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Zim's high cancer and HIV-Aids rates should be treated as a national security issue
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I AM AFRICAN
Baffour Ankomah
For readers who may be joining this column for the first time, we have been discussing over the past three weeks a revelation made in February 2019 by a former apartheid-era operative, Alexander Jones, who disclosed live on camera, in the recently-released documentary, Cold Case Hammarskjöld, that he and his colleagues at the South African Institute of Maritime Research (SAIMR), which masterminded coups and other violence across Africa in the 1970s and 80s, deliberately spread the HIV virus in the Southern African region to wipe out black people.
In discussing Jones' astonishing revelation, I have gone back to another revelation made by a white South African, Ben Geer, who fought for Ian Smith's government against the black nationalists in Rhodesia.
In his 1997 book titled "Something More Sinister", Geer made the startling revelation that when he visited the USA in late December 1979, a former American soldier told him that he [the American soldier] had been one of a contingent of US troops en route from Vietnam who had been actively deployed in the Rhodesian independence war.
"They were given no reasons for being in Africa," Geer reports. "Engaging the local militia [ZANLA], and having killed a number of persons on their march over a number of days to the coast, they were picked up by the US navy and shipped home. The soldier was not aware of any further involvement in Rhodesia by the US. What were they doing there?", Geer asks, and goes on to reveal that the Rhodesian government operated a Biological Warfare Unit during the independence war.
It is the connections between this Biological Warfare Unit and South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare (CBW) programme nicknamed "Project Coast" (which was headed by Dr Wouter Basson) and its connections with America's and Britain's CBW programmes, and their deadly consequences to black Africans in the Southern African region, are what I have laboured over the past three weeks to analyse.
The poison keeper
Though without having any hard evidence, Geer uses circumstantial evidence to speculate that Ian Smith's sudden U-turn on black majority rule in Rhodesia in 1976 had sinister undertones. Geer allows his readers the luxury to read between the lines the fact that Smith's about-turn was to cover up the sinister CBW experimentation that Rhodesia, South Africa, America, Britain and their allies had done on black people in the Southern African region.
So to prevent the black nationalists from winning the independence war militarily and then discovering the sinister CBW experimentation, and the hullabaloo that would naturally ensue, the Americans, Geer speculates, came up with their proposals for black majority rule in Rhodesia and used South Africa (Rhodesia's "mother country" at the time) to force Ian Smith to accede to the American proposals.
Now let's join the dots: Apart from Alexander Jones's recent confession of deliberately spreading HIV-Aids in the region to wipe out black people, Dr Dan Goosen, the first managing director of the Roodeplaat Research Laboratories, the South African Defence Force (SADF) front company in the north of Pretoria where SA's CBW programme was based, told the court that tried Dr Basson (from October 1999 to April 2002) that: "There are many people who think Basson was a war hero because he killed the blacks big time."
There were many revelations made in that court by the 200 State witnesses who testified against Basson, that Project Coast had done "research into a race-specific bacterial weapon; a project to find ways to sterilise South Africa's black population; a discussion of deliberate spreading of cholera through the water supply system; large-scale production of dangerous drugs; the fatal poisoning of anti-apartheid leaders, captured guerrillas and suspected security risks; even a plot to slip thallium – a toxic heavy metal that can permanently impair brain function – into Nelson Mandela's medication before his release from prison in 1991."
The BBC investigative journalist, Tom Mangold, reported in his 1999 book, "Plague Wars: The Terrifying Reality of Biological Warfare", that: "At times, [Basson] was a medical researcher – that worked well enough, in 1984, to persuade the Centres for Disease Control in Atlanta [USA], to send eight shipments of Ebola, Marburg, and Rift Valley viruses to South Africa (and thus to Roodeplaat)."
The American magazine, The New Yorker, also quoted Basson as having modelled Operation Coast on the American CBW programme, "which he first managed to penetrate in the early 1980s. He also had great success, by his own (and his military superiors') account, penetrating the CBW programmes of Britain and the former Soviet Union … Basson claims to have gained entrance to world-renowned CBW facilities as Fort Detrick in Maryland [USA], or Porton Down [UK] and energetically expanded his work as he went along."
The American proposals
There is one very important fact that we should all remember as we journey together through this column: In essence, Zim got black majority rule because the Americans asked for it. Can you believe it? Yes, Ian Smith's sudden U-turn on black majority rule came about as a result of America's "proposals" carried to South Africa in September 1976 by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Smith acknowledges this in his 1997 memoires, "The Great Betrayal". He says: "We talked over lunch, and the consensus was that the offer [Kissinger's proposals] seemed to be the least of the various evils facing us."
The question therefore is: Why would the Americans ask for black majority rule in Rhodesia and not include South Africa which had an even dire white rule at the time? And why would PM Vorster enthusiastically take up Kissinger's proposals and force Ian Smith to agree to them when SA itself had no such black majority? After Zim's independence in 1980, it took 14 long years for black majority rule to be achieved in SA. So what lay behind Vorster's haste in Zimbabwe? Was it merely to divert attention from SA's problems and buy it more time? Or was there more to it?
Ben Geer tries to connect the dots by saying in his book: "There are the incidents surrounding this period which deserve closer scrutiny and other questions which remain unanswered. When considering the vastly superior military strength, wealth and resources of Rhodesia and South Africa, there appears to have been no valid reason for them having relinquished power to their 'black' enemies. Why did both white governments capitulate?"
Geer goes on: "Undisclosed talks between Henry Kissinger and Ian Smith took place in South Africa on 18 September 1976. What transpired so that, in a space of hours, the Rhodesian prime minister did a complete volte-face on his stance against black majority rule?
"Kissinger made one serious gaffe during [the] negotiations with Ian Smith. He kept on making references to 'our own intelligence' services in Rhodesia. Officially all ties with the US had ceased in 1969. By the continual mention of their presence [in Rhodesia], Kissinger embarrassed the CIA who had told the US President and the State Department that they had been withdrawn. What was the CIA doing [in Rhodesia in 1976]? What was behind [the CIA director] William Colby's resignation and his involvement with the [Rhodesian] Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)?"
Geer then turns his attention beyond Rhodesia and asks: "[The British prime minister] Harold Wilson suddenly resigned in 1976. What was the reason behind his resignation?" In September 1978, Voster resigns from the South African premiership and in June 1979 from the presidency. What was behind his resignation?"
Geer goes on: "When William Colby, the DCI [Director of Central Intelligence] of the CIA, exposed its activities and assassinations to a congressional hearing, as a result of the Watergate scandal which had uncovered operations by US intelligence, the CIA was publicly claimed to be an agency 'out of control'. Colby was dismissed by President Ford, and George [H.W] Bush, the first politician [DCI] appointee, was installed in January 1976.
"Bush was given the express task of 'keeping a lid on' the CIA's affairs – these were not for the public domain. The following year the Republicans lost the election and the new President Jimmy Carter immediately removed George Bush from office after only 50 weeks and 4 days in the job. What lay behind Bush's appointment that was so important that it had to be covered up in 1976?"
The killing spree
The Rhodesian Bush War, Geer says, "lasted 13 years and claimed 30,000 lives (no account is made here of the combined loss of life as a result of all the white racist regimes in Southern Africa). Why the change of heart on their racist polices? A cover-up or something more sinister?"
He goes on: "The Rhodesian security forces operated a Biological Warfare Unit during the Bush War. Why? The continued annihilation of villages and refugee centres in Mozambique by the Rhodesian security forces – with no consideration given to innocent civilians, the elderly, women and children – seems incongruous with their Christian ideals. Why was the war protracted and these atrocities committed after agreement had been reached on Kissinger's proposals?
"Numerous true incidents … such as the account of Operation Eland when, in August 1976, the Selous Scouts attacked the ZANLA base at Nyadzonya, Mozambique, and reportedly killed 340 'terrorists' and 30 Frelimo soldiers. The UN later claimed the majority of the victims were refugees and not soldiers.
