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One Leg Raised on the Bush–Cheney Legacy
By: Walter Brasch
Published: Mon 22 Dec 2008 11:25 AM
One Leg Raised on the Bush–Cheney Legacy: Deconstructing the Spin and Propaganda
by Walter Brasch
The chairman of the Republican National Committee may have begun an irreversible descent into a future as a fear-bound paranoid victim of functional amnesia, possibly caused by a hysterical post-traumatic event such as the overwhelming victory of Democrats in the 2008 election and the nation's repudiation of Republican policies.
In a two-page vitriol-loaded letter dated "Friday morning"—he apparently was unable to remember the exact date—Robert M. (Mike) Duncan, RNC chairman, told Americans that the Democrats plan to "impose their radical leftist agenda on America," and that Republicans "must work vigilantly to guard our country's freedoms from the inevitable assault [by Democrats] they will face." He didn't mention that not one of Barack Obama's proposed cabinet members nor any of the members of the current Congress is a "radical leftist."
It's really sad that Mike forgot that fear-mongering, obstruction of justice, reduction of public information, distrust and resentment of the worker, and curtailment of civil liberties—with the complicity of millions of Americans and much of the Democratic leadership who willingly crumpled under Neocon assaults—have been the base of the Bush–Cheney Administration and a Republican-dominated Congress for most of the past eight years. Perhaps I can shock what little memory Mike may have left in the hope that some of his brain cells may once again function.
It was the Republicans, not the Democrats, who systematically violated the Constitution, while screaming "The terrorists are coming! The terrorists are coming!" There isn't enough space in one column to enumerate all the constitutional abuses, but here's a starter package:
The Bush–Cheney Administration, and their Republican supporters, stands convicted in federal courts of suppressing constitutional rights of free expression (First Amendment), unreasonable searches and the right of privacy (Fourth Amendment), right against self-incrimination (Fifth Amendment), due process (Sixth Amendment), of invoking reasonable bail and freedom from cruel and unusual punishment (Eighth Amendment), and the equal protection guarantee for both citizens and non-citizens (Fourteenth Amendment.) The conservative-leaning Supreme Court has also ruled that the Administration violated the habeas corpus clause (Article I, Section 9, Clause 2) of the Constitution, which guarantees the right of prisoners to challenge why they are incarcerated. That clause guarantees against arbitrary and capricious imprisonment.
The acronym-happy Bush–Cheney Administration and not the Democrats created several programs—including MATRIX, TIPS, TIAP, TTIC, TALON, and CAPPS II, among others—to spy upon Americans, and curtail their constitutionally-mandated rights of due process and protections against invasion of privacy.
Under a massive plan prepared in the White House, Americans have been arrested for peacefully protesting. Non-violent organizations, including Greenpeace, the Quakers and Veterans for Peace, were the subject of governmental spying and labeled as terrorist organizations.
The Republicans, not the Democrats, accepted and encouraged the use of torture and kidnapping in violation of numerous international treaties.
The President willfully and deliberately violated the Posse Comitatus Act that prohibits the military from enforcing civilian law.
But, wait, just as in a paid telemarketing pitch, there's more that we need to deconstruct:
"We will . . . continue to stand for . . . strong national security. . . ."
Perhaps it was too long ago for Mike to remember that the President and Attorney General early in 2001 refused to fund the FBI's request for additional funds for counter-terrorism surveillance. A few months later, George W. Bush and his senior advisors didn't pay much attention to a Presidential Daily Briefing report titled, "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside U.S." A month later, al-Qaeda attacked the United States.
During the next couple of years, the Bush–Cheney Administration launched a propaganda campaign to whip American frenzy into attacking Iraq, which not only had no ties to bin Laden and al-Qaeda but didn't have weapons of mass destruction. Bush, Dick Cheney, and six other top officials lied 935 times about national security issues in the two years following 9/11, according to an analysis by the impartial Center for Public Integrity. During the past seven years, the President and Vice-President obstructed legal and legitimate investigations into the attacks of 9/11.
During the war in Iraq, which left Afghanistan, home of al-Qaeda, almost a minor afterthought, the Bush–Cheney Administration and their legions of supporters preached a doctrine of supporting the troops as a back-door way to get Americans to pledge loyalty to the Administration. But, it was this Administration that opposed pay raises for combat troops, and failed to provide adequate body and vehicle armor or adequate medical and psychological care.
"Democrats are salivating over their opportunity to remake American government. From socialized medicine . . . ."
Apparently, Mike doesn't know that Medicare, health care for all active duty military, veterans, members of Congress, and even the executive branch is a socialistic system. He may be upset that the Democratic leaders also want to give adequate health care to more than 45.7 million Americans, most of whom can't afford health insurance.
" . . . and new entitlements to massive tax increases and out of control federal spending . . ."
Would that "out of control federal spending" include trying to recover from the $438 billion deficit and an $11 trillion debt, largest in American history, that the Republican president is leaving the nation, after inheriting a balanced budget and a $236 billion surplus at the end of President Clinton's term?
Mike apparently has no memory of the massive financial fraud and overbilling in Iraq and Katrina recovery, and then the Bush–Cheney Administration extending immunity to those Republican-owned businesses. Anything the Obama Administration does won't even come close to what the tax-and-spend Republicans burdened Americans with the past eight years.
And speaking of overspending—does anyone know anyone from the Democratic National Committee who authorized any of their candidates to spend more than $200,000 on clothes and makeup during the final two months of a presidential campaign, and then lie to the people that this was only "on loan"and would be "donated" after the election? Anyone want a used tube of lipstick?
". . they are reaching back for their old playlist of nanny-state interference and lessened personal freedom."
Perhaps it was a Republican reaction to "nanny-state interference"that led the Bush–Cheney Administration to decimate the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and fail to adequately respond to the Katrina disaster.
Maybe it was the Republican reaction to be labeled as a "nanny-state" government that caused the Bush–Cheney Administration to cut funding for education, food stamps, Medicaid, and student loans, while not touching pork barrel funding.
Just whose political party was it that lessened personal freedoms of choice by executive orders that public schools must teach abstinence-only education in order to receive federal funding? And what kind of "personal freedom" is at stake when the President rushes through a late-term order that anyone who works in a hospital may refuse to assist any woman who requests an abortion? This sweeping rule apparently applies even to a janitor who can refuse to clean the room of a woman who has a medical or psychological reason for an abortion.
Because Mike is a banker and lawyer, he may not have had a chance to socialize with the underclass and America's invisible minorities. Perhaps he is unaware (or just forgot) that 12.5 percent of all Americans, about 37.3 million according to the Census Bureau, are living in poverty. He probably doesn't even notice, or maybe doesn't care, about the 3.5 million Americans who were homeless this year. Perhaps he doesn't think the "nanny-care"government he excoriates and the "support the troops" party he believes he is a part of should even deal with the half-million veterans who are homeless. He may not be aware that, primarily because of an economic meltdown caused by greed and ineffective federal regulation, 1.1 million Americans filed for bankruptcy in 2008, about 33 percent higher than 2007, or that about 9 percent of all home mortgages are in default. He may not care that 6.7 percent of the workforce, about 10.3 million Americans, are unemployed, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Maybe Mike and the RNC want to eliminate any federal program, including massive jobs creation programs proposed by President-Elect Barack Obama, which assists those Americans from having the "personal freedom" from sinking even further into poverty.
Of course, Mike and his RNC minions have been silent about corporate welfare, most of which goes to Republican-owned business. Although the federal government provides about $75 billion to individuals in various forms of assistance, during the 2006 fiscal year it gave private enterprise about $92 billion in direct and indirect subsidies, according to the independent Cato Institute; private enterprise received another $40–50 billion from state and local governments. . Not included is the recent $700 billion bailout to corporate incompetence and greed.
