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How to Accelerate the Circular Economy
Samuli Patala
It sounds simple — one business's waste becomes another's input. But the reality is challenging. Three case studies provide best practices.
Samuli Patala is Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at Aalto University, Finland.
The circular economy (CE) is increasingly hailed as the cornerstone of a sustainable future. With this approach, one business's waste becomes another's feedstock or input. CE business models include:
Manufacturers using recycled materials to make products (e.g. Interface Carpets)
Reverse supply chains, where used products are collected and remanufactured (e.g Xerox printers)
Sharing models where assets are shared among users (e.g. Airbnb).
This new economic paradigm is strongly promoted by policymakers around the world, especially in the EU and China.
The circular economy sounds simple. In contrast to a linear economic model where products are discarded after use, a circular model aims to reuse and recycle materials. But in practice, transitioning to circular economy brings many challenges.
My colleagues Minna Halme, Laura Albareda, and I studied three CE systems in Finland, Spain and the USA, developing in depth case studies. These systems covered various geographical scales (local, regional and national) and included diverse participating organizations: large industrial firms, SMEs, and startups, as well as public sector organization and NGOs.
We found challenges around information sharing, scaling, and managing participant diversity. The circular economy requires businesses to think and act as part of a system, not just as individual companies — and this can be a new approach. But we also found innovative solutions that offer models for other CE efforts.
Here are our lessons for managers involved with circular economy activities.
Three Circular Economy Challenges
We found those involved in the circular economy faced challenges in three areas:
Lack of information. Generally, the circular economy involves an exchange: someone producing waste, and someone using it. Both parties need to be aware of the potential opportunity for material exchange. Often the opportunities for exchange are greatest across industries: for instance, bioenergy often uses organic feedstocks such as food waste. But communication across industries can be difficult; companies are often focused on their own industry and don't see outside opportunities.
Lack of scale. Small, distributed material streams are often not useful to businesses. Achieving sufficient scale of materials for circular business may require some type of intermediaries. These may be firms that collect and reprocess specific waste materials; they can aggregate small material streams in order to achieve a viable business.
Involvement of many actors. Undertaking a circular economy project will likely require networking. Supply chain partners may help with material footprint information, public sector organizations may organize regional CE initiatives, and NGOs can offer expertise on sustainable resource use. Making these connections requires effort.
Addressing Challenges: Solutions from Our Case Studies
Effectively managing the circular economy requires thinking at a systems level, so that the activities of different participants can become more interconnected. Those involved in a circular economy system need to collectively develop ways to facilitate exchange. We found three ways in which people working with the circular economy achieved this connection:
Adjust operations to consider other participants
Organizations involved need to alter their operations to work with others in the circular economy system. Adjustment might involve taking on new roles. For instance, in the Basque circular economy initiative, a non-profit focusing on textile and appliance waste recovery, shifted towards a more market-oriented role in order to develop new remanufactured products together with firms.
Adjustment also often involves becoming more open to sharing information on resources: e.g., material compositions and volumes. We saw this dynamic in all three of our cases. Participants shared information in resource workshops and material databases. On-going collaboration between participants can even lead to new marketplaces for unused resources. Intermediary organizations can also aid in organizing information sharing while retaining some degree of confidentiality.
Build formal coordination processes across organizations
Reaching shared goals requires new processes. Examples include participatory decision-making bodies and joint spaces for experimentation around CE opportunities. For instance, the Devens eco-industrial park in the USA has a "Great Exchange program" with workshops for sharing material information and visioning new CE opportunities: "Basically, we ask the companies to come to a meeting, bring samples of orphan byproducts or materials they've got, and start to find new trading partners," explained a coordinator.
Joint coordination is also typically required for systematically collecting expert knowledge on CE practices. For instance, the Finnish Industrial Symbiosis Programme formed an expert network to bring in technical knowledge to facilitate CE projects.
Our research demonstrates the strength of tailored local coordination for the circular economy. While some management tools, such as information sharing mechanisms, also scale across larger geographical distances, we found that many of the examples for deep CE collaboration happened in local initiatives. Longer transport distances in material reuse may also reduce the sustainability benefits.
Be open to novel ways of partnering
As companies begin to think in systems terms, new shared arrangements can develop between participants. These can include new platforms for sharing resources and information. In eco-industrial parks, organizations co-locate so that they can reprocess waste streams together, while the public sector provides the necessary infrastructure. For instance, several firms and the municipality have collaborated to develop the Envi Grow Park in Finland; businesses process municipal waste, organic waste, and various streams of glass, metals, cardboard, electronics, and construction material. Such arrangements pool resources to provide collective benefits.
Ultimately, businesses may need to rethink competitive advantage. System-level collaboration is necessary for the circular economy. It is crucial to improve the collective capabilities of the entire resource system. This requires diverse and deep collaboration among participants, and may involve the sharing of resources, infrastructure or equipment that has traditionally been kept in-house.
Future Accelerators of the Circular Economy
In the future, we see system-level CE management becoming more common with the advent of new technologies such as intelligent goods (the Internet of Things), distributed ledgers (blockchain) and 3D printing. These can improve the potential for system-wide coordination as well as decentralized production from recycled materials.
This research has been awarded by Academy of Management All-Academy Best International Paper award and the ONE Unorthodox Paper award.
Samuli Patala is Assistant Professor of Organization and Management in the Department of Management at Aalto University, Finland. His aim is to produce knowledge of how organizations can operate more sustainably. His expertise includes inter-organizational collaboration, circular economy governance, institutional change processes during sustainability transitions as well as sustainable business models. He has a particular interest in the transitions towards circular economy and renewable energy production. His research has appeared in some of the leading journals in the field and has been recognized with several awards, and he has been involved in multiple large-scale research projects involving collaboration between academic research and industrial partners. He previously worked as a visiting scholar at Harvard University's Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs.
Minna Halme is Professor of Sustainability Management at Aalto University School of Business and Director of Aalto Sustainability Hub. Her research focuses on sustainability innovations, co-creation of sustainable business models and societal impacts of CSR. She has participated in several European research projects and heads a number of national ones. She teaches Sustainability Management at Aalto's Master programmes, in executive MBA courses in Finland and South Korea and in the CEMS MIM program. Academy of Management has acknowledged her papers with All-Academy Best International Paper award, the ONE Unorthodox Paper award and three Best Paper awards. Her work has also been featured by the The Ecologist and The Newsweek.
Laura Albareda is Associate Professor of Sustainable Business at the School of Business and Management, LUT University in Finland. Her works aims to expand the analysis of collective action and polycentric governance in business field, working in collaboration with business, public agencies and NGOs in Spain and Finland. She also works on sustainability-oriented innovation, polycentric value creation and new forms of organizing research. Her research has been published in leading journals such as Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, Business & Society or Technological Forecasting and Social Change. She has been visiting scholar at Amsterdam Business Schools, Ivey Business School, Boston University School of Business and Warwick University.
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AC/DC's Brian Johnson and Eagles Joe Walsh Jam To New Song
June 26, 2019 | by Mike
Looks like Brian Johnson is keeping busy! According to a story from Loudwire, AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson and Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh recently got together for Brian Johnson's show "Life On The Road" and jammed to a newly written song by Johnson.
In the video Johnson says he has figured Joe would bring his guitar so he wrote a song. Johnson is heard saying the song is based on "the bad old days on the road" and it's called "Chase The Tail". Two rock legends jamming in the back of a limo. Pretty damn cool man. Check out the video and a picture of the two that were recently posted to Joe Walsh's Instagram page.
In Episode 5 Season 2 of Brian Johnson's A Life On The Road @BrianJohnson meets @JoeWalsh in the back of a limo.
Joe brings his guitar along so Brian writes a song. 🙌🏻
A bit of tweaking and this could be a potential @acdc song. pic.twitter.com/GFOksvlkg7
— Darran (@Darpross) May 7, 2019
Great day making music with my old pal Brian today in london. We nailed it! Love ya man!
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Majlis Keselamatan Negara Movement Control Order General SOP | Updated as of 4 February 2021
Majlis Keselamatan Negara Movement Control Order General Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) implemented throughout Peninsular Malaysia, Federal Territory of Labuan, Sabah and Sibu, Kapit & Song, Sarawak (Please refer to the respective updated MCO SOPs for Sabah and Sibu, Kapit & Song, Sarawak) from 5 February until 18 February 2021 (except for Sibu, Sarawak: from 30 January until 14 February 2021 and Kapit & Song, Sarawak: from 2 February until 15 February 2021).
The infographic highlights the updated "SOP Am Perintah Kawalan Pergerakan Majlis Keselamatan Negara (Dikemaskini: 4 Februari 2021)" issued by the National Security Council on 4 February 2021.
Implementation period of MCO extended until 18 February 2021.
Inclusion of Kapit and Song areas, Sarawak.
Night markets, barber shops/hairdressing salons and car wash facilities are allowed to operate with adherence to strict SOPs.
Barber shops/hairdressing salons and car wash facilities are allowed to operate from 6AM until 10PM.
Night markets are allowed to operate from 4PM until 10PM.
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HMS Petard was a P-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service during the Second World War. She was one of only three P-class ships, out of the original eight, to survive the war in a serviceable condition.

