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Item HT 39761 Lapel Pin - Kodak Camera Club, Melbourne, circa 1964
Kodak Camera Club Melbourne lapel pin, issued about 1964, to former Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd employee, Bill Byron. He was an active member of the club since its reinstatement in the early 1960s by Kodak employee Roy Porter.
Bill worked for Kodak for over 25 years, commencing at Abbotsford in 1956 in Kodachrome customer service. He later moved into quality control, before leaving the company to work in the motion film industry for 9 years. He returned to Coburg in 1975 and worked there in various roles, again relating to customer service and technical services, including industrial photography.
This object was donated as part of the Kodak Oral History Project. It complements the Kodak Heritage Collection of products, promotional materials, photographs and working life artefacts collected from Kodak Australasia in 2005, when the Melbourne manufacturing plant at Coburg closed down.
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Revisiting the "Arab NATO" Idea: A Futile Effort?
Trump administration officials are trying to assuage the concerns of Washington's close allies in the Middle East about the American president's leadership and the White House's flip-flopping on foreign policy issues. Washington's top diplomat, Mike Pompeo, is stressing to American allies in the region that the Trump administration remains fully committed to backing plans for the so-called Arab NATO. Yet it is highly questionable whether this plan for creating an anti-Iranian Arab alliance has any chance of becoming a reality.
Giorgio Cafiero
Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, US President Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia's King Salman and Jordan's King Abdullah
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's speech in Cairo on January 10 was largely about damage control. Following a series of tweets and statements from President Donald Trump that have sent shockwaves throughout the Middle East in late 2018 and early 2019, Washington's chief diplomat seeks to assuage concerns about Trump's leadership held by officials in Middle Eastern capitals. Over the past several days, Pompeo and White House national security advisor John Bolton have been visiting a host of countries in the region, with plans for stops in all six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states following visits to Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt, to emphasize that Washington remains fully committed to the goals laid out by Trump in Riyadh in May 2017.
Pompeo's message was aimed at intensifying pressure on Iran while offering a repudiation of former President Barack Obama's Middle East policies.
Speaking from the American University in Cairo, Pompeo's message was aimed at intensifying pressure on Iran while offering a repudiation of former President Barack Obama's Middle East policies. Calling America a "force for good" in the Arab/Islamic world and declaring that "the age of self-inflicted American shame is over, and so are the policies that produced so much needless suffering," Pompeo's rhetoric strongly backed up Trump's narratives about his predecessor. Rather than addressing issues pertaining to human rights, democracy, or inclusivity, Pompeo spoke about defeating the so-called Islamic State (ISIS), protecting Israel, and countering Iran's ascendancy with an emphasis on the Trump administration's desire to see the Middle East Strategic Alliance (MESA) launched this year.
Building on American and GCC officials' calls last year to launch MESA in 2019—as well as war games (Arab Shield 1) conducted in western Egypt in November with all six GCC states (save Qatar and Oman), Egypt, and Jordan participating—the Trump administration believes that making this Arab alliance a reality is essential for the region's interests. The White House's objective is largely derived from a vision (ironically from the Obama era) of the so-called "moderate" Arab states taking regional security into their own hands and becoming less dependent on the U.S. as their security guarantor.
While in the Omani capital one day before Pompeo's speech in Egypt, Bolton tweeted: "The White House is laying the ground work (sic) for a Middle East Strategic Alliance. Thank you to Oman for hosting today's meeting on economic and energy cooperation, and all GCC countries, Egypt, and Jordan for standing together as we pursue a more vibrant and secure Middle East." The administration's plan is to launch Arab NATO from the Middle East summit to be held in Poland's capital, Warsaw, next month.
For Pompeo and Bolton to return to Washington this month being able to point to progress on the MESA front would mark a perceived victory for the administration amid its ongoing challenges in terms of devising a credible and cohesive foreign policy agenda in the Middle East. But is this Arab NATO idea realistic given the Arab world's current state of political affairs? Trump's top administration officials are likely to find it difficult to make shared fears of Iranian conduct and influence the basis of any alliance that is capable of institutionalizing. Put simply, there is not a consensus among these Arab allies of the U.S. concerning the nature or scope of the alleged Iranian threat.
For Egypt, the perceived menace posed by Tehran is far less grave than Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, and Manama perceive it. Cairo's security concerns are primarily oriented around the threats of ISIS, al-Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other Sunni non-state actors rather than the Islamic Republic and its Shi'a proxies in the region. Likewise, Jordan, while concerned about Iran's regional behavior—namely in Syria—finds Israel's settlement growth in the Occupied Palestinian Territories a far graver threat.
In the GCC, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar are, albeit to various extents, keen to capitalize on their mostly warm ties with Iran (and Turkey, in Kuwait and Qatar's case), to counterbalance the Riyadh-Abu Dhabi alliance.
In the GCC, Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar are, albeit to various extents, keen to capitalize on their mostly warm ties with Iran (and Turkey, in Kuwait and Qatar's case), to counterbalance the Riyadh-Abu Dhabi alliance. All three states have concerns about how the blockade of Doha has damaged the GCC institutionally and left them more vulnerable to the ramifications of brash foreign policy decision-making in Washington, as well as Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Especially in the case of Doha and Muscat, it is particularly challenging to imagine either joining an anti-Iranian Arab alliance as active participants.
Put simply, the GCC has become a Council made up of states that perceive major threats from their fellow members, rather than a sub-regional institution comprised of states that share a common understanding of security threats and agree on strategies for countering such menaces. Extremely strong support for Arab NATO is coming from the UAE. Yet Abu Dhabi and Doha entering an alliance, which requires a degree of trust that is totally absent in these two Gulf capitals' bilateral relations, is simply not imaginable at this juncture, even if both entered the Yemen war as allies in 2015. In the second year of the blockade, both Qatar and the UAE view each other as extremely threatening and destabilizing to the region.
Until the Qatar crisis is resolved, Arab NATO plans will be out touch with realities in the region's geopolitical order.
Until the Qatar crisis is resolved, Arab NATO plans will be out touch with realities in the region's geopolitical order. The continuation of the Saudi-UAE-led bloc's siege of Qatar in 2019 will unquestionably serve to further frustrate the Trump administration. As Pompeo explained in his speech, "old rivalries" between different regional states have undermined the White House's ability to work with its key Sunni Arab allies in a grander effort aimed at pushing back against Iran. These words were a clear reference to the blockade of Qatar, which, as the U.S. leadership recognizes, has only empowered the Iranians to more easily exploit divisions among America's close allies in the Gulf and take attention away from Tehran's regional conduct.
While in Doha with his Qatari counterpart on January 13, Washington's top diplomat addressed the GCC crisis' negative impact on the Trump administration's plans for uniting Arab allies against Iran. "We are all more powerful when we are working together and disputes are limited. When we have a common challenge, disputes between countries with shared objectives are never helpful." Yet even Pompeo admitted that the two sides appear to be far from making the compromises that a diplomatic resolution of the dispute would require. Perhaps the U.S. applying significantly more pressure on Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, and Cairo to lift, or at least ease, the blockade of Doha could result in the siege loosening, if not ending. But there are no signs that the Trump administration plans to threaten the Saudi-Emirati-led bloc with any punitive measures should the blockade remain in place.
Within this context of intraregional conflicts and the complicated state of Arab-Iranian relations creating deep divisions among Washington's close allies in the region, the prospects for MESA becoming an effective force are dim. In the final analysis, many stumbling-blocks, chiefly the Qatar crisis, remain in place and are unlikely to be overcome this month, or next month in Warsaw. Moreover, the White House's contradictory messages regarding Iran, Syria, and other issues have cost the administration much credibility, with America's allies frequently wondering who officially speaks for the U.S. government.
For the Trump administration to make progress in terms of uniting Washington's regional allies in a grander effort to promote stability and defeat extremist forces, the White House needs to pay close attention to Arab states' concerns about a host of issues with a willingness to comprehend the multifaceted factors that have fueled deep division in the Gulf and elsewhere in the Arab world. Nonetheless, so long as the administration's foreign policy in the tumultuous Middle East is all over the map, incoherent, and full of many contradictions, the White House will find its loss of credibility with close U.S. allies coming at the expense of Washington's ability to influence the Arab world's future in a manner that advances American interests.
Did Saudi Arabia Help Saudi Hit-and-Run Offender Flee Justice in the US?
New York Welcomed Morocco to American Sephardi Music Festival

