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Translated by Guillaume Durocher
The following is taken from Dominique Venner’s Histoire de la Collaboration (Paris: Gérard Watelet/Pygmalion, 2000), 207-16. The title is editorial.
The premonition of decadence was strong with [the writer Alphonse de] Châteaubriant, but never reached the apocalyptic fury of a Céline, a much more famous outcast.
To a great extent, the violence of the anti-Semitic pamphlets has overshadowed what was unique to Céline. It has unleashed passions upon his name which forbid a serene interpretation of his work in its totality. For some, his anti-Semitism makes him “a dog,” as said by Jacques Lanzmann. For others, who value in him the rebel, he is a kind of banner. Finally, a large portion of the cultivated public feigns to not know the condemned author of the pamphlets, focusing their attention on the creator of an inimitable, though often imitated, style.
Most critics agree that he was a brilliant artist. One of his biographers, Frédéric Vitoux, was able to express the shock that was for him this discovery:
I was seventeen years old, I was on holiday, and I had taken this paperback somewhat by chance from the family library. [. . .] On the back cover, a few lines of facsimiled writing: “One of the fiercest cries that man has ever made.” The title of this volume: Journey to the End of the Night. And its author: Louis-Ferdinand Céline. I had not known either of them. No professor had talked about them at the lycée. And my father must have deemed this reading to be too mature for me. I then did not know that this Louis-Ferdinand Céline had just died on July 1, 1961. The newspapers, it is true, had observed a methodical silence on the occasion. Céline, bah! What does it matter! The passing of Ernest Hemingway the same day, that was news, the rightful “top story” of the dailies and television! In short, I picked up this novel in total ignorance, in total innocence. [. . .] I did not know then that there are books which can overwhelm you, which can move you for life. [. . .] I have never recovered from such a reading or such a journey.
Misfortune deemed that doctor Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, known as Céline in literature, should also meddle in saying what he thought of his time. He was then adulated, hated, insulted, celebrated, misunderstood. A few lines from Mea Culpa, attached to the copy of his doctoral thesis in medicine on Philippe-Ignace Semmelweis (1924), a Hungarian Jewish doctor, sheds light on a part of Céline’s mystery. Written in a very conventional style, let us note in passing that this defense and illustration of Semmelweis puts a dent in Céline’s inveterate anti-Semitism. We know that Semmelweis’ Hungarian colleagues did not forgive him either for his abrasive pride or his discoveries on the prevention of postpartum infections. They hounded him from their company, driving him to madness: “Suppose that today, in the same way, another innocent would emerge who would begin curing cancer. He does not know the kind of music he would immediately be made to dance to! [. . .] Ah! He would have much more luck immediately joining the Foreign Legion! Nothing is free in this lowly world. Everything must be atoned for, good as well as evil, must be paid for sooner or later. The good is much more costly, naturally.” There. All is said on human nature and the dark image Céline has of it, having observed it up close, as a doctor for the poor and for others. “The good is much more costly, naturally.” His idealism would never recover from this discovery. The wounds of his sensitivity would end up secreting the hysterics which would horrify a stone-cold Ernst Jünger.
At first, Céline was a doctor who believed in his art. His life taught him to not believe in it anymore. He is also a man who suffered, who lived what he recounts in the Journey and in Death on the Installment Plan. He said as much: “I know what it means to get by on nothing.” Behind the absurdity of certain situations, the writer’s hypersensitivity always appears, a gift for observation augmented by the use of spoken language, lyrical argot. What he must say is too violent for academic French, a language domesticated by centuries of polishing. An emasculated language, stripped of its vitality, of its ability to evoke.
Of all this, he is supremely conscious. He wrote it in black and white in an ode to Rabelais:
Actually Rabelais missed his mark. Yes, he missed his mark. He did not succeed. [. . .] No, he was not the one who won. That would be Amyot, the translator of Plutarch: He had much more success in the centuries that followed than Rabelais. It is upon him, upon his language, that we still live today. Rabelais wanted to transmit spoken language into written language: A failure. Whereas Amyot, people today always and again want some Amyot, some academic style. That’s to write garbage: frozen language. [. . .] No, France can no longer understand Rabelais: It has become precious. Terrible to think that it could have been the opposite, the language of Rabelais could have become the French language.
And that is exactly what he, Céline, undertook in the middle of the twentieth century. A mad dream. To restore to French its vigor and truth. An idea which would take him very far. To desperation and revolt.
From meditations on the blackness of life and on the decadence of language, he moved towards a reflection on France. There was none more in love with France than he, therefore no one more disappointed, despairing. His misfortune was to live in a time when France was but the grimacing and derisory caricature of her past splendor. A country undoing herself, atomized into bitter individualisms. Everything was disappearing beneath his feet. Of the old France, there were only ruins. The beautiful kingdom had become this niggardly country, inhabited by jealous and quibbling petty bourgeois. Spreading from the Sorbonne to the school, rationalism had sterilized France, transformed children into old men.
Look at little children, the first years . . . They are all charm, all poetry, all cheeky playfulness . . . From ten or twelve years old, finished is the magic spontaneity! Made fishy, sneaky, stubborn dunces, more approachable little funny guys, tedious, grotesque grimacers, gossiping boys and girls, tense, stupid, like daddy and mummy. A disaster! Already almost perfect old men at the age of twelve! A downfall of stars into our ruins and muck! A fairyland disaster [. . .]. Immediately and forcefully broken in, as early as school, the great mutilator of the youth, school will have clipped their wings instead of having opened them wide and then wider still!
And yet, he sometimes – rarely, once even – in the 1941 pamphlet, A Fine Mess, imagined a veterinarian’s cure. The only cure in his view was a racist socialism, what he drolly called “Labiche communism,” which he contrasted with Vichy’s very tepid National Revolution:
I believe in a different Family Code [. . .]. A genuine code, which would include everything, beasts, goods, and people, children and elderly of France, in the same family, excluding Jews of course, one family, one father, dictatorial and respected. Therefore a respectable family where there would really be no more bastards, Cinderellas, neglected gingers, children’s penal colonies, or “Social Services,” where the soup would be the same for all, where there would be no favorites or rich kids, no chubby ones or little skinny ones, some having fun, others bending over. [. . .] Everyone in the same school! The families united, in short, all the families into one family, with equality of resources, of rights, of brotherhood, everyone having the national salary, on the order of 150 francs per day maximum [. . .]. Everything needs to be remade? Well then perfect! But [. . .] we must start everything over from childhood, through childhood, for all children. It is through this that racism begins and genuine communism too, through childhood and nothing else, through unanimous kindness, the desire that the entire family be beautiful, healthy, lively, Aryan, pure, redemptress, joyous with beauty, with strength, not only your little family, your own two, three, four brats, but the entire very French family [. . .]. Racism is family, family is equality, it’s all for one and one for all. [. . .] A common fate, no bastards, no black sheep, no stinking ones, in the same nation, the same race, no spoiled ones either, no little bosses. No more exploitation of man by man. No more wretched of the earth. [. . .] Marxism is well fucked, we are shaking up its major asset: the cold hearts of men.
