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Century for Centenary Project
The Waverley Amateur Radio Society is on the countdown to its centenary on 27 January 2019!
The 'Century for Centenary Project' is the first of the activities to celebrate the centenary of the club's founding in 1919.
The 'Century for Centenary Project' is very simply, a project intended to encourage member's activity on the radio, with the aim of achieving the DXCC (DX Century Club) award, and as many other operating awards as possible for club callsign VK2BV, in the next three years to the centenary in 2019.
Operating awards are issued for achievements in working contacts and receiving verifications by QSL. Examples of some awards include the 'DX Century Club' for working and QSLing 100 DX 'countries' (entities) on HF, or 'Worked All States' on VHF. There are a range of operating awards on offer through a number of programmes administered by the WIA, ARRL, eQSL and QRZ.com among others. Don't forget that you can work toward awards in the different programmes with your own callsigns.
Participation in the 'Century for Centenary Project' is simple:
Financial club members are encouraged to activate the club callsign VK2BV, either from the club station (on-site or remote) or via their home station and make contacts!
You can make contacts using any mode or band you are personally permitted to operate on according to your license class. eg. If you are a Foundation license holder, you may use VK2BV only on the bands, modes and power permitted to a Foundation license. Note also that VOIP contacts (eg Echolink, IRLP, DStar etc) do not count toward awards.
All contacts must be logged accurately (in UTC) using a PC logger.
Your VK2BV log files (ADIF format preferred) should be exported and emailed (as often as possible) to the club QSL Manager VK2VEL, who will add them to the club's master logbook and load them to Logbook of the World, eQSL and QRZ.com, or send out an old fashioned QSL card via the bureau.
That's it! You don't have to do anything other than operate your radio, log the contacts, and email the logs to the QSL Manager.
Results and Future Targets
The 'Century for Centenary Project' has already hit the ground running! When the club's long neglected logs and QSL records (mostly dating from 2008 onwards – sadly, most of the logs before 2008 have been lost) were consolidated and entered into the WIA Award system (which counts LoTW, eQSL and paper QSL cards), we were pleasantly surprised to find that we had achieved three awards:
WIA 100 Grid Squares (HF, Open)
International Amateur Radio Union 'Worked All Continents' (Open)
IARU 'Worked All Continents' (Phone)
There are many more awards for the club to work on! If you have any questions about participating in the project, require specific information about any particular award, or simply have any question about logs, QSLs and operating awards, please contact Edwin VK2VEL.
The following are a snapshot of just four of many award areas in the WIA Award programme for the club to work towards:
Multi-mode DXCC
DXCC achieved by operating mode on HF. In the Open category, the club has 50 DX entities (or 'countries') verified, with another 50 to go! There is 1 'deleted country' the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) for a contact in 1988. The ladder shows the numbers required for each mode, as of April 2016. The spreadsheet is a detailed list of the verified 'countries' as of April 2016.
Spread sheet: VK2BV multi-band DXCC (open)
Multi-band DXCC
DXCC achieved by band and operating mode on HF. The award is issued for the number of bands in each mode. The ladder is only an extract showing the two mode and bands where the club has had the most contacts. These are 20m band, open mode with 43 countries; and 20m band, phone mode with 37 countries
Worked All States VHF
Worked All States (VK) on 6m and 2m. The ladder show that the club has most progress on 6m, with 3 'states' of 8 verified.
International Amateur Radio Union 'Worked All Continents'
Worked All Continents on HF. Open and Phone categories have already been awarded, and the club isn't far off CW or Digital. Only paper QSLs are counted for the IARU awards, and it's a slow return trip via the QSL bureau, so start working CW and Data modes!
Further information on the WIA Awards programme, including a complete list of operating awards: http://www.wia.org.au/members/awards/about/
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Join the CW Special Interest Group online on Thursdays. Group meets via Zoom and practices with various tools online. Meeting details are available from the club mailouts or by contacting Skip VK2ALR.
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Former U.S. Ambassador To The Soviet Union: The U.S. And Nato Are Provoking The Ukrainian Crisis
September 5, 2014 September 6, 2014 by Infinite
– Former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union: The U.S. and Nato Are Provoking the Ukrainian Crisis (Washington's Blog, Sep 5, 2014):
Encircling Russia and Arming Ukraine Are What's Provoking the Bear
Jack Matlock, U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991, says that the U.S. and NATO are to blame for the Ukraine crisis:
The fact is they are going to intervene until they are certain that there is no prospect of Ukraine becoming a member of NATO. And all of the threats by NATO and so on to sort of increase defenses elsewhere is simply provocative to the Russians. Now, I'm not saying that's right, but I am saying that's the way Russia is going to react. And frankly, this is all predictable. And those of us who helped negotiate the end of the Cold War almost unanimously said in the 1990s, "Do not expand NATO eastward. Find a different way to protect eastern Europe, a way that includes Russia. Otherwise, eventually there's going to be a confrontation, because there is a red line, as far as any Russian government is concerned, when it comes to Ukraine and Georgia and other former republics of the Soviet Union."
There needs to be an understanding between Russia and the Ukrainians as to how to solve this problem. It is not going to be solved militarily. So the idea that we should be giving more help to the Ukrainian government in a military sense simply exacerbates the problem. And the basic problem is Ukraine is a deeply divided country. And as long as one side tries to impose its will on the other—and that is what has happened since February, the Ukrainian nationalists in the west have been trying to impose their will on the east, and the Russians aren't going to permit that. And that is the fact of the matter. So, yes, there simply needs to be an agreement.
And most of the—I would say, the influence of the West in trying to help the Ukrainians by, I would say, defending them against the Russians tends to be provocative, because—you know, Putin is right: If he decided, he could take Kiev. Russia is a nuclear power. And Russia feels that we have ignored that, that we have insulted them time and time again, and that we are out to turn Ukraine into an American puppet that surrounds them. And, you know, with that sort of psychology, by resisting that, in Russian eyes, he has gained unprecedented popularity. So, it seems to me that we have to understand that, like it or not, the Ukrainians are going to have to make an agreement that's acceptable to them, if they keep their unity.
Ukraine is not a member of NATO. And why we react as if it is and has any claim on our cooperation in defending them from Russia, this is simply not the case.
We've previously reported that it's the West's encirclement of Russia – breaking a key promise which led to the break-up of the Soviet Union – which is behind the Ukraine crisis.
Matlock confirmed that the U.S. and the West promised that the U.S. and Nato would not move East and try to encircle Russia:
When the Berlin Wall came down, when eastern Europe began to try to free itself from the Communist rule, the first President Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, met with Gorbachev in Malta, and they made a very important statement. One was we were no longer enemies. The second was the Soviet Union would not intervene in eastern Europe to keep Communist rule there. And in response, the United States would not take advantage of that.
Now, this was a—you might say, a gentlemen's agreement between Gorbachev and President Bush. It was one which was echoed by the other Western leaders—the British prime minister, the German chancellor, the French president. As we negotiated German unity, there the question was: Could a united Germany stay in NATO? At first, Gorbachev said, "No, if they unite, they have to leave NATO." And we said, "Look, let them unite. Let them stay in NATO. But we will not extend NATO to the territory of East Germany." Well, it turned out that legally you couldn't do it that way, so in the final agreement it was that all of Germany would stay in NATO, but that the territory of East Germany would be special, in that there would be no foreign troops—that is, no non-German troops—and no nuclear weapons. Now, later—at that time, the Warsaw Pact was still in place. We weren't talking about eastern Europe. But the statements made were very general. At one point, Secretary Baker told Gorbachev NATO jurisdiction would not move one inch to the east. Well, he had the GDR in mind, but that's not what he said specifically.
So, yes, if I had been asked when I was ambassador of the United States in Moscow in 1991, "Is there an understanding that NATO won't move to the east?" I would have said, "Yes, there is." However, it was not a legal commitment, and one could say that once the Soviet Union collapsed, any agreement then maybe didn't hold, except that when you think about it, if there was no reason to expand NATO when the Soviet Union existed, there was even less reason when the Soviet Union collapsed and you were talking about Russia. And the reason many of us—myself, George Kennan, many of us—argued against NATO expansion in the '90s was precisely to avoid the sort of situation we have today. It was totally predictable. If we start expanding NATO, as we get closer to the Russian border, they are going to consider this a hostile act. And at some point, they will draw a line, and they will do anything within their power to keep it from going any further. That's what we're seeing today.
In March, Matlock said:
How would Americans feel if some Russian or Chinese or even West European started putting bases in Mexico or in the Caribbean, or trying to form governments that were hostile to us? You know, we saw how we virtually went ballistic over Cuba. And I think that we have not been very attentive to what it takes to have a harmonious relationship with Russia.
In the Orange Revolution in Kiev, foreigners, including Americans, were very active in organizing people and inspiring them.
I have to ask Americans: How would Occupy Wall Street have looked if you had foreigners out there leading them? Do you think that would have helped them get their point across? I don't think so. And I think we have to understand that when we start directly interfering, particularly our government officials, in the internal makeup of other governments, we're really asking for trouble. [The U.S. State Department spent more than $5 billion dollars in pushing Ukraine towards the West. The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine (Geoffrey Pyatt) and assistant Secretary of State (Victoria Nuland) were also recorded plotting the downfall of the former Ukraine government in a leaked conversation. Top-level U.S. officials literally handed out cookies to the protesters who overthrew the Ukrainian government. And the U.S. has been doing everything it can to trumpet pro-Ukrainian and anti-Russian propaganda. So – without doubt – the U.S. government is heavily involved with fighting a propaganda war regarding Ukraine.]
Now, what have we been telling the Ukrainians, the Georgians—at least some of us, officials? "Just hold on. You can join NATO, and that will solve your problems for you." You know, and yet, it is that very prospect, that the United States and its European allies were trying to surround Russia with hostile bases, that has raised the emotional temperature of all these things. And that was a huge mistake. As George Kennan wrote back in the '90s when this question came up, the decision to expand NATO the way it was done was one of the most fateful and bad decisions of the late 20th century.
I just hope everyone can calm down and look at realities and stop trying to start sort of a new Cold War over this. As compared to the issues of the Cold War, this is quite minor. It has many of the characteristics of a family dispute. And when outsiders get into a family dispute, they're usually not very helpful.
We should start keeping our voice down and sort of let things work out. You know, to ship in military equipment and so on is just going to be a further provocation. Obviously, this is not something that's going to be solved by military confrontations. So, I think if we can find a way to speak less in public, to use more quiet diplomacy—and right now, frankly, the relationships between our presidents are so poisonous, they really should have representatives who can quietly go and, you know, work with counterparts elsewhere.
We do have to understand that a significant part of the violence at the Maidan, the demonstrations in Kiev, were done by these extreme right-wing, sort of neo-fascist groups. And they do—some of their leaders do occupy prominent positions in the security forces of thenew government. And I think—I think the Russians and others are quite legitimately concerned about that.
In related news:
A writer for the Council on Foreign Relations says the West – and not Russia – is to blame for the Ukraine crisis
Former high-level American intelligence officials who battled the Soviet Union for years say that U.S. claims of Russian aggression arebaseless. And see this
Former Polish president – and famed anti-communist activist – Lech Walesa warns that the U.S. and Nato's arming of Ukraine could lead to a nuclear war
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3 thoughts on "Former U.S. Ambassador To The Soviet Union: The U.S. And Nato Are Provoking The Ukrainian Crisis"
Obama has done all he can to cause a war with Russia. He cannot get any allies or a coalition, so has cooked up this fake ISIS crap, going into the Ukraine as an excuse. A backward way to start a war in someone's back yard.
What these fools don't seem to understand is that Putin used to be a head member of the KGB & won't be fooled by this nonsense. BRICS is Putin's creation, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are the leading members of his financial coalition. The US has no allies, rich or poor. It is hated around the world, even by aware people at home.
ISIS was unheard of 90 days ago…..and suddenly, they are the new "Al Kaida goona get you" bullshit. They realized nobody was buying that line any longer, they cooked up another group with easier initials. Even the beheadings are old film…….lets get real.
What I find appalling is that the fools who watch US media buy this line of crap. But, the rest of the world does not.
The US is begging to be slapped down, but I don't think another 911 will cut it. Putin will not sit by and let the US invade the Ukraine. But, his strike will not be military, it will be financial…..and the US cannot fight back and win.
I have been saying this for a while; the real war has been economic, and the US is losing badly. Putin, now with BRICS behind him, is going to strike, but it won't be military……it will be economic, and the US cannot fight back with success.
This is beyond stupid. The Manchurian candidate in the white house is not showing a drop of intelligence by acting this way. He is taking orders from some dangerous people who don't care what happens to the US.
Cenk Yeuger broke this story a month ago…..Obama was the only person ever to be made editor of the Harvard Review without submitting a single paper. He was planned and planted years ago, and desperate Americans bought him.
Cenk Yeuger was one of the most popular and accurate news casters on MSNBC, he had a website called the Young Turks. He took the name to MSNBC, they fired him for being too hard on Obama. He was picked up by Current, and fired when it was sold. No US TV station will pick him up, he has been blackballed.
No journalist of such high standards can survive on US media today. All are plastic, talking heads promoting the US lies, or they get fired. Look at what happened to Dylin Ratigan and Keith Olbermann. They are forgotten.
The US will suffer some incredible economic losses if it continues to go after Putin through the Ukraine. The Ukraine has a puppet government set up by the US, and it is a joke……a bitter one. Nobody believe a word the US says, all credibility is gone.
Putin now has many solvent allies, and Russia itself is making money. The US, the power of day before yesterday, cannot overcome their financial warfare. The US has become the Sick Man of the Americas…….all show and no content.
I estimate Putin will spearhead more financial strikes against the US. The US has become the rogue nation, as was Germany in 1940.
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I started as a painter. I received my BFA from The Memphis Academy of Arts, then went to New York City to get my MFA in painting at Hunter College. I ended up going to the New York Restaurant School, since my scholarship didn't afford me enough money to live in the city.
The night of my graduation from cooking school, I met a girl in the bathroom of the Lone Star Café who had a catering company - Susana Trilling. I needed money and went to work for her the next day doing prep for her catering business called Seasons of My Heart. At the time, Susanna was the darling of the NY press. Now, she has a cooking school in Oaxaca, Mexico. Susanna asked me to drop out of grad school to help her open a restaurant.
We opened Rick's 181 Lounge, then The Bon Ton Roulet. It was a wild ride. We catered all over the city - from video shoots for Stray Cats, The Clash, the opening of the Nile Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, private dinners for Mike Nichols in his townhome. It was New York City in the 1980s, and it was an amazing, exciting time.
I believe what makes a great chef is the ability to delegate with a firm hand and a warm heart. You are only as good as your cohorts in crime, the people who support you and work alongside you. I can have every concept in the world. I can't do it alone. You can't cook the food, create the menu, talk to customers, bail someone out of jail, and fix the art on the wall or a light out in the ceiling by yourself.
The restaurant family is a perfect starter family. You break bread everyday with these guys. You sweat, work long hours, talk about your sore muscles, have drinks together at the end of a shift; all the while telling distorted tales, listening to their girlfriend or boyfriend problems. You stroke their egos, scream at 'em, joke with 'em, and smile and give 'em a hug when you see their pretty faces the next morning.
To me, the most important thing is the ability to awaken emotion in others. We are craftsmen with a spiritual message. I believe we are trying to convey a message.
There are things one should understand in this crazy business of food. Part of one's success is luck and part is passion: your determination, your art, your belief that you will do what it takes to make it. This is a hard business. You should do it for the passion. You will be spending more time with your restaurant family than your real family.
You have to sacrifice everything to make it happen. It doesn't matter what you do in life, you should give it 150 percent. That's your calling card. That's your art.
When you're opening a place, it can't be a power struggle. I'm not a "Yes Chef/No Chef" kind of person. That's not what I strive for in my kitchen. It's familia. I have people who've worked with me for 27 years, 20 years, 15 years, 8 years. You have to treat them the way you want to be treated. You have to build them up. Loyalty and respect are what make a restaurant family, and that is the secret of my success.
Drugs and alcohol are part of the culture. I was a child of the 1960s, a hippie. We were very experimental and changed the world as our parents knew it. I have a lot of empathy for kids coming up today. There were no rehabs back when we were experimenting. You didn't hear about addicts.
Addiction is sometimes bred in the industry. You work hard. It's physical, and when the gig is done, you are wired up. You want to clean your station, wash your face, scrub your nails and get to the bar. Drink a beer, a cocktail, a shot.
It doesn't mean people don't have integrity in their work. Some will fall through the cracks, while others will rise. You can spot the gems in our kitchen - at least I can. They are the ones that have the burning to learn, to taste, to work harder than their co-workers, come back the next day and be excited to do it again. These are the warriors!
The front of the house has to project a certain feel to the customer. The waiters, bartenders, managers have to convey the knowledge of the food, cocktails, history of the space, and the city they are representing. My waiters say, "You're so pretty," to the Wild Indians on Mardi Gras morning when they come out on Fat Tuesday. And that's what I think about my staff. They are so pretty. I want them to have their own fashionable flare.
Keep your chef coats clean, your hair pulled back. There are times when cooks haven't washed their clothes. I've called people out for bad breath, for not wearing deodorant. I've told people they can't have long beards. You can't come to work sleeveless. You may have beautiful yoga arms, but you still can't do it!
I'm big on make up. I do believe in really pretty people in the front of the house. Customers want to see these gorgeous people. It helps.
I remember once, when I had my first restaurant downtown, a guy came in to apply. They called me out from the office to interview him. He was drop dead gorgeous, a musician, so adorable.
I said right away, "You're hired!" He was way too handsome to let go.
My co-workers said, "Karen, you can't hire him. He has no experience."
I said, "We can train him..."
I won't hire people who've jumped around a lot. People with six month stints on their resume, I won't touch them. They're just bouncing. I'm looking for stability, longevity, and loyalty.
I get bored about every six years. I want to change things. I really believe that if you think it's okay to rest on your laurels, you're finished. To me these restaurants are just like paintings. I've been opening restaurants for so long, it's become second nature to me.
My new concept is called Back Do'. Like, "Hey man, meet me at my back door," but in Memphis slang. It's outside the back door of The Beauty Shop. It's our backyard. I plan on having a small above ground pool, a large grill where we only smoke jerk fish, chicken, and whole pig (from my son's farm), picnic tables, a bar, and movies projected on the back wall - hopefully from local filmmakers. We'll close during winter.


