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Voting in Canada
election, harper
In Canada, as cannot be explained too often, it would seem, each electoral riding is voting for a representative in Parliament, and not for a leader or a party. How do we know who will work hard for the best interests of our area? If you have not met your particular representatives, even on a live telephone line, it may be an indication of how little they care about your specific needs and thus how little they will do for you in Ottawa that does not further their personal ambitions. If you dislike all candidates, you are perhaps ethically obliged to be the candidate yourself. One of a Canadian citizens major responsibilities is to exercise the privilege to vote. It is a foundation of democracy, one for which many principled men, and women, gave their lives over long centuries of slavery in many forms, and under conditions of backbreaking toil and grinding poverty. Only the dying or those on life-support have valid reasons for not voting on Monday Oct 19th. Anyone else can spare the few minutes taken up by dropping your ballot into a box never situated far away. If transport is a problem, every party HQ will be able to supply a driver or ten. Wasting a vote insults the tireless efforts of those who fought to create a true start for democracy. Aboriginals have the only plausible reasons for mistrusting a system responsible for atrocities of racism and determined to destroy their rich culture, reducing them to a sub-human status, violating treaties and disrespecting their traditional rights and lands. This is now changing dramatically, giving all First Nations a perfect opportunity to unite, demonstrate their power, and limitless potential in a future vastly different from any they have previously endured.On the 19th Oct, Idle No more will mean voting in unprecedented numbers, proving you are the only Old Stock on this continent, and recognize your primacy as spiritual fathers of Canada by revealing the force you can exert on any election with candidates of your own who will oblige Parliament to deal with all the grievances you rightly have, and all the lies told your people by those whose sole concern for the land was greed. Put the best man for you in Ottawa; he or she will ensure platform promises are kept. This vote is the most unpleasant of all electoral situations: one man, a Prime minister, so loathed for his deceit, corruption, scorn for the environment, and obscenely slavish attachment to big corporate business at the expense of our good society and its social and international values. Vote with heart and purpose, but pick the right man because he or she is right, not because the current leader is wrong. Who would like to find this country branded Neo-Fascist in the excessive power handed to government? Sorry to say it, but we are in some nations now mistrusted for having a leader whose mode of communication is increasing the command; it used to be the sermon before addressing a majority government regarded as instruments of his will, not representatives of the voters who had no idea their vote would fill the House with lackeys, and pretend to to be serving a nation while really serving the oligarchs and plutocrats who own this shameful Prime Minister like an obedient poodle. Let no Canadian think his or her vote doesn't count. It counts as much as if it were the only ballot cast. But never vote from hatred; it backfires, and will possibly lose your strongest supporter in Ottawa. Today, history itself depends on your vote, for a forked road offers no signposts. Your instinct and heart must act as guide.
Bill C-24: An Open Letter to Stephen Harper
Posted by paulwilliamroberts in Canada, Middle East, politics
canadian military, citizenship, harper, jihadi terrorism, politics, rights, US foreign policy
"Those willing to sacrifice Liberty for a little security deserve neither liberty nor security." – Benjamin Franklin
"The most fearful populations have the strongest governments."
Foolish spectacles, inane banter, celebrity gossip, newscasts designed to make one feel unsafe, and programming pullulating with extreme violence, much of it making hand-guns seem as normal as fists: such is TV. Not to forget the ads peddling, through bare-faced lies, all manner of trash no one needs. The message is clear: stay home, consume, approve that your tax dollars be spent on more-lethal weapons for an increasingly militaristic police force, and various other forms of hyper-security, including those invading privacy.
And now we have Bill-C-24, giving the government a right to 'exile' or deport, not just Canadian citizens who were not born here, but also those born here yet possessing the right to claim a foreign nationality if they so wish. Naturally, this bill is promoted as an aid to counter-terrorism; yet we all surely know it can, and will be, used to banish anyone the government dislikes – activists, bloggers, writers etc. C-24 must be resisted, scrapped, challenged, and vanquished by whatever means necessary for the purpose.
Our Prime Minister, Mr. Harper, is now in full-time election mode, and thus whatever he says, states or promises must be viewed in this light. As the ex-Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Danny Williams, said recently, "Harper is a nasty man," whose public persona – calm, genial, reassuring – masks the ruthless, deceitful, Machiavellian, would-be dictator behind it. As I state tirelessly, Harper subscribes to the political philosophy of Leo Strauss, who once gathered around himself, at the University of Chicago, a group of devotees who went on to implement his ideas through prominent posts within the government. The best-known is Paul Wolfowitz; but, as always, the people who wield real power are relatively unknown – and like it that way. Their titles also seem unimpressive (Wolfowitz was Under-Secretary of Defense), yet their positions do not come and go with governments. They can, of course, but generally they do not – unless the media become a little too fond of one, or his boss loathes his cologne.
Now, the Canadian haven for Straussian ideology was and still is Calgary, where Harper came under its spell, and where there are still regular closed-door meetings of what used to be called neo-conservatives. Now the term neo-liberals seems to be more popular. Names mean nothing where real power lurks – better to be the HGYTK, or some such. One has actually to read the works of Leo Strauss in order to realize that the most appropriate description of his ideology is probably neo-fascism. This ought to come as less of a surprise when one discovers that his mentor (and sponsor for US immigration) was Carl Schmidt, the man who crafted Hitler's judiciary, among other things. Although a Jew, Strauss was an ardent believer in totalitarian government (just as prominent early Zionists, like Jabotinski, lionized Mussolini), yet he cannot be called a Nazi. As soon as it became apparent – a true case of blow-back – that the scapegoated minority, discussed in his writings as a useful tool to justify heightened security measures and focus public hatred and fear, was going to be the Jews, Strauss packed his bags and came west, with no little help from his powerful friends.
Turgid and (perhaps deliberately) hard to summarize, Strauss's work analyses the nature of political power, the ways to acquire it, and then, most vitally, how to keep it. (I have a chapter refuting Strauss in my awful novel, Homeland; but I doubt if my attack is any easier to read than its object. The book was written in a state of rage, and also when I was losing my eyesight. It shows, painfully too). I would refund all who bought a copy if I had any money…
Read Strauss and you will find numerous familiar aspects of the Harper policies and actions; point form seems the least painful approach to this:
Lie to the public – they're too stupid to grasp realities.
Grant overwhelmingly popular demands – but don't bother to keep your promises, unless they're cheap and have some political value.
Maintain absolute control over your party message and the staff peddling it.
Restrict media access to a few chosen and provably-loyal hacks.
Never forget who paid to put you in power (and can remove you by tonight). Their interests are your interests. Assist their endeavours, but most discreetly. If they have legal problems, either change laws subtly, or else deflect attention away from the issue at hand.
Keep a continuous level of low-grade mass fear – make much of police or soldiers killed in the line of duty. Never let slip the general belief that it is noble and glorious to defend and die for the country. Your kind will certainly never do it.
There must always be an enemy. If there is not, find one.
Most feared of all is the enemy within; it can be a scapegoat, or it can be unknown – which makes that enemy still more frightful, and creates suspicion in the population. The more suspicious and divided a people are, the less likely they are to rise up as one in protest.
Few, if any, in your immediate close circle ought to be fully aware of your real agenda. They should all live in constant fear for their jobs, since this will make their work for you more sedulous. Your real inner circle will be those with whom you are never seen in public, and whose names mean nothing to almost any reporter.
In open debate (something to be discouraged) answer questions on difficult issues by repeating a prepared statement, or responding with a derisory question. Never lose your temper, but try to make opponents lose theirs, perhaps by raising highly personal issues, or citing a statistic related to nothing relevant, but irritating.
One FIGHTS an election. It is a war, and must thus be treated as such. Vilify any opposition in the harshest terms. Know their weaknesses – and use them.
Any method that will win you the election is to be considered, no matter how far beyond the law it may be. It is war, remember, and losing is not an option. The masses are mostly interested in having more money. Promise them that a year hence they will be 20% better off than they are now. Promise cheaper houses and cars – these comprise their other two concerns. Learn what most want most, and promise they shall have it. There will be a thousand reasons to explain why promises were not kept – all in a language no one quite comprehends.
Ideally, there is only one party, with perhaps a spurious plebiscite to confirm your renewed term of leadership. This worked well for Napoleon, who was cheered for replacing Liberty with French Pride – war, in fact.
If more than one party exists, better three than two. With three you have a wedge to split the opposing vote. With two, it is essential to gain control over the opposing group, making them appear to be diametrically opposed to your own policies, but allowing them to win if difficult times loom – for they will be blamed for such times. All bad things should occur during this party's term of office, from scandals to unwarranted wars.
And on and on it goes? Tell me you don't see Harpo in many of these wiles. Can we ask him about his adherence to Straussian ideology? No. Now, evidently, he will not even be participating in the traditional TV debate between all party leaders contesting the election. I am not clear why he is, or isn't, doing this. Possibly he feels just being in the same room as this riff-raff will soil his image. Lofty he becomes, though, and daily. I am blind, so cannot see it, yet I hear a nimbus forming around his head as he speaks – if indeed it is his voice I hear, for its sounds digitally re-mastered, hand-washed, Wall-Street-Ethereal. If this ascent of Olympus does not augur for some gambit towards creating a totalitarian state, then what does? Will Zeus be on the campaign bus of His Tory?
Remembering our opening quotes, are we falling into the same trap? Terrorism is less of a danger in Canada than in-line skating, but Harpo seems intent on creating for us the same problems that have made the USA number one on the Terror Hit List. We all saw the carnage and horror of the World Trade Centre attacks. Like all violence, it was appalling. Yet who knows the death-toll and destruction resulting from US attacks all over the world for the past 50 years? I was in Iraq during both the '91 and '03 wars. I was also there in '98, when the US-imposed embargo caused over 500,000 children under 8 to die from malnutrition (see Red Cross report). I would estimate that at least a million civilians were killed during the wars, but, as a four-star general told me, and others, 'the Pentagon don't do body counts'. Among the most repugnant euphemisms used by the Pentagon – and they are legion – is 'collateral damage'. It is literally meaningless, especially when one is dropping cluster bombs whose widely-dispersed bomblets – smaller yet potent bombs thrown out by the initial explosion –are disguised to look like children's toys — so that…what? A child picks it up and either blows herself to spattered gore, or else takes it home and blows her entire family away? There is no other reason for such a fiendish device, is there? My book, A War Against Truth, presents irrefutably concrete evidence, with sources, proving that the US was using such weapons in Iraq, along with Napalm (now refined and renamed so deniability can be honest), large-calibre armour-piercing bullets (which utilize depleted uranium), and other illegal devices as defined by the Geneva Convention. As a result of presenting awful facts about war, the book was banned in the US – where I am now also banned – and a trifling, fancifully embellished charge of plagiarism was levelled at me, (one I answered to the satisfaction of all concerned) which further made sure the book was withdrawn here, existing copies pulped or perhaps even burned. I shall be republishing it – with additional material relating to other US crimes against humanity –when Amazon runs out of copies. This quagmire is what can happen to your life when you are an eye-witness to US atrocities that the US public is not supposed to learn about.
In 1955 President Eisenhower was warned of Arab hostility towards the US, which propped up brutal military dictatorships in the Mid-East, and effectively trashed popular hopes for democracy there (notice how Egypt's recent attempt at democracy ended: back with a military dictatorship run by someone younger). Eisenhower asked his intelligence people how they viewed this situation, only to be told it was just as it should be (read Eisenhower's farewell speech – possibly the last honest words uttered near the White House). Iran's nascent democracy during the fifties was similarly junked by US and UK special ops, who secured the Shah on his Peacock Throne, another uniformed tyrant, more torture chambers, much blood in the rivulets of Teheran. The fact is that dictators are so much easier to deal with than contentious committees: one phone call and the jets scramble, tanks roll, or even a peace conference is pencilled in. Dictators are also easy to remove if they get out of hand or disobedient. No one likes them anyway, so no one minds when a new version is installed.
These are one or two percent of the atrocities fueling Jihadi terrorism's revenge today. We have made a mangled mess of Arabia and elsewhere, with millions dead; they are returning the favour, through what is, after all, the privatization of war. 'Drone strike kills wedding party by mistake…' We shrug, not even wondering how many might be in a traditional Afghani wedding party. Yet our entire nation weeps when a ceremonial guard is slain by a deranged boy egged on by Saudi Wahhabite websites. Where has our humanity fled??
Now, though, we Canadians are fighting in the Syrian civil war (such ventures a no-no at military academies, I seem to recall), handing out fighting accoutrements in the Ukraine (presumably to provoke Russia – which, Harpo may recall, still has a nuclear arsenal three times large enough to destroy the entire planet), and are actually fighting ISIS in Iraq. This latter seems to be a farrago so far; yet I cannot bring myself to believe that three special forces units – ours, the UK's, and, according to their PR at least, the most lethal corps on earth, from the USA – along with drones and all the air-support they want, cannot contain, less still demolish, the rag-tag bunch of ill-trained misfits who cannot even remember their own acronym from one week to another. No insult to the Iraqi Army, but they'd be better off watching soccer than treading on the toes of three allied commanders, who seem unable to agree that the way to fight this foe is probably to fight it. Ramadi – awful place – is very near Baghdad; and now ISIS claims it as a prize? Something smells rotten, possibly from both sides.
I've spent 30 years in West Asia, everywhere, every nation, state, or emirate, and my only advice, to military personnel who know next to nothing of the sprawling history involved, is to get out immediately and let them sort it out themselves. The upside of this is that they will take centuries to do it; and that the most barbarous, venal, backward place on earth – Saudi Arabia –the major funder of international terrorism, will probably behead the kleptocrats and finally have their own democratic revolution. The downside is merely that we might have to pay them their price for their oil – oh, and accept that the feared Islamic states-in-progress will never revive the Caliphate, since those involved place tribal loyalties over membership to 47 Islamic sects, heresies, or cults.
Field-Marshal Harpo ought to hang up his baton – indeed, one thought Fiasco in Afghanistan would have urged on him the prudence of this – read some history (were we Brits in 1759 the ISIS of the Plains?), cease and desist from giving sundry terrorists a reason to hate us – and, ideally, take Leo Strauss and few hack bum-kissers to form their private fascist utopia up near the tundra. It might make a wryly amusing Reality TV show.
He and his C-24 make me sick and ashamed to live in a land (stolen, I'm told) where anyone voted this mini-Mussolini into power. We steal a continent, abuse its original guardians, and then have the nerve to claim a right to decide who can live here! Only white men could be this irrational. Read Gulliver's Travels, Harpo – then choose which madhouse you'd be best fit to run.
As of now, I seek honorary membership in any First Nations' tribe that will have me; so at least I can be exiled onto a reservation when the time comes.
Harpo, mein liebe, we shall all die soon; and that last moment will be the only one that counts. The Good you have done here will be the only baggage you'll check in then. Read Plato's account of Socrates' death. Will yours be that serene? Will you honestly be able to claim that all your actions were for the Good, the selfless? When you lose the election, and take up those multi-million dollar sinecures on corporate boards, I think you will look back with regret. You could have done so much good, yet you did none – nothing real, I mean. You lied about everything to us all the time. I actually feel pity for you now, thinking of your last minutes on earth. May they not come for many decades, Harpo, because there is always a chance for human beings to change their ways, tell the truth, do some good. May the Great Spirit guide and teach you. And tear up that godamn C-24.
"Steal a little and they throw you in jail; steal a lot and they make you a king." – Bob Dylan
Harper's Wars
Canada, harper, Iraq, neo-conservatism, politics, syria
O Canada! Where did our home and native land go? We used to be peacekeepers and reliably unbiased mediators; now we are neo-imperialist interloping warmongers, a dependable, if small, wing of the ever-covert and increasingly confused aims of long term US-UK foreign policy, which has no connection to come-and-go governments, being something hatched in the back-rooms of the deep state's permanent and most un-democratic tyranny. It is surely time for the citizens of fading Western powers to admit our lives and taxes are part of a system which does not remotely resemble a democracy. Significant decisions are taken with no reference to the public will, and with, if any, no acceptable explanation. Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, whose soft, warm, reassuring voice increasingly resembles that of disgraced talk-show host and violent sexual sadist Jian Gomeshi, has exerted an unprecedented control over the media amounting to censorship and a violation of our Charter of Rights regarding free speech. No one gets to ask him probing and relevant questions. A gag-order silences nearly all politicians in his party, as well as such people as scientists – most of who work for the government or rely on federal funding. Environmental and social concerns take a remote back-seat to allegedly lower taxes and statistical legerdemain about the health of our economy. We are so easily fooled by appearances. As far as I know, the only politician here to have seen through Harper's carefully stage-managed façade was ex-Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Danny Williams, who recounted a blunt conversation with the Prime Minister where Harper told him, "Don't fuck with my country." Williams described him, when met in private, as "a nasty man" – much as Gomeshi's staff and female acquaintances characterized the seemingly mellow and liberal talk-show yacker.
