that Attorney General Eric Holder would soon make public the OLC memo that legalized the killing, but delayed the Attorney General's explanation until early March. Meanwhile, the New York Times and the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for its release. On March 5th, Holder finally gave a detailed explanation of the tortured reasoning behind the targeted killing of al-Awlaki, but still, no memo seems to be forthcoming.
During the past year, the imposition of secrecy on government activities of all sorts has only become more pronounced. To offer just one egregious example among many, consider the government's behavior in the case of former CIA agent Jeffrey Sterling. At its request, a federal judge has now agreed to allow it to invoke the "silent witness rule." In other words, she will let government documents be shown to the jury without being made public, on the grounds, according to prosecutors, of "national security."
After a decade in which the customary practice in matters of "security" has been to sweep all too many government documents of significance into the shadows under that rubric of national security, this should hardly be surprising. Americans now know ever less about what the government they elected does. If it were not for the FOIA lawsuits of the ACLU and others, very little of what we do know about torture, warrantless surveillance, and other instances of government malfeasance would ever have seen the light of day. Consider the increasing number of whistleblower prosecutions as one more way to try to shut government activities off from the eyes of the citizenry.
4. Ever More Distrust (Ever Less Privacy)
For years, the prospect of warrantless wiretapping in the name of national security has had a chilling effect on Americans who have opposed government policies in the war on terror. In 2008, President Bush signed a new FISA Amendments Act (FAA), which authorized the government to snoop on citizens with minimal oversight from the already secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts. (They were set up in 1978 to oversee the granting of surveillance warrants against potential foreign intelligence agents.) The Obama administration has continually opted to uphold this power and the government's freedom to warrantlessly tap electronic communications between people outside the United States and people inside the country in the name of national security.
Meanwhile, the latest revelations in the ever-more-distrust, ever-less-privacy sweepstakes are led by news that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) has implemented surveillance programs that violate the civil liberties of that city's Muslim-American citizens. The NYPD infiltrated mosques and universities, collecting information on individuals suspected of no crimes, in conjunction with a CIA officer (now withdrawn) using methods traditionally reserved for that agency.
This surely represents, however informally, an abrogation of the CIA's mandate to conduct its surveillance only abroad, and it's likely that no one involved will pay a penalty for it. In addition, in a striking combination of security overreach and police profiling, the NYPD has been investigating and surveilling Muslim-American citizens well outside the city limits — from New Haven, Connecticut, to Newark, New Jersey.
To make matters worse, the government just approved the use of surveillance drones as part of a growing law enforcement arsenal for gathering information in the United States. On February 14th, President Obama signed a bill allowing for the use of such drones in a broad array of arenas, ranging from business activities to law enforcement.
The message is clear enough: this year (next year and the year after) will be the year of more snooping. For law enforcement, your life is apparently an open book.
5. Ever More Killing (Ever Less Peace)
Scarcely a day goes by without news of the use of Predator and Reaper drones to kill individuals in foreign countries, including in recent years Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, and the Philippines. It's as if the CIA and the military have been handed a new toy that they just can't refrain from using, or teaching others to use. According to the Atlantic, "Conservative estimates suggest hundreds of noncombatant civilians have been killed in Pakistan alone."
Meanwhile, the drumbeat for war with Iran continues to build. Faced with the prospect of an Israeli attack on the Islamic Republic, the Obama administration has refused to definitively back away from the prospect of becoming part of that war.
"Iran's leaders should understand that I do not have a policy of containment," the president said. "I have a policy to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. And as I have made clear time and again during the course of my presidency, I will not hesitate to use force when it is necessary to defend the United States and its interests."
In fact, the urge to stop a potentially disastrous confrontation, which could seriously affect the price of oil and the global economy, has sent high military and civilian officials winging from Washington to Israel with warnings against an attack on Iran. Still, war continues to be treated by diplomats and others almost as a fait accompli.
The news then is certainly grim, and moving in one clear direction — the use of the law, or at least the Justice Department's version of the law, to justify whatever acts the government feels are necessary against whomever they deem to be the enemy. Attorney General Holder summed the situation up tellingly in his defense of the al-Awlaki killing.
In significant detail, he explained that the killing of an American citizen (and terror suspect) was lawful, despite the fact that it brought into question the guarantee of due process under the Fifth Amendment, and despite the guarantees offered by the laws of war. "Due process," he declared, "is not judicial process." It was a startlingly honest admission of something new under the American sun: due process is now what the president and his closes advisors decide it is, a constitutional rethinking of the first order to justify the "targeted killing" of an American citizen.
To sum up, the legal gray zone Washington has, over the course of a decade, plunged us into — and everything that goes with it, including punitive measures, attempts to bypass constitutional guarantees, the spread of secrecy and surveillance, a growing distrust of American citizens, and straightforward killing — isn't something we will soon put behind us. The move away from the rights and liberties enshrined in the Constitution and the law is very clearly the way of the American future in our new age of enemies.
Karen Greenberg is the director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, a TomDispatch regular, and the author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First One Hundred Days, as well as the editor of The Torture Debate in America. Adam Brody, Rebecca Kagan, and Sasha Segall contributed research to this article. To listen to Timothy MacBain's latest Tomcast audio interview in which Greenberg discusses a new American state of "legal limbo," click here, or download it to your iPod here.
