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Rodney Mitchell to ankle post
Rodney Mitchell is retiring from his post as Directors Guild of America assistant exec director as of April 21.
Mitchell began his career at the DGA in 1994 and has been responsible for handling new and growing areas, such as gaining jurisdiction over reality television. To date, the DGA has organized more than 500 shows in the reality genre.
Mitchell also negotiates individual new-media contracts and special agreements such as the NFL Network on basic cable. He’s also been staff liaison to the diversity committees, has staffed the Directors Ethics Committee and the San Francisco Coordinating Committee and handles negotiations and addresses grievances on behalf of members working in networks news on the West Coast.
Mitchell’s participated in multiple negotiations cycles. Prior to joining the DGA, he was an executive at the Screen Actors Guild for 14 years.
“I am deeply grateful to Rodney for his dedication to this organization and everything he has done over the years to keep our Guild strong,” said DGA national exec director Jay D. Roth in making the announcement Tuesday. “His work has been truly invaluable.”
Mitchell’s departure comes two week after the DGA announced that Warren Adler, its longtime No. 2 exec, would retire April 1.

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A girl that lobs explosives, most likely grenades
Name = Bubbles
Description = A highschool wiz-kid majoring in biology and chemistry. Dropped out of MIT having gotten involved with Chemical weapons and some shady dealings online
Primary weapon = Heavy machine gun (fuelled by nuclear core)
Special weapon = Backpack full of Bubble Grenades
Bronze skill = ‘Bubble Trouble’ - lobs series of bubble grenades that ‘float’ with the wind toward the target homing in and thus becoming unavoidable.
Silver skill = ‘Time for a bath’ - Removes the nuclear core from machine gun, smashing it on floor and unleashing a wave of radiation toward the enemies within the targeted zone.
Gold skill = ‘Striptease’ – Passive skill whereby garments of clothing sporadically fall off Bubbles disorientating enemies and leaving them stunned.
Platinum skill = ‘Kiss of Death’ – all damage inflicted by primary weapon leaves a mark on opponent dealing xxx damage per second thereafter (can be over-ridden by gold healer)
Can I please win a hero for this? - same ingame name…
I think the ghoul sister
I think those things on her back look kind of like some sort of jet-pack…so I guess she flys somehow?
Its Scums sister. You are welcome.
I thinks so about the sister
Genial espero que cuando la saquen poder tenerla


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Experimental Beach Ibiza Wedding Venue Cap Des Falco Ses Salinas
Experimental Beach Ibiza might just be my favourite beach wedding venue in Ibiza. It has a simple, stripped back charm with a nautical twist and you can get married on the beach, watch the sun set behind the mountains and dance outside under the stars..
Experimental Beach Wedding Venue Ibiza
Situated inside the natural park of Ses Salines, only a short drive from Ibiza Airport, Experimental Beach is perched on a remote beach in a beautiful and peaceful location far away from the visiting tourists.
The venue is sign posted from the main road and when you turn off the main road, you will have a 10 minute drive along dirt tracks to the venue.
Along the drive, your route will wind through the Ibiza salt flats and salt mountain (salt production is how Ibiza got the name The White Isle) and if you are getting married in August / September / October then you will probably see large flocks of pink Flamingos that come to live in Ibiza for the winter.
Cap Des Falco beach is usually really quiet because of the remote location and the only passers by are the occasional group of walkers or bird watchers.
Experimental Beach Ibiza is a super relaxed and calm restaurant and beach club that can be hired exclusively for weddings.
As you walk through the tables at the venue, you gradually find yourself on the beach and it feels as if the whole venue is part of the beach.
During a normal day, there will be comfy beds and beach furniture for you to chill on the beach and on a wedding day, this is swapped for white pew-like benches for your wedding ceremony.
Weddings in Ibiza usually happen later in the day than UK weddings and similar to most Ibiza restaurant wedding venues, Experimental Beach Ibiza will be open to the public until after the lunch service is finished.
At this point, you will get exclusive use of the venue for your wedding and they will rearrange all of the furniture to meet your wedding requirements.
Experimental Beach Ibiza only have a small number of weddings every year which makes it a really special and unique venue for weddings and couples fly in from all over the world to have their wedding at this beach wedding venue in Ibiza.
If you are looking for a wedding venue in Ibiza that feels completely true to the hippy-chic bohemian vibe of Ibiza and you want to be surrounded by nature, the sea, sand and mountains then this is the most perfect place!
Summary of Experimental Beach Ibiza Wedding Venue
Experimental Beach Ibiza is a Beach Restaurant that is right on one of the most peaceful small beaches in Ibiza.
The venue is on one level and has an open plan feel.
It is split into several areas – a decked area for eating ands drinking, a small beach for the ceremony, an outside bar made from an old boat, a sandy open air dance floor and a traditional Ibiza building that is used for dancing after midnight and is home to the restaurant kitchen.
Experimental Beach Ibiza is prepared for the occasional Ibiza summer days that have a rain shower and the main decked area has a canopy that covers the tables and chairs.
The wedding ceremony takes place on the beach, the drinks reception takes place around the boat bar, the meal is served on the decking, the first part of the dancing take place outside on the sandy dance floor and the late night dancing (after midnight) takes place inside.
This is definitely an outside venue and music can go on until 2am.
Experimental Beach allows live music and DJs and we recommend having a pianist playing on the beach for your wedding ceremony, a saxophonist for your drinks reception, chilled funky DJ vibes for your meal, piano and DJ for the sunset and then a high energy saxophone, bongos and DJ set for the night.
PianoDJ are welcomed at Experimental Beach Ibiza and you can hire your Ibiza wedding DJ and musicians for your Ibiza wedding.
Weddings at Experimental Beach Ibiza Wedding Venue
The wedding planner at Experimental Beach is called Silvia who is really welcoming and she speaks really good English.
Weddings include everything that you need for a great day – the tableware, table linen, chairs, food, drinks, etc.
You’ll then need to hire your music and entertainment, your photographer, flowers, transportation, etc.
As Experimental Beach Ibiza is in a very rural location, it is recommended to pre-book taxis / minibus for your guests so that they have a way to get back to their hotel at the end of the night.
At a recent wedding at Experimental Beach Ibiza, the couple booked one set of taxis at 1:30am for the guests who wanted to go back to the hotel and they booked another set of taxis at 2:00am for the guests who wanted to go to Pacha and keep the party going!
Experimental Beach will be able to offer you help and advise you about wedding suppliers that they can recommend, but you also have complete freedom to choose your own and bring in your own external suppliers.
Weddings at Experimental Beach Ibiza run from May until the beginning of October and the wedding day usually starts at 5.30/6pm and finishes at 2am.
Experimental Beach is a really good fit for weddings with between 30 – 100 guests.
Wedding Ceremony at Experimental Beach Ibiza
One of the biggest attractions of Experimental Beach Ibiza is that you can get married on the beach.
Getting married on the beach in Ibiza is often a dream for couples – but there are not many venues that are able to offer this truly magical experience.
As your guests arrive at the venue, you can hire a DJ to play chilled Balearic vibes to set the theme for the super magical wedding ceremony that is about to happen.
For beach weddings at Experimental Beach, PianoDJ can provide a white grand piano shell and an Ibiza wedding pianist to play for your walk down the aisle, signing of the register and exit song.
Wedding Drinks Reception at Experimental Beach Ibiza Wedding Venue
After your wedding ceremony, the venue will open up their really cool bar that is made from an old boat and your guests will get an hour or so to enjoy a drinks reception with canapés.
During the drinks reception, there will be lots of opportunities for photos on the beach and to enjoy the beautiful location.
Your guests will also be able to shelter under the shade canopy if the sun is particularly strong.
The most popular music option for a drinks reception is a saxophone player to play really cool chilled Ibiza vibes as your guests are enjoying amazing cocktails and cava.
PianoDJ regularly provide Ibiza saxophonists for drinks receptions at Experimental Beach Ibiza.
Wedding Breakfast at Experimental Beach Ibiza Wedding Venue
Experimental Beach Ibiza is a beach club and restaurant and it has a really special reputation for incredible, fresh, healthy and delicious food.
It is a place that residents on the island visit for super special occasions or romantic dinners and visitors to the island always return back here year after year once they have discovered this incredible place.
During your wedding meal, you can hire an Ibiza DJ to play chilled vibes as you enjoy the most amazing food.
Sunset at Experimental Beach Ibiza Wedding Venue
At some point during your meal, you will get to enjoy one of the most beautiful sunsets on the whole of Ibiza.
The sun sets behind the mountains and the reflections of the sun and mountains on the sea and the amazing display of colours in the sky make this one of my favourite places to watch the Ibiza sunset.
During the sun set, your guests will probably feel moved to leave their tables and walk onto the beach to take photos and to share the magical moment with the people they love.
