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Online Gin Rummy
Gin Rummy is a popular card game played with 2-4 players and a 52 deck of cards. The game is known world wide and there are even international gin rummy tournaments being held every year by the gin rummy association.
Gin Rummy is a version of the basic rummy game and they both share the same rules with one exception, in the game of Gin Rummy the players have to knock leaving a reminder of less than 10 cards. You can also go gin leaving no card while discarding the last card.
The game of Online Gin Rummy is an easy game to learn and it recently became available online in several game rooms including Rummy Royal, Yahoo and more.
Online Gin Rummy is a great way to practice your game skills before the weekly family games, in addition it's a great way to play gin rummy for real money and actually make money from your gin rummy skills. Online Gin Rummy game is the best game you can play with friends and family, Poker is out, Gin Rummy is in.
There are online Gin Rummy tournaments behind held around the clock. As the game becomes more and more popular you get to see more players playing gin rummy online.
There's another version called Oklahoma Gin Rummy in which the deadwood value changes every game which makes it more interesting as it's completely random and takes the players by surprise.
The online gin rummy Game version allows people from all around the world to play the gin rummy game which is mainly common in the USA and Canada.
There are also other rummy game variations which are similar to the game of Gin Rummy which can be played online.
Online Gin Rummy is interesting as you don't actually get to see the person you play against in front of you. This makes it even more difficult as facial expressions are important in this game much like in poker. Since Gin Rummy is a game of skill it is more complicated than most luck based games and it attracts different type of players to play.
Online Gin Rummy offers around the clock tournaments for free and for real money, there's always somebody to play with.
If you don't know how to play gin rummy, Download Rummy
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HA NOI (VNS) — Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung issued a plan to simplify administrative procedures and cut at least 25 per cent of related fees.
As planned, a major task for 2015 is simplifying 13 groups of administrative procedures. These include regulations on fishery exports, establishing health care units, college recruitment and post-graduate recruitment, and State employee recruitment.
Dung said the timeline for the implementation of the plan needed to be submitted by the end of January. Proposals on how to simplify regulations needed to be sent to relevant ministries by the end of May.
By the end of the year, all legal documents regarding the simplification of administrative procedures needed to be completed.
Also, the plan required all authority levels to publish administrative procedures on the national database website.
In 2014, the Government carried out aggressive administrative procedure reform in many fields, including tax, customs, land, environment, natural resources and construction. — VNS

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People have been trying to be guided by the stars for guidance. the idea is that where the planets are in the sky at the time of your birth can determine things about your life. I only decided to delve into astrology after someone in one of the Facebook groups I'm in read me my life using only my birth chart
If you're not an astrology geek and know how to draw up your chart they are ridiculously easy to do online. Then in all my genius I borrowed Astrology for Dummies from the library but this information is also easy to find on the Internet.
So, the planets position in the sky correspond with a star sign and a 'house' or position. Think of the sky being drawn up like a giant pie. Each house shows an area of influence e.g. 3rd house is all about communication. Each planet is an area of your personality e.g. style of communication. Each star sign is how you do that area of your personality e.g. Mercury in Aries mean you're gonna tell people exactly what you think. There are other things like stellums, chirons and nodes that also affect your chart (that's when multiple planets are in the same house which is like a glowing neon sign for traits).
Now it's all a bit technical (even with my Dummies guide) however its not entirely inaccurate. For example if you look at my chart I have Jupiter in Libra in the 8th house which is part of a 4 planet stellum. This says I'm charming, likeable, fair and drawn to the arts. It says that I've got a tendancy to be indecisive. So far on point. The house position says that I'll stand to gain from inheritance, insurance, and businesses I'm in with others. It also shows a deep interest in personal change and I recover from stuff well which is all pretty fair. Having multiple planets in the 8th house means that theme of death, sex, regeneration, other peoples money is pretty much yelling at me. I feel personally victimised by the universe right now.
Would I trust astrology? I wouldn't write off a good natal chart reading no, and it's made me want to learn to read charts a little better. When you dig a little deeper into True Nodes it really lines uo with whats happened with my life. Would I rule my entire life by an astrological chart? No, because I wouldn't stop doing anything because of astrology, tarot cards or anything like that.


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The South African Healthcare Informatics Association (SAHIA) is hosting a free one day workshop on Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria on Thursday, 19th November 2015.
IHE enables users and developers of information technology for healthcare to achieve interoperability of systems through the precise definition of healthcare tasks, the specification of standards-based communication between systems required to support those tasks, and the testing of systems to determine that they conform to the specifications.
SAHIA Council Member and Coordinator of the upcoming workshop, Clive Daniell, noted that IHE standards are already extensively used internationally and are quickly gaining traction in South Africa.
"Conformance to IHE standards is a central component in ensuring that National Health Insurance (NHI) will achieve its goals, by delivering the interoperability frameworks required across the public healthcare landscape," said Daniell.
The IHE workshop is intended for any senior executive, clinician or decision maker involved in healthcare informatics. The day will comprise of presentations, Q&A and an open panel discussion on overcoming interoperability challenges in South Africa and using IHE to achieve this. The workshop will also provide an opportunity for attendees to network.
"The event will also be attended by IHE International Representative, Lapo Bertini, who will provide an update on IHE around the world and be able to answer questions and participate in the discussion sessions," said Daniell.
SAHIA was established in 1982 to promote the use of informatics in the delivery of healthcare services in South Africa. The organisation is a member of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and its membership is drawn from people working in the public and private health sectors as well as at academic institutions.
Registration for the workshop can be completed online here. For more information about the workshop and sponsorship opportunities, contact Clive Daniell via email on firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The Cavaliers lead the Raptors in their Eastern Conference Semifinals matchup, 2-0, as the series shifts to Cleveland. Kevin Love helped his case with 31 points in a Game 2 victory after struggling for most of the playoffs. As the postseason progresses, the Cavaliers' coaching staff will need to monitor Love's play at the center and power forward position, Joe Vardon of Cleveland.com writes.
"We've been very successful with Kev at the 5, but we have to listen to what Kev needs as well," teammate LeBron James said. "If there's times throughout the postseason or a game where he's feeling a little worn down because he's battling with a lot of bigs, then we've got to make the substitution properly. I think Coach Lue has done that, obviously with the start of Game 7, being able to start Double T at the five and allow Kev to play his natural position."
Check out more Central Division notes:
- The Pistons would like to bring back Stan Van Gundy, but with an adjusted role. After missing the playoffs for the past several seasons, it may be time for both sides to part amicably, Bob Wojnowski of The Detroit News opines.
- There were 12 teams that had the chance to draft Donovan Mitchell before he fell to the Jazz and had a historically great rookie season. Looking back, the Pistons not selecting Mitchell is right up there with the Darko Milicic blunder from 2003, Shawn Windsor of the Detroit Free Press writes.
- After two torn ACLs and a frustrating showing in the postseason, Jabari Parker's value is not at an all-time high heading into the summer. As a restricted free agent, it's possible Parker's tenure with the Bucks is over. Frank Urbina of HoopsHype breaks down Parker's four best choices in free agency.
- As the Lakers enter the summer with major cap space and an eye on the NBA's premier free agents, Mark Schanowski of NBC Sports Chicago examines the possibility of the Bulls pursuing Brandon Ingram in a trade.


