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“And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. The great owners ignored the three cries of history. The land fell into fewer hands, the number of dispossessed increased, and every effort of the great owners was directed at repression.” — John Steinbeck from the novel “The Grapes Of Wrath”
A friend I just made at our recent precinct convention whose helping coordinate our delegation for Obama just found out her position writing contracts has dried up and she’s going temp now. With the foreclosures starting to pop up again here, and my friends losing jobs, it’s almost like Reaganomics again. So far, we haven’t seen the folks mailing in their house keys and walking from their homes as they do up north, but how far away can this be if our jobs start evaporating again? I still recall the 17–18% unemployment days of the 80’s ….
With all of the news on the economy lately, the pain at the pump and the grocery store, the skyrocketing insurance, medical care and housing costs along with the flatlined wages (if indeed we still have a job!) for the overwhelming majority of this country, the President spoke from New York financial district just over a week ago on how the economy is resilient, strong and how we’re not in a recession! What the hell is this guy snorting?!?
The only person in the country that truly buys that garbage is Dickless Cheney! What kind of reaction is he expecting, and how clueless is he making the Republican Party look?
Sayeth the W: “Our economy obviously is going through a tough time. The challenge is not to do anything foolish.” Yeah, like borrowing money from China to give every American a $600 rebate check to … go out and spend on more stuff (not save and pay off bills) and drive up the National Debt and drive our dollar down on those same Chinese (and other nation’s) imports with our ever-devaluing dollar, thanks to our inability to pay off debt and drive away foreign investors in dollars. Sadly, this is something both parties think is a great idea – instant economic boom! I’m not close to being an economist, but that’s so stupid it insults even my intelligence – limited as it may be!
On the subject of foolish … Bush also had the audacity to repeat that the economy is still “fundamentally strong” (WHAT?!?) and was not going to admit we’re in a recession even though the experts, the regular joes in America and even the failing banks (like Bear-Stearns) are all screaming that we’re already in the recession. At the very least we’re in stagflation that’s making the Nixon-Ford era of this look like child’s play! At one point, our illustrious prez thought the subject was so funny, he cracked himself up on the podium. Seriously.
But Bush-baby wasn’t done! “It’s important not to overcorrect, because when you overcorrect you end up in the ditch.” Too bad the economy and the country have been stuck in the money-draining ditch known as Iraq for longer than the Vietnam War now! We never even tried to finish Afghanistan or the hunt for Bin Laden … does anyone remember Bin Laden? 9/11?
“So welcome back baby, to the poor side of town.” — Poor Side Of Town, Johnny Rivers
So here we are in probably the most difficult economy since the Great Depression and we can’t get much more than a bit of press from the Dems – but they seem too intent on tearing down each other. Economy doesn’t get much press. Meanwhile, friends from my former job are losing their jobs at the end of this coming month and prospects are drying up out there. My sister, a single mom of two in the title insurance biz who gets zero help from her deadbeat ex is feeling the pinch at her job.
At least my temp positions have kept me going the past few years – nothing to be able to catch up, but it pays the bills in demand. My current job ends July 1 when we complete the transition phase of moving our American home office finance department processes (two miles from my home) to India.
Oh, did I tell you this is one of the major oil producers/refiners in the world? Yes, times are purportedly tough in big Oil, and they need to be mindful of maximizing their bottom line.
If oil companies with their record-shattering quarterly and annual profits are finding it necessary to outsource and offshore their functions, can there be any company that can really afford to keep employees in America? Even with stagnant wages, we’re still too expensive to hire. Making it more attractive, these corporations can actually avoid taxes by producing overseas. Making more money and paying few taxes, what a deal!
Maybe if our dollar falls far enough, we can start attracting back jobs like those burgeoning third-world countries. We can be a cheaper version of China’s workforce, though we’ll have to get rid of all our benefits, shitcan the OSHA safety standards, and always remember we need to work with no expectation of raises, bettering our collective lot or retiring. You see, we workforce folk are a dime a dozen … really more like a penny a dozen with stagflation.
The root of our current problem is that nobody learned from history. We’ve been through this economy before a century ago with Pres. William McKinley and the robber-baron era. How we got out of it was what once made Detroit great and was championed most famously by Henry Ford. It was a simple concept really. Produce a product that is affordable to the masses (though an ultimate essential), and pay the workforce that produces it a generously competitive wage.
You don’t make as much profit per unit and don’t do as well early on, but then all your workers are eligible to buy your product – increasing your market and pushing overall revenue and profits up. America today is all about maximizing their profit margin and looking at nothing beyond the next quarter. Jack up prices, keep your employees desperate and hold the wages low.
Then a funny thing happened … suddenly only the rich had money to spend. And the vast remainder of the country didn’t … and didn’t spend any more. And the less we spend, the more stores close and factories lay off … which means even few people spend, and profits wane and on and on the cycle goes.
If the government really wants to fix the issue, they’ll give tax breaks only domestically and only to those companies whose top-level officers and owners make no more than 25 times their lowest-level employees wage. Those who want their profit and paychecks much heftier can just pay a comparatively heftier share of taxes on it. Author Thomas Friedman said the “world is flat” for the American workforce … I say it’s time to flatten out the CEO paychecks in similar fashion.
And we don’t want to hear the righteous indignation and outrage of the privileged “good old boy club” complaining about having to shell out for taxes! Tell it to the employee who just got pink-slipped or the former homeowner who was just foreclosed on.
“The fields are all bare and the cotton won’t grow,
Me and my family got to pack up and go,
But I’ll make a living – just how I don’t know
’cause I’m busted.” — Busted, Nazareth
“They're workin' away our spirits, tryin' to make us cringe and crawl, takin' away our decency.” — Henry Fonda as Tom Joad from the movie, “The Grapes Of Wrath”


The Rise of Online Tutoring
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Online tutoring platforms use various tools to help make the learning process interactive and engaging. These tools include virtual whiteboards, video and audio calls, screen sharing, chat rooms, and online quizzes and assessments.
Students can also access recorded sessions for future reference or review. These recordings can serve as an excellent resource for students to revisit the concepts and strategies discussed during the session, ensuring a deep understanding and reinforcing their learning.
With technology, math tutoring has become more personalized than ever before. Tutors can use data analytics to evaluate each student’s performance and identify areas where they need help. This data can lead to the creation of personalized learning plans that cater to each student’s unique needs.
Advancements in artificial intelligence have made it possible to create computer-based algorithms that analyze a student’s strengths, weaknesses, and preferred learning style to create a unique curriculum designed just for them.
The use of adaptive technology in math tutoring also allows students to progress through material at their own pace. It ensures that students can take their time to understand the basics before moving on to more complex concepts.
Instant Feedback and Assessment
Technology now allows tutors to give instantaneous feedback, helping students catch their mistakes before they become ingrained in their thought processes. Tutors can easily monitor and provide feedback on each step students make, tracking their progress and time performance in real-time. Any misunderstandings or errors can be corrected on the spot.
Online math tutoring platforms offer students access to an extensive database of math problems and explanations. Students can complete sets of problems and receive immediate feedback about their performance. The software will also track their performance, identifying areas that require further focus or review.
The use of technology in math tutoring helps both students and educators identify problems earlier and create a more efficient study plan. When there is a deeper understanding of the student’s abilities and struggles, it becomes easier for educators and tutors to offer targeted support and feedback.
The Importance of One-on-One Interaction
The use of technology in math tutoring does not replace traditional teaching methods; it only enhances them. One on one interaction between the tutor and student allowed for the exchange of ideas, immediate feedback, and motivational coaching.
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The Benefits of Technology in Math Tutoring
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text: The Rev. Dr. Cynthia Bourgeault, author of seven books including The Wisdom Jesus, was the the keynote speaker at Contemplative Outreach of Colorado’s Twentieth Annual Conference. Cynthia is a modern day mystic, an Episcopal priest, and scholar in the Christian contemplative and wisdom tradition, who passionately promotes the practice of Centering Prayer. The fourteenth-century spiritual classic, The Cloud of Unknowing, is well known to practitioners of Centering Prayer as the primary source of their practice. In this conference, Cynthia Bourgeault will open new ground with The Cloud by proposing that what its anonymous author is actually describing by the word “contemplation” is the transition to non-dual consciousness. Cynthia will lead us in an exploration of what this actually entails, how this new perspective helps to clear up some of those notoriously difficult passages in The Cloud, and why Centering Prayer is so essential to the process.