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"The Manga Guide to Electricity", part of "The Manga Guide" series by No Starch Press, is a novel approach to the old problem of getting over the initial mental block when trying to learn electronics.
We decided to compare this book to another introductory text: "Getting Started in Electronics" by [Forrest M. Mims]. [Mims]' book is a handwritten masterpiece of electronic literature. The writing style is friendly and concise, the examples are simple, and the drawings are excellent. It also makes sure to keep the learning process as application based as possible. Unlike other books, it doesn't bog the reader down with math and theory that is only useful to advanced students. Since its original printing in 1983, [Mims]' has become the de facto standard for beginner electronic literature. Continue reading "Review: The Manga Guide To Electricity"


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By Eric Margolis
Listen to the state-'guided' US media this past week and you'd believe a series of spontaneous anti-government protests broke out across Iran. The protests, according to President Donald Trump and his Israeli allies, were caused by `anger over Iran's spending billions on wars in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon and helping the Palestinian movement Hamas.' Trump tweeted that Iranians were finally rising up against what he called their hated, brutal regime.
Talk about manufactured news. Most Iranians were elated and proud of their nation's role in thwarting US plans to occupy much of Syria and overthrow the government of President Bashar al-Assad. By contrast, the other side in this long proxy war the US, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Britain was smarting with defeat and seeking ways to exact revenge on the hateful trio, Syria, Iran and Russia.
Interestingly, the so-called news of protests over Iran's military spending did not apparently originate in Iran but rather in Washington which spread it far and wide to our state-guided media. This was clumsy, but the US and Israel were so eager to get this piece of made-up good news out that they forget the basics of propaganda management: wait for the event before you proclaim it.
What in fact was going on in Iran where more than 21 demonstrators have died violent deaths? As a very long-time Iran watcher allow me to explain. Restive minority groups in Iran's Kurdish, Azeri and Sunni Arab regions, most far from the big cities, have been demonstrating and protesting severe economic problems. Iran is a big, resource-rich nation of 80 million people that should be booming. But it has been under economic siege warfare by the US and its allies ever since a popular uprising in 1979 overthrew the US-British backed monarchy that was raping the nation and keeping it a vassal of the western powers.
Iran's new Islamic Republic was deemed a dire threat to Western and Israeli strategic and military interests (think Saudi Arabia). The very idea that the Islamic Republic would follow the tenets of Islam and share oil wealth with the needy was anathema to London and Washington. Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad, ran Iran's dreaded, brutal secret police, Savak. The crooked royal family looted the nation and stored their swag in California.
The West's first act was to induce Saddam Hussein's Iraq to invade Iran, in Sept 1980. The West (including the Gulf Arabs) armed, financed and supplied Iraq. As I discovered in Baghdad, Britain and the US supplied Iraq with poison gas and germ warfare toxins. After eight years, 250,000 Iraqis were killed and nearly one million Iranians died.
Ever since the Islamic Revolution, the US, Britain, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arabs have been trying to overthrow the Tehran government and mount a counter-revolution. CIA and Britain's MI6 has ample practice: in 1953, the CIA and MI6 mounted an elaborate operation to overthrow Iran's democratically-elected leader, Mohammed Mossadegh who sought to nationalize Iran's British-owned oil company. Mobs of specially trained anti-Mossadegh plotters poured into Tehran's streets. Bombs went off. Army commanders were suborned, lavish bribes handed out.
The 1953 coup went perfectly. Mossadegh was ousted with backing from the Army and Savak. Iran's oil remained safe in western hands. The successful Iran uprising became the template for future 'color revolutions' in Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Russia, Poland, and Romania. But in 2009 a US-engineered 'color revolution' in Iran went badly wrong even though it used all the latest arts of social media to whip up protestors and deploy them in the streets. Something similar happened in Iran this past weekend where mobs of 20-somethings, agitated by US and British covert social media, poured into the streets of dingy provincial towns.
As of now, this medium-sized uprising in Iran looks to be over, though it could re-ignite at any time. Young Iranians, at least 40% of the population, suffer due to 50% unemployment. Iran's $11 trillion economy is extremely fragile and in some cases barely functioning after decades of US-engineered economic warfare and boycotts. High unemployment is a result of US economic warfare and bullying other nations not to do business with Iran, producing 13% overall unemployment and a 40% inflation rate. The latter and wide-scale corruption were the spark that ignited the latest riots.
In two more weeks, President Trump, who makes no secret of his hatred and contempt for Muslims, must decide whether to reaffirm the multilateral nuclear energy deal with Iran or heed Israel's demands and refuse to certify it. His cutoff this week of US military aid to Muslim Pakistan bodes ill for Iran. Many Iranians observing the current US-North Korea nuclear standoff will wonder if their nation was not better off continuing its nuclear program and holding the Saudi oil fields at risk to deter a US attack. Trump's wild, inconsistent and often infantile responses on this issue are making matters murkier…and ever more dangerous.


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Stocks flatline, pulled by jobless claims, Europe
The market closed roughly flat Thursday, underwhelmed by encouraging jobs news but unrattled by worrisome developments in the global economy.
In the morning, a government report of fewer jobless claims carried the market higher. The Dow Jones industrial average rose as much as 83 points, shrugging off a widening U.S. trade deficit, higher unemployment in Greece and a ratings cut for Spain.
