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The problem I ran into was finding yak butter. Even here in multicultural Toronto, I was unable to find it anywhere. So, I decided to make the appropriate substitutions instead. Since this is my first attempt, I thought I'd play it safe and use Assam instead of Pu-erh. I'll give Pu-erh a shot sometime in the future if everything goes to my liking. I used 2% milk, though you could use whole milk which is recommended. I used regular, unsalted butter you can get in any market. Finally, for a bit of authenticity, I used Himalayan pink salt! I also don't own a butter churner, so I used a whisk for mixing instead. You could mix everything in a blender too if you'd like. What you want is a butter tea that's a little frothy.
|Tea, butter, salt.
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- 2 tablespoon regular, unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons of 2% milk
- 2 cups of water
- 2 tablespoons of Assam tea
- 1 teaspoon of Himalayan salt
1. Brew tea using 2 cups of water and 2 tablespoons of Assam. I brewed it for 10 minutes to make it extra strong since I'm not using Pu-erh. I removed the leaves before moving on to the next step.
2. Add 2 tablespoons of butter. This will start to melt upon contact with the tea.
3. Add 1 teaspoon of salt. Mix all the contents with a whisk.
4. Add milk. I just eye it and look for a certain colour. It was about 2 tablespoons. Vigorously whisk everything.
5. Pour into a drinking bowl, take a deep breath and sip.
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It actually tasted pretty good! It was salty, hearty, buttery, nutty, creamy, and rich. The aroma was buttery. The colour was velvety and shiny with an oily surface. I can see myself making this again to enjoy on a cold night when I don't feel like having a heavy meal but want some sort of comfort food. I felt full and relaxed. It was very soothing.
I can see why Tibetans would enjoy their yak tea with tsampa. I had a desire to drink my butter tea along with some warm bread to nibble on. I even had ideas of using the butter tea as a soup and adding dumplings into it! How cool would that be?
|A hearty bowl!
Hey, if there are any Torontonians out there who know where I can get my hands on yak butter locally, please let me know.


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Antonio Brown has a custom, Steelers-themed Rolls Royce Phantom.
Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Antonio Brown always commands the attention of the defense when he's on the field. Now he's commanding the attention of everyone else off of it.
Brown, 27, showed up to the start of training camp in a custom, Steelers-themed Rolls Royce Phantom, a car that costs around $500,000. Brown's Phantom features a yellow stripe down the center and even his signature blown up preposterously large on the side.
If anything could ruin a Rolls Royce Phantom, Brown's Steelers-inspired design might be the thing that does it.
See photos of the car below.
Rolls-Royce tricks out a $500K phantom for @AntonioBrown84 to drive to training camp, has his signature pic.twitter.com/CTEOBibXNT— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) July 24, 2015
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When I was in college in Eugene, it was a long drive home to eastern Washington. About nine hours, though sometimes I have to admit, I made up time along the empty roads in the sagebrushed area just northeast of the Tri-cities. The chance of a cop along that back road up over the hill from Pasco to Washtucna was practically nil, and a couple of times I got my little yellow rotary-engine Mazda up to almost 100 mph, but mostly I was too chicken to speed that fast.
On that long drive between school and home, usually I was alone. The University of Oregon wasn't exactly the top choice for kids from my home town, not when there was a university right in town. But I needed to leave Pullman--needed to be a little more anonymous than I could be on a campus where my dad was on a first name basis with most of my professors. So I transferred, and got used to the lonely drive. These days, when our kids drive across the state, they have all their Ipods hooked up to the stereo system, and listen to their own personalized play lists as they drive. In the days when I was making all those trips alone, I was lucky to have a radio, and there were plenty of stretches when the only kind of stations I could pick up were what we not so affectionately called Country-Western. And I really couldn't stand those hardluck stories told in twang.
So what I usually did as I drove was talk to myself. Tell stories (and some of those were pretty hardluck themselves, though not sung with a drawl!), or, more frequently, preach. My little car was like a practice studio for preaching. I'd have my Springer Spaniel, Caspian, in my lap, and my Bible on the passenger seat. I'd open the Bible to wherever it fell, and read a passage before I started the trip. Then, as I drove along, I'd preach the passage from every angle. I remember working through the Lord's prayer one trip--probably several hours worth of sermons (many years later when I wrote a missions devotional on it, I thought longingly of those hours in the car, when I was full of passion and certainty). I preached passages from Isaiah, the 'minor' prophets, and even some of the most difficult passages in the Bible--the 'begats', and those long, long lists of rules in Leviticus.
I actually had my first opportunity to 'preach' through Young Life, at 15. I remember where I spoke (the youth center downtown) and what I talked about--Jesus being the Good shepherd, caring for us, feeding us, protecting us, knowing better than we do what we need. After that, I sometimes had occasion to speak to adults, also via YL--to people in towns where we were hoping to begin a club. I loved both the challenge of expressing who God is in ways that others could get, and the way it made me feel out of my element to try. Heart pounding, mind racing, I'd pray for the words that He promised in the gospels to give. And afterwards, sometimes even I was surprised by what had come out of my mouth.
So it was natural for me to want to practice as I drove. There's still something in me that loves to preach, loves helping people be drawn into the story that is God. I love the idea that He entrusts people even like me to accurately handle the Word of truth. I've been lucky enough to speak at retreats too, where earnest, hungry women have set apart their lives for a couple nights--their children, their spouses, their jobs, hometasks--to see what God might do among us. These are privileged moments for me. For all the months preparing (and yes, I do take a long time--, seeking a topic, praying, studying, writing, rehearsing), when we come together, it is God who is at work among us, even in my faltering words. And I'm always blessed, far more than I bless, by who the women are, what they share, what we become together.
For a long time, before he preached, our now retired pastor would pray, "Let any word of mine that is true find roots, but any word of mine that is not True, not of you, may it be blown away"-- and this has become my prayer when I speak (I actually called to ask him if I could use it before I did). I know that errors are possible--probable--when I speak. I am faulty and barely competent (just as we all are!). But I hope--I pray--that my faults will not get in the way of what He intends for those who listen. I pray that they hear Him, not me.
A couple of weeks ago, a friend from Chicago said she'd love to have me do a retreat for her church. I'd love it too. Just give me a pulpit and I'll show up. Shoot, just give me a long drive alone in a car, with an open Bible beside me. If you want to talk about things of the cosmos, things that last, that transform, that stretch us all, I'm all in. Anywhere, any time. I don't know if I have a calling to preach, the way some people understand it, but maybe close enough...
Thanks, by the way, for this 'pulpit' online. Until further notice, it'll do.


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Hybrid Car Battery – The secret Behind
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Hybrid Car Battery - The secret Behind
Hybrid cars are what you can describe as a cross between a normal gasoline motorized car and an electric motorized car. It employs together the two power sources to run the car and has 2 engines. One is the gasoline engine and the other is the electricity engine. Hybrid cars run on fuel when it is running , and it runs on electricity which is given from the car battery , when it is idle.
