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The first part concentrates on installing and using CouchDB in OSX and Ubuntu.
OSXAlternatively you could install from sources which I prefer to get later and greatest.
- Download any pending updates for OSX. Then latest version of XCode
- Install homebrew if you still not have it. It is the best package manager for OSX.
- Install couchDB. Following instructions from http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installation with just one command. It could take a while, if it hangs then restart again, it will continue from where it broke.
- Start the server.
$ couchdb $ curl -X GET http://127.0.0.1:5984/
- If you need to change the default port:
sudo vi /usr/local/etc/couchdb/default.ini
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)"
brew install couchdb
UbuntuIn Ubuntu I decided to build from sources to get latest available version for my 10.10 Maverick. For 11.4 I found this also works but you have to issue 'sudo apt-get remove libmozjs185-dev' in order to build.
Using CouchDBLet us start interacting with CouchDB to create a database, a document, attach a file to it, update it etc. We use curl to be sure we can issue different HTTP request method (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE).
- We create our Document Management System database and we confirm it was created:
$ curl -X PUT http://127.0.0.1:5984/dms {"ok":true} $ curl -X GET http://127.0.0.1:5984/_all_dbs ["_replicator","_users","dms"]
- Let us create a first document. In this example we use POST instead of PUT so we get a UUID generated by CouchDB:
$ curl -d '{ "name":"Investor Document 11", "clientId": "1001", "createdByEmployeeId": "2", "reviewedByEmployeeId": "1", "approvedByManagerId": "21", "created": "2/2/2011", "reviewed": "2/3/2011", "approved": "2/4/2011", "investorId": "32", "categoryId": "2", "statusId": "2" }' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST http://127.0.0.1:5984/dmsResult:
- Let us attach a file to the above document. Note we need the document is and rev:
$ curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/pdf" --data-binary @DailyReport.pdf $DMS/296ef7cde8fe533efe0c7dded873505b/DailyReport.pdf?rev=1-d5dd0fa82df07553f3a2b82947864fc6
- You can visually manage your CouchDB server via Futon user interface. Just hit http://localhost:5984/_utils/ and start playing with it.
- Create some documents for different combinations of categoryId, clientId and investorId either from curl or from Futon.
- Let us start querying our DB.
You query a View in CouchDB. Views are a combination of two functions that are applied to the original data: Map and Reduce (MapReduce style: Map functions generate indexes and Reduce queries are requests against them). Map function as its name suggests specifies the mapping between the document structure and the structure of the View. Reduce function as its name suggests specifies how to group the resulting data to reduce the results. The View is consequently just a transformation of the document where an index is usually defined. If you need to group a Reduce step will be applied as well.
You must become familiar with how to write the map and reduce functions for Views. This is done using the javascript language. From Futon select "Temporary View ..." option from the View dropdown. You have two panes now, the left is for your Map function and the right is for the Reduce. By default you see CouchDB proposes the below code which is equivalent to "Do not use any custom key and show all values from the document". There is no transformation nor custom index at all in this case, however if no key is specified couchDB uses the document id as unique identifier). Remember the Map function generates rows containing the id, an optional key and an optional value.
function(doc) { emit(null, doc); }
- Let us edit the function to "Use the name as key and show only clientId and investorId". When you run the view using both functions you will realize the difference. By now you should be aware that emit() just accepts two parameters, the key for an index and the value that will be returned. Of course the results come ordered by the Key if provided. Both key and value are json expressions as well.
function(doc) { //emit(doc.name, doc); if(doc.name && doc.clientId) { var key = doc.name; var value = {name: doc.name, clientId: doc.clientId, investorId: doc.investorId} emit(key, value); } }
- Here we use a composite key out of the clientId and the investorId so we can find the documents for that combination. Again the results are ordered first by clientId and later by investorId:
function(doc) { if(doc.clientId && doc.investorId) { var key = [doc.clientId, doc.investorId]; var value = {name: doc.name, clientId: doc.clientId, investorId: doc.investorId} emit(key, value); } }
- Save the view. The options you pick will be used in the URL to retrieve the View results. I have decided to use "common" for the design document name and "by_client_investor" for the name of the view:
Design Document: _design/common View Name: by_client_investor
Now the View is saved so we can query it at any time. The View is now "Permanent" and not longer "Temporary". Let us query it for just one key. Note that as we decided to use an array as key we will need to look for something like: ["1000","30"]. As you might have notice the key contains characters that must be URL encoded, in this case %5B%221000%22%2C%2230%22%5D. Here is how the command will look like:
$ curl -X GET http://127.0.0.1:5984/dms/_design/common/_view/by_client_investor?key=%5B%221000%22%2C%2230%22%5DAlternatively you can use a more clear approach using some other curl flags:
curl -X GET http://127.0.0.1:5984/dms/_design/common/_view/by_client_investor -G --data-urlencode key='["1000","30"]'
- Here is how you use curl to create and execute a temporary View from the command line. Here we are using categoryId as a key and getting the whole document as a result of the "non existent" transformation.
curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:5984/dms/_temp_view -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d \ '{ "map": "function(doc) { if (doc.categoryId) { emit(doc.categoryId, doc); } }" }'
- Let us explore the results of the below temporary View. Here we are insterested in the total documents by category. As we are grouping we need to use a Reduce function where we take advantage of the provided _count. Note the key is null because it counts all of the existing documents.
curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:5984/dms/_temp_view -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d \ '{ "map": "function(doc) { if (doc.categoryId) { emit(doc.categoryId, doc); } }", "reduce": "_count" }'
- Here is how we generate the counting by key which translates to use "Grouping=exact" from Futon or as shown below "group=true" from the HTTP request:
curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:5984/dms/_temp_view?group=true -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d \ '{ "map": "function(doc) { if (doc.categoryId) { emit(doc.categoryId, doc); } }", "reduce": "_count" }'
- We already saw how to make a View permanent while saving it from Futon. Here is how from an HTTP request you do the same. This time we are adding a View called category_count to a Design Document called category:
curl -X PUT http://127.0.0.1:5984/dms/_design/category -d \ '{ "_id": "_design/category", "language": "javascript", "views": { "count": { "map": "function(doc) { if (doc.categoryId) { emit(doc.categoryId, doc); } }", "reduce": "_count" } } }'
- As we already saw we can query this view like this:
curl -X GET http://127.0.0.1:5984/dms/_design/category/_view/count {"rows":[ {"key":"1","value":17}, {"key":"2","value":1} ]}
Some other examplesHere is how you would pull document information, delete its attachment (named the same as the document) using the revision number, try to delete it again and get an error, try to pull the attachment from the document and get an error and pull information again to confirm the document is still in the DB but simply it does not have any attachments. Note that I am accessing here now a production system where we use SSL with user and password:
$ curl -k -X GET "https://user:firstname.lastname@example.com:6984/dms/sample.pdf" {"_id":"sample.pdf","_rev":"1-adb7b6f2e32d73758dfa16966c1caef9","approvedOn":"2012-03-15T16:34:08.000-0400","createdByEmployeeEmail":"firstname.lastname@example.com","title":"sample.pdf","_attachments":{"sample.pdf":{"content_type":"application/pdf","revpos":1,"digest":"md5-ZRJB3hYW9LuwL2p9wjJr0g==","length":167546,"stub":true}}} $ curl -k -X DELETE "https://user:firstname.lastname@example.com:6984/dms/sample.pdf/sample.pdf/?rev=1-adb7b6f2e32d73758dfa16966c1caef9" {"ok":true,"id":"sample.pdf","rev":"2-87988b99af60e2f7cb9022b65b7565d5"} $ curl -k -X DELETE "https://user:firstname.lastname@example.com:6984/dms/sample.pdf/sample.pdf/?rev=1-adb7b6f2e32d73758dfa16966c1caef9" {"error":"conflict","reason":"Document update conflict."} $ curl -k -X GET "https://user:firstname.lastname@example.com:6984/dms/sample.pdf/sample.pdf" {"error":"not_found","reason":"Document is missing attachment"} $ curl -k -X GET "https://user:email@example.com:6984/dms/sample.pdf" {"_id":"sample.pdf","_rev":"1-adb7b6f2e32d73758dfa16966c1caef9","approvedOn":"2012-03-15T16:34:08.000-0400","createdByEmployeeEmail":"email@example.com","title":"sample.pdf"}
LoggingIf you are unsure where couchdb is logging just issue the below command:
$ curl -X GET http://localhost:5984/_config/log {"file":"/usr/local/var/log/couchdb/couch.log","include_sasl":"true","level":"info"}You can also get the latest log lines directly from the below request:
$ curl -X GET http://localhost:5984/_log
ReviewAt this point you can interact with CouchDB from any language using plain REST commands. You might want to use some abstractions with an API that allows you to go through CRUD operations with CouchDB without being concern about the details of sending and parsing JSON.
