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Toronto high school failed to take action on teacher's 'sexualized behaviour' for years, parents say
Students and parents at a downtown Toronto high school claim school administrators neglected allegations of "sexualized behaviour" by a teacher who has been the subject of several complaints over the last five years.
Sean Gacich, a humanities teacher at Harbord Collegiate Institute, is currently on home assignment pending a schoolboard investigation into his conduct.
This comes after a group of 28 parents banded together to confront the board and Harbord's administration about their "failure to take immediate action" after allegations surfaced and, they claim, a petition was signed by over 100 students and sent to the vice-principal about Gacich's conduct.
"As parents, we feel sick sending our children to school knowing that they and their peers have to endure being taught by this individual," the parent group wrote in a joint letter to Toronto District School Board and school officials in late January. (more...)
How judges use 'hypotheticals' to strike down mandatory minimum sentences
Labels: abuse, education, misconduct, parents
Her son, facing murder charges, is being called an 'alt-right killer.' This mother blames herself
WASHINGTON—Her troubled son had been up for two nights straight, inconsolable over a breakup, when she pulled him into her bed to soothe him. She never meant to doze, but woke with a start at 4:26 a.m.
The 17-year-old was gone — and so were the car keys she had hidden under her pillow.
She darted through her Northern Virginia home calling his name, before reaching out to his ex-girlfriend's mother. The texted reply sent waves of dread through her: "He is here. We are calling police."
The mother expected to see a single officer as she drove toward the ex-girlfriend's home. Instead she found dozens of police cruisers, a gurney on the front lawn and an officer yelling at her to get to a nearby hospital.
At the emergency room, the news hit her with the force of a punch. "Your son has a serious head injury," a doctor said. "He shot himself and he shot two other people." (more...)
Anders Behring Breivik's mother 'sexualised' him when he was four
'Damaged masculinity' may help explain Columbine and other mass shootings
Labels: boys, fascism, feminism, mental illness
Every country has its "House of Lords" – its far-flung array of landlords' associations, farmers' unions, and commercial property lobbies. This milieu is not without its internal divisions, but a centripetal force encircles a shared aim of increasing land prices and rents. They shield from public view their common desire to ration land. They posture as champions of market forces only if that market is trapped in a terrarium of their design.
Conflict between the landed estate and the entrepreneurial class is centuries old. This basic polarity powered both American and French revolutions. Absent landlord vigilance, pioneers, pilgrims, and prospectors would pour forth towards the rugged frontiers. Absent vigilance, landlordism would go the way of serfdom. Hence the passion to "conserve" the hinterlands. Conservationism is a 19th century narrative designed to portray the self-interested confinement of tenants onto landlord-owned properties as a progressive political program aimed at the greater social good. (more...)
Tweets by BetterDwelling
Labels: accountability, business, environment, fascism, politics
The Parkland shooting suspect has fans and they're sending him letters and money
Accused Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz has been receiving volumes of fan mail at the Florida jail where he is being held.
In a pattern seen before with other killers and men accused of violent crimes, Cruz, who is charged with 17 counts of murder for the massacre at the school, has been sent suggestive photographs, greeting cards, encouragement and other kind notes, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel, which obtained copies of some of the missives.
Broward County Public Defender Howard Finkelstein, whose office represents Cruz, said he was concerned about the notoriety Cruz was getting.
"The letters shake me up because they are written by regular, everyday teenage girls from across the nation," he said. "That scares me. It's perverted." (more...)
Regular, everyday? Like Squeaky Fromme?
School Shootings and Fascist Groups -- Part 1 Part 2
Labels: crime, education, fascism, violence, youth
WE the latest charity to withdraw from Halton Catholic school board list
A global charity has withdrawn its name from a list of non-profits that declared they were in compliance with a controversial policy from an Ontario school board blocking donations to organizations that opposed Catholic doctrine.
WE Charity had originally signed a declaration from the Halton Catholic District School Board that it would not provide "public support," directly or indirectly, for certain activities, including abortion, euthanasia and contraception. The charity said early last week that it did not have projects supporting any of the activities outlined by the school district. It said that the questions asked by the school district were "not applicable" to the charity.
But on Saturday, in a subsequent statement on its website, WE Charity said that "after gathering further information and context," it had formally withdrawn its name from the list of charities that signed the declaration. "The WE Charity believes the voices of those who choose to be in a school system educators, parents and students, (21,000 of whom have already signed a petition on this issue) – should be respected when choosing the causes and charities they support," spokeswoman Angie Gurley said in an email on Tuesday. "WE Charity seeks to turn 'students into leaders,' and on this important issue, feels a strong solidarity with student leaders." (more...)
Where have we heard that name before?
So, a gay stripper walks into a top children's charity and asks for a job…
Free the Children manager resigns after report on his work as gay stripper
Free the Children 'We Day' leader moonlights as gay stripper
Labels: accountability, Catholic, education, gay agenda, Marxism, political correctness
Remember LGBTory? Ask Doug about it.
Tweets by LGBToryCanada
Labels: accountability, gay agenda, homosexuality, Marxism, political correctness, politics
Canada's Russia policy raises many questions
A Trudeau minion
Canada's decision to expel Russian diplomats raises more questions than it answers.
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said the expulsion of four diplomats and the refusal to accredit three more is designed to show solidarity with Britain, which blames Russia for deploying a deadly nerve agent in England.
She called the use of the nerve agent, which sent three to hospital, a "despicable, heinous and reckless act" — which undoubtedly it was.
But like her British counterpart, she provided no evidence that the Russian government was behind the attack.
Freeland also said she was expelling the four Russians because they had used their diplomatic status "to undermine Canadian security or interfere in our democracy." That too is a serious charge that warrants explanation.
Yet, so far, the Canadian government has offered no information about this interference. (more...)
A sorry track record:
Foreign service is anything but professional
Background on Canada-Ukraine defence agreement: A 'rich, mutually beneficial' arms trade
Labels: accountability, corruption, fascism, politics
Walkin' the Snake in India
In numerous programs, we have highlighted the Nazi tract Serpent's Walk, which deals, in part, with the rehabilitation of the Third Reich's reputation and the transformation of Hitler into a hero.
... we detailed the Hindutva fascism of Narendra Modi, his BJP Party and supportive elements, tracing the evolution of Hindutva fascism through the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi to the present time.
It appears that a Serpent's Walk scenario is indeed unfolding in India.
As the saying goes, you can't judge a book by its cover. But there are exceptions. For instance, when a children's book is entitled "Great Leaders" and has a picture of Adolf Hitler standing next to Barack Obama, Mahatma Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela, that's the kind of book cover that suggests this is a book best worth skipping. (more...)
Walkin' the Snake in India: Supplement to the Hindutva Fascism Series
#Longread: Despite its overt white supremacy, the #AltRight has begun delving into elements of #Hindu philosophy & mysticism. https://t.co/P27FUYNgeR pic.twitter.com/TRmAwv1SVU
— HOPE not hate (@hopenothate) March 27, 2018
The secret history of Pierre Trudeau
Labels: books, education, eugenics, fascism, politics, totalitarianism
Online guerrilla campaign takes aim at PC Leader Doug Ford
An online guerrilla campaign attacking Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford is causing a buzz at Queen's Park.
While the June 7 election campaign does not officially kick off for another six weeks, the new grassroots group, Not Doug, has launched a slick website aimed at the rookie Tory leader.
"There are many reasons why Doug is a bad choice for premier," the website says before listing a litany of Ford's controversial statements about autistic children, abortion, women, racism and drugs, among other topics.
Under each is a link to a mainstream media story that is the source material for the quote, including the Star, the National Post, the Globe and Mail, Global News, and Toronto Life.
"This isn't about the Progressive Conservatives, Liberals, NDP, or Green party; it's about preventing incompetent, unqualified individuals from taking power, just because they're the loudest ones in the room. A Doug Ford government would be a disaster for Ontario," the site says. (more...)
What's not to like about Doug? Well, the corrupt party he leads and... some closet Nazis in his camp:
Source says Tanya Granic Allen will seek PC nomination in Mississauga Centre
So, lets look on the bright side or... the Far Side:
NotDoug.com
Tweets by notdougford
Labels: accountability, corruption, politics
How did one small Church of England diocese produce so many paedophile reverends?
For a long time, I have wanted to understand why one small area of the Church of England has had a large number of the clergy sent to gaol for sexually abusing young people and children. The place is Sussex, particularly East Sussex, part of the diocese of Chichester.
I have not been alone in wanting this question answered. For the Government has set up an Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales and this body has turned its attention to the diocese of Chichester. The hearings have been going on for some weeks now. I shall make extensive use of what the inquiry has been told.
Let me start with something truly shocking. Here is the list of the main perpetrators:
Peter Ball was the Bishop of Lewes between 1977 and 1992 (later Bishop of Gloucester). In September 2015, Bishop Ball pleaded guilty to counts of misconduct in public office concerning sexual activity with young adults and two counts of indecent assaults against adults. He was sentenced to 32 months' imprisonment. (more...)
Labels: abuse, boys, crime, homosexuality, misconduct, pedophilia, rape
Nazis not welcome: Protesters hit the streets in Hamilton, but city keeps its cool
They were rebels without a cause.
At least not a clear one.
They were anti-Nazi and pro-Muslim. A few liked the police, but most didn't. They were in favour of Canada, but they had varying ideas of who should be Canadian. Black Lives Matter to some, but not others. They didn't say much about gentrification, but some believed that "Capitalism sucks." They were patriots who had to stick to sidewalks because they didn't apply for demonstration permits. The media were vultures, but everybody played to their cameras. This land was stolen, but it belongs to everybody. We should fight for what we believe in or we should all just get along. They wanted their voices heard, but kept their faces covered.
In all, it was a protest comprising a confusing variety of causes and groups which wandered up and down Hamilton's Main St. W. a couple of times looking for a place to go. The 150 or so participants were aiming for Locke St. S., but walls of police officers at every corner easily kept them back. Eventually, the protesters returned to Victoria Park, where they had started from, to shout at each other. They were angry, loud and ornery, but lacking in clarity.
"Is he one of us or one of them?" a protester asked pointing to a guy ranting about taking back the city.
The whole muddled and bewildering thing lasted 90 minutes before a Hamiltonians Against Fascism (HAF) guy with a bullhorn told everyone it was time to go home.
Hamilton police say there were no arrests or injuries.
It was billed as a "Patriot Walk on Locke" on social media, apparently instigated by far-right groups wanting to demonstrate against a recent vandalism spree on Locke St. by a masked mob. In online postings leading up to Sunday's walk, the Patriots seemed to include Soldiers of Odin, the Proud Boys and the Ontario Northern Guard. (more...)
Protesters hit the streets in Hamilton, but city keeps its cool
Right-wing group confronts researchers at Quebec conference
It's a tragedy that the chameleon Trudeau was never unmasked. The enormous harm done to our society by this closet Nazi and salon Bolshevik may have been averted. Lesson: Don't just read the label. Open the jar and take a long, deep whiff.
Labels: fascism, immigration, police, politics, violence, youth
Andrew Scheer's Campaign Manager Says He Builds Creepy Psychological Profiles of Voters Too
Hamish Marshall, Conservative leader Andrew Scheer's campaign manager for the 2019 election, says he's a "huge fan" of building detailed psychological profiles of Canadian voters and targeting them with personalized political messages.
Big data and politics took an unsurprisingly dystopian turn this week after a series of bombshell revelations about Cambridge Analytica – a data analytics firm once run by Steve Bannon and bankrolled by reclusive billionaire Robert Mercer that claims it used "psychographic data" to engineer Brexit and the election of Donald Trump.
According to The Guardian, Cambridge Analytica scraped Facebook data from over 200 million people to create "sophisticated psychological and political profiles and then target them with political ads designed to work on their particular psychological makeup."
The whistleblower at the centre of the Cambridge Analytica revelations calls it "Steve Bannon's psychological warfare mindf–k tool."
Many ordinary Canadians are likely unaware that similar techniques are already being used to wage "psychological warfare" in Canadian politics too.
Last year, at the Manning Centre's Alberta Networking Conference in Red Deer, Hamish Marshall – a backroom conservative strategist who founded the alt-right Rebel Media website and ran Andrew Scheer's Conservative leadership campaign – told conservative activists they need to focus on the "emotions" of individual voters if they ever hope to win again.
"We all think a lot about technology, but a lot of what we have to deal with, frankly, is human psychology," Marshall explained during a panel on "Modern Campaigning."
Moderator Jeromy Farkas, a Calgary city councillor, later asked Marshall to share his thoughts on "data-driven psychometrics in designing the message and the medium."
"I'm a huge fan of it," Marshall said. (more...)
Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media
Google, democracy and the truth about internet search
Labels: accountability, fascism, politics, sociology, technology
Austria was set to introduce a smoking ban in bars and restaurants but a far-right party voted 'for death'
The Austrian parliament voted Thursday to drop plans to introduce a smoking ban in bars and restaurants.
The move was led by the far-Right Freedom Party of Austria (FPO), which made the vote a condition for joining the coalition government of Sebastian Kurz last year.
MPs voted to overturn the planned ban despite public protests and a petition that attracted more than 500,000 signatures. At a tumultuous session of parliament, opposition MPs accused the government of "betraying" Austrian children and "voting for death".
The decision means Austria will remain one of the fast-dwindling number of countries where it is still possible to smoke in enclosed public spaces. (more...)
Never take the smokes from a Nazi, or his steroids:
Labels: business, fascism, politics
Former Ontario PC leadership candidate Tanya Granic Allen will be seeking the party's nomination for Mississauga Centre, CP24 has learned.
A campaign source told CP24 on Thursday evening that Granic Allen will be officially announcing her bid on Friday morning.
Granic Allen is the president of Parents as First Educators – a grassroot movement that is against the current sex-education curriculum in the province.
Earlier this month the Progressive Conservative Party announced that the riding of Mississauga Centre would be one of three ridings hosting new nomination races. Party president Jag Badwal said the party agreed to reopen nominations for Brampton North and Newmarket-Aurora as well. (more...)
As Doug Ford seeks to eliminate corruption in the PCs by rigorous vetting of candidates, we're sure he will clear the air about these connections:
Speaking Of Racists Endorsing Ontario Progressive Conservative Leadership Candidates....
Croatia's Far Right Draws Strength from Diaspora
Whistleblower fears for life as US arrests Malta bank chair
Update: Tanya has some interesting fellow-travelers on Twitter:
Announcement: Toronto Catholic Witness after prayerful examination of Tanya Granic Allen's Twitter Feed can no longer support her political campaign. When this blog endorsed her, we were not aware of her following certain neo-fascist Croatian Twitter accounts. 1/2
— Toronto Catholic Witness (@TorontoCatholic) March 23, 2018
We must denounce neo-fascism & Nazism given the attack on @ChabadFlamingo My father & grandmother fed Jews through barbed wire in Poland during the War. Catholic politicians @TGranicAllen should be the first to oppose ideologies that are against the Gospels 2 /2 pic.twitter.com/pO1lWMOokQ
Labels: accountability, family, fascism, politics, prolife
School board named in lawsuits seeking $8M; ex-basketball players share stories of alleged sex abuse
The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board has been named in four separate lawsuits seeking $8 million in damages for sexual abuse that former students claim to have suffered at the hands of gym teacher and basketball coach Donald Greenham.
Greenham, 75, died of a heart attack earlier this month at his home in Addison, near Brockville, two months before he was to stand trial on 54 counts of indecent assault, gross indecency and issuing threats.
The charges involved 14 former students, some of them boys' basketball players at Bell High School.
Although the trial was cancelled and charges withdrawn after Greenham's death, four of the criminal complainants filed statements of claim this week.
The lawsuits, which have not been tested in court, name both Greenham's estate and the school board as defendants.
The suits allege the board was negligent and may have ignored reports about the teacher's misconduct. At a minimum, the claims contend, school officials failed in their duty to protect students from Greenham. (more...)
Sex charges pile up for former Ottawa teacher
Labels: abuse, boys, crime, education, homosexuality, misconduct, pedophilia, rape, sports
FSWC Denounces Pattern of Antisemitic Mail Delivered to Toronto Law Firms
Toronto (March 21, 2018) - Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) has been informed about another instance of antisemitic mail addressed to a Toronto law firm. In this most recent case, the letter was sent to Neuberger & Partners LLP.
The two-sided mailer, a replica of one received at a Toronto immigration law firm two weeks ago, blames Jewish people for a "genocide of the white race via immigration" and calls for "genocide of the Jews." It's the third threatening letter received by Neuberger & Partners in the last six months.
"We are deeply disturbed by yet another incident of antisemitic hate mail directed to a Toronto business," said FSWC President and CEO Avi Benlolo. "This is becoming an all too familiar pattern for members of the Jewish community and is especially troubling as we mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination."
The first two mailers sent to Neuberger & Partners were provided to Toronto Police Service 13 Division.
"Although I am not aware of other law firms being targeted with such troubling material, I have a general concern for what appears to be an increasing trend of businesses, Jewish organizations and individuals being targeted with material that is not only highly offensive but contrary to engendering diversity, inclusiveness and respect for members of Canadian society," said Joseph Neuberger, senior partner with Neuberger & Partners LLP. (more...)
Advocacy for the "white race" can be highly selective. Slavs, particularly, know it's possible to not be the right shade of white; witness the current anti-Russian hysteria in the English press. Irish once knew this, too. Jewish lawyers advocating for immigrants? Public enemy number one!
Rabbi says vandal smashed glass doors of Thornhill synagogue with rocks
Nest of Lolitas for Lebensraum
Labels: crime, fascism, immigration, politics
Former Ottawa teacher handed 2 years for sex crimes dating back decades
A former Ottawa music teacher has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for sex-related crimes against students at two Ottawa high schools between 1973 and 1992.
Robert "Bob" Clarke, now in his 70s, pleaded guilty Wednesday to eight charges involving eight victims. He will also serve three years of probation.
Clarke was the music teacher at Bell High School for several years, and also taught at Sir Robert Borden High School.
Clarke pleaded guilty to charges of sexual assault and gross indecency. Three of the original charges against Clarke, including sexual exploitation charges, were dropped in a plea deal.
Peter Hamer, 50, was sexually assaulted by Clarke when he was a student at Bell High School in the late 1980s.
Hamer said he stayed quiet about the abuse for decades before coming forward. (more...)
2 more gross indecency charges laid against former Ottawa teacher
Labels: abuse, boys, crime, education, homosexuality, misconduct, pedophilia, rape
LONGUEUIL, Que.—Dozens of members of the right-wing group La Meute showed up to a college conference on extremism south of Montreal to challenge academic researchers describing their anti-immigration movement as radical.
About 30 members of the group, wearing hats and T-shirts bearing the group's logo, took seats in the audience at a library at CÉGEP Édouard-Montpetit Wednesday , just ahead of a presentation by sociology professor Martin Geoffroy on the extremist characteristics of La Meute.
Geoffroy's presentation demonstrated the ways in which La Meute's activities and communications met the definition of an extremist group. He said such groups generally subscribe to conspiracy theories, decry political elites, exercise strict control over members and call for a return to the traditions of the past.
The disgruntled mumbling and snickering of La Meute members turned into heckling, followed by outright denunciation.
"I am guilty of wanting to protect our identity, our culture, our heritage. I'm guilty of wanting to have immigration laws respected," said Stéphane Rock, a La Meute member who received cheers from his fellow members. (more...)
Tit-for-tat:
Faith Goldy talk at Wilfrid Laurier University shut down by fire alarm after protest
Lolita for Lebensraum Un-Loved
Labels: fascism, free speech, immigration, politics
The History of the Population Control Movement 1798 to 1998
The population control movement (or better put: the contraception-abortion-sterilization medical-industrial complex), while little understood and seldom discussed, is one of the most culturally and politically influential movements of the modern world. The population control movement and the environmental movement are so pervasively collaboratively and ideologically conjoined as to be conceptually inseverable. The following articles hopefully may serve as stepping stones across the 200-year wide river of darkness separating the general public from any practical awareness of this deliberate historic endeavour profoundly affecting each and every one of our lives.
Closet Nazis in the pro-life movement? They're controlled opposition. Astro Turf. Keep your wallet in your pocket, and your back to the wall. Bigots and elitists do NOT love life.
Update: Some local tree-huggers are about to put their "civic mindedness" on display:
Far Right March in Hamilton on March 25: We Have the Details
Can't have too many colored babies pulling wings off butterflies.
Labels: accountability, contraception, eugenics, fascism, medicine, planned parenthood, politics, reproduction
Cultural Marxism and the Alt-Right -- Red-Baiter & Red Poseur
Imagine encountering a self-proclaimed Christian who denied the existence of God, doubted the historicity of Jesus, and rejected the Bible as a moral guide. You might think this person was not much of a Christian. Upon further discussion, you might conclude this person was up to some mischief aimed at confusing people and undermining the Christian project.
The same goes for Marxism. Tenets such as historical materialism, proletarian centrality, and revolutionary socialism are not severable parts of the doctrine. Anyone claiming to be a Marxist yet discarding these tenets is a mischievous fraudster. Cultural Marxists are fake Marxists seeking to subvert Marxism.
Quoted from:
Cultural Marxism and the Alt-Right
Salon Bolsheviks
Labels: business, culture wars, education, fascism, Marxism
Hidden Agenda? 'Dictator Pope' author revealed
Regnery Publishing has revealed the author's name
The author of the Dictator Pope has been revealed as historian Henry Sire.
Sire, whose book was self-published last year under the pen name Marcantonio Colonna, was born in 1949 in Barcelona.
He was educated at Stonyhurst College before reading Modern History at Exeter College, Oxford.
The Dictator Pope caused considerable stir when it appeared in December. It tells the story of Francis's pontificate, as well as his life before becoming Pope, drawing on a wide range of material including confidential sources within the Vatican. (more...)
'Dictator Pope' author revealed
Be mindful that Regnery Publishing is a known CIA front and Oxford is a prime MI-6 recruiting ground. Both are steeped in Freemasonry:
Is The US Government Running Secret Psychological Operations Through Catholic Educational Institutions And Media?
They've been playing us for a very long time:
John Courtney Murray, Time/Life, and the American Proposition: How the CIA's Doctrinal Warfare Program Changed the Catholic Church
Meek as doves, wise as serpents
Labels: books, Catholic, freemasonry, gnosticism
Whitby elementary school teacher charged for alleged 'inappropriate relationships' with students
Durham Regional Police have laid sex assault charges against a Whitby elementary school teacher following allegations of "inappropriate relationships" with some students.
According to police, the suspect worked at Robert Munsch Public School and E.A. Fairman Public School in Whitby and was a coach for numerous sports teams, including the Female Under 18 team for the Durham Rebels Volleyball Club.
He also worked as supply teacher and taught at night and summer schools.
Police say the suspect was allegedly involved in inappropriate relationships with students under the age of 16 during school hours.
A suspect identified as Thomas Grieve, 39, has been charged with eight counts of sexual assault and eight counts of sexual interference. He is being held for a bail hearing. (more...)
Former student of Durham teacher charged with sexual assault speaks out in his defence
Labels: abuse, crime, education, misconduct, pedophilia, rape, sports
Trudeau's sexual liberalism was Malthusianism in drag. His theocratic, monarchist Constitution gave Canadians no rights they did not already have, but it did undermine the supremacy of Parliament while privileging Quebec and Francophones. His economic policies were neo-corporatist. His environmental policies concentrated Canadians into the Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto corridor by suppressing western and northern development. The conscription of Aboriginals into a wilderness gendarmes is an unfolding disaster. His October Crisis stands as the only peacetime use of the War Measures Act in Canadian history. From October 16, 1970 to April 30, 1971 Canada was a flat-out fascist state a la Chef Pierre.
Pierre Trudeau: Eco-fascist
Canadian Neo-Catholicism Really Out There
Al Gore: "Because of Pope Francis, I Really Could Become a Catholic"
Labels: Catholic, corruption, environment, fascism, politics
Ecofascism and Nazi Germany
Mukai Maromo of VivaVoce interviews William Kay on the topic of Climate Change. Mr Kay has been a militant critic of the anthropogenic catastrophic global warming hypothesis for twenty-five years. Beyond exposing the flawed science underlying this hypothesis the interview exposes the compelling economic motivations driving the Climate Change campaign.
The Royal Side of the Fascism Behind Agenda 21
Labels: fascism, politics, war
The Irish Slave Trade – The Forgotten "White" Slaves
They came as slaves; vast human cargo transported on tall British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children.
Whenever they rebelled or even disobeyed an order, they were punished in the harshest ways. Slave owners would hang their human property by their hands and set their hands or feet on fire as one form of punishment. They were burned alive and had their heads placed on pikes in the marketplace as a warning to other captives.
We don't really need to go through all of the gory details, do we? We know all too well the atrocities of the African slave trade.
But, are we talking about African slavery? King James II and Charles I also led a continued effort to enslave the Irish. Britain's famed Oliver Cromwell furthered this practice of dehumanizing one's next door neighbor.
The Irish slave trade began when 30,000 Irish prisoners were sold as slaves to the New World. The King James I Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies. By the mid 1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves.
Ireland quickly became the biggest source of human livestock for English merchants. The majority of the early slaves to the New World were actually white. (more...)
In more depth:
England's Irish Slaves
A review of the numbers in the "Irish slaves" meme
Labels: Catholic, immigration, slavery
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor and the Nazis
History is rife with might have beens. What if Columbus had made it to India? What if John F. Kennedy hadn't been assassinated? What if Hitler had won the Second World War?
History is also rife with people trying to cover up missteps that may tarnish reputations when posterity takes a cold hard look back.
That, according to author Andrew Morton, is what the British royal family, Winston Churchill, former British prime minister Clement Attlee and even American president Dwight D. Eisenhower were trying to do with the Windsor File, a group of documents found just after the war ended.
They were found, Morton writes, in a "metal canister which had been buried on a German estate" that painted "an astonishing portrait of a man who was disaffected with his position, disloyal to his family and unpatriotic towards his country."
The story he tells in 17 Carnations: The Royals, The Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-Up in History is the story they didn't want us to know. And the "what if" questions it evokes: What if Edward VIII had stayed on the throne instead of abdicating? What if Queen Mary and other royals had not vetoed his marriage to a respectable British woman? Would the Second World War have been avoided? (more...)
The British Prince who Financed HITLER
Labels: accountability, books, censorship, fascism, politics, war
La Phalange: The rise of a fascist fight club in Canada
Quebec City, a UNESCO World Heritage treasure trove, is home to breathtaking landscapes, historical sites, and a wide selection of mouthwatering cuisine. From the Old Capital lined with cobblestone streets to the waterfall on the Route de la Nouvelle-France, the French province is a masterpiece of cultural beauty. It is also home to the country's first publicly known "identity boxing club" founded by radical far-right movement, Atalante Quebec.
The secret gym is hidden in plain sight, accessible only to the group's members. Those who step through its doors are greeted by the framed pictures of Friedrich Nietzsche, Julius Evola, and Dominique Venner — 19th and 20th century scholars now embraced by the far-right nationalists. The gym's logo, a colosseum with protruding spears, was emblazoned on the opposite wall with the words La Phalange - Club De Boxe Identitaire (The Boxing Identity Club).
The gym was founded in June 2017, when Atalante Quebec gave a candid interview to a Serbian online media outlet announcing plans to start a "boxing identity club" for its members in Quebec City. The announcement caught the attention of French-Canadian media outlets, who raised concerns about the organization's lack of transparency, and its newfound potential for spreading hateful ideologies while also training groups of young ultra-nationalists for violent combat. (more...)
Why Montreal Was a Hotbed for Neo-Nazis in the 90s
Labels: eugenics, fascism, immigration, politics, sports, violence, youth
Ottawa high school teacher charged with sexual offences
An Ottawa high school teacher has been charged with sexual offences that occurred at a local school between 2014 and 2016.
55-year-old Robert Lavergne was teaching at St. Patrick's High School of the Ottawa Catholic District School Board at the time. Today, he was charged with sexual assault and sexual exploitation of a female under the age of 18. Lavergne is scheduled to appear in court on April 25.
In a statement, the Ottawa Catholic School Board said it is "deeply sorry" to learn that a teacher has been charged. The teacher has been suspended and a letter has been sent home to parents.
"The number one priority for our Board is the continued safety and well-being of each student. We will continue to cooperate with the police in their investigation of this matter. As a Catholic community, we will pray for all the persons affected by this difficult situation. I truly regret that such conduct has allegedly occurred at one of our schools." said Denise Andre, OCSB Director of Education, in a statement. (more...)
Well known Torontonian charged with child sex assault
Phillip Kravetsky – who's well known in Toronto's Jewish community as a family law mediator, psychotherapist, teacher, family man and DJ – is being investigated by the Toronto Police Service on a child sexual assault complaint.
The 51-year-old Torontonian was arrested on March 13, after police were called in to investigate a claim that a child was assaulted in the Lawrence Avenue and Bathurst Street area of the city.
Kravetsky is charged with sexual assault and sexual interference and is scheduled to appear in court on April 27.
Although police released Kravetsky's photo and a request for information from anyone who might have any details related to the case, Toronto Police Const. Jenifferjit Sidhu said that, "In order to protect the identity of the victim, we cannot provide any further details."
According to a police press release, Kravetsky was arrested by members of the Child & Youth Advocacy Centre, a group that partners child abuse investigators from the Toronto Police Service with community and government agencies, including the Children's Aid Society of Toronto and Jewish Family & Child. (more...)
New White Supremacist Tactic: Banners of Hate
From Seattle to Orlando and Los Angeles to Boston, white supremacists are displaying large banners from highway overpasses and in other highly visible locations as part of an effort to promote their groups and ideologies.
While white supremacists have been using banners for some time, the number of banners deployed in the past ten months marks an unprecedented trend, according to new data from ADL's Center on Extremism.
From May 2017, when the recent proliferation began, through March 12, 2018, ADL counted 72 instances of white supremacists hanging banners from locations such as roof tops and highway overpasses. That's an average of seven incidents per month.
Groups associated with the alt right segment of the white supremacist movement are responsible for the bulk of this activism, and accounted for 73 percent of the incidents.
Well-placed banners – like the white supremacist fliers appearing on college campuses nationwide -- can garner widespread attention with very little actual effort involved.
In addition to the attention created by the act itself, this form of activism has the secondary function of creating photos and video content for the group's online presence and recruitment. (more...)
Labels: fascism, immigration, politics
This St. Patrick's Day, Don't Forget to Celebrate Irish Resistance
On last year's St. Patrick's Day, progressives of Irish ancestry organized the first "Irish Stand" rally at Riverside Church in New York City to protest the xenophobic and racist policies of the Trump administration. The rally represented an energizing shift in Irish American social consciousness back toward an original culture of resistance.
This year's Irish Stand is on March 16. It's a different sort of gathering than typically is held each year—the well-known raucous St. Patrick's Day parades and festivities that include traditional music and dance with the aim of honoring the more than 70 million people worldwide who claim Irish heritage, over 33 million of whom are U.S. residents.
The history of the Irish diaspora is often given short shrift, even among Irish Americans. I've received more than a few odd glances when bringing up the Irish experience of British colonialism on St. Patrick's Day.
The Irish endured centuries of British colonial rule, including land confiscation, the suppression and near eradication of their native language, second-class status imposed through the notorious Penal Laws, and forced migration. Irish historian Tim Pat Coogan contends that the Great Famine, which brought the largest wave of Irish immigrants to the United States, was more akin to genocide than a natural disaster. Between 1845 and 1855, an estimated 1 million Irish perished from starvation and disease, and more than a million others fled through emigration.
In telling the story of Irish America, one must grapple with 19th-century Irish Americans having embraced a white racial identity, as historian Noel Ignatiev notably does in his seminal text, How the Irish Became White. Like other critical whiteness studies scholars, including David Roediger, Ignatiev builds off W.E.B. Du Bois' assertion in Black Reconstruction that Irish Americans identified as white for the "public and psychological wage" it conferred them. In short, Irish Americans sought social advancement through America's white supremacist racial caste system. (more...)
Irish Nazis
Labels: corruption, eugenics, fascism, immigration
Just how professional is Canada's professional foreign service?
Recent events give Canadians the impression that our federal diplomats are not only incompetent but in the bag for the Liberal Party of Canada.
The most recent example of cringe-worthy bureaucratic stupidity came on Monday when the visiting delegation from Belgium was met at an official event with a German flag.
The Belgian king and queen planned their trip to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of Canadian troops liberating Belgium during the First World War. Canadians were once again instrumental in defeating the Nazi's and freeing Belgium during the Second World War.
Our Belgian allies wanted to thank Canada for its historic contributions to peace and freedom.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, apparently, was not interested in meeting the Belgian royal couple, as his father Pierre Trudeau had as prime minister in 1977. On that visit, the Belgian queen planted a tree on the grounds of Rideau Hall to celebrate the Canadian-Belgian friendship.
This time around, small flags were used to identify the 1977 tree — except, whoever's job it was to bring a Belgian flag accidentally brought a German flag, causing a frenzy among the flabbergasted Belgian media. (more...)
Canada condemns 'despicable use of a chemical agent' in U.K. attack against ex-spy: Freeland
These Liberals are Nazi and Nazis are dumb.
Labels: accountability, fascism, politics, war
NAZI Homosexuals and the Slow Steady Seduction of America
Only in his dreams could Hitler have imagined the blatant homosexualizing of the German Wehrmacht. What Hitler could only dream of, the United States is poised to make fact, a scant sixty-six years after fighting a costly and bloody war to defeat Hitler and the Nazis.
Before I get ahead of myself, let me point out that the title of this article, and the article itself, are meant to be attention getting, but do not constitute a spurious ad hominem attack on homosexuality; they are designed to bring attention to historical facts that are of profound importance to the future of America (and the world).
To give credit where it is due, I first became aware of much of the material presented here after reading "The Pink Swastika" (4th edition 2002), by Scott Lively and Kevin Abram. The entire book can be accessed for free online... My reaction to the book was similar to Scott Lively's reaction, "When I initially learned the truths set forth in ["The Pink Swastika"] I was first astonished and then angered."
At the outset of this article let me reiterate that Communism and Fascism (of which Nazism is a subset) are both Far Left ideologies. That is not to say that they are "like peas in a pod;" they are not — nonetheless they are both left-wing, top-down, big-government social engineering movements.
Comparing the two is not like "apples and oranges," but rather like comparing "oranges and tangerines." Many of the left-wing's "rank and file" are unaware that fascism is a left-wing doctrine, but their puppet-masters are well aware of it, and work in collusion with other Far Left doctrines — "united in hate," as Dr. Jamie Glazov puts it.
The reporter/author Oriana Fallaci (1929-2006), who certainly knew the Left very well, wrote in her book "The Force of Reason" (2004), "…there are moments when I curse myself for not having understood it earlier: for having let myself be fooled by the two soccer-teams for so long. …It is a long-term ruler this Left that gave birth to Mussolini then Hitler, and always maintained its bond with their disciples. This Left which has always given trouble with its excesses and ambiguities, its brutalities and duplicities…."
An obvious place to start on the subject of homosexuality and the Nazis, is with Hitler himself. Was the Nazi leader, or Fuehrer (Führer), a homosexual? Although Hitler and the Nazi leadership went to great lengths to hide and/or destroy any incriminating evidence, the evidence that remains strongly suggests that Hitler was indeed a homosexual. At the very least, he was an extreme case of sexual dysfunction. (more...)
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Dudley Caving Club: OFD2 - It wasn't like this on the sofa last night !!
OFD2 - It wasn't like this on the sofa last night !!
This was a trip to introduce Sharon to caving and planned by Rich to give him some navigational practice in OFD Top Entrance. Unfortunately Mark could not make it so the three of us met as is the custom in Luigis for breakfast before heading to South Wales Caving Club. The club was surprisingly busy after a few quite weeks and full of familiar accents as a large party of the Birmingham Cave and Crag were in residence. We only faffed a little before changing and heading up the hill on a fabulously sunny morning. Rich led the was and took a route under the Brickyard on the way into the cave to reach Gnome Passage to have a look around there before heading off to Chasm Passage and the first test for Sharon - The Corkscrew climb, this was passed without any hesitation and so we now headed off to the sand crawls and the route to the Swamp Creek area of the cave. The long flat-out crawls proved to be the only thing that phased Sharon all day, and these were passed with no trouble, just disliked. We headed down to Swamp Creek to view the formations there and take a quick photo before we headed past the Judge and then Trident.
"It wasn't like this on the sofa last night !!"
We now only faced the long slog uphill to the entrance, taking in Salubrious Passage to the Corkscrew and then from Gnome Passage we exited via the sand crawls that lead back to White Arch. We took a small detour through Big Chamber before emerging into brilliant sunshine.
A great tour of Top Entrance completed in under four hours, it looks like we have a new caver in the making.