There are 2 main types of hybrid cars presented these days. One is the parallel hybrid car and the other is the series hybrid car. In parallel hybrid cars, together the electric motor (and the car battery) , and the gasoline motor are attached to the transmission. This means that both motors will be capable to run the car unaided and will give driving power.
In the series hybrid car, the gasoline engine is not linked to the transmission. It is only connected to the generator to charge the car battery or to power the electric motor to provide propulsion .
Now that we recognize the worth of the car battery , what is a Hybrid car battery ?
The hybrid car battery is the energy tool for the electric engine but the hybrid car battery is also such as any other car battery , and it is rechargeable and has an adequate amount juice to move a large massive car on the road for a number of feet or a number of miles.
The design of the latest hybrid car battery is thought to be more compact and holds electricity that is created by the car driving system until it is required for the cars use.
Usually a hybrid car battery is ( planned, or also under warranty), to last 10 years or 160,000km of driving, it is not expected that the car user will has to change the car battery previous to the time he throw out the car.
In hybrid cars, the electric engine is able to pull out power from the car battery and also put power onto them. This signify that at the time the electric motor is running, it can repeatedly renew the batteries built-in the hybrid car.
While the hybrid car battery is being used in idle state , it will without human intervention disconnect the gasoline engine and activate the electric engine to run your car. It will change back to the gasoline motor once you step on the gas pedal of the car .
At present, a hybrid car battery is able to revive whilst the brakes are in use. It can also being revived from energy generated by the motor.
Just a reminder :the hybrid car battery is one of the most dangerous things that would need exceptional getting rid of when it has died.
With all of these benefits, a hybrid car is the car of the future. It may effectively conserve gas, it can run in silence, it has small toxic fume emissions, and it may in addition conserve you very much money from huge tax breaks for hybrid car buyers.
Some car batteries are sealed, but water batteries have a lid that can be pried off to check and see if water is filled up to the rim. Add water to a car battery, but don't overfill it, with tips from a mechanic in this free car-care and automotive maintenance video. Expert: Richard Goms Bio: Richard Goms has been researching genealogy as an amateur and a professional for the last 32 years. Filmmaker: Michael Burton
Video Rating: 4 / 5
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Knowing More about Your Car Battery
by Ben Beiske
Knowing More about Your Car Battery
Possibly the most recognized component of the car engine in terms of its outer surface of the automatic human race is the car battery. A lot of people have already experienced having a dead battery. More often than not, dead batteries come about during the most terrible periods throughout your busiest days of the year. The moment your car doesn't start, then there is a problem with your car battery. Therefore, it is greatly essential to keep an eye on how sound your vehicle starts. Always have a check on your car your battery, most especially if it's not igniting.
A car battery has various tasks in different vehicles. In the case of the electric cars, car battery is the major supply of power. The electric car batteries change the requirement for continuous refueling. What is more is that they can be charged when not in use. In the case of standard cars, batteries are used to start the automobile. Exclusive of the car battery, the vehicle will not moan itself into movement in normal cars. In the case of the hybrid cars, the car battery functions both roles. In a driving road with a stop and go progress, you will chiefly make use of fuel based power. However, when you are traveling on long highways, the hybrid car will boot into electric power. Fundamentally, the car battery can transform what a car is categorized as.
Car battery replacement is one of the undertakings when you are thinking of maintaining your car's engine. What you have to do is to simply disconnect the negative and positive wires with a wrench when it is not in use. Keep in mind that black is negative and red is positive. Afterward, install the new car battery. AT first, it seems hard to get the wirings back where they are supposed to due to the stretched locks of the engine, however with a slight dedication, it is achievable. Place your old battery in your vehicle and go to where you bought it in order that they can throw of it correctly.
It is a superior plan to replace your car battery every 2 years. The majority of drivers will intractably change it at whatever time the battery dies. These people who are practical in their safeguarding of vehicles experience fewer troubles and worst instances. Car batteries are not excessively pricey. A large amount of auto shops will provide you a markdown for a battery exchange, you provide them your old battery and they present you with a new one.
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Q&A: Will China bankrupt 0bama's "car battery" plans since they're far ahead of the US and have?
Question by Cigar that Bill Clinton Sniffs: Will China bankrupt 0bama's "car battery" plans since they're far ahead of the US and have?
... plenty of the rare earth minerals needed to make the batteries ?
Best answer:
Answer by Sadcat
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the technology you're talking about was being implemented before Obama was ever even elected to the Senate. Are you under the impression hybrid cars were sold for the first time in 2009?
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Taking adequate measures for maintaining balance between the sales, customer service & back end operations within budgetary norms.
Ensuring customer satisfaction by achieving delivery & service quality norms.
Ensuring that highest service standards are maintained for servicing of clients and maintaining minimum TAT.
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Conducting & tracking regular trainings within the team to improve Customer Service within branches, Call centre and Operational efficiency.
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Call outs to the customers to check their level of satisfaction and based on their feedbacks suggest changes on repeated problems thereby improving the Quality across the platform.
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To review & track the Service Requests (SRs) logged and to highlight timely errors if any; thereby maintaining quality and standard across the platform which in turn lead to accurate and quicker resolution.
To support the leadership in maintaining and developing a high-performance work culture
To carry out additional duties and responsibilities as required from time to time
In a world full of people cut throat competition, increasing gaps between have's and have... not's, where does one have the thought of "Human Dignity".
Ironically, though it is in the same world that every human endeavor can be traced back to being an effort to enhance Dignity for life.
The founders of Dignity Consultants realized the same dilemma inherent in today's world and thus was created "Dignity Consultants"
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The Consultancy is founded with the objective of promoting Dignity, Happiness, Productivity and Growth in corporate India
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Author: Livin HQ
Our passion for nutrition had us excited to share with the world all that I learn, which lead me to creating and writing for Livin HQ. My own journey started a few years ago with a spark of interest in natural health and nutrition after my immune system started to suffer from my lifestyle. A little background on this: As a teenager and girl in my early twenties, I was constantly burning the candle at both ends. Partying on weekends, working overtime and hyped up on caffeine. I totally over-did all of these things. I was constantly stressed, sick and taking antibiotics every time the weather changed. I knew this wasn't good for me and I started looking into natural medicine to heal myself. This opened up a whole new world to me that I had never really known much about, and I couldn't get enough of it. Before long, I enrolled in my Nutritional Medicine degree at Endeavour College and I absolutely love it. I want to share with you the things I learn along the way, not only in natural health, but also in learning to slow down and tune in to what my body needs. My hope is that I can inspire you to listen to your own body and follow your bliss.


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The Idaho Youth Ranch (IYR) is a non-profit, multi-service charity in Idaho which provides "troubled children and families a bridge to a valued, responsible, and productive future" that was started by Reverend James Crowe and his wife Ruby in 1953 in Rupert, Idaho on a ranch.
