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Miserable, aggrieved, embittered and enraged, the grotty supporters of the anti-Israel fringe group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) were at Toronto's City Hall today. They were there to make the case that City Council should accept a City Manager's report that would not prohibit municipal funding for Toronto's Pride parade if their group participated.
The Executive Committee was packed with media this morning, not to report on issues related to Pride funding, but because it was the first time embattled Mayor Rob Ford was set to preside over a Council meeting since he had been accused of being in an as-of-yet unsubstantiated video in which he was alleged to have smoked something appearing to be crack cocaine. The media behaved more like paparazzi tacking George Clooney than municipal affairs reporters, but the circus atmosphere died down after a couple of hours.
Rob Ford at Tuesday's
Ford was in fine form, good humored and professional as always in his role of Executive Committee Chairperson. The day also happened to be Ford's 44th birthday and he seemed genuinely warmed by the felicitations he received for that.
The first speaker was someone named Carol Rawson who proceeded to provide definitions of apartheid and tried to link them to the Israeli state. Like most of the anti-Israel speakers who appeared, she seemed to lack basic insight into the situation involving the Israel and the Palestinians. Either that or she didn't comprehend the definitions she was reciting.
The definitions of apartheid she listed named discrimination on the basis of racial, ethnic and religious grounds, despite that in Israel, the issue actually has to do with nationality. Israeli Palestinians and Israeli Muslims and non-Jews have full citizenship rights, whereas Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza are not Israeli, so naturally do not enjoy those rights. If her idea of apartheid were the case, then the United States is also practicing apartheid against Mexico.
In speech after speech, it was blatantly obvious that Queers Against Israeli Apartheid and its supporters are little other than a collection of vapid, hateful, self-serving ideologues. They invent their own facts and lie outright about the situation affecting the Palestinians in Israel and the Middle East.
Describing the so-called "apartheid", one speaker spoke about "Jewish-only" roads in the Occupied West Bank. However no such roads exist. There are roads for Israeli citizens, which include non-Jews, and they were built following many deadly attacks on Israelis by Palestinians. Betraying the anti-Semitism they deny, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid's supporters frequently conflate Jews with Israelis and Zionists and that linkage is not only limited to within Israel.
There were speakers who took the floor to denounce the bigotry of the anti-Israel fanatics, the most poignant of whom were members of the Gay community. Martin Gladstone, a Toronto lawyer, was one of the first people to speak out about the divisiveness and hatred that Queers Against Israeli Apartheid brings to a Pride festival that is supposed to be an event which should be welcoming to all members of the Gay community. That point was powerfully reiterated by Dr. Paul Druzin, a physician who said that he does not want his "Gay tax dollars" to fund Pride if it includes a hate group like QuAIA.
An thoughtful, balanced speech was given by Hassan Maalbaki. He said that as a Gay, Muslim Arab, he wanted a better life for his Palestinian brothers and sisters, but he did not want his city to support a venue for the intolerance and discord among the Gay community promoted by Queers Against Israeli Apartheid.
I spoke to the Executive Committee as well, beginning by noting that the world isn't going to come to an end if Queers Against Israeli Apartheid participate in Pride. They are disingenuous hatemongers whose agenda is both transparent and unconvincing. But there were matters that others hadn't raised in detail which were worth addressing.
The City Manager`s report that was under discussion is something I said was hopelessly tainted. It was produced largely under the aegis of Uzma Shakir, the City`s highly paid Director of its Equity, Diversity and Human Rights Division. The same Uzma Shakir, a proponent of Sharia law, had written an article for the vociferously anti-Israel website rabble.ca in which she essentially declared that Muslim immigrants do not owe loyalty to Canada because of our government's pro-Israel stance.
Her exact words were:
"when we adopt a partisan policy stance towards conflicts that are unresolved like Palestine and Israel when both Arabs/Muslims and Jews are Canadian citizens and deserve our 'equal' consideration, it is hard to be grateful or indeed hopeful. No! Immigrants do not owe their loyalty to Canada unquestioningly -- Canada needs to earn that loyalty..."
A report by such a clearly biased source would never be accepted by a court, nor should the City`s Executive accept it. I noted that the decision should fall to elected members of Council who were chosen by the citizens of Toronto to make such determinations. The issue isn`t whether "Israeli Apartheid" is hate speech, and it likely does not fit the legal definition as such. The issue is whether the city's elected representatives have the right to choose on behalf of Toronto's citizens not to pay for or be associated with a venue for a disgusting group of bigots like QuAIA.
I discussed the nature of the group, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid itself. The group masquerades as a "social justice" and a "human rights" group, but in fact they are nothing of the sort. The are, either by actual intent or by default, an anti-Semitic hate group. The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote that, "Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction out of all proportion to any other party in the Middle East is anti-Semitic, and not saying so is dishonest. " Singling out Israel, Zionists and in so doing, most Jews for hate, is Queers Against Israeli Apartheid's sole purpose. If indeed they were concerned about the human rights of Palestinians, then they would speak out about the egregious human rights abuses faced by Palestinians in Lebanon, where they are denied citizenship, the right to own land or to be employed in dozens of occupations. Or they would speak out against the mistreatment of Palestinians that far exceeds anything perpetrated by Israel in places like Syria, Iraq, Kuwait and other Muslim countries. Queers Against Israeli Apartheid never discusses those violations of Palestinian human rights, because human rights is not really what their agenda is about.
The group is comprised and headed mainly by Marxists and anti-Capitalists. Its principal spokesman, Tim McCaskell, was a featured speaker at a Marxism conference held last weekend in Toronto. Marxists see Israel as a vulnerable, capitalist entity that is an ally of the great, evil epicenter of global capitalism, the USA. From their perspective, if Israel can be taken down, it strikes a blow against America and capitalism. If millions of Israeli Jews die and a brutal form of Sharia Law that represses women and executes Gays is imposed in its place, that would be of little concern to adherents to an ideology responsible for tens of millions of murders in the last century. But Human Rights is not their actual motive.
I observed for the Executive Committee that just because Jews are members of QuAIA, it no more precludes their being anti-Semitic than the fact that a handful of Jews collaborated with Nazi Germany precluded them from Jew hatred.
The issue of free speech was also not discussed in detail by anyone else and that was a critical aspect of the matter. QuAIA and its cronies make the deceitful argument that by attaching conditions to Pride's funding, their right to free speech is being taken away. Nothing could be more false.
Free speech is denied when the state prohibits it with sanctions and penalties. No one is depriving Queers Against Israeli Aparthied from publishing, saying, or spreading their message. The issue before council is a question of whether to fund it.
If I were to go to Council and ask for $200,000 to rent the Goodyear blimp to fly around the city and broadcast, "Richard Klagsbrun is a god and everyone should throw themselves at his feet," and got the response, "no, that's idiotic", I noted that using QuAIA's logic, I too would be deprived of free speech.
Of course free speech is not really what Queers Against Israeli Apartheid wants. They want tax-funded, subsidized speech so other people can pay for them to spread their vile poison.
Following my presentation, one of the QuAIA members took to the floor to speak, upset at what I had said. A wretched, weathered looking woman by the name of Anita Block proclaimed that she was offended at having been called a "Nazi collaborator." Her means of trying to justify that was by professing she was a "child of Holocaust survivors." She then had to clarify that her parents had left Europe in the 1930's prior to the actual Holocaust, which would not really make them 'Holocaust survivors.' But the Jews in the fanatical anti-Israel movement like to play that card whenever they can, not quite understanding it lends no validity to anything they say. It gives them no more credence than if a murderer used the excuse that being the child of a Holocaust survivor means that they could not possibly have committed a capital crime.
But there is a truly sad, pathetic component to Jews who have attached themselves to fanatics like Queers Against Israeli Apartheid. Many are what I call Munchausen Jews, who profess to be Jews almost exclusively for the purpose of demonizing the Jewish state, which also happens to be the only liberal democracy in the Middle East. Their desperate need for attention and approbation leads these Munchausen Jews to make fools of themselves while consorting with the most deplorable characters.
If Ms Block was more discerning, she might have noticed I did not call Jews like her Nazi collaborators, but only compared her to them. If I was going to identify a vicious, fascistic movement with which QuAIA was collaborating, it would be the monstrous totalitarians who worship the murderous ideology of Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini.
On many occasions, QuAIA members have appeared to show support for the racist, Khomeinist hatemonger Zafar Bangash, such as at his annual al Quds Day rally to celebrate the Iranian dictator's call for the elimination of Israel.
An interesting episode followed at the Executive Committee. A Toronto woman gave an impassioned speech denouncing QuAIA's hypocrisy, in which she talked about the hate group "bitching" about free speech while they were actively engaged in trying to censor others. The woman used the phrase 'let's call a spade a spade' when identifying QuAIA as hateful bigots.
That speech provoked a remarkable response from Ward 9 Councillor Maria Augimeri. The Councillor, who is one of only a few who effectively stood up for the hateful term "Israeli Apartheid" by being one of just seven of Council's 42 members to vote against a motion last year to denounce it, took a seat allotted for visiting Council members at the Executive Committee.
Augimeri shouted into the microphone in front of her that she had a Point of Order. However Mayor Ford noted that she could not introduce it, as that was a privilege not accorded to visiting Councillors at the Committee.
It was a basic procedural matter that the Mayor was correct in noting. But acting like a petulant child throwing a temper tantrum, she kept shouting over the Mayor, who pleaded with her to follow the rules. Ford did not want to demean himself by getting in an argument with the near-hysterical Augimeri, who then spat into the microphone about being outraged that the "sexist" word bitching was being used by a deputant at the Executive Committee. Augimeri then denounced the phrase "calling a spade a spade" as racist to a small smattering of applause from the grubby QuAIA contingent in the room. Before anyone could respond, Augimeri stormed out of the room in a huff. The meeting then continued, ignoring the interruption as if Augimeri had never been there.
Had she remained, someone might have pointed out to the not-particularly-bright Councillor that if she were familiar with the etymology of "calling a spade a spade," she would have known it has no racist connotations whatsoever. The phrase originated in the mid 16th Century and was based on Nicholas Udall's translation of Erasmus. The quote comes from:
"Philippus aunswered, that the Macedonians wer feloes of no fyne witte in their termes but altogether grosse, clubbyshe, and rusticall, as they whiche had not the witte to calle a spade by any other name then a spade."
Another visiting Councillor, Kristyn Wong-Tam, came to the microphone to speak about the issue at hand. Being the original owner of the Queers Against Israeli Apartheid group's website, her bias would seem apparent. Wong-Tam dissembled about Pride being discriminated against for having to fulfil conditions that are not applied to any other recipient of City funds. She naturally neglected to mention that no other recipient is also consistently used as a platform to denounce an entire community within Toronto. But honesty and integrity are not features anyone has come to expect from QuAIA's supporters.
A few members of the Executive Committee stood out as bringing forceful reason to the debate, including Budget Chief Frank di Giorgio, and most particularly David Shiner and Norm Kelly. Shiner spoke about the realities in Israel that put the lie to the deceitful claim that Israel, which affords more democratic rights to the Palestinians than any Arab country, is an "apartheid state." Kelly expressed dismay that, as Gays are persecuted throughout the Middle East in every country but Israel, where they have equal rights, Pride's response was shocking. Kelly said Pride should be honoring the Jewish state rather than investing so much energy into demonizing it.
A motion was passed by the Executive Committee that called for the city to only fund Pride's cultural events, but not the parade in which Queers Against Israeli Apartheid participates. Whether that motion is passed by all of Toronto's City Council remains to be seen.
Yesterday's events reiterated the reality that Queers Against Israeli Apartheid are an unprincipled collection of detestable cretins who have managed to manipulate the spineless leadership of Pride. Along with them for the ride are a small handful of sordid City Councillors on the hard left.
A point I raised to the Executive Committee is that the City expects its elected officials to effectively represent how tax funds are spent. There are many important needs for which we haven't found the funds. Our roads are in a terrible state of disrepair and remain in need of fixing. There are homeless people living in our streets. Supporting Pride, should it do what it's supposed to, which is to honor and celebrate the contributions, inclusion of and participation of the Gay community within Toronto, would be an appropriate use of city funds. But if tax funds are handed over to a venue for Queers Against Israeli Apartheid to spew their poison, then it would be a gross abuse of the trust that citizens place in the hands of their representatives.
There are victims to QuAIA's spiteful activities, but not the ones they would prefer. QuAIA are a group of insignificant bigots and Israel will neither be hurt by nor likely even notice them.
In the end, the real victims of the QuAIA hatemongers are the taxpayers of Toronto, who have had to subsidize them and deal with their self-serving divisiveness for far too long.
Labels: Israel, Kristyn Wong-Tam, Palestinians, Pride, Queers Against Israel, Rob Ford, Toronto
DCD said...
Well done - thanks for speaking on behalf of the reasonable. The key point (with which I agree) is that there is a huge difference between the non-subsidazation of speech and the repression of speech. I believe that if QAIA want to have their own parade, they should be granted a permit, but their agneda has nothing at all to do with Pride - and is in fact completely contrary to the spirit of this worthwhile Toronto institution.
Richard K said...
Thanks and quite so.
I would not argue that they shouldn't be allowed to have their own parade on their own dime.
As stupid as they may be, they don't want that. They know no one would come.
View from nowhere said...
When are people going to realize that this ridiculous annual debate - this is the fourth year of it I believe - has given QuAIA truckloads of attention. If it wasn't for Gladstone et al no one would even no QuAIA exists, their little parade contingent would be ignored without any public comment as it had been for the several years before Gladstone made it an issue and frankly they probably would have stopped bothering by now.
Actually QuAIA WILL be noticed because all the visitors to the Pride march gets to see them in the march.
Thankfully someone posted the founding registration for their website at
http://www.scribd.com/doc/99110035/Kristyn-Wong-Tam
I can't entirely disagree View that the attention this debate has caused has boosted their profile. The same was true of Ernst Zundel who would have remained an anonymous nobody without the hate crimes prosecution.
but on the other hand, this is an issue of how taxpayer funds are spent and citizens should be speaking out against public funds being used to subsidize hatemongers.
Martin's concerns that QuAIA are poisoning Pride are also very valid ones.
No one is suggesting QuAIA be prosecuted, so they can't quite make themselves out to be the martyrs they're trying to portray themselves. And they may be getting attention, but the kind they get not only discredits them as a group, but makes any individual associated with them toxic.
Munchausen Jews: reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry was sure his dentist only converted to Judaism so he could tell Jewish jokes...
Now you'll have the Macedonians up in arms!
As I recall, that ended up with Jerry getting in trouble for hanging out with anti-dentites!