In the next part we start the design of the DMS for which we will not use any specific language other than plain HTTP with the help of curl.

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11 July 2014
Grandmother's Seven Year Nightmare after Botched Hip Operation
A grandmother has described her seven year nightmare after a surgeon botched her hip operation so badly it could have killed her.
A grandmother has described her seven year nightmare after a surgeon botched her hip operation so badly it could have killed her.
Brenda Gorst was left with her right foot pointing 90 degrees in the wrong direction, a life-threatening infection and a leg four inches shorter, following a series of blunders by her consultant.
The 73-year-old has endured seven major operations trying to correct the problems with her right hip, and still faces yet another procedure to rebuild her leg bone and pelvis.
Ms Gorst, of Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, but who was living in Clwyd, North Wales at the time, has now been awarded £250,000 clinical negligence compensation after winning a long-running legal battle with Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.
She said, "The last seven years has been nothing short of a nightmare. This has been a horrendous experience and it's important to me that other people don't have to go through what I've been through. Nobody should have to endure what I've had to endure."
She began suffering aches and pains in her hips in her 60s, but nothing which prevented her from being active. She was sent for a scan which showed some wear and tear on the bones.
Her consultant at Abergele Hospital recommended hip replacement surgery which took place in 2007.
"When I was offered surgery, I was quite excited. I thought I'm this active at the moment, maybe when this pain's gone away I'll be able do so much more. The risks associated with this operation were never really explained to me. It was all very matter of fact.
"When I woke up from the operation, my leg was black and I was in agony. It was bruised from tip to toe to unbelievable levels. I thought it would get better. It took some time for me to realise something had gone badly wrong."
The pain and swelling did not subside after weeks of rest. She returned to see the consultant who carried out three more operations on the hip in an attempt to alleviate the pain.
During one of the revision operation, in which the new hip joint was tightened and debris washed out, Ms Gorst contracted virulent, antibiotic resistant infection.
She said, "The consultant kept saying go away and come back in a few months. He was dismissive of me, as if I was bothering him.
"He eventually suggested a revision. After the second operation it became obvious that my right foot had started to point east. They tried to put my foot straight with sandbags. If you had seen everything you would say it looked like something from a horror film.
"By the third revision, my consultant looked at me and he said 'you're just somebody who doesn't tolerate pain very well, we'll send you to a pain clinic'."
The consultant relented in the face of Ms Gorst's pleas over her severe pain and sent her for second opinion and X-ray. The new consultant was "shocked" when the results came in.
A scan showed that the insert which was screwed into the femur had become very loose and swivelled in the bone.
Brenda said, "He was stunned when he saw the state of my hip and leg. He was shocked this hadn't been noticed yet. All the warning sings were there, I was in acute pain, the bruising and swelling was terrible and my leg was twisted in entirely the wrong direction."
"At that point they thought it was a flesh-eating disease. They told me I could be dead in three days. It was a pretty frightening experience.
"I was numb, I couldn't take it in. Thank God it wasn't a flesh-eating disease. But it was still a vicious, vicious infection. The doctors had to scour the country to find the antibiotics, which cost £2,000 a day, that could treat it."
"My leg is now virtually useless. I can't lift the leg. When I saw the surgeon last week he said five inches of the femur is not only all fractured but it's infected too.
"It's getting on for seven years since this ordeal started. I've gone from someone who was active and able to cope with the pain in my joints to someone who is in constant agony and unable to do many of the things I used to take for granted. I can hardly go out, need a crutch and a stick to help me walk.
"Looking back I wished I had pushed hard for a second opinion as soon as I realised something was wrong. My advice for anyone else in a similar situation, who has genuine concerns about their health care, should not be frightened of asking for a second opinion.
"If the pain is too bad and you're not healing, do not assume your doctor is infallible. They make mistakes but you should not have to suffer for their errors."
Surgeons have had to remove the hip replacement and fuse the leg bone to the pelvis, shortening it by four inches, in a bid to reduce the pain and give Ms Gorst some, very limited, mobility.
Slater and Gordon Clinical Negligence Solicitor, who is representing Ms Gorst said, "The details of this clinical negligence case are truly shocking. Her treatment fell dangerously short of even basic medical standards.
"Ms Gorst was not informed of the risks of a hip replacement operation, her pain and suffering were dismissed and simple anti-infection measures appear not to have been followed at the start of her treatment.
"It has been a terrible ordeal for Ms Gorst which is not at an end. She still faces operations to repair the extensive damage caused by these negligent operations. Her mobility and activity has been dramatically reduced as a result of the very operation which was meant to give her a new lease of life."
Slater and Gordon offer a free consultation for people who have suffered from clinical negligence or medical mistakes. Call freephone 0800 916 9049 or contact us online and we'll be happy to help.
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|American Favorite Blend
|5 tsp. onion powder
(not onion salt)
|1 Tbsp. garlic powder
|1 Tbsp. paprika
|1 Tbsp. dry mustard
|1 tsp. thyme
|1/2 tsp. white pepper
|1/2 tsp. celery seeds
|Yield: about 1/4 cup
(Health Education Association Inc. Glenside, PA)
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|3 Tbsp. celery seed
|1 Tbsp. onion powder
|1 tsp. garlic powder
|2 Tbsp. crushed oregano
|1 Tbsp. crushed thyme
|1-1/2 tsp. ground bay leaf
|1-1-2 tsp. black pepper
|1/1-2 tsp. ground cloves
|Yield: about 1/2 cup
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The Living Dead at The Manchester Morgue is a film I have been meaning to watch for sometime. For some reason it has been hard to get hold of and very over priced for a long time for some reason (maybe due to the fact it is also known as let sleeping corpses lie) but I'm not gunna pay £20 for a film I've never seen before incase its shit! I managed to find it online via google video (i have posted the link below) and I wasnt dissapointed.
