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Are you planning to decorate for Christmas with a white flocked Christmas tree this year? Today I’m sharing how I decorated our white flocked Christmas tree with neutral wood accents.
What are you most looking forward to this Christmas season? Without much of the usual holiday hoopla such as parties, concerts and large-scale celebrations, it seems that our holiday celebrations are being pared down to just the holiday essentials. As disappointing it can be to relinquish those traditions that we look forward to each coming year, there is a hidden gift in the idea of focusing only on that which is nearest and dearest. And decorating our homes to be a cozy and welcoming haven during the holidays is a way of reframing a difficult year into a beautiful holiday season in which we can create new and different memories together.
With what a crazy year it’s been I’m definitely welcoming in all things calm and cozy about now. Living in the cabin this Christmas means that we are simplifying our usual Christmas decor and I’ve gravitated towards a much more soft neutral palette than I’ve ever used. We recently decorated our white flocked Christmas tree with neutral wood accents and I love the rustic yet elegant neutral feel of our Christmas tree decor. Today I’m sharing our white flocked Christmas tree decorated with neutral wood accents, and I hope you’ll find some inspiration for your own holiday decor this year. I’m also joining some of my talented blogging friends who are sharing their Christmas tree decor ideas with you today – be sure to check out the bottom of this post for all of their gorgeous trees.
With the small space that we have in the cabin, we’ve elected to just have one tree this year and in the interest of having those Christmas lights glowing for as many weeks as possible it had to be a faux Christmas tree. I decided to use our flocked tree rather than our evergreen tree, as I wanted to lighten up the overall feel of our Christmas decor and keep it light and natural with a rustic chic feel. Although it doesn’t offer much contrast, I love the way that the white and wood ornaments play off against the white flocked tree creating a very calming and relaxed look. It is elegant yet rustic; calm yet full of interest and texture; light and airy but still imparts a coziness and warmth for the holidays.
The tree is covered with white and wooden ornaments. I love the way that all of the natural wood tones tie in with the wood that runs throughout the cabin in our flooring, posts, beams, railings, and window trim and baseboards. The tree skirt is a new find this year (one of only two new things I purchased for the holiday season) and I picked it up at Michael’s on a BOGO deal.
I shared how I made these simple DIY wood beaded ornaments in a post yesterday…
All of the white tree ornaments and decor add interest and texture while keeping the white flocked Christmas tree feeling light, natural, and neutral. One of my favourite things to do on a Christmas tree is add oversized and unexpected items, like these giant feet plaques and the white deer sticking out of the side of the tree…
To me, this tree feels like “cabin chic” or “rustic elegance”.
I always love to fill up our Christmas trees with extra boughs, and this year was no different. So I probably added in about 20 extra flocked boughs that I picked up at the dollar store a couple of years back. I also added in some white “berry” boughs in various places, and topped the whole thing off with some felt ball “boughs” rather than a traditional star or angel. However, I like the interesting texture and shape it adds to the top of the tree and keeps things from feeling formal or stuffy (not that they would, anyhow… with all those oversized ornaments). What is your favourite way to top a tree?
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I made a little video with all the details of our white flocked Christmas tree with neutral wood accents…
And, as I mentioned, today I’m joining my talented friends who are also sharing their absolutely gorgeous Christmas tree decor with you! So many beautiful themes… I love Christmas trees! Be sure to check out their full posts by clicking on the links below each image…
Land of Sweets Christmas Tree // A Blue Nest
Red and White Christmas Tree // Happy Happy Nester
Candy Cane Themed Christmas Tree // Tatertots & Jello
Elegant White Christmas Tree // Jennifer Maune
Rose Gold Inspired Christmas Tree // My 100 Year Old Home
Christmas Trees Through the Years // Finding Lovely
White Flocked Christmas Tree With Neutral Wood Accents // The Happy Housie
Scandinavian Inspired Christmas Tree // Modern Glam
How to Decorate a Sparse Christmas Tree // The Ginger Home
Mixed Metals Inspired Christmas Tree // Sanctuary Home Decor
Simple Nordic Christmas Tree // Twelve On Main
Snowy Golden Christmas Tree // Craftberry Bush
DIY Boho Modern Ornament Tree // Jennifer Rizzo
Winter Theme Flocked Christmas Tree // Lolly Jane


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As I lay on a sofa, resting my body with sore muscles from shoulders to feet a day after a climb, a friend asked “Why are you so hard on yourself? Why do you climb mountains?”
I just grinned back and smiled a ‘you-will-never-understand-because-you-don’t-try’ smile. One just can’t simply explain why we, you and I climb mountains. It is never a simple one-word explanation. Words can’t even be enough.
But as much as I can, I will tell you the reason why I climb. I cannot answer for the whole climbers, mountaineers, adventurers out there in general, but I’ll just answer my friend’s question as much as I can express it in words. Again, there is no one-word answer for this.
Reasons why I climb mountains:
I climb mountains because I feel like I am one with nature.
Aside from learning how to be disciplined and nature-friendly while leaving no trace in the mountains, nature has this majestic effect on anyone who climbs. There is this connection between the earth and your soul. You start to love the smell of mud, of trees, and love to feel the soft drizzle on your skin. You feel the roots beneath the muddy trail and the swaying of the trees. And you realized you are no different from the surroundings around you. Because you are one with nature.
It makes me eager and challenged.
Every step took forward, no matter how steep the trail would be, no matter how tired my feet are, I am always eager to get to the top. Challenge accepted, there is no turning back. Because in climbing mountains, it is not the mountains that you conquer, but yourself.
Makes me humble and hold on to life.
In every adventure, safety is the first priority. When you’re standing on the edge of a cliff, you would really hold on to your dear life. Climbing will make you humble and appreciate life even more. I am but a creature, inevitable of death. Cliffs will always remind me that. With every careful step, considering where to land those tiny feet, which rock you’ll grab and hold on to; there is humility in surrendering yourself to the earth, to the rock, to the trees and even its roots. You can never do it alone on your own. You would always need help, and help is just always around you.
Teaches patience and perseverance.
When climbing mountains, why hurry? Not unless you are lost and need to get back to the camp site before the witching hour of six in the evening. Every mountains takes time to get to the top. There is no faster way than following the trail, or else, you’ll get lost. Patience is needed and perseverance to continue. Come on, we can make it to the top. Just as what Miley Cyrus says in her song, “Ain’t about how fast I get there. Ain’t about what’s waiting on the other side. It’s the climb.” continuous playing of the song in my head
And lastly, I climb mountains because I want to see the world.
Okay, so this is cliché. Just like as the saying goes, “Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” But that is the one of the essence of climbing. You see what nature unfolds before you. You’ll see how magnificent this world is. There are other places and things to try to see the world. You can see the world while commuting to a foreign place, eating local food, basking in the sun across the world, chatting with the natives and tribes, living their way, and list goes on and on.
But climbing mountains is also one of the best way. It is just between you and the wilderness. And the mountains can change you, you just never know it. It changes the way you see and the way you think. There is this inner peace and contentment, fulfillment and joy. Yes, I’ve seen this part of the world, and I’ve conquered myself through it.
So the next time I’ll be asked the same question, I guess I’ll still have a hard time explaining my answer. I will just hold his/her hand, and take him/her with me, to my next climb.
So what about you, why do you climb mountains? Let’s experience the answer together some time. 😊

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I am really feeling worked over right now! I just finished working out with Jackie Warner. Man, my muscles are twitching! I need to go outside and work in the garden later, if I can. The day is so beautiful, but we may have storms later.
Saturday we went to Whole Foods. I really enjoy shopping there! Just wished it wasn't so far away. But it's probably a good thing that it is, since it cost a lot more to shop there. I was glad they had King Arthur white whole wheat flour so I can make breads, tortillas, and whatever using whole grains. I'm hoping it won't have that strong whole wheat flavor. It's not supposed to, according to reviews I've read. We also went to Carraba's, an Italian restaurant that my husband and I absolutely love. We all three rode in the truck. It was a little uncomfortable, but not too bad.
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|I planted strawberries in pots Sat. Shallots went in the garden.
|First time spaghetti sauce from scratch. Hope it's good!
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The Uncharted Heart
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These eight tales of survival and triumph, suffused with magical realism, bring to life the harsh struggles, the dreams, the greed, the obsessions, the xenophobia — and the love — experienced by the trappers and prospectors who flocked to northern Ontario during the Porcupine Gold Rush (1900 – 1922).
Melissa Hardy has published three novels and two collections of short stories, including "Broken Road", "The Uncharted Heart", and "A Cry of Bees". She has won the Journey Prize and been published in numerous journals, including "The Atlantic", "Exile", and "Descant". She lives in the village of Port Stanley, Ontario.

