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Biden Administration's Energy, Environmental and Climate Policies: Week In Review (February 19, 2021)
This post summarizes noteworthy developments regarding federal energy, environmental, and climate policies in the past week.
The Council on Environmental Quality ("CEQ") reinstated the requirement that federal agencies consider greenhouse gas emissions and the impacts of climate change as part of their National Environmental Policy Act reviews.
The National Climate Task Force convened for the first time — one of several steps the Biden administration is taking to roll out its climate policy.
Impacts of the administration's pivot on environmental issues are playing out in the courts and through the federal agencies' review of Trump administration regulations.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") sought and received a stay in the challenge to its Clean Water Act Section 401 Certification Rule.
EPA announced that it does not intend to revive the Clean Power Plan.
A federal district court in Idaho struck down U.S. Bureau of Land Management's ("BLM") plan to cancel the withdrawal of 10 million acres of federal land from oil and gas development in several western states for the benefit of the greater sage grouse.
Biden Administration Rolls Out Early Actions to Address Climate Impacts
CEQ Reinstates GHG and Climate Guidance for NEPA Reviews. Today, CEQ rescinded the Trump administration's guidance on greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions and reinstated the 2016 Obama-era guidance that requires agencies to disclose and consider GHG emissions and the effects of climate change as part of their National Environmental Policy Act ("NEPA") reviews.1 CEQ explained that "[f]ederal courts consistently have held that NEPA requires agencies to disclose and consider climate impacts in their reviews."2 CEQ also announced that it will undertake a review and propose any necessary revisions to the 2016 GHG Guidance, consistent with President Biden's directive in Executive Order 13990, "Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis."
American Innovation to Create Jobs and Tackle Climate Issues. On February 11, 2021, the Biden administration launched its initiative with the stated goals to spur jobs, technology and innovation to address climate change issues.3 A key component of the program is the new Climate Innovation Working Group as part of the National Climate Task Force, a first step toward fulfilling the commitment to launch the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Climate. The Working Group will will be co-chaired by White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy, Office of Science of Technology and Policy, and Office of Management and Budget and will work to bolster the federal government's support of technology innovation to achieve President Biden's stated goal of a net zero economy by 2050. Key areas of focus for the Working Group include advancing:
Energy-efficient buildings and construction materials
Lower-cost energy storage alternatives
Advanced technologies to operate a grid powered by zero carbon power plants
Low-cost zero carbon on-road vehicles and transit systems
Sustainable fuels and efficiency measures for aircrafts, ships, and transportation systems
Affordable, refrigerant-free air conditioning and heat pumps
Carbon-free processes for producing steel, concrete, chemicals and other important industrial products
Low-cost carbon-free hydrogen
Carbon dioxide removal and storage technologies using soil management, plants and agricultural techniques
Direct air capture carbon sequestration systems and retrofits to existing industrial and power plant exhausts
First National Climate Task Force Meeting. The National Climate Task Force convened its first-ever meeting on February 11, 2021.4 The Task Force includes Cabinet-level leaders from 21 federal agencies and is tasked with implementing the Biden administration's climate policy. Representatives from the federal agencies focused on the need to cooperate across the federal government. Vice President Kamala Harris attended the meeting, underscoring the importance of climate issues to the Biden administration, and discussed the importance of incorporating environmental justice issues in climate policy.
EPA Will Not Revive the Clean Power Plan, Signaling a Different Future Approach
When the D.C. Circuit vacated EPA's Affordable Clean Energy Rule ("ACE Rule") on January 19, 2021, the court did not expressly reinstate the 2015 Clean Power Plan. On February 12, 2021, EPA's Acting Assistant Administrator, Joseph Goffman, issued a memorandum to the agency's Regional Administrators clarifying EPA's position that neither the ACE Rule nor the Clean Power Plan are in effect.5 Deadlines for states to submit plans under the Clean Power Plan have passed, and EPA does not expect states to meet those deadlines or take any further steps at this time while EPA considers its approach going forward. This step signals that the agency does not intend to reinstate the Clean Power Plan regulations and instead will likely promulgate rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions under a different approach.
States' Challenge to Clean Water Act § 401 Certification Changes on Hold While EPA Reviews Rule
Under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act, states, Tribes, and local authorities are empowered to review projects requiring federal permits and issue a water quality certification to ensure that water quality is sufficient to support human, plant and animal life. In June 2020, the EPA finalized the 401 Certification Rule,6 which limited the scope and timing of the 401 review process, which states and Tribes have recently used to block permits for energy projects such as coal terminals, liquefied natural gas export facilities and pipelines. Numerous states, Tribes and environmental groups challenged the rule.7 EPA requested, and the court granted, a stay in the South Carolina Coastal Conservation case signaling EPA's intent to review the 401 Certification Rule under White House Chief of Staff Ronald Klain's Regulatory Freeze Pending Review Memorandum.8
Court Strikes Down Cancellation of Greater Sage Grouse Habitat Oil and Gas Leasing Withdrawal
In 2015, BLM and the U.S. Forest Service rolled out a series of amended land use plans impacting federal lands across western states, including Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming. The conservation measures restricted oil and gas development in the bird's habitat and breeding grounds, and were considered important restrictions to avoid listing the species under the Endangered Species Act. In 2019, the agencies relaxed the restrictions as a step to open the areas to energy development and canceled a planned withdrawal of 10 million acres of federal lands identified as Sagebrush Focal Area from oil and gas leasing. Environmental groups challenged the 2015 decisions as not going far enough to protect the bird and amended their complaint to include a challenge to the 2019 withdrawal cancellation. The U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho struck down BLM's cancellation, finding that the agencies did not adequately explain their decisions to change course. The court remanded the 2019 amendments to the agencies for further review, but it is likely that the Biden administration will allow the withdrawal of the Sagebrush Focal Areas from oil and gas leasing to proceed.
BLM Pivots on Renewable Energy Development in Southern California
In early January 2020, BLM issued a plan to amend the 2016 land use and resource management plan for the California Desert Conservation Area9 that would have removed certain measures from the conservation plan10 aimed at balancing solar and wind development with protection of the desert ecosystem and sensitive wildlife species such as the desert tortoise, bighorn sheep and golden eagles. The conservation plan was developed by BLM in collaboration with California agencies and environmental groups, and finalized in 2016. The plan sets aside approximately 6.5 million acres for conservation and 400,000 acres for renewable energy projects. The Trump administration's proposal would have abolished 32 environmentally sensitive areas, eliminating approximately 1.8 million acres of federallyprotected land and reducing the boundaries of other protected areas and opened the areas to multiple uses (e.g. renewable energy, mining access, grazing, recreational vehicle access). On February 17, 2021, BLM withdrew the planned revisions and will revoke the pending public comment period,11 limiting the planned expansion of renewable energy project development in sensitive wildlife areas, but retaining the original acreage set aside in the plan. Although the total acreage for renewable development will be less than planned under the Trump administration, it will likely face less litigation over wildlife habitat concerns because the plan was developed in concert with stakeholders, including environmental groups.
1. Council on Environmental Quality, National Environmental Policy Act Guidance on Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Notice of Rescission of Draft Guidance, 86 Fed. Reg. 10252 (February 19, 2021).↩
2. Id.↩
3. Biden-Harris Administration Launches American Innovation Effort to Create Jobs and Tackle the Climate Crisis (Feb. 11, 2021), available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/02/11/biden-harris-administration-launches-american-innovation-effort-to-create-jobs-and-tackle-the-climate-crisis/.↩
4. Readout of the First National Climate Task Force Meeting (Feb. 11, 2021), available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/02/11/readout-of-the-first-national-climate-task-force-meeting/. ↩
5. EPA Memorandum, Status of Affordable Clean Energy Rule and Clean Power Plan (Feb. 12, 2021), online: https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2021-02/documents/ace_letter_021121.doc_signed.pdf.↩
6. Clean Water Act Section 401 Certification Rule, Final Rule, 85 Fed. Reg. 42210 (July 13, 2020), available at: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/07/13/2020-12081/clean-water-act-section-401-certification-rule.↩
7. See e.g., Del. Riverkeeper Network v. EPA, No. 2:20-CV-3412 (E.D. Pa.); Am. Rivers v. Wheeler, No. 3:20-cv-04636 (N.D. Cal.); Cal. v. Wheeler, No. 3:20-cv-04869 (N.D. Cal.); S.C. Coastal Conservation League v. Wheeler, No. 2:20-cv-03062 (D.S.C.); Suquamish Tribe v. Wheeler, No. 3:20-cv-06137 (N.D. Cal.).↩
8. Regulatory Freeze Pending Review, available at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/regulatory-freeze-pending-review/.↩
9. Notice of Availability, Draft Land Use Plan Amendment (LUPA) and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), for an amendment to the California Desert Conservation Area (CDCA) Plan and the Bakersfield and Bishop Resource Management Plans (RMPs), available at: https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2021-00579.pdf.↩
10. California Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan, available at: https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/documents/files/media-center-public-room-california-desert-renewable-energy-conservation-plan-overview.pdf.↩
11. Official statement: Department of the Interior will revoke the BLM's comment period on proposed amendment to the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (Feb. 17, 2021), available at: https://www.blm.gov/press-release/official-statement-department-interior-will-revoke-blms-comment-period-proposed.↩
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Blockchain Launches Hardware Wallet
The popular cryptocurrency software provider Blockchain has announced the launch of a custom hardware wallet that is exclusively tethered to the company's flagship wallet. According to the development team behind the new hardware wallet called Lockbox, the firm collaborated with the wallet manufacturer Ledger in order to create the design.
Blockchain Launches a Hardware Wallet Called Lockbox