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Q: If every contraction on a Boolean algebra has a maximum value, is that Boolean algebra complete? If $B$ is a Boolean algebra, then a mapping $f:B\rightarrow B$ is said to be contractive (or a contraction) if $f(a)+f(b)\leq a+b$ for each $a,b\in B$ where $a+b=(a\wedge b')\vee(a'\wedge b)$ is the sum in the corresponding Boolean ring. Suppose that $B$ is a Boolean algebra such that for each contractive mapping $f:B\rightarrow B$, the maximum $Max_{b\in B}f(b)$ is achieved by some $b\in B$. Then is $B$ necessarily complete? What about when we assume that $B$ is originally $\sigma$-complete?
I am looking for counterexamples, so I would be interested in seeing what kinds of counterexamples one could construct even if a counterexample is found.
Every contractive function on a complete Boolean algebra attains its maximum: If $B$ is complete and $f:B\rightarrow B$ is contractive. Suppose that $c=\bigvee_{b\in B}f(b)$. Then there is a partition $p$ of $c$ such that for each $a\in p$, there is some $b_{a}\in B$ with $a\leq f(b_{a})$. Let $x=\bigvee_{a\in p}b_{a}\wedge a$. Then
$f(x)'\wedge a\geq f(x)'\wedge f(b_{a})\geq f(x)+f(b_{a})\leq x+b_{a}\leq a'$, so
$f(x)'\wedge a=0$, hence $f(x)'\leq a'$, thus $a\leq f(x)$. Therefore $f(x)\geq\bigvee_{a\in p}a=c$. However, I am unsure if this theorem holds for more general classes of Boolean algebras besides complete Boolean algebras.

