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Eric Pickles
Eric Jack Pickles, Baron Pickles[2] PC (born 20 April 1952) is a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Brentwood and Ongar from the 1992 general election to the 2017 general election and was the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government until May 2015.[3] He was previously the Chairman of the Conservative Party from 2009 to 2010 and is currently the chairman of Conservative Friends of Israel.[4] He is the United Kingdom Special Envoy for post-Holocaust issues, being appointed in 2015.[5]
The Lord Pickles
|United Kingdom Special Envoy for
Post-Holocaust Issues
|Assumed office
10 September 2015
|Prime Minister
|David Cameron
Theresa May
Boris Johnson
|Preceded by
|Andrew Burns
|United Kingdom Anti-Corruption Champion
|In office
10 September 2015 – December 2017
|Prime Minister
|David Cameron
Theresa May
|Preceded by
|Ken Clarke
|Succeeded by
|John Penrose
|Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
|In office
12 May 2010 – 11 May 2015
|Prime Minister
|David Cameron
|Preceded by
|John Denham
|Succeeded by
|Greg Clark
|Minister of State for Faith
|In office
6 August 2014 – 11 May 2015
|Prime Minister
|David Cameron
|Preceded by
|The Baroness Warsi (Faith and Communities)
|Succeeded by
|Position abolished
|Chairman of the Conservative Party
|In office
19 January 2009 – 12 May 2010
|David Cameron
|Preceded by
|Caroline Spelman
|Succeeded by
|The Lord Feldman of Elstree
The Baroness Warsi
|Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
|In office
27 June 2007 – 19 January 2009
|David Cameron
|Preceded by
|Caroline Spelman
|Succeeded by
|Caroline Spelman
|In office
11 November 2003 – 6 May 2005
Local Government
|Michael Howard
|Preceded by
|David Davis (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister)
|Succeeded by
|Caroline Spelman (Local Government Affairs and Communities)
|In office
6 June 2002 – 23 July 2002
Local Government and the Regions
|Iain Duncan Smith
|Preceded by
|Theresa May (Transport, Local Government and the Regions)
|Succeeded by
|David Davis (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister)
|Member of Parliament
for Brentwood and Ongar
|In office
9 April 1992 – 3 May 2017
|Preceded by
|Robert McCrindle
|Succeeded by
|Alex Burghart
|Personal details
Eric Jack Pickles
20 April 1952
Keighley, England, UK
|Political party
|Irene Coates
|Alma mater
|Leeds Metropolitan University
|Official website
Pickles stood down at the 2017 general election, but continued in his role as Special Envoy, and Anti Corruption Champion.[6][5]
Early lifeEdit
Eric Jack Pickles was born on 20 April 1952, the son of Jack and Constance Pickles.[7] Born in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, he attended Greenhead Grammar School (now University Academy Keighley) and then studied at Leeds Polytechnic. He was born into a Labour-supporting family – his great grandfather was one of the founders of the Independent Labour Party, and Pickles described himself as "massively inclined" towards communism as a boy.[8]
Young ConservativesEdit
After the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia, he joined the local Keighley Branch of the Young Conservatives in 1968, later commenting "I joined because of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. I was so shocked by the tanks. It was not the best way of fighting Brezhnev, but it made me feel better".[9][10]
Pickles soon became the chairman of the local Young Conservatives association.[10] During his time in the Young Conservatives he became a member of the Joint Committee Against Racism from 1982 to 1987 and later became its Chairman.[11] His period as National Young Conservative Chairman saw growing factionalism with challenges from a southern-based right wing to Pickles' moderate leadership.[12] Pickles also moved against right-wingers in Bradford, expelling the Young Conservative, Yorkshire Chairman of the Monday Club who had stood for the Bradford Wyke Ward on an anti-immigrant platform from the Bradford area constituencies.[13][14][15][16]
Bradford councillorEdit
Pickles was first elected to Bradford Council in 1979, representing the Worth Valley ward.[10] From 1982 to 1984, he chaired that Council's Social Services Committee, and then, from 1984 to 1986, he chaired the Education Committee.[17] Between 1988 and 1990, he served as leader of the Conservative group on the council. In September 1988 the Conservative Party gained control by using the Conservative mayor's casting vote to become the only inner-city council to be controlled by the Conservatives.[citation needed]
When Bradford Council was hung, Pickles opted to break the agreement that the position of Lord Mayor is rotated between the parties, when he put a Conservative mayor in place again.[18] This effectively gave the Conservatives a majority due to the Lord Mayor's casting vote. To do this, they also broke the tradition that the Lord Mayor kept the status quo.
Whilst at Bradford, Pickles announced a five-year plan to cut the council's budget by £50m, reduce the workforce by a third, privatise services and undertake council departmental restructures, many of which proved controversial.[18] A book, The Pickles Papers, by Tony Grogan, was written about this period in Pickles' life.[19]
Parliamentary careerEdit
Pickles was Member of Parliament for Brentwood and Ongar 1992 until standing down in 2017. He was the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in the coalition government headed by Prime Minister David Cameron until May 2015, following his appointment to the role on 12 May 2010. Previously he has served as Chairman of the Conservative Party from January 2009 to May 2010 and Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, having held that post since June 2007. Prior to this he served as Shadow Minister for Local Government from June 2002. Before that Pickles was Shadow Minister for Transport (September 2001 – June 2002) and Shadow Minister for London.
At the 2001 general election, the independent candidate Martin Bell, who was the MP for Tatton, having run a campaign of "anti-sleaze", stood against Pickles due to accusations that the Peniel Pentecostal Church had infiltrated the local Conservative branch.[20] Pickles's vote was reduced from 45.4% to 38%, but he retained his seat by a margin of 2,821 votes (6.5%) becoming elected with 38% of the votes against Martin Bell's 31.5%.
At the 2005 general election Pickles retained the seat with an increased majority of 11,612 (26.3%), nearly as many as the total votes cast for the second-place candidate, and making this the second-safest seat in Eastern England, and Pickles the MP with the third-highest share of the vote cast[21] in this region. Pickles polled a total of 23,609 votes (53.5%).
On 2 July 2007 David Cameron appointed Pickles to a reshuffled Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary. On 30 December 2008, according to reports in The Times, Pickles unveiled plans to "purge town hall 'fat cats'". The Times reported that under the plans "dozens of council chiefs who earn more than Cabinet ministers would lose their jobs as clusters of councils merged their frontline services and backroom operations to provide better value for money."[22] Of the eight highest earning chief executives listed in The Times' report, six were employed by councils run by the Conservative party, one by Labour and one by the Liberal Democrats.
Pickles was the campaign manager for the successful Crewe and Nantwich by-election in May 2008. Following this, Pickles was promoted to Chairman of the Conservative Party in January 2009.
In early 2010, Pickles defended the first-past-the-post voting system as resulting in stable government. He attacked Prime Minister Gordon Brown saying he "now wants to fiddle the electoral system" by wanting to change the voting system.[23]
A former Eurosceptic,[24] Pickles became a Founding MP of Conservatives For Reform In Europe in January 2016, the campaign to remain in the European Union, subject to the Prime Minister's renegotiations.
In 2017, Pickles was appointed chairman of the Parliamentary Review.[25]
Secretary of State for Communities and Local GovernmentEdit
Pickles was appointed as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government as part of David Cameron's new coalition Government on 12 May 2010,[26] and sworn as a Privy Counsellor on 13 May 2010.[27]
In his role as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on 30 July 2010, Pickles announced plans to hand powers where ministers can cap what they deem to be unreasonable increases in council taxes to local people. A consultation began in August 2010 and the powers, which will require legislation, should be in force by March 2012.[needs update] Pickles said he was determined to reverse the presumption that Whitehall knows best by making local councils directly accountable to the local taxpayer. He said: "If councils want to increase council tax further, they will have to prove the case to the electorate. Let the people decide". Residents would be asked to choose between accepting the rise or rejecting it and instead accepting a below inflation rise, but with reduced council services. The average council tax on a Band D property increased from £688 a year in 1997/98 to £1,439 for 2010.[28]
Pickles is a figure who does not shun controversy. In The Observer, Will Hutton appraised his role with regard to local government as follows: "Local government minister Eric Pickles has colluded cheerfully with George Osborne to knock local government back to being no more than rat catchers and managers of street lighting. Indeed, they scarcely give them the funds to carry out these activities."[29]
In December 2014, asked in Parliament if people who left their wheelie bins in the street after a collection should be punished, he said they should be flogged -though he also said flogging was too good for them and that leaving the bin in the middle of the road was poor behaviour.[30]
The Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal was unearthed during Pickles' tenure, and in February 2015 he announced a strategy to implement commissioners at Rotherham Council in the wake of the Casey Report, which had been commissioned in 2014 to investigate child sex abuse in Rotherham. Seven councillors resigned as a result of the damning report, which revealed that the local authority was "wholly dysfunctional" and that the failure to protect 1,400 girls from sexual abuse was a result of "complacency, institutionalised political correctness" and "blatant failures of political and officer leadership".[31]
Localism ActEdit
Pickles was responsible for the Localism Act 2011 that changed the powers of local government in England. The measures affected by the Act include more elected mayors and referendums. The Localism Act opens with Part 1, Chapter 1(1), under the heading "Local authority's general power of competence", "A local council has power to do anything that individuals generally may do".[32]
The bill was introduced by Pickles, and given its first reading on 13 December 2010. The Bill completed the third reading in the House of Lords on 31 October 2011.[33] The bill received Royal Assent on 15 November 2011.
The bill was quickly undermined, however, after it was published on 13 December. One of the claims made for it is that it would "give local communities real control over housing and planning decisions", but on the same day, Pickles issued a decision in a planning appeal. The National Grid had applied to Tewkesbury Borough Council to build a gas plant just outside Tirley in Gloucestershire. The installation would occupy more than 16 acres and the application had been opposed by more than 1,000 residents in a sparsely populated rural area, by 12 parish councils and by every member of the planning committee of the local planning authority. Rejecting the local opposition, Pickles chose to grant permission to build the gas plant.[34]
In April 2014, South Norfolk MP Richard Bacon welcomed the decision that Pickles and the DCLG would have final say over the building of wind turbines.[35] By June 2014, Pickles had intervened on 12 windfarm projects and rejected 10 of them, against the recommendations from planning inspectors,[36] rising to 50 rejections by October 2014.[37]
Council prayersEdit
On 10 February 2012, the National Secular Society obtained a High Court judicial review of the Christian prayers held during meetings in council chambers, which non-Christian councillors were forced to attend as prayers formed part of the formal agenda and councillors are obliged to attend for the duration of the formal agenda. Mr Justice Ouseley ruled: "The saying of prayers as part of the formal meeting of a Council is not lawful under s111 of the Local Government Act 1972, and there is no statutory power permitting the practice to continue. I do not think the 1972 Act should be interpreted as permitting the religious views of one group of councillors, however sincere or large in number, to exclude, or even to a modest extent, to impose burdens on or even to mark out those who do not share their views and do not wish to participate in their expression of them. They are all equally elected councillors".[38]
Although Mr Justice Ouseley said prayers were permitted to be held before the start of the formal agenda, Eric Pickles vowed to reverse the High Court decision, despite a recent Yougov poll showing 55% were against councils holding prayers with just 26% in favour.[39] Eric Pickles brought forward his Localism Act, due to become law in April 2012, and made it law on 17 February 2012 claiming he is 'effectively reversing' the High Court decision.[40]
Keith Porteous Wood, Executive Director of the National Secular Society, commented "A number of senior lawyers have expressed doubt whether the Localism Act will, as Mr Pickles hopes, make prayers lawful, and the Act was clearly not passed with that express intention. His powers to pass legislation are not, as he implies, untrammelled. Council prayers increasingly look set to become a battle between the Government and the courts at ever higher levels".[41] The Localism Act permits local government councils to do anything that is not forbidden. Eric Pickles has written to all local government councils encouraging them to continue with prayers in council meetings.[42] In April 2013, referring to the issue of prayers in council meetings, Pickles said in a speech at the Conservative Spring Forum that "militant atheists" should accept that Britain is a Christian country.[43]
Troubled FamiliesEdit
Pickles led the Troubled Families Programme designed to turn around 120,000 dysfunctional families responsible, according to David Cameron, for 'a large proportion of the problems in society'. The families were in fact selected for having 5 of 7 measures of social and economic deprivation. Pickles had claimed repeatedly that these families cost the state £9 billion per annum. On 10 March 2015 Pickles declared the programme a 'triumph' in the House of Commons after it allegedly 'turned around' 105,600 families of 117,910 processed and saved £1.2 billion per annum. He was challenged by Labour MP Hilary Benn and responded 'The Rt. Hon. gentleman made a number of points on how we can demonstrate success and square the £1.2 billion with the £9 billion ...this is notoriously difficult territory because governments of all types are absolutely terrible at measuring outcomes'.[44] A report leaked to BBC Newsnight in advance of publication found that the Troubled Families programme had "no discernible" effect on unemployment, truancy or criminality. The scheme sought to "turn around" 120,000 households at a cost of around £400 million.[45]
Pickles is a self-proclaimed flag enthusiast,[46] and has taken a personal interest in ensuring that English county flags be regularly flown from the Department for Communities and Local Government.[47][48] He has urged people to fly the St George Cross of England more widely for St. George's Day and encouraged public bodies to adopt a commonsense approach to flying the flag.[49] On 14 May 2011, at the Flag Institute spring meeting, Pickles announced a consultation aimed at "Making it easier for people to celebrate an identity or an organisation that means something to them".[50]
Second homeEdit
On 26 March 2009, Pickles appeared on the political debate programme Question Time in Newcastle upon Tyne. While discussing the controversy over Tony McNulty (who had recently admitted claiming expenses on a second home, occupied by his parents, only 8 miles away from his primary residence), Pickles admitted he claimed a second home allowance because he lived 37 miles from Westminster and needed to leave his constituency house in Brentwood at 5.30 am to get to Westminster for 9.30 am,[51][52] given that he tended to get home at midnight or 1 am, although the standard time for commuters from this region is usually ninety minutes.[53] He went on to say that it was "no fun" commuting into London from where he lived. In response to Pickles's comments that he "had to be there [the House of Commons] on time", Question Time host David Dimbleby, replied "Like a job, in other words?" and fellow panellist Caroline Lucas added 'welcome to the real world', both of which prompted amusement and applause amongst the audience.
Pickles was asked to pay back £300 following the MP's expenses scandal, which he had claimed for cleaning.[54]
Personal lifeEdit
Pickles married Irene Coates in 1976 in Staincliffe, a district of Batley in West Yorkshire.
On 22 May 2015 it was announced that Pickles was to be appointed a Knight Bachelor.[55]
He was nominated for a Life Peerage by Theresa May on 18 May 2018.[56] On 18 June 2018 he was created Baron Pickles, of Brentwood and Ongar in the County of Essex.[57]
- Eric Pickles (1952–1992)
- Eric Pickles MP (1992–2010)
- The Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP (2010–2015)
- The Rt Hon Sir Eric Pickles MP (2015–2017)
- The Rt Hon Sir Eric Pickles (2017–2018)
- The Rt Hon The Lord Pickles PC (2018–present)
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External linksEdit
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- Eric Pickles MP official constituency website
- Eric Pickles parliamentary activity from TheyWorkForYou
- Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Contributions in Parliament at Hansard
- Contributions in Parliament at Hansard 1803–2005
- Voting record at Public Whip
- Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou
- Profile at Westminster Parliamentary Record
- Articles authored at Journalisted
- Contributor page at The Guardian
- Grogan, Tony (1989). The Pickles Papers. Bradford: 1 in 12 Publications. ISBN 0-948994-04-5. (free electronic edition, October 1996).
- Eric Pickles news at publicservice.co.uk
- Video: "Eric Pickles' War Room Briefing: The challenge facing us at the next election" on YouTube on the Webcameron channel.


