It Is All Fixable… So Let’s Make a List…
Opinion by “Deplorable” Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
In early 2016 the United States of America was, most definitely, in decline.
Unfortunately “we the people” let the situation get very bad before we said, on Election Day 2016, “enough is enough,” and stopped the globalist destruction train in it’s tracks.
Americans with common sense went to the polls and surprised a weary world beaten down by globalists, woke up a reaction, and proceeded to change the direction not just of America the Nation, but of Planet Earth.
But, Let’s Be Specific About What Needs to be addressed…
Below are sixteen problems created and maintained by liberal Democrats for the express purpose of damaging and destroying America. We need to fix them, and we can.
(1) America has lost 60,000 factories since President Bill Clinton organized, and signed into effect, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). If an average 1,000 people had jobs at each of those factories we lost sixty million (60,000,000) jobs.
We need to reopen, or replace, EVERY ONE of these. And add more.
(2) President Bill Clinton, in 1998, inserted an addition into US legislation, making Student Loans non-dischargable under bankruptcy. There are NO JOBS for most of these people and the interest on the loans builds. These loans can NEVER be paid off, leaving an entire generation of educated Americans dodging bank creditors, and having their fast-food employment wages garnisheed.
As Martin Armstrong says: “Clinton sneaked in the 1998 HEA two specific changes regarding the collection of student loans that is a brewing part of the Sovereign Debt Crisis today for students cannot discharge student loans in bankruptcy and 65% cannot find a job in what they paid for.”
Clinton created a hopelessness in an entire generation of Americans. Overall income is down. Marriages are way down.
There are several ways to fix this…
(3) The North American Health Care System (ObamaCare) is BADLY broken… Health care is offered, by the system, not based on what is most effective, and/or best for the patient, but by what is most profitable for the provider connected to, and donating to, the liberal Democrats. It gets MORE EXPENSIVE EVERY DAY. And that does not work for North America.
ObamaCare was MORE about creating Democratic Party so-called “public/private partnerships” to drain off tax money rather than creating a health care system.
The vaccine issue alone, is a microcosm of what is wrong with US health care. And, US health care is a microcosm of what’s wrong with America.
We will see this issue fought out in Washington DC, and in every State. In short, we will NOT have good health care in the US until we have made “Big Pharma” into “Little Pharma.”
(4) No immigration controls – Immigration under Obama was “Open Borders” and “Midnight Delivery of Muslims in airplanes landing at hidden airports.” California alone has twenty-seven percent of all illegal aliens and spends 30.3 billion dollars a year on them – 17.8 percent of the California State budget.
All of this was designed, and activated, ONLY to destabilize America.
We have carefully thought out Immigration laws which the liberal Democrats scoffed at. It is time to enforce them.
(5) We have “Sanctuary Cities” which are, in reality, protected Criminal Enterprise Centers, where liberal Democrats will NOT turn over non-citizen drug cartel, or human-trafficking, leaders to the feds.
We need to start arresting local “Sanctuary Cities” government people and jamming them into jail cells. Once Trump has his regional Federal Prosecutors in place this can start.
(6) We have an 18 trillion dollar National Debt. Obama created most of it, making it seem impossible to pay off. How? Obama passed out money to liberal Democrats so fast the printing presses were working night and day.
But, it is fixable.
(7) We have an out-of-control banking system. Bill Clinton and cronies repealed Glass-Steagall allowing banks to go nuts, creating the international banking crisis in 2008, nearly destroying the world economy.
There is a solution.
(8) Liberal Democrats in power created a massive Federal and State regulatory scheme designed to destroy not only American Industry but also to remove people from rural communities into inner cities under a pile of strange city planning – all under New World Order Agenda 21 guidance.
Trump, and his teams, are already on this. He wants 3,200 people fired at the EPA immediately. Other Republicans are carrying bills to shut the EPA down completely.
(9) Fake Climate Change – caused by Obamadust. Trump stopped California’s eight year drought by simply re-directing the airplanes spraying overhead.
This fake “climate change” weather control program needs to be completely revamped or discarded.
(10) Spying on Americans – The Vault Seven Wikileaks documents show that Obama turned sixteen US Intelleigence Agencies inward, spying on Americans 70% of their time. There are cameras watching Americans everywhere.
This all needs to stop.
(11) Violating the Constitution – The liberal Democrats set up networks to violate Americans’ rights in every way they could think of.
Trump teams are working on this problem as we speak.
(12) Setting up to have the US military to arrest and detain Americans under the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Obama did this with a Democratic Congress.
(13) GMO farming taking over in the US – Not only does fresh produce available in stores taste like you are eating the paper bag it came in, but that pretty orange is half orange half mosquito mixed with two gallons of bug killer.
Europe, Russia, etc., won’t allow this crap to be sold as food. Why do we?
(14) Rearranging our educational system as a State Religion to counter the parental training of children to abide by the Judeo/Christian ethic.
You know there is a problem when your seven-year-old comes home from school and says “I want to be a transgender when I grow up!”
(15) The use of Federal agencies to attack competitors to liberal Democratic Party interests. Obama set the IRS on
Conservatives. Every health agency under the Obama administration attacked competitors to drug companies.
(16) Allowing the import of vaccines and dangerous prescription drugs made in foreign countries without any inspections for contamination or quality. There is no excuse for this.
It is time to stop being nice, PC, and forgiving…
Think – Grand Juries, Federal Prosecutors, chain gangs,,,
Opinion by “Deplorable” Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen


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The fact of the matter is, they come at the same events from the same place and time from very different perspectives and for very different reasons. The historian is not only interested in documents written by professional historians, but he gathers information from every source possible and assesses the reliability of these sources professionally and compares what he finds with what he knows from other disciplines an areas of research–all of which give him many pieces of the puzzle to build up the complete picture.
So what do professional, classical historians make of the documents of the New Testament? The question has been answered pretty comprehensively over at the ChristianCADRE blog. Here are some excerpts from the excellent article:
Michael Grant, a leading classical historian in his day, took the Gospels seriously as historical sources…concluding that from them “the main lines of [Jesus’] career and thinking and teaching can to some considerable extent be reconstructed.” Grant, The History of Rome, page 337. Grant also discusses Acts, stating that while it is not as reliable as Paul’s letters, “facts can also be derived from the Acts of the Apostles” and “the rest of the book contains a good deal of by no means unreliable historical material.” Ibid., page 344.