The sunset in Ibiza is very special and it is really important to get the music right for your Ibiza sunset moment at Experimental Beach Ibiza.
I recommend hiring a pianist to play the piano alongside a melodic deep house DJ set that follows the sun as it sets into the sea.
You will have that most incredible spine tingling sensation and a memory that will last for ever.
Dancing and Party at Experimental Beach Ibiza
Experimental Beach Ibiza have two different DJ booths that both get used for weddings.
The first DJ booth is inside a hatch in the main building and this is linked to a sound system that runs all around the outside area of the venue.
For wedding DJ bookings at Experimental Beach Ibiza, PianoDJ provide higher spec Pioneer CDJs and mixer than the ones installed in the DJ hatch at the venue and this is included in the price of the DJ booking.
The second DJ booth is inside the main building and this is used area is for the dancing after midnight.
To make sure that there is no interruption of music between the first and the second DJ booth (no unplugging and moving of equipment), PianoDJ provide a second set of decks (a Pioneer controller) for the DJ to use for the last two hours of the night.
For the inside dancing area, PianoDJ will also provide a sound system and lighting rig so that the room becomes a really exciting space for the late night partying.
Unusually for an Ibiza wedding venue, at Experimental Beach Ibiza, the music can be played nice and loud inside their venue for the dancing between midnight and 2am.
After dinner, the dancing gets started straight away outside on the decking and you get to party under the stars until midnight.
Depending on what you have planned for your first dance (if you have learnt a dance routine or not), you can choose to take your first dance on either the decking or the sand.
After the first dance, guests will tend to dance on the sand in front of the DJ hatch and you can party outside until midnight.
You are also allowed live musicians to play outside and this can be a really cool way to get the party started after the first dance by booking a saxophone player and bongo player to work alongside your DJ and add lots of energy to the party.
At midnight, the live music has to stop and the DJ has to move inside to the indoor dancing area.
To make this work really effectively, at midnight we switch on lots of awesome lighting and turn on the louder music in the inside dancing room and this attracts the attention of the guests who all immediately come inside to carry on the party.
The inside dancing area at Experimental Beach Ibiza is an amazing room. It is intimate, the music sounds great in the space and it is really easy to get a great party going.
In no time at all, the room will be full up with guests dancing and having the time of their lives.
It is really helpful that the dancing room has doors that open up onto the outside decking so that guests can take little breaks to cool down on super hot days and it provides a really nice separation so that the ravers can be inside partying hard and any relatives that prefer chilling out can sit on the comfy chairs on the decking and watch from outside.
Music has to stop at 2am which, for Ibiza wedding venues, is actually a super generous end time and if you want to keep the party going then there is always the option of an after party at Pacha!
This is hands down my favourite beach wedding venue in Ibiza.
More information and prices about the PianoDJ Ibiza wedding DJ and musicians can be found online.
Experimental Beach Ibiza Venue Contact Details
More Information: http://www.eccbeach.com//

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American Girl Sock Yarn Dress and Shawl
Several years ago while at a LYS store the owner was very confused when I told her I was looking for fingering yarn. She became some what less friendly when I told her I was making doll's clothes. Finally, she told me she knew nothing about fingering yarn, but was convinced sock yarn was what I needed.
Well sock yarn was not what I needed and online I eventually discovered Knit Picks for an affordable alternative for my lighter weight yarn needs. However, that sock yarn has been taking up space for years. As someone who is supposed to be working on bringing down my yarn stash it seemed like a message when I found a free pattern for a 18 inch doll shawl that called for sock yarn.
You can find the Granny Shawl free pattern here. The rest of the outfit was an experiment. I wanted to finish off the yarn, so I decided on a skirt, but there was still more yarn. I tried a tube top, but they didn't match up right together as separates. However, sewed together they made a cute dress. I still had more sock yarn. Then I decided on a hat and the yarn was depleted.
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Has Potash Lost its Momentum?
Source: Potash Investing News, Leia Michele Toovey (3/9/11)
"Stocks lack clear catalysts, but people are still running out of food."
"Lacking well-defined near-term catalysts, we see growing risk that the stocks could trade sideways into the summer," Juvekar wrote. Juvekar is still bullish on fertilizer fundamentals, but thinks that the momentum generated by improving farm commodity prices could slow. "When corn moved from $3.50/bushel to $7/bushel, there was ample incentive to invest in more fertilizers to improve yields. At current corn prices, growers are incentivized to apply all the fertilizer they need to boost yields. If corn prices rose from $7/bushel to $8/bushel, farmers may not apply even more fertilizer. The incremental dollar may be invested elsewhere, such as in new machinery or land."
However, optimism still reigns over the potash market. Last night, in his Mad Money Lightning Round, Jim Cramer voiced his opinion in regards to the recent sell-off of Potash Corp. stock. "Everyone is selling everything, but it's not the end of the world. People are still running out of food. Potash needs to be bought," said Cramer.


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These photos were all taken on the stretch of the Huon Highway between my house and the turn off at Scotts Road which is the route you take to bypass Geeveston when travelling to Dover and the far south. Walking towards Geeveston you can see the local power substation which I live next door to and the Catholic Primary School. On the other side there are open fields and a couple of houses.
There is no footpath, I have to walk on the verge and generally walk facing oncoming traffic as the speed limit changes from 80-100 km/h in this stretch and it is not uncommon for it to go a lot faster. As this is the main highway there are heavy log trucks and other vehicles but thankfully it is not an overly busy road as you have to take care when crossing because of the speeds cars are travelling at. There are no pedestrian crossings.
I used to walk this way to Geeveston regularly, now I don’t do it so much mainly because I don’t really enjoy walking on the road verges any more and I don’t like taking Cindy that way. The surfaces are a bit uneven. I have fallen once or twice in the past although luckily damaged nothing more than my pride.

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Comparing Bariatric Vitamins
Proper nutrition is vital after weight loss surgery and requires taking vitamin supplements. Flintstones vitamins just won’t do. Bariatric patients have unique requirements and must take bariatric vitamins designed to meet those needs.
Along with your nutritional needs, there are some best practices to consider when taking your vitamins.
- Drinking orange juice with your vitamin can help increase iron absorption.
- Take your vitamins at the same time everyday to increase remembrance and effectiveness.
Most doctors and dietitians agree that Calcium and Iron should not be taken at the same time due to issues with absorption when present together. For best results, consume at least two hours apart. This is why our once-daily vitamins do NOT have Calcium added. Not all vitamin companies marketing to bariatric patients adhere to the rule of keeping Calcium and Iron separate, so beware, and look at your labels closely. If you choose to use a vitamin that combines both supplements, be sure your Calcium and Iron levels are being monitored closely.
When searching online for bariatric multivitamins, you might see ads for Optisource, Celebrate, or Bariatric Advantage. However, the comparison below reveals why ProCare Health was proclaimed the “best bariatric vitamin” by customer C. Jensen. As the innovator of the once-daily multivitamin, we used data from real patients to tweak and adjust our vitamin to make sure we are the superior choice for weight loss surgery patients.
Perfected with the Guidance of Medical Professionals
During development of ProCare Health vitamins, countless hours were spent with doctors, dietitians, and bariatric coordinators to ensure ProCare Health is the most complete bariatric multivitamin ever. Don’t just take our word for it, take a look at this comparison chart to see our value!
We believe vitamins should enhance life not complicate it! Our once-daily vitamins are compact, affordable, and require only one a day.
ProCare Health is the innovative leader of any bariatric vitamin available, whether it’s BariMelts, Tespo, Bariatric Advantage, Bariatric Fusion, Celebrate, Optisource, or any other you might find!
ProCare Health: Recognized as a Leader in Multivitamin Quality Control
ProCare Health quality control line has received praise from Consumer Labs, which stated,
“16 out of 35 (46%) of multivitamins selected by ConsumerLab.com for testing failed to get our approval….[ProCare Health] product was tested, and it passed testing: ProCare Health Bariatric Multivitamins (39 cent per day for 1 capsule). It provides significant amounts of a broad range of vitamins and minerals…”
Based on independent tests by ConsumerLab.com
Chewable Vitamins that are Easier on the Palate and Budget
Unlike other brands, we have minimized binders and fillers to pack the most nutrients into an easy-to-take size. This has resulted in the highest quality supplement and has reduced the chalky taste that many consumers complain about in other vitamins. Most chewable tablets are made up of 40-60% fillers, which is why they require a higher daily dose and result in a higher cost.
Choosing ProCare Health vitamins means a 41-53% savings on this essential element of your health!
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Trust and transparency are important at ProCare Health. This is why we perform the highest level of testing in our industry. Every ingredient of every lot is extensively tested so you can trust you are getting the supplementation your body requires. You can view those independent test results here. You won’t find that level of trust and transparency with the other brands.
