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February 13, 2013
Adult Misuse of ADHD Stimulants Leads to Increased Emergency Visits
Washington, D.C.—Pharmacists and other health professionals are being urged to better educate consumers about the dangers of misusing stimulants prescribed to help control attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
A new report from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) said that emergency department (ED) visits related to use of the drugs more than doubled from 2005 to 2010, from 13,379 to 31,244. Interestingly, the greatest increase was among adults older than 18.
“This report shows that ED visits for nonmedical use have not increased among children and adolescents, but they have increased among adults aged 18 or older,” according to the report’s conclusions. “This suggests a need for increased attention toward efforts to prevent diversion and misuse among adults.”
While the number of ED visits was essentially unchanged for those 18 or younger during the time period, those seeking emergency care rose from 2,131 to 8,148 among those 18 to 25; from 1,754 to 6,094 among those aged 26 to 34; and from 2,519 to 7,957 among those over age 35.
The SAMSHA report also pointed out that the number of ED visits involving nonmedical use of ADHD drugs nearly tripled during this period—from 5,212 in 2005 to 15,585 in 2010. Nonmedical use now makes up half of all ED visits involving ADHD therapies.
“ADHD medications, when properly prescribed and used, can be of enormous benefit to those suffering from ADHD, but like any other medication they can pose serious risks—particularly when they are misused,” said SAMHSA Administrator Pamela S. Hyde. “This study indicates that a better job has to be done alerting all segments of society—not just the young—that misuse of these medications is extremely dangerous.”
The majority of the ED visits related to ADHD stimulant medications in 2010 involved drug combinations or interactions—with 45% of those involving other pharmaceuticals. Most common were antianxiety and insomnia medications, followed by narcotic pain relievers. In the remaining cases, illicit drugs were combined with ADHD medications.
“Even when taken as directed, ADHD stimulant medications entail some risk and the data in this report show that the number of visits involving adverse reactions increased between 2005 and 2010, especially for adults aged 18 and older,” according to the report. “As treatment for ADHD among adults becomes more widespread, prescribing physicians (including psychiatrists and other mental health professionals) may carefully consider associated risks among those who have chronic health conditions and/or take other medications that may interact with ADHD stimulant medications. A variety of treatment options, both pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical, are available for adults with ADHD.”
The report, entitled “Emergency Department Visits Involving Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Stimulant Medications,” is based on findings from the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), a public health surveillance system that monitors drug-related morbidity and mortality through reports from a network of hospitals across the nation.
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Updated Visitor Protocols at VA Central Iowa Health Care System Locations To protect our patients, families and health care workers during the outbreak of COVID-19 the following visitor restrictions are being implemented effective Monday, March 23, 2020 for VA Central Iowa facilities.
Visiting hours will be limited from 9 A.M. to 7 P.M. daily at all VA Central Iowa Health Care Facilities except the Community Living Center. The Community Living Center is not allowing visitors at this time. Some exceptions will be made for Hospice residents.
As you arrive for your visit, everyone who enters the campus will be screened. This may lengthen entry times, so please allow for that when arriving for your visit. Only one (1) visitor will be allowed to visit each patient at this time for the length of the visit. No other visitors will be allowed on campus to stage in waiting areas or the lobby while visitation is in progress.
The Central Iowa VA Health Care System serves veterans from all over central Iowa. In addition to our main medical center in Des Moines, we offer a number of services to our patients in 4 community-based outpatient clinics.
For your convenience and safety, we have special waiting areas throughout the facility. Please do not gather in the hallways or at the nurses' stations. You may also want to review our Visiting Hours and Policies.
We have volunteers who work in the Intensive Care waiting areas at specific times. Please check in, and give the volunteer the patient's name. If you leave the waiting area at any time, please let the volunteer know, in case we need to contact you.
Central Iowa VA has a Police Service. Our officers provide 24-hour patrols of the facility and parking lots. Report all suspicious or criminal activity, vehicle accidents, and personal property losses to the VA Police while on the facility grounds as soon as possible.
Because the VA Medical Center is federal property, all persons and bags are subject to search. In addition, no weapons, alcohol, or illegal drugs are permitted.