"Just as the liberal mainstream media aided the Democrats . . ."
Would that be the liberal media that for years failed to question just about anything the Bush–Cheney Administration said? The media that stood silent as one constitutional amendment after another was stomped on by the Bush–Cheney Administration? Would that include the New York Times and Washington Post that finally admitted they failed to do their jobs by not challenging the President on his claims that America was invading Iraq in order to remove non-existent weapons of mass destruction? That liberal media?
[The media] will obscure the radical nature of the Democrats' proposed legislation for benefiting unions. . . ."
Disregarding the fact that Mike is a banker/lawyer and expected to say nasty things against the working class, it certainly wasn't the Democrats who spent eight years trying to destroy unions by emasculating the National Labor Relations Board, reducing the effectiveness of the Department of Labor, and launching a fusillade of attacks upon the American worker. Restraining worker abuse apparently isn't part of any Republican program.
". . . shaking down businesses. . . ."
It most certainly wasn't the Democrats who removed regulatory protections for Americans and led the nation into the abyss of subprime lending and massive Wall Street greed that helped launch the nation's worst recession in 70 years. Apparently, any regulation for the public good is, in Republican views, "shaking down businesses."
". . . limiting free speech . . . "
Not only does Mike have amnesia, he's delusional if he believes it'll be the Democrats who have plans to restrict free speech. As a reminder, it was the Republicans, not the Democrats, who created the unconstitutional free speech zones to restrict any dissent to as much as a mile away from the President and Vice-president. It was the Republicans, not the Democrats, who pushed for even greater restrictions upon freedom of speech, religion, the press, the right to assemble, and most important the right to petition government for a redress of grievances. It was the Republicans, not the Democrats, who willfully, maliciously, and illegally blocked innumerable Freedom of Information requests. In the arrogant and illogical world of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and the Republican National Committee leadership, Thomas Jefferson and the Founding Fathers are merely Old Codgers who don't understand that the Constitution is now "quaint."
" . . . and imposing questionable environmental restrictions. "
It wasn't those pesky liberals who thought global warming was a hoax, and who pulled the United States out of the Kyoto Protocol, signed by 37 industrialized nations, that would lead to stabilization of greenhouse gases. It certainly wasn't the Democrats who removed anti-pollution restrictions from corporate America, weakened the Clean Water and Clean Air acts, cut funding for toxic waste cleanups, yielded to corporate influence to allow logging and mining in national forests, strip mining in the Appalachians and then left residue in formerly clean rivers.
Apparently, such regulations as the Endangered Species Act, approved by the Nixon Administration in 1973 and gutted by the Republicans during the past eight years, is among the "questionable governmental restrictions" that annoy Mike and the RNC. As a result of Bush–Cheney policies, dozens of species are now extinct; 20,000 polar bears are threatened by global warming because the Administration wants to encourage even further gas and oil exploration in the already diminished arctic sea ice. In the Northern Rockies, 1,500 gray wolves were taken off the list of endangered and threatened species, leading to indiscriminate and unregulated killing until federal courts reversed the orders; and just about anyone in Alaska has the "right" to kill wolves, even from the air.
The "imposition of questionable environmental restrictions" that scare the RNC might include protection of the nation's wild horses and burros, symbols of America's independence. Under the Republican leadership, influenced by the cattle industry, 4.1 million head of cattle graze upon public lands, but the Pinocchio Department of the Interior believes it has a divine mission to slaughter most of the 32,000 wild horses and burros because it claims there's not enough room for them, and they could starve from lack of natural resources.
Perhaps Mike and the RNC are upset that the Obama Administration may establish "questionable environmental restrictions" to reverse newly-enacted policies that allow trophy hunters to kill and import into the U.S. endangered species from other countries.
Apparently, Mike and the RNC actually believe that a free enterprise system of environmental destruction with minimal oversight is the American Way.
"I'm proud of the honorable campaigns our candidates ran . . ."
While John McCain and most Republicans conducted honorable campaigns, did Mike even attend a Sarah Palin rally? Was he so concentrating upon strategy that he didn't hear her say that Obama "pals around with terrorists" or her ultra-right followers at every rally bleating out racial, ethnic, and religious slurs.
"America remains a center-right country."
Not only is Mike forgetful and delusional, he's also mathematically-challenged. Barack Obama won in the Electoral College by a near landslide 365–173, and a popular vote of 52 percent to John McCain's 46 percent, a higher winning percentage than George W. Bush had in 2004 when he haughtily claimed he had a "mandate" from the people. Maybe Mike doesn't understand that 59 percent of the 2009–2011 House (257–178) are Democrats, 21 more Democrats than two years ago; or that at least 58 of 100 Senators (one race is still being determined) are Democrats, nine more than two years ago. Maybe if Mike closed his eyes tightly and wished upon the nearest oil rig America could still be a "center-right" country.
Nevertheless, misleading statistics, hyperbole, and propaganda aside, Mike's real purpose of the letter was to energize the Republican base to send money to Washington to "ensure that our Party has the funding it needs to hold the Democrats accountable to the American people."Accountability is a real nice word. It's something the Republicans didn't have the past few years. Just about the only thing the Administration did say for most of its term—for any issue—was, "We're at war, we know best, and if you question what we say and what we do you're giving aid and comfort to the enemy."
The American public in 2008 no longer bought into a campaign of fear, intimidation, and harassment, and lies. They said loudly and clearly they wanted an end to the nightmare of the past eight years. They wanted hope; they demanded change.
[For a more complete look at the Bush–Cheney Administration and its effect upon Americans, read Dr. Brasch's critically-acclaimed books America's Unpatriotic Acts: The Federal Government's Violation of Constitutional and Civil Rights (2004); 'Unacceptable': The Federal Government's Response to Hurricane Katrina (2006); and the 560-page Sinking the Ship of State: The Presidency of George W. Bush (2008). All books are available at amazon.com, and most bookstores. You may contact Dr. Brasch through his website, www.walterbrasch.com, or by e-mail at brasch@bloomu.edu]
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Kennesaw State Topples Tennesse Wesleyan
This article is originally from CollegeLax.
By Luke Christiansen
Athens, TN – The No. 13 Kennesaw State Owls defeated the No. 18 Tennessee Wesleyan Bulldogs 11-9 in division play. This marks the Owls first ever victory over the bulldogs, and currently puts them in the drivers seat of the SELC DII South West Division.
"The KSU Owls accomplished a first for the program by defeating the Bulldogs of Tennessee Wesleyan. For three years straight this team put a beating on us. This win puts us in position to be right in line with a playoff spot in the SELC playoffs later in the season," commented Kennesaw Head Coach Ken Byers.
Kennesaw started off slowly and Tennessee Wesleyan took advantage scoring three unanswered goals to start off the game. The Bulldogs lead 4-1 going into the 2nd quarter.
At the start of the 2nd quarter things did not get better for Kennesaw, and Tennessee Wesleyan extended their lead to 6-1.
"I told the team to win one battle at a time," said Coach Byers.
From that point the Owls shut down the Bulldogs offense, and scored five goals to close out the half down 6-7.
The Owls defense continued to be the difference in the second half, limiting the Bulldogs to two goals. A contributing factor to the success on defense was the switch at goalie. Kennesaw State switched goalies at the half, and Andrew Flood played spectacular.
Holding SELC D-II Offensive Player of the Year Ryan Horvath in check was also vital to the Owls success on Saturday.
"Our close defense of Tom Mudrak, Rory Keown and Jimmy Faucette controlled the high powered Bulldog attackers all day long," said Coach Byers.
"Overall, the victory was sloppy at times and we were glad to get it. I have only admiration for the Bulldogs and Coach Kevin Parker."
Kennesaw State went on to defeat The Citadel 21-5 on Sunday. They will now face Palm Beach Atlantic and The Coast Guard Academy this weekend.