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ProCare Health vitamins are the recommended brand by many providers including Sentara, John Hopkins, Mercy, Kaiser,SSM, and the University of Missouri-Columbia, to name a few. Our customers will also tell you ProCare Health Vitamins are the best.
“I didn’t believe that I could get enough absorption from one pill a day so I put it to the test,” customer, W.C. told us. “I am amazed, and my doctor is thrilled!” Thank you, ProCare Health!”

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Love this place. Have been many times and it never disappoints!
We loved it! Delicious food, fun atmosphere and very friendly service.
Excellent service and food. Lucky to have this restaurant in our neighbourhood
Excellent food and service, all beautifully done
A stunning but small selection of British cooking in an intimate venue. Highly recommend the dark chocolate ganache - best pudding I've eaten so far this year!
Lovely local restaurant! Fantastic food and service every time I have been. Highly recommend. Cant wait to go again.
This restaurant is definitely a local gem. The quality of the food was outstanding, tasty and portions just right. The staff were friendly and welcoming and a attentive throughout. Definitely be going again.
Great service, delicious food
Best in Notting hill and one of our favourites in London.
Small venue with good choices, updates weekly. Everyone of our group chose a different dish and were delighted with the food. Service was friendly and helpful.
Food super delicious and staff really lovely. A very welcome addition to the neighbourhood and I hope it does really well - it's nice to have such a nice place to dine with such good food in the neighbourhood!
Such a friendly team, beautifully presented dishes. Great neighbourhood restaurant.
Service is very friendly, food was very good and also very good wine!
Definitely will come back!
Just need some fresh air for warm nights, inside was very very hot. Apart from that, everything was perfect.
Very nice place. They just need to work on the acoustics of the place because when it is full the talk of the guests gets too loud
Cosy neighbor hood restaurant with excellent food and friendly service
Amazing place! Staff is really nice and helpful. Would recommend!
Amazing food, friendliest service and great ambience! Can't recommend it highly enough!
PS! Make sure to book!
I live nearby in Notting Hill and we ate at 7 saints on the Saturday before Easter. We had an absolutely fantastic meal. The cooking was vibrant and inventive and the service was friendly and efficient. In particular the halibut in lobster bisque with wild fennel and padron peppers was exceptional, one of the best things I’ve eaten in the last year. Highly recommended.
Great place with delicious food
Excellent new local restaurant for us. Delicious food and great atmosphere
Great food, ambience and service. Would definitely go again.
The small menu is a delight... everything we tried was inventive, delicious and cleverly balanced. A neighbourhood gem
Excellent neighbourhood restaurant with a weekly changing seasonal menu. We had two waiters - one excellent, one not so great but that didn’t detract from a wonderful meal. The last restaurant at this location was much loved so 7 saints had quite a lot to live up to. I think they’ve succeeded!
Delicious food and fantastic wine list. Wonderful atmosphere that is perfect for a quite supper for two on a Monday night or a larger group on the weekend. The lighting is perfect - overly harsh lighting in restaurants is my pet peeve! Importantly, when the bill arrives you don't have that awful feeling of thinking "was it really worth that?" which you so often get at Notting Hill restaurants. In fact, it's such good value, which comes from really clever menu planning and an excellent chef, that invariably I think I've been undercharged. It's my favourite restaurant in London - and the seasonal menu changes every week so I can't ever tire of it. Can't recommend highly enough!
Really interesting - and delicious - food. Great, relaxed atmosphere. A real find!
We had a lovely dinner at 7 Saints last Friday. There was a bit of a mix up with the tables and bookings but that was sorted out fairly quickly. We choose a lovely bottle of french white and had prawns & squid for starters. This was followed by guinea fowl which was very delicious. We then asked if we could take a desert home and they gave us bagniers (small doughnuts) with passion fruit creme which were really indulgent and lovely. Overall a great experience although as it’s local for us I asked if we could bring our own bottle of wine next time which they said we could but with a £20 corkage...a little steep but I would still return.
Delicious food, great service
Amazing food , wine and ambiance! True makings of a local Notting hill gem!
Lovely relaxed atmosphere, delicious British seasonal food. A thoroughly enjoyable experience and I can’t wait for my next visit.
Outstanding food, even better service! Never disappoints.
Fantastic food and friendly service though the waitresses didn’t seem to know what dish was for who at the table! The restaurant has a nice casual local feel and we personally found it very noisy and hard to talk and be heard in conversation. But we will definitely go back and really lived the food.
Delicious food, great atmosphere and amazing service would 100% recommend and will be going again soon!
Charming, unassuming, tucked away and a totally delicious treat - with dedicated front of house and a really lovely warm atmosphere. Literally cannot fault the food and we have now been 5 times now with various friends each time not disappointed. In fact I don't want to share this review as at the moment its busy but not stupid to try to get a table and I feel soon this will be rammed with a waiting list! New best place.
Amazing new restaurant!!! A local Gem!
Great interior design, comfortable seats and tables, it provides an intimate and comfortable atmosphere.
The staff is very professional and friendly.
The food is delicious, the menu is limited but what they offer is reaching the quality of a 1 star Michelin restaurant.
well done 7 saints!!!
I love this place! The menu changes every week and it is always interesting and delicious. Great wine list as well. It has the best vibe and friendly staff. Really excellent, my favourite local restaurant
Unfortunately the place is quite small and we were seated in front of the door. Food was great, service was quite slow, we waited over a hour for the starters.
Absolutely superb. We all enjoyed the food and the evening generally
Our first time and we had excellent food, unexpected dishes and a delicious dinner. James makes an excellent and welcoming patron, the ambiance and redecoration are both charming and we will definitely be back.
Great food welcoming team love space
really good food with some special wines from tiny producers. really well run by James. casual and approachable will be back

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Zon-Sonaecom merger seen easier after shareholder changes
VILA NOVA DE GAIA, Portugal, Sept 21 |
VILA NOVA DE GAIA, Portugal, Sept 21 (Reuters) - A merger between Portuguese telecom operators Zon Multimedia and Sonaecom would create value and is now more likely after Angola's Isabel dos Santos increased her stake in Zon to almost 30 percent, Sonaecom deputy CEO said on Friday.
Market experts have long argued that four telecom operators in a mature market and recession-hit economy like Portugal are at least one too many.
"A merger between Sonaecom and Zon makes sense. We believe it is an operation which would generate value for the market and shareholders and would create a more complete and stronger operator," Sonaecom's Miguel Almeida said.
Zon and telecoms group Sonaecom are seen as the most likely candidates to form a joint outfit, thanks to the sizeable synergy savings and the advantages of jointly competing against former monopoly Portugal Telecom.
"A new set of conditions is gathered which may help the merger happen. They have nothing to do with the merits of the operation which remain the same, they have to do with the changes in shareholder structure," Almeida said.
"A year ago Zon's structure was completely fragmented, the largest shareholder had 10 percent, not it has 30 percent and the dynamics are completely different as can be the decision-making process," he said.
Angolan investor Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of the country's president, became Zon's largest shareholder in May after buying a further 5 percent of Spain's Telefonica. [:nL5E8G92J5] She went on to buy an 11 percent stake from Portugal's state-controlled bank CGD in June. (Reporting by Daniel Alvarenga)
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Abstract: OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the effects of early enteral nutrition (EN) in elderly patients with hip fracture. METHODS: The patients were classified into two groups (with and without EN). We compared the pre- and postoperative albumin (ALB) and inflammatory marker levels of each group and the time spent in bed and quality of life 3 months after surgery between the two groups. RESULTS: The pre- and postoperative IL-6 levels of the experimental group (61.68 ± 51.80 pg/L) were lower than those of the control group (233.11 ±…206.31 pg/L) (P < 0.001). The experimental group spent a shorter period of time in bed (38.75 ± 14.26 days) in comparison to the control group (99.71 ± 56.87 days) (P < 0.001). Quality of life was better in the experimental group than in the control group (P < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Early EN reduced the increment of postoperative IL-6 levels and improved healing postoperatively.
Keywords: Hip fracture, ALB, inflamatory cytokines, inflamatory markers
Abstract: BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: This study determined the hand muscle strength parameters and reference values in healthy subjects using the Nicholas Manual Muscle Tester (NMMT) and Manual Muscle Test (MMT) and compared these methods. METHODS: The study was carried out with 200 (102 males, 98 females) healthy adults aged between 18–25 years. Muscle strength evaluations of the hand were performed to determine hand motor ability using both NMMT and MMT. RESULTS: The mean values of age, weight, height and body mass index (BMI) were 19.48 ± 0.95 years, 60.66 ±…8.82 kg, 165.30 ± 7.95 cm and 22.14 ± 2.25 kg/m 2 , respectively, in females, whereas the same values were found as 20.40 ± 1.34 years, 72.53 ± 9.45 kg, 176.20 ± 6.29 cm and 23.25 ± 2.90 kg/m 2 , respectively, in males. There was a statistically significant difference in all demographic data between genders (p < 0.05). Furthermore, correlation coefficient in NMMT was found to be between 0.503 and 0.954. However, there was no correlation between the manual muscle test and NMMT results. CONCLUSION: The observations presented need to be taken into consideration for evaluate musculoskeletal problems and also can be used as reference values for evaluating treatment outcomes.
