Nigerian Captain John Mikel Obi says leading Middlesbrough back to the English Premier League (EPL) would stand as one of his greatest achievements in his already well-decorated career.
Mikel arrived the Riverside back in January and settled well in the team, helping them to avoid defeat on five occasions in his six appearances for the Tony Pulis side so far.
The former Lyn Oslo of Norway midfielder is one of most decorated players in Africa, having won the English domestic league more than once, English FA Cup, UEFA Champions League, Europa League and African Cup of Nations (AFCON), Mikel said he's still desperate for more success.
"I'm still hungry and want to win trophies," he declared.
"I'm never satisfied with what I have achieved. If I was, I would just sit at home.
"I want to achieve something with this club and that is to get this club promoted.
"I love challenges and I knew coming in here would be a challenge for me, and being in the second division would be a challenge for me.
Boro are currently in fifth position with nine points adrift but have a game in hand on the top two and are in good form, Mikel is confident the Club can return to the elite division and added that he's enjoying his stay at the Club.
"Middlesbrough are a massive club and should be in the Premier League," he said. "It is where they belong for me.
"We still have a lot games to play, and if we manage to win quite a few of them, who knows?
"If we could get automatic promotion, fine, and if we get into the play-offs and that is how we do it, then that would be amazing as well.
"I want to enjoy my football and enjoy winning games with this club, these players are an amazing group of guys," he said.
"Every time we win a game you see that feeling of wanting to be in the Premier League.
"That is something I want to keep enjoying with them until the end of the season. And then we see where we are." he concluded.


An almond is an oval edible nutlike seed that grows in a woody shell from the almond tree. The tree that grows almonds belongs to the rose family and is related to the plum and peach trees. Almonds are grown in warm climates such as western Asia.
Dogs can eat almonds and many love the taste. However, many dogs do not digest them well which can lead to nausea, vomiting, and/or diarrhea in some dogs. The fat content in nuts can lead to pancreatitis. Other nuts that dogs can eat but have the same health issues include peanuts and cashews. Nuts that should NOT be fed do dogs are macadamia nuts and black walnuts.
When researching the safety of almonds for dogs, there are two considerations that impact the danger. First is the danger of pancreatitis or gastrointestinal upset and second is the risk of choking. Choking hazards are more common in small dogs but can occur in any dog.
The answer to the question, "can dogs eat almonds" is yes. Dogs can eat small amounts of almonds and some dogs enjoy almonds as a healthy snack. However, ingestion of almonds can lead to gastrointestinal issues in some dogs.
Ingestion of large amounts of almonds can cause gastrointestinal upset in dogs. If your dog ingested almonds and is showing symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, not eating or lethargy, please call your veterinarian or closest emergency clinic.
There is nothing in almonds that dogs require. What dogs do need is a high-quality AAFCO approved dog food. Learn more about Nutrition for Dogs.
The safest way to give almonds to your dog is to offer a small amount of a cut up nut. The almond should be shelled and your dog should be monitored to ensure he/she does not choke.
Can you Give Almond Butter to Dogs?
An extraction from almonds and nuts such as peanut butter or almond butter can be sweetened with xylitol, a sweetener used in many foods, which can be safe for humans but can be toxic to dogs. If your dog ingests almond butter, carefully look at the label to determine if it has sweeteners such as xylitol. If you determine your dog has ingested xylitol, please call your veterinarian immediately. Learn more about Xylitol toxicity in Dogs.
Is Almond Flour, Almond Extract, Almond Oil Toxic to Dogs?
Almond flour, almond extract, and almond oil are not toxic to dogs but many dogs do not digest these products well which can lead to gastrointestinal upset such as vomiting, diarrhea, and anorexia. If you determine your dog has ingested any of these products and is showing abnormal symptoms, please call your veterinarian immediately.
Caring for your dog's teeth is critical to his overall health and wellness. Dogs can develop many different dental diseases that are often undiagnosed, painful and can impact your dog's wellbeing. Dogs commonly hide their dental pain.
Learning to care for your dog's teeth can help keep your dog comfortable but also help to prevent costly dental cleanings. Below we will give you some great tips on how to clean your dog's teeth, how to know if you are doing a good job, provide symptoms of dental disease in dogs, and discuss how to get your dog's teeth cleaned professionally.
The best recommendation to clean your dog's teeth is to brush the teeth daily. This is why. Dental plaque builds up on the teeth daily. This occurs on the surface of the tooth and gum line. Dental plaque is a sticky substance that contains bacteria, food particles, and saliva. If the plaque is left untouched, it will mineralize and form into hard tartar, also referred to as calculus, in approximately 48 hours. By brushing daily, you minimize the chance of the plaque mineralizing!
Why is this important? It is critical to remove dental plaque because once the tartar mineralizes; it attracts more plaque, then more tartar. This build-up of tartar can occur both above and below the gum line. Dangerous types of bacteria are attracted to this environment that leads to the destruction of periodontal tissues. This causes disease.
It can be pretty easy, especially if you start early. Learn tips on How to Brush Your Dog's Teeth.
When brushing your dog's teeth, it is critical to have the right tools. There are many styles of toothbrushes and many different types and flavors of toothpaste. It is also important to pick out the toothbrush and toothpaste combination that will work best for your dog. For example, a finger brush generally works best for large breed dogs such as Labrador retrievers. Some small brushes with a handle may work best for small and miniature breed dogs. You may need to experiment to find out what works best for you and your dog. Learn more about picking the right Dental Products for Dogs.
You can generally tell if you did a good job brushing your dog's teeth by looking carefully at your dog's teeth. It is important to have good lighting and to look at all the teeth. You can use natural light but it may be easier to use a small flashlight to see the teeth in the very back of the mouth. The teeth should look white and have minimal pigmentation or build up of discoloration and tartar (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Model of a dog's teeth with severe tartar build up (black arrow).
In addition to daily brushing, a deeper clean is also recommended periodically. The frequency of a deeper clean will depend on your ability to brush your dog's teeth and your dog's individual dental situation which is often a result of genetics.
Some dogs just won't permit daily brushing. And even with great dental care, every dog can be different. Just as there are people who have beautiful teeth with very little work or dental care, the same is true for dogs. On the opposite side, some dogs have terrible dental disease even with great care. Many of the dental problems are related to the dog's breed and genetics.
If you notice your dog has bad breath or you notice a build-up of tartar or other signs of dental disease, please see your veterinarian. Most veterinarians routinely perform dental cleanings. If they do not perform dental cleanings or your dog requires advanced dental procedures, they can recommend a veterinarian that does dental cleaning and recommend that you see a veterinary dentist if that is needed. You can contact your local specialty veterinary clinic or local university of veterinary medicine for recommendations.
