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A recruiter's top 8 tips for getting your dream job
1. Perfect your CV.
Unless you're applying for a job in the creative industries, your CV should be plain black and white with no coloured titles or fancy fonts (Comic Sans will make a recruiter vom in their mouths) and try to keep it on no more than two pages.
Bullet points work well, as no one has time to sit and read a novel. Don't include photographs, it can unprofessional (even if you did spend twenty minutes perfecting that selfie.) Lastly, very few people actually read your personal statement, so keep it down to just one or two lines about your interests.
2. Apply, apply, apply.
Apply even if you don't have every single requirement on the job ad. Job ads are written around the idea of the perfect candidate, when a lot of the time, the perfect candidate isn't available or doesn't exist, so take a punt and apply anyway! This said, keep it realistic. Don't apply to be a plastic surgeon if you've just worked as a waitress for the last five years…
3. Take a chance.
Find the appropriate contact at your dream company and send your CV in. They may not be advertising a vacancy, but there could be a space opening up in the pipeline, or someone could have just handed in their notice that morning. Worst comes to worst, if they really don't have vacancies, they will hopefully add your CV to a pile to look at when one does open up.
4. Stand out from the crowd.
Do your best to make your application remembered, without crossing a line. Try opening with a witty line, but don't overdo it to the point that you come across as unprofessional. Perhaps write a blog post about why you love the company you're applying to and send it to them, or send something physical in to support your application. If you get an interview, be sure to send in a thank you note or email afterwards so they won't forget you.
5. Don't always just accept no for an answer.
If you don't get the job, call up and ask why (politely!) Ask for genuine feedback and say that you're looking to improve for future applications. This can help you improve for further interviews, but also makes you look eager to learn. You never know, making that call could get you another interview.
6. Network!
LinkedIn is a dream, use it to its full potential and go to as many networking events as you can. It may not always be about 'who you know', but it can definitely help. The more contacts in your industry you make, the more chances you have to hear about new jobs in the market. Plus you usually get free nibbles and drinks at these events, so even if it sucks, at least you won't be hungry.
7. The Internet is your best friend.
Use it to your advantage. Create an online portfolio of your work, or a blog to write about your career achievements or ideas. Discuss market topics in forums, get involved with online networking. But please, for the love of all things good, make your Facebook profile private! No future employer wants to see pictures of you drunk in Ibiza dancing on Sergio's lap.
8. Chase things up.
If you applied to a role at your dream job 8 months ago and you missed out by a hair, send the HR contact you made an email to catch up. Say you're still interested and want to be kept in mind if anything else comes up. Sometimes they'll offer to go out for a coffee, and even if they don't, we bet you'll be the first person they think of when a similar role comes up again!


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Sex, STIs and gender
The various roles men and women are expected to play, also referred to as gender roles, are much more strictly defined in certain ethnic groups than in others. Do you wonder what macho behaviour is? Ever heard of a female condom? And what if a woman is attracted to another woman? Or a man to another man?
Male-female relations
In many cultures, male-female relationships are clearly defined, in which the male is usually the boss and the woman plays a submissive role. The man is often the family breadwinner, whereas the woman has children, looks after them and does the housework. What you are supposed to do as a man or a woman also has an impact on your relationship. Sex is often a difficult subject. For example, many women have never learnt to talk about using condoms, whereas using a condom is a good way of protecting yourself against STIs and unplanned pregnancies.
Macho behaviour?
Men are generally expected to be tough and strong. Men often view it as normal or accepted to have several sexual contacts or partners. Whereas a woman who has several sexual contacts is more likely to be seen as promiscuous or bad. Violence against women by men occurs in all cultures. Women are often dependent on men and cannot or are afraid to say 'no' if they don't want to have sex, for example, or if the man refuses to wear a condom.
But what about turning this on its head by saying that a man is touch and macho if he takes responsibility. By getting tested, by using a condom and by protecting his sexual partner. A man who looks after his wife and family is a tough man. He doesn't walk away from his responsibility.
Female condom
The female condom is a good way for a woman to be in control of her sex life. This condom is a small bag made of plastic with two rings attached. One ring is inserted into the end of the vagina and the other stays outside the body, against the labia. You can insert the female condom well in advance and it protects against STIs, including HIV. This means that as a woman you are not dependent on whether or not a man is prepared to use a condom.Tips and tricks on condom use and aninstruction video.


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We are pleased to announce that, in April, Dr Veenema will be joining the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing as an Associate Professor in the Department of Community-Public Health. While she will still be maintaining a leadership role here at the Tener Consulting Group LLC, we all wish her the very best on this new endeavor.
In addition to her primary role at the School of Nursing, Dr Veenema has also joined the faculty of the at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response.
Read more at: http://nursing.johnshopkins.edu/dailyson/daily_son_blog/date/2013/4/2


text: April is finally here (am I alone in thinking that it felt like winter would never end?), which means new lunch and dinner menus at A Toute Heure! Dennis and I were lucky enough to go there for dinner last week and taste some of the deliciousness they're offering this month. I can't recommend the pork belly appetizer highly enough, and we both loved our entrees – rabbit for me, chicken for him. Make sure you stop by this month, and if you go let me know what you end up having!


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Captain Beefheart - Legendary A&M Sessions (1966)
This CD contains the first ever "official" release of "Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band" (later changed to "Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band") and Don Van Vliet's first official song release, "Who Do You Think You're Fooling". What an entrance. All of the songs, except maybe "Moonchild", showcase the skills of the early Beefheart: his amazing gravel-textured engine-roaring vocals that sound like a voice singing through fire; the skippy rock rhythms and catchy twangy guitar riffs; and the first stirrings of Van Vliet's ultimate lyrical direction. This is a great collection of songs, and a great start to an amazing recording career that didn't end until Van Vliet's self-imposed musical exile in 1982. As this CD proves, he came in as he went out: with a huge bang.
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05.Here I Am I Always Am
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In this article, we'll cover the different aspects of filters:
Property Meld allows you to filter and sort melds by a variety of criteria; such as creation date, tenant rating, assigned maintenance, and more. You can save these criteria under a custom filter for quick access. These saved filters will be displayed under the "Shared Filters" and "Private Filters" section of your dashboard along with the number of melds that each list has. Each user will have a set of filters generated for them initially, but this list can be changed to suit what melds you are most interested in keeping tabs on.
1. Navigate to your 'MELDS' section:
2. Filter your melds using the "FILTER" drop-down and select how you want the melds to be sorted.
3. Click the "Save" button
4. Before saving you can choose to create a new filter or overwrite an existing filter with the criteria that you currently have applied.
5. Select "Make default" for this saved filter to be your default view when you click the "Melds" link from the navigation bar at the top of your screen. This default will be for you only. Other users in your organization will have their own default.
6. Check the "private" box if you want this saved filter to only be accessible to you. Otherwise leave it unchecked if you want to to be available to anyone in your organization.
7. Click "Save Filter"
Changing the filter criteria
Follow steps 1-3 listed above in "Create New Saved Filter".
1. Choose the "Overwrite existing filter" option and select which filter you want to update.
2. Click "Save Filter"
Rename, make default, sharing a filter
1. Open the dropdown of saved filters and click "Edit" link
2. Making a filter private will prevent other users within your organization from being able to see or use a filter. See step 4 of creating a new saved filter for more information on the options listed here.
1. Open the saved filter drop-down and choose "Delete"
2. Deleting a shared filter (private option unchecked) will delete this filter for everyone in your organization. Confirm with team members before confirming the deletion.


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The death of Antonin Scalia has had a profound effect on the Supreme Court. He was one of the most vocal justices on the court. Without him, the Supreme Court "family" changed. People like Justice Thomas spoke for the first time in ten years during a session! He is trying to fill the gap Scalia left. A couple of the liberal judges have been more open with their forceful questions during sessions. The system that ran the Supreme Court changed.