Gaiety Alone Will Save Us
Doctor Louis-Ferdinand Destouches was born in Courbevoie on May 27, 1894. Céline was his mother’s first name. He began a fairly dire military service in 1912 with the twelfth cuirassiers regiment. In 1914, on horseback and wearing the cuirasse, he was wounded during the first battles, which earned a place on the cover of L’Illustré national, the Military Medal, and a recognition as an invalid in 1915. After studies in medicine, he defended his thesis in 1924 on the life and work of Dr. Semmelweis, as previously mentioned. After joining the [League of Nation]’s health service, he was sent on missions to the U.S., in Europe, and in Africa until 1927. Five years later, in 1932, he published Journey to the End of the Night, immediately hailed as a literary masterpiece. Léon Daudet wrote: “There does not exist in our literature, since Ménippée and the poems of Agrippa of Aubigné, such a howl of anger reverberated by the echoes of a spoken, muscular, and bawdy syntax, naked like the great Courbet’s daughter.” And further on: “Proust is the Balzac of chit-chat . . . from this, there is a certain fatigue from which Monsieur Céline will liberate his generation . . .”
The left-wing intelligentsia identified with the dark portrait of war and society in the Journey and Death on the Installment Plan. But the doctor-writer is reticent before any enlistment. The publication of Mea Culpa (1936), after the inevitable journey to the USSR, showed he was no fool. This book consummated his divorce with the philo-Soviet left.
Sensing the coming of another war, he claimed a Jewish conspiracy was responsible. He successively published two delirious pamphlets who suddenly made him appear like an enraged anti-Semite: Trifles for a Massacre (1937) and The School for Cadavers (1938). The first was released with a strip reading: “For a good laugh in the trenches.” Difficult to be more clear. Railing against the war and charnel houses to come, he denounced in his way “the coalition of Anglo-Saxon capitalism, Stalinism, and the Jewish lobby whose objective is to send the youth of France to be massacred in a Franco-German war, in which itself [the coalition] would not intervene before the exhaustion of the sacrificed combatants.”
In a rather different register, Céline published in 1941 a new pamphlet, A Fine Mess, already mentioned. No doubt the only one of his works to be illuminated with a faint halo of hope. Besides the famous tirade on “Labiche communism” which we would be wrong to take lightly, he presents a poetic meditation on the spirit of France, written in the fifteenth-century style, not without some very unfair swipes at Montaigne:
I want songs and dances . . . I do not care for reason . . . What do I care for intelligence, for pertinence? For designs? I’ve none! [. . .] What do I care for M. Ben Montaigne, preachifying, sneaky rabbi? . . . He is not the joy I am searching for, fresh, cheeky, mischievous, moved . . . [. . .] I would like to die of laughter, but light-heartedly . . . For two or three verses, Bellay is dearer to me than Racine . . . [. . .] I have no need of sermons, but of a light-hearted deliverance, as do all those of my blood [. . .]. Gaiety alone will save us, not the factory! No plan for this or that, nor boorish grumbling, no Ruffians’ oafish mongrel stratagems [. . .]. Let us coddle, celebrate our own music! Which will make us float prettily above the horrors of the Time, of a fine and fresh and swift flight . . .
This curious book, where the anti-Semitism, while present, is secondary, shows Céline’s feelings at the turning point of 1940–41, when the future, for once, did not seem to him to be completely black. The inspired pamphleteer expressed his furious anger, but here it was against Christian sermonizing, Vichy’s last recourse:
To spread among the virile races, among the hated Aryan races, the religion of ‘Peter and Paul’ admirably fulfilled its work, transforming into decrepit beggars, into sub-men from the cradle onwards, the subjugated peoples, the hordes intoxicated with Christianic literature, throwing themselves distraught and stupid to the conquest of the Holy Shroud, of the magic hosts, abandoning forever their Gods, their exalting religions, their Gods of blood, their Gods of race . . . Thus is the sad truth, the Aryan has only known how to love and adulate the god of others, has never had his own religion, a white religion . . . What he worships, his heart, his faith, was provided to him ready-made by his worst enemies . . .
The book was banned by the Vichy authorities in the southern zone and provoked strong reservations in the Propaganda Abteilung.
A Jewish Interpreter and Admirer of the Anti-Semitic Prophet
One of Céline’s least well-known interpreters was a Jewish resister, Choron-Gourewitz. Amidst the turmoil, this Zionist fighter dared to face without revulsion the writer’s anti-Semitism, interpreting the whole of his work as revealing the fractures of modernity.
Céline, symbol of a world which is disappearing, is also one of the foreshadows of a world which his coming. The work of Céline is the most startling record of this era, as is the figure himself. It in itself sums up the historical drama at play; it is an end and a beginning. [. . .] To sum up Céline is to sum up his era. To understand Céline is to understand a country, his country: France. Never has one man alone symbolized so well the human tragedy and the entire tragedy of a country.
What is the drama of the era and the tragedy of France according to Choron-Gourewitz?
We are often in agreement with Céline when he denounces Judaism as an evil, as a way of life based on false values. [. . .] Like the Jews, Céline is a loner, a man from nowhere, who has nothing to hold on to. Diaspora Judaism creates only negative, big-mouthed, and sterile men. Diaspora Judaism is the way of a life of a decadent and fallen society. Céline feels the decadence of the so-called Greco-Roman Western civilizations; he feels the “Jewish” future which this decadence prefigures; he fears it. He recognizes in this dissociation of white societies the great primitive fear, the fear of solitude. He has seen Jews up close; he knows them, he knows that they are not on his side, but that this entire fall, this loss of virile energy will hurl against them the Western world. And that is then the cry of revolt of the anti-Semitic Céline.
Céline and Germany
Contrary to a stubborn myth, the works of Céline were never favorably received in Nazi Germany. After various twists and turns, a German translation of the Journey was released in 1933 by a small publisher (whom Céline deemed to be a Jew), Julius Kittls Nachf., living in Czechoslovakia since 1928. Whereas anti-Nazi critics reacted relatively positively to the book, notably Max Brod, the official critics of the Third Reich ignored it completely, except when making an argument against “French decadence” of which the book was the purported illustration. In 1939, the same publisher released in succession translations of Death on the Installment Plan and Mea Culpa which were also ignored by the German press. Better, in 1938, Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan were included on the list of books banned from dissemination in the Reich. The ban was never lifted, let it be stressed. We will not waste time then on the fantastical claims of some authors assuring that the Journey was republished in Germany in 1940, or that such and such a book by Céline was translated during the Occupation. All of this is false. Only one book, Trifles for a Massacre, was the object, not of a translation, but of a calamitous adaptation, in 1938, by Zwinger de Dresde publishing, under the title Die Judenverschwörung in Frankreich (“The Jewish Conspiracy in France”). Errors and contradictions abound in this text amputated of a quarter of its length and completely reworked. In his study of the subject, Alain de Benoist highlights the numerous mistakes by various authors who ascribe to the party or to the SS the paternity of this false “translation.”
