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Nigeria's secular state question
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Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/nigerias-secular-state-question/
On April 11, 201612:10 pm
Julius Oweh
THE separation of religion from statecraft is predicated on the time honoured principle of protecting the fundamental rights of the citizens to practise any religion of their choice without let or hindrance.
The secular nature of a state is further strengthened on the score that no religion is adopted as state religion and the founding fathers of Nigeria were very much aware of this and so adopted this model in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. There are Muslims, Christians, African traditional religion adherents and those who do not believe in any form of organised religion.
The beauty of that arrangement is that nobody is discriminated against on the basis of religion.
But the vibrations coming from Aso Rock and the political and diplomatic dispositions of President Muhammadu Buhari, to say the least, are not comfortable at all. During a recent visit to Saudi Arabia, the media handlers of the president said that Buhari rejected the suggestion of the Saudi authority to join Islamic coalition against terrorism. But the president speaking to Al Jazeera contradicted the views of his media advisers, saying that the country has a lot to gain by joining the coalition against terrorism and that in fact, Nigeria is already a member of that coalition headed by Saudi Arabia.
This is how the nation helmsman puts it: `We are part of it because we have got terrorists in Nigeria who claim that they are Islamic. So if there is an Islamic coalition to fight terrorism, Nigeria will be part of it because we are casualties of Islamic terrorism†.`
Many Nigerians are taken aback by the sentiments of the president about the so called benefits of belonging to the group in a multi religious nation like ours. The president failed to tell Nigerians the benefits of belonging to such group. But the greater danger and political implication is that Nigeria is a member of military coalition without the approval of the National Assembly. This is a clear breach of the constitution by any stretch of political imagination. The 1999 constitution, the fundamental law that governs the operations of the present democratic dispensation in Sections 217-219 forbids the president from entering into any military pact or deployment of our soldiers in foreign land without the approval of the National Assembly. The same constitution also maintains `the National Assembly shall have power to make laws for the regulation of (a) the powers exercisable by the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federation. That is the more compelling reason that the president should withdraw our membership of that coalition and seeks the consent of the National Assembly before entering into such military pact. It is this kind of disposition that made people like Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state to say that Buhari was on the verge of Islamising the country. Speaking recently in Port Harcourt, Fayose warned Nigerians on the looming disaster of foisting Islamic theocracy on the nation. His sentiments: 'They (APC) have started subtle moves to make Nigeria an Islamic nation but God will stop them. This was done in 1984, it failed. It would fail again…..Nigeria is a free nation where we proclaim the name of Jesus Christ freely, and we believe in Allah for those who are Muslims. This nation will not be taken for an Islamic nation.
Religion is so toxic and combustive that it should not be mixed with politics or the governance of a nation. Saudi Arabia is free to practise theocracy but Nigeria should not be drawn into the diplomatic faceoff between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Furthermore, should Nigeria remain in the coalition against terrorism, the message to the Islamic State of Iraq and Levent (ISIL) is that Nigeria is an enemy and that would peak up the co-operation between Boko Haram and ISIL. Nigeria would be worst for it. That is the more reason the Abuja authority in the interest of the nation should severe any link with that coalition. Those who want to fight international terrorism are free to do so and should not be done under the veneer of Islam. Nigeria is a secular state and nothing should be done to paint the country otherwise. There are many problems plaguing the country and the present administration should not add religion to it. For long, Nigerians have tried to understand why a country whose lingua franca is English has the Islamic motif and Arabic signs on its currency. It's about time someone explained the rationale behind this to Nigerians. The present administration should not change the secular nature of the country and do things that may endanger the present religious harmony. And it is not too late for Buhari to retrace his steps or the National Assembly do the right thing by invoking the necessary constitutional provisions to protect the secular nature of Nigeria.
Mr. Julius Oweh, a journalist, wrote from Asaba, Delta State.


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Target audience
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Good defects are the result of effective test cases. Test effectiveness is a function of the quantity and quality of test scenarios/cases. The difficult aspect is in assessing if the designed scenarios/cases are indeed adequate. As always, a deep business domain and technical knowledge is seen as a critical aspect to effectively review the test scenarios/cases.know more
The challenge is that deep domain/technical skills are always in short supply. This workshop outlines a scientific approach to assess the quality of test scenarios/cases by applying a goal centered view to testing – "What types of defects should I detect"?. Commencing with identification of potential defect types that may impact customer experience, the designed scenarios/cases are analyzed for fault coverage in addition to requirements coverage. To ensure that the test cases can be executed efficiently, the test cases are analyzed from the perspectives of conformance and robustness, business-risk/priority and then fitness for automation-ability.
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Posted: Feb 14, 2009
CHESTERTOWN, Md. – Ali Moreland (Davidsonville, Md./South River) netted a game- and career-high 24 points to lead McDaniel to a 77-68 Centennial Conference (CC) women's basketball victory at Washington (Md.) on Saturday.
The Green Terror (13-10, 11-6 CC) tallied 15 of the game's final 18 points, including finishing the game on a 9-0 to break a 68-all deadlock with 3:05 to play to move into second place in the CC standings with one week to play.
Sally Grace (Catonsville, Md./Mount de Sales Academy) contributed a season-best 17 points, including hitting four of her five attempts from behind the arc. Meredith Larsen (Phoenix, Md./Bryn Mawr) and Ashley Lyles (Laurel, Md./St. Vincent Pallotti) added 12 and 11 points, respectively.
Brianne Slizofski and Jane O'Donnell led the Shorewomen (10-13, 5-11 CC) with 18 and 17 points, respectively.
Trailing 65-62 on a pair of O'Donnell free throws with 4:46 to play, Lyles put back a Kim Staub (Hanover, Pa./Delone Catholic) miss 21 seconds later to start the McDaniel comeback.
Staub hit a jumper on the Green Terror's next possession to give her team a one-point advantage and Larsen converted off one of Moreland's four assists to stretch the lead to 68-65 with 3:20 showing.