The same can be true with family systems. All families work within certain parameters or rules. These rules are not written, but everyone understands what they are. As long as the roles are being maintained at status quo (homoeostasis), everything runs as usual. But if one or more of the family members changes, it throws the balance off, much like an unbalanced car tire, you get wobble.
As an example, let's say one person in the family has had a long-term illness. Another family member may be their primary caretaker. What happens when the ill family member dies? That's right–wobble. Things are not the same and the caretaker especially might have a hard time adjusting. Sometimes the imbalance comes when someone in the family get healthier! Say what?! Let's say the ill family member is an alcoholic. That person becomes their caretaker. We call the caretaker a "co-dependent." The alcoholic is dependent on alcohol and the co-dependent is dependent on caring for them. They enable then to continue drinking. Now, let's say the person goes to AA and gets sober. What happens to the co-dependent? Wobble! They don't know what to do with themselves because they have put themselves second to the alcoholic. It's like someone said, "When a person is dying, their life flashes before them. When a co-dependent is dying, everybody else's lives flash before their eyes!"
Presently, what is happening with the Supreme Court is a prime example of the imbalance of family. If you are facing this kind of challenge remember to also take care of yourself. Exercise and maintain healthy habits that will keep life in balance. Don't forget your spiritual life. There is nothing more important than maintaining a healthy relationships with God. Who better understands the "wobble?"
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Natural Resources
Millions of years ago, a geological rift during the Cenozoic Era formed the bed where the Rio Grande now flows. The Rio Grande Rift, as it is known, is a massive rent in the Earth's crust, 20 miles wide and several miles deep. Stretching for miles, it forms Colorado's San Luis Valley and slashes New Mexico in two. As explained by the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, the rift resembles "a plowed furrow with raised shoulders." The shoulders are the high peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains on the east and the Precambrian volcanic rocks of the Tusas Mountains on the west. With the rift as bed, the Rio Grande courses south, cutting through the Taos Plateau and the Española Basin, its many tributaries forming a hub of water resources in an otherwise arid and semi-arid landscape. One important tributary, the Rio Pueblo de Taos, for example, originates high in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and passes through the center of Taos Pueblo, a World Heritage Site inhabited for more than 1,000 years. Joining the Rio Pueblo near the town of Taos are the Rio Lucero, Rio Fernando de Taos, and the Rio Grande del Rancho – all tributaries of the Rio Grande – that flow together into the 800-foot-deep Rio Grande Gorge, where the National Register-listed Rio Grande Gorge Bridge offers a spectacular view of the geologic rift. [Rio Grande Gorge]
To the northwest, the Rio Chama comes down from the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and cuts across the San Juan Basin of Rio Arriba County before it joins the Rio Grande a few miles north of Española. On its way, the Rio Chama cuts a colorful sandstone canyon, 24.6 miles of which have been designated by Congress as a Wild and Scenic River. [Wild Scenic River Rio Chama]
Joining the Rio Chama north of Hernandez is the Rio Ojo Caliente, which flows south from La Madera and through the town of Ojo Caliente, noted for its mineral hot springs. [Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs]
The 46-mile-long Santa Fe River, with headwaters in the high country east of the city of Santa Fe, runs through New Mexico's state capital before it joins the Rio Grande, its entire watershed covering about 285 square miles and providing a home for humans and wildlife.
Hot springs stem from the Heritage Area's volcanic past. North of Tres Piedras in Rio Arriba County, for instance, the isolated, volcanic dome of San Antonio Peak swells up from the Taos Plateau. Farther south are the Jemez [HEH-mehz] Mountains, a volcanic field that developed simultaneously with the Rio Grande Rift. Near the center is the Valles Caldera, a 12-mile-wide crater formed by a collapsed super volcano and crowned by a series of post-collapse lava domes. The caldera is one of only three super volcano sites in the United States, and is listed on the National Registry of Natural Landmarks. New Mexico's highest peak, 13,161-foot Wheeler Peak, rises in the Taos Range of the Sangre de Cristos, which are uplifted, fault-block mountains. Near Glorieta Pass, southeast of Santa Fe, the Sangre de Cristos mark the southern terminus of the great Rocky Mountain chain. Like northern New Mexico's rivers, the rocks and their ancient movements, coupled with the eroding work of water, wind, and sun, shaped New Mexico's spectacular landscapes, from its mountain peaks, flat-topped mesas and piñon/juniper foothills, to its sandstone canyons and Rio Grande Gorge. The Piedra Lumbre and Ghost Ranch Centers in Abiquiu are excellent places to explore the geology, paleontology and archeology of the Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area. At the Ruth Hall Museum of Paleontology visitors will see well-preserved skeletons of the Coelophysis (SEE-Low-FY-sis) dinosaur and geology, flora, and fauna from the Triassic period. [Ghost Ranch]


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When the Idaho Department of Lands acquired about 2,400 acres of former Potlatch Corporation timberland at Maggie Butte last year, the transaction cut about $4,100 a year from the flow of property tax and fee dollars the landowners were paying to the local and state government.
IDL is exempt from paying taxes, and IDL assesses fire protection fees to some landowners. Based on the amounts the prior landowners paid last year, about $1,500 of $4,100 sent to the government had gone to IDL for wildfire protection.
Roughly $2,600 was billed to the former Maggie Butte owners by four taxing districts, divided as follows: Idaho County ($2,264), the Kamiah school district ($16), the Kamiah library ($279) and the Kamiah cemetery ($37).
Now that the 10 parcels roughly 10 miles east of Kamiah are state-owned, the local governments won't receive those taxes from that land – but the taxing districts won't go short-handed. Rather, when the tax collectors figure next year's bills, the difference will be divided among all the remaining taxable property in each of the taxing districts.
According to the state agency's 2016 annual report, which it released last month, the state endowment now holds about 74,000 acres in Idaho County. Statewide, IDL manages about a million acres of timberland and about 1.4 million acres of rangeland, as well as smaller amounts of commercial land, farmland and residential land. IDL's management is on track to provide more than $30 million for Idaho's public schools in 2017.
The Maggie Butte land becomes part of IDL's Maggie Creek supervisory area, where nearly 58 million board feet of sawlogs were produced and more than 62 million board feet of sawlogs were sold last year.
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Kelly Clarkson Falls Over Laughing After Missing a Note in the Studio (Video)
Kelly Clarkson is all of us.
The 34-year-old singer took to Twitter on Monday (April 10) to share an epic video of herself recording new music in the studio – well, trying to.
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"….that time you think, damn, I'm about to nail this ….and then you don't 😂😭 #inthestudio #whatthehellwasthat 😳," she captioned the clip.
Watch her shocked expression and subsequent uncontrollable laughter below!
ICYMI, listen to Kelly and Aloe Blacc's "Love Goes On" from The Shack soundtrack here.
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….that time you think, damn, I'm about to nail this ….and then you don't 😂😭 #inthestudio #whatthehellwasthat 😳 pic.twitter.com/Nl0GwMZMLx
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- Mayor Mitch Colvin is hosting the community's second "One Fayetteville Unity Gathering" on Thursday, Jan. 31 at 6 p.m. in the City Hall Council Chamber, located at 433 Hay St. in Fayetteville. Members of the faith-based (including clergy), business, helping agencies and other communities from across the city have been invited to be a part of the event. FREE and open to the public. Click here for more information.
- For updates on the progress of the Mirror Lake Drive roadway and dam repair project, click here.
- The Houston Astros unveiled the Fayetteville Woodpeckers as their new Class A Advanced minor league affiliate, located in Fayetteville, N.C. Thanks to insight gleaned in town hall meetings, online surveys and one-on-one conversations with residents, the Woodpeckers brand celebrates the core characteristics of the city, its natural beauty and proud community. For more information, click here.