Rev. Crowe and his wife started the ranch as an alternative to incarceration, institutionalization, and hospitalization for children. Over the years it has branched out into so much more than just that. The Idaho Youth Ranch gets its support from the revenues of their thrift stores all over Idaho, the first store was opened in Boise in 1982. It provided people in the community who were on a limited budget access to clothing, coats, shoes, blankets, cooking utensils, furniture and a wide variety of other items at a very cheap price. The money was put back into the community for youth programs. The Idaho Youth Ranch also gets it support from generous private donations.
How it Works:
People drop off their gently used items at an Idaho Youth Ranch donation center, each store has one. The items are checked over and placed out on the floor for sale. Each week the stores have a different tag color that is marked on clothing and other items that are 50% off the tag price. For every 12 cents, you spend you get a point on your Loyalty Card. Once you reach 20,000 points you get $20 to spend in any store you would like. The only catch is you have to spend the points all at once and you also have to pay the sales tax.
Where Your Donations Dollars Go:
- Adoption Programs
- Alternative Education for Children
- Foster Care
- Vocational Training
- Family Counseling
- Case Management
- Aftercare
- Independent Living Services
- Crises Shelters
- Community-Based Group Homes
- Therapeutic Residential Programs
- Employment for Youths in IYR Programs
- College & Vocational Scholarships
- Financial Assistance
For myself, I am a musician and being on stage all the time I have to keep rotating my clothes. I became an Idaho Youth Ranch shopper because I am always on a very limited budget for clothing and frankly I would rather spend my money on new strings for my guitar than a huge clothing budget. Not only that but I think it's wonderful that donations to the Idaho Youth Ranch have kept 2,500 + tons of items that could be recycled out of our landfills. I like green concepts!
Here are pictures of outfits I have bought during the last few months and all eight of these outfits cost me under $40. The skirts ranged in price from $2.50 on a colored tag day sale and the dresses about $3.50 when I found them on sale. The tops were anywhere from $1.50 to $3.00. You may have to do some digging to find what you are after, but the Idaho Youth Ranch keeps things in very good order by size, color and item type.
All of these clothes were in excellent condition. In fact, a few still had the original tags from the store where they were sold brand new. At the end of the day, my wallet is happy, and I have done something good for the community and the environment. There are 29 Idaho Youth Ranch Stores in Idaho. If you haven't gone shopping in one before you should! It's a great way to support Idaho's Youth!!!
If you are a child or family that is in trouble or could use some help contact The Idaho Youth Ranch toll-free at 877-841-8141.


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Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times: A Collection of All Original Essays from Today's (and Tomorrow's) Young Authors on the State of the Art ... Hustle--in the Age of Information Overload
By Kevin Smokler
Her Privates We (AKA: The Middle Parts of Fortune)
By Frederic Manning
Born in Australia, novelist and poet Frederic Manning moved to England in his early life and used to be an off-and-on presence there for a lot of his lifestyles. Spurred to safeguard his followed place of birth, Manning enlisted to serve in international battle I. This fictionalized account of his experiences—initially released anonymously—offers a gripping look at the ancient interval and the consequences of early 20th century trench struggle.
Presidential Mission (The Lanny Budd Novels)
individuals of the German excessive command think that American paintings professional Lanny Budd is sympathetic to their reason, yet for the reason that 1938 he has been an secret agent operating for President Franklin Roosevelt. Now, in 1941, the us has been pulled into the fray through the japanese assault on Pearl Harbor, and Lanny's companies are required greater than ever.
In Algiers he needs to persuade the French troops to face with the Allies previous to the Axis invasion. a gathering in Moscow, meant to sway Communist despot Joseph Stalin, precedes Hitler's disastrous choice to invade Russia. Over the process the subsequent years, Lanny faces dying at nearly each flip as his very important presidential missions hold him from the sands of the African wilderness to the bomb-blasted streets of Berlin.
Presidential Mission is the electrifying 8th bankruptcy of Upton Sinclair's Pulitzer Prize–winning dramatization of twentieth-century global heritage. An amazing mixture of event, romance, and political intrigue, the Lanny Budd Novels are a testomony to the breathtaking scope of the author's imaginative and prescient and his singular abilities as a storyteller.
Wounded: A New History of the Western Front in World War I
The variety of squaddies wounded in international conflict I is, in itself, devastating: over 21 million army wounded, and approximately 10 million killed. at the battlefield, the wounds have been stunning, in contrast to something these within the scientific box had ever witnessed. The bullets hit speedy and difficult, went deep and took bits of soiled uniform and airborne soil debris in with them. Soldier after soldier got here in with the main dreaded different types of casualty: lousy, deep, ragged wounds to their heads, faces and abdomens. And but the scientific body of workers confronted with those unbelievable accidents tailored with impressive flair, pondering and reacting on their ft to avoid wasting thousands of lives.
In Wounded, Emily Mayhew tells the background of the Western entrance from a brand new standpoint: the clinical community that arose doubtless in a single day to assist ailing and injured squaddies. those women and men pulled injured troops from the hellscape of trench, shell crater, and no man's land, transported them to the rear, and taken care of them for every thing from foot rot to poison gasoline, venereal affliction to hectic amputation from exploding shells. Drawing on 1000s of letters and diary entries, Mayhew permits readers to look over the shoulder of the stretcher bearer who jumped right into a trench and attempted unsuccessfully to get a tightly packed line of squaddies out of ways, purely to discover that they have been all lifeless. She takes us into dugouts the place rescue groups woke up to airborne dirt and dust thrown on their faces by way of ratings of terrified moles, digging frantically to flee the earth-shaking shellfire. Mayhew strikes her account alongside the direction via wounded males, from stretcher to help station, from jolting ambulance to crowded working tent, from railway station to the send domestic, exploring real situations of casualties who recorded their stories.
Both finished and intimate, this groundbreaking ebook captures a regularly overlooked element of the soldier's international and a transformative second in army and clinical history.
A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today
For greater than part a century, it's been well known that the Treaty of Versailles, based on retribution opposed to Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, created the situations that led necessarily to global warfare II. much less stated and understood is the treaty's profound effect on many different elements of the world―an influence that echoes to this present day throughout Asia, the Balkans, and through the heart East.
In A Shattered Peace, veteran overseas correspondent David A. Andelman takes a clean new examine the Treaty of Versailles because the element of foundation for lots of of today's most crucial foreign concerns. This revealing heritage exposes the robust classes six-month interval in a protracted in the past period has for us today.
Andelman turns the highlight at the many mistakes devoted through the peacemakers that without delay resulted in crises and bloodshed from Algeria to Kosovo and wars from Israel to Vietnam. targeting the small international locations and minor gamers on the negotiations, together with figures corresponding to Ho Chi Minh and Charles de Gaulle who might later develop into significant names, he lines the result of the deliberations throughout the background of the 20th century and into the twenty-first. His end is ominous: not just did the paternalism, lack of information, and self-serving procedure of the good Powers who sculpted the treaty result in disastrous results that have been anticipated on the time, yet present guidelines of the world's built international locations proceed to copy and reaffirm those related mistakes.
