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UK comes top on end of life care - report
The UK has one of the best systems for end of life care, a global study says.
The analysis by the Economist Intelligence Unit looked at access to services, quality of care and public awareness in 40 countries.
It found the UK performed particularly well on issues such as obtaining pain killers and quality of support
Along with Australia, it received 7.9 out of 10, well ahead of nations such as Denmark, on 5.1 and Italy, on 4.4. India came bottom on 1.9.
The researchers, part of the group which publishes the Economist magazine, talked to health professionals in 40 countries as well as looking through official data.
They concluded access to drugs and carers were the two most pressing issues for all involved.
They also said that most health systems, no matter how well funded, relied to some extent on charities and philanthropic bodies to offer support to patients, particularly through networks of hospices.
David Praill, chief executive of Help the Hospices in the UK and co-chairman of the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance, said the result was "heartening" for the UK.
But he added: "The system is far from perfect and there remains huge disparity."
He also said urgent action was needed in those countries with the worst systems.
"Hospice and palliative care is still unavailable to many of those in need, especially in the developing world with millions of people dying in pain and distress every year."

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Joseph P. Winnick, EdD, is a distinguished service professor of
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WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwired - February 08, 2017) - While Valentine's Day may put a spotlight on couples, there's another great relationship on the horizon - singles and cruise travel. Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), the world's largest cruise industry trade association, is celebrating the season of love by highlighting tips and benefits for travelers interested in going solo to discover a love of cruising.
"Recently, the travel industry has seen a growing trend in solo travel and the cruise industry is responding," said Cindy D'Aoust, president and CEO, CLIA. "Cruise lines now offer a variety of incentives, benefits and experiences designed with single cruise travellers in mind to ensure they also have the chance to discover the amazing benefits of cruise travel."
From pricing discounts to specially tailored cruises, to events and activities designed specifically for singles, a variety of cruise lines offer benefits, rewards, and exclusive programs for solo cruisers:
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The 'Raise Your Hand' feature in Starfish 5 lets our students reach out for help on their own timeline, which is often before anyone else — or any technology system — tells us there is a problem.
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Starfish Retention Solutions, Inc., a leading student success company, today announced the availability of Starfish 5, the latest release of the Starfish® Enterprise Success Platform™.
In response to mounting accountability demands, institutions are seeking innovative ways to scale their student success and retention efforts for all their students. As a result, institutions are deploying technology-enhanced strategies to integrate campus departments and data in order to learn more about their students' complex challenges and keep everyone on the same page, and to measure their institutional efforts.
For the past seven years, the Starfish platform has been an integral part of the student retention and completion efforts at more than 240 institutions. The latest release, Starfish 5, represents the next generation of student success technology, and offers innovative tools that can help connect a wide range of staff with the students who need their help.
Support for Holistic Advising. A holistic advising approach begins with data but relies on action. Starfish 5 includes new ways for advisors and other staff to manage and prioritize the flow of information, organize students into dynamic cohorts, automate simple tasks and focus high-touch activities where they will make the most impact. For additional student services issues, Starfish 5 lets advisors identify and notify the right colleagues to ensure timely action. A streamlined user interface with simpler navigation means campus personnel spend less time training and more time helping students.
Focus on Students, Not Systems. The Starfish platform has always created a complete and continuous picture of every student in order to reveal concerns as soon as they occur. With Starfish 5, students can directly request help through new student dashboards, providing a powerful new data point for a variety of departments. Starfish 5 deepens existing integrations with Canvas, Brightspace by D2L, Moodle and Blackboard to more easily identify students' academic challenges. The release also allows institutions to build a custom algorithm that determines each student's Success Score, allowing advisors and other student support staff to quickly determine which students are excelling and which are at risk.
"At Seattle, our approach to advising is student-centric," said Josh Krawczyk, director of university retention initiatives at Seattle University. "The 'Raise Your Hand' feature in Starfish 5 lets our students reach out for help on their own timeline, which is often before anyone else — or any technology system — tells us there is a problem."
