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Partnership for South Hampshire–Consultations, News, Uncategorized– 9 April 2021 20 April 2021
Partnership for South Hampshire's response to the Southern Water 'Water for Life' consultation
This response to the Southern Water 'Water for Life' consultation has been prepared by the Water Quality Working Group of the Partnership for South Hampshire (PfSH). PfSH is a strategic partnership of twelve local authorities around the Solent working co-operatively on strategic/sub-regional planning, development, and environmental matters.
PfSH welcomes the opportunity to the Water for Life consultation on the 'Base Case' proposal for seawater desalination at Fawley. The consultation will help to inform the next key decision point which will help to determine whether this project, or one or some combination of the identified fall-back alternatives, is progressed. All relevant planning authorities in South Hampshire should be engaged by Southern Water as part of the development of their plans.
Whilst the consultation is focussed on desalination or fall-back alternatives, the options considered as part of this consultation will need to continue to be seen as part of the wider package of measures to ensure sufficient water resources are available to meet the needs of the environment as well as of those of customers. This includes the efficient use of water resources, reducing leakage and enhancing the resilience of the network.
The security of future drinking water supply for southern Hampshire requires urgent resolution.
PfSH both acknowledge and emphasise the urgency of Southern Water's water supply position and the importance of resolving the supply deficit by bringing significant and sustainable new sources of water supply forward as soon as possible, and by the 2027 date agreed under best endeavours.
The consultation document correctly highlights the need to abstract less water from the sensitive chalk stream habitats of the Test and Itchen rivers and more from sustainable, resilient sources instead, following the 2018 legal agreement between Southern Water and the Environment Agency.
A resulting supply deficit in drought periods of 190 million litres per day is identified, equivalent to the usage of approximately 150,000 people, particularly affecting South West Hampshire.
The Base Case desalination plant (or fall back alternatives) in the WfL consultation would meet about 40% of the deficit, so it is essential that there is a high level of confidence in and support for the scheme that is ultimately progressed.
Carbon neutrality objectives should be more prominently factored into the evaluation and decision-making process.
The UK has committed to achieving carbon net zero by 2050 with accelerated interim carbon reduction targets for 2030 announced recently. Much of South Hampshire has declared a Climate Emergency.
Both desalination and waste water recycling are comparatively energy intensive and high carbon emitting water supply solutions, and desalination is generally understood to be the more energy and carbon intensive process of the two. If there are feasible lower carbon alternatives, there is a judgement to be made in the context of wider sustainability considerations about whether high carbon-emitting water supply solutions should continue to be considered.
It is not possible from the material published to date to meaningfully compare the Base Case performance in this regard relative to the fall back alternatives. Given the long term implications of the decision to be made, the relative carbon merits of the Base Case and alternatives should be made transparent and feature more prominently in the option evaluation and decision-making process.
Significantly more work is required to demonstrate that the Base Case desalination plant is a sustainable water supply option that can be delivered on time. Significantly more work is required to develop the fall back alternatives to a comparable level of technical detail, in case the Base Case proves not to be.
The Base Case appears comparatively high-impact and high-risk relative to some of the alternatives, based on the limited high-level evidence published to date. It is the only scheme option where the main plant is proposed to be located within a National Park. It appears to entail more significant, permanent intrusion into, and ongoing operational impact on, European designated sites than the fall back alternatives. For both these matters national policy requires detailed consideration whether there are feasible alternative solutions or project locations which would be less damaging.
The identified Base Case location is in the New Forest National Park Authority and New Forest District Council area. Both authorities are members of PfSH and PfSH notes that their individual authority responses do not support the Base Case, identifying other risks and impacts to the higher level points made in this PfSH response. These may require more detailed evaluation including in relation to deliverability of the Base Case scheme by the required date, 2027.
It will be essential to undertake all appropriate surveys to ensure full consideration of impacts associated with the Base Case. All the currently identified options need to be more fully developed to mitigate delivery risks in the Base Case, and to enable regulatory decision makers to determine how best to ensure sustainable, secure and timely enhancement to drinking water supply for southern Hampshire.
Wastewater recycling alternatives offer scope to reduce nitrate discharges to the Solent, a significant benefit not captured in the analysis of alternatives opportunities to date.
The consideration of wider benefits forms part of the evaluation process for water supply solutions. This reflects a recognition by government and water industry regulators that water companies have a role to play in the 'green economic recovery' to help the country to meet the economic and social challenges of the COVID pandemic[1].
The need to mitigate the impact of additional nitrate discharges from housing development on European designated sites in the Solent is the number one barrier to the delivery of much-needed housing in much of the Hampshire area. The current backlog is estimated to be around 2,000 homes, with critical social and economic implications. In recognition of the significance and challenge the issue poses locally, DEFRA is funding a £4.2m pilot study to develop a nutrient trading platform in the Solent.
The fall back alternatives to the desalination Base Case include various permutations of water recycling, up to 75 million litres per day. If operating full-time at the upper capacity level, water recycling could divert wastewater discharge to the Solent that would contain 220,000 kg total nitrogen per annum[2].
At an illustrative 20% of this theoretical level of wastewater effluent reduction, the reduction in nitrogen discharged could provide sufficient offsetting headroom for all or most committed and planned housing development in the PfSH area for the next decade. The nitrate offsetting credit value of around £100m at current market rates could help fund the project, and the wider environmental, economic and social benefits would be very significant.
Councillor Seán Woodward
Chairman, Partnership for South Hampshire


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As I went about my business, I realized some hair extensions were hanging but I paid no attention to it. Well, by the time I got to where I was going, I knew something was amiss when I saw more hair handing at the sides.
I went to the wash room to check. Lo and behold! The extensions had come off and were about to drop.
The embarrassment that would have followed had I gone to do what I was supposed to would have been too much to bear.
I was meeting some important personalities in the evening and can you imagine what the scene would have been?
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Some friends suggest I use a texturizer and not a relaxer to maintain the thickness and yet have manageable hair.
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MacMahon, M.K. (2004) Ellis [formerly Sharpe], Alexander John (1814-1890), phonetician and mathematician. In: Matthew, H.C.G. and Harrison, B.H. (eds.) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: In Association with the British Academy: From the Earliest Times to the Year 2000. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 208-211. ISBN 9780198614111 (doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8683)
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Q: Ожидание ответа от второго Observable в RxJava2 У меня есть данные в локальной базе и данные с сервера. Я должен вывести сперва данные с локальной базы, если есть, иначе подождать данных от сервера. То есть, когда жду данных от сервера, я не должен скрывать ProgressBar до тех пор, пока не получу данных или пустой список и только потом скрывать ProgressBar и показать Empty State(сообщение о пустом списке).
Проблема в том, когда я получаю пустой список из локальной базы, ProgressBar скрывается и появляется Empty State, а потом подгружаются данные с сервера.
Код, где эта реализация:
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        .subscribeOn(Schedulers.io())
        .observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread(), true)
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                mView.hideConnectingProgress();
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            }
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    )

Попробовал добавить Флаг типа isLocalData = true в flatMap() getDataFromLocal(), а в flatMap() getDataFromServer() isLocalData = false.
В подписчике так:
if (transactions.size() > 0) {
      mView.hideConnectingProgress();
      mView.onTransactionsReceived(transactions);
} else {
      if (!isLocalData) {
           mView.hideConnectingProgress();
           mView.onTransactionsReceived(transactions);
      }
}

Но в этом решении Empty State не появляется при получении пустого списка из локальной базы, когда интернета нет.
Вопрос:
Как реализовать получение getDataFromLocal(), если тут пусто, то не скрывая ProgressBar ждать getDataFromServer(), но если нет интернета, показать Empty State getDataFromLocal().
Понимаю все запутанно, и я что-то не понимаю. Бьюсь с эти 2 дня. Можете подсказать, как реализовать?