A: Assume that $B$ is an arbitrary Boolean algebra and that $f\colon B\to B$ is an arbitrary contraction. I will argue that $f$ assumes its maximum at $a=f(1)\wedge f(0)'$, and the maximum value is $f(a)=f(0)\vee f(1)$.
Set $F(x) = f(x) + f(0)$. Then $$F(a)+F(b) = f(a)+f(0)+f(b)+f(0)=f(a)+f(b)\leq a+b,$$
so $F\colon B\to B$ is another contraction. Moreover, this contraction satisfies $F(0)=f(0)+f(0) = 0$. Using this, and setting $b=0$ in $F(a)+F(b)\leq a+b$, yields $F(a)\leq a$.
Now set $b=1$ in $F(a)+F(b)\leq a+b$ to obtain
$$
F(a)+F(1)\leq a+1 = a'.
$$
If you meet both sides with $a$ you get
$$F(a)\wedge a + F(1)\wedge a = 0.$$
But since $F(a)\leq a$, this reduces to
$F(a) + F(1)\wedge a = 0,$
or (adding $F(1)\wedge a$ to both sides)
$$
F(a) = F(1)\wedge a.
$$
Reverting back to little $f$, we get $f(a)+f(0)=(f(1)+f(0))\wedge a$, or
$$
f(a) = (f(1)+f(0))\wedge a + f(0).
$$
So contractions are entirely determined by the choices of $f(0)$ and $f(1)$.
(Moreover, the values of $f$ at $0$ and $1$ can be chosen freely.)
This characterization of contractions shows that any contraction on any BA assumes its maximum at $a=f(1)\wedge f(0)'$, and the maximum value is $f(a)=f(0)\vee f(1)$.