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Koh Samui's diverse eats: from Thai to Italian
A steaming bowl arrives to your table. Delicately filled halfway, it holds jasmine rice, topped with a thin, light, sweet coconut curry, infused with the approachable aromatics of fish sauce throughout, with bits of fresh-cut cilantro and lemongrass sprinkled across the top. One of the traditional Thai dishes, this it what you have to look forward to when you arrive in Koh Samui.
Thai food is known for its balance of five flavors: sweet, salty, spicy, sour, and bitter. This perfect marriage, along with attention-oriented cooking creates the gorgeous plates so closely associated with Thai food. With copious amounts of travelers frequenting every year, Koh Samui also offers diversity in cuisine, meaning you can eat Italian in Thailand, if you so choose.
As always, we recommend that you try at least one Thai meal, as this particular cuisine has been ranked over and over again as some of the best in the world. Many of us have had it before: pad thai, red curry, basil fried rice. On your exploration of this new part of the world, we have put together a couple of options that you might enjoy!
Khaw Glong Too
Fashioning itself as a boutique authentic Thai eatery, Khaw Glong has some of the freshest plates on the island. While most all Thai food is considerably fresh, this restaurant's mission involves using fresh ingredients that are neither pre-cooked or frozen. Their food is lively, colorful, beautiful, and indisputably some of the best you can get in Koh Samui.
They keep it locally fresh, to support the businesses, vendors, and farmers around their area. It is farm-to-table alright, so if you are a small-business-supporting, veggie-loving, earth-embracing soul, you will want to give Khaw Glong Too a try. Nearly every dish can be made animal-friendly; just make sure you ask. Also, you will want to specify how much heat you would like, as they make each dish to taste for uniqueness of every individual. Cash only, here.
To get here: 200/12 Moo 2 Chaweng, Bo put, Koh Samui, สุราษฎร์ธานี 84320, Thailand
To contact: +66 89 154 4560
Pepenero Koh Samui
In the midst of a Thailand island, you can get unctuous pastas and delicious red wine. Although you are not in Italy, you might soon feel like you are after enjoying a meal with Pepenero Koh Samui. While they provide Thailand with homemade pastas, authentic cheeses and cold cuts that one could find while dining on the canals of venice, they also offer local dishes, for the mates that still want to 'keep it Thai'.
If you want to avoid disappointment and prolonged hunger, ensure that you call ahead to make reservations. Opened by a lovely couple who believe in serving others and creating great experiences for travelers and locals alike, Pepenero insists on providing the best dining experience possible.
To get here: 4/5 MOO 1, MAENAM, KOH SAMUI
Vikasa Life Cafe
Breathtaking views are served with every delicious entree on the menu. Life Cafe sits on the pristine beaches of Koh Samui, making it one the favorite places for travelers and locals alike. With award-winning chefs and a commitment to health, community, and sustainability, Vikasa vows to use only the best ingredients.
Its creative menu fuses raw, European, and Thai foods, acting harmonious on one plate. It is a space for both the vegans and the meat-eaters; without using abrasive spices like MSG, they welcome every type of person, even those with certain dietary restrictions. Vikasa Life exemplifies creative expression through food in every bite.
To get here: 211 Bontji Moo 4 Tambon Bo Put, Koh Samui Chang Wat Surat Thani 84310


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Election 2018: Links to previews of all races in the Rochester area
You have unlimited access to our Election 2018 coverage, analysis and results November 6 and 7. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
The midterm elections are almost here. And while there are federal and state elections of note, voters also will find a host of local offices on the ballot. Polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6.
Here are links to previews of races in the Rochester area.
Governor's race: 4 key issues where Cuomo, Molinaro differ
Governor's race: Miner, Hawkins and Sharpe look to sway NY's governor race
Attorney General: In open seat, Tish James and Keith Wofford battle
NY comptroller: Thomas DiNapoli vs Jonathan Trichter
U.S. Senate: Kirsten Gillibrand faces re-election battle vs Chele Chiavacci Farley
25th Congressional District: Maxwell, Morelle battle to the finish
23rd Congressional District: Tracy Mitrano a cyber-security expert with deep local ties
23rd Congressional District: Tom Reed wants jobs, economic stability
27th Congressional District: McMurray seeks to unseat Collins
State Senate 54th: Pamela Helming vs Kenan Baldridge
State Senate 55th: Funke and Lunsford vie for district
State Senate 56th: Cooney looks to unseat Robach
State Senate 61st: Michael Ranzenhofer vs Joan Seamans
State Assembly 130th: Comegys, Manktelow vie to be district's new face in Albany
State Assembly 133rd: Byrnes, Baer face off in race
State Assembly 135th: Johns, Gilchrist vie for district
State Assembly 138th: Harry Bronson challenged by Patsy Iacovangelo
Monroe County Legislature 1st district:: Michelle Frechette Ames vs Ed Wilt
Monroe Family Court: Four candidates, two open seats
Fairport mayor election:: Fritz May and Julie Domaratz running for office in 2018
Fairport trustees: Meet the three candidates running for two open spots
East Rochester town justice: 2 run for re-election


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Hyperloop technology proposes using magnetic levitation and vacuum pumps to move people- and cargo-filled pods through high-speed steel tubes. Without the hindrance of friction and air resistance, these pods could reach speeds approaching Mach 1. Could this futuristic technology offer a solution to the many challenges facing the transportation industry today, including aging infrastructure and environmental obstacles?
CIPA core faculty member Richard "Rick" Geddes, a professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management and the director of the Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy, has written extensively on hyperloop technology and its potential for dramatically reducing travel time in the U.S. He has also addressed the regulatory, environmental, and financial challenges that hyperloop technology would need to overcome to succeed.
Geddes discusses "Hyperloop and the Future of Transportation" in detail on a June 14 podcast hosted by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where Geddes serves concurrently as a visiting scholar.
Geddes also hosted a public event on the topic at AEI in April, featuring a keynote speaker and expert panelists. The full event video, entitled "Is Hyperloop the Future of Transportation?" runs just under two hours.