Professional dental cleaning is commonly referred to as a "dental" or "dental prophy." Learn more here: What is a Dental Cleaning or Prophy in Dogs?
The gum tissue, also known as the oral mucosa or mucous membranes, is the soft tissue lining in the mouth that covers the roof of the mouth and is between the teeth and lips. The gums are connected to the underlying bone tissue.
Gum color will often provide insight into the health or wellbeing of a dog. The pink color in gum color, similar to the pink in skin color, is a result of blood flow to pale or almost colorless tissues. Blood flow can be altered by conditions that result from shock, blood loss, anemia, or other bleeding abnormalities. Dental issues can result in a deeper red inflamed appearance to the gums that are most commonly around the teeth.
In normal healthy dogs, the gum color can be either pink or pigmented, depending on the breed and pigmentation of your dog. It is easier to assess for gum color abnormalities in dogs that are not pigmented. Breeds that are known for normal black pigmented gums include the Chow and the Chinese Shar-Pei.
In a dog with unpigmented gums, the normal gum color is a normal healthy pink, sometimes referred to as "bubblegum pink". The gums should be smooth, moist, and shiny with no evidence of excessive redness, discharge, or odor. They should not be painful.
In a pigmented dog, his normal pigmentation color is that color of pigment. Having pigmented gums is not a bad or dangerous thing. The pigmentation blocks some of the ability to evaluate for signs of shock or anemia (low red blood cell counts). To evaluate mucous membrane color, you can look at the conjunctiva of the eye as an alternative.
Some dogs will have both unpigmented and pigmented gums. In these cases, to assess the gum color, please look at the unpigmented sections (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Dog with both areas of gum pigmentation and normal unpigmented gum tissue.
Pale – Pale gums or mucous membranes can indicate blood loss or "shock". The possible causes for either blood loss or shock are life-threatening and should be evaluated immediately.
Bleeding – Bleeding gums can be caused by local problems or systemic problems. Local problems may include trauma to the mouth, infections, foreign material such as a bone, stick, or plastic being lodged in the tissue. Bleeding can also occur from systemic diseases such as bleeding abnormalities from immune-mediated problems or toxins. Bleeding can appear as fresh blood or as small pinpoint hemorrhages, also known as petechiae. All signs of bleeding are abnormal. Learn more about bleeding disorders in dogs.
Inflammation – Inflamed gums are a common sign of dental disease, most commonly periodontal disease which is also frequently referred to as the silent killer. Infected gum tissue is often red, swollen, and inflamed. Other causes of inflammation can be from local infections, chemical burns, trauma, infectious diseases, and more.
Infections – Gum infections can occur and results from underlying systemic disease or from local infections from bad teeth.
Ulcers – Some dogs will have ulcers on the gums due to chemical burns, trauma, and/or infections. One common cause of oral ulcerations is from exposure to liquid potpourri. Learn more about Potpourri Exposure and Toxicity. Some infections can also be caused by underlying infectious diseases. An ulcer will look like a raw open abrasion that is often irregular with an uneven red surface. It may also have an odor.
Odor – Smelling gums or an odor from the mouth can be a sign of dental disease or infections. Foreign objects such as stick or bones can also become lodged in the mouth resulting in a foul odor. Bad breath can also be caused by systemic disease such as diabetes or kidney disease.
The best way to keep your dog's gum tissue healthy is to feed a high-quality dog food formulated to meet the AAFCO standards. Provide good dental care that consists of daily brushing and periodical dental cleanings by your veterinarian. Learn more about dental cleaning in this article: Dog Teeth Cleaning: Who Should Do It?


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David's story: several frightening encounters with cattle.
In the summer of 2015, I was walking with my wife along part of the Wales Coast Path in Carmarthenshire, not far from St Clears. As we approached a field (Fox Hole Farm), we saw approximately 30 dairy cattle. They were all cows, with no calves and no bull.
The path followed a diagonal route through the field and, luckily, the cattle were to one side of the field approximately 50 metres away. We walked through the gate into the field, and quickly made our way towards the exit kissing gate. But, when we got just past the half-way point, the cattle started to make movements towards us.
We increased our pace, and the cattle started to canter towards us.
Frightened, we ran – and luckily just made it through the exit gate before the cows caught up with us.
We have no doubt had we not made it to the gate we would have been trampled. We have been walking for over 40 yrs and this was the 3rd time we have had similar experience.
There were no warning signs, and we didn't have a dog with us. I reported the incident to National Resources Wales, but I was told that because it happened in Carmarthenshire nothing could be done.
More recently, we have been walking the coast around the Llyn Peninsular in North Wales, between Llanbedrog and Caernavon. Generally the path was protected by either a fence or an electric fence. We came across two fields (separate farms) where cattle were an obstruction. Due to our past experiences, we had to deviate away from the path and find an alternative route, which is both a significant problem and spoils the walking experience.
I just can't understand why a safe and protected right of way cannot be made for all farm fields.
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Reporting to the producing director, the assistant producer will be responsible for working with the producing director to organize all custom components of school residencies as well as manage all artist training and development projects. For our one-week school residencies, this will mean creating timelines, tracking budgets, organizing artists and community elements, scheduling equipment and supporting the development of thematic elements related to each custom project. For development projects, this will mean managing the development schedules and timelines, managing the testing cycles, tracking the budgets, keeping in touch with all of the artists working on the projects, preparing reports and stats, and assisting with staffing the projects. There may be elements of our sales, fundraising and technical operations that are also involved (in short, any aspect of the company that the producing director is involved in).
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Las Vegas – Legacy Traditional Schools, a network of public, tuition-free charter schools in Nevada, held a promotion ceremony for its first eighth-grade graduating class on June 13 at their North Valley campus located in North Las Vegas. 49 eighth-graders were promoted in the ceremony. They will move on to the high school of their choice. 140 kindergarten students were also promoted to first grade in a ceremony held that morning.
Legacy Traditional School's North Valley principal, faculty and families of Legacy graduating students were in attendance in addition to members of Legacy's Nevada Governing Board.
Legacy Traditional School – North Valley is the first Legacy Traditional School in Nevada. The school welcomed 1,200 students for the 2017-2018 school year.
In addition to the North Valley campus, Legacy Traditional Schools will open its Cadence campus, located in the Cadence masterplan community in Henderson, this fall. It is enrolling students now for the 2018-2019 school year. Plans for a third campus in southwest Las Vegas, located at Rainbow and Wigwam, were approved in January. The new campus will begin enrolling this fall for the 2019-2020 school year.