The film starts out when a hip bearded antique shop owning biker goes on a road trip from the busy city to the lake district. On his way he encounters a wallflower ginger female who backs into his motorbike at a petrol garage and renders it useless. The biker (George) gets the woman driver (Edna) to give him a lift to where he is going as its the least she can do. The two get lost in the countryside and while George is off getting directions from a group of men in a field (who work for the department of agriculture and have a big fuck off radiation machine for killing ants) Edna is attacked by a zombie tramp who tries getting in the car. George comes back the tramp is gone and its not long before the zombie tramp kills someone and they get framed for it, a policeman with a really fucked up accent comes after them thinking they are satanic killers, babies start biting people, zombies start turning up ripping people to pieces and the two main characters are slap bang in the middle.
The movie is awesome and really captures the feel of the decade it was filmed in. The use of the British countryside gives this film the same eerie quality of romeros first undead nightmare (NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD) which is awesome and old school locations like church crypts and graveyards make it that little bit cooler. The zombies themselves are that tiny bit more terryfying than the usual undead which grace our screens on a regular basis. They cant die from headshots and just keep coming and are freakishly strong and in one scene a zombie lifts a gravestone out of the ground and uses it as a weapon. Theres lots of drug use including a character who is addicted to heroin and the gore count is tip top and much more hardcore than anything else released at its time. Anyway I never like to spoil films in my reviews but I love this movie please check it out the full version is below!
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Lately I've been having a lot of fun experimenting with a looser style and
creating patterns from these creations. Operating in this style has enabled me to expand the products I offer in my Society6 shop. I now have shower curtains, bedspreads, towels, rugs, and throw blankets in addition to all the fun smaller products in my shop.
Is everyone having a good fall? The weather has been so inconsistent, but I love the classic cool autumn days.


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UUA Joins with Religious and Secular Groups to Demand End to Arizona Human Rights Abuses
WASHINGTON, D.C.—As part of the Unitarian Universalist Association's (UUA) ongoing work for immigration rights and social justice, on Monday, December 12, 2011, the UUA delivered a letter to Secretary Janet Napolitano of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Attorney General Eric Holder of the U.S. Department of Justice. Co-signed by 14 religious and secular organizations, the letter demands government investigation into the human rights abuses carried out by Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his staff. Below is the full text of the letter.
Dear Secretary Napolitano and Attorney General Holder,
We write to you as leaders in fourteen religious denominations and organizations across the United States, urging immediate action to quell the growing human rights crisis in Arizona.
We request that the Department of Homeland Security immediately sever Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's access to all ICE ACCESS programs such as 287(g) and Secure Communities. We also request that the Department of Justice conclude its ongoing investigation into abuses by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and bring Sheriff Arpaio to justice.
In July of 2010, on the day that SB 1070 went into effect, people of faith from all over the country came to Phoenix to engage in non-violent civil disobedience; we were called by a higher authority to bear witness against legal policies that sanction and promote the degradation of human beings. The first signatory on this letter, Rev. Peter Morales of the Unitarian Universalist Association, was one of those arrested in front of the Maricopa County jail. In blocking the entrance of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's jail, those arrested sought to impede - if only for one day - the Sheriff's dehumanization of migrants, his raids on barrios, and his campaign of terror.
We are thankful that the Department of Justice launched an investigation into Sheriff Arpaio's actions and are hopeful that, upon completion, the Sheriff will be held accountable for his crimes. However, the Department of Justice investigation has been an excruciatingly slow process, and people are suffering all the while. These are people whose freedom and safety exist at the whim of a man who has openly shown himself to thrive on cruelty:
- Arpaio has said that he thinks it is an "honor" to be called "KKK" and has referred to his own tent city as a "concentration camp"
- Arpaio raided a man's house with a tank, terrorizing the family and neighborhood for the entertainment of a reality TV audience
- Arpaio has had to settle racial profiling suits and was forced to fire those working for him for their intimidation and corruption.
- The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed that Arpaio has repeatedly violated the constitutional rights of detainees by housing them in overcrowded conditions at "dangerously high temperatures," and feeding them "overripe, moldy, and generally inedible" food.
There are approximately 8,000 inmates in Maricopa County's jail cells, many of whom have been victims of policies that have been deemed unconstitutional. Yet Sheriff Arpaio is not only still in office today; he also continues to be empowered by the Department of Homeland Security. All the while, as you know, he has defied numerous federal investigations into his conduct.
We ask you, Attorney General Holder, to please bring Sherriff Arpaio to justice swiftly. Justice delayed is justice denied.
We ask you, Secretary Napolitano, to immediately cut Sheriff Arpaio's access to all ICE ACCESS programs such as Secure Communities and 287(g).
Every day we fail to stop dehumanization, we put our own humanity at risk. Whether we gaze upon Arizona and become desensitized to human suffering or we take action to preserve human dignity is not just a test for our federal government, it is a test for us all. Simply put, our nation stands at a moral crossroads, and we will be judged by future generations. Is your conscience comfortable with what history will say? We urge you to end the human rights abuses in Maricopa County now.
Todos somos Arizona. We are all Arizona.
In faith,
Rev. Peter Morales
President, Unitarian Universalist Association
Rev. Dr. Ken Brooker Langston
Director, Disciples Justice Action Network
Dianne Aid, TSSF
President of the Episcopal Network for Economic Justice
Rev. Luis Cortes,
President and CEO, Esperanza USA
Patrick Carolan
Director, Franciscan Action Network
Rev. Dennis Jacobsen
Director, Gamaliel National Clergy Caucus
Kim Bobo
Executive Director, Interfaith Worker Justice
Alejandro J. Beutel
Government and Policy Analyst, Muslim Public Affairs Council
Simone Campbell
Executive Director, NETWORK - A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
Laurie Anderson
Board of Directors, National New Sanctuary Movement
Juan Pablo Chavez,
Immigration Task Force, PICO National Network
Sr. Patricia McDermott, RSM
Sr. Eileen Campbell, RSM
Sr. Anne Curtis, RSM
Sr. Deborah Troillett, RSM
Sr. Mary Pat Garvin, RSM
Leadership Team, Sisters of Mercy of the Americas
Rev. M. Linda Jaramillo
Executive Minister, Justice and Witness Ministries, United Church of Christ
Bill Mefford
Director, Civil and Human Rights, United Methodist Church, General Board of Church and Society
The UUA is a faith community of more than 1,000 congregations that bring to the world a vision of religious freedom, tolerance, and social justice. For more information, please visit our online press room.


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And I also have a card for you today for Can You Case It's challenge this week to make a Single Layer card.
Whilst I am loving the"clean and simple"style these days I usually still like to add a layer or two of colour so this was a good challenge for me :-)
So I couldn't help myself - the butterfly is stamped twice and popped up but it still fits the brief of a single Card Layer :-)
The card base is of course white and I started by first embossing a butterfly on this base with Gold Embossing Powder and colouring it in Strawberry Slush ink with a Blender pen. Then I repeated that on a scrap piece of White to add on a dimensional.
