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Bunreacht na hÉireann and the people's right to rule
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We, the people of Ireland, remembering "the heroic and unremitting struggle to regain the rightful independence of our Nation" enacted for ourselves Bunreacht na hÉireann, the basic law upon which our State exists.
We live in what we ourselves have constituted as a "sovereign, independent, democratic state." We have stipulated that "All powers of government...derive...from the people" and that it is our right to "decide all questions of national policy".
We have stated that it is our "inalienable, indefeasible, and sovereign right to choose our own form of Government" and "to determine" our relations with other nations.
In Bunreacht na hÉireann we have set out our system of local and national government to give expression to these declared wishes of the people - for democracy, and for the creation of State policy according to our determination.
Yet, it is common to hear government ministers tell us that our sovereignty is lost - without anyone ever asking us! It is common for ministers to decide policy for the State without any reference to us, the citizens, and for such policy to be imposed on us. Our government is subject to the rules set down in our Constitution but, despite that, it acts so as to rule over us, to dictate rather than give effect to our mandate on all matters of State policy.
Our decision-making power is usurped by those we have entrusted with representing us.
The democracy which we constituted for ourselves has been usurped by vested interests, both native and foreign. Laws have been enacted which are contrary to our Constitution and which facilitate the continued domination of our State by these vested interests and the system of political parties which represents them.
But, the sovereign rights of the people are "inalienable", meaning that they can never be taken away, denied, or transferred. It is no more possible for us to give away our sovereignty than it is for anyone to agree to slavery - any such enslaving contracts or treaties are null and void.
The people never decided that our democracy should be run by what are in effect private members' clubs of vested interests; in fact there is no mention in Bunreacht na hÉireann of political parties at all. Article 16.2.1 states that:
"Dáil Éireann shall be composed of members who represent constituencies determined by law."
It does not state that TD's should represent parties, or even that a TD might represent themselves as 'independent' - it states that they "represent constituencies". Currently, no elected TD honours this Constitutional duty - they comply with party 'whips', they make deals, they conspire to enact their own policies. None of them seek or carry a mandate from the citizens they are charged to represent.
The acceptance of 'opposition' status, or a party 'whip' means that, effectively, the electorate of the constituencies that returned these TDs is disenfranchised - their representatives are reduced to having no say in decision-making. In practice, a handful of individuals in government wield all power in the State - dictating even to the Dáil. This practice is supported by Dáil standing-orders, electoral acts, sham standards in public office, bureaucracy, lies, corruption, inter-party collaboration and the connivance of vested interests in the media, accounting and legal professions, trade unions, academia, banking and finance 'experts', etc.
When one considers the many millions in State finance diverted into the party system alongside all of this it is clear that citizens are having their right to have their constituency representatives act on their mandate denied. They tell us we have elections to decide these matters, but this amounts to no more than a few minutes every few years to vote on candidates - mainly selected by private members' clubs called political parties - to whom we hand over our mandate. Even these elections are compromised in what they promise, because the political parties are financed directly and receive preferential treatment throughout - even on the ballot paper. Only a tiny minority of citizens are members of any political party, possibly 1%, yet the party system is allowed to dominate.
The same abuse of mandate happens at local government level, which is supposed to provide "a forum for the democratic representation of local communities".
So, our democracy has been usurped by vested interests and the political parties that are tied so closely to them.
We must empower ourselves
The main provisions needed for us, as citizens, to empower ourselves are contained in Bunreacht na hÉireann, but we need to implement it. We need to organise so that we can select and elect our own constituency representatives at every level of government, ignoring the political party system and their private selection process. We need to continually mandate these representatives and check up on the implementation of our decisions. We need to recall these representatives when they fail in their duty to represent the constituency.
In this way there will be no 'government and opposition' charades in the Dáil, but rather just constituency representatives; there will be no party 'whip'; and, crucially, there will be democratic control and rule by the people. In these conditions we can set about finding the solution to all of the problems we face, including much-needed reforms in every aspect of public administration and including the creation of an economic policy that truly reflects the needs and interests of the people.
For this to happen individuals must make the decision to step forward; to take responsibility for spreading this consciousness in their own communities and collaborating with others of like mind. We must build a movement of citizens without any precondition as to policy or ideology, uniting simply on the demand for securing our democracy - that it is the right of the citizens to rule, our right to determine the policy of our State. {jathumbnailoff}
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Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport - Lewis Answers Your Questions!
Here he is, ready to answer your questions!
Which is the one Grand Prix you'd want to win that you've never won before?
LH: It would have to be the Malaysian GP.
If you could change one F1 rule which one would it be?
LH: Larger rear tyres and tyres with more grip to enable closer racing!
In the 7 years since you've been racing in F1, apart from the '08 Brazilian GP, which race do you cherish the most?
LH: The Silverstone win in 2008!
Lewis you look in great shape this year. Have you had to lose much weight due to the new rules?
LH: I've had to lose a lot of weight so no Christmas pudding or sweets; nothing but water and other boring stuff! I miss Aunt Jemima pancakes.
What were your 3 choices for permanant race numbers?
LH: I only chose one… 44!
If you could pick any circuit to host an F1 race what circuit would you pick and why?
Do you really like driving in rainy conditions? Why / why not?
LH: I don't like driving in the wet, but I do it and I do it well!
What do you do to strengthen the neck muscles?
LH: I have 10kgs strapped to an old helmet and lay down on a bench press to do lots of reps with lots of directions! Normally 30 - 50 reps.
Have you ever thought about doing drifting or gymkhana with other Monster Energy drivers such as Ken Block?
LH: I really want to do an event with Ken Block and Monster Energy. Something spectacular that's never been done before!
What's your favourite performance car to drive on the road?
LH: My Zonda with its Mercedes-Benz engine. By far the coolest sounding road car!
What is your last played song on your music player right now?
Do you prefer a long open stretch of track, or a section with loads of corners?
Which driver, other than Ayrton Senna, did you look up to as a child?
LH: As a kid there was never any other driver! I only ever saw Ayrton.
How long do you train per day?
LH: Training varies depending on travelling etc. When I'm at home, I'll do 1.5 hours cardio in the morning and around the same in the gym.
Are there any countries you haven't been to which you would like to visit?
LH: Argentina, Costa Rica, Columbia, New Zealand and the Antarctica!
What so you think of the new noses? The Mercedes I think looks the best.
LH: Naturally the noses feel ugly. However, often changes in F1 appear that way but at the end of the season, last years' car will look ugly.
If you design a new F1 street course anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?
Do you think there should be a couple more night races included in the present F1 calendar?
LH: Got to go now. Please make sure you follow me @LewisHamilton and I'll try to answer as many as I can next time!


