Brazilian photographer Carla Maldonado came to terms with November's election tumult by taking pictures of it.
I moved to New York from Rio de Janeiro, to take pictures and escape a patriarchal and sexist culture where I never fit in. I decided to leave Rio behind to share my perspective, and New York seemed like the right place to do so. When the election of last month shook the world of myself and the young people I know, I decided to photograph my way through the confusion.
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Expressionism. I am also interested in the idea of a scientific demonstration to illustrate the work of an artist.
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This would be a move towards a truer equivalence between sight reading and Abstract Expressionism.


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January court date set for man accused of killing two young girls
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A man accused of killing two young girls earlier this month made a brief appearance in an Edmonton courtroom Friday.
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FATTY FAT FAT, performed by Katie Greenall, explores one woman's journey of growing up fat and surviving in a world where your body is viewed as wrong, unhealthy and disgusting. Involving a wide range of different theatre techniques, Greenall engages the audience and brings us into her story, enlightening us as to the issues that she and other fat people experience.
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FATTY FAT FAT is everything you want from a piece of theatre – relatable, funny, serious and teaches you a lot about someone else's life. Greenall is exceptionally talented and one to watch in the theatre world, as I have never seen a show that so effortlessly combines comedy, spoken word, physical theatre and more. You will enjoy this show whether you're fat or not.
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Question about Captain Ion V. Emilian, 2nd Calarachi regimen
Posted: May 15, 2004 07:55 pm
I got to read a Spanish 1977 edition of "Les Cavaliers de L'apocalypse" (The horsemen of apocalypse, written in collaboration with Jean Marcilly, printed in 1974) written by Ion V. Emilian, a Rumanian hero of WWII, 14 decorations including the Order of Michael the Brave and the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class...and oddly enough got decorated posthumously by the Soviets with the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky and the Medal of Victory (it was a propaganda ploy), andI was fascinated by the epic of the calarachi cavalry regiments, that were the unit that reached the easternmost point during the Russian campaign. It's one of my favorite war books of all time.
I have a small request, could somebody find out what happened with Captain Emilian? after the war he was active against the communist regime, could you found it if he lived to see Communism downfall?
I always wondered what happened to him.
Weird, I could not find any captain Emilian in the "Michael the Brave" holders list published in the book "Armata Romana 1941-1945", 1996.
You said he was decorated posthumously, but you ask if he lived after the war?
And the Soviet "Pobeda" (Victory) medal was awarded only to King Mihai I.
Weird, I could not find any captain Emilian in the \"Michael the Brave\" holders list published in the book \"Armata Romana 1941-1945\", 1996.
Well.. I don't think he was a fictional character, or that he made up the story, I think maybe you can't find him in the Rumanian official records because he was a prominent antiCommunist activist and worked for the American secret service after the war, and as he tells at the end of his book, survived several assasination attempts by the NKVD, so maybe his name was deleted from the records.
Here are several data points to track the man and confirm he was not making stutf up:
As he tells in the first chapter of the book, he "died" in combat in 1945.
"To be precise, I was killed on 17th January 1945, when at the head of the 2nd regiment of Calarachis he took from the Germans hill 672 in the metal ore terrains of Silicka Planina, Slovakia"
".. the Pravda diary mentioned me as a legendary figure of the cavalry, and that I was decorated with the order of Bodgan Khmielnitsky"
"and not to be outdone, the comrade Stalin declares that I'm decorated posthumously with the Medal of the Victory"
"I deserve little this supreme praise. The soviet leaders take advantage of me, Romanian cavalry officer , quite popular in the army, as a model for our troops, to incite them to follow my "example"
Actually at the time Ion Emilian was a Hauptsturmführer in the Waffen SS and was at Dollersheim (Austria) "among numerous elements or the Führer reserve"
He mentions aside from the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class that he was decorated with the Crimea campaign shield by field marshal Von Manstein in person..
He surrendered to the Americans in Liezen, and was prisoner in the camp at Atlheim since 20 May 1945.
After being released, he starts work for the americans and stablish an association named Christian Association of Rumanians of the Upper Austria (don't know the original acronym ACRAS, maybe?)
There are mentions of "SS Captain Emilian" and his organization in the communist press of the time
"Die Neue Zeit" 6 october 1947
"Osterreiche Zeitung" 27 January 1949
After a failed kidnapping attempt the NKVD took a reprisal against him by executing his brother
13 Decermber 1949 Marcelo Emilian was shot in the Jilava prison, Bucharest , alongside lieutenant colonel Dan Tetorial (9th Rochioris) and major Mihai Elialde (2nd Calarachi)
The last chapter of the book read as a death premonition, and not only because of the assasination attempts, the man smoked 3 packs a day, so I have the feeling he was dying of cancer by the time he wrote the book with the aid of Marcilly, in 1973.
I hope Captain Emilian lived long enough to see the fall of communism. Just wanted to know the date and place of death.
Ion Valeriu Emilian was born on 14 December 1906 at Craiova. He went to the Sf. Iosif high school in Bucharest and then to the Manastirea Dealul military high school in Targoviste. The family however was opposed to his future military career, so he went to Law School and became a lawyer. He then joined the right wing National Christian Defense League and was named the prefect of the Neamt County during the short Goga government (in 1938). After the war started he volunteered for service and was assigned to the 2nd Calarasi Regiment General David Praporgescu, as squadron CO, and served during the 1941 and 1942 campaigns. The events of 23 August 1944 found captain Emilian in Transylvania. He disagreed with the decision in Bucharest and deserted to the Germans. After the war he resided in Muenchen and founded in 1952 the newspaper Stindardul, which he led until his death on 6 July 1985 (he had cancer).
