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Piracy in Somalia and Nigeria
Piracy in Somalia and Nigeria: From the political protest to a profitable criminal activity
Guest Article by Marta Fernández Sebastián, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
One of the common points shared by the piratical acts in Nigeria and Somalia is that their origins are based in a series of struggles centred in political arguments. The local communities protested against the exploitation of their resources. As time goes by, those protests turned violent and criminal networks started to get involved and finally they took over. As a consequence, piracy has been depoliticised and become a criminal activity which is driven by greed rather than grievances. At the same time, piracy is related to other criminal activities such as money laundering or human and weapons trafficking, which increases the instability in both regions.
Development of pirates acts in Nigeria and Somalia. From a fight for the recognition of their economic resources to a profitable criminal activity
The Gulf of Guinea has been an area affected by piracy since the 90s. For decades thieves have attacked commercial traffic in the waters off Nigeria. Due to the high development of the zone and its important oil resources; the International Community is concerned about those piracy attacks because they see them as a threat to their commercial interest in the area (Tull, 2011:28). Nigeria is among the world´s 10 biggest oil exporters, and the waters of the Gulf of Guinea are considered as a strategic area for the prevention of the trafficking of narcotics, weapons and humans into fragile regions and into Europe. (Chatham House, 2013:2).
In this case, the piracy in this area is a product of the disorder that surrounds the regional oil industry; hence most of the attacks revolve around attacks on oil tankers and its derivatives. In this way, the final purpose of the pirates in Nigeria is not the hijacking of ships, nor getting rewards for them but the cargoes' robbery in order to sell it later on the Black Market. Thus, pirates in this area do not normally kidnap crew members. They just do it if those crew members are working directly for an oil company because, in that case, they could get a ransom for them.
The reasons why maritime insecurity in West Africa is gathered in Nigeria are to be found in the extreme poverty, high oil revenue, corrupt government, poor regulation of maritime activities and a long history of political violence in the Niger Delta, which is the centre of the Nigerian petrol industry (International Crisis Group, 2012:6).
There is no doubt the Nigerian Government, political parties, international oil companies which unfairly use the oil of the area, and the rebel groups who realize how their resources are exploited by foreign companies, are implicated in this conflict. For this reason, in 2005 The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) appeared and it became a threat to the oil companies and the government. With the appearance of MEND a new stage in the violence started and crimes such as theft of oil and goods, kidnapping and attacks of fishing vessels became common place. But, "it is impossible to establish a clear distinction between insurgents and criminals because some of them seek to make a demonstration of political force while making financial gains" (International Crisis Group, 2012:9).
In this case, as happened in Somalia, what started as a fight for the recognition of their energy resources and the economy turned into a series of acts aimed at cargo ships and other kinds of illegal activity which generated funding.
In the particular case of Somalia, the appearance of contemporary groups of pirates is found after the fall of Siad Barre as president. The fall of the old political regime and its institution brought the degradation of public order, including the coast guard. Taking advantage of that situation, fishermen from Europe and Asia started to illegally exploit these waters. It is estimated that around 700 foreign vessels operated in that area, taking fish valued from $150 million to $450 million per annum. (Samatar et al, 2010:1385).
For this reason, warlords increased their power and they started to apply their own fishing law where they saw a lucrative activity. They turned to militias which were sent to the sea against foreign vessels in order to protect what they consider their property. Those "new groups" denominated themselves as "Coastguards", and their targets were the ships which practised illegal fishing in the zone and those which were illegal dumping waste in their waters. In spite of these activities the traffic of foreign vessels stayed off Somali waters then the local communities turned more violent against foreign ships which started to be pursued in motor launches by armed Somalis. "These Somalis were attempting to protect their marine resources and were not interested in looting the merchant marine". (Samatar et al, 2010:1385). At the same time, this absence of law and government in Somalia produced favourable conditions for criminals who saw an excellent looting opportunity in all those ships which sailed the water of the Indian Ocean and The Gulf of Aden. Following the discourse of the "coastguards", these criminals tried to justify their operation under the veil of the protection of the Somali fishing resources but "that veil was no longer able to conceal their true character and motivation, which is purely in search of ransom". (Samatar et al, 2010:1385)
Nowadays, the main goal of piratical acts in Somalia is the hijacking of vessels for ransom. For that reason the crew and the cargo are the most valuable items if they want to get the ransom. The theft of vessels in order to use them as "Mother Ship" to through new acts far away off Somali Coast is also common. It is estimated that the average ransom payment in 2012 was over US$ 4million per ransom. (World Bank Study, 2012:43)
Both in Somalia and in Nigeria, the pirates' acts started in order to defend economic resources: oil resources in Nigeria and fishing resources in Somalia. There is no doubt that the weakness of the governments, the lawlessness and corruption combined with the high poverty level as well as increased inequality have played an important role in the evolution of piracy, making it a lucrative activity which poses a threat to the stability of the affected regions.
In this way the debate is opened about when this transition occurred and what the main causes that precipitated this transition were. The answers to these questions could be an important step in the fight against piracy, especially in order to design counter-measures focused on land where the effort in the fight against the problem should be increased, because it is on land where the main problem of piracy resides.
Literature and Further reading.
– Chatham House. Maritime Security in The Gulf of Guinea: Lessons Learned from the Indian Ocean. Chatham House report, July 2013
-International Crisis Group. The Gulf of Guinea: The New Danger Zone. Crisis Group Africa Report Nº 195, 12 December 2012. Open Access.
-SAMATAR et al. The Dialectics of Piracy in Somalia: the Rich Versus the Poor. Third World Quarterly, Vol. 31, No 8, 2010, pp 1377-1394.
-World Bank, Pirate Trails. Tracking the illicit financial flows from pirate activities off the Horn of Africa, 2013.
-TULL, Dennis M. West Africa en MAIR Stefan (Ed). Piracy and Maritime Security. Regional Characteristics and political, military, legal and economy implications. SWP Research Papers. RP, 03, March 2011. Open access.
-ONU, Security Council Report 2006/229. Report of the Monitoring Group on Somalia Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1630 (2005). Open Access.
About the author:
Marta Fernández Sebastián is a PhD student at Complutense University, Madrid, Spain. She works on piracy and organized crime and is member of the expert group at PSyD Observatory at the Peace, Security and Defence Chair at Zaragoza University. She has been working at Cardiff University as a Visiting Research Fellow from January to June 2014. Marta has a Master in International Relations and Communication and a Master in International Politics, both from Complutense University. In her research Marta focuses on the transition of piracy form political protest to profit driven crime and the relation between piracy and other forms of crime such as money laundering and illicit trafficking.
The views expressed in guest article and submissions do not necessarily reflect those held by Maritime Security Review.


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That's right, we are attending Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul!
We arrived in style in our candy apple fuel injected rag top superfly terra plane!
Giddy up!
That's right, we are attending Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul!
We arrived in style in our candy apple fuel injected rag top superfly terra plane!
Giddy up!
What Bruce was to New Jersey in the 70s, Bob Seger was to Detroit and the Midwest. Still one of the best songs from the 1970s
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing yesterday, here's a demo version of Bowie doing Space Oddity with John "Hutch" Hutchinson that appears on the Mercury Demos (released this past June) and I believe was also on the Sound + Vision box set. Fascinating to hear this classic song in such an early form and to put yourself in the shoes of the people listening to the demo – must have blown them away. Also funny to hear Bowie say some of these songs might be single material – ah, I think so!
Brittany Howard has one of the best and most distinctive voices in music today. This is the second single from her first solo album. The Alabama Shakes frontwoman has outdone herself in this one and this video absolutely nails it.
No summer song list would ever be complete for me without this song.
Paul's choice of the great Matthew Sweet song "Girlfriend" put me in mind of the early 90s and what I was listening to then. This band spent a lot of time in my CD player in the early to mid 90s. While grunge was taking off these guys were more like a throwback to 80s "jangle rock".
When I lived in Philadelphia in the early 90's there was a great public radio station called WXPN (associated with the University of Pennsylvania). It was like a college radio station, but with a professional staff and production values. That station was a constant companion during my years there, and turned me on to alot of great music that I'm still listening to today. I remember first hearing this song on the drive in to work one morning, and I was hooked. The album by the same name was Matthew Sweet's breakout out album, and was loaded with great guitar, great harmony vocals, and great power pop hooks in song after song. A perfect combination of power pop and rock and roll. He put out a string of similarly great albums in the years after, but this one remains my touchstone, and Girlfriend one of my favorites from it.
Heard this on a new music play list a few weeks back and its been on constant rotation on my phone and in my head since. I'm not sure what it is about Australian female singers, but it definitely seems I've got a thing for them, esp. when its a power pop earworm like this song. Driving guitar, huge chorus, and then it kicks to a high level with the soaring sax solo in the middle – completely unexpected! I could listen to this over and over (and I have!)
Check it out and see what I mean. God I love this song!
You take off at Cape Canaveral
And pick me up like Coach Bombay
You're school captain every year
You're Christmas without Boxing Day
You haven't had a day off in weeks
Your voice is shaking when you speak
It might not be my place to help
But don't but don't but don't be so hard on yourself
Couple weeks ago I went to see the smithereens. They did not disappoint. Loved the concert. One of the revelations though was the opening act, Jeremiah Tall. He played banjo, guitar and drums with a company asked who played bass and on one song, a chain (you'd have to see it to believe it). Really cool interesting music. Here's one of my favorite songs from his short set.
Like last week's song in the series, for me, this song is both a road song and a summer song.
The Wild Feathers have dominated my song playlist for the past 4 summers .

