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1981 Feb 27 Fr
TV Interview for CBS Morning News
Speeches, interviews, etc.
Blair House, Washington DC
Thatcher Archive: transcript
0730-0745 broadcast live.
Defence (arms control), Economy (general discussions), Employment, Monetary policy, Energy, Pay, Foreign policy (Americas excluding USA), Foreign policy (Middle East), Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states)
I would like to, if I may start out by asking some questions about economics. Your programme for economic recovery in Britain is almost identical to the one that President Reagan is proposing here. Do you have any words of advice for him and for us about the course we should be following in the next year or so?
I think he's started off in exactly the right way and I'm amazed at the speed that they got the package of public expenditure cuts before Congress. I hope very much its successful because I think that the essential first step. To reduce the amount of the national income that the Government takes. That inevitably leaves more for the private sector which is the wealth creating and enterprise sector and secondly it will raise the standard of living of the American people. So I'm very much in favour of that and of course its wonderful to get those expenditure cuts before in fact you have the tax packet along side. And the genius is is that the whole thing fits.
Of course, many Americans are now looking to Britain as a model for what he has proposed for our future. It seems that things have not gone exactly as you had planned. Unemployment is soaring, productivity did not rise as you promised, it's fallen 14%; just last year. Were there lessons in what you did for us to learn from?
We came in at a time of the onset of world recession. And it would I admit, have been very much easier to have done it without that world recession. You will remember the recession was caused by the sharp increase in the price of oil, about 150%; over the last 2 years in the world price of oil and we're on world prices of oil. Inevitably that meant difficulties with industries. You've had the same thing here. You had world recession affecting cars, world recession affecting steel, world recession affecting an increase in unemployment. That was a time when we had to start to implement our policies. But some of the unemployment of course is caused [end p1] by world recession and not the policies. It's absolutely vital though that if you're to get unemployment down and the number of opportunities for jobs up that you must in fact tackle inflation. Our inflation went up, I'm afraid to an average annual rate of 22%;. We've taken very firm measures to bring it down. It's now down to 13%;. But if you take the six month figure it's down very much below that, almost into single figures. So we are in fact laying the foundations for a confident economy for the future.
Will we experience worsening conditions—will our unemployment rates go soaring? Is that what is to be expected from the kind of medicine both you and Mr Reagan have prescribed?
That will depend in large part on the course of world recession. Because unemployment has gone up in very nearly all the western countries. It depends on how much is taken out of the economy by increasing prices of oil and of course one watches every OPEC meeting with a certain amount of unease as to whether it's going on. But you must in fact continue to get inflation down. You can't have an honest government unless it's going for honest and sound currency.
This Administration keeps telling us that outside forces won't affect our economy that much, that OPEC is not going to make that much of a difference if we cut spending and increase taxes. Are you saying that the outside forces will make a difference?
No, I think probably what they're saying is that there have been countries in the world, Switzerland and Germany are two, where they've not had such rapid inflation as the rest of us. I suppose the real reason is that here (here, I'm thinking that I'm at home) in a way we have almost had the extra money for government policies to accommodate the increase in the price of oil. Now we've tried to stop that. We've said that if you pay much much more for one thing you've less money to pay for something else and then you will not get inflation. Thats the road the Swiss and Germans took and therefore they had a much much lower increase inflation. Its much much more difficult for us to get that rate of growth of money supply [end p2] down and therefore it's taken longer for us.
One last question on the economy. You have said that really the only way to bring inflation down is to, at least in the beginning, to expect some increases in unemployment. Do you still hold to that view?
In the early stages. If you've got inflation you've got surplus money in the system and therefore it goes into increased prices not into increased goods. If it all went into increased goods, rate of growth, it would be marvellous. Now when you're bringing down the amount of surplus money. If your wage increases are within that you will not in fact get higher unemployment. Unfortunately one of the features of the British economy is that people have expected an annual increase in wages regardless of output and it's that in fact, that annual increase, which takes more and more money out of the economy for the people who are in work that causes the unemployment. So people too have a role to play. They take more out for themselves; they'll cause more unemployment for others.
Well of course American workers are going to expect higher wages too.
Higher wages fine—provided they're earned by higher output and higher productivity. Thats what life is about. But higher wages just by demanding them and using industrial muscle—either it comes from someone else or else it has to be financed by printing money, and that's where you get your inflation. So President Reagan will refuse to print the extra money and thats what we've been trying to do as well.
Let me ask you about President Brezhnev 's invitation to Mr Reagan for a Summit meeting. Do you think that President Reagan should accept that invitation?
Well, I don't think you want to dash at making a decision at the moment. It was a very long speech, as you know they go on and on making speeches, much much longer than we do, just on and on and it contained a large number of points. Each and every one has to be considered, weighted, the aspects considered and replies prepared. Summits are very important. They should be comparatively occasional. The whole world somehow expects some new philosopher's stone to emerge from them which will solve all problems. Life isn't like that. It's very very careful negotiations, very [end p3] careful consideration of the other persons point of view and preparation of alternative courses of action. And I think it would be a great mistake to dash into a reply.
There are some US officials who think Mr Brezhnev 's speech and invitation were nothing more than a propaganda ploy to sort of lull the Europeans back into believing in detente. Did you see it that way?
Well I don't think the Europeans or Americans are to be lulled back to as you say, believing in detente. We still believe in detente, but it has to be two-way. But you know the real thing that would have given an earnest of good faith would have been if the Russians had shown any signs of withdrawing from Afghanistan. We have to remember the background of this invitation. That Soviet troops are still in Afghanistan holding down an independent country by force. One has also to remember on the moratorium on what are called Theatre Nuclear Forces that Russia is way way way in advance of us, both with the numbers and sophistication of those Theatre Nuclear Weapons. And the moratorium would suit her. And it's just precisely for that kind of thing that I say we have got to look at every single word of that speech, analyse it and prepare response. And all that must be done before a reply is given to that invitation.
Do you see genuine signs of conciliation in that speech from what you've read so far, studied so far.
It was indeed a very carefully prepared speech, but it was not followed by withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan. It would have been wonderful if it had been.
One last question on El Salvador. Do you think President Reagan should send American advisors and war material there? Is that the place to draw the line?
The American Administration has provided us with evidence of the number of weapons that are being supplied to the guerillas by outside bodies. And we obviously have condemned that. We issued a statement just before we came here. The El Salvador people must be allowed to decide their own future. We condemn the supply of these arms to the guerillas [end p4] and called upon the El Salvador government to protect all the people in El Salvador. And I think the proper and right approach is for them to sort out their own future in their own way. Unhindered by outside interference, unhindered by weapons supplied to the guerillas.


Came across this article today. It's probably very old, as it's on an ASP Classic file and has no date.
Good stuff, I didn't know or forgot about half of that stuff. IMO, using a debugger correctly (vs. constant logging and alert pop-ups) is huge when measuring one's productivity.
When Breakpoint Is Hit - Specify what to do when the breakpoint is hit.
sample: "Function: $FUNCTION, Thread: $TID $TNAME"
Wow, that's some powerful breakpoint logic I didn't realize was right under my nose.
Some people (like me) have had issues with Visual Studio 2008 suddenly disappearing without errors when the developer user opens up an .aspx file, a .master file, or some other code file in an ASP.NET MVC project.
Finally, one of the team members pointed me to "NDP20SP2-KB963676-x86.exe". He had the same issue and tried to run this hotfix and it worked for him.
Another quickie post, as I spend more time on my Mac Mini and tinker with Xcode, it's really starting to sink in that all this talk lately over the last few years about MVC (Model-View-Controller) is really heavily themed in the entire workflow and almost mandatory software architecture patterns in the OS X environment.
You've got Objective-C forcing you to declare your controllers and objects in a very loose fashion, managing everything with delegates and interfaces.
Then on the data side you have Core Data, http://developer.apple.com/macosx/coredata.html, which really goes a long way to facilitating MVC relationships with the views in Interface Builder and with the general flow of the application.
In some ways, I'm reminded of the amount of effort Microsoft has gone through in Visual Studio to support data binding, except there's an incredibly beautiful simplicity yet sophistication about Apple's approach, where you don't just data bind to inject data into a view, as in dumping data, rather you provide the data models and the controllers to handle the delegates and the actions of the view. The implications of these differences can be staggering. And I know that Visual Studio/.NET facilitate delegation for these things (raising events), but the approach is just not as MVC-oriented. Visual Studio doesn't enforce MVC, Xcode/IB does. Visual Studio allows for MVC, that is, but Xcode/IB imposes it--or at least makes it really obvious that it's the best way to work in Xcode.
Which one is better? Neither; Visual Studio offers versatility whereas Xcode/IB offers elegance and predictability. I love them both.
I stumbled across this over the weekend.
I was actually very surprised by how closely it resembles what we've been working on at the office. Ours uses a controller to manage and control events and event propogation, track "view objects" (we call 'em "client controls" for drag-and-drop support in Visual Web Developer) and manage AJAX calls. And we've spec'd out to use RESTful URIs to manage data model retrieval and callbacks, and these are cacheable using Google Gears, Flash storage, or *shrug* cookies.
In some ways, ours is looking like http://www.wavemaker.com/, except that WaveMaker is based on Java and dojo, and the designer experience is in-page (which is way too much support overhead--why reinvent the designer when Visual Studio / Expression Web can do the job on its own?).
- Respect for, use of, and support for very popular open source APIs such as Prototype.


