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Because accuracy and deadlines are important, it is imperative that if you think you will be out of work due to illness, injury or disability for at least 12 months, and you wish to file for Social Security Disability, you should have Welt Law fill out your initial application form as soon as possible. If there are mistakes on your form, it will be kicked back to you to start over, or worse, you could be denied the benefits you deserve because of a typo or an error in the collection of data. So often our clients share with us that the Social Security Administration (SSA) employees provided guidance and advice, but quite often that information is incorrect or does not apply to your particular situation. This could also cost you time and money. And it does not cost any money to visit Welt Law. Call us at 702.382.2030 to find out if we can help you. Set up an appointment. Keep your appointment and bring all of your documentation. We will get you started and follow through. Our fees are based on past due benefits that are awarded to you and paid to us directly from Social Security Disability. You do not pay us for consultation. You do not pay us by the hour. We get paid when you receive your benefits.
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US President Donald Trump introduced Friday by way of Twitter that the second summit between him and North Korean chief Kim Jong Un will happen in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 27 and 28.
Previous to the affirmation from Trump, South Korean media retailers had hinted at Hanoi being the location of their subsequent summit. Different attainable places included Singapore, Mongolia and Switzerland.
Kim and Trump beforehand held their first-ever summit in June 2018 on the Capella Resort in Singapore. The assembly concluded with a four-point declaration to determine new bilateral relations, construct a long-lasting and steady peace regime on the Korean Peninsula, decide to denuclearization and repatriate the stays of US troopers killed throughout the 1950-1953 Korean Struggle, which resulted in an armistice settlement.


We find from the copy of balance sheet and profit & loss account placed at pages 1 to 3 of the paper book that assessee had filed complete particulars with respect to assets on which depreciation was The assessee has also filed chart of fixed assets placed at page No. 3 of the paper book showing claim of the said depreciation. From the above documents itself, the Assessing Officer has observed that the assessee has claimed depreciation to the extent of Rs.2,57,677/- and therefore, it cannot be said that the assessee had concealed income or had furnished wrong particulars of income. Even if it is presumed that assessee was not eligible for allowance of depreciation even then the penalty u/s 271(1)(c) cannot be imposed as held by Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of CIT vs. Reliance Petroproducts (P.) Ltd. (supra) wherein Hon'ble Supreme Court has held that every wrong claim made by the assessee cannot tantamount to furnishing of wrong particulars of income or concealment of income.
This is an appeal filed by the assessee against the order of CIT(A) dated 26/07/2016.
2. The only grievance raised by the assessee is the action of learned CIT(A) by which he has confirmed the penalty imposed by the Assessing Officer u/s 271(1)(c) of the Act.
3. Learned A. R. submitted that the Assessing Officer has imposed penalty u/s 271(1)(c) of the Act on account of disallowance of depreciation amounting to Rs. 2,57,677/- on the ground that no business income was earned during the year under assessment. In this respect it was submitted that though the assessee did not contest the addition but levy of penalty u/s 271(1)(c) was not warranted as the assessee had filed complete details including particulars of assets on which depreciation was claimed. It was submitted that though the assessee had rightly claimed the depreciation but even if the claim was wrong, every wrong claim by the assessee cannot tantamount to furnishing of inaccurate particulars of income or concealment of income. Reliance was placed on the judgment of Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of CIT vs. Reliance Petroproducts (P.) Ltd.  189 Taxman 322 (SC).
4. Learned D. R., on the other hand, heavily placed reliance on the orders of the authorities below.
5.1 Following the above judicial pronouncement, we set aside the order of CIT(A) and allow the appeal filed by the assessee.
6. In the result, the appeal of the assessee stands allowed.


Jennifer Baumgardner | Family Law Attorney | Shannon & Associates, PC.
Jennifer Baumgardner is from upstate NY. She graduated from Liberty University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Western Legal Traditions and International Relations in 2012. She graduated from Regent University School of Law in 2015 where she received her J.D. Jennifer was admitted to the Virginia State Bar in 2015.
Jennifer focuses on the practice areas of family law and estate planning, including divorce, child custody and support, adoption, and drafting wills and medical directives.


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package org.hibernate.cache.memcached.regions;

import org.hibernate.cache.CacheException;
import org.hibernate.cache.memcached.client.HibernateMemcached;
import org.hibernate.cache.memcached.strategy.MemcachedAccessStrategyFactory;
import org.hibernate.cache.spi.CacheDataDescription;
import org.hibernate.cache.spi.CollectionRegion;
import org.hibernate.cache.spi.access.AccessType;
import org.hibernate.cache.spi.access.CollectionRegionAccessStrategy;
import org.hibernate.cfg.Settings;

import java.util.Properties;

/**
 * An collection region specific wrapper around on Memcached.
 *
 * @author 배성혁 sunghyouk.bae@gmail.com
 * @since 2013. 11. 21. 오후 3:15
 */
public class MemcachedCollectionRegion extends MemcachedTransactionalDataRegion implements CollectionRegion {

    public MemcachedCollectionRegion(MemcachedAccessStrategyFactory accessStrategyFactory,
                                     HibernateMemcached memcached,
                                     String regionName,
                                     Settings settings,
                                     CacheDataDescription metadata,
                                     Properties props) {
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    @Override
    public CollectionRegionAccessStrategy buildAccessStrategy(AccessType accessType) throws CacheException {
        return getAccessStrategyFactory().createCollectionRegionAccessStrategy(this, accessType);
    }
}

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Smoking marijuana is one of the best ways to relax your body and escape from everyday struggles. Your problems disappear and you feel like you are on cloud nine. Sadly, one cannot be high on Mary Jane 24/7, as we all have some responsibilities after all. There may come a time when you need to be detoxed from marijuana, such as for doing a job interview or enrolling in a school, so let's take a look at some of the best ways to get rid of marijuana toxins from your body.
One of the most common drug tests is the urine test, and the simplest way to dilute your urine is to use a diuretic drink. Apart from the natural tendency to clean your body from marijuana, cranberry juice has its properties to increase the production of urine. If you don't have cranberry juice at your disposal, tea or coffee can also help. It is essential to remember that the diuretic that you choose has electrolytes, which will help with the dilution of your urine. So, 24 hours before the test take your diuretic drink, your urine will dilute and you are ready to go.
Now that you have taken the diuretic of your choice and diluted your urine everything is good, right? Wrong. You see, diuretics will make your urine lose color (which is highly suspicious if you are tested), so you want it to be as yellow as possible after using diuretics. This is easily done by increasing the intake of B-vitamins. So approximately 3 days before the test start taking B vitamins (vitamin B-2 and B-12 seem to be the best for this purpose) and over the course of time your urine will restore its original color.
Another detox method includes physical activity. The simple reasoning behind this is that if you are not active your fat cells will accumulate marijuana toxins, so you need to burn some fat to release these toxins into your blood stream. You don't need to overextend, a simple 60-minute jog around the block or an hour in your local gym will suffice. So, you're not only cleansing your body of marijuana, but you are also keeping it fit and healthy.
There are also many so-called detox drinks easily obtainable on the market and they are based on the principle of dilution mentioned above. These drinks contain B-vitamins necessary for the color of your urine, but also creatine that is dissolved into creatinine and released into your urine to mask the dilution. Surely, you can take B-vitamins and creatine separately if you don't want to buy detox drinks, but they are much more convenient as a whole and they insure that you take the right amount of vitamins and creatine before the test.
Another tip is to change your diet several days before the test in order to remove marijuana toxins from your body. Basically, this includes eating foods that are rich in fiber. Fruits and vegetables contain fibers like pectin that stimulate your digestive tract, which further removes toxins through bowel movements out of your body. Mind you, stay away from laxatives as they may have some negative consequences. Natural digestive processes are the way to go.
Detoxing from marijuana has never been simpler once you know the proper methods of doing it. Overall, whichever method you choose you won't regret. You can buy commercial products should need be, or you can resort to more home made solutions if you want to save money, it's completely up to you.