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Biafra: Presidency Reveals Why Osinbajo Did Not Invite Nnamdi Kanu To His Meeting With South-East Leaders
Nnamdi Kanu
Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Political Matters, Babafemi Ojudu, has said leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu was not invited for the meeting with the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo because he is not considered as a South-East leader of thought.
Osinbajo had last week met with some leaders of the South-East over issues of agitation from the region and quit notice Arewa youths issued Igbos to vacate North but Kanu was missing.
Speaking on Sunday, Ojudu said, "Well, the thing is that we were looking for leaders of the people, leaders of thought and we do not see him as a leader of thought in the east.
"May be opportunity will come at one time or the other for him to be engaged.
"But so far, what we have done is to look at people who have influence in the communities, whether it is religious, whether it is traditional, whether it is political, social or governance. These are the people we brought in for discussion."
The Presidential aide disclosed that the agitation for secession and calls for referendum being pushed by IPOB were not discussed during the meeting.
He said, "Nobody has tabled that in all the discussions we have had. Nobody, I can tell you. Ohanaeze came with a prepared document. They never talked about referendum. They never. They never even talked about secession.
"They made complaints about police harassment at road blocks. They made complaints about losing some key positions, not being appointed into security positions and all those kinds of things.
"And these are things that can easily be addressed. Nobody canvassed secession at those meetings, nobody canvassed referendum."
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Home » Browse » Academic journals » Sociology and Anthropology Journals » Social Justice » Article details, "The Social Construction of Conflict and..."
Academic journal article Social Justice
The Social Construction of Conflict and Reconciliation in the Former Yugoslavia
By Wilmer, Franke
The end of the cold war in roughly 1989 to 1990 - and more particularly, the failure of international relations (IR) theorists, scholars, and practitioners to (even vaguely) see it coming - brought to center stage an epistemological and ontological debate about practically everything that has ever been said and done in the name of "international relations." Everything about "IR" became contestable: international relations was recast as world politics; states and state systems became political communities (or not); political discourse became speech acts; war became conflict or violence; theory became epistemology; and boundaries - inside/outside - whether cognitive, geographic, or disciplinary, were decloaked as binary categories of socially constructed space.
The ensuing debates have dragged political science, Western philosophy, and social theory into the fray, and provoked fresh interest in the old, but unsettled debate about the limitations inherent in grafting the methodology and epistemology of the physical sciences onto the conduct of social inquiry. While Edward O. Wilson (1998) argues that all social and physical sciences can be assimilated within a bioscience paradigm, Henry L. Hamman and Amir Goswami (1998) claim a convergence between quantum physics and social constructivism. These are exciting times to be thinking about international relations.
Before the post-structuralist, postmodernist, social constructivist critique of IR,(1) the state was always just there; power was always there; interests were always just there. Research questions focused on institutional and structural relationships given the state, power, and interests. Post-structuralism and social constructivism share credit for redirecting our inquiry to questions of how the state got there; how does the way in which we think about power "make it so," as Jean-Luc Picard would say; and how are interests socially constructed? These do not exhaust the questions raised by ongoing epistemological debates, but it seems to me they are at the core. Questions about the role of norms, normative consensus, identity, boundaries, the construction of the self (rather than the "nature of man"), civil society, uncivil behavior, the role of culture and historicity, and more flow from the contestation of these foundational concepts - the state, power, and interests (see Ruggie, 1998; Kratochwil, 1989; Lapid and Kratochwil, 1997; Katzenstein, 1996; Neumann and Waever, 1997).
My own encounter with current theoretical debates (see Wilmer, 1993) followed from posing the question: What sense can an academic analyst make of the global mobilization of indigenous peoples making claims to international rights vis-a-vis their relationship to states and the state system in the late 20th century? Theories ought to at least help us make sense of what we wish to study by framing our thinking about a problem in terms of its causes, consequences, or significance. I simply did not find much in the area of international relations theory, or indeed, in ethnic mobilization or social movement theory in sociology, that would enable me to even think about the issue of international indigenous political activism. Yet there they were, these indigenous activists, in the Third World and the First. They were lobbying the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and the World Bank; holding regional and global conferences; forming NGOs; litigating, networking, publicizing; filing complaints with the U.N. Human Rights Commission, and so on. Moreover, their activism was having effects: large-scale development projects were blocked; the United Nations formed a Working Group to draft a set of principles for the protection of indigenous peoples' rights; their activism provoked constitutional changes in domestic political structures, prompted the World Bank to issue guidelines for evaluating the impact of proposed projects on indigenous peoples; and led the International Labor Organization to revise its 30-year-old convention on indigenous peoples to remove paternalism and reflect contemporary indigenous concerns. …
Publication: Social Justice
Publication date: Winter 1998
Wilmer, Franke
International Mediation--Evaluation
Reconciliation--Political Aspects
Peace Negotiations--Evaluation
Yugoslavia--Political aspects
The Nation-State in Transformation: Economic Globalisation, Institutional Mediation and Political Values By Michael Böss Aarhus University Press, 2010
Dilemmas of Reconciliation: Cases and Concepts By Carol A.L. Prager; Trudy Govier Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003
Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation By Daniel Philpott Oxford University Press, 2012
Reconciliation: Aspects, Growth, and Sequences By Kriesberg, Louis International Journal of Peace Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring-Summer 2007
The Theological and Spiritual Aspects of Reconciliation in an Orthodox Key By Zelinsky, Vladimir Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 39, No. 1-2, Spring 2002
Hegel and the Political Theology of Reconciliation By Lilla, Mark The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 54, No. 4, June 2001
MOSSAD: AN AGENCY WITH A LICENSE TO KILL; Bungled Amman Assassination Plot Exposes Rift within Israeli Government over Peace Negotiations By Ostrovsky, Victor Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XI, No. 4, December 1997
PA Foreign Minister Nabil Sha'ath Still "Hopeful" about Peace Agreement By Pasquini, Elaine Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. 23, No. 1, January/February 2004
Questioning If Guilt without Punishment Will Lead to Reconciliation: The Black Press Relives Its Own Horrors and Seeks Justice By Tsedu, Mathatha Nieman Reports, Vol. 52, No. 4, Winter 1998
MILF Peace Talks on Today By Madale, Asa T. Manila Bulletin, April 27, 2000
Put Women at the Peace Table By H. E. Sheikh Hasina The Christian Science Monitor, November 13, 2000
Revisiting the GRP-MNLF Final Peace Agreement; "Blessed Are the Peacemakers, for They Will Be Called Sons of God." -- Matthew 5:9 By Ramos, Fidel V. Manila Bulletin, December 16, 2007


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Q: How to label multiple date in Full calendar I am using Full calendar JavaScript Plugin in my PHP project. Project is a Job Schedule Application where i am assigning a job to a person for 2 days for example 1.12.2019 to 3.12.2019.
i want to show that Job in calendar  labeling from 1.12.2019 to 3.12.2019 in a single color.


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   split = strsplit(relation_str{ii}, ',');
   expanded_relations = [expanded_relations split];
   expanded_ind = [expanded_ind, ii*ones(size(split))];
end

[ind, order] = unique(expanded_ind(ismember(expanded_relations, relations_to_merge)));
if ~isempty(ind)
   merged_relation = relations(:, ind);
   flipped_ind = find(ismember(merge_order(order), -1));
   for ii=flipped_ind
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Q: Why do we close the file descriptor after calling dup2? I cannot for the life of me get my head fully around dup2().
    int fd = open("data", O_RDONLY);
    /* open the disk file */
    int newfd = dup2(fd,0);
    /* close 0, dup fd to 0 */
    if( newfd != 0)
    {
        fprintf(stderr,"Could not duplicate fd to 0\n");
        exit(1);
    }
    close(fd);

So I understand that dup2() in this case will close 0 (standard keyboard input for stdin), it will then make stdin read from the file data, but why would you then close(fd)? I thought fd was what stdin is reading from now?

