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Paratroopers from the 1-325th Airborne Infantry Regiment jump from a C-17 aircraft. Photo credit: U.S. Army
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2014 – Up to 1,300 more U.S. troops, including approximately 1,000 soldiers from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, will begin to deploy to Iraq in late January, Pentagon Press Secretary Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said today.
"Their mission will be to train, advise and assist Iraqi security forces," Kirby told reporters at a Pentagon briefing. "This deployment is part of the additional 1,500 troops that the president authorized in November."
The roughly 300 troops who are deploying in the same timeframe as the 82nd Airborne group will be from multiple services, the admiral said. Their contributions will be in "largely enabler capabilities," Kirby added.
Changes in Location, Not Mission
"What makes this [deployment] different is simply the geography," Kirby explained. The advising teams will operate in the Anbar area and north of Baghdad, he said.
Kirby added, "But they're still going to be on a base and advising and assisting at the same higher headquarters level, [like] the 12 teams that are already there are doing."
While the American troops will be interacting directly with Iraqi troops, the admiral emphasized that those interactions will be occurring in a training environment and not out in the field.
The overall mission is still designed around training 12 Iraqi brigades, including nine from the Iraqi security force and three from the Peshmerga, Kirby said.
Role of Airstrikes
While the training mission is ongoing, the U.S. military continues to conduct airstrikes at an appropriate pace and with an appropriate sense of precision and urgency, Kirby said.
"It's twofold," he said. "It's to go after them where we know we can and we should, but also to support Iraqi security forces on the ground."
Kirby mentioned a "big spike" in airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant over the last week.
"That was to help prepare the Peshmerga for the operations that they conducted around Mount Sinjar, which, while they're still ongoing, have proven to be promising, so far," he said.
"It's not just a matter of more or less," the admiral added. "It's got to be appropriate to the threat and to the operations on the ground."
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OSDH: Garfield, Kingfisher women among 15 additional COVID-19 deaths; state cases up by 712
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ENID, Okla. — Women from Enid and Hennessey were among 15 deaths announced Thursday in which COVID-19 was the cause or a contributor, according to the Oklahoma State Department of Health.
OSDH officials reported 712 additional cases, a 1.3% increase, Thursday to raise the cumulative count to 55,550. Active cases continued to decrease, with 7,586, a single-day drop of 75, on Thursday. The overall death count is now at 778 since the first case of the virus was confirmed in early March.
There were 13 deaths in the 65 and older age group, including the women from Garfield and Kingfisher counties. Others were two women and one man from Lincoln County, two men each from LeFlore and Rogers counties, three men from Creek, Haskell and Kay counties and a Tulsa County woman. Deaths also included a Haskell County man in the 50-64 age group and an Oklahoma County woman in the 36-49 age group. None of the deaths were in the last 24 hours, the OSDH reported Thursday morning.
The Executive Report released later Thursday by the OSDH also confirmed deaths at Golden Oaks and Hennessey Nursing and Rehab but did not specify if the deaths were two of the 14 listed in the daily report. The Enid woman whose death was announced Thursday did reside in the 73703 Zip Code, primarily western Enid, according to the OSDH. Officials at both long-term care facilities said Wednesday there had been deaths of those testing positive for COVID-19.
The number of active cases in Garfield County was at 256 on Wednesday, a single-day decrease of 17, as cumulative cases topped 800, according to OSDH data. There were an additional 21 cases recorded in the county for a total of 816, according to OSDH.
Garfield County reported an additional 49 cases, for a total of 865 Thursday, with 292 of those active, a single-day increase of 36, OSDH data shows. There have been 562 who have recovered from the virus in the county and a total of 11 deaths. Enid has 813 of the total cases reported in the county, with 283 active and 519 who have recovered.
Other Northwest Oklahoma county case increases are six in Kingfisher, and one each in Alfalfa, Blaine, Grant, Noble, and Woodward. Major County saw a reduction of one case. Case increases in cities and towns included 45 in Enid, four each in Garber and Hennessey, two each in Kingfisher and Woodward and one each in Jet and Watonga, according to OSDH information.
Nationwide, there have been a total of 5,821,819 COVID-19 cases confirmed, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Of those cases, 3,557,646 are active, 2,084,465 have recovered and 179,708 have died.
There have been 4,673 Oklahomans hospitalized, a single-day increase of 64, with 533 currently in hospitals who have or are suspected of having the virus, an increase of 26, and 229 in intensive care, an increase of 11, according to OSDH's Executive Report Thursday evening.
Those in the 18-35 age group continue to lead the increase in new cases, with 248 reported Thursday by OSDH. Other increases per age group were 144 in the 36-49 age group, 125 in the 65 and older age group, 113 in the 50-64 age group, 77 in the 5-17 group and nine in the 0-4 group.
Cumulative totals of confirmed cases as of Wednesday were 1,236 in the 0-4 age group, 5,034 in the 5-17 age group, 19,532 in the 18-35 age group, 12,037 in the 36-49 age group, 9,953 in the 50-64 age group and 7,757 in the 65 and older age group. There was one listed as unknown. The average age of those who have tested positive for COVID-19 is 40.2.
There have been 855,824 specimens tested, with 790,299 negative, or 92.3%, according to OSDH. Of those testing positive, 29,115, or 52.4%, have been female and 26,399, or 47.5%, have been male. There were 36 listed as unknown gender, according to OSDH data on Thursday.
Of the overall 778 deaths in the state in which the virus was the cause or a contributor, 617 have been 65 and older and 128 have been ages 50-64, making up a combined 95.8% of the total. There have been 23 deaths in the 36-49 age group, nine in the 18-35 age group and one in the 5-17 age group. More men, 421, than women, 342, have succumbed to the virus, according to OSDH on Thursday. The average age of those who have died is 74.5.
OSDH reports 74% of those who have died have had a pre-existing condition. Of the deaths, 333, or 42.8% have been long-term care or nursing home cases, according to OSDH. There have been 2,035 cases among long-term care residents and 1,152 cases among staff, according to Thursday's Executive Report.
Data shows deaths in 60 of Oklahoma's 77 counties, with 150 in Oklahoma County; 128 in Tulsa County; 63 in Cleveland County; 40 in Rogers County; 39 in Washington County; 29 in McCurtain County; 23 in Wagoner County; 21 in Creek County; 20 each in Caddo and Delaware counties; 16 in Muskogee County; 15 in Pittsburg County; 12 in Kay and Osage counties; 11 in Canadian, Comanche and Garfield counties; nine each in Mayes and Pottawatomie counties; eight each in Greer, Jackson and Lincoln counties; seven each in Grady, Sequoyah and Texas counties; six each in Adair and Carter counties; five each in Cherokee, Leflore, Payne and Seminole counties; four each in Garvin, Haskell, McClain, McIntosh, Okmulgee, Ottawa and Stephens counties; three each in Bryan, Hughes, Okfuskee and Pawnee counties; two each in Cotton, Latimer, Noble and Pontotoc counties; and one each in Atoka, Beckham, Choctaw, Craig, Kiowa, Kingfisher, Logan, Major, Marshall, Murray, Nowata, Pushmataha, Roger Mills and Tillman counties.
Northwest Oklahoma
COVID-19 data per county released Thursday by OSDH shows Garfield with 865 cases, 562 recovered, 292 active and 11 deaths, all in Enid, including those reported Aug. 27, 26, 18, 15, 14, 13, 6, July 28 and 23, June 21 and April 10; Kingfisher with 246 cases, 163 recovered and 82 active; Noble with 101 cases, 87 recovered, 12 active and two deaths, including a Billings man in the 65 and older age range; Woodward with 79 cases, 54 recovered and 25 active; Blaine with 63 cases, 43 recovered and 20 active; Major with 44 cases, 40 recovered, three active and one death, a woman in 18-35 age group in April; Grant with 24 cases, 20 recovered and four active; Woods with 24 cases, 22 recovered and two active; and Alfalfa with 13 cases, six recovered and seven active.
