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10 Ways to Use Colloidial Silver's Amazing Healing Abilities
Colloidal silver consists of silver atoms suspended in distilled ion-less water. The particles of silver are small enough to penetrate on a cellular level and destroy pathogens of all types, including bacteria, fungal spores, parasites, and viruses.
Not only does silver get rid of pathogens, it helps promote rapid healing of the tissues infected or destroyed. Most burn centers use various forms of silver and silver soaked bandaging for burn victims.
You can buy colloidal silver online or in good health food stores or make your own cheaply and easily. Colloidal silver has many applications and is easy to apply. It has no adverse side effects. It leaves beneficial bacteria intact. Reports of argyria (skin turning blue) are greatly exaggerated.
The Medical Mafia has a tendency to blow up rare incidents of minor adverse effects from natural remedies and blow them up as scare tactics while ignoring the hundreds of thousands of annual adverse side effects from correctly prescribed pharmaceuticals.
Ten ways to use colloidal silver for self healing
1) You can spray it onto burns to prevent infections and promote faster healing without scarring.
2) You can also spray or dab it onto ringworm, boils, herpes sores, and warts for faster healing.
3) If you're having bronchial problems or walking pneumonia, you can put some colloidal silver in a nebulizer and breathe it into your bronchial area and lungs directly.
4) Small amounts taken daily as a tonic will give what some call a second immune system to guard against flues and colds. Easy and inexpensive if you make if you make your own.
5) Colloidal silver drops can be used for ear infections without any harmful side effects. Some use it for eye and nasal infections as well. Perhaps it can be injected anally with an enema bulb to help cleanse the colon.
6) It can be applied topically for vaginal yeast infections or oral thrush (yeast infection). Could be useful for chronic jock itch as well.
7) Colloidal silver can be used by pregnant women to assist fetal development and easier delivery of the newborn child.
8) It can be taken early with the onset of a cold, flu, or bronchitis to get over it quickly without harming beneficial bacteria. Antibiotics kill good and bad bacteria.
9) Colloidal silver can be used successfully to combat MRSA infections. MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is a staph infection that can be fatal and is now resistant to antibiotics. It usually occurs during hospital stays, but has become rampant enough to originate outside hospitals (http://www.naturalnews.com/023712_MRSA_Texas_infections.html).
10) There has been some success using colloidal silver with AIDS patients. It adds a layer of needed additional immunity while destroying existing pathogens.
More about colloidal silver
Early 20th Century western medicine used silver as a prime antibiotic and anti-fungal until the 1930s. Then antibiotics became a major source of Big Pharma revenue.
As more and more antibiotics were created, the pathogenic microbes began evolving into resistant strains to them. The health dangers imposed by antibiotics by destroying friendly gut flora needed for digestion and immunity were disregarded.
Antibiotic use lowers immunity by destroying the good bacteria along with the bad. Lately, some fluoroquinolone based antibiotics have even permanently and painfully crippled those who had been prescribed them (http://www.naturalnews.com).
Since silver seems to act by stifling the enzymes pathogens use for survival, pathogens are unable to develop resistance to them. Fortunately, alternative medicine has re-discovered colloidal silver for healing all sorts of ailments. A few years ago, the EU banned colloidal silver sales (http://www.naturalnews.com/027989_colloidal_silver_superbugs.html).
Before Codex regulations arrive here, purchasing your own system for making colloidal silver would be a wise move.
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The 88 has been churning out the alt pop songs since 2003, with a sunny California vibe from their L.A. roots that seems infused in everything they do. Named after a song by the French Kicks as well as the fact a piano has 88 keys, the band's hits such as "Coming Home" and "Go Go Go" are infectious tunes featured in commercials, TV shows, and films that instantly get stuck in your head. With a new lineup as a four piece, they just wrote and recorded the opening theme song for NBC's Community and went on tour with the iconic Ray Davies. Their strong presence on screen just seems to fit in with their proximity to Hollywood, which is why lead vocalist/guitarist Keith Slettedahl recently called in from there to talk with PopMatters about their new, self-titled album out now.
The new album is self-titled — why choose to call it The 88 now?
It's so different now… I think the only alternative is to change the name of the band. Everything feels the most complete it's ever been and the most fun it's ever been, so it seemed like a new beginning too. To just give it name and lump it in with the other ones wouldn't feel so right. Todd [O'Keefe, the bass player for the band] came into the studio when we were recording it and said he had a name for the record, but he wanted us to guess. We were like, how are we going to guess? But he said, "No think about it." And we all knew that it was the right thing to do.
Your band wears the alternative mantle well, yet you're masters of catchy tunes. Underneath the surface are complexities that require serious musicianship, are there classical or jazz training in the band's background?
No, the guys are just really, really good. The music that we like is older music, when the musicianship was probably a little bit better. But I still like all kinds of music as well — it's all relative. When The Beatles came out, people thought they were terrible musicians but by today's standards they are incredible! But I think it's from the bands that we really love and we're influenced by.
You and keyboardist Adam Merrin went to high school together — a classic band story — are those days filled with happy memories or were they more trying times?
Well they were fine, but actually we weren't really close friends in high school. We knew each other and we were friends but we really didn't start hanging out together until the last day of high school when we did the first song together. He was a little ahead of me as far as his rebelliousness and I was still a really good boy [Laughs]. Adam was more of a wild card; he was already ditching school and doing other stuff. I wasn't ready for that yet! We always had the same taste in music and we would have little competitions here and there about certain bands, although we never really hung out that much till the end.
Another classic band tale is how you got noticed — a demo found its way into the hands of a music supervisor which led to a song on The O.C. so how exactly did this happen?
It was at Spaceland in Silverlake and Supergrass was playing — must have been a secret show or something. I didn't get to see the show … I would have liked to! So we passed one out to this guy, Danny Benair of Natural Energy Lab [an independent licensing agent] who started all that TV stuff for us. He's a great guy and we've worked with him for a long time now.
In the past you've said that all the musical styles for the band have not been a conscious decision to go one direction or another. Is this still true?
Yeah, I think so. Especially with this record more than ever, there was never any discussion about what kind of record or even types of songs or what we wanted to do. It's all very natural and that's the way the band has to function for all four of us or we just won't do it anymore. We've been doing this for a long time and a lot of the stuff that we thought we had to do before or worried about or thought about doing, something like "what will this person think of it" or "what will happen after we do this" doesn't happen anymore. I may think that stuff from time to time but as far as the band and the group consciousness, there's just none of that.
We just got together and started making songs, with no intention of even making a record. We didn't know what we were doing, we just wanted to get together and play music again. For a couple of years, we really weren't doing that — so that's how this record came about. But to say that we didn't talk about styles of songs would be an understatement, because we weren't even talking about making a record. We were just getting together to have fun, and then all of a sudden songs started to accumulate. It was really done in the right way, really naturally. And that's another reason to go back to the self-titled record, because this whole process was different than anything we had ever done before.
About a year ago, you recorded the song "Love Is The Thing" entirely on an iPhone application and now it's on YouTube with almost half a million views. How did that come about and where was it filmed?
It was filmed at Anthony's [Zimmitti, the drummer] house and the idea came partly from us and partly through a friend. I had seen the app and we were curious about it, talking about it and wondering about it. We were traveling when we saw it, so we tried it out as something to do when we're on the road. Right after that a friend of ours contacted us about it — he works for Apple so he had mentioned this 4-track app and asked if we would like to do a song on it as a band. And we were like, "Yeah" it sounded fun, especially because I really like the thought of recording simply — it reminds me of how I used to do stuff at home. We had just done some other recordings that were the total opposite of that, so it was a lot of fun. We didn't even realize how the whole thing was going to work. We were experimenting with it as we went along. For example, if we wanted to record drums we have to set the tone using a pillow because you can't control the volume of what goes into the mike.
More recently, you not only opened up for Ray Davies on tour but to be his backing band must have been amazing. He even sang on one of tracks on the new album [the lead single "They Ought to See You Now"]. How did that all come about?
