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This Keto Pecan Pie Recipe could change your life!
In my past, Thanksgiving was a time for family, wearing new winter sweaters, and overeating. Now, I work hard to make smarter choices, set myself up for success by not STARVING going into Thanksgiving dinner. "I will eat again," I tell myself, "this isn't my last meal." But also, ever since I incorporated more fat into my diet, Thanksgiving isn't all that exciting anymore.
I probably eat more fat on a normal day than I ate in my weight watchers' low-fat-is-best days when I was younger. Plus, using Swerve or stevia alternative sweeteners in recipes helps provide a sweet treat every once and awhile without all the sugar and the blood sugar spike hangover.
But also, ever since I incorporated more fat into my diet, Thanksgiving isn't all that exciting anymore. I probably eat more healthy fat on a normal day than I ate in my weight watchers' low-fat-is-best days when I was younger. Plus, using Swerve or stevia alternative sweeteners in recipes helps provide a sweet treat every once and awhile without all the sugar and the blood sugar spike hangover.
When working on this recipe, I was trying to figure out how to get the caramel flavor that you get from the traditional use of Dark Karo Syrup or Brown Sugar. I experimented with Browned Butter, it was PERFECT. Browned butter gives a depth of flavor and caramel notes that complement the pecans to make a nice addition to the holiday table, without the sugar or carbs! I also added a 1/2 teaspoon of molasses to add a little extra caramel flavor to the pie, it was wonderful, but it is optional as it does add a nominal amount of carbs to the recipe.
Keto Pecan Pie Recipe
Prep Time: 30- 45 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour
Serves: 6-8 pieces
Crust Ingredients:
¾ cup hazelnut or pecan meal/flour (almond flour will work)
1/3 cup coconut flour (find it here)
½ cup coconut oil, lard, or palm shortening, at room temperature (find my favorite here)
1/4 tsp gluten free vanilla extract (find it here)
2 tbsp. Swerve confectioners (find it here)
1/4 tsp real salt (find it here)
1 large egg (order pastured eggs here)
Filling Ingredients:
1 cup butter or ghee (order here)
1 cup Swerve, confectioners version (order here) (1 cup coconut sugar will also work, order here)
1 cup unsweetened full-fat coconut milk (my favorite here)
3 eggs, beaten
2 teaspoon gluten-free vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon of unsulfured molasses (optional, find it here)
1/4 teaspoon sea salt (order here)
2 cups pecans halves, one cup chopped, and one cup for topping (find them here)
To Make Crust:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees and grease a 9-9.5 inch pie pan. In a medium bowl, mix all of the ingredients for the crust. Press the dough into the bottom of the pie pan and up the sides. If you want to make the pie pretty, make sure to pinch the sides or press the tines of a fork around the edges to make a nice texture.
- Pre-bake the crust in the oven for 15-17 minutes or until lightly toasted golden brown. Remove from oven and let cool.
To Make the Filling:
Important: You will need to work fast in the first few stages of making the filling, so make sure you have you have the coconut milk, butter, and sweetener close by and pre-measured. You will need to work fast so the filling doesn't burn.
- Heat butter on high heat in an enameled cast-iron or heavy-bottomed saucepan that holds 2-3 quarts, whisking consistently to make sure butter heats evenly.
- When the butter starts boiling, watch for brown streaks at the bottom of the pan as you whisk or brown flecks, you have BROWN BUTTER. It will burn fast, so when you start to see brown remove it from the heat immediately.
- As soon as it is off heat, add the Swerve and the coconut milk to the pan and whisk until smooth. Let the sauce cool in the pan, whisk every 5 minutes until ready to put in pie crust so it's doesn't settle.
- In a medium bowl, beat the eggs with the cooled syrup, vanilla, salt, molasses, and the chopped pecans. Pour into the crust and top with the remaining cup of pecan halves. Bake at 325 degrees for 40-45 minutes or until set. Cover edges of pie with aluminum foil so they don't burn. This is a nut and coconut flour crust, so the edges will be darker than regular wheat crust appearance.
Nutrition Info: Calories: 514 , Protein: 7 g , Fat: 53 g , Total Carbs: 32.5 (mostly from Swerve) g , Net Carbs: 3.4 g, Fiber: 4.1 g (nutrition facts based on 8 servings).


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Lynn and Deke participate in the local St. Nicholas Day celebration in the German village outside their Air Force Base. Each finds a new reason to enjoy the winter holidays.
Lynn Michaels sat at the window of her dormitory at Hahn AB in Germany. Her gaze focused on everything and nothing—the fat snowflakes so foreign to her, a young woman born and raised in Southern California, the distant memory of what would be happening in her home right at this minute, how she was a long way from home and would never return there. If she could help it.
She never believed that she would feel so lonely and lost when she left for her first overseas assignment. 1983 had been a whirlwind year. She'd completed basic training late in 1982 and been granted leave to spend the Christmas season at home, but this year, after she finished her advanced training, she had received orders to report to this base.
Arriving in mid-July, she'd had a lot of fun. Weekends were devoted to Volksmarching, an activity that meant walking through the many small towns less than three hours from the base. She'd even joined the Volksmarching club, becoming part of the planning of the annual organized walk held around the base. In the fall, she had even more fun with this activity when she moved from the ten kilometer event to twenty. She was well on her way to earning her first 500 "klick" and 100 Volksmarch badge.
Blaire's heart freezes over when she discovers she has to move to Alaska and then loses her mom in an accident. Once there, she finds a kindred spirit in Gerry and learns to open her heart again.
My ice skates safely tucked into their hard-sided bag, I walk out of the locker room. My mind whirls with all that I have to do before the big regional meet in a little less than two months, right before I start my senior year of high school. One thing I know that I can count on. I have no worries about anything preventing me from doing what had kept me sane the last seventeen years, eleven months, twenty-three days.
Well, it has actually only been fifteen years, eleven months, and twenty-three days. I didn't begin ice skating until I was two. And I can't wait to do regionals, even though the weather outside is hotter than hot, hot enough to as my dad loves to say, "fry an egg on the sidewalk." Although why anyone would want to do that, I have no clue. Sounds pretty stupid to me. Then again, my dad is always suggesting dumb stuff, as if that will make up all the times he has totally messed up my life.
