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This chapter contains the requirements for the system and database resources that support Oracle GoldenGate. This chapter contains the following sections:
Section 1.1, "Overview of Oracle GoldenGate for Oracle TimesTen"
Section 1.2, "Verifying Certification and System Requirements"
Oracle GoldenGate for Oracle TimesTen supports the delivery of data from other types of databases to a TimesTen database.
High-speed Oracle GoldenGate replication can be used to refresh a TimesTen cache environment with minimal latency. In addition, with its heterogeneous support, Oracle GoldenGate enables the TimesTen data store to be used as a data integration point for other data sources.
Oracle GoldenGate supports the mapping, filtering, and manipulation of data from other sources to the TimesTen database. Oracle GoldenGate does not support the extraction of data from TimesTen to other TimesTen data stores or to other kinds of databases.
Make sure that you are installing your product on a supported hardware or software configuration. For more information, see the certification document for your release on the Oracle Fusion Middleware Supported System Configurations page.
Oracle has tested and verified the performance of your product on all certified systems and environments; whenever new certifications occur, they are added to the proper certification document right away. New certifications can occur at any time, and for this reason the certification documents are kept outside of the documentation libraries and are available on Oracle Technology Network.
This section describes the operating system requirements for running Oracle GoldenGate for Oracle TimesTen.
At least a dual-core central processing unit is required. A quad-core processor is preferred.
The amount of memory that is required for Oracle GoldenGate depends on the amount of data being processed, the number of Oracle GoldenGate processes running, the amount of RAM available to Oracle GoldenGate, and the amount of disk space that is available to Oracle GoldenGate for storing pages of RAM temporarily on disk when the operating system needs to free up RAM (typically when a low watermark is reached). This temporary storage of RAM to disk is commonly known as swapping or paging (herein referred to as swapping). Depending on the platform, the term swap space can be a swap partition, a swap file, a page file (Windows) or a shared memory segment (IBM i platforms).
Modern servers have sufficient RAM combined with sufficient swap space and memory management systems to run Oracle GoldenGate. However, increasing the amount of RAM available to Oracle GoldenGate may significantly improve its performance, as well as that of the system in general.
Typical Oracle GoldenGate installations provide RAM in multiples of gigabytes to prevent excessive swapping of RAM pages to disk. The more contention there is for RAM the more swap space that is used.
Excessive swapping to disk causes performance issues for the Extract process in particular, because it must store data from each open transaction until a commit record is received. If Oracle GoldenGate runs on the same system as the database, the amount of RAM that is available becomes critical to the performance of both.
RAM and swap usage are controlled by the operating system, not the Oracle GoldenGate processes. The Oracle GoldenGate cache manager takes advantage of the memory management functions of the operating system to ensure that the Oracle GoldenGate processes work in a sustained and efficient manner. In most cases, users need not change the default Oracle GoldenGate memory management configuration.
For more information about evaluating Oracle GoldenGate memory requirements, see the
CACHEMGR parameter in Reference for Oracle GoldenGate for Windows and UNIX.
The disk requirements for using Oracle GoldenGate for Oracle TimesTen are:
To determine the size of the Oracle GoldenGate download file, view the Size column before downloading your selected build from Oracle Software Delivery Cloud. The value shown is the size of the files in compressed form. The size of the expanded Oracle GoldenGate installation directory will be significantly larger on disk. For more information, see Section 2.2, "Understanding and Obtaining the Oracle GoldenGate Distribution."
To install Oracle GoldenGate into a cluster environment, install the Oracle GoldenGate binaries and files on a shared file system that is available to all cluster nodes.
An additional 1 GB of disk space on any system that hosts Oracle GoldenGate trails, which are files that contain the working data. You may need more or less than this amount, because the space that is consumed by the trails depends on the volume of data that will be processed. See the guidelines for sizing trails in Administering Oracle GoldenGate for Windows and UNIX.
The network requirements for using Oracle GoldenGate for Oracle TimesTen are:
Configure the system to use TCP/IP services, including DNS. Oracle GoldenGate supports IPv4 and IPv6 and can operate in a system that supports one or both of these protocols.
Configure the network with the host names or IP addresses of all systems that will be hosting Oracle GoldenGate processes and to which Oracle GoldenGate will be connecting. Host names are easier to use.
Oracle GoldenGate requires some unreserved and unrestricted TCP/IP ports, the number of which depends on the number and types of processes in your configuration. See Administering Oracle GoldenGate for Windows and UNIX for details on how to configure the Manager process to handle the required ports.
Keep a record of the ports that you assigned to Oracle GoldenGate. You will specify them with parameters when configuring the Manager process.
Configure your firewalls to accept connections through the Oracle GoldenGate ports.
The operating system privileges for using Oracle GoldenGate for Oracle TimesTen are:
To install on UNIX, the person who installs Oracle GoldenGate must have read and write privileges on the Oracle GoldenGate installation directory.
The Oracle GoldenGate Replicat and Manager processes must operate as an operating system user that has privileges to read, write, and delete files and subdirectories in the Oracle GoldenGate directory. In addition, the Manager process requires privileges to control all other Oracle GoldenGate processes.
Dedicate the Replicat and Manager operating system users to Oracle GoldenGate. Sensitive information might be available to anyone who runs an Oracle GoldenGate process.
To install Oracle GoldenGate on an Intel Itanium system, the vcredist_IA64.exe runtime library package must be installed. You can download this package from the Microsoft website. This package includes Visual Studio DLLs necessary for Oracle GoldenGate to operate on the Itanium platform. If these libraries are not installed, Oracle GoldenGate generates the following error:
The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150002). Click on Ok to terminate the application.
The operating system and the command console must have the same character sets. Mismatches occur on Microsoft Windows systems, where the operating system is set to one character set, but the DOS command prompt uses a different, older DOS character set. Oracle GoldenGate uses the character set of the operating system to send information to GGSCI command output; therefore a non-matching console character set causes characters not to display correctly. You can set the character set of the console before opening a GGSCI session by using the following DOS command:
chcp OS_character_set
If the characters do not display correctly after setting the code page, try changing the console font to Lucida Console, which has an extended character set.
Other programs you can use with Oracle GoldenGate for Oracle TimesTen are:
Before installing Oracle GoldenGate on a Windows system, install and configure the Microsoft Visual C ++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable Package. Make certain it is the SP1 version of this package, and make certain to get the correct bit version for your server. This package installs runtime components of Visual C++ Libraries. For more information, and to download this package, go to
Oracle GoldenGate fully supports virtual machine environments created with any virtualization software on any platform. When installing Oracle GoldenGate into a virtual machine environment, select a build that matches the database and the operating system of the virtual machine, not the host system.
