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Erie 'Cemetery Lady' continues tradition of walking tours at almost 200-year-old cemetery, running through October
Wednesday, October 26th, 2016 at 5:01 PM
By Anna Ashcraft
Published in: Vol. 116, No. 8
Caroline Reichel, also known as the "Cemetery Lady," gives local tours at the nearly 200-year-old Erie Cemetery. For the past four years, she has given many tours on multiple different topics. For some it may seem like a hobby, but for Reichel it's her life.
"When I talk about them (the dead) it's as if they are still living," she said.
Reichel gives guided tours of the Erie Cemetery, including mausoleums and family plots, while telling stories at the gravestones of people who died in unusual ways.
"I started looking up other people that were in here and everybody is important, everybody has a story. Whether you're an entrepreneur, general, or farmer, you're an important person," Reichel said.
The Erie Cemetery opened around 1850, however some of the gravestones are older. Some of the gravestones were moved from other locations
in Erie to the cemetery, which is located off of 26 and Chestnut Street. Reichel mentioned that many of the gravestones are fragile from old
age and also weathering, with this contributing to why they don't do tours in the cemetery at night.
"I have to have a large amount of insurance because of the stones and everything. So we don't do anything at night. Some cemeteries do because they are just in rows and they are more current than 1850. Our stones, we don't want anything to happen to them," Reichel said.
Reichel holds guided walking tours on the second and fourth Sundays from June through October.
"The reason why we don't do tours during the week is because of the burials. We have to be respectful to the dead," Reichel said.
She held "Ghosts and Legends," a guided walking tour in the Erie Cemetery, on Oct. 23 and will hold it again Sunday, Oct. 30.
During "Ghosts and Legends" one will tour the Erie Cemetery and learn the history and legends behind many of the people and things inside. The Vampire Crypt, Witches Circle and Scott Mausoleum are among some of the sites visited in her tour this year.
"There are three legends that I talk about, then I talk about people who have died in unusual ways and they are all true. Every year I find somebody new. This year I have seven new ones," Reichel said.
The Witches Circle is an arrangement of gravestones in a circular pattern. It is so named because "two stones and a couple more that are not standing any longer turned black overnight," Reichel said.
The Vampire Crypt, as the mausoleum is called, stands towards 26 Street in the cemetery. It is known locally under a few different legends.
"It doesn't have a name. There is something over the door — it looks different to everyone. It's been broken into many times. It's the only one (mausoleum) that is built into the hillside.... It has three legends. We know very little about it," Reichel said.
General McLane's family plot is in the Erie Cemetery, and it's another legend Reichel discusses during the walking tour.
"He wasn't a general when he was killed in the war. He was a colonel. There's a long story about how he should have been a general, and he is a general now. On either side of him are his two wives," Reichel said.
Reichel also talked about how she got her name — the "Cemetery Lady." "I didn't have a name, just Caroline [who] does these tours, and people would say 'aren't you the cemetery lady,' so that's who I am — the name of my company," Reichel explained.
Reichel has also collaborated on tours with Chris Sirianni, who owns The Brewerie at Union Station in Erie, which is locally said to be haunted. The Brewerie holds haunted history tours in October and November.
This past September, Reichel and Sirianni worked together for the first haunted brewery tour.
"I just had a brewery tour where I did some graves of people who started breweries in Erie. Then we did a combined tour with Chris Sirianni from the Union Station Brewery.... It was a very good tour and everyone wants to do it again next year," Reichel said.
Tours are open to anyone who signs up by emailing Reichel at caroline. reichel19@gmail.com. Tours last 60 — 90 minutes, and costs $10 for adults and $8 for children under 12, however Reichel recommends that no children under eight attend. All tours begin at the cemetery gate off of Chesnutt Street in between 18 and 26 streets.
"I might do it for a couple more years at least, while my feet and body last — I'm only 19 though," Reichel said jokingly. "Then I'm going to write a book."
Anna Ashcraft is a Managing Editor of Arts for The Spectator.
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Singapore, 26 January 2019 – The Philippine Embassy in Singapore held its regular Filipino Community Leaders meeting, where Ambassador Joseph M. Yap announced its plans to hold special activities to mark the 50th Anniversary of the establishment of Philippines-Singapore diplomatic relations.
The Embassy presented the official logo of the 50th Anniversary program, the result of a project of the Philippine Embassy in Singapore and the Singapore Embassy in Manila. The hashtag #PHSG will be used for social media postings about anniversary events.
The Ambassador said that the major events of the year-long program will include the annual Philippine National Day Reception, Philippine Tourism and Business Fair, a Philippine Investment Summit, and a 50th Anniversary Reception. Other events will include the annual Bayanihan Walk, a ceremonial tree-planting, the launch of Commemorative Stamps to be produced by Philpost and Singapore Post, a screening of Filipino films, an exhibit on the chronology of Philippine-Singapore relations, an exhibit on Philippine fabrics, among others.
The Embassy announced that the annual Pagdiriwang event, which is held in June to celebrate Philippine National Day, will follow a different format this year in order to allow more Filipino organizations to take an active lead.
The Embassy's new Deputy Chief of Mission, Mr. Adrian Bernie C. Candolada, was introduced. Mr. Candolada assumed his duties at the Embassy on 19 January 2019.
During the Open Forum, the Community Leaders discussed matters regarding the conduct of overseas voting for the 2019 National Election, a certain apartment lease contract issue, and an issue on employment contract verification of some Filipino helpers.