Before attending college or university, I worked for many years in many different roles, such as a junior buyer for a major steelworks company. Unfortunately, I was made redundant during the recession and went from job to job. Therefore, I made a life changing decision to work towards attaining a degree in Marketing. After six years in total, I finally graduated university with a 2:1 in BA Marketing.
I wanted to study at a postgraduate level because I found that the type of job role I wanted to apply for would require me to stand out against many other candidates. Therefore, I saw it as a necessary step towards achieving my goals.
The reputation of the Business School was the main reason why I decided to continue my studies here. The affiliation with CIM meant that I would receive an extra qualification which isn't offered with all programmes offered elsewhere. As I knew that I would be self-funding my studies the fact that I would receive an alumni fee reduction of 25% was very appealing.
The degree content that is covered is very relevant and up to date with the working world. Therefore, I feel that this would give me a competitive edge in the market when securing a graduate job. The option of studying abroad intrigued me as I studied in Germany when I was completing my undergraduate studies so I was open to studying in a different country and experiencing their culture.
The facilities that are available here at Nottingham Trent University are great. I felt really welcomed and at home when I arrived at the campus. I find NOW really useful as it allows me to stay up to date with all of my classes as well as provide additional information such as job listings and work experience opportunities. All of the facilities and buildings have exceeded my expectations and I couldn't ask for a better environment to learn in.
I would have to say my greatest achievement to date would be successfully completing my first assignment as part of an international group. I came across a lot of issues that I haven't had experienced before, such as: communication issues, different levels of abilities and ways of working. I feel this experience has made me more aware of the difficulties of working in an international environment.


Sea turtles have been an integral part of ecosystems for more than 60 million years and, this week, National Aquarium will be co-hosting the 33rd Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation to make sure they stay that way.
More than 1,000 scientists and conservationists from 75 countries are expected to attend the symposium presented by the International Sea Turtle Society.
Being located on the Chesapeake Bay, the largest watershed on the east coast and an important foraging area for some sea turtle species, National Aquarium is deeply invested in the cause. The need for sea turtle conservation action is urgent. It is going to take many people from many countries across the world to save these species.
The Chesapeake Bay is the largest watershed on the east coast and home to more than 300 species of aquatic animal.
This year has been an extraordinarily busy sea turtle stranding season with a record of more than 200 reported strandings so far from along the east coast. As part of the Northeast Stranding Network, National Aquarium is responsible for responding to live sea turtle and marine mammal strandings along the nearly 4,300 miles of coastline in Maryland, including the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic coasts.
Early in the stranding season, National Aquarium rescued this loggerhead hatchling.
Although Maryland has not seen many local turtle strandings, National Aquarium's Animal Rescue program is working closely with other institutions like New England Aquarium to take on many of the turtle patients. With successful releases earlier this month, the animal rescue team continues to work with these other institutions to provide rehabilitation.
Every patient release is cause for celebration! As was the case with Olympian, a green sea turtle rehabilitated at the Aquarium last year.
The Symposium will kick off with a Welcome Social on Monday, February 4 at National Aquarium and will run through Friday, February 8 at the Marriott Waterfront. The exhibit/vendor area will be open to the public on specific days. In addition to on-site sessions and presentations, this year the event will also go off-site into the local Baltimore community, providing teacher and educator workshops, live streaming of special sessions to local schools and universities as well as a sea turtle art contest in Baltimore City schools. On Tuesday, students from four Baltimore City schools and one Baltimore County school will have the opportunity learn more about the importance of turtles at special Q&A sessions with sea turtle experts.
National Aquarium staff and experts will be present at many of the symposium's events this week and would love to see you there!
Can't join us in person? You can still participate online by submitting your questions to us in the comments section! If you could ask a sea turtle expert something, what would you want to know?