- Excitement is building as construction is now underway on the new Fayetteville Baseball Stadium & Entertainment Venue project. Following a groundbreaking that was hosted by the City of Fayetteville and the Houston Astros last August, construction crews for Barton Malow have been working full speed ahead to ensure successful completion by opening day of the 2019 season. Click here for more information.
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A Time of Reckoning by Dr. Sylvia Spears
On Being Woke
Our students sometimes talk about people being "woke." The term implies that an individual has moved from a place of not knowing to a place of deep awareness. It is a status ascribed to those who have transitioned beyond the sometimes slow process of awakening to a much deeper place of understanding the lived realities of others.
More specifically, being woke means that someone has developed a specific kind of knowledge about what's going on in their community as it relates to racism and social justice. Individuals who are woke stand in full realization of structures of oppression, the very same structures that remain invisible to some others.
Someone who is woke sees the many ways in which racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, power and privilege, etc., affect the daily lives of members of a community. In addition, people who are woke speak up and step up not only to notice and name oppression where and when it exists, but they also actively work to dismantle it. Being woke implies a commitment to doing the work even if your privilege protects you from the most direct effects of that oppression. You do it because you know your life is inextricably linked to the lives of other and your humanity is dependent on the humanity of others. By default, the term also suggests that some people are not woke.
A Sudden Awakening
In the past few weeks, I have been reminded of the stark difference between those who are "woke" and those who are awakening. The outcome of the recent presidential election sent shockwaves across the country, especially among good liberal folks. Of course, there are people who seek to diminish the post-election outcry to some members of the electorate being poor losers. Regretfully, it is just not that simple.
Most people can handle their candidate losing. In this election, something else was lost. People just can't make sense of it. Why is this election so different? Why did people pour into the streets of major cities and small towns to protest in the days following the election? Why did a steady stream of students, faculty, and staff make their way to Walker 10's Common Ground the morning after the election to sit in silence together, with many weeping? Why were people grieving?
It wasn't about who won and who lost. It was an emotional response to a set of conditions that gave evidence anew to what so many of us have known for our whole lives—we are a country divided not by politics but rather by the triple threat of fear, hatred, and oppression. The power of this triple threat was validated in the context of this recent election. The upset wasn't about the loss of a candidate. It was about the loss of the soul of a nation, a nation founded on principles of freedom, equality, and justice.
The very systems of oppression that some have always recognized as being woven into the fabric of this nation were revealed as not only persisting but alive, well, and growing. The outward expression of hate for whole communities of Black and brown people by public figures was not only tolerated—it became publicly acceptable. People who will serve at the highest level of our government laughed off sexual assault as locker room banter. Immigrant families seeking the same American dream that others before them sought have been called drug dealers and rapists. Soon-to-be government officials have cited Japanese internment camps as precedent for the proposed registration of people who are Muslim. During the presidential campaign, it became acceptable to make fun of and humiliate people with disabilities, and the physical safety of trans and gender-nonconforming people is more threatened than ever. All of this is occurring while militarized law enforcement entities shoot rubber bullets and water cannons at Native people and their allies at Standing Rock. People are upset because their sense of who we are as a country has been shaken.
The Citizenry Awakens
The election and the months leading up to it demonstrated just how easily a climate of fear and hatred can grow when fueled by the extension of power and privilege. This election also revealed to many people for the first time that racism, sexism, misogyny, ableism, homophobia, Islamophobia, and transphobia persist. Delusions about the existence of a "post-racial America" or a more socially just United States were shattered with this recent election. That fracture threw a significant portion of the country into shock, a shock so great that it awakened some people to what so many of us have known, lived, and experienced for generations. It is what communities of color, women, LGBTQ+ folks, people with disabilities, immigrants, and those who have been persecuted because of their religious beliefs have been saying all along. But people couldn't hear them, people couldn't see them, people couldn't feel their pain until now. Privilege is a powerful protectant. Privilege can shield you from the ills of the world because it allows you to avoid seeing them.
New Urgency
In these past couple of weeks, the Division of Diversity & Inclusion has received a flurry of requests from across the campus to hold an open forum, to do trainings on how to respond to micro-aggressions, to launch discussions and book groups, to draft guidance for students who want to engage in social action, and on and on. Interestingly, we have been doing all of those things for years. Suddenly, there is a new urgency that didn't exist prior to the election.
The Division of Diversity & Inclusion has been holding open discussions on diversity issues on a regular basis. Almost every workshop we do covers issues related to bias. All faculty development sessions cover the topic of micro-aggressions and the importance of stepping in when micro-aggressions occur. We have run a variety of book groups focusing on texts like Citizen by Claudia Rankine and Between the World and Me by Ta-Neshisi Coates. We have done numerous workshops on bystander intervention and held conversations on race with more than 500 Emersonians participating. We have facilitated difficult conversations, coached individuals struggling with diversity issues, responded to and monitored bias incidents on campus, advocated for inclusive and trauma-informed practices, launched initiatives to increase support for members of our community from historically marginalized groups, and worked with members of the Boston community who are most affected by structures of oppression. We have done this work each and every day with a keen sense of urgency. Despite all of this, the post-election requests just kept coming, which suggests that some people believe something is fundamentally different today than it was the before the election. From my perspective, things are very much the same. The only difference is that some people have just awakened. They now know what others have always known.
So Now What?
An awakening of this kind progresses in one of two ways: either it launches an individual into a period of deep growth and transformation, or it is a short-lived moment in time that quickly fades into the background.
In the former scenario, people are compelled to begin the arduous task of self-study around the ways in which they might benefit from or be complicit in an oppressive status quo. They come to understand the ways they benefit from unearned privilege. And if we are lucky, they eventually commit to using their privilege to dismantle the very systems that have served them so well in the past. They become woke.
The latter scenario results in little growth or transformation. Instead the individual slowly slips back into their life as if the moment of awakening never occurred. I expect that we will see this same shift across the country and at Emerson in the coming months. While some of us have no choice but to engage in the struggle, others see the risks of losing the benefits of privilege as simply too high to endure. These folks may continue to view themselves as good liberals but they will not be woke. In fact, they will be part of the silent majority of people who fail to do the hard personal work of becoming woke.
Which will you choose?
Dr. Sylvia Spears has been the Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion at Emerson College since August 2012.


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Good Company. Dog and Monkey BFF
The grass is always greener if you have a good company.
It looks like this two fellows have it all perfect and no need to look for greener grass on the other side.
Friends do come in all shapes, colors and sizes and yes, species.
Being compatible may just be a matter of attitude, that special something within... Of course having a nice backyard is always a plus.
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Middle Names
So I didn't get to choose my dog's name. Amoretta fits her perfectly, don't get me wrong, but I didn't choose it. I also didn't choose her last name. The vet's office puts her down as with my last name. So, guess what? I need to choose a middle name for her!
So I set myself some rules…
- Don't start or end it with an "A" or "A" sound
- It shouldn't be more than 2 syllables
- It should be at least somewhat girly
- It needs to have some reference or meaning
I racked my brain last night for some ideas and I've come up with a few…but I still need some ideas. I've not really crossed much into the comic book or video game train of thought yet, but I've had to rule out a LOT of good names (let's face it, a lot of female names in SciFi and fantasy either start or end with an "A").
- Amoretta Jo (Eureka)
- Amoretta River (Firefly)
- Amoretta Dawn (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Amoretta Faith (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Amoretta Rose (Doctor Who, The Lord of the Rings in a sense)
- Amoretta Peach (Mario)
Any other suggestions? Opinions? Thoughts?


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Choline and Inositol supplements are often sold together because they are more powerful working in conjunction with one another, thereby maximizing the cognitive enhancement benefits they offer. Choline is considered to part of the B vitamin family, and though Inositol was once classed as a vitamin, it no longer has said status. However, this doesn't detract from its effectiveness.
