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text: There are two variants of the Sabpab Trojan targeting Macs, according to security specialists. We reported earlier this week that Sabpab was targeting Macs using the same Java vulnerability that was used by the Flashback Trojan. Now the recently discovered Sabpab Trojan malware, is said to be targeting Macs using compromised Word documents, with the earliest version dating back to February 2012. There are concerns that Mac users who think that they are protected because they have updated Java with Apple's latest security update, are not safe from the latest vulnerability. Kaspersky's Costin Raiu writes in the Securelist blog that: "At least two variants of the SabPub bot exist today". He adds that "The earliest version of the bot appears to have been created and used in February 2012. The malware is being spread through Word documents that exploit the CVE-2009-0563 vulnerability." He notes that "SabPub stayed undetected for more than 1.5 months." (More below) Graham Cluley warns that: "Unlike the earlier sightings of Sabpab, there is nothing about this attack which relates to the Java vulnerability exploited by the Flashback botnet." Cluley wrote in his blog that: "Rather than relying upon a Java vulnerability - it appears to be exploiting malformed Word documents instead."Cluley's concern is that: "Any Mac users who believe that they have protected themselves because they don't use Java probably needs to realise that that's not an effective defence".It was previously thought that Sabpab used the same vulnerability in the OS X's Java plug-in to infect Macs. Sophos had earlier warned that just like Flashback - all that needs to happen is for you to visit an infected webpage. It had been thought that if you have updated Java on your Mac then you would be protected from the new threat, and most Mac anti-virus software will protect against Sabpab as well. This is not the case.The Trojan works as follows, according to Cluley: "If you open the boobytrapped Word document on a vulnerable Mac, a version of the OSX\/Sabpab Trojan horse gets installed on your computer opening a backdoor for remote hackers to steal information or install further code." He adds that: "Mac users may be caught out by the attack, as there is no prompt to enter your username or password when the malicious software installs itself onto your Mac."Sophos anti-virus products will detect the Word documents as Troj\/DocOSXDr-A, and protection against OSX\/Sabpab-A has been updated to detect this variant also, Cluley notes, suggesting that Mac users install security software.This Word exploit is nothing new. Cluley points to an earlier blog about another Mac malware, identified by AlienVault back in March. In that case the Trojan was hidden in a booby trapped Word document and relied upon a critical security vulnerability discovered in Microsoft Word back in 2009, which allowed remote code execution.Cluley states that those earlier attacks exploited a known security vulnerability in Word, and: "Now the same technique is being used by cybercriminals to spread OSX\/Sabpab." "In both incidents, the Word document displayed appears to relate to Tibet," he adds.Kaspersky's Costin Raiu has also notes that the name of the file ("10th March Statemnet") is directly linked with the Dalai-Lama and Tibetan community."Raiu points to a "direct connection between the SabPub and Luckycat APT attacks". "We are pretty sure the SabPub backdoor was created as far back as February 2012 and was distributed via spear-phishing emails." Raiu describes the APT attack known as LuckyCat was difficult to track down. "One of the biggest mysteries is the infection vector of these attacks. Given the highly targeted nature of the attack, there are very few traces."However, "SabPub was the more effective attack because it remained undetected for almost two months!" Raiu says.The second variant of SabPub was created in March and the attackers are using Java exploits to infect target Mac OS X machines, according to Raiu.The Flashback Trojan outbreak hit 600,000 or more Macs at its height.


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2 In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams;j his mind was troubledk and he could not sleep.l 2 So the king summoned the magicians,m enchanters, sorcerersn and astrologersa o to tell him what he had dreamed.p When they came in and stood before the king, 3 he said to them, "I have had a dream that troublesq me and I want to know what it means.b"
4 Then the astrologers answered the king,c r "May the king live forever!s Tell your servants the dream, and we will interpret it."
5 The king replied to the astrologers, "This is what I have firmly decided:t If you do not tell me what my dream was and interpret it, I will have you cut into piecesu and your houses turned into piles of rubble.v 6 But if you tell me the dream and explain it, you will receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor.w So tell me the dream and interpret it for me."
7 Once more they replied, "Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will interpret it."
8 Then the king answered, "I am certain that you are trying to gain time, because you realize that this is what I have firmly decided: 9 If you do not tell me the dream, there is only one penaltyx for you. You have conspired to tell me misleading and wicked things, hoping the situation will change. So then, tell me the dream, and I will know that you can interpret it for me."y
10 The astrologersz answered the king, "There is no one on earth who can do what the king asks! No king, however great and mighty, has ever asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or astrologer.a 11 What the king asks is too difficult. No one can reveal it to the king except the gods,b and they do not live among humans."
12 This made the king so angry and furiousc that he ordered the executiond of all the wise men of Babylon. 13 So the decree was issued to put the wise men to death, and men were sent to look for Daniel and his friends to put them to death.e
14 When Arioch, the commander of the king's guard, had gone out to put to death the wise men of Babylon, Daniel spoke to him with wisdom and tact. 15 He asked the king's officer, "Why did the king issue such a harsh decree?" Arioch then explained the matter to Daniel. 16 At this, Daniel went in to the king and asked for time, so that he might interpret the dream for him.
17 Then Daniel returned to his house and explained the matter to his friends Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah.f 18 He urged them to plead for mercyg from the God of heavenh concerning this mystery,i so that he and his friends might not be executed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. 19 During the night the mysteryj was revealed to Daniel in a vision.k Then Daniel praised the God of heavenl 20 and said:
"Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever;m
wisdom and powern are his.
21 He changes times and seasons;o
he deposesp kings and raises up others.q
He gives wisdomr to the wise
and knowledge to the discerning.s
22 He reveals deep and hidden things;t
he knows what lies in darkness,u
and lightv dwells with him.
23 I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors:w
You have given me wisdomx and power,
you have made known to me what we asked of you,
you have made known to us the dream of the king.y"
24 Then Daniel went to Arioch,z whom the king had appointed to execute the wise men of Babylon, and said to him, "Do not execute the wise men of Babylon. Take me to the king, and I will interpret his dream for him."
25 Arioch took Daniel to the king at once and said, "I have found a man among the exilesa from Judahb who can tell the king what his dream means."
26 The king asked Daniel (also called Belteshazzar),c "Are you able to tell me what I saw in my dream and interpret it?"
27 Daniel replied, "No wise man, enchanter, magician or diviner can explain to the king the mystery he has asked about,d 28 but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries.e He has shown King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in days to come.f Your dream and the visions that passed through your mindg as you were lying in bedh are these:i
29 "As Your Majesty was lying there, your mind turned to things to come, and the revealer of mysteries showed you what is going to happen.j 30 As for me, this mystery has been revealedk to me, not because I have greater wisdom than anyone else alive, but so that Your Majesty may know the interpretation and that you may understand what went through your mind.
