What is financial stress? How it impacts us? What we can do beat it and change our lives for the better? How can we avoid it and say no? Is it possible to never experience financial stress? What are the best options to say goodbye to financial stress?
We all live in a world where stress seems to be everywhere we go and in almost everything we do.
There are different kinds of stress that we are experiencing daily, and sometimes even we can't distinguish which is which.
Stress is just stress – it seems. Of course, nothing is ever so easy in this life. Right?
I believe that financial stress is the worst kind of stress, because it destroys our dreams, our hopes and let us wonder if we ever be free of it. I know the feeling. I experience this kind of stress more than I want to admit myself.
Do I ever experience financial freedom that I want so much? Will I finally succeed with my online business? These are the questions that I ask myself. This is what I am worried about.
But What Is Financial Stress?
Financial stress is stress that is caused by stressors like unstable income, little savings, high debt levels, and others. Financial stress is like a disease, pandemic even that cause serious financial problems among people.
But we all know that stress impacts our well-being, and it causes health, relationship issues, and even death. Sometimes people can't take the financial pressure and bankruptcy and, sadly, they end their lives. I know at least one person who did just that.
I hope you understand how important is to do everything to reduce financial or other kinds of stress at all costs.
According to the American Psychological Association's (APA) annual Stress report, about 90 % of Americans said that their financial stress levels remained the same or increased with time. Sadly, but money still is one of the top stressors.
We all live in a world where money is very important and we can't live without it. If you want to enjoy your life fully, you need to have enough money.
How can you not? How can you enjoy your life if you need to fight with financial problems every single day?
Nobody wants that. Nobody can fully enjoy life if that's the case. I know the feeling. But so many of us have these kinds of problems.
If we want to live a great life, we need to do everything in our power to keep our financial stress in check. We need to find ways to reduce it. Maybe we need to change our job, occupation or the ways we live and spend money.
How To Beat It? How to Fight Financial Stress?
How to say goodbye to financial stress? There is something that you can do if you don't want to be overwhelmed by financial stress. Here are some tips that I use for myself and my family.
Whatever happens, stay positive, and that is something you can do for your well-being. Your health will say thank you for that. You deserved to be happy and healthy, and positivity is what can help you in difficult situations. A positive attitude can change everything, the whole situation.
It gives you strength to fight your fears about not paid bills and other problems with your finances. You will understand your financial weaknesses and strength much easier, and you will act accordingly.
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What is the reason behind your financial stress? Is it unemployment or lower income? Are you worried about retirement, divorce or unexpected illness? If you identify a problem, you will know where to start with your financial plan.
Think of how you can put your finances back on track. Try to prioritize your finances from this moment on. What are your major goals for the next year? Five years? 10 years? It takes more than this, but this is a good place to start.
Budgeting helps to keep your finances in check and helps you to understand what you can do and what you can't if you want to live as stress-free as you can. Save as much as you can.
It is good to save for emergencies and for your retirement because both of them can put your finances under stress. If you think about it, you will worry less and be less stressful. We all want that. Right?
Did you know that budgeting is the best medicine to restrain your financial anxiety? But you need to plan smartly and carefully.
There are great ways to earn money, and I don't talk about a day job. I am talking about something much different, something that you can do from home and you only need a laptop and the internet.
I love affiliate marketing, and it's an amazing opportunity to create a website, learn and earn money. It will help you reach more financial freedom and you don't need to worry about lack of money. But of course, it takes times. All business would.
Recently I also joined to Network marketing company which seems very interesting. This can also be a great way to enjoy a better life with less stress and worry.
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Who doesn't want to be free? Free of any kind of burden that destroys our peace? Right?
Sometimes financial stress makes you make bad decisions that you later would regret it. happened to me once, and I don't even want to talk about it, because I still feel the effects of it. I just hope it will not be as bad as I think right now it would be.
I know how it feels to experience financial stress and something I want to call it financial anxiety because I am stressing too much sometimes even without reason.
Financial stress can make you make bad decisions that you will surely regret in the future, but at that time they seem alright.
As you know already, there is something you can do to beat financial stress and feel better about yourself and your situation. Your health and well-being is the most important thing, and actually, money and stress about a financial situation aren't worth it.
What is financial stress for you? How do you experience it? Did you? What did you do to beat it? Let me know below!
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It's very impressive with the article which talk about giving you a better life in your life time in the future, to reduce the anxiety of stress to bring light on your ways with greater changes to stay stable living the life and be happy.
Getting more into this article give a free mind from financial. This is a great example of marketing needed in our coast to bring job opportunities to many.
Thank you, Lamin, for your kind words! It is nice that enjoyed it.
Hmmm. Financial stress is really a disease that is common around the world. The lack of money or lack of sufficient money has thrown lots of people into the financial stress. I believe that the best way to kill financial stress is having stable income from several sources that cam meet ones needs and wants.
Yes, stable income is necessary. But it is always better if people have different income streams that make everything less stressful and stable.


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Trump Tower's woes continue above and below; Condo sales now at 2006 levels
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From Great Listings Trump Tower's woes continue above and below; Condo sales now at 2006 levels
By CityRealty Staff Thursday, October 31, 2019
In July, Bloomberg reported on a growing number of vacancies within the commercial podium of Trump Tower, which consists chiefly of retail and office space at its lower floors. In a related trend, CityRealty data shows that residential condo sales in the mixed-use building are also floundering, with nearly half of available units having reduced their initial asking prices. Furthermore, of the 11 closed condo sales recorded so far this year, all but two have sold at discounts — often greater than 10%. 2019's closed sales have come in at an average price per square foot of $1,643, an average not seen since 2006. Even with the discounts, available listings in the tower average $2,078 a foot, revealing a large rift between sellers and prospective buyers.
When Donald Trump, a 37-year-old real estate magnate, erected his namesake skyscraper in 1983, the 664-foot structure had the highest and some of the most expensive apartments in the city. The corner of 57th Street and Fifth Avenue has always seen heavy foot traffic, yet ever since the tower became a rarely-used alternative to the White House by now-President Trump, street congestion, barricades, and security outside its brass-trimmed doors have compounded, transferring the chaos the administration is notorious for onto the sidewalks of Fifth Avenue. Since the 2016 election, much of East 56th Street has been closed off to traffic to the chagrin of local business owners.
2019 closed condo sales at Trump Tower (CityRealty)
These headache-inducing concerns, as well as the President's less-than-welcome repute in a city that voted overwhelmingly Democrat in 2016, are likely reasons for commercial vacancies. According to Bloomberg, occupancy fell from 100 percent in 2013 to 84 percent this year, reaching a seven-year low of 82 percent in 2016.
The same factors are likely behind the dropping condo price listings. Of the 11 non-overlapping spreads that currently for sale, five apartments have shown price decreases of 8.5 to 20 percent since coming online. The most expensive offering, a three-bedroom, 2,509-square-foot unit on the 61st floor, has been reduced from $12.5M to $10M since debuting in January.
-20% | -$2,500K
Trump Tower, #61L | $10,000,000
Condo | 3 beds, 2.5 baths | 2,509 square feet
Trump Tower, #61L (Keller Williams)
Trump Tower, #52H | $2,400,000
Condo | 1 bed, 1 bath | 1,058 square feet
(Douglas Elliman)
View south down Fifth Avenue
-16.7% | -$5,000
Trump Tower, #52AB | $25,000/month
Condo-rental | 3 bed, 3.5 bath / 3,056 square feet
Trump Tower, #52A is a 3-bedroom condo renting for $25,000/month (Sotheby's International Realty)
Even with the city's typically fast-paced rental market, renting out Trump Tower apartments has not come easy. Of its eight available rental units, five were listed before Labor Day. One two-bedroom unit, with a monthly rent of $9,500, has languished on the market since September 2018, even after a 10% price cut this past June. Despite its premier location, the tower's median rental listing price of $73 per square foot is reasonable for Manhattan. One-bedroom listings in the building start at $4,950/month and two-bedrooms start at $9,000/month.
Trump Tower at 721 Fifth Avenue. Credit: Paul Arps on flickr
Despite the falling prices, the tower is far from empty. The 238 apartments remain at 89 percent occupancy, a figure comparable to similar luxury condo properties in the neighborhood.
Presidential pressures at the building's doorstep will remain in place for years (until 2020 or 2024, depending on your political prognosis), yet Secret Service presence will persist for the duration of the future ex-President's residency. However, dropping prices open opportunities for apartment-seekers looking for a bargain on Billionaires' Row. The building's well-poised location, crisp design by architect Der Scutt, 60-foot waterfall atrium, and Central Park views will ensure enduring value even when the tower at 721 Fifth Avenue moves to a quieter chapter of its unique story.
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Primatologist Davis (Dwayne Johnson) shares an unwavering bond with George, the uncommonly canny silverback gorilla who has been in his care since he was youthful. At the point when an avarice powered organization's hereditary investigation goes astray, George and different creatures the nation over are changed into forceful supercreatures who crush everything in their way. In this adrenaline-filled ride, Davis endeavors to discover an antitoxin, to stop a worldwide calamity as well as to spare the fearsome animal who was before his companion.