A: open creates a reference-counted file description (some struct) in the kernel and the returned file descriptor is kind of like a pointer to it (one of the counted references) from userspace, unless it's a negative value in which case open failed. dup2(fd,0) makes 0 also point to the same file description (unless you passed a negative fd or unless you're out of filedescriptors). If your goal was to have 0 point to the filedescription, you can now get rid of the old "pointer"/filedescriptor so you don't waste filedescriptor slots (a process can only allocate a limited number).
(Additionally closing the last reference to a filedescription may lead to certain desirable actions such as the file being dropped if it's an unliked file or the read end of a pipe receiving EOF if you just closed the last reference to the corresponding write end. Unnecessary references (filedescriptors) lying around get in the way of this.)


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ESCAPE-pain offers new approach for people living with arthritis in Greater Manchester for awareness week
Hundreds of people with chronic knee and hip joint pain in Greater Manchester and East Cheshire have improved their quality of life through an innovative new NHS programme. As part of National Arthritis Week, which runs until 13 October, Health Innovation Manchester is celebrating the success of the ESCAPE-pain programme, which is being rolled-out locally.
ESCAPE-pain is an innovative rehabilitation programme for people with chronic knee and hip pain known as osteoarthritis, a musculoskeletal condition. Around 8.75 million people aged 45 years and over (33 percent) in the UK have sought treatment for osteoarthritis. Despite the risk of side effects and high costs, treatment for osteoarthritis has traditionally been the prescription of painkillers, typically non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID), with little practical support.
The ESCAPE-pain programme has been shown to make marked improvements to quality of life for people living with the condition. It focuses on exercise and education to teach people the skills they need to self-manage and reduce their pain.
The programme runs for a total of 12 sessions over six weeks with participants attending two, hour-long classes a week. Each class starts with a brief discussion about pain and how it can be reduced and is then followed by an individualised exercise programme.
It is estimated that 14,000 people have taken part in ESCAPE-pain programmes across 230 sites in the UK, including 350 at 12 sites in Greater Manchester and East Cheshire.
Joan Allard, from Holmes Chapel, transformed her quality of life after completing an ESCAPE-pain class at Holmes Chapel Community Centre.
Joan, aged 87, struggled with her balance and was not confident when walking. When she began taking part in ESCAPE-pain, she was very nervous and was sceptical about how much of an impact it would have on her pain.
However, after three weeks of ESCAPE-pain classes with instructor Josie Hurst, Josie Hurst, Joan began to feel a drastic difference; she had a reduction in pain and started to feel better within herself.
Josie said: "The structure of the class made her feel extremely comfortable and she felt that being around people with similar problems to her helped her gain confidence in the class – she felt like it wasn't just her suffering and knew that other people were going through the same thing."
Since completing ESCAPE-pain, Joan no longer requires the stick that she was dependent on and can walk up and down the stairs with ease. She has also joined the gym and attends at least twice a week with friends she met in the ESCAPE-pain sessions.
Joan completed the ESCAPE-pain programme with Everybody Leisure, which us supported by Health Innovation Manchester.
Nationally over 14,000 people have taken part in ESCAPE-pain programmes across 230 sites in the UK. ESCAPE-pain's rapid growth over the past two years has been supported by the NHS' innovation bodies, Academic Health Science Networks, NHS England, charity Versus Arthritis, and Sport England.
In Bury, ESCAPE-pain is delivered as part of BEATS, an exercise referral scheme for people with a recurring illness or medical condition who would benefit from an exercise programme in partnership with Bury Leisure.
To date, 100% of those who completed the course have gone on to further exercise programmes to continue improving their quality of life. The programme is currently delivered with a Sport England grant, however long-term sustainability routes have now been identified and tested for the provision to continue beyond
the grant.
Recent independent evaluations have also reinforced how much money the NHS saves by taking this approach, showing that every £1 invested returns over £5 in wider health and social value through people needing to use services and medication less. Overall it equates to an estimated £1.3 million total savings in health and social care for every 1,000 participants who undertake ESCAPE-pain.
Cath Barrow, Senior Programme Development Lead at Health Innovation Manchester, said: "Living with chronic pain can be a miserable and life-limiting experience.
"However, the ESCAPE-pain programme has shown that education, self-management and exercise can be life changing and help people to manage their pain effectively.
"We're proud to be supporting the delivery of this innovative programme which is transforming the lives of our citizens and supporting the NHS by saving resources and money."
Find out more about ESCAPE-pain
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Health Innovation Manchester host ESCAPE-pain providers at the National Cycling Centre
Health Innovation Manchester, the organisation responsible for accelerating proven innovation into Greater Manchester's health and social care service at pace, hosted an event on 15 May for providers of the...
Hundreds of people benefit from implementation of wide-ranging health and care innovations across Greater Manchester
Health Innovation Manchester is working to spread innovation programmes designed to improve health outcomes for our citizens.


The matchless genius of Shakespeare has furnished occupation for authors, from the very age in which he wrote, down to the pre sent day; so that, independent of the innumerable editions of his plays, from the original authentic copies, to the modern mutila tions represented under his name upon the stage, we have more than two hundred works of which Shakespeare and his writings are the subject.
Such being the case, it may be thought necessary, for one who ventures to add to the number, to offer some apology to the public for so doing. That tendered for the present compilation is founded on the belief, that among all these works, there does not exist one which effectively occupies the ground here taken, and very few which even attempt to connect Shakespeare's felicitous expressions -exhibiting as they do, a matchless insight into human nature with the various casualties, motives, and objects of ordinary life. Such a task, if performed with judgment and faithfulness, could hardly fail to prove both pleasing and useful. In support of the opinion that this task yet remained to be accomplished, it will be necessary to submit a few observations concerning the works which profess to have the same object, upon the comparative merits of which with the shakespearian dictionary, its pretensions to public favour must be founded.