The cryptocurrency and distributed ledger software provider Blockchain has announced the launch of a new hardware wallet called Lockbox. Launched in August 2011, the company has provided a variety of data services and a non-custodial wallet product that's seen 29.5 million wallets created over the years. With the Lockbox hardware wallet, the device is fully compatible with the firm's wallet software and users are able to benefit from both services. The well-known hardware wallet maker Ledger worked with Blockchain in order to create the wallet's design and custom firmware. Lockbox is not compatible with other Ledger platforms like the Ledger Live application.
"We've created an elegant software and hardware integration that offers more functionality than previously existed in our space. Peter Smith, CEO, and co-founder of Blockchain stated during the announcement. "We're thrilled to offer the Lockbox to Blockchain users so they can easily manage their funds online and offline seamlessly."
The President of Ledger, Pascal Gauthier, also explained that these days stories about cryptocurrency hacks "continue to dominate headlines." "It's obvious that security must be top of mind for all stakeholders in the crypto space," Gauthier emphasized. Additionally, being FIDO certified, the Lockbox device can be used as a secondary security key for Dropbox, Google applications, Github, and more.
Similar to the Nano But Connects With Existing Blockchain Wallets
Blockchain's Lockbox is $99 and available for pre-order beginning on Oct. 25 and the company is accepting BTC, Paypal, Visa, and Mastercard for purchases. From the looks of it, the Lockbox is almost identical to the Nano. In contrast, the Lockbox is sized at 98mm x 18mm x 9mm but is blue with a Blockchain logo. The Blockchain Lockbox custom firmware is compatible with Windows (7+), Mac (10.9+), Linux or Chrome operating systems. However, just like the Ledger Nano, the application requires the owner to use Google Chrome or Chromium. A glance at the product's webpage, the language suggests Blockchain believes the new Lockbox is a secure product that can go head-to-head with the competitors like Trezor and Keepkey.
"Our dual chip architecture guarantees cryptographic protection so you can store your crypto worry-free. Your private keys stay protected behind your secret PIN," the website states.
Hardware wallet popularity has grown exponentially since last year's bull run and the thousands of cryptocurrency thefts that took place over the years. 2018 has seen a few new entrants in the hardware wallet space such as the Coolwallet and the latest Ellipal wallet.
The new Lockbox comes with all the standard items most of the others come with, including a USB cord, mnemonic phrase card, and instructions. Blockchain also has a Lockbox support web page created for those who want to learn about the setup process. The company says it takes only a few steps to connect an existing Blockchain wallet to the Lockbox device.
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The Bell Tower Haunted Walking Tour - Bats in the Bell Tower
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The Bell Tower Haunted Walking Tour - Bats in the Bell Tower will be at The Bell Tower Community Arts & Entertainment Complex in Fort Erie, ON on Tuesday, September 3, 2019.Doors at 7:00PM, and the Show Starts around 8:00PM. The Bell Tower Haunted Walking Tour - Bats in the Bell Tower includes The Bell Tower Haunted Walking Tour . The Bell Tower Community Arts & Entertainment Complex is located at 575 Central Ave, Fort Erie, ON.
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Massachusetts announces plan to waive up to $1.6 billion in non-fraudulent unemployment insurance overpayments
By James McAllister
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker's (R) administration announced on April 14 a plan to waive $1.6 billion in non-fraudulent unemployment insurance overpayment collections. The plan would offer waivers for some workers who claimed benefits during the pandemic but were asked to repay them because the state deemed them ineligible after the payment of benefits.
In total, the administration would write off $475 million in overpaid benefits related to insufficient identity verification. The state argued many of those overpayments involved cases of identity theft where affected claimants never received benefits.
The US Department of Labor (USDOL) also granted a partial blanket waiver for all Federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) overpayments related to insufficient proof-of-work between the weeks ending Jan. 2 and March 20, 2021. The partial blanket waiver will cover about $349 million of overpayments.
The state is also planning to file emergency regulations to issue waivers for up to $782 million additional non-fraudulent state unemployment insurance and federal PUA overpayments not covered under the USDOL waiver. The state did not release details on who would qualify for forgiveness under the emergency regulations.
Unemployment insurance is a joint federal and state program that provides temporary monetary benefits to eligible laid-off workers who are actively seeking new employment. Qualifying individuals receive unemployment compensation as a percentage of their lost wages in the form of weekly cash benefits while they search for new employment.
The federal government oversees the general administration of state unemployment insurance programs. The states control the specific features of their unemployment insurance programs, such as eligibility requirements and length of benefits.
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You might like this. It's so hilarious... ..even an Englishman could not construct sentences using numeric, which is exclusive only to Malaysians and Singaporeans.
1 day I go 2 climb a 3 outside a house to peep. But the couple saw me, so I panic and 4 down. The man rushed out and wanted to 5 with me. I ran until I fell 6 and threw up. So I go into 7-eleven and grabbed some 8 to throw at him. Then I took a 9 and try to stab at him. 10 God he ran away.
10 I put the 9 back and pay for the 8 and left 7-eleven. Next day I called my boss and told him I was 6. He said 5, tom orrow also no need to come back 4 work. He also asked me to go climb a 3 and jump down! I don't understand. I am so nice 2 him but I don't know what he 1.
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Montmartre, Paris Albert Khan, circa 1910.
Market St – Manchester 7th November 1896, found on Flickr.
1960s Advertising in Belleville, Paris.
Brigitte Bardot up in lights on the Champs Elysées, Paris, 1958. Photo by Robert Doisneau.
Caption reads: "Los Angeles' first telephone pay station, established in 1899 at 228 South Spring street. The messenger boy, Roy E. Jillson, still is an employee of the telephone company."– Los Angeles Public library.
Theatre Comique, 1249-1251 Broadway St., Detroit, Mi, colorised by The Shorpy.
Frank Sinatra, taken during the filming of "Marriage on the Rocks," 1965 set in Mexico. I'm going to pretend this was a real street sign.
Wardrobe department, c 1950, photo by Weegee.
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Archives|A Few Good Sounds for Summer
A Few Good Sounds for Summer
By MIKE ZWERIN JULY 5, 2000
CORRECTION PUBLISHED IN THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE DATED July 6, 2000:The title of John Scofield's new album, reviewed in editions Wednesday, was misidentified. It is "Bump."
Thanks to the revolutionary file-sharing software Napster, technologically talented teenagers with errant ears can now download the very latest Britney Spears and Limp Bizkit hits from the Web to their laptops free of charge.
It looks like laptops will be coming along on summer vacation this year. It is becoming impossible to shake the latest hits. Bad music keeps getting more ubiquitous and instantaneous. The old ones were bad enough, now we have old and new at the same time. Permit us to introduce some good new albums in self-defense.
best of bob dylan, vol. 2 (Columbia): Reissues count. This one goes from "Highway 61 Revisited," "Positively 4th Street," "Subterranean Homesick Blues," through "License to Kill." Remember Dylan on communication? "Ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken." On politics: "Don't follow leaders, watch the parking meters." With the extended overview of this collection, you can hear his continually improving musicianship compensate for declining lyric-writing skills.
john scofield "Bum" (Verve): Musicians say that the guitarist Scofield was the first player to combine Jimi Hendrix's textures and John Coltrane's harmonic sense. Here "Sco" explores his funk roots, which were embellished during his years with Miles Davis. Post-Grateful Dead rock bands that improvise and explore dissonance, like Phish, and jazz bands that use DJs and sampling, like Scofield, are a bit too conveniently bundled together as "jam bands." Whatever that means, Scofield never sounded better.
anastacia "Not That Kind" (Epic): What a voice! A female choir and maracas over a rolling double-time feel add up to anthems reminiscent of Aretha. With touches of Janis Joplin elsewhere. Anastacia is a young blue-eyed soul singer and songwriter of some poise and considerable promise from New York. Her father was a singer in musical comedies, her mother an actress. She went to the Professional Children's School in Manhattan. In other words, she's a pro, as urgent as a heartbeat. Or so she makes it sound.
eugene maslov "When I Need to Smile" (Mack Avenue): A Russian pianist with a supple touch playing standards and songs of his own with Eddie Gomez and Omar Hakim, two sensitive Americans. There are a lot of influences in Maslov's music but Russian does not appear to be one of them. Produced by the ex-Crusaders drummer Stix Hooper, the trio explores the post-Bill Evans landscape.
joshua redman "Beyond" (Warner Brothers): At 31, on his seventh album since winning the Thelonious Monk Institute competition in 1991, Redman emerges as a mature improviser and composer dealing with the broadest permutations of music rather than a hot young lion playing a lot of notes. (He has been appointed artistic director of the San Francisco Jazz Festival.)
taxiride "Imaginate" (Warner Music/Australia): A hit in Australia, this is a first album of a rock band with four singers just graduated from Melbourne clubs — Tim Watson, Tim Wild, Dan Hall and Jason Singh. Four lead singers, four potential front men, their collective sound is so good that the fact that it is also quite derivative ceases to matter. If you are going to revisit already existing sounds, you could do worse than cross CSN&Y with the Beatles. It's not easy to sound that good.
steve swallow "Always Pack Your Uniform on Top" (WATT/ECM): Swallow plays an electric bass with a string added on top, so it's in fact part guitar. Few others explore that register. This is a quintet with five great listeners in it. There's a catchy kind of popping austere consonance, a touch of funk here and there, it always swings. Recorded live at Ronnie Scott's in London.
freddy cole "Merry Go Round" (Telarc): Singer-pianist Freddy Cole is the baby brother of the late Nat. You can spot the genes in the magic texture of voice and musicality addressing standards. He is a much more than merely welcome presence. Production (by Todd Barkan) is like a musical instrument on its own. The band includes Cedar Walton, piano, and George Mraz, bass.
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BEIJING — Just as he had on previous trips, Zhu Feng bolted down his lunch at the Los Angeles airport before sprinting to catch his Air China flight back to Beijing.
Mr. Wang's visa was canceled after he attended the Carter Center conference. He decided against applying for a single-entry visa because the questions were too intrusive, he said.
Zhu Feng, 55, the international relations expert whose visa was canceled at the Los Angeles airport, was among the first generation of America experts in post-Mao China.


