If you're planning a trip to the Florida Keys, Key Largo is a great destination for a weekend getaway or a short day trip, full of exciting things to do and a host of great events year-round.
Located just about 60 miles from downtown Miami, this small piece of paradise is well within reach, offering tourists pristine beaches, fantastic resorts, and plenty of underwater and island adventures to keep them entertained all year long.
From the submerged Jules Underwater Lodge and the John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park to the historic Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail and beautiful Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammock Botanical State Park, Key Largo has plenty of adventures by land and sea.
If you're looking for a truly unique experience on your trip to Key Largo, Jules' Undersea Lodge is a hotel located 30 feet below the water's surface, making it America's only underwater accommodation. Obviously, you must be a diver to visit this hotel, but it's certainly a story you'll share for years after the trip. Steven Tyler and Tim Allen have stayed here in the past, as well as former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
For those who prefer to stay on land, there are two beaches (manmade) and a few nature trails within John Pennekamp State Park, where camping is available on-site, but you should make sure to book reservations early as the sites are popular and fill up fast. For a more refined setting, the Keys also offer a number of top-rated resorts and private beaches where you can spend your vacation relaxing in style and comfort. New hotels pop up every few months, each somehow better than the last.
A glass bottom boat tour allows visitors to view marine life from a distance from the comfort of a boat. On the tour, the Spirit of Pennekamp, a 65-foot, high-speed catamaran glides through the water over sunken vessels and shallow reefs. Glass panels in the floor allow visitors to see a fraction of the Florida Reef Tract, a 221-mile coral path that parallels the Florida Keys from Key Biscayne in Miami to the Dry Tortugas west of Key West. Of course, most visitors want to see the fish, and the reef never disappoints; colorful parrotfish, menacing-looking barracudas, and enormous grouper are almost always spotted during the tour.
The best way to see the underwater beauty of the Florida Keys is up close and personal via one of many scuba diving adventures offered in the Keys. The dive shop at John Pennekamp State Park offers certified divers the chance to visit the coral reefs for a small fee. You might even see the "Christ of the Abyss" sunken sculpture (pictured above) on your dive.
If you find diving intimidating or don't want to take the time to learn the necessary skills, the clear water of Key Largo makes snorkeling just as enjoyable an experience. John Pennekamp State Park offers snorkeling tours. After a brief orientation on the use of the snorkel, you'll get about 90 minutes of in-water time to enjoy the beauty of the coral reefs.
The Gallery of Kona Kai, located in the Kona Kai Resort, allows guests to not only experience local artists' creations but to sleep among them as well. Co-owners and husband and wife Veronica and Joe Harris first started collecting art in the 1980s before moving to Key Largo in the mid-1990s to open the resort. The Kona Kai Gallery opened a few years later, in 1996, and has since expanded to include work from renowned artists around the world.
First opened in 2013 as a not-for-profit organization dedicated to preserving the history of the Keys, the Florida Keys History and Discovery Center is located in a two-story building in nearby Islamorada. Permanent exhibits on display in 2019 include a model of the Indian Key island in the 1840s, the "Legends of the Line" fishing history display, and an interactive exhibit called "Pirates, Wreckers, and Salvage" that explores the history of pirates in the Keys.
With over six miles of trails, 80 protected species of plants and animals (including the American crocodile), and a number of events planned throughout the summer, the Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammock Botanical State Park is an ideal destination for nature enthusiasts with some time to kill in the Keys. Be sure to check out some of the largest growths of West Indian tropical hardwood hammocks in the United States here, too.
Running the full length of the Florida Keys, the Overseas Heritage Trail is a 90-mile paved network of recreational trails great for walking, biking, hiking, and exploring the islands without a car. Although this trip might take a few days to complete on foot, you can walk all the way down the Keys on this historic trail, just like the first settlers once did.
If you're in the mood for a light workout on the water, you can choose between three major kayaking tour agencies or buy or rent your own kayak and set off into the water at your own pace. Garl's Coastal Kayaking Everglades is one of the most popular agencies in the Keys, offering an immersive adventure through either the Everglades National Park or along Key Largo marine shorelines.
Avid fishermen and newcomers to the sport alike will enjoy reeling in big fish that can only be found in the ocean. If you're a fan of fishing, the best way to catch the biggest fish is to hire out a charter company like Graceful Fishing Charters to take you out for a day of relaxation and reeling in giant wahoo, marlin, tuna, porgies, mahi-mahi, and even sharks.
Whether you want to get your hair done for a night on the town at Up Your Hair Salon and Blowout Bar (don't worry too much about perfect hair though, the beach does wonders for it already) or want to spend the day getting a relaxing massage at Healing Waters Massage Therapy in nearby Tavernier, Key Largo is sure to be a relaxing getaway from everyday life.
There's plenty of places to grab some local cuisine and fresh-caught fish dinners in the area. Key Largo is home to Jimmy Johnson's Big Chill, one of the Key's most entertaining restaurants which also won the Key Largo Cook-Off for the appetizer, entree, and dessert categories. Additionally, right on the shore of Lake Largo, the Pilot House Restaurant & Marina is a family-friendly restaurant featuring fresh local seafood and domestic steaks as well as a slew of unique family-friendly activities.
With daily sunset live music and happy hours, Snook's Bayside Restaurant and Grand Tiki Bar is a great place to dine on the ocean while sipping on some island-style drinks. If you're just looking for a night of drinking and dancing, the "World Famous Caribbean Club" in Key Largo's oldest bar (opened in 1938) still in operation, which is accessible by car, boat, or bike.
Key Largo hosts a number of great events throughout the year including The Annual Garden Walk, Jimmy Johnson's National Billfish Championship, Key Largo's Original Music Festival, the Annual Coralpalooza, the Annual July 4 Parade and Picnic, The Great Annual Fish Count, and a slew of seasonal and holiday events and celebrations all along the Florida Keys.
Residents of the Florida Keys are known for their resourcefulness and skills, especially when it comes to creating some of the best local crafts and handmade clothing. As a result, there are many shops and boutiques in Key Largo that are great destinations to pick up some local souvenirs. Shell World is full of some hand-collected ocean trinkets while Florida Keys Jewelry sells some custom pieces you can't find anywhere else—there's no shortage of places to find one-of-a-kind souvenirs in Key Largo.
Learn more about the "Diving Capital of the World" at the official Florida Keys Visitor's Center, located right in the heart of Key Largo. Since the late 1930s, the Key Largo Chamber of Commerce has helped residents and guests alike unlock the Florida Keys, offering all sorts of community affairs and resources to guests from all over the world.
For the past several years, Escape Rooms have become highly popular across the country, and Key Largo hosts its very own: The Lost Keys Escape Rooms. With several themed rooms to choose from—including "Escape Pirate Island," "The Conch Republic Diamond Repo," "The Pharoah's Tomb," and "The Ray of Enlightenment: The Illuminati Experience"—you're sure to enjoy this little quest in the Keys.
With several options to choose from, Key Largo is a perfect start to a sailing trip around the Florida Keys and the Everglades. Key Lime Sailing Club and Cottages, Calypso Sailing and Pirates Choice, and the Quicksilver Catamaran tour agency are all great places to start if you're looking for a sailing adventure to complete your trip.
The Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center offers a variety of environmental conservation classes and demonstrations as well as opportunities to volunteer to help them rescue injured birds. Founded by "The Bird Lady" Laura Quinn and officially opened in 1991, the Center has saved thousands of native, wild, and migratory birds in the area. Although the founder has passed on to fly with the birds, you can still come by and help her legacy live on.
If you want to get a birds-eye view of Key Largo, there's really no better way to do it than parasailing, and Key Largo Parasail offers competitive rates for this breathtaking experience. Even better, you can choose between solo flights or flights with up to two of your friends to share in the magic together.
Jetpacks aren't just a cool feature of sci-fi movies and literature—you can actually try one out on your trip to Key Largo. Although there are a number of agencies that allow visitors to rent out these new futuristic toys, Florida Keys Jetpacks seems to be the preferred company for most people who visit the islands.
When it comes to picturesque and memorable moments on your vacation to Key Largo, no trip would be complete without swimming with the dolphins. Head over to Dolphin Cove on the north side of Key Largo and splash around in a five-acre lagoon with a whole pack of these loveable creatures. Alternatively, you can opt to take a guided "natural swim," which lets guests swim with wild dolphins who aren't trained to swim and interact with humans.
If none of these other options get you excited about the Florida Keys, maybe all you really need to do is sit on the beach, grab a cocktail, and enjoy the near-perfect weather and beautiful vistas all around you. Key Largo is full of beautiful beaches and swimming holes, and you might even spot a dolphin without ever having to move.