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Heffron's promoter Frank Warren won the purse bids to stage Welborn's (24-6) second title defence and the fight will take place before the end of this year.
Heffron (20-0) will have a warm-up at Leicester's Morningside Arena on Saturday October 6 before the biggest test of his career.
The Oldham puncher who has KO'd 16 of his victims said: "Welborn is pretty one-dimensional, comes forward, looks solid and it is a fight I cannot wait to happen.
"I am definitely the bigger, stronger fighter and if he wants to come and meet me in the centre of the ring he'll realise I'm strong."
"I have been a long time waiting for this chance so I am absolutely buzzing. I couldn't be more ready.
"I have spent time boxing on small shows and now this fight will put me on Frank's big TV shows. I am hoping it is going to be on the Josh Warrington-Carl Frampton card in December
"Fighting on small hall shows and being down the bill on bigger shows has been a great experience and done me good."
Heffron, 26, has been a professional for eight years and is targeting world ranked Martin Murray if he gets past Welborn.
He added: "It is one step at a time and all about getting the right fights, but next year if all goes well against Welborn I'm looking at facing men like Martin Murray.
"I want to win the British title, make a defence and then move on to men like Martin."
Heffron admits that he has often been accused of jumping trainers during his career, but insists he's settled under Robert Rimmer.
He explained: "My manager Kevin Maree helped me out for the last couple of fights and now I am with Robert.
"I get plenty one-to-one time with him and he is always varying training away from the gym with different runs and swimming. There is something different every day.
"It looks like I have jumped from gym to gym, but I have been using different gyms when I haven't had a fight date.
"I haven't actually had lots of trainers like people think because I have been using different gyms when I haven't had a fight."
Birmingham's Welborn, 32, took the British title from Tommy Langford on a split decision in May. he repeated that win with another split decision in their rematch earlier this month.
The Time Is Now' is headlined by Jack Catterall v Ohara Davies. Leicester's own, Lyon Woodstock defends his WBO European Super-Featherweight title against Archie Sharp. Heavyweight prospect Daniel Dubois takes on former world title challenger Kevin Johnson. Olympian and double gold medallist Nicola Adams will be fighting Isabel Millan for the Interim WBO World Female Flyweight Title and Leicester's British Super-Featherweight champion Sam Bowen also feature on a major night of boxing televised live on BT Sport.