We were contacted by a booking agent that we used to work with that Ray was looking for a band to do a month in the States and would we be open to being put up for it. And we said of course, but what are the odds of that actually happening? Then as the weeks went by, we were contacted again and they would keep asking for stuff (website, pictures) and then he wanted to hear us do a few Kinks songs live so we did that, sent it to him and he chose us to do it. It was great — kind of amazing as it was out of nowhere. We were in the middle of making the new record when we got the call to do it, so it was really exciting.
Ray's a great guy and really fun to work with, especially getting to record with him. We just asked him while we were on tour. We said, "Hey Ray, would you want to sing on a song?" Just the fact that he took the time to do that is really kind of him. He's really humble in that way. He'd ask our opinions while we were recording and definitely wasn't domineering in any way. He's just a really, really nice guy. And obviously he's one of my all time heroes. His music was a big reason I wanted to play music and write songs in particular. For me, it's a super personal connection — ask anyone who knows me what kind of music I like and they'll say The Kinks. Back when I first met my wife I gave her two CDs by The Kinks. They're huge to me, beyond famous. The other day I was listening to a Kinks record and I thought to myself how I can't believe I know that guy!
Did all the touring influence any creative decisions when you went back to finish the new album or was it business as usual?
Well, we were almost done and we were really prepared when we went into the studio, probably more than ever because we really wanted it to be a live record as much as possible. We had rehearsed a lot so we were pretty sure of what to do and everything was easy. By the time we got back we had written all the songs plus most of the parts were done. So it went quickly and smoothly.
Your band seems to embody a sunny California vibe — after all this traveling can you imagine living anywhere else?
I don't know… I feel pretty set in my ways at this point. Because I grew up in Southern California, I'm obviously accustomed to the weather. That's what I keep coming back to, the weather! The thing is I've never really lived anywhere else. I've lived in Northern California for a while, and my wife's from Georgia so there are things I really love about that but home is home. When I was younger I could see myself living somewhere else but now I have a daughter so we're kind of settled, but I'm open minded about it.
Looking ahead, what's next for the band?
Well we're trying to continue to have fun, that's for sure. And we're getting together, rehearsing and making up new stuff again since that's real important for us, because that's where the real satisfaction comes. You got to feel like you're being creative and enjoying each other — not trying to get satisfaction over something you did over a year ago. Playing shows is one thing, that's awesome but it's about being vital and excited. We're much more in the moment than we've ever been, so as far as plans I don't know. I'm sure we'll do a little bit of touring but beyond that I don't know. We made the record the right way, which was the important thing, so whatever happens beyond that we're really open minded to but hopefully not stressed out about the future. We're not trying to manipulate things to get somewhere; we're already there. There's nothing worse doing something the wrong way or making something the wrong way and being stuck with what you did. We took care of what we could take care of and now we'll see what happens.
It's important for us to be true to ourselves and be real about where we are… the whole idea about plans is we just don't make them much anymore. It's not a negative thing; it's a really great thing. We just feel really good about right now. Usually, when I get asked that question I'll list twelve things but right now I just don't know. We're doing some local shows for the record release and I'm sure we'll be doing some traveling, plus continuing to get together and make up some more songs. I'd love to do some more TV stuff too. Touring was a lot of fun but I love being home too, especially with a two-and-a-half year old. Our lives are different than when they were when we made the first record and certain things are more important now.


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Welcome to Hope Clinic
At Hope Clinic, your vision is our mission. Our combined skills and knowledge will help you attain optimal visually guided life skills.
The demands of today's society greatly stress our vision systems, with much time spent on computers, cell phones and tablets. Children and adults alike are constantly using their near vision in the high tech atmosphere of school and workplace. No longer do we use our 'hunter' eyes for survival, spotting game and enemies at a distance. Today, we are required to deal with sustained, near visual tasks, resulting in many symptoms and problems which, in the case of children who do not know differently, often go undetected or untreated. Many people, even those who have 20/20 eyesight at certain distances, need to build their visual skills through Vision Therapy.
Empowering the individual through teamwork to build strong visually-guided lifeskills.
Hope Clinic specializes in empowering the individual through teamwork to build strong visually-guided lifeskills. We carefully design a Vision Therapy program to incrementally build upon your current visual skills, helping you achieve and excel to your highest potential. Those who benefit include people of all ages with visual system dysfunctions impacting:
- Reading and Learning Disabilities
- Dyslexia
- ADD and ADHD
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
- Autism
- Sports Vision
- Special Needs
- Depth Perception Problems
- Inability to see 3-D
- Those who strive to reach their optimal academic achievement
80% of what we learn depends on the efficiency of the visual system. "20/20" eyesight is only a very small part of good vision.
We do not typically observe signs to measure progress of vision development, but rather evidence of problems once they have occurred. 20/20 vision does not necessarily mean a person has 'good vision'. Other components of good vision include healthy eyes, visual acuity that is age appropriate, visual integration, visual information processing, and visual skills such as eye teaming, focusing and tracking.
Contact Hope Clinic to begin the process of learning how Vision Therapy can help you or your child! Hope Clinic offers two online options: Schedule a Free Screening or Schedule a Full Functional Vision Evaluation, or call us at (425) 462-7800.


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Download and install FreeFileViewer and you will be able to view documents like DOC, DOCX, PDF, TXT, XLS, XLSX, images like JPG, PNG, GIF, PSD, videos like FLV, MP4, MOV, MPG, audio files like FLAC, MP3, OGG, WMA, and various other formats like BIN, CFG, DAT, DIZ and and many many other file formats - more than 200 supported!
FreeFileViewer is a non-bloated, simple file viewer and music player. For example, it will enable you to display Adobe® PDF files and Microsoft® Office documents without Adobe® Reader® or Microsoft® Office being installed, and PSD files without having Adobe® Photoshop® installed. This is the all-in-one file viewer product you have been looking for!
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While talking about diabetes, you may be frightened from the idea that you may have it. Or maybe, you may have it in the future. You want to know if you are at risk to develop diabetes and anxiously you're looking to find if you have any diabetes symptom.
Diabetes affects the manner in which the body handles carbohydrates, fats and proteins. If neglected, diabetes can have serious complications. The diabetic people have high blood sugar level. The blood sugar level is regulated by insulin – a hormone produced by the pancreas, which depends on your eating habits.
Diabetes is a serious disease. But the startling truth is that diabetes is reversible. Diabetes is the number one cause of chronic kidney disease (CKD). This disease is a condition where the body is unable to automatically regulate blood glucose levels, resulting in too much glucose (a sugar) in the blood. Diabetes is a chronic disease that affects as many as 16 million Americans.
Actually, there is no clear symptom for diabetes. The most common symptoms of diabetes are as follow:
– being all the time thirsty
– frequent urination
– increased hunger
– feeling all the time tired; having an excessive fatigue,
On the other hand, there are some other symptoms of diabetes that are prescribed as diabetes complications in fact. These symptoms are:
– vision changes;
– recurrent skin infections very difficult to heal;
– tingling or numbness you may feel in your extremities;
– gums disorders;
– Hair loss and many others.
There are two different types of diabetes.
Type I Diabetes (juvenile diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes): The reason for type I diabetes is due to pancreas unability to produce insulin.
Type II Diabetes (non insulin dependent diabetes or adult onset diabetes): This diabetes is a result of body tissues becoming resistant to insulin. It is usually hereditary.
Type 2 Diabetes is more common than Type 1 Diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is a life-long disease marked by high levels of sugar in the blood. Conditions associated with type 2 diabetes include hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia. Type 2 diabetes may account for about 90% to 95% of all diagnosed cases of diabetes. Up to two-thirds of people with type 2 diabetes have no symptoms. Obesity is the single most important risk factor for type 2 diabetes. An estimated 20% of all cases of new onset type 2 diabetes are in individuals between the ages of 9-19. The more you know about type 2 diabetes, the more you'll be able to take the right steps to take control of your condition.
If neglected, diabetes can lead to various complications such as damage to the kidneys, heart disease, nerve damage, hypoglycemia (drastic reduction in glucose levels). Diabetes is a serious disease and there is no treatment of it. However, it can be brought under control by proper diabet diet.