By late afternoon, the rally sputtered, and the Dow wavered between small gains and losses. It closed slightly down, along with the Nasdaq composite index, while the Standard & Poor's 500 eked out the tiniest gain.
Traders, it seemed, were so used to bad news that Thursday's developments didn't really push them one way or the other.
"There's not a lot to move the market today," said Erik Davidson, deputy chief investment officer of Wells Fargo Private Bank in San Francisco. "Everyone's talking about baseball."
Joe Costigan, director of equity research at Bryn Mawr Trust Company in Pennsylvania, described Thursday as "a reasonable day."
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The Dow finished down 18.58 points to 13,326.39. The S&P 500 inched up 0.28 point to 1,432.84. The Nasdaq fell 2.37 points to 3,049.41.
The Labor Department said that weekly applications for unemployment aid fell to their lowest level since February 2008, before the financial crisis, and when the unemployment rate was much lower — 4.9 percent, compared with today's 7.8 percent.
Citi analysts upgraded U.S. stocks to the equivalent of buy. The analysts, led by Hasan Tevfik and Robert Buckland, argued that stocks are relatively cheap and that central banks seem likely to take more steps to try to boost the economy.
Still, their report wasn't all cheery, and neither were most of the other economic developments Thursday. "Profits are slowing around the world," the Citi analysts wrote, "and (earnings-per-share) expectations need to be cut further, in our view."
Already this week, the aluminum manufacturer Alcoa kicked off the third-quarter earnings season with a disappointing loss. Thursday, shares of grocery store Safeway slipped more than 3 percent, losing 58 cents to $15.71, after it reported a lower profit margin.
The Commerce Department reported that foreign demand declined for American-made cars and farm goods. In Germany, economic researchers predicted the country's growth would slow, and warned that patience for bailing out weaker European countries was evaporating. Unemployment in Greece, one of the countries surviving on bailouts, hit a record high of just more than 25 percent. And the Standard & Poor's ratings agency late Wednesday cut its rating on Spain's debt to one level above junk status.
In Tokyo, where the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were meeting, IMF chief Christine Lagarde warned that the global economic recovery is weaker than many had expected. She called for urgent action to fix Europe's debt problems and an approaching fiscal crisis in the U.S.
A few stocks jumped after reports of potential new owners. Sprint Nextel soared more than 14 percent, rising 72 cents to $5.76, after a report that the company could be bought by Softbank, a Japanese cell phone provider. Truck company Oshkosh Corp. jumped more than 7 percent, up $2.05 to $28.90, after activist investor Carl Icahn offered to buy the company.
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Good ideas, Mark. But I'm not following the math for round two. Probably a typo.I think this is certainly worth considering. I do like how it opens up the number of first round judging centers and involves more local judges closer to their homes.
Raise the entry fee substantially and there will be plenty of space and you'll stop a lot of the shotgunning.
One thing that has been mentioned before is paying judges for travel. More money would help get more judges and set up more judging centers, and also raise the price of entry which possibly would limit the number of entries. At some point you hit an equilibrium. The only thing you need to realize is the dangers of growing too fast.
I can just see poor Janis face if you tell she now has to find at least 10 more sites of reliable judges.
yeah, talk about a thankless job. Janis works her ass off for this competition and I bet the only thing she ever hears is the people to b****.
I know there's been talk of running this thing in three tiers before and I believe expense/staff time have been the two biggest killers of it so far.I can just see poor Janis face if you tell she now has to find at least 10 more sites of reliable judges.
Each of those locations requires coordination on Janis's part, wrangling on her part. Plenty of people say they can handle it, but then they flake or other circumstances arise and now you've got panic. There's now three sets of mailings, another even more expensive round of supplies (to wade through 10k initial front). There's coordination on transitioning beers between rounds.I'm not trying to stop the idea cold, it has a ton of merit, but I think its being unduly optimistic to think it doesn't increase the burden on Janis and the staff.
... I would make that drive again this year, but can't make the 8-11 hour drive to Denver/Minneapolis/Chicago/Indy this year. So no judging for me. Hopefully Tulsa or KC will get it next year... cheers-- --Michael


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RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. (Nasdaq: BDSI) announced that yesterday it submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for BUNAVAIL (buprenorphine naloxone buccal film) for the maintenance treatment of opioid dependence. Under the 505(b)(2) regulatory statute, BUNAVAIL will be subject to a ten month review.
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BUNAVAIL uses BDSI's patented BioErodible MucoAdhesive (BEMA) drug delivery technology to deliver buprenorphine across the buccal mucosa (inside lining of the cheek). BUNAVAIL is formulated with the abuse deterrent agent naloxone and is designed to efficiently and conveniently deliver buprenorphine while potentially overcoming some of the challenges with other dosage forms.
"The submission of the NDA for BUNAVAIL marks another major milestone for BDSI as we seek FDA approval of a second product using our BEMA technology," said Dr. Mark A. Sirgo, President and Chief Executive Officer. "Opioid dependence is a serious and growing healthcare problem in this country affecting over 2 million people in the U.S. There remains a need for better dosage forms for the delivery of buprenorphine to these patients, an opportunity for which BDSI hopes to capitalize. It is our intention to bring to market a product that we believe positions us to significantly participate in this $1.5 billion and growing market."