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This Sears location is clean and bright. The menswear section is filled with the latest fashions and takes up an entire floor. Women's accessories fill the tables, but it still looks orderly. In fact, everything looks orderly. The furniture and appliance section is filled with customers. The toy section looks like it could rival Santa's workshop. The mannequins are stylishly dressed with alluring poses. Everything about this Sears is different than any other Sears store you've been in.
There is a place where Sears stores don't look shabby and unkempt. But to go to one of these stores, you have to leave the United States.
source https://medium.com/@dennissanders/theres-more-for-your-life-at-sears-just-not-in-the-us-5f7973252d0c?source=rss-6a28d30b0973——2


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As with the vast majority of yoga poses, this one is easy to pronounce and you want to make sure that your pelvis is neutral and the spine is aligned 'straight'/normal curvature.
With this pose, avoid or modify if you or student has knee stiffness or injury.
- Next bring left foot onto the floor, bending the knee
- Then put left foot foot next to your left glute/hip
Modifications for Knee Injuries
Mat under the pelvis and the knee
This pose is quite intense and should be avoided if you have any problems with hips, knees or spine.
Images from the amazing Siddhi Yoga 200 Hour Teacher Training Course


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Many people become disappointed with their experience as an entrepreneur. After stepping into a new venture, the stress of finding customers, selling products and servicing customers can seem overwhelming. In short, life as an entrepreneur often isn't as fun as people expect it to be.
For this reason, everyone who feels enamored with their dream of entrepreneurship should first get a healthy dose of reality. In fact, they should learn the following hard truths before they take another step.
It's tough
To begin with, customers need the entrepreneur to meet their needs. As a business grows, employees bring problems of their own into the mix. Additionally, investors, vendors and regulators all put pressure on the business owner. In other words, entrepreneurs have a tough life.
In addition to providing solutions for everyone, entrepreneurs must solve their own problems. For instance, getting the first client takes a lot of time and effort. Of course, most businesses need more than one customer. As time passes, overhead grows, along with payroll, requiring even more customers just to break even. Entrepreneurs have little time to savor their achievements before new obstacles arise.
It's lonely
Entrepreneurs who have the mentality of an employee often feel shocked when they step out on their own. As a business owner, they no longer have managers and supervisors to tell them what to do. Similarly, they can't depend on other people to recruit customers, process orders and support customers. Even worse, entrepreneurs have no guarantee of a paycheck at the end of every week or month.
When a business needs a cash infusion, new investors rarely appear with generous bailouts. To the contrary, nobody will come to the rescue when cash flow becomes a problem. Entrepreneurs are solely responsible for their success.
There's no "right way"
Although general principals and methodologies can provide guidance no identical business success stories exist. So, entrepreneurs must find their own pathway to success. Moreover, after achieving some goals, business owners must continue to work hard just to stay relevant. After all, technology and other changes in the marketplace can, almost overnight, render their products and strategies obsolete
In the end, the hardships of launching a new venture cause many would-be entrepreneurs to quit. However, those who find the lifestyle invigorating will never look back.


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The details of Bill C-32 are posted; reviewing the changes will take both time and patience. The Summary details what purpose these amendments should serve, with the first order of business being to:
Update the rights and protections of copyright owners to better address the challenges and opportunities of the Internet, so as to be in line with international standards;
Meaning to say, fulfill the WIPO Treaties.
Last year's consultation indicated that, by and large, Canadians support the principles of international cooperation as expressed by these treaties. Yet the representation of the WIPO Treaties has been one-sided; to a casual observer it would seem that the WIPO Treaties were only about the rights of the copyright holder (And even in that area, the flexibility permitted in approach has not received due attention.) The Preamble of the WIPO Copyright Treaty provides the full scope of the international standard we should aspire to:
The Contracting Parties,
Desiring to develop and maintain the protection of the rights of authors in their literary and artistic works in a manner as effective and uniform as possible,
Recognizing the need to introduce new international rules and clarify the interpretation of certain existing rules in order to provide adequate solutions to the questions raised by new economic, social, cultural and technological developments,
Recognizing the profound impact of the development and convergence of information and communication technologies on the creation and use of literary and artistic works,
Emphasizing the outstanding significance of copyright protection as an incentive for literary and artistic creation,
[and my favourite]
Recognizing the need to maintain a balance between the rights of authors and the larger public interest, particularly education, research and access to information, as reflected in the Berne Convention.
Well, what about the Berne Convention? This international agreement established minimal standards not only for copyright protection but also for permitting free uses of copyrighted work. For instance, legal texts and legal materials may be removed from the ambit of copyright. One non-negotiable permitted use is that of quotation, provided the source is given and the overall use is fair. Member nations enjoy discretionary powers for setting the uses of works as they relate to "current events." And there's more … Throughout, discretionary free uses are governed by the overarching principle of Article 9(2) which states that such uses should not conflict with the normal exploitation of a work.
This raises a critical question – how far is Canada going to expand the purview of what is considered "normal exploitation?"


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Healthcare Industry News: Fragile X
News Release - October 16, 2013
SAGE Therapeutics Secures $20M Series B FinancingInvestment to Accelerate Clinical Development of CNS Pipeline Programs; Company Continues to Make Rapid Progress with Two Programs Expected in the Clinic this Year
Robert Nelsen of ARCH Ventures to Join Board of Directors
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network)--SAGE Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel medicines to treat central nervous system (CNS) diseases, today announced a $20 million Series B financing from investors ARCH Venture Partners and Third Rock Ventures, bringing the total raised to $57.8 million since launch in 2011. The Series B financing will accelerate clinical and preclinical efforts to continue to advance SAGE�s pipeline programs in CNS disorders.
�SAGE has made tremendous progress since launching two years ago, and we expect to have as many as five programs in clinical studies by this time next year,� said Jeffrey Jonas, M.D., chief executive officer of SAGE. �This funding will support our continued evolution into a development and commercial stage company that could transform the treatment landscape for a broad range of serious CNS diseases. We are also gaining a very skilled board member in Bob Nelsen and look forward to adding his strategic leadership to our team.�
�SAGE has built a robust product engine that is backed by strong clinical data. Its approach to restoring the natural balance of brain activity has the potential to address a number of debilitating CNS disorders, including traumatic brain injury, Fragile X, depression and pain, where there is a dire need for better therapies,� said Mr. Nelsen. �I am excited to help the SAGE team develop and deliver products that make a real difference for patients.�
Although there is undeniable unmet medical need for new treatments for CNS disorders, there has been little recent success in developing safe and effective therapies. SAGE�s approach of allosteric modulation of GABAA and NMDA receptors is highly differentiated. The company�s proprietary Positive and Negative Allosteric Modulator (PANAM) platform enables the development of therapies that �fine tune� activity in the brain and nervous system, while also limiting the side effects and off-target toxicity seen with many traditional neuroscience drugs.
SAGE has built a robust product pipeline initially focused on acute and orphan CNS indications with strong preclinical to clinical translation and accelerated development timelines that could allow the company to rapidly bring important medicines to patients. SAGE envisions developing commercial stage products for CNS disorders and forging strategic collaborations to support the broad potential of its proprietary platform.
The company also announced today the expansion of its Series A financing, which was completed in September, from $35 million to $37.8 million. The financing was led by Third Rock with the addition of ARCH as a new investor.
About SAGE Therapeutics
SAGE Therapeutics is a neuroscience-focused company developing therapies to treat CNS specialty and orphan diseases. The company has identified several product opportunities with clear and accelerated paths to regulatory approval. SAGE�s initial pipeline includes programs in status epilepticus, anesthesia, Fragile X Syndrome and traumatic brain injury, where CNS drugs poorly address the areas of most urgent patient need and are often accompanied by considerable side effects. The company�s robust allosteric modulator chemistry platform � called the Positive and Negative Allosteric Modulator (PANAM) platform � has generated multiple new chemical entities supported by promising preclinical data with the potential to lead to products with multiple indications over the next several years. SAGE Therapeutics is a private company launched in 2011 by a proven team of R&D leaders, renowned CNS experts and Third Rock Ventures. For more information, please visit www.sagerx.com.
Source: SAGE Therapeutics
Issuer of this News Release is solely responsible for its
Please address inquiries directly to the issuing company.