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Last year we mentioned a new tabletop system we were backing on Kickstarter, named Guild Ball, and a couple of weeks back we posted a brief article showing off the contents of our pledge after they'd arrived. To summarise, we were extremely impressed with the components, and were left feeling excited about our impending first games.
Now in that article we mentioned that we wouldn't be reviewing the gameplay of Guild Ball, wanting to keep the focus of Games & Tea on out-the-box games, but frankly we were so enamoured with the gameplay that we couldn't resist putting together another article giving it our overall thoughts.
The reason we've never been interested in reviewing full tabletop systems over board/card games is that there are too many variables to go into - we like to talk about turn sequences, game components and so on, but when there's an infinite possibility of actions to choose from each turn, and the components are determined by the shopping habits and play style of each individual hobbyist, it can be a struggle to keep the article at a decent length! As such this will be slightly different from our usual review format, and we hope you bare with us and still find it an enjoyable and educational read.
So for those who missed the Kickstarter, and missed our fanboy gushings over the game, and haven't seen it at the UK Games Expo (and so on and so on...), Guild Ball is a tabletop miniatures game which is half way between a sports game and a skirmish game. It's set in the fictional Empire of the Free Cities, where the great guilds all play each other at the titular game - a medieval mob football style game.
The guilds are all based on areas of industry, and at the time of Season 1 there are 7 guilds to choose from; Butchers, Fishermen, Brewers, Masons (the Teamaster's personal favourites), Alchemists (the Tea Boy's personal favourites), Morticians and Engineers. While not a guild, there is also the Union, which can be fielded as a team, but who's members are also free to play for a selection of the other guilds.
Each team consists of 6 players. The captain and the mascot are both mandatory, and whilst we expect that later seasons will give us a selection, at this early stage in Guild Ball's life each guild only has one to choose from. The remaining 4 places are where players get to customise their teams, and tweak them to match their preferred style of gameplay as they start to build up experience.
This is where Guild Ball stands out from the only other major sports-based game on the market right now - Dreadball. It isn't simply a case of "These are your strikers, they kick the ball," and "These are your defenders, they stop your opponent from kicking the ball", each player has unique stats and abilities. So instead you have "This is Harmony, she can do all of these wonderful things", and "This is Mist, he's basically Batman". While the Union players are free agents and as such work as individuals, the guild-specific players all tend to have abilities to work off eachother. In the Masons Guild, for example, the team starlet - Harmony - gets an armour bonus when close to their heavy hitter - Brick - as he's protective over her. The team captain - Honour - gets an attack bonus when going after the same player as the mascot - Marbles. Now this does mean that it will take a few games before any new players even begin to squeeze the maximum potential out of their lineup, but the trade off for this is that the team rosters have an incredible degree of flexibility, helping players to become invested in their chosen guild rather than having to go down the route of collecting multiple teams to get any kind of replay value from the game.
Just to give an example, here are two of the starting lineups for the Teamaster's Masons Guild. The top team is pure Masons, and so there's a lot of synergy going on there. In the bottom team, 3 of the players have been dropped out in favour of Masons-compatible Union players, so while the team no longer gels quite so well, it's now much quicker and favoured towards fast strikes.
At the point of Season 1, most guilds have 7 players on their own roster, with 4 compatible Union players to choose from as well. So with the captain and mascot slots filled, this leaves 9 choices to fill the 4 remaining spaces, giving the players plenty of freedom to build a team to suit their style of play.
And speaking of style of play, how do they work? Each player comes with a stat card, which tells players what they can do whilst at the same time allowing them to keep track of the damage done to that player...
The top bar of each card gives the player's stats, which come under 6 categories:
- MOV determines their base and maximum move distance, so for example 6"/8" means they can jog 6" or sprint/charge 8". The higher this number, the quicker the player.
- TAC is the number of dice in their dice pool when attacking another player, so a higher TAC means a stronger attack.
- KICK is the size of their kicking dice pool and the maximum kick distance, so 3/8" would mean an 8" kick range and 3 dice to try and succeed in that kick. The higher these numbers, the better chance of scoring goals and successful passes.
- DEF is the player's base defense, and is the target number an attacker must roll in order to hit the player.
- ARM is the player's armour, and dictates how much damage is deflected before getting through to the soft and squishy player underneath.
- INF determines how much influence the player generates, and how much they can be allocated. So 2/4 means they'll generate 2 influence, but can be allocated up to 4. We'll go into influence in detail in the second part of the review, but in a nutshell it's the currency used to perform almost any action. Attacking, sprinting, passing, shooting - all of these require influence.
The Character Traits on the front of the card address any passive abilities the players possess, such as DEF boosts in the presence of other player, MOV bonuses, and so forth. The bottom of the card shows the players damage boxes - once these have been depleted then the player is knocked out.
The rear of the card tells you their base size and melee range, the details of any activated abilities, and explains how they cause damage in combat. Again, this will be further addressed in the next article.
Before we wrap this article up, we should also take a moment to talk about the quality of the miniatures, as this is a tabletop system and so the hobby element is a key part.
First of all, the sculpts themselves. Long gone are the days of hunched-over Space Marines, shuffling awkwardly around the battlefields of the 41st Millennium. These days, most miniature-based games do provide nicely detailed and dynamic models for hobbyists to enjoy. Guild Ball is no exception, and in fact has left us salivating over some of the nicest models we've ever had the pleasure of owning. The poses are incredibly dynamic for the best part, and even the ones which aren't don't feel disappointing.
In terms of casting quality and assembly, Guild Ball's quality shines through. There's very little cleanup work required on the miniatures, with mercifully few mold lines and little to no flash on those we've built so far. They also fit together very nicely, and don't generally require the fine tools of a NASA engineer and the steady hands of a neurosurgeon to assemble them correctly. The only criticism we'd put forward is that the blisters include character artwork, but not an image of the built miniature, so we have on a couple of occasions found ourselves wondering where pieces go. In fact one of our Union models - Snakeskin - came with a dagger sheath which ended up in the spare bits box, as it didn't have an obvious place to go and the model seemed complete without it!
So that's all we really have to say on the subject of the teams. The model quality is astounding, the player lineup happily full of variety, and the synergy throughout the teams works to give Guild Ball an excellent learning curve.
Tune in for the second half of the review, where we'll talk about the gameplay, including how that influence works, gathering momentum, and the consequences of beating an otter into unconsciousness.