He does not appear in the list compiled about the Mihai Viteazul Order from the Monitorul Oficial. If the award would have been revoked, it would also had appeared in the MO. However, there other cases where an officer was awarded the MV Order and he does not appear in the MO. Another such case is of. echip. cl. III Ion Milu, who received the award along with the other 4 great aces of the 7th Fighter Group at the end of August 1943, but he does not appear in the MO like the others do. And there are plenty photos with him wearing the MV Order 3rd class. Ion Pantazi (the son of the Antonescu government MoD) collaborated with Emilian at his newspaper in the 80s. He was also a cavalryman decorated with the MV Order. I doubt he would have done it if Emilian would have lied about his MV Order.
Thank you very much. Sad the old warhorse didn't live long enough to see Romania free, though he lived long enough to see the first cracks on the Steel Curtain.
By the way, Emilian never claimed to have been awarded the Michael the Brave order, in the preface Marcilly notes that he had known that from other people, Emilian didn't talk about his decorations he said that "the only respectable crosses are those of the dead"
By the way, there's a German translation of his book
Der phantastische Ritt
http://www.wintersonnenwende.com/scriptori...n/1130phan.html
I hope this epic narrative is available in Romanian language now.
Dan Po
[quote]I hope this epic narrative is available in Romanian language now.[/quote]
I never heared about this book :( . Who knows if it was published in Romania or in romanian ?
There are French, Spanish and German editions of the book, of course, it couldn't be published in Romania until after the fall of the Communist regime. I hope a Romanian publisher prints it because it's not only one of the best WWII narratives I've ever read, a great novel about the last cavalrymen, and a part of Romanian heritage.
So if anybody in this forum knows a Romanian history or military publisher, I encourage you to tell them to take a look at this one. It's worth it.
Incalecarea!
[quote] Incalecarea![/quote]
What a forgotten word ! :) :ro:
Posted: July 03, 2004 08:02 pm
Sergent
I have been unable to find this book. Does anyone know if this book is available?
Posted: January 31, 2005 05:09 pm
Fruntas
My school's library has it... and I live in Canada. :P
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I've got the French edition. Really impressive. Does anyone know if he has any relatives? Ion V. Emilian died in 1985.
Posted: December 12, 2020 04:51 pm
It was publicated here:
https://marist.ro/shop/cavalerii-apocalipsei/
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Alonso Believes He's A Better Driver Than Hamilton, Verstappen And Vettel
Posted on March 26, 2021 | by Katy Fairman
He's making a highly-anticipated return to the F1 world starting this weekend, and Fernando Alonso is not afraid to start throwing big claims around. We love it. Let us grab that popcorn and just watch the chaos unfold!
Asked by BBC Sport whether he was still as good as the likes of seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton, four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel or Max Verstappen, Alonso very bluntly replied, "no, I'm better".
Fair play. We have to respect the straight-talking Fernando!
"There were some young talented guys who've been showing great performance in the younger categories, and then we still have the champions that were here two years ago with Lewis, Sebastian and Kimi," Alonso continued.
"Verstappen – even if he is one of the young ones and the younger generation – he is racing at the top level for already four or five years. We have a competitive grid, and it's going to be a challenge to beat everyone on track."
Fernando, a two-time world champion himself, raised eyebrows when he announced his return to F1 with Alpine after a two-year absence. However, known as one of the best drivers of this generation, he is keen to show that his return will be triumphant.
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Karl Rove Just Went on Fox News and Slammed Donald Trump For His Attacks on the Media
Former George W. Bush senior adviser Karl Rove appears on Fox News America's Newsroom program, August 6, 2018. (Fox News/YouTube)
Karl Rove—Republican consultant and frequent policy advisor—knows his way around the political game. The man credited with the rise of George W. Bush, President Bush himself referred to Rove as "The Architect" in his 2004 reelection victory speech.
Rove became Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff to Bush at the White House as well as head of the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives. Needless to say, Karl Rove knows all about political rhetoric.
On Monday, "The Architect" shared some of his expert advice with the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, President Donald Trump, on the Fox News program America's Newsroom.
Rove stated:
I think the president would be well-advised to tone down the rhetoric."
Watch the interview here.
The comment came after America's Newsroom host Sandra Smith shared a weekend Twitter post from the President. In it Trump again refers to the media as the "enemy of the people."
The Fake News hates me saying that they are the Enemy of the People only because they know it's TRUE. I am providing a great service by explaining this to the American People."
Trump goes on to claim the media causes division and even war. Then the President describes them as "very dangerous" and "sick!".
Rove began his response by stating:
Look I think this is over the top. Every President has a problem with the media."
"I was in the White House for seven years and I didn't like the coverage they gave George W. Bush," Rove continued, "particularly the liberal New York Times, but I think the President is better if he makes his case on a case-by-case basis.
That is to say when they say something that is wrong and then he respectfully disagrees with them. I think calling names is not helpful to our country from any side."
Rove took specific exception to the President's repeated use of a favorite phrase of dictators throughout the 20th century when referring to anyone that criticized them.
Calling them the enemy of the people that just grates on me. I grew up during the time of the Cold War."
That is a phrase that was used by Stalin against the enemies of the communist regime. I think the president would be well advised to tone down the rhetoric."
Seeming to speak directly to the President, Rove stated emphatically:
Your audience is not the media. Your audience is not the hardcore base that loves you."
"There are people," Rove explained, "that go to those rallies and when he says 'the fake news' and 'the media' and 'they're terrible' and points at them, they scream and yell, but to win the election this fall he's got to win the people who are up for grabs in this election."
The longtime Republican adviser then ran through some poll numbers, provided by Fox News.
Only 28 percent of voters in the United States strongly approve of Trump, which is the hardcore base Rove spoke of.
