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San Bernardino Mass Shooting: Another Classic False Flag Operation And Mainstream Media Coverup
TMR Editor's Note:
San Bernardino has proven to be a completely transparent false flag operation executed by rogue elements within the U.S. Federal Government.
When the government routinely perpetrates such episodic schemes of savage violence against the citizenry, it needs to be dissolved.
No entity under the sun has the legitimate right or lawful authority to arrogate power unto itself to harm or injure, paralyze or main, incapacitate or kill the people of this nation, especially when such reprehensible conduct is completely without cause.
Not only are such actions by the state a serious breach of the social contract, they also represents a profound violation of the public trust. These incessant false flag shootings, therefore, break the inviolable bond between the citizenry and the government.
In effect, the U.S. Federal Government has knowingly and willfully abandoned its primary responsibility to protect and safeguard the American citizenry. In so doing, and by persistently acting in a manner that is extremely hostile to the governed, those who currently govern these United States of America no longer constitute a legitimate government of the people, by the people and for the people.
San Bernardino mass shooting: 3 white gunmen, 2 unlikely culprits, and 1 saving grace
Niall Bradley
Another day, another massacre of innocents in the US of A. 14 people were shot to death during a mass shooting on December 2nd at the Inland Regional Center in the city of San Bernardino, California, about 100km east of Los Angeles. Another 21 people were wounded in what was the worst mass shooting since the Sandy Hook massacre in December 2012.
Another turkey shoot
At 11am local time last Wednesday, masked gunmen – initially reported as a team of three – "dressed head-to-toe in black tactical gear and vests stuffed with ammunition magazines", entered one of the three main buildings on the site and made their way to the conference room, where staff for the county's Department of Public Health were enjoying a Christmas office party. From the moment they opened fire, the shooting reportedly lasted 5-8 minutes, during which the gunmen "never said a word" and fired about 75 rounds into the group of unarmed civilians, with eyewitnesses saying they paused only to reload their weapons.
The sight of heavily-armed police officers swarming the Regional Center was apparently so familiar to employees there that they initially thought they were witnessing "another active shooter drill". Indeed, according to the LA Times, active shooter drills take place there every "every month or so". Watch as employees remark upon how realistic this latest 'drill' appears, completely oblivious to the fact that some of their colleagues nearby have been shot to death:
The perpetrators also left behind "three pipe bombs, rigged-together" that they apparently intended to remotely detonate, but which failed to explode:
The gunmen then reportedly left the center in "an SUV with blacked-out windows." One witness, Glenn Willwerth, who runs a business across the street, said he saw such a vehicle – the only one in the parking lot – pull out "very calmly, very slowly" and drive off. Another witness, Sally Abdelmagee, an employee at the Inland Regional Center,described "three gunmen dressed exactly the same" to CBS News:
Note that she is clear about what she saw: three masked, tall, white, well-built men, dressed in identical military attire, vests stuffed with spare magazines, and carrying huge assault rifles. This fits with the earliest media reports…
…and with what other eyewitnesses saw:
And that was the end of the bloody drama, until, four hours later, something else happened. Allegedly working on a tip they had received about a Regional Center employee, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, leaving the office party following an argument with a colleague, San Bernardino police staked out his residence in the nearby Redlands suburb. As luck would have it, just as police arrived at his home at about 3pm "to set up a watch", an SUV matching the description of the one seen leaving the Regional Center approached the Farook residence, but then took off and the police gave chase.
In the "furious gunbattle" that ensued during the police chase, the occupants of the moving blacked-out SUV (which was rented in California, but apparently had Utah license plates) allegedly discharged a similar quantity of rounds as reported fired at the Regional Center. Dozens of police units caught up with, and at some point riddled, the SUV – with about 380 bullets.
The aftermath, but not the actual chase, was filmed by media helicopters. Media footage only picks up the scene after the SUV – shot-up with windows blown in and doors open – has come to a halt and the wide avenue is crawling with hundreds of police and other security personnel. A dead body – now presumed to be Farook's – is seen lying across the street from the SUV, apparently bleeding from a head wound. Did he run from the SUV, only to be shot at this point?
His hands appear to be bound at this point:
Here we can certainly see that his hands are bound:
Later photographs and video stills show what appears to be the body of a woman next to the SUV, along with other materials taken from inside the vehicle, including what police said were more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition. The body of the person alleged to be Tashfeen Malik in the image below does not appear to match the eyewitnesses descriptions of the shooters at the Inland Regional Center: three large males in tactical gear. It also does not match the police description of Tashfeen Malik as the shooter at the Inland Regional Center, who was also said to be wearing black tactical gear. It can be clearly seen in the image below that the person is wearing either a short grey skirt or grey shorts.
Initial reports said that a third person, also in the SUV as it was pursued by police down San Bernardino Avenue, was arrested:
However, this report was updated to say that third this person was detained after being seen "running from the scene" where the pursuit ended. One wonders, of course, whether this third person was driving the SUV with the couple inside it. In any event, the authorities later said this suspect was not at all connected to the SUV, and thus – presumably – to the attack on the Regional Center. There has been no further update on what happened to this mystery suspect.
Meet Mr. & Mrs. Massacre
"Federal officials" were able to tell the Associated Press right away that four weapons were used in the Regional Center shooting – a .223-caliber DPMS Model A15 rifle, a Smith and Wesson M&P15 rifle, a handgun made by Llama, and a Smith and Wesson handgun – all of them "purchased legally four years ago"; the handguns supposedly by Farook himself, and the assault rifles by "an unknown third party." Farook apparently never told anyone about this because we later learn that no one who knew him ever saw him with a gun or express any interest in owning one. Meanwhile, another "anonymous law enforcement official" was telling the LA Times that Farook bought all four firearms at 'Annie's Get Your Gun', a firearms store in the city of Corona. The store's owner, however, has denied that the store sold them any weapons.
We were later told that the dead woman photographed next to the SUV was the second of just two shooters at the Regional Center. She was named as Tashfeen Malik, 27, the wife of Syed Farook. Right there we run into a couple of problems: 1.) numerous eyewitnesses reported seeing three gunmen do the deed, and 2.) Tashfeen Malik was asmall South Asian woman, not a "tall, athletic, white male." As the family attorney points out in an interview with CNN (below), a 90lb (45kg) woman is not exactly a likely candidate for clinically killing numerous colleagues of her husband while carrying a 'huge' assault rifle, an automatic handgun, a vest full of ammunition magazines, and three pipe-bombs.
Beyond these mere physical feats of superhuman strength, Malik also apparently possessed multi-tasking superpowers. It was, we're told, she who first identified herself and her husband as the perpetrators by affiliating herself, via a Facebook post, with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the alleged leader of ISIS/Islamic State. Investigators, like the public, learned about this 'claim of responsibility'through media reports, which cited a "Facebook executive speaking on condition of anonymity because this person was not allowed under corporate policy to be quoted by name." This 'executive' claimed that Malik published a Facebook post under an alias account at 11am – i.e., duringthe Inland Regional Center attack – and then deleted her own message. We'll never be able to verify any of this this because the 'executive' said the account was then immediately removed by Facebook, even though the social media site could not have immediately known that Malik was the real person behind this alias account, nor that she was associated with the San Bernardino shooting. Malik was only publicly named as "the second shooter" many hours later, following the "gun-battle" on San Bernardino Avenue.
Speaking of social media, yet more "anonymous officials" also reported that the suspects "scrubbed" their regular social media accounts prior to the attack. Also, police said that after entering the young couple's apartment, they found the couples' cell phones, computers and other electronics destroyed. It seems strange that they would remove all digital traces of their involvement in a crime… only to claim responsibility for it – albeit in a convoluted manner – and while carrying it out.