"The offensive military operations undertaken by the Selous Scouts were accompanied by specific orders to take captive and bring back hospitalised patients from 'terrorists' bases in Mozambique during the raids – for interrogation!
"This seems strange in the extreme, whereas there were over 1,000 healthy persons at Nyadzonya camp at the time of this attack who could have been taken for interrogation. Why were the Selous Scouts instructed to take captive diseased or injured persons from the hospital, where it would clearly be impossible to identify their military rank or, indeed, assess whether they were civilians rather than soldiers?"
Here Geer insinuates that the "diseased or hospitalised patients" were subjects of secret contamination or experimentation by operatives of the Rhodesian Biological Warfare Unit (BWU) and, after Ian Smith suddenly agreed to Kissinger's proposals, Salisbury had to remove the evidence of contamination by eliminating the hospitalised patients before any word got out.
Geer further reveals that: "The Selous Scouts, however, did not comply with this directive [the specific orders to take captive and bring back hospitalised and diseased patients from ZANLA bases in Mozambique]. It was said a chance tracer ignited the grass roof [of the hospital] and all the patients were burnt to death. Were [the Selous Scouts] aware of the risks of infection from any captives or did they simply ignore the order that jeopardised the safety of the mission as this suggests?
"Another equally strange event was the Karima village massacre in Rhodesia, near the border, which was described by the media as a 'mysterious incident'. In the evening of 12 June 1975, the Rhodesian security forces opened fire on a gathering of men, women and children. A Rhodesian government communiqué denied their involvement and said that only 20 people had been killed – by black terrorists!
"The Rhodesian security forces removed all the bodies and told bereaved relatives that the corpses had been burned on a hill a few kilometres away. Later, the security forces returned and insisted on supervising the burial of the 'blood-soaked clothing' that remained behind. What lay behind the callous and unexplained incident?"
Geer continues: "The Rhodesian security forces had a policy shortly after UDI whereby they released certain captive terrorists who were returned across the border into neighbouring countries to their comrades, purportedly to try to convince them to lay down their arms. Is this a plausible explanation?"
Dates of interest
Geer then turns his attention to important and controversial "dates of interest" in the annals of both Rhodesia and South Africa.
"February 1975: Two hitchhikers travelling through Zimbabwe near the Mozambique border are infected with the Marburg virus. One subsequently dies in Johannesburg. This is the first outbreak of Marburg disease on record in Africa. The case is well documented.
"21 November 1977: Rhodesian security forces raid two ZANLA bases in Mozambique killing over 1,200 people in Tembue and Chimoio camps – again, including women and children. Several air and land strikes are launched by the Rhodesian security forces against the main 'terrorist' bases in Mozambique. The inhabitants of several other villages and camps are annihilated and the bodies buried in mass graves."
Five months later, in March 1978, a transitional government is sworn in, in Salisbury, ending white minority rule in Rhodesia. So what explanation is there for the killing spree that followed Ian Smith's agreement with Kissinger's proposals? Something more sinister?
Geer thinks that the involvement of the USA and Britain in the CBW shenanigans in Southern Africa was not incidental; hence they had to put pressure on Smith to capitulate so that the evidence could be completely eliminated before the nationalist forces became triumphant in the independence war.
Which brings me to a very important matter: Zimbabwe today is known for its high cancer and HIV-Aids rates. Ministry of Health figures show that over 5,000 new cancer cases are diagnosed (all types) in Zimbabwe annually and over 1,500 deaths occur per year.
"Experience has, however, shown that this is just the tip of the iceberg as many cancers are not captured by the routine National Health Information System because the patients do not present for treatment, or some deaths are not registered," says the 2014-2018 National Cancer Prevention and Control Strategy (NCPCS).
The NCPCS acknowledges that, "the number of people developing cancer is expected to increase due to HIV & AIDS and other infections, unhealthy lifestyle choices and an ageing population. Most of the common cancers in Zimbabwe are infection associated even though cancer itself is not infectious."
Worse, "despite the high prevalence of HIV-associated cancers and other infection-related cancers," the NCPCS says, "there is no integration of HIV & AIDS, STI and cancer control programmes.
"Additionally, and despite great progress in reducing HIV prevalence in recent years, Zimbabwe remains one of the countries most heavily burdened with HIV with an adult prevalence of 15%. The large number of people living with HIV results in an even higher number of people who will develop cancer in Zimbabwe."
This is very worrying. So my question is: Has anybody considered if Zim's unusually high cancer and HIV-Aids rates have their roots in the pre-independence CBW experimentation and the deliberate spreading of HIV-Aids in the country and the subregion?
Shouldn't Zim, therefore, treat the high cancer and HIV-Aids rates as a national security issue so that more resources can be concentrated on getting to the bottom of what is happening in order to devise an appropriate response?
At the moment, as the NCPCS disturbingly admits: "There is no integration of HIV & AIDS, STI and cancer control programmes, despite the high prevalence of HIV-associated cancers and other infection-related cancers."
This is a recipe of a future disaster of gargantuan proportions.
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Medicaid Adds Another Million Enrollees in May
Enrollment may be closed in the Affordable Care Act's private insurance marketplaces, but Medicaid continues adding patients.
by Chris Kardish | July 11, 2014 AT 6:00 PM
While enrollment in private health insurance through online marketplaces may be closed until Nov. 15, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program added almost a million new patients in May, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Between April and May 928,628 people signed up for Medicaid or CHIP across the 48 states that reported data, up from 805,038 who joined in April but down from the 1.4 million who joined in March. The May figures, released Friday, bring total enrollment to nearly 66 million.
Medicaid is jointly funded by states and the federal government to serve low-income children, parents, the elderly and disabled people. The program was expanded through the Affordable Care Act to childless adults earning up to about $15,856 for a single household, though states can choose whether to expand. Twenty-six states and the District of Columbia have done so. CHIP, which is also jointly funded, serves children in families with incomes that are too high to qualify for Medicaid.
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The decision to expand, made optional by the U.S. Supreme Court, has led to wide variation in Medicaid uptake by state. While 6.7 million more people are on Medicaid now than before expansion started in October of 2013, enrollment among non-expansion states has increased 3 percent, compared with a 17-percent surge in expansion states.
The federal government is financing 100 percent of the cost of expansion for the first three years, eventually lowering its share of payment to 90 percent. Even states that didn't expand Medicaid have seen the program's enrollment increase as people who were eligible under previous rules have sought coverage to comply with the Affordable Care Act's requirement to have health insurance. The federal government pays its traditional share for those patients, ranging from about 74 percent in Mississippi to 50 percent in a number of other states.
Several states, including New Hampshire and Ohio, joined the expansion after the official start. Ten of the 24 states where expansion was in effect since October have seen increases of 30 percent or more, according to CMS. The agency notes that the total figure reported for May is preliminary and likely to rise as all states report and late-filed applications are processed.
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Full name: Anneke Elizabeth Bosch
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Glasgow air
Over for the World's was the first time in years that I'd spent more than a few hours in Glasgow. The place holds true as a grimy and polluted place. A few things struck me:
Red lights. Glasgow could be a lot less smoggy if it changed the wait-time for cars at red lights. I mean, you sit there for three, even four, minutes at some intersection waiting for the light to change. Most cities you can get ticketed for letting your car idle for more than three minutes. Edinburgh has the standard two minutes. No wonder everyone's wheezing.
Bike lanes. There are bike lanes everywhere in Glasgow, but no one seems to use them. Maybe it's because they're about a foot wide and run along glass-strewn, puke-splashed gutters. Besides, who wants to be stuck at red lights inhaling car exhaust growing old waiting for the thing to change?