Grant also wrote a book entitled Jesus, An Historian’s Review of the Gospels. It is an interesting insight into how a respected classical historian treated the Gospels. While Grant finds reason to doubt some details in the Gospel narratives, he accepts them as useful historical sources about the historical Jesus. Ibid., page 199-200. He had scorn for the Jesus Myth idea, writing, “if we apply to the New Testament, as we should, the same sort of criteria as we should apply to other ancient writings containing historical material, we can no more reject Jesus’ existence than we can reject the existence of a mass of pagan personages whose reality as historical figures is never questioned.”
Moreover, some of Grant’s conclusions are supportive of Christianity’s most important claim. For example, Grant accepts the historicity of the discovery of Jesus’ empty tomb: “If we apply the same criteria that we would apply to other ancient literary sources, the evidence is firm and plausible enough to necessitate the conclusion that the tomb was indeed found empty.” Ibid., page 176. Finally, Grant found that much of contemporary Jesus studies was too skeptical of the gospel sources, saying that such scholarship “is too extreme a viewpoint and would not be applied in other fields.” Ibid., page 201.
Two other leading classicists also viewed the Gospels and Acts as useful historical sources: Robin L. Fox and A.N. Sherwin White. Fox, perhaps most famous for his book Pagans & Christians, is a Fellow of New College, Oxford, and University Reader in Ancient History. An avowed atheist, Fox wrote a book about the Bible called The Unauthorized Version. Although critical of what he perceives as fundamentalist views of the Bible, Fox reaches some quite conservative conclusions, such as that the Gospel of John was written by an eyewitness and that Luke-Acts was written by a companion of Paul. Indeed, Fox accepts much of Acts as historical, and states, “I regard it as certain, therefore, that he knew Paul and followed parts of his journey…. He had no written sources, but in Acts he himself was a primary source for a part of the story. He wrote the rest of Acts from what individuals told him and he himself had witnessed, as did Herodotus and Thucydides….” Ibid., page 210.
Sherwin-White was an eminent Roman historian at Oxford and member of the British Academy. One of his books, Roman Law and Roman Society in the New Testament, focuses on the earliest Christian documents’ relationship with the broader Roman context. Again and again he finds the New Testament documents to be worthy of a high level of trust. When it comes to Acts, for example, Sherwin-White states, “For Acts the confirmation of history is overwhelming” and that “any attempt to reject its basic historicity even in matters of detail must now appear absurd. Roman historians have long taken it for granted.” Ibid., page 189.
As to the gospels, Sherwin-White determined that it is unlikely that the Gospels were predominantly legendary, though he does think they must be read as written with agendas and for polemical purposes: “The agnostic type of form-criticism would be much more credible if the compilation of the Gospels were much later in time…. Herodotus enables us to test the tempo of myth-making, [showing that] even two generations are too short a span to allow the mythical tendency to prevail over the hard historic core.” Ibid., pages 189-190.
Sherwin-White’s statements about most classicists having faith in the New Testament documents receives further support from the reviews of his own book and by the works of other classicists. John Crook reviewed Roman Society and Roman Laws for Classical Review and agreed that Acts is “an historical source talking about exactly the same world as Tacitus and Suetonius.” He thought that Sherwin-White’s work “support the authenticity in detail of Acts.” Classical Review 14 (1964): 198-200; another reviewer, J. J. Nicholls, agreed with Sherwin-White that the Gospels and Acts “are to be treated as equally serious and valuable evidence” as other ancient historians, such as Herodotus, Thucydides, and Tacitus. Journal of Religious History (1964): 92-95.
Other classical historians have used the Gospels and Acts as sources of historical data. Connect with the original article to learn more. For example: Martin Goodman, Professor of Jewish Studies at Oxford who specializes in Jewish and Roman history, relies on Acts in his conclusion that “a Roman citizen could appeal to the emperor, as did Paul in c. 60 before the Roman governor of Judaea, Festus, when the latter wanted to send him to Jerusalem to be tried by the Jewish authorities.” His only cite for the statement is Acts 25:10-12. Goodman, Rome and Jerusalem, page 73.
Some will claim that because the origin of the gospels is disputed their historical data is unreliable. however, not only do classical historians as well as “biblical historians” rely on the Gospels and Acts as sources of historical data, they rely on other ancient documents of disputed provenance. Check out the original article for more. An example of this is The Augustan History this is
“an ancient document with a terrible reputation, much worse than any of the Gospels or Acts. It is a collection of more than two dozen Roman biographies that purports to be by six different authors and cite hundreds of sources, but is likely is the result of one author… the documents referenced “range from the suspicious to the outrageously false.” Despite the big question marks about authorship and date and reliability, the historian Mellor treats the document seriously, noting that “historians cannot afford to cast aside any substantial source, [so] it is necessary to analyze the lives carefully to see what may come from reliable earlier sources.”
Therefore, when we take the gospels for what they are–a kind of folk history of the predominantly Jewish community of disciples of Jesus Christ, and we see that they match up with all the geographical and archeological details that we have discovered, that they report accurately on the Jewish customs, Scriptures and religious practices of this place and time period, that they reflect accurately the political and ethnic situation in Palestine during the reported time period, that they fit neatly into all that is known from that place and time period, and they record details that only eyewitnesses could have known, we can confidently trust in their historicity.

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Last week was rough.
I wanted to post, but after a couple of deaths in my circle, I just wanted to go to bed after work. Usually I can push through and even blog the next day, but I simply didn’t have it in me… so I thought.
When I’m full (sad, tired, excited, all of it), one of my coping behaviors is to free write. Whatever is on my mind ends up on the page. Sometimes it’s difficult to read later, but at least it isn’t swirling in my soul without a place to land or filling my mind with stress. In this case, I was sad and frustrated at the grieving process. In essence, I wanted the rawness of the loss to pass. The part of grief where everything is firing and numb at the same time. So, I wrote the following to keep the process moving. I hope it gives you hope if you’re experiencing the same.