Keywords: Nicholas manual muscle tester, hand muscles, muscle strength, manual muscle test
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Hallux valgus (HV) is one of the most common deformities of the foot, and it causes great difficulties for the patients. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to investigate the effects of different rigid taping techniques on HV angle, foot motor performance, balance and walking parameters. METHODS: Twenty-two voluntary individuals (12 males, 10 females) with flexible HV deformities between 18 and 35 years of age were included in the study. All measurements were done before and after placebo, athletic and Mulligan tapings were applied. After a three-day interval, new taping was applied on the same…subject. HV angle was measured by goniometer. Foot motor performance (single leg heel rise test), balance (unilateral stance, limits of stability, sensory integration of balance) and temporospatial parameters of gait (step length, stride length, step width, foot angle and cadence) were evaluated. RESULTS: HV angles were reduced in all taping groups (p < 0.05). The Mulligan taping method was the most effective method in reducing HV angle. Foot motor performance was not effected by any type of taping (p > 0.05). Athletic taping increased step length and step width but reduced foot angle and cadence. The Mulligan taping increased cadence and reduced foot angle (p < 0.01). Both taping methods did not affect the postural stability and fall risk (p > 0.05). Stability limits were increased in Mulligan taping group (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: It can be concluded that Mulligan taping method may be an alternative treatment method for HV rehabilitation especially as it increased the limits of stability and maintaining the balance. Mulligan method is more effective than athletic taping in terms of reducing instant HV angle.
Abstract: BACKGROUND: In the current literature, exercises performed using fitness equipment and body weight have been used in order to decrease the bilateral deficit (BLD) and increase the hamstring-quadriceps (H/Q) ratio. No studies have previously investigated the effect of therabands, which are both portable and practical to be used anywhere, in regard to the BLD and H/Q ratio. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of several 10-week lower extremity exercises performed through therabands on the BLD and H/Q ratio. METHODS: Twenty-seven voluntary male soccer players participated in the study.…The players were categorized into the control group (CG) (n = 14) and the theraband exercise group (TBG) (n = 13). Theraband exercises for the lower extremity were performed by the soccer players in the TBG for four days every week over a 10-week period. The dominant (D) and non-dominant (ND) leg concentric extension and flexion of the soccer players were determined through an isokinetic dynamometer at 30 ∘ s - 1 and 240 ∘ s - 1 angular velocities. The data were analyzed through SPSS 24. To determine the difference between the BLD, H/Q ratios, and pre- and post-test of peak torque (PT), the Wilcoxon test was employed. RESULTS: As a result of the analysis, it was found that the BLD for the TBG decreased, which was statistically significant (p < 0.05), whereas there were no statistically significant differences for the H/Q ratio for both the CG and TBG; the D and ND leg H/Q rate of the TBG at 240 ∘ s - 1 angular velocity increased in the post-test. CONCLUSIONS: It was found that the exercises performed with the theraband were extremely efficient at increasing the PT and decreasing the BLD.
Abstract: BACKGROUND: The optimum repetition number of standing back-extension exercise (SBEE) effective for the prevention and improvement of low back pain (LBP) is unknown. OBJECTIVE: To determine the effect of physiotherapy on LBP by investigating the optimum repetition number of SBEE via optical analysis and electromyographic (EMG) examination of the multifidus muscles. METHODS: Hemodynamics and multifidus muscle activity were examined in 16 healthy adult men using near-infrared spectroscopy and surface EMG after performing repetitive SBEE. RESULTS: Oxidized hemoglobin (Oxy-Hb) levels significantly increased in the second extension phase but decreased in the…third and subsequent extension phases; deoxidized hemoglobin (deOxy-Hb) levels increased in the third and subsequent extension phases. In the standing phase, no significant difference was observed; in the third and subsequent phases, Oxy-Hb levels decreased and deOxy-Hb levels increased. Muscular activity significantly decreased in the second standing phase but increased in the third and subsequent phases. No significant difference was observed in the extension phase with respect to the number of SBEE repetitions performed. In healthy individuals, hemodynamics improved up to second repetition of SBEE; subsequent repetitions may decrease hemodynamics because of increased activity of the multifidus muscles. CONCLUSIONS: In healthy individuals, hemodynamics improved up to second repetition of SBEE.
Keywords: Near-infrared spectroscopy, low back pain, standing back-extension exercise
Abstract: BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate performance (touch-coordinate errors, inter-touch interval) of touch screen technology in adolescents with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy (USCP) and healthy peers. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This prospective case-control study included 31 adolescents. The participants consisted of 15 adolescents with CP in the USCP group and 16 age-matched healthy peers in the control group. All participants performed an aiming-tapping task with an Android tablet. Four sessions were randomly applied: visual feedback (VF) and no VF with the dominant hand’s index finger (DHF), and VF and no VF with the non-dominant hand’s index finger…(NDHF). Inter-touch interval (ITI) and touch-coordinate errors (TCE) were calculated. RESULTS: There were significant differences between the groups for VF and no VF-NDHF TCE and ITI (respectively p = 0.001, p = 0.01, p = 0.001, p = 0.004) and VF and no VF-DHF TCE values (respectively p = 0.01, p = 0.008). When comparing the dominant and non-dominant hand in the USCP group, there was a significant difference on TCE with no VF (p = 0.01). CONCLUSION: This study provided insight into the touch screen performance of adolescents with USCP, who performed an aiming-tapping task with a tablet. Results showed that both affected and unaffected hand performance of touch screen tasks was impaired in adolescents with USCP.
Abstract: OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between chronic shoulder pain and the increase in BMI. METHODS: A prospective, cross-sectional study design was adopted for the study. Two hundred and eighty-five patients with chronic shoulder pain were evaluated for eligibility. A total of 94 patients were excluded from the study. The 191 remaining volunteers filled out a questionnaire (Pain (VAS), Shoulder Pain and Disability Index (SPADI)) and weight, height, C-reactive protein (CRP) results and 1-hour-rate of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) were measured. The participants were dived into the normal weight, overweight or obese group, considering…the obesity classification defined by the World Health Organization (WHO). RESULTS: A statistically significant correlation was found between the increase in BMI and pain (VAS), SPADI (pain, activity and total) and ESR. Although there was no statistically significant difference between the normal weight and overweight groups in all parameters, there was a statistically significant difference between the obese group and other groups. CONCLUSIONS: Shoulder pain may associated with obesity and we recommend the addition of weight control to the treatment of patients with shoulder pain.
Keywords: Shoulder pain, obesity, SPADI, body mass index
Abstract: BACKGROUND: A few studies have noted that paraspinal muscle training is important to reduce pain for patients with lumbar disc herniation (LDH). However, little is known about the exact signs for necessary training of lumbar multifidus muscles (LMM). OBJECTIVE: The study aimed to analyze the relationship between the straight leg-raising test (SLR) and the area of fat infiltration in LMM for patients with LDH. METHOD: One hundred and fourteen LDH patients were involved in this study. Clinical data were collected from a medical record system. On the MRI images, the cross-sectional areas (CSA) of bilateral…fat infiltration in LMM were measured by picture archiving and communication system (PACS). RESULT: For 61 patients with inclusive LDH, the positive side of SLR was positively correlated with the side of the larger total CSA of fat infiltration in LMM of L2-S1 (r = 0.75, p ï ¼ 0.01), and the CSA of fat infiltration on the side of SLR with a positive result was significantly larger than that on the side of SLR with a negative result only at L3-4 and L4-5 levels (p ï ¼ 0.01). CONCLUSION: SLR may be used as an important sign for dysfunction of LMM and can identify the more severe side.
Keywords: Multifidus muscle, Disc herniation, Fat infiltration, Straight leg-raising test
Abstract: BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Bone marrow oedema is a multifactorial conditioned illness. Alongside any strain relief of an affected joint, treatment with Iloprost also belongs to the choice of cures. In past studies, a modulatory effect on bone could be shown. The hypothesis of the present work is that Iloprost has a growth-stimulating effect on osteoblasts in vitro . METHODS: Human osteoblasts were isolated and cultivated. Subsequently, the cells were treated with Iloprost in bioavailable concentrations. Alterations of the cell structure were examined by means of light microscopy. A regulation of the number of vital cells was…carried out by using a CASY cell counter. Possible cell impairment after Iloprost treatment was analysed by means of XTT Elisa as well as FDA and PI staining via fluorescence microscopy. RESULTS: Using light microscopy, no changes in cell structure could be observed. With the CASY cell counter, no increase in the numbers of osteoblasts appeared after Iloprost treatment. Also, XTT Elisas and fluorescence microscopy did not reveal any cell impairment due to Iloprost. CONCLUSION: Our results could not confirm a modulatory effect in mature osteoblasts. On the basis of the present work we could not verify any growth-stimulating effect by Iloprost in mature osteoblasts in vitro . Admittedly, effects had been shown previously during osteogenesis, but we do exclude an effect on mature osteoblasts which have already differentiated.
