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Contact Your Senators Today: Urge Them to Oppose the Senate Better Care Reconciliation Act!
Senate leadership just released the Better Care Reconciliation Act, their legislative alternative to the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA), to repeal key provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The bill’s release comes without public hearings on the legislation and little time before a planned vote set to occur next week. We remain concerned that the bill will undermine patient protections and potentially lead to significant losses in coverage. To learn more, click here.
Contact Your Senators Today: Urge Them to Preserve the Affordable Care Act’s Patient Protections
Senate Republicans are crafting a legislative alternative to the House-passed American Health Care Act (AHCA) to repeal and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). They have been working on their legislation in secret and do not plan to release their bill to the public until days before a planned vote on June 28. While details about what is included in the Senate bill are scarce, we anticipate that, like the AHCA, it will impact patient protections and potentially lead to significant losses in coverage. Contact your Senators today and urge them to oppose any legislation that undermines the ACA’s patient protections, many of which have benefited adults with congenital heart disease (CHD). To learn more, click here.
The Congenital Heart Futures Reauthorization Act Approved by the Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee
On Thursday, May 18, the House Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee held a markup on the Congenital Heart Futures Reauthorization Act (CHFRA), H.R. 1222. The bill was unanimously approved by the Subcommittee and has been referred to the full Energy & Commerce Committee for consideration.
The Adult Congenital Heart Association (ACHA) has been working with Congressmen Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) since the bill’s introduction this spring to support its passage. Congressman Bilirakis’ opening remarks recognized ACHA’s support for the legislation. Regarding the bill, he stated:
These surveillance efforts will help improve our understanding of CHD across the lifespan, from birth to adulthood. This research will help us learn more about demographic factors such as age, race, gender or ethnicity. In addition, the legislation emphasizes the need for continued biomedical research at the National Institutes of Health on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of CHD. NIH will further research into the causes of congenital heart defects, including genetic causes, and study long-term outcomes in individuals with CHD of all ages. NIH may study data to identify effective treatments and outcomes, and identify barriers to lifelong care for individuals with congenital heart defects.
To read Congressman Bilirakis’ press release regarding the markup, click here. Other Subcommittee members, including the Chairman Michael Burgess and Representative Gene Green, also acknowledged the importance of this legislation to the adult living with CHDs.
While we do not yet know when the full Energy & Commerce Committee will consider this bill, this markup was an important step towards enactment. We will continue to keep you updated as CHFRA continues to advance through the process.
The Adult Congenital Heart Association is encouraging the Senate to reject the American Health Care Act (AHCA)
Contact the Senate Today!
(May 5, 2017) By a vote of 217 – 213 on May 4, 2017, the House passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA), legislation that would repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and change Medicaid from an open-ended entitlement system to one that limits states' federal funding through per capita caps. The measure now moves to the Senate, where it's expected to face major challenges.
The changes made to the AHCA to garner enough votes for passage in the House undermine several of the ACA’s private insurance reforms and could negatively impact access to care for adults with Congenital Heart Disease (CHD). Under the House passed legislation, states would have the ability to waive several ACA private insurance reforms, including those related to age rating (older people could be charged more), essential health benefits (plans would not have to cover the broad range of health care services), and community rating (plans could charge people higher premiums based on their health status if they lapse in coverage).
If these important ACA patient protections are waived, the result could be increased costs and decreased coverage for people with pre-existing conditions like CHD. While a plan couldn’t decline to cover someone with a CHD, they could charge these individuals significantly more in premiums for coverage that provides fewer benefits.
With your support, ACHA will shift its focus to the Senate and continue to advocate to maintain these critical patient protections. At this point the Senate will not be taking up the AHCA, but instead they will be working on their own bill rather an amending the AHCA. A group of 12 senators with members on the Finance, Budget, and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committees, the three committees with jurisdiction over healthcare, have been tasked with developing the Senate alternative.
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Please contact your Senators today and share the Adult Congenital Heart Association’s key message that we don’t want the Senate to propose legislation that undermines ACA’s patient protections, particularly as they apply to individuals with pre-existing conditions.
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Talking points for telling your story:
- I am calling (writing) because of an issue that is very personal to me, congenital heart disease (CHD). I am calling to let my Senator know that I don’t want them to propose legislation that undermines ACA’s patient protections, particularly as they apply to individuals with pre-existing conditions to people like me (or my loved one) and would increase costs and decrease coverage.
- CHD is the most common category of birth defects, affecting more than a million Americans. Individuals born with CHDs require lifelong, costly specialized care, which is why we need access to insurance.


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The unidentified woman who said Republican U.S. Senate nominee Rand Paul made her take part in an apparent college prank that included worshiping "Aqua Buddha" has clarified her story, making clear Paul did not kidnap her or force her to smoke marijuana, according to The Washington Post.
However, the woman stood by the details of her story, the Post reported Wednesday.
The woman's account first surfaced Monday in a posting on the GQ magazine Web site. She told GQ that Paul and another young man — members of a society at Baylor University called the NoZe Brotherhood — blindfolded her, tried to force her to smoke pot, then took her to a creek outside Waco, Texas, and told her to worship the Aqua Buddha.
"The whole thing has been blown out of proportion," the woman told the Post. "They didn't force me, they didn't make me. They were creating this drama: 'We're messing with you.'"
The woman, who was not identified by the Post or GQ at her request, told the Post the incident was so strange that she ended contact with Paul.
"I went along because they were my friends," she told the Post. "There was an implicit degree of cooperation in the whole thing. I felt like I was being hazed."
Paul and the other young man had been smoking pot, the woman told GQ.
The alleged incident happened in 1983, before Paul left Baylor to attend medical school at Duke University. He is now an eye surgeon in Bowling Green and faces Democrat Jack Conway in the Nov. 2 election.
Speaking on Fox News Tuesday, Paul strongly denied kidnapping anyone or forcing anyone to smoke pot, and denounced the GQ article.
Jason Zengerle, who wrote the GQ piece, put the woman in contact with The Washington Post after Paul attacked the story. Zengerle told the Herald-Leader the woman did not want to talk to any additional reporters.
Paul's campaign told the Post the clarification vindicated him, but the campaign didn't directly address the odd details of the incident.
"It is satisfying to see the libelous and grossly irresponsible charges of kidnapping completely shot down," Paul campaign spokesman Jesse Benton said in an e-mail. "It remains puzzling to us why the drive-by media continues to focus on an alleged 30-year-old teenage prank when our nation faces high unemployment, a $13 trillion debt and are threatened with a cap-and-trade national energy tax."
Democrats said Paul still has questions to answer.
"Does Rand Paul think this woman is a liar?," Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Communications Director Eric Schultz said in a news release. "Rand Paul's accuser confirms she was blindfolded, tied up, and forced to worship a false god. Instead of running to his lawyers and to the national media, Paul should start answering questions from Kentuckians, who would like to know what really happened during the night in question."
Paul's campaign has not responded to questions from the Herald-Leader about the alleged incident.

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Obama outdoor speech echoes JFK's 1960 move
But almost a half-century later, it remains unclear whether the precedent that helped inspire the move — John F. Kennedy's"New Frontier" convention acceptance speech at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1960 — was itself a success, or even a good idea.
Those who were there and those who have studied it disagree on details. Was Kennedy bothered by the setting sun? Distracted by hovering helicopters? Visibly exhausted? Even attendance estimates vary from 50,000 to 80,000....
As for what really happened at the Coliseum, you had to be there. But some who were are a little unclear, too.
News accounts say that Sen. Lyndon Johnson's 16-year-old daughter Lynda Bird was introduced to the crowd and gave a big wave. Today she recalls nothing about the speech — not even that it was outdoors."The memory," she says,"is an unfaithful messenger."
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The Muslim Brotherhood:
The Many Faces of Their Majesty's Service
by Ramtanu Maitra
July 17—The July 3 removal of Egyptian President Dr. Mohamed Morsi, by a combination of forces that included public opposition by a large section of the Egyptian people and the Egyptian military, has brought into focus the historical role of the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan al-Muslimeen, or MB). Morsi, a leading member of the MB, was the chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) when it was founded by the Brotherhood in the wake of the 2011 Egyptian revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak. Morsi won the June 2012 presidential election as the FJP candidate, and was in power for a year.
