I've been reading this thread for a while now but thought I'd share it with fellow BPD sufferers because some of it is hilarious and I'm sure a lot of people can relate to it.
Just a warning that there are some comments involving suicide.
I know!! It's scary how many of them I relate to. I like how it's done in a jokey kind of way though.
This one made me laugh - it's me to a tee!!
"You go on a dating website just to get some attention after a break up to feel better about yourself and youre shopping through various candidates and they all have written that theyre "extremely positive and happy people" and "love to do something new everyday" and then you think to yourself F**K how hard is it to find someone just a little bit miserable so I don't look so bad"
Oh dear, congrats on the pay rise though!
You know you're BPD when your boyfriend say's he'll be over soon then doesn't turn up so you ignore his calls for 2 days and make him seriously worry, then finally answer one shouting at him to leave you the f alone. Then feel guilty later and ask for him to come over for a cuddle.
That was a weekly thing! I put Lewis though a lot of crap!
There was one on there about how a boss or someone at work asks if they can have a quiet word with you later and you spend all day panicking about what it could be, worrying you're going to get fired so start editing your CV and preparing a goodbye speech when all they want is to ask if you can cover someone's shift. I do that all the time!!
Haha I know what you mean, I always jump to stupid conclusions about things and convince myself that everyone hates me and doesn't want to spend any time with me!
You know you're BPD when loads of little bad things happen to mess up your day and you're convinced that the world just doesn't want you to have a good day and everyone's out to get you!
Could so relate to some of thw things on that thread so thanks, nice to know youre not the only odd one!
my particular struggle atm is being told that im genetically predisposed to being emotionally smesitive, ao its no wonder you feel so crap.....then in the dame breathe expecting me to not be so emotional and deal with things better?!
I find professionals to be very contradictory!
You know you have BPD when you laugh hysterically for a minute before sobbing your eyes out.
Misdiagnosed in what way Hayley? That you have BPD or that you don't?
You knlw you have BPD when a girl from your dbt group, who you actually like, announces that her 1:1 is the same as yours and then you hate her! And on top of that, you definately know you have bpd when you actually hate your therapist, but dont want to share her!
You know you have BPD when you wake up feeling hyper and have a bounce in your step, then you feel like you're about cry and breakdown and want to cut, then you're hyper, then you keep crying and want to cut again!
Agh I hate BPD and the stupid mood swings!!!
Haha I know the feeling hun. I'm always changing my mind about things and any new idea has to be done NOW!! So impatient.
You're not alone Emmz, glad this thread can help.
So, they decided ASD rather than PD...better late than never eh...Hayley did you ever follow up the Asperger's comment?


