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A Few Inconvenient Truths About The 'British Royal Family': The Queen's Speech – Decyphered
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From: ChristopherEverard
What's behind all of the tradition, pomp and circumstance? Another Christmas under our belts and with that, another Queen's address to her British subjects, and to the peoples of world at large.
It's a hard knock life: The Royal Family enjoy an exquisite day of champagne and presents at one of many royal digs
Who are the Royal Family? We see the royals constantly in the media, yet very rarely in public. Where do they come from? How, and why did they acquire the name "Windsor"?
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The Queen's Speech Is usually recorded about four weeks before Christmas. Because the Queen is married to a German family, and her ancestor, Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg spoke German, wrote all letters of state in German and that her own nephew was a spy selling British secrets to the Germans, the Queen uses the Christmas Day broadcast to make us think she is wholly British and a Christian.
Her actual family come from Saxony and Bavaria – more of her ancestors are German than British.
Her Christmas Day speech usually includes references to British religious landmarks, such as this year when her speech stated "In the ruins of the old Coventry Cathedral is a sculpture of a man and a woman reaching out to embrace each other. The sculptor was inspired by the story of a woman who crossed Europe on foot after the war to find her husband. Casts of the same sculpture can be found in Belfast and Berlin, and it is simply called Reconciliation".
The Queen is not just the Queen of Britain, she is the queen of a vast empire called the Commonwealth.
Her name is not 'Windsor' – on 18th of July 1917, the Times newspaper carried a royal proclamation introducing the name "Windsor" and dropping "all German titles" held by the royal family at Buckingham Palace. Britain's royal family were known as the Dukes, Kings and Queens of "Saxe-Coburg-Gotha". In a time of brutal war with Germany, a more German family name would be hard to find.
By 1915, with the first world war almost a year old, the horrific sinking of the cruise-ship Lusitania by a German submarine – with the loss of almost 1,200 lives – a fresh wave of anti-German outrage emerged in Britain and in the USA. The consequences for Germans in Britain were grave – and so, being German, the queen's grand-parents and great-grandparents created a fake name which they use to this day; 'WINDSOR'.
Today, our present queen is the queen to peoples on all corners of planet earth – and she earns TAXES from far a field, such as sheep farm workers in Australia and tourism businesses in the many Caribbean islands which the queen owns as part of the 'commonwealth'.
Her close relatives control the thrones of Spain, Netherlands and her brother-in-law's family controlled the intelligence/spy networks of the NAZI Third Reich. She is married to her own cousin, and he owns an enormous private estate in the Holstein-Schleisweg district on the border between northern Germany and Scandinavia. The queen hires and fires the head of the BBC and several other prominent jobs in Britain. Her family's financial affairs are forbidden from public discussion and she can recall and dissolve parliament whenever she likes. Her cousin is DAVID CAMERON, and there are strong Germanic-Jewish ties to our 'British' royal family.
Where does her money come from? It comes in the form of TAXES which are earned from millions of people's wage-packets. The Queen also earns millions each year from her private estate which is centred on the county of Lancaster.
The Duchy Of Lancaster
In addition to the total monarchial control of the Inland Revenue, Royal Mint and Crown Estates, the British monarchy have their own personal land estates – these are properties which at no time can be claimed by the British People and are always, under rule of law, considered to be private estates. One such estate is the vast Duchy of Lancaster which consists of 46,200 acres (18,700 hectares) which includes hamlets, villages, towns, historic buildings, and farm land right across England and Wales.
As of fiscal year 2007, the Duchy of Lancaster is valued at £397 million, earning Queen Elizabeth an officially stated net profit of £11.9 million – or, put another way, she has a private income from this Duchy equivalent to nearly £33,000 per day. Income tax is paid voluntarily on all profits from the Duchy of Lancaster.
The duchy is not the property of 'The Crown' (which is a label used to perpetuate the pretence that British People own the property) but is instead the personal property of the monarch and has been since 1399, when the Dukedom of Lancaster, held by Henry of Bolingbroke merged with the crown on his appropriation of the throne (after the dispossession from Richard II).
This area of Britain is populated by some of the poorest families in Europe, with disgusting living conditions. Elevators full of piss are a common sight, and vandalism and graffiti is, perhaps, a subconscious reaction to the immense inequality witnessed in this region.
I have written this article so that the next time a politician tells you that there will be 'tough decisions' to be made – which is political double-speak for cutting wages and wheeling in another slab of taxes which fire off yet another recession – you can refer to this article and confidently quote the immense amount of TAX which we all pay each year and how our tax money has created a vast fortune for the Royals.
The Royal Trillions
Taxes on Customs & Excise are collected worldwide and funneled into Buckingham Palace – it is a matter of fact that revenues flow into the coffers from the USA and especially the 'common wealth' nations.
BP shareholdings by the British royals and indeed the Dutch royals (who are closely related) are extensive – to say the least – and the crude oil extracted from the Americas by BP, which is then refined into consumer products, marine diesel and automobile fuels, accrues vast revenues for the royal family members in Europe…
First of all, exactly how much tax do British people pay every year? Taxation in the United Kingdom earned Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs £660 billion pounds last year – that is the sum which is commonly quoted by MPs and newspapers. Much of that tax comes from the People – not Corporations – who are often able to shutdown their parent company after three years, and start trading under a slightly different name, thus avoiding capital gains tax in perpetuity.
This, of course, makes a mockery of the unwritten law that the wealthier of people in society contribute tax revenue in order to help the disabled & elderly. Workers, however, on the P.A.Y.E system cannot take legal advantage of tax havens, and have the indignation of a large portion of their salary being taxed/stolen at source, with not a jot of thanks from the Inland Revenue – nor, more importantly, is there any explanation as to why they have been taxed and what exactly the tax will be spent on.
Of course, the Queen would be horrified if the British public realised that her own brother-in-law through marriage was a senior NAZI who funded and helped stage-manage the murder, torture, rape, killing and bombing of many hundreds of thousands of British troops and their allies.
The queen's husband has close former Nazi relatives – and this fact was raised by Mohamed Al Fayed during his evidence at the inquest into the killing of his son Dodi and Princess Diana in 1997. Mr Al Fayed believes Prince Philip personally orchestrated their deaths and, while being questioned, demanded that the coroner Mr Justice Scott Baker investigate the "Prince's Nazi past".
The sinister Nazi connections come from three of the Duke of Edinburgh's four sisters – Sophie, Cecile and Margarita. All had married German princes, three of whom became leading Nazis – and that means that they were financing the killing machine which bred a 'master race' .
Prince Philip, whose family name is Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, attended the funeral in Nazi Germany of his elder sister Cecile as a 16-year-old schoolboy in 1937. He was pictured flanked by other relatives who were dressed in NAZI and Brownshirt uniforms.
Philip (marked) at his sister's funeral in 1937 in Germany flanked by relatives in Nazi uniforms
This, then, is the queen's immediate inter-married family – headed by two princes in particular – Philipp of Hesse and his brother Christoph, who were great-grandsons of Queen Victoria – they had been central architects of a plan which was designed to bomb and crush the national governments of all Europe's nations, and bring the colonies of Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia and Greece under one centralised super-government which is exactly what we have today – it is called the EUROPEAN UNION – and it is secretly controlled by Buckingham Palace.
The queen's immediate relatives plotted and conducted bombing raids and reduced the areas of all Europe's cities where poor people lived into rubble and wasteland. It was the queen's relatives who waged war on the People – the POOR PEOPLE.
