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Gail Anderson-Dargatz, the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Cure for Death by Lightning and A Recipe for Bees, brings readers once again into the heart of rural Canada with A Rhinestone Button. As funny as it is tender, it is a novel full ofMoreGail Anderson-Dargatz, the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Cure for Death by Lightning and A Recipe for Bees, brings readers once again into the heart of rural Canada with A Rhinestone Button. As funny as it is tender, it is a novel full of true-to-life characters, natural wonder, and sweet surprises.Despite growing up in the small farming town of Godsfinger, Alberta, Job Sunstrum was always a bit of an outsider. A thin young man with blond, curly hair, he loved baking and cooking, and certainly did not fit in with the rough-and-tumble farmboys around town. There wasn’t much understanding to be had at home on the family farm, either, where his domineering father and bully of a brother ran roughshod over his life. But even when Job takes over the farm after his father’s death and his brother’s departure to train as a pastor, his community remains his animals, and perhaps the church women with whom he shares his baking on Sundays. Lonely beyond belief, overwhelmed by religious guilt, and taut with fear at the thought of what life might have in store for him, Job can only turn to God and hope that someday, things will turn around: he will find a nice Christian woman to marry, and settle down to the farming life, as his father had before him. Only his synesthesia — his ability to see sounds as colours, and feel vibrations as solid forms — provides him with passing moments of solace, but it also reaffirms for him that he experiences the world in a way the other people of Godsfinger could not possibly understand. And that there is some sort of knowledge that everyone else shares, a certainty, that must have skipped him by.Then one year, Job’s “tightly coiled” life begins to fall apart, and even the small sureties that got him through the days are torn away from him. His brother Jacob and his family return to live on the farm, pushing Job out of his home and into the hired hand’s cabin. His neighbour Will, the closest thing he has to a friend, is exposed to the town as gay and Job is consumed with guilt by association. The colours even disappear from sounds. Faced with change on every level and not knowing how to live outside the world he was brought up in, Job allows himself to be caught up in the Pentecostal drive of a preacher named Jack Divine, in hopes that clinging to his beliefs, proving his faith, and doing what others expect of him will make everything all right. But when his new-found religious fervour only accelerates his despair and his world continues to crumble, Job is surprised to find that true faith can be found in earthly experiences, and come from the most unlikely of sources. That a world without the familiar colours and shapes of sound is not half-heard, as he feared, but freed to break out in song.Like Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s previous novels, A Rhinestone Button is a loving and magical portrait of small-town life that makes us question what we believe is real, and true. Just as sounds leap to Job’s eyes in vivid explosions of colour, the words on these pages are landmines of image and meaning, bringing the people and the landscape of Godsfinger to life in our own minds. We can hear the whistle of ducks’ wings as they fly overhead, and smell the warm grassy breath of curious cows as they cluster around our chairs. Characters break through the molds of what’s expected by their neighbours, and by us, and populate the towns of our imaginings. There’s Dithy Spitzer, the town oddball who patrols the streets with her water pistol and lectures people on safety, yet has an oracle’s ability to speak the truth- Darren, a messed-up, adultering husband haunted by the ghost of his father, whose past makes one wonder how he survived at all- Ed, Will’s ex-lover, who helps Job understand that being a good man is about more than who you have sex with- and of course Liv, a hippie waitress who doesn’t believe in God, but does believe, and ultimately leads Job to a new level of faith. And Gail Anderson-Dargatz brings her readers right along with him, on a synesthetic journey that reaffirms our faith in great stories, and great art.From the Hardcover edition.


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Be in no doubt that Nelson Mandela, the world’s most famous political prisoner, campaigner against racist rule, and magnanimous leader, was a great man. When spending time with him, one felt awed, weak at the knees. Madiba, the tribal name by which he was fondly known by many, had charm and warmth. He was also responsible, more than any other individual, for the remarkably peaceful transition in South Africa.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Madiba’s close friend and fellow leader of the anti-apartheid campaign, once told me how he felt an immense “generosity of spirit” from Mandela. The archbishop naturally saw Christian elements in Madiba’s readiness to forgive his white racist abusers, and his compassion for the weak. “You can even think of Jesus—it’s quite in order to say that there are Christ-like aspects of him.”
But you shouldn’t remember him as a saint. Bishop Tutu didn’t think of him this way—guffawing at the idea that Mandela was anything so dry, hollow, and uninteresting. He may be compared to the likes of Mahatma Gandhi or Mother Teresa, as a great moral figure of our times. But the myth should not overpower the reality of a humane, richly complicated, and passionate individual.
In comparison with other politicians, in Africa and beyond, he stands out for his self-restraint. As free South Africa’s first president, he volunteered for only a single term in office. Look just next door, to Zimbabwe, for a striking contrast: Its near-despotic leader, Robert Mugabe, is now in his fourth, disastrous, decade as ruler.
Yet Madiba is far more interesting than either the villain next door or the simple saintly figure. His achievements are the greater because he himself admitted to errors, at times bungling policy. Those failings matter. He was more likely to learn from mistakes than the haughty sort of leader who refuses to accept he made any. Others should pay as much attention to his slip-ups as to his achievements.
Take the great post-apartheid misery that South Africa suffered in the first two decades of democracy: the AIDS epidemic. Mandela failed as president to tackle the spread of HIV, even as terrifyingly large numbers of South Africans became infected. As early as 1991 he had grasped (judging from one of his private notebooks from that year) that the disease threatened a “crisis for the country.” Yet in office he did almost nothing to stop its spread.
He recalled later at an event I attended in Cape Town that after spending so many years in prison, he was shy when it came to talking about a sexually transmitted virus. South Africa, too, faced a host of other challenges on his watch—political violence, economic upheaval, ongoing racial tension. But his inaction on AIDS then gave way to the outright denial of the epidemic, and harassment of those who tried to tackle the spread of HIV, by his successor as president, Thabo Mbeki. The result was a pandemic that claimed millions of South African lives, many unnecessarily, as drugs to treat victims were long withheld.
To his immense credit, however, Mandela conceded his early error. After leaving the presidency, he became a significant part of a campaign for a new AIDS policy. In retirement, he would speak up for effective education and treatment, especially when his own son succumbed to the disease in 2005. To Mbeki’s fury, too, Madiba pushed within the ruling African National Congress for South Africa to tackle AIDS seriously. With the denialist Mbeki gone from office, thankfully the country has now come to grips with the pandemic.
Or take economic policy. After years in prison, Mandela emerged to lead South Africa still believing, in effect, in Soviet-style economics. It took advice from China’s leaders (among others) to change his mind. But he was willing to switch, to get South Africa’s Afrikaner state-run economy to open up and flourish.
For that, South Africa should be grateful. The past two decades of relative stability and steady economic growth went far better than many predicted would follow the end of apartheid rule. Yet many young, jobless, and angry South Africans are, understandably, still angry. Some attack Mandela as a stooge and a fool for abandoning nationalist, populist, or far-left policies of old.
I recall attending a funeral for a much-loved African nationalist leader in Soweto in 2003, at which both Madiba and Mugabe were present. The crowd of mostly young African men roared in far louder appreciation for the Zimbabwean strongman than for Mandela or any other leader present.

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On 24 July, three Pakayaw Karen families were left destitute after their farmland in Mae Ngao National Park in the northern province of Mae Hong Son, which they claimed to use for subsistence farming, was reclaimed by officials from the Royal Forest Department (RFD). Prior to their eviction, these Karen families had been ordered by the RFD to move down from their traditional homes up on the mountains to the river basin only to be evicted again several years later.
Soybean and papaya plantations of Pakakayaw Karen tribe in Mae Ngao National Park of the northern province of Mae Hong Sorn
“We have been living in these hills for hundreds of years; our ancestors moved down from the highlands to cultivate these lands sustainably for generations, so as to obey the Thai authorities’ order, but now some of us have again been left with no land to cultivate for food,” said Tawee Paitaimongkonboon, a Pakayaw Karen village head.
These Karen families have been growing soybeans, rice, papaya, and bananas, and collecting forest products for a living. One family of 3-5 usually shares a plot of 2-3 acres to cultivate throughout their lives.
The Forestry Department reclaims Karen farmland in Mae Ngao National Park and puts up a sign reads ‘This land is reclaimed on 24 July 2014, acre: 6-3-19, case: 106/2014. The authority reclaims this plot of land and no one can possess or reserve it’
Down in the south, the RFD in early September used tractors to destroy the settlements of poor farmers of Plai Phaya District of Krabi Province in order to reclaim a land plot adjacent to a protected area even though the area had years ago already been turned into a palm oil plantation by capitalists. The landless villagers helplessly watched their homes being crushed.