I accepted an offer from a company and decided to inform my Manager. Out of respect, I felt it wouldn't be a great idea to directly resign without having a word with him first.
This is a bit surprising. I'll talk to you soon. Have lots of expectations.
Perhaps it was a typo and he meant "(I) had lots of expectations (from you), so it's disappointing to see you on the verge of resigning"
If it matters, this is a big US MNC who has offshore development offices in India.
A bit of background about my work history at this company. I'm a relatively new hire (about 6 months). There was no probationary period as I was already an experienced candidate. From my interactions with my Manager (though very little), it appeared that he was happy with my performance. I had also got raving reviews from the client in only my second project in the company, which was duly forwarded to the whole of India team by him.
I had also worked from home many times during this time and he didn't seem to have any problems with that as I always delivered on time and without much issues. So all in all, I can say that I was a performing employee.
We can't speak for your manager, only way to find out what he meant is to have a discussion with him.
Most likely, having expectations (on a positive note) indicates he is willing to "negotiate" with you about the retention. That's the best guess, but, a guess nonetheless.
There is nothing to be worried, have the discussion and you'll find out yourself.
Simply don't react to it! Just continue your move.
I think it's an expression of disappointment that you're leaving so soon and they had planned your work and contribution well into the future.
The use of 'have' over 'had' might be a prelude to a counter-offer.
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12th mid night I came back from Beijing, 13th morning my 200YTT with The yoga Mandala started.
I didn't feel ready but my worries were unnecessary as Jessica knows exactly what to do with each participant's condition.
First weeks' class, the Paranayama, the Surya Namaskar n the meaning of yoga.
To many it may sounds easy n simple, but trust me, it's never easy when u try to do everything in the most correct way! Not to mention the most basic is the most important!
I have practiced yoga for almost 4 years now and sometime I don't feel right in certain poses or even get injured from it, n now with the efforts to start from very basic, doing every alignment right n prepare every pose step by step, with the evidently progress I've made, I more than ever realize the importance of learning how n why, rather then just rush into it.
This is also the fundamental knowledge for a good yoga teacher!