This section describes the database requirements for using Oracle GoldenGate for Oracle TimesTen.
Create a database user that is dedicated to Oracle GoldenGate. It can be the same user for all of the Oracle GoldenGate processes that must connect to a database:
Replicat (target database)
DEFGEN (source or target database)
To preserve the security of your data, and to monitor Oracle GoldenGate processing accurately, do not permit other users, applications, or processes to log on as, or operate as, the Oracle GoldenGate database user.
Keep a record of the database users. They must be specified in the Oracle GoldenGate parameter files with the
USERID parameter.
The limitations and non-supported items for Oracle TimesTen are:
Capture (extraction) of DML operations is not supported.
Capture and replication of DDL (data definition language) operations is not supported.
The support of range and precision for floating-point numbers depends on the host machine. In general, the precision is accurate to 16 significant digits, but you should review the database documentation to determine the expected approximations. Oracle GoldenGate rounds or truncates values that exceed the supported precision.
Oracle GoldenGate supports timestamp data from 0001/01/03:00:00:00 to 9999/12/31:23:59:59. If a timestamp is converted from GMT to local time, these limits also apply to the resulting timestamp. Depending on the time zone, conversion may add or subtract hours, which can cause the timestamp to exceed the lower or upper supported limit.
Modifying the Primary Key Column value is not supported.
Limitations on Automatic Heartbeat Table support are as follows:
Oracle GoldenGate supports only Delivery on TimesTen so no mechanism is required to populate/update the heartbeat tables using any event/job schedulers.
ALTER HEARTBEATTABLE command is not supported and if used is ignored.
ADD HEARTBEATTABLE command with the
PURGE_FREQUENCY, or
RETENTION_TIME option is not supported. When any of these options are specified with the
ADD HEARTBEATTABLE command, a warning is displayed that the option is ignored.
Since TimesTen does not have any internal event/job schedulers, automatic purging of heartbeat history tables cannot occur. As such, you should explicitly drop or truncate the corresponding heartbeat objects to suit your environment.


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My first class
I'll admit walking into a room full of strangers and the unknown is scary. But when you walk in they just know your a newbie and straight away you're greeted and told where to go and what to do. Which is great! Saves the awkward having to find someone and ask.
My first week
I lost 4lbs! I was amazed! How can I eat pasta and potatoe wedges and lose 4lbs in one week! ONE WEEK. So on this high I continued.
The bump in the road.
I took 2-3 weeks off over Christmas last year and that's where it slowed down. When I went back I'd gained, lost my mojo and kept having half or no loss which is really disheartening.
Turning point
I was bouncing around a few classes trying to find the one for me as my shifts changed. But then I sent a message to my old group leader explaining my loss of mojo since leaving her group and she said to come along late to her class and I could weigh at the end. Brilliant! That group for me is so motivating and helpful, really really supportive and just works for me best.
Where am I now?
Granted, I'm a little naughty. I like a few treats so I don't have the big losses anymore but I'm happy with losing every week even when it's a small loss it's all adding up. Now I've lost 1st 11lbs in total and yes, still eat a lot of pasta. I was nominated for woman of the year which was really nice. Now I'm hoping to get to 2 stone really soon.
Where next?
I'm not done. I do want to crank it up now that I've lost that much and dropping jean sizes (which feels like weekly), I'd like to up my gym-game more. I found a new snazzy gym which I love so would like to get my fitness up and really hit my targets.
My little remember me advice
Every week is a new week. No matter how naughty or bad you were last week you have a clean slate to work harder and get a good loss for the following week. And it's only 7 days! Instead of restricting yourself like crazy, I normally say to myself, if I have a good loss I'll have this (pizza) but by the time weigh day comes, I don't really want that pizza anymore or to undo my work.
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From Value Research (emphasis mine):
Unfortunately, a proportion of investors seem to have the expectation that an SIP is a sort of a magical device that can protect them from all losses. It's not. An SIP means that you keep investing though the ups and downs of the markets, ensuring that at least part of your investment is made when the markets are down. In the long run (and in equity investments, long run means three years at a minimum), this leads to higher profits. But to my mind, the real advantage of SIPs is as a psychological device that keeps you investing when the markets are down because, you know 'buy low' is the more important half of 'buy low sell high'.
When I last checked about a week back, my own investments in mutual funds were down by about 8% to 10% (from the principal). And this is more or less over a year's time. But I'm not worried because I did precisely what has been suggested here — "buy low."
Did that at every dip. And we're already on our way up (at least at the time when I wrote this). I would have loved to invest more, but then I ran out of accumulated funds. D's accumulated funds were way more than mine and so her investment portfolio should jump back way better (it was down only 2.3% on a much higher principal).
Though I don't agree with everything that Value Research says, I really do like the fact that they at least put a specific number on the "long run." How many times have you seen that elsewhere?
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This clan's purpose is to help train up lesser experienced Guardians in hopes that they might eventually be skilled enough to enter the professional PvE/PvP clan Aces and Kings. It is also used as a testing ground for already skilled players to show that they have a professional attitude worthy of the main clan. In other words, this clan is a feeder clan to help Guardians get to the point where they are doing Crucible, raids, etc. that are live streamed as part of the usual Aces and Kings weekly activities. Like Aces and Kings, no cheesing, raging, or poor attitudes towards fellow clan members or other players will be permitted. 18+ clan (exceptions made only for mature gamers, but no younger than 16 years old allowed)
This clan is yet another sub-clan of Aces and Kings under the Aces Kingdom that spans both Xbox One, Playstation 4, and PC. We use an app called BAND to communicate, so please be willing to download it for smartphone, tablet, or Mac/PC if you request to join,
- Effort of Saint-14Took part in an an event sponsored by the Order of Saint-14
- The more you give, the more you getHad over 50% clan member participation in an event


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Over the Thanksgiving weekend I was watching some hair videos on YouTube and I came across several YouTubers who claimed that their hair grew an inch overnight. Each one did the same process and it appeared that it actually worked out for them. Thinking about the major trim that I plan on giving myself in the upcoming New Year, I thought I would try their method out on my own hair to see if it would work. If you're interested in learning how to grow your hair an inch overnight and whether or not it actually worked for me, keep reading! Continue reading
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My Miscarriage Story Pt. 2
Since this month is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness month I've decided to share my miscarriage story. Last week I wrote about the two miscarriages that I had last year and how they had impacted my life. This week I want to share YouTube videos that I posted during those periods of loss. In the videos I talk about the raw feelings associated with losing a baby as well as how it feels to have your first period afterwards. That first menstrual period after miscarrying was probably one of the hardest things to go through apart from actually miscarrying because it solidified that my baby was no longer inside of me and I had to really face that reality. I hope that by me sharing these videos someone can be encouraged that they're not alone in what they have gone through or may be going through right now. Continue reading
My Miscarriage Story
Since this month is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness month I decided to share my miscarriage story. It's something that I'm very open about because when I got pregnant I was not aware of how common miscarriages are. I was afraid that maybe something was wrong with me or that I couldn't have kids, but the truth is that approximately 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage. Continue reading
Straight Talk Thursday – What's Stopping You From Starting Your Goals?
