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Sunday, 13 April 2014
Dettingen - part 2
After a couple of weeks delay we managed to complete our Dettingen game. The Franco Austrians are forced into desperate defence and use their cavalry to slow the allied army.
The two sides fire volley after volley at point blank range. The Prussian unit fails morale and stands unable to fire. They are forced back next turn.
The Franco Austrian feed more and more troops into the fight.
The pressure mounts as Allied cavalry moves up.
The Franco Austrian line collapses under the pressure. But as they fall back a squadron of Cuirassier reinforces the line
Backed by more infantry
In the final action of the day the allied drive the remaining Franco Austrians across the river. However with night drawing in and with only 2 regiments of infantry remaining at full strength and the light fading both sides draw back to recover.
This game used my War Game amendments and they worked well.
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- Jim Duncan said...
A very evocative battle report, great pictures and some great figures in them.
I see that you have downscaled your built up areas but they still look OK alongside larger figures.
Keep up the good work.
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China has no plan to pursue a policy of yuan devaluation, Vice President Li Yuanchao said on Thursday, adding that market forces are guiding the movement of the currency.
"The fluctuations in the currency market are a result of market forces, and the Chinese government has no intention and no policy to devalue its currency," Li told Bloomberg News in an interview in Davos.
He redirected concerns about exchange-rate volatility to actions by the US Federal Reserve, saying that "fluctuations in the currency market started with the raising of interest rates by the Fed."
The comments by Li follow a volatile start for the yuan this year, which began with an unexpectedly large reduction in the reference rate in onshore trading in China, the report noted.
The yuan dropped 1.5 percent in the first week of January, stoking concern about policy intentions.
In other comments, Li told Bloomberg that China is willing to keep intervening in the stock market.
The market is "not yet mature", he said, adding that the government will boost regulation to avoid volatility.
Li, who is a member of the Chinese Communist Party's Politburo, is in Davos to attend the World Economic Forum's annual meeting.
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Walt Disney was part of an illuminati family. His initial interest was not in kids in the way one might think, but he was in fact a sexual pervert and pedophile, which was displayed in everything he did.
He grew up fascinated with the dark occult and in an abusive home situation. He was fascinated with cartoons, nature and children. He had an intuitive sense for quality cartoons that would appeal to children. At some point, the syndicate got him indebted to them. At that point he was their man. He owed them a debt that they held over him. In secret, Walt became a porn king. A victim remembers that he was sadistic and enjoyed snuff porn films.
His interest in children was far from altruistic ….
Walt Disney had black hair with a black mustache, and bright quick eyes and was about 6' tall. He used his own facial features to clue artists on how to draw Mickey Mouse's features. He liked specially rolled brown cigarettes which he smoked up to 70 a day. He picked up the smoking habit in the army, and he loved expensive scotch whiskey.
He had a vacation home in Palm Springs, CA called the Smoke Tree Ranch. He often wore the Ranch's letter STR emblazoned on his necktie. He played lots of golf with Bob Hope and Ed Sullivan, (two major mind control programmers) at the ST Ranch.
His main home was an estate in Holmby Hills. The Holmby Hills estate was located in a plush area where lots of rich show-business families lived. It was located between Bel-Air, (an occult word for Satan) and Beverly Hills.
Walt Disney spent many of his nights at the Disney Studios and later he had his own private quarters at the center of Disneyland. He had recurring bouts of insomnia. (For his nerves and insomnia he'd take alcohol and tranquilizers). He'd go weeks on end without stepping foot on the Holmby Hills estate and seeing his family.
Note: You also want to check out Hidden Meaning in the Drug Culture which exposes Disney's illicit drug promotion in their cartoons.
The main topic at the studio by the staff during different time periods was Walt's bizarre behavior. He would not be available until late afternoon, when he would emerge from the studio's subterranean maze of tunnels. The value of his estate when he died was 35 million dollars of which Lillian, his wife, inherited half.
In 1966, Walt Disney died. Prior to his death he had investigated cryogenics—being frozen, and it is believed by some that his body is frozen somewhere in California, while others claim he was cremated.


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|Topic: Darwinism Cannot Explain The Peacock
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Now you have gone into full denial mode.
I guess you are unaware of all the scientific experiments that have been done to verify the theory of relativity? Again, you appear to be in full denial mode.
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As the human population has broken the 7 billion mark, I would love to see how Arriba defines 'detrimental' to also include 'exponential population growth'.
We have always eaten fruit and vegetables; more so than meat.
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The vast majority of points you might ever want to make can be made effectively without referring to Nazis.
You should really read the papers: this is not, in any way, analogous to the feather-clipping these peacock researchers did. What they did is clip off the 20 outermost eyespots.
See, the feathers of a peacock train overlap one another. So, you can cut the eyespots off a feather without leaving a gaping hole in the peacock's train, because the neighboring feathers overlap it. And, because the eyespots are never on the outermost edge of the feather-train, the "damage" only manifests as a gap between the feather-train edge and the outermost eyespots.
As you can from the photos below, that gap varies quite a lot naturally:
So, clipping a peacock's feathers doesn't make them look "mutilated": it makes them look like a peacock with a smaller feather-train.
By comparison, amputating a nose doesn't make somebody look like someone with a small nose: it makes them look like somebody with a gaping open wound instead of a nose.
There are no rules about how you come up with a hypothesis. You just have to come up with predictions that arise from it, and with a way to test those predictions. Einstein came up with the prediction, and some other physicists tested them.
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Did you come to the conclusion that chemotherapy is "all of 2.1 percent effective" by trusting the research in a paper which, according to you, is likely to be inaccurate? And have you decided that none of the other factors increasing the 5 year survival rate are related to science?
Is none of this 20 year+ increase in life expectancy in your country due to increase in our knowledge of the physical world?
How did you date this behaviour without using science?
Since when was archaeology not a science? And how is the identity of the remnants of plants thousands of years old established without science? And could you give us a link to the source for this interesting knowledge you have acquired about ancient coco and tobacco trade? And if your source isn't a supposedly unreliable scientific research paper, what would it be?