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All your space... and a bike
via AwkwardTransit
This is the stuff people do on trains because of drank
(I don't get the "Hot Girl" part in the title... )
It pains me to confront a regular
What's a regular you ask?
A regular is what I call GO people who I see almost every day. I don't know who you are, but I know you to see you, kind of regular.
Last night, I couldn't let something slide. I could not. Could not. Could not. Could NOT.
I took the 643pm LSE express which is what I call the full fat express train. The light express trains are the ones that leave Oshawa and don't stop til Pickering. The 18% coffee cream trains are the ones that make two stops between Pickering and Oshawa.
I sat upstairs. One quad over sat a regular who took advantage of the empty seat in front of her and assaulted it with her wet shoes. I should mention when she caught sight of the TSO who popped upstairs for a fare inspection, she dropped those feet and was on her best behavior, so you know what that tells me? She knows it's wrong.
Once the fare inspection was over, back up went her feet. I said nothing because suddenly I was surrounded by foot riders. So I sat and steamed, and was busy composing an exit speech in my head, so I could tell them all off, and then bolt from the coach, when my thoughts were interrupted by a commotion beside me.
Ms. Regular with her dirty shoes on the seat got up in a huff, dramatically collected all her belongings and said, "Fucking immigrants" loud enough so we'd all hear her and made a grand and pointed exit down the stairs.
As it happened, she was annoyed by the couple who were behind her chatting in their native tongue. I heard them too, but it was quiet and nothing extraordinary. But Ms. Regular was in the Quiet Zone. She made sure we knew that when she left.
What THE WHAT?!
I don't care that she did what I planned to do, to call her and others out for their footriding BS, but her racist comment had to be addressed. Footriding was just an aside - I mean, pot meet kettle, right? Getting pissed about people talking when you're also being rude by acting like you're in your living room? I can't even...
So when I saw her on the platform, I confronted her. I told her it was offensive and uncalled for. She didn't apologize. She shrugged, lit her cigarette, and casually walked away.
I dislike confronting regulars. In the past, it's made taking the train emotionally challenging as I then take measures to avoid the person, especially if it was a heated exchange and that person isn't over it. I modified my schedule in the evening to avoid a certain regular (a smoker who smokes in the line for the bus) who threatened to punch me out when he saw me again, and I believed him, so I started taking an earlier train from work.
I know a lot of you read the blog and wonder why more people just don't speak up. Why we quietly take photos of smokers, seat hogs, Quiet Zone blabberwockies, foot riders, boozing passengers and bad parkers. We're afraid. That's why.
We see most of these people every day and unlike a subway train, you're confined to these coaches for quite a distance, with no exit strategy, so protecting your personal safety is paramount.
In my many discussions with GO Transit Security, even their officers marvel at what I am willing to take on, in person, because they see a side to this commuter subculture that is very dark, and very dangerous.
I saw Ms. Regular this morning. She walked past me like nothing happened.
Ajax GO Station information parking sign forgot how to information
But there's apparently a Yoga class on Level 4.
Park it like it's drunk
It's time for everyone's favorite game, NAME... THAT... STAIN!!!
Queue cheesy game show music (that's right, horns and trumpets with a lively bass line).
This is the seat next to me right now. I've been policing it diligently on this express train. People have been good about it. I mean, standing is better than sitting when you see a mess like this, which my quad mates and I have determined is fresh. We think it's coffee. But it could be colon blow.
Please shut the door of the train shitter - thanks
I was just wondering if there is something wrong with me, because whenever I use the bathroom on a GO Train I have this weird ability to close the door behind me after I use it. Meaning I actually close the door so it shuts. I am wondering I am doing something wrong, because it would seem that nearly every time I am sitting the middle floor at the end of a car where a bathroom happens to be located nobody seems to have the ability to close the door behind them after they have used it. Is this an aspect of GO Train etiquette I have missed out on? Am I supposed to leave the door open after I am done in the bathroom, or half-heartedly appear to try close the door behind me but just give up when it doesn't?
Riding the LSW GO train to Burlington station yesterday, I happened to be sitting in the aforementioned area, and I counted seven people using the bathroom. All of which didn't bother to close the door after they used it, or a couple of people tried to close the door but didn't make it, looked back at the door, gave up, and decided to go back to their seats. I understand it's been a hard day at the office, God forbid you should put an exhaustive effort into closing a measly little door behind you. As I was sitting by the window, the gentleman occupying the outer seat in front of me who was simply trying to read his book, all seven times meekly got up and closed the door.
And we know why he closed the door right?
Because if you're sitting by the bathroom, and the door is open, sooner or later that sour bathroom solution that is in the toilet, mixed with whatever GO Train passenger has emptied into it begins to produce this wonderful "mutant funk" (credit for that term goes to a Seinfeld episode) that makes its way to the rest of the passengers in the area of the car, and I'm guessing it makes their commute shall we say….less enjoyable.
After the seventh person failed to close the door, my stop was coming up and this gentleman did it for them yet again, I thanked him for doing that all the times throughout the ride.
But I am just wondering if I am off my rocker? Does this not bother anyone else? Or is it totally cool to leave the door open after using the bathroom? I know that when I am in my apartment by myself there are occasions where I will pee with the door open(TMI?). As people are having such a hard time with closing the bathroom door on the GO Train, I am wondering if this is just a first step to a whole crowd of people that will eventually devolve into peeing on the train with the door open. I know you're thinking that statement is gross or outlandish. But the next time you sit next to a bathroom and someone leaves the door open, when that smell hit's you and you wonder what it is, just think to yourself it's all the passengers of this GO Train today peeing with the door open.
With much adoring love, V.
^ Okay, he didn't really write that but I like to imagine this is how everyone wants to sign off in their emails to me.
The UP express train looks like an derpy insect wearing a winter toque
Go home bench installer, you're drunk
When this photo first showed up on Hamilton Transit's Instagram feed over the weekend, I was more focused on the size of the No Smoking sign and less on the fact that new bench seating had been installed (which is what the photo was about).
I only half-heartedly read the comments and only when re-reading them, did I realize a point someone made.
Yeah, that should hold it
Somewhere in California, Richard Dean Anderson is crying salty MacGyver tears.
Your umbrella
Your umbrella is not an aspergill and we are not at Church, please do not feel you need to cleanse me of my sins.
Your umbrella is not a sword.
Your umbrella is not a walking stick.
Your umbrella is not a dead animal and you are not a lion, please do not drag it behind you like prey.
Your umbrella is not a pointer and we are not at School, please do not punctuate your sentences by pointing it at me.
Your umbrella is not a guitar.
Your umbrella is not a light saber.
Your umbrella is not a scepter and you are not Zeus, your umbrella need not be lain across your lap.
Your umbrella is not a cattle prod.
Your umbrella is not a yard stick.
Your umbrella is not an antenna and you are not a radio or a television requiring better reception.
Your umbrella belongs on the floor, in your bag or propped up against a window.
Your umbrella is wet. It does not get a seat nor does it need one.
Apologies for the post below
A rant wound its way into that story that had no busy being there and I agree, it was offensive. We should all live where we are comfortable and within our means. Unfortunately that isn't the case for everyone.
