When it comes time to buy a car, whether you are going to a new car dealership or a used car lot, there are a few things you need to know to get the best deal possible. It isn't that car dealers are like the old snake oil salesman, but they want to get the best price they can for the cars. They are not going to lie to you or make things up, but there might be things they omit or embellish a bit. Here are a few things to be aware of before you head off to shop around.
If you can get your own financing, with a good interest rate, it is best to do so. You will know exactly how much you can spend on the new vehicle and the salesperson won't be able to convince you to buy more than you can afford. If you do not have the financing set up, be sure you discuss the purchase price of the car, and not how much it is going to cost you monthly. It can be a bit confusing when a dealer tells you that you can purchase the car for a specific amount monthly but never mentions the total price of it. Get all the figures and go home and work the payments out with an online calculator. Then you can decide if you can afford it or not.
You might find you can get more money for your current vehicle if you sell it yourself. However, if you are trying to get a better price on the new car, wait until you are sure the dealer has given you the lowest price before bringing up the trade-in. If the dealer knows you will be trading your car in, the price of the new vehicle might stay higher than if he or she thinks you are keeping your car or selling it elsewhere.
Once you have decided on a car and the price, be sure to read the fine details about what extra fees will be added. These fees will increase the total price you will be paying. Sometimes, there are fees that seem to be a bit on the high side, such as document or vehicle preparation fees. You can ask to see the invoice of the vehicle to make sure that you are not being overcharged for something. It is also a good idea to call around to other dealers to ask what their extra fees are. Finally, do not pay to have the oil checked, the tire pressure checked, or all the plastic removed from a new car. These are things you can easily do yourself.
Buying a vehicle can be a bit scary. The dealers are confident and are professional sales people. Do not buy the first vehicle you look at and be sure to compare it to the same make and model on other lots before making a purchase.


I'm going to try something new. Every Friday I'll share some awesome things I've seen/read this week or products I've recently fallen head over heels for.
I have a cookie swap this weekend. I'm thinking I need to make these. Or maybe these? Or what about these? Choices!!
I have an ugly sweater party tonight. If I was ok with spending almost $100 on an ugly swear, I would buy this one.
I'm obsessed with the pattern on these lululemon Speed Tight Luxtreme leggings.
If you enjoy laughing, I highly recommend you watch this video of Amy Poehler and Billy Eichner shouting Christmas carols at strangers. Hilarious.
A twitter follower stumbled upon this song last week and jokingly suggested it be the theme song for my blog. Really though, how perfect is this song?! Love it!!
What's on tap for you this weekend? Any fun plans?


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If you would just like to receive updates from the Neighbourhood Watch team to keep you informed of events in the local area please contact us.
Your involvement can be as much or as little as you want it to be.
The Scheme essentially shares information across the community.
Within a defined area a co-ordinator communicates suspicious and criminal activity with the police and the Neighbourhood Watch Scotland Scheme. When any one of the bodies has an update it shares the information with the others.
The co-ordinator shares and receives these updates with people in the local area.
Co-ordinators also keep eyes and ears open to receive updates and share them across the group.
Anyone can help in the area, for example when walking a dog, driving along the streets, or even from your window.
Update your local co-ordinator and they will share the communication.


