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Support for bereavement counselling services
Several died before they reached the age of five which was, of course, very common in those times. These days, it's said that we don't understand death and loss as well as the Victorians. They were very used to friends and family dying before their time and sophisticated mourning rituals were part of their recognition that it takes time to accept the loss of a loved one. Of course, it's a good thing that such loss is not an everyday occurrence for us but perhaps it also means that we are not as well-equipped to face the often-seismic changes to our lives that a close bereavement often makes.
At Sussex Community Foundation, we've funded many bereavement counselling services, including Cruse Bereavement Care - West Sussex, which has branches in Worthing, Chichester and Mid Sussex. The group has received over £30,000 in grants from us since 2009. Cruse exists to enable anyone suffering bereavement caused by death to understand their grief and cope with their loss. They offer face-to-face bereavement support in the bereaved person's home, bereavement support via telephone and email helplines, opportunities for the bereaved to meet socially, and longer-term support for the more vulnerable.
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Hide AdOne bereaved person had this to say: "My bereavement counsellor supported and helped me through a very difficult time. She encouraged me to remember those who had died and really grieve for them in a healthy, positive way. She understood how I was feeling and gave me permission to talk freely about my loved ones and to remember the many wonderful memories we had shared before their death. She listened with genuine interest and gave me the space to allow the tears to flow. She listened to my hurt, guilt and pain as she knew that, when someone is gone, we often feel that we did not do enough for them or we neglected to tell them how much we really cared for them and loved them.
"My counsellor understood how lost and forlorn I was feeling. Then, when I was ready, she gently brought me to a place of acceptance so that I could pick up my life once more and live on again, without the guilt, the fear and the sadness that had, for so long, enveloped and engulfed me."
Perhaps there is one thing we are better at than the Victorians: the understanding that we often need support and to talk, when the pain of losing someone we love is too much to bear.
If you are finding it hard to cope after the death of someone close, you can contact Cruse Bereavement Care – West Sussex for information, advice and support. Call 0300 311 9959 and leave your details and a volunteer will aim to call you back within 48 hours.
For more information about Sussex Community Foundation, visit www.sussexgiving.org.uk


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A chance meeting at a picnic thrown by Cornell Alums (Princeton Area) we met Helene. It is Helene who deserves the credit for leading me down the road to sin..(I owe her 'big time' and she never lets me forget it!). After doing some puzzles for various publications she was involved in….sneakily she invited me to a soiree (actually several) at her home…where I met a lot of krewe…and she encouraged me to go to Stamford … where I met a lot more, and Treesong who convinced me life would not be complete without membership in the NPL.. Always willing to try anything at least once…I signed up for a year…then renewed for multiple years. Finishing last at Stanford in several attempts prepared me for membership, for I can only solve about 6-8 flats a month (if lucky) however I do enjoy reading about all those who have 'completes' My expertise in solving has made me the sole distributor of 16 1/2 cases of binders so I must have some value to the group.
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Asobi (not Asobu). There is quite a difference.
A friend who saw I was always doing paper puzzles (etc) used the word 'asobi' when talking about me in his own language. I asked him what it meant, and he said "play, game, puzzle) Of course, this was the same person his American co-workers told HIM that in order to compliment a western woman you:
Pat them on the rear and say "nice buns"
Now…the explanation for ASOBU follows:
Asobu is Japanese for the verb 'to play' but its use is not limited to the meanings of the english 'to play.' With other references about the difference in the moral view of sex, it is not a far-fetched extension to understand that Japanese think of sex with the word for 'to play.' One friend explained that it was just like anything else to do with no moral connotations. Another told me that of course the parents knew their daughter was getting night visitors, just like if a westerner sent a kid upstairs to bed and s/he was reading a comic book under the sheets by flashlight… the parent doesn't do anything about it unless it gets out of hand.
The 'asobi' username has an 'i' instead of a 'u', which is one way to conjugate verbs to make them into nouns, so my username is more like 'the play' or 'the game' or 'the sport' rather than a verb for 'to play.'
Some uses of 'asobi' … In japanese a person can either 'do' tennis or 'play' tennis. My Japanese friends when they say they will go swimming translate that to english as 'Do you want to play swimming with me?" or "I like to play rock climbing."
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Haywood County doctors doubly vested in health care venture with MedWest
A new $9.3 million surgery center in Haywood County is being financed with equity put up by 20 doctors in the community who invested capital in exchange for a real estate interest in the project.
The hospital will lease the space, outfit it with equipment and manage its operation, but won't pay for any of the construction costs.
MedWest CEO Mike Poore said the hospital could have afforded to build the surgery center on its own if it had to, but prefers the business structure.
"We could have taken on the debt, but what's more important is it has our physicians invested even more in the health care of our community," Poore said.
Poore said the hospital-physician partnership makes the outpatient surgery center all the more unique.
The business arrangement marries the hospital and physician community. Now more than ever, their success is contingent on the other.
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The doctors will profit from the lease paid by the hospital. The hospital profits from the patients the doctors will rake in.
Also involved in the project is Meadows and Ohly, a development company out of Charlotte that builds medical offices and outpatient centers. The firm will act as the general partner and orchestrate the construction.
The 20 physicians who bought shares in the project as limited partners fronted nearly one third of the building's cost, accounting for all the equity.
At first blush, the number of doctors who bought in to the outpatient center is impressive — more than 20 percent of the doctors practicing in Haywood.
But it is a fairly fool-proof and risk-free venture. As long as the hospital keeps leasing the space, they'll get a return on their investment.
Dr. Luis Munoz, a pathologist, said for some doctors who put up money, it may have seemed like an attractive real estate investment. But for most it was out of their conviction to support health care in the community they serve.
The project didn't exactly hinge on the financial backing of physicians.
"I could always do it with my own equity," said Jay Bowling, vice president of Meadows and Ohly.
And the firm could have kept all the profits for itself.
"Are we leaving money on the table? Probably," Ohly said.
But, the project is much stronger thanks to doctors' involvement, Bowling said. And certainly less risky.
Its success is nearly guaranteed since the doctors are doubly vested: not only in their own practices but also as a real estate investor. The more business they bring in, the better surgery center does, and the more they get back on their lease.
Storied history
An outpatient surgery center has been in the works for more than a decade, but at one time was a controversial undertaking, one that looked much different than the end result today.
Five years ago, the hospital was poised to break ground on a $16.5 million expansion, financed and funded solely by the hospital. In late 2007, hospital leadership held a reception to unveil the blueprints, and even showed off upholstery samples for new waiting room sofas.
But the entire project came crashing down a few months later when the hospital lost its Medicare and Medicaid status after failing federal inspections in early 2008. Savings squirreled away to pay for the $16.5 million surgery wing were spent instead to keep the hospital afloat until it rebounded from the crisis. The leadership in place at the time has been replaced.
More than $400,000 spent on architects and plans went down the drain.