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Contribution of a constellation of two wide-swath altimetry missions to global ocean analysis and forecasting
Benkiran Mounir1, Le Traon Pierre-Yves1, 2, Dibarboure Gerald3
1 : Mercator-Ocean International, 31400 Toulouse, France
2 : Ifremer, 29280 Plouzané, France
3 : Centre National d'Études Spatiales, 31400 Toulouse, France
Ocean Science (1812-0784) (Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh), 2022-05 , Vol. 18 , N. 3 , P. 609-625
10.5194/os-18-609-2022
Swath altimetry is likely to revolutionize our ability to monitor and forecast ocean dynamics. To meet the requirements of the EU Copernicus Marine Service, a constellation of two wide-swath altimeters is envisioned for the long-term (post-2030) evolution of the Copernicus Sentinel 3 topography mission. A series of observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs) is carried out to quantify the expected performances. The OSSEs use a state-of-the-art high-resolution (1/12 degrees) global ocean data assimilation system similar to the one used operationally by the Copernicus Marine Service. Flying a constellation of two wide-swath altimeters will provide a major improvement of our capabilities to monitor and forecast the oceans. Compared to the present situation with three nadir altimeters flying simultaneously, the sea surface height (SSH) analysis and 7 d forecast error are globally reduced by about 50 % in the OSSEs. With two wide-swath altimeters, the quality of SSH 7 d forecasts is equivalent to the quality of SSH analysis errors from three nadir altimeters. Our understanding of ocean currents is also greatly improved (30 % improvements at the surface and 50 % at 300 m depth). The resolution capabilities will be drastically improved and will be closer to 100 km wavelength compared to about 250 km today. Flying a constellation of two wide-swath altimeters thus looks to be a very promising solution for the long-term evolution of the Sentinel 3 constellation and the Copernicus Marine Service.
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Benkiran Mounir, Le Traon Pierre-Yves, Dibarboure Gerald (2022). Contribution of a constellation of two wide-swath altimetry missions to global ocean analysis and forecasting. Ocean Science, 18(3), 609-625. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.5194/os-18-609-2022 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00770/88211/
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Research led by investigators in veterinary and human medicine has identified genetic pathways that exacerbate severity of canine compulsive disorder in Doberman Pinschers, a discovery that could lead to better therapies for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in people. The discovery appears in the International Journal of Applied Research in Veterinary Medicine.
OCD is one of the world's most common neuropsychiatric disorders, affecting an estimated 1 to 3 percent of people and listed by the World Health Organization as among the 20 most disabling diseases. OCD is often characterized by distressing thoughts and time-consuming, repetitive behaviors, while canine compulsions may include repetitive tail chasing, excessive grooming and flank and blanket sucking. Current OCD therapies are not as effective as they could be; medicinal treatment benefits only about half of all human patients.
No previously recorded study in humans or dogs has addressed the factors that drive severity in OCD and CCD.
"The cardiovascular systems of dogs and people are very similar," said Pyle, a professor in OVC's Department of Biomedical Sciences and a member of U of G's Centre for Cardiovascular Investigations.
In both dogs and people with DCM, the weakened heart muscle becomes unable to pump blood around the body. The cause of the problem is often unknown, although it's common to involve genetics.
DCM is the second leading cause of heart failure in dogs, and it's especially common in large breeds. Dogs typically show no symptoms until the disease is well-advanced.
For the study, Pyle and O'Sullivan, a clinical cardiologist in OVC's Health Sciences Centre, worked with researchers at the University of Washington to test a novel therapy in diseased heart cells.
"This suggests it's a promising therapeutic approach worth further investigating for the treatment of DCM," said O'Sullivan. One of 10 board-certified veterinary cardiologists in Canada, she runs OVC's Doberman DCM screening program.
The researchers also discovered some problems in the heart muscle that likely contribute to DCM. "This may shed light on the mechanical impairment in failing hearts," Pyle said.
Both researchers belong to U of G's Centre for Cardiovascular Investigations, one of a few centres worldwide studying heart disease from single molecules to clinical applications.
Paige Winkler, a doctoral student at the College of Veterinary Medicine, says that the researchers found a gene mutation that results in a missing protein responsible for the pigmentation of cells.
Albino Dobermans possess a pink nose, white or very light colored coats, and pale irises in the eyes. These characteristics are similar to human albinos who have light skin, eye discoloration and often experience visual problems.
Like human albinos, the albino Dobermans are sensitive to light and have an increased risk of skin tumors.
Winkler says that this discovery will help Doberman breeders in the future where breeding lines carrying the defective gene can be identified.
The Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas is pet-friendly. Through discount site Coupaw, it is currently offering a 3-day/2-night stay for 2 adults at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas for $30. The voucher for this deal includes a Las Vegas BITE card which provides the cardholder with other excellent deals on a wide array of food and entertainment throughout Las Vegas.
2 Dog maximum – $25 additional fee – per dog/per night. Pet fees are paid directly to the Riviera Hotel. All pet arrangements must be made directly with the Riviera Hotel. Pet friendly rooms are located in classic room types – San Remo tower. Dogs cannot exceed 50 lbs. Dog Owner must provide proof of current vaccinations including exhibiting current rabies tag on check in. Dogs that are excluded to stay in pet friendly rooms include but are not limited to: Akitas, Alaskan Malamutes, Chows, Doberman Pinschers, English Bull, Terriers, German Shepherds, Mastiffs, Pit Bulls, Presa, Canaries, Rottweiler, or any dog with a bite history. Coupaw is not responsible for the Riviera hotel refusing to accommodate specific dogs for any reason.