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March 10, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:56 am Finance Tagged with: Assange, Bill Browder, Boeing, coronavirus, Covid19, death penalty, Erdogan, Italy, Luke Harding, MH17, NATO, Putin, testing, Trump, Vault7 30 Responses »
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• Thread: Intensivist/A&E Consultant Currently In Northern Italy (Twitter)
• Italy Not Europe's Coronavirus Hotbed, Just First Country That Snapped (RT)
• Trump Has Not Been Tested For Coronavirus – White House (R.)
• Seattle-Area Nursing Home Unable To Test 65 Workers With COVID-19 Symptoms (R.)
• Coronavirus Symptoms Usually Take 5 Days To Appear – Study (CNN)
• Bail Out The People First, Before Companies, In Coronavirus Crisis (Ghitis)
• China's Hubei Province May Allow Residents To Travel (R.)
• Singapore Charges Visitors For Coronavirus Treatment (R.)
• No Coronavirus Risk From Holy Communion, Says Greek Holy Synod (K.)
• Smartphone Sales In China Were Halved In February (ZH)
• Boeing Shares Plunge On Coronavirus, 737 MAX Wiring Bundle Setback (R.)
• In Brussels, Erdogan Asks NATO For 'Assistance' On Syria And Migrants (RT)
• Prince Andrew Won't Voluntarily Cooperate In Epstein Inquiry – Prosecutor (G.)
• Court Case Against Alleged CIA Vault 7 Whistleblower Ends In Mistrial (WSWS)
• Democrats Were The FIrst To Discuss Biden's Cognitive Fitness (Greenwald)
• Russia 'Hired Network Of Britons To Go After Enemies Of Putin' (G.)
• Cases 114,614 (+ 4,007 from yesterday's 110,607)
• Deaths 4030 (+ 199 from yesterday's 3,831)
Italy's the story. 100 deaths a day. Germany finally has (acknowledged) its first two deaths. Spain gets very ugly. Lots of clocks ticking.
Lombardy's world-class health care system has basically collapsed. You're looking at your future, unless you're very very lucky.
It's not about the number or percentage of deaths and cases, it's about the capacity of the system, and the speed with which countries react. Both fall very short.
From Worldometer yesterday evening (before their day's close)
And the suspects for Wave 2 continue to rise.
From SCMP:
From Worldometer:
From COVID2019.app:
Most poignant news today. A Twitter thread that describes an American emergency doctor working in Lombrady, Italy. The system's collapsed.
1/ 'I feel the pressure to give you a quick personal update about what is happening in Italy, and also give some quick direct advice about what you should do.
2/ Lumbardy is the most developed region in Italy and it has a extraordinary good healthcare, I have worked in Italy, UK and Aus and don't make the mistake to think that what is happening is happening in a 3rd world country.
3/ The current situation is difficult to imagine and numbers do not explain things at all. Our hospitals are overwhelmed by Covid-19, they are running 200% capacity
4/ We've stopped all routine, all ORs have been converted to ITUs and they are now diverting or not treating all other emergencies like trauma or strokes. There are hundreds of pts with severe resp failure and many of them do not have access to anything above a reservoir mask.
5/ Patients above 65 or younger with comorbidities are not even assessed by ITU, I am not saying not tubed, I'm saying not assessed and no ITU staff attends when they arrest. Staff are working as much as they can but they are starting to get sick and are emotionally overwhelmed.
6/ My friends call me in tears because they see people dying in front of them and they can only offer some oxygen. Ortho and pathologists are being given a leaflet and sent to see patients on NIV. (Noninvasive ventilation)
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This may be true, but Italy did screw up badly multiple times. Thing is, at least other countries will, too.
With the entirety of Italy put under quarantine, the Mediterranean nation has been seen as the hardest-hit by the coronavirus in Europe. Italian journalist Evgeny Utkin believes, however, that it's just the most tested one.
Utkin, a journalist based in Italy and an expert on economics and politics, told RT that he believes the situation with the coronavirus as reported in the press – namely, that it is ravaging Italy and yet somehow affecting its neighbors, such as Switzerland and Germany, on a far smaller scale – does not represent the reality on the ground. The catch, he said, is that while in some countries the number of those infected might be underreported, in Italy – at least at the beginning of the outbreak – there was an overreaction instead.
"Italy was the first country whose nerves snapped," Utkin said. "They started testing absolutely everyone." Such rigorous testing sent the number of confirmed cases skyrocketing, Utkin believes, with the alarming statistics soon driving panic and scoring international headlines. Over that past weekend, northern Italy, where the outbreak erupted, was put on lockdown, which was further extended to the whole of the country on Monday. At least 463 died of COVID-19 – the disease caused by the coronavirus – across Italy as of Monday, and the total number of cases stands at over 9,000. While the spread of the outbreak is a legitimate reason for concern, Utkin said he does not believe that Italy will bear the brunt of the newest virus scourge in the Old World.
"I don't' believe that Italy is the European hotbed of coronavirus. It's more or less the same everywhere. If you take the percentage [of tests], it'll turn out, I think, that other countries have had it worse, even." With Italy's hospitals filled to the brim with coronavirus patients, suspected and confirmed, authorities have scaled back their zeal for testing, and are now screening only those who display particular symptoms or are considered to be at risk of complications. Italy will be reeling from the economic damage caused by the outbreak for the years to come, the expert told RT, predicting the country's GDP might plummet as much as 10 percent in the first quarter of 2020.
"It would be a colossal slump, I don't know how it will recover," Utkin said, adding that the outbreak has completely "killed" the country's burgeoning tourism and restaurant industries. Utkin is convinced that Italy will ask for financial assistance from the international community, but noted it will hardly be enough to offset the losses its economy has already suffered. "Italy has never fallen so deeply. I have not seen a crisis like this, in terms of economy as well as privacy."
Don't think they thought this through. Trump and Pence are seen together all the time. If both fall gravely ill, Pelosi takes over. Is that what they want? No-go for the same reason they can't travel together. President must be tested, VP too.
U.S. President Donald Trump has not been tested for the coronavirus, the White House said on Monday, though at least two lawmakers with whom he has recently come into contact have announced they were self-quarantining after attending a conference with a person who had tested positive for the virus. "The President has not received COVID-19 testing because he has neither had prolonged close contact with any known confirmed COVID-19 patients, nor does he have any symptoms. President Trump remains in excellent health, and his physician will continue to closely monitor him," White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said in a statement, referring to the acronym describing the virus.
US health care is already overwhelmed.
The Seattle-area nursing home at the epicenter of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak said on Monday it had no kits to test 65 employees showing symptoms of the virus that has killed at least 13 patients at the long-term care center. The staffers, representing more than a third of the Life Care Center's 180 employees, are out sick with symptoms resembling the coronavirus and a federal strike team of nurses and doctors is helping care for 53 patients remaining in the center. With the Kirkland, Washington, home accounting for over half of all coronavirus deaths in the United States, and all its patients tested, it was unclear why it had not been given kits for staff even as the University of Washington offered to process tests.
"We would like more kits to test employees," Life Care Center spokesman Tim Killian told reporters, adding he did not know why they had not been forthcoming. "We've been asking the various government agencies that have been supplying us with test kits." Twenty-six of the nursing home's 120 patients have died since Feb. 19, with 13 of 15 autopsies carried out so far showing that the coronavirus was the cause. Twenty-one of the center's residents, including those now in hospitals, have tested positive for the virus. The outbreak has shown how quickly the coronavirus spreads through elderly residents with weak immune systems and underlying health conditions living in close quarters.
"We've had patients who, within an hour's time, show no symptoms to going to acute symptoms and being transferred to the hospital," Killian told a news conference on Sunday. "And we've had patients die relatively quickly under those circumstances."
This will tempt people to party on day 6. Smart?
People infected by the novel coronavirus tend to develop symptoms about five days after exposure, and almost always within two weeks, according to a study released Monday. That incubation period is consistent with previous estimates from public health officials, and the findings suggest that 14 days of quarantine are appropriate for people potentially exposed to the coronavirus. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has used that standard during the current pandemic — recommending, for example, that people self-quarantine for two weeks after traveling to countries with widespread coronavirus transmission, such as Italy or South Korea.
When it comes to those quarantines, the incubation period "tells us how long it's reasonable to do that," said Justin Lessler, an author of the study and an associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research, published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, also suggests that symptomatic screening for the virus — such as temperature checks at an airport — may be missing recently infected people. "If somebody is in their incubation period, that is the window when somebody who's already been infected can walk into the country and not be detected by symptom-based surveillance" said Lessler. That could explain why the CDC's efforts to screen more than 46,000 fliers for "fever, cough, and shortness of breath" have resulted in just one positive coronavirus case, according to the CDC's most recent screening data, which was released at the end of February.
[..] To estimate the incubation period, researchers scoured more than 180 reports of coronavirus in places without widespread transmission of the virus — areas, in other words, where infection was likely due to outside travel. Because the study was conducted early in the coronavirus epidemic, community transmission at the time was limited to Wuhan, China. That allowed researchers to estimate the "time of exposure" to the coronavirus by determining when a person was in Wuhan — the only plausible source of infection. By comparing travel to Wuhan with the emergence of symptoms, researchers could then estimate an incubation period for the virus: usually about 5 days, and rarely more than 12. "We have sort of a narrow window at the beginning of the epidemic to really tease out what's going," said Lessler. "If it's everywhere, you don't know where people got infected."
Smart comment. On CNN no less.
Unlike during the 2008 Great Recession, when the government leaped to assist financial institutions, the first priority this time should be helping individuals in need. Only then should we help businesses caught in this storm. By now, Trump should be wishing that the Federal Reserve Bank had ignored his pressure to lower interest rates. If rates were higher, the Fed would have much more powerful ammunition: it would be able to aggressively lower rates, which is the strongest weapon in its arsenal. But that arsenal is much depleted. In 2008, the government distributed hundreds of billions of dollars, mostly to bail out banks and large corporations. (GM was the main manufacturer rescued by the Obama administration.) While most banks survived, close to 10 million homeowners lost their houses to foreclosure; millions of people lost their jobs.
That overwhelming tilt in favor of helping struggling businesses instead of suffering individuals is, in my view, one of the reasons populism gained strength, as demonstrated by elections throughout western democracies in the 2010s. This time, the source of the problem is not a breakdown in the financial system. This is very different. We now face a major health assault. The pandemic is not only causing illnesses and straining health care resources, it is attacking the economy from a multitude of angles. Manufacturers are facing supply chain disruption, shortages are developing and demand is collapsing. [..] The obvious first order of business is clear: Everyone should have access to health care right now. It's not only the humane thing to do, it's the smartest way to slow the contagion. People who become infected should not fear bankruptcy if they go to the doctor. If they do, the epidemic will continue to spread.
Chinese roulette?! Is this just so you can make a few extra iPhones?
China's Hubei province is studying plans to allow people in areas at a medium- or low-risk of contracting the coronavirus to start traveling, state media reported on Tuesday, citing a meeting chaired by the province's party chief Ying Yong. The meeting, reported by the official Hubei Daily, said that they may allow people to start traveling by using a "health code", a mobile-based monitoring system that has been rolled out by many local authorities in China in recent weeks. Hubei province and its capital Wuhan are at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in China.
Oh, get a life.
Singapore has started charging visitors for coronavirus treatment, the city-state said as it reported three new imported infections, two of which involved Indonesians. Indonesia, the world's fourth-most populous country, reported its first virus case earlier this month and officially has just 19 infections compared to 160 in Singapore. Disease experts have questioned how many cases go undiagnosed in Indonesia. Singapore's new measures announced late Monday came into effect on March 7, when authorities said two symptomatic Indonesian travelers arrived in Singapore. Both had reported coronavirus symptoms in Indonesia before arriving in Singapore. One had previously sought treatment at a hospital in Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
Another case involved a Singaporean who had visited her sister in Indonesia who had pneumonia. Declaring its new stance on payment for treatment, the health ministry did not mention these specific cases. "In view of the rising number of COVID-19 infections globally, and the expected rise in the number of confirmed cases in Singapore, we will need to prioritise the resources at our public hospitals," the health ministry said in a statement. Foreigners who are short-term visit pass holders who seek treatment for COVID-19 in Singapore need to pay but testing for the virus remains free. Treatment of severe respiratory infections in Singapore public hospitals typically cost between S$6,000 – S$8,000 ($4,300-5,800), according to the Ministry of Health's website.
Sure, funny at first. But not very long.
Amid fears of a broader coronavirus contagion across the country, the Holy Synod, the ruling body of the Greek Orthodox Church, on Monday issued a statement saying that the disease does not transmit through the distribution of holy communion by the chalice. "For the members of the Church, attending the Holy Eucharist… certainly cannot be a cause of disease transmission," the Holy Synod said. "Faithful of all ages know that coming to receive the holy communion, even in the midst of a pandemic, is both a practical affirmation of self-surrender to the Living God and a potent manifestation of love," it said. The Geek federation of hospital doctors has stressed that no exception "for religious, sacramental or metaphysical reasons" should be made to state health warnings to please the Church. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Greece stands at 73.
The worst effect of the virus, I'm sure.
