text: Programs could help veterans become next generation of producers By Teresa Hoffman on October 31, 2019 - 2:00pmBeginning Farmer & Rancher, Farm BillWith the average age of a U.S. farmer at nearly 60 years, and millions of acres expected to change hands over the next few years, military veterans have a key role to play as the nation looks for the next generation of producers. To do so, veterans will need assistance overcoming barriers, such as accessing land and the lack of assets or cash flow to purchase land, equipment, and farm inputs. Access to credit is an important component of most farming operations, especially for new and beginning producers.


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Glorious Church!
God did everything for us that we may have an understanding of the sacrifice that was made for us. Jesus came on purpose with a heavenly agenda to make our salvation perfect through His suffering. The emblems of His sacrifice include the wood and the blood. The wood signified the crucifixion or putting to death of our sinful old nature and the blood signified the cleansing and purifying of our hearts.
2 Cor. 3:18 deeply reveals to us what our new nature is as we are being changed into glory. As we behold Him, we see ourselves in Him, in His image and in His glory, the conformity of His very nature as we look into the mirror of salvation. The Word of God cleanses and washes us thoroughly and continuously as a river of living waters. It furnishes us into being the perfected Bride of Christ. Being sunk in the Word gives you the "bounce" against the world's opinion as you remain unmovable. The Word of God and its truth reinforces your stability and resilience against the world's chaotic storms and doctrines.
We are Christ's representatives, and if we walk clean and free, we will help others around us come to the truth of the freedom we've been offered through salvation. When people see us, they should see Jesus, and His greatness that has been embedded inside of us. We
are a living temple for God. He abides in us and we abide in him. It is imminent that His image will be projected through us as we illuminate His glory to the rest of the world.
Ezekiel 36:37 reiterates that the Spirit of the Lord will be deployed in us that we may execute His statutes. As we remain carriers of His Spirit, out of us shall flow rivers of living waters. When the Spirit of the Lord has taken a hold of us, we can be influencers of nations; that every nation will come to the knowledge of the only true God.
We should be a reflection of God on the earth. When we are beholding Him, we should radiate the essence of His image to the rest of the world – as He cleanses us by the washing of the Word – His very truth. Giving our all to Him and letting Him project Himself through us requires that we be in total obedience and reckless abandon to His will.
When we yield to God to be used for His glory, He bestows us with more of His presence. Let's just obey Him and figure out every minute and second what He wants to wrought through us – to the glory of His name.
…excerpts from Pastor Dawn's last sermon as penned by the stylus of a ready scribe! (Ps. 45:1)

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The latest report highlights how sustainability considerations play a key role in the investment decision-making process for the teams at the Scheme's investment manager, Railpen.
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Donald Trump is taking issue with a speech at this week's Democratic National Convention by Muslim lawyer Khizr Khan, whose Army captain son was killed in action and who said on stage that Trump has "sacrificed nothing and no one" for America. But Democrats and advocates for veterans' families say the Republican presidential nominee went too far in his response.
Khan made the comment during his tribute to his son, Humayun, who posthumously received a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart after being killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2004.
As Khan spoke, his wife Ghazala, Humayun's mother, stood silently by his side. Trump, during an interview with ABC's "This Week," said: "She had nothing to say. She probably, maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. You tell me."
And Trump challenged Khizr Khan's claims about having sacrificed nothing. "I've made a lot of sacrifices," Trump said. "I work very, very hard. I've created thousands and thousands of jobs, tens of thousands of jobs, built great structures." Ghazala Khan has said she didn't speak because she's still overwhelmed by grief and can't even look at photos of her son without crying.
Trump's comments sparked immediate outrage on social media — both because they critiqued a mourning mother and because many considered them racist and anti-Muslim. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has previously raised concerns about Trump's previous comments about Muslims.
"Our commander in chief shouldn't insult and deride our generals, retired or otherwise," Hillary Clinton told a crowd gathered July 30 on a factory floor in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. "That should really go without saying."
At a rally in Pittsburgh, she was introduced by Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks owner, technology investor and television personality who recently endorsed her. "Leadership is not yelling and screaming and intimidating," said Cuban.