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Choline is an essential nutrient that can be found in the human body, but we can only produce it in small amounts. This is normally not a problem since we can usually get all the choline we need from the foods we eat, such as egg yolks, fish, nuts, spinach, and liver. This would require eating a healthy diet, though, and most people's diets leave a lot to be desired. For this reason, a significant percentage of the population is at risk of choline deficiency.
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Hot steamy nights after a day at the beach, there's nothing like a cheap night out, a 'slurp your way to goodness' heaven with a cheap Asian eat. Here's our take on the 'layers of meaning' meals which give you a bang for your buck, fresh, cheap and cheerful, as well as BYO. Tell us your faves that we've missed in 'Comments' at the bottom of the page!
Cha Cha in Broadbeach is our other dining room. There's a saying in our house, 'Let's eat at Jack's tonight' – our 'home away from home' tasty quick meal, enjoying owner Jack Suzue's hospitality.
If you're new to Japanese food, Cha Cha's provides a great introduction – not all traditional, but the food is freshly made to order. We have our favourite dishes: Agedashi tofu (a generous serve of six pieces in Japanese wine sauce), Takoyaki served with BBQ sauce or Ginger Chicken (all $6.90) for entree, Fillet Steak Japanese style with seafood, ginger, lime, teppan, garlic butter or wasabi for main. Friends swear by the seafood, and there are lots of vegetarian choices also. The latest addition to the menu is ramen, and it's some of the best in town!
Try the Japanese roasted wheat tea with your meal, or there's a bottle shop just down the road. BYO is only $1 per person.
Top Noodle is the unglamorous sister of the exclusive Ten Japanese Restaurant, Broadbeach, and part of Bob Jones' hugely successful Sushi Train group who brought sushi trains to Australia over twenty years ago.
Underwhelming? Yes, the venue is, but don't write off the food! The menu boasts about ninety items: small izikaya-type share dishes such as Takoyaki, Gyoza and Tempura; some of the best ramen, udon, and soba on the Coast; main meals in bowls or on plates, many including rice and salad. There's a take away menu, with Vegetarian and Spicy dishes clearly marked.
Our favourites are the Sui Gyoza (five soft dumplings in a delicious broth, served with chilli on the side (at $5 per serve, it's absolutely addictive); Salmon Caviar (the glistening roe balls explode in your mouth); Tuna and Salmon Sashimi, very fresh and cheap; and the Eel bowl, which features the best eel we've tasted on the Coast, mild and moist without any fishy after-taste at all. Judging by the quality of these dishes, Top Noodle deserves many return visits!
Also try Daichi by Ten (Broadbeach), another of Mr Jones' restaurants, for casual French-Japanese influenced cuisine.
The Noodle House, Chevron Island
The Noodle House is Rose Morton's gift to the next generation of her extended family, where she teaches them her own recipes perfected over years of owning 21 restaurants and cooking professionally. "If you're going to serve people, it has to be fresh," says Rose. "When you cook, you must be honest about it, and put love and care into your cooking. No cutting corners. You have to be genuine, not greedy. If you say your fish is barramundi, then it has to be barramundi, not something cheaper."
The kitchen may only be 'hole in the wall' in size, but the meals are quickly and efficiently prepared and served. If you walk past the restaurant before opening hours, the sound of chopping drifts out to the street, as vegetables are cut ready for dinner, the tiny kitchen overflowing with eager young chefs, toiling under Rose's ever watchful eye.
From soon after 5pm, patrons start appearing to buy their take away meals, and not long after, the first diners arrive. There's a large choice of Thai regional dishes: entrées and mains, soup, noodles and rice dishes, as well as house specialties and a specials board. With main courses ranging in price from $12.90 to $21.90, it's fantastic value for such tasty food.
Muso Ramen Noodle and Gyoza Bar, Mermaid Beach
Muso Ramen Noodle and Gyoza Bar serves two dishes: ramen and gyoza in a few varieties – specialty dishes done well. I accept that ramen has a cult following, but I'm a recent convert, still learning to appreciate the 'soul and depth' of the dish. Great gyoza? Now that's another matter…
Muso is usually packed with Japanese diners and deservedly so. It's spotlessly clean and you've got to love that everything is made from scratch by Chef Akira Takagi: noodles made in house using a machine especially imported from Japan, 'Tokotsu' pork stock cooked for hours to develop the rich flavour, even bamboo shoots made in the traditional way! There's pretty laid back music filling the airwaves and the service is cheery.
Dine under the mouth of 'Muso', a giant mural by illustrator Go Suga. As 'Muso' splatters his soup across the wall, carefully slurp up a bowl of Muso Tonkotsu original with miso, the noodles perfectly cooked, the marrow broth glutinous in consistency and so tasty it must be good for you! Then feed your addiction with a plate of pan-fried gyoza as well, the dumplings tender and sweet, served with a spicy chilli oil. But is one plate of gyoza ever enough?
JFX – Japanese Food eXpress, Southport
"Ira shai mase! Welcome!" There's something undeniably heart-felt about this small diner. It may be hidden around a corner in Southport Central, but when you find it, you know that you've stumbled across a special place. You're not only greeted warmly, but in true Japanese style you're made aware of the values of the restaurant: Energy, Smile, Greeting, Passion, Gratitude and Cooperation.
JFX is a favourite haunt of local workers and students who indulge in deliciously authentic Japanese food at the lowest price – a good range of Japanese side dishes to share, such as Gyoza, Teriyaki karaage and Takoyaki, or you may just feel like a rice bowl or set meal. A standard Lunch box is $9 (or $11 with sashimi) for the meat, mixed salad, miso soup and rice. BBQ meat in a bowl with rice is $8, noodle dishes (such as the famous Chige Raamen) $9, or our favourite Grilled Teriyaki Beef Stone Pot $10. Waygu beef and ramen are also available. All lunches cost under $15, but for students, there's even a 10% discount. The food service is fast and friendly, and you can help yourself to a free miso soup while you wait. Express it may be, however it's not rushed.
Kampung Malay, Bundall, Robina, Mudgeeraba
Kampung Malay fills a niche on the Gold Coast for Asian cuisine at a family price: Malaysian/Chinese food, consistency of product, friendly service and BYO ($1 per head). Regulars enjoy the $9.90 lunch specials or dine there any night of the week for the price of a takeaway.
Chef Jason Tan found his niche adapting Malaysian dishes to better suit the Australian palate. His food shows the influence of many other Asian cuisines, is more subdued and not as spicy as that of his homeland, but tasty nonetheless.
We cannot begin a meal without the Roti Chanai, a flaky short pastry-type bread bundled onto a plate, which you tear off and dip into the flavour-filled curry sauce. From there, choices vary, with everyone having their own favourite main course: Sizzling black bean beef, Chicken satay, Crispy roast duck or Yon ya chicken. All meals are priced under $20 and generous in size. There's something for everyone on this menu, so families dine in a comfortable environment without straying too far from their comfort zone.
We were quietly devastated when Mme Grenouille waved her beret adieu and departed the dining scene earlier this year. Say goodbye to the best macarons in town, to French breakfasts and dulcet accents which made us weak at the knees! Say hello to Daichi by Ten – same owner, casual dining with impeccable food quality, including tastes from Ten's kitchen.
Chef Yusuke Ito, Sous Chef from Ten's kitchen, brings French and Japanese influenced classics to Daichi: Wagyu beef rillette with oven-baked baguette; Handmade Gyoza still sizzling on the hotplate; Soft shell crab with rich tangy homemade tartare; Ricepaper rolls filled with 9+ Wagyu beef and sashimi-grade salmon and avocado (my standout dish). The dishes appear quickly with little attempt to pace their arrival, each one plated with a simple garnish such as microherbs, or a slice of lemon. Not fancy-looking, but they were all pretty damn delicious and we polished them off without ceremony…
Order a couple of dishes at a time to pace your meal, working through from cold to hot, or fresh to fried, depending on the specials. Perhaps we'll luck out at a weekend brunch when Ten's Executive Chef Daisuke Miyake's signature omelette is on! Or we'll indulge in sashimi grade blue fin tuna, or some Flinders Island lamb.
