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- Mayor Benita will keep freedom of movement in London: “As Mayor, I will keep freedom of movement in London. I will make sure we always have freedom of movement in our great city."
- We can win London: "We have the message, we have the momentum, we have the winning campaign.
- "Winning the general and mayoral elections will send a message to the world – Liberal Britain is back"
- Sadiq Khan "continues to prop up a brexit-facilitating, deeply divided Labour party that has failed to drive out anti-semitism"
- Announces a 'feel safe, be safe' plan to tackle knife crime epidemic including a 'Youth Happy Hour' and decriminalising cannabis in London
- Announces Leroy Logan, former senior Met police officer and ex-advisor to Sadiq Khan, is defecting from Labour and joining her team
- Strong pro-immigration views shaped by personal life: married to a Frenchman, daughter of an Indian immigrant
LibDem mayoral candidate Siobhan Benita has vowed to keep freedom of movement in London whether Brexit happens or not.
In a keynote speech at the LibDem party conference in Bournemouth, the woman bidding to be the first LibDem and first female mayor of London, pledged to “fight with every ounce of energy I have to stop Brexit” and if elected, promised to “do everything in my power to ensure that our capital remains European and Global, Brexit or no Brexit.”
She said: “Nothing can symbolise an open London more than retaining free movement with the EU. Our city needs leadership in defence of free movement and when I’m elected as the first Liberal Democrat Mayor of London, it will get it. No ifs, no buts.”
She announced: “As Mayor, I will keep freedom of movement in London and freedom of movement for Londoners in Europe. I will make sure we always have freedom of movement in our great city."
And she explained how:
"The Government tells us it wants an Australian style “points based” immigration system. Under such systems, immigration powers can be devolved to regions, enabling them to nominate immigrants based on different characteristics.
One qualifying characteristic for the right to work in London could be EU citizenship.
"And later this month I will meet MEPs and officials in Brussels to discuss freedom of movement for Londoners in Europe."
Ms Benita said it was the LibDems who embodied “the very spirit of London with its global, liberal, pro-European, warm-hearted and dynamic values”. She said that London was not just a remain city or a liberal city. “Today, London is a Liberal Democrat city” and in next year’s mayoral election, “Londoners will choose the Liberal Democrats. Londoners will choose me.”
She said the time was right for the Lib Dems in London. With their surge in membership, their victory in the recent Euro election and the disappointing mayoralty of Sadiq Khan, the LibDems were now "the credible and popular choice for voters in London."
She accused Sadiq Khan of continuing to "prop up a brexit-facilitating, deeply divided Labour party, that has failed to drive out anti-semitism".
She said the current Labour mayor had also failed to get a grip on knife crime or toxic air.
"It’s no surprise that his recent polling shows he has negative satisfaction ratings".
“London is looking for change. We, the Liberal Democrats, offer the change our city needs. We have the message, we have the momentum, we have the winning campaign.
She said Liberal Democrat election victories would send out an important message to the world:
"Imagine what winning this general election, what winning this mayoral election will do for our capital city and for our country. Imagine the message it will send to the world – liberal Britain is back!"
During the speech Ms Benita talked about her own mixed heritage and how her mother arrived in London penniless from India and her family relied on the milkman and the people in the butchers shop they lived above to give them food that they had left at the end of each day. She joked her father was also a migrant to London – from Cornwall. Both were public servants, her mother a nurse, her father a teacher.
She also spoke about her husband who is French: "Like many of London’s EU citizens my husband, who came to London from France over 20 years ago, applied for British citizenship last year because he feared the EU Settled Status Scheme could become another Windrush scandal. He was right to be concerned."
She spoke passionately about immigration: “Immigration is a good thing. Good for communities. Good for the capital. Good for the country. So we will always celebrate London as a magnet to people from all over the world."
She talked about the sort of London she wanted: “I want to be the Mayor of London because I believe we can create a better, kinder capital. One in which the air we breathe is not a silent killer. An affordable and equal city that supports aspiration, is the global capital of business and innovation and the world leader in wellbeing.”
Ms Benita also announced that Leroy Logan, former senior Met police officer and ex-advisor to Sadiq Khan, was joining her team - and defecting from Labour to the LibDems. She went on to outline her “Feel safe, be safe” plan to tackle knife crime in the capital.
“The journey to a safer London starts with young people. We need to wrap every child in London with hope, opportunity and guidance. With Love."
She said as Mayor should would appoint a Young Mayor for London “to ensure young people’s voices are heard every day in City Hall” and would convene a schools symposium to move to a policy of no child being permanently excluded from mainstream schools.
She will push for statutory youth service provision and will establish a ‘Youth Happy Hour’ for the difficult 4 to 6pm period "so that no child is vulnerable to crime after school".
She promised effective community policing with a dedicated police officer at every secondary school, police stations to be re-opened, reversing the policy of the current Labour Mayor who has closed over half the police stations in London.
And she said she will make radical changes to drugs policy: “If I am elected to City Hall, we’ll end the ‘war on drugs’ and instead wage war on gangs and drug lords." She also said she would pilot the decriminalisation of cannabis in London.
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Orthodontics as a Replacement Therapy for Dental Implants & Contemporary Biomechanics
2 December 2022 | 17:00 - 18:15
Dr. Kee-joon Lee (Korea)
Dr. Kee-Joon Lee is a professor of the Department of Orthodontics, Yonsei University College of Dentistry, Seoul, Korea. He received DDS and PhD degree at the Graduate school, College of Dentistry, Yonsei University. He completed the orthodontics specialty training in Yonsei University Dental Hospital.

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Both businesses and individuals use diagram software for one purpose or another. A diagram makes it simple to organize and illustrate data in a logical manner or to present ideas and workflows in a clear to understand way.
These days, Microsoft Visio dominates the market and features a high rate of adoption.
Visio allows users to create everything from flowcharts to networking diagrams and more.
Although Visio remains a popular solution, dozens of other programs specialize in diagram creation.
Microsoft integrated Visio into Microsoft Office, making it a popular and commonplace option.
Plenty of businesses or individuals may find themselves in need of other features, though.
For that reason, they should consider the following alternatives to Microsoft Visio for creating diagrams, illustrations, flowcharts etc.
Note that the list below is in no particular order.
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Diagrams.net focuses on privacy and security for each user. Through Diagrams.net, users receive a powerful diagramming tool with both an online web app and desktop app options.
The software features common diagram elements like shapes, flowcharts, and more.
Security and privacy features are built into both versions of the software. This means that developers of the software cannot access users’ data.
Currently, Diagrams.net features a large number of integrations with other software.
This includes Google Workplace, OneDrive, Dropbox, and other programs. Everything created within Diagrams.net is shareable and compatible with all types of hardware and software. Ultimate security and powerful diagramming are a few clicks away here.
Lucidchart helps some of the largest businesses in the world make better plans and create a shared vision in their teams.
This diagram tool allows teams to collaborate with ease. Individual team members can brainstorm their ideas. From there, teams can organize complex ideas in a visual manner within minutes.
Lucidchart utilizes a common visual language to make sure every team member understands the data in front of themselves.
The setup with Lucidchart allows businesses to bring their plans to life with powerful diagramming features.
A variety of integrations are available with Lucidchart today. By using Lucidchart, teams can work on user flows, scale cloud infrastructure, and map data flows with ease.
For open source solutions, users cannot go wrong with graph visualization software like Graphviz.
Common applications for Graphviz include networking, software engineering, machine learning, web design and so much more.
An individual user can structure information in a logical manner within minutes. Anything created within Graphviz can be outputted as a PDF, image file, or other common file type.
Graphviz allows users to display data in various structures and layouts. They can choose the format that best works with their data set or ultimate goal.
Since Graphviz is open source, regular development updates come to the software. Users can then focus on creating detailed diagrams with ease.
Cacoo wants teams to thrive when it comes to diagrams and workflows. The software allows users to share and edit diagrams simultaneously.
To ensure accuracy and responsibility, changes can be tracked for individual diagrams.
Cacoo even includes chat and comment features to ensure smooth communication between team members on a project.
Teams work in real time with Cacoo, whether they’re in the same building or spread across the globe.
A variety of tools are built into Cacoo to make the software quite powerful. To get started, the software includes 100s of templates for beginners. Advanced features like integrations and apps are available as well.
Edraw aims to provide the ultimate diagramming solution to all types of users. The software caters to marketing, design, and even engineering teams.
Within the software, users will discover mind maps and diagrams as well as other visual tools.
Edraw wants to help teams turn data and information into a visual medium that provides total clarity.
