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UNBELIEVABLE: 50,000 Agents of The Turkish Beast March in Front of The Cologne Cathedral – Where 1000 German Women Were Abused in December
The fact that this rally is allowed to be held — in the very same city where one of the most horrendous acts in German history took place 7 months ago — is disgraceful and alarming.
Contrast these huge showings to the number of Muslims who have turned out against the daily Islamic terrorism. We remember, only 20 Muslims showed up for rally against Paris jihad attacks.
When you see those Turkish flags in front of the Cathedral, think about 50,000 Ethiopians rallying in front of the Saudi grand mosque in Mecca, chanting, like, "Messihu wa akbar! (Jesus The Messiah is Greater!). UNTHINKABLE!
"50,000 demonstrators march through the streets of Cologne to show support for Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan," MailOnline,
"Huge Pro-Erdogan Islamist Rally In Germany," BreitbartNews
"It's a test of German resolve and defense/resistance under the guise of a march to support for Erdogan. Typical Muslim mo. Next one will be bigger and so on and then they become violent. This is all carbon copy of what happened in the Lebanon when the stupid Christians allowed the Muslims in who then promptly started to slaughter the host population. Lebanon is exactly whats going to happen in Europe except on a far bigger and far bloodier scale."
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20 Dirtiest Cities in The World
Most large cities in the developing world are breaching global air pollution guidelines, according to new data from the World Health Organization.
Air pollution has risen by 8% globally in the past five years, with the WHO estimating that it causes 3 million premature deaths a year, making it one of the greatest environmental risks to human health.
The latest urban air quality data, collected between 2011 and 2015, reveals that 98% of cities with over 100,000 inhabitants in low- and middle-income countries do not meet WHO air quality guidelines.
So which cities have the worst air quality?
Of the 3,000 cities in the WHO's air quality database, the most polluted at the time of measurement was Onitsha, a fast-growing city in Nigeria, which recorded roughly 30 times more than the WHO's recommended levels of PM10 particles. Peshawar in Pakistan was in second place, followed by Zabol in Iran.
These cities are mostly located in rapidly growing economies in the Middle East and South East Asia. Four of the 20 urban areas with the worst air quality at the time of measurement were in Nigeria, three were in Saudi Arabia, three were in India, and two in Iran.
China, which has been working to tackle its air pollution problem, is the only country with just one city on the most polluted list.
The Eastern Mediterranean (covering the Middle East and parts of North Africa) and South East Asia were the regions that performed worst overall in the database – with urban air pollution rising 5% in more than two-thirds of cities. Annual mean levels of air pollution in cities in these regions often exceeded five to 10 times WHO limits.
Among mega-cities (urban areas with over 14 million inhabitants) Delhi and Cairo had the highest levels of urban air pollution.
The report urges policy-makers at international, national and city level to promote cleaner transport, more efficient energy production and waste management.
Despite the bad news, the data also revealed that more than half of the monitored cities in high-income countries and more than one-third in low and middle-income countries reduced their air pollution levels by more than 5% in five years.
Commenting on the data, Dr Maria Neira, Director of the WHO's Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health, said: "Urban air pollution continues to rise at an alarming rate, wreaking havoc on human health.
"At the same time, awareness is rising and more cities are monitoring their air quality. When air quality improves, global respiratory and cardiovascular-related illnesses decrease."
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Frankincense (እጣን) Oil Kills Cancer Cells While Boosting The Immune System
ከእጣን እና ጥቁር አዝሙድ የሚገኙትን ድንቅና ፈዋሽ ዘይቶች በአገራችን በቀላሉ ማግኘት እየተቻለ፡ እንደ ዘንባባ ዘይት የመሰሉትን መርዛማ የምግብ መስሪያ ዘይቶች ለምንድን ነው ወደ አገራችን የምናስገባው? በዘንባባ ዘይት (Palm Oil) ሕዝባችንን ሊፈጁት ነው፤ ይህን ዘይት እግዚአብሔር ከአገራችን ያጥፋልን!
Frankincense is a powerful medicinal oil that can not only boost the immune system but also kill cancer cells, a number of studies have shown.
One of the most significant recent studies was conducted by researchers from the University of Leicester, England, in 2013. The researchers found that the naturally occurring frankincense compound acetyl-11-keto-beta-boswellic acid (AKBA) targeted and destroyed ovarian cancer cells. The findings were particularly significant because they showed that AKBA had this effect even in late-stage ovarian cancer patients, not just in laboratory trials performed on isolated cells.
"Frankincense is taken by many people with no known side effects," lead researcher Kamla Al-Salmani said. This finding has enormous potential to be taken to a clinical trial in the future and developed into an additional treatment for ovarian cancer."
Kills cancer and reduces radiation side effects
The Leicester findings build on a large and still growing body of evidence that frankincense and its compounds have powerful immune-boosting and cancer-fighting benefits.
A study published in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine in 2009, for example, found that the herbal form of frankincense triggered death in bladder cancer cells by activating several different cellular pathways. Another study, conducted by researchers from Nihon University in Tokyo and published in Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, showed that several chemical components of frankincense were able to kill three separate human neuroblastoma cell lines. The same study also found that frankincense inhibited the growth of Epstein-Barr virus.
Neuroblastoma is a type of cancer that forms in nerve cells and primarily affects young children. Other studies have shown that frankincense and its components can kill cancers of the brain, breast, colon, pancreas, prostate and stomach.
Frankincense may also help mitigate the often-debilitating side effects of cancer treatment. One study, published in the journal Cancer in 2011, was performed on brain cancer patients experiencing cerebral edema (swelling) as a side effect of radiation therapy. The researchers found that 60 percent of participants given frankincense experienced a 75 percent reduction in cerebral swelling, a potent enough result for the authors to recommend frankincense as a potential alternative to steroids, the current favored treatment. Side effects of steroids can include headaches, blurred vision and migraines.
All-around immune booster
Frankincense's cancer-fighting benefits seem to come, in part, from its potent effects on the immune system. One study, conducted by researchers from Baylor University Medical Center, found that acts upon the expression of genes that help regulate the immune system, leading to cancer cell death. Another study, published in Phytotherapy Research, found that mice given frankincense exhibited increases in several key markers of immune function, primarily levels of white blood cells (lymphocytes) and anti-inflammatory activity.
Numerous studies have confirmed frankincense as a powerful anti-inflammatory. This, along with its other immune-boosting properties, may in part explain its usefulness in fighting infection and in treating autoimmune conditions such as asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Frankincense can also be used to heal skin, including from acne and scarring, and can reduce anxiety levels.
If you wish to incorporate frankincense as a regular natural health booster, it can be taken as an undiluted essential oil on the skin or as a few drops under the tongue. It can also be diffused and breathed in for respiratory conditions. Frankincense can also be purchased and consumed in powdered capsule form.
There are numerous species of frankincense, including Boswellia carteri, B. serrata and B. sacra. All three of these species have shown powerful anti-cancer effects in scientific tests.
B. carteri, native to east Africa, has been the species most heavily studied. B. sacra, also known as "sacred frankincense," was until recently restricted to use by the Saudi royal household, and could only be purchased in Oman. Recently, however, a distillery opened up in Oman to produce essential oil of B. sacra for public sale.
— The Mysterious Myrrh & Frankincense
— What Do Frankincense, Christians and Bees Have In Common?
— A Wise Man's Cure: Frankincense is For Life, Not Just For Christmas
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Thousands Yell 'Death to US' Near Turkey's Incirlik Base, Home to US Nukes
Benghazi 2 – September 11, 2016?
A massive protest of several thousand people is starting growing as anti-American demonstrators gather near Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, home to nearly 90 US tactical nuclear weapons.
On Friday, a group of protesters swelled into several thousand ardent anti-American demonstrators heading towards the NATO Air Base at Incirlik, where they look to demand US forces immediately leave the country. Nationalists in Turkey have been emboldened since the failed coup attempt against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with the country's Labor Minister telling HaberTurk news that Washington was behind the coup attempt and with Prime Minister Binali Yildirim threatening all-out war against the United States.
A critical turning point may have been the massive fire that broke out near the Izmir Air Base this weekend, with T24 news reporting that officials suspected that the cause was anti-American sabotage. The blaze came hours after President Erdogan's leading Islamist newspaper, Yeni Safak, printed the image of the NATO International Security Assistance Force Commander, US Army General John Campbell, as a leading force behind the coup along with Fethullah Gulen.
The situation at Incirlik Air Base threatens to be even more perilous, with thousands of protesters chanting "death to the US" as they head towards one of NATO's most important strategic military bases. The facility, only 60 miles (96km) from the Turkish-Syrian border, is home to as many as 90 tactical nuclear weapons, creating the danger that these weapons could fall into the hands of international terrorists.
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Hillary Clinton Receives Tons Of Money From Muslim Fundamentalist Terrorist Oil Billionaire In Nigeria Who Hates Christians
Hillary Clinton receives tons of money from a Nigerian Muslim fundamentalist terrorist oil billionaire, named Kase Lukman Lawal. He is a fanatic Muslim which means he hates Christians, and he is known to have been involved in terrorism. He is a confirmed criminal on account of his operations with a terrorist leader in Africa, named Bosco Ntaganda, who was involved in mass murderers. His billion dollar industry also works in a Al Shabaab dominated area in Kenya, another sign that he is working with terrorists. Moreover, Hillary Clinton did not want Boko Haram — a jihadist group that slaughters Christians — to be classified as a terrorist group because, I believe, she receives money from this Nigerian Muslim billionaire.
— Has Hillary Clinton Sold Her Soul to Babylon?
Muslims Infiltrate The Government Of Nigeria, Use State Funds To Slaughter Christians
Bloodshed feared following allegations of state-sanctioned Christian persecution in Nigeria
Bloodshed could result after allegations of state-sanctioned persecution of Nigerian Christians surfaced, the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety) has warned.