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Premiere: "Make Me A Statue" by Yohannes
Given recent current events, statues are more top of mind than usual. And though local indie rockers Yohannes wrote "Make Me A Statue" before Charlottesville and the song's monologue lyrics aren't connected to the events in any way, a sense of eeriness still creeps in.
When I spoke with Keenan Hye of Yohannes about the song, I asked Hye to share what the song would look like if it actually was a physical statue. "It'd be one of a really ugly, successful man," he said. No surprise there, given the narrator displays desperation that hints at questionable character: "I'll steal, I'll cheat, I'll lie, just keep me alive."
Though the song maintains a steady rhythm, the lyrics cut through repetition by escalating the narrator's methods of preservation. (One of which includes formaldehyde, a smelly chemical compound used in manufacturing.) Hye explains, "I wanted to the methods by which the narrator wants himself to be memorialized to become more and more surreal, desperate, and a little gross."
"Make Me A Statue" is the first song Yohannes has remotely recorded (their drummer moved to Pittsburg) but their ties to Boston remain strong; in fact, the reverb on the track was recorded at one of the cities' prominent architectural accomplishments, MIT's Stata Center. The building's unique dimensions make for an interesting recording space, Hye explained: "The reverb on this track was taken from an impulse response in the Stata Center at MIT [which] is just a kind of recording of a space you can use to digitally mix tracks into that space in a really realistic sounding way, as if the song was performed there."
As the song comes to a close it stutters like a car radio with static interference, and the echoey plinking of keys fades in. Hye noted that, while a fade-out makes sense for the "circular catchy beat" that is "Make Me A Statue," he generally avoids them. "I have a huge pet-peeve about fade-outs" he said. "I think they are a real cop out and not a creative way to end a song at all. So, I wanted to fake a fade-out to allude to that by slowly fading the volume down for a little bit, but then abruptly cutting everything away and switching to a completely new sound. For that, I wanted something super lo-fi, and the original "song baby" we recorded on a phone worked well."
Listen to "Make Me A Statue" below:
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Nominating a Building for Listing in Northern Ireland
Almost any man-made structure can be Listed. The List currently includes not just buildings, but fountains, memorials, town stocks and phone boxes.
Detail from the Chapel of Unity, Methodist College, Belfast, representing praying hands
Listing covers the complete interior and exterior of the building and can also extend to fixtures and free standing objects within its curtilage.
If the building is not already listed on the NI Buildings Database, you can contact the Department's Historic Environment Division at any time to nominate a building or other structure for Listing. Your request will generate a 'listing query' and one of our architects will make arrangements to visit if appropriate. This initial assessment will decide if there is sufficient cause to commission further, more detailed research.
When considering buildings and structures for listing, or de-listing, the Department's Historic Buildings Designation Branch will assess the architectural and historic interest against the criteria set out in the Criteria for the Scheduling of Historic Monuments and the Listing of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
Making a Listing Query
A selection of Belfast's unique street signs – protected though listing
The Department's initial evaluation of any nomination for Listing is based on the information we are provided. Our initial assessment will decide if the building has the potential to meet the test for Listing or not and if the Department should undertake further investigation, such as a site visit.
We prioritise our listing activity on a holistic area based survey called The Second Survey, and other work is prioritised based upon a risk assessment. For this reason it is important that you provide us with as much information as possible on the structure you are proposing for Listing and in particular, any threats it may face. You should submit information such as maps, photos and plans in support of your nomination if you have them.
Requests for de-listing require the same level of information, including a statement which explains why the building may no longer meet the statutory requirements for Listing. See also De-listing: Removing a building from the list of buildings of special architectural or historic interest.
You can identify the building, and its address, by looking it up on the Historic Environment Map Viewer.
When submitting your query, we require the following information to make an assessment;
Your name and contact details.
The address or location of the structure you are nominating for Listing. Where an address is not possible, please provide detailed information so we can clearly identify the building or structure you are proposing.
A map, with the building or structure clearly marked.
Details of ownership, including contact details (if different to yours). This is essential if we decide to look at the building in detail and need to make arrangements to visit.
Photographs. Please be aware that if you do not provide up-to-date photographs, including both exterior and interior views where applicable, it is unlikely that we will be able to progress the application.
You should also;
List the reasons why you believe this building is, or is not, of 'special architectural or historic interest' and should be assessed for listing or de-listing.
Provide documentary evidence to support your application, such as historic maps and (where applicable) a list of the books, websites etc. you have used in completing your research
Detail if the building or structure is under serious threat of demolition or major alteration. If so, please also contact your local Council, who may wish to consider spot listing, should the building meet the tests as determined by the local Council area in which the building is situated.
You can send your application to us at;
Department for Communities
Historic Environment Division
Historic Buildings Designation Branch
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Town Parks
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email: HED.SecondSurvey@communities-ni.gov.uk
Depending on our resources and priorities, we may decide that the building will not be investigated immediately, but will be looked at when all the historic buildings in the area are being re-surveyed. This area re-survey (known as the Second Survey) is ongoing.
Due to the volume of queries we receive, please allow a minimum of 3 weeks for a determination of whether we will be taking the building forward for survey and evaluation or not.
Building Preservation Notices (BPN)
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it is of special architectural or historic interest; and
it is in danger of demolition or of alteration in such a way as to affect its character as a building of such interest
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Guidance for Councils on Building Preservation Notices
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Historic Environment Advice and Guidance in the Planning Process
Historic Environment Division - Who we are and the difference we make
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Listed Buildings - An Introduction
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Maintenance Checklist: Bituminous Sheet Flat Roofs
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# coord_conversions.py is part of the 'spartan' package.
# It was written by Gus Dunn and was created on 5/1/14
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Provide code to convert start/stop coordinate pairs to and from specific conventions such as BED or GTF.

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[docs]def human_to_bed_chrom_start_stop(start, stop):
    """
    Returns a tuple containing chromosome coords in BED convention.

    :param start: first bp coordinate of subsequence (chromosome starts with 1 not 0).
    :param stop: last bp coordinate of subsequence (chromosome starts with 1 not 0).
    :return: bed_coords = (bed_start, bed_stop)
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    bed_start = start-1
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    bed_coords = (bed_start, bed_stop)