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Caring for aging parents from a distance: a growing problem
"I had the feeling that all wasn't well with my father," Claire Milne recalled.
It was Christmastime in 2003, and Milne had flown from her London home to visit her 82-year-old father in Maryland. Milne noticed that her dad struggled to stay upright as he walked — early signs of a mysterious neurological condition.
Over the next four years, Milne, 56, would travel across the Atlantic every few months to watch over him, standing by during hospital stays, offering support as well to her ailing stepmother.
She helped arrange electronic payment of their bills. She helped them think through the pros and cons of moving into an apartment. She made sure her siblings were up to date on the latest health news.
"I don't think of it as a duty," Milne, a telecommunications consultant, explained shortly before her father died last month. "I think of it as what I want to do."
Posted in * Culture-Watch, Health & Medicine, Marriage & Family
Barack Obama's Speech at the Jefferson Jackson Dinner
About twenty minutes and worth the time.
Anyone else watching the debates tonight?
Posted on January 6, 2008 by The_Elves
If anyone's interested… Here's an open discussion thread for those watching the Republican and Democratic debates tonight on ABC.
NY Times: AIDS Patients Face Downside of Living Longer
John Holloway received a diagnosis of AIDS nearly two decades ago, when the disease was a speedy death sentence and treatment a distant dream.
Yet at 59 he is alive, thanks to a cocktail of drugs that changed the course of an epidemic. But with longevity has come a host of unexpected medical conditions, which challenge the prevailing view of AIDS as a manageable, chronic disease.
Mr. Holloway, who lives in a housing complex designed for the frail elderly, suffers from complex health problems usually associated with advanced age: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, kidney failure, a bleeding ulcer, severe depression, rectal cancer and the lingering effects of a broken hip.
Those illnesses, more severe than his 84-year-old father's, are not what Mr. Holloway expected when lifesaving antiretroviral drugs became the standard of care in the mid-1990s.
The drugs gave Mr. Holloway back his future. But at what cost?
That is the question, heretical to some, that is now being voiced by scientists, doctors and patients encountering a constellation of ailments showing up prematurely or in disproportionate numbers among the first wave of AIDS survivors to reach late middle age.
Joe Nocera on Amazon Dot Com: Put Buyers First? What a Concept
My Christmas story "" the one I've been telling and retelling these last 10 days "" began on Friday, Dec. 21.
It was early in the morning, and I had awoken with the sudden, sinking realization that a present I had bought for one of my sons hadn't yet arrived. It wasn't just any present either; it was a PlayStation 3, a $500 item, and a gift, I happened to know from my sources, that he was hoping for.
Like most things I buy online, the PlayStation had come from Amazon.com. So I went to the site and tracked the package "" something, thankfully, that is a snap to do on Amazon. What I saw made my heart sink: the package had not only been shipped, it had been delivered to my apartment building days earlier and signed for by one of my neighbors. I knocked on my neighbor's door, and asked if she still had the PlayStation. No, she said; after signing for it, she had put it downstairs in the hallway.
Now I was nearly distraught. In all likelihood, the reason I hadn't seen the package earlier in the week is because it had been stolen, probably by someone delivering something else to the building. Even if that wasn't the case, the one thing I knew for sure was that it was gone "" for which I could hardly blame Amazon.
Nonetheless, I got on the phone with an Amazon customer service representative, and explained what had happened: the PlayStation had been shipped, delivered and signed for. It just didn't wind up in my hands. Would Amazon send me a replacement? In my heart of hearts, I knew I didn't have a leg to stand on. I was pleading for mercy.
I shudder to think how this entreaty would have gone over at, say, Apple, where customer service is an oxymoron. But the Amazon customer service guy didn't blink. After assuring himself that I had never actually touched or seen the PlayStation, he had a replacement on the way before the day was out. It arrived on Christmas Eve. Amazon didn't even charge me for the shipping. My son was very happy. So, of course, was I.
Posted in * Culture-Watch, * Economics, Politics, Blogging & the Internet, Economy
Religion and Ethics Weekly: Religion and the Iowa Caucuses
BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: This week: the Iowa caucuses. The two winners, Illinois senator Barack Obama and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, both talked openly about their faith, and our managing editor Kim Lawton says both men had an active faith-based outreach strategy.
Kim, welcome. Let's start with Obama. To what extent did religion play a role in his campaign?
KIM LAWTON: It played a huge role and one that I think is not widely acknowledged. He had a very active effort to court people of faith, including some of those evangelical voters. He held a series of faith forums across Iowa. A lot of times he didn't personally show up. His campaign had these meetings for people of faith, so it was under the radar partly because he wasn't there, but he brought people together to talk about social justice and moral issues. His campaign, actually on the Web site, had a phone number that the week before the Iowa caucuses every day people could call at 8:30 in the morning and pray for Barack Obama's campaign there. So it was very intense and very targeted.
ABERNETHY: And Huckabee got a big amount of support from evangelicals. Let me ask you this: when an evangelical Christian goes to a caucus and votes for, stands up for Huckabee, thinks about voting for Huckabee, what does that person see in him?
The 2008 Mere Anglicanism Conference
GOD'S TRUSTWORTHY WORD: SCRIPTURE, TRADITION, AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD
The twenty-first century crisis in Anglicanism has arisen out of more than two hundred years of growing
hermeneutical suspicion about the eternal trustworthiness of God's Word Written. This crisis can be resolved
only through a faithful reclaiming by the Church of such trust. Analysis and reflection around this issue will
constitute the program of this coming year's conference, led by a roster of internationally renowned speakers.
Dr. Jerry Root — with a focus on C. S. Lewis
Bishop Robert Duncan "" with a focus on developments in the Anglican Communion
Canon Robert Crouse "" with a focus on sacramentalism in the Church Fathers and the English Reformers
Bishop (God willing) Mark Lawrence "" with a focus on the life and leadership of Charles Henry Brent
Canon Ashley Null "" with a focus on Thomas Cranmer for Today
Dr. Paul Moser "" with a focus on Jesus as God's Trustworthy Word
Canon Michael Green "" with a focus on "marching orders" for Anglicanism in a New Reformation
Posted in * Anglican - Episcopal, - Anglican: Latest News, Anglican Identity, Theology, Theology: Scripture
Peter Ould: Deciphering Archbishop Greg Venables
The problem is Canterbury and the trust is running out. While Rowan sends out seemingly positive messages of conversation and dialogue he is in actuality inert and dangerously passive. As one leading organiser of GAFCON pointed out to me this afternoon, the Windsor Report clearly stated that those who caused the tears in the Communion to take place (the consecrators of Gene Robinson) should not be permitted representative functions in the instruments of unity. Yet that is exactly what an invite to Lambeth 2008 is – it is a representative voting role for a Bishop. Even Tom Wright agrees that that's what the Windsor Report asked for, so in which case why is Rowan issuing invites to people that the Windsor Report says shouldn't be coming?
This is the issue – Rowan, like it or not, is not doing his job. Furthermore, leading members of his team are telling TEC that it's perfectly OK for them to carry on regardless with same-sex blessings and other ACO officials are resident clergy at churches where controversial gay communions take place. These key staff members are not censured nor is there a public retraction. Why should the orthodox leaders believe that Rowan will act positively when he lets his staff say exactly the opposite?
Posted in * Anglican - Episcopal, Anglican Provinces, Cono Sur [formerly Southern Cone]
Ministers Who Supported Huckabee in Iowa Received Anonymous Warning Letters
Iowa pastors who support Republican Mike Huckabee for president have received letters warning them that getting involved in politics could endanger the tax-exempt status of their churches.
Several pastors who have publicly backed Huckabee, a Southern Baptist minister who has support from many evangelicals, said they have received the letters, which have no return address. They have arrived in the weeks leading to Thursday's precinct caucuses.
Two letters were sent to the Rev. Brad Sherman, of Solid Rock Christian Church in Coralville. The first arrived a couple weeks ago and warned that he could be prosecuted for his support of Huckabee.
"I just laughed. No one lands in jail for this," Sherman said. "Somebody is trying to intimidate Christians from getting involved."
Posted in * Culture-Watch, * Economics, Politics, Law & Legal Issues, Religion & Culture, US Presidential Election 2008
`In God We Trust' will move from edge of new coins
The national motto "In God We Trust" will move from the edge of new dollar coins honoring U.S. presidents to the front or back of the currency.
A provision in the $555 billion domestic spending bill for 2008, which President Bush signed into law on Dec. 26, calls for the change to take place "as soon as is practicable." Greg Hernandez, a spokesman for the U.S. Mint, said the change will occur in 2009.
The Mint began producing presidential one-dollar coins in 2007, honoring George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, the first four presidents. The words "In God We Trust" were placed along the edge of the coins, as instructed by Congress, Hernandez said.
"It wasn't the Mint's decision to move the motto (to the edge); it was according to law," he said.
Posted in * Culture-Watch, * Economics, Politics, Economy, Politics in General, Religion & Culture
High court to weigh in on lethal injection
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday on whether a common lethal injection method is unconstitutional. The case, which has prompted a temporary halt in executions, comes at a crucial time for capital punishment nationwide.
The dispute from Kentucky tests standards for when a method of execution is cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. Although the basic constitutionality of capital punishment is not at issue, the case has galvanized larger questions about the death penalty.
Executions in 2007 dropped to a 13-year low of 42, largely because states began putting executions on hold soon after the justices announced they would hear the Kentucky case. Thirty-five of the 36 states that permit capital punishment carry out executions with a lethal drug combination.
In 2007, 110 defendants were sentenced to die, the lowest number since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. At the end of 2007, New Jersey became the first state to pass a law abolishing the death penalty in more than 40 years
In SW Florida Trinity Anglican gets ready to mark a year in existence
Though it was founded a mere 12 months ago, the traditions and beliefs of Trinity Anglican Church of Port Charlotte are steeped in religious history.
Margo Lang, whose late husband served as rector at St. Paul's Anglican Church, joined forces with Ed and Joy Robedee to found the new church on Jan. 14, 2007, after the membership of St. Paul's had dwindled, and the church disbanded.
The retired Rt. Rev. Stanley Lazarczyk, bishop ordinary, agreed to lead the fledgling church, which meets at the Cultural Center of Charlotte County on Sundays and holy days.
Lazarczyk made it clear that Anglican Catholic Church is not to be confused with the Episcopal Church
"There's a number of reasons," he said. "Number one is the ordination of women. We believe it is against Holy Scripture. The Bible to us is the most important book. Everything that is contained in it is necessary for salvation and we don't deviate from it. The second reason is the change of the 1928 prayer and the 1940 hymnal."
Posted in * Religion News & Commentary, Anglican Continuum, Other Churches

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Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, nota in precedenza come Stoopid Monkey e stilizzato Stoop!d Monkey, è una casa di produzione e studio di animazione, con sede a Burbank, in California.

Fondata da Seth Green, Matthew Senreich, John Harvatine IV e Eric Towner nel 2011, produce principalmente serie animate ed è l'unione della partnership tra Stoopid Monkey (che è stato istituito nel 2005) e Buddy Systems Studios. Ha prodotto Robot Chicken e Titan Maximum di Adult Swim, SuperMansion di Crackle e Buddy Thunderstruck di Netflix.

Filmografia

Televisione

 Robot Chicken – serie animata (2005-in corso)
 Titan Maximum – serie animata (2009)
 SuperMansion – serie animata (2015-2019)
 Buddy Thunderstruck – serie animata (2017)
 Hot Streets – serie animata (2018-2019)
 Crossing Swords – serie animata (2020-2021)
 The Summoner – serie animata (2021)
 M.O.D.O.K. – serie animata (2021)
 Ultra City Smiths – serie animata (2021)
 Santa Inc. – serie animata (2021)

Webserie
 The Stoopid Monkey Show (2011-2014)
 WWE Slam City (2014)
 The Grand Slams (2014-2018)
 Kre-O Transformers (2015)
 Bratz (2015)
 Lego Scooby-Doo (2015-2016)
 Camp WWE (2016-2018)
 Blark and Son (2018-in corso)
 Alabama Jackson (2022-in corso)

Lungometraggi

 Changeland (2019)

Logo
In ogni episodio di Robot Chicken, fino alla quarta stagione, dopo i titoli di coda, compare il logo Stoopid Monkey. Il logo raffigura una scimmia in stile cartone animato, che svolge sempre un'attività pericolosa che può portare alla morte e poco dopo si può sentire la voce di un irritato Seth Green che dice appunto: "Stupid monkey" (letteralmente "Stupida scimmia"). La scimmia di Stoopid Monkey è stata disegnata dall'attore Adam Talbott. A partire dalla quinta stagione, il logo vede la testa della scimmia sorridente fatta d'argento brillante, con il testo scintillante sotto di esso.