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My previous post introduced the Unemployment Relief Scheme settlement in Meadows that was established during the Great Depression. Oral history interviewees talked about what it was like to live there in cottages that had been described as 'roomy tin bungalows' in a contemporary newspaper report.
Although the cottages themselves were basic, was the scheme otherwise successful? Did it live up to expectations?
Excerpt from the Chronicle of 26 July 1934, p6, about the Unemployment Relief Scheme.
Those in charge of the scheme may have been pleased with its progress. But how did the settlers feel? Was the scheme worthwhile in their opinion? Did they become successful farmers? Were they contented? I asked the former residents of the colony these and other questions.
As far as I'm concerned, the whole thing was a total disaster. Even though it got us out of the towns it didn't really work. The settlement system didn't really work. I felt that perhaps we might have starved in the cities but at least we would have starved with a bit more facilities.
One of the remaining Poultry Settlement Cottages, now used as a shed, in Meadows, 2008.
Was country life better or easier?
At the beginning of this post I quoted the optimistic comments of the chairman of the Land Settlement Committee. He refers to the likely success of the scheme as long as the price of export eggs is maintained, and the British market for Australian eggs is maintained. In a future post, I'll investigate what actually happened to the settlers, and their financial success or otherwise.


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Governor Hochul Holds First COVID Press Briefing Post Holidays
Val Published: December 28, 2021
COVID-19 continues to spread at alarming rates, especially in New York, with the state seeing the highest volume of cases to date during the pandemic.
In a COVID briefing on Monday, December 27th, Governor Hochul provided a number of updates to New York State residents on response efforts and current levels statewide.
While we reported percentages early Monday morning from Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, in her briefing, Governor Hochul indicated that when it comes to the actual numbers, there were 86,182 new confirmed cases. When it comes to hospitalizations, New York saw an increase of more than 1,000 since before the holiday, with 5,000 current COVID hospitalizations at this time. An updated number of 132 reported COVID-19 deaths statewide in New York across Saturday and Sunday was also reported.
When it comes to local numbers, with the 7-day average for cases per hundred thousand people, the Hudson Valley is showing 141.03. Statewide numbers indicate a higher rate, at 180 per hundred thousand.
Another concern brought up during the COVID briefing is the alarming number of children being hospitalized with the virus. In fact, the New York State Department of Health sent a notice to doctors on Friday, Christmas Eve, indicating an upward trend in pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations.
Though many of the recent infections are concentrated in the New York City/surrounding metro area, those with young children are advised to stay cautious, and not assume that even a mild illness is a common cold, always test for COVID-19.
Dr. Mary Bassett, Acting State Health Commissioner, reminds parents that the risks of COVID-19 for children are real and that they should take urgent action to protect our children, get those who are eligible vaccinated, and be sure to practice social distancing and masking.
There are a number of concerns when it comes to kids returning to classrooms after winter break, while most agree that returning to a remote option is not the ideal scenario. In her press conference, Governor Hochul stated 'it is not a good option to say children are going to be returning home again.'
Statewide, three million testing kits, which totals six million tests, will be going to New York school districts, with two million going to New York City schools. This is part of the plan to ensure that schools stay open, even though, as the Governor and NYS Health Commissioner have indicated, most cases are not being transmitted in schools.
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Could New York Students Be Forced To Wear Masks in Schools Again?
'Worst Version' of COVID Continues To Spread Across New York State


Back in May, I had a friend send me "Pls Rspnd" from a band called Hotel Apache. As I told Jared on the phone, I couldn't believe I had never heard of them. Ryan's sweet vocals were addicting and I was immediately hooked. With pop music constantly changing these days, it's hard to find a genuine sound, but these guys seem to have that part covered.
The group is made up of Jared Ramos (drums), Ryan Garcia (vocals/guitar), Steven Darling (guitar/keys), and Casey White (bass). I spoke with the band for roughly 28 minutes or so but even then, I could tell the group had a strong chemistry. Originally, Jared, Steven, and Casey were all involved in a group project. They brought on Ryan for a bit of songwriting and then everything fell into place.
Before joining the group, Garcia worked on hip hop and R&B projects, but his writing came so effortlessly, he knew he had to jump in. He wrote their single, "Cigarettes" in just three hours. They've released three additional singles since then and although it's only been seven months, they aren't finished. They're constantly getting asked to release a new album on twitter every day, so get ready because it's coming in 2017.
Something I can definitely respect. Good music takes time. Why rush perfection?
Also, Powerade, if you're listening, I hear the guys would love a sponsorship and really need that Mountain Berry.