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Are you suggesting that Galileo was not a scientist because his first hypothesis was wrong? Assuming that your version of the story is accurate, Galileo was certainly part of the scientific process. Even if he didn't come up with the "correct" answer himself, his hypothesis prompted others to question his reasoning and, eventaully, to propose better hypotheses.
Yes, that is how science works, by being wrong and then figuring out why you were wrong.
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Bias is essentially non-existent in science, thanks to peer-review. Also, you have not addressed the idea of the tail helping the peacock in the past, and it is a vestigal structure that is (if my theory prevails) slowly losing its luster. Also, it is impossible to tell what the peahens desire. Simplifying it to "length, color, symmetry" is far to simplistic. For example, they may see more colors than we, or perhaps go for certain designs, or perhaps it is a combination of if the male has the right stuff and struts it well enough.
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How many curly-haired American Indians have you heard of?
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Heard of?
Not sure.
At least hundreds.
Ever heard of Crazy Horse?
There is also one of the scouts from Custers forces that watched the Battle of Little Bighorn from a distance. He was known as Curly.
Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts
"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.
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Your claim is ridiculous and was refuted within 5 seconds of using Google. As seen at http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/266... peer review does not eliminate bias, but is itself biased.
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Nor had the word "vertebrate". Is that a proof he wasn't a vertebrate?
How does any of this, if true (you might supply references), stop him from being a scientist? He practiced science. This is what scientists do.
You declare him to be a "mathematician" instead, but was he a "mathematician" when he discovered the moons of Jupiter? Was that a mathematical or a scientific discovery?
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Peer review was developed to reduce the inevitable biases of the individual mind.
A 60 watt bulb does not eliminate all darkness, but it does help you to see.
And 5 seconds of using Google refutes nothing--it only shows you what you sought.
"If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."
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Galileo, after twenty years of university teaching, applied for a court position with the Grand Duke of Tuscany. In making his application he included a significant and unusual request. "... As to the title of my position," he wrote, "I desire that in addition to the title of 'mathematician,' his Highness will annex that of 'philosopher,' for I may claim to have studied for a greater number of years in philosophy than months in pure mathematics." --- Stillman Drake, Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science, Volume 1
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Multiple reviewers also help keep each other honest.
Every paper I have submitted for publication has been returned for revision. The peer review process, in my cases, has greatly improved my papers. The reviewers have pointed out errors that I missed and flaws in my arguments. In some cases a reviewer has disagreed with my methods or conclusions and there has been back and forth discussions that led to clarity.
When you write about something that is really new or that challenges widely held views, you had better really have your shit together. Your materials and methods and your data and discussion need to be rock solid and your presentation needs to be easy to understand.
The peer review process is about making papers as good as they can possibly be, not rejecting them because of bias or to suppress dissenting views.
It is not perfect, but without it scientific knowledge could not reliably be passed on.
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
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We've seen that reasoning suggested before, and I find it particularly pathetic and somewhat offensive.
Whatever Galileo's title was back in the 16-17th century, we discuss his work and life using the English language as it currently exists. If you have some reason to doubt that Galileo employed the scientific method to the scientific subject matter we now call physics, then let's hear about that.
Otherwise, trying to discredit Galileo by saying that the word scientist was not used during his day is somewhat pointless. Let's leave that stuff to languish on Catholic Church websites. Or can we assume that you have found some errors in Galileo's mathematics.
I'm curious as to what your objection to such an endeavor might be?
One might also note that Isaac Newton practiced alchemy and that his investigations of light included probing behind his own eyes with needles.
I thought this crap sounded familiar. It was your dumbass that spouted this mess earlier in this same thread. You also deny that Isaac Newton and Einstein were scientists. How about going for the Maxwell, Einstein, Newton trifecta?
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The events of 1982 that marked the centennial of Stravinsky's birth were a fitting recognition of his importance to the course of music in the 20th Century. Although the year was darkened by the death of Stravinsky's widow and by continuing litigation over his estate, it was memorable for the performances of his music at the Hollywood Bowl, Ojai Festival, Metropolitan Opera, and New York City Ballet. It was also the occasion for a renewed study of his works and a reassessment of his role in the history of modern musical culture.
These scholarly areas were the focus of the International Stravinsky Symposium at UC San Diego, a five-day conference in the fall of 1982, organized and directed by Prof. Jann Pasler. Although the Symposium was augmented by exhibits, panel discussions, and musical performances, its main event was the reading of about 30 papers by historians, theoreticians, and other specialists. "Confronting Stravinsky," edited by Pasler, is a collection of 21 of these essays.
The articles, typical of those delivered at such conferences, are brief vignettes that are not unified in approach or in theme. Their subjects range between the anecdotal and the arcane and include chatty reminiscences, interdisciplinary comparisons, formal analyses, and discussions concerning performance practices. Given their brevity and origin as oral presentations, none is a complete or thorough account of any subject. All the same, they reveal the provocative diversity and innovative directions of current research in this area.


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Friday, January 16, 2015
Deep Pocket Swiss Dropped the Euro Peg - MASSIVE ECB QE COMING!!!!!!!! OMFG! (panting, out of breadth!)
Look, I don't really look at this stuff too much anymore.
Overall I have confidence in how my money is MINE and protected (ever heard of cash savings?) and invested (ETF of S&P 500 and the Nasdaq have been fine) plus a few bonus ideas: (robotics, well angles I know about them) and I really don't chase money like the pimps on the street and sell you on a new era of bullshit built on baloney (which is just a big hot dog).
I am not a currency trader, but all the usual blowhard "QE IS GOD" folks like Joe Weisenthal and others (Many similar types have yet to weigh in, as is often the case on bad market days) say this means MASSIVE QE from the ECB next week. Hey, probably.
And I am sure to my bones that salami makers, BMW employees, Greek resort managers, and other Euro types are ready, willing, and able to go investment crazy because interest rates drop a whole, check the decimals folks, 0.02 or some stupid bullshit that makes no sense.
I mean, often times as a consumer I find myself saying "Shit! I could increase aggregate demand by a lot if only, if ONLY, I could buy that (TV, Car, House, condoms, stocks from CNBC) at a whole 2bps less than last fucking week!"