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This spectacular system uses Tesoro Tuscan Moon with Tattoo Silver drawer and door inserts. Mixed metals of ORB and Brushed Aluminum add a unique design detail.
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As a designer for California Closets Michigan, I work to organize your space and simplify your life. With more than a decade of design and organization experience, I take pride in finding a place for everything in a beautifully designed system that will fit all of your needs. I enjoy having the opportunity to transform your storage frustrations into organized solutions. The wide variety of products that California Closets has to offer allows us to be creative – so whether it be your closet, office, pantry or any other space that needs special attention, I will help to meet your specific requirements, needs, and wants!
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Who is the client and what is the style of their home? The client is a humble and kind real estate agent who has a quirky and fun style. Entertaining her friends is a passion. She is turning a third bedroom into a closet.
Tell us more about the project. The client came to California Closets having had a poor experience with a custom builder and interior designer. She needed a closet space that was not only beautiful, but could accommodate her wardrobe and extensive shoe collection.
How did you collaborate to create the best possible outcome? How did you involve the client in the process? Working together at the showroom, she was immediately impressed with the product and accessory options that we offer. The connection of visual and tangible made the world of difference. She loved what she saw and knew exactly what she wanted - the best of the best, and she was willing to wait for it.
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How did you use your creativity and passion for design to meet the client's needs? The client was excited and enthusiastic about multiple finish options that suited her style. I listened to her wants and needs and guided the process by selecting a finish palette that showcased exceptional design.
How did you use our product – design and materials – to offer value to your client? Our product was not something that she could get anywhere else. She immediately recognized the quality through intention and details in the showroom.
In what way did you design a better life for this client? After the loss of her son, she was looking for a luxurious space she could call her own. Her home is now her own boutique.
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The former Greek village of Assos, which overlooks a harbor 190 mi/305 km southwest of Istanbul, was settled by colonists from the nearby island of Lesbos.
On the hill above the harbor, in the modern village of Behramkale, the pretty stone houses are being snapped up and restored by artists—and others—from Istanbul. (Chilly in winter, it has never become a popular destination for travelers—hence, the old houses haven't all been razed to make way for concrete-block hotels.)
Aristotle lived there 347-344 BC opened an academy before fleeing to Macedonia. To honor his legacy, philosophy classes are still hosted there (and open to visitors).
A sixth-century BC temple of Athena with beautiful Aegean views is being restored, but the work is expected to continue for decades. The picturesque harbor and its pebbly beach, lined with boutique-hotels and fish restaurants, is a pleasant place to while away an afternoon.
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Seven new screenshots are available from NIS America's upcoming Disgaea 4: A Promise Revisited.
The Vita version of Disgaea 4 builds upon the original PlayStation 3 release by including all the game's post-release downloadable content, as well as tons of additional content not seen before. With the release date closing fast, NIS America have released a septet of new English screenshots to wet our appetites.
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Disgaea 4: A Promise Revisited is due out August 12th in North America and August 29th in Europe.


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May 11, 2018
From The Tusked Beast
Hi Paul,
Something to contemplate here in San Francisco, instead of the blown-out spring surf.
Besides the obvious omission of our most significant artist working in the inflatable medium, it looks pretty cool.
Here's a quote from one of the artists that you might relate to:
Jimmy Kuehnle's inflated artworks engage his audiences with a playful sense of the unexpected. "I try to find the line between the spectacle and the absurd," he says. "If I can make something that you can't quite put in a category, then maybe there's going to be a short circuit and you'll have a genuine interaction."
Links to the inflatable artists... here here here and here
Hope you are well!
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In ArcMap you can add a Data Interoperability Connection to consume a WFS.
If you need to make minor changes to the connection, you can right-click and choose edit Data I/O connection.
In ArcGIS PRO you can a new WFS server connection, but there is no way to edit the connection parameters afterwards. So if you made a mistake in the username or a custom parameter, then rather than edit and review the connection, you need to make a completely new connection!
That's silly and wastes time
So please grant the option to use the Catalog Pane to review and edit existing connections to WFS .. and WMTS, WMS etc...
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The DI-770 is a PC-based multifunctional weighing indicator for use in a variety of industries requiring production/inventory control and traceability are required. Its networking capability makes it easier to connect with other systems for data management.
IT-Matex III is an operations-oriented ERP-type planning system that facilitates workplace-centric management of people and resources. Playing a complementary role in ERP by serving as an interface with the workplace, it resolves a range of issues by enabling more fine-grained inventory control, greater picking productivity, and rationalization of production management.
Employs a 3-inch color LCD display, the largest in its class for a commercial scanner. Weighing a mere 226 grams, it nonetheless provides IP65-compliant ingress protection against dust and water. Operates for about 16 continuous hours on a single charge. Equipped with Microsoft Windows® CE 5.0 for an open development environment. Allows large master data files to be stored and used on SD memory cards set in its memory card slot. When used together with Bluetooth®-compatible devices, is invaluable for rationalizing operations in fields such as distribution, warehousing, and manufacturing.