Update (2015ET): Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives called the decline of iPhone sales in China a "doomsday type" like decline. Ives said the fall was an "unprecedented" drop and was "not surprising given the essential lockdown that most of China saw" in February. Wedbush expects Chinese demand to come back online in the second half of the year. [..] Alternative data first showed us the incoming economic crash developing in early February, only to be confirmed weeks later. Twin shocks plague the Chinese economy, which is a supply shock with manufacturers operating at less than full capacity, along with a demand shock, where consumers have been confined to their homes in forced quarantine, unable to spend.
So, on Monday morning, when new data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) reveals Apple smartphone sales in China were halved in February, this really shouldn't surprise ZeroHedge readers, considering they've been well informed about what would happen next. And it wasn't just Apple with plunging activity, all mobile phone brands operating in China saw shipments halved over the month. CAICT said 6.34 million devices were shipped last month, down 54.7% from 14 million in the same month the previous year. This was the lowest level of February shipments since 2012, when the CAICT data first became available. Android brands, including Huawei and Xiaomi, accounted for most of the drop, collectively saw shipments at 5.85 million units for the month, compared to 12.72 million units last year. Apple shipped 494,000 last month, down from 1.27 million in February 2019.
Even if they got permission to fly the 737Max, there'd be no passengers on them.
Shares of Boeing dropped more than 12% on Monday amid a broader market plunge as pressure mounted on global aviation from the spread of the coronavirus and U.S. regulators said they disagreed with Boeing's argument about the safety of wiring bundles on the grounded 737 MAX jet. Underscoring the global risks for America's largest exporter, Ethiopian investigators singled out faulty 737 MAX systems in a new interim report on last year's crash, the second of two fatal accidents that plunged Boeing into its worst-ever crisis. Industry sources said airlines, facing a sharp drop in travel demand due to rising coronavirus outbreaks, were starting to request deferring aircraft deliveries and cash downpayments to Boeing and European rival Airbus.
Boeing shares were down at $229.12 in afternoon trading, a level not seen since 2017. Adding to a sense of mounting anxiety, Boeing's new Chief Executive Officer Dave Calhoun was forced to apologize to senior staff after a rare attack on his predecessor and company leadership, which sources say provoked criticism from within the senior ranks of the company as well as the rank-and file. Calhoun, who took over as CEO in January after serving about a decade on Boeing's board, told senior staff by email on Friday he was "both embarrassed and regretful" over his comments in a New York Times interview earlier in the week. "It suggests I broke my promise to former CEO Dennis Muilenburg, the executive team and our people that I would have their back when it counted most," Calhoun said.
"I want to reassure you that my promise remains intact." Calhoun's email came as the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told Boeing on Friday it did not agree with the planemaker's argument that its 737 MAX wiring bundles meet safety standards. Nonetheless, the FAA said it was now up to Boeing to decide how to proceed. [..] Boeing in February said it did not believe it was required to separate or move wiring bundles on its grounded 737 MAX jetliner that regulators had warned could cause a short circuit on the 737 MAX, and lead to a crash if pilots did not react soon enough. There are more than a dozen different spots on the 737 MAX where wiring bundles may be too close together. Most of the locations are under the cockpit in an electrical bay.
"Erdogan is in Brussels, demanding help from NATO with both the conflict on his southern border and the migrants he tried to unleash on the West, now that neither situation is going according to plan."
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in Brussels, demanding help from NATO with both the conflict on his southern border and the migrants he tried to unleash on the West, now that neither situation is going according to plan. After meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Monday, the Turkish leader said he requested "additional assistance" from the alliance, for the "defense" of the Turkish border with Syria and "in connection with the migration challenge." "We expect concrete support from all our allies to this struggle," Erdogan added, urging the allies to support Turkey "without discrimination and with no political preconditions." Stoltenberg praised Turkey as an "important" ally which has "contributed to our shared security in many ways," and said the alliance is "prepared to continue to support Turkey and we are exploring what more we may be able to do."
It is unclear what those platitudes may amount to in practice, however. Ankara did not bother coordinating with its NATO allies when it sent troops into Syria's Idlib province last month – or back in October 2019, causing some strain within the bloc. Though it seemed for a moment that Turkish and Russian troops in Syria might come to blows, the crisis was averted when Erdogan went to Moscow and agreed to a ceasefire last week. The main focus of Erdogan's trip to Brussels is Greece's refusal to open its border to a wave of migrants that the Turkish president unleashed amid the recent fighting in Syria. Tens of thousands of migrants – only a few actual refugees from the Syrian conflict among them, apparently – heard the borders were open and surged towards Greece, only to be halted at the border fence.
International arrest warrant?
Prince Andrew has "completely shut the door" on cooperating with US investigators in the Jeffrey Epstein case and they are now "considering" further options, a New York prosecutor said on Monday. Andrew was a friend of Epstein, the wealthy financier and convicted sex offender whose death in custody while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges in New York last year was ruled a suicide. Andrew denies all claims of sexual misconduct relating to the Epstein case but has stepped back from public duties as a result of his connection to it. Speaking to reporters on Monday, the Manhattan US attorney Geoffrey Berman said: "Contrary to Prince Andrew's very public offer to cooperate with our investigation into Epstein's co-conspirators, an offer that was conveyed via press release, Prince Andrew has now completely shut the door on voluntary cooperation and our office is considering its options."
In November, Andrew said he was "willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency with their investigations if required". Berman made a similar claim in January, which former sex crimes prosecutors told the Guardian was most likely a move designed to win political support for the investigation. Buckingham Palace said then it would not comment and the matter was being dealt with by the prince's legal team. Contacted on Monday, a Palace spokeswoman said: "The issue is being dealt with by the Duke of York's legal team." Buckingham Palace has consistently refused to reveal any details of Andrew's legal team but the Duke has reportedly hired Clare Montgomery, a senior barrister at Matrix Chambers, whose clients have included Augusto Pinochet, Chile's former dictator [..] She also prosecuted the Metropolitan police over the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, shot dead in a failed anti-terror operation.
A new element: Assange could face death penalty after all. The UK cannot extradite if it's in play.
The federal proceedings against Joshua Schulte, a former employee of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who was accused by the American government of providing WikiLeaks with a trove of documents exposing illegal spying operations, have ended in a mistrial. After a week of deliberations, the jury returned on Monday to state that it could not reach an agreement on the most serious charges facing Schulte. The divided opinion centred on eight counts under the Espionage Act, including illegally gathering and transmitting national defence information. The jury had only agreed to convict Schulte on the lesser counts of contempt of court and making false statements to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Schulte will remain imprisoned and likely faces a retrial.
The failure of the prosecution to convict Schulte of the charges relating to WikiLeaks' 2017 Vault 7 publication, which consisted of leaked documents from within the CIA, is significant. It may mark a hurdle in the campaign of the US government against WikiLeaks and its publisher Julian Assange, who faces extradition from Britain to the US and prosecution under Espionage Act charges over separate 2010 and 2011 releases. It is clear that if he is extradited, Assange could face additional US charges, possibly related to Vault 7. Three days after closing arguments in the Schulte trial, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade officials confirmed that it was possible that Assange would face additional counts carrying the death penalty if he was dispatched to the US.
The timing of their statements, which contradict the previous claims of US allies, could indicate that there is much at stake for Assange in the attempted US prosecution of Schulte. [..] The publication of Vault 7 in early 2017 was the trigger for a major escalation in the US government vendetta against Assange, culminating in his illegal expulsion from Ecuador's London embassy last year, his arrest by the British police and imprisonment in a maximum-security prison. Schulte's trial, moreover, coincided with the first week of the British extradition hearing against Assange, which underscored the similarities in the lawless treatment of the WikiLeaks publisher and his alleged CIA source. Prosecutors have described the Vault 7 leak, which they accuse Schulte of being responsible for, as the largest in the entire history of the CIA.
[..] establishment Democrats were the ones who first spread insinuations and even explicit accusations about Biden's cognitive decline when they thought doing so could help them defeat him and/or because it genuinely concerned them regarding his ability to defeat Trump.
it is visible to the naked eye that the 77-year-old six-term Senator and two-term Vice President is in serious cognitive decline. That is a grave matter not just because the establishment wing of the Democratic Party wants to put him in charge of the world's most dangerous nuclear arsenal, a large chunk of the planet's health, and the welfare of hundreds of millions of people, but also because it directly pertains to whether he can sustain the rigors and spotlight of a General Election against the incumbent President. And multiple incidents over the past couple weeks — from Biden's forgetting the words of the most iconic and memorized passage of the Declaration of Independence to confusing his wife for his sister to spouting sentences that make no sense — have only intensified those worries.
But, as the Democratic establishment has united with creepy speed and obedience behind Biden in order to stop the Sanders candidacy, those who now raise these concerns instantly come under a withering assault of insults and attacks from Democratic Party operatives along with their crucial media allies: thinly disguised pro-Biden reporters who continue to insist on wearing the unconvincing and fraudulent costume of neutrality. They are invoking the classic Orwellian formulation from the novel 1984: "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
CNN's Democratic Party consultant Karen Finney condemned the discussion of Biden's cognitive capabilities as "truly a disgusting low blow," demanding that former Democratic presidential candidates Julian Castro and Cory Booker — both of whom themselves had commented upon Biden's cognitive failures (on camera!) — announce (falsely) that their prior comments about Biden had been distorted. Castro's Communication's Director, Sawyer Hackett, dutifully accused those who were raising these concerns of "push[ing] Trump messaging about Biden"; he also denied that Castro (or Booker) had ever themselves questioned Biden's cognitive competence, warning those who are raising the issue: "don't try to throw Julián and Cory in front of you when you do."
Meanwhile, Politico and CNN reporter Ryan Lizza, more devoted to defending Biden than even DNC functionaries, spent all weekend conspiratorially insinuating that journalists who were raising concerns over Biden's cognitive fitness were part of a joint "coordinated" attack from the Sanders and Trump campaigns. Lizza and others like him promoted various outraged articles from Democratic Party-loyal sites expressing all kinds of indignation — after four years of open season of musing casually about Trump's dementia — that anyone would even dare discuss Biden's cognitive fitness to occupy the most powerful political position in the world. They all insisted that this was some sort of very recent invention on the part of the Sanders and Trump world to stop the Biden juggernaut: a last-minute act of desperation from the Far Right and the Far Left as Biden ascends to his rightful place in the Oval Office.
The problem with all of this? Aside from the fact that Biden's cognitive decline is visible to the naked eye and it is incredibly reckless and repressive to demand that it be supressed, these concerns were first raised not by Trump operatives nor by Sanders supporters, nor were they first raised within the last several weeks. Quite the opposite is true: they were raised repeatedly over the last year principally by Democratic Party officials and their most loyal allies in the media.
The day the stupid MH17 trial starts, which will take years, The Guardian runs this by Luke Harding. And if there's anyone to rival Harding in the lying sack-of-shit department, it's Bill Browder. So that's who Harding writes about.
Russia has been accused of hiring a network of British politicians and consultants to help advance its criminal interests and to "go after" Vladimir Putin's enemies in London, MPs who drew up the Russia report suppressed by Boris Johnson were told. In secret evidence submitted to parliament's intelligence and security committee (ISC), the campaigner and financier Bill Browder claimed Moscow had been able to "infiltrate" UK society by using well-paid British intermediaries. Some had "reason to know exactly what they are doing and for whom", Browder told the committee. Others "work unwittingly for Russian state interests", he said.
The alleged intermediaries include politicians from both Labour and the Conservative parties, former intelligence officers and diplomats, and leading public relations firms. Collectively, they form what Browder calls a "western buffer network". There is no suggestion in Browder's testimony that British citizens broke the law. The regime in Moscow uses these professionals to mask its "entangled" state and criminal interests, he alleged. It deploys them to attack Putin critics, "enhance Russian propaganda and disinformation" and to "facilitate and conceal massive money-laundering operations", he said. Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Browder's claims false and "totally groundless". Questions about corruption at the heart of the Russian state were "a perfect example of a maniac-style Russophobia", Peskov said.
[..] Browder was one of several expert witnesses invited to give evidence to MPs and peers. In September 2018 he submitted a 14-page statement, which included a number of recommendations. They include setting up a US-style register of individuals working for foreign state interests, as well as extra resources for regulators, investigators, police and prosecutors. He calls on Companies House in London to review filings made by firms linked to Russian money-laundering scandals. Speaking to the Guardian, Browder said: "Yes, there are members of the Russian security services working out of the Russian embassy under diplomatic cover. [..] "There are Russian oligarchs who have a much greater impact on the security of this country. What's most shocking is that the Russian government is indirectly hiring British nationals to assist them in its intelligence operations."
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linux_usage = """Override the host:port of the ETCD server by setting the environment variable:
ETCD_ENDPOINTS [example: http://1.2.3.4:2379,http://1.2.3.5:2379]
or, if ETCD_ENDPOINTS is left unset:
ETCD_AUTHORITY [default: 127.0.0.1:2379]