Auberge de whoozits. Seems like every other eatery has some ersatz Italian or French name, where coffees cost three pounds and your best Troy reed. Give it up. It ain't Milan, it's Glasgow.
Zombies. Dawn of the Dead is just a movie, but Friday and Saturday nights Glasgow city centre is like the real thing. People are so stinking and violently pissed out of their heads it's hard to tell if they're of the same species. Everyone seems to be chucking booze down their hatch as if an a-bomb is headed for Buchanan Street.
But, really, it's a lovely city.
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[New Publication] Eliza's two voices and the transformation of women's identity in China
July 25, 2021 Publications
The chapter entitled 'Eliza's two voices and the transformation of women's identity in China' by Yu Jing, the member of SISU Baker Centre, is published in Translation as a Set of Frames.
Eliza's two voices and the transformation of women's identity in China
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In this exciting volume, we have articles from different language combinations (e.g. Arabic, English, Hungarian and Chinese) and from a wide range of sociopolitical, cultural, and institutional contexts and geographical locales (China, Iran, Malaysia, Russia and Nigeria). Those chapters also draw on a diverse range of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches (e.g. critical discourse analysis, Bourdieu's sociological theories, corpus linguistics, narrative theory and structuration theory), focusing on translation and interpreting relating to various settings and specialised genres (traditional media, digital media, subtitling, manga, etc.). As such, this volume serves as a dynamic forum for intercultural and interlingual communication and an exciting arena for interdisciplinary dialogues, thus enabling us to look beyond the traditionally more static, mechanical and linguistics-oriented views of translation and interpreting.
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Chief minister Ashok Gehlot inaugurated the four-day mega fair India Stone Mart 2019 at Jaipur Exhibition and Convention Centre (JECC) on Thursday.
The 'India Stone Mart 2019' comes to witness participation of exhibitors from 17 states of India and seven other countries. On the occasion CM while upholding the relevance of the industry in the state assured the gathering of all possible efforts for promotion of the trade.
"The stone industry extends employment to more than a million people in the state. There is need for further investment and research in the industry and the state government will be responsive to facilitate those venturing in the direction," Gehlot said in his inaugural address.
In his last tenure the Single Window Act had been passed and marble as well as granite policies were formulated. He said that the Government will be responsive to entrepreneurs and industrialists in facilitating them to set up projects in the State.
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How to go classic road rallying
One of the great joys of classic road rallying is that you can compete using a 100 per cent standard car - if you're careful with maps and timings, there's no reason why you shouldn't do well because few events are composed only of the timed 'special tests' that best suit fast cars and experienced drivers.
A special licence isn't always needed; if it is you can often sign up for a Motor Sports Association (MSA) clubman's licence at the event. Apart from a warning triangle and first aid kit, the scrutineers will only need to make sure your car is roadworthy and contains nothing loose in the cabin or boot that could fly around and cause damage.
And with entry fees starting at less than £30, what are you waiting for?
Despite its name, road rallying doesn't take place exclusively on roads. A typical single-day or two-day event includes three disciplines: navigation, regularities and special tests.
For the first of these the navigator is given a route to plot, sometimes before the event but usually at the start and again at lunch. Using a 1:50,000 Ordnance Survey map, navigators must guide their drivers along a specific route to a finish point. There's usually a time limit, but as these events are held on open public roads it won't be too quick – spotting the control points with numbers to write down is more of a challenge. Taking a wrong turn ('wrong slotting') means you might miss time target and route markers, which will incur in time penalties.
Regularities follow the same basic format as navigational sections, but route finding is easier and you have to maintain a tightly controlled average speed, arriving at control points at precisely the right time. You won't have to drive fast, but the navigator needs to keep a close eye on the tripmeter (or the car's odometer if you're on a tight budget) to compare the distance travelled with the stopwatch. You can cross-refer this information to a set of speed tables to see how close you are to your target speed. The further off you are at control points, the more time penalties you'll incur.
Regularity routes and directions from one special test to another are sometimes presented as a road book with Tulip symbols. These have nothing to do with flowers – they're simple representations of junctions that were first used on the Tulip Rally in the Fifties.
Jogularities are a form of regularity that provide you with a list of landmarks and the timings you should hit when you arrive at them. This enables crews without tripmeters (but with a stopwatch or two) to compete with those whose cars do have them.
Special tests are held on private land, which might be anything from a slimy farmyard to the carriage drive of a stately home. It's another test of your navigator to guide you through cones, .barn doors or farm gates in the correct order. You'll need good driving skills as handbrake turns and rapid acceleration and deceleration on mixed surfaces usually feature. But while special tests are terrific fun, keeping a cool head and not going the wrong way are your top priorities.
How it's organised?
Many rallies are organised by small motor clubs (look on the MSA website to find one near you) and may be stand-alone events, part of a club championship or part of a regional championship that includes events organised by several clubs. These are sometimes decided on an 'index of performance' basis, meaning you only have to do well in relation to your car's expected abilities, which gives everyone a good chance.
At national level the Historic Rally Car Register's Clubmans Rally Championship comprises several one-day events around England and Wales featuring a mix of the disciplines described above. These events tend to be more expensive to enter (but still often cost less than £100) and are usually more intense and competitive than local rallies.
The MSA divides historic rally cars into three age categories: Category 1 for cars made up to December 31, 1967; Category 2, 1968 to the end of 1974; and Category 3, 1975 to the end of 1981. Many events also include a category or separate award for pre-1960 cars. Classes within these categories are based on crews' experience and sometimes engine size.
Drivers must be aged at least 17 (a full driving licence is an obvious requirement) but navigators can start from the age of 12, making parent-and-child crews popular. You can even take a pair of back-seat passengers. To find out more, go to the HRCR's next open day at the Heritage Motor Centre at Gaydon, Warwickshire on January 16,2010.
Night rallies, 12-car events and scatters
Many motor clubs run 12-car rallies, which are shorter events often run on weekday evenings and limited to a dozen vehicles to keep the impact on other road users down. Navigational routes are usually between 75-100 miles and instructions are handed over just before you set off, so you have to 'plot 'n' bash' – decode the information, scribble it on to the map and get going. The HRCR has introduced an attractively simple and accessible form of 12-car rallying called the 100 Rally formula, with events taking place over an afternoon or evening and specifically aimed at beginners (seewww.hrcr.co.uk).
Navigational scatters are another popular pastime featuring a mixture of navigation and clue solving and with the emphasis on fun.
Much more challenging are night rallies – a throwback to the days before stage rallying, when a combination of fiendish navigational problems, tricky average speed requirements and all-night-driving fatigue produced some very challenging events. These days they can still feel like a step up from daytime road rallies.
A typical night event runs from llpm to about 6am. There may be a daytime leg too with special tests, which aren't usually done at night. Your navigator's map skills and timing need to be pretty sharp as everything gets trickier after dark – especially staying friends with your co-pilot. Like daytime road rallies, food and coffee is usually included. Licences are required (see 'licences, safety kit and insurance' section).
Choosing and preparing a car
If you have a classic and it was made before 1982the chances are it can compete, but there are a few points to consider. Cars made after 1967with more than four cylinders, more than two carburettor chokes, more than one camshaft per bank of cylinders or forced induction may need special dispensation. This isn't usually a problem, but you may be excluded from some events.