And Gorgeous Grunge came to the rescue for the background again! I stamped the lines images in Sahara Sand and the Dots in Coastal Cabana ink creating a little ink frame :-)
For the Greeting I used "A Dozen Thoughts" in Strawberry Slush and then it was time to add the second butterfly and some embellishments…
I started with the largest of the Vintage Faceted buttons in the corner of the 'frame" and added a White Bakers Twine bow to it and then added a couple of sequins from the Sequin Trim and trimmed down a little Gold Foil chevron to help the little greeting stand out and blend in with the gold embossing on the butterfly :-)
Card stock: Whisper White, Gold Foil Specialty
Inks: Sahara Sand, Coastal Cabana, Strawberry Slush, Versamark
Stamps: Papillon Potpourri, Gorgeous Grunge, A Dozen thoughts
Accessories: Gold EP, Blender Pens, Vintage Faceted designer button, Whisper White Bakers Twine, Gold Sequin Trim, Chevron Punch
Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have time to pop over to Can You Case It and see the cards the talented Design Team has come up with this week and maybe you too might be inspired to join in too!
Happy stamping until next time,


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It's hard to consider nearly celebratory cigars lacking reasoning of Red Auerbach. A man noted as more for his roll of tobacco smoky as his instruction of the court, Auerbach went behind in times of yore as one of the best fluorescent basketball game coaches of all time. He likewise knew a piece or two around success: beneath Auerbach, the Boston Celtics won 9 NBA championships and finished with a register of 1037 wins and 548 financial loss. Still to this day, the 1960's Celtics troop deposit one of the most possessive in the times of yore of executive sports.
After coaching job last school, connection the navy, and coaching in the Basketball Association of America, Auerbach became the Celtics pave the way teacher in 1950. He washed-out the close individual eld creation his troop to importance and it post-free off: between 1959 and 1966 the Boston Celtics were unstoppable, small indefinite quantity as NBA champions for viii age undeviating. During the 1965 season, Auerbach was titled Coach of the Year. The Celtics were a basketball family line and Auerbach was their king.
Auerbach was also celebrated as one of the front coaches in the NBA to support intermission the race weir. In 1950, he became the early trainer to ever negotiable instrument an African American recitalist. In 1963, he became the preliminary handler to launch 5 African American players. And, upon his position in 1966, Auerbach called Bill Russell as his successor, making Russell the premiere African American external body part guide of an American office sports squad.Post ads:
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(1) A case report in BMJ, along with many personal reports given in the comments section:
A patient request for some "deprescribing"
BMJ 2015; 351 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h4023 (Published 03 August 2015) Cite this as: BMJ 2015;351:h4023
Very unfortunately, the article itself is now only partially visible at this LINK . To see the full case report, one needs a subscription (you can get a free 14-day trail if you like). In the report, David Unwin, and Simon Tobin, both general practitioners in the UK, describe the outcome when a patient said he wanted to avoid taking any medication that was not absolutely required. He adopted a low carbohydrate (and thus low-insulin-demand) way of eating. The patient's health improved substantially and he was very pleased with his new dietary lifestyle.
Fortunately, it is possible to read the many comments posted in response to this report. LINK A number of people have left comments describing their own experiences with both:
- the "usual" dietary advice they had been given and
- what happened when they instead adopted a low-carb diet.
The people leaving those comments include a wide range of people, at different ages, with various backgrounds including athletes and health professionals, and with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Just a few examples:
- Allison M Herschede,RN Student, Associate Diabetes Educator, diagnosed with type 1 DM as an infant:
- On January 4, 2010, the day after my 30th birthday, I made a huge decision. I was 200lb, my diabetes was out of control, and I was taking a myriad of medications for cholesterol, high blood pressure and many other things due to my poor health.
- It has been more than 5 years now and I am the healthiest I have been in my entire life. I have maintained a healthy weight and my current a1c is 4.8 (4.8-5.2 for more than a year now!) This is a permanent way of life for me and I would never go back! I am currently in my 2nd year of nursing school. I'm getting my R.N. so I can become a Certified Diabetes Educator.
- A little over a year ago, I was able to participate in starting an awesome new Facebook group with R.D. Dikeman, Derek Raulerson, and Debbie Theriault called TypeOneGrit. It is my absolute privilege to be a part of this amazing community. My blood sugar management has done a complete 180 because of these people.
- Matt J Pasterfield
- I would like to add my own story in support of this article. I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2005.
- To cut a long (ten year) story short, I have been limiting carbohydrate for a decade – around 30g a day. My A1cs have been consistently in the 5s and my most recent result was 4.7%. My blood test results have shown excellent levels of good cholesterol etc. All of my 10 year records and available as proof of these results. I have no signs of diabetic complications.
- Dr. Carrie Diulus, Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon
- LCHF plant rich diets are an extremely effective tool and I have had great success normalizing my patients A1c, BMI and decreasing the amount of medications they are taking. In the process of this, their musculoskeletal complaints often resolve. If they do not and the patient requires surgery, they are much better candidates and have a much lower rate of surgical complications related to their other comorbidities.
- This makes it worth all of the effort. This article pointed out and I couldn't agree more, that quite honestly the effort is not that much, but the knowledge of "how" to do it and the physicians attitude is critical to the patient's success.
- As a Type 1 diabetic myself I was initially placed on the standard "diabetic" diet which is low-fat and relatively high carbohydrate. My blood sugars were erratic and my insulin requirements were high. It was miserable. Using a LCHF diet myself has allowed me to normalize my blood sugars with relatively low doses of insulin. I am able to be very physically active and am an avid runner again. My most recent A1c was 5.3%.
- While there are studies indicating that "tight" blood sugar control for diabetics may not increase lifespan, these studies are looking at lowering blood sugars with aggressive medication management and frequently consider "good" A1cs to still be in an abnormally elevated range. We have not done an effective job at looking at longitudinal outcomes with the use of dietary changes for normalizing blood sugars. Surgical literature clearly supports improved patient outcomes when perioperative A1cs are less than 7.0%. Our patients can achieve these levels with dietary and lifestyle changes without or with minimal use of medications if we simply provide them with the tools and the motivation to do so. There is no reason to think that we are not improving life expectancy and decreasing complications of diabetes if the blood sugars and A1c are normalized with dietary strategies rather than with medication.
(2) Two Stories: An adult and a teen, both with type 1 diabetes:
An Adult: A doctor using very low carbohydrate diet to control his Type 1 diabetes.
This is an excellent video with succinct, clear information of profound importance to people living with diabetes.
In this presentation, a doctor who was recently diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes as an adult reports how his health was when he was strictly following the standard dietary advice he was given. Then he did his own studying and switched to a very low carbohydrate ketogenic diet. He shows the many ways his health dramatically improved.
Next, he relates the similar experience of several other people with type 1 diabetes.
He moves on to give an over-view of the research on the topic.
Presenter: Dr. Troy Stapleton – on Twitter @drtroystapleton
Presented: August, 2014
"Carbohydrate Restriction in Diabetes Management"
A Teen: Lisa Scherger learned to use low carb nutrition as a vital part of the care plan for her son with Type 1 Diabetes.
Besides very useful information, she is well known for her recipes!
diabeticalien.blogspot.ca LINK
Video of presentation by Lisa Scherger, fall 2014,
"My Healthy Type 1 Son"
(3) A doctor with type 2 diabetes relates his health recovery with low carb nutrition.
This is a short video in which a family doctor in South Africa describes the many improvements in his health with adopting a low-carb, ketogenic diet.