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Astronomers find 'most distant object in our Solar System'
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The most distant object ever observed in our Solar System has been discovered by an international team of astronomers.
Provisionally called 2018 VG18 but nicknamed "Farout", it is said to be more than 100 times farther from the Sun than Earth, at a distance of 120 astronomical units (AU), Euronews reported.
1 AU is measured as the distance between the Earth and the Sun and equal to 150 million kilometres.
So, 120 AU would place "Farout" at around 18 billion km away from the Sun.
To put that in context, Pluto is currently 34 AU, making 2018 VG18 more than three-and-a-half times farther from the Sun.
One researcher credited with the discovery, Carnegie Science's Scott S. Sheppard, told Euronews it would take a space probe about 40 years to reach "Farout" with our current technology.
"We are performing the largest and deepest search ever obtained for distant solar system objects," said Sheppard. "We observe at all times of the year and from both the southern and northern hemispheres. So this wasn't a serendipitous discovery as it is exactly what we are looking for, for Solar System objects that are way-way out there, far beyond Pluto."
Sheppard also told Euronews the object would likely take more than 1,000 years to orbit the Sun once.
He added that "Farout" moves at about 2 km/s in its orbit, much slower than Earth's speed of about 30 km/s.
Researchers say the space object's brightness suggests that it is about 500 km in diameter, likely making it spherical in shape and a dwarf planet. 2018 VG18 has a pinkish hue, a colour generally associated with ice-rich objects.
The discovery was made by Carnegie Science's Scott S. Sheppard, the University of Hawaii's David Tholen, and Northern Arizona University's Chad Trujillo.
The first images of "Farout" were seen through the Subaru telescope in Hawaii, which is run by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. 2018 VG18 was seen for the second time in early December at the Magellan telescope at Carnegie's Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.
"We are using the Subaru telescope in Hawaii, which is the most powerful survey telescope in the world," Sheppard told Euronews. "Because it is not only one of the largest telescopes but also has one of the world's largest cameras so we can cover large areas of sky to faint depths efficiently."
Northern Arizona University's Chad Trujillo said the discovery was truly an international achievement and credited the findings to the telescope's new wide-field digital cameras.
Although "Farout" is the first object to be observed past 100 AU, there is still much more to be discovered, given the Sun's gravity extends out to about 50,000 AU.
"We are continuing our survey to find distant Solar System objects far beyond Pluto," said Sheppard. "We will continue to observe Farout over the next few years to better determine its orbit around the Sun."
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Shikigami no Shiro II
Posted by CJ Iwakura on August 22, 2013
Shikigami no Shiro II (式神の城II) / Castle Shikigami 2 - Arcade, Dreamcast, GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Windows (2003)
This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Shikigami no Shiro
Shikigami no Shiro
Shikigami no Shiro III
Shikigami no Shiro: Nanayozuki Gensoukyoku
Two years after the first game's release, Alfa System created a sequel that brings back the investigators from the first game, with a few new faces. It originated in arcades, and was eventually ported to just about every popular console at the time.
Much of the core gameplay is unchanged. The Tension Bullet System where grazing bullets earns you extra points and firepower is still intact, as are the Shikigami and bomb attacks. Each of the playable characters no longer have upgradable firepower, but to make up for it, they each have two varieties of special (Shikigami) attacks to choose from. The returning characters' normal attacks are unchanged, aside from that they can no longer be powered up like in the first Shikigami.
What gives Shikigami II extra replay value is that every single character has a unique storyline path when played with a second character , offering incentive to take on the game with a friend, if you want to see how crazy the shared stories can get. (Very crazy, in fact.)
Shikigami no Shiro II was originally released in the arcades, first ported to the GameCube, then later released for the Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC. Each version had different limited edition packages – the DC version included a soundtrack, the GameCube version had a figure of a cat, and the PlayStation version had a figuring of the Witch, Fumiko. Only the PlayStation 2 port made it outside of Japan, under the name Castle Shikigami II, courtesy of XS Games in American and Play It in Europe. The home versions include a very nice art gallery, complete with high-res artwork. It also included new modes of play with extra enemies and an 'Extreme' Mode in which enemies leave behind bullets after dying, for even more difficulty. There's also an arrange BGM option with remixes of Shikigami no Shiro's OST used in place of Shikigami II's.
The horizontal setting doesn't use the whole screen, but frees the playing field from status displays (Windows)
This time XS Games treated the game with a little more respect, as most everything is faithful to the Japanese version. The packaging actually advertises the game for what it is – a shoot-em-up with anime-influenced characters blowing up stuff. Even the tate option is still present.
However, this is easily one of the worst translations in the history of video gaming. Unlike its predecessor, Castle Shikigami II includes full voice acting, and All the mid-stage dialogue is completely spoken. These have been translated and dubbed for the English localization, but none of it makes sense, at all – presuming that the dialogue was Babelfished is an insult to online translators everywhere.
A few choice adages:
"…I like girls, but now, it's about justice."
"You have two choices: beaten then caught, or caught then beaten."
"Beat 'em down then jump. I just started now."
Furthermore, the voiceovers are all done by people who obviously have no acting talent whatsoever, and seem to be confused that what they're reading is even English. (Check out Audio Atrocities for full dialogue clips.) At least the in-game voices were kept in Japanese. Purists will definitely cringe, but it's definitely worth checking out for the comedy value alone. What might come as surprising is that the Japanese version's dialogue was just as senseless, if not more so. It's just that XS Games was just a little too literal in their translation treatment. Unfortunately it seems like these were all excised completely from the European release.
The dialogue wasn't the only aspect of Shikigami II that received a weak treatment. Even the instruction book looks like it came from the result of a literal translation. As a bit of an in-joke, the Shikigame attacks are now called "Mobile Light Force 3" attacks. It still manages to be informative, but you have to wonder if anyone at XS Games knows how to proofread their products before they go to publication. Fortunately, despite their lackluster efforts, XS deserve credit for bringing over the second game mostly untouched, and at an extremely cheap retail price of $10.
Castle Shikigami II has a lot going on in its story, but the bad translation work doesn't help much in the way of making any sense of it. Still, it has a lot to offer for series vets. A wide variety of stages and bosses alike, even more difficulty, and some nice music to go along with it. Even better for the US fans, this would be XS Games' last Shikigami endeavor in the states. A more deserving publisher would be the ones to get the rights to the next game in the series.
Kohtaro Kuga
The principal character of the series, a private detective of H&K Detective Agency, returns. His Shikigami, Sazae, is still in tow. Each form determines the nature of Sazae's attacks. She can either target the enemies closest to Kuga, or the ones closest to the point at which she was summoned.
Sayo Yuuki
A shrine maiden from a strong religious home, she has never gone to school due to her upbringing. The new incidents have caused her to leave by train, and come to Tokyo. Sayo's special still consists of Phoenix familiar. It can either attack in a wide, slow radius(shown) or with a narrower(and faster) one.
Gennojo Hyuga
A freelance detective serving the same agency as Kohtaro, Hyuga & Kuga. (Who owns the agency is anyone's guess.) He's working on the case at the request of a young client,and also has access to black market contacts. Due to having the blood of a wolf god, he becomes a werewolf when enraged. His Shikigami attack can either be used in the form of three lightning spheres with a long frontal reach, or six used forward and back, with a shorter reach.