Plantar fasciitis is the most common cause of heel pain, accounting for around four out of five cases. Plantar fasciitis is when the thick band of tissue that connects the heel bone with the rest of the foot (the plantar fascia) becomes damaged and thickened. Damage to the plantar fascia is thought to occur following sudden damage, for example, damaging your heel while jogging, running or dancing; this type of damage usually affects younger people who are physically active, gradual wear and tear of the tissues that make up the plantar fascia - this usually affects adults who are 40 years of age or over. You are at an increased risk of gradual wear and tear damaging your plantar fasciitis if you are overweight or obese, if you have a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or over, you are considered to be obese, have a job that involves spending long periods of time standing, wear flat-soled shoes, such as sandals or flip flops. Less common causes of heel pain are a stress fracture. A stress fracture can occur if your heel bone is damaged during an injury. Fat pad atrophy. Fat pad atrophy is where the layer of fat that lies under the heel bone, known as the fat pad, starts to waste away due to too much strain being placed on the pad. Women who wear high-heeled shoes for many years have an increased risk of developing fat pad atrophy. Bursitis. Bursitis is inflammation of one or more bursa (small fluid-filled sacs under the skin, usually found over the joints and between tendons and bones). It's possible to develop bursitis anywhere inside the body, not just in the foot. Tarsal tunnel syndrome. The nerves in the sole of your foot pass through a small tunnel on the inside of the ankle joint, known as the tarsal tunnel. If a cyst forms or the tunnel is damaged, the nerves can become compressed (squashed). This can cause pain anywhere along the nerve, including beneath your heel. Sever's disease. Sever's disease is a common cause of heel pain in children. It's caused by the muscles and tendons of the hamstrings and calves stretching and tightening in response to growth spurts. The stretching of the calf muscle pulls on the Achilles tendon. This pulls on the growing area of bone at the back of the heel (growth plate), causing pain in the heel. The pain is further aggravated by activities such as football and gymnastics. The pain often develops at the side of the heel, but can also be felt under the heel. Calf and hamstring stretches and, if necessary, heel pads are usually effective treatments for Sever's disease. Bone spurs. Bone spurs are an excess growth of bone that forms on a normal bone. Bone spurs can develop on the heel (a heel spur) and are more common in people with heel pain. However, they can also occur in people without heel pain. A heel spur does not cause heel pain.
Your health care provider will often recommend these steps first Acetaminophen (Tylenol) or ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) to reduce pain and inflammation. Heel and foot stretching exercises. Night splints to wear while sleeping to stretch the foot. Resting as much as possible for at least a week. Wearing shoes with good support and cushions. Other steps to relieve pain include aply ice to the painful area. Do this at least twice a day for 10 - 15 minutes, more often in the first couple of days. Try wearing a heel cup, felt pads in the heel area, or shoe inserts. Use night splints to stretch the injured fascia and allow it to heal. If these treatments do not work, your health care provider may recommend waring a boot cast, which looks like a ski boot, for 3 - 6 weeks. It can be removed for bathing. Custom-made shoe inserts (orthotics). Steroid shots or injections into the heel. Smetimes, foot surgery is needed.
Stretching exercises for your foot are important. Do the stretches shown here at least twice a day. Don't bounce when you stretch. Plantar fascia stretch. To do the plantar fascia stretch, stand straight with your hands against a wall and your injured leg slightly behind your other leg. Keeping your heels flat on the floor, slowly bend both knees. You should feel the stretch in the lower part of your leg. Hold the stretch for 10 to 15 seconds. Repeat the stretch 6 to 8 times. Calf stretch. Stand with your hands against a wall and your injured leg behind your other leg. With your injured leg straight, your heel flat on the floor and your foot pointed straight ahead, lean slowly forward, bending the other leg. You should feel the stretch in the middle of your calf. Hold the stretch for 10 to 15 seconds. Repeat the stretch 6 to 8 times. Other exercises. You can also strengthen your leg muscles by standing on the ball of your foot at the edge of a step and raising up as high as possible on your toes. Relax between toe raises and let your heel fall a little lower than the edge of the step. It's also helpful to strengthen the foot by grabbing a towel with your toes as if you are going to pick up the towel with your foot. Repeat this exercise several times a day.


As end of year parties get in to full swing, remember it can be a stressful time for pets.
Strangers in the home, loud music and of course, the inevitable fireworks. Before any celebrations start, spend a few moments to help your pet cope.
Walk dogs earlier to reduce the possibility of them being out when fireworks go off. Sometimes families with younger children set the fireworks off before midnight – just as it turns dark, so don't assume the fireworks will only happen later. Keep dogs on the lead just in case they're frightened.
If possible, keep cats in the house for the evening, ensuring they have access to a litter tray.
Make sure your pet has at least one safe, quiet space or den they can retire to – ideally, sited in their favorite room. Ensure they have free access, so they can come and go as they please. Add some treats and familiar toys and consider draping a blanket over, to muffle any noise/light disturbances.
If you have more than one pet, ensure there's enough safe spaces for everyone.
Put on some familiar background noise whether it's the TV or radio, it helps to mask the noise of any fireworks.
Use any calming products you may have left over from Fireworks night – they should help your pet cope that little bit better.
Everyone at Animed Direct wishes you a happy New Year and look forward to bringing you even more great products at great prices next year!