Jean-Paul Sartre’s slander, immediately after the war, portraying Céline as on the Nazis’ payroll is equally baseless. On the other hand, the writer was certainly more engaged than he was willing to recognize after 1945. But he would nonetheless retain his outspokenness. Benoist-Méchin has described a dinner at the German Embassy, in February 1944, where a furious Céline cast against Hitler (“a mage for Brandenburg”) imprecations which made Otto Abetz tremble. The Reich ambassador had incidentally few intellectual affinities with the writer, but he was sensitive to his fame and to the use he could make of him.
Jünger, for his part, felt a veritable revulsion. The recollection he wrote of his first meeting with Céline (December 7, 1941) would provoke a trial and a polemic after the publication of his War Diary:
There is in him that maniacal gaze, turned in on itself, which shines as at the bottom of a hole. [. . .] He says how much he is surprised, stupefied that we, soldiers, do not shoot, do not hang, do not exterminate the Jews – he is stupefied that someone disposing of the bayonet does not make an unlimited use of it. [. . .] He evidently expressed the monstrous power of nihilism . . .
In fact, Céline’s only admirer and supporter among the occupiers was Karl Epting, director of the German Institute. This complicity would be the justification for an accusatory report [. . .] signed on January 28, 1942 by Dr. Bernhard Payr, a close colleague of Alfred Rosenberg, head of the Shriftumspflege Amt (publishing surveillance office) and wandering party inspector. It is in this capacity that after his visits to Paris in 1941 and 1942, he wrote this report which denounced the “errings” of the German Institute, astonished by the relations between Epting and certain French authors supported by his Institute, beginning with “Louis-Ferdinand Céline, with whom Mr. Epting is particularly close. [. . .] Yet this figure is extraordinarily contested,” added Dr. Payr. “In its day, in his book Journey to the End of the Night, he glorified conscientious objection. He put into question and dragged in the mud just about all the positive values produced by human existence.”
The anti-Semitic pamphlets themselves did not enjoy Dr. Payr’s favor, who faulted them for their “hysterical” and “obscene” character. In an article on French literature published in Rosenberg’s review, Payer had already criticized A Fine Mess, a publication deemed to be “negative.” He would repeat these criticisms in 1942 in his book Phönix oder Asche, covering the French literature of the Occupation, of which Gérard Loiseaux has published a translation. In his recollections published in 1981, Gerhardt Heller (1909–1982) confirmed Payr’s accusations: “If Céline benefited from the total support of the German Institute, other Occupation authorities considered that they should not have allowed such abject books to be published . . .” Preferring Claudel to Céline, Heller forgets to add that he was himself part of these “authorities” for whom the author of the Journey was one of these “decadent” expressionists like Emil Nolde or Gottfried Benn, denounced by Nazi literature.
Castle to Castle
Besides A Fine Mess and Guignol’s Band (1944), the latter being fiction, Céline published no books during the Occupation, but he did write numerous letters to journalists, sometimes in view of eventual publication. He also granted a few interviews, delivering acerbic and unrestrained criticisms of Vichy, the Jews, or the Germans.
With authorizations granted by Karl Epting in hand, the writer left Paris for Germany on June 17, 1944, accompanied by his wife, Lucette, and his cat Bébert. They stayed first at Baden-Baden where they were joined by his friend Le Vigan. After several moves, he arrived on October 28 at Sigmaringen where a certain number of French refugees had gathered, and where Marshal Pétain and Pierre Laval had been taken by force. “Céline was absolutely without illusions,” wrote Marcel Déat. “If ever he would have the time to write a ‘journey to the end of the war,’ it would be the most astounding pamphlet of anti-Nazism.” He was not mistaken.
The writer hoped to reach Denmark where he had put away a “war chest” drawn from his author’s rights, which would be confiscated from him. Having obtained the necessary authorizations, he then set off for Copenhagen through a Germany expiring under the bombs. With Lucette and Bébert always at his side, he entered Denmark on March 27, 1945. The new authorities being zealous, he would be imprisoned for eighteen months following the defeat of the Reich. From the long and chaotic trek begun in the summer of 1944, he would later draw his German trilogy: From Castle to Castle (1957), North (1960), and Rigadoon (posthumous publication, 1969). Seeking to organize his defense, Céline shamelessly disavowed himself, for which Maurice Bardèche would criticize him in his biography. But he retained his harsh tongue. Jean-Paul Sartre, who defamed him in Les Temps modernes of December 1945, would learn this at his expense. As he was imprisoned and threatened by the courts of the épuration, the author of Les Mouches accused the other of having been “on the Nazis’ payroll.” Retaliation came in the form of a short pamphlet (Tempest in a Teapot):
[Y]ou had your little success at the “Sarah” [theater] under the boot with your The Flies [play] . . . Can’t you now find three little acts, quickly, for the occasion, in a hurry, The Informants? [. . .] We’ll see you there in person, with your little buddies, sending your detested colleagues, called “Collaborators,” to the penal colonies, to the firing squad, into exile . . . Would this be comical enough? You, of course, strong in your text in the starring role . . . as a mocking and philosophical tapeworm . . .
In 1946, in his Copenhagen prison, Céline copied in a schoolchild’s notebook passages from the Mémoires d’outre-tombe. He was already thinking of the Fable for Another Time and identified with Chateaubriand, whom he also calls René: “René dreams of France, the soul of France, and I dreamed of her too, me, miserable dog . . .” He also wrote letters to the resister Albert Paraz which the latter would publish in Le gala des vaches. One finds there the obsessive idea that the “Aryans” are the indeed the most cretinous and despicable on this earth:
In my prison, there were 500 wardens, all Aryan, with 500 million Aryans in Europe. They are killing me for anti-Semitism, and they cheer! Where are the traitors, the shits! You would want me to lament before the fate this vile, bastard, prideless, faithless riffraff! Why thanks! I think the same of Aryans as Vercingetorix and Joan of Arc thought of them during their torment! Fine nastiness! Long live the Heebs! The Fritzes were never pro-Aryan, only anti-Semitic, which is absolutely stupid.
Amnestied in 1951, he took refuge in his shack in Meudon with Lucette and stray dogs. He lived out his last years in poverty, working as a doctor for the poor, writing, and publishing. At his funeral, in July 1961, besides Robert Poulet, among a few rare faithful, one observed Roger Nimier, who was his tireless defender at [the publishing house] Gallimard.
1. Statements reported by the monthly Informations juives of February 1987: “Céline is for me one of the great criminals of the history of France. I say what I think: Céline is not a man, but a dog.”
2. Frédéric Vitoux, Le Figaro magazine, September 7, 1996. Frédéric Vitoux is the author of La Vie de Céline (Paris: Grasset, 1988) and of Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Misère et parole (Folio, Essais).