A sidekick for Ten it may well be, a strange juxtaposition of haute cuisine and takeaway, a cultural experience which is sometimes a little lost in translation, but there are culinary treasures to be enjoyed at Daichi if you are patient enough to overlook some of the ambiguities. 'Daichi' (dai-ichi) means 'number one', so perhaps it provides a worthy introduction to fine Japanese food in an informal setting while we're saving up to indulge in the gastronomic experience of Ten…
Phở. My eyes roll back, nostrils sniffing, in memory of dusky evenings in Hanoi, food carts propped up on a corner, diners sitting on crates. It's hard to describe the layers of meaning in a good phở, achieved by hours of stewing and skimming beef flank, reusing some of the same stock from batch to batch, loading with slices of the cooked beef, noodles and bean sprouts, the richness of the stock cut through with mint, chilli and, most of all, squeezes of tiny native lime.
Phở on the Gold Coast? Truly, there's not much competition! Phở Vietnam, in 'ex'-Figtree Court, Australia Court, is arguably our best version of this dish. It's not as 'dirty' as street fare, no doubt due to food regulations as well as food varietal differences, but add some chilli oil from the counter and it's got a fair punch!
This tiny shopfront also sells a good range of other soups (Sour soup, Laksa, Egg noodle soup) as well as Rice paper rolls, Crispy skin chicken with vermicelli, Grilled tofu, Rice porridge, Chicken salad, and another of my favourites – the delicious Viet pancake! Order a fresh coconut juice or Vietnamese coffee to go with your meal.
It's easy to get lost in the grunge of the Lido Arcade, Surfers Paradise. You can get a buzz haircut, choose your latest tattoo, buy a surfboard, or eat a meal at Amimoto. A rare reminder of the golden age of Japanese tourism, this hole-in-the-wall restaurant is worn in from over fifteen years of travellers' use, frayed around the edges, but still fulfilling its core purpose: providing an authentic Japanese meal to passersby.
Don't look at the clutter of boxes and containers at the front entrance. Take a seat at a vinyl-clad table under the gaze of the kimono-clad prostitute. The real action's at the sashimi bar, as owner-chef Hidekatsu Fujino ceremoniously sharpens his knives and begins to carve pieces of shiny sashimi. Sold! It's easier than choosing from the pages of menu items which confront me: the popular Chirashi Sushi, Bento boxes, rice dishes, noodles, katsu curries, à la carte grilled, fried and combination dishes.
My sashimi also arrives, shimmeringly fresh, topped with huge glistening pearls of roe which demand attention. Pick me! Pick me! The first sac pops open in my mouth, a little Pandora's surprise of salty tanginess, a suitable entrée to the fishy delights and gyoza to follow. Somehow, when I look up, my surroundings seem irrelevant. The well worn cloak shrouding Amimoto simply fades away with the tang of salmon roe.
Hakataya Ramen, Surfers Paradise
How can a restaurant survive with only six items on the menu? Yet Hakataya's trade is the envy of many other local establishments. Open for 14 hours a day every day, Hakataya's on every traveller's list of 'must do' places, highly recommended as the ultimate cheap and cheerful diner.
Don't expect somewhere grand, however. Instead, the Surfers Paradise Hakataya is a tiny shop in the distressed '60s Centre Arcade, crouching below paint peeling wrought iron handrails. Yes, this is it! One of the most reputed ramen shops in Queensland. If you patiently endure the queue you'll be seated amongst students and travellers from diverse cultures, bound together by canteen laminate, orange chairs and the love of ramen.
Don't miss the gyoza. Served with motodashi sauce, vinegar and chilli oil, they're a great intro to this menu, but the ramen is the real hero. Nagahama Ramen is Hakataya's classic pork noodle soup. They claim that their pork bone broth has been simmered for 39 hours. The result: a thick collagen-rich 'Tonkotsu' soup. Full of flavour, it's packed with thin ramen noodles and tender Char Siu (pork slices) which have been slow-cooked in soy and mirin. Add some extra chilli oil, takana and ground sesame seeds and you're in soup heaven! (Hakataya is now also open at Pacific Fair.)
NOTE: This review has also been published on Blank Gold Coast.


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Preparation time: about 45 minutes
Suggested music: I do not have any african music, but I listened to Irfan during cooking
- 1 onion
- 2 carrots
- 1 small (!) cabbage (mine was small and it was still a lot... consider using half a cabbage)
- (the original recipe uses 1 red bell pepper in addition)
- oil for sauteing
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- chili flakes (amount depending on your flakes and your taste buds)
- 1 tablespoon mustard
- 1 can tomatoes
- 250 mL vegetable stock
- 1 teaspoon thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 4 tablespoons peanut butter
- 1 can kidney beans
- 1 can corn
- juice from two oranges (original recipe uses mango juice, to taste)
- salt & pepper
- Dice the onions. Peel the carrots and cut into smaller pieces. Peel the cabbage or wash the outer parts and cut into stripes.
- In a large pot, heat the oil. Saute the onions and carrots (and bell pepper, if using) until the onions soften. Add chili, cumin and mustard and stir for a minute. Add the cabbage.
- After a few minutes, and before the cabbage gets burned, add the tomatoes and vegetable stock, plus the thyme, paprika and peanut butter. Let simmer for 10 minutes (until the cabbage is soft).
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Capitalism and Leninism/Communism are two arms of the same beast.
"Capitalism is not 'free enterprise,' an incentive for success, 'a chance for all.' Capitalism is trusts, speculation, parasitical usury. Capitalism is J. P. Morgan, Rothschild's bank, ripping apart the nations like maddened swine. Capitalism is the jewish frying pan in which culture is rendered down to the grease of money." William Striker
Revolution/change is not always what it seems at first. Just ask the Russians. This time the genocide may be here.
I heard a couple of local farmers here lately call our government 'communist.'
More people are catching on that things are getting out of hand, but are they willing to do anything about it?
Zionism, communism and capitalism are intimately intertwined. History repeats if we let it.
History Lesson for Today: The Capitalist-Communist Connection
Excerpt from a 1980 interview with Professor Antony C. Sutton, highlighting the capitalist-communist connection.
From Sutton's book 'Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution' (1974):
Therefore, an alternative conceptual packaging of political ideas and politico-economic systems would be that of ranking the degree of individual freedom versus the degree of centralized political control. Under such an ordering the corporate welfare state and socialism are at the same end of the spectrum. Hence we see that attempts at monopoly control of society can have different labels while owning common features.
Consequently, one barrier to mature understanding of recent history is the notion that all capitalists are the bitter and unswerving enemies of all Marxists and socialists. This erroneous idea originated with Karl Marx and was undoubtedly useful to his purposes. In fact, the idea is nonsense. There has been a continuing, albeit concealed, alliance between international political capitalists and international revolutionary socialists — to their mutual benefit. This alliance has gone unobserved largely because historians — with a few notable exceptions — have an unconscious Marxian bias and are thus locked into the impossibility of any such alliance existing. The open-minded reader should bear two clues in mind: monopoly capitalists are the bitter enemies of laissez-faire entrepreneurs; and, given the weaknesses of socialist central planning, the totalitarian socialist state is a perfect captive market for monopoly capitalists, if an alliance can be made with the socialist powerbrokers. Suppose — and it is only hypothesis at this point — that American monopoly capitalists were able to reduce a planned socialist Russia to the status of a captive technical colony? Would not this be the logical twentieth-century internationalist extension of the Morgan railroad monopolies and the Rockefeller petroleum trust of the late nineteenth century?