Andelman additionally paints a brilliant photograph of the glittering and infrequently chaotic social whirl that followed the negotiations. Elsa Maxwell threw her first social gathering; younger Franklin Delano Roosevelt flirted with Parisian widows to the humiliation of his spouse, Eleanor; princesses and younger gents in formal dresses danced gaily to the recent new sound of yank jazz―all this as best ministers Georges Clemenceau and David Lloyd George ogled large maps, dividing up territories and cementing their international locations' positions as major international powers for many years to come.
Complete with a brand new preface via Sir Harold Evans, a brand new advent from the writer, and a never-before-published bankruptcy on developing an international economic climate, in addition to insightful quotations from the diaries and correspondence of individuals and formerly unpublished pictures of the complaints and their atmosphere, A Shattered Peace will swap how you take into consideration twentieth-century historical past, its impact on present occasions, and the place we must always cross from right here.
The World Crisis, Vol. 5 (Winston Churchill's World Crisis Collection)
The 5th and final quantity of Churchill's five-volume sequence the area challenge tells a gritty, true-to-life account of the jap Front—written through a person whose judgements had a profound influence at the luck of warfare efforts either within the East and within the West.
While the conflict for contemporary civilization was once being fought at the Western entrance in the course of international battle I, an both vital war—with both excessive stakes—was being fought at the japanese entrance, among Russia, Germany, and Germany's Austrian allies.
It's infrequent ancient account of global warfare I files in as a lot aspect the occasions of the japanese entrance as these of the West. Churchill's account was once one of many first to take action, telling the tale of an armed clash that used to be shockingly assorted from its counterpart within the West.
Sir Winston Churchill used to be provided the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 "for his mastery of old and biographical description in addition to for excellent oratory in protecting exalted human values."
Over a 64-year span, Churchill released over forty books, many multi-volume definitive bills of historic occasions to which he used to be a witness and player. All are superbly written and as available and appropriate at the present time as while first published.
During his fifty-year political profession, Churchill served two times as best Minister as well as different well known positions—including President of the Board of alternate, First Lord of the Admiralty, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and residential Secretary. within the Thirties, Churchill used to be one of many first to acknowledge the chance of the emerging Nazi strength in Germany and to crusade for rearmament in Britain. His management and encouraged publicizes and speeches in the course of international conflict II helped enhance British resistance to Adolf Hitler—and performed a massive half within the Allies' eventual triumph.
One of the main inspiring wartime leaders of contemporary background, Churchill used to be additionally an orator, a historian, a journalist, and an artist. All of those elements of Churchill are absolutely represented during this choice of his works.
Rarely are occasions that fluctuate the realm documented via a key player, an individual who was once instrumental in making the army and political judgements that may form the end result of a global struggle. Winston Churchill's the realm predicament presents the last word insider account—of a conflict meant to finish all wars, a battle so violent it virtually undid the West altogether.
The international challenge presents a sweeping narrative of the occasions of worldwide struggle I that's either gripping and traditionally detailed—based on hundreds of thousands of personal letters and memos written to and via Churchill on the time. Nowhere else is the impression of this warfare so good conveyed through an eyewitness and historian—and so compellingly written.
Tommy's War: The Western Front in Soldiers' Words and Photographs
Shortly after photographs of the recognized Christmas Truce of 1914 came upon their method into nationwide newspapers in Britain, the army experts banned the personal use of cameras at the Western entrance. a variety of infantrymen persevered to exploit them illicitly to list lifestyles and demise within the frontline trenches. millions of these images live on this day, such a lot by no means released before―Tommy's War is a deeply own and highly revealing portrait of the conflict throughout the lenses and phrases of the warriors who lived it.
Not a conventional historical past of global struggle I―not easily the army's background of battles received and lost―Tommy's War is before everything the soldier's tale. well known WWI historian Richard van Emden finds the lifetime of the standard soldier, utilizing own pictures, diaries, letters domestic, and observations of the normal guy and the trivia of existence within the trenches. In vibrant and intimate element, van Emden brings the heritage of WWI alive.
Including over 250 own and unpublished photos, this large-format e-book supplies a brand new point of view at the battle that was once now not captured by way of the authentic photographers who traversed the Western entrance. mixed with extracts from own diaries and letters written by way of infantrymen and civilians in Britain via every year of the conflict till Armistice Day in 1918, Tommy's War is a beautiful portrayal of humanity, at its top and at its worst.
U-boats of the Kaiser's Navy (New Vanguard)
As was once the case in global struggle II, one of many maximum threats to Britain in the course of global conflict i used to be the German U-boat risk. This booklet lines the improvement of the U-boat probability from the Brandtaucher, designed through Wilhelm Bauer, the daddy of the German submarine arm, in 1850, via to the commissioning of Germany's first U-boat to enter carrier, the U-1, in 1906. It then covers the most different types of international conflict I U-boat, detailing the operational heritage of the U-boat provider extensive, with a specific specialise in the campaigns within the Atlantic and Mediterranean, in addition to the gradual increase of anti-submarine measures through the allies.
1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
By Charles Emmerson
In this illuminating heritage, Charles Emmerson liberates the area of 1913 from this "prelude to conflict" narrative, and explores it because it used to be, in all its richness and complexity. touring from Europe's capitals, then on the peak in their international succeed in, to the rising metropolises of Canada and the us, the imperial towns of Asia and Africa, and the boomtowns of Australia and South the United States, he presents a wide ranging view of a global crackling with percentages, its destiny nonetheless unsure, its outlook nonetheless open.
The international in 1913 was once extra sleek than we bear in mind, extra just like our personal instances than we think, extra globalized than ever sooner than. The most appropriate underpinned worldwide flows of products and funds, whereas mass migration reshaped the world's human geography. Steamships and sub-sea cables encircled the earth, besides new applied sciences and new principles. Ford's first meeting line cranked to lifestyles in 1913 in Detroit. The Woolworth development went up in ny. whereas Mexico used to be in the middle of bloody revolution, Winnipeg and Buenos Aires boomed. An period of petro-geopolitics opened in Iran. China awaking from its imperial shut eye. Paris celebrated itself because the urban of light—Berlin because the urban of electricity.
Full of attention-grabbing characters, tales, and insights, 1913: looking for the realm prior to the nice War brings a misplaced international vividly again to lifestyles, with provocative implications for the way we comprehend our previous and the way we predict approximately our destiny.
Guerrilla Leader: T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt
Reclaiming T. E. Lawrence from hype and legend, James J. Schneider deals a startling reexamination of this leader's severe function in shaping the trendy center East. simply how did this vague British junior intelligence officer, unschooled within the paintings of struggle, develop into "Lawrence of Arabia" and encourage a loosely affiliated cluster of desolate tract tribes to band jointly in an all-or-nothing insurgency opposed to their Turkish overlords? The solutions have profound implications for our time besides, as a brand new iteration of revolutionaries pulls pages from Lawrence's playbook of abnormal warfare.