When Pillars Pass
When a person that has shaped your life passes away, the Earth shifts a little. She knows she is carrying a heavyweight. She welcomes the return. She exhales in relief and says welcome home. When her role is fulfilled, the spirit of that Pillar ascends to its Originator and the sky opens up her arms and smiles. “Hello, Baby,” she says like an 85-year-old grandmother with cocoa-weathered skin and a warm smile spread across her face. Head slightly tilted to let you know it’s real. I believe that’s what happens when we die.
But when Pillars pass… when a person who amplified divine gifts in you, there’s more. Let me explain how it feels to me.
Pillars aren’t supposed to move. They’re the support beams of your existence. All around, you can find their impact on your life. So when they die, a vacuum effect removes the land from beneath your feet. All that you know and reverenced. All that you upheld now feels like grains of sand you can’t stop from falling between your fingers. It’s an alternate reality. Your footing feels off like you’re in a wicked funhouse. You can tell your axis has changed, but before you lose all control, those grains of sand start filling the holes beneath your feet. You remember the words he said and the cakes she made. You hear his laughter as the sand migrates toward your heart. Wisdom. Jokes. Phone calls. Food runs. The memories overtake you and suddenly, you are sonically surrounded by the beauty of her voice.
Then, you smile.
The sand starts to feel more like a warm blanket of comfort. It doesn’t take away the sting of their absence, but it does create a force field of love around you. Whatever she deposited in you floats to the surface. His life-giving words are saturated enough to water your soul again.
That’s the beauty of Pillars. Although it hurts like hell to lose them, they give you everything you need to stand on your own. Everything you need to continue.
I wish I could press a big pause button that would prevent them from passing away, but deep down we know those people in our lives will transition at some point. So, what do you do when it happens? You remember their gifts. You recall their lessons. You remind yourself that you were a vessel they valued and that they shared priceless oil with you.
I know it’s difficult.
I know the tears are inevitable.
It doesn’t mean your grief is weak.
It means you were blessed to be born into her family. You were favored to cross paths with him. Take daily comfort in knowing that s/he knew you were good ground to sow their seeds. The same seeds of wisdom and skill they could have died with are now in you.
So use them and sow them well. Don’t let their teaching die with you. Don’t let the natural process of grief choke the new growth that is happening inside.
Grow up and be a Pillar to someone else.
The same oil is still needed.
I’m praying for all of you that are missing your loved ones. I’m so sorry you’re hurting. You are surrounded by prayers of love, peace, comfort, and warm memories that make you smile. 🙂
Peace & Thanks for listening!

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Since 1993, Mexico's northern border town of Ciudad Juarez has been haunted by hundreds of murders of its young women -- many of them workers who took the bus to the city’s border assembly plants (or maquiladoras). Now a female vigilante who reportedly wears a blond wig and calls herself "Diana the Hunter of Bus Drivers" is setting out to avenge the violence committed against women in Juarez -- both the murder victims and the growing number of women claiming to have been sexually assaulted by local bus drivers. (Police are currently investigating 12 such assault claims.) "Diana" has claimed responsibility for the shooting deaths of two male bus drivers last week; both buses ran on routes that transport many women to work in the assembly plants. On Wednesday, the vigilante reportedly boarded one of the buses, "approached the driver, took out a pistol, shot him in the head and left the bus." She did the same thing to another bus driver the next day.
As quoted in Diario de Juarez, a witness claims to have heard the criminal ask her second victim, "You guys think you're real bad, don't you?" before shooting him. People on the scene described the killer as being in her fifties, and around 5'4".
Half of the drivers who work that bus route didn't show up for work on Tuesday for fear of encountering the shooter.In a recent, sinister turn that feels straight out of one of the pulpy crime shows I love so much, "Diana" outlined her motives in a creepy anonymous letter to authorities; she also promised more violence to come. Her note reportedly read, in part, “We were victims of sexual violence by drivers who worked during the night shift at the [plants] in Juarez. While many people know about our suffering, nobody defends us or does anything to protect us. They think that we are weak because we are women. I am an instrument of vengeance.”Juarez, across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, has grown infamous for its rash of hundreds of scarily similar murders, generally of slim young women with dark skin and hair. The numbers are a bit spotty, but Amnesty International estimates that more than 407 women have been killed there since '93. Their bodies were often found weeks or months later, strangled, raped, sometimes tortured and mutilated, then abandoned in the desert or vacant lots.Though the murders have attracted plenty of international attention (even from Hollywood -- see FX's crime show "The Bridge" and the J. Lo movie "Bordertown"), the Mexican government's inability to nab the serial killer(s) and bring them to justice has infuriated activists and locals.
Dozens of men have been arrested as possible suspects, but the killings didn't stop. According to the Guardian, "several bus drivers were once arrested in connection with those killings –- one had his conviction overturned and his co-defendant, another bus driver, died in prison before sentencing." In 2001, police created a task force dedicated to investigating the murders, offering a $21,500 reward for capture of the killer(s). It didn't work, although overall violence in Juarez did decline significantly in 2012 from its peak in 2010.Still, the rage felt by "Diana the Hunter" and other women -- both local residents and activists everywhere -- is understandable. I've been aware of the case for years, and I feel that shock and rage, myself. So many murders, so little progress.
And though I love a good story about kickass female heroines fighting back to put evil, rapey men in their place, this "Diana the Hunter" case is obviously WAY darker and more complex, because it's not a story -- it's, you know, REAL. "Diana" is a killer. Though she seems to be hoping her actions will force officials to act on the violence that local women have experienced for years, it's doubtful that taking matters into her own hands in such a terrible way will do anything to make it better.
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Bodog Offices in Philippines Raided
Reports are circulating regarding the police raid that took place on the Bodog offices in the Philippines, and before we go any further it's well worth pointing out that this does not affect their operations in anyway. It was in fact Bodog founder Mr Calvin Ayre who delivered the news via his website CalvinAyre.com and stated that employees were being questioned in a company boardroom, and apparently police are looking for names and contact details of those people that they wish to speak to.
CalvinAyre.com reports that the raid was led by a former Bodog employee by the name of Jan Robert Gustafsson who is in fact currently under indictment and the site says that, "The timing is no coincidence as three more charges were laid today against Gustafsson,Sherwin Quiambao, Arleen Aldaba and Patrik Selin. The current charges stem from more findings in the ongoing forensic audit looking into the past dealings of Gustafsson et al. during their time with the Asian online gaming company."