Smaller, lighter cars tend to do better in classic road rallies as speed and agility makes up a lot of time on special tests. For this reason the Mini and MG Midget are popular choices, as are the Ford Anglia, Hillman Imp, Saab 96 and Ford Escort MkI and MkII. Lots of near equivalents can do just as well with a bit of skill: the Triumph TR2, 3 and 4, Spitfire and Dolomite, Hillman Avenger, Vauxhall Viva/ Magnum, Talbot Sunbeam, VolvoAmazon and 144, Renault 8, BMW '02 family, MGB, Sunbeam Rapier, Opel Kadett and many others. But part of the fun of classic road rallying is giving drivers of more predictable rally machines a shock when you compete in a rare or apparently unsuitable car.
Although your first concern will be to find a car capable of reliably covering 100 or more tough miles in a day, you may soon start thinking of improvements. In order of priority these should be a sump guard, better brakes and tyres, more supportive seats and harnesses, better springs, bushes and dampers and – last of all – more power. Consult the MSA Competitors' and Officials' Yearbook (known as The Blue Book) before getting into even mild modifications of drive train, suspension, brakes or body shell – its guidance will stop you from making changes you'd be asked to reverse.
More important than any go-faster modifications is getting the correct kit for your navigator. You'll want an accurate tripmeter if you develop a taste for regularities – £200 will cover the cost unless you're tempted by a famous brand like Halda. Also consider average speed tables (£30), a pair of stopwatches (£20 or more each) a map light and/or illuminated map magnifier. Map romers (about £10) enable you to plot distances at a glance.
Licences, safety kit and insurance
To take part in many smaller events you'll need to join the organising club, which works in-lieu of holding a licence. The next stage up is clubman-level events for which you'll need an MSA clubman licence (£23 for 2010). Or you could move up further notch and get a Non-Race National Blicence (£37), which will cover you for clubman rallies and the higher-level National B events. Apply for one through the MSA website.
Mandatory safety equipment is usually limited to a warning triangle, first aid kit and possibly a tow rope. Afire extinguisher is also a good idea. Roll cages and crash helmets may be actively discouraged – you're driving on public roads and are expected to stick to speed limits and the Highway Code, so stage rally-type preparations are inappropriate. Novice navigators should take travel sickness pills before the start of an event – map-reading while the car lurches down the lanes can be very unsettling.
Check each event's regulations for insurance requirements. Most include it in some form, but make sure you're not required to make your own arrangements. Some insurers can include road rally cover in classic car policies.
Endurance rallying
For enthusiasts with plenty of spare cash and determination the next step is taking your classic on long-distance endurance rallies. Many of the toughest, longest and most expensive of these events are overseas, recalling the days of the Liege-Home-Liege Rally, the Safari Rally or even the London to Sydney event. As well as costing tens of thousands of pounds to enter (covering accommodation and much else), these events require significant investment in a car, which needs to be capable of withstanding extraordinary abuse. These events are competitive, but for many of those taking part the adventure matters more than the result.
Some UK-based endurance events offer a chance to taste the format in a less expensively prepared car. LE JOG (Land's End to John o'Groats), organised by the Historic Endurance Rallying Organisation (HERO), is the best known, combining navigation, regularity and special tests in a 1500-mile route tackled over three and a half days. The 2009 event ran in early December and cost £2250 per crew. The Rally of the Tests, organised by the Classic Rally Association (CRA) follows a similar format over a shorter distance, but with more emphasis on special tests. The cost in 2009 was £2150 per crew and it will be run again in November 2010.
HERO, CRA and other endurance rally organisers are private companies that are recognised as organising clubs by the MSA. This means the entry fee has to turn a profit, though in return you can expect good-quality accommodation, great test venues and faultless organisation to make the whole experience worthwhile.
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Posted on October 31, 2011 by C. Patrick
Anyway, at last it's Halloween. You're at the video store, or scrolling through your Netflix Instant Play list, or trolling Hulu looking for something thematic and atmospheric. You've been reading my columns on the subject, but, to be honest, you've forgotten most of the movies I mentioned as being good ones, or couldn't really decide if the author (that'd be me) liked them or hated them because he's a really bad reviewer. And you think to yourself: "So what horror movies should I watch?"
Here are my recommendations. If you're wanting to dip into the movies that will keep scaring, year after year, viewing after viewing, then pop these into the Blu-Ray player. Call 'em the Canon of C, in no particular order, with twitter-worthy commentary and plenty of spoilerage:
Classics:
"Halloween" (1978): When you never know if it'll be a yowling cat or Michael Myers behind that door.
"Friday the 13th" (1980): When you never know if it'll be a yowling Kevin Bacon or Jason Voorhees behind that door. Oh, and axes to the head.
"Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984): A murder that takes place on the ceiling. Committed by an invisible force. With lots of blood. Then, later, a very creepy body bag. Ohhh yeaaah.
"The Fog" (1980): When your ghostly leper pirates can cause a tape recorder to catch on fire just because a piece of their wrecked ship happens to be nearby, you know you've got some serious ghostly baddies.
"The Shining" (1980): Twin girl ghosts and a Big Wheel. Shudder.
"Carrie" (1976): Last scene. Nightmares for years afterward. Enough said.
"The Omen" (1976): Priest skewered by a lightning rod. Classic.
"The Exorcist" (1973): Priest drenched with pea soup vomit. Classic.
"Candyman" (1992): This one was filmed in the very real projects with very real danger. Dunno whether the actors knew that before they signed their liability waivers.
"Amityville Horror" (1979): Creepiest flies in any movie, any time.
"Blair Witch Project" (1999): Despite the snotty nose shot shown on the DVD cover and in every promo made, this slow burn Found Footage pic gave me an honest-to-goodness nightmare as an adult. Gotta love that.
"The Ring" (2002): The beginning of the English-language versions of Japanese ghost women who crawl around in a very disturbing fashion and who have nearly sentient hair.
"Alien" (1979): Space. Difficult to hear screaming. Also, beware who you have lunch with.
Teen Scream:
"Scream" (1996): The movie that revitalized the horror movie in the 1990s. Gotta give it credit for that. It was also a clever, self-referential masterpiece of writing. Now, of course, it's been imitated so much that you'd never know it was once fresh.
"Jeepers Creepers" (2001): Pretty sure the Creeper drives the same truck as can be seen in "Halloween: H2O". Also, he's creepy.
"Saw" (2004): The sequels got old very fast, but the original was, well, original. Smarter than I expected and not as bloody as one might think it'd be for something called "Saw."
"I Know What You Did Last Summer" (1997): Fun slayings of silly yutes. Who can complain?
"The Faculty" (1998): Pretty teens fighting an alien tentacle menace. Scarier than you might think. Also, a pretty good soundtrack.
"Final Destination" (2000): It's never quite the final destination after all, but the first one has a nice angle.
And, for when you want a break from the mind-numbing horror of it all, or at least want a few laughs interspersed with your screams:
"Ghostbusters" (1984): Source of more movie quotes ("Don't cross the streams!" than anything other than "Aliens" ("Game over, man! Game over!")
"Shaun of the Dead" (2004): Grab a bag of popcorn and a box of vinyl records and watch this movie for the first time or the hundredth. It's worth every record thrown at a zombie head.
"Zombieland" (2009): Join the quest for the world's last Twinkie(tm). You want some rolick with your zombie hunting? Here ya go.
"American Werewolf in London" (1981): The humor here is woven expertly with the horror so that you're never quite sure which is coming next .
"Idle Hands" (1999) Seth Green in the moralistic tale of what happens when you're a slacker and live in your parents' basement for too long.
"Scary Movie 2" (2001): The "Ring" parody is actually scarier than the same scenes in "The Ring", but also funny. Very, very funny.
"Dead Snow" (2009): Not much overt comedy, but, um, it's zombie Nazis in the snow. That's frackin' funny.
"Tremors" (1990): Kevin Bacon. Giant worms. Not that scary, but loads of fun.
There you go. If you can find half a dozen movies to watch on All Hallow's Eve out of that bunch, then, well, I've done all I can for you and you need to move on to the Rom Coms.
Happy Halloween, everyone!
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Q: PCAP - I'm not capturing the right TCP port number I'm using Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS on a VM using Windows 10.
I'm trying to capture ports within the range of 1-100. But it's not doing that and also it seems to be giving incorrect port numbers. For example, when I try using the telnet command to connect to another VM I'm excepting to see the destination port to be 23; however, I get a completely different port number. I also check in wireshark and the destination and source port number do not match.
Here's screenshot of what I get when I try to telnet to 10.0.2.5:

Here's my code:
#include <pcap.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>

//Ethernet addresses are 6 bytes
#define ETHER_ADDR_LEN 6

//ethernet header
struct sniff_ethernet {
  u_char ether_dhost[ETHER_ADDR_LEN]; /* Destination host address */
  u_char ether_shost[ETHER_ADDR_LEN]; /* Source host address */
  u_short ether_type;                 /* IP? ARP? RARP? etc */
};

//ip header
struct ipheader {
  unsigned char   iph_ihl:4,  //IP header length
                  iph_ver:4;  //IP version
  unsigned char   iph_tos;   //Type of service
  unsigned short int iph_len;    //IP Packet length (data + header)
  unsigned short int iph_ident;  //Identification
  unsigned short int iph_flag: 3,   //Fragmenation flags
                     iph_offset:13; //Flags offset
  unsigned char      iph_ttl; //Time to live
  unsigned char      iph_protocol;  //Protocol type
  unsigned short int iph_chksum; //IP datagram checksum
  struct in_addr     iph_sourceip;  //Source IP address
  struct in_addr     iph_destip;    //Destination IP address
};

//tcp header
typedef u_int tcp_seq;

struct sniff_tcp {
  u_short th_sport;/* source port */
  u_short th_dport;/* destination port */
  tcp_seq th_seq;/* sequence number */
  tcp_seq th_ack;/* acknowledgement number */
  u_char th_offx2;/* data offset, rsvd */
  #define TH_OFF(th)(((th)->th_offx2 & 0xf0) >> 4)
  u_char th_flags;
  #define TH_FIN 0x01
  #define TH_SYN 0x02
  #define TH_RST 0x04
  #define TH_PUSH 0x08
  #define TH_ACK 0x10
  #define TH_URG 0x20
  #define TH_ECE 0x40
  #define TH_CWR 0x80
  #define TH_FLAGS (TH_FIN|TH_SYN|TH_RST|TH_ACK|TH_URG|TH_ECE|TH_CWR)
  u_short th_win;/* window */
  u_short th_sum;/* checksum */
  u_short th_urp;/* urgent pointer */
};

void got_packet(u_char *args, const struct pcap_pkthdr * header,
        const u_char * packet)
{
  struct sniff_ethernet *eth = (struct sniff_ethernet *)packet;

  if(ntohs(eth->ether_type)== 0x0800){ // 0x0800 is IP type
    struct ipheader *ip = (struct ipheader *) (packet + sizeof(struct sniff_ethernet));

    printf("    From: %s\n", inet_ntoa(ip->iph_sourceip));
    printf("      To: %s\n", inet_ntoa(ip->iph_destip));

    int ip_header_len = ip->iph_ihl * 4;

    struct sniff_tcp  *tcp = (struct sniff_tcp*) (packet + sizeof(struct sniff_ethernet) + ip_header_len);

    printf("tcp source port: %hu\n",tcp->th_sport);
    printf("tcp destination port: %hu\n", tcp->th_dport);
  }
}

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
  char* dev = argv[1];

  printf("Device: %s\n", dev);

  //session handle
  pcap_t *handle;
  //error string
  char errbuf[PCAP_ERRBUF_SIZE];
  //the compiled filter expression
  struct bpf_program fp;
  char filter_exp[] = "tcp and portrange 10-100";
  //the ip of our sniffing device
  bpf_u_int32 net;

  // open pcap session
  handle = pcap_open_live(dev, BUFSIZ, 1, 1000, errbuf);

  //Compile filter_exp into BPF pseudo-code
  pcap_compile(handle, &fp, filter_exp, 0, net);
  pcap_setfilter(handle,&fp);

  //Capture packets
  pcap_loop(handle,-1,got_packet,NULL);

  pcap_close(handle);

  return (0);

}

A: Need to convert from network to host byte order:
printf("tcp source port: %hu\n", ntohs(tcp->th_sport));
printf("tcp destination port: %hu\n", ntohs(tcp->th_dport));

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package github

import (
	"context"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"testing"

	"github.com/google/go-cmp/cmp"
)

func TestOrganizationsService_GetActionsPermissions(t *testing.T) {
	client, mux, _, teardown := setup()
	defer teardown()

	mux.HandleFunc("/orgs/o/actions/permissions", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
		testMethod(t, r, "GET")
		fmt.Fprint(w, `{"enabled_repositories": "all", "allowed_actions": "all"}`)
	})

	ctx := context.Background()
	org, _, err := client.Organizations.GetActionsPermissions(ctx, "o")
	if err != nil {
		t.Errorf("Organizations.GetActionsPermissions returned error: %v", err)
	}
	want := &ActionsPermissions{EnabledRepositories: String("all"), AllowedActions: String("all")}
	if !cmp.Equal(org, want) {
		t.Errorf("Organizations.GetActionsPermissions returned %+v, want %+v", org, want)
	}

	const methodName = "GetActionsPermissions"
	testBadOptions(t, methodName, func() (err error) {
		_, _, err = client.Organizations.GetActionsPermissions(ctx, "\n")
		return err
	})

	testNewRequestAndDoFailure(t, methodName, client, func() (*Response, error) {
		got, resp, err := client.Organizations.GetActionsPermissions(ctx, "o")
		if got != nil {
			t.Errorf("testNewRequestAndDoFailure %v = %#v, want nil", methodName, got)
		}
		return resp, err
	})
}

func TestOrganizationsService_EditActionsPermissions(t *testing.T) {
	client, mux, _, teardown := setup()
	defer teardown()

	input := &ActionsPermissions{EnabledRepositories: String("all"), AllowedActions: String("selected")}

	mux.HandleFunc("/orgs/o/actions/permissions", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
		v := new(ActionsPermissions)
		json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(v)

		testMethod(t, r, "PUT")
		if !cmp.Equal(v, input) {
			t.Errorf("Request body = %+v, want %+v", v, input)
		}

		fmt.Fprint(w, `{"enabled_repositories": "all", "allowed_actions": "selected"}`)
	})

	ctx := context.Background()
	org, _, err := client.Organizations.EditActionsPermissions(ctx, "o", *input)
	if err != nil {
		t.Errorf("Organizations.EditActionsPermissions returned error: %v", err)
	}

	want := &ActionsPermissions{EnabledRepositories: String("all"), AllowedActions: String("selected")}
	if !cmp.Equal(org, want) {
		t.Errorf("Organizations.EditActionsPermissions returned %+v, want %+v", org, want)
	}

	const methodName = "EditActionsPermissions"
	testBadOptions(t, methodName, func() (err error) {
		_, _, err = client.Organizations.EditActionsPermissions(ctx, "\n", *input)
		return err
	})

	testNewRequestAndDoFailure(t, methodName, client, func() (*Response, error) {
		got, resp, err := client.Organizations.EditActionsPermissions(ctx, "o", *input)
		if got != nil {
			t.Errorf("testNewRequestAndDoFailure %v = %#v, want nil", methodName, got)
		}
		return resp, err
	})
}