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Rosemarie Noone couldn’t get over the speed of sales when she first opened Claremorris Gallery in Co Mayo during the boom years. “Dealers from Dublin bought 30 per cent of the exhibition over the phone before the opening night. At that time the art market was on fire,” she says
Shortly afterwards, reality hit.
“The Irish art market collapsed,” says Noone. “I had no option but to continue because of my big financial investment. While I could have survived by showing pleasing, unchallenging works which would sell readily, I decided to stick to my guns and to promote the best of contemporary Irish art, both emerging and established.”
These were difficult years for Noone. “There was a sense of desperation amongst artists. It was hard to remain optimistic. But I was constantly being reminded that things were worse in the 1980s and that it would all pick up again, eventually.”
Visitor numbers are up now, and while sales are still sluggish, flexible payment plans encourage younger buyers into the market. Claremorris Gallery, a suave, architectural space in her father’s former veterinary surgery, aims to be welcoming to newbies. The spring exhibition featured new work by Brian Bourke, Donald Teskey, Gene Lambert and Jay Murphy.

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He has joined from Hearthstone Investments, where he was an investment manager for two year, and was responsible for a fund aimed at developing a portfolio of privately rented properties in the UK.
Coles (pictured) began his career as a surveyor, before moving to Mapeley Estates in 2014 where he worked as an asset manager for four years.
Gatehouse’s real estate investment advisory team sources, manages and advises on investments across the UK including build to rent schemes and private rented sector (PRS) properties.
In his new role, Coles will support the build to rent team in growing its portfolio of single family units and assist in the expansion of the bank’s PRS business and build to rent funds. He will report to chief commercial officer Paul Stockwell.
Stockwell said: “I am delighted that John has joined Gatehouse Bank, his expertise and experience in the build to rent sector will make him a great asset to the team.
“Gatehouse’s activity in the private rented sector and specifically the build to rent market has been expanding rapidly over the past few years, and 2020 is on course to be another busy year for the bank.”
Coles added: “Gatehouse has a proven track record of delivering and managing PRS and build to rent schemes.
“With both sectors expected to continue expanding over the coming years, this is an exciting time to join the bank’s real estate team and be a part of a growing market.”


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Motivational Speaker Carole Spiers says that survivor guilt is one of the most irrational stress symptoms, where the sufferer identifies too closely with the victim. In most cases, it is partly or wholly unjustified, and pointless in any case.
Motivational Speaker Carole Spiers says that the feeling of indispensability is rooted in insecurity, and can lead to serious stress symptoms. Good team-building policy always asserts that nobody is indispensable.
Motivational Speaker Carole Spiers says … Appraisal Interviews can reveal hidden talent and help team building
Appraisal interviews can be a great opportunity to reveal hidden talent in your team but do you make time to do this on a regular basis?
Stress can get in the way of us concentrating and make us careless of the road. And then we can easily say it was someone else’s fault!
Taking a power nap during the day can help you to recharge your batteries.
Motivational Speaker Carole Spiers says, ‘Women – don’t give way to the stress of conference stage-fright.’
Motivational Speaker Carole Spiers says, ‘Women – don’t give way to the stress of conference stage-fright’ …
Motivational Speaker Carole Spiers says … Flexible working for some: don’t let it stress out the others
Flexible working can work for some but not for all. However, it may be necessary to do this as part of the team.

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Here's an exciting blog event to check out, being held at the home of my buddies the Smutketeers.
BDSMapalooza is a celebration of all your favourite erotic punishment fiction, with interview contributions from a stellar roster of authors, including yours truly, and selection of fantastic giveaways.
Don't forget to head on over there now, the event spans both 9th and 10th of May!
And while you're in the mood for BDSM flavoured fiction, why not check out my latest offering?
Naughty Thoughts is also part of my Daring Interludes anthology, but I thought I would pull it out and offer it separately for those who love a short 'n' saucy spanking treat. I've gathered this and my other BDSM stories together as a sort of semi series, called Delicious Masters.
~ Delicious Masters - when women meet the Doms of their dreams ~
Vickie and Terrence both have sexual secrets, and neither one quite knows what's going on in the other's head when they're making love. But one day, Vickie reveals her "Naughty Thoughts", her dark and dangerous fantasies about being punished and dominated... and discovers a brand new, thrilling side to Terrence, and a powerful man who likes to play spanking games. The Dom of Vickie's dreams is the familiar lover who's already in her bed.
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We are disheartened to report that the cyber safety presentation offered by the Sag Harbor School District last week was very poorly attended. Just half a dozen people or so turned out for the program, which the PTSA organized in an attempt to educate parents on issues specifically related to cyber predators.
Which is too bad, because the expert had some scary statistics to offer, including those from a recent survey, which says one in five minors were sexually solicited online over a one-year period. Also discussed was the preferred method of cyber sex offenders who use the Internet to groom and entice children for victimization.
Parents were also offered tips for keeping their kids safe online — including having access to all their social media accounts — and recommended blocking software to keep kids off potentially dangerous sites.
But this is not an issue that is going away. Yes, cyber predation is a scary possibility, but there are other things going on closer to home in this digital age that can make children a victim. Bullying texts, sexting, hacking or posting of embarrassing photos are some forms of online behavior that can irreparably damage a teenager’s reputation and self-esteem.
Which is why we encourage the PTSA to continue the discussion — and we encourage every parent to make an effort to attend future programs like this.
This issue isn’t going away any time soon — the Internet will be a constant presence and battle for parents who are trying to keep their children safe for years to come.


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The Tampa Bay Bucs needed depth on the offensive line and brought back an old friend. Offensive swingman Derek Hardman was re-signed by the Bucs to take the place of tackle Jeremy Trueblood.
Trueblood was placed on injured reserve on Tuesday with a shoulder injury suffered against Atlanta. Safety Cody Grimm became the 10th Buc to be placed on IR Tuesday as well. He has a hamstring injury.
Hardman was a college free agent signed by the Bucs in 2010 and spent two seasons with the squad. He played in 12 games and started four games.
Tampa Bay also got wide receiver/punt returner David Gilreath off of waivers from the Pittsburgh Steelers on Tuesday.
In practice squad moves, Tampa Bay signed linebacker Joe Holland and safety Sean Baker, while releasing receiver Diondre Borel and guard Chris Scott.
Tampa Bay still has one roster spot open, with corner’s Eric Wright suspension.


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As this wacky election season continues to spiral out of control, the sound of an increasingly impotent Republican Party scratching at the door is becoming ever more noticeable. The so-called establishment candidates are falling to the wayside as a creature manufactured by reality TV lumbers across the GOP landscape, flattening its hopes like cardboard models being trampled by a carrot-topped Godzilla.
In the frantic chaos that ensues, the Republican National Committee is exhibiting signs of desperation. Party chair Reince Priebus has mounted a backroom campaign to convince everyone that he has everything firmly under control, a claim that has evoked nothing but laughter. Politico is reporting that Priebus is…
“…stating in private meetings that the party has sway over its at times unwelcome front-runner because it has tools Trump will need to use to win a general election — voter data and field, digital and media operations that a nominee typically inherits from the party infrastructure.”
“Dangling access to these resources, Priebus thinks he can help steer Trump toward partywide policy goals and away from the inflammatory rhetoric that Republican officials see as divisive and dangerous.”
Well, that ought scare the savage Trumpzilla into bowing to the supremacy of the party that he has been running against for eight months. The lunacy that Priebus thinks Trump cares about the RNC’s “resources” is almost as absurd as his belief that Trump would ditch his potty-mouth politics, or that he doesn’t already espouse the wingnut policy goals of the party at large. If Trump cared about partnering with the RNC he would not be repeatedly threatening to abandon the party and run as an independent. He wouldn’t be accusing them of distributing illegal solicitations. He wouldn’t be criticizing their debate audiences as being deliberately stacked against him.
Even setting aside the hostility that exists between the RNC and The Donald, the GOP’s services are not exactly state of the art. Last year it was revealed that the Koch brothers were building their own campaign machine that includes many of the services that are typically performed by a political party. The Koch operation was said to be angling to replace the party’s electoral architects by building and distributing the voter access tools and outreach capability.
How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.
Available now at Amazon.
With the Koch’s running election services and Fox News running PR, you might be wondering what purpose the RNC serves. A lot of political operatives and analysts are wondering the same thing. Under the direction of Priebus the party has become less of a factor than in previous years. It has struggled with Trump’s candidacy from the beginning when his refusal to rule out a third-party run resulted in a loyalty oath that all candidates were required to sign (and which Trump has already hinted he might break). It would be wishful thinking to imagine that Trump would suddenly buckle under to a weakened GOP that’s begging him to play nice.