O'Donnell canned a 3-pointer on Washington's next possession but those would be the Shorewomen's final points.
Laren hit a jumper with 2:38 to play to spark the 9-0 run to the finish.
Kim Action (Severna Park, Md./Severna Park) added a pair of free throws at the 1:51 mark before Grace hit a layup and converted a single free throw and Moreland hit on two from the charity stripe in the final minute.
A Jessica Jamrogowicz 3-pointer gave the Shorewomen a 3-0 lead 1:23 into the contest but the Green Terror got nine straight points from its forwards to grab a 9-3 lead with 15:08 remaining in the first half.
Clinging to a 15-14 advantage midway through the opening stanza, McDaniel reeled off a 10-2 burst over a 2-minute, 14-second span to grab a nine-point lead. Grace capped the stretch with back-to-back triples.
Washington countered with a 14-4 stretch of its own to take a 30-29 edge on a Meghan Tait trey with 4:29 to play in the half. The Shorewomen pushed the lead to as many as five en route to a 36-35 halftime advantage.
A Moreland steal-and-layup gave McDaniel a one-point lead 16 seconds into the second half but Washington tallied 12 of the game's next 14 points to grab a 48-39 lead with 15:55 to play.
Trailing 61-55 on two Tait free throws with 8:20 remaining, Lyles hit two free throws of her own and Grace buried a 3-pointer to pull the visitors within one 1:29 later.
Two Moreland free throws at the 5:38 mark turned the one-point deficit into a one-point lead but four straight tosses from the charity stripe by Slizofski and O'Donnell gave the hosts the edge once again.
Moreland added five steals to her 24 points and four assists. Lyles added three assists and three blocked shots.
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For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you,
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Our world is becoming increasingly dominated by metrics. Old metrics become obsolete; new ones replace them and become vital. Its high probability you already are engaged with a bunch of metrics on a daily basis. If not, perhaps you might want to explore what metrics should matter to you. I launched WhatMetric.com two years ago and later learned that other enthusiasts celebrates the June 16 as the World Metrics Day (WMD). Contribute to WhatMetric.com with your favorite metrics!
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My husband and I should really stop attempting to have conversation when we are both exhausted and in bed. From last night:
Me: My toes are cold.
Him: Poor toes (offers his leg).
Me: It will be difficult for me to carry your child if I don't have toes.
Him: I promise it's not cold enough for you to lose your toes, honey.
Me: Do you really know what my toes look like?
Him: What?
Me: I mean, could you pick my feet out of a lineup?
Him: (thinking) Hmmm. Would everyone else be black, too? Because if not, I'm pretty sure I could pick your feet out of....
Me: YES, of course, that goes without saying! To make it fair. Everyone else is black, too.
Him: I think I could. Sure.
Him: Do you think you could pick out MY feet?
Me: Yes. Definitely.
Him: Why?
Me: Because I look at your feet all the time.
Him: Honey?
Me: Mmmm?
Him: Why are you looking at my feet so much?
Me: I don't know. They're interesting.
Me: (grabbing mobile phone)
Him: What are you doing?
Me: Sending myself a voice memo. I'm going to blog about this.
Him: You're going to blog about my feet?
Me: No! I mean, sort of. I'm going to blog about how stupid a conversation we can create.
Me: Honey, can you turn over and face the other way?
Him: Why, you want to spoon me?
Me: No. I just want you to face the other way.
Him: Well, that's not so nice.
Me: I don't like to breathe into each other's faces. And besides, the man spoons the woman.
Him: Who made that rule?
Me: It's how we do it in America. Woman spooning man is some London thing you're trying to sneak in.
Him: (silence)
Me: Sigh. Okay, I'll spoon you.
At this point the dog audibly sighed, as if to say, "How did I get stuck with this pair?"
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I graduated from college in 1984 with a degree in geology although I spent every spare credit in various art classes. I fully expected to make a living as geologist and pursue art for fun. Strange how things turn out, as now it's the other way around.
I've been in the business of designing, creating and manufacturing decorative items and jewelry since 1985. I was a ski racer and noticed a dearth of decent awards appropriate for ski events, so I started Artistic Awards in Colorado Springs of that year and we served the awards market creating custom, cast medallions for sporting events around North America.
In 1992, I added a new arm, Alpine Casting Company to the business and we undertook contract manufacturing for jewelry designers around the country. A designer could send us a prototype or a sketch for a design and we would take it from there, creating a prototype, making molds, and casting and finishing hundreds of pieces to their specifications.
I sold the business in 2004 and now specialize in jewelry design for the trade and in creating beautiful, one of a kind pieces for discerning clients. After over 20 years, I have extensive experience with every aspect of jewelry manufacturing and am confident I can create a piece for you that is successful in every way.
I continue to pursue art, primarily sculpture, in my spare time, as well as ski and mountain bike in the beautiful mountains of Colorado and the west.


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Nisangi Wijesinghe was the Territory's top student for 2017, leading 1430 other Year 12 students with an ATAR of 99.80 and certificates of merit in four subjects.
Nisangi credits her top mark to her ability to maintain a healthy mindset during her final year of study.
I try to stay calm and not get stressed – staying in control is important, I made sure that I looked after myself, getting enough sleep and nutrition to make sure I could wake up ready for each day, and that I could be the best I could be.
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Nisangi had realistic expectations of the challenges of Year 12 and found the most challenging part was to maintain motivation and avoid procrastination.
Its no surprise that you need to spend a lot of time studying and doing assignments through year. My advice is look after yourself, put your health first, and no matter what, keep going! A healthy body is necessary to have a really positive and productive mindset, and it helped me approach everything with a creative mentality.