What are your goals and what's stopping you from getting started on them? In this video I talk about the 5 things that kept me from starting my blog, Straight Talk For Christian Women, and what helped me overcome them to finally get started. What's stopping you from achieving your goals?
Remember transparency saves lives,
Gigi Jones
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I Wasted A Year and a Half of My Life
Tuesday September 20th as I sat talking to my husband, I realized that I had wasted a year and a half of my life…………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………..on fear.
I had wasted a year and a half of my life being afraid of what he would say, what he would do, how he would respond, and if he would leave: "Was he trying to control me?" I feared. "If I make a huge mistake will he forgive me?" I asked myself. "Can I really tell him what I'm thinking and how I feel?" I thought to myself. My fears had consumed my life and had threatened to consume my marriage. Continue reading
Straight Talk Thursdays – God I'm Not Good Enough
Have you ever felt like you were not good enough for the purpose that God has called you for? Ever felt like your past or present state has somehow disqualified you from what God has told you to do? In this Straight Talk Thurs video I want to encourage you that you are not too inadequate for the purpose that God has called you for no matter where you have been or what you have done. It took me three years to start this blog because I felt the exact same way. God also showed me that there were other people in the bible who also felt like they weren't good enough and we can all learn from their story what God thinks about that. I hope this video encourages you.
Remember transparency saves lives,
Gigi Jones
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Straight Talk Thursdays – A Plea To The Seasoned Married Women
In this video I talk about my desire for more guidance and transparency from the older/seasoned married women being a newlywed myself. Titus 2:1-5 tells the older married women to teach and be an example to the younger married women and this is my plea because that guidance is really needed. Simply put, we need you.
Titus 2:1, 3-5 – But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Givin' It To you Straight,
Gigi Jones
Straight Talk Thursdays – A Message To My Single Self
Welcome to another Straight Talk Thursday video!! In this video I talk about 6 things I wish I would have taken to heart while I was single before getting married. When I was single I was so focused on my desire to be married that I didn't fully allow myself to enjoy or be content in my singleness. If I could go back in time and give myself a talk, these are the things I would say to me. Enjoy!
*This video was posted on YouTube Thursday April 17th.
Givin' It To You Straight,
Gigi Jones
Straight Talk Thursdays – Mental Illness In The Church
I have started a YouTube series called Straight Talk Thursdays where I will be discussing various topics that I have on my heart or that the Lord places on my heart to speak about. In today's video, which was posted on YouTube April 7th, I talk about how mental illness is commonly looked at within the church, my personal struggle with anxiety and depression, and how God used medication as a tool in my deliverance. I also make a reference in my video to an article written about Tasha Cobbs where she talks about her personal struggle with depression and how the church needs to open up more about this particular issue.
To view that article on Tasha Cobb's interview click the link below.
Gospel Singer Tasha Cobbs Opens Up About Living With Depression
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Givin' It To You Straight,
Gigi Jones
God, You Owe Me Something.
Have you ever felt like God owed you something for doing the right thing, or living the right way? I know I can't be the only one who has felt this way before. Today I want to write about a personal experience that I've had about how sometimes as Christians, if we're not careful, we can begin to feel like we deserve certain things or that God owes us certain things for "good behavior."
Now, this may not be the case with everyone, but that was the case with me and boy did God slap me with his word to get me together. The area I struggled with was marriage. I felt like I deserved a good husband and that I deserved to be married and not have to wait because I had stayed a virgin. Continue reading


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At the begginings of the American Civil War (1861-1865), the government of the Confederacy (Confederate States of America), had many hopes for help from Europe (military, resources, diplomatic etc.), especially from Britain and France. The Confederate President J. Davis hoped for an official recognition of the Confederation by these countries and (his ultimate hope) for their military involvement in the war in favor of the American South. But efforts to approach these countries failed, because of the following reasons. First, because of the fear of Britain and France for military intervention of the Union/Federation (United States of America) in their American colonies. Second, due to the common opinion of the people of the two European countries which rejected slavery and therefore did not want to enforce the Confederacy. Third, because of the skilful diplomacy of two Republican colleagues of the Federal President Abraham Lincoln: Foreign Minister William Seward and Federal ambassador in London, Charles F. Adams.
It seems that the British government could not "forgive" the "rebellion" of the Americans in 1776-1783 and their independence from the British Empire. Although the English could not support openly the Confederation, they did whatever they could for its "preservation to life", aiming possibly to a permanent break of the U.S.A. Except the aforementioned vengeful tendencies of London and its concern for the exponential growth and rise of the U.S. in international politics, the British had two more good reasons to seek covertly for the weakening of the Union: the permanent American assertion in Canada and the national Irish liberation cause (Canada and Ireland were parts of the British Empire). But the same reasons prevented the British from their active support to the American South, as we shall discuss below.
Confederate infantry.
The U.S. were aiming to the annexation of rich Canada since 1783, and until 1861 this possibility was becoming more realistic. Most English-Canadians descended from the U.S. because they were descendants of the "loyal" Americans (loyal to the English king during the American Revolution) who chose to immigrate to Canada when the Thirteen American colonies-states became independent (1783). However by 1861, many of the Anglo-Canadians did not reject the idea of their accession to the Unites States. The Irish-Canadians (and other Celtic-Canadians) desired this accession. Thus, paradoxically, the French-Canadians (who constituted half of the Canadian population then) became the "stronghold" of the British rule in Canada, because they did not want to be annexed to the vast federation of the U.S.A. in which the English language and the Anglo-Saxon culture prevailed. In this case, their own French language and culture would inevitably disappear, as it did happen with the French and French-speaking inhabitants of Louisiana. Instead, the British had already ensured the protection of their French character. London was alarmed about the American claims to Canada, possibly mostly because of the recent annexation of half of the Mexican territory by the United States (in 1845-1848). Generally the British wanted to prevent in anyway the American annexation of Canada, because otherwise the U.S. would become a "super country" with an area of over 19,000,000 sq. km., with inexhaustible natural resources and vast unpopulated territories. These territories would be populated and exploited by the Americans, and this exploitation together with the American seamanship and high technology, would seriously threaten the British supremacy in the world in that period. London would never allow it to happen.