Strong collaboration tools can be found throughout Edraw to empower teams. Edraw adheres to GDPR standards and features encryption by default, too.
Therefore, users receive a feature-rich platform that values privacy, security, and results.
Countless diagramming solutions and tools can be found within Edraw today.
ASCIIFlow exists as a web app accessible from any web browser. Boxes and other shapes can be created with a simple drag and drop function.
From there, users can create lines and arrows to connect these shapes together. Text can be added into the diagram or flowchart in various ways.
Although ASCIIFlow is quite simple, everything works as intended. The app works well for simple diagrams or flowcharts more than anything else.
Files can be saved and downloaded to the user’s machine with a button press. They can then create another project within the app, if desired.
From Venn diagrams to flowcharts, MyDraw leaves nothing on the table. Floor plans, family tree diagrams, organizational charts, and so much more can be created within MyDraw.
A simple user interface resembles Microsoft Office and feels familiar to use. In fact, MyDraw is even compatible with Microsoft Visio unlike many other solutions.
Thousands of shapes and clip-art images are available within MyDraw. On top of that, a variety of templates exist within the software.
MyDraw offers advanced features like automatic layouts, barcodes, and so much more.
A buy-once, use-forever license allows dedicated users to reduce their long-term expense on the tool.
This desktop software is compatible with Windows, Linux, and macOS.
yEd Graph Editor produces high-quality diagrams in minutes. Individual users create diagrams from scratch with a variety of tools and features.
On the other hand, they can instead import data and generate an automatic diagram or flowchart.
This feature within yEd works surprisingly well and creates intricate data arrangements in seconds.
yEd creates everything from BPMN diagrams to flowcharts and semantic networks.
The software features powerful tools that empowers teams and individuals alike. By opting for yEd, users receive a free but powerful diagram creation suite.
Two engineers built Gliffy with simplicity in mind. They combined features from the best diagram software into one package designed for enterprise users.
In that vein, users receive a powerful diagram tool that works for every professional use case imaginable.
Businesses can create flowcharts, wireframing apps and diagrams with this software tool.
Gliffy offers drag and drop creation as well as templates and themes. Multiple users can view, edit, and comment on diagram projects.
Likewise, projects are shareable to anyone in the world. An Atlassian integration is included with Gliffy as well.
Currently, 16 million people use Gliffy for their diagramming needs.
Unsurprisingly, Google Drawings is a free diagramming tool made by Google and working as Chrome extension.
The web app allows users to create charts and diagrams in a few simple steps. Various shapes and colors are available in the app, but most of the options would be considered basic.
Fortunately, Google allows users to collaborate on individual projects and make comments.
All diagrams and charts are stored within Google Drive, which means they’re available in the cloud.
Users can share these files with anyone on the planet. Otherwise, diagrams can be outputted to various file formats for use elsewhere. Google Drawings is a basic solution by nature, but it’s simple and easy to use.
Few programs feature a more attractive design than OmniGraffle. OmniGraffle lets professionals create beautiful visual designs and graphics.
At its core, the software is purpose-built for presenting complex ideas in a simplified manner. Teams can create rapid wireframes to explore their ideas and then design professional-grade graphics.
The software itself features intelligent grouping, alignment tools, and snapping features.
This allows teams to create more precise visual representations faster than ever before.
Teams can access OmniGraffle on Apple devices and collaborate together with ease. In simple terms, OmniGraffle is a powerful visual diagram and chart creation suite that’s hard to compete against.
However, it is only for MAC and iOS users.
A given user can create much more than diagrams or flowcharts with LibreOffice Draw.
This particular open source software comes with quite a few features and capabilities.
For diagrams and flowcharts specifically, Draw makes everything simple for beginners. Advanced users will find powerful features baked into the software, though.
Draw includes “glue points” for making simple and repeatable connections within a diagram.
The software creates dimension lines automatically for ease of use. After using the software, users output incredible diagrams that are fully fleshed out and ready for presentation.
LibreOffice offers a competitive alternative to Microsoft Visio in Draw.
D3M takes a sales-based approach to diagramming and visualization. The suite allows enterprise users to improve their digital sales processes.
In a D3M project, users and customers can collaborate worldwide. Selling and closing features are built into each project to help businesses make money.
Various integrations make D3M more powerful and capable.
A unique approach includes customers in the collaboration process. Therefore, businesses can create quotes and proposals while diagramming out a given project or concept.
D3M solves a unique problem for businesses and works like few other diagramming tools.
Creately provides every team with a visual workspace filled with features and tools.
Business and technical diagramming couldn’t be easier through another software.
In Creately’s environment, teams think and plan visually while collaborating remotely.
They can strategize and brainstorm a given project while designing systems and flows that work flawlessly.
A given Creately project features an infinite visual canvas with 1000s of templates.
Creating a visual diagram or flowchart in Creately creates incredible results. In fact, companies like Netflix and Intel (among others) rely on Creately for their visual workspace needs.
An attractive design and powerful features make Creately worth checking out.
SmartDraw attempts to offer a little bit of everything to its users. Organizational charts, flowcharts, floor plans, and even drawings are possible here.
At startup, SmartDraw features 70 diagram templates with automatic formatting and various integrations.
This allows newcomers to create their first diagram or flowchart in minutes. Advanced users receive far more features than simple templates, though.
Enterprise features in SmartDraw include SSO, collaboration features, and document retention.
Connecting SmartDraw to an AWS account enables automatic data visualization as well. For the price, SmartDraw offers competitive and powerful features not found in competing products.
Dia Diagram Editor is downloadable to and accessible from a USB flash drive or as portable app if you want.
This particular editor is compatible with a large variety of operating systems at the moment.
Upon first use, an individual will immediately notice the old school design. Not everyone will love the program’s design, but Dia Diagram Editor creates excellent diagrams and flow charts.
In the program, users can select from dozens of shapes and manipulation tools to create their project.
Flow charts, organizational charts, and diagrams couldn’t be easier to create and manipulate.
Dia Diagram Editor works well and doesn’t feature a difficult learning curve for new users.
Pencil Project enables users to accomplish various tasks with ease. First and foremost, the software allows a user to prototype a GUI environment.
Built-in shape collections offer hundreds upon hundreds of options for hardcore users. Connectors and flowchart shapes are included, allowing users to create diagrams as well.
Simply put, Pencil Project isn’t primarily a diagramming software in the traditional sense.
The software includes enough features and tools to enable incredible results with diagrams, though.
A diagram created in Pencil Project looks good enough to implement into a professional presentation. The results speak for themselves with Pencil Project.
OpenOffice Draw is another free and open-source productivity tool which is part of the OpenOffice suite.
In the program, users can “park” their commonly used drawing or diagramming tools for immediate access.
A user creates objects and can manipulate or arrange them within their diagram. They then utilize smart connectors to create flowcharts and diagrams in minutes rather than hours.
OpenOffice Draw is compatible with a variety of file formats and features simple but powerful tools.
A given person can create professional diagrams and flowcharts with ease here. Plus, various sizing options are available, and creating larger diagrams or flowcharts is more than possible here.
Inkscape includes a number of flexible drawing tools and free design options for users of all backgrounds.
Likewise, the software is compatible with a large range of file formats. A powerful text tool is baked into Inkscape to add more flexibility and features. Users can draw and manipulate objects with a variety of tools.
Also, they can create paths and diagrams within a few minutes. Those diagrams and flowcharts can be manipulated in a variety of ways.
It doesn’t hurt that Inkscape is available free of charge and features tools that tend to cost money elsewhere. In Inkscape, users receive a powerful drawing and diagramming tool.
Unlike some other solutions, Continuity is free for personal and commercial users alike.
The software is geared towards IT professionals more so than other professional users.
Developers behind Continuity aim to let users create beautiful visual models without unnecessary distractions.
Within the software, users will find hundreds of shapes, models, and other assets to create a diagram or flowchart.
Continuity is designed to be simple from installation to the final product. Minor revisions are made to the software on a regular basis, and major revisions come every year or two. In the end, a free software with this many features is difficult to come by today.
Finally, UMLet is another open source tool for creating UML diagrams.
It’s designed to be simple and straightforward with excellent results. An individual can draw diagrams with speed and ease.
They can create sequence and activity diagrams using plain text as well. At that point, diagrams can be exported to various file types, including PDF and the clipboard.
Diagrams can be shared using Eclipse within UMLet. The software is powerful enough to allow users to create customized UML elements.
With UMLet, users on most platforms and operating systems can create logical diagrams and flowcharts without wasting time or effort.