The project today looks much different than the one pursued by the older hospital leadership — both in scope and cost.
While the old project was billed as a "surgery center," in reality it was a new wing of the hospital. The old plans simply called for a makeover of existing surgery rooms, while the majority of the project was ancillary: a new lobby and main entrance, new administrative offices and two floors of "shell" space for future expansion, for example.
While that project was shelved, the idea for an outpatient center was not.
Starting over from scratch — and without a nest egg to work with — the hospital administration and more than a dozen doctors split the cost of a $40,000 feasibility study in 2009 to reassess the project.
The result is a far different project: a standalone building on the hospital's campus with the entire footprint dedicated to outpatient services.
New era of physician involvement
Other than its physical differences, the most marked evolution in the project is the business arrangement, namely the partnership with the doctors.
Under the old leadership, that type of investment and partnership wasn't welcomed or allowed, Poore said.
Doctors had previously sought a seat at the table, offering to partner with the hospital and help finance the surgery center.
But the former hospital CEO wanted "complete and total control" and shut the doctors out, said Dr. Luis Munoz, a pathologist and a partner in the project.
Munoz, one of the physician investors, is pleased with the new approach under today's hospital leaders.
"I think this is a preferable scenario, when both parties are involved," said Munoz. "This is another example of this administration being transparent."
"This is a really good example of how collaboration should work," agreed Dr. Al Mina, a general surgeon in Haywood.
Better for the bottom line
The new outpatient center should help Haywood capture more market share, namely those patients who now bypass Haywood and go to doctors in Asheville affiliated with Mission Hospital.
Currently, outpatient services accounts for two-thirds of the hospital's revenue. Not all of those services and procedures will be relocated to the new center, but it provides a snapshot of just how important outpatient revenue is for a hospital's bottom line.
The hospital hopes to attract more outpatient services — and thus bring in more revenue — to pay for the new building.
While the hospital won't bear the upfront construction costs, it still has sizeable expenses to deal with: the annual lease on the space, the overhead, the nurses and other support staff to run it. The cost of the equipment, from waiting room chairs to operating tables, will fall to the hospital as well.
But some of the cost to run the new surgery center will be a wash. Nurses and technicians who currently work in the surgery wing, mammography services, and other departments of the main hospital will simply move to the new outpatient center.
Some services will be duplicated in both the hospital and outpatient center, such as MRIs or blood work, and will require doubling up of staff.
In other areas, the outpatient center will operate more efficiently thanks to a better layout. The hospital will no longer need such an extensive transport crew, a by-product of the cumbersome design of outpatient services inside the hospital.
"It will save on this whole group of people who spend all day transporting people up and down from the sixth floor to the basement," Markoff said.
Patients using the new building also will be able to stay on the same stretcher during their pre-surgery prep, the actual surgery and the recovery. Again more efficient, and cost cutting since there's not all the sheets to wash or staff to constantly strip stretchers.
In many urban areas, new outpatient centers aren't being built alongside hospitals, but instead are free-standing medical office buildings across town, sometimes not even run by the hospital. But it is advantageous to have the surgery center on the same campus as the hospital, Poore said. If there's an emergency, the full resources of the hospital right next door can be brought to bear.
"If you are a free-standing surgery center and something goes wrong, they call 911. Here, we are the 911," Poore said.
The project should be completed by spring.
"This project has been in the planning stages for many, many years so it is a great thing to see it come to fruition," said Mark Clasby, member of the hospital board and Haywood County economic development director.


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We study how the opening of a factory store impacts a retailer's demand in its other channels. It is possible that a factory store may damage a retailer's brand image and lead to substitution away from its higher quality core channels. Alternatively, the opening of a factory store may have positive effects as it may attract new buyers and serve as a form of brand advertising. In this paper, we use a natural experiment that arises from a retailer introducing a factory store in 2002. We analyze data that spans all customers and all channels from 1995 to 2007. This allows for careful pre and post analysis of the factory store opening. We find that the introduction of the factory store led to substantial positive spillovers to the core channels that lasted for multiple years. Customers purchase more items from the higher priced, higher quality channels after the factory store is opened. These positive spillovers represent approximately 17% of all of the incremental sales that result from the factory store opening (the other 83% are contributed by sales in the factory store itself).


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How do designers make cars safer? They treat them like a school of fish. Safe Swarm, recently unveiled by Honda, uses vehicle-to-vehicle communication to allow cars to pass information on to other cars in the vicinity. For example, alerts about an accident miles up the road could be relayed to cars miles back, enabling them to operate collaboratively and intelligently to avoid accidents and mitigate traffic.
The evolution of intelligent things, such as collective thinking car swarms, is one of 10 strategic trends with broad industry impact and significant potential for disruption.
"The continuing digital business evolution exploits new digital models to align more closely the physical and digital worlds for employees, partners and customers," says David Cearley, vice president and Gartner Fellow, at Gartner 2017 Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida. "Technology will be embedded in everything in the digital business of the future."
The Intelligent Digital Mesh
Gartner calls the entwining of people, devices, content and services the intelligent digital mesh. It's enabled by digital models, business platforms and a rich, intelligent set of services to support digital business.
Intelligent: How AI is seeping into virtually every technology and with a defined, well-scoped focus can allow more dynamic, flexible and potentially autonomous systems.
Digital: Blending the virtual and real worlds to create an immersive digitally enhanced and connected environment.
Mesh: The connections between an expanding set of people, business, devices, content and services to deliver digital outcomes.
Trend No. 1: AI Foundation
The ability to use AI to enhance decision making, reinvent business models and ecosystems, and remake the customer experience will drive the payoff for digital initiatives through 2025.
Given the steady increase in inquiry calls, it's clear that interest is growing. A recent Gartner survey showed that 59% of organizations are still gathering information to build their AI strategies, while the remainder have already made progress in piloting or adopting AI solutions.
Although using AI correctly will result in a big digital business payoff, the promise (and pitfalls) of general AI where systems magically perform any intellectual task that a human can do and dynamically learn much as humans do is speculative at best. Narrow AI, consisting of highly scoped machine-learning solutions that target a specific task (such as understanding language or driving a vehicle in a controlled environment) with algorithms chosen that are optimized for that task, is where the action is today. "Enterprises should focus on business results enabled by applications that exploit narrow AI technologies and leave general AI to the researchers and science fiction writers," says Cearley.
Trend No. 2: Intelligent Apps and Analytics
Over the next few years every app, application and service will incorporate AI at some level. AI will run unobtrusively in the background of many familiar application categories while giving rise to entirely new ones. AI has become the next major battleground in a wide range of software and service markets, including aspects of ERP. "Challenge your packaged software and service providers to outline how they'll be using AI to add business value in new versions in the form of advanced analytics, intelligent processes and advanced user experiences," notes Cearley.
Intelligent apps also create a new intelligent intermediary layer between people and systems and have the potential to transform the nature of work and the structure of the workplace, as seen in virtual customer assistants and enterprise advisors and assistants.