Darwin High School graduate Nisangi Wijesinghe claimed an impressive array of awards in her final year of study, including:
- Most Outstanding Stage 2 NTCET Student of 2017
- Charles Darwin University Top Ten Australian Tertiary Admission Rank Award
- Australian Veterinary Association (NT Division) Dennis Thomson Memorial Science Award.
- Chemistry Merit Award
- English Literary Studies Merit Award
- Mathematical Methods Merit Award
- Physics Merit Award
- CSG Award for Outstanding Leadership in the Final Year of Study
- Judith Wright English Award
My favourite times at DHS was when I had the opportunity to spend time with friends, at recess, lunch, musics, performing together, on trips like the C4E trip to Newcastle in year 10 and even just even discussing physics concepts or doing and experiments together I enjoyed physics through year 11 and 12 because it was challenging and fun - and everyday you understand a bit more about how the world works -its fascinating. Music, especially ensemble performance, never really felt like a class. It was just a time to have fun and make music with other people. Nisangi Wijesinghe
Nisangi will begin studying medicine at Monash University this year.


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X Japan is all over U.S. media this month with the nationwide rollout of the documentary film We Are X. The rock-doc has garnered mainstream attention from the likes of SPIN, the Los Angeles Times, and Rolling Stone, and band leader Yoshiki has hosted sold-out Q&A screenings in L.A. Austin, and San Francisco.
New York is next on the list, where We Are X will make its Big Apple premiere at the newly-opened Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn on Nov. 4. Yoshiki's first Q&A screening with fans has already sold out, and a second Q&A has been added at 8pm on Friday, 11/4.
Fans who attend Q&A screenings with Yoshiki (Fri 7:30 and 8:00) and film director Stephen Kijak (Sat 6:30) have been encouraged to dress up in visual-kei fashion for a chance to win the newly-released exclusive (and sold-out) Mondo "We Are X" poster from celebrated comic artist Becky Cloonan, autographed by Yoshiki.
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The moment is finally here! The award-winning documentary film "We Are X" opens in #NYC at the brand-new Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn on Fri., Nov. 4!
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A recently published study concludes that the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) can be spread through contaminated animal feed.
The study's authors state that contaminated animal feed was suspected as the cause of PEDv outbreaks on two farms in Minnesota and one in Iowa. All three farms received an "emergency" shipment of feed in January 2014, and subsequently animals on each of the farms displayed symptoms consistent with a diagnosis of PEDv. On each farm, only animals that consumed feed from the emergency shipment contacted PEDv.
AllAboutFeed.net reports: "This study helped validate that the virus was alive in the feed," said Scott Dee, director of research for Pipestone Veterinary Clinic in Minnesota and lead author of the study, in an interview. "That had never been done before."
Earlier studies have shown that PEDv can be transmitted from pig to pig through contact with contaminated manure, and from farm to farm on trucks that transport contaminated manure.
According to the article, the study did not determine how the feed became infected with PEDv. The feed ingredients may have been contaminated, or the feed may have been contaminated in other ways, such as during transportation. The feed did not contain pig blood products suspected of transmitting the disease.
The study can be found here.
PEDv can devastate a population of nursing pigs, with mortality approaching 100%, and can significantly impact the performance of adult pigs. It is estimated that seven million piglets have been lost to the virus in the U.S. in the past year. The virus is not transmissible to humans and does not affect food safety. However, it is estimated the disease will cut pork production as much as 7%.
PEDv was first reported in the United Kingdom in 1971, and has since been found in the several other countries in Europe and Asia. The first confirmed case of PEDv in Canada was reported in January 2014. Pigs infected with PEDv, which is transmitted through a fecal-oral route or via fomites in the pigs' environment (e.g., boots, brushes, buckets, etc.), may show varying symptoms, including diarrhea, vomiting and dehydration. Recovery, when possible, can take a week to 10 days.


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The hashtag syllabus is a crowd-sourced body of work that can, in some cases, challenge the knowledge construction of the academy. Hashtag syllabi have the opportunity to reshape how knowledge is produced, whose knowledge is affirmed, and what knowledge people are exposed to.
Are "hook up" apps leading to a new kind of dating culture on college campuses? Dating apps like Tinder and Bumble are have a different impact on the lives of college students versus older daters. Many students are using these apps to circumvent the romantic gatekeeping that campus party culture has long dominated.
Between 2008 and 2011, the dysfunctional North London line was improved and rebranded into a high‐quality, high‐frequency service: the London Overground. Great ambitions for regeneration came with this project: The improved line, running through deprived areas of East London, was expected to bring inward investment and to open access to new opportunities outside the borough to its residents.
Some have questioned the financial wisdom of homeownership and, especially, Black homeownership. This is understandable because the mortgage crisis dealt heavy blows to Black homeowners. One concern is that home values may not appreciate as much where Blacks purchase homes. We examine how Black homebuyers fared compared to White and Latino buyers in terms of home appreciation during the 2012 to 2017 recovery. We examine appreciation rates by race and ethnicity across 15 metros.
Social Streets are groups of neighbors who want to recreate convivial ties having noticed a weakening of social relationships in their roads of residence. Social Streets start as online Facebook groups to materialize in offline encounters, using conviviality to create virtuous bonds. These are carried out through practices of sociality, inclusive and for free. The main focus of this article is analyzing sociodemographic data of the "Streeters" and of the neighborhoods to understand where they produce conviviality in urban neighborhoods.
The aim of this article is to examine the interactive dynamics of "Africa" and the "world economy" over the past half century. By relating the overarching developmental trajectory of the continent to the long-wave rhythms of the world economy, the article identifies three relatively articulated periods in the political economy of postcolonial Africa. The first, from circa 1960 to the late 1970s, was a period of state-led developmentalism enabled by the long postwar boom in the world economy and the embedded liberalism of the Bretton Woods system.
China has become an important global actor in the arenas of production, trade, and foreign investment. In 1948, China contributed slightly less than 1 percent to global exports; by 2013, it had grown to almost 12 percent. Has China's vertiginous trade growth come at the expense of other exporters or does it represent an expansion of new consumer markets? For policy makers in the so-called "emerging markets," this is most relevant since many have adopted the export-led model as their engine of development.