No one thinks like that.
So I hope the ECB does QE like a boss and buys 17 Trillion of all the Euro bonds because maybe, just maybe, you all out there that are asleep and allowing this shit to go on all the time so you are not bothered, may just wonder why that made no difference in anything that mattered. If everything is so great and wonderful, how can a US Fed hike of 25bps be "CATASTROPHIC". This is bad theater.
Money is free and it has been for 6 years. So what.
In case you have not noticed, if I blog, It's going to get nasty!
Have a good night.
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For some reason I had a hard time with this prompt, so you get two pictures. First is a photo that I took of the glowing lights of my city after dark. After that is a picture of spring buds with a sunlit glow.
I passed by this old Studebaker and couldn't resist stopping to take some pictures. They don't make them like they used to!
Hey, shadow! Have you been going on vacation without me? I planned on taking a shadow shot outside today, but we had clouds and rain! So we had to improvise inside the house.
This is my son Jonah at his soccer game today. Yep, he is smiling even though not only was it cold and cloudy, it was also first thing in the morning!
I found these beautiful little flowers not far from home. I do not even know what kind of flowers they are. Bluebells, maybe?


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I love to meet readers and talk about science, history, art, writing. If you'd like me to come speak to your group please get in touch!
Recent Appearances
Book Culture
July 6, 2016, 450 Columbus Avenue, New York, NY
I spent a delightful evening at Book Culture on the Upper West Side for a joint reading/discussion with Michael White, author of Travels in Vermeer.
Brattleboro Literary Festival
October 2–3, 2015
Brattleboro, Vermont
I so enjoyed my visit to Brattleboro, meeting all the wonderful authors at the festival, and my talk in front of a full house!
New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Branch
August 4th, 6:30pm, 455 Fifth Avenue
I had a great time speaking at the New York Public Library, where I carried out some of the research for Eye of the Beholder.
World Science Festival
May 30, 2015
New York, NY
I so enjoyed the panel discussion on "Brave New Word" at the Science and Story program of the World Science Festival. Physicist Leonard Mlodinow, journalist and novelist Bob Reiss and I spoke with Rick Karr about the craft of science writing. It was a stimulating session!
Gaithersburg Book Festival
May 16, 2015
Gaithersburg, Maryland
I was delighted to join over a hundred best-selling and award-winning authors at one of the nation's top and most charming literary events, in Olde Towne Gaithersburg, Maryland. Luckily the rain and hail waited until the end of the day and we had a full tent for my talk. I enjoyed meeting readers and signing books afterwards.
[words] Bookstore
May 9, 2015, 5:00pm
179 Maplewood Avenue
Maplewood, NJ 07040
I really enjoyed my visit to this terrific Indie Bookstore. They have such a lovely space dedicated to author talks. If you are in the area, you should go visit. They might still have a few signed copies of Eye of the Beholder!
University of Chicago
May 7, 2015, 4:00pm to 6:00pm
History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine
Social Science Research Building, Room 105
1126 E. 59th Street
It was a real pleasure for me to return to University of Chicago, where I had the honor of guest teaching early in my career. I gave the annual lecture to the graduating seniors in History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science and Medicine. It was a great audience–and a fun dinner afterwards!
The Caedmon School
May 6, 2015
Fifth Grade SciArt Class
I faced my toughest audience to date, a room of fifth-graders and their teachers, as I talked about how scientists and artists use technology to see the world in new ways. We used magnifying glasses to examine flowers and make our own Dutch-style botanical studies.
Voices of the SAJ
May 1, 2015, 8:15pm
15 W. 86th Street
New York, NY 10024
I was delighted to join a talented group of poets, memoirists and short story writers for this annual reading event!
New York Society Library
April 29, 2015, 6:30pm
53 East 79th Street
New York, NY 10075
I spoke on The Philosophical Breakfast Club at the New York Society Library in 2011 and so I was especially delighted to return and speak about Eye of the Beholder. It was a sold-out house with an enthusiastic and smart audience—what more could an author want? Details are here.
Arnold Aboretum of Harvard University
April 8, 2015, 7:00pm–8:30pm
125 Arborway, Boston
Hunnewell Building
I spoke on The Philosophical Breakfast Club at the Arnold Aboretum in 2012 and was delighted to come back for a talk on Eye of the Beholder. We had a large group unfazed by April hail and a very lively Q & A.
Boston Athenaeum
April 7, 2015, 6:00pm–7:00pm
10½ Beacon Street, Boston
It was so much fun to speak to a sold-out house at the Boston Athenaeum. What an engaged and intelligent audience!
Launch Party for Eye of the Beholder
March 16, 2015, 6:00pm–8:00pm
The Corner Bookstore, 1313 Madison Avenue, New York City
I am honored that The Corner Bookstore, an institution in New York literary circles, invited us to launch The Eye of the Beholder in the store on March 16.
We ended up with standing room only. I am sorry to those who came a little late and were unable to get in. Please come to my next event in New York City, on April 29, at the New York Society Library.
The Philosophical Breakfast Club and the Invention of the Modern Scientist
January 27, 2015, 6:00pm
Elizabethtown Community and Technical College, Elizabethtown, KY
I was in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, for a series of STEM-related talks and events. My public talk on the Philosophical Breakfast Club can be seen on YouTube here.


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The event, which was held in Orlando, Florida, March 11-15 also attracted twenty-nine percent of the conferees from 89 countries outside the United States.
Pittcon 2012 President Jon Peace commented, "In a time where economic changes, increased mergers and acquisitions, and rising travel costs have a substantial impact on conferences, attendees still consider Pittcon to be a most valuable educational and networking resource for the global scientific community."
The Exposition included 948 exhibiting companies occupying 1,854 booths showcasing their latest laboratory instrumentation, equipment and services across a broad range of applications and technologies used in laboratory science. There were 191 exhibiting companies (20%) from 28 countries outside of the United States. This year, Pittcon welcomed 119 (12.5%) first time exhibitors and recognized the following returning companies that participated at Sponsorship Level: ABSCIEX, Jasco, Millipore, Sigma-Aldrich, Shimadzu, and Thermo Fisher Scientific.