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On 22 February 1854, James Buchanan, then the American ambassador in London but soon to be president of the US, celebrated George Washington’s birthday with a dinner to which Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi were invited. At Mazzini’s request other leading revolutionaries were present: Kossuth (Hungary), Worcell (Poland), Ruge (Germany), Herzen (Russia) and Ledru-Rollin (France). Together they toasted ‘the alliance between America and the future federation of free European peoples’.
The initiative was typical of Mazzini. It had no real consequences, except perhaps to embarrass Buchanan in Washington, since these guests were all wanted men in their own countries. But it created expectations. And it framed Mazzini’s personal interest in Italian unification within a benign vision of a new world order: a Europe of free democratic nation states. It is this international aspect of Mazzini’s thinking, particularly his insistence that a peaceful world depended on the spread of democratic republics, that makes him a timely object of study. The more, however, one reads the essays in Giuseppe Mazzini and the Globalisation of Democratic Nationalism 1830-1920, the less enthusiastic one feels about the man’s ideas, and the more fascinated by the man.
Born in Genoa in 1805, his father a leading physician, his mother unusually well-educated and politically aware, Mazzini was a delicate child who walked late and read early. He initially intended to follow his father’s profession, but couldn’t bear seeing bodies dissected and switched to law. From the age of 25 he spent his life promoting armed insurrections in which thousands were butchered; as a rule he was not present. Even discounting the fact that all the accounts we have of his life, including Denis Mack Smith’s authoritative 1994 volume, tend to hagiography, it’s clear that from the earliest age Mazzini was both physically attractive and immensely charismatic.
Briefly united under Napoleon, Italy was returned in 1815, at the Congress of Vienna, to a divided and largely subject condition. Sicily and the south were under a Spanish Bourbon monarchy; the pope governed Rome and much of southern central Italy; the rest of central Italy was split into a handful of duchies whose ruling families were in thrall to foreign powers. Lombardy and the Veneto were incorporated into the Austrian empire. The only large and independent Italian state was Piedmont, a monarchy whose Francophone royal family governed without a constitution. To strengthen Piedmont against France, the victorious powers of the anti-Napoleonic alliance expanded its borders to include the once independent republic of Genoa. The Genoese were not enthusiastic. Mazzini tended to think of the crowned heads of Piedmont, France and Austria as personal enemies; as soon as they became aware of his activities they returned the compliment.
A nation, or would-be nation, with a long-standing and seemingly intractable predicament invites a range of responses and role models. From Dante onwards Italy had been described as plagued by factionalism and inertia, dwarfed by the glories of ancient Rome, hampered by a powerful church whose interests were universal rather than national, and thus laid open to every foreign predator. ‘The most rational behaviour,’ given such a woeful state of affairs, Leopardi remarked, ‘is a complete and constant cynicism of spirit, mind, character, behaviour, opinions, words and actions.’ Other possible responses included collaboration with foreign despots, exile, or withdrawal into disillusioned gloom. But both Dante and Machiavelli had invoked a saviour to reform the national character, unite the country and deliver it from its enemies, and establish Italy as a major European force. Many have cast themselves in that role: most successfully, though briefly, Garibaldi; most tragically, Mussolini; most recently and grotesquely, Berlusconi. No one stuck at the task for so long, with so much desperate genius and such far-reaching consequences outside Italy, as Mazzini.
In 1829, Mazzini, now a 24-year-old lawyer, joined the Carbonari, a quasi-Masonic movement of liberal-minded conspirators. A year later, after attempting to enlist a new member, he was betrayed and imprisoned. Isolated, with no books but ‘a Tacitus, a Byron and a Bible’, he decided that his life’s mission was to unite Italy under a republican government. Released after three months, he went into exile in Marseille where, in 1831, he formed the revolutionary movement Young Italy. Much abbreviated, the oath of affiliation ran as follows:
In the name of God and of Italy, In the name of all the martyrs of the holy Italian cause . . . On account of the duties that bind me to the land where God has placed me and to the brothers that God has given me . . . On account of the trembling of my soul created for liberty but powerless to exercise it, created to act for the good but powerless so to act in the silence and isolation of servitude . . . Believing in the mission entrusted by God to Italy . . . Convinced that virtue lies in action and in sacrifice . . . I swear to dedicate myself wholly and for ever to striving with them to constitute Italy as a Nation, One, Independent, Free and Republican.
Mazzini had been reading Saint-Simon, whose religion of humanity was to be enlisted to a specific political cause. The demoralisation and inertia of the Italians, Mazzini understood, would not be turned around by an enlightened but essentially materialist and individualist laissez-faire liberalism. What was required was a positive act of faith, a creed of action, a cult of duty – not a political movement, he insisted, but an ‘apostolate’. Just five years earlier, in his Discourse on the Present State of Italian Customs, Leopardi had observed that there were no fanatics (religious or otherwise) in Italy: the Italians were far too cynical. He spoke of the need for some collective illusion, or faith, that might give Italians a sense of community. Mazzini was the exception to Leopardi’s rule: an unapologetic fanatic who had a faith to offer, and was determined to build a national community. It would be nourished, he told his followers, by ‘the blood of martyrs’.
New to the excitements of conspiracy – the invisible ink, coded letters in minuscule handwriting, passwords and secret handshakes – and supported, as he would be throughout his life, by his mother, Mazzini created a periodical, Young Italy, and recruited thousands to his movement. In 1833, a failed army mutiny in Turin led to 12 executions and the suicide in jail of his closest friend, Jacopo Ruffini. Mazzini was condemned to death in absentia. Garibaldi, too, was condemned to death, after another failed mutiny, this time in the Piedmontese navy, and fled to South America. In 1834 an attempt to ‘liberate’ Piedmont with an army of international volunteers was a fiasco. ‘Mazzini himself took an active part,’ Denis Mack Smith writes, ‘but as often in the future, was incapacitated at the critical moment by illness and had to be carried to safety.’
Many deserted him. His lover Giuditta Sidoli, herself a patriot, the young widow of a Carbonari and mother of four, returned to Italy to seek custody of her children. Hunted by the secret police of half of Europe, Mazzini retreated to a solitary hideout in the Swiss alps and fell into the one great depressive crisis of his life.
In Ugo Foscolo’s 1798 novel The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis – one of Mazzini’s favourites – a young Italian patriot, betrayed in conspiracy and smitten by a woman betrothed to another, sinks into a pit of Werther-like disillusionment. At no point does he try to imagine what can be done to further the political cause or establish a happy domestic life: nothing is possible in Italy. Despair is savoured and suicide inevitable. The Risorgimento would be full of such stories of disappointment and withdrawal. The Italians, Mazzini wrote to Giuditta in 1835, were ‘the vilest race, the most reluctant to act, in the world . . . if you could see the satanic smile I have on my lips for them!’ Emerging from the crisis, he was more religious, more idealistic, more spiritual than before, determined never again to hamper his crusade with romantic love, determined to care nothing for material comforts. In January 1837, after six years on the run, he fled Switzerland for London, where he spent most of the rest of his life.
In one of the many fine essays in Mazzini and the Globalisation of Democratic Nationalism, Roland Sarti explains how the setbacks for Young Italy in the early 1830s led Mazzini to raise the stakes and form Young Europe. Members of copycat organisations – Young Poland, Young Germany, Young Austria, Young France, Young Switzerland – came together in the awareness that love of country was a first step to love of humanity, each nation having, once independence and democracy were achieved, a God-given mission to contribute to the community of nations. France, Mazzini insisted, had completed its mission with the French Revolution and the assertion of the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity. All nations were equal, but God now had more important plans for Italy than for France. Sarti suggests that it was partly Mazzini’s desire to prevent French organisations from taking the revolutionary initiative that prompted him to set up Young Europe.
Considering Mazzini’s ‘divergent legacies’ in England and in Italy, Christopher Duggan examines the paradoxical aspects of his long London exile. Giving away most of the money his mother sent him to other exiles, running a small charity school for poor Italian orphans, Mazzini could hardly help but seem a saint to London society. A good singer and guitar player, quietly eloquent with an attractive foreign accent, handsome and charmingly celibate, at once safe company for well-bred women and the revolutionary bête noire of European despots, the Italian seduced wherever he went. A ‘more beautiful person I never beheld’, Thomas Carlyle wrote:
with his soft flashing eyes, and face full of intelligence . . . he might have taken a high rank in literature . . . But he gave himself up as a martyr and sacrifice to his aims for Italy. He lived almost in squalor; his health was poor from the first, but he took no care of it. He used to smoke a great deal, and drink coffee with bread crumbled in it, but hardly gave any attention to his food. His mother used to send him money, but he gave it away. When she died she left him as much as two hundred pounds a year, all she had, but it went to Italian beggars.