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Q: Recoloring sql-injections in PhpStorm The PhpStorm IDE comes with a feature called language injections. This feature assists the developer while writing in a sub language while in the context of a primary language. That is, writing JavaScript in HTML or SQL in PHP.
The feature is useful no doubt, but I find the visuals distracting. Is it possible to configure the background color of a language injection in PhpStorm?
Not good; the green tint is super annoying in this case.

It is possible to disable the language injection, but that disables column-name auto-completion and other snacks that the IDE would otherwise provide:

I want a nice "quiet" background and the language completion features.

A: Here you can remove or change background color.

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Home International Do You Know Why Chinese are Scared of Tiananmen Square?
Do You Know Why Chinese are Scared of Tiananmen Square?
After nearly three decades, China's iron curtain continues in relation to the Tiananmen Square massacre. Where 10000 Chinese Civilian die. China has forbidden any discussion on the matter, be it in the form of media, textbook or through the censorship on the internet.
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Tiananmen Square will repeat itself in case of new wave of Protest!
The debate on the dreaded and bloody incident that took place in Tiananmen Square twenty eight years ago has been opened up once again from the Britain's National Archives. The former British Ambassador who used to hold office in Beijing during the time of the incident, Alan Donald, gave the details to London via a telegram stating, "Minimum estimate of civilian dead 10,000." This document was made public twenty eight years later.
The Chinese government in 1989 announced that 200 civilians and several dozen police and military were killed in the suppression of the "counterrevolutionary riots".
But the French sinologist, Jean-Pierre Cabestan said the British figure was credible and he pointed out that US documents gave a similar assessment, although they are declassified now.
The violence was deadly according to Donald when on June 3-4 army entered Beijing after seven weeks of protest on Tiananmen Square and put an end to it with bloody consequences.
During their advance, armoured personnel carriers "opened fire on the crowd (both civilians and soldiers) before running over them in their APCs," said Donald.
Once the soldiers arrived in Tiananmen Square, "students understood they were given one hour to leave square but after five minutes APCs attacked. Students linked arms but were mown down including soldiers. APCs then ran over bodies time and time again to make 'pie' and remain collected by bulldozer. Remains incinerated and then hosed down drains," wrote the British ambassador.
The estimate of casualties out of that incident is no less than 10 times higher to the figures officially declared and commonly accepted at that time. The estimated figure that came out in the media after the incident ranged from several hundred to more than a thousand dead.
After nearly three decades, China's iron curtain continues in relation to the Tiananmen Square massacre. China has forbidden any discussion on the matter, be it in the form of media or textbook or through the censorship on the internet. China, today, is blessed with unprecedented growth and development ushering in large scale prosperity. However, any depletion of this can again lead to protest against dictatorship regime, which will ignite same kind of brutal response from its government and from PLA (People's Liberation Army) who is so far totally loyal to the Communist Party.
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Home / Resources and Support / What Are Stem Cells?
Stem Cells refer to those progenitor cells that are characterized by the ability to renew themselves and have the potential to differentiate into one or more types of cells.
Differences between protocols with stem cells from bone marrow and from umbilical cord blood from stem cells from fat tissue. First, it is helpful to understand differences of the stem cells from each source.
Bone marrow has a natural concentration of hematopoietic stem cells. These cells create blood that is transferred to the blood stream of the body, and can be combined with a mixture of growth factors to create millions of pluripotent progenitor cells. The quantity of stem cells extracted from the bone marrow is defined by volume when the doctor performs the extraction. Because the bone marrow regenerates constantly, it is possible to perform periodical extractions according to the requirements of the procedure without causing side effects to the patient.
Umbilical cord blood is rich with hematopoietic stem cells, because at time of birth these stem cells are "traveling" from the liver (where the blood is produced for the fetus) towards the bone marrow (where the blood is produced after the birth). This mixture contains tens of millions of multipotent progenitor cells. The quantity of cord blood collected is limited to the residual volume of blood in the umbilical cord at the time of birth and is not possible to extract additional same cord blood afterwards.
Access to bone marrow requires a small access to the inside of the bone. This procedure is invasive and local anesthesia is used during the extraction. The extraction could be performed at any time on any person as long as normal operation procedures and sterility cautions are performed. Use of bone marrow has some limitations for allogeneic procedures (see paragraph on compatibility) when a compatible donor is necessary.
Collecting umbilical cord blood is not an invasive procedure, because it is taken immediately after the baby is born and before the placenta gets removed. The extraction can only be performed at the time of the childbirth and should be done following normal hygienic practices to avoid contamination of the cord blood.
In both cases compatibility works similarly. When the donor and the recipient are the same person (autologous), compatibility is a complete match. If the donor and the recipient are different (allogeneic), HLA compatibility tests must be performed before any procedure. The HLA test identifies 6 markers; some bone marrow treatments are possible only with compatibility of 6 out of 6, or 5 out of 6 matched markers; while umbilical cord blood has more flexibility, allowing procedures with 4 of 6 matched markers. Use of any allogeneic procedures is limited by the necessity of finding a compatible donor.
A collection procedure must be performed for any source of stem cells. The more complicated the procedure, the higher the probability of contamination of the stem cells or of collecting a reduced amount. Bone marrow is not processed to extract the stem cells needed for storage or transport, preventing reduction of the amount of stem cells. Umbilical cord blood generally goes through a separation process of its components and also through a process of cryopreservation. Some volume of stem cells will be lost due to the nature of the processes required to collect, separate and cryogenically preserve the cells. The cells can be stored in this way for a very long time.
ProgenCell performs only autologous protocols, performing the infusion immediately after extraction and activation of stem cells. These protocols do not require the separation of blood into components, nor storage, transport or cryopreservation, eliminating the possibility of contamination and decrement in the cellular quantity and viability introduced by these steps. ProgenCell uses total bone marrow for the infusion, infusing not only stem cells but also the growth factors and all components of the bone marrow.
Umbilical cord blood stem cells began to be used in 1988 as alternative to bone marrow. Today it is commonly used for treatments related to the hematologic system of the human body, in nonhereditary diseases. Worldwide more than 70 diseases can be treated with stem cells, and these treatments have been performed mainly on children due to the relationship between the weight of the patient and the amount of stem cells required for treatment. They are an excellent alternative in cases where there is no compatible family member and the search for a compatible person is difficult or counter-productive. Extracting bone marrow from a baby would typically be contraindicated. Storing the umbilical cord blood when the baby is born is recommended since it is relatively easy harvesting and store, and can be made readily available. Storage in private banks gives the family the advantage of having it available at any time, with guaranteed compatibility of these miraculous cells for the child, and a strong likelihood of compatibility for another family member.
Bone marrow has been used in procedures since the 1950´s in hundreds of thousands of cases to date. It is commonly used for the treatment of hematological malignancies, congenital immunodeficiencies and others. It does not make sense economically to have bone marrow banks because of the cost required to harvest and store the cells, in addition to the invasive procedure through which the donor must undergo. That is why the extraction only takes place when a patient requires the cells and a compatible donor is located. Some societies have enormous lists of donors with known HLA markers, facilitating the search of a compatible donor for the patient.
Conclusion: Experience with bone marrow is greater than with umbilical cord blood. Because of the flexibility of multiple extractions of bone marrow it is a "limitless" source of stem cells. For autologous use, the availability and compatibility are not obstacles. Because ProgenCell performs extraction of bone marrow and immediate infusion, this eliminates the need for handling, storage and transport.
Know the source, the donor. When an allogeneic procedure is performed, there is a high risk of tissue rejection causing Graft-Versus-Host-Disease (GVHD). The HLA compatibility of the donor is very important, as well as having comprehensive blood tests to screen for infectious diseases (CMV, Hepatitis C, etc) and a complete clinical history record to avoid donors with predispositions to hereditary diseases.
Supplier. In order to avoid complications in a procedure, the product is important; therefore it must a standard of quality such as Good Manufacturing Procedures. Otherwise the cells could be unusable if they were not handled carefully under these high standards during the separation process, packaging, cryopreservation, transport, thawing, etc.
Amount. Tissue regeneration requires a minimum amount of stem cells to be able to repair damaged tissues. The amount needed is tied to the weight of the patient and other medical factors. A single cord-blood unit may not have enough stem cells to treat an adult. There has been some success with technology being developed to cultivate these cells ex vivo, growing the number available.