But 51 percent disapprove of the President, Rove pointed out. And of those, 41 percent strongly disapprove.
Continuing to pander to the 28 percent—as Trump does when he attacks Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on Twitter or leads chants of "lock her up" or "build the wall" on camera at his continuous Trump rallies—will not change the minds of the majority who currently disapprove of his job performance.
While the adulation and almost worshipful rally atmosphere appeals to the President, it gains him nor the GOP any new supporters. And 28 percent cannot win a national election or retain Congress.
Rove closed by encouraging the President to reach out to his opposition instead of pandering to his followers.
Several took to Twitter to thank Rove for the insight, including Breitbart News...
...but most felt it would fall on deaf ears...
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The real test will come on Tuesday, November 6, 2018.
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{
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    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, receiveData);
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string DialServer::getIpAddress()
{
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}

int DialServer::getHttpResponseHeader(
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    string &header,
    string &value )
{
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Click the Home | New Graph | Bar | Horizontal Floating Bar Chart or Home | New Graph | Bar | Vertical Floating Bar Chart command.
Select a data file in the Open Worksheet dialog. You can select a new data file or you can select an open data file in the Open worksheets section.
Click the Open button. A floating bar chart is created using the default properties.


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Naval Special Warfare Strengthens Program for Former Candidates
From MC1 Benjamin Kittleson, NSW Center Public Affairs
SAN DIEGO, Calif. - Naval Special Warfare (NSW) Center, responsible for preparing the next generation of elite maritime special operations commandos, is reinforcing and improving policies and processes for its Phoenix Division, a special department within the command that teaches, coaches, and mentors disenrolled Sailors for reclassification to find their next career in the Navy.
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Since the inception of the Navy SEAL and Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen (SWCC) communities, tens of thousands of highly talented and motivated Americans have entered Navy special operations training. Historically, more than two out of every three Sailors who enter the program will be disqualified due to a medical issue, an inability to meet the rigorous mental and physical standards, or "drop on request" (DOR) where Sailors self-select themselves out of the assessment process.
When those Sailors leave the training environment, they are assigned to the Phoenix Division, responsible for preparing and assisting these Sailors to find a new rating in the Navy for a successful career and transition.
Based on feedback from candidates and staff instructors, NSW Center training officials updated their Phoenix Division mentoring processes to help Sailors chart a new career course as they recover and adjust from the Navy's most mentally and physically taxing "A" school.
"We've taken a hard look at understanding the needs of the Sailors leaving the community and returning to the Fleet," said Master Chief Special Warfare Operator (SEAL) Kyle Baumann of NSW Center Operations Department. "Within the division, we are spearheading a mentorship program to ensure our Sailors are ready to enter their follow-on "A" school or check on-board their next ship or command with the tools and knowledge to fit in, day one, as a part of their new team."
This mentorship program solicits experienced Sailors from combat support rates to brief and encourage the Phoenix Division personnel on the opportunities available to them to reclassify ratings and work within the NSW community again in the future. Some of the combat support rates include:
BU-Builder and other Seabee rates
ET-Electronics Technicians
GM-Gunner's Mates
HM-Hospital Corpsman
IT-Information Systems Technician
IS-Intelligence Specialist
Sailors in Phoenix Division are further prepared for transition with a physical readiness test, psychological assessment, and medical checkup. Sailors are given a weekly schedule that includes mentorship and professional development sessions to ensure they are postured to succeed in the Navy. NSW Center continues to reinforce to these Sailors that despite not completing NSW's assessment and selection, they can still have a successful and impactful career in the Navy. Previous disenrolled NSW candidates have gone on to be Flag Officers and Master Chief Petty Officers of the Navy.
"We are committed to sending intelligent, motivated Sailors who, for one reason or another, were not able to complete SEAL or SWCC training, into the Navy with the necessary tools and resources to not just succeed, but thrive in their new command," Baumann said. "With the right focus and motivation, and the support of their leadership, they may even return in a couple years to give the teams another shot."
Naval Special Warfare Center, located on Naval Amphibious Base Coronado, provides initial assessment and selection and subsequent advanced training to the Sailors who make up the Navy's SEAL and Special Boat communities. These communities support the NSW mission, providing maritime special operations forces to conduct full-spectrum operations, unilaterally or with partners, to support national objectives.
For more information on the NSW pipeline, visit https://www.sealswcc.com/.


A stone's throw from the Teatro del Liceo and the Ramblas, the MACBA and the fabulous Sant Antoni market, recently renovated, this property is located on a tree-lined street, enjoying the proximity of shops and services, as well as public transport.
The apartment is 89 m2, and consists of 3 medium size bedrooms, 1 bathroom and 1 courtsey toilet. It has beuatiful hydraulic floors, and molded ceilings. The living room boasts 2 balconies facing south. Being on a fifth floor, the flat gets a lot of light . The kitchen is independent. The apartment is equipped with gas heating. It needs refurbishing.
The building, from 1890, is in good condition and has an elevator. In addition, the flat has great possibilities for renovation as all its walls are partitions, so that they can be removed and created to the taste of the future buyer.


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Holly Golightly - Slowtown Now!