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Butcher's Corner Development in Sunnyvale Gets Green Light from City Council
.	 Published on 20 12 月, 2016 .
If one attended Tuesday's Sunnyvale City Council meeting where the fate of a 5.5-acre parcel of land commonly known as Butcher's Corner, one would have spent several hours listening to a prolonged discussion on traffic patterns, lack of housing, school crowding and congested roads, not too dissimilar from many other such meetings across municipalities in Silicon Valley and across the Bay Area. The scenario is somewhat typical, it almost seems rehearsed—the city staff presents a thoughtful and professional e v a luation of the project. The developer is invited to speak in support of his project, the public is invited to provide feedback, which is almost always entirely in opposition to the project. The City Council takes it all in, ponders the evidence and proposals in front of them, asks clarifying questions that usually seem redundant and take hours to consider and finally, usually in the wee hours in the morning it approves the development, much to the chagrin of the public still in attendance.
This week's meeting in Sunnyvale was no different, except for the surprisingly sharp opposition to this project, a development that is not very large by most Bay Area standards, is located in an infill location next to El Camino Real and Wolfe Road, a very busy intersection, and one that actually proposed reducing the scale of the development it originally was planning to create.
Butcher's Corner has been in the spotlight in Sunnyvale since the summer of 2015, when the first proposals were unveiled to the city. Just two years before that, in 2013, DeAnza Properties purchased what was then the city's last remaining working orchard and proposed developing 153 residential units—approximately 30 units per acre—and almost 7,000 square feet of retail/office space at the corner of E. El Camino Real and S. Wolfe road at 871 East Fremont Ave. in Sunnyvale.
Because the land was unincorporated, the city had to annex the property, which it approved in October of 2015, and continued working with the developer to construct a feasible plan for the site. That resulted in the current plan to develop 138 residential units (39 townhomes and 99
flats) and 6,934 square feet of retail/office use with surface and underground parking.
John Vidovich of DeAnza Properties presented the project to the Council, explaining some of the changes. One of the items he highlighted was the public park that covers almost one fifth of the property, which will also take into account saving a number of trees on the property, including a 300-year old oak tree.
The projected timeline for construction would be approximately 14 months for above ground development, and another 3 months for below ground work. The earliest occupancy would be anticipated in late 2018.
After the initial presentation, the following two hours were dedicated to public comment, which was largely not in favor of the development, calling this development LinkedIn II in one case (the LinkedIn campus in Sunnyvale is approximately 560,000 square feet), an urban oasis that will soon be destroyed and the last vestige of the city's agricultural heritage.
Vidovich's final feedback to the Council referenced that the development was improving the quality of the location by adding a park, tearing down a building that is "unsightly," and developing a number of units at the location that is at a lower density than what the city's recommendation is.
Council member Larry Klein pushed for one of the structures along Fremont Avenue to be reduced in height, which was not endorsed by his colleagues, causing him to reject the project. "I won't be supporting this motion. I think from a staff standpoint removing one story helps, I think if we reduced the height along Fremont to four stories, it would have visually equalled, as we saw in the staff report, the height of the buildings across the street, so it would have created a comparable height from a vision as you're going along Fremont," he said. "There are other issues with this project that I see, but that's [the] one thing from a size standpoint that could actually be useful."
Council member Jim Griffith also expressed his concern about the development. While acknowledging that the city does need housing, he was not certain that the location was appropriate for this development in particular. "Just because we need housing, it doesn't mean we necessarily have to build anything anywhere, and the question becomes the extent to which this particular project is appropriate for this particular location" he said. "It's just not a well integrated layout."
But the two opinions of the Council members Klein and Griffith were not shared with the rest of Council "If you go back and see what was the vision of what this looked like three years ago and how it's evolved and changed, I think there are a lot of positive things that have happened," added Mayor Glenn Hendricks as he addressed some of the concerns of his colleagues.
In the end the vote came to 4-2, with Council members Klein and Griffith dissenting and Council member Meyering being absent, giving the project the green light to proceed.
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"Recently, a principal at one Detroit public school asked parents to send toilet paper and light bulbs to school with their children because the district could no longer provide those necessities... The Detroit Public Schools are allotted more tax dollars per pupil than any other district in the state, and yet none of the money actually reaches those students or their teachers. It disappears in a morass of bureaucratic waste and corruption."
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Last year was a difficult one for me as far as reading was concerned. For a book-lover like me, it was so very sad not to be able to curl up with a good book whenever I wished. Three eye operations later (after all, why have one eye operation when you could have three?) I can now see clearly again - so I've started a new webpage to record "Books I Have Read 2018". I hope other book-lovers will enjoy it - and will feel free to agree, or disagree, with my opinions. Happy reading!


According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, prices for financial services were 36.23% higher in 2019 versus 2010 (a $181.17 difference in value).
Between 2010 and 2019: Financial services experienced an average inflation rate of 3.50% per year. This rate of change indicates significant inflation. In other words, financial services costing $500 in the year 2010 would cost $681.17 in 2019 for an equivalent purchase. Compared to the overall inflation rate of 1.66% during this same period, inflation for financial services was higher.
In the year 2010: Pricing changed by 2.54%, which is below the average yearly change for financial services during the 2010-2019 time period. Compared to inflation for all items in 2010 (1.64%), inflation for financial services was higher.
Therefore, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, $500 in 2010 has the same "purchasing power" as $681.17 in 2019 (in the CPI category of Financial services).


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Poll: Most Democrats Are Ready For Hillary
This entry was posted by Dancer on April 13, 2015 at 6:27 pm
WASHINGTON — Democrats are largely happy to have Hillary Clinton as their all-but-anointed frontrunner, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll conducted Friday through Sunday.
A 57 percent majority of Democrats and independents who lean towards the Democratic Party say Clinton, who announced her candidacy on Sunday, is their preferred 2016 nominee, while just a quarter would rather rally behind someone else. And most expect her to succeed — 80 percent say it's at least somewhat likely that she'll win the Democratic nomination, and 77 percent think that she'll win the presidency.
Eighty-two percent say they'd at least consider voting for her, while 48 percent definitely will. In contrast, a April 2007 ABC/Washington Post poll found just 20 percent of Democrats willing to commit to a relatively unknown Barack Obama.
The exact degree of Democrats' excitement about Clinton is varied. Forty-four percent describe themselves as "enthusiastic," while 36 percent opt for a less fervent "satisfied." Eleven percent are "dissatisfied" or "upset."
Those results are similar to a November 2007 poll from CNN/ORC, which found that 39 percent of registered Democrats said they were enthusiastic about Clinton, with 39 percent satisfied and 21 percent dissatisfied or upset.
That year, however, more than 70 percent of Democrats also expressed positive opinions about Obama and John Edwards. This year, Clinton, who's polling at about 60 percent both nationally and in Iowa, faces no such formidable primary rivals.
Those Democrats who voted for Obama in the 2008 primary are now largely content with Clinton, if not quite as highly enthusiastic, according to the HuffPost/YouGov poll. And for all the occasional rumblings that Clinton could face a challenge from the left, she has the support of most liberals, too. Self-described liberal Democrats are slightly more likely than the party's moderates or conservatives to say they're enthusiastic about Clinton, and 63 percent call her their preferred nominee.
Even among the Democrats who'd prefer to have a different candidate, 81 percent still say they'd at least consider supporting her, and more than half say they'd be at least satisfied to have her as a nominee.
But the HuffPost/YouGov poll also confirms that the cross-party appeal she gained during her tenure as secretary of state has largely dissipated. While 48 percent of Americans say they'd at least consider voting for Clinton, another 43 percent — including nearly half of independents and 83 percent of Republicans — say they absolutely wouldn't support her. That floor is roughly consistent with polling prior to the 2008 election. Sixty-eight percent of Americans say it's somewhat or very likely that Clinton will win the Democratic nomination, and 53 percent say it's somewhat or very likely that she'll be elected the next president.
The HuffPost/YouGov poll consisted of 1,000 completed interviews conducted April 10-13 among U.S. adults using a sample selected from YouGov's opt-in online panel to match the demographics and other characteristics of the adult U.S. population.
The Huffington Post has teamed up with YouGov to conduct daily opinion polls. You can learn more about this project and take part in YouGov's nationally representative opinion polling. Data from all HuffPost/YouGov polls can be found here. More details on the poll's methodology are available here.
Most surveys report a margin of error that represents some, but not all, potential survey errors. YouGov's reports include a model-based margin of error, which rests on a specific set of statistical assumptions about the selected sample, rather than the standard methodology for random probability sampling. If these assumptions are wrong, the model-based margin of error may also be inaccurate. Click here for a more detailed explanation of the model-based margin of error.


Today we're announcing Detwinner 2.03.006, a maintenance release which fixes a bunch of issues which could occur during the search of similar images, improves the memory usage and increases the overall stability and performance of our application.
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Q: What is format of Google Drive's FileID ? I need to find out whether new File has been uploaded to my drive or not using API's If FileID follows a particular format like new file has higher values or lower values I can keep track of the old values and find out whether I hace uploaded a new File in drive.

