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Mindfulness vs meditation: Does the difference matter?
Oliver Friedmann
Society and culture | Asia
Oliver Friedmann reflects on the cultural implications of the Western mindfulness movement.
Meditation has been stripped of its cultural and social setting and placed in a Western context to be practiced by the privileged middle class.
In January of 2015, I sat my first Vipassana meditation course. This experience took place at a site known as Dhamma Pabha, about forty minutes north of Hobart, Tasmania. Over the course of the 10 days, I woke up and meditated in silence from before the bitterly cold sunrise, until late evening; a total of 11 hours.
I have to admit; the experience was near life changing. But after a year of reflection, I have begun to see a different side of the mindfulness movement. The question that has worried me most is whether meditation and mindfulness is 'preconceptual', and therefore 'precultural'? Is there something of cultural value at stake here that the scientific treatment of mindfulness does not deem important? And what's the difference between meditation and mindfulness anyway?
Mindfulness in the West
Mindfulness has made its way into mainstream Western lingo. Whether it be in schools, family homes, the corporate boardroom or government offices, meditation is common place. A recent survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics in the United States suggested that 8% of Americans engaged in some kind of meditation practice. With workplace stress costing the nation approximately $10.11 billion a year, it is no wonder that corporate Australia is looking for a solution. The Department of Industry agency IP Australia signed a $10900 contract last year to subsidise yoga classes with Canberra instructor Swami Yogamanas Saraswati, reflecting a growing government trend to spend thousands each year on self-improvement programs.
Mindfulness as a term was popularised in the late 1970s thanks to Jon Kabat-Zinn, Professor of Medicine Emeritus and creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Healthcare and Society at the University of Massachusetts. His Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program, initiated in 1979, brought meditation practices into mainstream Western medicine conversations, and thus mindfulness became free of its religious and cultural roots.
Today, mindfulness is packaged in many different ways. Some reference a Buddhist origin. Some do not. Some use imagery of the Buddha and other Hindu icons. Some have a focus on lengthy retreats with exorbitant costs. Most common though is the commercial link to a New Age/Hippy tradition, to successful corporates and to a fantasy about the exotic East. Apps, corporate retreats and personal wellbeing seminars are generating huge revenue from the practice.
Regardless of how mediation is presented, the verdict is clear in Western psychology. Meditation practice is beneficial for psychological wellbeing. But with this Western, secular, scientific verdict comes cultural baggage which has not received adequate attention. Is the cross-cultural practice of Eastern methods of meditation, referred to as mindfulness in the West, just another instance of cultural appropriation? Is this a relic of colonisation, a new age consumer-driven trend towards spiritual charlatanism? Or should the practice of meditation lie outside discussion of culture?
Mindfulness and Western appropriation
It seems easy to draw boundaries for those cases where first nation indigenous culture is appropriated, such as by the Settler societies of North America and Australia. In an Asian context however, where local advocates of traditional culture have often been more responsible for its practice in the West, the cultural consequences are less clear cut. It is harder to see cultural damage or discontent in the East from our Western vantage point, and often difficult to demarcate meditation from religious practice.
Vipassana traditions in the West deemphasizes dogma and doctrine and dismisses communal ritual practices within the Buddhist tradition as cultural idiosyncrasies. Claims like 'the Buddha was not a Buddhist' are common in Western discourse around mindfulness. Claims of this kind allow Westerners to capitalise on some aura of authenticitythat is presented by the Dharma teachings. Scholarly discourse has often shown that the label 'Buddhism' itself is Westerncentric. That the term was used by colonized people only as a means of reclaiming cultural legitimacy.
There is danger with the practice of mindfulness of creating a cultureless space, which appears through the normalisation of white culture. Appealing to a Western sense of individualism and autonomy, the practice is most inviting and accessible to the white middle class. In some nations, Buddhism has such a central position in politics and society that it has become the cornerstone of legitimacy for the ruling class. No longer do the cultural owners of meditation have control over how they or their practice is presented to the West; yet another example of social colonising of the exotic East.
There is no doubt that meditation is beneficial for our social and personal wellbeing. But we need to make sure that its origins and uses do not get confused with commercial enterprise. It seems that the difference between Western mindfulness and meditation is important. Meditation is a personal endeavour that is slowly morphing into its own commercial and socially mobile entity. On the surface it can seem that the practise of meditation is harmless, yet its transportation to a commercial setting named mindfulness is problematic.
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If both 'Mindfulness' and 'Meditation' lead to a lessening of stress, suffice it to say they both have value. To include both 'Mindfulness' and 'Meditation' in every school curriculum, would be of immense value … Well written OHFriedmann
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Oliver is a second year Bachelor of Philosophy (Honours) – Asia and the Pacific student at the Australian National University.
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Prosper Utseya (born 26 March 1985 in Harare, Zimbabwe) is a retired Zimbabwean cricketer, who plays all formats of the game. He was the former captain of Zimbabwe from 2006 to 2010. He bowls right-arm off break and is a useful right-hand batsman. Utseya has not played any form of cricket since 2015.

Early life

Rising from the ranks of township cricket in Harare's Highfield suburb, Utseya attended Churchill School, the cradle of many black Zimbabwean players, thanks to Zimbabwe Cricket Union scholarships.

Domestic career

Utseya was a promising talent at the school level and made his first-class debut as an opener for Mashonaland A at the age of 15. He scored a fifty in a tight situation in just his second Logan Cup match against Manicaland a day before his 16th birthday and soon moved into the Under-19 and Zimbabwe A sides with some notable bowling performances along the way.

In 2004, he was moved to Manicaland to strengthen the provincial side there, and was selected for the CFX Academy. He took his first first-class five-wicket haul with a figure of 5/32 against Manicaland in October of that year.

Utseya has been a force to be reckoned with in Zimbabwean domestic cricket. His spin-bowling partnership with Timycen Maruma has resulted in a series of domestic titles, and in 2008-09 his ten-wicket haul helped Easterns clinch a thrilling one-wicket victory in a low-scoring contest against Northerns at Alexandra Sports Club in Harare that secured the Logan Cup. Utseya enjoyed a steady, if unspectacular, domestic season in 2009–10, though his franchise, Mountaineers dominated the first-class scene.