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Nowadays pastel palettes are very trendy and it also can be suitable for the paint. So, ask your landlord about the possibility of the fashionable overhaul and redo some little rooms like a bathroom or entryway. It will be so cool. You can choose any colour you want but opt for light and bright one. Also you can paint just an accent wall instead of painting the entire space. In this case look for Tiffany blue, lilac or burgundy to make the room elegant looking.
If you can't paint anything you can create a wonderful wall with bright curtains. They can add trendy elements to your space.
If you are not allowed to paint the entire room, look for the bright furniture. To cheer up your apartment you can add something bright from the chair to other pieces to refresh your space. They can be of very bright colours like fuchsia, canary yellow or peppermint green. It can add positive elements to your space and when the mood is not good the pop of colour will be able to raise it.
Add mirrors – they can enhance your room and also they can visually make the space bigger than it is.
Another trendy trick is your own art on the canvas. It is not expensive and you can choose any colours you want. You can paint things you like best or ask your friends to help you and do such painting together.
Hang interesting bookshelves in the unexpected positions. This trick will help you to store different things and it will be a fresh and trendy element in you flat.
Change all the door knobs and the handles. You can choose any style, size and colour. The new handles will look great and the entire space will be changed a lot.
Install various radiator covers to hide the old radiators and to turn them into the book shelves.
Decorate the walls with your family photos. This trick can help you to make you feeling like home. You can create even the real gallery hanging the most memorable photos.
Add green window plants, beautiful flowers, orchids everywhere – greenery can make your room be fresh and stylish.
Decorate the floor with various rugs. They can be of different colours and with many authentic prints.
Add floor lighting and many lamps to your apartments to make the room more comfortable.
To feel home in the rental flat add little things which can be important for you and that will make comfortable your living in this place.