Zoned fares work for GO Transit, but setting Toronto transit fares according to distance would force the riders who travel farthest and have fewest choices to pay the most
Yeah, that's a long headline. But it nails it.
I have friends in Oshawa, Courtice, Whitby, Ajax and Bowmanville who find the cost of GO Transit expensive. I, myself, pay on average $315 monthly (from Oshawa with PRESTO discount factored in). Many of my friends have said it would be nice if GO was a flat rate like the TTC, so this story works both ways, right? Two friends quit their jobs and took positions at companies in town for far less salary but wound up taking home the same pay since they were just working to pay for GO fare.
TTC puts distance-based fares in no-go zone
GO does it. So does York Region Transit. Why doesn't the TTC charge riders according to how far they travel?
Among the suggestions offered up in the Toronto Star's Big Ideas series is the idea of zoned TTC fares that some readers see as an equitable source of badly needed TTC revenue. The roll-out of the Presto electronic fare card over the next five years makes it more technologically feasible.
But the people who would pay the most would be those who live farthest from downtown. Many of those neighbourhoods have high concentrations of low-income residents and fewer transit choices than other parts of the city, said Chris Upfold, the TTC's chief customer service officer.
More on the Toronto Star website
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I don't think the No Smoking sign is big enough
It's pretty big, it's almost shouting.
I guess this is one way to deal.
Some advice about love from Cookie Monster
Meanwhile, on a Montréal Metro train
For the brave the video is on Youtube. If the link dies, you can find it on LiveLeak.
News that will make the haters weep
Out of all the adoring fan mail I get about this site, most of the love comes from those who get a serious case of the angrys because of my distate of footriding. One person sent me an email to rival the length of text in the Bible, start to finish, about how footriding isn't even a word.
Neither was selfie at one point in time.
Most of the emails are spent defending a person's "right" to sit how they want. The sense of entitlement displayed by these whiners would curl the hair on your toes.
I always knew I was onto something when I made it my mission to stop this social epidemic of feet on seats on public transit and it appears that people who matter do listen to the PAYING commuting public.
Since 2009, according to this CBC News report, the TTC has been allowed to fine passengers who ride with feet on seats.
Yeah, I didn't know this either. For nearly five years it's been an offence on the TTC to sit like you have no spine.
I feel vindicated.
Point: me.
Butt itch. What else could cause such awkward foot placement?
Tapping your PRESTO card at Richmond Hill GO Station is hazardous to your health
Isn't there acreages of parking lot at this station? So why smoke RIGHT THERE?!
Yeah... No. The plastic seat divider isn't okay either
Rob Ford looking disappointed on a TTC bus. Probably thinking it was the worst rollercoaster ride he's ever been on, like ever
However, caption nails it.
Meanwhile, in Holland
I'm warning you...
You may be offended... THERE IS A NSFW version. Yep, that link below.
Caution: nudity, including frank, beans, and someone who lost control of their bowels.
This is the worst level of commuter behavior I have ever seen. AND HE'S IN FIRST CLASS. There has been online discussion of whether he pooped or vomited. Look, I know this is gross. I can't even ... but family members challenge me on my transit observations. My Aunty Pauline refuses to believe anyone would actually put one's feet on a train cushion.
For the rail nerds, here's some info on the train service this fellow has desecrated. Thanks to PumpGuy for the lead on this.
http://i.imgur.com/EKEerYV.jpg
He was just waiting for breakfast to hop on board
Crime of opportunity at Burlington GO Station
Nice set of rims, huh? Yeah, I think they're cool looking, too!
Too bad this happened.
Tori, a Burlington GO Transit customer, parked her car in her usual row at Burlington and went to work. She posted this pic to Twitter. I managed to see it and asked her to email me. I wrote back.
from: Cindy (Cj) Smith <cj@thiscrazytrain.com>
to: "Tori"
date: Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 7:12 AM
subject: Re: Burlington GO stolen car wheel
Hi Tori
This is pretty crappy. Aside from transit security, have you filed a police report? Have you spoken with your insurance company and most importantly, aside from (text purposely censored; for privacy) are you getting any other compensation?! Insurance? Provided the deductible isn't a deterrent.
This is ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous that this happened and nobody saw anything. My husband is a mechanic, without air tools, it's quite an effort to do this but it's the cement block that throws me. It's one thing to pretend to change a tire as a ruse for theft, it's another to come that prepared.
Was it just the one tire? Can I ask the make, model and tire size?
Has anyone offered up any theories, should people be concerned who drive the same kind of car as you? Is that a Mazda? Also what year?
And lastly, can you tell me what time you left your car at and what time you arrived back at the station? Do you always park in the same spot?
When you have a chance, can you count today within a 300 meter radius, how many other models of cars just like yours parked near you?
I know these are a lot of questions but I'd like to get your story up today and all of these answers help piece the puzzle together and help motivate people to be on alert.
There (text purposely censored; for privacy), but come on? This isn't a garden variety theft.
from: Tori
to: "Cindy (Cj) Smith"
date: Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 1:40 PM
Thank you for your concern and help I really appreciate that.
Yes I did file a police report (text purposely censored; for privacy)
Was it just the one tire? Can I ask the make, model and tire size? Has anyone offered up any theories, should people be concerned who drive the same kind of car as you? Is that a Mazda? Also what year?
Just the one rim and tire was stolen and the rim is very specific to this un-common model Ford Focus ST (2013). I'm assuming this person has a Focus ST too and didn't want to pay the $600+tax to replace their rim. It's an 18 inch stock Focus ST rim and the tire is a low profile Eagle F1 worth about $250+tax so it's more likely they wanted the rim. Other theories are they wanted the tire and will get other matching ones form other cars or it was just a crime of opportunity and they will find buyers for each piece separately.
And lastly, can you tell me what time you left your car at and what time you arrived back at the station? Do you always park in the same spot? When you have a chance, can you count today within a 300 meter radius, how many other models of cars just like yours parked near you?
I left it on Monday July 21 at 8am to catch the 8:13 to Union, and I came back around 6pm (5:02 from Union). I park in the same spot 90% of the time yes, in a corner where it would be difficult (or impossible) for the entrance cameras to view.
I don't see many ST models around at all, I don't think I've ever seen one at Burlington GO. Once I saw a Fiesta ST but it's not the same rim.
The rims start off silver but I had mine painted matte black ($75 per wheel).
Did you see something?
Contact GO Transit Security at 1.877.297.0642
This your car? It is?! Oh you mad that it's on the internet? Too bad. You don't own the parking lot
Here's what could happen. Sometimes you just piss off the wrong person. Nope, it ain't right but parking rage is right up there with commuter rage.
Kamera porn
I've made it no secret that I track my traffic, especially the Google search terms that bring traffic to this website.
Here's a gem:
Here's what it linked to: http://www.thiscrazytrain.com/2012/05/smut-on-train.html and in a language where I have no idea what it is.
Let us know in the comments!
I think it's time for an update on the personal front
Back in February, I hit a number on the scale I hadn't seen since the year before my daughter was born. Embarrassingly, that would be 10 years ago this month.
What's frustrating is that I have not been able to move past 238 pounds. The scale goes up to 240 some days but will eventually slide back down and stay at 238. I even bought new batteries for that stupid scale. Still 238.
