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Sugar supply is in trouble following two failed attempts to import it and the inability of local factories to produce enough to meet demand.
A UK company was to supply 50,000tn of sugar at 431 dollars per tonne in the beginning of October. But the company withdrew from its commitment leaving the money it deposited with the Ethiopian Sugar Development Agency as a guarantee for supply, because the price had appreciated by 39 dollars. A second tender was subsequently issued, and one of the two companies that were selected to make the supply at 474 dollars per tonne retreated while they were processing letters of credit, because the price had once again appreciated, this time to 550 dollars. This company is said to have sold the sugar that was destined for the Ethiopian market elsewhere, because the profit at the new high price was more than the 1.4 million Br it had deposited at the agency.
The price of sugar has gone up in a few months from 380 dollars to 650 dollars per tonne, or around 8.30 Br per kilo at current exchange rates. The agency says that it cannot stabilize the local market by importing sugar at this price. The local sugar tender a week ago comprised of 70pc imported and 30pc manufactured by Metehara Sugar Factory. Fincha and Wonji Shewa sugar factories were still undergoing their annual maintenance and had not started production yet.
The agency used to auction 160,000ql of sugar every two weeks using new production, imported sugar and supplies from stock. Last week, however, only 100,000ql were auctioned, according to an expert at the agency. A quintal of sugar was sold for 1,199 Br during this auction.
The three factories have a capacity of 2.7 million to three million quintals. The agency imported one million to 1.5 million quintals to satisfy the total demand of 4.4 million quintals.
"Luckily, the factories have now completed their annual maintenance, but we will still need to import more sugar," said an expert at the agency.
The agency uses money provided by the Ethiopian Sugar Development Fund. It pays back the money after the sugar is sold.
The expert says that if sugar is imported at the current world market price of 650 dollars per tonne or 8.30 Br per kilo, the local price could go up to 15 or 20 Br.
"The sugar we used to sell for 1,100 Br was the one we imported at 474 dollars per tonne," said Belay Dechasa, director of the agency.
Belay says that all of this will become history when the expansion projects at existing factories are completed and when the new Tendaho Sugar Factory goes operational.
"Ethiopia will turn from an importer to an exporter," he said, speaking to journalists two weeks ago.
The three factories are expected to double their production to around six million quintals while Tendaho could produce just as much. The Ministry of Trade and Industry estimates that Ethiopia could have a two percent share of the world sugar market.
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SALEM, NH (CBS) – Bob Andersen says he was standing between two parents who were having a verbal argument at the Icenter rink in Salem, New Hampshire, when witnesses say police came through the door, grabbed Bob, pushed him to the ground, tased him several times, and put him in handcuffs.
"I didn't know how it was gonna end," Andersen told the I-Team's Cheryl Fiandaca. "I could hear my son crying and screaming. I could hear my wife screaming," the Wilmington dad recalled.
It happened back in December. Two rival teams were playing each other and parents from one team say there were some questionable calls by the referee. "There had been a referee who was heckling our kids, and there was a little bit of verbal back and forth going on with a few of the parents," parent Jen Hout recalled. "There was no fighting. There was no punches, nothing."
When the game was over, in the lobby of the rink, witnesses say two parents got into a heated argument and Anderson tried to diffuse the situation. "He was just making a wall between our parent and the other parent that were having the argument. He just placed himself between them and he was just trying to calm the situation down," parent witness Bill Dusablon recalled.
Witnesses who agreed to speak with the I-Team say that's when police arrived and, without announcing themselves or asking anyone what happened, threw Andersen to the ground.
Several people videotaped the incident with their cell phones. Andersen can be heard screaming with four cops pinning him to the floor of the rink lobby. Two of them tased the 45-year-old.
Meantime, witnesses yelled "he did nothing wrong."
On police dispatch recordings, one officer says, "We need more units. We just tased someone. It's out of control here."
The I-Team obtained police reports of the incident. In one account, an officer wrote, "I announced, 'Salem Police, back off'."
Dusablon told the I-Team, "I didn't hear him say a word."
Another officer wrote in his report that, while Anderson was on the ground, he "began to violently thrash around, attempting to escape."
Parents we spoke with dispute that account as well. "He was already down, that's when they started tasing him for no reason. He wasn't going anywhere. There were four cops on him and he wasn't fighting back or anything. There was no reason for that," one parent said.
Andersen's attorney, Chris DiBella, says the cell phone videos and witness accounts support his claim that Anderson was assaulted by police.
Andersen is charged with resisting arrest and assaulting the police. Recently, the District Attorney decided to indict Andersen in Superior Court, where he now faces up to five years in jail. "I think they're doubling down," DiBella explained. "They're trying to intimidate him into resolving this matter, and it's not something we're interested in doing. They passed the line when my client's been tased six or seven times in front of children."
Andersen, who insists he did nothing wrong, is suspended from coaching while he waits for his day in court. "The other kids I coach were crying. To see them all in there crying is difficult, very difficult," he said.
Bob is due back in court next month. Police told the I-Team that the Attorney General's office reviewed a complaint it received and found no wrongdoing on the part of the police. The department also told us that their own review of the same complaint found no evidence that the officers did anything wrong. Just weeks ago the Salem town manager hired an outside agency to audit the police department and its internal affairs investigations.
why is the officer flashing his light to block the person recording on his phone?
if policy, I believe this policy needs to be changed. it's quite obnoxious and a seemingly inappropriate misdirection of energy and attention.
It looks like they have some out of control officers on that department, especially the big kid with all the tattoos, and that they are going out of their way cover up obvious wrongdoing on their part. I coach ice hockey in RI and will definitely do my best to avoid taking any teams up to Salem for tournaments for the foreseeable future. If they treat folks from out of town like that, how would treat opponents from another state? I don't want to find out, thank you very much
Oen women said they were heckling the ref. What does that mean? Sounds like a bunch of crazy hockey parents.
I have seen many, many other videos like this where police officers abuse their authority and just take it upon themselves to intervene without even asking who was at fault! And that is exactly what happened here. They charged in, asked no questions and attacked a man for no reason what so ever, tased him 6 or 7 times which if he had a heart issue could have killed him, and now they are lying to the press about their investigation into this because cops stick together. Cops are way beyond out of control these days. I see it all the time and it's scary! I never want to be in a situation where the police are called because I know they will beat me up! I'm a 65 year old woman but that wouldn't stop them! I've seen horrible things on video where people have actually been murdered by police officers just for being a bum on the street or because the person was drunk while riding a bicycle! Of course there are good cops, but I think there are a lot of bad ones too! Remember when cops used to shoot a person just to disable them? Now they just shoot to kill, no questions asked. And that's the way they are trained now. This has to stop!
Where in the lobby were you standing Kathy? Did you have an unobstructed view of the entire incident?
I police office with a sleeve of tattoos and a Mohawk doesn't exactly inspire respect and confidence. Salem NH is known for bad cops

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Rona Munro
Doctor Who S10E10 "The Eaters of Light" (BBC One)
Contains spoilers for episodes aired to date.
When writing about "The Eaters of Light", it is mandatory to start with a section about the writer of the story or else risk losing one's Doctor Who reviewers union card. It's not just because Rona Munro is an award-winning theatre playwright with three decades' worth of success to her name, together with a number of television and radio projects. Rather, it's her unique position within the history of Who itself. Some 28 years ago, she was the writer of the classic-era story "Survival", the serial that inadvertently brought the curtain down on the original run of the show.