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Estate Tax Battle Continues
By Matthew Glans
2011 ushered in the return of the estate tax—"death tax" to its critics.
Lawmakers extended for another two years the federal tax rates enacted in 2001 and 2003. Those included annual drops in the estate tax until it hit zero in 2010. The tax was supposed to jump back to 55 percent in 2011, but the agreement to extend the 2001 and 2003 tax rates set the estate tax rate at 35 percent, with the first $10 million exempted.
Liberal Democrats strongly opposed the estate tax portion of the tax extensions agreement—they wanted the tax rate to be higher and the amount exempted to be lower—and may yet try to get their wish by introducing a new estate tax bill.
Others, though, oppose the estate tax regardless of the rate or the amount exempted.
'Counter to Core Values'
"The very principle that a person's death triggers the government's sense of entitlement to take more of the peoples' hard-earned assets is offensive on its face and runs counter to core American values of industry and individual liberty," said 60 Plus Association Chairman Jim Martin.
"This is especially true since the assets in question have already been taxed at least twice, as principal income and as investment income, and a good deal of the time the government takes four or five tax bites over the life of the assets," Martin said. "As an economic reality, assets passed down within families are much more productive and useful to society than those same assets in the hands of politicians and bureaucrats."
Dick Patten, president of the American Family Business Institute, said: "After a lifetime of saving, investing, and building businesses, farms, or other operations, it is wrong for the IRS to confiscate 55 percent, 45 percent, or even 35 percent of what has been left to another generation's stewardship."
Multiple Taxation
"A dollar earned in a salary is subject to income and potentially payroll taxes. A dollar that comes from investment profits is subject to capital gains or dividend taxes," Patten explained. "When these dollars are reinvested in a company or farm and then left to the next generation, they are taxed yet again by the death tax."
Supporters of estate taxes argue they recover tax revenue that might have been missed during the taxpayer's life, including capital gains taxes that were not fully collected.
"Over half the value of inherited estates is capital gains income that has never been taxed. Most large estates include assets such as real estate, stocks, or bonds. Any increase in the value of these assets is capital gain income that would only be subject to the income tax if the assets were sold during the owner's lifetime," wrote Americans for a Fair Estate Tax (AFET), a group of nonprofit organizations that support estate tax increases, in a letter to Congress.
Debate Over Effects
There is considerable disagreement over the economic effects of the estate tax. Supporters argue the taxes would create new government revenue that could be reinvested to benefit everyone. They also argue the estate tax boosts charitable donations.
"The estate tax raises revenue that our nation needs to invest in the American people," the AFET letter argued. "Because the government does not tax assets bequeathed to a charity, the estate tax encourages charitable contributions. This is especially important in light of the current economic downturn in which charities are struggling to continue providing vital community services."
According to a study from the American Family Business Institute, reinstating the estate tax at any level damages small-business hiring.
"At the rate of 55 percent, the estate tax will destroy over 1.3 million small business jobs. At a 45 percent rate, the estate tax will destroy over 1 million jobs. At a 35 percent rate, the estate tax will destroy over 850,000 jobs," said Patten.
Matt Glans ([email protected]) is a legislative specialist in financial services for The Heartland Institute.
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France terror attack: Beheading of teacher heightens debate about Islamist terrorism and freedom of speech
Outside Samuel Paty's school, groups have held "Je Suis Enseignant" (I am a teacher) placards and defended freedom of speech.
Adam Parsons
Europe correspondent @adamparsons
Saturday 17 October 2020 17:43, UK
Image: People have paid tribute to Samuel Paty with 'Je suis enseignant' (I am a teacher) placards
Conflans-Saint-Honorine is a place like many others. In the outer suburbs of Paris, it is a pleasant but unremarkable grid of homes and amenities.
And yet now, it finds itself at the very heart of the French national debate after a truly horrific murder on its streets.
Samuel Paty, 47, a well-respected teacher, was attacked and beheaded as he walked along the street at 5pm. His killer, aged just 18, was then shot dead by police as he walked along a neighbouring road.
Image: Mr Paty had held a classroom discussion over the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad before his death
Image: Police officers pictured at the scene of the stabbing on Friday evening
Within hours, President Emmanuel Macron was on the scene, visiting the school where Mr Paty taught history and geography.
Macron normally likes to deliver long, impassioned speeches, but here his address was briefer and more restrained. He looked stunned but called for unity, while describing the murder as an act of "Islamist terror". The education minister, Jean-Michael Blanquer, described the killing as an attack on the French Republic.
At the school where Mr Paty taught, there was a long line of teachers, parents and students on Saturday, coming to pay respects, laying flowers and leaving notes. The school, which was ringed by a line of French CRS riot police, also provided psychological support for those affected by what had happened.
Some carried signs saying "Je Suis Enseignant" (I am a teacher) in tribute to Mr Paty. Online, the similar expression "Je Suis Prof" was being widely shared.
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The impact of this upon the school community will be great. But it is also affecting France, a country that has struggled enormously to cope with the effects of Islamist terrorism in recent years.
It is five years since gunmen broke into the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and killed 12 people. More died in the following days, the precursor to a wave of terrorist attacks across France that killed hundreds.
How the Charlie Hebdo terror attack unfolded
In Paris, the trial is now under way of men and women accused of being accomplices in those first attacks. As the trial started, Charlie Hebdo republished cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad as an exercise in free speech.
Others called it inflammatory, even reckless. Not long after, the magazine's existing head of human resources was moved out of her home on police advice.
Last month, a man attacked two people outside the former offices of Charlie Hebdo; both suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries. And all the while, the trial continues.
Now, this murder will heighten again the question of Islamist terrorism, and its causes. It seems quite clear that there is a link between the killing of the teacher, and Mr Paty's decision to launch a classroom discussion over the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Image: 'I am a teacher, I defend the freedom of speech, I fight for our work conditions and against all kind of racism'
Image: Flowers have been left outside Mr Paty's school
So what to do? In a country that puts such a value on free speech and secular government, the right to insult is entrenched. But the fury sparked by these cartoons has now cost many lives, and heightened tensions dangerously.
Into this quandary walked the local mayor, Laurent Brosse. He was born and bred in this town.
"I want to tell the locals that we will recover," he said. "We will all rise together. We will rise again thanks to our spirit of solidarity which makes the uniqueness of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
"It is by debating, exchanging opinions and listening that we will be able to overcome this dramatic test."
But there has been a lot of talking in France over recent years in search of an answer, to work out how to preserve the fundamental tenets of French society while also stemming the rise of Islamist terrorism.
Judging by this horrific attack, the puzzle has not been solved.


Shaker Card made easy by Queen &co.
I recently went to the Stamping and Scrapbooking Expo held a couple of weeks ago. The Expo come three times a year to Northern California, I usually go for the shopping at two of them. This year, was the first time I took some classes and participated in the Make and Take Crop held on Thursday night. It was so much fun, the companies who participated were very generous with their make and takes, they kept us busy until midnight. This seems to be the best kept secret of the Expo, I couldn't believe what I walked away with way more than what I paid for the crop.
My most enjoyable make and take was this is super cool shaker card kit by Queen and Co. This Shaker card kit contains everything but the filling to create this card. They have made it so easy to make an amazing card. In fact it was so popular, I heard their booth was practically sold out of many of the designs before the end of the first day.
Best idea in shaker cards ever!
This is basically a peel, stick, fill, peel and cover…..super easy! They give you the card base, a raised foam piece with shapes (they have butterflies,hearts etc.) you punch out, then peel the backing on the raised foam and stick it to the card. Fill the windows with your choice of stickers (my card has their epoxy sticker set "love" and some heart confetti) and confetti. Once I am done filling the windows, the foam has a clear top layer that is removed to adhere the acetate, super easy. The top card stock layer has an adhesive side to stick to the acetate. Voila! You are done!
Aside from the ease of making this card, I loved how the raised foam sides on all the designs help keep the filling contained as I worked on other sections. Unlike more traditional methods, I never worried about edges being sealed or having to attach anything. It was actually quite relaxing to put this together. I haven't seen them in my local store yet, but I noticed the details on their site. I really enjoyed it so I thought I would share about it.
P.S. I am not affiliated with Queen & Co. just loved this product.