Wonder if we'll go out to Grandma's in California after regionals? We'll have lots of time. School won't start for a week after that. Maybe we can go to Disneyland again.
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Staff Sergeant Kayla Watkins believes she's found the answer to the incidents that have taken the lives of two dozen hot pilots. Nightly, she watches the march of those dead pilots, once again promising to find answers.
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Office of Special Investigations undercover operative, Captain Jake Arnold, loathes his operation within the 58TTW with a "dream team" of non-coms whose sabotage is suspected to go all the way back to the waning days of the Vietnam conflict.
Romance, suspense, a base on the edge. The Arizona desert is harsh and unforgiving, as harsh and unforgiving as an aircraft unable to perform up to standards. Kayla, Derek, and Jake become a team dedicated to stopping the saboteurs before another good pilot dies.
Early in 1988, the young pilot completed his pre-flight check. The weather was certainly strange this time of year. April's days scorched the life right out of a man, while the nights cooled to the point where he had to wear a flight jacket until he boarded his aircraft.
He did all he could do from the ground and nodded at the crew chief, one TSgt. Montrose. The man looked a bit old for this job and his rank, almost as if he was ready to retire, and he moved stiffly, as if his muscles bothered him. Yet, Captain Stover didn't comment on that. His uncle had been a veteran of Vietnam, flying F-4 Phantom in missions over a countryside where he often couldn't tell who was friend and who was foe. Having grown up on stories of young men testing their mettle in those aircraft, he'd joined the Air Force and signed on to become a pilot in time to be assigned a seat in the coveted F-16 Fighting Falcon.
"Fair skies, sir," TSgt. Montrose saluted the captain. "May your wings fly true and bring you back safely."
That was a saying his uncle had told him about, from 'Nam. The captain stared at the non-com curiously.
"You served in 'Nam?" Captain Stover asked.
"Proudly." Pain not forgotten shadowed the non-com's eyes. "I was there until the end, part of the bug out in 1975."


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Fate of a Floozy is written by Wayne Zurl, published by Mind Wings Audio, narration by David Colacci. It ran 75 minutes.
Sam Jenkins is a chief in Prospect Tennessee, a small town with little crime. When an aging actress, Floozy and her young lover, are found in bed murdered by shotgun, Sam investigates the case himself.
Trevor is Floozy's recently widowed husband and the first suspect, who better than the spouse of the cheater. But Sam soon learns their marriage was open. At least partially. Floozy enjoyed sex and Trevor enjoyed hearing about her escapades with other men. Most often younger.
Floozy's lover is the son of a high priced attorney and kind of a screw up. He's in his thirties and out of work. Suddenly the lover's father is thought to have a connection and soon Sam adds the lover's ex-fiancés parents to the list possible suspects.
With the help of a deputy, the desk SGT, and a willing receptionist of one of the suspects, Sam puts together a who-done-it party in the vein of Nero Wolf, one of Sam's favorite detectives. He asks a series of questions, taking the gathered participants through a series of scenarios until one confesses.
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I enjoyed the story as much for the narrators voice as for the plot. My one disappointment was the author didn't give enough information along the way for me to pick out who the murderer was, instead waiting until the end to spell it out front to back. I believe this is more the style of the genre.


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Thursday, April 14, 2011
A useful analogy: Radiation and Temperature
1. Radiation, like temperature, can cause immediate damage to a living being, but only if it is sufficiently "hot."
2. Some places on Earth are warmer than others, and some colder. But that temperature difference doesn't create differences in cancer rates (you're not more likely to get a tumor in Fort Lauderdale than you are in Omaha, Tacoma or Duluth). Similarly, some places on Earth have more natural radiation, and some less, but this difference isn't significant enough to affect us.
3. A small rise in temperature, even when sustained, isn't likely to cause us any damage. In fact, we hardly notice it. Same goes for radiation; if we're exposed to 300 mrem in a year or 400 mrem in a year, we won't notice, and the change isn't likely to hurt us.
4. There are natural "sources" of temperature, and man-made sources. We can locally raise the temperature (by lighting a fire or turning on the heater), but when taken in the context of the universe, it's hardly a blip on the screen. Similarly, we can create local sources of radiation (nuclear weapon, nuclear accident), but they too are minuscule in the grander scheme of things.
5. Temperature is not dangerous when it is understood and controlled. Neither is radiation.
*Microwave and infrared EM radiation, which are direct causes of temperature increases from the vibration of molecular bonds, are, in fact, radiation. So the analogy obviously has some weakness to it, just like all analogy and metaphor - they can only go so far. But I'm trying to convey information about what people think of when they hear the term "radiation," mainly, ionizing radiation, or, incorrectly, radioactivity. If the terminology is bothersome, substitute your own: "radiation" could be replaced with "release of radioactive materials" or similar. For the purposes of the analogy, decouple any effect which certain forms of radiation have on temperature, and pretend they're independent.
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Radiation is dangerous, unless you subscribe to some kind of homeopathic theory about the beneficial effect of low doses. For instance, environmental exposure to radon causes a lot of lung cancer. We are surrounded by radiation, and we have built-in mechanisms to mitigate the risk (DNA repair), but that doesn't make it OK, even at low doses.ReplyDelete
We don't know how dangerous radiation is at low doses. The linear no-threshold (LNT) model is highly conservative in this respect, which is why it's used for safety standards. However, it's important to note that we, as examples of life on Earth, evolved in a bath of radiation - in fact, when life first appeared, the natural background radiation was much higher than today. So we've evolved to be able to handle background radiation, which can vary widely... meaning we've probably evolved to withstand the highest possible background.ReplyDelete
As for radon, yes, it can be dangerous, but this relates to my point #5. Radon is dangerous because it's a gas, and we inhale it, thus getting the radiation damage internally (to soft tissue). But if you take steps to mitigate radon exposure (just like you'd wear sunscreen or a hat), then it's not so dangerous.
Hi, Kelly-ReplyDelete
Yes, it is an interesting topic, that low doses might be protective if they stimulate more error-correction gene induction than the extent of the damage. I am aware of that kind of low- dose nonlinearity theory.
But on basic principle, the fact that we evolved in a radiation atmosphere and "deal" with it biologically doesn't alter its damage.. that radiation, along with many other chemical insults, cause mutations which give us evolution in the first place.