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PHOTOS: Aleafia Health Completes Planting of Canada's First Legal Outdoor Cannabis Crop
13,000 Cannabis Plants now Growing at Company's Outdoor Grow Facility
Harvest of First Outdoor Crop Planned for Q3 2019
Planting of Crop Completed Less Than One Week Following Health Canada Approval
TORONTO, ON, June 13, 2019 – Aleafia Health Inc. (TSX: ALEF, OTC: ALEAF, FRA: ARAH) ("Aleafia Health" or the "Company") has completed the planting of its first outdoor crop, less than one week after securing Health Canada approval for outdoor cultivation. To the Company's knowledge, Aleafia Health is the first licensed producer to complete a large-scale, legal outdoor crop in Canadian history.
Plants in the ground at Aleafia Health's historic outdoor cultivation site.
"With the country's first legal outdoor crop now in the ground, Aleafia Health continues to validate our relentless focus on results-oriented execution," said Aleafia Health CEO Geoffrey Benic. "We now expect to harvest a substantial, low-cost outdoor crop later this year, accelerating our Company's growth. This will allow us to scale our mission of growing, producing, and selling high-margin, value-added cannabis health and wellness products in Canada and globally."
Aerial view of the Outdoor Grow facility.
Aleafia Health CEO Geoffrey Benic & Production SVP Lucas Escott planting.
To minimize the period between regulatory approval and planting, Aleafia Health leveraged its vertically integrated supply chain across three Ontario cannabis production facilities. The 13,000 starter clones grown specifically for outdoor cultivation were propagated at the Company's Paris Indoor & Processing facility. Cultivation staff from the Niagara Greenhouse facility, along with students of Niagara College's Commercial Cannabis Production Program, were on-site and instrumental in allowing the Company to quickly scale operations during planting, the most labour-intensive period of outdoor growing.
The Aleafia Health team and students from Niagara College halfway through planting.
Following the harvest of the Company's first outdoor crop, the dried flower will be transported to the Company's Paris Facility for extraction and production, adding to the Company's branded product portfolio. The significant increase in supply will align with the Paris Facility's Phase II expansion, which increases the Company's extraction capacity to 50,000 kg annually. Prior distribution channels will include the over 60,000 patients seen by the Company's national network of medical cannabis clinics along with export to Australia and Germany, both burgeoning medical cannabis markets, via existing, signed supply agreements.
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Aleafia Health owns three major cannabis product & cultivation facilities, two of which are licensed and operational including the first large-scale outdoor cultivation facility in Canada. The Company produces a diverse portfolio of commercially proven, high-margin derivative products including oils, capsules and sprays. Aleafia Health operates the largest national network of medical cannabis clinics and education centres staffed by MDs, nurse practitioners and educators.
Innovation is at the heart of Aleafia Health competitive advantage. The Company maintains a medical cannabis dataset with over 10 million data points to inform proprietary illness-specific product development and its highly differentiated education platform FoliEdge Academy. The Company is committed to creating sustainable shareholder value and has been named the 2019 top performing company of the year by the TSX Venture Exchange prior to graduation to the TSX.
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GoingNative 2013
An Effective C++11/14 Sampler
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:41PM
by Scott Meyers
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After years of intensive study (first of C++0x, then of C++11, and most recently of C++14), Scott thinks he finally has a clue. About the effective use of C++11, that is (including C++14 revisions). At last year's Going Native, Herb Sutter predicted that Scott would produce a new version of Effective C++ in the 2013-14 time frame, and Scott's working on proving him almost right. Rather than revise Effective C++, Scott decided to write a new book that focuses exclusively on C++11/14: on the things the experts almost always do (or almost always avoid doing) to produce clear, efficient, effective code. In this presentation, Scott will present a taste of the Items he expects to include in Effective C++11/14. If all goes as planned, he'll also solicit your help in choosing a cover for the book.
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ZF12
Scott: "The question was 'blah blah blah', the answer was 'blah blah blah'. End result: nothing changed" Loving it.
Last modified Sep 05, 2013 at 4:40PM
vittorioromeo
I love this talk. Scott's topics are very interesting and he's just very funny! Can't wait to get Effective C++
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ArashPartow
@Scott: With regards to the question from 41:30;
A simple G^MBing for the phrases:
"win32 clang" or
"ishani clang"
will have what you're looking for.
Too bad I can't paste the actual urls due to the asinine MS spam detection system.
mmutz
Regarding the move from const gotcha: wouldn't something like the following work?
template <typename T> ... std::move(const T &) = delete;
or a
static_assert( !is_const_t<T>, "Effective C++11, Item NN" );
inside std::move?
At around 1:10:00, there was a question about the ThreadRAII class (in the context of making sure that a std::thread is unjoinable on all paths).
In the destructor,
~ThreadRAII() { if (t.joinable()) (t.*action)(); }
someone asked Scott what would happen if t becomes unjoinable between the calls to t.joinable() and either t.join() or t.detach().
I don't know if the answer is known yet but when it is, could it be posted here?
Scott Meyers
@Garp: The code is correct as written. The joinability of a std::thread object can be changed only by calling a std::thread member function, so if we're executing inside the destructor for a std::thread object, either we're the only member function running on that object (in which case the joinability of the object can't change asynchronously) or there's another thread executing code on the same object (in which case we have a race condition in our code, and behavior is undefined). In particular, the joinability of a std::thread object doesn't change just because the OS thread it corresponds to runs to completion.
I knew this when I wrote the code, but I forgot it during the presentation, and I apologize for that. I delivered a revised version of the materials to GoingNative that spells this out, and I expect them to make these materials available for download.
@mmutz: When writing generic code, you may not know whether you're dealing with a const object, so having it be an error to try to move a const rvalue (or even to cast a const object to be an rvalue) would complicate life for library writers. In a discussion with a couple of attendees after my talk, stl explained how a library writer might end up with a std::pair object, where one component was non-const (hence a good candidate for moving), while the other component was const (hence ineligible for moving). If it were an error to try move a const object (or to cast a const object to an rvalue), the library implementer would have to go through a lot of work that is currently unnecessary. (This can be generalized to even more work by considering a std::tuple with one or more const components.)
The point I was trying to make in my talk was that std::move and std::forward don't move or forward anything. They simply perform casts. What happens after that depends on the type (including rvalueness/lvalueness) that results from the cast, and if the type includes const, that will inhibit moving.
Thanks for the prompt answer, Scott. Much appreciated.
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@Scott:
It would be interesting to know how many of these new features would stand in a mission-critical environment. For example, given the MISRA suggestions, how much of this template code could be used for a real-time system?
Linunix
When could we have the slide ?
@Linunix: I sent my materials to the conference organizers several days ago, so I assume they'll be posted soon.
@John: There is no real tension between templates and real-time systems. The general analysis approach is to treat each template instantiation as a separate function, then do the usual timing analysis on it. As for using C++11 features in mission-critical environments, I suspect that virtually all new features eventually will be, though I'd expect adoption of some of them to be comparatively slow, because developers of such systems will be conservative in their adoption. On the other hand, I'd expect such developers to quickly embrace the idea of using an RAII class to avoid having terminate called from a std::thread destructor.
Thanks! Your views are always of importance. :)
It would be awesome if you could some day give a talk on mission-critical environments. There are many people in this area who would be willing to listen to your (master) views.
@ArashPartow: I remain unable to find a way to run Clang from the command line on Windows. The binaries at ishani.org don't seem to have any content (it's a mostly-empty 7z file), and the installer from LLVM (http://llvm.org/builds/) gives me a compiler, but no information on how to configure it to find includes and libraries. If you know of a straightforward way to run Clang on Windows without having to build from source, please post!
Just good talk... i like your opinion and vision about the move semantic, i wait just your next talk ^^
NotFredSafe
Scott, I love your books and your talks and your hair and all, but I think during this talk, you went a little bit overboard with the condescending remarks. "The question was bla bla bla", really?
Looking forward to Effective C++11/14.
@NotFredSafe: I'm sorry you didn't care for the "Blah blah blah" comment. As I recall (I haven't viewed the presentation online, so I'm going from memory here), the gist of the situation was that somebody asked a somewhat-complicated question, but then somebody else clarified the situation before I repeated the question, and the end result was that the question itself became irrelevant and, in my view, not worth repeating for the audience. So rather than paraphrase a question for everybody in the room that was no longer relevant, I said what I said. My intent wasn't to be condescending, it was to acknowledge that a question had been asked and to indicate that it wasn't worth taking the time to repeat.
Mike Prikhodko
Why don't std::list member functions use conditional noexcepts like std::swap does?
@Mike Prikhodko: A quick rundown of the container interfaces in the C++14 CD show that only the swap functions are declared conditionally noexcept using exception specifications. Other functions are essentially conditionally noexcept, though they don't use exception specifications to express that. For example, 23.2.5.1/1 says, "For unordered associative containers, ... erase(k) does not throw an exception unless that exception is thrown by the container's Hash or Pred object (if any)." Why the Committee specified things in this way, I don't know.
@Scott Meyers: Will noexcept(erase(k)) return 'true' if Hash and Pred objects are not throwing anything (and declaring this with 'noexcept')? If so, it's cool, but why do we need conditional noexcepts if compiler can deduce all information himself?
If noexcept(erase(k)) always returns 'false'... It just looks like standard library is not good enough, because it doesn't use core language features consistently.
@Mike Prikhodko: noexcept(erase(k)) will return true only if erase(k) is declared noexcept. The compiler never deduces exception specifications from the body of a function.
I haven't take the time to check all the containers, but to the best of my knowledge, none of the erase functions are declared noexcept. Why they're not declared conditionally noexcept, I don't know.
Merick
So if the C++ committee decided that always detaching or always joining was a bad idea, why is writing a RAII wrapper which always detaches or always joins safe? Or under what conditions is always detaching or always joining the wrong answer?
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@Merick: The RAII wrapper I show doesn't automatically do anything. It does only what you expressly tell it to do. So if you decide that always joining (or always detaching) is safe for your code, you can use the wrapper to implement that logic. That's different from the standard library adopting a policy that would apply to everybody.
For information on why detaching by default is problematic, consult the paper by Hans-J Boehm listed on slide 48 of the talk. The reason why always joining is problematic is that it can limit concurrency: the calling thread can't continue until the asynchronously running thread has completed. Hence the quote from the Standard I show on slide 38 in my talk.
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Darijo
Why not just: auto move(T&& param) instead of decltype(auto)?
Last modified Oct 12, 2013 at 4:55AM
@Darijo: Type deduction using auto strips off references, and it's important that std::move return a reference. Hence the need for decltype(auto), which does not strip off references.
Great talk. Looking forward to reading the (yet unwritten) book.
Keynote: Herb Sutter - One C++
The Care and Feeding of C++'s Dragons
Type Deduction and Why You Care
Interactive Panel: Ask Us Anything