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Posts Tagged 'Chuck Carlson'
Mark Dankof: The American "Church" and "Republic" Join Netanyahu's Psychiatrist in Suicide
The National Prayer Network's Ted Pike painfully reminds us that the American "evangelical" community is once again supporting the crimes of the Zionist State of Israel against decent humanity. Ted joins my old friends, Chuck Carlson of We Hold These Truths, and Dale Crowley, as one of the few Protestant evangelicals of national prominence who recognizes that murder and terror undergirded by an ideological agenda of Jewish racial supremacism, is antithetical to the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God. The terroristic strike on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla is just the latest example of this demonic alliance, but it isn't the last. The endgame is a preemptive Israeli attack on Iran.
The Pike essay, "Right Swallows Israel's Flotilla Lies," is a part of a wider cancerous condition I wrote about for Covenant News 5 years ago, before leaving Philadelphia for a return to south Texas. The title of the piece was "Does the American Evangelical Church Have Terminal Cancer?" It posited the idea as an interrogative, implying that perhaps the jury was still out on this movement, and the wider American Republic itself.
What I wrote 5 years ago seems as fresh as it did then. I hope you will read it again, or for the very first time. There has been only one change in my thinking in this last half-decade.
I no longer believe that the jury is out. The American "Church" and the Old Republic are dead. It is all over.
The American/Zionist Empire's coming attack on Iran, will facilitate the former's eventual and merciful disappearance from the pages of history. All of the signs are present. Philip Giraldi's critique of last December 14th's Times of London story on the Iranian nuclear program, neatly summarized in Gareth Porter's "US Intelligence Found Iran Nuke Document Was Forged, " is still a basic roadmap. So is Giraldi's more recent effort, entitled, "A Wasteland Called Peace."
In this latter essay, the former CIA station chief in Turkey summarizes the obvious comparison between the American-Zionist Empire and its ancient Roman predecessor. Even aside from theological questions of Divine Judgment for perpetrating evil, there is a logical reason why such Empires fail in their age old quest for world domination: They run out of men and money.
The historical precursor which I believe portends the end of the American-Zionist Empire and Enterprise is something I discovered in an essay in a magazine at Barnes and Noble in San Antonio this week.
The essay is Byron J. Nakamura's treatise in the Summer 2010 The Quarterly Journal of Military History, entitled, "Julian's Gamble in the Desert." It chronicles the details of what happened in AD 363 when the Roman emperor attempted to capture Ctesiphon, the ancient Persian capital during the Sassanid Empire. Only Sassanid King Shahpur II and his presumably inferior conventional military capabilities stood in the way.
Don't just settle for the abbreviated Internet version. Buy the print copy. And think about the implications.
The storm clouds continue to gather. Obama issues an Executive Order stating that the CIA may kill American citizens abroad on suspicion of being involved in terrorism. Petraeus and CENTCOM are expanding American black operations in more countries around the world. The Washington Post reports American plans to attack Pakistan if a future incident within the continental United States is traced to militants in that country. And in addition to its criminal assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai and conducting executions of peace activists sailing with the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in international waters, our Zionist ally has now deployed German-made nuclear subs off the Iranian coast while receiving covert permission from Saudi Arabia to utilize the latter's airspace for an aerial assault on Shiite Iran.
Is all of this insane? Clearly it is. It is not only insane, but internally contradictory. Robert Parry's new essay, "Obama Goes With Neo-Con Flow on Iran," provides us with the ultimate irony. The Tea-Party Turds, and the American "Christian" Right are in league with the hated Barack Obama, to bring about everything Israel wants.
Will these morons wake-up? The answer is no. That is why I state that the American "Church" and Empire are officially dead, and especially brain dead.
And speaking of insanity, it is left to Andrew Winkler's Sydney-based Rebel News, to inform us of the suicide (or "suicide") of Benyamin Netanyahu's Israeli psychiatrist of 9 years, Moshe Yatom.
An orthodox Lutheran pastor isn't generally disposed toward empathizing with a Jewish-Freudian psychotherapist. I do in this case. Assuming the genuine character of Yatom's suicide note, he recognized his client as a dangerously psychotic sociopath, or in Christian New Testament terms, a demon-possessed son-of-a-you-know-what. I presume Dr. Yatom concluded that despair and death were not only his endgame, but the endgame for an entire world, where Western civilization would follow his loony client and a led-by-the-nose Barack Obama into a collective catastrophe and demise on the Iranian plains.
Shahpur II and the warning of AD 363 await our first move.
"Mark Dankof's America" Joins Mark Glenn, Paul Sheldon Foote, and Chuck Carlson
The Liberty Hour Podcast, the creation of long-time political activist Mark Glenn, and USS Liberty survivor Phil Tourney, announces the addition of Mark Dankof's America to the new network's offerings. Initially, the show will air once-weekly, with each production being two hours in length.
Mark Dankof , long-time host of Mark Dankof's America on the Republic Broadcasting Network (RBN), made the decision to move his show to the new network. A past member of the Pat Buchanan wing of the Republican Party, he became the Constitution Party's insurgent candidate in the 2000 U. S. Senate race in Delaware, opposing Thomas Carper and William Roth. A Lutheran clergyman, he presently serves as pastor of San Antonio's Immanuel Lutheran Church. He is an endowed member of the National Rifle Association, and a life member of the Texas State Rifle Association. He was once tabbed by the late neo-conservative Republican Congressman, Jack Kemp, as The Rubber Ball of the American Right.
The move by Dankof to the Liberty Hour Podcast, is accompanied by his addition to the show of two co-hosts, Dr. Paul Sheldon Foote, and long-time anti-Zionist activist and Christian pastor, Chuck Carlson.
Dr. Paul Sheldon Foote is a professor of accounting at Cal State Fullerton, a Vietnam veteran, and acknowledged Middle Eastern expert as a past independent contractor for the American Embassy in Tehran in the 1970s. He is a member of Academics for Ron Paul. Dr. Foote's web sites include Traitors USA and offerings on You Tube.
Dankof and Foote have teamed up before on radio, with the former interviewing the latter on the Mujahedin-E-Khalq (MeK/MKO), the "Islamic-Marxist" terror organization which originated with leftist university students in Tehran in 1965. That initial production worldwide may be accessed on the World Wide Web through the auspices of The Nejat Society and Iran-Interlink. Dr. Foote's research on the Mek/MKO has also been chronicled on the Iran-based Habilian Association web site.
Chuck Carlson is the long-time print and electronic voice of We Hold These Truths, the venerable news and analysis agency for Christians and Protestant Evangelicals in opposition to the teachings and political slant of Christian Zionism. Carlson's sponsorship of Project Strait Gate Vigils in front of Christian Zionist churches around the nation, including John Hagee's Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, has drawn attention to the controversial political activities of the Christian Zionist movement in America, including Hagee's "Christians United for Israel" (CUFI). As for the Liberty Hour Podcast, Carlson has already served as a guest for Mark Glenn and Phil Tourney on December 17th, 2009, in a show entitled, "The End of Christian Zionism, Or Just a Facelift?"
Mark Dankof's America represents Mark Dankof's first team effort in radio news hosting. He explains his choice of both Paul Sheldon Foote and Chuck Carlson as co-hosts, as a strategic move.
"Basically", says The Rubber Ball of the American Right, "Dr. Foote represents a goldmine for me–and my listeners—in radio news broadcasting. Dr. Foote is an academic par excellence, a combat veteran, a Middle Eastern and Iran expert, and a first-rate radio presence on the air. He also shares my conviction, and that of the Buchanan-Paul wing of the American conservative movement, that pro-Zionist, Israeli-lobby advocacy has hijacked our movement and our country. He believes, as I do, that Neo-Conservative ideology threatens our national sovereignty, our foreign policy, our economy, and our Constitutional freedoms at home. He is simply, to put it mildly, a national treasure."
"As for Chuck Carlson, he is the leading voice of Protestant Christianity in America in registering principled, articulate, Biblically-based opposition to the dangerous heresy of Christian Zionism. We Hold These Truths has been demonstrating the heinous consequences of American foreign policy in Palestine, Gaza, Mesopotamia, Persia, and Afghanistan, even as it has alerted the Confessing Church to the domestic dangers inherent in an unthinking alliance with the Israeli Lobby."
"I will be assisting Pastor Carlson with a film media project scheduled to open new doors for all of us with international television outlets in the Middle East and around the world. The sky is the limit, for both our print and radio broadcast outreach, in the days ahead. I suspect we will be doing some globetrotting in the next two years, as events warrant."
The show will be available once a week on Thursday evenings, beginning January 28th. Each pre-recorded show is of two hours duration, covering the spectrum of subjects with selected guests to be regularly featured and announced. The show is scheduled to expand in weekly offerings, in the coming year.
Mark Glenn and Victor Thorn are the co-authors of a new book on Israel's deliberate attack upon the USS Liberty on June 8th, 1967. It is entitled, "Ship Without a Country."
Show advertisement and media inquiries may be directed to Mark Glenn of The Liberty Hour Podcast at email@example.com.
Mark Dankof on We Hold These Truths radio, August 11th and 18th
Mark Dankof will host Chuck Carlson's one-hour Internet radio Bible Study at We Hold These Truths, on Tuesday, August 11th, and Tuesday, August 18th. The time each Tuesday will be 6-7 pm Pacific/8-9 pm Central/9-10 pm Eastern time.
The shows will open with news analysis coming from both Mark Dankof and Chuck Carlson, followed by an examination by Pastor Dankof of New Testament texts which undermine the Christian Zionist "gospel" of racial supremacy, Jewish neo-conservatism, militarism, war, and corporatism. Chuck Carlson's Unheralded News summaries at We Hold These Truths may be accessed by clicking here.
Mark Dankof's graduate paper on Daniel's prophecy of 70 weeks, Zionism, and Dispensationalism for Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia may be accessed here.