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T Time: The gospel according to Tony
Blimey, according to some sources, it's 3,500 years (next Tuesday) since Moses descended Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments. In truth, they haven't aged all that well. Despite his innovative dual-tablet presentation of the All Time Top Ten Things It's Really Best Not To Do, Moses' prescriptive vision has fallen a little flat in the digital age.
Without the aid of real-time video and lacking any Google-friendly keywords (except, possibly, 'adultery' and 'ass'), it's frankly a miracle they went viral at all. In these enlightened times, it's best to give them little heed (though don't go coveting no oxes, just to be on the safe side) and instead adhere to My Eight Thoroughly Modern Commandamentoes. They'll set you in far better stead than all that biblical guff, and use the word twat at least three times. Result.
1. Everything You Have Ever Been Told Ever is Bollocks
There was a time, maybe a mythical one, when information was shared out of a desire to enlighten, to entertain or simply to nurture a little kinship. Those days are gone, as if they never were. Now nearly every communication is laden down with pecuniary advantage. You just have to know where to look.
Whether it's self-serving office badinage, masquerading as advice or detached consultation, or media messages writ large with regard to your health or planet-wide sustainability, they are all more suspect than the serial puppy licences of a 70's celeb.
If you want to lose weight, eat less – don't buy the latest diet book, only eat carbs every other Ash Wednesday or pay for the limited joy of being the third fattest at the weekly weigh-in. If you want to know how serious this week's global threat is – follow the money trail. Who's making money by resetting your Millennium clock or matchmaking your carbon trading?
2. The Only Politicians with Convictions are Now on the Right
Political convictions on the left died and were buried along with Michael Foot and his donkey jacket. While Foot wasn't actually interred until 2010, the idea of any left-leaning politician being capable of winning high office pre-deceased him by at least 20 years.
Nowadays, driven by Daily Mail dogma and an underlying disregard for any degree of nobility or selflessness among the electorate, Labour politicians take a view on immigration, social security and the finance sector that is more concerned with keeping their electoral hopes alive than keeping their consciences clear. It is their obvious lack of faith in the wider populace that is the surest sign of their perdition.
Politicians on the right, of course, have no such scruples and no need to pay lip service to any outdated concept of community or concern. The politics of the right have always been about duplicity, shamelessly persuading the lower orders that voting them in is ultimately in their best interest, when, of course, it never is.
With self-interest and social irresponsibility now, again, the political norm, right-wing politicians can once again wear their convictions on their shirt-sleeves, as they, ironically, get blacker by the day.
3. No-one is Interested in Anything You Say, Ever
For most people, the death of their best friend's mother means less than the loss of a hard-to-replace button on their second favourite shirt. Whether it's due to the end of the extended family, the erosion of traditional communities or World of Warcraft being re-released with a slightly shinier cover, our ability to share sorrow has never been lower.
Ironically, our penchant for self-congratulatory demonstrations of concern has never been greater. With a greeting card (or some apposite online doggerel) for every misfortune, we are more than equipped to ostensibly mark our fellow-feeling in an unmissable fashion while scoping Amazon box-sets.
In truth, extremity but highlights our casual indifference to one another, with most conversations merely tokenistic exchanges of tedious trivia, meriting less acknowledgment than a fat girl's hat.
4. The Work Cycle Defines Everyone
With communism now globally out of fashion*, save in hawking distance of Fidel Castro's ear trumpet, it may seem odd that one of its tenets is now Truer Than Ever. Never has the inclusion of anything non-vocational on the school syllabus been more stridently decried, nor has the selfishness of those souls thoughtless enough to live more than 3.8 years after the statutory retirement age ever been more forcefully denounced.
Blimey these old folk, with their worn-out limbs and saggy organs, are a bigger blight on the NHS than even the Tribble-like reproductive cycle of the Poles. Make coffin-dodging a capital crime (or at least a crime against capital) and get hair-dressing, plumbing and call centre etiquette on the pre-school national curriculum now, me hearties.
*I don't know what precepts they run the PRC by these days, but it ain't anything Uncle Karl would t-shirt.
5. Honesty is Truly an Affectation
Dishonesty, embellishment, evasion, misrepresentation, duplicity, cant, equivocation and bearing false witness – just as the Inuits have more than one thousand words for snow, we have, at the last count, 463 words for fibbing – though I may be lying.
With the pronouncements of public figures of every hue and varying stature inevitably self-serving, deceptive and steeped in mendacity, it's small wonder they are inevitably post-scripted with an "and I really mean that???, an "and I'm not just saying that??? or even an "and you can quote me on that.???
With our default setting now being to assume that every public utterance is bollocks, such additional citations of honesty are pretty much tantamount to: "Now, I know I habitually mislead you and you should usually take my recommendations less seriously than you would a blind man's cravat collection, but this time I'm porkie-free. Honest.??? If you can fake faking sincerity, you can fake anything (except probably seeing I Love My Country as a fine career move by Frank Skinner).
6. Britain is Not Coming Out of Recession; It's Getting Nearer to an Election
Recession is a tricky thing for the Tory-dominated coalition. On one hand, you have to demonstrate a little economic progress. You can't forever demand apologies from a Milliband for The Mess You Lot Left Us In (regardless of the tangled roots of the financial crises and their forgotten enmeshment with US sub-prime mortgages and the fact that Mrs Thatch, God rest her, sold British industry for some magic beans and hat that looked the Queen's).
Obligingly, as the presumably goldfish-like memory of the electorate has to be primed with Good Things This Administration Has Done, as 2015 hoves into view, so various bodies, enlightened with grievous self-interest, do the business. Things have never been so good – and you can quote us on that, say the Association of Small Businesses. "We think a corner has definitely been turned and we're not just saying that,??? promises the CBI.
With the figures bandied enthusiastically by Sky News at every conceivable instance ("With the economy definitely improving, let's see if the weather is too…???), the right-of-centre tabs and every self-interested pundit on a nice little lobbying refresher, such nonsense soon becomes front-of-house orthodoxy, with the Labour front bench too timid or too busy tanning to take issue.
Fear not, such economic bonhomie will be decidedly short-lived. Come the flip side of Cameron II: The Sole Poll Redemption and frugality will be back on the agenda. The Global Economic Downturn is, after all, 9/11 for the Right and they won't give it up lightly. After all it's not ideology or dogma that has closed a kindergarten near you; it's The Mess You Lot Left Us In and I Mean That Most Sincerely.
7. Apologies are a Licence to be Lambasted (Unless You're Famous)
We forgive the famous pretty much everything, save masked YouTube rapping at contract renewal time and, of course, kiddy-fiddling. Somewhere, like the Dark Net (where paedo-porn abounds and a heroin hit is just a mouse click away), there is Dark Dave. Dark Dave, flagship of the under-cable, features back-to-back Top of The Poppery, perennially hosted by Jimmy Savile and the Hairy Pornflake, where Jonathan King and Gary Glitter's cover of Save All Your Kisses For Me is always number one, and, with a knowing leer and a front row wink, Stuart Hall plays backing maracas forever.
While the denizens of Dark Dave have all the redemption potential of a soiled Green Shield, other celebrities spring from infamy with Get Out of Jail Free alacrity following a public apology, no matter how stilted or staged. For a masterclass in insincerity take Tiger Wood's public apology to his Mrs and his legion of badly-jumpered fans. For an A-class celeb caught hiding the sausage, don't cite opportunity or random randiness, take the sex addict defence and spend three weeks rehabilitating with Michael Douglas and Kanye West for company.
The Priory has become the naughty step of notoriety, a place from which celebs return forgiven and, maybe, just that little bit more box office bankable. Had Hitler blamed World War II on a bad childhood experience and a paint allergy, he would have had his own game show by 1951, after sad faces all round at Nuremberg and an obligatory three weeks in the Berlin Priory with Lindsay Lohan and a Beegee.
For mere mortals, though, apologies are a far sorrier story. In real life, only decent folk apologise. Such acts of expiation then give a mandate for the wider world of shameless twattery to see any acceptance of past culpability as an instant passport to accepting all future guilt – "Are you sure you didn't start the Balkan conflict, after all you did lose that stapler in 1972????
The mantra you learnt after your first post-adolescent fumblings with alcohol and subsequent carpet damage to house party hosters still holds true – never apologise; never explain. Not everything you were told as a teenager was untrue, just all that stuff about Jesus and fulfilling your potential.
8. Empathy could yet save the world
Despite all this downbeatery and eminently useful neo-realisms, I do see a twinkle of hope for the world. While I may yet sue the estates of sundry dead Beatles for misleading me into youthfully believing Love Is All You Need, subpoena Jennifer Rush when it comes to gross misrepresentation of the Power of Love or indeed indict Wet Wet Wet (just for being Scottish and twats), I do believe other emotional resonances may yet save the world, if only from itself.
Empathy is a much over looked emotion. While there have been 82 UK number one hits with the word "love??? in the song title (115 in the US – the soppy gets), there has yet to be a poptastic chart-topper highlighting the E word. Even in brackets.
Where love falls down in the redemptive stakes is its requirement for abject selflessness on the part of its proponents. It requires a generosity of spirit that was long ago deemed Not Wanted On Voyage by the knocks and blows that hew out the contemporary human.
Empathy, on the other hand, is all about self-interest. Who among us could DarkYouTube a Mexican drug mule being beheaded by a rival cartel and not have a wince of I'm Glad That's Not Me? There's a wisp of Don't Do Unto Others What Their Surviving Dependants Might Get a Chance To Do To You With a Pointier Stick and Some Suitably Sharpened Callipers about it after all.
Imagination is the knowing consort of empathy and without the apt application of its good services this enlightened self-interest will not fall on fertile ground. Take those groups whose lack of empathy is the stuff of legend – the Germans of the 1930s and 1940s, the Taliban and, of course, the Germans of today. Had they but applied their imagination to "taking the role of the other??? rather than taking over Europe or taking an IED up their jacksies then then the world might now be a far more pastel place.
Other Commandments, Many of Them Less Sweary, Are Also Available
Before he got into the commandment business Tony Murray was the editor of Adline, The Marketeer, The Drum and Hong Kong's Gafencu Men. He is now the least civil servant in Asia's World City. For other choice nuggetry, you can visit: http://tonymurrayblog.blogspot.hk/


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Rose Gold at Roker Hotel for Ashleigh and Peter
We loved this rose gold themed wedding! Bride Ashleigh mixed our mercury vases with sequin table runners to stunning effect! We filled the vases with fresh dusky pink and ivory roses and eucalyptus for a romantic feel and finished the tables with gold table numbers. RGMphoto kindly sent us these beautiful images of the day, which took place at the Roker Hotel in Sunderland. For more information about weddings at the Roker Hotel just click here to get in touch Tweet