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With Kamala Harris finally Vice President, she joins the ranks of some other powerful women in history who may not be as known as she is. These women, in some way, have paved the way for Harris to assume her role as VP of the United States. Here are some incredible women of the past who have been trailblazers in their respective industries:
Since the pandemic first broke out back in March 2020, approximately 40 million Americans have filed for unemployment. The unemployment system itself is rife with issues since the number of tax dollars that actually goes to benefits varies depending on the state. However, Francis Perkins created this system with the idea that it would secure federal aid at a time when Americans needed it most during The Great Depression.
As the first female labor secretary to be in any presidential cabinet, Perkins spent a good portion of her life fighting for worker’s rights that categorized from unemployment aid to ensuring better wages for women. Although Franklin Roosevelt was attributed for enacting The New Deal, without Perkins, it wouldn’t have been as successful.
Similar to Perkins, Bethune worked directly with presidents. She had an immense career in education before working with the federal government. She started her own school for black girls which became a co-ed college, serving as one of the few places black men and women could obtain a college degree. Because of her past in education, specifically in pushing for the education of minorities, she was involved with child welfare under the Coolidge and Hoover administrations.
According to The Women’s History Museum, Roosevelt appointed her as “director of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration”, where her focus was ensuring young people had jobs available. She became one of the first black women to champion the rights of African Americans in office. A lifelong educator and activist, Bethune was dedicated to advocating for minorities in office and in schools.
In the same year women were given the right to vote, a town in Wyoming was governed by an all-female council. This was one of the first towns (with Kanasa and Utah having female councils prior) to see female leadership. Grace Miller (mayor), Rose Crabtree, Mae Deloney, Faustina Haight,and Genevieve Van Vleck beat out all of the men running and transformed Jackson, Wyoming into the city it is today. They collected all of the taxes that were due, revitalized the town square and built a cemetery.
“The Petticoat Rulers” took their job seriously at a time when running for local government wasn’t popular. Through Jackson, “The Petticoat Rulers” proved from the very beginning the power of women in leadership. Despite this leadership early on, the U.S. still is far behind in terms of female governance.
According to the World Economic Forum, the U.S. ranks 86 for political empowerment which measures the number of women who have had leadership positions in government. Even though we are behind, more women have taken office, and in many ways. “The Petticoat Rulers” paved the way.
History has shown us the influence and power of the women before us. By paying homage to their forgotten stories, we can ensure that every influential woman, even in current times, will be remembered. It will not be rare to hear the names of Perkins of Bethune, nor will the names of Kamala Harris or Alexandria Ocasio Cortez dwindle in our textbooks.
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Kevin Pietersen's future as an England cricketer was unclear today with key figures leaning towards leaving him out of the squads for the World Twenty20 and the forthcoming tour of the Caribbean.
The batsman is believed to have met Alastair Cook, the Test and one-day captain, James Whitaker, the new national selector, and Paul Downton, the new managing director of England cricket, last night at a hotel near Lord’s. He also had talks with Downton last week.
There are likely to be further discussions with Ashley Giles, the coach of England’s limited-overs sides, but Standard Sport understands that the mood is to discard Pietersen for the time being, although there is always the chance that Giles, or T20 captain Stuart Broad, might plead for him to be retained.
The original plan was to name the squads for the Caribbean tour, which begins later this month, and the World Twenty20, on Thursday. Before England head to Bangladesh, they play the West Indies in three one-day internationals and three T20 matches.
If England do take this decision, they are likely to face exacting questions about why they have omitted their most talented batsman after a disastrous tour of Australia, in which the side won only one of their 13 international matches, losing the other 12.
Pietersen played in all five Tests but was not chosen for the one-day and Twenty20 matches that followed those games. In the short term, his expertise in the shortest form of the game will surely be missed, especially with the World T20 taking place in Bangladesh.
Pietersen’s time in the Indian Premier League means he has plenty of experience of the conditions England are likely to face in that tournament, which starts next month.
Interestingly, Pietersen was at The Kia Oval today to give Surrey’s batsmen a coaching session on techniques to use against spin. If he is indeed left out of the party, it will be interesting to see whether he plays again for England in any form of cricket. England’s next Test assignment is not until June, when they tackle a two-match series against Sri Lanka before taking on India in five games later in the summer.
Pietersen’s likely absence from the one-day and T20 squads means he could request to play a full part in this year’s edition of the IPL. The auction for the franchise-based event takes place from February 12-13.
If Pietersen were available for the whole competition, rather than only for the three weeks stipulated in his central contract with the England and Wales Cricket Board, it would make him a far more attractive proposition for franchises, as well as boosting his earning power.
Pietersen’s central contract runs until the autumn and, if he is cast aside, he could decide to walk away from international cricket altogether and travel the world playing in various T20 franchise competitions.
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This section gives you a few job examples from each of the main employment areas in this very diverse area. There are three main employment areas:
Print and publishing
TV, film and radio
Interactive MediaInteractive media is about producing interactive products and content for five media platforms - the internet, TV, computer games consoles, mobile phones and offline disk-based multimedia (for example software produced for training or promotional purposes).
Animators create the illusion of movement by using drawings, models, puppets, or increasingly, specialised computer software. These animations are used for shorts and feature films, advertising, computer games, websites and music promotions.
Computer games designers
Computer games designers work on developing ideas for new computer games and then helping to develop the product to make sure it looks as visually stunning as possible. This includes not only designing but also working as a team, with other technical staff, to define the way the game is played and how to build up the whole game experience.
Interactive media designers
Interactive media designers create interactive communications products such as websites, multimedia DVDS, interactive TV programmes and interactive elements for Mobile services. They use a mix of text, data, graphics, sound, animation and other digital and visual effects to create interactive products.
Print and PublishingPrinting and publishing is about the writing, editing and, sometimes printing, of products such as newspapers and magazines, books (fiction, non-fiction and poetry) and content for websites.
Print production planners
A print production planner job is to make sure that the printing company's printed products are delivered on time and to the quality the customer requires. This may include managing a very wide range of jobs as the company may be printing books, magazines and brochures or more specialised products.
Publishing editorsPublishing editors work in a range of publishing areas including newspapers and magazines, books and online publishing. The editor has overall management responsibility for the style and content of the publication being produced and in newspaper and magazine editing will probably be a trained and experienced journalist.
TV, Film and RadioJobs in TV, film and radio are to do with the research, writing, editing, performance and direction of TV and radio programmes and film, as well as all the technical aspects of programme broadcasting and film production.
Radio producers make radio programmes happen and work. On larger radio stations their job will not include talking on air but in smaller stations this may be a key part of their jobs. They would usually research, make contact with and book guests, record, mix and edit shows, co-ordinate competitions, phone-ins and other interactive features, manage budgets and may help to maintain a website for their station.
Sound technicians set up, test, operate and maintain technical equipment to amplify, enhance, mix or reproduce sound for audio recordings, films, radio and television programmes, and live performances.
TV/film production assistants
TV/film production assistants may be involved in all kinds of projects, from news broadcasts to reality TV shows, music and comedy shows, soap operas, dramas and feature films. They support other members of the production team by taking on a wide range of tasks, including administration.
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ORGANIC TOMATO TRANSPLANT PRODUCTION IN COMPOST-AMENDED SUBSTRATE
There is limited information available about organic fertilization of vegetable transplants. The availability and release of the mineral nutrients from organic fertilizers is not fully understood. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of compost rate and chicken manure on the growth of tomato transplants. Tomato transplants were grown in an organic peat-based substrate (Garden Safe® Organic Potting Mix) amended with six rates of either compost (0% to 50%, by weight) or chicken manure (0% to 40%, by weight). The results showed that plant dry weight was minimally affected by compost rates, suggesting that compost provided only a minimal amount of nutrients to the plants. However, since transplants produced with compost-amended substrate were of similar quality compared to those produced exclusively with the substrate, it suggests that compost may be used to partially replace peat-based substrates used for transplant production. Shoot, root and plant dry weight increased with increasing rates of chicken manure (applied prior to seeding) reaching a maximum at 10%-20% (by weight) and then declined at 40% rate. Thus, chicken manure mixed with the substrate appeared to provide enough nutrients to tomato transplants.
Díaz-Pérez, J.C., Silvoy, J., Phatak, S.C., Pitchay, D.S. and Morse, R. (2008). ORGANIC TOMATO TRANSPLANT PRODUCTION IN COMPOST-AMENDED SUBSTRATE. Acta Hortic. 782, 241-244
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India’s Public Debt:
As per Moody’s Investors Service, India’s public debt level is among the highest in emerging economies with a quantitative easing programme underway, while its debt affordability is among the weakest.
- Public debt is the total amount borrowed by the government of a country.
- In the Indian context, public debt includes the total liabilities of the Union government that have to be paid from the Consolidated Fund of India. It excludes liabilities contracted against Public Account.
- Sources of Public Debt:
- Dated government securities or G-secs
- Treasury Bills or T-bills
- External Assistance
- Short term borrowings
- Public Debt definition by Union Government
- The Union government describes those of its liabilities as public debt, which is contracted against the Consolidated Fund of India. This is as per Article 292 of the Constitution.
- Internal debt is categorized into marketable and non-marketable securities.
- Marketable government securities include G-secs and T-Bills issued through auction.
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LOS ANGELES — Former Earth Wrestling Enjoyment pro Shad Gaspard was continue to lacking Tuesday immediately after he was swept out to sea in Southern California final weekend whilst swimming with his youthful son.
Gaspard’s ten-yr-outdated son, Aryeh, was rescued and a number of other swimmers made it out of the h2o securely immediately after they were caught in a rip recent Sunday afternoon at Venice Seashore in Los Angeles.
“When final witnessed by the lifeguard, a wave experienced crashed over Mr. Shad Gaspard and he was swept out to sea,” Los Angeles police mentioned in a assertion Monday.
Gaspard, 39, was about 50 yards from shore when he was final spotted, police mentioned.
His wife, Siliana Gaspard, issued a assertion Tuesday thanking authorities and lovers.
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Top UK Scientist Urges NZ to Keep Open Mind on GM
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The New Zealand Court of Appeal this week overturned a High Court decision to block four other applications by AgResearch to the Environmental Risk Management Authority (Erma) to use animals to make a range of medical and health products. Anti-GM group GE-free is considering an appeal to the Supreme Court.
In an interview with the Herald before the decision was released, Professor Beddington said biotechnology, including GM, had a role to play in food production. "We've got to think of these things on a case-by-case basis." If, for example, a particular problem - whether it was of a plant disease or a particularly harsh environment - could be solved with GM technology, it should be considered, he said.
Advocates of GM plants say they could be used to help solve looming crises of water shortages and climate change. New Zealand researchers hope to develop GM animals that could provide milk proteins to treat rare human diseases. But critics say the benefits of GM plants and animals have either not been proven or could be gained equally well by traditional selective breeding and laboratory trials.
Professor Beddington, who is a population biologist by training and an influential figure in the UK, has been quoted in British media as supporting a "GM revolution" in food crops. But he told the Herald his comments were misrepresented. His view was that the benefits should be carefully weighed, as with all new biotechnology.
Otago University genetics researcher Jack Heinemann said research on the safety of GM pasture crops should be beefed up before scientists "rushed" to commercialise it. He said safety testing was almost always carried out by companies hoping to profit from GM crops, because they alone owned the rights to the genetically modified material.
New Zealand's acceptance of GM is expected to be put to the test in coming years when companies apply to release GM pasture grasses. At least two major research consortiums in New Zealand are preparing to seek their release: PGG Wrightson has been working with Australian scientists on GE ryegrass, and Fonterra and AgResearch have worked with other partners on both clover and ryegrass, and Fonterra has funded its own research into ryegrass.
Any release of pasture crops would be seen as a turning point because it would be difficult to contain the genetically modified pollen, which can travel for kilometres. Erma is considering an application by Agresearch to carry out contained trials on milk-producing cows, goats and sheep.
A recent Royal Society report noted that GM clover and ryegrass were being promoted in some quarters as "cisgenic" - engineered without using genes from other species - which the biotechnology sector hopes may be more acceptable to some consumers.
One of the paper's co-authors told journalists that consumers in the United States and the European Union - the high end of the market for many New Zealand food exports - were resistant to even GM traits perceived as beneficial.