Having just waded through the slough of tax-time, I wonder why more Canadians are not questioning the cost to us of our ill-advised involvement in frosty-war ventures like the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, the meddling in someone else's civil war in Syria, and the intervention to protect Iraqi oil-fields from their erstwhile owners and an element of fanatical Sunni Islamists – a situation created by the illegal US-UK invasion of Iraq in 2003. We can overlook the catastrophe in Afghanistan, which western forces have now shrugged off, achieving less than nothing for the years and expense of their involvement – an outcome anyone with a cursory knowledge of history could and did predict.
It is hard to say what is worse: a public broadcaster ultimately controlled and under-funded by a corrupt and deceiving government, or a massive media complex owned by and beholden to vast multi-national corporations deeply involved in big oil and the arms business. Both entail a warping, distorting and withholding of facts and context relating to any sensitive situation. For example: today we hear of ISIS 'militants' slaughtering 300-odd members of a 'minority sect' referred to as Yezidis. No broadcast I am aware of saw fit to explain just how minor a 'sect' the Yezidis really are – in anyone's context. Having spent some time with Yezidis in Iraq, I can tell the reader that, in everyday parlance, they actually worship Satan, represented in their few temples by the idol of a gigantic snake. In reality they are an intriguing remnant of Gnostic cults which maintained that, after being expelled from heaven, Lucifer or Satan created the world in order to prevent himself from falling through all eternity. Ergo, the Devil is Lord of this world and the true God. Who has not experienced moments in their life when this thesis has not seemed persuasive? Either way, would it hurt the media to explain that Yezidis are not exactly a 'minority sect' of Islam? Similarly, would it hurt to explain the historical background to the ostensibly Shia-Sunni conflicts in Iraq and Syria? If we had a free media the truth would hurt no one, besides informing citizens about the squandering of their tax dollars and pounds on ventures of dubious merit and impossible resolution. But it would hurt the deep state back-room warmongers, whose motives would be seriously called into question. I have dealt with these issues in my two books on Iraq – The Demonic Comedy and A War Against Truth – yet am well aware that more and more people are unable to read books and need their news in a bite-sized form to which genuine information cannot conform. Most have trouble enough grasping the concept of two major Islamic factions, the Sunni and the Shia, which bear little resemblance to Protestant and Catholic divisions, let alone the existence of more minor branches on the tree of Islam, such as the Aluwites, the Ismailis, the Sufis, and so on. The advantage of being old is that much history is within personal memory. When I was a teenager Islam had no association with terrorism and appeared to be an attractive and exotic religion inextricably related to The Arabian Nights and other spoils from the colonial period. What changed? Well, as I keep saying, the Wahhabite sect – essentially an Islamic heresy – began to exert its influence over the faith on a global scale. This is the religion of Saudi Arabia, concocted in the 18th century, and a perversion that reduces orthodox Islam to a prison code, banning music, dancing, singing, and regarding women as chattels, as well as condemning other forms of Islam, especially the Shia and Sufis, to the status of non-Islamic. Like Saudi royalty, the Wahhabite priesthood is hereditary and shares equally in the Kingdom's oil wealth. What the princes did with their loot is well known; what the clerics did with their billions is not. In fact they established free schools all over the so-called Third World, from Africa, through Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the Philippines and beyond. In these free schools – hard to turn down by impoverished nations – is taught the pernicious Wahhabite doctrine, including a vehement anti-Shia bias and the proselytising of a holy war called 'Jihad' – something previously interpreted as the inner struggle between our higher and lower selves, but now distorted to represent a literal war against all unbelievers. A thousand years ago Islam was the world's great civilizing influence, advancing science and classical learning in an empire stretching from Spain to China; but the Crusades ended all that, and Islam's subsequent history has been one of steady decline. All highly militant or fanatical movements, from Al-Quaeda to Al-Shebab, are both funded and inspired by Saudi Wahhabi sources. This is a fact. Anyone sincerely interested in ending this minor reign of terror would merely have to trace the money behind various movements and web-sites back to their Saudi sources. It was very telling when the mother of the boy responsible for murdering an honour guard at Ottawa's war memorial said that her son wanted to go to Saudi Arabia to 'study Islam'. Again, the media failed to pick up on the fact that anyone wishing to study orthodox Islam would go to Al-Ahram in Cairo, not Saudi Arabia, where all one could 'study' would be the Wahhabite heresy. To me, it proved that the web-site or sites behind the radicalising of this boy were expounding Wahhabism, not Islam. It seemed to beg for a close examination of such sites and an attempt to trace them back to their origins. None came, of course. Saudi Arabia seems to possess an immunity from condemnation and prosecution. Sealed off within its own time-warped bubble, the Kingdom issues no tourist visas, stifles all dissent, and, in general, makes other notorious tyrannies, like North Korea, seem positively Utopian. Why the protective cloak? Obviously, the answer is bound up with oil and a knee-bending obsequiousness to western interests. The regal or princely half of the story is an open book – Saudi Ambassador to the US, Prince Bandar, is so close to the Bush family that he's affectionately known as 'Bandar Bush', and the only foreign country EVER visited by George W. in a private capacity was Saudi Arabia (no tourists allowed) – but the other half, the equally oil-rich Wahhabi priesthood is unknown. No one can name the presiding Imam or High Priest; and no one seems willing to explore the global reach of Wahhabi indoctrination or its funding of exclusively Sunni-oriented terror cells. The Iraqi 'insurgency' – said to be some 30,000 strong, yet largely consisting of disaffected Sunnis ousted from power after the fall of Saddam's Sunni tyranny – could be eradicated in a week, if the will to do it were there. The reason it is not there is because no one, least of all the Saudis, wants to see a Shia power block extending from Iran through Iraq to Syria (still controlled by the Aluwite Shia minority headed by the Assad dynasty).
The only conclusion one can draw from the current situation is that western interests are in maintaining a controlled destabilising Sunni element which will guarantee the kind of foggy chaos in which the US and UK prefer to operate, and which justifies an ongoing western military presence to ensure the safety of the fabulously rich (and still not fully explored) Iraqi oil fields, widely thought to exceed the rapidly dwindling trove of black gold in Saudi Arabia. Anyone who believes these nefarious neo-imperial ventures are not entirely about oil is an idiot.
Little wonder Harper's day-long visit to Iraq swiftly took him to Kurdistan, where he bravely stood not ten kilometres from the so-called 'front-line': the Kurdish Peshmurga warriors are the only reliable soldiers in this manufactured struggle. They too suffered under Saddam – although it was Winston Churchill who advocated the first gas attack against them. Much like the Armenians, the Kurds have long awaited a homeland of their own, thus can be relied upon to hang onto it no matter what the cost. Those who once suggested a division of Iraq into three states – Kurdish, Sunni and Shia – were clearly forgetting that such a division would leave the Kurds and the southern Shia with all the oil, and a central Sunni homeland with…well, dates (37 varieties and the best dates on earth notwithstanding). The idea was no more viable than that of an Iraqi democracy, stemming from the same ignorance of internal ethnic and religious divisions.
There are many things no journalist is not allowed to ask Stephen Harper, but the most disturbing of them is surely the question of his close affiliation with the neo-conservative philosophy of Leo Strauss, who can be said to have founded the ideology during his tenure at the University of Chicago, where most leading lights in the neo-con movement – including Paul Wolfowitz, among other less well-known but immensely powerful back-room figures – were gathered. These people formed the American Enterprise Institute, principal advocate of the Iraq invasion, and strangely silent since the debacle they had sponsored became self-evident. Other leading neo-cons gravitated to Calgary, Harper's home turf, and he was known to attend quasi-covert gatherings there that included several obvious journalists and media moguls. Those who have waded through Leo Strauss's turgid tomes will have noticed that his political philosophy closely resembles fascism. Hardly surprising since he was a significant figure in the early German Nazi movement (before the overt emphasis on anti-Semitism), and his sponsor for US citizenship was Carl Schmidt, who crafted Hitler's judiciary. The Holocaust was not envisaged in this early period, and the more alarming rants in Mein Kampf were edited out. We now forget that fascism had a wide appeal at one point, and even early Zionists like Jabotinski were great admirers of Mussolini. The broad tenets of fascism are clear in Strauss's work, just as they reveal themselves in Harper's thinking and mode of governance. Lie to the people (they are fools who deserve no more); control the message and the media; conceal the decision-making process; appear to be concerned about the things most people are concerned with: taxes, the economy, security. Keep up a level of fear, and the suggestion of an enemy within – the most frightened populations have the strongest governments. Concoct incidents to generate fear if necessary. Make sure there is a need for greater and greater policing and security (be certain to broadcast all violent crimes, and make citizens believe criminal threats are increasing, particularly if they are not). It is all in Strauss, and it is all evident in the Harper governments actions; yet no one, to my knowledge, has ever questioned him about his neo-con connections or his adherence to Straussian ideology. Behind that mellow reassuring voice is "a nasty man", many of whose hirelings have come to loathe him, and who has led this country far away from its cherished ideals, making us just another rapacious and hated western power. He has done this by subverting our democracy with complete disregard for our Constitution and the parliamentary process – to the point where the system is effectively broken, perhaps beyond repair. His achievement was only possible through an appeal to our basest instincts of self-interest; yet there is more to Canadian life than this – or I would hope so. It is surely time to rid ourselves of this would-be tyrant, and possibly even the entire system that has allowed such dark elements to take control of our nation and our lives. "Those willing to sacrifice freedom for a little security deserve neither freedom nor security."
With love as always, Paul William Roberts.
Is Thought Dead?
Canada, egyptology, harper, Iraq, Middle East, oil, shia, sunni, war
I am continually asked if I am anti-American, pro-or-anti Israel, pro-or-anti Muslim, homophobic or pro-gay, pro-life or pro-choice, pro this or anti that. It becomes annoying to find that people need you to subscribe utterly to one cause and all of its beliefs, idiocies, nooks and, often, dark crannies. They become annoyed if you cannot be easily categorized. I have been called, through my writing, everything from a bleeding-heart liberal to a fascist (for suggesting people ought to answer a simple multi-choice questionnaire before they are allowed to vote, just to establish that they know the candidates and the issues upon which they are voting). These labels essentially enable people who prefer not to think to accept or dismiss a writer – or anyone else – without having to fret over troublesome arguments that may not support their own opinions – and I stress 'opinions' because, increasingly, people who imagine they have an interest in current affairs merely have opinions on issues which they often cannot defend, except by such gobbledegook as, "I don't care what you say; that's what I believe." The term 'belief' is interesting in this context, because, like 'faith', it is really saying, "That's what I want to be true." There used to be discussions and debates, in public, or on the media. Now there seem to be little more than opinions stated as facts, angry monologues or harangues by TV or radio 'hosts' who have forgotten that a host treats his or her 'guest' with courtesy – such is the traditional relationship, rather than bully and victim – or merely the brief and dreary interview with a politician skilled in the art of staying 'on-message' no matter what the question may be. Debate is where someone states an argument, and someone else opposes it. The person whose case cannot withstand the arguments opposing it loses the debate and, ideally, their point of view along with it. This would seem to be straightforward. Yet where did these discussions and debates go? Where are the public forums? In answer to the pro-anti questions, I have no knee-jerk views on any subject at all. If it interests me, I study everything I can find on a topic, from as many points of view as possible, and then make up my own mind about what strikes me as the truth regarding that issue. I am happy to debate with anyone about anything I feel capable of contributing some rational thought towards; and am equally willing to admit I am wrong when proved so. I do not, of course, mean discussions about such follies as so-called Creationism, where the argument against dinosaur bones and fossils consists of, "Satan placed them there to lead us astray." An argument must be provable – such as the earth revolves around the sun. Instead of discussions, now we have TV documentaries which all too often present a tautological case for some mysterious phenomenon, setting out to 'seek' the evidence for what the producers already 'know' to be true. A good example is Egyptology, which, when it failed to refute Dr. Robert Schoch's argument for a far, far earlier date for the origins of Ancient Egyptian civilization at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference, in my view lost its entire science, along with the spurious chronology upon which it is largely based. To adequately counter the Schoch thesis, Egyptologists would have to dig down to far deeper levels, where the evidence of this far earlier civilization – and we are talking 7000 to possibly 30,000 BCE – would be found. In countless irritating Discovery Channel docs, we find the self-styled 'experts' rejecting the notion of much deeper digs because they know there is nothing there to be found. This is not science; it is tautological pseudo-science (see my book River in the Desert for a fuller account of this academic travesty). These docs do not even scratch the tautological iceberg's tip when it comes to such risible irrelevancies as Noah's Ark: Found! Being blind, I'm no great TV watcher; but I can still hear the torrent of nonsense, and am possibly more attuned to the verbal balderdash usually hidden behind flash-cuts and mosaic images designed to keep the short attention span on life support. It is such irresponsible programming that has afflicted the contemporary mind with a widespread inability to think for itself. For every newspaper headline or media lead-story there are at least 100 books which could be regarded as essential reading to provide a context for the 700 word story. Some of these may alter that story entirely; some may explain why an event, tragic or otherwise, actually occurred; others may explain a history of multitudinous causes leading up to what appears to be an isolated event. Admittedly, some newspapers and journals – never the most widely-read ones, it would appear – do still take pains to provide in-depth context; but you cannot read it in a minute, and no politician would dream of plumbing such depths, even if he or she were aware of them. I have discussed Iraq here too often, but only because I have written two books on the subject and become infuriated by politicians who still appear to view public ignorance of the issues involved as mandatory – or else share that ignorance. Listening to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's lies and evasions on the question of Canadian involvement in a war today – and no doubt we shall hear the same from Obama tomorrow – is simply maddening, As I speculated here a few days ago, our 'advisers' will in fact be Special Forces troops, and they will be armed, boots on the ground, after all. Let us call ISIS, ISOS, and IS, SS instead – for 'Sunni State (and for a certain historical resonance), since 'Islamist State' misleads people into imagining the enterprise involves Shia, Sufi, or any other branch of Islam. Ruled for decades by the nominally Sunni tyranny of Saddam Hussein, Iraq was suddenly turned by the US invasion into an allegedly democratic Shia state – under the misguided impression that the long-oppressed Shia majority would be undyingly grateful to their saviour, not to mention obey Washington's dictates whenever required to. Let's be honest: the US was solely interested in controlling the vast wealth of high-grade oil. It certainly was not thinking of how the dispossessed Sunnis would feel about their new situation under a government dominated by Shia. Since the Sunni used to wield all the power, controlled the army, and had most of the money, besides being better educated, it must surely have occurred to someone in a so-called Think Tank that, if the Sunni were unhappy with their lot they would be far more able to organize and start a civil war. This is in fact that civil war, aided by more radical factions funded, as I have tirelessly stated, by the fabulously rich Saudi Arabian Wahhabite theocrats, who have no wish to find a Iranian-Iraqi Shia block on their doorstep. They also view the Shia as heretical infidels. These grievances go back two hundred years, and involve many complexities as well as unresolved territorial disputes (remember, it was mainly the British who created nations in Arabia, which is why the boundaries are all straight lines, and still ignored by the nomadic Bedu tribes). Thus, many boots, and even shoes, will be on the ground for a very long time, unless someone makes a deal with the SS moderates to turn over the more barbaric radical elements – few of them probably Iraqis anyway – in exchange for a government in which they have proportional representation. This fantasy government is unlikely given the deep-rooted Shia-Sunni hatred. Alternatives? None really, since creating an autonomous Sunni State would place it where it currently is, in the north, where the oil is not. The Kurds have their own area, to the north-west, but they also have oil there. Would the Shia divide equally the oil cash? On paper perhaps, but not in reality. This leaves the US share of Iraq oil – exact figures unknowable, because private companies are involved. Is it possible that the US would oblige those companies to compensate the SS for a peaceful resolution to what could otherwise escalate into a pan-Arabian war? Hardly likely, since these companies essentially own America, started the war, and have fingers in every American pie – especially Military-Industrial Pie. There may be big money in keeping this chaos running, as long as it can be contained. Special Forces from three countries specialising in such forces could, with a few hundred men, and some fancy weaponry and air cover, contain such a situation indefinitely, while generating enough global fright to jack up the price of oil very nicely. Is this the plan? If so, no wonder we, the people, aren't allowed to know about it. Mr. Harper spouted the usual national security crap – the all-purpose excuse for every abomination – but can he seriously believe that violent meddling in Muslim Arab disputes will help make Canada safer? The consequences faced by other meddlers – notably the one to our south and its English crony – would seem to refute that theory. A maple leaf lapel button used to guarantee safe passage through the hell-holes of this world; now it does not. This looming fiasco in Iraq is going to make Canadians less safe everywhere, Mr. Harper. Do you want that as your legacy, or will the lucrative sinecures on oil company boards be more than satisfying enough? With love, as always, Paul William Roberts.