The comprehensive Technical Program included more than 2,000 individual presentations distributed among Invited Symposia, Organized Contributed Sessions, Achievement Awards, Workshops, and Poster presentations. More than 100 invited speakers addressed topics of global interest, including alternative and sustainable energy, homeland security, food and drug safety, environmental issues, new materials development, and bioanalytical techniques. Approximately 1,400 people attended the Plenary Lecture presented by R. Graham Cooks, and Steven Benner delivered the Capstone Lecture to an audience of 700.
The 2012 Short Course program offered 95 courses (16 of which were new) and drew approximately 1,400 registrants which was a 16% increase over 2011 attendance.
The Pittcon Employment Bureau registered 143 employers, 512 candidates, 444 positions, and 455 interviews for the week.
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Diuris fragrantissima, Sunshine Diuris, intended for grasslands on the edge of Melbourne.
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We pulled off the dusty track and parked the car under a gnarly young stringybark tree. Before us was a diverse heathy woodland, alive with the colour of wildflowers in full spring bloom. In the distance I could see rugged sandstone escarpments, lined with dark stunted trees and ancient boulders.
I was on a day trip in the Black Ranges, a westerly extension of the Grampians near Cherrypool. My travelling companions were David Pitts, a biodiversity officer for the DSE and Roger, one of DSE's natural resource managers. Dave and I had spent the week searching and monitoring threatened plant species as part of Dave's role with the DSE. Today we had headed out from our base at Horsham to meet Roger, an expert in the local country and its environment. Roger had seen some orchids out this way that he thought might interest us.
'This is the spot', said Roger, and we headed into the bush. We immediately came across a large patch of beautiful white spider-orchids. These were the Large White Spider-orchid (Caladenia venusta), a species listed as vulnerable in Victoria. At most places this species has declined substantially, but here they seemed to be thriving. We found over a hundred, all in slightly different shades of colours and scattered throughout the bush. But then we saw an orchid that looked very different. We stooped down low to have a closer look, and became increasingly excited as we compared it to the Large White's nearby. It was certainly different and looked suspiciously like the Candy Spider-orchid (Caladenia versicolor) a species only known from one other site in the world over at Lake Fyans. We stayed at the site for well over an hour, taking an abundance of photos and checking out other wildflowers and birds in the area, before heading for another site. Later in the day we were to discover several new populations of the nationally rare Elegant Spider-orchid (Caladenia formosa) before heading back to camp.
The photos of our unusual orchid were sent to several experts and quickly confirmed as the Candy Spider-orchid, which is listed as threatened under the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, and considered endangered by DSE. It is listed as vulnerable under the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. This population was the second disjunct population of only two. Over the next twelve months Dave worked busily on this population and managed to collect enough seed to send to the DSE laboratory in Horsham. There, Dr Noushka Reiter and her team managed to successfully propagate the species, a huge break-through in the recovery work. A back-up population of the plants was now available and the species could be reintroduced into another suitable site if considered appropriate by the orchid advisory committee.
Sounds inspiring doesn't it? Well this is where the Baillieu Government steps in. Several months ago David Pitts, Noushka Reiter and nine other DSE biodiversity officers in the south-west Victoria region were told to get ready to pack their bags, as their contracts would not be renewed. The recovery programs that these dedicated and highly trained staff had been working on for years would now grind to a halt. What of the seven thousand rare orchids sitting in the Horsham laboratory waiting to be re-introduced to the wild? 'Who cares?' seems to be the Baillieu government's response. Orchids weren't the only plants the DSE officers had been working on either. A large assemblage of nationally endangered plants had been under their close management, from salt lake shrubs, wetland herbs to annual grasses. No one is now available to look after these species in the south-west region, other than the already over-worked remaining staff.
What of the seven thousand rare orchids sitting in the Horsham laboratory waiting to be re-introduced to the wild? 'Who cares?' seems to be the Baillieu government's response.
The Victorian Government has strong legal obligations to manage our threatened species under global agreements (the United Nations 'Convention on Biological Diversity', of which Australia is a signatory), National legislation (the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act) and State legislation (the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act). Just like the cattle grazing in the alpine national parks, which was effectively a breach of several acts of parliament, the Baillieu Government seems to have no worries disregarding the law when pursuing its hollow agenda.
IFFA has been actively campaigning against this issue, with letters written to the Liberals and visits to the Shadow Minister for the Environment. The response to our letter was shamefully inadequate, and failed to answer any of our concerns.
Predicted global climate change is going to create a tough time for our natural ecosystems to say the least. It is imperative that now more than ever our leaders should be assisting land managers to build the ecological resilience of our landscapes, so that they are as able as possible to adapt to the coming changes. The failure of leadership shown by the Baillieu Government is shameful, with over $130 million cut from the environment department in the recent budget. I can only hope that more voices will continue to join in the fight against such irresponsible government, and help to protect our precious and highly stressed environment.
Editors Note: Since this article was written, and partly due to community pressure, the Wimmera Catchment Management Authority (CMA) has stepped in to save the orchid lab and to take over many of the orchid recovery plans. With union help a handful of DSE staff have managed to save their jobs. However things are still looking grim. Many front-line workers in DSE, the CMA and the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) across Victoria have lost their jobs in the cost-cutting blitz, and many budgets cut. This will have massive implications for environmental management. DSE has announced that it will be moving to rely on volunteers for much of their work, a ridiculous scenario considering the huge level of time and experience required.


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Country Music Awards hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley used last weeks celeb news to their advantage last night. The pair joined Modern Family actor and CMA presenter Eric Stonestreet in mocking Kim Kardashian and her recently failed marriage.
The trio sang a ballad about Kim and Kris and their idea of "eternal" love.
In case you missed it, the lyrics went a little something like this: "I'm going to love you forever, or 72 days Amen, as long as Justin Bieber is not a conceiver, as long as Taylor Swift is with her current boyfriend," the trio sang. "I'm going to love you for 20 million dollars, for a hit TV series or pics in Us Weekly, for 72 Days, Amen."
