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Are things in your life rough these days? Are you plagued by feelings of hopelessness and dread? Do you find yourself combating situational depression? Are you wondering what to do?
Let me help!
Combating situational depression is different from dealing with other kinds of depression. Here are some things that you need to know to win the fight!
#1 – Know the difference between chemical and situational depression.
Diagnostically, are two basic kinds of depression: situational depression and chemical depression. They have similar symptoms but different causes.
Situational depression is caused by something that happens in your life. When something big happens that makes you sad, like the death of a parent or a divorce or the loss of a job, you can become situationally depressed. This kind of depression usually has a beginning, caused by a specific event, and an end, and is often treated differently from chemical depression.
Chemical depression is the result your brain chemistry being off in such a way that leads to depression. You are most often born with chemical depression but it can also by caused by a traumatic life event.
Chemical depression can happen to you even if your life is going great.
So, ask yourself some questions about what your life looks like these days to help you figure out what kind of depression you might have.
If you think you have situational depression, read on. If you think you have chemical depression here is an article for you to read to learn more.
#2 – Know what is causing YOUR situational depression.
As I stated above, situational depression happens when something occurs in your life that causes you extreme stress and because you haven’t yet adapted to the changes brought about as a result of that event.
Issues that can bring about situational depression include:
- Problems at work or school
- Death of a loved one
- Relationship issues
Furthermore, many people who struggle with situational depression often have preexisting experiences with some sort of trauma that might contribute to their mood changes. Some possible experiences may be:
- Existing mental health problems
- Several difficult life experiences happening at once
- Having gone through considerable stress as a child
So, take a good look at your life right now. Are you struggling with something? Is your child having issues at school? Is your marriage a mess? Are your parents ill? Anything that is out of the ordinary and which is making it more difficult to function.
If you are sad, and you are struggling with life events, you might be situationally depressed.
#3 – Know the symptoms of situational depression.
Most people with situational depression develop symptoms within roughly 90 days following the event that triggers the condition. Symptoms can include:
- Lack of enjoyment of regular activities
- Difficulty sleeping
- Recurring bouts of crying
- Loss of interest in food
- Loss of Concentration
- Withdrawal from work or friends
- Suicidal thoughts
Symptoms of situational depression vary from person to person and usually include more than one of the symptoms above.
Review the list above carefully. If any of these things seem familiar to you then you might be struggling with situational depression and it’s time to deal with it. Situational depression can cause severe disruption of your life if left untreated.
#4 – Know the best way to treat situational depression.
In many cases, situational depression will ease on its own. There are things that you can do in the meantime to help relieve the symptoms. Getting exercise, eating well, getting enough sleep, sharing your feelings and doing things that make you happy can all help ease your sense of sadness.
However, if your symptoms are seriously disrupting your life or not going away, it would be a good idea to talk to your Primary Care doctor about what is going on. It might be time to talk to a psychologist and/or get treated with some medication.
Either way, it is important that you pay attention to your moods so that you know if they are getting worse or better. It’s often easy to lose sight of the fact that it’s the depression that is making your life so bleak. We start to blame ourselves for not being strong enough or outgoing enough or smart enough when in fact our self-image is clouded by the depression.
Checking in with your moods regularly so that you can deal with them properly is an important part of dealing with your situational depression.
#5 – Know that you should have hope.
Some people with situational depression have symptoms for longer than 6 months. This is especially common when something else happens during the recovery period, which often happens because, well, this is life.
If your depression is seriously impacting your life, whether just for a few weeks or a few months, reach out to your doctor to get some support. Your life just might depend on it.
Luckily, for many, situational depression can abate quickly, especially if you make a special effort to take care of yourself, sleep and eat well, get exercise and hang out with those you love.
So, have some hope that your situational depression will most likely pass, that it won’t be a part of your life forever. How you are feeling today is most likely not how you will feel in a month or two.
Combating situational depression is exhausting. Life is hard enough and being sad, overwhelmed and hopeless as well can be devastating.
Fortunately, dealing with situational depression is possible. Take a good look at your life and try to identify what might be causing your sadness. Knowing what the source of your sadness is the first step to dealing with it.
Take care of yourself. Exercise, eat and sleep well. Pay attention to your moods and manage them. Have hope that, with time or with treatment, it will pass and you will get your life back.
You can do it! I promise.
Are you combating situational depression?
Let me help!
Email me at email@example.com and let’s get started!
I am a NYC based Certified Life Coach and mental health advocate. My writing has been published on The Huffington Post, Prevention, Psych Central, Pop Sugar, MSN and The Good Man Project, among others. I work with all kinds of people to help them go from depressed and overwhelmed to confident and happy in their relationships and in their world.


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3M integrates both with their suppliers and their customers but the integrations are not the same (see 3M’s supplier integration).
3M has every reason to want to set up automated document exchanges with their customers. This is why they are very flexible and offer multiple solutions for their clients to integrate with them. That being said, the technologies they support differ depending on your location and your industry. Your 3M contact person should be able to assist you in choosing the most suitable technology. For this reason, it’s possible they will directly fit into your technology landscape without any additional software at all. There are nonetheless a few reasons that could encourage you to opt for a third party even if the technology gap isn’t significant:
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Located on the westernmost side of Indonesia, the province of Aceh has gained a reputation for conflict since the Free Aceh Movement (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka, widely known as GAM) took up arms in 1974 in an attempt to secede from Indonesia.
The province adopted Shariah, Islamic principles of jurisprudence, as the basis of its legal system in 2003, while a nine-year Indonesian military occupation of Aceh resulted in thousands of casualties. Armed conflict claimed the lives of Indonesian soldiers, GAM guerrilla fighters, and inevitably, civilians as well. Braving the crossfire, even in residential areas, was a daily event.
It is now taking time for a new government, which was elected this spring, to encourage their supporters to work within the political system. Having fought against the government for more than three decades, these former guerrilla leaders have now become part of the democratic system. As a result, they must reign in any violence by their constituents and put constitutional principles forward instead.
The massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that devastated Aceh in December 2004 became the gateway to end the conflict that had been dragging on for more than 30 years. With the scale of the natural disaster, the government and GAM had to prioritize reconstruction over continuing to pursue their political differences. And in 2005, GAM and the government of Indonesia signed a memorandum of understanding in Helsinki, Finland.
The establishment of local political parties, including the Aceh Party, which is comprised of former GAM combatants, was one of the key stipulations in the Helsinki memorandum of understanding. And in the 2009 legislative elections, the Aceh Party won 42 of 69 seats in the regional Parliament that governs Aceh, winning the majority of the vote in 23 Aceh regencies and cities.
Despite their lack of political experience, the former guerrilla fighters dominated the seats in the regional parliament and won control of the Aceh government. In one fell swoop, former combatants had switched gears: from armed struggle to politics.
And last April, for the second time since the peace treaty of Helsinki, Aceh held general elections for its governor, regents and mayors. Zaini Abdullah and Muzakir Manaf of the Aceh Party won elections for governor and vice governor respectively, with 1,327,695 votes (55.78 percent of the total), defeating four other pairs of candidates.
While voting on election day proceeded largely without problems, the campaign period was colored by violence and intimidation. Between March 12 and April 15, the Aceh Institute, a nongovernmental research organization, identified 77 cases of violence that included intimidation, verbal threats, physical violence, and damage to public property. In some instances, the police found that the perpetrators were members or partisans of the Aceh Party. This suggested that more work is still required to fully complete the transition from a violent struggle to a political one.
But efforts to maintain peace remain the focus of Abdullah and Manaf’s regional government. “In the first year [of governing], we are going to keep a true peace in Aceh. Furthermore, we are trying to improve the economy for the welfare and prosperity of Aceh’s people,” Abdullah said on April 17, speaking to a group of journalists at his home in the provincial capital of Banda Aceh.
However, in addition to continuing to speak out publicly against violence, Abdullah and his Aceh party must do more. The potential for violence remains real, as illegal weapons have been circulating widely in the province and election violence continues to be reported. The fact is that there is evidence that violence is still considered a tool for political change. Abdullah must seek support from the government of Indonesia for a more assertive police crackdown on owners of illegal weapons and criminal behavior. Only then will Aceh be safer.
These former guerrilla leaders have a duty to teach their constituents by example. This means that even though the Aceh Party won seats in the government, peace for all Acehnese will only be preserved when the rule of law prevails.
Ayi Jufridar is a journalist and novelist. He previously worked for the Asahi Shimbun newspaper of Japan and the Associated Press in Aceh. He is now a correspondent for Jakarta’s Jurnal Nasional daily. THE DAILY STAR publishes this commentary in collaboration with the Common Ground News Service (www.commongroundnews.org).
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Being snubbed socially provokes exactly the same brain response as being physically hurt, say US researchers.
The same brain area "lit up" on the scan
Volunteers were asked to play a computer game designed to fool them into feeling excluded, while brain scans were taken at the same time.
After the computerised snub, the scan detected activity in an area of the brain linked to physical pain.
Experts say the study, from the journal Science, is a hint to the importance the brain places on social ties.
The researchers involved in the study, from the University of California at Los Angeles, used an MRI scanner to probe the brains of their test subject as their feelings were manipulated.
These scanners can detect subtle changes in blood flow to various parts of the brain - which indicate when the region is active.
To provoke the right response, they devised an ingenious computer simulation designed to be reminiscent of a playground game.
The participants were shown a screen which gave the appearance of a "ball-throwing" game involving both the volunteer and two other figures, represented by animated characters.
The test subjects were told that real people were controlling the other two "people", and the game took the form of throwing the ball in turn between all three of them.
Of course, this was an elaborate hoax - there were no other human players, and the other characters in the game were controlled entirely by the computer.
At first, the game proceeded as it should, with the ball coming at regular intervals to the player controlled by the human volunteer.
However, after a while, the two computer controlled characters started throwing the ball only to each other, apparently excluding the test subject from the game.
It was at this point that the brain reactions were measured by the scanner.
The researchers noticed one key area of the brain "lighting up" on the scan when this happened.
This area, the anterior cingulate cortex, is already known to be associated with the brain's response to the unpleasant feelings linked to physical pain.
This was not just a frustrated reaction to not being able to play - researchers had already tested this by having a short period at the start of the game in which the controls appeared not to work properly.
The researchers wrote: "Evidence suggests that some of the same neural machinery recruited in the experience of pain may also be associated with social separation or rejection."
Dr Jaak Panksepp, from the Centre for Neuroscience, Mind and Behavior at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, said that feelings of social exclusion were powerful instincts in animals and humans.
He said: "The feelings induced by experimental games in the laboratory, are a pale shadow of the real-life feelings that humans and other animals experience in response to the sudden loss of social support.
"Psychological pain in humans, especially grief and intense loneliness, may share some of the same neural pathways that elaborate physical pain.
"Given the dependence of mammalian young on their caregivers, it is hard not to comprehend the strong survival value conferred by common neural pathways that elaborate both social attachment and the affective qualities of physical pain."