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Marx21 US
Anti-racism, George Floyd Rebellion, Police
Police and Feds: Two cheeks of the same arse
July 28, 2020 July 29, 2020 clarelemlich
Sean Cumming and Bob Bacon report from the frontlines in Portland, Oregon, arguing that the ruling class is divided over how best to quash the ongoing anti-racist rebellion, and that advancing a clear socialist strategy within the movement will be essential in the coming weeks.
The world is in crisis, as is the nation, as is the city of Portland. This crisis is rooted in economic disaster, systemic racism, and the repression and murder by the police necessary for the capitalist state to defend itself against a working class that might unify. Yet the capitalist class is divided on how it might best remediate this uprising, and as street protests intensify and young Portland workers become more militant in their insistence for justice, the state has answered with violence.
First, the Portland Police Bureau, with Mayor Ted Wheeler at its head as police commissioner, gassed those who stood for Black lives, and when that failed to crush the movement, the feds were brought in to do the same, and have escalated the violence. While in the past, the local cops would typically wait for the crowd to thin before shooting their gas grenades, the feds have decided to shoot into crowds of thousands, and brutalize those who have come to protect young protesters, such as the now famous Wall of Moms.
Portland has in recent years been the site of many protests against the far right which have at times descended into pitched battles with both police and fascist gangs like Patriot Prayer.
There is a sense amongst the right that Portland is a liberal playground and this city has been an obsession of the right for a number of years. This is of course an inaccurate description of a city that is deeply segregated by race and class, yet it has become a testing ground for the federal government's push to increase the role of the Department of Homeland Security and border police.
These thugs are well-schooled in cruelty, abduction, and intimidation. Many are ex-military, or mercenaries trained in the US's never-ending wars in the Middle East and elsewhere.
The Border Patrol and ICE are notorious for their abuse of undocumented (and documented) workers.
Yet the feds have so far failed, perhaps because they're used to terrorizing isolated immigrants and Muslims, and were not expecting the sustained demand for justice resonating from Portland's streets night after night. Now, the state finds itself in a bind, and the ruling class is split on how best to deal with the triple crisis of protests, pandemic, and economic collapse.
The US debt-to-profit ratio has never been higher. Capitalists are desperate to get 'back to business' but can offer not even the most meager reform as profitability has fallen to its lowest point in over a hundred years and public debt spirals out of control.
The money that is funneled into share buybacks and payroll protection for huge corporations is a band-aid on an open wound. Real investment has stagnated, unemployment soars. The real crisis may yet be on the horizon and the legitimacy of the state to manage class tension is evaporating.
The ruling class wants workers to pay to restore their profits by stealing our livelihoods, selling off our services, poisoning our environment, or taking our lives, and the increased militancy of the working class — in its demand for racial and economic justice — is a threat not just to the Trump administration but to the system's ability to get back to exploiting us at the highest level possible.
Those around Trump want greater control to wield direct state violence, and on the other end, local Democrats want to 'get things back to normal' — despite the almost assured knowledge and complicity on Ted Wheeler's part that the feds were coming in, and that 'back to normal', when divorced from liberal deception, means more repression, more murder, and more misery for working people.
The gamble played by our politicians has not paid off, and now the local Democrats scramble to align themselves with a movement they despise, as Ted Wheeler makes a show of meeting protesters on the street and 'suffering' a gas attack at the hands of the feds. This is an election year for Wheeler and other liberal politicians and there is a palpable desperation whose stench lingers in the words of every politician who calls for the feds to leave, after only days ago blaming protesters for the brutality of the local police, or from those who claim a tiny reduction in the bloated Portland Police Budget is a radical move.
We wonder — if Ted can push the feds out — will he order his local goons to desist brutalizing protesters, as they had been doing for weeks before the feds arrived? Will he defund the Portland Police Department and allocate funds to social services? Will he insist that those who have murdered Black, brown and poor people be brought to justice? If not, what is the use of 'back to normal' but a liberal veil over further brutality and exploitation of those below for the profit of those above?
And so enters a liberal ploy to shore up a capitalist system that is in crisis. It is losing its hegemonic power, and Democratic politicians aim to reassert capitalist ideology.
Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci outlined this idea of hegemony in the 1920's and it has never been clearer than today in Portland. In every era the ruling class retains its legitimacy through ideas and through violence. This is hegemony; the control over the way we view the world and the way we are coerced to accept it. Gramsci argued that as long as the ruling class maintain this hegemony they will remain in power. Yet the nature of class society is so alienating that people inevitably question the ideas and actions of the ruling class. The more we act against these 'common sense' ruling ideas the more the ruling class will rely on direct violence to maintain their control.
A space has now opened for the working class to imagine how they would run a more just society. This is why the liberals attempt to shift protesters away from generalizing about the systematic abuse and systemic racism to specific ideas of identity, personal responsibility, and 'regional community.' They want us to misidentify the source of our oppression and direct our anger toward channels that don't challenge the power of the state.
On Wednesday night, we witnessed Ted Wheeler attempt his grandstand in front of the protesters and fail miserably. There was an attempt by some self-appointed leaders of the movement to whitewash Wheeler by allowing him to speak openly and repeat his talking points. This was undermined immediately afterwards when a group of Black activists took to the bullhorn to denounce the previous speakers, while behind them, onto the side of the building, a list was projected, demanding defunding the PPB and Wheeler's resignation. These activists called out to the crowd, asking if any of us had seen these self-appointed leaders before: "We've been out here every night getting tear gassed by the PPD and we've never seen them once." They went on: "Do we want to vote in November? No. Do we want reform? No. We want the feds gone. We want the PPD gone."
This speaks to the myth of the Black monolith — that all Black people share the same interests, think the same thoughts, and want the same things — and as these contradictions arise, class distinctions become apparent. Those who fear a unified working class frenzy to erase the politics that are central to our struggle. Distinct divisions, debates, and political disagreements between protesters are common now on the streets, and while many protesters are new, and may not align themselves with a particular political tendency, or even know or care what that is, these contradictions are laid out bare before them.
It is revealing that the young people we spoke to at the protest told us they were radicalized by a connection between the economic situation and the Black Lives Matter protests. In an encouraging sign of the generalization of the struggle, this weekend will see workers take to the streets in 'defense of Black Lives.' Teachers, cooks, lawyers, medical personnel, the unemployed, gig workers, all sectors of the American working class are mobilizing. That these actions are organized by both official trade union locals and ordinary rank-and-file workers is a sign that after the July 20 labor actions for Black lives, class is becoming central to the current moment — even if it is not yet acknowledged by its current leaders, or the media. Anti-racism and the fight for Black lives has been part of the labor movement since its beginnings but this shift is a sign of it becoming a central issue to the working class.
These encouraging signs come with a caveat. As the working class rises to demand that Black Lives Matter and to push back against the increasing violence of the state, what is the role of the left? Will spontaneity be enough to overcome the contradictions of capital? Will it be enough to take the streets night after night? How can people exist in a state of perpetual heightened tension and terror from the armed wing of the ruling class?
One danger is the reassertion of the 'common sense' ideas of the ruling class — that we can educate ourselves or 'center Black voices' and that individual change is enough or all that can be hoped for. This obviously ignores the systematic role that capital has played in using racism as a tool of division and class war. Racism is not an individual problem but one tied deeply to capitalism, from its birth in the the slave trade. These erroneous perspectives are tied to 'solutions' of electing more enlightened people to positions of power within the structures of the capitalist state; that we can reform away racism and exploitation.
We as socialists welcome any reform that limits the power of the state to enact horrifying violence on Black people. But as a strategy to end racism and state terror, it ignores the role of the economic system in maintaining that terror for its own ends. As we outlined before, the capacity of capital to offer reforms is tied to its capacity to exploit. The economic crisis means that the reforms offered will be paltry and won through continual sacrifice. They can only be guaranteed while we are still on the streets.
The other political thread running through the movement is a strategy that advocates a continued confrontation with the state while building autonomous zones free of all forms of oppression. This approach rejects electoral democracy in favor of consensus and autonomy. This would then act as a counter-power to capital. These ideas are attractive as they point to the role of the individual, their individual oppression and identity and how that can be harnessed in a positive way.
Yet the shortcoming of this approach is that it relies on small groups of individuals (in some cases many thousand on a march) agreeing on every facet of their actions. This leads to a situation in which the insistence on secrecy and consensus acts as a mechanism to perpetuate unaccountability among the leaders of these movements. These leaders are in some cases the most active, organized, and vocal. They often put themselves on the line first, but many of us have seen these unaccountable, self-appointed leaders lead people back to reformism or back into the hands of liberal politics. Ultimately they substitute themselves or a small group for the movement as a whole. This is not a personal failing, but a result of political strategy.
In addition, the idea of creating autonomous zones where people provide all our needs ignores the totalizing role of capital in exploitation. Any isolated attempt will be met with the full force of the state — and that self-imposed isolation strategy ensures the autonomous zone remains separate from the one social force that can defend it — a unified working class. How can we maintain an autonomous zone when we must work to survive under capitalism?
All of these trends and ideas are mixing on the streets of Portland. They are picked up, examined, and stirred together as people defend their city against racism and the repression of the state. And so there is no one concrete political position that leads the movement. We must be clear — we do not mean to chastise or denigrate people putting their lives at risk to stand against the racism and the brutality of the US government, but merely offer a critique of these ideas. We hope they can be debated and discussed as we stand in solidarity — and we hope those who disagree with us will tell us so.