31 "Your Majesty looked, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue,l awesomem in appearance. 32 The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, 33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay. 34 While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands.n It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashedo them.p 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them awayq without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountainr and filled the whole earth.s
36 "This was the dream, and now we will interpret it to the king.t 37 Your Majesty, you are the king of kings.u The God of heaven has given you dominionv and power and might and glory; 38 in your hands he has placed all mankind and the beasts of the field and the birds in the sky. Wherever they live, he has made you ruler over them all.w You are that head of gold.
39 "After you, another kingdom will arise, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule over the whole earth.x 40 Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron—for iron breaks and smashes everything—and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others.y 41 Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. 42 As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. 43 And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.
44 "In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crushz all those kingdomsa and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever.b 45 This is the meaning of the vision of the rockc cut out of a mountain, but not by human handsd—a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces.
"The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future.e The dream is truef and its interpretation is trustworthy."
46 Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell prostrateg before Daniel and paid him honor and ordered that an offeringh and incense be presented to him. 47 The king said to Daniel, "Surely your God is the God of godsi and the Lord of kingsj and a revealer of mysteries,k for you were able to reveal this mystery.l"
48 Then the king placed Daniel in a highm position and lavished many gifts on him. He made him ruler over the entire province of Babylon and placed him in charge of all its wise men.n 49 Moreover, at Daniel's request the king appointed Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego administrators over the province of Babylon,o while Daniel himself remained at the royal court.p
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Metro columnist Mike Morrison: checking a traffic report while you're stuck behind a train is dangerous. Anal sex with underage boys, not so much.
Distracted driving has never given anybody an STD
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Nenshi's totalitarian impulses are the scariest thing in Calgary this Halloween
In Nenshi's Calgary, the state fines people for giving ghost tours without getting permission from their city overlords.
Eventually the rogue group, who claimed to be with Calgary Ghost Tours, was found out and slapped with a bylaw infraction.
Money grubbing housewife becomes Alberta Premier, predictable results happen
Lunch Lady Premier's budget is horrible.
Hey, remember #MathIsHard? It turns out Prentice was right: like so many housewives with access to huge amounts of money they didn't earn, Rachel Arab is unable to balance a chequebook. This is partly due to her incompetence and the incompetence of her fellow members of government. But it's also partly because she hates taxpayers and thinks the money is just a free gift from above. In short, her government is part stupid, part evil, and all bad for Alberta.
So let's look at some of the
Remember the "mismanagement" of the Alberta PCs? The final year where Redford was turfed, Hancock lazed around, and Jim Dinning came in to save us all was a "operational surplus". It wasn't a real surplus, mind you, a topic we've covered before. Similarly, even in the "good news at the end" scenario the surplus you see won't actually be a surplus, and with the levels of debt being run up it could be 2030 before Alberta's back in the black again. That's a quarter century of progressives mismanaging the province's finances. Try to let that fact sink it a little bit.
a new Job Creation Incentive Program that will provide grants of up to $5,000 for each new full-time equivalent position created by eligible Alberta employersCalgary Chamber of Commerce already blasted this idea while Calgary Chamber of Volunteer Organizations loved it -- time for a handy reminder that Rachel Arab's finance patsy Joe Ceci took the time to meet with non-profit leeches but refused to consult with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Wildrose, to their credit, pointed out the obvious: that this was basically very specifically targeted corporate welfare, which the NDP claim to be against.
Forget the fact that in the two years since Prentice the Alberta NDP will have raised spending -- already too high -- by a whopping $3.5 billion. Next year the interest servicing costs will hit $919M. That's almost as much as the entire Department of Energy ($990M), and it's literally tax dollars being pissed away with absolutely no benefit to the people of Alberta. Rachel Arab is sending almost a billion dollars to people like the Koch Brothers. Has anybody asked her vehement (and retarded) supporters how they feel about this?
Budget 2015 restores funding for post-secondary education that was cut in the March budget, and provides stable, predictable funding with planned increases in base operating funding of 2% per year. A two-year tuition freeze has been implemented to improve the accessibility and affordability of the post-secondary system.High tuition is good. As a result, Rachel Arab is wasting the tax dollars provided by the hard work of private sector Albertans in order to fund a bunch of sodomy-loving useless degree holders. This is not good public policy.
Budget 2015 provides long-term stable funding for health care, protecting front-line jobs to serve Alberta's growing population. Annual operating budget increases of 4% in 2016-17 and 3% in 2017-18 are planned, ensuring stable, predictable funding for health care.Healthcare spending is out of control. Constant increases are not "sustainable" to use the NDP's favourite buzzword when it comes to private industry. At some point, hollow excuses like "growing population" (which under the NDP may not longer even be true) have to be abandoned. Public expenditure on healthcare at some point has to stop increasing. Ideally, of course, it should fall to zero because we should not have public healthcare. Once that happens, market pressures will cause healthcare to become like any other good: generally going down in real cost but occasionally increasing if specific external influences come into play. Also, let's remember that "front line personnel" are unionized nurses. Rachel Arab's husband is their union rep. This is collusion, and if Lou and Rachel Arab were private businessmen in America with this budget they'd be in jail for a RICO violation.
Budget 2015 provides funding for projected enrollment growth of 1.5% in 2015, and reverses a 3% ($78 million) reduction to school boards included in the March budget.There's only one group with more clueless women wasting tax dollars than Rachel Arab's cabinet: and that's local public school boards. It's a nice little scam they have going: they beg for more money from the NDP, then they mismanage the money, then they tell the public the NDP didn't give them enough so the NDP gives them more. Rinse, lather, repeat.
Budget 2015 also includes new funding, beginning in 2016-17, to address classroom complexity and support inclusive education, phase-in a targeted school nutrition program and reduce school fees.Lunch. Lady. Premier.
Lower oil prices and their impact on the provincial economy will continue to affect government revenue. Even with the tax changes approved in June and new revenue initiatives included in this budget, 2015-16 revenue will only be about $400 million higher than anticipated in the March budget.Spoiler Alert: it won't even be that much higher. As a small example, and by small I mean not small, Cenovus has slashed jobs. Devon Energy cut 200 jobs, and Shell cancelled the Carmon Creek oilsands project. Part of this is low oil prices, but most of it is companies getting the fuck out of dodge with the extremist anti-corporation morons of Rachel Arab's government being in charge. When the option of paying extra taxes to meet Lunch Lady Premier's horrible spending spree or cutting ties to Alberta and running away, "the rich" whom the NDP and their retarded supporters hate so much pick the latter option every single time. So keep your eyes peeled.