Up in the north east, villagers who had been living in Khao Bat community Dong Yai Wildlife Sanctuary in Buriram Province since the 1960s were forced to sign an agreement drafted by the military, which stated that the signatories will leave their homes to pave the way for forest reclamation. The military told them that they would be relocated to new facilities provided in exchange for relocation, but according to Human Rights Watch, the facilities were far from adequate.
These are examples of the junta’s attempts to protect Thailand’s green spaces after they assumed power in May. The junta announced Order No. 64/2014 on 14 June to buttress this policy and promised that encroached forests would be reclaimed. The coup makers also announced Order No. 66/2014 on 17 June, which states that poor people should not be affected by their policies. However, many human rights activists and people who are living in community forests still fear that this policy might result in large scale population displacements, especially under the current suppressive political environment under the junta.
Order No. 66/2014 stipulates that poor people and those who are living in protected areas prior to the announcement of the Order No. 64/2014 will not be affected by the policy, and that the authorities will only apply strict measures to prevent further encroachment into protected areas. However, the reality starkly differs from this rhetoric.
MIlitary officers inspect former Khao Bat community inhabitants left homeless by the eviction in June and now resides at the temple adjacent to the sanctuary
There are two main responses to the junta’s forest conservation policy issued after the coup. The first response is that the policy is justified because National Parks should be protected from every kind of human interference. The second response, however, opposes the junta’s hard-handed approach to forest protection and holds that people inhabiting the forests should be given an important role in protecting and managing the forests.
Damrong Pidech, a former chief of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) and current leader of the Thai Forest Land Reclamation Party (TFLRP), has advocated the first such view for many years. He said the junta policy to tighten up land use regulations and nature conservation measures offers an opportunity for Thailand to increase its national park areas after years of encroachment and exploitation.
“In my days it was not as easy as this; sometimes RFD personnel had to act without orders from the administration, but now all public agencies have to cooperate in this and martial law is still in place, so no search warrants are needed,” said the conservationist, known for his aggressive measures against forest encroachers. “Therefore, strict measures can be applied to people who have encroached on forest land,” said Damrong.
He urged that the deep forest should remain undisturbed by human activity and that villagers should comply with the current policies on forest protection.
“Since the 2007 Community Forest Act was passed by the National Legislative Assembly (NLA), a parliament appointed by the 2006 coup group, approximately 7000 communities throughout the country have already benefited. They should be satisfied with this and refrain from settling in the deep forest,” said Damrong.
Military and the Royal Forest Department officers confiscate planks of wood the villagers in Don Yai sanctuary claimed to be using for building their houses, Buriram, northeastern Thailand. The authority, however, believes that the villagers cut the wood to sell
The 2007 Community Forest Act was the first in Thailand to allow people living in communities whose lands overlap with areas designated as national parks to continue to stay, provided that the areas are managed sustainably by the villagers under RFD monitoring. The movement to pass the Community Forest Bill started in the 1980s. However, when the law was passed, it was not accepted by many land rights activists and villagers from forest communities because it still placed decisions on forest management solely with the RFD.
When asked to give comments on the livelihoods of the Karen and other minorities which rely on the forest, Damrong said “The Karen who are living in the forest cannot continue with their traditional ways of life forever. Since most of them have opted for Thai citizenship, they should think of the advantages that the forests provide to the majority.”
Many believe that the Karen communities practise nomadic agriculture, a method of cultivation that extends cultivated areas without restraint, which contributes to a massive loss of forest. However, Karen communities argue that they only practice shifting cultivation, where only limited areas of the forest are sustainably cultivated in cycles of 5-7 years.
Tall trees and other vegetation retakes a plot of Karen farmland left to restore itself after a year of cultivation
In contrast, the second perspective on what the forests should be and how the resources from the forests should be managed has long been promoted by Rodjaraeg Wattanapanit.
Rodjaraeg is a well-known land rights activist from the Community Forest Support Group (CFSG) based in northern Chiang Mai province.
She believes that the communities settled in the forests before and after the forest areas were gazetted as national parks should be given the rights to live in the areas and participate in sustainable forest management.
“When the authorities look at the green areas on the satellite images, they don’t see that there are people living in the forests and afterwards tend to declare these areas as protected. This is problematic for people who have been settled in the forests because after these areas become protected national parks, the communities in the areas will be evicted,” said Rodjaraeg.
She added that the land rights problem and land encroachment cannot be separated from each other because in Thailand the distribution of land ownership throughout the nation is concentrated in the hands of the privileged few, while marginalised people are left little land to cultivate for a living.
“Although the 2007 NLA passed the Community Forest Act to allow people to establish and manage community forest areas, the conditions of this act, such as those that say that settlements need to be older than ten years to stay and that every decision on how to manage the forests has to be approved by state officials, make it nearly impossible for villagers in these communities to participate in the management of these community forests,” added the activist.
Local activists led by the Assembly of the Poor and Four Region Slum Network comes to Bangkok on June 15 to request the NCPO that the eviction must stop
Moreover, Rodjaraeg points out that the attempts to evict people from National Parks do not apply to everyone equally. “There have always been double standards from the Royal Forest Department to evict people from their homes. Capitalists might be allowed to stay while poor villagers are often evicted,” stated the land rights activist.
This inequality in the application of the laws regarding forest protection has regularly been cited by many forest communities.
“The Royal Forest Department and the military cooperated with capitalists to try to evict our communities,” said a local activist from the Southern Peasant’s Federation of Thailand (SPFT) in Khlong Sai Pattana community in the southern province of Surat Thani, which the authorities were trying to evict in early October, in an interview with Prachatai on 30 September.
Thawee, the Pakayaw Karen village head in Mae Hong Son added that the junta does not have credibility because they have not followed their promise to leave some land for the poor.
“According to Order 66/2557, the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order promised not to evict poor people from the forest, but I have observed from many cases that they seem to only be following Order 64/2557 to reclaim the land” said the village chief.
No matter which perspective on forest conservation the junta relied on for Order 64/2557, which has now resulted in the eviction of hundreds of households of marginalised people, it is unlikely that this policy will change any time soon under the suppressive political environment of martial law.
Villagers of Khlong Sri Community in Surat Thani province rallies against junta’s policy to evict their community on 2 October. One of the banner reads: ‘We will stand for justice to protect our last land. Stop evicting the poor we will fight’
On 13 October, the military stopped a caravan of Lahu villagers who had been affected by Order 64/2557, from travelling to Bangkok to complain to the junta’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), according to Thai Rath.
Earlier on 16 August, fifty military officers and two members of the local mafia intimidated villagers of the embattled Khlong Sai Pattana community of Surat Thani, searched the houses of eight SPFT activists and gave orders to the villagers to leave the area in seven days.
Perhaps the major obstacle to solving the problem today is summarized by Rodjaraeg’s words: “At least under a civilian government, people affected by this sort of policy could stage protests against the government and the Royal Forest Department. But now this can’t be done under military rule because no one wants to stage a rally in front of the guns,” said the active promoter of land rights.


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Around 2008, I began to notice an interesting fact: Google Books was reshaping the way I did research. I was on sabbatical and had more time than usual to pursue various projects. Like most historians, I went to libraries and archives in search of paper evidence, but I also delighted in digital discoveries, happily downloading my best finds. At the end of that year, I left my sabbatical office carrying a computer filled with the virtual books that are rapidly becoming the bread and butter of teaching and scholarship.
Several years later, the novelty has worn off. Much has been said about the pros and cons of Google Books, and I have no desire to add to the chorus of reflections about its effect on authorship, intellectual property, copyright, or scholarly publishing. Instead, I wish to focus on one key accomplishment: the role of the digital archive in the rediscovery of the 19th century.
Any reader who has done a project that is historical in nature, regardless of discipline, will recognize the truth of that observation. Thanks to Google, 21st-century scholars are becoming far more accustomed to reading 19th-century books, simply because, being out of copyright, they are online. I am not referring to the classics—Jacob Burckhardt’s The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860), Karl Marx’s Das Capital (1867-94), or Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)—that we keep at the center of various disciplines. Yet we now read them in a landscape filled with the obscure work of their less-well-known contemporaries. The digitization of the long 19th century (materials published between the late 18th and early 20th centuries) has made accessible and searchable scholarly work that has been neglected because it was considered too dated and too unreliable. It was the last thing many of us looked for in the library.