We have got plenty of details regarding The Last of Us Part 2 but oddly it seems that the game will not have a multiplayer mode. Fans are very upset because this is a feature that was confirmed at E3 2019.
Naughty Dog’s lead game designer Emilia Schatz confirmed that The Last of Us Part 2 will not have multiplayer. Here is what she had to say regarding the matter:
We’re focusing on a single-player experience, so we’re just making a single-player game for this.
This is very odd indeed keeping in mind that at E3 2019 co-director Anthony Newman mentioned that the game will indeed have a multiplayer mode. The fans are not happy at all and they do want that multiplayer mode that was previously confirmed. Newman talked about the matter in a recent interview and here is what he had to say regarding the matter:
Multiplayer will not be included with The Last of Us Part 2. I know we had kind of announced that [it would have multiplayer], but as the game has developed, it’s become so ambitious, so grand in scope, and so intricate in its complexity, that it really required the full focus of the studio to deliver this single-player experience.
The developer has teased an online game but that will not be The Last of Us Part 2. This could be a spin-off that releases in the future but for now, there is nothing that we know about such a game and whether or not it is in development. It will be interesting to see what this online game is about and how it is connected to The Last of Us.
An art book and statue of Ellie have been revealed which you can get if you are interested in collectibles. The game is expected to release on February 21, 2020.
Let us know what you think about The Last of Us Part 2 not having a multiplier mode and whether or not you are interested in playing the game when it comes out.


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The S&P 500 can be danced like a 3-count waltz: 1 (corporate profits), 2 (price of primary energy), and 3 (interest rates).
Last week, we analyzed the market sensitivity to rising interest rates, all other things being equal. However, rarely are all other things equal.
This week, we integrate the three rhythms, with the conclusion being the cost of primary energy is growing too fast.
Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz’s Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) will celebrate its 70th anniversary this year. It has revolutionized the finance industry by formalizing the principle of diversifying an investment portfolio and taken up much of the computing time of the world’s powerful financial computers and the minds of managers for decades. It’s the free lunch of finance.
Today, we tackle this mountain by proposing a new slope in which to climb it: The Intelligence Portfolio Theory (IPT).
The difference between MPT and IPT is ontological. The first focuses on the statistical effects of randomness; the second focuses on the self-organizing intelligence of interacting systems.
Randomness, as we shall see, is a mathematical convenience of ignorance, and this convenience presents many false noses.
Cette lettre est la première d’une série qui prolonge, étape par étape, la Théorie Moderne du Portefeuille. Elle s’adresse aux gérants de portefeuilles financiers et aux risk managers.
Nous commençons par un morceau de choix : la corrélation interne d’un portefeuille. C’est la variable clé qui détermine le risque de crash financier.
Depuis Harry Markowitz, les gérants de portefeuille pensent connaître la solution pour leurs investissements. Choisir des titres les plus diversifiés possibles. En d’autres termes, zéro coopération, zéro corrélation.
Mais comment mesurer la corrélation ? Et surtout, comment la mesurer en temps réel ?
This letter is the first in a series extending step-by-step the Modern Portfolio Theory. It is aimed at financial portfolio managers and risk managers.
We start with a choice piece: the internal correlation of a portfolio. This is the key variable determining the risk of financial crash.
Since Harry Markowitz, portfolio managers think they know the solution to their investments: choose the most diversified assets possible. In other words, zero cooperation, zero correlation.
But how do we measure the correlation? And furthermore, how do we measure it in real time?
Last Friday, the COVID-19 omicron variant from southern Africa awoken loudly under the horns of the media, and European stocks lost nearly 5% in the day. Bad surprise!
The financial market seems to have been invented to surprise managers, more specifically to dispel the surprise, and managers generally do not like this too much.
What are the market consequences of surprises?
In a stable regime where finance and economy grow in parallel, cash and oil are two forms of free energy which, in theory, should be fungible. Since early 2020, however, the central banks from the US, Europe, and Japan, issued 40% excess cash on average out of the blue to fight the deflationary consequences of the pandemic.
Cash and oil are unlikely to remain fungible: you can print cash, but you can’t print oil.
One year ago, facing the largest bond bubble in history, Gavekal-IS published “Bonds. Which Bonds?” focusing on four investment alternatives to US fixed-rate treasury bonds to protect income portfolios:
The four positions generated more than 20% alpha against US bonds, on average, which now raises the question of a possible over-extension of their outperformance.
Keep? Sell? Who knows?!
Unlike most physicists, value investors should welcome negative mass.
Financial assets carry a mass, just like objects in physics. Some are heavy, others are light, and a few carry a negative mass, a key property for efficient portfolio construction.
Today, the energetic approach tells us more: the expected return of value stock indices outpaces growth indices for the first time in ten years.
« All the things I could do, if I had a little money » chantait ABBA en 1976.
Aujourd’hui, ce n’est plus l’argent qui manque. Les grandes banques centrales des EtatsUnis, de l’Europe et du Japon, en ont imprimé entre 6 et 7 billions de dollar américains depuis le début de l’année 2020. Comment comprendre cette monnaie ? Est-elle surévaluée, sous-évaluée ?
« All the things I could do, if I had a little money » ABBA sang in 1976.
Today, there’s no shortage of money. Since the beginning of 2020, the major central banks of the United States, Europe and Japan have printed between six and seven trillion US dollars combined. How can we approach this currency? Is it overvalued or undervalued?
Previously, Louis outlined the four asset classes that investors appear to regard as anti-fragile, now that US treasuries no longer fit the bill. With each of these four asset classes enjoying a roaring bull-run, today Louis examines the typical life cycle that lifts an asset class from unloved hell to anti-fragile heaven.
Unconventional monetary policy has led to the largest bond bubble in history; some 15 trillion dollars’ worth of debt globally, now providing negative yields. Bond holders from developed economies may have reason to worry about the future of their savings. History tells us, however, that perhaps they should simply put their feet up, and take a look at less crowded bond markets for inspiration.

