The main road linking Monmouth and Chepstow is to be closed from Wednesday September 26 while crews scale back fractured rock to ensure the safety of road users.
The A466 Wye Valley just north of Bigsweir Bridge is to be closed for 10 weeks, until Monday December 3.
Gloucestershire County Council says a rock embankment above the road is fractured and sections are falling onto the highway below.
It says the rock poses a danger and vital improvement works are required to ensure the safety of motorists. A full 24-hour road closure will be in place during the 10 weeks so the rock can be brought back, pinned and netted.
In January this year, temporary two way traffic lights and concrete barriers in the centre of the road were installed to protect the single running lane.
Following the completion of the work in December, the road will be re-opened for two way traffic.
Councillor Vernon Smith (C, Tewkesbury East), the council's cabinet member for highways and flood, said: "In the interest of public safety, it is necessary to close this road while our crews undertake the dangerous task of scaling back the fractured rock.
If approaching from the north, the council says commuters should follow a diversion along the A4136 (Staunton Road) towards Staunton and continue on the A4136 towards the junction with the B4228.
Take the B4228 and follow the road through Coleford and Sling, and continue towards Trow Green, then take the B4231 (Bream Avenue and Bream Road) to Lydney.
In Lydney, continue south along the B4231 (High Street) towards the A48. Continue along the A48 all the way to Chepstow. In Chepstow, on the roundabout with the A466, take the fourth exit to the A466. The route is the same in reverse.


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Q: Creating an array of random elements from a separate array, up to a given length I'm working on a GameBuilder class that builds a Game object using a player count, array of player names, game board width/height, and a couple more irrelevant params. I'd like to allow a Game to be setup without specifying names. I have an array of default names I'd like to pick from if this is the case.
I have two constructors. The main one receives a player count, and an array of player names (see below).
public GameBuilder withPlayers(final Integer players, final String[] someNames) {
    if ((players >= MINIMUM_NUMBER_OF_PLAYERS) && (players <= MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_PLAYERS)) {
      if (someNames.length == players) {
        tempPlayers = players;
        names = someNames;
        return this;
      } else {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Player/Name mismatch!");
      }

    } else {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("The number of players must be between " + MINIMUM_NUMBER_OF_PLAYERS + " and " + MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_PLAYERS + ".");
    }

(tempPlayers and names are declared elsewhere and eventually given to the Game constructor).
My second constructor takes only one parameter, player count, and chains onto the main constructor above. This is where I'd like to create an array of randomly picked names (from the default names array) up to the size of the specified player count, to then pass on to the main constructor, which will in turn, get passed to the Game object.
Is this possible?

A: Your problem boils down to constucting an array of unique integers of lenght players and in the interval [0, someNames.length -1].
Drawing from this earlier question, the easiest way to do achieve this is by creating an array of consecutive integers, shuffling them around, and then trimming at lenght players. Then just use these as random positions of the someNames array to initialize the names.

List<Integer> integers = IntStream.range(o, someNames.length);
Collections.shuffle(integers);
integers = integers.sublist(0,players)

names = new String[players];
for (int i = 0; i < players; i++) {
    int position = integers.get(i);
    names[i] = someNames[position];
}

Note that if the someNames array is very big, this approach is rather wasteful. But otherwise, it's easy to reason about and debug.

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San Jose finished 2018 with the one of the lowest levels of unemployment of all time. At 2.5%, only May of last year saw a lower number (2.3%). The labor force also grew from 553,000 people to 575,000. Sometimes unemployment figures are better than reality because people give up and drop out of the labor pool entirely. The fact that the labor force grew shows that is not the case.
Wages in the San Jose metro also grew 4.5% in 2018, which outpaced San Francisco, New York, and Seattle. Keep in mind we already have the highest salaries in the US. Now is an amazing time to look for jobs or ask for raises!