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The notoriously unpredictable weather conditions and the lack of a dominant force in golf just now means picking a winner at this weeks British Open is impossible in the eyes of
The 23-year-old world number three became a golfing superstar in 2015 when he won the Masters and US Open in quick succession.
But since his double triumph two years ago, eight subsequent majors have yielded eight separate winners, underlining how much competition there is at the top of the sport.
And there are plenty of contenders to keep that run going this week, including Spain's Irish Open winner Jon Rahm and Englishman Tommy Fleetwood.
That is why Spieth says recent talk of a 'Big Four' comprised of him, Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy and Jason Day is already redundant.
"I think you look at a guy like Jon Rahm, how does he deserve not to be in a conversation like that? What he just did at the Irish Open and what he has been able to do this year, he did it two weeks ago at links golf. He destroyed the field," Spieth said at Birkdale on Tuesday.
"I don't think he would have been someone that you would put there if you were about to name four guys.
"I don't know what's better for golf, (but) from my opinion it's very exciting when you've got to beat that many great players with that much confidence.
"It could be anybody this week," added Spieth, who came fourth at St Andrews two years ago and is wary of how big a part luck plays in terms of the weather.
Conditions were glorious on Tuesday, but the forecast is gloomier heading into the weekend.
"Most of the time there's at least a group that gets the worst weather. And it's almost impossible to win in that circumstance at an Open Championship.
"So nothing you can do about that other than keep your head down, play as well as you can, and see what happens after two days."
Spieth will play with reigning champion Henrik Stenson and Kim Si-Woo in the first two rounds. He arrived in England fresh from winning the recent Travelers Championship to claim his 10th US PGA tour title and his second of the year.
"I've struck the ball better than I did in '15," he said when asked if he was a better player now than two years ago.
"If I putted the same as '15 I'd be having a better year right now. So, yeah, certain parts of the game I think I've improved on. And others, you know, it's just fluctuated," added the Texan, who is in his fifth season as a professional.
"I recognise that being five years in now, and five years doesn't make me a veteran, but it helps me realise kind of how things go. And last year I was pretty caught in 2015, and this year I'm not."


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August 22, 2019 – What the world needs now may be love, love, love, but to love the world we need data, data, data! Dr. Laura Kahn, whose dog, Loki, is enrolled in the Morris Animal Foundation Golden Retriever Lifetime Study, joined this groundbreaking project because she recognizes this need through her work with the One Health Initiative.
The One Health Initiative is a collaborative team of international scientists, like Dr. Kahn, from multiple fields of expertise. The team looks at global health from the perspective that animals, humans and the environment are all intertwined. Health is not a separate, species-distinct issue studied in a vacuum, but one cohesive issue that evolves in our shared environments. Dr. Kahn recognizes the vast amount of data collected from 3,000+ golden retrievers over their lifetimes will not only help change what we know about dog health, but also has the potential to contribute to what we need to know about global health.
Dr. Kahn's involvement with the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study all started with a simple search for a perfect pup for her family. As a researcher herself, Dr. Kahn methodically studied all the family-friendly breeds, their positive traits and their potential pitfalls. She landed on the ever-popular golden retriever. Soon, the family had their new puppy, Loki.
"I saw an article or publication about the Study and knew I had to enroll Loki," said Dr. Kahn. "What intrigued me about the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study was how it was modeled in part after the Framingham Heart Study. Risk factors for heart disease that we take for granted today – high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking – all came out this human study. I have great hopes that the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study will do the same for dogs and even more."
The Framingham Heart Study was launched in 1948 and collects data on thousands of men and women living in Framingham, Massachusetts. Trying to recreate a similar model for multiple diseases in dogs, the Foundation collects extensive data from Golden Retriever Lifetime Study participants, owners and veterinarians. Data is collected via health checks, lifestyle and behavior observations and annual biological sample collection (hair, nail clippings, blood and others). Like the Framingham study, data is expected to be mined for years and years to help identify risk factors for diseases. It also has the potential to inform discovery of new diagnostics and treatments.
"I am hopeful the Morris Animal Foundation Golden Retriever Lifetime Study will change how we look at disease in dogs, as well as in the people who live with them," said Dr. Kahn. "Companion animals share our homes and sometimes even our food and beds. The health issues dogs encounter often are the same health issues we encounter, suggesting important connections between genetics and environmental exposures."
While Morris Animal Foundation is focused first and foremost on animal health, the Foundation team that put the Study together realized its potential as more than just a dog study. And it's this same reason that drew Dr. Kahn to enroll Loki in the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study. She saw its potential for translational medicine; essentially what we learn from dogs will help more than dogs. "As a physician and researcher, this is really exciting stuff," said Dr. Kahn.
Loki is advancing the Study each year with his participation (with a little help from his veterinarian and Dr. Kahn). He also contributed to the Study's interest in canine cancers when he had a skin cancer diagnosis at 1 year old. That cancer was successfully removed and resolved. Loki soon will be 6 and has more to contribute!
If you'd like to support the Study and contribute as well, you can help during our National Dog Day campaign. Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, every gift up to $50,000, from now until August 26, will benefit the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study.
Your gift has the power to change how we think about cancer and other health issues in our canine companions, and in people, too. Donate now to love, love, love the world with data, data, data. Let's see where the Lokis of the world will lead us.


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MIAMI (WSVN) - Police are searching for two men who robbed a man at gunpoint in Miami.
According to police, surveillance video from Jan. 21 captured two armed men approaching the victim, who was walking along a sidewalk, near Douglas Road and Coral Way.
The duo then pointed a gun at the victim and robbed him of his wallet and grocery bag.
If you have any information on this robbery call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS. Remember, you can always remain anonymous, and you may be eligible for a $1,000 reward.
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Updated, 2:51 p.m. | The high cost of housing in the New York region is a subject of gossip, debate and academic research. It may also turn out to be a source of emotional distress and anxiety.
We expect the online chatter to ramp up again today with the release of a report by the American Psychological Association asserting that adults in the West and East were more likely to report that housing costs were a significant source of stress compared with adults in the Midwest and South, based on an online survey conducted by Harris Interactive.
(We've eliminated an earlier reference here to the specific findings because many statistical experts — including the survey and polling unit at The Times — do not consider online polls reliable.)
The report asserted that a slight majority of those who responded to the survey considered housing — rent and mortgage payments — to be a significant source of stress. Work and money were the top sources of stress for those who responded to the online poll. It said that people living in the East were the most likely, compared with people in other regions, to consider various aspects of work — low salaries, heavy workload, lack of growth opportunities, long hours, lack of participation in decision-making, and inflexible hours — as sources of stress. The people responding who said they were living on the West and East Coasts regions were more likely than people in the South and Midwest to report that they managed their stress poorly in the past month, that their stress had increased in the past five years and that they found it difficult to balance work and family life.
Whatever the statistics — and we stress again, this survey was methodologically flawed — we know life in big cities can be stressful. So we put it to our readers here — does the high cost of housing in New York make life here particularly taxing and stressful? Or are there more significant sources of stress?
Share your anecdotal evidence below.