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It began in Bayonne.
Jimmy Davis had just been elected the city’s mayor, and David Rosenberg, a Union City native who was director of communications for Union City’s Hatzolah ambulance corps, organized a lunch to introduce the mayor to a group of about two dozen Jewish business owners he had assembled.
That was in August 2014.
Now six years later, what started as the Hudson County Jewish Business Alliance and then expanded into the North Jersey Jewish Business Alliance has rebranded as the New Jersey Jewish Business Alliance. And to help its brand of networking expand statewide, Mr. Rosenberg has brought on Joshua Pruzansky, who had been the state political director for Agudath Israel and then for the Orthodox Union, as vice president of member engagement.
At the first meeting, Mr. Rosenberg discovered the potential that exists when business owners gather.
“There were two people sitting across from each other at the table,” Mr. Rosenberg said. “One asked the other, ‘What do you do?’ He said he manufactures garbage bags. The other guy said ‘We distribute janitorial supplies.’”
And like that, a shidduch was made, and the New Jersey distributor found a New Jersey supplier.
Now, the alliance has around 200 members, from small businesses to nationally traded public companies.
“We would love to have all the Jewish business community be part of this alliance,” Mr. Pruzansky said. “There is strength in numbers. Hopefully business will see the advantage of there being a united voice in the Jewish business community.”
In the last few years, according to Mr. Pruzansky, many businesses have moved from New York to New Jersey. “A lot of businesses that were in Brooklyn are now situated in larger facilities in North Jersey,” he said. “Even in Central New Jersey: Mesorah Publications — ArtScroll — recently moved from Brooklyn to Rahway. We’re working together with the state on economic packages to make it more feasible to be here than across the river.”
The alliance helps businesses making the move by connecting them with local officials, Mr. Rosenberg said.
“The bureaucracy is very different here. In New York City, it’s one big central government. The population is almost like that of the whole State of New Jersey, but when you come to New Jersey, every few blocks is a different municipality. There are different counties, different zoning laws, different officials, different people in charge. The mindset can be very different from one municipality to the next.
“I’m a matchmaker. I’m not the expert in everything, but I can put you in touch with experts in most fields, whether it is legal, governmental, or you need a new broker,” Mr. Rosenberg said.
Both Mr. Pruzansky and Mr. Rosenberg are Orthodox. Mr. Rosenberg is from the Sanz-Klausenburger chasidic community, which opened an outpost in Union City in 1968.
“I would say most of our members are probably not Orthodox,” Mr. Rosenberg said. “Many of them are not even Jewish. We don’t discriminate.”
Why bring in non-Jewish members?
“It gives us more diversity,” Mr. Rosenberg said. “It’s all about building a stronger voice. They see a value in being part of the network and they want to sign up.”
In August, the organization held its annual legislative luncheon.
Governor Phil Murphy sent a video message. “His chief of staff was online, as was the department of labor. They understand this is an important alliance they need to work with,” Mr. Pruzansky said.
The organization also has taken members to Washington D.C. and Trenton. “When life gets back to normal, we will have a lot of events and get people together again,” Mr. Pruzansky said.
Mr. Pruzansky said that relationships with public officials are very helpful for businesses.
“Sometimes there can be stuff that can hold up a whole project,” he said. “Seeing what the problem is and helping them navigate the problem can make a difference. Sometimes it has to be addressed with the town, sometimes with the right attorneys, accountants or lawyers.”
Perhaps the alliance’s biggest political ask came several years ago, and it involved Bayonne. The Port Authority was rebuilding the Bayonne Bridge so a new generation of large ships could pass under on their way to the Port of Newark.
The rebuilding meant that the bridge was closed frequently. Without traffic, and with the bridge, it’s 30 minutes from Bayonne to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, via the Bayonne and the Verrazzano Narrows bridges.
“The closures created a lot of issues,” Mr. Rosenberg said. “It affected the trucks sending their stuff to New York. It affected the workers coming in.”
So Mr. Rosenberg, speaking on behalf of the alliance, set up a meeting with Port Authority officials. “We asked them to keep it open at least on Fridays, so people can get back home at a normal hour,” Mr. Rosenberg said.
“The authority is very difficult to do anything with,” Mr. Rosenberg said with a shrug. “Nothing really changed, except one courtesy they gave us: Erev Yom Kippur they left the bridge open. That was pretty nice of them.”


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Futility of War Illustrated in Wilfred Owen’s Poems
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Wilfred Owen was a 19th century war poet who’s purpose was to inform the general public of the horrific realities of war that corrupt and influence innocent young men. Owen, having experienced war and the effect it has on humanity, explores and develops powerful ideas such as loss, which subsequently deals with the loss of life, youth and innocence. He also focuses on the overall idea of the negativity of war and its effect on society. Physical, psychological and emotional suffering is also dealt with in his poems. The poem ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ Deals with these ideas and reflects both on the ideas and characteristics of Owen’s poetry as a whole.
The idea of loss and its sub sequential ideas of the loss of youth, innocence and life used in ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ provide a grounding establishment in relation to Owen’s poetry as a whole. In the poem, the soldiers are described as desperate men. The alliteration; “knock-kneed” and simile; “coughing like hags” and “like old beggars” create the effect that the men have prematurely aged well past their youth, experiencing physical and psychological exhaustion, therefore creating a sense of loss of youth and well-being. This strongly relates to the poem ‘Disabled’, and the lines “There was an artist silly for his face, For it was younger than his youth, last year. Now, he is old; his back will never brace;” which contrasts past and present and expresses the loss of youth.
Owen also creates powerful visual imagery of his deceased comrade who was helplessly slaughtered “under a green sea” of gas, which expresses Owen’s anger and hatred towards the war and its futility. The similes “like a devils sick of sin;” and “Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud of vile,” express the corpse’s tragic appearance, with “the white eyes writhing in his face” and his “froth corrupted lungs”, and create the hyperbolic tragedy of the deceased soldier. The repetition of the word ‘you’ in the final stanza emphasises this loss as Owen is rhetorically asking the audience to experience the things that they have, with a sarcastic tone, whilst mocking “The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” meaning, ‘it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country’. This loss of life relates to all of Owen’s poetry, as a dying or deceased man is described in nearly everyone one of his poems, expressing the sacrifice of war. Powerful imagery and literary techniques develop the idea of loss and reflect on the ideas and characteristics of Owen’s poetry as whole.
‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ also deals with overall idea of the negativity of war through the use of irony. The title of the poem is ironic in itself, as the poet strongly believes the opposite of its meaning, and is in fact mocking the statement. This mocking tone is also emphasised in the final stanza as the statement is repeated, succeeding the words “The old Lie”, which expresses the poet’s belief that war is not glorious; it is inhumane and futile. The negative aspects of war are developed throughout the poem, and reflect both the ideas and characteristics of Owen’s poetry as whole, as he forcefully contradicts the negativity of war, which is expressed in his poems through the use of irony and powerful visual imagery.
The idea of suffering vividly presents itself throughout the poem, whether it is physical, psychological or emotional. In the third stanza, the pace of the poem transitions in to rushed and frantic, as the soldiers are “Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time” as they are being surrounded by poisonous gas. Owen describes the suffering of one unlucky soldier who failed to do so, through the use of strong verbs such as “guttering, choking, drowning”. The repetition of the verb ‘drowning’ when connected with the simile “as under a green sea” when describing the gas, emphasises the suffering and illustrates horrific imagery.
This idea of helpless slaughter relates to the poem ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ as the soldiers are described as boys “who die as cattle,” expressing the suffering of their feeble butchery. Figurative language such as “Drunk with fatigue;” emphasises the idea of suffering in ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ as it expresses the physical suffering of their health, and yet their psychological suffering as they are light-headed and disoriented as a result of their physical suffering. This idea of psychological suffering relates to the poem ‘Mental Cases’ as the patients cannot extricate the carnage they have witnessed and partaken in, whilst “Memory fingers in their hair of murders,” and cannot escape the suffering in their minds. Strong imagery and language techniques assist Owen in his exploration and development of suffering and reflect on his ideas and characteristics of his collection of poetry as a whole.
In conclusion, Wilfred Owen develops and explores powerful ideas and vivid concepts through the use of his broad range of literary techniques and strong imagery of war, which deals with loss, suffering and the overall negativity of war. ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ is an admirable example of one of Owen’s poems which depicts these ideas and reflects both the ideas and characteristics of his poetry as a whole.

