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Outspoken Ram Gopal Varma has lashed out at superstars who have made donation of less than Rs 10 lakh for Chennai flood victims. Apparently, it is seen as a dig at Tamil superstar Rajinikanth.
Rajinikanth donated Rs 10 lakh for the Chief Minister Relief Fund recently. Younger stars like Suriya (Rs 25 lakh), Allu Arjun (Rs 25 lakh), Junior NTR (Rs 10 lakh) and Vishal (Rs 10 lakh) have made more or equal to what the iconic actor has contributed and this seems to have irked Ram Gopal Varma.
In a series of tweets, Ram Gopal Varma raised the issue:
Celebs give quintals of prayers and tonnes of love,but very very few rupees because prayers and love are cheap and money costs money
As per me I never donated one rupee and am supremely selfish unlike celebs who give quintals of prayers and tonnes of love
Ayyababooi super starlu 10 lakshalu 5 lakshslu isthe antha dabbu yem chesulovalo theliyaka chennaiprajalu moorchapotharu.ivvakapovadam btr
Vandala vandala kotlunna super starlu vela vela kotlu nashtaoyina chennailaki aidhu Padhi lakshalu bichchameyyadam?
My heart goes out to the sufferings of Chennaities and I condemn God in the most harshest unprintable language for this dastardly act
However, sources have said that Rajinikanth is out of the country and he made the announcement without taking stock of the flood situation. The donation was his immediate reaction when he came to know about how his beloved people were affected due to heavy rains.
As a result, Rajinikanth is expected to make further donation in days to come. Meanwhile, his Raghavendra Mandapam is serving food and providing shelter for the victims.
Chennai has witnessed such floods for the first time in 100 years. The unprecedented rain has adversely affected the people and the city, displacing thousands of people and claiming 269 lives.


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Understanding Plant Poisoning on Livestock, Signs, Prevention and Treatment
One of the greatest risks to farmers is the loss of livestock as a result of plant poisoning. So it's important to know what promotes their growth and how to avoid them.
Hundreds of indigenous poisonous plant species are found in East Africa, and different parts of these plants – the leaves, pods or seeds – may be toxic. Losses due to plant poisoning can be direct, causing instant death, for example, or indirect, leading to loss of condition, poor production, such as loss of milk yield, or reproductive failure, such as abortions, birth defects or failure to become pregnant.
Factors contributing to the likelihood of plant poisoning include:
- After the dry season or a veld fire, poisonous plants are usually among the first green plants to appear. A number are also at their most toxic in the young stage when they're most attractive to stock.
- Some poisonous plants are highly resistant to drought and may be the only green plants available for animals to eat.
- Poisonous plants are often found as weeds in harvested lands and along roads – areas used for grazing in times of scarcity.
- Wind or hail can knock acorns or pods from poisonous plants to the ground, making them available to animals.
- Fertilisers may increase the toxicity of some plants.
- Animals are sometimes poisoned when feeding on fodder such as hay, silage, stover or concentrates containing poisonous plants, fungi or chemicals.
- Young and older animals are more susceptible. Their livers do not have the capacity to eliminate the toxins.
- Hungry animals graze more greedily and are less selective and therefore more likely to be poisoned. As noted, this can occur in conditions of drought, veld fires or overgrazing. Pregnant animals also tend to be less selective and have a higher intake than normal and may therefore be poisoned.
- Thirsty animals look for plants with a high moisture content which they would normally avoid. Some of these plants may be poisonous.
The various poisonous plants contain many types of toxins that affect the body in different ways. For example, some might affect organs such as the heart, while others might affect the liver. In some cases, a single toxin will target more than one organ. Some signs of poisoning are listed in the table below . Unfortunately, many of these resemble those of other diseases, so it's a good idea to know which poisonous plants are found in your area.
Signs of poisoning
|URINARY SIGNS: Little or no urine production, swelling of the belly, change in colour of the urine, which may also contain crystals (small stones), a great thirst. In dead animals: crystals in the kidney, swollen, wet kidneys filled with fluid.
|DIGESTIVE SIGNS: Animal stops eating, salivation, dehydration, fluid from the mouth and nose, vomiting, constipation, diarrhoea, swollen belly. In dead animals: large quantities of fluid may be seen in the gut, as well as changes in colour and smell of the gut contents.
|NERVOUS SIGNS: Restlessness, sensitivity to sounds and touch, high-stepping, difficulty in walking, muscle tremors, aimless wandering, staggering, blindness, convulsions, paralysis.
|REPRODUCTIVE SIGNS: Difficulty giving birth, poorly developed udder, enlarged belly, enlarged vulva, suppressed milk production, abortions, deformed young, males not interested in mating.
|HEART SIGNS: When the heart is affected, an animal may drop dead suddenly when it is being chased, for example. Also, the animal tends to stand with its head low and the stomach tucked in. It sometimes grinds its teeth or groans, and the heart rate increases. Bloat, diarrhoea and weakness of the hind legs can also occur.
|BLOOD/BLOOD-COMPONENT SIGNS: Pale, yellow, bluish or brownish membranes, green-tinged faeces, listlessness, animal stops eating, will bleed easily, red-wine to coffee-coloured urine. In dead animals: ulcers in the stomach, bleeding, and a pale yellow, blue or brown colouring of the carcass.
|RESPIRATORY SIGNS: Increased breathing rate, animal grunts when breathing, frothing at the mouth. In dead animals: fluid and gas in the lungs, signs of infection in the lungs (pneumonia), froth in the windpipe.
|SKIN SIGNS: Itchiness and reddening of skin, scale or crust formation, rough coat, thick fluid on the skin, hair or wool loss, animals seek shade, feet are warm and painful to the touch, difficulty in walking.
|SIGNS OF BONES & TEETH: Uneven, mottled or black teeth, animal shifts weight from one leg to the other, stiffness, bones fracture easily.
|LIVER SIGNS: Vomiting, yellow discoloration of membranes, swelling of the belly and face. In dead animals: fluid in the chest and abdomen.
If an animal gets sick or dies, inform your animal health technician or local vet. They will examine dead animals and send samples to a laboratory for testing, as well as searching for poisonous plants where the animal grazed. Once you know what type of poisoning has occurred, you can decide on the best treatment and prevention. In many cases, there is no treatment.
But if you know which type of plant is involved, you will know whether treatment, such as feeding the animal activated charcoal to 'soak up' the poison, will help. Although many animals recover with or without treatment, a number of plant toxins affect them for the rest of their lives, reducing growth and productivity of stock as well as their resistance to other diseases.
- Know which poisonous plants occur in your area, and keep your livestock away from them.
- Keep animals in good condition with supplementary food and licks during the dry season – and always make sure they have enough water.
- Take care when introducing animals from other areas (especially exotic breeds); they may be unaccustomed to the plants on your land.
- It may be necessary to eradicate some of the poisonous plants.
- Don't feed your animals mouldy hay or hay cut from areas where poisonous plants occur.
- Avoid pastures that have just been fertilised with nitrogen in any form or sprayed with herbicides or pesticides
- Do not let animals graze near rubbish where people have thrown things that may be poisonous like old paint.
in many cases, in the absence of a specific diagnosis, treatment has to be symptomatic, but if poisoning is suspected any of the following can be tried.