Originally to have been named HMS Persistent, Petard was launched in March 1941. She initially carried the pennant number G56, which was changed after the war to F56.

Petard had the distinction of sinking a submarine from each of the three Axis navies: the German , the Italian  and the Japanese .

Members of the ship's crew recovered from U-559 a new, four-wheel Enigma cypher machine and the books to go with it, albeit at the cost of the lives of her First Lieutenant and an Able Seaman, both of whom were drowned when the U-boat they were searching sank with them inside.

The early years
Petard was launched on 27 March 1941 at Walker's shipyard in Newcastle, on the River Tyne. Accommodation was basic, the officers had a cabin each in the aft of the ship, which doubled as office space. The ratings were housed in messes forward and slept in hammocks. As a result of these locations, confusion could arise when 'action stations' were sounded which might involve the officers making their way forward towards the bridge while gun-crews attempted to move aft to the stern armament.

She was fitted out and handed over to "a mainly untried crew" on 15 July 1942. Although the ship was fitted with radar, it was relatively primitive, so the need for a good visual watch was regarded as crucial. Her first captain was Lieutenant Commander Stephen Beattie who would go on to win the Victoria Cross in the St Nazaire raid. He was replaced by Lt Cmdr Mark Thornton DSC on 28 April, (he had come from the destroyer ; his DSC was for sinking a German U-boat). He worked the ship's company hard in training.

Convoy WS 21
Petard began operations in late July as part of the naval escort of a Middle East-bound convoy, WS 21, (via the Cape of Good Hope). It was an inauspicious baptism; two Sunderland flying boats were shot down by the convoy's gunners and , another escort, collided with a ship from an inbound convoy, MG 86, in fog.

The convoy steamed south, into improving weather. Thornton seemed to live up to his reputation for eccentricity, standing for long periods on the upper yard, tied to the mast, ensuring the crews' state of alert was maintained by pelting those below him that he thought needed stimulation with objects brought from his pockets. Some officers took to wearing their steel helmets.

Stopping off for fuel in Simon's Town, South Africa, Petards crew were granted some free time. This proved to be too much for three gun-layers, who missed the ship's sailing. Training continued, at one point soap was spread on the upper deck to make keeping one's footing difficult, thunderflashes were also used and the ship given an artificial list, to simulate realistic battle conditions. During this period, Petard suffered her first fatality when the wardroom chef collapsed and died. He was buried at sea.

The rest of the voyage, via the eastern passage off Madagascar and through the Red Sea, culminated with the negotiation of the Suez Canal and passed without incident.

The Mediterranean, part one
Having seen the convoy deliver its cargo, Petard  joined the 12th Destroyer Flotilla in Port Said on 22 September. Two days later she used her guns in anger for the first time against three Ju 88 aircraft. The result was inconclusive.

Back in her mooring, the ship's first lieutenant had the opportunity to 'paint ship'; it was carried out under the watchful eye of the buffer (chief bosun's mate). Off-duty time was precious and sometimes amusing for the ship's crew. At one shore-side establishment, four of Petards officers had just entered as an improvised 'rodeo' of gharry horses (normally employed pulling a cab), was coming to an end. They were then involved with a fish-pond, a Lebanese singer and a move to an out-of-bounds area which saw the Royal Marines Patrol concerned with their welfare.

For the next few days, Petard and the  (Queen Olga) took part in anti-submarine patrols and exercised with Allied submarines, improving the two ships' underwater hunting skills. On 12 October Petard and  moved to Haifa to escort the cruiser  to Alexandria. The voyage included drills and tactics for the protection of convoys. Also in attendance were the cruisers ,  and  and their attendant fleet destroyers.

On 24 October she took part in the abortive interception of a German force said to be heading for Cyprus.

The U-559 action

On 30 October 1942, a Sunderland flying boat reported the sighting of a submarine north of the Nile delta area. Petard, with , ,  and , was involved in the sinking of . After many hours of searching and attacks with depth charges, the U-boat was forced to the surface. Both Petard and Hurworth engaged the U-boat with their "pom-poms" and Oerlikons after the main armament (4-inch guns) was found to be ineffective. With illumination from the searchlights of both Petard and Hurworth, the First Lieutenant, Anthony Fasson and Able Seaman Colin Grazier swam across to the U-boat, went below and proceeded to gather a new, four-rotor Enigma machine, code-books and other important documents together for transfer to the Petard. They were helped by a 16-year-old NAAFI canteen assistant, Tommy Brown, who was originally thought to have swum across to the sinking submarine as well; but when asked at the subsequent inquiry how he had boarded the U-Boat, he testified that he "got on board just forward of the whaler on the port side when the deck was level with the conning tower". That whaler, under the command of Sub-Lieutenant Connell, went alongside the U-boat in the darkness.

When Brown was asked what conditions were like below, he replied:

The Enigma machine itself sank with the U-boat. Petard left the area for Haifa, signalling that documents had been captured. The codebooks they retrieved were immensely valuable to the Ultra code-breakers at Bletchley Park in England; just six weeks after the action, many U-boat signals were being read. An Admiralty report on the sinking stated "The battle was largely won by persistence". The German engineer officer said that prior to abandoning ship he had opened the sea-cocks on the U-boat. Thornton, honouring a promise he had made to the shipyard, sent them a German U-boat seaman's lifejacket as a trophy.

Later awarded the George Medal for the U-boat action, Brown died in 1945 attempting to rescue his infant sister from a fire in the family home in North Shields. Fasson and Grazier were awarded a posthumous George Cross each.

The 2000 film U-571 drew on this and similar actions () by the Royal Navy for its plot.

The Mediterranean, part two

Convoy escort
Petard, with sister ship , was ordered on 9 November to enter Alexandria harbour and trained her torpedo tubes on ships of the Vichy French fleet while political negotiations were conducted for their transfer to Allied command. Almost immediately after the successful conclusion to this situation she sailed, with Queen Olga, as escort to two supply ships. The convoy was preceded by three minesweepers; their destination was Mersa Matruh, which had supposedly been re-captured from Axis forces. As dawn broke on 12 November, a Ju 88 was sighted, apparently on a reconnaissance mission. There was some doubt about the situation in Mersa Matruh; as a signal to that effect was being received, RDF (radar) reported a number of aircraft closing the convoy. Ten Ju 88s began their bomb run. Petard was the only ship in the convoy with armament that could put up a creditable defence (although Queen Olga had larger calibre guns than Petard, they could not be elevated sufficiently for anti-aircraft use). After an initial flurry of bombs, which scored no hits, the German aircraft broke off to attack individually, at which point they were close enough for every gun in the convoy to engage them. The naval action was curtailed when four Spitfires attacked the bombers; the convoy had suffered only minor damage but was nonetheless ordered to return to Port Said, which, for the merchantmen only, was amended to Alexandria.

Convoy MW 13 and Operation Stoneage
Operation Stoneage was part of the effort to re-supply Malta. Four merchantmen were to be escorted, initially by a total of nine warships, including Petard. The escort was reinforced with the addition of three cruisers and 14 more destroyers which set course for Malta on 17 November. Only one incident of note involved Petard at this time. An alert look-out sighted a dinghy which contained five RAF men who had been shot down the previous day. The navigator surprised his rescuers after being picked up by running up to the bridge chart house to confirm his estimate of their position, thus winning a bet with his fellow survivors.