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Truman by David McCullough, inscribed by the author to philanthropist and Marshall Plan advocate, Cabell Brand.
Octavo, 1117pp. Illustrated paperback. This copy appears lightly read, faint shelf wear to both covers. Ownership sticker on rear endpaper from Hollins College. Inscribed by the author: “For Cabell Brand, who was part of the story in Berlin – All the best. David McCullough. Hollins College. Oct. 1993.”
This Pulitzer Prize-winning biography by author and historian David McCullough is part of a series of works that have helped to rehabilitate the legacy of President Harry Truman. Recent historians consider Truman’s time in office as one of the most consequential in American history, often ranking him in the upper tier of Presidents.


What really got Bob's attention was the more-potent powerplant than the Poly under its hood-a 392-inch, Chrysler "FirePower" Hemi! "The Hemi's been in it for probably better than 25 years," Bob says. "It came from Indiana, and it's my understanding that it was a 1/4-mile racer at one time." That also explains the low gears in the swapped-in 8 3/4-inch rearend that made the Hemi sing a little too much. "It had 3.94 rear gears in it when I bought it, so it was not a freeeway car at that time," Bob recalls. "Since then, I've changed them, because I like to drive it. So, I put 3.23s in it." He also re-wired the entire car and updated its new-for-1956 twelve-volt electrical system.
He also had to make a sheetmetal change when an unobservant truck driver crunched the Fury's left front fender and bright trim. This led Bob into the used-parts business. "I started calling all over the country," he says. "I would get hold of some guy in Ohio, and he'd say, 'I don't have any, but this guy in Florida has some.' He'd give me that number, and I'd call him. 'No, I don't have any, but a guy up in New Jersey....' I must have made a dozen of those phone calls, and I didn't find any. Finally, I found a guy near San Francisco who had a whole bunch of parts, and he wanted to sell it all. I said, 'Is it in pretty good shape?' and he said, "Yes, some of it-it's original, I have some other stuff, and I have some other Furys, if you want any other parts.' I said, 'Can you meet me tomorrow?' I jumped in my truck, drove up there, and I bought everything that he had." He wound up with enough chrome and anodized-gold trim to do a dozen Furys, selling off the excess after he got his car fixed. "But, I have new gold trim that I'm still trying to sell, but it's in sheets. All you have to do is get your tin snips out and cut it in the pattern that you want."
Another noticeable change is inside the Fury's cabin. Bob had the seats reupholstered with the exact style of "Jacquard-weave" cloth-with one big difference. "Instead of using vinyl, I used leather-the same color and everything," says Bob. "I went to my upholsterer and asked, 'Can you match this?' and he said, 'Yeah.' Then, my wife said, 'I'd sure like to have leather in there instead of vinyl,' and he said, 'Sure, I can match the color to the original.' He also upholstered the trunk.
Some of the "bells and whistles" that Bob's Fury has includes its original dash with a factory 6,000 rpm tach, plus later additions like air conditioning and four-wheel disc brakes. "It didn't stop before," Bob says of its OEM 11-inch drum brakes. "I got tired of that. You had to drive three miles ahead of yourself, then somebody would cut in front of you-that was terrible. For the front, we actually got a Chrysler kit and modified it. In back, because it has the 8 3/4-inch rear end, those were pretty much bolt-on. Now, it stops!"
And it goes. "It's a very comfortable car," Bob says when asked how it drives and rides. "Before I changed the rear gears, the engine was screaming at 60 mph with those 3.94s in it. Now, since I changed them, it's taching out at about 2,200-2,300 rpm, and you can cruise along at 70 miles an hour." But there's one original item that takes some getting used to in the 21st Century: the pushbutton controls for the Fury's PowerFlite automatic. "The frustrating thing about that is it doesn't have a Park," Bob says. "You have to learn how to drive all over again, when you drive with that. That's because you have to stop, put your emergency brake on, then you put it into Neutral."


Billionaire private equity firm co-founder Henry Kravis has also pledged $100 million to Columbia Business School (doesn’t quite have the same philanthropic ring to it, but it’s his alma mater). The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is launching a $20 million grant program to benefit entrepreneurs of all kinds who create technology to be used in the pursuit of college degrees. And Zuckerberg continued his efforts, inviting 400 wealthy “potential donors” to a Silicon Valley screening of the documentary about education, Waiting for Superman.
“As the very rich get incomprehensibly richer, there’s been a race to the top for reputation-polishing noblesse oblige,” writes New York magazine, which offers a list of big givers from the past couple of years.
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A pill to cure autism? Study identifies defect in sufferers' cells - that could be treated by existing medication
- Half autism cases stem from a genetic disorder called TSC
- Scientists at Boston Children's Hospital found a defect that causes TSC
- The defect prevents cells from recycling their dead or dying mitochondria
- There are already two classes of medication that treat this defect
Scientists have discovered a defect in the cells of autism sufferers - and there are already two approved medications to combat it.
Autism is a common feature of a genetic disorder called tuberous sclerosis (TSC), occurring about 50 per cent of the time.
Despite years of studies geared towards targeting TSC, it remains incurable.
However, new research by the Boston Children's Hospital suggests this condition could be caused by a defect in the way cells recycle their mitochondria (the cell's 'battery').
The scientists further showed that two existing classes of drugs counter the defect: the epilepsy drug carbamazepine, and drugs known as mTOR inhibitors.
Two medications - including epilepsy pills carbamazepine - treat the autophagy defect that scientists believe could be at the root of autism, paving the way for new treatments
When treated, the dysfunctional neurons were able to clear damaged mitochondria and replenish healthy mitochondria, restoring a normal turnover.
The scientists believe the study, published by Cell Reports, open new treatment possibilities not just for TSC, but for other forms of autism and neurologic disorders.
'Our findings point to possible treatments for enhancing mitophagy for some neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases,' says lead researcher Dr Mustafa Sahin, director of the Translational Neuroscience Center at Boston Children's Hospital.
Mitochondria constantly get recycled.
Through a process known as autophagy ('self-eating'), cells digest their damaged or aging mitochondria, clearing the way for healthy replacements.
It was research into this procedure - autophagy - that earned a Nobel Prize this year.
But as Dr Sahin showed with co-first authors Dr Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari and medical student Afshin Saffari, autophagy does not happen as it should do in many autism sufferers.
It is not the first time scientists have analyzed autophagy in patients with neurological diseases.
Research has shown issues with autophagy in people with Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.
But this is the first study that connects autism sufferers to the same defect.
Dr Sahin said it has taken this long to reach this point because the autism population is diverse and hard to define.
'We decided to use tuberous sclerosis, a genetically defined disorder that has a high incidence of autism, as a model to understand the role of mitochondrial dynamics,' Dr Sahin explained.
To reach their conclusion, the team studied rat neurons and patient-derived neurons affected by TSC.
New research by the Boston Children's Hospital suggests this condition could be caused by a defect in the way cells recycle their mitochondria (the cell's 'battery')
They then used live-cell imaging to examine the mitochondria.
They found that the TSC neurons as a whole had more mitochondria - even fragmented and dysfunctional mitochondria that should have been recycled.
COULD AVAILABLE MEDICATIONS TREAT AUTISM?
The researchers were able to restore normal mitophagy and replenish functioning mitochondria - in both neurons in a dish and in live mice.
They did this surgically - by inserting a healthy version of mutated genes.
But they also used rapamycin (an mTOR inhibitor) and carbamazepine (anti-seizure medication).
Both had the same effect.
The team said more work is needed to study the interaction between these medications and TSC to see how it could be used on a broader scale.
'Our work defines mitochondrial homeostasis as a therapeutic target for TSC, and may also have implications for other neurological diseases that involve mitochondrial dysfunction,' Dr Ebrahimi-Fakhari said.
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A paraglider is in hospital after a crash north of Queenstown this morning.
A police spokesperson confirmed officers received a report of a paraglider crash from St John Ambulance shortly before 10.30am at an address on Malaghans Rd, Speargrass Flat near Arrowtown in the Queenstown Lakes District.
One person had been taken to Lakes District Hospital with moderate injuries, a St John spokesperson said.
A Fire and Emergency New Zealand spokesperson said two crews from Frankton and Arrowtown were sent to the incident. The former crew was called off before arrival and the latter crew remained at the scene for about 10 minutes before departing.
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New Zealand Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association chief executive Nick Taber confirmed an investigation would take place but couldn't give any further details.
"The flying community's thoughts are with our fellow pilot, friends and family and we wish the pilot a speedy recovery," he said.
"An investigation will be underway to establish the cause of the accident and it would be premature to make any comment at this moment in time until all the facts have been established."
It comes after a person died after a paragliding incident near Raglan on December 20.
Emergency services were alerted to a paraglider requiring medical attention
on the beach near Ngarunui Beach Rd about 2.30pm.
A police spokesperson said the person died at the scene. Police were make inquiries in relation to the death on behalf of the coroner.