The question is whether we want to put up with more mutations or not. Generally, -not- is the prudent choice. The way of dealing with radon, for instance, is to remove it... by ventilating the basement, etc.
So, I don't want to make a capital case out of it, but just say that while hysteria is unwarranted, so is a blase attitude of .. ionizing radiation and radioactive materials in the environment are OK and not so bad.
It doesn't seem like Kelly said that there was no danger to radiation - just that the risks become small and manageable at low levels; that's why heat is an appropriate analogy. Heat has benefits, but it can also be fatally dangerous. The point is, we don't get up-in-arms over temperature, and act like school children who hear the rumour that one of them as got the lurgy, every time it is mentioned.ReplyDelete
Kelly's analogy with temperature (while self-acknowledged to be limited in scope) does communicate some extremely important points:
1) That radiation is occurring naturally everywhere, and is something to be understood as an intrinsic part of life, the universe and everything (the idea that we can somehow eliminate radiation exposure is not even worthy of discussion). The public do generally have a perception (despite what concepts they're told) that man-made radiation is the dominant source, and thus radiation (and nuclear power) has the connotation of science gone wrong (or a-step-to-far). [It would be interesting to know what the public attitude to radiation would be if no nuclear weapons had ever been detonated. I suspect for many people there's a subconscious association between all radiation and the image of a mushroom cloud, as they have no other available percept for it.]
2) The contribution to the level of radiation by human activity must be seen in the light of this - as a percentage change to the natural level in a particular area.
3) Like heat, radiation is a useful tool. One can list a few obvious examples immediately: medical diagnoses, medical therapy, energy production, airport security, materials analysis, carbon dating, etc. Of course, there are associated dangers, as there are with building a fire (but the benefits to our lives from warmth and cooking is worth it!). In the case of radiation, energy production, improving our health, our safety, inspiring a deeper understanding of the world, or the spiritual benefit of living somewhere beautiful (like Cornwall or Colorado, which have higher naturally occurring radon) - far outweigh the risk of burning one's hand occasionally.
4) That by understanding radiation, it can be "handled", quite routinely, in such a way as to minimise the risk to an acceptable (even negligible) level. A pair of tongs are developed to make fire-use safer; the list for radiation is almost endless.
The point about the acceptability of the effect of radiation on the human body is sufficiently complex, and couched in personal and societal perceptions of the world at the most fundamental level, that I will leave it to an independent comment.
Burk, I do not wish to be blase... I want people to have a healthy respect for something that could possibly harm them but in all likelihood won't. People generally exhibit the appropriate response to things like heat or cars or other, more familiar things... radiation isn't so scary that it warrants a phobic response. It has been generally observed, on the scientific side, that (with regard to cancer and mutations), radiation is a much weaker carcinogen than previously thought. So in "putting up with" a slight increase in background radiation, you're not also putting up with a definite increase in mutations.ReplyDelete
On a personal note, I don't subscribe to either the LNT model (though I approve its use as a basis for safety measures, since it's the most conservative) or the hormesis model (that low-dose radiation is really beneficial). I stand somewhere in the middle with the threshold model, which roughly states that the biologic response to ionizing radiation is no longer linear below a certain level, but instead that the effect is, in fact, lessened. There is lots of experimental evidence for this model out there (see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19820459 for example), but like I said before, there's still not enough data to decide definitively.
To the Evil Doctor, your side note about weapons touches on the reason we refer to "atomic bombs" and "nuclear power." It was known that referring to both with similar terminology would be damaging to the peaceful uses. It would appear that the differentiation in terms didn't help much, though.
I'd like to make a quick point using personal anecdote, so bear with me. My house sits in between an old weapons plant (full of uranium contamination) and a coal-fired power plant, near a lake. I worry far more about fly ash from the coal plant or chemical spills into the lake from the train that services it than I worry about fission or decay products from the high levels of uranium. Why? Because I know that the fly ash and the chemicals are far more dangerous. Even so, none of these dangers warrant constant, mind-warping worry that characterizes the public's response to radiation.
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Hi, Call me a nincompoop but can you answer a slightly OCD type question? Can an item from the Chernobyl region at the time of the disaster for example be radioactive enough to cause adjacent items to become radioactive and for that radioactivity to pass to other items? Or am I right in thinking that the neutron activation would need much higher energy to do this.ReplyDeleteReplies
It is possible for something to be activated by incident radiation - this is why the interior components of a reactor vessel could still be radioactive when the reactor itself is shut down. A high flux of neutrons, gamma rays or even charged particles can induce radioactivity in something that would otherwise be completely stable. But you're right, it takes a lot of energy and a lot of intensity in order for this to happen. And the things that are the most likely to become activated are the things least likely to get out of a reactor (even with an explosion, like Chernobyl, heavy fragments of activated material are not going to travel far; it was the release of material that could become airborne that was the real problem).Delete
So to go back to the analogy, yes, it's possible for things to get "hot" by being near other things which are "hot," but they have to be in close proximity, which means they're also going to be contained. I hope this helps!


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East Midlands Ambulances
Non-emergency ambulance services - known as Patient Transport Services (PTS) - include transferring vulnerable patients to and from their hospital, day care and outpatient appointments, as well as ferrying vital equipment and patient records across different hospital sites.
In many areas of England, PTS services are being put out to tender. Where the contracts have been won by the private sector there have been problems. For example, some patients have been left waiting for up to nine hours. There are some reports of hospital staff having to report patients as being more ill than they are in order to secure transport.
The latest ambulance service to be affected is the East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS). Contracts for Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and almost all of Lincolnshire have been awarded to NSL Ltd, who describe themselves as an "expert outsourced service provider", and the bus company, Arriva Passenger Services.
The contracts were worth £20 million a year to the ambulance service. The total value of the contracts over five years is estimated to be about £130 million.
Will these companies understand that these people are not passengers? They are patients with illnesses and disabilities and complex needs, they are not simply to be picked up and dropped off.
Over 600 staff currently employed by EMAS face an uncertain future following the decision to privatise their jobs. EMAS Unison condemned the decision as one that put financial savings ahead of the quality of service.
Alarmingly, the contracts were based on a 35% reduction in patient journeys that will be achieved through using new stringent eligibility criteria. Currently transport is booked by the hospital or GP surgery according to patient need, whereas the new contracts will be based on patients making their own booking direct with the private company who will apply the criteria.