This rediscovery of the 19th century as an open-source reading experience is accompanied by a subtle appreciation of the era’s intellectual merits. Consider the quantity of material—obscure novels, local histories, antique catalogs, minor journals, a sea of biographies, and those vast and terrifyingly erudite bibliographies that were a specialty of that age of scholarship.
Work that fails to enter a canon—literary, historical, or otherwise—tends to languish on the dustier shelves of college libraries. Digitization allows a new generation of scholars to look at them with fresh regard. This represents a significant change in the way we think about scholarship. Google Books is a kind of Victorian portal that takes me into a mare magnum of out-of-print authors, many of whom helped launch disciplines. Or who wrote essays, novels, and histories that did not transcend their time. Or who anonymously produced the paperwork of emerging bureaucracies, organizations, and businesses that, because printed, has been scanned and, because scanned, is now available.
I am not a scholar of the 19th century but have found its digitization to be one of the most fascinating new resource for understanding the centuries that precede it.
It is not by chance that the 19th century gave birth to projects such as the Oxford English Dictionary. The OED is the tip of an iceberg of genteel scholars, male and female, who had the time and resources to dig through vast mounds of material and make something of it. Those researchers lived in closer chronological proximity to their subjects than we do; they often worked amid the dimly lit bookshelves and attics of private homes. As a result, their experience of a historical subject captures a sense of intimacy that might otherwise be lost.
This point is equally true for 19th-century fiction, which was strongly historical in its sensibilities. Great novelists such as Germaine de Staël, Alessandro Manzoni, and George Eliot participated in a vast historicizing impulse that is becoming a searchable documentary record as larger quantities of the period’s printed matter are vacuumed up for public consumption.
Eliot’s unforgettable account in Middlemarch of the monomaniacal provincial scholar Edward Casaubon, toiling away at Key to All Mythologies, was only thinly veiled fiction. It was an age in which many modern scholarly practices, government agencies, and cultural institutions took shape. Reading the 19th century online allows us to observe more closely the migration of texts and objects—and the histories that were written from them—out of their original settings and into modern depositories of knowledge.
We now have access to one of the most valuable tools of archival and bibliographic research: the 19th-century catalog. It often contains precious annotations of the process by which living artifacts become a historical record—the quirky details that tend to be lost in modern information systems, which strip away the idiosyncrasies of personalized description in favor standardized data. In a way, the experience of using Google to access the 19th century has enriched our ability to work in the physical archives and libraries that many of us still consider to be the epicenter of scholarship. I am constantly moving between my Victorian online experience and the far richer evidence available at some brick-and-mortar libraries.
At the end of my sabbatical, five years ago, I wrote an essay in which half of the research came from digital archives (not only Google, of course). I did this partly to experiment with a new research tool but largely because (with patience for the detritus that clutters the Web) my queries for keywords and phrases proved fruitful. It brought the 19th and early 20th centuries into focus as an interesting and important coda to a study of an early modern topic.
I have come to see Google Books as a place of scholarly afterlives, where forgotten authors and discarded projects are enjoying a certain reincarnation. To be sure, this kind of rediscovery promises no individual fame. Casaubon is still a provincial scholar writing desultory prose, and there are thousands more like him who achieved a kind of publishable mediocrity. Yet I like to think that we may be on the verge of a collective acknowledgment that they, too, deserve a place in our 21st-century libraries.
When we read the past, we acknowledge that we stand not only, as Isaac Newton put it, on the shoulders of giants, but also on those of scholars of smaller stature who were no less passionate about their subjects and determined in their own way to contribute to the intellectual conversation. The 12th-century philosopher and educator Bernard of Chartres is said to have observed that we are all dwarfs when we attempt to climb atop gargantuan flesh. I am glad to have met more of them online, and to have profited from their vantage point.
Paula Findlen is a professor of history at Stanford University.

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President Bobblehead is so desperate that he is now contemplating throwing his support to the racist Minutemen types.
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Andrew wins belated monthly stableford at East Devon
PUBLISHED: 09:37 30 January 2014 | UPDATED: 09:37 30 January 2014
One-hundred players took part in the postponed monthly stableford which was played last Saturday, writes Paul Willoughby.
The competition should have been played a fortnight before, but the weather that day was so awful the course had to be closed. Closing EDGC is unusual as we have such good drainage, but that just shows how wet it was – as if you didn’t know! There was a downpour on Friday 24, and a downpour on Sunday 26, but a gap in this awful weather on Saturday, just long enough to squeeze the competition into it. However the CSS (Non Golfers – (‘NG’s), I’ll explain that one day. On second thoughts, maybe not; you’d die of boredom!) was 73 which shows that conditions were not ideal.
At this time of year, getting 100 participants is quite an achievement and this is due to two factors; firstly golfers are fed up with staying at home in reasonable weather, especially when there is a competition where fame and fortune could be found. Secondly it was a Stableford competition. NG’s, you will remember that with Stableford scoring all is not lost if you make a complete pig’s ear of a hole or two – just pick up and move on. However, if you make an utter pig’s trotter in a medal round (stroke play) where every shot counts, then you are in trouble.
Clever doctor Frank Stableford (1870-1959) invented this system of scoring and first put it to the test at the Glamorgan Golf Club in 1898 – not a lot of people know that – and he has been the saviour of many a score card over the past 116 years!
The overall winner of the monthly Stableford was Ian Andrew from division 3 with an excellent 38 points from a handicap of 16, now 15. Well done, Ian.
The other leading scores were as follows; Division One; 1, Fraser Hassell, 37 points (4 now 3). That’s impressive play; 2, Matt Stone, 35 points (6 now 5); 3, Jim Colvin, 34 points (3); 4, Bill Wentworth, also 34 points (9); 5, Andy Scott, 32 points (7).
Division Two; 1, Glenn Tucker, 34 points (12); 2, Bill Coles, also 34 points (13); 3, Terry Harris, 33 points (12); 4, Neil Sear, 32 points (11); 5, Julian Turnbull, also 32 points, (11).
Division Three; 2, Taff Powell, 37 points (20 now 19); 3, Simon Gegg, 35 points (21 now 20); 4, Simon Husband, also 35 points (15); 5, Robert Winter, 33 points (20) and just because I can (though sadly out of the prizes); 6, Richard Bowes, also with 33 points (16).
There was a twos pot of £198 to be shared between 13 players – John Pulman and Jim Colvin each had two of them. Well done.
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news June 29th, Alibaba has the supplier access threshold to make adjustments, and the launch of Ali network planning, no sign of Off Shore Company, prohibit the transfer contract, prohibit individual industrial and commercial households signed at the same time, the supplier membership service purchase, use of accounts, online trading, information dissemination and other actions to strengthen the normative.
June 29th, Alibaba and the Hangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau held a joint press conference, the meeting said, came after months of investigation, evidence, task force immediately to Fujian Putian and other places for distribution, and the implementation of centralized arrest in April 15th, destroyed 7 fraud gang and arrested the suspect 36.
it is reported that fraud has formed a complete black industry chain through the e-commerce platform, from the trading platform account, to provide false false identity cards, bank accounts, accounts and other communication tools, to the final implementation of fraud, withdrawal and transfer of money and other acts have a clear division of labor.
from 2009 to 2010, Alibaba about 100000 Chinese suppliers have mixed nearly 3000 fraudsters. Former Alibaba B2B company CEO Wei Zhe in February this year, so leave.
Alibaba said, has been on the Alibaba B2B supplier access threshold to make adjustments, prohibit signing Off Shore Company, prohibited transfer contract prohibited individual industrial and commercial households signed at the same time, the supplier membership service purchase, use of accounts, online trading, information dissemination and other actions to strengthen the normative.
in the protection of buyers, the Alibaba to strengthen the publicity of laws and protection of the user’s knowledge: on-line integrity legal channels for anti cheat by video and other forms of special education; continue to implement appropriate buyers compensation policy, currently has a total compensation of $1 million 936 thousand; in the international version of Alipay development guarantee service, enhance transaction security.
with the increasingly stringent control of Alibaba, a large number of criminals began to transfer to other platforms, including overseas platforms. Alibaba B2B Lu Zhaoxi CEO said Alibaba hopes to join other e-commerce platform, including the whole society, collaborative operations, and jointly safeguard the international image of China’s manufacturing.
according to statistics, since February this year, the B2B platform fraud complaints decreased by more than 70%, was only a single digit fraud complaint customers.

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Her last breath is breathed and the whisper of heaven hangs heavy in the room. Her face transforms, a smile on her lips as her lungs release oxygen one last time. Perhaps she is looking into the face of Jesus. Her fight is over, her battle won.
Earlier she whispered in desperate tones as she grabbed my shirt tight, “I have to go into the street to fight.”