International career
While his initial place in the national team owed much to the withdrawal of several white players after Heath Streak's dismissal from captaincy, Utseya has more than earned his place since. He continued to hold a place in a weakened national side and took up the captaincy from Terry Duffin in 2006.

Utseya's bowling during the tour to West Indies in May 2006 where his flight and spin belied his lack of experience and years. He was consistently able to stem the flow of runs in the middle overs, and he provided two of the series highlights and one when he comprehensively beat Brian Lara with successive deliveries in the first match in Trinidad and the other his remarkable diving, juggling boundary catch in the second.

Utseya is the first and joint world record holder for conceding the fewest runs (six runs) in a T20 International after bowling the complete quota of overs (four overs is the maximum quota in a T20 match). Utseya tendered his resignation as national captain after the side's disappointing performance at the T20 World Cup in May 2010 saying that he was stepping down in the interest of the team's future development. He led Zimbabwe in 67 one-day internationals, with 20 victories, and all 10 of the Twenty20 internationals the team has played.

Utseya took a hat-trick against South Africa at Harare Sports Club and became the second Zimbabwean to claim a hat-trick when he dismissed three South African batsmen in consecutive deliveries in the third One-Day International match of the Tri-series in August 2014. Utseya accounted for the wickets of Quinton de Kock, Rilee Rossouw and David Miller. In process, he also took his career best figure and ended his innings with a figure of 5/36

Bowling action
In August 2014, Utseya reported for a suspect bowling action following the third ODI against South Africa in Bulawayo. Utseya was the fourth offspinner to have been reported for a suspect action over the last few months; the others were Sachithra Senanayake, Kane Williamson, and Saeed Ajmal.

Utseya was ranked 15th in the ICC ODI Bowling Rankings in September 2006. He has a reputation for being an extremely parsimonious bowler, albeit with less wicket taking prowess. In a Cricinfo article from August 2006, he had the lowest economy rate (3.84) amongst all spinners in the history of ODI cricket. In comparison, the economy rates for Muttiah Muralitharan and Harbhajan Singh at the same time were 3.85 and 4.11 respectively.

Controversies
Utseya claims that he became a victim of racism during the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup, and slammed allegations against former Zimbabwe cricketer Alistair Campbell, managing director of Zimbabwe Cricket, over the appointment of an "all-white" coaching staff and administration. He claimed that Campbell had "personal issues" against him, and was thus not included in the starting XI in any of the world cup games, despite being in the squad.

See also
 List of One Day International cricket hat-tricks

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Living people
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Alumni of Churchill School (Harare)
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Zimbabwe One Day International cricketers
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Thanks Celine! And, yes, trying to stay cool and looking forward to next week when the daytime high will be under 110 ; ).
I love your home-really beautiful-but that baby,she takes the cake!!!
WOW this house is incredible. Would love to know the source of Estelle's chair in the family room.
Hi Annabelle! The leather chair? It was from Dania in Portland, OR. But you can typically find these types of chairs in specialty Scandinavian furniture stores, like Danish Inspirations. Hope that helps!
If the barking at the front door becomes a problem, you could put a strip of frosted window film across the bottom.
What a beautiful home! This is exactly the kind of aesthetic I am shooting for in my own home. Can you share the source of the gold counter stools/chairs?
Beautiful design! Everything looks perfect. Kitchen countertops island is amazing!
Will you please let me know where you purchased your gold kitchen chairs?


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FRAMINGHAM, Mass., April 25, 2017 – Alzheon, Inc. today announced publication of a newly elucidated molecular mechanism of action for tramiprosate, the active agent in the company's lead clinical drug candidate, ALZ-801. The company's Phase 3-ready candidate ALZ-801 is an optimized prodrug of tramiprosate, with a substantially improved pharmacokinetic and safety profile compared to tramiprosate.
Alzheon scientists discovered that tramiprosate acts to inhibit the production of neurotoxic beta amyloid oligomers by 'enveloping' the amyloid peptide to prevent its misfolding into soluble amyloid aggregates. Beta amyloid oligomers are believed to be key drivers of the pathogenic process in Alzheimer's disease (AD). This novel enveloping mechanism of tramiprosate prevents the self-assembly of misfolded proteins into beta amyloid oligomers that lead to amyloid aggregation and, subsequently, cause neuronal toxicity and clinical progression in Alzheimer's disease. These peer reviewed results were published in the medical journal, CNS Drugs, and the paper is available through open access. click here.
After discovering tramiprosate's mechanism of action against toxic amyloid oligomers, the scientists then examined the predicted concentration of tramiprosate at the effective clinical dose, as compared to the amount of soluble Ab42 protein in the brain of AD patients enrolled in a previously-conducted Phase 3 study. This analysis showed that the predicted concentration of tramiprosate in the brain surpassed the molecular stoichiometry necessary for the enveloping mechanism of action, allowing full inhibition of oligomer formation and demonstrating the translation of the effects on oligomers into clinical efficacy in AD patients.
The aim of the published study was to characterize the mechanism of action (MOA) of tramiprosate using three independent molecular investigative methods and to present an integrated translational analysis that links the MOA, conformation of the target, stoichiometry, and projected drug exposure to the clinical outcomes in APOE4/4 AD patients enrolled in previous Phase 3 studies. The analytical methods employed included: Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry (IMS-MS), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and molecular dynamics. These methods were used to characterize the interactions of tramiprosate with Aß42 amyloid monomers and the resultant conformational alterations that affect aggregation of monomers into oligomers. Based on this work and extensive pharmacokinetic translational analyses from preclinical to Phase 3 clinical data, Alzheon scientists confirmed that tramiprosate brain exposure in AD patients achieved levels sufficient to fully deploy the novel anti-oligomer activity of tramiprosate.
Tramiprosate binds to monomeric Aß42 amyloid protein at multi-ligand mode.
Tramiprosate modulates the conformational flexibility of Aß42 amyloid monomers, leading to the prevention of formation of Aß42 oligomers.
Therefore, tramiprosate works at the beginning of the oligomer formation process, preventing the protein misfolding at the initiation stage.
Specifically, tramiprosate binds among others to Lys16, Lys28 and Asp23, the amino acid side chains of Aß42 that are responsible for both oligomer seed formation and neuronal toxicity.
Additionally, tramiprosate inhibits the growth of existing oligomers, thereby stopping the progression into insoluble amyloid protofibrils and fibrils that form plaques in brains of AD patients.
Alzheon, Inc. is committed to developing innovative medicines by directly addressing the underlying pathology of devastating neurodegenerative disorders. Our lead Alzheimer's clinical candidate, ALZ-801, is a Phase 3-ready, first-in-class, small molecule oral inhibitor of amyloid aggregation and neurotoxicity – hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease. ALZ-801 is a novel optimized prodrug that builds on the safety and efficacy profile of the active compound tramiprosate, which has been evaluated in clinical trials involving over 2,000 Alzheimer's patients. Our clinical expertise and technology platform is focused on developing drug candidates using a precision medicine approach based on individual genetic and biological information to advance therapies with the greatest impact for patients.