Wall Street, Freemasonry and the Bolshevik Revolution
Consensus history teaches that capitalism and communism are at opposite ends of the political-economic spectrum, and that communism is the bitter enemy of capitalism. In some ways this may be true. But those at the top of the global banking system — who are often labeled "greedy capitalists" — are not by any means classical, free-market capitalists. They are monopoly capitalists who are after complete control. They exercise their control over the people by their control over the money supply. Perhaps this can all be best summed up by one of the conspirators themselves; for instance, John D. Rockefeller, who once stated "competition is a sin."
Communism IS monopoly capitalism. Lenin once stated that "communism is socialism in a hurry." Communism is often brought about through violent and bloody revolution, whereas socialism often takes a more incremental and stealthy approach. However, the end game is still the same. For the past many decades, the countries of the West have been gradually moving in the direction of socialism, as people are losing more and more of their freedoms while government becomes bigger and ever more encroaching upon people's rights, often under the pretense of solving the problems the system itself creates (poverty, crime, terrorism) to gain more control.
In order to have monopoly control over the people, you must first gain monopoly control over government through the issuance of credit (debt creation). This is what the international bankers have done.
This video takes a brief look at the role that the Anglo-American financiers played in fomenting the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, marking the rise of communism in Russia, and a dialectical antithesis to capitalism that would play out on a global scale, moving us ever closer to the "third way" synthesis of a one world government, currency and military.
By: Devvy Kidd
May 26, 2008
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Despite the massive, overwhelming documentation proving that elite groups around the world have been planning the complete annihilation of this constitutional republic for a more than a hundred years, Americans continue to deny, deny, deny. Let me give you this example. It's an email I received a few days ago regarding a January 7, 2005, column I wrote titled, President Bush supporting global communist domination:
"That is the most absurd statement I have ever heard and you fail to detail just how this is transpiring. Either you are outright ignorant or you are joking. Communism is the exact opposite of what Georgie boy stands for. He is a capitalist and has tried to kill suspected terrorist communist Hugo Chavez. How in hell do you equate Bush with communism? You are too absurd to even bother with!"
I politely directed him to two columns for research: The Proper Role of America's Military and The Praetorian Guard. Of course, this person never bothered to get the facts from them because he addressed me as Sir in a snit he fired off:
"Sir, I have three graduate degrees, taught history and education courses in colleges and am 67 years old and I have done more research than you can even imagine. I eschew lying television news but you sound like a Fox bred brat. Don't tell me to do any more research, yours was faulty and at some two bit college no doubt. I am a big ten man. Get lost with your bunk! "
Wow! He's a big ten man! It is just this level of ignorance and denial that has allowed the destroyers to bring this nation to the brink of ruin and a police state. A closed mind is a dangerous weapon.
This country is full of Americans who also suffer from a mass case of infantilism. A couple of months ago a man who identified himself as a college professor wanted me to review his book. While I am sincerely flattered, it's impossible for me to read every request from individuals who write books. My Reading Room has a list of books I have read which I need to update it because I've read another hundred books since the posting. In any event, when I politely declined, this author sent me a snotty email telling me I was making a big mistake, his book had facts no one else had! Just like a little kid who can't have his way.
Hundreds, if not thousands of writers and investigative journalists have been pumping out the facts on the implementation of a one world government. We have exposed the players, the organizations and the politicians. We have exposed the corrupt "mainstream" media (print and electronic), including cable networks (MSNBC, FAUX, CNN) who lie through omission and openly support those who are carrying the water for the global lunatics. Our biggest cannon has been the Internet. This tool has allowed us to reach millions of Americans with the truth and we will continue to do so. However, the bottom line as I have said so many times before is that only we the people can stop these united States of America from becoming part of a global region is by rejecting the agenda.
The mendacity by these evil individuals world wide pushing globalization down our throats has been incredible. The program adopted to bring these plans to fruition has worked beyond their wildest dreams because tens of millions of Americans have allowed it to happen either through laziness, blind party loyalty, indifference and apathy. However, as time has gone by and conditions worsen for the American people, millions are waking up. Sadly, many more millions are willing to surrender their freedom and liberty for scraps from the King's table.
In my last column, I strongly recommended that people read an assessment by my dearest friend, retired USAF Brigadier General Ben Partin, titled, Deadly Failures in Intelligence Analysis and Defense Preparedness. Ben is no lightweight; his bio is in the link. There is a three volume tome on the communist blueprint for world domination titled 'The Program,' which Ben and I discussed at great length when I was at his home a week ago in Virginia. I have been pounding on this for years in my columns. Copies of these three books are hard to find and cost more than a $100 dollars per book. This work titled, 'The Communist International,' is broken down into time periods. It was issued under the Royal Institute of International Affairs. This organization touts itself as a home for "forward thinking." Another global operation. Beware the forward thinkers and progressives. They are dangerous to freedom.
The Communist Party USA is alive and well in this country. They are working to over throw our constitutional republic. They consistently endorse Democrat candidates like Al Gore and John Kerry. Right now they're leaning towards a fellow comrade, Barack Obama. The Sixth Congress put on by the commies over in Moscow made clear their goals and there has never been any retreat despite the massive propaganda thrown at the American people – "Take down that wall, Mr. Gorebechev!" Reagan had nothing to do with the collapse of the Soviet Union. From the main U.S. Marxist web site:
"And the most important thing in all this is that Social-Democracy is the main channel of imperialist pacifism within the working class — consequently, it is capitalism's main support among the working class in preparing for new wars and intervention. But for the preparation of new wars pacifism alone is not enough, even if it is supported by so serious a force as Social-Democracy. For this, certain means of suppressing the masses in the imperialist centres are also needed. It is impossible to wage war for imperialism unless the rear of imperialism is strengthened. It is impossible to strengthen the rear of imperialism without suppressing the workers. And that is what fascism is for." Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City, is the classic Fascist. He and Benito Mussolini would have been great pals.
'The Communist International,' Volume II, 1919-1943, is a precise blue print for establishing world wide communism and destroying capitalist countries like these united States of America. It contains the usual gushing about colonial peoples (that's us), the bourgeoisie and other deadly mumbo jumbo. Each subsection has it's own title, i.e., 'The Struggle for World Proletarian Dictatorship and the Principal Types of Revolution.' The Reds laid it all out nice and plain. Of course, this is of little interest to a population taught fluff in the government's indoctrination centers (public schools) and bred to government dependency by design. Tens of millions will watch garbage like American Idol, spend endless hours looking at porn on the Net, twittering at the costmetics counter or rotting in front of the boob tube watching sports ad nauseum, but anything above that level simply doesn't interest them or is beyond their ability to grasp.
Today millions of Americans depend on mother government for their very livelihood. The American people have been expertly boxed into a corner. With the destruction of our most important job bases caused by Congress, their financial well being now depends on continuing to support the very programs destroying this country. When it comes to the U.S. Constitution vs jobs, guess what loses? If you click here, you will get a pdf file that contains pages from 'The Communist International.' Read them this weekend. It will give you a better grasp on 'The Program' and how the American people are being led to the slaughter.
Those who think communism is dead are making a fatal mistake. The push for world domination has never subsided. This link is to eleven pages from the transcript of 'Public Hearings, Joint Committee on Regional Government, September 26, 1978,' in Edwardsville, Illinois. Regional governance is one of the major building blocks to destroy private property rights and keep the American people in their proper herds. These hearings also deal with a malignant cancer called tax exempt foundations working to destroy this country. They also employ tens of thousands of Americans. At the very least, ring leaders like David Rockefeller should have been charged with sedition decades ago. If I were the U.S. Attorney General, I would have charged them with treason.