No wonder then, as this information seeps out onto the world wide web, that she announced in her Christmas broadcast "Reconciliation is the peaceful end to conflict, and we were reminded of this in August when countries on both sides of the first world war came together to remember in peace…"
The queen then said;
"The ceramic poppies at the Tower of London drew millions, and the only possible reaction to seeing them and walking among them was silence. For every poppy a life; and a reminder of the grief of loved ones left behind".
In fact, those poppies displayed at the Tower of London were deliberately made to look like blood gushing from a window and pooling around the Tower which is where many royal members of the queen's family had been murdered, or ordered the torture and execution of the innocent.
The queen's speech is definitely an 'olive branch' being offered to authors like myself who have made films that expose the carnage and blood on royal hands. She said;
"In 1914, many people thought the war would be over by Christmas, but sadly by then the trenches were dug and the future shape of the war in Europe was set. But, as we know, something remarkable did happen that Christmas, exactly a hundred years ago today. Without any instruction or command, the shooting stopped and German and British soldiers met in no man's land. Photographs were taken and gifts exchanged. It was a Christmas truce. Truces are not a new idea. In the ancient world a truce was declared for the duration of the Olympic Games and wars and battles were put on hold…".
Well Ma'am, I am sorry to say this, but the only we can have any kind of truce is by way of equalising British society, handing back lands stolen from commonwealth aboriginal tribal people, and making sure that you STOP TAXING US.
The queen then attempted to ingratiate herself with the millions of brain dead TV addicts who sit through hours of meaningless televised SPORT – she said;
"Sport has a wonderful way of bringing together people and nations, as we saw this year in Glasgow when over 70 countries took part in the Commonwealth Games. It is no accident that they are known as the Friendly Games. As well as promoting dialogue between nations, the Commonwealth Games pioneered the inclusion of para-sports within each day's events. As with the Invictus Games that followed, the courage, determination and talent of the athletes captured our imagination as well as breaking down divisions…"
The queen thinks that giving 'circuses' to the nations, just as the Roman Emperors did, that we would all forget about her family's heinous war crimes. We don't and will not.
Her Majesty then attempted to make some kind of apology for the thousands of families who were marred and bereaved through her civil warfare operation in Northern Ireland which lasted from the early 1960s through to the end of the 1990s; She said
"The benefits of reconciliation were clear to see when I visited Belfast in June. While my tour of the set of Game Of Thrones may have gained most attention, my visit to the Crumlin Road Gaol will remain vividly in my mind".
It was, actually, this prison where agents, double agents and triple agents tortured, beat and were themselves incarcerated as the wicked civil warfare bloomed in Ireland – this war was about TAXATION and the need-for-greed which assimilates all royal family members – it is the wage packets of the Northern Irish people closest to her heart – not their feelings, or remorse for the people killed under orders of the 'loyalists' and the MI5 death squads in Ireland.
She even had the audacity to say;
"What was once a prison during the Troubles is now a place of hope and fresh purpose; a reminder of what is possible when people reach out to one another, rather like the couple in the sculpture".
Of course, the real reason why there is now a truce in northern Ireland is that bombs were planted in the City of London which hit Buckingham Palace and all their stockbroker yes-men very hard indeed.
Perhaps the biggest insult was a total lack of recognition of the blatant VOTE RIGGING in the Scottish Referendum, which I predicted two months before it would take place, would result in an outcome in favour of Buckingham Palace – on this point, the queen said;
"Of course, reconciliation takes different forms. In Scotland after the referendum many felt great disappointment, while others felt great relief; and bridging these differences will take time".
Of course, the Bavarian Illuminati was a Judaic and 'illuminised' form of freemasonry – it's rituals were based on jewish magic and Chaldean pageantry. Adam Weishaupt was a closet jewish lawyer specialising in the law of the Vatican, and he received regular wages from the queen's ancestor, Duke Ernest II of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1745–1804).
"Adam Weishaupt was born in Ingolstadt, Bavaria on February 6, 1748. His father died when he was seven and his godfather, Baron Ickstatt, entrusted his early education to the most powerful group of the time: the Jesuits. Known for its subversive methods and conspiratorial tendencies, the Society of Jesus had a stronghold on Bavaria's politics and educational system.
"The degree of power to which the representatives of the Society of Jesus had been able to attain in Bavaria was all but absolute. Members of the order were the confessors and preceptors of the electors; hence they had a direct influence upon the policies of government. The censorship of religion had fallen into their eager hands, to the extent that some of the parishes even were compelled to recognize their authority and power. To exterminate all Protestant influence and to render the Catholic establishment complete, they had taken possession of the instruments of public education. It was by Jesuits that the majority of the Bavarian colleges were founded, and by them they were controlled. By them also the secondary schools of the country were conducted. "
Weishaupt lived in a house on the Gotha Duchy writing a series of works on illuminism [ie; planning the New World Order], his books include gems such as A Complete History of the Persecutions of the Illuminati in Bavaria (1785), A Picture of Illuminism (1786), An Apology for the Illuminati (1786), and An Improved System of Illuminism (1787).
Considering the devilish antics of Bavarian secret societies and the inter-generational masonic mind-programming which has gone on amongst the royal family, one can see very well that they are far from being 'good christians'…
The likelihood of the queen being christian is doubtful at best, and a farce at worst – her ancestors have been brown-nosing with satanically-inspired diabolical secret societies, and her own great grand-parents designed [or I should say re-designed] Europe using the help of a jewish-catholic lawyer – Weishaupt – who preached that all religions were 'tools' and that Illuminati brethren should conceal their true religious allegiance.
Prince Albert's mother was dismissed from the court of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha for having an affair with the Jewish chamberlain, the Baron von Mayern – and in fact queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, may have been illegitimate. Albert's father may have been Jewish… And this would explain the very un-Britishness of the facial features we see in today's royal family. Another reason may be due to Albert's father, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, had hereditary syphilis – but that's another story!
4 Responses to "A Few Inconvenient Truths About The 'British Royal Family': The Queen's Speech – Decyphered"
4 May 2015 10:55 am
The Rothschilds married into the aristocracy and royalty, infiltrating the high positions of banking and stock markets. They have made billions out of this covert operation. These people are a front to all the terrors we are witnessing. This is a disgrace and an insult. We have been herded and engineered by a Zionist takeover of our lives. This family are the most disfunctional fakes who expect our respect. The whole house of Windsor is a con.
4 May 2015 6:33 pm
This has to be one of the best ever posts on this site,if only the sheeple would wake up and open their eyes to how the super rich royals daily bleed us dry,for the last 9 months we have been fed with the cow shite rubbish about the royal baby,that kate thing has never been pregnant in her life what a load of cow shite if ever,but the worst thing is daily the British public SHEEPLE believe all this constant verbal cow manure,as the robbers barons daily loot all their wage packets,and leave the sheeple destitute whilst they swan around the world,money is no object for these evil robbers ,they know the brain dead zombies will never awaken and see their life blood drained away by these evil BLOODSUCKING ROYAL PARASITES
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I am happy with the posts so far, they sum it up for me.
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Sorry for my profanity last night, wont happen again
I was upset by whats going on and with a few beers, channelled my energy the wrong way. Wont happen again. Please post my comments again