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Q: Fill formulas until end of adjacent table I'm trying to fill a column with a simple formula using cells from an adjacent table. I know how to do that by dragging the mouse, but it's a very long column, so I'd like to use AutoFill.

However, if I press Ctrl-Shift-Down, all the rows until line 1048576 are selected. How can I make the selection stop at the last value in the adjacent column (in this case, D196)? I already tried this suggestion (select E2, Shift-Left, Ctrl-Shift-Down, Shift-Right), but at least in Excel 2013 this method doesn't stop at the correct location either.
If I start my selection in column D and press Ctrl-Shift-Down, then the selection stops at the correct row, and I can use Shift-Right to expand the selection to the desired column - but I can't find a way to move the selection to the right instead.
What else could I do?

A: These steps work for me:

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*Select the cell containing the formula and press CTRL + SHIFT + DOWN
to select the rest of the column ( Or CTRL + SHIFT + END to select the last row where there is data )

*Fill down by pressing CTRL + D.

*Use CTRL + UP to return up.

A: With the help of this answer, I managed to find a solution:

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*Click on the top value in the adjacent column (here: D2)

*Press Ctrl-Shift-Down. Now the adjacent column is selected until the end of the column

*Press Shift-Right to expand the selection

*Press Shift-Tab to move the focus into the next column (E)

*Press Shift-Right to shrink the selection

*Choose Edit-AutoFill to fill the selection with the appropriate formula.

A: If you double-click the Fill Handle, it should copy the formula down to the extent of the data in the neighboring columns. The Fill Handle is the tiny black square in the lower-right of the selection border.

After double-click:

A: once the number or formula is in the cell, use your mouse to hover over bottom right corner of the cell until the cursor turns to a small + sign and then double left click on it and all following cells have the number or the formula in it.

A: When working with tables of many rows I adopt some tricks.

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*add, at table bottom, a row completely filled: this will the "stop row".

*use keyboard: CTRL+arrows let you travel to next border from empty/filled cell ever stopping in a filled cell.

*be sure to have a completely filled column: the "travel col". Here you can move fast from top to bottom of table. If, because of your specific data, doesn't exists make one, only one char is enough and it's not a big waste.

*learn to use the Paste special command.

*sometimes is also useful the use of CTRL-END: go to the last used cell (bottom right corner).

The right sequence to copy a formula (or simply a data) in the entire row is (assuming that you start from the first row):
A) without a stop row

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*copy the formula

*go to the "travel col"

*press CTRL-DOWN

*return to your target column

*press SHIFT-CTRL-UP, this will select the require column region

*paste

B) with a stop row

*

*copy the formula

*press SHIFT-CTRL-DOWN

*paste

Remember that stop row and travel column can be deleted after you have done the editing.