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Sigrid, born Sigrid Solbakk Raabe on September the 5th 1996 in Alesund is a Norwegian singer and songwriter. Born to a musical family, she began a career in 2013, her debut single Sun allowed her to be signed with Petroleum Records, and later Island Records after which she began performing at Festivals.
Going to release Don’t Kill my Vibe in 2017, the song was a hit and managed to chart in Australia, the United Kingdom and Norway. Most recently featured in the DC comics film Justice League’s soundtrack with the classic song cover Everybody Knows by Leonard Cohen, she states her inspirations as Adele, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell. Some of her best-known hit songs are Plot Twist, Strangers, Raw and High Five.
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Whitewater Aptitude is an idea in development to highlight Gavin Hart's skills, adventures and accomplishments with an insight into the thoughts and feeling he has throughout his journeys. As well as this blog please visit his Photography Portfolio Website showcasing his best photography. For shorter more regular updates on Whitewater Aptitude adventures Like it on Facebook or Follow on Twitter. Get in contact via email using firstname.lastname@example.org
Saturday, 25 February 2012
On Friday this week I did some filming of my friends kayaking on the River Swale for my 10minute film project for uni. I also managed to take some photos which worked out quite well here is a sequence of shots I edited together to show Pete's line down the Upper Kisdon drop. I'm thinking of getting it printed as I believe its one of my best pieces recently. If the second and third pictures of Pete had been a split second apart would have been even better to reduce the slight overlap of his arm.


The Sun Magazine
We publish a monthly magazine featuring an eclectic mix of essays, interviews, fiction, poetry and photography. People write in The Sun of their struggle to understand their lives, often baring themselves with remarkable candor. Our commitment to presenting honest, real voices sets us apart from other, more academic literary magazines. Our goal is to publish writing and photography that fosters compassion through greater awareness of our shared experience, and that honors both individual perspectives and our common humanity. We want to provide both established and emerging authors with an opportunity to risk a closer examination of the truth and to reach a wider audience. In addition, our Readers Write section, where The Sun's readers contribute personal essays each month, creates a dynamic conversation between readers and writers that is unique among literary publications.


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Dandelight by Studio Drift
Accompanying Exhibition: Immersed in Light: Studio Drift at the Mint
Dates of Mint Exhibition: 9/20/2019 - 7/26/2020
About Dandelight: Dandelight is composed of real dandelion seeds. Every single seed is glued one by one onto an LED light by hand, with special tweezers: a very precise and time consuming art. Studio Drift picks the dandelions every year in May, in fields around Amsterdam. The seeds are carefully dried and stored in the studio. This labour intensive process symbolizes the fragility of life. It can be understood as a clear statement against mass production and the prevailing disposable culture of today's life.
About Studio Drift: Studio Drift is an Amsterdam (NL) based studio that uses advanced technology combined with fine craftsmanship. With each new work they attempt to make a kind of future prediction. Studio Drift develops site-specific installations and interactive sculptural experiences in spaces. We play with existing and new relationships between nature, technology and mankind. At first glance, the works seem to refer to familiar situations, but on further investigation these references are brought into question. This places the viewer in an interesting position, reshaping how we relate to our environment and stimulating new ways of thinking.