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Erda is a township that is located south of Stansbury Park. It is rather small, which can provide that unique "small-town" feel. There are many attractions located near Erda, which ensures many possible adventures for those that live in Erda. Here are just a few of the nearby attractions and benefits of obtaining property in Erda, Utah.
Great Salt Lake
The Great Salt Lake is located very close to Erda. There are many available activities near the Great Salt Lake. You can potentially visit Antelope Island, obtain a tour, and engage in many other activities. When you visit the Great Salt Lake, you will obtain a unique experience, whether you choose to view the wildlife, mountain bike, or perform any other activities. The Great Salt Lake creates many valuable experiences for you and your entire family.
Asylum 49
Asylum 49 is certainly not for the faint-hearted! Located near Erda, Utah, Asylum 49 is often considered one of the scariest haunted houses in the state. If you enjoy visiting haunted houses, Asylum 49 is an experience you need to check off of your bucket list! Living near Asylum 49 can make a visit there incredibly convenient. This is just one of the many nearby attractions that you can experience when you purchase real estate property in Erda.
Erda, Utah is a rather small township that can provide many benefits to potential residents. The residents of Erda will vote to incorporate as a township in November of 2020. It is located in Tooele County and can be an excellent location to obtain real estate property. Hiring a professional that is familiar in the area can go a long way toward ensuring that your new property will meet all of your needs. Our professionals are knowledgeable regarding the real estate market and homes for sale in Erda.


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"1971, scientifically is more favourable as the cut-off year for defining and identifying indigenous people of Assam," said Congress MP from Barpeta constituency Abdul Khaleque on Saturday.
He was reacting to the recommendation of the high-level committee constituted for Clause 6 of the Assam Accord, which recommended 1951 as the cut-off year.
Interacting with the media, Khaleque said that communities were redistributed and borders were redrawn as a number of states were carved out of Assam even after 1951.
"Hence, considering 1971 as the base year to define indigenous people of Assam is more scientific," Khaleque said.
"Since the ancient times till now, the political geography of Assam has been changing constantly," Khaleque said.
"The state has been ruled by different rulers and administered by various administrators. If we have to define someone as indigenous then considering 1971 as the base year is more logical and scientific," Khaleque reiterated.
"If we are to follow the definition of indigenous as mentioned at the Cambridge dictionary and by the UN, then only the tribal communities, the Kochs and Kalitas of Assam can claim to be indigenous,' Khaleque further said.
"If we follow the aforementioned definitions, then identifying the indigenous community of Assam gets even more confusing," Khaleque said.
"Considering all the possibilities, 1971 seems like the most favourable year as the cut-off year," Khaleque reiterated.


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By Maureen Tai, 24 October 2021
Guji Guji (ages 4+) is a delightful picture book about love, family, and acceptance. And the perils of being too engrossed in your reading. Mother Duck doesn't notice that she's warming an oversized egg that has mysteriously rolled into her nest. When the eggs eventually hatch, she isn't at all concerned that among her brood of multi-coloured ducklings, is a creature with distinctly crocodilian features. She names him Guji Guji and loves and cares for him as if he were like his other ducking siblings. Will this all change when Guji Guji meets others of his kind, and they turn out to have a ravenous appetite for duck meat? You'll have to read to find out! Taiwanese author/illustrator Chih-Yuan Chen's lovely tale will charm readers of all ages.


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Tagged by Christel
What's your favorite make up look?
Bright colors.
Do you have a beauty vice?
I don't always take out my contacts, and sometimes I overdo the bronzer.
What part of your body do you love?
My hurr. My eyes. My lips. My waist… Look y'all – I'm happy with the way my momma brought me into this world.
Who is your beauty icon?
There's no one icon that stays through the years. Just inspirations. Beyonce and Nicole Richie for now I'd suppose.
What beauty product makes you feel instantly sexy?
Mascara and high shine gloss.
How do you look after your skin?
Moisturize moisturize moisturize – you also need to exfoliate and drink aqua!
What is your signature scent?
Chance by Chanel and Lolita by Lempicka are always restocked – no matter the year or season.
What are your haircare secrets?
I don't wash it every day.
How do you pamper yourself?
I shop till I don't have no mo money!
What is your beauty pet peeve?
Overdoing it – no one needs to have bright pink with bright blue makeup on unless they're the smurfs or troll dolls. Really.
What would your desert island must haves be?
A computer, fully stocked fridge, lip gloss, and an AC. Does that sound like a lot??
Finally, do you have a beauty philosophy?
Be thankful for what you've been given. Be confident with what you have. When you're down, fake it till you make it!
And now I'd like to tag:
All my readers and subscribers! Copy and paste these questions and post them up. E-mail me if you did – I'd love to see your answers!
As far as the awards go – I thank all of whom have given me the Adorable award, and others. My scatterbrain is having a hard time locating those details though, so please take this as my humble acceptance and apology!


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Western Rifle Shooters Association
"This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be." – VADM James Stockdale, USN
The screen began at 1000 boxes of 200, and tonight it was at 150.
Maybe. Maybe not.
I have come to not trust online retailer inventory displays. They appear to be more of a marketing ploy to get buyers to make a purchase "before it runs out." Many-a-time I've seen similar displays where inventory goes to zero, and then automatically jumps to its "full" number, only to again be depleted in a short time.
Ain't saying that ammo isn't being purchased, but when it comes to the actual amount heading out the door, I have a feeling only the retailer knows the true number.
Image in your email, CA.
In my experience, the numbers of boxes available are accurate. I was at https://www.targetsportsusa.com/, looking for some Federal Fusion. The page said it had 10 boxes. I bought all 10, and the number went to zero with an out of stock notice just about immediately. I've had the same experience at other on-line ammo vendors. The only time I've not seen the numbers change is when they use, "99+" available. I bought 1K M855 from a particular vendor, and his number didn't change, so when I made that purchase, he had a lot of it. Now it's sold out, of course.
New gun owners over the recent months are 12+ years behind the curve that have dealt with ups and downs with availability and pricing. Remember the .22 ammo a few years back? But coordinating with local shops, online specials during the non-neurotic times, allowed many to keep stocks up, even with range time. Shoot 1 box buy two. Etc. Nobody ever has enough ammo, but my AO will be like Fallujah if it enters my street. And 99% will be outgoing.
Most of us here are stocked to the gills, but the amount that our normie friends have is about nil.
This kid comes over a few days ago to show me his AR, huge plastic case, pretty nice carbine with all the bells, whistles and doodads, six mags nicely fitted into the foam and when I asked him how many more mags and ammo he had,…….zip! And he's clueless how hard it will be to stock up on more.
I have many friends who have a few boxes for their hunting rifles, and that 's it. No AR/AK's, couple other friends have an AR, no extra mags or web gear. And I've told them to stock up, they don't care because they don't think anything will change or go wrong.
And how many guns are in this country?
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How did Jesus decide who should get healed in the Gospels?. Here are some verses from passages where Jesus healed the ill during his earthly ministry:
He healed all types of sickness among the people and healed all the sick people present (Matthew 4:23-24),
He healed all that were sick (Matthew 8:16-17),
He healed every sickness and every disease among the people (Matthew 9:35),
He healed them all (Matthew 12:15),
He healed their sick (Matthew 14:14).
All that were diseased were brought to him and all that touched his clothes were made perfectly whole (Matthew 14:35-36, Mark 6:54-56).
He healed great multitudes (Matthew 19:2).
He healed as many as were sick (Mark 3:10-12).
He laid hands on every one of them and healed them (Luke 4:40-41).
He healed them all (Luke 6:17-19).
He healed them that had need of healing (Luke 9:11).
He healed all who were oppressed of the devil (Acts 10:38).
That is how Jesus determined who should be healed — whoever came to him to receive healing, received healing!
How did the apostles determine who should be healed?
Peter ministered healing to all the sick who were brought to him on the streets of Jerusalem (Acts 5:12-16).
Paul got every sick person on the island of Melita healed (Acts 28:8-9).
Jesus gave his disciples power to heal all manner of sickness and disease (Matthew 10:1).
How should you determine who should be healed?
John expressed God's wish that you be in health (3 John 2).
James said that any sick in the church should have the prayer of faith prayed over him for his healing (James 5:14-16).
Paul said that Christ redeemed you from the Law's curse for not keeping all of God's commands (Gal 3:10-14)
and that your body was purchased in the same sacrifice that bought your spirit (1 Cor 6:19-20).
Peter said that you were healed by Jesus' bruise when he bore your sins in his body on the cross (1 Peter 2:24).
Jesus said that believers would lay hands on the sick and they would get well (Mark 16:15-18).
So, who can be healed? Answer: YOU can be healed!
Jesus did not make exceptions and tell any one that they had to keep their sickness for a reason.
Peter and Paul did not make exceptions and nor did they tell people they had to glorify God in their sickness.
The Bible pattern is simple. You cannot be an exception.
Stop letting the devil lie to you and tell you that there is some reason you can't get healed.
You CAN get healed!
The guarantee that healing is for all is found in Isaiah's statement that Jesus surely bore our sicknesses and suffered our pains.
He did not just bear some of our sicknesses — he bore all of them,
including the ones in your body right now.
He did not just bear some people's sicknesses — He bore everyone's sicknesses, including yours.
His great atonement was for everyone, including you, so you can partake of the benefits along with anyone else.
Receiving healing is not complicated. You don't need to read the whole Bible to be healed.
You are not an exception. God does not want you sick. YOU can be healed!