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Nakamichi NAM-1700 2DIN 7” Touch Panel Without CD/DVD
2DIN Receiver with 7” Capacitive Touch Panel
NAKAMICHI NAM1700 is our MP5 7” Double DIN AV Multi-Media Receiver suitable for universal use across all vehicle models with the corresponding frame. This AV multi-media receiver comes with multi-connectivity features such as USB, SD card and Bluetooth for immediate access to your entire entertainment library.
You'll, of course, have the option of listening to the latest hits and news on your local AM/FM radio stations with the built-in PLL Tuner.
High-resolution files are not a problem for the NAM1700, with built-in playback support for MP3, WMA, AAC and FLAC files, just insert a compatible USB or TF card to start enjoying your music on the road.
Built-in Bluetooth with A2DP support lets you stream music and also stay connected to your calls while driving with the Bluetooth hands-free feature while staying focused on the road ahead.
The NAM1700 also works with Mirrorlink for IOS and Android.
Ultra-thin 7” full glass capacitive screen with multimedia player
Built-in Bluetooth, Support A2DP Bluetooth music.
Touch screen with GUI(Graphic User Interface)
Support USB for music, image and video files
Support TF card for music, image and video files
Built-in Radio Receiver, Support RDS Receive.
Built-in amplifier, maximum power 4x45W
Support Android phone mirror link
Support ios phone mirror link
Support 1080P video playback.
With wireless remote control.
Support Rear MIC interface
Support 1A phone charging
Rear-view camera input.
4V Audio Pre output
3V Subwoofer output
Two Video output.
One A/V Input.
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Day 204 – A trip to Woodgreen Animal Shelter for their fun day. Girls managed to have a go at walking the ferrets. One tried to go up Bee’s jacket but she thought it was pretty funny!
Day 205 – A quiet day as weather weren’t so good. A local muslim organisation has organised lots of activities for the kids over the summer and the eldest went off to try archery in the afternoon. Didn’t take a picture today except of the cat chilling in the evening.
Day 206 – Another activity the eldest got to try was wall climbing. I got to stay and watch and looked so much fun. Then in the afternoon the whole family went to Leicester to eat out.
Day 207 – Another quiet day to be honest. Eldest went to her archery in the afternoon. She almost didn’t go as she only got one go on Monday but this time she came home really excited that she got about 6 goes and couple went in the middle. I started feeling rough…coming down with a cold.
Day 208 – Not feeling great but had to take dad to the hospital for his consultant appointment. They were running behind and we ended up waiting over an hour to be seen. Dad is currently stable, just have to keep having regular blood tests. Tried to get some blog stuff done in the afternoon. Worked on a Disney Backpack review.
Day 209 – Still feeling rough….. so another quiet day. Have a game to review so checked that out today. Review will be on the blog soon. One of our goldfish died!
Day 210 – Took our last remaining goldfish and gave it away to someone with a bigger tank so now we are fish less. Feeling really rough but had to collect eldest from horse riding…said a quick hello to a couple of the ponies.

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To connect or NOT to connect...
I have the great privilege of talking about intimacy with lots of people, and I’m often heart broken by the number of people who readily acknowledge that their love life is mediocre, at best. Why? Why aren’t these lovers bursting full of heart and soul, radiating passionate life force? Why aren’t their days filled with the energy of love sweetly rushing through their bodies as they go their way? Why aren’t they swooning with inflamed hearts and bodies full of bliss hormones when they are together??
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A distortion I often encounter is that people think the goal of sex is orgasm. Oh honey, there is sooo much more. Have we mistaken “technique” for connection? How often do you feel well and truly met? How often are you fully present and available to connect with your partner?
There are realms of passionate energy that dwarf the experience of genital orgasm, or even whole body orgasm. And while orgasm, especially whole body orgasm is a wonderful moment of deep alignment with our larger self and an excellent way to re-balance our energy fields, there is more. Sex is essentially about amplifying frequencies of connection with the result of exponentially increasing the energy between you, which opens access to the frequencies of passion, ecstasy and oneness.
Underneath all the half-hearted gestures of romance, all the fumbling caresses, pecks on the fly and almost hugs, or the casual inquires about our well-being are all an intent to make connection. And yet, how often do you really feel there has been even a breath of oneness in these moments?
If we’re paying attention at all, these near-miss connections will actually feel non-nourishing, empty, like false food. Like an addiction they give us some small measure of what we’re seeking and leave us deeply hungry at the same time. Some attempts offer us a small sense of companionship which is comforting, and yet these too often leave us hungry for more. More depth, more zing, more abandon, more heart and soul, more seeing and being seen, more met, more touched.
Come on baby light my fire….
Why do these semi-connections fall so far from the flames of passion, and many times leave us feeling even more depleted and lonely? Why does the tired mom feel that having sex with hubby is just another chore to do? Why do most men feel exhausted after making love? Loving and intimacy ignite us when we first reveal ourselves to each other, when we feel so deeply met. How do we loose that energy?
I have a hunch that it’s because most folk just don’t know how to activate and sustain an ever deepening connection. We’ve even lost an ability to imagine the possibilities. After all, there was no class for creating intimacy in school, our parents were usually unable to model these behaviors, and other than the fantasies of movies, we’re left pretty clueless as to the realm of possibilities and how to tap them.
Technologies of frustration
Most folks are seeking chemistry with another but are not activating their own chemicals. We’re looking for someone else to do it to us. We live in a very co-dependent society in which we think our beloved is supposed to deliver the joy juice to us, i.e. if we like the way they look in those jeans then we can get turned on by them. If they don’t turn us on then we decide that they’re somehow not meeting our needs. This is a sad but maybe subtle tone in most relationships these days.
So what happens for most folks when they can’t get turned on? They amplify the technique, rub harder, buy more gadgets, and try gimmicks, fantasies, plastic wrappings or pain, anything to FEEL more. But again there is little or no attempt to make an energetic connection; the experience is flesh limited and a huge displacement of one’s inner power. The actual Source energy is left untapped, not felt, and not shared.
The truth is most of us don’t know how to connect from our inner selves, to another being, be they our partner, children, friends or the wait person at our table.
One of the common versions of dis-connection in our current culture is even called the hook-up. That pretty much tells all, we send our energy out to another and hook their energy for our benefit. We hook up to get our needs met; or to make sure they see us in a particular way. We even engage in heartless sex to try to feel something, anything. We seek the heartless blow job to relieve stress, cultivate the keep-me-company-so-I-don’t-have-to-feel-so-alone companion. We settle for so little by giving so little of ourselves.
Connecting means gifting yourself, your heart, your focus, your presence, your sexual energy, your soul to another, to this moment, to the deed being done, but it does NOT mean giving yourself away. To connect we begin with us, stand in our own energy, get grounded, present, and willing to connect. Our energy radiates in our being but doesn’t go jumping into the other person, or hooking them to us. When a person is energetically in this position, and revealing their true self there is an enormous amount of energy that gets activated and is available to share.
When our beloved also has this inner stance and wants to connect from their true self we generate an exponential energy surge together. This amplification happens even just standing still in front of each other gazing into their eyes IF both people are connected to themselves, grounded, and open to reveal themselves, with masks-off. From here energy builds like crazy, to the degree we remain open, present and soft hearted.
NOW we’re talking intimacy, the experience of being transparently present in the frequencies of love! Oh, and this kind of fulfillment could take some practicing; for joy, for joy! Grin, sigh, moan…