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A school district in Oregon was fined countless dollars for declining to support the state’s COVID-19 mask required and other infractions.
Found near the Oregon-Idaho border, the Adrian School District was struck with more than $11,000 in charges after the state’s Occupational Security and Health Department (OSHA) examined 4 health offenses.
Aaron Corvin of OSHA informed KGW-TV that an examination into the district was performed in action to a number of grievances about an absence of mask use. Those problems caused on-site gos to by OSHA inspectors, who discovered 2 offenses associated to masks and 2 infractions not connected to the pandemic.
2 of those infractions were marked as “severe” at $420 each, while another was specified as “besides major” at $100, according to KGW. The bulk of the costs came from a “willful infraction” of declining to execute a mask required, which racked up $10,500
” I believe bottom line though, when you take a look at the willful offense and you take a look at the total charge it definitely is the biggest charge we have actually released over COVID requirements to a school district,” Corvin informed the news outlet.
Oregon Guv Kate Brown revealed in June that masks would be needed for all K-12 schools throughout the state in line with assistance from the Centers for Illness Control and Avoidance ( CDC).
” The science and information are clear: the Delta version remains in our neighborhoods, and it is more infectious,” Brown stated in a declaration.
” My concern is to guarantee our kids have the ability to securely go back to full-time in-person knowing this fall, 5 days weekly and with very little disturbances. With numerous kids still disqualified to be immunized, masks are an efficient method to assist keep our kids safe in the class, the discovering environment we understand serves them best,” the guv included.
Ever Since, OSHA has actually been giving out fines to school districts that decline to adhere to the order. The most current fine for the Adrian School District comes months after the district apparently fired its superintendent for declining to defy Brown’s mask required, per KGW. The school district did not openly reveal a factor for shooting the superintendent.
Interim Superintendent Raeshelle Meyer informed Newsweek on Saturday that the school has actually submitted an appeal and asked for a hearing for the offenses.
The Adrian School District consists of a primary and high school with around 300 trainees.


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stainless steel, portable
The Sack Sampler, developed by Bürkle, is suitable for bulk good. It is mainly sued for taking direct samples of bulk goods from sacks, Big-Bags, or open containers and then filling them directly into original sample bottles. The system features 30 cm insertion depth, 25 mm diameter, removable tip, easy cleaning, and stainless steel construction.


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Pagudpud boasts of its serene, white-sand beaches, but there is something else that makes Pagudpud really enchanting – Kabigan Falls. Kabigan Falls derived its name from the word kaibigan which literally means ‘friend.’ According to the locals, the 120-foot falls was given such name because the falls itself and the river water are magkaibigan.
The falls is just 10 minutes of drive away from Pagudpud proper. However, to get to the falls, you have to trek for 30 minutes from the entrance. While walking, you will see rice fields, woodlands, hilly terrains, streams, boulders and wooden bridges. The trek is just more than a kilometer.
Upon paying the preservation fee, the management will assign a tour guide to lead you to the falls. Kabigan Falls is specifically located deep into the forests of Ilocos Norte, visiting the falls would be a challenge; the guidance of the local to bring you and your group to the falls is necessary. All official guides are trained in providing basic medical care.
There is already an established trail going to the falls hence you may dismiss having an official guide. Know that, however, that the tour guides double as caretakers wherein they clean the entire and falls every day after the tourists are gone. Hats off to these locals and hey, this is their main livelihood and your only way to contribute! Half of the earnings of these guides actually goes to their local cooperative while the other goes to their local government.
At the falls, tourists are welcome to swim at the conclave basin so make sure you have your swimwear with you. Mind you, the water is so cold – what a great way to cool down after drenching yourself in a sweaty hike.
If you are lucky enough, you will have the entire falls to yourself since only a handful chooses to go there. If you are a nature junkie, you will surely fall in love with the falls, the locals and even the remoteness of the place.
The best time to visit Kabigan Falls is from 11am to 12nn and you can stay there until 4pm if you want. You can have your lunch there, but make sure to order your food first before you head to the falls. You can also bring light snacks with you. Don’t forget to bring water because you will surely get thirsty along the relatively short trek.
On the way to the falls, there are mini carinderias where you can have your lunch paluto-style. You can order your food and wait for it while it is being cooked or you can order now, go to the falls and come back later to eat. It usually takes an hour to cook an order.
How to get there
Kabigan Falls is found in Barangay Balaoi in Malingay, Pagudpud, about 1.8 kilometers away from the national road.
By land, you can ride any bus line (Florida, Partas, and Victory Liner) bound to Pagudpud. The bus ride is between 10 and 12 hours, depending on the number of stopovers. The one-way fare is around Php700.
By air, you can any airline company to take you to Laoag City Airport. The entire flight only takes about 45 minutes to an hour. The fare is around Php3,000 to Php4,000, depending on the season.
From the airport, you can simply ride a bus bound to Pagudpud which takes about 2 to 3 hours.
A Php20 preservation fee is required.
A Php100 guide fee must be paid as well.

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Created by Bangarra’s Artistic Director Stephen Page and Head of Design Jacob Nash, this four minute video projection gives Vivid visitors an insight into the connection between country and the Eora peoples of NSW.
Through Bangarra’s renowned contemporary dance expression, fused with Aboriginal culture, traditional language, post production effects and the latest digital technology,EORA – The land will take VIVID viewers on a journey of discovery, exploring the vital relationship shared between the traditional owners of NSW land with its flora and fauna.
This year marks the third time that Page and Nash have collaborated to project such a large scale work onto the southern pylon of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
“Following on from our first Vivid projection back in 2013, we continue the celebration of the Eora Nation. Dawes Point, the southern side of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, is a significant cultural site which we’re privileged to honour during the Festival and share with so many visitors,” said Nash.
“Year on year, it’s been such a special project to work on. It allows us to go outside of our comfort zone, transferring our ideas and creativity into a new, powerful medium to celebrate the Eora nation with Australians and people from around the world.”
Animation and digital technology are employed to project some of our state’s most compelling flora and fauna directly onto the ochre-covered bodies of Bangarra dancers Deborah Brown and Daniel Riley, their bodies representing the land as it lives and breathes. The waratah flower and the black cockatoo have inspired this breathtaking work. Bangarra worked with editor Simon Njoo, post production company Blackbird and the Royal Botanic Gardens to create this stunning visual tableau, with music composed by Steve Francis.
It will be visible from 6pm - midnight nightly for the duration of Vivid Sydney until 18 June.