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The Global Spring Asia Fund supports Terre des Hommes with empowering girls from Devadasi families through vocational training.
Global Spring is initiated in 2014 by Anja Docter and Carine Metselaar, who wanted to contribute to the personal and professional development of vulnerable young people in Asia. Their frequent travels to Asia made them aware of the fact that many children and adolescents by no means benefit from the economic growth in the region and run the risk of falling behind completely.
This fund will contribute to various projects in the field of vocational training and job creation for vulnerable youngsters in Asia to combat child exploitation. For the coming 3 years, the fund will support the project Sabala,helping Devadasi and Dalith families overcome poverty and exploitation through vocational training.


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1 Now Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
2 He built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was 100 cubits and its width 50 cubits and its height 30 cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars with cedar beams on the pillars. 3 It was paneled with cedar above the side chambers which were on the 45 pillars, 15 in each row. 4 There were artistic window frames in three rows, and window was opposite window in three ranks. 5 All the doorways and doorposts had squared artistic frames, and window was opposite window in three ranks.
6 Then he made the hall of pillars; its length was 50 cubits and its width 30 cubits, and a porch was in front of them and pillars and a threshold in front of them.
7 He made the hall of the throne where he was to judge, the hall of judgment, and it was paneled with cedar from floor to floor.
8 His house where he was to live, the other court inward from the hall, was of the same workmanship. He also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had married.
9 All these were of costly stones, of stone cut according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside; even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court. 10 The foundation was of costly stones, even large stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits. 11 And above were costly stones, stone cut according to measure, and cedar. 12 So the great court all around had three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams even as the inner court of the house of the LORD, and the porch of the house.
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International policing is an area of exponential growth for the United Nations and other international organizations such as the European Union. International police officers are tasked with a wide array of responsibilities, including police reform, training, monitoring and executive policing. This raises the question how human rights standards become applicable to international policing. The international human rights law applicable to international policing can be derived from legal sources specifically related to UN and non-UN peace operations and through general human rights law. From a legal perspective, the compliance with international human rights may be regarded as the final test when assessing the success or failure of international police operations.