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Portraits of Esperanza
Who gets to dream? America's immigration battles go beyond walls and borders.
Originally published by The Washington Post
My father is a dreamer. He dreamed of America, of having his children grow up here, even though it meant trading a decent existence in Peru for a harder path. My mother dreamed, too, mainly of returning, which we did, often enough that, in whatever place I was, I dreamed of the other.
It is the lot of the immigrant to straddle borders of all kinds at all times; we gaze back with nostalgia and relief, we look forward with boundlessness and insecurity, we strive to belong even when we get the hint. "It's impossible to be just one thing at a time," writes Univision's Jorge Ramos in his new book, "Stranger," a blend of memoir, analysis and manifesto. "Immigrants understand that they are many things at once. We don't have a solid, immutable identity. Over the span of a single day, I can feel Latino, Mexican, American, foreigner, and newcomer."
Ramos dedicated his slim book to "The Dreamers, my heroes," a bow to the students turned activists seeking legal protections for themselves and others like them who entered the United States unlawfully as children — who arrived here, as the obligatory qualification goes, through no fault of their own. But if not their fault, whose? The blame usually falls on their parents, who dared to dream on their behalf. Those elders are the "sacrificial generation," Ramos writes, often unable to legalize their own status but quietly staying so their children might prosper.
"The Making of a Dream," journalist Laura Wides-Muñoz spends a decade following this generation of young activists as they attempt to sway Washington and public opinion. "These teens refused to become ghosts, to hide as their elders had," she explains. Yet their cultural clout has yielded only legislative frustration and a precarious future, as the fate of an Obama-era program, known as DACA, protecting them from deportation has been enmeshed and postponed amid battles over government funding, court rulings and President Trump's demand for billions of dollars to secure the U.S.-Mexico border.
"I don't know if the border is a place for me to understand myself, but I know there's something here I can't look away from," Francisco Cantú writes in "The Line Becomes a River,"a memoir of his time as a U.S. Border Patrol agent, guarding the same boundaries that his Mexican grandfather crossed long ago and that the American president now pledges to defend with a wall. Cantú's understated yet searing chronicle mixes history, family, duty and dreams as well, except his are nightmares of violence and guilt.
"Americans are dreamers, too," Trump declared in his State of the Union speech, slyly seeking to wrest moral authority away from the young immigrants claiming it. Together these works loom as floodlights over contested territory, illuminating immigration as a state of mind, a generational dispute, a legal battle. And they help show why, in the land of the American Dream, dreaming itself has become politicized, a partisan battleground over rights and self-definition.
It is ironic that the "dreamers" — now ranging from their teens to their 30s — would become tied in the public imagination to a proposal that arrived years ago but has yet to achieve full legal status. The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act has been around since 2001 and reintroduced, to no avail, on multiple occasions. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, launched in 2012 and set to end next month, has some 690,000 participants formally enrolled, a small slice of the total undocumented population, estimated at about 11 million. Yet its potential beneficiaries have become the face of America's immigration debate. They are the young, the educated and the promising. Their early advocacy invariably featured caps and gowns.
It is an appealing picture but one that tends to crop out the nannies, the gardeners, the food service workers and, of course, the old. Even as he is inspired by the dreamers, Ramos worries about generational rifts. "After many conversations with the Dreamers and their parents, I began to notice a certain sense of impatience among the Dreamers," he writes. "Why had their parents remained silent for so long? Why did they not speak up and protest? Why didn't they go out and fight for their rights?"
Ramos knows something about such conflicts; he departed Mexico in 1983 at age 24, leaving not just an authoritarian government but an authoritarian father as well. But Wides-Muñoz probes deep into the dreamers' relationships with their parents and often finds empathy and concern. One of her most memorable characters is Marie Gonzalez, who left Costa Rica with her parents in 1991, at age 5, eventually settling in Missouri. When Marie becomes one of the early Dream Act advocates, traveling to Washington, giving speeches and radio interviews, she is constantly asked about the plight of young people like her. "A hard knot tightened in her stomach," Wides-Muñoz writes. "Don't forget about my parents, she wanted, but was afraid, to say." By centering solely on her own story, Marie felt "as though she was betraying those she loved most." She survived a deportation order, but her parents didn't.
The tensions surface not just within families but among activists. Older immigration advocates preferred comprehensive reforms over a law that would help only a particular cohort of the undocumented. Still, they grasped that "the moral authority these young immigrant students wielded before lawmakers was unmatched." The dreamers, for their part, grew restless in their role. "Increasingly, they felt as if the older activists viewed them as props, trotting them out to pull at the heartstrings and then sending them back to their seats," Wides-Muñoz writes. One longtime activist even encouraged Marie to cry in an interview, which she did, mainly out of anger and frustration. ("Why did she need to show those officials weakness?" she asked herself.)
Even the four dreamers who walked the 1,500-mile "Trail of Dreams" from Miami to Washington in 2010, in what became the movement's signature action, found disillusion at journey's end. "They had gained national and international attention, winning the respect of many of the naysayers," Wides-Muñoz writes. "Yet back in the nation's capital, they were once again at the mercy of the Washington players."
The author also cites young immigrants who arrived too late, or too old, to be covered by a potential Dream Act. Alex Aldana, who had come from Mexico with his family at age 16 in 2003, grew to resent the attention lavished on the "valedictorian types" by journalists, activists and lawmakers. "He wished he could see more young people like himself testifying in Congress," Wides-Muñoz writes, "those who weren't stars but who were working to support their families and contributing to the economy."
Even for those who would benefit from it, the Dream Act has been cursed by nightmarish timing. An early congressional hearing on the bill was scheduled for Sept. 12, 2001. During the Obama years, the proposal was pushed aside for health-care reform and fiscal stimulus, despite Barack Obama's campaign promise — in an interview with Ramos — of an immigration bill during his first year in office. On the same day in 2010 that the Senate voted to end the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which had barred LGBT people from serving openly in the military, the Dream Act fell five votes short of the threshold needed to be considered for final passage. More recently, Trump's quest for a border wall seems to render the legislation even less likely.