I routinely walk nearly 25 km a week but no longer walk 2 hours/11 km four times weekly in addition to daily walking. My body has become very efficient at walking and walking as exercise no longer yields results.
I lost 80 pounds from walking and changing my lifestyle (I gave up a car) and eating habits (I quit sugar). As much as I love the results (I went from a size 26w to an 18w) I dislike what I need to do to keep the weight off and from coming back. It's the food. I miss, absolutely miss, sugar. I miss buffet style eating (I haven't been to Mandarin in over 2 years) I realize now I'm in mourning. And it's this food grief that is causing me to think it's okay to add a slice of very berry coffee cake (380 calories - all of them bad) with my morning Starbucks coffee.
I am tired of eating 90 grams of protein a day and the calculation and cost of achieving that number. Eating protein with every meal has proven to keep cravings away and keep the weight off but I am tired of tuna, eggs, chicken and protein bars. I have eaten every brand of protein bar out there. If you're just starting out on your own weight loss journey, I highly recommend the Detour bars sold at Costco but I'm sick of them. Fish is expensive. Although I can afford to eat it three times a week, my daughter has decided fish for dinner has got to stop. Especially white fish. She has quit on me. Her father isn't too far behind.
A few months ago I reintroduced red meat back into our diets. As my husband grilled three strip loin steaks I had marinated in a butter and garlic roux, my daughter stood at the screen door leading to the back deck, inhaling deeply, and professing her love for all things beef. I'm pretty sure I saw a tear escape from my husband's eye as he turned the steaks to sear the other side.
It's been a rough 35 months for everyone in the Smith household.
Because of my husband's type 2 diabetes, sugar remains permanently banned from the home. I have perfected baking with Splenda and Stevia so it's not needed, but you can't make everything with artificial sweeteners (custard will give you the middle finger) and cakes just don't taste the same. Don't get me started on ice cream.
So in an effort to shake shit up, I've taken up road cycling. Living out in rural Clarington has its benefits with this sport as I have kilometers and kilometers of country roads at my disposal. In my first go, I racked up 22 kilometers in an hour and 33 minutes. I was very pleased with myself. I am now up to 28 km in two hours with 12 km of that being uphill, which slows me down, but raises the heart rate right into a prime fat burning zone.
The exercise isn't an issue, it's the diet. Because of this food exhaustion and boredom, I'm sliding back into bad habits and it's scary because I can't seem to control it. It's like putting a finger in the hole of a wall of a dam where you know eventually that hole will grow bigger and the dam will break.
I'm at a loss. I have no idea what to do here.
Labels: weight loss
Why we don't licence the seeing impaired
The person who owns the car on left arrived at the Brampton lot yesterday afternoon to discover that a seeing-impaired person (surely a fully sight-enabled person would never park like this!) had parked next to him, leaving no room to open his door and get in.
We have no idea how the person in the car on the right exited the vehicle and the space is incredibly tight. We assume it was through the trunk.
LIKE A GLOVE!!!
Transit in Toronto needs an expert, not Rob Ford
As an ex-Torontonian (born and raised, in the west end is where I spent most of my days, around the Village with Future Bakery and all, eating Polish food on Roncy and playing in High Park in the fall... did you read that with the melody from the theme song for The Fresh Prince of Bel Air in your head? ) I find it incredibly insulting that an elected official like Ford, who grew up in Etobicoke, the most pedestrian un-friendly suburb at its peak, where even today most of the neighbourhoods still don't have sidewalks, where EVERYBODY has at least two cars in the driveway, considers himself THE person to know what's best for transit in Toronto - a guy that doesn't even take transit to work let alone to public events.
Ugh. I'm so done with his mug in the news.
Anyhow, got this email last week:
from: AW
date: Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 8:40 PM
subject: FordNation supporters on the TTC
Always an interesting day when Ford supporters dress up a giant teddy bear, put it in a stroller, throw some propaganda on the front of it, and march up and down the subway with it.
He had even re-written lyrics to songs (This Land is Your Land) so they were about Toronto and was singing them.
Apparently his name is Jim McMillan and he's a huge Ford supporter.
The board says "Rob Ford & Jim McMillan. We got the team. They got the horse & wagon (tough slogging). Rob for lower taxes, Jim for clean air & e/rail on the gardiner & Don Valley middle lanes. If you want to use the other 4 lanes for cars, odd plate endings one day, even plates on the next day. Odd plates the next. Jim McMillan"
See attached photo.
Horrifying video that won't be embedded here
I first saw this video (link below) yesterday on a friend's Facebook feed. Then I was texted the link. Then I got a direct message on Twitter and finally, an email about it.
People really want me to share this video.
I will provide the link but not show the video directly on this site.
I won't give it away - watch for yourself. The video is gross but it's safe for work.
Teen struck and killed by Kitchener-bound GO train Monday night
A young male, believed to be 16 to 17 years old, was pronounced dead at the scene, which took place at Dundas Street West and Sterling Road in Toronto's west end.
Witnesses told CBC News that a group of youth had been loitering near the tracks prior to the incident.
It was also reported that GO Transit will be assisting police by providing footage recorded with on board camera equipment.
Your 15 minutes of fame now extends beyond this website
Random observation by a GO passenger just like you
Good to know that our GO Transit service won't be affected by the pay hike for Metrolinx employees. Wonder which bucket they're going to empty to pull the cash from?
http://www.680news.com/2014/07/21/go-transit-service-not-affected-by-pay-hike-for-metrolinx-employees-matthews/
Jim Wilson made a comment about lowering fares. Ha! Is he new? *giggle* snort.
What in odor eater hell is this?
from: D
date: Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:52 AM
subject: Not just trains
Imagine my horror, on my flight from Van to toronto, as this foot snuck its way between the seat and the wall.
Luckily, there was no one IN the window seat, but I didn't appreciate it regardless.
You stay classy, Whitby - I'm fingering daytrippers for this one
Happy Monday! I'd like to say mine is off to a swell start but I had to play dodge the puke pile going up the stairs to the platform.
I'll save your eyes and your gag reflex by not taking and sending a picture.
The platform was a complete wasteland of cake boxes, drink cups and other garbage. Clearly the remnants of Indy and baseball fans. Not a pleasant way to start the day.
It can only get better from here!
Parenting -- Signs you've done it wrong
You know, just when I thought society couldn't set the bar any lower, an incident on tonight's 520 LSE just proved me wrong.
Two guys sat in the quad in front of me, perfected ALL YOUR SPACE, and conducted a conversation loud enough to be heard in the locomotive over the roar of the engine. A woman seated under the quiet zone sign politely asked if they could lower their voices. She turned to point at the sign behind her. The men said nothing to her and ignored her request. When they exited at Pickering, I suspect their sense of entitlement got the better of them and in a fine display of bad parenting, both loudly exclaimed, "FUCK Y'ALL!!!" when they stood up.
As they went down the stairs, one of them leaned into the quad of the woman under the sign and said to her, sarcastically, "Hope the rest of your ride home is more enjoyable."
I. Was. Stunned. The woman looked horrified that someone would single her out so pointedly and be so disrespectful. She was visibly shaken. She hadn't done anything wrong.
Quiet zone or not, we are all within reason allowed to ask people to behave if their antics are interfering with any of us trying to enjoy the ride comfortably. So let's not blame the quiet zone for this horrible display of intimidation and rudeness. Blame bad parenting.
As a parent myself, I would be mortified to learn my grown son had conducted himself so dastardly.