Marietta Board of Education discussed the parting of the Superintendent, the Five Year Forecast, vaping in schools and the continuation of livestreaming the meetings, at Monday’s meeting.
Eric Reed, board president, said since the last meeting, the district passed two renewal levies, and the board is “tremendously appreciative.”
“Since then (the last meeting) Mr. Hampton has a new opportunity, and will be leaving us in the fall and again we have tremendous appreciation for the time you’ve given Marietta City Schools,” he said.
Superintendent Will Hampton was approved as the new superintendent at Alexander Local School District in Athens County, starting in August.
Hampton responded, “My appreciation is for the people that I’ve worked with, and the things that they’ve done for me and with me and for my family,” he said. “They have impacted me, more so. I’m just blessed, blessed to have been here, blessed to have been a part of the team.”
Bill Hutchinson, board member, said he appreciated the hard work Hampton has put in during his time in the district.
Frank Antill, treasurer, said the Five Year Forecast is submitted each November and May. The May forecast is a compilation of revenue and expenditures through April, then cash flow he estimated from May and June. Antill said the November 2021 forecast showed a surplus of revenue projected to be about $1.9 million. He said today the estimate is approximately $2 million.
“We’re pretty close to where we anticipated our revenue expenditures come in,” he said.
Antill said the cash balance as of July 1, 2021, stood at $6.7 million and is now projected to be approximately $8.8 million.
Antill said many changes affected expenses, like the consolidation of six buildings into four and receiving ESSER (Elementary and Secondary Emergency Relief) funding. Antill said the forecast doesn’t show deficit spending until 2025.
He also stated the general fund balance at the end of April is $10.8 million, as opposed to the $7.9 balance as of last year.
Antill also talked about a grant for vape detectors at Marietta Elementary School and the high school. These detectors that are placed in bathrooms, send a signal to the administrators to let them know that someone is vaping in the bathroom, if it is set off.
“We’re seeing a rising number of vapes throughout the system,” he said.
Brittany Schob, MES principal, said that it will help them educate their students on what not to do and to not vape in or outside of school.
Mark Weihl, community resident, spoke during the citizen forum about livestreaming the meetings. He said the continued livestream is a good thing for the district. He said many teachers and retirees that he knows watch the board meeting livestreams and that helps them feel like they are a part of the process.
“Transparency, I think is critical, I do hope you continue that, and I hope you even think about doing more of the meetings to get even more input from the community. I think the community has a lot to offer to help you all kind of go through your process of leading us in the future,” he said.
Cody Parman, board member, said although they won’t always be livestreamed, now is probably the wrong time to stop livestreaming.
“I’m all for keeping it going for the regular board meetings,” said Reed, about livestreaming.
James Dobbs can be reached at [email protected]


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Call for submission: Transnationalism and Modern American Women Writers
Keywords: American modernist women writers; Border-Crossing; Modernity; Transnationalism; Middlebrow
This volume of essays, which will be published in the December 2018 issue of the webjournal E- rea (http://journals.openedition.org/erea/?lang=en), discusses a broad spectrum of writing by American women who engaged with modernity and national border-crossing in ways that deepen our understanding of modernist literary production of the early and middle years of the twentieth century.
The aim is to examine how women writers confronted the material, technological, and ideological acceleration of modernity both at home and abroad through a transnational perspective, i.e. by acts of transition across borders that are not only national and political, but also linguistic, cultural, racial, ethnic, or temporal. We invite work that discusses the range of their activities, such as journalism, criticism, war writing, press surveys and reviews, conference talks, translations, as well as poetry and fiction published in the periodical press.
We welcome contributions that cast fresh light on attitudes, genre, form, structure, and gender in literary writing of this period. Topics of interest can include but are not limited to the way American women writers’ experience of mobility played in the construction of national cultural identity and belonging while resisting facile opposition between “nationalist” and “internationalist” categories. One might also reflect on the importance of cross-cultural interactions in allowing women writers to participate in collective feeling and collective thinking. Contributions that address issues such as domesticity and their relation to transnationalism.
Articles should be 7,000-12,000 words, inclusive of notes.
All articles will be peer-reviewed.
Authors will conform to the webjournal’s Contributor Guidelines

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Most people equate going on a diet with suffering. Hunger is expected, feeling grumpy, sweating like a pig at the gym, eating rabbit food, feeling stressed just walking past a bakery and not knowing what to eat, or having people around you who are eating all the things you like. The easiest diet of all, which takes no effort at all, and the tastiest of them all, is to eat whatever you like, whenever you like! In the western world this diet has been extremely popular for decades, with occasional low calorie painful interventions. The only problem with this diet is that you will be just like everyone else in the doctor’s waiting room or hospital ward. Full of pharmaceuticals and or on the surgery list. The easy diet created the obesity epidemic, the diabetes epidemic and generations of unwell people. If you are told to eat less and exercise more, then you know it’s going to hurt. And the discomfort doesn’t go away, so the diet tends to go away very quickly. This is also true of the many fad diets which seem to pop up all to regularly, such as the Israeli military diet which consists of eating lots of apples for a few days then cheese then who knows what. An Israeli soldier is about as likely to eat such a diet as an iron man is to eat sugar filled nutri grain prior to an event. So we all know that changes have to be made and that the easy diet is a terrible idea, but how hard a diet can we adopt and still manage to stick with it.
– You should not be hungry. Hunger just puts you under stress and your fat burning will shut down like a hibernating animal.
– You don’t have to exercise so hard that you are leaving trails of sweat everywhere, because exercise is a poor way to lose weight. But you do need to move your body.
– You won’t be counting calories because it’s boring and it doesn’t help. All calories are not the same so counting them is pointless.
-You should have a good variety of foods.
-You must have sufficient energy to move and think clearly.
-You shouldn’t be dreaming about food. This happens when you are hungry, but let’s face it if you are dreaming of cream filled donuts then it will take a while away from sugar to change that, and even then it’s rare for someone to dream of green vegetables. (By Ian Newton)

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When Christopher Columbus traveled to Hispaniola, he encountered a cacique ("chief") named Quibia. The cacique had much gold, and obviously the greedy Spaniards desired it. Yet Quibia was crafty, outwitting the Spaniards by sending them to a rival cacique's gold mines.
What does this have to do with this wine, the 2008 Anima Negra Quibia? I really don't know. I am unsure whether that tale was the source for this wine's name. Their website is silent on the reasons for the name. But, it makes for a good story nonetheless, and it might possibly be related.
The Anima Negra ("black soul") winery is located on the island of Mallorca, off the eastern coast of Spain. It occupies what was once a 17th-century dairy and it is owned by three partners; Pere Obrador, Francesc Grimalt and Miguel Ángel Cerdá. I have previously tasted their 2004 AN/2, which I very much enjoyed.
There are a number of grape varietals indigenous to Mallorca including Manto Negro (the most widely planted varietal), Callet, Fogoneu, Premsal Blanc (or Prensal Blanc or Moll) and Girò Blanc. Producers may also blend these with some more common varietals, such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah.
The 2008 Anima Negra Quibia ($19) is a white blend of 60% Premsal Blanc and 40% Callet. Premsal is well adapted a hot, maritime climate, and has a light structure and herbal notes. Callet is said to taste like a cross between the spicy, herbal qualities of Cabernet Franc and a powerful Syrah. This is the first vintage of the Quibia where Callet was added. The wine sees no oak, having been fermented and aged over the less in stainless steel, and only has an alcohol content of 12%.
The taste? Despite the groundhog's dire prediction of six more weeks of winter, spring arrived early with this wine. I thought of fresh spring aromatics, herbs bursting into bloom, while I picnicked on apricots and melon. I drank a light mineral water, quenching my thirst on its crispness. The wine offered so much promise, making the cold, winter day much more tolerable.
Yes, I definitely recommend this wine. It also brought to mind a mild Gewurtztraminer & Viognier blend. Take a chance on it, and you can locate it at Central Bottle in Cambridge.