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- Avoid blanket use of herbicides and pesticides.
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- QUINCE ORCHARD: Quince Orchard Library, 15831 Quince Orchard Road, May–October, Saturday, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
- ROCKVILLE: Central Farm Market, 11806 Rockville Pike, April–October, 3rd Saturday, 9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
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- TWINBROOK: Twinbrook Library, 202 Meadow Hall Drive, April–September, Saturday, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
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Recently, LinkedIn has made a change to allow users publishing rights to its Publishing Platform. What does that mean? Soon enough, all LinkedIn users will have the chance to publish content on the LinkedIn Publishing Platform.
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Will this new rollout positively impact your company page? When it comes to publishing new and engaging content, yes. As a business owner, you will now be able to incorporate content from SlideShare, which conveniently enough, is owned by LinkedIn. Slideshare allows you to upload and publish your company's content via YouTube, PDF, white papers, infographics, and keynote presentations. This will ultimately also support your SEO efforts through building quality links back to your website. Users can also add images to the posts to create higher reach and more engagement.
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Have you ever been combing through your LinkedIn newsfeed and came across an article that you wanted to share with your audience? In today's digital landscape, your content does not have to be original. When repurposing content on the Publishing Platform, keep in mind to still keep your LinkedIn posts original so that users know its you and so you keep an ethical image for your audience.
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The first step to creating captivating and engaging content for your posts is a catchy headline. Always ask yourself, " Would someone click on my link after they read my headline?" Keep the first paragraph to a few sentences in length and straight to the point. In terms of the length of each post, keep it to 400-600 words per article. These numbers are not set in stone, so feel free to test the word count with different posts to see which word count is working best for you.
Considering the ever so changing landscape of LinkedIn and social media in general, it can be a challenge to succeed and make a splash on these online platforms. We recently teamed up with with the "LinkedIn Rockstars" at Integrated Alliances to present a webinar presentation entitled "Are you LinkedIn? – Learn how to Use LinkedIn as a Lead Generation, Branding, and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tool to Boost Sales."
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The Philippine Tourism Promotion Board (TPB) hosted a reception for the delegates and guests of the Business and Investment Roadshow at Lounge 48 in New York on March 2. In attendance were Philippine ambassador to the U.S. Jose Cuisia, Jr. (far left), Consul General Mario de Leon, Jr. (far right) and TPB Chief Operating Officer Chicoy Enerio (2nd from right). Miss Universe 2015 Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach (2nd from left), Filipino Tourism Ambassador apl.de.ap (center) and "American Idol" runner-up Jessica Sanchez (not in photo) added more fun to the event with their music and dance numbers. (Photo by Wendell Gaa)
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If you have any of these features, keywords or other constructs in your code, you should start planning to take them out. Microsoft usually still carries things in the "deprecated" list for one release, so by 2008, some of them won't be there any more. You can find out what has been trimmed here.
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What did you all do for iNSD last week? Did you play along with some challenges? Enter some giveaways? Blog hop? I did a little bit of all of it, as my husband and son were occupied with all of the sporting events that were on television. I played along with the Hip Kit Club Crop on Facebook, and got a few pages made, using my Counterfeit kits from April and May. Here's a look at my pages:
Here are a couple made from my April kit:
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Next Saturday, I will be back to regularly scheduled "Scrapbook Stamping Saturdays". But I had fun with iNSD, and I hope you did too!
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Scrapbook Saturday...What I made for iNSD
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WASHINGTON � Arkansas Sens. Mark Pryor and John Boozman on Wednesday supported reauthorization of the Water Resources Development Act that they say would strengthen America's water infrastructure.
WASHINGTON � Arkansas Sens. Mark Pryor and John Boozman on Wednesday supported reauthorization of the Water Resources Development Act that they say would strengthen America�s water infrastructure.
�If we want to stay competitive in today�s global economy, then we need to make infrastructure investments, and navigable waterways are a huge part of the equation,� said Pryor, a Democrat.
The Senate voted 83-14 in favor of the bill after a week of floor debate that saw more than a dozen amendments approved.
Boozman won support for an amendment that would add the Army Corps of Engineers to the �America the Beautiful� recreational pass program that has helped spruce up recreational facilities on federal lands from Alaska to Virginia.
In 2004, Congress approved the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act to enable land management agencies to retain and spend recreation fees where they were collected.
The law covered five federal agencies that oversee most of the nation�s federal lands but did not include the Army Corps of Engineers. The omission was particularly glaring for Arkansas, where the Army Corps of Engineers has more than two dozen recreation areas along the Arkansas River, as well as by lakes in the Ozarks and in southwestern Arkansas.
�Allowing the Corps to offer passes to customers will encourage continued use of federal recreation sites,� Boozman said.
The Senate also agreed to a Pryor amendment to ease pending regulations for farmers regarding fuel storage.
Under his amendment, farms would be exempted from pending Environmental Protection Administration regulations aimed at limiting fuel spills on farms. Farms that store less than 2,500 gallons of fuel above ground would be exempted, and those storing up to 20,000 gallons of fuel could self certify their spill containment plans.
�I won�t allow our farmers to get bogged down by costly certification processes that they don�t need,� Pryor said.
The Obama administration is critical of the overall legislation saying it does not address a $60 billion construction backlog for Corps projects except to add to it.
The legislation would sanction more than 20 new Corps projects, some aimed at making ports more accessible in line with 2015 completion of a widened Panama Canal.


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I want to SpeakOut about Mr. Bush. Jack Anderson was right in his Aug. 11 column. Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Niell along with George W. Bush are dipping into Social Security big-time. I sure hope you Republicans have a lot of money saved at home that's not invested in stocks or anything, because when you need it, it's not going to be there. And Mr. Bush will still be smiling that stupid grin and think to himself, "I sure have fooled all those Republicans." There will be nothing left for you. There sure won't be any Social Security and no interest on your money. The U.S. will be in bad shape by the time Mr. Stupid gets out of office. There will be nothing for the poor people or nobody else.