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I have Oppo f9, this is my first oppo phone and im buying the less version of Reno soon.
Interesting as always, but I don't think Oppo will ever be available here.
Its contingent on can movies be shown on the entire screen without battery meter and other icons showing up. I'll miss the earphone jack. Did i miss whether or not its waterproof? I was going to wait for the Note 10 but since i take few selfies this may well be a contender. The 6.6 inch screen and 10x zoom; totally awesome.
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What's the screen to body percentage of the galaxy A80? .
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Kasabian announced to headline Glastonbury. 90 other acts announced
The Glastonbury line up has just been announced, with Kasabian joining Arcade Fire as headliners. Kasabian will headline the Sunday, with Arcade Fire playing the Friday. The Saturday night headliners are yet to be announced.
90 acts have been announced today include Pixies, M.I.A, Jurassic 5, Metronomy, Warpaint, Interpol, Lily Allen, De La Soul and Rudimental.
Check out the full announcement here
Festival organiser Emily Eavis, said: "We always take great pride in putting a great British band on to headline the Pyramid and this time it's Kasabian, who are one of the most requested bands from Glastonbury-goers and an amazing live act. It's going to be one hell of a show!"
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The Logan Library and Cache Valley Storytelling Festival will host a Cache Valley Story Swap.
Visitors and drop-ins of all talent levels are welcome to share a story limited to a maximum of six to eight minutes. Come and listen to others tell stories or share a story of your own.
Come take the opportunity to enjoy and practice the art of storytelling.
Please join us as we learn to get fit in our chairs by doing chair yoga with Aqua Worx.
This program is part of the library's SAGE (Senior Adults Gaining Enrichment) University program. S.A.G.E. (Senior Adults Gaining Enrichment) University programs are held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. Although they are presented with senior adults in mind, all are welcome to attend.