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- 17 November 2021
- FINANCIAL STABILITY REVIEW - ARTICLEFinancial Stability Review Issue 2, 2021Details
- Abstract
- Numerous European and national initiatives have been deployed since 2014 to reduce non-performing loan (NPL) stocks on euro area bank balance sheets. NPL ratios have fallen as a result, but very gradually, mainly thanks to sales to non-bank investors. Despite stronger market activity, prices paid by NPL investors have only improved marginally and continue to stand well below values assigned to NPLs by banks. One type of NPL that has proven particularly difficult to resolve is loans to non-financial firms that have borrowed from multiple banks – multi-creditor loans. Analysis of these loans relative to others finds lower provision coverage by the lending banks, reflecting more optimistic valuations by individual banks and limited recognition of the expected costs of multi-creditor coordination. This special feature proposes a strategy to overcome creditor coordination failures and costs, through the use of data platforms providing ex ante transparency to NPL investors. These, together with NPL securitisation, could substantially reduce the gap between the value of the loans booked on banks' balance sheets and the prices offered by investors for NPL portfolios.
- JEL Code
- G21 : Financial Economics→Financial Institutions and Services→Banks, Depository Institutions, Micro Finance Institutions, Mortgages
G32 : Financial Economics→Corporate Finance and Governance→Financing Policy, Financial Risk and Risk Management, Capital and Ownership Structure, Value of Firms, Goodwill


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I was rather intrigued by a restaurant in North London, which I heard about recently. Mostly because some friends of mine, who were recommending it, were particularly excited about the fact that it was 'all you can eat'.
Now I don't know about you, but 'all you can eat' in my book reminds me of brightly lit windows promising more cholesterol and MSG than one thought possible or healthy. And indeed the preserve of worn out Leicester Square tourists and hungry students.
So why the intrigue? Well first of all it's Sushi, a somewhat premium food affair and not typically synonymous with vulgar promotional activity. The second thing was that being mindful of the cost of high quality fresh fish, and most things Japanese, I wondered how this offer could be commercially viable for the restaurant. How could they manage the risk of ravenous pescatarians putting them out of business.
So I went to visit with two hungry daughters, already locals and big fans of this new North London culinary experience.
And it was good. Really good in fact, and it was true, the restaurant does offer 'all you can eat'. It was good quality and portions felt generous, but what struck me most was something that we teach in negotiation. In the vast majority of unskilled negotiations, each party goes into battle with their own interests at the heart of their efforts and remarkably little regard for the other side's perspective, wants or needs.
As a result they end up in a sort of sumo wrestle (sticking with the Japanese theme of this blog!); both parties smashing into the other hoping that there is sufficient weight in their own efforts to push the other party out of the ring. In the battle for customers in the competitive food scene, a previously quiet restaurant, recognised the demand for a better deal. They speculated that an 'all you can eat' menu, at the right price, might satisfy that demand. The trick, as it is in smart negotiation, is to deliver what customers want, but on your terms.
On perusing the menu it became clear what those terms were. And there were quite a lot of them, in fact identifying them kept us occupied and amused for the whole of lunch.
On closer inspection we discovered that the offer (despite the huge sign outside) was only available at lunch times. And for a maximum of 1 hour 45 minutes. Kids were welcome for nearly half the price…but only if they were under 120cm tall. There had to be at least 2 of you. And you could only order 6 items at a time. A number of the items incurred an extra charge. And there was a 10% service on top of the £15.80 charge per head. Oh and there was no take away. And anything you left was charged at the normal rate.
What I like about this deal (and its endless terms and conditions) is twofold.
Firstly it works – they've given us customers what we want - everyone is recommending it, but on their terms – more Judo than sumo you might say.
But best of all, despite being all you can eat; you don't come out looking like a sumo wrestler.
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Communist critique of leftist support for nationalisation and worker co-ops.
What a sight, 239 miners, relatives and their supporters marching up the hill singing triumphantly (in Welsh), the Internationale and the Red Flag, as Tower Colliery was re-opened under employee ownership' . . . just as their predecessors had in 1947, when the coal mines were nationalised! Each miner had invested £8,000 of redundancy money and in addition collectively taken on huge additional debts to launch this new venture.
Tyrone O'Sullivan – NUM official, a driving force behind the buyout and now personnel director (no change there really!) said of all this, in confused comment to the press:
'. . . yesterday was a triumph for a different kind of socialism and for a fight back against old-fashioned state capitalism'
'. . .this is what I call real nationalisation'
'Making a profit has never been a problem for socialists. . . here we've got equal shares.'
Ann Clwyd, Labour MP, added for good measure:
'It's not the Union Jack that's going to be raised over this pit but the Welsh dragon.'
So there you have it. The 'new venture' is 'real socialism' not 'state capitalism', but also at the same time it is 'real nationalisation'. It also apparently combines the best spirit of both workers' internationalism and Welsh nationalism'
One of the miners on the other hand (not one of the new directors) had a more pragmatic view:
'I don't really feel I'm an owner of the pit I don't see myself as a capitalist but as a lucky man who can go back to work at last after nine months.'
Well fair enough – but for how long? At Monktonhall colliery a good deal further along the road with its own employee buyout they've just gone on a wildcat strike in a dispute very reminiscent of the old NCB days.
What's it all about then?
Certainly nationalisation either as part of the so-called 'mixed economy' or in its recently deceased full-blown form in Russia and Eastern Europe, has been no friend of the working class. It can as O'Sullivan initially suggested best be described as (one form of) 'state capitalism', with all the usual trappings of money, markets, wages, profits and hierarchy.
Of course, O'Sullivan and his ilk fought to save nationalisation despite this, because they had a niche within the old system to protect. The revelation that it was really a load of crap only came after the battle had been lost and he'd got himself a new niche in the workers' company.
Nationalisation of the coal mines and other key industries in the past had its role to play, but for capitalism not the workers. As Victor Keegan, a supporter of past nationalisation put it:
'. . . because public ownership provided a humane and efficient umbrella for the rundown of the mines that would have been impossible to achieve with the old owners.'
Well. we're not sure redundant miners and their families would agree with the 'humane' pan of that, but you get the drift.
Apart from anything else, nationalisation in Britain involved generously buying out the old owners, largely with government bonds on which the state continued to pay interest. So profits in the re-structured industry went into the state coffers and then out again to the capitalists the state borrowed from. The new coal industry also continued to provide a secure source of power to the rest of capitalist industry in the postwar period and released capital investment for the reconstruction of other sectors of the economy.
So-called revolutionaries like Militant and the SWP of course saw through this and demanded 'nationalisation without compensation'. The fact is this would prove disastrous if carried out by an isolated national government, as a result of market isolation and military intervention. In the case of Russia where the state nationalised industry already taken over by the workers or abandoned by its capitalist owners, the party bureaucracy simply substituted itself for the old bosses at the expense of the workers and then sent them off to fight a war on their behalf.
Mr. Blair and the Modernisers
When you think about it, that nice Mr Blair is right – nationalisation is out of date. It served its purpose (for capitalism) in the past, but in a world of major economic power blocs, like the European Union, NAFTA and APEC etc, spanning many countries, and with industry hungry for huge sums of capital investment beyond the scope of nationally-based organisations to provide, nationalisation is a hindrance to the expansion of capital.
There's another problem though. Nationalisation ( or public ownership, if you prefer) whether by the central or local state (sometimes called municipalisation) was dead useful to capitalism to get its own way, while kidding workers that they were on the way to socialism, or at least a 'fairer' society. Tories as much as Labour recognised the value of this. There was pretty much a consensus between them in post-war Britain, backed up by the common assumptions of Keynesian economics philosophy.
Now they need to perform the same sort of trick without nationalisation, which is where the Tories "people's capitalism' and the Labour Party's redefinition of socialism and the debate on Clause 4 come in. We are witnessing the emergence of a new consensus.
The New Fool's Gold
We now find the Labour Party very interested in promoting employee ownership schemes. For inspiration, they are looking to the widespread systems of co-operative ownership in Europe, particularly in the agricultural sector, the employee ownership of industry in the USA (like TWA and North West Airlines) where some 10, 000 companies are at least partially owned by those who work in them and even to some older established systems in this country like the consumer Co-operative Society and the John Lewis Partnership. Other ideas about worker share options and worker directors are also being explored.