With tears in our eyes we laughed heartily. We stood vigil, watching as her soul slipped from this physical world into eternity.
A quiet calm fills the room as if her soul made a noise that is now silenced this side of forever. The stillness brings peace mingled with grief. Our tears slide down our cheeks and splash upon her sheets. We do not move. Movement seems out of place as this transition between physical life and eternal life takes place.
How do we live when she is still in her bed, her physical body emptied of her essence – her soul? But move we must. We must go about our grieving and our lives now. Our lives forever changed and marked by this woman who is no more here, but is whole there.
Hints of joy cut through the grief. Stories come and memories flood – memories that make us laugh as we grieve our loss. Joy that she is whole in heaven, not suffering in her physical tent. She is home. We long to join her there.
Yet with Paul we remember, “To live is Christ, to die is gain.”
Days, weeks, months, years fly by and still her memory is fresh. Grief is not a constant reminder as it was before, but a hole in the fullness. A moment I wish she could enjoy with me, a desire to hear her stories, oh to laugh with her again.
These holes in my fullness only serve to increase my longing for my heavenly home. May the holes in your fullness do the same for you.
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|Father*||Bartholomew STOVALL1,2 b. 24 Aug 1665, d. a 1721|
|Mother*||Anne BURTON1 b. 1675, d. a 1725|
|Margaret STOVALL was the daughter of Bartholomew STOVALL and Anne BURTON.1,2|
|Marriage*||Margaret STOVALL married Luke WILJES.1|
- [S3047] Meador, George H. - Dunbar Rowland et al. : Adams, Alexander, Beard, Brewer, Bryan, Burton, Clark, Cooper, Hairston, Hampton, Hatcher, Lewis, Moorman, Norman, Smith, Stovall, Reynolds, Taylor and Wade : Mississippi census of 1850, Rolen, Roland, Rolland and Rowland. Call #929.2/R883m, Mississippi Department of Archives & History, Jackson, Mississippi.
- [S3399] Bishop, Donald E., Descendants of Bartholomew Stovall 1655-1722: First Five Generations. Laurel, Mississippi: Stovall Family Association, 1999. 929.273 St76bd https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/835331, Family Search Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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This is a huge milestone for both AutoX and China. Other companies have been testing driverless car tech in the country, but they’ve always had safety drivers. This is the first time a company has convinced China’s leaders to let them nix the human element and rely entirely on machine vision and AI.
You can watch AutoX’s self-driving vehicle tech in action through the video below. It’s a montage video intended to show off AutoX’s tech in the best possible light. It shows the car delivering a package (and even a dog), transporting awestruck passengers, and handling tricky situations — like pedestrians suddenly crossing the street in front of it — with ease.


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Methadone stigma still hampering opioid treatment
Even though the research shows that medication-assisted management for opioid addiction is the most successful treatment method, the prevailing stigma associated with methadone and other opioid medications is still preventing people from seeking the help they need.
When people think about a methadone clinic, many of them probably picture a long line of impoverished people waiting outside of a doctor’s office for their next fix.
There’s also an assumption that methadone and other medications are still allowing addicts to get high and that the treatment for opioid addiction isn’t the true definition of getting clean.
Dr. Matt Holmes, associate medical director for Meridian Behavioral Health, said it’s that kind of stigma mixed with state funding cuts making it difficult to make significant progress in fighting the opioid epidemic.
“The biggest thing is the stigma around the medicine, especially around methadone,” he said. “But those drugs facilitate healing of some of the dysfunction that happens with active addiction in your brain.”
Walking into Meridian’s office in Waynesville, which is where many patients go daily to receive methadone or suboxone treatments, it doesn’t feel like a doctor’s office and the people receiving services don’t fit that stereotypical drug addict mold.
The opioid epidemic touches every demographic regardless of age, race, education and socioeconomic status, which is why its so important to break through the stigma associated with seeking professional help for addiction.
Safe way to quit
By attaching to receptors in the brain, opioids block pain signals, slow breathing and can give people a calming feeling. Opioids target the brain’s reward system by flooding it with dopamine, a neurotransmitter present in regions of the brain that regulate movement, emotion, cognition, motivation and feelings of pleasure. The overstimulation of this system produces the euphoric effects sought by people who misuse drugs and teaches them to repeat the behavior.
Medications like methadone and suboxone work to lessen the painful symptoms associated with opiate withdrawal while blocking the euphoric effects of opiate drugs.
Holmes said methadone and suboxone are both proven safe and effective in helping addicts reduce physical withdrawal symptoms while quickly enabling them to return to a normal way of life. Treatment through Meridian and other providers like Appalachian Community Services is more that just going in once a day to take the medicine — it’s also accompanied by counseling, regular drug testing and group therapy sessions.
Holmes said those who go through a medication-assisted treatment plan are also more likely to stay off drugs than those who attempt to quit cold turkey. While going through 12-step programs and having support are great tools to overcome addiction, he said it takes more than will power to safely quit opioids.
“These treatments are stigmatized but it decreases people’s risk of dying,” he said. “People go to detox and try to do meetings, but many of those people — up to 90 percent — will relapse because of the physical changes and the significant withdrawal symptoms.”
Relapsing after a detox can be even more dangerous than the continual use of opioids. As addicts build up a tolerance to opioids, they have to take higher doses to reach the same euphoric feeling. Once someone detoxes for a week or so, their body returns to that baseline level of tolerance, making them more likely to die from an overdose if they relapse and try to take the same amount of drugs they were taking before detox.
“After a detox you lose your tolerance, so if you go back to taking the same amount of painkillers or heroin you can easily overdose,” Holmes said.
Like opioids, Holmes admits that methadone can also be addicting and put people in a sedated state if abused, which is why it’s critical that patients prescribed methadone take it under close supervision every day at a clinic like Meridian.
How does it work?
If administered correctly, family members and co-workers shouldn’t even be able to tell if someone is currently undergoing methadone or suboxone treatment. However, treatment for opioids is not something you can put a specific timeline on, Holmes said.
There’s no short-term fix for opioid addiction, just like there’s no short-term fix for alcoholism. People who attend Alcoholics Anonymous never say ‘I used to be an alcoholic’ — they say ‘I am a recovering alcoholic.’ Recovering from opioid addiction should also be treated like a chronic disease with a more long-term approach to managing the problem.
“Some data shows it could be two years before you start to see healing in the brain,” Holmes said. “The hardest thing is people get to feeling so well they think they’re good and go off the treatment too soon.”
People react differently to different drugs — some people may respond better to methadone while suboxone may be a better option for others. Holmes said there have been plenty of studies where physicians attempted to take people off the treatment after two months, three months, etc., but the result was still the same and the chance of relapse was still high. But the bottom line is that the treatment helps people return to their normal life much sooner.
“We see people get back to their families and working and they have less involvement with the legal system and less instances of spreading HIV, hepatitis and other disease associated with addiction,” he said.
Holmes said he has seen some of the stigma surrounding methadone subside in recent years, but it’s still a major issue plaguing the system.
“I’ve started to feel it change some, but it’s still a major barrier for us turning the corner on the problem,” he said.
Cost of treatment
The cost of medication-assisted treatment is also a hurdle for people suffering from addiction.
Meridian and Appalachian Community Services receive state funding through Vaya Health to provide mental health and substance abuse services for the uninsured or people covered through Medicaid, but many people still fall through the cracks. Many private insurance companies still don’t cover the cost of substance abuse treatments or require pre-authorization and cover only a portion of the expense.
“At Meridian we have a sliding scale fee and the service includes everything — counseling, medicine, nursing — but at a private office it could be $300 a month for just the medicine — sometimes counseling can be included,” Holmes said.
That’s a hefty cost for a treatment that someone may have to undergo for several years.
If someone undergoes a suboxone treatment and is doing well — clean drug tests and responding to counseling — their physician can give them the medicine to take at home, but a methadone treatment program always has to be closely monitored in North Carolina.
“In North Carolina, our lack of Medicaid expansion money combined with the money the state has taken out of the mental health system and the stigma of people with addiction and treatment has led to less people being able to access treatment,” Holmes said.


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Melbourne: It looks like air rage stories are nothing but a myth, for travellers portrayed themselves as paragons of politeness in a new study.
In an anonymous survey of over 1500 people conducted by Travelocity in the US, all air travellers insisted that they are caring and considerate, reports News.com.au.
The survey covered a range of etiquette dilemmas including reclining seats, elbow wars and the use of mobile phones.
As many as 59 per cent of travellers said that they only partially recline their seats out of consideration for the person behind, with only 18 per cent saying they fully recline without asking.