- Giving a purgative, such as Epsom's salts, may help to remove the toxin from the gut. Give 100g Epsom salt in half litre of water to small animals and up to 500 g Epsom salt in 1 litre of water for large animals given by mouth. Only use about 50 g Epsom salt for horses. Epsom salt (magnesium sulphate) is useful for treating poisoning. It makes more water go into the intestines from the body and gives the animal diarrhea so most of the poison in the intestines mixes with water and comes out as diarrhea.
- Mix kaolin (fine white clay powder) in water until it is a milky liquid. Give by mouth. For a large animal use about 200g Kaolin for a small animal about 10 g. Give every day for a few days if needed.
- Mixing a handful of charcoal powder in a bottle of clean water and give the solution by mouth may help in some cases. Charcoal can inactivate poisons in the stomach.
- Give milk or coconut milk by mouth
- Mix ground cereals or rice with water and give by mouth
- Mix 6 eggs and half kilo of sugar with about 1 litre of water and give by mouth.
- Animals which are depressed may benefit from the administration of stimulants.
- Animals which are excited may benefit from sedatives.
- In some cases, eg Prussic Acid Poisoning, or Nitrate/Nitrite Poisoning, there is a specific antidote, but in the majority of plant poisoning there is not and so one has to treat the symptoms as they appear.
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By Ahmed Necip YILDIRIM
Turks are obviously sick and tired of Europeans looking into Turkey as the "Sick man of Europe"!
In its last two centuries of Ottoman Empire, was the sick man for Europe: The land that was supposed to be divided between superpowers. Turkey is continuation of everything we call Ottoman legacy. Naturally, the "sick man" perception in European eyes was also shifted from Ottoman into modern Turkey.
This perception must change! Mutual relations must be based on a "relationship between equals".
In history, certain Europeans regarded themselves as superior to others. Automatically, they perceived other nations inferior or secondary.
This perception must change! Mutual relations must be based on a "relationship between equals".
There are no superiors or inferiors. There has never been.
I do not want to mention Turkish the developments in Turkish economy, democracy or human rights spheres. The strategic importance or the dynamic young generation and so many other things are of my interest here. I do believe that if Europeans look into Turkey with an unprejudiced, unbiased, impartial, objective and neutral perspective, they will surely comprehend that Turkey is very far from being the old "sick man" of Europe.
Dear European friends, please kindly be reminded how fiercely you suffered under ideologies that told you "You are superior to others".
It is certainly not Turkey who will lose if Europe continues to perceive Turkey as the "Sick Man"! History is the graveyard of groups, States, Empires and people who could not see the change happening beyond the end of their noses.
I think it is the time that we use our commonsense. Sincerely think about the past and honestly embrace the future.
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I had a wonderful time yesterday giving a speech at the Texas State Library & Archives as part of their series celebrating their building renovation. I had the extra treat of seeing some amazing documents from the archives and indeed one document, (a real letter from the Alamo in the archives!) was being read aloud in the legislature across the street. It was a very cool indication of the importance of history and the role that libraries and archives play in memory and preservation. Soon, they're reading the real copy (from the same place) of the Texas declaration of independence on the floor of the legislature. It is amazing that these documents have survived all the fires and history. Tghe event on the fooor was an awesome positioning of the Texas state librarian, Peggy Rudd, and her team at the center of the political process.
And here are my slides from the presentation. I was competing with the other event on closed circuit TV and cable.
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"The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking, you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude." ― Julia Child
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Saturday, 9 January 2016
Something Different Saturday...
Well I promised a box to go with last weeks tag and here it is! This is planned for my workshops at CE towers in Kettering in February so today I'm just showing the box with the list of ingredients I'm afford . I will however be demoing this on Hochanda in March I think so you will be able to watch a demo on this one at some point!
This box was designed to go with the tag made last week and I have included a picture of the lid with the tag.
List of ingredients at the bottom as usual!
I will be demoing all day today at Julia Watts big Demo and Sale Click HERE for more details. There are some fantastic bargains on offer with Crafty stash from just £1!
Card Size: Box uses A4 paper
Colours: Wisteria & Coconut white
Dies: Lattice Window Striplet, Orange Blossom Complete Petals, Orange Blossom Leaves
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Hi John.ReplyDelete
Thank you a brilliant project.
Looking forward to next weekend.
Take care and have fun. Kitty.
Workshops at CE Towers! When? Do hope it's a day I can do. Love the box so look forward to seeing you create it sometime. Good news about Hochanda next weekend.ReplyDelete
Anne and I will be at Yardley Gobion for 10.00. Looking forward to some goodies and your demos.
Hi John,ReplyDelete
Wished I lived a bit closer to your area. Would love to visit you and Sue one day.
Love the box idea - worked so well and useful for a small gift.
Have a good time everyone.
Anne M xxx
Hi John,ReplyDelete
"WOW" What A Truly Tremendous Box, I Really Thinks It's Truly Beautiful And It Would Be So Great To Watch A Video With You Creating This Outstanding Box.
Hugs From Sam xxx
Carry On Creating ✂✂✂
It's a gorgeous box I can see me having to invest in a Platinum to be able to cut down the centre of the platform Have a great day Yardley Gobion is just impossible for me to get to Great news about Hochanda next week endReplyDelete
This is amazing. xxxReplyDelete
Hello John, I absolutely love this box. Have a great day with Julia, looking forward to the Hochanda shows. Take care. bxReplyDelete
Good morning John this is a stunning box it is so beautiful I love everything about it. Have a great day with Julia today I hope she sells lots of stuff. Hugs JackieReplyDelete
Well worth the wait...I love your posh boxesReplyDelete
Morning John,ReplyDelete
Wow this box is gorgeous, another reason to get this die set.
I love the colours you have used as well.
March is a long way off, I'm looking at the box and trying to figure out how you did in.
When I get the die set I am going to give this a try.
Have a wonderful day with Julia at The Big Demo and Sale. Wish I could go but it's a bit far for me.
Stunning project, it's gorgeous. Great news about Hochanda next weekend.ReplyDelete
Hi John wow this box took my breath away it is stunning .I have been looking for ideas for favour boxes . Have a great day with Julia today. Great news about Hochanda. Gloria (Sidcup) xxReplyDelete
Morning John, oh Wow this is fantastic, I love it, the lattice window striplet comes into it's own here doesn't it, I am looking forward to seeing how you made it, I think I can work it out unless you have a technique or tip up your sleeve that you haven't told us about, hahaha!!!ReplyDelete
Enjoy yourself today
Stay safe, healthy and happy, hugs, June Smith xxx
Morning John, today's project is really pretty xReplyDelete
This is lovely,John. Looking forward to see you and Julia later.ReplyDelete
Anne (Northampton)
Wow, John, that looks amazing.ReplyDelete
B xx
Morning John,ReplyDelete
Hope you have a great day with Julia.
Love your box it's stunning.
Hi JohnReplyDelete
When you said you were making a box i new it would be special, but not this special. Wow! you have blown me away .
Elaine H X
Morning John, what a gorgeous box it really is beautiful love these dies have all the flower dies I think so must give this a try. Have a great day with Julia and keep her supplied with plent of hot drinks.ReplyDelete
Nancyd xx
Morning Hope you have a great day and what a lovely box anyone would be happy with this.ReplyDelete
crafty hugs Pen x
Eh up JohnReplyDelete
Your boxes are always a delight and this is no exception. Would look terrific with a battery tea light inside.