It's a short step from this to suggesting, as Andrew Bennett MP and the Guardian's Victor Keegan do that workers' investment in pension funds and more directly in the likes of British Gas etc. is already well on the way to some new form of social ownership.
Stephen Pollard, head of research for the Fabian Society (didn't they have something to do with the original clause 4?!) now says that, on paper at least, Britain already has 'common ownership' via the Pension and Insurance Fund Industry. Socialism really has come 'like a thief in the night' after all! Of course for Daily Mirror pensioners the thief wasn't 'socialism' but Robert Maxwell.
Andrew Bennett, who by the way thinks it's a mistake to re-write clause 4, has already re-written it in his own mind by referring to '. . . shared ownerships' of the means of production, distribution and exchange' in line with the new philosophy.
Turning in his Grave
Peter Hain MP, being a bit more of an intellectual, tried his hand at providing a few historical precedents in support of the new approach when he says:
'An alternative libertarian socialism, embracing figures as diverse as William Morris, Tom Mann, Robert Owen and Noam Chomsky, stresses decentralised control, with decision making in the hands of producers and consumers.'
Though his real reason for opposing nationalisation is the more mundane one of its 'costing too much.'
Hain obviously isn't a Radio 4 listener, otherwise he would have heard the serialisation of William Morris' 'News from Nowhere' in which the view of Socialism as a moneyless, wageless, marketless society of free access is made quite clear. In this story of a futuristic society, the Houses of Parliament are put to good use as a store for manure. So in one sense at least things are the same – the contents of that place still stink!
Ownership and Control
Apparently behind Hain's support for New Labour's ideas is his belief that 'control is as important as ownership' (in fact he opposes one to the other). But this differentiation only makes sense if 'ownership' is perceived in a purely formal or legalistic sense. In the real world, ownership can only be defined in terms of control. Private ownership means exclusive control of something by a private individual, group or section of society to the exclusion of all others.
In Russia for instance. where the state used to own most industry and agriculture, the 'people' were legally the owners, but it was the bureaucracy which had exclusive control of the means of production and therefore they who in PRACTICE owned the means of production.
Equally, a workers co-op whilst instituting common ownership amongst its members (if we ignore for the moment the rights of its creditors), is a form of private ownership as against the rest of society.
So long as the relationship between workers co-ops (or any other forms of worker controlled units) is governed by money and the market or indeed by any means of equal EXCHANGE, then so long will people as a whole fail to exert conscious social control over society as a whole. So long as production remains primarily geared towards exchange on the market rather than towards directly satisfying peoples self-expressed needs them 'common ownership of the means of production and distribution' will not have been achieved.
Furthermore, in time, the pressures of production for the market inevitably take their toll of any innovative attempts at equality within individual co-ops or other similar set-ups.
As an aside, you'll note that we don't talk about common ownership of the 'means of exchange' since as you have probably already gathered we consider this to be a totally contradictory statement. You can't exchange that which is held in common or the products of that held in common.
Thus, Clause 4 is in both theory and practice a statement of state capitalist aims and has nothing to do with socialism in its original sense. Labour's 'new' ideas are a just a mixture of traditional and worker-administered forms of capitalism regulated by the state. Just a different form of state capitalism really!
Just remember, painting America's TWA airline red didn't make it part of a communist transport system!
Subversion, No. 16 (Spring 1996)
Markyb's blog
Good article. thanks for posting all this subversion and solidarity stuff Mark. Do you mind if I ask where you are getting it from? Are you scanning it yourself from hard copies you have? Were you involved in either of the groups?
I was wondering how this co-operative ownership actually turned out for the workers, and it seems like in this instance the results for the affected workers were pretty positive - the mine stayed open until 2008 ( when the mineable coal ran out), making it the last South Wales pit.
Information and links here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Colliery
Although it doesn't say what happened with regard to pay levels/number of jobs etc in the intermediate period.
Hi Steven, nah mate, I wasn't in either of those groups. Would have been 6 years old when this article was produced :)
The Solidarity stuff has been scanned from David Goodway's collection of Maurice Brinton stuff, pamphlets borrow off my mate in the commune or ones I have bought myself off the internet.
The Subversion stuff is from 'The Second Best of Subversion' which Spikeymike off here gave me a few months ago.
I remember the seeing Tower Colliery on the news when it closed down.
On my actual 'blog' there are more links explaining what stuff is and more pictures, so it's like you get exclusive content for going on my blog and making me feel more popular...
There is also more stuff over there which I haven't transferred over yet either due to time reasons or because I didn't think it was that suitable for LibCom.
Whilst I have your attention, am I an 'authenticated' member?
I have been asked to digitise 'In and Against the State' and I want to put it straight up here as the book feature you have here would be better than putting it on my blog.
Also, do you have limits of what can go up? What if I wanted to upload something by Marcel Liebman for example?
Well looking back I am particularly proud of this one - short, sharp and to the point and blimey, how relevant to the new Labour/Tory/LibDem consensus now eh!
Hope this might also come up on any links relating to our earlier debates on co-ops but the main title doesn't really suggest that.
Mark - there's no need to scan from the Second Best of Subversion, or indeed the Best of Subversion. Both are available, from the original text files, so without any weird scanning errors, on http://www.reocities.com/athens/acropolis/8195/. That's the site that has harvested/ rescued the old geocities stuff. Feel free to use it on your blog :)
Marky b - I have done typo corrections for prefaces and first two chapters of In and Against the State - will finish uploading this weekend (I figured I may as well coz I know you're busy), hopefully chapters 3 and 4 as well... just need scan of chapter 5.
There's also an afterword or something, which we haven't sent you, but hopefully will do soon.
There seems to be something that goes wrong sometimes if you try and access these pages via the AF-North site, that's my experience anway.
you are right. But I've got all the texts on my PC and will upload them in the coming week or two.


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Rite of Baptism.
~~~ Reception of the Child ~~~
If possible, baptism should take place on Sunday, the day on which the Church celebrates the paschal mystery. It should be conferred in a communal celebration in the presence of the faithful, or at least of relatives, friends, and neighbours, who are all to take an active part in the rite. It is the role of the father and mother, accompanied by the godparents, to present the child for baptism. The people may sing a psalm or hymn suitable for the occasion. Meanwhile the celebrant, vested in alb or surplice, with stole (with or without a cope) of festive colour, and accompanied by ministers, goes to the entrance of the church or to that part of the church where the parents and godparents are waiting with the child.
The celebrant greets all present, and especially the parents and godparents, reminding them briefly of the joy with which the parents welcomed the child as a gift from God, the source of life, who now wishes to bestow life on this little one.
First the celebrant questions the parents:
Celebrant: What name do you give your child?
Parents: N.
Celebrant: What do you ask of Gods church for N..?
Parents: Baptism.
The Celebrant addresses the parents in these or similar words:
Celebrant: You have asked to have your child baptised. In doing so you are accepting the responsibility of training him (her) in the practise of the faith. It will be your duty to bring him (her) up to keep God's commandments as Christ taught us, by loving God and our neighbour. Do you clearly understand what you are undertaking?
Parents: We do.
Then the Celebrant turns to the godparents and addresses them in these or similar words:
Celebrant: Are you ready to help the parents of this child in their duty as Christian parents?
Godparents: We are.
Celebrant: N., the Christian community welcomes you with great joy. In its name I claim you for Christ our Saviour by the sign of the cross. I now trace the cross on your forehead, and invite your parents (and godparents) to do the same.
He signs the child on the forehead, in silence. Then he invites the parents and (if it seems appropriate) the godparents to do the same. The celebrant invites the parents, godparents, and the others to take part in the liturgy of the Word.
~~~ Celebration of God's Word ~~~
Scriptural Readings and Homily
One or more scripture passages are read, during which all may sit if convenient.
Celebrant: The Lord be with you.
All: And also with you.
Celebrant: A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John (3:1-6)
All: Glory to you O Lord.