Legacy Traditional Schools is known for its proven, accelerated academic model and back-to-basics curriculum that challenges students academically and encourages them to be active members of their communities.
For more information about Legacy Traditional Schools, visit www.legacytraditional.org.
Legacy Traditional Schools believes there is no limit to what a student can achieve with a great education and a strong character. Our non-profit network of tuition-free, high-performing public schools was founded on this principle, and it underlies our mission to build lifelong learners and good citizens. Every Legacy Traditional School features a rigorous, well-rounded curriculum that emphasizes all areas of academic study, including the arts, physical education and extensive athletics and extracurricular activities. We serve 14,500 students across 13 campuses in Arizona (Greater Phoenix, northwest Tucson, Maricopa and Casa Grande) and Nevada (North Las Vegas). New campuses are coming to Phoenix (Ariz.), East Mesa (Ariz.) and Henderson (Nev.) in 2018-19. Learn more at www.legacytraditional.org.


The world can be a tough place as life isn't always rosy, so it's very important to always discharge that positive energy that can uplift others around you. And there is no better example of the goodness in our world than random acts of kindness, be it to a stranger, a family, a charity or a community at large.
Kind hearted people who are helpful for no reason other than them being good people can truly champion society's hope in humanity – we better know it as 'Ubuntu' in South Africa. As you peruse through my piece today, something will become very clear – regardless of how much money or time we have – we all have it within us to make a significant impact on others and help make the world a better place.
At Goscor Cleaning Equipment (GCE), one of the strongest and best qualities of our company and its employees (we are actually more than that, we are a family) is generosity. I love working with such amazing people with such big hearts! This quality is rooted in our belief that as a business – which is made up of people who hail from the societies that we operate in – we can play a part in building a society we want to live in.
At GCE, we are more than just a business, we are an active citizen. This is motivated by our desire to contribute meaningfully to communities around us. It's something within us that we regard our business activities as never separate from society, but inextricably bound to the fortunes of it. Apart from creating jobs, offering goods, services and processes, as well as investing in the skills of our employees, we have always gone the extra mile to make a difference in societies that we operate in.
A case in point is our recent involvement with the FNB Run Your City Series races. Driven by our desire to maintain clean streets in communities where we operate, GCE recently deployed resources to help clean Johannesburg CBD streets ahead of the FNB Joburg 10K CITYRUN. We also undertook the same initiative ahead of the FNB Cape Town 12 ONERUN, which took place in May this year. We also recently embarked on a same initiative ahead of the FNB Durban 10K CITYSURFRUN which took place on the 14th of October this year.
Not only does this street cleaning initiative improve the aesthetics of the city, but it reduces the risk of accidents. Clearing the streets of debris minimises slip and fall accidents, as well as protecting people from dangerous garbage like rusty nails and broken glass, not forgetting the ever-dangerous banana peels!
Meanwhile, like we always do, this year we also invested time and resources towards a worthy cause during a special day in our South African calendar, Mandela Day. Nelson Mandela's famous words, "what counts in life is not the mere fact that we lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others", remind us that as a nation, companies and individuals, we have to extend a loving and kind hand. It is in this spirit that we partnered Wollies animal shelter to make a difference to the lives of abandoned animals at the shelter.
In conclusion, I believe that it is very much in the interests of any company to be a good corporate citizen. There is no set definition of corporate citizenship; in my view it should take sustainable development as its starting point; that is to say, efforts to unify economic, social and environmental development. These efforts involve every section of society, and therefore good corporate citizenship is the way in which businesses work towards sustainable development of communities.


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Ford cutting 3,000 white collar jobs in bid to lower costs
By Tom Krisher THE ASSOCIATED PRESS On Aug 23, 2022
DETROIT (AP) — About 3,000 white-collar workers at Ford Motor Co. will lose their jobs as the company cuts costs to help make the long transition from internal combustion vehicles to those powered by batteries.
Leaders of the Dearborn, Michigan, automaker made the announcement Monday in a companywide email, saying that 2,000 full-time salaried workers would be let go along with another 1,000 contract workers.
The cuts represent about 6 per cent of the 31,000 full-time salaried work force in the the US and Canada. Ford's 56,000 union factory workers are not affected. Some workers also will lose jobs in India.
The job losses come at a time of unprecedented change in the auto industry that for more than 100 years has made a living by selling petroleum-powered vehicles. Governments across the globe are pushing to eliminate combustion automobiles to mitigate the impact of climate change. Companies like Ford are orchestrating the wind-down of their combustion businesses over multiple years, even though they are still generating the cash to fund electric vehicle development.
Ford has said it plans for half of its global production to be electric vehicles by 2030.
Executive Chairman Bill Ford and CEO Jim Farley said in the email to employees that Ford will provide severance benefits and significant help for the workers to find new jobs. They wrote that Ford has a chance to lead in the new era of connected and electric vehicles.
"Building on this future requires changing and reshaping virtually all aspects of the way we have operated for more than a century," the email said. "It means redeploying resources and addressing our cost structure, which is uncompetitive versus traditional and new companies."
Farley and Ford wrote that the company examined each team's shifting work to decide where cuts would be made. The company determined that its cost structure wasn't competitive with General Motors, Stellantis and Tesla. Ford has said previously that it has a target of cutting $3 billion in annual internal combustion vehicle structural costs by 2026.
"We are eliminating work, as well as reorganizing and simplifying functions throughout the business," they wrote in the email.
Farley has said repeatedly that the company's global work force of 182,000 is too large, and it needs to trim costs and simplify processes so it can move faster as it transitions to electric vehicles.
The company already has restructured in Europe, Asia and India.
The cuts may not be over. Company spokesman T.R. Reid said Ford will continue to change with the industry and more job losses are possible. He said it's common for companies to continually add people where they need them and trim where fewer jobs are needed. "With the fast pace of this industry, we're going to manage the business smartly for these rapidly evolving priorities," he said.
Ford shares, already under pressure after a $1.7 billion verdict against the company related to a vehicle fatality in Georgia, slid almost 6 per cent and led automakers lower amid a broad sell-off in markets Monday.
Ottawa to sign MOUs with Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen on materials for electric vehicles
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Canadian economy adds 108,000 jobs in October
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America has become paranoid after Obama's re-election
Marijuana, states leaving the USA, and Star wars phobia!
Marijuana, secession and now 'Star Wars': Thousands of Americans have signed yet another bizarre online White House petition, this one to "secure funding and resources" to build the 'Death Star' space station from the popular sci-fi film.