Unique Institutions, Students and Needs. With Starfish 5, institutions have more direct control than ever before over their student success technology. The release includes additional easy-to-use Web Wizard interfaces so institutions can, for example, quickly bundle students into cohorts and establish templates for communications to those groups.
The Starfish Enterprise Success Platform builds on the company's mission to help students finish what they start. Comprising four distinct but connected modules, the platform enables institutions to view all their campus data and activities through the lens of student success. Starfish EARLY ALERT enables institutions to learn more about their students as early as possible. Starfish CONNECT makes it easy for students to engage with those on campus dedicated to their success. Starfish ADVISING gives students an academic path to follow in order to achieve success, and Starfish INSIGHT enables institutions to measure the effectiveness of their student success initiatives.
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When we lose an election, and feel angry with or without cause, it's natural to shout "Fraud!" However, the count of votes cast on July 1, 2012 provoked a scream of rage which didn't indicate baseless anger, or that no fraud actually occurred. Enrique Peña Nieto the PRI presidential victor, feels safe saying he will go along with a recount. The fraud won't show up on the paper ballots.
In Mexico, how much fraud decides an election? President Felipe Calderon never permitted a true examination of his 2006 electoral results, and that refusal supported a public perception of fraud, not diminished it. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, his left-leaning opponent, never stopped saying Calderon is illegitimate. Six years later we hopefully embarked on the same scenario, this time with Peña Nieto.
Lopez Obrador wants every vote recounted, which probably won't occur. But even if it did, if it's true as alleged that the PRI bought votes, that won't show on ballots being recounted. Although people were handed credit cards to buy food at the Soriana chain, and they agreed to vote (whether by handing over their credentials or actually marking their ballots) for the PRI, that won't be visible on the re-counted ballots. What is more meaningfully indicative of the fraud is thousands of people racing to Soriana to use these store credit cards before the Soriana-PRI coalition could renege. According to reports, some of the PRI promises sadly were false, they told voters the cards were good for 1,000 to 1,200 pesos, but in reality some cards bought only 100 pesos worth of foods. According to a Proceso report, Soriana's honcho is best buddies with Peña Nieto.
Another obvious fraud was the failure to send ballots to polling places in many states, including Oaxaca, where people supposedly could vote if they were not in their home district. In the Oaxaca zócalo a scuffle broke out as citizens charged at the federal vote official for failure to bring ballots, but opening cast ballots won't show any fraud, just fewer votes. Where the usual food and cement were handed out in exchange for credentials, who did the actual voting won't show on the ballots either, unless a handwriting expert is brought in. People often hand over their credentials or mark ballots as ordered, before receiving their benies.
In Oaxaca, pre-marked ballots were twice discovered, and that indeed constituted attempted fraud because it occurred before July 1.
This is small stuff, anyway. The big buy, exposed by the Guardian newspaper in England, was a campaign-media coalition ongoing since 2005 to keep pumping pro-Peña Nieto spots onto television, along with setting him up to marry a telenovela actress. The publicity was fraudulent in having been selective, bought and paid for, but the ballots it produced are not "false", they don't constitute a fraud, only evidence of gullible voters.
Holding an election does not make a democracy. Indeed, if one defines democracy as rule from below, no elections outside some few autonomous indigenous communities fall into the category of democracy: where people know personally their authorities and can confront them face to face at any time. The people bestow legitimacy only on those they can confront and hold to account. Legal elections in Mexico continue since the 1911 revolution, but never has there been legitimacy. From 1911 to 1922 Mexican presidents sped through the scene like roller derby winners, spilling on the track. Thereafter, how nice to have stability with the Institutionalized Revolutionary Party, for eighty years! Yesterday the PRI was referred to as the dinosaurs, now they have made a comeback after being ousted in 2000 by the PAN. Many claim that a gentlemen's agreement permitted a presidential alternation to keep the public deceived and quiet. But power in Mexico includes a license to steal, a strong motive for never relinquishing it. Candidates have always been selected behind the scenes by the few whose goals are not my goals, and the fights have been increasingly dirty. They are now, it is said, under the control of drug cartels in the besieged northern states, and in Guerrero in the south as well.