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The Kirk Hinrich Signing Is Another Reminder That The Chicago Bulls Are Crazy Cheap
The Chicago Bulls agreed to terms with guard Kirk Hinrich on Sunday. SB Nation Chicago's Ricky O'Donnell thinks if the team was more creative and willing to spend the millions they rake in, the Bulls could be looking at a much bigger upgrade.
By Ricky O'Donnell Jul 9, 2012, 7:15am CDT
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Playing armchair general manager may be the favorite activity of the modern sports fan, the one who grew up simulating seasons of Madden to do the offseason stuff, but even the most fervent trade machine maestro likely doesn't envy the position of Gar Forman and John Paxson right now. To say the two-headed GM brain trust of the Chicago Bulls is in a tough spot seems to be underselling it. This is the same duo that turned a perennial eight seed in the East into the team with more regular season victories than any other over the last two years. For as impossible as that type of rapid ascension would appear to be, the task facing them now is even more daunting.
Derrick Rose's torn ACL didn't just ruin the Bulls' 2012 title chances, it decimated 2013, too. That Rose's injury comes just as his MVP-induced super max-level extension kicks in is cruelest of all. Chicago entered free agency on July 1 with roughly $64 million committed to eight players, with Rose taking up over 24 percent of that number. The Bulls are over the cap and dangerously close to the luxury tax threshold, which will likely be around $70.2 million. The Bulls were armed with only the tax payer's exception, good enough to net a player worth $3 million annually. In an age of wild offseason spending where Roy Hibbert's 12 points and eight rebounds a night commands a max contract, it's easy to see why Chicago didn't have tons many appealing options on its radar.
One name that was on that radar the entire time was guard Kirk Hinrich, who played his first seven seasons in a Bulls' uniform after being selected with the seventh overall pick in the 2003 draft. Hinrich was traded before the 2010 draft in a salary clearing move that put Chicago in position to sign two max-level free agents. We know how that one turned out. But with Hinrich hitting the open market and the Bulls desperately in need of another guard, it wasn't hard to connect the dots. The Bulls always loved Kirk Hinrich, and if they had their way, he would be their's once again.
Hinrich agreed to terms on Sunday, even if it meant bypassing $1 million more per year to be reunited with former coach Scott Skiles on the Milwaukee Bucks. There was a time when Hinrich would have been an ideal candidate for this particular bind the Bulls find themselves in, but then again, there was also a time when Hinrich signed a deal with Chicago that paid him three times as much annually.
It's hard to disguise that Hinrich was largely terrible for the Atlanta Hawks last season. He finished the campaign with 6.6 points and 2.8 assists per night while posting a paltry 9.28 PER. The average PER is 15, All-Stars are supposed to finish in the 20s. Hinrich shot just 41 percent from the field. He turns 32 in January. Yes, there's a reason no one was offering him the full mid-level exception. He hasn't been the same player since leaving the Bulls.
The Hinrich signing isn't a disaster, but it's surely disappointing. It's good the Bulls got their No. 1 target, as I would certainly hope they're smarter than your run of the mill basketball blogger. I'm not sure there were many better options out there for $3 million per season. Still, it again shows Chicago's long-running inability to get creative, to think on their feet, to swing for the fences to put the team back in position to become a title contender. Hinrich is a bandage over the bullet wound that is the torn ligaments in Rose's knee, nothing more, nothing less. What's most disheartening is simply that the $3 million tax payer exception wasn't the only way to improve the team, just the easiest and the cheapest. Remember: the Bulls were tying their own hands here. If owner Jerry Reinsdorf was willing to spend more money, Chicago could be looking at another All-Star.
It's been widely assumed that the Bulls will turn down team options on three key members of the "Bench Mob": C.J. Watson (at $3.2 million), Kyle Korver (at $5 million) and Ronnie Brewer (at $4.3 million). Never mind the fact that Chicago should probably bring back all three on those team-friendly one-year deals, seeing as Rose is set to miss the majority of next season and swingman Luol Deng could be out until January as he recovers from surgery to repair torn ligaments in his wrist. If the Bulls truly were serious about keeping pace with the Miami Heat and the rest of the NBA's elite, they could have traded all three for an overpaid-but-productive player from a team seeking financial relief.
Make no mistake, the Bulls piss with the big dogs. They have sold out every home game for more than two decades. A recent study by Forbes had Chicago cashing in over $59 in operating income, second to only the New York Knicks. Comparatively, the Dallas Mavericks lost $3.9 million and the Boston Celtics made just $7.7 million. This is the advantage the Bulls have as a big market team: they make tons of money, revenue that they could conceivably be put back into the team. Instead, Chicago has never once paid the luxury tax, and refuses to pump money into one of the most financially successful teams in sports. The Bulls cash checks, they don't write spend them.
You think Kirk Hinrich sounds good? How about Joe Johnson? How about Pau Gasol? How about Rudy Gay, Zach Randolph or Al Jefferson? What the Bulls should have done is take the expiring contracts of Watson, Brewer and Korver and targeted a team looking to get out of a hefty deal. Joe Johnson is wildly overpaid, but his presence makes the Brooklyn Nets a very real threat in the East next season. He was just traded for what amounts to little more than flexibility. That's what a trade involving three expiring deals could have done. The Bulls own the rights to Korver, Watson and Brewer, a new team could turn down one-year options on all three and save themselves a bunch of money.
It all comes back to Reinsdorf, the man who has brought this city seven championships. Myself and others have joked for years that Reinsdorf spends the Bulls' money on the White Sox, a team he largely does a solid job with. The White Sox fan in me appreciates it. The Bulls fan in me thinks our local basketball team needs a new owner.
Jerry Reinsdorf is 76 years old. How many more years must he insist on making $60 million in revenue instead of focusing his resources back into the team? Most owners don't even think about the money they make in operations, they focus on the value of the franchise. Oh yeah: that same Forbes report had the Bulls as the league's third most valuable club, with their assets totaling $600 million. Look over that list: the Bulls make insane amounts of money. It is abnormal for a pro sports team to be this profitable. The fact that Reinsdorf doesn't catch more shit for managing the Bulls like a mid-market team is mind-blowing. The Bulls' profit margin doesn't just justify becoming a tax paying team, it justifies going deep into the tax. That's what the Lakers do. Then again, the Lakers only made $24 million in operations last season.