"By focusing our defense resources into a space-superiority platform and weapon system such as a Death Star, the government can spur job creation in the fields of construction, engineering, space exploration, and more, and strengthen our national defense," the petition on the White House website reads.
The document, created on November 14 by a resident of Colorado, has already collected over 5,000 signatures. The petition needs around 20,000 more by December 14 for it to be formally reviewed by the White House staff.
The Death Star is the planet-destroying space station built by the Galactic Empire in the wildly popular sci-fi movie saga 'Star Wars,' directed by George Lucas. The franchise is adored by millions of fans around the world.
Earlier this year, students at Lehigh University in the US calculated the hypothetical cost of building a Death Star at $8.52 quadrillion – roughly 13,000 times the world's GDP.
The White House's petition platform, which allows anyone to offer suggestions to the government, is relatively new and was created to provide citizens with "new way to create or join the petition encouraging government to take action on the range of issues."
The move has resulted in a cornucopia of bizarre petitions: Adopting the Gray Wolf to join the Bald Eagle as the national mascot; legalizing the use of magic mushrooms and mescaline; even to "shut down White House petitions, since they never get a sincere response… and are ultimately worthless."
The most popular petition on the website so far calls for the peaceful secession of Texas, which has collected over 110,000 signatures.
By hotdogfish • Posted in Education, What do You Think	• Tagged Death Star, Galactic Empire, George Lucas, Gray Wolf, Lehigh University, Star Wars, United States, white House
USA-Unemployment statistics for America!
Unemployment statistics for America remained at 9.1 percent for the month of August, and while that tally was all to be expected, a surprise came as, despite predictions that new jobs were created last month, economists' expectations of 75,000 new jobs were not met.
The latest reports from the Labor Department reveal that only 17,000 jobs were added to the private sector in August while the government shed more and more positions. Payroll figures in the manufacturing sector were down, as were the hours in an average work week and the average hourly wage earning among American workers.
The White House announced on Thursday that they predict an unemployment rate of 8.3 percent in 2012, but the country will need to add 200,000 jobs per month in the meantime in order to bring the unemployment statistic down a full percentage point in 12 months' time. With zero job growth for the month of August and the Labor Department now revising statistics for June and July to show fewer jobs created than calculated earlier, the pickup necessary to push the unemployment rate down seems more unlikely than ever.
Taking into account the three summer months, an average of 35,000 jobs were created in June, July and August.
President Barack Obama is scheduled to give a speech next week to address the dire jobs situation as the country grows wearier of the administration's failure to keep the country from an economic slump.
Economist Patrick O'Keefe from the accounting firm JH Cohn says a slump isn't likely, but instead expects the economy "to slouch and stagger," reports Reuters. Other economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond released a paper recently in which they write, "After a long period of unemployment, affected workers may become effectively unemployable," suggesting that the actual rate of unemployment is only accelerating. Nearly 43 percent of unemployment Americans have been without jobs for more than six months.
A strike of around 45,000 employees at Verizon Communications contributed in part to the sad statistics for August, which overall saw a drop of around 48,000 workers in the information industry. The 17,000 jobs added in the private sector shows the smallest increase in over a year and a half and fell short of the prediction of 95,000 that Bloomberg expected. Little to no job growth across the board was displayed for August, with healthcare services being the only notable exception.
Whole sectors of this whole economy have just gone. You have whole sectors which are gone, sectors which are at risk and a few sectors that are still there. According to one person who previously worked as a director for World Bank, the whole picture of manufacturing is changing before our very eyes.
There was another figure that managed to go up for the month of August, however: the measure of Americas who have stopped looking for work and those that have settled for part-time employment.
Jobs Report Shows Urgent Need for Bold Action by Dennis J. Kucinich (dandelionsalad.wordpress.com)
Economy Fails to Add Jobs (online.wsj.com)
Dean Baker: Zero Job Growth In August, as Unemployment Rate Remains Stable (yubanet.com)
Black unemployment: Highest in 27 years (redantliberationarmy.wordpress.com)
Jobs stall, raising recession fears (thenewstribune.com)
By hotdogfish • Posted in Malicious Politics	• Tagged Barack Obama, Employment, Unemployment, United State, United States Department of Labor, Verizon Communications, white House
Israel will bomb Iran in the fall? What!
A longtime CIA officer who spent 21 years in the Middle East is predicting that Israel will bomb Iran in the fall, dragging the United States into another major war and endangering US military and civilian personnel (and other interests) throughout the Middle East and beyond.
Earlier this week, Robert Baer appeared on the provocative KPFK Los Angeles show Background Briefing, hosted by Ian Masters. It was there that he predicted that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is likely to ignite a war with Iran in the very near future.Robert Baer has had a storied career, including a stint in Iraq in the 1990s where he organised opposition to Saddam Hussein. (He was recalled after being accused of trying to organise Saddam's assassination.) Upon his retirement, he received a top decoration for meritorious service.
He obviously won't name many of his sources in Israel, the United States, and elsewhere, but the few he has named are all Israeli security figures who have publicly warned that Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are hell-bent on war.
Most former Mossad chiefs wary of Netanyahu
Baer was especially impressed by the unprecedented warning about Netanyahu's plans by former Mossad chief Meir Dagan. Dagan left the Israeli intelligence agency in September 2010. Two months ago, he predicted that Israel would attack and said that doing so would be "the stupidest thing" he could imagine. According to Haaretz:
When asked about what would happen in the aftermath of an Israeli attack Dagan said that: "It will be followed by a war with Iran. It is the kind of thing where we know how it starts, but not how it will end. "The Iranians have the capability to fire rockets at Israel for a period of months, and Hezbollah could fire tens of thousands of grad rockets and hundreds of long-range missiles, he said.
According to Ben Caspit of the Israeli daily Maariv, Dagan's blasts at Israel's political leadership are significant not only because Mossad chiefs, in office or retired, traditionally have kept their lips sealed, but also because Dagan is very conservative on security matters.
Caspit writes that Dagan is "one of the most right-wing militant people ever born here. … When this man says that the leadership has no vision and is irresponsible, we should stop sleeping soundly at night".
Dagan describes the current Israeli government as "dangerous and irresponsible" and views speaking out against Netanyahu as his patriotic duty.
And his abhorrence of Netanyahu is not uncommon in the Israeli security establishment. Accordingto Think Progress, citing the Forward newspaper, 12 of the 18 living ex-chiefs of Israel's two security agencies (Mossad and Shin Bet), are "either actively opposing Netanyahu's stances or have spoken out against them". Of the remaining six, two are current ministers in Netanyahu government, leaving a grand total of four out of 18 who independently support the prime minister.