CD - £9.99 GBP LP - £13.99 GBP
Though the last decade has seen the London-born singer re-locate from the Medway delta to the southern state of Georgia, USA, she returned to Blighty late last year to record a new solo album at London‰۪s Gizzard Studios with Ed Deegan at the controls.Holly first came to musical prominence as a member of Thee Headcoatees, a Billy Childish/Thee Headcoats all-girl splinter group in 1991. Four years later she broke away from the garage punk scene with the release of her debut solo album The Good Things, which featured a mix of folk, early electric blues, & '60s beat influenced rock 'n' roll.It's a template that she's honed over the course of 13 solo albums, along the way impressing celebrity fans such as Jim Jarmusch (Holly's track ‰ÛÏTell Me Now So I Know‰۝ featured as the main title theme in his Broken Flowers movie), and most notably Jack White who duetted with Holly on ‰ÛÏIt's True That We Love One Another‰۝, the final track on the classic White Stripes album Elephant.Though it's been 11 years since her last solo album, Holly's been busy as half of blues/Americana duo Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs (The Brokeoffs being multi-instrumentalist Lawyer Dave). The pair have released a string of well received albums, and undertaken many tours on both sides of the Atlantic.Slowtown Now! features 12 songs that will please fans old and new alike performed by the perfect Holly Golightly band line-up of Bruce Brand (drums), Matt Radford (double bass), Ed Deegan (guitar) and Bradley Burgess (guitar). Holly, it's good to have you back!
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Long-Term Care and The Elderly - Evans Law Firm, Inc.
By The Evans Law Firm of The Evans Law Firm posted in Annuities on Thursday, April 18, 2013.
Although most older people hope to maintain independence, good health and have enough money to live comfortably, unexpected events may lead to the need for Long Term Care. If not planned for, these events can lead to the loss of hard earned assets as well as health. However, many families have found that after long term care has been purchased, dividends are not forthcoming. The burden that can result can affect both the elderly person and their families. Although it is often a difficult to subject to approach, properly planning Long Term Care plan is advisable for seniors before an event becomes a crisis. However, many payers on Long Term Care insurance have found that when the need arises, some companies do not pay when needed.
Long term care planning goals are important to both the elderly person and their family. Making sure part of your retirement includes a plan for long-term care is important, but preventing serious loss is just as vital. Make sure you or your loved one is advised and ready for the future by seeking advice about appropriate Long Term Care before it is purchased.
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A Tale of Two Britains: Health Disparity in the UK
This article is part of our feature The Politics of Health Equity in Europe.
Within the boundaries of the small local authority of Stockton-on-Tees, where I live and work, the difference in life expectancy between Town Centre ward and the suburban, largely new-build ward of Ingleby Barwick West, a few miles away, is 13 years. This is comparable to the difference in national average male life expectancy between the United Kingdom and Pakistan. Estimated using smaller geographical units, lower super output areas (LSOAs) with 1,000-3,000 people, the difference in male life expectancy between the least and most deprived areas in Stockton-on-Tees has grown to 17 years[1]—comparable to the difference in national average male life expectancy between the UK and Senegal. This is the largest such difference within any local authority in England.
Stockton-on-Tees is one of many communities in the North-East of England that was economically devastated by deindustrialization; enclaves of affluence remain, although research on where the money comes from is sadly lacking. From 1997 to 2010, the Labour government made reducing health inequalities a stated objective, with limited success. On some measures, those inequalities actually increased[2] (probably because, with the exception of a successful attack on child poverty,[3] the government did not address the socioeconomic divides that drive those inequalities). Since 2010, and especially since 2013, governments—first a Conservative-led coalition, and since 2015 a Conservative majority—have been systematically scaling back public expenditures that benefit the poor and economically marginalized. Peter Taylor-Gooby has described this process as "root and branch restructuring" of the UK's economy and society.[4] The effect of expenditure cuts will be to roll back public spending as a proportion of GDP to the levels of the 1930s—that is to say before the establishment of the National Health Service and of postwar mechanisms of social protection: in the words of an Institute for Fiscal Studies briefing, "taking the size of the state to its smallest in many generations."[5] That course of action is the fundamental barrier to reducing health inequalities, which instead will almost certainly continue to increase.
Last year, my colleague Clare Bambra and I argued that health consequences of policies like those pursued by the Conservatives are best described in terms of a number of related "neoliberal epidemics."[6] We used the term because, at least in countries like the United States and the UK, which have traveled farthest down the neoliberal or "market fundamentalist" road, the negative health impacts exist on such a scale and have spread so quickly across time and space that if they involved pathogens they would be seen as of epidemic proportions.
Indeed, references to the epidemic of overweight and obesity, now convincingly linked to the neoliberal transformation of food systems[7] and the increasing unaffordability of healthy diets,[8] have become commonplace.
Above and beyond this literature, a large and expanding body of research describes the impact of recent neoliberal policies on social determinants of health in the UK. For example, journalist Mary O'Hara's remarkable book Austerity Bites combines rigorous academic background research and interviews with people throughout Britain to depict a policy-driven nightmare of food poverty, economic insecurity, and scapegoating of the disabled that makes the book emotionally devastating reading.[9] On a smaller scale, the Real Life Reform Project has followed a sample of households in the North of England affected by the multiple benefit and labor market reforms.[10] Figure 2 shows some highlights from its final report.
It is worth dwelling on food and fuel insecurity. As a result of a combination of falling wages, rising prices, and the erosion of social protection,[11] it is estimated that half a million people relied on some form of food aid (food banks) in 2013-14,
[12] and almost ten times that number—7 million—were estimated to be living in "food poverty."[13] Alongside food poverty, many households are also experiencing fuel poverty, with journalistic reports suggesting that fuel poverty is one of the influences leading people to take out payday loans at extortionate interest rates to pay for basic necessities,[14] or to resort to survival theft.[15]
In 2012, Sir Michael Marmot and colleagues wrote: "It is hard to see how even ideologically driven commentators could think that having sufficient money to live on is irrelevant to health inequalities."[16] Sir Michael is a perennial optimist. Consider the fact that in 2009, the House of Commons Health Committee claimed to have "received no compelling evidence to suggest that anybody knows at present what changes" in wider determinants of health "would be most effective at lowering health inequalities"[17] (although it heard, and quoted in its report, evidence on this point from both Marmot and Richard Wilkinson). Perhaps there are no randomized controlled trials; there are none showing the effectiveness of parachutes, either,[18] but surely enabling everyone to afford a healthy diet would be a logical and unquestionably evidence-supported first step. As with the case of parachutes, understanding of the mechanisms of action is sufficient to justify the intervention. A similar analysis can and should be applied to other basic prerequisites for health.