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From Larchmonter445 at The Saker:
The Russian strategy would be recognition of independence. It leaves them with the prize without the burden of cost.
China would finance the reconstruction.
UNSC with Trump abstaining or agreeing would sanction the result due to the failure of Minsk 2 never being followed. Ukraine loses Donbass.
This, would be after a war. Porky and the Deep State want the war.
Porky must have a war to survive. Losing doesn't matter. Fighting it does.
How this transpires, we can only guess.
At present, the Ukies have 90,000 men right along the entire front. They are mere miles from taking parts of Donetsk.
They could attack Lugansk in a run for the border, as they usually attempt.
And they could swing from Mariupol under Donetsk.
The Russian military planners will have opportunities to create three major boilers if all these occur.
And we can expect a North Wind of large size using many battle-tested Syrian War personnel.
The Russians also have to demonstrate to Poland, Romania, Lithuania and the top NATO war hawks that they can annihilate any composition of forces rapidly. So, this war, when the Ukies begin it will be a test of command, control and Voentorg with the North Wind in support of Donbass Army.
The US has Global Hawk UAV observation platform among its Intel gathering weapons flying over Ukieland.
Time to stun the NATO and Pentagon warmongers with the munitions and delivery systems that have decimated ISIS and AQ in Syria.
It is in the cards. Porky will never have it any other way. The Deep State wants to blame the loss of Donbass on Trump or get a victory against Russia. All indications are Trump can't work a miracle.
And certainly, Russia will never give up Donbass.
Destroying the men and machines all along the front will set back the Ukies for years. Probably, lead to extensive civil war if it is truly catastrophic and well-documented. The splintering of Ukieland could follow such a total defeat. Three or four sections, the neighbors all feasting on their historic pieces.
The problem of Ukraine is Kiev, not Donbass.
If Kiev goes away, the problem goes away. The head of the snake.
All the remaining nazis can go to a small Banderastan in the West of the former state.
It's the solution everyone would agree to after the military is decimated.
And independent Novorossiya lifts the economic burden from Russia. China and others will rush in and reconstruct and modernize the place where the workers are and the farms produce food.
We can hope something like this happens. Peace through war. There are no shortcuts.
Madmen must be defeated, their armies must be destroyed. Lesson of history.


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Ben Roethlisberger is no longer just the, manage his pass attempts, pick your spots type of quarterback he was coming into the league in 2004. Not the seemingly freelance first, take off running, collide into linebackers downfield player.
Make no mistake, there are still parts of his game that hearken back to his first few seasons in the league. But over time, born out of natural progression and necessity as he got older, Roethlisberger's game has become more complete and refined.
"He understands where to go with things. He understands the run game, how it meshes with the pass game and those kinds of things," said quarterbacks coach Randy Fichtner to reporters during last week's OTAs and highlighted again in an article by Mike Prisuta of steelers.com.
He's been given an impressive amount of freedom by Haley, able to audible at the line, throw hot even on a called run, and run countless packaged plays that give him a run/pass option.
The Steelers' offensive line has a lot to do with Roethlisberger's decreased sack totals but the quarterback's sped up internal clock has also played a role. But it doesn't mean he no longer makes "vintage Ben" plays the team has been so accustomed to.
"I think what he did as good as anything last year was that he picked his spots. He knows that's not something he can do every single play. I thought he did a good job of picking those spots when to make the Ben-like plays. And he is the best in the world at that," offensive coordinator Todd Haley told reporters.
Perhaps the best 2014 example of that came in the Week One, Ben escaping the pocket and throwing a rocket in the corner of the end zone to Antonio Brown.
Roethlisberger threw for a career high 4952 yards while tying a personal best of 32 touchdowns. He needs just 943 yards to become the 16th quarterback in NFL history to surpass 40,000 career yards.


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Florida targets Colorado State coach Jim McElwain
GAINESVILLE Florida has targeted Colorado State's Jim McElwain to fill its coaching vacancy.
Reporters followed Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley from the Fort Collins, Colorado airport Tuesday to McElwain's home. Foley flew to Colorado to meet with McElwain and was expected to offer the Gators job to the former Alabama offensive coordinator.
Florida has not publicly announced details of the coaching search.
Foley boarded a charter flight that left Gainesville on Tuesday, landed in Joplin, Missouri, and then continued to Fort Collins, Colorado, to meet with McElwain, the person said. The plane was waiting at the airport, presumably to bring Foley and McElwain back to Gainesville.
Foley fired Will Muschamp on Nov. 16, a day after the team's sixth home loss in eight games. Muschamp agreed to stick around for the final two regular-season games and finished with a 28-21 record in four seasons.
Foley detailed several requirements for Muschamp's replacement, saying his next coach had to have high integrity, character and needed to be a fit at Florida.
The 52-year-old McElwain was born in Montana and spent much of his coaching career out west. But he also has NFL experience, Southeastern Conference ties and a track record of success on the offensive side of the ball.
Foley said offensive success was paramount for Florida's next coach after four years of offensive futility in Gainesville, where fans got somewhat spoiled watching Steve Spurrier's "Fun 'n' Gun" in the 1990's and then Urban Meyer's high-scoring spread scheme in the late 2000's.
The Gators finished 105th, 103rd and 113th in total offense during Muschamp's first three seasons. They rank 90th this season, but Muschamp said two weeks ago that he's leaving behind a "deep and talented roster, so don't let that new guy tell you he ain't got no good players."
"They got some good football players in that locker room," Muschamp said. "I feel like we've headed the right direction at quarterback, as far as the depth and quality of the guys you got in the room, both lines of scrimmage, talented secondary as I've been around as far as those guys coming back, linebackers. You got some good players."
McElwain is finishing his third season at Colorado State. He led the Rams to a 10-2 record and was named the Mountain West Conference's coach of the year Tuesday.
His offense ranks 13th nationally, averaging 498 yards a game.
McElwain took over a program that went 3-9 for three consecutive seasons (2009-11), but has enjoyed a quick turnaround since his arrival. The Rams went 4-8 in 2012 and 8-6 last year before this season's breakthrough performance. They have wins against rival Colorado and Boston College in 2014.
McElwain reportedly has $7.5 million buyout in his contract, but money has never been a problem at Florida.
He was Alabama coach Nick Saban's offensive coordinator and receivers coach between 2008 and 2011, when the Crimson Tide won two national titles.
Nowadays, McElwain has the nation's second-ranked quarterback in pass efficiency. Garrett Grayson has thrown for nearly 3,800 yards, 32 touchdowns and six interceptions this season. The Rams also have receiver Rashard Higgins, who leads the nation in yards per game (149.1) and touchdowns (17).
McElwain by the numbers
At Colorado St.
•2012: 4-8 (3-5 Mt. West), tied 6th
•2013: 8-6 (5-3), 3rd
•2014: 10-2 (6-2) tied 2nd
•Overall: 22-16 (14-10)