I've met many extremely talented people in my time.
Some were extraordinary musicians, some phenomenal athletes and some were just super-smart individuals capable of remarkable work.
I've also met more than a few people who, like the rest of us, aren't blessed with obvious natural capabilities.
They didn't stand out in school.
No-one was in awe of them from a young age.
People didn't expect great things from them.
But from the talented few, not all of them went on to achieve great things.
Many relied solely on their talents to get by and were left behind.
They became complacent, sloppy, lazy.
And from the rest, some have gone on to achieve world-class results.
They found their niche, never stopped believing in themselves, worked extremely hard and stayed focused on continually developing their skills.
Not all of us are talented, but talent is over-rated.
We can control how hard we work and each of us has the capacity to develop our skills to a phenomenal level.


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In recent years, Facebook has become a powerful force in the social media landscape. The company owns several popular platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp. Here's a look at the social media platforms owned by Facebook.
Instagram is one of the most popular social media platforms in the world. The photo-sharing app has over 1 billion monthly active users. Facebook acquired Instagram in 2012 for $1 billion.
WhatsApp is another popular social media platform owned by Facebook. The messaging app has over 1 billion monthly active users. Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014 for $19 billion.
Facebook also owns Oculus, a virtual reality company. Oculus makes the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset that is popular with gamers. Facebook acquired Oculus in 2014 for $2 billion.
Platforms: Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger
Facebook owns some of the world's most popular social media platforms. These include Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. Each platform has its own unique user base and set of features.
Instagram is a visual platform that is especially popular with younger users. It allows users to share photos and videos, and also has features like Stories and live streaming.
WhatsApp is a messaging platform that is used by billions of people around the world. It offers end-to-end encryption for private conversations, as well as group chats and voice and video calling.
Messenger is Facebook's messaging app. It offers many of the same features as WhatsApp, but also has additional features like bots and games.
In recent years, social media has become an increasingly popular way for people to connect with friends and family. One of the most popular social media platforms is Facebook. Facebook allows users to connect with a large number of people all over the world. Additionally, Facebook provides users with a way to stay in touch with friends and family members who they may not be able to see on a regular basis. Facebook is a great way for people to keep up with their friends and family members, but it also allows users to stay connected with businesses. Facebook Pages are pages that businesses can create on Facebook.
While social media can be a great way to connect with friends and family, there are some disadvantages to consider.
One of the biggest concerns is privacy. With so much information being shared on social media, it can be difficult to keep track of who has access to what.
Another downside is that social media can be a huge time suck. If you're not careful, it's easy to spend hours scrolling through your newsfeed or checking out photos and videos.
If you're worried about privacy or concerned about wasting time, there are a few things you can do to limit your social media use.
For example, you can adjust your privacy settings on each site so that only people who you approve can see your information. You can also limit the amount of time you spend on social media apps.
If you do decide to use social media, it's a good idea to take a break from time to time.
In recent years, Facebook has made a number of acquisitions in the social media realm. While this has given the company a dominant position in the industry, it has also come with some drawbacks. Let's take a look at some of the advantages and disadvantages of Facebook's ownership of social media platforms.
One advantage of Facebook's ownership is that it has allowed the company to create a comprehensive ecosystem. When you use one of Facebook's products, such as Instagram or WhatsApp, you're also likely to use other products from the company. This gives Facebook a lot of data about its users, which it can then use to target ads and improve its products.
However, there are also some disadvantages to Facebook's dominance in social media. One is that it can be difficult for other companies to compete against Facebook.


A Risk Communication workshop, organised by the Ministry of Health (MoH) began on Wednesday at Hotel Muscat Holiday. MoH was represented by the Directorate General of Diseases Surveillance and Control in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO).
WHO considers risk communication as an essential part of country's preparedness for the risks. The WHO works with the countries through the National Health Preparedness Program and the International Health Regulations by issuing the required guidance for risk communication and technical support via organising joint workshops with health ministries of those countries.
Organising this training workshop aimed to raise the efficiency of national risk communication and the ability to involve the community members, and focusing on the potential public health risks that may pose a threat at the national and regional levels.
The two-day workshop also aims to review the principles, technologies and tools of risk communication, as well as contributing in planning with several sectors to improve and practice the risk communication and community participation to tackle the spread of diseases.
Medical staff specialised in communicable diseases, education and community initiatives, media, MoH contact centre along with representatives from the health services directorates and international experts are participating in the workshop.