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C.L.R. James: Cricket, the Caribbean, and World Revolution, by Farrukh Dhondy (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 190 pp, ISBN 0-297-64613-3)
Review by Nicholas Laughlin
published in the Trinidad and Tobago Review, April
In his later years in London, riding the gentle
wave of academic fame thrown up for him by the storms of Black Power,
C.L.R. James surrounded himself with eager young associates —
disciples, one is tempted to call them — who acted as his secretaries,
companions, cooks, and chauffeurs. Since his death in 1989 a few of
these Jamesites have helped swell the rising tide of interest in the
sage of Brixton. Anna Grimshaw has edited crucial volumes of his
writings; Jim Murray heads the C.L.R. James Institute in New York; and
now Farrukh Dhondy, with whom James lived briefly in the early 1980s,
has written an entertaining biographical study, timed to coincide with
the recent centenary.
There’s no question we need a big, authoritative biography of James. It’s a commonplace to call him the leading Caribbean intellect of the twentieth century; he was a restless thinker, and that same restlessness makes him a biographer’s dream, living between the West Indies, Britain and the United States, interacting with major political and intellectual figures, embroiled in many of the largest issues agitating the world in his time. And the mammoth achievements of the biographical profession in the last half-century encourage large expectations: exhaustive documentary research, preferably leading to the discovery of previously unguessed-at facts; first-hand interviews with the subject’s friends and enemies, when these persons survive; the investigation of mysterious corners in the subject’s life and the unravelling of contentious knots of fact and opinion. (Goodness knows James’s eighty-eight-year life-strand is knotted enough.)
Dhondy does not even attempt such daunting chores. His chief sources of information, as far as I can make out (his referencing is minimal) are James’s published writings, and personal conversations with the old man. His account of James’s childhood and adolescence is lifted straight from the pages of Beyond a Boundary. Dhondy is exasperatingly vague about those stretches of James’s life he happens to know little about, and he hasn’t bothered to dig for the details. He also offers some startling errors of fact, for instance making Tunapuna a district of Port of Spain (which may bemuse Lloyd Best), making George Lamming Guyanese (which may bemuse George Lamming), and giving Trinidad and Tobago’s Parliament one hundred members (which might well resolve the present deadlock).
Dhondy can be rather clumsy at arranging his material — too many index cards, not enough rubber bands? — arbitrarily abandoning his chronological sequence for a thematic approach, making the middle period of James’s life a puzzle for the less-than-fully-alert reader. Unless I blinked too vigorously halfway through the book, there seems to be a misplaced chapter. And Dhondy indulges occasionally in some narrative inventions that may arouse the reader’s suspicion. The most prominent of these is an entire stream-of-consciousness chapter from the point of view of Eric Williams. Amusing stuff, in its place, but this biography shouldn’t be its place.
Dhondy’s distinctly personal version of James is necessarily limited, but his approach does have unanticipated advantages. His first-hand accounts of the elderly James contribute some of the book’s best episodes — they make me wish he’d stuck to writing a straightforward memoir of their friendship. He shows us a side of James previously undisclosed — he was a demanding and mercurial old man, requiring Dhondy to take his phone calls, wash and iron his shirts, and boil his breakfast egg for precisely three and a half minutes. “James was polite and took me entirely for granted,” is his summary.
But Dhondy also shows us he was a charming conversationalist, eager to share his life’s worth of insight, responding warmly to intelligent attention. A young woman “doing research of some sort” pays a call; James’s eighty-year-old interest perks up. The relationship advances with some anxiety; one day Dhondy catches them holding hands. The “courtship” is rapidly snuffed out when James discovers she is living with another man. And perhaps the book’s juiciest plum is James’s attempt to avoid meeting a dramatically beturbaned woman named Queen Mother Moore, whose attendant telephones incessantly, insisting on an appointment. Eventually Dhondy runs out of excuses. “ ‘Tell them anything, man,’ Nello indiscreetly prompts from the other room. ‘Tell them C.L.R. James is dead, he died this afternoon.’ ” (“Nello”, of course, was James’s nickname, a diminutive of his middle name, Lionel.)
He is decidedly subjective in his treatment of James’s career, but Dhondy’s obvious affection for his subject does not cloud his vision; he is no hagiographer. He has a non-specialist’s commonsense clarity about James’s shortcomings, his role in the failures of his three marriages, the inconsistencies in his thought, the absurd lengths of some ideological idealisms at the height of his Trotskyist phase. Dhondy seems frustrated by the time James spent wandering the mazy backroads of socialist factionalism during his fifteen years in the United States. This wry description of the Party’s late-30s anti-war reasoning is typical:
He notes that James’s “attempts at practical
political intervention had been spectacular failures” in the West
Indies and Africa. James believed in the inevitability of world
revolution, but the soi-disant
“Jamesian” revolution in Grenada turned out a carnival of thuggery. The
Black Power movement of the 70s took him as an icon — the “ultimate
irony” of his life — though he never ceased to assert the authority of
Europe’s cultural and intellectual legacy, which made him the thinker
he was. “He supported the idea but not the ideas of Black Power.”
But Dhondy is equally apt at summarizing James’s genuine achievements. His polymathic multicuriosity was extraordinary even in an age of extraordinaires, as was his synthesizing intelligence, performing repeated acts of creative hybridization. His books of Marxist history and theory — World Revolution, Notes on Dialectics — are on their own terms major accomplishments, yet who do they interest today but historians of ideas?
From our current vantage point, the works which most unquestionably matter are The Black Jacobins, American Civilization and Beyond a Boundary. These are the Jamesian classics, according to the classic definition of that category: works grounded in a particular age and place but ever more deeply and more widely relevant to the present. What they have in common first of all is their originality of conception. They are tricky to define or assign to a single discipline, assembling elements of history, literature, political theory, personal observation and popular culture (and cricket!). Called upon to name the sum of their surprisingly disparate parts, one throws up one’s hands, saying, “life.” They are daring ascents of James’s mind at its most independent, panoramas of three distinct societies — Haiti in the throes of revolution, the post-war United States, the West Indies in the years leading to independence — which illuminate the vaster landscape of universal history. It is to their virtue that these works are not definitive: theirs is not the sinking finality of questions completely answered, but the buoyant thrill of fresh leads for eager successors. The sheer scale of their intellectual ambition is James’s most valuable legacy.
But. A sizeable but. I confess that reading Dhondy’s book plucks up in me the sense of frustrating and vague disappointment I feel whenever contemplating James’s career. Why? When I weigh the megaton potential of his talents against his actual achievements, the scale doesn’t seem to tip the way I wish. For me, the most poignant and most revealing document of James the man is the series of articles he wrote for the Port of Spain Gazette in early 1932, within weeks of his first arrival in Britain, giving his immediate impressions of life in London, and at the same time a glimpse at his thirty-one-year-old personality. He is obviously brilliant, confident, ambitious. Moving in the Bohemian intellectual world of Bloomsbury, he finds he is the equal of any and superior to most. “By instinct and training,” he says, “I belong to it and have fit into it as naturally as a pencil fits into a sharpener.” He’s rather too grown up to talk aloud about forging the uncreated conscience of his race, but one suspects he’s thinking on those lines. One feels the hugeness of the possibilities open to him: he could have been the Caribbean’s Voltaire, our Emerson, our Mill. A half century stretched ahead of him, crammed with incident and investigation, dozens of books and articles, acclaim in the Caribbean and in the black studies departments (two parishes from which one fears the world revolution will not rise); but a certain eminence of influence eluded him, and still eludes. The Black Jacobins, American Civilization, Beyond a Boundary: these are great works, but none is the Great Work of which he must have felt capable.
Or is it that the Great Work exists, but no interpreter of sufficient scope has yet arrived to demonstrate it to us? Just as we still require a really big biography of James, a thoroughly Jamesian biography registering the precise magnitude of his existence, could it be that we await the advent of that tirelessly brilliant person who will use James’s own methods of erudition, observation, intuition and connective imagination to balance the scale and give us the true weight and worth of the man’s idiosyncratic achievements?
It is “a colossal task, none more colossal in our time,” as C.L.R. James once said of something entirely different. +