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Mortal Kombat 11 PC Price, Editions, System Requirements Revealed
By Pranay Parab | Updated: 18 January 2019 10:45 IST
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Mortal Kombat 11, which is an upcoming game that's a part of the long-running and popular fighting game series, is now listed on Steam and that gives us some details we've been waiting for. Specifically, we now know what Mortal Kombat 11 PC price in India is going to be, apart from which PC editions will be available in the country and their system requirements. NetherRealm Studios' upcoming game Mortal Kombat 11 can be played on mid-range PCs, and doesn't require ultra high-end hardware, which is good news for PC gamers. The NetherRealm Studios says the game will also get Customer Character Variations, allowing players to personalise the fighters. Here's everything you need to know about Mortal Kombat 11 for PC.
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Beating one of the few teams already eliminated from the playoff race is in itself not that big a deal.
It's called doing what you're supposed to do.
But for these Celtics, their 92-83 victory over the Orlando Magic on Friday night was more than just another victory.
It was the latest installment in a season filled with teachable moments and lessons that can bolster in some fashion their chances at a deep playoff run.
While there's no way they're going to go far without their core guys Kyrie Irving, Marcus Smart and Jaylen Brown, getting guys to fill in for them and still manage to win, is important in this team's overall development in both the present and future.
No one on the Celtics' roster can score like Irving, the league's 11th-ranked scorer at 24.4 points per game.
Still, getting his fill-ins Terry Rozier and Shane Larkin to go for 17 and 10 points certainly helps.
And Jaylen Brown's ability to play both ends of the floor at a high level is huge, but rookie Abdel Nader has shown he too has some potential to be a solid two-way talent.
Smart's defense sets him apart from others, but the Celtics collectively were able to make up for that with an impressive defensive rating of 83.1 against the Orlando.
And their collective efforts serve as yet another teachable moment for the Celtics.
There may not be another Celtic whose stock has risen more than Terry Rozier's this season. He has become a reliable two-way talent off the bench whose capable of giving you starter-like production when needed. He had 17 points against the Magic along with seven rebounds and five assists.
With Marcus Smart (right thumb) out for the rest of the regular season, Terry Rozier in the starting lineup along with Marcus Morris, those are three really big chunks of Boston's second unit no longer coming off the bench. The second unit players might have been different, but that didn't affect the Celtics' bench from impacting the game in a significant way. Against the Magic, they outscored Orlando's backups, 39-28.
He signed with the Boston Celtics at a time when a role for him was far from defined. His patience and Boston's faith in him has paid for both as Larkin continues to be that utility player that Brad Stevens has leaned on at times. Larkin was solid off the bench, scoring 10 points.
This may be one of the closest Coach of the Year votes we have ever had in the NBA. Regardless how short the list may be, you can bet Brad Stevens will be on it. The way he has been positioning the Celtics to be among the last teams standing despite all the injuries they have endured this season, speaks to his ability to not just draw up X's and O's but also his ability to develop players who when called upon to play, are more than ready for the challenge.
It's fair to expect the Celtics are going to be short-handed for the rest of the season, which means those still around have to step their game up – Horford included.
For Horford, stepping up involves being more assertive as a scorer and not rely as much on his skills as a play-maker. We saw that from Horford on Friday, as he tallied a near double-double of 15 points and nine rebounds but more important, he took a game-high 18 shot attempts.


One Constitutional right a defendant holds is that of a fair trial. Included with this right, is the right to have a judge with no actual bias against the defendant nor interest in the outcome of the defendant's case. A judge should never act as a defendant's proponent or opponent in any given case. When a defendant, in a criminal case, claims that the judge showed bias, the record from the trial is reviewed to see if the defendant was deprived his or her due process of law.
Bias, though, does not encompass unfavorable rulings, expressions of impatience, dissatisfaction, annoyance, nor anger. During the trial, if the judge makes critical, disapproving, or hostile comments to the counsel, parties, or about their cases, this still does not support a claim of bias.
A trial judge is permitted to make ordinary efforts at keeping up with the administration of the courtroom, even if his or her efforts are stern and short-tempered. In the Texas Appeals Case, McDaniel, a defense counsel went beyond the scope of material that should be presented in his opening statement. The trial judge in the case interrupted counsel to keep him on point, and explained to counsel what subjects needed to be addressed in his opening statement. After trial, the defendant claimed that the judge was displaying biased against his counsel. The appeals court though explained that the "trial judge may control the courtroom by asking defense counsel to confine himself to what is supposed to be in an opening statement."
Courts have explained that bias is a favorable or unfavorable opinion that is inappropriate because it is not deserved, rests upon knowledge that the judge should not possess, or because it is excessive. These remarks made by the trial judge, must reveal a high degree of favoritism or opposition making it impossible for the defendant to have a fair outcome.
In the Supreme Court case Liteky, German-American citizens were on trial in an espionage case. During the proceedings, the judge presiding over the case commented that German-Americans have hearts "reeking with disloyalty." This comment was found to be biased and reflective of a trial judge displaying partiality.
The Constitution is applicable to all citizens of the United States, whether defendant or judge. If a judge displays bias in any trial, as defined in the above information, he or she is not immune from having their actions examined.


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Home GHANA LOCAL NEWS 7,575 girls drop out of school over pregnancy
7,575 girls drop out of school over pregnancy
National data collected by EMIS of the Ministry of Education indicate that 7,575 girls in basic and senior high schools truncated their education due to unplanned pregnancy.
The 2016/2017 academic year figure shows that 1,444 girls in the primary dropped out of school as a result of pregnancy whilst 5,254 and 877 in the Junior High Schools (JHSs) and Senior High Schools (SHSs) respectively, were not spared from the consequences of unprotected sex.
These alarming figures, according to Margaret-Nsiah Asamoah, Tema Metro Director of Education, must be of concern to parents and society.
The continuous high rate of teenage pregnancy poses a security threat to the nation in that, more of the young mothers, who are unemployed, would add to the unemployed youthful population more children whose upkeep would stretch the resources of the state.
Mrs Asamoah observed that girls, some as young as 10, drop out of school yearly, because of pregnancy "and I am troubled because our daughters, whom we, as parents, call our children, will also be giving birth to their own children when they are still children."
The causes of the teenage pregnancy among the young female pupils are legion and in her view, the rules to discipline children to be moral are fairly lax, and so today's children have the audacity to bend moral values.
Some parents, whose views awakenewsonline sought on the moral decadence, did not shy blaming parents for their irresponsibility.
They were of the view that society should revisit the discipline in the generation before today's to correct the moral ills in the country.
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Eaton Hong Kong is well located in the heart of Kowloon, offering easy access to the shops and markets of the area, making it a great base for exploring the whole city. The hotel offers complimentary tours, after which the rooftop pool is great after a day sightseeing.
Eaton Hong Kong is only 200 yards from popular Temple Street.
Modern rooms feature panoramic views of Kowloon City and classic dark wood furnishings. They are fitted with cable TV channels and tea/coffee making facilities. Select rooms offer flat-screen TVs and iPod docks.
Eaton Hong Kong has a well equipped fitness centre, a rooftop swimming pool and free Tai Chi classes.
The Hotel also offers various dining options on-site. The Michelin starred Cantonese restaurant Yat Tung Heen features an open kitchen that serves Chinese delicacies and Dim Sum. Guests can also unwind with a cool drink at Flower Years. It also features the Astor and Eaton Food Hall.
2019 Package holidays to the Eaton Hong Kong Prices are per person based on two sharing.


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RAMALLAH, September 10 (JMCC) - A London theater group acted out Shakespeare's Tempest for an engaged, if rowdy, audience in Bethlehem's Aida refugee camp, the Independent reports.
True there were no mobile phones, a few of which trilled during the performance, in Shakespeare's time. But close your eyes and you could just about imagine that the children sucking ice lollies running up and down the steps of the Aida refugee camp's open-air auditorium, were behaving much as the Globe's younger groundlings would have done four centuries ago.
Given this was a young Palestinian audience presented with a straight Shakespearian text with only periodic Arabic synopses it was a tribute to the British Jericho House theatre's cast that so many stayed until the end.
And there was something irresistible about seeing The Tempest – its themes identified by advance publicity of territorial conflict, displacement and political renewal– in the shadow-literally-of the forbidding eight metre-high separation wall built by the Israeli military and looming over the camp.
Nevertheless there were times when the actors had their work cut out, with a (sometimes) frightening Caliban, drunken Trinculo and others making sallies into the audience to keep it engaged. At one point two Palestinian playgoers stood to greet each other with handshakes, just as Prospero was effecting his reconciliation (along with freedom, another appropriate theme of the play's conclusion) with his shipwrecked, usurping enemies.
For a second it was hard to tell who were the actors, who the spectators. Actress Ruth Lass, who as a beguiling Ariel, shushed the audience from time to time in character, at one point grabbing an apparently unfazed little girl to dance with her on stage, said after the performance: In Shakespeare's times it would have been like this. You have to work hard to hold the audience. That's the nature of theatre.