Blowing up trains and harassing offer strains with dynamite and audacity, Lawrence drove the strong armies of the Ottoman Turks to distraction and taken the Arabs to the threshold of self-determination. yet his good fortune hinged on greater than simply cutting edge strategies: As he immersed himself in Arab tradition, Lawrence discovered conventional Western-style hierarchical command constitution couldn't paintings in a tribal approach the place warriors lead not just a military yet a whole group. Weaving quotations from Lawrence's personal writings with the histories of his maximum campaigns, Schneider indicates how this stranger in an odd land advanced over the years into the version of the self-reflective, allowing chief who eschews glory for himself yet as an alternative seeks to empower his fans. Guerrilla Leader additionally deals a necessary research of Lawrence's leading edge theories of insurgency and their relevance to the continued turmoil within the center East.
This exhaustively researched booklet additionally presents a close account of the Arab insurrection, from the beautiful attack at the port urban of Aqaba to the bloody, Pyrrhic victory at Tafileh, the single set-piece conflict Lawrence fought through the nice Arab insurrection. Lawrence emerged from the latter event bodily and mentally tired, incapable of constant as an army commander, and, Schneider asserts, within the early levels of the post-traumatic rigidity ailment that might bedevil him for the remainder of his life. the writer then contains the narrative ahead to the ultimate slaughter of the Turks at Tafas and the Arabs' final victory at Damascus.
With insights into Lawrence's perspectives on self-discipline, his worry of failure, and his enduring impression on army management within the twenty-first century, Guerrilla Leader is a bracingly clean tackle one of many nice matters of the fashionable era.
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by HeartEternal Staff 7/7/2017
Family photos are cherished keepsakes, a true snapshot of a moment in time that freezes everyone right then and there for eternity. Professional photographers aim to have everyone looking at the camera, in the same direction, at the same time. But when you throw in kids, things can turn chaotic quickly.
Whether the adorable kids featured in a family photo are cranky, crying, aren't interested in sitting still or could care less about smiling for the camera, family photos can be a hoot. It's also a boon when a photographer or family gets creative with the setting and props like Chrissy Roussell of Louisiana and her family did.
In a fun photo session at the beach in front of rolling ocean waves during a family trip, Chrissy's parents lined up their cutie pie grandkids from their six adult children in colorful, color-coded and numbered T-shirts. The colors signify the six family units and the numbers placed the kids in birth order.
The 15 girls and two boys embraced each other, smiling and giggling for the camera. Even more miraculous is that 11 of the kids are younger than age five, but they were ecstatic to be involved in the big photo shoot.
They wee ones were so thrilled with their new, special shirts and being together on the beach with their older siblings and cousins that the photographer, who also happened to be one of the kids' moms, was able to fire off some beautiful photos.
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Floridian Katie Fox, Chrissy's sister-in-law, owns Annabelle Rose Photography and said it was a snap to get the kids in place for the photo. She had the perfect system.
"When we were lining them up for the picture, we shouted out each number and each child proudly marched down to his or her spot, smiling ear-to-ear. It was actually pretty easy to get the littlest ones to stand still, because they were so happy to be a part of all the excitement!"
This family photo was a family affair, too. The clever shirts were created by Chrissy's sister Maryellen.
What's super sweet about the photo is that the patriarch of the family, the kids' grandpa, passed away a few years ago. Not long after her dad perished, Chrissy found out she was pregnant with spontaneous triplet girls, which added to her fun of already having three daughters.
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Adding to the family's excitement was that the only two boys in this brood were conceived that month, too. Those five grandbabies are fondly referred to as the Frederick Five in honor of their grandpa.
This photo serves as a beautiful tribute to both grandparents who are so blessed to have such a wonderful legacy. How amazing to have so many first cousins in such a big and fun-loving family!
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"The MPC5200 processor has seen great success in the automotive market," said Bill Pfaff, vice president and di rector for Motorola's Digital Audio, Radio & Telematics group. "Besides extended temperature qualification and long-term availability that are typical in this industry, new markets can now enjoy its data transfer and processing power as well. The real-tim e functionality, multi-process capabilities and rich networking provided by the MontaVista Linux Professional Edition make this industry-leading embedded operating system a perfect complement."
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For lovers of modern architecture and ice-cream, Helsinki is a treasure trove
While skiing, ice fishing, Northern lights and Santa may entice some visitors to Finland in the winter, Helsinki is best enjoyed in the height of summer. It's just the time to explore the exceptional, contemporary spaces that give Helsinki its architectural lustre.travel Updated: Dec 04, 2014 14:50 IST
The people of Finland will tell you that although they're Nordic, like their Swedish, Norwegian and Danish neighbours, they are not Scandinavian. Their language has its roots in the Finno-Ugric group, which is closer to Estonian and Hungarian. The Finns enjoy unusual and spectacular geography; vast forests of pine, birch and spruce are embedded with a sprinkling of over 1,80,000 lakes, and there are over 300 islands in the Baltic Sea off Helsinki alone with nature trails overlooking sea views.
Much wildlife is sheltered in the woods, such as lynx and wolverines, and Sami folks in the north raise herds of reindeer. Finland is one of Europe's wealthiest countries, with the top educational system. Fins tend to be quiet and introverted and they partake vast amounts of coffee and alcohol. They've embraced the idea of enduring long, dark winters indoors by making their homes beautiful.
Stoking the sauna and reading to the kids about the adventures of Moomintroll by the fireside are some simple pleasures they enjoy. Timo Salli, a designer and professor, has an amusing description of his people: "We're stranger than we think we are. We're isolated, with a strange language and we still have a foot in the forest."
While skiing, ice fishing, sighting the Northern lights and visiting Santa may entice some visitors to Finland in the winter, Helsinki is best enjoyed in the height of summer when the sun moves in, and the elongated, golden evenings draw people out to the waterside cafes and bars. Lovers of modern architecture and design are especially drawn to Helsinki.
While Alvar Alto made his name in the 1930s by pioneering the technique of bending wood to make furniture, Marimekko's colourful printed fabrics, Iittala's glass collectables and Arabia's ceramics are some of the best known Finnish products that can be sourced within walking distance of Helsinki's Design District.
An island near Helsinki
We explored the exceptional, contemporary spaces that give Helsinki its architectural lustre. Our sprightly and knowledgeable guide, Maria Hanninen, walked us around the city, to the music-filled Rock Church, a beautiful place of worship set amid granite rocks with a copper wire and glass dome.
In the Kamppi Chapel, also known as the Place of Silence, we were engulfed in an exquisitely crafted, oval sweep of wood with a halo of daylight from above. The Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum's space was just as uplifting as the installations within. Wandering through the Katajanokka neighbourhood took us back to the Art Nouveau period.