Liquor mark-ups increase 5%, effective October 28, and the mark-up structure is being refined to promote made-in-Alberta products.Besides the fact that Rachel Arab's government is hiking her government's cut of something that they shouldn't have any role in whatsoever (Alberta still owns the warehousing side of liquor sales, which is how they can always increase prices within 24 hours of making these announcements), the fact that there's some anti-free-trade protectionism included in the move shows exactly how the Alberta NDP act and think just like third rate banana republics.
The government is committed to maintaining a prudent level of debt even as the budget is used as a "shock absorber" for the provincial economyThe "shock" the economy is being forced to absorb is Rachel Arab's disgustingly extremist NDP government and the huge levels of public sector debt they are racking up as they funnel more and more money into their corrupt public union friends.
The Capital Plan is designed to put people to work, get Alberta's economy moving and upgrade or expand existing infrastructure. Following on the advice of former Bank of Canada governor and leading economist David Dodge, the government is taking a counter cyclical approach to capital spending, creating jobs and promoting long-term economic growth by investing in infrastructure when it is needed most.Neo-Keynesian claptrap. Which, by the way, not only doesn't work but curiously never is followed through in the good times when Keynesian economics says to slash government spending.
Aboriginal Relations. Consolidated expense is budgeted at $197 million in 2015-16 (excluding flood recovery initiatives). This budget includes $128 million for the First Nations Development Fund and $43 million for First Nations and Métis Relations. There is $1 million (increasing to $3 million per year beginning in 2016-17) to help build a new relationship with IndigenousRed Indians claim to be independent nations, so why do Albertans need to fund their cultural delusions?
peoples and support initiatives in response to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Municipal Affairs. Consolidated expense is budgeted at $1.4 billion in 2015-16 (excluding flood recovery initiatives).The next time cowardly asshole Don Iveson tries claiming municipalities are given the short-stick from the province, quote this piece of information at him.
Total public sector compensation costs of about $25 billion are budgeted in 2015-16, or one-half of total consolidated expense. Total compensation costs are expected to grow by about 2.5% per year over the following two years.And then stop, right? ALL PUBLIC SECTOR WORKERS PROVIDE NEGATIVE ECONOMIC VALUE, so the faster they get paid less, the better off all Albertans are.
The NDP are going to learn the lesson tax-and-spend extremist liberals have never really truly learned: the way to raise tax revenue is make everybody's taxes lower. But the facts don't match their far-left ideology, so they'll bankrupt the province pretending their lurid fantasies are the truth.
At the end of the day, Budget 2015 is a complete disaster. The Alberta NDP are completely clueless. For being huge fans of big government, they show a remarkable lack of intellectual rigour when it comes to such important topics like how it actually works: how it raises money, what happens when it spends money, and how it can poorly incentivize a populace. They are blowing public dollars on a wide variety of dubious or flat-out wrong initiatives (including $178M for money on the homeless, which won't help the existing homeless who are mostly going to just take the dole and ruin their lives even further, and bring more of their unwanted lot into our cities) because they have a completely flawed view of what their role in the economy and society truly is.
We see now how accurate I was in February when I said that Prentice had a rare chance to shrink government. He didn't, the NDP accused him of shrinking it (because they are leftists, remember, they're always liars) and were able to point to all the problems caused by him growing government as emblematic of his vicious cost-cutting. His failure has caused the NDP to ruin everything that made Alberta great to begin with.
It's time to fight back. The Alberta NDP have to be stopped. Nothing is too extreme. From the Premier who should be making sandwiches in the kitchen to the retarded Mongoloid who is Marie Renaud, they all deserve it.
Give it to them.
Why all 94 Truth and Reconciliation Recommendations are horrible and shouldn't be enacted
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released it's massive report into how Canada needs to "reconcile" with their horrible past: namely, trying to educate the Red Indian. I posted on the 23 minute long rant by Ezra Levant where he read through some of the more egregious aspects of this ridiculous report, but as I also noted over on Small Dead Animals, there's a lot more in there that Ezra missed.
So let's break it down: let's go through the entire report's recommendations and see which ones -- if any -- are worth the trouble. While we're here let's keep two salient points in mind, which will be important considerations to evaluate the individual calls to action
With the above graphic in mind, "accountability" is a laughable one-way street as well. Who are Indian bands accountable to? Nobody. As you'll see, though, implementing the TRC recommendations won't require Indians to do actually anything, so I guess they can throw "accountability" in there for free. They do the same for "transparency", seeing how they expect white governments to do all the heavy lifting, and they are transparent to begin with. Which means, of course, "trust building" is itself a completely empty exercise. Where have Indians, who have been engaged in en masse lying about residential schools, been forced to do better at making themselves trustworthy? Canadians rightfully don't trust lazy shiftless Indians, and nothing in the TRC documents will change that. Finally we get the purest form of comedy with Principle #10. This is where it just admits that it needs to spread its lies and deceits.
consulting shamelessly aping over the next couple thousand words. The first thing of note is that Canada has satisfied the treaty requirements by a country mile -- even factoring in inflation and ridiculous bullshit like equating a "medicine bag" with "free universal healthcare" (and for those keeping track, that's white healthcare, not Indian healthcare which would basically be rubbing dandelions on a wound while smoking a pipe and praying to the Great Crow). Meanwhile, the Indians have routinely violated the treaties by fostering dissent against the Canadian (Federal) Government and leaving the reserves which they aren't ever supposed to do. You can bet that -- like all the benefits of education -- this aspect of the treaties won't be part of the "history and legacy" that gets taught in schools so they can "include youth engagement" that tells uppity Indians to move back onto the reservation where they belong (according to these precious treaties, of course). Finally, they hilariously want "historical and contemporary contributions of Aboriginal peoples to Canadian society" to be taught in schools. "But kids are in school for only 12 years! How can we fit this 8 minutes of discussion in, we're packed full!" Outside of the War of 1812, historical "contributions of Aboriginal peoples" are pretty much limited to Louis Riel violently violating the treaties (to which he was rightfully put to death), and that guy who hung around David Thompson. Modern contributions of Aboriginal people are limited to Graham Greene and Lorne Cardinal, and Susan Aglukark if you really think there's musical talent in imitating a dying cat. There, Principle #10 is fulfilled. Just cut-and-paste that sentence and go nuts. With that, it's time to move past the principles and onto the meat-and-potatoes of the "Truth and Reconciliation" Commission: the Calls to Action. I'll warn you right now: every "call to action" is a bad idea and should never happen. None of them are justifiable. With that warning, let's dig in. Okay, you may have to do a small action to read more...namely, click the "read more" below. After all, I'm already 2400 words in and there's a lot of ground to cover. If you're reading this on the main page, you ain't done yet! If you are on this post itself, you have no idea what I'm talking about. Nevermind. Time to tackle the stupid recommendations.