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Congratulations! Today you receive one of the most hard-earned and enviable degrees in American education. I hope you know what it's worth.
I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, most of that time on welfare.Though everything was broken—the schools, sidewalks, playgrounds, families—we were blessed to have a strong community and nobody ever told me I couldn't make something of my life. Like some of today's graduates, I was the first in my family to go to college. The whole process of applying was unfamiliar to me and totally foreign to my family. When I got the letter saying that I was admitted to the college I most wanted to go to, I called home and got my grandmother on the phone.
"Gram," I said. "I'm going to college next year. I'm going to Harvard."
Schooled no farther than the third grade herself, she cried out with joy and carried on telling me how excited and proud she was. Then she paused and asked, "Now, where is that anyway?"
At first I was embarrassed, even a little indignant. In time I realized it wasn't the prestige she was excited about. It was the opportunity. So, in the same spirit, my congratulations to you are not just for achieving the prestige of a Harvard degree, but for being on the brink of opportunity. I want you to make the most of it.
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For those of you not yet hipped to the big foodie news in Denver this week, the International Association of Culinary Professionals is in town -- a kind of traveling circus show of food writers, food editors, food pimps, chefs, authors, wine gurus and associated tradesmen. And, of course, Jason Sheehan is embedded right in the middle of all the action, causing trouble, sponging up free drinks and generally comporting himself in as disreputable a way as possible. His reports from inside the convention will be running throughout the week.
Ham. And rosewater. And, fairly quickly, Colorado's best whiskey, Stranahan's, liberally poured.
Yesterday marked the official kick-off for the IACP's 2009 conference, and even though it was somewhat late on the uptake, the city finally tried to do right by the several hundred heavyweight food-industry professionals by throwing them a bash at the Denver Art Museum. One that they could walk to from their hotel.
Walk to at 6:30 at night.
Through the snow.
So that no one got lost, the city happily lined the route down the street and across the park with hundreds of luminarias (or "luminarios," according to the press release that came just a few hours before the Long March last night) -- hundreds of tiny candles in flimsy paper bags that immediately wilted in the afternoon rain, snow and hail. It would've been pretty had Mother Nature cooperated.
As a backup plan, a bunch of first-year students from Johnson & Wales were press-ganged into service as guides. They had to wear their whites and checks, their chef hats and neckerchiefs. Brave little sonsabitches though they were, after the second or third trip back and forth walking, they all looked a bit drowned, a bit pissed, a bit hypothermic. Good training, in my opinion, for the indignities and hardships they will have to face as young cooks, fresh out of school. Maybe they will remember their night at the IACP and be comforted because at least, for the most part, their kitchens will be warmer.
Weather and poor planning aside, the Denver Art Museum was packed. The booze was flowing and the food was flying off the tables. Rioja stood up well with Jen Jasinski serving nice ravioli and smiling like a champ. Frasca showed up with nothing more than excellent prosciutto, excellent hard parm, some olives and horseradish cream and red-pepper jelly. Why?
Because they're Frasca and don't need to show off. Their table was mobbed as soon as everyone figured out where they were -- set up across the bridge from the rest of the party. John Broening and Yasmin Lozada-Hissom from Duo and Olivea had a long line (and, smartly, were offering snacks wrapped to go with their restaurants' info prominently displayed), and even Justin Cucci from Root Down had wisely decided to offer his red-beet custard with bitter greens and goat cheese and was moving plates by the sheet tray.
It was a good event. After my experiences in the basement of the Sheraton, almost anything would've been a nice break. And I quickly shook off the worst of my blues with repeated trips to the Stranahan's Whiskey table upstairs, taking mine neat from the cask and making friendly small talk with the girls handing out the booze.
I was at the IACP convention in Chicago a couple years ago -- there to stalk Herve This (who, quite literally, wrote the book on molecular gastronomy) and to collect an award from this esteemed body for my peculiar version of restaurant criticism. There, the chefs were brought in to an enormous hotel ballroom in the middle of the city and made to serve their plates to a constantly circling throng of conventioneers who moved through the place like sharks, eating everything in sight. No offense to Chicago, but neither the food nor the space was as nice there, so kudos to Denver for one-upping the Second City. Of course, last year's was in New Orleans, so...
It was an easy night, up to a point. I had some friends in the crowd -- some food people and some fellow travelers -- so we did little more than drink and eat and gossip and drink some more. I met Kathleen Flinn (who wrote the excellent and crazy food book The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry, about doing time in Paris at Le Cordon Bleu), got to hang with Maggie Savarino Dutton from www.wineoffensive.com and the Seattle Weekly (if you like reading about wine and booze, read her Search and Distill column, and even if you don't, read it anyway, because I hate reading about wine and I still read it all the time).
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There were others, too -- PR people and editors, other writers, other friends. It reminded me that, when taken in small groups, food writers make for fine company -- even for a miserable hermit like me. And that as pissy as I might've been earlier in the day, a lot of that probably had to do with being locked in a basement for hours and having not planned ahead enough to have brought along some things to liven up the afternoon.
Things like a hip flask. And maybe a pistol.
In any event, all was going swimmingly. Right up until the part where Jesse Morreale and his posse showed up, clapped me on the shoulder and hissed in my ear, "Hey, we have a mission."
But I'll write about that part later. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe never. Things got weird after that -- as things often will whenever Jesse shows up. And who knew I'd be finishing out my evening hunting the most dangerous game of all: Man.