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GoFundMe For John Keller Central Michigan U QB 'Fighting For Life' After Shot Saturday
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ISABELLA COUNTY, MI. (THECOUNT) — A GoFundMe has been set up for John Keller, the 20-year-old Central Michigan University football player who was shot Saturday morning near the Isabella County campus.
Keller, a quarterback, is "fighting for his life" at an area hospital after being shot during a dispute at a party near the CMU campus at around 1 a.m. Saturday.
Keller was transported to an area hospital in "serious condition," according to the Isabella County Sheriff's Office.
The gunman fled the scene and is still at large.
Family members erected a GoFundMe to help cover the quarterback's medical bills. At last look, the fund had raised $23,000.
Via GoFundME:
"Twenty-one year old, John Keller, is a 2018 North Canton Hoover graduate and a current student at Central Michigan. He is a loving son, sibling, and friend to many. Early morning on April 24, 2021, John was shot in the chest by an unknown assailant. Right now John is fighting for his life at Hurley Medical Center and remains in critical condition after being life flighted from another hospital near by. With John's condition being critical, medical expenses will be extensive throughout his recovery. I ask of everyone to keep John and his family in your prayers during this difficult time. With the help from your generous donations, we can ease the Keller family from the stress brought from medical expenses."
Another unidentified CMU student was also shot during the altercation and is "recovering," according to officials.
Police are asking anyone with possible information on the case to call 989-773-1000.
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In the fourth quarter of 2013, the Bank together with Borealis AG formed a joint venture in Bulgaria, FEBORAN AD. The joint-venture company purchased 20.3% of the shares of Neochim AD which is Bulgaria's leading producer and distributor of fertilizers; it operates one ammonia plant, two nitric acid plants and an ammonium nitrate plant in Dimitrovgrad in southern Bulgaria. Borealis AG is a leading provider of innovative solutions in the fields of polyolefins, base chemicals and fertilizers.