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Sportsbet.io — UI/UX Case study on bitcoin sports betting
Yolo Group
Sportsbet.io is a bitcoin sports betting website where users can place bets on a wide variety of sporting events.
The project launched in June 2016 and due to rising popularity of bitcoin, the customer base grew rapidly and by November 2017 the amount of active users had doubled.
The entire project was created by a small team of only 6 people and was developed over a period of 2.5 months, with this as the initial design:
Sportsbet.io in June 2016 till December 2017
Though the active customer base was growing and reception was positive, improvements were necessary in several key areas, of particular note were:
slow and unstable
non-scalable
poor UX
outdated UI
To create a fun and engaging product that would disrupt and innovate the industry by following our company's main principles: Fun, Fast and Fair. The result would need to be responsive, with a key focus on the mobile experience. We aimed to become the #1 bitcoin sports betting website.
My team and I began by interviewing key stakeholders to mark down the key pain points and to define a look that would satisfy and lead to success.
Next we have proceeded with the competitive analysis, investigating not only bitcoin providers but mostly concentrating on traditional sports betting websites with a vast majority of users.
In addition, we were analysing the data that the company had collected over a period of 11 months.
Using the research gathered, a theoretical persona was crafted that best represented the patterns shown in the collected data, to highlight the demographic we wanted to focus towards.
Site Map, Wireframes and Prototypes.
My team and I created a short overview of the site map that helped me to understand overall structure of the product. After that we started working on the wireframes and prototypes to understand how a user would navigate it.
It was clear that the entire brand needed a re-design. First on the list was creating a new logotype. My team and I focused on finding a unique, yet simple symbol that would represent the word "Sports".
The answer: Circle
What emerged from this exploration was our new logo:
Colour Matters, so our main colours were defined as bold and engaging. We also didn't want to confine our look into a limited choice of colours so it was decided to use many different shades for additional colours.
Strategy Blueprint
By this time, the team grew a vast amount to around 20 people and one of the centrepieces that was missing was the product strategy. Inspired by Jim Kalbach's workshop on "UX Strategy Blueprint" which I attended in UXLX 2017, I have proposed to run a workshop with the key stakeholders from which we would form our Strategy Blueprint.
Sportsbet.io Strategy Blueprint
We have launched the new sportsbet.io in December 2017 and so far it has been a massive improvement over the old product and the feedback from customers has been absolutely amazing with plenty of positive comments on forums, via live chat and e-mails. Over the course of building our new sports betting product I have learned a great deal about the industry, cryptocurrency, sports and so much more.
I was lucky to have a wonderful team supporting me with valuable feedback and knowledge, but what we have launched so far is MVP only. We have already planned tons of improvements and features to become what we are aiming for "Market leaders and innovators within sports betting industry".
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No Limits aiming higher
Valérie Moreno2018-11-29T12:40:19+01:00November 29th, 2018|2018-2019, 24 Heures Motos 2019|
Buoyed by their Superstock podium finish at the Bol d'Or, the first round of the 2018-2019 FIM EWC, No Limits Motor Team have consolidated their line-up. Luca Scassa will be riding the Italian squad's Suzuki over the next two years, while Christian Gamarino is expected to continue with No Limits in 2019.
Having placing 12th overall and 3rd in the Superstock class at the finish of a pitfall-strewn Bol d'Or this past September, Italian squad No Limits Motor Team are determined to keep up the momentum. They have set their sights on the 2018-2019 FIM Endurance World Cup, which has the top Superstock teams fighting it out.
No Limits Motor Team have signed up Luca Scassa for the next two years with a view to aiming higher. The 2008 Italian Superbike champion in 2008, Luca has since turned in noteworthy performances not just in the Superbike and Supersport World Championships (5th in 2011, 8th in 2013), but also in British Superbike and MotoGP in the latter part of 2013.
Christian Gamarino is also expected to confirm he will once again be riding the Italian squad's Suzuki #44. The Italian rider was among the lead players in the Supersport World Championship from 2014 to 2017 (he finished 11th in 2017). He suffered an injury during testing in the run-up to the Bol d'Or and was unable to race.
No Limits Motor Team will shortly be announcing the name of their third rider. Last season, No Limits finished in 4th place in the FIM Endurance Superstock World Cup with a line-up comprising Luca Scassa, Christian Gamarino and Michael Mazzina. The Italian team made their FIM EWC debut in 2003.
More info about No Limits Motor Team
https://www.fimewc.com/team/no-limits-motor-team/
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Geogami is making a comeback in our collection. Behind the scenes we have worked hard to improve this colorful 3-dimensional origami print. And with great results. It now truly looks as bright as a rainbow. Please note: color palets of the single sizes may vary. But back and front side have been cut to create as much color variety as possible.


