The new leader of the Parti Québécois (PQ), Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, is worried about the “anglicization of Montreal”, a phenomenon accelerated in his eyes by the economic recovery advocated by the government.
This is what hinted at the lawyer, Thursday, after a meeting with his deputies in Quebec.
“PSPP” is particularly tackling projects to expand the Dawson College campus and to fit out the Royal-Victoria Hospital to accommodate a pavilion for the McGill University Health Center. Both are included in Bill 66 of the Coalition Avenir Québec, the new version of Bill 61.
Public funds to anglicize Montreal
The new “parliamentary leader” of the PQ, Pascal Bérubé, had also tabled a motion last week, motion which went in this direction.
“The CAQ is taking public funds as part of the economic recovery to anglicize Montreal,” Paul St-Pierre Plamondon said Thursday. He fears that “in 2021 we will have more CEGEP places in English than places in French in the Montreal region”.
The PQ leader proposes to cut funding to English institutions to curb the trend.
Jolin-Barrette, “lone warrior”?
Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon deplores that Quebec has two faces in the promotion of French. In August, when confronted with statistics on the loss of speed of French in the metropolis, the minister responsible for the French language, Simon Jolin-Barrette, pledged to table a plan “over the next few months”. for the French language.
“I salute the courage of Simon Jolin-Barrette,” said the new PQ leader on Thursday, “but it is clear that within the CAQ, he is a bit of what one might call a lone warrior. That is to say, he goes out alone, always on the same themes, and his government is doing exactly the opposite. “
Asked about his intentions in terms of defending the language of Molière, Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon did not go so far as to say that Bill 101 should be extended in CEGEPs. “I keep the door open, but this is not, at the moment, our position because we think that the funding allows us more flexibility,” he said.
PSPP should table its first motion as leader next week, through Pascal Bérubé. She will report on the “linguistic emergency” in Montreal.


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The Wadi El Kebir in the region of Gafsa, on which the dam bearing the same name is planned, is a tributary of the Wadi Bayech and its watershed is half on Algerian territory. The site of the dam is located 15 km upstream from the city of Gafsawhich is considered the most advantageous because of the presence of a limestone spur on the left bank.
The main objectives of the Kebir dam in Gafsa are:
The recharge of the water table of Gafsa North ;
- The control of irrigation by spreading the flood waters of the plains located downstream;
- Laminating and cushioning flood waters in order to protect the city of Gafsa against floods.
The purpose of the contract is to elaborate the execution study of the dam on Oued Kebir, as well as to assist the General Directorate of Dams and Major Hydraulic Works in its missions of supervision of the execution of the works, the installation of the equipment and the coordination of all the actions to be carried out for the implementation of the project, on the technical, administrative and financial levels.
Veuillez attendre le temps de chargement

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Monogrammed Pillow | The House of Wood #monogram #pillow #nursery
Thinking of using burlap and broken seas shells ++ framing it instead of making a pillow.
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My next project: How to make your own unique monogram pillow. Perfect for monthly pictures to capture how the little ones grow :)
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View Full Version : philips 32pf9541/10 software update
01-08-2011, 06:37 PM
after the succesful update the tv did not turn on.does any1 know way?ai did exactly as in the redme file on the page Firmware Upgrade Readme File (http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/dcbint/cpcontent.pl?tmplt=ePlatform%20-%20Philips&scy=RO&slg=RON&mid=Link_Software&sct=LCD_TV_SU&cat=TV_CA&grp=SOUND_AND_VISION_GR&session=20110108140147_220.127.116.11&ctn=32PF9541/10&dct=FUS&did=ENG&reldct=FUR&file=/files/3/32pf9541_10/32pf9541_10_fur_eng.pdf#toolbar=0&zoom=100) from Here (http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/dcbint/cpindex.pl?tmplt=ePlatform%20-%20Philips&scy=RO&slg=RON&sct=LCD_TV_SU&cat=TV_CA&grp=SOUND_AND_VISION_GR&session=20110108140147_18.104.22.168&ctn=32PF9541/10&mid=Link_Software&hlt=Link_Software) pls help me!!!!!
01-08-2011, 06:41 PM
have you performed the upgrade with the LAN or with the USB key?
In the 2nd case, at the end of the upgrade procedure, have you unplugged the USB key before to switch off the TV?
01-08-2011, 06:47 PM
step 1 ai have copied to the usb stick the firmware downloded from the site
step 2 Switch the TV on
step 3 Insert the USB memory stick in the USB slot of the TV.
step 4 The TV switches off by himself,and swiches on and the update starts
step 5 on the screen apears the message operation successful
step 6 ai have Remove the USB memory stick from the TV.ai preses oance the power buton from the remote and ai have waited.......abaut 35-40 minutes and nothing hapent,the display was black.and black it remains sese then :(
01-08-2011, 06:51 PM
Strange, the procedure seems to be ok.
Have you contacted the Philips support center?
01-08-2011, 06:59 PM
yes ai did,but they sai that ai will recive an answer from them in 4 busines days :(
01-08-2011, 07:04 PM
If you want, form Monday to Friday, form 8 am to 8 pm , you can chat with the Philips support center in order to receive feedbacks faster.
01-08-2011, 07:05 PM


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Dr. Levy's CBT Blog
Insights on Well-Being, Contentment, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Let's say you have an important work deadline coming up, or an important meeting, or a job interview. You'll likely be a bit stressed about it, right? That's understandable - and useful! A reasonable amount of stress shows that we care about these critical tasks and can actually help us prepare better for them. However, every now and then, that stress gets out of hand...instead of encouraging us to be ready for the challenge, the stress mounts so high that it makes that challenge seem completely unattainable.
In the early 1900s, psychology researchers Robert Yerkes and John Dodson developed an empirical curve that illustrates our performance levels on a task relative to the stress levels present in that situation. It is easy to understand if you think about it in terms of a test at school. If there is no stress at all, we won't really prepare for the test, and might show up on the exam day without having done any studying. A good amount of worry and stress will encourage us to prepare for the test by reading the book chapters and doing the practice exercises, once...or maybe twice. An amount of stress beyond that might lead us to re-read all those chapters and re-do the practice exercises a few too many times, to the point where we may be too tired by the time the test comes along to get the best grades. And if we are really, really scared of the test, telling ourselves that it's way too difficult and we will never get a good grade on it, we may just throw our hands up in the air and not study for it at all. We may give up before we start, out of panic, exhaustion, and fear.
So, some stress is good. Too little or too much may lead to subpar performance. The question is how to modulate the stress to get it to the level that is good for you. There are many answers there, ranging from relaxation exercises to worry break and mindfulness moments to reappraising the importance and threat of the situations ahead. In TEAM-CBT, we have some great tools that can help with all of those!
Dr. Daniele Levy is a licensed psychologist offering CBT in-person and via Teletherapy in Menlo Park, CA. Her background uniquely combines leading edge training in behavioral sciences with deep expertise coaching and mentoring working professionals in dynamic organizations.
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Business area Civil Engineering
Greater need for infrastructure is driving a strong market
|Net sales, MSEK||11,825||10,740||10,448|
|Operating profit, MSEK||374||355||381|
|Operating margin, %||3.2||3.3||3.6|
|Orders received, MSEK||14,191||12,089||10,433|
|Order backlog on 31 December, MSEK||10,832||8,679||7,292|
|Number of employees on 31 December||3,344||3,080||3,019|
Business area Civil Engineering is a leading supplier in Sweden with operations in Norway and Finland as well. The business area works with landscaping and pipelines, builds and maintains roads, railroads, bridges and other infrastructure as well as foundation work. Operations are organized in geographic regions and the specialized product areas: Local market, Infrastructure and Operation and maintenance.
Business area Civil Engineering is active on the local civil engineering market working with landscaping and pipelines, foundation work and builds different kinds of facilities. In the area of infrastructure and heavy construction it builds roads, railroads, bridges, tunnels and ports. Civil Engineering also provides operation and maintenance for national and municipal highways and street networks as well as cares for parks and outdoor property. It also operates water and sewage supply networks. The business area cooperates extensively over regional and country borders for joint development and experience exchanges, project management as well as for creating scale advantages in larger and more complex projects.
THE BUSINESS 2017
The market in most places in both Sweden and Norway was characterized by good opportunities in infrastructure and the local market, concentrated to areas where population growth is intense.
Within certain segments the competition is stiff, partly due to companies from outside the Nordic area. During the year a certain decline was noted in some geographic areas, primarily where housing construction began to slow down.
The Finnish civil engineering market continues to be weak. Projects in the southern part of the country, in the Helsinki and Tammerfors areas, are a sign of some demand. Peab’s civil engineering operations are limited in Finland.
Infrastructure won several new projects in 2017, among them a section of E20 between Alingsås and Vårgårda of 15 kilometers and a bridge over Indal River at Lit. The new section of E22 past Linderöd was completed in December 2017, which was six months earlier than planned. In Norway Peab is building a section of highway on E6 between Trondheim and Melhus. It is expected to open for motorists in the spring of 2019.
The total market volume is relatively constant over time in operation and maintenance and contracts are normally renewed in cycles of 4-6 years. During 2017 Civil Engineering received ten contracts for road operation areas, nine of which were in Sweden and one was in Norway. Four of the contracts were for areas where Civil Engineering was already the entrepreneur. The total order value amounts to around SEK 1,100 million and stretches over 2017-2021 with extension options. The contracts are in Tingsryd, Gothenburg, Gävle, Gällivare, Strömsund, Sollefteå, Sundsvall, Karlstad and Södra Gotland as well as Romerike Øst in Norway. Civil Engineering’s contract with Helsingborg municipality for operation and maintenance of the city center and beaches was also renewed. It comprises the care and repair of parks, streets, sidewalks and bicycle paths, beaches as well as winter and year round preparedness. The contract is spread over 2018-2024 with an option to extend it for another three years.
During 2017 the first stage of construction of a new airport in Sälen commissioned by Scandinavian Mountains Airport AB was initiated. The completion of the project is planned for 2019.
As of 1 January 2017 the Swedish section of the product area Foundation Work is a part of business area Civil Engineering. The measure is expected to generate synergies and more efficient use of resources, in particular in projects with a substantial chunk of foundation work. The civil engineering company Tranab Markbyggnad AB was acquired in 2017, which strengthens Civil Engineering’s presence in the Örebro region. Tranab had net sales of SEK 264 million and 58 employees in 2016.
Continued strong trend for ECI and Partnering projects
Both ECI (early contractor involvement) and Partnering entail working in close collaboration with our customers to develop projects together. In 2017 business area Civil Engineering developed a refined work method and concept better suited to meeting customers’ expectations in these kinds of projects.
Internal measures lead to results
The long-term work Civil Engineering is doing on improving work methods and risk management in large projects has led to positive results. In order to further ensure a common and systematic work method based on continuous improvement Civil Engineering has developed its business management system with the goal of certifying it according to ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 during the first half-year 2018.
NET SALES AND PROFIT
Net sales for 2017 amounted to SEK 11,825 million (10,740) which was an increase of ten percent. After adjustments for acquired units net sales increased by eight percent. The increase during the year stems primarily from product areas Local market and Infrastructure.
Operating profit for 2017 amounted to SEK 374 million (355) and the operating margin was 3.2 percent (3.3).
ORDERS RECEIVED AND ORDER BACKLOG
Orders received during 2017 amounted to SEK 14,191 million (12,089). Two major road projects worth SEK 1 billion each were included last year. Order backlog on 31 December 2017 amounted to SEK 10,832 million (8,679).
Project allocation of order backlog, 31 Dec 2017
|Below 200 MSEK, 73% (66)||201 MSEK – 500 MSEK, 10% (13)||501 MSEK – 1,000 MSEK, 5% (0)||> 1,000 MSEK, 12% (21)|
Operating profit and margin
Net sales, %
|Local market, 55% (57)||56|
|Operations and maintenance, 18% (20)||18|
|Infrastructure and heavy construction, 27% (23)||27|
|Private, 25% (33)||25|
|Public, 62% (54)||62|
|Internal/other, 13% (13)||13|
Net sales, %
|Sweden, 91% (90)||91|
|Norway, 8% (9)||8|
|Finland, 1% (1)||1|