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(Crain's) -- Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, a century-old Chicago law firm that took on a fledgling client called McDonald's Corp., plans to combine with a British law firm.
Sonnenschein to combine with UK law firm Denton Wilde
The deal with Denton Wilde Sapte LLP, subject to partnership approval next month, would create a 1,400-lawyer firm, more than double Sonnenschein's size and one of the 25 largest in the world.
The combination, expected to become official Sept. 30, will further diminish the relative size of Sonnenschein's Chicago office. At the end of last year it had 150 lawyers, down from 180 at yearend 2008 and a peak of as many as 225.
Like many law firms, Sonnenschein has struggled in the current economic environment, suffering a 3.1% drop in profits per partner last year, compared with a 0.3% gain for the nation's 100-largest law firms, according to American Lawyer magazine. While 2009 revenues were flat at $472.5 million, Sonnenschein's revenue per lawyer declined 7.7% after headcount increased 3%.
Sonnenschein's roots are in the hard-hit real estate industry, though under Washington, D.C.-based chairman Elliott Portnoy it has stepped up lobbying efforts and expanded its Wall Street presence by picking up attorneys from a New York firm that collapsed in the wake of the financial crisis.
Mr. Portnoy and Denton CEO Howard Morris will become co-CEOs of the combined firm, SNR Denton, whose largest offices will be in London and New York.
This isn't Sonnenschein's first attempt to establish a presence in Britain: In 1999, it closed an eight-lawyer London office that had been operating for a few years.
Sonnenschein attorneys will extend their global reach with Denton, which has expanded into Russia, other former Soviet states and Africa. It says it has the largest law firm presence in the Middle East and represents banks and other financial institutions, plus energy, transportation, real estate and technology clients.
"Sonnenschein has excellent lawyers in some of the most important practice areas," says Kay Hoppe, president of Chicago-based legal recruiter Credentia Inc. "If you throw a unique geographic spread on that, it should produce growth."


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As part of its ongoing efforts to preserve Bahrain's handicrafts and traditional industries for future generations, the Bahrain Tourism and Exhibitions Authority (BTEA), represented by the Handicrafts Directorate, distributed certificates to its 'Glass Arts – Level 2' workshop participants on the 12th of July 2018.
The workshop, conducted by the trainer, Mr. Jiyad Hassan Jawad, focused on the basic skills and techniques used in glass artistry including glass cutting, glass design, with the aim to enhance the skills of 10 participants to qualify them to become professional trainers in the field.
"It gives us great pleasure to host the workshop which comes as part of the Handicrafts Directorate's efforts to provide craftsmen with training opportunities in order to develop their skills and abilities to create high quality products that will stand out regionally. The Handicrafts Directorate will also host other workshops throughout the year including forged iron, product packaging, leather crafting, hand embroidery and many more," said the Director of Handicrafts Directorate, Shaikha Wafa Saif Al Khalifa.
Hosting such workshops throughout the year comes in line with the BTEA's keenness to preserve the Kingdom's crafts and traditional industries for future generations.


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Imagine a massive crowd of 500-ish people, dressed as Santa, playing christmas music and skating through the streets of central London. That's pretty much all there is to it, but there's just something so awesome about hijacking the roads. I went along with a handful of people from Imperial SkateSoc, who didn't know I was coming so I was rather lucky to find them right at the beginning.
I also missed the fact that you could actually buy a santa suit from the people organising it. I'm hence dressed in rainbows and tinsel, as you can see in the video at around 5.30. T'was an awesome night and much thanks to the organisers!!
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D&I Weekly News Round Up: Gender Bias, Generation and more
Welcome to the latest edition of our Diversity & Inclusion News Round-Up. Today we are talking about gender equality in the Nordics, a new algorithm that can read sign language, gender bias and girls' maths results and how loneliness impacts old people.
Gender Equality
Interesting (long) read about gender equality in the Nordics. While they are seen as the world's most equal countries, women still struggle with equal pay and especially in the private sector, there are much fewer women in senior roles.
Gender Bias
According to researchers from Kellogg, there is a strong correlation between families' beliefs and girls' maths performance in school. If a family is biased towards sons, daughters often score lower in maths tests. Read more here.
Inclusion & Tech
Google has developed an algorithm that could make sign language more accessible. The open-source code is available for anyone and can be used to help smartphones interpret sign language.
Watch the video: According to a study, a lot of elderly people often go for an entire week without speaking to anyone. Cadbury (Mondelez) has now launched a campaign to drive awareness and is asking to "donate your words".


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- THERE'S A PLACE IN FRANCE Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan jet to the City of Lights to rekindle love's flame in 'Le Week-End.'
Seeking a more avant-garde crowd than the usual middle-aged angst movie, Le Week-End's references to the revolutionary Antonio Gramsci and the dance sequence in Godard's Bande à Part flatter us, expecting we'll get it. The Paris street locations, more high than low, set the right mood in what is an older person's version of work from the Richard Linklater/Julie Delpy axis.
Director Roger Michell (Notting Hill, Venus) follows married couple Meg (Lindsay Duncan) and Nick (Jim Broadbent), taking the Chunnel to celebrate their wedding anniversary in Paris. Meg is a spiky, handsome lady with excellent French. She's the envy and despair of her husband, a philosophy professor facing ultimate futility at the end of his career. They're at the stage in marriage where they're both best friends and worst nemeses.
We get a suggestion of their power dynamic in one particular scene where Nick begs for something he wants from her on all fours—perhaps they've been playing this game for decades. Scottish actress Duncan here looks more like Joni Mitchell than Joni Mitchell does, seasoned and glowing with an aura of severity. (Duncan should be in line for any work Judi Dench isn't getting.)
The question of the film is whether sentiment will keep Meg attached to her flailing, needy husband. It gets worse when Nick's failure is contrasted with the mad success of his old school chum (Jeff Goldblum), a fountain of nigh-embarrassing American compliments, with a wife half his age and a tremendous view of the Place de la Concord from his window. It's a delight to have Goldblum back lately, but I waited for the payoff—a hint of the spite that comes from failure.


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Greetings and welcome to Episode 179 of the Mancave Movie Review podcast. Today we're talking about Glory. This great and fantastic film stars Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington and Carey Elwes.
So sit back and relax while Steve, Mark and Ken tell you about true courage.
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The cyclist's pumping heart, burning legs, and stiffening arms do nothing to suppress the sweet sound of his tires screeching to a halting victory. It has been a long 60-mile race (the infamous 100k), and nothing is quite as rewarding as his new, weightless DOGMA F8 coming to a triumphant stop.
Such is the experience of virtually every serious cyclist: thrill, speed, intensity, a weightless feeling of flying and an impending love for the sport in and of itself. Bicycling provides numerous benefits to each individual cyclist – summed up by passion for riding and physically exhilarating experiences.
However, the experience of cyclists is placed under mortal danger every day because of automobile-related accidents. Thus emerges the newly implemented "Three-Foot Law," which took effect Tuesday, Sept. 16th.
The law requires drivers to give 36 inches of elbow room to cyclists. The base fine for breaking the law is $35, but additional fees and court costs add up to $238. If a driver violates the law and physically injures a cyclist, the fine is $982.
A newly-opened bike shop called Serious Cycling, located on Plummer Street and Corbin Avenue, introduced the changes that took effect as a result of the law. On Sept. 10 at 10:00 a.m., the Automobile Club of Southern California (AAA) hosted a Press Conference at Serious Cycling in Northridge. Universal Sports, an American sports-oriented television network, and local news stations recorded the event. In addition, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) provided street closures for mock demonstrations of interactions between cars and bicycles.
The event held at the bicycle shop was open to all not only to increase awareness about the opening of the new shop, but also to portray cycling's popularity in Southern California. Serious Cycling Northridge had a soft opening on Sept. 8th and will have a Grand Opening on Oct. 18th.
Founder and owner of Serious Cycling, Scott Johnson said, "Let's work together to help safely and effectively grow the love of cycling." Johnson is the father of a junior Sara Johnson. Sara and her friends express the love they have for cycling, and the positive impacts that the newly implemented law can have on the safety for riders.
"[The law] definitely makes me more comfortable while out bicycling. I think it's great that people are finally addressing the issue, especially since everyone I know, myself included, loves to ride bikes," Sara Johnson said.
Many students, teachers and adults alike truly enjoy the bicycling sport. The new law reduces the unease that riders may feel on the road, both at night and during the day. It also takes us back to the times when riding your bicycle was fun, privileging, safe and in-style.