As Malcolm Gladwell once detailed, owning a sports team is about physic benefits for so many. For Reinsdorf and the Bulls, it's about cold, hard income. Yes, the luxury tax becomes far more punitive after next season. Yes, the Rose-less immediate future of the Bulls hardly positions them as a title contender. It's still all bullshit. Why does a man nearly 80 still prioritize tens of million in his pocket instead of on the payroll? The Bulls should be a big market bully, not a team resigned to signing Kirk Hinrich for $3 million.
For what he is, I suppose Hinrich is fine. Just don't let the Bulls paint themselves as a victim. Don't let Jerry Reinsdorf tell you he's poor. This team could have done bigger and better things, but they won't allow for it.
Ricky O'Donnell is the editor of SB Nation Chicago and the founder of the Chicago sports blog Tremendous Upside Potential. Follow him on Twitter or reach him at richardpodonnell@gmail.com.
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SOUTH DENNIS – One man is dead and a woman was taken to a Boston Hospital after a double stabbing last night in South Dennis.
According to a statement from Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe and Dennis Police Chief Peter DiMatteo, officers were called to 11 O'Connor Drive around 7:30 p.m. to find the 35-year-old woman with stab wounds calling for help.
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Points of Interest: Services Choose Sides in Tax-Deferred Savings Fight
By Tom Philpott
Navy and Air Force leaders bump heads often over traditional issues like aircraft carriers versus long-range bombers. Here's a new one: tax-deferred savings plans.
In recent months, defense officials have asked the services to weigh in on a legislative proposal to allow service members to shelter up to 5% of their monthly basic pay in a Thrift Savings Plan (TSP), the one offered to federal employees under the Civil Service Retirement System.
The Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard like the idea. The Air Force and Army, after much hand-wringing, say they do not. That could be enough to kill the plan, although the sea services hope not.
Millions of U.S. workers participate in 401(k) or other pretax savings programs. Many have seen the value of their accounts rise sharply along with the stock market.
Service members are beginning to feel left out. That feeling is reinforced by a retirement system that offers no vesting rights before completing 20 years of service. More than 200,000 service members leave military service each year with no pension benefits.
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Veghel, 9 April 2018 – Vanderlande has signed a contract with Dutch organic food retailer Udea to deliver a state-of-the-art, goods-to-person ADAPTO solution. The automated storage and retrieval system will be one of the largest of its kind that Vanderlande has supplied to date and be housed in Udea's new distribution centre (DC) in Veghel, The Netherlands. Construction of the facilities will begin in June 2018 and the system is expected to go live at the end of 2019.
Udea is a wholesaler, importer and exporter of organic groceries and franchisor of the organic supermarket chain Ekoplaza. Due to continued growth – and following on from a number of recent acquisitions ¬– Udea took the opportunity to reconsider its processes. At the current time, the company's fresh and dry products are housed at two separate locations, but these will be centralised at one site after the construction of the new DC.
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Your body is pretty darn smart and is constantly attempting to remain in a state of balance. If it does not believe it is capable of clearing out toxins because one or more of its detox systems is functioning at a less than ideal level , it's going to store those toxins in your fat and hang onto that fat until your systems are capable of flushing them out.
And if you force those toxins out, with drastic detox or weight loss diets, before your body is ready to clear them, they will flood your body and negatively impact your health.
Toxins are everywhere from the food we eat, to the air we breathe, to our negative thoughts and emotions. Our bodies are bombarded with toxins every day.
We have many systems that participate in detoxification, including the Liver, the Digestive System, Cardiovascular System, Lymphatic System, Urinary System, Respiratory System and the Skin. I'll touch on a few starting with where it all begins- digestion.
Digestion plays a pivotal role in our body's detoxing capabilities. Proper digestion is necessary to break down food, make sure nutrients are available in a usable form and kill off bacteria and parasites. If diges-tion is impaired, there is a very good chance that all of the other detoxification pathways will be impaired as well. And from what I've seen in my practice, most people could use a jump start on their digestive health.
Acting as a filter, the liver strains out and neutralizes toxins in preparation for elimination. This includes the breakdown and removal of pharmaceutical drugs, used and excess hormones, certain foods like fructose and hydrogenated oils, and so much more. Poor fat diets and blood sugar imbalances seriously impair the liver's capability to detox the blood. If all of the toxins are released from the tissue and not filtered out be-cause the liver is taxed, the blood will transport them throughout the entire body. Yeah, not cool.
The lymphatic system is in charge of immunity and creates immune cells. The system also helps to shuttle away fluids from tissue in the body, as well as absorb fat and move that fat to the circulatory system to be disposed of. The lymphatic system is not controlled by muscles, so it requires us to move in order for it to work properly. Working out at OT is a game changer, but make sure to get your daily steps in too.
Keep in mind that you don't need to live on green juice or drink lemon and maple syrup for 2 weeks in order to help your body detox. Some of the best detoxes are gentle and can be done without any of the side effects of the more extreme ones out there. Just focusing on eating REAL FOOD in it's whole form is one of the best ways to help your body detox.
2. SWEAT IT OUT!!! Daily sweating is a great way to help your body clear out those toxic materials. Some things you can do are HITT exercises, sweaty yoga, get a bit of sun (or just step outside in the summertime here in the ATX), or go to a sauna or infrared sauna.
4. SUPPORT YOUR LIVER- Try a castor oil pack to help clear out the liver. Also cut back on, or cut out, alcohol, sugar and crappy fats. Some liver supporting foods are beets, garlic, grapefruit, green tea, leafy greens, avocados, cruciferous veggies (broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage), and green tea.
6. HYDRATE! HYDRATE! HYDRATE! The body must be properly hydrated so that toxins can be flushed out through the kidneys and the skin. Hydration also aids in delivering toxins to the lymph and liver which are the major detoxification sites. If the body is dehydrated, the toxins will not be filtered out. Guess where they wind up. Yep. In your fat. Filtered water is the best option.
7. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY- eat a NUTRIENT DENSE DIET full of whole, non-processed foods and good fats like avocado, olive oil, butter, coconut oil, nuts and seeds.
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Thanks for the vid, I love the old lady with the bike and how progressively epic the music got.
Does anyone know if the dates at the beginning of the video is for the display or if it's for the build time ?
upside: you will never need any form of security in that room for fears of the car being stolen.