"Explore intelligent apps as a way of augmenting human activity, and not simply as a way of replacing people," says Cearley. Augmented analytics is a particularly strategic growing area that uses machine learning for automating data preparation, insight discovery and insight sharing for a broad range of business users, operational workers and citizen data scientists.
Trend No. 3: Intelligent Things
Intelligent things use AI and machine learning to interact in a more intelligent way with people and surroundings. Some intelligent things wouldn't exist without AI, but others are existing things (i.e., a camera) that AI makes intelligent (i.e., a smart camera.) These things operate semiautonomously or autonomously in an unsupervised environment for a set amount of time to complete a particular task. Examples include a self-directing vacuum or autonomous farming vehicle. As the technology develops, AI and machine learning will increasingly appear in a variety of objects ranging from smart healthcare equipment to autonomous harvesting robots for farms.
As intelligent things proliferate, expect a shift from stand-alone intelligent things to a swarm of collaborative intelligent things. In this model, multiple devices will work together, either independently or with human input. The leading edge of this area is being used by the military, which is studying the use of drone swarms to attack or defend military targets. It's evident in the consumer world in the opening example showcased at CES, the consumer electronics event.
Trend No. 4: Digital Twins
A digital twin is a digital representation of a real-world entity or system. In the context of IoT, digital twins are linked to real-world objects and offer information on the state of the counterparts, respond to changes, improve operations and add value. With an estimated 21 billion connected sensors and endpoints by 2020, digital twins will exist for billions of things in the near future. Potentially billions of dollars of savings in maintenance repair and operation (MRO) and optimized IoT asset performance are on the table, says Cearley.
In the short term, digital twins offer help with asset management, but will eventually offer value in operational efficiency and insights into how products are used and how they can be improved.
Outside of the IoT, there is a growing potential to link digital twins to entities that are not simply "things." "Over time, digital representations of virtually every aspect of our world will be connected dynamically with their real-world counterparts and with one another and infused with AI-based capabilities to enable advanced simulation, operation and analysis," says Cearley. "City planners, digital marketers, healthcare professionals and industrial planners will all benefit from this long-term shift to the integrated digital twin world." For example, future models of humans could offer biometric and medical data, and digital twins for entire cities will allow for advanced simulations.
Trend No. 5: Cloud to the Edge
Edge computing describes a computing topology in which information processing and content collection and delivery are placed closer to the sources of this information. Connectivity and latency challenges, bandwidth constraints and greater functionality embedded at the edge favors distributed models. Enterprises should begin using edge design patterns in their infrastructure architectures — particularly for those with significant IoT elements. A good starting point could be using colocation and edge-specific networking capabilities.
While it's common to assume that cloud and edge computing are competing approaches, it's a fundamental misunderstanding of the concepts. Edge computing speaks to a computing topology that places content, computing and processing closer to the user/things or "edge" of the networking. Cloud is a system where technology services are delivered using internet technologies, but it does not dictate centralized or decentralized service delivering services. When implemented together, cloud is used to create the service-oriented model and edge computing offers a delivery style that allows for executions of disconnected aspects of cloud service.
Trend No. 6: Conversational Platforms
Conversational platforms will drive a paradigm shift in which the burden of translating intent shifts from user to computer. These systems are capable of simple answers (How's the weather?) or more complicated interactions (book a reservation at the Italian restaurant on Parker Ave.) These platforms will continue to evolve to even more complex actions, such as collecting oral testimony from crime witnesses and acting on that information by creating a sketch of the suspect's face based on the testimony. The challenge that conversational platforms face is that users must communicate in a very structured way, and this is often a frustrating experience. A primary differentiator among conversational platforms will be the robustness of their conversational models and the API and event models used to access, invoke and orchestrate third-party services to deliver complex outcomes.
Trend No. 7: Immersive Experience
Augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality are changing the way that people perceive and interact with the digital world. Combined with conversational platforms, a fundamental shift in the user experience to an invisible and immersive experience will emerge. Application vendors, system software vendors and development platform vendors will all compete to deliver this model.
Over the next five years the focus will be on mixed reality, which is emerging as the immersive experience of choice, where the user interacts with digital and real-world objects while maintaining a presence in the physical world. Mixed reality exists along a spectrum and includes head-mounted displays (HMD) for AR or VR, as well as smartphone- and tablet-based AR. Given the ubiquity of mobile devices, Apple's release of ARkit and iPhone X, Google's Tango and ARCore, and the availability of cross-platform AR software development kits such as Wikitude, we expect the battles for smartphone-based AR and MR to heat up in 2018.
Trend No. 8: Blockchain
Blockchain is a shared, distributed, decentralized and tokenized ledger that removes business friction by being independent of individual applications or participants. It allows untrusted parties to exchange commercial transactions. The technology holds the promise to change industries, and although the conversation often surrounds financial opportunities, blockchain has many potential applications in government, healthcare, content distribution, supply chain and more. However, many blockchain technologies are immature and unproven, and are largely unregulated.
A practical approach to blockchain demands a clear understanding of the business opportunity, the capabilities and limitations of blockchain, a trust architecture and the necessary implementation skills. Before embarking on a distributed-ledger project, ensure your team has the cryptographic skills to understand what is and isn't possible. Identify the integration points with existing infrastructures, and monitor the platform evolution and maturation. Use extreme caution when interacting with vendors, and ensure you are clearly identifying how the term "blockchain" is being used.
Trend No. 9: Event-Driven
Digital businesses rely on the ability to sense and be ready to exploit new digital business moments. Business events reflect the discovery of notable states or state changes, such as completion of a purchase order. Some business events or combinations of events constitute business moments — a detected situation that calls for some specific business action. The most consequential business moments are those that have implications for multiple parties, such as separate applications, lines of business or partners.
With the advent of AI, the IoT, and other technologies, business events can be detected more quickly and analyzed in greater detail. Enterprises should embrace "event thinking" as part of a digital business strategy. By 2020, event-sourced, real-time situational awareness will be a required characteristic for 80% of digital business solutions, and 80% of new business ecosystems will require support for event processing.
Trend No. 10: Continuous Adaptive Risk and Trust
Digital business creates a complex, evolving security environment. The use of increasingly sophisticated tools increases the threat potential. Continuous adaptive risk and trust assessment (CARTA) allows for real-time, risk and trust-based decision making with adaptive responses to security-enable digital business. Traditional security techniques using ownership and control rather than trust will not work in the digital world. Infrastructure and perimeter protection won't ensure accurate detection and can't protect against behind-the-perimeter insider attacks. This requires embracing people-centric security and empowering developers to take responsibility for security measures. Integrating security into your DevOps efforts to deliver a continuous "DevSecOps" process and exploring deception technologies (e.g., adaptive honeypots) to catch bad guys that have penetrated your network are two of the new techniques that should be explored to make CARTA a reality.