Dr. Sirgo continued, "With our NDA filed we will continue to evaluate our strategic options for the commercialization of BUNAVAIL in the U.S., which include partnership, internal approaches or a combination of these. We will provide updates on our strategic direction as the year progresses."
The clinical program for BUNAVAIL, as agreed upon with FDA, included a bioequivalence study to Suboxone tablets and a study assessing the safety and tolerability of BUNAVAIL in opioid dependent subjects switched from Suboxone film or tablets to BUNAVAIL.
"We are very pleased to have submitted our NDA for BUNAVAIL," said Dr. Andrew Finn, Executive Vice President of Product Development. "If approved, BUNAVAIL will be the first dosage form for the treatment of opioid dependence that does not require under the tongue (or sublingual) administration. Utilizing the BEMA drug delivery technology, BUNAVAIL films adhere to the inside of the cheek and dissolve quickly. By keeping BUNAVAIL in contact with the mucosal surface, our data demonstrates that buprenorphine absorption is optimized and provides comparable plasma concentrations of buprenorphine to Suboxone with considerably lower doses."
Dr. Finn concluded, "In a clinical study we conducted in which 249 opioid dependent subjects switched from Suboxone tablets or films to BUNAVAIL, the majority of patients found BUNAVAIL to be easy to use and pleasant tasting - two important attributes that may represent improvements over current therapies in patients being treated for opioid dependence."
About BUNAVAIL and Opioid Dependence
BUNAVAIL is the first and only buccal (adhering to the inside of the cheek) formulation of buprenorphine and naloxone and has been developed for the maintenance treatment of opioid dependence. BUNAVAIL utilizes BDSI's proven and patent-protected BioErodible MucoAdhesive (BEMA) drug delivery technology.
Buprenorphine, the active ingredient in BUNAVAIL, is poorly absorbed orally from the gastrointestinal tract; however, it is absorbed within the oral cavity transmucosally (across the cheek or under the tongue). Buprenorphine reduces the craving and withdrawal effects from the dependent opioid, and the opioid antagonist, naloxone, is present to deter abuse.
Opioid dependence is a significantly undertreated condition in the U.S., with nearly 2 million people dependent on prescription opioids according to the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, conducted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Suboxone, which was approved for the treatment of opioid dependence in 2002, has been shown to be a highly effective treatment option and, as a result, currently generates annual sales of more than $1.5 billion according to data from Wolters Kluwer.
About BioDelivery Sciences International
BioDelivery Sciences International (NASDAQ: BDSI) is a specialty pharmaceutical company that is leveraging its novel and proprietary patented drug delivery technologies to develop and commercialize, either on its own or in partnerships with third parties, new applications of proven therapeutics. BDSI is focusing on developing products to meet unmet patient needs in the areas of pain management and addiction.
BDSI's pain franchise currently consists of three products, two of which utilize the patented BioErodible MucoAdhesive (BEMA) drug delivery technology. ONSOLIS (fentanyl buccal soluble film) is approved in the U.S., Canada, E.U. (where it is marketed as BREAKYL) and Taiwan (where it is marketed as PAINKYL), for the management of breakthrough pain in opioid tolerant, adult patients with cancer. The commercial rights are licensed to Meda for all territories worldwide except for Taiwan (licensed to TTY Biopharm) and South Korea (licensed to Kunwha Pharmaceutical Co.).
BDSI's second pain product using the BEMA technology, BEMA Buprenorphine, is in Phase 3 clinical trials for the treatment of moderate to severe chronic pain and is licensed on a worldwide basis to Endo Health Solutions. BDSI's third pain product in development is Clonidine Topical Gel for the treatment of painful diabetic neuropathy and was recently licensed from Arcion Therapeutics.
In August 2013, BDSI filed an NDA for BUNAVAIL, a high dose formulation of buprenorphine in combination with naloxone for the maintenance treatment of opioid dependence. Under the 505(b)(2) regulatory statute, BUNAVAIL i subject to a ten month review.
BDSI's headquarters is located in Raleigh, North Carolina. For more information visit www.bdsi.com.
Cautionary Note on Forward-Looking Statements
This press release, the presentation referred to herein, and any statements of representatives and partners of BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. (the "Company") related thereto contain, or may contain, among other things, certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties. Such statements may include, without limitation, statements with respect to the Company's plans, objectives, projections, expectations and intentions and other statements identified by words such as "projects," "may," "will," "could," "would," "should," "believes," "expects," "anticipates," "estimates," "intends," "plans," "potential" or similar expressions. These statements are based upon the current beliefs and expectations of the Company's management and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties, including those detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and those that relate to the Company's ability to leverage the expertise of employees and partners to assist the Company in the execution of its strategy. Actual results (including, without limitation, the timing for and results of the FDA's review of BUNAVAIL) may differ significantly from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that are subject to change based on various factors (many of which are beyond the Company's control). The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.
BDSI® and BEMA® are registered trademarks of BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. The BioDelivery Sciences logo and BUNAVAIL™ are trademarks owned by BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. ONSOLIS® is a registered trademark of Meda Pharmaceuticals, Inc. BREAKYL™ is a trademark owned by Meda Pharma GmbH & Co. KG. PAINKYLTM is a trademark owned by TTY Biopharm. All other trademarks and tradenames are owned by their respective owners.