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Senator Charles S. "Charlie" Dean, Sr.
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District 5 consisted of Baker, Citrus, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Lafayette, Levy, Suwannee, Union counties and part of Marion county
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Agriculture (Vice Chair 11/18/2014-9/8/2016)
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David Munro elected as Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey
Conservative Party candidate, David Munro, was today declared the winner in the 2016 election for Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey by Police Area Returning Officer (PARO), John Jory.
He was successful in the second round, polling 100,122 votes out of a possible 239,935. The turnout was 28.07% which compares favourably with the lower turnout of 16% in 2012.
He will succeed Kevin Hurley (Zero Tolerance ex-Police Chief party), who has been the Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey since the role was created in 2012. Mr. Hurley received 57,681 votes. Mr. Munro will take up the post from 12 May and will remain in the role until the next election in 2020.
David Munro said:
"I am delighted in the confidence shown me by Surrey residents, and promise to serve them to the best of my ability for the next four years. I am particularly looking forward to working with the Chief Constable and all ranks and staff of Surrey Police in our joint enterprise of serving everyone in Surrey."
Kevin Hurley, outgoing Police and Crime Commissioner, said:
"In my day as a police officer, we used to say "the public gets the police force they deserve", and in this case, they will get the police force with the budget that they voted for."
Recruitment begins for Surrey's next Chief Constable