Intersociety's warning of a potential bloodshed comes after Open Doors chief executive officer Lisa Pearce alleged that Nigeria's political elite are helping the terror group Boko Haram and the Muslim Fulani herdsmen in persecuting Christians. In its report, the persecution watchdog said religion-motivated attacks almost doubled last year in the northern region, News 24 details.
According to Open Doors, 4,028 Christians were killed and there were 198 church attacks in 2015 alone. From 2009 to 2014, terror attacks have resulted in the death of 11,500 Christians and destruction of 13,000 churches in Nigeria. The group also noted that 1.3 million Christians fleeing the violence have been displaced.
In response to Open Doors' report, Intersociety lamented the situation and slammed President Muhammadu Buhari's seeming inability and unwillingness to protect Christians in the country. The group called on Christian leaders to "rise to the occasion" and do something to address the relentless killings and persecution of believers.
"As we speak, none of the perpetrators has been fished out and put on trial. That is to say that Government is fully aiding and abetting the sundry ethno-religious cleansing and butcheries," said Intersociety chairman Emeka Umeagbalasi. "It also partakes circumstantially and vicariously, if not directly."
Meanwhile, former U.S. Congressman Frank Wolf spoke to The Christian Post in a phone interview and said Nigerian Christians are among the millions of displaced people in the world who feel they have been abandoned by Western churches. He said this feeling stems from international churches' failure to speak out on the issue.
Wolf, who witnessed first-hand the Nigerian Christians' difficulties, said the world seems to have forgotten about what is happening in the African nation. He observed that not many in the West are advocating for them.
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A Priest is Slaughtered at Mass in Rural France. This is What Life is Like For Christians in The Middle East
For Catholics and other Christians in the Middle East, the atrocity at Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray is far from unimaginable
An 84-year-old priest has had his throat cut by an Islamic fanatic while saying Mass in a church in Normandy. For people in the West, this is a scene of almost unimaginable horror. Catholics in particular will be revolted and profoundly disturbed by a bloody killing perpetrated during the act of holy sacrifice around which our faith is built.
Catholics in the West, that is. For Catholics and other Christians in the Middle East, the atrocity at Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray is far from unimaginable. They have been living with this sort of terror for years, while Western politicians and the liberal commentariat looked away.
If I were to mention the Baghdad church massacre of October 31, 2010, how many of them would know what I was talking about? Come to that, how many Catholics are familiar with the details?
On that Sunday evening, Mass in the Syrian Catholic church of Our Lady of Salvation was cut short by Islamist gunmen who took the congregation hostage, screaming: "All of you are infidels… we will go to paradise if we kill you and you will go to hell."
One priest, Fr Thaer Abdal, was shot dead at the altar. In total, 58 innocent people were murdered. Their killers were members of an Iraqi faction of Al-Qaeda that had declared war on churches, "dirty dens of idolatry", and in particular "the hallucinating tyrant of the Vatican".
The Baghdad massacre was one of countless atrocities that have reduced ancient Christian communities in the Middle East to shrivelled and terrified ghettoes or underground churches.
They know – even if Western public opinion does not – that Christianity in itself is among the most hated of all the targets of Islamic terrorist groups. For jihadis, the Christian belief in the divinity of Jesus is an affront that justifies the brutality of the Dark Ages.
The slitting of a priest's throat in the sanctuary of a church – how hollow that word "sanctuary" now sounds in the context – brings those Dark Ages to rural France.
According to the Archbishop of Rouen the dead priest was 84 years old. This is not as surprising as it sounds, given the decayed state of the Church in France, which forces many clergy to extend their ministry into their ninth decade.
The poor priest had spent a very long life serving his Lord; now it has ended in death for Him. This may seem an inappropriate thing to say, but I wonder if the blood of a martyr spilt on an altar so close to home will finally awake Christendom from its torpor.
ISIS Supporters' Cry 'Allahu Akbar' at Memorial To Munich Shooting Victims, Shouted Down By Locals
Video footage has emerged of confrontations between individuals claimed to be supporters of Islamic State and mourning Germans at a shrine to victims of Friday's shooting in Munich, while police stand by and explain they are powerless to get involved.
While videos showing the exchanges between "Allahu Akbar" shouting men and angered locals who had come to pay respects to the dead have received almost no attention in German media, Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano reports on the arguments showing the raw passions and anger unearthed by the killings.
In the short video, a well-built German male can be seen shouting down what is described by the Italian paper as "a group of young Muslim boys" who, railing against an "unjust world", begin to chant in unison "Allahu Akbar". The phrase is the same Islamic salutation said to have been cried by the killer as he started his rampage. UnderTirol reports the Muslim men are "alleged Islamic State sympathisers".
The German male can be heard castigating police for standing back and taking no action, and then direct his anger at the Muslim males. He shouts: "Shut up with that Allahu Akbar s**t, f**k you motherf***er… Shut your mouth. Piss off. F***ing bulls**t". Although in times past such comments towards the minority in Germany would have provoked a shocked or even angry reaction from bystanders, instead it earned applause from fellow mourners.
Again appealing to the police officers standing by, another member of the public joins in and points out the behaviour of the Muslim men, shouting to the officers: "They are doing Islamic State hand signs!". Turning his attention back to the Muslim males, he continues by directing his insults at them: "You pigs. You b******s. They are doing it on purpose. You pigs!"
A final appeal to police elicits a response, when one of the crowd asks one of them to "do something about it for f***ks sake", the officer simply responds "I can't do anything about it". Later, to prevent a confrontation developing, officers place themselves between the two sides but no arrests are made.
The short video presents a different view on the fraying tensions in Germany, which still officially supports a policy of near unlimited mass migration and open borders. While Chancellor Angela Merkel continues to steer the nation in the same direction, beneath the surface discontent bubbles. Breitbart London reported in May on a poll that showed the majority of Germans rejected the notion of Islam having a place in their nation.
Another poll showed the majority of Germans found themselves "scared" of so-called refugees. The research also found more thought that there were fewer positives to immigration than negatives.
Just UNBELIEVABLE! – May all these anti-Christian mutants burn in hell!
Exiled Archbishop of Mosul: 'I Have Lost My Diocese to Islam; You in the West Will Also Become Victims of Muslims'
In 2014, the exiled Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul, Iraq, warned westerners about welcoming an increasing number of Muslims into their countries, naively believing that they too believe in democratic principles.
"Your liberal and democratic principles are worth nothing here. You must consider again our reality in the Middle East, because you are welcoming in your countries an ever growing number of Muslims. Also you are in danger. You must take strong and courageous decisions, even at the cost of contradicting your principles. You think all men are equal," Archbishop Amel Nona continues, "but that is not true: Islam does not say that all men are equal. Your values are not their values. If you do not understand this soon enough, you will become the victims of the enemy you have welcomed in your home."
The archbishop's interview was reported by the blog Rorate Caeli.
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First They Came For the Jews, Now The Christians: Egypt's Religious Minorities Decimated
Violence against Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Christian minority, one of the largest and oldest groups of Christians in the Middle East, has escalated at an alarming rate in the last several weeks, with little official response.
Since late May, Christians in Egypt have been the victims of at least a dozen sectarian attacks, and activists and politicians say the government has done little to stop it, despite Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi's early overtures to the Coptic community and their staunch support of him.
"It is escalating in a very short time," said Mina Thabet, programme director for minorities and vulnerable groups with the Egyptian Commission of Rights and Freedoms.
Among the assaults was one in late May on an elderly Coptic woman in Minya, who was stripped, beaten and paraded naked because of a rumour that her son was having a relationship with a Muslim woman. Seven homes in the town were set ablaze.
Victims said the police response was late and insufficient.
Sectarian tensions heated up even more on June 30, three years to the day after the beginning of the protests that led to the overthrow of Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, when a Coptic priest was gunned down in Al Arish, North Sinai in an attack claimed by the IS group. The group accused the priest of "waging a war against Islam".
As gruesome as that attack was, the majority of the incidents have not taken place in the IS stronghold in northern Sinai, but in the Governorate of Minya, which is nestled along the Nile river about 250 kilometres south of Cairo.
Christian capital
Minya has the highest concentration of Christians in Egypt, with some estimates as high as 50 percent of the population there. There are no reliable statistics about the Christian community in Egypt, but they are widely believed to make up about 10 percent of the country's overall population.
Hours before the priest in Al Arish was shot, the under-construction house of a Coptic man in Minya was torched by a mob who thought he was building a church – despite his having signed an affidavit in the presence of police, the mayor and the local sheikh saying the structure would be a residence and would be used for no other purpose. The four adjacent homes, which belonged to his brothers, were also burned.
The building of churches is a flashpoint for sectarian tensions in Egypt. Per capita, there are far fewer churches serving the Christian community than there are mosques serving the Muslim community, and the building of new churches is strictly restricted under Egyptian law and requires special permissions. Christians for decades have had difficulty obtaining the necessary approvals and often face fierce opposition from Muslim neighbors.
While the recent violence has been concentrated in and around Minya, other Christian strongholds in the country have suffered as well. For example, an attack occurred on July 2 in the governorate of Sohag, which is about 500km south of Cairo and also has a large Christian population, when the teenage daughter of a priest was grabbed from behind by the hair and stabbed in the neck in what appeared to be a failed attempt to slit her throat. She was rescued by a bystander and survived the attack.
My Note: It is amazing and ridiculous, that Coptic Christian asylum-seekers are deported back to Egypt, while their Muslim persecutors and slaughterers are given protection, help and empowerment in the West. Unbelievable, isn't it! The anti-Christian West will soon pay a very heavy price for that.