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Your views: on Messenger newspapers, Shed 26 and Newstart
Today, readers comment on a News Corp bid to get councils to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to the free suburban weeklies, pose more questions about Shed 26, and discuss the benefits of raising the Newstart allowance.
Photo: Tony Lewis/InDaily
Future of local journalism
Commenting on the story: Killing The Messenger: News Corp's bid to save failed weekly
How long can News Corporation keep The Advertiser and Messenger Press trading?
Massive editorial and production cuts, rationalisations, consolidations in both mastheads and a circulation base falling at 9 per cent per year at The Advertiser, means it's last days are nigh.
I have no love for the Tiser, although some of its reporters are first class. Many of its stories make BuzzFeed look like The Washington Post. It's pious hypocrisy is an embarrassment to all South Australians and those businesses associated with it.
The Messenger though was a training ground for many South Australian journalists who went on to do great things. Yet asking ratepayers to fund News Corporation publications is outrageous and a sign of desperation by an organisation that has lost its way in the digital world.
The question I pose is much larger. I call on Premier Stephen Marshall to contact Rupert Murdoch and confirm that News Corporation will still have some form of publishing presence in South Australia. If not, sell up and move on. – Malcolm King
In the 10 years I have lived in the eastern suburbs I don't believe I have ever once read a Messenger newspaper or for that matter opened one.
My entire interaction with it entails picking it up off my front lawn – despite having rung Messenger Press to request they stop delivering it – swearing under my breath, and throwing the damn thing in the bin.
I dare say there are thousands of households which are none too different. Is anyone really interested in what it has to say any more?
Perhaps my biggest gripe is that being printed on expensive, nonabsorbent glossy paper (wholly unsure why this should be necessary) it is not even useful to line the cat's litter bin.
I would be seriously annoyed if my local council wastes yet more ratepayer money, which they are all too good at, on propping this up.
Their time has passed. – Peter Marsden
In hindsight it might have been preferable for councils to save the Messenger and use it as their council's newsletter, instead of each council having separate entities to stay in contact with their local communities. – Mike Lesiw
Once it's gone it's gone
Commenting on the story: Protest over Shed 26 as Grand Designs host joins campaign
Telling another city your opinion in relation to demolishing a building or not is tantamount to telling another parent how to raise their children. You do so at great risk and subsequently often avoid doing so.
I was randomly flicking past a news story and my eye was caught by an image of Building 26.
I read on and thought surely they are not going to destroy such a singularly beautiful building.
I resign myself to being a distant observer inappropriately telling another city how to behave. I understand economics, I understand costs, I understand thoughtful ministerial considerations and so on.
Here is the best advice I can muster. If you can look at Building 26, then close your eyes and imagine the proposed replacement. Then open your eyes again.
If this exercise doesn't fill you with the visual joy that the current building does, even in its current state of disrepair, then don't proceed. It's sometimes that simple. – PG Vinèy
I would be interested to know who is the owner listed on the Land Title for Shed 26. Is it the State Government or a SA government agency?
If so, then the land and Shed 26 still belong to the people of SA, not Cedar Woods, despite any contractual arrangements.
Cedar Woods will rush to demolish this building because once it's gone, then that's it. So the destruction of Port Adelaide history continues, by the government who are supposed to protect us from greedy developers and the developers themselves.
The Le Cornu example is misleading as the Le Cornu site was privately owned, this site I presume is still owned by the SA government.
For 25 years the maritime history of Port Adelaide has been destroyed or treated with contempt by SA governments.
I'm absolutely sick of the lack of imagination by governments and developers in repurposing existing heritage assets, only to be replaced structures that could be from anywhere. We deserve better. – Adrian Fechner
Social and economic benefits
Commenting on the story: Drop the 'dole bludger' tag and increase Newstart
There is a wealth of evidence supporting the argument that a substantial increase in Newstart will actually reduce the number of people on benefits.
We only have to look to Northern Europe where unemployment benefits tend to be as high as 75% of the recipients last salary to see that this is true.
These nations do not find that people prefer to be on the dole, but rather paying them enough to live in dignity and maintain their self-respect acts as a spur to finding that next job – or in the case of the older unemployed they tend to engage in voluntary work.
What people tend to forget that the pay packet is only part of the motivation that gets us out of bed in the morning.
Work gives you a sense of identity – when you meet someone new people do not ask how much you earn but what you do for a living – being in work is being part of society.
Work connects you to society hence it is also the reason that people stick at jobs that are boring and repetitive.
This is the right time to make a significant increase in Newstart payments for the legislation that set up the job network has enough safeguards in it to very quickly identify those who will not actively seek out employment, and given the overseas experience they would constitute a small percentage of a provider's caseload. – John Tons
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Sedona, Arizona, residents James Muir, wife Linda and sister Suzanne Johnson visited Playa Flamingo for their first Costa Rican vacation. James is a renowned, award-winning allegorical artist and author who has been sculpting for 30 years and has more than 60 life-size pieces on display throughout the United States. Linda is one of the proprietors of Sedona's Crimson Shadows Gallery, the working studio for James' art. To view his astonishing work, go to www.jamesmuir.com.
The June 18 Robert August Stand-up Paddle Event hosted by Pura Vida Ride at Las Catalinas, Playa Danta, was a great success. There were three categories: Elite (5 km), Sprint (3 km) and Family Fun. The Elite and Sprint races included a beach sprint start. Potrero resident Melissa Chellemi took first place in the Elite women's category while her husband, Richard, took fourth place in the Elite men's.
A barbecue at Haras del Mar Equestrian Center in Lomas del Mar was held June 25 to welcome Kylee Turner from Vancouver, Canada, who is the center's new equestrian instructor. She brings more than 20 years of riding experience to the job and will offer lessons and camps in all disciplines. She has trained and competed in combined events, cross-country, dressage and show jumping. Free pony rides were offered for the kids at the barbecue, along with half-priced trail rides. For more information about the center, call Roger Chewning at 8302-4685.


Danny Sepkowski found his love for photography back in high school when he purchased an underwater disposable camera. That purchase would change his life forever. Danny landed publications in "Canon", "National Geographic", and Riptide Magazine to name a few. His current film "A-Frame" is in the running for awards in multiple film festivals around the world. He produced this film for two years and it is now starting to show its colors. The shorebreak and Tahiti are his favorite places to be.


Lyrical tea pot from Imperial Tea Court, San Francisco. This authentic Yixing teapot makes tea taste better.
If you've wondered what ever happened to LTR, in a word: Moving. As in going from a leafy, bucolic suburb near NYC to LTR's "hometown" of San Francisco.
Alas, while what is quaintly known as "household goods" is lurching its way across the country (read snowstorms, truck breakdowns "somewhere in the midwest"), LTR is appreciating the pure beauty of a white porcelain Limoges teapot and realizing that Yixing clay tea pots from China really do make a difference. After buying a poor imitation of a Yixing as a local Chinese housewares store in San Francisco that looked like the trusty Yixing pot, the proof as they say, was in the cup. No contest! Tea in the imitation yixing tasted bland and weak, while LTR remembered the depth of flavor in the orig. Lesson #1 learned over and over again: Whether it's a tea pot, a handbag, or a pair of shoes, buy original.


Some people would love to play games, and now many genres of games that you can choose to play in accordance with your favorite. As an adventure game, most of you must have liked this game. There are 5 best adventure games for Android that you can choose. You can play as much without the need for an internet connection. It's very nice, isn't it?
This time I will share some exciting android adventure games to play. For those of you who may not know it, this can be your reference. Fun and popular adventure game that I will share this a lot of gamers who play it. For more details, check this out for the details!
This is a first-person shooter game inspired by the Call of Duty saga. The game also has a spectacular single player operating mode, as well as an incredible online mode to play with a number of players. It also includes an exciting and action-packed adventure game. This best adventure games for Android here is a lot of devotees.
This game controls an adventurer who ran as hard as possible from the pursuit of a herd of tigers capable of tearing his body in seconds. You must collect coins, artifacts, and possessions while running. To do so, move from right to left on the screen, jump over obstacles, glide on the floor, and so on. You can unlock new characters and abilities. With his ability, you can collect more possessions while running, and even get help in dangerous situations.
If you've ever played Mario Bross, this game is quite similar with. This adventure game is very exciting and not boring. There are many obstacles you have to face such as giant sharks, bulls, dinosaurs, and so on. You must also collect as many points as possible in this game. Jungle Adventure becomes one of the best adventure games for Android that among the children or adults can play this one.
Before starting the game you have to choose which character you want to be. You can choose among four different characters that will radically affect you in terms of dealing with the challenges in the game.
Once you have enhanced your character by completing the story mode, where you can level up and receive so much equipment such weapons, armor, charms, etc. You can take it to the battle arena. There you can enter the battle with other players (PvP) around the world. This adventure game is a very amazing action of RPG.
Adventure game full of strategies and roles is much in demand by gamers. Here you lead a small town that tries to recover after being destroyed by evil beings. For that, you need the help of the brave heroes who are willing to face any threat. You can build dozens of homes, shops and other kinds of decorations to fill the city. These buildings will also serve to attract the attention of the heroes to come so that later can help you to fight the monsters.
That all the best adventure games for Android that I can share with you. Hopefully, this is very useful for you. Have a nice day!