Needless to say, it wasn't her fault that the show was cancelled (or more accurately, that the BBC simply never got around to ordering season 27). By the time "Survival" was being made, the writing was already firmly on the wall in permanent marker. However, for some 16 years thereafter, Munro had to live with the reputation of having penned the final nail in the coffin for the Doctor when it came to his television adventures. Fortunately the show finally regenerated in 2005 and against all odds came back to life, bigger and stronger and more successful than ever, and no one could have been happier at its renaissance than Munro herself who was and is a genuine Who fan then and now.
To have Munro return to write for the show in 2017 is another example of how the current season is looking to its past to find a new way of moving forward. I've commented in previous reviews of how the show is mixing in grace notes to the past in season 10: Susan's framed picture on the Doctor's desk in "The Pilot", for example, or Ysanne Churchman's credit at the end of last week's "Empress of Mars". Seeing Munro listed as the writer of "The Eaters of Light" is right up there in terms of misty-eyed nostalgia for Who fans of good standing, as she becomes the first (and obviously to date only) person to have written stories for both the Classic (20th century) and New (21st century) incarnations of the show. Read the rest of this entry »


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Our chapter has experienced healthy growth over that last few years and we hope to continue to provide such value in the future so that we may continue to grow. That being said, as our chapter grows in numbers, our operating costs also grow, and we are faced with larger assessments from Society.
We have had the luxury of stabilizing local chapter dues over the last few years but are faced with implementing a small increase in dues for the next ASHRAE calendar year.
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Connect my headphones into your heart.
I hear the beat of your blood,
I feel the flow of your love.
Let us listen together,
As love's harmony manifests in our lives.
Lynette Wiest
The way you express yourself teaches the world who you are. This expression has a major impact on the quality of your connections with others. Quality connections create productive discussions, resolutions, relationship patterns, and more. Destructive connections create destructive outcomes (e.g. misunderstandings, arguments, fractured relationships, unhealthy patterns). Take an inventory of your intentions, thoughts, and emotions. Intend to express yourself in ways that promote mutually beneficial connections. Choose goals aligned with healthy connections.
On this page you will find information about the following communication skills:
- Choosing Intentions, Thoughts, and Emotions to Best Drive Your Expressions
- Maintaining Focus
- Attention and Clear Expressions
- Respectful Disagreement
Please note: The Communication Basics, Communication Skills Part 1, 3, and 4 pages provide additional information about communication skills. To a degree, Communication Skills Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 build on the previous "Part".
Choosing Intentions, Thoughts, and Emotions to Best Drive Your Expressions
Your thoughts about another person (their actions, words, appearance, demographics, etc) determine how you interact with him/her. If your thoughts of others come from your love, self-control, and self-confidence, you will tend to interact in ways that create a sense of satisfaction and purpose. However, if you choose thoughts that produce fear, opposition, or anxiety in you, your interactions will most likely reflect this and create a sense of less control in the situation.
In order to have thoughts and emotions that create healthy interactions, intend to see others through eyes of love. Know they too desire to be in loving, healthy, productive connections. If the other person does not appear loving, think of their love as hidden (by fear, resentment, confusion, etc). Connect to your sense of internal peace (despite the level of chaos in the environment). Your emotions are dependent on your perspective (thoughts, attitudes, and judgments) and your ability to connect with internal peace. Choose thoughts of self confidence, and self control; choose thoughts of love for yourself and the other person. Then connect with the other person to the degree you are able to extend loving intentions. Your ability to extend love does not depend on the other's ability to reciprocate. Your ability to extend love depends on your ability to anchor your expression in loving intentions for connection.
What was said to the rose that made it open was said
to me here in my chest.
Focusing on your responsibilities in the communication (e.g. honesty, assertiveness, reason, productivity) brings you confidence and clarity. However, if you focus on what you cannot control (e.g. the other's attitude, perspective, judgment, mood, honesty), you may miss out on potential opportunity for a constructive interaction.
You are responsible for how you see the world (your perspective) and your attitude towards it. These responsibilities have an enormous influence on your interactions. Practice the following recommendations:
- Look for peace and unity: you will find it, even when others do not. Expose it through your interactions and example (e.g. through anecdotal information and through your style of interacting). Value compassion, honesty, confidence, assertiveness, and peace for healthier, stronger, more honest connections - despite challenging interactions.
- Work to understand the other's situation and reasoning. You will have more information in the exchange.
- If you judge the other, and are not open to understanding his/her reasoning, you will have a faulty understanding of the information being expressed to you. This can leave you feeling confused, alone, and/or separate.
- Do not spend energy trying to control the thoughts of someone who does not want your perspective, even if you believe you know what is best for him/her. Be careful - what you try to control can control you.
- Reason and peace are more powerful than aggression and confusion. If you do not accept this, you will fear the aggression and confusion of others. Fear can limit and control you, often leading to a self fulfilling prophesy. Your fear can fuel aggression and confusion in your own expression.
- Connect with your internal sense of peace by releasing unhealthy attitudes (blame, resentment, judgment, etc.). If you hold onto thoughts of being harmed or not loved in ways you desire, you block your own sense of peace. Even if you must create boundaries to maintain your safety (physical or emotional), your heart can hold deep love for the other.
- Intend to accept yourself as you are - and as you grow. Discover and embrace encouraging beliefs about yourself. As you learn about your unique identity, free of judgment and measurement, you discover your healthy/true self. As your identity unfolds, your self expression connects you to others in ways that are supportive and empowering. You will create the relationships you desire.
Maintaining Focus
Know the goal, intent, and/or purpose of an interaction. Although this knowledge may not be stated, either party must know the common focus. Without focus, communication can be frustrating, confusing, and misunderstood.
Signs of vague communication are:
- lacking clarity about what you or the other is saying
- going off track from the purpose/point of the communication
- talking about more than one issue or topic at a time
- attempting to problem solve while emotional pain is being expressed
- attacking a person instead of attacking a problem
- bringing up past problems
- trying to 'win'
- jumping to conclusions
Be flexible enough to make communication adjustments for increasing the focus. This will bring more efficiency, clarity, and understanding. In this way, problems can be resolved and relationships healed.
- Be clear and specific about what you want to say.
- When speaking, stay focused on what you want to say/your point.
- If you get off track, use "I Messages" and "Reflective Listening" to get back on track.
Attention and Clear Expressions
Clear communication promotes clear understandings. Express yourself using communication skills. Intend to embrace the other's expression to the best of your ability. To embrace another's expression, you must listen with the intention to understand him/her as clearly as possible:
- Pay attention to whether there may be a larger expression beyond the person's words. If this may be the case, ASK - DON'T ASSUME.
- If something is unclear, ASK - DON'T ASSUME.
- Listen for any desire the other is expressing.
- Do not jump to conclusions. You are not a mind reader.
- Do not disagree with another's statements before being clear about what is being said.
- Do not interrupt.
Respectful Disagreement
Disagreement is a normal occurrence in relationships. People disagree because two or more differing perspectives meet. This can be an opportunity to learn about the other's point of view and experience. Open your mind to learn about his/her perceptions, ideas, feelings, thoughts, experiences, and history. Learning about another's differences expands your understanding of the other person, and of the world. Even in your disagreement, your desire to learn about the other person illuminates your respect, concern, and care for him/her. In this way, even a disagreement can nourish the relationship.