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Arthur Knyvet Wilson est un amiral de la Royal Navy né le  et mort le . Il sert durant la guerre des mahdistes et se voit décerner la Croix de Victoria après la première bataille d'El Teb. Il commande ensuite la Channel Fleet, avant d'être brièvement nommé First Sea Lord, puis conseiller à l'Amirauté durant la Première Guerre mondiale.

Biographie

Amiral aux idées conservatrices, voire franchement traditionalistes, Arthur Wilson était fermement opposé à la création, au sein de la Royal Navy d'une force de Sous-marins, alors même que cette "arme des faibles" , relativement peu coûteuse commençait à devenir une menace potentielle pour les gros et coûteux navires de surface tels que croiseurs et cuirassés, notamment grâce aux travaux des ingénieurs navals français (Dupuy de Lôme, Gustave Zédé) et surtout de l'inventeur irlando-américain John-Philipp Holland (dont le premier sous marin, presque opérationnel, était financé par les rebelles irlandais de l'IRB).

Il est passé à la postérité par son jugement aussi péremptoire qu'erroné sur l'Arme Sous marine qui a fait couler beaucoup d'encre : Underwater?...unfair , underhand and damned un-english (sous-marin ? Déloyal, sournois et diablement non-anglais), ajoutant que les sous-mariniers capturés devaient être considérés comme des pirates et, comme tels, pendus à la grand-vergue.

Lorsque la Royal Navy finit par se doter, à contrecoeur, d'une flotte de sous-marins (les premiers étant conçus par nul autre que John-Philipp Holland), l'arme sous marine (surnommée the silent service , l'arme silencieuse) avait toujours mauvaise réputation dans la Royal Navy.

L'un des premiers commandants de sous marins britanniques  victorieux au cours de la 1° Guerre Mondiale, le futur amiral Max Horton fit preuve d'humour en arborant le pavillon des pirates dit Jolly Roger au retour d'une patrouille victorieuse , instituant une tradition appelée à devenir pérenne , les sous-mariniers anglais victorieux arborant leurs victoires sur un pavillon pirate suivant une codification précise.