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Hotel Dieu Shaver hosted their ninth annual Snowflakes and Angels Campaign for residents of the Niagara community. As part of this campaign, St. Catharines hosted the third annual Tree Lighting Celebration.
The November 16 event saw a multitude of activities for children and their families to participate in, including food vendors, kids crafting, meeting Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus, a photobooth and live music by Michael Chess and others. Market Square in downtown St. Catharines was home to the event with a candlelit stroll leading the way to St. Catharines City Hall for the official Tree Lighting Celebration.
Hotel Dieu Shaver, the official host of this event, is a Health and Rehabilitation Centre that excels in providing specialty healthcare in the areas of rehabilitation, complex care and geriatric services to residents in the Niagara Region. Hotel Dieu Shaver acts on their motto of providing a care system that is worthy of earning their patients' trust.
Hotel Dieu Shaver opened in 1944 as a Roman Catholic facility and since then, has focused on person-centred care in order to provide patients with respect and empowerment throughout the process. Their aim is to provide patients with a voice, self-determination and resources that aid in decision-making as well as striving to enable patients to reach their optimal level of health and well-being.
Spirituality, professionalism, innovation, responsible stewardship, integrity and teamwork are the six main values that Hotel Dieu Shaver focuses on in order to provide the best care possible for their patients. This rehabilitation centre seeks to provide compassionate care that protects and respects the independence of an individual.
One of the annual events that Hotel Dieu Shaver hosts is the Tree Lighting Celebration, which is open to the public. There was a pay-what-you-can entrance fee that went towards funding patient care.
"All the funds raised from this campaign will go towards purchasing patient care equipment and upgrading patient care areas for the year. We see a constant flow of individuals requiring the services that we provide here and the donations we receive really help us to provide that care and services to the best of our ability in order to see individuals succeed," said Mary Jane Johnson, the Director of Communications at the Hotel Dieu Shaver Health and Rehabilitation Centre.
Last year, the event had 300 attendees. Predictions for this year were the same. As a result of a Tim Hicks concert happening after the event, Johnson claimed that attendance may have been higher than predicted.
"We had high hopes that more people would attend from the concert in order to learn more about the services that we offer and to participate in all the activities we offered. The Tree Lighting event that was a part of the festivities on Sunday is one of our largest fundraisers for the hotel and it turned out to be a phenomenal success," said Johnson.
Attendee Bethany Lynn highlighted the value of the event in bringing joy to attendees and educating them about the work Hotel Dieu Shaver does.
"It never fails to get us into the Christmas spirit. I think that this event is an awesome opportunity for the Niagara Region to become of aware of the amazing care that Hotel Dieu Shaver provides to their patients. My family donates to this care centre in order for them to provide the care that they promise to provide to their patients to allow them to be successful," said Lynn. "I think everyone should attend this event in order to understand better what exactly Hotel Dieu Shaver is and what they do. It really is a great resource for care in the Niagara Region and I think it's important to expose ourselves to the resources that allow individuals to be successful."


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Short Lesson in Positive Psychology for my Son Delivered via Telephone
By Michelle Higgins - 23rd December 2011
Last night my oldest child had a crisis of confidence. In fact, the crisis began at pick up and continued well into the evening. The source of his misery was an English paper that he just could not wrap his head around. A paper that was due the next day, the last day of the school term, the day we were flying home and the last thing any of us wanted to focus on was homework.
While I would have loved to have told my son not to worry, I knew that giving him an out was not the right thing to do. For one thing, his worry over the paper was in some ways a good sign, a reflection of the fact that he cares about his schoolwork and wants to do well. For another, as he moves through school and life there will be many challenges and part of growing up is learning how to meet them head on, and the sense of accomplishment (and relief) when we face down our demons.
I did not tell my son that he needed to stay up all night and get an A on his paper. In fact, I emphasised that this time around a good enough paper would in fact be good enough. I did not want him to focus on grades, but instead tried to help him think about other times where he had found something difficult but chose to push through and came out the other end triumphant. A change of countries, an entirely new school system, a lightning fast math curriculum, all provided me with plenty of material – he had dealt with all of these situations with some tears but also hard work and determination and emerged with a real sense of achievement.
The other aspect of this particular crisis was that my son catastrophised the situation – something we all do when we are feeling overwhelmed (or at least I do). Rather than recognising that for whatever reason this paper did not sit well with him, he declared that he was terrible at creative writing. And fortunately this is entirely untrue. Rather than simply uttering platitudes, I pointed to assignments he had completed this year that he had done very well in and involved similar creative approaches.
I do not know if my son truly heard me. Much of our conversation took place over a phone line as I was racing around doing last minute shopping for our trip. But the good news is that when I arrived home he had in fact made a very decent start on the paper. It may not be his best effort ever, but he got it done, and can now go on holiday without a little dark cloud hanging over his head.
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The Daily Beast reports:
Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham's Wednesday night monologue about immigrants destroying America was so racist it got the endorsement of David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
During the opening to her primetime show The Ingraham Angle, Ingraham complained that "the America we know and love doesn't exist anymore. Massive demographic changes have been foisted upon the American people," she said, in the form of documented and undocumented immigrants.
Minutes later, Duke tweeted praise for Ingraham. "One of the most important (truthful) monologues in the history of MSM," he wrote above a clip of Ingraham's rant. He later deleted the tweet.
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text: For a mother one of the first instincts that you get when you see you little one is to protect them with your life. When I first held Snow I felt this unquenchable urge to hold him forever and shelter him from the cold dark world and I was doing a pretty good job until the dreadful evening when almost certainly, winter came(I am a big GOT fan). I left him on the bed playing with some of his toys, he was so tired which meant he was unstable, almost like a little drunk, So I knew that I had to bath him fast so that he could sleep. I rushed to the kitchen to get his bath ready. As I poured the hot water into his basin, I heard what I never thought I would hear. A THUD!! Followed by a deafening silence that lasted for ten seconds. Then the scream. Oh that horrific scream. He had fallen from my bed to the floor. A 3 foot plunge!!! I couldn't believe it. I was angry. Angry at myself for letting this happen, for not being careful, for breaking my vow to protect him my little mishka. I was scared. Scared that he was not okay, scared that he had broken a limb or worse, scared that he would hate me. As I ran to pick him up I felt like I had betrayed my little baby. He cried so bitterly! So frantically! I just couldn't. After checking that he was okay, I sat there on the bed holding my little baby as he cried, holding him close, and promising him that I will never ever let this happen ever, that he will never get hurt again in his life, that mama will protect him with her life that everything will be okay.Being a mom is about these ups and downs I am just grateful that I get to live through them with snow