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Cartoonists Under Threat
Cartoonists honored with the Robert Russell Courage in Cartooning Award or otherwise supported by CRNI describe their experiences.
Testimonies: Zunar
"I would like to thank CRNI for the continuous support given to me and other colleagues globally. When [CRNI founder] Dr Robert Russell contacted me and informed about the award, I felt so relieved by the much-needed show of support. It was a raison d'être for me to keep fighting."
CRNI Executive Director Terry Anderson interview with Malaysian cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Haque, aka Zunar, winner of our annual Courage in Cartooning Award in 2011 and currently one of our Regional Representatives with responsibility for South East Asia.
Zunar describes his long struggle for freedom of expression under the government of Najib Razak including multiple episodes of arrest, confiscation and intimidation, culminating in criminal charges of sedition.
This interview was conducted in 2020, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic; at that time CRNI expressed deep concerns about the future of cartooning. This forms part of a series of testimonies intended to help illustrate CRNI's work in support of threatened cartoonists.
Zunar, what does "why pinch when I can punch" mean?
The best approach that cartoonists should take when dealing with repressive regimes is by hitting hard on their target, and that our pen should aim toward the most powerful. Good cartoons should have that; the right aim, a powerful target hit with a punch! Just like playing darts, bulls-eyes gets the highest score.
Cartooning philosophy #2 pic.twitter.com/s75Mgcr84C
— Zunar Cartoonist (@zunarkartunis) July 16, 2020
Zunar remains one of the most thoughtful and – despite adversity – optimistic cartoonists with whom CRNI has had the pleasure to work.
You won CRNI's Courage in Cartooning Award in 2011; what led to that and what did this recognition mean to you?
That year I embarked upon a lonely cartooning battle, fighting the regime in Malaysia without much notice from the international community. My office was raided, my cartoon books were banned, the printing firm where my books were made was also raided and threatened with loss of their licence and court action if they continued printing for me. In September 2011 I was arrested and detained in the police lock-up under the Sedition Act for publishing a cartoon book called Cartoon-O-Phobia. The situation was so tense and my morale was at its lowest point. When [CRNI founder] Dr Robert Russell contacted me and informed about the award, I felt so relieved by the much-needed show of support. It was a raison d'être for me to keep fighting. It was huge news back then and the government was under increasing pressure. My supporters took it as a victory: Zunar 1 – Malaysian government 0. But this good became bad as I think the government became more focused on me later on. But speaking in terms of effect, CRNI's Courage in Cartooning Award was very impactful indeed!
Were there other ways in which CRNI supported you?
I would like to thank CRNI for the continuous support given to me and other colleagues globally. As political cartoonists, the sword of Damocles is always hanging over our head, and the swords keep falling one by one. Speaking of that, the best support I expect from CRNI is to keep highlighting my battle on international levels in order to create more awareness, support and protection from wider communities. The same expectation goes for other cartoonists I am delighted to know these days; CRNI has more representatives covering issues across the globe.
When we first met in 2015 I asked about the heart of the matter, whether the prime minister and his allies genuinely thought your cartoons amounted to criminal acts or they just disliked your portrayal's effect on the minds of those who see you work. Can you explain your opinion?
This is a tricky question, and I can't speak on behalf of others, but from my point of view… Where I live it is considered a crime to make cartoons that question or mock government policies, the judiciary, public scandals and corruption. Since cartooning is a special and effective medium, the public's interest and attraction to it are very dangerous for the government because it can change people's perception. I think that is why it is considered a crime and seditious!
I love the way you've incorporated specific criticisms back into your cartoons; tells us about "Twit Twit" and how you ended up drawing Donald Duck.
The Chief of Police of Malaysia at the time loved to use Twitter. At one point he instructed his men to arrest me via a Tweet. That night eight policemen came to my house. They arrested and detained me for three days under the Sedition Act. Upon release, I made a statement that I will draw him every day in my cartoons, holding a phone and "Twitting", which I did! I think that affected him. I was arrested again a year after that, during an exhibition. During a press conference the next day a journalist asked him why he arrested me and he replied because I drew bad cartoons about him and the Malaysian politicians.
"As a political cartoonist, what should Zunar draw?" asked the journalist again. He replied, "Zunar should draw Donald Duck." That was how I produced the infamous cartoons that portrayed the Prime Minister as a Donald Duck and his wife as Minnie Mouse.
Sedition charges where eventually leveled against you carrying a sentence of forty+ years, your passport was seized and for a while you couldn't hold a public event without a mob disrupting it. And yet to me you always looked cheerful. What was the lowest point?
They say laughter is the best medicine. That is my way of handling sadness or depression; I will try to find a small glittering marble in a big dark cave. However my lowest point was when I was alone in a detention cell. That was very demoralizing.
The People's verdict!#1MDB pic.twitter.com/FJH65NAx5k
Najib Razak was recently convicted of of money laundering, abuse of power and criminal breach of trust; yet more criminal trials await.
The elections of 2018 changed everything. You lost your muse after Najib and Rosma were toppled. And in the concluding line of your memoir "Fight Through Cartoons" you say that your mission was accomplished. But earlier this year Malaysia was on tenterhooks over the future of its government. What's your next book going to be about?
When I say "mission accomplished" it is referring to just one battle out of an entire war. As a cartoonist I will not stop performing my duties, to be a watchdog on the government of the day. I will still continue my "fight through cartoons" in my country. I am in the midst of coming out with a new book about all the recent political upheaval in Malaysia.
What's been happening since the advent of the coronavirus crisis? Have there been issues for those scrutinising or even criticising the government in Malaysia, as we've seen elsewhere in South and South-East Asia? How has the situation impacted your own work?
Malaysia's new government now finds itself in an insecure condition. During the pandemic many have been arrested or charged for criticizing the government. Moreover the action taken against the news portal Malaysiakini is a very significant blow to freedom of expression in relation to the internet and social media and may yet have a bearing on me. The editor is now facing a charge and possible jail term because of the comments left by users in a comment column, which the government says is an insult to the judiciary. Should the verdict be guilty (and I personally think it will), it may spell danger for me because social media is my primary means of reaching an audience but what happens to my cartoons afterwards, who says or does what with them and where, is beyond my control. I could see this new tactic having an effect on me soon.
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Testimonies: Musa Kart
"The support I received from CRNI and the various cartoonists during this period was my biggest source of morale. I owe you and them thanks."
CRNI Executive Director Terry Anderson interview with Turkish cartoonist Musa Kart, winner of our annual Courage in Cartooning Award in 2005.
Musa describes the multiple times Prime Minister, later President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attempted to prosecute him over "insulting" cartoons, finally succeeding during the widespread crackdown on civil liberties that followed the attempted coup of 2016.
Musa, we first wrote about you long before Recep Erdoğan became president of Turkey. When and how did he first begin his vendetta against you?
About twenty-three years ago I began drawing cartoons in Cumhuriyet, the most prestigious opposition newspaper in Turkey. Cumhuriyet was always a defender of values such as human rights, equality and multiculturalism. With this attitude the newspaper and its employees were regarded with suspicion by conservative politicians and kept under constant pressure. And I got my share. The first case was due to the Erdoğan caricature I drew in 2004 and since that date the pressure on me escalated.
You won CRNI's Courage in Cartooning Award in 2005; what did this recognition mean to you?
The CRNI award meant that the world's cartoonists were taking a stand beside a colleague who the powers that be wanted silenced, by lawsuits and the threat of punishment. As I said before, this award made me feel like a member of the world cartoonist family and still hangs in the corner of my living room, on the most visible wall in my home.
You were taken to court and exonerated again about a decade later, but things took a turn for the worse after the attempted coup in the summer of 2016. Explain what happened later that year.
Despite all the pressure Cumhuriyet's employees continued their critical and dissenting work until October 2016. Unfortunately that preceding summer the country witnessed a coup attempt by a group that previously supported the government. But this coup, which led to the deaths of hundreds of people and thousands of injuries, was turned into an opportunity by the government. They threw all their opponents, regardless of their lack of support for the coup into one proverbial basket. And so we were among those targeted. After being detained in prison for nine months we were released for our court hearing. We continued to write and draw from where we had left off, and this middling situation lasted about a year. Afterwards they sent us back to prison despite the objections of the public and contrary opinions from the chief judges and even the justice minister. A further five months later we were released again with a decision from the Supreme Court. But outside we found conditions were even more severe. Our newspaper was taken away from us. Lawsuits were filled even for those who had merely shared the cartoons I had drawn years ago. And the latest development: the lower criminal court demanded that we be jailed again, saying it would not comply with the Supreme Court's release order. So we now await The Supreme Court Assembly of Civil Chambers' last word. For the better part of a year I've been at home, under threat of being imprisoned for a third time.
Cartoons flooding in support the #FreeTurkeyMedia campaign 4 journalists jailed in #Turkey. #WPFD2017 #PressFreedom pic.twitter.com/5sDEu3wblJ
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CRNI assisted Amnesty International in their #FreeTurkeyMedia campaign 2017.
CRNI collaborated with Amnesty International on their #FreeTurkeyMedia campaign and Cumhuriyet started reprinting some of the resulting cartoons in your old front page spot while you were in jail. Does international attention like this help those fighting for their freedom of expression in Turkey?
Unfortunately, such objections often cannot be expressed out loud due to the climate of fear created in our country. The support I received from CRNI and the various cartoonists during this period was my biggest source of morale. I owe you and them thanks.
Your opening statement at trial was fantastic, we worked hard to translate and publish it as soon as possible on our website. You said you feel cartooning encourages critical thinking. Explain.
Cartooning is the art of the moment in which the independent, free-thinking, questioning mind, begins to express itself. That's why there's no love between authoritarians and cartoonists. As I said in my own defence, we should evaluate cartooning as a means for the development of critical thinking in our schools but we evidently prefer to pursue judicial processes that would completely destroy it.
Çizerimiz Musa Kart'a büyük ödül! @cumhuriyetgzt https://t.co/B55RDcEDAe
— Musa Kart (@MusaKart) May 3, 2018
While still a prisoner, Musa received the Prix International du Dessin de Presse from the Cartooning For Peace Swiss Foundation.
Famously, Turkey is the world's biggest prosecutor of journalists and media workers. There have also been economic impacts upon the press in the country. Yet Turkey has a culture of cartooning just as rich and varied as many European nations; do you see it recovering?
You cannot destroy a public's sense of humour by putting cartoonists in jail. It can appear suddenly, at the most unexpected moment and place, like a flower blooming through a stone wall.
Unfortunately, the media in Turkey has mostly lost its ability to be free and independent. I saw the extent and the "burning" effect of this change in my own personal story. There was a big objection from the entire Turkish media to the lawsuit filed for the cat caricature I drew about fifteen years ago. However, in the most recent judicial process that has been going on for the last four years, the eyes of our media were completely shut.
But I cared about the support of the world cartoonists' family the most. While still facing the possibility of going to prison for the third time I believe that I will continue to feel the support of this wonderful family.
I am sad to see that you have stopped cartooning after all these troubles. Do you still draw for your own pleasure?
I think that after some forty years as a cartoonist who pursued that solely, against all pressures, it's ok to find another way to express myself. I am currently working on an oil painting exhibition, with a dash of humour in it.
Adalet aramaya devam !.. pic.twitter.com/HsCgaH3kBd
— Musa Kart (@MusaKart) January 10, 2020
Although no longer cartooning, Musa remains committed to the principles of justice and freedom in Turkey.
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Jan22 The Salt Sessions: A New Video Series
So, most of my gaming time these past few months has been playing Street Fighter. I like fighting games, but I've never been any good at them. Street Fighter is pretty much the crème de la crème, so what better one to try and actually make an effort to become not terrible at. It's a slow process, but I'm at a point where I'm winning games somewhat regularly against similarly skilled opponents, and I'm no longer a total newb at the games.
So, I decided to make a video of me playing it. In fact, I hope to make this a regular series of videos, with one every week or so. As I've mentioned before, I used to make crappy Call of Duty videos back in the day, but stopped mostly because of a combination of lack of motivation and my terrible upload speed. The latter hasn't really changed, but I'm at a point where I sort of want to try and make somewhat regular content again.
The Salt Sessions is going to mostly be me playing ranked games on SF4, while making an attempt to articulate what I'm doing and why as I'm playing. This first episode, the pilot if you will, was mostly a spur of the moment thing I made at 3am after a few beers. It's been a while since I've done any video making, so this served mostly as a test for my recording setup: I have a decent microphone, but it isn't particularly well suited to recording while I'm in the middle of playing a fighting game.
So join me over at JeoDotMe on YouTube, a channel I made specifically to tie into this blog. I've mulled the idea of doing video accompaniments to previous blog posts before, but obviously never went through. Now that I want to try and make more video content on the reg, perhaps I might do that. In any case, it's likely that you'll see more than just fighting games on this channel in the future. In the meantime, I will (hopefully) have a new episode of Salt Sessions every weekend(ish).
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Apr05 On the YouTube Call of Duty "Community"
I was originally going to put this at the end of another post I was working on, but as I was writing it, I thought it probably deserved to be it's own post. I'm going to assume that you have at least some knowledge of the CoD scene on YouTube. If not, you can safely skip this post. The post I was originally working on, expect to see within a few days or so.
Hutch revealed that he is quitting. And I mean quitting quitting. He's quit his job at Machinima, he's moving back home from LA, he's not going to be posting videos at all and he's unlikely to be active very much at all on the Internet, whether it be on Twitter or elsewhere. He, for whatever reason, has decided it's time to bow out. I'm talking about this because, I, once upon a time, made Call of Duty YouTube videos. I stopped a few months ago, however, for a number of reasons. Mainly because I wasn't enjoying it any more, and I don't like the direction that the "community" has been heading in for a while now.
But Hutch was one of the good guys. He was the reason I originally started to make videos, and he was the reason a lot of people started to make videos. And, for better or worse, he's the reason the CoD scene on YouTube is as big as it is today. He wasn't the first to make CoD gameplay commentaries, but he was the one that popularised it. Hutch's quitting could (hopefully) be one of the nails in the coffin for the CoD scene on YouTube.
That's one of the reasons why I quit: I hate what the "community" has become. Back when I first started watching CoD videos on YouTube, the community was an actual community. There weren't a whole of people doing it, and the guys that were were faily close-nit; everyone knew everyone else, at least in some respect. Now, the community houses well over a million people. One million plus people is not a community. There are people who have Machinima contracts that have thousands of subscribers, that you will have never heard of, even though they're doing the exact same thing you are. That's how big it's gotten. And with the rise of Machinima and the insane growth of the scene, the focus turned from making videos because you loved making videos to money.
Take some of the bigger channels, WoodysGamertag is a good example. Compare his videos from two years ago to his videos now. Whenever I go to the front page of YouTube and see all the new videos from the people I'm subbed to, all you see is uncreative videos, with titles and thumbnails designed to grab your attention and get as many views as possible, simply so that person can make some money. Now, I have no problem with people making money off their videos, if said videos are actually well made and required effort to make, Stuart being the prime example. It just annoys me when I see people with hundreds of thousands of subscribers, putting up ugly videos that are creatively and intellectually bankrupt, yet getting thousands of views and making enough money to earn a living.
Actual content aside, the fact that some of the big names don't know, or are simply too lazy to make even the most basic steps to make their videos look good. To name a few names, Wings of Redemption, Blame Truth and xJawz are a few that are guilty of putting up videos that are just plain ugly. No colour correction, so everything is just bland and washed out; resampling not disabled, leading to their videos having awful ghosting due to the raw video and rendered output having different frame rates; and low bit-rates, making their videos, combined with the previous things, looking like a compressed ugly mess. Three different things, which take a combined 15 seconds to fix, and yet it makes your video look infinitely nicer. And that's without the boring, uninspired commentary, with them begging you to like and favourite their video. Looking at you, Blame Truth.
And that's why I quit YouTube. I wasn't big, I wasn't popular. I barely had 300 subscribers to my name. But it was something that, once upon a time, I used to really enjoy doing. And it's something Hutch used to enjoy as well, and while the reason he decided to quit is just all speculation, it's clear to see that he didn't have the same spark he had three years ago. The fact he decided to bow out at a high point is something that a few other people should probably think about doing.
Oh wait, no, because they haven't worked a day in their lives and will be fish out of water when the YouTube money dries up.
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Feb15 Hello? Yes, This is Blog
Well, hello there. Isn't this a surprise? It's been quite a while since I've had a blog. About 3 years, I think. The last one was AWSUM.org.uk, which had a mildly decent run but was eventually left by the wayside. I've had a large number of blogs in the past, so hopefully, this one won't go the same way, that is, neglected and not updated for months before eventually being shut down. I can't even count how many times that's happened now. The problem with those ones was that I generally stuck to blogging about personal stuff... and my life isn't particularly interesting, moreso these days, since I'm no longer at school. Which is why I'm going to try and write a little bit more about stuff that actually interests me on here. Like video games. Because I do love me some vidya gaems. Although I don't exactly have aspirations to be a games journalist or anything, I may even attempt some reviews and stuff on here. Oh my. Should be interesting.
So, since the topic of video games has already been dropped, SKYRIM.
I originally planned to have this blog up and running about a week or so ago. But, you know, SKYRIM.
Last week, I finally started playing SKYRIM.
SKYRIM SKYRIM SKYRIM.
Skyrim.
I struggle to remember the last time a game has sunk its claws so far into me and kept me hooked for this long. No, Call of Duty titles passed Modern Warfare 2 don't count. Especially Modern Warfare 3. Since it's release in November, I've sunk a little over three days into MW3′s multiplayer, as well as played through the campaign. But that's it. I haven't touched the game in over a month, and I'm unlikely to ever go back to it for any reasonable length of time. It took a couple of years to get here, but I think I'm done with Call of Duty. I enjoyed the everloving shit out of MW2, but the titles since then, I've put a progressively smaller amount of time into. Oh sure, I'll no doubt end up picking up Black Ops 2 or Iron Wolf or whatever the hell that game ends up being called in November, but I can see myself being finished with it sooner than any of the other games thus far. I don't enjoy CoD as much as I used to, so naturally, I don't put as many hours into it as I used to.
But OH MAN SKYRIM. At the time I am writing this (which will be significantly before this blog's "proper launch", February 6th, to be exact), I started playing a week ago today, and I've already sank over 30 hours into this thing. And that's with a couple of days of light/non-existent play. Last Sunday alone, I played it for 12 hours, and about 8 hours today. It's not often that single-player games grab me quite like this, the most recent I can think of being Fallout 3, also made by Bethesda OH WOW WOULDN'T YOU KNOW IT.
Oblivion never quite grabbed me in the same way Fallout 3 and now Skyrim have. I just didn't really have time for it. I got Oblivion not long after I first acquired my 360 and, being a lad with a fair bit of disposable income and a shiny new toy, bought pretty much every game I was interested in. Sure, I've played Oblivion, but I managed to keep its claws at bay, simply because I had a metric shit-tonne of other games I also wanted to play at the time. And when I was done with those games, Oblivion was one I just happened to never get back to. I may go back to it later, for dat gamerscore, when I'm done with Skyrim, sometime next year.
While I mentioned that I may try my hand and doing game reviews and such on here, expect no such thing for Skyrim. Unless constantly gushing about how much I fucking love that game counts as a review. I know my limits, and even attempting to write a coherent review of a game so open and broad in scope as Skyrim would be nothing short of idiocy. And a waste of time.
To amend this post to something a little closer to the actual "launch" of this blog (everything written from here on out was written on the 15th of Feb), I've recently being playing Gotham City Imposters. It's... well, I'm not entirely sure what I think of it yet. I don't dislike it, that's for sure. I've played enough to level up to low 20s (a couple of hours or so) on the XBLA version and as I'm writing this, the PC version is currently downloading off Steam. Whether or not it'll be ready before I head to bed in a couple of hours will remain to be seen, since my connection is spotty at best, and Steam's "Time Remaining" estimate is wildly fluctuating all over the place. At the very least, I should get some time in before work tomorrow. What will likely follow will be a post on here of some sort, where I attempt to try to arrange my thoughts about the game into something vaguely coherent. Whether or not that'll entail a full review, I don't know. I feel that strictly multiplayer-focused games can be kind of hard to review, especially since I have a history with and love of this particular type of game that it would be difficult for me to stay completely objective. I don't know. I might try a review, I might not. Regardless, expect me to talk a bit more about it in the near future on here.
I also played the Mass Effect 3 demo. It was good. I liked it. It has its flaws, but overall, it left a good impression on me, so I will definitely be picking up the full release at launch, most likely via pre-order. Don't wanna miss out in the inevitable in-game shit I would score from ordering early. As for the demo, it felt great. The shooting and combat in general feels much improved, similar to how ME2 was an improvement over the first Mass Effect game. It's no Gears of War, sure, but it's feeling more and more polished with each iteration. The cover system can be a little spotty, and the rolling about and whatnot can feel a little weird, but it's definitely not bad overall and as I said, feels better than the previous game thus far.
My only real gripe with it is that some of the dialogue and writing is a little... bad. Especially the end scene of the first section, with the overly dramatic, over-the-shoulder, "Good Luck". Urgh. I hope (and expect) the full game will live up to the standards of writing the previous two games set. But yeah, apart from those minor (and I say minor) gripes, the demo was still perfectly enjoyable, and I'm still very much coloured excited for the final release in a few weeks.
So there you have it, the virginity-taking post on this nubile young blog.
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Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey and fantasy presidential candidate of countless pining Republicans, is the Placido Domingo of contempt, a virtuoso of disparagement.
There are times when he blows too hard, or misdirects his anger. Even Placido Domingo has the occasional off night. But when Christie settles on a suitable target, his scorn can scatter his enemies like crows from the trees.