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Where are the Bible lands today? Where were Iraq and Iran in Bible times? The answers to these questions and countless others are found in Then & Now Bible Maps Essentials. This full-color reference tool contains 16 Bible maps that show ancient cities and countries in black with modern-day boundaries marked in red. Fantastic for comparing places in the news with places in the Bible.
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Each player builds their own metropolis in Quadropolis (first announced as City Mania), but they're competing with one another for the shops, parks, public services and other structures to be placed in them.
The game lasts four rounds, and in each round players first lay out tiles for the appropriate round at random on a 5x5 grid. Each player has four architects numbered 1-4 and on a turn, a player places an architect next to a row or column in the grid, claims the tile that's as far in as the number of the architect placed (e.g., the fourth tile in for architect #4), places that tile in the appropriately numbered row or column on the player's 4x4 city board, then claims any resources associated with the tile (inhabitants or energy).
When a player takes a tile, a figure is placed in this now-empty space and the next player cannot place an architect in the same row or column where this tile was located. In addition, you can't place one architect on top of another, so each placement cuts off play options for you and everyone else later in the round. After all players have placed all four architects, the round ends, all remaining tiles are removed, and the tiles for the next round laid out.
After four rounds, the game ends. Players can move the inhabitants and energy among their tiles at any point during the game to see how to maximize their score. At game end, they then score for each of the six types of buildings depending on how well they build their city — as long as they have activated the buildings with inhabitants or energy as required:
Residential buildings score depending on their height
Shops score depending on how many customers they have
Public services score depending on the number of districts in your city that have them
Parks score depending on the number of residential buildings next to them
Harbors score based on the longest row or column of activated harbors in the city
Factories score based on the number of adjacent shops and harbors
Some buildings are worth victory points (VPs) on their own, and once players sum these values with what they've scored for each type of building in their city, whoever has the highest score wins.


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Speaking from the White House, the President says the violence in Libya is "outrageous" and "unacceptable," and that his Administration is looking at the "full range of options we have to respond to this crisis." His full remarks below:
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. Secretary Clinton and I just concluded a meeting that focused on the ongoing situation in Libya. Over the last few days, my national security team has been working around the clock to monitor the situation there and to coordinate with our international partners about a way forward.
First, we are doing everything we can to protect American citizens. That is my highest priority. In Libya, we've urged our people to leave the country and the State Department is assisting those in need of support. Meanwhile, I think all Americans should give thanks to the heroic work that's being done by our foreign service officers and the men and women serving in our embassies and consulates around the world. They represent the very best of our country and its values.
Now, throughout this period of unrest and upheaval across the region the United States has maintained a set of core principles which guide our approach. These principles apply to the situation in Libya. As I said last week, we strongly condemn the use of violence in Libya.
The American people extend our deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of all who've been killed and injured. The suffering and bloodshed is outrageous and it is unacceptable. So are threats and orders to shoot peaceful protesters and further punish the people of Libya. These actions violate international norms and every standard of common decency. This violence must stop.
The United States also strongly supports the universal rights of the Libyan people. That includes the rights of peaceful assembly, free speech, and the ability of the Libyan people to determine their own destiny. These are human rights. They are not negotiable. They must be respected in every country. And they cannot be denied through violence or suppression.
In a volatile situation like this one, it is imperative that the nations and peoples of the world speak with one voice, and that has been our focus. Yesterday a unanimous U.N. Security Council sent a clear message that it condemns the violence in Libya, supports accountability for the perpetrators, and stands with the Libyan people.
This same message, by the way, has been delivered by the European Union, the Arab League, the African Union, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, and many individual nations. North and south, east and west, voices are being raised together to oppose suppression and support the rights of the Libyan people.
I've also asked my administration to prepare the full range of options that we have to respond to this crisis. This includes those actions we may take and those we will coordinate with our allies and partners, or those that we'll carry out through multilateral institutions.
Like all governments, the Libyan government has a responsibility to refrain from violence, to allow humanitarian assistance to reach those in need, and to respect the rights of its people. It must be held accountable for its failure to meet those responsibilities, and face the cost of continued violations of human rights.
This is not simply a concern of the United States. The entire world is watching, and we will coordinate our assistance and accountability measures with the international community. To that end, Secretary Clinton and I have asked Bill Burns, our Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, to make several stops in Europe and the region to intensify our consultations with allies and partners about the situation in Libya.
I've also asked Secretary Clinton to travel to Geneva on Monday, where a number of foreign ministers will convene for a session of the Human Rights Council. There she'll hold consultations with her counterparts on events throughout the region and continue to ensure that we join with the international community to speak with one voice to the government and the people of Libya.
And even as we are focused on the urgent situation in Libya, let me just say that our efforts continue to address the events taking place elsewhere, including how the international community can most effectively support the peaceful transition to democracy in both Tunisia and in Egypt.
So let me be clear. The change that is taking place across the region is being driven by the people of the region. This change doesn't represent the work of the United States or any foreign power. It represents the aspirations of people who are seeking a better life.
As one Libyan said, "We just want to be able to live like human beings." We just want to be able to live like human beings. It is the most basic of aspirations that is driving this change. And throughout this time of transition, the United States will continue to stand up for freedom, stand up for justice, and stand up for the dignity of all people.
Thank you very much.


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Composition No. 1 Roll On Perfume
In Joya's first perfume, Composition No. 1, the forbidden fruit—quince, not apple—puts forth a surprising and innocent character. Warm, inviting and subtly sweet on the skin, danger is rendered fresh and open.
Top Notes: sparkling citrus, Italian Mandarin, Valencia orange and quince…
Heart: rich florals, heliotrope petals, tuberose, jasmine, camellia and Damask rose…
Drydown: creamy sandalwood, pale musk and a hint of tonka bean…
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Composition No.1 Roll On Perfume
Net Weight: 10 ml / 0.34 fl. oz.
Ingredients: Isopropyl Myristate, Parfum (Fragrance), D'Limonene, Hexyl Cinnamic Aldehyde, Lilial, Benzyl Benzoate, Lyral, Hydroxycitronellal, Benzyl Salicylate, Citronellol, Coumarin, Geraniol.
Key Fragrance Components: Ambrettolide, Anisic Aldehyde, Bergamot, Decalactone Gamma, Habanolide, Lemon California, Lily Aldehyde, Mandarin, Methyl Anthranilate, Rose Oxide, Sandalore, Valencia Orange, Vanillin.


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"The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is publishing the names of one or more persons that have been placed on OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List based on OFAC's determination that one or more applicable legal criteria were satisfied. All property and interests in property subject to U.S. jurisdiction of these persons are blocked, and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with them." [Previously published in Descartes Visual Compliance Regulations Update 09-19-2019.]