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Yesterday, set photos revealed Rosario Dawson on the set of Luke Cage season two alongside Mike Colter. And things were looking a bit steamy, but also there seemed to be a verbal dispute going on (based on the pictures alone of course).
But perhaps more surprising is that actress Lucy Liu was spotted on the set of Luke Cage in New York City. Harlem Coffee Co. posted a picture of the Liu with Mike Colter and the owner of Harlem Coffee Co.
You can check out the photos below.
A video of Liu on set was also released.
However, it’s not clear whether she was in a scene or directing an episode. It’d be great fun to see her in the Marvel Netflix show’s sophomore season as she would make a great addition to Luke Cage. As of right now, there’s nothing official yet, so who what role she could be playing or if she’s directing are all speculation at this point. But stay tuned to Heroic Hollywood for more information.
Would you like to see Lucy Liu on Luke Cage? If she is does have a role, who do you think she’s playing? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below!
New Comic Book Shows That Are Coming In 2017-2018
The current TV season is pretty much done as several comic book and superhero TV shows have concluded their respective seasons. All the comic book shows that aired this year will be back for the new TV season with The CW’s The Flash, Supergirl, Riverdale, iZombie, Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, with ABC bringing Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. back for another season and FOX giving Gotham and Lucifer another go.
FX is also bringing back their new comic book TV hit series with Legion while AMC is bringing back The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead for new seasons, along with their new Vertigo hit Preacher. While the comic book TV landscape is already epic in scope, it’s only going to get bigger next year. The 2017-2018 television season is going to be one of the biggest seasons of all time for comic book adaptations for both DC and Marvel.
To make it a bit easier to keep up with what is coming out next season, we have put together a perfect guide of what new comic book shows are coming to the silver screen. The shows that we have listed are those that have officially been picked up to series and been guaranteed a slot for the 2017-2018 TV season, for both broadcast television, cable and streaming services.
Several of these new comic book shows, while picked up to series, are still in the process of casting their leads as well as getting official premiere dates set. Hit the NEXT button below and let’s go through all the new exciting comic book and superhero television shows that are coming from DC and Marvel.

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Drake. My drop-dead gorgeous English Setter and incredible grouse dog. My best friend and hunting partner for 15 years. I held his head in my arms this morning while the vet administered that lethal injection, ending his pain and exacerbating mine. My heart is broken and is breaking as I type. I am crying like a baby.
I took the day off and have been drinking Irish whiskey since noon.
What a cruel joke that dogs live such a short time.
Rest in peace, buddy. I'll see you in the resurrection, God willing.

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This authentic Knabe grand with its original Ampico player system has been restored! The cost of restoration that was done by the previous owner was approximately $18,000. A rare opportunity to own such an instrument in excellent condition!Free or affordable delivery available.
Knabe 5'3" grand with original Ampico
$21,000.00 Regular Price

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Italy Under-21 captain Marco Motta said that what might have been was no good to the Azzurrini given the harsh reality of their semi-final defeat by Germany in the UEFA European Under-21 Championship.
The 23-year-old Motta, as much as anybody, could write a hard-luck story about Friday's match in Helsingborg after the right-back threatened the Germany goal with three first-half headers from identikit Sebastian Giovinco corners.
One effort struck the woodwork, another forced opposition keeper Manuel Neuer into a fine low save, while the third whistled centimetres past the far post.
Neuer would prove the Italian nemesis, making eleven stops compared with three by his opposite number Andrea Consigli, as Motta and company won the efforts on goal count by 27 to 12. The end result, though, was a 1-0 defeat.
"We are out and that is the only thing that counts," insisted the Roma defender. "I don't care about us hitting the post, the chances we created or how well we played.
"We are out of the tournament, full stop. Football is not about ifs and buts."
Andreas Beck's 48th-minute goal rendered any artistic merit by Pierluigi Casiraghi's side useless, even if Motta was able to call the overall campaign "a positive experience".
"I had a few chances, I tried to score, we could have been more precise... but we are out and that's all there is to say right now."
Italy's No.10 Giovinco, who glided effortlessly around the Olympia pitch during a particularly dominant first-half display by his team, was more inclined to appeal to Lady Luck.
"I think we have been unlucky throughout the tournament," said the 22-year-old Juventus attacker. "Given the number of chances we created, we deserved to reach the final.
"They had one shot and scored; we had several chances, hit the posts, had balls cleared off the line, but nothing.
"I think it was our destiny in this championship, because we had similar games against Serbia and Belarus in the group where the ball just wouldn't go in."
Giovinco, so light on his feet, was also able to turn and face the future. "We have nothing to regret," he added.
"I am very proud to have played with this group of players and I just hope we will have the chance to do it again in the senior national team. Maybe one day we will even get an opportunity to avenge this defeat."
If a tournament like this is an education in itself, then perhaps Italy's lesson was in learning to lose, however unfair that elimination felt.
"Games like this are strange, but that's also the beauty of football," said striker Mario Balotelli, whose finals statistics showed one goal and one red card for the Inter prodigy.
"You can't say we didn't score because we weren't good enough – it just wasn't our night. However, it was a good tournament and a useful experience."
[UEFA Euro U21 Championships 2009]