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Even today, the gap between fertility rates between those with and without college degrees is statistically significant. The big difference between now and then is that the "college-educated" constitutes women as well, with women starting in 2015 attaining more college degrees than men.
Birth Rate Declining Among College Men: Statistics for Harvard and Yale Show Steady Decrease in Number of Graduates' Children and More Childless Marriages
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President Jokowi Kicks Off W. Java Visit
By : Nata Kesuma | Thursday, October 07 2021 - 21:00 IWST
President Jokowi holds a conversation with Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung at the Halim Perdanakusuma Air Force Base, Jakarta, Thursday (07/10). (Photo by: BPMI/Laily Rachev).
INDUSTRY.co.id - President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, accompanied by Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung, left for West Java province for a working visit, Thursday (07/10).
The President and his entourage took off from Halim Perdanakusuma Air Force Base, Jakarta, at around 06.45 Western Indonesian Time using the Indonesia-1 Presidential Aircraft.
Upon arrival at the Husein Sastranegara Air Force Base in Bandung city, President Jokowi and his entourage will head to the Special Forces Education and Training Center (Pusdiklatpassus) in Batujajar district, West Bandung regency.
The President is scheduled to lead the ceremony for the establishment of reserve components for the 2021 Fiscal Year.
In the afternoon, the President and his entourage will head back to Jakarta via the Husein Sastranegara Air Force Base.


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I never cease to be amazed by the suicidal dives and swoops birds take in front of my speeding hulking Suburban Z71.
They swoop in from the left or right, mere feet in front of my truck, and I always check to see if the idiots made it through the other side.
I have to watch, since the truck is so big, and I always have the music cranking, so I wouldn't feel or hear anything if they didn't make it.
When I don't see a clear escape happen I know what I'll be doing when I reach my destination- on more than one occasion I've had to peel cute little birdies off the grill.
Yesterday on the back home from a post office run a bird got whacked by my truck. I looked in the rear view mirror and saw the feathery lifeless lump in the road.
This morning on the way to the gym I looked to see if it was still in the road where I hit it. As I looked- whack! A bird hit my antenna and ricocheted onto my window, then fluttered up and over my roof and into the windshield of the car behind me.
Stupd birds.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
A Bird In Hand Is Better Than Two Stuck In Your Grill
I never cease to be amazed by the suicidal dives and swoops birds take in front of my speeding hulking Suburban Z71.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Daniel Hannan- My New Hero
Wow. This guy unloads both barrels on the UK Prime Minister. Holy Cow. I don't know much about this gents politics, but his willingness to stand up and speak boldly and plainly about the WASTE that is government, and the pressure the wasteful, inefficient and unproductive government sector is putting on the productive private sector to soak up wealth in the form of more taxes and fees to then feed to unproductive segments of our society is deserving of long sustained applause. It's also a call to arms.
Oh- one other note. Notice he doesn't need a teleprompter.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Thank you Westhaven
I live about 10 minutes west of Franklin TN in a horse farm community called Leiper's Fork. Or at least I used to. I mean, used to be 10 minutes from Franklin. Now it's 15-20 or more.
We moved here for the serenity, land, creeks and rivers and wildlife. A stable plot of land to live on that I never had growing up- my father was in the air force and we moved about often always living in military housing.
The commute from our country home to the places we shop, meet and do business (Franklin, Cool Springs and Brentwood) has always been a quick drive away using Highway 96. The 55MPH speed limit (meaning of course everyone drove 60 or 65) allowed quick access to the "outside" world.
A couple years ago a new development/sub-division popped up nearby called Westhaven. It's a lovely area packed tightly with semi-custom built homes and a promising close community feel ahead as they begin to attract little shops and stores to the area. With this development, and the increasing population from this future town-within-a-town, has come a new speed limit on Highway 96 that runs parallel to Westhaven.
Franklin city has deemed it necessary to drop the speed limit to 40MPH. Now, as I drive this stretch for several miles, seeing little more than trees, cows, a few other cars, and an occasional hawk flying by, I am pained by the creeping speed that adds valuable minutes to my commute.
As for the benefit to Franklin there is no doubt. I would estimate its paying for the new downtown facelift with revenue from speeding tickets. As locals struggle to adjust to the new ridiculously low speed limit after a generation of 55MPH or greater on the road, the local police now hang out there more frequently that the local donut or coffee joints. It's not uncommon to see 2 cars pulled over driving one way on the road, and 2 more on the way back in the afternoon.
I must admit- to anyone outside this area that deals with real traffic issues and commute times (my sister drives an hour and a half each way to work), these paltry 5-10 minutes must sound absolutely ridiculous.
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Monday, March 16, 2009
Sickness Comes On Horseback
… and departs on foot. An old Dutch proverb. And a truth we're living in our family right now.
The sickness began more than a week ago. The youngest feeling tired and wanting to go to bed early. A fever the next morning. Continues fever for a week. Flu. My wife with a very bad case of sinus infection.
Then the fevers, ear infections, missed church and school continued. And to one degree or another its all still here in the household.
It's been a very bad week and a half around here. And I have personally evaded all the bugs. I hope I make it through unscathed.
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
I've been absent without leave from my blog for several weeks now. Very simple reason… anger and frustration with what's going on around me. And…
My wife complained that my blog's gone too political. I take that feedback very seriously because she and my four girls are the only readers I write for. So… I haven't had much to say that isn't politically tinged…
My heart and mind has been filled with awe (in the bad sense) and anger at what is happening before my very eyes. Our economy is teetering, our taxes will increase dramatically, my friend (a policeman) has mentioned increases in local suicides, people have lost half their wealth/retirement, the flow of friends and acquaintances letting me know they lost their job and to keep an eye out for them for new opportunities has now hit about 2-5 per week.
How quickly things change. And I doubt this is the change anyone hoped for.
The latest example to me of how insane things have got is the thousands of people protesting government cuts in NYC and California. Loud are the screams when the slop in the public trough dries up. But not to worry- Congress is dipping their ladles into our wallets and future right this very moment and are ready to spread a fresh heap of steaming wealth into the old wooden, cracked and broken trough.
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The ace cop of a totalitarian police force and a drifting android clash in a post-apocalyptic society.
In the conclusion to Takashi Miike's uproarious action/splatter trilogy, Riki Takeuchi and Sho Aikawa are catapulted into a future Yokohama ruled by multilingual gangs and cyborg soldiers, where they once again butt heads in a fashion-forward, cyberpunk-tinged melee.
"Another genre blowout that manages to also take the piss out of not only itself but two famous SF titans: BLADE RUNNER and TETSUO: THE IRON MAN. In this dystopian vision, everyone speaks a blend of Cantonese, English, and Japanese — and the sky is the color of a 15-year-old computer monitor: yellow and dirty, with a desaturated color palette. This time out, he has role-played the characters in a way that plays with HK and Japanese action, Japanese and Western sci-fi, video games and anime." - Tom Mes, Midnight Eye
Riki Takeuchi,
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Takashi Miike
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My last two Jane Austen novels! Emma: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 1/2 Persuasion: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 1/2
Tag: Jane Austen
Classic Review: Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
The dialogue is carefully crafted among the characters, the scenery is painted with a sense of familiarity, the characters are vibrant, and the romance is top-notch. I encourage everyone to read Austen's Pride and Prejudice. My Rating: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 1/2
Classic Review: Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen
The great thing about Jane Austen is that none of her stories are too boring. My Rating: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
Classic Review: Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen
This one is called Austen's gothic parody, and what a parody it was. My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ 1/2