In short, while Congress dutifully gives Netanyahu 29 standing ovations, the Israelis who know the most about both Netanyahu and Israel's strategic situation think he is a dangerous disaster.
But according to Baer, we ain't seen nothing yet. There is almost "near certainty" that Netanyahu is "planning an attack [on Iran] … and it will probably be in September before the vote on a Palestinian state. And he's also hoping to draw the United States into the conflict", Baer explained.
The Israeli air force would attack "Natanz and other nuclear facilities to degrade their capabilities. The Iranians will strike back where they can: Basra, Baghdad", he said, and even Afghanistan. Then the United States would jump into the fight with attacks on Iranian targets. "Our special forces are already looking at Iranian targets in Iraq and across the border [in Iran] which we would strike. What we're facing here is an escalation, rather than a planned out-and-out war. It's a nightmare scenario. We don't have enough troops in the Middle East to fight a war like that." Baer added, "I think we are looking into the abyss".
Another US war?
Masters asked Baer why the US military is not mobilising to stop this war from happening. Baer responded that the military is opposed, as is former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who used his influence to thwart an Israeli attack during the Bush and Obama administrations. But he's gone now and "there is a warning order inside the Pentagon" to prepare for war.
It should be noted that the Iranian regime is quite capable of triggering a war with the United States through some combination of colossal stupidity and sheer hatred. In fact, as Baer explained, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard would welcome a war. They are "paranoid". They are "worried about … what's happening to their country economically, in terms of the oil embargo and other sanctions". And they are worried about a population that increasingly despises the regime.
They need an external enemy. Because we are leaving Iraq, it's Israel. But in order to make this threat believable, they would love an attack on their nuclear facilities, love to go to war in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and Iraq and hit us where they could. Their defense is asymmetrical. We can take out all of their armored units. It's of little difference to them, same with their surface-to-air missile sites. It would make little difference because they would use terrorism. They would do serious damage to our fleet in the Gulf.
Given all that, is it possible that the United States would allow Israel to attack when the president knows we would be forced to join the war on Israel's side?
"The president is up for re-election next year," Blair pointed out, and Israel is "truly out of control".
What happens when you see 100 F-16's approaching Iraq and there is a call to the White House [from Netanyahu] that says "We're going in, we're at war with Iran"? What does the President of the United States do? He has little influence over Bibi Netanyahu. … We can't stop him. And he knows it.
It's a pretty frightening scenario, made infinitely more so by the fact that top Israelis (who have heard Netanyahu's thinking from Netanyahu himself) also see the future the same way. Those Israelis deserve a world of credit for sounding the warning bell loudly enough that we would hear it and do something about it – although it's impossible to know if the people who matter are paying attention.
Actually, only one person matters: the US president. If Israel bombed Iran tomorrow, Congress would forget all about their partisan differences and run, not walk, to the House and Senate floors to endorse the attack and call for unstinting support for Israel. That is what Congress always does, and will always do so long as the lobby (and the donors it directs) are the key players in making our Middle East policies.
And who knows what Obama would do? So far, he has not exactly distinguished himself when it comes to standing up to Netanyahu.
But an Israeli attack on Iran would be different. It would endanger countless Americans (in the region and here at home, too). It would kill off any economic recovery by causing oil prices to skyrocket. It would engulf us in another Middle East war. And it would threaten the existence of the state of Israel.
This is something the president needs to focus on instead of being forced to nickel and dime with the likes of Representative Eric Cantor and Senator Mitch McConnell. How incredible that these two, and their right-wing allies, have our government tied in knots in their incessant effort to elevate themselves by destroying the President of the United States.
By hotdogfish • Posted in Collection of Thoughts	• Tagged United States, War, white House


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— Nick La Riviere
Directs Beginner Band, Skills Band & The Fundamentals
Pronouns: he/him/his
Singer-songwriter Nick La Riviere is an accomplished trombonist who has toured internationally with bands such as the Juno award winning Paperboys, Michael Kaeshammer, 54-40 and Adonis Puentes. He has been a special guest with such bands as Steven Page (Barenaked Ladies), the
Temptations and Nikki Yanofsky. As a freelancer, Nick is one of Victoria's busiest musicians. Nick has been a Music Director with FOM Music Society since 2018. He currently teaches the Beginner Band Lessons, Skills Band Lessons and Fundamentals.
— avram mCCagherty
Directs Ukulele Lessons, Ukulelians (Performance Group) & The Eclectics
Avram learned guitar for years under the guidance of expert fingerstyle guitarist Ron Forbes-Roberts and world-renowned Gypsy Jazz guitarist Marc Atkinson. He also learned the rare art of Traditional Jazz banjo from the Banjo Hall of Fame inductee Borgy Borgeson. Avram has founded popular local bands such as The Stomp Club, The Dixie Sweethearts and The Capital City Syncopators. He also plays with The Yiddish Columbia State Orchestra, Canus, Dixieland Express, Blackstick and many other ensembles. As an instructor, Avram brings 20 years of experience from his tenure at Old Town Strings, Larsen Music and his private home studio. He has been leading programs at the Friends of Music Society since the Fall of 2013 and is honoured to be part of such a wonderful organization, with dedicated administration and faculty combining a passion for music with compassion for people and community.
— Nicole gagnon
Directs 'Your Authentic Voice'
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Nicole is a conscious creator, lover and grower. Primarily a vocal artist, Nicole also writes and records ambient-experimental healing music under the pseudonym NELE. Nicole weaves the worlds of traditional song and culture, somatic therapy, astrology, and the art of crafting ritual into offerings that nurture the creator within to confidently express to the world. She grows a multitude of food plants as well as herbs for medicine crafting. She is continually learning how to live with respect and care for this beautiful Island.
— steve
Directs Guitar Lessons, Recovery Rock Band & Open Mic
Steve started working with Friends of Music in September 2017 as a guitar teacher and volunteer at the Sunday Open Mic. In addition to teaching guitar, he now runs the Open Mic and leads the Recovery Rock Band. He has played and sung in local bands and written and self-recorded albums that received some local radio play. While primarily a guitar teacher, he is a multi-instrumentalist: he loves to play drums or keys whenever he gets the chance. Steve also loves to travel and learn about musical traditions in other countries. He can even play two Korean instruments, which he learned while living in South Korea for a few years. Steve brings a passion for mental health and hopes to spread musical joy through his work. He is very grateful for the opportunity to enjoy and share the gifts that music brings at FOM Music Society.