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United States’ department of defense was created in 1947 with the aim of safeguarding the national security of United States. It is an executive department of the federal government. The department provides military forces that are required to prevent any war as well as to ensure that there is adequate security in United States. It is normally in control of the army, navy, air force as well as the Marine Corps (Mullen, 2009). It is estimated that the department is made up of up to 1.5 million workers who are in active duty. Moreover, they have a backup of 1 million members who are reserved in case of emergency (Gates, 2010). It is also composed of 900 civilians who are employed by the Department of Defense (DOD).
Some of the current finance and budgeting practices that could positively be affected by technological solutions includes the following; firstly, linking the development of budgets to the corporate strategy. This involves the fact that budget determine how available resources will be used and the measures to be used to evaluate the progress (Cliche, 2012). Therefore, the practice of linking the budget with corporate strategy makes it very effective. When the two are linked the stakeholders are able to understand the usage of their finances (Boer, 2004). In addition, it leads to increased support of goals, coordination of all activities results in increased company performance. Secondly, designing procedures that allocate resources strategically that effectively link with technological solutions (Cliche, 2012). Due to increased competition for resources in any given organization, business needs to come up with s strategy to secure their funding for their expenses and capital (Boer, 2004). Therefore, when strategies have been designed, it makes it possible to support the key strategies. This leads to coordination of the capital budgets and operating expenses. Another practice involves coming up with a sophisticated measures to evaluate propose budgets (Sheffrin, 2003). This makes it possible to measure the degree of risk and the competition level of available resources. Some of these technologies include; headcount planning, budget planning and forecasting, consolidation of finances, multi-user workflow, versioning, audit tracking, dashboards, scorecards, budget templates and reports, data import as well as statistical account planning.
The technological solutions that could improve the efficiency and effectiveness of finance and budgeting within this organization include; firstly, detailed audit tracking which involves tracing all financial transactions being carried out in an organization (Boer, 2004). It makes it possible to get analytical capabilities and consolidate budgetary information. This method detects errors which may have been made intentionally or unintentionally. Another effective technological solution is the multi-user workflow (Cliche, 2012). This method is very effective as it enables accountants to save time and money while auditing financial transactions within a company. It also makes it possible to understand any changes or issues that may rise within the organization regarding budgeting in the shortest time possible. Thus, multi-user work flow creates a scenario where auditors can work on the same thing consecutively. This improves performance and reduces operational cost.
In conclusion, technological solutions in budgeting have created an avenue in which organization’s budgeting practices have been affected positively. The implementation of these solutions in various organizations has resulted into increased growth. Organizations have also become flexible in case of any change. As a result, there has been improved efficiency and effectiveness of finance and budgeting within the organization.


iPhone 3G S will improve gaming clout
The price of the iPhone has been slashed in the United States as Apple gear up for the launch of a new model later this very month. The standard iPhone 3G will now cost 99 USD across the pond.
In more exciting news, the firm has confirmed that the iPhone 3G S ('Speed') will land in late June in certain areas, although it is unclear what the new device will mean for games - one of Apple's biggest success stories with the iPhone - thanks to the merits of the App Store platform.
The 3G S will apparently be twice as powerful as the current iPhone, boasting improved graphical capabilities likely to titillate game developers - while the camera is also being improved.
Better battery life is also on the cards, as are new voice control features and a compass - all of which could have ramifications for games on the device in theory. Specifics remain scant at present.
A rather nice looking Gameloft racer called Asphalt 5 was also shown off at Apple's conference, the title promising impressive graphics and "a console quality" experience.
- Dark Souls 2 could see a fourth pack of DLC released
- Far Cry 4 is all about player choice, has five endings
- Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare PC system specifications announced
- Evolution adds more multiplayer events to Driveclub as they continue to work on the game's server issues
- Rockstar announces a San Andreas 10th Anniversary event this weekend for GTA Online
- Dead Or Alive 5: Last Round gets a release date
- Unfinished Swan to hit the PS4 and PS Vita next week
- Gamersgate.com CEO emphasizes that they have nothing to do with #Gamergate
- Microsoft announces the feature list for the November Xbox One update


UK’s High Court handed down its decision in SAS Institute Inc. v World Programming Ltd in which it applied the CJEU’s decision about which aspects of a computer program may be protected by copyright.
In 2012 responding to the High Court’s questions on the interpretation of the Software Directive and the Information Society Directive, the CJEU held that:
– the functionality of a computer program, programming languages and the format of data files used in a computer program cannot be protected by copyright;
– users may observe, study or test the functioning of a program in order to determine the ideas and principles which underlie that program, notwithstanding contractual restrictions imposed by the owner of the program; and
– reproduction, whether in a computer program or in a user manual for that program, of certain parts of the user manual for another computer program may constitute infringement of copyright subsisting in that manual.
The High Court, when the case was referred back to it, compared a programming language with a conventional spoken/written language concluding that:
“…the language is the material from which works (including dictionaries and grammars) may be created… Programming languages such as the SAS Language are no different in this respect.”
When considering the originality of a programming language the “intellectual creation” test was used, rather than the “skill, labour and judgment” test. Assuming a computer language is not a computer program, this implies that the test for originality is now harmonised for all works rather than just for computer programs, databases and photographs.
In summary, according to the decision the functionality, the programming language and the data file formats of a computer program are not protected by copyright.
Please follow this link to the full article on The 1709 Blog


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Unionized musicians and stagehands with Orchestra London who “fear for (its) very existence” are demanding big changes to the city-funded organization’s management.
She watched her boyfriend pull a large gun out of his overnight bag and disappear into the night with his buddy.
A woman will head the London Transit Commission (LTC) for the first time in its 139-year history.
Hang on to your bus tickets and passes for now.
The Ontario Liberal government passed new auto insurance legislation Thursday that it says will help reduce rates for consumers.
Snowbound residents of western New York awoke to as much as another foot of accumulation on Thursday with possibly another 30 inches (76 cm) expected, meteorologists said.
At least six protesters who were camped out trying to stop development on Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline were arrested Thursday morning as police moved in to apply an injunction to break up their demonstration.
A Quebec police officer who was driving 120 km/h in a 50 km/h zone when he hit a car, killing a five-year-old boy, will not be charged. And the public won't hear why as a matter of protocol, say officials.
Police with weapons drawn had Christina at Davis Street closed off for a “high-risk takedown” just before 9 a.m. Thursday.
Florida State University student Jason Derfuss didn't think to look at his book bag as he fled the university library where a gunman wounded three students early on Thursday.
Usama Akhter told the court Thursday he was “deeply ashamed” of his actions that led to the explosion and fire at the Iron Grill Restaurant in August 2009.
A 45-year-old London man stabbed on Adelaide St. on Nov. 9 has died from his injuries, London police reported Thursday.
With snow piling up across much of Southern Ontario, farmers are struggling to get one of the province's main cash crops out of the field.
The owner of three pit bulls and a pit-bull mix is seeking up to $1 million in damages after her dogs entered the Houston-area property of her neighbour and fatally attacked her neighbour's 10-year-old beagle.
It must have been a streetcar named Desire.
Five members of a Texas family on their way to a vacation in Disney World were killed in a single-car crash when their vehicle driven by their teenage son overturned on a highway in Louisiana, police said on Thursday.
Someone called Vancouver twice from Jun Lin's cellphone the morning he was butchered, the Luka Magnotta murder trial heard Thursday.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on whether the Metis and non-status Indians should be considered "Indians" as defined in the Constitution.
Utah is looking at bringing back firing squads to execute inmates on death row.