Founded in 1994, Panidor specialises in manufacturing deep-frozen bakery products and was a pioneer in this type of products in Portugal. It currently provides a vast range of products that are often found in supermarkets and larger department stores: from several types of bread to a delicious variety of cakes. The company often needs its labels, packaging and brochures translated into several languages, as this is one of the key factors in the success of its exports. The deadlines for submitting the translations tend to be very tight, so they often need resources that can ensure a high quality and rapid turnaround.
At 10 am one morning, SMARTIDIOM received a request for the translation of a list of ingredients, from Portuguese into Polish. The request was urgent, given that the client needed the translation ready by 1 pm the same day. The number of words did not present any problem. However, Polish is not a language that is spoken by any of SMARTIDIOM's internal staff, so it was necessary to resort to external service providers, an issue that would make this project very difficult if no-one was available.
SMARTIDIOM's prompt response was essential. The client was immediately reassured as to the compliance with the delivery time, a mandatory requirement for this project This was only possible after contacting one of the usual translators SMARTIDIOM resorts to for this client, concerning translations into Polish, who promptly agreed to help us with this request. However, confirmation regarding the availability of one of the regular reviewers was still needed, something that occurred minutes later. The document was revised, the final assessment of the document took place internally and the delivery was made 20 minutes before the deadline.
The use of terminology database management tools and glossaries reduced the reviewing time, maintained the consistency and ensured significant cost savings. The use of translation memories ensured that the client's terminology is "remembered" and immediately integrated in subsequent projects.


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The Developer of Pokémon GO Raises $300 Million
The company plans to spend the money on building a real-world metaverse.
Niantic, the company known as a pioneer of AR gaming and the developer of Pokémon GO, has raised $300 million from Coatue, an investment firm that focuses on investing in technology, media, and telecommunications. The company itself was valued at $9 billion.
According to Niantic's announcement, the company plans to use the funds to invest in current games and new apps, expand the Lightship developer platform, and build out its vision for the Real-World Metaverse.
"We're building a future where the real world is overlaid with digital creations, entertainment, and information, making it more magical, fun, and informative," said John Hanke, Niantic's Founder and CEO. "This will take a significant investment of talent, technology, and imagination, and we're thrilled that Coatue is on this journey with us."
"Niantic is building a platform for AR based on a 3D map of the world that we believe will play a critical role in the next transition in computing," said Matt Mazzeo, a General Partner at Coatue. "We are excited to partner with Niantic because we see this infrastructure supporting a metaverse for the real world and helping to power the next evolution of the internet."
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To my opinion Pokémon go should invest in analysing evil plots, so that the world would be more fair and sustainable. A tip for watching on YouTube is: 'slavoj zizek - was Hitler the greatest pokemon master?'
Working with the government is a good idea. The government or governments can pay Niantic for doing this.