3. Apologies for this very flat rendition of: “Je m’y connais en vache enragée,” literally, “I know about mad cows,” from a French expression on those so desperately deprived they would eat infected meat. – GD
4. A Renaissance French writer known for his particularly creative and earthy use of language, sometimes shockingly so. – GD
5. Preface to the Club du Livre’s edition of Rabelais (Paris: 1958).
6. Céline, Les beaux draps (Nouvelles Éditions françaises, 1941), 160.
7. Apparently named after Eugène Labiche, a prolific nineteenth century playwright known for his playful comedies focusing on bourgeois family life. – GD
8. The set of laws and regulations promoting family life in France. – GD
9. Céline, Draps, 152-54.
10. Metallic body armor protecting the torso. – GD
11. On Céline, in addition to his own works and the pamphlets not available in bookstores, one can turn to the Lettres des années noires (presented by Philippe Alméras, Berg International, 1994). Among the numerous biographical studies cited in this book’s general bibliography, one can also notably consult François Gibault, Céline, 1894-1961, three volumes (Paris: Mercure de France, 1981-85).
12. Pierre Monnier, Céline et les têtes molles (Bulletin célinien, Bruxelles, 1998).
13. Céline, Draps, 128-31.
14. The German propaganda office in Paris. – GD
15. Choron-Gourewitz, Shem, a review of the Mouvement national hébreu, August 1944 (article republished in the review Vouloir, October 1993).
16. As a conscientious Zionist, Choron-Gourewitz criticized diaspora Judaism.
17. Alain de Benoist, Céline et l’Allemagne, 1933-1945 (published by Le Bulletin célinien, Brussels, 1997).
18. Ancestor of the Goethe Institute. – GD
19. Gérard Loiseaux, La littérature de la défaite et de la collaboration (Fayard, 1995). On this book, see Alain de Benoist’s factual remarks, Céline, 82-83, note 127.
20. Céline, Lettres.
21. Marcel Déat, Mémoires politiques (Denoël, 1989), 897-98.
22. An untranslatable pun: Les Mouches (The Flies) and Mouchards (The Informants). – GD
23. Albert Paraz, Le gala des vaches (Paris: Éditions de l’Élan, 1948), 94.
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Boosting New Jersey’s Return on Investment
NEW JERSEY— Today, U.S. Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) will be hosting a Grant “Claw Back” Summit this Friday, February 10, 2023, from 9AM to 5PM, for municipalities, local officials, first responders, local organizations, and residents looking to claw more federal investment back to their communities.
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More information on the Grant “Claw Back” Summit’s schedule can be found here.
Grant “Claw Back” Summit tentative program — 9AM to 5PM, Friday, February 10, 2023:
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Sunday, January 26, 2014
Communist Party of Ukraine statement on events...
The Communist Party of Ukraine has expressed its condolences for the tragic loss of life “during the ultra-radical extremist-provoked armed clashes on Hrushevskoho street in Kiev.”
The party says responsibility for these deaths, for the bloodshed and violence in equal measure rests on (govermental) power, and the leaders of the so-called opposition and the ultra-neo-nationalist militant organizations plus foreign politicians, that urge people towards the radicalization of protests and to fight to the bitter end.
The party demanded that the government and leaders of the Maidan (demonstration) to immediately to stop the use of force, to ensure non-interference in the internal affairs of Ukraine and foreign powers and bring their representatives to the negotiating table.
Any attempts to create parallel structures of power are unconstitutional as is the ‘People’s Parliament’, the ‘interim president’ and the like, and will only strengthen the opposition and create a real threat of the escalating conflict to a civil war said the party.
“One part of the population will support the current government, and the other – the self-proclaimed so-called opposition, which will inevitably lead to a final split of Ukraine.”
The Communist Party said it is ready to present concrete proposals to resolve the situation.
It believes it is necessary:
1. Declare Ukrainian referendum on the definition of foreign economic policy of Ukraine’s integration.
2. To carry out political reform, eliminate the institution of the president and install a parliamentary republic, significantly expand the rights of territorial communities.
3. Adopt a new electoral law and return a proportional system of elections of people’s deputies of Ukraine.
4. In order to overcome the administrative chaos and ensure strict control over the government and politicians to establish an independent civilian body – “National control” by giving it the broadest powers.
5.Hold judicial reform and introduce the institution of electing judges.
Communist Party drew attention to the fact that from the very beginning it warned that the rejection of democratic mechanisms for solving social contradictions, a ban on a Ukrainian referendum, organized jointly with the power of so-called opposition, could be catastrophic.
There can still be a peaceful solution to the political crisis, said the party condemning extremism.
“We encourage people to stop, not to succumb to provocations and claim for constructive talks with the President, the leaders of political parties and public organizations.
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Residents in the Dutch city of Utrecht created impromptu memorials on Tuesday after a deadly tram shooting the previous day.
Flowers were laid near the scene of the shooting as well as on a tram platform.
"We're all people, from no matter what country you come, we have to live together but not against each other. Love is the message, that's it," said Rene Kaise, a local resident who was moved by the tributes.
The police have named 37-year-old Gokmen Tanis as their primary suspect and have released his photo in the media.
Two other men, aged 23 and 27, have also been detained in connection with the shooting.
Three people died and three others were seriously injured after a gunman opened fire in a tram at around 09:45 GMT.

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State Sen. Rollie Heath wants to raise taxes to plug the $200 million-plus hole in Colorado's education budget.
Good for him. It takes courage to push a tax hike in unpredictable economic times.
It takes an even rarer quality — leadership — to propose a plan that involves pain and deferred gratification.
At a news conference last month, Heath launched a November ballot initiative that would raise the state sales and use tax to 3 percent, up slightly from its current 2.93 percent. Initiative 25 also would raise individual and corporate taxes from their current 4.63 percent to 5 percent.
Like 2005's successful Referendum C, the revenue-raising plan would remain in place for just five years, bringing in an estimated $3 billion to education coffers.
Heath says Colorado's education system is falling behind other states and countries, and he's right to be alarmed. "Doing nothing in the face of these horrible budget cuts is just not an option. I expect the state to give a child a competitive education, and we're not doing that," Heath told the Colorado Statesman in March.
Under Heath's proposal, a family with a yearly income of $55,700 would pay an estimated additional $163 in taxes.
Republicans were quick to lob grenades. Mike Kopp, Senate majority leader, described the plan as "tone deaf to the concerns of families and businesses across the state."
State Treasurer Walker Stapleton called it a "bad idea" and then, in a bizarre line of reasoning, accused Heath of timing his news conference to minimize its impact.
Heath thinks parents and grandparents will prove Stapleton wrong. "This is going to be, I would hope, the greatest grassroots effort that this state has seen," Heath said.
Tax hikes are vile-tasting medicine. But they also cure ailing patients. And if you don't think Colorado schoolchildren and college students are ailing patients, consider that academically, our K-12 schools are running middle of the pack at best, receiving a grade of "C" in the 2009 Education Week's Quality Counts 50-state report card, with grades of "F" in spending, "C-" in K-12 achievement, and "D-" in college readiness.
The kids who do go on to public universities in Colorado will need to prepare for sticker shock: Students' share of tuition for college has doubled since 2001, and student fees have skyrocketed.
That's because Colorado cheaps out in the tax department.