Enjoy your escapades with Julia today.
Ang x
Hi John,ReplyDelete
WOW! What a stunning box, love everything about it. Have a great day with Julia.
Thanks for sharing,
Hi John,ReplyDelete
WOW! What a stunning box, love everything about it. Have a great day with Julia.
Thanks for sharing,
Morning John, today's project is really pretty and I have all the diesReplyDelete
Hi John,ReplyDelete
Absolutely fabulous!!!!!!!
You are incredibly creative.
Lorna D
Love the box, will definitely be watching to see how this is made
that is a true masterpiece - far beyond my capabilities.ReplyDelete
How much would it cost to buy the box?!!!!!
Lots of love
Anne aka Till Lady
Beautiful box. Would make a lovely gift for someone.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous box and beautiful design.ReplyDelete
Awesome box. John you are so talented. Good work!ReplyDelete
OMG John,ReplyDelete
this is absolutely GORGEOUS, both the box and the tag. I must give this a go. Colours are beautiful, too.
Hugs, Rose
Beautiful, beautiful box John really gorgeous. That die is really trying to get on my wish list!ReplyDelete
I am going to go and play with my new crafting goodies so see you tomorrow.
Wishing good things to all xxx
Hi John, Stunning !!ReplyDelete
Lots of love from Patricia xx
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A super box John the lattice window striplet is one of my favourites. Hope you are having a nice day love from Jackie xxReplyDelete
Stunning John, I love it. These dies are really amazing - there is just so much you can do with themReplyDelete
Wonderful work john, love everything about it, especially the colours, Kate xReplyDelete
Stunningly beautiful! Pat xReplyDelete
Hi John, oh wow! The box is gorgeous! Wow! Love the Wisteria with the Coconut White. Stunning, just stunning! It will be great to see the demo in March.....where's me diary....? lol! Thank you John xx Love Karen xxReplyDelete
Stunning John.ReplyDelete
Love Nancy xx
So beautiful, must get that lattice striplet.ReplyDelete
Hi John, fabulous this is gorgeous!!!ReplyDelete
Have a good one!!!
Loopy Lynda xxx
Hi John, nice to see you and Julia today. The box is even more gorgeous in real so can't wait for the tutorial.ReplyDelete
Hope the day finished good.
Maria x
Hi to Anne and Jan :-)
Oh wow this is absolutely gorgeous and can't wait to see how you made it.ReplyDelete
I think if I made one I would not want to give it away.
Can't say enough about how pretty it is and the tag too.
love it all.
fab box ,stunning ,Laura OReplyDelete
Wow - that is some box John - love the creation, and the colours are beautifulReplyDelete
AMAZING 3D project! Brilliant use of colors and cuts! WOW!ReplyDelete


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Jews and Blacks in America
In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935
Struggles in the Promised Land: Toward a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States
Blacks in the Jewish Mind: A Crisis of Liberalism
What Went Wrong? The Creation and Collapse of the Black-Jewish Alliance
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In 1963, at the time of Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington, it was assumed by many American liberals that Jews and African-Americans were natural allies, a belief seemingly confirmed when a disproportionate number of Jewish students participated in the Freedom Summer of the following year. Yet by 1995, when Louis Farrakhan led his Million Man March, the conventional view held that Jewish and black communities were divided by deeply rooted conflicts. In the spring of 1996 Howard University and the American Jewish Committee, in a desperate attempt to promote "mutual understanding and a just society," launched the admirable CommonQuest: The Magazine of Black- Jewish Relations. The first issue reviewed Murray Friedman's book What Went Wrong? The Creation and Collapse of the Black-Jewish Alliance.1
During the past decade numerous books and academic conferences have addressed the issue of conflicting or incompatible interests between blacks and Jews. The first important survey of black-Jewish relations, by Robert G. Weisbord and Arthur Stein, was published soon after New York's Ocean Hill-Brownsville school crisis of 1968 and was revealingly entitled Bittersweet Encounter: The Afro-American and the American Jew.2 Since 1970 little sweetness has remained. After bitter divisions over Israel, affirmative action, and the Black Power movement, some African-American academics have dismissed the contributions of Jewish philanthropists to black causes as paternalism and have argued that it was secular radicalism, not Jewish ancestry or religion, that distinguished the white civil rights workers in the South. In the history of black-Jewish relations, according to this view, the Jewishness of an eighteenth-century slave trader or a later Harlem merchant or landlord was far more meaningful than the Jewishness of Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, who served in 1964 as voting-registration volunteers in Meridian, Mississippi, before being murdered by the Ku Klux Klan.
Such second thoughts about black- Jewish relations have by no means been limited to African-American historians. In Struggles in the Promised Land, a recent anthology edited by Jack Salzman and Cornel West, a number of Jewish writers stress the great caution and self-interest of Jewish organizations that worked for civil rights. In another recent anthology, African Americans and Jews in the Twentieth Century: Studies in Convergence and Conflict, Michael Rogin draws on his book Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot3 to describe the racist "stain of shame" incurred by Jewish performers who wore burnt cork on stage and screen early in this century. A few Jewish radicals joined black nationalists in arguing that Jews had been mainly interested in using and exploiting blacks for their own advancement as Jews. Many other Jews were deeply troubled that only a fairly small number of prominent blacks, such as Henry Louis Gates Jr., were willing to denounce black anti-Semitism, and that such publications as the Nation of Islam's 1991 The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Volume One were being circulated in American colleges.4 By the middle and late 1990s, diverse Jewish historians, among them Murray Friedman, Jack…
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Barcelona (Catalan News Agency - CNA). Catalan literature is in good health since it has been invited to the 2014 Göteborg Book Fair, the most important literary festival in Scandinavia. The same week that the Paris Book Fair opens, in which Barcelona is the guest of honour, Catalan literature has a new date for its diary. With the slogan "Voices from Catalonia", eight Catalan writers whose works have been translated into Swedish or other Scandinavian languages will feature at the Göteborg Fair. Sights are set on 2015, since the Institut Ramon Llull is working to have illustrated children's literature be the guest of honour at the Bologna Children's Book Fair.
In an interview with CNA, the Associate Director of the Institut Ramon Llull (IRL), Àlex Susanna, announced that they are aiming to receive an invitation each year from one of the main literary fairs so that the literary patrimony of Catalonia, both past and present, can be visualized "in an efficient way", since it has "great potential. In 2012, Catalan literature was the guest of honour at the Québec International Book Fair, while in 2013 it was the turn of Paris, while in 2014 it will be Göteborg.
In order to prepare for the fair, next June eight Swedish editors and writers will visit Barcelona to establish contacts with publishers, literary agents, authors and critics to "immerse themselves in Catalan literature" and formulate their proposals for 2014.
On this occasion, the focus will be exclusively on writers publishing in Catalan. Susanna believes that is essential that Catalan authors are known in Scandinavia, especially Sweden.
Catalan illustrated literature in Bologna.
In parallel to this, for more than a year the IRL has been talking to Bologna Children's Book Fair with the aim of illustrated children's literature being the guest of honour.
Source: Catalan News Agency
Eight Catalan writers whose works have been translated into Swedish or other Scandinavian languages will feature in "Voices from Catalonia" at the Göteborg Fair
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The privacy of millions of NHS patients will be critically undermined by a government plan to let medical researchers have access to personal files, the health information watchdog told the Guardian last night.