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Barley from farms across the north east of Scotland is on its way to Libya after Openfield agreed a sale for 16,500 tonnes to the north African state.
More than 500 deliveries tipped direct to vessel over a six-day period with extra cranes brought in to manage the loading and ensure the vessel departed on time.
"This is the largest ever single barley export from Aberdeen and it is significant because it is the ability to handle vessels of this size and bigger that give access to the global market," said Openfield head of exports David Doyle.
"With Europe awash with grain from the 2014 harvest having the facilities to handle larger vessels is the only way to move the surplus and protect value for our members," he added.
Passage to Libya aboard the MV Selamet is expected to take 12 days.


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De Democratische Partij (Bulgaars: Демократическа партия, Demokratitsjeska Partija), is een liberale en democratische partij in Bulgarije.

Een eerste Democratische Partij werd in 1896 opgericht als afsplitsing van de Liberale Partij. Petko Stojtsjev Karavelov werd een van de leiders van de partij en leidde van 1901 tot 1902 het eerste Democratische kabinet. Koning Ferdinand I benoemde op 21 juni 1918 Aleksandur Pavlov Malinov van de DP tot minister-president met als doel Bulgarije uit de Eerste Wereldoorlog te krijgen.

In 1923 steunde de DP de coup tegen premier Aleksandur Stamboeliski en de regering van de Democratische Alliantie. In de jaren 30 keerde de partij zich tegen de militaire regeringen en de "koninklijke kabinetten" en streefde naar het herstel van de democratie. Sommige leden van de DP namen tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog deel aan het verzet van het Vaderlands Front, maar na de staatsgreep van het door de communisten gedomineerde Vaderlands Front op 9 september 1944 werd de DP in de oppositie gedrongen. In 1947 werd de DP door de communistische regering van de Bulgaarse Communistische Partij (BKP) verboden.

Op 19 december 1989 werd er in Bulgarije een Democratische Partij opgericht als gematigde liberale partij. De partij sloot zich direct na haar oprichting aan bij de Verenigde Democratische Krachten (SDS). Bij de parlementsverkiezingen van 2001 behaalde de SDS 18,2% van de stemmen, goed voor 51 van de 240 zetels in de Narodno Sobranie en bij de parlementsverkiezingen van 2005 behaalde de SDS 8,4% van de stemmen, goed voor 20 van de 240 zetels.

DP premiers

Voorzitters
Petko Stojtsjev Karavelov — 1886-1903
Aleksandur Pavlov Malinov — 1903-1938
Nikola Stojkov Moesjanov — 1938-1947
Boris Kjoerktsjev — 1989-1990
Stefan Savov — 1990-2000
Aleksandur Pramatarski — 2000-heden

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Petko Stojtsjev Karavelov
Aleksandur Pavlov Malinov
Liberale Partij (Bulgarije)

Bulgaarse politieke partij
Geschiedenis van Bulgarije


"As state legislators prepare to tour C & H Hog Farms, the National Parks Conservation Association, Ozark Society, Buffalo River Watershed Alliance and Arkansas Canoe Club urge that the focus remain on the faulty permitting process that has allowed this industrial hog factory to proceed. The presence of this concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) in the Buffalo River Watershed continues to cause an uproar throughout the state and endangers the local economy, America's first national river – the Buffalo, as well as the quality of life for thousands of surrounding residents.
"The individuals who are set to operate C & H were put into an unfortunate position by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) and USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA). The situation we have now is a result of a failed permitting process, and Cargill – the international agri-giant who will supply the hogs – and the agencies involved should be working toward a resolution that pleases everyone. By forcing a permit through that has tremendous holes with a lack of adequate public input, these agencies have endangered our treasured landscape and the livelihoods of many individuals – including the owners of C & H. The organizations concerned about the impact of C & H are pro-farm, but we are also pro-Buffalo National River, and the threat to the nation's first national river is real.


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Terra-Gen's Humboldt Wind Energy Project Presents Concerns for Wildlife
By Tom Wheeler
Alta Wind Energy Center in Tehachapi, CA, developed by Terra-Gen. Photo: Wikipedia CC.
EPIC and the Northcoast Environmental Center submitted comments in June on the draft environmental impact report (DEIR) for the proposed Terra-Gen Humboldt Wind Energy Project proposed for Monument and Bear River Ridges outside of Scotia. Our detailed comments are available here.
The project as described in the DEIR does not meet the environmental standards nor have the environmental protections we demand. Our organizations urge the project proponents and Humboldt County to undertake additional consultation and outreach efforts to fulfill their obligations to the County's citizens and our wildlife. While we acknowledge the urgency to develop renewable energy projects to limit the harm of global climate change, the environmental costs must still be fully analyzed and understood before this project can be fully evaluated. As it stands, the DEIR does not account fully for impacts to bird and other species, such as risks to bats and murrelets.
Marbled murrelet at sea. Photo: Craig Strong.
Marbled Murrelets
The marbled murrelet, a small seabird that nests in the mossy branches of coastal old-growth forests, is one of the most iconic species of the environmental movement. This pigeon-sized bird is identified as threatened under both the federal and California Endangered Species Act and is in alarming decline in both Washington and Oregon.
The project is likely to result in the deaths of some murrelets from collisions. There currently are no operational large-scale wind projects within the murrelet's range, so there is no data concerning murrelets and wind turbines. Absent better data, the project assumes— by looking at other avoidance rates for other species—that murrelets will avoid wind turbines 98 percent of the time they fly through the project area. Based on this projected avoidance rate, the DEIR concludes that the project is likely to kill about 20 murrelets over the 30 years of the project.
The collision risk model, however, is very sensitive to the avoidance rate. A small change in data makes a huge difference. If the avoidance rate dips to 96 percent, the total number of murrelets killed would double.
Given the high uncertainty of impacts, it is critically important that the project avoid impacts first. There are no known measures to avoid harm to murrelets, except avoidance of areas that are likely within the flight paths of murrelets. Harm could also likely be minimized by the curtailment of blade-spinning operations during high-risk periods. The current project, as outlined in the DEIR, fails to do either.
Instead, the project tries to compensate for murrelets deaths by funding projects that seek to increase murrelet nesting success by deterring corvids that prey on murrelet eggs. Such mitigation measures are important, but the purported benefits of this work is largely speculative. Even if the benefits were certain, this appears to be a Faustian bargain—accepting additional and unnecessary murrelet deaths instead of avoiding them where possible.
At a minimum, the project needs to be reformed to avoid murrelet flight paths, as identified through radar surveys, and include operational curtailment during high-risk periods. A curtailment policy should be developed by a panel of species-specific experts based on the best available information.
A hoary bat hangs from a branch. Photo: Tom Benson, Flickr CC.
Acoustical surveys of the project area found that it is used by numerous bats, including those most frequently killed by wind projects: hoary bats, silver-haired bats, and western red bats. All three are migratory bats that exhibit behaviors that put them at high risk for collision and death from wind projects. This project is particularly worrisome because it is so close to an important bat migration hotspot. Every fall, thousands of hoary bats descend upon Humboldt Redwoods State Park, exhibiting a "swarming" behavior that appears to be unique to this region.
The DEIR correctly recognizes that the wind project is capable of producing significant impacts—including the localized extinction of the population or a species-level population impact—but fails to do much of anything to avoid, minimize, or mitigate the harm. Instead the DEIR kicks the can down the road, requiring the establishment of a technical advisory committee to be formed after impacts are measured to examine what can be done. This is not enough.
Thankfully, there is a growing body of science to suggest what can be done. Study after study has found that operational curtailment during high-risk periods is effective, reducing bat deaths anywhere from 44-93 percent with only minimal impacts to power generation. High-risk periods are those when bats are present and active, moving about the air column used by the spinning turbine blades. Determining high-risk can be predicative, using survey information to create models to predict when bats will be present, or informed, using real-time data about site use to inform when to shut off turbines.
The horned lark is one of the most frequently killed species at wind energy projects in the west. Photo: Tracie Hall, Flickr.com CC.
Horned Lark
The coastal prairies of Bear River Ridge are home to a unique population of horned larks. Scientists are puzzled over just what subspecies our local population belong to—either the streaked horned lark (recognized as threatened under the Endangered Species Act) or the California horned lark. Regardless of the taxonomic status, this population is important. It is the only breeding population for a long distance—so long that regardless of the subspecies, this population is likely on a unique evolutionary path. The wind project puts this population at risk.
The horned lark, named for plumage that resembles horns, is one of the most frequently killed species at wind energy projects in the west. The population at Bear River Ridge can't afford to lose many more. Surveys of the area suggest that there are only seven breeding pairs left. The only way to avoid impacts to horned larks is to not build wind turbines in areas where they might be impacted.
Many species of raptors call the project area home, including bald and golden eagles. This project is likely to kill many of them—although just how many is unclear. Based on fatalities at other wind projects, the DEIR provides a large range of potential takes: a lower estimate at four to 29 raptors per year (based on projects in the northwest), or up to 114 raptors per year, if using data from the "Pacific biofaunal biome."
Even at the lower estimate, the impacts are significant. Raptors are generally long-lived with a relatively low reproductive rate. They are highly sensitive to impacts, and even small increases in mortality can send populations plummeting. Survey work in the project area has identified a number of species of special concern in addition to bald and golden eagles.
Impacts to raptors have historically been one of the most well documented failings of wind energy projects. Consequently, significant effort has been put forth to find ways to avoid and minimize harm to raptors. The "Top of the World" project in Wyoming, for example, uses camera-aided artificial intelligence to recognize raptors as they approach that wind project, shutting down turbines if the bird is at risk of collision. Similar technology should be implemented for this project.
Necessary Changes to the Project
We are mindful that renewable energy development is not without ecological costs. That said, it can—and should—be done in a manner that avoids, minimizes, and mitigates impacts to the greatest extent feasible. Based on our review of the project, our organizations have determined that the following changes are necessary under state law:
(1) Remove all proposed wind turbines from the coastal prairies of Bear River Ridge. This has been analyzed in the DEIR as the "environmentally superior alternative," as it presents the least impact while still meeting the project objectives.
(2) Incorporate informed operational curtailment or curtailment during high-risk periods for marbled murrelets, raptors (particularly special-status species and bald and golden eagles), and bats (western red, hoary, and silver-haired bats).
(3) Create a robust adaptive management program throughout the life of the project to monitor operational impacts and to implement, as technology advances, new mitigation measures.
Stayed tuned for updates on this proposed project.
***This article was originally published in the August EcoNews.
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assailants targeted the al-Rawda mosque in the town of Bir al-Abed. The people were doing nothing but worshiping and praying on this Friday morning (11/24/17), until the assailants launched a bomb and started shooting. Over 230 people were killed by the bomb and/or gunfire. No one has claimed responsibility, but this is still a horrifying tragedy. I know it can be hard to keep up with national news in the US, but Egypt deserves as much attention and condolences.