The British feared that if they openly supported the Confederation, and the Union won the Civil war, the U.S. would find the 'formal occasion' that they were waiting for, to occupy Canada and annex its territories as new federal states. Thus, in 1867, two years after the American Civil War and while the American-British relations were still tense due to several pro-confederate actions of London, the British ascertaining that they could not effectively defend Canada against the Americans, made a deft political move. They declared the independence of Canada under British patronage (high dominance), founding the Canadian Federation as a British Dominion (and no longer a colony). Moreover, British Columbia and Manitoba, two western British colonies in North America which did not belong geographically to Canada (and were still coveted by the U.S.), joined the new Canadian federation in 1869. The Americans had to confine only to the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867. So the British finally prevented the union of Canada with the U.S., because the Americans could invade and annex a British colony (moreover with the support of the Irish-Canadians and possibly of most of the Anglo-Canadians), but they could not do the same to an independent state. But also in 1867, Canada was essentially relieved of the British rule.
Young Union soldiers. The numerous casualties of the American Civil war led to the conscription of increasingly younger ages.
The Irish struggled for centuries to shake off the English rule in their island, and those who had taken refuge in the U.S. were causing more anxiety to London than those who remained in Ireland. Ireland became one more "geopolitical weapon" of the Union against Britain, so that the English would fear to openly enforce the Confederation. In 1861 the Federal military command founded the so-called Irish Brigade aiming at the following three objectives. First, to attract the support of as many as possible of the Irish-Americans, both Northern and Southern. Most of the Irish were favoring the Confederacy, because their fellow countrymen in Ireland were also conducting a struggle for independence. Moreover, Lincoln's proclamation about the future affranchisement of the black slaves displeased them, because it would cause a mass migration of the Afro-American population to the industrial cities of the American North, that would deprive the Irish immigrants of their jobs. The second objective of the Union was to "send a message" to the British government in order not to enforce the Confederation. The founding of the Irish Brigade – of which many soldiers were "famous" anti-British Irish rebels – warned the British that their support to the Confederacy would bring about an active support of the Federation to the Irish national liberation movement. Finally, the Federals sought to attract all the American Catholics under their banner, who until then had faced some inequity because of their religious doctrine. Most of the American Catholics were Irish. As the Civil war went on, many old Irish-Americans or American citizens born in Ireland joined the Federal army, reaching a total of about 700,000 and becoming one of the key factors of the final Union victory.
France did not suffer the strong geopolitical pressure of the Union (as it was the Federal pressure to Britain), but Paris was following closely the British diplomacy. However, France also had geo-economic interests in the Americas and therefore could not support openly the Confederation. Moreover, Paris (like London) did not want to bring about the annexation of Canada to the U.S.: the metropolitan French cared about the survival of the French-Canadian population. Additionally they feared the possibility of an American conquest of the rich French Caribbean islands (Guadeloupe, Martinique, etc.) as it happened later to the Spanish islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico in the same sea (1898) but also to the Spanish Philippines in the Pacific.
Concerning the diplomatic actions, the first diplomatic controversy between Britain and the Federation occurred in November 1861, when a Federal warship halted a British steamship carrying the Confederate envoys James Mason and John Slidell in Europe (in London and Paris respectively). The Federal Captain Charles Wilkes captured the two Southern diplomats, causing a strong English protest in Washington about this attitude onboard a British ship. Eventually President Lincoln ordered the release of the two envoys in order to avoid a diplomatic incident. Later the British did not succumb to the protest of the Federal Ambassador Adams because they allowed the newly built cruiser «Alabama» (built in England on behalf of the Confederacy) to sail and join the Confederate Navy. The famous cruiser «Alabama» caused incalculable damage to the Union/Federal merchant fleet. But London succumbed later, in another case, when Lincoln was briefed on the building of two more battleships in England (ironclads) on behalf of the Confederate government. This time Adams handed to the British Prime Minister Palmerston an expostulatory letter written by Lincoln, with the phrase "this means war!". So Palmerston was forced to order the retention of the armored ships.
German map of North America in 1880, with the British Dominion of Canada (Canadian Federation), the U.S. and the European colonies in the islands of the Caribbean (Spanish, British, French, Dutch etc.).
The victory achieved by General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at the Second Battle of Bull Ran (Manassas) in the end of summer 1862, and the Confederate invasion of Maryland was a landmark of the "diplomatic Civil war." After the impressive Confederate victory, the British government volunteered to mediate for a peace treaty between the warring Americans, apparently in favor of the Confederacy. If President Lincoln refused the mediation, the British would probably intervene military in the war in favor of the South. Lincoln rejected the proposal of the British but they did not had enough time to intervene, because the repulsion of the Confederate army at the battle of Antietam, again made them cautious. In the summer of 1863, the Confederates were defeated in the battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg. These defeats almost ensured the neutrality of London and Paris. The two European governments were led then to a stable neutrality, moreover because the Union found a new supporter in the Russian Empire. The British and the French did not want to bring about the increase of the Russian international influence with a Russian-American alliance. London did not react even when the supply of cotton of the American South to Britain (of which the British industry depended a lot) minimized because of the effective Federal naval blockade to the Confederate harbors. Towards the end of the war, the Confederate government proposed to London the abolition of slavery in the American South, in exchange for official recognition and support by Britain, but to no avail.
(1) Foote, Shelby: THE CIVIL WAR: A NARRATIVE, Random House, New York, 1958.
(2) McPherson, James M.: BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM: THE CIVIL WAR ERA (Oxford History of the United States), Oxford University Press, 1988.
(3) Sauers, Richard A.: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR: A POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND MILITARY HISTORY, W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.
(4) Gallagher G., Engle S. Krick R.: THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, Osprey publishing, Oxford, 2003.
(5) Russell, Weigley: A GREAT CIVIL WAR: A MILITARY AND POLITICAL HISTORY, 1861–1865, Indiana University Press, 2000.


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We've all heard about outdated, even ancient laws that are inexplicably kept on the books in various countries. For example, many people have heard that it's legal to marry a dead person in France. Of course, you must have already been engaged and you will need the approval of the president of France. However, there are many more that may be surprising to our readers.