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I would honestly prefer playing as the alien.
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Hey DoubleUp, Good Morning! What does your sheet say about my Gators this week? I had them as double digit favorites and then line came up as -4.5 to open. Steadily rising, but still haven't jumped. I know Franks is capable of just throwing 3 INTs, but I just don't see how one win over BC is keeping the Noles this close.
You just had to mention the 1995 Nebraska team that defeated my Gators in the National Championship 62-24, didn't you? Lol. Best of luck this week.
I hope you surprise yourself and go 6-0 this weekend! It can happen :) What does your sheet have for Oregon/Arizona game? I'm thinking of adding it, wanted to see if your numbers line up. Thanks man, BOL.
Love the UGA play. I just watched that LSU team in person in the Swamp, if UGA gets any pressure, that QB leaves the pocket way too early and makes bad decisions. My book has it at 6.5, and I jumped on it already. GL this week DoubleUp4Life!
DoubleUp4Life - Once again, your picks saved me last week. You're en fuego! I will ride the Buffalo bets with you (college and NFL) for sure. Are your bets still 'pending' or are you locked in? Who do you like in the Temple (-7)/Tulsa game first gut reaction?
For 7+ years I've seen you pick FSU, even when they have not been as great. You must have graduated from there or have some loyalties. I have to disagree with that pick this year, but I'm on 3 others you picked. To show you I'm not biased to Florida, I am taking Colorado St +20.5 because Florida is in the same boat as FSU, shouldn't be giving points away to anyone. Best of luck brother.
Week 3 was one of my BEST IN FOREVER !!! = 13-3-2 +$2,160.08 on Posted Standard or larger plays ..
Thanks for the mortgage bet last week. Definitely helped! Let's keep it rolling in Week 4!
anybody know why the line is dropping on CMU? I got it twice in 2 different bets to win outright, you all think they still win?
Trying to figure out the drastic line change. From -475 to -335. What happened???
Crap, I came online to figure out what the hell just happened. I bet it twice and now I have terrible odds. I'm the sucker.
Thanks everyone you've given some great insight and I still like the Gators to cover. I do understand the sandwich game with Bama on deck... Maybe a backdoor cover if Urban pulls players out with a lead going into the second half. I say Gators try to put this away early to rest Demps and company. But I like Florida.