Morsi's removal was openly welcomed in Saudi Arabia, one of the major funders of Muslim Brotherhood activities throughout the world, but condemned strongly by Qatar, which had been the most generous financier trying to keep the Morsi government afloat. Morsi's downfall is also lamented by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his pro-Brotherhood AKP party. It is evident that Erdogan had developed a close ideological relationship with Morsi and the Brotherhood in Egypt.
Does this mean a split occurred within the Brotherhood over the Morsi regime's rule, or misrule, in Egypt? That is highly unlikely. Since its inception in Egypt in 1928, this international outfit has had many faces:
In 1928, Egypt was under British control, although not a British colony, and the Brotherhood built links with British intelligence and worked to help the British.
It formed an alliance with the Nazis during World War II.
It then returned to serve British interests once more, trying oust the nationalist regime of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
It was a key player in the rise of the Islamic jihadist groups that helped the West to push Soviet troops out of Afghanistan.
It allowed its followers to attack the West's assets, culminating in the 9/11 attack on American soil.
It is now back again serving the West by providing manpower for "regime change" in the Arab world and North Africa, and undermining Russian interests in Central Asia.
This circuitous route has hidden the Brotherhood's real objective from many, while enabling it to secure help from various international intelligence agencies, particularly British, and thus to spread its wings further in the Arab world, North Africa, Central Asia, and Europe.
The MB, which is an underground and secretive organization in most countries, of course requires money to operate, and needs protection. This makes it vulnerable to penetration by various intelligence agencies and also dependent on its financial patrons, such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Qatar's expenditure of bucketfuls of money to prop up Morsi & Co. allowed that country to get a grip on the Egyptian President, the FJP, and Egypt as a whole, thus expanding its influence beyond the shores of the Arabian peninsula. In addition, the Dubai website Nuqudy reported that ever since Qatar's announcement of a billion dollar loan to Egypt, the opposition to Morsi claimed that he was planning to lease or even sell the Suez Canal to the Qatari leaders. The opposition's charges stem from the financial desperation of the Egyptian government, which is in vital need of cash and foreign reserves due to its $22.5 billion budget deficit, the Dubai-based report said.
The Early Faces of the Muslim Brotherhood
Long before the Muslim Brotherhood was formed, the British had taken control of Egypt. Following the construction of the Suez Canal by the French in 1869, which improved Britain's connection with the Indian subcontinent under British colonial rule, and cut down the travel time from London to Bombay (now Mumbai), Britain had been looking for an opportunity to gain control of the canal, to serve its geostrategic interests.
At the time, the canal was under control of the French and Khedive Ismail Pasha, the ruler of Egypt, with Britain holding a minority share. The opportunity sought by London popped up in 1875, when it became obvious that the Khedive had gotten himself into serious economic difficulties. He approached Britain in an effort to raise money, and with Baron Rothschild dishing out the money to his good friend, British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, Britain got hold of the Khedive's shares in the Suez Canal Company. Overnight, the British went from minority shareholder to controlling shareholder.
But the money that the Khedive got for the deal was not enough to last long. By 1882, Egypt's economic situation reached another crisis, and this time, the British and French governments initiated a "stewardship" of the finances of Egypt. This was little more than joint colonization, as British and French "experts" were sent to various ministries to take control of day-to-day business. The Khedive's unwillingness to agree to such terms was rewarded by his forced abdication and replacement by his son Tawfiq. The small number of revolts against the Europeans were repressed by Britain with an iron hand.
In 1928, when an Egyptian schoolteacher named Hasan al-Banna formed the Ikhwan al-Muslimeen, Egypt was a protectorate of Britain, which controlled its finances, government personnel, and armed forces. In matters concerning the international status of Egypt, decisions were taken in London; but where the internal administration of the country was concerned, the Consul General's opinions were usually decisive. Although throughout the occupation, the facade of an Egyptian government, under the Khedives, was retained, British advisors attached to the various ministries were more influential than their ministers, while the Consul General steadily increased his control over the whole administrative machine.
In this milieu, the Brotherhood was set up as a religious secret society known publicly for its emphasis on Islamic education and for its charitable activities. But soon after it was formed, a British intelligence agent, Freya Stark, appeared on the scene in Egypt.
Stark, a self-proclaimed Jew-hater, was a wandering agent of British intelligence during the Second World War. In her book East Is West (1945), she compared "Fascist Rome," "Zionist Jerusalem," and the "British Empire." She wrote: "The skein of the Middle East in all these centuries has gathered threads of very many colours; and no return to simple black and white will ever be possible again—whether it be the dream of Fascist Rome or Zionist Jerusalem, or that British form of empire which has become obsolete."
Stark served with the British in the Middle East to help counteract Nazi influence in Aden, Cairo, and Baghdad. Later she was also sent on missions to the United States, Canada, and India. Once in Cairo, she soon set up the Ikhwan al-Hurriyah (Brotherhood of Freedom), ostensibly to keep track of the growing German activities in North Africa. Soon she made contact with the Brotherhood and became a source for London on the many different political movements that were springing up in Egypt, with the help of Banna and his people.
In other words, since its very inception, the Muslim Brotherhood has been a stool pigeon for British intelligence.
But this was not the only face of Banna's "Islamic" outfit, and the MB soon moved into its next phase, developing links with the Nazis.
Hitler with a Beard
As the Nazis rose to power in the 1930s, the Brotherhood was in the ascent in British-controlled Egypt. According to John Loftus, former prosecutor with the U.S. State Department and a former Army intelligence officer, in addition to its initial focus on social welfare and Sharia law, the Brotherhood attracted followers in Egypt and in the broader Middle East because of its anti-Jewish stand. By the end of World War II, the MB could boast of half a million members. Its founder, al-Banna, helped to distribute Arabic translations of Hitler's Mein Kampf and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, thus fueling the rising hostility toward Jews and their Western supporters. Banna expressed his zeal in these words: "To a nation that perfects the industry of death and which knows how to die nobly, God gives proud life in this world and eternal grace in the life to come," and, "We are not afraid of death, we desire it.... Let us die in redemption for Muslims."
"Mr. al-Banna was a devout admirer of a young Austrian writer named Adolf Hitler. His letters to Hitler were so supportive that when Hitler came to power in the 1930s, he had Nazi intelligence make contact with al-Banna to see if they could work together," Loftus said. The Brotherhood's political and military alliance with Nazi Germany blossomed into formal state visits, de facto ambassadors, and overt and covert joint ventures.
When World War II broke out, Banna worked to firm up his alliances with Hitler and Mussolini. He sent them letters and emissaries, and urged them to assist him in his struggle against the British and the westernized regime of Egypt's King Farouq. The intelligence service of the Muslim Brotherhood, even while penetrated by British intelligence, established a spy network for Nazi Germany throughout the Arab world, collecting information on the heads of the regime in Cairo and on the movements of the British Army, offering this and more to the Germans in return for closer relations.
Loftus also spoke about another prominent member of the Brotherhood, Haj Mohammad Effendi Amin al-Husayni, who was both the organization's representative in Palestine and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (a position that was appointed by the British, while Palestine was under British occupation, 1917-48). Before becoming Grand Mufti in 1921, al-Husayni had been a principal organizer of the 1920 "Bloody Passover" massacre of Jews who were praying at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall.
While the Grand Mufti's Nazi connection is widely known, his rise to power was British-Zionist handiwork. Though himself a Jew, Sir Herbert Samuel, the British High Commissioner of the Palestine Mandate and a Zionist (his appointment as High Commissioner was welcomed by the Zionists at the time), appointed al-Husayni in spite of vigorous protests from most Palestinian Arabs, as well as from Jewish settlers.
Following a failed attempt to create a pro-Nazi uprising in Iraq, the Grand Mufti fled to Europe to organize Arab forces disguised as SS divisions for the Third Reich. Though a war criminal, the Grand Mufti and his troops were spirited away from prosecution in Egypt by the British secret service, Loftus noted.
The first known direct contact between British officials and the Brotherhood came in 1941. Immediately thereafter, the Brotherhood began its next phase: the establishment of the widely feared "secret apparatus." Beginning in 1941-42, the Ikhwan set up this private intelligence arm, which rapidly became a widespread terrorist, paramilitary, and intelligence branch of the Brotherhood.