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Ennis singer Andrea Sheahan who will be singing at the annual World War One Remembrance event being held in St's Peter And Paul Cathedral Ennis on Armistice Day November 11th. Photograph by John Kelly.
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is 18 miles (29 km) of urban creeks and tributaries from southeast Shoreline
through northeast Seattle
to Lake Washington
. The creek is the largest watershed in Seattle, draining a 12-square-mile region of relatively dense biodiversity for an urban setting, home to frogs, newts, ducks, other birds an occasional beaver, in addition to over 200,000 people. From west of Jackson Park Golf Course in Shoreline
, from Sunny Walter-Pillings Pond in Licton Springs–North College Park
, and north Northgate
Thornton creek flows through Maple Leaf
and Lake City
and Matthews Beach neighborhoods
, emptying into the lake at Matthews Beach Park
Habitat and stewardship
Thornton creek flows through Meadowbrook Pond
, visited by migratory birds and an occasional transient beaver
. Prior to European settlement, Native Americans lived around Lake Washington. One of the eighteen historic home sites was identified near the mouth of Thornton Creek.
Early in the 1900s the creek was a spawning ground for fish (at least five species of Pacific salmon and trout), as well as habitat for insects, amphibians, muskrats, bats, coyotes, and birds. The areas surrounding the creek were developed without regard for the importance of maintaining habitat and a riparian
corridor; species diversity declined, and the creek became a typical, significantly degraded urban watershed. Storm water retention, sites restoration, an Environmental Learning Center adjacent to a school, and a fish ladder contributed to restoration and the return of native plants and wildlife.
For many decades much of the stream has run through culverts, notably under the car park of Northgate Mall. Building on gradual successes in restoration, activist neighbors initiated and have had some success working with the City of Seattle and developers toward daylighting parts of the buried creek. Organizations of citizens have cleaned up adjacent wetlands, educated the public about stream health and quality of neighborhood life, and rallied to bring more of the creek to daylight. Many restoration projects in Seattle have been in some way connected to or inspired by Thornton Creek.
Neighborhoods of the Thornton Creek watershed
- Bowditch, Elise; Wang, Man; and Wilson, Matthew "North Seattle Community College Trail Siting". GEOG461 Urban GIS, Department of Geography. University of Washington. Retrieved on 2006-04-21..
Elise Bowditch, Teaching Assistant; Man Wang, Teaching Assistant; Matthew W. Wilson, Research Associate.
- Boyer, Tom "Parking lot to become park for Northgate". Business & Technology. The Seattle Times, Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
- Brokaw, Michael "Grounds Department Wetland". North Seattle Community College Grounds Maintenance. Retrieved on 2006-04-21..
- Dolan, Maria; True, Kathryn (2003). Nature in the city: Seattle. Seattle: Mountaineers Books. ISBN 0-89886-879-3 (paperback).
- Hodson, Jeff "Restoration urged for Thornton Creek : Local News". The Seattle Times. Retrieved on 2006-04-21..
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- "Thornton Creek Watershed". Homewaters Project. Retrieved on 2006-04-21..
- "Licton Springs Neighborhood: Local Interest". Licton Springs Community Council. Retrieved on 2006-04-21..
- Mulady, Kathy "Thornton Creek may see daylight again". Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
- "Otter and Spawning Salmon Sighted in Thornton Creek". The Seattle Press, Retrieved on 2006-04-21.
Archive of The Seattle Press.
- "Seattle Parks - Matthews". Seattle Parks and Recreation. Retrieved on 2006-04-21..
History excerpted from Morgan, Brandt. Enjoying Seattle's parks. Seattle: Greenwood Publications, 1979. ISBN 0-933576-01-3
- "Meadowbrook Pond". Title of Complete Work. Seattle Parks and Recreation. (2006). Retrieved on 2006-04-21..
- "Thornton Creek". Restoration. Seattle Public Utilities. (2006). Retrieved on 2006-04-21..
- Sheridan, Mimi; Tobin, Carol "A Neighborhood History". Licton Springs Community Council. Retrieved on 2006-04-21..
- "Restoration Activities: A Few of Our Accomplishments". Thornton Creek Alliance, Seattle Community Network. Retrieved on 2006-04-21..
- Walter, Sunny; local Audubon chapters "Sunny Walter's Washington Nature Weekends: Wildlife Viewing Locations - Greater Seattle Area". Retrieved on 2006-04-21..
Viewing locations only; the book has walks, hikes, wildlife, and natural wonders.
Walter excerpted from
- Dolan, Maria; True, Kathryn (2003). Nature in the city: Seattle. Seattle: Mountaineers Books. ISBN 0-89886-879-3 (paperback.
"with additions by Sunny Walter and local Audubon chapters." See "Northeast Seattle" section, bullet points "Meadowbrook", "Paramount Park Open Space", "North Seattle Community College Wetlands", and "Sunny Walter -- Twin Ponds".


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Anthology of New Writing: Select Short Stories by Women Writers
EDITOR :Shireen Quadri
QUICK TAKE: What are the defining elements of short fiction by contemporary women writers? How do they navigate the world around them to create literature? These questions gave shape to the idea of the anthology, selected from a pool of submissions
The 18 stories reflect a certain kind of sensibility and sensitivity. It takes us along the pathways these writers forge to create art out of the rhythms and ruptures of life, dwelling on their characters’ experiences and memories of a thousand pleasures and pains suspended in the continuum of time. They portray the concerns and preoccupations of individuals both within and outside the precincts of home. They speak of our times — the way we live, the way we love.
The stories, set in culturally diverse places — from Kashmir to Kerala, and from Washington and London to Rome — are by 18 writers from India and around the world, including two from England and one each from Canada and the US.
PRE-ORDER: The book will be released ~ 5th December
BINDING : Paperback
PUBLISHER: Niyogi Books
Availabilty: In Stock
Inclusive of all taxes

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Competitors: Scottish Premiership
Market: Each groups to attain
Odds: 8/11 @ 888sport
In what may show to be an pleasant Premiership battle on Sunday lunchtime, Hearts will make the journey to the Almondvale Stadium once they meet Livingston.
Beginning with the hosts, whereas Livingston may need ultimately missed out on a top-half end final season, David Martindale’s males are having fun with an actual Premiership flurry this time round. Extending on their League Cup journey final weekend due to a routine 3-1 victory away at Stenhousemuir, the Lions are unbeaten in every of their earlier 5 home matchups throughout all codecs. Likewise, final seen on top-flight duties claiming an action-packed 4-2 romp away at St. Johnstone on January 14th, Livingston ought to discover the temper of their camp at an actual excessive. Successful every of their final three consecutive appearances, Sunday’s hosts have additionally discovered fairly the scientific edge within the closing third. Nevertheless, it must be highlighted, Martindale’s facet have seen 4 of their earlier 5 contests end with each groups discovering the web.
As for the guests, additionally extending on their League Cup journey final weekend following a stellar 3-0 romp away at Hibernian, Robbie Neilson’s facet have as soon as once more gained a string of plaudits from throughout Scotland. Cruising their method in direction of one other top-three end this 12 months, the Jambos are within the midst of an eight-match unbeaten run throughout all codecs. Likewise, final seen in Premiership duties storming their approach to a exceptional 5-0 victory towards Aberdeen, the Edinburgh-based outfit will likely be determined to put down one other marker right here. Opening 2023 with one other free-scoring efficiency due to a 3-0 victory towards Hibs on residence soil, we may very well be handled to a different pleasant showdown this weekend. With Hearts seeing three of their earlier 4 away fixtures end with each groups discovering the web, we’re backing the same final result right here.
Guess: Each groups to attain at Livingston vs Hearts 8/11 for Sunday’s Scottish Premiership battle @ 888sport


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Jamaican Rice and Beans 1 can light coconut milk cup water teaspoon ground allspice teaspoon salt Pinch of freshly ground black pepper 3 fresh thyme sprigs 1 garlic clove, crushed 1 cup long-grain white rice (such as jasmine) 1
Southern Candied Sweet Potatoes - Melt butter in skillet. Add peeled and sliced sweet potato. Sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, & salt. Reduce heat, cover and cook until tender and sauce is dark (about 1 hour) Add vanilla and serve.
Caribbean Sweet Potato Patties with Spicy Coconut and Spinach Sauce « Cook Eat Live Vegetarian. * I'd probably cut way down on the quantity of scotch bonnet used here, but otherwise an interesting recipe.
Southern Style Black-Eyed Peas with Ham Hocks. I added three ham hocks becuase that's what came in the package. Soaked for 24 hours, added to the crock pot and kept on high for a while. This took all day but was so creamy and delicious in the end.

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Nearly eighty people signed up to watch Crime and Cocktails, Sisters in Crime’s Port Phillip Seniors’ Festival event, on Friday night, 16 October. For a change, the event was live but the talents of compere, Tara Mitchell, NSW author Ber Carroll and our behind-the-scenes Zoom Queen, Kelly Gardiner, ensured it went off pretty smoothly. It
B M Carroll will be talking to Tara Mitchell about her latest book, Who We Were (Allen & Unwin, 2020), a suburban noir thriller about a school reunion that goes badly wrong. Bring out your inner mixologist – bloody or virgin, cocktail or mocktail – and watch this live, online event, 6-7pm Friday 16 October.

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Man Wanted in Killing of N.C. Sheriff's Deputy Found Dead
September 25, 2008
Searchers found the body of Skip Brinkley on his 35-acre farm in rural Caldwell County about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday – at the same time mourners were holding a funeral service for the deputy, Adam William Klutz, in another part of the county.
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ROB ROY @ 9/25/2008 8:40 PM
Well he saved the tax payers alot of money, and more importantly the family the grief of a trial. I'am sure he's got his own special little corner of hell.....
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Lagos State Government has declared 24 hour curfew throughout the entire state.
The announcement came in the heels of an earlier report that schools in the state have been shut-down indefinitely due to the recurrent attacks on lives and state government properties.
The governor of the state, Babajide Sanwa-Olu made this known today via his twitter account.
He said, “Dear Lagosians, I have watched with shock how what began as a peaceful #EndSARS protest has degenerated into a monster that is threatening the well-being of our society. Lives and limbs have been lost as criminals and miscreants are now hiding under the umbrella of this protest to unleash mayhem on our state.
“I thereby impose a 24 hour curfew on all parts of the state as from 4pm, today nobody except essential service providers and first responders must be found on the street,” he said.
It would be recalled that the governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, also imposed a 24 hour curfew yesterday, in the state capital, to ward off further destruction on properties after some suspected hoodlums raided the streets of Benin, including; causing a jail break to set prison inmates free.