If that wasn't confusing enough, more "law enforcement officials speaking to the press on condition of anonymity" in the immediate aftermath of the massacre stated that Farook had recently been "in touch by phone and through social media with more than one international terrorist group" – namely, al-Nusra (al-Qaeda in Syria) and al-Shabbab (al-Qaeda in Somalia).
In addition to the small arsenal investigators found in the shot-up black SUV, they also claim to have discovered"another huge arsenal – including nearly 5,000 rounds of ammunition, a dozen pipe bombs and hundreds of tools for making IEDs" at the couple's Redlands home. This was presumably all carted away by the time reporters for national and international media entered the home and broadcast its contents to the world, because weapons were not among them.
The Backstory
The 'press invasion' was a strange episode. A British Sunday Times 'journalist' claimed he entered by removing some of the boarding erected by police, with the elderly landlord's permission, who was with him when he did this. A swarm of press hounds then followed him inside. The landlord's story is that he was unable to prevent reporters from "rushing" him and entering into the apartment. There was apparently no law enforcement in sight prior to the press somehow getting into the apartment, but the landlord was subsequently "escorted from the premises in an unmarked car."
As reporters did live TV reports from inside the apartment and tweeted updates and photographs on their social media feeds, a 'furore' erupted over the 'ethics' of entering the couple's apartment in this way, with the reporters being accused of "ransacking" the apartment. However, it appears to us that they took photographs and video footage of the apartment as they found it.
We're left with a puzzling question: why would the perpetrators meticulously remove all digital traces of their involvement in a crime… only to leave ID cards on the coffee table, credit card bills on the counter, korans on the bed, and family photos on the bathroom sink? One tempting answer is that the apartment scene was arranged in this manner, and the media allowed in – against protocol – to broadcast it to the world and 'fill out the murderous couple's backstory'.
Natural Born Killers?
Little is known of the Saudi wife, but Syed Farook could not have been a more integrated American if he was caught fleeing the scene while stuffing his face with apple pie and waving the stars and stripes. An American citizen born in Chicago, Farook was a 5-year full-time city employee – a health and safety inspector – of the San Bernardino County Division of Environmental Health Services – with an $80,000 salary, and studying towards a Masters degree. Farook's brother served in the US Navy from 2003-2007. Farook's family said they last saw him on the previous Sunday for a family meal. Married about one year to his alleged accomplice, Farook dropped their 6-month-old daughter off at his mother's place that morning. All of which means, as one of the family attorneys put it, "Farook was living the American dream," which is to say; as regular and successful a life as anyone can muster in sunny Southern California these days.
The alleged shooters' family doesn't understand how the young couple could possibly be involved. Farhan Khan, who is married to Farook's sister, described his brother-in-law as follows:
"Couches, TV, kitchen. I mean, you know, a play area, a treadmill to run… He liked to work on cars. That was his hobby, to go buy a used car, work on it. He loved buying used Mustangs, fixing them, and then selling them."
"He was a normal person; as normal as you can imagine. A person who goes to work, comes back home, plays with the kid, eats dinner, sleeps. You know, a normal person."
The family's attorneys were equally stumped, describing their shared amazement with investigators about the couple's involvement to CNN:
Even the FBI is puzzled, with Director James Comey remarking:
"There's much about this that doesn't make sense, even to those of us who do this for a living."
The narrative now goes that Farook was in attendance at the office Christmas party in the conference room where the attack took place. He is alleged to have "stormed out after a dispute," then returned later with his wife, both of them dressed head-to-toe in tactical military gear and ammo magazines, and carrying assault rifles.
So, are we looking at one seriously disgruntled employee, who impulsively took revenge on his colleagues over some slight? This is extremely unlikely because there is consensus about the nature of this attack indicating a high degree of planning and sophistication.
The Fallout
In the immediate aftermath of these events, before investigators formally announced they would widen possible motives to Islamic terrorism, gun control measures went up before Congress: a law to ban gun sales to people on the US government no-fly terror watch list, and a law to expand background checks on gun sales. Both measures failed, narrowly. Meanwhile, other authority figures are calling for people to arm themselves, a new '24/7 gun shopping channel' was launched even as the event dominated headlines, and, predictably, gun sales have increased.
Note that the two narratives about such events – 'Islamic terrorism' and 'loner gone postal' – are combined in the San Bernardino massacre narrative. So Farook is at once a 'loner disgruntled employee' with too much access to guns, and a 'bearded jihadi with connections to avowed enemies of our freedoms'. Liberal Democrats like Hillary Clinton can utilize the 'gun control' narrative, while her Conservative Republican counterparts can blame 'those Muslims'. And vice versa; you're invited to pick and choose – it is a free country after all.
The common denominator is fear; fear that only The Authorities can assuage. Facts, evidence and due process no longer matter when the judicial process is trial-by-media and enforcers are free to execute people on the street. It doesn't matter whether the mass shooting is later found to have been motivated by something else entirely. Its purpose is to shock the American people, and Westerners in general who followed this globally mediatized event, in order to maintain the 'strategy of tension' and promote a generalized atmosphere of insecurity so that the Powers That Be can continue their criminality with impunity.
"You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security." 1
The above is testimony of convicted right-wing Italian neo-fascist and terrorist, Vincenzo Vinciguerra, stated in sworn testimony regarding the NATO/CIA-run terror campaign called Operation Gladio, which operated for decades in Europe. Governments and media at the time blamed the attacks on the official enemy of the day, the 'extreme left' and 'communists.' As Joe Quinn explains in this article, we're in a slightly different, re-branded, era now, so the narrative for these atrocities has changed, but the methods remain exactly the same.
This week, victims' relatives and survivors of gun violence will hold 265 vigils around the US, led by a ceremony in Washington, to remember the people killed since 14th December 2012, the day another team of gunmen murdered 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut. We're not even going to comment on thatincident because it has become so riven with misinformation and disinformation, but we note the timing of its anniversary with this latest mass shooting.
Completely overlooked and blanked out as a result of this shooting are the dozens of protests going on in cities across the US right now against police brutality, a sadistic regime in itself, which has killed thousands (not hundreds) of people since December 2012.
As millions of upset and stressed-out Americans (and Westerners generally) continue to voice their discontent in myriad ways, consider that 'Black Lives Matter' protests are just one expression of this. Growing disparity between rich and poor (because the rich plunder from the poor) is another. 'Detroit' is all over the US now. San Bernardino, once a middle class 'All-America City', is now bankrupt and the poorest city of its size in California. As described in this recent LA Times article, San Bernardino is symbolic of America's worst urban woes, with "sub-par schools and potholed streets, high crime, slow police and fire response times, and trash and tumbleweeds that pile up against rusty chain-link fences."
Finally, this event must be placed in the context of US foreign policy. US interests abroad are inseparable from US interests at home. As some have already noted, the massacre in San Bernardino took place amid escalating geopolitical tensions over Syria, where US ally Turkey had just shot down a Russian bomber, and where the US and other allies are scrambling to retake the initiative from Russia, whose real efforts to target the gunmen massacring innocents in the Middle East has done serious damage to the credibility of America and its allies' claim to be "defending Western civilization from terrorism."
Still though, why?
Why do this? What tangible goals can such a violent strategy ever hope to achieve? Putin's Russia can thwart some asymmetrical attacks against its interests and homeland, but what counter-strategy could possibly compete with one that is prepared to countenance the slaughter of its own in order to 'protect its own'? Here we come, as we often do, to the bottom line: trying to make sense of this horribly dystopian world is a futile endeavor, because as much as anyone can explain what's happening to our world, it is ultimately going to be driven off a cliff by fundamentally insane individuals.