Cumulative COVID-19 cases by city or town in Northwest Oklahoma include 768 in Enid (283 active); 116 in Hennessey (65 active); 82 in Kingfisher (11 active); 55 in Woodward (eight active); 32 in Okarche (two active); 30 in Watonga (12 active); 24 in Fairview (two active); 20 in Mooreland (11 active); 18 each in Alva and Garber (six active); 14 in Cashion; 11 in Seiling (four active); 10 in Waukomis (one active); eight each in Canton (six active) and Helena (five active); seven each in Billings, Lahoma, Medford (one active) and Ringwood (one active); six each in Dover (two active), Lamont (one active), Longdale and Pond Creek (one active); five each in Covington and Freedom (one active); four in Hitchcock (two active); three each in Drummond, Jet (two active), Marshall (one active), Mulhall, Okeene and Wakita; two each in Ames, Hillsdale and Meno; and one each in Cherokee, Cleo Springs, Deer Creek (one active), Fairmont, Fort Supply, Goltry, Kremlin and Nash, according to data released by OSDH on Thursday. Residents living in areas with under 100 in population or those with unknown addresses may be recorded as "other."
In Enid, there have been 446 cases, with 282 recovered and four deaths from the 73701 ZIP code, primarily the eastern half of the city, and 362 cases, with 234 recovered and seven deaths from 73703, or the western half, according to OSDH data on Thursday. There also has been one recovered case in the 73705 ZIP code, which is listed as Vance Air Force Base at https://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org/.
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COVID-19 cases per county in Oklahoma as reported by the Oklahoma State Department of Health Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. SOURCE: OSDH
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3721 63 3202 2020-08-27
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1124 7 1076 2020-08-27
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State Health Department officials are encouraging Oklahomans to get tested for COVID-19, saying recently that due to adequate supplies, residents no longer need to exhibit symptoms or report exposure to someone with the virus to get in line for testing.
Free testing for COVID-19 is ongoing at the Garfield County and other state Health Departments. Testing is by appointment only for Blaine County, 521 W. 4th, Watonga, (580) 623-7977; Garfield County, 2501 S. Mercer, Enid, (580) 233-0650; Grant County, 115 N. Main, Medford, (580) 395-2906; Kingfisher County, 124 E. Sheridan, courthouse annex room #101, Kingfisher, (405) 375-3008; Major County, 501 E. Broadway, Fairview, (580) 227-3362; Noble County, 300 Fir St., Perry, (580) 336-2257; Woods County, 511 Barnes St., Alva, (580) 327-3192; and Woodward County, 1631 Texas Ave., Woodward, (580) 256-6416. For a full list of county drive-through testing, go to https://coronavirus.health.ok.gov/drive-thru-testing. Some health department also advise the public to check their Facebook pages for more information regarding testing.
Emergency warning signs for COVID-19 are trouble breathing, persistent pain or pressure in the chest, new confusion or inability to arouse, bluish lips or face, according to the CDC. More information can be found at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/symptoms.html.
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Hot issues regarding inspection and the settlement of complaints and denunciations were major topics of a press conference hosted by the Government Inspectorate in Hanoi on July 22.
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Hanoi (VNA) – Hot issues regarding inspection and the settlement of complaints and denunciations were major topics of a press conference hosted by the Government Inspectorate in Hanoi on July 22.
Asked about Ha Tinh authorities' responsibility for leasing land to Taiwan's Formosa Hung Nghiep steel and iron company for 70 years, Deputy Inspector General Ngo Van Khanh affirmed that the licensing was against the law.
According to legal rules before 2014, the province was only allowed to license land rent for no longer than 50 years.
The Investment Law 2005 stipulates that any foreign-invested project is valid for a maximum of 50 years. In necessary cases, the government could consider extending business operations which should not be more than 70 years, he said, adding that the Formosa project did not receive the Prime Minister's approval.
Khanh said Ha Tinh authorities have not properly clarified their own responsibilities in the case, and the Government Inspectorate and relevant units are investigating several issues involving Formosa to seek solutions that ensure citizens' rights.
About the inspection of business activities at the PetroVietnam Construction Corporation (PVC), Khanh said the government inspectorate has uncovered law violations during the construction of a bio-fuel plant in Phu Tho and the Dinh Vu fiber plant in Hai Phong, which will be dealt with in line with the law.
As regards security and order at the citizen reception offices, head of the Government Inspectorate's Central Citizen Reception Department Nguyen Hong Diep informed that several riotous incidences happened at citizen reception offices in the second quarter, including a serious case when an official was stabbed and injured.
The Government Inspectorate has suggested the government and the Ministry of Public Security add citizen reception offices into the list of security protection targets.
A nationwide teleconference will be held to seek solutions to improving the reception for citizens and the settlement of complaints and denunciations, Diep said.
Le Hong Linh, head of the Government Inspectorate's General Planning Department said during the second quarter, the sector conducted nearly 2,000 administrative inspections and 85,000 specialised inspections.
The inspections brought to light the misuse of more than 8 trillion VND and 860ha of land. The sector recommended administrative disciplinary measures towards over 200 units and transferred 19 cases involving 31 individuals to criminal investigation agencies.
Four officials in the central province of Quang Ngai and the southern province of Tay Ninh were found to lack responsibility causing corruption. Two of them were disciplined and two were subject to criminal proceedings.
Ministries, agencies and localities inspected 782 units, 19 of them were found to have committed law violations, he said.-VNA
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"Molly? Where the devil are you? You are supposed to be at home. I didn't see you leave." Tom answered his phone and was surprised to hear Molly's voice on the other end since she was definitely not calling him from her phone.
"So you are on my protection detail," Molly muttered into the phone.
"It's a semi-permanent job," Tom answered. "Where are you?"
"Did you know Sherlock drugged me?"
When Tom cursed into the phone she realized Tom's innocence on that count. She told Tom where she was and he headed to pick her up. She just had to convince him when he got there to get her to Lady Smallwood. Sherlock's involvement had started with her and she had a great deal of influence in government workings. Molly was hoping that something would move the woman to work on Sherlock's behalf, as she also knew what a monster Magnussen had been and that she bore partial responsibility for Sherlock's position. Molly reminded herself that she also bore such a responsibility herself.
It was a little past a quarter after ten when Molly and Tom reached Lady Smallwood's London office. It had taken some coaxing but Tom had finally relented to Molly and he agreed to help her however he could.
It surprised Molly at how relatively easy it was to get in to see Lady Smallwood. Tom used his ID badge and Molly named dropped the Holmes title and the woman welcomed her into her office, if warily.
When Molly entered the office she was met with a tired looking woman. Molly had already seen the files in her mind on Lady Smallwood before she arrived so she was not bowled over with information overload upon first seeing her.
"My assistant told me that you are the wife of Sherlock Holmes," Lady Smallwood said with a questioning voice.
"Yes, I am. My name is Molly…Holmes and I am coming to you on my husband's behalf."
"I was unaware that the younger Holmes married. Mycroft has made no note of it." Lady Smallwood sought out answers to Molly's outrageous sounding claim.
"We wanted to keep it… quiet…my husband tends to get…unwelcome attention at times."
"I understand. What I fail to see is why you have come to see me."
Molly swayed a little on her feet due to the drugs still affecting her body and closed her eyes before speaking. "I came to beg you to help my husband. Surely there is something you can do for him."
Lady Smallwood took her seat at the desk and looked at Molly sadly. She sighed as she spoke, "I am sorry. I tried, honestly I did. There is nothing more I can do."
"You tried?"
"Yes, but Mr. Holmes killed a man-"
"Who was a monster, as you well know, interrupted Molly. "Your husband took his life because of that vile…I hesitate to call him a man…man's threats. You went to my husband for help and he became involved in the case-"
"That may be true Mrs. Holmes but I never sought for Mr. Holmes to take Mr. Magnussen out in such a manner."
"But you are not sorry for it," Molly accused.
"I will not respond to such an outrageous claim," Lady Smallwood said with a hint of steel in her voice.
Lady Smallwood's facial expression softened as she saw the younger woman's eyes fill with tears. Lady Smallwood got up and walked around her desk to approach Molly.
"I am sorry for how things turned out," Lady Smallwood's voice was laced with true regret.
"Please," Molly's voice cracked, "You lost your husband because of that abhorrent creature, please help me not lose mine."