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I wanted to like this book. But the story just leaves me with too many unanswered questions -- and that's even before I discovered the ending was a cliffhanger.
The main characters of this dystopian YA novella are Zander and Zeph. Zander, the older of the brothers, has been hoping for years to attend a special leadership camp run by the Digitus Corporation. As the book opens, Zeph has stowed away in the hold of the airplane that's taking Zander to camp. So he knows when his brother and several other young people are dropped out of the plane, still strapped in their seats, while the plane continues to its destination somewhere in South America.
Zander and his fellow campers find themselves stranded on an island in the Arctic, and must figure out how to get back to civilization. Meanwhile, at Digitus headquarters, Zeph learns that his brother's travails are no accident. In the process, he uncovers a lot of information about Digitus -- including its brainwashing techniques and that its ultimate plan is to take over the world.
My biggest problem with this book is that it starts too far into the story. I understand the temptation to wow the reader with an exciting scene at the very start of the book, but you still have to go back and fill in enough backstory to make your reader care about your characters. The brothers' relationship is never established -- they have zero scenes together until very late in the book. Similarly, the boys' parents are mentioned, but only in passing -- we never get to meet them. I have no idea what sort of relationship the kids and parents have. And without that knowledge, it's hard to like, or root for, either of the boys.
Other important things things are left unexplained. For example, the book's title. "Digitus 233" seems to be some kind of post-hypnotic-suggestion-type mind-control command. But how do the kids know it? And what's the 233 for? I don't know any of that, either.
I wouldn't have minded the cliffhanger ending so much if I'd known in advance that the story arc wasn't going to be wrapped up at the end of the book. Folks, if you're writing a serial, please let your potential readers know that upfront.
Digitus 233 is well edited; I only saw a few typos, none of them glaring. The action scenes are well done. But Emerson needs to go back and fill in some of the blanks.
I felt a little subversive, starting this book on Easter Sunday.
You could say that Beneath the Tor is a mash-up of New Testament history and the backstory of the King Arthur legend, but that would be a little unfair. Yares has certainly re-imagined the life and death of Jesus, and along the way, she explains who Mary Magdalene might have been, and why Joseph of Arimathea might ever have traveled to Glastonbury, England.
The main character in this novel is Miriam, a priestess of the old religion as practiced on the Isle of Avalon. She has known Yahshua since they were children, and the two of them are in love. However, Joseph of Arimathea, who is both Miriam's father and Yahshua's uncle, is grooming Yahshua for the role of the Jewish Messiah. Joseph hopes that the Jews who rally around the Messiah will overthrow the Romans and end their occupation of Judea.
I won't go much farther into describing the plot. Suffice it to say that this novel would give Biblical literalists a coronary. Yares has described a very different -- and mostly plausible -- explanation for the goings-on in the early days of the church. I did have some trouble believing that Yahshua would become such a hard-liner as he got older.
So the plot is interesting and worthwhile. Unfortunately, the book could use an editor's careful hand. I found numerous errors in punctuation, particularly in dialogue, and a few terms were used incorrectly. For example, there's a construction technique that's called wattle and daub, but it's referred to as "waddle" in the book.
With a better edit, I'd be pleased to recommend this book.
I've read some other books by Scalzi, but I'd never before read Old Man's War, his debut novel. The novel is set on a future Earth in which the elderly are given a unique opportunity: they can sign up with a corporation that, when they turn 75, will give them new bodies and a new career in an interstellar army. They can serve as little as two years. Once their hitch is up, they can settle in any human colony on any planet that strikes their fancy -- or they can re-up. The catch is that they're signing up as infantry; statistically, only one in ten will survive the enlistment period. Oh, and they can never go home to Earth again.
On the other hand, they get downloaded into the bodies of souped-up twentysomething Army men, complete with green skin. As someone who is old enough to have owned a bunch of green plastic Army men, I thought the green skin was a nice touch.
The story is told by John Perry, a former advertising writer whose wife died before she was old enough to join the army. Perry bonds with several men and women before their transformations, and one of the bittersweet subplots has Perry tracking how that one-in-ten survival rate pans out amongst his pals.
I can see why some have compared Old Man's War to Heinlein's work. Scalzi's green army men and women tread some familiar sci-fi ground, including what it means to be human. But the author doesn't delve too deeply into philosophy -- rather, he skims the surface of the big questions while offering the reader an entertaining ride.
I've already picked up the next two books in this series, and I'm looking forward to reading them.
In Khe, Alexes Razevich has given us a compelling main character in a fascinating alien environment.
As the novel opens, Khe is living with her sister doumanas on a collective farm. Males in their society live apart on their own collective farms, and the two genders meet only once a year, at Resonance, when the doumanas all become fertile at once. Not all doumanas live on farms, however; some live in cities, and others live in floating towns that facilitate trade between the city dwellers and the farms.
Khe is happy enough until her first Resonance, when her body doesn't react to the signals all the other doumanas are feeling. This makes her feel useless and incomplete, until she undergoes an experimental procedure to remove the block that's keeping her from participating in Resonance. The procedure works -- but it also unblocks an unusual ability that allows Khe to make the plants and animals on the farm produce better than they ever have before. Using the power ages her prematurely, though, which is bad enough. But her life is really in danger when her ability draws the attention of the Powers, who want her to be their vessel for a new race.
The author did a great job with describing Khe's alien culture. I especially loved the way the doumanas literally wear their emotions -- nodes on their necks change color to match the emotions they're feeling. Relationships would be so much simpler on Earth if humans did the same thing.
Razevich also does a fine job with revealing, little by little, what's going on behind the scenes on this planet. Suffice it to say that the doumanas and their occasional mates aren't the only race here.
The book was well-edited, and I thought the cover was stunning. If you like dystopian sci-fi, I'd highly recommend Khe.
I'll be honest: I'm not a huge fan of memoirs. On the other hand, I think everyone of a certain age has somebody in their past who they would date again in a heartbeat. So on that basis, I decided to give Feels Like the First Time a whirl.
The book opens with Shawn, who's in a miserable marriage that he hasn't had the gumption to end, stopping at a drive-through window on his way home from work. There at the window is Dawn, the love of his life. They had lived next door to one another as teenagers, in the late 1970s and early '80s, in a little town in Washington state. First they were friends; then Dawn's mother hired Shawn to tutor her daughter; and then they fell in love. At this point, Dawn's parents -- well, mainly her mother -- decided the relationship needed to end. A couple of youthful missteps sealed the deal, and the two of them were forbidden to see one another again. But Shawn has never forgotten Dawn, and decades later, Fate steps in to bring them together again. It's not all sunshine and roses, however. The two of them have to figure out just what went wrong back then, before they can even think about creating a happy ending at last.
I'm not that much older than these two crazy kids, so I could really relate to Inmon's depiction of his high school and college years, although I felt like that part of the story went on a little too long. But the present-day portion of the book was wonderful. When Dawn says in wonderment, "You're my Shawn" -- yeah, that got me right in the feels.
I would recommend Feels Like the First Time to anybody who grew up in the '70s and '80s, and to anybody who likes a good love story.