"Colorado, one of the nation's wealthiest states, is among the lowest-spending states in a number of core service areas, including K-12 and higher education, health care, and transportation," according to a February report on Colorado's Fiscal Future by the Buechner Institute for Governance at the University of Colorado Denver.
In the past 30 years, Coloradans' tax burden has fallen significantly below the national average. Colorado levies every major tax, "but the rate on each is among the lowest in the country," according to the Tax Foundation.
Heath's tax-hike proposal acknowledges a fundamental principal that many Coloradans refuse to accept: You don't get Nordstrom quality at Family Dollar prices.
You also don't attract new businesses — boosting tax revenues and lowering Colorado's persistently high unemployment — by offering second-class public education.
Should voters pass Initiative 25, tax rates would actually go back up to where they were in 1999, when times were good and Colorado had enough surplus under TABOR to give taxpayers an average $267 refund. That's when the legislature cut income and sales taxes to their current levels, resulting in $4.8 billion less in total state revenue since 1999, with $519.5 million lost in 2009-10, according to the Statesman.
Where are our priorities, Colorado?
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Pokémon Trainer Ash Ketchum has a new plan: see the world! But first, he and his partner Pikachu are headed to the opening of the Cerise Laboratory, a research facility dedicated to uncovering the mysteries of Pokémon in every region. Ash meets Goh, another boy with boundless curiosity about Pokémon, and both are overjoyed when Professor Cerise asks them to become official research fellows. With Ash as determined as ever to become a Pokémon Master, and Goh aiming to catch one of every Pokémon (including the Mythical Mew), our heroes are in for adventure and excitement as they explore the wide world of Pokémon!
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In the world’s beginning the Gods of Olympus, lead by Zeus, defeated the Titans. In the wake of their victory, the last Titan cursed the Gods, and unleashed the Giants on the world. Many years later, an army from the East, using the essence of fallen giants to fuel their armies power, descend upon Greece. On the outskirts of Greece, a commoner, Heron, learns of his heritage as the son of Zeus, and his destiny to save the world.
When Ash sees the Legendary Pokémon Solgaleo and Lunala in a dream, he makes a promise to them. But when he wakes up, he can’t remember what it was! Will the strange Pokémon called Nebby help jog his memory? Along with their new friend and the rest of the students at the Pokémon School, Ash and Pikachu explore the Aether Foundation, an organization dedicated to Pokémon conservation and care.
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Fans going to Lions games at Ford Field this season "won't need as much money for concessions," as the team "unveiled new prices for food and drink," according to Kirkland Crawford of the DETROIT FREE PRESS. At Ford Field this season, a beer "will be $5, a hot dog-soda-chips combo is $10 and a hot dog-beer-chips combo is now $12." For the first 60 minutes after doors open, fans can get a soda for $2, a hot dog for $2, a beer or a cocktail for $3, or a "specialty drink for $5." Doors "ordinarily open at Ford Field two hours before kickoff." The Lions "spent time this spring examining lower concession prices" with concessionaire Levy Restaurants (DETROIT FREE PRESS, 8/15). In Detroit, Justin Rogers notes the Lions are "matching the wildly successful $5 beer pricing" introduced by the Falcons in '17 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Levy also "manages the Falcons concessions." Lions President Rod Wood said, "We were looking at it with Levy and trying to learn what we could from what worked in Atlanta ... and adapt it to the best we could" (DETROIT NEWS, 8/15). In Michigan, Kyle Meinke wrote the Lions' new concessions prices are "not quite" what the Falcons are offering, but M-B Stadium also was built "with its low pricing in mind." Ford Field was not "built to handle that kind of volume," but the Lions were able to "make some changes anyway, like installing new point-of-sales systems that speed up turnover" (MLIVE.com, 8/14). Detroit Free Press' Brian Manzullo tweeted, "More stadiums and ballparks need to do this." Detroit-based WILX-NBC's Seth Wells: "I love the change, helps influence fans to get into Ford Field earlier!" Invite Manager VP/Strategic Partnerships Matt Ansis: "Great move and foresee this happening more and more" (TWITTER.com, 8/14).
HOOKED ON LOW PRICES: In DC, Jacob Bogage noted the Univ. of Texas announced this month it would "slash game-day concessions prices" at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on "items such as hot dogs (from $5 to $4), popcorn (from $4.50 to $3) and fountain sodas (from $5 to $3)." If UT has success with reduced concessions pricing, Univ. of South Carolina Assistant Professor of Sport & Entertainment Management Nick Watanabe said that it will "spread quickly through the rest of college sports" (WASHINGTONPOST.com, 8/14).
The Browns have signed a "stadium pouring rights deal with Keurig Dr Pepper," according to Darren Rovell of ESPN.com. The deal means that FirstEnergy Stadium will see Pepsi "be replaced" with RC Cola, Sierra Mist with 7Up, Pure Leaf with Snapple and MUG with A&W Root Beer. The Bears are the "only other team" in the NFL who have a "deal with Keurig Dr Pepper" (TWITTER.com, 8/13). In Cleveland, Kevin Kleps noted Dr Pepper has a "significant presence in college football -- most notably via its title sponsorship" of the CFP. The Browns "began distributing Keurig Dr Pepper products during concerts at FirstEnergy Stadium this year, and the company's products have been available at the team's training camp in Berea." The Browns had been "partners with Pepsi" since returning to the NFL in '99. As part of the deal, the premium club on the 300 level of the south side of FirstEnergy Stadium has been "rebranded as the 7UP City Club" (CRAINSCLEVELAND.com, 8/14).
The Battery Atlanta's pull as a shopping center "hasn't panned out as expected," as only about 65% of the mixed-use development's already-built retail and dining spaces are "actually occupied" deep into its second year of operation adjacent to SunTrust Park, according to Matt Kempner of the ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION. About 20 retail spots -- most already built -- "remain vacant, particularly those farther" from the ballpark. An early plan to "draw day-time shoppers with women's fashion stores fell flat." The Braves said that a variety of other tenants have "committed but are not yet open." The team reports 82% of The Battery's existing retail space is "leased, though some of that may not be occupied for another year." Restaurateurs and bar owners have "signed on -- there are about 15 of them, including ones that are partly attached" to the ballpark. Some said that business so far has "met or beaten their expectations." Antico Pizza owner Giovanni di Palma, whose restaurant opened in The Battery last year, said that sales are trending 30-40% "above expectations ... largely because of hungry crowds heading into SunTrust Park." Even non-game weekends are "doing a bit above projections." Kempner notes The Battery's retail lineup "includes about eight permanent stores, two or three of which are largely focused on baseball." Among the other outlets is a "small Harley-Davidson apparel shop, one clothing store aimed at women and a home and gifts shop." Braves Development President & CEO Mike Plant predicted that 90% of existing retail spaces "will have operating tenants a year from now" (ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, 8/15).