The politician's eyes filled with tears, "I wish there was something I could do."
"You could tell them of your involvement-"
"That is out of the question," Lady Smallwood's voice hardened. "It will not save your husband from his fate and if I were to be removed there would be less savory people to take my place. I do look out for the well-being of this country."
Molly took a shuddering breath before lifting her chin up and concealing her emotions behind a mask. "I understand. I thank you for your time but I fear that I have taken up too much of it so I will be on my way."
Molly turned and was almost to the door before turning around. "Could you do me a favor and not mention my visit to Mycroft?"
"I won't be the one to bring it up but your young bodyguard will be required to report it."
Molly nodded her head in understanding and strode out the door.
Molly had known it was a long shot. She went over the meeting in her head once she was back in the car with Tom. Was there something more she could have said or done? She had new dirt on Lady Smallwood herself, should she have blackmailed her? Molly shuddered at the thought. She was not Magnussen and would not become like him in order to get her way. Her mind felt so slow. She leaned her head against the cool window and watched the city fly by.
"He doesn't deserve your loyalty and love," Tom's voice broke through her melancholic reverie.
Molly turned her head from her window and glared at him. "If love was about deserving or earning no one would experience it."
Tom softly apologized for his callous words and added, "You're a saint Molly Hooper."
Molly snorted, "Hardly. To be saint one must follow God. He and I are at odds at the moment." As an afterthought she added, "And it's Molly Holmes now."
Tom looked straight ahead, "Is there anywhere else you would like to go…the shops to get some food perhaps?"
"No," said Molly, "just take me home."
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Compared to the worst Maoists-affected state of Odisha, in the neighbouring states of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, the level of violence has come down substantially. In the coming years, Malkangiri and other south-western border districts of Odisha will continue to bleed because of the Maoist quest for safe havens in these districts during hot pursuit by the Chhattisgarh police.
Pushpa Kamal Dahal, alias Prachanda, made the trilateral proposal during his official visit to India in April 2013. This was the third time since 2010 that Prachanda had raised this issue. This concept seems to be a modified version of his earlier 'equidistance policy', which was declared after he became prime minister in September 2008. He proposed trilateral cooperation for the first time in October 2010 after visiting Beijing.
The Prachanda faction has made an ideological shift from being a revolutionary outfit to a parliamentary party with emphasis on republicanism, and has signalled its friendly posture towards India by discarding the previously ritualistic reference to India as an enemy.
This volume brings together views of some of the most eminent scholars and security analysts from South Asia on the challenges and prospects of a cooperative security framework (CSF) in the region. The objective of the volume is to generate debate on CSF and forge a consensus on the issue at the Track-II level. The contributions critically analyse such frameworks in different regions and explore whether it is possible and practicable in the South Asian region.
The objective of this article is to critically analyse the discourse within the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) or known as UCPN (Maoist) since its evolution and find out whether the Maoists have adapted themselves to the democratic process well by using democracy as a tool to achieve their own revolutionary political objectives. The article argues that the internal Maoist discourse reflects that there is no change in the UCPN (Maoist) strategy or political goals. They have only changed their tactics to suit the situation.
Although law enforcement agencies have been receiving timely reports about growing Maoist activities in Assam, it appears that they do not pay much attention to the issue.
Chinese PM in Nepal: A short visit but a long trail?
Wen Jiabao's visit came about at a time when China is concerned about the ongoing political instability in Nepal and is looking for new political partners after the fall of the monarchy.


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Trump Calls for Letting Americans Deduct Health Premiums, Import Drugs
The Republican frontrunner's plan did not say how some of its proposals would be paid for in the federal budget, and parts of it were at odds were previous statements in support of requiring coverage for pre-existing conditions.
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump released a series of healthcare proposals late Wednesday that could prove highly popular with consumers, if not the powerful interest groups that may look to fight them. The plan had few specifics, particulary how the many tax breaks Trump calls for would be funded. Its populist appeal is sure to cause discussion as the presidential contest heads toward Florida, where price sensitive seniors vote March 15, 2016.
Tax breaks and the ACA
To make healthcare affordable, Trump topped the list with a proposal to "allow Americans to fully deduct health insurance premium payments from their tax returns under the current tax system." While the idea was offered so that "no one slips through the cracks," there was no explanation of how this would be funded in the federal budget. This proposal comes at a time of increased cost-sharing in healthcare.
In exchange, Trump repeated his call to "completely repeal Obamacare," and singled out the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) individual mandate for special scorn.
However, in the past Trump has signaled support for not allowing insurers to deny coverage for those with pre-existing conditions, so it is unclear how this would be addressed. He also makes no mention of a popular ACA mandate that allows young adults to stay on parents' plans through age 26. Most experts believe that no matter what the fate of Obamacare, this piece will remain.
Repealing the ACA and offering tax breaks to ensure healthcare affordability would eliminate the reporting requirements that have come with the law, according to Dave Fried, president of TriCore, a Robbinsville, New Jersey-based firm that provides payroll, human resources, and health care benefits management services for employers in multiple states. Fried has also been Robbinsville's mayor for more than a decade and is involved in health benefits for the town's union and non-union workers. A Republican, Fried has not endorsed any candidate in 2016 presidential contest.
"The ACA has cost a small fortune in reporting, and it's a tremendous amount of work for employers. We even have to report on employees who don't work for us," Fried said in an interview with The American Journal of Managed Care. "This causes more work and more costs, and doesn't actually provide any coverage."
In his opinion, the combined proposal including the tax deduction would encourage employers to contribute more to health savings accounts (HSAs, see below) or provide more funding for healthcare.
Importing drugs
Trump said he wanted to "remove the barriers to entry into free markets for drug providers that offer safe, reliable, and cheaper products." Any proposal for importing drugs will be fiercely opposed by the pharmaceutical industry and its allies in Congress—and could create even more headaches for his new ally, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, whose state is home to several leading drug manufacturers.
But a Trump health plan with ideas for controlling drug prices is not a surprise, since he has been on record saying that "the drug companies" are the reason that Medicare has not been able to negotiate discounts on the order seen in the Veterans Administration. As a reader of polls, Trump is no doubt aware that the Kaiser Family Foundation and others have found that lopsided majorities of consumers across the political spectrum find high drug prices to be a major problem, and that the drug companies are at fault.
On Friday, a spokeswoman for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association (PhRMA), said importing drugs that had not passed muster with FDA could pose a threat to patient safety. "Under both Democratic and Republican administrations, the FDA has stated it cannot assure the safety of imported medicines from foreign countries and they would present a risk to public health," said PhRMA's Holly Campbell. "The competitive biopharmaceutical marketplace for medicines in the United States works to control costs and encourages the development of new treatments and cures for patients."
Campbell said that low-cost generic drugs comprise 90% of the drugs prescribed to Americans, typically at lower prices than drugs from overseas. However, a widely read report just released by AARP found that for seniors, at least, brand name drugs account for most expenditures (64.1%), even though generics account for more actual prescriptions (69.4%).
Medicaid block grants
Calling for giving states block grants to spent on healthcare for the poor, and allowing them to spend funds "without federal overhead," has long been an item on conservative wish lists. Opponents of this concept have had concerns whether women's health services would be adequately funded, or whether certain high-cost items for the very poor and vulnerable would receive adequate funding.
Healthcare savings accounts (HSAs)
This is not a new idea, but one that Republicans believe needs more emphasis. Trump's plan calls for HSA contributions to be tax-exempt, permitted to accumulate, and passed on to heirs, something critics quickly noted is allowed already. Trump's website claims that, "These plans would be particularly attractive to young people who are healthy and can afford high-deductible insurance plans." However, prior to ACA implementation, young adults had the highest uninsured rates of any demographic. Writing for Forbes, tax consultant Ryan Ellis asked whether Trump wanted to require everyone to have an HSA, not just those in high-deductible health plans.
The plan calls for transparency from all providers, especially doctors, clinics, and hospitals. Fried said issues of transparency and lack of consumer awareness about the cost of care are why he likes proposal, as well as HSAs. When consumers are only responsible for a co-pay, they don't take time to shop for the most affordable solution, he said. "A surgery center can be 50% less expensive than going to a hospital. A small procedure could be $50,000 in a hospital, compared with $25,000 in a surgery center," Fried said. "The difference is an entire year's worth of premium."