Against this background, despite the government's rhetoric, one thing is very clear about the "root and branch restructuring"[19] that is now under way: we are not all in it together.
Calculations done at the London School of Economics and Political Science found that the combined impact of tax and benefit changes was regressive across the income distribution as a whole: "under most sets of assumptions the main gains were in the upper middle of the income distribution and the main losers were at the bottom and those close to, but not at, the very top."[20] What gives the game away here is the finding that "the overall effect of the changes," which were justified in the name of deficit reduction, "had a net fiscal cost, rather than contributing to deficit reduction."[21] Needless to say, additional cuts are now being justified on a similar basis. The study further concluded that benefit changes anticipated over the coming years "would intensify the distributional effects seen by 2015/16, including increases in the losses of lone parent and large families, children in general and of most of the bottom half of the income distribution."[22]
Coming on top of an already desperate employment picture in many regions, the effect of welfare reforms has hit not only the poorest people, but also the poorest places, hardest.
Researchers at Sheffield Hallam University estimate that by March 2016, the reforms had taken more than £500 per working age adult per year out of the economies of some local authority areas with high levels of deprivation, but only 40 percent of that amount out of the economies of many affluent areas.[23] By 2020-21, the cumulative impact of all post-2010 reforms is likely to cost the poorest areas more than £1,000 per working age adult per year. According to the researchers: "There is a clear and unambiguous relationship: as a general rule, the more deprived the local authority, the greater the financial hit."
The impacts of this contractionary policy are being compounded by cuts to the budgets of local authorities—the governments that now have statutory responsibility for public health. Figure 3, generated by an official of the trade union UNISON, shows that the more deprived an area, the larger the budget cut its local government has suffered.[24] Researchers at the University of Liverpool have graphed the per capita reduction in local authority budgets (Figure 4) against the rate of premature mortality for every local authority in England, showing that the cuts disproportionately affect not only the poorest regions but also the sickest (and they tend to be the same regions).[25]
It must be kept in mind that some of the regions where these cumulative impacts will fall most heavily are already poorer than any regions in France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Austria, Ireland, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden.[26] Even The Economist described the impact on once-prosperous industrial cities as "brutal," although its response was to call for a policy of selective abandonment.[27]
An important recent article by Jeremy Green and Scott Lavery makes the point that austerity measures are being implemented while real wages are stagnating or declining.[28] The spread of low-wage, insecure, and precarious employment reflects labor market restructuring that dates back to the 1980s, as well as more recent initiatives designed to force the unemployed into the labor market "irrespective of the quality of the work on offer," as the authors point out. They also remind us that expenditure cuts have a direct labor market impact, with an estimated one million public sector jobs lost between the start of the financial crisis and the end of 2015. Once again, the impacts are falling disproportionately on poorer regions where the public sector is relatively more important as an employer, and on women, who are estimated to have bore as much as 85 percent of the impact of tax and benefit changes from 2010 through 2014.[29] Meanwhile, Green and Lavery remind us that monetary policies of quantitative easing are designed to increase the wealth of asset holders—those who do not rely exclusively on wages for increases in income and wealth," disproportionately the wealthiest households in Britain. One consulting firm found in a 2014 analysis that the main effect of quantitative easing had been to increase the net worth of the UK's richest 5 percent of households by an average of £215,000.[30]
In 2010, Dutch researcher, Johan Mackenbach, reflected on the 1997-2010 record by observing that reducing health inequalities "requires a massive re-allocation of societal resources," and that "it is unlikely that a majority of the English electorate would have supported the substantial redistribution of income and wealth that would have been necessary."[31] He concluded flatly that "reducing health inequalities is currently beyond our means," even though pursuit of the objective should continue as a moral imperative.
Was Mackenbach right? Certainly, the 2015 election results in England would seem to vindicate his conclusion. Indeed, they suggest that in England, a decisive plurality of the electorate may be comfortable with policies that systematically redistribute income, wealth, and opportunity upward, whilst risk and insecurity are shifted downward. (The result in Scotland, where Labour and the anti-austerity Scottish National Party together won 74 percent of the popular vote, was very different.) The election result can be interpreted in at least two ways, with differing implications for health equity politics.
The first interpretation offers grounds for cautious optimism. It starts from the fact that (with Scotland as a partial exception) the election campaign offered no strong counter-narrative to the Conservative equation of economic competence with deficit reduction through selective, regressive spending cuts, even though a mainstream Nobel Prize-winning economist, Paul Krugman, was among many high-profile public challengers of the austerity nostrum. The definition of economic competence may be contested terrain, and certainly should be, but as Taylor-Gooby has pointed out in a discussion of "the Left trilemma"[32] the ability to appear to the electorate as competent in economic policy is a prerequisite for electoral success. There was no opposition effort during the election to highlight the health consequences of selective austerity, to foreground the questionable economic rationale, or to insist on the critically important recognition of public finance as a public health issue. Thus, forceful advocacy in support of reducing health inequalities, organized around the axiom "first, do no harm"—a test that current social and economic policy cannot possibly meet—might still prove effective.
