Do you have a well defined understanding of the purpose and plans as a wife? Do you have clarity about what you value? About your goals or dreams about how you would like to become a better wife?
If you want your relationship with your husband to thrive, then you must have a plan to attain that goal.
While we encourage you to create a vision for your marriage with your husband (stay tuned for that post!), taking the time to create a vision for your walk as a wife will add much benefit to your marriage. It will hold you accountable and remind you of the wife you desire to be for your husband.
Grab your bible and read Proverbs 31: 10-31. *Don't have a bible? We'd love to get you one! Email us and we'll send you one!
Pray, asking God to show you the top three areas that you should focus on as a wife.
Write these three across the top of a piece of paper.
Then, under each area, make a list of Applications – of HOW you will carry out these areas practically speaking, in everyday life. For example, if an area is that you will be a wife who respects her husband, you could do this by allowing him to voice his opinion and being encouraging of his thoughts; or by not changing something after he has already completed it or said something.
I am a wife that will ( INSERT #1 ), ( INSERT #2 ), and ( INSERT #3).
Then, get practical in by listing how you will hold yourself accountable to your areas by listing your Applications.
Post this Vision up where you will see it often!
The first thing God showed us about his character was His creativity when we spoke the world into existence and created everything. Continue to pray that God would inspire you to be the best wife you can be, and reference your vision frequently to remind you of your goal as a wife.
I can't wait to see what you come up with, in the comment section write down your mission statement or your three words.
WIFE STEP: Complete the steps in this post!
What makes you the most excited about having a vision as a wife?
Misty Phillip is an author, blogger, and speaker. Misty believes a woman's highest calling is to love God and make him known, by loving and serving her family and others with her God-given gifts and talents.
Misty is married to the love of her life and best friend, Peter Phillip, and together they have three amazing young men and are blessed with a precious daughter-in-law. Misty left her corporate career to homeschool her boys. As her boys have grown she began a new season of writing and speaking.
In 2011 Misty became involved in the pro-life movement speaking for Texas Right to Life soon after her son Liam was diagnosed with Trisomy 18. This life changing event launched Misty into the pro-life movement. Recently, she has joined Save the 1 as a National Pro-life speaker. Misty shares devotions on Christian Living, Faith, Home, Family and the books she loves at MistyPhillip.com– By His Grace – Seek Jesus, Study the Word, & Grow in Grace.


Along with the above articles you can see that the Gerbil Coat Colour Reference Guide has been updated and expanded yet again to show how this new spotting gene affects existing spotted coat colour patterns. Firstly an Excellent visual comparison guide showing the differences between The Dominant spot gene and the new Spotting lethal (post-natal) gene. The coat colour guide also includes two further guides on Extreme White spotting in gerbils. The second picture guide is by Eli Wolfmayr & Kira Gysel and includes some superb photography of this new coat colour variety. The third picture guide is a breeders diary by Inga and shows this new coat colour in various stages from pups to adulthood.
It also appears that a very similar spotted coat variety has emerged in the U.S.A. but at the moment they are unsure if it's the same new spotting gene at work when combined with the existing Dominant Spotting gene, or simply further modifying genes at the Dominant Spotting locus that has extended the white markings yet again.


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Solar PV, Battery Storage, EV Charging point and Heat Pump technologies in Hampshire, Isle of Wight and beyond.
We are now Dimplex and Logic Accredited installers for Ground and Air Source Heat Pumps and as such can offer a bespoke design and installation service.
Our aim is to design and install Renewable Energy Systems along with providing our engineering skills and expertise in the most cost effective and efficient way to benefit you the consumer.
Nearby, we also have Renewables installers in Eastleigh, Romsey, and Lyndhurst.