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ET Canada Interview with Anthony Kiedis
Anthony Kiedis has given an exclusive interview with ET Canada on his health and recent hospitalization:
Anthony Kiedis: Yeah, I'm good. Thank you. I think I had to get really sick to take a look at myself and get to the causes and conditions of my own health. And it turned out to be a good thing albeit being painful and a very sad to have to cancel the show. We don't really do that. I'd rather play deathly ill than not play at all but in this particular instance, I was starting to go down as into the ground, so I got rushed to the hospital, got some help and now I get to figure things out.
ET Canada: That's one of the things I'm interested from your perspective; this band is never one that cancels shows and I think that's why people were so concerned but do you think it was blown out of all proportion? Coz I remember…
Anthony Kiedis: Umm…I think it was a slow news day.
ET Canada: Yeah, yeah.
Anthony Kiedis: Was what it was. Umm… yeah, you know when I opened my phone and saw I was on the news, I was like everything must be OK in the world today if that's what's making the news. Ummm… we don't like to cancel shows. I had a teacher in high school who was called Carolee Brogue who was Peter Pan on Broadway when she was a kid, and she had uncontrollable diarrhoea but there was a matinee to play and a regular show to play, and she played them both with a diaper on, and she taught the acting class I was in that the show must go on. Don't hang it up just coz you're not feeling good, there's a lot of people involved here, make it happen. So that's been my philosophy for life until you just fall over and can't actually stand up to play. So…
ET Canada: Are you comfortable telling us what happened or no?
Anthony Kiedis: Yeah. Basically I had inflammation in my guts. I had a stomach virus a few weeks ago and I've had operations on hernias from singing and…
ET Canada: Oh, really?
Anthony Kiedis: Yeah, coz I sing loud and dance and sometimes you rip your stomach open. So the scar tissue, the flu virus conspired to create an impassable inflammation so nothing I was eating was getting past the stomach and that becomes an incredibly painful situation where you get a fever and pass out. So I had to be pumped clean in the hospital and lo and behold, I'm on the mend. But it's a process.
ET Canada: How do you feel now?
Anthony Kiedis: Good. Not great but good.
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So glad to see he's doing much better and is on the mend!! Love how human he is!!
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New Delhi [India], June 27 (ANI): Indian Railways on Saturday provided 30,000 bed sheets and pillow covers to the COVID-19 Care Centre at Radha Soami Beas in Chhatarpur, informed the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy.
Under PM Modi's rule nation's development taking place in corrupti
Hyderabad/Vijayawada (Telangana/Andhra Pradesh) [India], June 22 (ANI): Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy on Monday asserted that corruption was rampant during the tenure of earlier governments but under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rule nation' development is being c
Govt has given full freedom to Army to deal with China: G Kishan R
Suryapet (Telangana) [India], June 22 (ANI): Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy on Sunday said that government has given full freedom to the Indian Army on how to deal with China.
Union Minister Reddy lauds security forces for averting IED blast
New Delhi [India], May 28 (ANI): Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy on Thursday lauded the security forces for their timely action, which averted the 'vehicle-borne IED blast' in Pulwama.