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INJURIES FROM #DEWS. "He who controls the entire electromagnetic spectrum will dominate the world." – V. I. Vernadsky (1863-1945)
INJURIES FROM DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS | skizit.biz.
These weapons have been demonstrated to Congress who obviously knows their purpose and capabilities. They also approved the Patriot Act so they are fully aware of the purpose and effects of the legislation approving radiation of citizens. In terms of military strategy, Directed Energy Weapons represent the natural next step in the "speed-of-light engagement" process, addressing the slowest part of the detect-to-kill cycle; that is, actually delivering sufficient energy to a target to kill or disable human beings. DEWs enable the criminals to place energy on a target at the speed of light, thereby matching the "engagement" speed of the other parts of the "detect-to-kill" chain. [5] Anyone conceiving, developing, manufacturing or using DEWs has knowledge of their purpose, including universities, students, corporations and scientists.
OBVIOUSLY KNOWN TO CONGRESS! http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?c107:chemtrails
107th Congress (2001-2002)
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H. R. 2977
To preserve the cooperative, peaceful uses of space for the benefit of all humankind by permanently prohibiting the basing of weapons in space by the United States, and to require the President to take action to adopt and implement a world treaty banning space-based weapons.
Mr. KUCINICH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
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We NEED ACTION NOW Rick Nolan! Chemtrail Health and Eco Impacts!
Chemtrail Health and Eco Impacts Prompt Lawsuit
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We NEED ACTION NOW Rick Nolan!
During research for Atmospheric Geoengineering: Weather Manipulation, Contrails and Chemtrails last year, [33] I discovered that under 50 USC §§ 1512 and 1520, the U.S. government claims authority to conduct open air testing of chemical and biological weapons on civilian populations, without prior and informed consent.
This clearly violates human rights and constitutes a war crime under International Criminal Court statutes, the Chemical Weapons Convention and/or the Biological Weapons Convention, depending on what's being sprayed. [34]
Sky Writing, Chemtrails, or BOTH? (ORGANISED NOISE CAMPAIGN by ORGANISED GANG STALKERS)
http://mathenydebra.wordpress.com/2014/11/02/sky-writing-chemtrails-or-both/
Gerald Clark and criminal comrades (St Louis County Sheriff / Olson's other neighbors) use of Electromagnetic radiation DEW's
http://mathenydebra.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/gerald-clark-and-criminal-comrades-st-louis-county-sheriff-olsons-other-neighbors-use-of-electromagnetic-radiation-dews/
PROOF OF THE USE OF DEWS (DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS) AND REASONABLE SUSPECTS!
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Not only are WE THE PEOPLE ENTITLED TO THE RESTORATION OF OUR RIGHTS AND LIVES, WE ARE ENTITLED (UNDER 18 U.S. Code § 3663A – Mandatory restitution to victims of certain crimes) TO RESTITUTION FOR PAST CRIMES!
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3663A
By Rady Ananda
Citrus Heights attorney Joseph H. Marman will soon file a lawsuit against the Shasta County Air Quality Management District in California for failing to ensure good air quality, on behalf of those injured by pollutants used in persistent jet contrails, popularly known as chemtrails.
The type of damage can vary – from reduced agricultural output and reduced solar energy capture, to damaged soils and water systems, to human health problems.
He reported to Food Freedom that he now has enough plaintiffs to pursue the case, but must first file an Administrative claim.
"Typically after I file a government claim, then we have six months in which to file the complaint," he said.
Depending on what's loaded in the spray, as well as particle size, aerial spraying impacts health in a variety of ways. Once inhaled or absorbed through the skin, particles can impede gastrointestinal, respiratory, autoimmunity, neurological…
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India's banking industry is undergoing transformational change. What should a value investor consider when exploring this sector? Watch CNBC-TV18's Crack The Code, presented by BSE.
John Thanassoulis, Professor of Financial Economics at WBS interviews Kevin Wall, CEO of Barclays Bank Ireland.
Important question asked in bank interview- why do you want to join the banking sector.
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Marty Mosby, director of bank and equity strategies at Vining Sparks, Thomas Farley, Far Point Acquisition Corp CEO, and Joe Terranova of Virtus Investment Partners joins "Squawk Box" with their analysis of the banking sector.


AMy beautiful little girl...Willow has just turned 1...She is such a pleasure to have around!! She is such a character! Loves to go to the park and fetch a ball...Loves my little nieces and nephews!! This picture is when she she had taken herself off to bed!! My little shadow!!
Park, Fetching a ball, children, treats!!


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Periodically the city will dispose of its surplus property by sale to the general public through an online auction process. Online auctions are held with Govdeals. This link will it will take you directly to the City of Temple's auction pages. However, please note that the GovDeals page will only be populated when the city has items up for auction.
If you are interested in bidding on any of the auction items, there is no cost to register, and you can register by clicking the "register" box in the top of the GovDeals' home page.
Log into your account at GovDeals.
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NASHVILLE, TN — Bad experiences with metro planners were aired Saturday at a OneNashville meeting where several Edgehill property owners and neighbors said a zoning plan should be sent back to the drawing board.
Restrictions on building height, roofline and appearance might be imposed to provide some consistency of structures' design to maintain, or conserve, the neighborhood's charm. The area where such conservation might be imposed is defined — highlighted — on a map with a color over-lay.
The proposed restrictions are seen by opponents of the conservation overlay as a government taking.
"It's like taking money out of my bank," Moore said.
Government takings are unconstitutional without compensation, according to a simplistic application of federal law.
"Don't do it," said Sonya Smith who lives near the area proposed for the conservation overlay. She argued against proposed restrictions by citing personal experience including: her family home; an adjoining alley; metro officials saying she had to prove the house was classified as a "non-conforming duplex;" and officials' rejection of her evidence.
"They don't care," Smith warned.
Smith said she was told she could build a garage with second story living quarters. Later she was told she couldn't because of the pending conservation overlay.
The idea's been kicked around for several years.
"I should have the right to develop my property or live there as I like," she said.
However, unbridled development is opposed by advocates of the proposed conservation overlay. It's repeatedly been described as the "least restrictive" of such controls to preserve a neighborhood's appearance.
Terri Chapman is "for the overlay" to "preserve the African American history" of the area; a black neighborhood before the Civil Rights movement forced Congress to enact equal housing laws.
"There must be another way to do this," Slarve said.
Jill Bader, who's gone door to door to talk with her neighbors about the proposal said she's looking for common ground.
The discussion was at Corinthian Missionary Baptist Church. Pastor Enoch Fuzz says OneNashville meets there on the first and third Saturday each month at 8 a.m.
Councilman Colby Sledge got planning commissioners to postpone a public hearing until they meet at 4 p.m. July 26 in the Board of Education meeting room, 2601 Bransford Ave. Planning commissioners might then make a recommendation to Megtro's council for or against the Edgehill Conservation Overlay.
Nearly 60 people were counted during the OneNashville meeting. Fuzz said five council members (two at-large), the vice mayor, the city budget finance committee chair, and the chair of the council's minority caucus attended July 7 among several neighborhood leaders and homeowners.