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Name: Ghim-Lay Yeo
Title: Vice president, corporate communications
Company, city: oneworld; New York, New York
First job: When I was 18 years old, as a telemarketer for a financial services company, I had to cold-call people, which is never pleasant.
Where to next: Madrid, Spain
A LITTLE BIT MORE
What actor or actress would play you in a movie of your life? Lucy Liu, because she’s a bad ass and a good actress.
What would you be doing professionally if you weren’t in your current industry? I’d be a novelist writing fiction.
What is your favorite book, movie or television show? Little Miss Sunshine is my favorite movie; it’s funny, and the dark humor appeals to me, but it’s also a good movie about family.
What historical figure, dead or alive, would you love to have dinner with? Bessie Coleman — she was the first African American and Native American female pilot, carving out a space in a field still dominated by men today.
What is your most recent project, and what was the inspiration behind it? I’ve been organizing our town halls, an initiative we continued from our 20th-anniversary year in 2019. We’re visiting member airlines to get to know them better, get updates, bring our message to the airlines and meet the employees.
What is your favorite aspect of the job? Working with the people; as the newest member of the team, it’s a treat to get to know everyone: people of different cultures, backgrounds and at different stages of their lives and careers.
What’s the biggest business risk you’ve ever taken? I moved from Singapore to Washington, D.C., in 2011. I was transferred with my previous company, in my late 20s, and I didn’t want to turn down the transfer and potentially regret it. I was initially financially worse off, but it was such a big decision that was worth it in the end.
Who is someone you admire professionally in the travel industry? Claudia Sender, who previously served as the only woman on the executive team at LATAM — and Latin America has a male-dominated culture. She was out- spoken about women having a better seat at the table.
AS A TRAVELER
Tell us about a travel nightmare: When I lived in D.C., I booked a flight to Boston in March. I don’t know why, because I typically don’t, but I checked a bag. In line for security, my flight was canceled. I was put on the next flight, but my bag went on an earlier one. My next flight canceled. It wasn’t worth it for a short trip to rebook again, and it then took me two days to track down my bag, calling every number I could think of. Four days later, I picked up my bag at the airport in D.C.
Share a comical travel experience: I extended a business trip to include a solo trip to Machu Picchu. Singapore is a tiny country, and I rarely run into Singaporeans on my travels. On the train ride back from Machu Picchu, I was among an entire tour of Singaporeans — it was serendipity! What is your preferred method of travel — planes, trains, automobiles, cruise ships — and why? It depends on where I’m going, but mostly planes. It’s the easiest, most convenient option, especially as the train infrastructure in the United States isn’t great.
What has been the best example of customer service you’ve experienced during your travels? In my previous career as a journalist, I was booked on a Singapore Airlines flight. I was sick a few days prior to the trip and not sure I’d even make it; I had no appetite on my business- class flight, and the cabin crew noticed and expressed concern. A flight attendant brought me green tea throughout the flight, and I felt much better upon landing.
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Alaska Airlines and American Airlines announced intentions to create an alliance. Benefits to passengers include access to more international destinations after Alaska joins the oneworld alliance in 2021, new service on American between Seattle (SEA) and Bangalore (BLR), new service on American between Seattle and London (LHR), a domestic codeshare expansion to include international routes from Los Angeles (LAX) and Seattle, and loyalty member benefits across both airlines. Loyalty members with additional lounge membership enjoy access to nearly 50 American Admirals Club lounges worldwide and seven Alaska lounges in the United States for same-day travel on American or Alaska flights.
Ethiopian Airlines announced plans to build a $5 billion airport south of Addis Ababa. The airline’s CEO Tewolde Gebremariam said the airport would be able to handle 100 million passengers a year.
The city took its name from Athena, goddess of wisdom, strategy and war, and protector of the city. The financial, political and administrative center of the country and an all-powerful city-state in antiquity, Athens is a major center of culture. A visit to the first-ever museum dedicated to Byzantium, a stroll around the National Garden and a trip to the Olympeion archaeological site will take you back through time.
Four Seasons Hotel Seattle recently unveiled a new stand-alone menu designed for travelers living a plant-based lifestyle. The wellness-focused, wholesome and altogether appetizing menu includes 10 new dishes.
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New luxury adventure cruise line Atlas Ocean Voyages continues to add ships to its fleet. The line’s first ship, World Navigator, is currently under construction and Atlas Ocean Voyages just purchased four additional ships — World Traveller, World Seeker, World Adventurer and World Discoverer — to follow. World Navigator is schedule to sail in 2021, with two more ships following in 2022, and the last two following in 2023.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives successfully amended the National Defense Authorization Act to prohibit President Joe Biden’s policy of funding abortions and chemical and surgical mutilation of service members.
The nearly $900 billion legislation must be passed in the U.S. Senate where Democrats hold a slim majority. Four Republicans voted against the bill while four Democrats supported it during the Thursday night vote. The amendments passed last night but the full law passed this morning.
“Now included in the defense package is a provision prohibiting the Defense Department from paying or reimbursing expenses related to abortion services — a policy implemented by the Pentagon after the Supreme Courtlast year,” CBS News reported. “Sen. Tommy Tuberville, an Alabama Republican, has been military promotions and nominations over the policy.”
“An amendment denying healthcare coverage for sex reassignment surgeries and hormone treatments for transgender service members was passed narrowly, as was a measure eliminating the Pentagon’s offices of diversity, equity and inclusion, and their personnel,” the mainstream media outlet reported.
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-CO) also won approval of an amendment prohibiting Department of Defense-operated (DOD) schools from buying pornographic materials.
The DOD implemented a policy that assists service members and their families in killing babies through abortion. The Biden administration simply issued a memo and Democrats have refused to put the policy up for a vote.
Representatives Chip Roy and Ronny Jackson, both of Texas, led the charge in the House of Representatives to stop the policy.
“The Biden Administration’s flagrantly political decision to create an abortion travel slush fund both flies in the face of current law and violates nearly half a century of bipartisan consensus to protect Americans’ conscience rights by preventing taxpayer dollars from funding most abortions,” Roy previously stated. “Our military is not a political pawn for the left’s social agenda. House Republicans have the power of the purse and we should use it.”
Pro-life groups heralded the legislative victory.
“Today the House took a powerful step toward reining in Biden’s illegal policy of taxpayer-funded abortion travel at the Department of Defense,” SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser stated in a news release. “Representatives Jackson and Roy have courageously led the charge to force the administration to follow the four decades old law against taxpayer funding for abortion at the DOD.”
“Now the House must send the Jackson-Roy amendment in the NDAA to the Senate, and then on to the president’s desk,” Dannenfelser stated. “We also applaud Speaker McCarthy, Leader Scalise, Chairman Rogers and Subcommittee Chairman Banks for their work to curtail this administration’s funding for brutal, painful abortions.”
Thank you for your leadership Congressman! https://t.co/qMJeGZfZhv
— Kristan Hawkins (@KristanHawkins) July 13, 2023
“Thank you for your leadership Congressman!” Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America and Students for Life Action, tweeted at Congressman Jackson.
Prior to the final vote, Family Research Council praised the legislation.
“We commend @housegop for last night’s passage of NDAA amendments providing strong, pro-life, pro-family protections in the bill and we urge the House to pass the NDAA in the final vote today,” the pro-family group tweeted.
BREAKING: The NDAA has passed the U.S. House by a vote of 219-210. 🎉 https://t.co/86KdDm3ggp
— Family Research Council (@FRCdc) July 14, 2023
The Biden Administration referred to its woke DEI policies as necessary to give the United States a “strategic advantage,” as recently reported by LifeSiteNews.
The White House issued a statement Monday criticizing the amendments, claiming that the military’s “strategic advantage in a complex global security environment is the diverse and dynamic talent pool from which we draw. We rely on diverse perspectives, experiences, and skillsets to remain a global leader, deter war, and keep our nation secure.”
“Moreover, DoD is committed to developing and maintaining a dignified, respectful, and safe workplace,” the administration stated. “Legislation that reduces DoD’s ability to create a positive work environment and fully leverage the best our nation has to offer puts the Department at a strategic disadvantage.”


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In this report we will take our first look at the market in the northern part of England’s south west region, with a report on the market and prospects for it in the adjacent towns of Cheltenham and Gloucester.
Background and economy
Cheltenham’s economy is based mainly on higher added value employment, with some employees commuting in from affluent residential areas in the nearby Cotswolds. It has an unemployment rate that is substantially lower, and an average salary that is substantially higher, than the national average. Key sectors include electronics, aerospace, finance and public administration plus tourism/hospitality. Significantly, the Government Communication Headquarters or GCHQ is based here. It employs 6,000 people directly, making it the largest single employer in Gloucestershire, while it also occupies around a third of the area’s total office accommodation.
Cheltenham has a population of 117,000. ONS figures suggest there will be only modest growth in the population here to 121,600 by 2026.
The City of Gloucester has a population around 128,000. Forecasts suggest this will grow by 8% to reach 139,000 by 2026. Key industries in Gloucester include aerospace, technology, engineering and banking/finance/insurance. EDF Energy is one of the largest single employers, employing 2,000 at Barnwood. Horizon Nuclear Power, which has plans for a number of new UK nuclear power stations, is headquartered here.
Both locations have good access to the M5 offering a direct link to the West Midlands and south west. The Government has recently agreed to a plan to upgrade the existing limited access J10 M5 to full access, which could open up the surrounding area for extensive development. There are also long-standing plans to dual a ‘missing link’ in the A417 dual carriageway which, if progressed, could considerably improve journey times to Swindon, the M4 and south east England.
Cheltenham and Gloucester have direct rail services to London, Birmingham, South Wales, the south west and northern England. The current relatively slow journey times to London have attracted much criticism from local businesses. Upcoming new trains should mean Cheltenham will be within two hours of London Paddington, a time considered viable for business travellers. There will also be two direct services per hour at peak times instead of the current one, although full implementation has been delayed from this December to May 2019.