Communication skills support the respectful expression of differences. Respectful disagreement is a sharing of information. Sharing ideas may reveal a way different perspectives can come together to reveal a more comprehensive view of the information. (Two points of view may give a broader picture of the overall topic being viewed/discussed.)
Engage in respectful disagreement:
- Acknowledge and clarify disagreements before they grow into conflict. This may take initiative on your part. Do not wait for the other to make the first move.
- When conflict enters into a disagreement, focus on the issue rather than on personalities.
- Stay in the present. Do not allow past conflict to intervene and impede on what you are trying to resolve. If other disagreements need to be addressed, now is not the time.
- Avoid unnecessary conflict by clarifying what each person is trying to say.
- Respect the other person's desire to express their views fully. You may learn something you did not know. Do not interrupt or contradict.
- Control your desire to get the upper hand. Do not defend yourself. Do not build your position by attacking the other. This would produce unnecessary conflict.
- Be patient.
- Be concrete and specific. Do not expect the other person to read your mind.
- Focus on the topic; do not attack or judge the other person. Do not resort to name-calling or bullying.
- Use self-control. Do not be aggressive, intimidating, threatening, or forceful.
- Use "I Statements"; do not use "You Statements".
- Respect and appreciate your differences. Do not insist you must think or feel the same ways.
- Do not blame the other for how you think or feel. Take responsibility for yourself.
- Be honest.
- Do not bring in a biased third party for support.
- Express disappointment without nagging, complaining, or pouting.
- If tension is building, warn the other you may need a time-out. Do not walk away without stating a beneficial intent ("I need to take time to gather my thoughts and feelings", "I need to step away and calm down, so I am better able to focus, discuss, express", etc.). Please note: if you initiate a time-out, it is your responsibility to resume the discussion.
- Ask for clarification. Do not assume you know.
- Speak only for yourself. Do not try to represent the other's thoughts or feelings.
- Recognize your blind spots. Do not assume you have all the answers.
- Strive for mutual understanding. Do not shut out the other's point of view. Do not try to 'win'.
- If appropriate, reach for a compromise.
- Try to agree to end a disagreement you no longer want to continue. If needed, arrange to discuss it again later.
Communicating about disagreements in unhealthy ways often leads to arguments. Arguments are often oppositional and promote offensive and defensive attitudes. Arguments do not tend to create trust and consideration. If you want to influence someone's ideas, do not argue. Share ideas; respectfully discuss and disagree - you will avoid triggering feelings of defensiveness, inadequacy, aggression, and withdrawal.
Minds are changed when seeing a situation or problem differently. This requires an open mind to new information (not a wall of defense or an attack of offense). If the other believes he/she needs to defend him/her ideas, an open mind is not likely. Be respectful, honest, and open to difference. In this way, your loving intentions are most apt to be understood.


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There are many pleasant benefits of improved rationality:
- Winning more often.
- Better affective forecasting.
- Better self-help skills (e.g., CBT is applied rationality).
I'd like to mention two other benefits of rationality that arise when working with other rationalists, which I've noticed since moving to Berkeley to work with Machine Intelligence Research Institute (first as an intern, then as a staff member).
The first is the comfort of knowing that people you work with agree on literally hundreds of norms and values relevant to decision-making: the laws of logic and probability theory, the recommendations of cognitive science for judgment and decision-making, the values of broad consequentialism and x-risk reduction, etc. When I walk into a decision-making meeting with Eliezer Yudkowsky or Anna Salamon or Louie Helm, I notice I'm more relaxed than when I walk into a meeting with most people. I know that we're operating on Crocker's rules, that we all want to make the decisions that will most reduce existential risk, and that we agree on how we should go about making such a decision.
The second pleasure, related to the first, is the extremely common result of reaching Aumann agreement after initially disagreeing. Having worked closely with Anna on both the rationality minicamp and a forthcoming article on intelligence explosion, we've had many opportunities to Aumann on things. We start by disagreeing on X. Then we reduce knowledge asymmetry about X. Then we share additional arguments for multiple potential conclusions about X. Then we both update from our initial impressions, also taking into account the other's updated opinion. In the end, we almost always agree on a final judgment or decision about X. And it's not that we agree to disagree and just move forward with one of our judgments. We actually both agree on what the most probably correct judgment is. I've had this experience literally hundreds of times with Anna alone.
Being more rational is a pleasure. Being rational in the company of other rationalists is even better. Forget not the good news of situationist psychology.
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It's a contentious issue and one that changes a simple conversation into full blown arguments: speed and speed cameras, safety device or revenue raiser? First up, what EXACTLY is speed? According to Wikipedia: In kinematics, the speed of an object is the magnitude of its velocity (the rate of change of its position); it is thus a scalar quantity.[1] The average speed of an object in an interval of time is the distance travelled by the object divided by the duration of the interval;[2] the instantaneous speed is the limit of the average speed as the duration of the time interval approaches zero. Like velocity, speed has the dimensions of a length divided by a time; the SI unit of speed is the metre per second, but the most usual unit of speed in everyday usage is the kilometre per hour or, in the USA and the UK, miles per hour. For air and marine travel the knot is commonly used.
Or more simply, A cyclist who covers 30 metres in a time of 2 seconds, for example, has a speed of 15 metres per second. Basically velocity over distance in a time frame. In Australia, we measure our speed as kilometres per hour, so fifty kilometres per hour is fifty thousand metres of distance travelled every 3600 seconds. This equates to be 13.888 metres every second. 80 k's per hour is 22.222 metres per second and 11o is 30.555 metres per second. Ok, we're clear on that?
There are those that say that if you don't speed then you won't receive an infringement. True, undeniably true but it sidesteps what the argument is all about. There's also the ubiquitous and well worn "speed kills". Let's put this into one context: if a driver travels at 60kilometres per hour in a rated zone of fifty kilometres per hour, that driver is, technically, speeding. If the driver is doing the same speed, sixty kmh in an 80 kmh zone, the same speed remember, they're not speeding. So, according to convention, the media, the police etc, the first is dangerous yet, somehow, that same velocity over distance per time isn't….back to "speed kills"….which speed, exactly?
Our residential roads are zoned at 50 kmh. Our highways are zoned at either 100 kmh or 110 kmh. Travel at 80 kmh in a 60 kmh and you're speeding BUT in order to achieve a speed of 100/110 kmh you not only have to reach 80 kmh but EXCEED that speed. So what is dangerous, 80 in a 60 or passing that formerly dangerous speed to one that is deemed safe????
Ok, we're told that speed kills. It's a blanket statement, exactly like "the customer is always right". The problem is the caveat part of those statements is missing. Speed doesn't kill, it's the sudden stop. This is where physics comes into play, with an object in motion possessing kinetic energy. That kinetic energy has to be dispersed when that object stops; also, a little more physics. You may have heard of "G force"; from Wikipedia: G-force (with g from gravitational) is a measurement of acceleration felt as weight. It is not a force, but a force per unit mass and can be measured with an accelerometer. Since such a force is perceived as a weight, any g-force can be described as a "weight per unit mass" (see the synonym specific weight). The g-force acceleration acts as a multiplier of weight-like forces for every unit of an object's mass, and (save for certain electromagnetic force influences) is the cause of an object's acceleration in relation to free-fall.