This means 35% of patients currently receiving specialist care transport will no longer be eligible. This has particularly worrying consequences, not only for these patients but also for what remains of the EMAS - the Accident and Emergency (A&E) fleet. What is almost certainly going to happen is private companies seeking to offload their difficult and costly patients onto the A&E fleet.
Denying, not providing, is the natural logic of the private sector; as it must manage the financial risk associated with providing health care. Furthermore, the PTS fleet provides a vital function in the event of a major incident or large scale emergency. For example when dealing with multi-casualty road traffic collisions the PTS are often called upon to transport patients who need to be taken to A&E but have non-serious injuries. The ambulance service will no longer have the same access to this vital back-up role.
The exclusion of the private sector from health and social care in 1948 was not a mistake; it was done by design. Bitter experiences meant that private enterprise needed limiting. Don't we learn anything from history?
We must act now to defend our NHS. The Socialist Party calls for a socialist NHS to meet everyone's health needs, free at the point of use and under democratic control. Kick out the private contractors!
Steve Wells, NHS worker
Whipps Cross hospital
Privatisation in the NHS is a policy aimed at the reversal of every gain secured by the strength and organisation of health workers and the wider working class over the last 30 years. The experience of workers at Whipps Cross hospital who provide vital support services such as cleaning and portering attest to this.
The profit motive and shareholder dividend payments conflict daily with the need to provide a service based on the real needs of human beings. Successive governments have used 'outsourcing' to further cut taxes for the rich while directly transferring public money and assets into the bank accounts of their rich backers.
'Domestics', cleaning workers, have described what privatisation has meant for their job. Previously 'deep-cleaning' had been done by a specialised team. Now general cleaning staff must incorporate this into their routine, including moving heavy furniture, turning beds and so on. This represents an enormous cut in the cleaning service. Workers have suffered back injuries as a result too. They are expected to do a specialised job without training or increased pay.
The workers also reported that they felt they were punished for going on holiday - no training was given to those who covered their areas while they were away meaning that on their return everything had to be cleaned more to make up for a bad job done. This, of course, has massive implications for the health service.
Privatisation is a big concern for workers at Whipps in a pending merger of the hospital with Bart's and the Royal London where there exists possibly the biggest Private Finance Initiative scheme in the country. PFI or Profit From Illness in reality is a huge money maker for capitalists with guaranteed profit year on year for up to 35 years and more and paid for often by workers through cutbacks, down bandings job and service cuts.
The Whipps Cross workers have fought to preserve union organisation as the only sure way of resisting low pay and worsening conditions of working. They have learned in struggle the value of this and have acted in unity, serving as an example to other workers, of the benefits of what being in a trade union can bring.
A Whipps Cross worker
A brief history of privatisation in the NHS
- 1948 - Creation of the NHS - but private practice and private hospitals remain
- 1952 - Charges introduced for prescriptions, glasses and dental treatment
- 1983 - Thatcher starts privatisation of ancillary services (such as cleaning and catering)
- 1990 - NHS and Community Care Act introduces an "internal market"
- 1992 - PFI introduced in the UK for the first time
- 1997 - Blair elected with the promise to remove the internal market. He quickly reverses this position and PFI in the NHS is expanded massively
- 2002 - Foundation hospitals launched
- 2011 - Con-Dems' Health and Social Care Bill proposes further moves towards privatisation
Scrap the health bill
Jon Dale
"Patients could find themselves at the centre of an advertising war for hospital treatment. The private health care partnership, Circle, has launched an advertising campaign to woo Leicestershire patients over the border to the Nottingham NHS treatment centre." (Leicester Mercury 10.2.12)
The NHS never used to spend money on advertising except for health education. Now the 'efficiency' of competition and free markets is pouring in, millions are being wasted on marketing. The Con-Dems' health bill will make this 100 times worse, with more advertising, so less health care.
Allowing "any willing provider" to run different parts of the health service in England will destroy it, leaving a mess of competing businesses. Competition means losers as well as winners. Patients and health workers will be losers. Profit-making companies will win the public money spent on the NHS.
The NHS was set up to be nationally planned and provide equal access to all who needed it. No government ever invested enough to achieve this. But a huge advance was made compared to life before the NHS.
Until 1948, those with money (and some 'charity' patients) could get treated in the best hospitals, in large cities. Many could neither get to these hospitals nor afford them. General practice was very unevenly spread. Poor working class areas could not attract doctors, as they couldn't offer the income earned in more prosperous places.
Private practice and private hospitals remained after the NHS was formed. But it was Margaret Thatcher's 'internal market' (implemented by her successor John Major) that started to expose parts of the NHS to privatisation. She wanted full privatisation but had to hold back. Her cabinet feared the reaction to it would force the labour and trade union movement to resist.
Labour party
However, the Labour Party leaders Tony Blair and Gordon Brown forced open the cracks in the NHS, allowing business with its need for profit to flood in. Now Tories Cameron and Lansley are following in their footsteps, detonating an explosion of profiteering that will destroy what remains of a national service. They know Labour's opposition is hot air.
The Con-Dems are determined to go ahead with the health and social care bill despite huge opposition from health workers' organisations and the public. This is because they believe it will allow their friends in big business even more opportunity to make profit from our health service. The bill will pave the way for a decimation of wages and conditions of health workers in the future. And it is part of the Tories' wider agenda of cutting the welfare state to the bone - making ordinary people pay for the economic crisis.
This is also because of the dilemma which confronts 'modern' capitalism, of restricted opportunities to invest profitably in Britain's depleted manufacturing sector.
They therefore look hungrily to invest in privatised industries - not just health, but other sections as well. Even if this means a more expensive, less efficient, worse service - which it will - nevertheless it could be a profitable outlet for the billions of pounds presently locked up in the vaults of big business.
Nobody believes government claims that GPs will be able to decide what local health services they commission for their patients. The bill gives Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) control of 80% of the NHS budget. They are already being set up even though the bill has not yet become law. Huge corporations like KPMG and McKinsey are 'advising' many of them. It's clear these 'advisers' will direct CCGs to spend more money with private health companies.
Kill the bill
Patients will wonder if they have been referred to a particular clinic because it is best for them or because their GP stands to gain financially. GPs, their budgets set by government, will become messengers for the cuts, having to explain why they do not have money to provide particular treatments.