So let's break it down: let's go through the entire report's recommendations and see which ones -- if any -- are worth the trouble. While we're here let's keep two salient points in mind, which will be important considerations to evaluate the individual calls to action
- Are any actual Indian groups required to do anything? Or are they always the recipient of somebody else's largess?
- Is there largess? Specifically, how much money will Canadian taxpayers need to spend to implement this report?
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is the framework for reconciliation at all levels and across all sectors of Canadian society.The UN Declaration comes up a lot, so it's important to know early how much of a giant crock of shit it is. There's no other way to describe it. The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is a useless document that should be rightfully ignored. You literally cannot justify going to this source material to justify a single of the action items found later in the report. For one thing, the report entirely classifies the population of countries into two distinct groups: "Indigenous peoples" and "everybody else". For one thing, there's been a decent amount of intermixing between those two groups, so there isn't exactly a neat divide between them. For another, this creates an odd hierarchy where the first people on a piece of land imbue special rights to all of their kin on said land no matter what subsequent action takes place. Finally, it curiously doesn't apply to all pieces of land. Nobody is saying that the Dniepr Balts should have special rights in Ukraine, or that the Chwezi should be paid money from the Bito or other later groups to settle in Uganda. No, this seems to be a special declaration only to the earliest inhabitants of land that were later colonized by Great Britain. Okay, onto Principle #2:
First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples, as the original peoples of this country and as self-determining peoples, have Treaty, constitutional, and human rights that must be recognized and respected.The reference to treaty rights is another giant red flag. As Cory Morgan has noted, the treaties apply to both parties, and so why isn't the treaty rights of white Canadians respected? The Red Indian agreed to remain on the reservation and not foster dissent against Her Majesty or her government. Indeed, they agreed to be left out of the voting process entirely: if they are indeed "First Nations" to be "nation-to-nation" dealing with Ottawa (more on that later) then why should they be voting in Canadian elections? Again more on this later but its important to see why the principles are inconsistent and one-sided. You'll see lots of this: nothing at all could possibly be the Indians' fault.
Reconciliation is a process of healing of relationships that requires public truth sharing, apology, and commemoration that acknowledge and redress past harms.We've already seen with the Willie Littlechild thing that "truth sharing" is going to be very very very untruthful and selective process. As for apology, Steven Harper did that back in 2006 (he shouldn't have) since "acknowledging and redressing" past harms is only applicable if there are past harms. And there aren't. By Principle #4, the report has already gone off the deep end.
Reconciliation requires constructive action on addressing the ongoing legacies of colonialism that have had destructive impacts on Aboriginal peoples' education, cultures and languages, health, child welfare, the administration of justice, and economic opportunities and prosperity."Ongoing legacies of colonialism" include such things as the existence of the Supreme Court (which is violating centuries of jurisprudential tradition by elevating the recommendations of this group to the status of high law), freeways, the Trent–Severn Waterway, and poutine. I'm not sure which of these is said to have a "destructive impact" on the education or healthcare of the Red Indian, though if it endorses the action items in the TRC report the Supreme Court may well qualify. In fact, reading through Principle #4 the ongoing destructive impact on Indians for all topics (particularlly health, child welfare, and economic opportunities) is mostly caused by the Indians themselves. Ezra had fun with some of the provisions of Principle #5, but to my mind the giant issue is that it mentions outcomes which is absolutely horrible.
Reconciliation must create a more equitable and inclusive society by closing the gaps in social, health, and economic outcomes that exist between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians.
All Canadians, as Treaty peoples, share responsibility for establishing and maintaining mutually respectful relationships.Again, why aren't Red Indians included in this list. They are quite literally treaty people, they have status cards and everything. Why don't they have a responsibility for establishing and maintaining mutually respectful relationships? After all, they are part of the relationship. Typically, especially in today's namby pamby world, a relationship is a "building partnership" and even Ask Abby can tell you what happens when the responsibility to establish and maintain mutual respect is only afforded to one party.
The perspectives and understandings of Aboriginal Elders and Traditional Knowledge Keepers of the ethics, concepts, and practices of reconciliation are vital to long-term reconciliation.One of the key problems with native culture is frankly going to be the ageist attitudes they have to "elders". Older people may be on balance wiser than the rest, but an institutional reliance on a specific subgroup cannot be a recipie for good public policy. It especially seems a bad fit when a culture fetishizing youth has to 'reconcile' with a culture fetishizing old age. As the graphic notes as well, this seems to only apply to Indian elders. Elders in the white community down the road who may have traditional views on subjects aren't a factor to be considered when "reconciling", apparently.
Supporting Aboriginal peoples' cultural revitalization and integrating Indigenous knowledge systems, oral histories, laws, protocols, and connections to the land into the reconciliation process are essential.With Principle #8, we see our first mention of "oral histories". "Oral histories", for those who are unaware, is the idea that since the evil white man had invented writing (along with, well, pretty much everything) while the Red Indian had not, it's "unfair" to expect that the records from the advanced civilization are given a higher priority from the less advanced one. It's completely nonsensical and paradoxical, and as I tweeted to left-wing Canadian artist Kinnie Starr if we accept its pretense than unverifiable claims get elevated above documentary evidence, a complete rejection of the entire philosophy of rationalism. Of course, I might make money suing her into poverty thanks to my family's "oral history"
.@KinnieSTARr Are you *THAT* Kinnie Starr? My oral history says my people wrote "La Le La La" in 1943. Better pay up!— FACLC (@FACLC) June 1, 2015 But Principle #8 goes even further than that. It says that we need to "integrate" the Red Indian's knowledge systems (which were only a few short millenia away from figuring out bronze!) along with those oral histories, their laws, protocols, and connections to the land. It's a good time to review that the "connections to the land" is a bunch of blatant bullshitting. The Red Indian, partly due to their spiritual belief that slain wildlife got reincarnated, were actually brutal environmental stewards whenever they got into large enough numbers to impact their environment. That they by and large didn't get into large enough numbers speaks to their lack of technology and a culture that didn't strive to innovate and discover, not to any sort of special ability to commune with the Great Crow. The real Red Indians clear cut, overhunted, deforested, and manipulated the environment with the best of them...the only thing keeping the land from en masse reflecting this is that they weren't the best of them! We are almost done kids, so bear with me. The comedy builds near the end, Principle #9 is that...