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Law enforcement officials released a trove of video evidence Monday in the ongoing investigation into the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by actor and producer Alec Baldwin on the set of a western movie.
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Data files released by the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office include lapel camera recordings taken last October by a commanding officer as he arrived at a film-set ranch where medics were attending to the wounded, with an evacuation helicopter whirring overhead. In the video, a search for the gun leads to the movie production's armourer, who breaks down in tears.
Other videos show investigators as they were debriefing Baldwin within hours of the fatal shooting, talking with him inside a compact office — and rehearsal clips that show Baldwin in costume as he practices a quick-draw manoeuvre with a gun.
Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said in a statement that the investigation by his agency remains open and ongoing as it awaits the results of ballistics and forensic analysis from the FBI as well as studies of fingerprint and DNA.
Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza speaks at a news conference on Oct. 27, 2021, after Baldwin accidentally shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the film set of the movie Rust. (Adria Malcolm/Reuters)
"The sheriff's office is releasing all files associated with our ongoing investigation," he said in the statement. Those files also include photos of ammunition from the set and examination reports.
Videos show Baldwin, director being questioned
At a ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe on Oct. 21, 2021, Baldwin was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins when it went off, killing Hutchins and wounding the director, Joel Souza. They had been inside a small church during setup for filming a scene.
In a video taken by police later that day, Baldwin makes a few frantic calls as he awaits a meeting with law enforcement officials.
"You have no idea how unbelievable this is and how strange this is," he says over the phone.
Under questioning by two investigators, Baldwin pieces together what happened as the gun went off, still apparently unaware that Hutchins would die and shocked to learn that he had been holding a gun loaded with live ammunition. Baldwin said the gun should have been empty for a rehearsal with no filming.
"I take the gun out slowly. I turn, I cock the pistol," Baldwin says. "Bang, it goes off. She (Hutchins) hits the ground. She goes down. He (Souza) goes down screaming."
Souza recounted his experience from a hospital emergency room, where he was treated for a bullet wound and questioned by investigators.
Souza described "a very loud bang, and then it felt like someone kicked me in the shoulder." He knew Hutchins was wounded too and asked if she was OK.
Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins is seen in this undated photo. (Swen Studios/Reuters)
In the Oct. 21 video, Baldwin repeatedly says there were no prior problems of any kind with firearms on the set of Rust.
Production company fined
Those statements conflict with more recent findings by state occupational safety regulators, who last week issued the maximum possible fine of nearly $137,000 against the Rust film production company.
New Mexico's Occupational Health and Safety Bureau said Rust Movie Productions must pay $136,793, and distributed a scathing narrative of safety failures in violation of standard industry protocols, including testimony that production managers took limited or no action to address two misfires on set prior to the fatal shooting.
The bureau also documented gun safety complaints from crew members that went unheeded and said weapons specialists were not allowed to make decisions about additional safety training. Rust Movie Productions has indicated it will dispute the findings and sanction.
Baldwin said in a December interview with ABC News that he was on set pointing the gun at Hutchins at her instruction when it went off without his pulling the trigger.
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Q: Incomplete stack blitz ngbd table example Has anyone worked with the "complete example" on ngbd table.
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I am trying to set up the complete example found at the bottom.
When loading the stack-blitz it gets an import error.
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Does anyone have a example combining the sorting,paginating and search/filtering with ng-bootstrap?
Currently I am trying to combine the standalone examples into one without luck.