Seeing the overwhelming hostility to the bill among health professionals, including GPs, Labour leader Ed Miliband has finally become more vocal. But his plan is "for people of all parties and of none, the professions, the patients and now peers in the House of Lords to work together to try to stop this bill." This strategy is like treating pneumonia with a spoonful of cough linctus and a get-well-soon card.
Labour could kill the bill with one announcement - that a future Labour government would take back into public ownership all privatised health services without compensation, except where there is proven need. That would stop the profit-seeking sharks in their current plans. As there's no prospect that Labour will do this, the reliance of many trade union leaders on a future Labour government to stop the bill is dangerously misleading their members.
Lansley's Bill can be stopped by a mass movement uniting health workers, trade unions and community campaigns, with a national Saturday demonstration to fire the signal that the battle has started.
The splits emerging within the cabinet can be widened and the government itself could fall if strikes of health workers develop as well as plans for further action to defend public sector pensions and against the cuts. A strong and determined lead from the unions is needed. A political alternative must be built to the three parties representing the interests of private health care and big business.
The Socialist Party demands:
- No to cuts. For a publicly funded service, free at the point of use, to provide for everyone's health needs
- End big business profiteering from the NHS! Scrap the costly Private Finance Intitative (PFI) schemes. No to private polyclinics and GP consortiums. Scrap the bill
- End 'payment by results'. Take all health services and buildings back from big business and place them under public ownership. Publicly fund and integrate them with the rest of the NHS
- Nationalise the pharmaceutical and medical supply industries and private health providers, with compensation only on the basis of proven need. Bring them under working class control and management
- Abolish Foundation Trusts. For democratic control of local health services by elected health workers and community representatives as well as elected representatives from local and national government
- End NHS job losses and low pay
- For a massive trade union led struggle to defend the NHS
- For a new mass workers' party to fight for the NHS and against cuts and privatisation. For socialist policies and a planned economy to end poverty, bad housing, unemployment, pollution and inequality - the biggest killers and causes of ill-health.
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Like humans, animals also suffer from several infectious diseases such as rabies and foot and mouth disease. Introduction of advanced veterinary medicines hold prime importance in the treatment of animal diseases. However, prevention of diseases is also essential to provide immunity against various diseases. Prevention is usually done by vaccination. Vaccination also reduces the multiple doses of antibiotics used to control established diseases and has prevented long term suffering and death from diseases.
The global animal vaccines market is segmented based on various products, technologies and animal diseases. Product segment covers companion animal vaccines, poultry, livestock, porcine, aquaculture and equine. The companion animal vaccine sub-segment is further sub-divided into feline vaccines and canine vaccines. The livestock vaccines sub-segment includes bovine vaccines and ruminant vaccines. The livestock vaccines are the largest sub-segment in global animal vaccines market. However, companion vaccine and aquaculture are fastest growing sub-segments in global animal vaccines market.
Based on technology, the market is segmented into live attenuated vaccines, subunit vaccines, in-activated vaccines, toxoid vaccines, recombinant vaccines, conjugate vaccines and DNA vaccines. DNA vaccine is the fastest growing technology in global animal vaccines market. This is due to factors such as thermo-stability, easy production, cost effectiveness and rapid development against emerging diseases. The animal diseases segment covers rabies, foot and mouth disease, avian influenza, gumboro disease and strangles.
Europe dominates the global animal vaccines market followed by North America. Germany, France and the U.K. are some of the largest markets for animal vaccines in Europe. The U.S., followed by Canada, is the largest market for animal vaccines in North America. The key driving factor for animal vaccines market in these regions is increasing research activities on various types of animal diseases. In addition, increased awareness about animal health also has a strong positive impact on the growth of animal vaccines market in Europe and North America. However, Asia-Pacific represents the fastest growing region in the global animal vaccines market. This is due to minimal wages and availability of skilled professionals in the region. These factors attract vaccines manufacturing companies to invest in the Asian countries. In addition, increasing awareness about animal health also boosts the growth of animal vaccines market in the region. China, Japan and India are the largest animal vaccines markets in the region.
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However, patent expiry of various major vaccines and increasing maintenance costs for vaccines are key restraints of this market. Stringent regulations and legislations and shift towards vegetarian food by consumers also obstruct the growth of global animal vaccines market. Rapid product launches and increasing mergers and acquisitions between vaccines manufactures are emerging trends of the global animal vaccines market.
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COLLINGSWOOD, N.J. (WPVI) --They're called "zombie houses" - run down, creepy-looking homes that, since the 2008 recession, have been slowly deteriorating after owners walked away, unable to pay the mortgage.
Ray and Mary Heckman of Harvard Avenue in Collingswood, New Jersey, live across from one of those houses.
"Just look at it, Nora. If we want to sell our house, people come in here, they come across the street and look at it. I think there's been animals in there. There's a hole in the bathroom floor. It's just a scary house," said Ray Heckman.
It's also the first of almost a dozen abandoned houses the borough has been able to take control of through the state's Abandoned Properties Rehabilitation Act and renovations are now underway.
"Under a court order we are able to come onto property we don't own and do the renovation, and then another court order will allow us to sell the property," said Mayor Jim Maley (D-Collingswood).
The work is being done by the nonprofit St. Joseph's Carpenter Society, which has renovated almost 1,000 homes in Camden over the last three decades.
"It's so important that we would actually rebuild our existing homes, bring families back to them, rather than always going out and having to build something new," said Pilar Hogan Closkey, St. Joseph's Carpenter Society.
Collingswood borrowed $1 million to finance the rehab of its zombie houses. The money made when they're sold will pay for the work and help to fix up more houses.
Residents are thrilled with the idea of fixing up the eyesores, which are hard to look at and bring down property values in the neighborhood.
"Every year, every minute, you see it depreciating more and more and more. And it's sad because everyone around here tries to keep their homes nice," said Mary Heckman of Collingswood.
St. Joseph's Carpenter Society is also working on zombie houses in other towns like Merchantville, Gloucester City and Pennsauken. Rehab on the first house in Collingswood should be finished by summer.
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A former Maine police chief has been arrested on sexual assault charges.
Police say Carl E. Smith, of Eddington, the former police chief in Howland, was arrested early Saturday morning in Wells on four counts of gross sexual assault.