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As part of my research on Francisco Franco, I recently had the opportunity to spend some time at the Archivo General de la Administración near Madrid, looking at old files from the wartime years produced by the National Press and Propaganda Delegation of the Falange and the Vice-secretariat for Popular Education that subsumed it after 1941. (Between 1938 and 1966, newspapers in Franco's Spain were subject to prior censorship, with the Vicesecretaría de Educación Popular in charge of providing guidance to the media and administering the actual censorship apparatus between 1941 and 1945). These were the years when the Franco regime was at its most "fascistic," most concerned with mobilizing and indoctrinating the population via the media. I was especially interested in old "consignas" – instructions to the newspapers about what to publish or not to publish, often quite detailed, sometimes even including directives about the exact wording of articles or the typography to be used for the headlines. While reading through these "consignas," it struck me that they provided much evidence of what we might call the censor's dilemma: a press that uniformly reports one message directed from above is a boring press, incapable of genuinely holding the attention of its readers and thus ultimately of indoctrinating them; but a press that shows originality may stray into dangerous territory, promoting unapproved and subversive thoughts.
The Spanish censors of the time were perfectly aware of the need to produce a lively, stimulating press if any indoctrination was to happen at all, and hence to avoid the excessive use of "official" speeches and obvious propaganda. For example, in a circular from 1940, the national press chief complains about the excessive publication of political speeches without commentary, and exhorts newspaper directors to exercise original thinking and journalistic judgment rather than publishing every speech sent to them; while in 1941 he urges newspapers to be original in the special issues they are supposed to produce to commemorate the Día del Caudillo (1 October, the anniversary of Franco's elevation to Chief of State in 1936) and the death of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange (20 November), rather than to regurgitate the text of the scripts sent to them from the National Delegation, and bitterly alludes to the halfhearted fulfillment of such instructions in the past. Other documents encourage newspaper directors to find the "less well-known" anecdotes about particular figures they are ordered to celebrate, like Miguel Primo de Rivera, though these anecdotes still needed to be "exemplary." In 1942 several newspapers are reprimanded for their lack of attention to their editorials section, where, understandably, they never publish anything that is not officially suggested ("absteniéndose de publicar ninguno que no sea sugerido oficiosamente"), and are ordered to produce more original content; and at around the same time some provincial chiefs are admonished not to micro-manage the newspapers in their jurisdiction, presumably so as to avoid losing the attention of local audiences, bored to death by an unremitting diet of speeches and other "official" announcements. Occasionally newspaper directors are implored to try to take away the "official flavor" ("quitándole … todo sabor oficial") of the articles they are ordered to publish and the propaganda campaigns they are supposed to run; and even the film section is sometimes criticized for a lack of interesting and original writing.
Yet one senses that the effort is doomed; already in 1944 the exhortations to originality cease, and ever more detailed scripts ("guiones") to newspaper editors, specifying in great detail what needs to be published and how, become more common. And the press remained boring and distrusted, as confidential reports, declining circulation, and other evidence indicates. (I can testify to that, having spent a lot of time over the past few months reading 1940s issues of Arriba, the regime's mouthpiece). Even Franco himself agreed, as Stanley Payne reports in his classic book on the Franco regime: in the late 40s and 50s, Franco "often ignored the Spanish press since his censorship rendered it predictable and rarely interesting." (Though "[h]e did sometimes look at the New York Times, considering it a "bulwark of international Masonry" on which he needed to be informed and with which he could practice his limited English"; Kindle locs 9311-9314).
Goebbels knew that people would not tolerate a diet of unremitting propaganda. Already in May 1933 he began turning down requests from Nazi Party bosses keen to hear their voices on the radio, and limited broadcasts of political speeches to two a month. Radio, said the Propaganda Minister, had to be imaginative, modern, up-to-date. 'The first law', he told radio managers on 25 March 1933: 'Don't become boring!' They were not to fill their programmes with martial music and patriotic speeches. They had to use their imagination. Radio could bring the whole people behind the regime. Despite this warning, the radio network was initially used for broadcasting large quantities of political propaganda, with fifty speeches by Hitler being transmitted in 1933 alone. On 1 May 1934 broadcasts of the Mayday celebrations, with their speeches, songs, marches and the rest, took up no fewer than seventeen hours of radio time. No wonder that there were reports that listeners were growing blasé in the face of such excesses and listening, when they could, to foreign radio stations. Only gradually was Goebbels's oft-repeated advice heeded.
But some still complained that even the music was boring, and they missed the radio plays that had been so popular under the Weimar Republic. As the Security Service of the SS complained in 1938, the 'dissatisfaction of radio listeners' was demonstrating itself in the fact that 'almost all kinds of German radio listeners … now as before regularly listen to German-language broadcasts from foreign stations'. (Richard Evans, The Third Reich in Power, 1933 - 1939, Kindle locs 2579-2595).
[…] Despite his loudly proclaimed injunction to broadcasters and pressmen not to be boring, Goebbels ended up, therefore, by imposing a political straitjacket on radio and the press that led to widespread popular complaints about the monotonous conformity of these two key opinion-forming mass media and the dull subservience of those who worked in them. Already in 1934 he was telling newspapermen how pleased he was that the press was now reacting to current events correctly without necessarily being told how to. But with his customary cynicism, he concluded a few years later that 'any man who still has a residue of honour will be very careful not to become a journalist'. (The Third Reich in Power, 1933 - 1939, Kindle locs 2786-2821).
The mass acclamation which the regime demanded on occasions such as Hitler's birthday, plebiscites and elections, Mayday and other festivals, was rendered as much out of fear as out of enthusiasm, and people were getting tired of constantly having to go to meetings and demonstrations, the Potsdam district Gestapo office reported two months later in October 1934. In radio, cinema, literature and the arts, as we have seen, all that Goebbels's efforts to make propaganda interesting did was to make people bored, because individual creative initiative was stifled, the variety of cultural life was drastically reduced by censorship, and the monotony of Nazism's cultural offerings quickly became tedious. Even the Nuremberg Rallies soon lost much of their power to inspire, despite the fact that those who attended were by definition the most fanatical and the most enthusiastic of Hitler's supporters. (The Third Reich in Power, 1933 - 1939, Kindle locs 4056-4062).
As Jay Ulfelder reminded us the other day, it is difficult to know what would have happened in the absence of such uniform propaganda; in a counterfactual world many things would have been different, including the content of propaganda. Perhaps both the Franco and the Nazi regimes actually produced the maximal amount of persuasion possible under the circumstances by stressing uniformity, though I doubt it. More likely, it seems to me, is that there are trade-offs between maximizing genuine persuasion (which requires some degree of uncoerced attention and stimulation, or, in other words, the avoidance of complete boredom) and minimizing focal points for opposition; and both the Nazi and the Franco regimes, for all their claims to be engaged in the transformation of national characters through indoctrination, ultimately preferred to minimize opposition. But one can imagine that other regimes might attempt to manage this trade-off differently, tolerating some amount of opposition in exchange for the more genuine commitments that a more stimulating, less predictable cultural life might produce. Indeed, it seems that in some cases a less uniform cultural life is the (inadvertent?) consequence of censorship, and that the commitments produced in these cases are stronger than the commitments produced by boring and uniform propaganda. For example, Barbara Mittler has noted that the "smashing the four olds" campaign during the cultural revolution actually introduced a new variety into the cultural life of many people in China (by, for example, exposing them to the Confucian classics that they were supposed to criticize); and she argues that this accounts in part for the freshness and staying power of cultural revolution culture, which was far less regimented than the kind of culture produced by say, the Nazi regime. ("Cultural Revolution culture … is effective, as is popular culture, because it is nothing but popular culture").
At any rate, it seems to me that the moral of these stories, so to speak, is that ideological persuasion is a sort of by-product of particular discourses, not something that can be produced intentionally and at will. In the Spanish case, ideological persuasion faltered in the face of terrible economic conditions during the 40s; as one Falangista wrote in a confidential report in late 1939, "frente a todo esto, no caben propagandas" ("in the face of [these conditions], no propaganda can work"). Similarly, Nazi propaganda was less effective the less contact it had with the existing beliefs of the German population and their real conditions of life. But in both cases the attempt to directly persuade a population by tightly restricting the variety of points of views presented failed to produce maximal commitment; wherever persuasion occurred, it was less due to the content of the rhetoric of both regimes and their monopoly over public space than as a by-product of the conditions under which propaganda was received. I suppose this is good news: the tedium of genuine authoritarianism prevents such regimes from truly shaping people's characters.
I think the second excerpt from The Third Reich in Power is missing a "not" before "uncommonly failed to print stories".


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Les mioclònies són sacsejades sobtades i involuntàries d'un múscul o grup de músculs. Les estirades mioclòniques generalment són causades per contraccions musculars sobtades anomenades mioclònies positives, o per una relaxació muscular, anomenat mioclònies negatives. Les sacsejades mioclòniques poden ocórrer soles o en seqüència, seguint un patró o sense cap patró. Poden ocórrer infreqüentment, o moltes vegades per minut. Les mioclònis ocasionalment ocorren com resposta a un esdeveniment extern o quan una persona tracta de realitzar un moviment. Les contraccions no poden ser controlades per la persona que les pateix.

Etiologia
Les mioclònies es poden desenvolupar com a reacció a una infecció, a una lesió en el cap o en la medul·la espinal, a l'apoplexia, als tumors cerebrals, a la insuficiència renal o hepàtica, a la malaltia d'emmagatzematge de lípids, a l'enverinament químic o per drogues, a l'encefalopatia espongiforme bovina o a altres trastorns. Una privació perllongada d'oxigen al cervell (hipòxia), pot resultar en una mioclònia posthipòxica. La mioclònia pot aparèixer sense símptomes acompanyants, però amb més freqüència és un de diversos símptomes associats amb una gran varietat de trastorns del sistema nerviós. Per exemple, les sacsejades mioclòinques es poden desenvolupar en pacients amb esclerosi múltiple, la malaltia de Parkinson, la malaltia d'Alzheimer o la malaltia de Creutzfeldt-Jakob. Les sacsejades mioclòniques ocorren comunament en persones amb epilèpsia, un trastorn que l'activitat elèctrica en el cervell s'altera, el que condueix a convulsions.

Tipus
És difícil classificar les moltes diferents formes de mioclònies perquè les causes, els efectes i les respostes a la teràpia varien molt. A continuació hi ha els tipus descrits més comuns.