Much of the feud over how much rent the 49ers should have to pay the city of Santa Clara to use Levi's Stadium "stems from a bitter dispute over how the annual amount is calculated," according to Emily DeRuy of the San Jose MERCURY NEWS. An arbitrator recently said that the team "should pay $262,000 more in rent, raising the annual payment" from $24.5M to $24.762M. The increase in rent is "relatively minimal given the large overall amount, but the dispute and the bitter fallout could ultimately damage what is an already tense relationship between the team and the city." Arbitration documents show that the dispute is "centered around whether revenue, and what kind of revenue, should be a factor in determining the rent." From the outset, both the city and the team "agreed on the end goal, that the payment should cover ground rent, stadium operating expenses, debt service and capital reserves." They also "agreed that debt service estimates had decreased while operating expense estimates had increased" as of '15, when it "came time to reevaluate the lease." But initial revenue also "came in higher than expected and the 49ers argued that should be taken into account and the rent reduced." The team also "argued that interest earnings on money sitting in reserves should be included." But the city "disagreed, arguing revenue should not be considered and that the lease clearly specified only changes in debt service or operating expenses should trigger a rent adjustment." At one point, the city suggested an "annual payment" of $25.862M (San Jose MERCURY NEWS, 8/15).


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PHOENIX, July 21, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Delays in detection, referrals, diagnosis, and treatment of Autoimmune Arthritis diseases (AIA) can lead to greater physical limitations, disability, poorer long-term outcomes, and higher costs for care than when the diseases are diagnosed and treated within recommended timeframes.
The International Foundation for Autoimmune Arthritis (IFAA), a global nonprofit led by former and current business executives and educators who are also patients, conducted a study comparing patient-reported early symptoms of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA), Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS), Sjogren's Syndrome (SS), Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), and/or Adult Onset Still's Disease (AOSD) with symptoms published by clinically credible and reputable resources, including the American College of Rheumatology, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Health, and Mayo Clinic. The investigation concluded that current published symptoms were not consistent with patient-reported experiences in AIA onset.
IFAA also enlisted the Spondylitis Association of America, Lupus UK, Sjogren's Syndrome Foundation, and the International Still's Disease Foundation to serve as expert reviewers. This empirical research investigation was designed as a retrospective, quantitative study that deconstructed Early Disease (ED) progression (ED: 0 ≤ 24 months from onset).
"Something must be done to ensure these diseases are being detected early and referrals occur before the damage becomes irreversible," explains Project Manager and IFAA CEO, Tiffany Westrich-Robertson. "We feel the missing link in solving early, proper diagnosis is failure to involve the patient in understanding the true symptoms. The patient how now spoken so it's our job to listen and incorporate the findings into cohesive disease detection models." Results showed that half or less of patients met the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommended diagnosis time frame to refer to an appropriate specialist early in disease progression, with a significant number of patients reporting it took longer than two years to be referred to a rheumatologist.
In addition to concluding that patient-reported experiences were not consistent with current published symptoms, some interesting findings emerged, including:
- Patients reported the following areas of onset in ED, regardless of diagnosis: neck, hips, back, shoulders, knees, feet, hands, wrists, and chest.
- Additional cross-over symptoms that were prominent in all diseases included fatigue, stiffness after rest, myalgia, mental cloudiness/"brain fog", flu-like symptoms, Raynaud's Phenomenon, and redness and warmth around joints. One in three participants also reported swelling, fever, rash, and anemia.
- Dry eye and dry mouth were not the highest reported early disease symptoms in SS patients (73% mouth, 60% eye); > 30% RA and SLE and > 20% of AS and PsA patients also reported extreme dryness. Additionally, while numbness and tingling in the extremities was included in the study as a sole reported symptom of SS, at least 30% of all patients also reported this symptom in early disease. Could SS be more prominent than we realize?
A secondary focus measured frequency of initial undifferentiated disease, which concluded that while only 15% received an actual initial undifferentiated diagnosis, over 50% experienced similar symptoms for at least a year without any diagnosis. This suggests undifferentiated disease is more common than current publications suggest.
IFAA plans to use the findings to encourage additional research as well as to establish a coalition to create unified symptom lists and to establish a program that will disseminate new disease detection models to primary doctors, hospitals, rheumatologists, and other specialists.
The full report can be downloaded at http://www.ifautoimmunearthritis.org/early-symptoms-of-autoimmune-arthritis-study.html. This project was made possible with funds provided by Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc.
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The Myth of Gender Equality
This book is my diatribe against The Sexual Revolution which was a development but also a reaction to traditional Christian Anthropology. American Feminism began in the Church among Pelagian Christians as a development of the influence of Arminianism in the early 19th Century North. But as Liberalism began to blossom in the early 20th Century with the school of German Rationalism and Higher Criticism of the Bible, the American Feminist movement basically became a wing of International Communism in its efforts to supplant and ultimately annihilate the White Anglo Protestant Male. The errors of Christian asceticism also provided great justification for the Atheist movement. Turn the clock fifty years since The Sexual Revolution, American society is in chaos, the family is a thing of the past, over fifty-five million children have been aborted for mere convenience, Nihilism is rampant and the age of the bitter single mom is here.


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According to Hendricks and Singhal (2005), there is increased awareness and recognition among managers, consultants and academicians that supply chain performance is increasingly important to business success. In other words, supply chain plays an important strategic role in the world economy and that firms are more dependent upon their supply chains networks in order to deliver value. Regrettably, there is also a point of vulnerability in the world economy which are subject to disruptions with significant consequences especially when the disruption comes suddenly, without warning, and with devastation.
Handfield (2007) posit that the total set of risks to an organization is much broader. It includes hazard risk and operational risk. Hazard risks refer to weather disasters, equipment shutdown, or product liability, while operational risks include major disruptions such as theft, late supplier deliveries, and IT systems shutdowns and so on. For the purpose of this study, focus shall be placed on operational risk with specific focus on supply chain risk.
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By Stefan Koopman, Senior Macro Strategist of Rabobank
In stark contrast to last year, China is now having a positive impact on global inflation dynamics. Weak domestic demand, price declines in raw materials and the return to more normal supply- and logistics conditions, have resulted in China exporting deflation once again. This was evident in the country's large trade surpluses, which were updated on Wednesday, and in this morning’s producer and consumer price inflation data.
Factory-gate prices fell 1.3% year-over-year in November, while consumer inflation eased to 1.6%. Core inflation remained unchanged at 0.6% year-over-year. Deflation, rather than inflation, is currently the main risk faced by China. The relaxation of the most stringent Covid-19 measures should support consumer demand, but it’s unlikely we will see latent demand being unleashed in the same way as we saw in cash-rich Europe and the United States. Moreover, the road to full reopening may still be difficult and bumpy when infections start surging.
China Premier Li Keqiang Says Key Problem Is Insufficient Demand— zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 9, 2022
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More fundamentally, however, the conditions that have contributed to China's rapid growth in exports relative to imports also explain its stagnant domestic consumption: both are a result of the great difficulty China has in rebalancing its economy from (non-productive) investment towards consumption and in addressing its significant legacy debt issues.