The are also rumors that, and they are only rumors, that Bodog has been running a street level numbers game to residents in the Philippines and that is in contradiction to their licensing laws in the country. It would seem extremely odd, given the fact that Bodog are a truly international company that carry some weight in the world of online gaming, that they would risk their license in the Philippines, and in a statement to poker forum PocketFives, Bodog Manilla have stated that, "As you may have heard, Bodog Asia has been falsely accused of running a numbers game to residents of the Philippines (part of our license agreement is not to offer services to residents of the Philippines and, therefore, we do not). The local police are, however, obliged to follow up the accusation and we are, of course, fully cooperating with them to quickly clear up the situation. In the meantime, some of our services are, naturally, being disrupted as our staff help the police. We are confident this issue will be resolved quickly with minimum disruption to our customers and we thank you for your patience." It does seem likely that this will all come to nothing and we doubt very much indeed that customers will be affected in anyway at all.

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- 1 Are Duramax engines made in America?
- 2 Is the Duramax diesel a good engine?
- 3 What is the best Duramax engine made?
- 4 What year is the best Duramax engine?
- 5 Is Duramax better than Cummins?
- 6 Are Duramax engines made by Isuzu?
- 7 How many miles will a Duramax last?
- 8 How many miles will a LML Duramax last?
- 9 Why did Nissan stop using Cummins engines?
- 10 How reliable is the 6.6 Duramax?
- 11 Who makes the most reliable diesel engines?
- 12 How much horsepower can you get out of a 6.6 Duramax?
- 13 What problems do LBZ Duramax have?
- 14 What is so special about the LBZ Duramax?
- 15 What year Duramax has injector problems?
Are Duramax engines made in America?
plant in Moraine, Ohio. More than 1.5 million Duramax engines have been built right here in the USA.
Is the Duramax diesel a good engine?
6.6L Duramax LB7 – Overall Best Diesel Engine
As such, it’s praised for reliability and has been regarded as a particularly economical variation of the engine. The LB7’s applications are in the GMC Sierra HD, GMC TopKick (medium duty), Chevrolet Silverado HD, and Chevrolet Kodiak (medium duty).
What is the best Duramax engine made?
The Duramax L5P, the current model first released in the 2017 model year, easily takes the crown as the best Duramax engine yet produced. We’ll discuss the many upgrades of the L5P at the end of this article.
What year is the best Duramax engine?
2006-2007 2500 & 3500. Perhaps the most desired of all Duramax models are the ’06-’07 Classic body style trucks.
Is Duramax better than Cummins?
Their high horsepower and torque outputs directly compete with Cummins engines, as well as PowerStroke. In addition to durability, Duramax engines are known for their quiet performance. The Duramax LP5 in particular is 38% quieter than previous versions.
Are Duramax engines made by Isuzu?
The 6.6-liter Duramax is produced by DMAX, a joint venture between GM and Isuzu in Moraine, Ohio.
How many miles will a Duramax last?
Most reputable organizations, such as the Association of Diesel Specialists, would agree that the 6.6l Duramax is one of the most reliable diesel motors available today. Provided proper maintenance, it can easily hit the 350,000 mile mark, with some users claiming 400-500,000 miles is the norm.
How many miles will a LML Duramax last?
GM has given the engine a 95% rating at 200,000 miles, meaning 95% of all engines should reach 200,000 miles of service, based on durability and wear.
Why did Nissan stop using Cummins engines?
Nissan is discontinuing its diesel-powered Titan XD pickup due to low sales. Backed by a five-year, 100,000-mile bumper-to-bumper warranty, the 310-horsepower, Cummins V-8 XD delivers 310 hp, 555 lb. -ft. of torque, and a maximum towing capacity of 12,830 pounds.
How reliable is the 6.6 Duramax?
Common Problems with the 6.6L Duramax Diesel. The 6.6L Duramax has been in production since 2001 and has proved, on a large scale, to be a relatively reliable and durable platform. While various versions of the engine have surfaced over the years, all generations of the Duramax are based on the same foundation.
Who makes the most reliable diesel engines?
We have successfully selected 14 of the best modern diesel engines.
- BMW M57 Engine.
- Fiat 1.9 JTD Engine.
- Fiat 2.0 JTD Engine.
- Hyundai / Kia 1.6 CRDi Engine.
- Honda 2.2 CTDi Engine.
- Mercedes 2.1 OM611 Engine.
- PSA-Ford 1.4 / 1.6 HDi (8 / 16V) Engine.
- PSA-Ford 2.0 HDi (8 / 16V) Engine.
How much horsepower can you get out of a 6.6 Duramax?
For reference, the 6.6L V8 L5P Duramax engine is rated at 445 horsepower at 2,800 rpm and 910 pound-feet of torque at 1,600 rpm from the factory. The engine is only available in the current Chevrolet Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD, where it is paired with an Allison-branded 10-speed automatic.
What problems do LBZ Duramax have?
5 Most Common LBZ Duramax 6.6L Engine Problems
- Cracked Pistons.
- Water Pump Failure.
- Glow Plug Failure.
- Transmission Line Leaks.
- EGR Valve Failure.
What is so special about the LBZ Duramax?
The LBZ was the first Duramax engine to be paired with the six-speed Allison 1000 automatic transmission. The new six-speed was capable of handling more power than the previous five-speed. In performance terms, this means they were capable of handling about 100 more horsepower than the previous engines.
What year Duramax has injector problems?
What year Duramax has injector problems? The LB7 Duramax built from 2001 – 2004.5 is known for injector failure.


Boris Johnson urges countries to ‘pull together’ to create coronavirus vaccine
- Credit: PA
Boris Johnson is urging every country to work together in response to the coronavirus pandemic to form a vaccine, which he describes as the 'most urgent shared endeavour of our lifetimes'.
The prime minister is expected to tell an online pledging conference - co-hosted by the UK and eight other countries and organisations - that the sooner states share their expertise the faster scientists will succeed in defeating the disease.
The PM will tell Monday's conference, part of a Brussels initiative, that the race to develop a vaccine is 'not a competition between countries but the most urgent shared endeavour of our lifetimes'.
'It's humanity against the virus - we are in this together and together we will prevail,' he is expected to say.
On Sunday Michael Gove said that some social distancing measures would remain in place until a vaccine has been developed but that the government would seek to restore people's lives to 'as close to normal as possible'.