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Collegamenti esterni

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This is an opportunity to visit the Grade II listed house and garden of international furniture-maker, John Makepeace OBE and his horticulturalist wife, Jenny. The visit will include a tour of the garden and a talk in the house where there is a collection of modern ceramics, paintings, sculpture and furniture. We will hear about making furniture today, some of the woods used, and various commissions.
When John and Jenny Makepeace bought Farrs in 2001 the historic house had been in the same family since it was built in 1730. The garden is considered to be one of the finest examples of contemporary gardens. On arrival we will see the yew topiary – originally in the shape of a steam train and now coaxed into a more abstract outline. John and Jenny each have their own garden – John has designed a wonderful grass garden (containing 47 varieties of grasses), with a pool, bridge and circular stone pavilion. There are four areas of Jenny's garden, including a potager, cleft oak fruit- cage, raised vegetable beds, a glasshouse and a straw-bale retreat. The walled two-acre garden has been re-modelled and there is an informal orchard containing a variety of fruit trees and patrolled by geese!
John has had an amazing career, having first seen fine furniture being made at the age of eleven. Early commissions from Oxford colleges and Liberty were followed by international museums, corporate and private clients. John bought Parnham House in 1976 to establish a School for Craftsmen in Wood and it is here that from 1980–1982 David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon, studied furniture making. We have arranged that at the end of our visit we will enjoy a cream tea (included in the price).
Venue: Farrs, Whitcombe Rd, Beaminster DT8 3NB (parking is available either in the Square or at Yarn Barton car park – both of which are a short walk from Farrs).


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Ann Janeth Margareta Rosendahl (* 20. Juli 1959 in Örebro) ist eine ehemalige schwedische Skilangläuferin.

Rosendahl, die für den Garphyttans IF startete, kam in der Saison 1982/83 viermal in die Punkteränge und errang damit den 27. Platz im Gesamtweltcup. In der folgenden Saison erreichte sie mit Platz 12 über 5 km in Reit im Winkl und Rang zehn über 10 km in Autrans den 24. Platz im Gesamtweltcup ihr bestes Gesamtergebnis. Beim Saisonhöhepunkt, den Olympischen Winterspielen 1984 in Sarajevo, belegte sie jeweils den 23. Platz über 5 km und 20 km und den 21. Rang über 10 km. Zudem wurde sie dort zusammen mit Karin Lamberg-Skog, Kristina Hugosson und Marie Risby Fünfte mit der Staffel. Im folgenden Jahr lief sie bei den Nordischen Skiweltmeisterschaften 1985 in Seefeld in Tirol auf den 31. Platz über 5 km.

Weblinks
 Ann Rosendahl auf skisport365.com

Skilangläufer (Schweden)
Olympiateilnehmer (Schweden)
Teilnehmer der Olympischen Winterspiele 1984
Schwede
Geboren 1959
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Q: Packages are broken with unmet dependencies - cannot install fglrx I'm new to Ubuntu and trying to survive, but, I can't figure this one out - hopefully it's easy!
Ubuntu Software Center says: New software can't be installed, because there is a problem with the software currently installed. Do you want to repair this problem now?
When I do, it just fails.
I think it all started when I tried to install a better drive from AMD's site for my video card. Based on information from the terminal window I tried:
sudo apt-get install -f

and I got
relskhan@Ceti-Alpha-V:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
[sudo] password for relskhan:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for relskhan:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  fglrx
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fglrx
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 97 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/59.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 260 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 280931 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../fglrx_2%3a13.350.1-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking fglrx (2:13.350.1-0ubuntu2) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx_2%3a13.350.1-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/etc/acpi/fglrx-powermode.sh', which is also in package fglrx-core 2:14.501-0ubuntu1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/fglrx_2%3a13.350.1-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I am definitely at a loss and need help!

A: Your output indicates the below packages have unmet dependencies:

*

*fglrx-amdcccle

*xvba-va-driver

Which means APT tried to install the above packages but failed half way, because some other required packages are not available in your system.
Therefore we need to remove the above packages before doing anything else. Run in Terminal:
sudo dpkg --purge --force-all fglrx-amdcccle xvba-va-driver

Then we can remove all the fglrx related packages:
sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*

You can install the new fglrx:
sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates

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Usual suspect and current Prem boss are only names Paul Scholes wants as Man Utd boss
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Paul Scholes has named Mauricio Pochettino and Antonio Conte as his top two choices to replace Ralf Rangnick as Manchester United manager this summer.
The Red Devils appointed Rangnick as their interim boss back in November, with the German coach taking over from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer until the end of the season before he then takes on a consultancy role with the club.
After a five-game unbeaten start to his tenure, Rangnick has suffered a reality check over the past week. A woeful performance and home loss to Wolves was followed by a fortunate FA Cup win over an Aston Villa side who were clearly the better team at Old Trafford on Monday night.
Scholes has previously questioned Rangnick's appointment, claiming it's 'astonishing' that a manager with so few trophies is in charge. And now he has revealed that he wants Conte or Pochettino to take over.
United were in talks with Conte after Solskjaer's sacking but decided to go in a different direction. That left the door open for Tottenham to swoop after they sacked Nuno Espirito Santo.
Pochettino, meanwhile, has been repeatedly linked with the Old Trafford hotseat and has been in charge at PSG for a year.
Conte, Pochettino the only two
Asked who he views as the ideal replacement for Rangnick, the Red Devils legend told the Webby & O'Neill YouTube channel: "Conte at Tottenham or Pochettino. I think one of those is the manager we want.
"We know that Conte is up there with [Pep] Guardiola, [Jurgen] Klopp and [Thomas] Tuchel. We know that, that's a given.
"So I think Man United should be looking for someone like that. Tottenham fans won't like me saying it, but I think they could probably still get him [in the summer].
"You can already see Conte's getting a bit frustrated with his players, he wants other stuff. I think Conte could do something special here.
"He's got the pedigree to do it. Will we be able to get him in? I don't know.
"I think Pochettino is a brilliant manager, I love what he does and I love what he did at Tottenham.
"We don't know yet what's happening at PSG. Let's see if he can prove to be an elite manager. He still has something to prove for me but I…
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Day Twelve was our last day in Tambor. The newlyweds, Mick and I, and two other couples decided to take the bus to Nicaragua and stay there a few days.
My stomach was still upset from the previous day, so I took it easy most of the day. Although the water is safe to drink in Costa Rica, the taste of the water is different, and I had been brushing my teeth with the tap water. My stomach ache didn't stop me from enjoying really good food at H&B.
The coconut flan I had after lunch was the best I've tasted in my life. Yum!
By nightfall we decided to go exploring. The cemeteries are above ground and look spooky at night, but mostly because my camera doesn't take good pictures in the dark.
For dinner we enjoyed some spaghetti.
The dessert was on the house because we had stayed so many nights.
We almost returned to our room without paying for our five more nights because we thought the extra was charged to my credit card, and my Spanish isn't very good, but Carlos, one of the owners of H&B politely explained the difference. We had five hours to sleep before we had to catch the 4 a.m. bus.
The bus ride the next morning took us to the ferry.
From there we grabbed another bus and braved a sweltering ride to Nicaragua, the land of lobster and Volcanoes. We went through several passport checks before grabbing a cab to San Juan del Sur.
We bought tacos for dinner.
The hostels were full, so we rented a two bedroom house with a kitchen for the eight of us to stay.
The exchange rate is 25 cordobas to a dollar, so Nicaragua is a good place to shop. I put in earplugs and went to bed early because I was exhausted after eight hours of travel. I slept like a baby though!
By Gina Decker in Travel on June 1, 2014 .