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Hey everyone! It hasn't felt like a long while, but I am already two weeks into – or one-third through – my Anatomical Pathology rotation.
My first week was split between accessioning, where the specimens are received and entered into the laboratory information system (LIS), and the gross room.
The gross room is the first area in which specimens are thoroughly examined after arriving in the department. Tissue as tiny as core biopsies, to portions of and even whole organs, are verbally described and measured. Representative sections are then cut and placed into cassettes.
While we are introduced to grossing in our Level 3 Histology course, many sites have designated pathologists' assistants (PAs) to perform the complex gross. In addition to PAs most sites also utilize MLTs to perform non-complex grossing. The PAs' scope of knowledge on human anatomy and physiology is incredible, and I learned a lot during my few days there. For example—when a portion of large intestine is received, it is particularly important to examine areas around the cecum and rectum. As you can see in the diagram, the cecum is located at the junction between the small and large intestines, while the rectum receives and stores waste (feces) from the large intestine before it is expelled from the anus.
Both are regions in which matter can collect and polyps – typically benign growths, though they have the potential to become cancerous – can form.
My second week was spent embedding! After being grossed, tissues are loaded onto a tissue processor. Water is removed, and tissue rigidity is increased to allow for thin sections to be cut on a microtome.
Before tissue is cut, it must be embedded—the most commonly used medium being paraffin wax. At BCIT, I only ever had to embed one, maybe two pieces of tissue in a single mold. In an actual lab, technologists are embedding up to six discernible pieces at once – or even a dime-sized collection of tissue scrapings! There are many factors a technologist must consider beyond keeping tissue flat in its mold; here are a few that stood out for me:
Orientation. Correct orientation is, without a doubt, the most important aspect of embedding. How the tissue is orientated determines what a pathologist later sees on a slide to help diagnose the patient; diagnostically important elements should be observed, and embedded in a way which minimizes distortion during microtomy.
While protocol can vary from site to site, it seems to be the consensus that:
- Tubular structures such as vas deferens are embedded 'on end,' and walled structures (ie. gallbladder) 'on edge' so that all layers are visible
- Multiple pieces of tissue are aligned through the long axis of the mold, with the epithelium facing the same direction
- Epithelium should be embedded furthest from the knife's edge – cut last to minimize compression of the layer
Sometimes a comment is added with special instructions for embedding (ie. RINKD = embed red ink surface down), so one should always check the cassette and corresponding specimen report for guidance.
Tissue carryover. It is important to wipe one's forceps and heated embedding area between cassettes, and especially from one patient to the next, to avoid cross-contamination.
Quantity. If the specimen form denotes 4 pieces of tissue in the cassette, make sure there are 4 pieces before discarding anything! Small specimens can get stuck on the cassette lids – or, in the case of thin cores, within the sponges they are placed between.
One also has to be vigilant when opening biopsy bags, which are often used for small GI specimens. If opened too abruptly, the tissue can fly out!
As per our BCIT competencies, we have to embed a minimum of 25 blocks per hour, which wasn't too difficult. Then I was informed the global average is 60 blocks/hr… don't think I'm quite there, yet.
This band keeps popping up on my Spotify recommendations and I'm not complaining. Check out "In Between" by Can't Swim!


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On our flight to California, former President Jimmy Carter and his wife sat right behind us
Michael wasn't that impressed
I was
I thought about all the power and prestige he has known
There is no bigger office in the world
The secret service were all around us
There is no bigger target than an American president
By the bad guys and by we the people
We love to build them up and then tear them down
The weight and heft of that job is unmeasurable
The burden
I shook his hand
It's smooth with age and the millions of handshakes that came before
I told the guy next to me, that boarded after the president was seated to watch the faces of others boarding
The spark of recognition was fun to see
Three and a half hours later, he leans over and said," I've been thinking about what you said earlier and I have to ask you. If you thought it was fun to see people recognize him, then who are you?"
There was a pregnant pause before I said
" I'm not famous if that's what your asking. I just like people watching."
He said," I've been racking my brain trying to figure out who you were. I figured you were even more famous then the former president and thought it was fun to watch people not recognize you for a change!"
So, for all that power and prestige
I was more popular for over three hours
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Getting Rid Of Cable (Part 1) is here.
Getting Rid Of Cable (Part 2) is here.
I had two HD DVR's. One in the living room and one in my bedroom. Today, we disconnected the one in the living room and returned it to their local office. Took 5 minutes and $30.00 off of my cable bill ($360.00 savings in a year).
We usually watch recorded shows on our DVR (or a Netflix DVD if we have one…sometimes a movie streamed from Xbox or Netflix) when we're eating. Tonight at dinner, there was a big, empty space where the DVR used to be. Between Hulu, Netflix, and shows/movies on Xbox), we had more than plenty to watch and most was in HD. (For those wondering, we watched yesterday's episode of the Colbert Report and a Tosh.0 episode we hadn't seen yet.) So, there was (almost) nothing missing from our routine…except for one major thing….a clock! The DVR was our only living room clock and we don't wear watches, so that was weird having no idea what time it was (we don't like to grab/turn on our over-priced smartphones with food on our hands…and getting up out of the recliner was NOT an option 🙂 I bought a nifty little digital clock for that spot, so my money savings went down a bit, which brings me to more math to consider.
When I mentioned the $30/month savings (from removing one DVR and "extra digital TV" charge), I now have to consider that the Hulu Plus membership is $7.99/month and my Netflix is the 2/month @ $14.99. That's a total of $22.98/month. Sounds like hardly any savings, doesn't it? But here's the rub. I've used Netflix since 2002 or 2003 and never planned on cancelling Netflix…so I don't count that $14.99 in the math (this is "getting rid of cable" not "getting rid of everything I pay for entertainment" 🙂 Still though, I did add the HuluPlus for $7.99 and, of course, I can't and won't get rid of my internet, so it might be "fuzzy math" right now. Where my savings should really kick in is when I get rid of my DVR & digital TV charges from my bedroom. I won't do that, however, until I live the life without cable in the living room and get used to what that feels like (jeez…sounds just like my quitting smoking posts 🙂 Also, Hulu is supposed to come to Xbox "soon" and, until then, I have no way to watch Hulu on my bedroom tv. Also, they will raise my internet bill when I remove my cable tv completely (it's in a pricing bundle, currently)…so I'm taking baby steps in shaking the cable monkey off my back.
Another biggie I've noticed is that the freezing has been almost non-existent lately. Not sure if the Playstation 3 that we use Hulu on fixed the issue in their system update they just had or not. Could be coincidence or a bug fix. Loving no freezing though, no matter what the reason.
An interesting side note: I thought the cable guy would have to come out to the house, but all I had to do was go to their office and turn in my DVR. I called their 800# first to see what steps I needed to take and how much they were going to charge me for the guy to come out. When I explained to the customer service rep what I was doing, she offered me 3 free months of my HD-DVR. I considered taking the offer and waiting three months to turn it in, but decided to stop letting the drug dealer win. She was very enticing…appealing to my addiction and sensabilities…but I "just said no" 🙂
One more side note: For those who don't know it, you can watch Hulu for free on your computer, but I think you get more clips and limited selections. I don't watch tv/movies on my computer, so I don't care about testing their free online version. You can try it and comment here…I'm sure the readers would like to hear of other's experiences.


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The Taxonomy of Thrill investigates the experience of thrill – how it works, why it works, and what such insights might mean for designers. This research represents the first stage of a project called chromo11: engineering the thrill, which aims to design new types of thrilling experiences.
If designers understood more about the dynamics of euphoric experiences could they become directors of this emotional action? This question underpins chromo11 and influenced the writing of The Taxonomy of Thrill, which offers a design tool for directing the role of one powerful, yet volatile, emotion – thrill.
The Taxonomy of Thrill contains a detailed description of The Walker Thrill Factor, a scale for rating any thrilling experience.