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20 September 1993
COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS
Supplementary Reply to Recommendation 1196 (1992)
on severe poverty and social exclusion:
towards guaranteed minimum levels of resources
(adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 7 September 1993
at the 497th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies)
1. The Committee of Ministers shares the concern of the Parliamentary Assembly that severe, persistent and widespread poverty excludes growing numbers of persons and families from the normal processes, relations and amenities of civilised society.
2. It was indeed with this in mind that the Committee of Ministers adopted, on 10 February 1992, Recommendation No. R(92)4 on the co-ordination of employment, social and educational services for the integration and reintegration into employment of persons with difficulties. The Committee of Ministers has sought the opinion of the Steering Committee for Employment and Labour (CDEM), which drew up Recommendation No. R(92)4, on paragraph 15.iii of Parliamentary Assembly Recommendation 1196 (1992) on severe poverty and social exclusion: towards guaranteed minimum levels of resources. The CDEM, in its opinion, recalls that Recommendation No. R(92)4 states, inter alia, that persons in difficulty, who include all those suffering from severe poverty, should benefit from a social and vocational reintegration policy which takes the following factors into account:
i. their situation often results from a set of unfavourable factors such as health problems, poor education, family and psychological problems, homelessness etc;
ii. these problems should be dealt with at local level, through an individualised, comprehensive approach based on consultation and co-ordination between the relevant public or private bodies as persons with difficulties are very often unable to contact such services;
iii. a priority need of these people is often the learning of the most elementary social skills, via first-hand experience of the working world, before receiving vocational training;
iv. social rehabilitation requires sustained effort in order to gradually develop a stable and rewarding social identity, a guarantee of social and vocational reintegration and key factor in preventing a relapse into poverty.
3. The CDEM also notes that a particularly significant share of the responsibility in this area lies with socio-economic decision-makers, officials, voluntary organisations, financial institutions and also small- and medium-sized business enterprises who must be made aware of the problem, informed and urged by public authorities to join forces in helping victims of severe poverty. Paragraphs 7 to 9 of Recommendation No. R(92)4 cover these concepts in greater detail.
4. The Committee of Ministers has also sought the opinion of the Steering Committee on Social Policy (CDPS) on paragraph 15.iii of Parliamentary Assembly Recommendation 1196 (1992). In its opinion, the CDPS draws attention to the fact that it is submitting to the Committee of Ministers, on the instructions of the latter, an opinion concerning the implementation of Project III.5 on "Human dignity and social exclusion". The main thrust of this multidisciplinary project, which follows on from the conclusions of the Colloquy "Towards greater social justice in Europe: the challenge of marginalisation and poverty" (Strasbourg, 3-5 December 1991), will be the preparation of a pan-European report on poverty and social exclusion. The CDPS recommends that this report should have three main purposes, namely:
- to review the main trends in poverty and social exclusion across Europe and to analyse the main processes involved in the context of the rapid economic, political and social changes taking place;
- to describe and analyse the connection between poverty and social exclusion and the denial of basic rights and to establish a clear framework of social rights to counter poverty and social exclusion;
- to establish concrete principles for successful action to combat poverty and social exclusion.
A first step towards implementing the recommendations for carrying out the report should involve the organisation of a meeting of Chairpersons of the Council of Europe committees and bodies concerned. The CDPS also hopes that the Parliamentary Assembly will lend its support to the preparation of the report, and that it will participate in the Conference to be held in 1996 at which it is planned to present the report.


After shimming and bolting the pole blocks on the mirror box permanently in their final positions, I added foam pipe insulation to the truss poles so handling them during cold weather would be kinder to the hands. The black foam will also suppress reflections off the shiny aluminum tubing. I also found the bores in the pole seats were too tight for the poles to fit into them, so I had to take them off the upper cage. Then I used a cordless drill and a drum sander attachment to enlarge the pole bores enough for the poles to slip into the pole seats. The result is still a tight fit, and when the knobs on the pole seats are tightened the poles are held even more tightly. It still takes a bit of effort to take the upper tube assembly off, but at least I do not have to worry about it falling off in the dark. Now before I can take it outside in my yard under the stars for the first time, all that remains is to touch up the finish on the blocks and the drum too, put the primary mirror back in it's cell and then adjust the sling and collimate it. That event will take place this weekend, if the weather permits.I expect the truss poles to be a little too long, and they will be trimmed to final length at that time. First light will be a test to see if everything is in order before I commence full scale observing with the telescope at a dark site. After that, all that remains is to make the shroud and acquire the digital setting circles, coma corrector and dew heater controller I plan to purchase for it.


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Addleshaw Goddard advises Cooper Parry in acquisition of Haines Watts
Addleshaw Goddard advised Cooper Parry, on its acquisition of Haines Watts London and its associated audit and advisory enterprises spanning the Southeast and the Midlands.
The team at Addleshaw Goddard that worked on the deal included Paul Medlicott, Katie Parker, Dan Conway, Rachael Norris and Joel Power.
The deal will lead to the opening up of 11 new offices for Cooper Parry across London, the South, Birmingham and the Midlands. The headcount of the combined business will increase to 1,150 with a turnover to £125m and a tripling in size over the past 12 months since CP partnered with Waterland Private Equity.
Ade Cheatham, Cooper Parry CEO, said of the acquisition:
“Bringing together two great businesses as one strong team takes our London headcount to over 500 people. It also elevates us to the next level as a UK mid-market heavyweight. In addition, the strong bank of specialist talents and diverse client base in London, the South and right across the Midlands will allow us to continue to outperform the market.
We now have genuine momentum and can demonstrate real strength and scale in London. What’s more with more strategic hires, specialist team lifts and continued geographic expansion via M&A, we’ve created a platform for future growth."
Backed by Waterland Private Equity since December 2022, Cooper Parry’s recent four deals in six months underpin its commitment to fast-paced UK expansion.


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Watchdog says 177 donors gave B.C. Liberals millions, got billions
A “$100,000 club” of monied donors is giving millions to the B.C. Liberal Party and getting billions in government payouts, contracts and projects, according to a new book by the executive director of a government watchdog group.
Just 177 donors paid $55 million – about half of all the money received by the Liberals over the last 12 years – and subsequently received some $15 billion, as well as permits, legal changes, regulation changes and approvals, says Dermod Travis of Integrity B.C.
He admits he has no direct evidence of corruption or bribery, but says he’s uncovered a pattern B.C. voters need to pay attention to.
“This strikes me as a little more than a coincidence,” Travis said. “It’s a sign that it’s pay-to-play in B.C. – that’s been known for a long time now.”
For his book, “May I Take Your Order, Please?” he looked through the public listings of election donations held by Elections B.C., and then looked at government payment records, which track contracts and credit card payments.
There are tens of thousands of donors giving to the party. But when it became clear how much money was coming from a small subset, he zeroed in to investigate the business they do with the B.C. government.
He identified 177 corporate networks that gave more than $100,000 and called them the “$100,000 club.” The book details the donations and examines the $116 million the Liberal party has received since Elections B.C. started keeping digital records in 2005.
CTV News asked Liberal Leader Christy Clark about Travis’s findings and if there’s a return on investment from donations.
“The answer is no,” Clark said. “Consider the source. I mean, the NDP have found the same pattern too. I don’t think that they have an interest in speaking the truth about it. It isn’t true.”
When pressed that the information came from Elections B.C. and government payment records, Clark insisted: “The connection that you just made is not accurate.”
The lumber mill on whose property the Liberals arranged the campaign stop Tuesday is also listed as a donor in Election B.C.’s database.
Donation irregularities to the B.C. Liberals sparked an RCMP investigation earlier this year that has now expanded to include all donations.
In response Clark promised to convene an independent commission to analyze the province’s largely unregulated election donation regime, but not until after the election. Unlike the federal government, there are no caps on donations in B.C., and corporate and union donations are allowed.
Since 2005, the NDP received $46 million in donations. That includes some $672,000 from United Steelworkers, which is paying for some staff on the NDP campaign. The NDP says it needs resources to fight the Liberal party, but is promising to ban the practice entirely as their first act in government.
“The commitment I make to the people of B.C. is that we need to get big money out of politics,” Horgan said at a campaign stop Tuesday.
The Green party has vowed to accept no corporate or union donations. Leader Andrew Weaver told reporters, “They’re squabbling with each other to see who’s the least bought off. Really? This is the level of political discourse here in B.C.?”
Travis says these concerns will continue to dog all parties until the system itself is changed.
“Look at Alberta or the federal level. They’ve banned this to avoid the smell that we have in this province. If we want to rid the smell of this type of a political system in B.C., we’re going to have to do the same: ban corporate and union donations,” he said.