I am very disappointed the way my husband and I have been treated during his sickness. He was in the hospital twice in July and only one couple came to see him besides our pastor. It is sad how the people in our church don't even come to visit and some don't even call. It's a crying shame the way they just let us old people go without having anything to do with us, and don't even seem concerned enough to come see him. He's laying here and can't even get up and down or move around like he wants to do. I feel very bad because when I was younger, I visited old people and went and got groceries for them and did things for them. Little things like this would help us feel better. We don't have any relatives, children or brothers and sisters here and it's sad to go through a thing like this.
Do we want to win games so badly in East Prairie that the coaches hold practices out in the rain when they don't even play when it's raining? It think it's a disgrace. I don't have a kid playing on the ball team but I drove by the park and I couldn't believe what I saw. The coaches had the girls out there on the ground when it was pouring rain. They had no hats on or any kind of protection. The coaches don't have to take care of these girls when they get sick; the parents do. I think that's poor judgment when they don't even play when it's raining. It's been raining about 15-20 minutes over here. I feel sorry for those girls.
How can the city ever collect those back taxes? We have to pay ours. Why don't they have to pay theirs? The city needs that money. Can they be penalized in any way? Please find out the answer.
The listings you see in the Standard Democrat are for properties for which taxes have not been paid. If a property owner (real estate) is delinquent in paying taxes, a penalty and interest are charged. If the taxes are not paid, the property then becomes available for sale for the total costs of taxes past due. A penalty and interest are also charged for late personal property taxes.


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AbbVie, a global biopharmaceutical company, has announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted a positive opinion for HUMIRA® (adalimumab) for the treatment of non-infectious uveitis in adult patients who have had an inadequate response to corticosteroids or in whom corticosteroid treatment is not appropriate. HUMIRA can also decrease the use of corticosteroid in patients dependent with corticosteroid. HUMIRA would become the first and only biologic treatment available for non-infectious intermediate, posterior and panuveitis if granted marketing authorization by the European Commission.
"Today's CHMP opinion marks a key milestone towards HUMIRA becoming the first approved biologic medication for uveitis, an inflammatory condition of the eye that can impact vision. Current treatment options are limited and sometimes ineffective. Building on more than 18 years of clinical experience with HUMIRA across indications, we hope to make an impact on the lives of more patients with unmet needs," said Michael Severino, M.D., executive vice president, research and development and chief scientific officer, AbbVie.
According to Glenn J. Jaffe, M.D., professor of ophthalmology, Robert Machemer M.D. professor of ophthalmology and chief, Division of Retinal Ophthalmology, at Duke University, Durham: "With limited treatment options for non-infectious uveitis, this recommendation is a step toward progress for people living with a disease that has potentially profound effects on vision. The data from the VISUAL clinical trial program demonstrate the safety and efficacy profile of HUMIRA in patients living with particular forms of non-infectious uveitis."HUMIRA® (adalimumab) of AbbVie Receives CHMP Positive Opinion for the Treatment of Certain Forms of Non-Infectious Uveitis last edit: 2016-06-06T17:28:22+00:00 da


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Tuesday Confessions is back!! It's been a few weeks but no worries it's back and I've been dreaming of writing todays post for months now. Seriously! I remember standing in my kitchen in Central Asia taking pictures of my super successful purchases and just ooing and awing over the day I'd get to post them! Well friends, today is the day! With it being Central Asia week on the blog I figured what better time to show you! Before I show you my super awesome purchases, I need to tell you of how I have become this self proclaimed "Barter Queen."
I've been to my fair share of markets, bazars, and "world markets" if you will. And from them I've learned that I know how to talk the talk and get what I want for a decent price. I have been to these types of markets in two very competitive and intense areas. I've literally had people grab my hands and pull me into their shops begging me to buy something. Believe me, it's crazy! But outside of that I'm also able to spot a deal when I see one. I love taking my friends to these types of places and helping them to get what they want. Funny story, I was in a bazar in Central Asia, and three of the guys on my team really wanted a toaster and what do ya know, this savvy girl found one! And I was even able to get it down in price by about $10. However there was a tad bit of an issue so we had to return the toaster and then we literally went next door and got the exact same toaster for $10 cheaper than what we actually paid. It was awesome, weird, and super hilarious! So yes, I've bought things such as toasters, jewelry, scarves, dresses, tapestries, and even pipes! I love bartering.
The key to a successful barter is the poker face. You have to make the person who you're buying from believe that it's better for them to give you whatever item it is you're trying to get them to sell you at the price you're asking for. If they wont do it then you literally just have to say no and walk away. They then realize that any amount of money is better than nothing. Usually they will stop you, ask you to come back and from there they'll usually go for half of what you're asking for and you can negotiate from there. For me, I let them give me a price, and I just cut that in half and go from there. It's definitely served me well. Any purchase I've ever made through bartering has always been a good one and I hope you agree.
Now it's time to check out my favorite pieces that I've bartered for! They're all so wonderful and I'm so sentimental with things so jsut thinking about ever losing or damaging one of these pieces make me wanna throw up. So it's safe to say I don't let many people touch these pieces or mess with them, because of my deep love for them. So I hope you enjoy them! Check in tomorrow to read a super personal letter that I've needed to share for a while!I wish i could say all those piallahs were mine! And check out those earrings! I got them for my grandma, and she loves them. i struggled to give them to her because though pink is no my color, I loved them so much. This next shot, though it's not of people is definitely one of my money shots this year! The exposure, the DOF, and everything was just right. So thankful for this crazy spot in my flat that elt in the perfect amount of light for these pictures! That jar above has been a huge hit all around! Definitely one of my favorite purchases. Now my best gift I bought it this pipe! I got it for my sweet bestfriend! Her birthday was jsut a few days after I got back from Central Asia, and man did she love this thing. I'm so glad I know her well enough to know that she would've rather had a pipe than a scarf or anything really! Haha! Matrushka dolls hold a special place in my heart, man! Come back tomorrow to find out why!
So yea, I'm a little crazy about my things, but boy, do I love them!


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It started so quietly that at first one wondered if it was all going to be an embarrassing flop. At 7am yesterday the only people visible on the streets of central London were hundreds of police, closing roads and putting up tape and barriers.