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Finding a cheap book of H.R. Giger’s work is near impossible, most are out of print and will clean out your wallet in no time. I mean, its easy to understand, the guy is a dark genius whose mind still inspires Hollywood to this day , he did work for various movies, chief among them, the “Alien” movies and won a Oscar for the first “Alien” movie. But this book isn’t just strictly an art book, in between the pieces of his darkly erotic art is his own story in his own words.
His art was mainly a hybrid of living things connected to machines, darkly cold and hellish. One can see the light film that lays over all his creations, like a embryonic sack, the man was a master of the air brush, later pastels, markers and ink you’ll get some stories in this book of what he was inspired by. Giger was gonna do design work for Alejandro Jodorowsky’s version of “Dune”, there is a cool documentary on that Jodorowsky “Dune” movie that never was that was going to feature Salvador Dali on a giant toilet throne, Orson Welles as the Baron flying around, and a whole planet designed by Giger with music by Pink Floyd and French progressive rock band Magma (who Giger did album art for) which didn’t pan out, Lynch ended up doing “Dune”, Giger had always wanted to work with Lynch which never happened, Giger always said that Lynch’s “Eraserhead” was closer to what a Giger film would look like than any of the movies he worked on or designed.
Timothy Leary writes the forward for the book, not only is there Giger’s art, there is pictures and news clippings throughout the book. Granted this is a book that only goes up to the man’s career, mid 1980’s, the stories start from Giger’s straitlaced childhood in Switzerland, to his turbulent teens and successful adulthood, you’ll see a somewhat normal guy whose art defies what you see on the surface. Giger is a legend, he has designed some kick ass album work for Celtic Frost, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and the Dead Kennedys, his art got the Dead Kennedys an obscenity charge back in the day. This book is relatively cheap compared to a lot of the other Giger books out there. To dive into the dark world that is Giger go here: https://www.amazon.com/HR-GIGER-ARh-H-Giger/dp/382289642X


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The Good, the Bad, and the Deadly 7 (Paperback)
Macmillan UK New Writing, 9781509887651, 256pp.
Publication Date: August 8, 2019
List Price: 10.99*
* Individual store prices may vary.
The Good, the Bad and the Deadly 7 is a funny, action-packed, exciting monster adventure by the director of Sing, Garth Jennings. Having seven invisible monsters to hang out with during the summer holidays is pretty great, but now it's time to go back to school, and if Nelson's not careful, the Deadly 7 are going to get him into serious trouble. The monsters agree to stay away (and hang out in London Zoo), but there's one problem: something huge and invisible has started rampaging through the French countryside and it looks like Nelson and his monsters might be the only ones who can help. Who better to stop one enormous terrifying monster than seven little angry, sneaky, greedy, vain, adorable, thieving, farting monsters? That's right, Stan, Puff, Nosh, Miser, Hoot, Crush and Spike are here to save the day!
About the Author
Garth Jennings is one third of the production company Hammer & Tongs. His work includes videos for Blur, Radiohead, Beck, Fatboy Slim, and Vampire Weekend. He is the director of two feature films, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Son of Rambow, for which he also wrote the screenplay. He directed Sing, a feature-length animated film from the studio that created Despicable Me, and is the author of The Deadly 7 and The Wildest Cowboy.
Praise For The Good, the Bad, and the Deadly 7…
"A fantastic new voice in middle grade fiction. I loved it!" —Robin Stevens, author, Murder Most Unladylike
"Packed with the sort of perilous adventure and icky humour that 9+ kids will love." —Independent on The Deadly 7
"Anarchic, original, hilarious fun." —Metro on The Deadly 7
"A zany page-turner." —Observer on The Deadly 7
"Garth’s debut children’s novel exudes so much confidence and bravura. . . Nelson’s seven monsters are inspired comic creations, and readers will thoroughly enjoy this nutty adventure. Garth Jennings has illustrated the book too and there are numerous black and white line illustrations to add to the appeal. He deserves credit too for the authorial voice, an omniscient narrator that brought to mind E. Nesbit for me." —Books For Keeps on The Deadly 7
"Written with style and boundless imaginative power, and illustrated throughout by the author, The Deadly 7 are simply drop-dead fantastic!" —Lancashire Evening Post on The Deadly 7
"An uproarious romp, and though the Seven would deny it, the book has a heart too." —The Bookbag on The Deadly 7
"The Deadly 7 is one of the cleverest and funniest middle grade books you will read this year." —BookZone4Boys on The Deadly 7
"Highly imaginative and wonderfully told." —Parents In Touch on The Deadly 7
Not Currently Available for Direct Purchase


BHS boy runners first again
The beginning of cross country season has started with a bang. The Baldwin High School boys team has brought home yet another first-place plaque to hang on the wall from the opening meet at Anderson County last Thursday.
The Bulldogs finished in a close pack with junior Keith Cowart placing first with a time of 17:33. Senior Sam Hinton finished second with an 18:01, and not far behind was junior Spencer Wilson with a third-place finish and a time of 18:07. Senior Zac Towns and sophomore Chris Elniff came in sixth and seventh with a very close time of 18:15. Senior Brian Gerstner finished eighth and clocked in at 18:23. Rounding up the top seven was sophomore Caj Kueffer, finishing strong with a 19:11 and 14th place finish.
"The race was painful but I did my best to work through it," said Cowart about the start of the season.
First-time varsity runner Kueffer agreed with Cowart about the pain factor.
"I felt good the first two and a half miles, after that I felt like I hit a very big wall," Kueffer said.
Even with all the pain, the boys managed to pull off a near perfect score of 19.
"We had a very strong race. I was very pleased with our effort," coach Mike Spielman said. "We just need to keep improving."
The boys are all looking forward to continuing their place as "Top Dogs" in Baldwin High School history. Their next race is 9:30 a.m., Saturday in Wamego.
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The head of the democratic bloc in the Tunisian parliament, Hisham Al-Ajbouni, considered today, Saturday, that what is happening in Tunisia has reached an “unprecedented degree of tampering with the interests of the country, badness and vilification of the parliamentary and political scene.”
Al-Ajbouni confirmed that Parliament Speaker Rashid al-Ghannushi “bears a great responsibility for what happens through his administration of the council,” considering that “his management of the parliament is disastrous,” according to a post he wrote on his Facebook account.
Al-Ajbouni indicated that the Speaker of Parliament “has begun, through his chief of staff and advisors, to violate the internal system in a scandalous and systematic manner.”
For his part, the head of the National Reform Bloc in Parliament, Deputy Hassouna Al-Nasifi, strongly criticized the chaos that took place on Friday in Parliament, after the head of the Al-Karama coalition bloc Saif Al-Din Makhlouf attempted to introduce those who said he was a “strange person” to Parliament, which turned out to be prohibited from traveling.
Al-Nasafi said, “The serious transgressions that occurred in the parliament yesterday, amounting to interference in the security issue and the blatant attack on the sanctity of the parliament, its deputies and its security, were with support, assistance and under an unambiguous official cover from the presidency of the parliament.”
Al-Nasifi said in a post on his Facebook page, “What happened” is another indication and a message with a guaranteed arrival. He said that it “provides evidence that the danger has reached its limits and no one will be excluded from us.”
In turn, the head of the Free Constitutional Party bloc, Abeer Musa, today, Saturday, called the Minister of the Interior, Justice and Presidency of the Republic to take immediate action in this file related to events witnessed by Parliament yesterday, Friday.
Moussa said: “We are awaiting a move by the deputies to sign a petition of 73 deputies to withdraw confidence from the Speaker of Parliament, Rashid al-Ghannushi,” noting that “the Free Constitutional Party will take an arsenal of measures, if the files are not resolved.”
Commenting on these accelerating developments in the parliamentary scene, political analyst Hisham Al-Hajji told Erm News that “the return of calls to withdraw confidence from Parliament Speaker Rashid Al-Ghannushi reflects a case of lack of conviction of Al-Ghannushi’s ability to manage the fierce battles within the Legislative Council that Away from the objectives for which the deputies were elected.
Al-Hajji added that “There is a political and moral responsibility for the presidency of Parliament for everything that happens within it, and therefore any transgression takes place and if the (Renaissance) movement is not involved in it, then the Speaker of Parliament, who is the leader of the movement, is primarily responsible for the consequences of that transgression and deviation from controls political work”.
For his part, the researcher in political science, Mohamed Amin Al-Aqil, warned that the scenes of rivalries and slashes within the parliament are repeated, this legislative institution loses its value to the general public, and leads to further underestimation of the political scene, and this is what Tunisia has been experiencing since the beginning of the current parliament in its parliamentary era after elections October 2019 ″.
Al-Aqel added, in an interview with “Erm News,” that “the call of political circles within parliament to withdraw confidence from its president Rashid Ghannouchi coincided with the efforts of the Ennahda movement to pressure the prime minister, perhaps to push him towards resignation or withdraw confidence from him, making the political scene extremely fragile And it threatens the collapse of all the consequences of the 2019 elections, which will push towards more social tension. ”
A few weeks ago, Ghannouchi faced mounting calls to withdraw confidence from him, against the backdrop of his interference in managing the country’s foreign policy, in violation of his powers, and in conflict with the official position of Tunisian diplomacy.