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Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in Yahweh's law. On his law he meditates day and night. He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither.
Whatever he does shall prosper. The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
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As a member of the beautiful San Francisco apartment community, you will enjoy a wealth of conveniences that ensure a comfortable lifestyle. We offer residents a range of amenities including private saunas, a fireside community lounge with billiards tables, fitness center, barbecue areas, and on-site laundry facilities. We'll take care of any issues that arise, quickly and smoothly, allowing you to focus on the important parts of your life.
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History tells us that it is the exit strategy from a crisis that paves the way to the next one. The most recent instance has been the US exit strategy from the double shock of the dot.com bubble and the Twin Towers attack.
At present we already know where the fuel of the next big fire is: public debt in the more advanced countries. This is all the more obvious since the ongoing massive swap from (almost) worthless private debt to (almost) guaranteed public debt will be the lasting bequest of the current crisis. Latest forecasts say that the average debt/GDP ratio of OECD countries will soar from less than 70% to more than 100% in the next few years. For some of these countries this ratio is already climbing fast and will probably reach unprecedented heights, unless fiscal stabilization interventions are taken rapidly regardless of the state of the real economy.
For the time being, alarm bells ring more in Europe than elsewhere. In one year, spreads of almost all EU public bonds over the German Bund have nearly doubled (with German private and public finances themselves not being in a particularly sound health). Some of the governments in more acute troubles reside in non-marginal countries such as Greece, Ireland and Spain. A second circle might include Italy and possibly the UK in the not too far future. Let alone Eastern Europe. Early this year, speculators already set out for a hunting game against (supposedly) weak sovereign debts (see e.g. my post here) showing a mix of cynicism and masochism, since the so-called "financial community" has certainly not refused generous state aids, and everybody knows that the private-public debt swap is simply the natural by-product of governments taking care of the financial crisis. The EU institutions (including a reluctant ECB) sent then, and should send now, the message to markets that public finance imbalances are going to be a systemic problem as they arise from a systemic market failure; hence they need a systemic approach.
What does systemic approach mean? First, it means that in few years time public finance imbalances will be a global problem, including first and foremost the US. It will definitely not be a problem of the euro area alone, nor a collection of problems of single profligate governments to be harnessed, or punished, by piecemeal "market discipline". The latter is an important principle in ordinary times, and in some cases fiscal troubles are not only due to the crisis; but this crisis, like many others before, has shown that, in a context of fragile financial interconnections, punishing one to educate many may have disastrous consequences for all. Moreover, if it is in the public interest to rescue large and interconnected financial institutions from failure, the same argument applies to the governments who have to bail them out. And it also sounds somewhat paradoxical that "discipline" should be expected to come from the same "markets" whose indiscipline is at the very root of the problem (see also De Grauwe, Financial Times, January 22). To say the least, unless profound changes take place, "the markets" have proved to be dramatically unsuited to deal with the systemic consequences of their embedded trading strategies.
Second, since the orderly financing of large fiscal imbalances of the core OECD countries will be a major task (if not "the" task) of the world financial system for quite a long time, the theoretically correct claim that the rebalancing of the global imbalances should be part of the new world order has probably to be downgraded in the rank of priorities, at least in terms of timing. Capital will have to go on flowing from East to West for all the time necessary to let the Western economies restructure their private sector. Since twin deficits (surpluses) are a well established law of motion of the global economy, goods and services, too, will have to go on flowing along the same route. This is not to mean that the pre-crisis East-West imbalances can be grow again, but that their correction will have to keep the pace of the long-run correction of Western domestic fiscal deficits. A rush to external surpluses would, I am afraid, ignite a worldwide battle of beggar-thy-neighbour policies based on protectionism and competitive devaluations. The time is not ripe to force the leading Eastern governments to swallow their saving glut (if any) and to abandon their beloved export-led growth model.
Third, national, bilateral and multilateral institutions will have to be the key actors. In part, this will be natural given the nature of the resources to be dealt with and the disarray of financial markets. In part, some explicit arrangements will be necessary. The Chinese leaders, as is often the case, seem particularly forward looking. They are actively playing at all three levels: they are steering the domestic economy towards the most favourable position in the coming scenario; they are testing the US as a bilateral partner in the so-called G2, while they are also negotiating financial support to single Western governments against real assets (the hot case of Greece's debt vis-à-vis stakes in its port infrastructures is emblematic); finally, China has called for some non-trivial reforms of multilateral institutions and of the international payment system.
Fourth, for all this not to be like Sisyphus' Fatigue, a minimal requirement is that debt/GDP ratios should stop growing as soon as possible. Simple accounting tells us that to this effect governments should run a year primary surplus over GDP st such that (approximately)
where dt-1 is the outstanding debt/GDP ratio, it is the nominal interest rate, pit is the inflation rate and gt is the growth rate. As is well known, the primary surplus is a measure of the real fiscal fatigue of the country, and this is bigger the larger is debt, and the higher is the (current) real interest rate relative to growth. Hence, low interest rates, inflation and growth, all relieve the fiscal fatigue. In order not to abuse of inflation, someone might evoke a world edition of the Stability and Growth Pact. This may in fact be an evocative idea, provided that, unlike the dead European antecedent, all three words are taken seriously and substantiated within the co-operative, multilateral framework that is being outlined here.