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Graduate Diploma Critical Care Nursing: Intensive Care
Critical care nursing requires an advanced knowledge base, skilled assessment, prompt intervention and ongoing evaluation in order to care for the critically ill with complex needs. The critical care nurse maintains the balance between the science of nursing and the art of caring. This course will provide the nurse with an opportunity to develop, enhance and maintain these specialist skills that are required to care for the critically ill.
Who is the programme for?
This programme is aimed at advancing the registered nurse's repertoire of knowledge and skills for professional practice in the care of patients within the critical care environment.
• Develop a greater understanding of the holistic principles which underpin the various aspects of critical care nursing particularly in relation to intensive care
• Augment students' knowledge and appreciation of nursing theory and biopsychosocial sciences which underpin critical care nursing practice in intensive care
• Provide students with an opportunity for personal growth and professional development
• Develop skills to enhance their professional practice, including critical analysis, creative thinking, decision making and communication skills
How will I benefit?
This course will enhance your career prospects and give you the building blocks for lifelong self-directed learning. It will also provide you with the key knowledge and skills to innovate and lead in your area of practice in Critical Care. Following successful completion of the Graduate Diploma Nursing Critical Care - Intensive Care you will be able to complete an MSc Critical Care in one academic year.
• UCD have a long history of producing high quality graduates
• This programme is highly focused on enhancing clinical practice to enable graduates to be even more effective clinicians, change agents and clinical leaders in Critical Care
• Clinical and university-based lecturers with national and international expertise from clinical, research and educational perspectives
• Specialist modules are offered in association with St. Vincent's University Hospital and the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
• Clinical Placements in a variety of intensive care settings which enable students to learn from leading experts in the holistic care of patients following cardiothoracic surgery, cardiac and lung transplantation, liver failure and liver transplantation, multiple trauma and spinal injury. Students will gain expert knowledge and experience in caring for patients with complex needs such as acute respiratory failure, sepsis, multi organ dysfunction and the therapeautic modalities associated with each condition including extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), dialysis and advanced haemodynamic monitoring
• The student body is drawn from a number of the organisations, enabling the sharing of learning and experience between students, as well as from the academic and clinical staff
• The Programme employs a variety of innovative assessment strategies with a strong clinical focus
• Extensive use of IT in supporting the teaching environment of the programme
• Access to excellent facilities for lectures
It is essential that you have access to a personal computer and an email account as communication with students is primarily undertaken by email. Lecture handouts/announcements are made available to students via Blackboard (a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) that supports online learning and teaching) and/or via email. Messages from the university regarding examination policy and procedures are also sent via email.

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Let's take our country back!
The media would have you believe these are all lazy, white Brits...
Good point! It's my understanding that the single most unemployed class of person is muslim women. I imagine plenty of them are also "helping out" in the corner shop, and not being allowed out of the house alone can't help when it comes to getting a job.
Indeed, I worte about this some time ago...yet still the media propogate the lie that we're all lazy slobs!http://unrepentantbritishnationalist.blogspot.com/2009/03/enrichment-news.html
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NEWS & PRESS RELEASES
Lisa Konzelman: Paying it Forward
Lisa Konzelman has a passion for community involvement and a great love for BBC&S.
She also recognizes the powerful impact each can have on the other.
Through her various roles in the community, Lisa seeks to serve as a representative of BBC&S and a mentor to others who share her vision for relationship building through involvement.
A 1981 BBC graduate, Lisa met her husband Rich (BBC 1977, BBS 1981) as a student. Her son Jon (2006) teaches Health and Physical Education at the Scranton School for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children in Clarks Summit and serves as an Assistant Coach for the men's basketball team.
Lisa has served in a variety of roles on campus, and has been working in the Institutional Advancement office since 1994.
I am Director of the Annual Fund and Special Events. In my 15 years, it has been great to see how many people love BBC&S, love our students, and choose to invest their money here. We value every one of them. They are a rich source of blessing.
Fundraising events are really "friend raising" events. They are opportunities to strengthen relationships and for people to get to know the college on a different level.
The President's Golf Classic is an event people can get personally involved in. It began in 2005 and has proved to be a strong event that reaches across a number of groups. Whether they are golfing or not, people want to invest because they see the quality of our students, the difference they make in our community, and the ministries that they are involved with.
Another event that we have been able to develop is the President's Breakfast and Leadership Seminar. Our primary target for this is individuals from local businesses that want to invest back into the community.
I am a strong proponent for paying it forward for whatever God has allowed in our lives. While we're always looking for ways to become involved, we're also looking for opportunities to pour back into a community that has been very good to us in many ways. Not only is "paying it forward" a biblical principle, I believe as an empty nester I have even more opportunities to invest in the lives of my family, my community, and those around me.
I am in the Leadership Lackawanna Class of 2012, a 10-month program of the Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce. The 27 class members represent different nonprofits and for-profit businesses in the region. We are broken into groups of six or seven each, with the groups tasked with completing a project as a community service. There are opportunities to be in the media, to fundraise, and a real feeling of accomplishment of working with individuals who have never met each other until the first day of class.
Our project is the restoration of the Gravity Slope Colliery in Archbald, PA. These buildings serve to represent the coal mining industry and the historical significance of its economic impact in Northeastern Pennsylvania and Lackawanna County. This has been a great challenge. It's also given the college a greater visibility in the community and helps validate who we are.
The opportunity to reach out to the community has really opened my eyes, personally, to the fact that while I want to continue to be involved in ministries outside my position here, I also want to parallel that with meaningful experiences and serving nonprofits in the area.
I attend the Greater Scranton Women's Network luncheon each month, and take someone else from the college with me. I think this is great opportunity for them to broaden their perspective and network with other women who are in a range of areas. We always come away having built new relationships or found opportunities to help our students.
God calls us to have a balance in our lives. We need to reflect the spokes of a wheel that are evenly balanced, keeping the wheel in motion. You have to prioritize your job, your family, your church, and also your community involvement.
I have learned the importance of community involvement and not living in that Christian bubble. God calls us to meet needs in a variety of ways - living to pay it forward and not looking to get anything for ourselves.
The story of Baptist Bible College & Seminary is best told through the lives of students and alumni. Share your story and tell others how God has been leading in your life. Visit www.bbc.edu/yourstory.
Baptist Bible College & Seminary offers an outstanding Christian education through on-campus, online, and other distance learning options. Students go beyond the ordinary, learning to learn and serve with excellence as they gain critical leadership and life skills.
To learn more, go to www.bbc.edu or call 570.586.2400.
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Circular No. 05/2008-Cus.
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
Central Board of Excise & Customs
New Delhi, the 12th March, 2008.
Chief Commissioner of Customs,
Chief Commissioner of Customs & Central Excise,
Chief Commissioner of Central Excise.
Sub: Collection of Double Cess on exports of agro products – regarding –
I am directed to state that Central Board of Excise & Customs vide Circular No.3/2000, dated 07.01.2000 issued from F.No.572/4/99-LC, had clarified that Cess on export products is to be charged only once i.e., if the item is a primary product, the Cess should be collected under the Agricultural Produce Cess Act, 1940 and if item is processed product, the Cess should be collected under the Agricultural & Processed Food Products Export Cess Act, 1985.
2. Both the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Cess Act, 1985 and Agricultural Produce Cess Act, 1940 have since been repealed on 01.06.2006 and 25.09.2006 respectively. Board has received representation from field formations and various Exporters Associations regarding regulation of past cases of export on which Cess is leviable.
3. The matter was taken up with the Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Agriculture & Cooperation for clarification in the matter. Ministry of Agriculture have clarified that a similar case was referred by them to Ministry of Law & Justice, Department of Legal Affairs, who opined as follows: –
‘We have examined the issue, it appears that the purpose of collection of cess in the nature of a Custom Duty on Export of the Scheduled articles under the Agricultural Produce Cess Act, 1940, is to make better financial provision for ICAR for carrying out of its objectives.
But the purpose of collection of cess in the nature of Customs Duty on Export of the Scheduled Products under the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Cess Act, 1985, is to make financial provision to enable Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority to discharge its functions effectively. Therefore, both the enactments seem to operate independently. This view is fortified by sub clause (2) of section 3 of the Agricultural and Processsed Food Products Export Cess Act, 1985, which is extracted below:
“(2) the duties of customs levied under sub section (1) on the Scheduled products shall be in addition to any cess or duty leviable on such Scheduled products under any other law for the time being in force.”
In the light of the above, the view of the deptt that for the same item, if it is included in the Schedule of both the Acts, it is in order to impose the cess under both the Acts, appears to be correct.”
4. The Law Ministry in its aforesaid opinion has, therefore, confirmed that for the same item, if it is included in the schedule of both the said Acts, it is in order to impose Cess under both the said Acts.
5. In view of the above, necessary instruction may be issued to the field formations to finalize the pending cases/assessments following the above legal position.
6. The Board’s Circular No.3/2000, dated 07.01.2000 stands withdrawn.
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30th March 2021
High Risk Money Laundering And Related Financial Crime Areas (HIFCAs)
The HIFCA designation was conceived in the US’ Money Laundering and Financial Crimes Strategy Act of 1998 and came into effect a year later with the National Money Laundering Strategy for 1999. The legislation defined HIFCAs as areas that present a substantial risk of money laundering and, pursuant to section 5341(b) of the Strategy Act, brought them into the scope of a national initiative to address the criminal activity.
In practice, the HIFCA program serves to concentrate US law enforcement efforts on geographic zones and locations that experience high levels of money laundering activity (and other types of financial crime). The scope of the HIFCA program takes in federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies in locations across the United States and its territories. Each HIFCA-designated location is assigned a money laundering action team that coordinates the combined law enforcement efforts: the action team is made up of individuals from federal, state, and local authorities, including prosecutors and representatives of regulatory organizations.
While HIFCAs have clear and practical law enforcement benefits, it is important that financial institutions are able to extract meaningful data from the programs to inform their anti-money laundering compliance process.
However, HIFCA regions are defined broadly, collectively covering around 5.39% of the total US population, which amounts to over 16.5 million people. Taken at face value, regional HIFCA designations may be overly inclusive and give the inaccurate impression that the majority of a financial institution’s customers present a high risk of money laundering. For example, while all counties in New York are part of a HIFCA program, it is unlikely that all customers within the state present the same level of money laundering risk.
Given that broad scope, banks and financial institutions must consider how to refine HIFCA risk data to enhance their AML response. Firms may, for example, seek to use peripheral data to interpret HIFCA designations: HIFCA may be cross-referenced with the information from corresponding High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) programs to identify more specific macro-indicators of AML risk. Similarly, firms may seek to examine the geographic characteristics of the Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR) that they file alongside HIFCA (and HIDTA) data to develop a more localized picture of risk within a given region.
HIFCA Red Flags: Despite the broad inclusivity of the HIFCA designation, firms may be able to identify high risk transactions by monitoring for certain specific red flag characteristics that indicate money laundering. These include:
- Unusual transaction behavior: Customers that engage in unusual patterns of transactions, or transactions in unusually high or low amounts.
- Customer behavior: Sudden changes in customer behavior that do not match established risk profiles.
- Structured transactions: Multiple transactions, often from multiple accounts, in amounts just below mandated AML reporting thresholds.
- Adverse media stories: Customers that are involved in adverse or negative news media stories pertaining to criminal activities.
- Money muling: Customers that deposit amounts of money that do not match their risk profiles or that lack knowledge about the financial products they are using may be money mules that are being used by money launderers to evade AML controls.
In order to capture the money laundering risk that HIFCAs present, firms should implement AML/CFT programs with the following measures and controls:
- Customer due diligence: Firms should put suitable customer due diligence (CDD) measures in place to identify customers doing business from, or with others within, HIFCAs. Effective CDD should capture names, addresses, dates of birth and, in the case of customer entities, beneficial ownership information.
- Transaction monitoring: In order to spot potential HIFCA-related money laundering, firms must monitor their customers’ transactions and remediate suspicious activity in a timely manner.
- Screening and monitoring: Firms should screen and monitor their customers for a variety of peripheral risk data that might inform their HIFCA risk assessments, this includes customer involvement in adverse media stories and their customers’ politically exposed person (PEP) status.
Smart AML: The vast amount of data necessary to manage HIFCA-related risk often requires firms to integrate smart technology tools in order to meet their compliance obligations. While manual data analysis is costly and time-consuming, automated smart technology brings speed and accuracy to the AML compliance process, while also reducing the potential for human error and costly compliance penalties.
Automated smart technology is also specifically advantageous for refining and analyzing the unstructured risk data that HIFCAs present. Firms may integrate AI and machine learning tools to process and categorize raw data from HIFCAs – and then apply that data to their AML response in a targeted manner to optimize compliance performance and remediate suspicious activity more effectively.
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In 2006, the 911 underwent a gearbox overhaul, valve adjustment and valve guide rebuild, ignition tuning, camshaft replacement, spark plugs, the clutch kit and the installation of Koni shock absorbers at the rear for a total of more than 11 676 € at the Autosiaste in Courbevoie who followed the car from 2006 to today by replacing notably the spark plugs, the oil filter and the belts in 2014, the clutch and the flywheel in 2016, the front discs and pads, the spark plugs and the addition of an electronic ignition in 2017. The 911 was acquired by its current owner in late 2018, a sports car enthusiast, he was quickly won over by the 2.4T and made sure to take it out regularly.
This 911 2.4T, in its original Seeblau 329 (sea blue) color, is in beautiful condition. With the original Fuchs rims in 1 5′ and a Type 915/06 gearbox with 5 gears, it is very pleasant to drive. On the mechanical side, after quickly announcing the most important work done on the 911, the road test shows a normal functioning of the engine and the gearbox. The engine is the original one.
Photo credits Kevin van Campenhout for Eleven Cars.
At the Frankfurt Motor Show 1963, Porsche unveils its prototype n05 named “901”. But at the official launch of its new GT, Porsche had to rename them 91 1 because Peugeot had already registered all the three-digit names with an O in the middle. Until 1967, Porsche will sell more than 10 000 copies of its GT which will become a reference in the world of the sports car.
It is this year that a range is declined around the same bodywork (coupe and targa) with the same Flat 6 of two liters of displacement but with different powers. Thus, the 2.0S will develop 1 60 hp, the 2.0 T, 110 hp to position itself in entry level and the 2.0 L will develop 1 30 hp.
In August 1968, Porsche is going to try to bring a solution to the very characteristic road holding of the Porsche 91 1 . The technicians of the factory modify their flagship model and increase the wheelbase of the 911 of 5,8 cm to pass from 2,210 m ä 2,268 m. If 5,8 cm seem little on the paper, they are enough to improve notably the road holding of the Porsche 911, without denaturing its character which makes all its charm… This same year, Porsche replaces the 911 2.0 “L” by the “E”. Its name comes from its system of engine supply which passes to the injection (“E” for Einspritz, or “injection” in German).
In August 1969, the 2.0 will be replaced by the 2.21 always under the three declinations T, E and S. Finally for the 1972 vintage, Porsche will increase once again the displacement to pass to the 2.4 liters (moreover closer to 2.3L since of 2341 cm3) with especially the adoption of a new gearbox, the 915 replacing the 901 box in dogleg. The 91 1 2.4T will keep the Zenith carburetors, developing 130 hp, the two other models of the range being in mechanical injection.