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The Cypriot Crisis?
By Leo Kolivakis March 18, 2013
Eric Reguly of the Globe and Mail reports, World markets roiled as radical Cyprus bailout deal stall:
A small bailout in a small state has roiled the global financial markets and triggered a political backlash as far away as Russia.
The bailout of Cyprus, one of the smallest members of the euro zone, was stalled Monday morning over reports that the minority Cypriot government lacked the support to pass the proposed €10-billion ($13-billion U.S.) bailout package, which is to impose a "haircut" on bank depositors.
None of the euro zone's sovereign and bank bailouts, from Ireland to Greece, has insisted that bank depositors finance part of the bailout bill. The prospect of rich and poor bank customers losing up to 9.9 per cent of their deposits triggered near panic in Cyprus.
Bank customers, some of who called the bank raid "daylight robbery," were lining up to withdraw cash from cash machines, many of which had run out of euros, and the Cyprus state broadcaster CYBC reported that a man drove a bulldozer into a bank branch in Limassol, the island's financial centre, to protest the levy.
In Moscow, Russian president Vladimir Putin called the levy "unfair, unprofessional and dangerous." Cyprus is one of the biggest offshore banking centres for wealthy Russians and Cyprus is the source of most of the foreign investment in Russia. Various reports said that Russians had stuffed between €20-billion and €26-billion in Cypriot banks.
In Europe, the renewed threat of crisis contagion sent the major European stock indices down, along with the euro. Bond yields in struggling euro zone countries rose sharply.
Greek 10-year bond yields rose 62 basis points (100 basis points equals 1 percentage point). Portuguese yields were up 20 basis points, Spain's 10 and Italy's 8. Fears that Italy faces a renewed crisis were especially acute because the country lacks a government after an inconclusive election last month. Italian bond yields are up 28 basis points in one month, to 4.67per cent.
In Cyprus, president Nicos Anastasiades defended the bailout, arguing that bankrupt banks and a deep recession, or worse, were the alternative. He also said that the bank deposit levy "avoids taking other tough measures such as wage and pension cuts that were put on the negotiations table."
The reasons behind the decision to go after depositors to finance the bailout were never made clear. It appears that, minus the deposit levy, the euro zone leaders feared opening themselves to accusations that they were protecting Russian millionaires and billionaires in a banking system known for money laundering.
In a note, Guy Foster, head of portfolio strategy at Londons's Brewin Dolphin, said "the widespread belief that a meaningful pool of the deposits in Cypriot banks comprises proceeds from Russian money laundering made the idea of bailing out the Cypriot banks particularly unappealing."
But the bailout, which does not demand sacrifices from sovereign bondholders, violates the principle that deposits up to €100,000 are to be covered by the European Union deposit scheme. Savers with deposits of less than that amount are to take a 6.75 per cent hit; those with deposits higher than that amount are to lose 9.9 per cent.
The bailout bill would rise to about €16-billion from €10-billion if the levy on depositors were not imposed.
On Monday, as the vote to approve the package was delayed until Tuesday, and possibly later in the week, negotiations were under way to reduce the burden on small depositors. One proposal would see the levy fall to 3 per cent on deposits of less than €100,000 and increase it to 15 per cent on deposits of €500,000 or more. But the Cypriot government appears just as worried about going after the rich as the poor. If the wealthy are forced into a higher levy, Cyprus could lose its status as a successful offshore banking centre.
In Germany, finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said that his government did not care if the levy split were changed as long as the overall €5.8-billion target – the amount to come from depositors – were achieved.
Patrick Donahue of Bloomberg also reports, Cypriot Outrage Over Tax Could Derail Euro-Area Bailout:
European policy makers signaled flexibility on the application of an unprecedented bank tax in Cyprus, seeking to overcome outrage that threatened to derail the nation's bailout. European shares and the euro fell.
While demanding that the levy raise the targeted 5.8 billion euros ($7.6 billion), finance officials said easing the cost to smaller savers was up to Cyprus. A vote on the tax, needed to secure 10 billion euros in rescue loans, was delayed for a second day. Banks may not reopen tomorrow after a holiday today, state-run broadcaster CYBC reported.
"If the government wants to change the structure of the solidarity levy for the banking sector, the government can decide as such," European Central Bank Executive Board member Joerg Asmussen said today in Berlin. "What's important is that the planned revenue of 5.8 billion euros remain."
While Cyprus accounts for less than half a percent of the 17-nation euro economy, the raid on bank accounts risks triggering new convulsions in the financial crisis that began in 2009 in Greece. Moody's Investors Service said that the move is a significant step toward limiting support for bank creditors across Europe and shows that policy makers will risk financial- market disruptions to avoid sovereign defaults.
The tax is "a worrying precedent with potentially systemic consequences if depositors in other periphery countries fear a similar treatment in the future," Joachim Fels, chief international economist at Morgan Stanley (MS) in London, wrote in a client note.
Scenes of Cypriots lining up at cash machines raised the specter of capital flight elsewhere and threatened to disrupt a market calm since the ECB's pledge in September to backstop troubled nations' debt. With no government in Italy, Spain in the throes of a political scandal and Greece struggling to meet the terms of its own bailout, more turmoil could hamper efforts to end the crisis.
The Euro Stoxx 50 Index fell 1.9 percent and the euro slid as much as 1.9 percent; the currency was trading at $1.2960, down 1 percent at 11:45 a.m. in Frankfurt.
Borrowing costs in other debt-strapped nations rose. Italian 10-year bond yields climbed 9 basis points to 4.69 percent. The rate on similar-maturity Spanish yields jumped 10 basis points to 5.02 percent. Germany led gains among higher- rated nations' securities.
Traders 'Aghast'
"Traders and investors are aghast as these measures," Michael McCarthy, a chief market strategist at CMC Markets in Sydney, told Bloomberg Television.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the tax "unfair, unprofessional and dangerous," according to a statement posted on the Kremlin website. Russian companies and individuals have $31 billion of deposits in Cyprus, according to Moody's Investors Services.
Cypriot banks had 68.4 billion euros in deposits from clients other than banks at the end of January. Of that, 21 billion euros, or 31 percent, were from clients outside the euro area, 63 percent were from domestic depositors, and 7 percent were from other nations within the euro region, according to data from the Central Bank of Cyprus
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades exhorted political factions to support the deposit levy, which he pledged is a one- off measure that will avert a collapse of the financial system that in turn would have led to the country's exit from the euro.
"A bank collapse would cause indescribable misery," Anastasiades said in a televised address yesterday. He called the crisis the country's worst moment since the 1974 Turkish invasion that has left the island divided.