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Embryonic is the twelfth studio album by experimental rock band The Flaming Lips released on October 13, 2009 on Warner Bros. It is the first double album to be released by the band, announced during an interview with the band's frontman Wayne Coyne.
Indie rock jams that blew up the blogs at the turn of the century.


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The Self Control Gland and Self Awareness!
The Courtyard of the Pine, Vatican Museums. The pine cone is a symbol for the pineal gland!
Chlorine and Fluoride atoms ionize and gravitate towards our South Pole, where the ozone depletion and hydrogen sequestration and UV-b effect is worst. This signature, examples the devastating affect discussed previously on the pineal gland – a product of mass application when we are not the desired androids off an assembly line.
Westernized living means accepting the flatline of existence, and all that is accessible on that flatline without question, accept that we do not know that it is our flatline. Like the hormone dopamine that is activated when we do something rewarding/pleasureable, and a gateway to learning, and persistence. The reward aspect can be misleading as in the growing list of deaths from computer/video games – addicts. The human spirit is put to sleep, and the ego usurps the conscious placing body consciousness as the most important reality not realizing that we are depriving ourselves of a greater, and more fulfilling reality as we become locked into a programed self.
Exploring our Sun's relationship to our pineal gland we discover that the hormone dopamine increases in secretion along with the hormones serotonin beta-endorphins. When sunlight inhibits the secretion of melatonin from the pineal gland, it activates the hormone dopamine and the magnetite crystals within the pineal gland. It has been established that this is enhanced through prayer, intense meditation, visualization, and chanting – all forms of physical purification.
Serotonin beta-endorphins is the other hormone activated at the same time as dopamine. Serotonin are neurotransmitters, the highest level of which can be found in the pineal gland – higher in the day, than night, while serotonin N-acetyltransferase (NAT) – is low during daylight and peaks during the dark phase.
Serotonin plays an important role in sleep, perception, memory, cardiovascular activity, respiratory activity, motor output, sensory and neuroendocrine function, and low levels have been found to be responsible for much much depression in Westerners today, especially in the U.S. and particularly amongst Black/African-American people, especially during the Winter.
Serotonin is most active during waking hours and regulates the equilibrium of waking consciousness. The pineal gland is sensitive to sound, as it is suspended above the mouth cavity! Monks at a monastery in France were told by a new abbot to stop chanting. The found that they no longer were able to get up before dawn to work in the fields after only a few hours of sleep. When chanting was restored, so was their energy.
"In the center between the two eyes is the seat of eternal music, the music of the spheres. One who practices this sound principle gains entry into this kingdom."
Practices that Activate the Pineal Gland
Spiritual practices today (including practices during Ramadhan) in tandem with modern research (some clandestine (psyops) has helped to increase understanding including how the transmission of light is vital to human kind. As a photosensitive organ, its source of energy is received via the retina – the hypothalamus = retinohypothalamic tract, which relays information about dark/light to a point in the hypothalamus (supra chiasmatic nucleus). From this point, information is relayed by the sympathetic nervous system (pineal nerve), to the pineal gland it self. This journey is what conspires to prevent the production of melatonin, but when there is no light ( a reality that must be factored into Islamic fasting), melatonin is released. This then, activates what is a key step in psychic, spiritual and energy transformation processes.
While the role of the pituitary gland is to exercise control over the body physical, the pineal gland exercises control over the mental and spiritual, with both working through a well coordinated system of of hormones and nerves. This is how the mezan is built into us that as human beings we take for granted. In a state of long term fasting, when we begin assuming that energy levels are dependent on the intake of foods, as we progress into our fast, we find that a boost of energy comes from somewhere else when we fast in a state of relaxation into what has always been known as the seat of cosnciousness, but is also the point from which our Soul exits during sleep and death!
The sleep deprivation experienced from night time prayer, and during the fasting month of Ramadhan also activates the pineal gland along with the long rounds of prayer. These practices help to release the hormone dimethyltryptamine, DMT.
DMT is a peptide, a hormone, an energy transporter that works across the blood brain barrier. Dr. Rick Strassman of the University of New Mexico (1990 -1995) found DMT is released from the pineal during dreams, near-death, death, birth, and during meditation and mystical experiences. DMT and other peptides are released during such experiences that have been referred to as the nectar of the gods, ambrosia, the living water, and amrita. When released a trickle down the back of the throat can be experienced. DMT in turn increases all pituitary homones and beta-endorphins, vasopressin, prolactin, Growth Hormone, and corticotrophrin (cortisol).
All forms of temporary stimlation including serotoni retake up drugs, but the result is a drop into a depression. Continuous spiritual practice is the only practice that sustains an active pineal, and that sustained practice gives us access to greater, more wholesome control over our whole selves, which in todays world of global governance is not to be encouraged! St. Paul on the road to Damascus experienced this state through sensory deprivation – fasting, and Paulo Coehlo referred to this state as the 'epiphany' or the 'Alpha/Aleph.
This was established in the 1960s onwards with the behind closed door experiments in lysergic acid dyethylamide – LSD mimicks serotonin. This belief behind this tradition can be trackbacked to a Western belief that truth may be obtained through a state of mind in which reason is through the Thracian worship of Dionysius, then Pythagorus, Plato, and the U.S. mind control programs. LSD-25 was a trip down that road of perceived reality.
E. J. Gaddum, professor of pharmacology at the University of published a paper in 1953 that LSD-25 was a potent antagonist to serotonin. Two biochemists working at the Rockefeller Institute, D. W. Woolley and E. Shaw tested a number of other chemicals antagonistic to serotonin and wrote:
"Among each of these compounds are some that cause mental aberrations….If this be true, then the naturally occurring mental disorders–for example schizophrenia–which are mimicked by these drugs may be pictured as being the result of a cortical serotonin deficiency arising from metabolic failure rather than from drug action."
The problem though is that LSD and other serotonin mimicks, had no affect on mental health, and serotonin itself does not pass the blood-brain barrier. This could only be over-ridden if injected into the bloodstream, but did not pass into the brain – note the pineal gland is not a part of the brain. The pineal gland connects with the rest of the body through vascular and neural connections into the spinal column and the central nervous a system. Further experiments in LSD found a way, and that way opened the gateway to programming. That programming used the sensory deprivation of fasting/marginally nourished, along with the fasting of all incoming sensory stimuli – again a Ramadhan practice of the last 10 days.