The first air raid, carried out by the Italian Regia Aeronautica (air force), commenced from high altitude in mid-afternoon. No serious damage was inflicted. It was followed by small groups of Italian and German aircraft, which did not press their attack home with any real conviction. It was only as dusk fell that the convoy faced a more determined onslaught, when six Ju 88s loaded with torpedoes, approached the convoy from different directions. Those ships with sufficient 'sea-room' took evasive action. Some ships in the outer escort screen suffered damage from falling shell splinters from the close escort, a constant hazard.

The following morning more attacks were carried out by the Axis, but accurate bombing was discouraged by advantageous cloud cover, the escorts' barrage and the presence of Bristol Beaufighters over the convoy. One attack, less desultory than most, was launched by six Ju 88s on the starboard screen, Petard was the last ship in the line. Only a few near misses and violent manoeuvres by the escorts were the result.

In the evening of 18 November, a force of 26 Ju 88 torpedo bombers in three groups attacked the convoy's ships, silhouetted against the light from a pattern of air-dropped flares. The escorts' guns were firing in all directions, trying to distract the German aircraft. In the confusion the cruiser Arethusa was hit by a torpedo.

Towing Arethusa
Petard and fellow destroyer  were detached to offer assistance. Thornton, as senior officer, almost immediately sent Javelin back to the convoy, reasoning that Malta's survival had priority over Arethusas and that the convoy needed every ship. Petard then carried out ASDIC (later called active sonar) sweeps to discourage any submarine activity, and prepared to take the crippled ship in tow.

With everything ready, the tow began, rising to a speed of 10 knots in the first hour. Arethusa had adopted a 15-degree list which was reduced to five degrees over six hours by jettisoning upper-deck fittings and transferring liquids; this also improved the cruiser's steering. Exchanges of signals to increase speed (to get inside air cover before dawn), were interrupted when the tow-line parted. It was reinstated, and the tow resumed at five knots. At dawn on 19 November the two ships were being shadowed by a German reconnaissance plane, which was chased away by a pair of Beaufighters, but reported the tow's position. Two high-level attacks were then mounted, but driven off by a combination of the ships' guns and the escorting Beaufighters.

The worsening weather was causing serious strain on the cruiser's hull and it was decided to continue the tow with Arethusa stern-first. The tow was slipped and re-connected with some difficulty; by this time Thornton had been on the bridge for three days. The bridge staff were also exhausted; off-duty seamen were pressed into moving the heavy towing hawsers into position. Once everything was in place, the tow towards Alexandria continued at three knots.

One determined attack came in the afternoon from four Ju 88s. Petard was straddled, the closest bomb landing just  from the ship. But once again there were no hits. This turned out to be the last offensive action.

On the cruiser, casualty signals were sent; Arethusa had suffered 157 dead, and the captain was amongst the wounded. On Petard men got a little rest, sleeping where they could. News came through that Convoy MW 13 had reached Malta successfully, the first for nearly two years. By noon on 19 November the storm looked like it would blow itself out. Two tugs, despatched from Alexandria, took over the tow into the harbour which was completed on 20 November.

More convoy escort work
On 23 November Petard led Paladin with the two merchantmen originally destined for Mersa Matruh and an armed merchant cruiser loaded with reinforcements to Tobruk. Entry to the shattered port was made difficult by sunken ships and other underwater obstacles. Thornton went ashore for a guided tour by the garrison commander. On their return to Port Said, the two "P"s were separated; Paladin entered the harbour while Petard shepherded a motley collection of vessels along the coast to Alexandria. Petard was ordered to return her charges to Port Said due to recent German mine-laying; a minesweeper was lost.

Another Malta convoy under the code-name Operation Portcullis, MW 14, commenced just fifteen days after its predecessor. Four merchant ships, including a tanker, were to be escorted to the embattled island by warships similar in numbers and strength to MW 13. On the second day out, a remarkable coincidence occurred when the crew of a Wellington bomber were picked up by Petard in the same area as the first recovery. They, too, had spent about 24 hours adrift after being shot down.

The empty ships, as ME 11, returned to Port Said. It was during this journey that Petard shot down her first enemy aircraft, on 7 December 1942.

Petard and Queen Olga went to the assistance of a small convoy which was under constant air attack. The destroyers had been diverted from a run to Malta with a cargo of important spare parts. Reaching Tobruk, they spent a relatively peaceful night in the wreck-strewn anchorage, before going on to Benghazi on 13 December. Here it was a different story; a heavy raid was under way as the two ships entered the harbour. A tanker was hit and soon burning, but the inferno did not deter a party of RASC soldiers who unloaded their stores with studied nonchalance.

The Uarsciek action
While on her way to Malta with Queen Olga from Benghazi on 15 December 1942, Petard (still under the command of Lt Cmdr Thornton), engaged and sank the Italian  Uarsciek. At first it was thought that Uarsciek might be the British submarine P-35, but in the darkness the Italian vessel fired two torpedoes which Petard successfully 'combed' by turning between the torpedo tracks. She then replied with two depth charge patterns followed by one from Queen Olga which forced the damaged submarine to the surface  from Petard. She was illuminated by both ship's searchlights. Men seen on the casing were then engaged by Petards guns. There are some discrepancies in the recollections of crew members about the gun action, but what is known is that Petard "half-rammed" the submarine which sank some time later. The two destroyers were rapturously received on their arrival in Malta. Petard subsequently spent time in dry dock in Alexandria for repairs to her bows following the collision.

Two DSOs, one DSC, two DSMs and several Mention in Despatches (MiD) were awarded for the action. King George II of Greece, as well as decorating his own men, also awarded the War Cross, Third Class, to Thornton.

The Mediterranean, part three

New captain
Thornton's last operation with the ship was commanding the escort of a slow convoy to Alexandria, leaving Haifa on 31 December 1942. Petard went into dry dock once more when it was discovered that the previous visit was unsatisfactory. Thornton left the ship without ceremony on 9 January 1943 at his own request. The strain of command had taken its toll. One of his last actions was to send the ceremonial colours from Uarsiek to Walkers Yard in Newcastle. It was to be the last such gift.

His replacement was Lieutenant Commander Rupert Egan RN, who joined from his previous command, the destroyer .

1943
As a result of successful trials following the repairs, Petard, with Pakenham and Queen Olga were ordered south, through the Suez Canal and into the Red Sea. They were to rendezvous off Perim island with convoy 'Phomplett'. This group of large, but empty, ships was bound for Colombo, Ceylon. With other Mediterranean-based vessels, the three ships escorted the 'troopers' to a mid-ocean meeting point where craft from the Eastern fleet took over on 8 February. The 12th flotilla ships then turned about. On the return journey they passed the crippled cruiser Arethusa which was making her way to the US for permanent repairs.

In support of 8th Army's advance westward, Petard became part of the escort for a 24-ship convoy to Tripoli; departing Alexandria on 17 February. Arriving without incident on the 21st, the harbour entrance was found to be still partially blocked, compelling the ships to discharge their human cargoes into lighters and landing craft. That evening, Petard sailed to Tobruk with a troop carrier, and for six days ran a shuttle service to the new front, west of Tripoli.

Food captured from the Italians was issued to the ships, but in many instances the labels had come off the tins; discovering the identity of the contents became a bit hit and miss. Fruit was at a premium, so when some of the crew came across a party of soldiers who had a cache of peaches but no cigarettes, it did not take long for a deal to be struck.

Club runs
The 12th Destroyer Flotilla was to be based in Malta, a reflection of the war situation. Petard, along with many other ships, was to participate in Operation Retribution, the Allied effort to prevent German and Italian forces from reinforcing their garrisons in Tunisia. Naval forces were to also prevent evacuation or escape. One of the first Retribution offensive sweeps was carried out by Pakenham, Queen Olga and Petard on 16 March. These sweeps became known rather euphemistically as "The Club Runs".