The prime minister and Department of Health want to give Britain's research institutes an advantage against overseas competitors by opening up more than 50m records, to identify patients who might be willing to take part in trials of new drugs and treatments.
They are consulting on a proposal that is buried in the small print of the NHS constitution that would permit researchers for the first time to write to patients who share a particular set of medical conditions to seek their participation in trials.
It would result in patients receiving a letter from a stranger who knew their most intimate medical secrets, which would be regarded by many as a breach of trust by doctors who are supposed to keep information confidential. It raises the prospect of a letter being opened by a relative, which could cause embarrassment.
Harry Cayton, who is about to take over as chairman of the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care, the new watchdog on use of NHS data, said the proposal is "ethically unacceptable".
He said: "There is pressure from researchers and from the prime minister to beef up UK research. They think of it as boosting UK Research plc. They want a mechanism by which people's clinical records could be accessed for the purposes of inviting them to take part in research, which at the moment is not allowed. I think that would be a backward step.
"It would be saying there is a public interest in research that is so great that it overrides consent and confidentiality. That is not a proposition that holds up."
Cayton said the government issued a handbook alongside the draft NHS constitution saying that researchers should be allowed to use care records, without the informed consent of the patient, to identify people suitable to participate in approved clinical trials.
He said: "We believe this is a breach of good practice in confidentiality and consent, and have questioned if there is a sound legal basis for it."
His board has written to Alan Johnson, the health secretary, asking for the proposal to be quashed. A health department spokeswoman said last night: "We are consulting on the NHS constitution to ensure that the final version is fit for purpose. We welcome the board's valuable comments and will consider them alongside other responses. We expect to publish our response shortly."
Medical researchers currently have to ask GPs to identify patients who might be suitable for a research trial. It is the GP who sends any letter to the patient suggesting that participation might bring medical benefit.
Cayton said: "This is legitimate and it works. But, for the researchers, it is laborious. Not all GPs are helpful and the researchers say this may cause a sample bias."
Last year the prime minister asked Richard Thomas, the information commissioner, and Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust, to review all aspects of data sharing.
They reported in July: "One area of research raises a Catch 22 dilemma. Researchers may wish to approach individuals in order to gain their consent to participating in a particular piece of research, for example the trial of a new treatment for a particular disease. The issue is how to identify these people in the first place. The requirement for 'consent to gain consent', which is largely limited to medical research, is a problem that requires a solution."
They said the NHS should allow approved researchers to work with healthcare providers to identify potential patients. "These approved researchers would be bound by the same duty of confidentiality as the clinical team providing care, and face similar penalties in the case of any breach of confidentiality. If legislation is necessary to implement such a scheme, then we would urge government to bring that legislation forward as quickly as possible."
Cayton said: "There is pressure [for this legislation] from the R&D people at the Department of Health and I understand this is an enthusiasm of the prime minister ... I am not saying there is no solution to the problem, but trying to bulldoze this proposal through is wrong."
He favoured alternative solutions that might allow researchers to trawl electronic files without gaining access to individuals' names and addresses. The system might be able to generate letters to a target group, informing people about a range of trials going on in their area. It would be left to individuals to notice whether they might benefit from a particular trial.
Cayton, the government's former patient tsar, brokered a compromise in 2006 after the Guardian criticised plans to place the medical records of every patient in England on a national electronic database, known as the Spine.
Ministers conceded that patients should have the right to opt out if they were concerned that their personal data might fall into the wrong hands.
He said: "The manner in which the Guardian raised the issue was frustrating at the time, but you can look back and see that it was in the public interest in the broadest sense. It caused people to have a discussion and there are benefits in having informed public debate."
Cayton's board was set up by legislation this year. It will take over from the Patient Information Advisory Group, established after a scandal at Alder Hey children's hospital involving illegal storage of children's tissue samples.
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Developing a Real-Time Taxi App with Django Channels and Angular
Learn how to develop and test a real-time ride-sharing app with Django Channels and Angular!
In this course, you will learn how to create a ride-sharing application that incorporates an Angular front-end with a Django back-end in a Docker container. The focus of this course is real-time communication between client and server, and we'll be using Django Channels and Redis to send and receive JSON messages over an open WebSockets connection.
Another important aspect of these chapters is test-driven development (TDD). Each step of the way, we will demonstrate how to test both the UI and the APIs.
What will you build?
A Django app. Configure user authentication and authorization with core Django. Coordinate two-way messaging with Django Channels and Redis. Construct a RESTful API with Django REST Framework.
An Angular app. Build an infrastructure of Angular components and control the flow with routing. Communicate with the backend using WebSockets, Angular services, and reactive programming. Leverage third-party apps like Google Maps to bolster the user experience.
- Current version: 2.0.2
- Last updated: November 11th, 2019
- Author: Jason Parent
What will you learn?
Part 1
In Part 1, you'll learn how to program the server code of the ride-sharing application. We'll start by developing a custom user authentication model and data profile. Then we'll create a data model to track the trips that the riders and drivers participate in along with the APIs that provide access to that data. Lastly, we'll leverage the asynchronous nature of Django Channels to send and receive messages via WebSockets. Throughout this part, we'll be testing every function to make sure that the code we write operates the way we expect it to.
Tools and Technologies: (Asynchronous) Python, Django, Django REST Framework, Django Channels, Redis
Part 2
In Part 2, you'll take the first steps in setting up the user interface for the app. We'll start by creating an Angular front-end application. Using TypeScript, we'll write components and services to complement the authentication APIs that allow users to sign up, log in, and log out. Again, we'll make sure to test our application along the way, this time using Jasmine and the Angular testing framework. Before we end this module, we'll learn how to run both the front-end and back-end in a single Docker container.
Tools and Technologies: Angular, TypeScript, Jasmine, Karma, Docker
Part 3
In Part 3, you'll finish coding the front-end and you'll stitch the UI together with the server APIs. Continuing where we left off in Part 2, we'll expand our UI to build two dashboards--one for the rider and one for the driver. Here, we'll also create the TypeScript code necessary for establishing a WebSockets connection with the server and subscribing to it. We'll test the real-time nature of the app through automated tests and manually. We'll also incorporate Google Maps so that users can visualize their current locations and the addresses they input.
Tools and Technologies: (Asynchronous) Python, Django, Django Channels, Angular, TypeScript, Jasmine, Karma, WebSockets, Google Maps, Geolocation
Table of Contents
Table of contents from Developing a Real-Time Taxi App with Django Channels and Angular:
Part 1
- Introduction
- Changelog
- Getting Started
- Authentication
- WebSockets
- UI Support
- User Photos
- Conclusion
Part 2
- Introduction
- First Steps
- Routing
- Our First Test
- User Data Model
- Authentication Service
- Docker
- Forms
- Landing Page
- Conclusion
Part 3
- Introduction
- Rider Dashboard
- Retrieving Trips
- Requesting Trips
- Trip Detail
- Refactor
- Driver Component
- Driver Dashboard Component
- Driver Detail Component
- Tying it All Together
- Google Maps
- Notifications
- Conclusion
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So I've been bursting to get this out of my system for ages but wanted to wait for the Southport Visitor Press Release first…
In a absolute UNIQUE collaboration between myself & leading Portrait Studio Yaffé Photography, we are happy to announce the launch of the Signature Range Wall Art created by Adam Yaffé.