Depositor Swap
In a bid to ease a run on banks, depositors who keep their account for two years will receive securities linked to future revenue from the country's gas reserves, the president said.
He said he would also seek to soften the impact on savers. The potential changes include taxing deposits less than 100,000 euros at a 3 percent rate, while setting the levy at 10 percent between 100,000 euros and 500,000 euros and at 12 percent for deposits greater than that, Antenna TV reported, without saying how it got the information.
The levy -- as of now 6.75 percent of all deposits up to 100,000 euros and 9.9 percent above that -- whittled the euro- area's bailout of Cyprus to 10 billion euros, down from an original figure of about 17 billion euros, near the size of the nation's 18 billion-euro economy.
"Obviously, people would have preferred to pay nothing, but it's a better deal than it could have been," said Marshall Gittler, head of global foreign-exchange strategy at Limassol, Cyprus-based IronFX. "It's unusual to ask depositors to take a hit, but if they hadn't then the hit would have fallen uniquely on Cypriot taxpayers, so in a sense it's fairer."
Ministers' Call
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said euro finance ministers would discuss modifying the terms of the tax in a telephone conference today. They met for 10 hours overnight in Brussels into March 16 to agree to the 10 billion-euro bailout.
The bank tax was the alternative to imposing losses on bondholders in a so-called bail-in. That step was opposed by the Cypriot government, the European Commission and the ECB, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on ARD television last night.
"It's up to them to explain it to the Cypriot people," Schaeuble said. "Clearly, the taxpayer should not be asked" to rescue banks from insolvency, he said, adding that Cyprus faced a "very difficult time" unless it accepts the tax.
Anastasiades, whose minority government took office less than three weeks ago, holds 20 seats in the 56-seat legislature. The third-biggest faction, Diko, which supported him in his February election, holds eight seats. Cyprus's communist Akel party, with 19 seats, plans to vote no.
Road to 'Chaos'
Afxentis Afxentiou, the governor of Central Bank of Cyprus from 1982 until 2002, told the state-run broadcaster CYBC that failure to enact the legislation "opens the road to chaos."
The ECB's pledge to buy bonds should prevail over market panic, though the tax on deposits brings the euro area into "uncharted territory again," Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg Bank in London, wrote in a note.
"Given the fragile state of the banking systems, especially in Greece and Spain, anything that can impede the needed rebuilding of confidence in these banking systems can potentially cause financial and economic damage," he said.
Another thing people should keep in mind is the origin of this crisis and how Cypriot banks were basically coerced by corrupt ministers into buying Greek sovereign debt, another scandal that receives little attention. Hot money flows inflating property prices exacerbated the problem. Some think the property scandal will prove far more costly to Cyprus than having to swallow Greek's sovereign debt write off.
So will the Cypriot contagion spread across Europe and spur yet another euro crisis or worse still, World War III as the Russian navy dispatches a permanent fleet to the Mediterranean?
Of course, I'm being overly dramatic but if you read the weekend comments over at Zero Edge, you'd think capitalism has just been dealt a death blow and the world is coming to an end all over again.
Even informed economists are over-dramatizing the Cypriot bank bailout. Yanis Varoufakis writes Cyprus' stability levy is just another sad euphemism, noting the following:
They called it a 'stability levy', when they meant a tax on Cypriot depositors (including the savings of poor widows and small children) so that they spare holders of Cypriot government bonds (including hedge funds who are now having a party in Mayfair and New York) as well as minimise potential long-term losses by the European taxpayers. In effect, faced with the prospect of lending to Cyprus a sum equal to its GDP, so as to bail out its banks Ireland-style, the Eurozone balked.
They realised, post-Greece and post-Ireland, that something has to give (beyond the minimum working conditions and social welfare provisions of common folk) in order to minimise the size of the aggregate loan. And they chose to hit depositors directly (at a rate of 9.9% if their deposits exceed 100 thousand euros and 6.75% for smaller deposits) before the oncoming austerity-driven plague eats into them instead (as it did in Greece, Ireland and Portugal were savings were used up by stressed household in the daily struggle to survive after jobs and benefits disappeared).
What was astonishing is that, while the peoples of Europe are sick and tired of the gross inequities and regressivity of austerity-fuelled bailouts, they did not set a threshold below which poorer depositors would be untouched. And that they left unaffected the banks' bondholders (even though the sums involved in these bonds were small, it was utterly unprincipled to spare them). I have no doubt that this decision will haunt them/us for decades.
What alternatives did the Eurogroup ministers have? Several, is the answer. In the context of their own accounting-like logic (i.e. of 'hitting' depositors) they could discriminate between bank accounts that are insured by Cypriot law and those which are not: So, any account by a citizen of an EU-member state with less than 100 thousand euros (the maximum account insured by the Cypriot state; the equivalent of the FDIC deposit insurance protection) should be left alone.
All the other accounts could then be hit by a percentage that would deliver the sum of six to seven billions EU finance ministers wanted to reduce the bailout loan sum by. If Berlin was serious about its willingness to curtail Cyprus' banks money laundering activities, while avoiding a tax on the hard earned savings of the poorer Cypriots (that a Lutheran German should see as an ally in restoring puritan ethics), that is what they would have done. But, it is now clear, they were not serious about their own ethics (indeed, had they been serious about Russian money laundering, they would have raised questions about Latvia's banks, which are awash with mafia funds).
Of course, while hitting uninsured deposits only (as suggested by the previous paragraph) would have been preferable, it would still not be a solution to the Cypriot drama. The Cypriot economy is in the familiar tail spin that we witnessed in Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland and now unfolding in Italy. Even if the bank levy, or bail in, were fairer, the recession would still be fuelled by large scale public expenditure cuts and substantial tax hikes which, taken together, will most certainly lead Cyprus to a dead end. But none of this is specific to Cyprus. In this sense, an alternative strategy for dealing with the island's fall from grace must involve a Gestalt Shift that will allow Europe a different approach throughout the monetary union. Precisely the Shift that Europe seems unwilling to contemplate, thus resorting to ill-conceived decisions like the recent one on Cyprus.
And Andreas Koutras writes Europe welcomes the new Coco deposits, concluding the following:
For the second time Europe has shown that it is not mature enough to even keep the basic fundamentals tenets of an advanced modern state. Banks are not allowed to collapse and senior debt holders as yet are shielded from taking losses. On the other hand violating the sanctity of retail deposits is ok. I wonder what the Eurogroup would force upon the Italians and the Spanish. EU keeps surprising us in a negative way.