The second interpretation emphasizes households' calculations of economic and political advantage, and resembles the prescient description by former US Cabinet secretary Robert Reich of the "secession of the successful" a quarter-century ago.[33] The authors of Hard Times, the best book on the politics of responses to the post-crisis recession in the United States and the UK, posit the existence of a "constituency of the 'squeezed but basically safe,'" arguing that "in hard times the exposed are more desperate for help than ever, but the majority… have come to calculate that it is better to throw their lot in with the haves, than to risk being saddled with tax rises to provide assistance to the have-nots."[34] Against a background of increasing market-driven inequalities that are magnified by public policy and legitimized by official rhetoric, this political economy, the associated Chilean-style political alliance of plutocrats, and a large swath of the middle class, may prove extraordinarily resilient. The prospect of exit from the European Union after the June referendum adds further layers of uncertainty, notably about whether the working class and the marginalized will shoulder much of the cost, as seems probable if the alliance in question endures. Under those conditions, prospects for avoiding further increases in health inequalities must be reckoned as bleak.
Ted Schrecker is a professor of Global Health Policy at Durham University.
A note of apology to non-academic readers: some of the references in this commentary are to articles that are behind paywalls. If you encounter this situation, please contact the author, who will endeavour to provide a copy.
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[1] "Stockton-on-Tees: Health Profile 2015," Public Health England; 2015, accessed July 11, 2016, http://www.apho.org.uk/resource/view.aspx?RID=171624.
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Why is it Important to Pull up Chairs Around an Olive Tree?
"Your wife will be like a fruitful grapevine, flourishing within your home. Your children will be like vigorous young olive trees as they sit around your table" (Psalm 128:3 NIV).
I snapped this photo on the Mt. of Olives in the Garden of Gethsemane. It is an ancient olive tree. The tender green shoots coming up from the base of the trunk are new olive plants. These photos perfectly depict the above key scripture.
I never quite understood this verse until I came to Israel and saw this living-color illustration. Who knows how old the tree is? How long it will live? But the tender plants around the base spring up to assure the seed of the tree will flourish and continue in the generations that follow. It's a picture of fruitfulness, regeneration, multiplication.
I love the idea of the tree trunk as a metaphor for the table in the home. It is at the center of the kitchen in this warm place of replenishing that so many memories occur. I remember birthdays, holidays, winter days, hot seasons, times of prayer, story time, correction, and reading around the table where I grew up in Colorado.
My brother and sisters hung out at the table. We looked for prizes in our cereal boxes, in Cracker Jacks too. We ate pancakes or scrambled eggs there occasionally on weekends and told secrets to our friends who came for sleepovers. We enjoyed pizza, tacos, enchiladas! We did crafts and made messes. My mother was always there cooking, serving, cleaning up, bringing us into line, offering cups cocoa, or just plain laughing with us.
The kitchen table is the place that rocks for the family.
It is the jugular vein of the home. Life flows through it.
My husband and I didn't have many children–we adopted one. And she is the joy of our lives. I have friends though with five or more children. They have many young olive plants around their tables at home.
I have never seen an Olive tree with just one green plant shooting up. They always have many or something is wrong. Still great potential is there. The kitchen table is big, and we must surround it with many tender lives. That's the biblical pattern. And that is where investing in the next generation comes in.
It is parents' responsibility to instill something of value and eternal in the seed coming up… even if it is not their own flesh and blood. Having just one olive plants means there are empty chairs. And those need to be filled with spiritual sons and daughters. They can carry our DNA, which is tied to God's kingdom on earth and heaven, just like our own flesh and blood.
My husband and I have filled the table in years past with family, friends, and strangers, and we are saying there's room for more! All those tender shoots without proper kitchen tables need to be nurtured and watered.
Life happens there! Come to the kitchen table and be nourished, loved, and inspired.
Sadly American culture is so fast-paced that we do not take time and energy to eat together around a table. A recent study revealed that the average American eats one in every five meals in her car and only one in five meals are around a table as a family. So much happens around the table beyond good nutrition. Make it a goal to plan family meals together more than once a week. Linger there afterward and share. Talk. The memories will be lasting for your family. If you are single, invite others in for a bite. Bring in carry out. It doesn't have to be expensive, fancy, or complicated. Just share your life around the table.
Oh, I loved this Bonnie! It stirred up such sweet memories of my growing up years! My mother was always in the kitchen and the table was our gathering place, whether it be an after school treat and report of our day or Sunday dinner. Visitors were always welcome, regardless of the number! She would have served the President with great ease! Our ears we're tuned to the wonderful sound of her laughter!
Linda, so glad you enjoyed the post today. And thanks for sharing your memory of you family table and kitchen. Some things just stick with you through life.


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Q: Magento One Page Checkout remove twitter and facebook box I want to remove the Twitter and Facebook box in OnePage Checkout, but it doesn't work.
I removed some other blocks from One Page Checkout like Newsletter and top.search, but I don't know the exact Name of the Facebook and Twitter Block.
Do you have any idea?
So I've edited and inserted in checkout.xml under checkout_onepage_index:
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A: First of all the Twitter and Facebook boxes you are talking about aren't standard Magento so my guess is this is added by the template or an extension you've installed on the shop.
Start your search with any layout files that are in the layout directory of the template you're using that are not default Magento (compare to the base template layout directory). Also look in the local.xml if it exists. That might also be a place where they could have been added.
Also install https://github.com/fbrnc/Aoe_TemplateHints. This extension gives you advanced template hints on the frontend that contain for example the nesting of the blocks. This might help you track down the correct layout file from where they were added.

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All about the Visit Halin Archaeological site and Shwe Bo.
You can explore Hanlin Archeological site of Upper Myanmar near Shwe Bo. This enjoyable trip will take you to visit KyaukMyaung famous for its distinctive glazed potteryand Hanlin (An important Pyu ancient cities). You will also visit the origin of the Kongbaung Dynasty located 110 km northwest of Mandalay between the Irrawaddy and the Mu rivers.