In England, it is illegal for someone to die in the Houses of Parliament
In 2007, this law was voted as the UK's most ludicrous law. A House of Commons spokesman said, "The people who know about these things here say there is no basis for such a law, not to say it does not exist somewhere in writing."
One out of every five songs played on Canadian radio must be sung by a Canadian
Justin Bieber fans will be ecstatic over this law, although the rest of the country may be turning to their iPods. According to the Canadian Radio and Television Commission, both types of programming have to be at least one-fifth by Canadian performers.
Even though sumo wrestling is legal, it is illegal to be fat in Japan
In 2009, Japanese lawmakers set maximum waistlines for citizens. Women cannot have a waistline measuring over 35 inches. Men over the age of 40 must not have a waistline over 31 inches.
No toilets can be flushed after 10 p.m. in Switzerland
For all the sound that can be considered noise, the Swiss government considers flushing the toilet to be noise pollution after 10 p.m. This law applies only to apartment buildings.
You are not allowed to use binoculars near an airport
Forget trying to see through those tiny airplane windows. You can be detained or arrested if you use binoculars near an airport in Egypt.
Chicago won't let you eat pizza somewhere that is on fire
While we're not sure why this law had to be passed in the first place, you cannot eat in a restaurant that is on fire. Apparently, you'll need to ask for your food to go.
Even if your donkey is not clean, it has to be out of your Oklahoma bathtub by 7 p.m.
While every donkey should be entitled to a bubble bath now and then, make sure you set the alarm. According to Oklahoma law, you have to have your donkey out of the tub by 7 p.m.
There you have it. Some of the strangest laws from around the world. No doubt there are dozens more to learn about that are even stranger than these.
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Frostburg, Md. – The St. Mary's College of Maryland women's swim team traveled to western Maryland for a Capital Athletic Conference dual at Frostburg State University on Saturday afternoon. The Seahawks (2-2, 1-1 CAC) posted a 153-109 victory over the Bobcats (4-2, 1-2 CAC) for their first conference win of the season.
St. Mary's 153, Frostburg State 109
How It Happened
- Sophomore Brenna Litynski (Hollywood, Md./Home-schooled) paced St. Mary's in the win with four victories.
- First-year Rileigh Krell (Baltimore, Md./Sparrows Point), senior captain Hailley Baughman (Lineboro, Md./Manchester Valley), junior Carolyn Sutton (Laurel, Md./Laurel) and Litynski swam a 2:08.09 in the 200 medley relay, which gave them a first-place finish to start the meet.
- Litynski took first place in the 100 freestyle by swimming a 1:01.47 and claimed first in the 400 freestyle as well with a time of 4:44.97.
- Litynski's fourth win came in the final event as she anchored the winning 200 freestyle relay with junior Holly Smith (Calne, England/Skyline [Wash.]), first-year Leila McCloskey (Leonardtown, Md./Leonardtown), and senior captain Samantha Schoenecker (Dallas, Texas/Woodrow Wilson). The quartet tallied a 1:57.57 for the victory.
- Krell notched an individual win with a first-place finish in the 200 backstroke by swimming a 2:35.12. She also contributed by placing second in the 100 backstroke (1:11.74) and the 100 butterfly (1:13.41).
- Sutton won the 50 freestyle in 29.86 before swimming a 1:13.96 in the 100 individual medley for second overall. She also staked a third-place finish in the 100 backstroke (1:12.84).
- Sophomore Anna LaPoint (Fairport, N.Y./Fairport) started her day off with a first-place finish in the 800 freestyle with a 10:03.20. LaPoint then added a second-place finish in the 400 freestyle by swimming a 4:48.39.
- Junior Becca Sonnenberg (Derwood, Md./Magruder) captured the 200 butterfly by swimming a 2:45.33 and took third in the 100 butterfly in 1:14.80.
- Smith posted a second-place finish in the 200 freestyle by swimming a 2:23.17 and a third-place finish in the 100 breaststroke in 1:24.26.
- Baughman finished second in both the 100 breaststroke (1:18.50) and the 200 breaststroke (2:56.53). She placed third in the 100 individual medley in 1:16.97.
Up Next for the Seahawks
- Nov. 16 vs. Washington College (1-4) – MPOBARC Aquatics Center – 5:00 p.m.
- Nov. 17 vs. McDaniel (0-2) – MPOBARC Aquatics Center – 1:00 p.m.
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Lakkundi is known for it's 101 temples and 101 tanks. Every temple has it's own well or tank known as Kalyani. We might find 101 temples if we could go back in time but at present, only about 14 temples are identifiable of which only 6 (see below) are under the care of Archeological Department.
1. Bramha Jinalaya,
2. Naganatha Temple,
3. Naneswara Temple,
4. Kashi Vishwanatha Temple,
5. Manikeshwara Temple and
6. Kumbareswara Temple
My first stop was at Jain Basti, there's a museum also but nothing great, it looks more like a godown,
A beheaded statue...
One of the columns which probably acted as a mirror. I wonder how the column would have looked back those days.
We climbed up the stair-case and got a bird's eye-view of Lakkundi.


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News from the Centenary Stage Company in Hackettstown, New Jersey: The second annual Black Box Festival, held in the Edith Bolte Kutz Theatre, begins November 1st with an act that brings an old world charm, filling the stage with lively stories based on the lives of two Irishmen blessed with the gift of gab. "A Couple of Blaguards" is a two-character comedy, created by the brothers Frank McCourt and Malachy McCourt, best known for their literary works Angela's Ashes and A Monk Swimming. The McCourt brothers tell the tale of their early lives in Ireland and their successful escape to America.
Stage and screen veterans, Howard Platt and Jarlath Conroy take on the roles of the McCourt brothers in this memoir full of comedic, yet heartfelt tales of the past. Howard Platt, playing Malachy McCourt, is a show business veteran of more than 37 years. Jarlath Conroy, playing Frank McCourt, has credits in television, film, and on and off Broadway.
The two actors craft a vaudevillian act full of comedy, Irish songs, and a gallery of relatives, rogues, and fools. The Hamilton Spectator says, "Conroy and Platt are so good at conveying the hearts and minds of the rascally McCourts that they take what might be a simply pleasant evening of Irish poetry, recollection and song, and turn it into a fully fleshed drama."
"A Couple of Blaguards" runs November 1st-4th in the Edith Bolte Kutze Theatre at the David and Carol Lackland Center in Hackettstown. To purchase tickets or to find more information on CSCshows,visit www.centenarystageco.org or call (908) 979-0900. Other shows in the Black Box Festival include Parallel Exit's Room 17B running November 8-11th and Bill Bowers' Under a Montana Moon running November 15th-18th.