Petard and her consorts were still involved in convoy escort work. On one occasion, their convoy was attacked by six Ju 87 (Stuka) dive bombers escorted by Bf 109 fighters. As the Stukas came out of the sun in a near vertical dive, the four-inch high-angle guns put out a barrage, firing up to 22 rounds a minute. Egan established his style of ship-handling, lying back in his bridge chair and wearing smoked glasses (against the sun's rays), while calling out helm and speed alterations. Three dive bombers were shot down; one, which narrowly missed Queen Olga, by the accompanying Beaufighters. Ex-Leading Seaman Douglas Vowles cited Egan's commitment and skill as "saving my life and that of my shipmates many times over".

Petard, accompanied by Paladin, took part in a high-speed dash to bombard the port of Sousse in Tunisia in early April 1943. Using charts captured from Uarsciek, the two ships negotiated minefields and avoided German U-boats before reaching their objective. As they withdrew, they were intercepted by several E-boats. Both destroyers were raked by German machine gun fire, but there were no casualties, and only minor damage was sustained.

Petard was not so lucky on 24 April when she was strafed by an unknown plane or planes (sources vary). Four men were killed and buried at sea, a fifth died later in Malta; ten were wounded.

As the North Africa campaign neared its conclusion, Petard, with Paladin and the destroyer  attacked and sank the Italian merchantman Compobasso and the destroyer  off Cape Bon, the latter ship exploding within sight of the last Axis stronghold on 4 May. A hospital ship was intercepted and taken to the area of the sinkings to pick up survivors.

A bizarre situation was encountered when Petard came upon a launch towing a dinghy  from Kelibia on 9 May. The two vessels contained 14 men – two RAF aircrew, 10 Germans and two Italians. The RAF men had been shot down, and the Germans and Italians were trying to escape to Sicily. The Germans had ordered the airmen into the launch and were trying to force the Italians into the dinghy. Inexplicably, the Italians were still armed when Petard was sighted. On her arrival off Sousse, the airmen and the prisoners were transferred to another ship.

As a recognition aid in the waters between Tunisia and Sicily, it was decided that all Allied vessels were to have their bridge structures painted red. By dawn on 11 May, ships were only covered slightly better than their crews.

The Sicilian campaign
The Allies then turned their attention to Sicily; Petard was involved from the outset. On the same day of the Axis surrender in North Africa (12 May), she joined Nubian and the destroyer  as escorts to the cruiser Orion within sight of  coastal guns on Pantellaria island; they fired two salvos which straddled Petard. A third salvo landed close enough to cause sufficient damage to ensure that the pumps had to be used all the way back to Malta.

On 16 May Petard picked up four Germans who had been floating on a raft made out of buoyancy containers. They were in such a deathlike state that sea-birds had begun to peck at them. The following day a German hospital ship was intercepted. The search party sent to investigate discovered unwounded men in civilian clothes. The vessel was therefore sent to Malta for the interrogation of its passengers; while underway, a company of infantrymen and a number of support troops emerged from their hiding places. Automatic weapons, ammunition and explosives were subsequently found.

During a patrol between Cape Bon and Mattimo, Petard and Paladin came across a Walrus amphibious aircraft that had been forced down by engine trouble. Petard towed the disabled flying boat to the former French base at Bizerta on 10 June.

Hopes of home leave were raised and dashed when Petard passed Gibraltar and sailed out into the Atlantic only to join up with the incoming Sicily invasion force. She was patrolling on 10 July, the first day of the landings, but returned to Malta to embark Allied Supreme Commander General Dwight Eisenhower and his staff on 14 July and take them to the British beaches at Pachino and the Gulf of Noto. Having attended two conferences, Eisenhower re-embarked and was soon on his way back to Malta.

While shelling a road near Catania with three other ships next day, Petard was hit by a round fired from a tank; the shell passed through the ship but caused little damage. She took part in other bombardments; on one she narrowly avoided an aerial torpedo, but was damaged on 30 July when going alongside the battleship  at speed. She returned to Malta for repairs.

Italy
By the middle of August the occupation of Sicily was complete; General Bernard Montgomery's 8th Army could concentrate on the Italian mainland. Over the next month Petard was employed mostly on escort work, including being part of the screening force of 23 destroyers for the aircraft carriers  and  and the battleships , , Warspite and .

By 15 September the beaches at Salerno were in crisis. The American Admiral in command of the invasion armada called for extra naval gun-fire support. Warspite and Valiant responded. Petard landed Warspites Forward Observation Officer, (FOO), using her cutter, then stayed close in-shore to use her own guns. The situation was eased.

That evening, while defending against a German bombing and torpedo attack, Petard came off worse in another encounter with Warspite. A six-inch shell, thought to have come from the battleship, exploded in the forward seaman's mess deck; two men were killed, six others were wounded.

In early October Petard was based in Brindisi, from where she crossed the Adriatic, searching coves and inlets between Iasun island and Dubrovnik for German shipping. It was after leaving the area for Malta and refuelling before moving to the Dodecanese islands, that the crew learned of the loss of the Queen Olga.

The Aegean
Petards Aegean campaign, in what became known as the "Destroyers' graveyard", began on 7 October 1943, the day that the island of Cos or Kos, fell to the Germans. She, with  was escorting the anti-aircraft cruiser  and searching at night, with two s, for a German force reportedly heading for the island of Leros. They withdrew at dawn, the two Hunts being relieved by  (also Hunt-class) and the . The five-ship flotilla was attacked by sixteen Ju 87 dive bombers. Panther was sunk and Carlisle, hit four times, was damaged beyond repair. To make matters worse, air cover was reduced when American North Africa-based Lightnings were transferred to the Central Mediterranean theatre. Petard made two trips to Leros at night with troops, vehicles and stores, hiding in neutral Turkish waters during the day. A third attempt had to be abandoned while Petard was in Leros harbour due to the severity of the bombing.

These reinforcement runs continued, with varying degrees of success. Air attacks were not the only worry: another threat was from mines. On 22/23 October Petard and another destroyer, , acting after the loss of the Hunt class  and the  (which lost a third of her forward section before being beached), entered a minefield east (rather than west) of Kalymnos Island. Eclipse was sunk with heavy loss of life, but Petard, picking up survivors, managed to withdraw to safety.

The tempo did not let up. On 24/25 October, after landing a naval base party at Leros, Petard moved to a Turkish bay to lay up for the day. She continued to be scrutinised by the Turks and buzzed by German aircraft. On another occasion, Turkish officials boarded the ship demanding to know when Petard might sail. It was only when shown a stripped-down (but perfectly serviceable) engine and being told that it was essential it was repaired that they relented. Wardroom hospitality also helped.

For Petards fifth Aegean sortie, Egan, as senior officer, was in charge of a three-destroyer flotilla loaded with men and stores that met up with the cruiser  on 30 October; her extra anti-aircraft firepower was soon needed. Having thwarted a high-altitude attack, with help from accompanying Beaufighters, a further raid of 14 Ju 87s succeeded in hitting Aurora amidships, killing 46 and wounding 20. Aurora withdrew, escorted by the destroyer . That left Petard and  to complete their mission to Leros. Still harassed by bombing, the two ships continued; Belvoir had a lucky escape when she was hit by a bomb that failed to explode; the unexploded bomb was later found deep in the ship, carried up on deck and unceremoniously dumped over the stern.

Petards next foray was with the Hunt-class destroyers Rockwood and the Polish . On 9 November her RDF picked up a vessel in the vicinity of Kalymnos Island which turned out to be a landing craft accompanied by two caïques packed with soldiers. The three ships opened fire with their main armament. Krakowiak then fired a star-shell over Kalymnos harbour, its light revealed a merchant ship, which was set on fire by the destroyers; Egan took Petard into the mouth of the harbour to confirm the destruction of the merchant ship and fire a torpedo at the harbour entrance. Aircraft on Cos were engaged by her four-inch guns. During the withdrawal Rockwood was hit by a glider bomb which failed to explode, but nevertheless started a fire; the damage was such that Petard was asked for a tow. With sporadic attacks still coming from the air, tow preparations were very quickly carried out. Temporary shelter was gained in a landlocked bay in Turkey. While there it was discovered that the bomb had torn through thawing beef, creating a gory scene which the damage-control party initially mistook for a massacre: Rockwood was eventually towed to Alexandria.

Petards last Aegean task on 19 November 1943 was to assist in the evacuation of British forces from Leros; but no escaping personnel were found. She was then ordered to Haifa for a boiler clean and leave over Christmas. This was to be followed by going east to engage the Japanese.