Can I Upload Pictures To Instagram On My Computer: Instagram introduced a significant modification today, releasing a fully-functional web app that allows you upload images from a phone internet browser, no application needed. Instagram didn't formally add the option to desktop browsers, however it exists-- you simply need to locate it.
Most internet browsers have a method of letting you transform the "Individual Representative"-- things that tells an internet site what sort of device you're on. So, also when you're on a laptop computer or desktop, you could deceive a web site like Instagram into showing you the mobile website. That's exactly what we're going to do.
On Safari, it's simple. Go to Safari > Preferences > Advanced. Check the box at the very lower that claims, "Show Develop menu in menu bar"
Now open an exclusive browsing window. Head to Develop > User Agent > Safari - iOS 10 - iPhone. Most likely to Instagram.com, sign in as well as click the camera switch at the end of the display to upload a photo from your desktop computer.
In Chrome, most likely to Instagram.com and also log in. Currently right-click the page > Inspect > click the Tablet icon (top-left). The web page needs to switch over to mobile view, where you'll discover a camera switch below the screen, which lets you post a picture from your desktop computer.
Many Instagrammers-- myself included-- shoot images on a dSLR video camera as well as edit them on their computer system before uploading to Instagram. That implies needing to move the finished photo to a phone (using AirDrop or e-mail), which is cumbersome, at finest.
This workaround reduces that step out, making dSLR uploads simpler than ever.