Selling insurance "across state lines"
Since the first GOP debate, Trump has mentioned this repeatedly without much detail. Today, his plan stated, "any vendor ought to be able to offer insurance in any state." Right now, the national system of state-based regulation requires each state to admit an insurer, and for rates to be set on a state-by-state basis. Each company's financial health is regulated in the state where it is based, or domiciled. Critics of this system say it is cumbersome, expensive, and does not allow large employers to take advantage of their size to get low rates. Advocates of the current system say scrapping it would lead to a "race to the bottom," with large employers seeking insurers based in states with the lightest regulations.
Trump's idea is not actually new. As proposed mergers between managed care giants reduce competition in many markets, some believe an "optional federal charter" would increase competition perhaps attract new entrants, such as property-casualty carriers who already operate nationwide. "Right now in New Jersey, we only have about 5 real choices," Fried said. In Robbinsville, for example, the town's health care losses were reduced, so as mayor Fried was hoping lower rates for 2016. But the rate came in flat. "No one else even chose to bid," he said. "If barriers were open, I would have gone out of state to try to get a quote."
At press time, there was no comment from America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP).


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Goose Creek is the area between North Charleston and Summerville, and is located approximately 15 miles from Charleston, South Carolina.
The source of the name has been lost to history. One theory is that the area was named after the gooseneck turns in the creek that extended off the Cooper River. Others say the name came from the prominence of geese in the waterway.
Most early settlers were from Barbados. As early as 1672-1673 they were settling the land, defying the wishes of the Lord Proprietors who planned to develop it into an orderly settlement. These early pioneers faced hunger and disease as they struggled to build new lives in the frontier.
For the next 150 years, residents thrived with the success of the rice, indigo and other crops grown on their large plantations. While the Revolutionary War gave America its independence, it altered the economy of the area. The end of slavery meant the end of the plantation system, ending the Goose Creek economy. From 1900 to 1950 the area was a collection of settlements of small farms clustered near country churches.
The city stayed undeveloped until after World War II, when the military began to occupy and invest in the area. The influence of new military and civilian personnel led to a re-birth of the area, and was the beginning of a new town.
Homes today occupy the land of former plantations. They vary from condominiums to exclusive homes. Residents range from single professionals, to families with kids, to retirees.
There are many opportunities for recreation in this area. Whether you like to go to the beaches on the coast, go boating on nearby lakes, golf, or just enjoy the mild climate, you can enjoy it here.


1. Read 4 verses to 4 chapters maximum a day of the Holy Bible if you are a new Christian.
Read 4 to 10 chapters in the Holy Bible a day if you are an advanced Christian.
3. Read your journal notes. Re-Read and Re-Read.
4. Read Christian books that increases your knowledge and faith.
5. Write down your Reflections about what you read in your journal.
Write down your Insights in your journal.
Write down your dreams from the night before in your journal.
Write down your prayers and goals in your journal.
Write a list of who and what to pray for in your journal, then pray.
6. Speak Praises. Praise God with your mouth from your own thoughts.
7. Sing Christian songs and Hymns.
8. Pray using the scriptures.
9. Ask God everything and tell God everything. Talk to God.
10. Pray from your own thoughts and feelings using normal language.
Pray up to 3 hours a day if possible.
12. What are your observations and insights from what you have read?
Write down what you have read in your journal.
Paraphrase what you have read.
Read, think deeply on, reflect and Pray.
Write down your inner responses in your journal.
Write down your dreams, goals and gratitudes in your journal.
Listen to what God says.
Observe your inner responses then write them down.
Study 4 verses to 4 chapters maximum if you are a new Christian.
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Kirstjen Nielsen's Brutal and Calamitous Leadership of the Department of Homeland Security Comes to an End
By Brian Tashman, Political Researcher and Strategist, ACLU
April 8, 2019 | 2:00 PM
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Late yesterday, President Trump announced that Kirstjen Nielsen has resigned as the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Trump said that Kevin McAleenan, the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), will serve as Acting Secretary.
Nielsen's tenure as head of one of the country's largest government agencies was a humanitarian catastrophe, consistently showing a clear disregard for civil rights and people's lives. Indeed, just over a week prior to her resignation, CBP agents forced asylum-seekers to sleep outside beneath a bridge in El Paso in extremely low temperatures and deprived of medical care.
Implemented family separation and expanded immigration detention
The most infamous chapter in Nielsen's time at DHS was her implementation of an unfathomably cruel family separation policy. The administration tore thousands of children from their parents — without even keeping track of many of the families it separated — in an effort to punish and deter families who were lawfully seeking asylum in the United States. McAleenan, Nielsen's acting replacement, signed a memo recommending the policy.
Nielsen's imposition of the family separation policy was a humanitarian and legal disaster that was ultimately curtailed by an ACLU lawsuit and immense public outcry. But even after the administration formally ended the policy, Nielsen continued to shamelessly lie about it, going so far as to deny that the policy ever existed. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) asked the FBI to investigate whether Nielsen committed perjury when she testified to Congress that "we've never had a policy for family separation."
A DHS inspector general report found that the department failed to track the children they separated from their parents, and DHS used information from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to arrest and deport sponsors and potential sponsors of the detained children. And yet, the separation of families at the border continues.
The detention and separation of families was part of a broad attack on asylum-seekers and immigrants generally under Nielsen.
She presided over a huge expansion in immigration detention. The number of people in DHS custody skyrocketed during her tenure, reaching 50,000 on average per day in March. Since the department's detention spending soared past the already bloated-budget approved by Congress, DHS had to funnel dollars from other agencies, including FEMA funds meant for disaster relief, in order to cover the costs of jailing immigrants in facilities notorious for substandard medical care, abusive practices, and violations of people's constitutional rights.
Restricted asylum and protections for immigrants
She attempted to curtail asylum protections in numerous unlawful ways. For example, she ordered that people who had entered the country in between official points of entry were not eligible for asylum, even though United States law provides precisely the opposite. In November, the ACLU and partners won an initial ruling preventing the asylum ban from going into effect.
She also terminated Temporary Protected Status for people from El Salvador, Honduras, and Nepal and failed to redesignate TPS for those from Somalia, Syria, and Yemen, despite the fact that violence and natural disasters have displaced tens of thousands of people in their home countries. While she was serving in the administration but prior to her time as DHS Secretary, Trump also announced the termination of TPS for people from Haiti, Nicaragua, and Sudan. The ACLU of Southern California and partners obtained a ruling in October blocking the termination of TPS for El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Sudan, citing "serious questions as to whether a discriminatory purpose was a motivating factor" in their decisions.
After Trump reportedly made racist comments regarding immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, and African nations, and instead wanted to prioritize immigrants from Norway, Nielsen denied to Congress that the president used the word, but explained that he "was using tough language." She also denied that his remarks were racist, bizarrely insisting that she herself didn't know that Norway was a predominantly white country.
Nielsen also was in charge of implementing Trump's Muslim ban — she was confirmed to her post one day after the Supreme Court allowed the third version of the ban to take full effect — and served as Chief of Staff to former DHS Secretary John Kelly during the implementation of the first and second versions of the Muslim ban.
Nielsen also championed the attempt to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), issuing a memo purporting to justify the administration's decision to end the program, which provides protections for certain young immigrants, but was rebuffed by a federal court.
Paved the way to build Trump's wall and expanded warrantless searches at the border
When Trump shut down the government for weeks in order to secure billions of more dollars to build his border wall, Nielsen was consistently at his side and parroting his false talking points. Even before the shutdown, Nielsen helped build Trump's wall by waiving federal, state, local, and tribal laws and undermining border communities in order to accelerate its construction, and afterwards championed the president's bogus "national emergency" declaration to build the wall, an unconstitutional order that the ACLU has challenged in court. The border wall would increase the number of deaths among migrants as they are "funneled" to harsher domains.