The main release of yesterday were US jobless claims, as there wasn't much other data to go on. The figure of 230k indicates that new claims are moving sideways, suggesting that firing remains limited amid labor shortages and recruitment difficulties. However, continuing claims are now crawling upwards to 1,671k, a level almost in line with the 2019 average. This means that it is becoming harder and taking longer for unemployed individuals to find new jobs, something that has also been reflected in the JOLTS survey’s lower hiring rates. Overall, these numbers are more consistent with the gloomier household survey than the still upbeat establishment survey and indicative of a cooling labor market. Note also the 417% y/y increase in job cut announcements from the Challenger survey – up from 48% y/y in October!
It’s worth mentioning too that researchers from Indeed have updated the November data from the Indeed Wage Tracker. The figures are based on new job advertisements on their own platform and give an idea of the underlying wage dynamics. These show up with a lag in the official average wage data (e.g., as an analogy, think of these as a bath tub full of current wage contracts, with new contracts of hires coming out of the faucet and old contracts of fired/resigned workers leaving through the drain). The figures point at a rapid deceleration of advertised wage growth in the United States (6.5% y/y, from a peak of 9% in March 2022), and more muted deceleration in the United Kingdom (6.1% y/y, from 6.4% in June) and six Eurozone countries (5.1% y/y, from 5.2% in October). Slower posted wage growth suggests the risk of wage-price spiral remains limited.
Please note that Bas van Geffen and Elwin de Groot have published their preview for next week’s ECB meeting. The Global Daily is already highlighting this now, as they have downgraded their call from a 75 to a 50 basis point hike. The momentum for bigger steps seem to be fading after some softer inflation prints and after the Fed signalled it is going after a smaller hike. However, the size of next week's rate hike is not yet a foregone conclusion. The timing of this potential downshift could give the impression that the ECB is not taking inflation seriously enough, and the exact balance of votes on the Governing Council remains unknown. As such, it is still possible that the ECB could surprise markets with a 75 basis point hike.
If the ECB does go for 50, Bas and Elwin would expect President Lagarde to stress that a smaller hike now does not affect the potential terminal rate. As a result, they have extended their policy expectations to include a final 25 basis point hike in April in order to maintain the forecast of a 3% terminal rate. Additionally, looming decisions on quantitative tightening may be cited as a factor offsetting the smaller increase in policy rates. This may start in early 2023, most likely in April. It is unlikely that the ECB will sell any assets, especially not in the early stages. A pace of €25-30 billion per month seems reasonable and achievable under these restrictions.


A group of economists urged congressional leadership to add a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants to a budget reconciliation bill, arguing that it would bolster the US economy, according to a letter obtained by CNN.
The more than 50 economists, including former President Barack Obama’s top economic adviser Jason Furman, cited research and studies underscoring their analysis that immigration revisions would increase wages and productivity across the US economy, including creating jobs and lifting families out of poverty.
The letter adds to the growing chorus of immigrant advocates and Democratic lawmakers who want to prove that including immigration revisions in any budget reconciliation legislation would have budgetary effects and as a result should be included in the final version of the bill.
It’s a massive gamble for a party that has been promising to deliver on immigration restructuring for more than a decade, but key advocates argue that it is the last hope – potentially in this Congress – for anything to pass.
“A pathway to citizenship is a key component of a just, equitable, and robust recovery; and, as aforementioned, granting a pathway to citizenship for millions of aspiring Americans will bring expansive economic benefits to communities across the country –while having a significant impact on the federal budget – not only for the individuals directly affected, but for the larger systems – families, and the workforce – that they comprise,” the letter reads.
Other signatories include David Dyssegaard Kallick, director of the Immigration Research Initiative at the Fiscal Policy Institute, Eileen Appelbaum, co-director at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and a number of professors at elite universities.
Budget reconciliation is how Democrats plan to pass the sweeping $3.5 trillion package that would expand the country’s social safety net, and they also are hoping to use it as a vehicle to provide a pathway to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants. That population includes immigrants who were brought to the US as children, those with Temporary Protected Status and essential workers.
Democrats first tried to work with Republicans to pass an immigration bill through the Senate, but it hit a wall in negotiations when it became clear that Republicans wouldn’t sign on without stringent border security provisions and restrictions on asylum seekers.
By passing an immigration measure using budget reconciliation, Democrats can approve it using a simple majority in the Senate, with all 50 Democratic senators voting in favor of it and Vice President Kamala Harris likely being the tie-breaking vote.
But first, Democrats need to get the approval of Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, who is responsible for advising the chamber on how its rules, protocols and precedents operate.
MacDonough could reject the immigration provisions if she finds they don’t have a real impact on the country’s overall budget.
Under the rules of reconciliation, included provisions must either raise revenue or add to the deficit, and that impact cannot be merely “incidental.” It’s an untested question whether immigration revisions will meet those criteria.
Senate Democratic and Republican staff are expected to present immigration language to the Senate parliamentarian on Friday to insert into the reconciliation package, according to two sources familiar with the negotiations. It’s a part of a multi-step process that will take time to play out.
The economists sent a letter to White House officials in February similarly urging the use of reconciliation to pass immigration revisions. Earlier this summer, Biden said he supports passing immigration measures through reconciliation.


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Generally, a corporate credit card doesn’t affect your personal credit score. This is because the business entity assumes responsibility for the card, not the card user.
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Gap Bridge of China, also known as Death Bridge of China. Friends, you must have seen the glass bridge of China. But Death Bridge is even scarier than them. The height of this tower is 300 meters. People overcome their fears by walking on this bridge.
So the man walking on this bridge is bound by safety blood. But if you have a weak heart, heart disease or are afraid of heights. So get your life insurance and climb this bridge. If yes, life insurance does not apply if your shoe or mobile phone falls down. Falling from this tower is a common thing that does not cause death but does cause injury.
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Friends, you must have ridden a bicycle at some point in your life. And cycling is not a difficult task, but if someone told you to ride a bicycle on a mountain with a very flat surface and extremely dangerous slipperiness, would you agree? Be sure to let me know in the comments. People from all over the world come to enjoy the cycling on Mount Sedona, a white line in the US state of Arizona. Because for them, dancing to death on this dangerous mountain of the world is a very interesting game. Your slightest mistake here can lead to your death.
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People come from all over the world to enjoy cycling on Mount Sedona, a white line in the US state of Arizona. Because for them, dancing to death on this dangerous mountain of the world is a very interesting game. The slightest mistake here can lead to your death. These stairs in Hawaii are of great interest to tourists from all over the world. These stairs are about 2900 meters above sea level. The number of these stairs is 3922. These stairs were built in. But considering it risky, these stairs were declared illegal in. Despite being legal, thousands of tourists flock to Hawaii each year to climb the stairs. The most dangerous thing about these stairs is the swing made on the top of the mountain. On which there is no administration of any kind.
The condition of this swing is even more dangerous than its location. Seeing people like me swinging on this swing is a long way off. But most of the people who come here like to swing this swing of death. On June 3, a 9-year-old boy slipped down the stairs and went to the brink of death. And a girl lost her life after falling from the swing.