Yesterday, I was having tea with a friend at a cafe. It's been too long (months?) since I've made the time to do this. And to be honest? Before I left to meet her I felt resistant. I didn't want to go "waste precious time" doing this non-work related thing. I could have been spending the hour in my office writing instead.
It turns out that this time away with this highly-creative woman was exactly what I needed.
If you like me, have found yourself swinging too far into the January guilt--fueled by overwhelmingly impossible New Year's resolutions--than you're certainly not alone.
This week, today even, let's take a little time to think about nurturing our creativity. Instead of scaring it with overly-big demands, let's take a step back, and a big, deep breath and see what it wants to teach us for a change. This is like taking an aspirin for your soul, a help when your creative spirit is out of sorts. Let's get quiet and see what's really going on below the surface.
My friend talked about boundaries and how important putting these into place is when one is a creative. I agree wholeheartedly and also know how challenging it is. Challenging yet essential. Creating time to be quiet and get in touch with Spirit is also necessary. And listening to our own wisdom rather than the guru-of-the-month empowers us.


A team of researchers led by astronomer Ivan Ramirez of The University of Texas at Austin has identified the first "sibling" of the sun — a star almost certainly born from the same cloud of gas and dust as our star.
Ramirez's methods will help astronomers find other solar siblings, which could lead to an understanding of how and where our sun formed, and how our solar system became hospitable for life. The work appears in the June 1 issue of The Astrophysical Journal.
So it could be argued that solar siblings are key candidates in the search for extraterrestrial life," Ramirez said.
The solar sibling his team identified is called HD 162826, a star 15 percent more massive than the sun, located 110 light-years away in the constellation Hercules. The star is not visible to the unaided eye but can be seen with low-power binoculars, not far from the bright star Vega.


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Two girls work on reading their prayers and learning to chant the Koran at home. With an overall literacy rate in Afghanistan of only 28 per cent and an even lower rate among women, simply learning to read is a significant accomplishment for these girls.
The world is a small place for someone who can't read. Basic signage, medication labels, job applications: They all become inaccessible, and the chances of a healthy and productive life are slim.
Life expectancy increases as a result of literacy and the United Nations considers it a human right.
In 2010, the global rate of adult literacy climbed to 84 per cent. Still, the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the agency that monitors literacy around the world, cautions that even as the world celebrates International Literacy Day this Saturday, there are still reasons for concern.
There are 775 million people in the world who are illiterate, with another 152 million children set to follow in their footsteps because they aren't attending school.
After across-the-board gains between 1990 and 2000, the world literacy rate climbed from 76 per cent to about 82 per cent. Progress has slowed in the decade since. Several countries have plateaued, and only three – China, Indonesia and Iran – are expected to reach the international goal of cutting illiteracy rates in half by 2015.
In order to reach that target, 6 per cent of the world population, or more than 360 million people, will have to become literate. That's like teaching the entire population of the United States and Canada to read and write, in just three years.
"It's a staggering number," said Mmantsetsa Marope, director of learning at Unesco. "We have made progress but it's substantially inadequate progress."
The struggle for literacy is in many ways a struggle for gender equality: Women account for nearly two-thirds of those who can't read.
There are many barriers. Families living in developing countries often struggle to pay school fees, and are sometimes forced to chose which child to send to school. Boys are the preferred choice, as girls are seen as valuable household help for domestic chores.
This dynamic explains plateaus in literacy rates in several countries. Niger and Mali, for example, have some of the lowest literacy rates in the world, and the literacy rate for women in those countries is less than half of what it is for men.
"When you educate a woman, you educate a village; when you educate a man, you educate an individual," Ms. Marope said.
Countries that are making progress are doing so by educating females. For example, only 17 per cent of women in Nepal could read in 1990, but by 2010, that number had climbed to 48 per cent.
Signs of hope emerge in literacy rates of the world's youth. Nearly 90 per cent of the population between the ages of 15 and 24 are literate, compared to 84 per cent of adults.
Many in developed nations are waiting to see how the spread of smartphones and technology will have an impact on youth.
"We're writing more than we ever had before," Ms. Eaton said. "We're not relying on telephones as much, we're texting and we're going online."
There is some concern, however, that jargon and spelling shortcuts that are pervasive in youth culture may contribute to a literacy decline.
Literacy rates in Canada are high – around 97 per cent – but there is a debate about what that measure really means. Ideas about literacy have shifted, and while measures once focused on a person's ability to decipher characters and read text, the bar has been raised to consider economic productivity.
"There's learning to read and then there's reading to learn," said Margaret Eaton, president of ABC Life Literacy Canada. "Not enough Canadians have that skill."
In 2008, her organization authored a report that raised concerns about whether Canadians, including those who have graduated high school, can read well enough to be comfortable with new written information or doing computer work. The report relied on Statistics Canada data that showed 48 per cent of adults age 16 and older didn't have the literacy skills needed for the working world. The report noted that while many were new immigrants, native-born Canadians with high-school diplomas also had difficulties.
ABC commissioned a market-research group this May to survey executives, 80 per cent of whom said they could not find qualified employees. One of the most common lacking skills they described was literacy.
"There are jobs that are going empty even though we have high unemployment because there aren't the people who have the skills," Ms. Eaton said.