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2012 was the eighth or ninth warmest year on record, depending on which dataset you look at, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's annual State of the Climate report, released today. That is just one of many extreme statistics identified in the survey, which pulls together the most recent information from hundreds of researchers worldwide on everything from temperature to sea level to Arctic ice. Taken together, the report's authors say, the data paint an unmistakable picture of a warming planet.
"In 2012, certainly not every variable we looked at broke a record," Thomas Karl, the director of NOAA's climate data center, said. "I think what we've learned is one has to take a broad look at the climate system."
The heat map above, from the report, shows how 2012 temperatures compare to the average baseline of 1981-2010. While Alaska, parts of Asia, and elsewhere saw a cooler-than-average year, it was the hottest year on record in the contiguous United States (and, relatedly, an insanely expensive year for natural disasters), and temperatures in the Arctic are increasing twice as fast as the rest of the world. In June, Arctic sea ice minimums reached record lows, and over a two-day period in July more of the Greenland ice sheet was melting at once—97 percent—than ever seen before.
Another landmark was sea level rise: 2012 saw the highest global sea levels ever recorded, the peak of a trend that has seen seas rising just above a tenth of an inch per year over the last two decades. Interestingly, in the last couple years, melting ice (the black line in the graph at right) accounts for twice as much sea level rise as does thermal expansion of warming water (red line). And the sea wasn't just high, it was hot, too: Heat trapped in the top half-mile of the ocean remained near record highs. At the ocean surface, temperatures were among the 11 warmest on record, despite mostly flatlining since 2000 partly as a result of La Niña conditions that cool the sea.
Carbon emissions for the year were also their highest ever: In 2012, the world released roughly 9.7 quadrillion grams of carbon into the atmosphere, about one-tenth the weight of every living thing on Earth, pushing the atmospheric concentration higher, at least in some places, than at any time in human history. Other key greenhouse gases, including methane and nitrous oxide, also climbed from the previous year.
Sadly, all these shocking numbers weren't much of a shocker to the report's 384 authors from around the globe, NOAA's Karl said; they merely offer the latest bundle of proof that climate change is happening: "We see ongoing trends continuing."


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Two airlines in the Middle East say they have been exempted from a 2-month-old ban on carrying large electronic devices aboard direct flights to the United States.
Emirates, the Middle East's largest long-haul airline, said in a statement Wednesday that the ban was lifted, "effective immediately," on Emirates' flights from Dubai International Airport to the U.S. Also on Wednesday, Turkish Airlines announced the ban was no longer in place for its travelers departing the Istanbul Ataturk Airport for American destinations.
U.S.-bound flights out of Etihad Airlines of Abu Dhabi International Airport were cleared Sunday. (Etihad is the only airline with direct flights to the U.S. out of Abu Dhabi International.) The news suggests all three airports have met newly heightened standards by American security officials, according to the Associated Press.
Turkish airlines CEO Bilal Eksi tweeted Tuesday that he also believed a similar ban on large electronics on U.K.-bound flights would be lifted soon.
As NPR has reported, the Department of Homeland Security instituted the rule against bringing electronic devices larger than a smartphone into airplane cabins in March, citing no specific threat but pointing to continued efforts by terrorists to target aviation by installing explosives in consumer products. The ban did allow for larger electronics to be stowed in checked luggage.
The Department of Homeland Security order affected 10 airports in eight countries in the Middle East and North Africa (Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco). As NPR's Greg Myre noted, unlike the list of largely poor and troubled countries included in the Trump administration's controversial travel ban, the laptop ban targeted eight stable, in some cases wealthy, American allies. "You think of these countries on the airline list, and you're talking about a wealthy businessman, jet setting around the world," Greg said.
The ban did not affect U.S. carriers flying from the 10 airports. In the cases of the airports in Istanbul and Dubai, Turkish Airlines and Emirates are, respectively, the only airlines operating direct flights to the U.S.
Shortly after the United States instituted its ban in March, the United Kingdom followed suit, with a similar ban on large electronics affecting a slightly altered list of airports and countries. The U.K.'s ban did include British-based airlines.
In June, the Department of Homeland Security raised the possibility of expanding the laptop ban to direct flights from Europe to the U.S. However, the Department of Homeland Security ultimately avoided such a move and instead announced new security standards in late June for all commercial flights from abroad into the U.S. The standards include everything from improved screening equipment to better explosives-detecting dogs. At the time, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly cited the downing of a Russian Metrojet plane in 2015 as it departed from Egypt as an example of terrorists' sustained focus on air travel.
Kelly warned any international airport that did not meet the new standards "could be subject to other restrictions, including a ban on electronic devices on aircraft or even a suspension of their flights into the United States."
On Tuesday, Saudi Arabian Airlines said it expects the laptop ban to be lifted on its U.S.-bound flights by July 19.
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By Gary M. Douglas
You will hate this call and you will change everything.
– Gary M. Douglas
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Facilitator: Gary M. Douglas
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Pre-Requisite: The Foundation
Feelings are what you use to stop creation. Awareness is what will create creation. Choice is what it takes to change it all.
– Gary M. Douglas
Choose out of feeling and find true possibility.
If you were truly the intensity of you nothing could impinge or impel you and nothing could ever stop you.
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Thai Chicken Soup with Coconut Milk, 'Tom Kha Gai'
This is a mild but spicy chicken soup (it can also be made with shrimp, pork, beef or mushrooms), flavored with the unique flavor of galangal ('kha' in Thai) which creates a heavenly taste when combined with hot chile peppers, coconut milk, lime leaves and lemongrass.
We famously started manufacturing Amazing Elephant All-natural Tom Kha with authentic flavor so be sure to get a few pouches to compare with what you make at home.
For 4 Person(s)
- 16 Oz Chicken Soup Broth
- 4 Leaves Kaffir Lime Leaves, shredded
- 4 2in Pieces Fresh Lemongrass (bruised to release flavor)
- 1 Inch Cube Galangal (thinly sliced)
- 4 Tablespoons Fish Sauce
- 2 Tablespoons Lime Juice
- 4 Oz Chicken breast cut into small pieces
- 5 Oz Coconut Milk
- Small Red Thai Chile Peppers (slightly crushed)
- Coriander (cilantro) leaves
Method for Thai Chicken Soup with Coconut Milk, 'Tom Kha Gai'
Our recipe is a common, basic method using a prepackaged soup broth or bullion cube. To make things more tasty, try preparing your own broth from scratch. To make a simple broth for Tom Kha, put a carrot, half stalk celery, one medium chopped onion, perhaps a half cup of chopped daikon, and a few cloves of fresh garlic, into a pot of water. Simmer for an hour or so and you have a good broth, to be used in place of the 16 oz broth mentioned in recipe below. We also prefer increasing the amount of coconut milk to broth, to a 1:1 ratio.
Heat the stock, add the lime leaves, lemongrass, galangal, fish sauce, and lime juice. Stir thoroughly, bring to a boil, and add the chicken and coconut milk, then the chile peppers. Bring back to the boil, lower the heat to keep it simmering and cook for about 2 minutes (until the chicken is cooked through).