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One hundred and fifty years ago this summer, a still-young nation known as the United States of America faced its greatest challenge. Armies of brothers dressed in blue and grey clashed in a small Pennsylvania town called Gettysburg.
More than just the outcome of a battle hung in the balance. So did our form of government. Would the Founding Fathers’ great experiment prove to be a failure?
The fact that our Founders were brilliant men is beyond debate, but they were not perfect. Once the Revolutionary War was won, they needed to form a government. But what type?
During the war the Founders drafted the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, designed to loosely bind the states together and ensure peace and harmony among them after the war. It was finally ratified by the states in 1781 and became the law of the land.
When the war ended in 1783, the Articles of Confederation were the contract by which the states cooperated, but the governing body it created had very little power. The articles soon proved to be insufficient to hold the Union together.
In 1787 a new Constitutional Convention was called in Philadelphia to revise the Articles and address the document’s shortcomings. Instead, the delegates decided to begin new, to form a national government that would, from the start, address the issues the Articles didn't, as well as any other problems they could foresee.
It was a risky endeavor that went well beyond the mission with which their respective states had charged them. They knew the weaknesses of the Articles and did their best to tackle them in what became the Constitution of the United States.
More than that, they had the foresight to recognize that nothing they could come up with would be flawless. So they created a mechanism by which the document could be amended to address situations as they arose.
They knew that perfection was reserved for God, so they did not strive for that. In the preamble to the Constitution, they stated clearly that their objective was to “form a more perfect union.” And in that document they moved further toward perfection than any government had before or since.
Not everyone was happy with the Constitution. In fact, no one was completely happy with it. Rhode Island, for example, refused to send a representative to the convention. But the state had the wisdom to see the convention had addressed the problems in the Articles of Confederation and created a government with which they could all live and flourish.
Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the most respected member of the Constitutional Convention, wasn't completely satisfied either, but he helped steer the convention to approve the Constitution so it could be sent to the states for ratification. He knew it was the best that they as human beings could do.
“There are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve,” he said, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. … I doubt too whether any other Convention we can obtain, may be able to make a better Constitution. … It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection is it does, and I think it will astonish our enemies.”
It did. It was sent to the states for their approval, and of course it was approved. On March 4th, 1789, the government created by the Constitution came into existence. It has been working ever since.
The Founding Fathers had successfully identified and addressed the problems in the Articles of Confederation and had moved the U.S. government closer to perfection.
It took a bloody and protracted civil war to really test it, however. Nothing less than our Constitution was on the line in July 1863. It survived, but many more challenges lie ahead.
The task remains uncompleted today. It remains for us -- and for those who will come after us -- to make it more perfect still.

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When even the most insignificant problem arises in your relationship, you experience a roller coaster of emotions, including elation, euphoria, increased energy, inability to sleep, loss of appetite, trembling, a racing heart, and rapid breathing, as well as anxiety, panic, and feelings of hopelessness.
What are the signs that you are in love?
You sense a deep connection. When you’re in love, you probably feel as though your life, feelings, and goals are intertwined with the person you’re with. You get the impression that you know and understand that person, and the amount of sympathy you feel for them is far more than the amount of sympathy you feel for people whom you do not love.
What does love feel like to a man?
Love, in a man’s perspective, is best shown via acts than than words.Therefore, make it a priority to comprehend the manner in which they convey their emotions, and work toward appreciating it.This is the method that your boyfriend expresses his love for you.
- On the other hand, a woman shows her love by the words that she says; she may spend an entire day telling you how much she loves you and how much she cares about you.
What behaviors do women show when they’re in love?
The following is a list of ten behaviors that a woman displays when she is in love. 1. An introverted demeanor. A lady who is falling in love with you will display uncommon levels of shyness. In contrast, when she is spending time with her friends or other guys who aren’t the object of her romantic interest, she may be much more extroverted and rowdy than usual.
Why does love Make you Feel So Good?
And when we experience positive emotions, there is typically a significant amount of dopamine involved. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that is released by the brain whenever a person, whether they are a man or a woman, experiences any form of pleasure, including love. In addition, dopamine causes an increase in the quantity of testosterone that is produced in the body.
What true love feels like?
Feels like immediate attraction mixed with a little bit of trepidation. That’s how passionate love feels. According to Lewandowski, it’s described as having the ″feeling of butterflies in your stomach.″ ″It’s an overwhelming sensation of delight, but since it feels so strong, it might also seem a bit uncertain,″ the speaker said.
How does a girl react when she is in love?
Those who are falling in love have a strong want to be physically near to the person they are falling for. A lady who is in love will want to feel the warmth of your body near to hers whenever possible, whether it means placing her head on your shoulder while you’re chilling on the sofa or reaching out to take a guy’s hand while they’re strolling down the street.
What makes a woman feel loved in a relationship?
When you open up to women about your thoughts, feelings, and experiences — both the good and the bad – they get the impression that they are appreciated.They are not interested in hearing about each and every fear and concern that you have, but they are interested in hearing about the struggles and obstacles that you are facing.They want to be there for you in the same way that they appreciate you being there for them because it shows how much they care.
How do you know you are deeply in love?
- These Are the Signs That Are Backed by Science You are Completely Swept Away by Love Your attention is drawn to their appearance
- You’ve begun to breathe in time with them, and it’s looking good.
- The world looks like it could be getting better.
- You and I share the same sense of humor in regards to everything.
- You don’t have the feeling that you need to maintain any secrets
- You’ve been obsessed about your lover
What do girls do when in love?
- 15 Things a Girl Does That Shows She’s Falling in Love With You She becomes your cheerleader
- She relaxes her guard while she is in your presence
- Send you a flurry of endearing messages by SMS
- Advocates on your behalf
- The eyes of a puppy are fixed on you
- When you put effort into your appearance, people tend to gaze
- Touches you
- She hugs you for an extended period of time
What do girls feel when kissed?
Kissing causes the production of serotonin, another feel-good hormone, in addition to the feel-good chemicals oxytocin and dopamine, which provide feelings of affection and joy. In addition to this, it reduces cortisol levels, which results in a feeling of increased relaxation and, ultimately, a better experience overall.
What a woman needs from her man?
It is essential for a woman to know that her guy loves her profoundly, intimately, utterly, and completely.She needs to have the experience of feeling your love encircle her heart just as your arms encircle her body.She must have the experience of being appreciated, adored, and wanted.
- She wants to be certain that she is the sole recipient of your admiration (if you are monogamous), and that it will always be reserved for her.
What does a girl expect from her boyfriend?
As a boyfriend, women are looking for someone who is reliable and who can be trusted to keep his word.Being open-minded is a quality that should be present in a potential lover.He needs to learn not to be so traditional and to give her and her girl some room to breathe.
- Being in a relationship with a man who is overly possessive is comparable to taking your own life because you will not be able to breathe.
How should a man love a woman?
- Dear Men: How to Communicate Your Love for the Woman in Your Life This is a serious error. It is not true that a guy who has married a woman should stop pursuing her romantically just because they are married.
- Offer her some compliments and let her know that you think her appealing
- Connection on an Emotional Level
- She desires to be treated with respect.
What a man will do if he loves you?
- What are ten signs that a man genuinely cares about you and wants the best for you? a stronger emphasis on the emotional rather than the physical bond
- He is concerned about your safety and wants to stand up for you.
- He maintains a steady conversation with you
- When he talks about you to other people, he gushes about how happy you make him.
- He is excited to have the opportunity to present you to his loved ones