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Rehnquist's Clever Boost For Bush
From AMericablog via NewsmaxRehnquist's Clever Boost for BushWhen Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist announced in late October that he had
By John Amato — November 6, 2004
From AMericablog via Newsmax
When Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist announced in late October that he had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, we took the news sadly.
Now that the election has taken place and the dust has settled, we think the clever veteran of the Court and Beltway politics may have timed his announcement to give George Bush a small boost before Election Day.
Rehnquist could have waited a few days, until after the election was over -- as John Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, did to announce her breast cancer.
As NewsMax reader Miguel Tuas first pointed out to us, Rehnquist's timing was impeccable.
Though Rehnquist did not say he planned to step down, many media commentators said the ailing chief justice, now 80 years old, may have to leave the court to attend to his health.
And that suddenly injected the judiciary -- and the number of Supreme Court appointments the next president may have to make -- into the presidential campaign.
Can you imagine Kerry's potential court picks: Dershowitz? Tribe? Estrich?
Thankfully, we don't have to.
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Brief episodes with arm weakness, change in face muscles with "droop" on one side, loss of speech or muddled speech. Loss of vision in one eye temporarily is also a warning sign (amaurosis fugax)
When a small clot from an artery or the heart passes to the brain or eye they cause "mini-strokes" or temporary loss of vision. There may be a brief period where an arm becomes weak, the face muscles may be weak on one side, speech may be difficult, and the vision may be lost in one eye. These symptoms often resolve over 24 hours but may recur. These are called TIA's and they are a warning sign that a more significant stroke may occur without treatment. The risk factors for vascular disease, (blood pressure, cholesterol, stop smoking, diabetic check) should be treated. Recent evidence suggests starting aspirin immediately is very beneficial. Clopidogrel is a similar drug to aspirin that some patients take. In addition the carotid arteries in the neck should be investigated. The easiest way to do this is with an ultrasound scan. A CT or MRI scan can also do this. These are non-invasive scans and can detect significant narrowing of the internal carotid artery, which is a major artery to the brain.
If you have a TIA and a scan shows a significant stenosis of the carotid artery then you are at risk of a major stroke (11% over 2 years). Careful studies have shown that this risk can be reduced to 6% by surgery or stenting. The operation is called a CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY.
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High expectations promote higher achievement.
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The Press in Petticoats
By Allen Cleaton
It seems unlikely that the staff of the New York World-Telegram fully appreciated the significance of a little notice that was posted on their bulletin board during the agitated early days of March, 1931. The death rattle of Joseph Pulitzer's great World still echoed horribly in the ears of some of them; and everyone was busy about the strange task of producing a newspaper that would be neither the Telegram nor the World, but a combination of the two, "retaining the best features of each." At that time a managing editor's instructions that news stories should be written from a "woman's angle" whenever possible and that headline writers should strive to interest women in their captions, no doubt seemed of minor consequence, for a new journal was being created in the dowdy old building at Dey and West Streets, and everyone was a bit uncomfortably aware that the ghost of the great Pulitzer was looking quizzically on. But that bulletined demand for a newspaper which would appeal to women brought into the open a tendency which perhaps will have a greater influence upon the course of American journalism than even the fact that a good deal of the writing in the offices of the splendidly fearless World was done in red ink.
Of that tendency many publishers and editors had been conscious for some time. The note on the bulletin board of the World-Telegram is placed in the spotlight because the World-Telegram is a great paper in the largest American city, and because its managing editor felt the time had come to speak quite frankly to his staff about the advisability of increasing the paper's appeal to women readers. Its appearance was an important milestone in the feminizing of the American press.
This feminizing process is now going on rapidly, and if the present pace is maintained, the petticoated press ultimately will be forced to don hair nets and long gloves as well, and may be expected to pursue the women with all the determined coyness of an unmarried lady pointing a silken leg at a group of eligible males. But, before developing this theme, a retrospective glance at advertising as a factor in journalism is necessary.
Newspapermen are fond of recalling, with the wistfulness of an adult remembering the innocence of childhood, Lord Northcliffe's boast back in the 'nineties that his Daily Mail was easier to read than the London Times because it carried fewer advertisements. In those days a newspaper could exist and make money with no revenue other than that supplied by its subscribers. Into this simple economy came complicating factors, including an appalling rise in the cost of newsprint as wood pulp became scarce, and publishers were forced to seek other sources of income. Mass production and large-scale selling, twins that grew to symbolize an age, required a trumpet for their wares; and industry and newspapers reached for each other's bootstraps. The twins attained a powerful maturity, and Lord Northcliffe lived to direct a large and eager army of advertising solicitors and to realize that the survival of his publications depended on them.
The entrance of advertisers into the newspaper world brought to publishers the temptation to suppress or exaggerate news and to offer dishonest discussions of economic and political problems, in order to win business favors. The theme that this temptation is frequently yielded to, with the corollary that the value of newspapers to their readers diminishes as their value to advertisers increases, has buttered the bread of so-called liberal writers for years. To the informed newspaperman the theme seemed absurd. It was granted that advertisers occasionally brought about the suppression of news or the coloring of editorial comment, but the argument ran that this never happened on newspapers of size or dignity, and that it would not happen at all if publishers possessed a minimum of courage or even the shrewdness to perceive that merchants advertise not because they have been done favors, but because advertising sells merchandise. And only the most grossly uninformed seriously believed that capitalists had any organized philosophy which they tried to force upon editors. As a counterblast to the so-called liberal writers, newspapermen argued that advertising, far from being a curse, was a blessing to their trade. Its revenues had made possible a welcome expansion of news facilities, and had permitted newspapers such luxuries as interpretative articles from men like Wells, Shaw, and Churchill, whose rate per word would have been prohibitive to newspapers which carried little or no advertising. These gains were not lightly to be valued, the argument went on, and against them there was little to place in the scales. The argument sounded good, it was sincere, and no one rose in successful refutation. But of recent years unexpected developments have caused realistic newspapermen, if not to change their tune, then at least to sing it with less fervor and conviction. They still do not consider advertising the ogre depicted by writers of the Upton Sinclair school, but they regard it with far less than the favor of other years. The scales have a little more nearly approached balance, and a major reason is that an important discovery has been made.
The discovery is that women purchase eighty-five per cent of all the merchandise sold in America.
To readers not engaged in business the figure may seem excessive, but its accuracy is attested by the most exhaustive surveys and analyses, and a moment's reflection shows that it is not unreasonable. Women constitute practically the entire body of retail purchasers in many fields of merchandise—food, children's and women's clothes, furniture, house furnishings, and toilet articles, for instance—and they have a good deal to say about the selecting of motor cars, real estate, musical instruments, and other purchases not exclusively in their sphere. They even, as haberdashers will tell you, buy much of the clothing worn by men. That average man so pointedly described by a national organization as John K. American is quite willing to let his wife or mother buy his shirts, underwear, and socks. If he makes shift to pick out for himself those garments that have to be tried on—suits, overcoats, and hats—he is likely to be bewildered by the haberdasher's assortment of colors and styles, and to resolve to take his wife along with him the next time he goes shopping. Whatever the exact ratio of the woman's purchases to the whole, it is obvious that she buys a great deal more than the male.
Elementary logic builds up to a conclusion: newspapers must have advertising; advertisers spend their money in the medium which produces the greatest results; women, since they buy most of the goods, are the most avid readers of advertisements: hence advertisements must be surrounded by reading matter which interests women.
Some heckler in meeting may rise to point out that women have always enjoyed shopping, have always devoured the ballyhoo of advertisers; and he may inquire why the feminizing of the press in order to make women read newspaper advertisements is a development of very recent years. A part of the answer is that the constantly rising costs of newspaper production have forced publishers into extracting more gross revenue from their advertisers in order to keep the net from declining—but this is a small part of the answer. The important reason is that newspapers currently find themselves in a life-and-death battle with such competing advertising media as the now powerful women's magazines, the movies, and, deadliest foe of all, the radio. All three of these agencies for reaching the public are devoted frankly to entertainment—not to comment or information which might interest the man—but to entertainment for women. The women's magazines describe themselves in their titles, and the occasional programme variations of the radio and the movies—book reviews on the air and the skepticism of Will Rogers on the screen—are only the traditional exceptions that prove the rule. Since radio broadcasting in America would not exist but for the advertisers, and since advertising is addressed to women, it follows inevitably that radio entertainment should consist chiefly of offerings comparable to Cecil and Sally and the Hollywood Newsreel Reporter. As for the movies, it is an axiom among theatre managers that a picture is sure of success if it exhibits enough costumes that are interesting to women. Every Hollywood mogul realizes that his business is supported chiefly by women, and he realizes that it will survive only as long as he can entertain them. Men attend the movies, of course, though in smaller numbers than do women, but many of them go because their wives and sweethearts insist on being taken. In some respects the male does not have as much imagination as his sister: he cannot bring himself to believe whole-heartedly in the reality of silhouettes moving in two dimensions and talking in horrible mechanical voices, and he somehow doubts that most dialogues between intelligent adults consist of one person offering a banal remark and the other saying, with a fake English accent, "Not really?"
Last year in this country scores of millions of dollars went into radio advertising, and a vast amount of this necessarily would have been spent in newspapers if Marconi had never lived. It was a dreadful blow to the newspapers, whose woes were increased when the money bags of the advertisers drew the yearning eyes of the movies. In the early days of the industry the movies picked up many an extra dollar by flashing advertising slides on the screen between Alms, but finally the audiences came to resent this practice, and it was a picayune business anyway. And so they refined their methods and at the same time enormously widened their scope. Do you remember a movie in which a newspaper reporter, adopting the traditional reportorial device for telephoning a name correctly, spelled it out and gave a word to stand for each letter? And do you remember that when he came to "1" he paused for a word beginning with that liquid, happened to see a bottle of antiseptic on the shelf, and cried triumphantly, "L for Listerine"? And have you noticed that movie scenes sometimes happen to be photographed with billboards in the background? Yes, the movies are getting their slice of the advertising pie, too.
The upshot of all this is that the newspaper publisher is forced into competition with the women's magazines, the radio, and the movies. If they did not exist, he could place an advertisement for washing machines on a page containing a discussion of international finance, and the women would look for it. But they won't now—they'll turn the radio dials and listen to the Songbird of the East in Heartwarming Melodies, these melodies being interspersed with ballyhoo for the washing machine.
A good business man, of course, adjusts his tactics to meet whatever competition develops. If the good business man happens to run a newspaper, he decides to increase his paper's appeal to women, confident that if the magazines, the radio, and the movies can do it, he can too. But first he makes very careful studies to determine what women really want to read.
George II. Gallup, for several years an instructor in journalism at the University of Iowa, conducted one of these surveys two years ago. Mr. Gallup used an impressive survey method of his own invention, and his findings are accepted as eminently trustworthy by editors and trade magazines. Follow some quotations from his summary of the survey:
Only an occasional man reads the serial stories; as high as seventy-five per cent of the women readers of a paper follow them regularly. . . .
Twice as many women as men read health columns; a third more women than men read humorous columns. . . .
A great many women read no news at all. . . .
The following features, and only these, are read by more than forty per cent of the women readers of one metropolitan newspaper—pictures, humor column, love advice, comic strips and continued story.
This, with disconcerting realism, pretty well shows the lay of the land. It offers the solace of understanding to the intelligent reader who is bewildered by the endless procession of women's features through the columns of his newspaper— health hints, beauty chats, Your Child and Mine, fashions in clothes and furniture, instructions for cooking, advice to the lovelorn, unutterably stupid and sentimental fiction; it will help him understand why one of the most conservative daily journals in the country on a recent Sunday printed "news" for women totaling sixty-eight thousand words. But with the pleasure of understanding why this strange selection of reading matter is offered may come a sudden fear. Are these features supplanting news that the intelligent reader, seeking useful information about the world he lives in, ought to get?
The answer, in the case of many newspapers, is a sad affirmative. The make-up editor's space allotment has not increased along with the growth in women's features, and necessarily the news report has been curtailed. A news article on war reparations, if omitted from the paper, will not be missed by the reader, but the omission of the day's installment of a love story will bring hundreds of protesting and angry women to the managing editor's office. Features appealing to women not only drive some of the paper's available news from its columns, but they usurp precious time on the press wires. The Associated Press now includes a fashion story in its service almost every day, so that a telegraph editor, wishing for a longer account of the Imperial Conference at Ottawa, will be confronted with this feature item in his news budget: "Paris. Bows on hats move from back to front. 250." The "250" means 250 words.
It would be pleasant if one could stop here, with the suggestion that the war has ended in a compromise, a dichotomy of appeal, with the features for the women and the news, albeit a diminished quantity, for the men; but the note on the bulletin board of the World-Telegram recalls the harsh facts. The feminine influence extends triumphantly to the writing, the selecting, and the editing of news as well. And this means that a story about a baby being abandoned is going to be written, not as a factual commentary on social conditions, but as an appeal to the emotions of mothers—and printed even at the expense of leaving out a discussion of the Lausanne reparations settlement. It means that columns will be printed about depressing little women's clubs, to interest those women who are taken in by such advertisements as "The clubwoman sends her clothes to the Superior Laundry. It leaves more time for culture." It means that a press association, covering the Hoover acceptance speech, will send a woman to the ceremony, so that the papers may record the details of the political ladies' costumes. It means that the entire list of winners in a flower show will be printed, even if printing it entails the omission of the roll call in Congress on a bill of importance to agriculture. It means—but the whole thing may be summarized briefly. American newspapers are being forced to sacrifice what is vigorous and informative for what is trivial and superficially attractive. In an age that, in its newspapers, cries for the closest thinking and the most realistic reporting, as in its literature it cries for a dozen Swifts, the American press tends to become merely cute.
And for that boon, as for so many others, we may give credit, in the title words of a popular play of yesteryear, to the ladies.