Usage: calicoctl <command> [<args>...]

    status            Print current status information
    node              Configure the main calico/node container and establish Calico networking
    container         Configure containers and their addresses
    profile           Configure endpoint profiles
    endpoint          Configure the endpoints assigned to existing containers
    pool              Configure ip-pools
    bgp               Configure global bgp
    ipam              Configure IP address management
    checksystem       Check for incompatibilities on the host system
    diags             Save diagnostic information
    version           Display the version of calicoctl
    config            Configure low-level component configuration

See 'calicoctl <command> --help' to read about a specific subcommand.
"""

otheros_usage = """Override the host:port of the ETCD server by setting the environment variable:
ETCD_ENDPOINTS [example: http://1.2.3.4:2379,http://1.2.3.5:2379]
or, if ETCD_ENDPOINTS is left unset:
ETCD_AUTHORITY [default: 127.0.0.1:2379]

Usage: calicoctl <command> [<args>...]

    profile           Configure endpoint profiles
    endpoint          Configure the endpoints assigned to existing containers
    pool              Configure ip-pools
    bgp               Configure global bgp
    ipam              Configure IP address management
    version           Display the version of calicoctl
    config            Configure low-level component configuration

See 'calicoctl <command> --help' to read about a specific subcommand.
"""

import signal
import sys
import traceback
from sys import platform as _platform

from docopt import docopt
from pycalico.datastore_errors import DataStoreError

import calico_ctl.bgp
import calico_ctl.checksystem
import calico_ctl.config
import calico_ctl.container
import calico_ctl.diags
import calico_ctl.endpoint
import calico_ctl.ipam
import calico_ctl.node
import calico_ctl.pool
import calico_ctl.profile
import calico_ctl.status
import calico_ctl.version
from calico_ctl.utils import print_paragraph

def keyboard_interrupt_handler(signal, frame):
    print('Aborted command.')
    sys.exit(0)

signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, keyboard_interrupt_handler)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    """
    Calicoctl interprets the first sys.argv (after the file name) as a submodule.
    Calicoctl works on the assumption that each subcommand will have a python
    file sharing its name in the calico_ctl/ directory. This file should
    also have a function sharing that same name which accepts a single
    argument - a docopt processed input dictionary.

    Example:
      calico_ctl/node.py has a function called node(arguments)
    """
    if _platform == "linux" or _platform == "linux2":
        docstring = linux_usage
    else:
        docstring = otheros_usage

    # If no arguments were provided in the function call, add the help flag
    # to trigger the main help message
    if len(sys.argv) == 1:
        docopt(docstring, options_first=True, argv=['--help'])
        sys.exit(1)

    # Run command through initial docopt processing to determine subcommand
    command_args = docopt(docstring, options_first=True)

    # Group the additional args together and forward them along
    argv = [command_args['<command>']] + command_args['<args>']

    # Dispatch the appropriate subcommand
    try:
        try:
            command = command_args['<command>']

            # Look for a python file in the calico_ctl module which
            # shares the same name as the input command
            command_module = getattr(calico_ctl, command)

            # The command module should have a function the same name as the
            # command.  This protects against trying to run an invalid command that
            # happens to have the same name as a non-command module.
            if not hasattr(command_module, command):
                docopt(docstring, options_first=True, argv=['--help'])
                sys.exit(1)

            # docopt the arguments through that module's docstring
            arguments = docopt(command_module.__doc__, argv=argv)

            # Call the dispatch function in that module which should also have
            # the same name
            cmd = getattr(command_module, command)
        except AttributeError:
            # Unrecognized submodule. Show main help message
            docopt(docstring, options_first=True, argv=['--help'])
            sys.exit(1)
        else:
            cmd(arguments)
    except SystemExit:
        raise
    except DataStoreError as e:
        print_paragraph(e.message)
        sys.exit(1)
    except BaseException as e:
        print "{0}: {1}\n".format(type(e).__name__, e)
        traceback.print_exc()
        sys.exit(1)