Watch this prank show to learn how deep these wicked Egyptians worship the idol of arrogance, ignorance & hatred. Boy, how I despise the empty pride of these good-for-nothing mutants!!
Watch out Christians!
The beast is using military technology V2K (Voice-To-Skull Devices) to harass, persecute and dechristianize Christians
But the Lord just laughs, for he sees their day of judgment coming
[Psalm 37:13]
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BBC Scrubs 'Ali' From Munich Killer's Name On TV, In Articles, AND On Social Media
The BBC has unilaterally chosen not to report the Munich attacker's full name, in what appears to be an attempt to scrub any Muslim or Islamic heritage link to its coverage of the incident.
Most sources at this point suggest that Ali David Sonboly – the Munich attacker who targeted children and killed nine yesterday – is not connected to radical Islam, but the BBC has gone to extraordinary lengths to try to keep any reference to his heritage out of its coverage, opting to name him only as "David Sonboly".
Other news organisations including the Wall Street Journal, Independent, Daily Mail, and Sky News named the attacker as "Ali David Sonboly" or "David Ali Sonboly". CNN even referred to him simply as "Ali Sonboly".
But the BBC had different ideas, opting to refer to him in their online news coverage, national and international broadcast coverage, and on social media (above) as "David Sonboly".
At 3pm UK time on Saturday, the BBC made reference to the killer as Ali Sonboly. Within one hour however, the BBC had changed its references to the now dead culprit to "David Sonboly". At 6:31pm, the news bulletin on the BBC News Channel referred to him as "David Sonboly" though at 6:32pm their correspondent in Germany referred to him as "David Ali Sonboly".
— BBC 'Fixes' Munich Killer Article Following Breitbart Expose Of Muslim Name Cover Up
— Media shielding Islam from connection to terror
— The Munich Massacre Is A Complete Coverup. The Munich Shooter's Facebook Including His Family Background Shows He Is NOT Iranian But A Syrian Islamist Pro Turkey
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A Deeply Disturbing Letter From Germany
A friend in Frankfurt emailed me the following on July 19.
It is sheer madness what is happening here . . . The noose is tightening and yet—it is still only the beginning . . . What took place in some dull regional express close to Würzburg, a town in Franconia in the middle of Germany, was—in some respect—like a watershed event—just like the mass sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year's Eve.
The mantra from above is still "Islam belongs to Germany" or "We will make it (in regards to the Refugee Crisis)" but there are fewer and fewer people buying it—which does NOT mean that more people are getting it—but I will come to this later.
We now know that in Cologne alone (!) there were about 1,200 women (in one night) sexually harassed, abused and, in some cases, raped.
At the moment there is no weekend when there aren't news about some refugees sexually harassing women or girls at a festival (it is festival season).
Also, you can find news about refugees harassing women and children (and sometimes raping them) in public swimming pools on a weekly or even daily basis.
Sales of pepper sprays and guns are booming everywhere. If there were only these things, the rage might be controllable, but Würzburg was of a different quality. For the first time, a refugee didn't kill another refugee (when this happened before, Neo-Nazis were blamed, then—just as was the case with most of the "burning refugee centers"—the police later found that a refugee was responsible).
When children were robbed by refugees, Germans were told to send their children to school by a different route.
Germans were told to stop swimming nude in a lake—because a refugee center was erected nearby.
Last year, Germans were told the refugees would contribute so mightily and extraordinarily to the German economy—so what have been the news recently?
Well—the big German corporations, the 30 members of the DAX (the stock market index), that so proudly announced last year they would hire lots of refugees—they have indeed hired refugees. Fifty-four, to be exact (50 of them went to the Deutsche Post, as mailmen. Ah—if Charles Bukowski only knew . . . ).
Only recently, a branch of the German Arbeitsagentur (the office for the unemployed) in Dortmund had another success story:
This branch was created last year and staffed with 36 employees (all paid with tax money) with the sole purpose of bringing 2,200 refugees in Dortmund, those who were able to work, into the workforce.
And the news was: After nine months of intensive work the Arbeitsagentur has succeeded to get . . . ten (!) refugees working! Hurrah! Well, they had the decency to add that it's only a start—but an encouraging one.
The list is endless. . . . but to come back to the incident in Würzburg:
A refugee, supposedly from Afghanistan and 17-years-old, decided to start his own jihad and tried to take out a few infidels. Oddly enough, he started with a family from Hong Kong on the train, whom he attacked with the brave shout "Allah akbar" and a knife and an axe. After severely wounding two of them, he jumped off the train.
(I wonder if this will boost tourism from Hong Kong).
Then he met some old ladies who were walking their little dogs and with the shout "I will kill you, sluts!" he also wounded one (perhaps fatally) before being shot by the police.
Now—as I said, THIS is a new quality.
I can almost feel the anger and rage in Germany getting stronger.
The rage in some refugees is also rising, which is logical.
There are no jobs for them.
There are no houses for them.
There are no women for them.
So—jihad is an option, if you are bored and all these kuffar give you nothing but €352 a month, or less, and you have to sleep with six others in a tightly packed room—and there is just nothing to do!
And you wander around and there are all those women in shorts, etc.—but they are not for you.
No wonder, some get frustrated.
Slowly, silently, the German police admit there might be a teensy-weensy bit of a problem here—mind you, we still don't know the whereabouts of between 150 to 500 thousand refugees who just disappeared . . .
Nobody knows how many jihadists are here. Nobody. Could be a few dozen. Or hundreds. Or thousands.
This young man on the Würzburg train came last July. He was granted asylum this March. The last two months, he lived with a family. He had a job (or was in training, rather) at a bakery. There were no signs of radicalization. Soooo. . . .
The media is busy telling us: Well . . . he radicalized himself only days before the attack. I wonder if they realize this message is not quite reassuring . . .
So the gap is rising ever more. Everybody has some story to tell:
My brother lives in Munich. Last year, his wife was very pro-refugee. In a neighboring suburb a few weeks ago, a woman heard the doorbell at 10PM. Assuming it was a friend (this is Bavarian bourgeoisie, so they've always felt safe, at least until recently . . . ), she opened the door—and was greeted (and then raped) by two refugees. That made my brother's wife rethink (they have two small children).
My sister in Münster has armed herself with pepper spray.
Colleagues don't let their children go alone to school anymore, because there are refugees nearby.
A guy in East Germany tells me people are secretly arming themselves.
Hate grows, as does mistrust and anxiety. Some weeks ago in Hanover, a young Muslim girl (15-years-old) rammed a knife into the throat of a female policeman (who was just standing there—the attack came out of nowhere).
Then people hear about public swimming pools, about festivals—they hear about the same things in Sweden—then what happened in France—Nice, or the policeman and his wife who were stabbed to death in Magnanville (while their 3-year-old-son was watching).
The latest incident was a woman in France who got stabbed by a guy from Morocco—they had quarreled because the Moroccan guy thought the woman's daughters were not properly dressed—so he stabbed her and her three daughters, the youngest only eight-years-old. And so on, and so on . . .
Now—of course, there are also Germans doing nasty things—murdering, raping etc. But these things have a new quality to them.
For many years, the statistics of the German police had shown that migrants are waaaay overrepresented in crime—rapes, robberies, burglaries, violence etc. The rates for migrants were everywhere double or triple those for the general population (and the funny thing is, the gap would have been even wider if Germans with a migrant background—Turks who have German passports, etc.—were included. Of course, this was not done (it would be racist, you know).
And the blame was and is still on the Germans—that they didn't provide enough opportunities for integration towards the poor Muslim migrants (funnily enough, we don't have these problems with Vietnamese or Hindu migrants . . . but again, these are racist thoughts . . . ).
So the migrants were and are told that it is the Germans' fault if they don't get a job. Some of them believe it. Also, some or even many seem to believe that Germans are a bunch of racist swine.
I once met a Greek woman who complained loudly to me that Germans were so racist. I asked her what her experiences were—and she said that a friend of her had been approached by a German on a train and that he (hacked her to death? No, not quite) had said to her: there are too many of you in Germany.
Wasn't that racism?
I asked if her children were ever harassed by Turkish children in school (Turks and Greeks don't get along too well)—yes, of course—Turkish children had harassed and even beaten up her boys.
Now, Linh—the really funny thing was, it didn't occur to her that this was more racist (that her boys were beaten up by Turks just because they were Greeks) than the incident on the train.
Racism was something only Germans showed.
I heard similar things from others.
So all in all—a perfect example of mind manipulation.
AND this also shows now so brilliantly—because—as I said, the mood gets worse (just on the eve of the next financial crisis—perfect timing)—even in the German leftist newspaper Die Zeit (absolutely pro-refugee) you now find commentaries from people who say that they have just had enough of this lousy leftist whining . . .
Because again, we are told from German politicians about the incident in Würzburg that
This had nothing to do with Islam or the refugee crisis
That the police shouldn't have killed the poor axe-wielding boy (German police officers are rather reluctant to use their guns, but if someone runs towards them with an axe, I think it is understandable that they shoot)
That the young man radicalized himself just recently—and therefore that
It was no sign of a strengthening of ISIS in Germany, etc.
My father remembers the 70s (I don't—too young) when 40 members of the Rote Armee Fraktion RAF (the left terror group of Baader Meinhof and the likes) were able to hold German society in fear and sometimes in a state close to hysteria. Now—with . . . 100? 1,000? ISIS members—you can imagine how the mood will change when ISIS does its first crucifixion here . . . ).
All the more, since some gruesome details from the Paris attacks are now leaking out—that the terrorists at the Paris discotheque in November 2015 not only killed the young folks there . . . but they tore off limbs, cut off genitals, stuffed them in the mouths of the men, cut out eyes etc . . . Ah—a holy war excuses everything—even becoming a monster, it seems.