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The chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster warned that people would have to live with 'some degree of constraint' until they can be immunised against the deadly disease - suggesting Britons would have to accept a 'new normal'.
The cabinet minister told the daily Downing Street press conference: 'Ultimately, unless and until we have a vaccine then I suspect that we are going to have to live with some degree of constraint because of the nature of the virus.
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'But we obviously want to, wherever possible, and consistent with the measures on public health, restore people's lives to as close to normal as possible.'
He said the government will pursue a 'phased approach' to removing lockdown restrictions rather than a sudden return to 'the old normal' - and that the easing had to be done in a 'cautious fashion'.
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If you take nothing else away from Cee-Lo‘s music, bear in mind that the man goes hard in the paint in just about everything he does. When he was scorned, we got F*ck You, which became an anthem for unrequited love and embittered exes everywhere. The wounds have since healed and now he’s swooning hard with his heart on his sleeve in his latest single Fool For You. If producer Jack Splash was trying to make it sound like ‘Lo went back in time and recorded a song with Earth, Wind & Fire then he succeeded. If you listen carefully, you’ll hear EW&F front man Philip Bailey’s distinct falsetto vocals backing him up, bringing the whole sound full circle. As if that weren’t enough, R&B chanteuse Melanie Fiona hops on board with a sultry verse to express her equally swoon-worthy sentiments. This song has been criminally overlooked on the album. While F*ck You is a great song, it often requires a time and a place. Fool For You is everyday music that just makes you feel good whenever you listen to it.
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CALGARY – Oil shipments present the single biggest growth opportunity for Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. as a pipeline squeeze forces energy firms to get their product to market by other means, the company’s chief marketing officer said Tuesday.
If volumes keep up at their current rate, the railway (TSX:CP) is poised to ship more than 70,000 carloads of crude per year, Jane O’Hagan told analysts on a conference call to discuss Canadian Pacific’s fourth-quarter results.
During the last three months of 2012, CP’s industrial products segment saw a 19 per cent rise in revenues, with a big contribution from long-haul crude oil traffic.
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Looting the Looters: Theft at the British Museum
What happens when the looters are looted? Perhaps that strange sense of satisfaction called justice, an offence canceled by another. One, therefore, greets the realisation that the British Museum has been suffering a number of such cases with some smugness. What makes them even more striking is the inability of staff to have picked up on the matter in the first place. When they did come to light, the habitual tendency to bury, or deny matters as best as possible, also found form.
On August 16, the British Museum stated in a press release that an independent review into its security was being launched “after items from the collection were found to be missing, stolen or damaged.” The extent of such theft or damage is not clear, though the Museum revealed that one member of staff had been dismissed, with legal action being taken against the unnamed individual. The Metropolitan Police, through its Economic Crime Command branch, was also investigating the matter.
Led by former trustee, Sir Nigel Boardman, and Lucy D’Orsi, Chief Constable of the British Transport Police, the review is intended to furnish the Museum with “recommendations regarding future security arrangements” while also commencing “a vigorous programme to recover the missing items.”
Short on detail, the Museum gave some sense about the items involved, which were, it was keen to point out, “kept primarily for academic and research purposes.” These included “gold jewelry and gems of semi-precious stones and glass dating from the 15th century BC to the 19th century AD.”
Officials have been keen to contain the scandal, with director Hartwig Fischer insisting that this was “highly unusual.” In apologising for the whole affair, he also assured the public that “we have now brought an end to this – and we are determined to put things right.” Fischer’s own occupancy of the director’s role is also coming to an end in 2024.
The Chair of the Museum, George Osborne, formerly Chancellor of the Exchequer, even saw an opportunity to weave the theft into a strategy of reforming the institution. “This incident only reinforces the case for the re-imagination of the Museum we have embarked upon.”
The person who seems to have spurred such reimagining was subsequently identified as Peter John Higgs, a curator of Greek antiquities of some prominence. There is a delicious irony in this, given the fraught history the Museum has had with the Elgin Marbles, so brazenly taken from the Parthenon in Athens by the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in 1801.
Much the same could be said about many artifacts housed in the BM’s collections, including the Benin bronzes and the Easter Island Hoa Hakananai’a. As the notable human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson sourly remarked in 2019, “The trustees of the British Museum have become the world’s largest receivers of stolen property, and the great majority of their loot is not even on public display.”
What has since emerged is that the Museum has been less than frank about the spate of pilfering, let alone the number of items missing from its inventory. One report suggests that the number might be anywhere between 1,500 to 2,000, taken over a period of two decades.
Publicity is being made about the artifacts through official channels without much specificity, which can be taken either as a sign of acute awareness as to where they might be found, or old-fashioned, groping ignorance. Christopher Marinello, lawyer, and CEO of Art Recovery International, is of the latter view.
Higgs, it transpires, was sacked on July 5 with barely a murmur, despite having led the 2021 exhibition “Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors and Heroes,” which was received by three Australian museums and slated to arrive in Suzhou Museum in China at the end of the year. The Higgs dismissal took place, it has been reported, for his alleged role behind the disappearance of various gold jewelry, semi-precious stones, and glass.
The suspicion here is that Higgs operated stealthily, removing the objects over a number of years. Somewhat odder, and less stealthy, was how many of those objects found their way onto eBay. Prices also dramatically varied, suggesting either a cheeky sense of humour, or the understanding of an untutored eye. One item of Roman jewelry, made from onyx, valued anywhere between £25,000 and £50,000, fetched the less-than princely sum of £40.
In 2016, an unnamed antiquities expert cited in a Telegraph report began noting various listings of glass items and semi-precious gems on the e-commerce site. Pieces from the Townley collection of Graeco-Roman artifacts, which the Museum started purchasing in 1805, were spotted under an eBay seller by the name of “sultan1966.” Sultan1966 proved less than forthcoming to the expert in question when confronted about any link to Higgs.
In June 2020, the Museum was informed of the matter. In February 2021, the BBC revealed that an art dealer by the name of Ittai Gradel had alerted the institution about some of the items being sold online. Deputy director Jonathan Williams took five months to rebuff the claim: “There was no suggestion of any wrongdoing.” An unconvinced Gradel chased up matters with a museum board member, claiming that Williams and Fischer had swept “it all under the carpet.” In October 2022, Fischer repeated the line that “no evidence” of wrongdoing had been identified.