Under normal and everyday circumstances, a human is experiencing a G force load of 1G. Deceleration also involves G force and the higher the deceleration the higher the G force. To be slightly technical: The expression "1 g = 9.80665 m/s2" means that for every second that elapses, velocity changes 9.80665 meters per second (≡35.30394 km/h). This rate of change in velocity can also be denoted as 9.80665 (meter per second) per second, or 9.80665 m/s2. For example: An acceleration of 1 g equates to a rate of change in velocity of approximately 35 kilometres per hour (22 mph) for each second that elapses. Therefore, if an automobile is capable of braking at 1 g and is traveling at 35 kilometres per hour (22 mph) it can brake to a standstill in one second and the driver will experience a deceleration of 1 g. The automobile traveling at three times this speed, 105 km/h (65 mph), can brake to a standstill in three seconds. For humans, death or serious injury occurs with a G force rating of >25G. So, clearly, it's neither speed (to keep it simple, let's presume a constant velocity therefore a G force of 1G) nor acceleration (as even the space shuttle was kept to an acceleration G force of less than 3G), that kills people, it IS the sudden stop. To use a somewhat graphic yet famous example, the crash that took the lives of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed was estimated to have a G force factor of 70G to 100G….
The Bathurst 1000 event over the weekend of 11-13 October 2013 saw a number of crashes, including young drivers Tim Slade and Chaz Mostert. It was estimated that the G force shunts for both was around 30G. Now, here's the rub; the vehicles they are driving are built and engineered with what is considered high speed in mind. Also, the safety mechanisms we take for granted, primarily airbags, are removed BUT they have super strength seatbelts in a configuration known as a four point harness. Relative movement or slackness of these belts is hugely minimal compared to the seatbelts in cars (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/seatb.html) therefore their bodily movement will be severely reduced. As a result, a combination of that primary safety factor and car construction aided in reducing serious injury, to the point both drivers reported bruising and some aches, but nothing worse.
So speed kills? No, it doesn't. Clearly, obviously, provably. Therefore the argument for restricting speed limits and using speed cameras has serious opposition. Therefore the argument for speed cameras to stop speeding is invalid. An example: a driver is travelling a road zoned at 110 kilometres per hour in dry conditions and 100 percent visibility (the caveat). It's raining, it's foggy and it's dusk. Visibility, even with headlights on (a safety factor badly overlooked) is 10 metres. Remember that 110kmh is 30 metres PER SECOND. Is it safe to travel at 110 even though that's what the signs say that driver can do? But if that driver DOES travel at 110 they aren't breaking the law and therefore not subject to receiving an infringement. But is it SAFE? By no sensible reasoning should this be seen as safe. Road limits are set for the presumption of 100% visibility for the direction of road travel and road design and the surrounding area and in many areas they are too low.
So: speed cameras are used to restrict excessive speed, with posted limits set under what is presumably the best conditions, with one unassailable fact, the biggest chance factor of all: how good is the driver? Anyone that races at Bathurst is there because, not only can they race, they can handle speeds that the authorities would have us believe is dangerous. Remember, the majority of the year sees the track a residential road, with a posted limit of just 60 kmh. If speed kills, then why are all the drivers that raced this year still alive? No, it's not a petty and frivolous question, as we are told, repeatedly, speed is dangerous…..but to who? Certainly not Mark Winterbottom, certainly not Warren Luff, certainly not Andy Priaulx. Speed cameras are used to control speed, they don't control bad drivers. Well trained and educated and AWARE drivers are so much more safer to deal with and they can deal with speeds others can't. There is no justification for speed cameras in many locations but yes, in some places they should be mandatory.
According to the Bureau of Statistics, in 2010, a staggering 44.2% of fatal crashes were a single vehicle crash, whilst 42% were multiple vehicle. The inescapable fact is these crashes have one common cause or factor and it's not speed. It's a bad driver. In the same year, at speeds of up to just 60kmh, the equation was 28.3% of fatalities occurred in that grouping, whilst in the sixty five to ninety zone it was 22.4%. What's more frightening is the change of numbers in the Northern Territory; in 2009 it was 13 people per 100000 that were in a fatal crash. In 2010, it jumped to 21. Those numbers increased almost year by year after the unlimited roads were changed to a maximum of 130 kmh. Time of the crashes is also an important factor: in 2012 there were more fatalities in NSW between 12 and 1 pm (30) than at any other time of the day, with Victoria not far behind at 18 between 1 and 2pm. Neither could hardly to be said it's peak hour traffic yet Allianz Insurance says the most common form of crash is the nose to tail. Guess when these are likely to happen? That's right, peak hour.
Speed doesn't kill. Speed cameras do nothing to reduce the reason people die in a crash: the sudden stop. The Victorian police say they're going to hide their cameras so the operators don't get hurt by the occasional twit that's just been nabbed speeding, presumably because 1) they're a twit for not slowing when the sign says there's a camera or 2) didn't slow because they were too busy looking at their speedometer. It's commendable but I'm sure you can understand the cynical laughs from those that can do what the law, ostensibly, wants everyone to do. Drive, rather than steer, a vehicle.
Sources: http://statistics.infrastructure.gov.au/atsb/login.do?guest=guest&tableId=user/atsbguest/Road%20Deaths%20by%20State%20and%20Territory.txd


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Anti aging skin care products review
Any abrasive product should be limited or totally avoided. Even soft fluffy makeup brushes can irritate those with sensitive skin and rosacea. Skin care products must be gentle and contain effective ingredients to help calm inflammation.
Calm and comfort your sensitive skin with Yonka's Sensitive line. It's in the Yonka Specifics category.
YonKa has added three new products to their Specifics product line to help soothe and balance sensitive skin.
Yonka is a natural botanical skin care line. We use it for facials at the salon. They still have their Creme 15 which is purifying and calming for blemished skin with redness. But, their Creme 11 for sensitive skin has been discontinued and replace with the Sensitive Creme.
Yonka's newest sensitive products are Sensitive Skin Creme, Sensitive Masque and Sensitive Creme Anti-Red. I love them all!
YonKa Sensitive Skin Creme
This cream is super calming for sensitive skin. It is designed to boost the skin's natural defenses with pre-biotics and probiotics: Yacon Root and Lactobacillus. It desensitizes the skin with Sensibiotic Complex Sea Mayweed. It nourishes the skin with Shea Butter and Coconut Oil and soothes the skin with Bisabolol, Vegatable Gylcerin Olive Phytosqualene and Polysaccharides. This cream will calm inflammation and irritation with regular use.
I find it to be very soothing for my skin with almost no scent. It is a very light feeling moisturizer.
Ingredients: Aqua/Water/Eau, Octyldodecyl Myristate, Glycerin, Hydrogenated Coconut Oil, Hydrogenated Vegetable Glycerides, Cetearyl Alcohol, Propanediol, Squalane, Alpha-Glucan Oligosaccharide, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Glyceryl Stearate, Cetearyl Glucoside, Polymnia Sonchifolia Root Juice, Caprylyl Glycol, Sodium Acrylates Copolymer, Maltodextrin, Chlorphenesin, Lecithin, Phenoxyethanol, Caprylhydroxamic Acid, Bisabolol, Xanthan Gum, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Biosaccharide Gum-1, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, Lactobacillus, Tripleurospermum Maritimum Extract, Sorbic Acid.
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YonKa Sensitive Masque
It contains Arnica, Yarrow, Mallow and German Chamomile to soothe the skin. Horse Chestnut and Witch Hazel help calm redness. Grain Germ Oil, Soy Bean Oil, Sunflower Oil, St. John's Wort and Horsetail Extract nourish and help to regenerate the skin. YonKa's signature blend of the essential oils of lavender, gernanium, rosemary, cypress and thyme calm and balance the skin.