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Hirst & Sons of Halifax
B Hirst and Sons were established in 1846 and are listed as an engineering company producing washing machines and mangles in 1874. These were proudly advertised as 'being capable of being worked by a boy of twelve.'
Their principal factory seems to have been The Britannia Works, at Northgate Yard,
By the 1920's they were involved in producing sporting equipment – particularly tennis posts, court marking machines, rackets and presses. Top of the range seems to have been the "Ne Plus Ultra" All Steel Tennis Posts which were exhibited at the 1922 British Industries Fair. It was this involvement with sports ground equipment that seems to have been their route in to playground equipment.
The 'Ne Plus Ultra' seen on the front of their playground rocking horses was clearly in use earlier to describe their tennis posts. Rather than being a specific legend for the horse it was a more general company motto – it means 'The highest, ultimate point of achievement which can be reached; perfection.' It can be seen on other Hirst products.
The Hirst horse is a five seater and the large cast iron head has the name 'Bonny Bright Eyes' stamped along the base. The rocking arm mechanism differs from the standard Wicksteed design as can be seen in some of the photos in the gallery. There only seems to have been one model of horse produced but a 'rocking boat' version was also available.
A company brochure from about 1950 descibes their horse as 'Unequalled for smoothness and ease of working. It is the only rocking horse made fitted with double row self alligning ball bearings...which for practical purposes eliminate friction.The closest attention has been devoted to every detail of its construction and no effort has been spared to make it the finest product of its kind. Attractively finished in colours.'
Most images of Hirst playground horses seem to date from 1950s to early 1980s and this may have been their principal period of production. The company later became part of Sutcliffe Play Ltd which was formed in 1987. They continue to manufacture a wide range of modern playground equipment including small single rider horses but sadly no longer the big Hirst five seater. The company is now proud to be an employee owned partnership -"The John Lewis of playground equipment"
A long serving member of the Hirst/Sutcliffe staff tells me that the horse was still being made when Sutcliffe took over the factory in 1987. He also recalls issues with an early design for the horse's head which included prominent ears. These however were deemed to be too dangerous if children rocked forward on to them and were modified to the rounded head shape finally used.
Relatively few Hirst horses seem to have survived in to the 21st century.
Take a look at the gallery of Hirst & Sons photos as well as the albums showing the restoration and relocation of two Hirst horses. Those of you of a strong disposition can also look at the 'Horse butchery' album to see what has become of some of the old Hirst heads.
Wicksteed Ltd of Kettering
Charles Wicksteed was born in 1847, the son of a Minister in the
At the age of 29 Charles Wicksteed established a business initially servicing and repairing ploughing machines on the current site of the factory in
In 1913 Charles Wicksteed purchased the first portion of the land that he was to create into
Charles Wicksteed died at the age of 83 and the business passed into the hands of his sons. The first Playground Safety Standard in the
In 1960 Charles Wicksteed & Co. Ltd. was sold and lost its family connections. In 1989 Wicksteed Leisure Ltd. was purchased by the current owner - Lord Howard of Rising.
Wicksteed Leisure Ltd is now the largest manufacturer of playground equipment in the
Yates Playgrounds
From the company website:
Yates playgrounds of Ormskirk Lancashire are a family company that have been in the steel fabrication and engineering business for 3 generations.
From making bullet proof panels for army tanks during the second world war, through to manufacturing agricultural trailers and equipment, narrow boats and even ocean going steel yachts, we have carried out all types of steel fabrication projects. In 1992 we were asked to manufacture our first play area for the local Parish of Rufford.
During the following few years the demand for our play equipment was so great that for the past 15 years we have worked solely within the play industry and have undertaken hundreds of playground projects throughout the UK.
As of 2013 Yates Playgrounds still advertise a fine horse. They describe it as follows:
This all steel rocking horse will be enjoyed by generations it has 5 seats made from polyethylene which is warm to the touch has a non slip surface and is maintenance free.
Pivoting on eight large sealed bearings for a smooth rocking action it will give years of fun.
We have been producing these for 20 years and have never had to replaced any moving parts
G.L Jones Ltd
From the company website:
GL Jones Playgrounds was established in 1978 and has expanded continuously ever since. This family-led company has been designing and manufacturing some of the most ground-breaking playground equipment available on the market for over thirty years. From humble beginnings in a small village set in the picturesque surroundings of Snowdonia, GL Jones Playgrounds products can now be seen in counties all over of the
The company manufactures a striking 5 seater playground horse.
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Human remains removed from a hollow wall of an apartment in California on Thursday are believed to belong to a woman who vanished in 2009. An anonymous tip led detectives to the Harbor Hills Housing Project in Lomita where Raven Campbell, 32 at the time, once lived.
Although it is considered too soon for authorities to determine the cause of death or identify the body as Campbell's, one major piece of evidence led her sister Malaikah Manasseh to believe there was foul play involved.
#UPDATE: Per #LASD, the possible human remains were found in the 26800 block of Western Ave. http://t.co/bXR7JOBZFv pic.twitter.com/VA8bhCQcWA
— CBS Los Angeles (@CBSLA) July 2, 2015
"She had a ti …and that was not leaving her purse," which she always wore strapped against her chest Manasseh told the Los Angeles Times.
Someone had reportedly called Manasseh two weeks ago, telling her they believed her sister's body was in a "downstairs apartment in the wall of the closet behind the stairs." The Times notes that neighbors had complained of a bad odor near the unit where the body was found.
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- Type of Mail Services
- Using Personalized Email Address
- Leaving Rutgers
- Spam and Phishing
- Signing your email using Digital Certificate
- Calendar Related
After completing email migration in August 2016, CS now uses University mail systems known as Rutgers Connect and ScarletMail as described below.
Mail system for Faculty and Staff and University employee
This system is based on Microsoft Office 365 system and is expected to be used as default email system for all university employee. You can access this using a web browser and any mail client supporting IMAP or Exchange protocol. For more info see Using Rutgers Connect page.
Rutgers Connect also comes with extra benefit such as 1TB of cloud storage on OneDrive, free license of Skype for Business and free license of Microsoft Office 2016 that can be installed on his/her office or personal computers.