Yet the Dream Act's failures have in some way liberated the dreamers from the image that lawmakers and activists forced on them. "Presenting the story of the perfect, well-mannered students hadn't worked," Wides-Muñoz writes. "Now they could just be human."
Humanity is the preoccupation of "The Line Becomes a River" — recognizing it, acknowledging it, salvaging it. After studying immigration in college, Cantú convinced himself that joining the Border Patrol would be one more step in his education, even as his mother warned that he would be absorbed by a system "with little regard for people," that "the soul can buckle" in such a job. In his initial training sessions, a supervisor assures him that not everyone trying to cross the line is just another good person seeking honest work, that there are, as Trump would later put it, some bad hombres coming, too.
"Did you ever arrest a narco?" a friend asks him breathlessly. He did snag a few lower-level smugglers, scouts and mules, "but mostly I arrested migrants," Cantú admits. "People looking for a better life."
Cantú struggles to make those lives a little better even as he detains and processes border crossers, slashing their water bottles and ransacking their supplies to discourage them from going further. Cantú gives his shirt to a man who had lost his own and treats him to burgers on the way to the station. He warns two teenage boys not to attempt to cross the border again in the summertime; it is too hot and dangerous. He treats and bandages the blistered feet of a woman who had been left behind by group of border crossers because of her limp — a "quitter," in the patrol's parlance. "Eres muy humanitario, oficial," she tells him. "No," he says, looking down at her feet. "I'm not."
After four years on the job, Cantú leaves it in 2012, but he finds it does not leave him. "It's like I'm still a part of this thing that crushes," he tells his mother. Later, while working at a coffee shop, he befriends an undocumented co-worker named José, who is caught by the Border Patrol after attempting to return from Mexico, where he had been visiting his ailing mother. Cantú takes José's family — including the man's young U.S.-born children — to witness his courtroom proceedings and to visit him in a detention facility. He helps José's wife, Lupe, gather the paperwork needed for a lawyer to make a doomed case for "prosecutorial discretion" — essentially, hoping that a judge will offer José a stay of removal.
Cantú suffers constant nightmares as the dissonance between his intentions and his actions, his impulses and his experiences, becomes hard to bear. He dreams that he shoots a man and his son. He dreams of a cave strewn with body parts. He dreams of "men lost and wandering without food or water, dying slowly," he writes. "I finally discover their bodies lying facedown on the ground before me, dead and stinking on the desert floor, human waypoints in a vast and smoldering expanse."
Still, a friend of Lupe's thanks him, marveling at how Cantú once worked for la migra but now was helping. "I smiled and nodded, wondering if that's what this really was, if I was merely being driven to make good for the lives I had sent back across the line," Cantú writes. "If I was seeking redemption, I wondered, what would redemption look like?"
Trump launched his presidential campaign by branding Mexican immigrants as rapists and drug traffickers — "they're not sending their best" — and he used his first State of the Union address to link immigrants with violent street gangs. Ramos spends much of the early portions of "Stranger" battling such characterizations, citing studies showing that immigrants commit fewer serious crimes than native-born Americans and contribute to the nation's tax base. Ramos has also taken this fight directly to Trump, challenging his immigration proposals at a 2015 campaign news conference in Iowa and getting briefly tossed out for his troubles.
In her conclusion of "The Making of a Dream," Wides-Muñoz takes solace in the notion that the dreamers have claimed, if not a legislative victory, at least a cultural one: that they are reshaping how Americans regard immigrants and redefining what it means to be American. And Ramos suggests that the Republican Party is "running the risk of driving away Hispanic voters for generations to come." As U.S.-born Latinos reach voting age, "they will never forget the fear and anxiety their parents endured." Though he writes that being Latino in America today means a life of persecution and discrimination, Ramos argues that long-term demographic shifts in the United States "will end up overwhelming xenophobia, rejecting the radical extremist groups, and the United States can continue with its tradition of ethnic diversity, multiculturalism, and acceptance of immigrants."
Such visions must be juxtaposed with Ramos's admission that he was entirely mistaken about 2016. "I said, so many times and with such great confidence, that Trump would never make it to the White House without the Latino vote," Ramos acknowledges. "But I was wrong." He points out that close to half of the 27.3 million Latinos eligible to vote in the 2016 contest stayed home. "What happens in the Latino community is our own fault," he writes. "It can't be blamed on anyone else."
The authors suggest that Hispanics in the United States could be galvanized by the very aggression they encounter. "We feel defensive because we are literally being attacked," Ramos argues, while Wides-Muñoz notes that, although most Latinos rate education and jobs as higher priorities than immigration policy, the vilification of their community is eliciting "a deeper response, even in Latino families that didn't have to deal with the immigration system."
After nearly four decades as a legal permanent resident of the United States, I became a U.S. citizen in late 2014. The 2016 election marked my first vote, one I cast with excitement but also a sobering sense of responsibility; my dreams were not just for me now but also for my young American children. "Nothing ties you closer to a country than having your children born there,"Ramos writes. Yet he knows that being an immigrant means having roots that ignore borders, and that often the best we can do is embrace the ambiguities, overlaps and commonalities. "I'm from right here and I'm from out there," Ramos writes. "And I'm not at war with myself about it."
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Using a VPN helps. Same as downloading and watching videos that are restricted to just the mainland US and for that I thank USA IP for the help. For us website owners and bloggers, this is an essential tool so if you target Chinese mainland traffic, you can now know what video ads are being shown on screen. They are really cool and even my friends websites are now showing REAL POTENTIAL!
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Home-buying season is heating up. Homes sold faster in April than at any point in almost the last two years, according to data released by the National Association of Realtors. Existing-home sales are on pace to top 5 million this year.
Affordable financing doesn't just help homebuyers. An increase in the number of potential buyers boosts prices for sellers. And, it encourages builders to expand the supply of housing, which benefits the entire economy.
Down payments alone are poor predictors of default. FHA has successfully insured loans with 3.5 percent down for decades. Like FHA, Fannie and Freddie have retained guidelines ensuring that potential borrowers have strong credit scores and full documentation.
Editor's note: Mr. Liniger is CEO, Chairman, and Co-Founder of RE/MAX LLC.