Not really intended to be eaten as a separate course, we like it served ladled over a bowl of steamed Thai jasmine rice. This quantity serves 4 with other food, but is probably only enough for two if eaten
If you would like to have a decent-tasting tom kha without spending the time to prepare above, we also suggest you try our convenient Tom Ka Paste (click to see description).
We also prepare tom kha as above, but without any soup stock. The liquid is only coconut milk, and a touch of water. We also added, after it was ladled into a small bowl, a half teaspoon of roasted chile in soybean oil (prik pao). This gave it nice color and flavor. Another option: try a touch of Thai chile oil on top instead of the prik pao.


text: After years of traveling I have done many crazy things and some of the best adventures around the world, but the last year there was one thing that was still not ticked off on my travel-to-do-list and that was to experience a vanlife trip. Driving around in a van, free to go wherever, free to stay wherever and live a simple but happy life was what I was dreaming of doing. Finally this dream was becoming reality and I flew to Portugal to pick up a van for my Portugal road trip.


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On the 16 August, South African Police fired live ammunition at striking miners at Lonmin's Marikana mine, killing 34 and injuring 78. Many were shot at close range while trying to surrender. The Marikana miners were demanding a tripling of their salary to R12,500 (£950 or €1100) per month.
In the following days, 270 of the Marikana strikers were arrested and charged with the murder of their colleagues under the Common Purpose doctrine, a law last used under Apartheid. They were released on bail after public pressure forced the National Prosecuting Authority to provisionally drop the charges.
Since the massacre the community of Marikana has lived under a virtual state of emergency, with police patrols, raids and reports of unlawful arrests and harassment. Over half of the Lonmin Strike Committee due to testify before the Commission of Inquiry have been over the past days charged with murder.
To date not one police officer or official has been charged for the massacre at Marikana. Yet some of the miners still face the prospect of long prison sentences as the state intends to blame the miners themselves for the violence. Most of the miners who were killed and badly injured in Marikana were sole breadwinners and the loss of their earnings has left many of their dependents in a desperate situation.
The Marikana Lonmin miners secured a 22 per cent pay rise. It was short of the R12,500 demand but the deal was hailed as a victory. What the miners have actually done is fight a brave fight for a living wage. They have drawn public attention to the gap between the wages of mine workers and platinum and gold sector bosses, many of whom earn 1000 times more than the average miner. The massacre and the victory have inspired strikes in other mines across the country. The Marikana Support Campaign has been endorsed by the various strike committees and this has raised the demand for campaign material.
What the campaign has achieved so far
The campaign and legal representatives have kept vigilant watch on the state-sponsored Farlam Commission of Inquiry, pushing for transparency and forcing a postponement to ensure the presence of families so that the restorative objective of the commission can be met more effectively.
In addition the campaign has organised legal representation for 26 of the families; paid for a private forensic pathologist; kept close watch on biased media reporting and offered alternative analysis; mobilised for practical support and resources for the families of the strikers; organised placard protests of the inspection of the killing site as well as nationwide pickets and demonstrations, demanding an end to police harassment and intimidation of the Marikana community; brought large numbers of people to Marikana to bolster locally organised protests and to attend strike and community meetings; produced campaign materials, badges, leaflets and T-shirts, etc; and organised striker and community representative speaking tours in cities and townships across the country.
All of this costs money. In the coming months we need to increase the pressure on the Farlam Commission of Inquiry through a coordinated national and international campaign that presses for a just outcome for the Marikana families of the deceased, the scores injured, and hundreds arrested.
To contribute to the Marikana Support Campaign:
Account Name: Marikana Support Campaign
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Branch: Constantia
Branch Code: 101109
Account No: 1011102366
Reference: Marikana Support Campaign
The Marikana Support Campaign is supported by many organisations including: Amnesty International SA, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, Advocates For Transformation Centre for Study of Violence and Reconciliation, Equal Education Law Centre, Human Rights Media Trust, Lawyers for Human Rights, Legal Resources Centre, RAITH Foundation, Right To Know, Section 27, Social Justice Coalition, Socio-Economic Rights Institute, Treatment Action Campaign, Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union, National Council of Trade Unions, Marikana Development Forum, Wonderkop Women's Group, Wonderkop Tribal Council, Alternative Information Development Centre, Soweto Concerned Citizens.


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Medisun Regenerative Medical Center and Health Summit
Cancer Vaccine | White House Cancer Lunar Plan | Cancer Proton Beam Treatment
ShenZhen- Hong Kong-GuangZhou
The Medisun Medical Health Summit, co-sponsored by Medisun Regenerative Medical Group, New Life Group and Sunshine Medical Group, was held in Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Guangzhou from September 6 to 9, 2017. The theme of this summit is centered around the prevention and treatment of cancer. The authoritative release of cancer vaccine is the strongest focus of this summit.
Medisun Medical Group has invited a number of authoritative scientists, medical experts, industry leaders, government agency representatives, business leaders and socialites from the United States, Europe, Japan, Hong Kong and Mainland China to collaborate on cancer prevention worldwide. Leading medical health consultations such as therapeutic technologies, industry regulatory development, and medical platform construction have been fully explored. Nearly 5,000 entrepreneur representatives, medical experts and doctors from the Chinese health industry participated in the listening and sharing.
Dozens of media interviews and reports at the summit
Madison Cancer Vaccine Launch Ceremony
Chairman Danny Wong said: "The advent of cancer vaccine is the strongest gospel of cancer prevention!"
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 14 million new cancer cases are diagnosed each year worldwide, and this number is expected to reach 21 million by 2030. As global treatment costs rise, cancer prevention measures are becoming more and more important, which has also made cancer prevention and treatment a high-profile international issue. Medisun's comprehensive introduction of cancer vaccines is undoubtedly the strongest gospel for cancer prevention. The WT1 gene is a gene representing tumorigenesis in humans, and all human cancers are associated with this genetic mutation. The Nobel Institute of Ecological Medical Sciences has discovered a pathway to inhibit mutations in the WT1 gene, which can be vaccinated to produce memory T cells that inhibit WT1 gene mutations, which are immune to humans.
In addition, Medisun is also committed to the development and clinical use of a variety of other vaccines. Most of the vaccine technology comes from the United States, investing in rapid response to the pandemic virus and cancer control vaccine technology platform, with a market size of more than 2 billion US dollars. The vaccines invested by Medisun can be modularized in Asia and China to produce vaccines that are fully compliant with the United States. Including: Zika virus, Chikungunya fever, Zika/Chikununya heat combination, Ebola virus, human papillomavirus HPV treatment vaccine, head and neck cancer, cervical cancer, cervical lesions, simple Herpesvirus HSV, hepatitis C virus HCV, hepatitis B virus HBV,etc.
Mr. Danny Wong, Chairman of Medici Medical Group, was interviewed by the media about the release of cancer vaccine.