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Pension Fund Losses Hit States Hard
When total state government revenues across the nation plummeted by a record-breaking 30.8 percent in 2009, the steep investment losses of pension funds proved to be an even bigger drain on state coffers than recession-battered tax collections, according to census data released Wednesday.
States reported $1.1 trillion in total revenues in 2009, down from $1.6 trillion a year earlier — the steepest drop the United States Census Bureau has reported since it began collecting data on state government finances in 1951.
Tax collections fell by $66 billion, blowing a hole in the operating budgets of many states. But the biggest losses will be felt only in the future: states reported a $477 billion decline in what the census calls “insurance trust revenue,” mostly from pension funds but also from funds for unemployment insurance and workers’ compensation.
It is hardly a secret that the bursting of the housing bubble and the Great Recession pummeled state finances. But the new census data, for the fiscal year that ended for most states at the end of June 2009, provides the most comprehensive view yet of the decisions states made in the year they saw their revenues fall by record amounts.
The data told a tale of states struggling to adapt to the new fiscal reality. Thanks to an infusion of federal aid, largely from the stimulus, states saw their general revenues decrease by only 1.4 percent — but general expenditures by state governments rose by 3 percent.
The downturn gave states new priorities and needs. As more people lost their jobs, states found themselves paying $66 billion in unemployment benefits in 2009, up from the $35 billion that they had paid a year earlier.
Donald J. Boyd, a senior fellow at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government in Albany, said the new census data showed how state governments as a whole began to respond to the recession in what he called “the year of shock and awe for state government taxes.”
Public welfare spending rose 6.1 percent in 2009, as needs rose during the prolonged recession and the federal stimulus bill provided more money to states for programs like Medicaid and the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families. But at the same time, Mr. Boyd pointed out, “spending on some of the bread-and-butter operations of government came to a virtual standstill” as corrections spending grew by only 1 percent, spending on government administration grew by less than half a percent, and spending on parks and recreation fell by 4.6 percent.
Even though President Obama only signed the stimulus bill into law in February 2009, midway through the fiscal year for most states, the injection of federal money helped offset some of the loss of tax revenue: total federal grants to the states rose by nearly 13 percent that year to $477.7 billion. The stimulus money is set to run out this summer — leaving states facing big deficits next year, since their tax collections, which have begun to rise again, are still far below their pre-recession levels.
The biggest loss recorded — the $477 billion decline in revenues earned by the pension funds and other social insurance trust funds — had little immediate impact on state budgets. But its effects are likely to be felt for years.
“It is truly astounding,” Mr. Boyd said of the losses. “They don’t translate immediately into budgetary stress for states. But what does happen is through the wizardry of actuarial valuations, they will drive pension contributions by states and localities up considerably in the coming years, and that’s true despite the good stock market of 2009, and the relatively good stock market of 2010.”
In his article, Michael Fletcher of the Washington Post reports, Recession-bruised states' revenue sank 30 percent in 2009:
The recession blew a huge hole in the already shaky finances of state governments, causing them to lose nearly one-third of their revenue in 2009, according to a Census Bureau report released Wednesday.
The severe drop in state revenues resulted largely from the big investment losses experienced by state pension funds during the worst period of the downturn. Also, the report said, tax revenues slipped while surging demand from newly needy citizens drained the funds that back unemployment benefits, publicly funded health care and workers' compensation.
Overall, total state government revenue dropped 30.8 percent to $1.1 trillion between fiscal 2008 and 2009, according to the report.
The economy has improved since the depths of the recession as the stock market has rebounded and state tax revenues have begun to tick upward. Still, the recession's lingering effects - particularly a national unemployment rate that is hovering at close to 10 percent - have left the vast majority of states with large budget deficits and increasing service demands.
Governors and state legislators across the country are now confronted with a series of painful choices about future service cuts and tax hikes.
Next year "will actually be the most difficult budget year for states ever," said Nicholas Johnson, director of the state fiscal project at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. "If you look at the gap between the cost of providing public services and the revenue available to provide them, it remains very large," he added.
States' continued fiscal problems are projected to be a drag on the broader economic recovery as state payrolls are likely to shrink and state contracts to private companies are likely to be pared back.
Despite billions in emergency aid from the federal government through various stimulus programs, 46 states had to raise taxes and make cuts to close a combined gap of $130 billion in their current budgets, according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. Moreover, 40 states already have projected budget gaps totaling $113 billion for next year, according to the center.
At the same time, states are grappling with swollen social service caseloads, underfunded pension funds and flat revenues - a situation that will worsen as federal stimulus aid comes to a halt in the coming months.
Future federal help is considered highly unlikely, as Congress and President Obama have put a greater emphasis on reducing spending and trimming the huge federal budget deficit.
The new census report adds to the bleak portrait that has emerged from other studies documenting the damage caused by the economic downturn, while making plain that states are likely to continue struggling fiscally for years.
"This report paints a fairly compelling picture of the impact of the recession on states," said Susan K. Urahn, managing director of the Pew Center on the States. "There are many states predicting that they're not going return to pre-recession levels of revenue until 2014."
In Virginia, revenue declined 28.4 percent to $25.9 billion between fiscal 2008 and 2009. In Maryland, the decline was 15.9 percent. The report did not break out data for the District of Columbia, but the city said it saw a 5.2 percent decline during that span.
Even as revenues plummeted during the downturn, the report said, state government expenditures grew 3 percent. Those increases were mainly in essential services, including safety-net programs and education.
Those forces, coupled with the past reluctance of many state leaders to drastically reduce services or raise taxes, have resulted in large budget deficits in many states. Illinois, for example, has a budget deficit that is equal to 45 percent of its overall budget, according to a recent report by the Pew Center on the States and the Public Policy Institute of California. In California, the gap is equal to 13 percent of the state's total budget. In Arizona, the gap is 15 percent.
Given the growing fiscal problems, many states are moving more aggressively to rein in their costs. Last year, for example, Virginia raised the earliest retirement ages for its workers and limited cost-of-living increases for the pensions of new employees. Maryland, meanwhile, is in the midst of a debate over how to lower its future pension costs.
Tax collections account for almost half of the general revenue of states, and they plummeted by 8.5 percent between the end of fiscal 2008 and 2009, the census report said. The decline was the first year-to-year drop in tax revenues since 2002, according to the Census Bureau.
The decline in tax revenue was partially offset by a 12.9 percent increase in federal aid, which amounted to $477.7 billion in 2009, the report said.
"The basic point is we need to remember how far we fell in 2007, 2008 and 2009," Johnson said. "We're still 12 percent below where we were in revenues at the beginning of the recession, yet all the needs have gone up."
Any way you slice it, state finances are in dire straights. States need to make cuts and take tough decisions on public pension plans. I expect more states to follow Virginia in raising their minimum earliest retirement age. But that won't be enough to undo the damage caused by the recession.


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The work of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon moves from his native County Armagh in Northern Ireland to his current home in Princeton, New Jersey and many places in-between. In this public reading at Rockhurst University's Midwest Poets Series, Muldoon shares poems that span his career, including works from his 2003 Pulitzer-winning book, Moy Sand and Gravel, and his 2006 collection Horse Latitudes.
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