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Around this time last year, Santa’s arrival at Richmond Vale Railway Museum signalled the beginning of recovery after fire caused more than $1million damage in September 2017.
The museum will be welcoming Santa and his significant other, Mrs Claus later this month as progress on restoring the museum’s operations continues.
Museum Chairman Peter Meddows said that Santa’s arrival would represent a great day out for the whole family.
“Our visitors will arrive by train at noon. Santa will then be available to hear from young visitors about their wishes for Christmas,” Mr Meddows said.
“Families are most welcome to photograph their children with Santa. We will also be offering shuttle rides on our full-sized train, as well as miniature train rides throughout the day.”
Mr Meddows added that aside from all of the Yuletide fun, the museum would be open showing off an array of historic memorabilia.
Exhibitions within the museum will include, rail artifacts, images and videos and there will also be some special Christmas-themed displays on the day.
Tickets in the museum;s Christmas raffle will be available with the draw to be conducted at 3pm on the day.
All of the fun will take place at Richmond Vale Railway Museum (Leggett’s Drive, Richmond Vale) on Sunday 18 November from 9.30am to 4pm.
Entry is $16.00 adults, $11.00 concession, $7.50 ages five to 15 children under under five are free.
For more information, visit http://www.richmondvalerailwaymuseum.org/

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The Johann Strauss Edition
Johann Strauss II, the most famous and
enduringly successful of 19th-century light music composers, was born in Vienna
on 25 October 1825. Building upon the firm musical foundations laid by his
father, Johann Strauss I (1804-1849) and Joseph Lanner (1801-1843), the younger
Johann (along with his brothers, Josef and Eduard) achieved so high a
development of the classical Viennese waltz that it became as much a feature of
the concert hall as of the ballroom. For more than half a century Johann II
captivated not only Vienna but also the whole of Europe and America with his
abundantly tuneful waltzes, polkas, quadrilles and marches. The thrice-married
'Waltz King' later turned his attention to the composition of operetta, and
completed 16 stage works besides more than 500 orchestral compositions –
including the most famous of all waltzes, The Blue Danube (1867). Johann
Strauss II died in Vienna on 3 June 1899.
The Marco Polo Strauss Edition is a
milestone in recording history, presenting, for the first time ever, the entire
orchestral output of the 'Waltz King'. Despite their supremely high standard of
musical invention, the majority of the compositions have never before been
commercially recorded and have been painstakingly assembled from archives
around the world. All performances featured in this series are complete and,
wherever possible, the works are played in their original instrumentation as
conceived by the 'master orchestrator' himself, Johann Strauss II.
Warschauer Polka (Warsaw Polka) op. 84
In October 1850 Johann Strauss applied for
a passport for himself and his orchestra to tour "all the Royal-Imperial
conscripted crown lands, Prussia and Russo-Poland" until the end of the
year. They departed Vienna on 16 October. After giving concerts in Ratibor
(=Racibórz), Breslau (=Wroclaw) and Kattowitz (=Katowice), all now in
present-day Poland, they travelled to Warsaw on 23 October, allegedly at the
invitation of the Tsarina of Russia – Poland at that time being under Russian dominion.
There, on 27 October, Strauss and his musicians played at a festival soirée
given by the Russian Tsar Nicholas I, whose guests included the Austrian
Emperor Franz Joseph I. Strauss must have felt the irony of the situation that
denied him the position of Court Music Director in his own country, while he
fulfilled the role for the Tsar.
During Strauss's brief stay in Warsaw he
composed three new works, which he featured on his return to Vienna at a
festival in the Bierhalle premises, in the suburb of Fünfhaus, on 21 November
1850. Only one of the new pieces was published – the Warschauer Polka,
written for the Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, who rewarded Johann with a
Wellen und Wogen, Walzer (Waves and
Billows, Waltz) op. 141
During a concert tour of Germany in
October and November 1852, Johann Strauss made a visit to Hamburg where he
conceived the idea of composing a waltz suited more to the concert platform
than the dance floor. This first tentative step in the further development of the
waltz was entitled Wellen und Wogen, a title admirably suited to the
mood of this musical seascape. Although it excited no particular attention at
its première on 9 October 1853 at a benefit concert in the Vienna Volksgarten,
it drew comment from many corners upon its subsequent publication. Vienna's
revered critic, the 'Music Pope' Eduard Hanslick, dismissed this and other
Strauss "waltz requiems" of the period as "no longer appropriate
to the dance". But Johann had achieved his aim, and must have been
gratified by the opinion of the Theaterzeitung: "This 'Wellen und Wogen'
does not have an electrifying effect only on dancing enthusiasts; these
enchanting sounds also exercise an irresistible power of attraction on the
colder and more demanding visitors to the soiree".
Caroussel-Marsch (Carousel March) op. 133
The splendid Caroussel-Marsch takes
its name, not from the now-ubiquitous fairground attraction, but from the
equestrian tournament in which riders compete in races and various manoeuvres
in formation. One such entertainment took place at the Vienna Hofreitschule
(Court Riding School) – today better known as the Spanish Riding School – on 21
May 1853, during that year's Court Festival. The event inspired Johann Strauss
to one of the most compelling musical creations of his early period, the Caroussel-Marsch,
which the composer conducted for the first time at a spring festival in the
Volksgarten on 14 June, 1853.
Camelien-Polka Schnell (Camellias, Quick polka) op. 248
By way of thanks for a decoration which
had recently been bestowed upon him, Carl Haslinger, Johann Strauss's regular
Viennese publisher, organised a charity event to take place in the
Dianabad-Saal on 29 January 1861. The name he chose for this entertainment, a
'Camellias Ball', was unfortunately to prove an embarrassment to him when no
camellias could be procured for that particular evening! Haslinger doubtless
found some consolation, however, in the excellent and aptly-entitled Camelien-Polka,
which Johann Strauss provided for the occasion.
Ballettomanes may recognise some of the
polka's themes, arranged as an accompaniment to a can-can, in the ballet Le
beau Danube (1924).
Myrthen-Kränze, Walzer (Myrtle Wreaths,
Waltz) op. 154
On 24 April 1854, amid all the pomp and
ceremony appropriate to such a royal occasion, Vienna jubilantly celebrated the
marriage of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I and the Bavarian Duchess
Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie. Three days later, at the Court Ball held in the
Rittersaal of the Hofburg, Johann Strauss conducted his own wedding tribute
before the royal couple. The press reported: "During the cotillons there
resounded for the first time the 'Elisabethsklänge', respectfully dedicated to
her Majesty the Empress by Kapellmeister Strauss".
In the Introduction to the waltz there are
allusions to the National Anthems of Austria (Haydn's Kaiserlied) and
Bavaria (Franz Lachner's Bayernlied), and the work later appeared in
print with its title changed to Myrthen-Kränze.
Nordstern-Quadrille (Polar Star Quadrille)
Towards the end of July 1854 Johann
Strauss returned from a rest-cure in Bad Gastein, near Salzburg, to resume his
position at the head of the Strauss Orchestra. His first appearance in public
was at Unger's Casino in Hernals on Sunday 30 July, and among the compositions
performed was his new quadrille on themes from Meyerbeer's opera comique, Der
Nordstern. As L'Étoile du Nord, Meyerbeer's opera had received its
world première in Paris on 16 February 1854, but not until the following year
was a production mounted in Vienna.
Some seven years before, Johann had been
prevented from performing music from an earlier version of this Meyerbeer opera
when Carl Haslinger, his father's publisher, had sought a legal injunction