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Michelle Mitchell stood behind a microphone in a mask before the Blue Valley School District board in Overland Park, Kansas. “We as parents are not asking you as the district leadership to decide if it’s too risky for our kids to participate in sports and activities,” she told board members on Tuesday night. “We’re asking you to give us the choice and let us evaluate the risk and do what’s best for our families.”
This wasn’t how the meeting was supposed to go. County health officials had just finished presenting an incomprehensible slide show to roll out their “recommendation” to end in-person learning options along with public school sports and activities. The bureaucrats were not prepared for discussion or debate. In the current state of things, politicized health officials simply announce new “recommendations” with an authority that supersedes all law, including the Constitution. Good citizens obey. They don’t question.
Mitchell was not like the polished politicians of the Democratic National Convention who were being aired as she spoke. Unlike the pre-taped doublespeak messages Democrats broadcast to the willingly-deceived, Mitchell had no pliant media to cheer and uncritically amplify her message. She was nervous but articulate and resolute. She was prepared and rational because she had to be against the emotion-based hysteria that threatened to deprive her children of vital educational opportunities.
“I have seen first hand what [the quarantine] has done to teenagers in our community,” Mitchell said. “It is not good. They’re kind of the forgotten ones.”
Before the pandemic, she explained to the board, “we had a laser focus on mental health with the key takeaway of ‘get your kid involved, get the kid connected,’ and we as parents are in the best position to decide if the medical risks of COVID outweigh the mental health and all the other side effects that our children are experiencing. Just give us a choice. Let us opt in to sports and in-person school.”
Exploiting Tribulation for Power
Back at the Democratic convention, a video-recorded image of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) gleefully beamed during his speech promising sweeping changes to America. He didn’t bother supporting his anti-Trump adjectives with facts. The riots, beatings, lootings, grinding quarantines, soaring crime, unemployment, and racial tensions were ignored or blamed on Trump and his supporters who must be punished. For America, these are tribulations. But for Democrats, these plagues are serendipity to be exploited and encouraged.
The true threat to democracy, in the minds of the smug scolds lecturing America on woke sin, is that America has not yet caught up to the enlightened democratic republics of Venezuela, China, and North Korea where an opposition no longer thrives.
Yet as the Democrats preached utter destruction of dissent, serious parents gathered in Kansas and perhaps elsewhere to stage an insurrection against the crushing toll of politicized health restrictions. On that same night, a split-screen emerged: a fake infomercial posing as democracy managed and scripted by highly paid consultants versus an authentic, grassroots citizen action staged by non-partisan parents fighting against real oppression.
“How many hospitalizations of kids have we had in the county?” a father of a student challenged, “All you talk about is, ‘cases.’” “What about a parent misery index?” he asked. “Parents have to juggle work while kids are supposed to be attending school online.”
These parents work to keep vital functions of the economy moving, yet nobody considers their point of view. What about mental health? What about social health?
“How much harm are we doing to our kids?” the man asked. “CDC just came out with [data showing] a 25 percent increase in suicide and contemplation of suicide” among school-aged children.
He added: “I know you say this isn’t political, but . . . the flu is more deadly to this age group. Why haven’t we in years past closed the schools for the flu? We don’t need a nanny state. We are all educated and we can make decisions for ourselves. I don’t think any of us are going to send our kids into something that’s dangerous. We’re hearing, ‘we can’t let anyone get sick.’ I’m not really sure where that bar came from because throughout history people have gotten sick . . . If there’s not a high mortality rate then protect the vulnerable—but don’t penalize our children.”
Getting a Handle on the Data
Dr. Christine White, a pediatric doctor and Blue Valley parent, shot holes in the data model used by the county health officials to justify extending house arrest of the county’s youth.
“We are in the midst of a novel virus and our country is in the grip of irrational fear,” she told the board. “This virus is deadly to those over the age of 70 and to a very small extent, young adults. This virus is no more deadly to children than influenza. To date, this virus has killed 76 American children ages 0-18. In the previous four flu seasons, there has been an average death rate of 157 deaths per year. And yet we don’t close schools every flu season. Just for comparison, in 2017 6,200 children committed suicide making it the second leading cause of death.”
White added that the quarantine had already killed more children than the virus because of excess suicides, drug overdoses, and child abuse.
White explained that the county health officials relied on data from a skewed sample and that using the faulty data to close the schools was “unethical.” She cited experience from testing 7,500 asymptomatic patients scheduled for surgeries and procedures. “That positivity rate was 0.5 percent.”
Symptomatic patients test at 13 percent, which is what the county health officials are using to justify shutting down the schools. “Of course the number of cases are going up. That’s OK. That’s expected. But that’s not the data point to be focused on,” White said. “When you look at the county’s data, the hospitalization rate is actually dropping, as is the death rate. There are plenty of ICU beds available to treat COVID patients. In Kansas, there have been no deaths of children under the age of 18.”
A Portent of Things to Come?
The two events presented a sharp contrast between a party that salivates over ascension to power in the midst of chaos and a citizenry resisting their role as pawns in the cynical chess match.
Relatively few Americans tuned in to the get-Trump DNC romp that really served as a video ransom note subtly threatening America with more chaos unless voters send Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to the White House. Anonymous parents on a public access video were far more informed of the risks of COVID-19 to their children than the “leaders” speaking at the DNC and the vapid network haircuts who covered them.
The grainy video with poor sound showed parent after parent rising with salient factual arguments opposing the closing of the schools. It was striking how informed and rational each was in comparison to the hysterics of virtually all mainstream media.
In the fog of politized media and untrustworthy polls, it’s impossible to know whether this local school board meeting represents a one-off of resistance or the leading edge of a political tsunami.
While Johnson County might be situated in red Kansas, its demographic of educated upper-middle-class parents are quite purple, with most of them normally leaning left. But if this school board meeting is any indication, the effort to turn the fate of children into a political weapon against the president may be about to backfire. Even more than that, it indicates that the citizenry no longer trust or depend on traditional media for their information.


AUBURN, Calif., Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Hall of Famer Juli Inkster shot a 5-under 66 Friday to grab the lead after two rounds of the Longs Drugs Challenge.
Inkster posted a 36-hole total of 10-under 132 to move one shot in front of Christina Kim.
"Overall, I played well today," said Inkster, who has won an LPGA Tour event every year for the last seven years. "Even on my bogeys, I was in the fairway and had my chances. I hit the ball well."
Inkster still lacks a tournament win this season, having tied for second once.
Defending champion Helen Alfredsson missed the cut by a shot.