A: I've put together a working demo. I found the missing classes here, so copied them across into this StackBlitz.

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Insitu announced today it is cutting its workforce due to competitive pressures and a falloff in business. The Seattle Times is reporting that Chief Executive Officer Esina Alic told employees of the Boeing subsidiary today without providing a number on how many would be laid off, but the newspaper also indicated that a person familiar with the details said the workforce would be cut by about 15 percent. Insitu employs around 1,000 people in the Gorge and 500 elsewhere. The Times reported Insitu lost out this spring for a contract with the U.S. Army to provide a new drone scout dubbed the Future Tactical Unmanned Aerial System. Employees to be laid off will receive 60 days notice. The cutbacks at Insitu also have the potential to impact a number of small suppliers to the company located in the region.


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"Taking heed to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made us overseers to care for the church of God which he ordained with his own blood"—a momentous calling for those of us who are elders at Bethlehem!
Notice the individuality of the ministry: "Taking heed to all the flock." Remember what Jesus said of the good shepherd: "The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and he leads them out" (John 10:3). Sheep in the flock of God are not nameless numbers in a heavenly computer.
Consider this promise from Revelation 2:17, "To him who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone which no one knows except him who receives it." Out of all the millions of saints and angels you will be known individually and personally in a way that surpasses all our longings for being cared about and loved.
But we live in a culture whose pace and spirit and technological structure rend relationships and make personal individual caring harder than it has ever been in the history of the world. Is this part of Jesus' prophecy that in the end times "the love of many will grow cold" (Matthew 24:12)?
America has more technological, time-saving devices and therefore more leisure than any country in the world. And with all this discretionary time (not spent hauling water or chopping wood or hunting food or building fires or carving tools or walking long distances) we are the most hectic, frenetic, people in the world. With all our freedom we are frantic.
The antidote to this is not to say: let's play more. Or: let's plan less. Or: eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die. I think the answer is spiritual focus, and deep, deep confidence about what is primary in life. Jesus and Paul worked hard and long. They had a plan for their lives. But they were not impersonal or distant: "We were gentle among you, like a nurse taking care of her children. We were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us" (1 Thessalonians 2:7-8).
Please pray especially hard over the next two weeks as the staff gives devoted attention to what it means to "take heed to all the flock." We will be at a significant seminar May 9-11, and then a staff planning retreat May 15-16. We need your prayers very much for spiritual wisdom for how to be pastors in this kind of culture.
At the quarterly business meeting the church voted to call Remco Brommet for a seven-month Interim Assistant Pastorate and his wife Jennifer as an Interim Minister for Children from when Laurel leaves near the end of May until the end of November or until we call a long term person if that is sooner. We are so thankful for this support and assistance.


text: Q: If $f: N\rightarrow N $ be such that $f(f(n))+f(n+1)=n+2$ for all $n\in N$ find $f(1)$ and $f(2)$. Putting $n=1$, we get $f(f(1))+f(2)=3$. Thus there are two possibilities. Either $f(f(1))=1, f(2)=2$ or $f(f(1))=2, f(2)=1$. Also, we observe that $f(f(n))=n+2-f(n+1)\leq n+1$ and $f(n+1)=n+2-f(f(n))\leq n+1$. How do we get the values of $f(1)$ and $f(2)$?


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Brandon Ludwig (born September 30, 1990) is a Canadian actor. He achieved international recognition for portraying a promiscuous and dim-witted but good-natured room mate on the tv show Gamer's Paradise. His persona on the show was considered a "ladies' man," with a marked childish side.

Early life
Ludwig was born and raised in Kitchener, Ontario. He graduated from the University of Waterloo. His early acting education came from the Second City School in Toronto where he moved after university to pursue his acting career.

Career
Ludwig had his first role in a Canadian film in 2007 with his brother Sheldon Ludwig. He went on to book over 100 different jobs in his career before he was able to get into television. Sheldon went on to create a film/TV production company, Don Shal Productions. Brandon on the other hand, acted in various roles in film and television such as: A Fighting Man, My Babysitter's a Vampire, Man Seeking Woman. Ludwig's most notable achievement came when he contributed to Joseph Gordon-Levitt's HitRecord on TV television show where they won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media - Social TV Experience; Joseph shared the Emmy with his contributors. Brandon and Sheldon partner together in the industry and are known as the Ludwig Bros. Ludwig is directing Canadian Star which is a documentary about bringing to light the subject of name recognition in Canada; the documentary will be released in 2016. Ludwig's next project will be The Dunner (movie working title) with Sanctuary sci-fi star Robin Dunne with his brother and Dave Roberts.

Since 2020, Ludwig has been a regular on the podcast Beam Me Up Scotty, created and hosted by his friend Kenny Scott Guffey.