Mark Curtis points out in his book (see footnote 2) that by 1942, Britain had definitely begun to finance the Brotherhood. On May 18, 1942, British Embassy officials held a meeting with Egyptian Finance Minister Amin Osman Pasha, in which relations with the Brotherhood were discussed, and a number of points were agreed upon. One was that "subsidies from the Wafd [Party]—a moderate nationalist party—to the Ikhwan al Muslimeen would be discreetly paid by the [Egyptian] government and they would require some financial assistance in this matter from the [British] Embassy." In addition, the Egyptian government "would introduce reliable agents into the Ikhwan to keep a close watch on activities and would let us [the British] have the information obtained from such agents. We, for our part, would keep the government in touch with information obtained from British sources."
The Cold War Face
The defeat of the Nazis and the assassination of al-Banna in 1949, after Brotherhood members had assassinated the Egyptian prime minister, did not prevent the Brotherhood's growth in Egypt. Through a complex process, the group's relations with Britain continued to flourish. In October 1951, the MB elected as its new leader a former judge, Hassan al-Hodeibi, who made known his opposition to the violence of 1945-49. In 1951, the Brotherhood called for a jihad against the British, including attacks on Britons and their property. But, it was a dog-and-pony show.
"A British embassy report from Cairo in late 1951 stated that the Brotherhood 'possess[es] a terrorist organisation of long-standing which has never been broken by police action', despite the recent arrests. However, the report otherwise downplayed the Brothers' intentions towards the British, stating that they were 'planning to send terrorists into the Canal Zone' but 'they do not intend to put their organisation as such into action against His Majesty's forces'. Another report noted that although the Brotherhood had been responsible for some attacks against the British, this was probably due to 'indiscipline', and it 'appears to conflict with the policy of the leaders.' "
In December 1951, Curtis notes, the files show that British officials were trying to arrange a direct meeting with Hodeibi. Several meetings were held with one of his advisors, Farkhani Bey, about whom little is known, although he was apparently not himself a member of the Brotherhood. The indications from the declassified British files are that Brotherhood leaders, despite their public calls for attacks on the British, were perfectly prepared to meet them in private. By this time, the Egyptian government was offering Hodeibi "enormous bribes" to keep the Brotherhood from engaging in further violence against the regime, according to the British Foreign Office.
In July 1952, a group of young nationalist army officers, committed to overthrowing the Egyptian monarchy and its British advisors, seized power in a coup, and proclaimed themselves the Council for the Revolutionary Command (CRC), with Gen. Muhammad Naguib as chairman, and Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser as vice-chairman. The coup was a joint project of many foreign intelligence networks in conjunction with Egyptian Army officers, especially British, American, and French-linked forces, along with core Egyptian nationalists. However, some analysts claim that General Naguib was closely linked to the Brotherhood, as was Anwar Sadat, who later became President of Egypt and was assassinated. When Finance Minister Amin Osman Pasha was assassinated in 1946, Sadat was arrested for his murder.
Curtis points out that the Muslim Brotherhood, pleased to see the back of the King's pro-Western regime, initially supported the coup, and indeed had direct links with the Free Officers. One of them, Sadat, later described his role as the pre-coup intermediary between the Free Officers and Hassan al-Banna. "He was clearly one of the Free Officers on whose association with them the Brethren counted to help further their political aims," Britain's Ambassador to Cairo, Sir Richard Beaumont, later wrote, after Sadat had succeeded Nasser as President in 1970.
The Brotherhood's problem was Prime Minister Gamal Abdel Nasser. They considered him and his supporters as insufficiently devout, but Nasser was popular and was hated by the British.
Nasser responded to the hostilities of the Brotherhood by charging them with having set up an armed organization to seize power by force. On Oct. 26, 1954, a gunman shot at Nasser as he delivered a speech in Alexandria. Nasser's government blamed the Brotherhood, and thousands of its members were rounded up. The banning of the Brotherhood was a setback for the Western powers that wanted Nasser out, or dead.
On the other hand, Nasser was trying to stabilize Egypt by undermining subversive forces such as the Brotherhood and its British ally. He moved quickly to modernize and industrialize the country, and to assert his nation's independence. He reached out to the United States and to the World Bank to help him finance the construction of the Aswan Dam, but when they both refused, he was forced to turn to the Soviet Union.
On July 26, 1956, Nasser did what should have been done decades before: He evicted the British colonials from the Suez Canal zone. "On 26 July in Alexandria, in a calm speech, but one that was described by London as hysterical, Nasser made his nationalization announcement, which from a strictly legal point of view was no more 'than a decision to buy out the shareholders.' That night in Downing Street, [British Prime Minister Anthony] Eden's bitterness at the decision was not concealed from his guests.... Eden summoned a council of war, which continued until 4 a.m. An emotional Prime Minister told his colleagues that Nasser could not be allowed, in Eden's phrase, 'to have his hand on our windpipe.' The 'Muslim Mussolini' must be 'destroyed.' Eden added: 'I want him removed and I don't give a damn if there's anarchy and chaos in Egypt.... Former Prime Minister Churchill had fueled Eden's fire by counseling him about the Egyptians, saying, 'Tell them if we have any more of their cheek we will set the Jews on them and drive them into the gutter, from which they should have never emerged.' "
Sir Anthony Nutting, a member of the Foreign Office at the time, recalls an irate phone call from Eden who was upset at the slow pace of the campaign against Nasser. Eden raged, "What's all this poppycock you've sent me? ... What's all this nonsense about isolating Nasser or 'neutralizing' him, as you call it? I want him destroyed, can't you understand? I want him murdered....' "
The Present Face of the MB:
Hired Assassins of the West and Saudi Arabia
Nasser's arrest of its leaders and banning of the organization did not kill off the Brotherhood in Egypt. It had already sunk its roots deep inside the country, and as Sadat's case shows, it had its facilitators inside the Army as well. One reason perhaps was that the Egyptian population was not fully aware of who the controllers of the Brotherhood were, and considered it as an indigenous outfit that opposed the Western colonial forces. The Brotherhood's formal opposition to the Israeli occupation of Palestine could have been yet another factor in its survival.
The other reason, of course, was the intensification of the Cold War, and the Brotherhood was considered by a section of anglophile Western policymakers as the poison that could kill the Soviet Union. This was exhibited in the 1980s, when the Soviet Army invaded Afghanistan, and the West and the Saudis, among other Sunni Persian Gulf Arabs, brought in killers waving the Islamic Jihad flag. These were the Brotherhood's followers, working under different organizational structures.
Nonetheless, what Nasser's banning of the Brotherhood did accomplish was the internationalization of the Brotherhood, bringing under its rubric various militant Sunni groups widely identified as the Salafis and Saudi Arabia's poison pill, the Wahhabis. These forces were very much in the spotlight during the recent rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, following the dismantling of the Mubarak regime, which put Morsi, a U.S.-educated Egyptian engineer, at the helm in Cairo.
Following Nasser's banning of the outfit, most of the Brothers ended up in Saudi Arabia, but not all. Some fled to Syria, where students returning from Egypt in the 1930s had founded a branch. Eventually, the Syrian government would grind them under its heel and send the Brothers scurrying again, mostly to Saudi Arabia, but some to West Germany (where they would establish the cells that set the stage for Sept. 11, 2001). Others remained in Syria, driven underground, but not out of existence.
But nobody contributed more than Her Majesty's Service in Britain in bringing these scattered jihadis under loosely bound organizations and making them flourish. The British protection of Islamic terrorist leaders began years ago, although it is difficult to nail down exactly when.
Radio Free Kabul was formed almost immediately after the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, by Lord Nicholas Bethell, a former lord-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II. Lord Bethell had served in the Mideast and Soviet sections of MI6. The Committee for a Free Afghanistan (CFA) was founded in 1981 in the aftermath of a trip by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Lord Bethell to the United States, dedicated to building support for the mujahideen. It provided funds for almost all the "Peshawar Seven" groups of mujahideen.