Recently, on Valentine's Day, we looked at the idea of being in a state of love – rather than falling in or out of it. The obvious question is… how? Yes, it's easier to say than do. Let's delve into this.
Focus on what you have to offer – not what you want in return. If you're focused on reciprocation, your love is conditional. Now, this doesn't mean you should just give and give until you're depleted. That just means you're without self-care. It's a matter of focusing on giving from the heart.
But you can also give from the heart to yourself. Start when you're alone. Visualize breathing in and out of your heart, per the heart breathing technique discussed previously. But this time, direct it toward yourself. When you exhale, instead of just giving outward, breathe from your heart into your entire being.
More techniques coming in part 2.


On the spacious porch you can sit and enjoy the fantastic view over the salt pond and nature area at Jan Thiel.
In the garden is a tropical pool with a separate section for the kids.
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Even if you have bad credit, there are still financing options available to you when considering purchasing a property.
When looking for Canadian mortgage rate programs that consider bad or poor credit, the first thing to focus on is what currently shows on your actual credit score and credit profile. There are varying degrees of weak credit, and understanding your own credit profile in close detail can help locate suitable lenders.
A credit score that is below 650 for example, may be considered bad credit by many lenders, but there are still institutionally based low mortgage rate providers that will consider credit scores between zero and 650. The key is to focus on the lenders that are the most relevant to your credit profile and ignore the ones that will not be able to supply any bad credit mortgage options.
There are two ways for you to better understand your credit. You can contact either of the two credit bureaus that provide Canadian credit reports (Equifax and Trans Union) and get them to send you a copy of your credit report. You have the right to receive a copy of your credit report for free from these agencies. However, the free report does not include your score, which is typically an essential credit scoring element of most mortgage lenders.
To get a copy of your credit score, you need to go to either Equifax or Trans Union's website and purchase a credit report package that includes your credit score. Not only does this allow you to see what a lender will see when you make an application, but because you made the request, the credit inquiry does not have any negative impact on your credit score (excessive credit inquiries requested by lending institutions on your behalf are considered by the credit reporting agencies to be negatives against your credit profile and can actually reduce your credit score).
Another method to understanding your credit is to apply for financing through an experienced mortgage broker. Once you provide written permission, the mortgage broker can access your credit report and provide you with the most relevant options that relate to your credit profile. At this point, any application you make will only be to a relevant lender whose criteria match up with your credit history and score.
For the average person with bad credit, the process of finding relevant lenders can be daunting. This is where a best mortgage rate broker can provide excellent value to your search process.


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SIX street ends come together here.
They feed people and wagons into the center.
Men with shovels, women with baskets and baby buggies.
Six ends of streets and no sleep for them all day.
The people and wagons come and go, out and in.
Triangles of banks and drug stores watch.
Wheels, wheels, feet, feet, all day.
It is the sleep time and they rest.
The triangle banks and drug stores rest.
The policeman is gone, his star and gun sleep.
The owl car blutters along in a sleep-walk.


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Clinton High School athlete nominated to play in national basketball game
Updated: 6:48 AM CST Jan 12, 2022
Christana Kay
Nick Niehaus
THIS CLINTON ARROW HAS ACCOMPLISHED THIS SEASON... NICK... YEAH EVERY YEAR, THE MCDONALDS ALL AMERICAN GAME SHOWCASES THE BEST BASKBALLET PLAYERS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY...AND YET ANOTHER JACKSON AREA ATHLETE HAS BEEN NOMINAT ED WITH A CHANCE TO MAKE THE GAME IT IS CLINTON HIGH SCHOOL'S KIMA NI HAMILTON...HAMILTON IS ONE OF ABOUT 350 NOMINEES WHO ARE COMPETING TO MAKE THE 24 MAN ROSTER...AND RANKED AS THE 87TH BEST BASKETBALL PLAYER IN THE COUNTRY, THERE IS A GOOD SHOT WE COULD BE SEEING HAMILTON PLAYING IN E TH GAME IN CHICAGO...IT HASN'T BEEN LONG SIN CE JACKSON'S LAST MCDONAL DS ALL AMERICAN, JUST LAST YEAR, CALLAWAY'S DAESHUN RUFFIN MADE THE ROSTER, THOUGH THE GAME WAS CANCELLED
A Clinton High School student has been nominated for the chance to play in the 45th anniversary McDonald's All American Games in Chicago.Kimani Hamilton and four other Mississippi athletes have been nominated out of 760 national young men and women nominees.Simaru Fields from Gulfport High School, Rhema Pegues from Olive Branch High School, Debreasha Powe from Meridian High School and Andrew Sessions from Wilkinson County Christian Academy are the other four Mississippians nominated.The annual event will return in March to showcase the nation's rising stars who will go head to head at Chicago's Wintrust Arena. Players were nominated by a high school coach, athletic director, principal or member of the McDonald's All American Games Selection Committee, which is comprised of the nation's most knowledgeable analysts, prep scouts, media and prestigious basketball coaches. A complete list of 2022 McDonald's All American Games Nominees is available at mcdaag.com.The top 24 girls and 24 boys selected to play in the 2022 McDonald's All American Games will be revealed on Jan. 25 on ESPN's "NBA Today."The McDonald's All American Girls Game is set for March 29 at 5:30 p.m. CT on ESPN2 and the Boys Game immediately following at 8 p.m. CT.
JACKSON, Miss. —
A Clinton High School student has been nominated for the chance to play in the 45th anniversary McDonald's All American Games in Chicago.
Kimani Hamilton and four other Mississippi athletes have been nominated out of 760 national young men and women nominees.
Simaru Fields from Gulfport High School, Rhema Pegues from Olive Branch High School, Debreasha Powe from Meridian High School and Andrew Sessions from Wilkinson County Christian Academy are the other four Mississippians nominated.
The annual event will return in March to showcase the nation's rising stars who will go head to head at Chicago's Wintrust Arena. Players were nominated by a high school coach, athletic director, principal or member of the McDonald's All American Games Selection Committee, which is comprised of the nation's most knowledgeable analysts, prep scouts, media and prestigious basketball coaches.
A complete list of 2022 McDonald's All American Games Nominees is available at mcdaag.com.
The top 24 girls and 24 boys selected to play in the 2022 McDonald's All American Games will be revealed on Jan. 25 on ESPN's "NBA Today."
The McDonald's All American Girls Game is set for March 29 at 5:30 p.m. CT on ESPN2 and the Boys Game immediately following at 8 p.m. CT.