But to come to the point: As I said, Germans are getting more and more fed up with the official litany—BUT: They don't see the real picture. They still believe that the ones who created this situation will be the ones who will deliver the solution! That is the sad part of it.
All these things will be used as an excuse to install the perfect police state (and it will be perfect). We need to protect you from terrorists—so give us your freedom, open your bank account, let us abolish money and install a digital currency, accept new taxes (and ghettos in your cities). Work harder and for less money, consume and be a good citizen—and most importantly: Have fear! Always have fear!
Now—I don't want to leave with the impression that all refugees are just no-goods—criminals, murderers etc. They are not. The vast majority are normal people who just want to lead a normal life—and not one that is forced upon them while their countries are demolished, raped and plundered by the West (that is, the US of A).
BUT—they are just tools in a game. Pawns. Just as we are.
And this leads to no good if the circumstances here resemble Iraq's. Or just Kenya. And that is the direction we are headed. People with totally different cultural and ideological roots from ours will cling with force to what they know. If they are encouraged to do so (and they are). Assimilation is a crime against humanity, as a Turkish politician once said (who recently had a tough time because some of his generals wanted to get rid of him). So they stay with their own folks. No integration. No assimilation. But ghettos—their mindset becomes even more rigid—some of them will start to despise the majority, whom they don't understand and don't want to understand—and sometimes they will commit violence against the hated or despised kuffar (who have no decency—no respect, etc.).
I mean—it is funny—in all German travel guides—when it comes to Muslim countries, you find things like: If you are a woman, don't wear a skirt! Under no circumstances be topless on a beach! Don't look men in the eye—it is an invitation to sex! Etc. Are the ones who wrote this only hardcore racists? And now hundreds of thousands of people from these countries come here—what do we expect? They mistake our hospitality for weakness. And they (some of them at least) will turn to extremism.
A famous German journalist (one of the old school—Peter Scholl-Latour) once said prophetically: If you let Calcutta come here, you change this to Calcutta.
And he was right. A minority of the refugees consists of terrorists, murderers, rapists, etc. They could only come here because the borders were kept open. Just on the eve of the Greater Depression (with all the distrust between the various groups and subgroups), they will make sure that German citizens will fight among themselves in countless battles and skirmishes.
Germans against migrants, Turks against Kurds, Sunni against Shia, Yazidis against Salafists, etc. The rich will have their gated communities, the rest will have to deal with a much tougher life in ghettos and suburbs. And life will still go on . . . I was once in Nigeria. Though you can make money and do business there, life is not too pleasant for the majority of Nigerians . . .
That is where we are headed. German society will be so fragmented and there will be such turmoil and violence, the majority will accept every solution from above . . .
Still—if in the end it all plays out as planned—I don't know. There still is something called destiny. And this may be—in the end—the stronger factor. Even against those in the shadows.
In the meantime, we have to carry on with our normal life. And try to stay human. That is a tough thing to do, these days—but it is possible.
And will remain possible.
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Unbelievable: Young Turks Terrorizing Americans in America & Turkey
The video below shows a scuffle on the set of an Islamic apologetic; Infiltrator Cenk Uygur's YouTube show, The Young Turks. It looks like Alex Jones touched a nerve in the TURK with the Saudi Arabia funding remark.
We remember that the original Young Turks were the ruling junta in Turkey during World War I. They were the main culprits in the genocide of 2.5 million Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian Christians. Having a show with such a disgusting name is ridiculous, why and how on earth is such a group allowed in the US?
Young Turks and the Armenian Genocide
The Young Turks were the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide. The Young Turk Movement emerged in reaction to the absolutist rule of Sultan Abdul-Hamid (Abdulhamit) II (1876-1909). With the 1878 suspension of the Ottoman Constitution, reform-minded Ottomans resorted to organizing overseas or underground. The backbone of the movement was formed by young military officers who were especially disturbed by the continuing decline of Ottoman power and attributed the crisis to the absence of an environment for change and progress. Working secretly in unconnected clusters under the watchful eye of the Hamidian secret police, the Young Turks succeeded in overturning the rule of the autocratic sultan when the Ottoman armies in European Turkey openly supported the movement. Abdul-Hamid's reinstatement of constitutional and parliamentary rule in July 1908 ushered in a brief period of legalized political activity by a panoply of reformist Turkish parties as well as Armenian political and revolutionary organizations. The Young Turks earned further public support when their intervention was required to suppress the April 1909 counter-revolution staged by the palace.
At the center of the Young Turk Revolution stood the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) (Ittihad ve Terakki Jemiyeti) formed in 1895. Its members came to be known as Ittihadists or Unionists. The most ideologically committed party in the entire movement, the CUP espoused a form of Turkish nationalism which was xenophobic and exclusionary in its thinking. Its policies threatened to undo the tattered fabric of a multi-ethnic and multi-religious society. Taking advantage of the political confusion reigning in the aftermath of the First Balkan War which the Ottoman Empire lost in 1912 to its former subject states, the CUP seized power in a coup d'etat in January 1913. As it led the empire to a partial recovery in the Second Balkan War, the CUP monopolized political power domestically by bringing the Parliament completely under its influence. It also began to steer away from the long-held Ottoman foreign policy of alliances with Great Britain and France, and forged a stronger military cooperation with Germany. Moreover, the CUP compensated for the Ottoman retreat in the Balkans by promoting Pan-Turkism, an expansionist program designed to challenge Russia in its southern tier. By the time World War I broke out in August 1914, the CUP constituted a chauvinistic band which had subordinated the Ottoman state to its Turkist ideology. It also propelled the country into war against its better interests by entering into a secret accord with Germany.
To consolidate Turkish rule in the remaining territories of the Ottoman Empire and to expand the state into the so-called Turanian lands in the east, most held by Iran and Russia, the CUP devised in secret a program for the extermination of the Armenian population. From the viewpoint of Ittihadist ideology and its new and ambitious foreign policy, the Armenians represented a completely vulnerable population straddling an area of major strategic value for its Pan-Turanian goals. Ottoman misrule had made the Armenians, a prosperous minority despite its political disadvantages, sympathetic to Russia. To the Ittihadists, the global crisis of 1914 represented a rare opportunity to change the fortunes of the Ottoman state and to use the cover of war to embark upon a policy of both internal and external social engineering the likes of which had not been attempted or imagined. Once again they gambled on the element of surprise, subterfuge, and radical daring, this time against a civilian minority population.
— Is Incirlik Air Base being held hostage by Turkey?
Researcher, Paul Sperry, the author of Infiltration has detailed the type of immigrants that the US is importing from the Middle East. In the following video, Paul Sperry, details the threat to the communities while appearing on C-SPAN2.
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In 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th career home run in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, breaking Babe Ruth�s record.
Today is Easter Sunday, April 8, the 99th day of 2012. There are 267 days left in the year.
Today�s Highlight in History:
�On April 8, 1952, President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order seizing the American steel industry to avert a nationwide strike. (The U.S. Supreme Court later ruled that Truman had overstepped his authority, opening the way for a seven-week strike by steelworkers.)
�In 1820, the Venus de Milo statue was discovered by a farmer on the Greek island of Milos.
�In 1913, the 17th Amendment to the Constitution, providing for direct popular election of United States senators (as opposed to appointment by state legislatures), was ratified.
�In 1981, General of the Army Omar N. Bradley died in New York at age 88.
�In 1990, Ryan White, the teenage AIDS patient whose battle for acceptance had gained national attention, died in Indianapolis at age 18.
�In 1992, tennis great Arthur Ashe announced at a New York news conference that he had AIDS; Ashe died in February 1993 of AIDS-related pneumonia at age 49.
�In 1994, Kurt Cobain, singer and guitarist for the grunge band Nirvana, was found dead in Seattle from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound; he was 27.
Ten years ago: Israel announced it would pull back from two West Bank cities, taking note of President George W. Bush�s plea. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein cut off crude oil exports to demonstrate support for the Palestinians.
One year ago: Congressional and White House negotiators struck a last-minute budget deal ahead of a midnight deadline, averting an embarrassing federal shutdown and cutting billions in spending.
Today�s Birthdays: Comedian Shecky Greene is 86. Actor-turned-diplomat John Gavin is 81. Author and investigative reporter Seymour Hersh is 75. Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is 74. Basketball Hall-of-Famer John Havlicek is 72. �Mouseketeer� Darlene Gillespie is 71. Singer Peggy Lennon (The Lennon Sisters) is 71. Rock musician Steve Howe (Yes) is 65. Rock musician Mel Schacher (Grand Funk Railroad) is 61. Actor John Schneider is 52. �Survivor� winner Richard Hatch is 51. Rock musician Izzy Stradlin is 50. Singer Julian Lennon is 49. Rapper Biz Markie is 48. Actress Robin Wright is 46. Actress Patricia Arquette is 44. Rock singer Craig Honeycutt (Everything) is 42. Rock musician Darren Jessee is 41.

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The first conservation initiative made for the ecosystem of Tambopata was by means of the RM 01-77-AG/DGFF on January 03,1977. It established the Tambopata Reserve Zone across a surface area of 5,500 hectares in a traditional Ese'eja territory. While conserving the Amazon forest, the area is used for scientific investigation of the flora and fauna as well as for tourist development. In July 1977, the company Peruvian Safaris was given the responsibility to take care of and protect the Tambopata Reserve Area for a period of 5 years through an agreement with the Dirección General de Forestal y Fauna (DGFF) and the Zona Agraria IX – Cuzco.
In 1990, the area was declared La Zona Reservada Tambopata Candamo (ZRTC), thanks to the state's efforts at maintaining and conserving the biodiversity of the area. The ZRTC was created by means of Ministerial Resolution #0032-90-AG/DGFF on January 26, 1990 as a governmental initiative to protect this area which is home to an undisturbed population of wild flora and fauna species and attractive landscapes. It is considered top priority for conservation, due to it's location, diversity and a great expansion of land with almost unaltered character. In addition to the way the territory is arranged according to the capacity of land actually used and the land of potential use.