Chairman Danny Wong specifically said: "China's rapid economic development over the past 20 years has been accompanied by a wave of globalization. China has integrated into the international community in various fields. At the same time, China has introduced high-standard medical technologies and services from Europe, the United States and Japan. It is our mission to make full use of Hong Kong's advantages as a mature international metropolis and special geographical factors to provide the world's most advanced medical care to the people of the motherland.
On-site participants actively asked questions from the cancer vaccine and new cancer treatment technologies to participate in the seminar.
Medisun participates in the White House Cancer Month Plan
Mr. Terry Lierman said: "The greatest progress and breakthrough of mankind is the birth of cancer vaccine!"
Mr. Terry Lierman, a core member of the White House Cancer Month Program, the NIH of the National Institutes of Health, and the founder of the FDA Board of Directors and director of the Meditech Group, said that cancer landing is an amazing cause. It is planned to complete the treatment of 20,000 cancer patients with 60 different technologies worldwide by 2020. This is a task that would have taken at least 10 years to achieve, and we will now achieve it in 5 years. The cancer "moon landing plan" advocated by former US President Barack Obama in 2016 is also the focus of this summit. The plan is led by former Vice President Joe Biden. The goal is to break the boundaries that hinder the cooperation of researchers and accelerate the research of cancer diagnosis and treatment in the future. 5 years to double the progress of anti-cancer research. The six major US cancer "moon landing programs" include cancer vaccines, high-sensitivity cancer early detection, immunotherapy and combination therapy, single-cell genomic analysis of cancer cells and tumor microenvironment cells, new treatments for childhood cancer, and enhanced data. shared. To this end, the United States and Canada, Hong Kong, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea and other countries, the first-class research units to establish cooperative relations, large-scale joint cancer research and treatment, toward precision Medisun. The Medisun Medical Group is a member of the Cancer Month Program and will also participate in this historic mission.
Mr. Terry Lierman talks about McGrady's participation in the White House Cancer Month Plan
Medisun introduces Mayo proton beam therapy
Dr. Michael Haddock said: "The Mayo proton beam is a great advancement in the precise treatment of cancer!"
As the Asian Medical Service Center of the Mayo Clinic in the United States, Medisun invited Dr. Michael Haddock, Chairman of the Mayo Radiation Oncology Clinical Practice Committee and Vice Chairman of the American Society of Surgery Oncology (ACOSOG) Committee to talk about radiotherapy for cancer. Dr. Haddock talked about the current Proton Bean, the world's leading cancer radiotherapy technology, Mayo currently has the most authoritative equipment, operations and medical team for global proton beam therapy. Mayo's proton beam therapy program is the exclusive feature of pen beam scanning. It can accurately target tumors and prevent healthy tissues from being affected, thus achieving ideal cancer treatment, especially for treating children with cancer. For cancers with high mortality and lung cancer, proton beam therapy has obvious advantages compared with traditional radiotherapy.
At the Hong Kong Summit, Dr. Michael Haddock (left), the authoritative doctor of Mayo cancer proton beam therapy, answered questions from guests at the scene.
Dr. Michael Haddock (left) and Mr. Terry Lierman (right), the authoritative doctors of Mayo cancer proton beam therapy, at the Guangzhou Summit.
Japanese NKT immune cell therapy
Dr. Degang said: "Cancer vaccine and NKT immune cell therapy are the strongest partner in cancer prevention and treatment!"
Haruhiro Tokuoka, CEO of Riken Immunization and Reproductive Medisun, Japan, Dr. Degang Governing, talked about immunotherapy for cancer. Japan has always been a pioneer in cancer immunotherapy and has extensive clinical experience. Japan Riken and Medisun have worked closely together and established the Medisun Precision Medical Joint Venture, which applies NKT immunocytotherapy outside the traditional cancer treatment to clinical treatment of various types of cancer in the early, middle and late stages, and has clinically proven to greatly improve cancer patients. High quality of immunotherapy at the same time as quality of life with almost no side effects.
Dr. Kazuoka Kazuo of Japan at the Hong Kong Summit to explain the effectiveness of NKT immune cell therapy in clinical treatment of cancer.
Dean He Jianxing (second from right) of Guangzhou Medical First Hospital visited the Guangzhou Summit and participated in Dr. Degang Zhiwei (third from left) on cell immunotherapy
Precision Medisun and anti-cancer cancer
Ms. Yanglan said: "As a mother, I chose to give my daughter a HPV cervical cancer vaccine; now the launch of the cancer vaccine is even more exciting!"
In today's society, everyone is tired of work, and it is often the easiest to ignore their good habits, which leads to the emergence of various diseases . In fact, "health is the first wealth of life", Emerson's famous interpretation perfectly interpreted the importance of a healthy life to people. Ms. Yang Lan, a well-known Chinese media person, attended the summit as a guest and shared ideas about health and happiness with the guests. She said that the pain caused by cancer patients to the family cannot be expressed in words, and health is good for every family. Precious, we need to follow the development of science and technology to update our medical knowledge. Nowadays, precision Medisun has brought us new choices. While we are not blindly following, we should fully understand the physical condition of ourselves and our families, and choose the right medical health program for ourselves.
Ms. Yang Yu shared about cancer treatment.
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Had an amusing discussion with City of Sydney staff at the opening of the construction site for the new library about bike parking. The train station opposite is privately run and initially had zero bike parking. Fortunately they have lots of poles and suspension wires and all the other knick-knacks that are popular with architects. So there was a period of tension, where they would issue "tickets" to "illegally" parked bicycles, people would challenge them and discover that they didn't have the power to issue them or enforce them, and so it went. Then suddenly a set of bike racks appeared and the "bicycles must not be parked in this area" sign vanished.
The new library has been approved by the council's bicycle mafia because it has decent parking and some end of trip provision. The main thing the underground library lacks is a link to the underground walkway to the adjacent station. Apparently no-one ever thought things might be built around the station so no provision has been made to allow it. Instead people walk up stairs out of the library, along 20m, then down stairs to walk under a busy road into the station. It is very silly.
But NSW has similar reasons for that as Auckland does... right wing government building roads, left wing council trying to make the city liveable.
Sacha, in reply to
Unlike the trusting citizenry whose submissions, given for no reward, were supposedly what Share an Idea was all about.
Yet Chch voted this govt back in. Twice.
Bill Bennett, in reply to
This is an excellent point, well articulated and it goes way, way beyond transport policy. It's as if we punish political leaders for not having pyschic powers.
LOL- a blue supporter on another site has accused Paddy Gower of having an orgasm on live TV;
Ah, well, game on. Wonder what kind of note in an envelope he'll be getting in the Parliamentary foyer tomorrow?
Gower is like a homeless beaver, who always states the bleeding obvious.
High paid lobbyists and advisers are no guarantee of anything:
- nice work if you can get though eh, Lynton? -
Now that's interesting. Apparently, according to Newshub this evening, there's a hefty female gender gap tilt that favours Jacinda Ardern. A predecessor of which kept Helen in power for most of the Noughties.