The Far East, part one
In January 1944 a fleet assembled in Alexandria and passed through the Suez Canal for deployment to the East Indies and the Pacific; Petard was in her usual escort role. Following extensive exercises and drills, there was a welcome break when the aircraft carrier  and the battlecruiser  were diverted to Cochin in south west India on 24 January; Petard was part of their escort. Her arrival in Trincomalee, Ceylon on 28 January was marked by the contrast between the immaculate fleet and the patches and rust stains on Petard and Paladin. The two "P"s were banished to a nearby creek to 'paint ship'.

Petard had other worries; her main armament fired, among other types, semi-armour piercing (SAP) ammunition, but there was none to be had in Alexandria or Trincomalee; this shortage was to be noticeable before too long.

The two destroyers joined Convoy KR-8 in the Indian Ocean on the last part of its journey to Colombo. While underway to meet it, they encountered a huge herd of whales which seemed to be fearless; there was a very real danger of collision as the ships tried to maintain their anti-submarine zig-zag. On 10 February the two destroyers left a refuelling point at Addu Atoll and sailed west along the equator to rendezvous with the convoy.

On 12 February Petard, now under the newly promoted Commander Rupert Egan, was involved in the destruction of the Japanese B1 type submarine  after it had sunk the troop ship  with the loss of 1,297 lives.

The I-27 action
On a clear day and a calm sea, torpedo tracks were easily sighted heading for the troop ships. Khedive Ismail was hit and sank in minutes. Petard responded with a number of depth charge attacks, one of which, like the submarine, was close to the main group of survivors; these attacks were initially unsuccessful. However, after her third pattern, a larger than normal submarine (which turned out to be almost as long and have a greater displacement than Petard), was forced to the surface. Petard and Paladin (which had been picking up survivors), engaged the submarine with their four-inch main armament. Petard stopped firing when Paladin adopted a course to ram the Japanese vessel. Petard, whose captain was the senior officer, frantically signalled her sister-ship to abort the ramming, fearing fatal damage to her consort. Paladin complied and turned away from her intended 'victim', but her momentum took her broadside into the submarine's hydroplane, opening up a gash  long in Paladins hull.

With Paladin out of action, it fell to Petard to continue the attack, which she did with several close-range depth charge attacks; all to no avail, they could not be set shallow enough to cause any damage, but they did successfully divert the Japanese submarine's attention from the helpless Paladin. Petard pulled away to engage the submarine with her four-inch guns once more, but this was also ineffective: hits were registered, but they were with impact-fuzed shells due to the lack of SAP ammunition. Petard then tried a torpedo attack, but it took seven attempts before there was any sign of success. Two and a half hours had passed since the submarine was forced to the surface.

Douglas Vowles, a Leading Seaman operating "B" gun, sighted I-27s log book floating in the water near the stricken submarine amidst a school of sharks that was corralling the Japanese survivors. Vowles recovered the logbook that contained much valuable information on Japanese activity in the Pacific. He was mentioned in despatches.

Petard then went to assist Paladin, transferring all survivors and towing the disabled destroyer  (sources vary), to Addu Atoll.

Home and more repairs
More escort duties followed, but they were uneventful. With Paladin homeward bound for repairs, Petard sailed to Bombay, where she enjoyed a nine-day break before leading two s:  and , the Dutch ship  and convoy BA 66A to Aden. Her next job involved meeting the  in the Red Sea and escorting her (but only as far as Aden). On her return to Trincomalee in April, Petard was soon employed on sallies with capital ships in various groups. This training preceded Operation Cockpit, a major diversionary attack to reduce pressure on American fleets further east. Petard joined Force 69, and took part in the bombardment of Japanese installations.

In late July Petard escorted a convoy from the Seychelles to Aden. She was then instructed to sail alone for Britain; most of the crew had not been home for over two years. Just after passing through a strangely quiet Suez Canal, Petard sighted and recovered the crew, complete with hand baggage, of the American Liberty ship Samslarnia in the eastern Mediterranean. The freighter had been torpedoed, but had not sunk. Part of her cargo was silver bullion.

After an overnight stop in Plymouth, Petard arrived in Portsmouth on 16 August 1944 bearing a total of 49 patches on her hull.

Following repairs and refit in dry dock, Petard set out for the naval base at Scapa Flow with a new crew in early 1945. En route she had 13 ASDIC contacts with German U-boats in the Irish Sea, firing patterns of depth charges without result. Leaving the 'Flow', she was in transit to meet a Russian convoy, but diverted into dry-dock at North Shields to rectify damage to her propeller which had apparently been caused by her own depth charges. While she was there the war in Europe ended, but Petard had not finished yet. She was heading for the Far East once more. On her way out of the Clyde she passed surrendered U-boats.

The Far East, part two
Petard went into dry dock once more in Alexandria before passing through the Suez Canal, arriving in Trincomalee back at full war readiness.

In Operation Zipper, the planned re-occupation of Malaya, Petard was to be point ship. The Japanese surrender, following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, meant that such operations would not be necessary. Despite their capitulation, it was not clear that all the Japanese forces would obey the surrender order, or indeed, knew about it. As a result, ships like Petard maintained a high state of readiness. That caution seemed to be justified when, a week after VJ (Victory over Japan) day, the second 'yellow' air raid warning of the day was shown to be for a solitary Japanese reconnaissance machine, which flew off when approached by nearby carrier-borne aircraft.

Petard was kept busy with the aftermath of war; for instance she led the cruiser Cleopatra and the Royal Indian Navy Bathurst class corvette, , through a narrow swept channel in the Malacca Strait, which had been marked by three Indian Navy minesweeper flotillas, towards Singapore. Her guns and men with rifles were kept busy, firing many rounds at the floating mines that were released. Petard was ordered to intercept a Japanese destroyer that turned out to be called . Taking a dispatch case from the Japanese ship and ignoring a request for a receipt, she sailed back to Cleopatra. She was then part of a force which included the cruiser , which was sent to Batavia, in the Dutch East Indies.

On her way back to Singapore after yet another escort mission, Petard ran into a tornado, which resulted in thousands of disoriented birds using the ship as a temporary perch. She was also involved in the uprising in Java; at one point ferrying Japanese prisoners of war from Tanjung Priok to an island near Singapore.

In all, Petard crossed the equator eight more times in the area of the Dutch East Indies before sailing once again to Trincomalee in late March 1946. Over two months later she returned to Portsmouth.

Post-war era
Petard was placed in reserve in Harwich in September 1946, being moved to Chatham in March 1951. In 1953 she was selected for conversion to a Type 16 fast anti-submarine frigate, with the new pennant number F26. She arrived at Devonport on 29 April 1953 under tow from ; two days later she was towed to Belfast, arriving on 4 May. She was converted there by Harland and Wolff, being completed in December 1955. She was mothballed in Southampton and towed to Devonport where she was laid up until 1960.

Petard was re-commissioned later that year and amongst other Home Fleet duties was used as a Sea Training Ship for Junior Seamen Trainees from HMS Ganges.

She was declared for disposal in May 1964; under the 1965–65 Naval Estimates, she entered Devonport dockyard on 31 January 1966 to de-equip and was broken up in 1967 by P.W. McLellan at Bo'ness.