85 new trees will be donated to the Urbana Cooperative Tree Planting Program by The Rotary Club of Urbana.
After Urbana lost 500 trees to the emerald ash borer, a species of beetle, over the past three years, 85 new trees will be donated to the Urbana Cooperative Tree Planting Program.
Mike Brunk, city arborist, said a public tree planting ceremony will be held in honor of the donation by the Rotary Club of Urbana, along with community residents Holly Rosencranz and Warren Lavey.
The ceremony will be held at 105 Meadows St. at 2 p.m. April 27.
Brunk said tree-planting is an important part of any community forestry program, as it is a way to keep the forest infused with new youthful stock, which in turn keeps the forest vigorous. Planting new trees is also a way to keep a community forest diverse and better prepared for diseases and insect infestations.
The City of Urbana budgets a set amount of funds for tree-planting each year, and tree-planting has remained an important part of the City's budget for the last four decades, Brunk said.
"It will be even more important in the next decade to speed our recovery from the emerald ash borer," Brunk said.
Brunk said Urbana has an Urbana Cooperative Tree Planting Program to enhance tree-planting through public participation.
"This co-op program has provide Urbana with thousands of parkway trees since its inception, and anyone can participate. The basis of the program is that participants provide funding for new trees at $125 per tree, which are located on city rights of parkways," Brunk said.
Brunk said residents and other participants will help add an additional 85 trees to be planted.
"The University of Illinois has its own tree care program and does a very good job in keeping campus green. The University of Illinois will be celebrating its fourth year as a Tree Campus USA program in 2018," Brunk said.
Everyone can assist in tree care through planting new trees, helping young trees survive their first critical three years, letting community and state leaders know how important the trees are to health and well-being and becoming more friendly with trees, he said.
Brunk said to not lock or lean bicycles onto trees, tie or nail signs to trees, or lean or store debris on trees or under them.
"All of these things bring a community together in the care of the community forest. Seeing and hearing is believing, and when a community speaks and acts for its trees, it always makes a difference," Brunk said.