Along the border, the number of warrantless searches of electronic devices, such as cellphones and laptops, by CBP agents increased under the Trump administration. While Nielsen did not start the policy of warrantless searches, she defended DHS's practices that violate people's Fourth Amendment rights — practices that the ACLU, together with the Electronic Frontier Foundation — is challenging in a groundbreaking lawsuit. Under Nielsen's leadership, social media "vetting" expanded dramatically, despite concerns about unfairly targeting Muslim immigrants and immigrants from Muslim-majority countries, and expanding to all immigrant and nonimmigrant visa applicants.
Nielsen's disastrous and unlawful policies could fill a book, and this is only a summary of some of her most egregious actions, which extend to tear-gassing toddlers and being in charge while two children died in Border Patrol custody.
Her resignation comes only days after Trump withdrew his nominee to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), saying that he wants "tougher" people to carry out his anti-immigrant policies. Seeing as Nielsen was one of Trump's most brutal cabinet secretaries, this does not bode well for the president's permanent replacement.
All in all, Nielsen's legacy as an apologist and enabler of Trump's detention and deportation machine will go down in history as one of the crucial — and cruel — moments of this presidency.
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Ms. Gloria Anasyrma
The oldest trick in the book: blame it on the blond.
Mary Jesus
That is sexist. Or is that a typo and you mean to write blondes?
Sorry about that, Mary, I am a racist not a sexist.
We have enough parasites (illegal aliens, tsp, dreamers and overstayed visa holders). She has backbone that people didn't like. Democratic, liberals, open border and illegal aliens did not like her GET OVER YOUR LOSE.
Diana Eddy-Lyons
Glad we are losing people like this awful woman leading DHS. Wish we could get rid of the orange marmalade mad man who is our President. The most embarrassing, unqualified, vile man ever to be POTUS. Hope votes override Electoral College & we get rid of him in 2020. Maybe his dimwit followers will wise up before next election but doubtful
I feel sorry for you Diana can't believe Hilary Clinton lost. Get over it.
Your organization is vile, and I hope that you or your family is impacted by one of these illegals coming into the US. They bring drugs that kill over 300 people a day, the gangs kill people because they can and do. I only hope that it's you or yours and not any of the people here in the states that want all of this to stop. I am for immigration just not illegal immigration because we have no idea who is coming into the US and what their true intent is. All crimes committed by illegals are on you and your awful group.
If it wasn't for the ACLU, Maggie, you would know the meaning of the word "cangue".
Travelling to the US and making an asylum claim is a completely legal and legitimate form of immigration under US law.
They can claim asylum but not for sexual abuse, gang for jobs which 99.9 percent of people are here for. They have the legal right.
Fight for everyone's rights - support the ACLU.
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East coast mines and caves closed
Jason Barrett
Post subject: East coast mines and caves closed
Location: South Dakota
Caves and mines closed..east coast
Read the following for more information:
National Forests in North Carolina WNS Supplement
How many mines and caves are there on National Forest lands in North Carolina?
There are numerous unnamed small caves and abandoned mines on Forest lands, particularly in the mountains and on the Uwharrie National Forest in the piedmont. Blowing Springs cave and smaller caves in the Nantahala River Gorge are included in this closure. The Ray Mine area on the Appalachian District in Yancey County includes numerous small mine openings, all of which are closed with this closure order. Rock hounding is limited to exterior surface collection.
Are there any caves or mines within the National Forests in North Carolina confirmed to have WNS? No.
Are other agencies closing their caves and abandoned mines in North Carolina?
Yes. The US Fish and Wildlife Service sent out recommendations for closure and protocols for decontamination of clothes and equipment. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park closed all caves and mines in April. Spelunking organizations across the country are supporting the effort by educating their members and encouraging cavers to avoid areas of cave closures.
What about privately owned caves?
Linville Caverns in McDowell County is privately owned and remains open. Bat Cave in Henderson County is owned by The Nature Conservancy. These and other privately owned caves are not regulated by this closure order. This closure order pertains only to those caves and abandoned mines found within National Forests in the Southern Region. The Eastern Region of the US Forest Service previously issued a similar closure order.
News Release: 1720 Peachtree Rd, Suite 750, Atlanta GA 30309
Contact: Stephanie Neal Johnson, snjohnson@fs.fed.us
(404) 347-7226, c (404) 895-1709
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, RELEASE NO. 06-09
FOREST SERVICE CLOSES CAVES AND MINES TO PROTECT BATS IN SOUTHEAST
ATLANTA – Most caves and mines on National Forests in the southeastern United States are being closed for one year in an effort to protect bats, according to Regional Forester Liz Agpaoa.
"We are working to stop the uncontrolled spread of White Nose Syndrome (WNS) among bat species," she said. "The closures will allow scientists and land managers time to work together and study the fungus, learn how it spreads and how to best address it."
Under the 12-month closure order signed by Agpaoa on May 21, 2009, all caves and abandoned mines on national forests and units in 13 Southeastern states from Oklahoma to Virginia and Florida will be closed unless posted as open. All uses would be prohibited except organized rescue efforts and other actions specifically authorized by the agency.
White Nose Syndrome, or WNS, is named for a white fungus that appears on the faces, ears, wings and feet of hibernating bats. Scientists are trying to determine how WNS affects bats. The disease causes bats to come out of hibernation severely underweight. In a desperate attempt to avoid starving, the affected bats are often seen flying during the day. They are looking for food, but the insects they normally eat in the spring are not yet available. Once a colony is affected, the fungus spreads rapidly and may kill 90 percent of bats at the hibernation site in just two years.
FOREST SERVICE CLOSES CAVES AND MINES TO PROTECT BATS— 2/2/2
Bats are a natural and important part of forests and help control forest and agricultural insect pests.
Scientists believe the WNS fungus is spread bat-to-bat as they cluster in caves and mines, and it may be unknowingly transferred from one cave or mine to another on the footwear and gear of humans. Infected caves and mines may not show obvious signs of its presence.
No reported human illnesses have been attributed to the fungus.
"The syndrome has already affected caves in Virginia in close proximity to the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests," said Dennis Krusac, Threatened and Endangered Species Specialist for the Forest Service's Southern Region. "Staying out of caves and mines is the one thing we can do right now to slow the further spread of the fungus."
The closure order was implemented in hopes of protecting some of the largest bat populations in the country, Krusac said. Many national forests in the Southern Region are home to several species of bats, including the federally endangered Indiana bat, Virginia big-eared bat, gray bat and Ozark big-eared bats.
Nearly 500,000 bats have died as a result of WNS in the New England and Mid-Atlantic states, including almost 25,000 Indiana bats.
Caves and Abandoned Mines are closed Within the National Forests in North Carolina
Due to a mysterious disease, White nose Syndrome, bats are dying by the hundreds of thousands in the Northeast.
Caves and abandoned mines on all North Carolina National Forest lands are closed to prevent the possible spread of the disease.
MrAmethystguy ~ Some jokes just fluorite over my head!
There was a recent article about this decimation of bats in the New Yorker magazine. You have to register to read the article, but it is pretty interesting.
gingerkid
Gemology Online Übergoddess
thanks for posting this, amethystguy.
i believe i saw something on the georgia public broadcasting/the news hour with jim l. channel about the fungus which is killing the bats in the northeastern part of the us.
sad news...even though the fungus has not been found in the southeast, i believe it's necessary to close caves and/or mines for the survival of bats-and we have alot of them just in the state of GA.
hopefully, researchers will be able to help the bats by finding the origin of the fungus and a possible cure. i read further information that in the northeast fines are strict with possible imprisonment if anyone is caught exploring caves. also, congress has been made aware of the fungus killing the bats.
off topic, but, i thought i would mention that there's alot of strange things (diseases) happening with animals lately. the tasmanian devil's existence has been threatened because of tumors/cancer on their faces caused by biting each other-they are having to separate the tazzies which are infected from those which aren't.
gsellis
Location: Suwanee, GA US
I am just happy that the forest service biologist learned from past experience. The frog fungus that was causing issues in the 90's and early 2000's (along with dragon fly nymphs) was spread in large part by biologist checking the populations for this "mysterious" disease that they originally blamed on pollution.
Is there fungus amongus.....
jason! white-nose fungus is amongus


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I like to joke that I'm like Daenerys Targaryen. She's the Mother of Dragons. Well, I'm the Mother of Dragen. My oldest son was born in 2012, the Year of the Dragon, so I named him Aiden Dragen Jaeger.