Please read on page 52, the testimony of Norman Dodd, chief investigator in 1953 for U.S. Congressman B. Carroll Reece, whose committee investigated tax-exempt foundations run by the biggest traitors in this nation. This investigation eventually narrowed down to about 10 foundations, those chief among them for Un-American activities were Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie and the Rhodes Scholarship Fund:
"Mr. Dodd, we have invited you to come to NY and stop in and see us in the hope that, off the record, you would tell us why the Congress of the U.S. should be interested in an operation such as ours." Before I could think of just exactly how I would reply, Mr. Gaither volunteered the following information, and these are practically in his exact words: "Mr. Dodd, we operate here under directives which emanate from the White House. Would you like to know what the substance of these directives is?" I said, "Indeed, I would, Mr. Gaither."
"Whereupon he then said the following: "We here, operate and control our grant making policies in harmony with the directives, the substance of which is as follows: We shall use our grant making power so to alter life in the U.S. that it can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union."
Page 53: "Now, the second experience that I would like to share with you, oh, and incidentally, it is the Ford Foundation's grants which are responsible for the formulation of this idea of regional government, and also the idea that given regional government, we must, in turn, develop and accept and agree to a totally New Constitution which has already been drawn up, as was mentioned just a few minutes ago." Take a look at "Americans" who were Rhodes Scholarship Fund recipients. You can also view a number of documents from my Reading Room which clearly shows how many elected officials (state and federal) who endorse one world government. This is the link. Page 103, Congressional Record, Minnesota's endorsement of a Declaration of Interdependence to "join with others to bring forth a new world order." pages 107, 109- 116; 121 – 123; 129; 131: UNESCO is "another attempt to destroy the United States"; pg. 135 Bricker; pages 139 – 146, March 25, 1976: "A major event…forumation of the Declaration of Interdependence…endorsed by 30 Senators and almost 100 Congressmen." That's just a small sampling of documents I spent days scanning. Treason right out in the open.
Back on February 4, 2008, I quoted this in my column:
"We must realize that our party's most powerful weapon is racial tension. By propounding into the consciousness of the dark races that for centuries they have been oppressed by the whites, we can mold them to the program of the Communist Party. In America we will aim for subtle victory. While inflaming the Negro minority against the whites, we will endeavor to install in the whites a guilt complex for their exploitation of the Negroes. We will aid the Negroes to rise in prominence in every walk of life, in the professions and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige, the Negro will be able to intermarry with the whites and begin a process which will deliver America to our cause." Israel Cohen, a leading Communist in England, in his 'A Racial Program For The 20th Century (1912).' Quoted by Congressman Abernathy, Congressional Record, June 7, 1957, p. 8559
I was accused of being a racist; same old worn out attack. If you click here, you'll see another page from 'The Communist International' which reads: "On 14 September 1925 the orgbureau discussed the Negro congress to be held the following month in Chicago, organized by the American CP (Communist Party)." The goal was/is to use our fellow Americans of the Negro race to further inculcate the communist doctrine. It's sickening. Agitate, continue with constant haranguing that the Negro is oppressed by white America and all the other propaganda so they will turn to the imaginary utopia of communism. It is why Martin Luther King was brought to prominence. We know for a fact that Barack Obama was mentored and trained by communists; click here. People continue to have selective blindness because they forget Obama is a mulatto; half Caucasian, half Negro. However, for the purposes of the masters behind the scenes who pull the strings, Obama has black skin and therefore is their useful fool of choice this election. Should Obama's stinking baggage somehow derail him, fellow comrade, Marxist Hillary Clinton is waiting in the wings.
Perhaps those in denial would like to read the truth from someone who would know: 'New Lies for Old: The Communist Strategy of Deception and Disinformation' by Anatoliy Golitsyn, a former KGB officer. "This book is the product of nearly twenty years of my life. It presents my convictions that, throughout that period, the West has misunderstood the nature of changes in the communist world and has been misled and outmaneuvered by communist guile." This book is now available for free on the Internet.
I urge you to listen to Ben Partin on the Jeff Rense radio show tonight, May 26th. Ben knows this material inside and out. He should because he's been on it for six decades. What he has to tell the American people is critical in understanding how the people of this country are embracing their own destruction. Ask family and friends to listen. Tell them you would like their opinion on what they hear. Click here to get the broadcast. You might tune in a few minutes early just to make sure you're set for the broadcast. Don't miss this critical program.
If for some reason you can't listen, you can watch Ben explain OKC, WACO and world communism for free. I put on a sold out event at the Santa Clara Convention Center in June, 1998; Ben was a featured speaker. He was 72 years old then; a remarkable man who has never been given the credit due him for all his work in exposing the lies and 'The Program' to destroy this republic. This free Internet video is a must watch.
Change is not possible with the same players. We can only destroy the destroyers by identifying who they are and refusing to enrich them with our buying power and support. Americans have been taking a knife to a gun fight because they do not understand the genesis of the problems (health care, SS, failed foreign policy, energy, our monetary system and these endless wars) plaguing this country. You can't solve a problem if you don't know how it started. We cannot and will not defeat the planned destruction of this republic unless each and every one of us that now number in the millions reject the program and that requires a solid understanding. More on this in my next column. Also, you can listen to dozens of my columns on audio (free) on my web site; download to your IPod or to a CD and listen while driving. In addition to Ben's speech referenced above, you can also watch two other speakers from that day, constitutional attorney Larry Becraft and Dr. Eugene Schroeder on the War and Emergency Powers issue. Feel free to watch; download onto a CD and share this knowledge.
Learning Links:
1 – United States-Russian Merger: A Done Deal?
2 – Membership roster of the Council on Foreign Relations
3 – Treasonous agenda of the Council on Foreign Relations
4 – Treasonous agenda of the Trilateral Commission
5 – Republican Party, Red From the Start
6 – Should Democratic Party merge with Communist Party?
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The Hazards of Hospitals (an infographic)
Why US Hospitals aren't nearly as Safe as you think
The infographic below is under a Creative Commons license. Here are some highlights:
We all think of the hospital as a place we go to get better. But hospitals in the United States are making people sicker at alarming rates. Between overtired interns, germ-covered doctors, and haphazard record keeping, you might find yourself in more trouble than you were when you checked in.
Some of the statistics presented include:
- You're 30,000 times more likely to die from a hospital visit than a plane crash.
- 1 in 5 patients suffer harm from medical errors.
- 1.7 million infections are contracted in hospitals each year.
- 99,000 die from them.
- More die from infections each year than from car accidents, breast cancer or aids.


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Haunted Hotel: Ancient Bane Collector's Edition
June 1, 2014
OS: Windows XP/Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8
CPU: 2.5 GHz or faster Processor
Hard Drive: 1508 MB
Help James, the detective, uncover the mystery of the haunted hotel that had been purchased by Abraham Shadowy so that to attract guests who are interested in ghosts and other paranormal events. Now that the guest are actually disappearing, something should be done about it!
Haunted Hotel: Ancient Bane Collector's Edition review
Rumours have it that the mysterious disappearance of the hotel's guests is not just a publicity stunt. It is now up to you to find out the truth by searching among Mr Shadowy's mechanical contraptions. Play this special Collector's Edition release of this game that contains the exclusive extras not available in the standard version: the bonus game where you need to save James and help Anabel, the awards that you can get for your achievements in the hotel, twelve unique Egyptian objects to be collected, and of course some pieces of wonderful concept art, wallpapers, sountrack, and much more!


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That's what I finally did and it was amazing. Not just for my friends either.
Do you have a friend who's going through a rough patch? With a new baby? A sick partner? Or just your average overwhelming modern life? I've had two families from church on my mind for a while now and here's why: Both have both adopted girls from China in the last year. Each of them already had three children but that didn't stop them from opening everything–their hearts, their homes, their bank accounts, their reserves of patience and energy–to embrace a new daughter.