Reconciliation requires political will, joint leadership, trust building, accountability, and transparency, as well as a substantial investment of resources."Political will" is one thing, but "joint leadership" would be something totally new. The Red Indian is completely incapable of any "joint" leadership. Whenever they talk "joint leadership" what they mean is white Canada pays us money and we blow it on cronyism. Joint leadership is a nice phrase they get to bandy about, though: it implies their beloved "state-to-state" treatment, operating under the nice illusion that Indian Reserves are actual nations rather than little municipal fiefdoms where the elites live large off an economy almost 100% funded by free money from hardworking Canadian taxpayers.
With the above graphic in mind, "accountability" is a laughable one-way street as well. Who are Indian bands accountable to? Nobody. As you'll see, though, implementing the TRC recommendations won't require Indians to do actually anything, so I guess they can throw "accountability" in there for free. They do the same for "transparency", seeing how they expect white governments to do all the heavy lifting, and they are transparent to begin with. Which means, of course, "trust building" is itself a completely empty exercise. Where have Indians, who have been engaged in en masse lying about residential schools, been forced to do better at making themselves trustworthy? Canadians rightfully don't trust lazy shiftless Indians, and nothing in the TRC documents will change that. Finally we get the purest form of comedy with Principle #10. This is where it just admits that it needs to spread its lies and deceits.
Reconciliation requires sustained public education and dialogue, including youth engagement, about the history and legacy of residential schools, Treaties, and Aboriginal rights, as well as the historical and contemporary contributions of Aboriginal peoples to Canadian society.The one thing you notice is that "dialogue" is the furthest from the minds of a TRC-supporter.
.@deBeauxOs1 Delusion is equating "high risk tuberculosis group having a high tuberculosis death rate" with "genocide".— FACLC (@FACLC) June 23, 2015 They don't want "dialogue", they just want their lies (that residential schools were dens of racially based rape and murder) heard, and any dissenting voices quited up. This is why they want very one-sided notions of history pushed into the curriculum. By saying the truth: that the Red Indian was an economically and culturally backwards people, and that under the terms of the treaties Canada was obliged to educate them in a world 6,000 years ahead of them, and did so with limited resources to the best of their ability, and that the end result failed because the Red Indian on balance just can't learn to be civilized (as all the missing and murdered women at their hands goes to show). The "including youth engagement" is a nice touch. The "get to them early while their tiny brains haven't got functioning bullshit detectors" mindset has been how the left has won when it comes to faggots, so it's not too shocking that they're interested in reproducing [no pun intended... -ed] that success when it comes to the latest Big Lie. They want to talk about the "history and legacy" of residential schools (by only covering a sliver of the history, and none of the legacy: namely that Red Indians are able to more or less write in English), but they're really big on the "treaties". Cory Morgan in Calgary has done quite a bit on the treaties which I'll be
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The 12th Annual Pagan Pride Raleigh Festival held this weekend at the NC State Fairgrounds was a great success. In spite of a rainy start on Sunday, we had our largest attendance, yet, with 2,870 attendees across both days. And we didn't just have more visitors; those visitors found more vendors, music, workshops and local groups than ever before. Also, in addition to the food and blood drives we always have, this year we added pet adoptions. I don't have final numbers on any of the charitable activities, but I am sure we collected more food than last year, because we filled more pallets. I'll publish the final numbers as they come in from the Food Bank of Central & Eastern NC, the American Red Cross, and the Wake County Animal Center.
So, a special thanks to all the visitors, vendors, volunteers, local groups, workshop leaders, sponsors and performers that made this all happen.
Be sure to mark your calendar for next year's festival, as always, the third weekend in September. That is September 21st and 22nd, 2013. It will be our 13th annual event, so let's make it special.
We are all going to take a few weeks to relax now, but planning for 2013 is already well underway, with 38 vendors already lined up and loose commitments for many of the performers we had this year. If you would like to get involved in creating next year's festival, come to our 2012 Wrapup/2013 Planning Meeting on October 14th at 2pm in Gaia's Gardens in Raleigh, NC. Please contact us for details and to RSVP.


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The passage from Robert Tressell's 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' in which one of the characters cleverly outlines how the use of money under capitalism enriches capitalists and exploits the working class.
'Money is the cause of poverty because it is the device by which those who are too lazy to work are enabled to rob the workers of the fruits of their labour.'
'Prove it,' said Crass.
Owen slowly folded up the piece of newspaper he had been reading and put it into his pocket.
'All right,' he replied. 'I'll show you how the Great Money Trick is worked.'
Owen opened his dinner basket and took from it two slices of bread but as these were not sufficient, he requested that anyone who had some bread left would give it to him. They gave him several pieces, which he placed in a heap on a clean piece of paper, and, having borrowed the pocket knives they used to cut and eat their dinners with from Easton, Harlow and Philpot, he addressed them as follows:
'These pieces of bread represent the raw materials which exist naturally in and on the earth for the use of mankind; they were not made by any human being, but were created by the Great Spirit for the benefit and sustenance of all, the same as were the air and the light of the sun.'
... 'Now,' continued Owen, 'I am a capitalist; or, rather, I represent the landlord and capitalist class. That is to say, all these raw materials belong to me. It does not matter for our present argument how I obtained possession of them, or whether I have any real right to them; the only thing that matters now is the admitted fact that all the raw materials which are necessary for the production of the necessaries of life are now the property of the Landlord and Capitalist class. I am that class: all these raw materials belong to me.'
... 'Now you three represent the Working Class: you have nothing – and for my part, although I have all these raw materials, they are of no use to me – what I need is – the things that can be made out of these raw materials by Work: but as I am too lazy to work myself, I have invented the Money Trick to make you work for me. But first I must explain that I possess something else beside the raw materials. These three knives represent – all the machinery of production; the factories, tools, railways, and so forth, without which the necessaries of life cannot be produced in abundance. And these three coins' – taking three halfpennies from his pocket – 'represent my Money Capital.'
'But before we go any further,' said Owen, interrupting himself, 'it is most important that you remember that I am not supposed to be merely "a" capitalist. I represent the whole Capitalist Class. You are not supposed to be just three workers – you represent the whole Working Class.'
... Owen proceeded to cut up one of the slices of bread into a number of little square blocks.
'These represent the things which are produced by labour, aided by machinery, from the raw materials. We will suppose that three of these blocks represent – a week's work. We will suppose that a week's work is worth – one pound: and we will suppose that each of these ha'pennies is a sovereign. ...