There was one of the Pharisees called Nicodemus, a leading Jew, who came to Jesus by night saying " Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who comes from God; for no one could perform the signs that you do unless God were with him. Jesus answered:
"I tell you most solemnly,
unless man is born from above,
he cannot enter the kingdom of God."
Nicodemus said "How can a grown man be born? Can he go back into the mother's womb and be born again? Jesus replied
"I tell you most solemnly,
unless a man is born through water and the Spirit,
he cannot enter the kingdom of God,
what is born of the flesh is flesh,
what is born of the Spirit is spirit."
Celebrant: This is the Gospel of the Lord.
All: Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ
After the reading the celebrant gives a short homily, explaining to those present the significance of what has been read. His purpose will be to lead them to a deeper understanding of the mystery of baptism and to encourage the parents to a ready acceptance of the responsibilities which arise from the sacrament.
After the homily, or in the course of or after the liturgy, it is desirable to have a period of silence while all pray at the invitation of the celebrant. If convenient, a suitable hymn may follow.
Intercessions (Prayer of the Faithful)
Celebrant: My brothers and sisters, let us ask our Lord Jesus Christ to look lovingly on this child who is to be baptized, on his (her) parents and godparents, and on all the baptized.
#1: By the mystery of your death and resurrection, bathe this child in light, give him (her) the new life of baptism and welcome him (her) into your holy Church. Lord hear us.
All: Lord graciously hear us.
#2: Through baptism and confirmation, make him (her) your faithful follower and witness to your gospel. Lord hear us.
All: Lord graciously hear us.
#3: Lead him (her) by a holy life to the joys of God's kingdom.
Lord hear us.
All: Lord graciously hear us.
#4: Make the lives of his (her) parents and godparents examples of faith to inspire this child. Lord hear us.
All: Lord graciously hear us.
#5: Keep his (her) family always in your love. Lord hear us.
All: Lord graciously hear us.
#6: Renew the grace of our baptism in each one of us. Lord hear us.
All: Lord graciously hear us.
The celebrant next invites all present to invoke the saints.
Celebrant: Holy Mary, Mother of God All: pray for us.
Saint John the Baptist All: pray for us.
Saint Joseph All: pray for us.
Saint Peter and Saint Paul All: pray for us.
St. N. All: pray for us.
The names of other saints may be added, especially the patrons of the child to be baptised, and of the church or locality. The litany concludes.
All you saints of God All: pray for us.
Prayer of Exorcism and Anointing Before Baptism
After the invocation, the celebrant says:
Celebrant: We anoint you with the oil of salvation in the name of Christ our Saviour; may he strengthen you with his power, who lives and reigns for ever and ever.
All: Amen.
He anoints the child on the breast with the Oil of Catechumens.
Then they go to the baptistery, or to the sanctuary when baptism is celebrated there on occasion.
~~~ Celebration of the Sacrament ~~~
When they come to the font, the celebrant briefly reminds the congregation of the wonderful work of God whose plan it is to sanctify man, body and soul, through water. He may use these or similar words:
Blessing and Invocation of God over Baptismal Water
Then, turning to the font, he says the following blessing (Outside the Easter Season):
Celebrant: Father, you give us grace through sacramental signs, which tells us the wonders of your unseen power.
In Baptism we use your gift of water, which you have made a rich symbol of the grace you give us in this sacrament.
At the very dawn of creation your Spirit breathed on the waters, making them the wellspring of all holiness.
The waters of the great flood you made a sign of the waters of Baptism, that make an end of sin and a new beginning of goodness.
Through the waters of the Red Sea you led Israel out of slavery, to be an image of God's holy people, set free from sin by Baptism. In the waters of the Jordan your Son was baptized by John and anointed with the Spirit. Your Son willed that water and blood should flow from his side as he hung upon the cross. After his resurrection he told his disciples: "Go out and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." Father, look now with love upon your Church, and unseal for her the fountain of Baptism. By the power of the Spirit give to the water of this font the grace of your Son. You created man in your own likeness: cleanse him from sin in a new birth to innocence by water and the Spirit.
The celebrant touches the water with his right hand and continues:
Celebrant: We ask you, Father, with your Son to send the Holy Spirit upon the water of this font. May all who are buried with Christ in the death of Baptism rise also with him to newness of life. (We ask this) through Christ our Lord.
All: Amen.
Celebrant: Praise to you, almighty God and Father, for you have created water to cleanse and to give life.
All: Blessed be God.
Celebrant: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, the Father's only Son, for you offered yourself on the cross, that in the blood and water flowing from your side, and through your death and resurrection, the Church might be born.
All: Blessed be God.
Celebrant: Praise to you, God the Holy Spirit, for you anointed Christ at his baptism in the waters of Jordan, so that we might all be baptized in you.
All: Blessed be God.
Celebrant: Come to, Lord, Father of all, and make holy this water which you have created, so that all who are baptised in it may be washed clean of sin and be born again to live as your children.
All: Hear us, Lord.
Celebrant: Make this water holy, Lord, so that all who are baptised in it may be washed clean of sin and be born again to live as your children.
All: Hear us, Lord.
The celebrant touches the water with his right hand and continues:
Celebrant: Lord, make holy this water which you have created, so that all those whom you have chosen may be born again by the power of the Holy Spirit, and may take their place among your holy people.
All: Hear us, Lord.
If the baptismal water has already been blessed, the celebrant omits the invocation 'Come to us, Lord' and those that follow it, and says:
Celebrant: You called your child N. to this cleansing water that he (she) may share in the faith of your Church and eternal life. By the mystery of this consecrated water lead him (her) to a new and spiritual birth.
(We ask this) through Christ our lord.
All: Amen.
(c) During the Easter season, if there is baptismal water which was consecrated at the Easter Vigil, the blessing and invocation of God over the water are nevertheless included, so that the theme of thanksgiving and petition may find a place in the baptism.
Celebrant: Father, God of mercy, through these waters of baptism you have filled us with new life as your very own children.
All: Blessed be God.
Celebrant: From all who are baptized in water and the Holy Spirit, you have formed one people, united in your Son, Jesus Christ.
All: Blessed be God.
Celebrant: You have set us free and filled our hearts with the Spirit of your love, that we may live in your peace.
All: Blessed be God.
Celebrant: You call those who have been baptized to announce the Good News of Jesus Christ to people everywhere.
All: Blessed be God.
If the baptismal water has already been blessed, the celebrant omits this last prayer and says:
Celebrant: You have called your children, N. & N., to this cleansing water,
that they may share in the faith of your Church and have eternal life. By the mystery of this consecrated water lead them to a new and spiritual birth.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
All: Amen.
Renunciation of Sin and Profession of Faith.
Celebrant: Dear parents and godparents: You have come here to present this child for baptism. By water and the Holy Spirit he (she) is to receive the gift of new life from God, who is love.
On your part, you must make it your constant care to bring him (her) up in the faith. See that the divine life which God gives him (her) is kept safe from poison of sin, to grow always stronger in his (her) heart.
If your faith makes you ready to accept this responsibility, renew now the vows of your baptism. Reject sin; profess your faith in Christ Jesus. This is the faith of the Church. This is the faith in which this child is about to be baptised.
The celebrant questions the parents and godparents.
Celebrant: Do you reject Satan?
Parents & Godparents: I do.
Celebrant: And all his works?
Parents & Godparents: I do.
Celebrant: And all his empty promises?
Parents & Godparents: I do.
Next the celebrant asks for the threefold profession of faith from the parents and godparents.
Celebrant: Do you believe in the God the Father, almighty, creator of heaven and earth?
Parents & Godparents: I do.
Celebrant: Do you believe in Jesus Christ, his only son, our Lord, who was born of the Virgin Mary, was crucified, died, and was buried, rose from the dead and is now seated at the right hand of the Father?
Parents & Godparents: I do.
Celebrant: Do you believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting?
Parents & Godparents: I do.
The celebrant and the congregation give their assent to this profession of faith:
Celebrant: This is our faith. This is the faith of the Church, we are proud to profess it, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
All: Amen.
The celebrant invites the family to the font and questions the parents and godparents:
Celebrant: Is it your will that N. be baptised in the faith of the Church, which we have all professed with you?
Parents: It is.