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Sweet potato is an unusual vegetable plant.
This vegetable is a highly valuable food and is an excellent food for children and athletes, as well as patients and obese people.
Sweet potato provides energy, it does not gain weight and can be eaten by diabetics.
Sweet potato is future in our kitchen
Vegetable sweet potato has up to 3 meters long roots in the ground, where occur numerous fleshy thickening (sweet potatoes).
Sweet potatoes can be different colors and shapes, long between 20 and 30 centimeters, and has weight up to 3 kilograms.
Spanish sailors this thickening called "patata" because it looks like a potato.
Sweet potato is a vegetable rich in vitamins and minerals.
Special attention is given to vitamin A or beta-carotene, which the plant has much more than in common potatoes.
Content is so rich, as shown by example that in just 200 grams of sweet potato can find the same amount of beta-carotene as well as in 5 pounds of broccoli.
It is known that beta-carotene is a powerful antioxidant, so we can assume how sweet potatoes are good for our health.
This vegetable strengthens our immune system and protects us from the destructive effects of free radicals, and even some types of cancer, especially lung cancer.
In addition to beta-carotene, a sweet potato contains a lot of vitamin C, which is a good antioxidant, slows down aging and prevents diseases associated with aging.
In itself, sweet potato has vitamin E.
Deficiency of vitamin E for our body can cause heart and blood vessels diseases which can lead to a heart attack or stroke.
Sweet potato is rich and minerals such as potassium, calcium, magnesium and iron.
In addition, this vegetable contains the minimum amount of fat but its consumption can reduce blood cholesterol levels and fat in the bile.
It is also rich in fiber that helps digestion and protects against colon cancer and similar diseases.
In addition, to written good properties of this vegetable should be noted that sweet potatoes should be eaten in moderation because excessive amounts can cause bloating in our body, which will have a negative effect on digestion.
Health benefits of sweet potatoes:
– Diabetes
– Blood Pressure
– Cancer
– Digestion and regularity
– Fertility
– Immunity
– Inflammation
– Vision
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The DLB recently had the chance to attend a roundtable with actor Colin Farrell, one of the stars of the upcoming Fright Night remake, and it turns out that the Phone Booth star, who plays vampire Jerry Dandridge in the role originated by Chris Sarandon, is quite the horror buff. Here's what he had to say when asked about the ongoing appeal of vampire films:
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COLIN FARRELL TALKS "FRIGHT NIGHT"Posted in Gore, Interviews, Movies, Vampires with tags Anton Yelchin, Bela Lugosi, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Lee, Colin Farrell, David Tennant, Dr. Who, Fright Night, Gary Oldman, Let the Right One In, Near Dark, Phone Booth, The Lost Boys on August 17, 2011 by darklordbunnykins
ORIGINAL "FRIGHT NIGHT" SCREENS IN TORONTO TONIGHT!Posted in Events, Gore, Movies, News, Rue Morgue, Vampires, Violence with tags Chris Sarandon, Colin Farrell, Fright Night, Roddy McDowall, William Ragsdale on July 21, 2011 by darklordbunnykins
Just a reminder that Rue Morgue Magazine's monthly movie night, Cinemacabre, is tonight (July 21) at 9:30. In anticipation of the remake coming out in August, this month's offering is the original Fright Night which the DLB has not seen since it came out in 1985 but of which he has fond memories. Chris Sarandon stars as Jerry Dandridge, the seemingly cool new neighbour of Charley Brewster (Williams Ragsdale), a teen who soon suspects that Jerry is actually a vampire so enlists the help of local TV horror host Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall) to destroy him.
Don't forget that Cinemacabre has temporarily moved to the Toronto Underground Cinema at 186 Spadina Avenue while its usual resting place, The Bloor, undergoes renovations through August.


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Woah people, we never said we would release today, just keep your knickers on and sit tight.
Judging by the votes, we will release the mod!LU will be released this month. We will announce a definitive date when we decide on one.We never said we would release today, it would've been nice but we are still tying up any loose ends.Between now and the release date we will start opening up the wiki and other useful resources.Watch this space!


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"Art Flippers Chase Fresh Stars as Murillo's Doodles Soar" [Bloomberg]
"On Thursday, the Cooper-Hewitt is expected to announce a $10 million gift from philanthropists Barbara and Morton Mandel" towards its renovation. [WSJ]
Here's a description of dealer Gavin Brown's new show at Green Gallery in Milwaukee. [Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel]
David Benjamin's firm, The Living, has won the annual Young Architects Program contest to design a temporary structure for MoMA PS1's courtyard. It's called Hy-Fi. [NYT]
The "U.S. Government to return painting to Poland that was seized by Nazis." [NYT]
Deborah Solomon on the Presidio Trust's decision to reject all of the current proposals for building in the Presidio, including George Lucas' plan for a Lucas Cultural Arts Museum. "Nancy Hellman Bechtle, the 76-year-old philanthropist who is the chairwoman of the Presidio Trust, said Tuesday that she had urged Mr. Lucas, the creator of the "Star Wars" movies, to consider putting his Lucas Cultural Arts Museum on a less prime spot in the Presidio, just west of his own former film studio." [NYT]
"Institutions take a proactive approach to problem antiquities, but critics want to see more information online." [The Art Newspaper]


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- Paul Gauguin was recently awarded Best Service, Best Cabins, Best Entertainment, and Best Embarkation all in the Small Ships category in Cruisers' Choice Awards 2019
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Salvatore Vincent "Sal" "The Boss" Maroni grew up in the privileged Maroni crime family, headed by his father Luigi "Big Lou" Maroni. Sal Maroni was one of toughest gangsters in Gotham City, and is shown in his prime to be the second most powerful mobster in Gotham City after Carmine (The Roman) Falcone. He is largely credited with being the mobster to throw acid at Harvey Dent, and turn him into Two-Face. Maroni owned an Italian restaurant called Maroni's that he used as a front for his criminal activities.
"Boss" Moroni was a mobster on trial for the murder of a man named "Bookie" Benson. Harvey Kent was the prosecutor at the trial. He called Batman as his first witness. During Batman's testimony, Maroni accused Batman of being a liar, and Kent revealed his evidence, Moroni's lucky two-headed silver dollar found at the scene with Moroni's finger prints on it. Enraged, Moroni threw a vial of acid at Kent; Batman jumped in the way, knocking Maroni out, but not before the acid struck half of Harvey Kent's face. Kent descended into madness and became the criminal Two-Face.[2]
"Boss" Maroni's early history resembles that of his Earth-Two counterpart, including his role in the creation of Two-Face. However, Maroni was apparently killed by Two-Face during one of their confrontations. In fact, Maroni had only been paralyzed from waist down and he decided to have plastic surgery to adopt a new identity. Under the name of Anton Karoselle, Maroni murdered David Stevens, the second husband of Gilda Dent, Two-Face's former wife. Maroni did this to spite Two-Face, and the villain in return tracked him down and killed him, "a second time".[1]
New Earth
Sal Maroni started as a low class mob leader, helping fund Hugo Strange's experiments with super-serum on Arkham Asylum inmates, expecting a promised large monetary return. Strange ends up paying him back with money stolen from mafia establishments he has had his Monster Men wreck. Maroni grows suspicious and tries to shut Strange down, but Strange launches a full-scale attack on the Gotham mob with his creations. Maroni is saved by the intervention of Batman.