The turrets, Juliet balconies and colourful facades are a contrast to the contemporary Finnish edifices. It's steps away from a sprawling harbour that is dotted with bars and cafes, where seagulls dive-bomb unsuspecting people enjoying a bite, especially at the lively Market Square.
The Finns are lovers of ice-cream, and following the long lineup at the Helsingin Jaatelotehdas kiosk, we tried black liquorice flavour and developed an addiction. Ferries plying the Baltic lured us with quick access to Stockholm, St Petersburg and Tallin. Instead, we boarded a small one for the picturesque Suomenlinna Island, and in 15 minutes, we too had one foot in the Finnish forest.
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Humanoid reptilian with bow and short sword in 1/56 scale (Casanii Scout #2) from World of Twilight - Miniature figure review
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Miniature: Casanii Scout #2
Set: -
Species: Humanoid alien - Humanoid Reptilian - Casanii
Role: Warrior
Equipment: light armour, bow, short sword
Features: Human-sized (S3) Humanoid Reptilian (Humanoid) Warrior in light armour, with bow and short sword.
Humanoid - Humanoid reptilian / Human-sized (S3) humanoid - Human-sized (S3) Humanoid reptilian
Humanoid with melee weapon - Human-sized (S3) humanoid with melee weapon / Humanoid reptilian with melee weapon
Archaic miniature, Archaic humanoid, Human-sized (S3) Archaic humanoid, Human-sized (S3) Fantasy humanoid, Human-sized (S3) Ancient humanoid,
Category: Human-sized (S3) Humanoid reptilian warrior in light armour, with bow and short sword
Technology: Fantasy / Ancient (Archaic)
Range: World of Twilight - Fubarnii Empire - Civilian
Company: World of Twilight
Material: White metal
Priming: Primer is necessary
Scale: 1:56 (28mm / 32mm) according to the maker
Proportions: Realistic (probably)
Size: 30mm high
Assembly: ?
Posing: Hard
Paintjob: Unpainted
Base: Tabbed for slottabase
Sculptor: Mike Thorp
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Uses for games
- World of Twilight: Casanii Scout
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- Abyssals: Lower Abyssal
- Goblin (proxy): Goblin Rabble, Goblin Spitter
- Deadzone: ?
- Warhammer Fantasy Battles: Lizardman Skink
- Warhammer: Age of Sigmar: Seraphon Skink
- Warhammer 40.000: Alien
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Base price (Casanii Scout #2): 6 GBP
Base set price (Casanii Starter Force): 35 GBP, Price/mini: ca. 3,5 GBP
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Just last week Google acquired Boston Dynamics, a robotics company famous for developing robots for the U.S. military and DARPA. This brings the total number of robotics firms under Google's wing to eight in just six months, and more are expected to join them in the near future.
Boston Dynamics is the most recent convert, but other buys include Redwood Robots, which made programmable robotic arms, and Holomni, which was developing robotic wheels. These two purchases make sense for a company that is embarking on manufacturing and robotic car ventures. However, the militarily skewed work of Boston Dynamics sheds a somewhat more menacing light on the rainbow colored internet companion. These acquisitions come among rumors that Google is working on getting its own robotics start up off the ground and this goes a long way in in solidifying these suspicions.
Boston Dynamics is responsible for the creation of several robots designed to be used by the U.S. military under such names as BigDog, WildCat, and Cheetah. Several YouTube videos of each machine have generated millions of views of BigDog intelligently traversing ice, rubble, and mud while carrying hundreds of pounds of equipment that would otherwise be strapped to soldiers. Also their robot WildCat smoothly galloping and bounding up to 16 miles per hour, to Cheetah sprinting at more than 28 miles per hour.
Other work by Boston Dynamics includes PetMan, a humanoid robot that just finished walking trials and will be used to test chemical protection suits, and Atlas, another humanoid machine designed for search and rescue missions. The work is all very impressive, but there is some concern that it will be used in harmful ways, given that Boston Dynamics is a branch of the Pentagon. Google has said that all of the companies they have acquired will honor their existing contracts but it has no intention of becoming a military research company itself.
Much of the speculation swirling around Google's motives in adding another robotics firms has to do with concern over what a company with access to the personal information of billions of people, detailed maps of the entire world, and now the means to fashion and produce any conceivable kind of robotic minion will do with such capabilities. Combined with Google's machine learning algorithms, heavily tested and fine tuned by their years of internet search mastery, highly intelligent and adaptable robots seem to be the inevitable result, despite their intended purpose remaining unclear.
There is significant evidence that Google is simply preparing for the eventual loss of income that relying purely on advertisement impressions will eventually cause. Branching out into projects that seem completely unrelated to the goal of the company as a whole, has become something of a trademark of Google. In recent years, Google sunk resources into life extensions, Wi-Fi balloons, ultra high speed internet. and self driving cars.
By adding another robotics company it is unclear what Google is trying to expand. Their dominance into the real world or is indeed simply insuring its future is yet to be seen. Whatever results come from the gradual shifting of focus seen at Google are sure to raise eye brows if not profits in the future.
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Erosion threatens Guyana's coastal mangroves
Mangroves, they are our natural defence against the raging tide and rising sea level; however this unique ecosystem is threatened by the cyclic erosion/accretion that occurs along Guyana's coastline.
The National Research & Extension Institute, Mangrove Department is currently monitoring the effects of erosion on coastal mangroves in Region 3, 4 and 6. The erosion process, which occurs in 20-30 year cycles, is impacting several naturally regenerated and planted restoration sites at Hope Beach, Wellington Park, Greenfield and several villages along West Coast Demerara.
The coast of Guyana is part of a 1600 km-long muddy coastal system dominated by massive mud banks that migrate from the mouth of the Amazon River to that of the Orinoco in Venezuela. According to a study completed by Professors Antony and Gardel in 2013, the dynamics of the Guyana coastline are strongly hinged on pulses of mud abundance or scarcity embedded in multi-year cycles of mud-bank activity and inter-bank phases. The cyclic mud-bank phases regulate mangrove regeneration by providing a substrate for extremely rapid and large-scale colonization from older mangrove colonies and vigorous tree growth.
According to Ranata Robertson, Coastal Engineer at the University of Guyana, erosion can be caused by this natural process and by human or man-made interventions. For example, building structures beyond the seawall/within the sea defence area alters or disrupts the natural movement of sediments, hence, resulting in erosion.
Robertson noted that it is important for Guyana to conduct ongoing research to determine the movement of these mud banks and the associated erosion cycle. Studies to map and model coastline retreat and advance are critical areas of research that needs to be integrated into a long term coastal zone management program. Collaborative studies have been ongoing with the University of Guyana Civil Engineering Department, NAREI's Mangrove Restoration Programme and Sea & River Defence Division to better understand and model this cyclic process, she noted.