John Wagner, the creator of Judge Dredd, has said the forthcoming movie adaptation staring Karl Urban would stay true to his creation.
Speaking to The LA Times about Dredd, which arrives in theatres later this year, Wagner said Karl Urban, who plays the title role, "will not remove his helmet and will not kiss his costar" while Olivia Thirlby was perfect as Judge Anderson, giving her character "a touching vulnerability".
Commenting on the 1995 version starring Sylvester Stallone, Wagner said that the new movie would not make the same mistakes.
Dredd hits theaters in 2D and 3D on September 21.


then enjoying the cosmopolitan charm of Sacramento, the state capital.
In those seven days I interviewed remarkable people and learned of amazing technology, some of it cutting edge, some old as time itself, and some, simply beyond time.
The fruits of that trip are now ripening and falling off the tree for public consumption. It started with my interview on Galactic First Contact, released last week on Talk For Food, with Sheldan Nidle (www.paoweb.com). It continues this week with Mark McAfee, founder of Organic Pastures Dairy (www.organicpastures.com), located in Fresno.
There are more, but for now, let's talk about milk.
Raw milk is living food. Indeed, it contains microscopic life forms that play an important and designed role in the maintenance of the ecological balance inside the human body. Pasteurization kills off this population, even organic pasteurized milk will be devoid of these health giving and sustaining life forms. Consider the opportunity to sustain or restore health that is missed each time we drink milk that contains no beneficial life in it.
Pasteurization is necessary due to the way that milk is routinely processed, and the degree to which commercial dairies rely on antibiotics to control pathogens… that they don't effectively do. In a balanced ecosystem, pathogen control is automatically taken care of. Organic Pastures is a balanced ecosystem. Even the cow pies are pathogen free. Just walk among Bessie and Myrtle, real California Happy Cows, and you'll be amazed, as I was, of the pungent smell we've grown accustomed to associating with dairies, that isn't there.
With that said, if you go out and look for raw milk, which isn't even available in all 50 states, you'll be greeted with a stern warning on the label, advising that it may contain bacteria that is harmful to your health.
On the other hand, if you buy regular "milk" that's available anywhere, the label won't tell you that it is devoid of life and health sustaining bacteria that your body absolutely needs. The label also won't tell you that the vitamin A & D that have been added, is synthetic, not natural. Synthetic vitamins don't function in the way natural ones do.
Lastly, the conventional label won't tell you about the pathogens that may yet survive the pasteurization process, such as listeria and e coli. Now, the presence of such bacteria would not be a concern if we were, on the whole, homeostatic, or in balance. Beneficial bacteria would be sufficiently present within the digestive tract to regulate any intruders that are introduced. But antibiotics prescriptions kill off aerobic bacterial populations, leaving us with an overgrowth of the anaerobic. This imbalance starts a cascade of others, and an steady decline in immune system effectiveness.
I'm passing on what I learned from Mark, a veritable encyclopedia of understanding about the place and role that raw milk plays in the care and feeding of human beings… not only today, but throughout history.
Cows and goats have been an integral part of many cultures that we'd consider "primitive," with the exception that health was commonplace, where today, it's becoming the exception to the rule.
I have more people and technologies to cover, but let's get this one up.
You can learn more about raw milk by tuning into my conversation with Mark McAfee on Talk for Food.
Where can I buy milk from cows with A2 protein? I live in Southern California.
I'm not familiar with the term A2 protein. You can get raw unpasteurized milk throughout California. I'd suggest that you visit http://www.rawmilk.com where you can find a source near you. Organic Pastures brand is available in health stores throughout the state. You can also contact them by email or phone (http://www.organicpastures.com) and very likely get your specific question on A2 protein answered.
Links about A1 and A2 milk.
Thanks for spreading the word about the virtues of drinking RAW milk.
And did you know that their is some research indicating that different breeds of dairy cows produce milk that is healthier than others breeds.
For example the black and white spotted Holstein breed that most people are familiar with produces milk that contains the A1 beta casein protein.
While other breeds such as Guernsey and to a lesser extent the Jersey dairy breed produces milk that contains A2 beta casein protein.
And their is apparently a very BIG difference between the A1 and A2 beta casein protein.
Some people believe that drinking milk that contains the A1 beta casein protein can be very harmful for some people.
While drinking milk that contains the A2 beta casein protein is usually well tolerated by most people.
As the human female produces milk that contains A2 beta casein protein as do goats and sheep. And as I mentioned earlier some breeds of dairy cows such as the Guernsey produce milk that contains the A2 beta casein protein.
So throughout human history most of the milk that humans drank came from animals that produced A2 beta casein protein containing milk.
But in modern times we began to drink milk that contained the A1 beta casein protein. And on top of that we make that milk even worse by pasteurizing it.
In the 1900's more farmers began converting their dairy herds to the Holstein breed because they produce more gallons of milk per day than do other breeds.
And the Holstein cow produces a higher percentage of the A1 beta casein protein containing milk than the do other breeds of dairy cows.
And A1 beta casein is seemingly not tolerated by some people. As most humans never drank milk that contained the A1 beta casein protein.
Historically humans almost always drank milk that came from animals that produced milk that contained the A2 beta casein protein.
So therefore it may be healthier for humans to drink RAW goats milk or RAW cow milk that came from a breed that produced A2 beta casein milk such as the Guernsey breed.
And by the looks of that photo with the tractor those are the Jersey breed of dairy cows. Which produces a higher percentage of A2 beta casein than does the Holstein.


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Public policy professor Janine Wedel  has been a pioneer in applying anthropological insights to topics that are typically the terrain of political scientists and economists. In her new book, Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market (Basic Books, 2010), she details a new system of power and influence and a new type of power broker who debuted in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. She explores the ways in which these movers and shakers (whom she calls "flexians") brandish power and influence, and more easily elude democratic process and free-market competition than their forebears. Shadow Elite was Book of the Month in January for the Huffington Post. Wedel now has a featured column  on the topic that appears every Thursday in that news outlet.


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Something historic happened late Sunday evening at Los Angeles's Home Depot Center. Robbie Rogers stepped onto the field for as the first active openly gay athlete to play in a major North American sport.
Rogers entered the 4-0 route for his LA Galaxy over the Seattle Sounders late in the game, around the 77th minute, as if it was nothing. He jogged across the field and took his position and waited for play to resume. He got a high five from Landon Donovan, the teammate who helped orchestrate Rogers' trade to the Galaxy, and ultimately his return to soccer, announced this weekend. But the crowd around him stood up and cheered. They let him know the moment, and its significance, wasn't lost on them. "I understand that historically this is a big thing. But for me, it's just another soccer game," Rogers told reporters after the game. Well, he wasn't entirely unaware of what was happening. "OK, this is a soccer game. I've done this a million times. But then obviously I know, I'm not naïve, I know people are watching."
Rogers sort-of retired from competition in February after announcing that he was gay. He needed to "step away" from the game, he said at the time. But over the next few months he received overwhelming support from other players. Some players and coaches started to push and prod Rogers towards returning to the game. One was Donovan, a former U.S. national team teammate and current L.A. Galaxy teammate, and another was Seattle Founders coach Sigi Schmid. So it was only fitting that Rogers would make his debut Sunday evening against one the men who helped usher him back to the game.