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Three months ago I posted the recipe for our favorite on-the-go snack: whole grain "cookies." Since then, I have tweaked the recipe a bit, and this is now my preferred version. I switched to all honey, after writing this post about sweeteners. I also added another egg for more protein (why not?), and a little more milk, so they would be more cakey and less crumbly. This makes them a bit less messy for my toddler to eat. I also use double the raisins now after a failed experiment with chocolate chips (my toddler picked them out, which was extremely messy).
Making your own snacks:
- Saves you money
- Reduces packaging waste (especially if you use reusable food bags)
- Gives you complete control over the ingredients
I usually make the double batch and freeze them. They freeze extremely well and are delicious straight out of the freezer. A perfect healthy treat for a school lunch as well. We were out of these for a couple of weeks, when it was too hot to bake, and went through some major withdrawal. My preschooler kept asking for them while at the park or at bedtime (we also use them as a filling bedtime snack). What a pain to scramble for snacks every time I left the house! Now that we have them on hand again, everyone is in love with them even more. Give the recipe a try and see what you think!
Whole Grain "Cookies" (double recipe)
Makes about 80 small delicious snacks.
½ cup vegetable oil
1 cup honey
3 eggs
1 cup whole milk (2% or skim fine too)
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 cups white whole wheat flour (store-bought or home-ground)
½ teaspoon salt or 1 teaspoon Diamond Crystal kosher salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons cinnamon
Combine above and add in:
5 cups rolled oats
2 cups organic raisins
I usually chill the dough in the fridge for 10+ minutes (to make the dough easier to handle and to let the grains absorb the liquid) before forming the cookies. Bake 15-17 minutes at 350 on a greased cookie sheet (cookie sheet does not need to be nonstick). I fit 20 small cookies onto one sheet, and the recipe makes almost 80 small cookies. These cookies do not spread significantly, so if you like a flatter cookie, add a bit more liquid to the recipe or smash down the cookies with a spatula or fork before putting in the oven or after a few minutes of baking (this is in no way necessary). I have also found that if I use store-bought (rather than home-ground) whole wheat flour, I need to use a little more milk, as it tends to absorb more liquid.
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All too often the idea of making dinner at home comes with an overwhelming sense of dread. You think of the effort it will take and the mess that it will make. Not to mention, your family may not even like what you've slaved over, making the whole process a waste of time.
I'd like to suggest homemade soup as a wonderful meal that takes little time, makes little mess, and is sure to be a hit. Homemade soup is a wonderful way to enjoy healthy, quick meals at home. This recipe for Sausage and Cabbage Comfort Soup is packed with wholesome fiber from fresh vegetables and protein from sausage.
Make a big pot on the weekend and then reheat bowls throughout the week for fast, nutritious meals that will keep you on track with your fitness goals. Enjoy!
Courtesy of RealHealthyRecipes.com
What You Need
Serves 20
- 1 ½ pounds mild Italian sausage, loose
- 1 large yellow onion, halved and thinly sliced
- 2 teaspoons garlic, chopped
- 4 medium carrots, peeled and sliced into ¼" rounds
- 1 head green cabbage, core removed and shredded
- 3 large tomatoes, diced
- 2 teaspoons sea salt (plus more as needed)
- fresh ground black pepper (about 5 cracks)
- 1 teaspoon ground sweet paprika
- 8 cups chicken broth
- Basil leaf to garnish *optional
- Brown the sausage at the bottom of a large soup pot over medium high heat, breaking it into small pieces as it browns. Remove the cooked sausage from the pot and set aside in a bowl, leaving the oil from the sausage in the pot.
- Add the onions, garlic and carrots to the pot with the hot oil. Continue to cook over medium high heat, stirring often as the veggies become tender, about 5 minutes. Add the cabbage and tomatoes, and continue to cook, stirring often, for 5 minutes. Mix in the remaining ingredients and bring the soup to a low simmer for 20 minutes.
- Add more salt and pepper to taste and serve hot. Enjoy!
116 calories, 7g fat, 7g carbohydrate, 2g fiber, and 6g protein.


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The Storyteller
Some stories live forever . . .
Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day's breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother's death. When Josef Weber, an elderly man in Sage's grief support group, begins stopping by the bakery, they strike up an unlikely friendship. Despite their differences, they see in each other the hidden scars that others can't.
Everything changes on the day that Josef confesses a long-buried and shameful secret and asks Sage for an extraordinary favor. If she says yes, she faces not only moral repercussions, but potentially legal ones as well. With the integrity of the closest friend she's ever had clouded, Sage begins to question the assumptions and expectations she's made about her life and her family. In this searingly honest novel, Jodi Picoult gracefully explores the lengths to which we will go in order to keep the past from dictating the future.
"Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself". History cannot be revised but people who remember it can avoid doing things wrong again.


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Maximizing your return on your investments is the name of the game in the business of real estate investing. Leveraging your wealth allows you to realize the highest return on your investments or ROI. Private lenders provide what are known as hard money loans. Generally, these loans are used by those who have ventured into the house flipping arena of real estate investing. We will cover five things you should know about working with private lenders in York.