We believe the argument most lacking is one that places the working class at the center of the movement for change. Ideas of racism, homophobia, transphobia, and sexism are all tied to the exploitation of class society. Racism is class war by the ruling class, and we must fight it. As Marxists we argue that it is the historic role of the working class to build a society that places the needs of all over the drive for profit and exploitation. This is not because the working class is somehow more virtuous but it is by their role as sole creators of all wealth. Ours is the only class that can put its shoulders to the wheel and in doing so destroy the machine of capital. In the process the working class has at times in history created alternative organizational structures that challenge those of capital. This goes beyond ideas of autonomy to the idea of a different system of democratic workers' control. We must at once oppose all exploitation and attempt to build the confidence of the working class to fight for this better world.
That is why we point to the lack of organized, democratic leadership in the movement in Portland, or nationally. Good demands have been raised, such as throwing out so-called police unions from the labor movement and defunding the police to reinvest in needed social services, however these are coming mostly from long-term anti-police violence organizations such as Don't Shoot PDX, who are a boon, but not enough. The socialist left is small and scattered. While some small left groups have been organizing and are deeply involved, there has been a noticeable lack of obvious involvement by the DSA, on paper the largest organization on the left here in Portland (although individual members and some caucuses are deeply involved). There is a trepidation by the left whereby they do not want to 'co-opt' the movement. This has, in most cases, led them to dissolve into it.
This raises the questions: The movement is powerful and growing, but for how long? How can we sustain and deepen the struggle? The first challenge for socialists is to place themselves openly in the struggle, have discussions about how we organize and why, try to build the confidence of organised workers to fight back in every sphere, and be unafraid to debate our politics openly. We must build on the labor actions of July 20, connect the ideas of anti-racism to the failure of the state, to war, to imperialism, and to exploitation. This requires organization, debate, and a political party that can put forward these ideas and tie them more deeply into the radical struggle. There is a need for clarity on the streets. People are looking for a solution.
The role of socialists is to win people to a vision that goes beyond individual identity, moralism, electoralism, or the dead-end of liberal politics. We must argue to push working class organizations to the center of the movement for liberation, agitate to build bigger and deeper strikes, and connect the isolated sectors of the working class to the struggle. There is no victory without a long-term, unified anti-racist coalition with deep roots in the working class struggling alongside a political party that can point to viable solutions and is big enough to influence the movement as a whole. We need a party capable of providing a vision beyond liberal capitalism — a vision that demands unreserved justice for Black people and liberation for all.
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The Constitution of a given organisation defines its form, structure, activities, character, and fundamental rules. To view particular constitutions, refer to the list of national constitutions.
The term comes from Latin constitutio, which referred to any important law, usually issued by the emperor, and was widely used in canon law to indicate certain relevant decisions, mainly of the pope.
Particular kinds of organisations that often use the concept of Constitution include:
Governmental bodies (transnational, national or regional)
Voluntary organisations
An organisation may be given specific powers on the condition that it abides by this constitution or charter limitation. The Latin term ultra vires describes activities that fall outside an organisation's or parliamentary body's constitutional activities. For example, a student union may be prohibited from engaging in activities not concerning students as students, if the student union becomes involved in nonstudent activities these activities are considered ultra vires of the student union's charter, or a bank that tries to act as a real estate agent. An example from the constitutional law of nation-states would be a provincial government in a federal state which may not have authority over banking under the federal constitution, so any laws the provincial parliaments pass regarding banking will be considered void or ultra vires of that parliament's constitutional authority.
Countries that adopt constitutions usually do so by a process of ratification.
1 Governmental constitutions
1.1 Codified constitution
1.2 Uncodified constitution
1.3 Unwritten constitution
1.4 No constitution?
2 Constitutional courts
Governmental constitutions
Most commonly, the term constitution is used to refer to the set of rules that govern political bodies. These rules may or may not be summarized in a single document. A constitution contained in a single document is called a codified constitution. A constitution not contained in a single document, that has several sources is called an uncodified constitution.
Codified constitution
Possibly the most common usage of 'constitution' is to describe a single, written, fundamental law that defines how a nation or a subdivision is governed, legislation is passed, power and authority are distributed, and how they are limited. It is thus the most basic law of a area from which all the other laws and rules are hierarchically derived; in some areas it is in fact called "Basic Law".
Having a codified constitution gives the advantage of a coherent and easily understood body of rules. In democratic systems, the constitution is considered a fundamental social contract among citizens (following Rousseau's writings), where government receives its powers from the people, not the monarch or a parliament, and is bound by an express set of human rights. The constitution is thus considered a statute superior to "ordinary" statutes, which it can overrule, and is usually protected against constitutional amendments and by special courts (see below). The United States Constitution of 1787 (ratified 1789), heavily influenced by the writings of Rousseau and others, is often considered the oldest codified constitution, and in any case remains the oldest such document still in effect. Other codified constitutions followed in Europe shortly thereafter, including the May Constitution of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1791 and the French constitution of 1792 (although neither remains in effect).
Uncodified constitution
By contrast, in the Westminster tradition which originated in England, the uncodified constitution contains both written sources but also unwritten constitutional conventions, precedents, royal prerogatives and custom collectively constituted the British constitutional law. In the days of the British Empire the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council acted as the constitutional court for many of the British colonies such as Canada and Australia which had federal constitutions.
In these systems, the difference between a constitution and a statute is somewhat arbitrary, usually depending on the traditional devotion of popular opinion to historical principles embodied in important past legislation. For example, several Acts of Parliament such as the Bill of Rights, Human Rights Act and, prior to the creation of Parliament, the Magna Carta are regarded as granting fundamental rights and principles which are treated as almost constitutional. However, these are in law no different to any other Act of Parliament and can be changed just as easily.
Unwritten constitution
Strictly, the term unwritten constitution refers to a constitution where none of the sources of constitution are written down, which would obviously be very difficult to interpret. However it is sometimes used incorrectly when referring to an uncodified constitution, usually in the context of a constitution where certain rights are not protected or entrenched and could be abolished by the country's law making body.
No constitution?
Again, to say a country has no constitution is a common mistake made by someone referring to a country that has an uncodified constitution. Every country with a government must have a constitution, because there must be convention or document relating to who exercises power and how much.
Constitutional courts
The constitution, of whatever form, is often protected by a certain legal body in each country with various names, such as supreme, constitutional or high court. This court judges the validity of legislation, its interpretation, and the manner in which such legislation is implemented by the executive branch of the state.
Such legal bodies are normally the court of last resort, the highest such body without further recourse, where this process of judicial review are integrated into the system of courts of appeals. This is the case, for example, with the Supreme Court of the United States. Other countries dedicate a special court solely to the protection of the constitution, as with the German Constitutional Court.
Finally, some countries have no such courts at all – for example, as the United Kingdom traditionally functions under the principle of parliamentary supremacy, the legislature has the power to enact any law it wishes. However, through its membership in the European Union, the UK is now subject to the jurisdiction of European Community law and the European Court of Justice; similarly, by acceding to the Council of Europe's European Convention on Human Rights, it is subject to the European Court of Human Rights. In effect, these bodies are constitutional courts that can invalidate or interpret British legislation.
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U.S. Constitution - Annotated version
Constitution of the People's Republic of China
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Four Mustangs scored in double-figures on Saturday afternoon at Northern Arizona, leading the Cal Poly women's basketball team to an 89-73 win at Rolle Activity Center inside Lawrence Walkup Skydome.
Senior guard Dynn Leaupepe and freshman point guard Ayzhiana Basallo each netted a team-high 18 points, while senior guard Kelly Wong and senior forward Lynn Leaupepe added 10 apiece in the victory on FOX Sports Arizona — Cal Poly's third in a row — which opened a five-game road trip spanning 11 days through five states.
Eleven Mustangs scored in the game, as Cal Poly's bench outscored their Lumberjack counterparts 37-19.
NAU jumped out to a quick start, going up 17-7 with 2:40 left in the first quarter. Cal Poly would chip away, however, until moving in front by four (36-32) on a layup from Wong late in the second quarter en route to a 40-38 halftime lead.
Cal Poly (4-3) kept the momentum going in the third, as a Wong 3-pointer a little more than a minute into the period made it 46-39, and another 3 from senior guard Gabby Grupalo at the 3:46 mark pushed the gap to 59-46.
After opening the fourth quarter ahead 64-52, the Mustangs took their largest lead of the day (68-52) with 8:56 remaining on a layup from Leaupepe.
Basallo finished 7-of-9 from the floor, including 2-of-3 from 3-point range, as the Mustangs shot 51 percent (34-for-67 overall; 9-for-17 from deep).
Cal Poly also went 12-for-14 from the free-throw line, led by a 7-for-8 performance from Dynn Leaupepe, on pace to set the school record for career free-throw percentage (.810).
The 10 points for Wong are her career-high as a Mustang, although she once scored 15 while a sophomore at City College of San Francisco. Kaleigh Paplow led NAU (3-5) with 16 points and 10 rebounds.
The Mustangs, on their longest road swing since 2013-14, will next face another Big Sky Conference foe, taking on Eastern Washington at 6 p.m. Monday at Reese Court in Cheney.