He baptises the child, saying:
Celebrant: N., I BAPTISE YOU IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER
He immerses the child or pours water upon it.
Celebrant: AND OF THE SON
He immerses the child or pours water upon it a second time.
Celebrant: AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
He immerses the child or pours water upon it a third time.
After the child is baptised, it is appropriate for the people to sing a short acclamation:
This is the fountain of life,
water made holy by the suffering of Christ, washing all the world.
You who are washed in this water have hope of heaven's kingdom.
Anointing After Baptism
Celebrant: God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ has freed you from sin, given you a new birth by water and the Holy Spirit, and welcomed you into his holy people. He now anoints you with the chrism of salvation. As Christ was anointed Priest, Prophet, and King, so may you live always as members of his body, sharing everlasting life.
All: Amen.
Then the celebrant anoints the child on the crown of the head with the sacred chrism, in silence.
Clothing with the White Garment
Celebrant: N., you have become a new creation, and have clothed yourself in Christ. See in this white garment the outward sign of your Christian dignity. With your family and friends to help you by word and example, bring that dignity unstained into the everlasting life of heaven.
All: Amen.
The white garment is put on the child. A different colour is not permitted unless demanded by local custom. It is desirable that the family provide the garment.
The Lighted Candle
The Celebrant takes the Easter Candle and says:
Celebrant: Receive the light of Christ.
Someone from the family (such as the father or godfather) lights the child's candle from the Easter Candle. The Celebrant then says:
Celebrant: Parents and Godparents, this light is entrusted to you to be kept burning brightly. This child of yours has been enlightened by Christ. He (she) is to walk always as a child of the light. May he (she) keep the flame of faith alive in his (her) heart. When the Lord comes, may he (she) go out to meet him with all the saints in the heavenly kingdom.
The rite of Ephphetha follows. The celebrant touches the ears and mouth of the child with his thumb, saying:
Celebrant: The Lord Jesus made the deaf hear and the dumb speak. May he soon touch your ears to receive his word, and your mouth to proclaim his faith. To the praise and glory of God the Father.
All: Amen.
~~~ Conclusion of the Rite ~~~
Next there is a procession to the altar, unless the baptism was performed in the sanctuary. The lighted candle is carried for the child.
A baptismal song is appropriate at this time, e.g.:.
You have put on Christ,
in him you have been baptised.
Alleluia, alleluia.
The Lord's Prayer
The celebrant stands in front of the altar and addresses the parents, godparents, and the whole assembly in these or similar words:
Celebrant: Dearly beloved, this child has been reborn in baptism. He (she) is now called the child of God, for so indeed he (she) is. In confirmation he (she) will receive the fullness of God's Spirit. In holy communion he (she) will share the banquet of Christ's sacrifice, calling God his (her) Father in the midst of the Church. In the name of this child, in the Spirit of our common sonship, let us pray together in the words our Lord has given us:
All present join the celebrant in singing or saying:
All: Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come;
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil.
Blessing and Dismissal
The celebrant first blesses the mother, who holds the child in her arms, then the father, and lastly the entire assembly:
Celebrant: God the Father, through his Son, the Virgin Mary's child, has brought joy to all Christian mothers, as they see the hope of eternal life shine on their children. May he bless the mothers of this child. They now thank God for the gift of their children. May they be one with them in thanking him for ever in heaven, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
All: Amen.
Celebrant: God is the giver of all life, human and divine. May he bless the fathers of this child. With their wives they will be the first teachers of their children in the ways of faith. May they be also the best of teachers, bearing witness to the faith by what they say and do, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
All: Amen.
Celebrant: By God's gift, through water and the Holy Spirit, we are reborn to everlasting life. In his goodness, may he continue to pour out his blessing upon all present, who are his sons and daughters. May he make them always, wherever they may be, faithful members of his holy people. May he send his peace upon all who are gathered here, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
All: Amen.
Celebrant: May almighty God, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, bless you and remain with you forever.
All: Amen.
Celebrant: Go in peace.
All: Thanks be to God.
Where there is the practice of bringing the baptised child to the altar of the Blessed Virgin Mary, this custom may be observed if appropriate.


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Krystyna Pawłowicz in an op-ed published Monday on the news website Wpolityce was commenting on criticism by Jewish groups and the State of Israel on a law passed last week by the parliament that criminalizes accusing Poland of crimes committed by the Nazis during their occupation of the country during World War II. The Nazis killed 4 million Jews in Poland, including 3 million with Polish nationality. They also killed 3 million non-Jewish Poles, who the Nazis considered inferior. In parallel, individual Poles killed thousands of Jews. Thousands of Poles also helped rescue Jews and Jewish families.
"The post-communists and the opposition again today want us, Poles in free Poland, to apologize once more, this time for their anti-Semitism carried out as part of internal struggles between the Soviet governors," she wrote.
Across the former Soviet Union and its satellite countries, there is persistent anti-Semitic sentiment centered on the outsize role of Jews in the communist revolution and regimes that followed. Some of those regimes in Russia, Poland and other areas adopted anti-Semitic policies.
"For March '68 let the perpetrators, their ideologues and descendants apologize," Pawłowicz wrote. That year, hundreds of thousands of Jews left Poland, abandoning their possessions and forced to relinquish their Polish nationality amid a state-led anti-Semitic propaganda campaign.
In 2016, Zsolt Bayer, a co-founder of the ruling Fidesz party, suggested collaboration in the Holocaust was payback for oppression brought on by communist Jews. In Lithuania, where collaborators and German troops wiped out the local Jewish community, authorities launched a probe in 2008 for alleged war crimes against three Jewish partisans with support from the Red Army. The probe was dropped amid an international outcry.


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Monitor Sloop with Prometheus and Grafana Cloud
The open source project Sloop from Salesforce provides a Prometheus exporter so that you can aggregate, scrape, and push metrics to a Prometheus-compatible database. To store your Sloop application's Prometheus metrics in a scalable, long-term remote storage service such as Grafana Cloud's fully-managed Mimir database, follow one of the methods below.
Send Prometheus metrics from Sloop to Grafana Cloud
Choose one of the following methods for pushing your metrics to Grafana Cloud.
- Set up an agentless scrape job with the Metrics Endpoint integration (easiest)
- Deploy a Grafana Agent scraping service (most flexible)
- Modify your Prometheus instance to write metrics directly to Grafana Cloud
Need a Grafana Cloud account? Create a new account for free.
Set up an agentless scrape job with the Metrics Endpoint integration
- Navigate to your Grafana Cloud instance
- In your Grafana Cloud instance, use the left-side navigation to get to the Connections Console (Home > Connections > Add new connection).
- Search "Metrics Endpoint" to find the Metrics Endpoint configuration page.
- Enter your Scrape Job URL (Prometheus endpoint), choose between Bearer and Basic under "Type of Authentication Credentials", and test your connection using the Test Connection button.
- Click the "Save Scrape Job" button to submit your new agentless scrape job.
That's it! Scrapes will be automatically performed at the target scrape job URL every 60 seconds.
Learn more about how to get started with Metrics Endpoint in Grafana Cloud
Deploy a Grafana Agent scraping service
If you are already using Grafana Agent in Flow mode, you may benefit from creating a new prometheus.scrape
component that will let you compose advanced Prometheus scrape configurations and easily reuse scrape configurations—all managed in one place.
Examples of advanced scrape job arguments include settings for scrape job name, scrape interval, sample limit, label limit, proxy url, and configuration blocks for oAuth authorization.
View tutorial on collecting Prometheus metrics with Grafana Agent
Push metrics using Prometheus remote write
Below is an example remote write code snippet. You will need to add this remote_write
block to your prometheus.yml
config file in order to forward your metrics from your local Prometheus instance to fully-managed remote storage with Grafana Cloud:
- url: <Your Metrics instance remote_write endpoint>
username: <Your Metrics instance ID>
password: <Your Cloud Access Policy token>
You can find the https://...grafana.net/api/prom/push
URL, username, and password for your metrics endpoint in the Cloud Portal. Click your stack 'Details' then select the Prometheus 'Details'. The target URL and basic auth username display towards the middle of the page.
Can't find your Prometheus config file?