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Sovereignty Hypocrisy – Part II
Gary Rea	Articles, Constitution, FEMA, Government, NWO, S&PP/NAU, State sovereignty	FEMA Camps, martial law drills, State sovereignty	2 Comments
Continuing my investigation into those states that are supposedly declaring their "sovereignty" from the federal government under the Tenth Amendment, I have added further to my case that the so-called "sovereignty movement" is a farce used to conceal the several states' cooperation with an increasingly fascistic federal government.
This additional evidence comes in the form of the various martial law drills and exercises that have been conducted in recent months across the nation.
Colorado, one of the states declaring it's "sovereignty," was host to martial law drills in Denver during the 2008 presidential campaign, as well as in Colorado Springs. Colorado has two FEMA camp locations.
Alabama hosts a company named Body Guard and Tactical Security (BATS), which supplied personnel for the martial law takeover drill in New Orleans following Katrina (see the eighth paragraph of this article). In addition, Alabama is host to six FEMA camp locations.
The town of Helena, Arkansas was under martial law in the summer of 2008. Arkansas is among the states declaring its sovereignty. Arkansas also hosts several FEMA camps.
California has held martial law and FEMA camp drills since 2001. California's governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger is an admitted admirer of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, as well as being the son of a Nazi police officer who was in the SS in WWII. California is also among those states now supposedly declaring it's "sovereignty" from the federal government. California has several FEMA camp locations, including Vandenberg Air Force Base.
The Third Infantry's 1st Brigade, which returned from Iraq in October 2008 to police the United States in violation of the 1876 Posse Comitatus Act, is under the command of NORTHCOM (also a violation of Posse Comitatus, as well as the Constitution) and is stationed at Fort Stewart in Georgia. Georgia is also a state alleging to declare "sovereignty" from the federal government. Fort Benning, among several other locations in Georgia, has a FEMA detention center.
Recently, there were martial law drills in Hayden, Idaho. Idaho is yet another of the several states declaring its "sovereignty." Idaho also has a probable FEMA detention camp.
Indianapolis, Indiana hosted martial law drills in 2008, disguised as "urban warfare drills" for troops going to Iraq. Indiana is also "declaring sovereignty." Indiana has several FEMA camps.
Missouri's SB1212 calls for, among other things, "members of the Missouri National Guard [to be] ordered to active duty in the case of a declaration of martial law." Missouri is another of the states supposedly not cooperating with that sort of thing anymore, having declared its "sovereignty." Missouri will also host "detainees."
A U.S. Marine drill sergeant boasted, in early 2008, that the U.S. military is preparing troops to "fire on women and children wherever appropriate, 'show no mercy' etc." and that martial law and FEMA camps are being prepared for in the U.S. and prisoner boxcars are being pre-positioned in Montana for this purpose. Montana is also among those states that has supposedly declared "sovereignty."
An alleged FEMA camp is located in Northernwestern New Hampshire, near Lake Hampshire. New Hampshire is also among the states now declaring sovereignty.
The states declaring "sovereignty" under the Tenth Amendment also include Arizona, Alaska, Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington. All of these states also host FEMA detention facilities.
So, given the track record of the states "declaring sovereignty," can any of these "resolutions" be worth the paper they were printed on?
Sovereignty Hypocrisy
Gary Rea	2nd amendment, Articles, bailouts, Government, NWO, S&PP/NAU, State sovereignty, Taxes	gun confiscations, martial law, State sovereignty, stimulus	2 Comments
I have recently come to suspect that the "sovereignty" being declared from the federal government by several states is a sham – a clever ruse designed to placate the people while their states actually prepare for the coming martial law.
In part, I have based this suspicion on the fact that, among those states declaring their supposed "sovereignty" have been several that have been busily passing new gun control laws that claim to "protect" their respective citizens from gun confiscations during martial law (a very telling statement in itself), while, at the same time, actually facilitating it.
But, there is yet more evidence that some of the same states declaring "sovereignty" from the federal government are otherwise cooperating with the federal government.
Take, for example, the unemployment benefits extended to the states by the new stimulus bill passed by the Obama administration. While there are five states (Alaska, Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina and Idaho) whose governors have said they will refuse the acceptance of those funds on principal, the remaining forty-five states have not done so. Among them is Oklahoma, the first state to issue a declaration of sovereignty. It has not only accepted those funds, but is already distributing them, as of February 28th.
While Mississippi's governor is among those refusing the funds (and Mississippi is also one of the states declaring sovereignty), its SB2036, a law that supposedly prevents gun confiscations during martial law, actually facilitates the confiscation of guns by leaving it up to a police officer's sole discretion. Considering what we know about cops having been trained to take our guns in recent years, I leave it to you to decide whether this Mississippi law does anything to protect Mississippi's gun owners or not. Refusing the stimulus funds (at least for unemployment benefits, anyway – we don't know what other funds Mississippi may or may not be accepting from the stimulus pie), while it may seem aligned with the purposes of declaring state sovereignty, is easily done if the long-term plan is for martial law – a situation in which those extended unemployment benefits will no doubt be revoked, anyway. But, preparing for martial law by hurriedly passing laws that help to implement it – as SB2036 actually does, despite the claims to the contrary, is a glaring contradiction of the entire purpose and principle of declaring state sovereignty, is it not?
As for Louisiana's record, the Katrina debacle speaks volumes about their willingness to go along with federal plans for martial law – they've already done it, during the martial law practice run that was the response to Katrina, during which firearms were seized from the population of New Orleans, leaving law abiding citizens (many of whom were not affected by the flooding) without any means to protect themselves from looters for weeks.
NVIC Vaccine Risk Report Reveals More Serious Reaction Reports After Gardasil
ppjg	vaccines	Gardasil, madatory vaccines, Merck, vacccines	2 Comments
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Vaccine Safety Group Calls for Investigation
WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Comparing serious adverse event reports to the federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) following Gardasil (HPV) and another vaccine for meningococcal (Menactra), the National Vaccine Information Center (www.NVIC.org) found that there are three to 30 times more serious health problems and deaths reported to VAERS after Gardasil vaccination. As reported by CBS News, the longtime vaccine safety watchdog group is calling for action, including an investigation by the Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) and the U.S. Congress into the fast-tracked licensure and government recommendation that all young girls and women get Gardasil vaccine.
"Merck only studied the vaccine in fewer than 1200 girls under age 16 and most of the serious health problems and deaths in the pre-licensure clinical trials were written off as a 'coincidence,'" said NVIC co-founder and president, Barbara Loe Fisher. "If the new Administration and Congress want to make government recommended health care safer, more effective and less expensive, a good place to start is by looking into the human and economic costs of Gardasil vaccine."
Gardasil and Menactra vaccines are recommended by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for gradeschool, high school and college age children, although Gardasil is only given to girls while Menactra is given to both girls and boys. If reports of Gardasil vaccine-related adverse events are only coincidental as maintained by CDC officials in October 2008, there would be little or no difference in the number and severity of adverse event reports for both vaccines.
Using the MedAlerts database, compiling data for VAERS through November 30, 2008, NVIC found that compared to Menactra, Gardasil is associated with at least twice as many Emergency Room visit reports (5,021), four times as many Death reports (29); five times as many "Did Not Recover" reports (2,017) and seven times as many "Disabled" reports (261). There have been 34 reports of thrombosis, 27 reports of lupus, 23 reports of blood clots, 16 reports of stroke, and 11 reports of vasculitis following Gardasil vaccine given alone without any other vaccines. There are three to six times more fainting or syncope reports after Gardasil vaccination than after Menactra and there have been 544 reports of seizures following Gardasil and 158 after Menactra (73 Menactra-associated seizures involved co-administration with Gardasil).
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Farm Bills, NAIS and other national disasters
ppjg	National Animal Indentification System	Colin Peterson, Farm bill, FDA, food imports, food safety, NAIS, USDA	2 Comments
In 2007, Representative Colin Peterson (D) MN, slipped a provision into the 2007 Farm Bill, reducing the number of required federal inspections for small meat processors. I find this interesting considering how hard he is pushing NAIS.
By Peterson's own admission, he has authored several bills moving the inspection of food from the FDA to the USDA. Somehow, this seems akin to shuffling chairs on the deck of the Titanic. Neither agency is capable or willing to work within their mandates.
It would appear Peterson condones the harassment and raids by USDA and FDA on farms and ranches in order to frighten them into complying with NAIS and to end independent farms and ranches in favor of industrialized factory farms.
USDA was given the job of enacting the 2005 Labeling Law, which would have required the country of origin to be listed on the label and could have been a [traceability] component when food contamination appeared in the US as a result of e-coli, melamine additives to falsely increase protein content in animal foods, and other contaminants that were dumped into our food supply and co-mingled with domestic products.
As of this date, USDA still has NOT enacted that law claiming that it is too cost prohibitive. But! it seems they have LOTS of money to spend trying to implement and force compliance in the National Animal Identification System; A system no one but industrial factory farms and bio-pirates wants or needs.
As of 2007, the USDA and FDA combined were only inspecting 1% of the $65 billion in food imports. Almost without exception, any food contamination has occurred in the contents of imported foods and seldom occurs in domestic production systems and when it has happened, is usually at the point of processing where we are supposed to have inspectors. Once these contaminated and un-inspected food products are dumped into the domestic food supply, it is nearly impossible to track the source. I was able to find no data for 2008.
Domestic producers (other than most meat), can expect to see an FDA inspector once every 5-10 years.
If I understand correctly, FDA even with USDA help cannot inspect any more than 1% of food imports, cannot show up to inspect domestic producers any more often than once in every 5-10 years because they are so understaffed and under funded……but they have the time and resources to conduct raids and put farms and ranches under surveillance who have refused to submit to NAIS and Premises ID?
When the head of Georgia Peanut Company knowingly ships out contaminated products while sitting on a quality control board for the USDA, I believe it highly unlikely that USDA would be an agency capable of protecting anyone's safety on any level.
It seems to me if our food producers are so vulnerable to safety issues, we would strengthen the known source of most contamination: foreign imports. Yet even as the multiple instances of food contamination were reported, neither USDA nor FDA or Colin Peterson for that matter, made any move to halt imports from China, Viet Nam, or Mexico: countries that had all sent us contaminated foods. And, neither did anyone else in either house of congress. I guess as long as they weren't forced to consume any of this garbage shipped in from countries whose standards are nearly non-existent, it didn't matter.
As food imports have increased dramatically in the last ten years, food inspections have decreased.
Colin Peterson had this to say about contaminated foreign products in May, 2007:
"The next time tainted food or feed products slip through the very large crack in our import inspection system, we may be forced to confront a much more serious situation in terms of animal or human health" he said.
Wouldn't this indicate at the very least that the attempt to force a pointless, costly program that has absolutely no value to anyone (NAIS) should be scrapped and an increase in inspections, labeling and tracking of imports be the cause of the day?
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We all need to become like the bulldog in the poem. Sounds funny, but the truth is we tend to take things to heart, when they really need to slide off our back.
Ну а он же как старался!..
А для многих — враг.