The son of the alleged perpetrator, Greg Higgs, is mightily unimpressed, declaring that his father could not have been responsible. “He’s lost his job and his reputation, and I don’t think it was fair. It couldn’t have been (him). I don’t think there is even anything missing as far as I’m aware.” The lamentable conduct by the British Museum, notably in initially insisting that nothing had gone missing, would suggest that someone is telling a glorious fib.
The Economist, in reacting to the affair, suggested that making off with such items from a museum “is easier than you might think.” But what also matters is the museum’s response to alleged claims of theft. As Marinello puts it, instances of pilfering are not unusual, but the British Museum’s failure to involve the police “right away” was nothing short of “shocking.” The Higgs matter suggests as much and is likely to prove a tonic to those seeking a return of various collections lodged in the British Museum over the years.
Lina Mendoni, Greece’s Minister of Culture, is one who wasted little time suggesting that the missing objects reinforced “the permanent and just demand of our country for the definitive return” of the Parthenon Marbles. The fact that the incidents had taken place “from within, beyond any moral and criminal responsibility” questioned “the credibility of the organisation itself.” Such theft has somehow put the universe of looted treasures into greater balance.


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“It’s a very narrowly-focused program,” Royal LePage President Phil Soper said by phone. “It’s just not a big enough slot of the market to move it.”
While there are people who will benefit, the initiative is unlikely to help those looking in Toronto or Vancouver, where the average price of a home in July was $826,165 and $982,427, respectively.
The program is available to buyers with annual household earnings of $120,000 or less, and the mortgage-to-income ratio can’t be more than four times the household income. Under those conditions, the maximum purchase price allowed is about $565,000.
That puts markets such as Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo, Greater Vancouver and Victoria out of reach of the average buyer, according to real estate website Zoocasa. Cities where home-shoppers would have more luck include Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary and Edmonton, Zoocasa said.
The program, called the First-Time Home Buyer Incentive, also will encourage construction to help ease the country’s housing-supply shortage, according to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.
“Despite the income and borrowing limits, we are confident this program can work in all markets, including Vancouver and Toronto,” Audrey-Anne Coulombe, a spokeswoman for CMHC, said in an email. The average prices in those cities “are not the same as starter-home prices. In the first quarter, 32 per cent of units sold in Toronto and 20 per cent in Vancouver were under $499,000.”
Still, the effort may result in fewer than 5,000 purchases a year, according to a report by Mortgage Professionals Canada. Buyers’ resistance to give up equity in their homes and the requirement for mortgage insurance will be a substantial impediment, said Will Dunning, chief economist for the group.
“The government says it wants to make homeownership more affordable and accessible, but its actions say otherwise,” he said. The proposals “to improve access are likely to have only small positive effects.”

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S&P 500 on verge of technical buy signal, suggesting more upside.
The S&P 500 is on the verge of flashing a closely followed technical buy signal, the “golden cross”, later this week. This occurs when the 50-day moving average moves above the 200-day moving average, indicating that more upside could be in store for the S&P 500 which is up 15% from its October low. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has already flashed the golden cross signal in December and since then, the index is about flat. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq 100 is still far away from generating a golden cross.
The golden cross is one of many trading patterns that technical analysts employ to buy stocks. The opposite signal to the golden cross is the “death cross”, which is a sell signal that triggers when the 50-day moving average crosses below the 200-day moving average. The S&P 500 flashed a death cross in March of last year, and the index subsequently went on to fall another 16% at its low.
The golden cross indicator has a success rate of 64%, according to data compiled by The Chart Report. Analyst Ian McMillan looked at a total of 81 golden crosses that occurred in the Dow Jones Industrial Average dating back to its inception in 1896. He found that on average, stocks were higher three months after a golden cross 62% of the time, and higher six months after the golden cross 64% of the time.The average three-month return when stocks were higher after a golden cross was 7.33%, while the average return six months after the golden cross was 10.65%.
Ari Wald, head of technical analysis at Oppenheimer & Co., stresses the importance that moving average crossover signals are not perfect. He says that “all big rallies start with a golden cross, but not all golden crosses lead to a big rally.” The golden cross signal is one of many trading patterns that technical analysts employ to buy stocks, while the bearish death cross is in addition to many trading patterns that traders use to sell stocks.

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Fear is not completely useless, it’s not something we need to get rid of. Fear is not something that only brings you pain. Actually, some fear brings you happiness, doesn’t it? Fear of killing someone brings you happiness. Fear of robbing banks brings you freedom––if you didn’t have this fear, you could get locked up.
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'I can't keep blaming myself for an honest mistake': Mother whose toddler drowned in the bath after she left him for 10 minutes to unload the washing says she thought her 'waterwise' son could stand up on his own
- Junior, 15-months-old, drowned in the bath on Sunday in south Adelaide
- His mother, Kelly-Anne Deverix, said she left him alone to unload laundry
- Ms Deverix, 33, said Junior was 'waterwise' and that it was a 'mistake'
- Emergency services were called to the south Adelaide property at 1.45pm
- Neighbours said police visited the house five times in recent months
The mother of a toddler who drowned on Sunday after he was left unattended in the bath said her son's death was a 'tragic mistake.'
Kelly-Anne Deverix, 33, said her 15-month-old son, Junior Paul Donley, was taking a bath just before 2pm on Sunday at her south Adelaide home when she went to unload the washing for 10 to 15 minutes, according to The Advertiser.
The mother of four said she returned from her errand to find Junior dead in the bathtub and screamed for her husband, 41-year-old Paul Donley, who performed CPR but couldn't save him.
'He was very waterwise, as you can see in the photo (taken several months ago) he could stand up. At times he could slip but was able to pick himself straight back up,' she said.
Kelly-Anne Deverix, 33, said she left her 'waterwise' 15-month-old son, Junior, (pictured) in the bath on Sunday at her south Adelaide home to unload the washing for 10 to 15 minutes
When she returned to the bathroom, the mother of four said she discovered that Junior had drowned (pictured)
'(As a parent) we know what our children are capable of and not capable of. I just took that risk and that chance which I shouldn't have,' she said.