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By Kunchok Dolma Yaklha, Special Appointee for Human Rights
Last week the U.S. State Department issued an updated travel advisory for China, warning American citizens about the "arbitrary enforcement of local laws" there, including the "exit bans" which bar individuals from leaving the country.
Beijing's move comes as a retaliation against the recent arrest of Chinese tech giant Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of the company's founder Ren Zhenfei.
Arrest of Huawei's executive in Canada
Meng was arrested in Vancouver, Canada – where she was on a layover between Hong Kong and Mexico – at the request of American counterparts on December 1, 2018. She is now facing a possible extradition to the U.S. to stand trial on allegations over helping banks with certain business activities that violated American sanctions against Iran.
Huawei, the world's largest telecom equipment supplier, as a company is under intense scrutiny because of its suspected ties with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Members of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance—composed of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K., and the U.S.—have deemed Huawei as a serious national security threat on the grounds that it could be operating as a spy for the CCP.
China retaliates against Meng's arrest
Angered over Meng's arrest, 13 Canadians were detained in China in the last month according to Global Affairs Canada.
However, the detention of only three Canadians: Michael Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat working for the International Crisis Group; Michael Spavor, a businessman focusing on promoting tourism and investment in North Korea; and Sarah McIver, an English teacher who returned to Canada after being released, are known to the public.
Kovrig and Spavor continue to be detained on suspicion of "engaging in activities endangering the national security" of China. Little information about the two detainees in China have been released apart from the fact that they were granted one consular access.
Meanwhile, Meng is out on bail and staying in one of her luxury homes in Vancouver.
Tibetans' first-hand experience of China's arbitrary enforcement of local laws
For years, Tibetans have been telling the international community about the Chinese government's arbitrary and selective enforcement of local laws to suppress any activity it does not like.
China has a deeply flawed justice system with a conviction rate of 99.9% and politically charged cases are particularly bound to have guilty verdicts. It is not uncommon for prisoners to be denied access to a lawyer or information about the alleged crime and be subjected to prolonged interrogation, torture and other ill-treatment.
Tibetans have a first-hand experience of China's lack of respect for the rule of law.
Tashi Wangchuk and the circumstances surrounding his case is the latest visible example. The Tibetan language rights activist was handed 5 years in prison in May 2018 for "inciting separatism" after he appeared in a New York Times video documentary expressing concerns about Tibetan children not being able to speak their native language.
Article 4 of the Chinese constitution protects the rights of minority nationalities "to use and develop their own spoken and written languages." Tashi's campaign for Tibetan language education in schools was in accordance with Chinese law, yet he finds himself behind bars.
Tashi's family were not informed about his arrest until almost two months after—in contravention of Chinese criminal law which requires family members of a detainee to be informed within 24 hours of arrest.
Representatives from Canada, Germany, the European Union, the U.K., and the U.S., were all denied entry to Tashi's trial proceedings at the Yushu Intermediate People's Court.
Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, a prominent Tibetan religious leader, died in Chinese custody on July 13, 2015 after having completed 13 years of his life imprisonment sentence on charges of "terrorism and inciting separatism."
The Chinese government claimed Rinpoche died of a heart attack, however, his niece Nyima Lhamo, who later escaped to India, met with political leaders and international human rights organizations and revealed that Rinpoche had in fact been poisoned to death.
Human Rights Watch said the case was plagued with irregularities and lacked any credible evidence against Rinpoche. "[M]any reasons remain for questioning [the court's] findings…The trial was procedurally flawed, the court was neither independent nor impartial." Citing national security reasons, Chinese authorities refused to release any evidence used at trial.
Rinpoche's case was widely viewed as politically motivated and an attempt to silence him, given his growing popularity among the locals as a defender of rights of Tibetans.
Vague laws giving Chinese authorities broad discretionary powers
Vague and overbroad language in a series of national-security related laws introduced in 2014 empower the Chinese government with far-reaching powers to criminalize activities it seems fit.
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has expressed concerns over China's use of "broad definition of terrorism and vague references to extremism and unclear definition of separatism" potentially being used to "criminalize peaceful civic and religious expression and facilitating profiling" of Tibetans and other minorities nationals in the country.
In February 2018, China's Public Security Bureau of the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) issued a notice officially listing a series of Tibetan social practices, such as language preservation and environmental protection, as forms of organized crime. Any close ties to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, referred to as the "Dalai clique" in the circular, or support for the Middle Way approach (which seeks genuine autonomy for Tibetans under the framework of the Chinese constitution) are also deemed illegal.
The absurd local laws are supported by intensified state surveillance as noted by the U.S. State Department's recent travel advisory for China. "Extra security measures, such as security checks and increased levels of police presence, are common" in the TAR and "[a]uthorities may impose curfews and travel restrictions on a short notice," states the advisory.
For too long, the world was under the impression that only vulnerable communities like Tibetans were subject to China's gross injustice.
We now know whether it's Tibetans, Canadians or Americans, no one is safe from China's arbitrary enforcement of local laws.
Better late than never.