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Monoclonal antibody to human granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF); Mouse IgG1The usefulness of sandwich ELISAs (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays) in cytokine biology is evident from the many reports published on this subject. The assay requires two antibodies (either mono- or polyclonal antibodies) that bind with high affinity to different sites on the cytokine molecule. One of the antibodies is immobilized to the wells of a 96-well microtiter plate. This so-called capture or coating antibody functions to selectively immobilize the cytokine from crude protein preparations. The second antibody (detection antibody) is labeled with biotin and binds to a different site on the cytokine molecule. Biotin allows the antibody to interact with streptavidin molecules. By using HRP (horseradish peroxidase)-labeled streptavidin, the cytokine can now quantitatively be determined by enzymatic conversion of a HRP-specific substrate to a colored product. Since many biotin molecules can be coupled to the detector antibody, several HRP molecules are bound. The enzyme activity is subsequently further increased by using complexes (polymers) of HRP-streptavidin. This results in an extreme sensitive assay with a detection limit within the low picogram range (~5 pg/ml).
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A new experimental drug shows promise for adult asthmatics
Pill might reduce severe asthma
A new study out of the U.K. has found an experimental pill that significantly may reduce severe asthma symptoms in adults.
The study, published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal, shows great promise for asthma sufferers, according to researchers. A trial of an experimental drug, Fevipiprant, studied 60 patients whose asthma was severe despite the use of steroid inhalers and visits to asthma doctors. Half the group took the Fevipiprant along with their normal medications, while the other half followed their normal medical routines and took a placebo pill in place of the Fevipiprant. Patients who took the new drug had markedly less wheezing and fewer inflammatory blood cells in air passages and phlegm, and study authors called for further research into the promising new drug.
About one in 12 people in the U.S., or 25 million Americans, suffers from asthma, according to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.
— Sophia F. Gottfried

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How is it that the inhabitants of Mokotów have water in the tap? Who, how and from where it delivers it to our homes and what does Czajka have to do with Warsaw water tap? And how was the water in the tap a long time ago? What are filters, water towers and aqueducts? Can the water run out?
We will answer these and other questions during our workshop “There was a City”!
During the classes, we will find out where the water is coming from in our homes, we will know different ways of delivering water to cities and we will construct our own water tower.