We support a number of kids through international sponsorship (a combination of World Vision and Compassion International) but we're not in a position to adopt because we already have four children and that's our honest max. I used always end that sentence saying, "but I'd really like to support those families who do because I think it's amazing." And yet. What support was I really giving? Tossing out the occasional "you guys should come over for dinner!" isn't exactly a silver bullet for a family struggling to teach their new six-year-old English.
So this winter, I finally did something.
I invited both families over for the day — as a drop-off playdate. Emails were sent and soon enough there were 12 kids ranging in age from three to 13 at my house for the whole morning. I stood on the porch, waving good-bye to visibly relieved parents headed off to shop, nap, clean, Netflix their brains out, I didn't know and didn't care. They had hours to themselves, which seemed like a good start.
Feel-Good Activity Ideas for a playdate
In the meantime, here's what the 13 of us did:
- Took a big walk. I learned this from the savviest preschool teacher I know. When you've got a big group, start off with a lot of movement to get the wiggles out and also invite those endorphins in. We live on a bunch of acres so we walked to a horse farm down our tiny road. Feeding carrots to horses was the perfect way to start but honestly a little walk anywhere would've done the trick.
- Made good samaritan bags. Ahead of time I'd asked the families to help bring supplies and together we amassed enough for 40 bags to hand out to the needy or homeless. Each of the kids drew pictures, then went around our kitchen "shopping" for essentials like snacks, deodorant, socks and more.
- Had a simple gift exchange. Each child brought one tiny toy (preferably from around the house), wrapped it up and we followed the basic rule of starting with the oldest, who knew the game, ping-ponging to the youngest: Open a gift or steal one that's already open. If your gift gets stollen you can open another gift or steal someone else's (with a limit of 3 steals per gift). I loved this activity for Christmas time but think it could be played any time of year.
- Ate lunch. You can believe that I made a version of our Magical Macaroni & Cheese (with pureed vegetables in the cheese sauce) for this crowd! I always like to experiment when I have new tasters in the house.
- We had planned a kid-friendly movie but the weather was so nice, the kids played (and played) outside so much that we just ran out of time.
5 things I learned about hosting a big playdate
All in all, it was such a fun day. The whole point here isn't that I'm such a charitable soul. If you get anything gout of this post I hope it's this: If I can do this, you totally can! That said, here is what I found really useful:
- Make sure there are a few big kids in the group. That was a game-changer. We had three kids in the 12/13-year-old range, and they were great leaders. If that's not possible, ask an adult friend to come over for the day.
- Plan your get-together in the morning. We hosted kids from 9am through 1pm and it was a great time of day for basic levels of energy.
- Keep the food simple. I put out a huge platter of cucumbers, carrots, apple slices and cheese with crackers for a snack. Then made a giant pot of mac and cheese for lunch, with grapes on the side.
- Drawing pictures for the bags takes lots of time and space. Make sure you have lots of paper and crayons/markers and it's not a bad idea to have an example for the kids, with encouraging phrases like "Have a great day!" and "Someone's thinking about you!" written out for pre-spellers.
- This is the most important part: You don't have to do all or any of these activities. A couple of board games and a video would be fine. I'd been wanting to make care packages for the homeless for a long time and this seemed like a good place to get it done. So many hands!
It doesn't have to be perfect
The point wasn't for the kids to have a nice time anyway. Not really. The real message was for their parents. I wanted those gorgeous souls to know that I see them. That I hear how tiring it is to wake up at 2am because your daughter has night terrors. That I support them as they navigate the labyrinth of services available (or not) through the public school system. That they're not in this alone. Not all the time.
It can feel so overwhelming to know when to step in as a friend. What can I really do? I kept asking myself. And in the end, I came up with the most straightforward thing. The one thing every parent I know could use more of: I could offer them a morning of peace. I like cooking, I like kids. Yes! Yes, I can do this. It's no life-changer, this one morning, but hopefully the feeling of support lingers much, much longer.
Until the whole crowd comes back again this summer. I can't wait.
Is adoption right for you? UNICEF reports nearly 140 million orphans worldwide in 2015, and of those, 95 percent are under the age of five. Bringing it closer to home, there were 400,000 American children in foster care in 2014. That's more than the entire population of Cleveland, Ohio–every single one of them, children looking for a family. If you're exploring the idea of adoption, this article seems like a good place to start.


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"We're telling the story of our Justice League," said "Underground" co-creator Joe Pokaski at New York Comic Con, previewing the second season of the WGN America series, which premieres in March 2017 (watch above). The producers and cast — including Aldis Hodge, Amirah Vann, Jessica De Gouw and Alano Miller — were at NYCC on Sunday, October 9, where they discussed upcoming storylines, which include the introduction of Harriet Tubman (Aisha Hinds), the famous real-life superhero of the underground railroad.
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"Our heroes go from citizen to soldier, which is why we're bringing on Superman," Pokaski added of season two, likening Tubman to the Man of Steel and other caped crusaders who are more commonly celebrated at Comic Con. Hinds discussed the responsibility she felt to do justice to such an important role, saying, "In addition to her power, and in addition to what makes her an icon, there's a humanity to her … You want to be able to feel tangibly the woman in that portrait that so many people idolize."
"Underground" is now moving into season two, but the series almost didn't even have a season one. It was initially a tough sell according to executive producer Akiva Goldsman, who explained, "Nobody thought this was an object that the world would care about. They thought it was best relegated to history — and a pretty forgotten history at that." From a forgotten history often reduced to footnote in the story of America, now the "Underground" team is making sure we never forget.
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Watch more from the "Underground" panel at NYCC:
Aisha Hinds on surrendering herself to play Tubman: "Use me — use my arms, use my legs, use my voice, Harriet, and have your way."
Alano Miller on Black Lives Matter: "This is a unified front in order for us to cure this disease that is going on in America … It's going to take the love and courage of all of us to reach across the aisle and have real conversations."
Aisha Hinds, Alano Miller, Aldis Hodge, Jessica De Gouw and Amirah Vann on coping with emotional storylines: "I'm thrilled when I get a hard scene. That's my job. That's the excitement. I don't want it to be easy. I want to sink my teeth in and have to go there."
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Comply with The Fantastic Recession Blog to realize exactly where we're headed during this time of financial collapse. While regional has been the location of greatest ferment for nonprofit startups, no one has however cracked the code for how to create local news effectively at a sustainable level. As the international business grew, The demand of the trades above pointed out also improved. This makes Capitalism the eldest between the three economic systems (Capitalism, Communism, and Socialism). A lot of of them do. But a cluster of minimum wage jobs at a handful of hours a week doesn't generally get them really far.
Bear bile prices had rocketed but with the advent of synthetic bear bile and higher awareness of this barbaric and inhumane approach of harvesting, the price has plunged. Notably, economy, salaries and inflation have been identified as the principal economic concerns in this week's survey by state-run pollster VTsIOM. The government apparently collected prices to set the subsidy while rates have been at their higher point. In truth, if something, there is the opposite relationship-there was higher financial development in the 1950s and 60s (when manufacturing was much much more essential in the economy) than in the late 1990s and 2000s.
China's iron ore demand has been at really higher levels for a number of years, even though, it is now slowing with their economy. As to news sources, I generally have given up on them considering that they became primarily for-profit entertainment centers. Regardless of whether it is a nationwide protest, controversies in an election, an economic crisis or gender primarily based harassment, newspapers can be rich sources to follow a case or a story, detail by detail.
Subscription and single copy sales—meaning direct payment by customers for content material, is utilised by specialized publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and by news organizations with a far more common concentrate like The (London) Occasions and some nearby papers. From the information on this page it appears as though demand for workers are only going to boost more than the coming years, so why not!
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