Robertson related that Mangroves are considered as primary sea defence. The role of coastal mangroves in Guyana is to dissipate or reduce wave energy along the coastline. They not only complement hard coastal defence structures but help with the environmental conservation and cost of maintaining hard structures.
While mangroves are subjected to cyclic erosion, studies conducted on Guyana's coastal mangroves have proven that a mangrove bandwidth of 50m-80m is required to reduce a 3m high wave to approximately 0.01meters. In the areas where mangroves are not present, severe over-topping occurs (along Kingston and Sheriff Street) which results in increase cost for maintenance works over a period of time, she added.
According to Kene Moseley, head of NAREI's Mangrove Department, erosion of the shoreline is a natural process that affects mangrove forests. However, once the forest has adequate width, the mangroves have the potential to naturally restore itself when the cycle changes and there is accretion and deposition of sediments. This natural regeneration is however only possible provided that there are no other stress on the system.
The most recent example of the effect of erosion on mangroves was noted along of the West Coast Demerara, Region 3 shoreline. NAREI started monitoring the erosion along this stretch of shoreline in 2014 to assess the changing conditions and the impact on the status of the mangrove forest.
Moseley noted that during that period the monitoring team observed and documented extensive rapid erosion along the shoreline. Windsor Forest, Ruimzeight, Rotterdam and Crane were regarded as critical areas. The erosion had totally cleared mangroves from sections at Windsor forest, while the remaining sections of the forest continued to thin as trees were uprooted.
Last Thursday, NAREI and SRDD met with the La Jalousie/ Nouvelle Flanders Neighbourhood Democratic Council. The discussion centered on the loss of mangroves within the NDC and the current rip-rap sea defence project being constructed by Ministry of Public Infrastructure. Moseley presented an overview of the monitoring conducted by NAREI since 2014 showing the extent of the erosion and impact of the loss of the mangroves. She noted that the situation was also further impacted by excessive garbage dumping and harvesting by fishermen for fishing poles. SRDD District Engineer, Mr. Dennis Ramsingh, briefed NDC Councilors on the status of the rip-rap project and reassured that the works were being completed to reinforce the sea defence due to the loss of the mangroves. Due to the nature of the works, the remaining mangroves were cleared to facilitate placement of the boulders. NAREI will continue to work with SRDD to monitor changes in the cycle and elevation along this stretch of coastline.
With respect to the other sites, Moseley noted that this is the first time Hope Beach is experiencing erosion since the mangroves were restored in 2010. Meanwhile at Greenfield, the erosion of the mangrove forest is being monitored and research is being conducted on the implementation engineering projects that may reduce the impact of the erosion and save the remaining forest.


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Why are Liberals less tolerant than Conservatives?
The media seems to present Liberals as more progressive, open minded, tolerant and caring than Conservatives. And they portray Conservatives as backward, narrow, rigid and old fashioned.
I used to think that too, back in the 1990's during the Clinton Era. But I've come to realize that that may not be true after all and that it's most likely just media brainwashing again and their tendency to portray the opposite of what's true. Consider the following:
- Conservatives that I've known seem more tolerant and down to earth. If I don't agree with them, they will still be my friend. But with liberals, if I don't agree with them, they get angry and uptight and cease our friendship.
- Liberals are behind political correctness, which restricts free speech and often impedes the truth too, so that you can't be too honest around PC people. To me, that's an attempt to take away my freedom and free speech.
- Liberals are behind multi-culturalism, which has proven to be a disaster. Races tend to stick in cliques and there is hostile tension between them, like in LA for example. It's brought down society and made it very segregated. On the other hand, in the 1950's, when America was predominantly all white, the country was the most successful and prosperous and efficient. There was no breakdown of society and culture, or segregation.
- Liberals are also behind feminism, which instills a man-hating attitude in women which makes them very unfeminine and unattractive to men. No normal guy likes masculine women.
Neither extreme on either side is good. And as a Libertarian, I'm not for either Liberals or Conservatives. But that's my take on it.
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Ted Kaczynski has a good description of the psychology of the modern left in his thesis "Industrial Society and It's Future".
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That's very true. I read that treatise a long time ago. It was very intellectual and impressive. It's hard to believe that that guy was sending out bombs through the mail. He seemed too smart for that. I wonder if there's any conspiracy behind that. When he got arrested, he looked like he didn't even care.
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It's one of the most insightful essays I have read. He was a child prodigy and a mathematical genius. He could have been a math professor at the University of Berkeley which is the most prestigious math department in the world along with Princeton.
His writings have been compiled in the book "Technological Slavery". His thesis is that freedom and technology are not compatible and we need to return to a more simple form of life.
Sorry, Kaczynski Not a Good Source
For the life of me, I don't understand why anyone would use the ramblings of a terrorist to explain our political culture. Sorry, this is just beyond the pale to me. (Yeah, we're all freethinking here, but...f**k!)
If you want a good discussion of the Right v. Left dynamic from one of the greatest public intellectuals of our time, and who has written extensively and clearly on the subject for a long time, I suggest you first reference Dr. Thomas Sowell.
Here's just a little of what he has to say, all in one, everyday, humdrum column:
There. He just gave you the strongest case for liberty you ever heard, but will not be taught in the schools. No bombs required.
Read the rest here.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.
-T.E. Lawrence
I like reading sources like Kaczynski because he was an independent thinker and wasn't a bureaucrat or a pencil pusher. I really haven't seen anything that profound coming out of an institute. Institutes serve their elite sponsors and the employees automatically adopt the correct mindset so that they can pay their mortgage and raise their children. We have seen the disadvantage of the liberals, but the conservatives tend to be stilted and comformist to a society that doesn't work.
Kaczynski on conservatives:
"50. (fr) The conservatives are fools: They whine about
the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically
support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently
it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid,
drastic changes in the technology and the economy
of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects
of the society as well, and that such rapid changes
inevitably break down traditional values."
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Sowell's theoretical musings -- and similar hot air from Milton Friedman and the rest of the "free market" theorists -- are ahistorical and completely unhinged from actual politics on the ground in the US. In current-day America they serve only one function -- as cover for the predations of the financial sector and the rest of the corporate oligarchy.
No, I think you're more likely to get something approximating truth from a misfit outsider such as Kascynski than you are from these comfy old house apologists for wealth and power. And I speak as someone who once was the latter, as an employee of the Heritage Foundation and a Republican congressman, and editorial writer for a couple of conservative newspapers.
I know, I know the "false Left/Right paradigm." So, you are convinced of this and cannot imagine anything of value from the incredible amount of material written by both the left and right think tanks.
I read Kaczynski's manifesto in 1993, when you could only get it in libraries because the newspapers wouldn't publish it.
Sorry, I was not impressed then and found what he said a rehash a certain libertarian/environmental themes that were better said elswhere and well before Ted escaped the Harvard MKULTRA lab and set up shop in Montana. (Szasz, Albee, Lasch, Rothbard)
Oh, and it appears that he has inspired greatness.