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Q: Vim: Split one file into multiple files based on row count I have a text file with 5,000 rows.  I need to split it into files with no more than 99 rows each.  Can I do this with vim?  If not, what are my other options?

A: There is a tool called split :) that will do this for you
example:
  split -a 3 -d -l 99 my_big_file.txt big_file_chunk_

  -a 3 : says to use a unique 3 character suffix for each chuck file
  -d   : says make that suffix a number so 001 002 all the way to 999
  -l 99: split file by line and have 99 lines or less in each chuck.

  next are the source file name and if you want the prefix to use for each produced file.

This will create multiple files with at most 99 lines from the original named
   big_file_chunk_001
   big_file_chunk_002
   ....

A: First, you define a control variable:
:let i = 1

Then, you write lines 1 to 99 (inclusive) to a file named after the current value of the control variable, cut those line, and increment the control variable;
:exec "1,99w! chunk-" . i|1,99d|let i = i + 1

Repeat as many times as needed:
49@:

This should give you 50 files named chunk-1 to chunk-50.
Since 5000 is not divisible by 99 you will be left with 50 lines. Write them to chunk-51:
:w chunk-51

A: Something like (untested).
let lines = getline(1,'$')
let nb_files = len(lines) / nb_rows
for i in range(0, nb_files)
    call writefile(lines[(i*nb_rows) : min([(i+1)*nb_rows-1, len(lines)-1])], 'chunk_'.i
endfor