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US Army Corps to build as many 341 Chinavirus hospitals
Published on : April 1, 2020 March 31, 2020 Published by : Jacob Palmieri
Lieutenant General Todd Semonite announced that the Army Corps of engineers is planning on building as many 341 hospitals across the US to help combat the Chinese Coronavirus.
Free Beacon:
U.S. officials want to build hundreds of temporary hospitals across the country to cope with the thousands of new coronavirus cases being diagnosed daily after the United States endured its deadliest day yet on Monday with 575 fatalities.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which converted a New York convention center into a 1,000-bed hospital in the space of a week, is searching for hotels, dormitories, convention centers and large open space to build as many as 341 temporary hospitals, the chief of corps said on Tuesday.
"The scope is immense," Lieutenant General Todd Semonite of the corps told the ABC News "Good Morning America" program. "We're looking right now at around 341 different facilities across all of the United States."
As bad as this situation is it is nice to see our troops being used to protect Americans. These people are true heroes and it is amazing what they are doing to keep Americans safe.
I also hope the Mainstream Media decides to praise these guys like they did the Chinese government when they were building "great hospitals" .(Until of course we found out they weren't so great)
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Trigger Finger, Ink Drawing by Jenie Gao
How do we define true human progress?
Art Experiences / Everyday Allegories / Exhibits / Understanding Value
August 29th was the one-year anniversary of me leaving my corporate job.
I left to pursue my artwork. On a deeper level, I left to make myself better and more purposeful in any of the work that I do, philosophically and values-wise. I didn't believe that a traditional job could teach me these things as effectively as I was seeking. I left to pursue opportunities that would help me better understand and define value, the purpose of work, the measures of progress, and the resulting merits of ambition.
It's been, at times, an unnerving year. A hard, uncertain, and thrilling year, but in other ways an easy, freeing, and powerfully happy one. A year heavy with the enlightenment of learning and play. A year of trial, and ultimately a pursuit of answers that has culminated in harder questions than I started out with.
I'm doing a self-evaluation and goal setting, which I'll publish soon. And in the process, I'm taking the time to think about my actions following up on what I've done and transitioning to what I want to do next.
Today, I'm writing about three events I'm involved with this month, how I decided to participate in them, and the harder questions that my involvement opens up.
depART: Laika Boss, Saturday, September 5, 6 pm-midnight
Laika Boss is a space-themed costume party/experience/group art show/fundraiser for Dane County Humane Society and art projects in Madison put on by the coworking/community space, 100state.
This one's a no-brainer for why I'm participating. I've worked with stray animals and rescue cases my whole life. I'm an artist. I have a special place in my heart for shared spaces, and a coworking/startup hub like 100state resonates with me. The organizers of 100arts have been doing an amazing job and I can tell that participating in this event puts me in a league of smart and passionate people.
"Our Little Freedom," ink and water color drawing by Jenie Gao, currently on display at 100state
Tough Mudder, Saturday, September 12, 11 am
The Tough Mudder is not a race against others, but a personal and team challenge. What an awesome ideal. The obstacle course is as mental as it is physical. It's a competition wholly against yourself and a challenge that requires you to help and be helped by others in order to complete the course. I basically signed up to spend my day getting muddy with an added adrenaline kick with a great group of friends.
In addition to the camaraderie, the Tough Mudder has been awesome for setting long-term, physical goals. Seriously, what a great way to combat my inner wuss. I've hated running most of my life and am now running a minimum of 20 miles a week. I've plateaued at three chin-ups (and occasionally squeak out a pathetic fourth that I only mention in hopes of sounding cool), but hey, I could still be doing between 0 and 1 like I was a year ago. Mostly, though, I love having a goal that sets a bar towards which my abilities–and more importantly habits–must rise to meet.
Finally, since its founding five years ago, Tough Mudder has raised $8.5 million for The Wounded Warrior Project, which you can learn about in the video below. Welcome to the power of the collective.
Maker Faire Milwaukee, Saturday, September 26 – Sunday, September 27
"The Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth." This is a place where makers of all kinds share what they create and how.
I'll be helping the UW Milwaukee and MIAD Print Clubs in the Printmaking area. Rumor has it there might be a steamroller for woodblock printing.
You can read a goofy interview of yours truly on the Maker Faire blog series, Meet the Makers, and check out the other features as well. Maker Faire doesn't fool around when it comes to the people and organizations they bring in. This will be my third year participating in Maker Faire; I love being surrounded by the energy of fellow learners and doers and getting to see the projects borne out of people's curiosity and passion.
Jenie Gao doing her printmaking thing, photo courtesy of Proyecto'Ace in Buenos Aires
Teaching, creating, community, helping out good causes while bonding with conscientious, ambitious people. What's not to love?
Band-aids vs Solutions
I can cross-check these activities against my values and all of them will pass. I can ask myself if what I'm doing gives me the kind of worthwhile challenge that I will learn and grow from, and the answer will be yes. I can ask if what I'm doing helps somebody else, and the answer will still be yes. But I am far from earning a gold star (and it has nothing to do with being my own worst critic).
Even though these three events do good for our world, to celebrate our good intentions prematurely comes with a heavy cost. Equal to the danger of analysis paralysis is the kind of under-thinking that results in the over-doing that currently permeates our culture. We tend to lose sight of the underlying causes that create the need for these grassroots efforts and therefore the opportunity to ask a causational question that digs deeper to the pains we truly seek to relieve. There's a lot of pain here, an infectious disease, and instead of a proper diagnosis and treatment, we're fighting it with band-aids.
The Underbelly of the Pet Industry and Animal Advocacy
Laika was the first living creature to be launched into outer space, an event that transformed her into a celebrated, national icon. But the story of Laika is dark and illustrates the dilemma of human progress well. She was a stray dog in Soviet Russia, chosen for the mission for her hardiness and even temperament, to prove that we could sustain life in space. In that regard, the mission was a success; but in the "race" to be first, the Soviets cut a lot of corners, and the scientists knew Laika would die on this mission. We also know, now, that the plan to euthanize her peacefully failed, and that she died horribly from extreme overheating. One of the scientists on the project, Oleg Gazenko, later lamented, "The more time passes, the more I'm sorry about it. We did not learn enough from this mission to justify the death of the dog."
When the real story of Laika's far from painless death was exposed, it unleashed an outcry from animal rights advocates. This is a dog, not a human; a dog can't consent to dying on a rocket, and commemorating her with a statue and lots of fan art is a weak consolation prize. Laika is today, at best, an icon of the space race, and at worst, a heavy emblem of our moral failure.
Beyond the emotional weight of the story, let's look at what pets mean to us in the US in terms of dollars (I want to get into what animals mean to us with the debates surrounding the ethics vs economics of animal testing and the meat industry, but that gets pretty harrowing, so for the sake of focus, we'll keep to the puppies and kitties).
Americans spend $61 billion annually on the pet industry (only $2.2 billion of that is buying the pet). There are 164 million pets in 62% of American households, and it's estimated that about 30% are adopted from shelters. About 7.6 million pets enter shelters every year. Meanwhile, the Humane Society of the United States has total expenses of $128 million in an effort to promote animal advocacy, but only 1% of it goes to local shelters, which the HSUS doesn't dispute. Local shelters rely on–you got it–local donors.
The infinitesimally small amount of national funding for shelters makes me wonder where the rest of the $128 million goes, but that's small fries compared to the billions spent elsewhere. There are lots of conflicting numbers about pet ownership, but it's curious that pet ownership has doubled in two decades while spending on them has quadrupled. It's also curious that various sources report that only 30% of pets in homes are from shelters…but of the 164 million pets, that's 49.2 million animals, which is waaay more than the 6-8 million that enter shelters each year and the 2.7 million that are supposedly healthy and ready for adoption.
The harder question: Why are our communities pushed to continue holding local fundraisers when the money (and industry) to help these animals is so obviously there?
War and Supporting Our Veterans in the Aftermath of Damage
We live in a world where war is considered a necessary evil, and it is an evil. Remember how our friends at the Tough Mudder have raised $8.5 million to help wounded warriors? Collectively as a nation we have spent $818 billion on the Iraq War alone.
By the way, there are currently about 1.4 million active US soldiers and another 850,000 in reserve. According to Tough Mudder's website, there will be over 2 million participants in its obstacle courses worldwide just for this year.
The harder question: How have we justified pooling the efforts of more people than we have soldiers to raise 0.00001039% of the funds spent on the Iraq War to help wounded veterans recover, after the damage has been done?
A Culture of Makers and the Miracle & Curse of Manufacturing
This one's a toughie and I'm not entirely certain at which angle I should approach this. It's no secret that there's a lot of strife about jobs getting sent overseas and like any industry, manufacturing is sure to argue its worthiness. The National Association of Manufacturers tells us that manufacturing contributed $2.9 trillion to the US economy. 12 million people in the US are directly employed in manufacturing and collectively earn $930 billion (based on an average employees' salary/benefits earnings of $77,506), or about 32% of that contribution.
Just talking about manufacturing as one, lump thing is amorphous as fuck. $2.9 trillion is a great number, if all you care about is numbers, but how much of what we make is actually necessary is an ongoing battle between the consumerist and minimalist philosophies. Though I'm partial to this sector because of my work history there, I'm far from the biggest fan of what manufacturing has enabled culturally as exemplified on Black Friday. For those who argue that manufacturing is about job creation, well, then I suppose it depends on the problem you're trying to solve…
A portrayal of the space needed to transport 60 people, courtesy of the Cycling Promotion Fund. We could argue that we traded space to save time, but time to get where, to earn what, to get us where else?
What does this all mean??
The harder question for now: isn't really a question. I'm just noticing that the $930 billion of wages and benefits for the manufacturing sector is only 1.14 times of the $818 billion spent on the Iraq War. For better or worse, we could go on fighting all other wars and still double manufacturing overhead power and while we're at it maybe save shit tons of puppies.
The Value of Staying in the Conversation
I wrote about the feral dogs of South America during my recent travels, and how we humans are not so different from them. It says something, that scientists chose Laika for her good demeanor, and that her praise could become her exploitation, no less, in the name of progress.
The Catch-22 is, I wouldn't be able to distribute any of these thoughts online if we didn't know it was possible to jettison anything into outer space. Then again, maybe I wouldn't have anything to contest about human progress if we didn't kill a dog on a rocket.
As I move forward in my pursuits, I'm thinking about my values and the dialogues I want to be a part of. There is the "good" that I do in the world, and the "evil" that is inseparable from it. As this Vice article elegantly puts it, "Everything you do is unethical, so shut the fuck up…in spite of your best efforts, you're still ruining the world."
While I get this article's point, I disagree with its approach or the idea that in order to live ethically, we either have "to go off the grid" or kill ourselves. We are social creatures, and so our ethics are rooted in the contexts of our communities. They do not grow in temples of isolation or in labs.
I hate war, but I don't hate that we have people that will not only run through mud pits and electrical wire but actually pay for the privilege to do so–to pool funds for the sake of empowering those that our warring countries have let down.
I hate that we live in a world where our governments pressure us to advance ever faster and kill dogs in the name of conquering "the unknown" and that nowhere along the way, did one voice among all the brilliant minds, stop to contest it. I'm sorry that we have to promote animal rights only because we wronged them in the first place.
I'm sorry about the state of manufacturing and what it has ridden upon our workforce, our education system, and our values. The irony of becoming creators on a mass scale is that our ultimate production has been a society defined by its consumption. I'm sorry that we rely on grassroots efforts to promote creativity, efforts that become platforms for big name sponsors only once what they're doing is seen as useful. But I'm not sorry for the underlying philosophies that manufacturing proves, if we are willing to look deeper, and understand our incredible human desires both to create and to congregate.
I'm not sorry to be among people who give their time willingly towards a cause, even though they did not create the problem and are far from being the most financially capable of fixing it. Something in our human nature compels us to empower others, though we ourselves may also be broke, broken, and let down.
There is evidence of something really special here.
It says something, that whether people make $10, $20, or $100 an hour they will use their money to make a statement in a currency and social war they will never win. Our community efforts demonstrate that we are not so afraid of loss as we think we are.
The question is, can we separate sentiment from achievement, and recognize that the work towards the first is the obvious, while the work towards the second is not only harder but a battle we've barely begun?
It both amazes and troubles me what we are capable of doing and unwilling to do, with our wealth of resources and poverty of distribution. If we are truly becoming a sharing economy, then I'm curious to what extent we are willing to live up to that. I have a lot of questions and few answers, and I think the only thing I have resolved is that this is a dialogue worth being a part of. Perhaps the worst thing that any of us can do is leave the conversation.
To be rid of the abuse of animal and human, to be rid of war, to be rid of the hunger that drives our consumption. These are not overnight fixes, to put it lightly. But I choose, as I believe my community members do, to be an active person, so that I have the opportunity to be among those who are not only capable of speaking up but also keen on asking the hard questions. I hope that those of us who identify as peacemakers today do so with the vision of becoming peacekeepers tomorrow.
There is a quote I like from Rumi, "Yesterday, I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today, I am wise, so I am changing myself."
I can't pretend that anything I do is more than a drop in a bucket in the face of a wildfire. I can't pretend that my running benefits anybody other than myself or that my money, my art, and my community involvement is anything more than an expression of my values and personal tastes.
But I can be a one-person paradigm. I can prove that with limited resources and a simple structure of habits, I have not only enough to improve my personal wellbeing, but also enough to share.
I can afford to live in a developed, American city and go out for drinks with friends, so of course, I have the equal time and power to run in 5k charities and volunteer for the community. My question now is if, ideologically, I can make the next step, from the 5k charity mindset to the world that doesn't need charity. I ask also, if I find myself in the company of others equally willing to step up, to do with less as individuals and to sway the power that the established world holds on us.
We are not so afraid of loss as we think we are, and we all have voices and the time and ability to use them. So long as we act and interact within the everyday world, we can make the choice to see and speak to it more clearly.
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Q: Loading associated resources in Ember I'm working on my second Ember project, and first using Rails on the backend. I'm struggling with loading associated data through my API in a nested route. The association is simple: a folder has many media_files in my backend (I'm aware snake case is against convention but trying to work around it).
When I do the following, I get the correctly nested route (folders/show/media_files) and no complaints when loading the template, but the data is empty in the console and doesn't render in the template.
Thank you for your time.
Here is my routing:
Router.map(function() {
 this.route('folders', function(){