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Game Rewind: Pirates at Brooklyn, July 28, 1936
During the 1936 season, the Pittsburgh Pirates finished eight games out of first place. The Brooklyn Dodgers ended up 25 games out of first place, only ranking ahead of the 100-loss Philadelphia Phillies. On July 28th of that season, the Pirates and Dodgers were two evenly matched clubs and it took extra innings to decide the contest.
The Pirates were trying to salvage this road series at Ebbets Field, which saw Brooklyn win three straight games, including a Sunday doubleheaders on July 26th that ended with two walk-off wins for the hometown club. The Pirates also dropped Monday's contest, which was played in front of 485 fans. The crowd was a little bit better on Tuesday, as 1,859 fans rattled around Ebbets, hoping to push their seventh place champs to victory.
The Pirates were sending out lefty Ralph Birkofer to start this game. He would end up finishing his career with the 1937 Dodgers, with his final game coming less than a year after this game. At the time of this contest, he had a 5-3, 4.26 record. His mound opponent was right-hander Tom Baker, who had an 0-7, 4.21 record at the time. Baker's record/ERA showed just how poorly the Dodgers played at this time. In June, he made six appearances and had a 3.62 ERA in 37.1 innings. He lost all six games.
Neither pitcher was around for the decision. Birkofer gave up five runs in 4.1 innings. Baker allowed three runs and nine base runners in 2.1 innings. As an interesting side note, one day after starting this game, Baker pitched in relief during both games of a doubleheader.
The Pirates opened up the scoring in the first inning with a Lloyd Waner single, followed by a Paul Waner triple. The Pirates had a walk, double, walk and single in the second inning, but they failed to score a run. Birkofer gave up two singles in the bottom of the second, but kept the Dodgers off the board.
In the third inning, Gus Suhr and Arky Vaughan drew walks. They would score on singles by Bill Brubaker and Tom Padden. The second single came against Max Butcher, who would go on to become a strong pitcher for the Pirates. He joined the team exactly three years after this game in a trade for Gus Suhr.
The Dodger got through against Birkofer in the bottom of the third. He issued a one-out walk, then with two outs, he allowed a single and a two-run double to make it a 3-2 game.
It's amazing that the Pirates traded for Butcher because he had one of the worst innings without allowing a hit in the fourth. The Pirates scored three runs on five walks and a sacrifice fly. It might actually be more amazing that Butcher batted for himself in the bottom of the inning and stayed in the game. He wasn't done giving up runs either. Butcher allowed a two-run triple in the fifth by Vaughan, which scored Paul Waner and Suhr. That gave the Pirates an 8-2 lead against one of the league's worst teams, but Birkofer gave some of those runs right back.
Brooklyn added three runs in the fifth on a homer, double and two straight RBI singles. That brought on reliever Mace Brown, who got out of the inning without any additional damage.
The Dodgers chipped away at the deficit in the sixth with one more run. In the eighth, Brown gave up a single, walk and double, which made it 8-7 and ended his day. Red Lucas came on in relief and Brooklyn tied it on a sacrifice fly. The Pirates put two men on in the top of the ninth and the Dodgers had a runner in the bottom of the inning, but neither could scored the go-ahead run, sending the game into extra innings.
It didn't take long for the Pirates to score, but they needed some help. A double by Suhr and a single by Vaughan, put two men on with one out. Bill Brubaker came to the plate and lifted a ball to center field that was dropped when Eddie Wilson lost it in the sun. Suhr scored, but the Pirates couldn't tack on any insurance runs. It wouldn't matter however, as Red Lucas limited the Dodgers to a single in the ninth for the win.
Suhr scored a career high four runs in this game and he collected four hits. Both of the Waners had two hits and two runs scored. Vaughan had two hits and drove in three runs. Tom Padden had three hits and drove in two runs. Pep Young was ejected in the eighth after arguing a call while on defense. The Dodgers used 17 players in this game, which was almost unheard of back then.
Here's the boxscore and play-by-play courtesy of Retrosheet.
Here are links to the previous Game Rewind articles:
Pirates vs Mets, July 1, 1966
Pirates at Phillies, August 3, 1990
Pirates vs Pirates, March 11, 1928
Pirates vs Padres, May 14, 1975
Pirates vs Paterson, May 7, 1933
Pirates vs Reds, August 22, 1969
Alleghenys vs Red Stockings, May 2, 1877
Pirates vs Phillies, June 27, 1993
Pirates vs Moose, August 17, 1924
Pirates vs Giants, August 26, 1926
Pirates vs Pirates, March 8, 1933
Pirates vs Phillies, June 8, 1903
Alleghenys vs Hoosiers, June 15, 1889
Pirates vs Cardinals, September 28, 1937
Pirates vs Yankees, July 5, 1923
Pirates vs Reds, April 27, 1912
Pirates vs Indians, July 17, 1999
Pirates vs Cubs, April 21, 1991
Pirates at Reds, April 14, 1909
Pirates at Braves, August 23, 1971
Pirates vs Giants, September 16, 1962
Pirates vs Athletics, July 20, 1959
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NOAA is also using new technology with their weather information, called Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME). SAME provides specific, timely information in a digital format on the nature and location of a threat to the safety of those most immediately at risk from severe weather or hazards. The SAME six-digit identification format (048085 for McKinney residents) allows listeners to receive only messages and information for their selected geographic areas. Currently, if using a SAME enabled NOAA All-Hazard Weather Radio, threat messages are disseminated based on the county or counties that have been programmed by the user.
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That Was Close! Man Claims Lottery Prize Days Before Expiring
Chuck Wood Published: April 12, 2021
A man nearly left $150,000 on the table when he lost a winning Powerball ticket. That's not all; he found the ticket just days before it was going to expire.
Anil Philip from Michigan bought a Powerball ticket for March 14, 2020 drawing. As COVID-19 began ramping up, Philip decided to put the ticket away for a while to wait for things to calm down before claiming the prize.
Flash forward to March 2021. Philip told Michigan Lottery officials that he forgot where he placed the ticket.
"I like to play the Powerball game and was so excited when I found out I won $150,000," Philip said. "I won the prize right when COVID-19 hit, so I decided to wait to claim the prize. I ended up misplacing the ticket and just found it a few days ago."
I could only imagine the panic he felt after finally finding the ticket and then realizing it was set to expire in a few days. That's a lot of pressure!
Philip didn't let the ticket leave his hand before taking it to the lottery headquarters to claim his prize.
"I was so relieved and excited to have found it just in time before it expired," Philip said.
Philip plans to pay off his student debts with the winnings.
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Apart from Japan's cute animal cafes, you can also experience Tokyo's cool maid cafes. We visited the Mia Maid Cafe in Tokyo and things got kawaii. Find out how to get a relaxing hand massage after a delicious meal. It's all here in our latest episode of Japanoizy, our original travel video series exploring the best of Japan.