Although her family is distraught, Ms Deverix said she 'can't go regretting.'
'I can't keep blaming myself for an honest mistake.'
Neighbours said that police had been called to the home at least five times in the past four months.
The family is also known to Families SA, according to Education and Child Development officials.
Neighbours said they had been forced to call police to deal with arguments at the property (pictured) at least five times in the past four months
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Mental health help
As a kid who grew up in a war zone, I grew up with a lot of fear.
I was always a sick child and after a while realized that most of my sickness comes from my fear. I did not know that what I really needed was mental health help.
My parents always said have faith and do not worry. But how you can you not worry if your family, friends and all those you love are under attack all the time? I always thought about how and what way I would lose them. At the end of the day, what matters is that we are all alive.
No one in Iraq thought about mental health and getting help, because if you do then people call you crazy.
When I became a refugee in the United States I started hearing terms like PTSD, depression, anxiety, and trauma. In the beginning, I did not understand all of them clearly. When I was an interpreter and was given an assignment at a mental health clinic, I started to understand what these terms mean. I also realized that I am personally suffering from PTSD and I started to realize how I suffered from depression when I was a kid. I started to research more about the terms and find ways to heal myself. I also started to share my knowledge and some practices that might help newcomers who suffer from anxiety and PTSD – for example ways of breathing, practicing some kind of meditations, taking a walk or share their stories.
Since I am not a mental health professional, I always dig deep to learn more. Luckily I was given a chance to be part of a program called community listener. This is a part of the Project for Healing. It provides training to community leaders in the refugee community to help identify mental health problems. They are supposed to be a bridge to share information about the different mental health problems that our community faces. Also, they learn how to refer them to a professional.
The project opened my mind to the many mental health problems in our community.
It gave me a reason for some of the behaviors I see in our community. The community listener program taught me the different types of mental health problems that any human could face, the symptoms, and how to prevent it from being worse. What I really liked the most is how the Project for Healing provided us with a binder of resources that help the refugees and immigrants communities. They taught us to start finding the causes of mental health problems and to see if we could help people get through them. If the mental health problem continued, we referred them to professionals.
Mental health problems are a real issue that anyone can face at any stage of life. We should not be ashamed if we identify our loved ones or ourselves behaving differently. If people do not get professional mental health help, there is a chance of them seriously hurting themselves.
Let’s start educating ourselves and the community about the importance of our mental health and when we should go to be treated and get mental health help.


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“It was a tough game for us last week, and I didn’t expect us to lose by that many points, but there were plenty of positives.
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Eriksson warns Hodgson that Sweden will make life misery
Sven-Göran Eriksson has warned Roy Hodgson that Sweden will be nasty opponents because many of his countrymen delight in making life a misery for the English. England have not beaten Sweden in a competitive match, including two draws under Eriksson in the group stages of the 2002 and 2006 World Cup finals.
“As the England manager I played against Sweden in two tournaments,” Eriksson said. “I was very thorough when I explained an important point. I said: ‘Sweden is a tough, a very tough, opponent, it’s in the heart and soul of every Swede to make life miserable for England.’
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The Guardian view on the UN ocean treaty: arriving just in time | Editorial
A new legal order in the high seas must prevent marine riches from being monopolised or privatisedIn his 1968 essay The Tragedy of the Commons, the ecologist Garrett Hardin argued that resources which do not clearly belong to anyone are likely to be overexploited, since protecting them is in no one person's interest. That tragedy is unfolding on the high seas - the two-thirds of the ocean that lies beyond coastal states' national jurisdiction. This is a commons, where fishing and mining have been opened to all. The result is serious damage to a vital resource that covers almost half the planet's surface. The high seas are not entirely lawless. Yet only a tiny fraction of these waters are protected from exploitation, despite harbouring the world's marine wilderness and its unique biodiversity.Beneath the waves lies a rich prize. Many scientists think the high seas harbour novel disease-fighting chemistry that might lead to new drugs. Until this month, there was no mechanism to prevent nations or companies monopolising the world's marine genetic resources. One study in 2018 pointed out that BASF, which calls itself "the largest chemical producer in the world", owned nearly half of the 13,000 patents derived from marine organisms. Mining exploration licences in the Pacific alone span an area almost as wide as the US. If deep sea extraction were permitted to go ahead, many warn, it would lead to biodiversity loss on an enormous scale. Continue reading...
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Police put six gang members behind bars over shootings
SIX members of Australia's most dangerous gang are behind bars and senior police have warned their associates - "We're coming for you".
Brothers 4 Life boss Mohammed Hamzy and five of his fellow members have been charged over two shootings which left one man dead and two others injured in Sydney last year.
Police allege the gang is also behind a spate of violent shootings, including a mistaken attack on a 13-year-old girl, in Sydney's western suburbs in past weeks.
The six men, all aged in their 20s were arrested during targeted raids late Thursday and have since been charged.
The charges relate to two shootings in October last year where a 27-year-old man was shot dead and two others aged 27 and 32 were hospitalised.
All three victims were members of the Brothers 4 Life gang.
The arrests were made by detectives from Operation Talon - a strike force set up in August this year to target organised crime.
NSW Police Deputy Commissioner Nick Kaldas said officers had searched hundreds of cars, homes and businesses and siezed guns, drugs and more than $1.5million in cash.
He said the results were thanks to the unwavering commitment of police and support from the public but said the real key to making a difference was for families and friends to break the code of silence.
"If you know of a location where guns are being kept, or you suspect some people of being involved in gun crime, please tell us...we don't need to know who you are; all we need is the information you have to hand," Dep Com Kaldas said.
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I don’t think I’ve ever featured a tag on the blog so why not start now? I was reading Bronagh’s Beauty and Books blog and she posted the Sweater Weather tag and it seemed like just my cup of tea, so I’m borrowing it from her. If you want to check out her answers, they’re right here!
This tag seems like it’s typically done before Christmas but we’re still in Winter until the end of February, so it’s still a pretty perfect time to do it. Okay, technically it should have been done in Autumn, but screw the rules on this one 😉 Oh, and I just changed Fall to Autumn, since that’s what we say in Northern Ireland.
1) Favourite candle scent?