or also
let lines = getline(1,'$')
while len(lines)
   call writefile(remove(lines,min([99,len(lines)-1])), 'chunk-'.i)
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Cat photography by Japanese artists
NEKO PROJECT in Italy
PHOTOGRAHERS
4 exhibitions in 2022
38 Japanese photographers presented
More than 100 cats in photos
In Japanese the word NEKO means CAT
Yulia Riva and Sophie Cavaliero are pleased to present NEKO PROJECT, a photographic exhibition on the theme of cats in Italy in 2022.
The famous novel by Natsume Sôseki, "I am a cat", shows us the importance and the need to sometimes take a cat's point of view on our world. Cats have always played an important role in Japanese culture, from Maneki-neko to Hello Kitty; from the book The cat, Shozo and the two women written by Junichirô Tanizaki to the cats of the Ghibli studio; from Chiro, the dying cat of photographer Nobuyoshi Araki to Sasuke, the lost and found cat of another photographer Masahisa Fukase.
All the Japanese photographers of this exhibition have responded to an open call for the NEKO PROJECT project organized by Sophie Cavaliero and a jury composed of galleries, photographers and directors of festivals or photo agencies. Those photographers proposed a series of very personal photographs on the theme of the cat but with their own language, their own style, their own technique.
The NEKO PROJECT project allowed the publication in 2018 of a  book of photography with the 86 participants in the project and four exhibitions in France, Belgium and Holland.
The NEKO PROJECT project is a moment of friendship and love between our culture, western and eastern, between humans and cats.
Where in Italy ?
1- at The Rossana Orlandi Gallery in Milano during the Design week.
The Rossana Orlandi Gallery is a landmark of contemporary design, with designer items international furniture and unique pieces. The space is one of the place to be during the Design Week.
2- at the General Consulate of Japan in Milano in the exhibition space during the month of July 2022
Please find below a trailer:
http://neko-project.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/VID_20220723_183826_244.mp4
"NEKO PROJECT", is the title of this new "choral" photographic exhibition on cats, created thanks to the curatorship of Yulia Riva and Sophie Cavaliero, and co-organized by the Japanese Association of Northern Italy and the Consulate, as part of the review "Japan and Surroundings".
The exhibition will be scheduled in the public space of the Consulate until July 29 and can be visited from Monday to Friday, during the opening hours to the public, by appointment. Please confirm the day and time of the visit at this address: culture@ml.mofa.go.jp
In fact, we would like to remind you that during this period it is not possible to freely access the Consulate, but only by appointment. Therefore, those who wish to visit the exhibition are requested to confirm their presence at the above address.
3- at the Villa Bertelli in Forte dei Marmi from September 2 until October 2, 2022
http://neko-project.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/WhatsApp-Video-2022-09-07-at-20.59.42-1.mp4
The Villa Bertelli Foundation aims to attract private capital and guarantee over time same full support to the public and cultural activities of the Municipality of Forte dei Marmi, working actively promoting the activities cultural, entertainment, communication, with the goal of contributing to the economic and civil development of the local community.
The exhibition will be covering a wide choice of photograph on the thematic of cat.
4- at the Design concept store "Bracchi" in Forte dei Marmi during the whole summer 2022
http://neko-project.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/JAY-JAYMAGAZZINI-BRACCHIMOV-copy.mp4
The site used to be abandoned and the kingdom of cats … Today it is a very famous design concept store with beautiful gardens and terraces and indoors with different stagings. Cats will be back in the place with photographs of Neko Project!
Which Japanese photographers will be presented at those exhibitions ?
BANRI, Atsumi Daisuke, NiNi Frisky, Jun Fujiyasu, Yuko Fukagawa, Kai Fusayoshi, Yuji Hamada, Toshiko Hashimoto, Mika Horie, Masanori Ikeda, Masakazu Ikeguchi, Dai Ito, Hiromi Kakimoto, Risa Kayahara, Tadahiro Kumagai, Masayuki Kurihara, Shigenori Miki, Yoshinori Mizutani, Yasushi Mori, Nohagi Naka, Takehiko Nakafuji, Shoji Ogawa, Yasuhiro Ogawa, Kumi Oguro, Koji Ono, Tatsuya Ozawa, Naoyuki Ogino, Koji Onaka, Eric Pelletier, Patrick Rimond, Abiko Sachie, Satoru Suyama, Kuraya Takashi, Shinichi Yokozawa, Kenta Tsunori, Takahiro Yamashita, Chiaki Yao, Masahisa Yokomizo.

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Sven Payne – australijski zapaśnik walczący w stylu wolnym. Zajął szóste miejsce w Pucharze Świata w 1986 roku.

Przypisy

Australijscy zapaśnicy
Urodzeni w XX wieku

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How do you lose the five pounds from the holidays? Here we are - it is January second and it is time to get on it.
I must say that I don't use the scale to monitor my weight. My jeans (not my sweatpants) can tell the tale of the holidays as the button is getting harder to close. I'm not sure if I gained five pounds or fifty pounds - but I know that if I don't act soon - I'm gonna need some new jeans.
It is simple. It started with Thanksgiving over a month ago. I was hit with an onslaught of cookies, chocolates, pies, and red wine. Could I have weathered this tornado with my mouth closed? Yes, but what is the fun in that?
Here is a short list of my unusual transgressions for the holiday season which included a trip to Montreal - a foodie destination.
Okay, the list goes on but I am not feeling bad. At a certain point the holiday feasting got crazy and I just laughed because I know what comes next.
There isn't only one type of moderation. You can spend your day measuring your treats or you can spend your month measuring your treats. January becomes a month of moderation to balance the excess of December.
Give yourself the amount of time that you feasted to lose the inches or pounds that you put on. Rome was not built in a day and neither was your waist line.
Got left over cookies, chocolates, or cake? Toss it in the freezer! It will keep until you are ready to enjoy it.
Look at this as an opportunity rather than purgatory for your health. New year new you! The new you will eat more vegetables and feel the benefits.
Now that you have your priorities in order and are feeling good about your choices - it isn't that hard to take off the extra five pounds (or more). You simply stop eating the treats that got you in trouble and start eating healthy choices.
This is what I am going to do for the month. My focus will be on added sugar.
I will be repeating my no sugar challenge for the month of January.
What will I be eating? Bowls of Low Carb Chicken Vegetable Soup and Slow Cooker Quinoa Chicken Soup.
You can't go wrong with soup! Perfect for winter, comforting, and you can make gallons of it so you won't be tempted to eat anything else.
How are you going to lose the five pounds (or more) from the holidays?
I am just discussing this very thing with my friend. thank you for the suggestions the reminder that I can take as long to lose this as I did to gain it and for the soup ideas. I am with you for the no sugar added!!
Just what I needed to read this am. Love soup and will make a batch right away!
Thanks for another good article. I'm with you on the no added sugar idea. In fact, I recently came across an interesting book called "Zero Sugar Diet" (it's not really a diet--more of a lifestyle change). Basically, it comes down to not eating foods with added sugar unless there is more fiber than sugar in the item. (So, something like 85% dark chocolate would be okay after the first two weeks as the fiber in that outweighs the sugar). I've been doing this through the holidays (with the exception of Christmas Eve/Day and New Years Eve/Day) and have found it easy to follow. I feel so much better that I think I'll keep with it even past January. Best wishes to you for a happy, healthy New Year!
Cutting out the beer makes a huge difference in the waistline. I have never had a problem with that area until I started having beer after work. I cut that out on work nights (nearly all nights) and added an occasional spiked seltzer and it made a big difference.
Really needed it this morning.
Thanksgiving, December holidays, New Year's celebrations and Valentines Day! It's deadly! We enjoy ourselves, then we don't! Now we have to eat a bit less, exercise a little more and eat a healthy snack when hungry. Thank you Snack Girl for much needed help!
Thanks for todays article, need the motivation. I am all for trying the no sugar eating. Just want to begin a healthy lifestyle in 2019.
Happy new year to all I did gained about 6 pounds over the holiday season. Which to me is not that bad I am still down 30 pounds I did a few meal prep's love the mason jar salads. I am going to concentrate on healthy behaviors not so much the number. I would rather feel good and look good in my clothes then to be A certain number. My "resolution " for this year is to Make better choices whenever I can and be prepared by having a healthy snack on me in case I'm stuck somewhere and I'm hungry.
I too gained weight from eating sweets. The holidays are rough for me as my birthday sometimes falls on Thanksgiving. But as you kind of stated, it took a while to pile it on so its gonna take a while to take it off. Im hoping that by my anniversary in June i will be at least 12 lbs lighter. Thanks for the advice. God bless.
Haha! How did you know what we were all thinking? Great advice. Got split peas, leeks, and carrots on the counter this morning. Salad greens washed. Veggies roasted. Quinoa ready. I exercise a lot already, but like to add an extra 1-mile walk to mornings or eves when I've gained weight. It's easy, keeps me out of the kitchen, and gives me a mental boost.
I am going to Montreal at the end of the month (much cheaper than going south...lol). What are some good places to eat and sights to see? I have never been there.
Made a big batch of turkey soup from a turkey that I roasted a couple of days ago. Definitely off sugar in any form. I with you and above all else, let's remember to love ourselves into health!!!
I would go ice skating (so many great rinks), go to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and eat in a neighborhood French Canadian bistro. Also, I would visit Jean Talon or Atwater Market - the food is amazing!!!
You can't miss with Montreal - enjoy!
You should minimize whole grain... it also has carbs that turns into sugar. Don't blame the butter for what the bread did..
Want to know the best way to cut down on all those excessive calories and fat? Have your refrigerator break down a couple days before Thanksgiving and don't take delivery of your new one until after Christmas. Only be able to use your daughter's little dinky mini-fridge in her old bedroom. I'm telling you, walking back and forth, back and forth across your house for every little thing sure cuts down on how tempting those splurge calories are. I swear, if I kept all my food in my neighbor's house, I'd have the body of an anorexic super model.