Parts of the manifesto written by the suspect in Norway's terrorist attack were taken almost word for word from the writings of "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski.
The passages copied by Anders Behring Breivik appear in the first few pages of Kaczynski's manifesto. Breivik changed a Kaczynski screed on leftism and what he considered to be leftists' "feelings of inferiority" -- mainly by substituting the words "multiculturalism" or "cultural Marxism" for "leftism."
In the same article:
Former FBI Agent Terry Turchie, who supervised the federal task force to capture the Unabomber, said Sunday that he saw similarities between the two men.
"They seem to have this anger, the loner aspect, this desire to look back at the way things were and think of themselves as self-reliant," said Turchie, who wrote "Hunting the American Terrorist: The FBI's War on Homegrown Terror" in 2007.
"The real problem is these loners are much more difficult to find and prevent from killing people than other kinds of terrorists," he said.
So, if we are going to scoff at guys like Sowell and embrace the Unabomber, when the inevitable cause of this effect comes to my front door (because I am apparently shill for the predatory class) I hope you don't mind if I ...er...defend myself.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible.
-T.E. Lawrence
You don't really know the full story. Apparently, Kaczynski went to Montana and bought a cabin in remote country and was hoping to permanently live in peace. He soon found himself being harassed by development interests. He felt that he was defending himself once he realized that there was no corner of the earth where he could escape out-of-control civilization. Even a dog will fight when cornered. In any case, to dismiss his works because he did something naughty is typical conformist thinking. His works should be evaluated for the merit of his arguments. And his arguments are well reasoned and worthy of consideration. The conservative think tanks are devoted to economic growth, profits, and other considerations of their masters. If there is a decision to be made between a small successful community or destroying that community to create progress, the conservatives will justify the destroying of the community and use platitudes to convince themselves that progress is ultimately better for everyone. Sorry, but I am not buying it. They are not real conservatives. I do respect the Amish, Mennonites, and other groups who have chosen the way of peace. They put their community as the premiere value. I think they are real conservatives and have more to offer than the pencil pushers.
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I got these adorable red velvet stickers at Michaels the other day. But I made a little deal with myself that I can't buy craft supplies unless I plan to use them right away. Otherwise the supplies sit in my drawers taking up space and continue to go un-used. ESPECIALLY stickers. I thought I came up with a good use for these though. I stuck them on a piece of craft wood and made a little plaque. I might hang it on the wall but I kind of like the look of it perched on my bookshelf.
I also got a couple of shaker boxers so I could steal an idea from the Hambly Screen Prints blog. These super-cute run-ons are an example of a craft supply item that was purchased a long time ago and never used. I think they make pretty cute gift boxes, don't you?
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the velvet stickers are very much beautiful and they looked good on the piece of wood. the little porcupine is specially cute!
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- Pink Petunia Designs said...
So cute. I love the sticker idea. Good for you that you are only going to buy what you are going to use. I need to do the same.
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- Chrissy said...
Love the velvet sicker plaque. Love its simplicity and thing it would be perfect for someone decorating a child's room. Featured it today: www.onecraftyplace.com
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- dana said...
I love the velvet sticker plaque. What a cute idea. And the stickers are from Michael's??? Who would have thought?! They look like some little boutique, etsy shop.
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I love how your spiced up those boxes with those cute stickers. Super simple, but looks like it took alot of time and effort.
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2:30 p.m.
The federal government will provide $2 million in aid to help repair damage from this week's potent storms in the Northwest.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said the federal government is making $1 million available to Oregon to help repair roads and bridges damaged by the torrential rains that flooded the state this week.
The Federal Highway Administration on Friday said it's also giving $1 million in emergency relief funds to Washington state, where flooding, landslides and erosion closed many roads.
The preliminary estimate of damage in Oregon, according to the federal government, is $15 million — including at least $5 million to state highways.
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Two surfers have been rescued from choppy waters in Ventura County, just up the coast from where huge waves from a large Pacific swell damaged a popular pier and inundated low-lying streets.
County fire Capt. Mike Lindbery says the man and woman in their 20s were unhurt after being plucked from the water at Mondos Beach.
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Lindbery says the beach often has a good surf break, but not Friday as the state feels the effects of a departing storm and another one approaches. The Southern California coast is under a high surf advisory through Sunday, with unpredictable waves topping 10 feet.
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Regulating defined benefit pension schemes
Open date: 02 December 2013
Closing date: 07 February 2014
Response date: 10 June 2014
Consultation on a revised code of practice for defined benefit (DB) scheme funding, a new DB regulatory strategy and a revised DB funding policy which, together, set out our regulatory approach to DB schemes and to DB funding.
Consultation response
- Consultation response: regulating defined benefit pension schemes (PDF, 127kb, 22 pages)
- Essential guide to the DB code (PDF, 70kb, 9 pages)
- Code of practice 3: funding defined benefits (PDF, 401kb, 51 pages)
- Defined benefit regulatory strategy (PDF, 163kb, 13 pages)
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In December 2013 we published a consultation on a revised code of practice for DB scheme funding, new DB regulatory strategy and revised DB funding policy.
One of the drivers for developing and consulting on a new approach was to take account of our new statutory objective 'to minimise any adverse impact on the sustainable growth of an employer' when undertaking our funding functions. The government's aim in providing us with this new objective was to ensure that the funding regime is sufficiently flexible and does not act as a brake on investment and growth, recognising the vital importance of economically viable and healthy employers to schemes.
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as we lead up to my mega super duper post - I'd like to give credit to another cocksucker.
Mon. 2am Aladdin tourney - 20 players - and one dude bought in for his friend who's not there - he shows up 45 min late - 21 - pimply - tons of attitude with him from Jersey - he's a prick - wants to play me in NL when I make a crack and I want him out of the game. He keeps trying to get me in a NL game and I'm wondering why since I don't think he's that good.
We get to one table - we draw cards and he's picking them up, not liking the seat, throwing it down and grabbing another one - a player complained to the floor and we redrew but he wouldn't tone it down. 8 handed, and he's in the BB and he makes this big gesture "I'm all in" and we're like - Dude - you haven't seen your cards, you're out of position - STFU.
WELL - a player min raises just past him...one call with AK suited near me, and the kid's gonna muck - well - the first Min raiser insisted the floor come over and the floor rules that IF the kid said he was all-in - even out of position, then he was making action taht affected other players and he HAD to push all in - I loved it. He had 79 and ran into the min-raiser's KK and an AK suited - actually AK took it down - it was great - and he was gone in 8th.
I tell him to go back to the Bellagio and keep my NL 1/2 seat warm and I'll see him there - mostly to make him go away - after the previous night that I'm writing about, I have no intentions of joining a game with such a prick. He goes "I don't play 1/2 - I play 10/25" - but finally he vanishes.
Later I ask his bud if he really played 10/25 -
"well, yah - well, dude - his dad's a millionaire and he's loaded so yah, his family is rich."
:) - daddy's money - I'm impressed