Anyone that follows me on Twitter or Instagram will know how difficult this is for me. I’m in love with candles. Absolutely in love. If I only had to pick one however, it would be Fireside Treats by Yankee Candle (Here’s a link to it from my Instagram if you haven’t seen it before)
2) Coffee, Tea or Hot Chocolate?
Well I used to LOVE hot chocolate but I have an intolerance to cocoa so I can’t indulge in them anymore. Tea is my favourite drink anyway; I love tea with milk and my favourite herbal and green tea brand is TeaPigs.
3) What’s the best Autumn memory you have?
Getting all my new stationery to start back to school in September.
4) Which make-up trend do you prefer: winged eyeliner or dark lips?
Winged eyeliner! I’ve dabbled in dark lips but I don’t know if I’ll ever find something that suits me and doesn’t make me look like a ghost.
5) Best fragrance for Autumn?
I don’t work in seasons with perfume, I normally just have my favourite and stick with it all year round, so that would be Calvin Klein Euphoria for Women.
6) Favourite Thanksgiving food?
We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving but I think the whole premise of the food is generally the same. I do love stuffing!
7) What is Autumn weather like where you live?
It’s wet, it’s rainy, it’s cold. It’s pretty much like this all year; we maybe get a few weeks of sun every year.
9) Must have nail polish this Autumn?
Again, I’m not one for matching colours to seasons; if I want to wear pink in December and grey in July, I do. My favourite colours over the past few months have been Chando’s Place by Nails Inc and Midnight Sparkles by Tanya Burr.
10) Football games or jumping in leaves?
I don’t like football games so I think you know the answer.
11) Skinny jeans or leggings?
Skinny jeans all the way. I’ve never worn leggings, I have worn jeggings but never leggings.
12) Combat boots or UGG boots?
I’ve never owned or even worn anything that resembles UGG boots, and I wear combat-like boots pretty much 80% of the year.
13) Is Pumpkin Spice worth the hype?
I’ve never tried it so I don’t know.
14) Favourite Autumn television show?
While I’ve been off for my Christmas holidays, I’ve been watching a lot of Cheers. I also watch it when I’m just looking for an easy watch, it’s such a great show.
15) What songs really get you into the Autumn spirit?
I don’t know any Autumn inspire songs?

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London based punk rock artist Eliot Ash creates a unique blend of fast flowing and hard hitting vocals. His honest lyrics stick a middle finger up to today’s society. With gigs across his hometown in venues such as Nambucca, The Underbelly, The Monarch and The Half Moon, this rising star is already gathering quite a following.
Eliot released his debut singles “We Always Sail at Night” and “Weak” independently in late 2017. They received wide coverage being played on radio stations such as RKC, FreshNet and 365 with fans eagerly awaiting the release of his double EP ‘One Step Away from Madness’.
After signing with indie record label MadMan! Records, Eliot began working alongside members of ska band The Launchers producing his debut double EP ‘One Step Away from Madness’ that was released on the 23rd February 2018. It immediately gained the attention of HotVox, BlankTV and BBC Introducing.
‘It’s a big shame that we would never be allowed to play “It’s the Weekend” on BBC Radio in its present form, but fair play to Eliot for not playing the corporate game. Anyway the out and out swearing is a big part of what makes the song so liberating. Sleaford Mods built up their credibility and cult following for years by genuinely not giving a f*** about whether anyone played them on the radio.’ – Tom Robinson BBC Introducing.
With commercial tunes like “The Man Who Lived Life Through a Lens” and the pop punk infused “Nobody Enjoys Looking at Your Travelling Photos” getting regular circulation on ‘BBC Introducing Tracks of The Week Playlist’, Eliot Ash went on the road playing around fifty shows in 2018.
He is now back in the studio finishing up his debut album ‘Eruption’ set for release in early 2019 and fans have been treated to hints of a heavier and darker shift in tone with debut single ‘We’re Never Heard’ dropping the week of the UK’s Brexit vote.

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Best Alternative Bands of All Time
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At this rank - truly obvious sign that this list is worthless and made by people who dream of Britney Spears
A giant in this category - anyone who thinks otherwise is an oingo boingo superfan
One of the few bands that deserves to be at the top of this list - poor lost souls here
Clearly spoke to Jesus when I heard them
They are a new psychedelic alternative band. They have release one album so far (Sun Structures) and it is the best album of 2014 (so far).
Amazing alternative rock band consisting of a female singer called Orly and the musicians
Try to hear Indonesian music
Pretty cool alternative band!
So cool can't stop enjoying their sound.
I know they aren't alt metal but there good I saw Mumford and sons on the list so might as well folk rock
I recommend listening to Peaches. Funny and catchy song
I recommend taking this Band to the cleaners
Mew has always been one of the greatest bands there is. They have a sound that's unique to them. Not to mention the lyrics. The lead singer, Jonas has one of the best falsettos and singing. The guitarist, Bo Madsen made some of the best rock riffs (in my opinion). Johan Wohlert, the bassist has complete mastery over the bass. Lastly, Silas Jorgensen, forgotten how to play straight beats, and has the best drum lines ever. Despite calling themselves "pop", they are alternative rock. I would recommend the songs: Am I Wry? No, Special, Wheels Over me, and The Seething Rain Weeps For You.V 2 Comments
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The charities team at Penningtons Manches has won its second award in as many weeks. Partner Alison Talbot and colleagues were delighted to take home the Advisory Provider of the Year award at the Charity Times Awards 2018 ceremony, which took place last night. The awards, now in their 19th year, recognise excellence across the sector.
Penningtons Manches’ specialist team was shortlisted alongside four other well-known firms. The judges commended the team for shedding a light on a difficult issue in their efforts to enhance the relationship between legacy officers and private client practitioners. First tackled in its 2017 report Bridging the Gap, the team remained committed to developing a focus around the issue within the sector in 2018 and hosted an innovative new conference, The Legacy Conversation.
Established in 2016 by Alison Talbot, a recognised leader in the not for profit field by both Chambers UK and The Legal 500, the charities team brings together a group of highly experienced experts with a clear goal of combining common sense service with an understanding of clients’ charitable motivation and priorities.
Commenting on the latest award, Alison says: “We are so thrilled to be named the winner in this competitive category. I’m really proud that, although we are a relatively young team, our first few years have been such a success. It is really rewarding that all our hard work and focus on client service is acknowledged at respected events like the Charity Times Awards.”