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What Makes Christianity Unique?
By Pastor Anthony Pranno
One of my favorite Christian authors is Philip Yancey. I've read everything he's written and been greatly blessed. Yancey has a way of communicating deep spiritual truths in a manner that can be understood and applied by regular people.
Although they were written 17 years apart, Yancey wrote two great books that have a similar theme: grace. The first is titled What's So Amazing About Grace? and the second Vanishing Grace. I wish I only needed lessons on grace every 17 years, but rarely a day goes by that I don't need a reminder or two.
You'd think grace was common to all religions and worldviews, but you'd be wrong. Especially these days, doesn't it seem like manners and decency have just flown out the window? Grace is not just being nice; it's offering a gift or favor to someone who plainly doesn't deserve it. It's assuming the best, even when every part of your being wants to assume the worst. It's giving the benefit… and removing the doubt.
An excerpt from What's So Amazing About Grace? drives this home – and helps us to understand the uniqueness of our faith in Jesus:
During a British conference on comparative religions, experts from around the world debated what, if any, belief was unique to the Christian faith. They began eliminating possibilities. Incarnation? Other religions had different versions of gods appearing in human form. Resurrection? Again, other religions had accounts of return from death.
The debate went on for some time until C.S. Lewis wandered into the room. "What's all the commotion about?" he asked. In reply, his colleagues told him they were discussing Christianity's unique contribution among world religions. Lewis responded, "Oh, that's easy. It's grace."
The notion of God's love coming to us free of charge, no strings attached, seems to go against every instinct of humanity. The Buddhist eight-fold path, the Hindu doctrine of Karma, the Jewish covenant, and the Muslim code of law each offers a way to earn approval… to work for salvation. Only Christianity dares to make God's love unconditional.
Be blessed, friends. Get out there and show some grace!
Pastor Anthony
What if God were asking us to create a wish list for Him this season? What do we really want for Christmas that only God could provide?
God's Great Plan
The general population certainly were not looking for a King who would be born in a manger, or a Savior who would end up humbly dying on a cross.
Many people have described our time on earth as like the dance floor of life. Journeying through our lives in a satisfying and beautiful manner necessitates that we accept our God-given role in the dance of life.
God's love for us was manifested in the death and sacrifice of Christ on the cross where Jesus satisfied and fully appeased the penalty due to us for our sins. This was the ultimate act of love Jesus modeled not only for the disciples, but for everyone.
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The change from citizen to customer is in my opinion the greatest political shift that has occurred over the past twenty years. … there is an existential difference between being a citizen in a society, and being reduced to a customer on a market. The customer has only one obligation – to pay. … Purchasing power is central. Citizens, however, have the same rights, regardless of how much they earn. The core of democracy is not in any way economical. On the contrary, it is based on values, not purchasing power. To regard citizens as customers creates further distance between the individual and society.
The core of democracy is based on values, and the shift from "citizen" to "customer" or consumer has, in itself, a large impact on our values. Consumer is what might be called a frame that unconsciously evokes certain values and references, and as cognitive linguist George Lakoff argues, frames we are repeatedly confronted with become our 'common sense' and difficult to reason beyond. The creeping dominance of particular frames – such as notion of "customer" – can shift the ideologies of entire populations.
The consumer frame is known to trigger values around wealth, achievement and social status. These so-called extrinsic values make us behave in a way not very beneficial in a society. When we think about ourselves as consumers rather than citizens, we tend to be more competitive and less trusting. Extrinsic values are also associated with a lower sense of well-being, higher levels of prejudice and less environmental concern.
Studies show that economic frames thus become a self-fulfilling prophecy – when I am spoken to as an ego-centered, rational "economic man", I become more like him. Other values I also hold, for example community, unity with nature and justice for all, become less important to me. And it is only the latter, intrinsic values that are helpful if I am going to act for a sustainable and just world. As the parliamentary proposition suggests, research shows that people are increasingly labeled as consumers. Nowadays we are not just customers in the grocery store, but also at school and at the hospital.
We are even framed as customers in relationship to nature. Green groups have for some time proposed the concept "ecosystem services" to deal with the fact that nature is often treated as having no value at all. In the beginning "ecosystem services" was used as a pedagogic tool to highlight human dependence on nature. Increasingly the concept is being used as a management practice – governments in the UK, Norway and recently Sweden have made efforts to include the ecosystem service perspective in decision-making.
A Swedish governmental report on ecosystem services includes a study of how the perspective is received by practitioners, who are expected to implement it on different levels. The respondents believe that the concept has great pedagogic power in its ability to represent something that has previously been invisible. Ecosystem services doesn´t have to mean price tags, but that seems to be top of mind for the respondents. They point out that monetary valuation of nature is something new, and both an opportunity and a risk.
Pricing nature is viewed as a potentially powerful way of of communicating with broader groups, and also of integrating the value of ecosystems in socioeconomic analyses that form the basis of decision-making. Simultaneously, it is seen as deeply problematic; because, for example, that resulting conclusions tend to be viewed as objective truths while underlying assumptions might be very shaky, that monetary valuation doesn't grasp diversity, complexity or scale, and that some of the "services" are in effect economically invaluable.
This apparent contradiction among people who have actively thought about and used the concept of ecosystem services (e.g. their belief that it's useful but poses a risk) is interesting and might reflect something deeper: an important tension in the values we all hold. Seeing nature as a living, beautiful web that we are connected to and pricing it for the services that it delivers, are viewpoints that may be incompatible. These two positions reflect values that are very difficult, or impossible, to hold simultaneously.
While Americans strongly value the many benefits provided by nature and natural systems, they resist use of the term "services" to capture those benefits insofar as it suggests nature's primary value is in the services provided to people. To put it another way, "services" offends our expansive sense of the incalculable and intangible benefits nature provides.
Public Interest Research Center (PIRC) in Wales recently issued a report, Common Cause for Nature – Values and Frames in Conservation, which cautions against using economic frames and appeals to competition, status or money when communicating nature's value. A more viable way, PIRC argues, is to show how amazing nature is and share the experience of wildlife; talk about people, society and compassion as well as the natural world; and encourage active participation through exploration, enjoyment, and creativity.
Life is being converted to money at an accelerating and increasingly irreversible rate. Can the concept ecosystem services slow down the destruction? Maybe. Is it a stepping-stone towards a necessary shift in the relationship between human society and the living world? Probably not, for reasons stated above. It doesn't address root causes to the problem – it reinforces them.
It is of course a step in a positive direction when governments suggest policy that take ecosystems into account. But there is something intriguing about a concept that is embraced by the powers that be, politicians and business, while ordinary people and practitioners are wary of it.
"Ecosystem services" is in itself a frame, picturing nature in terms of the beneficial functions it performs, as an asset. It implies that humanity is a consumer of nature, instead of a connected part of the living web. And that creates further distance between us and nature. Especially when money is involved, this approach undermines social and environmental motivations. When we are told to care about nature because it is profitable it also diminishes us. We know that we are an integral part of the world, not nature's customers. In the long run, it is important that we actively speak that truth, rather than clothing our words in the dominant language and values.
Swedish change-maker and social entrepreneur Pella Thiel has a background in ecology. After working in the environmental movement she grew increasingly frustrated over the solutions proposed, which seemed more like a treatment of symptoms than real change. She found the Transition Movement and developed an interest for inner transition. On that path she's connected with the Common Cause International Network and is exploring the role that values play in making deep change. What engages her most is reconnecting with nature and creating space to increase trust in the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.
Pella has written 3 posts on Post Growth Institute.
Dangerous idea. The Tree of Life that is the living planet should not be mechanized into a "service-entity" — any more than women or children should be objectified into being service-mates.
At minimum, such a mindset would require a zero-waste policy as advocated by the cradle-to-cradle innovation institute. Every output from industrial processes has to be an input somewhere else in the system, or otherwise food for the Earth. That is the only way to guarantee sustainability.
But really, one should see the planet and its ecosystems as sacred, as the Native Americans did, until correction and balance is achieved. The mindset advocated above would continue an insane policy of "endless growth" on a finite planet where basic systems are already deeply compromised.
I identify as part of the 'post growth' movement. I also work within government, where over the years, I've seen example after example where we seem to have forgotten how to make decisions based on any other criteria but the dollar. And I loathe the language of the consumer/customer being used in place of 'citizen'.
I wholeheartedly agree that the mind/heartset should be about seeing humanity as part of a connected web, and of cultures that venerate nature as sacred. I don't think that a price can or should be put upon nature, except as an educational tool to jolt people into understanding that there is a value.
Unfortunately, we are currently living in a world where we have some minds/hearts who think very differently, and who behave in a very rapacious way, particularly where they are in positions of influence and power.
What I worry about is – if expressing nature in economic language is falling into a trap (and I ultimately believe it is), then how do we defend and secure nature until there is a critical mass, or a system change, where we get to that ideal scenario?
Because those rapacious influences can and are moving much faster than the shift in culture.
This is an excellent article – long overdue …. The title of the book "The Absence of the Sacred" (Mander) says it all for me – once we banished the "religious" concept of the sacred from our lexicon and replaced it with the "scienctific" concept that all is subject to quantifiable measure, natures systems, and all carbon based organisms for that matter, including ourselves, became commodities – the market based model of life becomes the inevitable result ….
hi, sorry for slow response. One of the most interesting ideas in this aspect is, I believe, the concept of natures´rights and ecocide as a crime. It reflects the case that living systems might in fact be invaluable. We seldom deal successfully with infinite values in the economic sphere. For example, I would not sell my kids to you, regardless of the price you offer. If I kill somebody, I can´t compensate for that with money – I go to jail. Infinite value is better dealt with using law.
Rights of nature has, as you might know, been integrated into state law in Ecuador and in Bolivia, and several local communities in the US has adopted local laws for the rights of nature to protect their territories against fracking: http://blog.ecotrust.org/tag/community-environmental-legal-defense-fund/.
Also, support for ecocide as a crime is moving fast at the moment. There is an initiative in Europe: End Ecocide in Europe, that is currently collecting votes from EU citizens to make the Commission create laws to prevent ecocide: http://www.endecocide.eu.
Of course, I share your worry. And, I don´t think our chances of saving anything are greater using the language of the current power.
Pella, this is a great article. I hope that you can get it out soon in Swedish media.