Osama bin Laden ran the Jihad Committee, which included the Egyptian Islamic group, the Jihad Organization in Yemen, the Pakistani al-Hadith group, the Lebanese Partisans League, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, the Bayt-el-Imam group in Jordan, and the Islamic Group in Algeria. He had already established a bureau in London, according to reports.
According to Michael Whine's September 2005 Hudson Institute paper, "The Advance of the Muslim Brotherhood in the UK," in 1996, the first representative of the MB in Britain, Kamal el-Helbawy, an Egyptian, stated, "There are not many members here, but many Muslims in Britain intellectually support the aims of the Muslim Brotherhood." He added that at that time, the object of the MB in Britain was only to disseminate information on Islam, Islamic issues, and movements, and to rectify the distortions and misunderstandings created by "different forces against Islam." In September 1999, the MB opened a "global information centre" in London. A press notice published in Muslim News stated that it would "specialize in promoting the perspectives and stances of the Muslim Brotherhood, and [communicate] between Islamic movements and the global mass media."
In July 1998, a former British MI5 officer, David Shayler, revealed that in February 1996, British security services financed and supported a London-based Islamic terrorist group, in an attempted assassination of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi. Then-British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind, in an interview with the British Daily Mail, sanctioned the action. Speaking to the BBC on Aug. 5, 1998, Shayler said: "We paid £100,000 to carry out the murder of a foreign head of state. That is apart from the fact that the money was used to kill innocent people, because the bomb exploded at the wrong time. In fact, this is hideous funding of international terrorism."
The Saudis complained several times to the British authorities about the activity of the expatriate Mohammed al-Massari, who called for the overthrow of the House of Saud, and asked for his extradition with particular insistence. He was rumored to be allied to Osama bin Laden, who apparently was maintaining a residence in the wealthy London suburb of Wembley. According to the same sources, London is also the headquarters of bin Laden's Advise and Reform Commission, run by Khaled al-Fawwaz.
On Nov. 17, 1997, the Gamaa-al-Islamiya group carried out a massacre of tourists in Luxor, Egypt, in which 62 people were killed. Since 1992, terrorist attacks led by this gang have claimed at least 92 lives. Yet, according to the Egyptian authorities, the leaders of this organization have been provided with political asylum in Britain, and repeated efforts to have them extradited met with stern rebuffs.
On Dec. 14, 1997, British Ambassador to Egypt David Baltherwick was summoned by Egypt's then-Foreign Minister Amr Moussa and handed an official note, demanding that Britain "stop providing a safe haven to terrorists, and cooperate with Egypt to counter terrorism." In an interview with the London Times the same day, Moussa called on Britain "to stop the flow of money from Islamic radicals in London to terrorist groups in Egypt, and to ban preachers in British mosques calling for the assassination of foreign leaders." The Times added that Moussa was "outraged by reports that £2.5 million had come from exiles in Britain to the outlawed Gamaa-al-islamiya."
Or, take the case of Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the spiritual leader of the MB. He was imprisoned under King Farouq in 1949, then three times during the reign of President Nasser, until he left Egypt for Qatar in 1961. He arrived in London in 2004, according to the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB). On Aug. 11, 2004, Anthony Browne, in his column with the Spectator, titled "The Triumph of the East," pointed out that Qaradawi, who was welcomed by the leftist Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone ("Red Ken"), in his broadcast in 1999, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, had said: "Islam will return to Europe. The conquest need not necessarily be by the sword. Perhaps we will conquer these lands without armies. We want an army of preachers and teachers who will present Islam in all languages and in all dialects."
Al-Qaradawi returned to Egypt in 2011 in the wake of the Egyptian Revolution.
Londonistan: Refuge of Islamic Terrorists
Because of the myriad of Islamic terrorist outfits that operate from Britain under the protection of MI6 and the British government, it was the French who began to call the British capital "Londonistan." In the 1990s, the French security services became alarmed and frustrated by the growing presence of Algerian Islamists who used London as a rear base from which to conduct their terrorist campaign against France. They were mostly, but by no means all, members of the Armed Islamic Group (Groupe Islamique Armée, GIA).
According to French sources, the GIA, which was responsible for the assassination of Algerian President Mohamed Boudiaf on June 29, 1992, has its international headquarters in London. Sheikh Abu Qatabda, who has recently been extradited to Jordan, and Abu Musab communicated military orders to GIA terrorists operating in Algeria and France via the London-based party organ, al-Ansar.
Sheikh Abu Qatabda was granted asylum in Britain in 1992, after he was condemned to death in Algeria for acknowledging responsibility for a bombing at the Algiers Airport. A third London-based GIA leader, Abu Fares, oversees operations against France. He was granted asylum in Britain in 1992, after he was condemned to death in Algeria for acknowledging responsibility for the same operation that killed 9 people and wounded 125 at the Algiers Airport. He was also suspected of bombing three Paris train and subway stations and an open-air market. France sought the extradition of some of the terrorists in connection with the bombings in Paris during the 1980s. The British authorities took the view, however, that they should be granted asylum, provided they had committed no crimes on British soil.
Among the Arab Islamist ideologues who had been granted asylum—and in some cases, the indefinite right to stay, or even British citizenship—was Rashid Gannouchi, who heads the Tunisian Ennahda party. Gannouchi had left Tunisia on completion of a prison sentence for terrorist offenses in 1989. After 22 years in Britain, he returned to Tunisia to take control of the Brotherhood, following the fall of President Zine el Abidin Bin Ali in 2001. In 2012, he was awarded the Royal Institute of International Affairs' prize by Prince Andrew, Duke of York, for "the successful compromises achieved during Tunisia's democratic transition."
Beside the Libyan Fighting Group members, who were sent back to Libya in 2011 to kill Qaddafi, Britain protected and allowed to flourish the Syrian expatriate Omar Bakri Fostock (aka Omar Bakri Mohammed), who, with another Syrian expatriate, Farid Kassim, founded a branch of Hizb ut-Tahrir (Islamic Liberation Party, HT) in 1986. He had arrived in Britain, after being expelled from Saudi Arabia, to where he claims he had fled from Syria after the late President Hafez al-Assad's crackdown on the MB. In Saudi Arabia he claims that he was active in another group with a similar ideology, al-Muhajiroun (The Emigrants). HT has now become an international terrorist outfit with a strong presence in Central Asia, Pakistan, and northern Lebanon.
In 2006, National Public Radio, citing a New Statesman article, pointed out that Britain was "planning" to engage with the Muslim Brotherhood. NPR said:
"Well, the memo is from a senior member of the Foreign Office's Israel, Arab, and North Africa Working Group. And it is part of the broader strategy within the British Foreign Office called 'Engaging with the Islamic World.' This person is suggesting to other various senior members within the British government that they should, indeed, engage with political Islam and engage specifically with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and also recommending that the U.S. and EU countries do the same. There has been an MI6 study within the British government that says that there is no direct violence that is caused by the Muslim Brotherhood, although some donations are probably finding their way towards Hamas and other people...."
Finally, a glimpse of what some of the British security people think of the MB: Dr. Robert Lambert, the former head of the London Metropolitan Police's Muslim Contact Unit, wrote, in a Dec. 5, 2011 article in the New Statesman, that "Britain can be proud of how it has provided a safe haven for members and associates of the Muslim Brotherhood during the past three decades. Many escaped imprisonment and torture in countries run by corrupt dictators strongly supported by the West until the Arab spring. Now some are returning to their countries of origin to help build new democracies and bulwarks against future dictatorships in the Arab world."
 Mark Curtis, Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam (London: Serpent's Tail Ltd., 2010).
 "Muslim Brotherhood: London's Shock Troops for the New Dark Ages," EIR, May 8-May 14, 1979.
 Stephen Dorril, MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service (New York: Free Press, 2000).
 Evelyn Shuckburgh, Descent to Suez, Foreign Office Diaries 1951-1956: From Churchill's last government to the Suez Crisis under his handpicked successor, Anthony Eden (London: W.W. Norton, 1986).
 Robert Baer, Sleeping with the Devil (New York: Crown Publishers, 2003).
 Hichem Karoui, "The British Connection: Is there an Islamist Conspiracy against the West run from London?" Media Monitors Network, Sept. 24, 2001.