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Go With Your Gut: Intuition and Managerial Decision Making
Published Date: August 24, 2022 | Leadership
By Katherine Poehnert, MEd Psych, PCC
Making a choice or decision can be tough for many people, although I did hear that looking into a mirror is good, as it helps to reflect… But, seriously, choices are a part of our every day life. What should I wear today? What is for breakfast? Should I get married? Where do I want to live? What culture do I want to create for my team? Do I want to put people first or do I want to put business first? How do intuition and managerial decision making work together?
Some decisions are more important than others in terms of the consequences of those choices, but all decisions impact who we are. In fact, author Ken Levine said that "We all make choices, but in the end, our choices make us."
Most of us, and particularly those who are seasoned leaders, have likely been taught that rational, logical (maybe even data driven) decisions are always best, and that emotions and "gut ''feelings have no place in our choices and decisions — particularly when we are making very high level decisions that may impact many others.
Thinking, however, has changed. There is a strong recognition that intuition, or what we commonly call gut feelings, is a very important part of any decision-making process. Our subjective judgement always plays a part, whether we recognize it or not.
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We receive excessive amounts of information on a daily basis. Even though our Reticular Activating System, or RS, helps us to recognize the information that is most important to us, we still have to cut through huge amounts of this information.
One way we do that is through a type of rapid cognition known as "thin slicing." Malcom Gladwell says in his book, Blink, that this is "The ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations and behavior based on very narrow slices of experience."
A quote from former General Electric CEO, Jack Welch, illustrates this idea. "Sometimes making a decision is hard not because it is unpopular, but because it comes from your gut and defies a 'technical' rationale. Much has been written about the mystery of gut, but it's really just pattern recognition, isn't it. You've seen something so many times you just know what's going on this time. The facts may be incomplete or the data limited, but the situation feels very, very familiar to you."
I have known leaders who feel the need to gather reams of data before making a decision, but research shows us that too much information actually gets in our way, and prevents our intuition from helping to inform our decisions. In fact, MRI brain scans actually show that when heavy decisions are being made, and information loads increase, brain activity related to emotional control and decision-making increases until there is often a "short circuit," and these areas shut down.
Because we are storing patterns, or schemas, in our subconscious throughout our lives, we can utilize them when faced with current situations or decisions that may resemble past situations or decisions. Knowing this takes some of the mystery out of our understanding of a gut feeling, and helps us be more comfortable with using our instincts as a key element in any effective decision-making.
Here are some steps to help you develop your intuition and managerial decision making — or as we have just learned, your pattern recognition! These were developed by writer and researcher Renee Goyeneche, and presented in Forbes Women, in August, 2020.
Notice physical cues in your body.
Are you feeling any nausea in your stomach when considering a particular option?
Does your rapid heartbeat reflect fear or excitement?
How is my energy level when considering a particular option?
Document any "Aha!" moments or flashes.
Flashes of insight often show up in a decision making process- write them down. This is also where coaches can be super helpful, as they are trained to help clients gain insight.
Don't ignore a feeling you have about a decision. Instead, try to evaluate where that is coming from.
Be careful not to confuse fear or a "bad feeling" for intuition, unless you can relate those feelings to real, quantifiable information from past experiences.
Making decisions, particularly those that will significantly impact many others, can be a daunting task. If we recognize that intuition and subjective assessments are equally as important as logic and reason, we will be calling on our widest range of resources for gathering information and making healthy decisions. To learn more about intuition and managerial decision making, leadership training and strengthening your critical leadership characteristics, contact Kathy for a consultation.
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California College of Midwives
Member, Division of Licensing, MBC
1426 Howe Street,
Re: February 7th Regulatory Hearing on Section 1379.21
Dear Dr Bernard Alpert. MD
It is my intention to attend the next DOL meeting on May 9th. However, there is a small possibility that I will be unable to do so and therefore am taking this opportunity to express my sentiments in writing.
I am concerned that the procedural aspect of the Public Hearing on February 7th did not do the best job of bringing to light the necessary factual basis for decision making. The format currently used by the MBC does not organize the testimony into a cohesive unit which matches those supporting versus those opposing the regulation nor does this format allow for rebuttal. Each person who plans to testify signs in on a single sheet of paper and is called to speak in that random order. The time limitation is quite sever and no provisions are make to correct inaccurate information during the course of the hearing. I believe that this inadvertently created some major difficulties.
In particular, the last speaker, a women anesthesiologist ( I believe representing CMA) made a series of inflammatory and erroneous statements which, due to imposed time restraints and the lack of procedural opportunity for rebuttal, went uncorrected. These statements characterized childbirth as "the most dangerous area of medical practice" and described midwives currently licensed by the MBC as ""untrained lay midwives". I believe her extremely negative (and erroneous) portrayal of childbirth as a impending disaster and direct-entry midwives as inept and inadequately trained played a crucial role in the final vote by making it appear that Board members would be derelict in their duty should they come to any other conclusion.
Having been at the seven Midwifery Implementation Committee meetings, I can assure you that this physician has not been personally involved in the implementation process or directly knowledgeable of the background of currently practicing and licensed midwives. She obviously does not understand that any midwife who qualifies for licensure under the challenge program approved by the DOL has documented that she posses professional experience, an identified skill level and a knowledge base equal to or greater than the standard curriculum for nurse-midwives. Since direct-entry midwives do not practice in hospital settings, this medically-oriented standard seemed to be a form of overkill to community midwives. None-the-less, this is the standard mandated by the current licensing scheme and one with which community-based midwives have fully complied. It seems most onerous to impose this overly-rigorous standard in the first place and then to ignore it when issues of professional competencies arise.
In rebuttal to this unfortunate testimony, I am including a verbatim quote by CMA representative Joan Hall from the transcript of the 3rd Midwifery Implementation Committee meeting held at the MBC Sacramento office June 6th, 1994.
Joan Hall, CMA: ".... this legislation has been introduced in various forms over the last several years and I inherited this legislation. This was the first time the medical association was willing to sit down and discuss it and understand the need to legitimize this process because you {indicating the midwives present}definitely have something to provide. That's why the bill developed and I'd be more than willing to talk about it because we believe that the standards that are in the bill are standards that make for safe, capable practitioners.
Yes, we believe in the standards in the bill. Maybe that needs to be more communicated because a lot physician I have talked to talk about licensing lay midwives, and I keep hearing that over and over again and people have an idea that a lay midwife is someone who learned how to "birth babies" on a farm somewhere or learned somewhere in the back woods how to deliver babies and not do it in a safe fashion. This bill doesn't allow for that, there will be competent capable practitioners under the standards that are set up in this bill. So we very much believe in the standards in this bill."
The portrayal of childbirth as an impending disaster also reflects a popular misconception. Physicians never see the many families that have a trouble free birth -- only the rare complications and thus tend to characterize domiciliary midwifery care based only on their experience with complications. Historically, the realistic dangers of childbearing have fallen into three categories. The most frequent and most severe are the result of poverty (malnutrition, etc.), forced or frequent childbearing, mothers with pre-existing medical problems or obviously complicated pregnancies (bleeding, prematurity, multiple gestation, etc.), especially for those without access to appropriate health care.
The second and smaller category are nosoconial and/or iatragenic -- complications arising from hospitalization (antibiotic-resistant, hospital-acquired infections, medication mistakes, other human error) and side effects of medical interventions which frequently require even more potent or invasive techniques to correct. Unfortunately, those additional treatments and drugs introduce additional risks such as surgery and the biohazards of blood transfusions. And the last and least are the truly "rare" category of unusual and statistically infrequent complications of pregnancy and birth which occur randomly, with little warning and which are frequently untreatable even in the best of institutions (such as an unexplainable stillbirth after a normal pregnancy and trouble-free labor).
Statistically, every mother or baby who suffered or appeared to suffer because of the choice of out-of-hospital birth is matched by two or more who suffered or appeared to have suffered as a result of hospital interventions. Doctors are not to blame for this situation -- many mothers require medical intervention because of dangerous life-styles or substance abuse; other mothers experience complications due to the use of anesthesia or labor stimulants which were medically necessary. It is just a statistical fact that the more medically-complex the childbearing event becomes, the higher the likelihood of medical complications. This fundamental fact is why the practice of medicine requires such tight regulation -- it can best be likened to the use of power tools -- even a small slip can have disastrous consequences. In that regard, safety of domiciliary care benefits both from the absence of medical ministrations and the presence of healthy mothers with normal pregnancies.
This last category of infrequent and unpredictable complications is the one referred to by physicians when expressing their fear of providing birth services in a domiciliary setting. It is true that an occasion mother or baby will experience a bad outcome that could have been lessened or eliminated had they been in the right hospital, cared for by an astute and unhurried nursing staff and lucky enough to have a physician physically present at the critical moment, along with just the right line up of anesthetic and lab services, surgical scrub techs, etc. But there are serious flaws with judging the overall efficacy of community-based midwifery care based on this rare category.
Labor room nurses (unlike midwives) do not provide ongoing, one-to-one bedside care. Obstetricians are not routinely present in the hospital during labor, usually arriving only a few minutes before the birth. Due to economic considerations, most institutions do not have enough personnel to give personalized care and do not have round the clock surgical and anesthetic coverage. Real hospitals are not like the ones on TV. The average community hospital takes a minimum of 30 minutes to get the doctors and operating room staff physically present to do a cesarean. This chain of events can be just as satisfactorily trigger from the client's home so that while the mother is being transferred to the hospital, the appropriate personnel are being notified and will be present and ready when we arrive.
To say that complications arising from over-treatment are somehow less "problematic" or more "noble" that those from under-treatment is illogical, especially in light of the fundamental right of parents to make the choice of a midwifery care and a low-tech birth setting. This is not a situation being forced on them by denial of access to hospital services. The majority of healthy childbearing women having a normal pregnancy and a spontaneous onset of labor at term do not need or benefit from routine hospitalization for normal, unmediated childbirth and it is this classification of mothers that are traditionally cared for by licensed, direct-entry midwives. And for those few women who are willing to labor without narcotic analgesia and give birth without anesthesia (under 5%), it is the statically superior choice.
The midwifery model of care, in which healthy mothers are cared for primarily by midwives and which includes the option of home-based birth services (in conjunction with access to hospital obstetrics), is the very safest form of maternity care. This has been statistically validated for nearly 100 years. Since the late 1800s, the five industrialized countries with the best maternal-infant outcomes and lowest per-capita cost for childbirth services have employed the midwifery model for normal maternity care and obstetrics for complications. During that same time, the US, which purposefully eliminated midwifery caregivers in the early 20th century, has consistently been in the bottom five and currently is 23rd out of 25 first-world countries in perinatal outcome. (see enclosed statistical comparison for 1929 and 1989)
Historically, the safest form of home-based midwifery care has been linked with easy access to hospital-based obstetrics in the event that the mother either needs or wants medical intervention. Consumer safety is compromised when physician care is unobtainable and it is likewise enhanced by collaboration which fosters a complementary relationship between the midwife, the mother and the medical profession. Midwives are seeking to be closely articulated with contemporary medicine and asking for help from the Medical Board in bring about this kind working relationship.
A community hospital on the San Francisco peninsula most frequently used by midwives was recently bought out by a large hospital chain and has just informed the nurse-midwives in our area that all physicians with admitting privileges at their institutions have been forbidden to provide any care to pregnant women after 28 weeks (term is 40 weeks) if they are planning to give birth at home under the care of a certified nurse midwife. As you may well image, this is very disturbing to all domiciliary midwives and furthermore the refusal to provide all but ER physician care is detrimental to the practical wellbeing of childbearing mothers and their unborn or newborn babies.
In pursuit of that quality of collaboration with medical care providers and assured access to hospital-based obstetrical services, I am reiterating my request that the MBC include a questionnaire in the quarterly magazine (Action Report) to solicit information from qualified physicians on their willingness to provide the statutorily-mandated physician supervision and their ability to do so in regard to any limitations imposed by their malpractice carriers. We believe that this information will be crucial to the basic workability of the current licensing scheme.
Again, I want to stress how important the resolution of this problem is to midwives and the families that they serve and how much we appreciate your participation in bring about a safe and mutually satisfactory solution.
Certified Professional Midwife #96050001
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Assemblywoman Susan Davis, 76th District
Encl: Statistical Comparison -- 1929 & 1989
Fact Sheets from Citizens for Midwifery
Britain's House of Commons Report on Midwifery & Homebirth
April 18th newspaper article -- Dr. Rosenblatt, University of Washington study confirming the improved outcome of midwife-managed birth services -- Cesarean section rate for midwife-attended births was 8.8 percent, for obstetricians it was13.6 percent and 15.1 percent for family practice physicians
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Statistical studies and abstracts of published research cited in this letter are available on our web site @ www.collegeofmidwives.org/safetyissues. You may also use the "Site Search" to locate additional sources.
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The Texas Department of Health's own statistics show that midwives in Texas have a lower infant mortality rate than physicians. (Texas Lay midwifery Program, Six Year Report, 1983- 1989, Berstein & Bryant, Appendix Vlllf, Texas Department of Health, I 100 West 49th St., Austin, TX 78756-3199.)
In the state of Oregon from 1975-1979, there were approximately 3-4 neonatal deaths per 1000 births in homebirths attended by midwives, as opposed to approximately 9-10 deaths per 1000 births for all residents. The same figure indicates approximately 5 infant deaths per 1000 births in homebirths attended by midwives, as opposed to approximately 12 deaths per 1000 births for all residents. (Research Issues in the Assessment of Birth Settings, Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press, Washington, 1982, p. 175)
Records kept from 1969-73 in England and Wales indicate still birth rates of 4.5 per 1000 births for home deliveries as opposed to 14.8 per 1000 births for hospital deliveries. (The place of Birth, Sheila Kitzinger & John Davis, eds., 1978 Oxford University Press, pp. 62-63)