Ese E Debuts A Fresh New Single For The Year 2019. A Very Inspiring Trap Music Aiming At Educating The Younger Generations In Our Today's Society About The Dangers Of Drugs and Abuses.
4 D MIND is a cautious song talking about the rate at which young once are now involve in drug abuse.
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Get your hand out of my shower
Before the advent of the modern environmental movement, National Review founder Bill Buckley used to proclaim with a glint in his eye that a liberal is someone who wants to reach into your shower and adjust the temperature of the water. Man, oh, man, was he right. The liberals' environmental agenda has brought Buckley's satirical thrust uncomfortably close to reality. See, for example, the Wall Street Journal article "A water fight over luxury showers." Stephen Power reported:
Gene Goforth sells showerheads–big ones, like the Raindance Imperial 600 AIR. Selling for as much as $5,457, it has a 24-inch spray face, 358 no-clog channels and a triple-massage option. "You can just stand under it, and it helps your psyche," says Mr. Goforth, who has one in his home.
Now, Mr. Goforth is in a lather over the federal government's tough new line on water-hogging showerheads, part of a new effort to enforce energy- and water-use regulations. "Leave my shower alone," Mr. Goforth recently wrote in a letter to the Department of Energy.
Regulators are going after some of the luxury shower fixtures that took off in the housing boom. Many have multiple nozzles, cost thousands of dollars and emit as many as 12 gallons of water a minute. In May, the DOE stunned the plumbing-products industry when it said it would adopt a strict definition of the term "showerhead" in enforcing standards that have been on the books–but largely unenforced–for nearly 20 years.
The Journal explains in the handy sidebar to the story that the federal maximum for a showerhead is 2.5 gallons per minute, at 80 pounds per square inch.
And that's not all. The Energy Policy Act of 1992 was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush. In 1994 the implementing regulations went into effect, requiring that all residential toilets be manufactured using a 1.6-gallons-per-flush standard. On the tenth anniversary of the regulations, American Standard made an important announcement: "today the worry-free 1.6-gallon toilet is becoming a reality."
The busybodies of the administrative state have remained hard at work. In December 2007, Congress enacted an energy bill that will, among many, many other things, force us to buy a new kind of light bulb. As Andrew Ferguson explained in "A nation of dim bulbs," environmental enthusiasts don't like the light bulbs we're using now. They reason, therefore, that we shouldn't be allowed to have them.
The bill was signed into law by President George W. Bush. President Bush extolled the energy bill in a statement at the Department of Energy. For reasons that Ferguson touched on, Bush acknowledged the light bulb provision a bit circumspectly: "The bill…includes revisions to improve energy efficiency in lighting and appliances." After summarizing the bill, he stated: "With these steps, particularly in the bill I'm about to sign, we're going to help American consumers a lot." And he thanked Congress: "I appreciate the fact that we've worked together, that we can show what's possible in addressing the big issues facing our nation." Indeed.
In the article "Dim idea" (just made available online), National Review contributing editor Rob Long turns to the creeping hand of the federal government in the residential bathroom. Rob draws on his personal experience to address the subject in the style that Mark Twain brought to his humorous essays. It's a wonderful essay, but Rob does not take note of the regulations that already govern the American toilet. Referring to his importation of the perfect toilet he discovered on a trip to Japan, he concludes:
In the Battle of the Bathroom, the environmental bureaucrats have the optimistic hedonists on the run. They've taken our bulbs and our rain-showers, so it's just a matter of time before they focus their regulatory powers on my toilet, with its delightfully surprising — but water-wasteful — nozzles and jets. This, perhaps, is where we need to take our (seated) stand. This is the line they must not cross. When they come to me with their regulations and federal guidelines, I will take a page from the National Rifle Association and say, "From my cold, dead . . ."
Well, you get the idea.
Actually, the time to take a page has come. The administrative state has inserted its big paws into our houses, from the toilet bowl to the light socket. Now if it would just stretch those paws from the one to the other at the same time, we might begin to recapture the spirit of '76.


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Q: Add multiple pictures into firebase I know this question has been asked a lot. But literally non of the answers work for me.
My problem is the images appeared to be saved but on firebase but unfortunately they are the same name so firebase deletes the old one and a inserts a new one. I have done everything i can do to change the name but I can't find a way.
Here is my code for uploading!
private void Fileuploader() throws FileNotFoundException {
        String imageid;
        imageid = arabic.getText().toString()+"-"+System.currentTimeMillis()+"."+"jpg";
        String id = getIntent().getStringExtra("storeid");
        member.setImageid(imageid);
        reference.child(id).child(arname).setValue(member);
        progress.showProgress(profuctadd.this,"Loading...",false);
        DatabaseHelper databaseHelper = new DatabaseHelper(profuctadd.this);
        Cursor getimage = databaseHelper.GetPath();
        while (getimage.moveToNext()){
            Bitmap bm = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(getimage.getString(0));
            ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            bm.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 35, out);
            byte[] data = out.toByteArray();
            System.out.println("IMAGES UPLOADEDDDD: "+ data);
            StorageReference Ref = mStorageRef.child(imageid);

            Ref.putBytes(data)
                    .addOnSuccessListener(new OnSuccessListener<UploadTask.TaskSnapshot>() {
                        @Override
                        public void onSuccess(UploadTask.TaskSnapshot taskSnapshot) {
                            // Get a URL to the uploaded content
                            //Uri downloadUrl = taskSnapshot.getDownloadUrl();
                            //Toast.makeText(profuctadd.this,"Image uploaded",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                            progress.hideProgress();
                            Intent intent = new Intent(profuctadd.this,showProducts.class);
                            intent.putExtra("spec",getIntent().getStringExtra("spec"));
                            intent.putExtra("storeid",getIntent().getStringExtra("storeid"));
                            startActivity(intent);
                            DatabaseHelper mDatabaseHelper = new DatabaseHelper(profuctadd.this);
                            Cursor cursor2 = mDatabaseHelper.DeleteDataOfTableImagesAr();
                            cursor2.moveToNext();
                        }
                    })
                    .addOnFailureListener(new OnFailureListener() {
                        @Override
                        public void onFailure(@NonNull Exception exception) {
                            // Handle unsuccessful uploads
                            // ...
                            Toast.makeText(profuctadd.this,"Failed",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                        }
                    });

        }

    }

Any ideas?

A: You're only calculating imageid once across all images, so each image will have the same name. You'll want to calculate a new value for each image, and probably also throw in a counter just to make sure they're all unique:
private void Fileuploader() throws FileNotFoundException {
    String id = getIntent().getStringExtra("storeid");
    member.setImageid(imageid);
    reference.child(id).child(arname).setValue(member);
    progress.showProgress(profuctadd.this,"Loading...",false);
    DatabaseHelper databaseHelper = new DatabaseHelper(profuctadd.this);
    Cursor getimage = databaseHelper.GetPath();
    int count = 0;
    while (getimage.moveToNext()){
        Bitmap bm = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(getimage.getString(0));
        ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        bm.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 35, out);
        byte[] data = out.toByteArray();
        System.out.println("IMAGES UPLOADEDDDD: "+ data);
        StorageReference Ref = mStorageRef.child(imageid);

        String imageid = arabic.getText().toString()+"-"+System.currentTimeMillis()+"_"+(count++)+"."+"jpg";
        Ref.putBytes(data)
        ...