The British admired his ‘martyrdom’. They also liked his anti-Communism, his loathing for materialism and class conflict, his belief that rich and poor should work together as a single people. The wealthy invited him to salons, the middle classes read him in their newspapers. To finance his shoestring conspiracies, he wrote widely not only on politics but on art and literature: novels, he felt, ought to inspire the people to action, while pictures should encourage them to defend their nation’s honour (best represented as a beautiful and vulnerable young woman). In an act of homage to a great patriot, he completed a commentary on the Divine Comedy. At the same time, like an ‘anchorite’ in his bedsit, he was producing a prodigious output of letters, pamphlets and essays fomenting armed revolution. Collected together after his death, they would fill a hundred volumes. In his essay Simon Levis Sullam shows how much of this writing depended on the liturgical repetition of key concepts: mission, duty, action, republic, faith, apostolate, martyrdom. ‘We need the masses,’ Mazzini wrote to a follower in Paris, ‘we need to find a word that has the power to create armies.’ It was this coercive, incantatory aspect of his work that made him such a successful propagandist, but it also ultimately compromised his legacy in Italy. The English could admire his spiritual aura and astonishing steadfastness, but the Italians had to live with a religious vision of nationhood that bordered on ‘popular theocracy’ and lent itself to authoritarian interpretation: ‘From whatever principle of [Mazzini’s] doctrines we start out,’ Carlo Pisacane wrote, ‘we are inexorably led to pure despotism, an inevitable stumbling-block for anyone who chooses to believe in a true and just absolute that imposes duties.’
In 1844, Mazzini’s English and Italian worlds collided in a revealing way. Inspired by Mazzini, two Italian officers in the Austrian navy, the brothers Attilio and Emilio Bandiera, first tried to stage a mutiny, were betrayed, fled, then attempted an insurrection in Calabria and were captured and executed. Realising that his letters to the brothers had been intercepted by the British and their contents communicated to foreign authorities, Mazzini complained to Parliament about this ‘disgracefully un-English behaviour’, and scored a propaganda coup when the government admitted interference. In Italy nine men involved in the mutiny were executed. The Bandiera brothers became the first glamorous martyrs of the Risorgimento cause; almost every Italian town has a street named after them. ‘They wished to die,’ Mazzini wrote, ‘for they had perceived the great cause which hinders us from being free – the want of harmony between thought and action.’
Action was an obsession, above all military action, despite or because of his old revulsion for dissection, his poor health, his mild manners. Leaving Italy, Mazzini had removed himself from the field of action, replacing it with the manic production of propaganda. The written word had to be considered a form of action, he insisted – except it didn’t satisfy. The strictures of self-imposed poverty and chastity were not enough to convince him of his martyrdom. In her essay Lucy Riall shows how determinedly Mazzini publicised the military achievements of Garibaldi on behalf of liberal causes in South America, projecting him as the quintessential romantic Italian hero. It’s hard not to feel that there was an element of yearning involved: for Garibaldi’s charisma and authority in battle, or at least his ability to give a rousing speech to a crowd of rough soldiers. Mazzini was a shy public speaker. In 1848, when Europe erupted in a rash of revolutions, the two men finally met, first in Milan, then, most dramatically, in Rome.
On 17 March, following revolution in Vienna, Milan rose in rebellion and pushed out the Austrian army. On 7 April, Mazzini arrived, followed shortly afterwards by Garibaldi. Both men had been away for more than 15 years. Mazzini immediately became bogged down in a quarrel between republicans and pro-Piedmontese monarchists that sapped energy from the revolution. He had just enough time to start a newspaper, Italia del Popolo, before the Austrians returned. Leaving the town in August, he briefly marched with a musket when Garibaldi led a small volunteer army into the mountains, but he did not take part in the one small successful military action. Garibaldi got the men out of Italy into neutral Switzerland and rejected Mazzini’s proposal to launch another invasion, heading instead to the French coast, then by ship to Tuscany, from where he marched his volunteers back and forth across the Apennines in an attempt to involve himself in the various revolutions that were still going on.
When the pope was forced to flee Rome in December, after the assassination of his prime minister, Garibaldi marched south and reached the capital in January, shortly before it declared itself a republic. Mazzini arrived in March and was elected as one of the triumvirs. It was his first time in the city. On 30 April, Garibaldi astonished Europe by turning back a hugely superior French army sent to recover the city for the pope. Mazzini opposed his desire to pursue the retreating French army.
There was a pattern to Mazzini’s fortunes over the years: he gathered disciples preaching revolution and shed them when revolution began. As he had written in an early essay, discussion of shared principles unites people, consideration of practical interests divides. One of the characteristics of his thinking was a tendency to undercut existing political conflicts by assuming positions that both sides (or perhaps neither) might agree on. So he was for the nation state, but against nationalism: patriots should fight for independence, but then build a cosmopolitan community. He was opposed to the pope and the established church, but not anti-religious or even anti-clerical: the priests must be drawn into an essential religion of ‘God and the people’ in which everyone could participate. Youth, progress and the future were all stressed as qualities and concepts that could overcome old divisions; Mazzini never drew up any constitution or proposal for a system of international law, since details could only divide. Transferred from his isolation in London to the complexity of an Italy he now hardly knew, he spent much of his time seeking to reconcile irreconcilable interests, while championing a democratic republicanism that only an elite few would support.
In Rome he invited the pope back, but as a spiritual not temporal leader; he attended Easter Mass in St Peter’s, but confiscated some church property; he put priests on state salaries, but ended their hold on the judiciary and the university. Foreign observers were impressed, Italian friends and enemies confused, not least the fiercely anti-clerical Garibaldi, who was again denied permission to pursue a beaten enemy when a Neapolitan army was repulsed. In July, as it became clear that the French forces besieging the city could no longer be resisted, Garibaldi took a small army out into the hills to turn a desperate struggle into the stuff of myth, while Mazzini retired first to Switzerland, then London, where he was soon to form the Party of Action.
The Rome republic marked the peak of Mazzini’s influence and reputation. His tireless propaganda had won him the chance to be elected leader of a popular uprising. He governed fairly. But the military power of the status quo was overwhelming. There were Italians willing to die for the cause, but they were too few and divided among themselves. Further attempts to stage insurrections in Milan in 1853 and Naples in 1857 proved fiascos. There were always spies among his disciples to keep the authorities informed. However, Mazzini’s philosophy had always been that each failure, with its bloody glamour, raised greater expectations and made ultimate success more likely. Eleven years after the Rome experience it was his Party of Action that began the revolt in Sicily to whose aid Garibaldi was eventually persuaded to set sail from Genoa with the famous ‘Thousand’; much reinforced, that army would miraculously capture the whole of southern Italy, prompting the Piedmontese to invade the papal state from the north and, with Garibaldi’s acquiescence, unify the peninsula under the Piedmontese crown in 1861. Mazzini had wished to sail with the Thousand but was delayed by lumbago. Joining the triumphant rebel army in Naples five months later, he was little more than an enthusiastic observer. Garibaldi, it has to be said, was always in the forefront of the action, despite his own severe rheumatism and various wounds.
Though unification was an extraordinary achievement in which he had played a crucial role, Mazzini was disappointed. He had wanted a republic brought into being by the will of the people. Instead, the new nation was a monarchy, largely constructed by dynastic ambition and international realpolitik, inhabited largely by a rural population with little interest in nationality or forms of government. In 1866, the Veneto was gained from the Austrians only thanks to the help of Napoleon III. Mazzini would have preferred a glorious battle, but in 1867 he was again suddenly too ill to join Garibaldi in a failed attempt to take Rome from the pope and his French garrison. The two fell out definitively, and while Mazzini still had his admirers, Garibaldi was now by far the greater celebrity, indeed an international hero of unprecedented popularity.
When Rome was taken in 1870 it was only because the French, at war with Prussia, abandoned their defence of the city; the Italian monarchical army then marched in, ostensibly to prevent a popular insurrection which they themselves had sought (and failed) to instigate. Mazzini was in prison, having been himself involved in an attempt to launch a republican uprising in Sicily. Released under a general amnesty, he said: ‘I had hoped to evoke the soul of Italy and instead find merely her inanimate corpse.’ After returning once again to England, then starting, in Switzerland, the last of his 20 newspapers, La Roma del Popolo, the exhausted revolutionary died in Pisa in 1872. He was 68. Fifty years later Lloyd George would say of him:
I doubt whether any man of his generation exercised so profound an influence on the destinies of Europe as did Mazzini. The map of Europe as we see it today is the map of Giuseppe Mazzini. He was the prophet of free nationality . . . He taught us not merely the rights of a nation; he taught the rights of other nations . . . He is the father of the idea of the League of Nations.