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deathは「死」でtaxは「税金」。death taxは人の死にかけられる税金、つまり「死亡税」という意味で、日本で言う「相続税」を指す。ただし、この語は相続税をこきおろす悪口。カタカナ読みは「デス・タックス」。
相続税は一般的にinheritance(相続)taxという。アメリカでは、死亡した人の財産、つまり遺産が課税対象になるのでestate tax(遺産税)と呼ばれる。この課税に反対し廃止を求める人たちがdeath taxと呼んで〝糾弾〟、政治闘争を繰り広げたのだ。共和党が1994年の中間選挙で勝利し1952年以来初めて上下両院の多数派を制してから、death taxは保守派による相続税廃止キャンペーンの標語となった。
ニューヨーク・タイムズ(2009年12月28日付)は、"An Estate Tax Mess"(遺産税をめぐるメチャクチャ)と題する社説で、"Estate-tax foes sold Americans a myth about a 'death tax' that prevented average people from passing on hard-earned money."(遺産税の反対者が、一般庶民が汗水たらして稼いだ金を子孫に伝えるのを妨げる「死亡税」という神話を米国民に売りまくった)と説明している。
その結果、ブッシュ政権が発足した2001年から2009年にかけてestate taxの大幅減税が行われ、さらに、この1月1日から1年間だけは課税廃止、そして2011年以降は2001年以前の水準に戻すことが決まった。ところが、オバマ政権は、医療保険制度改革などの審議にかまけて、この法律をそのまま放置したので、今や相続税が無税という異例の事態に突入することになった。
USニューズ・アンド・ワールドリポート(2010年1月4日付)は、"Lapse of Estate Tax Raises Doubts about Democrats"(遺産税の失策で民主党に疑義)との記事で、"If the current law remains unchanged, in 2011 the estate tax will be back with the exemption lowered to $1 million and the maximum rate hiked to 55 percent."(現行の法律が変わらなければ、2011年には遺産税の免税枠は100万㌦にまで下がり、最高税率が55%にまで上がるだろう)と指摘する。
上記のニューヨーク・タイムズの読者欄に寄せられた投書が、意味深長。"Congress created a situation where heirs to large estates stand to inherit a windfall for a death in the next 12 months."(議会は、大きな遺産を継承する相続人にとって、次の12カ月の死が「棚ボタ」になる状況を作り出した)。そのために、"moral hazard"(道徳的危機)を招くだろう、と。
建国の父、ベンジャミン・フランクリンは"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes ."(この世で死と税金だけは確実で、逃れられないといえる)と言ったが、2010年は死によって税金から逃れられた…。The Sankei Shimbun (January 18 2010)
Estate tax to return in 2011, and it could hurt ordinary folks
By Sandra Block
In life, George Steinbrenner beat the Red Sox. In death, he beat the IRS.
Steinbrenner's death on July 13 occurred six months after the federal estate tax expired. Forbes magazine estimates the Yankees owner's net worth was $1.15 billion, so the timing of Steinbrenner's death could save his heirs up to $500 million in federal estate taxes.
But future heirs may not be so lucky. The federal estate tax is scheduled to return with a vengeance on Jan. 1, 2011, imposing a levy of up to 55% on estates valued at more than $1 million. And the same congressional paralysis that allowed the tax to expire in 2010 could thwart efforts to pare it back, estate planning attorneys say.
A $1 million exemption would affect a lot of families that are well out of Steinbrenner's league. "You take a home, an IRA or 401(k) retirement account, some other savings and you get to $1 million pretty easily," says Richard Behrendt, senior estate planner for Robert W. Baird and a former IRS attorney.
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Families who live in areas with high property values are particularly vulnerable, says Clint Stretch, tax principal for Deloitte Tax who lives outside Washington, D.C. "People in my neighborhood bought a house for $32,000 in the '60s, and now it's worth $1 million," he says. "If they've got anything else, they would be paying an estate tax."
And for truly wealthy families, estate taxes could influence life-or-death decisions. But more on that later.
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The roots of the estate tax disarray date back to 2001, when Congress voted to gradually raise the estate tax exemption while cutting income tax rates. The phase-out ended in repeal of the tax in 2010. But like the Bush administration's income tax cuts, the reduction in the estate tax is scheduled to expire at the end of this year.
Right up until the end of 2009, most estate tax attorneys expected Congress to step in and reinstate the tax. That didn't happen — raising doubts about whether Congress can agree on a fix that will prevent a more punitive tax from rising from the grave in 2011.
"Nine years ago I would have told you there was no chance we would have a year of repeal and no chance we would go back to the $1 million exemption," says Beth Kaufman, a partner with Caplin & Drysdale in Washington, D.C., and former associate tax legislative counsel for Treasury's Office of Tax Policy. "Now that we've gotten to the year of repeal, it's hard to say that something is impossible any more."
Historically, wealthy individuals have used a variety of strategies to mitigate estate taxes, including giving away a large portion of their wealth while they're still alive. Individuals can give their children, relatives and others up to $1 million during their lifetimes without incurring federal gift taxes, Kaufman says. In addition, individuals can give away an annual amount without reducing their exemption for gift or estate taxes. In 2010, the annual gift tax exclusion is $13,000 per recipient and individuals can give away that amount to as many people as they want. Many wealthy families also reduce the size of their taxable estates by giving money and other assets to charity.
But those strategies aren't practical for families who have most of their wealth tied up in their primary residences and retirement savings, Kaufman says. "You're not going to give away your house, because you're living in it," she says. Taking withdrawals from retirement plans will trigger income taxes, plus a 10% penalty if the plan owner is under 59½.
Proposed fixes
The Obama administration has proposed returning the estate tax to its 2009 level, with a $3.5 million exemption and a 45% rate on assets that exceed that amount. The House approved the administration's proposal last year, but Republican opponents blocked action in the Senate.
Last week Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., re-introduced legislation that would exempt up to $5 million from estate taxes and impose a 35% tax rate on assets that exceed that amount.
"In just six short months, American taxpayers will face the largest tax hike in history unless Congress acts," Lincoln said in a statement. "It is estimated that more than a half-million American families will pay the estate tax over the next decade, and the lack of congressional action creates a tremendous amount of uncertainty for these families, small-business owners and farmers."
But political partisanship has made compromise increasingly difficult, says Melissa Montgomery-Fitzsimmons, director of wealth planning for First Western Trust Bank in Denver. "Given the fact that we're in an election year, the most likely thing to happen is that the laws will not change, and we will go back to $1 million of exemption and a 55% rate," she says.
Plus, reinstating the estate tax with a lower exemption would provide lawmakers with a back-door way to raise revenue, says Jason Smolen, an estate tax attorney at SmolenPlevy of Vienna, Va. "If you could do nothing and get more money, it's better than voting to raise taxes to get more money," he says.
Stretch is more optimistic that Congress will resolve the issue before the end of the year. He believes an estate tax with a higher threshold than $1 million — possibly somewhere between the one in the House-passed bill and the one proposed by Kyl and Lincoln — will be included in legislation preventing the middle-class tax cuts from expiring.
That legislation has real urgency, because without it, millions of middle-class Americans will see their taxes go up on Jan. 1, Stretch says. The higher taxes "would come out of people's paychecks almost immediately," he says. "If there's any sanity left in our political system, it will take care of middle-class tax cuts before January and at that moment in time they'll take care of estate tax."
Stretch says there's a good chance the House will extend the middle-class tax cuts and address the estate tax before the midterm elections, possibly as early as this month. But the Senate probably won't take up the issue until after the elections, he says.
Retroactive tax unlikely
In the meantime, the list of wealthy estates that will escape federal estate taxes will no doubt continue to grow. In addition to Steinbrenner, families of real estate magnate Walter Shorenstein, Texas pipeline tycoon Dan Duncan and Taco Bell founder Glen Bell will not have to worry about federal estate taxes. J.D. Salinger's heirs will also get a tax break, although establishing the value of the reclusive author's estate could take years.
"If there's ever a good time to die, 2010 is certainly it for the wealthy individual," Kaufman says.
Shortly after the estate tax expired, there was widespread speculation that Congress would reinstate it and make the tax retroactive to the beginning of 2010. But even if Congress agrees on an estate tax fix, it's unlikely lawmakers will be able to make it retroactive, Behrendt says. Families of billionaires who have died this year have the money and wherewithal to fight the tax all the way to the Supreme Court, he says.
"At some point, it becomes impractical to bring it (estate tax) back," Behrendt says. "George Steinbrenner's death in mid-July really underscores that reality."
Life-or-death tax implications
As repeal of the estate tax loomed at the end of 2009, wealthy families had an incentive to keep ailing parents or grandparents alive until Jan. 1. This year, in what sounds like an episode of Law & Order, heirs stand to benefit if wealthy benefactors die before midnight on Dec. 31. While outright homicide seems unlikely, estate-planning attorneys say they can envision situations in which the prospect of onerous estate taxes influences family members' decision to discontinue a relative's life support.
It could also cause some wealthy people with terminal illnesses to hasten their own demise, Behrendt says. "The fact is that our tax laws are influencing people's decision to live or die." USA TODAY (7/23/2010)