ensuring that only the elder Strauss had access to the work. Meyerbeer himself
had disapproved of this ban and made his music available to both father and
Bluette-Polka Française (Artistic trifle,
French polka) op. 271
Johann Strauss honoured each of his three
wives with the dedication of a dance music composition. Thus, Angelika's name
lives on in the dedication of the Kuss-Walzer (op. 400) and Adele's in the
Adelen-Walzer (op. 424).
Strauss's first wife was the mezzo-soprano
Jetty Treffz (1818-78), whom he married in August 1862. She at once proved
herself an indispensable partner for the often disorganised and financially
naive 'Waltz King', and aside from her wifely duties also fulfilled those of
advisor in artistic and monetary matters, translator, private secretary and
even music copyist. It was for Jetty that Johann wrote his charming Bluette, Polka
francaise, which he himself conducted on 23 November 1862 at a St.
Katherine's Day masked ball in the Redoutensall, the proceeds from which were
"for the benefit of the Pension Institute for those involved in the Fine
Arts in Vienna".
Concurrenzen, Walzer (Rivalry, Waltz) op.
The ball of the Industrial Societies'
Association, held in the Sofienbad-Saal on 29 January 1862, opened the series
of imposing grand Corporation balls that took place during that year's Vienna
Carnival. Johann Strauss and his orchestra were engaged to provide the dance
music at this festivity, for which the composer was also expected to write the
obligatory dedication piece. He obliged with the irresistible waltz Concurrenzen,
for which the Association's ball-organising committee presented him with 25
golden ducats. Cognizant of the background to Johann's choice of title, the
Wiener Zeitung observed: "When Strauss let his waltz 'Concurrenzen' ring
out... here the competitive squabble between the railway companies was
forgotten, and there reigned only one competition, the competition of the
Chansonetten-Quadrille, Nach Themen
(Comic Songs, Quadrille on themes from
French ballads) op. 259
Several of the works which Johann Strauss
and his brothers wrote for their Russian concert seasons were published both
there and in Vienna, but often under different titles. An example is the Rigolboche-Quadrille,
which Johann's Russian publisher announced as being based on Parisian comic
songs. The composer's choice of French material for a new quadrille reflected
the success which a group of Parisian girl singers were enjoying at that time
in St. Petersburg. Strauss's new composition not only drew upon the girls'
repertoire, but also took its title from the stage name of their most popular
dancer and singer, the blonde 'Rigolboche' (real name: Marguerite Badel).
Russian audiences heard Johann's Rigolboche-Quadrille – initially called
the Französische Quadrille – for the first time at the composer's own
benefit concert at Pavlovskon 5 October 1861 (= 23 September, Russian
calender). Strauss's regular Viennese publisher, however, preferred to retitle
the work Chansonetten-Quadrille.
Ballsträusschen, Schnell-Polka (Ball
Bouquets, Quick polka) op. 380
was the title Johann Strauss gave to the quick polka he dedicated to the Vienna
Journalists' and Writers' Association, "Concordia", on the occasion
of their ball held in the Sofienbad-Saal on 19 February 1878. It was written at
a time when Johann was busy composing his operetta Blindekuh [Première:
Theater an der Wien, Vienna, 18 December 1878], and it was the only dance
composition which he produced for the 1878 Vienna Carnival. After a period of
fraternal disharmony Johann had again resumed contact with his youngest brother
Eduard, and indeed he it was who conducted the Strauss Orchestra in the first
performance of Ballsträusschen at the Concordia Ball.
The first theme in the Trio section of Ballsträusschen
may strike a chord with some listeners through its inclusion in Acts 1 and 2 of
the posthumous Johann Strauss operetta, Wiener Blut (1899).
Kuss-Waltzer (Kiss Waltz) op. 400
the death of his first wife, Jetty Treffz, in April 1878, Johann waited just
seven weeks before remarrying. His new bride was Angelika Dittrich (1850-1919),
a blue-eyed 28 year-old Prussian actress, but the marriage was ill-starred and
the couple were granted a divorce by consent in late 1882.
Among the operettas Johann created during
their brief time together was Der Iustige Krieg (‘The Merry War’) of
1881, whose popularity in Strauss's lifetime was surpassed only by Die
Fledermaus (1874) and Der Zigeunerbaron (1885). Of the ten separate orchestral
numbers which Johann concocted from its melodies the Kuss-Walzer retains a
special significance, for it bears a poignant dedication "to his beloved
wife Angelika". It was Eduard Strauss who first conducted this waltz, as
the opening dance piece at the Court Ball held on 10 January 1882. The
Kuss-Walzer is, in fact, an orchestral treatment of the operetta's 'hit'
number, the Marchese Sebastiani's Act 2 aria, "Nur für Natur", with
an added section taken from the Act 2 Finale ("Herr Herzog").
CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra
The East Slovakian town of Košice boasts
a long and distinguished musical tradition, as part of a province that once
provided Vienna with musicians. The State Philharmonic Orchestra is of
relatively recent origin and was established in 1968 under the conductor
Bystrik Rezucha. Subsequent principal conductors have included Stanislav Macura
and Ladislav Slovák, the latter succeeded in 1985 by his pupil Richard Zimmer.
The orchestra has toured widely in Eastern and Western Europe and plays an
important part in the Košice Musical Spring and the Košice International Organ
Oliver Dohnányi was born in 1955 and
studied the violin, composition and conducting at the Bratislava Conservatory,
in the Slovakian capital, pursuing further studies in Prague under Václav
Neumann and others, and in Vienna under Otmar Suitner. He graduated in 1980 but
had already established himself as artistic director of the Charles University
Art Ensemble and the Canticorum lubilo chamber ensemble in Prague. He has won
distinction in various competitions, including the Respighi Competition in
Italy and international competitions in Budapest and Prague. From 1979 to 1986
Oliver Dohnányi was conductor of the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra in
Bratislava and has appeared with major orchestras there, in Prague and in
Hungary, as well as with the West Berlin Symphony Orchestra, and since 1986 has
been principal conductor of the opera of the Slovak National Theatre. In
addition to work with the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, he has appeared as a
guest conductor in the concert hall and in opera in France, Italy, Austria, the
USSR, Cuba, East Germany, Bulgaria, Switzerland and elsewhere.


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Grants Pass, Oregon – CBS News reports that a pro-life protester that has stood outside of a Planned Parenthood health clinic stabbed a man multiple times on Tuesday.
A word of caution – the above video has some strong language and is a recording of a separate attack case that happened a few years ago.
The man, who is unnamed, was promptly arrested by local police still covered in blood after stabbing another man multiple times in the abdomen and once in the neck with a knife.
Though details are a bit sketchy at this time the man has apparently stood outside of the health clinic for months shouting at both patients and workers there. One woman that was yelled at reportedly confronted the man, the returned later with another man who apparently attacked the protester. The assailant is the man who was stabbed.
Police are not releasing too many details at this time, however many people feel that this has been “an accident waiting to happen”, with others feeling it was a clear act of self defense.
This has not been the only case of pro-life activists being attacked by those looking to fight back against them, however this is the first major case where one activist seriously wounded another man in the process.
With tensions running high today it is difficult to say what may happen in the weeks or months to come, regardless one small bit of irony here is the Oregon clinic where this took place doesn’t even offer abortion services the pro-life protester was raging about for months – it’s merely an information and health care clinic.