Here's Tweedledouche with his leg contorted towards the window in an earlier fantastic display of footriding.
Let me go get my gas can and fill 'er up
Good news for Ajax passengers
Don't you just love that new train smell?
Anyone know when this project started (yeah I could Google it but y'all better than Google)
Just letting you all know I have emailed this person. I will post the exchange
Let's play my new GO train game! It's called: "Name the DNA!"
How nice of GO Transit to have provided a bench for this tired smoker
Hey... what the...? What's that sign?
Today I learned that Presto and GO are not integrated when it comes to fare resolution
On Tuesday, I had to override my trip home as I had been driven to Ajax after a company event downtown. I pressed the override button, tapped and got off at Oshawa. At Oshawa, I tapped on the bus and tapped off when I reached home.
Did you spot the mistake? Yeah, I didn't tap off when I got off the train, so a $4.68 fare became $12.78, as I was charged full fare to Newcastle -- the end of the road on the LSE.
This morning, I waited in line at GO Transit Customer Service in Union Station and had time to ponder, as the line snaked its way through, why I was unable to correct this fare mishap online or over the phone. Over the phone meant being mailed a credit voucher - no thanks. I'm moving and don't plan on forwarding my mail so not a good idea as it could take weeks. PRESTO was supposed to prevent line-ups. Yet, here I am, in line, to ask for a refund and also, observing a large amount of people looking to resolve under-payments and adding fare to their e-wallets. It's archaic.
I've never had a fare reversal issued before so imagine my surprise when the agent, after reviewing my mistake, he pulled out a paper and a pen.
What fresh hell is this?
I filled out my portion of the form which asked for my name and phone number and I was puzzled that there is no database application for these agents to use to collect this information. My personal information is there with the PRESTO card, is it not? I know the agent used my card to review the transactions and I have a feeling that's all he can see. This means there is no integration within Metrolinx's organization. Walking to work, it then dawned on me why those of us who use credit cards to either autoload or load fare also can't have credits applied back to our credit cards, kind of like what Ticketmaster does when a concert is cancelled. Quite simply, neither GO Transit or PRESTO can because they don't record or store this credit card information. Moneris does. Moneris processes credit card payments for PRESTO online. I don't think PRESTO has an arrangement to do chargebacks. I know it can be expensive.
In other words, there is no ONE system for GO Transit to handle PRESTO fare reversals, refunds or credits. And the reason why it takes so long for refunds due to delays to happen is because I bet at least three forms have to be filled out and processed by at least three different departments and then someone at GO Transit manually processes the credit to each PRESTO card.
Who built this dinosaur? Oh wait, right, the same government where we learned via a Toronto Star article that Metrolinx is mandated to take the lowest bid on any infrastructure project. So of course PRESTO was handed over to the lowest bidder and you know what your nana always said, "You get what you pay for."
Labels: presto
I laughed - because it's true
Fast Fact: When the Quiet Zone was first rolled out, GO Transit Security was overwhelmed with all the code 1033s to shut people up. As much as Metrolinx implemented this for the benefit of passengers who asked for quiet cars, it is the most counter-productive attempt at passenger comfort, ever.
Can you tell I am not a fan? I do sit in the Quiet Zone but I don't believe anyone can realistically expect everyone to all share the same expectations of "quiet". My expectation of quiet is that you don't bring seven friends on board with you, sit in separate quads and yell at each other across the aisle about how you would love to buy a condo downtown, as you couldn't imagine having to commute every day, because if you had to do what "these people do", you'd shoot yourself. Instead, if you aren't a regular commuter, you sit down, lower your voice and show some courtesy for those who do have to do what "these people do" every day.
Yeah. Day trippers. They can shut the hell up for sure.
This picture says everything you'd need to know about yesterday's LSE morning delays
Apparently so is unwrapping a granola bar, unzipping a wallet and eating chips
Sorry I went over my 25 comment limit
Yep. That's about as much as I want to read on any given post on any given day but that one pic I put up on the weekend with Bob and his suds? It struck a nerve.
I'm sorry if your comment wasn't published. I have emails where people have shared stories of horrid situations involving drunk passengers. Turns out, this is a topic way too many people can relate to - more than foot riding.
I will read the emails. I won't star them. If I star it, it winds up being part of a list that is now over 500 items long of emails I need to read. I'm not complaining. I enjoy the attention the site receives. It's just that, some days, it's a full time job needing time I do not have.
Please don't be mad. Remember, I still love you. That counts for something. Remember that children's television show where at the end, the female host would look through a hand-held mirror and she'd start reciting the names of kids she could "see" through the camera. I can't tell you how many times I waited for my name. I remember putting my face right up to the television in tears, smooshing my cheek and mouth, and whimpering, "I'm right here, say my name... "
I see you.
"GO should have long ago been empowered to expand its system and service frequency" - Opinion piece in Toronto Star
Y'all know I can't legally republish the article in its entirety. Loud hissing from my lawyers from the corner of hell they sit in makes it so.
According to this Opinion piece about promises of frequent service/expanded service -- our rail infrastructure suck balls, but it's not GO/Metrolinx's fault.
"One of the ways Premier Kathleen Wynne says she'll bust gridlock in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area is by dramatically increasing GO's use of the region's rail lines. She deserves applause for that decision, but also a warning flag.
For too long, the CP and CN lines criss-crossing the GTHA sat largely unrecognized as corridors for quick, cost-effective transit expansion. GO should have long ago been empowered to expand its system and service frequency. This wouldn't have eliminated the need for major improvements to the TTC, but it would have relieved some of the pressure by creating a high-frequency urban rail service similar to those built in major European cities decades ago ... "
The GO train is not your backyard patio
Milwaukee tall boy on a Thursday evening train home? No.
Winnipeg bans busking on public transit
I like how the media spun this story with headlines leading readers to believe that if you break out into song about wheels on a bus, you're tackled and shackled and hauled off in a police cruiser.
No. Not even close.
According to a report on CBC's website:
"The rule came as part of a larger transit bylaw that makes it against the law not to pay your bus fare and establishes an array of "inappropriate conduct" for which someone can be kicked off a bus or fined.
The provision for the city's more "musical" guests, says without permission from Winnipeg Transit, no one can play a musical instrument, sing or offer a live musical performance on a city bus or face a fine of $100 plus court costs".
So if your five year old gets on a bus in Winnipeg, like how a five year old got on my GO bus this morning, and burst out into song about Wheels on a Bus but the only verse she knows is "Round and Round" and sings it non-stop for 27 minutes, I think you're good. But if you pull out an acoustic guitar and join in - BUSTED.
I should also note this same transit company ran this ad in the 80s:
How about someone pick up a hammer?
from: TM
date: Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 7:37 AM
Did your station have people in hard hats on the platform this morning with tablets?
They were on the Burlington platform with shirts with a construction symbol on it. From what I could gather they seemed to be asking people to sign up for notifications of construction delays and elevators out of service...or something. Then the train came.
Any idea what this was all about?
Maybe with all those people in hard hats they could have been working on the new station instead!
to: TM
subject: Re: (no subject)