In the morning, our guide will pick you up at your hotel in Mandalay and drive to KyaukMyaung. Then continue drive to Shwe Bo, the first royal capital of YadanarBonDynasty.
KyaukMyaung, a small village is famous for the manufacture of distinctive glazed pottery and situated on the bank of Ayeyarwaddy River. Explore along the river side KyaukMyaung's beautiful natures and visiting traditional factories which are housed in bamboo, thatched barns and traditional kilns, drying yards. Shwe Bo, ancient royal city and around such as reconstructed palace near the local market, the old town moat. Visiting some rural the pagoda festival of this area is also possible if the arrival time of your travel is allowed. The famous pagoda festival of Shwe Bo, MyodauntSediPhayaPwe used to held around September in Western Calendar annually.
Overnight at hotel in SwhweBo.
After check out at your hotel, drive to Hanlin 12 miles southeast from Shwe Bo. Visit Hanlin, archeological site and in the evening drive back to Mandalay. Our guide will explain about this place.
Visiting Hanlin, excavation sites area here date back to the Pyu era (4th to 9th centuries AD) and means the site was set in a large city over the 1600 years ago. The earliest artifacts of Hanlin City's wooden gates are radiocarbon dated to 70 CE. You can also visit a small private museum of NyaungKoe Bin monastery. Hanlin is a little hot spring area where villager collects the water and the village where the deep inside rural life with its right.
The tour will end at Mandalay this late evening and if you interest for the next trip make an inquiry to MUL office, and sure we will help you.
If you not satisfy with 3 stars hotels, you may also request for luxury or budget hotels and we are happy to offer the update price for this tour. Please let us know in advance.
We suggest you to carry something to protect from the sun and the dusts. Shorts or sleeveless tops and shoes are not allowed to enter place of Pagodas and Religious area.
We offer this tour only in Winter and Summer season as we can not travel to Halin archaeological site in raining season.
The best season to do this tour is Winter season (Oct – Feb).


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By: Amy Foxworthy (foxy at indyintune dot com)
Monday, May 26, 2014 11:00:00 PM
If you have never heard Gringo Star's music, the best way I can think to describe it would be....psychedelic indie 50's/60's garage surf punk rockabillyish experimental doo wop. If that doesn't make sense now, it will after you hear the Atlanta band's self-recorded, self-produced album, Floating out to See.
The best and most beautifully accurate quote about the band's third album: "liquid melodies cascade through air like a waterfall in zero gravity, brothers Nicholas and Peter Furgiuele and cohort Chris Kaufmann out-of-body—floating apparitions of a band glancing down as their corporeal manifestations radiate celestial blues and psychedelic garage bangers, gritty R&B shuffles and spaghetti-Western weirdness. Floating Out to See could—and should—be the soundtrack to Tarantino's first sci-fi film." And it's interesting, because before I read that quote, I thought while listening to the album, "I could totally hear several of these tracks in a Tarantino movie."
This is one of those special, rare albums where every single song is great. Most albums have at least a song or 2 that you'll tend to skip, if you're listening to it in the car, or wherever. Floating out to See is a no-skipper. If I had to pick some favorites they would be "Taller," "Peephole," "Satisfy My Mind" and "Lovesick," which sort of sounds like a song you'd hear at a 1950's school dance, meets a "Sleepwalk" by Santo & Johnny vibe. The track "Going Way Out" makes me feel like I'm at some sort of psychedelic beach party in the summer time, in California. In 1967. "Taller" has sort of a bluesy, rockabilly type sound, and parts of "Look for More" sounds like it could be in a Western...but a really weird Western. The album is rather diverse, but goes so perfectly together.
If you start listening to it on repeat right NOW, you'll know all of the words and be able to look cool and sing along when Gringo Star visits Indy to play at Hi-Fi along with The Icks on June 3rd! This is a can't-miss show and if I were any more excited about it, it would cause health risks.
Gringo Star was kind enough to chat with us recently about their album, baseball, obscure records and other fun stuff.
Indy In-Tune: Hello Gringo Star! Thanks for talking with us, even though you are huge rock stars now, covered by the likes of Rolling Stone and Pitchfork…that's kind of a big deal. I appreciate you slummin' it with us. Your third and most recent album, Floating out to See—how was the making of this album different from the previous two, and talk a little bit about the advantages or disadvantages of doing it on your own as opposed to with outside engineers and producers.
Nick Furgiuele: Thanks! We loved doing it this way. On the first two gringo albums, we worked with a producer/engineer at a bigger studio, but we really preferred doing it in the confines of our own studio this time around. We got to spend a lot more time fine-tuning everything and experimenting with different sounds and parts and arrangements. Not to mention, we didn't feel the pressure of "we only have one week in here to get all these tracks down," and it was way more laid back. It was nice to not have any other filter besides just Pete and myself. It was all us all the way.
Indy In-Tune: What made you decide to do it this way this time around? Do you think you'll continue that route or do you want to work with other engineers and producers in the future? Any specific ones that you haven't worked with but would like to?
NF: We'll prolly be doing this for now. We've already finished up a new 7-inch that we did in our studio, and we're also laying down tracks for our new album there.
Indy In-Tune: When you write songs, are you generally on the same page and it just clicks or is there a lot of compromise necessary? What's the division of "work" like, as in…does someone write most of the lyrics, and someone else writes all of the guitar, etc.?
NF: We both write separately and together. Usually whoever is singing wrote the song/lyrics, but we do collaborate on stuff, too.
Indy In-Tune: Do you have a favorite track/tracks off of this album? I love all of them, but I think if I had to narrow it down, my 3 favs are "Taller," "Satisfy my Mind" and "Peephole."