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Perhaps you, like me, have read the gospel accounts many times. If so, they are familiar--maybe even overlooked. I started a chronological read through the Bible a couple of years ago and am just now at the gospels-! There have been a couple of interruptions as I've come alongside others to get their own discipline of Bible reading off and running. I've stopped to catalog and organize books like Proverbs just to get a better grasp on knowing and remembering what God has to say.
This time, in reading through the four gospel accounts, I was moved to study each author's intent; to highlight words and phrases that point to their reason for writing about Jesus.
It's always been there--that's the way Scripture is--but it was like new. The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7), read differently today as I look at Jesus, the LORD and sovereign--the King on earth--humbly speaking to and leaving His words behind for those of us who would never otherwise hear Him.
Jesus promises heavenly rewards and eternal consequences. Who does that? Who has that authority? Who even knows?
Who, but the Lord, can promise the kingdom of heaven? (v. 3, 10)
Who, but the Lord, can promise comfort? (v. 4)
Who, but God Himself, provides satisfaction? (v. 6)
Who, but God, extends mercy? (v. 7)
Who can promise an audience with God, face to face? (v. 8)
Who, but Jesus, guarantees me an identity with God--as His child? (v. 9, 16, 45, 48)
Who, but the Lord, can personally extend the riches of Heaven? (v. 12)
Who, but Jesus, determines one's entrance to Heaven? (v. 20)
Who, but God, determines my eternal, heavenly reputation? (v. 19)
And, who, but God, has the power of hell at His disposal? (v. 22, 29, 30)
It's no wonder that as Jesus spoke to the people, they sat in awe and wonder. This God, this Christ, came to them in human form and extended Himself--His riches, His kingdom, His very life--for their benefit.
Oh, God, forgive us for taking you lightly, for not looking on you with the reverence and wonder you deserve. Forgive us for our blindness, arrogance, and earthly distraction. We are so lost, so unaware, so ignorant of Your greatness, power, and might.
May today be a day you see Jesus more clearly as the Lover of you soul, the Son of God, the Alpha and Omega, beginning and the end--and worship.
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Righteous and true are Your ways,
King of the nations!
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For You alone are holy;
For all the nations will come and worship before You,
For Your righteous acts have been revealed.” Revelation 15:3-4

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There’s an old saw that if bumblebees were aeronautical engineers they would know they can’t fly. Quite apart from the miracle of their flight, bees also happen to make a lightweight structure of surprising strength, just the sort of thing you’d want if you were building aircraft: honeycomb.
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From Boeing 787s to new Navy destroyers, fiber-reinforced composites are gaining in use. As production scales up, more-efficient manufacturing remains a focus. One key to that efficiency is tooling for composites. These molds and forms give the final shape to a part, and are often integral to their final curing.
Lightweighting is so established it’s now part of marketing for new vehicles. Automakers routinely detail how much less models weigh than their predecessors. General Motors Co., for example, has said a range of its vehicles is anywhere from almost 250 lb (112.5 kg) to 700 lb (315 kg) lighter.
Oerlikon announced today that it will be building a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Plymouth Township, Michigan, USA, dedicated to producing advanced materials for additive manufacturing and high-end surface coatings.
Solid-state laser technology has matured, leading to development of new, cost-effective welding applications, such as hybrid welding
The growing need for nano and micro components in the medical industries is challenging manufacturers to continually improve upon their manufacturing processes and take a scientific approach to injection molding and tooling.
Today, laser technology in manufacturing touches all of our lives on a daily basis; lasers cut air bag material and weld air bag detonators for our in-car safety; lasers weld the batteries in many of our mobile devices; lasers drill aero-engine components for planes; lasers cut the glass for our smart phones and tablets screens; lasers weld the drivetrains in our cars and trucks; lasers cut medical stents that increase and enhance our lives, just to name a few.
A recent effort by the Norton Advanced Applications Engineering Group demonstrates that for difficult-to-machine materials, grinding can be an economical alternative to other machining processes.
The additive manufacturing revolution is in full stride, flying in aircraft and giving manufacturers a robust tool for design and production
Northbrook, IL-based 3D printing company develops an all-new additive technology that can create functional, complex, high-strength parts out of composites.


I’m always looking for ways to speed up my Mozilla build, since it allows me to test my changes even quicker. I was really excited when I found out about make -s tier_app, since it sped up my compiles by a huge amount.
make real 10m22.630s user 4m28.072s sys 1m27.807s
make -s tier_app real 0m14.426s user 0m6.502s sys 0m3.957s
But yesterday, on IRC, I heard about libs_tier_app, which is ever faster, if you haven’t changed any IDL files (which I usually don’t).
make -s libs_tier_app real 0m9.407s user 0m5.440s sys 0m3.065s
Okay, it’s not nearly as good as going from 10 and a half minutes to 15 seconds, but a 30% (or is it 50%) speedup is still nothing to sneer at.


This year could be a bumper one for South Africa’s renewable energy programme as prices could drop if the sector can sort out its problems with Eskom.
After starting with a bang, South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) hit the skids in 2016 after Eskom withdrew its support.
However, Khulu Phasiwe, Eskom’s spokesperson, told City Press that the state utility was ready to sign 39 new contracts.
This will come as a relief for big renewables investors such as Mainstream Renewable Power, whose CEO is Eddie O’Connor.
“Eskom has been making noises that they are pro-nuclear and not very fond of renewables,” he said.
Industry leaders such as SA Wind Energy Association (Sawea) CEO Brenda Martin are hopeful that 2017 will iron out the difficulties of the last year. “There are indications that the government will overcome the Eskom delays,” she said.
O’Connor agreed, saying they remained convinced that the South African government was still committed to renewable energy.
This, coupled with the release at the end of last year of the draft Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), which allocates an additional 37 400 megawatts to wind energy by 2050, suggested that this short-term obstacle was a bump in the road, Martin said.
Since South Africa’s renewable programme launch in 2011, it has procured around 6.3 gigawatts of generation capacity across wind, solar photovoltaic (PV) and concentrated solar power, representing around R193 billion of private sector investment as of June 2016.
Up to now, about 2 310MW of renewables have been connected to the grid.
The latest IRP model, released last month, could present a bright future – if the model that does not limit renewables is selected.
This model states that, between 2023 and 2050, more than 50 000MW of solar PV and, between 2025 and 2050, more than 106 000MW of wind energy should be added to the grid.
Phasiwe said that, to date, Eskom has signed 64 power purchase agreements (PPAs) for a total of 4 000MW under the REIPPPP, and two PPAs for the open-cycle turbines for over 1 000MW.
He said that, in addition to the signed PPAs, there are 2 383MW of renewable PPAs remaining to be signed, made up of 39 contracts.
He said that these had been approved by the Eskom board’s investment and finance committee and the necessary approvals had been received from the minister of public enterprises.
“Furthermore, Nersa [National Energy Regulator of SA] has provided the necessary assurances for cost recovery of these power purchase agreements,” he said.
Martin said the programme’s expansion all hinged on Eskom signing the PPAs and releasing the bottleneck this delay has caused.
She said that if current allocations in the draft IRP were made policy in March 2017, it would contribute to investor confidence by laying out a clear path for wind energy until 2050.
Renewable energy pundits believe that prices will continue to drop, as indicated by research done by the CSIR.
In the REIPPPP, in just four years, the prices of onshore wind have fallen by 50%, whereas solar PV has fallen by over 75%.
O’Connor said Eskom was blocking the cheaper electricity from reaching the South African public in future.
The Energy Intensive User Group (EIUG), whose 32 members account for more than 40% of local energy consumed, said the generation from renewables was only a small fraction of the group’s demand.
“The generation from renewables is also intermittent and not suitable for the base load demand of large power users,” said spokesperson Jarredine Morris.
The group wants further investment in renewables, as well as investment in flexible back-up generation technologies such as gas, widely viewed as an ideal solution for fixing renewables’ intermittency problems.
Morris said the decreasing cost of renewables generation and the management of the grid points to a future where centralised generation stations – coal and nuclear – would be replaced by a multitude of smaller, modular renewable generators and energy storage technologies.
“SA is blessed with excellent solar and wind resources. However, the decarbonisation of the grid will be a gradual process, running over several decades,” the group said.