This is Metrolinx's response to the bad publicity surrounding the unwarranted lengthy construction delays at Burlington station. Let's look like we care even though logistically we can't do much about it.
The fact that someone in PR thought it would be great to have transit employees dress up as construction workers is actually insulting.
Seriously. There were tons of them too. Focus on finishing the station! Always seems like they focus on the silliest things when there's so much that actually needs attention.
Is this true?! Or is someone trolling footriders?
Thanks for the note!
Accidents happen, right? At least this person left a warning. And owned a pen.
This is every commuter's public transit nope. Some random stranger mistakes you for a pillow. This happened to a Twitter follower of mine on the bus last night.
Something - something train is not your hotel room
Can you spot all the things going on in these photos taken on this morning's 7:15 Lakeshore West train?
Feet on seat
Bag, coat spread across
Makeup session
Hair being 'done'
Something - something train is not your living room
Lakeshore East this morning. After making himself breakfast and clanking his spoon against the bowl to get every last drop, he removes his shoes and places them on his bag, and then begins to review materials in the three binders placed on the seat in front of him.
I would have never had the unbelievable opportunity to see any of this if the original occupant hadn't got up after a habitual blabbermouth sat down in the area. She mutters "I'm not putting up with her this morning" and walks off.
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Starring Terrance Zdunich, Sean Patrick Flanery, Briana Evigan, Jessica Lowndes, Marc Senter, Emilie Autumn, Dayton Callie, M. Shawn Crahan, Nivek Ogre, Bill Moseley, Alexa Vega, Ivan Moody
Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman
Step right up, sinners, and see what awaits you inside the new musical project from two of the madmen behind Repo! The Genetic Opera, who are taking us all straight to hell – this time with The Devil's Carnival.
Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and written by Terrance Zdunich, The Devil's Carnival follows three wayward "sinners" who are new to Lucifer's (Zdunich, who also stars) carnival: There's grieving father John (Flanery), who commits suicide; naïve bad boy magnet Tamara (Lowndes), who ends up on the wrong side of her abusive boyfriend's revolver; and professional thief Ms. Merrywood (Evigan), who gets caught in a deadly shoot-out with police when a robbery goes wrong.
Once they arrive in Hell, the trio's sins are revealed to all as Lucifer and his cronies have some fun with the new arrivals at the Carnival and expose their faults through various "lessons" that also tie in to the vast collection of Aesop's Fables that Lucifer himself seems to fancy reading aloud to a youngster named Daniel (Tillman Norsworthy).
Inside Lucifer's Big Top we meet a vast array of colorful characters throughout the one-hour running time, including the mysterious Painted Doll (Autumn), the sage Ticket Keeper (Callie) tasked with keeping track of all 666 rules of Lucifer's realm, the fiercely stoic Tamer (Crahan, or "Clown" from Slipknot as he's known) who lets his whip do all the talking, the chameleon-like character known as The Twin (Ogre of Skinny Puppy fame), the wicked bad boy of the carnival called The Scorpion (Senter), the often overlooked Magician (Moseley) and the balls-out wacky Wick (Vega) and her Woe-Maidens.
And of course there's Paul Sorvino as a quiet doll maker who gets quite a surprise at the end when Lucifer decides to shake up the balance between Heaven and Hell a bit.
That may seem like an awful lot of characters to squeeze into an hour-long project; yet, somehow Bousman masterfully manages to keep the story and pace swift and frenetic, allowing everyone a chance to shine in The Devil's Carnival. As Lucifer, though, Zdunich really comes into his own; while he may have won fans over worldwide with his portrayal of Graverobber in Repo!, it's here where as a performer Zdunich seems to be more confident, and his command over every scene is astonishing to behold. It's a role he seems born to play (which is not meant to be an insult by any stretch- Zdunich just embraces this role and it shows), and hopefully it's one he'll get the opportunity to tackle again down the road if The Devil's Carnival becomes the breakout success it's destined for once the right audiences discover it.
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As a director (and ringmaster of sorts), it feels like Bousman has found his creative home with The Devil's Carnival; his approach seems more focused and enthusiastic on this project than fans have ever really seen from his work before, and the maverick spirit of what Bousman et al have created here is subversive and infectious and makes for a truly magical experience at the theater.
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The Libyan Disaster: Little Bits of History Repeating
by Jan Lundius (stockholm / rome)
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Jul 09 (IPS) -
And I've seen it before,
and I'll see it again.
Yes I've seen it before,
just little bits of history repeating.
-- Propeller Heads: History repeating
The Libyan catastrophe and the suffering of "illegal" migrants are generally depicted as fairly recent events, though they are actually the results of a long history of greed, contempt for others and fatal shortsightedness. Like former Yugoslavia, Libya was created from a mosaic of tribal entities, subdued by colonial powers and then ruled by an iron-fisted dictator. Now, Libya is a quagmire where local and international stakeholders battle to control its natural resources. The country holds the largest oil reserves in Africa, oil and gas account for 60 percent of GDP and more than 90 percent of exports.1 This is one reason why Egypt, France, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the U.S., and many other nations are enmeshed in Libya. Furthermore, European nations try to stop mainly sub-Saharan refugees and migrants from reaching their coasts from Libya. An attempt to understand Italy´s essential role in the struggle over Libya´s oil and attempts to control unwanted immigration may help to clarify some issues related to the current situation.
On the 29th of June Sea-Watch 3 arrived in the port of Lampedusa. The ship carried 40 people who two weeks before had been rescued from an inflatable raft off the coast of Libya. After being denied disembarkation in Tripoli Sea-Watch headed for Lampedusa. The German Captain Carola Rackete´s appeals to the Italian Government to let the migrants disembark on Italian territory were met by deaf ears and she thus steered Sea-Watch dangerously close to a military patrol boat, which tried to hinder her vessel from reaching the port:
The situation was desperate. My goal was only to bring exhausted and desperate people to shore. My intention was not to put anyone in danger. I already apologised, and I reiterate my apology. They were asking me to take them back to Libya. From a legal standpoint, these were people fleeing a country at war the law bars you from taking them back there.
Captain Rackete was placed under house arrest awaiting trial, accused of "resistance and violence against warships". Italy´s interior minister, Matteo Salvini, declared:
Mission accomplished. Law-breaking captain arrested. Pirate ship seized, maximum fine for foreign NGO.2
On the 3rd of July, the Court decided that Rackete had acted out of compassion and after being ordered to return to Germany she was released. Salvini fumed:
She will return to her Germany where they would not have been so tolerant if an Italian woman had made an attempt on the life of German policemen. Italy has raised its head: we are proud to defend our country and to be different from other small European leaders who think they can still treat us as their colony.3
Italy treated like a European colony? This is doubtful, though it is a fact that Libya once was Italy´s grossing and mistreated colony and that Italy continues to be deeply involved in Lybian affairs.
While Rackete awaited her trial, Tajoura, a "migrant detention centre" east of Tripoli, housing more than 600 people, was hit by two airstrikes, leaving at least 44 dead and more than 130 severely injured. The attack was blamed on Kahilfa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA).
Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar is the Libyan-American commander of armed forces loyal to the Libyan House of Representatives.4 He served under Muammar Gaddafi and took part in the coup that in 1969 brought Gaddafi to power. In 1987, Haftar was captured during Chad´s still smoldering civil war. He was released in 1990 and for two decades lived not far from Langley, Virginia, headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). General Haftar was instrumental in the 2011 downfall of Gaddafi and has been described as Libya's most potent warlord. During Libya´s recent conflicts he has fought with and against nearly every significant faction.5
At the moment, Haftar is openly supported by Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Egypt, and more or less clandestinely by France and Russia, with the U.S. waiting in the wings. France supports the interests of Total S.A., ranked as the world's fourth-largest non-governmental petroleum company (after Shell, BP, and Exxon), while Russia is supporting LNA through weapon sales. Haftar´s forces are currently attacking the Government of National Accord (NAC) with its centre in Tripoli, this transition government is officially supported by the UN and particularly by Qatar and Turkey, though other forces are also present, such as Italy´s Miasit mission with 400 soldiers and 130 "land, naval and air vehicles". Italy is the European country with the deepest Libyan ties.6 One example is ENI´s activities, an Italian multinational oil and gas corporation, the world´s 11th largest industrial company, which since 1959 has profited from Libya´s oil production.7 However, Italy´s connections with Libya runs even deeper than that.
In 1912, Italy conquered Ottoman Tripolotania and created a colony called Libya. After being defeated in World War II, Italy did in 1947 relinquish all claims to the territory. However, for more than thirty years the stream of people crossing the Mediterranean had moved in a completely different direction than it is doing now. After the Great Depression, Libya´s Italian population increased rapidly; in 1927, 26,000 Italians were living there, by 1939 they numbered 119,140, or 13 percent of the total population. Italian settlers were provided with land and infrastructure, while the local population was driven off to marginal lands, though this did not happen without fierce resistance. Italian colonial troops waged a ruthelss war against the locals, applying chemical weapons, mass executions of POWs and civilians, as well as the establishment of lethal concentration camps. It is estimated that between 1923 and 1932, 80,000 to 120,000 Libyans had been exterminated.8
When Colonel Muammar Gadaffi in 1970 became Libya´s dictator he banished the remaining 12,000 Italian citizens and had their possessions confiscated. After Gadaffi in 1973 nationalized half of the foreign oil production, the country´s GDP rose from USD 3.8 billion in 1969 to USD 24.5 billion in 1979. For a few years, Libya´s average per-capita income was above the average of Italy. Oil money was used to fund welfare programmes; house-building projects, improved healthcare, and compulsory education. However, over time Gadaffi´s erratic behaviour worsened. Any political conversation with foreigners became punishable with at least three years in prison and intents to start a "political party" could lead to execution. Libya was furthermore supporting terrorist organizations all over the world.
In 2004, Gadaffi visited Brussels and succeeded in convincing the EU to drop sanctions imposed on Libya. Like Turkey, Libya used the plights of refugees and international migrants as a means to extract funds from the EU, which in 2010 contributed with €50 million to stop African migrants from passing through Libya into Europe, while migrants had already been used as a bargaining chip during Gadaffi´s negotiations with Italy, which in spite of recurrent grievances had maintained several of its financial and commercial ties with Libyan leaders.
In 2008, Gadaffi made a deal with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi – Italy would through annual installments of USD250 million over a 20 year period compensate Libya for hardships brought about by its colonization of the country. In exchange, Libya would curb illegal migration across the Mediterranean, an encouragement for establishing "detention centres", which soon became sources for slave labour and human trafficking.9 The deal was suspended in February 2011 but renewed on 7 July 2018, leading to an intensified Italian-Lybian cooperation.
After a new Italian government came into office in 2018, it refused to take in people from search-and-rescue ships active in the Mediterranean, this included rescue efforts by the EU sponsored Operation Sophia, which since 2015 had saved thousands of people from drowning. After Italy threatened to veto it, EU did on 27 March stop this endeavour. Since then, thousands more international migrants, mainly from sub-Saharan Africa, have been detained in the infamous Lybian detention centres. Various reports did in 2017 estimate the number of inmates in Libyan camps to be between 10,000-20,000, at any given time. 10
The situation has become even worse after Field Marshal Haftar´s recent, massive attack on Tripoli. Both militias and "regular" army forces tend to use "detention centres" as "shields" for their installations. On 3 July, right after the attack on the Tajoura camp, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, stated:
I have repeatedly called for the closure of all migrant detention centres in Libya, where UN human rights staff have documented severe overcrowding, torture, ill-treatment, forced labour, rape, and acute malnutrition, among other serious human rights violations. I also repeat my call for the release of detained migrants and refugees as a matter of urgency, and for their access to humanitarian protection, collective shelters or other safe places, well away from areas that are likely to be after been trapped in gruesome facilities.11
Libya´s current misery and the plight of refugees and international migrants languishing in its detention centres, or drown in the Mediterranean, cannot only be blamed on repression in developing countries and the inability of their governments to amend poverty and unemployment. The disaster is also caused and furthered by distortions engendered by colonization and the enduring greed of foreign stakeholders. We are all guilty of the current suffering in Libya.
1 Organization of the Pertroleum Exporting Countries (2019) Libya Facts and Figures. https://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/about_us/166.htm
2Agence France-Presse (2019) "Captain defends her decision to force rescue boat into Italian port." The Guardian, 30 June.
3 Tonacci, Fabio and Alessandra Ziniti (2019) "Sea-Watch, Carola Rackete è libera: ´Commossa. Gip annula l´arresto: ´Agì per portare in salvo i migranti´. L´ira di Salvini." La Repubblica, 4 July.
4 A UN led initiative established in 2015 a Libyan Government of National Accord (NAC). However, a House of Representatives (HoR) had already been formed after an election in 2014, to replace Libya´s General National Congress. Neither entity recognizes the other, NAC is based in Tripoli, while HoR is in Tobruk, their armies are currently fighting each other.
5 Anderson, Jon Lee (2015) "The Unravelling: In a failing state, an anti-Islamist general mounts a divisive campaign" The New Yorker, February 23 and March 2.
6 Orsini, Alessandro (2019) "Haftar a Roma: L´Italia non pu`lasciare a Libia scivolare verso il Medio Oriente," Il Messagero, March 17.
7https://www.eni.com/enipedia/en_IT/international-presence/africa/enis-activities-in-libya.page?lnkfrm=asknow Thirty percent ENI´s shares are owned by the Italian government.
8 Historical information in this article is mainly based on Wright, John (2012) Libya: A Modern History. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
9 Human smuggling from the coast of Libya is a multimillion dollar business. In 2015, the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime (GITOC) estimated profits to be between USD 255 – 323 million per year. GITOC (2015) Policy Brief. Libya: a growing hub for Criminal Economies and Terrorist Financing in the Trans-Sahara. Geneva: RHIPTO. p. 2.
10 Amnesty International (2017) Libya's Dark Web of Collusion: Abuses Against Europe-Bound Refugees and Migrants. London: Amnesty International Ltd.
11https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24535&LangID=E
Jan Lundius holds a PhD. on History of Religion from Lund University and has served as a development expert, researcher and advisor at SIDA, UNESCO, FAO and other international organisations.
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The Libyan Disaster: Little Bits of History Repeating, Inter Press Service, Tuesday, July 09, 2019 (posted by Global Issues)