My skin likes this calming masque. It feels cool on my skin plus, my skin is less irritated and more moisturized after leaving it on for 20 minutes once a week. It is lightly fragranced with the scent of essential oils.
One of my sensitive skin facial clients noticed she has less breakouts between facials now that I am using this masque on her during her facials.
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It contains natural green pigments and mica to help color correct redness in the skin. It also contains Centella Asiatica, Mirabilis jalapa and Rosemary Extract to reduce the appearance of capillaries and decrease the reactivity of the skin. Bisabolol, Vegatable Gylcerin Olive Phytosqualene and Polysaccharides calm, hydrate and soothe the skin.
I find this cream very calming. The green pigment it contains is very subtle, after it is spread on the skin. It will camouflage a little of the redness in the skin. If you have a lot of redness, you will still need a concealer. With continuous use, it's ingredients will make capillaries less noticeable, though. It has barely any scent and feels good on my skin.
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- The Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation has notified RERA for Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu, Lakshadweep and Chandigarh
- While the rules are only applicable to Union Territories, experts say this will act as a template for other states to frame their rules.
- Act will apply retrospectively to existing projects without Completion Certificate
- The states of Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh have already notified the rules, but the other states are unlikely to meet the 31st, October deadline.
DELHI: The ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation today notified the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) (General) Rules, 2016 for the five Union Territories of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu, Lakshadweep and Chandigarh, without legislature.
The Real Estate Regulator Bill (RERA) came into force on May 1st, 2016 and was required to be notified within a period of six months which ends on 31st October. Draft rules had been placed in the public domain for discussion three months ago and the notified rules contain suggestions received from consumer associations and real estate bodies. While the rules are only applicable to Union Territories where the rate of project delays and developer malpractices are not as high as in the rest of the country, experts say this will act as a template for other states to frame their rules.
At the moment, the ministry of Urban Development is working on similar rules for the National Capital Region of Delhi while the state governments are required to notify the rules for application in their respective states. The states of Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh have already notified the rules, but the other states are unlikely to meet the 31st, October deadline. Sources in the ministry tell NDTV that the rest are expected to notify the rules by the end of November.
RERA: 10 Things To Know
1) For ongoing projects without Completion Certificate (CC), developers will have to deposit 70% of the amount collected from homebuyers in a separate bank account within 3 months of registering a project with RERA.
2) In case of delays, developers will be required to pay compensation to the allottees with an Interest Rate of SBI's highest Marginal Cost of Lending Rate plus 2%. This effectively means a developer will have to pay interest rates of 11 to 12 % in case of a delay in project delivery.
3) The rules also contain clauses providing for compounding of punishment with imprisonment for violation of the orders of Real Estate Appellate Tribunal against payment of 10% of project cost in case of developers and 10% of the cost of property purchased in case of allottees and agents.
4) Discrimination in sale of properties on any grounds will also not be entertained under the new rules. Adjudicating Officers, Real Estate Authorities and Appellate Tribunals shall dispose of complaints within 60 days
5) For ongoing projects that have not received Completion Certificate (CC), the developers will have to make public the original sanctioned plans with specifications and changes made later, total amount collected from allottees, money used, original timeline for completion and the time period within which the developer undertakes to complete the project.
6) The promoter shall also be required to declare the size of the apartment based on carpet area even if it was sold earlier on any other basis.
7) For registration of projects with the authorities, developers will be required to submit authenticated copy of PAN Card, annual report comprising audited profit and loss account, balance sheet, cash flow statement and auditors report of the promoter for the immediate three preceding years, authenticated copy of legal title deed, copy of collaboration agreement if the promoter is not the owner of the plot. The promoter will also has to declare information regarding the number of open and closed parking areas in the project.
8) The promoter will also have to upload details regarding number and type of apartments or plots, status of the project with photographs floor-wise, status of construction of internal infrastructure and common areas with photos, status of approvals received and expected date of receipt, within 15 days of expiry of each quarter on the project website.
9) In a departure from the draft rules, the requirement of disclosing Income Tax returns has been withdrawn in the final rules keeping in view the confidentiality attached with them and as pointed out by legal experts and promoters.
10) In addition to this, the Real Estate Regulatory authorities will also publish information relating to profile and track record of promoters, details of litigations, advertisement and prospectus issued about the project, details of apartments, plots and garages, registered agents and consultants, development plan, financial details of the promoters, status of approvals and projects etc., on the RERA website.
Abhay Upadhyay, national convenor for the Fight For RERA group welcomed the notification of the rules and said " we are thankful to the PM and the government for coming out with rules which have fully taken care of concerns expressed by Fight For RERA team towards home buyers. Specially, the provision with regard to the deposit of the 70% of unused amount, collected for ongoing project to be kept into separate account is very commendable and it will go a long way in starting all the stalled projects for last so many years."
By Nikhil Narayan, Chanakya Bhatia & Neetika Bajaj


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I've been having ongoing problems with corruption in my iPhoto library. I was up to about 14,000 photos which is well below the 250,000 image limit. Problems included locking up while importing photos and crashes when emptying the trash.
I'd do the typical iPhoto and disk repairs. They might help for a short while but then the problem would return. In short, the problems never got resolved. While my process included backups for all the photos, I didn't back up the iPhoto library itself on a regular basis. I didn't really want to start from scratch and the library backups I had probably included the corruption and were old.
When I got the new iMac I was hoping the problem would go away. I'd be copying the library but the software would be a nice new factory install. No such luck and the repairs still didn't help. It was obvious real work would be needed to replace the library. My research brought me to a couple of nifty iPhoto tools and taught me some things about the way iPhoto works.
Everything below applies to iPhoto 6 which is what I have and may or may not apply to earlier versions.
Editing/Viewing in External Editor Creates Backups
If you open photos in an external editor iPhoto will create a backup, just like as if you had changed it. This was news to me. I view edit photos in Photoshop Elements. If I'm just doing a quick print or edit I don't always save the changes. I figured I was saving disk space since iPhoto wouldn't have to save the original. Little did I know that just opening it externally caused it to create a backup. I did wonder how it knew if the external editor made a change but didn't think about it enough. iPhoto Diet (see below) taught me the error of my ways and corrected the problem.
Quiting When Emptying The Trash
Here's the Apple Support Document on the issue. I do have iPhoto 6.0.1 (actually I now have iPhoto 6.0.5) and this has not been a resolution on my problem library. If I kept the contents small between empties it would work OK for considerable time but eventually start crashing again. The good news is that testing large deletions on new libraries does not cause me a problem.
Moving the iPhoto Library
Moving the iPhoto Library is very simple. The short version is to move (don't leave it in the old location) the library to a new location then start iPhoto. It will ask for the library when it starts, just browse to the new location and pick it. Don't leave the library in the old location, otherwise iPhoto will continue to use it. Here's the Apple Support Document. iPhoto Library Manager (see below) can also be used to manage and move libraries.
Repairing/Rebuilding The iPhoto Library
To repair the library hold the Command and Option keys when starting iPhoto. You'll see the following dialog box:
In my case, this (selecting the first three options and sometimes the fourth) only solved my problem temporarily. Even justrebuilding the small thumbnails takes considerable time. It depends on the number of photos and your Mac, but on my Mac Mini it would take about two hours per repair. Here"s the Apple Support Document on the rebuild function: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107947
iPhoto Diet
Website: http://www.rhythmiccanvas.com/software/iphotodiet/
iPhoto Diet is a great freeware Applescript app for iPhoto. Visit the website for all the details and to download it, but here's my experience with it.