Note: For existing employee, if you are paid by Rutgers and don't have Rutgers Connect Account, please send email to email@example.com to request it. All new employee should get Connect account activated when you get your NetID.
IMPORTANT: University employees, e.g. TAs, Faculty, Staff, or anyone paid by Rutgers are expected to use Rutgers Connect mail system for their work email. We don't recommend users to move all user's existing mail from other location to Rutgers Connect as this account is temporary and may be closed as you lose your Faculty/Staff roles or when you leave Rutgers. Extracting your email from this system is not easy. (See below for instruction) All published papers email references should use addresses with @rutgers.edu email address (see Using Personalized Email Address section) instead of @cs.rutgers.edu address to avoid these issues after you no longer at Rutgers. Only use the @cs.rutgers.edu account for your official Rutgers business.
To avoid lost of email when you graduated from Rutgers, our recommendation is to use @rutgers.edu email address and not @cs.rutgers.edu. Using @rutgers.edu allows you to get better name as well as redirect the email to other destination when you graduated. (see Using Personalized Email Address section)
- Mail system for Students, Faculty and Staff
This system is based on Google Mail (Gmail). This system is the default system for all Rutgers students. You can access it using a web browser at https://scarletmail.rutgers.edu or any mail client supporting IMAP protocol. All Scarletmail users also get access to ScarletApps with unlimited storage Google Drive, Google Photos, Google Docs, and all other Google Apps. This account does not go away when you graduated or retired from Rutgers.
Using Personalized Email Address
Your mail address will initially be firstname.lastname@example.com (faculty/staff) or firstname.lastname@example.com (students). Many people prefer to use an email address such as firstname.lastname@example.com, or even firstname.lastname@example.com. Mail sent to email@example.com will be forwarded to you at cs.rutgers.edu or scarletmail.rutgers.edu, as applicable. You can add a "personalized" address such as firstname.lastname@example.com, or change the address to which it is forwarded, using the Email portion of https://netid.rutgers.edu.
As a retiree or alumni, you are allowed to keep your Scarletmail account. Nothing needs to be done.
If you were paid by Rutgers, you likely have @cs.rutgers.edu email address on Rutgers Connect. This Rutgers Connect email account will go away and you must migrate your email elsewhere before the account is closed. Normally when you no longer have role in the university, OIT will send you a warning. Do not ignore this warning. You must migrate your email right away or risk losing it.
When you have no role at CS department, your @cs.rutgers.edu email address will be removed because it is meant to be used for official University business only. Our recommendation is to use your personalized (see above) @rutgers.edu address for your publication. This @rutgers.edu address is flexible because it can be directed to your scarletmail or Rutgers Connect email during your time at Rutgers.
Here are a few options you can follow to migrate your email from Rutgers Connect.
Note: This process takes a long time, requires repeats attempts if network connection fails in the middle of exports and requires specialized software. Please allow days if not weeks to get this completed.
Option 1: Exporting Data from Rutgers Connect to ScarletMail (recommended by OIT)
OIT has written a documentation on how to Export data from Rutgers Connect to Scarletmail.
Option 2: Exporting your data to your local storage.
You can also follow instruction on how to Export or backup email, contacts, and calendar to an Outlook .pst file from Microsoft or follow more details instruction on Exporting Your Outlook PST File instruction.
Option 3: Drag/Drop Using Mail client (recommended by OIT)
-Using your existing mail client, configure your mail client to connect to both Rutgers Connect and your new mail server where you want to migrate your email to.
-Once both connections are established, drag your old email to your new mail server folder by folder until you are finished.
Option 4: Use imapsync. (for advanced users only and only if you still have your iLab access)
If you are handy with Linux command lines and have access to imapsync software, follow the instructions at
These instructions were used previously to migrate dragon.rutgers.edu email to Rutgers Connect. You will need to reverse the process.
Important: Don't forget to also migrate your OneDrive files.
Phishing: When your Computer Tricks You
This document shows tricks that was used to fool users into following false information.
Phishing: Security Issues in Electronic Age
Phishing is a word used by the bad guys trying to 'fish' for your personal/confidential information.
- Comparitec's Common phishing scams and how to recognise and avoid them
A nice document describing different types of phishing and how to avoid them.
- SonicWall Phishing and Spam IQ Quiz
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Jing Jiang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Prior to joining SHU, Professor Jiang spent several years at M&T Bank and Regions Bank in the risk management and quantitative analytics group. He is a member of American Finance Association, and Financial Management Association.
Degrees and Certifications
- Ph.D. in Finance from University at Buffalo
- MBA from Tsinghua University
- BA from Nankai University
Teaching Responsibilities
Financial Management, Corporate Finance, Financial Derivatives, and International Finance
Research Interests and Grants
Corporate Finance, Market Microstructure, and Behavioral Finance


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Walk Mills, Keighley
Mid 18th century mill to be demolished in Keighley:
(forgive the quality of the image. There doesn't seem to be any images of this building outside of Google Street View. Lets hope it is properly recorded before being smashed up)
Whilst reading the heritage statement (which always seem to have been complied by a wrecking ball salesmen), I noticed the reference to a pre-application meeting. Frankly, if a planning application comes forward following pre-application negotiations, then a decision has already been made, and the democratic right to publicly comment is devoid of meaning.
When a developer has sat around a table with council officers, having paid a grand for the privilege, they expect to get an expeditious planning approval.
So the fate of this remarkable building is already sealed. I will comment, and urge others to do so as well, however, the machinations within local government that will lead to the demise of this mill have been concluded.
I recommend reading the heritage assessment, as it is fascinating to see how 'heritage experts' justify the loss of an assets like this with exceptionally tenuous arguments.
NB – also a big loss to the setting of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, which runs alongside this mill complex.
Union Mills, Eccleshill, Bradford
Robust stone industrial mills and pond to make way for a Lidl:
A large amount of Victorian industrial building stock is to be lost for the expansion of Lidl's empire.
A thesis could be written about the insidious colonisation of deprived areas by Lidl. Bad for health, the economy, culture, and the environment. Not wanting to digressing into sociological territory, I will try to summarise why this is a crime against conservation.
The mills of Bradford are being lost at an alarming rate, with the local authority not seeing the value (and being powerless) in retaining humble buildings such as Union Mills. What these buildings add to the local landscape is invaluable; punctuating the rolling countryside with implications of former industrial prowess. We diminish the essence of a place when we remove its history.