Cliffs of Moher, the Irish Travellers and the pub!
I have a heartbroken footnote to the tail of this week's tale but firstly, because I stood again close to the edge of the Cliffs of Moher last weekend, and was again awed by all that I viewed and felt, I am going to once again sincerely tell all of you who have never yet experienced the real Irish Wonder of the World that the Cliffs of Moher are a terrible beauty in every sense of the word for far too many of those who visit them.
Again, I say that if you and your party of visitors are well across the scale of your lives, then the Cliffs of Moher are a must-see on an Irish holiday. They are a stupendous amalgam of sea and surf and rocky cliffs and sky. I have visited many times and they always strike me silent with their sheer beauty and power.
It is not surprising at all that last year the Cliffs broke all visitor records yet again. Nearly 1.5 million folk came to experience a well-developed tourist attraction which is the most popular signature point of all along the Wild Atlantic Way that runs all along the Atlantic coast from Kerry all the airy way up to Donegal.
However, sadly, as I told ye before here a few months back, the Cliffs of Moher are also a dreadfully notorious suicide hotspot, especially in recent years. If you live locally, as I do, then the local media are reporting another tragedy at the Cliffs with ever-increasing frequency.
It feels as if the brave men and women of the Doolin Marine Rescue Unit and their colleagues are searching for another body about every second week. It is as bad as that and, worse still, despite the best efforts of the professionals, not all the bodies are ever recovered. The sea down at the frothing base of the overhanging cliffs presents a huge challenge to the recovery teams, especially during the fierce storms of winter.
There is a sad pattern to many of the deaths. Most are males, of about every age and social class, but, especially recently, the female ratio is climbing.
Quite often, without warning to any friends or family in advance, an abandoned car is discovered in the car parks around the attraction and, I understand, quite often there is a note in the car which will eventually come into the hands of the investigating gardai in the nearby town of Ennistymon.
In one of the most recent fatalities, two weeks ago, a young passenger on a visiting tour coach disappeared when it was time to leave. He has not been found since despite the extensive searches which are so common hereabouts nowadays.
I say again, with great sincerity, that we all need to be on our guard, every one of us, but especially any of us who have been through pressured times in our lives, when we go to Moher. There is a terrible beauty there to be sure, the sight and sensations of which enriches millions, but which also clearly negatively affects too many of us with dreadfully hurtful consequences.
Strangely enough, on my way home through Liscannor, I caught up on the narrow road with a young traveler man driving his roan pony and spring cart with great speed and skill on his way towards Lahinch. I saw his face in the mirror when I passed and he was very happy indeed with his day.
Concurrently, on the car radio which is always my companion on the road, I was hearing details of a new report into the background of Ireland's 45,000 traveling people which was intriguing indeed. It is a modern truth that our travelers are still a marginalized element in our society, and have been so all my life.
What I had not realized at all was just how hard their lifestyle hits them right across the scale. Travelers die much younger than equivalent sections of the settled community. Their children, dramatically, have much higher mortality rates than settled children and also frequently suffer from a wide range of health-limiting conditions, often very serious, and often related to the small gene pool from which the (still often arranged) marriages are made.
There have been cutbacks in all services to assist traveler children's education too, over recent years, and, in general, though these folk are still very proud of their own nomadic or semi-settled culture, they pay a high price for their place in this New Ireland.
Footnote: And so does poor harmless Cormac MacConnell. I informed ye lately here that some of you wishing to escape the Great America could buy my local pub in Killaloe from Willie and Bernie Walsh for about $300,000 or thereabouts. The only sale condition was that any new management could not bar me for the next 15 years.
Dammit if Bernie did not tell me that this is a real problem for several of those competing for the pub as we speak, largely because of sarcastic pieces I wrote about Sarah Palin in this space years ago. Who would believe it but, yes, your words can come back to haunt you.
I gather there is jostling but no sale yet with a week of the month left so ye can still reach Bernie at berniewalsh2804@gmail.com if that way inclined. But you still won't be able to bar me!