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Die Kosmic Free Music Foundation (kurz KFMF oder Kosmic) war eine weltweite Gruppe von Computermusikern, Künstlern und Programmierern aus der PC Demoszene. Die meisten Mitglieder kamen aus den USA, Kanada und Australien. Sie kreierten mittels Trackern hauptsächlich Musik der Stilrichtungen Techno, Trance und Ambient und entwarfen verschiedene Artworks und Demos. Alle ihre Produktionen wurden zum freien Download über Bulletin Boards (BBS) und im Internet angeboten. In den 1990ern war die KFMF dafür bekannt viele der Top-Musiker aus der Tracker-Szene unter ihren Mitgliedern zu haben. Ihre frühe Präsenz im Internet machte sie zu einem der ersten Netlabels. Leiter von Kosmic war Dan Nicholson, der innerhalb der Demoszene das Pseudonym Maelcum benutzte.

Entwicklungsgeschichte
Die Gruppe wurde 1991 mit dem Namen Kosmic Loader Foundation (KLF, jedoch ohne direkten Bezug zur britischen Musikgruppe The KLF) gegründet. Die ursprüngliche Intention der Gruppe war es BBS-Intros und ANSI-Art (ähnlich ASCII-Art) zu erstellen.

1992 begann Maelcum MOD-Musik-Dateien unter dem Namen der Gruppe zu veröffentlichen, wodurch KLF Musik-orientierter wurde. Inspekdah Deck (später mit dem Namen Venom; nicht identisch mit dem Wu-Tang-Clan-Mitglied Inspectah Deck) betrieb zu Hause in New Jersey ein BBS namens Trancentral II, das zur Plattform der Gruppe wurde, auf der sie kommunizierte und ihre Musik veröffentlichte ("Trancentral" war auch der Name des Aufnahmestudios und der "spirituellen Heimat" von The KLF).

Ab 1994 fing KLF damit an, das Internet für sich zu nutzen, indem sie einen FTP-Server und eine Webseite einrichteten. Zunächst hatten sie nur wenige Mitglieder, jedoch wuchs die Gruppe schnell an, da sie neue Mitglieder in ihrem IRC-Channel "#trax" anwarb. Zu dieser Zeit begannen viele Musiker bei KLF den MultiTracker von Renaissance zur Erzeugung von MTM- anstelle von MOD-Dateien zu nutzen.

1995 änderte die Gruppe ihren Namen zu Kosmic Free Music Foundation um den Bezug zu Musik statt Demos und Intros zu verdeutlichen. Nachdem sie einen Coder namens GooRoo angeworben hatten präsentierten sie ihre erste Demo "Flight" in voller Länge auf der NAID-Party in Quebec, mit der sie den dritten Platz im Wettbewerb erhielten. Die Kosmic-Mitglieder Maelcum und IQ bekamen zudem in der Kategorie "Music" einen zweiten Platz mit "Hitchhiking Reticulan". Dieser Track wurde später auf der von Maelcums eigenem Label Area 51 Records produzierten CD von FTZ "Nothing Is True" veröffentlicht. Weitere Demos und Music Disks folgten, wobei die Veröffentlichung einzelner Musikstücke weiterhin ihr wesentliches Standbein blieb.

1997 bot Kosmic ihre erste Archiv-CD zum Verkauf an, die alle ihre Musik-Veröffentlichungen bis 1996 und zusätzlich einige neue Audio-Tracks enthielt. Manche Mitglieder begannen ihre Musik im neuen MP3-Format anstelle von Tracker-Formaten herauszubringen. Viele Mitglieder des ursprünglichen #trax-Ansturms hatten sich seither zurückgezogen oder verließen die Gruppe für eigene Projekte. Es wurden noch zwei weitere Archiv-CD-Sets veröffentlicht, aber zu Beginn der 2000er waren die Gruppe schließlich in die Inaktivität abgedriftet.