The Tambopata National Reserve was declared by means of the Supreme Law # 048-2000-AG, resulting from the proposition put forth by the area's committee planner. This proposition was elaborated in the background of the "Conservation of the Tropical Ecosystems Project and the sustainable use of the natural resources inside the Candamo Tambopata Reserve Area". Also, a damp area of the Tambopata National Reserve was determined as the Bahuaja Sonene National Park, formed by 271,582 hectares exclusive of the Candamo Tambopata Reserve.
The Tambopata National Reserve has a surface area of 274,690 hectares and is located in the Madre de Dios area and the Tambopata province.
The objective is to protect the wild flora and fauna, the beautiful landscapes inside the reserve area, and sustainable utilization of the natural resources.
This mountainous countryside with desert terrain containing cactus is an excellent habitat for the guanaco, the vizcacha, the skunk, and the Andean fox.
Between Madre de Dios and Puno.
From Puerto Maldonado heading south by navigation on the Tambopata River.


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Pair Of F/A-18s Crash In Western Pacific Ocean, U.S. Navy Says
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F/A-18 fighter jets on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in Hong Kong in 2011.
The U.S. Navy says two of its carrier-based fighter/attack jets have crashed in the western Pacific Ocean. One pilot has been rescued and search efforts were continuing for the second.
The cause of the incident, which occurred early Friday and involved F/A-18 Hornets from Carrier Air Wing 17 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), was still being investigated, the Navy said in a statement.
According to the statement:
"The initial report is that the two aircraft are assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 94 (VFA-94) and Strike Fighter Squadron 113 (VFA-113).
"One pilot was rapidly located and returned to Carl Vinson, and is currently receiving medical attention. Search efforts continue for the second pilot.
"The search for the second pilot includes guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) and guided-missile destroyer USS Gridley (DDG 101) and helicopters assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 15 (HSC 15) and Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 73 (HSM 73).
"The two F/A-18C Hornets have not been recovered."
Note: We've changed the photo caption, originally supplied by The Associated Press, to delete a reference to the figure in the center being a U.S. Marine. As several of our readers have commented, the serviceman shown appears in fact to be a U.S. Navy sailor.


Cinda M. Conroyd received her law degree from Willamette University in 1984, and has been with the firm since 1991. Her practice emphasizes elder law, particularly as it relates to Medicaid planning. Ms. Conroyd first developed her expertise in the Medicaid area while employed as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Oregon from January 1987 to February 1990 where she represented Senior and People with Disabilities, the State agency which implements the Medicaid program for the elderly and disabled. Prior to working for the Attorney General's Office, Ms. Conroyd was employed for three years at the law firm of Spears, Lubersky, Campbell, and Young (now Lane, Powell, Spears, Lubersky).
Ms. Conroyd is a member of the National Association of Elder Law Attorneys, is active in the Alzheimer's Network, is a past chair of the Elder Law Section of the Oregon State Bar, remains active with its Agency and Professional Relations Committee, and frequently speaks to local organizations regarding Elder Law.


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Delhi Assembly polls: AAP stuns BJP, returns to power with huge win
NEW DELHI , February 11, 2020 11:07 pm
AAP national convenor and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal receiving his MLA certificate from the returning officer. Image credit - Twitter
Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) stunned the BJP and returned to power in Delhi for the third time by winning 62 seats.
It was a major setback for the saffron brigade which had a landslide victory in the last parliamentary election in the national capital.
In the 70-member Delhi Assembly, the BJP could win only 8 seats. However, the party could increase its vote share and won five more seats compared to 2015 polls while the Congress failed to open its card this time too.
In the 2015 Delhi Assembly polls, out of 70 seats, AAP won 67 seats, BJP 3 and Congress could not win any seat.
While addressing his party workers in New Delhi, Kejriwal said: "Dilliwalon (residents of Delhi), I love you." He termed the poll verdict as "win for Bharat Mata (Mother India)".
Earlier on the day, Kejriwal while addressing his supporters said: "This is a win for Mother India."
Kejriwal waved and blew his supporters kisses, and said he "loved the people of Delhi".
5 Saal Kejriwal… pic.twitter.com/LGm5S7YCA3
— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) February 11, 2020
Kejriwal also began a roadshow after addressing his supporters.
The 51-year-old former bureaucrat rose to political fame as an anti-corruption campaigner.
Kejriwal first became chief minister of Delhi in 2013 and was then re-elected in 2015 with a landslide victory.
Kejriwal has been credited with turning around Delhi's government-run schools, establishing affordable neighbourhood clinics and providing cheap water and electricity.
A media report quoted Kejriwal as saying: "It's not just my win. This is a win for every family whose children are now getting a good education in school, whose family members are getting good treatment in hospitals."
Kejriwal also led a victory parade from the AAP office to the Hanuman temple in the city centre, after saying his party's victory was a blessing from Hanuman, the monkey god.
Celebrations were held outside the AAP office where party workers claimed that the win vindicates their decision to campaign hard on "good governance and development" and refrain from "divisive politics".
Exit polls released on Saturday projected the AAP winning more than 50-61 seats in the Delhi Assembly polls.
Nearly 61 percent of Delhi's 14.7 million voters cast their ballots on Saturday in elections believed to be a litmus test for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the wake of deadly anti-government protests that erupted nearly two months ago.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Modi has congratulated APP and Kejriwal for the win.
Modi tweeted: "Congratulations to AAP and Shri @ArvindKejriwal Ji for the victory in the Delhi Assembly Elections. Wishing them the very best in fulfilling the aspirations of the people of Delhi."
While thanking the PM for his tweet, Kejriwal said: "Thank u so much sir. I look forward to working closely wid Centre to make our capital city into a truly world class city."
Thank u so much sir. I look forward to working closely wid Centre to make our capital city into a truly world class city. https://t.co/IACEVA091c
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) February 11, 2020


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Semiconductor Sales Set For Biggest Decline In A Decade
'It could be factory adjustment coming out of a high-demand environment where there were shortages, and now they need to adjust their forecasting and production,' a distributor executive says of the semiconductor industry's projected revenue decline for 2019.
By Dylan Martin May 03, 2019, 05:32 PM EDT
The semiconductor industry this year is set for the largest downturn in sales since the Great Recession, according to new industry research.
Research firm IHS Markit said it has slashed its outlook for 2019 semiconductor sales by more than 10 percentage points, projecting revenue to decline 7.4 percent to $446.2 billion. That's a major reversal from the 2.9 percent growth the firm previously projected for 2019 revenue in December.
[Related: Intel's Steve Long On CPU Shortage: 'We Undercalled Demand As An Industry' For PCs]
If IHS Markit's projection holds true, the firm said it would represent the semiconductor industry's biggest annual percentage decrease since 2009, when chip sales dipped by nearly 11 percent.
"After the chip industry attained a heady revenue expansion of 15 percent in 2018, many semiconductor suppliers in early 2019 remained optimistic that they could achieve modest growth this year," Myson Robles Bruce, an IHS Markit researcher, said in a statement.
"However, the chipmakers' confidence quickly transformed into apprehension as they witnessed the depth and ferocity of the current downturn," Bruce continued. "The latest data indicates the semiconductor business now is destined for its worst year in a decade."
Oversupply, Low Prices Contribute To Downturn
IHS Markit attributed the downturn to "increasingly soft demand, combined with a rapid rise in inventory levels in the first quarter," largely impacting DRAM and NAND flash memory, general-purpose processors, microcontroller units and ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits).
These trends are reflected in the most recent earnings results from the world's largest semiconductor companies, namely Intel and Samsung. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel reported last week that it now expects 2019 revenue to decline 3 percent to $69 billion from the previous year, attributing the anticipated decline to continued deterioration of memory pricing, as well as lower demand from cloud service providers and enterprises.
Samsung Tuesday said that weak memory chip demand hurt the Seoul, South Korea-based company's operating profit, which dropped a staggering 60 percent in the first quarter to 6.2 trillion won ($5.4 billion). The company's Q1 revenue declined 13 percent year-over-year to 52.4 trillion won ($45 billion).
The Channel Sounds Off On The Report
Dominic Daninger, vice president of engineering at Nor-Tech, a Burnsville, Minn.-based system builder, said while he hasn't seen the impact with his company's high-performance computing business, the company has noticed trends such as rapidly decreasing memory prices due to oversupply.
"The price erosion has been incredible," he said of NAND flash products. "Manufacturing was cranking out more or the market is shrinking to some degree or both. DRAM is seeing the same thing. A lot of manufacturing capability and some decrease in demand."
Daninger agreed with another point made in the IHS Markit report — that lower demand for smartphones is hurting the semiconductor industry as well. IDC reported on Tuesday that smartphone shipments declined 6.6 percent in the first quarter, marking the sixth consecutive quarterly decline in the market.
"There just isn't a must-have feature that's popping up every year or two," he said.
Memory Decline Comes After High Prices And Shortages
Kent Tibbils, vice president of marketing at ASI, a Fremont, Calif.-based distributor, said he doesn't think the industry will see a downturn as dramatic as the one seen during the last recession. But he said a build-up of inventory has led to a slow start in the year.
"We do typically see the first couple months of the year being a little slower because there was a lot of build-up of inventory," he said.
Tibbils said the decline does have some silver linings for IT buyers.
"We've seen DRAM pricing coming down for some time," he said. "I don't think anybody in the industry is upset about that given how it was a year ago."