Particularly objectionable is the infill of the mill pond. Blue infrastructure is normally celebrated and protected. Not only for its value in biodiversity, but for the public who enjoy it as a destination for walking and angling.
The existing buildings function perfectly well. They are adaptable, and can be used for a variety of industries looking for different sizes of space. They provide economic opportunities that are vital for small businesses in the area.
The buildings that will replace them do not have these qualities. Lidl could very easily retrofit the existing complex for their purposes, but their rudimentary economic models can not integrate such innovative strategies into their expansionist masterplan. Cleared sites only please. And no architects. Shame on you Lidl.
Greenside Mills, Skelmanthorpe
Application to destroy an important complex of small mills in Kirklees:
These three story stone edifices provide an important aspect to the narrative of a Yorkshire village, protruding above the roof pitches of the surrounding terraces and cottages of the village, indicating the close relationship between industry and domestic life. To lose buildings as vital as this to the Yorkshrie townscape (not to mention buildings that are perfectly robust) is a crime.
There is no other reason for this that to allow the developer to build and sell 'products' that are homogenous and can fit into their capital program.
Please Kirkleses, intervene, and start saving your beautiful historic villages! There are not that many left now.
Above is the suggested layout. I am absolutely certain this will have been devised at a desk by a technician with no other remit for design other than 'as many units can you get on there please mate'.
Future generations will one day ask why we made this country so boring.
Norwood Green Mill, Halifax
Mill building to be demolished in small Calderdale hill village:
Very important piece of heritage for this small village on top of the moors to the East of Halifax.
From an urban design perspective, the building is vital to the village centre, providing a strong building line on the edge of the village green feature.
From a conservation point of view, village mills like this are fascinating, because they are often the sole example of heavy industry in the settlement, providing an economic base for the rest of the village to thrive.
The buildings are all robust and are in use, and could achieve a fantastic market value. Sadly, for some unknown reason, the market is signalling for more semi detached dull stock fit for new families in the countryside.
There is an irony in despoiling the beauty and history of villages, on which elevated market desirability for these semis is predicated.
Cellars Clough Mill, Marsden
Application to demolish, and develop 55 houses on a site in rural Huddersfield:
This mill found its way into the local press last year through a fantastic redevelopment that would have seen the building incorporated into an innovative mixed use scheme albeit with the sad loss of the chimney. Sadly this developer withdrew:
The new scheme includes plans for 55 dwellings and 143 spaces for vehicles, all of which will have to journey into Huddersfield or Manchester each day to keep the intended residents in employment.
The location is not sustainable by the councils own reckoning and my own predilection for saving heritage assets notwithstanding, there is surely a huge risk of flooding on what is effectively an island on a waterway at the foot of the Pennines (and it really does rain up on those hills).
The planning consultant argues the development will bring much needed 'diversity' to the area. What a sacred cow that word is. Diversity is actually the exact opposite of throngs of white flighters looking for rural detached housing.
It is another anachronistic building in an awkward location. But it is also our heritage, and believe me Kirklees, if you hang on, something amazing will happen with this building.
Oughtibridge Mill, Sheffield
A large industrial site is to be cleared to make way for brownfield housing:
Not an especially beautiful mill complex, however I am fond of this the sweeping road front. Makes you know just where you are.
In a perfect world this would be a mill shop. But we can't save everything can we?
West Vale Works, Greetland
I've feared this one for a while now. An empty Victorian mill won't stay put for long, what with all that brownfield land underneath it. The magnificent West Vale Works in Calderdale will be demolished:
Heritage England contemplated listing the building, but it would seem that if another example of said building exists (ie a Victorian Mill) then protection is not warranted, regardless of how important the building is to the landscape or local context. I'm glad this logic did not apply to the Colosseum.
The rows of terraces lead to the mill, telling the story of daily life in Victorian West Yorkshire.
No one really knows about West Vale. Some argue that it doesn't exist, and it is in fact Greetland. I'll leave that decision to the people who live there. I do know however that driving through this village just outside of Elland is West Yorkshire embodied. Photos sadly can not capture how to feels to move through this town past these monuments.
So perfect is the industrial townscape of West Vale, I considered moving there. The loss of this mill and the onset of suburbia in its place will personally devastate me. One by one, the places which embody our Northern identity are being sterilised. We long for authenticity in life, and allowing the market to dictate land use in this way will soon render England soulless.


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I went to see Ukai at Nagaragawa river.
Ukai is an ancient fishing method catching Japanese trout by using tamed cormorants.
It is said that Nagaragawa ukai has been conducted for around 1,300 years
This technique has also been used in other countries but is currently under threat in China.
To control the birds, the fishermen tie a snare near the bird's throat. This prevents the birds from swallowing larger fish, which are held in their throat, but the birds can swallow smaller fish. When a cormorant has caught a fish in its throat, the fisherman brings the bird back to the boat and has the bird spit the fish up. Though cormorant fishing once was a successful industry, its primary use today is to serve the tourism industry. It is interesting to see it.
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During 11th May ~15th Oct
Price :3100 yen
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Sadly the other main foreign news is the increasing disaster in Gaza as Israeli troops pound Palestine, thousands of people are fleeing their homes in northern Gaza after Israel warned it would be launching a new offensive against Hamas rocket sites, sadly what the Indie terms 'the vicious strife' in Gaza continues to escalate, almost 170 people have died with over 1,100 injured, a senior Israeli officer said his forces would "strike with might", sadly that means yet more deaths, displacement and destruction rather than an end to the aggression… On the domestic front there are a range of stories in the headlines, the right is obviously fearful of Labour leader Ed Miliband as there are two more attack pieces, this time by Trevor Kavanagh in the Sun and Leo McKinstry in the Express, but the top story is the upcoming reshuffle, widely tipped to see a number of women promoted into cabinet positions. Sadly, while the musical chairs is expected to see promotions, with Esther McVey tipped to be the minister for TV [yes really], it is very much a case of too little, too late, even Amanda Platell in the Mail says tokenism won't fool the voters… Speaking of which there's also the launch of the 'No Vote No Voice' campaign in the Mirror. The campaign, backed by Unite, is calling on people across the country to register to vote and make a difference at the next election, all the more important with the introduction of individual electoral registration. 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