Nicole Löser, attorney at the Centre for Environmental Rights, and O’Connor believed that next year’s primary battle around renewable energy would be mostly political.
“This unfortunately tied up with the larger political contestation around control of state-owned enterprises,” she explained. “We may have to go to court if [Eskom’s refusal to sign PPAs is] not resolved shortly.”
O’Connor saw the problem as political and not technical.
Sawea also submitted a complaint against Eskom to the state energy regulator last month due to Eskom’s refusal to sign PPAs.Read Fin24's top stories trending on Twitter: Fin24’s top stories


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The police understands the circumstances of the accident at the entrance to Sevastopol, near the village of Dergachi. As specified in the traffic police, the accident occurred this morning at 7:47.
The driver, born in 1986, driving a Lada Priora car for 70 km + 240 meters of the Simferopol — Bakhchisarai — Sevastopol highway, did not provide an advantage in driving to the Chevrolet car when turning left, driven by a driver, born in 1990, which was moving straight ahead in the opposite direction and collided with it. As a result of a traffic accident, three passengers of the Lada Priora car with injuries of varying severity were hospitalized in a medical institution. Drivers were not intoxicated— reported in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Sevastopol.
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Presidential clemencies are fairly well documented. Statistics can be seen at political scientist P.S Ruckman, Jr.’s web sites. However, much less is known about state clemency. The Clemency Report will try to collect historical statistics for the states over the coming months to help understand how clemency works in the laboratories of democracy.
We start with Florida’s 148 sentence commutations since 1980. Current Gov. Rick Scott has shortened sentences at a rate of less than 1 in 300,000 prisoners, far below the 1 in 1,000 rate that indicate a minimally functioning executive clemency process. Detailed data follow.
Florida governors can commute sentences with the approval of two of the three other statewide officeholders. Florida has statewide elections for attorney general, the chief financial officer and the agriculture secretary, in addition to governor. The state once elected six positions statewide, but streamline that to three in 2003 — without change how the constitutional requirement for a governor to get clemency approval.
What the numbers show:
- Democratic governors granted more commutations than Republicans.
- Current Republican Gov. Rick Scott has granted only one since taking office in 2011.
- Since 1980, half of sentence commutations have been for murder. One-fifth have been for drugs. The rest have been for other crimes, such as robbery and DUI Manslaughter.
- In one-fourth of cases, governors simply removed mandatory minimum sentences. In nearly 60%, governors released inmates for time served, often effectively the same as removing a mandatory minimum. In 18% of cases, sentences were reduced to specific level.
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Unfortunately Aspergers is often peppered with social and learning disorders that may make school life difficult or even unbearable for the child. Asperger's syndrome is a type of autism, and is a condition which affects a person's social interaction, interests and behaviour. As with all autism conditions, Asperger's is a spectrum condition Asperger syndrome, known as Asperger’s, is a developmental disorder considered as a milder autism spectrum disorder. This syndrome is characterized by the inability to interact socially or communicate well and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of Autism Spectrum Disorder, is a developmental disorder. Young people with Asperger’s Syndrome have a difficult time relating to others socially and their behavior and thinking patterns can be rigid and repetitive. The Online Asperger Syndrome Information and Support Center (OASIS, www.aspergersyndrome.org) has joined with MAAP Services for Autism and Asperger Syndrome to create a single resource for families, individuals, and medical professionals who deal with the challenges of Asperger’s syndrome, autism, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder/Not Otherwise Specified (PDD/NOS).
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Tesla driver’s family doesn’t blame vehicle
The family of a man who died when his Tesla hit a tractor-trailer says it doesn’t blame the car or its partially self-driving Autopilot system for his death.
Joshua Brown’s family released the statement yesterday. The National Transportation Safety Board is due to decide the cause of the crash today.
Brown, 40, died in May 2016 in Florida after a tractor-trailer turned in front of him. He was using Autopilot, which should brake automatically if it senses an impending collision. Brown’s family said he loved his Model S and understood Autopilot’s limitations, and that they believe both simply failed to see the truck in the moment before the crash. The family said Tesla has made “significant improvements” in its software because of the accident.
Bikini baristas sue city over new law
Seven bikini baristas and their coffee chain’s owner sued the city of Everett yesterday, saying a new ordinance banning bare skin violates their right to free expression.
The federal suit says the Everett City Council’s law denies bikini-stand employees the ability to communicate through swimwear, is vague and confusing and unlawfully targets women.
“Just like Starbucks with green aprons, UPS with brown trucks and outfits, and Hooter’s with short-orange shorts, the baristas’ attire evokes a message at work,” the lawsuit says, adding that such messages include “freedom, empowerment, openness, acceptance, approachability, vulnerability and individuality.”
The new law requires workers to wear at least tank tops and shorts, and singles out “quick service” restaurants, such as fast food and food trucks.


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A very unusual galvanised riveted jug, completely original. This would make a lovely decor piece for a country kitchen or farm. Believed to be used for storing paraffin but not sure?
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Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari as he turns 77 on Tuesday, Dec. 17. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Olisa Ifeajika, in Asaba on Monday, the governor described the septuagenarian Nigerian ...Read More
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Roughly three decades after downtown’s Fulton County Government Center was built, the facility is due for some upgrades, in terms of both aesthetics and functionality.
On Wednesday, the county’s Board of Commissioners will review a proposal for what could become a roughly $1.2 million overhaul of the building’s front stoop.
In 2016, officials came up with a design that would have resulted in the Government Center’s entry plaza becoming a glistening water garden.
The following year, county leaders approved a $1.4 million budget for the water plaza project, although it looks like that plan has fizzled out.
Recent designs call for a more open, pedestrian-friendly plaza that could be used to host nearly 500 people for events.
The new idea will cost about $230,000 less than the water garden idea to build, and, over the course of 30 years, cost roughly $1.26 million less to maintain, according to those plans.
Should the county commission approve the proposal for the plaza revamp, officials could move forward with design development and permitting.
The Government Center’s atrium is also due for an upgrade, which could entail ditching an old fountain and waterfall feature (the water pumps have had issues since at least 2015), replacing a decorative pyramid at the Justice Complex bridge entry with marble flooring, and upgrading lighting with LEDs.
These projects wouldn’t be the first time downtown government structures were reworked to accommodate the general public in recent years.
In 2015, a 60-year-old parking deck was replaced by Liberty Plaza, a gathering space across the street from the Georgia State Capitol.


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Research on the history of this property is currently under way by the Museum of Perth in partnership with the Town of East Fremantle. If you have any stories or information about this property, please contribute it in the comments below.
1912 - 1916: Swain, John R.
1917 - 1920: Manders, Henry E.
1921 - 1949: Manders, Henry Francis


Contrary to what we had seen during the gap Allu Arjun took between his last movie’s release and the present ‘Ala Vaikuntapuramlo‘ movie, the stylish star has lost oodles of weight and has transformed into a fitter look.
So, what’s the secret of this transformation that is making his die-hard fans go berserk with regarding his looks? According to the close sources to the actor, Allu Arjun followed a strict ketogenic diet that has helped him lose the extra weight that he gained when he wasn’t shooting.
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It began with a basketball-sized bundle of technology called Sputnik 1. Launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, the worlds first artificial satellite was followed four months later by the first U.S. satellite, Explorer 1. The race into space was on, and with it came a new way of looking at the Earth. The first aerial photographs had been taken a century earlier by a French hot-air balloonist. Balloons were briefly used to gather military intelligence during the U.S. Civil Waruntil it became apparent that they were not immune to gunfire.
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by ValK on 14 August 2020 - 16:08
as for your friend's dog, hard to say without knowing dog and his handler. but if a person is able to manage that dog, it's still not bad.
for breeding purpose, i believe breed need dogs like this. way too many soft and submissive GSDs around.
just selection for mating must be done wisely.
Nans, i guess it's all depends on person and how relation with dog have been build.
by Koots on 14 August 2020 - 18:08
Valk - this is the ped of my dog bred by my friend (sire is dog I described). This was not my dog but same ped:
My dog was very stable, guidable, clear-headed, had strong nerve, great environmental soundness, and was open/social. He was a great dog, and went on to become a certified K9 (Victoria, BC). His handler later moved to Australia & took the dog with him. I visited them while on vacation there, many years later, and the dog was a happy-go-lucky guy.