At 8:40 minutes, this video is also a good choice for helping you communicate with friends, family and your health care team about low carbohydrate nutrition.
A comment I would make is that this does not at all have to be a high protein diet. He refers to an emphasis on meats, but this is a common misperception. There is no need at all to have a high intake of meats or even of meat at all. A high protein intake is not even the preferred way to go. In fact, some people do not get the full benefits of low carbohydrate nutrition if they embrace a high protein intake. A moderate protein consumption is usually best.
Also, note that he needed to pay close attention to his medications as he started the change in eating pattern. It would have been very dangerous if he had not reduced the diabetes medication and blood pressure medication as needed as his food intake changed.
Finally, I definitely do not recommend the Dukan diet, which he mentions briefly.
This video is included on my site to illustrate the important option of low carbohydrate nutrition in the management of type 2 diabetes. Weight loss is also mentioned a lot in the video. In terms of weight loss itself, there is no one dietary approach that works for all people. The conundrum of obesity is not fully solved. It is never possible to say that any one could simply choose to be at a "normal" weight if only they just followed "X" or "Y" program or diet. Having said that, my assessment is that, for people who have had a persistent tendency to gain weight and have been at a higher BMI for some time – it is important to consider a well-done trial of a lower carbohydrate approach.
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"It's Official, We're Building A Platform" Says Oculus VR
Peter Donnell / 6 years ago
Oculus VR are still working hard on their consumer model of their upcoming Oculus VR headset, but as the hardware developers, so far progression through DK1 and the current progress with DK2, the company has also been working hard on other aspects of their VR technology.
With services like Steam, Origin and the much loathed UPlay already out there, it was tipped that Oculus may swing towards the common favourite, Steam, to deliver VR enabled games to the masses, but a recent statement from the often tight lipped Brendan Iribe has revealed that the company is now working on their own platform.
This doesn't mean that Oculus VR supporting titles won't still be on Steam, but it does mean that there will be a one stop shop for everything Oculus, that will no doubt bring extra features to ensure compatibility and customisation of your experience direct from the software hub, as well as a marketplace and no doubt the obligatory social features that we've come to see in just about everything these days.
"Jason Holtman recently joined to run platform. He's going to be largely leading the overall platform strategy around building out the ecosystem and the developer relations with Aaron and publishing with DeMartini." States Iribe in an interview with Venturebeat. "It's official. We're building a platform."
"There's a lot of engineering around that… Jason's background comes from Valve, running Steam and evangelizing Steam to third-party developers over eight years or so. It's great to get the person who built Steam to help build our platform [sic]."
With Jason now on board, brining with him the experience he has building and promoting the Steam platform, he's certainly a strong member to bring to the Oculus team, and with the company hiring a few others to help get this platform off the ground, it certainly has a lot of promise. Unfortunately that's all we know for now, but we'll update you as soon as we know more.
Thank you VRFocus for providing us with this information.
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Friday 25 January
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Unlike other fungi, earthstars can move! With a strong tendency to absorb and lose water, their outer layers uncurl when it rains (2) (3). The fruit body of the weather earthstar is onion-shaped when closed but, when expanded, the outer layers split into 6 – 10 'star-like' rays that curve outwards (2). The rays spread with enough force to push aside leaves, raising the inner spore-filled sac above surrounding debris. The rays close when they dry and the sac lowers (3). This species is pale brown with a whitish inner layer that, once exposed, eventually flakes off in patches (2).
WARNING: many species of fungus are poisonous or contain chemicals that can cause sickness. Never pick and eat any species of fungus that you cannot positively identify or are unsure about. Some species are deadly poisonous and can cause death within a few hours if swallowed.
Fungi are neither plants nor animals but belong to their own kingdom. Unable to produce their own food through the process of photosynthesis as plants do, they acquire nutrients from living or dead plants, animals, or other fungi, by breaking down tissues and absorbing them. In many larger fungi (except lichens) the only visible parts are the fruit bodies, which arise from a largely unseen network of threads called 'hyphae'. These hyphae permeate the fungus' food source, which may be soil, leaf litter, rotten wood, dung, and so on, depending on the species, and take up nutrients (4). Earthstars are found from June to mid-September, during which the fruit body produces spores for reproduction (3).
The weather earthstar is found in Britain and Europe, but there have been few records of it in Britain since 1938. It was collected in Norfolk in 1782, remaining uncollected from then until 1895, when it was found in Hillingdon, Norfolk. It was found again in Maidenhead, Berkshire in 1896, Wensleydale, Yorkshire in 1908 and Hellesdon, Norfolk in 1938 (2).
Found on well-drained rich soil, usually in deciduous woods or in hedgerows with deciduous shrubs (2).
This species is classified as Vulnerable on the Pink List of British Plants 1994 (1).
The threats to this species are unknown.
No specific conservation action has been targeted at the weather earthstar.
For further information on the weather earthstar see:
Pegler, D. (1995) British puffballs, earthstars and stinkhorns: an account of the British gasteroid fungi. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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Ever wondered how your best university essay would have stacked up against other students' papers?
SFU undergrads got a chance to find out during a new writing contest this year.
Organized by the Student Learning Commons (SLC), the inaugural undergraduate writing contest saw history essays go head to head with world literature papers and political science papers take on philosophy essays.
"For us it's another way to celebrate academic excellence," said Julia Lane, a writing services associate with the Student Learning Commons and one of the organizers. "Usually only the professor or the TA who's actually marking it ever reads the paper, so it just gives it a wider audience."
Organizers accepted the first 25 entries in two categories.
The open category featured essays written by any second- or third-year student in any discipline.
The SLC peer educator category was for students who volunteer at the Student Learning Commons helping other students with their writing.
The essays, all of which had to have been written in the 2017 academic year, were already done, so the contest wasn't any extra work for students.
"Nobody has time for that," Lane said with a laugh.
In the open category, Richard Kim won the first place prize of $200 for a history essay titled "Just or Injust: Scholarly Attitudes on the Moral Legacy of British Response to the Mau Mau Rebellion."
Helen Luo won second and $150 for "Sisyphus 4.0," and Gabrielle McLaren won third for "Playing God: Parallels between Ithaca's royal family and their patron goddess"
Honourable mentions went to Daniel Prisk for "Dirty Theory: Sketches of an Anthropological Account of Mountain Biking" and Sarah Yorston for "How To Get Away With Rape: Charter Protections and the Right To a Fair Trial."
In the peer category, organizers awarded one $200 prize and that went to Melanie Hiepler for her paper "Redefining Modernism: An Exploration of Modernist Possibilities in Icelandic Saga."
Honourable mentions in the peer category went to Kate Ellison for "A Place of Resistance: Oppenheimer Park, East Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories" and Mariam Ali for "Reopening the Canadian Embassy in Iran."
The winners were recognized at an event on Jan. 31, and their work will be published in an open access journal through the Student Learning Commons website and the SFU library.
Plans are already underway for the contest next year, according to Lane.
To read this year's winning essays, visit tinyurl.com/SFUcontest.


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I am thankful that Light fills darkness.
I am thankful for the patches of blue that kept me hanging on between the darkness and the light, when my soul was so weary that I doubted I could wait on the Lord to deliver me.
I am thankful for all of God's blessings,
for the connection of the human spirit that I have with all of you,
my beloved Sisterfriends.
Happy Thanksgiving
from a very grateful heart.