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Conference Report: Annual Hotel Association of Canada Conference
Jackie Sloat-Spencer
It was Tony Pollard's final Hotel Association of Canada (HAC) conference, as the president of the Ottawa-based association prepares to retire later this year. As the audience toasted the long-running advocate, they learned about innovations, the new sharing economy and the state of the industry.
"What an unpredictable year it's been," said Philippe Gadbois, SVP of Operations at Atlific Hotels and Chairman of the Board at HAC. "The Canadian stock market was one of the biggest losers in the developed world; the country's once-hottest economy, Alberta, became a 'have-not' province, and yet, 2015 was generally a good year in the hotel industry in this country."
Ending the year with 64-per-cent occupancy, ADR of $144 and $94 in RevPAR, the Canadian hotel industry is expected to see occupancy contract and a slight improvement in both ADR and RevPAR in 2016.
But new challenges are presenting themselves. "We continue to deal with the so-called 'shared economy,'" Gadbois added. "Our position and message is clear; provincial and municipal governments are leaving a ton of money on the table. Private hotel rooms must be regulated and treated the same way as all of our hotel rooms. Taxes should be paid on the total room, not simply the net. It must be a level playing field."
That sentiment was debated during a panel discussion featuring Airbnb's country manager for Canada, Aaron Zifkin, AskForTask Inc. CEO Muneeb Mushtaq and Rover Parking founder Tim Wootton. "In the past 12 months, interest in the sharing economy is tremendous," said Mushtaq. "The normalization or legitimization is the most drastic change in the past year," Zifkin added. But, when it comes to insurance and taxation, "insurance is still behind and they're working hard to come up with a product that makes sense for what's being offered," Wootton said.
In a later session, Canadian Minister of Small Business and Tourism Bardish Chagger urged the audience to keep the momentum going leading up to Canada's 150th birthday, while former CEO of Hilton Group, Sir David Michels admitted that after 52 years in the hospitality industry, he's found the recipe to success is about the right location, great employees, understanding the customer, offering value and above all, a comfortable bed.
Meanwhile, the HAC Hall of Fame Awards of Excellence were presented to Scott Allison, Marriott Hotels of Canada (Humanitarian Award); Carolyn J. Clark, FRHI Hotels & Resorts (Human Resources Award); The International Centre, Toronto (Green Key Meeting Award); and Pemberton Valley Lodge (Green Key Energy & Environment Award).
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Wales to miss worst of latest band of snow say forecasters
Forecasters say Wales is likely to escape the worst of the band of snow moving across the UK on Wednesday.
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A snow warning was been issued by the Met Office for North Wales on Wednedsay.
As much as four inches (10 cms) will fall on higher ground on Wednesday morning, while about an inch and half (4cms) will fall on lower ground.
A Met Office yellow "be aware" alert has been in force for Conwy, Flintshire, Wrexham, Denbighshire and Gwynedd since 6am but the snow is expected to turn to rain in the afternoon.
Heavy snow has been reported in parts of Wrexham, Flintshire and Conwy but it is not expected to last. A Met Office spokesman said the maximum temperature will be 6 °C.
Much of the UK is expected to be covered with a blanket of snow that in some places could be 6in (15cm) deep. But it will disappear almost as soon as it has arrived, heralding drier, warmer and sunnier weather for the rest of the week, forecasters predict.
The Met Office has issued severe weather warnings for much of Scotland and northern England, advising people to be aware of snow fall.
Snow will move into western Scotland and pass eastwards throughout the day across most parts of the UK, although west Wales, south west England and coastal parts of the South will see rain instead.
Sally Webb, a forecaster with MeteoGroup, the weather division of the Press Association, said snow would hit the Midlands later on Wednesday morning and London and East Anglia at about 4pm.
But later it will begin to clear and turn increasingly to rain and drizzle in western areas as milder air begins to move in.
"We will see up to 2cm (1in) across the South East throughout the day, 2cm to 5cm (1in to 2in) quite widely, and over higher ground and in the North up to 8cm (3in), or 10cm (4in) across higher ground," Miss Webb said.
"In Scotland there will be 4cm to 7cm (2in to 3in) widely, and 15cm (6in) expected on higher ground. "Overnight it will turn to patchy rain and drizzle across the UK, before a band of heavy rain moves in during the early hours.
"It will also be windy today, especially across northern Scotland."
The Environment Agency has 88 flood alerts in place, mainly in the South East, and 12 more serious flood warnings.
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Q: Can't set SSH port to something other than 22 When I try to set my SSH port to something other than 22 (editing /etc/sysconfig/iptables and /etc/ssh/sshd_config) I end up locked out of my server and having to boot into rescue mode to rectify the problem.
I've gone through this cycle a few times now, each time being more careful that I'm doing the right things.
Is it possible that my new port (33933 in this case) is somehow being blocked somewhere else - or there's another file referencing 22 that I need to change?
This is on CentOS 6 on a brand new dedicated box that I've just set up from oneprovider.com (an online.net reseller).

A: You can set ssh to multiple ports. Just had multiple Port lines, eg
    Port 22
    Port 1500

That way you can can port 22 still working while you troubleshoot port 33933.
Next after you changed your config and restart ssh (you can restart ssh with an active connection), would be to test the server is listening on that port.
    netstat -ltnp

Post the output of that.

A: I would guess that with CentOS it's SELinux blocking your connection. Try
selinux port -l | grep ssh

and see that probably only port 22 is allowed.
semanage port -a -t ssh_port_t -p tcp 39333

would add port 39333 to allowed ports for ssh. Verify with
semanage port -l | grep ssh

and you should be all set.

A: First question is, did you actually load the new configurations after you edited the files?
I would recommend setting up iptables to allow incoming connections on both ports as the first step. Secondly you can test an update to sshd without breaking your current ssh connection. If you type service sshd reload, you should be able to verify that you are able to start a new ssh connection, while keeping the old one alive, such that you can still revert your changes, if they do not work.
If you have inetd or xinetd installed on the server, you can use that to configure a secondary sshd port which operates independently from the primary. Here is an example of how that could look in xinetd:
service second-ssh
{
    type            = UNLISTED
    flags           = REUSE
    socket_type     = stream
    protocol        = tcp
    port            = 64739
    wait            = no
    user            = root
    disable         = no
    server          = /usr/sbin/sshd
    server_args     = -i
}

To find out if the other port is blocked somewhere on the network, you can use tcpdump on each end of the connection to see if the SYN packet is sent by one end and if it is received by the other end. If it turns out to be blocked, you can use traceroute to find out, where it is blocked: traceroute -n -T -p 33933 example.com

A: After editing those files, you need to restart both services in order to apply the new configuration.
Just run service sshd restart && service iptables restart and you should be able to access.