Campaigns organize to win, not to educate or improve. Present-day parties assume the public, ignorant and/or ingenuous, receives their input from television, and no promises made need be fulfilled. But due to the calamitous cartel growth everyone knows the PAN has overseen a disaster, a weak president presiding over more than 60,000 civilian deaths. In the 2012 election the PAN dropped to a low third place.
On the streets and in the market, many Oaxacans became less gullible after the 2006 rebellion and education. We hear in more detail the who and how of being defrauded. Today my passing yogurt vendor stopped his car on the street to speak out the window, and his comment on the election was contained in a look of disgust and several shakes of his head, a common greeting in these past days. Oaxaca voted for the left, for Lopez Obrador, and ten of our twelve senators and representatives also will be from parties on the left. PRI fraud in Oaxaca is too old, too well known, too bitter.
TV monopolies produce false news, now well documented As we know, youngsters organize first via the internet. #YoSoy132 are out in the streets right now, with the inevitable provocateurs alongside breaking windows and causing headlines: beware a rampage of thugs! undoubtedly wearing body piercings and tattoos; the PRI-media promote their false image ever since students confronted Peña Nieto at his campaign stop at University Iberoamerica, and booed him off the campus. #YoSoy132 began as a confrontation against the kind of corrupt media which fostered Peña Nieto's presidency, and immediately snowballed, like other global youth movements.
Mexico is a very young country, 60% of the population is under thirty. Look out for assassinations by cartels, governments and corporate-owned military and police; repression is already underway. Nevertheless, as in other nations where youth occupies the streets, thrills and surprises result.


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Jade Diver was originally built in Louisiana by Halter Marine(US Marine) for a Greek cruise line as one of ten dive boats (Ocean Quest series). These boats were constructed to be davit-ed with customers aboard, as the cruise ship was underway leaving the area. The original davits were heavy enough to support the weight. An air fill system existed to fill the tanks on board the vessel but was removed. The original engine was a Volvo 200 hp diesel with a duo-prop outdrive (aluminum blades). It has been updated with a Yanmar YNR 6LP-STZE 315 HP, 6 cylinder, diesel engine package with Mercruiser Bravo II outdrive. Click on full specs for additional information.
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Engine hours as of 12-7-12 = 511 hours
Fiberglass construction, model bow, curved stem, modified V-bottom, square stern. Open bow deck followed by open cockpit well deck aft to stern. Control station center forward at cockpit deck, fixed seating and safety rail along port and starboard sides. Walk through transom with teak wood swim platform across transom with large aluminum swim ladder. Fiberglass top wth plastic side curtains and Lexan windshield. Area under bow has anchor line storage and shelved starage area(with collision bulkhead sperating the two areas).
Electronics: Fiberglass enclosure with locking front tinted glass houses:
Hummingbird DC-25R VHF Transceiver.
AM/FM CD radio.
Furuno LS 6000 LCD Depth sounder(mounts on pilot Station)
Three Interstate batteries new in 7/20/15
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Type-I Bib-Type PFDs(life jackets USCG approved)=10 each(8 with lights attached)
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Ball/rope/chain/clip / clip (down line to dive site)
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Current line (trailing line) with ball (used while divers are down)
Port side safety line (used while divers are in the water for fore and aft travel to 'down line')
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Fire extinguishers and flare kits
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One manual bilge pump, four electric( 3 are automatic)
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The reasons the boat was/is 'customer dive friendly':
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• the ease of getting back aboard the boat due to the ladder, with or without scuba gear. '
Owner friendly' reasons:
• the fuel economy: four hour trip approximately 15 gallons diesel (100 gallon tank – approx little over 1/8th of a tank per 4 hour trip)
• Ease in vessel maneuvering/handling.
• Ease of entering the water / reboarding the vessel, with or without scuba gear.
Recent improvements:
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• New fuel tank
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• Yanmar engine less than 600 hours.