The out-of-the-box prometheus.yml
config file for Sloop can be found at the following location:
Additional remote_write
Visit the Prometheus.io Configuration Docs to view additional remote_write
configuration settings.
Control your Grafana Cloud metrics expense
Every Grafana Cloud account includes 10,000 active series metric storage, free-forever. To reduce your billable metrics usage, we recommend following the guidelines below.
Reduce the number of metric data points pushed to Grafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud provides 1 data point per minute (DPM) resolution for $8 per 1,000 series. You can adjust the total DPM you push to Grafana Cloud by adjusting the scrape_interval
settings in your prometheus.yml
config file.
Learn more about how to adjust your Prometheus scrape interval.
Identify and eliminate unused metric data
We designed Adaptive Metrics so that you can easily aggregate metrics that are unused. By applying our aggregation rules, you will block unused time series data at the time of ingestion while keeping the metric name and labels so that you can discover them if needed in the future. Adaptive Metrics is available to all Grafana Cloud users for no additional cost.


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Modern applications with many users can generate a lot of telemetry data. While it is a pretty common (and almost always wrong) perception that you absolutely must collect every piece of the application telemetry, doing so may come at a high price. In addition to dealing with an increased cost of storing more data in Application Insights, your application will have higher network consumption, and the performance impact from monitoring may be high.
Moreover, when the volume of telemetry surpasses throttling limits, Application Insights will start dropping the data. When this happens, your application telemetry goes totally out of control. The metrics no longer reflect accurate values and the diagnostic experience is busted since the telemetry item you're looking for could have been throttled out. To give you control of the volume of collected data, and to protect against the issues from generating too much of telemetry, a recent release of Application Insights SDK 2 beta introduces the concept of sampling.
From the application standpoint, sampling is a feature of the SDK that allows you to collect and store a reduced set of telemetry while maintaining a statistically correct analysis of application data in the portal. Currently, sampling can be used with ASP.NET web applications on both client and server sides, or only from the client-side for web applications written with other (non .NET) server-side platforms.
Learn more about how sampling can help you keep the volume of application telemetry down and also how to configure sampling with your web applications here.


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When executives at Words and Pictures, a New Jersey−based advertising and marketing agency, needed a collaboration tool for meetings, they chose Kramer Electronics VIA Connect PRO for a simple, wireless solution that works with any laptop or mobile device. It enables simultaneous viewing, editing and commenting on documents in real time, making it ideal for meeting rooms, boardrooms, conference rooms and classrooms.
Rhonda Smith, owner of Words and Pictures, said the system has been a big success for her company. "We love how it easily brings everyone in the meeting onto the same page and allows us to step in and show our ideas, and even present new ideas in real time."
Smith also noted that the solution was especially appealing because it did not require software or a significant hardware investment, and it was compatible with her company's current computer network. Up to four people's screens can be shown on the main display, and users can also share files and chat electronically with individuals or groups during the session.
In addition, the VIA Connect PRO offers full HD wireless video streaming, supporting full HD 1080p/60, MP3 files and photos. Smith said the video quality far surpassed typical formats. "The ability to playback HD video is amazing. The image is seamless, without the usual stuttering from playback over WiFi," she noted.
The Kramer VIA Connect PRO system supports both MAC and PC, as well as Android and iOS mobile operating systems. It gives multiple users the ability to edit and control the main display at the same time, and users can annotate, illustrate and edit on the device's whiteboard. Not only can files can be instantly shared by Cloud connection, but users can be confident that their systems are secure with the VIA Connect PRO's powerful security features, including user authentication, 1024−bit encryption, and a dynamic room code.
Because it is wireless, the Kramer VIA Connect PRO can be installed and ready for use in less than one hour. The Kramer Electronics team provides set−up support and training on the system, either by phone or on site.
"The Kramer Electronics VIA Connect PRO system has dramatically changed the way we collaborate, and I can't imagine our conference room without it," Smith said.


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[Shri Anil asked Swami to give a message on the recent havoc followed by several deaths in the pilgrimage to Kedarnath. Given below is Shri Swami's response.]
Pilgrimage Involves Negative Effects from Beginning to End: The fundamental point that everybody should note is that God is not present in any inert stone or statue and hence, a specific place containing such stone or statue has no real significance. The spiritual significance is forcibly rubbed on such places and the stones and statues stand only as representative models of God. Such places certainly help the beginners to develop the faith and devotion in case the relevant atmosphere exists. The development of spiritual devotion is real even though God does not exist there. It is a psychological treatment and of course the results are positive and real. One ignorant person developed head-ache due to false impression that the head-ache was due to the entry of a squirrel into the head through the ear. No doctor could cure him since the patient did not believe any argument against such entry. Hence, there was no cure. One clever doctor agreed to the argument of the patient and threw out a squirrel kept in his hand in hidden way near his ear. The patient believed that the squirrel came out from his head through his ear and subsequently the head-ache disappeared. All this treatment of the doctor is based on false concept, but the result was real and wonderful. Similarly, all these pious places are such psychological clinic centers. The unreal stories created in such places have positive effect on the human psychology and develop real tremendous devotion to God. If the truth is revealed, the psychological treatment gets spoiled. If the truth is not revealed, several exploitations and frauds of business take place as going on now.
Actually, in the olden days, these pilgrim places were in lonely atmosphere situated in forests and on hills. The peaceful atmosphere co-operated with the development of devotion. But, today, these places are terribly busy with crowds of people running to fulfill their desires. The basic concept is lost since you are expected to set aside all the material desires being away from the populated places. But, today, these pilgrim places are more populated than the cities in which you reside. People run to such pious places to fulfill their material desires. Thus, the atmosphere is not at all congenial for meditation or spiritual concentration in absence of spiritual associates. The actual purpose is lost. The priests in such places are busy in looting the public. People are exploited by the false stories created on such pious places. The priests exploit the public to loot money with the help of such false stories (Sthalapuranams). Originally, these false stories were created as psychological tricks to develop faith and devotion in the ignorant public. Today, the same false stories are used to attract the people to such places for the business of the priests. Therefore, today, the pilgrimage is only giving reverse results in the spiritual line. The long journey and absence of hygienic food etc., result in acquirement of new diseases. Lot of money is also wasted in journey. Both health and wealth are lost apart from loss of spiritual concentration due to focus on the fulfillment of desires. Your house with less number of people is far better than such a pilgrimage place. Your prayer room is far better than the crowded temple.
However, if you argue that there should be change of place, the new place should have more peaceful atmosphere than your house. You can achieve this by going a few miles away from your town and not to a pilgrim place, which is more crowded. You can have spiritual meeting and do prayers in such real peaceful atmosphere taking a photo of God there. Such trips will really fulfill such necessities and also will really help your spiritual development. The calamity happened in Kedarnath is the expression of God to discourage such pilgrimages, which are associated with negative results only from the beginning to the end.
If your prayers are based on fulfillment of desires, God, sometimes, helps to fulfill your desires, in case such action has the possibility of development of your faith and devotion in God. In such context, the good fruit of your own good deeds is taken out from your fixed deposit only to fulfill your desire. Such action is done by God whether you pray in your house or in the temple or even in the pilgrim place. This action has nothing to do with the place and it is done only to increase your faith and devotion. Therefore, for fulfillment of your desire, which, of course, is not correct spiritual path, you need not run to a temple or a pilgrim place for such purpose.


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Every year at TED there are some cool new technology introductions. This year was no exception, and one that really captured my attention was a new "pen." It is actually much more than your average pen however. It is called the Pulse SmartPen by a company called LiveScribe. What makes this device interesting is that when you take notes (using special note paper), it captures the ambient sound in the room where you are writing. Later, if you want to review your notes, you can tap the pen to any word on the page, and it will play back what was going on at the time you took the note.
This is a fantastic concept for any situation where you need to take notes, but might want more detail (a lecture in school for example). The pen has a variety of other functions too. For example, if you have a phrase that you have written down, you can touch the pen to the phrase, and it will repeat it back to you in a foreign language. Another feature is that you can write down numbers, and then arithmetic statements such a plus or minus. By touching the numbers and math statement, plus adding an equal sign, the pen will give you the correct answer to the math problem.