Mitgliederliste

Organisatoren
 Maelcum (vormals ModDan) – Dan Nicholson: Präsident seit 1991
 Inspekdah Deck (später Venom) – Andre Cardadeiro: Vizepräsident 1992-1995
 Phoenix – Andrew Voss: Vizepräsident 1995-1996
 Draggy – Nicolas St. Pierre: Vizepräsident 1996-2000

Coder

Künstler

Musiker

Support

Veröffentlichungen

 Exceedingly Great Grooves (EGG) – Musicdisk (1994)
 Exceedingly Great Grooves 2 – Musicdisk (1995)
 Exceedingly Great Grooves 3 – Musicdisk (1995)
 Flight – Demo (1995)
 Little Green Men – Demo (1995)
 Dreams – Demo (1997)
 Trip – Demo (1998)
 KFMF Archives Volumes 1-3 (1997-1999) – Daten- und Audio-CDs

Weblinks
 Offizielle Website der Kosmic Free Music Foundation (KFMF)
 Veröffentlichungsliste von KFMF in der Demoszenedatenbank "Pouët"

Demo-Gruppe
Elektronische Musik
Musikwebsite

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Fortifying flour with folic acid could immediately prevent 57,000 annual birth defects, study suggests
Melva Robertson
melva.robertson@emory.edu
According to researchers from the Rollins School of Public Health, approximately 57,000 birth defects of the brain and spine could be immediately prevented every year in 71 countries by adding folic acid to wheat flour.
Vijaya Kancherla, PhD, an epidemiologist for the Center for Spina Bifida Prevention and research assistant professor at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health, was lead author of the study published in Birth Defects Research. The research team assessed the birth defects cases in the 71 countries where there is an immediate potential for wheat flour fortification. Researchers identified large quantities of potentially preventable birth defects in countries such as China, which represents more than 13,000 folic acid-preventable cases of anencephaly and spina bifida annually.
"It's important to note that 57,000 is an annual number. If fortification is sustained, in 20 years that would mean over 1 million fewer children with severe birth defects in these 71 countries," says Kancherla. "Fortification can be easily started in these countries using their current milling infrastructure, and the result would be an immediate prevention of unnecessary disability and death in children for years ahead."
Past research estimated that 233,200 live births with spina bifida or anencephaly could be averted if women had more folic acid prior to conception and in the first 28 days of pregnancy. Folic acid is a form of vitamin B9. Fortifying wheat flour with folic acid supplies this essential vitamin through commonly consumed foods such as bread and pasta.
Kancherla used four criteria to identify countries with the immediate potential for wheat flour fortification:
Existing flour fortification does not include folic acid.
At least 30 percent of wheat flour is industrially milled, with an "industry" defined as one with a capacity to produce at least 20 metric tons of flour a day.
Less than 50 percent of industrially milled wheat flour is fortified, regardless of fortification legislation.
More than 75 grams of wheat flour per person per day is available for human consumption, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
"Fortifying wheat flour with folic acid has reduced the prevalence of birth defects in every country that has studied birth defect prevalence before and after fortification," explains Kancherla. "Chile, South Africa and the US have also reported millions of dollars in averted healthcare expenditures due to prevention of spina bifida."
To reduce the risk of a pregnancy being affected by a birth defect of the brain and spine, the World Health Organization recommends that women take 400 micrograms of folic acid daily. But less than 30 percent of women voluntarily take folic acid supplements at the right time in most countries. Countries began fortifying wheat flour with folic acid for birth defect prevention in 1996 and currently 81 countries include folic acid in their standards for mandatory wheat flour fortification.
Health Sciences Research


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NIH Grant Supports ACRI and UAMS Effort to Reduce Life-Threatening Asthma Attacks
LITTLE ROCK, AR (April 21, 2021) — A National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant awarded to Arkansas Children's Research Institute will help scientists at Arkansas Children's and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) take a big step toward verifying a genetic target for potential treatments that reduce life-threatening asthma attacks in children.
A team led by Joshua Kennedy, M.D., principal investigator, and researchers in California and New Mexico will use the two-year $250,000 grant to confirm whether the specific genetic mutation holds the key to asthma attacks made worse by the common cold.
Kennedy has focused his research since 2013 on severe asthma that occurs when children also have a rhinovirus infection, a virus that causes the common cold. Between 60% to 80% of children who seek emergency treatment for asthma also have a rhinovirus.
The NIH-funded study will attempt to isolate a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP, also referred to as a genetic "snip") that might make asthmatics more susceptible to rhinovirus infection in a collaboration between Kennedy; David Broide, M.D., at the University of California, San Diego; and Daryl Dinwiddie, Ph.D., at the University of New Mexico.
"If we can connect this genetic SNP variant to enhanced viral infections, I think that is a huge breakthrough for kids everywhere with asthma," said Kennedy, an associate professor in the UAMS College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy and Immunology who sees patients at Arkansas Children's. "If we are able to sequence that SNP and know who has it and who is at higher risk, I think we can come up with treatments that are focused on decreasing the number of asthma exacerbations these kids have and improve their quality of life overall."
Broide is expert in the specific SNP (ORMDL3 asthma risk variant) and will conduct the genotyping. DNA samples collected from patients at Arkansas Children's will go to Broide's lab for SNP analysis. Dinwiddie will assist Kennedy with genomic sequencing of the rhinoviruses found in patients.
The study will look at two groups of patients: those with asthma who have the SNP variant and those with asthma who don't have it. The study will conduct additional analysis based on the type of rhinovirus. Of the three rhinovirus types, A, B and C, Kennedy said Type A rhinovirus may cause more severe exacerbations in those with the SNP because the ORMDL3 mutation increases the receptor for this virus on cell surfaces.
Kennedy will also use donated human lungs in his lab to compare responses to rhinovirus infections in lungs with the SNP mutation and those without it. Slices of donated so-called "living lungs" can be preserved and revived to conduct such tests.
Kennedy's research has received financial and other support from the Arkansas Children's Research Institute; the Arkansas Biosciences Institute, the major research component of Arkansas' Tobacco Settlement Proceeds Act of 2000; and the UAMS Translational Research Institute, which is funded by a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) from the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. His early research of asthma exacerbations was supported by the UAMS institute's KL2 Mentored Research Career Development program, which provided two years of funding and translational science training. Kennedy and Dinwiddie also received a CTSA-funded inter-institutional pilot grant to support their asthma research.
ABOUT ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S
Arkansas Children's, Inc. is the only healthcare system in the state solely dedicated to caring for Arkansas' more than 700,000 children. The private, non-profit organization includes two pediatric hospitals, a pediatric research institute and USDA nutrition center, a philanthropic foundation, a nursery alliance, statewide clinics, and many education and outreach programs — all focused on fulfilling a promise to define and deliver unprecedented child health. Arkansas Children's Hospital (ACH) is a 336-bed, Magnet-recognized facility in Little Rock operating the state's only Level I pediatric trauma center; the state's only burn center; the state's only Level IV neonatal intensive care unit; the state's only pediatric intensive care unit; the state's only pediatric surgery program with Level 1 verification from the American College of Surgeons (ACS); the state's only magnetoencephalography (MEG) system for neurosurgical planning and cutting-edge research; and the state's only nationally recognized pediatric transport program. Additionally, ACH is nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report in four pediatric subspecialties (2020—2021): Cardiology & Heart Surgery, Nephrology, Pulmonology and Urology. ACH is one of only five hospitals in the nation that have achieved Magnet Status, ACS Level 1 verification and a Beacon award from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Arkansas Children's Northwest (ACNW), the first and only pediatric hospital in the Northwest Arkansas region, opened in Springdale in early 2018. ACNW operates a 24-bed inpatient unit; a surgical unit with five operating rooms; outpatient clinics offering over 20 subspecialties; diagnostic services; imaging capabilities; occupational therapy services; and Northwest Arkansas' only pediatric emergency department, equipped with 30 exam rooms. Generous philanthropic and volunteer engagement has sustained Arkansas Children's since it began as an orphanage in 1912, and today ensures the system can deliver on its promise of unprecedented child health. To learn more, visit archildrens.org.
ABOUT UAMS
UAMS is the state's only health sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; hospital; a main campus in Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas regional campus in Fayetteville; a statewide network of regional campuses; and seven institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Psychiatric Research Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Translational Research Institute and Institute for Digital Health & Innovation. UAMS includes UAMS Health, a statewide health system that encompasses all of UAMS' clinical enterprise including its hospital, regional clinics and clinics it operates or staffs in cooperation with other providers. UAMS is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. U.S. News & World Report named UAMS Medical Center the state's Best Hospital; ranked its ear, nose and throat program among the top 50 nationwide; and named six areas as high performing — cancer, colon cancer surgery, heart failure, hip replacement, knee replacement and lung cancer surgery. UAMS has 2,727 students, 870 medical residents and five dental residents. It is the state's largest public employer with more than 10,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians who provide care to patients at UAMS, its regional campuses, Arkansas Children's Hospital, the VA Medical Center and Baptist Health. Visit www.uams.edu or www.uamshealth.com. Find us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Instagram.


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Хань Сяопен ( Hán Xiǎopéng, 13 грудня 1983, Пейсянь, Китай) — китайський фристайліст, чемпіон світу 2007 року та олімпійський чемпіон 2006 у акробатиці.

Він став першим китайцем, що виграв золото на зимових Олімпіадах.