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In the last decades, increasing demands to reduce fuel consumption and exhaust emission arose and led to a variety of new concepts to improve combustion engines. Most of these approaches require efficient closed-loop control, detailed physical models, powerful control logics and innovative sensor concepts.
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Jefferson County undertakes a first: its own comprehensive homelessness count
The Jefferson County effort comes at a point in time when Denver's neighbors are responding in a variety of ways to housing issues.
Questions about homelessness often get put to the cops.
It's not just homeowners asking whether trespassing laws or camping bans apply when they want urban campers moved along. Concerned neighbors also turn to the police expecting them to get someone in obvious distress to a shelter or to medical help.
"We're the ones who find them freezing in winter or overheated in summer," said Jon Alesch, who heads the Lakewood Police Department's Community Action Team.
Officials in the Denver suburb searching for answers about the scope of homelessness have queried Alesch. He offers them the latest results from the Point in Time, a survey of people living in homelessness taken on one winter day across the country. It's seen as the best data available.
But "how do you, realistically, in one 24-hour period, expect to get everywhere people are?" Alesch said.
He recalled one recent year in which, according to the Point in Time, Jefferson County, where Lakewood is located, had just four veterans with no homes.
"We know that that's not true," he said.
Alesch has been exploring how to get closer to the truth.
For about a year, he has been talking with law enforcement colleagues in places such as Arvada, Golden, Westminster and Wheat Ridge, as well as with local government and school officials, librarians, park managers, health workers and people who provide food, clothing and other services to the needy. The conversations have led to ambitious action: Jefferson County is for the first time undertaking its own comprehensive homelessness count in hopes of gathering data to better deploy resources and perhaps make the case that more need to be devoted to addressing homelessness.
As part of the count, for eight and a half hours on each of five days next week 500 volunteers are to spread out along the creeks and into the foothills of Jefferson County, which sprawls over 774 square miles. The canvassers will approach people at parks and libraries and knock on doors at cheap motels. They will be putting questions about homelessness to the experts: those experiencing it.
"We hope to be able to paint a better picture, a more accurate picture of homelessness in Jefferson County," said Kate Skarbek, a senior management analyst for Westminster Parks, Recreation and Libraries who like Alesch has been a driving force behind the comprehensive count.
Skarbek has worked with the Metro Denver Homelessness Initiative on an annual Point in Time that covers seven counties. Skarbek turned to the initiative, which is in charge of the regional Point in Time, for support as she helped plan the Jefferson County survey. She said her appreciation has grown for what the initiative has done year after year since 2001.
Skarbek has worked with the initiative on the Point in Time, a count that she says "doesn't capture what homelessness looks like in the suburbs."
In large part that is because the suburbs don't have Denver's shelters and other service providers.
"If you're living in an area that doesn't have concentrated areas of services … there's no one place to (go to) count," Skarbek said.
"The Point in Time is a useful tool more for urban areas. It's also a useful snap shot," Skarbek said.
In preparing for the Jefferson County count, which might be seen as a short video in comparison to Point in Time's photograph, Skarbek studied the example of Sonoma County, California. After fires destroyed thousands of homes and displaced many people in northern California in 2017, Sonoma County officials were concerned the usual Point in Time methods would not yield enough information. They supplemented their 2018 count with a telephone survey targeting people who would not traditionally be considered homeless, including families living doubled up. Officials reasoned that knowing the number of people in such unstable situations would help planners addressing the aftermath of disaster brace for families tipping into homelessness.
Planning for the Jefferson County count also was informed by the Metro Denver Homelessness Initiative's survey language and training materials.
"It's not a competition," said Diane Howald, who leads Point in Time for the Denver-based regional group. "I'm excited that people are ready to do the work and get to know their community."
Howald added the information gleaned about where to find people experiencing homelessness during the Jefferson County count could help determine where to send outreach workers during future Point in Time surveys. It also could guide officials as they determine what services the community needs and where to locate providers.
"I am all in to support any and all of this," Howald said.
The Jefferson County effort comes as Denver's neighbors are responding in a variety of ways to housing issues.
In a special election last month, Lakewood voters approved a 1 percent cap on housing construction that affordable housing advocates worry will make it even more difficult to build homes that can be offered at below-market rates. Earlier this month, Aurora's city council adopted a new zoning code that included provisions designed to make it easier to build affordable housing, though some members had called for a greater effort on that front. In a vote last month, Centennial's city council banned camping on city-owned property. The Centennial vote came weeks after officials in Englewood, with no need for a formal camping ban, cleared people living in homelessness from a stretch of the Platte River bank, citing concerns about keeping order and maintaining cleanliness in the area.
Englewood, meanwhile, has joined the fellow Arapahoe County cities of Littleton and Sheridan in planning a joint assessment similar to Jefferson County's, in hopes of learning how to better deploy resources to lessen homelessness.
The tri-city count is still in the early planning stages and likely to take place late this year or early next, Littleton Deputy City Manager Randy Young said. He added conversations so far have already raised awareness.
"A lot of people have incorrect information about the homeless," Young said. He offered himself as an example, saying he had once assumed many people chose to live on the streets.
"What I've learned from this process to date is if that's a percentage at all, it's a very small percentage," he said.
"Everybody's become more aware that we need to be more proactive," Young said. "We're just trying to get a little bit deeper and better understanding."
Phyllis Resnick, an economist and executive director of the Colorado Futures Center think tank, said such efforts speak "to something that I don't think gets enough attention around here, which is the suburbanization of poverty."
That's driven in part by the new trendiness of central Denver neighborhoods, Resnick said. As higher-end housing is built there, the low- and moderate-income families that once called neighborhoods such as Five Points home are moving to suburbs that once were attractive because of their very distance from the urban core, and now are seen as lacking walkability and access to transit options other than cars.
Jennifer Newcomer, director of the Piton Foundation's Shift Research Lab, said she is getting more and more requests from city governments and nonprofits in Denver's suburbs for help identifying where support services for needy families should be located. The Piton Foundation focuses on childhood development, health and other socio-economic issues.
"A lot of these suburban communities are kind of having to play catch up," Newcomer said.
The effort can be daunting.
The 500 volunteers that Jefferson County wants to conduct its planned homelessness assessment over a week are as many as were deployed in total on Jan. 28-29 for seven counties — Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson — for the regional Point in Time.
While the Point in Time looks at just one day a year, it provides data that can be compared over decades and among communities nationwide. That helps experts identify trends and try to predict future needs. The Jefferson County assessment will be hard to replicate annually. Skarbek said Jefferson County might repeat the effort only every five years, or perhaps every other year.
While it won't be conducting a telephone survey as Sonoma County did, Jefferson County is using extra methods to expand local knowledge.
Point in Time canvassers, for example, end the conversation if people they are questioning report having paid for their own hotel or motel room instead of relying on a government or charity voucher. The Jefferson County surveys probe further in an effort to understand how much longer people think they can continue to pay for themselves — in other words, how secure they are in their housing. The Jefferson County volunteers also will be asking individuals to report on where they have slept over the last three nights, which will yield a sense of how often people have to move along. The Point in Time focuses on just one night. And the surveys include questions about whether people are receiving food, employment or other services and whether they face transportation, language or other barriers to getting help.
In the planning stages, Skarbek said, she and others couldn't put their hands on a comprehensive list of food pantries in the county. That's a gap that was identified and can now be addressed even before the survey is completed, she said.
Jefferson County's field survey will be bolstered by information that hospitals, schools and service providers are collecting throughout the month of August as part of the effort.
The Jefferson County school district has staff engaged with families over time and practiced at tracking homelessness among its students. It's part of any district's responsibilities under McKinney-Vento, federal legislation on homelessness that includes guarantees that vulnerable children have access to education. This August, JeffCo schools will ask students whether they have been contacted by volunteers or other agencies as part of the comprehensive count.
"If they haven't, we will ask them to participate in the survey to add to the county-wide effort data," district spokeswoman Diana Wilson said in an email. "We know it's important to get a handle on the numbers and needs of this segment of our community in order to plan for and provide the best services to support them."
The district identified 3,135 students living in homelessness during the 2017-18 school year. The 2019 Point in Time put the number of people of all ages experiencing homelessness on one night at 434 in Jefferson County.
Of those counted in the schools, 251 students were living in shelters. More than 2,500 had had to move in with relatives or friends, which could be better than a shelter, but could also be as precarious as the term "couch surfing" implies.
Families doubled up are sometimes split up, with friends making room for the children but mom left to sleep in her car, said Skarbek, who helped design the Jefferson County survey. Or they are crowded into apartments and breaking terms of leases that limit occupancy, placing their hosts at risk of eviction.
"They don't have that security, with a place to feel they have the rest of the world at bay," Skarbek said.
"It's almost ensuring generational poverty is established or continues."
In an attempt to understand the extent of couch surfing, the surveys developed for Jefferson County's comprehensive count include questions about how long people think they will be able to stay in one place.
Staff at Centura Health's St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood are taking part in the comprehensive count, asking about the housing situation of patients who appear at risk. Some hospital staff will also volunteer for the count in the field, said Monica Buhlig, Centura's metro Denver group director for community health.
She said St. Anthony emergency room staff regularly see people experiencing homelessness.
"We can treat people for the immediate needs. But when it's time to say goodbye, it's a tough situation," Buhlig said.
Where will a discharged patient who has no kitchen keep medication that needs to be refrigerated? Will a mother living in her car eat a recommended diet, or put her own health at risk in order to make sure her children are fed?
"In Jefferson County, this is a hidden epidemic," Buhlig said. "The fact of the matter is that there are so many families experiencing homelessness and we don't see them."
The results of the comprehensive count are expected to be available next month, after the raw data is evaluated by the same analysts who help prepare the metro Denver Point in Time reports. Police Sgt. Alesch expects the report to be eye-opening for policymakers.
And "for the public," he said, "so they have a better understanding of what the situation is."