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Ohio State head football coach Urban Meyer was speaking at a prep rally tonight. After a Tebow-esque "I'd like to make sure we all give credit to where credit's due" moment of silence, Meyer said a not-Tebow approved word in telling the crowd "Let's beat the $#!t out of Michigan!"
Want proof? Here's the video.
Stay classy, Urban Meyer.
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It Don't Matter Lyrics
Artist: Jerry Jeff Walker
Album: Gonzo Stew
Jerry Jeff Walker, John Inmon, Keith Sykes
Oh these days, I'm a nervous wreck,
Trying to live my life so politically correct
Don't smoke here, don't you stand over there
Drink bottled water, don't you breathe the air
World's so crowded, you can't hardly move
Everybody telling you what to do
People relax, give each other room
Let me tell you what all the Cajuns like to do
Down in Louisiana, it don't matter
If you're sane as a judge, mad as a hatter
People down there, they don't ever stay blue
Cause they just ate or they're fixin' to
They party all night, it makes you feel right
The Big Easy knows that you just gotta let go
Skinny or fatter, natty or tattered
Down in Louisiana, it don't matter
Down in Louisiana, it don't matter
Let me tell you how it is in New Orleans
Life revolves around a lot of rice and beans
They like to share a laugh and tell you what they mean
They always have a smile on their face for everyone they meet
Live and let live is the way that they do
Have the neighbors over for some alligator stew
Crawfish etoufee, Rockin' Doopsie plays
Next thing you know all your troubles fly away
Chorus (x2)
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Noise: Price and volume fluctuations in the market can bias one's understanding of market direction. Used in the context of equities, stock market activity caused by algorithmic trading, splits, bonuses, dividend payments or other phenomena is not reflective of overall market sentiment and could at best be described as "market noise".
Signal: An event or condition that alerts investors to purchase/sell a particular share.
Financial news or events across the globe drive the markets. But how efficiently do financial markets process news of unexpected events? In general, it is very difficult to differentiate how well markets process information, because there is no theoretical way to separate fundamental news from market noise. The market participants (i.e. investors and/or traders) often spend their day surrounded by such noises.
Below we have tried to list some instances from which you can sense if it is just noise or a genuine signal:
1. Opinions or predictions: Options or predictions on different things like stock price of the company, direction of the economy, monetary policy etc, could play on investors' emotions and push them into action more often than is ideal. For example: an investor who bought a stock with a 2 year outlook could be enticed to sell if the stock fell on some news and analyst anticipated more problems in the next quarter.
2. Sensationalism: Investors are likely to be more confused with the various signals they are receiving on a regular basis like 'Sensex falls for 5th straight day, Nifty lowest in 2013, screams one headline. Another day, one more such headline: 'invest in these midcap companies' for high returns over the next 4 quarters, reveals one article, and yet another says, 'Disappointed India Inc seeks interest rate cut by RBI'. What does one make of this constant stream of news flow?
3. Judging future on the basis of past: Many financial new/articles (typically during the end of a quarter or year) highlights winners/losers in the stock market. However, the purpose of such articles should be just that: highlighting winners to attract their interest and prompt them into finding out what drove such performances, and whether conditions still exist that such performances could be repeated in the future. But many investors overweigh the recent information and expect such performances to continue and treat such lists as outright buy recommendations.
As investors, it is important to separate the news from the noise in the hunt for real returns. Investors need to be disciplined in their stock investing approach. It is important to take into account that day to day action tends to be a meaningless back and forth, driven as much by liquidity and technical factors as actual valuation. What matters over time is the longer term trend: Is the economy expanding? What is happening with employment, wages and retail spending? Ultimately, these economic indicators matter because they will help drive profits of the companies and will in turn increases investor return.


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Music Therapy and Mental Health Recovery: Reflections on Contemporary Practice and Research
Music Therapy and Mental Health Recovery: Reflections on Contemporary Practice and Research
Friday 14th June 2-4pm, room IW2.51
Irish World Academy of Music & Dance, University of Limerick.
Music therapy and mental health recovery:
Reflections on contemporary practice and research
As recovery is a prevailing vision for modern mental health services internationally, it is timely to consider its current state of play in relation to music therapy practice. Over the past ten years much discussion has emerged about the role of music therapy in supporting mental health recovery with suggestion that the central beliefs and value systems of both are closely aligned. In response to this discussion, the Alliance for Recovery Research in Music Therapy (ARRIMT) was established in 2017, comprising of music therapy practitioners and researchers from Australia, Ireland, Norway and the United Kingdom. This seminar will feature work of the ARRIMT through case study and research examples to illustrate the role and impact of music therapy in a recovery-oriented context.
Seminar Speakers
Dr Catherine Carr is NIHR Clinical Trials Fellow with the Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit, Research Fellow in the Unit for Social and Community Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London and music therapist in mental health care for older people's inpatient services in East London NHS Foundation Trust. She currently leads the ERA trial, which looks at the effectiveness of group art, music and dance movement therapy in community mental health services.
Dr Hans Petter Solli is post doc researcher at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, Norway. His main research interest is music therapy in mental health care, especially how music therapy can facilitate recovery for people diagnosed with psychosis. He has worked as music therapist for nearly 15 years, and has established two music therapy programs at Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital, Oslo.
Dr Tríona McCaffrey is lecturer on the MA Music Therapy Programme at the Irish World Academy of Music & Dance, University of Limerick. She has practiced as a music therapist in community mental health, psychiatry of old age and mental health recovery. Her research focusses on the role of music therapy to promote of mental well-being with particular interests in arts-based methods, service user inclusion and mental health recovery.
Dr Cherry Hense is a Music Therapist who has dedicated most of her career to developing recovery-based music programmes with young people experiencing mental ill-health. She has worked both clinically in youth mental health services and as a post-doctoral researcher at The University of Melbourne, exploring young people's experiences with music during mental health recovery.
This event has been approved for 2 External CPD Credits from the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland. To book a free place register at https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/music-therapy-and-mental-health-recovery-tic...