Keywords: Iloprost, bone marrow edema, osteoblasts, in vitro
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Healthy individuals who develop low back pain (LBP) during standing (standing intolerant) respond favorably to stabilization-based exercise interventions. People with clinical LBP meeting clinical prediction rules for stabilization-based exercise share characteristics with standing intolerant individuals. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the impact of stabilization-based exercise on standing tolerance, muscle activation and clinical measures in individuals with LBP meeting clinical prediction rules for stabilization-based exercise. METHODS: Participants with and without LBP completed testing pre- and post-6 weeks of progressive home exercise intervention. Testing included clinical examination and electromyography during sagittal and frontal plane movements. LBP…was also assessed by visual analogue scale (VAS) during standing. Outcomes included clinical findings, muscle sequencing, and VAS in standing. RESULTS: The LBP group had non-significant decreases in Oswestry Disability Index (- 2.1%, p = 0.22), baseline VAS (- 7.1 mm, p = 0.11), lumbopelvic reversal (p = 0.06) and positive Active Hip Abduction Test (p = 0.06). Significant improvements were seen in standing VAS (- 5.6 mm, p < 0.001). The LBP group had beneficial changes in activation strategies in standing flexion (p < 0.05) following intervention, with no changes during frontal plane movement strategies. CONCLUSIONS: Individuals with LBP meeting clinical prediction rules for stabilization-based exercise demonstrated increased standing tolerance and sagittal plane muscle sequencing following a 6-week intervention.
Keywords: Low back pain, prolonged standing, stabilization exercise, muscle activation


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1076303 | GERMAN STATES. Mainz. Napoleon III of France. 1855-61 (ND) AV Essai or Medallic Double Thaler. NGC PR64UCAM (Ultra Cameo).
By Ferdinand Korn. NAPOLEON III EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH. Head of the French Emperor left, signed F.KORN below truncation /
GOD / PROTECTION / EMPEROR / AND / REICH, below IN MAINZ. Inscription on five lines within wreath. Maz.-1748B; VG-3588.
Extremely rare in gold. At the beginning of the 1860s the medalist Ferdinand Korn, who lived in Mainz, commissioned the Frankfurt mint to strike this "double thaler coin" to recommend to the Emperor. The Senate of the city promptly forbade this undertaking, resulting in a very scarce issue.
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I feel like every day lately we are losing another sports legend from our childhood.
Just the other day, former Reds pitcher Tom Browning died, who had thrown one of the 23 perfect games in MLB history.
Today, we find out that former Pittsburgh Steelers running back Franco Harris is dead.
No cause of death has been given at this point.
He was 72 years old.
Five decades ago, Franco Harris was on the receiving end of one of the most iconic plays in NFL history… the immaculate reception.
Today is the 50-year anniversary of the play, and Harris was doing the media rounds to discuss the play and its place in history.
In fact, he had done a radio interview only hours before he unexpectedly passed away.
Here is a snip of the Harris interview right before his death…
— Mad Dog Sports Radio (@MadDogRadio) December 21, 2022
Harris' was to be in Pittsburgh this weekend for the retiring of his number 32, but now it will wind up being a memorial service…
Legendary Steelers RB Franco Harris, author of the “Immaculate Reception” - one of the greatest plays in NFL history - has passed away at the age of 72.
A 4-time Super Bowl champion, Hall of Fame player and revered individual by so many.
— Field Yates (@FieldYates) December 21, 2022
On the catch, Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin stated, "I was in Section 135 that day. I was eight months old. I think it's funny. Surprisingly, I've probably met 75,000 people that were there that day.
"It's just one of those beautiful things in the history of our game.
"It's humbling to be in close proximity to it, to work for this organization, to understand its impact on this organization, the career it spawned in Franco [Harris], a gold-jacket career, what it did for them that season in terms of changing the trajectory of that season, what it's done for this franchise …
"There are many things that make it the play that it is and the most significant play in the history of our game. It's just an honor to be in proximity to it.
"To know the man involved, to call Pittsburgh home, and so it's awesome to be a part of and to witness. But, at the same time, we understand that we've got business, we've got present-day business, and the best way we can honor him and that is by performing.
"We're going to work extremely hard to prepare ourselves leading up to it."
Harris, a Hall of Fame RB, was a beast when he was on the field.
During his rookie season, he ran for 1,055 yards and had 10 TDs.
The immaculate reception was not just an amazing play, it was the play that led to the first post-season win by the Pittsburgh Steelers, cementing Harris in the team's legacy.
Harris helped lead the Steelers to an astonishing four Super Bowl wins in the 1970s, two of them against my Dallas Cowboys.
I hated his team as much as I hated his politics (he supported John Fetterman in the PA Senate race), but that does not take away from his greatness on the field.
Rest in peace, Franco… you were an amazing player on the gridiron.
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Brown, Obama, Sarkozy, Hoop Scheffer, Merkel at NATO's 60th Anniversary Summit
A good case in point is the story of Sophie Scholl who, along with others of the non-violent, anti-Nazi student resistance group called the White Rose, was beheaded by the criminal, NAZI government for treason [[i]]
The point is well expressed in the words of Professor Huber of Munich University who, in1943, shortly before he was condemned to death with five of his students for spreading sedition, told the court:
"As a citizen I regard it not only as a right but as a moral duty to help shape the destiny of my country, to uncover and oppose manifest evils. What I aimed to do was to rouse my students to an ethical understanding of the grave evils of our present political life; a return to definite ethical principles, to the rule of law, to mutual trust between man and man. This is not illegal rather it is the establishment of legality." (From Humanising Hell by George Delf [ii]).
It’s generally accepted that Hitler and his NAZI regime constituted a criminal government; ten out of sixteen judges of his Reich Ministry of Justice were convicted of Crimes Against Humanity in trials at Nuremberg and sentenced to death [iii].
Wilhelm Frick, a lawyer and prominent German Nazi official serving as Hitler’s Minister of the Interior and Hans Frank, Adolph Hitler's personal legal adviser who expressed the view that "The National Socialist ideology, especially as expressed in the party program and in the speeches of our leader, is the basis for interpreting legal sources", were instrumental in crafting the legal framework for the NAZI regime [iv].
After the Night of the Long Knives [v], when Hitler purged many of his political enemies and removed some impediments to his power the German courts and cabinet quickly swept aside centuries of legal prohibition against extra-judicial killings to demonstrate their loyalty to the regime. Both men were tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials, convicted and executed. Frick was also indicted for Count Two, Waging Aggressive War, or "Crimes Against Peace" for his part in the planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression. [vi]
The moral discord for people of conscience within a criminally run society is probably at its height in the case of theologian and Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer who was convicted of complicity in an attempt to assassinate the regime’s leader, and the logic of his situation is as self-evident as the plight of Hamlet.
More Recent Examples
Bert Sacks is a man of conscience, not of the type who sees an injustice, wrings his hands and shrugs it off saying “nothing I can do about it” but one who takes what action he can to put things right. Bert Sacks took action against the criminal immorality of sanctions against Iraq, his government sought to criminalise him by fining him $10,000 for breech of US law [vii] and will probably criminalise him further with a jail term now that he refuses, on principle, to pay the fine [viii] arguing that the crime is the government’s not his.
An interviewer who put the question to US Secretary of State, Madeline Albright if she thought the cost of sanctions of 500,000 Iraqi childrens’ lives was “worth it” [ix] framed her question generously, portraying this consequence as if it were some unavoidable side effect of an action taken to serve some higher purpose when in fact, this consequence was the deliberate and intended purpose of the sanctions [x].
After the United States' deliberate destruction of Iraq's civilian infrastructure during the first Gulf War sanctions called for, maintained and accentuated by the action of the US government prevented the restoration of treatment of water supplies and sewage resulting in 12 years of outbreaks of diseases mainly affecting children while the denial of medical supplies accentuated the problem and an estimated 500,000 children died unnecessarily.