Посилання
 Профіль на сайті FIS
 Хань Сяопен на Олімпійських іграх

Китайські фристайлісти
Фристайлісти на зимових Олімпійських іграх 2002
Фристайлісти на зимових Олімпійських іграх 2006
Народились 13 грудня
Народились 1983
Китайські олімпійські чемпіони
Чемпіони зимових Олімпійських ігор 2006
Олімпійські чемпіони з фристайлу
Фристайлісти на зимових Олімпійських іграх 2010


I made Veggie Potstickers for dinner tonight alongside Green Beans roasted in Garlic Confit with Lemon.
Oh – and I made up a sweet chili sauce to serve over everything. Sweet chili sauce seriously makes everything taste better.
C loves my sautéed spinach and mushrooms and I felt like making potstickers tonight, so I figured I'd try combining the two.
All laid out on my steamer basket.
There was clapping. MUCH CLAPPING!
They were so good that I pulled the half I was gonna save for later outta the freezer to quick quick make them for us to eat!
1- Heat a large skillet over a medium flame. When a drop of water sizzles it's ready for the mushrooms. Dump them in and let them cook until they release their liquids, stirring occasionally to ensure everything cooks through.
2- Add the onion and thyme to the pan and leave them for a minute or so. Stir and leave for another minute. Continue until the onion pieces just start turning colors, then add in the spinach and lower the heat. The residual heat of the veg will cook the spinach through. Just make sure you stir well every once in awhile. Don't worry about the liquids in the pan. There will be A LOT. You'll squeeze them out in a bit.
3- Let the whole pan sit until the spinach is cooked through, adjust the salt, pepper and coriander to your taste. Add in your garlic confit. How does it taste? You like it? What? It needs more salt? a little more garlic? Add away! Let everything sit for a minute to cool. Oh – and make sure you pull out the thyme.
4- Lay a layer or two of paper towels inside a strainer. Pour your mix into the strainer, then squeeze the rest of the moisture out with your hands.
5- Grab a baking sheet to lay out your potstickers.
6- Grab your wonton wrappers and a small bowl of water. Holding a wrapper in one hand, use a finger from the other hand to wet two sides of the square (or half the circle, if you're using circles). Now scoop a teaspoon into the middle and fold in half, pinching to seal. I went one step further and folded the two corners into the middle. I think they looked prettier that way.
7- Set some sort of steamer basket inside a pot or a wok or something that has a lid. If I were you, I'd learn from my mistake and line the basket with some parchment paper. Also, BEFORE you add the p-stickers make sure you fill the bottom of your pan with water – low enough that it won't touch the steamer basket. Lay your p-stickers on the basket, trying to leave a little room in between so they won't stick together later.
8- Cover with the lid and steam for 8 minutes. Serve on a pretty platter with some dipping sauce!
2 parts Mayo to 1 part Sweet Chili Sauce **tonight I used 2 Tablespoons Mayo and 1 Tablespoon Sweet Chili Sauce.
1- Dump into a bowl and stir.
2- Drizzle over everything, or just lick it straight outta the bowl. That's a viable option too.
These are seriously one of my all-time FAVORITE vegetables to roast.
Sounds delicious! I love making homemade eggrolls and then dipping them in sweet chili sauce. These potstickers look amazing! Good job!


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namespace tiny_dnn {
namespace kernels {

inline void maxpool_op_internal(
  const tensor_t &in_data,
  tensor_t &out_data,
  std::vector<std::vector<serial_size_t>> &max_idx,
  const std::vector<std::vector<serial_size_t>> &out2in,
  const bool layer_parallelize) {
  for_i(layer_parallelize, in_data.size(), [&](int sample) {
    const vec_t &in                 = in_data[sample];
    vec_t &out                      = out_data[sample];
    std::vector<serial_size_t> &max = max_idx[sample];

    for (serial_size_t i = 0; i < out2in.size(); i++) {
      const auto &in_index = out2in[i];
      float_t max_value    = std::numeric_limits<float_t>::lowest();
      serial_size_t idx    = 0;
      for (auto j : in_index) {
        if (in[j] > max_value) {
          max_value = in[j];
          idx       = j;
        }
      }
      max[i] = idx;
      out[i] = max_value;
    }
  });
}

inline void maxpool_grad_op_internal(
  tensor_t &prev_delta,
  const tensor_t &curr_delta,
  std::vector<std::vector<serial_size_t>> &max_idx,
  const std::vector<serial_size_t> &in2out,
  const bool layer_parallelize) {
  for_i(layer_parallelize, prev_delta.size(), [&](int sample) {
    vec_t &prev                           = prev_delta[sample];
    const vec_t &curr                     = curr_delta[sample];
    const std::vector<serial_size_t> &max = max_idx[sample];

    for (serial_size_t i = 0; i < in2out.size(); i++) {
      serial_size_t outi = in2out[i];
      prev[i] =
        (max[outi] == static_cast<serial_size_t>(i)) ? curr[outi] : float_t{0};
    }
  });
}

}  // namespace kernels
}  // namespace tiny_dnn

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We have now gone past the first nine months of our clean-sweep Government, in total control of the nation's affairs — with no one in any position of authority to question the actions and omissions of the political rulers on matters of State.
And to think that this was the second time, that the same leader and his NNP candidates, had successfully persuaded the majority of voters in the state to choose them and them alone.
Many would argue, that as a direct result the party and leader should have been amply qualified, to make the most of such a vote of total confidence, and not to repeat any of the mistakes made before.
Others would no doubt take the view, that because there is no one to even question their actions and omissions — then they can do as they please and do not give a damn to whoever thinks or feels otherwise.
Whichever side is right or wrong about the rulers' attitude and or their mode of behaviour — it really does not matter at this point in time, because time is on the controllers' side at this stage; but as the months change into years, and the years draw closer to the end of their term, it will become a horse of a very different colour.
On the other hand, in my view, the current controllers who have achieved this unique position for a second time — they have a duty and should display a far more caring and concerned attitude for the people who place them in that special position for the second time in four elections.
Instead, based on what is soon to be taking place all over the islands, the very people are having a hard time trying to make ends meet on a daily basis.
And as a couple pointed out to me one day last week — at this time of the year, the many trucks used to be seen going up the western side loaded with those Christmas barrels from the USA and UK, so far they saw one or two trucks with four barrels.
That seems to be the pattern on all sides as far as those barrels are expected, and those who are being denied the free gifts from overseas, are the very ones who are now sitting at home with no jobs in sight thus far.
So that as we go into the last month of this year — regardless of what the up coming Budget may disclose for the next year — the economic picture looks very bleak indeed, and the many homes Island-wide that would have received an Xmas cheer from those free barrels, they are now in double despair with no jobs and no free barrels from relatives overseas.
And while this situation is already so very desperate — all the talk from those in control seems to be about more taxes come next year to meet government expenses.
It is difficult to see where the taxes would be coming from — unless the economy picks up from where it has been in limbo for too many years now — and all the available signs tend to be showing that any upward movement will be a long time in coming.
The few persons who will have to pay more income tax, from the drop in the earnings level to three thousand per month — these will make no big difference to tax collection.
As for the increase in property tax and any other taxes, these will only reduce the spending power of a whole lot of taxpayers, so that the business level and shops sales in general will decline, to the detriment of the treasury.
The campaign bait that was thrown out to the voters before February this year — was that the foreign investors were lining up to come ashore, and invest their millions to provide jobs for the many thousands of un-employed, hopefully waiting to start working within the first ninety days.
Quite naturally the voters fell for the nice-sounding promises, and the election results were history repeating itself for the same leader and his party.
Not only have no jobs been provided — except for the few gangs of roads maintenance workers who get a fortnight every two or three months — but many more persons found themselves on the un-employment bandwagon that is just standing still.
And now to add insult to injury, the up-coming budget is widely rumoured to be adding additional expenses to homeowners and those lucky enough to be employed.
If that state of affairs is progress and nation-building, then something must be very wrong with the language on the one hand, but more importantly with the plans and economic vision of those in control of the nation's affairs.
We are hearing no more about those foreign investors coming to provide jobs, although the law was changed some months ago, and even after the PM's overseas tour when he was expected to meet with some of them to finalise plans.
The current Investment ole talk nowadays, is about people leasing the four government estates in the two islands, to bring them back into operation and provide agricultural jobs.
Where such persons would be coming from to embark on that kind of investment — only those in control would know about that, but so far no further information forthcoming.
So we can only wait for that special Budget [on Tuesday, 10 December], to see what it will provide and where it will take us as a people in dire need in the coming year.