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GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'YoUrP45sw0rd!' WITH GRANT OPTION;
Don't forget to flush the privileges
If user still cannot see the tables, try to disconnect mysql and reconnect again.
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GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'YoUrP45sw0rd!' WITH GRANT OPTION;
Don't forget to flush the privileges
If user still cannot see the tables, try to disconnect mysql and reconnect again.
Solution: replace utf8mb4 to utf8 in your .sql file
git rm -r --cached . git add . git commit -m "fixed untracked files"
pydoc is a python library to make your console output paginates for easier reading. to use it follow the simple example below:
import pydoc text = "...paginate me..." pager = pydoc.ttypager(text) print pager
you will see the output is gonna be truncated at the beginning when you start to see like when you open up a man page, then you have to scroll down with keyboard to read the rest of the text line by line. pretty cool!
Put this code inside Vagrantfile before the last end
config.vm.provision "ansible" do |ansible| ansible.playbook = "playbook.yml" ansible.limit = "all" ansible.verbose = "vv" ansible.raw_arguments = [ "--diff" ] end
provider "aws" { access_key = "" secret_key = "" region = "ap-southeast-1" } resource "aws_instance" "web-1" { vpc_security_group_ids = ["sg-xxxxxxxx"] subnet_id = "subnet-xxxxxxxx" ami = "ami-xxxxxxxx" availability_zone = "ap-southeast-1a" instance_type = "t2.micro" tags { Name = "test-terraform-1" } }
Just a case if you want to know some application or service who is running under specific port :
$ netstat -tulpn | grep :80
Sometimes you need to run with sudo to see all services :
$ sudo netstat -tulpn | grep :80
Output :
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1393/nginx.conf
It turns out that 1393 is the pid of service
$ packer build main.json
$ vim ~/.aws/credentials [default] aws_access_key_id = aws_secret_access_key =
Add the environment variables at the end of file ~/.bashrc
$ vim ~/.bashrc export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID= export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
docker build image
$ sudo docker build -t image-name .
docker to start a container from image
$ sudo docker run -itd --name jenkins --publish 8080:8080 --publish 50000:50000 jenkins
docker to get inside the container
$ sudo docker exec -it jenkins bash
docker stop container
$ sudo docker stop image-id/name
docker remove container
$ sudo docker rm image-id/name
docker remove containers based on specific image name/tag
sudo docker ps -a | awk '{ print $1,$2 }' | grep centos:7 | awk '{print $1 }' | xargs -I {} sudo docker rm {}
docker remove image
$ sudo docker rmi image-id
docker remove images with no tag
$ sudo docker rmi $(sudo docker images --filter "dangling=true" -q --no-trunc)
Have you ever experiencing this problem like this? after your install wordpress, setup anything, webserver, database, everything is completed. Yet, wordpress still cannot establishing your database connection.
Eventhough you've already make sure that your database is up and running (I'm using MySQL) and your port is already open, though.
Trust me! I've done anything properly, I spent hours just to figure out what the root cause was and after some googling and stackoverflowing, I found this problem was due to SE in linux.
$ sudo setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect_db=1
Thanks in advance SElinux!