A: The format is a 264 bit number
bit 0   5 6             261 261 263
+--------+-----------------+-------+
| 110101 | 256 RANDOM BITS | 00    |
+--------+-----------------+-------+

url safe base64 encoded as
/1[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{42}[AEIMQUYcgkosw048]/

You can store just the random part as a Byte[32] but it is safer to treat it as a random string as this may change at any time

A: File ID is just a random string - there is no format.
You are taking the wrong approach. Look at the changes resource https://developers.google.com/drive/v3/reference/changes


Pussycat Doll Melody Thornton reveals that she wanted to be a nun when she was growing up.
Pussycat Doll Melody Thornton has revealed that she wanted to be a nun when she was growing up.
The singer said she was always an admirer of the profession after watching movies about women dedicated to the church.
"I used to watch these movies about people who really devote their lives to charity in someway or bettering the world, devoting themselves to serve God or a common purpose," she told The Sun.
"Then I realised when I could sing I realised I could do both, like Angelina Jolie."
When bandmate Ashley Roberts suggested that she could still follow the religious career path, Thornton joked: "I can't actually. I've done too many things."


I can't decide whether this Game Boy tube dress was designed for gamer-girlies, or for Game Boy fanatics that would like to have their girlfriends look like a part of their retro gamer gear collection. Either way, it's retro.
The soft gray knit and black fabric Game Boy tube dress was crafted by Etsy seller SewOeno. It's a part of her custom and funky pattern and prints line which includes Smurfette and the care bears. You can view her retro girl wear in this picture gallery.


Some of the donations received for St. Lucy's.
Ms. George is running a collection of hygiene supplies and toiletries to be donated to St. Lucy's Emergency Shelter. After the collection, students will create care packages to be delivered to St. Lucy's.
The homeroom with the most donations will win a party catered by Panera Bread. Donation drive ends March 29.


Saint Germain asks that each of us use this Invocation at least ONCE a DAY until the Earth Ascends.
This helps the entire planet to eradicate negativity and assist the Earth with it's own ascension. Even if you are only removing a small speck of density with each healing, you are still giving tremendous service to the planet. The beneficial effects will accumulate each time. This is an excellent Invocation to be done in small or large groups.
Preparation: Begin with the Violet Flame Personal Healing on yourself. Then visualize the Earth in front of you as a ball floating in space.
Step 1. Bring the Violet Flame into the Earth. Ask the Violet Flame to enter deep into the core of Earth, filling the entire planet.
Step 2. Spin the flame in and around the Earth, extending out considerably so that it encompasses the emotional, mental and spiritual bodies of the planet.
Step 3. Ask the Violet Flame to transmute the negativity from the planet, always adding, "as much as the Law will allow and in respect to the free will of all".
Step 4. Change the negativity into Divine Light bringing it into and around the entire Earth.
"Mighty I Am Presence, please bring forth the Violet Flame to be made manifest in the Earth now. Fill our entire planet with your powerful Violet Flame of Divine Justice, Liberty, Forgiveness, Mercy and Freedom.
Spread the Violet Flame throughout all the bodies of the Earth, surrounding her mental body, emotional body and spiritual body, bathing our planet in your compassionate, soft Violet Flame.
Violet Flame, we direct you to transmute all negativity, undue control, greed, corruption, egotism, poverty, disease, anger and fear from our loving Mother Earth and all of her inhabitants, as much as the Law will allow and in respect to the free will of all.
Beloved Violet Flame, turn all that can be transmuted into the gentle pink light, the ray of unconditional love. Bathe the planet with it now, filling her completely and totally while surrounding her as well. Add now the soft pale blue light of truth, peace, calm and harmony. Follow with the emerald green ray of prosperity, abundance, radiant health and vital life. Please seal everything with the Golden Platinum Light of the Christ Consciousness.
Let the Golden Platinum Light coalesce and mingle with the pink, blue, and green rays, raising the qualities of all to the highest level possible now, that of the Christ Consciousness. Hold these energies and our wishes, desires and intention for Heaven on Earth with peace and prosperity for all, forever and ever.
The Violet Flame is a Divine gift and tool for everyone, given to us by Ascended Master Saint Germain. It is a sacred fire that exists on the Higher Dimensions. People with the gift of interdimensional sight have seen it. Cameras have captured it when it was not visible to the person taking the photo. The Violet Flame is REAL and I invite you to use it to your great advantage.
The Violet Flame is Spiritual Alchemy in action. Just as Alchemy is said to turn Lead into Gold, the ultimate purpose of the Violet Flame is to turn the Human into the Divine Human. Its action is to TRANSMUTE denser feelings, actions, deeds, karma, etc. into a higher vibrational frequency, which helps prepare us for our Ascension. Ascension means becoming a Divine Human, also known as a Christed Being – a level of Consciousness obtainable by any person. You may use the Violet Flame in perfect harmony with any belief system, religion or practice. It is a neutral tool with absolutely no conditions attached to it.
Some organizations teach people to use the Violet Flame with pre-written prayers and affirmations that they need to memorize and say in the right order for them to work. Some of them are very complex and rhyme with much repetition. Saint Germain has always told me that the words are not so important. Too many people are spending their energy and focus worrying about whether they got the words right or not. This causes them to miss the really important part of using the Flame – the feeling in your heart, your desire, intention and sincerity. Use the words from your own heart.
There are unlimited ways to use the Violet Flame. This is the basic method Saint Germain taught me over 30 years ago and he wishes everyone to use as a foundation for Violet Flame work. It is very simple with only four steps. Once you understand the principles behind this practice, you can adapt it and use it in unlimited ways.
Step 1. Bring the Violet Flame into your body. Ask your Higher Self, a Master, Guide or Angel to assist you to do so, or just ask the Flame to "be made manifest," whichever is most comfortable. It is helpful to visualize (doesn't matter if you can or cannot actually see it) or pretend that there is a ball of violet fire above your head. Then ask that ball of fire to come into your body and fill every speck of your entire body.
Step 2. Spin the flame in and around your body. Keep the Flame inside your body while asking it to also come out through your heart chakra and spin around or encircle the outside of your body so that it's encompassing your emotional, mental and spiritual bodies.
Step 3. Ask the Violet Flame to transmute everything you wish to be changed or eliminated from your life. Some people like to mention everything like a shopping list – all karma, negative feelings such as anger, poverty, frustration, sadness, physical illnesses, etc., which is fine. But you can also do a catch-all phrase, such as "transmute anything and everything standing in the way of my ascension, or of becoming a Christed Being." Again, it's the intent and the feeling behind it. One important phrase to add is, "on all dimensions, on all levels, through all time and space, past, present and future" to your request. That covers all your lifetimes and your multidimensional selves.
Step 4. Change negativity into Divine Light and fill your body. Energy is never lost nor can it be "deleted", however, it can be CHANGED into a higher frequency. That is why it is important to ask the Violet Flame to do so. You can specify what the energy is to become. Then call that new energy into your body and aura. Some people like to do the list again. "Please transmute everything into love, prosperity, abundance, peace and happiness." Or you can ask for specific Color Rays, which are pure energy. Example, Pink is unconditional love. Blue is peace and tranquility. Green is health and abundance. Deep dark blue is spiritual knowledge and intuition. Violet is spiritual advancement and knowledge. Either way works fine. The Violet Flame Invocation below turns everything into the Golden Platinum light of the Christ Consciousness, which encompasses all the qualities of the other colors.
The following Invocation was given to me directly by Saint Germain as an example of the 4-step Alchemical Violet Flame Meditation, which will transmute your karma and negative thoughts, actions and emotions. Once you understand the process, please individualize the Invocation using words from your heart and say them with great feeling and intention. Saying the words out loud is best because the power and vibration of the spoken word has energy, which helps create the maximum results of the Violet Flame. If you are among people that would not understand your words, you can say it quietly in your mind.
Mighty I AM Presence, Beloved God, My Heavenly Source, Please make manifest in me now the Sacred Violet Flame of Transmutation. Bring the Violet Flame into every cell, molecule and atom of my body filling me totally and completely.
Blessed Violet Flame blaze into my Heart and expand out and around all of my bodies, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual, surrounding my entire Being with your Divine Grace, Love, Mercy and Forgiveness.
Transmute all karma, negative thoughts, actions, deeds and energy that I have ever created at any time, in all dimensions, on all levels, in all bodies, through all time and space, past, present and future, for all Eternity. Transmute anything and everything that stands in my way of embodying the Ascended Christ Being That I AM.
Beloved Violet Flame turn all that has been transmuted Into the Golden Platinum Light of God, the Christ Consciousness, The Light of God that never fails.
Send this Golden Platinum Light to me now, filling and surrounding my entire body with its Divine Radiance. Raise my vibration and frequency to the highest level possible for me at this time.
So Be It and So It Is. Thank You God. Amen.
It is suggested that you do this first thing in the morning and last thing at night, or anytime you feel a little overwhelmed or upset. Just Violet Flame what is going on, right then and there.
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Many people ask me about books to read about Saint Germain.
This is the ONLY book that I recommend.
It is full of FACTUAL information about his last lifetime, as the Count of Saint Germain, All documented by letters or public records. You will get a feel of him and his life.
Do not purchase other titles by Isabel Cooper-Oakley because all titles are contained within this edition.
There is even a Kindle version for $.99 – you can't beat that.
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Vibrational Pendants These pendants come in two versions. Grounding to stabilize into you the new energies that have entered our planet – or – chose the Expansion style to reach the Higher Frequencies during meditation and dream time.
Violet Flame Shawl Wrap yourself in a beautiful 100% Silk Shawl infused with Saint Germain's energy. The design features his I AM Saint Germain / Violet Flame Mandala and a detailed Violet Flame Invocation. Gorgeous to wear as an evening wrap while you boost your vibration. You can also sew two together to make a fabulous kimono jacket.
Saint Germain & Violet Flame Invocation Silk Bookmark These extra large 100% Silk bookmarks make an excellent gift for anyone seeking to know Saint Germain, or wishing to deepen their relationship with him. They are also a great reminder to use the Violet Flame Invocation.
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The charts below show how the بین الاقوامی صوتیاتی ابجد represents مصری عربی pronunciations in Wikipedia articles.
See Egyptian Arabic phonology for a more thorough look at the sounds of Egyptian Arabic.
The romanization of the examples is the commonly used form in مصر.
ˈ جميل /ɡæˈmiːl/ ("beautiful") Indicates that the following syllable is stressed.
ː ليل /leːl/ ("night") Indicates that the preceding vowel is long.
↑ The classicized allophone [q] only occurs in Classical Arabic borrowings and proper nouns.
↑ The phonemes /p/, /v/ and /ʒ/ are only found in loanwords and they can be pronounced as /b/, /f/ and /ʃ/ respectively depending on the speaker.
^ ا ب [ɪ]~[e] and [i] are allophones of the phoneme /i/. Word initial and medial /i/ in stressed syllables typically varies across [ɪ] ~ [e], but it is strictly [i] at the end of words, in unstressed syllables.
^ ا ب [ʊ]~[o] and [u] are allophones of the phoneme /u/. Word initial and medial /u/ in stressed syllables typically varies across [ʊ] ~ [o], but it is strictly [u] in final positions.