Fifth, in such a framework, central banks, too, will have to assume their own responsibility to the extent that they can control interest rates and inflation. This does not necessarily mean direct financing, or even bail out, of public debt (though the public opinion, if not some complacent insiders and economists, will not forget too quickly the amazing array of "unusual practices" that top central bankers have adopted to bail out private companies of dubious public interest). Yet the pre-crisis doctrine of total indifference towards (non-cooperation with) other institutions (domestic governments and foreign central banks) will have to be revised along with comfortably delimited views of the central bank's range of responsibilities and tasks with respect to economic and financial stability at large. And since fiscal and external deficits will have to be smoothly steered in parallel, without disrupting the underlying safety net of capital inflows, it seems necessary that leading central bankers will have to allocate some more attention and effort to exchange rates, uncovered interest parities and all that. The good old days of simple Taylor rules and inflation targets have gone.
A final thought goes to the "financial community" – financial companies, banks, brokers, dealers, etc., largely located in the leading financial centres in the Western hemisphere. Is there anything useful they can do? My immediate answer would be: please, do your business but do not disturb the drivers. Yet the financial community seems lulling itself with the idea of a quick and happy return to business as usual, with little cosmetic reforms, which basically means no drivers to be worried about. This attitude is dramatically incommensurate with the challenges ahead, and it further reveals the serious deficiency of vision and consciousness in which the financial world has fallen. If my analysis is correct, the world's chances to avoid the next crisis (one for which there would be no saviours left) involve a relocation of power from West to East and from markets to institutions. Markets and institutions are both necessary to govern a complex system that nobody knows and commands in its entirety (von Hayek). The right balance had been totally lost over the years leading to the present crisis, and it has to be restored. While Western institutions appear shy and confused in redesigning the governance of the world financial system, Eastern sovereign institutions appear definitely less so, since they have got the money and they want it to be safe. This may be sad, considering the nature of some of these institutions, but – as economists and businessmen are always eager to remind us – economic and political laws have no sentiments. The return to business as usual may turn out to be more of an illusion than a threat.


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GO ART! releases list of annual grant recipients
Press release:
2017 marks the 30th year that GO ART! has proudly administered the New York State Council on the Arts' Decentralization (DEC) Regrant Program in Genesee and Orleans counties. This program was initiated by the NYS Legislature to offer more artistic and cultural decision-making for state monies spent at a local level.
On March 2nd , GO ART! honored 24 grant recipients from across our two-county region. This year, 20 Reach Grants have been awarded to deserving nonprofits and local government entities who will provide cultural and artistic programming to benefit the local community. In addition, one Ripple Grant has been awarded to an individual artist to create a new work, and three Spark Grants (Arts in Education Grants) have been awarded to individual artists and nonprofit organizations, providing K-12 public school students and/or senior learners high-quality artistic learning experiences.
With the honorees and GO ART! Board and staff, Sharon White representative of Stephen Hawley, Lynne Johnson, Vice Chairperson of Orleans County Legislature, John DeFillips, of Orleans County Legislature, and Gregg Torrey, of Genesee County Legislature, were treated to a vocal performance by the Genesee Chorale and local school music teachers, Lauren Picarro-Hoerbelt and Jennifer Neroni-Trupo.
These are the 2017 DEC recipients:
Orleans County
- The Arc of Genesee Orleans, sponsored by Orleans County Chamber of Commerce (Open Mic & Art Show), $2,375
- Lee-Whedon Memorial Library ("Finally Fridays!"), $2,800
- Lyndonville Lions Club (Music Fun in the summer in Lyndonville), $3,800
- Orleans County Chamber of Commerce (Traveling Towpath Troubadours: Bicentennial Celebration of the Erie Canal), $5,000
- Village of Albion (Concerts on the Canal), $2,673
- Village of Holley (Concerts at Canal Park), $1,000
- World Life Institute Inc. (Voices from Earth: Pottery Experience in Orleans County), $4,908
- Yates Community Library (More Than Just Books ), $4,400
Genesee County
- The Arc of Genesee Orleans (Art Show and Film Festival), $2,394
- Batavia Concert Band (2017 Summer Concert Series), $4,250
- Batavia Players (Summer Musical), $1,750
- Byron-Bergen Public Library (Art and Music in the Community), $2,250
- Genesee Chorale (Genesee Chorale 2017 Season), $4,000
- Batavia Players (Spring After School Program), $1,427
- Jill Pettigrew (NYS School for the Blind 150th Anniversary Permanent Ceramic Tie Mural), $3,559
- Ted Canning sponsored by Genesee Symphony Orchestra (Steel Band Residency), $1,725
- David Burke (Byron-Bergen Public Library Exterior Mural), $2,500
If you enjoyed any of the events or public artwork created by the recipients, please note that the Decentralization Grant Program (DEC) is probably in danger of being cut or disseminated by Federal budget cuts that are being proposed. If you care about art and culture in your life at the grassroots level, let your legislators know that we need funding to continue to promote art and culture in our community.


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Elektrilevi OÜ employs around 800 people across Estonia. We work with power engineering and electricity network experts who can plan the long-term development of the electricity network, manage network operations, maintain transmission lines and fix breakdowns quickly. All of our employees work every day to provide a constant power supply to our customers and restore it as quickly as possible after breakdowns.
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Jaanus Tiisvend Chairman of the Management Board
Andres Tõnissaar Member of the Management Board
Taavo Randna Member of the Management Board
Priit Treial Member of the Management Board
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Merle Saksladu
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Taavo Randna
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London: Former captain Michael Vaughan on Friday lashed out at the "arrogant" England and Wales Cricket Board for its stubborn resistance to the BCCI and advised them to "embrace" Champions League, calling the Twenty20 event as an "education" for the young British players.
The ECB is apparently in no mood to change its domestic calendar to accommodate Champions League Twenty20 which is scheduled from September 10-26.
Vaughan said ECB should budge from its anti-BCCI stand and allow the youngsters to play in Champions League.
"The Champions League is not for international players. It is for the county lads to earn a few quid and get a massive buzz from playing in big grounds in front of decent crowds, something they never experience at home," Vaughan wrote in The Daily Telegraph.