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What's Happening in Space Policy February 2-6, 2015
By Marcia Smith | Posted: February 1, 2015 12:00 am ET | Last Updated: February 1, 2015 5:18 pm ET
Here is our list of space policy related events for the week of February 2-6, 2015 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate will be in session this week.
During the Week
This is budget week in Washington. The President will submit his FY2016 budget request to Congress tomorrow (Monday), kicking off debate over how much the government should spend and on what in the "discretionary spending" portion of the federal budget. FY2016 begins on October 1, 2015. Discretionary spending is generally broken into two parts — defense and non-defense. NASA and NOAA are part of non-defense discretionary spending. Although by law the sequester goes back into effect in FY2016, a senior administration official told reporters last week that the President's budget request will not adhere to the spending caps set by the law. The President apparently believes that the deeply unpopular sequester rules will be waived again (as they were for FY2014 and FY2015) or repealed or replaced entirely.
Most departments and agencies hold budget briefings the day the budget is released, as does the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Typically the budget is posted on the Office of Management and Budget's website in mid-morning, followed by the individual briefings. Traditionally the NASA Administrator holds a budget briefing in Washington, but this year Administrator Bolden will be at Kennedy Space Center and instead will "address the progress made and the exciting work ahead on the agency's exploration initiative that secures America's leadership in space." That talk will be broadcast on NASA TV, especially to all the NASA field centers, which are holding "State of NASA" events for the public that include tours, briefings, and listening to Bolden. For all the budget-watchers and policy wonks, explaining the budget request will be left to NASA Chief Financial Officer (CFO) David Radzanowski, who succeeded Beth Robinson as CFO last year. He will hold a telecon with the media at 4:00 pm ET that will be broadcast on NASA's News Audio website.
Another big event this week will be the confirmation hearing for Ash Carter to be the new Secretary of Defense. That hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee is scheduled for Wednesday at 9:30 am ET.
Also on Wednesday, as well as Thursday, is the annual Commercial Space Transportation conference sponsored by the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation. It will be held at the National Housing Conference Center in Washington, DC, the same locale as the last several years.
On Thursday, the American Astronomical Society (AAS) will hold its 2nd annual "State of the Universe" briefing on Capitol Hill to highlight new discoveries about the universe in the past year.
Those and other events we know about as of Sunday afternoon are listed below.
Obama Administration Submits FY2016 Budget Request to Congress
Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) budget briefing, 1:30-2:30 pm ET, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC (will be webcast)
Department of Defense budget briefing, 1:30 pm ET, the Pentagon
NASA budget briefing, telecon, 4:00 pm ET (audio will be webcast)
NASA Administrator Bolden briefing on status of exploration program, Kennedy Space Center, 1:30 pm ET (will be webcast)
Monday, February 2 – Friday, February 13
U.N. Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, Vienna, Austria
Public event highlighting 1-Year Mission to ISS, February 5, 12:30 pm CET (6:30 am EST) will be webcast
SASC nomination hearing for Ash Carter to be Secretary of Defense, G-50 Dirksen, 9:30 am ET
Wednesday-Thursday, February 4-5
18th annual Commercial Space Transportation conference, National Housing Conference Center, Washington, DC
AAS "State of the Universe" briefing, 2325 Rayburn, 12:00-1:00 pm ET
Last Updated: Feb 01, 2015 5:18 pm ET