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The genome is out of the bag
Wired up
Health? There's an app for that
Will breast cancer meet its match?
Seeking tailor-made treatments
Reading between the genes
Look who's boss
Consumer genomics enters the classroom
The rise of the Cilium
Decision time
Is dialysis the answer when kidneys start to fail?
Building boom
New Classrooms, study space and futuristic technology
Canine clues help Macarthur 'genius' sniff out medically important genes
In favor of physicals
Slow on the uptake
Photo by Jeff Braverman
So where does the editor of the technology magazine Wired get off telling people how to manage their health?
Simple. Thomas Goetz has married advances in mobile computing with the health-data deluge in his new book, The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine. For Goetz, interest in health is homegrown. His father is a doctor, his mother is a nurse, one sister is a surgeon and another was a public health volunteer (killed while working in Uganda). Goetz himself went back to school at 37 to study public health at the University of California-Berkeley.
He says, "A lot of the ways we think about technology in terms of medicine are very cost-intensive — MRIs, CT scans, stents, surgeries." Yet he feels relatively low-cost gadgets such as iPhone apps that help track calories do the most to help individuals take control of their health.
Oh, and about health care's escalating costs, Goetz says, you can blame it on the Beatles. The Beatles? You see, in 1961 British company EMI signed the then-unknown Fab Four to a music contract. As a result, the company made millions (and by now probably billions), which it invested in developing new electronic devices, including the CT scanner, invented by an EMI engineer in 1967. In the decades since, use of this miraculous device has burgeoned into overuse, becoming a major contributor to the out-of-control costs of today. Surely the band was EMI's ticket to ride in health-care technology.
Stanford Medicine's executive editor Paul Costello spoke with Goetz about how the non-geeks among us can merge technology and medicine to improve our health.
Costello: At the beginning of the book you talk about three projects you see as pivotal for the future of health care. Two are famous medical studies, the Framingham Heart Study and Great Britain's Whitehall study. The third is about a group of technology early adopters in San Francisco. Can you connect the dots for me?
Goetz: The Framingham study has been going for 60 years, following the health of three generations. For me it's an example of how we can gather data and learn from our daily experiences.
The Whitehall study recruited 18,000 men from all different classes within the British civil service, from the ministers at the very top to the janitors at the very bottom, and they studied them to see who was most at risk for heart disease. What they found was pretty much a direct correlation between your social rank and your risk of heart disease. So people at the bottom had a profoundly increased risk of heart disease. The core insight — that when we are given control of our health, we tend to have better health — was to me an essential part of laying the groundwork for this new conception of health care.
So that's where this third group comes in, the Quantified Self group, which is a local meet-up. This is a group of technology geeks who want to start experimenting. In this case, what they're experimenting with is not computer code, but their own code. They're tracking their genomes. They're tracking how much coffee they drink. They're tracking how much exercise they get. They're tracking how much sleep they're getting. They wear all sorts of different sensors and body monitors and use their iPhones to track various things about themselves. The idea is that this sense of control, as we saw with the Whitehall study, starts to kick in and we start to see our way toward better health.
Costello: Data is really king, is what you're saying?
Goetz: Right. There is great public health research that shows when you give people feedback, when you give them a sense of where they stand in their health, and a goal, and then get them to keep track of how they're doing — think about weight loss — that kind of feedback loop really is effective at behavior change. The trick is it's laborious. So what's changing is that the tools are getting simpler, and it's getting much easier for more people to start changing those behaviors.
Costello: You wrote that staying healthy is as much a decision-making problem as a health-care problem. What do you mean by that?
Goetz: We know the basic rules of good health: We're supposed to be exercising more and eating a little less, and eating more healthy foods. The problem that we have as a society is putting those rules into action. That's really the place of decision making.
That's when we need to get information delivered to us, at the very point that we're deciding between having a piece of carrot or the piece of carrot cake.
Costello: Tell me more about how technology can help.
Goetz: What is really cool about what's happening here is that information technology, like iPhone apps, are a really good way of turning data, that very logical and rational and quantitative approach, into something that we can understand and integrate into our lives. And you don't have to be a geek.
That's where iPhone apps are so powerful. Like the Lose It! app for weight loss — there are 10 million people using this app every day. Or there are very good blood glucose monitors that are useful for diabetics or pre-diabetics. If you want to quit smoking, there are quit-smoking apps that help people track their cigarettes.
There's one great little tool that I might mention. It's called the Fitbit. It's a little accelerometer that you clip on to your belt, and it tracks your calories. It tracks how many steps you're taking. It tracks your cadence. It's a really great way to make sure that you're getting enough exercise every day just walking around as much as you can.
In addition to giving you the numbers, it has this great little icon. It's a flower that grows, so the more you exercise every day, the taller your flower gets. It's a great example of how it's not just data that helps people. Making that flower grow is something that pretty much anybody can understand. Once you get this device, you want to make your flower grow every day.
This interview was condensed and edited by Rosanne Spector.
Thomas Goetz discusses technology and healthcare
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Major C.H. Douglas in "The New Age." June 25th, 1931
· If there are still people who suppose that the disasters, anxieties, and disillusionments from which we are suffering, are the result of unco-ordinated forces, such persons must find the world a very depressing spectacle.
· We stagger from one crisis to another, while prelates and politicians vie with each other in demanding still more sacrifices from a world, which is but one continual sacrifice.
· From this point of view and with such widely varying defects in society no reasonable space of time could be expected to produce a better state of affairs.
· It would appear to be a hopeless situation.
· Fortunately, evidence accumulates daily that this in not the case!
· There is in existence at least one definite policy which is being pursued with great ability, and over a world wide area. This policy is responsible primarily for most of the troubles with which the world is suffering, although secondary troubles have grown out of it.
· The main outlines of this policy are familiar, and its objective, the establishment of a world hegemony.
· There is probably an immense illusion at the base of the idea of world power -- by the centralisation of administration you obtain more control over an organisation. It has dawned upon a good many people, in widely differing spheres of influence, that exactly the opposite is the truth:
· The centralisation of administration results in the organisation obtaining more control over the administration.
· In other words, the larger and more centralised an organisation is, the more impossible it becomes for its so-called "head" to deflect the organisation from a policy which arises out of its inherent constitution.
· The strategy being pursued is becoming sufficiently plain, and the first constituent of it is disarmament, not merely of a military character, but in every plane of human activity.
· Arms are a special form of tools - they increase the power of the individual over circumstances.
· There is no essential difference between the disarmament of an individual and the taking away from him of any other tools.
· Disarmament is simply dis-empowerment. If there is anyone who finds such prospect attractive, then (the former) Soviet Russia, or Fascist Italy, are the spiritual homes for him.
· There is this idea that everybody knows better what is good for a man than the man himself. And that any external organisation, such as the United Nations, is a better repository for the control of a nation than the nation itself.
· On the face of it, the idea bears a strong resemblance to the fable of the fox, which, having lost its tail in a trap, proclaimed the transcendent advantages of a tail-less existence.
· The idea lends itself to presentation in a form very attractive to the idealistic mentality.
· The very financiers who condemned Soviet Russia in public, while endeavouring to organise loans to her in private, are very enthusiastic about centralised planning of production.
· The centralised planning of production, means that some central authority shall decide:
What the individual wants
Whether he is to have it
Who is to make it for him
And on what terms he is to get it.
· It is even suggested it is the only way by which the individual can rapidly acquire material prosperity
· Yet, the complaint by the same people made against what remains of the decentralised control of production -- is that it has produced too much!
· This policy has gained such momentum (remember, this was originally written in 1931!) we are condemned to witness its pursuit to its inevitable and catastrophic conclusion.
· In the meantime a little plain speaking may not be out of place: Those who are endeavouring to weaken such independent centres of power, such as sovereign nations, by propaganda for disarmament of a military nature, or active or disguised action for the reduction of her power in men and tools, (industries, manufacturing, food, clothing, shelter) are either the victims of muddle-headed illusion, or are dangerous criminals.
· The way to stop wars is not to institute a centralised tyranny worse than war -- it is to take away the reason for war. When that has been done, armaments will go out of fashion.
If there are still people who suppose that the disasters, anxieties, and disillusionments from which we are suffering, and the greater trials with which we are plainly threatened, are the result of unco-ordinated forces, such persons must find the world a very depressing spectacle. A situation in which the threat of war grows daily, in which the stock markets of the world stagger from one crisis to another, while prelates and politicians vie with each other in demanding still more sacrifices from a world which is but one continual sacrifice, would, if its condition were fortuitous, be the best possible excuse for universal suicide. There would from this point of view be so many and such widely varying defects in modern society that no reasonable space of time could be expected to produce a better state of affairs, even if there were any signs of progress in that direction. It would be a hopeless situation.
Fortunately, evidence accumulates daily that this is not the case. There is in existence at least one definite policy which is being pursued with great ability, and over a world wide area. I suppose this policy is responsible primarily for most of the troubles with which the world is suffering, although secondary troubles have grown out of it, and its defeat will have results as widespread and far reaching as the troubles which proceed from it.
The main outlines of this policy are familiar, and its objective, the establishment of a world hegemony, has been recognised in many quarters. In passing, it may be observed that, in addition to any fundamental question as to its desirability, there is probably an immense illusion at the base of the idea of world power that by the centralisation of administration you obtain more control over an organisation.
I suppose it is beginning to dawn upon a good many people in widely differing spheres of influence that exactly the opposite is the truth, that the centralisation of administration results in the organisation obtaining more control over the administration. In other words, the larger and more centralised an organisation is the more impossible it becomes for its so-called ''head'' to deflect the organisation from a policy which arises out of its own inherent constitution.
However this may be, the strategy which is being for the attainment of this world hegemony is sufficiently plain, and the first constituent of it is disarmament, not merely of a military character, but in every plane of human activity.
Arms are merely a special form of tools -- they increase the power of the individual over circumstance. If this be recognised, it will easily be grasped that there is no essential difference between the disarmament of an individual and the taking away from him of any other tools, and that, fundamentally, the desirability of such a line of action depends very much on whether you believe that the individual or the nation can desirably relinquish all specialised action in favour of some exterior organisation.
Disarmament is simply dis-empowerment. If there is anyone who finds such prospect attractive, then (the former) Soviet Russia, or Fascist Italy, are the spiritual homes for him.
This idea that everybody knows better what is good for a man than the man himself, and that any external organisation is a better repository for a nation's power than the nation in question, would seem on the face of it to bear such strong resemblance to the fable of the fox, which, having lost its tail in a trap, proclaimed the transcendent advantages of a tail-less existence, that one would not expect it to attract much support.
But, in fact, it seems to lend itself to presentation in a form very attractive to the idealistic mentality.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, refreshed by his three months' cruise with Mr. Pierpont Morgan, is asking for our prayers in favour of it. By a curious coincidence, American banking circles are firm in their contention that no reduction of the debts of Europe to America can be contemplated without corresponding reduction in European armaments.
Contemporaneously, we have a blast of propaganda for what can only be described as "programitis."
The very financiers who condemn (former Soviet) Russia in public, while endeavouring to organise loans to her in private, are enthusiastic about the desirability of the centralised planning of production. The centralised planning of production, if it means anything at all, means that some central authority shall decide both what the individual wants; whether he is to have it, who is to make it for him, and on what terms he is to get it.
It is suggested that, however unpalatable superficially such a state of affairs might appear, it is the only way by which the individual can rapidly acquire material prosperity. Yet, curiously enough, the complaint by the same people made against what remains of the decentralised control of production, is that it has produced too much. In other words, whatever happens in the world at the present time, which is a world increasingly in the control of finance, is an argument for taking still further control out of the hands of the individual and transferring it to the power which is demonstrably responsible for the trouble.
I suppose that this policy has obtained such momentum that we are condemned to witness its pursuit to its inevitable and catastrophic conclusion. But in the meantime a little plain speaking may perhaps not be out of place. Those who, in the present state of the world's business, are endeavouring to weaken such independent centres of power, as, for instance, Great Britain, by propaganda for disarmament of a military nature, or active or disguised action for the reduction of her power in men and tools, are either the victims of muddle-headed illusion, or are dangerous criminals.
It is to he hoped that some effective method of presenting this point of view to them will be devised. The Long Gallery of the Tower might be considered.
The way to stop wars is not to institute a centralised tyranny worse than war -- it is to take way the reason for war. When that has been done, armaments will go out of fashion. Perhaps the Archbishop will take another holiday with Messrs. Morgan, Mellon and Stimson, and put it to them.