When the mysterious killer "Holiday" begins killing members of Carmine Falcone's criminal organization, tensions grow between Sal and Falcone, as Falcone begins to suspect that Holiday has sided with Maroni (although they also think that District Attorney Harvey Dent has something to do with the killer). Their business relationship becomes strained as a result. Eventually Maroni and his henchman Toots corrupt Dent's assistant D.A. Vernon Wells and make him part of a scheme to kill Dent. In December, Maroni's restaurant was attacked by the Joker who interrogated Maroni, believing he was Holiday. Batman eventually arrived but the Joker was gone by then. In the attack, Toots was killed with Joker Venom.
As the Holiday killings go on, Holiday begins hitting parts of the Maroni Family, killing four of Maroni's bodyguards in a car outside of his restaurant, and shooting everyone in one of Maroni's safe house. Maroni then began to believe that the attacks were organized by Falcone. When his father, Big Lou Maroni is killed by Holiday, Maroni makes a deal with Dent to reveal all of Falcone's criminal activities, in exchange for a deal. While in custody, Sal is visited by Carmine Falcone's daughter Sofia.
- Although this character was originally introduced during DC's Golden Age era of publication, their existence following the events of the 1985–86 limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths remains intact. However, some elements of the character's Pre-Crisis history may have been altered or removed for Post-Crisis New Earth continuity, and should be considered apocryphal.
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- 43 Appearances of Salvatore Maroni (New Earth)
- 13 Images featuring Salvatore Maroni (New Earth)
- 2 Quotations by or about Salvatore Maroni (New Earth)
- Character Gallery: Salvatore Maroni (New Earth)
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LEONI URGES DUCHOVNY TO QUIT LOS ANGELESActress TEA LEONI is urging her husband DAVID DUCHOVNY to quit Los Angeles so they can move back to their native New York.The stars have been living in California for a number of years, but Leoni is eager to return to the Big Apple, because she believes it will be a much better place to raise their two children, MADELAINE, five, and KYD, t wo.But the actress is horrified that her husband is taking so long to get around to making the move.She says, "I think it's David who is sort of dragging his feet about it. I don't know what his big problem is."I wanna come back here... I gotta get him outta California. I don't wanna raise my kids out there, La La Land. I just think they have to grow up here with seasons and snow."
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By Randy Pinsky
Gusting winds, rainy forecasts, and an early start failed to dampen the excitement and determination exhibited at the 9th annual Oka National Park Run for the West Island Association for the Intellectually Handicapped (WIAIH)! The dreary November morning was counterbalanced by the contagious energy and enthusiasm of the volunteers in fluorescent vests and the hundreds of pumped-up runners.
As described on their website, WIAIH "strives to enhance the lives of people with an intellectual disability or autism, provide support to their families, and maintain and develop innovative services and sensitize the community". Celebrating almost 60 years of involvement, the organization provides early intervention for those with developmental delays, in addition to coordinating parent support groups, social activities, and respite care.
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Like Lincoln, Jefferson, Madison – Americans Fear Corporate Control of Public Policy (Updated)
[Editor's note: I wrote this piece two years ago just after the terrible SCOTUS decision in Citizens United. I'm re posting it today in order to include the excellent video by Thom Hartmann "The Truth About the Original Tea Party" Bob Higgins] Updated (originally posted 2/17/10)
The Washington Post's Dan Eggen reports this morning on the results of a WaPo/ABC News poll which shows Americans to be "overwhelmingly" opposed to the recent SCOTUS decision to allow corporations to spend unlimited amounts of cash in election campaigns.
"Eight in 10 poll respondents say they oppose the high court's Jan. 21 decision to allow unfettered corporate political spending, with 65 percent "strongly" opposed. Nearly as many backed congressional action to curb the ruling, with 72 percent in favor of reinstating limits. The poll reveals relatively little difference of opinion on the issue among Democrats (85 percent opposed to the ruling), Republicans (76 percent) and independents (81 percent)."
Americans have always been distrustful of corporations and their ability to exercise power and control over public affairs.
Ever since Elizabeth I created the East India Company in 1600, corporations have been a pain in the public neck. Her royal act to protect the monetary interests of wealthy members of her court, parliament and herself created a company that would, over the course of two centuries, grow in power to rival many of the worlds nation states.
A legal fiction, corporations exist solely to protect the oligarchy from the results of their risky behavior in the search for ever greater profit. Incorporate and pass the risk on to someone else, creditors, taxpayers, anyone but those involved in the scheme itself.
Businessmen of the time, as today, were and are, infinitely more comfortable operating in an environment devoid of risk to their profits, unless of course they are operating on someone else's money, (taxpayers) in which case nearly any risk can be accepted; "it's public money, double down and toss the dice boys."
Corporate Personhood versus Democracy
[Editor's note: The Supreme Court decision in Citizens United was the worst decision by the court since those of Dred Scott v. Sandford and Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company, the latter of which established the ridiculous idea of corporate person-hood in US law. The origins of corporate person-hood are explored in the excellent essay linked below from William Myers. Bob Higgins]
The Santa Clara Blues: Corporate Personhood versus Democracy
By William Meyers
What Corporate Personhood Is
Corporate Personhood is a legal fiction. The choice of the word "person" arises from the way the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was worded and from earlier legal usage of the word person. A corporation is an artificial entity, created by the granting of a charter by a government that grants such charters. Corporation in this essay will be confined to businesses run for profit that have been granted corporate charters by the States of the United States. The Federal Government of the United States usually does not grant corporate charters to businesses (exceptions include the Post Office and Amtrak).
Corporations are artificial entities owned by stockholders, who may be humans or other corporations. They are required by law to have officers and a board of directors (in small corporations these may all be the same people). In effect the corporation is a collective of individuals with a special legal status and privileges not given to ordinary unincorporated businesses or groups of individuals.
Obviously a corporation is itself no more a person (though it is owned and staffed by persons) than a locomotive or a mob. So why, in the USA, is a corporation considered to be a person under law?
Corporate personhood is the idea (legal fiction, currently with force of law) that corporations have inalienable rights (sometimes called constitutional rights) just like real, natural, human persons.
That this idea has the force of law both resulted from the power and wealth of the class of people who owned corporations, and resulted in their even greater power and wealth. Corporate constitutional rights effectively invert the relationship between the government and the corporations. Recognized as persons, corporations lose much of their status as subjects of the government. Although artificial creations of their owners and the governments, as legal persons they have a degree of immunity to government supervision. Endowed with the court-recognized right to influence both elections and the law-making process, corporations now dominate not just the U. S. economy, but the government itself.
Read more The Santa Clara Blues: Corporate Personhood versus Democracy by William Meyers.
Target Ain't People: A Musical Protest
When Target spent $150,000 to support a Minnesota politician who favors anti-gay legislation, thousands of people decided to boycott the big-box chain. But instead of simply shopping elsewhere, these activists turned to the popular musical-style TV show, GLEE, for inspiration. With choreography, a catchy tune, and Target accessories as props, they took shoppers and employees by surprise. From Yes Magazine.
|Target Ain't People
I read about the Target campaign contributions and resulting boycott a couple weeks ago but I missed this wonderful video.