A whopping 93 per cent said they go out of their way to help fellow passengers store heavy bags.
Meanwhile 64 per cent said they climb over their seatmates to go to the bathroom rather than waking them. While, sixty per cent say they always wipe the bathroom sink after use.
Eighty-one per cent turn off their mobile phone when told to instead of berating the flight attendant.
When it comes to seat swapping 34 per cent said they will always switch places to allow companions to sit together, while 46 per cent said they would move only if the seat they``re changing to is as good or better.
Travelocity`s Genevieve Shaw Brown said, "You hear these nightmare stories. I was surprised at how polite people claim to be."


November 20, 2010
Last week, reporter Howard Berger of FAN 590 in Toronto blogged about Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke looking "somewhat beaten and haggard" and acting "subdued" at a press conference, leading Berger to remind Leafs Nation and the media that Burke is "still very much in the grieving process for his son, Brendan" who was killed in a car accident in February.
Berger wondered if Burke's many detractors and critics understand his personal pain. "[It's] important to occasionally consider the real pain that is never far from the surface with Brian," he wrote, "a heartache that no person should have to endure."
Berger spoke about his theories during the Andrew Krystal radio program on FAN 590 this week, prompting the host to wonder if Burke's focus could truly be on the Leafs: "Following the tragic death of Brian Burke's son, can his heart still really, really still be in hockey?"
The next day, Krystal admitted he sometimes found criticizing Burke difficult in light of his son's death. Bruce Dowbiggin of the Globe & Mail then asked if the media should "mitigate the barbs" and back off of Burke, whose Toronto Maple Leafs travel to Montreal to face the Canadiens on Saturday night.
Canadian Readers: Click here to watch Hockey Night in Canada on Y! Sports Canada, featuring the Toronto Maple Leafs at Montreal Canadiens (7 p.m.) and the Chicago Blackhawks at the Vancouver Canucks (10 p.m.).
With the debate raging about her family's grief, Brian Burke's daughter Katie decided to respond publicly with an open letter to the Globe & Mail that published on Saturday; hoping that "experts and radio hosts alike can stop discussing whether or not to go easy on my dad."
Katie Burke, the Leafs GM's eldest daughter, wrote about her father's intense desire to win and how he "hates losing a bet, and he really hates losing hockey games."
I do however, take issue with [Andrew] Krystal's implication that my dad can't "take the heat" and [author] Todd Kays' assertion that the world doesn't stop when you experience a personal tragedy. The truth is, if anyone had taken the time to engage someone who knows my dad in this conversation, they would tell you that in this time of incredible loss, hockey is my dad's respite. Since Brendan's death he has not slowed his travel, his calendar, or his passion for improving the team, and the rink continues to be, as it has been for years, his haven.
She later continued:
Turning around a losing franchise is a considerable challenge, one that takes time, patience, and a willingness to accept ebbs and flows. In that regard, it is similar to grief-a long, non-linear process with significant uncertainly and considerable stress. I can confirm for everyone involved in this conversation that my brother's death has had a profound impact on my dad, but to speculate that his heart isn't in the game is incorrect. In fact, the long hours he spends at the Air Canada Centre, scouting players, calling fellow GMs, and strategizing with his team, are the best way he knows to move forward.
In one way, Katie Burke's words amplify the sympathy for Burke: If managing the Leafs is his respite from grief, it's been as frustrating a diversion as one could imagine.
But her larger point is the essential one: That hockey is Burke's constant, his normalcy. His professional life is "the best way he knows to move forward" from his unimaginable grief; to have fans or media or critics treat him differently, to pull their punches, would be to undermine that normalcy.
Katie Burke said it best: "Like any gritty hockey veteran, he doesn't need people to go easy on him, he just wants to focus on the team and the game he loves."
In other Hockey Night In Canada action:
The Vancouver Canucks host the Chicago Blackhawks (10 p.m. EST) on Saturday night. Chicago eliminated them from the playoffs, won the Stanley Cup and then said goodbye to a good portion of its lineup in the offseason. Which means no Dustin Byfuglien(notes) crowding Roberto Luongo's(notes) crease any more for the Blackhawks.
Luongo told the Vancouver Sun that Chicago's turnover in talent doesn't matter:
"No, it doesn't," he said. "The crest is still the same. That's what you look at and we obviously know they have beaten us the last couple of years. We have played them once already in their building and it will be nice to hear the crowd tomorrow when those guys are on the ice."
The first meeting of the season between the teams was a 2-1 Chicago victory over the Canucks in the Windy City, with five goals scored in the shootout between the teams.


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NORTHEAST MICHIGAN– Michigan residents can apply for fuelwood permits at no cost.
The DNR said the pandemic influenced the decision to eliminate fees. The department wants to make it easier for people experiencing hardship to get firewood for the heating season.
The permits allow holders to cut limbs from fallen and dead trees in approved state forests.
This is the second year in a row the DNR has made fuelwood permits free.
You can find applications and a map of approved forest locations here.
The DNR said to use the map first, then fill out your permit request based on that information.


|Publication number||US4408794 A|
|Application number||US 06/318,276|
|Publication date||Oct 11, 1983|
|Filing date||Nov 4, 1981|
|Priority date||Nov 11, 1980|
|Publication number||06318276, 318276, US 4408794 A, US 4408794A, US-A-4408794, US4408794 A, US4408794A|
|Original Assignee||Toyo Kogyo Co., Ltd.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (45), Classifications (6), Legal Events (4)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
The present invention generally relates to an automobile body structure and, more particularly, to a support column provided in the automobile body structure for accommodating a rear wheel suspension assembly.
A modern automobile now in use is known as generally having a wheel suspension assembly for each wheel to provide a comfortable ride, which suspension assembly is disposed either between the wheel axle and a chassis or between the wheel axle and the body structure. The present invention pertains particularly to a rear wheel suspension assembly for each left-hand or right-hand rear wheel which is disposed between the rear wheel axle and the body structure.
The rear wheel suspension assembly is available in numerous types and, so far as the present invention is involved, typically includes a telescopically displaceable shock absorber and a coil spring around the shock absorber. In the case where the rear wheel suspension assembly is disposed between the wheel axle and the body structure, the prior art technique is such as to employ a support bracket that projects into the interior of the body structure generally upwardly from the corresponding wheel housing forming a part of the body structure, so that respective end portions of the shock absorber and the coil spring remote from the wheel axle can extend into the interior hollow of the support bracket and be connected thereto. An example of this is disclosed in the Japanese Laid-open Utility Model Publication No. 51-73408 laid open to public inspection on June 9, 1976.
According to this prior art reference, the support bracket is of generally U-shaped cross section and comprises an elongated spine plate substantially curved to follow a cross-sectional representation of the wheel housing as viewed in a direction generally perpendicular to the wheel axle and a pair of side walls projecting perpendicularly from the spine plate. While respective portions of the spine plate and the side walls are spot-welded to an apron forming a part of the body structure end defining the wheel housing, a flange at one and of the bracket positioned substantially immediately above the rear wheel is spot-welded to an inner panel forming a part of the body structure together with the apron.
In this known support bracket, since a generally rod-shaped, telescopically displaceable shock absorber is disposed between the wheel axle and the support bracket so as to extend inwardly of the body structure at an angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the wheel axle with its opposite ends operatively coupled to the wheel axle and the spine plate of the support bracket, excessive impacts acting on the suspension assembly as the wheel encounters irregularities in the road tend to be transmitted to the support bracket in a direction diagonally upwardly towards the interior of the body structure and, in the worst case, the support bracket may separate from the inner panel to which it has been spot-welded. In other words, the prior art support bracket lacks a sufficient rigidity necessary to support the suspension assembly against excessive impacts or shocks.
The present invention has been developed with a view of substantially eliminating the disadvantages and inconveniences inherent in the prior art support bracket and has for its essential object to provide an improved support column having a sufficient ridigity to support the rear wheel suspension assembly.
Another important object of the present invention is to provide an improved support column so designed as to provide a guide for facilitating the insertion and positioning of the wheel suspension assembly into the support column during the installation of the suspension assembly.
A further object of the present invention is to provide an improved support column which can be readily fabricated and is easy to install even in any existing automobile body structure with no unreasonable alteration of the specification of the wheel housing structure being required, as compared with the prior art support bracket discussed hereinbefore.