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First Class Realty Celebrates Success of 2022 and Lunar New Year at Annual Awards Gala
UrbanToronto Industry Updates: Midtown Yonge Complete Street Pilot Earns Support from City Staff
11 YV Rising Above Podium On Its Way to 62 Storeys in Bloor-Yorkville
Toronto Wildlife
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lenaitch
SubHuman said:
I went to High Park this morning with visiting relatives and saw one casually swimming past on the pond with a stick in its mouth. Maybe they're a little more common and less nocturnal than I had thought.
I'm not aware that they are nocturnal at all. Their eyesight isn't great at the best of times, and some researchers believe that some urban beaver have become more nocturnal to avoid humans, pets, etc.
Relating to other invasive/introduced birds, and the barn swallow structures mentioned in the Ontario Place thread, unsurprisingly there were only House Sparrows on the birdhouse in High Park, not the intended Purple Martins.
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Other than maybe constantly removing the sparrow nests, I'm not sure what could be done to keep them away. Apparently it's somewhat common in the U.S. for people to trap and "dispatch" ( ) them, though I've not heard of that being encouraged in Canada, and I don't know if it would even be legal here.
Also important to note that not all sparrows are House Sparrows. Just on the way out of the park I saw some of these smaller and different-looking ones, I think Chipping Sparrows.
We get Chipping Sparrows return and nest to the same bushes every year (Yew bushes around the perimeter of the house). Years ago someone bought me a Purple Martin house which I tried, unsuccessfully, to populate for several years (I learned later that the lack of a pond or watercourse was significant) but I recall reading that you do have to 'police' other species from roosting. Once Purple Martins do discover the neighbourhood, they generally tend to return. I can only assume the Club would build their houses with the properly-sized openings.
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lenaitch said:
I've always understood Beavers to be primarily nocturnal.
I just checked across multiple sites and this seems to be the consensus position.
Canadian Encyclopedia, Live Science, Wikipedia among others all concur.
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Northern Light said:
Canadian Encyclopedia Live Science, Wikipedia among others all concur.
I have seen beavers multiple times in the Don river as I cycled past, they used to be at the mouth of the river after that area had been closed for a year for construction, they were also right under the Riverdale farm bridge (the opposite side of the cycle path), saw a little one there as a raccoon washed his paws to eat. These were from a few years ago but I know they were there, at one point I stood guard as a huge beaver crossed the cycle path, alerting oncoming cyclists, we stood and watched as he slowly crossed the path and headed towards were the corktown common tunnel is now (it was not there then).
Rufus8 said:
They definitely get around in the daytime as well.
I see them most often at dusk/dawn.
I don't go looking at night much; but I too have seem the active mid-day.
Well there ya go. I used to watch them a lot up north but, on reflection, mostly on summer evenings. Our daughter lives rural in northern Ontario and last year watched a beaver coming up her driveway "with purpose", mid day, walked past her and into the bush behind. They don't have water for several hundred meters in any direction.
Interesting analysis:
Are Beavers Nocturnal? Here's the Answer, and the Reasons
Find out here if Beavers are Nocturnal, or whether they're active during the day. And if so at what times and what for? Here are the answers
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...(I learned later that the lack of a pond or watercourse was significant) ... I can only assume the Club would build their houses with the properly-sized openings.
In addition to the birdhouse that's on the east side of Grenadier Pond, I found out there is another one along the south side. Purple Martins are there, though only on the pond-facing part of the birdhouse, with House Sparrows in the other part.
A little to the north of the larger house-sparrow-occupied birdhouse on the east side of Grenadier Pond is a broken light above the fishing platform that is also being used by Purple Martins.
Edit: I saw something saying that in July some Purple Martins may have now moved into the older larger birdhouse on the east side of the pond.
Great egret -
Edit (June 2, 2022): An app that can identify birds entirely by sound told me after walking through High Park twice this week that it had heard 41 different birds (Red-eyed Vireo, Blue-headed Vireo, Philadelphia Vireo, Warbling Vireo, Wilson's Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Cedar Waxwing, Great Crested Flycatcher, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Rock Pigeon, American Robin, Mourning Dove, Canada Goose, Eastern Kingbird, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Red-winged Blackbird, Northern Cardinal, American Goldfinch, House Finch, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Baltimore Oriole, Northern Mockingbird, Northern Flicker, Black-capped Chickadee, Common Grackle, Osprey, Mallard, White-breasted Nuthatch, American Redstart, Brown-headed Cowbird, Ring-billed Gull, Purple Martin, Blue Jay, Chimney Swift, Chipping Sparrow, Song Sparrow, House Sparrow, European Starling, Common Nighthawk, and Indigo Bunting).
I wasn't able to see most of them, and wouldn't have recognized them if I did, except for the common ones like robins, blue jays, cardinals, pigeons, and starlings.
This sign is on the walkway between Lake Shore Blvd and Hotel X.
I didn't know there were so many different types of birds that bulid their nests on or near the ground.
https://ebird.org/species/ovenbi1/CA-ON-TO
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There's been one or two of the Great Egrets in the High Park duck ponds every time I've gone past there in recent months. The Black-crowned Night Heron was perched motionless in a tree beside the pond.
The Merlin sound app told me it heard a 'Black-throated Green Warbler', and I looked up into the closest tree and saw three tiny birds quickly flitting around in the leaves catching insects too small to see. It's nearly impossible to get a good photo of them. One of them did look like a male of that species, while the other two were more drab-looking with the two white 'wingbars' being their only noticeable feature. And I didn't hear any of them making any sound, certainly not warbling.
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We get Warblers passing through every Spring and Fall migrating between the boreal and their winter grounds. I've pretty much given up trying to identify them because they flit so fast and, in the Fall, there's a reason the Peterson guide has a grouping of 'confusing Fall Warblers".
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Near the North York, York, & Old Toronto tripoint
Evening of October 14:
Albino squirrel sighted foraging by a pathway just west of Glencairn station (the station itself is behind the shrubs and the fence if you look carefully):
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Used to seeing them in Florida, I was shocked when one of them landed on my neighbour's roof last year. After a couple of minutes, it was gone again and headed toward the Riverwood Conservancy. A beautiful sight to see!
My dedicated drone photo thread on UT https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threa...-tim-macdonald-covid19-induced-boredom.31164/
Check out my Instagram for more aerial photos and videos: www.instagram.com/macdonaldmediatoronto
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Goose Ramp in Humber Bay. Canada Geese are not exactly uncommon but, well, here you go anyways…
This morning before the snow started, there was a pair of Hooded Mergansers in the north duck pond in High Park. Unlike the mallards, these things completely disappear diving underwater for a few seconds at a time.
Without all the leaves it's a little easier to see (instead of just hear) the birds that are left -- Downy and Hairy woodpeckers, cardinals, bunches of robins (it seems they don't necessarily all fly south for the winter), and I got a very quick glimpse of a Brown Creeper, but oddly no blue jays.
Near the southeast corner of the north duck pond, a chickadee landed in a tree 12 feet away from me. Just as I lifted my smart phone to take a picture, the little bastard tilted its head to look right at me, then flew at me and flapped around only a foot in front of my face, startling me. About a minute later I heard the nasal honking noises made by nuthatches. One landed on the rock wall close to me, then also flapped around near my face.
In looking at photos and YouTube videos, I don't think they were trying to scare me away (and it's not nesting season), but were expecting me to give them sunflower seeds. It seems some people do this, particularly in the winter. I suppose it's okay, as it's really not much different from backyard bird feeders.
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https://mileshearn.com/2019/01/16/a-bird-in-the-hand-high-park-january-16-2019/
A couple of years back on Parkside Drive I saw a little bird go into the top of a cement utility pole. I assumed it was probably a House sparrow, but apparently chickadees can use them as nest cavities.
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A pair of Trumpeter Swans has appeared at Humber Bay Park. (Black rather than the orange bill of the Mute swan. No knob on the bill. it could be a Tundra swan but they frequently have a yellow spot below the eyes near the top of the bill. Neither of these do.). The Trumpeter swan is native to this continent so I am glad to see them arrive.
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We have a number of students on short-term core provision with us for a variety of reasons: illness, exam anxiety, maternity leave, moving in to the area without a school place etc..
We offer a short-term programme of provision to these students to help keep them engaged in education. There is of course an opportunity for these students to continue to spend some of their time with us when they return to, or move on to, their mainstream school.
We receive referrals from schools/academies and the LA on a needs basis.