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Learning in the age of abundance (《过剩时代的学习》）
In the era of information overload and excess knowledge, learning is no longer a process of greediness, and the human brain also has a cognitive load. What to learn, not to learn when there is a choice. The commonly used knowledge must be learned in the head (knowledge in the head), and some knowledge in the world (knowledge in the world). Through design thinking, knowledge is distributed rationally to the mind and the world to reduce cognitive load and stay away from the "dry cargo syndrome."
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Utah Democratic Party Chairman Jeff Merchant is resigning from his position amid personal health reasons.
In a statement, Merchant said his resignation is effective Sept. 29.
“While today I humbly offer my resignation in order to attend to my personal health, the work that must be done in our state and across our nation to protect our most vulnerable communities will continue on,” Merchant said in a news release.
Party Vice Chair Diane Lewis will now serve as the party’s acting chair until the state central committee picks Merchant’s replacement.
“Diane is a storied leader in our state’s labor movement and Democratic Party, and I believe that under Diane’s leadership, our party will continue to build on the gains that we have made in 2020,” Merchant said. “I’m excited for this new chapter for the party and will remain a staunch supporter of our mission and our organizing.”
Utah Republican Party Chairman Carson Jorgensen was shocked by the news of Merchant’s resignation.
“I’ve spoken with him a few times,” Jorgensen said in a phone call. “He seemed like a nice guy, and I wish him well. I hope he’ll be okay because good health is always important.”
Derek Brown, Jorgensen’s predecessor as head of the Utah GOP, was surprised by the news.
“Although Jeff and I frequently disagreed on policies, he and I quickly became good friends during our service to our respective parties, appearing together in the media and even teaching college classes together,” Brown said. “He served during an incredibly difficult period of time, and left his part better than he found it.”
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— Martin Walsh (@RealWalsh_) September 28, 2021
Last week, Democrat State Rep. Aaron Lieberman announced that he’s resigning from the Arizona Legislature to focus on his run to become the state’s next governor.
Lieberman is seeking the Democratic nomination in the general election that will determine GOP Gov. Doug Ducey’s successor in 2022.
Prior to that, Democratic Arizona state Sen. Kirsten Engel resigned from the Legislature to focus on her campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives.
Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District race could arguably be one of the most important races in the 2022 midterm elections.
The race will be pivotal to the Democratic Party’s efforts to retain the U.S. House majority and could even spill over into the U.S. Senate races.
Republicans are now “the early favorites” to retake control of the U.S. House in the midterms.
Cook Political Report Senior Editor David Wasserman told NBC News that Republicans are poised to retake the lower chamber for a variety of reasons.
“Based on all factors, you’d have to consider Republicans the early favorites for the House majority in 2022,” Wasserman said.
“But as we found out in 2020, surprises can happen, and it’s not a done deal,” he added. “Democrats’ best hope is that Biden’s approval rating stays above 50% and that Republicans have a tougher time turning out their voters without Trump on the ballot.”
Last month, a top House Democrat warned that the Republican Party is in a prime position to take back House in next year’s midterm elections.
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Sean Patrick, who serves as a congressman from New York, says Democrats would lose their House majority if the midterms were held today.
Democrats are facing serious headwinds going into next year.
Three-quarters of senior Capitol Hill aides think Republicans are going to win back control of the House of Representatives in the 2021 midterm elections.
Punchbowl News surveyed several senior Capitol Hill aides and reported that a whopping 73 percent think Republicans will take the speaker’s gavel from Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi next November.
Republicans need a net gain of 5 seats to regain the House majority in the midterms next November.


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Heather Wilson Sends Her Best Wishes
I'm sure all those of you who were followers of our lovely Heather are wondering what became of her as she has not been active on PH for some time now. I am in occasional contact with her via personal email, and have been in touch recently. Heather has asked me to pass on her best wishes to everyone. Heather herself is fine, but as you know is a carer for her disabled husband. Her husband's care needs have increased, therefore she has little time to write poems or be active on this site. She has mentioned that she has received a number of emails which she has been unable to answer, she simply does not have the time now.
I hope this little update will put your minds at rest if you have been worrying about her absence from the site. I thought this was the best way to let everyone know how she is doing and why she has not been posting or communicating.
I am sure you will join me in wishing Heather (and her husband) all the very best, and we hope that she will be able to return to PH at some time in the future. At present, she is unable to say whether she will or will not.
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Masindi Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), John Nyakahuma has ordered three district officials to refund the money they allegedly received from group members in the district.
They include: Denis Musinguzi, the District Records Officer, Vincent Busiinge, the former acting District Community Development Officer and her secretary, Monica Katusiime.
The officials reportedly solicited for 352,000 shillings from 10 savings groups from Pakanyi Sub-county in order to help them get money from the Prime Ministers office but never received the money. This prompted them to storm the CAOs office this morning.
In the meeting of implicated officials with the group members convened by the CAO at the district council chambers later, Gino Jangeya, the coordinator of the group accused Musinguzi of allegedly taking 20,000 shillings from each group for purportedly processing Tax Identification Numbers (TIN) for the groups.
Jangeya also claimed that Busiinge used to ask for money from the group members to process their files while Katusiime received 132,000 shillings from the group members to allow them meet Busiinge.
However, the CAO revealed that TIN was not a requirement for the groups to access the money by the groups and that no one is supposed to pay money to be served by a civil servant.
Nyakahuma noted the officials spoiled the image of government before ordering them to refund the money as they wait for more punishments from him.
Musinguzi and Katusiime confessed to getting the money from the groups but denied soliciting it from their members. However, they promised to refund it soon.
Busiinge denied the accusations against him despite one member insisting that he gave him 10,000 shillings. However, he promised to refund the money although he had not done it at the time of filing this story.
However Nyakahuma blamed the delay by the district to release the money to the groups on the lengthy process under the Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS) but assured the groups that their money will be on their accounts next week.
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Great desertion of our heartland
To trek this country, from the asphalt to the dirt and back, is to prove what we knew. Australia, like some great termitey redgum, is emptying out, concentrating its vital tissue into a thin coastal cambium with big fat nothing at its centre.
It’s not a new trend. Driven by mechanisation and drought, then sea change and downshift, our coastal drift has been evident for a century or more. What’s new is the extent and the impact. It’s what the demographer Bernard Salt calls the Big Shift and what last year’s State of the Environment report calls the “suburbanisation of coastal Australia”. And perhaps, you tell yourself, it’s fine. Nothing to chew your knickers over. After all, those great, hollow-core eucalypts often sprout happily on, oblivious of the vacancy at their centre. So perhaps we can safely leave the continent to the big corporate abstractions, the miners and the irrigators, the diggers and the salters, and sprout gaily on in our cooling coastal breezes.
Perhaps. But when you travel the country, fine is not how it looks. Even the biggish mining towns such as Kalgoorlie, Broken Hill and Cobar are going yellow at the edges, as the practice of outsourcing miners closes pubs and starves service industries. But it’s the small towns that really show the damage. Like Wilcannia, with its wistfully self-proclaimed “friendly grocer” barricaded behind mild steel while child gangs on bikes maraud the streets. Or like Manna Hill, well outside mobile range in outback South Australia, where the single phone box takes only Telstra cards that you can’t buy because, midday Friday, the pub, the servo and what might have been a general store are all closed and gone bye-bye.
In 1901, Salt says, 32 per cent of us lived in Australia’s cities, 7 per cent on the coast. By 2001, the figures were 64 per cent and 19 per cent respectively. In 2003, the State of the Environment report says, 91 per cent of Australians inhabited either the major cities or “peri-urban coastal communities” as the great linear suburb girdling Australia is now known. In some places, these coastal communities are only one-block thick, either side of the blacktop but, excepting national parks, it’s now near-continuous, leaving the vast inland largely emptier than ever.
It’s enough to make you wonder whether terra nullius wasn’t an apt description after all. River after river is nothing but dry leaves, lake after lake nothing but salt, field after clear-felled field nothing but a parched, broken and hoof-hardened landscape while long-arm irrigators busily deplete rivers and salinate soils as spiralling dust spouts dump any remaining topsoil into any remaining waterways.
Sure, there’s a drought on. And sure, it’s beautiful, this wide, brown, droughty country. But did we have to be quite so mindless in its management? Just because we’re dumb white folks? Must we limit our horizons to next year’s profit season? Are we obliged to perpetuate the spirit of our convict forebears who starved rather than understand the landscape? And what, you wonder, might (say) the Israelis have made of such a place?
That’s the inland. But the peri-urban coastal communities’ effect on Australia’s periphery is, if anything, more pronounced. Numbers-wise, the main drift is city bound. But the main impact undeniably is on unspoilt beaches, fishing villages and small coastal towns that were once scattered on the coast and are now vanishing under the avalanche of canal estates, shopping malls and epidemic McMansionism that runs from Mandurah to Esperance, from the Yorke Peninsula to the Coorong and from Bega to Coffs.
Who is shifting? Not, contrary to popular belief, superannuated refugees but, on the whole, the relatively young (in 2001, 80 per cent of seachangers were under 50) escaping the jobless inland for the great coastal ‘burb. You can see why they want it. More difficult is understanding why any government would see the peri-urban coastal communities – unsustainable, obesogenic, mall-fed and hopelessly car-based – as an OK option.
The reason, if that’s not too strong a word, rests on our understanding of the word “right” and our tacit, modernist belief that the only values that count are personal ones. The rights in question are two: the individual’s right to live where and how whim dictates, and the land-owner’s right to develop. They’re things we all want. But they’re also things that, until relatively recently, were the privilege of the few, not the right of the many. This shift, from mass-wanting to mass-getting, changes everything.
We presume – call it the castle premise – that democracy has made the rights of kings available to us all, and that some fairy dust has costlessly converted the undreamable dream into sustainable reality. This is why we love democracy, why we fight and kill for it. And the peri-urban coastal community is built democracy.
But that’s not all it is. The peri-urban coastal community also symbolises our determination to ignore the best, in the words of Socrates, in favour of the pleasant; symbolises, that is, our devotion to mediocrity, to the hollow centredness that is kitsch. And this is the real peril. As any wise old redgum knows, losing your heartwood may not threaten life but if your sapwood goes, you’re cactus.