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Celebrate the Royal Wedding with a spa day or spa break fit for a princess!
With the royal wedding just around the corner, I'm sure you're all getting just as excited as we are here at Ragdale Hall. The thought of being able to witness the marriage of our very own Prince and Princess has whipped us all into a romantic frenzy. So to celebrate this momentous occasion, and to spread the love and romance we're feeling, we've come up with two very special spa offers just for you.
If you, like Kate Middleton are in the midst of planning your big day (or you are simply a would-be princess!) then the Princess Pamper Day is the perfect spa day for you. With unlimited use of our Thermal Spa, beautiful lounges to relax in and plenty of opportunities for retail therapy, along with pampering treatments, you will leave us feeling refreshed and relaxed before your big day. Perfect to experience with your mother, bridesmaids or girlfriends to make this lovely time that extra bit special.
If, like us, you are simply feeling the love that seems to be in the air during the run up to the marriage of Kate and William, why not join us on The Romantic Getaway and make the most of it! Based in the beautiful rolling Leicestershire countryside with stunning grounds and state of the art facilities, Ragdale Hall really is the perfect place to celebrate your love. So whisk your prince or princess off for a spa break away from your everyday life, all you'll need to worry about is yourselves, we'll do the rest!


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Home » Miscellany » Braves Say AAA Team Will Remain in Gwinnett Co.
(From Sports Business Journal, November 18, 2013) The Atlanta Braves are planning on moving to Cobb County and hope that this move will go much better than the move to Gwinnett County by their AAA affiliate team. The Gwinnett Braves move in 2009 got off to a rather rough start. The team moved from Richmond, Virginia to one of Atlanta's northeastern suburbs hoping to take advantage of the market's north side population increase and to create a missed-use development surrounding the park. Unfortunately the missed-use development around Coolray Field, where the Gwinnett Braves play, has not happened. The park opened in the beginning of the recession, and of the five seasons the team has played in Gwinnett, the team at best has been 12th in attendance in the 14-team International League. With the Charlotte Knights planning to move to a new park next year, the Gwinnett Braves are expected to rank 14th in attendance in 2014. While things seem rather unfortunate for this ball club, the Atlanta Braves club says they remain firmly committed to the team.


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The Mitsubishi L200 is one of the most successful and long lasting models of Japanese car manufacturer Mitsubishi. It was first manufactured in 1978 as the first SUV brought by the company on the market and is still in production today.
During this period, the Mitsubishi L200 underwent numerous changes, as reflected in various model series. The fourth generation of the Mitsubishi L200, with the suffix RS 3000 is produced since 2006.
The pick-up Mitsubishi L200 measures about 5 meters in length, the rear of the car over 2.30 meters. This makes it the ideal utility vehicle. Larger items can be transported with the Mitsubishi L200 without problems over difficult terrain. Mitsubishi L200 is powered by a 2.5-liter while diesel with intercooler and electronically controlled common-rail direct injection with 100 kW / 136 PS; Enhanced version with 123 kW / 167 hp is no longer in the program.
The Mitsubishi L200 is to get with a two-seater (Club Cab) and a four-seater (double cab) variant. The latest model of Mitsubishi L200 comes with standard of all current safety and comfort-technical elements such as multiple airbags, electric seat adjustment, central locking with remote control, air conditioning and much more.
Mitsubishi L200 is interesting when considering the angles. It is practical and unpretentious diesel engine, spacious, comfortable interior and a bright, stylish design. High quality and reliability of the pickup multiply every year, so the latest model of Mitsubishi L200 is almost perfect car in all respects. Load capacity of Mitsubishi L200 has always been a delight. The reserve trailer weight is 2.7 tons. In the body easily fit a standard pallet. All this does not prevent the Mitsubishi L200 remains one of the most compact in its class. Easy handling, high maneuverability (turning radius of less than 6 m) and ease the process of parking, as well as all-wheel drive chassis make this the perfect pick for both the city and for highway.
Mitsubishi L200 is a model that improved over the years and is now available in pickups and SUVs in its best expression. It is stylish, colorful design, which has not lost beloved and recognizable features common to all models of the brand, and acquired new features that make the Mitsubishi L200 modern and interesting representatives of the metropolis. High freight characteristics, patency in off-road and comfortable interior makes this car so special.
Salon Mitsubishi L200 primarily surprises with its spaciousness and functionality. Ergonomics, practicality and style were the main guide designers who built this car. Modern high-quality materials used in the finishing room make it more reliable and durable.