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iPhone SE Redesign Pushed Back to 2024 [Leaker]
Apple's redesign of the iPhone SE has been pushed back to 2024, according to a new report from leaker @dylandkt.
The iPhone SE with a similar design to the XR/11 with a slightly smaller screen size, has been pushed back to an expected release of 2024. For 2022, Apple will instead release an iPhone SE with 5G, a spec bump, and the same design as the 2020 model.
Notably, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is also predicting the same design for the 2022 iPhone SE; however, he says the redesigned iPhone SE will come in 2023.
Please download the iClarified app or follow iClarified on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and RSS for more updates.


Master French pastry chef Patrick Leze's buche de Noel./photos courtesy Patrick Leze.
Whether you've a sweet tooth or not, holiday confections by master French pastry chef Patrick Lézé are eye candy—from French macarons in a rainbow of pastels to buches de Noel (yule logs) graced with delicate St. Nick tableaus.
A packaged holiday assortment of Patrick Leze's macarons.
Lézé's holiday line of finely crafted sweet goodies, available at his eponymous Palm Beach pastry shop and Paneterie in downtown West Palm Beach, includes packaged confections for gift-giving, as well as pies, sponge cakes and specialty items such as gingerbread houses and chocolate truffles.
Prices vary. For instance, macarons are $2 apiece (or a dozen for $22) and macaron gift boxes start at $15 for an assortment of six; buches de Noel start at $30 for one that serves four people.
For a full menu and pricing, visit www.paneterie.com or www.patrickleze.com or visit the shops at 205 Clematis St. (downtown West Palm) and 229 Sunrise Ave. in Palm Beach.


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Q: Runtime.exec run as Non Admin I have a Java App that can update itself.
The Java App run as a non-admin at first and if you want to update, it will execute a .lnk shortcut that I've created that points to another .jar file specifically just to update (but with admin access).
The .lnk shortcut that points to the .jar updater asks for adminpermissions by using this answer here >> https://stackoverflow.com/a/30028948/1862452
After updating the main jar, I want the .jar updater to run the main .jar again but I wanted it to be a non-admin. How do I do this? It is currently running as an admin because the updater jar is currently as running admin

A: I solved my problem in a different way.
When the user wants to update the main .jar, it executes Runtime.exec() twice. The first one where it calls cmd and executes the .lnk shortcut for the updater which request admin access. The second is a watcher for the updater .jar window.
The watcher .jar file executes a windows command tasklist /fi "Windowtitle eq <JAR UPDATER WINDOW NAME>"every so often (let's say every 1s) and count the lines of the output. It has 2 states
1) Detect Updater is running (line count of output > 1)
2) Detect Updater is dead (line count of output == 1)
After the 2 states, it means that the main.jar has been updated and the updater is dead. It then calls main.jar.
Since this watcher .jar is called with a non-admin elevation, it will also call the main.jar as non-admin.

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How can I keep SuSEfirewall2 from writing its logs into /var/log/messages. There are so many messages of the firewall there that I have trouble finding the system messages ! I thought it was only supposed to log into /var/log/firewall ?


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Q: Bash script to find a specific file in a directory and its subdirectories and execute 2 commands on that specific file Hello all I am really new in bash and need something really simple but can't figure. I need a bash script that I am calling in a pipeline to find a specific file "terragrunt.hcl". The bash should start looking from a directory (A) and its subdirectories (B, C, D, E, etc...) then execute 2 commands on each "terragrunt.hcl" file BUT have those 2 commands executed from inside the  directories where the file lives.
If I were to do it "by hand", it would look something like this:
cd A
(if terragrunt.hcl exist execute **command 1 && command 2** on terragrunt.hcl)
cd ../B
(if terragrunt.hcl exist execute **command 1 && command 2** on terragrunt.hcl)
cd ../C
(if terragrunt.hcl exist execute **command 1 && command 2** on terragrunt.hcl)

I did not really find anything really helpful so far. I found this online (https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/295965/how-to-use-find-exec-to-execute-command-in-directory-of-found-file-not-curre)  but it does not execute what I am fishing for.
Any help would be much appreciated.

A: If your platform's find supports it, try using -exedir
find . -name 'terragrunt.hcl' -execdir pwd \;

Replace pwd with your command that you want to run from that directory.
If you want to run multiple commands, you could do something like:
find . -name 'terragrunt.hcl' -execdir sh -c "command 1 && command 2" \;


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Q: Most orthodox way of splitting matrix and list in Python If I have ratios to split a dataset into training, validation, and test sets, what is the most orthodox and elegant way of doing this in Python?
For instance, I split my data into 60% training, 20% testing, and 20% validation.  I have 1000 rows of data with 10 features each, and a label vector of size 1000.  The training set matrix should be of size (600, 10), and so on.
If I create new matrices of features and lists of labels, it wouldn't be memory efficient right? Lets say I did something like this:
TRAIN_PORTION = int(datasetSize * tr)
VALIDATION_PORTION = int(datasetSize * va)

# Whatever is left will be for testing
TEST_PORTION = datasetSize - TRAIN_PORTION - VALIDATION_PORTION
trainingSet = dataSet[0, TRAIN_PORTION:]
validationSet = dataSet[TRAIN_PORTION,
                   TRAIN_PORTION + VALIDATIONPORTION:]
testSet = dataset[TRAIN_PORTION+VALIATION_PORTION, datasetSize:]

That would leave me with the double amount of used memory, right?
Sorry for the incorrect Python syntax, and thank you for any help.

A: That's correct: you will double the memory usage that way.  To avoid doubling the memory usage, you need to do one of two things:

*

*Release the memory from one sub-matrix before you create the next; this reduces your memory high-water mark to 1.6x the main matrix;

*Write your processing routines to stop at the proper row, always working on the original matrix.

You can achieve the first one by passing list slices to your processing routines, such as
model_test(data_set[:TRAIN_PORTION])
Remember, when you refer to a slice, the interpreter will build a temporary object that results from the given limits.

RESPONSE TO OP COMMENT
The reference I gave you does create a new list.  To avoid using more memory, pass the entire list and the desired limits, such as
process_function(data_set, 0, TRAIN_PORTION)
process_function(data_set, TRAIN_PORTION,
                           TRAIN_PORTION + VALIDATION_PORTION)
process_function(data_set,
                 TRAIN_PORTION + VALIDATION_PORTION,
                 len(data_set))

If you want to do this with just list slices, then please explain where you're having trouble, and why the various pieces of documentation and the tutorials aren't satisfying your needs.

A: If you would use numpy-arrays (your code actually looks like that), it's possible to use views (memory is shared). It's not always easy to understand which operation results in a view and which does not. Here are some hints.
Short example:
import numpy as np

a = np.random.normal(size=(1000, 10))
b = a[:600]
print (b.flags['OWNDATA'])
# False

print(b[3,2])
# 0.373994992467 (some random-val)

a[3,2] = 88888888

print(b[3,2])
# 88888888.0

print(a.shape)
# (1000, 10)
print(b.shape)
# (600, 10)

This will probably allow you to do some in-place shuffle at the beginning and then use those linear-segments of your data to obtain views of train, val, test.


Final salary pensions have reached a 'tipping point' and schemes will close over the next few years unless better ways of funding can be found, KPMG has predicted.
A survey from accounts KPMG found 22 per cent of FTSE 100 companies will not be able to clear their pension deficits.
For the first time, KPMG added, FTSE 100 companies are likely to spend as much on paying past employees' pensions as they are paying in contributions to current staff.
If this trend continues over the next five years, £4 of every £5 spent on defined benefit pensions will be for past liabilities, not new benefits, the report predicted.
Most blue-chip firms have already closed their final salary schemes to new employees but more will scrap them altogether as pressure increases.
Plunging stock markets, increasing longevity and higher administration costs have led to massive deficits for the remaining schemes and recent figures estimate the gap in funding for the top 100 UK companies at £96 billion.
With cash flow restricted in the financial crisis, many firms are reconsidering the benefit of maintaining a costly pension scheme.
"This is really death by a thousand cuts," said Ros Altmann, pensions policy adviser.
The government needs to step in and make pension rules more flexible, and issue longevity bonds – a kind of insurance that people will live longer than expected – to take on some of the risk, Dr Altmann said.
"I think that it is vital that members know what is going on," she added.
There are some 8,000 final salary schemes in the UK, with just a handful still open to new employees. Barclays and Wm Morrison were the most recent FTSE 100 companies to close their schemes to existing members.