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Q: Xcode 4.5.2 errors are found but Build is marked as Succeeded This problem is very similar to this one: Xcode 4 Preview 4 displays "Build Succeeded" but with errors
The different solutions proposed at the link doesn't work. I tried using product clean, deleteing the Derived Data, restart XCode and the Mac, but the problem still appears.
It seems that all the error are linked to the project's precompiled header : although the PCH is working fine and has no error in itself, the errors reported look like the pch is not  found for this specific file.
Also sometimes, while the build progresses, the errors appear and disappear randomly. Anyone have an idea on this?

The error only appear in the file(s) opened in the editor. If I close the file's in xcode but keep the project open, then no error are reported at all.

A: Cleaning, closing, restarting - none worked for me.
A simple touch/edit to the pch file in question resolved the issue.

A: I had this same issue, and neither types of cleans helped. I also tried deleting the build folder, restarting xcode, etc and for me what finally solved the issue was to remove the files that the errors referenced and re-add them.
Additionally, I investigated the error after the fact, and the issue seems to be XCode's "Show Live Issues" feature. (This can be unchecked in the preferences, this also solved the issue but was unsatisfactory as a solution as I've grown to enjoy xcode's live code sense.)

A: Have you tried cleaning the build folder?
In XCode, open the Product menu then hold down option. Clean should change to Clean Build Folder.
Edit:
You can also press ⌘ + ⌥ + ⇧ + K

A: Cleaning the product folder and restarting didn't help me. I started seeing this after I deleted the DerivedData folder. I was able to "fix" by doing :

*

*Clean build.

*Archive

*Build

A: I'm not sure adding a define to the pch will work as you think. Try creating a Constants header and add your defines there. Then you can include the import statement in your pch file and it should work that way.

A: Go to xcode install folder like below.

/Users/vinod/Library/Developer/Xcode
Step-1 Quit the xcode
Step-2 Delete the DerivedData Folder
Step-3 Now open the project and clean it all issue resolved.

A: to add my two cents: my solution was to slightly change the order of imports in the pch file.
Maybe this is related to simply edit the file, but I've tried to "touch" it and edit and the only "thing" that did fix the problem was to move some import before others.

A: *

*Delete derived data

*Clean project

*Quit Xcode and reopen it.

A: Removing the last #import from .pch file, build the app then putting it back and building it again did the trick for me.
If you still see the errors then you could repeat this step for last two imports, last three imports and so on.