It removed all my "Redundant Backups", several thousand of them. This is where iPhoto saves off the original photo but the updated photo is the same as the original. This is caused (at least in my case) when a photo is opened in an external editor but no changes are saved.
It stripped the icon thumbnails from photos. I rarely view the photos in finder so I don't need them.
It can remove "leftovers". These are empty directories or unused files. I actually had a problem in this area which I believe was due to my database corruption. When running the Diet I received many Applescript errors for missing directories. They were in fact missing. I created them and iPhoto Diet was happy. But then iPhoto Diet removed them as leftovers. The next time Diet was run I received the Applescript errors again so I just turned off the options.
These missing directories had a common theme which takes a bit of explaining. When you drag a directory into iPhoto to import it the film roll is named with the directory name. iPhoto also creates a directory (on the filesystem) with the roll name. If a file system directory with the name already exists it appends _XX to the name (where XX is a constantly incrementing number) of the new directory. When I was organizing photos using just the file system I'd frequently have a "Fav" subdirectory to identify favorites. When I imported the photos to iPhoto I had well over 100 "Fav" rolls.
Since all of the missing directories were "Favs". It was easy to replace them. I just had to fill in the blanks in the numbering sequence. I suspect some corruption occurred when the photos contained in those directories where deleted and some table in iPhoto still points to them even after all the repairs. I haven't had any problems running the Diet on the new libraries I'm creating.
iPhoto Diet has an option to compare timestamps when looking for duplicates. It's off by default but I turned it on. This didn't work well for me. It found a lot of false matches. The timestamps did match but the photos weren't duplicates. So I haven't used this option since.
iPhoto Diet can move duplicates to either the trash or to a new album. I used the new album option (the default) and it's really slick. The albums it creates are prefixed with dashes to make them easy to find. There's an album for duplicates to keep, and one for duplicates to delete. Since the photos are listed in the same order it's easy to switch between the two to see if they match. In this way it was obvious to me that the "Compare Timestamps" feature had many false positives. Albums are also created for Thumbnails and unassigned photos.
iPhoto diet will identify thumbnails. If the current photo and it's backup are both thumbnail size it's flagged as a thumbnail. If you collect thumbnails this isn't very useful. The only thumbnails it found for me were ones I wanted. So it did work, and I could simply ignore the contents of the thumbnail album so no harm was done.
iPhoto Diet can identify unassigned photos which are ones not in any album. I mainly use smart albums so most of my photos were unassigned. So I ignored the results and turned this option off.
If you use the option to relink libraries if will recreate any albums that have a "dup to delete" and link in the "dup to keep" instead. Unless you link the new names you'll want to drag the photos to your old albums which is what I did. This can be tedious if you have a lot of relinked albums but is easy. Because I have large "collection" albums and then many "subset" albums I had a lot of relinking. I had let iPhoto import dups because I was afraid it wouldn't link to the album if it wasn't imported.
The bottom line is this is a cool tool which I'll be using regularly and was a key component of my process to rebuild my iPhoto library. Plus it's free. Every iPhoto user should have it. While I haven't had any problems iPhoto library backups are recommended before running anything like this.
iPhoto Library Manager
website: http://homepage.mac.com/bwebster/iphotolibrarymanager.html
iPhoto Library Manager started it's life as a way to get around the early iPhoto limits by allowing multiple libraries. But it's still useful today, as I found out. The free version allows managing multiple libraries and provides some additional features and limits some features. The full version is $19.95 and it's what I needed to get around the 20 photo import limit. I used iPhoto Library Manager to move the albums and photos from my corrupt library to my new library. This worked flawlessly. I did try a 5000 photo import and iPhoto crashed as iPhoto Library Manager was updating the metadata, so I did things in smaller groups. My largest import was 3,014 photos in one batch.
It's rebuild library feature didn't help me resolve the original library corruption although I can't really fault it since nothing else worked either.
It doesn't migrate smart albums. When I copied the smart albums it created regular albums instead and linked the photos to it. This was well documented so I expected it up front. Between iPhoto Library Manager and iPhoto Diet I'm questioning my need for smart albums so I haven't recreated them.
In Summary
I could have saved a lot of time if I stopped trying to rebuild the iPhoto database sooner and simply started to move them to a new library. Since I was unsure of iPhoto Library Manager or iPhoto Diet I spent a lot of time doing backups and doing things in small batches. I allowed iPhoto Library manager to import duplicates so I wouldn't have any problems with the album contents. Then I used iPhoto Diet after each import to remove the duplicates and preserve the album links.
Additional Links
Here's a link to the Apple's iPhoto 6 Getting Started Guide (PDF file): http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iPhoto_6_Getting_Started.pdf
Apple iPhoto webpage: http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/
iPhotoToGallery: http://zwily.com/iphoto/
This is a plugin that allows you to move photos from iPhoto to gallery. I haven't tried this as my webhost doesn't seem to like Gallery so I haven't been able to get it working.
Keyword Assistant For iPhoto: http://homepage.mac.com/kenferry/software.html
I just started using this. As I mentioned, I've used smart albums a lot in the past, many of which are based on keywords. But the iPhoto interface for keywords doesn't scale well for large numbers of keywords. They're just too hard to find, organize and manage. This seems like a good way around that, and it's free. The potential "gotcha" here is that KA goes into "compatibility" mode when an untested (or new) version of iPhoto is used. As new versions of iPhoto are released we'll need to get new versions of KA.
Picasa Web Albums can be uploaded directly from iPhoto. The iPhoto plug-in from Google is available here: http://picasa.google.com/web/mac_tools.html


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England to face Venezuela in U20 World Cup final
England will play Venezuela in the final of the Under-20 World Cup after Dominic Solanke struck twice in a 3-1 win over Italy on Thursday.
Italy had taken the lead in the second minute through Riccardo Orsolini, but Paul Sampson's side bounced back in style to reach the final of the competition for the first time in England's history.
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England launched a remarkable comeback after the interval, with new Liverpool signing Solanke scoring his first goal of the game after 66 minutes.
Sheyi Ojo's cross was palmed out by goalkeeper Andrea Zaccagno to Solanke for a simple finish and Ojo was again involved as England took the lead.
Everton attacker Ademola Lookman slotted home after Italy failed to deal with another Ojo centre, then Zaccagno was beaten too easily by Solanke's 25-yard drive as England wrapped up the match with two minutes to go.
In the first semi-final, Venezuela are through to a maiden final in any age group by triumphing 4-3 on penalties, with the new ABBA shootout system used after a 1-1 draw.
Uruguay's Nicolas De La Cruz gave his side the lead from the penalty spot, but Samuel Sosa hit a stunning free-kick to level the scores in the 91st minute and neither team could break the deadlock in extra time.
Captain De La Cruz was the villain for Uruguay, goalkeeper Wuilker Farinez blocking his kick with his right leg to send Venezuela through to a historic final in Suwon on Sunday.


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Marston's has been shortlisted in the 2019 Investors in People Awards for the Best Apprenticeship Programme (over 500 people).