   this.route('show', {
      path: ':folder_id'
   }, function() {
      this.route('media_files', {resetNamespace: true}, function (){
   });
  });

 });
});

Here are my associations:
Folder:
import DS from 'ember-data';

export default DS.Model.extend({
  name: DS.attr('string'),
  media_files: DS.hasMany('media_file')
});

Media Files:
import DS from 'ember-data';

export default DS.Model.extend({
  name: DS.attr('string'),
  duration: DS.attr('number'),
  createdAt: DS.attr('date'),
  folder: DS.belongsTo('folder')
});

Here is the call to the media files index:
import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Route.extend({
  model: function(){
    return this.modelFor("folders/show").get("media_files");
  }
});

My URL is folders/folder_id/media_files, same as in my API. The JSON there looks like this:
{
   media_files: [
{
    id: 513009,
    url: null,
    project_id: 999,
    batch_id: 1268,
    duration: 30556,
    rush: false.....

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Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia, British Indian Army regiments, Indian World War I regiments,
Indian World War II regiments
British colonial regiments
Artillery units and formations
Hazara military personnel
24th Hazara Mountain Battery (Frontier Force)
Indian Empire
Punjab Army (to 1895)
Punjab Command
Second Afghan War
Second Burmese War
Chitral Expedition
Third Afghan War
Afridi and Red Shirt Rebellion (1930–1)
Mohmand and Bajaur Operations (1933)
Waziristan campaign 1936–1939
The 24th Hazara Mountain Battery (Frontier Force) was an artillery battery of the British Indian Army. The battery was raised in 1851, at Haripur in order to help defend the Hazara District of the North West Frontier. The 4th soon saw action in numerous small campaigns on the North West Frontier. In 1878, the 4th took part in the Second Afghan War at the Battle of Ali Masjid, and later took part in the Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment, where it remained as part of the garrison when the rest of the force marched on Kandahar. In 1885, the Battery took part in the Second Burmese War. In 1895, the Battery was back fighting on the Frontier as part of the Chitral Expedition.To honour the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Indian they took part in the Rawalpindi Parade 1905. During World War I, the 4th left India in 1917, for East Africa where it would remain until the Armistice. Between the wars, the Battery saw service in the Third Afghan War of 1919, the Afridi and Red Shirt Rebellion (1930–1), the Mohmand and Bajaur Operations (1933), and operations against the Fakir of Ipi in the Waziristan campaign 1936–1939. It was deployed to Singapore at the opening of World War II, and entered Japanese captivity with the rest of the garrison.
Photograph, circa 1895 showing a 7pdr Mountain gun of Hazara Battery in Hazara listing the crew's ranks in the caption.
Rinaldi, Richard A (2008). Order of Battle British Army 1914. Ravi Rikhye. ISBN 0-9776072-8-3.
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ROLLS-ROYCE RELEASES INTERACTIVE GAME INSPIRED BY WRAITH KRYPTOS COLLECTION
23.07.2020 Press Release
In honour of the newly unveiled Wraith Kryptos Collection, Rolls-Royce today launches an entertaining and interactive online game, for members of the public and enthusiasts around the world to enjoy. Players can access the game at rolls-roycemotorcars.com from 12pm BST on 23rd July, where they can take part in a cryptic challenge, consisting of four levels, each getting progressively harder.
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Rolls-Royce releases fun and interactive online game in honour of latest Collection Car, Wraith Kryptos
Participants are invited to test their mental agility in staged challenges
Unique prizes awarded to the first ten finalists of the game
In honour of the newly unveiled Wraith Kryptos Collection, Rolls-Royce today launches an entertaining and interactive online game, for members of the public and enthusiasts around the world to enjoy. Players can access the game at rolls-roycemotorcars.com from 12pm BST on 23rd July, where they can take part in a cryptic challenge, consisting of four levels, each getting progressively harder. The first ten individuals to complete the game will receive their very own personalised Rolls-Royce treadplate.
The Wraith Kryptos Collection was revealed on 7th July to worldwide intrigue and acclaim. Consisting of just 50 examples, these very special motor cars are themselves imbued with cryptography; cryptic messages and code embedded within the very fabric of the motor car. Only those who hold the key will be granted the opportunity to unravel the series of clues, which lead to an enlightening conclusion. On completion of the challenge, patrons of this Collection are invited to submit their findings via Rolls-Royce's highly exclusive members' club, the Whispers Application.
An online game has been devised to entertain and amuse Rolls-Royce enthusiasts who will not be lucky enough to attempt to solve and decipher the code of Wraith Kryptos Collection for themselves. Inspired by, but not linked to, the Wraith Kryptos Collection, anyone with a penchant for cryptography may enter the challenge.
Consisting of four different levels, players are initially invited to guide an orb through a maze by tilting their mobile device in the direction they wish to travel, in a time-pressured challenge. Next, a series of questions will reveal just how keen the cryptographer player really is.
The third level will test the observation skills of the participant – only the most cunning will succeed! The final phase consists of cryptographic ciphers, designed to boggle and bewilder. This level is the reserve of the most agile and determined minds alone.
For game related enquiries, please contact clientservices@rolls-roycemotorcars.com. Terms and Conditions apply.
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OHCHR > English > News and Events > End impunity in South Sudan
Human Rights Commission for South Sudan calls for end of impunity for perpetrators of violence
In Wau, South Sudan, the stories of the atrocities visited on civilians were numerous and heart-breaking.
An 89-year-old widow described how she begged for her life after her husband and two sons were shot in front of her. Another 60-year-old woman told how she was gang raped by several soldiers and then left for dead.
And in these cases and many others, no one has been held responsible.
"The overwhelming stories that we have encountered included not just the attacks against civilians but the looting, the rapes and sexual violence as well as the burning of villages, cattle raids, abduction of women and children and the lack of access to food and education," said Human Rights Commission in South Sudan Chairperson, Yasmin Sooka.
On the fourth anniversary of the outbreak of civil war in South Sudan, many of those responsible for the violence against its people are yet to be held to account.
The Human Rights Commission in South Sudan were in the country to collect ad preserve evidence of alleged violations taking place. The record of these can ultimately be used in holding those responsible to account.
The Commission is an independent body set up by the United Nations Human Rights Council to determine and report the facts and circumstances of alleged gross violations and abuses of human rights and related crimes, including sexual and gender based violence and ethnic violence, with a view to ending impunity and providing accountability.
Over the course of the Commission's visit to South Sudan, eastern Ethiopia and northern Uganda, Sooka and fellow Commissioner Andrew Clapham met with numerous victims of the conflict who shared harrowing accounts of indiscriminate attacks, revenge killings, torture, abduction of women and children, forced displacement, looting and burning of homes and crops, starvation, rape and other forms of sexual violence. In a country where food insecurity is acute, crops are destroyed leaving villages starving.
"We are deeply disturbed by what we witnessed and heard throughout our visit," Chapman said. "The deprivation and range of sexual violence are hard to describe, people are targeted and suffering just for being who they are."
The Commissioners visited the capital Juba as well as more remote parts of the country such as Wau, Bor and Akobo, where they heard from those suffering from the ongoing violence.
"All of those we spoke to said that the most important thing now is for South Sudan to find some way of the war ending and of sustainable peace coming to South Sudan -not just the guns stopping but real and durable peace," Sooka said.
More than 1.8 million South Sudanese are internally displaced with another two million having fled to neighboring countries. Half of the population - six million people – rely on humanitarian assistance to survive and the outlook for the coming year is grim.
"This is a country where there is enormous resilience but the way this war is being conducted it is actually wearing people down. It has to stop and there has to be accountability and I think that is the commitment we have that we will do everything we can to enable that to happen," said Sooka.
The Commission said the South Sudanese Government had cooperated during its visit and worked to provide answers to many of its questions. The Commission will present its report to the Human Rights Council in March.
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Muscadine grapes are one of nature's rarest, most potent grapes, and they possess a unique polyphenol profile that science suggests offers a number of health benefits. Unlike other grapes, muscadine grapes boast superior concentrations of ellagitannins and ellagic acid that, when combined with other muscadine grape polyphenols, yield immense antioxidant power.* Muscadine grapes can also thrive in harsh environments; their unique phenolic profile provides extra protection against bacteria, fungus, yeast, drought, excess moisture, and temperature extremes, while other grapes are much more fragile in these environments.
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First social networking sites was used for chatting
Curious about how Social media sites came into picture? Want to know their story in brief? Ask our experts to get an in-depth knowledge of them.
I want to know about which social networking sites came first? Which is the most oldest social sites,also tell about their popularity. Who invented the first social site? Also tell their demerits and why those oldest sites are not used today? And how this demerits are removed in the new social sites?
The first ever social networking could be traced to email service. Launched in 1971, it was the first electronic communication via the Internet. Though it was not as capable as it is now, it served a way to be socially contacted.
1978 saw the launch of BBS - Bulletin Board Service. It was used to be hosted on PCs. Users connected with other users via Internet through phone lines. The service was much slower by today's standards, yet was a good beginning .
In the same year, Usernet was born. It let the users to post news and other posts. This later gave rise to Groups which were predecessors to what are known as Google Groups or Yahoo Groups today. In 1988, first instant messaging service was born named Internet Relay Chat known as IRC. IRC was a unix based system. Members could use it for file and link sharing.
The first ever social networking site was Geocities. It was founded in 1994. Users could create their own Web pages based on their interest. It was followed by TheGlobe.com. People with similar interests could form a community and discuss between themselves.
The true predecessor to today's social networking sites was launched in 1997 with AOL Messenger. It was the real beginning as it let you create your profiles. The profiles could be searched over the internet and could be connected to. It was akin to adding friends or circles today.
Sites like Hi-5 and Classmates made an entry into the nascent social networking sites back then. Classmates was a hit with its ability to be able to connect with old classmates and friends.
Friendster and MySpace were launched soon after. MySpace ruled the SNS space until Facebook came up in 2006. They can be truly treated as the first modern social networking site. Soon MySpace surpassed Friendster on the basis of user base.
Facebook was initially launched in 2004 with the aim of connecting the US college students. In 2006, it went public. Two years later, in 2008 it surpassed the total members base of Friendster and MySpace. It now claims a global user base of around 150 million.
As for merits and demerits of the older social networking sites is concerned, it can only be stated that one cannot really highlight such a differentiation. The sites made use of the available technology at that time and made progress. Some of them closed down because of economic slow down or inability to keep up with the competition. There isn't any issue like demerits in them getting shut down.
You cannot say Facebook will continue to rule either. In fact, Google had tried it with Orkut at the beginning and then Google Plus. Neither of them are reaching the popularity level of Facebook. So, in the near future Facebook too may get routed by some new site.
There were different types of social communication in earlier times.
2. Usenet Groups
3. IRC
4. Video chat using MSN and Yahoo! chat rooms
5. Penpal social network
6. SMS based social networks (mostly Chinese and Korean websites)
7. Web based social networks like Myspace, Facebook, orkut, twitter.
If we ignore email as social networking medium then usenet must be the next in line to be called as social network.
Usenet news groups were the first social networking during earlier stages of the internet. These usenet groups are obsolete now and mostly used for the piracy. But earlier people used to be using them as social network. There used to be forum service, moderation and content sharing within the groups. Each group used to be strictly moderated and had content posting rules. The communication for the usenet was using two types of interface - browser based and terminal based. Browser based were designed using java applets. There used to be some commands to access the groups and interface. Usenet were non centralized so they were also used for some illegal purpose.
After Usenet, the IRC chat became the second most popular social networking in the 90s. This continued even to date. Many of the people who are comfortable with computing still get to do meetups using IRC. Today companies like Slack and Hipchat are making use of IRC protocol to make webchat trendy again. There are still different types of IRC networks with different implementation protocols like MIRC, IIRC etc.
Video and Audio Chatroom from MSN and Yahoo! were very popular during 90s. After 2005, most of the chatrooms were seized due to illegal operations (like crime, drugs etc) inside them. Now most of the active chatrooms are within other social networks and on websites like talkcity.
Penpal system was active even before the dawn of internet. After internet, making penpals was more easy and people used to use the web interface to write the letters. After social networking like myspace the penpal system totally collapsed and now very few users around the world use this system.
SMS based social groups and one-to-one communication services existed in korea and china. Some sites opened for other international users, however such websites collapsed during dot com boom.
Web browsers like Netscape and Neoplanet used to host their own community forums, chat and SMS groups within their own social network.
Finally in late 90s, the first web based social network arrived. It was called Myspace. It was similar to facebook. It had most of the social profile and features. It had additional features for celebs, artists, business people. Later facebook started for campus users in 2005. And then even non campus users started to get on network. And in 2008 onwards myspace collapsed. Twitter, Google Plus, Fark and other networks arrived one after another with their own unique concept of social network.
Most of the earlier social networks relied on Java applets and Activex applets. Now nobody uses java for the webchat feature. These days people use NodeJS and sockets for quicker implementation of chat feature. Earlier websites used to load slow and there were no CDN features. These days almost every social network has to use CDN otherwise the data requests will collapse the server. Every modern social network has an option to either go centralized or decentralized system. Commercial social networks choose centralized approach as they want to mine the user data. In case of decentralized networks you can host your own node and connect with others. No data is logged in this system.
Older social networks performed their job based on the available technology in that time. So we can't say they had much of a demerit. They were only limited because of the technology of that time.