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Good Morning, and thank you for reading. It's been far too long since my last entry, however the down time was used for guided trips, and putting together what looks to be a very interesting list of upcoming blog topics. About a week ago, Anthony and I were contacted by Troy Holt of blogflyfishma.com for an interview, and happily agreed.
I can't speak for Anthony, but this is the first time I have ever been interviewed for anything, let alone fishing. If you know me well it may be hard to believe, but man was I nervous. I have never been totally comfortable talking about myself, especially to someone that I don't know. I worried about how my answers will be received, first by Troy and then by readers. I guess a lot of us would be nervous being interviewed about their job if they knew their boss (potential clients in this case) would be reading. I know that I wouldn't have wanted to be interviewed for the other jobs I've had.
In the end, Troy's questions were simple, straightforward, and easy to answer. It turned out to be a lot of fun to reflect on how I got here, and what is important as Early Rise Outfitters keeps growing. Thanks again for reading, and be sure to read the interview by clicking the link below.


« TW: Archaeology validates the Bible–again!
Texas' Driest Year on Record. Throughout 2011, the average rainfall in Texas was just under 15 inches (37.5 cm). It was also the second warmest year on record. News reports stated, "The prolonged Texas drought is to blame for devastating agriculture and livestock losses, estimated in the billions of dollars. The historic drought has killed as many as half a billion trees, not including those that died in wildfires that scorched some 4 million acres in 2011" (Reuters, January 7, 2012). While Texas has experienced extreme drought since September 2010, many northeastern states experienced record rainfall in 2011 (NJ.com, November 25, 2011; Silive.com, September 13, 2011; ncdc.noaa.gov). Ancient prophecies in the book of Amos indicate that God will punish His people at the end of the age for their disobedience, "I also withheld rain from you, when there were still three months t o the harvest. I made it rain on one city, I withheld rain from another city. One part was rained upon, and where it did not rain the part withered" (Amos 4:7). As prophecy marches on, these extreme trends in weather will only continue and intensify. We need to watch world events and pray for those who are suffering, because fulfilled prophecies are clear indications that Christ's return is coming closer!
And of course, in 2012, many other parts of the USA, Mexico, Africa and the world are facing dry conditions. Because of its strident advocacy of portions of the homosexual agenda, it would not surprise me if California is not entering a time of drought.
Droughts and floods contribute to food shortages, higher food prices, and sometimes famines.
The Bible also shows we should expect to see a time of much higher food prices (cf. Revelation 6:5-6).
This entry was posted on Sunday, January 22nd, 2012 at 12:59 am	and is filed under COG News, Prophecy.


I did the job, smelled like baby aspirin. Not sure I would buy even though not available. Would like something to kill germs.
This wipes are great. We just returned from a trip to the lake and were not able to shower. These wipes made me feel clean and refreshed and were the perfect compliment to the trip. Also great to used after working out or in the yard.
These are nice and refreshing way to keep your yoga mat clean. Also, a great thing to have in your bag to clean your hands after a day of shopping!!
Love these towelettes! Great to use after a long walk or yoga session to freshen up... They smell great!
I love these things!! They feel and smell so good!
I bought this to help me through a cold and it's a great product for easing the symptoms of a cold or allergies. It's great to keep on hand.
These are amazing after hot yoga, you can leave the studio feeling refreshed without having to shower before you get home. Also the smell is relaxing and heavenly!
I love the convenience and also the smell of these towelettes. They're perfect for freshening up after the gym, or for weekend camping trips.
I love these lavender towelettes!
Normally I would not spend money on something like this, but these are worth every penny! I keep them in my purse and on our hot CA days I use them whenever I get sweaty. Also use on my 6 year old daughter as a treat when she gets hot and uncomfortable. Additionally, I keep them in my desk as a mid-day "pick me up" at work. So, despite the price I will buy these again.
I fell in love with this product immediately after opening the bag. The bought them for the convenience of the individually wrapped wipe but will keep buying them because the scent is intoxicating! Thank you!


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Cranbrook native Bowen Byram has been invited to a Hockey Canada tryout camp ahead of the 2020 World Junior Championship. Trevor Crawley photo
Byram, Krebs invited to national World Junior tryout
31 players invited to Hockey Canada training camp ahead of annual U20 tournament
Trevor Crawley
Dec. 2, 2019 11:45 a.m.
Hockey Canada has released a training camp roster for the upcoming World Junior Championship and some familiar names are on the list of 31 invitees.
Cranbrook product and Vancouver Giants defenceman Bowen Byram and Winnipeg Ice captain Peyton Krebs will be battling for the chance to represent Canada on the world stage at the annual U20 tournament, which is hosted by the Czech Repbulic this time.
Byram, who was born in Cranbrook and selected fourth overall by the Colorado Avalanche in the 2019 NHL Draft, has represented Canada before in the U17 Hockey Challenge and the U18 World Championship and Ivan Hlinka tournaments.
Byram established himself as a premier defenceman in his draft year, scoring 26 goals and collecting 45 assists for 80 points and was a major factor in the Giants' run to the WHL championship, as the club fell just shy to Prince Albert Raiders.
Krebs, who is back on the ice and playing with the Winnipeg Ice after suffering a freak off-season training injury, joins an elite crop of forwards invited to the camp.
Krebs tallied 19 goals and 49 assists last season and was selected 17th overall by the Vegas Golden Knights at the 2019 NHL Draft.
The IIHF World Junior Championship will begin on Boxing Day, with Canada facing down the United States.
trevor.crawley@cranbrooktownsman.com
Draisaitl nets 2, leads Oilers to 3-2 win over Canucks
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Fashionable white-embroidered accessories: c. 1840 to 1900
Published by HEATHER TOOMER ANTIQUE LACE: ISBN 978-0-9542730-40
In this sequel to our works on 18th- and early 19th-century fashions, the story of whiteworked costume accessories is continued to the end of the 19th century. Throughout this period white fabrics provided a finishing touch to women's necklines and wrists and, as textile prices fell with industrialisation, were worn by a wider population. A proliferation of fashion magazines also encouraged interest in the rapidly changing fashion world and, although many could afford only decorative machine products, wealthier customers still supported the luxury hand industries.
White collars, cuffs, chemisettes and newly devised undersleeves that filled the openings of wide bodice sleeves were the main focus of embroidery. The fine, raised whitework of earlier decades continued in a slightly altered form and was joined by new embroideries, particularly broderie anglaise and guipure cutworks. The many changes in the accessories themselves, their relationship with the underlying dress, and the varying embroidery styles are followed in numerous contemporary fashion plates, embroidery patterns, photographs of original articles and scaled patterns.
This book will be of interest to anyone concerned with cataloguing a costume or embroidery collection, embroiderers and designers requiring detailed information for accurate reproductions or seeking inspiration for new works, costume and social historians, and anyone with a love of fine craftsmanship.
192 pages with over 350 colour and b & w illustrations including photographs of original whiteworked costume accessories; fashion plates showing how they were worn; close-ups of their embroidery and over 30 accurate patterns to facilitate reproduction of many examples.
Prices including postage:
£19.95 within the U.K.; £26.50 to Europe; £30.50 to the U.S.A. and Canada, £31.00 to Austalia. Please email me on htac2000@gmail.com to ask for cost of postage elsewhere or combined charges for several books.
Dear Susan Marilyn, I expect my friends in York have mentioned me to you. I will email through the Society as there's no room on this email.
Dear Heather - As Secretary of the Northern Society of Costume & Textiles, we are wondering where you live and whether we could book you to come and talk to us?
Hi Debbie, The 3 whitework books) will cost £84 including postage to U.S.A. Please send payment to me - the site does not give me your email. Thanks, Heather
I sent email already with my paypal, but am interested in all but the baby book. Can you smail back cost of all with posyage to US in that return email. I didnt