The decline in memory prices follows a period in which memory shortages pushed DRAM and NAND flash prices up, which benefited vendors like Samsung. Now the industry is dealing with the fact that supply has caught up with demand and surpassed it.
"It could be factory adjustment coming out of a high-demand environment where there were shortages, and now they need to adjust their forecasting and production," he said.
Recovery Expected In Second Half Of 2019
While the IHS Markit report casts a shadow on the semiconductor industry, the firm expects a recovery to begin in the third quarter, echoing recent statements from Intel.
IHS Markit said the recovery will be led by NAND flash memory parts used in solid-state drives and high-end smartphones, as well as processors in laptops and servers.
Both Intel and its rival AMD plan to release new processors in the second half of the year that could help fuel this recovery. For Intel, it will be the company's 10-nanometer Ice Lake mobile platform for next-generation laptops. AMD, on the other hand, plans to release new 7-nanometer processors for desktop computers and servers, as well as a new line of 7nm graphics cards.
Tibbils said he expects IT buying to ramp up, especially for client computers, in the second half of the year as Microsoft's support for Windows 7 comes to an end.
"That would be good for client stuff, memory, SSDs and processors," he said.
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Most of you know I lost my dear Georgie last year, in November. My holidays were blurry that first month…and so this year is my first holiday without my Georgie and the sadness and feeling of loneliness has been hard for me.
I enjoy hearing from all of you and I have been returning emails and helping anyone in need of a good talk through…but I have not been posting. I am in hopes that I will be able to concentrate and get posting again on a good speed in the new year. Its one of my first of the year goals.
Its my birthday…and New Years Eve and New Years Day used to be a happy time for me. I felt the whole world celebrated my birthday…so I always looked forward to it. In good times…George would always take me out dancing. Parties in cities close and far away. We were in the travel business…so traveling to a wonderful city for New Years was part of the excitement of the holidays. I am so aware of those memories when life was good and times were special with my guy. But what I want to share with you…is the fear and pain that took over when George started suffering from Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
This idea that you give care until someone passes is really not true. The truth is, mental health issues mean that a person changes in personality and in their memory on a daily basis. So way before any end of life issues pop up…you are starting to lose the person you love. Each day their brain changes and in bits and pieces they leave and never return. So in essence you lose your loved one every day. It's a very hard thing to live with and hard to understand. But you have to be aware its the truth. Doctors, nurses they do not tell you these things…they do not give care like you do. They treat and diagnose — you do the care giving so you feel and see the changes. It could be a forgotten name, or a forgotten word and you watch them try to find another word to use in the conversation. It could be an emotional outburst or a series of days when nothing is said at all…quiet! It could be a strange walking gait, or a repeated action over and over again.
The doctors don't see it, your family doesn't see it…YOU see it and FEEL it and it scares the beegeebies out of you! What can you do…how do you make it better? Can you exercise it out…can you calm them down…can you change how you have conversations with them. Can you take the car keys away, can you put alarms on the doors to hear when they just walk out…can you put up signs to help them remember things? Your mind starts to race and you feel. ALONE.
I can not take that feeling away from you. But I can tell you…that you must keep your mind on the goal. That goal is to give your loved one the best "end of life" that you can. It may be a year or ten years ahead…but just take a step at a time and try hard to get support. Write to me, join a support group…ask a few good friends to meet at your place each month so you can express your fears and upsets. YOU need to be strong…because the ride is not pretty and it's not short.
You also need to have as much help as you can. Trying to be quiet about the struggle will only hurt you and your loved one. Telling family and friends and asking a few of them to be your mind and heart is what is needed. Do you have a friend that is good on the Internet…well ask them to look up the details of problems you are finding and working through. There are wonderful tips out there, but they have to be found so ask that friend to be your eyes on the world.
Do you have a friend that will drive you around? Ask them to take you to the hospital, doctor appointments and therapy treatments. That way you can control your loved one, keep them calm and the driving can be safely done by your friend. You have to ask, you have to say…I NEED HELP. If you don't you are hurting yourself and your loved one.
The brain of a dementia patient is not going to magically heal…so you simply have to be verbal to people about the situation. I told everyone in the neighborhood. "If you see George walking in front of your house without me next to him. Go out and get him to come in for coffee and call me…please!" Who are you going to impress by being quiet? Let your village know that you have a situation that needs their help…and you will get it back. People want to help…they just don't know what to do.
I know my loss of George, after his death, has been hard on me. I adored the guy and we were bestest friends and I feel empty. I have to heal and begin to bring new things into my life to feel whole again. I know that…but for me…its been a slow heal. What do I do?
I talk to family and friends about my sadness…I look at pictures of him, I have a little area in my bedroom that has an enlarged picture and candles that I burn each night. It calms me and I feel close to George when I do that…even though he is not there…I feel him there and it comforts me. You need to do the same thing….but in your own way. Find little routines that make you feel safe and start to fill up time in your life. Plan your days, have future events on the calendar and bit by bit…be a part of life around you.
I still pull away from big events. Sometimes in a big family gathering I feel more lonely than in a small one. So I say no…if I feel the event is too much for me. But I force myself to say YES…to events that are smaller with people I know well and love. I am trying to develop a new me and still give myself the honor of the old me that was a part of my duo relationship with George.
Just remember…do not do this alone. Do not think a nurse or doctor has emotional and physical answers to the day by day tasks of your care giving. Do not get upset of friends or family leave you all alone…and rejoice in the friends new and old that will stand by you when you ask for their help. Know that money is not going to grow on trees and you have to stick to a budget because it can be a long, long ride. Know that answers to help you are there…ask me or others that have gone through care giving to help…and be a trooper…ask again and again. Life is meant to live with others not on your own….ask!
I know you can do it…and I honor the fact you are standing there day after day giving someone who is unable to care for their own life…care. You are a good person. No one will give you a thanks…nor will you get a reward for your care. In the mind of your loved one they think they are still…just fine. Nothing has changed…you know better…you know life is now upside-down…yet they think their life is in control. Be brave…force yourself to be honest and talk about the dementia as if it was the flu…let out your voice and keep the honesty of the situation everyday. Hurting feelings is not the point, honesty is the point.
You saw the path to the end of their life was laid out…you stepped up and took their hand and walked next to them.Your loved one is not alone. That makes you a very special and loving person and I am proud to know you. I know you will be honest with them, your friends and yourself and not stand alone. I want you to remember the world does not know you have a problem or you need help…without your voice shouting it out. Be brave and shout and keep shouting till you have a group around you to help you in your journey. No one will say it…but you are loved. Your loved one does love you…even if they can not put that into words…so just hold the honestly of knowing they love you and you are doing the best job you can…each and every day.
Just returned from training for a few days had a great crowd and did a nice class in senior emergency preparation. It's always enjoyable to train a good group that are active in their minds and bodies even at advanced ages. The word is aging, but trust me – they're doing it with grace. For all of you that are joining my blog today…thanks for the good time hope you enjoyed all the new information. By the way you will find my Care-Givers Workbook 101 on the products page of my website and it has loads of tips for caring for dementia and Alzheimer seniors.
Dear Francy: My husband does not want to take any medications for his Alzheimer's. He has good health and he does not want to "feel funny" – I care for him in our home and I am so worried about it all.
Well, bad news for your husband, his Alzheimer's has impaired his ability to make decisions for his own health and you get to choose if he needs different medications or care. Your husband's demeanor is only going to get worse. It will either go into highly frustrated and intense anxiety or it will slow into a non-responsive or retreating mode. Either way, they are not good for him or you.
Now, I know you have been a good kid and gotten a Health Care Directive and Power of Attorney to cover your husband. If not…this is the moment to do it. Go on the net and buy the Borderbund software called Family Law– it's very inexpensive and it has a step by step program to take you through the legal part of the Health Care Directive. (Or buy a hard copy of the directive at Office Depot) Then go and get it notary stamped at the local bank and then make copies for his doctors so there is not question on who is making the decisions.
Then sit down and write your doctor ( a neurologist) a letter. On the top it will say. Please have doctor read this before our appointment on Thursday and then put into my husband's file – his name here– Then you begin. You tell the doctor how your husband is acting at home. Is he upset and worrisome, or super quiet and not interacting with you? Just slowly go through a few things that bother you about it and ask the doctor to begin your husband on an emotional drug to keep him calm or keep him engaged in the world and a Alzheimer's mediation that works for mild Alzheimer conditions. Always remember to ask for generic if he can so you can afford the medication. Then you will fax the letter (go to a Copy Shop for faxing if you need to) and make sure it is sent off and they receive it before your appointment. If you do not have an appointment make one and send the letter to arrive a couple of days head of your appointment.
This means the doctor has time to review your letter and make a review of your husband and his condition and when you arrive you will find him informed and ready to help you. Because this is really about you. You are the care giver, you are your husband's only life line! Without you, he is not able to do anything. So, you are the important party here. If you are feeling overwhelmed and unable to give him good care, there is a problem. If the overwhelmed is from no medications, that is just not fair to you.
I have to help my husband with his meds twice a day. He would never, and I mean never remember, on his own. I had a day when I was training and then came home tired and he went all day without his meds. Morning and night. I had put them out, but I was not there to remind him. So, by the next day he was acting strange and I checked and was so disappointed in myself for not remembering to check on him. It's hard for us as care givers. After all – I was tired and stressed with the training class and all that went around it and was gone, then home to be exhausted and losing my voice after training for five hours a day for three days…so, I was in need of a little TLC too! No one can be perfect, but we can try to do as good a job as possible. The next morning we started again, I gave him his meds and he went forward on his plan. But his body did not, he had a very bad reaction to the meds with diarrhea after the body had gone a day without them. So, this is why meds are so important to take on time and for us, as care givers, to have a plan in place if we get tired or sick.