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Trumpcare Is Back, More Brutal and Deadly Than Ever
Jake Johnson,
A group of activists rally against a GOP health care plan outside of the Metropolitan Republican Club, July 5, 2017, in New York City. (Photo: Drew Angerer / Getty Images)
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The Trumpcare zombie has risen from the grave to terrorize the American public once more.
Progressive organizations, lawmakers, hospital groups, and healthcare specialists have issued a "red alert" as reporting over the weekend indicated that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is considering a vote by the end of this month on what Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called Sunday "yet another disastrous Republican proposal to throw millions of people off health insurance."
In an email to supporters Sunday night, Ben Wikler, Washington director of MoveOn.org, warned that the Republican Party "is now a hair's breadth away — closer than they've ever been — to passing a devastating healthcare repeal bill, shredding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and gutting Medicaid."
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"All we need is one more [vote]," Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) concluded.
The plan under consideration was authored by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.). Summaries of the bill indicate that, if passed, it would be every bit as harmful as the Trumpcare proposals that failed to escape the Senate in July.
The Graham-Cassidy plan — "Trumpcare by another name" — has yet to be analyzed by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), but McConnell has asked for the scoring process to be fast-tracked, the Washington Post reports.
But even without a CBO score, experts have said there is enough evidence to conclude the plan would impose devastating and deadly cuts to key safety net programs and disproportionately harm America's most vulnerable communities.
In a recent analysis, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) found that the Graham-Cassidy plan would "gut protections for people with pre-existing conditions," impose "damaging cuts" to Medicaid, and "cause many millions of people to lose coverage."
By 2027, the Graham-Cassidy plan "would be virtually identical to a repeal-without-replace bill," the CBPP concluded. "CBO estimated that the repeal-without-replace approach would ultimately leave 32 million more people uninsured. The Cassidy-Graham bill would presumably result in even deeper coverage losses than that in the second decade."
Andy Slavitt, who ran the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services during the presidency of Barack Obama, posted a bullet-point summary of the proposal on Twitter last week. The post has since garnered over 42,000 retweets — just one indication of the groundswell of opposition the legislation will likely provoke.
JUST OUT: Here's a summary of the Graham-Cassidy repeal. Yes, it's that bad.
Spread far and wide if useful. pic.twitter.com/Z0bbj0qaPd
— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) September 13, 2017
As the Post's Elise Viebeck and David Weigel observe, the GOP is working with an imposing deadline: September 30 marks the last day the Republicans can ram through budgetary legislation with merely a simple majority. Beyond that date, the GOP will need 60 votes.
Because this deadline is looming, activist groups are warning that Republicans will be under even more pressure to vote 'yes,' and that those who opposed previous measures — like Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) — might ultimately flip.
MoveOn.org's Wikler concluded that "massive, unignorable pressure" will be necessary to defeat the Republicans' "brutal and deadly" act of desperation.
Disability rights activists, who were central to the defeat of Trumpcare in July, have already begun mobilizing against Graham-Cassidy, and other organizations — from Planned Parenthood to Indivisible and more — are planning to ramp up resistance efforts this week.
"Defeating Trumpcare doesn't take rocket science," Wikler concluded. "What it takes is steady focus and relentless pressure. We can do this. Lives depend on it."
Democratic lawmakers — many of whom co-sponsored Sanders's Medicare for All legislation — joined the calls for mass mobilization.
The fight to save heath care isn't over. Sound the alarm. We need you to fight today & every day until this @SenateGOP bill is dead.
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) September 17, 2017
The Graham-Cassidy "health care" bill is just more of the same disastrous policy we've seen from Republicans. We must beat this thing.
— Kamala Harris (@SenKamalaHarris) September 17, 2017
The threat is real! We must let our voices be heard. Don't be silent. Help stop this craven repeal of healthcare for millions. https://t.co/4ewSb8eKmr
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) September 17, 2017
?Republican bill to rip away health care from millions is gaining steam.
— Sen. Al Franken (@SenFranken) September 17, 2017
They only need to flip 1 vote by end of September to ruin your healthcare. Light up the phones, please. This really is their last chance.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) September 17, 2017
Jake Johnson is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Follow him on Twitter: @johnsonjakep.
Trumpcare May Well Be Collapsing, but the Health Care Fight Is Far From Over
The McConnell-Ryan health plan collapses as conservatives bolt — but progressives have no victory to celebrate.
Heather Digby Parton,