A good friend of mine who is running a fund with significant holdings in Cyprus, and will lose money on this deal, shared some more measured and candid comments with me:
...keep your powder dry, let other perma bears talk about the non-existent panic....I have spoken to at least 10 people that I deal with, ranging from my chauffeur to the head of a major accounting firm, there is no panic.
Left-wing reporters are angry, there are no people on the street, they talk about panic, and their news reals show 5 to 6 old lethargic, meek-looking people lined up in an orderly manner to withdraw from their ATM, seen the same clip on BBC and Sky News.
This is a brilliant deal for Cyprus. There is NO increase in VAT, NO cuts to pensions, No immediate cuts to government employees, corporate tax went from an absurd low of 10 to 12.5, they promised to sell off some state assets, and bring down the banking sector (get rid of Russian deposits) by 2018.. They did not mortgage their natural gas, nor have they mortgaged their future, they addressed the problem by raising 5.8 billion in cash (out of the 10 billion)......people like me and the Russians are bearing the brunt of this bailout, hate to disappoint the perma bears......longer term this is terrible for the euro, but that is another story.
Not sure if this is "terrible for the euro" but keep the above comments in mind as you watch the drama unfold on CNBC and other financial news networks covering the "crisis in Cyprus."
Below, Brewin Dolphin Head of Portfolio Strategy Guy Foster discusses the crisis in Cyprus. He speaks with Mark Barton on Bloomberg Television's "Countdown."
And the Graduate Institute's Charles Wyplosz discusses what he considers to be a total disaster in Cyprus and its contagion effect. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg Surveillance."
Finally, Bloomberg's Michael McKee reports on the possible impact for the markets on today's "The Real Deal," on Bloomberg Television's "In The Loop."
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A PAIR OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU-MOUNTED PORPHYRY FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA
BY JEAN-BAPTISTE-CLAUDE ODIOT, PARIS, CIRCA 1825
Each on a tri-form plinth chased with acanthus leaves, the baluster stem supported by three winged sphinxes and spread eagles supporting laurel swags, issuing a central nozzle and three scrolled branches
21½ in. (54.5 cm.) high (2)
By Repute a diplomatic gift to a Russian aristocratic client.
Acquired from A La Vielle Russie, New York
The Odiot firm, which can trace its origins back to 1690, came to its greatest glory under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot, the grandson of the founder, Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard Odiot. Born in 1763 and becoming a master in 1785, Odiot succeeded his father in the business, steadily building the firm's reputation, coming to particular notice following the Exposition de l'industrie held in Paris in 1802. The stamp on the present lot was used by the Odiot firm between the years 1819 and 1838.
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Vjeran Ortynski, Chief Business Development Officer, presented the CargoX Smart B/L™ to maritime executives and experts at the #DataccioConnect conference in Colombo, where hundreds of decision makers attended from the maritime shipping logistics and supply chain industries.
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Second pier construction RFP being issued
Joe Hendricks
The old Anna Maria City Pier was recently demolished and a new one will be built in its place. - Joe Hendricks | Sun
ANNA MARIA – Mayor Dan Murphy expects a new request for proposals (RFP) for the construction of a new city pier to be issued by the end of this week.
During the Aug. 23 City Commission meeting, Murphy said he expected to have those RFPs returned to the city by late September.
The mayor, the contracted pier engineer and some city staff members will review and rank the pier construction proposals received, and Murphy will then present the highest ranked firm for commission consideration. When contacted later, Murphy his goal was to present his recommendation to the commission in early October.
The commission can then direct Murphy to begin negotiations with the highest-ranked firm or it can reject all proposals received – as it did in late July regarding the two proposals received in response to the original construction RFP.
Largo-based Speeler & Associates, the firm that demolished the pier, submitted a bid for $3.72 million and Tampa-based i+iconSOUTHEAST bid $4.13 million to build the new pier platform. The original RFP did not seek bids for the construction of the restaurant and bait shop spaces at the T-end of the pier. Those items were to be addressed later in a separate bid.
The mayor and commission unanimously agreed those bids were higher than anticipated or desired and the decision was made to issue a new RFP based on modified construction specifications. Murphy said he had hoped the bids would be closer to $2.5 million for the construction of the pier platform.
Murphy is optimistic the revised RFP will generate interest from marine construction firms.
"We'll get plenty of attention. This project is something that any company can put in their portfolio. It's high-profile because of the age of the pier, the history of the pier and the importance of the pier to our community, our county and to the state for that matter. It's a feather in anybody's cap," Murphy said.
FEMA permit
Murphy also told the commission the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has informed the city that it cannot start construction of the new pier until FEMA has reviewed and authorized all the pier plans.
Murphy said the city is not going to obtain any of the project funding requested from FEMA until FEMA approves the project. The building and decking at the T-end of the pier were damaged last September during Hurricane Irma.
"At this point, it's around $1.8 million that we've requested," Murphy said of the city's funding request.
Murphy said he and city staff have sought assistance from the offices of U.S. Senators Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio, and he had a meeting scheduled with Congressman Vern Buchanan this week.
"It's our understanding that when it comes to FEMA claims in the state of Florida we're number one; we're at the top of the list. Rubio's staff guy called me and assured me that they were on top of it. They were putting on as much pressure as they can. The city clerk has spent a couple hours every day on the phone and using emails putting pressure on these people," Murphy said.
"I feel comfortable this FEMA thing will come to resolution just about in time with the reception of the bids and we can then get started," Murphy said.
He also said he hopes he and the commission don't have to make a decision about proceeding with the pier project without FEMA funding.
"We can get more money from other sources, but I would prefer we do this the right way and we keep going on a straight and narrow. We're entitled to the FEMA dollars, so we're going to go after those first," Murphy said.
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Correspondent Joe Hendricks covers Anna Maria and Bradenton Beach. Email
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Happy Monday, friends! I hope everyone had a great weekend. To kick off the week I thought I'd share this sweet DIY wedding, shared with me by Sarah Danaher of Ampersand Photography. Kelsey and Ryan were married in July and celebrated with a fun, festive wedding in a vibrant aqua and poppy red color palette. Kelsey's mom played a huge role in helping with the event planning and coordination and their friends and family came together to help make the day unique, beautiful and full of love.