I love Jon Postel because of his Robustness Principle and how it can be applied far and wide from the confines of computer science. All great truth finds wide application!
Also he had a flowing beard and wore sandals and was the ultimate editor of technology. Yes, I am weird and read RFCs for fun. Jon's RFCs were the best - pure poetry!
The Internet works because Jon Postel wouldn't let it do anything less. He was a model for the benevolent dictator and knew what a good God should be about!


The United States relies on clean, reliable electricity from its 99 nuclear reactors to produce about 20 percent of the electricity the country uses each year. Today, nuclear power accounts for nearly 70 percent of the emissions-free electricity produced in the country, making it our largest source of clean energy.
Because nuclear power plays such a large role in our generation of clean energy, it is vital that the United States have the capability to fuel its nuclear power plants with a home-grown source of fuel so that the country does not become further dependent upon foreign sources of enriched uranium or foreign enrichment technologies. In 1993, America produced more than 90 percent of the enriched uranium used in its nuclear reactors, but by 2008 only 15 percent of the enriched uranium fueling American reactors had been produced domestically. Centrus is working to resume commercial production in the future once the commercial fuel market can support new production capacity, which is expected to be in the 2020s.


Despite India reducing the gap between power demand and power generation to just 1 per cent, our cities still do not get 24×7 power. The reason is the creaking urban power infrastructure. The DISCOMs have hardly any money to invest in maintaining, let alone completely renovating the power equipment which makes the last-mile supply possible. Currently, the UDAY induced improvements are guiding DISCOMs towards bare minimum operating profitability. Their capacity to invest afresh and invest big is still and will remain poor, even with the full UDAY benefits kicking in.
Further improvement of state DISCOMs' health can help the central government expedite a movement towards this national DISCOM. A follow up article will explain how this national DISCOM can transfer the power generation, transmission and distribution improvements made by this government to the end customer.


Washington, D.C. – Bread for the World today criticized President Trump's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and urges Congress to permanently protect the 800,000 young people who are now under threat of deportation.
DACA recipients are undocumented young people who were brought to the United States as children. Everyone in the program has passed an extensive background check, paid a fee, and is either a student, serves in the military, or has a job. The Dream Act of 2017 would grant them permanent legal status and put them, and other "Dreamers," on the path to citizenship.
Bread for the World's research over the past ten years has taught us that we must address undocumented immigration on both sides of the border. Many undocumented immigrants to the U.S. are being "pushed" by widespread hunger and violence in their home countries. Undocumented immigrants are nearly twice as likely as the general U.S. population to experience food insecurity.
In ending DACA, the administration delayed enforcement of its decision for six months to give Congress time to find a legislative solution.
Bread's work on immigration reform is rooted in our Christian faith, and our commitment to ending hunger and poverty.


MELVILLE, Sask. — In 1990 Sarah Konneh, her husband and infant son were forced to leave their home in Liberia because of a brutal war. This war was followed by other wars, and even when peace returned it was not possible for Sarah to return to Liberia because of fear for the family's safety.
The resulting life in refugee camps has been all that Sarah has known for the past 26 years. At times food has been scarce and even non-existent, especially at one point when the family was forced to move from one camp to another.
The son that she took with her into that first refugee camp, Samka, is now an adult and has spent most of his life in refugee camps. At times Samka left the camp to find work in Ivory Coast, the country that hosted the refugee camps. This work included work on a rubber farm, and driving cab.
Samka stood by his mother and younger brother, Abdoulaye, after the death of his father. The family also adopted another boy, James Weah, after his mother died in one of the refugee camps.
Sarah and her family's long ordeal finally ended when their application for a visa was approved and a church group in Canada agreed to sponsor them. St. Henry's Church in Melville sponsored the family with help from the Archdiocese of Regina social justice department.
The social justice committee at St. Henry's had been considering refugee sponsorship for quite a while and was spurred on by Pope Francis' call that each Catholic parish should sponsor at least one refugee family.
St Henry's pastor Rev. Mitch Burdzy felt refugee sponsorship would be an especially good idea in the Year of Mercy and that parishioners would be generous once the project was started.
In January 2016, a meeting was held to determine if there was enough interest to go ahead. The next month a refugee sponsorship committee was formed, and soon after it was bolstered with representatives from a neighbouring parish, St. Mary's in Grayson.
The response to the appeal for financial help was overwhelming, and the drive was capped off with a steak supper that was held at the parish in April. At that point the committee decided to suspend fundraising efforts because the target amount of $20,000 had been exceeded.
The committee then waited for a family to be chosen and assigned to the parish. Committee chairs Elmer and Yvette Beutel worked with Bert Pitzel and Abdul Ali from the archdiocese. The nationality and religion of the family were not known until the family was chosen.
The committee felt that refugees accepted by the parish should not be discriminated against because of their religion. This principle took precedence over the concern that Christians and other religious minorities are suffering disproportionately in many parts of the Middle East. Committee member Tom Durham pointed to the fact that Pope Francis appeared not to use religion as a basis for determining who among refugees should receive help.
Recently the committee received details about their family and the news of the family's arrival. The family's arrival in the summer was extremely emotional for Sarah and for members of the sponsorship committee.
Josee Roberge-Dyck considered being part of the arrival of the family as one of "the most incredible, heart-warming, fulfilling, life-changing experiences in her entire life. Sarah herself broke down when she realized that she and her family would have beds to sleep on and and a house with multiple rooms. When she composed herself somewhat she was amazed to see that the house, though modest by Canadian standards, even had a basement suite for Samka.
Yvette Beutel was also moved by the experience, referring to the whole refugee sponsorship process as being the "Gospel incarnate" and a life-changing experience for her. Sarah later shared with committee member Sister Theresa Kreiser that the kindess shown to her by the "Canada people" was somewhat like her own commitment when she agreed to adopt her youngest son, James.
The committee now prepares for the task of familiarizing the Liberian family with Canadian culture and integrating them into their new society.