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The 2010 NAAF conference in Indianapolis, IN, is amazing!
Several members of Alopecia World are present and some are even making a positive difference as group facilitators and in various other volunteer capacities.
Cameras are everywhere, too.
Therefore, we encourage each of you in attendance to upload your NAAF conference photos and videos to http://www.alopeciaworld.com
We also encourage you to blog about your NAAF conference experiences.
The atmosphere is filled with laughter, comfort, and comradarie.
Share your story today.
Alopecia World's thousands of members and visitors can hardly wait to hear from you!
With great appreciation and anticipation,
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New information following the change in COVID-19 alert levels. massey.ac.nz/coronavirus
By studying veterinary science at Massey University you'll join a world-leading veterinary programme that will qualify you to work as a veterinarian in many different areas. The pre-selection semester is your first step towards studying this degree.
Find out more about entry requirements, fees and courses in the planning section.
Massey is the only New Zealand university offering veterinary training.
The BVSc degree is fully accredited by the Australasian Veterinary Board Council (AVBC), the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), and the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS). This means our graduates can work as veterinarians not only in New Zealand, but also Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, the USA and many other countries.
Massey University's veterinary programme is ranked in the top 50 universities worldwide by both the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) ranking and ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects.
The BVSc is a five-year degree that is divided into a pre-selection semester and a professional phase.
The Bachelor of Veterinary Science pre-selection phase is a one-semester programme that you must complete before applying for the Bachelor of Veterinary Science degree (professional phase).
It takes place over Semester One (beginning late February each year).
During this phase you will complete a range of selection assessments and take pre-requisite courses for veterinary selection (or alternates if you are given credit for these courses).
To be accepted into the professional phase of the BVSc, the selection panel will review your course grades in the pre-selection phase, along with the results of your selection assessments to create a 'selection score' and ranking. This will determine whether you are accepted into the professional phase.
The professional phase starts in semester two (July) of your first year. If you are selected into this professional phase of the BVSc programme, you will take a range of courses covering everything you need to become a qualified veterinarian.
There is a separate application for each phase (pre-selection and professional) of the BVSc, but not every applicant will need to complete them both.
Before you apply, you can review information on requirements, determining what type of applicant you are and details of planning your study can be found on the BVetTech planning page.
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The Goo Blob is one of the nastiest monster types, crippling anyone who does not have a way to deal magic damage or pierce physical resists. For the vast majority of characters, the only effective way to attack a Goo Blob is with the BURNDAYRAZ glyph, which can be problematic if you have not yet located it. Even once you have the glyph, most characters are only capable of using it twice in succession, which is seldom enough to kill a challenging Goo Blob on its own.
There are a few other ways to deal with resistances. Both Jehora Jeheyu and Binlor Ironshield offer ways to erode monster resistances, the BYSSEPS glyph can be used to whittle down physical resists as well, and the Really Big Sword is a superb item for this purpose, but all of these have limitations. Jehora's chaos avatar boon is expensive and non-repeatable, and Binlor requires you to have already revealed the target monster making it impossible to use it proactively. The BYSSEPS glyph is time consuming and often impractical, and the Really Big Sword is a pain to carry around for an entire dungeon run just to deal with a few physical resist monsters.
Often the best way to deal with a goo blob is to fireball it twice, kill a weaker monster to level up, then hit it with two more fireballs. This will usually leave it sufficiently weakened for you to completely dispatch it. Aside from the unique case of the Half-Dragon, only specialized spellcasting characters with lots of mana will have an easy time with Goo Blobs.
The Goo Blob boss has a whopping 75% physical resistance. Everything that goes for the regular goo blob goes double for him, but because you can afford to put more resources into fighting a boss than a regular monster you often have more leeway to use normally difficult approaches. The Glowing Guardian cleansing boon in particular, which is normally much too expensive to use on regular monsters, works fabulously against this boss.


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I know you probably just recycle those plastic jugs your juice comes in which is fine but Jim {a gardener in his 80's, whoa, we can learn a lot from him} shared this tip with us. He cuts them into about thirds which you can see from the picture. And he buries each one around his plants. This plastic barrier keeps the water in place and the liquid fertilizer right where he wants it. Even better?!? No waste of fertilizer or water. Genius. Pure genius.
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A disclaimer may be required by the USPTO for certain portions of a proposed trademark that contains unregisterable material, such as descriptive words, generic words, laudatory wording, geographic wording or common symbols. This type of refusal is fairly common and the Examining Attorney will notify the applicant by way of an Office Action refusal.
For example, the trademark "THOMAS LAW FIRM PLLC" includes a disclaimer for "LAW FIRM PLLC." In this scenario, entity designations such as "PLLC" are not registerable and "LAW FIRM" is descriptive of the services that our company provides, thus we were fine with adding the disclaimer. Our company still has the exclusive rights to use this combination of words, even with the disclaimer.
Disclaiming a portion of your trademark doesn't mean that the word has been removed from the mark; it simply means that you cannot prevent others from using the disclaimed portion of the mark.
If a disclaimer request is received the appropriate response depends on the facts of the case. If the disclaimer request is valid and the wording is indeed unregisterable material, then submitting a response to the office action and amending the trademark application to include the disclaimer will often times allow the application to get back on the registration track.
For various reasons however, the applicant may not want to add a disclaimer and in this scenario the appropriate Office Action response would be to submit argument and/or evidence explaining why the disclaimer should not apply. USPTO Examining Attorneys are Attorneys, and not necessarily knowledgable on the goods and services that apply to the applications they examine. Mistakes can happen, and if so the best response is to explain why you are correct (in the most persuasive way possible).
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Star Picket
Look to the skies! The zeitgeist is all about the stars right now. Were excited to to see the fascinating work already developing for The CORRIDOR Project's 'Star-Picket'.
Star-Picket is an inter-arts project, supported by the Australia Government's Regional Arts Fund, created by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists in a cross cultural collaboration, investigating sky stories and mapping from the central west NSW, leading to interpretations of seasonal farming practices, and travel pathways based on this knowledge.
Creative producers Aleisha Lonsdale (Arts OutWest) and Phoebe Cowdery (the CORRIDOR project), have both previously collaborated together, engaging a group of artists from both NSW and Cape York, on the COOL BURN exhibition in 2015-2016. COOL BURN was the first in a series of exhibitions documenting traditional practices though a contemporary lens involving land art, soundscape, video, installation, painting, sculpture, photography, printing and assemblage, exhibited to the community in a remote regional location.
Star-picket is inspired by the astronomical translations of the night sky in relation to seasonal land management activity and physical pathways, through oral histories by Indigenous Traditional Owners and Elders in both the Central West NSW, and Lake Mungo NSW. Artists intend to investigate these aspects in a series of workshops and field trips located in the Central West NSW and Lake Mungo NSW.
Interpretations of sky stories will be discussed, and the relationship to land pathways, and farming practices with relativity to flora+ fauna and travel routes. The artists will disseminate this information in their studios with a exhibition programmed for 2018.
Research will be presented by Trevor Leman PhD Researcher, Wiradjuri Cultural Astronomy Project, University of New South Wales, School of Humanities & Languages and Larry Towney – Senior Lands officer Central Tablelands Local Land Services, NSW. Read more…
Consultation with the artists, curators, scientists and traditional knowledge holders will be documented throughout the process prior and post field trips. All Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander protocols will be managed by Aleshia Lonsdale, the Aboriginal Arts Development Officer at Arts OutWest and Larry Towney, the Senior Lands officer Central Tablelands Local Land Services NSW.