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African Countries and countries in the middle east have been exploited badly by European and American powers. This powers have committed grievous atrocities either in the name of fighting terrorism, National security or even research.
When Russia invaded Ukraine in the month of February 2022, NATO allied countries imposed strict and tough sanctions on Russia. The sanctions were expected to deter the largest country in the world from the war.
However there was divided attention on the same, as People from the Middle east claimed that the west and Europe are keen to condemn the war in Ukraine but did nothing to stop the War in Iraq or Afghanistan.
During the early stages of evacuation efforts, there were serious reports that black and brown people were being treated differently from their White counterparts. Such types of reports and allegations have brought the world to a place where everyone has they own view.
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Cities in the Asia-Pacific region need sustainable and integrated urban solutions to cope with a sharp rise in urbanization, development specialists say. An additional 1.4 billion people will be living in Asia's cities by 2050 on top of the existing 1.6 billion in 2010. That translates to 44 million more people being added to urban centers every year or 120,000 new city dwellers each day, according to data from the Asian Development Bank.
Cities are already feeling the strain. As urban migration has skyrocketed, the livability of many cities in the region has degraded rapidly, particularly in what experts call the three e’s: environmental sustainability, economic competitiveness and social equity in development.
“As a citizen, we all want to live in cities that has clean land, clean air and clean water,” Sonia Sandhu, senior adviser at the Asian Development Bank, told Devex. “These [three e’s] are the key ingredients in how we make sure that our dialogues and communication, project design, and investment plans [are sustainable and integrated].”
Accommodating new urban residents will be a gargantuan task, and experts say it will only be possible if sustainability is taken seriously. Urbanization brings rising household consumption, an increased demand for city services, the depletion of natural resources, increasing levels of pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, and increasing vulnerability of these cities to natural hazards and risks from climate change, a recent report co-authored by Sandhu found.
Just one example of the scale of the challenge: the ADB expects cities will need to build more than 20,000 new housing units, 250 kilometers of new roads and 6 megaliters (6 million liters) of potable water daily by 2050.*
Unlocking the three e’s is vital, the report argues. It also calls for an additional component — “enablers” — a term meant to emphasize the importance of partnering with people on the ground to form effective policy and implementation.
Adjusting perceptions and behavior will also be key to meeting the challenge. Sandhu and Ramola Singru, urban development specialist at the Manila-based institution, want to debunk many of the myths surrounding urbanization, to help policymakers, city planners, and residents design sustainable policies. They told Devex what the biggest misperceptions are.
1. Urbanization is bad.
Urbanization, per se, is not bad, Sandhu said. The influx of people is only a burden when the cities are not prepared to accommodate a surge in residents. Planning and preparation are very important.
“Urbanization is happening, as much as climate change is happening. So rather than calling it good, bad or ugly, let’s just face it,” she said. “Urbanization has to be dealt with … that’s the role of leadership and governance.”
2. Going “green” is expensive and time-bound.
Going “green” at the city level can be cost effective. Singru studied various cities in Asia and found that going green — reducing emissions and boosting renewable energy sources — is actually very affordable. Technology and scale have lowered the costs.
“It’s really not that expensive if planned and budgeted right,” she said. “There are ways to do it,” for example through public-private partnerships and investments as well as foreign and multilateral assistance.
3. A city has to be rich to be beautiful and sustainable.
A city does not have to have a booming economy to aim for sustainable urban management and planning. Sustainability and improved livability can be achieved at any point of a city’s development, including at a low-income level, Sandhu said. “The most important thing is you can start small,” she said. “You don’t need to do everything at the same time. It’s about cumulative build up [especially] on a mindset change.”
4. Urban planning is best left to city planners and administrators.
While it is easy to think that urban planning and management are the purview of technical experts and policymakers alone, creating a sustainable and livable space is the responsibility of everyone. Grass-roots partnerships and engagement is essential for people to have “confidence in the governance system” and lead to teamwork and collaboration for everything to work, Sandhu said. “Partnerships make a difference.”
5. Urban planning is best done with a clean slate.
The idea that cities can have a “clean slate” — and must have one to go sustainable — is wrong, the two urban experts said. It’s also usually impossible, Sandhu points out, except in the few cities created from scratch, such as has happened in some areas in China.
City officials, planners and development stakeholders have to work with the existing conditions and learn how to make interventions at different phases of the city’s development. “There are no planner or city manager who will say, ‘here’s a piece of land so let’s build our city. Nobody is building Sim City here,” she said.
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*Update, April 19, 2016: This article has been updated to clarify that the ADB expects cities will need to build more than 20,000 new housing units, 250 kilometers of new roads and 6 megaliters (6 million liters) of potable water daily by 2050.


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DVDs 4, 5 and 6 have just hit the shelves. And all six disks are available digital download.
We've helped out by drawing up some toddler friendly games.
And there's apparently (although I haven't seen it) a direct market TV spot out there reeling the young minds.
All of this just to post a simple background Christina made for DVD 4.
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A cool Halloween package arrived a few days ago, painted black and covered in spooky spider webs, as well as chock-full of fun items. I really enjoy receiving things that other people make or give me a little glimpse into my partner's life, so this one was really fun to open.
I especially liked the photographs that ICNTECHINICOLOR sent that she took in negative mode of the Sheldon Church in Beaufort, South Carolina. Apparently it's been destroyed twice, once by the British during the Revolutionary War and then again by the Union Army during the Civil War. The church is still used for weddings and other special events, and I'm sure when it's not in spooky-camera-mode it's very beautiful!
There was a tissue pack, a paper pad, a glittery dark wand, a card, a little packet of stamped mini envelopes, a papery pendant, and more, all individually wrapped in black and orange tissue paper.
I also really liked the vintage-image postcard and and ATC she included--my very first time seeing an artist trading card in person, actually! Everything was really fun, though, and I'm lucky to have had such a creative and generous partner.


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Virginia recently updated its lien laws by adding about a sentence to its statutory mechanics lien forms, and by adding a few more words elsewhere. They’re minor alterations, but they’ll impact claimants who use the statutory forms. Let’s take a look.
Virginia mechanics lien forms updated by legislature
You can see the changes yourself, here: H 2409. For a little more analysis, Construction Law Musings has a great resource.
§43-4 of the Code of Virginia was amended, and that’s the section that covers requirements for those who record a mechanics lien. Just a few words were added here. For one, liens must include the address of the property owner. Further, lien claims must also include the date from which interest is claimed. Meaning: if interest is accruing on the debt that’s unpaid, the lien claim must also cite the date from which interest began accruing.
§43-5, §43-8, and §43-10 were also amended. These are the 3 different forms set out in its lien statute that claimants can (but aren’t required to) use. Each of those forms was edited by adding the following sentence underneath the amount of the lien:
“If any part of the Amount claimed is not due as of the date of this mechanic’s lien, identify the date or event upon which it will be due and the sum(s) to which the due date(s) or event(s) apply:_______”
Practically, what’s the difference?
Not all that much! Let’s break it down by section(s)…
Change to §43-4
As far as the “interest” amounts being added under §43-4, that’s actually not much of a difference at all. For lien claimants who use the forms provided in the state’s lien statute, these amounts are already included. For the date which is now required under §43-4 (“the date from which interest is claimed”) – that was already required by the statutory forms, too. Beforehand, these dates weren’t actually required by statute. To put these two these changes simply: the statutory requirements set out by §43-4 now better reflect the statutory forms provided by the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Changes to §43-5, §43-8, and §43-10
For those who use the statutory form for Virginia mechanics liens, it means there’s another sentence added to the form, along with a new blank. If there are amounts in the lien claim that aren’t yet due – like retainage that’s not due yet, or payments being withheld under a valid pay if paid or pay when paid clause – then those amounts should be designated on the form. But, if there’s no pay if paid or pay when paid clause, and if there aren’t any amounts included in the lien claim that haven’t been earned yet, then the claim won’t really change much here. The additional sentence doesn’t create any new requirement. The same amounts are lienable as before. However, now, the statutory form wants its users to identify any amounts not yet due.
Need to file a Virginia mechanics lien?
How to File a Virginia Mechanics Lien
A note about the Virginia mechanics lien forms provided by statute
It’s generally a good idea to use the forms that have been provided by statute in Virginia. Not every state specifically sets out forms for mechanics liens, and that can be pretty annoying considering how strict and specific courts can be regarding lien claims, their contents, and even their formats. Virginia actually provides three separate forms that can be used, and which form is most appropriate will depend on the mechanics lien claimant’s role on the project (i.e. whether they’re hired by the owner, hired by the GC, or hired by someone else).
As mentioned above, these forms are not strictly required, per se. But, the Virginia mechanics lien statute does say that the templates featured in the statute will be sufficient (as long as the correct form is used, based on the lien claimant’s role). However, when the statutory form is used, a lien claimant is given a sort of “benefit of the doubt.”
Virginia mechanics lien forms and the benefit of the doubt
For a deeper look, here’s an article we just posted on the subject: Virginia Mechanics Lien Claimants: Flawed Liens Can Still Lead to Recovery.
A recent case, Desai v. Design Group Inc., shows how beneficial it can be to play it safe by using the forms provided in the Virginia mechanics lien statute. In that case, the lien claimant, A.R. Design Group, used the template found at §43-5 of Virginia’s mechanics lien statute (prior to these new changes described above).
There was a lot of analysis done by the court, but one of the major themes of the court’s opinion was that because this claimant had used the form which was specifically allowed by the state’s lien statute, any potential deficiencies with the form itself weren’t all that big of a deal. According to the court, since the form was explicitly “sufficient” according to the legislature, that same form couldn’t also be struck down as insufficient.