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The Ins and Outs of Urban Camping
John Donovan is a freelance writer based in Atlanta. He writes on a range of topics including nature, health, history, and pop culture.
Tents set up atop One New Change in London. Campers had a spectacular view of St. Paul's Cathedral. EG Focus/flickr
If your idea of camping — if you actually entertain ideas about camping, that is — comes from "Meatballs" or "Wet Hot American Summer," you need to get into the 21st century already.
You don't need the wilderness, a crackling campfire and a bunch of overly frisky camp counselors to commune with nature. Urban camping is a real thing these days. With almost 81 percent of the U.S. population living in urban areas (according to the 2010 census), it's not likely to be going away any time soon, either.
What Is Urban Camping?
Urban camping is what it sounds like: camping, in some form, in an urban setting. The key to that definition, though, is "in some form." Urban camping can take many, many different forms.
Some people like to find an out-of-the-way spot in a public park to pitch a tent. Some will camp on any good-looking patch of unoccupied grass (or asphalt, even).
Some like to slip just off the urban trail — say, in the greenways that so many great cities have now — pitch a tent or hang a hammock and enjoy communing with Mother Nature that way.
Some will slip into their tent in the middle of Times Square. Or in a parking space, in a tent designed to look like a car cover.
A group of people camp on a roof of New York City. The group was organized by artist Thomas Stevenson, and campers are encouraged to turn off their electronic gadgets while focusing on exploring the outdoor environment within an urban setting. Andrew Burton/Getty Images
Artist Thomas Stevenson built some lean-tos and stuck them on the roof of a building in Brooklyn (pictured above). He invites people up, asks them to bring some food to share, suggests that they unplug and they spend a night camping, under the stars, with the twinkling lights of the big city all around them. One night. No charge.
Other camping experiences are a little more ... structured. Some cities, like Chicago, will open up vast areas of their parks to accommodate campers on specials occasions.
Major League Baseball's Texas Rangers are among teams that invite fans to camp out, for a night, in the outfield of a Major League stadium.
It all depends on how adventurous you're feeling.
What's the Appeal?
We could get into man's basic need to reconnect with nature, and that's probably true enough. But if that's all these urban campers are after, the Grand Tetons, rather than that parking lot just off Grand Avenue, are probably the better choice.
Urban campers look for a place to get away even when they don't have the time to travel to get away. They're looking for someplace different when they don't have the money to go globe-hopping. They're after an experience, but one in which they don't have to squat over poison sumac to do their business. One that's unique, but where they still can get a decent cup of coffee in the morning.
A row of tents in McPherson Square in Washington, D.C., during the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protest. Ted Eytan/flickr
In sanctioned campgrounds, sure, it's legal. But just plopping down a tent at the foot of the First Bank building or in the middle of Central Park, without a permit? Probably not.
A problem here is that many cities find it difficult dealing with both urban campers — the kind we're talking about — and "urban campers," a euphemism many use for the homeless. Cities like Atlanta, for one, have passed laws to outlaw "urban camping" set-ups that the homeless use to semi-permanently camp in city centers.
Whether that's moral — denying a homeless person a place to sleep and the right to be near needed services — is another question. But one-night or over-the-weekend urban campers sometimes face similar restrictions. Loitering is a law on the books everywhere, too.
Generally, it's illegal just about everywhere to camp out on public property without a permit. You need permission on private property, too. Urban campers do it anyway, all the time. Do so at your own risk.
If you take precautions, camping in the big city can be nearly as safe as camping in Big Sur. But it is the big city. As any city dweller knows, you have to have your wits about you.
So don't camp alone. Know the area. Let friends know where you are. Make sure your little slice of city heaven has plenty of light.
And, if you're camping on a roof, as artist Stevenson points out on his site, don't forget that: "you are on a roof/be very mindful of the edge."
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This article explains how to set up an e-mail account within the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. Due to differences in the operating systems, some steps might vary. However, these steps should be similar across most platforms.
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Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair Serum – Is it as good as they say?
What is it? It's full name is Estee Lauder's Advanced Night Repair Synchronised Recovery Complex II – we will call it ANR! ANR is an anti-aging serum designed to work while you sleep, it targets and reduces lines, wrinkles, dullness and dryness.
Who is it for? Although marketed as an anti-aging product, I would suggest that it can also be used as a preventative. I personally started using this at 29.
How do you use it? ANR is used at the same point in the cleansing process as any other serum; after cleansing and before moisturising. Using the pipette dispenser supplied, apply 2 or 3 drops to the fingertips of one hand, touch the fingertips of both hands together and massage into the skin. This sounds complicated but really distributes the serum evenly around the face and neck.
What's the damage? £52 for 30ml, £72 for 50ml and £88 for 75ml.
I don't care if I agree with just about everyone who has ever tried this product, but YES it is definitely as good as they say! ANR consistently makes the "Hero" lists of the likes of Vogue and Bazaar's top beauty products.
ANR works on all ages of skin because it doesn't just reduce the signs of ageing, it actually aids the natural nighttime renewal to give more hydrated and smoother skin. You shouldn't be worried by the fact that this is an anti-aging product, all this means is that it targets the signs of aging (lines, wrinkles, dryness dullness), these will vary depending on your age and skin type. It will help even if you are, for example, in your late 20s but are starting to worry about the dullness of your skin and will also act as a prevention for lines, wrinkles and dryness.
Basically the serum works in conjunction with your skin to help repair the damages done during the day. Ingredients include hyaluronic acid for locking in moisture, algae and yeast extracts to boost cell activity and alkyl guanine transferase to brighten. It slows the effects of ageing, reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles and evens out skin tone, so in the morning even if your skin isn't exactly glowing, it will look rested, like you've had a good night's sleep. It can't be described as organic but look out for my post discussing natural v synthetic products.
The current product is actually version 2.0 and was updated in 2013, but the original formula was around for a whopping 31 years, first launching in 1982. New generation products can be a bit of a worry but fortunately this version is better than ever, it's a much lighter formulation, it's oil and fragrance free.
Estee Lauder's website quotes test results on over 500 women as having the following results: Lines and wrinkles look significantly reduced. More than 75% of women felt their skin looked more youthful. Skin feels smoother, hydrated, stronger. 82% felt their skin was instantly hydrated. Skin looks younger, radiant, more even toned. 83% of women felt their skin looked healthier, fresher, more rested.


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Michael Schenker Fest Announce New Album
By Jackson Maxwell 2019-03-28T20:31:04Z News
'Revelation' will arrive via Nuclear Blast on August 23.
(Image credit: Official Press Photo)
Michael Schenker Fest have announced a new album, Revelation.
The band's second LP, Revelation will be released via Nuclear Blast on August 23. It was produced by Schenker and Michael Voss, and recorded and mixed by Voss at Kidpool Studio Greven & Kidwood Studio in Münstertal, Germany.
"Based on the fun that we had recording Resurrection, the success of the album and the surrounding tours we undertook that were just fantastic, I was deeply inspired to start on writing new songs for a new Michael Schenker Fest album," Schenker said in a statement. "It is even a step up from Resurrection with amazing input from all singers and all musicians—I could not ask for a better result. The songs are blazing, snappy, energetic, melodic, and, with drummers like Simon Philips and Bodo Shopf, we got amazing results. This time we even managed to record three great mid-tempo songs with all singers involved, singing their hearts out."
Of the album's title, Schenker said "The album title and cover concept express things that have happened in my past as well as what is still happening at the present time. It's about passion and purity versus greed and corruption. There is much to say. It's about time I let people know about some of this."
Revelation features Gary Barden, Graham Bonnet, Robin McAuley, Doogie White and, on one track, Ronnie Romeo of Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow on vocals. Simon Philipps played drums on the album, while Bodo Schopf will take his place as the band's permanent drummer moving forward, due to scheduling conflicts for Phillips.
Michael Schenker Fest also announced that they would be embarking on a North American tour next month. You can check out the band's full itinerary below.
For more on Michael Schenker Fest, head on over to michaelschenkerfest.com.
Michael Schenker Fest 2019 Tour Dates:
4/15/2019 Whisky A Go Go - West Hollywood, CA
4/19/2019 Palace of Fine Arts - San Francisco, CA
4/20/2019 Ace of Spades - Sacramento, CA
4/21/2019 Revolution Hall - Portland, OR
4/22/2019 Vogue Theatre - Vancouver, BC
4/24/2019 The Palace formerly Flames Central – Calgary, AB
4/27/2019 Gothic Theatre - Englewood, CO
4/28/2019 The Truman - Kansas City, MO
4/30/2019 Bourbon Hall 116 West Jefferson St Louisville, KY
5/03/2019 The Pabst Theater - Milwaukee, WI
5/04/2019 Concord Music Hall – Chicago, IL
5/05/2019 Lafayette Theater - Lafayette, IN
5/07/2019 Danforth Music Hall - Toronto, ON
5/09/2019 The Egg - Albany, NY
5/10/2019 The Palladium - Worcester, MA
5/11/2019 Irving Plaza – New York City, NY
5/12/2019 The Space at Westbury - Westbury, NY
5/14/2019 Ram's Head Live 20 Market Place Baltimore, MD
5/15/2019 The National – Richmond, VA
5/16/2019 Variety Playhouse – Atlanta, GA
5/18/2019 Empire Garage – Austin, TX


This animation is form the famous illustrator, Jimmy. Fantastic animation and music! Bravo!
"A Fish with a Smile is about a man who meets a fish that smiles at him. He wants to possess her and takes her home with him, but finds himself saddened by the sight of the fish in the tank. Once he possesses the fish, he can no longer deny the desire for freedom that he feels deep within himself. When he returns the fish to the ocean, he discovers that what he has freed is actually a long-lost part of himself."