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Douglas Munn
Head of Elektron Real Time, Refinitiv
About Douglas
Douglas Munn is Head Elektron Real Time, Refinitiv.
He has led the group to upgrade of global infrastructure from our legacy IDN network and RDF delivery platform to our new Elektron network. After the successful completion of the upgrade, Doug has focused our Elektron Team on launching new technical delivery platforms across the Internet (Connect) and focused the team on the development and delivery of new data sources to meet the needs of the every evolving customer demand. The addition to the new data and simplified delivery options (including delivery over Internet and to Cloud users) for customers has opened the market to new customers globally.
Prior to his work with Elektron, Doug was a Global Technology Manager since 1999 working with our Strategic Accounts such as Bank of America and Morgan Stanley, Citi and Goldman Sachs. In addition to this, he managed many Enterprise products such as Triarch, RDF, Kobra and Eikon. Doug spearheaded our engagement by launching the Procare service at our major customers and implemented a number of service improvement projects that resulted in a large increase in overall customer satisfaction. He was awarded the CEO circle of excellence award in 2007 based on his results.
Doug was born in Toronto. He is married with two children. He is an avid golfer and sailor, and enjoys hockey and skiing.


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Wifi 43 x Do-Si-Dos
Sweet, resinous and psychedelic Kush
Wifi 43 x Do-Si-Dos info:
- Genetics: WiFi 43 x Do-Si-Dos
- Genotype : Indica/Sativa hybrid
- Flavour & aroma: Kush, sweet, citric, exotic, earthy & herbal with touches of fuel and hash
- Flowering: 60-65 days
- Outdoor harvest: Early October
- Yield: 500g/m2
- THC: High
WiFi 43 x Do-Si-Dos
Philosopher Seeds is proud to add Wi-Fi 43 x Do-Si-Dos to its range of Limited Edition seeds, an American Kush hybrid created for lovers of citrus and sweet fuelaromas, and for smokers looking for an absolutely devastating effect. Available now for a limited time exclusively at Zamnesia.
Conceived to bring together the Kush characteristics of White Fire with the extreme power and the unique aroma of the Do-Si-Dos, this cross offers productive, robust and extremely beautiful plants, completely caked with resinous trichomes.
There's no doubt that this hybrid will stand out everything else in your garden, not only for its stunning dark purple tones, but also for its enormous resin production and penetrating aroma.
WiFi 43 x Do-Si-Dos genetics
The female used is an selection of Raskal's White Fire OG (Fire OG x The White), specifically the elite clone WiFi 43, a phenotype from Los Angeles selected from more than 500 individuals.
It stands out for its very high levels of THC, which can reach as high as 30%, offering an extremely relaxing medicinal effect, perfect for pain relief, insomnia and muscle problems, as well as for its intense earthy aroma of fuel and citrus fruits.
Genetically, it is a 60/40 Sativa-Indicahybrid that develops in an almost pure OG Kush style, although slightly more compact and shrubby, with shorter internodes and with wide fingered leaves that give it a denser, lusher appearance.
By training the plant, we can improve yields and facilitate its development, getting better results by increased light exposure and at the same time helping it to support the weight of the dense buds.
It will be ready to harvest after about 65 days of flowering, delivering ayield of more than 500 g per m2 of extremely fleshy and hard flowers, with thick calyxes, distributed over the tips of all the branches.
As a pollen donor, the Norcal Cut of Do-Si-Dos was chosen for reversal, an elite clone selected from a cross between OGKB and Face / Off OG produced by Archive Seeds Bank, and resulting in an extremely powerful and aromatic line.
It produces strong, robust plants that are very simple to grow both indoors and outdoors, easily adaptable to all types of substrates and cultivation techniques.
Its enormous vigour means it grows fast and very strong, responding well to all kinds of pruning and training techniques, enabling us to easily cultivate it in SCROG, SOG, or to prune the top and create a more bushy plant.
Upon entering the flowering phase, its branches will quickly fill out with thick, hard and shiny buds, reaching a yield of more than 450 g per m2, ready for harvest after 65 days of 12/12 photoperiod.
Its aroma is extremely sweet and penetrating, mixing the smell of fresh pastry with earthy notes and Kush nuances, in an exotic and mouthwatering herbal mixture that permeates the palate with every toke.
The effect produced is very intense, mixing powerful psychedelic euphoria with strong physical relaxation, which comes on quickly and lasts for a long time.
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PARKESBURG, Chester County — A 25-year-old Parkesburg man was charged Friday with felony counts of sexual abuse of children after police say he created an disseminated child pornography.
Christopher Joseph Kremski, of the 500 block of Main Street, was charged after police began an investigation last December, according to a criminal complaint affidavit filed by Pennsylvania State Police.
The investigation was launched on Dec. 17, 2017, when a member of the Lancaster County Computer Crimes Unit traced an IP address associated to a BitTorrent network that was being used to download suspected child pornography files to the address of a Parkesburg home where Kremski was living.
On May 1, members of the State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation Central Computer Crimes Task Force served a search warrant at the address. Troopers found a man, later identified as Kremski, asleep on the third floor. Kremski agreed to speak to police about the investigation.
According to police, Kremski said he lived in the home since 2017. He said he was living with relatives who owned the residence. He told police he did not own any computers, because his had been seized due to a previous arrest for child pornography charges last year. The only electronic device Kremski owned, he told police, was his cell phone. He also told police that he used the WiFi at the residence, and that no one outside the residence knew the WiFi network's password.
When questioned about the child pornography indicated in the search warrant, Kremski told police he had no idea how it could have happened and that he did not view, download or share any child pornography, according to the criminal complaint.
While police were interviewing Kremski, forensic analysts from the Computer Crimes Unit were searching the data contained in electronics found inside the home, according to the criminal complaint. They discovered evidence of child pornography on the devices. When advised of that, police say, Kremski ended the interview.
In addition to the pornographic videos depicting children found on two devices in the home, police say, forensic analysts discovered three pictures of a 6- to 7-year-old girl asleep on a bed. On two of the images, the camera was zoomed into the child's genital area, and the left hand of an adult male is pictured moving the child's underwear to the side the expose the child's genitals, police say. Police identified a small, brown birthmark on the hand in the photo.
Police photographed Kremski's left hand, according to the criminal complaint. They observed a birthmark similar to that of the one in the photos.
An arresting officer recognized the victim in the photo as the daughter of the relative Kremski was staying with at the time of his previous arrest for child pornography, according to the criminal complaint.
On May 4, police interviewed the mother of that victim, who was able to identify the girl in the photos as her daughter, along with the bed sheets and underwear depicted in the photos as the victim's.
From information gathered during the investigation, police were able to determine that the photos of the sleeping girl were taken during the time when Kremski was living with that family, police say.
After completing forensic analysis of the electronic devices found when police executed the search warrant at the home where Kremski was living on May 1, police determined that the devices contained 459 pictures containing child pornography. A total of five videos containing child pornography were discovered as well, police say.
The photos of the sleeping girl were analyzed, and it was determined they were taken by the same model of cellular phone seized from Kremski during the search of the home on May 1.