When it comes to working with private lenders in York, it pays to comparison shop. While the terms are somewhat negotiable, this short-term bridge loan ranges from several months to three years in length. Some of the questions you'll need to ask the private lender are their financing requirements and the closing timeline they offer. Is it matching the time it will take to process the required information? If your credit rating or income is your biggest hurdle, you'll want to seek a private lender that doesn't base their approval on credit or income. While a local private lender may be more expensive, they tend to be more flexible due to their intimate knowledge of the York real estate market. On the other hand, nationwide private lenders tend to be stricter but offer better terms. Before interviewing your list of private lenders, take a moment to determine the aspect of the loan that is most beneficial to you.
Check out their credentials before you ever make contact with private lenders in York. You'll want to ensure you have turned over every possible rock to make sure you aren't walking into a financial and legal disaster. Anything that sounds too good to be true usually is, and offering guaranteed approval should be considered a warning sign in the private lending arena. Whether local or online-based, the lender's contact information should be visible, including a physical location, and if they are online, is the website secure? Are they contacting you or trying to pressure you into a quick decision? If so, this is not professional behavior. Take the time to check reviews from legitimate consumer sites. Word of mouth is the best resource to find trusted service providers. Dig into the company, is it registered? Never pay fees in advance of service rendered.
Are you in a hurry? If so, you'll want to focus on their funding speed. Private lenders can save you valuable time by skirting around the traditional process of qualifying for a mortgage which averages around 30 days. Most often, people who are willing to make a great deal are not in a position to wait for their buyer to attain a mortgage. The ability to move quickly in the York real estate market means you can grab the deals that are slipping through the hands of your competition in the York real estate market. Additionally, you'll need to know the valuation method the lender will use so that you don't encounter a costly surprise after moving forward with the loan. Will they use a broker's price opinion, valuing the property in-house, or go through the lengthy and expensive process of an appraisal?
No one wants to get in over their head, so you'll need to know about any fees, how much cash you will need on hand to close, your monthly payments, and the total cost of the loan. Making an informed decision allows you to be confident about making the payments to your private lender in York. Know about working with private lenders in York. What loan-to-value ratio do you need? If your issue is cash on hand, search for lenders who offer 100 percent deals. Private lenders may charge points. One percent of the total loan amount would equal a point. Typically there is a two percent origination fee in addition to the interest on the loan.
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These loans are most often secured by the subject property itself, forgoing the traditional debt to income ratio requirements of a conventional mortgage. Because of this type of loan's riskiness, the interest rates are naturally higher, and the loan-to-value ratios are lower. Keep in mind as time passes that as you gain experience and build your flipping business, expanding overall volume, private lenders will gain confidence in you, leading to improved loan terms. Many successful York real estate investors began in just this way. However, keep in mind that a default isn't a loss for these private lenders, as they gain ownership of the property. Successful investors also take the time to learn about hard money lenders, using them to their best advantage.
The most important thing you should know about working with private lenders in York is that Eric Buys Homes In York will help you find the best deals! Eric Buys Homes In York makes success easy, contact Eric Buys Homes In York at (717) 788-3742!


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The Top 10 Things To Do At Deep Creek Lake! – Garrett County, Maryland
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Deep Creek Lake, located in Garrett County, is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Maryland. It's located in Western Maryland and borders Pennsylvania and West Virginia. It's a beautiful place to visit with so much to do!
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I confess: I still don't get it. We write about things that make people angry: sometimes on purpose (u mad bro?), sometimes because the topic interests us. But few topics are as consistent in their ability to draw anger and trolling and bizarre visitors as the issue of sexual harassment and responses to it.This attitude is common among low-ranking men who don't understand the socio-sexual hierarchy. They don't understand that by talking about the subjective realm of "sexual harassment" as if it is objective, they are usually taking a position that unfairly persecutes the lower-ranking men in society.
If I talk about my experiences training clients' employees in how to avoid sexual harassment, I draw nutters. If I talk about sites that discuss bad behavior towards women in gaming culture — great sites like Fat, Ugly, or Slutty — people get angry. Discussions of outing and vigorous more-speech remedies seem to be more controversial when the target is chosen for being a creeper rather than, say, a racist. Even the abstract subject of this post — the meta-examination of why the subject of harassment is so incendiary to some — generates some of the most vituperative comments we ever see here.
And just as the cruelest school bullies are those who are just above the lowest boys on the totem pole, the most clueless white knights are the gammas who have mastered their creepy instincts and don't see why everyone else doesn't do the same. Because they a) know they are at least potentially creepy, and, b) have managed to modify their behavior in a manner to control it, they believe that sexual harassment is objective, universal, and intentional.
None of those things are true.
You see, here is the observable fact of the matter. Men of sufficiently high socio-sexual status cannot sexually harass women. They simply cannot do it. A man of sufficiently high rank can, in public, grab a woman's ass, squeeze her breasts while making honking sounds, stick his tongue down her throat, sling her over his shoulder and haul her off to a bedroom, slide his hand down her pants and inside her underwear, or tell her to lift her skirt and turn around, without ever hearing a single word of protest.
Millions of women don't read 50 Shades of Grey because they so perfectly hate the idea of men ordering them around.
And a high-status man can do all of those things without having met her or even knowing what her name is. For example, compare the difference in the public reaction to direct complaints that Bill Clinton had raped various women to reports that Anthony Weiner had been sexting land whales.
Clinton not only raped and assaulted multiple women over the years, but inserted a cigar in an White House intern's body in the most power-imbalanced employment relationship that is even theoretically possible in the United States. He got a pass from the women and everyone else, with female journalists offering "one free grope" and volunteering head, simply because he is an alpha. Weiner, who is more of a Washington insider than Clinton was prior to his presidency, provokes considerable disgust for far lesser sexual offenses.