Advising ECB to to join hands with BCCI in running the Twenty20 league, Vaughan said, "They all feel we should be on the board of the Champions League governing council; that we should have a say to prevent this kind of situation developing. But we are powerless and paying for it.
"I hate the fact that in this country we are arrogant and stubborn. We say 'we are not letting India rule the world.'
"Yet everyone else manages to build a relationship with India and makes a nice living off the back of it," he said.
"Like every other country, we should be making money from Champions League. It is here to stay. It has a 10-year TV deal worth USD 1 billion (637 million Pound) and is not going to disappear. We should embrace it," he said.
Vaughan panned ECB for its inability to accept the fact that India has become the market leader in global cricket.
"We resent the fact they can match the passion and fans with the financial muscle. It's time to stop continually fighting with them and to start building relationships," he explained.
"We have to realise we are never going to beat them. They will always hold the power, especially during a recession.
They are the ones with the money while English cricket struggles to bring in new finance and new income streams," elaborated the former skipper.
Vaughan also resented the county calendar as he found it "ridiculous" and said, "Now we are paying the price and our players will miss out on the chance of picking the brains of the best players in the world and improving in a format which we are not very good at."
Elaborating the importance of events like Champions League, Vaughan said, "Tournaments such as Champions League offer a chance to learn how the best players train, practise and approach the game. It's an education.
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Popcorn in hand, I'm kibitzing on a dispute between two philosophers, Mary Midgley and Nicholas Everitt. In 2007, Midgley published a pamphlet entitled Intelligent Design Theory and other ideological problems (PDF), which Everitt is now criticizing in a forthcoming review (PDF; subscription required) in the Journal of Philosophy of Education. In part 1, I managed to address just two of Everitt's criticisms. The first was about the definition of "creationism". Although Everitt prefers a definition in which all Christians are creationists, I noted that there's ample precedent for a more restrictive definition such as Midgley presupposes. The second, more important, criticism was about the connection between creationism (in the more restrictive sense) and Christianity. Everitt claimed that young-earth creationism is the "traditional position of Christianity," as opposed to Midgley's claim that it is a latter-day aberration, but his claim seems to me either to involve a fallacy or to be unsupported. Now read on…
I mentioned that Everitt ignores the fact that Christians often articulate in explicit terms what they consider to be central and traditional to their faith. I was referring to such statements of faith as the Apostles' Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed, which most Christians accept (in varying forms, to be sure) and which date back to the first few centuries of Christianity, and so have a strong claim to represent the traditional position of Christianity. The first two of these describe God as "creator" or "maker"—hence the justice of Everitt's saying "all standard Christians are creationists" (p. 4), although there are legitimate uses of "creationism" on which it's not true—but none of them unequivocally rejects evolution as a means by which or through which God creates. True, there's no reason to suppose that every claim that's central to Christianity is explicitly contained in such a credal statement. But surely it weakens Everitt's claim that the distinctive claims of young-earth creationism are not so contained.
Two curious features about Everitt's argument that young-earth creationism is a traditional central position of Christianity deserve passing mention. First, Everitt cites Philip Henry Gosse's Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot (1857), which advanced the position that God created the Earth with the appearance of age. (Its title is from the Greek word for navel. Opinion is divided, both among theologians and artists, but Michelangelo, for example, held that Adam had a navel, despite his not having a mother to whom to have been umbilically connected, and painted the Sistine Chapel accordingly.) Gosse was a reputable naturalist—he invented the saltwater aquarium, was elected to the Royal Society for his work on rotifers, and was one of Darwin's correspondents. But he wasn't exactly a leading intellectual of mainstream Christianity, as construed in his time and place: he was a member of the low-church Plymouth Brethren, and, I feel confident, idiosyncratic in his beliefs even for that sect.
Second, Everitt quotes a 1984 letter from James Barr (1924–2006), "then Oriel Professor of the Interpretation of the Holy Scripture at Oxford University," and, as it happens, a fierce critic of evangelical biblical scholarship. Barr's letter circulates widely in fundamentalist circles, including Answers in Genesis, and indeed Everitt quotes it as posted on the personal website of a creationist in Australia, although the URL seems to be broken. Anyhow, in the letter, Barr states that the consensus of relevant scholars is that the writer or writers of Genesis 1–11:
intended to convey to their readers the ideas that: (a) creation took place in a series of six days which were the same as the days of 24 hours we now experience (b) the figures contained in the Genesis genealogies provided by simple addition a chronology from the beginning of the world up to later stages in the biblical story [(c) Noah's flood was understood to be world-wide and extinguish all human and animal life except for those in the ark—in the original; omitted by Everitt].
The problem is that Everitt provides no reason to think that the "traditional position of Christianity" involves acceptance of Genesis 1–11 as understood by the authors (as understood in turn by Barr and his colleagues), and that's precisely what Midgley was denying. To cite Barr as evidence against Midgley is, therefore, only to beg the question. (Later in his critique, Everitt cites Barr as evidence against Midgley's denial that the books of the Bible "were never intended as literal records of fact" [p. 7]: this, in contrast, is not a question-begging use of the quotation.)
In the next section of his critique, Everitt considers what he takes to be Midgley's implicit reply to his criticism: "The reply consists in denying that religion (i.e. in this context, Christianity) is committed to any claims about which science can be authoritative" (p. 7, emphasis in original); the ensuing discussion will bring to mind the familiar discussions of Stephen Jay Gould's proposal to construe science and religion as non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), and indeed Everitt cites Gould as a precursor of Midgley's. That's a hard issue to try to adjudicate in a blog post. Fortunately, it's not necessary to do so, because—as I've been suggesting—Everitt fails to establish that young-earth creationism is indeed a traditional central position of Christianity, even with respect to the single claim about the age of the Earth. (Everitt doesn't mention its claims about a worldwide flood or about evolution only occurring within "kinds"; I don't think that his argument would fare significantly better with respect to these.) Up in part 3: recommendations for the schoolroom.