My husband had a cell phone, so if I am not going to be handy…I set the alarm for his pill time. He is still well enough to remember what the alarm is when it rings. But if he moves out of that stage – and into a deeper problem with memory – I will just call my friend or sister and ask them to call him and remind him and ask him to take the pills while he is on the phone.
George's Zoloft is so important to his emotional health that it reflects right back on me if he does not take it. So, I always say if George misses the morning pills, that "I have missed my Zoloft" – Even if I personally do not take the meds, they effect my life so negatively if he forgets to take them- it feels like we are one with this medication. Medications for emotional and mental conditions are simply to be prescribed and taken. There is no excuse other than selfish behavior- the reason for so many homeless people is that they have problems taking their meds and it reflects so badly on their abilities they can not function properly without them. Dementia and Alzheimer's is a combo of emotional and mental conditions that have to be cared for and treated with medications to ease the symptoms.
Explain the changes in your spouses behavior to the doctor in a letter – sent before his appointment. Then you will not have to have an embarrassing confrontation in front of the doctor. This will allow the specialist (neurologist) to make a better choice of medications. Sign the letter with your name and Power of Attorney on the bottom…so he knows you have the ability to make these decisions.
Make sure medications are taken on time, everyday…no matter what is happening in your life. Most of these drugs are taken with food, so after breakfast and dinner is better. Ask for generic for your budget and if they are too expensive- tell the doctor to give you a slip that you can fill out and send into the drug company and they will gift you the drug – if you're on a tight income range.
Remember the care giver is just as important as the patient. You are the reason for his health and well being. You are the strength that is going to carry him on for a long time in your own home. If he wants to be in his own home, you get to set the rules and taking meds and keeping him safe is your job. You make the decisions now. That can be hard for people that have had long time marriages and the husband has been the power point of the relationship. But life changes, you now have to stop being the nice girl that listens and follows and become the assertive lady that sets the pace and keeps the care level high.
Think of yourself as part of a care team. Your husband, then you, as the care giver, and then the doctor…that's the triad that is going to make this tough situation of giving care for the long term, to Alzheimer's spouse – successful in your home.
I applaud you for your kindness and patience in your care giving. Alzheimer's takes more than a Seniors mind, it takes the once sweet relationship of husband and wife and turns it on it's head. It leaves the care giver lonely and feeling alone before the spouse has even died. But you are not alone, you have so many others that are right behind you and you need only ask questions and we will all try to help.
Please go and enjoy the rest of the Alzheimer blogs on my Dear Francy blogs and visit my website www.seniorcarewithspirit.comto get more information. Don't forget, when you get to the stage that you need care facility help for your loved one, please contact me and let me help you through that process with our Loving Memories – Senior Care Facility Placement Service that is FREE for you to use.


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I know, I'm getting married in 2 weeks and I seem to be absconding from the blog! But it's not because I don't want to post – I have an insane amount to share with you! Those of you who are getting married in a few weeks time will understand – there is just SO much to do! My to-do list will truly not be complete till the day of the wedding. Now I understand – you make a to-do list, but as you keep checking things off, you also keep adding new things! New additions to my list? More sangeet practices (btw, did you hear that Bebo's sangeet practices are also in the works right now?), pre-wedding shoot planning, last minute honeymoon shopping (yup, I keep coming up with more things I need to buy!), planning a meeting with MUA to discuss my looks for both days…I could go on!
The biggest update I have to give to you right now is – I'm now wearing a jacket lehenga on my Reception!
Remember how I'd gone out and bought a sari with my parents-in-law many months back? Well, my MIL recently started second-guessing the outfit. She told me that she hadn't seen any brides wearing saris on their Receptions these days, so she wanted something different. Then she started glossing over these Wedding magazines (fyi, stay away from these the closer you get to your wedding – you'll keep finding new outfits you want to buy!) and found herself wanting me to wear a layered flowy anarkali or new-style-lehenga. She's way more fashionable than I am, for sure! Unfortunately, the kinds of designs we were looking at were Manish Malhotra and other "hi-fi" designer types, and I was pretty sure that these were not even available at the stores we normally go to. I was also getting super-stressed, because there were barely 3 weeks to the wedding and now we're considering a whole new look for an important function? Seriously, super-stressful! Anyway, we decided that it can't be a priority item (although I knew how badly she wanted me to not wear a sari and be a more fashionable bahu :p) but that we'd look around whenever we were out in the market. Last Saturday (yup, exactly 3 weeks before the wedding), I was passing Rakhi & Vandana in South Ex and decided to take a look. My eyes went straight to a beautiful pink lehenga that seemed exactly like the kind of thing my MIL was looking for. It was just so gorgeous!
Me (in my head): Moving on…!
Hmmm…you know what? This story is way longer than I have time to write right now. Need to head out to Lajpat Nagar to buy Choodas! My mother and I are clueless about it – I'm not Punjabi, and have never seen anyone in my family wear it. Any guidelines from Punjabi brides?
Edit: As promised, you can now read Part 2 here.
totally waiting for the reception outfit story 🙂 and, all the best with choodas…try to get the real ivory ones if you get instead of the blingy ones. sorry, that's all I know about them!!!
Reception outfit story will be up on the blog tomorrow morning!
You'll look fab in the new outfit!! You're almost there now!! What chooda style did you pick?
Just plain red with 2 blingy ones on the sides.
1. Simple red with off white. And my mom forced me to add two blingy ones on each hand. Which I will wear only on the wedding. Post that I will take the blingy one's out. And lil less than half of half a set on each hand. Where did you buy your choodas from?
Hey I am also not Punjabi, but marrying one, and so am confused- isn't the bride NOT supposed to see her choodas till the wedding day and her mom's brother or cousin supposed to pick that up for her? That's what I was told- don't tell me am clinging on to some archaic notion about this affair which nobody follows anymore ?!
@thedelhibrand-Ooie! I just headed to Babu choodiwala and bought whatever he had! He came highly recommended. But cool hai! It just has to make you smile.
My only issue with babu choodiwalla was that he didn't have my size. That itself would not have mattered, but just how they handled that – they became quite unhelpful! They should've just said we don't have your size at all, please try shops X,Y or Z.
Woah! He did not have your size?!?!? That is odd! He has a million varieties in a billion sizes! And very odd! When I went, the old uncle was so sweet and helpful! Very strange indeed!
TDB..best of luck 2 weeks yayyieee!!!
I'm marrying a (half) funjabi too!! and my (full punjabi) MIL told me its all good to get your own choodas as long as the mams makes me wear them so I got the smiplest ones from vaishudevi last yr.. which i thought was a super idea..being blessed and all and they coincidently matched my lehenga to the T..but now..they're a tiny set that cover my wrist (not the all the way till the elbow types..) PANIC..should i get more? or bling or something???????????????????
Why are you panicking? It depends on what look you want! Earlier brides would wear just enough to cover their wrists! Only now girls have started wearing blingy ones all the way upto their elbow! Depends on what you want! Worry not! In case you want to add to them, take your current set to CC, Lajpat, KB-any known chooda shop there and mix and match! Most probably they will have the set yoy have in case you want to add more of that itself!
Thanks a ton..I live in Bombay..but i'm going to take it to one of the chooda shops and get some more add-ons.
I need to buy Bangle Set for my weeding lehenga.. Please suggest some shop names in Lajpat. Few I have heard till now is is Babu chooriwala , om Sons, Bentex. Have just one day so which one u ppl suggest?
Also, around how much these sets costs? I m looking for fancy one as I am not Punjabi, so was planning for mix n match types.
I am not sure if you are still answering to all the queries but still taking my chances.
We are going wedding shopping for my sister and I have to mention that your blog was the most helpful part of my research for bridal shopping. Your wedding and the reception outfit is just incredible. From ur blog I mostly know about the places to go shopping but it would be rly helpful if you could also mail me the budget we should keep in mind when we go shopping to these places. Basically, how much did both ur wedding nd reception outfit cost you.
Thanks in advance for the you time nd kind help.