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Trudeau's Liberals were told donor was China graft suspect, but kept taking his money and help
Leaked email shows that Canadian PM's party was warned in 2013 that rich benefactor Michael Ching was wanted by China, long before the news became public
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The Liberal Party of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was tipped off in 2013 that a wealthy party benefactor was wanted by China for corruption, long before the news became public, in an email that has been leaked to the South China Morning Post by a former party executive.
The former executive said they were assured at the time that the anonymous email and its startling claims about Vancouver developer Michael Ching Mo Yeung had been "dealt with". But the party kept quiet and continued to accept donations and support from Ching and a pro-Trudeau political organisation, Tru-Youths United Association, set up in his office.
It would accept thousands of dollars from Ching in 2014 and 2015, while Tru-Youths helped staged massive Liberal fundraisers, including a 1,300-seat event in Toronto in June 2014.
Corrupt Chinese tycoon Ni Ritao caught lying to Canadian court
It was not until April 2015 that the SCMP broke the news that Ching was in fact Cheng Muyang, the wanted son of corrupt Chinese communist party official Cheng Weigao.
Yet on December 15, 2013, the executive was among a group of Liberals who received a 1,500-word email from an anonymous tipster, identifying themselves only as "Snow White". Ching's teenage daughter, Linda, had just been elected unopposed as president of the Young Liberals in British Columbia, to the apparent concern of the emailer.
"Michael Ching is Muyang Cheng's current name he uses in Canada … Canadian government is now trying to expel him from Canada," the email tipster said noting that "he is still wanted by the Chinese government".
The email, in slightly stilted English and Chinese, included a photo of Cheng Muyang as a young man, and pointed out how a mole on his eyebrow matched the same feature on Michael Ching, whose ongoing court battle for refugee status was already well under way.
The former Liberal executive provided the email on condition of anonymity. "When we received this, this raised a lot of red flags. It became instantaneously clear," the source said. "I was very concerned…despite the [stilted] wording, this seemed like someone was really trying to warn us."
The ex-executive said their own email address had been listed on the party's website in 2013, alongside many others. They said that although they did not know exactly who else received the email, since they were BCCed (blind carbon copied), multiple Liberal figures became aware of it.
"I know for a fact that this [also] went to staff at the Liberal Party of Canada office," the executive said, naming Alyx Holland – now working for the Minister of Public Safety - as one of the party staffers who saw the email.
The source said Jeremy Broadhurst was also aware of the email. Then executive director of the party, Broadhurst is now Deputy Chief of Staff and Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister.
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The email also detailed Ching's relationship with his friend Raymond Chan, the former Liberal cabinet minister who is still seen as a kingmaker and key fundraiser in Chinese Liberal circles.
The courting of Justin Trudeau, by Chinese corruption suspect Michael Ching Mo Yeung
"Mu Yang Cheng (aka Michael Mo Yeung Ching) has been trying hard to use his money to make inroads to Canadian political system. His biggest break came when Raymond Chan, ex-MP of Richmond, one of the major organisers for Justin Trudeau's leadership run in BC, connected Michael Ching and his daughter Linda Ching with Justin Trudeau and his BC leadership handlers," the email said.
It described how Linda Ching had been selected to play "high profile roles" with Trudeau in attendance. These included introducing him to the national media at a Richmond press conference after he announced his leadership run in 2012, and hosting a 1,000-seat fundraiser at the Vancouver Hyatt in August 2013. Trudeau sat between Michael Ching and Chan at the event, which Tru-Youths helped run and is believed to have raised a six-figure sum for the party.
"Every time when Justin Trudeau was in town to meet with the Chinese media , there would be no others than Raymond Chan and Linda Ching on his side," the "Snow White" email said.
Broadhurst did not respond to an emailed request for comment. Holland did not respond to a voicemail. Asked to respond on their behalf, Liberal communications director Braeden Caley did not reply.
But a Liberal spokeswoman said: "The party has previously reviewed matters referenced by the South China Morning Post and is confident that all Elections Canada rules have been fully respected."