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When Ellen Degeneres announced late Monday afternoon on Twitter that her crew would be showing up to the University of Texas on Tuesday, everyone was wondering what antics the talk-show host would create.
Turns out, her crew's visit had to do with Beyoncé and the Grammys. DeGeneres promised tickets to the music awards show to the best Beyoncé-clad students at the Main Mall.
Obviously, many students obliged, with costumes ranging from the "Single Ladies" era up until Beyoncé's recent pregnancy announcement.
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And here's a sampling of some of the best Beyoncé costumes we could find from UT on social media Tuesday:
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To have a very strong and persistent desire or craving for something. I've had a yen for sushi ever since I came back from Tokyo last month.
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Crave or desire, as in I have a yen for a thick juicy steak. The yen in this expression comes from the Chinese yan, meaning "a craving" (probably for opium). The term was first recorded in English in 1906.


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For example, there is an Offer in Compromise program with the IRS which allows individuals to come to some kind of settlement for a lesser amount than what is owed. This is one of the solutions that tax advisers offer to people who come to them with questions like "How can I stop garnishment of my wages?"
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The chart is called "Bluebell Kitten" and looks like this.
I'll only be able to work on it for this week, so it'll be interesting to see how much I can do.
Just a place for quotes or poems I like, thoughts on days or times, comments on what I'm doing and a place to share my love of cross stitch and what I create.
Aww sweet kitty..love her xx
Just popping over from Heathers blog, thanks for the visit, its lovely to have new blogs to follow in this years theme-a-licious. Really cute project for January.
Great start! Purrfect for the garden theme this month.
So cute!! Love it! :)
Yup I see how you're tying this one in looks cute!
Lovely start, pretty shades of blue in the flowers. Thank for visiting my blog too.
That is going to be one cute kitty!
Just found you!
Bluebell Kitten is so cute and you've made a good start!
Happy weekend.
I think that's a great choice for the theme! What an adorable pattern. You've made a great start!
Great start! Brilliant choice, the kitten is very sweet! :D
He's so cute!! =)
That is an adorable design!


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Not only is Penhawger Farm the home of Cartwheels Craft Centre, it is also home to Cartwheels Cottages. These are two converted barns adjacent to the craft centre and provide a luxury base for a self catering holiday in East Cornwall. The accommodation is presented and equipped to a very high standard with enclosed gardens and a communal play area.
If you are planning a trip to Cornwall and would like to incorporate arts or crafts into your stay then Penhawger Farm would be the ideal location for you.
Mill Barn Sleeps four. There is an enclosed lawn area at the front of the building and ample parking at the rear. The accommodation is reversed with bedrooms on the ground floor and lounge and kitchen. upstairs. The property has one double room with en-suite shower and one twin room. The bathroom is on the ground floor and has an over bath shower.
The upper floor has a lovely light filled lounge with windows on 3 sides. Part of the mill wheel is still in situ. The kitchen -diner is well equipped with an electric Cooker, fridge, freezer, dishwasher and microwave. There is an additional WC on this floor. A washer drier is available on the ground level. Heating is provided from an oil fired boiler and is inclusive. The property has laminate flooring throughout. Bed linen and towels are provided (except for beach towels). Electricity is metered with the first £10 provided, additional cards can be purchased from Julia.
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The lounge was originally the area where winnowing took place and is very spacious There is a WC on this floor. Heating throughout the building is inclusive.
All flooring is easy clean laminate. Bed linen and towels (except beach towels) are provided. Electricity is metered with the first £10 provided, additional cards can be purchased from Julia.
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A living.. breathing.. apocalypse
Immersion System
Players will instant be met with a slew of varied apocalyptic themed soundtracks from many sources such as game soundtracks, freely available ambient audio on the internet, dark ambient playlists, etc. This immersive soundtrack aims to bring you knee deep into the feel of the apocalypse and accompany you whilst you play.
When you enter a safehouse the music changes. When you start fighting the music changes. We hope this amps up your immersive gameplay experience as much as we can in the GTA engine.
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Ah yes, Airdrops, the mekka of feature requests. This got requested in many forms and we tried to tie it heavily into the lore as we always do.
Following the fall of the Deed Republic the recipe for Medicine D was taken by Gambino and he is now the main distributor of Medicine D into the island.
Airdrops randomly drop around the map and are the only current source of Medicine D, aswell as varying amounts of medical supplies. Players can fight over these airdrops to have a better chance at surviving in the wasteland!
When an airdrop drops, you will get a radio message telling you its general location. If you're a donator you get a checkpoint.
Let us look back to the childlike nostaglia of "old PARP" and saving people at the pier.. We have heard these stories plenty of times aswell as a certain faction being mentioned ( *cough* CDC *cough*) and decided it was time to implement something similar.
Random ladies will spawn around the map begging for help on the radio. You must walk her back to a microcity city point from which she will give you a randomized list of loot including chips.
Pretty rad huh?
Ah.. The spawnable hordes that Samuel was doing that you all loved.. We made them dynamically happen all across the map.. They spawn with buffed health and run towards microcities, points of RP, etc. Better have your gun ready. POP POP.
Emission Storms
Remember the mediocre radiation storms or w/e they were called that used to blow over the island? Well we added those. Every now and then the island get covered in an emission cloud. This is a result of a polluted atmosphere as a result of the Deed Republic actions in Operation Bloodbath.
Better put a gasmask on!
War.. War never changes
The much awaited feature of territory control. Now finally the endless train of PMC's will have something to fight over instead of their OOC egos.. The entire map will be littered in territories with all sorts of perks. Ammunition Factories produce ammo whilst bases are just pretty things to own. This will create a constant atmosphere of war and conflict for which factions have a real reason to fight and argue aswell as for non militarized groups to partner with said groups. Declare a group and enemy or a foe and watch what happens.
You can now craft tons of things like walls, windows, etc to place on territories your group owns and make little tents, build fortifications, etc. Endless opportunities.