Star-picket is a continuum of artistic development at the CORRIDOR project, working with Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists and related professionals on a cultural connections program developed in 2013 in conjunction with the Greater Eastern Ranges, Kanangra Boyd to Wyangala initiative. Workshops and exhibitions to date included in this program are River dreaming 2013, Traditional fire management 2013, Media and film training 2015, Cowra corroboree 2015, Cowra corroboree schools day, Orange Weavers 2016, Traditional dance 2016 facilitated by Di Nicholls Old Mapoon, and the COOL BURN exhibition 2016.
On February 18-19, 2017 Virginia Hilyard from Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) the University of Sydney, and Trevor Lehman (UNSW) held professional development workshops in field recording and Wiradjuri astronomy located at the CORRIDOR project. The invaluable knowledge acquired by the artists has led to new experimentation within their artistic practice and professional development. We would like to acknowledge the presentations by Virginia and Trevor and support from Regional Arts NSW, and Sydney College of the Arts (SCA), the University of Sydney for the loan of equipment to artists attending the Soundscape workshops.
Read more on the CORRIDOR Project website: http://www.thecorridorproject.org/star-picket
The night sky really does seem to be where it's at right now. Also funded by the Regional Arts Fund is Big Skies Collaboration's 'Skywriters' and 'Art of Wiradjuri' projects (Arts OutWest is a Big Skies Collaboration project partner and received the funding for these components). Meanwhile ABC Open is calling for photos of the night sky for their 'Stargazing' project. look to the skies people!
Image courtesy The CORRIDOR Project.


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The Senate And Theft Of Nigerian Voices By Erasmus Ikhide
Last week, the Nigerian Senate dramatized her reckless impunity of misgovernment at a time reflective governance and moral sobriety is required to douse the tensed political space and barefaced looting that has been elevated to a grand act of the National Assembly. It told Nigerians, through its spokesman, Chairman Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Aliyu Abdullahi that it is not the business of Nigerians to know how much each Senator earns per month/year!
Simply put, 'Nigerians are inmates in a lunatic asylum' or in a slave camp where the master's love for his captives begins and ends with his deification, plain exploitation, pure evil and outright dehumanization. As the beneficiaries of an insecure variety of undeserved incumbencies, the Senate is certain to bring down heaven over our heads or cause an earthquake under our feet and signpost itself as the monstrous assailant that engineered economic retrogression.
Through criminal allocation of our common patrimony via bogus salaries and allowances to themselves, the National Assembly has taken our wealth, they have taken our jobs, they have taken our homes, they have taken our electricity, they have taken our roads, they have taken our hospital, they have taken our education and our livelihood. I have said elsewhere that these usurpers of our political will have constituted themselves into a tribe of social robbers who have stolen our choice; opinion and now, our voice, which debase our existence as social beings. I stand by that position.
Senator Abdullahi's mindless appropriation of our sovereign wealth in a national television program would have jogged our complacent memories to the recovery of our vocal paralysis, so ruthlessly crushed by the 1999 military constitution, if we were a thinking people. We're still afraid of creatures of hell like Adams Oshiomhole who opposed restructuring, thereby frustrating the balance of the act of governance. When a public servant's adroitness is projected as the summation of a people's political will that suggests rejection of openness and accountability, it is nothing but grand larceny; the theft of over two hundred million voices, and the bastardization of the principles of egalitarian governance.
What with a band of economic predators who lament constant harassment of their gang by the electorate, insisting that the upper legislative chamber cannot disclose its salaries and allowances, for their roles at the upper chamber. What kind of legislation are we expecting from legislative banditry which prides itself over and above the electorate? When will they legislate against their 'out-of-town' salaries and over bloated allowances?
The Senate gave itself away this week during a live programme on Channels Television titled, 'Politics Today'. Senator Abdullahi's callous concealment of the actual emoluments of the National Assembly and the impunity associated with the refusal designates us as an imprecise entity whose legislative twitches contradict the name of a nation.
The Senate spokesman also refused to state how much each lawmaker earned in salary and allowances. When asked to say how much he earned, Abdullahi said it was rude of the presenter to ask him how much each senator earned. "You don't expect me to come out on national television to say this is what I earn. It is not done. I cannot ask you as a journalist how much you earn. It is not done. "If anybody is interested in how much we earn, you know where to get the information. The documents are available. If Nigerians won't believe that, is it what I will say that they will believe?"
The Senate spokesman said the figures released by the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay ( SAN ), were false, adding that the Senate's budget was not even as high as what Sagay released. In a feat of rage, Senator Abdullahi said Sagay was only trying to cause unnecessary tension between the National Assembly and the Presidency.
When confronted with the figures exclusively obtained by Channels Television which put the salary and allowances of each senator at N14 m per month and House of Representatives members as N8m per month, Abdullahi said he could not confirm or deny the figures. Abdullahi said the cost of democracy was not as high as the cost of not having democracy and Nigerians should look on the bright side.
"This issue has become a recurring decimal. In the last two years, people have been discussing this matter and I always ask myself, what do people really want to believe? I think if this subject matter has been discussed for two years and we are still looking at the issues wrongly, then there is something wrong with us. "The institutions that are responsible for providing this information are there. A law was promulgated on Top Salary Scale also known as TOPSA and it is based on this scale that everyone who holds one political office or the other gets paid. "I want to also submit that I presume Prof. Sagay would have been paid based on the provision of this scale. For us in the National Assembly, the question needs to be asked 'what is the cost of having democracy and what is the cost of not having democracy?"
Lately, Prof. Itse Sagay has been having a running battle with the National Assembly with the figures that a Nigerian senator earns N29 m per month. "From the information, I have gathered, a Nigerian senator earns about N29m a month and over N3bn a year," the professor said.
He added , "Basic salary N 2, 484 ,245.50 ; hardship allowance , 1 ,242 , 122 .70 ; constituency allowance N 4, 968 , 509 .00 ; furniture allowance N 7, 452 , 736 .50 ; newspaper allowance N 1, 242 , 122. 70 . "Wardrobe allowanceN 621 ,061 .37 ; recess allowance N248 , 424 .55 ; accommodation 4 ,968 ,509 .00 ; utilities N 828 ,081 .83 ; domestic staff N 1, 863 ,184 .12 ; entertainment N 828 ,081 .83 ; personal assistant N 621 ,061.37 ; vehicle maintenance allowance N1 ,863 ,184 . 12 ; leave allowance N 248 ,424 .55 ; severance gratuity N7 , 425 ,736 .50 ; and motor vehicle allowance N9 , 936 , 982 .00."
About four years ago, The Economist Magazine came up with the report that Nigerian legislator are the highest paid in the world. The magazine reveals that Nigerian federal legislators are the highest paid in the world with an annual basic salary of $189,500 (N30.6 m). The report, quoting data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), considered the salaries of lawmakers around the world and expressed it as a ratio of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita.