Fumiko Ozette Van Stein
The witch with the golden gun returns, and she still intends to marry Kohtaro. A German who migrated to Japan, she follows Kuga's trail to put a stop to the events before they can harm her would-be husband. Her Shikigami attack consists of orbital bombardments summoned by Munchausen, her butler. He can either bring down one massive blast, or a smaller assortment of five connected blasts.
'Chibi' Fumiko
Fumiko in a younger form, supposedly the result of a spell gone badly awry. 'Chibi' Fumiko has the same attacks, and almost the exact same dialogue, just with a younger voice. She can be selected by moving the cursor continually to the right while highlighting Fumiko. Her normal shot is weaker, however, her Shikigami attack is much more powerful to compensate.
Kim De John
A Korean Tae Kwon Do instructor, he closed his dojo and left his country to avenge the murder of one of his students. His Shikigami attack can either be used as two controllable swords(which can be aimed anywhere from forward to back), or three swords which spin at fixed points.
Niigi G.B. (Gorgeous Blue)
One of the two new characters, a mysterious girl seeking an unknown man. Her Shikigami attacks utilize her cat as a barrier, which then fires back at enemies with the charged up energy. Her normal fire pattern consists of static lasers fired from two spheres at her sides.
Roger Sasuke
The other new character. An American ninja, formerly a friend of Kohtaro, he now considers him his rival. He loves Japan. He uses a very fast string of shuriken attacks for his normal shots.
According to the few bits of the translation that make sense, the bosses are all members of a group called the "New World Order".
Arala Cran (Stage 1)
A ghost of a warrior. Flirtatious to a fault, she seems to have bad blood with Fumiko.
Anolegos Dundeon (Stage 2)
A guardian of a shrine, he now guards the submerged part of the castle. He knows Sayo from somewhere, possibly her work as a shrine maiden.
The Aja Brothers (Stage 3)
An older and younger brother, strong soldiers who gained immortality by guarding the castle. They will never stop fighting.
Yukari Horiguchi (Stage 4)
The last guardian of the castle, she is actually hospitalized in the real world. She attacks with (lots of) cards. If she is defeated, maybe she'll wake up in the real world.
Shintaro Kuga (Final Boss)
The head of the New World Order, and Kohtaro's older brother. He believes his way is just, and should be the one to rule the world. After his demise, he takes another form, presumably the core of the New World Order.
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Demonstrations Commemorate Anniversary of SF Police Shooting Death of Mario Woods
Filed Under:Deadly Police Shooting, Mario Woods, Officer-Involved Shootings, Police Shootings
Aerial view of a group commemorating the shooting death of Mario Woods in MLK Jr. Park in San Francisco's Bayview District on Friday. (CBS)
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A group of more than a dozen protesters demonstrated inside the entrance to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office Friday afternoon on the one-year anniversary of the fatal police shooting of Mario Woods.
The group, which calls itself Mothers on the March, has followed through on a promise made more than a month ago to demonstrate at the office every Friday at noon until District Attorney George Gascon agrees to meet with them to discuss charging officers involved in fatal shootings with murder.
The group is named in honor of the mothers of those who have died during recent officer-involved shootings in San Francisco. The parents of Alex Nieto, who was fatally shot by police in 2014, Elvira and Refugio Nieto, have been actively participating in the demonstrations.
"We're here to support these mothers but this historic day on the anniversary of Mario could not go unaddressed. So were in solidarity with the mothers on the march to tell them that they're not alone," Minister Christopher Muhammad said during the demonstration.
Woods' fatal shooting is one of a handful of fatal shootings that have occurred in recent years. The fatal shootings have put pressure on the police department to make changes, including the resignation of former police Chief Greg Suhr and the appointment of interim police Chief Toney Chaplin.
"Chief Chaplin is not someone who we can look to to stand up to the police officers' association, who has their tentacles wrapped around this 1/8 police 3/8 department." Muhammad said. "How dare this department think that we can believe that they will transform themselves? There's no history or evidence. Whenever this department made reforms it was forced to do it by court order, so we're calling in on the justice department to step in."
Woods, 26, was fatally shot on Dec. 2, 2015 in the city's Bayview District by five police officers, after a man reported being stabbed earlier that afternoon in the 6600 block of Third Street.
When officers surrounded him, he refused to drop a knife he was holding and, after using multiple non-lethal weapons on Woods, officers fired at him when he appeared to walk toward the officers, police said.
The shooting generated public outrage after it was captured on video by several bystanders and was widely circulated on social media.
Following the shooting, Woods' family filed a civil rights and wrongful death lawsuit against the city in federal court, accusing police of using extreme force.
In response, the San Francisco City Attorney's Office said the shooting was justified as he allegedly told officers they would have to shoot him before he would drop the knife.
An autopsy report later revealed that that Woods had suffered 20 penetrating gunshot wounds, many of them to the back of his body, and one apparent graze from a bullet. Woods also had several large bruises consistent with non-lethal projectiles, the autopsy found.
Additionally, the autopsy also found that Woods had drugs in his system including methamphetamine and amphetamines, marijuana, anti-depressants, cough syrup, nicotine and caffeine.
During Friday's demonstration, District Attorney spokesman Max Szabo said to the demonstrators that while there's no update in any of the officer-involved shooting cases, Gascon has agreed to meet with the Justice 4 Mario Woods Coalition sometime next week. Details about the meeting were not immediately available.
Also Friday, in honor of Woods, dozens of people showed up to Martin Luther King, Jr. Park in the city's Bayview neighborhood at around 3:30 p.m. From there, they marched down Third Street to Fitzgerald Avenue, to the site where Woods was fatally shot by police.
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Algiers Point is the second oldest neighborhood in New Orleans and has plenty of historic architecture throughout. It's known as a tight knit neighborhood with plenty of parks, pubs, live music and so much more. In 1993, the neighborhood was designated as a historic district and there are still some buildings from the 1840s in the Algiers Point neighborhood.
The history of the neighborhood also includes many shipyards, railroads and sugar plantations. Today, the community is home to many artists, business people and a variety of others.
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Many new home buyers choose the Algiers Point area because it's close to downtown, but doesn't provide the high prices of downtown New Orleans real estate. Some have been living in this neighborhood for a very long time with homes passed down for many generations.
The Algiers Point neighborhood is found where the Mississippi River bends, just across from French Quarter and Jackson Square. The river separates these three neighborhoods and Algiers Point is bound both the north and the west by the river. It's also bound by Pacific Street on the east an Opelousas Avenue on the south.
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Algiers Point is home to a number of local restaurants, cafes and bars. It's a great place for live music at spots, such as the Old Point Bar, which provides music just about every night. You won't find any fast food or chain restaurants throughout this neighborhood.
You can even enjoy the bike path leading to Gretna or the levee, which is one of the most popular areas for walking, jogging and dog walking.
Along with these many events, the neighborhood holds regular art festivals, a ferry festival and self-guided walking tours are available.
Algiers Point has plenty to offer with a number of great places to dine, shop and enjoy live music. It's full of regular events and home to some of the most unique history found in New Orleans. Living in Algiers Point puts you just a short ferry ride from the city and provides plenty of charm to enjoy.