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Meng Joins Beckman Institute
The Beckman Institute welcomes Ling Meng from the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering as a new faculty member.
Ling Meng, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering, has joined the Beckman Institute as a member of the Bioimaging Science and Technology (BST) group within the Biological Intelligence research initiative.
Meng earned a Ph.D. in Detector Physics from the University of Southampton, U.K., in 2001.
Meng's research interests focus on ultra-high resolution imaging systems for biomedical/molecular imaging applications and on novel imaging sensor-based on room temperature semiconductor detectors.


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They happened to have used my Youtube Video Thumbnail as that wall post's picture which is so cool! =P
If you don't want to vote for me *sad face*, that's okay too. =P
It's very subjective whether or not a finalist's video is your favourite.
So, do take a look at fellow finalists' tutorial videos!


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As I announced yesterday, I am going to do a short story – and I have. I challenged myself to get it done before the end of Dia De Muertos, but I decided to try and do it before the end of Samhain. And I succeeded!
Now available on Lulu is The Little Ones, as a free eBook and as a Paperback for just £3.
You can get the eBook HERE.
And the Paperback HERE.
I hope you enjoy!


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PHOTOS: ORCHESTRA OF SPHERES' ALBEMARLE HAPPENING!Friday, October 17th, 2014
Orchestra of Spheres
Orchestra of Spheres embark this very day for the shores of Iceland and the Airwaves Festival, and as a fundraiser for the trip they filled the coolest vacant building in the city (pending demolition) with art and music! Way to go.
The Albemarle (rear view)
Gerard Crewdson and Jeff Henderson
Radical Sklenarbirds! By Erica Sklenars / Lady Lazer Light
Live painting by Treefrog Sanders
Nathan Taare zone
Although this party was so expansive I couldn't document it all, there are MANY MORE PHOTOS HERE! >> (more…)


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Editors' Note: Guest blogger Jeremy Redlien is the author of the blog Queering the Closet and holds a bachelor degree in Philosophy with a minor in Mathematics from SUNY Oneonta.
Following in the wake of the disturbing attack at at midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises in an Aurora, Colorado theater that left 12 dead and many more wounded, a rather predictable response came forth. Somehow, the entertainment media's obsession with depictions of violent acts was to blame.
Certainly, Nolan's Batman movies are not short on violent content, which is making them a lightening rod for this kind of thinking. But has there ever been a link established between violent media and real life violence? No, there has not been.
My partner, Dr. Jeffery P. Dennis, is a sociologist and this happens to be a topic I get lectured on a lot, whether I want to or not. The point he loves to drive home is that consuming violent media is not a predictor of violent behavior.
Consider the following, he will often ask of me. In the 1940's through the 60's, television programming consisted primarily of Westerns, which also consistently promoted violence as a means of solving problems. The Western was ubiquitous and unavoidable. The generation which was raised on this programming would then go onto to become part of the most massive anti-war movement in U.S. history during the Vietnam conflict.
A counterpoint to this, Jeffery also points out, is the 1980's approach. As a result of criticism of violent content, television made a concentrated effort to purge violent content. The 80's saw the purge of violent Saturday morning cartoons and the rise of "nice" children's programming. Programs, such as the Care Bears, went out of their way to promote values such as tolerance and cooperation. This did not rub off very well on the children who saw it, as the year 1993 - 11 years after the Care Bears first aired - saw the highest rate of juvenile crime in the U.S.


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There is an organ recital on the first Friday of each month at 12.30 pm, given by Christopher Rathbone, or occasionally a visiting recitalist.
Admission is free, but a collection is taken in aid of the church Music Fund.
For details of the next recital, read more..
For a detailed specification of the organ, read more...