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UPDATE, 11/28: Congressman Raul M. Grijalva (D-AZ7) said today:
“I am glad to hear that the Interior Department has come clean on the inappropriate and illegal decision-making which occurred during the tenure of a former political appointee, Julie McDonald. It is no surprise that the Department has found at least seven more cases where decisions were made not based on science, but based instead on political influence and a philosophical opposition to protection of imperiled species. Like a modern-day James Watt, Julie McDonald made decisions for the benefit of industry, ignoring federal law and basic decency in the process.
“This announcement, however, continues to raise questions about any and all decisions made during her tenure, as Ms. McDonald could have been involved in many more decisions, using subtle forms of influence and without leaving behind a paper trail.
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“As Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, I will continue to join with my colleagues on the Natural Resources Committee to investigate inappropriate and illegal decisions affecting our nation’s lands, waters, and other natural resources.”
TUCSON -- More news from Washington today on an issue I've worked a lot on, Bush/Cheney administration hostility to science and conservation.
In response to months of allegations about political tinkering within its own ranks and demands for reviews by House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), the US Department of the Interior today conceded that seven out of eight decisions made during the tenure of Bush political appointee Julie MacDonald, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, warrant revision.
"Julie MacDonald, who was a civil engineer by training, should never have been allowed near the endangered species program. This announcement is the latest illustration of the depth of incompetence at the highest levels of management within the Interior Department and breadth of this Administration's penchant for torpedoing science. Today we hear that seven out of eight decisions she made need to be scrapped, causing us once again to question the integrity of the entire program under her watch," Rahall said.
Rahall has repeatedly pressed the agency to review possible political tampering within its ranks. A May 9 oversight hearing, called in the aftermath of a scathing Inspector General report, examined MacDonald's role in politicizing the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Following up, Rahall sent two letters, dated May 17 and June 20, to Interior's Deputy Secretary Lynn Scarlett, requesting a departmental review of a number of ESA listing decisions made during MacDonald's service.
The latest announcement outlines seven specific ESA decisions that Interior has determined were "inappropriately influenced" by MacDonald. The Fish and Wildlife Service had announced on July 20 that it intended to review eight ESA decisions where it appeared that MacDonald had played a significant role in asserting her own political interests to overrule scientific decisions on endangered species recovery.
"Julie MacDonald's dubious leadership and waste of taxpayer dollars will now force the agency to divert precious time, attention, and resources to go back and see that the work is done in a reliable and untainted manner. The agency turned a blind eye to her actions - the repercussions of which will not only hurt American taxpayers, but could also imperil the future of the very creatures that the endangered species program intends to protect," Rahall said.
MacDonald may be gone, but she has not been held accountable for her crimes, and there are no solid signs Bush Interior is changing its anti-science ways.
"We are heartened to hear that the Canadian lynx, the California red-legged frog, the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse and other species on the brink of extinction may finally receive the protections they urgently need. However, this should be the first step in a complete investigation into the Bush Administration's corruption and political manipulation of decisions affecting our nation’s endangered species," said Leda Huta of the Endangered Species Coalition.
Huta adds, "This is the tip of the iceberg in terms of endangered species protections that have been weakened by political manipulations. The depth of the Bush Administration’s corruption and suppression of science has not yet been fully uncovered."
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Today Tanya Kaanta, reviews When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald. Our first review in 2020 from across the pond.
💫 When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald
💫Back of the Book
A heart-swelling debut for fans of The Silver Linings Playbook and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Sometimes life isn’t as simple as heroes and villains.
For Zelda, a twenty-one-year-old Viking enthusiast who lives with her older brother, Gert, life is best lived with some basic rules:
1. A smile means “thank you for doing something small that I liked.”
2. Fist bumps and dabs = respect.
3. Strange people are not appreciated in her home.
4. Tomatoes must go in the middle of the sandwich and not get the bread wet.
5. Sometimes the most important things don’t fit on lists.
But when Zelda finds out that Gert has resorted to some questionable—and dangerous—methods to make enough money to keep them afloat, Zelda decides to launch her own quest. Her mission: to be legendary. It isn’t long before Zelda finds herself in a battle that tests the reach of her heroism, her love for her brother, and the depth of her Viking strength.
When We Were Vikings is an uplifting debut about an unlikely heroine whose journey will leave you wanting to embark on a quest of your own, because after all…
We are all legends of our own making.
💫About the Author
Andrew David MacDonald grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He won a Western Magazine Award for Fiction, was shortlisted for the Canadian National Magazine Award for Fiction, and his work has been anthologized in four volumes of The Journey Prize Stories, collecting the year’s best Canadian stories from emerging writers. He has an MFA from the Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
💫 Review by Tanya Kaanta
When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald
I held off reading this book for a long time. For some reason, I thought this book might be a burden for me to read. Something I might have to slog through. I couldn’t have been more wrong. When We Were Vikings is fast paced with a heroine’s voice that grips a tender space in my heart and shines through the entire novel.
Zelda is different. She’s twenty-one, lives with her older brother, and loves Vikings. We know from the beginning, her cognitive reasoning and pathways differ than mainstream young adults her age. Why this is the case has everything to do with her mother’s abuse of alcohol. What I love about the writing is that Zelda is not a caricature. Her voice comes alive, we learn to understand Zelda and the decisions she makes. How she communicates and why. And she’s authentic. So authentic. I love Zelda.
We know she lives with her older brother, Gert. He does not have the same cognitive differences that Zelda has, and is responsible for her well-being. He’s currently in college on a scholarship, though he’s not taken a typical path to higher education. Gert and Zelda have experienced great trauma and as the story progresses, Gert’s choices are understood. How he was able to start college at the age of twenty-one, after winning a scholarship. And why he chooses to interact with shady characters in order to care for Zelda. At least in his mind, it allows him the ability to provide protection.
As we know, things go awry. Especially when we interact with shifty people and illegal dealings. And once Zelda realizes her brother is in trouble, she rises to the occasion, as any strong Viking would.
It’s a beautiful messy story of loyalty, deception, love, pain, trauma, and triumph. A story where both Zelda and Gert evolve, ushering the siblings into a new stage of their lives. I adored this book.
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The Indian government has decided to introduce social stock exchange which will bring sources of transparent funding to organizations involved in community welfare.
The proposed social stock exchange will register social enterprises and voluntary organization. It will be regulations by Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), the capital market regulator of the country.
Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman said, “It is time to take our capital markets closer to the masses and meet various social welfare objectives related to inclusive growth and financial inclusion. I propose to initiate steps towards creating an electronic fund raising platform – a social stock exchange – under the regulatory ambit of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for listing social enterprises and voluntary organizations working for the realization of a social welfare objective so that they can raise capital as equity, debt or as units like a mutual fund.”
Director at Upstox, Puneet Maheshwari said, “The social stock exchange is a new idea and there are very few registered entities like Singapore’s Impact Investment Exchange Asia and London’s Social Stock Exchange. “The social exchange platform is an innovative measure to involve public participation in social causes through the equity route.”
Managing Director, Caspian Advisors, S Viswanatha Prasad said, “The industry leaders see this as very significant move and expect it to be path-breaking for NGO sector. “It is crucial because social enterprises must be able to identify as a separate asset class and be able to attract the right kind of investor. Since many are small value transactions, you have to find a way to do it in a low cost manner.”
NGOs are supposed to be the backbone of India’s vibrant civil society. In last seven decades, Indian state has been very inefficient in welfare delivery due to successive corrupt and inefficient governments. The Congress party has not been able to give people basic public goods (Roti, Kapda, Makaan) despite promising the same in every election manifesto and budget.
This has led to the bourgeoning NGO sector in the country. Over a period of time, many NGOs became very efficient and important part of the economy. The efficiency and experience of NGOs could be used to improve the living condition of people and the government has involved many professional NGOs in many sectors for a better outcome.
Globally, there some very influential NGOs with a huge turnover like Bill Melinda Gates Foundation which has 37 billion dollars in assets. These NGOs might register themselves in Indian social stock exchange to raise capital.
The NGOs which are well functioning will register them with social stock exchange and the government might make their registration with FCRA act voluntary as the funding through SSE will be transparent.