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Monday, 21st September 2021 – Ely
After returning from Goodwood on the Sunday, Monday morning saw us getting off to a slowish start and heading east towards Cambridge and beyond. Our destination was the city of Ely, in Cambridgeshire. Now you may think "city = large centre of population" but actually what it means is a place that has a cathedral. With a population of a little over 20,000 Ely is not big, but it is historic and has heaps of charm in the shape of many old buildings, and a stunner of a cathedral.
It is built on what is referred to as an island, an outcrop of clay that is the highest point in the sogginess that is the Fens. At 85 feet (26 metres), it's not exactly vertiginous, but it stands out and is visible from a great distance, surrounded now by flat, peat-rich farmland. It also stands on the banks of the River Great Ouse which was once a major transport route until the draining of the Fens in the 17th century. Despite it not being an island any more, the city is still known as "The Isle of Ely".
The draining of the Fens presumably also put an end to eel fishing, from whence it is believed by some that the name Ely derived originally. Certainly the local tourist information office still celebrates the eel, with all sorts of references to it, and an Eel Festival, held in May every year since the long distant year of 2004! There is also an eel walk, a tour of the historic town. We picked up a leaflet for it at the tourist information office and headed off to the cathedral.
The first church that can be said for sure was on the site dates back to AD 672, an abbey church built at the behest of St Etheldreda who seems to have been a woman with several names. The building now floating above the Fens has been there since 1083, becoming a cathedral in 1109, the Church of St Etheldreda and St Peter. Later it was rebadged, as it were, as the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Ely, and is the seat of the Bishop of Ely as well as of the Bishop of Huntingdon.
Wikipedia describes it as "architecturally … outstanding both for its scale and stylistic details. Having been built in a monumental Romanesque style, the Galilee porch, lady chapel and choir were rebuilt in an exuberant Decorated Gothic". I really cannot disagree with that assessment.
The cathedral is built from stone quarried from Barnack in Northamptonshire (bought from Peterborough Abbey, whose lands included the quarries, for 8000 eels a year), with decorative elements carved from Purbeck Marble and local clunch.
There is a moderate fee to enter (£8), though the website does say they won't deny entry to anyone who cannot afford it. We were happy to pay up, and also happy to find that photography is permitted (as long as you do not photograph any of the choristers) and entered a massive space, largely empty of visitors. The total length of the building is 537 feet (164 m), and the nave checks in at 246 ft (75 m) which makes it one of the longest in Britain. It draws the eye with its stunning vaulting and beautifully painted ceiling. "The ship of the Fens" is glorious inside and out.
Over the centuries, it was steadily built and rebuilt, with the inevitable setbacks that any major building project tends to suffer. Probably the worst was the collapse of the octagonal tower, which was part of the original design. Numerous attempts were made to correct problems from subsidence in areas of soft ground at the western end of the cathedral. In 1405–1407, to cope with the extra weight from the octagonal tower, which replaced the first tower. At the end of the fifteenth century the north-west transept collapsed just to add to the problems. A great sloping mass of masonry was built to buttress the remaining walls, which remain in their broken-off state on the north side of the tower.
One of the fascinating features of the current structure is the free-standing Lady Chapel, linked to the north aisle of the chancel by a covered walkway. It is massive, and was clearly stunning when it was finished. Sadly, the English Reformation saw the destruction of much of the decoration, and the headless statues that remain are a sad reminder of the sort of vandalism often carried out in the name of religion. Any larger statues are long gone, and the relief scenes that were built into the wall had their faces hacked off. It's still a beautiful space, but you do wonder just how fantastic it would have been.
There is a modern sculpture of the Virgin Mary (2000) over the altar now, by David Wynne (1926–2014). Apparently it is not without controversy, showing as it does a decidedly white, blonde woman, rather than someone who looks like she might have come from Palestine. That aside, it does capture the attention. I liked the glass feathered wings to the side of the altar, and presumably they remain uncontroversial.
The central octagonal tower is the highlight though, described by Nikolaus Pevsner Ely's "greatest individual achievement of architectural genius". On the night of 12th February 1322 the original Norman central crossing tower collapsed. A change of plans led to the crossing being enlarged to an octagon, in what is quite a feat of engineering. There's a model of the structure in the cathedral that shows just how the octagon is held up.
It survived the Reformation, and the English Interregnum, but by the Victorian era was in need of restoration. The man responsible was George Gilbert Scott, a keen exponent of the Gothic Revival. It was his first cathedral commission, and he seems to have made the most of it. He produced a new carved wooden screen and brass gates, moved the high altar two bays westwards, and installed a lavishly carved and ornamented alabaster reredos, a new font for the south-west transept, a new organ case and a new pulpit. He also restored the octagon to something close to its original form.
There was also a short-term exhibition of contemporary stained-glass art in the entrance to the cathedral, should you find yourself there while it is still on. The pieces were for sale, but sadly not at a price that we could consider!
Having thoroughly explored the cathedral (and its shop) we headed back across the green to visit Oliver Cromwell's house, a part of which now contains the Tourist Information office in one of its downstairs rooms. Again, there was a fee to visit (£5.50). For this you get an audio handset that enables you to explore the house and draw your own conclusions about Cromwell, a deeply divisive figure even now. The house is old, the kitchen dating from around 1215, with other parts added later. It has been refurbished to show how it may have looked during Cromwell's lifetime, and it is one of just two of the former Lord Protector's residences still in existence other than Hampton Court. There is a good, if small, exhibition explaining the English Civil War and Cromwell's part in it, and a lot of interactive items that would appeal to small (and not so small children.
We really needed coffee (and cake) after that, so crossed the road to the Poets House hotel.
A restoring carrot cake, and we felt able to walk the Eel path to see if there was anything we'd missed. The city itself is small, quiet and very charming. It apparently went into something of a decline after the Civil War and that may be why it retains so much of its historic infrastructure. It has the riverside, parks and lots of medieval buildings and certainly rewards a closer look. The views of the cathedral are glorious from all sides, especially walking back up through the parks from the riverside.
We found the car and then headed up the road towards Newmarket and our destination for the evening, Fordham Abbey and the Dojima Sake Brewery.


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On World Lung Cancer Day we are delighted to launch our new lung cancer website, a key end result of our patient priorities lung cancer project.
We hope that it will improve access to the information and support that people affected by lung cancer in Europe have told us they need, and that it will be a key resource for European Respiratory Society (ERS) members to signpost their patients to.
The website has been developed in consultation with people with experience of lung cancer as well as ERS lung cancer healthcare professionals.
It offers:
You can also find out about the priorities for lung cancer treatment and care that were identified as part of this project as well as more about the people involved, and our consultation activities with 400 individuals and organisations.
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Reduce your Docker images (an example with Ruby)- 7 mins
A big problem that we face when deploying Docker into production is the image size. Large images take longer to download, consume much of your cloud network traffic quota, cost more money to be stored on the repository and don't bring any good value.
In most situations, when we create a Docker image, we add steps and dependencies that sometimes we don't need in the final image that will run in production.
I will use the following application as an example: https://github.com/opensanca/opensanca_jobs
This is the Dockerfile that generates our image
And the command used to build it:
This build generated an image with almost 1GB!!! 😱.
This image has some unnecessary stuff, like node but yarn (we only need them to precompile the assets but not to execute the application itself).
Multi-Stage build
Docker introduced the concept of Multi-Stage build in version 17.05. This build technic allows us to split our Dockerfile into several statements
FROM. Each statement can use a different base image and you can copy artifacts from one stage to another, without bringing stuff that you don't want in the final image. Our final image will only contain the build wrote in the last stage.
Now we have a Dockerfile divided into two stages. Pre-build and Final-Build.
In the pre-build stage we install node and yarn, all dependencies and precompile the assets. In the final stage, we use an alpine image (which is very small) with ruby, we install only the necessary dependencies to run the application and we then copy the libraries and assets generated in the build-stage with the following command:
Doing the build with this Dockerfile, we have now a 562MB image.
We have already reduced almost half the image size, but can we reduce it further?? 🤔
Yes. We can do some actions to reduce more this image.
Removing unnecessary files
We can delete files that are not necessary from the image, like cache and temporary files used by the installed libraries. We can add a .dockerignore file, telling the build what not to send to the image.
In this new Dockerfile, we added this part that removes caches and temporary C files used to build the libraries:
We also included our .dockerignore to tell the build process the files that we don't want in the image:
With these two steps, now our image has 272MB.
We can reduce it even more. For production, we don't need test folders, npm raw folder (they are already included on the asset pipeline), no precompiled assets and caches.
To remove this files, we can include a strategy of passing an argument to build (we will call it:
In this argument, we will pass all the files that we don't want in production:
Notice the
— build-arg to_remove="spec node_modules app/assets vendor/assets lib/assets tmp/cache". These are the folders that we want to remove from our build process. We don't need them to run in production.
Removing these files, now we have an image with 164MB, almost 6 times smaller than the original one.
If you still don't believe me and want to see it, this is the PR that generates this reduction: https://github.com/opensanca/opensanca_jobs/pull/164
Cheers 🍻
Thanks to Felipe Pelizaro Gentil