Moz, in reply to
Apparently, according to Newshub this evening, there's a hefty female gender gap tilt that favours Jacinda Ardern.
And we can pay her less, too. Don't forget that :)
Moz, you do realise that at the rate Oz is going, we'll probably be legislating for legal recognition of polyamory by the time our western nutbars- oops, neighbours :/ eventually get around to marriage equality…? And that we've had two female Prime Ministers while Oz has only had one, and this may herald No.3?
Craig Young, in reply to
Geoff, that's needlessly insulting to beavers ;)
Rob Stowell, in reply to
there's a hefty female gender gap tilt that favours Jacinda Ardern.
Reckon this could be spot on. Looking at eg the student population, there's a lot of soft National vote in young women. Many could be double-happy to vote for not just a woman, but someone under 50 who looks to understand and articulate the world as they see it.
Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Gower is like a homeless beaver, who always states the bleeding obvious.
Praised by feint dams?
Moz, in reply to
Moz, you do realise that at the rate Oz is going, we'll probably be legislating for legal recognition of polyamory by the time...
I wish.
Australia... sigh. Morals, laws, ethics... don't come here for those.
I just did a feedback form for my bank and the question "would you recommend BankWest to your friends" got a 100 word comment along the lines of
I'm not even willing to admit to using BankWest to my friends, let alone suggest that they involve themselves with the criminal cartel that owns BankWest. I am balancing my dislike of the paperwork and cost involved with changing banks against the moral and legal horror that is your parent company.
Bankwest is owned by the Commonwealth Bank who have regular criminal problems which they claim are due to incompetence rather than malice. (links are representative rather than exhaustive)
Craig Young, in reply to
Well, they were settled by convicts. Problem is, their descendants are proving true to their genetic heritage and behaving in a similar manner.
linger, in reply to
You're really saying that criminal behaviour is genetically based?
Ian Dalziel, in reply to
penal envy...
(Australian) criminal behaviour is genetically based
Maybe it's more of a societal imperative...
...they do seem to have a thing about prisons.... -
Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Holmesburg prison
great photo reminds me of a panopticon
Moz, in reply to
their descendants are proving true to their genetic heritage and behaving in a similar manner
I think it's cultural heritage rather than genetic. Australia was set up by a bunch of toffs on the basis that "I stole it, it's mine now" (seriously, look at Torrens Title) and anything else they could get away with. They also brought actual criminals along, presumably in the hope that they'd look better by comparison.
I think that has produced a culture of "get away with anything you can" and disrespect for the rule of law. Not primarily obeying the law, but about seeing the law as important and something that's a product of the people working together to produce a decent society. Australia worships fraudsters and thieves (Alan Bond, Kerry Stokes, Ned Kelly) as much as sportspeople (the cult of Bradman!), with intellectuals and lawmakers way down the list. Aotearoa has David Lange at the Oxford Union speaking powerfully and passionately about nuclear weapons. Australia has Rhodes Scholar Tony Abbott completely lost for words. Things are different here.
Aotearoa isn't perfect, but geez there are things in Australia that have to be seen to be believed. You think the terrorism raids on Tuhoe were bad, read up about "The Intervention" (don't blame me if you start crying when you read that). It's not a civil war if one side isn't fighting, you know.
Craig Young, in reply to
Judging by the level of state and federal government and corporate corruption across the ditch, what do you think? (NB: Anti-Australia joke) ;)
Craig Young, in reply to
No thanks- I was in Oz in 1995 during the sledging of Koorie and Murrie women over Hindmarsh Island land claims. In Queensland. Ugh. My parents live there and I love them dearly but I never could :/
an ACT of madness…
David Seymour takes the cake with his claim that Labour's plan to teach kids Civics at school is an 'Orwellian' and 'dodgy' way to indoctrinate young people to Left-wing views!!
Maybe it challenges his beloved Charter Schools.
Or maybe he realises his 'Market- driven' policies won't stack up to young minds. -
mark taslov, in reply to
…they do seem to have a thing about prisons….
yeah about that...
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There is a very interesting series of calls coming from the reedbeds at the Villebon lake, I think there are probably five or more species heard in this clip.
Lovely and clear . Chiffchaff Robin/wren and The others might be might be reed warblers
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There is definitely a Chiffchaff, plus a Wren and Black Cap, but what is more interesting is the sound in the background, could well be Frogs.
Yep frogs I think you are right
The frogs in this clip turned out to be the Edible Frog, Pelophylax kl. esculentus Reptiles & Amphibians of France - Edible frog, Pelophylax kl. esculentus the audio clip is towards the bottom of the page, just hover over the button.
That's really good, Rolf!
When we stayed in the Dordogne area once, there was a large pond of these outside the local restaurant!!!
But at least the frogs legs would have been really fresh
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Letter Home from the War Zone
On June 27, 2009, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl sent an e-mail to his parents before he was captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan:
mom, dad
The future is too good to waste on lies. And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong. I have seen their ideas and I am ashamed to even be american. The horror of the self-righteous arrogance that they thrive in. It is all revolting. [...] [Three good sergeants had been forced to move to another company] [...] and one of the biggest shit bags is being put in charge of the team. [...] [My battalion commander was] a conceited old fool. [...] In the US army you are cut down for being honest... but if you are a conceited brown nosing shit bag you will be allowed to do what ever you want, and you will be handed your higher rank... The system is wrong. I am ashamed to be an american. And the title of US soldier is just the lie of fools. ... The US army is the biggest joke the world has to laugh at. It is the army of liars, backstabbers, fools, and bullies. The few good SGTs are getting out as soon as they can, [...]
I am sorry for everything here. These people need help, yet what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are nothing and that they are stupid, that they have no idea how to live... We don't even care when we hear each other talk about running their children down in the dirt streets with our armored trucks... We make fun of them in front of their faces, and laugh at them for not understanding we are insulting them [...] I am sorry for everything. The horror that is america is disgusting. There are a few more boxes coming to you guys. Feel free to open them, and use them.
Bowe's father, Bob Bergdahl, responded to his son's final message not long after he received it.
Dear Bowe, In matters of life and death, and especially at war, it is never safe to ignore ones' conscience. Ethics demands obedience to our conscience. It is best to also have a systematic oral defense of what our conscience demands. Stand with like minded men when possible. dad.
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just in time for Valentine's Day. everyone could use some soft, sweet lips to kiss their Valentine and this scrub will do just the trick! it is so simple to make and a lip scrub will keep your lips moisturized, soft and kissably sweet.
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2 Tbs brown sugar
1 tsp coconut oil
1 drop or 2 of Vanilla
mix all ingredients together and store in a small container near your toothbrush. it will be an easy reminder to 'scrub' a time or two this week to get your lips in shape for smooching.
Happy Valentine's Day!