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Liam Gallagher: 'Beady Eye isn't a good name'
- Bang Showbiz
- 14 June 2013
Liam Gallagher thinks his band Beady Eye have a "s**t" name, and didn't think his former band, Oasis, had a good title either
Liam Gallagher thinks Beady Eye is a "s**t" name for a band.
The group's frontman admits he is not too fond of the group's moniker, nor that of his former band, Oasis - taken from Swindon Oasis Leisure Centre in south west England - nor the majority of other band names in the music industry.
Speaking about Oasis' title, he said: "It was a s**t name, but most band names are s**t. Look at Beady Eye - s**t f***ing name."
As well as seeing it in a leisure centre, Liam and his brother Noel also chose Oasis because it appeared in a number of other places near to them and they thought it made them seem "different" to other groups.
He added: "It wasn't just that [Swindon Oasis Leisure Centre] though. There was shop in the Manchester Arndale Market called Oasis that used to sell cool clothes too, and there was a taxi f***ing rank round the corner called Oasis. It meant that we were out there, because we were different."
Liam has also previously said he wanted to call Beady Eye's second album 'Universal Gleam', but his record company didn't like it, so the band settled on 'BE' instead.


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Meaning of Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. :Napoleon Hill
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives
Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.


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In the last blog entry I posted before going on vacation, I took the Dodgers/White Sox to task for trying to claim credit for coming up with the name Camelback Ranch, which they jointly announced would be the name of their new spring-training complex in Glendale, my rationale being that the name already existed and was sort of a blanket name for the entire area of Glendale/Phoenix (the area falls on either side of the boundary between the two cities, which is Camelback Road) in which the complex is being built. Well, today, I picked up a copy of West Valley View, a small weekly (I think) that shows up in my driveway every few days. On Page 4 of an issue dated today, there is a story stating that the Dodgers/White Sox might have jumped the gun on the announcement.
It includes the following quote from Julie Frisoni, the PR chief for the city of Glendale, whom you have seen quoted in many of my own articles over the past couple of years:
“Basically, we have said it was probably a little premature to announce that. In our agreement with the teams, the city has appproval of naming rights. We are having good conversations and are working on this. We need to ensure Glendale’s name is on that facility. The teams have been very amenable to that.”
That is to say, they were amenable right up to the point in which they announced a name for the facility that DIDN’T have Glendale in it. I do know that at least one Dodgers executive had lunch with Frisoni and her staff somewhere in the Phoenix area today, but to say the meeting had anything to do with this naming issue would be pure speculation on my part. Trying to run that down now.

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KATHMANDU, Nepal- The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation is taking action against tourism entrepreneurs that are operating the business illegally.
The ministry had initiated the investigation to find such travel and tour operators that are operating but without formally registered to the concerned government agency. The entrepreneurs themselves had long been demanding investigations claiming that there were evasion of tax and misuse of US dollar due to illegally operated tourism business.
According to a ministry official, the ministry is set to raid tour and travels, trekking agencies, rafting operators, hotels, restaurants and other businesses. He revealed that all the entrepreneurs booking tourists through websites without registering at the Office of the Company Registrar, and without affiliation with the Tourism Industry Division will be punished.
“The tourists are facing insecurity while revenues are also lost due to illegally operating entrepreneurs,” he claimed. The ministry has even prepared a list of such entrepreneurs identifying them on the basis of information provided by entrepreneurs and the ministry’s own study.
The tourism entrepreneurs had been claiming that dollar income has decreased due to illegally operated business after the Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) decided to increase vigilance stating that income from the sector has not increased despite the rise in arrival of tourists.
The central bank had decided to increase vigilance suspecting that the tourism entrepreneurs were involved in illegal dollar transactions.
NRB had taken the decision as there was not much difference in income from the sector when the tourist arrival was 400,000 and 800,000. There was transaction of around US$ 1.60 million in the trekking sector in 2010 and the amount did not increase much in 2011 and 2012.
“Most of those involved in tourism sector in the country are active in illegal business,” President of the Trekking Agents Association of Nepal (TAAN) Mahendra Singh Thapa said. He claimed that foreigners themselves have started to bring in groups nowadays. Though there are around 800 trekking entrepreneurs only around 200 of them are active while only around 1,000 restaurants are operated legally with hundreds other running without registration.


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The update is an Official Nougat update which rolls out in phase wise manner. You can manually check whether the update is available in your region or not, so you should first go into Settings –> About Phone –> Software Update. Even so, many users reported that they still not received the OTA update, so it’s essential to know that you can already take the Nougat OTA file for Huawei P9.
The update is now available in now available via OTA (Over-The-Air) and many users are already getting Android Nougat update for Huawei P9. If you can’t wait for OTA, you can update the Huawei P9 device to Android Nougat manually.
Just to be clear…
- Understand that this firmware file is only for Huawei P9 EVA-L09. You can try to install it on any other device, but I can already assure you that you won’t be successful;
- Your Huawei P9 handset must be on stock firmware and stock recovery;
- Such procedures could erase your important data, so it is advisable to take a complete backup of everything that truly matter to you;
- Make sure your device is charged at least up to 60%, to prevent an unexpected shutdown in the middle of the process.
AndroidFlagship is not responsible for any damage happened to your Huawei P9 B383 while following this detailed guide. You should proceed at your own risk and ask me now if there’s any relevant question in your mind. You must follow the steps correctly otherwise you may brick your device.
Download and Install Huawei P9 B383 Nougat Update:
- First of all, download Full B383 ROM for Huawei P9;
- The oblivious next step is to extract it;
- It’s time to create a folder dload in the root of your SD card and place the update.app file in that folder;
- You must dial *#*#2846579#*#* from your phone dialer to open a hidden menu;
- Choose Software Upgrade and start SDCard Upgrade;
- Select and run the update;
- When the installation is completed, you have to reboot your device;
- Also download update_data_full_hw_eu.zip for Huawei P9;
- You must extract it;
- It’s time to copy all data including update.app file in the dload folder;
- Feel free to dial *#*#2846579#*#* from your phone dialer to open a hidden menu;
- Select Software Upgrade and start SDCard Upgrade;
- Just select and run the update;
- Wait until the installation process is complete;
- Lastly, but no less important, it’s time to reboot your device.
That is how you can download, install the Huawei P9 B383 Nougat update and then share it with your friends. If you have any questions comment below.