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We supply, install and service domestic and industrial submersible borehole and waste water pumps as well as most modern types of cold water booster pumps, including self priming, multi stage and end suction pumps.
We also offer a water filtration/purification service.
For whatever reason more and more people are drinking bottled water rather than tap water. Water filters are relatively inexpensive and certainly improve the taste of your tap water as well as the appearance and smell.
Many filters also remove many of the harmful chemicals found to be in tap water. If you were to compare a glass of tap water to a glass of bottled water the chances are the tap water will be cloudy and also have a smell of bleach.
Once we have sourced the water, we collect and send a water sample off to be analyzed by water analysts, to check and decide what Filtration will be required.
The water sample is sent to our analytical chemist for analysis and then we fit the appropriate filters for purification if necessary.
Filtration is not always required it just depends how pure the water is.
Other services which we provide are :
Iron / Manganese Removal
Ultra Violet Filter to kill any bacteria in the water supply.
PH Correction units to neutralise acid water.
Water Softeners to reduce water hardness.


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- firstname.lastname@example.com
- +44 (0) 151 228 8977
Jayne Lancaster - Payroll Manager
- Payroll
- Auto Enrolment
- SAGE bookkeeping
Jayne joined John Kerr in 2015, she has experience of advising clients on payroll and various PAYE aspects such as tax, NI, SSP, SMP and Auto Enrolment. She is an experienced user of several software packages and enjoys visiting clients to help with their routines. Jayne can also assist clients with their SAGE bookkeeping.


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Use These Great Tips To Help Relieve Your Hemorrhoids
Hemorrhoids are a common and painful condition that affects nearly half of all adults age fifty or older. It is difficult to cope with the symptoms of hemorrhoids at times. However, effective treatment options are available. There are a number of home treatments that work well. In addition, making lifestyle changes is important, too. There are many treatments that work. This article will introduce you to a number of them.
If hemorrhoids are a problem for you, keeping the anal area clean is very important. Using a baby wipe or other type of cleansing towelette meant for the bathroom will feel better on your painful skin and will do a great job at cleaning you. A sitz bath of warm water can alleviate the discomfort from swollen veins. Use the bath for about 20 minutes.
If you happen to be suffering through a flare up of hemorrhoids, relief from the pain and discomfort is possible. For example, many experts recommend sitting inside a sitz bath for approximately 10 minutes a few times a day. A carefully applied ice pack or cold compress helps as well.
Blood Vessels
A great supplement to take if you have hemorrhoids is Rutin. Weakened, thin blood vessels are generally linked with hemorrhoids. Rutin is a flavonoid that is essential for the absorption of Vitamin C and it assists in strengthening blood vessels. It is most commonly found in vegetables, such as onions and broccoli, as well as in citrus fruits. If taking a supplement, the optimal dose is 500mg once per day.
Be careful not to use scented hygiene products if you have hemorrhoids. Any kind of fragrance, oil or dye can irritate your hemorrhoids further. Exposing your hemorrhoids to these products can cause serious pain and itching.
Ice Pack
You may not know it, but you may be able to find all-natural hemorrhoid treatments right in your own kitchen. An ice pack is a quick and cheap remedy. Using an ice pack can decrease the soreness associated with hemorrhoids. You can also significantly reduce the painful swelling by treating your hemorrhoids with your hand made ice pack.
One of the things that cause hemorrhoids is too much straining during bowel movements. Stools pass much easier if you limit your refined foods and drink plenty of water. Squatting is one way you can help pass a bowel movement without straining. One way to acquire the best body positioning is to use a small stool to rest your feet while you are seated in the bathroom. Hemorrhoids are not a common occurrence among places in the world where the people squat to produce a bowel movement.
Many hemorrhoids are caused by overexerting sphincter muscles, causing chronic irritation. Because of this, if you are a recurring sufferer of this problem, then you should be aware of the force you exert in your daily libations as well as in other activities.
If you do not want to visit your doctor and pay for a costly prescription medication, there are many all-natural treatments that can be administered in the comfort of your own home. Have a warm, 15-minute soak in a sitz bath, which is especially effective after bowel movements. Never scratch your hemorrhoids, no mater how much they itch, because this can aggravate the condition. Instead, dampen some pads with witch hazel and apply them to the hemorrhoids for temporary relief! Drink at least eight cups of water each day, and eat plenty of fiber. This will help you to refrain from excessive straining during bowel movements.
Do not use laxatives if you are constipated and have hemorrhoids. Laxatives will only lead to a single bowel movement If your constipation is chronic, you need to make dietary changes, such as adding more fiber to help regulate your bowel movements.
Talk to your doctor to make sure it is hemorrhoids. Blood in the stool or bleeding from the rectum can point to more serious causes, such as colon cancer. Ease your worries by having a physician diagnose the problem. If you have hemorrhoids, doctors can suggest the best treatments.
When it comes to treating hemorrhoids, water is a cheap and effective treatment. Apply and soak your rectum in warm water for 10 minutes every day, and apply cold presses with a wet towel in the inflamed area. Toilet baths, which can be bought in most drug stores, can be helpful.
Hydration is very important in the prevention of hemorrhoids. When your body does not get enough water, it pulls excess water from you stool. This can make your stool hard and difficult to pass. This causes straining, the chief cause of hemorrhoids. Drink at least eight glasses of water a day. This will help to prevent hemorrhoids. If you already have hemorrhoids, evacuation will go much smoother.
You should definitely avoid, spicy or hot foods, and caffeine is also on the list of things to avoid. These foods are detrimental to your hemorrhoids. Extremely spicy foods can cause such irritation that the hemorrhoids begin to burn, even when not being touched. This should be plenty of reason to try to avoid these foods.
At the start of this article, some of the basics regarding hemorrhoids was covered, as well as information regarding hope for treatments. Most of the time, home treatments work and surgery is pretty rare. Using the good advice and effective treatments suggested in the above article can get hemorrhoids under control.


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BOOK LAUNCH – Cristian Chironi. Broken English | My house is a Le Corbusier at MAMbo in Bologna
NERO is pleased to announce the launch of the volume Cristian Chironi. Broken English | My house is a Le Corbusier at MAMbo – Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna on the occasion of Arte Fiera/Art City. Published by NERO, the two-sided book contains different projects by the artist. Intersecting and diverging, both projects raise questions surrounding communication, reading and interpretation and concomitant linguistic and socio-political implications.
The project called My House is a Le Corbusier is a work in progress that the artist himself defines as "a crucible of ideas, research and exhibition" and a sort of living experience that is intended to grow over time. Indeed, it is an evolving performance, or cacophony of experiences, undergone by the artist whilst living for variable periods in houses designed by Le Corbusier. On the other hand, Broken English began in 2012 as a performance, before developing into a multilayered exhibition with performative elements. It superimposes linguistic and socio-economic issues through the transformation of uncertain variants of the English language into images, objects, sounds, videos, texts and installations.
At MAMbo Chironi will be in dialogue with Silvia Fanti (direction and coordination, XING), Lorenzo Giusti (Director, MAN) and Giuliano Gresleri, (architect, member of the Scientific Committe for the Cataloging of Le Corbusier works, Fondation Le Corbusier).
MAMbo – Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna (sala conferenze) – via Don Minzoni 14, bologna, Italy
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About ROCK Networks
ROCK Networks is a wireless solutions company focused in the areas of two-way radio, and mobility products and services, primarily supporting government clients in the defence and public safety markets across the nation. Headquartered in the nation's capital, ROCK Networks holds a presence in St. John's Newfoundland, as well as a presence through Nova Communications (a Division of ROCK Networks) in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and Moncton, New Brunswick.
As ROCK Networks, we partner with two-way radio vendors such as Harris Corporation and Tait Communications to provide solutions in the areas of two-way radio infrastructure, antenna systems, and all things wireless. Through Nova Communications, we work to connect your company with an industry-leading portfolio of top wireless partners and suppliers including Motorola Solutions, Zebra Technologies, Kenwood, Bell, Cambium Networks, and Cisco.
The driving force behind every phase of our development will continue to be putting our customers first, providing the highest quality of customer service, and tailoring solutions to fit unique customer requirements.
About Nova Communications, a Division of ROCK Networks
Nova Communications, a division of ROCK Networks, is a wireless voice and data communications company as well as the largest communications systems integrator in Eastern Canada. Nova partners with leading companies including Zebra Technologies, Cisco Systems, Apple, and are a Motorola Solutions Platinum Channel Partner. The team serves corporate and government customers including public safety, energy, transportation, construction and resource sectors.