Point is, even though the sire of my dog had that 'dominance' about him, it did not make my dog like that. My dog was able to switch handlers when he became a police K9 candidate and perform well with his LE partner.
by Baerenfangs Erbe on 14 August 2020 - 18:08
Right now I have an incredibly resilient and strong dog that lives for the fight but he is the sweetest, most gentle dog in social situations. He's loyal to a fault. You would never know what this dog is, if you met him on the farmers market.
I grew up with these type of dogs. You can absolutely have a strong dominant yet social dog. They don't have to be assholes! That's what makes a German Shepherd dog what is a German Shepherd Dog.
by Hired Dog on 14 August 2020 - 18:08
You are correct, they dont have to be assholes, but, most of them are. It may depend on how they were raised, kennel dogs VS house dogs, how old they were when they come into your life, etc.
Training also has a lot to do with it also...some people cannot train and cause more issues. I have yet to see a genetically true dominant dog that was not an asshole when pushed.
by apple on 14 August 2020 - 20:08
by GSCat on 15 August 2020 - 05:08
I found the bond between handler and dominant dog is much stronger than less/non-dominant dog. It takes a lot longer to forge, more difficult as others have noted, and a lot more work. The biggest problems are if the handler cannot do what is necessary, or there has to be a handler change, or the handler dies. The dog might never work with anyone else if he/she bonded with the original handler. It's more/different than the one-person dog characteristic that many GSD have.
Add in some true handler aggression characteristics in the dog and the bond is stronger yet when established. The relationship is also a little different (not better or worse, just different).
PS: In case someone new to GSD is reading this now or in the future, not for the faint-of-heart or inexperienced, and not necessary for a GSD to be a *real* (civil/protective/working) GSD. If not worked properly, can actually be counterproductive. My personal preference only. There are a lot of people with a lot more knowledge and experience than me on here that do not prefer/like it.
by ValK on 15 August 2020 - 19:08
by apple on 15 August 2020 - 22:08
by ValK on 15 August 2020 - 23:08
well, look at the base - it's nothing else but redirection of dog's frustration to closest object. it's not necessarily should be handler. name come from fact, that person on the another end of leash very often is a person who turned out to be closest one to dog. but often that frustration can be redirected to person, who isn't dog's handler and just happened to be near by. the dog do not discriminate in this case whom to use to discharge itself.
in case of dominance, attack on handler is not redirection of frustration but calculated attempt to solve existed issue. person who holds that leash may consider self to be dog's handler but not necessarily that dog see it same way :)
b.t.w. handler aggression is not curable trait, when the rank's aggression in most cases can be solved.
by apple on 16 August 2020 - 08:08

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Electricity needs to be transmitted over large distances. The power plant where electricity is made could be hundreds of miles away and power plants all across the country are connected to each other through the power grid. Electricity is made at the power plant and a current is sent through the transformers to amplify the voltage to push the power over these lengthy distances.
The electrical charge travels through transmission lines, reaching the substation. The voltage is then lowered so that it can be transmitted on smaller power lines. It then travels through these smaller distribution lines, entering our homes.
High Voltage – Keep Out
Substations have fences around them to keep people out with high voltage warning signs on them. The voltage on the power line coming into your home is 240 volts. The distribution line is usually 7,200 volts while the voltage inside the substation is energized at more than 100,000 volts. Substation technicians are trained to work in high-voltage situations and to understand the functions of the equipment such as the oil circuit breakers, vacuum circuit breakers, earth testing, gas circuit breakers, the disconnect switches, the reactors, capacitors, instrument transformers and power transformers among others.
All You Need to Design and Maintain Substations
Engineering companies supply electrical test instruments, power cable accessories, PAT test equipment among others as well as specialist electrical services and reports. These include the likes of oil testing reports, cable mapping and metering system design. They provide everything needed to construct and also maintain high-voltage transmission and distribution substations.
Substations have switching- and control equipment as well as transformers. Instrument transformers for metering purposes, for instance, need to possess a high degree of accuracy to ensure accurate billing, and it is, therefore, imperative to inspect instrument transformers at regular intervals. This is to ensure the transformers react quickly in the event of a fault. The importance of transformer tests shouldn’t be underestimated and risks such as mixing up connections can be reduced simply by testing before use. A range of transformer testing equipment is available such as frequency response analyzers, oil testing kits, transformer ohmmeters and others.
A visual check and inspection of electrical equipment is carried out on all electrical equipment. The main substation equipment testing procedures include –
- A.C. Supply checks
- D.C. Supply Checks
- Internal Panel Wiring
- Scheme Checks
Relays will be checked to ensure no dirt in the magnet gaps and all connections will be checked for tightness on the relays. All devices will be checked so ensure they are clearly identified with the general arrangement drawings.
An earth survey is also conducted for the substation to get a value for the site earth resistivity. Standard earthing tests are carried out during erection stage of the substation. Inter-panel bus wiring will be tested as well as multi-core cables. Batteries and chargers will also be checked to ensure they have been assembled correctly.
Technical staff are shown safety precautions when working on substation equipment –
- How to de- energise transformers, battery banks, switchgear and breakers
- Safety considerations when approaching any substation job
- Knowing the process of how to ground a piece of substation equipment, isolating and de-energising it
- How to mark the area of the substation that is de-energised and to know precisely where test procedures will take place
- The testing process will also include safety precautions to observe during maintenance activities including repairing insulator and changing oil
- The proper clothing and tools required when working on battery banks.
The Right Processes to Avoid Catastrophes
Electrical substation failures occur any time of the year but perhaps more frequently during summer, and these failures result in the need for emergency electrical services because of the main areas without electricity. If there are loose connections, for instance, you could be looking at a thermal breakdown that won’t just result in no electricity, but a major electrical substation failure.
This is why it is so important to schedule regular maintenance checks to avoid problems such as substation failure. To do this, safety programs need to be in place and only trained and authorised workers be permitted to perform any kind of electrical maintenance.
Safety Needs to Receive Priority
Substation equipment testing procedures are important for the substation system. It is essential that safety with substations be given priority to avoid catastrophes. For fault locating to be efficient, highly trained technical staff require expert knowledge while working on high voltage power generation as well as transmission and distribution systems and equipment.


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He entered the Order of Benedictines in the monastery of Cluny. His uncle Urban II elevated him to the cardinalate and named him Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia ca. 1095. He participated in the papal election, 1099 and was a principal consecrator of Pope Paschalis II. He attended the council of Melfi in October 1100.
Date of his death is not recorded. He subscribed the papal bull for the last time on March 21, 1102. His successor in the see of Ostia (Leo of Ostia) appears for the first time on September 7, 1109, but is believed to have been created before 1107.
- Hans-Walter Klewitz, Reformpapsttum und Kardinalkolleg, Darmstadt 1957, p. 115 no. 4
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Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ:BBBY) stock is booming today, up 17.4% to trade at $11.67. This comes in reaction to news the home furnishings retailer tapped Target's (TGT) Chief Merchandising Officer Mark Tritton as its new CEO. An upgrade to "outperform" from "market perform" and price-target hike to $16 from $14 at Telsey Advisory -- representing expected upside of 60% to last night's close -- is only stoking the bullish flames, with the brokerage firm saying this announcement removes an "overhang" for BBBY.
Most analysts remain skeptical of the retail stock, with 12 of 15 calling it a "hold" or "strong sell" prior to today. Meanwhile, the average 12-month price target of $13.17 is an 11% premium to BBBY's current perch. This leaves the door open for more bull notes to come down the pike, should the security continue to race up the charts.
Short sellers are likely being caught off guard during today's surge, too, and a round of covering could strengthen buying power for Bed Bath & Beyond stock. The 65.2 million shares controlled by shorts represent more than half of BBBY's available float, or nearly 10 times the average daily pace of trading.
Early options traders today appear to be bracing for a quick pullback, though. The 34,000 options traded so far has already surpassed BBBY's average daily volume of 26,000 contracts, and the weekly 10/11 12-strike put is most active. It looks like new positions are being purchased here for a volume-weighted average price of $0.21. In this case, breakeven for the put buyers at the close tomorrow, Oct. 11, is $11.79 (strike less premium paid).