 La mioclònia d'acció es caracteritza per sacsejades musculars provocades o intensificades per moviments voluntaris o fins i tot per la intenció de moure's. Es pot empitjorar per intents de realitzar moviments coordinats precisos. La mioclònia d'acció és la forma més incapacitant de mioclònia i pot afectar els braços, les cames, la cara i fins a la veu. Aquest tipus de mioclònia sovint és causada per un dany cerebral que resulta de la falta d'oxigen i flux sanguini al cervell quan la respiració o el batec del cor es deté temporalment.
 La mioclònia reflexa cortical és un tipus d'epilèpsia que s'origina en l'escorça cerebral que és la capa exterior, o "substància grisa" del cervell, responsable del processament d'informació que té lloc en el cervell. En aquest tipus de mioclònia, les contraccions generalment només involucren alguns músculs en una sola part del cos, però també poden ocórrer contraccions que involucren molts músculs. La mioclònia reflexa cortical es pot intensificar quan els pacients tracten de moure's de certa manera o perceben una sensació en particular.
 La mioclònia essencial ocorre quan no hi ha epilèpsia o altres anormalitats aparents en el cervell o en els nervis. Pot ocórrer de manera aleatòria en persones que no tenen historial familiar, però també pot aparèixer entre membres de la mateixa família, el que indica que de vegades pot ser un trastorn heretat. La mioclònia essencial tendeix a mantenir-se estable sense que augmenti la seva severitat amb el temps. Alguns científics especulen que algunes formes de mioclònia essencial poden ser un tipus d'epilèpsia l'origen del qual es desconeix.
 La mioclònia palatina és una contracció rítmica regular d'un o ambdós costats de la part posterior del sostre de la boca: el paladar tou. Les contraccions poden estar acompanyades per mioclònies en altres músculs incloent els de la cara, la llengua, la gola i el diafragma. Les contraccions són molt ràpides, ocorrent fins a 150 vegades per minut, i poden persistir durant el somni. L'afecció generalment apareix en adults i pot durar indefinidament. Les persones amb mioclònia palatina generalment ho veuen com un problema menor, encara que ocasionalment es queixen d'un esclafit a l'oïda, un soroll que ocorre quan els músculs del paladar tou es contreuen.
 La mioclònia epilèptica progressiva (o PME, per les seves sigles en anglès) és un grup de malalties caracteritzades per mioclònia, convulsions epilèptiques, i altres símptomes seriosos com dificultat per a caminar o parlar. Aquests trastorns rars sovint s'empitjoren amb el temps i de vegades són fatals. Els estudis han identificat almenys tres formes de PME. La malaltia de cossos de Lafora (o epilèpsia mioclònica de Lafora) és heretada com un trastorn autosòmic recessiu, el que vol dir que la malaltia ocorre solament quan un nen hereta dues còpies del gen defectuós, un de cada pare. La malaltia de cossos de Lafora es caracteritza per mioclònies, convulsions epilèptiques, i demència (una pèrdua progressiva de la memòria i d'altres funcions intel·lectuals). Un segon grup de malalties de PME pertanyents a la classe de malalties d'emmagatzematge cerebral generalment involucren mioclònies, problemes visuals, demència, i distonia (contraccions musculars sostingudes que causen moviments de contorsió o postures anormals). Un altre grup de trastorns de PME en la classe de degeneracions sistèmiques sovint estan acompanyats per mioclònies d'acció, convulsions, i problemes amb l'equilibri i el caminar. Moltes de les malalties de PME comencen en la infantesa o l'adolescència.
 La mioclònia reflexa reticular és un tipus d'epilèpsia generalitzada que s'origina al tronc de l'encèfal, la part del cervell que connecta amb la medul·la espinal i controla les funcions vitals com la respiració i el batec del cor. Les sacsejades mioclòniques generalment afecten tot el cos, amb els músculs d'ambdós costats del cos afectats simultàniament. En algunes persones, les sacsejades mioclòniques ocorren en una sola part del cos, com en les cames, amb tots els músculs d'aquesta part corporal involucrats en cada sacsejada. La mioclònia reflexa reticular pot ser activada per un moviment voluntari o per un estímul extern.
 La mioclònia provocada per l'estimulació és induïda per una varietat d'esdeveniments externs, incloent sorolls, el moviment i la llum. La sorpresa pot augmentar la sensibilitat del pacient.
 La mioclònia nocturna ocorre durant les fases inicials del somni, especialment al moment de quedar-se dormit. Certes formes semblen ser provocades pels estímuls. Algunes persones amb mioclònies nocturnes rares vegades senten molèstia o necessiten tractament per al trastorn. No obstant això, la mioclònia pot ser un símptoma d'un trastorn del somni més complex i preocupant, com la síndrome de les cames neguitoses, i pot necessitar tractament mèdic.

Referències

 National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: publicat sota domini públic.