Even though Walmart has no intention to follow Best Buy's suit and kick off the Black Friday festivities a week or two early, the world's largest retailer still needs to capture the attention of bargain hunters and fend off the competition before it's too late.
As such, we have a full new ad for your viewing pleasure at the source link below, as well as a nice collection of what we consider to be Walmart's top Black Friday 2017 mobile tech and smart home deals.
Quality is always more important than quantity, so despite the smaller number of hot gadgets to be discounted here than over at Best Buy or Target, we still highly recommend an online visit on Thursday, November 23, or a physical one on Friday and Thursday, starting at 6PM.
Among others, Walmart promises to hook up "qualified customers" with a gratis $300 gift card for "select" Apple and Samsung devices purchased on AT&T Next or Verizon monthly payment plans.
We're talking a full range of recent iPhone and Galaxy flagships here, including the 7, 7 Plus, 8, 8 Plus, iPhone X (!!!), S8, S8 Plus and Note 8. Meanwhile, the Samsung Galaxy S7 on the retailer's Straight Talk MVNO will cost $299 with no strings attached, whereas the iPhone 6 on the same prepaid operator is looking at a drop to a new all-time low price of $129.
Walmart Family Mobile subscribers will be able to get the iPhone SE for an even lower $99, with Verizon and AT&T prepaid customers treated to $39 Galaxy J3 Mission and $49 Huawei Ascend XT 2 bargains respectively.
There aren't a lot of tablets part of Walmart's Black Friday 2017 celebration, but the $139 Galaxy Tab E 9.6 comes with additional $25 Google Play credit, while a $249 fifth-gen iPad is pretty hard to turn down. And so are a $79 Google Home and $29 Google Home Mini, both of which also include $25 "shopping offers" where you can get $25 off a future purchase through Google Express.
Finally, wearable enthusiasts will be able to choose between a $99 Fitbit Alta HR and $99 Fitbit Charge 2, both activity trackers including a bonus band.


Tarun Gupta February 15th, 2013 Web Analytics 1 comment.
Google Analytics has always been a fabulous and highly sophisticated tool for webmasters, but a good count of users conveyed their grievances about the complexities in the tool. They told Google guys that it is quite challenging to use analytics in certain situations. In light of all these concerns, Google finally acted. Now, Google has come with a Google Analytics Solutions gallery to rationalize navigation and improve the way of data analysis.
Raising User's Concern Was A Big Concern for Google. What seemed quite hectic with new version of Google analytics was the ambiguous array of filters and customized reports. To overcome the issues, Google appends a quick range of fully innovative dashboards.
The solution gallery hits with a number of innovative features for users. Among other features,you can count on advanced Segments such as Dashboards, and Custom Reports. You can now import these all to your account to monitor if you want to measure key metrics of your website. The idea of launching such an add-on isn't probably new but Google packaged it together to exploit its accumulated benefits.
Let's take a quick look on the features that solutions gallery offers to Google analytics users.
These Solutions keenly focused on campaigns dedicated to branding, e-commerce, lead generation.
You have an opportunity to add Advanced Custom Filters for long-tail words ranging from 3 to 6 words.
Find portions of information in a different formats available.
Allows you to see the difference between organic and paid traffic to your website.
very helpful in measuring device-related bounce-rates and performance.
Tenders an opportunity to measure the improvement of content marketing through social channels.
Although the solutions gallery introduces a good number of at least 31 solutions in the gallery, Google plans to expand it in near future. If you still in the illusion, go to the official Google analytics' solutions gallery and know more.
Google always try to offer best user friendly products in order to maintain best outputs for users, Effective Data Analysis Dashboard is one of the product improvement of Google Analytic to segregate huge data.


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Discretion may be my middle name, but it would be a disservice to some of my younger and more impressionable readers not to share at least one celebrity kiss-and-tell story of my own. Although the contents will almost certainly not be what you expect, they should still leave you feeling warm and fuzzy in a Hollywood sort of way. The lesson to be learned is that a single kiss can change a life.


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A former Military administrator of Lagos State, Mr Ndubuisi Godwin Kanu, is dead. Channels TV reports that Mr Kanu died on Wednesday, January 13, 2021, after a brief illness, at the age of 77. The retired Rear Admiral of the Nigerian Navy, was also a one-time Military administrator in Imo State. He was a pro-democracy […]
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The Nigeria government has denied reports by the US Government which claims that it is planning to hand over about $100 million of the money looted by former Head of State, Sani Abacha, to the governor of Kebbi State, Atiku Bagudu. In court papers filed before the District Court for the District of Columbia in […]