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“Eastern Partnership” within Pre-election Presidential Campaign in Poland.
It’s less then a year left before the Presidential elections in Poland, in accordance with various views and assessments. Probably, they will be held on the 19th of September 2010. However, as a speaker of Polish Sejm Bronislaw Komarovski noted, the date of elections can be changed.
The oncoming Presidential elections promise to be very exciting, intriguing and hot. Definitely, the struggle for the Presidential chair will include the two leading Polish politicians, the acting President Lech Kaczynski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Except for them, most likely the campaign will welcome about 20, or even more politicians of Rzecz Pospolita. The magazine “Dzennik” lists the following candidates: Radoslaw Sikorski, Waldemar Pawlak, Bronislaw Komarovski, Woyciech Oleyniczak, Rafal Dutkiewicz and others. Candidates represent different political forces and movements, starting with liberal and conservative ideologies (Kaczynski, Tusk, Sikorski), finishing with social-democratic and nationalistic (Jerzy Szmajdzinski, Roman Giertych). Respectively, the programs of candidates will be definitely colored.
The main stress of the Presidential campaign will be given to the internal situation in the country, the state of economy, prospects of Poland development for the following period. Economic crisis, corruption in political circles (the speculation in the sphere of gambling “Afera Hazardowa”, with the participation of the politicians of “Platforma Obywatelska”), damage the popularity of Polish politicians of all colors and ranks. For example, according to the public opinion poll, held by Polish center OBOP, the trust for the Prime Minister has reduced up to 32%, and the distrust increased up to 57%, and respectively only 28% of population trust the President, and 62% don’t trust.
The second important issue will cover the place and role of Poland within the European Union. One of the painful aspects of attention and basis for the campaigns of many politicians is the participation of Polish army in peacemaking operations, first of all in Afghanistan. Death of Polish soldiers in this country doesn’t give more popularity to the decisions to increase Polish contingent in Afghanistan.
> Eastern Partnership Map
Talking about “Eastern Partnership”, within the framework of Presidential campaign, this problem won’t be included into the group of the most key and important issues. This project itself hasn’t been shaped properly yet, as it includes states that differ with their internal political situation. Moreover, “Eastern Partnership” despite the leading role of Poland in its establishment and accomplishment is still observed as a common European project, and not exclusively Polish one. In addition for most Polish people “Eastern Partnership” and Eastern policy in general is not a vitally important priority.
That is why, hardly Presidential candidates will concentrate their attention on this aspect, moreover to talk about its prospects. More likely the issue of “Eastern Partnership” will be observed as one of the elements of common foreign policy in the programs of candidates and in the number of those, which touch upon Eastern policy in general.
Naturally, the election campaign hasn’t officially started yet and many program provisions of candidates are still being shaped. That is why, it is still difficult to assess totally and deeply the level of attention that will be given to “Eastern Partnership” by the candidates. More or less fully this aspect can be analyzed on the basis of the programs of political parties that these or that Presidential candidates will represent.
It’s worth to start with two main polish parties, “Prawo i Sprawiedliwość ” and “Platforma Obywatelska”, which without any doubts will represent their candidates on the Presidential elections. It’s worth to underline that relations between these two parties, as well as between the politicians representing them Prime Minister Donald Tusk and President Lech Kaczynski are pretty tensed and conflict. This is connected with the fact that the both statesmen consider foreign policy as their own prerogative and competence, however the development of solution of many international affairs issues are observed differently by these politicians. First of all, this concerns relations with Russia, evaluation of the situation in Georgia and Belarus.
Lech Kaczynski as well as PiS in general has a very principled and radical approach to the evaluation of the situation in Georgia (which they treat as a victim of Russia aggression). For PiS Russia remains one of the most real foreign political threats, thus PiS would prefer for the “Eastern Partnership” to become a mechanism of engagement of former USSR Republics into anti-Russia coalition, and also to be an intermediate stage of further integration into the EU, but not its substitution.
But due to the fact the “Eastern Partnership” can’t yet be observed as an integral and strategically shaped project because of different interests and views of its objectives, then PiS and Kaczynski consider as the most important the establishment of political and strategic alliance with Georgia and Ukraine. The relations with these states are treated as “especially important”. Political authorities of Ukraine and Georgia gain overwhelming political support within international arena from the President of Poland, who still supports the inclusion of these countries into NATO and the EU. “As the members of the Union we should do the utmost for it to preserve the formula of “Open doors” for other states, wishing to join it and first of all for Ukraine and Georgia”. One of the elements, which can strengthen this alliance is the accomplishment of energy project round Russia, and in particular the commissioning of the pipeline “Odessa-Brody-Plotsk-Gdansk” and further promotion of GUAM geopolitical project.
As for Belarus, due to its authoritarian regime, PiS holds to isolationistic position, which is expressed in the limitation of all possible contacts with official authorities, non-admission of liberalization within the relations with the regime and the overwhelming support of nongovernmental sector of Belarusian society. “Our authorities should consistently preserve the limitations towards political representatives of Minsk regime, and at the same time they should contribute into the development of nongovernmental relations”. That is why current policy of Polish Government and of some EU states towards eastern direction of PiS is observed as hopeless.
If talking about the assessments of the “Eastern Partnership” by PiS, then the Party’s program doesn’t include this project at all. This points the fact that PiS and President support the idea, that Poland should develop and lead individual policy towards each of these countries independently of the functioning of the “Partnership”, and also to shape its policy on the ground of internal policy specifics of these or that countries, but not to accomplish a single policy for all. We can assume, that during the Presidential campaign the project will be criticized by Kaczynski, and mainly because President and PO consider this project as a result of the policy of Donald Tusk and PO Government.
Donald Tusk and Platforma Obywatelska (PO), naturally observe the “Eastern Partnership” as one of the most successful projects of Polish foreign policy for several years, which was accomplished within the framework of Eastern Policy. Exactly this fact was underlined throughout the address of Tusk, which was devoted to the results of 2-years functioning of the Government.
Nevertheless, Prime Minister as a probable Presidential candidate still doesn’t concentrate his attention on this issue as PO in general. For example, this aspect hasn’t been included into the program of this political party exactly in the part that concernes foreign policy. It’s also worth mentioning that some directions connected with Eastern policy, and also the common strategy towards definite eastern neighbors of Poland is less fundamental for example than of PiS’s.
“Eastern Partnership” for PO is a common basis and strategy of interrelations with the former USSR states without special limitations, conditions and exclusions towards these or that countries. Only Russia is observed as an individual direction by D. Tusk and PO. There is also no clear and firm position of PO on the issue of “Georgian-Russian” conflict.
However, Presidential race hasn’t yet started, that is why it’s assumable that PO political program as well as the program of Presidential candidate will be significantly adjusted before the beginning of the campaign and the “Eastern Partnership” project will take its place. Already now PO takes a number of steps to extend its participation and role within the “Eastern Partnership” project development.
On the 16th of December 2009 PO Parliamentary Club initiated the establishment of special sub-committee on the issue of “Eastern Partnership” within the framework of the Committee of the Sejm on International Affairs. This sub-committee included three deputies of PO, and one deputy from each other fractions. The committee has been headed by the representative of PO, Tomasz Lentz. The objective of this committee is the monitoring of the efficacy of the activity of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs within the issue of “Eastern Partnership”, and the cooperation with Parliaments of other EU member-states in this direction. Most probably, PO Presidential candidates (most likely Donald Tusk, Bronislaw Komarovski and Radoslaw Sikorski) will touch upon the issues of “Eastern Partnership” to underline the fact that Poland plays a significant role within the formation of the European Union foreign policy.
Program provisions and opinions of the left wing politicians and these is first of all “Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej” (Left Democracy Union) SLD, have no assessments and analyses of the “Eastern Partnership” development prospects. Presidential candidate from SLD, Jerzy Szmajdzinski in his expressions mainly touched upon the participation of Polish army in Afghanistan. Eastern policy for this party is the second or the third matter of significance, and the priority is still given to Russia, with which they should develop partner relations omitting all ideological disagreements. In relations with Belarus SLD suggests to ground on the dialogue with all participants of political life of the country avoiding political isolation of the regime.
As for other states of the former USSR, the potential SLD Presidential candidate hasn’t yet sounded any clear position. We can suppose that within his pre-election campaign Jerzy Szmajdzinski will concentrate on the problems of internal but not foreign policy as it has always been in case of the favorites of Presidential races.
Talking about other, independent Presidential candidates, as it was earlier mentioned potential candidates doesn’t hurry to make any claims towards foreign policy as the Presidential race hasn’t yet started.
Summarizing, we should underline that the aspects of foreign and first of all “Eastern Partnership” policy are more clearly and systematically represented only by the two parties PiS and PO and only these Parties have participated within the accomplishment of some significant foreign politicy projects. However we should expect that the issues connected with the “Eastern Partnership” program will be often raised within the framework of pre-election Presidential campaign in Poland.
Translated by EuroDialogueXXI


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Three of the electrolytics are in a square steel box, securely soldered to the top of the chassis. Opening this box would have required some serious work with my Dremel which I wasn’t sure I could hide, so I decided to fabricate a silver cardboard box to look like a replacement filter cap of the era and located it under the chassis directly under the original caps. You can see the end of it with wires emerging at the bottom of one of the pictures.
And thanks for confirming that the knobs on my set are original. I was pretty sure that they are because they were a bit difficult to get off, and also that they are quite unique. The tuning (second from right) is a dual knob with concentric shafts, one larger than the other. And the volume (second from left) is a single knob, machined to look like the dual knob.


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Vacant land full of promise for MBTA
June 11, 2012 by Mark
The commuter train station in Newburyport will soon have new neighbours.
The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, which owns several parcels of land next to the rail station, is looking to unload the lots for commercial development. In total, 11 acres are available for development and is zoned for mixed-use, which could include shops, services, office space, leisure and residential space.
As part of the new trend in municipal planning to create densification around transit hubs which in turn will increase ridership, the MBTA said it is encouraging potential buyers to come to then with creative plans for a diverse and lively mixed-use community. This type of planning is called TOD, or Transit Oriented Development. In addition to making transit easier to use because it’s virtually next door, TOD development promotes pedestrian traffic by having shops and services all within walking distance. Print companies looking to move or open extra locations should consider TOD locations as high traffic opportunities.
The Authority has set a reserve bid of $1.57 million for the four parcels of land. The sale is a prudent move in light of the $185 deficit the MBTA will incur in 2013. Despite raising fares by 23% just a few, short months ago, new sources of revenue must be found.
The lowest bid price is set at $1.57 million and it comes as the transport agency is facing a $185 million deficit in 2013. Bid registration is free and they must be submitted and be in the MBTA’s hands by July 11.The website is www.mbta.com.