I've always admired agit-prop protests and considered them to be among the most attention getting and effective ways to point out the truth about official or private wrong doing.
If you agree that corporations aren't people with human rights and the right to control our public affairs by buying government, its institutions and the people we pay to represent our interests, take a minute and to the petition at Target Boycott.Org


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I read somewhere that writer's block doesn't exist (it does), and to a certain extent I agree (and it doesn't). I think when most people think about writer's block they imagine sitting in front of a computer and just not knowing where to even begin. But it's more than that. It's perfectionism (face it, you are not going to get it right on the first try). It's fear (not everyone is going to love what you have to say). When you can get past these things, I think that version of writer's block is passable. You fight through it one word at a time. Words become sentences, become paragraphs, become chapters. They needn't be perfect. That's what editing is for (but no one wants to think beyond the first draft - I'm guilty of this myself).
Yet as I am typing this now, I am writing at a time when I feel the pressure of that invisible block upon me (and maybe part of me is writing this as a distraction from doing the actual work of progressing things). However, in this case, I know the problem and namely it's Naming.
Someone said "names are important" and I firmly believe that (all bow to Patrick Rothfuss in acknowledgment of his awesome). With some characters, all they have is their name. So, even though I have 3,500 words (give or take) of a first chapter (for now it's a first chapter, but I've already taken a first chapter and bookmarked it for later on) written down, progress has come to a standstill. Do I know where I want the story to go? Yes (I have a general direction in mind anyway - sometimes not having everything figured out helps because the characters don't always want to listen to you... but that's another story). So, what's my problem? I haven't named EVERYTHING yet, and I just can't bring myself to write something along the lines of "and the King of (Island Not Yet Named) turns to (Character Not Yet Named) and..." Sometimes you can get by naming something later (hell, this blog is titled Insert Title Here - was titled that... we will see if the new title sticks), but with the bulk of the nouns you're dealing with unnamed it doesn't really work.
I already know who the main POV characters are in title, in physical description. I've started giving them personalities, traits, backgrounds (or have they been giving that information to me?). They are becoming more than their clothes, profession, political titles (I seem to have a problem with the word "and" at the end of my lists). Yet I can't figure out their names and without that, the story is behind the block - now picturing my story trapped under a giant children's block of wood carved with various letters (likely F and U are visible). I've scanned baby-naming books, web sites, movies and novels. Nothing feels right yet.
On top of that, the scale of the story that is clawing it's way out of my head is grander than anything I have handled before. Maybe that comes from all the George R R Martin I've been reading/watching lately (though I would never even begin to compare myself to such a master). I'm an amateur and I know it. I have a day job I am fond of (at least I tell myself that to help the days go by). Regardless, I count at least six POV characters (only two of which have been named thus far), another 10 - 15 that require more in depth characterization (two or three names done), nine land names (one I am happy with), 12 or so ship names (three done), etc.
Why is writing so hard when we've all been doing it since we were children? It's work. It takes time other than the time you spend actually typing (or hand-writing, as I had always been prone to do until not too long ago) the story to research names, customs, diction, etc. (throw an "etc." on and you don't need an "and" anymore!).
So may this post exist as a reminder to (what the hell are you still doing typing here?! Get back to work!)


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Damn Tax Registration
I'm looking at different ways of improving my current income, so that I can at least make a decent attempt at buying a property to live in.
I'm only looking at small things so far, such as flogging a few things I don't need on eBay (books, an old stereo, some old computer parts, that kind of thing); and placing some AdSense adverts on this website.
I'm also thinking of possibly "pimping myself out" as a consultant for Progress 4GL/Webspeed, writing a book (!) of some description, or doing some computer tuition.
What really worries me about all of this is all the tax and national insurance registration stuff that I would have to do. I can find simple references to all of this on the inland revenue's website (http://www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk), but they don't appear to be simple enough for me. They kind of still seem to assume that once I've understood they line of "Hey, you'll need to pay tax", that instantly I'm a genius at it, and will be off and away after 30 seconds.
It's all becoming very annoying. If anyone knows of anyone who has done it already and can guide me in the right direction, that would be very, very cool.


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Good afternoon friends, good to see You, hope You are doing well.
Time for another one of these. strictly adhere to 1000 wds. starting….now. ok 1025 or so.
enough jokes. my listening material this week has been Matt Parrott talks to Greg Johnson about the AmRen conference.
h t tp://www . c0unter-currents.com/2013/04/american-renaissance-2013-and-the-new-mantra/
TRYING to hide trackbacks, not because I wanna troll these sites, I just want to keep a low profile until I'm a better White Warrior. Got a lotta personal work to do yet. Get strong, Get courageous. I would HOPE you can figure out how to crack my code.
So that's a good talk. I like Parrott. Clued me into Bloc Indentitaire in France, had this guy at the conference. nationalist party in france that has not yet been "mainstreamized."
h t t p:// m a j orityrights.com/weblog/comments/we_are_generation_identitaire
I found this website Whte Ntionalist dot org, Christian Nationalist Forums, run by this guy Pastor Lindstedt, and I am gonna have to spend some time there. He has his own internet radio show too. (Da Dik Dik Show) I am a sucker for talk radio even MORE than blogs. It's a great Medium. I listen to Pro-White podcasts, talk radio etc for education and
entertainment in case You hadn't noticed! anyway , the Pastor guy bashes EVERYBODY. He is over the top in calling out just about EVERYBODY I like. Talk about dropping names. You name them, he doesn't like them. He probably doesn't even like MINDWEAPON.
Why does he not like so many people so much? why is he so much better? and he calls everyone fggots or mamzers or J-lovers or J's or cowards or hypocrites or sellouts or traitors or moles or plants.
Now, I do drop names, but mainly just to give you an idea of who I've been listening to / reading lately. I might not agree 100% but I'm not gonna bash them unless they're a total antiwhite J.
Although "San Fagscrisco" is GREAT and I started using that one immediately.
David Duke is coming out with a new book soon. And You Know Who it's about, hahaha. I for one am looking forward to it.
I was back on a Dr Pierce thing. I hope you can Love Your Race but not then have to prove it by working 80 hours a week being a White Ethnic Activist like Dr Pierce. Don't have the energy right now.
Found a website National Alliance News, natallnews dot NET
which might be a sort of dissident national alliance group for people unhappy with the way Natall has gone since Dr Pierces death in 2002 and especially the leadership of gliebe in the past few years.
also see
white reference blogspot
pretty full of information, might be one of the few places WN/Christian Nationalist doesn't dislike. full of good links. watch out for the widget that displays your city though! that makes me nervous. heh. so run TOR on Tails.
My hypothesis is that maybe these guys were actual NatAll Activists.
Which reminds me,
h ttp://w w w . n atvan.com/ i n t e r n e t – r a d i o / i n d e x . h t m l
the national vanguard/alliance site with a ton of podcasts/recordings of american dissident voices. It's not just the 308 Pierce on Archive.org. It's ALL Pierce broadcasts, 500 or 600 or so, the Kevin Alfred Strom stuff from 2002
h t tp://w w w.n a tvan.com/internet-radio/ts/080302.mp3
like that's the memorial one strom did right after dr pierce died.
go take a break, the post got a little long.
there's the picture of Dr Pierce I was looking for that was not coming up too readily in image search.
. Superior W Body, Superior W Mind, Crush The K's, W Warrior.