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Dumfries and Galloway have, in the last two weeks, held host to a 'flavour fortnight.' I found out about it all a little too late to be really involved but I did manage to have a look at a couple of the events being laid on.
I would really love to keep bees, my own honey and little insect empire, lovely. Although I know far too little at the moment and although the though had been somewhere in my mind for a while I had not acted upon it until this week. The obvious next step for a person such as myself is a taster afternoon with a bee keeping organisation, and luckily enough for me as part of this 'flavour fortnight' such an event was being held…
I have to admit I learnt a great deal (and in a very short space of time), I knew some of the basics; queen, honey, hive, etc. But the level of science was astounding. We started with a kind of theory session, the different types of bee, how the hive functions and how it is made up (all brand new information as far as I was concerned). We then ventured out into the rather wet outdoors to have a gander at the real chaps in action.
We were kitted out in bee keeping suits but alas I had forgotten my wellies leaving my ankles rather vulnerable to attack… Inevitably I was the first to be stung, before we had hardly opened up the first hive.
I was surprised by how small the bees were, I suppose I am so used to seeing bumble bees which are much larger and much more brightly coloured. We saw inside the hives and were shown the relevant parts, which, despite the now burning sensation up my leg, was very interesting.
I would still very much like bees of my own, however I am going to need to up my pain threshold as well as move into a house with a bigger garden!
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Wavestore appoints Simon Shawley as Sales Director
Wavestore has appointed Simon Shawley as its new Sales Director to oversee the company's sales strategy and drive growth across EMEA.
Simon, who joined on 1st February 2018, has over 25 years' experience in the electronic security market having previously held senior sales and business development positions for companies including Hanwha Techwin and DVTel.
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August 18, 2008
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Jammu and Kashmir is on the boil again and this time India mostly has its own sectarian politics to blame for the steadily deepening crisis. The informal cease-fire on the Line of Control (LoC), which had held up fairly well November 25, 2003, through a tortuously slow rapprochement process, has been repeatedly violated by the Pakistan army in recent weeks and there have been casualties on both the sides. As Pakistan braces to face up to its political crisis, the ISI is reported to have once again stepped up the concentration of terrorists in launch pads across the LoC. A large number of infiltration attempts have been successfully foiled by the Indian army. The Amarnath Shrine land transfer issue has led to the spontaneous outbreak of violent protests with angry Muslim mobs waving Pakistani flags in the Kashmir Valley and by equally furious Hindu youth waving the Indian Tricolour in the Jammu region.
On the positive side, the incident-free Amarnath Yatra has drawn over 5.5 lakh pilgrims this year compared with 3.0 lakh and 2.7 lakh in the full season in 2007 and 2006, respectively. Over 4.0 lakh tourists have visited Kashmir this year (4.4 lakh in the whole of 2007) despite a grenade attack at Gulmarg and some other incidents of sporadic violence. Overall, there has been a general decline in violence levels in the hinterland, particularly in the Jammu Division south of the Bannihal Pass on the Pir Panjal Range. This has enabled the Indian army to gradually reduce the number of troops deployed for counter-insurgency operations in J&K and send some infantry battalions back to their peace-time locations.
Cease-fire violations along the LoC are difficult to understand. Surely, the Pakistan army would not like to activate its eastern front when it is fighting with its back to the wall against the Pakistani Taliban in the NWFP and FATA areas and progressively losing ground to them. The only plausible explanation can be that the violations are part of an evolving Pakistan army-ISI game plan to adversely influence the forthcoming elections to the J&K Assembly in October 2008. Another round of free and fair polls conducted in a peaceful atmosphere with a large voter turnout would militate against Pakistan's propaganda that the people of Kashmir have been denied the right of self rule. Hence, the violations are part of carefully calibrated attempts to support the infiltration of additional terrorists into Kashmir to vitiate the atmosphere through greater violence in the run up to the elections.
However, the issue that is of immediate concern is the Jammu versus Kashmir violence related to the Amarnath Shrine land transfer that has completely polarised the two majority communities in J&K. Agitated over the revocation of the transfer of land to the Amarnath Shrine Board due to the politically motivated resistance of people in the Valley, the people of Jammu and adjacent areas came out on the streets in large numbers, defied the curfew that had been promulgated, fought the police and imposed an economic blockade of the Valley. In fact, the pent up emotions of nearly 20 years of insurgency and fundamentalist terrorism, perceptions of the continued political appeasement of the people of the Valley and the feeling that unjustifiably large amounts of government funds have been diverted to the Valley while Jammu has been neglected, have come to the fore.
The agitation has been festering for almost 50 days already and, if it is allowed to continue unchecked, it could lead to an unbridgeable communal divide. This will have disastrous consequences for the future unity of J&K and India. Passions on both the sides have been inflamed and wild accusations are being freely hurled. Some political leaders in Kashmir Valley are openly speaking of approaching Pakistan for getting essential supplies from Muzzaffarabad in POK and sending apples for sale along the Srinagar-Baramulla-Muzzaffarabad road if the Jammu-Srinagar lifeline is not opened right away. In what is a new and diabolical dimension to the ongoing crisis, sporadic cries of azadi are again being heard across the Valley and Pakistan's leaders have begun to say that their hearts bleed for the Kashmiri people. From Pakistan's point of view, the ISI could not have scripted it better - if it had orchestrated the ongoing drama.
Sadly, a vital national interest is once again losing out to the cynical calculations of vote bank politics, administrative paralysis and inept political leadership. Political leaders in the Kashmir Valley as well as the Jammu region have not only made no attempt to stem the rot, but have actively encouraged the agitators to fan the flames of hatred. Political leaders at the national level have been indulging in a blame game and threatening to take the land transfer issue to all corners of India. All thinking Indians must recognise that in today's day and age, with media cameras panning every street 24x7, if the people of Kashmir Valley come out on the streets again in the hundreds of thousands and demand azadi, as they had done in 1988-89, no amount of force will succeed in retaining the Valley within India.
The need of the moment is to take the message of communal harmony and goodwill to the agitators on both sides of the Pir Panjal Range. All national political parties must rise to the occasion and come together to stop the bandhs, lift the blockade of the Valley and appeal to the people to put an immediate end to the violence. India's open society and liberal democracy provide enough opportunities for the redressal of grievances. Violent agitations cannot possibly resolve social tensions; these can only create greater disharmony.
If need be, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Leader of the Opposition L K Advani should travel together to Jammu and Srinagar to heal the wounds and assuage hurt feelings. The seriousness of the situation demands statesmanship of the highest order.
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HIP HOP! Its hip-hop Thursday for Unityand that means a blog-hoppin' good time and tons of free stuff given away at the Unity SCS forum today...its a DAY LONG party!! (No, I am not exaggerating) You can drop in any time between 10am and midnight central time!
Ok, I know I have said every month that the newest UnityKit of the Month is a must have, but this months...August is just to-die for!! I just love every image in it...and there are a ton of them!! I am so glad that Angela has Jessica on board as a new artist, cause she is the bomb! And there are only 4 days left in August so you better hurry!
I pulled out this weeks SCS sketch challenge, some fun old paper that I LOVE and a brand new stamp and went to town! Its hard to see but after I colored in all the candy in the jars I went back and added some shine with the Sakura clear glaze pen...there is also a bit of sparkle on the Penny candy sign! The blue tag...no idea where its from...I got it in a kit ages ago...its actually transluscent but it went with the color scheme perfecto!
So come join us for the Hip Hop hoppin party today! In the meantime, please say hi! Happy Thursday:)
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An opinion columnist for Penn State University's student newspaper has been fired by the editor in chief for complaining in print that editors have too much control over his opinion pieces.
The piece that got him fired was edited and approved by a mid-level editor before publication.
Now the offending piece has been pulled from the paper's Web site and the paper's top editor has written her own opinion piece: 750 words to say why she doesn't need to explain herself.
Bryan Peach, the fired columnist, mostly just wants his two-month-old job back -- and an explanation.
"I deserve a reason why I was fired," says Peach, the former Daily Collegian columnist, who is a sophomore majoring in journalism. Previous column topics that did not get him fired include depression among students and the annoyance of being stranded in broken dorm elevators.
In his Oct. 7 column, headlined "News Writing Process Yields Many Tough Obstacles," Peach criticized the way in which a journalist's ideas are diluted during the editing process, both generally and specifically at The Daily Collegian. As soon as an editor's fingerprints appear, Peach wrote, "the [opinion] column begins to reflect the Collegian's agenda rather than the columnist's."
Which apparently wasn't true in the column that got Peach fired.
Peach says he had not had any problems working with his immediate editor, Jen Winberry, adding that he felt his work was sometimes "over-edited" and that "the university's interests filtered through the editorial staff."
Since his dismissal on Oct. 17, Peach says he's attempted to get a written explanation of his termination from Daily Collegian editor-in-chief Jennette Hannah or faculty advisor John Harvey without success.
"Reinstatement would be ideal, but it's probably not going to happen," Peach says.
Winberry and Harvey did not respond to numerous requests for comment, but in a statement sent to other media the paper said its representatives were unable to speak on personnel matters. Hannah says she is unable to comment. In her published non-explanation of Oct. 24, she writes that her own choice to run the column was "a lapse in judgment" for which she "take[s] full responsibility."


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