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I was playing this Japanese version of the Disney song “Let It Go” from the movie “Frozen”. My son comes running over to the computer and goes “NOOOOOO!!!!” . I guess in his 5th grade class all the girls love the original song, and they sing it all the time – much to his annoyance. (Recall how annoying 10-year old girls are to a 10-year old boy?)
“Oh Mr. Sinnoh … You CRACK ME UP !!!”
The boy might be sick of hearing it, but I could never get enough of the great Iwasa Misaki’sJapanese language version. The song is a “B” side of her new CD. Yes, I have already ordered this CD+DVD from Japan. There is not a music video of the “Let It Go” song, but please enjoy this YouTube posting.
Well, maybe these two I would want for Christmas. Everyone is familiar with those Coca Cola “polar bear”ads. However, for the Christmas polar bear in my video I will share today, there will be no evidence of the Coca Cola company.
All Hanako Oku fans are familiar with this little Christmas cartoon from a few years ago: Koi Tsubomi (“Love Bud”). No, not that kind of bud … don’t you dare bring the Anheuser-Busch company in either. The “bud” in this case is a “flower bud of love” which must winter over, but will assuridly bloom in spring.
I don’t have a clue as to how much input Hanako Oku had in making this cute little video about a piano-playing little girl and her polar bear. The version of Koi Tsubomi used here is shorter in length version than the one on her 2006 album Yasashii Hana no Saku Basho (やさしい花の咲く場所) “The Place Where The Gentle Flowers Grow”. Her full song is linked here.
Whoever made the cartoon, I wish that they would make more like this! I know the lyrics are translated from the original Japanese lyrics, but this line especially goes through me.
“Thinking of you, I’ll continue to hold my fleeting dreams in my heart”
I am NOT crying! I have just had a little bit of a cold lately, and still have the sniffles.
This is one of the most interesting parts in the video: The Polar Bear — who is no longer walking upright like a person, but is now on all-fours like a real bear — is missing the little girl he loves, and then he lets out a howl. The sound of his lonely cry creates a shock wave, which breaks off a piece of a nearby iceberg. The iceberg calves off, splashing into the ocean. I love that moment.
Calving: or “glacial calving” is the breaking off of chunks of ice at the edge of a glacier. This form of ice ablation is often accompanied by a loud cracking or booming sound.
Until now, I never liked the AKB48 single “Kokoro no Placard” all that much, for reasons which I hope are understandable. (A fan posted the original AKB48 version on YouTube linked here.)
Thing 1: I am not a fan of all this “hash tagging” these days. Hash Tagging: It sounds like something from the movie “Midnight Express”. I don’t get it.
Thing 2: I was TRYING to follow the tune. The more I tried to follow it, the more it started to sound like that Bob Dylan song about “Everybody Must Get Stoned” linked here.
Thing 3: Most importantly, I CANNOT READ THE SIGNS. I cannot read Japanese, so it is all lost on me. Everyone else is singing, dancing and having fun with those placards … EXCEPT ME. It is such a happy song, but I feel so left out. I cannot understand the words either, but I did catch something that sounded like “Cinco de Mayo” … Huh? I feel just like the English translation of “Kokoro no Placard” … WHAT’S SO AMUSING???
My heart’s placard I’ll try holding it up With my true feelings On display… If I can’t put it into words I can write it down instead The thing I want to convey The thing I want to say Please notice my placard
Although I was not hot for the original AKB48 video, I LOVE this Chibi version! It is a lot of fun. I love the adorable Chibi-versions of the AKB girls. The Chibi-AKB girls are wearing some of their famous outfits from other music videos. I would also say that the Chibi-versions are still recognizable as the real idols! Acchan makes an appearance at the Tokyo Dome! … and did you see Sayaka Yamamoto on the guitar (Time 1:14)? Maybe that squeaky, quirky singing works better for cartoons (sorry girls).
Just kidding. You ladies go ahead and make great Jpop song and dance. I’m not Japanese. You make your videos the way you want to, even if I cannot understand it.
I’m just an aging, burned-out American kung-fu retro new-wave hippie punk hipster wannabe poser.
Gonna just hang out with the “Rainy Day Women” today.
Likes: Pop Culture, Humor, Japanese Culture, Iwasa Misaki, Hanako Oku, AKB48 History, Kurosawa films, Kimonos, Anime, Lolita fashion, Buddhist philosophy, and finding the perfect nicknames for my Pokemon.
A fansite; for old and new fans of AKB48 and all their domestic and international sister groups: (SKE48, NMB48, HKT48, NGT48, STU48, JKT48, BNK48, MNL48, AKB48 Team SH, SGO48, AKB48 Team TP, and CGM48)
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A. About the Collection—The Editor, Preface & Introduction | History of SC Slide Collection
In 1986, Dr. Constance Schulz of the Public History Department at the University of South Carolina set out to compile a slide collection covering all aspects of South Carolina history for use in elementary through high schools. The result was the 1989 publication, The History of South Carolina Slide Collection.
The History of South Carolina Slide Collection is a digital version of the original publication first published by Dr. Schulz. In working with the collection a decade after its original publication, we realized that some of the text was out of date, and some of the images were not available for use online. In those cases, careful editing of the text was carried out, and suitable replacement images were found to tell the story of the history of the state.
About the Editor
Constance B. Schulz, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor Emerita, Department of History, University of South Carolina, retired in 2008 as Co‑Director of USC’s highly regarded Public History program, in which she taught archives administration. A staff researcher for the Booker T. Washington Papers in 1974 and NHPRC Fellow in Documentary Editing at the Documentary History of the First Federal Congress in 1980–1981, she served as the final Managing Editor of the Papers of Henry Laurens from 2001–2004 and Project Director for the Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry from 2008–2012.
Dr. Schulz served as co-director of the Public History Program and also co-director of the Joint MA/MLIS Program in Archives Administration at the University of South Carolina, where she was a professor of history.
Dr. Schulz taught American history at the University of Maryland, the American University in Washington D.C., Georgetown University, and the College of Wooster before coming to South Carolina.
Her publications include:
A South Carolina Album 1936-1948: Photographs from the Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information, and Standard Oil of New Jersey Documentary Projects (University of South Carolina Press, 1992).
Bust to Boom: Kansas Photographs from the Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information, and Standard Oil of New Jersey Documentary Projects, 1936-1949 (University Press of Kansas, 1996).
Witness to the Fifties: The Pittsburgh Photographic Library 1950-1953 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999).
The History of Maryland Slide Collection (Instructional Resources Corporation, 1980).
The American History Video Disc (Instructional Resources Corporation, 1992).
If there is truth in the old adage that one picture is worth a thousand words, then this thousand-slide collection is worth a million words. As history, it may be worth even more since it not only can "teach history," it also can provide a way of giving that important and mystic "feel for the past." Later generations only then begin to see and sense more clearly what they never had a chance to behold in person.
Saying that is not to belittle the essential role of history books and history teachers--or even to denigrate glib raconteurs who reminisce gloriously. Properly and judiciously utilized, these slides can enhance the efforts of other media. One seeking to convey the story of the past without some "visible history" has a real challenge. A determined person confronting that challenge can appreciate the difference between a soap opera on television as compared with old soap operas on radio--or a lecture-commentary in a windowless room compared with the potential of a well-done television documentary.
The compiler of this collection provides the dimension often needed by conscientious teachers seeking to develop interest in, and curiosity about, the fascinating story of South Carolina. One handicap encountered in this undertaking was obvious: the camera and photography were not perfected early enough. The editor-compiler nevertheless has coped with such thoughtless inventors shrewdly, by using drawings, paintings, cartoons, portraits, and other images that still provide a window through which viewers can appreciate that distant past in our history.
Some traditional history books, if illustrated at all, sometimes seem obsessed with portraits of heroes and statesmen and a few battle scenes. This collection has some of those--but it is more concerned with the daily life of the rest of us plain folks: our problems, our work, our recreation, and even our failures and shortcomings. These images were not selected in order to glorify or romanticize South Carolina--nor to compete with the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism and various chambers of commerce. These slides show the warts as well as the beauty spots, the unpretty as well as the pretty scenes, the variety that makes up everyday life.
Although the collection of images is aimed at helping school teachers and students, in libraries these pictures can reach others who want to know--and to understand--more about the Palmetto State. One can even imagine a speaker at a service club or a person with a church program who might use certain images here to explain or emphasize a point. Some vivid views from this collection can "tell" much in fifteen seconds.
In one sense, these pictures constitute local history--the life in small towns, on the farms, and around the factories. As they do so, the collection adds up to be also South Carolina --in the same sense as when I sought to emphasize that the textbook South Carolina: One of the Fifty States was basically "American history as it was acted out in South Carolina." In the images brought together in this slide collection, that "acting out" has acquired a visual dimension.
The images in the collection are arranged by topics and therefore can best be utilized as supplements, or as examples, of some aspects of a developing narrative. Although the unimaginative can use them in the limited format of their present arrangement, they are not designed to be shown as fifty-minute "slide shows" that can substitute for the essential task and role of an alert teacher. (Those whose classes consist of one movie or television tape after another may qualify as projectionists but not as educators or even wise entertainers.) Since the images are arranged by topics, one must learn to select the pictures needed for the task at hand. By searching and cross listing, this can be readily done. Advance planning and selection will make it possible to emphasize and elucidate what textbooks and teachers are trying to convey.
As already noted, this is "local history," but it should be unwise to judge its usefulness by whether your hometown or county courthouse square is found in a search. South Carolina is rich in local places with a distinct identity, and a collection of 1,000 slides would be quickly filled if each and every town, courthouse, school, or church were pictured. Instead, communities should use the collection as a framework--an inspiration--to be up and doing to make their own photograph and image creation of their unique and local past--as well as their contemporary scene. If so, they will be leaving behind a legacy for others to come and see for themselves what only those now living are able to see and sense.
Lewis P. Jones, 1989
Due to the demand that this content be made available online, South Carolina ETV contacted Dr. Schulz for permission to republish the content. She most graciously consented, giving SCETV rights to the text portion and recommending that we apply to the project the skills of two of her most qualified graduate assistants, Ruth Brindle Dobyns and Brian Fahey, from the University of South Carolina's Public History Program. What you see here is the result of that effort.
Note: The resources accessible on this website are intended for educational use. All other usage is prohibited. If you intend to copy or otherwise reproduce a resource for educational use, credit must be given to the contributing institution.
For additional information about the graphics used in this collection, please refer to information located in Acknowledgments. There you will find information about contacting people who possess the original photographs and artwork used in The History of South Carolina Slide Collection.
Knowitall Editor's Note:
Individuals and places shown in the slides may have beliefs that are not congruent with societal norms today. The slides are a reflection of a point in time. Their sole purpose is to cultivate a desire for those viewing the slides to learn more about a historical time period. Those reviewing the slides are encouraged to research individuals and the complex history that may be associated with a person or place.