No doubt they believe themselves to be exceptionally clever, periodically 'prodding' and 'culling' the herd in order to corral it in the direction of their liking. But as psychopathic individuals, they are incapable of realizing that their wishful thinking blinds them from seeing that 'the herd' kicks out in ways they don't anticipate. It's this wishful thinking on the part of the overlords that inspires revolutionaries and activists with hope that one such unexpected reaction may be that the world changes for the better.
Alas, with each subsequent terror attack, and each subsequent mass shooting, the masses – if they're even aware that an event has taken place – fall into confluence with the prevailing mood. And the prevailing mood is ripe with foreboding. Observe that large numbers of people around you now believe that Muslims are inherently evil. This, it seems to us, is the primary goal of those in power; to deflect the masses' ire onto a large segment of the human population, and thereby maintain their rule for all 'eternity'.
And so here we are, watching the re-establishment of totalitarianism through divide-and-conquer, only this time on a global scale and with far more efficient techno-gadgetry. People, being good Authoritarian Followers, will accept this state of affairs for a while, but in time the forces unleashed will result in food shortages, economic collapse and a host of other 'non-linear' effects, including significant environmental disruptions. When they experience real hunger for the first time, only then will people become truly angry at 'the injustice of it all'. Only then we will see 'the second coming'.
The Second Coming ~ William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
1 Quoted in NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, Daniele Ganser, 2005


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Dr Marshall said: "It is indeed an honour and privilege to be recognised nationally by my peers for the work I have initiated in enabling experienced midwives to become graduates and at the same time observe them gaining confidence to undertake project work that can have benefit to them in their career progression through making valuable contributions to developing the maternity services in which they work." The work based project can take many forms and midwives have been instrumental in developing clinical guidelines, information leaflets and booklets for parents and staff, internet resources such as virtual maternity unit tours and intranet staff training packages. Each project has proven to have had a positive effect on the midwives' own professional and career development as well as their clinical practice and that of their colleagues, their employing organisation and more importantly the care provided to local women, their babies and families. The midwives' projects are approved beforehand with the module leader and employer in the form of a learning action plan (LAP) and each midwife has both an academic and work-based supervisor to support them in completing their project. An evaluative study has been undertaken by Dr Marshall in order to examine the effect this module has had on both the individual midwife and in developing midwifery practice. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive, with midwives and their employers clearly recognising the tangible benefits of the project work in developing the local maternity and neonatal services.
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In the short-term, the UK-China 'golden decade' will be reflected in a series of multi-billion pound business deals. In the medium-term, it has the potential to make the UK China's largest offshore renminbi intermediary worldwide.
"Let's stick together and make a golden decade for both our countries," said UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.
Indeed, the "Osborne Doctrine" preceded President Xi Jinping's UK state visit in September, when the Chancellor visited China and announced the British government's intention to make the UK China's "best partner in the West."
However, the foundation of the bilateral golden decade was set up in spring.
How the UK Changed the AIIB Game in Europe
In late 2013, Chinese leaders put forward the proposal for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). It originated from frustration.
For years, China, along with other large emerging economies, had grown exasperated with the slow pace of reforms in the global multilateral financial institutions (for example, the IMF, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank), which remain dominated by American, European and Japanese interests, as reflected by their voting quotas, investment allocations and the nationality of their leaders.
Despite US pressure against the membership, most countries in South, Southeast and East Asia joined the AIIB, whereas EU members initially stayed out.
The game changer was the UK's decision to join the AIIB, as the "first major Western country," which triggered a riled response from the Obama White House.
In short order, other core EU economies – Germany, France, and Italy – followed in the UK's footsteps, along with the rest.
Unlike the US, the UK does not have critical military interests in Asia. What it does have, however, is a great interest in the evolving multipolar world economy and a determination to be a central part of it.
Chinese Capital for UK Infrastructure
To Prime Minister Cameron and his Chancellor, the AIIB move was a part of a long-standing effort to establish an edge over the UK's US and European rivals in attracting Chinese investment.
Reportedly, deals worth over US$60 billion are to be signed during Xi's visit, covering industries such as retail, energy, financial services and aerospace.
During his visit to China last month, Chancellor Osborne opened bidding for the £11.8 billion High-Speed Two (HS2) rail link contracts.
In turn, the UK's Hinkley Point nuclear power station, which has major backing from China, will be the first nuclear plant in the UK for 20 years. Hinkley Point C in Somerset could reportedly generate up to 7% of the UK's electricity needs, while creating thousands of jobs. Its construction costs are estimated at £24 billion and are associated with additional technology and cost risks.
Today, Chinese companies are the world's largest builders of nuclear plants. In China, there are 24 nuclear reactors in operation with another 25 under construction.
Indeed, in the past 12 years, UK exports to China have soared fivefold, taking the mainland from 9th to 6th place among the largest markets for UK goods and services. Now Osborne's objective is to make China the UK's second-largest trading partner by 2025, after the U.S.
London as China's Leading RMB Offshore Center
President Xi's state visit to the UK heralded the issuance of sovereign debt in renminbi (RMB) in London and the rise of the UK as the first overseas RMB centre to open an RMB sovereign debt market.
Only a decade ago, China's bond market was still small. Today, it is the third largest in the world, behind the US and Japan.
Starting from US$58 billion in 1997, it soared to US$5.3 trillion in the first quarter of 2015. Yet, foreign ownership of Chinese bonds remains minimal at around 2%.
Last autumn, the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect opened China's markets to Western investors, via Hong Kong. However, it also led to the idea of a Shanghai-London Connect, which would replace Hong Kong with London in the West.
But Cameron and Osborne are aiming even higher.
Today, there are four major international reserve currencies: the US dollar, the euro, British pound and the Japanese yen. In early August, the IMF was asked to delay its RMB inclusion until September 2016. Even if China misses the cut in fall 2015, an interim review could grant the RMB a reserve currency status before 2020.
In the long-term, the endorsement by the IMF could unleash a reweighing of the global reserve portfolio, which today amounts to US$11.6 trillion.
Non-public, private investors would follow in the central banks' footsteps. If, initially, the RMB amounted to 10% of the IMF reserve currency basket, along with Japanese yen and British pound, some 10% of the global reserves – over US$1.1 trillion – could flow into RMB assets.
Ménage à Trois
In barely half a year, London has moved rapidly, while Brussels has been first consumed and then near-paralysed by geopolitical issues.
What the UK has achieved as a single EU economy – greater participation of China in infrastructure and finance – a proactive EU policy should have had the foresight to conceptualise and execute in Europe after the 2008-2009 global crisis and certainly in the aftermath of the 2010 EU sovereign debt crisis.
Timing matters.
This commentary was released by EUobserver on Oct. 20, 2015
About the Author
Dr. Dan Steinbock is the research director of international business at the India, China and America Institute (USA) and a visiting fellow at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (China) and EU Center (Singapore). For more, see http://www.differencegroup.net


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Sunday 5 May, 9:30 Service to take place at the Melville Koppies
Koppie Eucharist
Sunday May 5, 9:30 am
7.30 service as usual
No 9.30 service at the church
For the Koppie Eucharist park at the entrance to Mark's Park on Judith Rd. Walk across Judith to the Koppie entrance. You will see the gathering crowd.
We start the service at the entrance and it unfolds as we gently walk up the Koppies, pausing at appropriate spots for prayer and reflection until we reach the place we have communion.
Please brings hats and water, wear sensible shoes (my Jimmy Choos are staying home!). It will be warmer at the end than the beginning …
Some light refreshments will be served after the service.