Lloyd George paid him tribute in 1922; that same year, a movement seized power in Italy that would claim the apostle of the Risorgimento as its inspiration. Fascism shared with Mazzini the stress on youth, action, progress, the future; the hostility to materialism, individualism, socialism and class conflict; a ritualistic, religious, ‘spiritual’ vision of nationality that put the collective before the individual, duties before rights, and tended to disqualify reasoned opposition. It also shared with him the notion that the South Tyrol was rightfully Italian because God had set the country’s sacred borders at the Alpine watershed, indifferent to the rights of the indigenous German-speaking population. Even the disturbing idea of a ‘civilising’ Italian mission in the southern Mediterranean was something Mazzini himself had spoken of. In her essay, ‘The Legacy of Kant: Mazzini’s Cosmopolitanism of Nations’, Nadia Urbinati is right to insist that the imperialist ambitions of Fascism were alien to Mazzini, but there is an uncanny similarity of rhetoric. Once one has accepted that God has a mission for the nation, since it is always an elite that is called on to interpret God’s intentions, Pandora’s box will not remain closed for long.

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RCMP in Grande Prairie are investigating after a male golfer was shot in the leg while participating in a tournament south of the city on Saturday.
An organized shooting competition was taking place at a shooting range nearby, police said.
“Police are confident that there is no risk to public safety at this time,” RCMP said in a press release.
The man was transported to hospital, and has since been treated and released.
“We’re still trying to determine exactly what happened,” Const. Melanie McIntosh said.
All participants in the golf tournament and shooting competition are being interviewed.
The president of the Wapiti Shooters Club said he has been told not to comment on the incident until RCMP complete their investigation later this week.


Free money is good enough when assets are fairly priced but pump enough liquidity into anything and it’s bound to drown eventually.
Germany’s biggest bank is about to get a bit smaller as the plan to lob off a huge chunk of the business. Around 18,000 employees are marked for the culling that will take place over the next 2.5 years.
It’s most interesting to note that those getting the axe are part of the investment arm of the bank, as the trading desks who have largely been unprofitable will bear the brunt of this restructuring.
In a world that is starving for yield, it seems harder than ever for bankers to make profits. This is the direct result of a full decade in which global central banks have kept the interest rates near or below zero. When even a 2% annual return starts to look incredibly attractive, it’s clear that there’s very little meat on the bones.
The old financial system is dying a slow death. Let’s hope the new one is brighter.
@MatiGreenspan – eToro, Senior Market Analyst
- NFP is Strong
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Unfortunately for Jerome Powell, or perhaps inconveniently, the monthly jobs report from the United States came out fantastic on Friday.
The Federal Reserve is largely expected to cut interest rates when they meet at the end of this month but with the economy performing this well, it’s getting increasingly difficult for them to argue that this is a prudent course of action.
Global stocks are weaker this morning, largely due to the above-mentioned paradox.
Independent No More
The President of Turkey raised more than a few eyebrows yesterday when he sacked the head of the Turkish Central Bank.
One of the main things that external investors look at when considering an investment in a particular country is if the central bank is independent of the government. As we know, most central banks are not able to be truly independent. After all, the heads of most central banks are put in place by the head of state but I digress.
All things considered, the market doesn’t seem too surprised by this move. Yes, the Turkish Lira did open much weaker after the weekend, but as you can see, the selloff (purple circle) wasn’t too dramatic.
What will be interesting to see is if President Trump will decide to comment on this news. After all, he’s expressed on several occasions his desire to remove Chairman Powell and has even said yesterday that Jerome is doing a terrible job.
Presumably, Trump’s most recent attack on the Fed is aimed at the upcoming rate decision. As if to say, “disregard that last jobs report, if you don’t deliver a rate cut as the market wants, you’re fired.”
What’s your Point?
The crypto market continues to consolidate the massive gains that have been accumulated so far this year, it seems like the pattern is coming to a point.
Here we can see the flag pattern that’s been forming over the last few weeks.
Many traders will take a breakout of this classic chart formation as an indicator for the next direction. There’s no doubt that many are still ready to buy in but are hoping to get a better price per coin before loading up the boat.
One more graph I wanted to flag for you is the trading volumes on peer to peer site LocalBitcoins, which has now spiked to its highest levels since November.
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Wishing you an amazing week ahead.
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Press ReleaseFriday, January 29, 2010
Michael Goodman, Ashley Sugarman
(954) 730-7730 ext. 105, ext. 123
Simon Malls in Florida Promote Literacy at “Book Blast” in Partnership with the Florida Department of Education~ Seven Florida malls to host FREE family events and launch book drive ~
MIAMI, FL (January 28, 2010) — Reading is the most powerful skill a child can learn, as it influences success in school and improves the overall quality of life. That’s why seven leading malls across the state of Florida, owned by Simon Property Group, will promote the importance of reading and collect new and gently-used books at each mall’s “Kidgits Book Blast” event that will take place on the following dates:
- Seminole Towne Center (Sanford): Saturday, February 13 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
- The Falls (Miami): Saturday, February 13 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
- Miami International Mall (Miami): Saturday, February 13 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
- Dadeland Mall (Miami): Friday, February 19 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- Tyrone Square (St. Petersburg): Saturday, February 20 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
- Melbourne Square (Melbourne): Saturday, February 27 from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.
- Coral Square (Coral Springs): Saturday, March 6 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Simon Kidgits Club’s “Book Blast” events welcome children of all ages to celebrate the joys of reading. Engaging activities and giveaways will bring to life children’s stories and help celebrate books and the importance of reading.
A two-week book drive will commence at each mall’s “Kidgits Book Blast.” Families are encouraged to donate new and gently-used books at each of the seven participating mall’s Guest Services Desks for two weeks after the “Kidgits Book Blast” events. The books will support the goals of The Florida Department of Education’s “Just Read, Florida!” initiative and will be distributed to programs and schools in the vicinity of the participating mall through donations to the Florida Education Foundation.
“Simon Property Group is proud to partner with The Florida Department of Education’s Just Read, Florida! office to encourage and promote reading,” said Lynnette Lauria, portfolio vice president of marketing for Florida, Simon Property Group. “We recognize the importance of reading and are thrilled that our malls will serve as a venue to drop off books, as we continue to look for ways to encourage children to share the joy of reading with others.”
Just Read, Florida! is a statewide reading initiative that prioritizes reading in Florida's public schools and among all the community groups and volunteer organizations that support them. The overarching goal of the initiative is that all children will be reading on grade level by 2012. Children who have a variety of books to read stand a better chance of accomplishing this goal.
“Reading and literacy serve as the foundation of all learning,” says Barbara Elzie, Interim Executive Director of Just Read, Florida. “It is our hope that this event will inspire children to learn to read and read well so that they can excel in life and achieve their dreams. The Just Read, Florida! initiative is helping to ensure a brighter future for all the children in Florida.”
The Simon Kidgits Club’s “Book Blast” event is free to all members of the public; however families can sign up for the Kidgits Club, during regular mall hours, for a membership fee of $5. Membership includes a Kidgits Club membership card and T-shirt, scheduled entertainment and activities for families, a Birthday Club (including birthday card and gift redemption certificate), unique programs and offers, discounts and a quarterly newsletter. For more information, visit www.simon.com/kidgits.

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It’s the holiday season and the festive buzz is in the air: the streets are decorated with twinkling lights and people are acting nicer to each other. To get you pumped for Christmas, here is a list of my personal favorites to watch every day. I save the best for last, so I hope you like it. Note: You’re not going to find The Family Stone or Tim Allen’s, Santa Clause in this list. Also, some people put Love, Actually in their holiday list, but I didn’t . (Sorry Michael Friedman) Okay, here we go…
01. SANTA WITH MUSCLES (1996)
Synopsis: An evil millionaire (Hulk Hogan) gets amnesia and then believes that he is Santa Claus.
The description here is enough. This movie is so bad, it’s good. It’s ridiculous and it’s a perfect way to dip your toes into this movie marathon. I would watch it with a glass of cocoa and some Slim Jims. Duh.
02. THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992)
Synopsis: The Muppet characters tell their version of the classic tale of an old and bitter miser’s redemption on Christmas Eve.