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The website of the Canal Plan and the Canal Area
•	The Canal Plan
•	Implementation
•	Area
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Developing the Canal's tourism potential
The Urban Development Agency (ADT-ATO) and Visit Brussels are working to promote the tourist attractions of the Canal Area.
2015-04-08 – There are water sports, of course, but also theatres, museums, architectural treasures, hotels, a youth hostel, starred restaurants, festive events, trendy restaurants and bars, cycle paths and much else besides: the Canal Area is not short of features of interest to tourists.
For the past few years, the Urban Development Agency (ADT-ATO) has been developing a range of initiatives, presented on this website, to promote the varied potential of this strategic part of Brussels. These actions coincide this year with a determination by Visit Brussels to diversify the range of attractions on offer to visitors from Belgium and abroad, in order to entice them to discover new neighbourhoods and encourage them to return to Brussels. The two organisations have thus joined forces to promote the Canal Area.
For instance, Visit Brussels has just opened an 'Around the docks' section of its website, which covers a wide variety of subjects of interest to tourists, some of which overlap with those in the 'Unfamiliar Brussels' section of Bru+.
And ADT-ATO, which already organised poster campaigns in 2013 and 2014 to promote the heritage, facilities, green and recreational spaces, cultural venues, starred restaurants, historic shops and so on in the central districts of Brussels, has just produced a video entitled By the Canal – A day on the move in the heart of Brussels, which can be seen here and on Vimeo or on the Visit Brussels website. This video will also be promoted to tourists via other channels in the coming months.
Finally, ADT-ATO is preparing in collaboration with visit.brussels a guide that describes routes for walkers and cyclists by the Canal and in the districts alongside it and reveals their main attractions.
By the Canal - A day on the move...
BRYC: a marina in the heart of Brussels
A tour of this century-old institution, which will send three or four sailors...
Sailing and rowing in Brussels
Did you know you can go sailing, rowing or kayaking in Brussels?
Agreement reached on purchase of Citroën-Yser building
2015-03-11 – The Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region and the PSA...
The Meininger Hotel ends its first summer in an upbeat mood
Four months after the opening of the first hotel with a view over Brussels...
A tour of the work site of the future Belle-Vue Hotel Space in Molenbeek
2013-05-16 – Most people will at least have heard of the old Belle-Vue...
Skatepark developed under historic Port crane
2019.12.12 - The Port of Brussels carried out an unprecedented large-scale operation on...
SAU-MSI seeks multidisciplinary team to design fire station and local sports facility
The Urban Development Corporation (SAU-MSI) has today published a European public...
Work starts on construction of Suzan Daniel Bridge
2019.09.02 - Beliris, the specialist federal civil engineering agency for Brussels,...


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Information concerning this and other Tutl discs may be found on their website www.tutl.com or by contacting their e-mail infor@tutl.com .
Kristian BLAK (b. 1947)
Úr Hólminum (1995)a
Hogboy (1997)b
Vienne la nuit (1997)c
Shaman (2001)d
Robert Sonne (double bass)b; Palle Schou-Nielsen (horn)c; Caputad; Det Jyske Ensemblebc; Guđmundur �li Gunnarsson (conductor)ad
Recorded: Viborg Musiksal, Denmark, February-April 2004 (Hogboy, Vienne la nuit); Borgarleikh�siđ, Reykjav�k, April 2004 (Shaman) and Viđistađakirkja, Hafnarfjřrđur, April 2004 (Úr Hólminum)
TUTL FKT 22 [48:52]
The Faroese composer Kristian Blak is one of the most versatile and gifted composers to have made his mark outside the North Atlantic archipelago. Together with his colleagues Sunleif Rasmussen and Pauli � Sandagerđi, with some other friends and colleagues, they might be affectionately nicknamed �The Mighty Handful from the Faroe Islands�. Blak�s musical background is varied, with one foot in the more popular world of jazz and the other in the field of �serious� music. His multifaceted background also explains the compositional freedom displayed in many of his concert works. He has a varied and substantial output in which chamber music for various instrumental combinations is fairly prominent. The backbone of his chamber output is � without doubt � to be found in his four string quartets (No.1 Rørsia of 1985, No.2 Images of 1987, No.3 Undirlýsi of 1992 and No.4 Contours of 2001, all of which are available on several Tutl discs). Orchestral music is not absent either. Besides a number of concertos and other orchestral works, his output also includes several works for ensemble, some of the most recent of these are recorded here.
Blak�s music is often inspired either by Faroese nature or the musical past through the use of folk tunes as basic material. However the basic idea for a composition may also originate from other impressions as well. This is the case in Úr Hólminum, which, so the composer tells us, is a sort of musical journey through Faroese landscapes. The music displays an often rugged energy mirroring the scenery of the Faroese western coast, and is full of abrupt contrasts and not without grandeur. Blak draws a formidable expressive range from his limited orchestral forces. In fact, all four works are scored for sinfonietta rather than full orchestra, and were all commissioned by various renowned ensembles such as Avanti! from Finland, Caput from Iceland, Aldubáran from the Faroe Islands and Lys from Denmark.
Hogboy, a short concerto for double bass and small ensemble is a commission from the Northlands festival, Scotland. It evokes Hogboy, a ghost reported to inhabit the Orcadian stone age tomb of Maes Howe on Mainland. Maes Howe is, with other sites in the Orkney Islands and all over the world, a place that appeals to my "Machen-ish" frame of mind. Here the historical past imposes itself on the present with tremendous strength and presence. Consequently, this piece, based on a poem by the Faroese poet William Heinesen, could not but appeal to me in the same way as John Ireland�s Legend or Will Todd�s Saint Cuthbert. The music sets out to illustrate the poem, without being overtly programmatic; unfortunately, Heinesen�s poem is not printed in the notes. The music, however, speaks for itself, and colourfully conjures up the various moods of Hogboy.
On the other hand, Vienne la nuit, a miniature horn concerto, draws on two lines from Apollinaire�s celebrated poem Le pont Mirabeau - a poem that also inspired Durey�s Poème for piano. It is cast as a short Nocturne with a somewhat minimalist, but very suggestive beginning leading to more impassioned music.
The final work Shaman is rather different and, on the whole, more ambitious. It aims at evoking a long-forgotten past through a sort of shamanic journey. It draws on a number of elements, not only from the Faeroes but also from many countries in Eastern Europe, Asia and even Australia all of which at one time lived under the shaman�s ruling spirit. This is reflected by the use of a number of unusual instruments, such as Lithuanian bark horns, didgeridoo, Jew�s harp, shakuhachi and even straw grass. Players are also asked to vocalise on vowels. The music, however, makes discrete but often telling use of these unusual sound sources. The work unfolds as a mysterious, timeless ritual, in a manner similar to that of Kutavičius� �old pagan rites� (e.g. in his oratorios From the Jatvingian Stone and The Tree of the World). Blak�s inventive and beguiling music often brought that of the Lithuanian composer to mind, and none the worse for that. I consider Blak�s Shaman as one of his most imaginative and searching works, and � no doubt � one pointing towards new developments in his musical thinking. A major piece though by no means easy.
All four works are superbly played and warmly recorded. They provide a good introduction to Blak�s sound-world. A pity, though, that the total playing time is so short.
Faroese music may be known to many through a jolly tune used by Grainger and Nielsen; but, believe me, there is much more to it than that as this very fine release amply demonstrates. If you are interested in knowing more about present-day Faroese composers, I suggest that you seek out Cantus borealis (BIS CD-1085) with wind music by Blak, Rasmussen and their colleagues and Landiđ (Tutl FKT 7) with orchestral and vocal works by Blak, Rasmussen and Pauli � Sandagerđi.
Hubert Culot


This is the morning of my 29th birthday. This is the quote which speaks to me at this moment: "Do not regret growing older, many are denied the privilege.
I am grateful for life and the good things that have happened in my life and those yet to happen.
I guess happy birthday to me is in the right order.
Happy birthday, Lara. Indeed, many are denied the privilege of growing older. Wishing you many more happy, prosperous, fulfilling and healthy decades ahead.
I love the second picture of the young Lara...so beautiful, innocent and happy.
Happy Day to you and many more happy years ahead.
Happy birthday and wishing you more prosperous years to celebrate ... and I like the quote.