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Meet our intellistar Ian Frost, the intelliHR Delivery Manager who is helping deliver the success of our software development team.
A: After school I went to university and started a Bachelor of IT, halfway through I decided to work in the real world and I got a job in the automotive industry as a parts interpreter. After four years I decided to go back to university and ended up working at a company called Oniqua.
After a couple of years, I went into cloud solution architecture. That meant coming up with the design of a hosted Software- as-a-Service platform. I then stepped into a role with Simple, a marketing automation service, looking after the internal IT team, customer support team and the software development team. I then went back to Oniqua, before my path led me to Jeremy Fong [intelliHR Chief Technology Officer] who asked me to join intelliHR.
After creating the initial automation and infrastructure that runs the intelliHR solution, I implemented software development practices and automated solutions that moved work from development through to the platform ready for customer use. An opportunity developed to run the team's operations day-to-day, so I stood up for the role.
A: One portion of my role is service delivery. I interface with the intelliHR Customer Success Team and handle any escalated support issues they may have. I also deal with customer implementation from the technical side, this means talking with our customers' IT teams about issues they might have, scoping any integrations, negotiating any requirements and things like that.
I'm also the iteration manager for two development teams which means supporting the team to problem solve and help to understand new learnings that a team might have come across and bringing approval from people who need to sign off on change. I help to provide a business context plus challenge assumptions, which is very common in the software engineering world. You see, when you set out to build something in your head you're always wrong, it's difficult to get it right in your head, so it's about going through a process of iteration and discovery.
At intelliHR our development operates in two-week sprint processes and at the end we have a retrospective to look at how the team functioned and any improvements that we can make so we have a continuous improvement cycle. It's my role to manage those ceremonies and facilitate planning for the next period, to report on the outcomes of the sprint and encourage that continuous improvement.
That's the thing I'm most proud of in the team, having that attitude around continuous improvement. There's a Japanese philosophy called "Kaizen" that Toyota made very famous, it's about continuously looking at your processes, never being satisfied that you've got the perfect process, there's always room for improvement. Always having that attitude and looking for and implementing those improvements. That's the thing that increases our capacity sprint to sprint and allows us to produce better quality features.
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A: It's one of the best teams that I've been a part of, everyone in the development team is really smart. Everyone has either a solid professional background behind them, so the best practices that are in the team are strong, or they're a fresh graduate and have a lot of enthusiasm for learning. There is a ton of respect amongst us because of the strength of the team. We also have an enormous amount of fun, every day we're laughing and having fun while getting the job done. I think that's super important for what's essentially a creative endeavour.