Filmography

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A Night of the Undead

References

Living people
Canadian male television actors
University of Waterloo alumni
Canadian male film actors
Male actors from Kitchener, Ontario
1990 births

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The Canadian Construction Documents Committee (CCDC) develops, produces, and reviews standard construction contracts, forms and guides. It is a national joint committee, formed in 1974, and includes representation from across the Canadian construction industry.
Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (Architecture Canada).
CCDC representation also includes a lawyer from the Canadian Bar Association (Construction Law Section), who sits as an ex-officio member.
CCDC documents are used in contractual arrangements across the Canadian construction industry. They provide cost savings through balanced standard contract forms, and help to ensure standardization for bidding and contracting procedures. Each year, more than 50,000 copies of CCDC documents are sold.
• provide balance, uniformity and standardization for bidding and contracting procedures.
CCDC documents can help reduce claims and disputes, and the added expense and time associated.
With funding support from Alberta Economic Development and Trade, ACA has undertaken an initiative to improve understanding of risk allocation within the terms of non-standard commercial contracts.
Approximately half of Alberta contractors have 20 or fewer employees and nearly 80% have fewer than 100 employees. Many of these contractors lack access to legal expertise to help them understand and appropriately price in their bids the risk that they are obliged to carry, arising from non-standard commercial construction contracts. This problem is not unique to Alberta, indeed, the Canadian Construction Association, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, Consulting Engineers Canada, Construction Specifications Canada, and owner groups established years ago the Canadian Construction Documents Committee (CCDC) to create and promote standard CCDC contracts and guides. CCDC contracts have been tested in the courts and are generally well understood by all stakeholders.
While some owners (procurers of construction) embrace CCDC, many have retained counsel to create non-standard contracts which generally oblige contractors to carry all risks. Large well-resourced contractors can retain counsel and frequently negotiate different terms. Small to medium sized contractors frequently bid work without an understanding of the risks they may bear and fail to price accordingly.
The winning bidder frequently underprices the true cost, and either fails to perform, or can only perform after expensive disputes and rework through change orders. Jobs are at risk due to failure of the bidder, and / or the purchaser is dissatisfied with poor performance and unanticipated problems of quality, schedule, and cost.


Cameron Daddo gives listeners a reason to relax seven nights a week from 8pm on smoothfm in Sydney and Melbourne.
Cameron joined smoothfm's weekend line-up in 2012 and less than a year later, after resonating with listeners on weekends, he moved to host evenings on smoothfm.
A multi-award winning entertainer, Cameron Daddo has acted, produced, directed for film and television and performed in music theatre. He is also a published singer/songwriter, television host and radio announcer.
With big screen roles in films Anthrax, Big Momma's House 2, The Incredible Mrs Ritchie, David Lynch's Inland Empire and Almost Broadway, the Logie Award winner has also scored starring roles in US TV series including, 24, CSI: Miami, Boston Legal, NCIS and The Mentalist. In 2010 Cameron composed music for the world festival hit Passengers, a film he produced and starred in and more recently he had lead roles in the stage production of The Sound of Music and Legally Blonde, TV drama performances including Beaconsfield and was a series regular in Packed to the Rafters.
In June/July 2017 he starred in the stage production of Charles Dickens' The Haunting in Melbourne and in 2018 completed a season with the Rocky Horror Show. Last year Cam stepped out of his comfort zone, appearing in the SBS Series Filthy, Rich & Homeless. The experience had a huge effect on him, Cam is passionate about raising awareness of homelessness in our community. In addition, he established Men's Team, which offers men a blueprint to support one another through hardship.
Cameron was co-host of SMOOTH on Foxtel for six years, a television extension of the hugely popular smoothfm radio brand, which launched in December 2012.
Cameron resides in North Sydney with his wife Alison Brahe and their three children, Lotus, River and Bodhi.
Cameron Daddo hosts smoothfm evenings from 8pm to midnight, seven nights a week.


Utilifeed provides tools for energy use analysis, both simple, traditional methods and modern, complex applications making use of sophisticated data science. Degree day adjustments have been used over 100 years as a quick and reliable method for energy use comparisons, and our automatic calculation and delivery system provides effortless access to this data. For a more detailed picture of the energy performance of individual buildings, see our application EnergyPredict.
Degree day adjustment is a quick and easy method for normalising the energy usage of a building or network. The normalised energy use is comparable between different years, which makes it possible to evaluate how the relative energy need and efficiency has developed for individual buildings or entire energy networks. You can purchase degree-days from our webshop today, and enjoy our convenient delivery options as well as the ability to adjust base temperature with a single click.
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EnergyPredict lets you make predictions and normalisations based on the actual characteristics of individual buildings. A model is created using machine learning capable of taking into account hundreds of factors affecting energy usage, including temperatures, wind speed and direction, solar radiation, time of day and day of the week.
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from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.boxlayout import BoxLayout
from kivy.uix.button import Button
from kivy.uix.slider import Slider
from kivy.uix.image import Image
from kivy.uix.label import Label
from kivy.graphics.texture import Texture
from kivy.clock import Clock
import cv2

class CvCamera(App):
    def build(self): #UIの構築等
        self._cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
        # ButtonやSlider等は基本size_hintでサイズ比率を指定(絶対値の時はNoneでsize=)
        # 日本語フォントを使いたいときはfont_nameでフォントへのパス
        kvButton1 = Button(text='ボタン', size_hint=(1.0, 0.1), font_name='/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/fonts/truetype/cjk-gs-integrate/ipag.ttf')
        kvButton1.bind(on_press = self.buttonCallback) #bindでイベントごとにコールバック指定
        # Imageに後で画像を描く
        self.kvImage1 = Image(size_hint=(1.0, 0.7))
        # Layoutを作ってadd_widgetで順次モノを置いていく(並びは置いた順)
        kvLayout1 = BoxLayout(orientation='vertical')
        kvLayout1.add_widget(self.kvImage1)
        # ここだけ2columnでLabelとSliderを並べる
        # Verticalの中に置くhorizontalなBoxLayout
        kvLayout2 = BoxLayout(orientation='horizontal', size_hint=(1.0, 0.1))
        self.kvSlider1Label = Label(text = 'Slider', size_hint=(0.3, 1.0), halign='center')
        kvSlider1 = Slider(size_hint=(0.7, 1.0))
        kvSlider1.bind(value=self.slideCallback)
        kvLayout1.add_widget(kvLayout2)
        kvLayout2.add_widget(self.kvSlider1Label)
        kvLayout2.add_widget(kvSlider1)
        # 1columnに戻る
        kvLayout1.add_widget(kvButton1)
        #カメラ待ち
        while not self._cap.isOpened():
            pass
        # 更新スケジュールとコールバックの指定
        Clock.schedule_interval(self.update, 1.0/30.0)
        return kvLayout1

    def slideCallback(self, instance, value):
        # Slider横のLabelをSliderの値に
        self.kvSlider1Label.text = 'Slider %s' % int(value)

    def buttonCallback(self, instance):
        # 何かのフラグに使える
        print('Button <%s> is pressed.' % (instance))

    def update(self, dt):
        # 基本的にここでOpenCV周りの処理を行なってtextureを更新する
        ret, frame = self._cap.read()
        frame = cv2.flip(frame, 0)
        kvTexture1 = Texture.create(size=(frame.shape[1], frame.shape[0]), colorfmt='bgr')
        kvTexture1.blit_buffer(frame.tostring(), colorfmt='bgr', bufferfmt='ubyte')
        self.kvImage1.texture = kvTexture1

if __name__ == '__main__':
    CvCamera().run()