— lauri Lyster
Directs Drumming & Percussion Workshop
Lauri Lyster is a versatile musician, equally at home playing classical, jazz or
ethnic percussion and drum set. She is a percussionist with the Vancouver
Opera Orchestra, a long time member of the lauded Celtic and Medieval
ensemble Winter Harp, and has worked with jazz bands, chamber ensembles, dance groups and recorded for television and film. In 2012 Lauri wrote the one-woman play The Drummer Girl, a musical featuring her on drums and percussion, with a band and with comedic anecdotes about life as a female drummer.
She created Keyboard Klub to teach group piano and The Joyful Djembe to teach drumming and percussion in the school system. Lauri moved to Victoria in October of 2019 and has been busy integrating herself in the musical community, doing a drum and percussion workshop at SMUS for young adults and playing jazz drum set in the band Hoppin' Mad. She loves teaching group drumming and percussion and believes that we all have rhythm, and EVERYBODY can play drum!
— Joe Hatherill
Directs the Moodswing Chorus
Joe grew up north of London England, studied jazz and commercial music in Newcastle, then worked as a saxophone player on various cruise ships for four years. He got more involved with education and passed the City and Guilds Adult Teaching Diploma and the Associated Boards of the Royal Schools of Music Certificate of Teaching. He has worked in musical theatre, jazz, recording and functions, mainly on woodwinds and keyboards. Joe emigrated to BC in 2003 and was soon busy leading the Sunshine Coast Orchestra concert band and Pender Harbor choir. He was accepted into the BC Registered Music Teachers' Association. He remains active in many fields of music education and performance. His studio is in Fernwood, and he has been with Friends of Music since 2018. Joe is always keen to get more people involved in making and sharing live music. As a universal language, music can heal us and promote love and community.
— ben beaudet, MA
Directs The Haywires Country Band, Minds at Work & The Moodswing Orchestra
Benoît Beaudet completed a Master's degree in Music at Laval University after studying at Berklee School of Music. He has done arranging and guitar with William Levitt and graduated magna cum laude, making the dean's list. Since 1993 Ben has been a Music Director at Friends of
Music, leading the Moodswing Orchestra, Minds at Work and The Haywires' Country Band. He also started the Guitar Lessons, Fundamentals and the Summer Program. Some highlights of his musical career include: playing on CBC, teaching jazz at Québec Conservatory, serving as director of a music school and working as a Club Med musical director and tennis teacher. In his spare time, he plays golf and tennis.
— jon ziffle
Directs Jazz Improv
Jon has been with Friends of Music since 2017. His musical background includes jazz and electronic music, composition and music production. He received his Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Studies from Vancouver Island University, and his main instrument is the piano. He has released music both independently and with the Woodwork Recordings label based in Vancouver. Jon is the Jazz Improv Music Director and Moodswing Chorus piano accompanist at FOM Music Society. He also is currently working in mental health support services. Jon is grateful for the opportunity to give back to the community and apply his musical skills to support others through his work with Friends of Music.
— gLENN PATTERSON, AOCA, MEd
Directs the Drumming Group & Drum-Making Workshop
Glen is an artist, drum-maker, singer, storyteller, educator and filmmaker. He believes that the drum as your 'centre', your connection to the earth, can become an empowering tool to self-awareness and realization. Glenn also facilitates cultural ceremonies and a men's warrior program.


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Born: John Dunton, 1659, Graff ham; Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, 1686, Dantzig; Robert Owen, philanthropic social reformer, 1771.
Died: Henry IV of France, assassinated at Paris, 1610; Louis XIII of France, 1643, St. Germain-en-Laye; Due de Maine, 1736; Professor David Runkenius, 1798, Leyden; Henry Grattan, statesman, 1820; Sir William Congreve, Bart., inventor of warlike missiles, 1828, Toulouse.
Feast Day: St. Pontius, martyr, about 258. St. Boniface, martyr, about 307. St. Pachomius, abbot, 348. St. Carthagh, Bishop of Lismore, about 637.
JOHN DUNTON
One of the most curious of autobiographies is the Life and Errors of John Dunton, a very erratic and versatile genius, who, combining the avocations of author and bookseller, wrote upwards of sixty works, and published more than six hundred. Dunton's mind has, not inaptly, been compared to 'a table, where the victuals were illsorted and worse dressed.' He was born at Graffham, in Huntingdonshire, and, at an early age, sent to school, where he passed through the general series of boyish adventures and mishaps - robbing orchards, swallowing bullets, falling into rivers, in short, improving in everything but learning, and not scrupling to tell lies when he could gain any advantage by concealing the truth. His family had been connected with the ministry for three generations; and though he felt prouder of this descent from the house of Levi, than if he had been a duke's son, yet being of too volatile a disposition to follow in the footsteps of his reverend ancestors, he was apprenticed to Thomas Parkhurst, a noted Presbyterian bookseller of the day, at the sign of the Bible and Three Crowns, Cheapside, London. Dunton and his master seem to have agreed very well together; a young lady, however, coming to visit Mr. Parkhurst's family, the apprentice made love to her, and they met occasionally in Grocers' Hall Garden; but the master making a 'timely discovery,' sent Miss Susanna back to her friends in the country.
Another slight difference occurred between master and apprentice. Parkhurst was a strict Presbyterian, and, according to the established custom of the period, Dunton was bound to attend the same place of worship as his master; but the rambling nature of the apprentice led him 'to break the order and harmony of the family,' by attending the ministrations of a Mr. Doolittle, a famous Nonconformist. This course did not escape its merited punishment. One Sunday, as Dunton's eyes were wandering round Mr. Doolittle's congregation, a certain beautiful Sarah Seaton gave him 'a mortal wound.' A courtship soon followed, with much letter-writing, to the loss of his master's time, and, worse still, clandestine visits to a dancing-school. How the affair ended we are not informed; in this instance love seems to have given place to polities; for the great struggle which led to the Revolution was in progress; the whole nation was divided into Whigs and Tories, and, of course, the bold 'prentices of London could not be 'neutral. So Dunton, joining the Whig apprentices, was chosen their treasurer, and one of a deputation that presented a petition bearing 30,000 signatures to the Lord Mayor. His lordship promised that he would acquaint the king with its contents, and then told them to return to their respective homes, and diligently attend to their masters' business.
At the expiration of his term of apprenticeship, Dunton gave his friends a feast to celebrate its 'funeral,' according to the usual custom. 'Such entertainments,' he truly observes, 'are vanity, and expensive;' and undoubtedly he had good reason to say so, for no less than one hundred apprentices were at the feast.