It reveals that the annual salary of a Nigerian federal lawmaker at $189,500 is 166 times the country's GDP per capita, estimated at $1,600. Meanwhile, according to the Daily Trust, British MPs earn 2.7 times their country's GDP per capita. The study listed the annual salaries of legislators from different parts of the world: The US ($174,000), and Brazil ($157,600), UK ($105,400) yearly, South Africa ($104,000), France ($85,900), Kenya ($74,500), Saudi Arabia ($64,000). Other countries according to the Daily Trust: Ghana ($46,500), Indonesia ($65,800), Thailand ($43,800), India ($11,200), Italy ($182,000), Bangladesh ($4,000), Israel ($114,800), Hong Kong ($130,700), Japan ($149,700), Singapore ($154,000), Canada ($154,000), New Zealand ($112,500), Germany ($119,500), Ireland ($120,400), Pakistan ($3,500), Malaysia ($25,300), Sweden ($99,300), Sri Lanka ($5,100), Spain ($43,900) and Norway ($138,000).
It sounds out of place that Nigerian federal legislators receive higher salaries than lawmakers from richer countries such as the US should strike anyone as outlandish, but according to The Economist magazine that is the obvious truth. The Economist report on the Nigeria thieving legislators firmly established the massive gap between the rich and poor in Nigeria, which the figure of $1,600 as Nigeria's per capita income conceals. The annual income of middle-class professionals would range between $15,000 and $30,000, senior middle-class professionals up to $60,000, while executives would typically exceed $100,000.
Nigerian lawmakers' allowances include accommodation (Senator N4m, Rep N3.97m), vehicle loan (Senator N8m, RepN6.948m), furniture (Senator N6m, Rep N5.956m) and severance gratuity (Senator N6m, Rep N5.956m), which are due once in four years. Other allowances, which are payable every year, are car maintenance (Senator N1.52m, Rep N595,563), constituency (Senator N5m, Rep N1.687m), domestic staff (Senator N1.5m, Rep N1.488m), personal assistant (Senator N506,600; Rep N496,303), entertainment (Senator N202,640, RepN198,521), recess (Senator N202,640; Rep N198,521), utilities (Senator N607,920; RepN397,042), newspaper/periodicals (Senator N303,960; Rep N297,781), house maintenance (Senator N101,320; Rep N99,260) and wardrobe (Senator N405,280; Rep N397,402).
There are also estacode (Senator $600, Rep $550) and duty tour allowance (Senator N23,000; Rep N21,000) payable per day when a lawmaker is on an official trip. The RMAFC submitted a report alleging that the various government departments were violating the rules and provisions governing appropriate remuneration through lavish allowances.
Any surprise that Senator Bukola Saraki's Senate Presidency never spare a thought on balancing the National Assembly satanic remuneration package with a view to equalizing Nigeria's GDP with their criminal salaries and allowances so as to reflect it on the development index as obtained in other developed democracies.
The Nigerian Senate President, like the one before it, is a fraud and an ultra-conservative capitalist impudent, who stoically but consciously advocates the retention of abominable salaries and other perquisites that fritter away the hope of a new Nigeria.
The truth of the matter is that the constitution to which we consider ourselves bound today does not represent the will and aspiration of the people. The major defeat and defect of the 1999 constitution to which the present government has been sworn into office without public knowledge of the contents of the enabling law that govern them is a grand conspiracy that reduces the people to mere spectators in their own country, which made them slaves and imbeciles who cannot think for themselves.
We need a radical shift that restores to us our stolen voices, stolen patrimony and stolen rights to dethrone the current democratic pretensions of the Senate, where a few individuals who stole their way into public office treat electorate as prisoners. It is only on that platform we can activate and retrieve our nation democratically. Anything other than that, the rape of Nigeria and Nigerians is sure to continue except the people stand up to be counted, and the time is now.
Erasmus, A Social Commentator writes from Lagos, Nigeria.
Email: [email protected]
Follow me on twitter @IkhideErasmus1


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While all the political maneuverings are done downhill, I Pranab Mukherjee, the most overrated player is left alone in the 350-room abode to watch them on television. Here, in a tightly guarded room I sit on a silver chair to write dairy. The protocol, they say, I must follow until I vacate the Bhavan.
I don't want to do this. It is something I have been able to avoid all my life in public service. Had I maintained a dairy would I have climbed the Raisina Hill? I am said to be a Brahmin but I have always followed the Buddhist principle of being an observer. I never participant in process but narrate them to others. And maybe that is why I am called a crisis manager. My trick to management is to speak truth to friends and foes alike. I always frankly told our coalition partners what they could sincerely expect as junior partners. My offers included: no CBI inquiry of any kind as long as they remain in coalition and extra fund from center for state's (mis)management. These are but two of many in offer.
My second principle is to keep silence. Unlike others in our party who either seldom speak or too much I speak when I am asked to. I learnt this from our great leader Rajeev Gandhi. He threw me out of the working committee for speaking when it was best to remain silent. Let me recall the story. Immediately after Mrs Indira Gandhi was assassinated and he and I were flying back to Delhi from Calcutta, to test my loyalty, he asked me who should replace her. I innocently suggested that she should be replaced by the senior most member of the party's working committee. While uttering these words I didn't realize that I was lobbying for myself. He didn't like the answer and as soon as we reached Delhi I was replaced even before Mrs Gandhi. It took me seven years to get back to where I was on that inauspicious day.
Let's not dig into past. I want to talk present. If you carefully look at the coverage of this year's presidential election you will find that unlike in the past my election to the highest post was covered pompously. The newspersons talked about the importance of this office and how I might have felt after getting elected? They spoke about the greatest honor I was getting for serving this great land for these many years. But with my political acumen I could see that they were not celebrating my 'victory' but failure. Yes, I failed miserably. Should I act naïve to consider being president as the greatest honor one can achieve? For many years I had dreamed of becoming the prime minister of the country.
A man of my repute who had opportunities to attend the meetings presided by Late Mrs Indira Gandhi can hardly feel proud on becoming president. I still had memory of the time when Mrs Gandhi decided to impose Internal Emergency. While many of us were asked for suggestions she never, for a second, thought of then President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed. When one of the ministers reminded her if he would ratify the decision she just smiled. She didn't even give a second thought when she sent the ordinance for approval. This is how a president is treated in our polity. We crack jokes on presidents. In our working committee meetings we often scare colleagues of proposing them for presidentship (of India of course) else they fall in line. Recently Mr Manmohan Singh tried to take on Mrs Sonia Gandhi and was shocked to hear in the evening news one of our party leaders wishing to see him on the 'highest post'! He immediately rang her and apologized.
So when I saw media coverage of my swearing in I immediately understood they were celebrating my defeat and not victory. Our country's media was actually celebrating my retirement from the politics. For a year or so I had been hitting corporate where it hurts the most. This I did deliberately. I knew Mrs Gandhi was all set to give me farewell after this term. I decided to make the corporate upset before that for I knew the pain in their ass is pain in our government's ass. The more they are upset the more the chance to get big. I succeeded. The party decided to gracefully remove me from the finance ministry.
All said, I must confess I failed to achieve my goal in life. Today in the morning when I was taking guard of honor I heard one former colleague of mine cracking joke. He said, "a person who should often speak is mute. A person who could speak was muted today". I can't agree more. Frankly speaking I didn't have a new responsibility today but retired from public life. I believe I am paying for taking the corporate world and its linchpins head-on. I did not come here an achiever but a loner. I am Napoleon on Saint Helena.


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