It's a wonderful opportunity for us to celebrate the wonder of God's creation together
Hope to see you there
If you need a lift come to the church by 9.15. Quite a few cars will be going from here.


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Nerf Rival Prometheus & Hades Press Release!January 24, 2018
As expected, this time of year is full of new product announcements, spread out among various media outlets, followed by general press releases. Today, Popular Mechanics showed off the newest blasters in the Rival Phantom Corps line. I'll list the official press releases, and the my thoughts.
NERF RIVAL PROMETHEUS MXVIII-20K Blaster
(Ages 14 years & up/Approx. Retail Price: $199.99/Available: Fall 2018)
Head into battle blazing to take on the competition with the NERF RIVAL PROMETHEUS MXVIII-20K blaster! This blaster features the new ADVANCED ACCELERATION SYSTEM which allows it to fire at a rate of 8 high-impact rounds per second! This blaster also holds a whopping 200 high-impact rounds in its easy-load hopper. The PROMETHEUS MXVIII-20K blaster is fully motorized with a rechargeable NiMh battery for endless fun. Package includes blaster, 200 high-impact rounds, rechargeable NiMh battery, charger, two flags, shoulder strap and instructions. Available at most major toy retailers nationwide and on HasbroToyShop.com.
NERF RIVAL PHANTOM CORPS HADES XVIII-6000 Blaster
(Ages 14 years & up/Approx. Retail Price: $69.99/Available: Fall 2018)
Experience intense head-to-head competition with the NERF RIVAL HADES XVIII-6000 blaster! Load 60 high-impact rounds into the easy-load integrated magazine, prime, and pull the trigger to fire a barrage at your enemies. Whether Team Red, Team Blue, or Phantom Corps, Rival battles will never be the same. Package includes blaster, 60 high-impact rounds, two flags and instructions. Available at most major toy retailers nationwide and on HasbroToyShop.com.
My Thoughts
The Prometheus is simply going to be a large blaster, there's no way around it. 200 balls, using a minigun-style handle and sling? Having a rechargeable battery by default is at least a nice consideration, both for weight and the expense of using alkaline batteries. I still think there's a bit of Hasbro biting off more than it can chew, though. The Nemesis started off at $100, then dropped down a nice percentage as Christmas approached (with some stores even doing half off sales). A $200 blaster takes up a lot of shelf space, and needs to move a lot of inventory to justify its continued existence. Will it be fun to use? Of course it will. But for what it is, I could easily imagine needing a price reduction before sales take off.
On a side note, I imagine most people in the modding community will, aside from tearing one apart for learning things, will stick with a Nemesis and just expand the hoppers.
The Hades, meanwhile, is simply an Artemis with double the capacity. (Reminds me of a certain video from Out of Darts) The Artemis is a great handheld blaster with capacity and range, and having a "full" blaster with stock and more balls in storage will be nice. I'm personally more excited for the Hades.
Stay tuned; I'm sure more blaster news will be dropping in the coming days!


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What would you do to a couple of rich guys who brought workers in from Mexico illegally to work in their state of the art manufacturing plant and paid them only $2.66 an hour? What if they brought them in on a travel visa, not a work visa, making it illegal for them to work in this country? What if they paid them by direct deposit into a bank in Mexico, as opposed to an American bank subject to American regulators? Do you:
A: Fine them into bankruptcy for violating U.S. immigration laws and ripping off hard-working laborers?
B: Fine them into bankruptcy while fully prosecuting them and using them as an example with a multimedia national PerpWalk?
C: Quietly let them off with a $6,100 civil penalty fine?
The reason this column exists is because you are not in a position of power to pick "A" or "B."
Eric Kurhi and Brandon Bailey reported in the San Jose Mercury News that Mexicans were bussed 1,300 miles into northern California to do welding and other jobs for Bloom Energy, a "green" company that has received a lot of praise for its fuel-cell technology. I presume it was for jobs U.S. citizens within a 1,300-mile radius of heavily liberal, wealthy Democratic Sunnyvale, California, refuse to do.
The men worked 51 hours a week and were not paid overtime. They were provided fabulous motel accommodations and 50 dollars cash each day for meals. Cash is, quite coincidentally, difficult to trace. If any of this appears to be accidental and certainly nothing like high-end human smuggling, consider the method of payment. The workers were not paid in U.S. dollars or in U.S. checks that might be easily traced. They were paid their handsome $2.66 per hour in pesos via transfers to a bank in Chihuahua, Mexico.
Bloom insists the illegal visas, the low pay, the bus, the bank transfers in Chihuahua, the cash for meals – every bit of it is just some terrible coincidence that could not possibly be planned, otherwise they'd be guilty of illegal immigrant smuggling. We certainly cannot believe that the wonderful people who happen to deposit millions of dollars from U.S. taxpayers to offset the real cost of the energy they sell would do anything untoward. After all, Bloom Energy is "green," well-connected to the Democratic Party and its crony capitalist connections stretch from Sunnyvale, California, to Delaware.
Delaware, Governor Jack Markell was so impressed with Bloom Energy's "green" marketing that he compelled his fellow Democrats, who control every branch of state government, to declare Bloom's natural gas fuel a "renewable energy." Considering natural gas has a tendency to dissipate, the state legislature in your state could use the logic of Delaware Democrats and declare oil to be renewable, too.
Please pay no attention to the campaign contributions made to Markell from one of Bloom's biggest investment firms. Please also disregard the Governor's payments to a PR firm and activities to create his "national brand."
While Fisker is often called the "Green Car Solyndra," the Bloom funding scheme could be the "Bloomdoggle." Funding their big boxes of chemical reaction energy production wouldn't be problem if traditional investment vehicles, tax breaks and infrastructure incentives were involved.
Instead, the state government in Delaware has simply commanded a single power company, Delmarva Power, to bill its customers a little extra and pass that money straight through to Bloom. No one else in the state pays. Only Delmarva Power customers, who have now become unwitting venture capitalists without dividends or stock to cash, whose monthly investment is not even shown on their monthly bill.
The Bloomdoggle is not as ham-handed as the "Sunnyvale Smuggle," and certainly not as obviously prosecutable, but it does make one wonder, "How do they get away with it?"


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want to want to stop." And then I asked them to please not make me stop, but help me get to the place where I wanted to stop. It took a few hours, but I got to that point where I wanted to stop and that is when I entered into recovery. After this intervention, the same professor, knowing that I am a writer, suggested that I write something for the school paper, and so I sat down and wrote out my story and it got published and for the first time I was free from the secret. It was in that moment that I realized I wanted to not only recover, but I wanted to use my life as an example that recovery is possible and there is hope - there is ALWAYS hope. I graduated from Recovery at the beginning of this year - it was a long process and there were slips and trips along the way, but you know what they say, slow and steady wins the race, and I won!
I want to spread the word that there is hope for recovery from an eating disorder (and any other addiction) - I am living proof. And I want to be a living example that you can learn to love yourself the way you are today and I want to show the world that true beauty is found only on the inside and that self-worth cannot be measured by any scale, tape measure, or cultural "ideal".