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Global Warming Threatens Terrestrial Biodiversity. According to a new report by World Wildlife Fund, global warming could forever change the diversity and abundance of species in many of the world's unique habitats, and cause the eventual extinction of many plant and animal species. The report, detailed in a WWF press release shows how global warming could fundamentally alter one third of plant and animal habitats by the end of the 21st Century. "Cold weather species like the sugar maple may be completely driven out of the northeastern United States, thereby sounding the death knell for the that region's maple syrup industry" said Adam Markham, co-author of the WWF report.
Island Press. Conserving Earth's Biodiversity. This CD-ROM and web site is a superb introduction to biodiversity and conservation, by one of the most accomplished scientists of our time. E.O. Wilson . The CD-ROM helps students understand the major aspects of conservation biology, including its biological, social, political, and economic elements, and describes what needs to be known and understood in order to effectively protect biodiversity.
Island Press. Nature's Services. A collection of essays and analyses about the economic value of ecosystem services.
WorldWatch: Since 1965, the water table under Beijing has fallen by some 59 meters or nearly 200 feet. In 1999 alone, water fell 8 ft. These declines warn China's leaders of the shortages that lie ahead as the country's aquifers are depleted. Why is this important? Falling water tables in China may soon raise food prices everywhere.
Amazon Watch: Mega-Projects are massive infrastructure projects-pipelines, power lines, roads, dams, and waterways-designed to open the Amazon rainforest frontier to large-scale industrial development. Mega-projects enable industries to extract and export raw materials (oil, gas, timber, gold, etc.) to regional and global markets. Mega-projects and associated development threaten millions of acres of pristine wilderness, national parks, and indigenous peoples' territories.
Conservation Strategy Fund: Two Roads and a Lake: An economic analysis of infrastructure development in the Beni river watershed. The Madidi area of NE Bolivia is one of the least trammeled and biologically richest spots on Earth. It was featured in a cover story of the March 2000 issue of National Geographic. Now Bolivia and Brazil are advancing plans for the economic development of the region, including a massive dam that would flood hundreds of thousands of hectares in the new Madidi National Park. This report analyzes the economic viability of several development projects proposed for the region. It turns out that none of the current projects are justifiable economically, even before environmental considerations are introduced.
Forests of the Pacific Rim
The David Suzuki Foundation. Pacific Salmon Forests. The ancient rainforest of British Columbia's North Coast is one of the richest places on earth, and one of the most rare. If we have any hope of conserving the wealth of living diversity found here, we must work with the communities whose livelihoods depend on this extraordinary ecosystem to develop ways of living and working in balance with nature.
EcoTrust Canada. Salmon Nation: People and Fish at the Edge. This new book examines the health of salmon runs in British Columbia, and highlights solutions that can help build an economy rooted in conservation rather than depletion.
Pacific Rivers Council: Salmon, Timber, and the Economy, by Ernie Niemi, Ed Whitelaw, Michelle Gall, and Anne Fifield. ECONorthwest 1999, Timber production in Oregon has contributed substantially to declines in salmon runs. What should be done about it, and what will the economic consequences be?.
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Hull chairman Adam Pearson laid bare the club's financial plight on the day their relegation from the Barclays Premier League was effectively confirmed but insisted administration is not on the cards.
Hull chairman Adam Pearson used his programme notes ahead of Wednesday's crucial Barclays Premier League match against Aston Villa to launch a scathing attack on predecessor Paul Duffen.
Hull chairman Adam Pearson claims to have read some "pretty reasonable" speculation over the identity of the club's next manager but insists there are more candidates.
Chairman Adam Pearson is adamant Hull's new manager will have time to make an impact as the club bid to stave off relegation from the Barclays Premier League.
Hull City chairman Adam Pearson expects to name the club's new manager by Wednesday morning - but has ruled former Charlton and West Ham boss Alan Curbishley out of the running.
Hull's returning executive chairman Adam Pearson has insisted the club is 'in no danger of going out of business' and denied the cut-price sale of star defender Michael Turner was for financial reasons.
Incoming Hull chairman Adam Pearson has assured manager Phil Brown he will still be in charge for this weekend's clash against Stoke.
Adam Pearson has stepped down as Derby's football chairman after two years with the club.
Derby chairman Adam Pearson has vowed to help the Football Association's investigation into allegations of match-fixing surrounding their game against Norwich earlier this month - but hit out at the MPs who brought the matter into the public domain.