These and other objects and features of the present invention will become better understood from the following description taken in conjunction with a preferred embodiment thereof with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view, with a portion broken away, of a left-hand rear portion of an automobile body structure, showing a support column according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a perspective view, on a somewhat enlarged scale, of the support column showing the details thereof;
FIG. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the support column shown in FIG. 2;
FIGS. 4 and 5 are cross-sectional views taken along the lines IV--IV and V--V, respectively, shown in FIG. 3; and
FIG. 6 is a view similar to FIG. 2, showing a modified form of the support column according to the present invention.
Referring first to FIG. 1, there is shown a left-hand rear portion of an automobile body structure. Exposed to the sight with a rear seat assembly removed is a rear side pillar assembly 50 having one end continued to the roof (not shown) and the other end continued to a floor panel 51, a left-hand rear door assembly 52 (shown by the phantom line), a rear shelf panel 53 extending between one rear side pillar assembly 50 to the opposite rear side pillar assembly (not shown), and a hingedly supported trunk lid 54 (partially shown by the phantom line). A support column for accommodating a rear wheel suspension assembly according to the present invention is shown generally by 5 and is rigidly positioned on an apron 13 defining a wheel housing H on one side of the apron 13 opposite to the interior of the body structure and generally below the rear side pillar assembly 50 as best shown in FIG. 3.
Referring now to FIGS. 1 to 5, the support column 5 projects upwardly from the apron 13 into the interior of the automobile body structure and terminates generally below the rear shelf panel 53. This support column 5 comprises a column structure including a pair of generally shoe-shaped, opposite side walls 7, each having a laterally extending flange 6 so curved as to follow the contour of the surface of the apron 13 opposite to the wheel housing H, a major upright wall 8 having its opposite side edges integral with the respective side walls 7 and lying in a plane perpendicular to any one of the side walls 7, and a pair of opposite flaps 9 integral with the respective side walls 7, which flaps 9 are perpendicularly folded at b with their free edge portions 9a and 9b rigidly connected, or otherwise spot-welded, together in overlapping relation to each other to provide a bridge plate 15 extending between the side walls 7 at a position opposite to the flanges 6 and spaced a distance from an upper end of the major upright wall 8 remote from the apron 13, leaving a generally rectangular opening on one side of such bridge plate 15 adjacent the major upright wall 8.
As best shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, the support column 5 of the construction described above is mounted on the apron 13 with the flanges 6 spot-welded to said apron 13. Not only are the flanges 6 integral with the respective side walls 7 spot-welded to the apron 13, but respective flanges 11 integral with the side walls 7 and protruding laterally outwardly therefrom at a position opposite to the major upright wall 8, and a flange 12 integral with the bridge plate 15 and protruding upwardly therefrom are also spot-welded to an inner panel 10 forming a part of the side pillar assembly 50. A flange 22 integral with a lower end of the major upright wall 8 is spot-welded to an upright portion of a rear framework 24 together with one side edge portion of the rear floor panel 51 in sandwiched fashion.
For the purpose as will become clear from the subsequent description, a lower lip region 10a of the inner panel 10 adjacent a left-hand, rear wheel shown by the phantom line 30 in FIG. 3, is bent, as best shown in FIGS. 3 and 5, to extend laterally outwardly of the body structure generally in parallel to the longitudinal axis of the wheel axle (not shown) on which the wheel 30 is mounted in any known manner, which lower lip region 10a defines the wheel housing H in cooperation with the apron 13. The lower lip region 10a surrounding the wheel 30 halfway is reinforced by a reinforcement 25 and is in turn covered by a left-hand rear fender 26 spaced a distance from the major body of the inner panel 10 with the reinforcement 25 positioned therebetween. The rear fender 26 may be a part of an outer panel of the body structure.
It is to be noted that the column structure composed of the side walls 7, the major upright wall 8 and the flaps 9 with their respective flanges 6, 11, 22 and 12 is preferably of one-piece construction and can be fabricated from a patterned metal sheet by the use of any known bending and press works. Specificaliy, by bending the patterned metal sheet along the bending lines shown by a in FIG. 2 to allow the side walls 7 to protrude in the same direction substantially perpendicular to the major upright wall 7 and then along the bending lines b to allow the flaps 9 to be folded together with the free edge portions 9a and 9b overlapped one above the other, then by effecting a spot-welding to the overlapping free edge portions 9a and 9b of the respective flaps 9, and finally by using a press work to form the flanges 6, 11, 22 and 12, the column structure of the construction and shape as best shown in FIG. 2 can be obtained.
It is also to be noted that the bridge plate 15 composed of the connected flaps 9 has a generally rectangular recess 14 depressed inwardly of the column structure for the purpose of reinforcing such bridge plate 15.
The support column 5 also comprises a generally rectangular support plate 16 of one-piece construction having a bracket portion 18 and a brace portion 19 integral with the bracket portion 18, but bent a certain angle relative thereto. The support plate 16 is mounted on the column structure in such a manner that the bracket portion 18 is held in position to close the rectangular opening laterally of the bridge plate 15 with its peripheral flange 17 spot-welded to the walls 7 and 8 whereas the brace portion 19 extends within the interior of the column structure so as to diverge away from the major upright wall 8 with its side flanges 20 spot-welded to the side walls 7 and with its end flange 21 spot-welded from below to the peripheral lip region 10a of the inner panel 10 above the wheel 30. For this purpose, the apron 13 is to be understood as having a cutout opening defined therein not only for allowing a wheel suspension assembly, including a shock absorber 27 and a coil spring 28 externally of the shock absorber 27, to pass therethrough, but also for allowing the end flange 21 of the brace portion 19 of the support plate 16 to reach the peripheral lip region 10a of the inner panel 10.
While the support column according to the present invention is constructed in the manner as hereinabove described, the suspension assembly is coupled to and supported by the support column in the following manner. As best shown in FIG. 3, the shock absorber 27 mounted on the wheel axle in any known manner has a piston rod 29 having its free end engaged in a bearing hole 31 in the bracket portion 18 and rigidly coupled to said bracket portion 18. The coil spring 28 externally of the shock absorber 27 has one end coupled to a cylinder of the shock absorber 27 and the other end held in contact with the bracket portion 18 from below.
In the foregoing embodiment, it has been described that the flaps 9 forming the bridge plate 15 are integral with the side walls 7 which are in turn integral with the major upright wall 8. However, the bridge plate 15 may be made of a plate member separate from the side walls 7 such as shown in FIG. 6. In this modified form of FIG. 6, the bridge plate 15 has its opposite side edges formed integrally with respective flanges through which the bridge plate 15 is spot-welded to the side walls 7.
In any event, in the construction as hereinbefore fully described, the connection of the suspension assembly to the support column can readily be performed with no difficulty because the inclined brace portion 19 of the support plate 16 serves as a guide for guiding the free end of the piston rod 29 and the upper end of the coil spring 28 towards the bracket portion 18 with the free end of the rod 29 passed through the bearing aperture 31 even though any misalignment have occurred.
In addition, since the design is such that the impacts or shocks tending to be transmitted in the direction towards the interior of the automobile body structure while the automobile is traveling on the road can be distributed to the flanges 22, 6, 11, 12 and 21, and in view of the fact that each spot-welded connection exhibits a strength in a shearing direction, the support column as a whole has sufficient strength with no substantial possibility of some or all of the spot-welded flanges being separated from the member to which they have been connected. Specifically, the brace portion 19 of the support plate 16 is effective to define a generally triangularly cross-sectioned closed space in cooperation with the bridge plate 15 and the inner panel 10, thereby reinforcing the support column as a whole.
Although the present invention has fully been described in connection with the preferred embodiment thereof with reference to the accompanying drawings, it is to be noted that various changes and modifications are apparent to those skilled in the art. By way of example, as can readily be understood by those skilled in the art, the support column and the suspension assembly associated therewith are provided for each left-hand or right-hand rear wheel.
Accordingly, such changes and modifications are to be understood as included within the scope of the present invention unless they depart therefrom.
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Sphinx carbon dating
Now, however, recent discoveries in Turkey could upset some of the most basic premises in the conventional timeline for the rise of civilization—providing clear artifactual testimony of ancient advancement 12,000 years ago. Second, there has been a recent attack on my dating of the Great Sphinx.Here now, in an Atlantis Rising exclusive, Robert Schoch looks once again at the case for a much older Great Sphinx and the new corroboration to be found in the ruins recently unearthed at Göbekli Tepe.—Editor Based on my geological and seismic analyses, utilizing weathering and erosion patterns correlated with the paleoclimatology and subsurface features, the Great Sphinx at Giza, Egypt, goes back thousands of years earlier than the traditional Egyptological date of circa 2500 BC. This forced me to re-evaluate my analysis, and led me to conclude that, if anything, I may have underestimated the age. The body of the Sphinx sits largely below ground level, in an area that is commonly referred to as the Sphinx Enclosure or the Sphinx pit.