Ching's lawyer, David Lunny, has requested that the SCMP no longer contact his office or his client.
'Cash for access' and the dismissed email
If the party was concerned by the 2013 email, this was not reflected in its public attitude towards the Chings.
In 2014 and 2015, Michael Ching would donate about C$3,600 to the party and its candidates.
Although Ching was personally limited in his donations by relatively modest federal contribution caps – currently C$1,550 per year per party and candidate – the Tru-Youths group that was based in his office and headed by Linda Ching helped orchestrate large-scale Chinese community events for the party that are believed to have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Just two days after the email was sent, Trudeau attended a 2,000-seat dinner at a Chinese restaurant in Vancouver that turned into a birthday party for the guest of honour. The December 17, 2013, event was attended by both Linda and Michael Ching, hosted by their Tru-Youths organisation, and MCed by Chan. After cutting a cake, Trudeau posed for a photo with scores of cheering Tru-Youths volunteers in matching red vests.
Group based in Chinese graft suspect Michael Ching's office helped stage big Toronto gala for PM contender Trudeau
On June 15, 2014, more than 200 Tru-Youths helped stage a Liberal fundraising gala at the Toronto Sheraton Centre Hotel that was reportedly attended by 1,300 people, mainly from the Chinese community. Michael and Linda Ching travelled to Toronto to take part, with Michael Ching among the dignitaries invited onstage with Trudeau.
The Young Canadian Chinese Professionals and Entrepreneurs Association published an account of the event that praised the Tru-Youths volunteers for their role. "Energetic, capable and enthusiastic, they were highly praised by Mr Trudeau and the guests. They are the shining example of what a new generation of Chinese youths should be like," it said.
Chan's wife, Wang Ting Ting – whose business card described her as the Liberal Party's "special advisor" for the Chinese community – was a director of Tru-Youths.
The SCMP concluded in 2015 that Ching was Cheng Muyang independently; to its knowledge, it has never had contact with "Snow White". The Yahoo email address used by "Snow White" is now defunct.
The metadata on a PDF version of the "Snow White" email that was included as an attachment shows that it was created on December 7, 2013.
A text portion at the top of the email says it is being sent to "Canadian Parliament, Canadian Senator, Canadian Liberal Party, Canadian NDP Party, Canadian Conservative Party, Canadian Medias".
Trudeau is currently embroiled in a "cash for access" row over fundraisers involving Chinese immigrant business figures, notably including a private dinner at a Toronto mansion in May that was attended by "several Chinese billionaires", according to the Globe and Mail.
The former Liberal executive said they saw the "cash for access" row as a reflection of the same attitudes towards donors that resulted in the "Snow White" email being apparently dismissed. There was a reluctance to change the Liberal fundraising model, which relied heavily on dinners and other events at which donors would pay to get close to the party's stars. "People get ingrained in their behaviour and ways," the former executive said. "I'm not shocked. This is just a continuation of more of the same."
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It's a case federal prosecutors described as being about greed and deception… that of Wallace Lawrence III.
If you missed it, we uncovered the scam he was running in the metro. In court, it came out that the day after our story aired, he stopped his con in our state… and went nationwide! He posted ads on Craigslist in Dallas, Louisville, Los Angeles and other cities. Some people never learn. He actually thought he could keep up his scam.
Prosecutors asked for our help in putting together their case. They had about 18 victims willing to testify, but they also need me to take the stand. I had previous conversations with Lawrence when I was undercover posing as a consumer in need of help. To be honest, I was excited to testify. I wish it were more common, but it's not everyday I expose a scam and then see the bad guy get put away.
But it happened. A jury convicted Wallace on all 10 counts and now he's awaiting sentencing. But he didn't act alone. Prosecutors say he had a partner in life, and a partner in crime. The jury also convicted Carri Adams – his accomplice, who also happens to be pregnant with his baby. She was the one posting the scam on Craigslist. She testified that she was a victim in all of this and didn't realize the ads she was posting had to do with a scam. I didn't buy it, and neither did the jury.