St. Andrew's Day is celebrated on November 30 – that's Friday of this week in 2018 – a Scottish Bank Holiday.
It's a day when we have an excuse to drink rather more than we would on a normal Thursday, become maudlin and pontificate, glass in hand, "Wha's like us? Damn few – an' they're a' deid". Yet many Scots have little or no idea of why St. Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland and why our national flag is … no, not the lion rampant … the saltire, a white cross on a sky-blue background.
In the eighth century, the Pictish King Oengus I built a monastery on the east coast of Fife to house some bones which were said to have come from the body of Andrew, one of Christ's original twelve disciples, who was crucified on a saltire-shaped cross - a cross like a multiplication sign. King Oengus II, son of Oengus I, is said to have offered prayers to the saint before a battle against English forces from Northumberland; and soon afterwards, clouds supposedly formed a saltire shape in the sky, which the Picts took as a sign of a blessing. When they were victorious against all the odds, Oengus declared Saint Andrew to be Scotland's patron saint and the cloud saltire to be the basis of Scotland's national flag.
And why am I not happy with this very common version of the reason for the thistle's selection? Well, the thistle which would indeed be painful if stood on in bare feet is, surprisingly enough, commonly called the 'spear thistle' … Cirsium vulgare, to be technical … and is native to Scotland. So that bit is possible. But would a man creeping through the darkness towards other men intent on killing them and risking his own life and the lives of his colleagues in the process really surrender his advantage by shouting out in pain? Hmmm. And then there is the matter of the variety of thistle. The thistle usually used as our national emblem is actually, botanically, Onopordum Acanthium, commonly called the 'cotton thistle'. It's tall, showy and spectacular – but it almost certainly was not to be found, let alone stood on, in thirteenth century Scotland. No, I think there's a more mundane and less romantic reason for the cotton thistle being chosen as the flower of Scotland.
In mediaeval times many plants were accorded Christian connections; and thistles were associated with Mary, the mother of Christ, probably because their white sap could bring to mind Mary breast-feeding her infant son in the stable in Bethlehem. Thistles were also associated with loyalty. I think religious belief and loyalty explain the thistle's choice. And there's a fascinating similarity between the motto associated with the thistle emblem of the French region of Lorraine … think Auld Alliance … and our national motto. The Duke of Lorraine's motto was "Qui s'y frotte s'y pique" - "who touches it, pricks oneself"; and the Scottish motto is "Nemo me impune lacessit" – "Wha daur meddle wi' me?" Interesting!


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Rare Bites Series: Not an Ordinary Dog: 'Flush' by Virginia Woolf
Join Dr Vanessa Berry, Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Sydney discussing Flush by Virginia Woolf (1933) in our third Rare Bites talk of the year.
Virginia Woolf wrote Flush, a fictional biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, after having been captivated by the dog's presence in the love letters of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Flush was "not an ordinary dog", by Woolf's description, and he is certainly more extraordinary for his persistence in literary imagination. Although Flush was a bestseller for the Hogarth Press at the time of its publication, it has long been considered one of Woolf's minor works. However with the rise of animal studies in the humanities there has been an upsurge of interest in Flush.
This presentation will introduce Flush and the genre of the canine memoir, and consider the literary potential of the human-canine relationship.
Dr Vanessa Berry is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Sydney, and a writer known for her work with history, memory and archives. Her most recent book Mirror Sydney, which examines the city's marginal and undercurrents, was published in 2017 and won the Mascara Avant Garde literary award.
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Former Reading FC striker Hal Robson-Kanu has been accused of building on green belt land by Bracknell's council.
The 28-year-old and his neighbour put up a fence at the back of his lavish mansion off Lock's Ride in Winkfield Row, without planning permission.
Bracknell Forest Council says the Premier League footballer extended his property and turned green belt land into part of his garden by building the fence.
The local authority has served him with an enforcement notice and told him to remove the fence.
Robson Kanu, who currently plays for West Brom , is expected to appeal the decision when he appears at a planning inquiry in Bracknell on Tuesday, September 12.
An independent inspector, appointed by the Secretary of State, will review the case at the hearing, which is open to the public.
Councillor Chris Turrell said: "We have served separate enforcement notices on two adjacent properties in Ascot due to the occupants extending their garden land on to agricultural green belt land, without gaining the necessary planning permission beforehand.
"The enforcement notices and two related planning applications that were refused by the council at the properties for fencing have been appealed by the two owners of the properties.
The Wales international began his career as an academy player at Reading and went on to make more than 220 appearances for the club.