Volvo Cars and leading telecom provider China Unicom are joining forces on using 5G next generation mobile network technology for communication between cars and infrastructure in China.
Following the Launch of the all new Bentley Flying Spur, Bentley on 31st October, 2019 launched a new Augmented Reality app to showcase the all-new Flying Spur which has been dubbed the world’s finest grand touring sedan.
Porsche together with the 88 German Porsche Centres has opened its digital sales channel for new and pre-owned cars immediately available.
After more than 30 years away from single-seater racing Porsche is back, following the first laps of the new 99X Electric car at the official test drives of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship for the 2019/2020 season in Valencia, Spain. Last week, Neel Jani and André Lotterer, the two regular drivers for the TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team, joined rival manufacturers at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia for three days of track testing ahead of the contest’s launch next month.
Porsche has opened all new Porsche Experience Centre (PEC) at Hockenheimring as a part of the “Sportscar Together Day” festival, taking the count to seventh now.
Jaguar launched an All-Electric Race eTaxi service at the legendary Nurburgring Nordschleife track with its I-Pace performance SUV
At its paint shop in Gyor, Hungary, Audi is testing a new method of body sealing. Before a car is given its paint finish, a paste-like sealing material is applied to areas such as the weld seams. This improves vehicle acoustics, guards against corrosion and seals off the interior.
Citroën, a globally successful brand of the auto conglomerate, Groupe PSA, has partnered with Kotak Mahindra Prime Ltd (KMPL), a leading car finance company in India, to offer innovative retail finance and enable mobility solutions in India. The partnership with KMPL will offer innovative finance solutions and value added products to the customers and customised credit solutions to dealers in India.
ŠKODA AUTO India has redesigned its entire dealer network that now features the new Corporate Identity and Design. With the highest priority given to functionality, clear orientation, and transparency, ŠKODA AUTO India has successfully rebranded its entire network of 63 sales and 61 service touch points across 53 cities in India.
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Distance from Raghogarh to Baihar
Distance from Rāghogarh to Baihar is 430 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 267 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Rāghogarh and Baihar is 430 km= 267 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Raghogarh to Baihar, It takes 0.48 hours to arrive.
Raghogarh is located in India.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||24° 26´ 38.6160'' N |
77° 11´ 53.6640'' E
Map of Raghogarh
Rāghogarh Distances to Cities
|Distance from Raghogarh to Itarsi||211 km|
|Distance from Raghogarh to Narsinghgarh||82 km|
|Distance from Raghogarh to Buxar||696 km|
|Distance from Raghogarh to Indore||237 km|
|Distance from Raghogarh to Kasganj||400 km|
Baihar is located in India.
|GPS Coordinates||22° 6´ 6.3360'' N |
80° 32´ 58.6680'' E
Map of Baihar
Baihar Distances to Cities
|Distance from Baihar to Akot||378 km|
|Distance from Baihar to Ambad||567 km|
|Distance from Baihar to Arvi||270 km|
|Distance from Baihar to Barbil||529 km|
|Distance from Baihar to Amla||251 km|


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Niagara-on-the-Lake Holiday House Tour - 20th Anniversary
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Friday, November 30 and Saturday, December 1, 2018.
10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. General Tour $30
The Rotary Club of Niagara-on-the-Lake Annual Holiday House Tour features six beautiful homes seasonally decorated by professional designers, six local landmarks, three wineries offering complimentary wine tastings, and special luncheon offerings. It’s the most attended house tour in the region.
VIP tickets =
General Day Tour + A Romance Wonderland evening tour.
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5 - 6:30 p.m. or 7 - 8:30 p.m. both evenings
$50 before October 31/$60 after October 31
To celebrate our 20th, we are offering a VIP ticket which includes the general day tour AND an evening tour of The McArthur Estate: A Romance Wonderland! Presented by the McArthur family.
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Census Stats and “I Served in Vietnam” Wanabees
1,713,823 of those who served in Vietnam were still alive as of August, 1995 (census figures).
During that same Census count, the number of Americans falsely claiming to have served was: 9,492,958.
As of the current Census taken during August, 2000, the surviving U.S. Vietnam Veteran population estimate is: 1,002,511. This is hard to believe, losing nearly 711,000 between ’95 and ’00. That’s 390 per day. During this Census count, the number of Americans falsely claiming to have served in-country is: 13,853,027. By this census, FOUR OUT OF FIVE WHO CLAIM TO BE VIETNAM VETS ARE NOT. This makes calculations of those alive, even in 2017, difficult to maintain.
The Department of Defense Vietnam War Service Index officially provided by The War Library originally reported with errors that 2,709,918 U.S. military personnel as having served in-country. Corrections and confirmations to this errored index resulted in the addition of 358 U.S. military personnel confirmed to have served in Vietnam but not originally listed by the Department of Defense (All names are currently on file and accessible 24/7/365).
Isolated atrocities committed by American Soldiers produced torrents of outrage from anti-war critics and the news media while Communist atrocities were so common that they received hardly any media mention at all. The United States sought to minimize and prevent attacks on civilians while North Vietnam made attacks on civilians a centerpiece of its strategy. Americans who deliberately killed civilians received prison sentences while Communists who did so received commendations. From 1957 to 1973, the National Liberation Front assassinated 36,725 Vietnamese and abducted another 58,499. The death squads focused on leaders at the village level and on anyone who improved the lives of the peasants such as medical personnel, social workers, and school teachers. – Nixon Presidential Papers.
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Global card payments are growing at twice the rate of the number of cards in circulation as acceptance booms and consumer habits shift away from cash.
The growing penetration of card acceptance and adoption of contactless is expected to help drive the number of card payments worldwide up by 55% to hit 417bn by 2021, according to new research from financial research and consultancy firm RBR.
Card numbers are expected to increase 28% in the same time frame.
Growth is expected to be strongest in the Middle East and Africa, central and eastern Europe and Asia-Pacific.
RBR says the total number of card payments globally climbed 15% last year to hit 270 billion, coming in at nearly double the 8% uptick in number of cards in circulation.
The report highlights the example of Thailand where the central bank has been driving efforts to reduce cash and banks have been pushing their marketing on debit cards.
RBR cites the deployment of contactless leading to a “surge” in card payments in regions like the Czech Republic and Poland, as well as stimulating growth in more mature markets like the UK and France.
“We are seeing strong growth in card usage in all regions,” says RBR associate Chris Herbert. “Cardholders in developing markets are gradually becoming more accustomed to using cards rather than cash for payment, and this combined with a rapidly expanding acceptance network is creating the perfect environment for a card payments boom.
“In more mature markets, technology developments such as contactless, and a willingness to use cards for ever smaller payment amounts are boosting the cards sector.”
In the likes of the UK, where supermarkets such as Waitress and Sainsbury’s are embracing contactless technology, it makes adoption much easier.
The Merchant Risk Council is a global trade association that brings together industry professionals in fraud, risk and payments. The conference saw speakers from the likes of from PayU, JPMorgan Chase, Google and Santander who all took part in educational sessions and spoke about where the industry is heading.
Booking travel arrangements online has never been faster, cheaper, or more convenient for consumers. The rise of smartphones in particular has resulted in an uplift in last minute bookings, and with the younger generation driving the digital shift, travel operators need to deploy mobile-first experiences, or run the risk of being left behind.
Eastern Europe is still very much a region finding its identity following the breakdown of the Soviet Union over 20 years ago. Countries in the region are at various stages of economic growth and payments infrastructure development, and the e-commerce landscape looks different as you cross borders.
The failure to keep pace with expanding compliance procedures has seen a rise in the number of financial penalties issued by regulators over the past few years. As anti-money laundering (AML), know-your-customer (KYC), counter-terrorism financing and other compliance obligations expand across different territories, organisations large and small have struggled to maintain adequate and comprehensive safeguards – often resulting in sizable fines and significant reputational damage.


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Places in Middle-earth
Type: Other Constructions
Region: Beleriand & North
Meaning: The Ladybarrow
Other Names Tûr Haretha
... Haleth dwelt in Brethil until she died; and her people raised a green mound over her in the heights of the forest, Tûr Haretha, the Ladybarrow, Haudh-en-Arwen in the Sindarin tongue.
The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Ch 17, Of the Coming of Men into the West
haudh 'mound' in Haudh-en-Arwen, Haudh-en-Elleth, etc.
The Silmarillion, Appendix: Elements in Quenya and Sindarin Names
Contributors: Elena Tiriel 6Dec09