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Victoria Prentice MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at Defra
The key role which the agricultural supply sector has to play for farming's new future was underlined in a meeting between Victoria Prentis, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Defra and the AgriSupply Coalition.
The Coalition, which represents nine trade and professional associations concerned in the supply of goods, advice and services to the agriculture sector, offers a one-stop shop for engagement between government and the supply industries which consist of a wide range of businesses including multinational businesses, small and medium size enterprises and individual consultants and contractors.
The discussion covered key strategic issues ranging from new trading arrangements and current Covid issues to future farming productivity and opportunities for the UK to become a global leader in agricultural research and innovation.
The Minister clearly appreciated the work of the Coalition's member organisations in providing 'on the ground' feedback on the practical issues arising from new UK:EU and Northern Ireland trading arrangements as well as their willingness to contribute to ensuring that emerging regulations are workable in practice.
"We were delighted with the Minister's recognition of the important role which input from the supply sector can make to both implementing new regulations and developing future plans for the whole of agriculture and the food supply chains," said Robert Sheasby, Coalition Chair.
Farming Minister Victoria Prentis said: "The Agri-Supply Coalition are doing great work to help keep the nation fed during this challenging time. I am grateful to them for all that they have done, and continue to do, and for their ongoing engagement with us to share their insight.
I look forward to working closely with the industry as we work together to implement our future farming policy and strive to make our farming sector the most innovative and productive in the world."
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Q: Why am I getting a 403 error "CSRF token missing" with Spring boot+ Angular 7? I'm implementing csrf in Spring Boot+Angular 7 Application, my concern is when I am doing login then I can login into the application without any issue. But After login csrf cookie is not changing so that I am getting 403 (CSRF is expired) error from the server,
But when I do refresh then it will work properly. main reason is that cookie is not fetching properly, I don't know that where issue is coming, like from Client Side or Server Side. Please help
I am sharing my code
Spring Boot Code
@Override
protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
    http.httpBasic().and().csrf() // csrf config starts here
        .csrfTokenRepository(csrfTokenRepository())
        .ignoringAntMatchers("/", "/login", "/captcha-servlet", "/validateOTP", "supportApp/logout")
        .and()
        .addFilterAfter(new CustomCsrfFilter(), CsrfFilter.class);
}