Marie B. [Murphy] Calvi died Sunday at the age of 82.
Mrs. Calvi loved her time spent at Hull Gut, where she visited frequently, enjoying the beach and the scenery. She enjoyed boating and sailing with her sisters and their families around Hull Bay and the harbor islands.
Wife of the late John Calvi; beloved mother of Donna Calvi-Dunn and her husband, James, of Hingham, Catherine M. Calvi and her companion, Howard J. Schramn, of Hull, and the late John M. Calvi. Caring sister of Ruth A. Benjamin of New Jersey, William P. Murphy of Newton, and the late Marjorie Burns, Francis J. Murphy, and Ann M. McFarland; she was the loving grandmother of Jenna M. Calvi of Vermont and Michael A. and Nicholas J. Muzzi of Hingham; and the cherished aunt of Kim McFarland and many nieces and nephews.
Visiting hours will be held at the Downing Cottage Funeral Chapel, 21 Pond St., Hingham, on Friday, Aug. 19, from 6-8 p.m. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend a funeral service immediately following visitation, at 8 p.m. Interment will be private.


For this crab recipe, you can use fresh crab, imitation crab, or, as I did, meat from a couple of leftover King crab legs from a couple of nights earlier. This dish takes very little time to prepare, and yet is very elegant in appearance and flavor. Great for a special dinner after work.
I served this over spaghetti noodles, but you could just as easily serve it over rice. Especially if you also already have leftover rice.
Cook the pasta or rice, and keep it warm. Melt the butter in a small skillet or saucepan, and add the chopped onion. Sauté for a few minutes and add the garlic. Cook another minute and add the rest of the ingredients, except for the cilantro and chives. Simmer until the crab is re-warmed, and serve over the pasta or rice.
Garnish with the chives and cilantro. The flavor is wonderful — don't forget to adjust the ingredients to your own personal taste next time you make this.


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Q: Trouble removing Google Cloud DNS record using gcloud on command line I have the following DNS zone configured in Google Cloud DNS:
Zone:  test1
Record:
abc.test1.com.    CNAME 300 xyz.test1.com.

Using gcloud on the command line I can list and obtain information just fine.
However, for some reason (and I had this working some time ago) I can no longer remove (delete) a zone record using these commands:
gcloud dns record-sets transaction start --zone=test1
gcloud dns record-sets transaction remove "abc.test1.com." --zone=test1 --name="xyz.test1.com." --type=CNAME --ttl=300

...at this point it fails with an error (so I cannot execute the transaction):
ERROR: (gcloud.dns.record-sets.transaction.remove) Record to be removed does not exist

Yet I know the record is there, which I can confirm with:
gcloud dns record-sets list -z test1

which displays:
abc.test1.com.          CNAME  300      xyz.test1.com.

I'd appreciate any pointers.
Thanks

A: It looks to me you are getting confused between DNS record name and DNS record value.
For the example that you have put up in your question, your CNAME record name is "abc.test1.com." and record value is "xyz.test1.com.".
So in order to delete this record using gcloud, your command should be
gcloud dns record-sets transaction start --zone=test1
gcloud dns record-sets transaction remove "xyz.test1.com." --zone=test1 --name="abc.test1.com." --type=CNAME --ttl=300
gcloud dns record-sets transaction execute --zone=test1
Try it. This should work. Hope it helps!


Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco Systems, addresses the crowd at the 2015 Best of Breed Conference in Orlando, Florida.
Cisco, the networking equipment company, is planning to lay off at least 5,500 employees.
The company said it would lay off 5,500 workers, or 7 percent of its workforce, during its fourth-quarter earnings call Wednesday afternoon, according to CNBC.
It could get worse. Reports from earlier in the day, with the tech news site CRN citing sources within the company, said that the company could lay off as many as 14,000 employees, or closer to 20 percent of its global workforce.
The layoffs come as Cisco is transitioning from hardware to software.
"Today's market requires Cisco and our customers to be decisive, move with greater speed and drive more innovation than we've seen in our history." Cisco said, according to CNBC.
The layoffs will begin in the first fiscal quarter of 2017. CRN reported that Cisco has already offered early retirement packages to some employees.
Cisco stock was down 1.3 percent Wednesday.
Cisco is not the only tech company cutting its workforce. In April, Intel Corp said it planned to lay off 12,000 workers, or 11 percent of its workforce.


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Q: Firestore idempotency for a virtual wallet I'm coming to you guys again for help. I have an app, in which you can top up your own virtual wallet from your credit card.
My structure is as followers:

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*collection transactions/{transactionId} -- contains an owner UID and the top up amount.

*collection users/{userId}/personal/wallet containing { funds: 0 }
I am keeping the wallet into a subcollection of personal info because I don't want other users to see it.
Anyway, I have an onCreate trigger called walletSync for new documents under transactions collection, from which I take the amount and add it to the user's current funds via runTransaction.
Problem is, the function sometime triggers three times ... for one document. Here's a screenshot. I have logged the transactionId ( which is just one document ) and as you can see, onCreate, is being processed three times, therefore, topping up my wallet with three times the actual value.
Here's my function code, in which I am marking any processed transaction with processed: true so I can ignore it next time it triggers. As you can see in the logs, that processed_already message never pops up, which means the trigger does not fetch the new data, next time it triggers.
I am out of ideas here, please advise.
EDIT: Here's my function: https://pastebin.com/PRA7CbxL

A: I have managed to figure it out, with the help of the mighty @Doug and the mentioned similar questions.
After all, the issue with my code was that while I was marking my transaction as processed, I was assuming that the second / third time the function triggers, snapshot.data() would be the value of the document, ( took me some time to realize ) it was actually the change data sent towards the database trigger. I know it sounds confusing, but the function is not being sent the value of the document ( for that you could get snapshot.ref and fetch the data from there, in order to get the updated value in a transaction ).
So here's my updated function on Pastebin. Here's a screenshot of the code in action: https://i.imgur.com/fbQSGT6.png