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Review: An 11-track compilation of modern day funk and disco here from Norway's Walking Disco stable. While Rayko and C Da Afro are both represented, the emphasis generally is on lesser-known names, but there's still plenty of quality on offer. Fingerman conjures the classier, jazzier end of 80s boogie nicely on 'Mind Fonk', while equally convincing are the mid-70s velvet-suited disco vibes of Disco Funk Spinner's 'Fascinating Strike'. Funk Hunk apes classic Moroder on 'After Dark', while label owner Saskin S bookends the collection with two slow-moving funk jams, 'Yes, You Know I'm Right' and 'My Pnoop'. Classy stuff.
Review: Super Weird Substance have just put out an electro-funk gem, World Gone Crazy, by Reverend Cleve Freckleton. It was an old demo rediscovered by Greg Wilson when looking for new material for his proteges, The Reynolds. Now Wilson reveals the material he did choose for these young Seacombe-based twins - a cover of Bessie Banks' Northern Soul anthem "Don't You Worry Baby The Best Is Yet To Come". The result is an expertly produced slice of shimmering 70s-style disco funk that could have easily been produced 40 years ago (in a good way).


Vice President Joe Biden guested on Jimmy Fallon's "Tonight Show" on Thursday. Asked his take on the seemingly neck-and-neck current presidential race, Biden said that voters during the last four presidential elections "have taken longer and longer to make up their minds."
"I think they're really uneasy," Biden said. "I don't think they're made up their minds yet .... But it has surprised me. It has surprised me that [Trump] did as well as he did in the Republican primaries and it's surprised me that he's still in the game."
"I'm not talking about his character," Biden clarified his remarks on the Republican presidential nominee. "I've never known of a candidate who knows as little about the world as this man does."
The Vice President referred to his conversations with foreign leaders about the United States' commitment to NATO, which Trump has suggested he, as president, would consider on a case-to-case basis.
"I don't even think he understands how much damage he does by what he's already said," Biden added. "It's almost like the guy didn't really intend to [run for president]."
Asked to weigh in on the gaffe-happy Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, Biden just laughed.
"He thought Aleppo was a dog food or something," Biden responded, referring to Johnson's isolationist blunder earlier this month on MSNBC.
Then, of course, Biden stumped for his party's presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton.
"Hillary is one of the brightest people I've ever known, has incredible amount of experience," he said. "I think she's gonna win and I think we'll be in good hands."


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While I was scrolling on Instagram, I came across a miniature version of the ‘Werk Room’ entrance of Ru Pauls Drag Race on my explore page. I was absolutely fascinated by how someone has managed to create such detail on such a small scale. I clicked on the profile, and it was Awesome, Thanks. I was blown away by what I was looking at! Miniature silkscreen printing (which works), Tiny glory holes, bathroom cubicles, and other small scenes. Awesome, Thanks is owned by Devin Smith, who is a miniature artist based in Wisconsin and is featured in “Ripley’s Believe it or not” for the world’s smallest silkscreen! Straight away, I was inspired and wanted to create something miniature and immersive. I previously tried something like this back in September with a project called Identity, which Locke and Key inspired. It was a one-minute video of what I expected my brain to look like. I thought it looked a little arts and crafts as I had a haul in Poundland and went crazy with random bits and bobs.
Smith got into creating miniatures back in 2013 for a T-shirt factory he worked for during the summer. On the last day of the summer, he used some cardboard, went home, and started to construct a miniature version of the T-shirt factory itself. Five months later… it was finished, and he had the opportunity to go back to the T-shirt factory and give it to everyone there as a Christmas present. It sits there today in the front showroom for every customer to come in and enjoy. (I took this from an Interview with Daily Mini)
I love his story of creating something, and he previously said in an interview with Daily Mini that “You can make one incredible giant thing and take up an entire room, or you can make thousands of tiny things.”
I got the chance to message back and forth with Devin, he described his to me and what he hopes to achieve. “With my work, I like to capture a specific moment in time. A moment that means something special to me, and hopefully through the expression of my art, means something to someone else as well. Creating a link, a connection, a conversation between me and my works admirers.”
Check Awesome, Thanks out on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/awesome__thanks/?hl=en