Signes i símptomes neurològics

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Al Qaeda's Hidden Weaknesses - Why Al Qaeda can't succeed
Highly dangerous cults of hate like Al Qaeda are social mutations that grow virulently and seem unstoppable. But they are not invincible and are bedeviled with contradictions that can eventually consume them. Much depends on them having the right conditions to flourish. To live they must kill, to survive others must die. But still they are ultimately doomed by the futility of their very existence.
By Stephen John Morgan
Highly dangerous cults of hate like Al Qaeda are social mutations which grow virulently and seem unstoppable. But they are not invincible and are bedeviled with contradictions that can eventually consume them. Much depends on them having the right conditions to flourish. To live they must kill, to survive others must die. But still they are ultimately doomed by the futility of their very existence.
Al Qaeda like all cults has three essential weaknesses; internal contradictions, utopian vision and futile strategy and tactics.
Internal Contradictions
Despite their apparent homogeneity and oneness of purpose, at a certain point all cults tend to splinter and/or self-destruct. All cults, including Al Qaeda are based on a lie, the contradictions of which eventually become untenable and, then, turn into an internal cancer causing its cells to turn upon one another and destroy themselves. Secondly, as they grow larger and appear to become stronger, they simultaneously loose their inner cohesion and become open to internal disputes, schisms and external influence and infiltration.
There is also a tendency that, once one group has denounced the established authority in a certain way, be it a Church or political dogma and/or socio-economic system, then they also have opened the field for other groups to emerge internally or externally, which can also claim that they are, in fact, the real "True Path" and "Only Way." These groups then accuse the original group of being charlatans and traitors. This then multiplies and cults disintegrate into thousands of competing mini-cults, each more interested in fighting and denouncing the other, than concentrating on the original enemy or cause.
Secondly, and related to this, there is only room for one "Führer," for one living Guru or "Living God." By virtue of the fact that its leaders are all sociopathic individuals, at some point, internal frictions must always lead to a split in the core leadership. A bloody reckoning follows leaving one faction victorious. In some instances, even more ferocious groups will emerge from factionalism, each vying with one another and aiming to out do the other(s) in their fanaticism as proof of their credentials as pretenders to the mystical throne. But, as with all things, they cannot live forever. Cults thrive only so long as the right social, political and economic conditions exist for the bacteria to keep breeding. Once external conditions change and they no longer find a host to feed upon, they must turn inwards and eat themselves alive.
Visionary Myopia, Utopian Blindness
The simultaneous strength and weakness of all cults is their supra-historical vision. It gives mission, which conveys extraordinary power to their members' motivation, sacrifice and martyrdom. Yet at the same time, that vision is always a totally erroneous and preposterous view of reality. It usually centers around prophesies of doom, with salvation only for the righteous believers and torturous death and retribution for infidels and heretics. Even when these fairy tales have some tenuous basis in real relations and situations, they remain, at best, only a highly warped and deformed view of the way things really are. Living on the edge of or out of reality is not a sound base for any organization, because ultimately it must crash against the contradictions. It leads to unsound evaluations, incorrect decisions and inevitable strategic and tactical mistakes at some stage. From the point of view of Al Qaeda, the classical example was its participation in the hopeless "utopian nightmare" of Afghan Taliban society and, then its attack of 9/11, which combined temporarily to invite an aggression, which severely curtailed and weakened its command structure and nearly led to its demise. Al Qaeda was only saved partly by chance and partly by ineptitude on the part of Washington and US intelligence.
Al Qaeda's vision of vanquishing the Crusaders and Zionists as the conduit of Allah on Earth is an unattainable fairy story. Apart from some political goals such as the removal of all Western military and economic interests in the Middle East its mission is vague and nebulous. Any apparent gains it may score will largely be due to the ineptitude of the U.S.
Futile Strategy and Tactics
The "blurred vision" of Al Qaeda results in a tendency to over-evaluate their own potential power and underestimate that of their enemy's, and in particular the superhuman fortitude and endurance, with which the members of a threatened society can respond. They were undoubtedly taken aback by the way in which New Yorkers and the American people as a whole rallied and overcame the trauma initially inflicted by the terror of 9/11. Indeed, it was the capacity to bounce back that is more important in defeating terrorism than all of the punitive measures of their government. In fact, unfortunately, many of the measures often only strengthen and aid the terrorists in renewing their power base and threatening the West with attacks. The invasion of Iraq is a case in point, through which Al Qaeda has not just recovered but doubled or tripled its original strength internationally.
Terror is nothing new, only some of its forms change. It is used by animals for hunting and defence and has been used by humans from their inception. It has become more sophisticated, but no less brutal. It takes the forms of individual against individual, group on group, to that practiced by a state or dictator against his own people, and by one nation against another nation. The mention of the "terrorist" Genghis Khan still evokes some mild angst; whereas, at one time, the very mention of his name spread outright terror. Even the name of the Vikings today recalls a time of rape and plunder. The Ottomans had the same effect on the populations of East and Central Europe. The same was true for the Crusaders in the Middle East or the Conquistadors in South America. The mere mention of the word "Inquisition" once induced pangs of fear through Christendom. In the old Tsarist Russian empire a graphic example of how such terror can still have its consequences today was given by the Russian Commander of the Caucuses, General Alexi Yermolov, who in 1816 declared that "the terror of my name should guard our frontiers more potently than chains or fortresses." He pursued a scorched earth policy, especially against the Chechens.
Modern times too is replete with figures using and evoking terror – Hitler, the Nazis, its SS, Gestapo and, of course, the single worst terror ever wrought down on a people, the Holocaust. Stalin, the KGB, the Gulag, and its counterparts in Eastern Europe. Figures abound like Papa Doc, Pol Pot, Pinochet, all renowned for their terrorization of their peoples. In truth, the Al Qaeda cult has yet to equal one minute, micro-morsel of the terror experienced and overcome in the West, in its recent history alone.
The regime of the Nazis was like a "super-Taliban," enforcing their fascist ideology upon internal and external opponents. That the symbol of the worst terror known - the Holocaust - finally failed to exterminate the Jewish people, bears eternal witness to indestructibility of the human spirit. During the same period, the Russian people, likewise, faced unprecedented terror but ultimately triumphed. During the terror of the siege of Leningrad, which lasted nearly three years, the population knew that should they succumb, millions of them would be butchered and raped. The terror was unrelenting and the suffering and sacrifice unbelievable. During the brutal Russian winters without heat or water and no supplies, they were forced to eat rats to survive. Some 800,000 of them died of starvation and cold, but they refused to give in and were finally victorious over the Nazi terror. To imagine the same today would be like Al Qaeda causing the equivalent of the death of 4 million New Yorkers.
If ultimate terror were about the explosion of unpredictable bombs with unknown damage than the very height of terror would have been that experienced the British and German peoples in the 2nd World War. During the Blitzkrieg, London was bombarded day after day by thousands of terrifying "doodle" bombs, which would whine over the city's skies and the suddenly fall silent until landing on a street or building which no one could guess. And as soon as they had finished, swarms of German fighter jets would sweep down low along the London streets machine-gunning fleeing pedestrians. In Germany, The eradication of the city of Dresden was something even more awesome and something Al Qaeda could never dream of imitating. In that city, on one night alone, 1,300 British and U.S. aircraft dropped 3,300 bombs on the city, causing a firestorm that lifted ground temperatures to approximately 700 centigrade or 1,800 Fahrenheit. Yet it was rebuilt by the survivors through their determination to go on. The most unspeakably horrendous acts of terror ever, were, of course, the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which may have caused the surrender of the Japanese Emperor, but psychologically, the people recovered to turn a largely agricultural society into one of the world's most prosperous, developed nations.
Whole countries or parts of countries do live with and come to endure high levels of terrorist activities for long periods. Northern Ireland is a point in case, as is Sri Lanka. People are simply immensely resilient and adaptable. They don't just collapse or disintegrate into neurotic jelly. The same holds true for international or "home grown" attacks by Al Qaeda. They will not succeed in terrorizing the population for more than brief periods. Thus, despite the gruesome and spectacular nature of their terror attacks, and even in the case of a biological, chemical or small scale "dirty bomb" or nuclear attack, Al Qaeda and its affiliates still cannot hope to exert the same terror and of a lasting nature than has already been faced and overcome.
The problem with dealing with Al Qaeda, and the reason why the Western powers have been so spectacularly unsuccessful and, indeed, counterproductive in their attempts to destroy it, is that they do not understand it for what it is - a cult. Just like the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, they look for the quick fix by way of the chain-mailed fist. But, generally speaking, cults more often thrive on persecution, than are destroyed by it. Al Qaeda has been flourishing and mutating since the invasion of Iraq.
Like the plague of Egyptian cults that invaded Rome before its collapse, the Empire of the West is becoming riddled with the bacteria of fundamentalist terrorism striking at its roots. Whichever way it turns the West simply invites attack. In reality it has to break with denial and face the truth that its Empire is in irreversible, historical decline. The sun is beginning to set on the West and a new balance of power is emerging, in which its uni-polar hegemony will be challenged. It can choose to face the fate of Rome or it can conserve its culture for centuries as the Greeks did by forsaking irrelevant, antiquated Imperialist pretensions. It can squander billions of dollars a day on wasted military debacles or it can invest in economic and social stabilization of the Middle East, in regenerating inner city ghettoes and in repairing the world climate and resources. Only with a long term and radical U-turn on policy can it hope to gradually undermine the roots of fundamentalist, Islamic terror cults and help to save, rather than destroy civilization. Only then will these cults loose their power and mystically disappear into thin air, just as "miraculously" as they seemed to evolve into monsters from "nowhere."


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CITY OF DELAFIELD - Resident opposition to the proposed Prestwick Group business park apparently resonated with some city officials Monday, Feb. 16, as just five of the seven council members voted in favor of the plan, one short of the supermajority of six votes required to advance it.
At least 20 percent of residents living within 100 feet of the proposed site at I-94 and Highway C submitted protest petitions, which forced the supermajority requirement.
Aldermen Jackie Valde and Al Zietlow cast the dissenting votes on the two proposals the Prestwick Group had on the agenda.
One proposal would have changed 5 acres of the 28-acre site from residential zoning to business zoning.
The other proposal would have allowed the development of 71,000 square feet of office space, which would be space for Prestwick's corporate headquarters and for other businesses to rent out. That plan also includes a 6,000-square-foot event barn and a second phase of development for an additional 68,000 square feet of office space.
The council contemplated the issues for more than three hours, with two hours of public testimony and more than a dozen residents saying they opposed the development, and about of hour of discussion among the council.
A major concern of residents and council members alike was the possibility of the event barn.
"The event barn doesn't belong in the zoning," resident Gerry Holton said. "Think about what you would want to live next to. We're OK with a corporate center, as long as it's normal working business hours."
If the proposal for the development had passed, Prestwick would have gone before the plan commission again to get a conditional-use permit for the event barn.
"I feel like we're going to pass something, and we don't really know what is in it," Valde said. "I'm not going to be pressured into voting for this."
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Valde and Zietlow both said they would rather vote on the development after the Prestwick Group has conditional-use plans that include more details about what the event barn would entail, as well as traffic and environmental impact studies.
Alderman Jim Behrend proposed a compromise that would have limited the event barn to corporate events and would have required a 100-foot buffer on the south side between the development and neighbors — but to no avail, as Valde and Zietlow still opposed the plan.
Aldermen who voted in favor of the proposal said that it would be unfair to Prestwick to require it to go through the expensive and timely process of gathering studies and applying for a conditional-use permit — with the possibility that the entire development still could fail to get the needed votes.
"This is a near perfect proposal," said Alderman Tim Aicher, who sits on both the plan commission and common council. He voted in favor of the proposal, along with Behrend, Kent Atwell, Wayne Dehn and Matt Grimmer.
Aicher highlighted the fact that the development calls for 145,000 square feet of building space, while the zoning for the area would allow for more than 250,000 square feet of building space to be developed.
"This plan is much more safe for environmental development than others we could get," Aicher said.
Mayor Michele DeYoe, who does not vote except in the case of a tie, said the property is popular and that council members should be careful about wishing for something better than what Prestwick is proposing.
Prestwick President Matt Morse said after the meeting they will move forward from here.
"We have options," he said.
The Prestwick Group creates golf course equipment and manufactures outdoor furnishings made from recycled materials.
Prestwick is currently headquartered in a 45,000-square-foot manufacturing building in Sussex; it also rents a 15,000-square-foot facility in Pewaukee for a furniture line.