For my husband's birthday this year, I wanted to give him some things related to Game of Thrones. I finally decided on a t-shirt that features Hodor's only quote.
I purchased the Game of Thrones theme song and secretly added it as the sound he hears when his alarm goes off in the morning. I wanted him to begin every day in an epic way.
I also paired my gifts with an "If I Could, I Would…" Wishful Thinking Gift, something you would give if you had all the money in the world.


Tackle Box Craft Kit - Mama.Papa.Bubba.
Miss G and I made several little portable craft kids for her friends in Kuwait, but when we got back to Canada last summer and wanted to create something similar for she and her cousin to take along on our house boating trip, we had zero luck finding carrying caddies like the ones we'd always found easily in the desert.
While we could have probably driven the hour and 15 minutes to the nearest Michael's and found a proper art box like this awesome one, instead, we hit up our local hardware store and made our way to the fishing aisle.
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We also decided to include some pipe cleaners, some wacky pencil crayons, some big buttons, and plenty of coloured card stock.
With all of our art materials gathered, it was simply a matter of arranging them in our tackle box. Just for fun, I like to sort things by colour and size, so Miss G was great at helping with that. When we were all done placing our materials inside, we had a few empty spaces left, so we rounded up some foam alphabet stickers, some hemp twine, and some large popsicle sticks to fill it right up.
Now Miss G's all ready for a summer of creative projects at Grandma's house, and we'll very easily be able to bring this kit along when visiting family or going on camping trips. Of course, this tackle box craft kit would also make for a really lovely gift for a creative kid too!
Hi Jen. Thanks so much for the inspiration. This will be a brilliant Christmas gift for miss four! I can't believe I even managed to find a pink Plano tackle box in New Zealand.


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What (Pregnant) Women Want
by	Jayne	on	November 1, 2013, 3 comments
I'm well over half way through this pregnancy now, with just under 17 weeks left until I give birth, and although this pregnancy has been a doddle compared to the last one, there are still things I'm struggling with. Being diabetic means that I'm on a strict diet, so as well as the usual regulations, there are extra things that I can't have any more. I'm already fantasising about what I want to eat and drink when I've given birth, and the list seems to grow every day. Here's just a few of them:
Fruit juice is one of those things that you think is super healthy, but is actually laden with sugar, meaning that it's a big no-no for me, especially if it's the one with no bits as that's got all the sugar and none of the fibre, making it even higher in the glycemic index. However, you can begin to understand just how much I'd love to drink an ice-cold glass of fresh orange juice! I'm craving citrus, the same as I did in my last pregnancy, and not being able to indulge is torturous!
This one is a real bone of contention with me, to be honest. The Food Standards Agency tells pregnant women to avoid pâté because it's possible that it can contain listeria. However, in 2011 there were just 147 cases of listeriosis in the UK, which is just 0.0002333333333333333% of the populations – can you see where I'm going with this?! My chances of actually getting listeriosis from pâté is spectacularly low, but because I'm a paranoid lunatic, I still won't take the risk, despite craving it in a major way.
Sushi is probably my favourite food in the whole world, and although current guidelines say that it's fine to eat if it's been frozen, I can't seem to get confirmation from anywhere that I've tried to buy it from whether it has been or not. This means that although I technically can have sushi, I've not been able to and I reeeeeally miss it!
I'm sorry I can't be more specific here, but I just want cake. All of it. Any cake. Or patisserie of any kind. Profiteroles, maybe? I don't like custard tarts, but I'd go for one of those like a hungry greyhound goes for a rabbit.
(image courtesy of Hyperbole and a Half)
I do love me a hunk 'a cheese, and while I know I can still have the boring ones like cheddar and whatnot, what I really want is a massive pile of crackers, a board full of brie, camembert and stilton, some interesting chutneys and possibly a glass of wine. Not just cheese of cheese's sake, but the whole awesome experience of proper cheese.
And now I've made myself really hungry and craving a ton of stuff that I can't have.
Ranty Friday – Selfish Parents
by	Jayne	on	September 6, 2013, 24 comments
It's Friday, which means Mummy Barrow is telling us all to get Ranty again, which is quite appropriate as I've had this post brewing for a few days, but didn't know where to start.
The other day, I was in our local shop, buying some ham. I got to the counter and there was a man in front of me buying cigarettes; he bought quite a few boxes at once and as the lady at the till rang it up, I blanched at the cost of smoking. I smoked way back in my late teens and early twenties, but gave up before I fell pregnant with Sausage, and the price of tobacco products has gone up a lot since then.
When I got to the front of the queue, I struck up a conversation with the cashier and casually mentioned that I didn't know how anyone could even afford to smoke in this day and age. The cashier was young, probably early to mid twenties and mentioned that she was also a smoker.
Let me just say here, I have no issue with people who smoke; it's a personal choice and as long as it's not hurting anyone else, I don't care what they do. I know they say "an ex-smoker is the worst" but I'm not judging the actual act of smoking.
The cashier went on to tell me that she lived in one of the flats (there are two high-rises near the shops) and that her and her partner both smoked with the kids in the house.
(blood pressure starting to rise…)
She then said "We smoke on the balcony these days because my youngest has got asthma. We used to smoke indoors but in the nicer weather it's easier to go outside".
(blood pressure steadily on the up…)
The final thing, which completely floored me was "I really should try and give up. My partner and I spend at least £70 a week on fags and my kids have to go without somethings, but it's just so hard. I go without dinner some nights, just so I can have fags".
(head explodes, rage spewing everywhere)
Where do I even start?
If she wants to go without dinner so that she can continue to smoke, that's her right and privilege as a human being with free will, but freely and in an almost blasé fashion, admitting that her kids go without because she wants to continue smoking just blows my mind. How can you put your own horrible habit above and beyond the needs of your children? I just cannot get my head around that. Looking at your kids and saying "You know what? I'm more important" is the ULTIMATE selfishness and makes me feel like these people don't even deserve to be blessed with kids.
How can people behave in this manner? I simply do not get it. I feel so sorry for the kids being raised in these conditions, without a parent who'd put them first.
I'm not doing a Jamie Oliver here and condemning those in a lower wage bracket because of how they choose to apportion their income…if she wants to spend her money on cigarettes, it's her money to spend, but surely in any family be they rich or poor, the needs of the kids should come before anything else?
Husband and I would go without anything if it meant that Sausage was provided for in the best way possible and I was under the (apparently deluded) impression that this was an attitude which would be shared by 99% of other parents.
Am I alone in thinking that this is terrible behaviour?
Click on the duck to see why Mummy Barrow is ranting about selfish plane passengers and all of the other blogs who've linked up this week.
The epic and generally wonderful Mummy Barrow has tagged me in a meme (one which I was secretly hoping to be tagged in, if I'm honest) based on the TV show Room 101 and meme-ified into blogging history by Helen at Stickers, Stars and Smiles (who is also epic and wonderful). I love the concept of the TV show and am pleased to be able to finally watch it again after they got rid of Paul 'I'm an unfunny skin-flute' Merton, who I cannot abide but won't stoop to waste one of my Room 101 spots on.
So, without further ado, here are the three things, or three sets of people as it transpires, that I would place in my very own Room 101.
People Who Don't Pick Up Their Dog Shit
Why is it that some people want to own dogs but refuse to pick up their excrement? Is there anything worse than stepping in the freshly-lain cable of someone elses hound? Actually, yes, it's worse when you're walking your own dog and have stooped to pick up their shit, in the manner of all decent dog owners, and go on to step in something left by someone else. And don't even get me started on the absolute mother f*ckers who bag it and then DROP THE SHIT FILLED BAG. I think I hate these people because they think that they're beyond scooping, to which my answer would be "Well, don't get a fucking dog then!". If you want a dog, there are certain responsibilities that go along with it and scooping poop is one of them.