Okay, now we are getting into a bit of the classics. This film stars our favorite Muppets and who doesn’t love them? It’s a little low on the list, I know. That’s just cause I ranked my movies by watchability and after seeing this once, I’m like done… for a whole year. Sorry Muppets. If it makes you feel any better, I didn’t even put Mickey’s Christmas Carol on my list. So there.
03. JINGLE ALL THE WAY (1996)
Synopsis: A father needs to get a Turbo Man action figure for his son just before Christmas. Unfortunately, every store is sold out of Turbo Man figures, and he must travel all over town and compete with everybody else to find a Turbo Man figure.
Okay, okay. You’re probably wondering how on earth this could rank higher than The Muppet Christmas Carol?! The only reason is because of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yup. The man is a legend and that adds a lot of weight. Although, this movie is pretty horrible so that’s why you’re watching it so early in December.
04. THREE DAYS (2001)
Synopsis: Ten years ago, Andrew married his childhood sweetheart, Beth. Now Andrew’s a high-powered literary agent, but his relationship with his wife has not fared as well. When Beth is tragically killed just days before Christmas, an angel gives Andrew the chance to relive the last three days his wife was alive. But he can’t change fate and Beth will still lose her life. However, Andrew can still discover the gift Beth needs most from him.
Alright. I’m assuming that most of you have never seen this movie. I believe I caught it on Lifetime one rainy Saturday afternoon and I balled my eyes out. Yes, it’s a made for TV movie but it’s got Kristin Davis (Sex and the City) in it so it’s totally watchable. Trust me. Now, go get some tissues so you can bawl your eyes out.
05. FROSTY THE SNOWMAN (1969)
Synopsis: A living snowman and a little girl struggle to elude a greedy magician who is after the snowman’s magic hat.
I’m bringing it back, people. Yes, sorry about that Lifetime movie yesterday. I’m pulling the reigns back in for the animated Christmas classics. With a cup of egg nog, this movie will make you feel like a kid again.
06. RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (1964)
Synopsis: A misfit reindeer and his friends look for a place that will accept them.
So when you look up Frosty the Snowman on IMDB, Rudolph is suggested as another movie you might like. I mean, duh. These are both CLASSIC. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is higher on the list because of how it’s filmed: stop motion. You don’t see it as much nowadays so it makes it special (although there is another movie later in the list that is also filmed with stop motion animation).
07. TRADING PLACES (1983)
Synopsis: A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
You might not think of this movie when you think of holiday films, but it’s filmed during the season and it ties into the plot nicely. Plus, it’s got Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd in it– what a nice way to finish one full week of movies!
08. HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK (1992)
Synopsis: One year after Kevin was left home alone and had to defeat a pair of bumbling burglars, he accidentally finds himself in New York City, and the same criminals are not far behind.
This movie ranks slightly higher than Trading Places because it’s more overtly Christmas themed. I figured two movies filmed in New York City back to back could be fun to watch also.
09. DR. SEUSS’ HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (1966)
Synopsis: A grumpy hermit hatches a plan to steal Christmas from the Whos of Whoville.
Not that horrible 2000 remake starring Jim Carrey. Eww. I’m talking about the animated film that we grew up with. I mean, even Kevin is watching it in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York! It’s tradition to watch this movie. Better get on board.
10. THE NUTCRACKER (1993)
Synopsis: On Christmas Eve, a little girl named Marie falls asleep after a party at her home and dreams herself (or does she?) into a fantastic world where toys become larger than life. Her beloved Nutcracker comes to life and defends her from the Mouse King, then is turned into a Prince after Marie saves his life.
Okay, when I was a kid my mom would take me to see this ballet every year during the holiday season. It has sentimental value to me and it’s also a beautiful film to watch. The ballerinas are like magic in this movie– it made me wish I was a ballerina. I did not grow up to be a ballerina, just FYI.
11. THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993)
Synopsis: Jack Skellington, king of Halloweentown, discovers Christmas Town, but doesn’t quite understand the concept.
Remember that other stop motion movie I mentioned? Well this is it. Tim Burton really wowed me with this movie. I watch it all the time – it can pass anytime between Halloween and Christmas. I also love the music in this movie; the score is pretty incredible.
12. MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (1947)
Synopsis: When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing.
Okay, so in 1994 they remade this movie and Mara Wilson played Susan. That version is okay, but you need to watch the 1947 version because it’s hella better. (And it’s the one I personally own) What do I love about this movie? I love that the Macy’s Santa is drunk and they randomly hire this no-name dude to do the Thanksgiving Day parade. I love the scene when the postal service deliver all the letters to Santa at court. I love that it’s a black and white movie. I love that this movie makes you wonder is Kris Kringle really Santa Claus and does it matter?
13. GREMLINS (1984)
Synopsis: A boy inadvertantly breaks 3 important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.
Not your typical Christmas movie, but I like to mix it up. In fact, this movie was originally planned and scheduled for a Christmas release, but the film was rushed and released in the summer so it could compete with Paramount’s blockbuster Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Columbia’s Ghostbusters (1984).
14. A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS (1965)
Synopsis: Repelled by the commercialism he sees around him, Charlie Brown tries to find the true meaning of Christmas.
Another animated classic to make you feel like a kid again. Plus, it’s a nice change of pace from Gremlins. The best part of this movie is when Charlie Brown hangs his one sad red ornament on his tree (if you can call it that) and it falls over. Then the gang pitches in and helps decorate it even more and it’s suddenly not a twig but a full tree capable of holding multiple ornaments. That sh*t is a Christmas miracle in itself!
15. DIE HARD (1988)
Synopsis: John McClane, officer of the NYPD, tries to save wife Holly Gennaro and several others, taken hostage by German terrorist Hans Gruber during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Oh boy, who doesn’t love this movie? It is so good! I mean, who doesn’t love a little office work party? A little bubbly? A little kick assness fighting terrorism? Bruce Willis makes this movie. Plus, the bad guy, Hans Gruber, is good too if you’re into Professor Severus Snape from Harry Potter! (Please tell me I just blew your mind there). Some people put Lethal Weapon in their holiday list. Sorry. Die Hard is better IMO.
16. EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (1990)
Synopsis: A gentle man, with scissors for hands, is brought into a new community after living in isolation.
Okay, okay. I promise this is my last Christmas movie that can also pass for a Halloween movie. This film also takes place during the holiday season which is why it makes it’s way into so many Christmas lists. But you want to know what the Christmas miracle is about in this movie? Drew Barrymore was considered for the role of Kim Boggs and by some miracle, Winona Ryder got it instead.
17. SCROOGED (1988)
Synopsis: A selfish, cynical T.V. executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.
Many people try to retell the Christmas Carol, but it HAS to be this one. Why? Bill Murray’s why. This movie is a tradition and it’s 9 days out from Christmas at this point of our list so it’s time we start to get super serious about this list.
18. IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
Synopsis: An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.
I have a crush on Jimmy Stewart. I have seen so many of his films, I seriously love the man. He’s even been quoted as saying that of all the films he’s made, this is his favorite. It’s crazy to me when you think that this film flopped when it came out in theaters in 1946 because it’s such a well known film now. If you’ve never seen it, crawl out from that rock you’ve been living under and give it a watch.
19. HOME ALONE (1990)
Synopsis: An 8-year old troublemaker must protect his home from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation.
You’re probably wondering why Home Alone is above It’s a Wonderful Life? It’s simple: If you came to me RIGHT NOW and asked me which one I would watch, I’d pick Home Alone because it’s fun. I would say that generally I’m not always in the mood for a serious film. Don’t get me wrong, Home Alone is NOT a better movie. It’s just got a bit more of a watchability factor for me. You have to be in the mood for It’s a Wonderful Life and for Home Alone, well… you can always be in the mood for that.
20. HOLIDAY INN (1942)
Synopsis: At an inn which is only open on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer.
Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, and Virginia Dale. Need I say more? This film is a fun musical comedy about an Inn that is only open on holidays and the chase for romance. You could even lump this into your Valentine’s Day list if you wanted to but it also is a Christmas classic because it shows a simpler time in history in a feel-good and endearing light. I owe this one to my grandma and it has sentimental value to me.
21. BAD SANTA (2003)
Synopsis: A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid, and the security boss discovers the plot.
Hands down the funniest Christmas movie I’ve ever seen. I don’t know if I’d watch this with the family though – probably not appropriate. But I don’t have tiny tots running around so it’s perfect for me and anyone else allowed to see Rated R movies. The kid in this movie is beyond amazing and his chemistry with Billy Bob Thornton is what makes this such a success. From the hand carved pickle to the repeated “Can I make you a sandwich?” question to the candy corn in the advent calendar… I can’t say enough great things about this film.