The Libyan Disaster: Little Bits of History Repeating, Inter Press Service , Tuesday, July 09, 2019 (posted by Global Issues)


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Events from the year 1685 in France

Incumbents
 Monarch – Louis XIV

Events
22 October – Louis XIV issues the Edict of Fontainebleau, which revokes the Edict of Nantes and declares Protestantism illegal, thereby depriving Huguenots of civil rights. Their  is immediately demolished.
The decree Code Noir, passed by King Louis XIV, defines the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire.
French colonization of Texas.

Births

6 January – Martin Bouquet, Benedictine and historian (died 1754)

Full date missing
Germain Louis Chauvelin, politician (died 1762)
Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, princess (died 1712)
Madeleine Leroy, industrialist (died 1749)

Deaths
9 February – Pierre Bourdelot, physician, anatomist, freethinker, abbé and libertine (born 1610)
25 March – Nicolas Robert, miniaturist and engraver (born 1614)
30 October – Michel Le Tellier, statesman (born 1603)
5 November – Jean de Montpezat de Carbon, bishop (born 1605)
28 November – Nicolas de Neufville de Villeroy, nobleman (born 1598)
25 December – Jacob Spon, archaeologist (born 1647)

See also

References

1680s in France

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Stevens-Johnson Syndrome: Arizona boy in hospital with rare allergic reaction
Posted: 6:52 PM, Aug 22, 2018
By: Justin Pazera
A Valley boy is fighting to a make a full recovery right now at the Arizona Burn Center in Phoenix.
Noah Barnes has been in the hospital for a month. He had a severe allergic reaction to a medication that was supposed to help his seizures.
A team of doctors finally figured out Noah has Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a severe allergic reaction that can happen from over-the-counter or prescription drugs.
"Almost any medication that's prescription or over the counter has been implicated in causing this disease at one point in time," said Doctor Steven Foster who helps head up the Arizona Burn Center. "Some are just more common than others but even so, it's still very very uncommon."
Some of the most common medicines that can cause Stevens-Johnson Syndrome are antibiotics, pain relievers, cough and cold medicine and seizure medications. Noah's mom said his condition rapidly changed from day to day. "His skin was just coming off," said Bari Barnes, Noah's mother. "They would touch it and it would move."
Doctor Foster says most patients with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome do require hospitalization and patients normally make a full recovery in 14-21 days. Foster says the Arizona Burn Center treats 40-50 patients a year from around Arizona.
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The Fix Analysis
Analysis Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events
Republicans' views of blacks' intelligence, work ethic lag behind Democrats at a record clip
Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix
Over the last two decades, there has never been a bigger divide between white Republicans and Democrats when it comes to views of the intelligence and work ethic of African Americans, according to the new General Social Survey.
The GSS is a wide-ranging study of cultural and political attitudes done annually by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. The bevy of data is all available here.
Because the survey is so extensive, it can drill down on issues that don't feature in regular national polls. Among them are racial attitudes and views of how the races are different from one another.
And something happened in the newly released 2016 data: The partisan gaps among whites were as wide or wider than we've seen since the survey first started asking most of these questions in the 1990s. It's not that white Republicans' views of African Americans have dimmed so much as that they haven't kept pace with those of white Democrats. But in some cases, the GOP has moved in the other direction.
The biggest yawning gap between Democrats and Republicans is on the issue of motivation and will power. The GSS asks whether African Americans are worse off economically "because most just don't have the motivation or will power to pull themselves up out of poverty?"
A majority — 55 percent — of white Republicans agreed with this statement, compared to 26 percent of white Democrats. That's the biggest gap since the question was first asked in 1977 — though the gap was similar (60-32) in 2010.
The survey also asks people to rate the races on how hard-working or lazy they are, which allows us to compare whether people rate some higher than others.
In this case, 42 percent of white Republicans rated African Americans as being lazier than whites, versus 24 percent of white Democrats. That 18-point gap is the second-biggest on record, behind 2010 (19 points).
The gap is again unprecedented when it comes to intelligence.
As with the previous question, the survey didn't ask people to compare blacks and whites directly, but rather to rate each race separately. In this case, 26 percent of white Republicans rated African Americans as less intelligent, compared to 18 percent of white Democrats. That eight-point gap is slightly bigger than in 2010 (seven points) and 2004 (six points).
It's a similar story on interracial marriage; 26 percent of white Republicans say they'd be opposed to a family member or close relative marrying a black person, versus 12 percent of white Democrats. That 14-point gap is tied for the largest with 2010.
The pattern doesn't hold, though, for affirmative action. The survey asked whether people thought a white person wouldn't get a job or promotion that an equally or less-qualified black person would. While 16 percent of white Republicans that was "very likely," 7 percent of white Democrats said the same — a nine-point gap that is on-par with previous surveys.
Scott Clement contributed to this post.
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Sights and sounds from Denver
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By Jack Lebo The Washington Times - August 26, 2008, 07:56PM
Go, Granny, Go
Traveling with The Creative Coalition to a list of Hollywood events yesterday was 94-year-old Ann Deschanel, grandmother of actress Zoey Deschanel.
Mrs. Deschanel - called "Granny," by Zoey Deschanel - mingled with TV and movie stars such as "Desperate Housewive's" Dana Delany, director Spike Lee and actress Ellen Burstyn at a lunch in Denver yesterday. But she is really tagging along because she is a lifelong Democrat and big Barack Obama supporter.
"I've been a supporter of his ever since he announced his candidacy for president," sais Mrs. Deschanel, who lives nearby in Boulder.
I just play a White House staffer
Actor Richard Schiff portrayed White House communications director Toby Ziegler on TV's "The West Wing" for seven seasons.
Mr. Schiff is here in Denver as part of The Creative Coalition, the nonpartisan Hollywood organization and also stumped for Joe Biden when he was a presidential candidate early in this election cycle.
Mr. Schiff says politics for real is much harder than pretend politics.
"In politics for real, you get one take," he said. "It is a live deal. "When you are on the set, you can do it over again. Also, on "The West Wing," I had consultants and great writers."
Mr. Schiff said Tuesday he tried to learn about the issues his character was scripted to discuss. There was a story arc that featured the fictional White House's plans to save Social Security.
"I later got a letter saying 'Thanks for the effort, but here is why it won't work, " said Mr. Schiff. "It was signed Hillary Rodham Clinton. I sent a note back saying she could do it better than I did."
— By Karen Goldberg Goff, The Washington Times
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Akitu A1 Pinot Noir 2018
Akitu A1 Pinot Noir 2018 quantity
Elegant, refined and balanced. Red and black cherries, dried spices and savoury notes play on the palate. Mineral, youthful and well-structured. Fine tannins and long finish.
Why we love it: Phenomenal expression of why Central Otago Pinots are standouts
Drink with: BBQ meats of any kind
Central Otago, New Zealand
100% Pinot Noir
12 - 17°
Now - 2029
Akitu
Established in 2001 and dedicated solely to producing Pinot Noir, we believe 'Akitu' has been a pioneer in setting the standards for some of the most opulent, exciting and impressive Pinot's New Zealand has ever seen.
Founded by Central Otago local Andrew Donaldson, the vineyard boasts a humble 12-hectare lot 380-metres above sea level on a stunning, north facing slope in Central Otago's Upper Clutha basin. There are over 40,000 vines of 6 carefully selected clones planted across the vineyard, each in a place picked specifically based on it's soil and aspect.
What does Akitu Mean?
The word 'Akitu' is a Maori word that means the apex, or highest point of a mountain. This name was chosen not only because it embodied the area in which the wines were produced, but because it's a representation of the calibre of the wine inside the bottle. It means 'Akitu' strives for excellence, the best, the pinnacle of quality, and we can't help but agree they have achieved this in every way. If you ever get the chance to visit the winery take a close look at the surrounding mountain ranges, you will see that the font of the logo reflects perfectly against the silhouette of the mountains.
'Akitu' only produces two wines. The first of the wines is known as 'A1' which is made with the majority of Abel clones. It is aged in 25% French new oak and results in a prestigious, elegant, and precise Pinot Noir that commands your attention. The second is the 'A2' which is made with younger vines and boasts generous and juicy fruit flavours. This wine is playful, vibrant and expressive and a true testament to viticulturist Steve Blackmore, who has been tending to the 'Akitu' vines for more than a decade now and is proof that patience and Pinot are great partners.
For more information on Akitu and their wines, you can visit their website here.
Found at the extreme limits of winemaking, Central Otago is found at 44° and 45° south and is home to some of the most southerly vineyards the world has to offer. Boasting breathtaking landscapes and an extreme climate, the local economy has garnered global recognition for its merino wool. However, over the previous decade, the majority of land has been shifted away from pasture, to being under vine. In 1996 Otago only had 11 vineyards, while today the region has a legion over 100 strong. The incredibly balanced styles of wine that flow from the region aren't something to be missed, with Central Otago being the first in the world to challenge Burgundy's production of Pinot Noir.
Central Otago's four primary sub-regions are Wanaka, Gibbston, Bannockburn and Alexandra. While all are situated relatively close together and each has the same stony free-draining soil base, their full profiles vary immensely, but are glacially derived and have rich deposits of mica and schist making it ideal for the production of Pinot Noir, which just happens to be 80% of the production there. The excellent drainage helps retain mineral richness whilst temperatures can vary from 30degrees during ripening days to only 8degrees overnight, this swift shift allows the grape ripening process to stop more suddenly overnight, thus retaining all the wonderful natural acidity and fruit concentration this region can offer, to us this provides Central Otago with an intensely fruit-forward character no other region of New Zealand can replicate. Autumn frosts are a risk here too, so it's just as well the growers down here have their wits about them…
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Q: Google Cloud warnings that conflict each other TLDR in brief
gcloud compute instance to have hard disk size under 200Gb get warning but when set to 200Gb will get another warning.
in details
When we create instance template, as command 01 below, we have this warning if setting hard disk size 10Gb

WARNING: You have selected a disk size of under [200GB]. This may result in poor I/O performance. For more information, see: https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/disks#performance

Though when we do set it to 200Gb, we get this warning when creating instance from that template

WARNING: Some requests generated warnings:
    Disk size: '200 GB' is larger than image size: '10 GB'. You might need to resize the root repartition manually if the operating system does not support automatic resizing. See https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/persistent-disks#repartitionrootpd for details.

So why you gcloud warn us from the start about the 200Gb?
And what should we do to get things set up correctly with no warning?
commands used
*command 01 - create instance template
gcloud compute instance-templates create TEMPLATE-NAME
          --image='projects/ubuntu-os-cloud/global/images/ubuntu-1604-xenial-v20190212' \
          --custom-cpu=1 --custom-memory=2  \
          --boot-disk-size=200 --boot-disk-type=pd-standard

command 02 - create compute instance from instance template
gcloud compute instances create INSTANCE_NAME \
          --source-instance-template TEMPLATE_NAME \
          --project=$GC_PROJECT --zone=$zone

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