In the clubs of St James's, unusually full for a weekend, the grander marchers breakfasted heartily.
Some way away at the mainline railway stations, chartered trains were hauling the countryside to the town, and under the streets the marchers were making their way by Tube to the mustering points for the two marches, at Blackfriars for Livelihood, Hyde Park for Liberty, depending on where you had travelled from.
But early on the mobilisation was invisible to most Londoners, and it was only when you walked down Park Lane to the starting point of the Liberty march in Hyde Park that the sheer scale of the event became obvious.
One minute it seemed like another late summer Sunday in London; the next the huge banks of people came into view, backed deeply into the normally vacant green acres of the park.
There was a palpable sense of excitement that something big was afoot. Most of the crowd queued for three or four hours before they could actually begin their march.
At the head of the Liberty march, a couple of activists from the Union of Country Sports Workers, loudly denouncing the Countryside Alliance "and their establishment friends", demanded to march at the front of the Liberty rally, but the alliance's press officers wanted cute 12-month-old Sophie Large in her pushchair, with her camera-friendly placard: "When I grow up I want to go hunting with my Daddy."
After a certain awkward negotiation, the pushchair prevailed.
The placards, swaying in the sunshine, conveyed an attitude of defiance. "We will not be culturally cleansed", read one; "Future Criminal" read another carried by an eight-year-old; "Revolting Peasant" another, carried by an adult, dressed in the Sloane Ranger's weekend uniform of plum-coloured corduroys.
Then, at precisely 10am, with whistles, horns and bagpipes blaring, the Liberty march began to roll from the eastern corner of Hyde Park, and into Piccadilly.
Kate Hoey, the Labour MP and darling for many of the marchers for her brave and lonely stance within her party, stood at the front, alongside Richard Burge, the alliance's chief executive.
Mr Burge held his hands aloft, clapping the supporters who lined the route, in the way a footballer extravagantly applauds the terraces as he leaves the pitch, to show he is not cross about being substituted. One placard read: "Hoey for Prime Minister".
The crowd eased forward at about half normal walking pace, into Piccadilly and past the Ritz where Londoners lined the pavement, shouting their support.
The marchers cheered one placard at the Ritz: "Kiwis Support Country Poms", carried by John Falloon, a New Zealand farmer visiting friends in England. Hunting is popular in New Zealand, and Mr Falloon said he worried that a ban in Britain might have a knock-on effect in his country.
As the giant procession snaked rightwards into St James's, the gentleman's clubs had all opened up. At Boodle's, the staff stood on the first floor balcony in their waiter's uniforms, quitely applauding the marchers.
The marchers loved that touch. Most of the the upmarket St James's traders were closed, but they had left banners of encouragement in their windows.
On surged the crowd, down Pall Mall, and into Trafalgar Square, where Mayor Ken Livingstone, no friend of the countryside or hunting, had left his mark.
The road narrowed into an uncomfortable funnel because of the continuing roadworks, forcing the marchers to furl their giant Liberty & Livelihood banner, as they eased around the construction equipment of the mayor's half-finished pedestrianisation scheme.
The Liberty march turned into Whitehall where - with immaculate timing - it merged with the Livelihood march which had been making its way over from its eastern starting point.
There were whistles and cheers and shouts of recognition as these two tributaries met in the middle of Whitehall to form a giant river of humanity heading towards the Cenotaph, where the marchers fell silent as a mark of respect.
This meant the marchers could not shout their true feelings towards Downing Street, which was just as well as the mood was specifically hostile to the Prime Minister. One man, dressed as the grim reaper with a Tony Blair mask, was wildly cheered.
If the well-heeled of St James's were sending their best wishes, the tone of the march was not at all grand. Early yesterday, a presenter on Radio Five Live put on a jokey posh accent as he spoke to a reporter in Hyde Park, perhaps to convey the BBC's general disdain for the event.
The presenter should have spoken to Mike Idle and Ewan Gaskell, keen members of the Ullswater fell pack, whose Cumbrian accents were so thick they warned "you might need an interpreter to interview us".
Both had been to London only twice before, to attend the previous countryside marches, and they were in no hurry to come back.
They said they were incensed that the media always suggested hunting was for rich people on horseback. "There are no toffs in our hunt," said Mr Gaskell, a van driver, rather giving the impression that they would not be welcome there.
"And I'll tell you now, we're not going to stop because of what Blair says. How are they going to stop it? They don't police the towns in Cumbria, so how will they police the hunts?" There was a definite edge of defiance on the streets.
From a different perspective, Richard Fry, who owns a business in London and a farm in Dorset, had brought his family, along with another 1,000 or so supporters of the Cattistock Hunt.
"Make no mistake," he said, "this one is the last peaceful march I'm coming on. If they press on with a ban now, the gloves will really come off."
Past the Cenotaph, the Liberty and Livelihood marches, still separated by metal barriers, surged together towards the finishing line at the foot of Whitehall, where the marchers were counted by tellers.
To the delight of all, their final steps over the counting line were captured by video cameras and the images projected on giant screens above Whitehall.
They could see the tally constantly rising on the digital counter so they had a sense of contributing, personally, to the final total.
Perhaps a hundred anti-hunting protestors had gathered in Parliament Square, yelling abuse and banging drums, but there was no trouble, and the marchers seemed more bemused than offended by the occasional shouts of "Go home, scum".
In the square, the marches again separated, with Livelihood heading south over Westminster Bridge, and Liberty petering out amid the dreary office blocks of Victoria Street.
There were no speeches, no rally, no concert to raise the spirits before the long journey home. Once they had passed the counting station, the marchers were asked simply to disperse to allow those behind to complete the route.
The very spareness of the march somehow added to its power. Some 400,000 people came to London from all over the country to tramp along the streets, and simply be counted.
The walk took a good two hours, and the wait could be double that. No gift packs were offered to the children, no jugglers or clowns along the way, no computer games to take home - just long journeys by coach or train, and a long, tiring, march, and aching bones.