This post was inspired by my inquisition into Styrofoam dome houses.
From an engineering perspective the principle of using expanded (meaning, puffed-up with air bubbles) polystyrene for dome houses is fantastic. I cannot imagine a more economic, robust, materials-efficient method of containing a given volume of residential space.
The dome shape provides the ultimate in structural efficiency for a self-supporting structure, and plastic molding allows you to eliminate unnecessary material use as the shapes can be perfect (no material mass used for where you don't need it).
Also as an expanded plastic it won't rot, and it's an inherently good insulator. For practical insulation, you can't do better than a thick mass of non-convecting air bubbles.
There is the fire risk concern as plastic can be toxic when it burns, but that concern is mitigated with fire retardants absorbed into the polystyrene, and coatings. And of course there's nothing stopping you from employing fire alarms, etc.
Styrofoam domes would be brilliant in the face of hurricanes in terms of direct wind resistance due to their shape, but not so much for resisting debris due to their low point-loading strength (you could easily shoot a bullet through it). Maybe you would want some extra protection if you're living in some kind of tornado alley, or if your climate is prone to massive hailstones?
For earthquakes, you wouldn't want to be in anything else. You would sooner die from being thrown across the room than from your house caving in on you.
Though I believe that plastic dome's have huge potential for industrial, commercial and many residential applications, I nonetheless believe they may be a thrifty-overkill for much of the mass-residential market.
Aesthetically, it's hard to make a dome that doesn't have an underlying industrial feel to it, and I know that a lot of people will have a problem with that. A lot can be (and is) done to alleviate this problem by breaking the spherical structure up with additions, and matching it to good settings, but the dome-y undertone is still going to be there in the end. They will always look like a bit of a water-tank.
Another more minor concern is the wasted space. Because furnishings and facilities do not fit precisely into a circular floor, the dome needs to be larger than a squared structure for a given domestic serviceability. Dome houses may also require a suspended ceiling for those who do not like the cold spatial feel that can come with an excessively high ceiling.
I have never actually been inside a dome house, but I can say that what would surely be a concern is sound-proofing. The weakness of using low-mass walls is that middle to lower frequencies will tend to cut too easily through them. However, this problem can be mitigated easily enough, and I will talk about it later.
Note: Normal styrofoam for packaging is about a 70-to-1 air-to-polystyrene ratio, making it flimsy. Styrofoam for housing construction is significantly more plastic-dense than this, and likewise stronger.
Following on, I would like to suggest another approach that is crudely related to the styrofoam dome houses, but is what I believe to be a better optimum for a mass-market appeal.
Modular Styrofoam-brick houses:
With the focus being for economical housing, I think using Styrofoam as a structural base would be ideal. The model I believe would be best is modular, lego-style construction. That is, reduce all the components that make up the house to Styrofoam bricks that are about 1-foot square, and also employ larger bricks that are about 2-feet high.
From this base, structural reinforcement would be applied only where required, as you don't have to use expensive materials for the purpose of mere containment and structural integration. This is the core of where you would get your materials-efficiency from. You can also achieve huge savings in labour with this format of housing construction, as a house made up of large, glued-together precision-built bricks can be rapidly erected and with minimal skill.
Getting the cost of labour and materials down is the name of the game.
I would also suggest burying a typical house about 2-feet into the earth, and using a low-height and aerodynamic roof.
With a light-weight Styrofoam roof providing a low center of mass, and low final house height, the building would have inherently high structural resistance to both winds and earthquakes (like with a dome house, but to a lesser extreme). This translates further into a reduction in structural mass/requirement, especially in New Zealand where earthquake resistance is critical and a mandatory building requirement.
The following image shows a plan view of the Styrofoam bricks locked and glued together - forming the walls and the studs.
Some of the bricks would have concrete sections impregnated within them for extra compressive strength, and also for the sake of providing dead-weight mass for acoustic insulation.
The concrete sections will have holes in them so that a thin steel rod can be threaded through the bricks (like beeds) to be post-tensioned on installation. This provides significant tensile strength within the studs, for as required. Also, post-tensioned concrete can provide excellent acoustic insulation, as it will not deflect (at all) from normal dynamic loading (= sound waves).
Many of the bricks will have flutes for wiring and ventilation.
This is the best roofing format I can think of. I can't (yet) see a better way to make a cheap roof that would still be modular-friendly.
The idea is to produce a light, rigid roof with low windage. Think of a freezer panel bloated-out to provide a thick curved side, including cylindrical cavities to remove structurally irrelevant mass. Refer to the following image:
The ceiling would be suspended, maybe with small tension springs to ensure that noise impacting the roof does not (directly) conduct to the ceiling. The large cylindrical cavities provide a substantial air-gap/distance between the integrated ceiling and the upper-section of the roof. With the cavities filled with a lossy sound absorbing material (to suppress harmonic resonance between the boundaries), the double-boundary can then provide for excellent acoustic resistance at lower frequencies. However, the ceiling section may still need to be mildly weighted.
A model design:
The economical housing design I suggest [and this is just an example, of course] is extremely quiet, giving excellent internal privacy. All the main zones (living, kitchen/dining, bathroom and bedrooms) are almost completely isolated from each other acoustically, so the internal styrofoam walls should not need to be weighted (or much). The principle of using wide double-boundaries is strategically exploited everywhere.
The lounge is isolated from the kitchen, because the modern kitchen is too noisy to be openly integrated with the lounge, I believe. However, the kitchen and dining areas are integrated, with the kitchen bench co-functioning as a dining table (requiring some minor adjustment of floor levels). This saves a lot of space and makes the kitchen more practical and social (like a bar).
The segregated lounge has panoramic views and allows for a highly dynamic feel within the house, in turn avoiding the 'living in a box' feeling that small houses are notorious for. The hall area has a section of deep open shelving for all items, making it easy to keep the house clutter-free which also is important for a somewhat compact house.
The more you sprawl a house out with semi-external rooms (like the lounge in my model), the less thermally efficient it becomes. However, if you're using styrofoam for walls and ceilings, and double-glazed windows, this concern becomes moot. Indeed, you can build all kinds of practical and interesting house structures, and cheaply, with a system based on styrofoam modular bricks.
The wider context:
The easiest way to get rid of noise is to put your house in a place that isn't noisy. With new, large-scale residential developments, achieving this is easy if you exploit modern transport technology. I suggest basing new developments on the ULTra system (or similar) to eliminate the noise of cars, and the ugly sight of dominating wide roads. I talk about this opportunity in detail here.
I believe there is vast potential with styrofoam as a fabrication-base for houses, using lego-style modular systems. I can't think of a fundamentally more economical and efficient way to erect durable, well insulated, high quality houses that feel excellent to live in and with explicitly taylorable design potential.
Keeping the system modular on the brick-scale allows for detailed design flexibility. This is important for the sake of optimising the feel of your home. The truth is you can't design a house (properly) until you have a detailed knowledge of the environment it's fitting into. A small but well-designed home can feel great if it works with the context, and conversely a large but inappropriately designed house can feel terrible. Having detailed design flexibility allows you to economically build to the conditions, empowering a good designer to get the most out of any given environment.
Another key advantage of a styrofoam-based house is that it's very light. Making it easy to transport, elevate (on stilts, etc) or even float.
Fabrication for module components can be developed with relative ease using modern tool-making. Check out the following video showing rapid prototyping (for dies), using solid modelling. 3d printing has a lot of potential as well. These are significant enabling technologies for modular house structures of the type that I am suggesting.
To optimise the styrofoam bricks to their function, it would be ideal to make them like bone - dense on the outside, less dense in the center.
You could always make the bricks in two separate sections (an inner and outer component of differing densities), but I would be curious to know if they could be fabricated seamlessly, with the molds producing merging densities in one fabrication phase. This would certainly optimise the strength-to-material mass ratio, and efficiently.
And to note, a density-merging system could also have significant applications with rapid 3d printing, for large(ish) load-bearing structures.
Thinking further, I would imagine many of the reinforced studs would/could be structured as the following image suggests. Specifically, to anchor the whole house.
This structure would require a thicker single steel rod for post-stressing, but it would provide bending resistance on any horizontal axis - making for a simple, reliable anchorage for the body of the house. You could also make these structural components wider than the thickness of the walls (without a significant aesthetic compromise) if you integrated them with the external corners of the house.
Also note that the styrofoam brick becomes in itself the concrete mould for prefabrication. Once you have made your styrofoam brick (very rapidly and cheaply) the wet concrete is just poured into it, to set. This should provide for an extremely economical (and precise) form of fabrication.
3d printing for entire houses is getting a lot of attention as a construction possibility. It's certainly interesting and no doubt has potential, but I don't see the technique being more efficient than building houses lego-style, with big easy-fit-together blocks. Standardised components formed out of moulds lends itself to efficient mass-production for highly affordable prefabrication, and surely more affordable than 3d printing as it's faster to fabricate, easier to transport, and ultimately requires less material due to greater precision that can be achieved with moulds.
Anyway, the following video shows us a house being fabricated with 3d printing. It uses recycled materials. It comes from this article.
I think 3d printing has serious potential not in a prefabrication factory, but on-site building new large-scale developments - entire townships and suburbs, ranging from maybe 50 to 5,000 houses.
3d printing could be a superb tool to this end. A highly mobile concrete printer could run through a development printing appropriate structural components for houses (to be later fitted with other materials) and all kinds of civil infrastructure - water tanks, outdoor paths and stairs, pond and pool linings, a castle in a playground, an outdoor stage...whatever!
However to achieve this, you need a mobile printer - not something that operates on rails and only moves in a straight line and on flat ground. For the sake of perspective, the following image gives you my rough guess as to what a flexible mobile printer would be like. It would compensate for the poor rigidity by using robotically-active stabilisation. The technology to provide this kind of precise stability in a flexible crane is here today.
In operation you would mount two polls on the construction site (like cellphone towers) that allows the concrete printer to know its exact location down to a very small area within the development. With the houses and infrastructure already designed on a computer, the printer would move around the site systematically doing all the foundation concrete work, automatically, for the houses (and other) to be completed later.
Again, on this level, 3d printing could be extraordinarily efficient and make for some very interesting residential developments. But again, this I believe is where 3d printing belongs. We have better options for most other prefabrication work.
3d concrete printing, mass-produced composite bricks for pre-fabrication, and full-automation network-based transport (here) could all work together to drastically reduce the cost of urban developments, while at the same time revolutionising their liveability.


Inspired by the Keltec PLR-16, the licensed Keltec custom PLR-16 is a Green Gas /CO2 operated GBB rifle with three different setups.
The polymer handguard is included. You can choose to attach the handguard to be traditional style pistol or leave it open to have a slick looking pistol.
By adding up the stock adapter, it can also convert from pistol style to rifle style. The WE Keltec PLR-16 features awesome recoil, light weight enhanced polymer construction and is compatible with WE AR/M4 magazines.
The rear sight is adjustable for windage. The front sight is similar to an AR-15 style rifle, and adjustable for elevation.
An integrated MIL-STD-1913 Picatinny rail will accept a multitude of standard accessories. The muzzle is threaded 1/2-28 TPI to accept standard attachments such as a muzzle brake or flash hider.
Except for the barrel, bolt, sights, and mechanism, the PLR-16 pistol is made entirely of high-impact reinforced polymer.
The accessories available include fore-end with picatinny rail on the bottom, scope rings, dynamic deflecting operating handle and single point sling.
- WE Keltec PLR-16
- 20 round green gas magazine (30 round magazine are sold separately)
- Polymer handguard
- Barrel Tool
- Small Hex Key
- Magazine Speed Loader
- Licensed by Keltec with full trademarks
- Awesome recoil
- Green gas / CO2 magazine compatible (will work with your current WE M4 variant mags)
- WE AR/M4 magazine compatible
- Muzzle Attachment 14mm CCW
- Magazine Capacity: 20 Rounds
- Velocity: 110~120 m/s (0.2g BB) 360-400 FPS
- Weight : 3300g
- Inner Barrel Length: ~221mm
- Gun Weight (no mag): 1845g
- Magazine Weight: 295g
- Gun Length (with 4-point Stock) 64cm/72cm (Extended)
- Box Dimensions (L x W x H): 83cm x 27cm x 9cm
- Packaged (Gross) Weight: 3240g


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