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Toronto Raptors Are Built To Go Big
The comments from the Toronto Raptors head coach Dwane Casey say the NBA has gone small and his team is going to match, however, one look at the roster President and General Manager Masai Ujiri has put together and one can only conclude the Raptors are built to go big.
Casey provided John Schuhmann a lot of hints recently about where his team was headed.
Casey, "The league is going smaller, but as long as the goal is at 10 feet, size is going to matter. You still got to have size.
At the end of games, the trend is to go smaller. Threes are fours, fours are fives, and your roster has to fit that. Adding DeMarre gives us that flexibility. He can play some at the four, with Scola or Patrick Patterson at the five. We're better equipped to play that way now than we were a year ago.
The league is going to their more skilled guys toward the end of games. Trends come and go, but right now, we have to participate in that trend."
Of course a team only has to participate in a trend if they;
A) have to due to a lack of talent to go their own way; or
B) are better equipped to play that way than everybody else – see Golden State Warriors.
If a team has the talent to buck a trend, it can give them a huge advantage – see Memphis Grizzlies and Cleveland Cavaliers (and try to stop calling LeBron James "small"). Having a talented big lineup in a league that is going small can be devastating to an opponent without size.
Even as one of the top scoring teams in the NBA last season with the Association's Sixth Man award winner and a second unit second to none, the Raptors were burned in the postseason because they played with a lack of size.
Schuhmann, "What hurt you offensively in the playoffs?"
Casey, "Physicality and size. We were small with Lou and Kyle on the floor at the same time. Size and length took us out."
It would be hard to argue with the Raptors coach on that score and it led to an off season of acquiring talent to deal with the problem.
Casey, "It's going to help us, with the fact that DeMarre Carroll can guard his position. DeMarre gives us some size and physicality at that position and Cory Joseph is a solid defender. He gives us a little juice, a little size, speed and quickness. He comes from a winning program, so his pedigree is good. Biyombo gives us some rim protection behind everybody and Scola gives us a veteran IQ to make plays with the ball, a decent pick-and-roll guy at the four position."
Toronto's anticipated 10-man rotation will include (plus likely third string):
PG: Kyle Lowry 6'1, Cory Joseph 6'3, (Delon Wright)
SG: DeMar DeRozan 6'6.5, Terrence Ross 6'7, (Norman Powell)
SF: DeMarre Carroll 6'8, James Johnson 6'8 (Bruno Caboclo)
PF: Luis Scola 6'9, Patrick Patterson 6'9
C: Jonas Valanciunas 7', Bismack Biyombo 6'9.5, (Lucas Nogueira)
The Raptors can finally feature a traditional five-man starting unit with no player struggling to play out of position and this year Casey will be able to use (if he chooses) a pretty strong five-man second unit without anyone being asked to play out of their natural position as well. There will undoubtedly be more effective five-man units possible depending on the Raptors opponent, but Casey never has to go truly small unless he wants to.
Toronto does have the option to go with a typical small ball lineup with two point guards like Casey has done in the past. Lowry, Joseph, DeRozan, Carroll, and either Patterson or Scola at center and by opting for Scola, at least this unit would still have one strong rebounding big man on the court. It's a group we'll likely see early in the season as it should be able to put up points, defend well and be very tough to guard. The only concern would be the lack of rebounding – like what happened a lot last season – if Carroll and Patterson are the two big men on the court.
However, a more interesting and potentially mind-boggling option for the Raptors opponents would be to go bigger and play the same way. Carroll has combo forward size, three-point shooting and is a superior defender. Patterson has three-point range and is a superior perimeter defender for a power forward. Scola is a crafty veteran on offense and defense and is one of the league's top rebounders. Biyombo is a mobile big man who is a superior rim protector and rebounder. Valanciunas can rebound and score in the post and he's working on expanding his game this summer so he doesn't get left behind.
"I was working on my quickness, bringing my game to be like a power forward – not like a slow center," Valanciunas said recently in Las Vegas. "I am trying to increase my speed and my ability to shoot a mid-range shot. To be like a quicker guy."
To put up points fast and spread the floor with shooters, Casey can go with a lineup of:
Lowry, DeRozan, Carroll, Patterson and Scola. Now that's a lineup with size, smarts and no player an opponent can cheat off on defense.
To get smothering defense, rebounding and rim protection against a small lineup:
Lowry, Joseph, Carroll, Patterson and Biyombo provide five very mobile defenders and more than enough size intimidation between Carroll, Patterson and Biyombo to make other teams wonder just how long they can stay small.
With the options Casey will have at his disposal, Valanciunas needs to expand his game quickly or even those few fourth quarter minutes he has been getting won't be there anymore. Valanciunas can't afford to be the self-described "slow center" if he wants to be the mobile big man that can defend against the NBA's small lineups at the end of games.
Ujiri has gone out and obtained some tough-nosed blue collar players for Casey and now it's up to the coach to get the most out of guys who play the way he likes to see it done. In Toronto this season it should be a case of opponents going small against mobile big men that can keep up. This new version of Raptors small ball should look a lot bigger.
Stephen Brotherston covers the Toronto Raptors and visiting NBA teams at the Air Canada Centre and is a member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association.
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"We need to get better," Ujiri said. "Obviously we were going to address some of the things that we don't do so well and rebounding was one of them, so hopefully we can get better at that with guys that are tough-nosed and have a nose for the ball."
This entry was posted in Front Slider, Raptors Columns and tagged Raptors on July 23, 2015 by Stephen Brotherston.
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William Pawson aka Oldshamus July 25, 2015 at 11:23 am
Great post. This is the most intriguing lineup ever. Could be the best or most disappointing team in Raptor history.