The head of the worst school in the country for both truancy and overall education said his pupils had received "an extremely raw deal".
League tables showed New College Leicester was the worst secondary school in England for truancy, worst in the "value-added" league table, and fifth from bottom overall for GCSE results.
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GUWAHATI, Jan 3 - The fourth edition of tourism festival Rongali will be held from January 19 to 21 to at the Sankaradeva Kalakshetra here.
The Rongali Art Carnival 'Swabhiman' will present some of the most talented young artistes of the region creating a canvass of art including doodle art, string art, hyper realism, graffiti etc. The art will celebrate the icons of Assam Sukaphaa, Chilarai, Lachit Borphukon, Bhupen Hazarika and others.
'Bor Axom' will showcase the lives and cultures of tribes and communities of Assam. Ankia bhaona, mukha bhaona, choreography competition, national level rock band competition, colourful dance forms of the region, large craft exhibition etc., too have been lined up. Assamese food will be main focus of 'Bor Axom'. Around 25 stalls will display various Assamese delicacies. Social organisation Priyobandhu will organise a traditional food competition.
Around 20 designers comprising the best of the region will showcase the spectacular designs with 30 talented models of the region. Another attraction will be group dance competition to be curated by Pankaj Ingti. It will depict historical events of Assam.
A traditional boat race will be organised in the Dighalipukhuri on January 19. Around 20 teams will compete. Traditional Nao Khelgeet will be an added attraction.
Some of the finest bands of the country will play with top names of Assam. Arun Das will perform on the first day of the show. Neel Akash, Kussum Kailash, Simanta Sekhar, Anaya Brahma, Nilotpal Bora, Zublee Baruah too will perform.
Rongali Good Vibe will bring together many young talented Assamese musicians. Zubeen Garg, Papon, Raghu Dixit Project and India's most sought-after DJ Nucleya are also on the agenda. Rongali will also bring some of the most famous rock bands of India such as The Local Train, As We Keep Searching and many more.
Shyamkanu Mahanta, chief organiser of Rongali said entrepreneurship is the main focus of Rongali. "On January 20 at 11 a.m. we are organising Rongali Advantage Assam Entrepreneurship Conclave. It will be attended by some of the most talented Assamese in the fields of entrepreneurship, corporate sector, sports, music, etc. They will interact with young Assamese aspiring entrepreneurs, media and young minds," he said.
NEDFi, SBI and venture capitalists will talk about financing and projects. Many top national tour operators, travel writers, national media personalities are coming to cover Rongali.
David Koch, curator of Rongali Rock Festival said around 50 top young rock bands of the country will compete. Tridib Sharma, advisor and key functionary said over the last few years Rongali has attracted national media attention to the tribal culture of Assam and this year the scale will be much bigger.


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maart « 2006 « Solly as a Rock!!
I saw these pretty boots and I just had to have'em!
This morning, I had a cup of Darjeeling tea, black. I had not drunk tea in a while. Normally I have coffee in the morning, lemon tea or Earl Grey in the afternoon and tea with milk and honey at night.
*warp* back to the breakfast table at my parents place when I was in secondary school. Back to the time I detested (!) coffee and my mum would pore a cuppa to her sleepy daughter, while dad passed me the local paper's first page.
Funny how the smell of something can warp you right back in time.
Sure, the combination of leather, books and old sweat brings me back to my high school years and the smell of burnt wood combined with scent of sewer to Delhi, but black tea?
Which scent brings back memories to you?
In Breda van 6 naar 11 zetels, maar ook in de rest van Nederland is de PvdA de gROODste! Breda heeft dus gekozen vóór een sociale koers, en tegen de landelijke regering.
Ennuh… ik zit in de Gemeenteraad!
Can't we celebrate Christmas in the first week of March from now on? This is the third year that in the week when officially the meteorological spring begins, the world looks like a winter-wonderland postcard picture!
All in favour of my proposal?
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