Joe Glenton is a patriotic British soldier. Believing that “sometimes force is necessary” and wanting to serve his country he joined up and went to Afghanistan. However, after a tour of duty he had “grave doubts” about what was being achieved there and expressed empathy with the courage of Afghans who fought to repel invaders of their country. He refused to return to Afghanistan and absconded. Joe Glenton has been jailed for 9 months by his government and stripped of his rank [xi]. By contrast, the former Prime Minister who defrauded the public and his own cabinet with a misleading case for an illegal, aggressive war against the advice of his own government legal service has been rewarded to the order of millions of pounds by oil companies and other beneficiaries of the war [xii].
Diane Kogan, young as she is at 18, is a wise and noble human being. She is an Israeli citizen living in the Tel-Aviv suburb of Bat Yam who refused to sign on for her mandatory period of service in the Israeli military. In doing so she made the following, highly impressive statement:
I refuse to enlist to the Army because I strongly believe that a military system will never help to achieve peace.
The Military is a violent force because it teaches how to solve conflict by using offensive means, such as weapons and brute force. It makes no sense that one side will use violence as a way towards peace in hope that the other side will just accept it.
Violence leads to violence and eventually to war, which then leads to more wars. Bloodshed is not the way and should be avoided at all cost.
Therefore I wholeheartedly decline to cooperate with the military system (and its ideals), which I think is rotten from the core, and is far away from ever achieving peace among people.
But Diane Kogan is not alone. She is just one victim of an Israeli system of compulsory military service. Every Israeli eighteen-year-old must serve a term of service brutalising and humiliating Palestinians at the bleeding edge of Zionist expansionism. Freud would have summed it up as “learning to hate Arabs for the unconscionable things we do to them”, a system in which mental illness becomes contagious and endemic as those afflicted take measures to ensure that the whole population becomes afflicted at an early age. Many resist. They are dealt with just like Diane.
The Pirate Bay Four are four of Sweden’s brightest and best. Thinking people of the world understand how copyright law and monopoly control of technology, access to commercial advertising communications and all other aspects of the entertainment, news and most avenues for communication of public information are abused to deliver control of the masses and the ability to manipulate not only public opinion but also overall collective social outlook to a few powerful people who control a few powerful multi-national corporations. Here we have a prime example of how the law itself becomes a tool for what most of us would call criminal behaviour – corruptly supporting unfair advantage of a powerful minority over the rest of society.
These four clever young men devised and implemented a technology that allowed them to facilitate without actually participating in the sharing of copyright material.
The Swedish government had no inclination to prosecute these men for what should have been an action no more illegal than a hire-car company providing the getaway car to a gang of bank robbers or the manufacturer and retailer of a gun used by a murderer. Yet the Swedish government succumbed to pressure from the multinational companies of the entertainment industry and even from the US government by pursuing prosecutions. The result is that four of the country’s brightest and best are rewarded for what should have been recognised as a service to society and humanity with fines, costs and prison terms. On April 17 2009 the verdict in their case was announced. All four defendants were accused of ‘assisting in making copyright content available’. Peter Sunde: Guilty. Fredrik Neij: Guilty. Gottfrid Svartholm: Guilty. Carl Lundström: Guilty. The four receive 1 year in jail each and fines totaling $3,620,000 [xiii].
Mordechai Vanunu is a socially responsible world citizen. Seeing beyond his small part in a bigger enterprise, a corrupt and criminal enterprise, he did what a socially responsible person does, blow the whistle and alert the world to the crime in progress. When the State of Israel, a non-signatory to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty secretly developed a nuclear weapons capability – the very thing for which the US is alleging and condemning Iran at the present time, with threats of nuclear attack – Mortachai Vanunu saw the significance of his part in the process and reported Israel’s secret nuclear weapons programme to the British press in 1986. Illegally kidnapped in Italy he was returned to Israel and served 18 years in prison. To this day he is not permitted to leave Israel nor talk to the media [xiv] while the criminal state of Israel refuses to declare its nuclear weapons capability nor to sign the NPT repeatedly violates International Law, ignores UNSC resolutions and threatens violence against its Arab and muslim neighbours. The world pays a price for the ill-treatment of a hero for the proliferation of peace.
The Cuban Five is a group of national heroes who did great service to their native Cuba. Since the revolution that liberated Cubans from the barbaric Batista dictatorship in 1960 Cuban exiles loyal to the overthrown dictatorship have used Miami, Florida in the US as a base from which to organise terrorist attacks against the revolutionary government and its people. The Cuban Five were sent by the Cuban government to infiltrate these groups and stop the terrorism against Cuba. They were caught in the US, charged, tried, found guilty and sentenced in June 2001 to long prison terms for crimes of espionage against the US [xv]. The Five’s actions were never directed at the U.S. government. They never harmed anyone nor ever possessed nor used any weapons while in the United States and their mission was to stop terrorism, not to spy on the US. The denial of justice to these men is an outrage that any nation’s people would be ashamed of, much less a nation that has waged two illegal wars resulting in over a million civilian deaths and the catastrophic destruction of a nation as part of an alleged “War on Terror”. The hypocrisy evident in the contrast of US refusal to extradite Luis Posada to Venezuela, convicted in absentia of involvement in various terrorist attacks and plots in the Western hemisphere, including involvement in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed seventy-three people is stark and disgraceful [xvi]. The Venezuelan government lodged an extradition request for Posada in the US in 2005, to which the US government did not respond. More recently, upon renewal of the request, considerate of US sensitivities, the Venezuelan government has proposed one possible alternative path for the US, to put him on trial in US soil for his terrorism crimes. [xvii]. However, the government that runs the world’s leading University of Terrorism [xviii] is unlikely to prosecute one of its alumni.
Protestors against the attack by the Israeli military on Gaza in December 2008 were generally people of conscience opposed to violence and injustice. However, in London, police used provocative, violent and intimidating tactics against them, tactics that are illegal under British law. There were over 33 complaints to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), which the IPCC refused to investigate. After the demonstrations, the police arrested 119 people. The majority of these people were not arrested at the demonstrations, but often months later, using intelligence gathered at the demonstrations. Many of these arrests were made in shocking dawn raids, which included the handcuffing of entire families, and the seizing of phones and computers. Many of the young people arrested were pressured both by the presiding judge and their own solicitors to plead guilty to the offences with which they were charged, with the expectation of receiving minor sentences. They have since been sentenced to long prison terms, almost all for harmless acts.
As Labour MP for Islington North, Jeremy Corbyn said: “What possible justification can there be for handing down a year in prison for a 19-year-old lad, studying dentistry, who threw a plastic bottle in the direction of the Israeli Embassy?” [xix].
So here we have a stark contrast. The Israeli government unleashes a violent attack on an unarmed and defenceless population, an action condemned by human rights organisations and the United Nations for having deliberately and systematically targeted civilians and used Palestinians, including young children, as human shields, actions which constitute war crimes under the Geneva Conventions. The British government, while criticising the Palestinian Hamas for firing rockets into southern Israel (token acts of feeble resistance to a vile, brutal and illegal occupation that have killed zero Israelis), conspicuously declines to criticise Israel for causing civilian casualties while the mainstream media all sing the chorus of Israeli propaganda about “self defence”. As hundreds of thousands of people all over the world came onto the streets to express outrage over the violence, police in London engaged in a systematic persecution of the demonstrators targeting young people from Muslim communities and the courts cooperated by severely sentencing those charged. Although the demonstrators represented a broad community cross-section, of the 79 arrested and charged, 77 are Muslim, mostly under 25 years old. The youngest was 12 years old. Many of them received long prison terms for minor offences.
Julian Assange is a very clever man, but more importantly, one with moral vision and courage. His technical achievements and moral development earned him a reputation, while still a teenager as "Australia's most famous ethical computer hacker" as reported on Wikipedia [xx] but his reputation for both has recently risen dramatically with the co-founding of WikiLeaks [xxi], a website created for the publication of leaked documents and other material by whistleblowers. One of the documents published was the website blacklist for the proposed Australian Internet Filter [xxii] which exposes that far from censoring only child pornography sites, 68% of the list is intended to exclude otherwise legal viewing material. The site became highly controversial with the release of a classified military video dubbed “Collateral Murder” [xxiii] which has revealed the callous manner in which unarmed civilians are routinely attacked and murdered in Iraq by the occupying US military forces.
It’s not at all surprising that the Australian government, far from celebrating the technical accomplishments of a champion for the “clever country” or his contributions to a more informed democracy, sought to clip his wings by confiscating and cancelling his passport in May 2010 [xxiv]. Leaked documents published on WikiLeaks reveal the sinister measures considered by the US “Intelligence” to destroy the site [xxv]. However, with the revelation that Assange is in possession of some 260,000 classified documents that he may be intending to publish the Pentagon has taken a specific interest in his whereabouts [xxvi] and Daniel Ellsberg (of Pentagon Papers fame) has gone so far as to warn Assange that his life may be in danger.