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It was love at first sight for Claire and Bill Hudson. They met at Claire's fifth birthday party and they were destined to be together for the rest of their lives. When baby Georgia came along, it was the icing on the cake. So when a tragic accident snatched Bill away, Claire felt like she'd lost everything - except Georgia.
In the three years since, Claire has devoted her life to Georgia; she knows no man could ever replace Bill, and the child needs her all her attention. Now Georgia's a teenager, though, and there's one thing Claire can't advise her on: dating. And so, purely to help her lovely young daughter in her journey through the teenage years, Claire sets out on some serial dating.
And destiny is watching, again...
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At some point during many disability insurance claims, the claimant is compelled to undergo a so-called Independent Medical Examination, or "IME". The purpose of the IME is supposedly to have an uninterested, unbiased doctor examine you to verify whether your condition truly makes you totally disabled under your disability insurance policy's terms. However, IMEs are often used as yet another tool for the insurance company to attempt to deny or terminate your claim for disability benefits.
Though IMEs are labeled "independent", the doctors performing them are almost always selected and paid by the insurance company. Further, many of the IME providers are used over and over again by the same companies. IME doctors that depend on the insurance industry for their livelihood have a strong incentive to give the insurance companies results they desire–medical opinions that support the denial or termination of your disability claim.
The insurance company chose the IME doctor itself.
If a third-party company helped find the IME doctor, the insurance company selected the IME doctor from a handful of potential candidates.
Your claims consultant contacted the IME doctor directly to discuss your condition.
The IME doctor does not have a private practice, but only performs one-time medical evaluations for insurance companies, attorneys, and/or government agencies.
The IME doctor has performed numerous exams for the same insurance company.
The IME doctor depends on insurance exams for the majority of his or her income.
The IME doctor has published articles or given educational courses criticizing disability claimants.
The IME doctor is a former in-house employee of an insurance company.
The IME doctor usually finds that claimants are not totally disabled.
The IME doctor has been criticized for bias by a court or courts.
Some of these indicia of bias are more obvious than others, and many won't come to light unless you have a disability insurance attorney involved and/or have instituted litigation. If you have been scheduled for an IME and are concerned that the doctor is less than independent, review our steps for protecting yourself before, during and after the exam.


Well, I think you HAVE to be on a bus no later than 4 a.m., but I actually like to be on one of the first buses closer to 3 a.m. Either one will get you there on time, but I really like having some extra time to relax and get rid of my nerves once at the starting area.
Yes, it is really a 20 minute walk to the start. It's an easy walk, and I actually like it because it helps me to warm up and loosen my muscles a bit. Your bus ride will vary according to what resort you are coming from, but I would plan at least a 20 minute ride.


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La Orden de la Familia Real de Jorge V es un honor que el rey Jorge V otorgó a las mujeres miembros de la familia real británica .

La reina Isabel II fue la última receptora sobreviviente.

Apariencia
La cinta de la Orden de la Familia Real del Rey Jorge V es blanca.

Lista de destinatarios conocidos

 La reina, la esposa del rey
 Reina Alexandra, la madre del Rey
 La princesa María, princesa real y condesa de Harewood, hija del rey
 La princesa Luisa, princesa real, hermana del rey
 La princesa Victoria, hermana del rey
 Reina Maud de Noruega, hermana del rey
 Princesa Elena de Schleswig-Holstein, tía del rey
 La duquesa de Argyll, la tía del rey
 Princesa Beatriz de Battenberg, tía del rey
 La duquesa de Connaught, la tía del rey
 La duquesa de Albany, la tía del rey
 La duquesa de York, más tarde reina Isabel La reina madre, la nuera del rey
 La duquesa de Kent, más tarde princesa Marina, duquesa de Kent, nuera del rey
 La duquesa de Gloucester, más tarde princesa Alicia, duquesa de Gloucester, nuera del rey
 Princesa Isabel de York, luego duquesa de Edimburgo y luego reina, nieta del rey
 Princesa Margarita de York, más tarde princesa Margarita, condesa de Snowdon, nieta del rey
 Princesa Alicia, condesa de Athlone, prima hermana del rey
 Princesa Alejandra de Connaught, sobrina del rey
 Princesa Maud, sobrina del rey

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Órdenes de caballería del Reino Unido

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Božin Laskov (15. února 1922 – 2. dubna 2007) je bývalý bulharský fotbalový útočník, který reprezentoval Československo.

Za československou reprezentaci odehrál roku 1953 tři utkání, dvakrát startoval i v reprezentačním B mužstvu a dal zde jeden gól. V bulharské lize hrál za Levski Sofia (1941–1946), dal zde 40 branek v 56 ligových utkáních a dvakrát získal bulharský titul (1942, 1946), šestkrát reprezentoval i Bulharsko. V československé lize odehrál 158 utkání a dal 66 gólů. Hrál za SK Židenice (1946–1947), ŠK Bratislava (1947–1952) a ČH Bratislava (1953–1956). Se Slovanem získal třikrát titul mistra republiky (1949, 1950, 1951).

Odkazy

Reference

Literatura
 JEŘÁBEK, Luboš: Český a československý fotbal: lexikon osobností a klubů 1906–2006, Praha, Grada 2007.
 ŠEVČÍK, Josef: Králové ligového trůnu, Praha, Riopress 2004.

Externí odkazy
 Profil Božina Laskova na eu-football.info
 Statistiky ČMFS
 Božin Laskov na stránkách ŠK Slovan Bratislava
 PlayerHistory
 Profil na LevskiSofia.info

Bulharští fotbalisté
Českoslovenští fotbalisté
Fotbalisté FC Zbrojovka Brno
Fotbalisté Interu Bratislava
Fotbalisté Slovanu Bratislava
Fotbalisté Levski Sofia
Narození 15. února
Narození v roce 1922
Narození v Sofii
Úmrtí 2. dubna
Úmrtí v roce 2007
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Some things that have come up was an issue that doing this renders the .php file and therefore makes it difficult for the browser to decide how to handle it. Any other ideas? I'm pretty sure that at the end of the day this won't be something the company will do, but they wanted to see if any experiment I could run will work.

A: The browser doesn't handle PHP.  Content-Type doesn't matter here.
Look at your CGI or module configuration, to configure PHP to handle more than .php.  For PHP as a module:
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A: Handlers are specified with AddHandler. The mod_php handler is php5-script.
And the browser never handles PHP.


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On Writing Light
by Lauren Berlant
And how hard it is to do. I tried, in the last post, to say something about secrecy.
I don't even care about secrecy, usually, because the scenario of exposing what's unjustly censored has always seemed overdramatic to me, a distraction: all communication amounts to a defense, a performance of knowledge management that approximates some parts of reaching out to a thing while bracketing out others; and when information is hoarded to consolidate power, often the fact of the hoarding is overemphasized (Lies and Lying Liars, etc.) relative to the substance that was hoarded in power's treasury (see etymology in the last post).
Think about the word "disclosure." In the event of the revelation of the secret it just feels big because it reveals that control over history and the present has already been stolen from you (or the body politic), and thus the revelation delivers a quadruple shock (we discover and are forced to adjust to the news that we have not known a particular thing, nor known how to read the world, after all).
But I'd read an article that had excited me, and I wanted to report on how reading a thing had opened me up to a cluster of associations and bridging energies to do with my older work on the new state realism that embraces coping with terrorist secrecy by copying it and papers I'm going to write this spring countering some traditions of everyday life theorizing about encountering the present. The event of the secret, its meaning and force, is, paradoxically, how it's shared. That was the animating revelation for me.
But my mood was at so many removes from my writing. I could barely stay focused on feeling out the thing. So the writing in the last post sucked in such a deeply familiar way (my fingers typed "failed" and "familial" before they allowed the word they intended). Clotted. I was unhappy at how long it took to say a thing, anything, about the privilege of state secrecy and secrecy in love. So because I couldn't write with the energy I actually had I had to invent a new genre of riffing, the side effect. Yet even in that incarnation it feels, still, too heavy, each phrase adding a weight rather than folding in light.
Then today I'm rereading Eve Sedgwick's "Paranoid Reading" and "White Glasses" essays, the former of which I find such a strange combination of careful and willful argument and which I treasure for what it wills to hold out when it replaces "depressive position" with "reparative reading" on behalf of its commitment to creating, through writing, luminous part-objects or potentialities for gathering up qualia, intimate and associative knowledge. It is trying to convince itself that anger and paranoia can be not the whole story, that they can be interrupted by theory, an orientation toward an affective tendency to appreciate disorienting juxtapositions, mistakes, tenderness, and sweetness. Ideally there would be no compensations, one could just appreciate what's now. But that's not the plot of the thing, that's not the energy of repair.
I am writing this in a cafeteria of sorts. I smell french fries, and when I leave I will smell of french fries. That is not the vehicle I imagined myself being. Sedgwick: "If every refusal is, finally, a loyalty to some other bond in the present or the past, refusal is simultaneously preservation as well" ("White Glasses," 258). What did I want to be the transistor for, then? She cites Michael Moon's claim that this refusal is not just of all the sexualities with which one doesn't identify but a whole range of perversions that we deny without mourning. But is the sensual richness of polymorphous porousness merely amputated when one finds some comfort in being organized? Is the pleasure of form, of becoming oriented, only a defense against the pleasures of desire's perversity? Is mourning a structuring appetite, a structuring hunger from not being or having everything? (My old shrink said once, "You'd want everything too, if you thought you could get it.") Is the appetite for optimism the same thing, the slow and manageable leakage of a kind of exuberant animal greed that refuses the finality of loss? I don't intend these as rhetorical questions.
What lightens me most about Sedgwick is the need to connect, "the bitterness of not doing so" (260), and the need to make theory give permission to bunt one's head toward the beyond of what feels impossible. The style of "White Glasses" is to reiterate phrases and elaborate on them, to produce a kinetic energy to find new shapes of potentiality for the rageful, destructive, self-shredding affects. I want to build my skills for patience to stay longer than that in the transitional spaces, to not be overwhelmed while I pay attention to what's cracking irritatingly and inconveniently, to what's opening, what's confusing, and what's flourishing in the transitioning cracks. (The history of the present-in-transition.)
Piece originally published on Supervalent Thought, February 2008.
Image: Detail from Winston A. Hide: The American breakfast, 2019 (Unsplash)
Eve Sedgwick, Lauren Berlant, Secrecy, Writing
Lauren Berlant flies
Lauren Berlant Philosophy
Most of the writing we do is actually a performance of stuckness. It is a record of where we got stuck on a question for long enough to do some research and write out the whole knot until the original passion and curiosity that made us want to try to say something about something got so detailed.
Lauren Berlant's Love Theory
Both Derrida and Ronell suggest that saying yes is "telephonic," both in the sense that it resounds over a distance and therefore always is affected by distortion and delay, and that the telephone as technological apparatus not so much adds to these inherent obstructions as it stands model for them.
Lauren Berlant performs by clicking
Today I introduced Facebook to someone older than me and had a long conversation about what the point of networking amongst "friends" is. The person was so skeptical because to her stranger and distance-shaped intimacies are diminished forms of real intimacy.
'Writing, not writing; satisfied self and self-loathing golem'