-What is the message or mission that you are working to spread
-What is the message or mission that you are working to spread
The Libero Network is a network of bloggers who blog about their journeys through and recovery from issues such as eating disorders, addictions, and depression. It is a pretty unbelievable story how it all began. I was lying in bed, just about to fall asleep (I think it was about 1 am) and then I got a feeling, I felt that I was supposed to start a Facebook Page. So I got out of bed and created the libero page on facebook (www.facebook.com/libero.free) - at the time I didn't know what the direction was for this page, I just knew I was meant to create it. I came up with the name Libero because that is what I entitled my first article that was published in the school newspaper. I am Italian, and Libero is the Italian word for free. Our slogan is the Anne Lamott quote: "Only freedom from fears, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe." Libero grew far quicker than I though it would, it went from a single facebook page promoting healthy body image to a page with far more followers than I'd ever imagined, and my blog Expos(ED) as well as my YouTube channel. At the beginning of 2011 I began planning where I wanted Libero to go in the future and that's when I came up with the idea of the Libero Network - I wanted to expand beyond me (because Libero was never meant to be about me) and the topic of eating disorders into other issues that people deal with such as depression and addictions. I started accepting guest blogger posts and then in the last month I signed on the first Libero Network Blogger (who isn't me) Christian Sawka - he writes on his journey through depression. Our mission is to promote self-love and acceptance by sharing our stories of recovery from eating disorders, depression, and addictions and our vision is that all people will see themselves as beautiful.
What is the Libero free network? what inspired you to create it?
What is the Libero free network? what inspired you to create it?
In your opinion why have eating disorders become such a huge problem in our society?
I hate to blame the media; however, I feel they cannot be left out in the answer to this question. One important thing I always like to stress is the concept of who the media really is. The media is not Angelina Jolie or any of the models we see on these magazines (I feel they are simply victim to the same unrealistic pressures that we are), it is difficult to pinpoint exactly who 'The Media' is - the photo editors? but they are just doing their jobs, the magazine editors? well they are just looking for what sells...The origin of this monster I do not know, all I know is that societal pressure is a major contributor to negative body image. However, I also feel that one's upbringing, life experiences, and coping mechanisms all play a role as well.
What is one thing each of us can do to start putting an end to eating disorders and disordered eating?I think the best thing we all can do is say no - say NO to the "ideal" image being forced on us, say NO to buying the magazines that promote this unrealistic concept that all women should look a certain way, and, most importantly, say NO to the multi-billion dollar diet industry that tells us that the answer to all our problems with ourselves is weight loss, which can only be achieved through restriction, food rules, and As Seen On TV exercise equipment. The key to healthy living is exactly what your blog stands for: living guiltless, which results in what Libero stands for: being free.
Food is meant to nourish us to keep us alive. Full stop. We were never meant to feel guilty about it. There are no 'food' rules. The minute you start placing rules on what you can and cannot eat, you begin to imprison yourself. And what happens is, over time, you become completely enslaved by all these 'rules' that hold no real meaning and then, heaven forbid, if you break any of these rules, you then are filled with guilt. The problem with the guilt factor is, it makes you feel terrible about yourself and, in turn, you typically then feel you need to be punished, which is done by either excessive restriction, over-exercise, or over-consumption. When it comes to our body, I feel the problem is that we separate ourselves from it, and in doing so it makes us feel OK about punishing, hating, and even abusing it. However, when you enter into a war against your body (which is like going into battle against yourself) you cannot win. What we need to do is accept our bodies as part of us, and see that our body is part of our team and we need to work together with it not against it. A great resource on learning how to remove guilt from food and love your body is Geneen Roth's book Women, Food, and God.
Why is guilt towards food and our bodies such a bad thing?
Why is guilt towards food and our bodies such a bad thing?
I will answer this with one of my favourite quotes, it's by Alan Cohen: "To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now."
What is one thing we can do right now to increase our self compassion?
What is one thing we can do right now to increase our self compassion?
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Sonia says
Great idea! Will have to make some for the holidays!
Miss Bloomers
What a great idea, I love them!!View Comment
Jen Batchelor says
Always enjoy what you have to post. Loving the humor in it too!View Comment
Yvonne @ StoneGable says
Such an easy idea. These napkin rings have a rustic/luxe elegance! You are so funny!View Comment
Marissa says
What a neat idea!! napkin holders can be so expensive!! I love your decor!!View Comment
Really cute napkin rings Barb…now is that a "whole acorn" or did you cut it in half to make it flat?…Love it!!..View Comment
Linda@Coastal Charm says
Such a cute NIFTY THRIFTY idea!!!
Suzy says
These are so cute, Barb. I've been saving the cardboard tubes from paper towels for a long time without really knowing how I'd ever use them. Definitely pinning this to my Fall/Thanksgiving board!View Comment
So cute! Love your leaf plates, too! You could sell these in your store, but getting enough TP rolls could be a problem. Guests might wonder about the basket of loose TP in the powder room! Oh well! What's for thanksgiving? Doing turkey? I'm so overwhelmed and am glad we're going to my sister's!
Cynthia says
I love this idea, love brulap and acorns. So great!
CynthiaView Comment
Jenny Sellars says
Those are BEAUTFUL! And you are so cute with your wording!! hehehe!View Comment
Sandra Lee says
The possibilities are endless and my wheels are turning.View Comment
Designs By Pinky says
How cute,and I love simple!!! Did you sew the edges of the burlap with the twine? That's what it looks like. LOVE this! XO, PinkyView Comment
these are so pretty! I love them. I love your color choice too up against the burlap. I am going to feature in my weekly wow's on Saturday!View Comment
Great idea for napkin rings–I'm going to have to try these!View Comment
This is adorable! Fun to do with my kids!View Comment
cathy@my1929charmer says
Stopping by from Kim's, love the burlap napkins holders. Love your color choice with the burlap color. Love your story in this post.View Comment
lulumusing says
You can be sure I'm going to make these. Question: how did you keep the burlap edges.from raveling when you cut it?View Comment
These are super cute! And I always have plenty of TP rolls I can recycle. Thanks for digging out of the archives and sharing for Throwback Thursday! ~MamaGingView Comment
Julie says
Hi, I love thse napkin rings! I have to buy some burlap! I see it all over everyone's blogs! You did a great job making these! I saw it on Throw back thursday party.
Julie from julieslifestyle.blogspot.com
Becca says
Great idea! I love this for the fall! Found you through Glitter, Glue and Paint's Throwback ThursdayView Comment
Oh my, Barbara!! I LOVE, LOVE this idea. Now you make me want to go back and keep my table set everyday. *PINNED*
Thanks for sharing at Throwback Thursdays.
Paula@SweetPea says
I love this idea for a fall table. It also would be a cute craft for kids to do while the adults socialized at a dinner party. Thanks for sharing at Throwback Thursday!View Comment
Betty says
The health issue with toilet roll cardboard is not to be on the table! Use kitchen towel centres please girls! These napkin holders are absolutely gorgeous! WELL DONE!View Comment


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Sukiya Living Magazine (JOJG)
Shoji Door Maintenance
This 6-page article offers numerous how-to techniques for repairing shoji screens and building Japanese sliding doors. Many of the techniques discussed in this article involve the installation and repair of washi paper, which Westerners often mistakenly call rice paper. (That name is wrong; washi paper has nothing to do with rice.) A shoji screen should not be considered "delicate." Shoji screens do, however, require a certain degree of annual care. This article explains how to provide that care to your shoji.


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We cross a hill near Aghia Elessa then begin our descent into the unknown. There is a dirt track, rocks and stones and the sea. Nothing else. There are no houses, no roads, no telegraph poles. The hills rise up in the distance, the sea is an intense blue and there are no signs of a human presence, apart from an olive grove in a hollow in the midst of the desert, and a copse of cypress trees around a ruined farm. The place is filled with a poetic atmosphere.
Pirates once favoured this region because it was uninhabited, hard to reach, and offered a number of advantages for their business, in particular a number of small creeks invisible from the clifftops.
Pirates didn't just arrive, raze a village, capture the inhabitants and set off as quickly as possible. They also concealed their booty in any number of caves along the coast. From there, they organised their distribution networks; they had numerous helpful acquaintances among the locals.