Super Bowl 50's playing location may be in new stadium in Santa Clara, but the pre-game hype is centered in San Francisco. The City's tourism industry is amped up on near-lethal doses of steroids and it is spewing on to the streets a mutant blend of football/corporate hype mixed with Orwellian fear of terrorism.
Going downtown on public transportation is an amusement park ride showcasing the schizophrenic sizzle of the Super Bowl festival. Getting on your normal morning Municipal Railway car you are likely to be greeted by three heavily armed "Homeland Security Police" officers and their kind of cute K9 companion. If you work near the last stop in an office by Super Bowl City (which last week was a city park popular with the homeless) you will have to go through an airport-like security check. The Feds, the State, and the City are very visibly protecting the Super Bowl City site from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
It's unnerving to live in a police state. I am not saying that the fears of terrorism are unfounded, but I am not comfortable with the intense trappings of security.
Early afternoon yesterday I went down to Super Bowl City to see what we are protecting so carefully. The blocks around the foot of Market Street along the Embarcadero have been cordoned off for football festivities. Except there doesn't seem to be too much there that's football.
Corporate tents have sprung up along pathway after pathway. There's a feel of a county fair with lots of people milling about. But, there's nothing (or very little) to do or see. There's no livestock to admire or wack-a-mole games to play.
Instead, you wander along and see one corporate logo after another. You can queue up in lines to see something inside one tent or another… but, I could never figure out what people were lining up to see or do.
City Stage at one end of the village offered non-stop music. I didn't find the mid-day act compelling. I was content to walk with the beat on my way to the next area of the park.
I figured out that there were plenty of places to buy bad beer (sorry, Budweiser, but even if you are the official beer of the Super Bowl, you're not first class). There were also places to buy fancy food… no cotton candy.
In area after area, there just seemed little to do or see for fun.
I thought that security might be so tight that I could focus on the overabundance of over armed police, but it wasn't that bad. I thought that there would be a lot of tacky football stuff I could rail against.
Super Bowl City was spectacularly mediocre. Overwhelmingly corporate, dripping with logos, vicious in its blandness.
I hope the game is better.
See more vivid pictures of vapid Super Bowl City.
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On Friday 19 February 2010 the international community brought a new programme to St Vincent and the Grenadines entitled, Sport for Life. While this is new to this country it is a programme that has been in existence for some time and appears modelled on other existing programmes.
The launch took place at the Media Centre at the Arnos Vale Sports Complex where the sessions for the participants will be held on Saturdays.
The two sporting associations that need the national stadium most have suffered the most from the current government in so far as facilities are concerned.
While here to deliver the feature address at the Annual Awards Ceremony of Team Athletics St Vincent and the Grenadines, the Area Representative of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and President of the North American, Central American and Caribbean Area Association (NACAC) of the same institution, Neville Mc Cook, pointed to the fact that St Vincent and the Grenadines joins Montserrat and Anguilla as the only three English-speaking Caribbean nations without a national stadium for track and field athletics. This reality has not fazed the current administrations, which has made more promises to deliver the facility than any previous administration in the history of St Vincent and the Grenadines.
Even the most cursory examination of the modus operandi of the current government of St Vincent and the Grenadines will reveal what can only be considered a complete failure to appreciate and care for the youths of this country, an absence of any appreciation for the value of sport in national development and a total lack of vision for sport in this country.
During the past several years we have seen the decline of St Vincent and the Grenadines in a range of sporting disciplines where once we were competitive. There is now an ongoing debate as to the several factors that impact the state of affairs confronting the Vincentian sporting fraternity today.
The recent CARICOM Conference on Sport Tourism in Barbados examined a number of options in respect of the potential that exists in the Caribbean for the systematic development of a viable industry that adds value to the respective national economies.
The meeting lamented the seeming inability of some countries to take full advantage of what currently exists.
Tourism has long been considered a major contributor to the economy of many of the nations of the world. There are some countries that have taken the decision that since they lack vital; mineral resources and they are unable to make much headway with secondary industries emanating from primary agricultural production, to place emphasis on the gifts of nature by establishing a sound tourism industry.
Here in the Caribbean, for example, Barbados and Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, Anguilla and Bermuda all appear to have shifted to tourism as the single most important industry that underpins the national economy.
During the year 2009 TASVG encountered many challenges. There is little doubt that while these would certainly have helped to mould the organisation, they have retard TASVG's forward march.
On Saturday last, 12 December 2009, Team Athletics St Vincent and the Grenadines (TASVG) hosted its annual Awards Ceremony.
The activity was intended to celebrate the organisation's achievements during the year whether at the level of athletes, coaches, technical officials, volunteers or administration. In general terms the TASVG commended itself for being able to move forward in 2009.
The issue of government's involvement in sport has attracted many an enthusiastic analyst across the globe for decades. Indeed, at its most recent Congress, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) focused some attention on this aspect of international sport.
Governments see themselves as having been elected by the people to govern. This is their mandate. Part of that mandate is to facilitate the health of the nation.
It has long been argued that the right to health care is a fundamental right of every human being. There are many ways in which the government of any nation seeks to facilitate the general well being of its population. While many governments expend resources on the provision of appropriate curative facilities there has been increasing emphasis placed on the preventive approach. Part of this preventive approach involves the promotion of physical education and sport.
The world of sport has been undergoing change for as far back as we could remember. We can argue that sport is in a state of perpetual change. At different points in time the factors impacting change in sport may be far removed from what obtained previously. Of one thing we are always certain and that is change in the wide and wonderful world of sport.
There are those who would suggest that there are always major challenges confronting sport. In the Caribbean we are not always in a position to adequately deal with the challenges posed to us in the wider global sporting community. Somehow we seem less prepared than our counterparts elsewhere in the world. To some it seems that we remain backward compared to the rest of the world.