People Who Believe Everything They Read in The Daily Mail
Look, I know The Daily Mail looks like a real newspaper; it's made of paper and has something pretending to be news in it. Unfortunately, that's where the similarities stop. The stuff that's printed in The Daily Mail is generally, in a news sense, on par with what was left on the pavement in the point above. So why, oh why, are people still being sucked in by it's jingoistic, anti-everything bollocks? Do you really believe that people on benefits are living the high life or that evil immigrants are taking over our country and breeding us out? Or maybe, just maybe, you're a terminally outraged peanuthead and the crap in The Daily Fail fits in with your narrow way of thinking, helping you to feel justified in the fact that you're a complete bigot.
People Who Say "I Don't Like…" Before They've Even Tried It
I have one question for the people who do this: HOW DO YOU KNOW?
How can you possibly ever claim to not like something if you've never tried it? This mainly applies to food, because there are obviously legitimate circumstances that would let you know that you wouldn't like a particular experience (deathly fear of heights? You probably won't like base jumping then, and I'll let you off of having to prove it). But if you're THAT much of a baby that you'd rather not even put something in your mouth and taste it before you rule it out of your life completely, then you deserve to only consume lukewarm tap water and the protein-gruel that the eat on the Nebuchadnezzar in The Matrix for the rest of your boring, dull life.
I now tag the following people to give me their entries to Room 101:
Michael at Essex Outlaw
Cas at Mummy Never Sleeps
Clare at Seasider in the City
Ranty Friday – Feminine Hygiene Products
by	Jayne	on	May 25, 2013, 40 comments
I am a woman just in case you hadn't noticed. I have spent a lot of time in the company of other women. Let me demonstrate:
I attended an all-girls school from the ages of 11-17
I spent a good few years learning bellydancing in all-female classes and travelling around to workshops and performances
I used to play netball for my town
The majority of my friends are women and there's a definite female:male bias in my family too, with dozens of female cousins and second cousins
Which is why this next statement may come as a surprise to you…I have never been offended by the odour of another woman's intimate, female regions. In fact, I won't stop at offended, I'll go as far as to say that I've never so much been AWARE of the odour of another woman's intimate female regions.
And that's where I'm confused, dear readers. See, I've never seen extensive stashes of Femfresh or any other feminine washing products in the houses of my friends and family, but surely they MUST be using them if I'm not being overwhelmed by their ripe stench?
**If you haven't realised so far that I'm writing with an enormous pinch of sarcasm, I suggest you stop reading now and go and read something which won't offend the fluffy kittens that are currently taking up residence in your brain cavity**
Women, listen up.
This is an *actual* Femfresh ad campaign.
I know. It made me feel stabby too.
Femfresh is ridiculous. It's a myth, peddled by companies to play on your paranoia and every time you buy one of their products, you're perpetuating that myth. Have you ever been sitting around and thought "Wow, what's that smell? Is it…my…fanny?!"? No? Okay, so if your nose, the nose which is presumably closest to your own foof on a daily basis, cannot smell your areas, the chances are that A.N.Other random passer-by isn't going to be able to either. Unless they're part bear. Bears have an amazing sense of smell, you know.
The thing that is really offensive about it all is the sheer range of products that Femfresh offer. Specialist "triple-action deodorising" fanny wash not strong enough to keep your olfactory-offender under control? Well, how about some handy portable wipes for keeping you fresh 'on-the-go'? And if that's not enough, there's even a spray deodorant for your downstairs mix-up. With MOISTURISING SILK EXTRACTS, nonetheless. And finally, if you really cannot keep your quim under wraps, there's a panty liner with 'silver-care technology' to really ensure you aren't bothering anybody with your feminine effluvium.
The things is, men have privates too, but you don't see supermarket shelves bulging with "Barry's Patented Ball Wash" or boxes of silver-filled sheathes to encapsulate the bollocks, lest we ever catch a whiff of the breeze as it passes through their danglers. Sure, men probably wouldn't buy ball-wash if it existed, choosing rather to embrace their manliness and let things marinate, but that's not the point.
I would love, at this point, to make a cogent argument about how this is further proof of the demonisation of women and how we're viewed as unclean and second-class, but this has gone on for too long and too many women have allowed themselves to be sucked in by this now. It's become a vicious circle, we've played into the Ad-Man's hands and made his job easy. We've run away with our paranoia and allowed ourselves to be manipulated. We don't know right from wrong anymore. So, I'll make it simple for women of all ages and backgrounds and end by saying this:
If your fanny is really that whiffy, GO AND SEE A DOCTOR. It's not a specialist tuppence-wash you need, it's medical attention and possibly some ointment.
Take Me Out – Misandry Gone Mad?
by	Jayne	on	November 30, 2012, 20 comments
A few months ago, I became aware of the programme 'Take Me Out', mostly because of a million tweets with the hashtag #nolikeynolighty every Saturday night, so I decided to check out what is was all about. For those of you who have never seen it, Wikipedia explains it a lot better than I can:
The objective of the show is for a man to gain a date with one of thirty single women. The women stand on stage underneath thirty white lights, each with a button in front of them. A single man is then brought on stage via the 'Love Lift' and tries to woo the women in a series of rounds, playing a prerecorded dating video, displaying a skill (such as dancing or playing a musical instrument), or playing another video in which the man's friends or family reveal more about him. At any point during the rounds, the women can press the button in front of them to turn off their light (their area of the stage will turn red if they do so). If, at the end of three rounds, there are still lights left on, the bachelor will turn off all but two of the remaining lights himself. He will then have a chance to ask one question to the last two women, before choosing which woman he wants to go on a date with by turning off one more light. If the man is left with 2 lights at the end of round 3, then he will just ask his question to the two remaining women and if there is only 1 light left at the end of round 3 then he will go on a date with that girl without asking them his question.
For a while, I really enjoyed watching it. I got involved with the Tweeting and even had something I said retweeted by Leah (one of the 30 girls at the time) when I said she had a head like a fifty pence piece. I was being bitchy, but she seemed to take it in good humour, so it's all good. I loved seeing the dates, mostly because (as was the curse of Blind Date) they'd usually get to their date destination and realise they had NOTHING to talk about (I have a morbid fascination for awkwardness, I think) and I even started to get to know the contestants who'd been hanging around dateless for a while. It seemed like Saturday night telly from when I was a kid – all that was missing was an hour of Gladiators beforehand!
A couple of weeks ago, though, Husband made an small, innocuous comment that really got me thinking about the show and I've not watched it since because of it. He said "Imagine if this show was the other way around?"
What he meant was, imagine if there were 30 blokes and one woman choosing instead.
At the moment, they have one lad come on at a time and the girls make salacious comments, pass judgement on the bloke, watch him perform like a circus animal in some cases and basically treat him like a piece of meat.
So. Imagine if it was the other way around. 30 men, sizing up a single girl, making her jump through hoops deciding whether or not she was good enough for them. Would you still watch it? Or would the whole situation not seem a bit intimidating, belittling, degrading?
Maybe I'm taking it all a bit too seriously – most of the people on the show are young, single, out for a good time and just want a chance of a free short break and to be on telly. In that respect, I get it, I do. But there is a real issue of inequality going on here. The format of the show is obviously very deliberate in that the man has to do the hard part so that it doesn't seem distasteful or misogynistic, but what is it they say about the goose and the gander? Why is it okay for men to humiliate themselves but not women? Isn't it funny how most people know the word 'misogyny' but far less know about 'misandry'. **
I've written before about how equality goes both ways, or at least it should, and I think in this case the bosses of ITV need to drag themselves out of the dark ages. I can't watch the show any more without having hallucinations where there's 30 lionesses on stage fighting over one gazelle in a clown costume, it's just too cringe-worthy.
What do you think? Am I taking it too seriously, or is this type of sexism a button-pusher for you too?
**Ironically, the WordPress dictionary didn't even recognise that word…
(I'm linking this up with Mummy Barrow's Ranty Friday Linky)
Mumsnet, a Hospital Visit and A Community-Sized Hug
This has been a funny old week in the Parent Blogging community. Saturday saw one of the years biggest blogging conferences, put on by Mumsnet, and for a while everyone was abuzz with chatter of what went on at the conference. Then, on Sunday, the Daily Mail printed an article by She Who Shall Not Be Named, a woman who apparently has no desire to endear herself to anyone, condemning us all as mindless drones who live only to serve their Husbands (who are obviously the only breadwinners in the house) and while away the time (which let's face it, we have TONS of because parenting and looking after kids is such a doddle) with cupcake baking and crocheting.