As external signals decrease, the brain begins processing peripheral data, memories from the past, sense impressions of such subtlety that they are normally bypassed in favor of more vivid input signals which affect survival and so on. In a state of meditation, these 'memories' are let go of, allowed to come and go without attachment. In an LSD trance, survival and our personal judgements of survival is what is disrupted. In a state created through spiritual work that leads to the falling away of barriers, towards a state of tawhid, from a manmade without spiritual direction that can lead to madness or a subject of mind control!
Years of living on the surface has clouded our inner lives to ourselves, but was once the means by which the Greek Philosopher, Pythagoras entered the world of modern day practitioners across faith, and across cultures. Pythagoras was like any man who sought to enter the gateways of learning.
When Pythagoras desired to enter the Egyptian esoteric school he was refused, and hia arrogance prevented access for he could not understand why. He kept on applying, until he was told to fast, and breath in a particular way.
"I have come for knowledge, not for any sort of discipline," said Pythagoras,
But the authorities said:
"We cannot give you knowledge unless you are different and, really, we are not interested in knowledge at all. We are interested in actual experience. And no knowledge is knowledge unless it is lived and experienced. So you will have to go on a 40-day fast, continuously breathing in a certain manner, with a certain awareness on certain points."
After 40 days Pythagoras said:
"You are not allowing Pythagoras. I am a different man. I am reborn. And you were right and I was wrong. My whole standpoint was intellectual. Through this purification my center of being has changed. From the intellect it has comedown to the heart. Now I can feel things. Before this training I could only understand through the intellect, through the head. Now I can feel. Now Truth is not a concept to me, but a life. It is not going to be a philosophy, but, rather, an experience — existential."
Chanting and singing practices exists in many cultures that activate the pineal gland/third eye – for example The Dialogues of Kabir:
To prevent entry into this kingdom, exposure to the following does the trick:
Fluoride in excess – by means of calcification
Low frequency electromagnetic fields – by means of reducing melatonin production
Anti-psychotic drugs – also kills the brain cells
Meat in excess –
Negative media programming
One of the common mind-control techniques of MK-ULTRA, and the satan worshippers of the global elite is the use of emotional or physical trauma, and is in fact the reason why they promote the contradictory notion of free sex.
Amongst the Bantu-Kongo of Africa, the spirit/ntu exists at all levels of the human make-up, and these vital forces exist within all creation, whether human, animal or object. When as animal is killed amongst the Dogon, this vital force, in Dogon the nyama is released and the hunter must protect himself. This is what we are protected from in the Islamic ritual slaughtering of an animal when it is done Islamically. How exposed have we been with the negative release of this force from all life forms, the death of which has been insurmountable. This negative release is fear, and a tremendous amount of fear is released each time MK-ULTRA practitioners, and satan worshipers sexually abuse a child/adult. This deactivates the pineal and pituitary glands, which creates and releases a chemical that is a result of the fear, and to those who dare, they expose themselves to that energy through inflicting trauma a curious transaction takes place feeding and empowering the torturer, and breaking the barrier between right and wrong!
Those techniques have been used to explore the human mind, and to what extent it can be controlled. It has also been learnt that a person subject to repeated emotional and physical trauma develops paranormal abilities, which elements within the government exploit. On their terms they have successfully proven that they can control an individual, and now some of that 'technology' has been transferred to controlling society, which will give global governance the freedom to do what they want.
For many of us, our life choices have been based on fear. Our negative emotions fear, anger, resentment serve to distract us from the Connection, along with preoccupation with work and survival . This is being heavily directed in order to maintain the survival instinct at the forefront of our minds throughout the global economic crisis by whittling away the middle classes, and making the leap from under/working class – upper class even wider along with heavy austerity measures, and the slow implementation of martial law. Liberties are being stripped back for a reason. This plays on the brain which inhibits our true nature and Divine Connection in order to survive in the physical world.
Fear is closely connected to the kidney Chi, causing the brain to slowly disengage from our Creator – the upper brain becomes the observing brain, dedicated to world tasks.
Reversing the mechanism of control giving us control over ourselves is the human state of true compassion and sexual arousal create a vibration which operates at the frequency of 8hz which links to love found (8hz has been found to correspond to the pelvic region). When this vibration reaches the pineal gland a new hormone is produced which makes the whole body a conductor giving birth to the soul and the spirit which gives us a waking consciousness
8Hz is an alpha brain wave that occurs when both the hemispheres of our brain are synchronized. Dr. Andrija Puharich demonstrated in the late 1970s in Proto-Communication II, that 8 hz could not be blocked by any electromagnetic shielding metal or even a triple vacuum. This implies that it functions outside of the space-time continuum. That ability, gives us the freedom that our global governors do not want us to have, because it would compromise their power-base, but it is our choice to remain dumb and suffering, or free and in self-control!
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Soul Loss: Are You Suffering!
Crack or Crumble in the Pedophilia Empire?
When the Waters Were Changed
Electro-Smog and the Shift of Ages
Earth Magneticism and the Human Body
Are We in the Throes of an Evolutionary Process!
Is Your Spine Older Than You Are?
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Today we remember that the Jesuits returned to Portugal - 15 years after the Pope had universally restored the Society the Portuguese authorities authorised their return. 5 Frenchmen led the way - ironically one of their first jobs was to bury the disgraced Carvahlo, the Marquis of Pombal their deadly enemy. However the Society only survived in Portugal for 5 years before a return to exile in the wake of a revolution at the end of the Liberal Civil War of 1834.
The revolution in 1910 followed the Kings assassination in the Lisbon genocide of 1908. As the royal family were travelling across Lisbon in an open carriage, a former army sergeant and sharpshooter fired five shots from a rifle hidden under his long overcoat. The king died immediately, his heir, Luís Filipe, was mortally wounded, and Prince Manuel was hit in the arm. His succesor Manuel II was sent into exile in 1910 and a repiblic was declared. The Society followed in the new Kings wake, it was only 2 years after they had established the learned journal Broteria. The Republicans, with their anti clerical leanings saw a specific threat in the Society of Jesus.