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NSA Forced Tech Companies to Cooperate with Spying
By Paul Wagenseil 2013-09-07T01:18:00Z
The National Security Agency persuades and coerces U.S. technology companies to comply with its requests for access to encrypted data, according to stories published online yesterday by The New York Times, The Guardian and Pro Publica.
What kind of pressure might be applied to technology companies that won't immediately comply?
Secret court orders and threats of imprisonment have been cited. One top telecommunications executive claimed his conviction on unrelated charges was rigged by the NSA after he refused to cooperate with a surveillance request.
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In most cases, coercion is not necessary. The NSA will first approach a company and ask for voluntary cooperation on the grounds of national security. Many companies agree, though few do so openly.
Only a few examples of voluntary cooperation have arisen. The best known involves "Room 641A" at an AT&T Internet hub in San Francisco.
In 2006, a former AT&T technician came forward to say that the NSA had set up a special room at the facility. All Internet traffic was allegedly "split," with one path routed into NSA-placed and -staffed equipment.
A class-action suit filed against AT&T over Room 641A was dismissed following the passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendment Act of 2008, which granted retroactive immunity to companies participating in the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program.
Other evidence of cooperation is more subtle. Some career military officers with substantial intelligence experience have retired at fairly young ages to take top security-related positions at telecommunications companies.
Let's make it look good
To protect themselves from legal liability under the pre-2008 warrantless wiretapping program, many cooperating companies insisted on a legal paper trail showing that the government had ordered them to do so.
Such may have been the case with Verizon Business Services, the corporate-phone-exchange division of Verizon, which in 2006 began receiving FISA court orders every 90 days compelling the unit to turn over all its call logs to the NSA.
(Because the NSA is generally not allowed to operate on U.S. soil, the court orders take the form of waivers requested by the director of the FBI to allow the NSA to do so in specific cases.)
The most recent of those court orders was the first document from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that The Guardian revealed on June 6, 2013, beginning a steady stream of NSA leaks that, after three months, shows no signs of slowing.
FISA court orders are secret, and hence companies receiving them cannot even reveal their existence.
MORE: FAQ: What's Going On With These Tapped Verizon Calls?
Do what we say, but don't talk about it
The same blanket secrecy applies to National Security Letters (NSLs), the next step in persuading a reluctant company to cooperate.
NSLs are not court orders, and can be issued by any government agency regarding matters of national security, but can compel provision only of metadata, not the contents. (The FBI is the largest user of NSLs.)
Companies generally can't refuse NSLs, though a few have taken the agencies issuing them to court, mostly over the gag-order aspect that forbids even the existence of the NSL from being disclosed.
A well-publicized case brought by a small Internet service provider (ISP) in 2004 dragged on for years until the gag order was partly lifted in 2010.
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled this past March that the NSL gag-order rule may be contrary to the First Amendment, but stayed implementation of her decision to allow the federal government time to appeal.
Following the initial Snowden revelations in June of this year, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Facebook appealed to the government for a relaxation of the gag order covering NSLs and FISA court orders.
The government allowed them to do so on a limited basis, as long as the orders and NSLs were lumped in with other orders and warrants; Google has rejected the provision as too vague, even as it added NSLs to its regular transparency reports in March.
More recently, Ladar Levison, the operator of Lavabit, an encrypted-email service used by Snowden, strongly hinted that an NSL was behind his decision to shut down the service last month.
"I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision," Levison wrote. "Unfortunately, Congress has passed laws that say otherwise. As things currently stand, I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks, even though I have twice made the appropriate requests."
Meanwhile, the NSA, under pressure from both the White House and digital-liberties advocates, says it will next month disclose most FISA court orders and NSLs from 2004 to mid-2011.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has said the intelligence community will subsequently release similar information on a yearly basis.
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Contempt of the NSA
What if you don't want to turn anything over? Hire a team of lawyers.
In 2008, Yahoo challenged the FISA Amendments Act as unconstitutional, but the effort failed.
Google has been very vocal about its opposition to government surveillance — it refused to unlock the Android smartphone used by a convicted pimp for the FBI — but has managed to do so without having any executives locked up.
That wasn't the case with former Qwest Communications chairman and chief executive officer Joseph Nacchio, who claimed his 2007 conviction on insider-trading charges was based on his refusal to cooperate with a warrantless 2001 NSA request to hand over call logs.
Ironically, Nacchio's demand that the NSA take the request to the FISA court, which the NSA found too onerous, was later enshrined into law by the 2008 FISA Amendments Act.
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Q: Android Progress Bar showing a certain percentage Is it possible to use the android progress bar to show things like stamina out of 100%?
I have had a look at the documentation but it says to use as a loading phase item, I cannot find where you could give the progress bar a number out off 100 to display for that...
Is it possible?
Thanks
M.

A: Figured it out thank you for all that looked at this, seems i didn't read properly, here is the solution..
public void ManageStamina()
{
    new Thread(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
                while (progressBarStatus < 100){
                    mHandler.post(new Runnable(){
                        public void run(){
                            mProgress.setProgress(progressBarStatus);
                        }
                    });
                }
            }
        });

}


Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.
How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences.
Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.
Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.
Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.
Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.
Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.
The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.
Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.
As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.
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I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.
It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.
It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee.
Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.
In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.
When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.
Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.