The pen is not available yet, but will sell in both one and two gigabyte models for under $200.


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Nobel winners and losers
Hallowed award doesn't always go to the top scientists, author says
Scientists James Watson and Francis Crick published a now-famous paper in 1953 that described the double-helix structure of DNA, but it wasn't until 1962 that the pair received a Nobel Prize for the discovery.
"You would think that the fantastic contribution of James Watson and Francis Crick would be a hot topic for a Nobel Prize, but still in 1959 there was no nomination," said Erling Norrby, a former member of the Nobel committee who has written a book,"Nobel Prizes and Life Sciences."
Norrby, a virology researcher turned science historian at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, spoke at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) on June 9 as part of the Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series. He focused on the nucleic acids DNA and RNA and their role in heredity as a way to share stories about the history of the prize. The talk was based on one of the chapters in his book.
Not long after scientist Gregor Mendel showed that traits in peas were inherited, a physician chemist in the 1800s named Friedrich Miescher isolated nucleic acids, but he did not understand their role in genetics. In 1910, nine years after the Nobels were established, Albrecht Kossel received one for his work on nucleic acids and proteins.
However, scientists and award judges were often drawn elsewhere, even when Oswald Avery and his colleagues identified DNA as genetic material in a 1944 paper. At the time, said Norrby, "The scientific community was not at all prepared to accept this pioneering contribution." Indeed, it took until 1956 for Avery and his team to be considered for a Nobel, but by that time Avery had died. The Nobel committee does not award prizes posthumously.
Eventually, scientists became captivated by RNA, a nucleic acid similar to DNA but single-stranded. In 1989, two scientists received a Nobel Prize for showing that RNA can not only carry genetic information, but can also operate like an enzyme, catalyzing chemical processes in the cell. Last year, three scientists (including Jack Szostak from Harvard) shared a prize for showing how chromosomes, which carry genes, are protected by a part of the DNA strand called a telomere.
"It's a never ending story," said Norrby. "There are more surprises to come." He predicts future prizes will result from the field of epigenetics, and from features that can control the activity — but not the DNA sequence — of genes and are inheritable.
Norrby noted that some eventual Nobel laureates are considered repeatedly. Kossel, for example, was nominated in 1902, reconsidered in 1903, 1904, and finally won in 1910. As a member of the Nobel Committee in the late 1970s, Norrby recalled considering a nomination first proffered in 1937, the year he was born. Others win the first time they are nominated. Still others thought worthy (like Oswald Avery) never receive science's top award.
"Of course we're only human beings," he said. "But this prize could never have the extraordinary position it has among prizes if it were not deeply respected among the scientific community."
Here's a link to view a Webcast of this talk.


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Sometimes estates that are large enough for estate taxes to be a concern are asset rich but cash poor, without the liquidity needed to pay those taxes. An intrafamily loan is one option. While a life insurance policy can be used to cover taxes and other estate expenses, a benefit of using an intrafamily loan is that, if it's properly structured, the estate can deduct the full amount of interest upfront. Doing so reduces the estate's size and, thus, its estate tax liability.
Deducting the interest
An estate can deduct interest if it's a permitted expense under local probate law, actually and necessarily incurred in the administration of the estate, ascertainable with reasonable certainty, and will be paid. Under probate law in most jurisdictions, interest is a permitted expense. And, generally, interest on a loan used to avoid a forced sale or liquidation is considered "actually and necessarily incurred."
To ensure that interest is "ascertainable with reasonable certainty," the loan terms shouldn't allow prepayment and should provide that, in the event of default, all interest for the remainder of the loan's term will be accelerated. Without these provisions, the IRS or a court would likely conclude that future interest isn't ascertainable with reasonable certainty and would disallow the upfront deduction. Instead, the estate would deduct interest as it's accrued and recalculate its estate tax liability in future years.
The requirement that interest "will be paid" generally isn't an issue, unless there's some reason to believe that the estate won't be able to generate sufficient income to cover the interest payments.
Ensuring the loan is bona fide
For the interest to be deductible, the loan also must be bona fide. A loan from a bank or other financial institution shouldn't have any trouble meeting this standard.
But if the loan is from a related party, such as a family-controlled trust or corporation, the IRS may question whether the transaction is bona fide. So the parties should take steps to demonstrate that the transaction is a true loan.
Among other things, they should:
- Set a reasonable interest rate (based on current IRS rates),
- Execute a promissory note,
- Provide for collateral or other security to ensure the loan is repaid,
- Pay the interest payments in a timely manner, and
- Otherwise treat the loan as an arm's-length transaction.
It's critical that the loan's terms be reasonable and that the parties be able to demonstrate a "genuine intention to create a debt with a reasonable expectation of repayment."
If you're considering making an intrafamily loan, contact us. We'd be pleased to answer any questions you may have.
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Attention all bookish babes - tired of carrying around a boring bag that doesn't reflect your love for the written word?
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- Production Time: It takes 5 - 7 days to finish your order and ship out.
- Shipping Time: You will receive your order anywhere from 7 - 12 business days (depending on the shipping method you chose) from the date that it is shipped out, not the date the order is placed.
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This high-quality material provides a soft, protective cushion, reminiscent of the comforting pages of a beloved book.
Enjoy the embrace of literary elegance while ensuring your items are cradled in style and grace.
We know you need your hands free for turning pages, so our handbags feature adjustable straps for all of your bookish adventures.
Whether you're browsing the shelves at the library or curled up with a good book, our bags are the perfect companion.
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Whether you're headed to a book club meeting or a literary festival, our bags are tailored to fit any occasion.
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We want you to LOVE your new leather handbags, and we're confident that you will!
We offer two options for our leather bags.
Our premium faux leather offers a high-quality alternative to animal leather, while our top grain leather is a durable and long-lasting material made from the top layer of cowhide.
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Yes, we offer personalization options, and you can add your name to your bag.
We offer different font options that complement each bag's design. The font used will vary depending on the bag design, but we ensure that the personalization looks stylish and elegant.
However, we do not offer customization for font or color. You can add your name using the available font option for the specific bag design.
Yes, all of our leather bags are handcrafted by skilled artisans.
We take great pride in the quality of our craftsmanship and ensure that each bag is carefully crafted to meet our high standards.
Our leather bags come in a range of sizes to meet your needs.
We provide detailed product descriptions that include information on the dimensions and storage capacity of each bag.
Whether you need a small clutch for a night out or a spacious tote bag for everyday use, we have options that will suit your needs.
To ensure the longevity and beautiful appearance of your leather bag, avoid water and moisture, store it properly in a cool, dry place, use a leather conditioner to prevent cracking and drying, clean with a leather cleaner, and avoid using harsh chemicals or abrasive materials.
Contact our customer support team if you have any questions or concerns about how to care for your bag.
The cost of shipping depends on the weight of your order and the destination.
For US orders, it's $7.95 plus $3 for each additional item.
International shipping rates are $9.95 for the first item and an additional $3 for each additional item. We also offer FREE shipping on orders over $89.
If you have any questions about our shipping policies or costs, please don't hesitate to contact us. We're always happy to help!
It'll take about 12-15 business days for US orders and around 15-20 business days for international orders.
But since we're a small, up-and-coming company, we appreciate your patience as we work to improve our systems!
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Our leather handbags are manufactured in China. We would love to produce our products domestically in the USA.
We have explored every possibility to do so, but it's simply not feasible, as the production costs would prevent us from offering a competitive price point to consumers.
We carefully choose each factory we collaborate with and diligently work with them to ensure that every product meets the highest standards and adheres to our strict legal and social requirements.
We work closely with our partners in China to guarantee that each and every leather handbag meets industry standards for quality, safety, fair labor, ethical business practices, and environmental responsibility.
Yes!You can track your order on our website. Just use this page and input your tracking number to see the latest updates. Thanks for choosing us!
Yes, we do ship our leather bags outside of the US. However, the shipping time and shipping cost will vary depending on the country to which you are shipping
Yes, without any question.
We're confident that you'll love our leather bags.
But if for any reason you're not satisfied, we'll refund your money - no questions asked.
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