"It was brilliant, brilliant," said Daisy Walker, 12. She was there with her parents, Sean and Karen, north Londoners who carry no candle for hunting - Daisy strongly disapproves of it as well - yet adamant that they should support the countryside.
"It's a matter of individual choice," said Mr Walker.
To be on the streets yesterday was to feel you were part of something much larger even than the important issues that had drawn the masses to the capital.
As hard as a BBC presenter might try, you could not generalise about these people. No cosy British social snobbery or inverted snobbery helps you out, for the crowds were so socially and geograpically diverse.
So, too, were the issues that brought them together. For every marcher talking about hunting, there was another telling you about the local bus service, the closing Post Office, the price of lamb, and the greed of the supermarkets.
One of the last banners read: "Mr Blair, see what a minority looks like." This was a pretty good joke when 200,000 were expected, but became better still when more than double that figure turned up.
The only question now is whether Mr Blair still treats those hundreds of thousands of people as an irrelevant minority, or accepts that this time, the countryside really has spoken.
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RULE BRITANNIA, BRITANNIA RULES THE WAVES! BRITONS NEVER NEVER SHALL BE SLAVES......and so on.
Stirring words. Isn't it a great time to be British even if you are not British, we are all British on this momentous day when the happy royal couple walk down that isle of that magnificent abbey holding hands, smiling happily, beaming from ear to ear and being watched by over 2 billion loyal subjects prostrating themselves at the foot of their television sets shouting "All hail the new King and Queen of the universe".
And here standing beneath the comforting flap of the United Kingdom Union flag....
OOPS!! Sorry wrong flag.
OOPS Again!!!!!
AAAH Much better.
As our British royal correspondent George Windsor-Tudor (no relation) was saying:
"Here standing beneath the comforting flapping of the United Kingdom flag and I reiterate united Union flag we can all celebrate this wonderful getting together of a royal personage (William Windsor Schloss Hanover Coburg of Westphoolia Germany) and a commoner (Kate Winslett famous movie star). A day that makes history redundant because as we know lovely, stunning Kate is from a poor, destitute blue collar background who was plucked off the street by this magnificent royal male species. Just like his animal counterpart from the African plains of the Serengeti, the muscular, sharp clawed beautiful beast, the long-maned Lion, which plucks weaker animals of the plains and devours them and spits them out. Oh how we would love to prostrate ourselves at the feet of this handsome couple and kiss their royal lavender smelling toes. This adorable girl with the Elizabeth Tayloresque flowing 'perfectly pitched' locks and her hunky husband with his thin, balding hair showing through a white scaly scalp. But as another lovely royal correspondent delves into her truly interesting and wonderfully rich life:
Imogen Fox has just spoken to Charles Worthington about Kate's hair. Worthington thinks her hair was perfectly pitched: "understated yet glamorous". But he would have made some tweaks. "I might have made the rest of the hair a little bit fuller with slightly bouncier big loose curls." He rated Tara Palmer-Tomkinson's look but was a little perplexed by Samantha Cameron's lack of hat. " I didn't think her hair looked groomed enough for an event like this. If you are not wearing a hat then the hair has to make a statement and look polished and fabulous."
Yes, yes yes and yes again don't we all just adore these wonderful royal British Germanic creatures and their royal cousins, aunts, sisters and ginger brother, progeny from another non-royal common sports star. (Hang on Jorge that's a treasonable offense to say that. Diana never had an affair with a ginger haired rugby player. Well we know but one must never mention it. - Editor). We are just so happy we can hardly contain ourselves to see these true blue GermanoBritish royals waving from the Buckingham Palace balcony. We love them, yes we do. Oh God I am so ecstatic I am about to ....."
That's enough of that sycophantic crap George Windsor - Whatever with your bloody double barrelled name, you are sacked!
In the interests in getting a balanced view we now hear from our other royal correspondent Nasty McFilthy reporting from down at the working men's socialist bar. Nasty, we are assured, has renounced his socialist anarchist ways and has promised to give us a more balanced view. It's over to Nasty..
'Ere it's Nasty reporting from down the Lamb and Flag pub watching the television set in the corner and standing at the bar with 5 beers in me hand and 10 already inside me gut. We are watching from the television set which was working up till about a minute ago when a loyal punter sent his litre glass of beer sailing through the set smashing the picture. Good on yer mate. The loyal boot throwing citizen is 'ere to add a comment. Go on mate .....
|Lamb and Flag - typical British Anarchist pub.
"Gerfuckin' spongers. It's us that's paying for that bleeding shindig at that there church. Just look at the money that's gorn into that fuckin' sham of a marriage. Won't last ten minutes it won't. Just look at the rest of them royals all of them divorced within seconds of getting hitched and our money paying for the lot of 'em. Just look at 'em dressed in bleeding officers uniforms, as if they ever went to Afghanistan and fought alongside our brave lads there. All that twat William ever did was borrow a helicopter just to fly out and land on the front lawn of his girl's fuckin' mansion just to ask her hand in marriage that we paid for and now he thinks 'e's a pilot in the Royal Air Force. They should be shot, the lot of 'em. Stick 'em up against a wall and shoot 'em just like that Romanian fellow, what's 'is name, Chowchestycu, Chewchowscew or some such bloody foreign name. They shot 'im and 'is wife they did. Just dragged them out and shot 'em. Bloody royal scroungers stealing our money and not paying tax........."
It's Nasty reporting again; that man just fell onto his face drunk and we tink we'll leave him there and go look at the next TV round the back of the pub. Dammit that one has just been smashed by an angry man who put his head through it and the ambulance is arriving to take him away with blood pissin' through a gaping wound.
So from 'ere at the Lamb and Flag, a British working man's pub, Nasty McFilthy signing off. Oy where's my beer you cheap bastard? 'Ere take that you Nazi scum.
Thanks Nasty we don't think we will be getting back to you.
And to finish on this extraordinary day here's a happy picture of the new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge having fun in the park of their new royal 500 roomed mansion paid for by the honest British tax payer.
|The happy couple jostling in their recently dug acre of swimming pool in the gardens of their new country of England kindly given to them free of charge by their loyal subjects.