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Five years ago today, Alison Redford was sworn in as premier of Alberta … and the wheels fell off the Tory bus
Posted on October 07, 2016, 1:57 am
PHOTOS: Alison Redford takes the oath of office as Alberta's 14th premier. Below: Ms. Redford speaks her first words as premier of Alberta and is greeted by enthusiastic well-wishers as she walks through the Legislature's Rotunda. Bottom: Gary Mar, whom Ms. Redford defeated for the leadership of the PC party and the premiership of Alberta.
Today is the fifth anniversary of the day the wheels fell off the Tory bus.
That is to say, today is the fifth anniversary of the day Alison Redford was sworn into office as Alberta's 14th premier, the leader who was supposed to renew the Progressive Conservative Party one more time, as Ed Stelmach, Ralph Klein and Don Getty before her had all been meant to do in their time.
Jim Prentice was supposed to play the same role too, but by then, notwithstanding his own blunders, it may have been too late.
So all this means that yesterday was the last day steady old Eddie, Unlucky Premier No. 13, was at the wheel of Alberta's PC bus, and while it may have needed a coat of paint and a new set of spark plugs, it was still a perfectly serviceable vehicle.
Once in office, Ms. Redford was sui generis – a phenomenon with no equal in Alberta political history, not even the quasi-revolutionary William Aberhart, who founded the Social Credit dynasty the first PC premier, Peter Lougheed, managed to topple in 1971.
Ms. Redford turned out to be the political equivalent of a hurricane. Indeed, it's hard to credit that it all even happened … the flights, the fights, the travel scout, the Skypalace … and that it wasn't just a made-for-TV drama, or maybe a weird dream.
With Ms. Redford at the helm of the four-decade-plus Tory dynasty, the waters rose – literally and figuratively – and in the end the levees couldn't hold, setting the stage for the election in May 2015 of a majority NDP government led by Rachel Notley in a vote the Tories thought they owned. You wouldn't think anyone could make this stuff up!
The irony is that when Mr. Stelmach made his considered decision to leave, the Tory brain trust had a plan in place to replace him with Gary Mar, a former Klein Era minister and a schmoozer par excellence. In retrospect, that doesn't look like such a bad plan.
But Mr. Mar unwisely rolled the dice and flapped his gums about big changes to public health care. I suppose he imagined that that if he won, which then seemed likely, it would give him more scope to actually implement an unpopular role for private health care. It was a blunder, helping to vault Ms. Redford into power – power she lacked the character to manage.
The big question that the future would answer, I wrote on this date five years ago, was "if Premier Redford can sustain the toughness and focus, not to mention hang onto the good luck, that marked her leadership campaign." We know the answer now.
Beyond that, there wasn't much of substance to report about the ceremony at the Alberta Legislature:
"Ms. Redford's swearing-in was cheerful, upbeat and mercifully warm – taking place, as it did, in the crowded confines of the Legislative rotunda. Security was tight, but not overwhelming. The speeches contained enough references to the Almighty to sound suspiciously like an American political event. …
"Someone sang O Canada, pleasantly if a little off key and pitched too low for even determined public singers to yodel along. There was a bagpiper. Everyone who was there seemed to have a fine time, even quite a few of Ms. Redford's political opponents, a genus that may include several members of her caucus. There were chocolate-chip cookies, which were really quite good by Legislative standards."
It was all downhill from there, though. It ended on the evening of March 23, 2014, four days after a very Albertan coup in which Ms. Redford was effectively sent packing by her own Legislative caucus.
With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, we can see it was already likely too late. We can also see Ms. Redford, who seemed so right when she was chosen, was exactly the wrong leader to take up the reins of a party that assumed it ruled by divine right, and which otherwise had forgotten what it was there to do.
Chosen with so much hope, she had turned out to be an arrogant and inconsistent leader, perpetually persuaded she was the smartest person in the room, harsh in her treatment of subordinates, certain she deserved to travel first class, convinced she could casually betray people with whom she had built alliances without consequences for herself or her government.
Who can doubt a smooth old charmer like Mr. Mar, the practical Doug Horner or even a right-wing ideological zealot like Ted Morton, the other front-runners in the Tories' 2011 leadership race, wouldn't have done a better job reinventing the party so that it could survive yet another electoral test and last a half a century?
But give her this: Ms. Redford may not have intended to, but she smashed the mould. Alberta politics will never be the same again. And it all started five years ago today.
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10 Comments	to: Five years ago today, Alison Redford was sworn in as premier of Alberta … and the wheels fell off the Tory bus
David Khan
Five years already? I can't believe it.
I remember it well. My family and several friends, who had never voted conservative, took out party memberships for the single purpose of voting for Ms. Redford. We stood in line among Gary Mar supporters who had just come of a Gary Mar bus. (We had taken out memberships once before for Nancy Betkowski when she ran unsuccessfully against Ralph Klein). Premier Redford may not have worked out for the Conservatives, but her reign worked out well for anyone fed up with the Conservative dictatorship.
I really think Alison Redford's downfall was the arrogance she showed the fate-determining media. As a non-media person I never really saw the it, but I can imagine how reporters dealing with her directly would, through condescending looks and other body language that the cameras don't pick up.
Probably the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Alison Redford was her abuse of the government planes. I have always been frustrated that so much was made of Redford's use of the planes when Ralph Klein got a complete free pass when he wasted thousands of dollars using the government plane travelling between Edmonton and Calgary, instead of flying commercial, just so he could smoke on the plane. It really strikes me as unfair that Redford should be vilified for it, while Klein remains the darling of the right wing.
Why did it work out that way? I think it was the simple element of style over substance. If Alison Redford could have been one of the good ole boys, that fulfilled Lorne Gunter's, Rick Bell's et al man-crush need, I really think her premiership would have been different. Instead, given David's comments about arrogance, I assume she just put off the people who decided what kind of spin she would get.
i guess she isn't alone among politicians who think salary at $17K per month not enough for modest living.
beside past NL premier Danny Williams, i don't know any of, who doesn't see political work only as a good pay, benefits and achievement of influential power for doing mostly nothing.
not really see many reason on your side to write about political greed. there are much more small everyday things which impact albertans wellbeing on much greater scale.
Anon anon
Poor Alison. She was likely shocked more than most of us by her victory and in a fit of paranoia at having won with no insider support, chose that cliche of a blundering Falstaffian villain; Thomas Lukaszuck as her Lt.
The reason behind the fact that she failed to clean house and establish a new regime before venturing off into Bilderberg land, is a mystery.
Our little fiefdom does hatch and import some curious egos though.
This is a very good point. She was a Tory, for heaven's sake. She could have cleaned house if she'd acted quickly. I remember the night she won. I was leaving the EXPO Centre in Edmonton at the exact moment in the wee hours her new Sheriff's Department bodyguard unit was escorting her to the (armoured?) Suburban to take her home, or perhaps in for her first briefing. (The nuclear codes and all that, or whatever the Canadian provincial version of that is.) The look on her face was one of delighted wonderment. I agree with this commenter … Ms. Redford did not expect her victory that night.
Anon too
And Notley has failed to clean house because … ?
Anon Too; I think she cleaned house on a couple of key levels. Her cabinet is loyal as is her staff. You're right though, a more thorough housecleaning with a stern legalistic view to accountability, was warranted for senior bureaucrats. In her defense, I believe she sees herself as being able to rehabilitate or at worse manage them with leadership skills that Alison could only have wished for. They do after all know how to keep the lights on.
fair enought, but they also know very well what lights to leave off keeping this rather callow group corralled and away from doing anything substantial to the Wildrose/Con system.
This is a textbook example of how tired old governments try, but fail to reinvent themselves. She seemed to have all the PC arrogance, but without any of the wisdom that experience could provide. Perhaps with Mar, we might have got a bit more of the latter even though we probably would have had to put up with plenty of the former.
I think a culture of arrogance develops over time, so I really don't blame Redford for it completely. It was the environment in the party which she was a part of, so it is not surprising how she governed, given how immersed in it she was.
The PC's believed a fresh face would solve their problems and didn't really learn from the almost close call Redford's election was. People were looking for change and the PC's were basically trying to continue to sell the same old thing only in a shinier new package. After her election, people were understandably quite disappointed when they took the wrapping off the package and discovered it was just the same old stuff.
I suppose being in government may not have given them much time for reflection and self examination. Perhaps now being in opposition will give them more opportunity for this.


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Q: Yii2 url manager don't parse urls with get parameter I've created a module named catalogue with, for the moment, two actions in the default controller:

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*actionIndex

*actionLineProducts

in the index view I have some link which run the line-product's action, the url was the result of:
Url::to(['line-products', 'line' => $line->name])

my goal is to obtain a link like

catalogue/{line-name}

where line-name is the parameter I send to action LineProducts.
My urlManager configurations are:
'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
'showScriptName' => false,
'rules' => [
      '<moduls:catalogue>/<controller:default>/<action:line-products>/<line:*>' => '<module>/<line>',
      '<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/view/',
      '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
      '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
 ],

.htaccess configurations:
RewriteEngine on
# If a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# Otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php

Can anyone explain me why my URL is always like:

http://my-site.dev/catalogue/default/line-products?line={line-name}

A: You swapped the configuration. The key is the pattern of the url as passed from the browser. The value is the route. Since you are using a specific module, controller and action you can pass those in directly:
'rules' => [
    'catalogue/<line>' => 'catalogue/default/line-products'
    ...
]

You can read the Routing and Url Creation page in the Yii2 guide for more information.