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10 of the Best Attractions in London
Your vacation in London will be full of value once you have visited some of these top 10 best attractions. Make the best out of the visit with good choices.
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This has been in existence since 1834 so you can rest assured that everything preserved there has rich history to learn about. At the gallery, you will get to see art collections not only the biggest and oldest in London but world over. The arts to lookout for include those from renowned artistes like Leonardo da Vinci, Monet, Turner and Titian. This gallery is open to members of the public from Monday to Saturday beginning at 10 am to 6 pm with the exception of Wednesdays when it closes at 8 pm. On Sundays, the gallery is open from noon to 6 pm.
The Victoria & Albert Museum
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You will get to see some of the best applied arts in the world at this place. Exhibitions at the museum are in wide variety so you will not miss something to grasp your interest. The Indian art at the museum is one of the largest in the world while other attractions include revitalized sculptures, watercolors, miniatures and colorful paintings. Make sure you have exhausted all the attractions you will come across at this museum.
Tate Gallery of Modern Art
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This place started off as a power station before its transformation to an art gallery. Herzog & de Meuron from Switzerland used 130 million pounds to renovate the building and it's a very popular destination for tourists visiting London. All the art found at this gallery is modern and categorized into four main classes; history, the nude, still life and landscape. You will have a lot to learn from this place once you have stopped by anytime you are in London.
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This is a national institution that stores the country's history and opens its doors to millions of tourists every year. You should be among the millions to be counted this year by making a visit to the museum located along Great Russell Street. The good thing with this place is that you will get to see a lot of things under a single roof which includes art from Roman and Greek times, Egyptian collections, medals as well as coins used in the ancient days. It is a huge place that covers 2.5 miles meaning you will walk a lot and a whole day is enough for you to tour satisfactorily.
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Many tourists know this attraction as a place of execution and imprisonment. Over the years, the tower has played several roles as it was an armory, royal residence, mint, observatory and menagerie at different occasions. Crown jewels are deposited at the tower and that alone has been the major reason why tourists visit the place. Some of these jewels are as old as 1327 and they are always displayed at the tower for the sake of tourists. There are many more things to see at the tower once you have paid a personal visit.
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Admiral Lord Nelson's statue is the most dominant attraction at this place and it sits at 167 feet tall. The construction of this square was to primarily honor Nelson's marine victory of 1805 and stands out today as the main point for local tourism in London. The statue is guarded by four imposing lions made of bronze with each standing at 20 feet long and 11 feet tall. That is a magnificent thing to see and you can take a few photos with the lions for remembrance when you are back in your country.
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This attraction is on the banks of the River Thames and it is worthy paying a visit whenever in London. Designed as an observation wheel, it is recorded as the most visited globally and your views of the city of London from the eye will be spectacular. It moves slowly to cover a complete circle after thirty minutes which will allow you enough time to view the city to satisfaction. This place is open every day from 10 am all the way to 8 pm while the period between June and September is high season thus closing time is extended by one hour to accommodate the many visitors.
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This has been the permanent residence of the London monarch since Queen Victoria ascended to the throne. That is a critical reason why you should consider paying this place a visit. The palace is constructed at the seat of an infamous brothel which in itself draws many tourists to the place every single year. It has undergone a series of renovations over the years but has managed to maintain its natural looks with very splendid architecture. It is an attraction that promises to blow your mind anytime you visit.
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This is among the most recognized tourist attractions around London and you will have no regrets for spending your time there. It has been around for more than 100 hundred years and has bascules that weigh 1,000 tons each. It is spectacular seeing the bascules being raised by electric motors but it was steam engines that played the role in the past. This place is open every day from 10am to 6:30 pm but the season of November to March has operating hours ranged from 10 am to 5:15 pm.
The Houses of Parliament
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This is the seat where all supreme laws of the country are debated and passed. It was built in 1840 and there is always glamour, splendor and entertainment when a session of the parliament is being opened by the country's prime minister. All countries have parliaments but this one has been a keen interest to many people around the globe. That explains why thousands of tourists to London must visit this place before they leave. Just admiring its ancient architecture will be enough to satisfy the curiosity in you.
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Pilate said to Him, "What is truth?" After he said this, he went out again to the Judean leaders. He said to them, "I find no case against Him"
By all accounts, Pontius Pilate was not a righteous man, but he was at least interested in the truth and in declaring that he found no case against Yeshua (Jesus), he spoke the truth. Looking at world events today one may instead ask, "does the truth even matter?" We have re-branded lies in such a way that it's now a popular strategy to gain attention, notoriety, and wealth. It may appear that facts no longer decide whether information is true or false, but if we like the information presented. Such an environment makes it more likely that the Antichrist will succeed in deceiving the nations.
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announcement Innovation Fund Macomb Community College
Macomb Innovation Fund awards $225,000 to five Detroit-area technology startups
Since 2015, 24 companies awarded total of $1.4 million; Nearly 340 students benefit from unique learning experiences
Five early-stage companies from Macomb, Washtenaw and Wayne counties will receive $225,000 in funding from the Innovation Fund Macomb Community College, Powered by JPMorgan Chase & Co. Since July 2015, the Macomb Innovation Fund has awarded $1.4 million to 24 companies, which have garnered $3.5 million in follow-on funding. These companies have also created internships or learning opportunities for nearly 340 Macomb Community College students which is a requirement to receive funding.
The Innovation Fund is a $2.7 million effort to stimulate economic development and job growth among promising Detroit-area entrepreneurs and next-stage companies with high-growth potential. Funding is provided by Macomb Community College's Strategic Fund and JPMorgan Chase, as part of the company's $100 million commitment to Detroit's economic recovery. The unique initiative provides mentoring and capital to early-stage businesses, as well as learning opportunities for Macomb Community College's students.
"JPMorgan Chase invests in this fund because small businesses are the backbone to Detroit's economy," said Chauncy Lennon, Head of Workforce Initiatives, JPMorgan Chase. "We are proud to support the innovative business ideas presented by Macomb Community College Innovation Fund winners because they create new jobs and opportunity as well as stimulate further investment in the local economy."
Two companies will receive awards that are designed to advance the progress of emerging companies toward larger-scale funding. These companies must provide matching funding and commit to paying back the award:
Brio Device (Ann Arbor/ Washtenaw County) – $100,000 award. Brio Device has developed a new class of intubation devices, which are employed to insert airway breathing tubes. The company's focus is to simplify and increase the success of the intubation process through devices that combine articulation, visualization and software guidance technology in a disposable intubation tool.
VizBe (Sterling Heights/ Macomb County) – $50,000 award. VizBe had developed an employee engagement software that provides guided goal-setting for personal and professional goals. Employees can also engage in group or peer-to-peer accountability related to these goals through VizBe's communication platform.
Receiving awards of $25,000, which are designed to support early-stage businesses taking the initial steps in market introduction, are:
Life Magnetics (Detroit/ Wayne County) – $25,000 award. Life Magnetics has developed a material that in seconds can isolate the ribonucleic acids (RNA) from a blood sample with ten times better purity and yield than current methods. Applications for the company's extraction kit include diagnosing viral diseases, drug development and university research.
Recovery Park (Detroit/ Wayne County) – $25,000 award. Recovery Park is an urban agriculture enterprise providing fresh, local specialty produce to local restaurants while employing advanced technology to support sustainable year-round growing and employing Detroiters with barriers. They are working with a team of Michigan-based companies to develop supplemental greenhouse lighting technology that can mimic natural lighting conditions.
Stridepost (Ann Arbor / Washtenaw) – $25,000 award. Stridepost has developed an online family organizer and motivational tool designed to help teach children responsibility and accountability. It provides an integrated family calendar, to-do tracker and allowance tracker, which can be tied to completed tasks.
"The Macomb Innovation Fund not only contributes to southeast Michigan's entrepreneurial ecosphere, but also directly links metro Detroit's rising entrepreneurs and educational opportunities to Macomb Community College students," said Dr. James Jacobs, president, Macomb Community College. "This real-world education provided by our region's economic drivers positions our students and business community with a distinctive advantage."
The five companies awarded funding were selected from a field of 14 qualified applicants. Each went through a two-stage process, pitching first to a screening committee. The highest-rated companies moved on to a selection committee comprised of area professionals with experience in business management, finance, law, manufacturing and technology, who made final award recommendations.
To be eligible for the Innovation Fund, companies must locate within a nine-county region consisting of Genesee, Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, Shiawassee, St. Clair, Washtenaw or Wayne counties.
About JPMorgan Chase & Co.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.5 trillion and operations worldwide. The Firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com.
About Macomb Community College
Macomb Community College (www.macomb.edu) is one of the nation's leading community colleges, providing learning experiences to more than 44,000 students annually. Macomb grants the largest number of associate degrees in Michigan and nationally ranks in the top two percent in the number of associate degrees awarded by community colleges. The college's comprehensive educational programming includes pre-collegiate experiences, university transfer and career preparation programs, bachelor-degree completion and graduate degree programs, workforce training, professional education and certification, and continuing education and enrichment opportunities.


Leaving his homeland,he gets on the train that can brings him hope,so he comes to China,although he has many suspects of here,he doesn't want to give up the opportunity,even it is very small.This text will tell a story of the journey to china of the patient with nephrotic syndrome from Indonesia.
Even you are from a foreign country ,but you are not alone.
EFNDI is a Muslim,from Indonesia,2 years ago,the test showed that his urine protein is:++,his urine occult blood is:+,and he has no symptoms of swelling before that,then he went to the local hospital for treatment,the handsome boy was diagnosed with Chronic renal failure .
After that he accepts treatment in that hospital,but the treatment is not obviously effective,and his urine protein and urine occult blood always fluctuate,so he lost confidence about the treatment.
After leaving the hospital,EFNDI surfs in net for some information,and he consults many doctors around the world,and he also goes to many hospital for treatment,but there is no good way to his illness.Then,he begins to think since that western doctors can not cure me,why don't i turn Chinese doctors for help.Maybe they can help me.
Referring much information,he hears about that this hospital cure kidney adopted Traditional Chinese treatment.He comes here half in doubt,because at that time,his disease condition doesn't allow him to waste time.
He comes here alone,and he doesn't like the dishes that cooked in our canteen,but every time we ask him how about our food,he said excellent.Our doctor secretly discover that although he bought the food,he never ate it.
So we made a decision consistently,we will cook for the patient in turn,and we hope he can accept better treatment.
Next day,when he saw that the nurse came in with delicious dishes,he is very surprised.He was moved by our doctors and nurses,and he cannot help crying.
After treatment in our hospital for a period of time,his condition is much better than before.His 24 hours urinary protein quantity is reduced from 6.27g to 1.58g.
Routine urine shows:His urine protein reduced from+++ to +,his occult blood is negative.
EFNDI is satisfied with our treatment. With an improvement of the disease,he is going to return his hometown.The night before he leaves our hospital,each of our doctor cooked dishes for him.He is very happy and he said: "thank you for your attention and accompany.
We are family forever even we will apart.
EFNDI is going to leave for his hometown.Hope the good memory can accompany him forever and wish he has a bright future.


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