Successful day of testing for Audi at Le Mans Almost 3,400 kilometres without any significant problems Good start of newcomers to Audi Sport Team Joest Over 20,000 spectators watched the tests During the eight hours available, Audi Sport Team...
Successful day of testing for Audi at Le Mans
Almost 3,400 kilometres without any significant problems Good start of newcomers to Audi Sport Team Joest Over 20,000 spectators watched the tests During the eight hours available, Audi Sport Team Joest fully concentrated on reeling off the testing programme that had previously been defined in detail. As usual with Audi Sport, the tasks were clearly divided: The Audi R10 TDI car number 2 (Dindo Capello/Allan McNish/Mike Rockenfeller) was fitted with additional data acquisition equipment in the morning. In the afternoon, the team in car number 2 ran tyre tests. Last year's winners Frank Biela, Emanuele Pirro and Marco Werner (car number 1) compared various suspension set-ups. The R10 TDI bearing number 3 in the race (Mattias Ekstrom/Lucas Luhr/Alexandre Premat) was equipped with various aerodynamic variants.
"We had a very extensive programme on our agenda, which we managed to work through almost completely," Head of Audi Motorsport Dr Wolfgang summed up the positive outcome of the tests. "In the end, we were lacking merely ten minutes, otherwise we could have even completed the final tyre test we'd been planning to do. I think we've worked out a good base for the race today."
A strong impression was left by the four newcomers to Audi Sport Team Joest. In his Le Mans debut at the wheel of an LM P1 sports car, Mike Rockenfeller (23) set the third-best time of the day behind Sebastien Bourdais (Peugeot) and Frank Biela (Audi). Lucas Luhr (27) was the quickest driver of the number 3 Audi R10 TDI, while his team-mates Alexandre Premat and Mattias Ekstrom -- both Le Mans rookies -- were only slightly slower.
Frank Biela -- at 3m 28.277s (237.362 kph) -- managed the fastest lap so far of an Audi R10 TDI at Le Mans. That last year's lap times were clearly beaten, however, cannot only be attributed to the evolution of the cars: With 13.629 kilometres, the circuit is 21 metres shorter than before and -- particularly due to a modification in the "Tertre Rouge" sector -- almost two seconds faster, as data logs have shown.
More than 20,000 spectators witnessed the test day at Le Mans, which took place without record winner Tom Kristensen. The Dane continues to recover from the injuries he sustained in the serious accident during the DTM season opener. Whether or not Kristensen will be able to compete at Le Mans on 16/17 June will be decided, at the latest, at the beginning of the race week.
To be optimally prepared even in the event that Kristensen should not be fit for racing, Audi Sport Team Joest changed the driver teams before the test day: Mike Rockenfeller and Mattias Ekstrom swapped cars because Rockenfeller, in terms of body size, is better matched with Dindo Capello and Allan McNish, while Ekstrom is more compatible with Lucas Luhr and Alexandre Premat.
Up to the race, the three Audi R10 TDI cars will stay at Le Mans for trackside preparation for the week of the race by Audi Sport Team Joest. The race week will start for Audi on Tuesday afternoon with the public Technical Scrutineering on the Place des Jacobins. The first qualifying practice is scheduled to start on Wednesday (13 June) at 7 p.m. (local time).


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NEW DELHI: India’s Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday launched a scathing attack at the Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration, saying either the Gupkar Gang swims along with the national mood or else the people will sink it.
He dubbed the alliance as the Gupkar gang.
Shah asserted that Jammu and Kashmir will always remain an integral part of India, accusing the Gupkar alliance of its support to the foreign forces for their intervention in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) is an amalgamation of mainstream political parties of J&K.
In a series of tweets, the Home Minister said the Gupkar Gang is going global but they insult Indias Tricolour.
Do Sonia Ji and Rahul Ji support such moves of the Gupkar Gang? They should make their stand crystal clear to the people of India, Amit Shah questioned.
The Home Minister also hit out at the Congress, saying the party and the PAGD wants to take J&K back to the era of terror and turmoil.
They want to take away rights of Dalits, women and tribals that we have ensured by removing Article 370. This is why theyre being rejected by the people everywhere.
The Home Minister made it clear that Jammu and Kashmir has been, is and will always remain an integral part of India.
Indian people will no longer tolerate an unholy global gathbandhan against our national interests. Either the Gupkar Gang swims along with the national mood or else the people will sink it.
Home Ministers remarks came a day after the Bharatiya Janata Party, in the run-up to the first-ever District Development Council (DDC) polls in Jammu and Kashmir, termed the stance of the Gupkar alliance on Article 370 and the Tricolour as anti-national and demanded that the Congress clarify if it supported these parties or not.
The alliance of about 10 regional parties has demanded the restoration of Article 370, a demand supported by some senior Congress leaders, including P. Chidambaram.
PAGD is a political alliance between the multiple mainstream regional political parties of Jammu and Kashmir aimed to restore special status along with Article 35A of the erstwhile state Jammu and Kashmir.
It was originally formed as Gupkar Declaration, a political movement by the major political parties such as the National Conference, Congress, Peoples Democratic Party, Communist Party of India (M), Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Conference and Awami National Conference on August 4, 2019, a day before Article 370 was revoked by Parliament.


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