A good leader must be proactive in the proper socialization of their dog. An ideal social situation involves off leash interaction , not sniffing at the end of a leash.
For young puppies, choose playmates of similar age and adults who have been well socialized themselves.
Just turning dogs loose together to play is not socialization. There must be supervision and intervention when the potential for a problem appears. All dogs should learn to play nicely and respectfully. If there is no supervision and intervention some dogs may learn to be fearful while others learn to be pushy and rude.
A good leader pays attention to their dogs behavior and helps him/her to learn proper manners and keeps them safe from harm.
DO respect the fact that your dog has a need for & right to his personal space.
DO socialize your dog so he/she is wise in the ways of other dogs.
DO accept the inexplicable disliking your dog may have for another dog.
DO build your dog's tolerance levels through repeated, positive experiences.
DO pay attention to your dog when you are with him/her.
DO insist your dog behave politely.
DO honor & respect your dogs concerns, whether or not you share them.
DON'T turn a rude puppy or dog loose with an intolerant adult.
DON'T expect your dog to like every dog he/she meets.
DON'T allow your dog to become overexcited or rude – help him/her find a more appropriate behavior or remove briefly form the triggering situation.
DON'T allow other people to allow their dogs to be rude to your dog.
DON'T punish a dog for telling another dog to get out of his face.
DON'T punish an adult for reminding a puppy to mind his/her manners.


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Raptors smother Cavs in 99-84 Game 3 win
We kind of have a series on our hands!
By Sean Woodley@WoodleySean May 21, 2016, 11:41pm EDT
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For most of the season, Kyle Lowry going to the bench has meant instantaneous doom for the Raptors. Whether it's due to foul trouble or the basic human requirement for rest, the void left by Lowry typically haunts the Raptors like an apparition in the shadows. When his shot is wayward - as has been the case of most of these playoffs - his defense, headiness and playmaking are still usually enough to keep the Raptors afloat. If he's getting shots to fall? He elevates the Raptors to a new stratosphere.
So when Lowry left with two fouls at the 5:40 mark of the first quarter - in the midst of connecting on three pointers and doing usual awesome Lowry things, no less - it looked as though the Raptors' early solid start would quickly turn to mush.
Not so, as it turned out. For the remainder of the quarter, Cory Joseph picked up where Lowry left off, carving into the Cavs suddenly soft perimeter defense and keeping the Raptors' offense flowing. Toronto critically kept itself from collapsing, playing the Cavs even until Lowry came back to start the second quarter.
Just under four minutes later, though, with the Raptors having pushed their lead to 38-32, Lowry picked up his third. Surely, the Raptors couldn't sustain for eight-plus minutes without him to close the half, right?
Wrong again!
With Joseph back in and regaining his first-round form, DeMar DeRozan turning what was probably his best half of the playoffs, and Bismack Biyombo grabbing more than a third of every available rebound, the Raptors' didn't just survive - they exploded. Somehow, the Raptors led 60-47 at half time with Lowry taking part in just 10 minutes.
For much of the third quarter, you could feel the Raptors teetering. Toronto adopted a new strategy for trying to slow down the Cavaliers after two games of being demolished on the interior. Rather than playing LeBron James one-on-one and staying home on shooters, the Raptors opted to send extra help LeBron's way and dare him to rifle passes to open shooters on the perimeter. Because he's LeBron James, he did just that - hurling dart after dart to his waiting teammates. Throughout most of the playoffs, the Cavs' gunners have turned such opportunities into all-time three-point shooting records. On Saturday, they turned them into bricks.
On the other end, the Raptors took part in the fun, missing their own share of open looks created by gorgeous ball movement. DeRozan kept the offense breathing with a collection of drives that brought you back to the good old days of the regular season, but still, Cleveland was creeping ... until:
Review (Kennedy): if Joseph's made 3FG was released before time exp. Q3 #CAVSvRAPTORS. Ruling: Upheld, 3FG is good. https://t.co/8UeoSfqyrj
— NBA Official (@NBAOfficial) May 22, 2016
The Raptors never let the euphoria of that Joseph quarter-closing buzzer beater peter out. A quick Patrick Patterson three followed by a Lowry driving layup put the Raptors up 15 to start the fourth, allowing 20,000 people to exhale. No one knew it at the time, but that Lowry basket to make it 85-70 would serve as the game-winner. Toronto's locked-in defense (and a clank-a-thon on the part of the Cavs) held Cleveland to just 14 points in the final frame. Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving posted a collective shooting performance worse than anything Lowry and DeRozan have teamed up for in the playoffs -- 4-of-28 from the field and 2-of-11 from three. Their struggles crippled Cleveland's otherwise flowing offense. Love didn't even touch the floor in the final 12 minutes.
Biyombo scored almost half that amount in the fourth. After putting up a hilariously crooked 1-point, 21-rebound, 4-block stat line in the first three quarters, Biyombo chipped in two thunderous dunks that riled up the crowd to levels only before heard in Game 7 against Miami (actually, it was probably louder).
"He was huge. I thought he played a big time game in the paint." said Casey. "He's just kind of the spirit of our team."
He was the spirit of the Air Canada Centre on Saturday night, too. His exuberance, his finger-wagging and infectious smile radiated outwards and took life within the deliriously joyful fans in attendance.
That's the feeling Raptors fans needs to bottle from Game 3. A win on Saturday doesn't suddenly bring the Raptors on par with the Cavs from a talent standpoint, and with a 2-1 deficit still to overcome, it's still a stretch to suggest the Raptors can steal the Eastern Conference title from the Cavs. Toronto could very well drop the next two games and bow out of the playoffs in a way most people anticipated coming into the series.
But even if that happens, this incredibly fun Raptors team gave its rabid fans one more touchstone moment from these playoffs to store in their memory banks on Saturday night. What's better is that this time, is that it was wonderfully unexpected.
NBA Playoffs 2016: Toronto Raptors vs. Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference Finals
Raptors died as they lived, and Toronto loves them
Raptors vs. Cavs: Time for desperation in Game 3