private CsrfTokenRepository csrfTokenRepository() {
    HttpSessionCsrfTokenRepository repository = new HttpSessionCsrfTokenRepository();
    repository.setHeaderName("X-XSRF-TOKEN");
    return repository;
}

CSRF Filter
public class CustomCsrfFilter extends OncePerRequestFilter {
    @Override
    protected void doFilterInternal(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, FilterChain filterChain)
            throws ServletException, IOException {
        CsrfToken csrf = (CsrfToken) request.getAttribute(CsrfToken.class.getName());
        if (csrf != null) {
            Cookie cookie = WebUtils.getCookie(request, "XSRF-TOKEN");
            String token = csrf.getToken();
            cookie = new Cookie("XSRF-TOKEN", token);
            cookie.setPath("/");
            response.addCookie(cookie);
        }
        filterChain.doFilter(request, response);
    }
}

Angular CSRF Code
import { HttpClient, HttpXsrfTokenExtractor, HttpHeaders } from '@angular/common/http';
constructor(private http: HttpClient, private tokenExtractor: HttpXsrfTokenExtractor) { }
const _csrf_token = this.tokenExtractor.getToken() as string;
return this.http.post(this._singleuserUrl, uid, {headers: new HttpHeaders().set('X-XSRF-TOKEN', _csrf_token), withCredentials: true});

A: It looks like you forgot to import HttpClientXsrfModule into app.module.ts
Work for me in Angular 6.
app.module.ts
    imports: [
    HttpClientXsrfModule.withOptions({
      cookieName: "XSRF-TOKEN",
      headerName: "X-XSRF-TOKEN"
      }),
    ...
  ],
  providers: [
    { provide: HTTP_INTERCEPTORS, useClass: HttpXSRFInterceptor, multi: true },
    ...
  ],

Additional, I use interceptor to set token into HEADER
HttpXSRFInterceptor
@Injectable()
export class HttpXSRFInterceptor implements HttpInterceptor {

  constructor(private tokenExtractor: HttpXsrfTokenExtractor) {
  }

  intercept(req: HttpRequest<any>, next: HttpHandler): Observable<HttpEvent<any>> {
    const headerName = 'XSRF-TOKEN';
    const respHeaderName = 'X-XSRF-TOKEN';
    let token = this.tokenExtractor.getToken() as string;
    if (token !== null && !req.headers.has(headerName)) {
      req = req.clone({ headers: req.headers.set(respHeaderName, token) });
    }
    return next.handle(req);
  }
}

Besides, you could use postman to clarify if the config in server works OK.
Hope it could help.

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Hyundai are rising up against the likes of the Nissan Juke and Renault Captur with a new flagship model. The Hyundai KONA takes its name from a region in Hawaii and offers a bold design and hi-tech features demonstrating its exotic spirit and vibrant energy targeted at the younger urban consumer.
The newest model in the Hyundai SUV range embraces a distinctive design giving it a stylish luminance, but also features a cascading front grille and black cladding for a more avant-garde appeal promoting the company's new and progressive design identity. There will be a vibrant palette of ten exterior colours to choose from.
To reinforce the KONA's safety package on board, the car is equipped with Driver Attention Alert and Lane Keep Assist as well as Autonomous Emergency Braking and Blind Spot Detection on higher trim levels. The interior of KONA will further enhance the attractive driving experience as Hyundai introduces the first head-up display as part of an all-inclusive infotainment system and the latest connectivity technology embedded into it. The inside colours complement the exterior and submerge the driver and all passengers into a harmonious driving experience.
When is the Hyundai KONA available?
The new model will hit UK markets next month and will be available for sale from 2nd November at Richmond Motor Group with a choice of 1.0 T-GDi 120ps 3-cylinder and 1.6 T-GDi 177ps 4-cylinder engines to provide a comfortable ride during any driving mode - Sports, Normal or Eco.