Thanks to the pirates, many Kytherans ended up as slaves, but others benefitted from trading with them. It was vital that the local inhabitants never discovered the various comings and goings, or heard about various alliances and the illicit trafficking. And so rumours were spread that such and such a road or junction were dangerous places, as they were haunted. Notably by the xena lahou, a sort of evil elf eager to do all manner of harm to any inhabitant that might dare to venture out at night along the roads they frequented.
And so, terrorised by the threat of ghosts and diabolical creatures, the inhabitants locked themselves indoors at night, leaving the pirates and their accomplices to calmly transport their goods from one place to another in peace.
These legends lived on until the 20th century. There were no longer any pirates, but they were replaced by smugglers, particularly interested in the black market for cigarettes. They used the same hiding-places and pathways as the pirates and kept alive the same terrifying legends, keeping the locals away from their places of work.
One winter morning, a bitter wind was blowing. We had been surprised by torrential downpours since dawn. The rain battered at the windows. And then the sun appeared and got the better of the clouds. Once more, the magic the island is capable of producing emerged wondrously from the land and the sky.
Fivos, my guide, had understood for a long time: "You have to be prepared when you come to Kythera, as the island rejects those who do not understand".
He was neatly expressing what Kirios Kostas, the manager of the Porto Delfino hotel, had already told me. He too had observed the same thing. "Certain guests who have reserved for a week leave after two days without any explanation. Others who come for the first time will return year after year."
Fivos went on: "Everyone finds what they're looking for here. Kythera is the island of "the essential". And what's simple is essential, but it's always the hardest thing to find."
Melidoni, whch was the name of the place, had been the pirates' favourite location. We reminisced, trying to capture the memory of those fascinating characters. Fivos told me the story of one of the best-known pirates, yet a man who had remained anonymous.
At the time the pirates "ruled", during one of their frequent raids they had taken some prisoners among whom was a monk who was also a doctor/healer. The pirate whose property he now was appreciated his talents, and instead of selling him at the slave market, he kept him in his service. The monk became well-known and highly regarded for his skills among the cruel pirates, and as the years went by he attained a certain status that very few captives were fortunate enough to know.
One day, his master fell very ill and was soon at death's door. He had lost all hope when, miraculously, the monk managed to heal him.
The pirate recovered and wished to show his generosity. He told the monk he would free him and send him back to Kythera. "When you get home, go to the place called Melidoni, but only on a certain day in November when the rising sun shines on a certain point between the rocks. You will go there. You will find a cave, and you will dig in the cave floor and find two pots filled with gold that I left there. Take them, and use them wisely."
When he returned to Kythera, the monk found the cave one day in November and discovered a pot of gold filled to the brim with gold coins. He used the treasure to build the Aghi Anargyri monastery. When the pot was empty, he placed it high up in the belltower. Since then, the monastery has belonged to the monk's family, the Megalokomou-Metaxas…
"What about the second pot of gold?", I asked.
"It was never found".


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Corruption in community-driven development. A Kenyan case study with insights from Indonesia
Community-driven development is a widely employed development strategy for empowering people to choose their own development priorities, to select their own project leaders, and to monitor the implementation of their projects. It is often assumed that this model results in lower corruption rates. In this paper we take a look at two such projects, the Arid Lands Project in Kenya and the KDP/PNPM project in Indonesia. These projects had strikingly different corruption rates, even though the countries in which they operated had similar corruption perception rates at the beginning of the projects. The goal of this paper is to highlight the specific design elements that may account for the different rates of corruption in these two projects.
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by Professor Jean Ensminger, California Institute of Technology
Community-driven development is a widely employed development strategy for empowering people to choose their own development priorities, to select their own project leaders, and to monitor the implementation of their projects. One aim of CDD is to lower the level of corruption by increasing monitoring through community participation. Realizing this aim relies on two key assumptions. First, CDD is supposed to be more transparent than alternative development models due to reduced information asymmetries between beneficiaries and project staff. Second, villagers should be actively engaged and monitor the performance of those to whom they have delegated these responsibilities.
This new U4 issue paper examines two CDD projects, the Arid Lands Project in Kenya and the KDP/PNPM project in Indonesia. These projects had strikingly different corruption rates, even though the countries in which they operated had similar corruption perception rates at the beginning of the projects. This paper examines the project design differences that may explain this variation. The Kenyan villagers consistently confronted a wall of silence regarding project specifications and expenditure data. This lack of information, together with poor training about their rights, affected their ability to choose projects and leaders, to monitor leaders and staff, and to blow the whistle about suspected irregularities. Transparency was also a problem in the Indonesian project. However, a key difference is that the Indonesian project took bold steps to fight for more openness. This variation points toward differences in the management culture at the top of the projects.
Four key lessons for preventing corruption in community-driven development projects emerged from this research. First, tone at the top matters: the top management of the Indonesian project took anti-corruption seriously, which created an organizational culture that demonstrated with actions, not just rhetoric, that they were serious about reforms and open to external criticism that might help them fight corruption. Second, the Indonesian project succeeded in reducing corruption because it avoided critical hotspots of government corruption, including the use of civil servants as facilitators and engineers. Third, staff in the Indonesian project had no discretionary decision-making powers in choosing project villages, and competition was a core principle of project elements. Finally, transparency mechanisms functioned better in the Indonesian project and villagers were more able to access information about projects in order to monitor them. In contrast, the Kenyan project failed on all four of these lessons, and as a result, corruption was rampant in the project.
In 2016, U4 partnered with Dr. Michael Nest, an independent consultant with expertise in community development, and German Development Cooperation (KfW) to put into practice the insights from this research. U4 worked with ARIS, The Community Development and Investment Agency of the Kyrgyz Republic, to design a training seminar and manual for use by ARIS trainers working with local communities benefiting from ARIS funds. This six-hour training seminar is designed to help prevent corruption in community-driven development projects, and was tailored to the local context.
U4 Theme:
See the theme pages on the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre.
See also:
The revolving door Indicator: Estimating the distortionary power of the revolving door
Elise S. Brezis, Joël Cariolle
Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis of governance and anti-corruption activities
Jesper Johnsøn
Methods for learning what works and why in anti-corruption: An introduction to evaluation methods for practitioners
Jesper Johnsøn, Tina Søreide
The Proxy Challenge: Why bespoke proxy indicators can help solve the anti-corruption measurement problem
Jesper Johnsøn, Phil Mason
Displaying Demons: Processions at the Crossroads in Multi-religious Indonesia
Kari Telle
Asian Ethnology
The 2024 elections will be crucial for Indonesian forests: What can we learn from Norway's anti-deforestation support? - Indonesia at Melbourne
David Aled Williams
The Politics of Deforestation and REDD+ in Indonesia: Global Climate Change Mitigation
David Aled Williams
Review of State of Disorder: Privatised Violence and the State in Indonesia (2022). Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir.
Kari Telle
Asian Journal of Social Science (AJS)
Pathways for targeting renewable resource corruption
David Aled Williams
Integrity based approaches: combining rewards and sanctions works best
Guillaume Nicaise, David Jackson, Matthew Jenkins
U4 Director: "How I think when I talk about anti-corruption: porridge and berries, priors and biases"
Peter J. Evans


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It looks like the Storage Spaces feature of Windows 8 will be very powerful.
Fundamentally, Storage Spaces virtualizes storage in order to be able to deliver a multitude of capabilities in a cost-effective and easy-to-use manner. Storage Spaces delivers resiliency to physical disk (and other similar) failures by maintaining multiple copies of data. To maximize performance, Storage Spaces always stripes data across multiple physical disks. While the RAID concepts of mirroring and striping are used within Storage Spaces, the implementation is optimized for minimized user complexity, maximized flexibility in physical disk utilization and allocation, and fast recovery from physical disk failures.