On July 29th, Ethereum co-founder and renowned block chain developer Vitalik Buterin discussed the need for infrastructure around Bitcoin and Ethereum and the need to create better opportunities for the public to invest in large digital assets.
In concrete terms, Buterin turned to the more institutionally networked Bitcoin Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). In this tweet, onlinebetrug concluded that the institutional direction is not the direction in which the crypto industry must go. Instead, onlinebetrug said the industry needs to focus more on practical applications for digital currencies for people on the street to make Bitcoin, Ethereum & Co. as widely available to everyone as possible and make buying digital assets as easy as buying gift/debit cards.
Contrary to this statement by Buterin, Josh Goodbody, General Counsel and CCO of Huobi UK, earlier this month stressed the importance of institutional investors and ETFs for the crypto industry. Goodbody said that the crypto industry cannot mature unless investors have confidence in the infrastructure and commented on the importance of both decentralised operations and larger investors.
Bringing asset classes and financial instruments into the cryptographic space will give investors the risk they feel comfortable with. Not everyone wants a private key. As long as it is introduced by a serious market participant, we consider it a positive development for the industry.
Buterin concentrates more on the "actual takeover" of crypto currencies. Looking at both arguments, it is easy to see that both parts are necessary to complete the big picture. Last year's Gallup survey showed that only 2 percent of Americans currently own Bitcoin.
The Winklevoss brothers' Bitcoin ETF was rejected, but the important VanEck motion has a chance of being accepted. The SEC is likely to request an extension so that the Bitcoin ETF could be voted on in February 2019. We will know more about this by 16 August at the latest.
Litecoin Mining – Instructions, how Litecoin Mining works!
Litecoin Mining – Litecoin is one of the oldest crypto currencies on the market. It can be traded since October 2013. The crypto currency was one of the first hard forks from Bitcoin. Litecoin is called LTC for short, it is often compared with it and both are similar in many respects.
At the same time, Litecoin has many advantages over Bitcoin, such as better scalability and lower fees. What the differences are in Litecoin Mining and what the mining instructions look like, you can find out here.
Litecoin Mining – What hardware is needed for a Bitcoin trader?
Litecoin, like Bitcoin, uses the proof-of-work process to generate new blocks. As far as the algorithm is concerned, the onlinebetrug Review is used. This means that both graphics cards and specially designed ASIC processors are used as mining hardware for Litecoin Mining. ASICs are usually more expensive to purchase, but they have a higher performance and thus create more hashs. The more hashs the computer makes per second, the higher the probability that a new block will be excavated.
With the current difficulty of digging a new block, mining with graphics cards is hardly worthwhile anymore and ASICs are therefore preferred. A CPU or GPU is also not enough to successfully mine, instead several of them have to be purchased. The electricity costs should also be considered. The computer will run the whole day and consume a lot of power. A Litecoin Mining Calculator can help to find out when Litecoin Mining is profitable.
Then it is determined how many Litecoins are mined on average on http://www.onlinebetrug.de/bitcoin-revolution. In any case, it will take a while until you have your expenses. However, if the hash power of the hardware is not strong enough to at least recoup the electricity costs, then the purchase does not pay off. The Mining Calculator can help to prevent this.
In general, the question arises whether one assembles one's own rig (this is how miners call the computer for prospecting), buys a prefabricated rig, which is delivered with all important hardware parts. Or you can use the computer that is already in the room. Since the requirements to the computer are however very high and it needs also several graphic cards or ASICs, so that also what jumps out, the latter is not worthwhile mostly.
If you put the rig together yourself, you need a good mainboard next to the graphics cards or ASICs. The mainboard connects all hardware components with each other. When purchasing the mainboard, make sure that there is enough space on it. Otherwise, additional PCIe connectors have to be purchased to accommodate all parts. You should make sure that there is enough space between the hardware components. This promotes ventilation.
Of course, this alone is not enough, a good cooling is also necessary. After all, the rig does hard work 24 hours a day. Overheating due to insufficient cooling can lead to damage or even pose a safety risk. The same applies to the power supply unit. Here, too, quality should not be compromised. Quite in contrast to the housing. The rig does not have to look chic and can easily reveal the inside.
Verge Mining – How it works !
Verge Mining – The Verge Coin has been developed since 2014. At the beginning it was called "DogdecoinDark", in 2016 it was renamed by the developers. Verge Coin is a so-called "Privacy Coin", i.e. a crypto currency in which special emphasis is placed on anonymous transactions.
At the same time, transactions should be executed quickly and the fees for transactions should remain low. Mining is also possible, of course. In our Verge Mining guide we show you what is important to mine verges.
Verge Mining – What hardware is needed for a Bitcoin profit?
The special thing about Verge Mining is that the blockchain allows multiple scripts. Verge, also called XVG for short, is designed to be mined by a large number of different mining hardware so that as many people as possible can get a Bitcoin profit. The different scripts are there to allow mining through ASIC processors, GPUs and CPUs. However, they have different performance and thus create different hash rates. The feature is called "multi-algorithm mining" and is one of Verge's unique selling points.
On average, ASIC miners are the most successful hashs. They are the most expensive, but the purchase pays for itself faster. These special mining CPUs are mainly used when you want to create your own mining rig instead of using an existing home PC. ASIC processors have been specially developed to efficiently mine new coins. ASICs use the Scrypt algorithm to create new coins.
GPUs, i.e. graphics cards, are a powerful alternative to ASICs. Here http://www.onlinebetrug.de/ethereum-code it concerns above all AMD and Nvidia graphic cards, whereby those of Nvidia mostly perform better. In terms of performance, the price of electricity must also be taken into account. The current causes additional costs, which must be brought in again by the yield with the Mining. A Verge Mining Calculator helps to check when the purchase of which hardware is worthwhile with simultaneous electricity costs.
The power supply should not be saved. The power supply unit protects the entire rig from overheating and ensures uniform ventilation of the rig. A bad power supply can lead to overheating and damage the hardware. It is also important that the strength of the power supply matches the number of PCIe ports to prevent overloading. However, you can save on the case, as the rig shouldn't look nice after all. Open cases help to ventilate the hardware components better. Good cooling, on the other hand, is extremely important and indispensable. The mining rig will run all day long and do demanding work. In addition, the mining rig also needs a motherboard. The mainboard represents the control center of the computer.
The more ASICs and GPUs the rig uses, the more PCIe ports it needs to connect all these elements together. If the slots are not sufficient, additional riser cards have to be installed. These are also helpful if the graphics cards are too close together. This would result in an increased temperature. Riser Cards can create a distance, which favors the cooling.
If you do not want to assemble the Mining-Rig yourself, the purchase of a finished rig is recommended. This allows you to start mining right away. Only the mining software has to be installed by yourself.
The goal of EO.Trade is to be able to trade, exchange and store crypto and fiat currencies with only this ecosystem. An important element is the EO.Finance Wallet, which has been designed to be easy to use and understand. It should support more than 20 crypto currencies and make it possible to send them immediately. Also the sending of Fiat currencies will be possible with this Wallet. One can access the Wallet directly from the Desktop and by means of a mobile App. EO.Wallet has been designed so that it is easy for investors and anyone else to switch between crypto and fiat currencies.
The wallet is available for iOS and Android and the developers believe that the boundaries between analog and digital currencies will blur and that the normal investor will need both in the future. At the same time, they want to make it easy for investors who haven't traded crypto currencies before to get into this business. They can also obtain the EO coin with Visa or Mastercard via the wallet.
EO.Trade wants to improve trading with crypto currencies by connecting to the blockchain. Accounts that have the EO.Crypto currency receive higher percentages in trades, deposits and withdrawals are processed immediately and services are executed much faster. Currency transactions are completed almost instantly.
The ExpertOption.com platform is a web-based tool designed to be easy for beginners, it has been on the market for a long time and has been very successful to date. More than 100 assets can be traded with each other on it. These include commodities such as gold and oil, stocks, currencies and even crypto currencies. Trading tools and video tutorials are available on the platform. Even before it was implemented in the ecosystem, payment with Bitcoin was possible. In addition, the platform is available in several languages and also offers numerous features for experts.
EO.News is another part of EO.Trade. It is a news portal about finance, where the investor can find market analysis, real-time market data, charts, technical data, finance tools and general news for investors. The news portal should not only be linked to currencies and crypto currencies, but should be open to all types of traders and cover different topics. The portal is also visible to those who are not registered with EO.Trade. Nevertheless, the EO ecosystem and its traders should benefit from the portal first and foremost.
EO.Trade tries to bridge the gap between the classical financial world and the digital world of crypto currencies. This Crypto Exchange represents an integrated network of four different platforms around the topic of finance and investment. Investors have the opportunity to run their transactions via the blockchain. Transactions become faster and cheaper.