22. ELF (2003)
Synopsis: After inadvertently wreaking havoc on the elf community due to his ungainly size, a man raised as an elf at the North Pole is sent to the U.S. in search of his true identity.
This one is totally family appropriate so there’s that. Here’s why I ranked it high on my list: this is Will Ferrell’s best movie. That’s right. I said it. The guy is hit or miss with me, but this movie is like pretty much the only redeeming quality he has. He was good in Step Brothers and just okay in Anchorman, but this film is his shining glory. Plus the film is oozing with the Christmas spirit so it’s perfect to play a few days before Christmas.
23. NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION (1989)
Synopsis: The Griswold family’s plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster.
When this movie is on your TV, you know it’s Christmas time. If you don’t like this movie than you’re just a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where’s the Tylenol?
24. A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983)
Synopsis: Ralphie has to convince his parents, his teacher, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect gift for the 1940s.
Just like the movie above, when this is on TV, you know it’s Christmas time. This movie is so classic that it pretty much airs non-stop on basic cable from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas Day. You can’t NOT have Christmas without this movie. I absolutely LOVE this movie and it was a very hard decision to put this in the number 2 spot. I grew up on this movie and the iconic moments in this film: the tongue stuck to the flagpole, beating up Scut Farkus, the leg lamp, the meatloaf scene, reverse climbing up the Santa slide in the mall, the pink bunny pajamas, actually shooting his eye out, the Chinese duck Christmas dinner… the whole movie is perfection!
25. WHITE CHRISTMAS (1954)
Synopsis: A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.
Well, here it is! It’s the movie to watch on Christmas Day! I can thank my grandma for this one. I remember watching this in middle school with her and being completely mesmerized (it was Vera-Ellen’s waistline that baffled me also). But I remember thinking, “Wow! Actors in the 40’s and 50’s could not only act, but sing and dance too!” This movie has my favorite costumes, dance numbers, and songs of any musical I’ve ever seen. I mean Vera-Ellen alone is pure movie magic. Get it gurllll! Don’t hurt nobody!!! Plus, I single handedly can sing every song in this movie because I love it so much. Ahem, “Lord help the mister who comes between me and my sister. And lord help the sister who comes between me and my man!” CLASSIC. I love all the skits that they put on in the Inn, but I also love the romantic backstory that moves the film along and the chemistry between the actors. I remember that my grandma’s favorite scene is the last scene in the movie when they open the doors to the snow falling. There’s something about snowfall that calms the earth. That calmness juxtaposed to how this all started (with the hustle and bustle of Christmas shopping, decorating, entertaining) might make someone take a moment and reflect on what the holiday truly means. That is, until this movie is over and I put on Commando.
(Movie synopses via IMDB)

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Hi everyone and welcome back to our creative space!
Raluca here with a brand new card showcasing two older stamp sets from Create a Smile Stamps shop.
The unicorns from the Superpowers stamp set are my favorites and I wanted to create a rainbow in the sky for one. Although I did this card before I got the new Cool Cuts Stitched Circle Frames die set, you could totally use that one for creating this fun rainbow. Hope you'll give it a try!
* First I die cut a white panel using the largest rectangle die from the Cool Cuts Double Stitched Rectangles set.
* Using a cloud stencil and a make up brush I ink blended the clouds on the white panel.
* I die cut the rainbow from different colored cardstock and some clouds from white cardstock and mounted them on the card.
* On a white panel I stamped the adorable unicorn from the Superpowers and colored it with Spectrum Noir markers.
* After the coloring was done I fussy cut the image and mounted it on one of the clouds, near the rainbow.
* Under the fun rainbow I stamped a sentiment from the Birthday Sampler using a black ink.
* I mounted the panel on a white card base, glued a few clear sequins and my card aws done.
Cool Cuts Stitched Circle Frames
Cool Cuts Double Stitched Rectangles
If you love Instagram like I do, you can follow Create A Smile using the name @createasmilestamps and if you have any questions about card making, techniques or products, if you want to share your creations with Create A Smile fans or if you want to participate in our monthly challenge join us on our Facebook group Create A Smile - Friends & Family :).
Have a lovely weekend!
Thanks for stopping by,

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The idea is for the abstract design of the Bernanos
piece to contrast with the other sculptures on display.
' first novel Under Satan's Sun (Sous le soleil de Satan) from 1926 contains a twenty-page fantastic episode: on his way to a neighbouring village a young priest, Donissan, meets a local horse dealer.
Entre los personajes que le trataron o recibieron su influencia puede contarse a Maritain, Bernanos
, Jean de Fabregues, Thibon, Daudet, Maurois, Massis, Apollinaire, Jacob, Picasso, d'Ors, Eliot, Pla, Proust, France, Barres, De Gaulle ...
When I finished reading it, the very last words in Georges Bernanos
' Diary of a Country Priest came to mind.
Professor Michael Tobin's new study of Georges Bernanos
is an important contribution to our understanding of this major figure.
Peut-etre vexe par cette attaque en regie de Bernanos
' The Diary of a Country Priest, Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons, and Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory remain on the list because they suggest three very different Catholic paths to sanctity.
Novels by Georges Bernanos
, Julien Green, Francois Mauriac, and the converts Graham Greene and Giovanni Papini appeared there--all authors who scandalized the pious and upset church authorities.
He supports his argument through readings of handful of interwar French intellectuals including Pierre-Antoine Cousteau, brother of the famous marine biologist and author of Jewish America; Georges Duhamel, author of America the Menace (whose French title translates as "Scene from Life in the Future"); Emmanuel Mounier, the founder of the journal Esprit whose anti-Americanism remained intact through shifting political ideals; and novelist George Bernanos
, who similarly maintained his anti-Americanism through shifting political beliefs and associations.
His recognized influence on Huysmans, Claudel, and Bernanos
can be extended to include the late twentieth-century Christian writer Jean Sulivan (1913-80), particularly regarding the latter's stance 'a l'endroit des bien-pensants en tout genre' (p.
To a large extent, Georges Bernanos
's Journal d'un cure de campagne is an allegory for the difficulty the devout may have in maintaining their spirituality in modern society.

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I can grow radishes! I know they are one of the easiest plants to grow, but so thankful for the little things and to also realize my thumb is turning green. I am able to grow things (besides children) and I think it is a great accomplishment!
The great thing is my son loved to help pull these and hopefully like I have said in another post that he will want to eat healthier in the future.
Everything else is coming up well too. Onions, carrots, lettuce, spinach and different types of squash…oh and cucumbers too!
Staying healthy is not always easy or cheap. Last year I was part of a community garden where I learned about square foot gardening and it was great. The only problem I had with it was I lived over 20 mins away and it wasn’t always profitable for me to just run in and water plants and then drive back. So this year I decided to do my own square ft gardening at home. I put it in the front yard right by our deck. From the picture above I have already got some plants going!
In square ft gardening you put certain plants together in a small place where normally you wouldn’t and use the vertical space more than in a traditional garden. For example in the this picture. I have it against my deck and the plants will be cucumbers and different types of squashes. Though these plants normally spread out I am going to have them climb up instead of out( or so I hope).
In the front rows will be more plants that do not need vertical space. In this picture shows the early start of radishes, you can plant up to 12 in one square! but not all of mine have popped up lol, but some are so I am happy. I am also doing onions, spinach which they say you can do four in a square, parsley which is two and carrots which also can be 9-12 in a square. Not all have popped up yet and some I am wondering they will ever, but you will see plenty of pictures of my success and I’m sure some failures.
But there is nothing like watching things pop up out of the garden and know you’re doing something good.
Awhile back I made my Fall Butternut Squash Red Pepper Soup as shown above. It is very tasty and hits the spot esp. cold days like we are having. The problem I have is all my soups are homemade. I go to school for 8 hours and then pick up my boys and come home. I really don’t feel like making homemade soup and then I end up not eating something healthy.
I do admit it is hard when you are tired and want to eat healthy but rather do the easy thing and eat something fast. So I decided that one weekend which happen to be deer hunting opener and my husband was off hunting that I would try making big batches of soup. At the end of the weekend I had made 9 bowls of soup to freeze. Now I just have to pop them in the microwave and heat them up. Now when I am hungry and want soup it is just minutes away. Below I will share a soup from another site that I love and is incredibly healthy for you.