It's all about sexual dominance. The gamma can offend a woman by simply looking at her. The alpha not only won't offend that same woman by ordering her to lift her skirt and turn around, but the chances are very high that she will obey him even if she hasn't actually met him. Even if she won't obey on the spot, she will still laugh, slap his shoulder, and tell him "you're so bad!"
So, it is the intrinsically false perspective of the white knight that provokes anger and irritation from a wide range of men. The higher ranking men are not angry, they are merely expressing contempt for the mouthy gamma and his cluelessness. The lower-ranking men are angry at the unfairness of how they are targeted and castigated for behavior that is objectively less egregious than what they see their higher-ranking counterparts, and, for that matter, women, are permitted to do with impunity.
Lecturing creepers is, for the most part, bullying of omegas by gammas. It's wrong-headed and it's wrong. And it provokes anger for the same reason that most bullying does.
Consider, for example, the average sex scene in a SF/F novel written by a gamma male. Now reverse the sexes. I will bet that more than 50 percent of those sex scenes would qualify as "sexual harassment", if not sexual assault, if committed by a gamma or omega male.


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This Plugin adds a custom Widget that allows you to add a list of social network profile links to any Theme, using a custom navigation menu. Using this
method, you will keep your social profile links portable from Theme to Theme instead of having to re-enter them as Theme options each time you switch Themes.
The concept for this Plugin is taken from example code by Justin Tadlock,
and the code used in the Plugin is derived from similar functionality in my Oenology Theme.
This Plugin is bundled with the following Icon Fonts:
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License Info: GNU GPL, Version 2 (or later) – /fonts/genericons/LICENSE.txt
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License Info: SIL OFL 1.1 – /fonts/font-awesome/font-awesome.css
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JustVector Icon Font, Copyright Sergio Díaz, Derived from JustVector Icons, Copyright Alex Peattie (http://alexpeattie.com/projects/justvector_icons/)
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Mono Social Icons
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Installation using « Add New Plugin »
- From your Admin UI (Dashboard), use the menu to select Plugins -> Add New
- Search for 'cbnet Social Menu'
- Click the 'Install' button to open the plugin's repository listing
- Click the 'Install' button
Activiation and Use
- Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
- Create a new custom navigation menu, and name it, e.g. « Social ». (The name isn't important, as long as you remember it!)
- Add custom links to your « Social » menu, under the « Links » metabox, one for each social network profile you wish to include.
- Save the menu, and assign it to the « Social Profile Links » Theme Location.
- Go to Appearance -> Widgets, and add the « cbnet Social Profile Links » Widget to one of the Theme's dynamic sidebars
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Currently, the Plugin supports Genericons, Font Awesome, Zurb Foundation, and JustVector. (Mono Social will be added in the next release.)
Most social networks are supported by both font icons, including Dribble, Dropbox, Facebook, Flickr, GitHub, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google+, Skype, Tumblr, Twitter, and YouTube.
Genericons adds support for Codepen, Digg, Path, Pocket, PollDaddy, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Vimeo, WordPress, and WordPress.com. To use one of these networks, you must select the Genericons font.
Font Awesome adds support for BitBucket, FourSquare, and StackExchange. To use one of these networks, you must select the Font Awesome font.
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Bentley Motors has announced full details of the new Bentley Flying Spur V8 S Black Edition – the car of choice for customers seeking a luxury performance saloon with a more dynamic aesthetic.
The suite of striking exterior and interior features have been created by the British brand's designers to reflect the car's sporting character. Black gloss brightware, dark tint lights, gloss black window surrounds and door mirrors, and new wheels provide a more dynamic, contemporary commentary for the mighty power output of the V8 S engine.
Inside, a unique color split, with striking new accents, is available to customers, while a three-spoke Sport Plus steering wheel and Piano Black veneer comes as standard.
Tuned for more power, the 4.0-litre V8 engine delivers 528 PS (521 bhp) and 680 Nm (502 lb. ft.), which propels the Flying Spur to 100 km/h in 4.9 seconds (0-60 mph in 4.6 seconds), and on to a top speed of 306 km/h (190 mph). This power is delivered to the road via an all-wheel-drive system with a 40:60 rear-biased torque split for a sure-footed, engaging drive in all road and weather conditions.
Flying Spur V8 – A Darker, More Dynamic Exterior
The headlights and tail lamps have a distinctive dark tint and black bezels, while the radiator and window surrounds, headlight washer caps and door-handle inserts are styled in a striking black gloss finish.
There is a bespoke alloy wheel design, unique to the Flying Spur V8 S Black Edition, in the form of a 21" seven-spoke Elegant pattern in a striking gloss black finish. Customers have the choice of black or red painted brake calipers, to complete the sporting enhancements.
Flying Spur V8 – A Sporting Luxury Interior
The unique interior is dominated by a single tone with bold, contrasting stripes of stitched leather hide that frame the four seats' centre panels, running up and round the headrests. The same accent color is matched by the contrasting headliner bow that runs through the centre of the roof.
The Flying Spur V8 S Black Edition also has Piano Black veneer and a three-spoke Sport Plus steering wheel as standard. It has contrast stitching to complete the bold, sporting appeal of the interior.