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Kwara Gov reshuffles cabinet, moves 5 commissioners
Kwara State Governor, Abdulrazaq
Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara on Friday announced a cabinet reshuffle involving five commissioners who are to move from one ministry to the other.
The Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to the Governor, Rafiu Ajakaye, announced this on Friday in a statement in Ilorin.
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According to the statement, those affected are the Commissioner for Communication, Olanrewaju Murtala who was moved to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, while the Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Harriet Adenike Afolabi Oshatimehin replaced Murtala in the Ministry of Communication.
He said the Commissioner for Environment, Aliyu Mohammed Saifudeen, had been moved to the Ministry of Local Government, Chieftaincy Affairs and Community Development.
Ajakaye said the Commissioner in the Ministry of Local Government, Chieftaincy Affairs and Community Development, Hajia Aisha Ahman-Pategi, had been redeployed to the Ministry of Special Duties.
"Commissioner for Special Duties, Funke Juliana Oyedun, goes to the Ministry of Environment," Ajakaye said.


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The French resistance in Lille that saved time for the British to be evacuated in Dunkirk
Post author By Jorge Álvarez
Categories In Second World War
German soldiers at Lille / photo Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-769-0236-25 / Borchert, Erich (Eric) on Wikimedia Commons
If we talk about battles of the Second World War, the names of some that are already inevitable references will come to mind, from Stalingrad to Berlin to El Alamein, Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, the Bulge and several more very famous ones. But there were others that are not so well known, even if some of them had a transcendental importance for the course of the war. This is the case with the Siege of Lille, which was part of a larger battle, that of France in the early stages of the conflict, and was instrumental in allowing the evacuation of Dunkirk.
Winston Churchill himself described it as vital in his book The Second World War, something that has been corroborated by many war correspondents and historians, considering that the tenacious resistance presented in Lille by the French Fourth and Fifth Corps entertained numerous German forces for almost four days, thus allowing the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) to gain precious time that meant the salvation, according to estimates by some authors, of up to 100,000 more soldiers than originally planned.
Lille is an inland city located in the Haute-France region on the Belgian border, about 65 kilometers from the coast of Dunkirk. When the joint attempt of the French Army and the BEF to stop the German advance into Belgium during the spring of 1940 failed, it became clear that a retreat into the interior of France would be too complicated due to logistical and geographical issues, so an original, though risky, alternative was chosen: to evacuate the troops by sea.
It was not easy either, since it was a matter of taking out a few tens of thousands of men (or so it was calculated; wrongly, since there would later be hundreds of thousands). And it had to be done in a hurry, before the enemy fell upon them, who were marching unstoppably in that direction. But the Royal Navy had already been assembling ships for this purpose, and what was called Operation Dynamo began. The weather helped the BEF, since the armoured units of General Heinz Guderian, the genius creator of the Blitzkrieg or lightning war, were hindered by the bad weather; also by the confrontation he had with Marshal Von Kluge, who ordered him to put the brakes on his impetus to push the Allies towards the coast following Hitler's instructions.
British soldiers boarding at Dunkirk under German fire / Image: public domain on Wikimedia Commons
All these events had passed in a dizzying way, in just eight months. The BEF landed in France in September 1939 with four divisions under the command of John Vereker Gort, a decorated veteran of the First World War who had argued strongly for the creation of such a force in the face of the conviction – rightly so – that France did not have the capacity to defend itself. The BEF entered Belgium, receiving another 13 reinforcement divisions in May 1940… and on the 19th of that month it was assumed that there was nothing to be done, on the 24th the plan to counterattack from the south was discarded and on the 26th the evacuation began.
On the night of the 27th, after King Leopold III surrendered Belgium, leaving the land to the Wehrmacht, most of the British had managed to concentrate on the River Lys, a river that rises in the French town of Lisbourg and flows into the Scheldt at the Belgian city of Ghent, after a course of 195 kilometres, of which 24.6 kilometres form the border between the two countries. However, only the Third Gallic Corps could join them, since the other two that operated in the area were trapped in Lille.
John Vereker Gort, Jean-Baptiste Molinié and Heinz Guderian / Image 1: public domain on Wikimedia Commons – Image 2: Fxc on Wikimedia Commons – Image 3: Bundesarchiv, Bild, on Wikimedia Commons
They were the aforementioned IV and V, led respectively by General Aymes and General Altmayer under the command of Jean-Baptiste Molinié (being the oldest graduate), which together with III were part of the 1st Army commanded by General René Prioux and were largely made up of native soldiers from the protectorates of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, including what would later become known as pied-noirs (Europeans living in North Africa). Both were hit and had to entrench themselves in Lille, which was immediately besieged by three Panzer divisions (4th, 5th and 7th) and four infantry divisions (11th, 217th, 253rd and 267th) under Kurt Waeger.
The disproportion was evident because the defenders numbered only 30,000 French plus 5,000 British and lacked sufficient armored units, so prolonged resistance was a chimera. In fact, attempts were made to break the siege on two occasions. One took place on the morning of the 28th and was double, as it was simultaneously led by the 2nd DINA (2nd Division d'Infanterie Nord-africaine) of Major General Pierre Dame, composed of Algerian riflemen and artillerymen, and the 5th DINA of Major General Augustin Agliany, composed of Moroccans and Tunisians. The former tried to cross the Deûle while the latter tried to cross the Moulin Rouge bridge. Both failed, although during these attempts they ambushed and captured numerous Germans, including General Fritz Kuhn.
Operations between 21 May and 4 June 1940 / Image: public domain on Wikimedia Commons
On the 29th a second attempt was made, which was also unsuccessful because although two companies and some tanks managed to get past the bridge, they had to turn around in front of the curtain of fire that the Germans had thrown over them. So Molinié decided to give up the exits and prepared for an all-out defence in the city. The battle took place mainly in the suburbs of Lille, where the French forced the Germans to take house by house. However, the superiority of the attackers and the lack of food and ammunition for a position that, after all, had had to be improvised – and with the civilian population also trapped – led to an agreement to capitulate.
On the night of May 31, hostilities ceased and the next morning, Waeger honored the surrendered troops by allowing them to parade their weapons before his own troops in formation (which, by the way, cost him his dismissal by an angry Hitler). The French had held out for four days. It does not seem much at first sight, but that time served to divert the German land divisions from the beaches of Dunkirk, where the pressure was only maintained by the Luftwaffe, allowing Gort to organise a defence to cover the evacuation. When Guderian was able to resume his operations he found a barrier hindering him, compounded by unfavourable terrain for his tanks.
The result was that Operation Dynamo, which ended on June 4, pulled no less than 224,000 British soldiers and 95,000 allies out of that rathole, even though tens of thousands of vehicles, guns and half a million tons of supplies were left behind. Sixty-eight thousand were also left behind but this could have been a catastrophe without parallel in military history and if it was not, it was due, in part, to the selfless defenders of the Lille siege.
Their Finest Hour. The Second World War (Winston S. Churchill) / The Battle for France & Flanders. Sixty years on (VVAA) / Dunkirk. Retreat to victory (Julian Thompson) / The war in France and Flanders 1939-1940 (Major L.F.Ellis) / Dunkirk. Fight to the last man (Hugh Sebag-Montefiore) /Operation Dynamo, the evacuation from Dunkirk, 27 may-4 June 1940 (History of War) /Wikipedia
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XODA-0.4.1 was released after rewriting some system functions using native PHP-code. Benchmarking some native PHP-functions against their system counterparts showed that the native ones work faster. This gave me the motivation to do the (at least partial) switch.
Now I was thinking about going on and rewriting the xd_search function and getting rid of the execs there. Before doing that, I decided to do another benchmark of several native PHP-approaches for recursive directory listing (found mostly on php.net/scandir) against the Linux/UNIX `find`. The results were interesting.
For short listings with up to 100 file/directories, the native PHP-functions did better. For longer listings though, the system find literally smashed PHP progressively with increasing the listing.
Imagine you need to have an own catalogue of scientific articles which you consider most important in your field. You can sort PDF-files with the articles in different directories, then assign appropriate "Filters" to every article and paste its Abstract along with any of your personal notes in the description of the PDF-file (article). Now you can do a search including looking into the descriptions to find any articles relevant for what you are interested. I personally found that quite useful as I know that the results would be my personally selected landmark articles and not everything out of a general database.