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Bank of England Intentionally Strangles UK Economy to Discourage Brexit
By Daily Bell Staff - March 17, 2016
The longer-term effects of Brexit are … likely to be adverse. Most studies suggest that economic growth would suffer. A detailed analysis from the Bank of England in October found that EU membership had benefited the British economy. Attempts to model the consequences of Brexit point to economic damage. Two American banks, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, recently warned that growth and the pound would fall further after a vote to leave the EU. – Economist
As we can see, above, a recent Economist analysis of Britain's leave-taking from the EU – Brexit – indicates a variety of negative consequences.
This is generally the tenor of the mainstream media in Britain, one of alarmism tinged with negativity.
The tone probably won't change but a recent poll is certainly deepening tensions.
Suddenly, Pro-Brexit forces seem to be winning.
In what has been called "a huge boost" for Brexit forces, a recent Daily Telegraph poll has revealed that pro-Brexit forces have gained a seven-point lead. The poll shows the numbers at a deadlock, but when actual voters are considered, pro-Brexit forces win by 52 per cent to 45 per cent.
The new poll has stoked concerns that a variety of pressures and "scaremongering" tactics aimed at pro-Brexit forces will be expanded. From an EU referendum article:
Brian Monteith of the Leave. EU campaign said: "The last 100 days of campaigning have already told us what the final 100 days will be like … Downing Street and the self-interested banks and corporations will try every trick in the book … [to] deceive the British public.
London's City, Britain's financial engine, is very obviously invested both psychologically and financially in the EU.
In fact, when considering what may be done to resolve them, we've come up with a "Brexit trade." More on that in a moment.
Last year the Bank of England "accidentally" leaked a confidential internal study to The Guardian over Britain's future in the EU and the impact of Brexit.
When Bank of England Governor Mark Carney claimed in recent testimony that Brexit could severely harm the British economy, anti-EU legislators called his remarks "unacceptable" and asked for his resignation.
But "Project Fear," as anti-Brexit forces call it, remains ongoing.
Prime Minister David Cameron recently released a video warning that a pro-Brexit vote would have a negative impact on markets and real estate values.
A pro-Brexit vote would collapse the value of the pound by 14-20 percent, according to Goldman Sachs economists.
Morgan Stanley has suggested that British stocks could lose up to 20 percent of their value with an EU exit.
Financial firms like HSBC have suggested that jobs could move out of the City to countries like France if Britain takes its leave from the EU.
It could be that Britain will face a series of financial difficulties if pro-Brexit forces seem to be gaining the upper hand.
There are historical precedents stretching back several centuries to when US President Andrew Jackson took aim at America's second central bank.
When President Andrew Jackson made it clear that he was going to shut down the central bank, its head, Nicholas Biddle, fought back by threatening to contract the money supply.
When he actually did so, Congress convened a special Panic Session. Eventually, Jackson won the battle to shut down the bank and the US did without a central bank until 1913, when the Federal Reserve came into being.
It sounds fairly absurd to suggest the Bank of England and proponents of the EU within London's square mile financial City would take aim at Britain's economy in order to remove the threat of Brexit.
And yet reading between the lines, the warnings seem clear enough.
During his recent testimony Bank of England governor Mark Carney stated forthrightly that London Mayor Boris Johnson's decision to back Brexit cause the pound to slump in February to seven year lows.
Carney called the currency movements that took place after Johnson's statements "relatively large [but] not unprecedented."
And he added that Brexit had the potential to "amplify risks." Especially affected could be housing and market functions.
Two questions occur: Has Carney issued a specific (veiled) threat to Johnson et. al? Has the pound has already been crashed as a warning?
In other words what Biddle did to Jackson, Carney and his backers are suggesting they will do to punish pro-Brexit forces.
This is only one reason why we believe pro-Brexit forces may not win this one. Another has to do with what seems to be the REAL reason for the Brexit vote.
In never made any sense to us that Cameron would call for such a vote. The answer may lie in the results of Cameron's recently announced deal with the EU.
Under the deal, Britain received certain concessions to stay in the EU.
One was that Britain would not be part of an "ever closer union." More importantly from our perspective, further EU regulations will not be imposed on the City.
The City may exercise significant EU power behind the scenes, but this can't be fully admitted for various reasons. And thus the need for a formal show of negotiations leading to the exemptions that Cameron has generated.
And now that these have been negotiated, there is no further reason for London to pursue Brexit. The movement, once created, must now be halted.
They've already fired one shot by linking the pound's February decline to Johnson's statements. And perhaps there are more to come.
None of it will be directly traceable to the Brexit debate. Instead, it will be made clear in various ways, including through the controlled British media, that the "market" itself is reacting negatively to Brexit.
No threats will be issued, as Biddle once did, but the message will be quite clear, nonetheless.
We hope we're wrong about our analysis. It would be great if those in the City finally miscalculated and Brexit acquired such momentum that it actually freed Britain from the clutches of an increasingly authoritarian EU.
Conclusion: One Brexit speculation involves shorting the pound. Another involves industrial equity plays as there are a variety of ways that the Bank of England can probably contract the money supply without being too obvious.
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At the global level, the SDC has participated actively in the creation and implementation of a set of targeted regulations that promote a just tenure and land management policy and establish criteria for responsible investment in agriculture.
Guidelines and principles on the responsible governance of tenure
As a member of the Bureau of the United Nations Committee on World Food Security (CFS), Switzerland was instrumental in developing the current UN Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security in 2012. Over the next two years, Switzerland led negotiations on a set of Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems, intended to complement the Guidelines. In 2014, it brought the process to a successful conclusion with the adoption of the Principles. Together with other states, private sector organisations, civil society and UN agencies, the SDC is actively involved in implementing these Guidelines and Principles. This lays the foundation for securing land use rights for all and enabling investments into better production methods.
The SDC also supports implementation of the African Union (AU) Framework and Guidelines on Land Policy in Africa, adopted in 2009, which pledges to ensure equitable access to and the efficient and sustainable use of land. To this end, the SDC works closely with the African Land Policy Centre, which is directly responsible for implementing the AU Framework and Guidelines. The SDC also broadens and strengthens the expertise of the relevant decision-makers and public officials in order to improve the assessment of land-related investment contracts.
Approximately 70% of the more than 800 million chronically undernourished people in low- and middle income countries countries live in rural areas, the majority growing crops or rearing livestock. For them, security of access to land and other natural resources is especially important. Equally important is secure access to land for the rapidly increasing urban population, both for housing and for growing food in small gardens (urban agriculture).
Investments in land can have a major adverse impact on the food security of local communities. The legitimate call for increased investment in agriculture often focuses on the economic dimension, leaving aside social and environmental issues. As a result, such investments often restrict access to land and other natural resources such as water. Moreover, they contribute to reducing biodiversity in agriculture and threaten fragile ecosystems. In many cases, serious human rights violations occur.
Land-related investments are often concluded with no or minimal prior consultation of the affected rural populations. Most large-scale land transactions thus lack transparency and accountability at all levels. At country level, line ministries and parliaments are rarely invited to scrutinise investment projects involving large-scale land acquisitions and leases. When decision- and policymakers are involved, they often lack the capacity to thoroughly examine legal and transactional issues related to investment contracts at national level.
Land-law principles and guidelines such as those supported by the SDC are needed to make information on land deals available and to update it continuously. Dialogue with all stakeholders, including the private sector and government officials, helps create space for the needs and concerns of disadvantaged groups in policymaking processes. In this context, grievance mechanisms enable affected populations to hold governments and/or investors accountable and, where applicable, obtain appropriate compensation.
Switzerland is aware that existential issues such as those relating to land access, use and tenure have to be resolved in consultation with all stakeholders if conflicts are to be prevented.
Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security
SDC project: Supporting access to natural resources for smallholder
Information about the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure
Principles for the Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems
Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (PDF, Number of pages 48, 740.8 kB)
Directives volontaires pour une Gouvernance responsable des régimes fonciers applicables aux terres, aux pêches et aux forêts dans le contexte de la sécurité alimentaire nationale
Food security: Innovative and broad-based standards, Global Brief 3/2014 (PDF, Number of pages 4, 334.7 kB, English)
Ernährungssicherheit: Innovative und breit abgestützte Standards
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Supporting livestock traceability in the South Caucasus
Identifying where animals have come from and recording information about their health is essential in modern agriculture to prevent the spread of diseases and stop products from diseased animals reaching the market. A system to ensure traceability will help to improve the incomes of farmers in the South Caucasus by increasing both herd productivity and the producers' access to markets.
Agriculture value-chain development (til 2016)
Combating corruption in Kosovo
Corruption is rampant among Kosovo's public institutions and undermines citizens' trust in the system. The SDC is supporting a project designed to address this problem by promoting transparency in institutions and encouraging citizens to report abuses.
Anti-corruption organisations
Confronting and combating gender-based violence in Mongolia
Gender-based violence has been on the rise in Mongolia since the turn of the millennium. Yet because of a serious lack of data, the extent of the phenomenon is difficult to assess and a culture of impunity continues to hold sway. The SDC plans to conduct a national survey to address this problem. At the same time, it intends to strengthen institutions, put in place appropriate services and raise public awareness.
Legal and judicial development
Human rights (incl. Women's rights)
Prospects for young, unemployed adults in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The aim of the Youth Employment Project (YEP) is to help public employment bodies in Bosnia and Herzegovina to improve their offer and to introduce youth-friendly services, such as individual and group careers advice for unemployed young adults between 18 and 30 years. Together with local partners, YEP also promotes new job opportunities linked to social entrepreneurship models.
Employment & economic development
Business support & economic inclusion
Migration for social well-being and economic development in Sri Lanka
Every year, large numbers of Sri Lankans leave their country to work abroad for a few years, usually in the Gulf States. They thereby further Sri Lanka's economic development but at the same time risk having their basic human rights, and their labour rights in particular, violated. That is why the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is working for the establishment of a framework that ensures decent working conditions for migrant workers in the region.
Migration generally (development aspects and partnerships)
Nepal: An array of measures to tackle gender-based violence
Gender-based violence is a widespread problem in Nepal, and an obstacle to sustainable development. The SDC and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) launched a 3-year prevention and response project at the beginning of 2016. Women and girls are learning about their rights and being encouraged to report assaults. Men and boys are being encouraged to change their behaviour towards women. And duty bearers are learning to respond more rapidly and effectively. The project is already delivering first encouraging results.
Sexual & gender-based violence
Vocational skills development in Tunisia – destination employment
An SDC programme boosts the employability of young Tunisians entering the job market. It provides them with training in vocational skills to equip them with the practical experience and know-how required in the workplace.
Reforming civil society organisations in Moldova
The Engaging Citizens and Empowering Communities project aims to strengthen civil society organisations by enabling them to play a crucial role in promoting and safeguarding the rights and interests of vulnerable and marginalised people in Moldova.
Democratic participation and civil society
Appui aux économies locales des collectivités de Youwarou et de Niafunké. Programme de Soutien aux Economies Locales du Delta intérieur du Niger
Dans les régions du delta intérieur du Niger, au centre et au Nord du Mali, les populations rurales sont confrontées à des crises structurelles multiformes dont l'insécurité alimentaire. La DDC appuie les autorités locales avec des projets économiques dans les filières agricoles porteuses pour assurer la sécurité alimentaire et réduire la pauvreté d'au moins 150'000 personnes. En plus, elle accompagne les municipalités de cette zone dans la maitrise d'ouvrage du développement territorial et la gestion pacifique des ressources naturelles.
Sustainable water and pasture management to alleviate the plight of Ethiopian pastoralists
Drought, fodder scarcity and conflicts over natural resources make life difficult for pastoralists in southern Ethiopia. The SDC has taken various measures to improve their food security and their resilience to crisis situations, ranging from the rehabilitation of pastureland and water points to the introduction of land use plans and the diversification of income sources for women.
Water resources conservation
Strengthening Voice and Accountability in Kyrgyzstan
Decentralisation is one of the priorities of the Kyrgyz government in power since 2012. In line with this, the main goal of this project is to strengthen the ability of citizens to participate in the budget process in their municipality, and to ensure that local governments use their funds adequately for public services.
Conflict & fragility
Public finance management
Bangladesh: courses to raise job prospects for the poor in the textiles and building sectors
The textiles and construction sectors in Bangladesh are recording high rates of growth, but many poor women and men lack the necessary qualifications for skilled jobs. By 2019, a project jointly financed by Switzerland and the United Kingdom aims to give 110,000 of them better prospects through on-the-job training. The results so far are promising.
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Hacker Leaks Nude Selfies of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
September 3, 2014 – In a massive violation of privacy, and possibly international law, an anonymous hacker broke into the cloud database and posted onto Twitter several nude photos of Turkey's first directly elected president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The socially conservative former prime minister was seen in a variety of explicit poses, in some cases taking shirtless mirror selfies, while in others stretched bare on his bed at Çankaya Presidential Palace while being photographed, possibly by longtime political ally Ahmet Davutoğlu.
"We are outraged that Apple's privacy software did nothing to prevent this breach, and that Twitter users are shamelessly retweeting the selfies with so little regard for the president's image," a spokesperson for the administration told the international press. "Mr. Erdoğan has feelings, dignity, and an iron-fisted approach to his nation's law enforcement and media. But instead of asking for reform, he's now being asked for more hot pics of his chest and buttocks. It's a sad state of affairs."
President Erdoğan, who rose to prominence and power in a traditionally secular nation where the military held greatest sway, was already a controversial figure due to his religious leanings and last year's high-profile corruption investigations. Now his supporters in the Justice and Development Party fear that whatever goodwill was gained through boosting Turkey's economy in the region will be undone by these salacious photos, which were only intended to be seen by his wife Emine, as well as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
"The easy acquisition of these images speaks to the new president's recklessness," said opposition chairman Kemal Kiliçdaroğlu, who walked out of Erdoğan's inauguration ceremony in protest. "Everybody knows that the cloud isn't actually secure. If you want to be sending out sexy selfies, you need to buy a polaroid camera and mail them like the rest of us.
"This is the man who wants to transform Turkey's executive power structure? Please," he continued. "His balls aren't even symmetrical."
Some bloggers and political allies have chided Kiliçdaroğlu and others for slut-shaming and victim-blaming, saying that the president should feel free to express himself without fear of privacy invasion or objectification, just as he feels free to occasionally purge Turkish police departments of dissenters.
Others maintain that this Twitter trending is simply the unfortunate by-product of an online community obsessed with international relations. Americans in particular, exercising an unhealthy obsession with foreign affairs, have been retweeting the raunchiest full frontal images faster than Twitter can ban accounts.
"We are very disappointed with our political opponents and the international community for their blatant disrespect," Erdoğan's spokesperson went on. "Rather than focus on the president's many achievements in Turkey and against regional terrorism, people want to focus in on his magnificent dong.
"People should pay attention to which way he swings politically; instead, they only seem to care which way he swings genitally."
When asked about the selfie hack late Wednesday, Erdoğan himself expressed a sense of humor about the incident, joking that he could always shut down Twitter again if he felt like it.