Soon afterwards, commencing trade on his own account, the cares of the world and business set him perfectly at ease from all inclinations to love or courtship. He was a bookseller now, but his great ambition was to be a publisher also. 'Printing,' he says, 'was uppermost in my thoughts, and authors began to ply me with specimens as earnestly, and with as much passion and concern, as the watermen do passengers with oars and sculls.' But Dunton had acquired a knowledge of the venal tribe of Grub-street when serving his time, and knew them to be 'paste and scissors hacks, and most inveterate liars also; for they will pretend to have studied six or seven years in the Bodleian library, and to have turned over all the Fathers, though you shall find that they can scarce tell whether they flourished before the Christian era or afterwards.' So avoiding those hack writers, Dunton's first publishing ventures were three religious works of sound doctrine, which did him good service. Moreover, discovering that politics, though very well for an apprentice, were not so suitable for a master tradesman, he avoided the pillory, in which more than one author and publisher of the time was uncomfortably exhibited; a notable instance being Benjamin Harris, bookseller, of Gracechurchstreet, whose brave wife stood on the scaffold beside him, to protect her husband from the missiles of the brutal mob. And it is pleasing to know that this faithful couple, emigrating to America, prospered in New England; and after the Revolution, returned to their old shop in Gracechurch-street, where they lived honoured and respected.
Dunton, becoming 'a rising tradesman,' now turned his attention to matrimony, cautiously consulting his friends respecting his choice of a partner for life. After careful consideration, three ladies were selected, as the most eligible. First, there was Sarah Day, extremely pretty, well-bred, of considerable fortune, and the best natured creature in the world. But then Sarah Doolittle would make a better wife by ten degrees, for her father was a popular author as well as preacher; one of his works had reached the twentieth edition, and his son-in-law might naturally expect a few copyrights for nothing. There was even a third Sarah, a Miss Briscoe, of Uxbridge, handsome, rich, and religious. During his embarrassment as to which of the three Sarahs he should select, Dunton chanced, in his desultory way, to step into Dr. Annesley's meeting-house one Sunday, where he saw a young lady, who almost charmed him dead, but on inquiry he found that she was pre-engaged. However, his friends advised him 'to make an experiment on her elder sister, they both being the daughters of Dr. Annesley.'
The experiment proving successful, the languishing Philaret, as Dunton styles himself, gives a history of the courtship, a sketch of his own and the lady's personal appearance, a recital of the love letters, an abstract of the wedding sermon preached by the father of the lovely Iris, an account of the wedding dinner, and a description of the wedding ring, the device being two hearts united, with the motto
God save thee
Most fit for me
Dunton now removed to a large house, the sign of the Black Raven, near the Royal Exchange. The lovely Iris, whose real prose name was Elizabeth, becoming his bookseller and cash-keeper, managed all his affairs, leaving him entirely to his own rambling and scribbling humours. These were his 'golden days.' Among other works at this period, he published Maggots; or Poems on several Subjects, written, at the age of nineteen, by Samuel Wesley, his brother-in-law, and father of the celebrated founder of Methodism ( John Wesley).
It is quite probable that his wife's business habits left Dunton too much to his own devices. When the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion was trampled down, Dunton, suddenly remembering that his debtors in New England owed him five hundred pounds, started off across the Atlantic. It is not unlikely that John, like many other citizens of London, was implicated in Monmouth's melancholy affair, and thought it best to get out of the way for a short time.
Dunton gives an amusing and interesting description of New England, as he observed it. In Boston, he saw a woman, who had been condemned to wear for life, on her right arm, the figure of an Indian cut out of red cloth; the mode of punishment so powerfully represented in Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter. The books he took over sold well, though the people of Boston were, even at that early period, 'smart' customers and slow paymasters. After a pleasant sojourn of some months, he returned to London, and found that his wife had admirably managed business during his absence.
His next excursion was to Holland; and then, seeing a prospect of better times, he returned to England, removed to a new shop in the Poultry, and opened it on the same day the Prince of Orange entered London. The better times had arrived; Dunton set himself steadily to business, and soon became a leading and prosperous publisher. He says The world now smiled with me; I sailed with the wind and tide, and had humble servants enough among the booksellers, stationers, printers, and binders; but especially my own relations on every side were all upon the very height of love and tenderness.' His most fortunate speculation as a publisher, and of which he seems to have been proudest, was the Athenian Mercury, a weekly periodical. This work professed to answer all inquiries on matters of history, divinity, philosophy, love, or marriage. It had a great success, many men of mark were contributors, and it flourished for six years; till the great increase of similar publications of a lighter character caused Dunton to give it up. The complete series forms twenty folio volumes, and there have at various times been several selections of questions and answers reprinted from it. Dunton says, 'Mr. Swift, a country gentleman, sent an ode, which, being an ingenious poem, was prefixed to the fifth supplement of the Athenian Mercury.' This country gentleman was subsequently the witty Dean of t Patrick's; and the ode has since been incorporated in his collected works. There is an anecdote respecting this poem worth noticing. On reading it Dryden said to Swift, 'Cousin, you will never be a poet;' and this denunciation is supposed to have been the cause of Swift's perpetual hostility to Dryden.
Prosperity still attended Dunton. Succeeding to some property by the death of a relative, he took up the livery of the Stationers' Company, and with the master, wardens, and a select few of the liverymen, dined with the Lord Mayor. The dinner was sumptuous, and his lordship presented each one of the guests with 'a noble spoon' to take home to his wife.
Evil days, however, were at hand. The lovely Iris sickened and breathed her last. John provided mourning for twenty of her relations, buried her handsomely in Bunhill Fields, and procured Mr. Rogers, a learned divine, to preach her funeral sermon in her late father's meeting-house. Dunton published this sermon, and also erected a gravestone to her memory, with a long inscription in verse of his own composition.
The extravagance of Dunton's grief for the loss of his wife clearly indicated that it would not last long. In about six months, he was married again to Sarah, daughter of Madame Jane Nicholas, of St. Albans. Of this lady, whom he terms Valerie, he says, 'She seemed to be his first wife in a new edition, corrected and enlarged, or rather, in a new binding,' for he had only changed the person, not the virtues.' The marriage did not tend either to his comfort or happiness. His mother-in-law possessed some property, which Dunton wished her to sell, and invest the proceeds in his business, a course she very wisely refused to adopt. The disputes on this subject led to a separation; and there being no one to look after business, the Black Raven was closed, Dunton setting off to Dublin with a venture of books. There he became involved in a ridiculous dispute with a rival bookseller, of which he published an account in a pamphlet termed The Dublin Scuffle. His wayward and unsettled disposition was now fast leading to its inevitable result. In 1705 we find him in terror of a gaol, hiding from his creditors, while writing his Life and Errors. As a bookseller he is no more known, though he long existed as a political pamphleteer, having written no less than forty tracts in favour of the Hanoverian succession. Swift says that one of Dunton's pamphlets, entitled Neck or Nothing, was one of the best ever published. In 1723, he petitioned George I for a pension, comparing his unrequited services to those of Mordecai, but his application was unsuccessful. Surviving his second wife, he died in 1735, at the age of seventy-six; and the last literary notice of him is in The Dunciad, where he is not unjustly termed a broken bookseller and abusive scribbler.