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Holland, John Philip (1841-1914), an Irish-American inventor, was mainly responsible for the development of the submarine. His vessel, the Holland, built in 1898, proved that the submarine was practical. It provided the model for later submarines.
John P. Holland was born on February 24, 1841, in the coastguard's residence in Liscannor, Co. Clare. Holland attended St. Macreehy's National School and probably spent some time in the Christian Brothers School in Ennistymon. His father died in the 1840s and the family moved to Limerick in 1853. Holland joined the Christian Brothers in Limerick and taught in Limerick and many other centers in the country.
He began work on the idea of a submarine while teaching school in Ireland from 1858 to 1872. By 1870, he had completed the first plans for his invention. He also had an interest in flying and while in Cork with the Christian Brothers he drew up designs of an airplane.
Due to ill health, Holland left the Christian Brothers in 1873. He came to the United States and joined his two brothers and his mother, who had already emigrated to Boston. He then settled in Paterson, N.J., where he taught school at St. John's Catholic School. During his tenure there, he submitted his submarine plans to the U.S. Navy in 1875, but they were rejected as "a fantastic scheme of a civilian landsman". However the Fenian Society, a group of Irish patriots in the United States who hoped to destroy England's naval power, became interested. They supported Holland's experiments and gave him money to build two submarines. His first boat was tested with mixed results in the Passaic River in 1878. His second boat, the Fenian Ram, was launched in 1881. Its success established many basic features of submarines. Although the Fenian Ram had marked an important stage in submarine development, the Fenians were no longer prepared to back Holland who severed all connections with the organization after that. Indeed, twenty years later he was not slow in selling his designs to the British Navy who launched their own Holland designed sub in October 1901.
In 1888, the U.S. Navy asked Holland to submit submarine plans. Seven years later, it awarded him a contract to build a ship. But this vessel failed, largely because the Navy forced Holland to drop many of his ideas. In order to prove that his ideas were correct, Holland privately built his own submarine and launched it successfully on St. Patrick's day, 1898, in New York Harbor. His submarine,
53-foot (16-meter) in length, was powered by a gasoline engine and electric batteries. It could reach a speed of 6 knots submerged.
Despite inspections and favorable publicity and indeed the recommendation of the then Secretary of the Navy, Theodore Roosevelt, the Government did not buy the submarine. Holland made some alterations and after a final test in March, 1900, the U.S. Navy bought this ship (its first submarine) and named it the U.S.S. Holland. The Navy then asked the inventor to build several more ships like it. Holland's firm, the Electric Boat Company (now the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation), has continued to build most U.S. Navy submarines. It has also built many submarines for other countries.
Holland resigned from the Electric Boat Company in 1904 and attempted to establish a new firm. However, legal complications blocked the undertaking.
He quietly withdrew from public life and resumed work on an aircraft design. Aviation experts have stated that his design would have worked, but he was beaten to the punch by the Wright brothers and abandoned his efforts.
As well as selling his designs to the British Navy, Holland built two submarines for Japan which were used against Russian in the war of 1904-5. He received the Rising Sun from the Emperor of Japan for his contribution to the Japanese Naval victory.
On 12 August 1914, John Holland succumbed to pneumonia. He was 73 years old. He is buried in Totowa, New Jersey, less than one mile from where he launched his first submarine. In 1976 his grave was marked with a large headstone. In 1964 a plaque was erected in liscannor commemorating the 50th anniversary of his death. Castle Street in liscannor has been renamed Holland Street in his honor.
John Philip Holland's innovative ideas, designs, and hard work proved that submarines were practical and quite effective in times of war. His design became the prototype for future submarines and proved to be an important contribution to the development of America's defense network.
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Here's one thing that could always give Disney (DIS) an edge over Netflix (NFLX)
Core Disney+ subscriber growth is expected to pick up in the second quarter of 2023, driven mostly by international markets
There are many players in the streaming services market but the reigning leaders in this space right now are Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX). Although Netflix was a pioneer in the streaming arena, Disney has emerged as a formidable opponent over the past few years, even managing to surpass its rival in subscriber count in a short span of time. Even as Netflix continues to push ahead with its growth investments, Disney still has a meaningful advantage over it.
Content – the King
As mentioned many times over, content will always be a significant advantage for Disney. The content from Disney's many popular franchises provides it with ample opportunities to create new movies and series based on a plethora of characters. Franchises like Marvel and Star Wars have attracted and retained a large fan base who continue to enjoy the new content that Disney rolls out from time to time.
Thor: Love and Thunder, Disney's latest movie based on the character of Thor, marks the first time it released a fourth movie based on a single Marvel character. This is an indication of the longevity of Disney's characters and the potential for more stories based on these characters over the long term. Another example is Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. In 2023, Disney has three more Marvel movies coming up – Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3, and The Marvels.
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Similarly, series like Ms. Marvel and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law helped drive subscriber growth and engagement during the fourth quarter of 2022. In addition, the series Andor, which is based on a character from the Rogue One movie, is an example of how content can be extended from the big screen to the streaming platform.
Disney is also bringing out sequels to many of the popular older movies under its umbrella in the form of both films and series. Some examples of these are Hocus Pocus 2, Disenchanted, Avatar: The Way of Water, and Willow. This points to yet another opportunity for the company with regards to content creation.
Meanwhile, Netflix has been investing in original content and this strategy has been paying off well, with the company seeing success with titles like Squid Game, Stranger Things, and The Sandman. Its original films like The Gray Man and Purple Hearts have also done well. In addition, Netflix is producing regional content for its international markets which is expected to drive further growth. However, even though Netflix's titles have a fan base of their own, they do not quite match the broad footprint of Disney's content.
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Disney continues to exceed Netflix in terms of subscribers. At the end of the fourth quarter of 2022, Disney had a total of over 235 million subscribers across its direct-to-consumer services while Netflix reported a total of 223 million subscribers for the third quarter of 2022.
In Q4, Disney+ added over 12 million global subscribers, of which over 9 million were in core Disney+ and just under 3 million were at Disney+ Hotstar. Hulu and ESPN+ added approx. 1 million and 1.5 million subscribers respectively during the quarter. After losing subscribers in the first two quarters of 2022, Netflix rebounded in Q3 with paid net additions of 2.41 million.
Disney expects ESPN+ and Hulu to continue to add new subscribers in the first quarter of 2023 but it anticipates only a slight increase in core Disney+ subscribers. Core Disney+ subscriber growth is expected to pick up in the second quarter of 2023, driven mostly by international markets. For the fourth quarter of 2022, Netflix expects paid net additions of 4.50 million and paid memberships to reach 227.59 million.
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Oh my gosh! I feel like I've been waiting forever to share this gorgeous cover with the world. Now, here we are, less than five weeks away from the release of Hearts In Harmony. I'll tell you a secret: I've made this cover my background photo on my phone. Every time I check email, pick up a text message, answer the phone, or check the time, it's there. And every time I see it, it doesn't matter what kind of mood I'm in, the picture makes me smile.
Many, many thanks to Renee Rocco for creating this cover and putting that smile on my face. Lady, you are incredible and gifted.
I've just found out recently that Hearts is available for pre-order through several retailers. I've added links below the blurb for those sites.
If you haven't read the first book yet, now is your chance.
Love! So pretty! Congrats on the upcoming release!
Thanks, Anise. I'm looking forward to its book birthday.
It sounds like a great read and love the cover too. Heck, I'd put that on my phone if I were you - get a custom phone case for promo purposes.
I like the way the series looks.
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Q: Update a complex object on Backand using $http PUT I am using Backand to provide the database and REST api for my Angular app.
I am working on a capability for users to make edits to a complex object, which should then be updated on the database. Straightforward enough...
The object looks a bit like this:
obj = {
  id: 1,    // assigned by the db
  name: "My List",
  tasks: [
    { id: 1, desc: "Task 1" },
    { id: 2, desc: "Task 2" },
     ...
  ]
}

For the update ($http PUT) call, I would like to use params: { deep: true } as a shortcut to minimise code and $http calls.
The problem at the moment is that while the PUT command updates the "master" object in the database, the edited "child" objects are not updated, but appended as new child objects.
For instance, if I try to update the master and child objects in one call:
$http({
  method: 'PUT',
  url: baseUrl + 'lists/' + list.id,
  params: {
    deep: true
  },
  data: {
    id: 1,
    name: "My To Do List",
    tasks: [
      { id: 1, desc: "New Description for Task 1" },
      { id: 2, desc: "New Description for Task 2" }
    ]
  }
}).then( .... );

the database doesn't update the child objects, it appends them. Here's how the resulting object is in the database:
list = {
  id: 1,
  name: "My To Do List",    // Updated correctly
  tasks: [
    { id: 1, desc: "Task 1" },
    { id: 2, desc: "Task 2" },
    { id: 3, desc: "New Description for task 1" },  // Added not updated
    { id: 4, desc: "New Description for task 2" }   // Added not updated
  ]
}

I have made sure that the child objects' ids are correct.
Is there any way to do this succinctly or am I resigned to doing it in multiple stages? Does deep = true even work with PUT? The Backand docs don't mention it.