6th Sept 2019
Providing a standard and accreditation, the Investors in People Awards celebrates organisations which recognise the potential of its people and go above and beyond. With multiple businesses across different sectors and industries being put forward for the awards, Marston's is one of five organisations to be shortlisted for the Best Apprenticeship Programme (over 500 people).
Liam Powell, Group People Director at Marston's said: "We are delighted that our apprenticeship scheme has been recognised by The Investors in People with this prestigious award. We are extremely proud of what our apprentices achieve and we will continue to work closely with schools, colleges and youth groups to ensure people understand the value of apprenticeships and are aware of the great opportunities here at Marston's."


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Celkon Mobile Service Center in Mirzapur
Celkon Mobile Service Center in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh – Address, Contact Number are listed below. If you have any problem with your Celkon mobile, kindly contact the service center officials. There is 1 Celkon authorized mobile service center in Mirzapur
List of Celkon Authorized Mobile Service Centers in Mirzapur:
Celkon mobile service center in Imarti Road, Mirzapur
Name: SWASTIK TELCOM
Address: Shishir Agrawal, Swastik Telecom, Imarti Road, Mirzapur
City: Mirzapur
State: Uttar Pradesh
Pincode: 231001
Contact Person: Mr. Shishir Agrawal
Contact Number 1: 9838332277
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Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Working Hours: 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
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Youngest daughter and her friends have recently discovered the joy of text messaging and celebrate this joy by keeping the phone at their side at all times with a really annoying and loud ring tone for incoming messages. I'm really glad our family plan has unlimited texting.
Yesterday afternoon, J (youngest daughter) came running through the house in a panic, touching each of us on the arm and shouting TAG! as she frantically found Sophie, Smokey and Dobby and "tagged" them too. I got tagged twice to make sure she had tagged nine others.
She had apparently been sent a chain mail text message that said she was supposed to "tag" nine others in the next five minutes so all her dreams would come true. For a few minutes, there was a flurry of activity as she rushed around yelling TAG! Seeing the bewildered look on 14 yr & 13 yr old's faces, not to mention seeing how Sophie and Smokey reacted was all so funny. Dobby (our cockatiel) looked at her like she was nuts, as he tends to do often as he looks at us, as she tagged his cage.
She was so innocent and cute that I didn't have the heart to tell her that "tag" in that case meant forwarding the text message to nine other people and that getting those chain mail messages can get annoying if you get 997 in one day and that they're not real. She doesn't need to know that just yet.
I will miss things like this when she is a little bit older.
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From time to time, I intend to post exceptional poems on the subject of aging. One of my favorites is "The Old Fools" by Philip Larkin, called to my attention several years ago by a novelist-turned-friend, Hilma Wolitzer.
The day Ms. Wolitzer shared the poem with me, I was interviewing her about a new novel, "The Doctor's Daughter," which involves a middle-aged woman's reaction to her father's decline. Ms. Wolitzer, like so many of us, had cared for both of her parents at the end their lives and used that experience in crafting the novel, which was published in 2006.
Ms. Wolitzer quoted from Mr. Larkin's poem from memory during our first meeting, found it on her well-stocked book shelves so I could read it in its entirety, and suggested it immediately when I told her recently of my plans to post poetry from time to time. She also offered to share what for her makes the poem so special. First "The Old Fools," and then Ms. Wolitzer's commentary.
The Old Fools
What do they think has happened, the old fools,
To make them like this? Do they somehow suppose
It's more grown-up when your mouth hangs open and drools,
And you keep on pissing yourself, and can't remember
Who called this morning? Or that, if they only chose,
They could alter things back to when they danced all night,
Or went to their wedding, or sloped arms some September?
Or do they fancy there's really been no change,
And they've always behaved as if they were crippled or tight,
Or sat through days of thin continuous dreaming
Watching light move? If they don't (and they can't), it's strange:
Why aren't they screaming?
At death, you break up: the bits that were you
Start speeding away from each other for ever
With no one to see. It's only oblivion, true:
We had it before, but then it was going to end,
And was all the time merging with a unique endeavour
To bring to bloom the million-petaled flower
Of being here. Next time you can't pretend
There'll be anything else. And these are the first signs:
Not knowing how, not hearing who, the power
Of choosing gone. Their looks show that they're for it:
Ash hair, toad hands, prune face dried into lines –
How can they ignore it?
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
Inside your head, and people in them, acting.
People you know, yet can't quite name; each looms
Like a deep loss restored, from known doors turning,
Setting down a lamp, smiling from a stair, extracting
A known book from the shelves; or sometimes only
The rooms themselves, chairs and a fire burning,
The blown bush at the window, or the sun's
Faint friendliness on the wall some lonely
Rain-ceased midsummer evening. That is where they live:
Not here and now, but where all happened once.
This is why they give
An air of baffled absence, trying to be there
Yet being here. For the rooms grow farther, leaving
Incompetent cold, the constant wear and tear
Of taken breath, and them crouching below
Extinction's alp, the old fools, never perceiving
How near it is. This must be what keeps them quiet:
The peak that stays in view wherever we go
For them is rising ground. Can they never tell
What is dragging them back, and how it will end? Not at night?
Not when the strangers come? Never, throughout
The whole hideous, inverted childhood? Well,
We shall find out.
Philip Larkin
Used by permission of The Society of Authors
Ms. Wolitzer writes:
I was much younger when I first read Philip Larkin's "The Old Fools." Even my parents were still alive and vibrantly sentient then, and my mind skittered away from thoughts of aging and death — theirs and my own. But as a writer I was struck with admiration and envy by the startling beauty of the poem's language. I couldn't (and still can't) imagine a lovelier or more accurate way to describe existence than "the million-petaled flower of being here."
And then later, as my mother and father began to fail in tandem, to lose their faculties, their personalities, and (perhaps worst of all) their autonomy, I saw the harsher truth in calling that final stage of their lives — those "days of thin continuous dreaming" — a "hideous inverted childhood." The poet bluntly asks "Why aren't they screaming?" It's not exactly a rhetorical question.
Even the homely domestic details of all we try vainly to hold in memory: "Setting down a lamp, smiling from a stair, extracting a known book from the shelves," are artfully chosen and perfectly phrased examples of what we most cherish and must eventually surrender. Mr. Larkin, the man, was not noted for his sympathetic nature, but this poem, written in his early 50s, goes with unflinching understanding to the bitter heart of aging and its deprivations. Why aren't we screaming, indeed?
Other of my favorites — among them "Forgetfulness" by Billy Collins, "Warning" by Jenny Joseph, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas and "Mother To Son" by Langston Hughes — will follow on no particular schedule in the months to come. I've in mind, too, several beauties that perfectly ordinary people have given me during visits to nursing homes and retirement communities over the years. I welcome your suggestions, too.
Parenthetically, I've not forgotten the promised list of fictional portrayals of old age, still a work in progress. But "The Doctor's Daughter" will be among them, along with Ms. Wolitzer's personal favorites, "Memento Mori" by Muriel Sparks and Jane Gardam's "Old Filth."


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I am an idiot and started screwing with my blog. Now I hate it and cannot get anything back the way I had it!
All my blogger friends.. please send me links to yours so I can add them on to my sidebar again!
Ugh!!!! Going nuts!!!