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The Secrets of Natural Bodybuilding
Most from the people today understand the term bodybuilding. It's a process where the person manages to lose mass accumulated in your body due to extra fat and evolves bulky as well as huge muscles all around the body. The procedure of muscle building also assists these muscles to become healthy and gaze after a correct shape. Usually each and every bodybuilder uses some or another type associated with supplement that have steroids or even other chemicals that are harmful for the body over time. Natural bodybuilding is simply a easy bodybuilding process by which no this kind of steroids or chemical substances are included. The medicines which have the effect of artificial enhancement of the person's entire body growth aren't used inside a natural muscle building process. Rather than using these types of drugs, a mix of intense weight lifting and an entire nutritional well balanced diet are utilized to create a person entire body more muscle and match.
In this method, a person doesn't have to make use of artificial supplements to satisfy the requirements from the basic nutrients from the body to do and endure the extreme workout. The extreme workout inside a bodybuilding process is needed to lose body fat accumulated in your body and keep your muscles inside a proper form. In an all natural bodybuilding procedure, all the actual nutrients tend to be supplied towards the body within their natural form with the balanced dietary diet. This makes your body free through any unwanted effects and the individual does not really gets impacted to the diseases which are caused through the side results of chemical substance supplements utilized in a regular bodybuilding process in the event of their more than dosage.
It doesn't only includes the procedure of muscle building but guides an individual to live an easy method of life having a complete well balanced diet as well as exercising regularly to accomplish his entire body fit as well as muscles within proper form. Natural muscle building is free of any unwanted effects and for this reason fact just; it gets increasingly more famous one of the bodybuilders as well as bodybuilding fanatics. Artificial muscle building is these days discarded by the majority of the bodybuilders as well as natural procedure for bodybuilding has been adopted through them. They think it is a cleaner method to obtain bulky muscle tissue that too with no side effects from the process. So organic bodybuilding is actually surely much better than any additional bodybuilding procedure!
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Fast Weight Loss
Today, a slim and fit is considered a significant aspect associated with looking great. Obesity is viewed as the curse, which each and every individual really wants to reduce. Everybody is about the hunt for any magic formula that may shed away those pounds instantly. Rapid weight reduction is possible only via a multi-dimensional strategy.
Diets really are a very popular method of losing pounds. Low body fat diets, low-carbohydrate diet programs and cabbage soups diets are between the popular diet programs. It is extremely easy to get rid of weight through following such diet plans. Deprivation is the key reason for the actual failure of the diet strategy. The benefit of these diet programs is that the individual is just temporarily miserable from particular foods. The person is permitted to resume their normal diet plan after completing this diet program. Nevertheless, the likelihood of the individual gaining pounds again following the diet routine is total, are quite strong. Some of those diets might have other unwanted effects. Some might feel fragile and exhausted out following dieting. Rapid weight reduction may also result in gall bladder conditions and development of gall stones.
The marketplace today is actually flooded along with drugs which promise in order to burn calories from fat quickly. Several lotions and natural oils are available for sale, which manage fat as well as cellulite. Some items and herbal supplements guarantee rapid weight reduction. It is essential to examine the authenticity of those drugs as well as medicines. Some weight loss supplements and diet plan drinks tend to be promoted using the promise associated with substantial weight reduction.
Working out in a gym is a terrific way to boost energy and slim down. These routines also allow individuals to attain an ideal body. Severely overweight individuals have trouble in performing these routines.
Weight reduction camps will also be actively involved with helping individuals shed those unwanted weight. They possess a multi-faceted program made to enable quick and long term loss. They are made so that everyone has a thrilling time while burning up calories.
Excessively overweight people also have the choice of surgical treatment. Health specialists advise in order to weigh the benefits and drawbacks of any weightloss routine.
Top 3 Considerations When Choosing Women's Exercise Clothes
Women's physical exercise clothes are essential especially when they have to have a few exercises. Generally, it isn't always easy to find the correct fitness clothes that you'll require. Be this for sports activities or exercise, it is better that you ought to choose sensibly the clothes you will use.
Factors when selecting
One of the very important things that you ought to consider is actually comfort. If you're comfortable together with your exercise clothing, the much better your overall performance results. Nevertheless, choose health and fitness clothes which are not limited. This implies that it should allow you to move readily.
In add-on, consider additionally the material employed for it. The body should feel at ease wearing it and never to cause you to feel annoyed. It must be durable, absorbent as well as soft. The best material for this can be a cotton mix.
Another aspect to consider in purchasing women's physical exercise clothes may be the color. Usually, fitness clothes are available in various colors. It is better that you ought to choose your preferred color or even any color that suits your flavor. However, they may be significant whenever exercising outside. You may use light shades once the day is actually hot in order to reflect gentle and maintain you awesome. You may use also more dark colors for any cold day to soak up and preserve heat.
Furthermore, wear health and fitness clothes which are brilliant or even reflective whenever exercising outside during nighttime. This is advantageous to very easily spot a person whenever there is someone arriving at a person. More significantly, it could keep you secure, since they'll know that you are there.
Consider also the objective of fitness clothing when selecting. Some clothes are made for unique purposes. There are particular clothes with regard to sky scuba diving, rock hiking and marine swimming. Choose the one which fits for your sport.
Women's physical exercise clothes are essential to your projects out. If you wish to perform better inside your sport, start in deciding on the best fitness clothing.


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Natchez Churches
Church chapel © NatalieMaynor
Natchez features a collection of architecturally valuable historic churches of various denominations, all located in the central city area. Among them is St Mary's in South Union Street, the oldest Catholic building in Mississippi, built in Gothic Revival style back in 1840.
The Trinity Episcopal Church in South Commerce Street is the oldest church in Natchez, having been built in 1822 but remodelled in 1838. The interior of this church features two rare stained-glass windows designed and installed by the renowned Louis Comfort Tiffany.
Also notable is the First Presbyterian church in South Pearl Street, built in the Federal Style in 1828. A Romanesque chapel was added to the rear in 1901. The chapel now houses an unusual collection of historic photographs telling the story of Natchez.


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Saturday, April 27 at 8:00 p.m.
$15 general admission, $12 students/seniors, $10 members
To learn more about the benefits of becoming a member, please click here.
Jacob Kassay's new works are made up of oriented strand board (OSB), an engineered wood similar to particle board. Here, flakes closest to the surface are photographed and reprinted atop the subject/substrate, and stand in for pixelated image data; the actual and the depicted are collapsed onto a single stratum that compresses source and secondary information into a kind of schism ...