Looking closer at the charts, BBBY stock is up almost 60% from its nearly 22-year low of $7.31 from Aug. 15. The shares are now pacing toward their biggest one-day percentage gain since March 26, when they surged 22%, and their first close above their 120-day moving average since mid-May.

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While we love a signature dining experience like Victoria & Albert’s, there certainly comes a time where we have to wonder if it’s still worth the price. If you’ve been considering booking the Chef’s Table, you now have an additional $100 per person to consider. Let’s break the entire experience down to determine if a $350 dinner at Disney World is really worth it.
What is Victoria & Albert’s?
The Chef’s Table is quite literally the crème de la crème when it comes to Disney World dining. But to fully wrap our heads around WHY it’s so elegant, let’s first chat about the restaurant that the Chef’s Table calls home. Victoria & Albert’s is a AAA Five Diamond restaurant located in Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa.
Victoria & Albert’s is the most critically acclaimed restaurant in Disney World, and possibly even in the entire state of Florida. If you haven’t caught on by now, it’s an extremely high-end, luxury experience. It’s also a highly sought-after experience. Advance Dining Reservations go FAST at Victoria & Albert’s so be ready to book it at 7:00AM EST SHARP when that booking window opens up.
Needless to say, dining at Victoria & Albert’s is the ultimate “Signature” endeavor. On top of the extremely high price, there is also a strict dress code guests must adhere to, children under ten years of age are not permitted, and the Disney Dining Plan is not accepted.
But folks who have been lucky enough to grab a reservation and get to eat at Victoria & Albert’s say that it is a one-of-a-kind dining experience that is NOT to be missed. Our experiences here have been stellar. In our opinion, any restaurant that comes with a HUGE menu of JUST Still Water options is at least worth checking out. 😉
Victoria & Albert’s is broken up into three separate dining rooms, each with their own unique experience. First is the Main Dining Room, where most guests are seated. The room itself is very elegant and features a live harpist most nights! In the past, guests in the Main Dining Room would choose between a seven or ten-course menu, but they’ve recently switched to the Chef’s Degustation Menu.
The Chef’s Degustation Menu allows guests to choose anywhere between eight and twelve courses. Guests receive personalized menus that Victoria & Albert’s begins to construct about a week prior to your reservation. You are contacted to go through any allergies, likes, and dislikes, at which point a menu is created especially for you.
For a more intimate dining experience, guests can dine in the Queen Victoria Room. Currently, this room only accommodates up to eight guests at a time spread out over four tables of two, and you are also served a version of the Chef’s Degustation Menu.
As for the food itself, Victoria & Albert’s prides itself on having a superb menu filled with rare ingredients from around the state, country, and world. According to Disney’s website, their menu features “truffles from Italy, Russian Osetra caviar, beef from Japan, poulet rouge from North Carolina and local Florida shrimp.”
Guests can also choose to add an optional wine pairing to their meal, which includes, according to Disney, “Over 700 selections of wine” with 4,200 bottles in their cellar, including such “rare and valuable vintages as 1961 Château Margaux and 1982 Château Mouton-Rothschild, plus a world-class collection of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti.” The wine pairing is an additional $150 per guest, regardless of which room you are dining in.
No matter where you dine at Victoria & Albert’s, we think you’re in for a real treat. But the reason we’re all gathered today is to talk about The Chef’s Table.
What is the Chef’s Table and why is it so expensive?
As we hinted at earlier, if you want to experience the absolute height of fine dining, the Chef’s Table is the place to be. This single table is located in the heart of the Victoria & Albert’s kitchen, and it only seats one party per evening. You may be surprised to find despite its higher price, the Chef’s Table feels a lot less “formal” than the Main Dining Room and Queen Victoria Room, as the setting is much more homey and you are literally right next to a brightly lit, bustling kitchen.
The service at the Chef’s Table takes approximately three hours and takes guests through a highly personalized menu where you get to sample the absolute best offerings coming out of the kitchen. The dining can only be matched by the entertaining service, as you get to interact with the chefs and learn anything and everything they’d like to share with you.
Those who have dined at the Chef’s Table often say that the best part is you get a front-row seat to all the action happening in the kitchen! So, ask as many questions as you want: you essentially have FULL ACCESS to the chefs! It’s a fascinating experience to get to see these talented chefs working and to get to hear their personal stories!
The Chef’s Table is a truly customized experience. Every guest’s preference is taken into account at Victoria & Albert’s, but those dining at the Chef’s Table are in for a real treat. The chefs that the guest’s interact with at the Chef’s Table craft their very own degustation menu that features all of their fresh and rare ingredients, depending on the party’s tastes. Don’t like chocolate? No problem. Allergic to shellfish? No worries! The chefs will work with you to get you a meal they know you’ll love!
But is it WORTH that pricetag?
A highly customized dinner sure sounds like the ultimate Disney World experience, but is it worth $250, soon to be $350? Since the wine pairing is considered an add-on in each of the three dining rooms, we won’t consider that as a factor (but if you can spring it, you totally should cause it’s pretty fantastic to go with this meal!).
All three rooms (Main Dining Room, Queen Victoria Room, and the Chef’s Table) are served some version of a personalized menu. While the Main Dining Room and Queen Victoria Room are served versions of the Chef’s Degustation Menu, those seated at the Chef’s Table receive an even MORE personalized experience and personalized selection of food.
The fact that Victoria & Albert’s pays super close attention to EACH individual diner’s preferences is a big plus and something you don’t find at every fine dining restaurant. At the Chef’s Table in particular, you’re dining there for not only amazing food, but a top-notch EXPERIENCE. If you’re going in thinking you’re just dropping a lot of money for just any old meal, you’re going in with the wrong mindset!
Even in Victoria & Albert’s, you can arguably get away with a “cheaper” dinner by choosing to dine in the Main Dining Room. If your goal is to say you ate at Victoria & Albert’s, you can do so without spending extra to dine at the Chef’s Table, and you will STILL have a spectacular evening; BUT you will still be shelling out a good chunk of change.
If you appreciate fine dining, the price may be justifiable to you. Really it comes down to your personal tastes and if this is an experience that you will truly appreciate and enjoy. There are other Signature Restaurants at Disney World that deliver high-quality food and service for a fraction of the cost. Keep in mind, however, that you will be losing out on that extremely personalized touch.
If you know you want to dine at Victoria & Albert’s but are unsure of which room is right for you, remember that the Chef’s Table will be a little louder and more laid back since you are literally in the middle of the restaurant’s kitchen. If you want a more romantic and quiet vibe, you may be better off in the Main Dining Room or — even more private — the Queen Victoria Room.
There’s no way around it — an evening at Victoria & Albert’s can add up quickly. For just a party of two to dine at the Chef’s Table you could also afford another night or two (or more!) at your resort, more days on your park tickets, being able to add a park hopper, adding the Disney Dining Plan, and much more!
Paying hundreds of dollars, even upwards of a thousand dollars, for a SINGLE meal is, frankly, excessive, even if you are used to Signature Dining experiences. Also remember that the Chef’s Table is roughly a three-hour experience, which is a hefty amount of time if you’re trying to maximize your time in Disney World!
BUT, it does have that “once in a lifetime” meal feeling to it. In the end, like all components of a Disney World vacation, it is truly up to YOU to determine if a $350 dinner at Disney World is worth the cost. But if you need some final persuading in either direction, we may be able to help!
The Chef’s Table may be worth it to you if:
- You want to try what is possibly the most personalized experience Disney World has to offer.
- You truly appreciate fine dining and all that it entails, so much so that a behind-the-scenes look at the kitchen makes your heart sing.
- You’re celebrating a very special occasion on your Disney World vacation.
The Chef’s Table may NOT be worth it to you if:
- You want to stretch your vacation dollars (and time) as much as possible.
- You aren’t the type of person that can easily justify spending hundreds on a single meal.
- You want to dine at Victoria & Albert’s but you’re seeking a more quiet, romantic environment.
Nope, it’s not an easy choice. But we will say this: we haven’t heard from many who have experienced the Chef’s Table and didn’t enjoy themselves!
Have you dined at the Chef’s Table before? Share your experience in the comments!

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