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United Scatinos of America (8/2/05)
December 26, 2006
One of the things that redeemed the second season of The Sopranos, which had gone all wobbly after a good start, was the unblinkingly cruel subplot about David Scatino, a boyhood friend of mobster Tony Soprano, who talks his way into one of Tony's high-stakes poker games and almost instantly buries himself under an unpayable mountain of debts. It quickly turns out that Tony knew about Scatino's compulsive gambling problem, but let him into the game anyway because Scatino and his wife own a successful sporting-goods store.
What follows is more frightening than any monster movie. After siphoning out Scatino's bank account (including his son's college fund), Tony and his cronies gorge themselves on the store's credit lines, buying up easily resold big-ticket merchandise and leaving the store awash in hundreds of thousands of dollars in bills. The business dissolves into bankruptcy, taking with it Scatino's marriage (his wife divorces him), his family (his son, cheated out of an Ivy League future, hates him) and a good portion of his sanity. In the end, as he prepares to embark on his new life as a drifter and day-laborer, Scatino asks Tony why he let him destroy himself. After all, haven't they known each other since childhood? Tony replies with the story of the frog and the scorpion. "This is what I am," Tony says. "This is what I do."
What we've just seen is a variation on an old con called a bust-out. Usually it involves con men offering to buy a business, making a partial payment to gain access to the firm's credit and name, and then hollowing out the company's finances by running up the existing credit lines and opening new ones, all of which are maxed out to buy electronic gear and anything else that can be resold quickly at a fraction of its value. For the con men involved in the bust-out, it's all gravy. The phony buyer –- usually a shell company with no discernible assets -– defaults and the business reverts to its original owner, by which time the once-thriving firm has been turned into a rotting hulk ready to have its bones picked clean by creditors.
The Bush family has often been referred to as the WASP version of the Corleones, but the Soprano clan makes for a much better comparison. At its best, The Sopranos is an acid mockery of the phony gravitas of the three Godfather movies. Where Michael Corleone is heroically evil, an international player who consorts with statesmen and the Vatican before succumbing to his tragic flaw, Tony Soprano is a sewer rat engaged in the grubby business of preying on human weakness and fear -– when his fall comes, it will be tragic only to himself. Until then, however, he's going to make as much money as he can for himself and his buddies, and leave the rest of the world holding the bill.
I'm not just using hyperbole here. I do think that when honest historians assess the Bush administration, they will find it more useful to treat George II and his Republican cronies as a criminal organization rather than a political party. The best tool for analyzing Bush's policies is not historiography, but the procedures used by federal agents as they pursue a RICO investigation into a mobbed-up business.
Take the money and run. As long as Republicans are in power, that phrase should replace "E Pluribus Unum" on the national seal. It's the natural outcome of a quarter-century of rhetoric about how government is the problem, not the solution; how government doesn't work; how deregulation is the only way to build the economy. If government is nothing but a taxpayer-funded scam, then why not use it to enrich yourself and your buddies? If the very idea of public service as an idealistic calling has been turned into a mealymouthed joke, then where's the shame in abusing power and running the country into the ground? As long as you can convince just over 50 percent of the suckers to vote your way, you can throw yourself a party and leave the world holding the bill.
This is what they are. This is what they do. Didn't they tell you?
The recess appointment of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is all of a piece with this scenario. Even many Republicans find this loudmouthed dolt hard to take; certainly no foreign leader will be able to take him seriously as a player on the world stage. Bolton will face a building full of career diplomats who know his nomination was dead in the Senate, that he had to be smuggled into office under cover of darkness, that the best they can expect is three years of low-down entertainment until the Bushies pack up their swag and head for the hills. If you despise the very idea of the United Nations — and if your core voting bloc cherishes Satanic conspiracy fantasies about the UN being the Antichrist's method for achieving one-world government — then an ambassador capable of effective diplomacy is unnecessary. The important thing is that a plum job went to a crony. Sure, he may very well be implicated in the Valerie Plame case, but after a couple of years on the government sugar tit he'll be able to lawyer himself up and hold the prosecutors at bay for a long time.
Insane tax cuts for the wealthy. Delusional military ventures abroad. From the minute the Bushies took power, their biggest concern has been to break open the cash registers, empty the shelves and open the bank vaults. Stewardship is a joke to them. What we are witnessing may very well be the biggest bust-out in human history.
And if you, good citizen, are wondering where you fit into this picture, just cast your mind back to the last episode of the second season of The Sopranos. One of the closing shots shows us David Scatino in an empty parking lot, tying some gear to the top of his car as he prepares to leave his ruined life behind him. He wanted to play poker with the big boys, so you can say he brought his troubles on himself. A majority of Americans voted for Bush in at least one of the last two elections, so you can say we brought this on ourselves. In Scatino's case, human weakness created a business opportunity for Tony Soprano. America's weakness created a business opportunity for the Republicans. With the national press at a historic low ebb, the Democratic Party flat on its back and the airwaves humming with wingnut propaganda, the pickings couldn't be any richer.
They saw their chance and they took it. That's what they are. That's what they do.
4 Responses to "United Scatinos of America (8/2/05)"
April 18, 2007 at 4:23 pm
[…] I've said it before and I'll keep saying it: splurge-and-purge Republicans, operating under the cover of the conservative First Church of the Privatized Jesus, are deeply contemptuous of the very idea of public service and stewardship. From the moment they took power, their only thoughts have been to break open the cash registers, sweep the shelves clean, burn the ledgers and then run for the hills with their swag, pausing in their chants of "Get the government off our backs" just long enough to collect their government pensions. […]
August 14, 2007 at 12:48 pm
[…] Bush era is contained within House of Games and those second-season Sopranos episodes that track the fleecing and ruination of Tony Soprano's childhood buddy. Watch them carefuly and pat yourselves on the back while you do so, because this is what you […]
February 2, 2008 at 9:37 pm
[…] is right. I've talked about this before and nothing I've seen during Bush's tenure in office has caused me to question my […]
February 18, 2009 at 9:27 am
[…] the actions of the Bush administration, and conservative fiscal policies in general, correspond to a venerable con game called the "Bust-out," in which fraudsters pretending to take an interest in running a […]