My family have been using a Data Robotics Drobo device for more than six months now and it's been very successful. These types of low-end, easy-to-use, simple solutions for home storage are wonderful; it's great to see that Microsoft will be providing this as part of their core operating system.


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A boomer remembers bygone days
We don't get real nostalgic here at BoomerCafé but this piece, from Baltimore's Susan Reid, challenged us. It's about those carefree days — at least they seemed carefree to us — when we were kids. It's about Vagabond.
"Come on down to my boat baby, come on down, we'll sail away …" sang Every Mother's Son, the pop group in 1967. And sail, my cousins and I did through all kinds of wholesome fun in the 1960s in a waterfront home called Vagabond. In that decade, many of us were fortunate enough to have places to go to like Vagabond in Round Bay, Maryland. They offered experiences that the hot, humid, crowded cities couldn't.
Aunt Birdie and her husband, Hamilton, lived in the little shingled house at the foot of a narrow steep dirt road. It had a kitchen, a bathroom with a handmade toilet that didn't flush, and one big room with a pot-bellied stove. From the front porch, you could see the rich blue waters of the Severn River.
To get to the beach, you had to walk very cautiously down a very narrow set of old sand-dusted steps, about two stories high. I'm not kidding; this was a community of steep hills and big old trees.
A long sturdy rope tied to one of the trees had a car tire at the other end. My cousins Laura, Sharlee, and I would hold the worn tire, swing over the river and jump in, splashing anybody nearby and causing giggles and screams. In our two-piece bathing suits, we floated on inflatable rafts, swam, tossed beach balls, and waded through the water. We did our best to avoid the seaweed and jellyfish.
All of this fun created a pile of dirty tops, shorts, and bathing suits. So did eating on the porch. When you're excited and hungry, it's not hard for the mustard from your hot dog or the juice from watermelon to find its way to your Bermudas, button-down collar shirts, and Jack Purcells. My cousins Neal, Bobby, and Mark knew all about that.
Aunt Birdie's solution to the soiled laundry was for us to pretend we were in France making wine. She filled a big metal tub with soap and water and dirty clothes and had us stomp and squish the clothes with our feet, like they were grapes. Then she hung the rinsed clothes on a line near a spring where she collected drinking water.
Aunt Birdie took us with her to buy live minnows. She needed them to catch fish from the Severn, a river wealthy in white perch, rockfish, eels, clams, oysters, and Maryland's famous blue crabs. Seagulls and ducks liked the Severn's menu, too.
To get to the merchant, we drove over dirt roads and paved roads flanked by big old trees in neighborhoods that still had a country environment. Aunt Birdie's habit of driving about 20 miles per hour didn't go over well on Maryland Route 2, a highway connecting Baltimore and Annapolis, the state capital. The first indoor enclosed shopping mall on the United States east coast, Harundale Mall, was on the highway. So was a McDonald's.
But we usually ate at Vagabond, where we sailed through wholesome trips each day.
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We've built everything, from big architecture backends to simple and beatifull mobile apps, and we have been doing it for all kinds of businesses, big and small.
We've also experienced almost all major technological platforms. From corporate Java and .Net frameworks, to our new favorite toys - NodeJS and AngularJS.
We created Bytencode because we want to build amazing products. We do this for ourselves with in-house brainstorming, but also as a service for great customers.
Bytencode for us is a way to set our criativity free. This way we get to interact directly with our clients, and help them shape the future.
We believe that tech has the possibility to change the world for the better. There are a number of examples of this, and we want to be a part of that revolution
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I never thought I would do a blog. I always told people no and shrugged it off. I'm not a trendy person in any way and I saw blogging as a stinking trend like cellphones with cameras.
The whole reason I'm doing this is because there are things I would enjoy writing about that don't have a readily identifiable audience or market. This is not a daily look into my life, which is mundane, or a journal about my past jobs as a stripper or escort. Those things will certainly come up but that is not the focus of this journal.
As I write new entries I know I will gain direction. Long-time readers of my original site, please feel free to ask me questions or make suggestions (such as a snappier title than Amanda's Blog). New readers are encouraged to read a bit more about me, both on my original site and my free site.
There are no high aims for this blog other than to entertain and maybe give someone a new thought.


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Jazz spoil Gordon Hayward's return to Utah, top Celtics 123-115
Coming off a dramatic victory in Phoenix, the Boston Celtics (7-4) continued their five game road trip, taking their talents to Salt Lake City to take on the Utah Jazz. For the record, the Jazz are 1-4 at home, while the Celtics boast a 4-3 road record.
This game marks Gordon Hayward's first game with the Celtics playing on the floor he called home for the first seven years of his career, and comes approximately eight months after what should've been his debut game back on March 28, 2018.
Here's a friendly reminder of how that game ended.
Jazz fans are definitely still salty that Hayward left Utah to join his former college coach and Kyrie Irving, someone whom Hayward reportedly had interest in joining forces with back when Irving was in Cleveland. As expected, Gordon received a steady shower of boos from Utah faithful during warmups, as well as during intros. A lot of pressure was on his shoulders today, but not only for the obvious. Gordon and the Celtics were without the services of their leader, Kyrie Irving, who was not with the team to attend his grandfather's memorial services.
Stepping in for Kyrie in the starting lineup was Terry Rozier III, who showcased stellar play during Irving's absence during last year's storybook playoff run. Another storyline to watch was another hopefully epic Jayson Tatum vs Donovan Mitchell matchup. Tatum had struggled as of late, but look for him to bounce back in a big way tonight.
The Celtics got the party started off with a 10-2 run, going 4/4 from the field, including triples from Rozier and Tatum, a streaking layup by Hayward and an emphatic dunk by Al Horford.
GAME NOTE: Gordon Hayward is being boo'd every time he touches the ground. He was also cheered when he fell to the ground. Stay classy, Utah.
The Jazz quickly responded with a 12-0 run of their own after the timeout, while the Celtics went cold before Horford hit a corner three to stop the bleeding.
The Jazz started the game 1/4 from the field, then proceeded to hit 10 out of their next 11 shots, including back to back triples to take a 24-18 lead with just under three minutes to go in the first frame.
GAME NOTE: Aron Baynes is in the game rocking a black headband that, along with his ponytail sticking out, make him look like a Cobra Kai graduate.
The see-saw battle continued after a Celtics timeout, with the Cs going on a 7-0 run, thanks to their elite defensive lineup (Baynes, Smart, Ojeleye, Morris, Tatum).
GAME NOTE: The Celtics have scored 10 points off turnovers, while the Utah have scored 2.
END OF 1ST: Boston 25, Utah 27
The second quarter was relatively uneventful, up until about two minutes to go when Joe Ingles put on his Steph Curry uniform, knocking down three consecutive triples. Former Celtic Jae Crowder added another three-ball, capping off a 12-3 run to end the first half.
HALFTIME: Boston 51, Utah 58
The Celtics have hit 20 field goals on 16 assists and are shooting 42.6% from the field. Boston also has 15 points off turnovers.
Terry Rozier III is trying to find his footing. His shot is flat and his head doesn't seem to be in the game, as evidenced by a horrendous, highly-contested three ball attempt in their final possession, instead of moving the ball around for a better shot.
The third frame began right where it left off -- Ingles still isn't missing -- and neither is anyone else in a Jazz uniform. Meanwhile, well, we are.
Utah has its biggest lead of the game, 73-57.