If your teacher has given specific instructions for your research assignment, read over them and become familiar with what you are required to do.
Make sure you know what your teacher wants you to provide when citing sources (look for the pages on citing sources for help).
Have you been asked to focus on a specific area of your topic?
Or do you need to do a more comprehensive and complete study (information on many areas of your topic)?
Do you have free choice on choosing a topic you want to explore?
Tip: Check out the video below on Brainstorming.
Write down what you already know about your topic.
Make a list of what you want to investigate, and find more information about.
What do you need to find out to meet the requirements of your assignment?
Tip: Check out this video on planning!
Keywords are words that are important to pulling up relevant information on your online searches.
Check the list you created of what you want and need to find out.
Think about keywords that could help you find information quickly when doing an online search.
Which words are unimportant and could be left out of your search?
Are there synonyms that would be helpful to search as well?
Tip: watch the video on keywords below then create a list of keywords to use when you begin your search.
Plagiarism is when you take someone else's intellectual property and pass it off as your own.
Whether it's an image, an idea, a song, or something someone else has written, you must give them credit if you have used it in your work.
Plagiarism is stealing, and there are serious consequences for it.
You will need to check with your teacher to see what he/she is requiring from you for the citation part of your research paper.
This means you must make sure to give credit to each resource you used.
Tip: Watch the videos below to learn more.
Paraphrasing: Putting information you find into YOUR words.
There are many different styles for citing sources. Ask your teacher if you are using APA, MLA, or another style.
Find out what your teacher expects before you start citing your sources.
Your teacher may ask you to use an online citation tool like Easy Bib or Citation Machine (links in the buttons above).
Tools like these takes the guesswork out of creating your citation.
Select MLA, APA or whatever your teacher requires.
Make sure you have the information about the sources you used handy.
You will need to provide the type of source you used, author's name, title of book or website, publisher, date of publication, etc.
You will guided along so read and type in your information carefully.
Some teachers may ask you to create a written work cited page.
Purdue Owl is a helpful tool to show you the proper way to cite each different type of resource you may have used in your research.
Make sure to select MLA or APA etc.
There is also a link from a leading expert in the field of education and technology, Kathy Schrock. She has put together a quick guide to MLA citations for grades 1-6.
If you decide to look for information beyond the websites provided on the pathfinder, you will need to remember how to go about evaluating your resources.
Review the TRAAP technique by watching the video below.
When you start looking for more information, try these search engines below (Kiddle, Kidrex, Kidzsearch, and Dinosearch).
Remember to type in keywords you created to search efficiently.
Use your TRAAP skills to evaluate your sources.


Members of Mr. Matthew Buckley's '98 Robotics Class visited Deloitte's Digital Studio on Friday, March 22, where they had the opportunity to learn from and work with members of Deloitte's innovators who work to address global challenges for numerous government and non-governmental organizations around the world. The Deloitte Digital Studio in Arlington is one of 48 such centers located in 29 countries around the world. Students had the opportunity to solve problems, code, work with the Raspberry Pi - which is a tiny and affordable computer that individuals can use to learn programming through fun, practical projects - and engage innovators with practical questions about their work at Deloitte during the course of their visit.
Accompanying the class and Mr. Buckley on this visit were President/CEO Dr. Marco Clark '85 and Director for Mission Advancement, Dr. Robert Van der Waag.
Bishop McNamara would like to thank Deloitte for hosting our students, particularly Allison Solomon, Director of Corporate Citizenship and Ms. Tamika Tremaglio, Managing Partner of Deloitte for the Greater Washington Metropolitan Region. Our students look forward to visiting Deloitte Digital in the future to continue their focus on addressing important global issues and the ways that technology can help solve them.


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Paradoxes, dilemmas, dialectics: Exploring contradiction in organizations
Paradoxes, dilemmas, dialectics: Exploring contradiction in organizations.
When: February 23, 2023 at 12:00pm—2:00pm
Where: Conduit Road, Sheffield, S10 1FL
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Paying your credit card off weekly can provide a hack to keep your utilization rate low, which in turn improves your credit score. Some banks use your statement balance and payment history to report to the credit …... This may mean applying any and all payments made to your HSBC credit card account to pay off other transactions such as purchases and cash advances before any balance transfer amount. Full HSBC Balance Transfer terms and conditions (PDF, 18KB) apply.
This may mean applying any and all payments made to your HSBC credit card account to pay off other transactions such as purchases and cash advances before any balance transfer amount. Full HSBC Balance Transfer terms and conditions (PDF, 18KB) apply. how to pay canada tax return Credit card debt is the most common type of debt for Americans across the country. I share the tips I used to pay off our own debts - quickly and painlessly. I share the tips I used to pay off our own debts - quickly and painlessly.
Credit card debt is the most common type of debt for Americans across the country. I share the tips I used to pay off our own debts - quickly and painlessly. I share the tips I used to pay off our own debts - quickly and painlessly.


The U811W Mini Black Hawk Gunship is designed to look like a real helicopter with a beautiful all moulded body with many details such as panel lines, dummy exhausts and a soldier hanging out the side! To top this off there is also a bright led light in the nose to show the way in darker rooms of the house. The clever contra-rotating rotor blade design allows for maximum stability and durability. With the latest 2.4GHz radio technology the hummingbird is simple to fly using 3 channels up/down, left/right and forward/back.


Imagine the sound a pigeon might make if it sprayed bullets from its beak like a machine-gun. This is the best way I can describe Bryan Ferry's vocal style. His version of Jealous Guy appalled me to my very core and put me off listening to the much celebrated Roxy Music for years.
When I did eventually pluck up the courage to dip my toe in Roxy's waters (starting with their debut), I found Ferry's voice to be the highlight of an excellent album. Amongst these songs, his vibrato singing oozed with passion, vulnerability, and, as demonstrated brilliantly toward the end of If There Is Something; desperation and urgency.
Recorded in 1972, Roxy Music flirts with the sound of similar era Stones (Rock 'n' Roll piano, crunching guitars, and Saxophones), but nearly always spirals off before we get the chance to settle. As much as I adore The Rolling Stones, Roxy Music demonstrates experimental production and lyrical depth they could only dream about. And, I'm very surprised to hear myself say, Roxy's playing is as impressive and tight as Sticky Fingers.
My Ferry reservations now put to bed, I can't wait to get stuck into Roxy's back catalogue. If the rest of their albums are as good as this, then I'm in for a treat.