NF: Awesome! Yeah, I'd say my top ones are "Going Way Out" and "100 Miles." I really liked how they turned out.
Indy In-Tune: What's up with cover art? It sort of looks like a photo taken at a fancy dinner for like, Winston Churchill or The Queen or something.
NF: Haha, yeah, I don't know who they are. At the house where we all used to live, our old roommate found this giant picture in someone's trash, and it's been hanging on the kitchen wall for a while. I basically took a picture of it, printed it out and my girl, Jules Vern (from the awesome band Shantih Shantih), did a water color on top of the black and white.
Indy In-Tune: The first track, "In the Heat," has some sample of some man talking…who is that and what is he talking about?
NF: It's this guy in our neighborhood. He's talking about Atlanta.
Indy In-Tune: Surely you didn't just start out playing this weird surf rock psychedelic doo-wop trip-pop…how did you get to this sound; what's been your sort of musical journey? (For example: "Well, I started off with Beatles covers and then ended up being in a hardcore punk rock band before I ultimately found my true calling as bluegrass hip hop band" kinda thing… )
NF: Pete and I have been writing songs together since elementary school, and have always been heavily influenced by early rock & roll like Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly, Sam Cooke, Link Wray, doo-wop and stuff. We were definitely brought up listening to this stuff 'cause that's what our parents were into, and that's what we got into. Our grandad was a DJ back in the '40s-'60s and championed a lot of old soul, gospel and rock & roll, and put on a lot of shows, and had record shops. So we grew up hearing about Jackie Wilson and Sam Cooke shows that he put on, and Little Richard, Otis Redding and James Brown. Our journey began there.
Indy In-Tune: You guys play a lot of shows….you have 14 shows in the 18 days surrounding your show here in Indy. Where does touring and playing live shows rate in your list of music-related obligations? Some bands are much more about the studio and the writing/creating than they are playing live, and vice versa.
NF: We love both, but definitely love to travel and play music. There's nothing quite like the adventure of being out on the road. It's more in-the-moment... experiencing life and culture firsthand. You can't trade it for anything.
Indy In-Tune: Where/when was your first ever live performance as Gringo Star and how did it turn out?
NF: Well, Pete and I played shows in our other bands growing up. One of our first shows was at an 8th-grade dance. But the first proper Gringo Star shows were actually in the U.K. in 2007. I think we played in Newcastle or Nottingham. We got invited to open a U.K. tour for a St. Louis band we were friends with. It was so much fun to tour internationally for the first time. Very exciting.
Indy In-Tune: You've played some of the big fancy festivals like SXSW and the like; how is that for you compared to the more intimate venues, and what kind have reception have you been receiving at some of these festivals?
NF: It's all good. I really like the outdoor festivals, but we like it all—clubs, big, small, outdoors, indoors, houses, schools, neighborhoods, roofs, bowling alleys, streets, parties. We've played a lot of different places.
Indy In-Tune: Where is somewhere you have not played but really want to? It could be a venue or a city, country, etc.
NF: Mexico and South America. We played Juarez once a while ago, but it'd be great to do a full tour down there.
Indy In-Tune: What is the strangest lineup combination of a show you've played? Something like opening up for a feminist Nazi punk band, or some weird group you've either opened for or that has opened for you, sometime during your musical journey. It could be 14 years ago or it could be last week…
NF: We once played a Dennis Kucinich rally at Georgia Tech when he was running for president.
Indy In-Tune: Gringo Star doesn't sound like any one band I've ever heard before, but I can hear these droplets of potential influence from psychedelic '60s garage to doo-wop to British Invasion to Indie rock to rockabilly/blues meets Pixies meets Buddy Holly meets Strawberry Alarm Clock meets The Kinks meets Santo & Johnny meets The Yardbirds. Where does this come from?!
NF: It comes from the heart of a couple of gringo brothers.
Indy In-Tune: What are some bands right now who you're digging? Either new bands, or bands that are new to you…
NF: Shantih Shantih is an amazing new band from Atlanta. Fuzzed out desert psych. They just put out their first 7-inch. It's really good.
Indy In-Tune: Your label is called "My Anxious Mouth." Why? And, are there any other artists on the label yet?
NF: That's what we named our publishing company back in the day, after one of our old songs, and we just used that when we decided to release music ourselves. The label, so far, has only released Gringo Star stuff.
Indy In-Tune: What is something that might surprise someone to see in your music collection? Either a guilty pleasure or just something really obscure, etc.
NF: I have these obscure records from the '50s, that are basically just a sample of different radio stations from around the country. They're like 30 minutes and have songs, old commercials and stuff. Pretty cool. DJs had so much more character back then!
Indy In-Tune: Do you guys have any interesting, strange, cool hobbies outside of music? Like archery or stamp collecting or big game hunting? Haha.
NF: We play a lot of baseball. We started a loose pickup league called ATL Sandlot Renegades with some friends a few years back.... usually have 25 or so games a year… 9 innings of hardball. Wooden bats only.
Indy In-Tune: What's on the horizon for Gringo Star? Where do you want to take things, or what is the next level you want to achieve or milestone?
NF: We're releasing a new 7-inch in late summer. And we're excited to do a full U.S. tour around that. In the meantime, we're finishing up our new album that we hope to have out early next year.
Indy In-Tune: For those who have not yet had the good fortune to witness the Gringo Star live experience, what can we expect to see from your show at the Hi-Fi on June 3?
NF: Rock & roll and sweat.
Website: http://www.gringostar.net
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gringostarmusic
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gringo_Star_Atl
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/gringostar01
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/gringo-star/id297289222
Purchase tickets: http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/566779
See you at 8:30 on June 3rd at Hi-Fi in the Murphy Arts Center on Virginia Ave.
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