I have been contacted by, and spoken with, thousands of residents over the last few years regarding the UK leaving the EU. I completely understand concerns and frustrations from all sides of the debate.
North Warwickshire's Member of Parliament Craig Tracey, a consistent opponent of HS2 due to its devastating impact of North Warwickshire and its lack of business case, has been working closely with the Taxpayer's Alliance after launching the 'Great British Transport Competition'.
Local Member of Parliament, Craig Tracey, has welcomed the announcements and measures that will benefit his constituency in the Chancellor's Spring Statement.
I promised that I would update residents on the rationale as to why I didn't support last nights "Meaningful Vote" on the Withdrawal Agreement.
Firstly, I would like to update residents on the Prime Minister's statement on Tuesday. In it she announced that the next "Meaningful Vote" on the proposals that she brings back to Parliament will be held by 12th March.
Member of Parliament for North Warwickshire and Bedworth Craig Tracey has met with the Minister for Roads to promote the case for infrastructure improvements to the A5 road in our community.
Matt Hancock, the Secretary of State for Health, joined local MPs Craig Tracey and Marcus Jones, George Eliot Chief Executive Glen Burley and Chairman Prem Singh in an extensive visit to our hospital.
Local MP Craig Tracey has welcomed news that a new Inspector role will be created for North Warwickshire Borough.
Local MP for North Warwickshire and Bedworth Craig Tracey gave his support to those affected by cancer and the NHS staff who care for them at a special Westminster event for World Cancer Day.
Craig Tracey MP for North Warwickshire & Bedworth and Marcus Jones MP for Nuneaton have submitted petitions in parliament signed by local parents, teachers and supporters of maintained nursery schools in our community.