There are many days I struggle esp around the holidays and I try not to get down about it. I know this is a journey and it will take a while to get it right. I hope your all staying warm. Normally I watch my Green Bay Packers but it hasn’t been a good game. Maybe they need to stop making so much Campbell soup commercials and start working on football. Then again they could be the spokesmen for my soups lol.
Take care everyone and remember this is the time of the year to be thankful and I am thankful for those of you who follow me. I hope I am a blessing to you out there! Here is a link to that site. Love that site as well!
It is defenditly fall here in Wisconsin and I am not sure if I am ready but a good thing is I now love to make homemade soup. This one I looked up idea’s and then added my own….this Butternut Red Pepper soup is so yummy can’t wait to make it again. It is so healthy for you!
1 small butternut squash
1/2 cut up red pepper
1/2 cup chopped onion
2 tb of butter
1 box of organic vegetable broth
Couple dashes of cumin
Couple dashes of chili pepper
You take the cut up onion and red pepper with the butter and heat it until the onion is somewhat transparent.
While that is cooking, peel and cut up the squash. I didn’t peel most people do. I just cut off the outside of it after I had cut it up.
Then add the vegetable broth, squash with the onions, red peppers and also the seasoning. Cook until the squash is soft. Then let it cool if you plan to put this in a blender like I did or it could wreak your blender. Once cooled enough blend until smooth. Then reheat on the stove and you have a fabulous soup that will warm you to your toes!!
I hope you enjoy it like I did and remember I am no chef so my measuring may be off 🙂 So happy trails as my mom would say and have a wonderful Halloween!

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This week Xiaomi officially announced the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra Super Flagship, which features the largest image sensor in the industry and an additional screen on the back. The device went on sale in China just a few days ago, and now we have information that it turned out to be very fragile.
One of the first buyers of the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra posted a photo of a smartphone that, apparently did not survive the bend. As a result, the body of the smartphone remained in an unnaturally curved state, and the rear glass panel crumbled.
It is worth noting that Xiaomi 11 Pro and Xiaomi 11 Ultra are sold in China with the MiCare service program. Within two years, users have the right to change the broken screen twice, as well as to repair other damage to the device.
It remains to wait for the appearance of Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra in the test of Zack Nelson, who will tell on his JerryRigEverything channel that makes the smartphone not strong enough.


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It appears that many modern medications for stress and anxiety are artificial and a recent scientific trial revealed that people taking these medications were as nervous or more anxious than they had actually been when the medications initially began to be utilized. This has led numerous to question if there is a better way of dealing with this trouble. After all, when you are taking drug for an illness you expect it to make you really feel better and help you get over the issue. But with the new course of medicines called antidepressants the results appear to be that anxiousness, anxiety and also various other troubles are worse than they utilized to be.
So can cannabidiol be made use of for anxiousness? There is much to think about in this area. One of one of the most interesting points to keep in mind is that there is now excellent proof that cannabidiol, also known as CBD can in fact combat the signs of clinical depression. In a current double blind study carried out at the University of Toronto it was found that CBD not only stopped the build up of a chemical compound in the mind called neuroleptics, but it likewise acted to reverse the adverse consequences of the develop. Cbd Medicine
So can cannabidiol be utilized for stress and anxiety? The response is of course. It may take a bit much longer for the advantages to become apparent but there is certainly a great deal of appealing proof that shows it can be utilized for treating stress and anxiety as well as enhancing sleep patterns.
In the current double blind study done at the College of Toronto it was found that CBD reduced the develop of a chemical called serotonin in the mind which has an effect on mood and anxiousness. What are this chemical and just how does it influence our moods and anxiousness degrees? It is a neurotransmitter chemical called serotonin. This is naturally discovered in the brain and also when degrees are down it causes us to really feel unfortunate and also concerned. However when they are high, it makes us really feel great. It is this link in between mood as well as serotonin, which have researchers curious about the ability of cannabidiol to turn around the impacts of low serotonin degrees.
So can Cannabidiol be utilized for stress and anxiety? The short answer is indeed, yet with some potentially severe side effects. Cannabidiol does have an advantageous impact on memory and also lowered blood flow in the mind, which has actually been related to reduced anxiety as well as insomnia. Nonetheless, there are a series of various other concerns that require to be thought about when thinking of trying this as a therapy for anxiety.
Cannabidiol can cause serious adverse reactions, if it is taken at the advised doses over a long period of time. If you have any type of type of heart or liver problem, and even an allergy to one of the ingredients in Cannabidiol, it can seriously harm them. If you experience any sort of allergic reaction, quit taking the medication right away and call your health care carrier. It is highly likely that you will be encouraged to stay clear of the ingredient in future items.
Can Cannabidiol be utilized for anxiousness? The short answer is indeed, however with some potentially significant adverse effects. Cannabidiol can act like a mild anti-depressant. Nonetheless, it is not an energizer therefore it has the possible to build up in the system as well as trigger a number of signs such as complication, slowed down breathing, a modification in mental status, boosted alertness, or other kinds of negative effects. The extra severe negative effects are those related to the heart and liver. If you have any kind of type of heart or liver trouble, or a hatred any of the components in Cannabidiol, it could seriously damage them.
Can Cannabidiol be utilized for stress and anxiety? It seems possible, yet it includes some serious potential hazards. The most effective service is to look towards choice treatments that do not entail taking this specific drug. You can attempt a few of the many nutritional supplements available that have revealed to be just as efficient as Cannabidiol in helping to ease symptoms without all the potentially unsafe adverse effects. Cbd Medicine


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The COVENTYA R&D team has developed a fully REACH compliant innovative chrome-free pre-treatment for Plating on Plastics.
SILKEN BOND process can be used for many decorative applications such as automotive, sanitary fittings, packaging and also for functional applications like engineering plastics.
These last 4 years we successfully performed Beta Tests in Europe.
SILKEN BOND process is now a proved innovative technology and shows:
SILKEN BOND is really state-of-the-art and can be integrated easily in existing POP lines which is a major advantage for our customers. Only minor adaptations are required to assure reliable operations
Today, we are proud to announce that three POP plating lines are running in industrial production on a day-to-day scale in Europe. As far as the polymer basis is concerned, not only on ABS and ABS/PC but also Engineering Plastics like PEEK and PEI can be processed consistently with fully compliant results
Hexavalent chrome is now behind us and the future for Plating on Plastic is SILKEN BOND.

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Custom 8′ x 4′ Granite Conference Table with Polished Aluminum Base
Warren Series Cherry Laminate Modular Meeting Tables
Shown with Custom Bases. Priced $399 with Traditional Panel Base. Ask a Salesperson about alternate Base Pricing.
72" x 42"

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Zoo Lake Bed & Breakfast
Zoo Lake B&B is a well-established Bed & Breakfast offering affordable luxury accommodation located within easy walking distance of the Zoo Lake in Johannesburg. Whether you are in town for business or pleasure we provide a peaceful environment with consistent attention to detail making your stay and experience of our city a pleasurable one.
Our establishment is only 35 minutes from OR Tambo Airport and is close to the Rosebank Gautrain Station. Within close proximity of our B&B is a choice of local restaurants and sidewalk cafes in the surrounding leafy suburbs of Greenside, Parkview and Parkhurst. The Rosebank Mall, one of the city's many shopping attractions is situated only 3 kms away.
We speak fluent English, Afrikaans and German.
Zoo Lake B&B
has a stylish feel to it with contemporary décor throughout the house. The property is well secured with private parking available.
All of our rooms have separate entrances
. The bedrooms are well appointed with crisp white linen, en-suite bathrooms and a private patio. There is complimentary tea with Nespresso coffee machine available as well as the use of a safe in each room.
We pride ourselves on our high quality service with individual attention to our guest's requirements. We offer our guests a combination of privacy and discreet personal attention.
DSTV, internet access and a comfortable work desk
is available in each room so you can stay connected in the privacy of your own room.
A healthy breakfast with fresh seasonal fruit is served daily on the breakfast patio. A laundry service is available on request.
Our large peaceful garden and pool area leads out from the breakfast patio and is a great place to unwind.
Zoo Lake B&B is registered with the National Accommodation Association and the Rosebank Region Accommodation Association.

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Police Searching for Missing Male from Mississauga
Police are attempting to locate a missing person in Mississauga.
At 5:34 p.m., police reported that a missing male was last seen in the area of Clarkson and Truscott Drive.
The male is 6’1” with a slim build and grey hair. He is wearing a grey/blue shirt and navy blue pants.
Police say he is using a wheelchair.
The male’s family is concerned for his well-being.
Anyone with information should contact police at 905-453-2121, ext. 1133.
Photo: Peel Regional Police handout
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