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Radio Active One Love 2006 Dub Idol Competition
Mon Dec 5th
Each year Wellingtonians make their way to the Hataitai Veledrome on Waitangi Day for a celebration of cultural unity, love and summer, accompanied by the finest live Dub, Roots and Reggae Music.
Radio Active’s One
Love festival has been nurturing bands for seven years now,
helping to break the likes of Trinity Roots and Fat Freddy’s
This year, Radio Active is running a competition for a budding Wellington band to play, (and get paid), to a crowd of over fifteen thousand.
The winning entrants will play alongside New Zealand’s Cornerstone Roots, The Black Seeds and Sounds Almighty featuring The Mighty Asterix within the lush greenery of the Town Belt overlooking Hataitai on February 6th.
Entries to One Love Dub Idol close on Friday 16th December. Entrants must have live experience and should send their CD with a brief bio to Radio Active One Love Dub Idol, 175 Victoria St, Level 6 or PO Box 11-971, Wellington.


Is SaaS a growing industry?
Is SaaS a growing industry?
Software as a Service (SaaS) is a type of cloud computing that provides software applications over the internet. It is one of the most rapidly expanding sectors in the cloud computing market and is transforming the way businesses use technology. In this article, we will investigate the advancement of the SaaS industry and examine the advantages and obstacles it presents.
The Rise of SaaS
The SaaS industry has been increasing steadily since it first appeared in the early 2000s. According to a recent study from Markets and Markets, the global SaaS market is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 18.2% by 2025. This expansion is mainly driven by the mounting demand for cloud-based services and the need for businesses to streamline and simplify their IT infrastructure.
The growth of SaaS can be attributed to a few factors. To start with, the technology is cost-effective and easy to deploy. Companies can take advantage of SaaS to decrease their overall IT costs, which can assist them in lowering their capital expenditures and freeing up resources for other projects. Additionally, SaaS can help businesses reduce their time to market, as they can promptly deploy new applications and services. Finally, SaaS can help businesses simplify their IT infrastructure and improve their overall efficiency.
Benefits of SaaS
SaaS provides several benefits to businesses of all sizes, including:
- Flexibility: SaaS can be used to quickly deploy new applications, services, and updates without having to invest in additional hardware or software.
- Scalability: SaaS applications can be scaled up or down to meet the changing needs of a business.
- Cost-efficiency: SaaS is typically more cost-effective than traditional software licenses, as businesses only pay for the services they use.
- Security: SaaS applications are typically hosted in secure data centers, which can help protect businesses from data breaches and other security threats.
- Reliability: SaaS applications are typically highly dependable, as they are backed by service-level agreements that guarantee uptime and performance.
Challenges of SaaS
Despite the many benefits of SaaS, there are also some potential difficulties. For example, businesses may find that SaaS applications are not as customizable as traditional software, as they are typically offered as a “one size fits all” solution. Additionally, businesses may find that SaaS applications are more expensive over the long term, as they are typically billed on a subscription basis. Finally, businesses may find that SaaS applications are not as secure as they may initially appear, as they are hosted in shared data centers that are susceptible to attack.
The SaaS sector is expanding rapidly, as businesses of all sizes are taking advantage of the cost-efficiency and scalability it provides. However, businesses should be aware of the potential difficulties associated with SaaS, such as lack of customization and security concerns. By weighing the benefits and challenges, businesses can make an informed decision about whether SaaS is the right fit for them.


smart journeys set up the Alconbury Weald Bike Service and Bike Hire Hub back in September 2020. This weekend marks a major milestone for the hub as it sees its 150th bike come through its doors.
The Bike Service and Bike Hire Hub was set up as a behaviour change intervention at Alconbury Weald, to reduce residents reliance on the private car and facilitate healthier lifestyles. The service is a Travel Planning initiative, managed by smart journeys to help enable the community to start cycling for everyday journeys and to make it accessible for everyone.
The pop-up, on location hub is at Alconbury Weald once a month (every third Sunday) and is based within the heart of the community. We deal with common issues that prevent people cycling and fix mechanical problems, making bikes run smoothly and safely. Our cycle mechanic makes simple repairs to ensure everything is in good working order – things like fixing punctures, tuning gears or fitting new brake pads. We also provide practical advice to residents and support them in looking after and maintaining their bike.
The scheme has been a huge success, making it easier for residents to change their travel habits – with 65% of users saying that they’ve cycled more since using the service.


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Context.The conversion of tropical rainforest to grazing pasture results in a drastic change in small-mammal community composition. Restoring the landscape through ecological revegetation is thus an increasingly important management technique to conserve rainforest mammals.
Aims.This study aimed to determine the habitat ages at which species of small mammals recolonised revegetated habitats on the southern Atherton Tablelands, north-eastern Queensland, Australia. We focussed on changes in rainforest mammal abundance and diversity with increasing habitat age.
Methods.Small-mammal trapping and mark–recapture techniques investigated mammal diversity, abundance and community composition within remnant rainforest, three age classes of ecological revegetation and abandoned grazing pasture.
Key results.Small-mammal community composition differed between remnant rainforest and abandoned grazing pasture. The pasture and 3-year old revegetated sites were similar in composition, both lacking rainforest small mammals. Six- and 7-year old revegetation plantings provided suboptimal habitat for both rainforest and grassland mammals, whereas 16- and 22-year old revegetated habitats were dominated by rainforest species, with some individuals being frequently recaptured.
Conclusions.As revegetated habitats aged, the small-mammal community composition transitioned from a grassland-like composition to a community dominated by rainforest species.
Implications.Although rainforest small mammals were very occasionally captured within the 6- and 7-year old habitats, revegetated plantings were not dominated by rainforest species until the habitat was 16 years old. This highlights the importance of commencing revegetation as early as possible to minimise future population declines and maximise the conservation of rainforest mammals.


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Chinese regulators have punished 15 local movie theaters for falsifying box office receipts under new rules that clamp down on cinemas manipulating revenue data, viewership figures and other forms of fraud related to ticket sales.
According to a statement from the China Film Association and the China Film Producers Association, 15 theaters were involved to different degrees, with the most serious six offenders being slapped with a distribution embargo, while the lightest punishment is “criticism.”
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The move is welcome news for Hollywood, as it means the box office data coming out of China should become more reliable, and that studios’ share of China revenues will be more secure.
In January, the State General Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SGAPPRFT) issued a circular with a new standard on the technicalities of managing cinema ticket sales. The rules are aimed at stopping tax avoidance and the cheating of filmmakers and distributors by falsifying the numbers of moviegoers and reporting artificially reduced ticket sales.
Official box office data for last year shows sales of $3.6 billion, with domestic movies taking $2.12 billion of that, a rise of 54.3 percent for homegrown films. However, industry experts believe that real box office sales are at least 10 percent more, the Xinhua news agency reported, and the underreporting of box office sales was hitting tax revenues and the bottom line of studios and distributors — both Hollywood and local.
The cinemas were mostly in second- and third-tier cities and included theaters in Linfen, Hainan, Shenyang, Jiujiang and Chongqing.
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There were different kinds of transgressions. Some cinemas operated a dual system of gathering box office sales, whereby they offered some moviegoers handwritten tickets and others legitimate ones. Others simply collected money and directed customers to their seats without printing tickets at all.
In Liaocheng, a small city in the Shandong province, a cinema reported box office receipts of $321 (1,970 yuan), while actual takings were $8,330 (51,065 yuan).
In Wanning on Hainan island, between the end of January and early February, the computer ticketing system registered no screenings and no audiences, but checks revealed that there had in fact been normal showings throughout the period.
The statement said cheating was very rare in the big cities — mostly taking place in smaller cities where the theaters were operated by independent investors.
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While much of the theft was for personal gain, in some cities the growth of the number of theaters was too fast, with several cinemas setting up near each other, putting the operators under immense competitive pressure. They say they were forced to cheat to keep operations running.
Under the new regulations, ticketing software has to be upgraded to a national digital ticketing platform to stop cheating on box office sales.
All commercial cinemas must upgrade their software or face being barred from operation.
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Visitors to Downtown Hays will have a new place to gather or stop for a rest with the construction of a new pavilion and restroom facility adjacent to Union Pacific Park thanks to a $100,000 grant from the Foundation to the Downtown Hays Development Corporation.
The 40 X 80-foot pavilion will be located in a field just east of Main Street along 10th Street. It will be used for a variety of events including concerts, and parties. It will be available for public use and to rent for private events. It will be the new home for the Downtown Hays Farmer and Arts Markets. Developers believe it will draw additional visitors to the downtown area to eat and shop.Grant funds will match private dollars already secured for the project to purchase building materials. Labor will be provided by students in the Applied Technology Construction Management Program at Fort Hays State University and by City of Hays employees.The pavilion will be available year-round and will include public restrooms. The concept for the construction was part of the Hays comprehensive plan adopted in 2012 and will further connect the downtown area with the Fort Hays State campus.