The Secret Service also pinned Sandra Acuna with 2 counts for her involvement. She was working at 3 doctor's offices and stealing patients credit card and checking account numbers so that she could help Wallace and Adams facilitate their scam. She pled guilty and ended up testifying against Wallace and Adams. She said the reason they initially started the scam was to raise money to take care of their mounting legal bills. Yep, they have a criminal past.
If you want to watch the previous stories, it will help fill in the blanks as to how this all unfolded. Now it's up to the judge to decide how much time they'll get behind bars. Sentencing is still probably a few months away, but I'll let you know when I find out.


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I have found many free resources on the Internet for German this year. Last year we started with Powerglide German, and a German tutor. This year we are continuing with Powerglide (sometimes) – but we are also using new resources.
BBC has a great German learning program with videos. It's a lot of fun. We are watching one video per day, although sometimes we watch the same video many times in a row if my kids – and I – haven't learned the lesson yet. It just depends on how we learn the lesson on wether we watch the video.
Here's the link: BBC German program.
I've also found a bunch of free worksheets on the web. This means I can print out worksheets and we can do them as a family – me included! We often have fun coloring them in, writing the words, and doing the worksheets together. My husband then gets the grade the worksheets. The kids find it pretty amusing that they get better grades than Mom. It's also a way for my husband to be a part of our homeschooling experience, since he sometimes feels left out.
Lastly, we speak German. I have some phrases that I will only say in German – "It's time to go home" and "Stop" – are always done in German. But we also have time at night or in the morning. My husband likes to speak German with them over breakfast in the morning. We also have found a great German restaurant in town. When we go there we only speak in German. We go at least once a month. It is fun to watch the kids constantly have to repeat their English words in German.
I think we are only able to do this because my husband speaks German fluently. I'm not sure I'd have the incentive to learn another language at this time and speak it with the kids if it wasn't for my husband constantly challenging us. And to make it even more challenging – my kids are picking it up so fast! I feel so slow compared to how quickly they are picking up German!


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Freddie Mac Chooses CEO
Freddie Mac is preparing to name Donald Layton, the former chief executive of online brokerage E*Trade Financial Corp., as its next CEO, according to people familiar with the matter.
The company is expected to announce the hiring as soon as Thursday, these people said. That would end a six-month search for the mortgage giant's third chief executive in the four years since the government took control of it.


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After his family was exposed to the political and media threats, Prime Minister Dusko Markovic sent a clear message to the activists and media associates of the Democrats to stay away from the Markovic family.
Activists of Democratic Montenegro (DCG) claim that they have been attacked twice in Mojkovac, where they are carrying out their door-to-door campaign. Two days ago, they were allegedly attacked by PM's brother Radoje Markovic and yesterday by Goran Stanisic, an activist of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) from Mojkovac.
After yesterday's Radoje Markovic's denial that he had attacked young activists, the prime minister has released a statement today.
"To spare them from wasting time to visit our homes in their electoral campaign, I tell them clearly: Do not come to our doors! Do not provoke, do not go where you are not wanted and do not violate family peace! We will never come to your door!" Markovic says.
He has also had a message for "media specialists" from the Democrats' bulletin.
"Do your jobs as you wish – write, fabricate, insult the PM, but leave my family alone! Do not cowardly attack people who have nothing to do with politics and public life, and whose only sin is being brothers or relatives of Dusko Markovic," the prime minister said.
He advised Mojkovac residents to be ready for all kinds of provocations by the Democrats in the next two months, until the local elections.
"Do not give in to the provocations and keep your traditional neighbourly and friendly relations. Because after the November elections, Becic and his clique will leave, and you will stay in Mojkovac! So, I am here, today, and every day, both as prime minister, and as a brother, ready for all your party and media dirt and all your fabrications. But do not endanger family peace and civic freedom of political opponents, regardless which political party they belong to. Do not cross that line that has always been considered as sacred in Montenegro," he says.
Source: Radio Television Montenegro