The cover story of that issue, “Breaking the Silence,” featured an interview with John Anthony West on the re-dating of the Great Sphinx.
Vultures in particular may represent birds that carried away the dead, and human bones found in association with Göbekli Tepe have been suggested as indications of a death cult. Göbekli Tepe has been hailed in some circles as figuratively, if not literally, the Biblical Garden of Eden.
Some of the human bones appear to have been unburied, perhaps left to be scavenged by wild animals as was done in various later cultures (Tibet is an example). Like the fabled Eden, it lies between the northern portions of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
West and his colleague, Boston University geologist, Dr.
Robert Schoch, had looked at the evidence of water weathering on the Sphinx and its surroundings and produced a powerful geological case that the monument must be, at a minimum, 7,000 years old, and is probably much older.

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Everyone had a stamp-collecting phase as a kid—and of course plenty of people keep up the hobby as adults, too. The National Postal Museum is for all of them, from the kids who soak letters to get their canceled stamps to the grown-up devotees who bid on whole sheets of misprints. In an age when the importance of physical mail is fading—and the very existence of the Postal Service is under threat—the Postal Museum gives an account of the mail’s vital role in American history.
You enter into “Moving the Mail,” an exhibition that traces all the ways the Postal Service has moved the mail over the years: from stagecoach to train to airplane and truck, with notable routes run on ponies, snowshoes, and dogsleds. “Binding the Nation” explains the early history of mail services in the Colonies through early 19th-century America, and “Mail Call” examines specifically the history of military mail.
After that, it’s time for the stamps. There’s a gallery devoted to Amelia Earhardt’s personal stamp collection; one entirely of stamps honoring Abraham Lincoln, from 1894 to 1959; and many more, including, of course, the main attraction for stamp lovers: the many extreme rarities and misprints.
Get to the museum at 11:00 a.m. or 1 p.m. to join one of the free, daily docent-led tours of the museum, lasting about half an hour. If you bring a child and he or she clamors to become a collector right away, you can pick up a starter kit in the museum gift shop.
In addition: do not get confused! Although the National Postal Museum is in a former main post office for the city of Washington, D.C., its building, the Postal Square Building, is not the Old Post Office Pavilion. The Old Post Office Pavilion, close to the National Mall , is the one with the food court. The National Postal Museum does share its building with a Capital City Brewery restaurant, but if you want lots of food options you’re probably better off going across the street to the food court in the lower level of Union Station.
For more, visit https://www.postalmuseum.si.edu.
National Postal Museum
Hours: The Museum is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., except December 25.
Parking: Street parking is available near the Museum and all-day paid parking is available at Union Station, located next to the Museum.
Metrorail: Red Line to Union Station. Leave through the Massachusetts Avenue exit. As you get off the escalator, the National Postal Museum will be across the street.
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1. Being Healthy: Get More Rest
We all need more sleep so it’s at the top of the list. The benefits of a good night’s sleep include increased stamina, lower heart rate, better memory and an increased sex drive. Sound good? Oh, yeah!
2. Practice Self-Care
You only get one body, you really should take care of it. Along with the physical aspects of eating right and exercising, self-care should include some mental and emotional care. This might be in the form of therapy or a weekly manicure, whatever makes you feel good works.
3. Being Healthy: Have Support
When you go through tough times, physically or emotionally, you need people around you to lift you up and provide the help you need to recover. From career setbacks to divorce, we’ve all experienced a trauma during which we leaned on our “people” and couldn’t have survived without them.
4. Be Supportive of Others
Receiving support from your social network is great but providing support to others has benefits, too. You’ll feel needed and integral to the functioning of your community, and that has tangible benefits for both your physical and mental health.
5. Move Your Body
There is no shortcut to physical fitness; you have to move your body. Find an exercise, any exercise, and fall in love with it. It doesn’t matter if it’s yoga, cross-fit or anything in between—it all counts.
6. An Attitude of Gratitude
Being thankful for all that you’re blessed with has been shown to make lives longer and happier. A positive attitude can do wonders for your overall health, if you’re willing to give it a shot!
7. Take Your Vitamins
From A to Z (more like B to Zinc, we suppose), taking your vitamins can fill the gaps in your nutritional needs left behind by the Standard American Diet. We all have them. No shame. Do your best and then take your multi; just to be sure you’re getting what you need to be the healthiest you can be.
8. Get Thee to a Doctor
Knowing your stats and having a professional help you handle them is invaluable when it comes to being healthy. After all, how can you stay on top of your cholesterol if you have no idea what your numbers are?
9. Drink More
Water, that is! Staying hydrated will keep your digestive system working better and improve your skin while boosting your energy. Who could ask for anything more?
10. Eat More
Veggies, of course! Most Americans aren’t getting enough servings of fruits or vegetables in their diet. It’s an area where we can all improve, so no judgment.
From weight management to stress reduction, even better brainpower, meditation has been shown to have incredible benefits on our quest to be healthier both physically and mentally.
12. Give Back
Volunteering on a regular basis will bring about incredible reward, not just for your community but for you as well. People who volunteer feel more fulfilled, connected to a higher cause and have a more diverse, stronger social network.
13. Put Down Your Phone
Your cell phone or other technology will not be missed next year, or even next week! Missing out on quality time with your family because you got sucked into the social media vortex during game night might haunt you forever if it’s a regular occurrence.
14. Write It Out
Expression of self is critical when it comes to being healthy—wholly healthy. People who journal often feel more understood than others, even if they don’t actually have any one person in their lives who “gets them” all the time.
15. Shake It Off
Make like Taylor Swift and shake your stresses away with a good old-fashioned dance party. Seriously. The stress relief might just add years to your life!
The post The Art of Vitality: 15 Key Lessons for Being Healthy appeared first on Mundo Hispanico.

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For the first time since 1939, UCLA will meet Hawaii in football.
Announced by Hawaii yesterday, the matchup won't take place for quite some time -- not until 2017 -- but if the Rainbow Warriors' coaching staff stays intact that long, the showdown at the Rose Bowl could mean the return of former UCLA offensive coordinator Norm Chow to the Rose Bowl.
Of course, that could be unlikely, given that Hawaii has only had one winning season since 2007, when June Jones and quarterback Colt Brennan led Hawaii to a BCS bowl. Last season, Chow's Hawaii team finished 3-9.
- Mourners gather to remember slain Whittier policeman killed in the line of duty
- Cyclist hurt after crashing into SUV in Newport Beach
- Woman arrested on suspicion of setting up to 28 fires in Fullerton
- Lakers have much to address before season ends
- 1 person hurt in crash where 2 cars crash, 1 flips on 57 freeway at 91


Burwood Council owns and operates community facilities and parks which are available for hire by the community.
Council’s Draft Community Facilities and Parks Hire Policy has been developed to provide a clear and consistent framework for the hire of Council community facilities and parks to increase the level of transparency and accountability when making a booking with Council.
The Draft Policy outlines the community facilities and parks available for hire and hirer categories eligible to receive a concession rate in accordance with Council’s adopted Fees and Charges. It also seeks to facilitate equitable access to community facilities and parks in alignment with the Community Strategic Plan – Burwood 2036.
You are invited to download a copy of the Draft Community Facilities and Parks Hire Policy (available to the right) and submit your feedback and comments to Council by Wednesday 28 September 2022.
How to Make a Submission
There are three ways you can lodge a submission:
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- Email your submission to email@example.com with the subject line ‘Draft Community Facilities and Parks Hire Policy.'
- Post it to the Manager Customer Experience and Business Improvement, Burwood Council, PO Box 240, Burwood NSW 1805.


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Monitor and Manage water Usage in Residential Buildings
ABSTARCTMonitor and manage water usage in residential buildings.The project's objective is to support sustainable water usage habits while assisting families in reducing their water usage and utility costs. The project might be divided into two sections to accomplish this: Section 1: Collecting meaningful data Install water flow sensors in the apartment's various rooms, including the yard, kitchen, and bathrooms.Get information on water usage trends over a period of time, preferably one month or longer.Analyze the data using data science approaches to pinpoint locations where water use might be decreased. Detecting plumbing system leakage or high water usage at particular times of the day are two examples.Create a web-based dashboard to show the data and provide the household's occupants insights.Section 2: Automating water usage Create an automated water consumption control system based on the insights from the data analysis. For instance, if it rains, the water supply to the garden is immediately cut off, and the water flow to the bathroom is decreased at certain times.Create a warning system to inform the home's occupants of leaks or unusual water use habits. Challenges: Finding the proper sensors and technology for this project's water flow and pressure measurements will be one of its problems.Creating a trustworthy algorithm to automate water use while preserving the occupants' security and comfort would be another problem.