Of course, should customers wish for a different aesthetic, the interior can be specified with a full range of interior colours and colour splits.
Mulliner Driving Specification
When commissioned with the Mulliner Driving Specification, the Flying Spur V8 S Black Edition comes with diamond-quilted hides in the seat and door panels, with contrast stitching for a more contemporary visual tone.
Externally, Mulliner Driving Specification gives customers the additional choice of two 21" five-spoke Directional Sports wheel finishes in gloss black or dark tint.
Note: Press release courtesy of Bentley Motors.


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Cyndee Kromminga
I have always loved old, discarded things. My fondest memories of my dad are the many junking adventures he shared with me as a child, and then on into adulthood. Weekend family outings involved attending auctions and yard sales. I don't remember my dad ever walking away empty handed. He always seemed to find a gem among the junk. His gift was acquiring items that could be used as-is or requiring only simple fixes. He was also an electrician, so he could rewire most any non-working appliance.
As I got older, making do with scarred and battered furnishings lost its appeal. Because money was scarce, re-purposing and re-imagining became a new adventure. I found I had a knack for making old, tattered things appear new again. I didn't stop at just facelifts, either; I discovered that vintage linens and old clothes were the perfect substitute for store-bought fabric. Digging through boxes of textiles at tag sales became a passion, but I never had tunnel vision. There are just too many possibilities at every tag sale, curb and (dare I say) dumpster to limit creative vision.
Since I couldn't seem to make just one of anything, I tried my hand at craft sales, vending my creations. I loved it, and my customers did, too. The rest is a blur that has snowballed into a craft business that includes designing, writing, and selling my imaginings. I have shared my design tutorials in several print magazines, books, online sites, and my own little blog, Restyled Junk. Come by and visit. Maybe we can inspire each other.
Restyled Junk Website
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Cyndee's Pinterest
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Cyndee's Free Projects on FaveCrafts:
DIY Totes & Bags
- Ruffled T-Shirt Tote
- Repurposed Fabric Tote
- Upcycled Denim Tote Bag
- Vintage Quilt Tote
- Slouchy Drawstring Bag
- Nana's Upcycled Wool Bags
- Large Festival Tote Bag
- Your Favorite T-Shirt Tote
Free Christmas Crafts
- Recycled Can Snowman Ornament
- Recycled Lightbulb Snowman
- Recycled Bedspring and Spool Tree
- Fuzzy Felt Snowman Ornament
- Repurposed Bedspread Stocking
- Santa's Belly Christmas Favor Bag
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- Restyled Sewing Table
- Ruffled Scrap Fabric Towel
- Burlap Bulletin Board
- Bedsheet Basket Insert
- Valentine's Day Bowl Fillers
- Whimsical Western Wall Hanging
- Restyled Book Accents
- Upcycled Wooden Candleholder
- Recycled Light Birdbath
- Country Chic Hook Rack
- Simple Sewn Star Pillow
- Seasonal Burlap Bunting
- Silk Petal Pillow
- Old World Glass Jar Candle Holder
- No-Brainer Crochet Chair Mats
- Rustic Man Cave Signs
- Magical Memories Photo Frame
- Rustic Rag Wreath
- Scrappy Wine Glass Coaster Cozy
- Charming Little Country Pillows
- French Chateau Throw Pillows
- Country Classic Dragonfly Wall Art
- Country Chic Repurposed Stool
- Shabby Chic Candle Holder
- Rustic Sailboat Craft
- Reupholstered Chair Cushions
- DIY Gingham Flower Pillow
More Free Craft Projects from Cyndee!
- Blast From the Past Sketchbook
- Decoupaged Book Page Trunks
- Denim Pocket Pincushion
- Dressed Up Train Case
- Lacy Tablet Cover
- Recycled Neck Tie Pincushion
- Recycled Wool Owl
- Scrap Fabric Notebook Cover
- Scrap Fabric Tags
- No Sew Scrap Fabric Strips
- Strip Fabric Flower
- Hippie Chic Maxi Shirt
- Made From Scratch Memory Book
- Quilt Scrap Flowers
- Quilt Scrap Backpack
- Recycled Record Roses
- Dressy Butcher Apron Sewing Pattern
- DIY Gingham Flower Pillow
- Recycled Chenille Washcloths
- Recycled Leather Belt Bracelets
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LHR Technologies was founded in 2001 by former NASA robotics engineers as a research and development company. As critical thinkers and craftsmen, they saw the need for new innovation in robotic controlled products and formed LHR to bring their knowledge of state-of-the-art technology to bear in the consumer market. In December 2006, LHR Technologies launched its CNC 3D Carving System in 400 Sears stores as the Craftsman CompuCarve. After the success of the Sears launch with 10,000 units sold within the first year, LHR Technologies launched their own brand, CarveWright, to widen distribution. Years later, the CarveWright System has continually proven to be the innovation leader in the 3D CNC fabrication market.
LHR Technologies, Inc.
Phone: (713) 473-6572
4930 Allen Genoa Road, Suite D
Pasadena, TX 77504


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Care: All Luvhaus Ceramics are made of high fire stoneware and are designed to stand the test of time and use in a modern kitchen. Please feel free to use in microwaves and dishwashers. Our glazes are custom formulated in house, with the goal of capturing something unique.
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