'Now this is the way the trick works -'
... Owen now addressed himself to the working classes as represented by Philpot, Harlow and Easton.
'You say that you are all in need of employment, and as I am the kind-hearted capitalist class I am going to invest all my money in various industries, so as to give you Plenty of Work. I shall pay each of you one pound per week, and a week's work is – you must each produce three of these square blocks. For doing this work you will each receive your wages; the money will be your own, to do as you like with, and the things you produce will of course be mine, to do as I like with. You will each take one of these machines and as soon as you have done a week's work, you shall have your money.'
The Working Classes accordingly set to work, and the Capitalist class sat down and watched them. As soon as they had finished, they passed the nine little blocks to Owen, who placed them on a piece of paper by his side and paid the workers their wages.
'These blocks represent the necessaries of life. You can't live without some of these things, but as they belong to me, you will have to buy them from me: my price for these blocks is – one pound each.'
As the working classes were in need of the necessaries of life and as they could not eat, drink or wear the useless money, they were compelled to agree to the kind Capitalist's terms. They each bought back and at once consumed one-third of the produce of their labour. The capitalist class also devoured two of the square blocks, and so the net result of the week's work was that the kind capitalist had consumed two pounds worth of the things produced by the labour of the others, and reckoning the squares at their market value of one pound each, he had more than doubled his capital, for he still possessed the three pounds in money and in addition four pounds worth of goods. As for the working classes, Philpot, Harlow and Easton, having each consumed the pound's worth of necessaries they had bought with their wages, they were again in precisely the same condition as when they started work – they had nothing.
This process was repeated several times: for each week's work the producers were paid their wages. They kept on working and spending all their earnings. The kind-hearted capitalist consumed twice as much as any one of them and his pile of wealth continually increased. In a little while – reckoning the little squares at their market value of one pound each – he was worth about one hundred pounds, and the working classes were still in the same condition as when they began, and were still tearing into their work as if their lives depended upon it.
After a while the rest of the crowd began to laugh, and their merriment increased when the kind-hearted capitalist, just after having sold a pound's worth of necessaries to each of his workers, suddenly took their tools – the Machinery of Production – the knives away from them, and informed them that as owing to Over Production all his store-houses were glutted with the necessaries of life, he had decided to close down the works.
'Well, and what the bloody 'ell are we to do now?' demanded Philpot.
'That's not my business,' replied the kind-hearted capitalist. 'I've paid you your wages, and provided you with Plenty of Work for a long time past. I have no more work for you to do at present. Come round again in a few months' time and I'll see what I can do for you.'
'But what about the necessaries of life?' demanded Harlow. 'We must have something to eat.'
'Of course you must,' replied the capitalist, affably; 'and I shall be very pleased to sell you some.'
'But we ain't got no bloody money!'
'Well, you can't expect me to give you my goods for nothing! You didn't work for me for nothing, you know. I paid you for your work and you should have saved something: you should have been thrifty like me. Look how I have got on by being thrifty!'
The unemployed looked blankly at each other, but the rest of the crowd only laughed; and then the three unemployed began to abuse the kind-hearted Capitalist, demanding that he should give them some of the necessaries of life that he had piled up in his warehouses, or to be allowed to work and produce some more for their own needs; and even threatened to take some of the things by force if he did not comply with their demands. But the kind-hearted Capitalist told them not to be insolent, and spoke to them about honesty, and said if they were not careful he would have their faces battered in for them by the police, or if necessary he would call out the military and have them shot down like dogs, the same as he had done before at Featherstone and Belfast.
This was one of the first pieces I ever read as a teenager which got me interested in anti-capitalist ideas...
Someone posted this video/audio of this extract here:
Found the movie based on Tressell's book online ...


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Editor's note: The following review is part of Macworld's GemFest 2012 series. Every weekday from mid June through late August, the Macworld staff will use the Mac Gems blog to briefly cover a favorite free or low-cost program.
My MacBook Pro just celebrated its third birthday, and though it's still going strong, I've been taking precautions to make sure it keeps performing at its best. One thing I've been trying to improve is battery life, and DeepSleep has greatly helped with that. This app does only one thing—it puts your Mac into Hibernation mode instead of standard Sleep mode—but it does it well.
Usually, when I'm finished using my MacBook, I just close the lid to put it to sleep, which conveniently leaves all of my open applications running. When the lid is opened again, my MacBook wakes up quickly and I can pick up where I left off. While there's nothing wrong with using a MacBook this way (actually, I'm sure a lot of us do this), the laptop's battery still drains while asleep if the laptop isn't connected to AC power.
But OS X also supports a special Hibernation mode. When in Hibernation mode, your MacBook doesn't use any power while asleep, and your open applications and files are still there when you wake the laptop. How? When you put the laptop to sleep in Hibernation mode, OS X writes the contents of the computer's RAM to the internal drive. Since the RAM doesn't have to retain that data during sleep, it doesn't need to draw power. When you wake the computer, OS X copies the data from your drive back to RAM. The downside to Hibernation mode is that it takes longer for the computer to go to sleep and to wake from sleep because of the RAM contents being written to and read from your drive.
You can use Terminal commands to force your Mac to use Hibernation mode instead of standard sleep mode, but then you're stuck with Hibernation mode every time you put your Mac to sleep. If you're just going to grab some coffee, the slower sleep and wake processes can be a hassle—you likely want Hibernation mode only when leaving your Mac for longer periods. With DeepSleep installed, you can use Hibernation mode on demand: You just launch DeepSleep (or use its accompanying Dashboard widget) each time you want to put your Mac into Hibernation mode. A pop-up notification asks if you'd like to continue; assuming so, you click Hibernate.
To wake your MacBook, you just open the lid and press the Power button. As noted above, it takes a little while longer to wake from Hibernation mode than from regular sleep, but you'll still find your machine looking just the way you left it.
(You could get a similar result—and similar energy savings—by using OS X's System Resume On Restart feature and shutting your Mac down when you're not using it, but that's considerably slower. Whenever you want to use your Mac, you must power it on, wait for startup to finish, and then wait for the Resume feature to relaunch all your apps.)
It's worth noting that DeepSleep isn't just for MacBook users: Desktop-Mac users can use the utility to reduce energy bills, as your desktop Mac similarly doesn't use as much power when hibernating as when sleeping.
DeepSleep probably won't dazzle you, but this no-frills tool provides an excellent way to save power in between uses.


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Welland CanalTuesday, July 02, 2013
And of course, we can't forget the seagulls.