Tickets for shows in the Black Box Festival range from $17.50 to 27.50 with discounts for students and seniors. Performance times are Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Every Thursday night is "Family Night," which offers a 2-for-1 rush ticket price when purchased at the door. CSC also offers several different packages, such as a Pick Five Flex Pass for $110, to purchase tickets for multiple shows at a discounted price. Patrons are encouraged to check the age recommendation for individual shows.
The Centenary Stage Company is a not-for-profit professional equity theatre, in residence at Centenary College, dedicated to serving as a cultural resource for audiences of the Skylands Region with professional music, theatre and dance events and arts education programs throughout the year.


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Cities including Vienna to
Likeminded cities welcome new shopping malls and apartment buildings but severely restrict the allowable number of parking spaces. On-street parking is vanishing. In recent years, even former car capitals like Munich have evolved into "walkers' paradises," said Lee Schipper, a senior research engineer at
"In the
To that end, the municipal Traffic Planning Department here in
Around Löwenplatz, one of Zurich's busiest squares, cars are now banned on many blocks. Where permitted, their speed is limited to a snail's pace so that crosswalks and crossing signs can be removed entirely, giving people on foot the right to cross anywhere they like at any time.
As he stood watching a few cars inch through a mass of bicycles and pedestrians, the city's chief traffic planner, Andy Fellmann, smiled. "Driving is a stop-and-go experience," he said. "That's what we like! Our goal is to reconquer public space for pedestrians, not to make it easy for drivers."
While some American cities — notably
What is more,
Globally, emissions from transportation continue a relentless rise, with half of them coming from personal cars. Yet an important impulse behind Europe's traffic reforms will be familiar to mayors in
Michael Kodransky, global research manager at the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy in New York, which works with cities to reduce transport emissions, said that Europe was previously "on the same trajectory as the United States, with more people wanting to own more cars." But in the past decade, there had been "a conscious shift in thinking, and firm policy," he said. And it is having an effect.
After two decades of car ownership, Hans Von Matt, 52, who works in the
"There were big fights over whether to close this road or not — but now it is closed, and people got used to it," he said, alighting from his bicycle on Limmatquai, a riverside pedestrian zone lined with cafes that used to be two lanes of gridlock. Each major road closing has to be approved in a referendum.
Today 91 percent of the delegates to the Swiss Parliament take the tram to work.
Still, there is grumbling. "There are all these zones where you can only drive 20 or 30 kilometers per hour [about 12 to 18 miles an hour], which is rather stressful," Thomas Rickli, a consultant, said as he parked his Jaguar in a lot at the edge of town. "It's useless."
Urban planners generally agree that a rise in car commuting is not desirable for cities anywhere.
Mr. Fellmann calculated that a person using a car took up 115 cubic meters (roughly 4,000 cubic feet) of urban space in Zurich while a pedestrian took three. "So it's not really fair to everyone else if you take the car," he said.
European cities also realized they could not meet increasingly strict World Health Organization guidelines for fine-particulate air pollution if cars continued to reign. Many American cities are likewise in "nonattainment" of their
It often takes extreme measures to get people out of their cars, and providing good public transportation is a crucial first step. One novel strategy in Europe is intentionally making it harder and more costly to park. "Parking is everywhere in the United States, but it's disappearing from the urban space in Europe," said Mr. Kodransky, whose recent report "Europe's Parking U-Turn" surveys the shift.
Sihl City, a new Zurich mall, is three times the size of
In Copenhagen, Mr. Jensen, at the European Environment Agency, said that his office building had more than 150 spaces for bicycles and only one for a car, to accommodate a disabled person.
While many building codes in Europe cap the number of parking spaces in new buildings to discourage car ownership, American codes conversely tend to stipulate a minimum number. New apartment complexes built along the light rail line in
While Mayor
With politicians and most citizens still largely behind them, Zurich's planners continue their traffic-taming quest, shortening the green-light periods and lengthening the red with the goal that pedestrians wait no more than 20 seconds to cross.
"We would never synchronize green lights for cars with our philosophy," said Pio Marzolini, a city official. "When I'm in other cities, I feel like I'm always waiting to cross a street. I can't get used to the idea that I am worth less than a car."
An article on June 27 about efforts to reduce traffic in European cities, using information from a transportation researcher, misstated the number of parking spaces for cars at Sihl City, a new shopping mall in Zurich, relative to the number at Atlantic Mall in Brooklyn. Sihl City has 850 spaces and Atlantic Mall has 625; Sihl City does not have half as many as Atlantic Mall. The article also misspelled, in some copies, the name of one of the busiest squares in Zurich where cars are banned on some blocks. It is Löwenplatz, not Lovenplatz.


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work and tumble
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Posted: Dec 19, 2017
|Youngstown State vs. Penn State Beaver
|Date & Time
|Wednesday, Dec. 20 @ 11 a.m.
|Beeghly Center | Youngstown, Ohio
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Scouting Report
- Youngstown State will welcome more than 2,200 area students to Beeghly Center on Wednesday as it hosts the Fifth Annual Chick-Fil-A School Field Trip Game. Tipoff against Penn State Beaver is set for 11 a.m., and the game will be broadcast live on 1390 WNIO, iHeartRadio, ESPN3 and WatchESPN.
- Wednesday's contest against the Lady Lions will conclude YSU's challenging non-conference schedule. The Penguins will be on break for Christmas for the next week before opening Horizon League play against Detroit Mercy on Dec. 28.
- YSU is looking to enter its conference schedule on back-to-back wins. The Penguins earned a dramatic 69-67 victory over Northern Arizona on Saturday. YSU led by 18 in the first half, was outscored 23-9 in the third period to fall behind 50-49 and ultimately won on a Sarah Cash basket with 4.3 seconds left.
- Cash was named the Horizon League Player of the Week for her efforts. She scored 24 points while adding two assists, two rebounds and four steals in the win over NAU.
- Wednesday's game is the second in a six-game home stand for YSU, which is the longest for the Penguins since the 1990-91 season. YSU will go 33 days between road games.
- In 10 games, YSU has led by at least seven at the end of the first period five times and been within three points in three others. The second period has been a bugaboo, though, as YSU has held a lead at halftime just three times. Youngstown State won each of those games.
- YSU has had five different players — Nikki Arbanas, Indiya Benjamin, Cash, Mary Dunn and Alison Smolinski — score at least 19 points in a game over the last seven contests.