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Jobs act passes
By Sarah Sobanski
Minimum wage will increase to $14 Jan. 1.
The province's Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017, received Royal Assent Nov. 27. According to the announcement the act will also see minimum wage hit $15 an hour Jan. 1, 2019, to "ensure more fairness for part-time and contract workers, and expand personal emergency leave."
Prince Edward-Hastings MPP Todd Smith said he's concerned for government agencies that will need more funding to support the wage increases, or cut services.
"Services will be cut as a result of this…Once the shoe drops, and Jan. 1st happens, and the minimum wage is implemented, we're going to start to hear from these government agencies saying, 'Well we're not able to provide that program any longer, or we're not able to provide this service any longer because we've had to adjust our salaries for the minimum wage increase' — or else they're going to have to cut staff," said Smith, noting he's heard from Hastings County agencies such as food banks who are going to "feel the pinch" of the increases.
The announcement said immediate actions of the bill include protection against employee misclassification and changes to the Occupational Health and Safety Act which "prevents employers from requiring a worker to wear footwear with an elevated heel, for example, high heels, at work, unless such footwear is required for the workers safety."
In an earlier announcement on the bill's passing, the Liberal Caucus quoted Hastings and Prince Edward Poverty Roundtable executive director Christine Durant who said she thought other parts of the act would also improve work environments for Ontarians.
"I think it's going to have a significant impact because short-term illnesses lead to job termination which weigh into poverty. Going to doctor's offices, having to pay that money, having to take the time off when you're sick…Bill [148] will substantially be a preventative measure to poverty," she said.
Smith suggested the minimum wage increase would have largest negative impact in the act because it was too fast. He noted small businesses would also struggle.
"We were always in favour of seeing a minimum wage increase however, we're concerned about how quick this increase is being implemented," said Smith. "This is an almost 40 per cent increase in less than 13 months when you factor in the $15 increase for Jan. 1 of 2019."
He added, "Quite honestly, it's intended to help people but in many cases it's going to hurt the people that it's intended to help."


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Colorado companies aim to return U.S. astronauts to space in 2020
NASA in 2020 could finally make a reality out of its plan to start flying U.S. astronauts from American soil again.
Published: 12:30 PM MST January 6, 2020
Updated: 12:30 PM MST January 6, 2020
COLORADO, USA — NASA in 2020 could finally make a reality out of its plan to start flying U.S. astronauts from American soil again.
The space agency expects to return to flying U.S. astronauts into orbit in 2020, but there's a question whether or not a Colorado rocket will be among those to launch them.
Centennial-based United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket was expected to blast off as soon as summer from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying astronauts aboard Boeing Co.'s CST-100 Starliner capsule. A hiccup in the Starliner's test flight on Dec. 20 without crew aboard raises questions about when that crewed launch will happen.
After the Boeing Starliner's automated systems misfired its thrusters and failed to rendezvous with the International Space Station last month, reporters questioned whether the first flight with astronauts for both the Starliner and ULA's Atlas V rocket would still happen in 2020. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine suggested he'd be comfortable having astronauts fly on Starliner's next flight, assuming its investigation turned up and resolved a clear cause of the December mistake.
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