VACCINATION, AND ITS OPPONENTS
On the 14th of May 1796, the immortal Edward Jenner conclusively established the important principles of vaccination; proving that it was possible to propagate the vaccine affection by artificial inoculation from one human being to another, and thereby at will communicate security to all who were liable to small-pox. In a letter to his friend Gardner, the great discoverer thus modestly expresses himself on this memorable experiment: 'A boy of the name of Phipps was inoculated in the arm, from a pustule on the hand of a young woman, who was infected by her master's cows. Having never seen the disease but in its casual way before, that is, when communicated from the cow to the hand of the milker, I was astonished at the close resemblance of the pustules, in some of their stages, to the variolous pustules. But now listen to the most delightful part of my story. The boy has since been inoculated for the small-pox, which, as I ventured to predict, produced no effect.'
Never was there a discovery so beneficial to the human race, and never did a discovery meet with so violent, so virulent an opposition. The lowest scribblers, excited by political animosity or personal rivalry, never vented such coarse, illiberal absurdities, as the learned physicians who opposed vaccination. Charges of murder and falsehood were freely made by them; nor was the war waged in the medical schools alone; it polluted the sanctity of the pulpit, and malignantly invaded the social harmonies of private life. Dr. Mosely, one of the first of the antivaccinists, sagely asks:
Can any person say what may be the consequences of introducing a bestial humour into the human frame, after a long lapse of years? Who knows, besides, what ideas may rise in course of time from a brutal fever having excited its incongruous impressions on the brain? Who knows but that the human character may undergo strange mutations from quadrupedan sympathy?
After vaccination had been for some time doing its benign work, a Dr. Rowley adduced no less than five hundred cases 'of beastly new diseases' produced by vaccination, in a pamphlet adorned by two coloured engravings, representing the ox-faced boy and the cow-manged girl. Nor does he confine himself to the medical part of the subject; he asserts that small-pox is a visitation of God, while cow-pox is produced by impious and wicked men. The former being ordained by Heaven, the latter became neither more nor less than a daring impiety- 'an attempt to wrest out of the hands of the Almighty the divine dispensations of Providence.'
Mosely described a boy whose face and part of his body, after vaccination, became covered with cow's hair; and a Dr. Smyth says:
'Among the numerous shocking cases of cow-pox which I have heard of, I know not if the most horrible of all has yet been published, viz., of a child at Peckham, who, after being inoculated with the cow-pox, had his former natural disposition absolutely changed to the brutal; so that it ran upon all fours, bellowing like a cow, and butting with its head like a bull.'
Well, indeed, might a satirical poet of the day thus sing:
0 Mosely! thy books mighty phantasies rousing,
Full oft make me quake for my heart's dearest treasures:
For fancy, in dreams, oft presents them all brow-sing
On commons, just like little Nebuchadnezzars.
There, nibbling at thistles, stand Jem, Joe, and Mary;
On their foreheads, oh, horrible crumpled horns bud:
Here Tom with a tail, and poor William all hairy,
Reclined in a corner, are chewing the cud.
The wildest opponent of vaccination was a certain Ferdinand Smyth Stuart, who described himself as 'physician, barrack-master, and great-grandson to Charles the Second.' The frontispiece to Smyth's work represents Dr. Jenner, with a tail and hoofs, feeding a hideous monster with infants, out of baskets. Of course this monster is the pictorial representative of vaccination, and is thus described:
A mighty and horrible monster, with the horns of a bull, the hind hoofs of a horse, the jaws of the kraken, the teeth and claws of a tiger, the tail of a cow, -all the evils of Pandora's box in his belly,--plague, pestilence, leprosy, purple blotches, fetid ulcers, and filthy sores, covering his body, -and an atmosphere of accumulated disease, pain, and death around him, has made his appearance in the world, and devours mankind, -especially poor, helpless infants; not by scores only, or hundreds, or thousands, but by hundreds of thousands.
The spirit and wisdom of this member of a royal house will be sufficiently exemplified by one more quotation: Rising with his subject, he exclaims:
The omnipotent God of nature, the inconceivable Creator of all existence, has permitted Evil, Buonaparte, and Vaccination to exist, to prosper, and even to triumph for a short space of time, perhaps as the scourge and punishment of mankind for their sins, and for reasons no doubt the best, far beyond the powers of our circumscribed and limited portion of penetration and knowledge to discover. But are we to worship, to applaud, or even to submit to Evil, to Buonaparte, or to Vaccination, because they have for some time been prosperous? No! Never let us degrade our honour, our virtue, or our conscience by such servility; let us contend against them with all our exertions and might, not doubting we shall ultimately triumph in a cause supported by truth, humanity, and virtue, and which there-fore we well know Heaven itself will approve.


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An incorrect AVPictureType is returned during demux for two slice per H264 encoded streams. When calling av_read_frame to demux a packet from a Mpeg-2 H264 stream, the returned avpacket AVPictureType is AV_PICTURE_TYPE_NONE in the case where it should be AV_PICTURE_TYPE_I.
This only happens when the H264 frames has two slices per frame as shown in attached image.
Demux an H264 I frame when the H264 is two slices per frame.
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MultiSliceVideoSample.ts (1.3 MB) - added by Gibraltar 6 years ago.
ffprobeout.bmp (1.5 MB) - added by Gibraltar 6 years ago.
ffprobe errors related to iframe and missing pps/sps info.
Please test current git head, please provide a sample and please explain how to reproduce.
Sample added, issue appears with Git, trying to use ffmpeg.exe to reproduce.
Using ffprobe.exe on the sample shows non-existing PPS 0 referenced even though the PPS packet with id 0 exists. Please see ffprobe screenshot.
Please test current git head and please do not post screenshots, instead simply copy the console content (command line and output) into the ticket.
If the problem is reproducible with ffmpeg (the application), please provide ffmpeg command line and console output, only post ffprobe output for ffprobe-specific problems.
I am not sure I understand the overall issue: You originally reported (if I understood correctly) that ffmpeg does not recognize the frame type correctly, now you write about warnings in the console output: These warnings are normal for transport streams, you generally cannot cut such streams on (I-) frame boundaries, the warnings are produced by frames before the first keyframe.
Are you maybe searching for the showinfo filter?