A: Backand identifies existing objects according to their
{
   __metadata: {id: "6"}
}

When you "GET" an object from Backand it contains such a metadata.
When you "PUT" an object without the metadata id, Backand threats it as a new object.
So either use the same deep object that you originally got or add the metadata id.
$http({
  method: 'PUT',
  url: baseUrl + 'lists/' + list.id,
  params: {
    deep: true
  },
  data: {
    "__metadata": { "id": "1" },
    id: 1,
    name: "My To Do List",
    tasks: [
      { "__metadata": { "id": "1" }, id: 1, desc: "New Description for Task 1" },
      { "__metadata": { "id": "2" }, id: 2, desc: "New Description for Task 2" }
    ]
  }
}).then( .... );

To delete tasks children in the "PUT" request you have to add overwrite=true to the params
params: {
    deep: true,
    overwrite: true
}


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Once all of the physicals are completed--there were nearly 600 this year--Sherrell calculates the total number of students from each school or organization and sends out the checks. "We donate 100 percent of the fees back to the schools and community groups," he says. "It's a win-win. It allows parents and coaches to see our facilities and meet our doctors. But it's also a good way for us to give back to the community and we enjoy it every year."


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This week the bathroom renovations began. These modifications also include the addition of a new bedroom - so I had the opportunity to run a bunch of cables via the stripped bathroom walls and to the newly installed bedroom wall. So I decided to bite the bullet and do it all.
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I ripped out all the old phone wiring since that was shithouse and installed by some idiot. I bought a central splitter from DSE ($26) that took either hardwired or plugin type connections. I hardwired the line in to it, and then punched its phone and adsl lines to the patch panel. DSL connection and phone are now much better - no static and a lot more SNR. This particular central splitter has surge/overload protection too so it offers somewhat more protection to the connected devices at the cost of 0.5dB insertion loss.
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For one passenger and no cars
We've been doing self-isolation in the UK for a week now, it's felt like a string of Church of Scotland Sundays.
The village shop / post office is doing a sterling job supplying the basics but I had to go to Tobermory yesterday for fresh fruit and veg. On a normal Saturday morning at this time of year a dozen or so villagers are waiting for the ferry. Yesterday I was on my own.... I had the ferry to myself for the 35 minute journey both there and back.
In Tobermory the Co-op supermarket was allowing 6 or 7 people inside at a time to protect staff and customers, the main street was almost deserted and people were careful to maintain two metres separation from each other.
Yesterday we had had a total of 33 confirmed cases of Covid19 in the Highland Region; not surprising that it's relatively low, we have probably the lowest population density in the UK, 9 persons per square kilometre and even fewer here on the peninsula.
I'm told there are 700 inhabitants between the lighthouse and Salen, the next village, 30 km away. If the peninsula is on average 5 km wide that's roughly 150 sq km, 4.5 persons per sq km, about the same as Lapland.
It you think I'm wrong feel free to comment, it's something for you to do in quarantine.
Queuing for the supermarket
Having distance between us is normal compared with the London Underground, Glasgow and New York. London has almost 4,000 people per sq km. So perhaps it's easier to keep 2 metres apart when we meet here.
Last week after the movement restrictions were announced we had a lemming like migration of motor caravans from the South, refugees from Covid-19, mainly with white haired, bearded drivers like myself, in the "vulnerable" Over 70, crumbly" category. They were not welcome;.. think about it..,.,.
In normal times our health services here in the Highlands are overstretched because of distance and scarcity of resources. If one of these people had a heart attack or symptoms of Covid-19 that could occupy the ambulance service or the helicopter for at least half a day. Our nearest major hospital is in Inverness and it looks after people from here to Shetland. N. Shetland is nearer to Oslo then Aberdeen by the way.
Tourism is the main source of income in the Highlands and everyone is welcome in normal times. But not at the moment.
I should have added that there were no cars on the ferry. Currently only the vehicles of Isle of Mull residents are allowed on to the island except for those of essential workers and for the delivery of essential supplies. You may be asked to show your driver's licence as this has your permanent residential address. The same applies to all of the islands and the Ardnamurchan Peninsula at Corran Ferry.
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Too many deer......too few trees
No trees too many Red deer
If I look down from my bedroom window in the small hours of a moonlit winter's night there are large grey shapes mooching around in the field that runs down to the sea.
During most of the year these red deer are cautious and keep away but tonight they are hungry, perhaps even starving. They have come down from the hill jumping barbed wire fences, browsing and trampling my newly planted trees.The night visitors
Until two or three years ago there was only a small population of deer at the west end of the peninsula but without effective culling there's been a population boom as in the rest of Scotland.
A deer trail down from the hill
follow the black lines and you'll find the deer
It's been estimated that since the 1960s Scotland's deer (red and roe deer) population has doubled and we now have more red deer than at any time since the end of the last ice age. Until recently trees could be planted here (on the west end of the peninsula) without a two metre high fence to keep deer out.
Fencing costs are well over £3,000 per hectare, more than the trees, the planting , site preparation and subsequent maintenance. The Scottish Government's planting target is !0,000 ha each year until 2020 then 15,000 ha after that. Fencing will cost £300 million a year for the next four years then £450 million each year afterwards.
There is an alternative to fencing............. In Glen Feshie fifteen years ago the Red Deer Commission, the government body that oversaw deer management in Scotland at the time, began a huge cull after widespread destruction of native plants, trees and the arctic-alpine nesting habitat of the Dotterel ,one of Scotland's rarest breeding birds. A team of stalkers using helicopters and high powered rifles reduced deer numbers from 1,500 to 400 in a year. The results were dramatic.Glen Feshie - Zero tolerance for deer
Deer hair on a barbed wire fence
When I visited Glen Feshie three years later there was widespread regeneration of native scots pines, the arctic alpine flora was flourishing and so were the dotterels. There was still a population of red deer, just fewer, giving a genuine hunting experience for the hunters. As opposed to the "canned hunting" available on many Highland estates where the hunting is more like the ritual slaughter of animals that have been hand fed in winter . The hunters are transported up on to the hill, they seem to have forgotten how to walk and hunt.
Where new woods are being planted fewer than 10 deer per square kilometre means that we can probably do without fences, damage is minimised.
Halving our deer population would mean; reducing the cost of planting, by up to half, more natural regeneration, more CO2 sequestered and a more authentic experience for hunters. The great cull doesn't mean just hunting; wolves could be re-introduced in the highlands. More on that next time......
The rags are soaked in diesel, it's supposed to deter the deer
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About Craigard Croft
Finding this place was a bit of luck. Walking through Ft. William I saw the ad in a Solicitor's window. Within a couple of days I was here to see it and to be interviewed. Well it felt like an interview. Ann Scott who was selling Craigard, daughter of Mary Jane Scott, the last crofter, wanted to make sure that her Mother would approve of who ever bought the place. I must have met Mary Jane's criteria.
My working life was in farming in Scotland, Northumberland, Cumbria, Kent and Russia where I managed an EU technical assistance project in the Ministry of Agriculture. Retirement to a croft was an opportunity to carry on farming on a small scale, at a slower pace with time for idling. It's an experiment in sustainable self-reliant farming and living. The blog is an experiment too; in agricultural journalism, something I dabbled in years ago, I'm an inveterate dabbler.
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