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Tactics corner: We analyse how Arsenal can beat Manchester City
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We analyse the key strengths and weaknesses of Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City – and how Arsene Wenger’s men can beat them in Sunday’s crunch game.
Guardiola’s risky City strategy Manchester City are likely to line up against Arsenal at the Emirates on Sunday in a similar way to how they did before the international break, writes Mark Thompson.
With options limited in central midfield, Pep Guardiola has settled on a 4-1-4-1 as his favoured formation. But it is a risky strategy, as has been shown in recent games against Monaco and Liverpool.
The problems largely stem from a lack of midfield presence when City lose the ball, making them vulnerable to counterattacks.
To combat this, Guardiola has former Arsenal full-backs Bacary Sagna on the right or Gael Clichy on the left tuck inside to bolster his deep lying midfielders when City have the ball.
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While Fernandinho seems to understand this role more than others in possession, he has looked uncertain defensively – even if City’s defence tightened up once he replaced Yaya Touré in central midfield against Liverpool. Guardiola’s personnel choice in these positions will spell out what his priorities are for the game.
Fernandinho at full-back and Touré in midfield equals attack – while the former in central midfield and the latter on the bench will result in a defensive mindset. Pace is a problem for City, and this is the most obvious plan of attack for Arsenal. Players like Theo Walcott, Alexis Sanchez, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Alex Iwobi are all capable of orchestrating swift attacks which could leave City vulnerable.
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As City’s attacking midfielders don’t have the discipline or defensive nous to track back effectively they fail to adequately cut off passing options, so teams countering against them are often able to switch play across the pitch quickly and dangerously.
The best form of attack for Arsenal may be their defence – although given recent Gunners games this may not sound too promising. City’s attacking midfielders have varied in effectiveness over the past month – but when they click, the fluidity of the front five and their superb interplay – including dangerman Sergio Aguero – makes it exceedingly difficult for defences to deal with them.
However, when things are going less well, these forwards can struggle to press effectively when the team loses the ball. This is part of what opens up so many gaps in the midfield area for opponents to counter through. While the game-plan to attack City is relatively simple, balancing this with an adequate defence is more difficult, and defending against Guardiola’s men is hard enough.
Worryingly for Arsenal fans examples to follow are thin on the ground – they’ve failed to score just four times in the league this season, and in two of those games, against high-flying Tottenham and Everton, they still managed mustered 11 shots on target respectively.
A co-ordinated press allied with an organised defensive shape – attributes Arsenal haven’t always shown this season – will be important to prevent City moving the ball fluidly, something the blue half of Manchester can sometimes struggle with in a 4-1-4-1 formation.
Similarly, Arsenal’s midfield need to improve their inter-play in the central midfield area as they also often have problems. Francis Coquelin’s return, which seems probable, may make this even harder. Wenger’s game-plan should be to keep it tight at the back, to counter quickly and effectively – taking advantage of unforced individual errors amongst City defenders – and to show fight which has not always been evident recently.
Possession may be nine-tenths of the equation – but execution is the tenth that makes the difference. And Wenger’s team will need to have that in their armoury if they are to win Sunday’s big match – and lay a marker down for Wembley.
? Mark Thompson is freelance journalist, follow him on Twitter @ETNAR_uk.


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As expected the A’s have placed third baseman Brandon Inge on the disabled list with a dislocated shoulder suffered in Saturday’s game.
Inge has been terrible offensively despite a hot start with the A’s, hitting just .224 with a .669 OPS in 73 games, although as usual his defense at third base has been solid. In fact, his ability to make a diving stop on a ball hit down the third base line led to the injury.
All of which is mostly just an excuse for me to mention that Inge claims this is the 16th or 17th time he’s dislocated his shoulder–Mel Gibson’s character from Lethal Weapon still holds the all-time record, but just barely–and popped his own shoulder back into place on the field moments after the injury Saturday.
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America’s Ruling Regime Doesn’t Fear Disinformation… It Fears Truth
Casting critics as terrorists and threatening to sic the most powerful, pervasive and sophisticated security state in the history of the world on them is of course not about defending democracy or protecting the truth — it’s about intimidating democratic opposition into silence and submission to an official narrative.
In Joe Biden’s America, attempting to cancel Joe Rogan is just counter-terror policy.
This is because our ruling class — in the name of “defending democracy” — classifies those who question the regime on any matter of consequence as a threat to the homeland, and pledges to pursue them accordingly.
It claims the U.S. is in a “heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information.”
Here’s concerning new language in Department of Homeland Security bulletin about domestic terrorism that could have potential ramifications for anyone questioning government institutions.https://t.co/JcJrfgUbn2
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) February 11, 2022
Among the greatest contributors to the current “threat environment,” according to the bulletin, is the “widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding … COVD-19.”
Shortly after hosting dissenters from COVID orthodoxy including Drs. Peter McCullough and the then-recently deplatformed Robert Malone on his podcast, Rogan found himself the subject of a cancel campaign contrived by washed-up musicians, non-medical doctors and corporate media whose ratings he has crushed.
But it wasn’t just these parties out for blood.
This effort was, to put it mildly, disingenuous. We know how seriously to take the administration’s views on COVID “misinformation and disinformation” because by its own standards the White House, and its media mouthpieces, have been the most powerful and prolific purveyors of “misinformation.”
The administration has flip-flopped on virtually every aspect of the coronavirus to positions that its social media adjuncts used to ban people over. It did so not because “the science” has changed, but because the politics have changed.
Biden’s White House says its critics are dangerous — not to the public, but to its rule, as if that rule is equivalent to America or democracy itself, as Dr. Anthony Fauci is to science.
As the DHS bulletin notes, the first key driver of the “heightened threat environment” is the “proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions.”
It’s the critics, the dissenters — those with no monopoly on force or multi-trillion-dollar budgets — who are the real scourge.
The bulletin lists as another potential threat “false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud” — perpetuating the narrative of “insurrection” so central to the effort to persecute wrongthinkers, while eliding that Democrats‘ own election integrity-eroding measures destroyed confidence in the system.
Previous Biden-era bulletins similarly focused on COVID-19 and election integrity, but the latest one — in a new twist — also claims that calls for violence have been tied to anger over “the evacuation and resettlement of Afghan nationals following the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan.”
So it’s not just questioning the merits of mask and vaccine mandates, or skepticism over the security of mass mail-in elections, but doubts about the wisdom of dropping unvetted refugees from a terror-dominated backwater into the middle of your town that could get you in trouble with the security state.
This threat bulletin, like its no less disturbing predecessors, flows naturally from the Biden administration’s first-of-its-kind National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism.
That strategy calls for confronting long-term contributors to domestic terrorism, including:
“… enhancing faith in government and addressing the extreme polarization, fueled by a crisis of disinformation and misinformation … We will work toward finding ways to counter the influence and impact of dangerous conspiracy theories that can provide a gateway to terrorist violence.”
Linking speech that does not comport with regime orthodoxy to terror, and using that pretext to police thought — with an armed “Ministry of Truth” operating out of our national security and law enforcement apparatus — therefore manifestly is “counter-terror” policy
Casting critics as terrorists and threatening to sic the most powerful, pervasive and sophisticated security state in the history of the world on them is of course not about defending democracy or protecting the truth, but intimidating democratic opposition into silence and submission to an official narrative.
The regime evidently believes it must maintain a monopoly over the American mind to maintain a monopoly on power.
Joe Rogan threatened that power, and therefore constituted a danger. The threat was that he elicited insights from guests who challenged the regime’s credibility on all manner of issues related to COVID, and millions of people heard it.
Trump and his allies likewise threatened that power, and therefore constituted a danger. They were — and continue to be — pursued like terrorists, as the House January 6 Committee wields the full force of the federal government to investigate them, surveil their communications and audit their dealings.
Why? Trump and his allies called the regime a failure, stated undeniable truths that resonated with Americans to justify that view and supported policies aimed at rectifying said failures that would disempower the ruling elites.
The most meek and unthreatening of January 6 defendants now face extreme, hyper-political prosecutions. They are being made an example of not because they ever posed a credible threat to the regime’s power, but as a signal to the millions of peaceful, patriotic Americans who might — through their collective speech, advocacy and voting.
The same goes for the parents outraged over anti-scientific and detrimental COVID-19 policies, and overcritical race theory indoctrination in schools. The Department of Justice threatened to pursue them like jihadists — not because they are jihadists, but because parents awakened to the regime’s corrupt monopoly on the all-important institution of education could break that monopoly and end the careers of the politicians who support it. They must therefore be chilled.
The war on wrongthink is not about left or right. It’s about who rules: a sovereign people or the elites who deign to lord over us.
The ruling class — the “defenders of democracy” — sees citizens on the left and right opposed to its agenda and refuses to address their concerns peaceably. Instead, it calls them terror threats and pursues them using the full power of the public and like-minded private sectors.
The ruling class does not fear misinformation and disinformation. It fears truth, particularly the truth about its own rot, corruption and incompetence, which calls into question its authority.
This leaves us with a question: when everyone, from unorthodox presidents to curious podcasters to caring parents are deemed existential threats to the regime, how strong is the regime?
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