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Tren de Aragua, T&T and the Caribbean
The article in the Sunday Express March 13, 2022 page 7 was yet another example of the use of massa regime change discourse on Venezuela by the Express to pursue its present agenda on T&T to constantly stoke its moral panic on crime which has the TTPS in the firing line. The said article presents regime change discourse in Venezuela from sources whose discourse in no way reflects gangland reality on the ground in Venezuela to then extrapolate a causal impact on reality on the ground in T&T, which in no way is reality on the ground in Gangland T&T. Then the Express proceeds to question the acting CoP on this manufactured reality that in no way has traction with the reality of Gangland T&T today.
The entire instrument constituted to spread panic is premised on the regime change discourse of Gangland Venezuela and the so-called paramountcy of Tren de Aragua and their Caribbean operations. This discourse asserts that Tren is the paramount Gangland Venezuela organization today with no evidence to prove this assertion whilst it never articulates the relation of Tren to the Colombian paramilitary Dons or the Mexican TTOs or both. It fails to describe in detail the business model of Tren, its order of battle, organizational model and its disciplinary order. It fails to deconstruct the operational basis of Tren in Zulia state which is the command and control center of the Venezuelan illicit trades. This massa regime change discourse refuses to see the Mexican TTOs and cannot fully deconstruct the operations of the Colombian paramilitary Dons in Venezuela as they are the leading edge of regime change by insurrection, America’s instruments. Likewise the Express con job is silent on the role of the Colombian Dons and their operatives in Venezuela and T&T in the illicit trades from Venezuela to T&T and the Caribbean, this is the work of Tren. This sleight of hand massa deception is not new on Venezuela as for example there was the discourse of the Cartel of the Sun which was changed to Cartel of the Suns implicating for example Tareck el Aissami as a drug trafficker until it was revealed that the “evidence” was all fabricated, manufactured. Now there is Tren de Aragua to counter the revelations of the complicity of America’s president in waiting and the whole crew of “democrats” oppressed by Maduro with the Colombian paramilitary Dons and their trafficking organisations.
The first Venezuelan reality is that Tren arose and exerted hegemony over sections of Venezuelan Gangland in a 10 year time frame which coincided with the exertion of the hegemony of the Mexican TTOs over the illicit trades of Venezuela. The business model, the order of battle and the disciplinary order of Tren are exactly those of a Gangland affiliate of the Mexican TTOs. Tren is known to regularly engage in battle with Colombian paramilitary Dons who have invaded Venezuelan states that border Colombia especially with the renegade FARC and ELN. Tren is also known to engage , militarily with agents of the Venezuelan state in the employ of the Colombian Dons in Venezuela. Tren is all about generating wealth by any and all means necessary not regime change unlike Gangland Venezuela under the control of the Colombian Dons as El Koki which places it on a collision course with Gangland under the control of the Dons vividly illustrated by the clashes in the gold, diamond and coltan fields of Bolivar state.
Massa regime change discourse has then to generate this manufactured reality of Tren as its operational mode presents a potent challenge to the regime change agenda of Venezuelan Gangland under the control of the Colombian Dons. This daily challenge enables the Maduro regime to devote state resources to specific operations and operators of Colombian Don Gangland in Venezuela as El Koki liberating space which is then open for the new order of the Mexican TTOs. This is the benefit derived from staying clear of a regime change agenda in Venezuela today for the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Massa regime change discourse refuses to accept publicly the existence of the Mexican TTOs hence it is incapable of articulating reality on the ground forcing it to always manufacture a reality that has no traction on the ground as that of the Express and insightcrime, all instruments of massa regime change. When you use massa regime change discourse to constitute instruments of intervention on the ground you are doomed to repeat the same bullshit over and over with no impact on a reality your discourse cannot appropriate. The Express points fingers at the state agencies but the discourse it utilizes to interrogate the state agencies is incapable of understanding the reality on the ground much less efficaciously changing it.
Tren de Aragua and T&T
The Sunday Express story is now attempting to mask the reality that the Colombian Don and its agents dominate the illicit smuggling of illegal aliens into T&T from Venezuela using the sea routes from Venezuela. The illegal community that was created by human smuggling is under the hegemony of the Colombian Don and given the Cleansing coupled with the hegemony of the Mexican TTOs over the illicit trades of the Caribbean including T&T this illicit community of non-nationals, the trafficking families of the oligarchy, other persons and groups and gangland of the Colombian Don is now being reconfigured into a redoubt by/for the Colombian Dons. The order of the Mexican TTOs in Venezuela does not rely on Sucre state to export illicit drugs and illegal aliens to T&T and the Caribbean as they utilise the Colombian and Venezuelan Caribbean coastline to do this, in the case of Venezuela stretching from Falcon state to Nueva Esparta state in addition to Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana with command and control in Nueva Esparta. The disciplinary order of the Mexican TTOs and its affiliates precludes operatives of this order speaking to any researcher making revelations that will earn them their eternal silence in T&T worse yet in Venezuela. The loose lips of independents and those in the employ of the Colombian Dons reveal nothing about the order and the Tren for what applies to the business model and disciplinary order of the Colombian Don is irrelevant to the Order of the Mexican TTOs and their affiliates of Gangland.
The activities of the Tren in T&T and the Caribbean must obey the rules of the Order as there are affiliates of the Order in T&T and the Caribbean which precludes any attempt to engage in any battle for dominance against fellow affiliates of the Order. Tren will then be present to tap into the old pipeline that moves Venezuelan gold and diamonds from T&T to Europe, tap into the pipeline that exports scrap metals from T&T, tap into the pipeline that moves coltan to the north Atlantic, tap into the market for professional sex workers in T&T and the Caribbean. These are the major activities that will interest the Tren in T&T and the Caribbean as the illicit drug trafficking pipelines are well established and moving product to especially Europe. The Tren de Aragua is then simply another affiliate of the Mexican TTOs intent on squeezing the illicit market share of the Colombian paramilitary Dons in Venezuela and the Caribbean which is heightening their exclusion from the north Atlantic illicit markets especially in the rapidly growing drug market of Europe. As a result the drug trafficking families of the T&T oligarchy given their increasing dependence on US drug markets for their survival are increasingly extraditable putting in play the Cleansing of the traffickers of the oligarchy as in Guatemala and now Honduras which is/was the handiwork of the Mexican TTOs.
The said article in the Sunday Express amounted to very little in light of the hegemonic order on the ground, all it was is massa regime change discourse applied to T&T to invoke a moral panic on the threat posed by Tren de Aragua deliberately attempting to mask the activities of the Colombian Dons in T&T that pose the grave threat to public safety. The most potent indicator of this deliberate masking of reality on the ground in T&T is this statement from the article: “Intelligence sources say Tren de Aragua currently has a partnership with a well known incarcerated person from East Trinidad. The person is currently in jail, jointly charged with others with murder, conspiracy to murder and other gang related charges.” The article is then insisting that this East Trinidad group is an affiliate of an affiliate of the Mexican TTOs which means that what they are currently charged for was sanctioned by the Mexican TTOs. This assertion then opens a new can of worms for those pushing massa regime change agenda for Venezuela applied to T&T which they cannot perceive nor rationalize. The reality on the ground is entirely contrary, in fact contradictory as the link is to the Colombian Dons through the Cleansed federation, a closed chapter in the history of the illicit trades in T&T. “Intelligence” manufactured by a regime change agenda has no traction with reality on the ground, cannot appropriate reality on the ground and constitute a relevant intervention! This is the basis of massa phony war on drugs that enables the Game never controls it.
March 30, 2022 The said Sunday Express article attempting to describe reality on the ground in both Venezuela and T&T Gangland should have revealed the reality of Gilberto Malony Hernandez El Malony who created the Tren de Llanos in the service of the Colombian paramilitary Dons located in Sucre state Venezuela where for one and a half years he moved product from Sucre state to T&T and the rest of the Caribbean for the Colombian Dons. In November 2021 El Malony was killed by the FAES in San Juan de Unare, Sucre which collapsed his operations and dispersed his band to Guarico. From 2019 to November 2021 El Malony and his Tren de Llanos was the player in T&T for the Colombian Dons with developments in the illicit trades in T&T and the Caribbean flowing back to Sucre state resulting in his demise in a hail of bullets. There will be no mention of this reality in articles using regime change discourse this is a reality that will remain masked, denied by delusion.