I'm not even going to justify her pathetic jabs with any sort of specific rebuttal to the claims she's made about us as a whole because I have another theory. This woman is well-documented as saying that she doesn't have any friends and struggles with interpersonal relationships. I think her comments come from a sense of teeth-grindingly intense jealousy. When she attended BlogFest on Saturday, she will have seen hundreds of women, all from different places, all with different lives, different interests, with different amounts of money, different levels of education, coming together to spend time in a huge sisterhood. That's gotta sting when you're a friendless crone, right?
I came to this conclusion yesterday night. If you've read my previous post you'll know that I spent a large chunk of yesterday in hospital. I came home and plugged my phone in (fucking iPhone battery, mutter mutter) to find texts, emails, wall posts, messages and group posts from no less than a dozen bloggers who I've come to know over the past two years. Offers of help, offers of ears to bend if I needed to. One of them even tried ringing the hospital I'd gone to, to see if they could find anything out, so worried they'd been at my unusual radio silence.
Friendship is something that a lot of us take for granted and although I'm not lucky enough to have all of these ladies living just around the corner from me, although I can't pop round for a coffee if I have five minutes to spare, although I've never met a lot of them on a face to face basis, I know I have a community of women who are rooting for me. If I need a shoulder to cry on or a place to ask for a cheer of 'good luck!' before an interview, they're there. I've seen my community do amazing things, help others out when they're in genuine need and have nowhere else to turn and it's a very nice feeling to know that they'd have my back if I needed them.
And that, as far as I'm concerned, is why the lonely She Who Shall Not Be Named has taken such umbridge. Jealousy, pure and simple. If only she'd been a bit nicer, she may have made some friends too.
Thanks everyone. You know who you are.
Holding My Breath
by	Jayne	on	October 1, 2012, 5 comments
If you read this blog regularly or follow me on Twitter, you'll know that I'm a pretty 'heart-on-sleeve' kinda gal. There are very few subjects that I won't write about; the way I see it – my space, my rules. I've always been the same and those close to me have often remarked that they worry my openness will leave me vulnerable as not everyone in the world is nice. The thing is, try as I might, I can't help myself. It's no coincidence that my Mum called me 'Gob on a Stick' when I was a kid!
However, just recently, there have been some things that I can't gab about, either to readers or Real Life Friends, and it's making me feel peculiar.
I've written before about how superstitious I am and how at times it's felt like it's taking over my life, walking along the street by myself, avoiding the cracks and saluting the magpies, but at the moment I'm under the curse of the jinx. There are things going on, both good and bad, and if I talk about them I might jinx them. I know how stupid that sounds, like by mentioning something I'm going to somehow change the course of future events, but it's just the way my mind works. There's logic in there somewhere – if I DON'T talk about it and anything goes wrong, I know I didn't jinx it by talking about it, does that make any sense?
The problem with this is that I feel like I'm holding my breath. I've taken a deep breath in and I have no idea when I'm going to be able to exhale again. It's a frustrating feeling that I don't like very much. As a control freak, it's not all that conducive to my usual way of doing things, you know? The stuff that's going on is only partially in my control and it's not that great for my frame of mind.
All I know is, once this week is over, I'll know where I stand a little bit more and hopefully things will start to fall into our new version of normal. But until then, if you only get one-word answers out of me, don't be too surprised!
What Has Happened to the Top 40?
by	Jayne	on	September 23, 2012, 6 comments
One of my earliest memories as a child is singing and dancing with my Mum to 'Reet Petite' by Jackie Wilson. It was re-released in the UK in 1986, so I can have been no older than two or three but I adored it and used to get really sad when the plasticine Jackie would melt at the end of the video!
When I think about it, many of my memories centre around music. When I was 6, I remember watching my mum get ready for her evening bar job, backcombing her hair and squeezing into some seriously tight Levis, listening to 'Ride on Time' by Black Box. Around the same time, my Mum started seeing my step-dad and I fell instantly in love with him when he let me have free reign over his record collection. I'd sit for HOURS on a Sunday afternoon putting on album after album, being oh-so-careful with the needle on the record player, listening to John Lee Hooker, Santana, Van Morrison, The Who, The Cure…he had so many records and it was such an amazing musical education.
That's Enough, Steve Carell
Let me begin by saying, I really like Steve Carell. He's a good actor, I tend to like the roles he plays, he seems like an all-round good stick.
But he's getting on my nerves.
So far this week, we've heard him doing voices in Despicable Me, Over the Hedge and Horton Hears a Who. It's not an over-saturation problem as such, like with certain celebs. Like how, a few years ago, I got genuinely so sick to the back teeth of seeing Johnny Depp in EVERYTHING Tim Burton did. I know he's good and all that, but I'm bored with him now. No. It's because I have to try to work out a way to explain to Sausage why Gru, Hammy and Ned McDodd the Mayor of Whoville all sound the bloody same, without ruining the magic for her!
Dirty Flaps and Other Things That Get on my Nerves.
Lately, I've noticed that there are little things which really niggle at me, minor annoyances that have been making the top of my head blow off like a volcano (well, almost…) so I thought I'd list them here as a sort of catharsis.
1. People Who Get To The Till at the Supermarket Then Act Surprised That They Have To Pay.
Okay, long-winded title which more or less explains itself, but what the merry FUCK is it with people who do that? You're in a shop. Unless you plan on committing petty larceny, the chances are you'll be paying once your goods are rung up. So why oh WHY do people wait until every last item is put away and the checkout operator is looking at them with keen expectancy do these numpties only then get their purse or wallet out. And don't even get me started on Nectar cards/Clubcards/Advantage cards. I'm so sick of getting stuck behind some tit in a trance who contributes towards making my life at least 10% less efficient.
Look at my filthy flap.
2. Dirty Flaps.
Yep, I hate it when my flaps get dirty.
Okay, so I mean the flaps on the top of my bins. We have two bins, side by side in the kitchen, one for recycling, one for everything else (when the council bother to deliver red sacks, but that's a different rant entirely) and no matter how many times a day I wipe them down, they always seem to be covered in schmutz. I don't know what the solution is, but it hacks me off.
3. Discounts That Aren't Really a Discount.
Last week, Husband took me out to buy me a new laptop and we went to our local PC World as it had a closing down sale on. I found a laptop I wanted which was an ex-display model and seemed to have a really good amount chopped off. Then the salesman came over and, Zombie Jesus bless him, he was very honest and told us that the original price of five hundred and something was only charged for about a week and that it was really worth £299. Right, so let me get this straight. The laptop was only ever worth £299 and has been on display for six months and you're still charging £269 for it? Jog. On. £30 off for having a million sausage-fingered morons stabbing at it every time the shop opened? Nuhthanks….
4. Bad Drivers.
I know I blogged about this one before, but the fuckwittery I've encountered seems to be worsening. The other day, I was driving through a car park and stopped to let a person back out of a disabled space and the person behind me tried to overtake and almost ploughed into the side of the car backing out. I mean, really? Was that bloke in SUCH a rush that he needed to take that risk? I also had a grown man literally screaming out of the window at me while I had Sausage in the car for not pulling out quick enough (just for the record, I pulled out plenty quick enough). What possesses grown people to behave this way?
Yeah. Course you were…
5. Bourgeois Bigotry.
I'm not the biggest fan of the Olympics, it has to be said, but when twats like Aiden Burley MP start going on about the opening ceremony (which, incidentally, was absolutely bloody brilliant and I'm SO proud to have a director like Danny Boyle as part of British culture) being "too multicultural", what they're really saying is "go home, darkies", without actually having the balls to come out and say it. All I will say is, our opening ceremony would have been extremely drab and boring had we not Caribbean, Asian, African and all those other cultural influences mixed in to this melting pot of a country. Keep your veiled racism, it's unpleasant and cowardly. Oh and also, Aiden, you twat – the Rolling Stones are blues musicians – where do you think blues comes from? Black America, maybe? So you like multiculturalism when it's served up to you by four fellas from Kent?


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