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That looks like a nice place I like the miniature too, there is a canal near me here in central London I love to go down there and look at the quaint houseboats.ReplyDelete
Have a brilliant week :-)Replies
They really did a nice job with the visitor's centre. Makes me wish we lived closer to a canal. I could watch the boats pass through all day long!Delete
I really need to go to Niagra Falls!ReplyDelete
Happy WW :)Replies
They have really updated a lot of things and added to it, which is always refreshing.Delete
Great shots. The detail on the miniature is incredible.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks! The miniature was really neat and quite accurate.Delete
What a fun place to visit, bet it was a great time!ReplyDeleteReplies
It sure was! Brought back memories from when I was a kid...Delete
I witnessed some of those canals in the PNW on Puget Sound years back but what you saw is massive compared to mine.ReplyDelete
Great shots! That was an interesting trip! Thanks for hosting.ReplyDelete
I would love to make a trip to Niagra Falls too!ReplyDelete
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We were in Niagara on Friday night!ReplyDelete
We'll have to stop sometime and check out the canal!
We arrived in Niagara Falls Friday evening. Funny if we had crossed paths and didn't even realize it...Delete
That's an awesome place to bring the kids! I bet they loved it.ReplyDelete
One day, I'll make the trip to Niagara Falls; it's on my bucket list and I may even make a stop at the Canal too :)Replies
It is. Lots to see and do! Hope you get a chance to visit one day.Delete
This looks like a great way to spend a day!ReplyDeleteReplies
It was fun. We also stopped by Niagara-on-the-Lake the day before, which is where my husband and I spent the afternoon before he proposed to me at the Butterfly Conservatory over 9 years ago...Delete
I have never been to Niagra Falls, but would love to go some day. Great shots!ReplyDeleteReplies
I have been several times and I never tire of seeing such a majestic sight. Hope you get a chance to visit sometime.Delete
Hubs used to live there for a stint, we spent a lot of time in that area!ReplyDeleteReplies
Did he really? That would have been nice living so close to the border. (Read: Think of all the cross-border shopping!)Delete
You just saved yourself a trip to Panama - the view is almost exactly the same. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
For real? Guess I'm crossing that one off the list. Thanks! ;)Delete
Wow! Cool photos!!! I love Niagara Falls! I can go there countless times and see something new each time.ReplyDeleteReplies
Me, too! I never tire of seeing the majestic sight of the falls.Delete
Cool, I haven't seen the visitors center, but my Grandfather spent his whole life working at the Welland Canal (I think he retired in the 1980s).ReplyDeleteReplies
Get outta town! Really? That is so neat!Delete
What a great tour to take, I love anything miniature the canal looks neat!Thanks for stopping by Oh My Heartsie Reviews this week!! Happy 4th of July!!ReplyDeleteReplies
The canal is really cool. I could hang out there all day.Delete
I love that mini display. That's really neat - my boys would love as much as the real life Wilfred M Cohen!ReplyDelete
These are all great pictures. I love to see what's going on around the water.ReplyDelete
So good that they fixed it up! It looks like great fun.ReplyDelete
Thanks for hosting Diana, always fun to capture travel moments, looks like it was a great trip! I need to do that more! :)ReplyDelete
Very cool! I have never had the opportunity to see an actual canal. Great shots. Love the miniature.ReplyDelete
I've never been to Canada. Thanks for the photos.ReplyDelete
I've never been along the Welland Canal by boat, but I think it would be a fun vacay for sure!ReplyDelete
The Welland Canal is such a cool place to visit. Love watching the ships in the locks.ReplyDelete
- Debbie White BeattieNovember 5, 2017 at 10:07 PM
I actually live in Welland and seeing the New canal is always nice but I walk my dog at the old canal all the time and that's where the rowing club is which hosted the events for the International events. Plus there's new events every year for rowing etc.ReplyDelete
But to see the locks you have to go to either Niagara Falls or St. Catharines.
It's all beautiful !
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Shigellosis is an acute bacterial infection of the lining of the intestines.
What are the symptoms of Shigellosis?
Symptoms usually develop about 1 to 7 days (average 3 days) after you come in contact with the bacteria.
Symptoms include:
- Acute (sudden) abdominal pain or cramping
- Acute (sudden) fever
- Blood, mucus, or pus in stool
- Crampy rectal pain (tenesmus)
- Nausea and vomiting
- Watery diarrhea
What causes Shigellosis?
Shigellosis is caused by a group of bacteria called Shigella.
There are several types of Shigella.
- Shigella sonnei, also called "group D" Shigella, is responsible for most cases of shigellosis in the United States.
- Shigella flexneri, or "group B" Shigella, cause almost all other cases.
- Shigella dysenteriae type 1 is rare in the U.S. but can lead to deadly outbreaks in developing countries.
People infected with the bacteria release it into their stool. The bacteria can spread from an infected person to contaminate water or food, or directly to another person. Getting just a little bit of the Shigella bacteria into your mouth is enough to cause symptoms.
Who is at highest risk?
Outbreaks of shigellosis are associated with poor sanitation, contaminated food and water, and crowded living conditions.
Shigellosis is common among travelers in developing countries and workers or residents of refugee camps.
The condition is most commonly seen in day care centers and group living places.
- Dehydration with fast heart rate and low blood pressure
- Abdominal tenderness
- Elevated white blood cell count
- Stool culture
- White blood cells in stool
When to seek urgent medical care?
Call your provider if diarrhea does not improve, if there is blood in the stool, or if there are signs of dehydration.
Go to the emergency room if the following occur in a person with shigellosis:
Such symptoms are most common in children.
Treatment options
The goal of treatment is to replace fluids and electrolytes (salt and minerals) lost in diarrhea.
Medications that stop diarrhea are generally not given because it make cause the infection to take longer to go away.
Self-care measures to avoid dehydration include drinking electrolyte solutions to replace the fluids lost by diarrhea. Several varieties of electrolyte solutions are now available over the counter.
Antibiotics can help shorten the length of the illness and help prevent it from spreading to others in group living or day care situations. They may also be prescribed for patients with severe symptoms. Frequently used antibiotics include sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim (Bactrim), ampicillin, ciprofloxacin (Cipro), or azithromycin.
If you have diarrhea and cannot drink fluids by mouth because of severe nausea, you may need medical attention and fluids through a vein ( intravenously).This is especially common in small children.
Persons who take diuretics ("water pills") may need to stop taking such medicines if they have acute shigella enteritis. Never stop taking any medicine without first talking to your health care provider.
Prevention involves the proper handling, storage, and preparation of food, in addition to good cleanliness. Hand washing is the most effective preventive measure. Avoid contaminated food and water.
What to expect (Outlook/Prognosis)?