. exercise your BODY, MIND, and SOUL
so that set me off on a strom mission, the guy is a great writer and smart thinker. that whole scandal kinda tarnished him but I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt in that I find it completely plausible that he was set up by a combination of vindictive, borderline, crazy wimminz + Zog Fedz.
so then I found strom on youtube and he didn't have many followers yet, so then he followed me back, and I don't have many followers. Then I panicked because strom is a big deal, he was friends with Dr Pierce.
heh. I gotta listen to the strom broadcasts, some of em looked real good. Can't believe it took me so long to find this treasure trove. Maybe because National Alliance is not mentioned a LOT in my Blog World or Podcast World, maybe it is "going downhill" since Pierce died, but at least they have a ton of great podcasts.
h ttp://w w w . n atvan.com/internet-radio/ ts/101803.mp3
"perversion of the sacred", KAS, 2003, A Show About Sex. Decadence, Libertinism, Prudery, Towards a decent Sexual Morality. NICE.
note to self: to hide the trackbacks / make it not link, put spaces in the HTTP:// part. maybe. but then they can seach that string with that unique placement of spaces and then find this page in google, hahahaha. maybe.
Also I should try not to Name Drop in the TAGS.
Even if I do mostly support these people, I can't really SUPPORT them in that I can't ADD to what they're saying, I'm pretty powerless and n00bish right now. Gimme a few more months. I gotta make more money and WIN first.
Heh. just going down my Recent Bookmarks list and seeing what stands out. talk about GRECYCLING (tm Firepower)! But I care much more about Spreading Information, than HITS! Sharing What I have Learned so that maybe others can learn too. Of course, You prob already know most of this stuff.
there is tension between harold covington and april gaede. she says he threatened her? if so, not cool.
attack the system. this is more an anarchist thing than a white thing, indeed I think they have Nonwhite Writers. but Keith Preston is on Counter-Currents Radio / Voice of Reason. So at least they aren't Scawed of Us Scawy White Wacists.
OF course, Pastor L would say ALL these people are a bunch of kke fggots!
heh unrelated
h ttp://is it normal .com/story/i-hate-everything-29163/
"I Hate Everything" on Is It Normal dot com. I can relate. Been at a Relative Minimum Lately. of course the trolls call him a spoiled trust fund baby who never had to Work For A Living. And the Other Side says You Need Therapy. Yep. Go to a JShrink and Get your MIND Warped by JDrugs. THANKS FOR YOUR HELP.
That's also my Game Advice of the Post. With an Amused Alpha SMIRK, tell the POY Q2P2T that: "YOU NEED THERAPY."
Also, "DON'T HATE!" is another great one.
This one For Professional Alphas Only: "CREEPY GIRL IS CREEPY!"
YOU'RE WELCOME. Now you can help Your Own Women DEFILE themselves. Remember, just because they Like getting DEFILED doesn't mean YOU should LIKE defiling them! Better to avoid! Heh. My "new" argument against "The Poolside Approach."
Song Of The Post:
"Death Is Not The End", Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, 1995ish.
Trying to figure out the guy who sings the "the cities are on fire with the burning flesh of men" verse, thinking its Seeds drummer Thomas Wydler. Because I assume Blixa Bargeld has the blatantly german accent. Anyway this Wydler should become a frontman, his voice is GREAT, and only for ONE LINE. [Note: Wydler is from Switzerland and prob has a German accent too. So Now I'm thinking the burning flesh line IS Blixa. And Wydler DOES have his own Solo Project. not much vocals though. Wydler NOT Wylder. Im Dsilxeci]
The album "Murder Ballads" is all about death and murder and has many great songs. In a pinch, I listen to the first two, "Song Of Joy" and "Stagger Lee", a one two punch of extraordinary intensity, then skip to "Death Is Not The End". this is
the album closer which i guess is supposed to be a joke because it's the only "hopeful, happy" song on the album, with no death….but it kinda is ALL ABOUT DEATH itself. I think it fits PERFECTLY. When I was in a real bad mood it lifted me up.
I did not find the song corny at all, but found it a sincere expression of (controversy) Good Christianity. I realise Christ was a J. I really hope he WASN'T a J. But when you get a real dark day where you are so desperate you are begging to G-d for Mercy and Strength, then this is a profound song. Even on normal days.
The kicker is, Bob Dylan is a KKE. (obvious, but more later.) BUT he went through a Christian phase. Death is not the End came out in 1988 and I think Dylan was in his christian phase. not that he's still not definitely a Kke! And Cave, I think, is
a Classic Tormented Brooding Catholic, (ie neverkke) and makes this a classic song for other Brooding Tortured Catholics, haha.
Truly f00king beautiful song. I starred it once, then from my Starred Playlist, moved it to a new playlist of the Best Of The Starred Songs. Stars Of The Stars!
Ok I went over. So Go On The Internet And Complain About It. Or quit NECKBEARDING and go outside and enjoy the nice spring weather.


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News: FDA Cigar Regulations Already Disrupting Handmade Cigar Industry
20 Jul 2016
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations covering the cigar industry don't take effect until August, but the impact on cigars is already apparent. The regulations, which have already prompted two lawsuits against the agency (a long-planned lawsuit by the CRA, IPCPR, and CAA was filed last week), threaten to stifle the introduction of new cigars, plus the continued sale of any cigar introduced after February 15, 2007.
With the annual IPCPR Trade Show set to start next week, cigar makers are already announcing new cigars at a record pace, with plenty more expected next week. The reason is clear, as cigars introduced after August 8 will have to wait for FDA pre-approval before being marketed or sold in the United States, while those on the market before that date can be sold for two years without needing pre-approval.
Exact details of the pre-approval process are still unknown, which only fuels the urgency of getting new products to market. Most industry sources hope cigars will be approved as "substantially equivalent" to a product on the market prior to the February 2007 date, but even that standard may be difficult and costly to establish.
According to the FDA's final rule, the agency estimates it will take 300 hours for each Substantial Equivalence (SE) report, which works out to two months of time for one full-time employee. Industry sources believe the cost of each SE report would likely be even greater than the FDA's estimate, possibly $100,000 or more.
Those estimates are per SE report, and the FDA requires pre-approval for every tobacco product. This would likely include every new cigar size and packaging combination. For example, if a cigar is sold in 10-count and 20-count boxes, each would need a separate approval. Presumably, so would samplers created by the manufacturer, and potentially even samplers created and sold by retailers.
Needless to say, those costs are prohibitive for small cigar brands for whom a large volume vitola may only sell tens of thousands of units in a year. By introducing lines now ahead of the August 8 deadline, those small manufacturers buy themselves 18 months before they have to decide whether to submit them to the FDA for approval.
By then, cigar makers will have a better picture of the costs and requirements of achieving FDA approval, so they can decide if seeking approval makes economic sense, or if they will be forced to withdraw cigars from the market by August 2018 (after which cigars introduced after February 2007 can no longer be sold unless they have begun seeking FDA approval).
Unfortunately, this means many of the new cigars being rushed out before the deadline are living on borrowed time. While the results of the lawsuits could change the FDA regulations, such lawsuits are always difficult to win. In the meantime, while there will be a lot of excitement over the next two weeks as numerous cigars are announced, the devastating effects of FDA regulation on the handmade cigar market are already showing.
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