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Sefton Council report could lead to merger between Thornton's Holy Family High and St Ambrose Barlow High School in Netherton
A REVIEW of schools in Sefton could eventually see Holy Family High School merged with another Catholic school in Netherton.
In a Sefton Council report it has been proposed that Holy Family and St Ambrose Barlow High School form a "federation" partnership.
If given the go-ahead, this would initially see the two schools work as a federation, continuing on separate sites but could eventually be joined as one school on a single site.
The proposals are part of the Building Schools for the Future: Strategy For Change, which would also see £48m to be spent on refurbishing four Crosby schools.
Margaret Seddon, headteacher of Holy Family High School, said: "A federation is not an amalgamation.
"St Ambrose Barlow and Holy Family are two excellent schools with outstanding results
"The idea of the two excellent schools working in partnership is that we make what we provide for our schools even better.
"Ultimately the partnership could end up in a single school but that is a possible end result but we are just at the start of a journey and the archdiocese is very keen to see both of our schools thrive and grow.
"In linking us together their view is we can exchange ideas and work on developments together."
"Holy Family is an excellent school now and we welcome the opportunity to partner with another excellent Catholic school in a different part of the borough because we have benefited hugely with the partnership work we have done with other schools over the past few years."
A letter in the strategy report from Frank Cogley, diocesan director of schools, said: "This federation would be accompanied by a vigorous marketing strategy allied to parental consultation as to how best to develop the federation into a single site school in due course."
Funding for refurbishment would see Sacred Heart receiving £20m, Chesterfield High School given £15m, Crosby High receiving £10m and Newfield Special school allocated £3m.
The funding was originally earmarked for 2015 but Sefton Council has developed the strategy in a bid to get the funding sooner.
Councillor Debi Jones, Conservative spokesperson for children's services, said: "We are excited about these substantial improvements that we are hoping will be made to the schools in Crosby.
"It will give the children and staff in Crosby schools the environment to help them work to an even higher standard than they already do because the standard in the schools are very high.
"What we as a council are trying to do is bring it forward to give the children of Sefton a good deal early.
"We want the children of Sefton to benefit from this sooner rather than later."
Further discussions are planned with regard to future pupil numbers at St Michael's Church of England School, which has been a church school for three years and is currently undergoing a review.
The strategy is set to go before the Government next month.


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Q: Prove $\big(C^{(2)}_{[0,1]},||\cdot||_{C^{(2)}_{[0,1]}}\big) $ is complete. Prove $\big(C^{(2)}_{[0,1]},||\cdot||_{C^{(2)}_{[0,1]}}\big) $ is complete.
First I derived that $\big(C^{(1)}_{[0,1]},||\cdot||_{C^{(1)}_{[0,1]}}\big) $ is complete. How can I say that $\big(C^{(2)}_{[0,1]},||\cdot||_{C^{(2)}_{[0,1]}}\big) $ is also complete?

A: Suppose $f_n$ is a Cauchy sequence in $C^{(2)}_{[0,1]}$. That in particular tells you that $f_n'$ is a Cauchy sequence in $C^{(1)}_{[0,1]}$ (with $\|\cdot\|_{C^{(1)}_{[0,1]}}$ norm) but you know that it is complete, so $f_n'\to h\in C^{(1)}_{[0,1]}$ (with $f_n''\to h'$ in $\|\cdot\|_{\infty}$ norm). On the other hand, $f_n$ is also a Cauchy in $C^{(1)}_{[0,1]}$ so again $f_n\to f\in C^{(1)}_{[0,1]}$.
Moreover (proof of) completeness tells you that $f'=h$, and so $f''=h'\in C[0,1]$ and all this gives you that $f_n\to f$ in $C^{(2)}_{[0,1]}$ norm


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Q: ASP.NET MVC 2: "The process cannot access the file  because it is being used by another process." I'm trying to use Controller.File to return a FilePathResult from a view in my ASP.NET MVC 2 project. I use it like this:
return File(pdfFilePath, "application/pdf", "foo.pdf");

However I keep getting this error in the yellow screen of death:
The process cannot access the file [the file path] because it is being used by another process.
This error usually comes up when you forget to close a file stream, but I figured that this should be taken care of by the ASP.NET MVC framework. This doesn't happen every time, but rather periodically. Sometimes I get the file just fine but then it just stops working. I am using the development server when testing this.
Any ideas?

A: Are you accessing the file prior to the line of code you provided? If so, how are you accessing it?
When accessing files, try to use the following to avoid file stream conflicts:
File.Open(path, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite);

The last enum FileShare.ReadWrite will allow other file streams to read and write to the file even if you have it open. Of course, it is better to remember to close your stream ASAP.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y973b725.aspx

A: Do you have the file already open when you get this message?
If you do it might be Adobe locking the file.

A: The likeliest scenario is that something other than ASP.NET / IIS has the file open. Have you ensured that no other processes have a lock on the file when this error occurs?
If you have access to the server when the error happens, you can use a tool like Process Explorer to view what exactly is locking the file.

A: The locking can occur from within asp.net itself - as asp.net displays thread-agility, and as such it may be another thread from within the asp.net threadpool completing the request. This would be why you only see this issue intermittently.
Baddie's answer is basically the solution to your problem. As an aside, you might find other issues if you're using resources that contain state that are declared as threadstatic. If this is the case you might want to look at making use of CallContext.


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Cham Muslims in An Giang celebrate traditional New Year
More than 17,000 Cham ethnic people are celebrating Roya Aidil Adha, the traditional new year festival of the Muslim community in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang.
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Cham Muslims perform rituals in An Giang (Photo: VNA)
An Giang (VNA) – More than 17,000 Cham ethnic people are celebrating Roya Aidil Adha, the traditional new year festival of the Muslim community in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang.
Head of the Islamic community representative committee in An Giang Haji Jacky said the festival takes place from August 9-11, during which locals will join family reunions, visit relatives and close friends, and present gifts to the poor.
Before the festival, An Giang held a gathering of religious dignitaries and intellectuals of the Cham ethnic group in the province for the first time and offered gifts to poor Cham ethnic families.
Jacky said Cham ethnic people follow Party guidelines and State laws and join patriotism campaigns.
The Cham ethnic community in An Giang is made up of more than 17,000 people, most of whom follow Islam and practice the religion in 12 mosques and 16 small mosques in Tan Chau township and the districts of An Phu, Chau Phu, Chau Thanh and Phu Tan. They mostly live on farming and animal husbandry.-VNA
Roya Aidil Adha traditional new year festival Mekong Delta province of An Giang Cham ethnic group religious dignitaries Cham ethnic community Related stories An Giang
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José Guedes de Sousa, primeiro e único barão de Pirapitingui, (Amparo,  — São Paulo, ) foi um  cafeicultor brasileiro, além de tenente-coronel da Guarda Nacional e capitalista na cidade de São Paulo, onde possuía um palacete na esquina da rua Ipiranga com a rua Rio Branco. Era grande senhor de terras no município paulista de Mogi Mirim.

Filho de Vicente Guedes Barreto e de Matilde Maria de Jesus, sendo esta filha do capitão Roque de Sousa Freire e de Maria Cardoso de Camargo. Pelo lado paterno, era bisneto do capitão Francisco Barreto Leme do Prado, fundador de Campinas.

Recebeu o título de barão em 7 de maio de 1887. Era casado com Carolina Leopoldina de Almeida Lima (12 de novembro de 1842 - 25 de junho de 1892), com quem teve os filhos Alfredo, José, Mário, Olívia, Albertina, Altamira e Carolina. O primogênito, Alfredo Guedes de Sousa, foi advogado, deputado estadual e Secretário da Agricultura do Governo de São Paulo. Sua filha Olívia Guedes Penteado foi importante figura da história brasileira. Mecenas respeitável e um dos baluartes da Semana de Arte Moderna de 1922, na capital paulista. Carolina Leopoldina era irmã de Maria Higina Alves de Almeida Lima, baronesa de Ibitinga.

Baronatos do Brasil
Cafeicultores do Brasil
Oficiais da Guarda Nacional


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