In view of the refusal by the Department of Immigration to issue me with a valid Kenyan passport and facilitate my unconditional re-entry into Kenya as ordered by the High Court and formally requested by the Kenya National Commission for Human Rights on my behalf, and on advice from legal counsel, I have instructed my advocates to immediately bring to the attention of the court the continued willful contempt of its orders.
I was determined to arrive home on schedule, however, just before my departure, I reluctantly cancelled my flight to Nairobi and postponed my next arrival date.
We will provide you with my new arrival date as soon as the court gives further directions on this matter.
Meanwhile, I urge all Kenyan patriots and members of the National Revolutionary Movement of Kenya (NRMKe) to engage in peaceful protests against the illegitimate regime's continued violation of my rights and the rights of millions of Kenyans, its continued refusal to obey court orders, its looting of hundreds of billions of public resources and failure to adhere to and respect the constitution.
Hold processions, sit ins, street protests, hunger strikes and use all media at your disposals against the escalating tyranny and the culture of impunity.
NASA is dead and with ODM having essentially joined Jubilee, the NRMKe is the new Kenyan opposition. We will and must march on until we defeat those trying to institutionalize the culture of impunity. We must establish a merit based democratic society.


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The Department of Economics at Kiel University enjoys an international reputation for the high quality of its faculty and students. The Department collaborates closely with the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in both research and teaching, jointly conducting research projects, holding research seminars and instructing students in its Bachelor, Master and Ph.D. programs. Its faculty has published widely in leading international journals and has made important contributions to economic policy debates. The research strengths of the Department include, among other things, international economics, environmental and resource economics, quantitative finance, and experimental economics. It houses a state-of-the-art experimental economics laboratory. The Economics Department attracts faculty and students from around the world. For the graduate program and selected undergraduate courses, the language of instruction is English. Other classes at the Bachelor level are taught in German.
Open CQF Institute Talk with Thomas Lux
In an open online talk at the CQF (Certificate in Quantitative Finance) Institute (Link) on Wednesday, 3rd Feb 2021, Thomas Lux will offer an introduction to agent-based modelling (ABM) in finance. ABM uses stochastic simulation models of the interaction of a diverse ensemble of heterogeneous investors to mimic real-world patterns of financial trading within an artificial market. The talk will illustrate the construction principles of ABMs, how they can explain financial stylized facts, and how the empirical validation of agent-based models can be used to extract information on 'hidden' variables such as sentiment which constitutes a salient building block of such models.
New forthcoming paper "The Social Dynamics of COVID-19" by Thomas Lux
For almost a full year, the corona crisis provides a unique challenge to the health systems and economies around the globe. In his forthcoming paper "The Social Dynamics of COVID-19" (Link), Thomas Lux investigates the consequences of adaptive "social distancing" measures within a standard epidemiological model of the COVID pandemic. With a limited attention span and in the absence of a consistent long-term strategy against the pandemic, current social distancing measures are shown to lead to fluctuations in the effective reproduction number around its so-called bifurcation value of unity. While mitigating the pandemic in the short-run, such a process remains intrinsically fragile and does not constitute a sustainable strategy that societies could follow for an extended period of time.
Invitation to online panel discussion
The corona crisis presents the EU with a historic challenge: How can economic recovery after the crisis succeed? Is the planned recovery fund sufficient after a second wave of infections? Does the fund start a European debt union? And is European solidarity supported by the citizens? The Chair of Public Finance and the Lorenz-von-Stein Institute invite you to a virtual, interdisciplinary panel discussion with Prof. Gabriel Felbermayr (IfW, Economics), Prof. Theresa Kuhn (Amsterdam, Political Science) and Prof. Florian Becker (CAU, Law). The event will take place on November 11, 2020 at 6 p.m. via ZOOM. We look forward to your participation and kindly ask you to register in advance by 4.11.2020 by e-mail to classen@economics.uni-kiel.de. Please note that the event will be in German.
Tobias Heidland new professor for international macroeconomics
We welcome Tobias Heidland as a new professor for international macroeconomics. Prof. Heidland researches the globalization and development nexus. His focus is on international migration and global capital flows. He applies different econometric and statistical approaches to study which policies nation states and institutions can use to make the international mobility of people and capital more welfare-enhancing. This winter term, Prof. Heidland will offer a seminar on "Globalization in Developing Countries".
Research paper "International Emigrant Selection on Occupational Skills" accepted for publication
How do migrants compare to residents of their origin countries? Jens Ruhose and his coauthors find that migrants from Mexico to the United States have higher manual, but lower cognitive skills than non-migrants. The study has now been accepted for publication in the prestigious Journal of the European Economic Association (link to the study) and has been awarded the distinguished CESifo Young Affiliate Award.
Matthias Raddant now editor of SN Business & Economics
Matthias Raddant has joined the editorial board of SN Business & Economics, a multi- and interdisciplinary journal serving all areas of Business & Management, Economics and Finance.
Ulrike Kornek new professor for environmental and resource economics
We welcome Ulrike Kornek as a new professor for environmental and resource economics. Her research focuses on international climate economics. Prof. Kornek uses models from environmental economics and game theory to analyze the effects of various policy instruments and institutions on the avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions. In the winter term, Prof. Kornek will offer the lecture Resource Economics as well as seminars in Environmental Economics and Resource Economics
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President's website hacked from within the country?
The investigators of the Criminal Investigations Department and the Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team were busy tracing the cyber attackers who had hacked President Maithripala Sirisena's official website and declared cyber war against him.
The preliminary investigations suggested that the contents had been uploaded from within the country but it was too early to come to a conclusion, SLCERT sources said.
The hackers breached the defences of the website, www.president.gov.lk on two consecutive days and rendered the site offline.
The President's Media division sources said the site was been shut down temporarily to enable the investigations and for strengthening its defences.
SLCERT sources said that their investigators were focusing on the contents uploaded by the outsiders to the President's site and hoped that they would be able to trace the place of origin.


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Nizozemská hokejová reprezentace je reprezentace Nizozemska v ledním hokeji.

V současné době jsou na 24. místě žebříčku WIHC/IIHF a na mistrovství světa v hokeji hraje divizi I.

Nizozemsko soutěžilo na Olympijských hrách v ledním hokeji roku 1980. Po třech prohrách (mj. 4:17 se SSSR), jedné remíze (3:3 s Japonskem) a jedné výhře (5:3 nad Polskem) obsadilo páté místo v červené skupině, celkově skončilo deváté. Pak soutěžilo v elitní skupině roku 1981, kde obsadilo poslední místo.

Mistrovství světa v ledním hokeji

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Join us for our January Thrift and Brunch Meetup on Saturday, January 25 at 2pm. This event is hosted by NeShanta of Styleisshe.com and Rochelle of Rosereddsaid.com. Thrift & Brunch under one roof at Chef Rob's Upscale Lounge. Delicious Caribbean cuisine and Shop the vintage and resale collections of our own Thrifting Atlanta business owners! RSVP at www.thriftingatlanta.eventbrite.com or click HERE.