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Q: Can't create multiple labels with same key in Kubernetes 1.19 Is there a way to have the same label key but different values for a pod. For example, can a pod have labels as "app=db" and "app=web". I tried to use kubectl label command but it picks only one label.

A: Labels are a map[string]string so you are correct, this is not possible.


5. How do I learn more about my drinking water?
EPA strongly encourages people to learn more about their drinking water, and to support local efforts to protect the supply of safe drinking water and upgrade the community water system. Your water bill or telephone book's government listings are a good starting point for local information.
Contact your water utility. EPA requires all community water systems to prepare and deliver an annual consumer confidence report (CCR) (sometimes called a water quality report) for their customers by July 1 of each year. If your water provider is not a community water system, or if you have a private water supply, request a copy from a nearby community water system.
The CCR summarizes information regarding sources used (i.e., rivers, lakes, reservoirs, or aquifers), detected contaminants, compliance and educational information.
Some water suppliers have posted their annual reports on EPA's website.


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Antonio Brown deposed in condo lawsuit as video emerges of furniture being hurled into pool
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September 24, 2019, 11:56 PM UTC
With every demented, awful thing that has emerged from Antonio Brown's orbit in the past few months, you could be forgiven for not remembering that the star wide receiver was also accused last year of trashing a condo and tossing furniture out of a high-rise window into an inhabited pool area.
Yes, before the Ben Roethlisberger feud, trade drama, cryotherapy frostbite, helmet painting, cryptic YouTube videos, sexual assault allegations, accuser harassment, release from two NFL teams and probably a few other things we're missing, there was Brown settling a lawsuit for nearly hitting a young boy with falling furniture.
Now, he's getting deposed in a lawsuit from a former landlord over the same incident as the hurled furniture, this time for allegedly destroying a condo in the process.
Because it never ends with him.
Antonio Brown still facing lawsuit from landlord
The former Pittsburgh Steelers, Oakland Raiders and New England Patriots wide receiver was deposed Tuesday over a lawsuit alleging he had caused thousands of dollars in damages to a condo he was renting in a fit of rage last year, according to Miami's WSVN.
A smiling Brown was seen exiting the deposition as he dodged reporters' questions and posted video of the scene on his Instagram story with his phone.
Brown had previously apologized on Twitter for the incident at The Mansions at Acqualina, then deleted the tweet. According to a police report, Brown was "very agitated" over $80,000 and a handgun that had apparently gone missing.
Antonio Brown had previously settled a lawsuit from the grandfather of a boy he allegedly almost hit with hurled furniture. (Getty Images)
The receiver's former landlords are reportedly seeking north of $15,000 in damages for Brown's treatment of the $35,000 per month apartment, but their lawyer George Minski claimed the actual property damage was more in the range of $80,000.
This lawsuit is still ongoing, and video of the incident, at least from the pool-goers' perspective, has now emerged.
Video shows furniture landing in pool
Surveillance footage at the pool that emerged Tuesday shows the surreal scene that played out as Brown allegedly raged upstairs.
The young boy nearly hit can be seen wandering in the video.
A photo of a shattered mirror, dented wall and damaged chandelier were also released as evidence of the property damage. We'll see how much that ends up costing Brown, who still has bigger legal and professional problems in front of him.
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