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Coal-shipping plan divides Oakland over health, jobs issues
Oakland's City Council has until early December to make a costly choice: agree to move millions of tons of potentially lung-damaging coal through the city each year for export, or ban the coal and disrupt — potentially derailing — a major development that promises nearly 12,000 jobs.
Opposition to coal is mounting from public health experts, environmental groups and even some council members. But the company contracted to develop and operate a shipping terminal set to open near the east end of the Bay Bridge in 2018 is threatening to pull out if coal transportation is blocked in Oakland — and that could delay or hinder the $880 million, 366-acre development project.
"I'm quite certain if we're unable to pursue our business plan with respect to all commodities, including coal, we will not make the investment, no," said Jerry Bridges, who once ran the Port of Oakland and now heads Terminal Logistics Solutions, the shipping operations company handling the most lucrative portion of the project.
"We think it's very important the City Council understands the seriousness of the preemption issue," said Tagami, explaining why he sent a team of three lawyers to a public hearing about the coal at City Hall on Sept. 22, as well as engineers and lobbyists.
December vote
On Dec. 8, the City Council could vote to allow coal transportation through Oakland, restrict it in some way, or ban it altogether. Last year, before Terminal Logistics Solutions made plans to export coal from the future terminal, the council passed a resolution opposing the transportation of hazardous fuels, including coal, in Oakland.
Laura Wisland, a senior energy analyst from the Union of Concerned Scientists who spoke at last week's hearing, warned that the new plan to ship coal would force the council to break that pledge.
Mayor Libby Schaaf has said she opposes transporting coal and crude oil through Oakland.
Now the public has until 4 p.m. Monday to e-mail comments to Douglas Cole, who manages the Army Base Gateway Redevelopment Project for the city, at firstname.lastname@example.com. City administrators will evaluate those comments — available on the city's website — and present a status report to the council at the next public hearing on Oct. 20 at City Hall.
Pros and cons
Opponents say that coal shipments — even in sealed rail cars — would spread coal dust, polluting the air in West Oakland and putting residents at greater risk of asthma.
But others say that banning coal is not worth the loss of the entire project, which they expect will bring thousands of unionized construction and shipping jobs to an area that desperately needs them.
Even so, Tagami said he will build the terminal and provide his portion of the state grant match — some $45 million — as required by his contract, though he did not specify how he would do that if the current shipping operator pulls out.
Tagami worked on the project for years without planning to ship coal. He even announced in a 2013 newsletter that his company, California Capital & Investment Group, "is publicly on record as having no interest or involvement in the pursuit of coal-related operations at the former Oakland Army Base."
But he reversed that stance last year after signing a lease with Terminal Logistics Solutions to operate the "Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal." Terminal Logistics Solutions is talking with four counties in Utah that have offered to invest $53 million in the project on the promise that coal mined in Utah could be shipped through Oakland, said Bridges, the company's chief.
Colorful battle lines
The Sept. 22 hearing drew hundreds of people to City Hall. Supporters of the project wore yellow "I Support Oakland Jobs" T-shirts, while opponents sported red shirts with the slogan "Beyond Coal Exports." Though many insisted it wasn't an either-or, "jobs vs. the environment" debate, the battle lines seemed starkly drawn.
"We welcome the terminal, we're just opposed to the coal," said Derrick Muhammad of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. He said the plan in its current form requires workers to "sell their souls" for jobs.
Muhammad was one of many speakers who commended the overall project, but saw the coal shipping plan as a potential environmental disaster.
Dr. Muntu Davis, director of the Alameda County Public Health Department, said he, too, supports the project — with a prohibition on coal.
He said parts of West Oakland already have "some of the worst health outcomes in our county."
The project's supporters were equally passionate, arguing that a coal ban could threaten the entire development and cost thousands of jobs.
"We're concerned about global warming and greenhouse gases," said Pastor Gerald Agee of Friendship Christian Center in West Oakland. "But we also have a 'right-now' issue with folks that come to our churches that can't stay in Oakland because they can't afford housing."
Agee and others view the new terminal as a way to stave off displacement of longtime residents as wealthy newcomers — among them the ride-booking giant Uber — move into Oakland and cause housing prices to soar. Shipping and construction jobs provide high hourly wages and union benefits, the kind that make staying in Oakland possible, Agee said.
But some City Council members expressed reservations about the plan.
Councilwoman's concern
"As a West Oakland resident and mother of an asthmatic child, I lived this every day," said council President Lynette Gibson-McElhaney, adding that she was "deeply concerned" about the potential consequences of shipping a fossil fuel through the city.
Tagami declined to say whether he would try to find another terminal operator. He's worked on the project for eight years, secured 128 permits, and filled an entire library of his office with 5-inch binders, each containing a weekly report he has submitted to the city.
"I do not know what the future holds," Tagami said.
Rachel Swan is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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The threat of nuclear conflict is at its highest level since the Cold War. On the International Day for the Elimina… https://t.co/APD5nyZGMS
The four Elders who travelled to Sudan last year – Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Lakhdar Brahimi, President Jimmy Carter and Graça Machel – have provided the foreword to a report calling on states to provide critically lacking helicopters to Darfur peacekeepers. The organisation Crisis Action released the following statement, announcing the report's release:
New report calls on states to provide helicopters to Darfur peacekeepers
Marking the one year anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1769 – which authorised deployment of the Darfur peacekeeping mission – a new report sets out for the first time which countries have the critically-lacking helicopters needed to protect civilians in Darfur.
The report, titled "Grounded: the International Community's Betrayal of UNAMID" carries a foreword by the group of Elders who visited Sudan recently, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Lakhdar Brahimi, President Jimmy Carter and Graça Machel and is endorsed by more than thirty human rights groups, think tanks and NGOs including the Cairo Institute for Human Rights, International Crisis Group, the Sudan Organisation Against Torture and the Save Darfur Coalition.
"Early this month peacekeepers were attacked in Darfur. They were outmanned and outgunned. Because no country has provided helicopters for the UN force there was no back-up and seven peacekeepers paid with their lives. On today's anniversary of the mission it's time the international community got serious about enabling peacekeepers to do their job of protecting civilians and handed over these helicopters," said Amjad Atallah, a spokesperson for the coalition.
The report, written by aviation expert Thomas Withington is the first to look in detail at which countries have available resources that could be provided to the mission.
It finds that:
The report's conclusions are based on extensive research of helicopter capacity and investigations into the number of helicopters already deployed in theatre. The report assumes a three helicopter rotation i.e. for every one helicopter deployed, two others need to be available on rotation.
In the foreword to the report, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Lakhdar Brahimi, President Jimmy Carter and Graça Machel state,
"This report sets out for the first time which states have the necessary helicopters and estimates how many are available for deployment to Darfur. It identifies a number of countries – including the Czech Republic, India, Italy, Romania, Spain and Ukraine – that have large numbers of helicopters that meet the required specifications and are not on mission or mission rotation elsewhere. Many of these helicopters are gathering dust in hangars or flying in air shows when they could be saving lives in Darfur."
The report notes that the resourcing issue is much deeper than simply an issue of helicopters and that many other basic supplies, from boots to ration packs, are also yet to be provided. It also makes clear that UNAMID is only part of the solution to the situation in Darfur and that a peace process is essential to a long term solution.
Actor and Darfur activist George Clooney, who has been appointed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as a "UN Messenger of Peace" for his work on Darfur said,
"Many governments have offered expressions of concern, but few have offered the most basic tools necessary to keep civilians safe and for peacekeepers to do their job. To ensure the success of UNAMID and the safety of peacekeepers, we do not need more rhetoric, we need resources. It is time for governments to put their helicopters where their mouths are."
The report recommends:
Events are expected in key capitals to mark the anniversary. In New York City activists planned to bring a helicopter to the United Nations headquarters, underscoring the need for leading nations to supply the critically-lacking helicopters to the UNAMID peacekeeping mission. Groups will also highlight a petition with more than 50,000 signatures – urging the permanent five members of the UN Security Council to fulfill their obligations and commitments to the Darfuri people.


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China likely to examine 400-km range air-to-air missile
January 26 , 2017
China is likely to examine an air-to-air missile with 400-km range capable of taking out early warning and aerial refuelling aircraft. If successful in test, the weapon's range will overpass those of the US and Russia.
Though no official introduction has been made for the potential new weapon, its appearance has been noticed by military experts, many of whom believe such a weapon would boost the combat capabilities of air force.
As of now the longest range air-to-air missile of the US is the AIM-120D with 200 km range while Russia owns the R-37 and K-100 air-to-air missiles with operational ranges of close to 400 km.
The Chinese fighter jets at present use the PL-11 and PL-12 missiles to target long-distance targets, however their maximum ranges are limited to less than 100 km.
An equipment researcher of the PLA Air Force, Fu Qianshao suggested that China has developed a new missile that can strike high-value targets including early-warning planes, aerial refuelling aircraft that are generally away from conflict zones.
Most of the air-to-air missiles under operation globally possess a maximum range of around 100 km, whereas just a couple of new types that are propelled by ramjets can reach 200 km, Fu added.
However, none of them is suitable for fighting early-warning planes due to their short ranges. In his words, long-range ground-to-air missiles are limited by their fixed deployment when dealing with planes far away.
The range of this missile is expected to be at least 400 km which could be farther than any of the air-to-air missile being used by western countries. The nation has already examined anti-satellite missiles.