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Lemonade Finance raises $725,000 to ease remittances for Africans in the diaspora
By Sultan Quadri Nov 03, 2021
Lemonade's co-founders, Rian Cochran (L) and Ridwan Olalere (R)
Despite multiple international remittance products available for Africans to move money in and out of the continent, processing international payments is still far from painless.
That's why Lemonade Finance, a Nigerian startup that wants to ease the payment process for Africans in North America and Europe, was founded.
To extend its services to more Africans in the diaspora, the startup has just raised $725,000 in pre-seed funding, with participation from Y Combinator and the venture capital firms, Microtraction, Ventures Platform and Acuity Venture Partners, among several other individual investors.
Founded in October 2020 by Ridwan Olalere, who left his job as Country Head of Uber Nigeria, and Rian Cochran, former Director of Finance at Opera Software AS, Lemonade Finance was built to be "a borderless money app for Africans".
One of its investors, Dayo Koleowo, Managing Partner at Microtraction, says "Lemonade's solution is very timely. As a multi-currency financial service provider, they make it easy for the African diaspora to send and receive money from their new country of residence, which is remarkable. We believe Rian and Ridwan have the technical and financial know-how to provide the number one cross-border neobank for Africans in the diaspora."
Do we need yet another remittance solution?
When Africans want to send or receive money to or from their family, dependents, children studying overseas, or businesses domiciled in Africa, they have few options and encounter problems.
Before Lemonade, Western Union, PayPal and MoneyGram are some of the products Africans already use to process payments. But these options are typically expensive, take weeks to process payments and restrict customers from certain locations from using their services. For example, PayPal allows Africans living in Africa to receive but not send money.
With Lemonade, users do not have to go to the bank, and within minutes, they can send and receive payment.
Africans need access to more than one currency
To allow Africans to use their money seamlessly, Lemonade Finance has provided them with access to currencies that matter to them, notably the currency of the country they are in and that of their home country.
This is a big deal for Africans in the diaspora who have businesses in Africa but want to move their money in foreign currencies. Currently, if an African wants to change their foreign currency to that of the home currency in order to, for example, pay for their parents' healthcare, they have to deal with unfavourable rates and the length of time it takes for the exchange to take place.
Olalere and Cochran say that the flexible solution Lemonade provides is intentional and at the core of the team's thinking in building the app.
"Before now, when Africans living in Africa moved to the diaspora, they could only create a bank account with the currency of their new country or the US dollar. While some can use their phone numbers to operate an African bank account, like with Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB), others have to travel back home to renew their token," said Olalere.
Image source: Lemonade Finance
Lemonade Finance wants to ensure that a Nigerian who resides in the UK, for instance, can open a Nigerian account and save money in naira as well as pounds without leaving the UK.
Lemonade Finance faces regulatory and compliance problems. The startup has to go the extra mile to prove they are worthy of licenses in European and North American countries. This is because global banks have put African countries on a restricted list, preventing individuals and payments companies from sending money to Africa.
But Lemonade Finance is dedicated to letting global banks know that lowering financial barriers into Africa is a beneficial and strategic move. They have been able to get some of their partner banks to green-light Nigeria, Kenya, Cameroon and some other West African countries. Yet, even as these global banks have enabled this financial access, they charge customers making transactions to African countries a higher fee. They also place restrictions on the number of days or hours it takes for the money to reach Africa.
"On a daily basis, what we are constantly doing is fighting for everyday Africans to be globally included financially," Olalere said.
Olalere revealed that the company's biggest milestone happened earlier this year when they acquired a license in the UK, approved by the FCA, without stepping foot in the UK.
This is why this funding round, according to Olalere, is important. It will help them upgrade and get new licences like the VMI license that allows them to hold wallets. This funding round will also help them hire for roles in the regulatory and compliance department, which will ultimately increase their customer base and allow them to reduce fees for customers.
Currently, Lemonade Finance is only live in Canada, where it has gained thousands of customers already. In a few weeks, it will allow users in the UK to send and receive money from Ghana and Kenya; and in December, users in the US will be able to send and receive money from over 10 African countries at once.
Sultan Quadri Staff Writer
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H-1B Visa Program Called 'Tremendous Threat to American Professionals'
By Leon Kolankiewicz
Leon is an Advisory Board Member and Senior Writing Fellow with CAPS. A wildlife biologist, and environmental scientist and planner, Leon is the author of Where Salmon Come to Die: An Autumn on Alaska's Raincoast, the essay "Overpopulation versus Biodiversity" in Environment and Society: A Reader and was a contributing writer to Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation.
In a career that spans three decades, three countries and more than 30 states, Leon has managed environmental impact statements for many federal agencies on projects ranging from dams and reservoirs to coal-fired power plants, power lines, flood control projects, road expansions, management of Civil War battlefields, NASA's Kennedy Space Center operations and a proposed uranium mine on a national forest. He also has worked with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to develop comprehensive conservation plans at more than 40 national wildlife refuges from the Caribbean to Alaska.
The writer's views are his own.
Now I know why my son, an engineering graduate, struggled so long to find his first job!
In December 2014, I was a proud father. My 22-year-old son had endured four years of one of the most grueling majors in higher education – electrical engineering – and had just graduated with a respectable GPA from one of the top engineering colleges in the country – Virginia Tech.
At long last, I thought, I could breathe easy. I could look forward not just to not having to shell out $25,000 per year for tuition and related expenses, but to my son beginning a well-compensated career in a respected profession.
After all, like every other American, I'd been hearing the hype for years from the upper echelons of business and government alike about the American economy's dire need for STEM professionals, that is, college graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.
I thought that prospective employers would be beating down my son's door trying to lure him their way. That he could write his own ticket. That's certainly what America's movers and shakers have led us to believe. Little did I realize what an anxious year of frustrating, fruitless job searches and one ignored employment application after another awaited him.
And now I know why.
The redoubtable Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), by far the best senator in a supine U.S. Senate when it comes to immigration matters, recently told Breitbart News that half of recent STEM graduates are not finding jobs in STEM fields. Sessions said:
Wages for STEM and IT [information technology] workers have not gone up since 2000. We have thousands of kids that have borrowed money, and their parents have borrowed money to get them engineering degrees and they don't have jobs.
Wow. This was pretty much the same bleak job prospects we were encountering. It made me very angry: at our oblivious, omnivorous politicians, at the gluttonous billionaire boys who have bought them off, and at our complicit "lamestream" media. The Fourth Estate, instead of scrutinizing and skewering the selfish motives of these unpatriotic corporations and yacht-owning, globe-trotting CEOs, lavishes praise on them for their supposedly enlightened attitudes on immigration.
"We don't have a shortage [of tech workers]," Sessions went on to say. That outrageous claim "is as bogus as a $3 bill." According to Sessions, the U.S. is actually graduating more students in these fields than there are jobs to fill, in spite of the many claims that our country is suffering from a shortage of skilled graduates.
Sessions listed Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Intel as companies that are laying off thousands of American professionals in favor of their H1-B visa-holding foreign replacements.
Currently, more than 800,000 foreign graduates are working as "temporary guest workers," mostly under the notorious, much-abused H-1B program. They occupy a wide range of professions, from architects and accountants to doctors, designers, teachers, engineers and software programmers.
Four-fifths of a million, or 800,000, is about equal to America's total annual output of graduates with technical skills, but guest workers are willing to accept much lower salaries than the experienced, middle-aged, child-rearing American professionals they replace. This helps drive down wages and working conditions for all Americans in the STEM and IT fields.
Breitbart reports that "the guest-workers' lower wages help spike stock values on Wall Street. For example, company founder Mark Zuckerberg's stock-value in Facebook is worth roughly $45 billion."
In a recent news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Center for Immigration Studies, firebrand syndicated columnist, Fox News commentator and best-selling author Michelle Malkin, along with co-author John Miano (veteran programmer, attorney and CIS fellow) and fired Disney IT engineer Leo Perrero, participated in a panel discussion of the new Malkin-Miano book "Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires and Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasals Are Screwing America's Best and Brightest Workers."
"Best and Brightest" panel at the National Press Club, November 12, 2015:
Mark Krikorian, Michelle Malkin, John Miano and Leo Perrero.
Perrero was a 20-year IT veteran at Disney in Orlando, Fla., who, along with hundreds of other IT employees there, was given a pink slip and then three months to train his foreign replacement before being shown the door.
The panel did not mince words in reaching the startling conclusion that, energetic protestations to the contrary, America's business and government elites have decided that the U.S. IT workforce is expendable.
As Simon & Schuster's website for Sold Out puts it:
In Sold Out, Michelle Malkin and John Miano reveal the worst perpetrators screwing America's high-skilled workers, how and why they're doing it – and what we must do to stop them. In this book, they will name names and expose the lies of those who pretend to champion the middle class, while aiding and abetting massive layoffs of highly skilled American workers in favor of cheap foreign labor.
I am happy to report that, at least in my son's case, the U.S. Navy eventually came to the rescue. After nearly a year of looking, he was finally offered a job as an avionics (electronics) engineer for which one requirement was U.S. citizenship.
Many new STEM graduates will not be so lucky because our globalized elites put loyalty to their own pocketbooks and the corporate bottom line above all else, including loyalty to their countrymen and women. And with respect to my son, in five or ten years' time, the way things are going, who knows?
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