A career as a dental assistant is rewarding both financially and in terms of satisfaction. After all, top earning dental assistants can make $47,000 annually and get to work one-on-one with patients each and every day.
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AOCs 2230Fm HD3 Display is Named Best Monitor by PC World Latin America 2008 Awards
The PC World Latin America 2008 Awards recognized the best digital products in Latin America and tge AOC's 2230Fm HD3 Display has been announced as the Best Monitor. This prestegious award was awarded because of the groundbreaking combination of latest specifications nosted by the monitor. It is the first monitor to establish a new category of multi-functional displays in the market.
Elinet Medina, VP of Editorial for PC World Latin America said, "Over the past few years AOC has really come on strong with great displays and a broad distribution channel here in Latin America as well as throughout the world. AOC's 2230Fm HD3 Display was our choice for the best monitor of 2008 because it simply offers more than we had ever seen from a display in terms of features and performance. It is the most comprehensive display we have tested to date, and we were very impressed with its built-in multi-media player, design and ease-of-use."
Features found in the AOC 2230Fm HD3 Display are:
22-inches of widescreen
4-in-01 memory card reader
A 20,000: 1 contrast ratio
Built-in media player allows for the playing of videos without PC
Easy viewing of movies straight from a USB memory stick
Plug & Play DDC/2B, DDC/CI
With a 360-degree glossy piano-black finish, easy-to-use navigation and low profile integrated speakers this Monitor is going to win everyone's heart. You will be able to get your own AOC 2230Fm HD3 Display for a price of $399.99 only.
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Libertarians, eww. Fiscal policy is the prime social issue, actually.
It's not talking just about being efficient in the government, because they want to get rid of all the things government does to uplift those who have been disadvantaged by the oppressors in the private sector. They want to be free of government telling them they can't discriminate, can't pollute, can't make their money anyway they want and the devil take the hindmost.
Charles Koch ran on the Libertarian Party ticket for POTUS as well as Ron Paul. The Koch family founded the John Birch Society, part of the racist patriot movement.
Libertarianism is the philosophy of Rush, Ryan, Romney and Teabaggers. They hate all liberals as their idol Ayn Rand did.
George Monbiot wrote how conservatives have elminated liberal libertarian beliefs is below. Give it a read and think about it. It helped me enunciate what I believe as a liberal in their language, which is all we hear on media:
How Freedom Became Tyranny
Rightwing libertarians have turned "freedom" into an excuse for greed and exploitation.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20th December 2011
Freedom: who could object? Yet this word is now used to justify a thousand forms of exploitation. Throughout the rightwing press and blogosphere, among thinktanks and governments, the word excuses every assault on the lives of the poor, every form of inequality and intrusion to which the 1% subject us. How did libertarianism, once a noble impulse, become synonymous with injustice?
In the name of freedom – freedom from regulation – the banks were permitted to wreck the economy. In the name of freedom, taxes for the super-rich are cut. In the name of freedom, companies lobby to drop the minimum wage and raise working hours. In the same cause, US insurers lobby Congress to thwart effective public healthcare; the government rips up our planning laws; big business trashes the biosphere. This is the freedom of the powerful to exploit the weak, the rich to exploit the poor.
Right-wing libertarianism recognises few legitimate constraints on the power to act, regardless of the impact on the lives of others. In the UK it is forcefully promoted by groups like the TaxPayers' Alliance, the Adam Smith Institute, the Institute of Economic Affairs and Policy Exchange(2). Their conception of freedom looks to me like nothing but a justification for greed.
So why have we been been so slow to challenge this concept of liberty? I believe that one of the reasons is as follows. The great political conflict of our age – between neocons and the millionaires and corporations they support on one side and social justice campaigners and environmentalists on the other – has been mischaracterised as a clash between negative and positive freedoms.
He goes into examples to explain this at the link:
http://www.monbiot.com/2011/12/19/how-freedom-became-tyranny/
I say further, in looking in libertarianism, that as the end result is privatization or corporatism, it is the pretty face of the the first step to total fascist rule as defined by Mussolini and warned about by President Roosevelt. It is the GOP plan. Another person who has spoken against them is Van Jones who has since gone into other realms.
Van Jones spoke the truth and was savaged by the radfcal right. Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck until he became a distraction to what he was trying to do in the Obama administration.
Van Jones: Libertarianism Would Spit in the Face of Dr. King
Former White House adviser Van Jones on Monday defended recent remarks he made against "so-called libertarians" by saying, "I think we have to start punching back."
In a March speech to the Occupy movement in Los Angeles, Jones had called libertarianism a "despicable ideology."
"They say they're Patriots but they hate everybody in America who looks like us," the former Green Jobs czar explained. "They say they love America but they hate the people, the brown folk, the gays, the lesbians, the people with piercings, ya know ya'll."
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/van-jones-libertarianism-would-spit-face-dr-
He hasn't gotten a fair interview as the media has pretty much blackballed him since then. But then, we don't have a 'liberal' media when we see such as Rush, Hannity, Beck and others being paid millions every year to fight us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jones
Posted by freshwest | Sat Sep 29, 2012, 01:19 AM (3 replies)
This POS is supported by the First Amendment, and the majority of the US HoR.
US House of Representatives total: 435
Republican Majority: 240
Democratic Minority: 190
With 5 vacancies.
Treason lost its meaning in the legal system. Sedition is almost never charged. Elected officials serve at the whim of their constituents and reflect their warped values and venality. Unless this particular POS, just one of many GOP, was literally incarcerated and denied the privilege of his office, he'd be re-elected for this screed. There is an entire generation brought up on the world view espoused by this POS, so he gets a pass.
Besides, he hasn't been charged with anything. There have been Republicans calling for revolution and killing Obama for quite some time now, and nothing has ever been done about it. And as long as they hold majority in states and the House of Representatives, nothing will ever be done.
When we had Democratic majorities in D.C. in the Nixon era, there were enough people to hold him to account. He resigned because he knew their next move was impeachment. They would have rightfully done so, to protect the political system, considering his guilt, which was proved in criminal court. His conspirators went to prison in his stead.
He left office and Ford used his privilege immediately to pardon him for those crimes. Then Carter was elected to get back to where we needed to be and the eternal enemy of democratic government reared its traitorous head again and has never stopped being in control. People that want to blame Obama for the direction this country is in, and has been headed on for over thirty years must be political neophytes or swallowed Fox, libertarian and conspiracy lies of all three media.
This gang has been steadily transforming this country with Koch monies, right wing religion and media. They have been playing on the easily corrupted, with a long term game that has changed the culture of this country. If they weren't so destructive, I'd give them a high five.
I wish that the Section of the 14th you quoted was taken seriously in this country. Proabably less than a 1/3rd of the voters even comprehend the language contained in the Constitution anymore. Most likely, 1/3 believe the Constitution as revised by Falwell, Robertson and every scummy GOP who has a bull horn.
Posted by freshwest | Tue Sep 25, 2012, 11:14 AM (0 replies)
LOL@Time of Useful Consciousness of about 30 seconds...
Face it, folks. Gohmert is correct about Obama's Ottoman tendencies:
Otto von Bismarck and the Welfare State
Germany had a tradition of welfare programs in Prussia and Saxony that began as early as the 1840s. In the 1880s his social insurance programs were the first in the world and became the model for other countries and the basis of the modern welfare state.[32] Bismarck introduced old age pensions, accident insurance, medical care and unemployment insurance. He won conservative support by promising to undercut the appeal of Socialists—the Socialists always voted against his proposals, fearing they would reduce the grievances of the industrial workers. His paternalistic programs won the support of German industry because its goals were to win the support of the working classes for the Empire and reduce the outflow of emigrants to America, where wages were higher but welfare did not exist. Politically, he did win over the Centre Party which represented Catholic workers, but Socialists remained hostile. [33][34]
Otto von Bismarck and Socialism
Bismarck worried about the growth of the socialist movement—in particular, that of the Social Democratic Party. In 1878, he instituted the Anti-Socialist Laws. Socialist organizations and meetings were forbidden, as was the circulation of socialist literature. Socialist leaders were arrested and tried by police courts. But despite these efforts, the movement steadily gained supporters and seats in the Reichstag. Socialists won seats in the Reichstag by running as independent candidates, unaffiliated with any party, which was allowed by the German Constitution.[31]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck
Once again, Obama is NOT a Socialist and I admit to being disappointed about this. As far as being an Ottoman of the Turkish variety, the only reason I can think Louis considers Obama to be involved in that is skin hue and even that's by no means a sure indicator. No other similarity that I can see.
Posted by freshwest | Fri Sep 21, 2012, 11:25 PM (0 replies)
Wonder if this has made FOX yet... They fell for one before... Or rather, kept it up way too long:
Fox Nation readers confuse Onion article with real news
They scrubbed it after being found out, but the page and comments were preserved:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/26/fox-nation-readers-confuse-onion-article-real-news/
http://www.theonion.com/articles/frustrated-obama-sends-nation-rambling-75000word-e,18516/
I actually had to show this some RW loons on another site. They had nothing to say after bragging about how it showed what a weak leader Obama was. Another story they tried was also found to be false. Most RWers and CTers don't believe in linking their stuff or looking closely, and their ignorance shows:
Three-Year-Old Onion Video Resurfaces As Real News
The video in question is of 'Rep. John Haller of Pennsylvania' reading out the "homeland terrorist preparedness bill" in which he keeps having to interrupt himself to say "classified." A Google search quickly reveals that neither Haller nor the bill exist, though should you look closely at the video you will also see the Onion insignia on the lower right-hand corner, which probably should have tipped people off to begin with. Alas, this did not stop the video from making the rounds under the title "Martial Law Plans Revealed." Watch below.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/three-year-old-onion-video-resurfaces-as-real-news/
From the video description. Neither he nor most of the viewers realized this was a hoax. And it lives on and on as a chilling CT nightmare. It's still being played out, every sign that it is true is grasped upon by Patriots, Paulites, Teabaggers, etc.
Uploaded by Truthzonetvcom on Jul 22, 2008
Rise of the 99% Part 1
http://www.facebook.com/akyastv
What are you waiting for? Now is the time to STAND UP for yourself, to be BOLD, be CREATIVE, be RADICAL To Dream BIG, IMAGINE, Feel the fear but DO IT! Anyway its time to Question Expert Authority, ASK hard questions, PROPOSE and DEMAND solutions. To Participate and AGITATE. DISOBEY if you must. To VISUALISE and Organise. To KILL the fear spreading Media - EDUCATE and INFORM yourself and Others. NOW is the time to invest in HOPE.