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The finish line at the Runner's World Half & Festival at the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Ryan Hulvat
The Overlooked Cities of the Rust Belt
Alastair Boone
The smaller cities in America's industrial heartland have a unique set of challenges, according to a new study—but they also have advantages.
When you think "Rust Belt," you might see shuttered factories, hollowed-out downtowns, and the usual elegiac images of vanished industrial luster. Maybe Billy Joel's "Allentown" starts autoplaying in your mind. But the oft-used term blurs a key distinction: The cities and towns of the vast manufacturing heartland of the Northeast and Midwest each have a unique set of challenges, determined by history and geography. The stories of the smaller cities, in particular, are often eclipsed by the headline-grabbing declines of places like Detroit and Cleveland. But modest-sized legacy cities—from Muncie, Indiana, to, yes, Allentown, Pennsylvania—can also have key advantages over their bigger brethren.
A new study from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy puts some science behind these distinctions by studying a diverse collection of smaller legacy cities. The study's authors, Torey Hollingsworth and Allison Goebel of the Greater Ohio Policy Center, track the struggles and successes of 24 towns to paint a more nuanced picture of America's legacy cities.
"The important thing about this report is that it puts a focus on a different set of cities than the ones we hear the most about," says Armando Carbonell, chair of the Department of Planning and Urban Form at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. "It recognizes that they have very particular challenges and may need a specialized approach in order to have success."
Indeed, the problems that small and mid-sized legacy cities face don't just differentiate them from larger cities—they also make them distinct from one another. "I'll underscore the idea of place" says Carbonell. "We really have to think of these as individual places, and not a cookie-cutter set of problems."
The need for this analysis is strong. As CityLab's Richard Florida recently explored, the narrative of the "Rust Belt revival" is a complicated one. Even after the Great Recession, when most of the country was bouncing back from persistent unemployment, small and mid-sized legacy cities maintained an average jobless rate of 7.7 percent in 2015 (2.5 percentage points above the national level). Furthermore, the poverty rate in these places grew from 21 percent in 2000 to 30 percent in 2015—a 43 percent increase, compared to 25 percent nationally.
The study's authors used American Community Survey and U.S. Census data to track demographic, economic, and housing-market changes in 24 cities over 15 years between 2000 and 2015. Each of the places they studied had between 30,000 and 200,000 residents, and were built around traditional manufacturing economies. None of them are primarily college towns, or suburbs of a larger city.
Map of the 24 small and midsize legacy cities studied in the Midwest and Northeast (Hollingsworth and Goebel)
While deindustrialization, economic decline, and population loss have plagued all Rust Belt cities over the past 15 years, smaller ones face certain size and location-specific hurdles. Without the critical mass of assets that larger cities have, they rely heavily on anchor institutions like hospitals and local corporate headquarters for economic stability. With downsizing and corporate consolidation, however, such institutions have become increasingly rare: Between 1960 and 2015, all but four of the 24 studied cities were home to at least one Fortune 500 headquarters. Some were home to five or more. Today, only half of these cities host even one Fortune 500 headquarters.
But these smaller cities also have certain structural advantages, compared to bigger peers. "If you're living in a larger city it may be hard to gather the right people to solve a problem, if you're not in a position of authority," says Torey Hollingsworth, one of the study's authors. "But there's a lot of opportunity to do that in these smaller places that I think is actually pretty exciting."
Hollingsworth and Goebel sorted the 24 studied cities into high, medium, and low-performing categories.
(Hollingsworth and Goebel)
According to the study, geography was the strongest predictor of performance: Cities in the Northeast typically fared better than their peers in the Midwest. This even holds true from state to state. Residents of Ohio towns, for example, have struggled more than their neighbors in Pennsylvania, especially since the recession. Many low-performing cities, like Pontiac, Michigan, or Gary, Indiana, have few in-state neighbors with robust enough economies to have a spill-over effect. "Smaller cities are very much at mercy of the economy around them," says Carbonell.
Proximity to larger and more economically robust urban hubs was a critical ingredient in top performing cities. Grand Rapids is just 70 miles from Lansing. Worcester is about an hour from Boston, and an estimated 1,300 people commute from Worcester to Boston every day. Joel's Allentown is an easy bus ride from New York City.
The economies of these towns are no longer dominated by manufacturing. As factory jobs have faded, education, healthcare, and social assistance work in particular have stepped in as growing sources of employment. However, these are often low-skilled, low-wage jobs.
Average sector distribution of jobs in smaller legacy cities, 2014 (Hollingsworth and Goebel)
Only seven cities in the study saw growth in the number of employed people, and all of them are considered high-performing, except for Camden, New Jersey.
Population decline remains an obstacle for smaller legacy cities as well. About half of the cities in the study continued to lose population between 2000 and 2015; the other half remained approximately stable, or even grew. Youngstown, Ohio, and Flint, Michigan, which have both lost nearly 50 percent of their population since 2000, are amongst the lowest performing of the studied cities.
Percentage of gain or loss from peak population (Hollingsworth and Goebel)
Most of the high-performing legacy towns, on the other hand, have seen population growth over the same timeframe. In Pennsylvania, the cities of Lancaster and Bethlehem, for example, have managed to grow by about five percent since 2000. New immigrants can account for a significant portion of population recovery. The majority of small legacy cities saw their immigrant populations grow between 2000 and 2015. More than one in five residents of Worcester and Lowell were born outside of the U.S., while Allentown's 10 percent population growth has been fueled in part by a significant increase in Latino residents over the past ten years.
Some of these high-performing cities, the study observes, managed to capitalize on their discarded industrial infrastructure. The struggling mill town of Lowell was too poor to undergo "urban renewal" in the 1950s and 1960s, so its downtown buildings and historic textile factories were intact and ready to be reused as apartment housing and artist's spaces today. In Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a closed steel plant has been converted into the striking SteelStacks Arts and Cultural Campus—a draw for both residents and visitors from New York City and Philadelphia.
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Trump to the Rust Belt: Move Somewhere Else
Do Parts of the Rust Belt 'Need to Die Off'?
Alexia Fernández Campbell
Perhaps the most important common factor that many high-performing legacy cities share is an eye toward the future. Instead of trying to revive the industries that built them, the most successful cities are finding creative ways to reinvent themselves.
The study details eight strategies to jump-start this process, but the first two on their list are the most critical, the authors say: holding on to local talent to help build civic capacity, and enlisting the region's private-sector leaders in revitalization efforts. On the first front, the researchers cite such initiatives as the Russell P. Price Fellowship Program in Hamilton, Ohio, which trains locals for careers in city management.
"These are still viable places. People are working really hard to figure out what the future looks like for them."
To see a public-private partnership in action, look to Syracuse, New York, where a regional chamber of commerce, the CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity, is working closely with the Downtown Committee of Syracuse, a nonprofit that promotes the city's central business district, to reestablish the city's downtown as an economic center. "I think that's a really smart model, especially in these smaller cities," says Hollingsworth.
Overall, each strategy empowers local decision makers to take advantage of existing assets, rather than dwelling on the industrial capital that was a boon for success in the past.
"These are still viable places," says Hollingsworth. "People are working really hard in a lot of cases to try and figure out what the future looks like for them."
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Alastair Boone is the editor-in-chief of Street Spirit and a former editorial fellow at CityLab.
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Mumbai airport's new Covid protocols for int'l passengers
By NS Desk | CoronaVirus Updates | Posted on : 22-Dec-2020
Mumbai, Dec 22 (IANS) The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport has announced a fresh set of guidelines for all incoming/outgoing international passengers against the backdrop of the new Covid-19 virus strain detected in the UK, an official said here on Tuesday.
As announced on Monday, all flights to and from the UK remain suspended from December 22-31 midnight.
Nevertheless, on Monday, the CSMIA handled four flights, three from London and one from Amsterdam carrying over 690 passengers, and all the passengers have been quarantined.
However, there are no flights from London scheduled on Tuesday, though five incoming and eight outgoing flights to Dubai, besides one for Doha.
The CSMIA has implemented compulsory institutional quarantine for all passengers arriving from the Gulf region and European countries, irrespective of their further travel plans.
Those found symptomatic on arrival shall be sent to designated Covid facilities for further evaluation.
The government will make arrangements to transport them to nearby hotels of their preference or institutional quarantine for 7 days at their own costs.
Instead of undergoing a Covid-19 test at the airport, the passengers shall be subjected to the RT-PCR tests during the 5th-7th days of the institutional quarantine at their own cost.
Passengers whose reports test positive will continue to be quarantined at the same venue or in a designated facility for 14 days, while those showing a negative test report will be discharged but will need to observe another 7 days home quarantine.
Preparing for the night curfew 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. starting from December 22 till January 5, 2021, passengers travelling to and from the airport during the specified hours shall be allowed to travel by taxies or public transportation.
The CSMIA has also enforced other necessary precautions for the safety of passengers and the airport personnel.
This includes the provision of PPE kits to all staff working at the airport, other stakeholders such as immigration, besides following stringent safety measures in the wake of the pandemic and the latest protocols.
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{
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};

struct _ProtobufC_ParserPackage
{
  char *name;
  unsigned n_messages;
  ProtobufCMessageDescriptor *message_descriptors;
  unsigned n_enums;
  ProtobufCEnumDescriptor *enum_descriptors;
};

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                                              void       *func_data);

void protobuf_c_parser_set_import_handler (ProtobufC_Parser *parser,
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{
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        LoadedTranslationType Enum Reference

          Classes

                InequalityExpressionParser

                InequalityExtendedExpressionParser

                JSONFileLoader

                LoadedTranslationsProcessor

                Regex

                RegexExpressionParser

                SharedBaseExpression

                SharedExpressionsLoader

                SharedExpressionsProcessor

                SharedPolishExpression

                Swifternalization

                TranslationsLoader

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                ExpressionPatternType

                InequalitySign

                InternalPattern

                LoadedTranslationType

          Functions

                <!(_:_:)

          Protocols

                ExpressionMatcher

                ExpressionParser

                SharedExpressionProtocol

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                Expression

                InequalityExpressionMatcher

                InequalityExtendedExpressionMatcher

                LengthVariation

                LoadedTranslation

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                SharedExpression

                Translation

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                CountryCode

                ExpressionPattern

                I18n

                JSONDictionary

                RegexPattern

LoadedTranslationType

Specifies available translation types used by translation processor to have
knowledge about specifics of loaded translations. It helps later to decide
what is needed to do with LoadedTranslation’s content property.

                    WithExpressionsAndLengthVariations

Pair where value is dictionary that contains dictionary with expression and
length variations.

"car-sentence": {
    "one": {
        "@100": "one car",
        "@200": "just one car",
        "@300": "you've got just one car"
    },

    "more": {
        "@100": "%d cars",
        "@300": "you've got %d cars"
    },

    "two": "two cars"
}

Declaration

Swift

case WithExpressionsAndLengthVariations

                    WithLengthVariations

Pair where value is a dictionary with length variations.

"forgot-password": {
    "@100": "Forgot Password? Help.",
    "@200": "Forgot Password? Get password Help.",
    "@300": "Forgotten Your Password? Get password Help."
}

Declaration

Swift

case WithLengthVariations

                    WithExpressions

Pair where value is a dictionary with expressions.

"cars": {
    "one": "1 car",
    "ie:x=2": "2 cars",
    "more": "%d cars"
}

Declaration

Swift

case WithExpressions

                    Simple

Simple key-value pair.

"welcome": "welcome"

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case Simple

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Ardmore Chronicle - Volume XXVIII, No. 44, Saturday, August 4, 1917.
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