No. 05: Troll hangs in Norway
This axle is actually a rock in eight hundred meters. It takes about ten to twelve hours to reach the top. One end of this mountain is extremely dangerous. Sitting on the edge of which people like to make noise, shake throat, take selfies and take risks. The view from here is very beautiful. No safety work has been done on the top of this mountain, because of its natural beauty. Friends, think for yourself how to sit on the side of this mountain which can break at any time due to its thinness. On September 5, 2012, a 24-year-old Australian girl fell from a mountain and died.
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You must have seen banjo jumping in which one or two people are tied with a rope and pushed down from a high place. The world’s most dangerous bungee jumping takes place on the Villarka Vulcano in Chile. Anyone who wants to do bungee jumping here is brought to these volcanoes by helicopter. And it is thrown into this volcano from this height limit in this active volcano. That he could see the burning lava in this volcano. I think such bungee jumping must be done by people who are brainwashed.
No. 03: Mount Everest in Nepal
This is the highest mountain in the world. And that’s why every year thousands of risk takers come to climb this high mountain. Despite the dangers of severe cold, strong winds, changing weather, landslides and earthquakes, the craze for climbing the mountain persists today. According to experts, climbing Mount Everest is not as difficult as descending it. It is estimated that this trip to Mount Everest has claimed more than 300 lives so far. They do not include those whose dead bodies were not inherited by their families.
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Friends, if you are asked to climb a cliff that is straight and halfway there you have to camp. Or sleep in a tent thousands of meters above the ground, and spend the night. So what is your answer, please tell in the comments. Yosemite National Park is the most famous place for California cliff camping. In addition, there are mountain ranges in Australia, Germany, Colorado and Peru where the structure of the mountains is very straight. Such a cliff camp is no less than paradise for the rest of the world. They camp thousands of meters above the ground, and spend the night. I think the only people who will do this are those whose hearts are made of steel. Cliff camping kills thousands of people every year. But still people do not stop this work.
No. 01: Rafting the Colorado River in the United States
Friends say that nature should never mess with such things. In front of whom man becomes helpless. But still adventure lovers like to play tricks on death. The Colorado River is one of the most dangerous rivers in the world. Because it is said that the waves of this river are always angry. And people like to drift in this river to face these dangerous waves. Thirty-five people have drowned in this herd from the nineteenth century to the year two thousand and eighteen. And thousands of people are injured every year.

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When we heard that Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q would be providing appetizers at our launch party, we knew we’d also have to stop in to the restaurant for a sit down meal. The restaurant, started by Jonathan and Justin Fox, is considered to serve the best barbecue in Atlanta.
We first had to ask them, why barbecue? As Texas natives, they arrived in Atlanta longing for the flavors that reminded them of home—a barbecue meal with an emphasis on pork and beef, with a complex sauce both smoky, savory and slightly sweet.
They didn’t set out to open a restaurant, though. Previously, they had just enjoyed throwing backyard dinner parties for their friends and had no formal cooking experience. After one especially large gathering in September of 2001, they started receiving catering requests. By 2005, it became a full-time catering operation, which still takes up a great amount of their time.
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Aggression is a common symptom of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. In fact, 35% of dementia patients display frequent aggression throughout their disease, according to a study of 281 seniors published in Geriatric Psychiatry. Aggression may complicate caregiving, and often requires specialized care.
The prevalence of this issue carries a valuable significance for caregivers: They’re not alone. Staff at most memory care communities receive expert training in both anticipating and redirecting hostility. According to David Troxel, the former president and CEO of the California Central Coast Alzheimer’s Association, caregivers can take comfort in this personalized and compassionate approach to treating dementia aggression.
“In so many ways, if you’ve met one person with Alzheimer’s, you’ve met one person with Alzheimer’s. Everyone is different,” says Troxel. “The best facilities and programs develop an individualized care plan that focuses on remaining abilities and strengths. I believe 90% of the time, you can make things better.”
Read on to understand what leads to aggression in individuals with dementia, how to manage it, and how communities facilitate effective, person-centered memory care for aggressive patients.
“Any of us would get aggressive if we were frightened, in pain, or frustrated,” says Troxel. “Sometimes, these behaviors are not all that mysterious.”
For individuals with dementia, many of whom have lost their ability to communicate in direct ways, aggression and other dementia behaviors can be a way of conveying health issues, pain, discomfort, medication reactions, or fear.
Accounting for these situational factors, which Troxel calls “triggers,” is a key first step that staff at memory care take. Staff will perform a root cause analysis — sometimes called a root cause assessment — to understand a resident’s background and personality. The results can offer insight into how to best communicate with and assist a senior.
“Sometimes, being reflective can help you understand if the behavior was something inadvertently caused,” says Troxel. “A good rule of thumb to remember is that dementia is slowly progressive. So, if there’s a sudden change in aggression, it often means that a person is sick — not that their dementia has suddenly entered a new stage.”
Though caregivers may be nervous about finding memory care for a loved one who displays aggression, staff members at these communities receive training in how to react, as well as in how to prevent future altercations. Memory care employees prioritize calm communication, transparent body language, and soothing environmental cues to deescalate belligerent episodes.
Communication is a major component of memory care training. Generally, staff use the following techniques:
Communication with dementia patients involves much more than just words. As their condition progresses, those living with dementia and Alzheimer’s become more dependent on physical cues, eye contact, and body language. Memory care staff respond to and reduce aggression by:
Memory care communities are designed with de-escalation and relaxation in mind. Facilities promote a soothing environment through:
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Some caregivers may turn to medication to manage aggressive residents, and often assume memory care communities do the same. However, most dementia care experts caution against psychotropic medications.
“The problem with using medication for dementia is that you often trade one problem for another,” says Troxel. “It could knock down a patient’s aggression, but cause them to fall and break their hip a week later. With good care planning and productive activities, about 9 out of 10 times dementia patients don’t need to be medicated.”
While there are exceptions to this, a recent analysis of 148 dementia studies encompassing 21,686 patients found that holistic, multidisciplinary therapies—including touch therapy and music therapy—were more effective in reducing aggression than medication. Both caregivers and memory care staff members should consult a dementia patient’s doctor before implementing medication into their care plan.
Evictions in memory care are the notable exception—not the rule. Memory care communities will typically highlight guidelines and standards for evictions in resident contracts.
While causes for eviction vary depending on the community, most facilities will only evict a resident who is a persistent danger to other residents, to staff members, or to themselves. Troxel also notes that residents who are “spontaneously aggressive” are more likely to be evicted—that is, when a root cause assessment does not uncover any consistent, predictable triggers.
Evicting an aggressive resident from a memory care community is a rare last resort. Before taking this action, a senior’s care team will work with the resident and their family to explore other options.
A Place for Mom’s Senior Living Advisors can help connect you with memory care communities in your area. Our local senior living experts can help you consider your loved one’s needs, your expectations for care, and your financial resources to find the right care for your loved one.
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Watt, J., Zahra, G., Nincic, V., et al. “Comparative efficacy of interventions for aggressive and agitated behaviors in dementia.” https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M19-0993
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