To cultivate LOVE To Give Thanks for what we have and to help those that Haven't. We Must DANCE, PLAY, ENJOY ourselves. TRANSFORM your situation no matter how bad it is. It can be done, EAT WELL, REST, MEDITATE. PROTECT yourself. BECOME a SOUL WARRIOR. Don't Apoligise for being a DREAMER - we need MORE DREAMERS. PERSIST Resist and ignore the begrudgers, hold firm to your vision. Don't make up excuses or get caught up in Blame. In the Game of them and Us RESPECT Everyone, even if you dont like them. Enemies are Great Teachers. TRANSCEND, RISE, Reach for the STARS.
Don't take yourself too seriously. LAUGH at yourself. LOVE YOURSELF. You are WONDERFUL if you let yourself BE. ABANDON JUDGEMENT, Age, Roles, Stereotypes. Take RISKS. Drop LEFT RIGHT and RELIGIOUS Dogma. THINK FOR YOURSELF. Take control of your Diet, Money, Home, Family, Work Spend Time in NATURE. Listen to your Gut, Instinct, Intuition, Heart. Go offline to get ONLINE. Take QUIET TIME for you, to WRITE, DRAW. EXPERIMENT. Learn a SONG, Call a Meeting, Start a Petition. BUILD COMMUNITY. See what happens. SHARE. Take your time. Slow Down - Small and Slow are POWERFUL and BEAUTIFUL. Wake up to REALITY. It's not that bad. If it is THEN CHANGE IT. Don't wait for others to do it. TELL OTHERS, JOIN them, ASK for HELP.
SING IT LOUD. BE Proud you're not a Zombie caught up on the harsh production line of Commuting, Work, Shopping, Consumption and SLEEP. You're MUCH MORE ALIVE This is not a PRACTICE RUN, THIS IS YOUR REVOLUTION TO MAKE IT HAPPEN THERE ARE ALWAYS MORE POSSIBLITIES THAT YOU THINK! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
I think only one comment on the page realized what it was, the uploader never did. I used to talk to a lot of these characters back then and saw this on a message board and it was part of what turned people against the Democratic Party and Obama. This is a parallel reality in the USA.
It's early Grover Nordquist motto. It's also a Libertarian saying.
Grover later went with 'We'll get the government small enough to drown it in a bathtub.'
In other words, replace the government with a fascist system, all elected functions destroyed, all power in the private sector. An amazing amount of Americans accept that 'government should be run as a business' but business is not designed to be a moral enterprise, but a profitable one. They use appealing terms such as liberty, freedom and choice. Think 'Right To Work' states and what that really implies, past the first sales pitch, to those living there in the long run.
A government derives its authority by the people seeing it as, for lack of a better word, a moral institution, protecting the rights of all against the bigger powers in society. Budgets are called 'moral documents' as they reflect the values of the country and say a great deal about priorities.
We've had our priorities off kilter for a long time, and I see it as mainly a reflection of media. There is no greater teacher in modern society than the media. The effect of moving pictures, symbols and sounds on emotions and the knowledge given or withheld literally shapes our lives.
We need to have a source to translate many things but we are trapped inside a bubble. It has been infested with the virus of militarism, greed and bigotry. The firms that profit from things that are harmful to people and the planet, own all the sources of media and will not allow anything to be said that does not keep us believing the way they want us to. It was not always so.
Posted by freshwest | Thu Sep 20, 2012, 04:07 PM (2 replies)
Here's a few I found. This is bugging me now:
So why the intense focus by Right Wingers on Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002523731#post8
http://www.alternet.org/story/154839/some_red_states_are_already_running_out_of_water
The goal of Bethel, Koch, and others is privatization of all resources. Water and roadways are chief on their list for a neverending flow of wealth to them. Example in Michigan:
Anybody know who is behind this "Bridge to Nowhere" stuff?
There's a lot on this thread about TPTB moving in on Michigan resource, as I'm sure you know the story of the beach sold off in Benton Harbor, but not in this thread. DU search is acting up.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php/www.scn.org/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=159x15085
We must emphasize that many who don't 'pay taxes' today, have paid in the past (elderly, disabled)
Or will live to 'pay taxes' in the future (elderly, unemployed, some disabled, etc.) Throwing all of these people away dishonors the past, present and future of this country and the Founding Fathers who intended to redress the inequalities of this nation caused by empire building. Mitt and his friends have used them, and want to discard them. Among those not paying taxes are those retired on military and recieving help. Romney is preaching division, people being better than each other to permit him to destroy the safety net. And that's good for his bottom line, not Americans.
Posted by freshwest | Tue Sep 18, 2012, 03:25 PM (0 replies)
47% is RW talking point from hate radio, the number's real. Here is some data and a rant:
That is the Libertarian Party platform, that they can survive on charity, and the government must go away. Not only that, but Social Security must go away, which is what is keeping millions of people right now from being hungry and homeless...
We are talking about well over a hundred million people getting the essentials of life right now. Not everyone needs these long-term:
In 2012, over 56 million Americans will receive $778 billion in Social Security benefits.
http://www.ssa.gov/pressoffice/basicfact.htm
Medicaid is the nation's largest health program in terms of number of recipients, serving 56 million to Medicare's 48 million.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/medicaid/index.html
More than a third of Americans lived in households receiving government assistance in 2010.
http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/07/news/economy/government_assistance/index.htm
More than 46.6 Million Americans Participated in SNAP in June 2012
http://frac.org/reports-and-resources/snapfood-stamp-monthly-participation-data/
The Libertarian Party Platform on Welfare:
http://www.lp.org/issues/poverty-and-welfare
The Libertarian Party Platform on Health care:
http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Libertarian_Party_Health_Care.htm
More Libertarian, Ron Paul, Tea Bagger ideas that Democrats do not believe in:
Libertarians believe that taxes should be abolished along with all the programs and departments that taxes fund. Libertarians don't believe in Medicare. Libertarians don't believe in Social Security. Libertarians don't believe that there should be fire departments, police departments, public transportation, grants for education, unemployment, disability, food stamps, and every other type of government system and assistance that you can think of.
Libertarians wish to eliminate taxes in order to eliminate all of the above programs and more. Libertarians believe that without these taxes, individuals will have more money in their pockets and will be able to afford all of these things. If someone is unable to provide themselves or their family with school, health care, or food, people need to rely on family members, church, or a private charity.
Libertarians believe that government's role in the market should be to protect property owner's rights. There should be no FDA, equal employment opportunities, unions, minimum wage, payroll taxes, safe food handling requirements, consumer protections, regulations that protect against financial conflicts of interest and fraud, and business licenses.
Libertarians believe that business owners should have the right to deny entry to minorities and/or women and/or people with disabilities, if that is how business owners wish to run their businesses.
http://deni-edwards.hubpages.com/hub/Defining-a-Libertarian-Ron-Pauls-Political-Platform
Social Security and Medicaid keeps millions of people the Romneys will never meet, and have no idea exist, off the streets. They disapprove of those who are doing the work to keep them alive and well, because it's a 'statist' thing, not ideologically pure, easy for them.
Democrats are and will continue to help many more people than private groups ever will. The GOP who are Libertarians, plan to end all government so there will no votes needed, just be connected to the biggest boss you can find.
Here's another link:
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/02/federal-benefits-able-bodied-workers
You must not have listened to the part of the convention where both the mentally and physically
Disabled and what is helping millions were the focus, with rousing cheers to protect their current and future housing and medical care. Bill Clinton and others were clear about what would happen to the mentally disabled under a Romney and Ryan plan. Which is the Libertarian plan:
I read a thread where someone saying Occupy runs soup kitchens and are the only ones who care about the homeless, disabled, etc. That is the Libertarian Party platform, that they can survive on charity, and the government must go away. Not only that, but Social Security must go away, which is what is keeping millions of people right now from being hungry and homeless.
Instead, the people inside the convention center know and work with these folks daily. These are the people doing the work, and not tearing down what works. The numbers I quote with links below show the many millions they serve and how they are helped by Democratic policies, which have been hampered by Republicans for decades. I want to point out for those who are not familiar with these programs, that some overlap and some do not.
We are talking about well over a hundred million people getting the essentials of life right now. Not everyone needs these. How many millions of people is Occupy serving at the soup kitchen?
I wanted to see the similarities and contrasts with the Occupy movement, Libertarian and Democratic Parties. Here is some info:
Which is essentially what the Occupy social program being touted here is, so they can make a soup kitchen for those they find on the streets, then go home when they feel like it, because at the end of the day. they do have homes and food, and can stop camping out. That there are those who are not getting services, is not the fault of the Democrats, but Republicans.
It is they who cut the funding, because like Libertarians, they do not believe in taxing and paying for those who fall through the cracks, just let them line up for the soup kitchen. The people who get the experience of feeding someone who is homeless, go home afterward.
Those who are determined to change the basis of society, which Occupy says it wants to do, are not in waiting for the future, but involved right now as the needs of the people cannot wait. People die when the government shuts down these services, while others argue.
Social Security and Medicaid keeps millions of people Occupiers will never meet, and have no idea exist, off the streets. Yet they disapprove of those who are doing the work to keep them alive and well, because it's a 'statist' thing. Because it's not ideologically pure enough. Compromises are made, too, which those who know people in the system know keep people alive now. People in need of a place to live, medical care and food to eat don't deserve to have to wait for people to visit and serve them food, they need it everyday, they need a healthy living place and the security of knowing that it's going to keep coming. They need the government to do it, not individuals.
But those of us who are Democrats know that taking care of millions of people is not something should be dependent on private charitable acts. That a social infrastructure needs to be in place for people that the vast majority of people do not know, have never met and whose needs are not temporary and cannot be taken care of during a few days visiting them and some that most people do not want to spend any time with, period.
The solutions were inside the convention, and just by a show of the numbers I posted here prove that Democrats are and do and will continue to help many more people than Occupy ever will. Occupy refuses to accept the many thousands of public workers, unions, the Democratic Party and the concept working inside the evil government and voting.
So do Libertarians, as they have a plan to end all government so there will be no votes needed. All back to the good old boys and corporations to say how our lives will be led. The Libertarian conquest of Occupy is complete and their vision is just fine for those who can afford to stand tall and mock the people doing the work.
Ironic how Occupy telling people to not vote for Obama and Democrats reflects exactly and facilitates the goals of Romney and Ryan, the Libertarian party and the GOP/Koch brothers plans for the poor, elderly, disabled and homeless.
Posted by freshwest | Fri Sep 7, 2012, 02:55 PM (2 replies)
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