Description: In the Christian life, forgiveness is a requirement. There are several reasons why we must forgive, but Paul lays out two specific reasons for this. Listen and consider what he said. Forgiveness might help you as much as the person who offended you.
In the Christian life, forgiveness is a requirement. There are several reasons why we must forgive, but Paul lays out two specific reasons for this. Listen and consider what he said. Forgiveness might help you as much as the person who offended you.


Optional extras: smoked paprika, cayenne, dried or fresh herbs, lemon juice, around 1 tsp Dijon mustard.
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On Boyington's Wing: The Wartime Journals of Black Sheep Squadron Fighter Ace
By: Lt. Col. Robert W. McClurg, with Leon Marketos
Book Details: 256 pages, 5.5x8.5, (2003), 2006, 5.5x8.5, paper, 256 pp, Softcover, Heritage Books, Inc
Whenever the fighter pilots of the Black Sheep Squadron headed out on a mission in their F4-U Corsairs, they always flew in pairs. The guy in the other plane was known as your "wingman." Incredibly, when Bob McClurg joined the Black Sheep Marine Fighter Squadron in the South Pacific theatre during WWII, he barely had any flying hours under his belt. The colorful squadron leader, Greg "Pappy" Boyington, literally took McClurg under his wing and made an Ace fighter pilot out of him. McClurg flew many missions as Boyington's wingman in the distinctive "bent-winged" aircraft. The Corsairs could really take a beating, but they often lacked critical equipment such as working compasses or radios. Outmaneuvered by the swift Japanese zeroes, they often limped back to the base. But the zeroes were fragile, and, as McClurg says, after a morning combat mission there were usually a lot fewer lunches served at the Japanese base than there had been breakfasts. Boyington's combat tactics, which are reprinted in this book, were largely responsible for the high success rate of the Black Sheep. Several books have been written about the Black Sheep, but this is the only one besides Boyington's autobiography, "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep," and Frank Walton's "Once They Were Eagles." that has been written by one of the original squadron members. Thanks to a 1970s television series, the Black Sheep became a cultural icon, but the series did not give a completely accurate portrayal of the squadron, and McClurg sets the record straight. He emphasizes that these fighter pilots and their leader were not "misfits," as is commonly believed. Here is McClurg's story in his own words, with excerpts from his wartime journals accompanied by transcriptions of the actual combat reports from the National Archives, as well as several never before published photographs. A WWII aviation classic!
256 pages, 5.5x8.5, (2003), 2006, 5.5x8.5, paper, 256 pp, Softcover, Heritage Books, Inc
Title: On Boyington's Wing: The Wartime Journals of Black Sheep Squadron Fighter Ace
Author: Lt. Col. Robert W. McClurg, with Leon Marketos
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Deployed Military Husband Photoshopped Into Family Holiday Picture
News 5:25 AM PST, December 6, 2019 - Inside Edition Staff
5:25 AM PST, December 6, 2019 - Inside Edition Staff
Danielle Cobo and her family (handout)
Danielle Cobo found a way to make a holiday photo happen for her family, even while her husband was deployed.
The mother of two, who lives in Tampa, Florida, asked her husband to take a photo of himself with his hand out without telling him why. He is currently serving a year deployment, and she said he probably knew she had something up her sleeve.
"I'm obsessed with the holiday season," Cobo said.
Cobo also took her own photo alongside her twin boys and then posted on Facebook asking if someone could help make her vision of a family photo into reality.
"I was overwhelmed by the kindness of people offering to merge the images together for us," Cobo said.
The result? A holiday photo that looks like the family is together again. Cobo's husband actually won't return until early next year, but even when apart, she tries to keep the family unit intact.
"When my husband joined the military, I had no idea the journey our life would take," she said. "We've had some highs and lows. I've enjoyed living in different places, meeting new friends and I'm extremely proud of my husband."
She said that it can get rather lonely at times, though.
"The hardest part is watching our twins grow up knowing that my husband is not around," Cobo said. "By the time he comes home, he will have missed half their life."
But, she wholeheartedly believes in what her husband is doing.
"There are people in other countries that don't have the resources to protect themselves and he is helping them," she said.
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Will the Olympic Village be reducing their prices in order to generate sales?
Apparently Rennie and Associates Realty, the RE group doing the marketing for Millennium Water at the Olympic Village confirmed that they are going to be launching a fall sales campaign in mid-October with buyer incentives.
So far only 254 of units have been sold, most of which were all sold in the pre-sale of 2008. There are still 483 units that remain empty and unsold. The average price range is from about $500,000 for a 1 bedroom condo with about 550 sqft no view to around $10 million for a very high end 3000sqft+with amazing Vancouver Skyline views. The average ppsf is currently around $1000/sqft!
This seems like a lot of money to spend to have to take the Canada line to get to work everyday. Yes you are close to The Downtown Core but you still need to commute to downtown and buyers looking at making at purchase at The Olympic Village will pay more then some of the high end downtown Vancouver waterfront buildings.
Millennium Developments, still owes city taxpayers more than $700 million. Earlier this month they made a payment close to $200 million and are scheduled to make another payment in January. However, before that payment can happen, they need to drive up their sales and increase cash flow.
Best deal currently listed on MLXchange in the Olympic Village?


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Marianne Williamson Supporters Wait Hours to See Her, Break Out in Song
Self-help guru Marianne Williamson (D) drew a significant amount of attention following her Tuesday night debate performance, and her supporters were thrilled, many waiting hours to see her and breaking out in song following the debate.
Hannah Bleau
31 Jul 2019, 10:08 AM PST
'Witches' for Marianne Williamson Launch 'Occult Task Force'
A group of supporters of 2020 White House hopeful and Marianne Williamson has put together an "occult task force" in support of the spiritual guru — however — her campaign is none too pleased about the move.
31 Jul 2019, 7:41 AM PST
Watch Live–Witches Cast Hex on Brett Kavanaugh
A group of 60 people are gathering at Catland Books in Brooklyn, New York, at 7:00 p.m. Saturday to watch a group of witches cast a hex on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Katherine Rodriguez
20 Oct 2018, 5:29 PM PST
Dozens of Witches Gather to Place Public Hex on Brett Kavanaugh
A large group of witches is meeting in Brooklyn this month to place a curse on Judge Brett Kavanaugh "and upon all rapists and the patriarchy which emboldens, rewards and protects them."
#MagicResistance: The Rise of Feminist Witchcraft
From organizing mass hexes to setting up witch-themed Etsy stores, the feminist movement and witchcraft are becoming increasingly entwined.
17 Dec 2017, 10:44 AM PST
Christian Leader Sees 'Spiritual Battle' Over Trump Presidency
A leader of the Christian charismatic movement has declared that the unprecedented resistance to U.S. President Donald Trump signals a deeper, spiritual battle that is taking place over America's soul.
8 Mar 2017, 7:08 AM PST
Witches Unite to Cast 'Binding Spell' on Trump and Followers
24 Feb 2017, 6:53 AM PST
Monk Banned From Distributing 'Homophobic' Leaflets After Telling Lesbian Witches: 'We Used To Burn People Like You'
A monk has been banned from delivering religious leaflets in Britain for the next five years following complaints of homophobia.Brother Damon Kelly of the Black Hermits, a tiny Catholic group based in Northampton, pleaded guilty in June to harassing a
Nick Hallett
Shock Video: Four Suspected of Witchcraft Stripped, Tortured in Papua New Guinea
According to Human Rights Watch, violence against women in PNG "is rampant," and often involves charges of sorcery. In February, 2013, a mob in Western Highlands Province accused 20-year-old Kepari Leniata of witchcraft after a six-year-old child died in her city. The mob stripped her and burned her to death as a witch. Eight other women reportedly were victims of such attacks during the course of the year.
23 Oct 2015, 10:24 AM PST