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ONE OF BETO O'ROURKE'S STRENGTHS IN HIS RUN AGAINST TED CRUZ FOR SENATE IS THAT HE ISN'T TED CRUZ. A RANDOM PIECE OF GARBAGE ON THE FLOOR WOULD MAKE A BETTER SEANTOR THAN TED CRUZ – Kudos to Beto O'Rourke for having the balls to run for Senate even though the odds are wildly stacked against him. After months of speculation, he officially started his campaign this weekend and will have to get through a tough Democratic Primary before he even gets a chance to go after Ted Cruz. Beto O'Rourke isn't perfect and he has his flaws, but he is way better than Ted Cruz and most of the people currently in the Senate. So be sure to support Beto O'Rourke in his campaign and go give him a listen if he's in your area. He's been a great public servant for El Paso in the local and congressional level and there's no doubt he would do great in the Senate. (cbs4local.com)
CONTINUING THE CENTURIES LONG TRADITION OF CORRUPT MEXICAN POLITICIANS FLEEING TO EL PASO WITH THEIR ILL-GOTTEN GAINS, EX CHIHUAHUA GOVERNOR CESAR DUARTE IS CURRENTLY HIDING OUT IN EL PASO – The current governor of Chihuahua, Javier Corral, is on an anti-corruption binge and has declared the ex-governor a fugitive from justice over allegations that he abused his power while in office to gain land and business opportunities. Naturally, Cesar Duarte ran like the wind and is believed to have crossed into El Paso and hiding out in the area. It should be noted that these are "alleged" instances of corruption and he sort of deserves his day in court. But the evidence is pretty solid and, since Interpol is now involved in the manhunt, it is safe to assume that ex-governor Cesar Duarte is probably a little on the corrupt side. Here's hoping the roles are reversed and one day we are reading about a manhunt in Juarez looking for Greg Abbott and Donald Trump who were ousted for being corrupt and incompetent. (kvia.com)
WATER IS COMING BACK TO THE RIO GRANDE! HOORAY! – Because of canals, the dam and extensive farming; most of the water that should be in the Rio Grande in the El Paso area is strategically diverted and gradually released back into the Rio Grande from the Caballo Lake reservoir. So by looking at how much water was released into the Rio Grande we can determine how bad of a drought we are having and if the Rio Grande will sort of look like a river in the summer months. Although farmers aren't getting a full allotment of water from the reservoir this season, it's been years since that has happened, the water flow reaching farmers via the river is greater than previous years and possible snow melt later this year will hopefully lead to a larger release later on. So far so good and let's hope for more water in the Rio Grande soon. (kvia.com)
THIS WEEKEND MORE PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF MUD THAN DIED BECAUSE OF TERRORISTS. THE WORLD HAS A SHITLOAD OF PROBLEMS AND SOMETIMES PEOPLE PAY ATTENTION TO THE WRONG THINGS – Although terrorism is bad, abject poverty and piss poor infrastructure is a larger problem that is currently facing the world. Over the weekend, more than 250 people lost their lives as a result of mudslides and flooding around Mocoa, Colombia. The worst is not over, as many more people are still missing, and it seems like it will be weeks before clean running water and electricity are brought back to the community as a whole. This is an avoidable tragedy that could be remedied with better infrastructure and better planning and it is these types of issues the world should focus on fixing. This problem isn't limited to developing nations and even major countries have large issues involving infrastructure and planning. So let's hope governments around the world get the idea and start spending money on important infrastructure and utilities and not pointless things like, say, giant guns and pointless walls in the middle of the desert. (theguardian.com)
I BET DONALD TRUMP GETS AN ERECTION EVERY TIME HE READS ABOUT ALL THE HORRIBLE THINGS THAT NICOLAS MADURO DOES – Venezuela was one step closer to a full blown dictatorship last week when the country's supreme court declared that congress had no legislative powers and that everyone should bow down and obey Generalisimo Maduro. This angered most of the country and, after tons of protests and signs of disgust from even the most avid Maduro bootlickers, the court reversed its decision and gave congress its limited powers back. But we were real close to Venezuela becoming North Korea Jr. last week and that was very scary. At least Trump's America isn't Venezuela ……. yet. (bbc.com)
AND OUT COME THE WOLVES. THE WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA IS THE FIRST ENTERTAINMENT UNION TO TRY AND RE-UP THEIR CONTRACTS IN THE MIDST OF THE CHEAPO STREAMING BONANZA THAT HIPSTER FUCKS ARE CALLING "PEAK TV" – The WGA is threatening a strike as it becomes the first major union to negotiate contracts after the rise of streaming TV content on places like Hulu and Netflix. Normally broadcast TV was the major league of television and the medium that commanded the highest pay for writers and other creative types. But now that broadcast is getting similar ratings as cable and streaming, something's gotta give. The new contract will either see a reduction in pay for broadcast content, what the corporations want, or a rise in the pay for cable and streaming content, what the writers want. A compromise will have to be reached in order to avoid a strike, but it's pretty hard to root against the writers when the major entertainment companies are claiming record profits one minute and then claiming to be stuck in poverty the next. Add to this the rather nebulous accounting and claims by the secretive streaming services and we have a situation where if streaming services are making money it's only because they are paying the creative types sub-cable money to create the hours of pointless content found in practically every corner of the internet. And we won't even get started on the horrible health insurance quagmire they've got themselves into. The writers really have an uphill battle ahead of them. Good luck trying to get any money from online only services that may or may not be making money depending on what random formula you use on any given day. (deadline.com)


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Gold Award winning Knutsford in Bloom seeks new volunteers
Knutsford has won the sought-after Gold Award in the North West in Bloom competition for the third year running. Volunteers from Knutsford in Bloom worked in partnership with the Town Council to provide stunning displays around the town.
Knutsford in Bloom is a volunteer group established in 2009 which is made up of 10 dedicated members. The success of this year's entry is even more impressive given the long drought that preceded the judging day in July this year.
The group is now looking for new members to join, offering opportunities to be involved in larger projects such as planting a wildflower meadow as well as the opportunity to work on displays in prominent town centre locations.
Sam Youd, member of the group and former Head Gardener at Tatton Park, is particularly keen to see younger people involved in the projects, inviting interest from local schools and youth groups such as the Scouts and Guides.
Cllr James Power, Chairman of the Town Council Environment Committee said "A massive thank you to the incredible volunteers who have won gold again for Knutsford. I would encourage anyone who is interested in joining Knutsford in bloom to get in touch"
If you or your group would like to know more about how you could be involved, contact the Town Council to register your interest in taking part on 01565 653929 or email email@example.com
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George Clooney Really Doesn't Fkn Want You To See His Twins & Fair
When a celebrity births an offspring there's always intense public interest. Namely people wanna know every single, friggin' thing about that hashtag blessed child.
Since George Clooney and his wife Amal welcomed a set of twinnies into this world earlier this year, we've all been chomping at the bit to see some piccies.
But a French publication Voici have taken their paparazzi stalking levels to extreme levels and Clooney is now coming down hard by throwing the law at them. And you know what, fair.
Amal and George Clooney enjoy dinner with friends in Lake Como - https://t.co/1z7Maq6vzd pic.twitter.com/vJpcLYXqxS
— What You Know, Rocks (@WhatYouKnowRock) July 12, 2017
The 56-year-old actor said the magazine will be "prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," after they went to extreme measures to capture pictures of Ella and Alexander on a private property. He said the photographers "scaled our fence, climbed our tree and illegally took pictures of our infants inside our home."
We won't be posting the pictures here but if you happen upon them you can see what a gross invasion of privacy it is.
Let's hope the Clooney's can enjoy this exciting time in their lives without the prying eyes of the media.
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