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Ron was a 21-year-old woodcutter living in the countryside with his father. His mother suffered from an ailment and could never give birth to any children after him. The clergymen frequently visited her while she was alive and hence his father could never think of abandoning her and living with the stigma of a selfish man in his village. His father had also started his career as a wood cutter and gradually became a carpenter. He wanted his son to follow his path as well, but was distressed with his wife's condition. To his relief, she finally passed away on a rainy summer night. Within a month he married Polly, a rich widow who was 36 years old.
Not only did Polly bring with her capital for Ron's father's new trade but she was an exquisite woman too. Any man would have wanted her but her only shortcoming was that she could not bear a child. Ron's father was elated after the marriage; he thanked his luck that no other man took her for marriage before him. Ron himself was captivated by his step mother's charm. There were rumors in her village that she was a seducer and now he could see why. Her tall frame with perfect proportions, the brown eyes, golden brown hair tied into a bun with strands falling all around as she worked and her soft skin that he longed to touch never escaped his notice whenever she was around him. She had an inviting figure and to Ron's excitement, inviting gestures too. The conversations they had were quite general when his father was around. She would ask him to have the breakfast, lunch or dinner, or about his day at the woods, or gave him some money to buy and bring groceries sometimes. Only when his father was not at home, she would go ahead and ask more personal questions.
Once the two of them were having lunch and her father had been out for some work when she asked him,
"Don't you have a girl in your life?"
"Never!" he replied.
"Never?" she was surprised and wondered if he was lying to her for some sympathy.
"No. Never." He replied again.
"Oh, poor boy!" she exclaimed. "What a shame!" she smiled. bahis firmaları
Ron ate the food silently. He was attracted towards her but wasn't sure if she actually wanted him. Sure he had slept with a few women but they were young slender girls and his organ had never throbbed so much for them as it used to throb for this plump woman with such huge breasts. He had passed many nights masturbating to her moans, the sound of which came from his father's room.
There were some days when we would cut his finger or palm with the wooden shards, and when he came back she would give him water to wash his hands with and some oil to apply. However, when his father wasn't there, she used to herself wash his fingers and then suck them in her mouth. It became uncomfortable when she did that for more than a minute. But she only seduced her to this level and then drew back. He was going crazy. He knew it was because his father had no routine of coming back to the house and could show up anytime that the two of them could never progress. But soon their time came. When his father's trade bloomed and he got the opportunity to take many of his hand- made furniture to sell in the city in a two-week trade fair, Ron was loaded with tremendous expectations.
The first morning after his father's departure, he woke up early just to peep in through the holes in the brick walls to watch his step mom take bath. She wasn't facing him but he could see her naked back…her round big hips…her thighs… and a bulge of her side boobs. He pressed his face and kept looking. Then she bent down to take the soap and her breasts hung down with her nipples hanging towards gravity. His heart raced and he touched his crotch. He watched while rubbing his penis and when she was done wearing her thin cream gown without any undergarments, he stealthily walked back to his room.
She called him a few minutes later for breakfast and he went to her wearing an unbuttoned shirt. The sight of her, intoxicated him. The main door was closed, the house was theirs and no one was there to disturb them. kaçak iddaa He could not help but be lured by such a sight and the opportunity. The gown fitted her body and he could see the form of her hips… the curve of her back above the hips…and when she moved towards him…those moving breasts with erect nipples.
He could not swallow his food down his throat. He felt he would vomit if he tried to. His body was not in his control and he didn't want to go to work.
"I don't want to go to work today. I feel dizzy." He said.
"Oh Poor boy, you torture yourself too much with work, don't you? Leave the work today but have the food or you will keep feeling dizzy." She said.
"I cannot eat." He said breathing heavily.
"What happened?" she touched his head. "You are breathing heavily! Come on, I am by your side. Eat something!" she said coming close to him and rubbing his shoulder.
He clenched his fists tight as he could not control anymore. She rubbed her hand down his chest and torso and went on to hold his bulging penis. She held it firmly bending down and pressing her breasts on his shoulder and whispered in his ears,
"Here, you won't shake anymore dear. I am holding you. You can eat now."
Just then he turned towards her, grabbed her head and started kissing her lips. She took out her tongue and they kissed passionately as he shifted from the chair to the floor over her. In no time were his hands all over her body over the thin gown. He used both his hands, touched, rubbed, grabbed and clenched all the parts of her skin. He pressed his boobs; motor-boated them, shook them, pinched the nipples and pressed them between his lips. She moaned, as he went wild over her.
Then she rose and rolled over him, unbuttoning him completely, removing his shirt and trousers. His penis hung out and stood erect. She held it and started stroking it. He removed her gown and his head was throbbing with passion. He was in her control. She came over him; moving her breasts on his face and neck, on his chest, touching his lips with her nipples, kaçak bahis letting him suck from both…she moaned and slapped the breasts on his cheeks. Then she rubbed them down his body and pushed them on his penis and balls. She then grabbed the penis and put it in her mouth and started licking. First the tip of the foreskin and then she took it all in till it hit her throat. As he moaned, she started doing it faster. He moaned even more and more and she held his hips and kept eating till he scratched her shoulder and stopped her. He came over her and pinned her down now, spreading her legs. His eyes were glowing with hunger and he started licking her fleshy pussy and rubbing his fingers on her clitoris. She roared and he did it faster and finally spread her pussy lips and shoved his salivating penis inside her.
"Aaaah!!" she gave out a cry when he hit her inner walls and cried louder as he stroked. He clenched her breasts while pushing hard. He groaned as his organ moved and hit all her fleshy walls and her walls gripped him in. She held his hips and moved with him. Her breasts shook from side to side. Her eyes rolled in pleasure…she came multiple times and wanted more and more…
He could feel her juices oozing out. And he felt like his penis would explode inside her. Every stroke filled the body with some current that shot up to their heads…the voices were trembling…the bodies moving recklessly. He took it out and then shoved back in, groaning and moaning and continued wildly and finally what was troubling him for months came out like a spirit outside a haunted soul. He came…and he came a lot. He sighed…thrice…and fell over on her sweaty breasts. She was breathing heavily. Both closed their eyes and heard their heartbeats. They smiled because they knew it was only the beginning.
Now all of Ron's expectations could be met. He was overjoyed. After a while, he ate the food she had cooked and ate quite fully while caressing her body as she leaned beside him. He was feeling her hips, breasts and pussy, whatever came in his hands.
They made out many times that day and explored more and in the night they were naked and cuddled. His penis lay inside her in her strong vaginal clasp and he slept into ecstasy while sucking from her step mom's nipple.


Surrendering the computer to the kids so stay tuned!
I discovered this link through my friend Raihanah's Facebook and it is a lovely gem!
Ten-Minute Tafsir by Quranica.Com is a series aimed at making the Qur'an more accessible in the current day, using the popular short-video format to present a simplified explanation of a few verses at a time. More of an introduction than a commentary, it is based loosely on A Thematic Commentary on the Qur'an by the late Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali, a great Azhari scholar.
I love little nuggets like these that help to recharge one's spiritual batteries… There are 11 videos to date and you can access them at Ten-Minute Tafseer's Facebook page or at their Youtube Channel. Other resources are shared at Quranica.Com.
… is hard to get.
We've been up to all sorts of things… alhamdulillah, our days have been productive. We've kept things simple this year – no crazy crafts, no mega menus… just lots of family time, reading, studies and prayer. For the first time in a long time, I think we are feeling a great deal of hope and serenity, alhamdulillah.
I've let the kids watch a bit of Ramadan TV and they love it. Uncle Jawad hosts a Little Explorers show for kids and his energetic antics had them in stitches (but learning a lot!). They also liked the more serious lectures by speakers like Sheikh Yawar Beg, Ustadh Yahya Ibrahim, Dr Tawfique Chowdhury, Sheikh Isam Rajab, Sheikh Bilal Ismail and others.
My kids and I have been blessed with really wonderful homeschooling resources, alhamdulillah. My husband has always been supportive and hardly ever questions my purchases. *grin* A fellow homeschooler in Singapore also ran an online store and ordered all sorts of books and curricula which helped me save on what would have been exorbitant shipping charges. Best of all, I live close to a library in Singapore and in Pakistan, am able to find loads of books going for a song at the second-hand bookstores.
I've often wondered what would happen if I weren't able to afford books and curriculum packages. It's made me a bit of a hoarder, I admit! Everytime I find study materials or curricula for free, I download and save… just in case! I still prefer to have my books on hand – it is so much more convenient than having to research, save, print and bind material myself, but it is good to know that it IS possible to homeschool for free if one is strapped for cash.


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Delivery Day | AirSprint Accepts Its 9th Cessna Citation CJ3+ Aircraft
Posted on Wednesday, 15 June 2022
PRESS RELEASE: TORONTO, ONTARIO - JUNE 15, 2022
AirSprint Inc., the Canadian authority in Fractional Jet Ownership, announces its 9th Cessna Citation CJ3+ has arrived to join its fleet. With this new acceptance, the AirSprint Citation fleet has grown to 15 jets, bringing the total number of aircraft in the AirSprint jet collection to 25. AirSprint now operates with 10 Embraer Praetor 500/Legacy 450/500, 9 Cessna Citation CJ3+, and 6 Cessna Citation CJ2+ aircraft.
"With this new CJ3+ joining the fleet and the jets slotted to arrive later this year, AirSprint is well-positioned to continue to support our current and future Fractional Owners in Canada," said Scott Wenz, AirSprint's Vice President of Sales & Marketing. "The CJ3+ aircraft has always generated a lot of interest as it is the perfect combination of range, speed and efficiency—and has the economics for ownership to make sense."
Individuals and corporations choose Fractional Jet Ownership with AirSprint not only for a cost-effective way to maximize their time but for its expertly selected collection of jets. The Cessna Citation CJ3+ aircraft is essential to the AirSprint fleet, which from an operational standpoint performs remarkably. It has light-jet efficiency and flexibility combined with mid-size jet performance, range, and comfort.
"Our fleet of exceptional aircraft is growing, as is our amazing team. We have introduced new software and advanced training that supports our team's expansion as we continue to elevate the private travel experience of our Fractional Owners," said Jared Williams, AirSprint's Vice President, Operations & COO. "At AirSprint, the acceptance of a new jet involves every department in the company, from sales to finance and flight operations to maintenance. It has been a busy and exciting day."
About AirSprint
AirSprint Private Aviation is a privately-held company with offices in Toronto, Montréal and Calgary. AirSprint maintains the largest fractional fleet of private aircraft in Canada, a jet collection of Embraer Praetor 500s, Embraer Legacy 450/500s, Cessna Citations CJ3+ and Cessna Citations CJ2+. AirSprint proudly flies Canadians from coast-to-coast, including service from Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal and the Maritimes. AirSprint provides discerning Canadians with a better choice for optimizing their time by enhancing the private jet ownership experience with industry-leading safety standards, exceptional turn-key service and increased flexibility; everything personalized for the Owners' individual travel needs. All at a fraction of the cost. AirSprint.com