Tickets & Promotions
- Advance tickets for Wednesday's game are available at the YSU Athletic Ticket Office in Stambaugh Stadium. Tickets can be ordered over the phone by calling (330) 941-1YSU.
- The ticket office is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The Beeghly Center Ticket Office will open at 10 a.m. on Wednesday.
- Wednesday's game is the Fifth Annual Chick-Fil-A School Field Trip Game. More than 2,200 area students are scheduled to be in attendance.
- Wednesday's game is the second Rulli Brothers "Holiday Hoops" game of the season. Fans can receive a buy one, get one offer on general admission tickets for home women's basketball games in December. Fans should ask for the "Holiday Hoops" ticket special, courtesy of Rulli Brothers in and Boardman, in person at the Stambaugh Stadium Ticket Office or by calling (330) 941-1YSU.
Previewing Penn State Beaver
A Win Would...
- Be YSU's first over Penn State Beaver.
- Improve YSU's record to 4-7 at the end of non-conference play.
- Be the Penguins' 19th straight over non-NCAA Division I opponents.
On This Date
- YSU is 5-7 all time in games played on Dec. 20. The Penguins last played on the date in 2013, which resulted in a 69-48 loss to Delaware at Lehigh.
- Two notable individual performances came on Dec. 20 in separate wins over Marshall. Wanda Grant scored 30 points in a 79-63 win at Marshall in 1980, and Colleen Cook had eight steals against the Thundering Herd in 1997 in an 81-52 win at Beeghly Center.
Scouting Penn State Beaver
- Penn State Beaver has won five of its last six contests to bring its record to 5-6 on the year. The Lady Lions are 4-1 in Penn State University Athletic Conference games.
- Brittany Jackson ranks second in the PSUAC in both scoring and rebounding. The senior forward averages 17.9 points and 12.7 rebounds, and she was the conference player of the week on Dec. 5.
- Penn State Beaver competes in the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA).
Non-Division I Winning Streak
- YSU has won 18 consecutive games against non-Division I opponents dating back to 1990. The Penguins have played at least one non-Division I opponent each season since 2012-13.
- Today's game marks the Fifth Annual Chick-Fil-A School Field Trip Game. Here are the previous four contests:
|Dec. 16, 2013
|Dec. 19, 2014
|Ohio Valley
|Dec. 16, 2015
|Lake Erie
|Dec. 21, 2016
|Point Park
Recapping Northern Arizona
- Sarah Cash scored the go-ahead basket with 4.3 seconds left, and Youngstown State fought off a big Northern Arizona rally for a 69-67 win on Saturday at Beeghly Center.
- YSU led by as many as 18 in the second period, but the Lumberjacks outscored the Guins 23-9 in the third period and led 50-49 heading into the fourth. One of NAU's 21 turnovers led to a Cash basket to start the fourth, and YSU did not trail again.
- Northern Arizona tied the score three times in the fourth, the final time on a jumper by Kenna McDavis with 25.2 seconds left. Nikki Arbanas passed to Cash on the right low block, and Cash finished with 4.3 seconds left. The Lumberjacks called timeout to advance the ball but did not get off a potential tying shot.
- Cash finished with 24 points and four steals, and YSU had its first game with four players in double figures this season. McKenah Peters came off the bench to score a career-high 13 points.
- Youngstown State was plus-12 in turnover margin, 21-9, and outscored the Lumberjacks 23-12 off turnovers. YSU had 13 steals, which was its most since also having 13 against Canisius in the 2015-16 season opener.
- YSU also outpaced NAU 13-4 on second chance points, which helped offset the Lumberjacks' 53.1 percent shooting. Free throws were also a big factor as YSU was 15-for-20 and Northern Arizona was 9-for-19, including 6-for-13 in the fourth period.
- YSU won despite shooting 34.3 percent overall from the field and 28.6 percent from 3-point range. The Penguins' last win when shooting below 35 percent was on Feb. 4, 2016, against Oakland.
- YSU's rotation shrunk down to 11 players, and Peters was the only reserve to play more than seven minutes. Four of YSU's starters played at least 30 minutes. It was the first time that more than three starters played at least 30 minutes, and YSU had used at least 13 players in each of its first nine contests.
- Cash scored her 750th career point and reached 300 career field goals.
Up Next
- After an eight-day break, Youngstown State will host Detroit Mercy to begin Horizon League play on Thursday, Dec. 28. Tipoff against the Titans is set for 7 p.m.


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Solvay's Radel® PPSU enables CiXi Zhenpeng to introduce the industry's first all-plastic stop valve
来源:Alpharetta, Ga., July 10, 2017
Alpharetta, Ga., July 10, 2017 – Solvay, a leading global supplier of specialty polymers, announced today that its high-performing Radel® polyphenylsulfone (PPSU) polymer enabled China-based CiXi Zhenpeng Plumbing Fittings Company to replace traditional brass in a new line of all-plastic valves targeting pressurized hot water systems used in Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) applications. Among Zhenpeng's new products is the industry's first all-PPSU stop valve to meet standards ASME A112.18.1-2012 and CSA B125.1-12, as tested by the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials (IAPMO).
"Because stringent global regulations discourage the use of brass in pipe fittings for drinking water and HVAC systems, leading-edge innovators like CiXi Zhenpeng have increasingly sought to leverage Solvay's 30 years of experience in specialty polymer technology for this market,"said Philippe-Jacques Leng, Global Construction Market Manager for Solvay's Specialty Polymers Global Business Unit. "Zhenpeng's innovative all-PPSU stop valve did not simply reduce the presence of heavy metals in the part, it eliminated them entirely to offer system integrators a safer and more durable alternative for their customers."
In addition to enabling Zhenpeng's all-PPSU stop valve, Solvay's high-performance polymer enabled a patented one-piece ball valve and valve rod design, a half-ball valve, and L-type and T-type valves. Radel® PPSU enables Zhenpeng's new products to eliminate corrosion and deliver reliable, long-lasting performance over the lifetime of today's HVAC systems. Zhenpeng's all-plastic valves and fittings are available for the U.S. market, and will be available in Europe in the near future.
Solvay's Radel® PPSU offers high fatigue resistance, strong chemical resistance and high impact strength, as well as the highest long-term hydrostatic strength (LTHS) of any sulfone polymer, making it well-suited for fittings used in multilayer piping systems that can operate under high pressure (up to 10 bar) and temperatures up to 95°C (203°F) for up to 50 years.
Solvay also offers Acudel® modified PPSU as a cost-effective alternative for plumbing applications with less demanding pressure and temperature requirements.