Lynne Stewart believes that the Law should be about Justice. Many lawyers, if you express a view that the law is about justice will just laugh and mock your naivety; Lynne Stewart is not one of them, she has spent much of a thirty year career in law defending political prisoners and unpopular clients in social justice and human rights cases, often unpaid for people who could not afford representation. As a result she has earned for herself an international reputation as “the peoples’ lawyer”; hardly the background of someone who would assist terrorists against her fellow Americans. Yet this is the situation of Lynne Stewart today – convicted by US courts under the US “Patriot” act and jailed for giving material support to terrorists on the basis of having issued a press release on behalf of her client. Lynne Stewart has spent her working years at the very coal-face of the struggle between on the one hand those who would use the courts as a foundation for social justice, a system for the peaceful resolution of conflict and the prosecution of criminal acts and on the other hand, those who would use the courts as tool of power, falsely criminalizing political enemies and as means to frighten, discredit, intimidate, and silence those who would challenge power or defend the rights of others. These latter would like to imprison Lynne for the remainder of her natural life and on July 15th 2010 will attempt to do just that. You can find out more about Lynne Stuart and lend your support at the “Justice for Lynne Stewart” website [xxvii].
The Symptoms of our Times
I have cited only a few examples above, but they are International and diverse and they represent only instances that have had public attention and can be easily researched on the Internet. They are only the visible part of the iceberg. They represent a highly significant indicator, a visible symptom of a dire illness in our globalised society and a warning. These are the indicators of what we should all recognise with some considerable alarm as a criminal inversion of society. When the people who hold the keys of power are criminals - and the nature of our capitalist system is that it tends to favour this situation - ordinary people begin to be criminalized.
So Who Are These Criminals With Power?
For anyone willing to look at the public record of the first decade of this century and accept the obvious reality that we have at hand two aggressive and therefore illegal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, initiated on the basis of a fraud against the governments and democratic electorates of several countries and resulting in so many civilian deaths that a conclusion of genocide is inescapable, there is an instant short-list of people with power who need to face criminal charges (if sufficient people of influence and principle were to confront and address this reality now we may avoid a third such war with Iran, borne of the very same template of criminal fraud).
There is a strong case to suggest that Tony Blair, Jack Straw, George Bush Jnr., Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Chaney, John Howard and Alexander Downer are clearly on that list. If the Nuremberg trials and the example of Wilhelm Frick are any guide then the legal advisors who gave them “legal cover” including US and UK Attorneys General Ashcroft and Goldsmith are also implicated as are Bush administration attorneys associated with the "torture memo" Bybee, Chertoff, Gonzales, Haynes and Woo.
The fact that these men have not already been indicted under their own country’s domestic law, where the applicable International laws also apply, suggests that there are also people in law enforcement who may have questions to answer.
But resistance to prosecution also extends to the judiciary. At the high court in London on May 6th 2009 an appeal was heard to overturn a decision to refuse a judicial review of the Director of Public Prosecutions’ (DPP) decision to drop criminal proceedings against Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Jack Straw, Geoff Hoon, Lord Goldsmith and other members of the British Government for crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and other war crimes, against the people of Afghanistan and Iraq. The decision was upheld. In summing up Lord Justice Keane said “The Court’s remit is limited; issues of war, the legality or not thereof are political therefore non-justiciable” echoing the earlier remarks of Mr Justice Roderick Evans that "Decisions of war are such that the Court will not intervene (prerogative matter)". International laws carried into UK law by treaty obligations explicitly prohibit aggressive war. Decisions to go to war can only be made by heads of state, yet judges of the British High Court contend that the legality of war is political and the courts should not intervene, suggesting a lack of intellectual clarity that one would not expect of men of their standing.
However, these are only the front line; corrupt lackeys of the true centre of power, the publicly visible holders of delegated power and offices intended to bloody the guillotines if it should ever eventuate that public outrage erupts in sufficient violence that the collective anger is willing to rupture the social fabric; a scenario that some people have obviously contemplated. Behind the scenes, hidden in the shadows are others with considerably more power than that cumbersome sort that is exercised from government houses, the high offices of public institutions and court benches.
Political power has waged a struggle with economic power since long before the days when kings needed money to raise armies or the “new rich” of the industrial revolution invaded the dignified salons of the aristocracy. In the latter decades of the last century economic power secured for itself all of the advantages of globalisation while political power remained largely constrained within national boundaries (the secret services obviously linked up, but to the benefit of political power only in so far as it serves economic power – as John Kennedy discovered to his mortal cost). When companies emerged whose annual turnover was comparable to the GDP of some small countries, the power of governments yielded to the threat of moving investments elsewhere. In the early 1970s, for example, the Australian government of Gough Whitlam was significantly undermined when large foreign-owned enterprises like General Motors Holden and Ford Motor Company repatriated funds totalling in the order of a billion dollars. In terms of normal cash flow of the economy this was worse than a visit to the blood bank and calls to mind more recent threats to other countries by US heads of state to “make their economy scream”.
With the emergence of this relation of political and economic power, such legislation as exchange rate, financial, banking, foreign ownership and media regulation quickly evaporated. Companies no longer paid taxes that contribute to the infrastructure of nations that allowed them to generate wealth. Government revenue collection shifted from progressive and corporation taxes to regressive and consumer taxes. A massive widening of the wealth gap ensued. At the same time, government spending shifted massively away from public infrastructure and community facilities of education and hospitals to energy, communications and transport turning the public economic machinery into a wealth-generating engine of private capital.
When the wave of privatisation of government assets, bought at fire-sale prices with the profits of crime – water and sewage, energy, communications, public transport, roads and even prisons - all were transferred to direct control by private economic power and the consumer population was put at the mercy of private capital for essential services and resources. Prices rose dramatically, essentially handing over to private capital the right to levy taxes. Systems of government “watchdog” authorities, a sop to public apprehension, headed by former industry executives identifying with and keen to maintain good relations with private capital (or ridiculed by the media if not), further betrayed the interests of the consumer public. For example, in a specific and extreme case of the freeways system in Melbourne the vast majority of the system is owned and maintained by the government at public expense while the private ownership of a few small but key, inter-linking sections of just a few miles effectively allows the private corporations that own them to charge for the use of the whole system. But the government provides a debt collection service.
The established processes for channelling public funds into private coffers through war, aid programmes and subsidies to private industrial projects “to attract investment” (and now corporate bailouts) have been dramatically accelerated.
All of this has been achieved with the public either completely uninformed or misinformed by a monopolised, privately owned and unprincipled media, through a system of lobbyists (which is itself a criminal fraud which has dramatically degraded the democratic process) and through corruption of individual politicians and political parties through private funding, bribes and sweeteners.
Much of this has occurred by actions that are illegal and even where legal, are, in any case unethical and the end result has been a massive, systematic fraud against the public; a criminal deception about the nature of organization of society that has allowed theft of public assets and funds in a grand scale. More importantly, it is a criminal theft of power. Moreover, evidence is abundant that we have reached a stage where criminal fraud and murder are undertaken merely to disguise and facilitate the ongoing criminal abuse of power.
Bill Christison, former Director of the CIA’s Office of Regional and Political Analysis who served a 28-year career with the CIA spoke of the now obvious cover-up of the truth of 9-11 as “a massive fraud against the American people … a fraud that has led to many thousands of deaths. This charge of fraud” he said, “if proven, involves a much greater crime against the American people and people of the world than any other charges of fraud connected to the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003… not only against the people of the United States, but against the entire world.”.
David Ray Griffin, who has articulated a monumental, intellectual challenge to the most substantial critics of the 9-11 Truth Movement [xxviii] has pointed out that “As for the concern to prosecute war criminals, what bigger war criminals could there be than people within our own government who engineered these attacks [of 9-11], then used them as a pretext for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which have killed millions?”
The Nature of These People
What we are dealing with here is a global system of economic power that has overcome, or indeed, captured the processes of political power. This has been achieved, as I have outlined above, by means that anyone other than a cynical lawyer would describe as criminal – at the very least, in terms of the fraud against the constituencies of political power. Lynne Stewart refers to it as “the Evil Empire”.
This process has been going on for a very long time. During the Vietnam war it was very evident and much discussed among the war resistance that the primary motivation for the Vietnam war was that it was an economic engine, essentially the military-industrial complex at work. The Vietnam War inflicted massive suffering on the people of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia and permanent damage to their environment. We are clearly repeating this episode of shameful western history in a modern crusade against Islam in Afghanistan and Iraq and as William Blum has so thoroughly documented in his books Killing Hope and Rogue State the immorality and criminal violence has been ongoing [xxix]. To consider these realities as conscious actions of power in the context of a dictionary definition of the English word Psychopath is food for very sobering thought.
Psychopath – One who can inflict pain, suffering, injury, even death without empathy, compassion or remorse.