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What is toxicity? Toxicity by definition means; the quality of being toxic or poisonous. The example using the word was "the toxicity of a drug depends on its dosage". I found it interesting that the use of the word toxicity in the example sentence included the relationship to drug usage. But those of us suffering from side affects of Fluoroquinolone antibiotics often refer to it as Fluoroquinolone toxicity because we know from experience that it is not like a typical allergic reaction. The reason I bring this up is to offer some hope and insight having had my reaction over ten years ago and spending the last decade trying to recover. It's not been an easy journey for me but I'm here to tell you that there is hope.
Suffering a toxic reaction to an antibiotic was a wake up call for me. I've known since my teenage years that I don't tolerate medications well so I'd always done my best to avoid them. That being said when I was in grade school I had a bad case of pneumonia which required antibiotics. My fever was so bad at one point that I was delirious and my big sister told me years later that she thought I was going to die. Penicillin worked wonders so despite my fear of medications I trusted antibiotics. After all they were all derived from natural things like mold right? Wrong! There are synthetic antibiotics out there such as Fluoroquinolones that have very severe side affects which I learned about firsthand but lets get back to toxicity.
When one thinks of toxic exposure to chemicals or pesticides one thinks of detoxing. Well I'm of the opinion that exposure to toxic medications requires the same thinking. We need to detox toxins from our bodies in a safe and gentle manner that doesn't further harm us. There are ways to do this that don't involve paying hundreds or thousands of dollars. I've never had that kind of money so I've done it on the cheap. How you might ask. I've done it with food. A very simple yet effective detox strategy is to drink lemon water first thing in the morning and wait half an hour before eating or drinking anything else so that it has time to help your liver purge toxins. This easy method has been around a long time because of its effectiveness and safety. Just add the juice from ½ a freshly squeezed lemon to 8 oz of water and drink up. If it's too sour for you add a tsp of raw local honey to it and you're good to go. Easy peasy and raw honey in and of itself is helpful for healing.
There are other food based detox strategies that I've learned about and implement on a daily basis but this is by far the simplest of them. Remember if you really want to recover then you need to give your body the nutrients it needs to heal. Eating donuts or muffins for breakfast, fried food for lunch and pizza for dinner won't give your body the nutrition it needs to heal. They are empty calories for the most part. Fresh organic vegetables and greens, fresh fruit (or frozen if fresh isn't an option), seeds, nuts and in some cases dried fruits make excellent snacks (as long as they aren't full of additives), organic potatoes (yes potatoes!) and small amounts of grass fed meat will give your body the tools it needs to rebuild the damage from your toxic exposure. Also remember that you are what you eat!
It's important to mention that to aid your recovery one also needs to prevent further toxic exposure by buying cleaners and toiletries that are environmentally friendly (no harmful chemicals), avoiding pesticides like those found in weed killers (use garden vinegar instead) and chemicals in bug sprays and sun screens. I read a post just the other day about a person who Googled how to make non toxic insect repellent. The recipe called for distilled water (or boiled) with some olive oil and a couple drops of lavender essential oil. She was amazed at how well it worked! Not one single mosquito bite. I've heard that you can apply straight olive or coconut oil to your skin to repel bugs and it's very effective. So this summer don't tax your body further or waste your money on bug spray when there are healthy options available. And coconut oil can double as a sunscreen because it has an SPF of four.
Healing our bodies is possible! But just like a machine that requires a specific type of fuel that's free of contaminants and proper maintenance to run efficiently so too does our body need nutrients (fuel) to repair damage, help to remove toxins (contaminants), and avoidance of more toxic exposure. These are all key elements especially in today's world to allow our bodies to function at an optimal level.
I'm so sorry. Have you tried gentle detoxing? I've been doing it for years and probably will for the rest of my life.
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