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In recent years, the majority of the K12 public school districts in Livingston County, Michigan, installed their own private optical fiber networks to interconnect their respective schools within the district. The County reached out to Barton Malow to act as technology contractor and design another fiber-optic network to connect emergency response facilities with K12 throughout the region. Using the existing network already installed by the schools, Barton Malow's Technology Services team was able to stretch grant dollars and also connect the school buildings to municipal and emergency response facilities.
The end result is a county-wide network that effectively shares and improves resources. Networks from three county school districts were utilized to extend connectivity beyond the school buildings to municipal offices, police stations, fire stations, and EMS facilities in 10 county townships.


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RE: Obinutuzumab, a new anti-CD20 antibody, is active and effective in anti-MAG antibody polyneuropathy.
- Chiara Briani, Neurologist, Department of Neurosciences, University of Padova, Italy
- Andrea Visentin, Hematologist, Hematology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Padova, Italy
- Alessandro Salvalaggio, Neurology resident, Department of Neurosciences, University of Padova, Italy
- Mario Cacciavillani, Neurophysiologist, CEMES, Data-Medica Group, Padova
- Livio Trentin, Hematologist, Hematology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Padova, Italy
We read with interest the paper on obinutuzumab in anti-MAG neuropathy [1], and would like to report our experience with two patients successfully treated with obinutuzumab.
The first patient is a 82-year-old man with severe demyelinating sensory-motor neuropathy. He was wheelchair-bound, incapable of standing, with loss of sensation up to the knees. He had chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) with IgM lambda monoclonal gammopathy and anti-MAG antibodies >70,000BTU. He was treated with obinutuzumab at the same reported dosage [1] and chlorambucil (0.5mg/kg at day 1 and 15 of cycles 1-6) [2]. After 6 cycles of treatment the patient was able to stand and walk with monolateral support, and his hypoesthesia and strength improved. M-protein and IgM levels decreased.
The second patient is a 84-year-old women with demyelinating neuropathy, paresthesia and gait instability. She had CLL and IgM kappa paraprotein with anti-MAG antibodies >70,000 BTU. Chlorambucil and obinutuzumab were administered. After 3 cycles the monoclonal component disappeared and the patient reported dramatic improvement of symptoms and gait normalization.
In our patients, obinutuzumab was effective as first-line treatment of anti-MAG antibody polyneuropathy.
Control of the underlying disease (CLL) might have had an important role in the response to therapy,[3] but chlorambucil+obinutuzumab might be considered in future trials in anti-MAG antibody polyneuropathy,[2,4] regardless of the associated hematological condition.
1. Rakocevic G, Martinez-Outschoorn U, Dalakas MC. Obinutuzumab, a potent anti-B-cell agent, for rituximab-unresponsive IgM anti-MAG neuropathy. Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm. 2018;5:e460.
2. Goede V, Fischer K, Engelke A et al. Obinutuzumab as frontline treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia: updated results of the CLL11 study. Leukemia. 2015;29:1602-1604.
3. Briani C, Visentin A, Salvalaggio A et al. Peripheral neuropathies in chronic lymphocytic leukemia: a single center experience on 816 patients. Haematologica. 2017;102:e140-e143.
4. Nobile-Orazio E, Bianco M, Nozza A. Advances in the Treatment of Paraproteinemic Neuropathy. Curr Treat Options Neurol. 2017;19:43.


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The Army of Inside Out is a mixed media installation about Love.
Love, is there anything more important? It should be everywhere. How can it reach as many people as possible? I will start by teaching an army of snails that Love needs to be spread around. Of coarse I will need the help of humans…
The Army of Inside Out, participated in show's,(among others in the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague) that gave them a grand start. When humans 'adopted' a snail, they where asked to photograph it near something that needed Love. The snails didn't move fast, but as shows past and time went by, more and more photos arrived in the mailbox.
A website was created so that the snails could see where the other snail spread Love.
They got a little bit famous when the Dutch magazine Keramiek wrote about them and their mission.
Something even greater happened. A art curator read the Dutch magazine Keramiek. The snails were invited to take part in a big show in Fort Pannerden, NL. This time they really could move in, so that Love could grow. The photos sent by the humans where developed in poster size, so that it was easy to see all the Love that has been spread around. The computer with the website, letters and even poems from humans who had a snail. Now the Army wondered, what would the humans say or wright down about Love. About who needed Love and why. So a mailbox was hung, paper with a question to the grown ups and from the small humans they asked for a drawing. The mailbox was regularly emptied and the contents was placed on the desk. The desk filled up with lovely drawings and beautiful ideas about Love.
Some snails hid in the other rooms, staircases and walls.
They where never seen again.. So they probably found someone in great need of love.
Very honored to be a part of this wonderful adventure, and happy that once again Dutch magazines Keramiek and Klei wrote about their mission. That Love is the only thing that matters in the world. Happy snails even showed the way on the exhibition poster.
Content; Porcelain+ Poster + Human Touch = Photos + Website+ Home+ Human Touch + Mailbox= LOVE


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Toyota Innova is set to receive a mid-life facelift soon – Spy shots of the new variant has leaked
Toyota Innova Crysta has been around since 2016 and it is high time that the MPV got a fresh makeover. The Japanese automaker is about to give it a much-needed facelift and its first real world images have now leaked on the internet, thanks to Instagram user @_wawanridwan.
The leaked images from Indonesia show that the facelifted Innova is heading to dealerships from company plant. This confirms that production has already started in Indonesia, and it will only be a matter of time before 2021 Innova production starts in India.
This is the first major makeover that has been rendered to the second generation Innova- with the added suffix Crysta. The MUV will soon be revealed officially; followed by its launch in Southeast Asian markets of Thailand and Indonesia.
Design updates
Overall silhouette of Innova Crysta has been retained while prominent elements such as the front grille and front bumper have been revised. A fresh pair of projector headlamps have been added. The front grille is a lot wider and covers more areas of the front fascia making it look more aggressive. Also, the position of the fog lamps has been changed as they are now integrated with the front bumper. The LED DRLs now sit below the headlamps on a vertical housing on either side.
Rear of the car is very much unchanged, although the tail lamps are set to receive minute new details. New alloy wheel designs are also expected in either a silver finish or a darker tone, depending upon its trim level.
Expected Features
Images of the interior have not been revealed yet, however, it is expected to undergo subtle revision to give it a fresh vibe. This includes a slightly bigger and more conducive touchscreen infotainment system with the addition of Android Auto and Apple CarPlay and premium upholstery. If Toyota is a little more generous then it might also throw in a wireless phone charger and a 360-degree parking camera.
Powertrain, Transmission Options
Toyota Innova Crysta in its current iteration gets two powertrain options. A 2.7-litre petrol engine that churns out 166 bhp and 245 Nm of torque and a 2.4-litre diesel mill which kicks out 150 bhp and 360 Nm of torque (manual trim generates 343 Nm). Both engines can be mated to either a 5-speed manual or a 6-speed automatic transmission. The same set of powertrain and transmission options are set to be carried forward in the upcoming facelifted model.
Toyota Innova Crysta has been the undisputed king in India. However, in recent months, the popular MPV has witnessed a consistent slump in sales which might ring a bell to the Japanese manufacturer. A timely facelift could help its resurgence in the market amidst stiff competition. the Facelift is most likely to hit showrooms in India early next year. Apart from the Innova Crysta Facelift, Toyota has also been working on the facelift of its premium SUV- Fortuner which is expected to arrive in India in a few weeks.