The pain, suffering, injury and death have been incalculable. As the use of terms such as “Collateral Damage” and statements such as Tommy Franks’ “We don’t do body counts” or the classic Madeline Albright “We think the price” (the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children under five due to sanctions) “is worth it” clearly show, there has been no empathy or compassion. Still worse, after the lessons of Vietnam, the very fact that we could do this again in Afghanistan and Iraq, shows there is no remorse.
While there are many people who, for whatever reasons coalesce in these crimes against humanity, or even contribute their career efforts to aiding and abetting them, we must first consider the people who hold the power to initiate, direct and control. These are people who have exploited the captive market of soldiers engaged in fighting for their country to establish markets for their products such as Cocaine Cola and cigarettes and with it a fraudulent foundation of positive public perception of their wares based on “patriotism” and “mateship”; all at government expense.
They are the kind of people who fear that a social system that provides even the barest of minimal shelters for homeless people would groan under weight of the cost while exponentially growing expenditure on research, development and deployment of weapons of Mass Destruction is a worthwhile focus for our collective human energies.
These are people who consider it a worthy occupation, (according with the protestant work ethic) for an old woman to sit in a doorway of a public toilet collecting 50p from each visitor. For example, not unlike the rest of Europe, the City of London, where millions of visitors annually spend tens of thousands of pounds each visit, here is a city so concerned with the meticulous discipline of “user pays”, so scrupulously accounting for each penny of public expenditure that it must charge for each use of the toilet. Let us assume (treating the matter with the same degree of entrepreneurial concern) that the average visitor urinates 20 times per day in a typical 10-day visit the £100 in revenues to the Crown (let us say 20M visitors - £2bn), a full year’s revenue would cover the cost of only the first 15 minutes of “Shock and Awe” of the war in Iraq.
When we consider the principle of “user pays” in relation to resources exploitation we perceive a very different arrangement of clear separation of profits accruing to private companies while costs accrue to the public purse and humanity at large. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have transferred vast resources that belonged to the people of these countries into private ownership while the financial cost has been borne by the American taxpayer to a degree that is impossible for most mortal minds to grasp and the suppliers of instruments of death and destruction have accrued immense fortunes. The real cost in life, suffering and destruction has been borne by the people of these countries, the soldiers of both warring nations and their families and humanity at large. It’s a state of affairs no different in principle from what we are witnessing now as it unfolds in the Gulf of Mexico and has been played out to vast, environmental cost for all of the latter half of the 20th Century where vast profits have accrued to private companies recklessly and irresponsibly serving greed and profit while the immense and unmeasurable cost to humanity and the planet at large will be evident for generations to come.
Readers should resist the inclination to view these words as a bitter, envious and slanderous libel against those who have wealth and power, but rather as a brief catalogue of a small sample of the evidence that the present power structure is a criminal inversion of society. If the word “incitement” springs to mind then it should be seen as an incitement of intelligent people everywhere to reflect and carefully examine the context of their lives and the system in which they participate for they may be contributing their life’s effort not to a better world for themselves and their descendents but to the degradation of all that is best in the world as we know it.
Foremost, it is an expression of concern and warning, uttered against a calamitous descent into a condition reminiscent of the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah where all that is best in the human spirit must lurk in the shadows of criminal corruption and violence, where the rewards of crime are preferred to those of creative endeavour and where all humanity is denied the benefits of the thoughtful application of human intellect and positive motivation because we become limited to the purview of the most stupid and myopic of our number whose only capacity is the ruthless application of cunning and violence for no other ends than dominance, control and the attainment of more power.
When we examine our potential, a unique and conscious species cognitive of many of the natural laws, principles and processes that define our universe, our world and our own being it is clear that if our collective behaviour could become inconspicuous and harmonious with the context of our being and our collective energies directed away from materialist consumption and violent conflict, a grand future awaits us and our descendents. We are clearly at a turning point, negotiating it successfully will require a collective will to overcome the present course dictated by corrupt criminal power, myopic vision and greed with the complicity of lazy optimists who hope that all will be righted without their personal engagement or acceptance of responsibility for our collective fate.
* [i] Sophie Scholl: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Scholl_%E2%80%93_The_Final_Days
* [ii] Humanising Hell: http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/106252
* [iii] The Justice Trials: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/alstoetter.htm
* [iv] Frick and Frank: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Frick, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Frank
* [v] Night of the Long Knives: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives
* [vi] Nuremberg trials: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/NurembergIndictments.html#Frick
* [vii] Sanctions vs Principles: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0617-02.htm
* [viii] Sacks refuses to pay Fine: http://www.democracynow.org/2007/1/23/peace_activist_bert_sacks_challenges_u
* [ix] Madeline Albright: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbIX1CP9qr4
* [x] Joy Gordon article http://www.harpers.org/archive/2002/11/0079384
* [xi] Joe Glenton: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8551245.stm
* [xii] Proceeds of Crime: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1259030/Tony-Blairs-secret-dealings-South-Korean-oil-firm-UI-Energy-Corp.html
* [xiii] The Pirate Bay: http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-trial-the-verdict-090417/
* [xiv] Mordechai Vanunu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu
* [xv] The Cuban Five: http://freethefive.org/index.htm
* [xvi] Luis Posada: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Posada_Carriles
* [xvii] Extradition Request for Posada: http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=93257
* [xviii] University of Terrorism: http://www.blogfrommiddleeast.com/?xstart=b&new=67513
* [xix] Gaza Demonstration: http://gazademosupport.org.uk/about-2/about/
* [xx] Julian Assange: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#cite_note-theage2-21
* [xxi] WikiLeaks: http://wikileaks.org/
* [xxii] Australia’s Berlin Wall http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Is_the_Internet_Filter_Australia%27s_Berlin_Wall
* [xxiii] Collateral Murder http://www.collateralmurder.com/
* [xxiv] WikiLeaks Founder’s Passport Confiscated http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/australian-wikileak-founders-passport-confiscated-20100516-v6dw.html
* [xxv] CIA planned to destroy WikiLeaks http://wikileaks.org/wiki/U.S._Intelligence_planned_to_destroy_WikiLeaks,_18_Mar_2008
* [xxvi] Pentagon Seeks Assange http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/11/wikileaks-founder-assange-pentagon-manning
* [xxvii] Justice For Lynne Stewart: www.lynnestewart.org
* [xxviii] David Ray Griffin Article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20039
* [xxix] William Blum – Killing Hope: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee6SdmmCN5Y
Allen L. Jasson

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WASHINGTON (March 31, 2014) — Minnesota is contemplating legislation to impose a vehicle mileage user fee.
According to the Specialty Equipment Market Association’s SEMA Action Network (SAN), the Minnesota pilot program would be administered by the state’s Department of Transportation (DOT).
Under the bill, the DOT must report to the legislature its design options and recommendations for a permanent program that would be implemented in the near term. SAN said the bill seeks to penalize national efforts to create a more fuel-efficient vehicle fleet, and noted that “as gas tax revenues decrease due to hybrid and electric vehicle ownership, states are looking for new sources of funding for pet projects.”
For how many generations has your independent tire business been in the family?
|Four or more generations||
|Total votes: 83|


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This is a great recipe to make when you have lots of veggies in the fridge. I didn't have any cauliflower when I made it this time, so I substituted with zucchini. Chick peas are good source of protein. I've been told if you rinse them before cooking they'll give you less gas (not sure if that's true, but worth the rinse!). I usually omit the shredded coconut since I haven't found any non-sweetened kinds that I like. If I don't have any cilantro on hand, I'll substitute with parsley. This recipe calls for 1-2 tbsps of curry powder... I think 1 is enough, otherwise it tastes powdery.
|Served over rice, with fake chicken from Yuan, and a spring roll & mango chutney |
|Coconut Cauliflower Chana from Jae Steele's Get it Ripe cookbook|


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Der extrem gemischte Chor
The improvisational vocal collective from Hamburg resides for a week at Ballhaus Ost. After two music theater projects, artistic practices and authorships have developed out of the versatile group.
The TakeHeart residency at Ballhaus Ost serves to gather this multiplicity under one roof. Voices and hierarchies are once again reshuffled. Which narratives, texts and melodies emerge from the choir itself? How can the multiplicity be made audible?
On Sunday, the choir will open its doors for a live listening session open to the public, inviting them to listen to new compositions, narratives and improvisations.
Der extrem gemischte Chor is a musical theater ensemble founded in 2017. The composition of the ensemble strives for vocal heterogeneity, encompassing a wide range of ages, professionalities and musical imprints.
(Program in German)
by and with
Zahava Rodrigo, Benjamin van Bebber, Leo Hofmann, Lisa Pottstock, Pauline Jacob, Gertrud Utecht, Marla Johanna Breuker, Joris Camelin, Alexandra Idele, Frieder Hepting, Lukas Huber, Wissam Alkhalil, Johanna Link

domain: entertainment