Often the infection is mild and goes away on its own. Most patients, except malnourished children and those with weakened immune systems, have an excellent outlook.
Possible complications
Complications may include
- Dehydration - severe
- Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS), a form of kidney failure with anemia and clotting problems
- Reactive arthritis
About 1 in 10 children with severe shigella enteritis develop neurological problems including febrile seizures or brain disease (encephalopathy) with headache, lethargy, confusion, and stiff neck.


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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said Thursday she'll ask for a waiver under the federal health care overhaul so Arizona can reduce its Medicaid rolls to lower costs that Brewer and fellow Republicans say the cash-short state can't afford. If approved, the change could mean the loss of government-funded health care for hundreds of thousands of people.
Brewer's administration previously said it might request a waiver, but the governor on Thursday said "yes we are" when asked directly whether she would.
"We need flexibility from the federal government in order to get our state budget in line," she said.
Brewer spokesman Paul Senseman later said details of the waiver request are still being decided, including how many people could lose coverage.
The state Medicaid program, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, accounts for nearly a third of the state budget and provides coverage for approximately 1.4 million people.
Brewer also is taking two other approaches to seek relief from the health care overhaul's mandates. One is to ask Congress to change the federal law, and the other is participation in a multistate lawsuit challenging the overhaul.
Arizona is among states hardest hit by the recession. The current $8.5 billion budget faces a midyear shortfall estimated at $825 million. A $1.4 billion shortfall is projected for the fiscal year that starts July 1.
Under a budget-balancing plan approved earlier this year by Brewer and the Republican-led Legislature, more than 250,000 people would have lost Medicaid coverage as Arizona lowered its eligibility threshold that is now above the federal minimum.
But Arizona then reversed that cutback because the health care overhaul was enacted with a requirement that states not reduce their program's eligibility.
The 250,000 people are among approximately 310,000 people covered by AHHHCS under a 2000 eligibility expansion approved under a voter-approved law known as Proposition 204.
However, any cutback of Proposition 204 eligibility likely would not affect all of the AHCCCS enrollees covered by the expansion. That is because the state still would be obligated under state law to maintain coverage for those whose care can be covered with dedicated funding from tobacco tax and tobacco settlement money.
If Proposition 204 eligibility were to be reduced by approximately 250,000 people in 2011 for the next fiscal year, the state would save approximately $750 million, said Richard Stavneak, the Legislature's budget director.
A National Conference of State Legislatures official said governors can request eligibility waivers after Dec. 31.
A governor requesting an eligibility waiver would have to certify that his or her state is in deficit or is going to be in deficit, said Joy Johnson Wilson, an NCSL lawyer based in Washington.
Wilson said she was unaware of any governors making certifications.
Any reduction of Proposition 204 eligibility is almost certain to be challenged in state court on grounds that the Arizona Constitution generally bars the Legislature from repealing or acting in contrary to voter-approved laws. Republican legislators who back the Proposition 204 reduction said wording of the 2000 law gave them leeway to make the change.


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Helping a Person During a Seizure
Topic Overview
If you see someone who is having a seizure, stay calm. Although seizures seem to last a long time, they usually do not last more than 60 to 90 seconds. Time the seizure, if you can. If the seizure lasts longer than 5 minutes or the person seizing is pregnant (no matter how long the seizure lasts), call 9-1-1 or other emergency services immediately.
A seizure can be terrifying to watch, especially if you've never seen one before. A seizure temporarily interferes with muscle control, movement, speech, vision, or awareness. It may cause a person's entire body to shake violently for a few seconds to a few minutes, and he or she may lose consciousness.
Seizures can be mild to severe, and they affect people differently. Even though you may feel helpless around someone having a seizure and find it difficult to watch, there are many things you can do to help.
How to help during a seizure
- Protect the person from injury.
- Keep him or her from falling if you can, or try to guide the person gently to the floor.
- Try to move furniture or other objects that might injure the person during the seizure.
- If the person is having a seizure and is on the ground when you arrive, try to position the person on his or her side so that fluid can leak out of the mouth. But be careful not to apply too much pressure to the person's body.
- Do not force anything, including your fingers, into the person's mouth.
- Do not try to hold down the person. This can cause injury, such as a dislocated shoulder.
How to help after a seizure
- Check the person for injuries.
- If you could not turn the person onto his or her side during the seizure, do so when the seizure ends and the person is more relaxed.
- If the person is having trouble breathing, use your finger to gently clear his or her mouth of any vomit or saliva. If this does not work, call for emergency help.
- Loosen tight clothing around the person's neck and waist.
- Provide a safe area where the person can rest.
- Do not offer anything to eat or drink until the person is fully awake and alert.
- Stay with the person until he or she is awake and familiar with the surroundings. Most people will be sleepy or confused after a seizure.
Things to watch for during a seizure
You may be able to provide valuable feedback to the doctor treating the person having the seizure. Try to remember:
- How the person's body moved.
- How long the seizure lasted.
- How the person acted before the seizure.
- How the person acted immediately after the seizure.
- Whether the person suffered any injuries from the seizure.
When to seek emergency help
Seizures do not always require urgent care. But call 9-1-1 or other emergency services immediately if:
- The person having a seizure stops breathing for longer than 30 seconds. After calling 9-1-1 or other emergency services, begin rescue breathing.
- The seizure lasts longer than 5 minutes. (The person may have entered a life-threatening state of prolonged seizure called status epilepticus.)
- The person seizing is pregnant (no matter how long the seizure lasts).
- More than one seizure occurs within 24 hours.
- The person having a seizure does not respond normally within 1 hour.
- The person has new symptoms, such as trouble walking, speaking, or thinking clearly.
- The person has a fever.
- A seizure occurs after the person complains of a sudden, severe headache.
- A seizure follows a head injury.
- A person with diabetes has a seizure. Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) or very high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) can cause seizures in a person who has diabetes.
- A seizure occurs after eating poison or breathing fumes.
- The person complains of severe pain after waking up or develops a fever within 24 hours of the seizure.
Other Works Consulted
- Kaplan PW (2007). Seizure disorders. In NH Fiebach et al., eds., Principles of Ambulatory Medicine, 7th ed., pp. 1504–1531. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
Current as of: December 13, 2021
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:
John Pope MD - Pediatrics
Martin J. Gabica MD - Family Medicine
Kathleen Romito MD - Family Medicine
Steven C. Schachter MD - Neurology
Current as of: December 13, 2021
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:John Pope MD - Pediatrics & Martin J. Gabica MD - Family Medicine & Kathleen Romito MD - Family Medicine & Steven C. Schachter MD - Neurology
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