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    The fungiform test suite.

    :copyright: (c) 2010 by the Fungiform Team.
    :license: BSD, see LICENSE for more details.
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import doctest
import unittest

def suite():
    from fungiform.tests import forms, utils, widgets
    pkg_prefix = ''.join(__name__.rpartition('.')[:-1])

    def DocTestSuite(name):
        return doctest.DocTestSuite(pkg_prefix + name)

    suite = unittest.TestSuite()
    suite.addTest(forms.suite())
    suite.addTest(utils.suite())
    suite.addTest(widgets.suite())
    suite.addTest(DocTestSuite('forms'))
    suite.addTest(DocTestSuite('redirects'))
    suite.addTest(DocTestSuite('utils'))
    suite.addTest(DocTestSuite('widgets'))
    return suite

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    unittest.main(defaultTest='suite')

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Pennsylvania officials ask for patience as ballot count continues | US & Canada
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Malvern, Pennsylvania, United States – Hours after Election Day voting came to a close in the United States elections, officials in the battleground state of Pennsylvania said it could take days to count all the remaining ballots – and not to expect final results on Wednesday.
Before noon local time (17:00 GMT), President Donald Trump had a solid lead in the state, but Democratic candidate Joe Biden could still win as mail ballots are likely to skew blue.
Only about 50 percent of the state's mail votes have been counted so far, said Pennsylvania Commonwealth Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar.
"We are exactly where we said we would be," said Boockvar, who emphasised that the election went smoothly with no major issues. "We said it was going to take some time to count the mail ballots."
An election worker is seen as mail-in ballots are counted in Chester County, Pennsylvania [Rachel Wisniewski/Reuters]
That was echoed by Governor Tom Wolf, who said "the delay that we're seeing is a sign that the system is working".
"We may not know the results even today, but the most important thing is that we have accurate results, even if that takes a little longer than we're used to," Wolf said during a press briefing Wednesday morning.
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Trump accused the Democrats of trying to steal the election and said he would use the Supreme Court to stop ballots from being counted.
Rebecca Green, a lawyer specialising in election law, said there is nothing strange about the fact that the ballot count was ongoing.
"There's nothing extraordinary about the vote count going past election night and results simply are not official until states certify those, which can take a week to 10 days after the election," she told Al Jazeera.
Onlookers should patiently wait for all the ballots to be counted and take comfort in the fact there were no huge problems in Pennsylvania's election, Green said.
However, she said two major legal disputes about Pennsylvania ballots could resurface, depending on how close the final results are in the state.
The first involves whether mail ballots that were sent in by Election Day but arrive up to three days later can still be counted.
State officials said Wednesday that millions of mail ballots still need to be counted in Pennsylvania [Matt Slocum/AP]
Ballots mailed after Election Day won't count, Green explained, but the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that ballots mailed on Election Day that arrive up to three days later would still be tallied.
There was a challenge to whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court had the authority to make such a ruling, and the US Supreme Court said it would not intervene either way in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decision.
Still, Green said the issue of whether these ballots count could surface again if the number of these ballots is enough to make a difference in the outcome. "Then it could become a very live dispute," she said.
Ballot curing
Another piece of litigation that Green said she is watching is a challenge to the way some Pennsylvania jurisdictions have allowed voters to "cure" their ballots – allowing voters to fix mistakes that would otherwise invalidate their votes, such as problems with their signatures, for example.
Green said that process is potentially a violation because Pennsylvania either must let everyone cure their ballot or no one. "You just can't do it selectively," she said.
We may not know the results even today, but the most important thing is that we have accurate results, even if that takes a little longer than we're used to.
Tom Wolf, governor of Pennsylvania
If the final ballot count is close in Pennsylvania, a candidate can request a recount, she said. A candidate could also contest the results by alleging fraud or misconduct, but in that case, they would need evidence of those allegations, she added.
Wolf, the governor, said he had faith that Pennsylvania would see a fair election.
"The promise of Democracy is that every vote counts … and I intend here in Pennsylvania to keep that promise," he said.
"I will do everything within my power to ensure the results are fair and that every vote is counted."
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March was a month that left as quickly as it came. A roller coaster of both excitement, and stress – but hey that's life right?
Here's a peek into our life the last month, in chronological order, through some shots from my trusty (and now shattered) iPhone.
Wonderful photos! What does the sign mean – a hire hores? Different language? Spanish?
Haha, thanks! funny thing… it's actually a Development called "Sapphire Shores" but some local kids manipulated it to be something a bit more off collar.


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Just had a lovely three days out. Weather a bonus. Thanks to Richardson's for allowing us to moor in Stalham for a few hours on Sunday as the Staithe was fully occupied. Can't wait to get out and about again!
Clive, so sorry. We had the pleasure of meeting at a couple Hampton Safari meets. Our thoughts are with you. Take care Jim and Sue.
Looking forward to it in particular, and the longer days in general.
I took it Marshman was being tongue in cheek.
Another email received today (just in case anyone is trying to get in or out!) Saline Barrier at Potter Heigham This email is to notify you that the saline barrier at the entrance to Herbert Woods boatyard will remain closed until Friday 11 January. The high tides of recent days are taking longer to drain out to sea than usual, so salt concentrations remain high within the river system. Kind Regards, Norfolk Land & Water team.
Received this email: Saline Barrier at Potter Heigham This email is to inform you that the saline barrier at the entrance to Herbert Woods boatyard is likely to be closed on Tuesday 8 January. We are expecting that it will remain closed until Thursday 10 January. A further email will be sent if the situation changes. Further information can be found in the attached leaflet. Kind Regards, Norfolk Land & Water team.
Ah yes I have fond memories crossing from Eltham to Essex for work in the 70's. I used like waiting in the queue reading the paper and having a coffee from a flask (no Costa or Starbucks then?
I would like the moorings to be quality 24 hrs with water and electric, a seasonal shop for essentials (possibly run by the Bridge Inn owners) as they are "on site" . Maybe toilets and showers and a visitor centre.
As I understand it, if the boat we are talking about is an old Broom by the water point, a notice has been issued. Somebody was onboard last night, but that is not to say there is not a valid excuse for overstaying. I don't know all (any) of the circumstances.
Not strictly a "Broads" boat as built in Poland! We bought her new in 2005 and over about ten years explored most of the Broads. Sold her to buy a Hampton Safari and she ended up in Southampton. I'm told the 10hp engine was changed for a 90hp and she planed for the first time!