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HALB talks dating apps with founder and CEO of "The League"
By Elizabeth Ferrie '19
Amanda Bradford, the founder and CEO of The League, a dating app aimed at ambitious young professionals, joined the Harvard Association for Law and Business (HALB) for a Q&A on Oct. 23. Elizabeth Ferrie '19 moderated the discussion, which covered Bradford's initial motivations for starting a dating app company, being a female CEO in Silicon Valley, and the app's successes and strategies going forward.
The talk, held in Harvard Law School's Austin Hall, drew more than 140 people from the law school, other Harvard schools, and the greater Boston community, including data scientists, and owners of app marketing agencies. The event, publicized on the app's events page, drew interest from more than 600 Boston area users on The League.
Ferrie began the conversation by asking Bradford about her inspiration for founding The League. Bradford remarked that it was a combination of becoming single in the second year of graduate school after a five-year relationship and realizing that the existing platforms at the time, like Tinder, had shortcomings. Building upon the lessons she learned while spending her business school summer at the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, Bradford predicted that it was a good time to launch a competitive product.
Hedging her bets, Bradford gave herself six months to ship the product, but also had a job offer lined up after graduation from Stanford's Graduate School of Business in case the app was not successful. The app was officially launched in early 2015.
Raising the funding necessary to put her ideas into action, particularly as a female entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, was no easy feat. "It's definitely an eye roll. You're fundraising for a dating app. You're a solo founder. You're a girl—a blonde girl. It's a very stereotypical situation, almost comical. But I found that women responded almost instantly; very successful women just got it," Bradford said. After raising money largely from female investors during the early stages, she was able to get other venture capital firms on board.
Bradford said she sought to build a community where career-driven females were celebrated and the desire for egalitarian relationships was cultivated. In response to media criticism of the app as elitist, Bradford wrote an op-ed piece titled "I'm Not An Elitist, I'm Just An Alpha Female" that touted on the app's mission of fostering power couples and highlighted the struggles women often face on other dating platforms where they are mainly judged for their looks. "It was stimulating to hear about how The League approaches the dating app market from a female perspective," said audience member Joseph Yim '20.
When Ferrie asked about the legal challenges The League has faced in its short history, Bradford recalled a PR stunt gone wrong when they launched the app in the London market. That incident involved using Amal Clooney's image on the side of a bus without her permission. "It's an interesting industry to consider going into, because there are a lot of legal challenges," Bradford said.
Bradford advised students in the audience considering startup work in the future to surround themselves with the best-in-class people in the industry and get experience doing the unglamorous tasks that drive the company forward. Bradford's work at Salesforce and Google taught her important lessons about product development, marketing, and building a strong internal culture that guide her as a CEO today.
The HALB sponsored talk left a strong impression on attendees and even shifted some perspectives. Jane Jeong '18 remarked, "I was pretty skeptical of the app when it first came out, so our conversation helped me better contextualize The League as a valid business model. Amanda was really impressive; she's sharp and refreshingly honest about the ups and downs of entrepreneurship and the vision she has for her company."
Following the Q&A, Bradford joined HALB board members and Professor Scott Westfahl for a small group lunch. "Having entrepreneurs like Amanda share their insights here is incredibly valuable, especially for students interested in either starting their own business or working as emerging company lawyers," Westfahl said. "The range of legal issues raised by her company's business model is quite broad and you could sense the anxiety she feels about her need for quick, practical and reasonably priced legal advice. She didn't say it directly but I'm sure she would agree that law schools and law firms should double down on their efforts to train lawyers to deliver real value more quickly and through a pricing model more aligned with how start-ups operate."


Do your kids enjoy fantasy adventures? What's their vampire IQ? You might be shocked by their prowess.
Books, movies and computer games today are filled with occult, witchcraft, Satanism, paganism, vampires, zombies, Greek mythology…all under the innocuous title of fantasy adventure.
As parents we may be thrilled that our teenager is actually reading, but what values are impressionable minds ultimately absorbing from such content? A treasure trove of fantastic personalities, legends and esoteric mysteries can be found within Jewish tradition, history and Torah, so why aren't we providing alternatives for our youth based on Jewish content and values?
I created the Elisha Davidson trilogy to inspire the imaginations of our teens to our phenomenal, life-enforcing Jewish heritage.
Because I wanted to inspire the imaginations of our teens to our phenomenal, life-enforcing Jewish heritage rather than steep it in violent occult darkness, I created the Elisha Davidson trilogy.
Do we really want our kids fantasizing through an entire series about gruesome zombies or Greek gods?
When the books on Jewish bookstore shelves don't capture their imagination, is it any wonder they turn to Vampire Academy, Zombie Apocalypse, Percy Jackson and similar fantasy books that do offer what they crave?
As a career television executive, I've launched 10 television channels in as many as 120 countries and subscribe to the industry adage that 'Content is King' for successful entertainment. Our Torah heritage is a massive, untapped reservoir of spectacular content, and it is up to us to create the medium that will showcase our captivating content. I believe the Elisha Davidson Trilogy does this. Some reviewers have heralded the Elisha Davidson series as a new genre; others have labeled it the 'Jewish Harry Potter.' I'm not particularly enamored by the latter categorization, but I am thrilled to see reviewers, teens and parents alike quickly get the point and turn into avid fans.
The adventures of Elisha Davidson first came to life in my living room before Harry Potter was a household name. For years I hosted a Shabbat afternoon story-telling group for my children and their friends. I would read Torah stories, tales of the Sages and just about anything really interesting and Jewish that I could get my hands on. As time went on I wanted to forge a stronger bond between the kids and the content. I wanted to ignite their imaginations, so I made up my own story about a young boy named Elisha Davidson living in modern-day Jerusalem. His mysterious adventures were interwoven with stories from Torah, Talmud and Medrash. The kids were spellbound and continued coming to the group well into their late teens. I wanted to write the stories down, but as a working mother time eluded me. Fast forward a few years, and a lot of writing, and now thanks to Menorah Books, a years' worth of Elisha adventures have been published as the Elisha Davidson Trilogy.
The overall plot of Elisha Davidson is fantasy, but instead of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry or the never-ending variations of Transylvania High, the backdrop is Jerusalem's eternal Old City. Elisha is a 6th grader at North Temple Mount Academy, and the magical and captivating characters surrounding him include Torah legends and personalities. Each page was crafted with meticulous adherence to traditional Jewish sources which are so wondrously compelling in their own right, they naturally fit right in.
Can Torah-sourced content compete with the allure of the Dark Arts? You decide: Elisha discovers a powerful Choshen stone, encounters a Shamir (a worm King Solomon used to cut through stone), gets to taste manna from Heaven, joins forces with Jerusalem's greatest mystic, discovers one of the 36 hidden righteous men , and even confronts the treacherous Ashmodai (King of the demons). Not to mention that he's being mentored by the wisest man who ever lived. Sorry, Dumbledore…you just can't compete with King Solomon.
It's amazing how much information and wisdom can be packed into this genre! Master storyteller, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov said, "The world says stories are meant to help you sleep. I say stories are meant to wake you up." Elisha Davidson was written to awaken youth to our incredibly awesome heritage. These books are not just about delving into fantasy; they're about discovering the real thing.
Rhonda Attar was born and educated in the U.S. (M.S. TV/Radio) and made Aliyah to Israel where she became a l eading figure in the Israeli television industry launching 10 TV channels – 6 in Israel and 4 worldwide. In addition, Mrs. Attar is very involved in community work. Mrs. Attar and her husband, Rabbi Meir Attar, are the co-founders and directors of Tomer Devorah in Kochav Ya'akov dedicated to Mitzvot Bein Adam L'chaveiro. The Tomer Devorah complex includes a Beit Knesset, 24/7 Beit Midrash, Kolel Chatzot, mikveh facilities and financial aid programs. Mrs. Attar also runs the Women's Beit Midrash in English where she teaches on a regular basis.


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