CAPTAIN OBVIOUS MOMENT OF THE GAME: I wish Kyrie was playing.
This pretty much sums it up.
Leading this third quarter are the zebras who've gone whistle happy. Both teams saw themselves in the penalty with 7:32 to go in this frame.No ball movement for Boston. No defense, either.— Chris Mannix (@SIChrisMannix) November 10, 2018
Jae Crowder and Marcus Morris are getting into it -- and I'm all for it. The Celtics are lacking some fight right now, trailing 79-63.
And then this happened.
Following Jaylen's poster on Gobert, Boston finally got a stop which turned into an easy Rozier transition layup, trimming the lead to 16.Oh my. pic.twitter.com/sZSZ96vDfR— Chris Forsberg (@ChrisForsberg_) November 10, 2018
Coming out of the timeout, the Celtics defense finally looking like the #1 ranked "D" in the league, turning stops into scores as they started the quarter on an 8-0 run. The Jazz responded, however. keeping the Celtics at bay with a double-digit lead.
END OF 3RD QUARTER: Boston 93, 80
GAME NOTES: The 3rd quarter was a free throw shooting contest more than anything. The Celtics went 9/9 from the charity stripe, while the Jazz, thanks to the flopping prowess of Ricky Rubio as well as some early lazy defense, shot 11/12.
Marcus Morris continued his stellar contract year play; he leads the Celtics with 13 points, tied with Rozier. Hayward with 11, while Ingles still leads everyone with 25 points and 7 dimes.
The Jazz are shooting 60% from the field and are 10/25 from downtown.
Starting off the fourth, the Celtics continued their stellar defensive effort. The operative word being effort as their initial defense was solid, but Derrick Favors was there on three separate possessions, tipping home missed layup attempts.
The Celtics, however, were able to counter with a Morris three-ball, a Horford alley-oop, and a oh-God-please-don't-shoot-it-but-please-make-it three ball by Marcus Smart.
The Celtics now within single digits, trailing 98-89 with 9:22 to go.
TIMEOUT, UTAH. Boston
"Hit singles and win the next possession," Stevens said to the Celtics during the break.
And win the next possessions they did, trimming the lead down to 4. But a series of ill-advised shots (a vast understatement) by Smart and Rozier turned into a triple by Rubio, extending Utah's lead back to 7 with 5:31 left in the game.
With about 3 minutes to go, the Celtics seem to think that you can only take 3 point shots. Luckily, we only trail by 5, 109-104.
That was all followed up by a couple costly missed layups by Tatum cost the Celtics a chance to cut the lead down to 3 with :55 to go. SIDE NOTE: He was attempting both layups over the outstretched arms of Gobert.
Naturally, as the basketball gods have preached for decades now, one bad shot will lead to an easy one for the opposition. Jae Crowder proved that, nailing a crucial three with 0:28 to go.
After the timeout, Smart made the first of 2 free throws after beautifully selling a foul on Mitchell. He intentionally missed the second, but it was for not as Gobert grabbed the board and proceeded to make both of his free throws.
FINAL SCORE: Utah 123, Boston 115
POST-GAME NOTES: 123 points for Utah against the league's #1 defense. I must say, the Celtics have allowed themselves to get torched three consecutive games: first by Victor Oladipo, next by Jamal Murray, and tonight by Joe Ingles and Jae Crowder, not to mention 15 from Derrick Favors who was 5/5 from the game, putting back 4 crucial putbacks on offensive rebounds.
"As good as we were defensively in the first nine games," says Brad Stevens, "I don't think we've been as good in the last three."— Boston Celtics (@celtics) November 10, 2018
Terry Rozier III led the Celtics with 22 points, 6 rebounds (7/13FG), Jayson Tatum added 21 points, 5 steals, and 4 assists (7/14FG), Marcus Smart with 13 points and 10 assists, Marcus Morris and Gordon Hayward scored 16 and 13 points respectively.
Joe Ingles tied his career-high with 27 points, while Crowder added 20, Mitchell had 21, and Gobert/Rubio both dropped 17.
The Celtics difficult schedule (currently the toughest in the league) continues on Sunday when Boston treks to Portland to face the 9-3 Blazers -- currently sitting in second place in the Western Conference.
Hopefully we'll be able to play lockdown defense for 48-minutes and come out victorious. And hopefully we won't find ourselves in another big hole to attempt to dig out of.
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RR No. 04. POLITICAL WRITINGS OF POST-WORLD WAR TWO UKRAINIAN EMIGRES
Description: A list of monographs and pamphlets written by (or about) the four non-communist politcal currents among postwar Ukrainian émigrés—monarchist, nationalist, democratic, and socialist.
Author: CIUS
Publisher: CIUS
Date: 1984
Contributor: W. Roman Petryshyn and Natalia Chomiak
Format: Printed
Language: English
CIUS, "RR No. 04. POLITICAL WRITINGS OF POST-WORLD WAR TWO UKRAINIAN EMIGRES," CIUS-Archives, accessed September 30, 2023, https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/15.


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The control used in GeneXus to design a Responsive Web Application is called Responsive Table, and it is the main control of the Abstract Layout.
Frameworks like BootStrap provide a container that they call Grid. It is similar to a table, but it adapts to the width of the screen to allow for a RWD. Therefore, this container makes it possible to display the information in a way that is readable to the user regardless of the device or screen size.
The GeneXus Responsive Table is generated as a Bootstrap fluid grid.
Unlike the traditional Table control, responsive tables allow working with percentage-based designs that guarantee that the elements inside them will always adapt to the device screen.
1. It looks like a table, but the width of the cells is specified using percentages.
The percentages are specified for four different screen sizes (according to the width of the screen).
The Responsive Sizes property (X Evolution 3) allows making this configuration for the different screens.
2. The cells cannot be spanned to more than one row - row span is always 1, so this property is not available for the control.
3. For each size (xs, sm, md, lg) a value can be specified for the offset of each column. Besides, the columns can be interchanged depending on the screen size (Move).
4. The aesthetic properties of the controls inside the cells of the Responsive Table have to be managed using Theme Classes.
It is generated as div HTML elements, so the columns are not fixed. They may vary according to the screen size, and this can be set using the Responsive Sizes property (X Evolution 3).
There are differences in the behavior of the responsive table and the Table control. If the width of a cell of a responsive table (which is determined in percentages) is not wide enough to contain the control inside, the information of the control can be overlapped. On the contrary, when the common Table control has no fixed width, it expands to occupy all the necessary horizontal space for its content to be displayed without wrapping or overlapping.
This can be achieved by using the Conditional Class Properties for Themes.
The form can be arranged in a different way depending on the screen size of the device also.
The cells of a row in the responsive table can be set to any width, regardless that the sum of all the widths is greater than 100%. In such case, the cells remaining - which exceed the width - will wrap to a new line.
Then, the cells of the same row can be interchanged, hidden, or dropped down to another row for any of the screen sizes.
Nevertheless, cells that are displayed in a different row, cannot move up to the row which is above of it.
For example, if you need to design the following form, where two controls are one beside to the other in the large screen, you need to design the following layout. This, although, in the other screens (extra small, small, medium), the controls are one at the top of the other.
This button allows setting the defaults for all the controls and for all the screen sizes (extra small, small, medium, and large), not only for selected screen size in the "Size" combo box. See Responsive Sizes property to understand the defaults criteria.
When checked, the selected control is set to its default values. See Responsive Sizes property to understand the defaults criteria.
Arranging the layout in a RWA
How to use the Abstract Editor: Hiding a cell in the Responsive Table
How to design a responsive web application: Hiding an element of the form
How to design a Responsive Web Application: Hiding a column in a grid