Weaponized Vehicles
Hydras and Hunters now require actual missiles, or shells, to fire their weapons. No longer can people abuse and spam them. Everytime you fire a missile it will remove one from your vehicles inventory so BE CAREFUL. And groups get to work crafting a REAL arsenal.
Sea Sparrows have a burnout on their miniguns aswell.
A survivor wandering the outer zones...
So players could not properly grasp the concept of crafting before but, I am reintroducing it. The instant access to weapons may have silenced some people but, it totally ruined the pace of the entire RP experience so no longer will weapon shops exist in the cities. Players will either need to join groups and fight for territories or craft for the things they want again. And with the functioning mining system access to things will be properly done.
Players missed /search in interiors for different kinds of loot so.. We made a new system where you can survive off of looting various points around a house such a a Fridge, Dresser, etc and the various things you get are all useful. Some things are only possible from looting such as clothing. Inspired by the way looting works in Project Zomboid.
We completely rehauled mining. Now you can actually physically mine ore in a mine in Mira (their will be more as playerbase expands) and depending on your skill level you will get access to better ores (such as Large Iron)
Woodcutting, like mining, now involves taking a chainsaw to a tree to take it down. Much more interactive.
Passing the time...
The server is now littered in missions with varying types. Some involve killing a rival, some involve delivering a package, some involve finding an object, some involve bringing back loot. It really depends. We tried to make as many small missions as possible to give new players (and even old ones) a sense of an MMO style experience.
The server is littered with clusters of bandits protecting random things such as mission objectives, airdrops, etc. They will shoot at you if you shoot near them. They drop loot. Sometimes rare loot. (cuffs, tazer)
Like bandits but on steroids these buffed up guards are donated by groups and protect their cities and faction HQ's
Markets are now all over the place and different ones provide different schematics you need.
Scrolls have been reintroduced and work properly now. They are placed everywhere detailing stories of survivor struggles and secrets to the atlantean past of the island.
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TORONTO – Ontario's privacy commissioner is investigating the possibility that multiple hospitals could be involved in a major patient privacy breach.
Two members of the medical staff at Rouge Valley Centenary hospital had been selling the names, addresses and phone numbers for thousands of new mothers.
The personal information was being shared with private companies looking to sell Registered Education Savings Plans (RESPs).
"It's just baffling to me," said Ann Cavoukian, Ontario's Privacy Commissioner. "It's the worse case scenario because your health information records shouldn't be used for anything other than the delivery of health care service."
An investigation looking at other potential health centres and more patients will take months.
"We've already received some calls about potential occurances in other hospitals," said Cavoukian. "So, we'll start with the hospital that has been implicated so far and start from the ground up."
Satori Kamara gave birth to her son, Ethan, at Rouge Valley in January but had been receiving mysterious phone calls last year.
"Why (do) I keep on getting these calls from these people?" said Kamara. "I was a little bit confused because I had signed up for (an RESP) already."
The breach was first discovered in October 2013 when the first hospital employee admitted to selling personal information.
The second staff member's involvement wasn't discovered until March 2014, when patient records had been left on a printer and discovered by someone else.
"This is a huge issue for us," said David Brazeau, Rouge Valley Health Services spokesperson. "Quality care and privacy of our patients are of the utmost importance so, we've been treating this with all the gravity that we can."
Toronto Police have been contacted to see if any charges can be laid.
"Sharing externally is of course against the rules, against policy, is not principled behaviour and was something that we dealt with immediately," said Brazeau.
New measures have since been put in place to ensure anyone accessing patient records is identified.


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text: Kanteleen Voima is planning to build a biorefinery that would produce ethanol fuel from wood next to the thermal power plant in Haapavesi. The refinery would produce lignin and biogas as well as sludge, which could be used as fertiliser, as by-products. At the same time, the existing power plant would be developed into a modern CHP plant.


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After a weekend of listening and watching political panels that all tackled the thorny issue of the future relevance of the Liberal Party of Canada, I am beginning to feel that the dire predictions that the Grits may be reduced to third party status are coming to fruition.
I originally thought that Peter Newman's insightful book, When The Gods Changed: The Death of Liberal Canada, was a bit premature. However, with the election of Thomas Mulcair, the death watch has become sport. Even former Prime Minister
Jean Chretien has been in the news suggesting it is time for a united left, a new party that is neither Liberal nor NDP. He has been suggesting that he should have broughe the NDP into his majority cabinets and united the progressives. Part of the problem, as I see it, is that the NDP are now in the drivers seat and the new leader is making the case that his party may be the only option to stop Harper. It is the same argument that kept the Conservatives at bay for 10 years, only it was used by the Liberals. If Quebec stays with Mulcair, traditional Liberal voters will have some serious strategic thinking to do.
Another issue, left of center liberals have been out of fashion in the Liberal Party since the emergence of Paul Martin. The Liberal Party was a center, if not slightly right of center party. This does not make for a formula that guarantees the NDP will become the home of stranded liberals or other progressives.
Canada needs a party that is willing to champion the centrist policies that
created an economic golden age. in the post-war era.
Mulcair has not established a big tent party. He is determined to bring his party closer to the center. The tent has not expanded enough to make these liberals feel comfortable. As well, do Canadian's want to go back to a two party system? The challenge for the old "natural governing party" is that they have been relegated to that third party role. The best they can hope for is a coalition, if the opportunity presents itself.
Lawrence Martin's column in yesterday's Globe & Mail offers the NDP a bit of plan. He says the NDP should focus on what the Harper Conservatives have done to our democracy. He suggests that a campaign reinvigorating democracy juxtaposed agaisnt this current Kremlin-like environment is the ticket to ride.
I liked the article but I think the NDP need to beef up their economic platforms. It is their Achilles heel. Canadians may not appreciate being lied to or deceived, but the economy prevails at the ballot box.


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