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OBOB Resources
The Plot Against America Resources
One Bay One Book - Events
2017-18 The Septembers of Shiraz
2016-17 Moonglow
2015-16 The Periodic Table
2014-15 The Betrayers
2013-14 A Guide for the Perplexed
2012-13 What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Jewish Learning Works
Moonglow Resources
Resources from the Jewish Community Library
Discussion questions from the Jewish Community Library
Guide to themes in Moonglow and timeline of events from the Jewish Community Library
Moonglow or Gaslight? Thinking about Truth, Fiction, and the Contract between Reader and Writer from the Jewish Community Library
Selected Moonglow Reviews and Articles
● Chabon, Safran Foer, and the Great American Jewish Novel, by Ari Hoffman, Lehrhaus, Mary 15, 2017
● The Question of What We Do With Our Past by Mymes Werntz, In All Things, May 5, 2017
● The True Meaning of Nostalgia by Michael Chabon, The New Yorker, March 25, 2017
● Bethanne Patrick on Moonglow on the National Book Critics Circle blog, March 1, 2017
● Review of Moonglow by Marty Roth, Jewish Currents, February 18, 2017
● Michael Chabon's Novel 'Moonglow' Illuminates as Much as It Obscures by Andrew Esensten, Haaretz, January 24, 2017
● Michael Chabon, Daniel Gordis Among Big Winners at 2016 National Jewish Book Awards, Haaretz, January 12, 2017
● Moonglow -– much more than a memoir by Alex Preston, The Guardian, January 10, 2017
● Michael Chabon's 'Moonglow' explores the 'unbreakable habit of loss by Steven Whitton, The Anniston Star, January 1, 2017
● In His Expansive New Novel, Michael Chabon Blurs the Line Between Fact and Fiction by Robert Christgau, The Village Voice, December 7, 2016
● The Scheherazade of the East Bay by Katy Waldman, Slate, November 30, 2016
● Wonder Boy Michael Chabon Grows Up in 'Moonglow' by Talya Zax, The Forward, November 25, 2016
● Michael Chabon's Age of Heroes by Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal, November 25, 2016
● Michael Chabon's 'Moonglow' an ingenious, intoxicating fictional memoir by David Wright, The Seattle Times, November 24, 2016
● Michael Chabon and his new novel, 'Moonglow' by Kate Tuttle, The Los Angeles Times, November 24, 2016
● Shattering pain by Elaine Margolin, The Jerusalem Post, November 24, 2016
● Magical family narrative' drives Michael Chabon's latest novel by Robert Nagler Miller, The J Weekly, November 23, 2016
● Rocketing through memory by Diane Cole, The Jewish Week, November 23, 2016
● Chabon's 'Moonglow' reflects Jewish experience by Kevin Nance, USA Today, November 22, 2016
● Michael Chabon's 'Moonglow' is a cunning dance with autobiography by Ron Charles, The Washington Post, November 21, 2016
● Michael Chabon's Blurred Lines by Gal Beckerman, The New Republic, November 21, 2016
● Michael Chabon Sees the Future by Juliet Litman, The Ringer, November 21, 2016
● In "Moonglow," Michael Chabon Builds a Scale Model of the Broken World by Cody Dellstraty, The New Yorker, November 20, 2016
● Michael Chabon Returns With a Searching Family Saga by A.O. Scott, The New York Times, November 20, 2016
● 'Moonglow' by Michael Chabon by Alexis Burling, San Francisco Chronicle, November 18. 2016
● Michael Chabon's Apollo Mission to the Past by Adam Kirsch, Tablet, November 16. 2016
● The Past, the Future, and Michael Chabon's Moonglow by Erik Henriksen, The Portland Mercury, November 16. 2016
● In Michael Chabon's 'Moonglow,' Deathbed Stories Illuminate an Era by Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times, November 14. 2016
Moonglow-related Multimedia
● Michael Chabon and Richard Price on Plot, Secular Judaism, and Remembering to Make Stuff Up on the New York Public Library Podcast, December 27, 2016 (audio)
● The Book Chemist reviews Moonglow, December 15, 2016 (video)
● The Audio Book Club Basks in Moonglow, Slate, December 12, 2016 (audio)
● Michael Chabon, Politics and Prose Bookstore (Washington DC), December 6, 2016 (video)
● Michael Chabon and Ann Patchett in conversation, Nashville Public Library, December 4, 2016 (video)
● A Story Within a Story Within a Story: Michael Chabon on WWII, Politics and More, on the Leonard Lopate Show Book Club, November 30, 2016 (video)
● Michael Chabon in conversation with Peter Orner at the Jewish Community of San Francisco, November 29, 2016 (video)
● Michael Chabon blends fact and fiction to create 'a truth,' on PBS NewsHour, November 25, 2016 (video)
● Michael Chabon's 'Moonglow' Shines With Insight And Fantastic Storytelling by Maureen Corrigan, National Public Radio, November 23, 2016 (audio)
● Ron Charles wants to make America read again with 'Moonglow' for The Washington Post, November 21, 2016 (video)
● Michael Chabon in conversation with Leonard Lopate, WNYC, November 21, 2016 (audio)
● Interview with Michael Chabon for National Public Radio, November 19, 2016 (audio)
● Inside The New York Times Book Review: Michael Chabon's 'Moonglow' for The New York Times, November 18, 2016 (audio)
● Michael Chabon shares the photographs that inspired his new novel Moonglow in Entertainment Weekly, September 22, 2016
On Wernher von Braun and Operation Paperclip
● Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America, C-SPAN, February 17, 2014 (streaming video)
● Behind the secret plan to bring Nazi scientists to US by Maureen Callahan, New York Post, February 1, 2014
● Wernher von Braun: History's most controversial figure? by Amy Shira Teitel, Al-Jazeera, May 3, 2013
● Remembering Wernher von Braun from Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, March 23, 2012
● The Hunt for Nazi Scientists, WNET, October 2008 (streaming video)
● Interview with Michael J. Neufeld, author of Von Braun: Dreamer of Space/Engineer of War, Deutsche Welle, November 29, 2007
Favorite versions of the song Moonglow
● Moonglow performed by Billie Holiday, 1952
● Moonglow performed by Artie Shaw and his Orchestra, 1941
● Moonglow performed by the Benny Goodman Quartet, 1936
● Moonglow performed by the Duke Ellington Orchestra, 1934
● Moonglow performed by Ethel Waters, 1934
● Moonglow performed by Joe Venuti and his Orchestra, 1933 (first recording of the song)


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Ontario premier says province would join in nationwide COVID-19 contact tracing app
Chris Herhalt CP24 Web Content Writer
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Published Friday, May 22, 2020 2:29PM EDT Last Updated Friday, May 22, 2020 2:37PM EDT
TORONTO -- Ontario Premier Doug Ford signalled Friday the province would join in a nationwide smartphone app program to assist the more than 2,000 people working here to trace contacts of people infected with COVID-19, as the rate of infection continues to inch upward.
Following a call with the Trudeau government and other premiers, Ford said the province is out looking for a suitable application for Ontarians to download onto their phones that would alert them if they came into contact with a person who later tested positive for novel coronavirus infection.
But he said the app that is selected must be for the entire country.
"It's so important to have the proper app make sure we do contact tracing and tracking – when people start flying from Vancouver to Toronto to out east – those apps have to be able to talk to each other."
It's the first time officials in Ontario have indicated publicly that such a step would be necessary.
Up until now, a group made up of 2,000 public health unit employees, medical students, retired medical staff, federal and provincial civil servants and even some soldiers have been engaged in the slow methodical work of contacting infected persons, retracing all of their steps for a number of days prior to when they were tested, and calling each of the people they came into contact with to urge them to self-isolate.
The group also works to determine the source of each infection.
Since the outbreak reached Ontario in late January, close to 31 per cent or 7,600 cases still do not have a confirmed source of infection, according to data submitted to the province's Integrated Public Health Information System (iPHIS).
A further 34 per cent of cases are thought to be caused due to "community transmission," where it may not be known exactly how the infection spread.
Going forward, public health officials have wanted at least 90 per cent of contacts of a lab-confirmed case of COVID-19 to be reached within 24 hours.
Health Minister Christine Elliott said they are currently reaching about 92 per cent of contacts within 24 hours.
She said an app might help with the eight per cent or so of contacts still left in the wind.
"We are actively looking for the right app for Ontario right now for contact management – if they've been in contact with someone with COVID-19, it gives them opportunity to follow up with healthcare provider."
But Ford said all premiers agree the application they select must maintain users' privacy.
"Privacy is very important and any app that doesn't have privacy in it, that's going to be difficult, people believe in privacy – I believe in privacy."
In Alberta, approximately 11 per cent of residents have downloaded AB Trace Together, a contact tracing app offered by the government.
In Singapore, Ford said about 25 per cent of the population has downloaded the government's app, but that's as high as it gets.
Ontario expands eligibility for 4th COVID-19 vaccine dose, but healthy adults can wait until fall
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Full list of where to get free COVID-19 rapid antigen tests in Ontario
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Mozambique makes journalism difficult with exorbitant accreditation fees
The introduction by Mozambican authorities of exorbitant media accreditation fees is an assault on freedom of the press and a blatant attempt to clamp down on journalists, Amnesty International said today.
Under new regulations, foreign correspondents living in Mozambique will be expected to pay more than US$8,600 per year to report on the country while local freelance journalists will have to pay more than US$500 in accreditation fees.
"These new fees will only serve to prevent the media from reporting on Mozambique, even if they are not intended to achieve that goal. When local and international journalists stop telling stories about the country, due to the cost involved, it is the public that will suffer as a result of a lack of information," said Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International's Regional Director for Southern Africa.
"Mozambican authorities must immediately scrap these fees and allow international and local media free access to tell stories about the country."
This is the first time that media accreditation fees have been introduced in Mozambique.
New national radio stations will be forced to pay almost US$35,000 to secure a broadcasting licence, plus annual fees to renew their licence. Radio is one of the biggest sources of information in Mozambique, especially in remote parts of the country where information is scarce.
"History has shown us that respect for freedom of the press has positive implications for development. Conversely, when Mozambican authorities use extremely prohibitive accreditation fees as a means of controlling the media, the end result can only be dire for society and development," said Deprose Muchena.
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Ethiopia says Sudan can't be credible mediator
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Ethiopia warns agencies to refrain from politicizing aid
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On the day we found out the baby in my belly is a boy we asked Charlie, "What is a good name for a baby boy?" Automatically, without any thinking about it or question in her voice, she said, "BEAST." So Beast he has been this whole time.
We are so comfortable with this name that with only seven weeks left Beast is still the only name Seth and I can agree on for the little guy. Charlie often talks to him, "Beast! Be nice to mommy!" "Beast! Good morning!" Etc, etc. And like many other kids with an imagination she has come to believe she too has a baby in her belly. Her baby's name is Belle. Surprise, surprise. If I ever try to tickle her in her belly, she'll say, "Don't hurt my baby!"
Over the past few months I've been getting ready for our little guy to come by buying clothes, making blankets, etc. And just about every time I buy a new little outfit Charlie will ask, "Who that for?" and I'll say, "Beast." She'll get an upset look on her face and say, "What 'bout Belle mom?!?" How dare I buy something for my baby and not hers! So even though we have two months until D-Day (delivery day) jealousy has already arrived. Sheesh!
I just hope he does not come out and look like the Beast!:) Congrats you guys!
According to a random google search the Beast's real name is Prince Adam. Does that help?
Thanks for the b-day wishes! Good luck preparing for your little guy's arrival! It'll be here before ya know it!