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Climate Change Means Wine Change
By Paul Lukacs
Feb 20, 2018 Printable Version
Last year was a worldwide wine calamity. From wildfires in Chile, South Africa, Portugal, and Spain, not to mention California, to vicious spring frosts followed by searing summer heat in both France and Italy, virtually every wine producing country suffered some sort of tragedy. Things were so bad that the award-winning English wine writer, Andrew Jefford, calls 2017 "one of the most disaster-strewn years since phylloxera."
That's an exaggeration of course. The vintages following the two World Wars proved even worse. But the problems back then came from a lack of resources. Especially in Europe, vineyards and wineries were in disrepair, and few proprietors could afford to make the necessary repairs. By contrast, producers today are flush with cash, wine never having been more popular with more people.
Last year's misfortunes may simply result from an international spate of bad luck, but it seems far more likely that they are due to climate change, whether man-made or part of some sort of natural cycle. Over the past few decades, no agricultural crop has been more affected by climate change than wine grapes. In 2017, the damage really became evident to anyone who cared to look.
Fires break out regularly in many wine regions, particularly those that typically experience little rain during the growing season. But 2017 was both hotter and windier than usual, resulting in more fires and more problems for firefighters trying to contain them.
It's more difficult to pinpoint the cause of the unusually bitter frosts, but some scientists credit warming oceans and a build-up of low pressure over the two poles. Whatever the cause, however, 2017 was just an extreme example of a longer lasting phenomenon, since spring frosts, coupled with summer droughts and high temperatures seem to be becoming a viticultural norm, not an exception.
All of this is disturbing on an environmental level, and the fate of the earth's ecosystem is obviously more important than the taste of a glass of wine. All the same, that taste is changing, and changing fast. Choices made by winemakers account for some of the change, but more has to do with the raw material that nature gives them.
That material is different than it was a generation ago. Spring frosts result in smaller crops come fall. This becomes especially true when the frosts are coupled with mild winters since budbreak then comes earlier. Each vine produces fewer grapes, if grapes at all. At a time when demand for wine keeps growing, supply suffers.
Equally disturbing, quality suffers. Early budbreak, coupled with hot, dry summers, means that the grapes ripen sooner than they used to. But while they contain the same amount of sugar, they lack acidity and full flavor development, what winemakers call "physiological maturity." The only way to attain that is to leave the grapes hanging longer on the vine. Doing so, however, brings even higher sugar levels and more sugar, which ends up as either sweeter or more alcoholic wines (or both).
Regardless of cause, climate change is a problem for many more important things than wine. But because differences in style and quality seem much more nuanced with wine than with other agricultural products, its effect becomes especially noticeable for those of us who care about wine. This website, for example, is filled with commentary concerning what makes one wine superior to another. Climate change means that the criteria for making such judgments is changing. Wines sporting residual sugar, and hence a hint (often more than a hint) of sweetness used to be disparaged; today they are widely praised. Similarly, wine with a low level of acidity used to be considered unbalanced; today no one much minds. And while wines with lots of alcohol used to considered out of whack, they have become so common these days so as to be widely regarded as normal.
None of this means that wine made a generation ago was inherently better than wine now. It is to say, though, that wine has changed, and seems to be changing ever faster. There are lots of explanations, including shifting consumer tastes and decisions made by winemakers that enable them to satisfy those tastes. The biggest explanation, though, helps account for all the others, and at least in the foreseeable future is the one that nobody can do anything about--climate change.
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'The Hotel Nantucket' and "Battle for the American Mind' retain top spot on bestseller list
FICTION 1. The Hotel Nantucket By Elin Hilderbrand. The new general manager of a hotel far from its Gilded Age heyday deals with the complicated pasts of her guests and staff. 2. Rising Tiger By Brad…
Houston Chronicle Contributor July 24, 2022Updated: July 24, 2022, 8:28 am
1. The Hotel Nantucket
By Elin Hilderbrand. The new general manager of a hotel far from its Gilded Age heyday deals with the complicated pasts of her guests and staff.
2. Rising Tiger
By Brad Thor. The 21st book in the "Scot Harvath" series. The American spy faces dangers on a mission in an unfamiliar culture.
3. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
By Gabrielle Zevin. Two friends find their partnership challenged in the world of video game design.
4. Sparring Partners
By John Grisham. Three novellas: "Homecoming," "Strawberry Moon" and "Sparring Partners."
5. The Midnight Library
By Matt Haig. Nora Seed finds a library beyond the edge of the universe that contains books with multiple possibilities of the lives one could have lived.
6. Lessons in Chemistry
By Bonnie Garmus. A scientist and single mother living in California in the 1960s becomes a star on a TV cooking show.
7. Suspects
By Danielle Steel. A CIA agent on a covert mission develops a relationship with a woman who is considered fashion royalty and has a tragic past.
8. Escape
By James Patterson and David Ellis. The third book in the "Billy Harney" thriller series. Detective Harney goes after a billionaire crime boss and a prison escape artist.
9. The Last Thing He Told Me
By Laura Dave. Hannah Hall discovers truths about her missing husband and bonds with his daughter from a previous relationship.
10. The House Across the Lake
By Riley Sager. An actress escaping bad press goes to a Vermont lake house and uncovers secrets within a neighboring couple's marriage.
1. Battle for the American Mind
By Pete Hegseth with David Goodwin. The "Fox & Friends Weekend" host makes his case for what he calls classical Christian education.
2. Finding Me
By Viola Davis. The multiple award-winning actress describes the difficulties she encountered before claiming her sense of self and achieving professional success.
3. Happy-Go-Lucky
By David Sedaris. The humorist portrays personal and public upheavals of his life in its seventh decade and the world in the time of a pandemic.
4. Killing the Killers
By Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. The 11th book in the conservative commentator's "Killing" series gives an account of the global war against terrorists.
5. An Immense World
By Ed Yong. The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer explains the sensory perceptions and ways of communication used by a variety of animals.
6. Crying in H Mart
By Michelle Zauner. The daughter of a Korean mother and Jewish American father, and leader of the indie rock project Japanese Breakfast, describes creating her own identity after losing her mother to cancer.
By Henry Kissinger. The former secretary of state profiles the statecraft strategies of Richard Nixon, Margaret Thatcher and others.
8. Why We Did It
By Tim Miller. The former Republican political operative assesses why some centrist conservatives fell under the sway of Donald Trump.
9. Invisible Storm
By Jason Kander. The former Army intelligence officer and Kansas City mayoral candidate shares his struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder.
10. Greenlights
By Matthew McConaughey. The Academy Award-winning actor shares snippets from the diaries he kept over the last 35 years.
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Horror author Grady Hendrix brings a sense of humor to his terrifying work
By Jef Rouner
Review: Jeff Guinn humanizes the devil in 'Waco: David Koresh' book
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Michelle Obama's 'The Light We Carry' remains at No. 1 on bestsellers list
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Julia Cameron among the authors at Houston book events this week
By Ana Khan
Mary Kubica among the authors at Houston book events this week
A tale of New Orleans history is rescued from the garbage in 'Economy Hall'
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1. The Media Recreation Board is hosting a Family Dance. Come join the DJ for music, dancing, food and fun for the whole family. .
2. Upper Darby High School drama students invite the community to "be our guest" as they present Disney's classic, Beauty and the Beast, at Upper Darby Performing Arts Center.
8. Come out to Picasso's restaurant in Media and hear the We Kids Rock Band play songs from their award winning cds, great fun for the whole family!


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Canada tyranny; Trudeau Authorizes Bank Accounts Frozen for Social Media Posts in Support of Freedom Protests – Canadian Civil Liberties Association Denounce Decision
The triggering of an official invocation of the Canadian Emergency Measures Act to eliminate protests is stunning. Using the Emergency Act to target individual citizens in Canada, and their bank accounts, is yet again another level of astonishing.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland have authorized banks, financial institutions and insurance carriers to suspend the accounts of Canadian citizens based on their social media postings.
Yes, you read that correctly. Support of "blockades and/or occupations" are specifically noted.
Anyone in Canada (individual or business) who supports or "furthers" the Freedom Convoy or Freedom Protest on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or any other social media platform, is a target to have their bank accounts frozen and insurance policies nullified.
Source: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/14/trudeau-authorizes-bank-accounts-frozen-for-social-media-posts-in-support-of-freedom-protests-canadian-civil-liberties-association-denounce-decision/
Why Is This Canadian Foreign Minister (Chrystia Freeland) 'Proud' of Her Family's Nazi Past?
When asked at a press conference on March 6 about the allegations that her maternal grandfather was a Nazi collaborator, Chrystia Freeland, newly appointed Foreign Minister of Canada, former journalist and a writer, a master of words, found only clumsy sentences to deliver what would have earned no more than a 'C' in a high school debate class.
"It's no secret that Russians do not like you and banned you from the country," began the question. "Recently, there has been a series of articles in pro-Russian websites about you and your maternal grandparents, making accusations that [your grandfather] was a Nazi collaborator. I'd like to get your view—is this a disinformation campaign by the Russians to try to smear you and discredit you, which they have a tendency to do?"
With a poorly-camouflaged expression of pain on her face, Freeland replied:
"It's public knowledge that there have been efforts—as U.S. intelligence sources have said—by Russia to destabilize the U.S. political system. I think that Canadians and indeed other Western countries should be prepared for similar efforts to be directed at us. I am confident in our country's democracy and I am confident that we can stand up to and see through those efforts."
"I don't think it's a secret," she continued, "American officials have publicly said—and even [German Chancellor] Angela Merkel has publicly said—that there were efforts on the Russian side to destabilize Western democracies, and I think it shouldn't come as a surprise if these same efforts were used against Canada. I think that Canadians and indeed other Western countries should be prepared for similar efforts to be directed at them."
What? Angela Merkel? Was her grandfather a Nazi collaborator or wasn't he? Freeland dodged the question.
As The Globe and Mail reported, when asked to refute the allegation, her office responded: "People should be questioning where this information comes from, and the motivations behind it."
Source: https://observer.com/2017/03/chrystia-freeland-foreign-minister-canada-nazi-grandfather/


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