Solvay offers the industry's broadest selection of high-performance polymers for metal substitution applications in water handling systems. In addition to these two materials, its portfolio also includes Amodel® polyphthalamide (PPA), Ixef® polyarylamide (PARA), Ryton® polyphenylene sulfide (PPS), KetaSpire® polyetheretherketone (PEEK) and Omnix® high-performance polyamide (HPPA). Complementing these amorphous and semi-crystalline products, Solvay has various sulfone polymers that are suitable for hot water plumbing applications, including Udel® polysulfone (PSU) and Veradel® polyethersulfone (PESU). Solvay further offers Solef® polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), which has a proven fit in piping systems for ultrapure water, hot water and concentrated acids.


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Mother's Day gifts under R200 at the Watershed
You've just realised that Mother's Day is around the corner and have procrastinated the trip to the V&A to find that special something to celebrate the woman in your life that always puts everyone but herself first.
A Happy Mother's Day card would suffice (Remember how that used to make her smile when you were younger?) But you need something else to go with the card but you're on a tight budget, well this is where we come in. Here's a list of top 5 retailers in the Watershed where you'll find great gifts for mom under R200. Happy shopping!
Siyakatala is home to an assortment of African arts and crafts. Their beautifully beaded Zulu necklaces would be the go-to purchase. Their stylish and will work with almost anything.
Skermunkil Design Studio
Bespoke jewellery that will sure make mom sparkle on her day; from neckpieces, rings and earrings – you'll be spoilt for choice on what to buy her. Nothing else says 'unique' the way Skermunkil jewellery does.
Hey Gorgeous
Pamper her with a skin care product gift set, like bath salts, something she'll enjoy during her me-time sessions or hand cream to keep her hands feeling soft all through the winter; practical gifts are always best.
Ed Suter Design
Well-known photographer, Ed Suter has transformed his images into quirky household art by applying them onto homeware and décor products. Best buys for mommy dearest would be his coasters, finally something cool to protect her wooden table, or the ever so stylish Ndebele printed notebooks for the avid writer.
Spaza store
The Spaza range offers a modern twist to alternative everyday household items. Mom can now swap her plastic lids for eco-friendly dish covers during meal prep and entertaining.


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Dakota man discovers his tap water is flammable | Mail Online.
Of course fracking causes contamination of groundwater. But due to the people who fund them, the DM would have to take the opposite opinion.
They just want you to think fracking is a good thing, and that any opposition to it is socialist, anarchistic, environmentalism, rather that common sense.
Propaganda for morons.


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John Stuart Mill was esteemed as a political economist and philosopher of liberalism. He was also a British MP with a sharp tongue. "I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative," he noted in parliamentary debate May 31, 1866.
In Mill's day, having opposed the abolition of slavery and the expansion of the electorate, the British Conservative Party was also known as the stupid party.
Recently it lived up to its old moniker by provoking a vote on membership in the European Union and then losing it -- the unnecessary referendum being called for the domestic purpose of blocking the advance of the United Kingdom Independence Party.
In an analysis of the current predicament facing the United States of America, Republican adviser Max Boot observed in the New York Times that the American Republican Party has acquired the title of the stupid party.
First it got stupid, then it got Trump.
As Edmund Fawcett, author of Liberalism: The Life of an Idea, has pointed out, the post-Reagan conservative Republicans were dominated by the religious right and the anti-government fundamentalists, and became unable to face facts and recognize change.
Since 1867 Canadian Conservatives have been pragmatic, following the injunction that a country must have the means to change in order to conserve itself and protect its future.
The Canadian Conservative Party was built on strong institutions. The Anglican Church and its allied Colleges, the military, law, banking and large retail business provided the organizational resources Conservatives could rely on to form government and make policy.
Governing during the 1930s Depression the Conservatives were led by the wealthy and well-connected R.B. Bennett. Though he created the Bank of Canada, the CBC and Canadian National Railways (out of bankrupt endeavours), Bennett found no way to alleviate the plight of farmers, the destitute and the growing out-of-work class.
During the Second World War to demonstrate their willingness to attend to the well-being of their fellow citizens, the Conservatives renamed themselves the Progressive Conservatives.
PC leaders such as Robert Stanfield (1967-76) and Joe Clark (1976-83) had little time for ideology. Their tenures as party leaders were marked by their civility and concern for Canada.
The current Conservative Party of Canada bears less and less resemblance to its forbears.
An important break occurred with the election of Brian Mulroney as leader of the then Progressive Conservatives in 1983. He understood that without support in Quebec, the Conservatives were destined regularly to finish behind the Liberals in the country.
However, Mulroney consented to continental economic integration with the United States (billed as "free" trade), which gave already dominant American corporate interests an expanded role in Canadian political life, while limiting the constitutional control of public affairs by Parliament and provincial legislatures.
Eventually, hugely unpopular, in 1993 Mulroney resigned, leaving his party with no means of securing public support.
The obliteration of the Progressive Conservatives -- who were reduced to two seats in the 1993 general election -- set the stage for the re-invention of the Canadian Conservatives, first as the Preston Manning Reform Party (a "faux" populist movement), then as the fake Canadian Alliance, and ultimately as the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC), a personal vehicle for the ambitions of Stephen Harper.
The definition of stupid given by economic historian Carlo Cipolla in his work The Basic Laws of Stupidity is an entity that does damage to others while also damaging itself.
With the withdrawal of Kevin O'Leary from the Conservative leadership race -- or O'Lexit -- the CPC avoids doing damage to itself. The question remains, can they make a choice that, unlike the Harper-led party, does not promise damage to others?
The current CPC leadership contest has seen the party grow to just short of 260,000 members. Voting is underway to select one of 13 undistinguished candidates, with Quebec MP and former minister Maxime Bernier holding a temporary lead.
Bernier brings to the race an extreme version of libertarian economics. He would privatize government services, deregulate commerce and industry, and reduce government. By choosing him, the CPC would have difficulty winning an election, which would reduce its chances of doing damage to Canadians.
An intelligent entity is one that makes things better for others while helping itself. Such is the goal of normal political parties. The only Conservative party candidate who seems to understand this is MP Michael Chong. He is given no chance of winning the leadership.
As a result of the voting process that will be concluded on May 27, it is likely the CPC will find itself with a leader unable to match the able performance of interim leader Rona Ambrose, who was ruled out of the race by virtue of having her colleagues declare she was up to the job, which she has done very well.
It's all part of a scenario that is being played out among conservatives in Britain and the U.S.: aspiring to stupid.
Duncan Cameron is former president of rabble.ca and writes a weekly column on politics and current affairs.
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