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Ebedi International Writers Residency welcomes first set of 2023 fellows
By Agency Report Last updated Jan 22, 2023 0
Photo: Left to Right in the above picture: Dr Wale Okediran, Anatu Ben Lawal (Ghana) Justica Anima (Ghana) Ramatoule Onike Othma (Gambia) Fatima Salihu (Nigeria) and Mrs Idowu Okediran.
A WELCOME reception was held in honour of the first set of the 2023 Ebedi Fellows at the Ebedi International Writers Residency in Iseyin, Nigeria today, Saturday January 21.
The Writers in a group photograph with Representatives of the Iseyin community
The Writers With The House Of Representatives Member For Iseyin, Itesiwaju, Kajola and Iwajowa Federal Constituency at the National Assembly, Hon Sina Peller
Creative writing and writers' residencies
By Nureni Oyewole Fadare
(Keynote address at the reception for Ebedi Fellows at the Ebedi International Writers Residency, Iseyin, Oyo State, January 21 2023)
Observation of Protocols
I WELCOME our four eminent writers: Justica Anima (Ghana), Fatima Salihu (Nigeria), Anatu Ben-Lawal (Ghana) and Ramatoulie Onike Othman (Gambia), to the ancient and creative city of Iseyin for their four week writers' residency.
Today, most of us live in the big cities with all its challenges and stresses antithetical to a state of minds capable of bringing forth novel ideas that creativity requires; hence, the needs to seek for a serene environment outside the tumultuous city life to fulfil our writing dreams and career.
Ebedi Writers Residency was established by our referred mentor and community leader, Hon. Dr. Wale Okediran, to create such avenue where writers can converge and concentrate on their creative writings.
Creative Writing is an act of creating something new or novel out of our imagination based on our experience. The experience can be what we have read, seen, taught, etc. Nobody writes on what they have not read, taught, seen or experienced.
It was the Romantic Poet William Wordsworth in his 1798 seminal titled Lyrical Ballads that defined poetry as "…spontaneous overflow of feelings…emotion recollected in tranquility." Wordsworth was a Romantic poet alongside with his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who were known in literary history as Romantic Poets.
They wrote about nature; they glorify the beauty of nature and nature serves as a source of inspiration to them. Today, Ebedi Writers' Residency is located beneath the Ebedi Hill in its majesty, serenity and ambience of tranquility.
Therefore, there is no other better place to recollect our feelings and emotion in tranquility and have it pen down than here and now. Therefore you are welcome to Iseyin, E kaabo, Sannu da Suwa, Akwaaba, dal al jamm, Karibu, you are all welcome to Ebedi Writers' Residency.
The Writers' Residency
Writers' Residency are created all over the world to create avenue for creative and academic writers to settle down and complete their on-going works or initiate a new one.
Writers' Residency is always located in a serene environment such as being located beside a lake, hill, resort, cottage or castle. Writing is a private affair and has to be carried out in a conducive atmosphere and environment.
In the words of Virginia Woolf, a foremost English feminist writer and author of A Room of One's Own, she said, "…a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." (p. 6) The argument here is that to have the right state of mind to write, one needs to be independent minded and be physically independent too (Veronica Suarez, 1). Such an atmosphere is created here at Ebedi Writers' residency.
Writers' residency takes you out of the crazy and tumultuous city life.
The bucolic ambience of the writers' residency helps to ignite writers' creativity and imagination. Again, it takes you out of your dependents and loved ones that might serve as distraction to you while writing. The migration, the longing for your loved ones all help to ignite your creative imaginations.
There are different policies guiding the operation of the Writers' Residency. For instance, at City Writer Residency of Ottendorf at Gartenhaus am Sudawall, resident writers must relate with the members of the community just as we have at Ebedi Writers' Residency.
The same thing is applicable to Caversham Centre for Artists and Writers in Kwazulu Natal. Some writers' residencies are fully sponsored, some are partly sponsored while writers have to pay in some instances.
Types of Residencies
Writers Only Residency: This type of residency welcomes only those that are into literary works such as poetry, drama or prose. Mostly the residency are connected with the publishing houses.
Multi-Disciplinary Writers' Residency: This type of residency welcomes creative writers, academic writers, artists among others. Examples of such multi-disciplinary residency are: Tyrone Guthrie Centre or Capacete. Most big writers have participated in one writers. Residency or the others.
Ebedi Writers Residency is a Multi-Disciplinary Writers' Residency
Between MFA and Writers Residency
There is a difference between MFA (Master of Fine Arts) and Writers' Residency. MFA programme is meant for a young scholar planning to go into academics and becomes professors. MFA programme includes attending classes, lectures, mentorship among others. Whereas, Writers' Residency is organized for writers and, or academics to complete their creative or academic works.
A typical example of MFA programme is MFA Programme for Writers at Warren Wilson College which was established in 1976 by a renown poet and teacher Ellen Bryant Voigt.
For the avoidance of doubt, Ebedi Writers Residency was established as an interdisciplinary writers residency with focus on established writers and academics who are expected to work independently, complete a specific planned work and interact with the members of Iseyin community so that they can give back to the host community in terms of sharing of knowledge and mentoring the younger ones.
It was not established as a training centre for the writers but a centre of comfort for writers to realize their dreams of completing their on-going research which might be difficult for them to achieve while at the comfort of their place of abode.
The Resident Writers in the Residency
The ultimate goal of the resident writers while staying at the residency is to meet up with their targets in completing chapters of their books, completing a story book, play or poetry as well as other related academic works.
The resident writers should divide their period of staying into three and make judicious use of their time, before, during and after the residency.
Pre-Residency Period
Proposal: A would be writer must have a well written proposal that will set out the work plan while at the residency.
The writer should set out a clear cut goal and ensure that the target and the expected works to be completed are within the capacity of the writer to be completed within a time frame of four (4) weeks.
Choose a Familiar Terrain to Work on: The prospective resident writer should choose a specific area that they are familiar with especially if it is pure academic work. Writing on a subject one is not familiar with makes the writing more tedious and strenuous.
Don't be too Ambitious: You must set out the scope and limitation of your work; be specific on what you intend to write on. What matters is that you should come up with a specific, well written and publishable work at the end of the residency.
Writing and Research Materials: Ensure that you have enough writing materials as well as having a good computer to ease your writings. Be sure that your gadgets are in good shape to make your work easier.
During the Residency
Be Disciplined and Organised: For you to achieve your target goal, you need to be disciplined and organized. Be conscious of why you left your comfort zone and came to the residency.
Keep to your work plan. Schedule your time: prayer time, breakfast, reading, tea break, lunch, siesta, recreation time among others.
Residency is not a period of holiday but work. Relate with others while focusing on the main reason that has brought you here.
Always have your writing materials with you: Even when you are sleeping, your writing materials should be with you so that you can jot down any new idea that comes to your mind.
Ensure you are committed to your Original Plan: Follow your original plan and ensure that you are actually working towards achieving your set goals.
Be Time Conscious: Always spend your time judiciously and avoid time wastage. Every time counts while at the residency.
Always ask yourself, have I met with my target today? How much have I achieved today and how much more can I achieve before the closing of the day? My target is to write at least ten pages of my novel per day, have I achieved this or not?
Eat Good Food, Sleep and Rest: Do not over work yourself. Ensure that you eat well, sleep well and take your rest. All these will energize you and make you more productive.
Use Library Often: By the mention of library, some people would ask, do we have a library here? Yes, Iseyin is blessed with a world class library, Raji Oke-Esa Library which is well furnished and well located in a conducive environment.
Again, there are a lot of online library that can be consulted such as: z-library.org, Library Genesis, pdfdrive.com among others.
There are also search engine that could be of help such as: Research Gate, Google, Google scholar, Academia, among others. Consult your physical and online library to validate your ideas while at the residency.
Mentorship: One of the main objective establishing this centre is to interact with the members of the immediate environment, through teaching, training the young ones, mentoring among others.
Having social interaction with the members of the community will serve as the sign-posts and things that will linger-on in your minds years after you have left the residency.
Be Socialized: Spend your time well by meeting people and interact with people well. One of the precious advantages of travelling is that you meet people.
You can also visit our tourists' attraction centres such as: Ado-Awaye Suspended Lake, Osoogun, the home-town of Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Ikere George Dam, the Manor House, Aseyin of Iseyin Land Palace among others.
After the Residency:
Review Your Initial Work Plan: You need to review your plan in order to evaluate how judiciously or otherwise you have spent your time while at the residency.
Editorial Work: Ensure your work is thoroughly edited and prepare them for publication.
Assessor: Get a good assessor to assess your work objectively to ascertain whether or not they are suitable for publication.
Publication: Look for a good publisher and get your work published. Publishing your work will help the public to learn from the pool of your knowledge and research outputs.
Towards an Effective and Efficient Ebedi Writers Residency
Many writers, both upcoming and well-established have benefited from Ebedi Writers' Residency and the task before us is how to sustain the programme. I have identified some areas that we need to work on for the sustenance of the Residency.
Funding: As much as I know, this residency is being solely sponsored by Dr. Wale Okediran. We may need to look at how to sustain this residency in the future by looking for alternative ways of funding it. International organizations, government at all levels, and philanthropists can be contacted to support this noble cause.
Collaboration: The centre needs to collaborate with other necessary agencies and individual in order to develop the centre such as: media partnership, technical partnership, security, etc.
Establishment of Ebedi Writers Alumni: There is also a need a to have an Alumni Association for the centre where past writers would meet and discuss how the centre will be sustained for the benefits of next generations of writers.
Publicity: The residency needs more publicity. The events at the residency should be publicized though media. Good and wide publicity will attract goodwill to the centre.
My concern in today's interaction is to look at Creative Writings and the Writers' Residency. I tried to explain what creative writing means and how it is exigent for us to have a writers' residency where the ideas in the minds of the writers will be transformed into writing.
I also looked at the differences between the MFA programme and the writers' residency, and I argued that the main difference between writers' residency and MFA is that MFA is more of a training ground for young scholars while a writers' residency is meant for established writers to complete their ongoing work or initiate a new one.
I also discussed what the resident writer should do before, during, and after the residency.
An addendum was added on my suggestions on how to improve the residency.
I hope you will enjoy your stay at Ebedi Writers' Residency located in Iseyin, the ancestral home of Aso Oke. Ensure you move around and see the beauty of our great City.
Thank you and have a wonderful stay with us.
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Q: Orlicz Norm and A result on expectation I am reading paper which is mainly about Dobrushin's contraction coefficient and its generalization. In page 27, the following is defined:
Consider arbitrary, non-negative, convex function $\psi:\mathbb{R}\mapsto \mathbb{R}$ with $\psi(0)<1$. Then for an integrable random variable $X$
$$||X||_{\psi}:=\inf \{c>0:~\mathbb{E}[\psi(\frac{X}{c})]\leq 1\}.$$
Then letting $\psi^*$ be the convex conjugate of $\psi$, we can write the following for arbitrary random variables $X$ and $Y$ by Young's inequality:
$$XY\leq \psi(X)+\psi^*(Y)$$ and hence,
$$\mathbb{E}[XY]\leq 2||X||_{\psi}||Y||_{\psi^*}.$$
First of all, in the typical definition of Orlicz norm, it is assumed that $\psi(0)=0$ and also $\psi$ is non-decreasing. Why here those properties are removed?
Secondly, the last inequality is not clear to me. Can anybody give me a hint on how to show that?
Thanks

A: *

*It seems that the author applies the result with $\psi_1(x):=e^x /2$ and $\psi_2(x):=e^{x^2}/2$ in order to exploit the identity $\lVert X^2\rVert_{\psi_1}=\lVert X\rVert_{\psi_2}^2$. It turns out that with these definition, $\lVert X\rVert_{\psi_j}$ is equal to the norm associated to the true Orlicz functions $\phi_1(x):=e^x-1$ and $\phi_2(x)=e^{x^2}-1$.

*As suggested by Christian Remling, we have for fixed $c,c'\gt 0$ the inequality
$$\frac Xc\frac Y{c'} \leqslant \psi\left(\frac Xc\right)+\psi^*\left(\frac Y{ c'} \right),$$
hence if $\psi\left(\frac Xc\right)\leqslant 1$ and $\psi\left(\frac Y{c'} \right)\leqslant 1$, the inequality
$$\mathbb E[XY] \leqslant 2cc'$$
takes place. We conclude by taking the infimum over those $c$ and $c'$.


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