We renovated three patient floors in the Galter Pavilion at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, which encompassed a total of 116,368 sq. ft. and included 89 beds combined. In all, we specified 13 commissioned oil paintings plus 93 posters and prints.
The 13th floor unit was occupied by the psychiatry department which required us to work with a specialized group of physicians and nurses to make sure that all of our images were suitable for this highly specific patient population.
We worked closely with the medical staff to develop large scale nature images printed directly to polycarbonate panels which were built into the wall structure and then back lit with dimmers. This groundbreaking concept uses these art panels as a therapy, adjusting the environment from day to night, thus treating the circadian rhythms as a combined therapy for these patients.


As of Monday, BP had yet to resume drilling of two relief wells which aim to permanently seal off its Macondo well. The latest delay arose over concerns that the operation might create a new spill.
The annulus is a ring that surrounds the well's casing. Last week scientists found evidence to suggest the annulus was breached during the "static kill" operation in late July, during which heavy mud and cement was used to force oil back down toward its reservoir.
In the procedure, oil very likely became trapped in the annulus between the seafloor and the reservoir. This has raised concerns over how to maintain a safe pressure level when the relief well intersects the Macondo and the "bottom kill" of pumping cement into the lower reaches of the well can begin.
Some engineers have criticized the decision to use the static kill prior to the completion of the relief wells. "It would have been easier and safer to kill the well with the relief well," Les Ply, a retired petroleum engineer, told Bloomberg.
It cannot be excluded that the relief well may cause a new blowout or in some other way open up an avenue for the oil to escape its reservoir, estimated at a volume of between 2 billion and 4.2 billion gallons—20 and 40 times the magnitude of the Deepwater Horizon blowout.
To control pressure in the well casing, two procedures are reportedly being debated. One would involve removing the new capping stack, placed over the wellhead on July 15, and replacing it with another blowout preventer. Another possibility would involve BP creating a new pressure relief device for the capping stack now in place.
Whatever the risks, no confidence can be placed in either BP or the Obama administration. From the beginning the response, cleanup, and efforts to contain the well have been animated by one overriding concern—the defense of BP and the oil industry as a whole.
The Macondo erupted in the biggest sea blowout in history on April 20 after BP ignored a series of warnings and unsafely expedited well-capping with its exploratory Deepwater Horizon rig. Eleven workers died in the resulting explosion and upwards of 200 million gallons of oil were dumped into the Gulf of Mexico by mid-July.
In its efforts to contain the gusher BP moved from failure to failure—"top hat," "containment dome," "junk shot," "top kill," and so on. All through the process, however, BP maintained that the ultimate and fail-safe means for finally closing off the Macondo would be through the drilling of relief wells that would intersect with it far below the seabed and plug the well by pumping cement into it.
But in mid-July BP abruptly suspended drilling of the relief wells, even though one of the two was reportedly within feet of the Macondo. It then put in place a new capping system, ostensibly to conduct a 48-hour pressure test. Even though the pressure test failed to achieve the results BP had said were necessary, the cap was left in place permanently. This was followed by the static kill operation.
No rationale was provided for the suspension of the relief wells in July. This was in keeping with the modus operandi of BP and the Obama administration throughout the disaster: cover-up.
The mysterious stop-and-go of relief well drilling continued last week. After bad weather temporarily suspended drilling early in the week, BP intimated that it would not be necessary to complete the relief wells at all.
When this might take place has been thrown into doubt by the discovery of the breach in the annulus.


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"Prestigious Brands of Asia" Major Awards won by RAK Properties
The Managing Director of RAK Properties Mohammad Sultan Al Qadi is presented with the 'Most Admired Leader' Award and RAK Properties management team received 'The Most Prestigious Brands of Asia' Award at a glittering ceremony held in the Murjaan Ballroom, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai.
Hosted by Herald Global & BARC Asia in recognition to top brands that have the most influential, professional brand design. Al Qadi attributed this award to the management team of RAK Properties that has shown far-sighted vision and commitment to the execution of major projects and strategies.
Expressing his delight at winning this award, Al Qadi praised the forum for highlighting the leadership stories of the region and said it was a matter of pride that the success attained by RAK Properties is being noticed by business leaders and organizations in the MENA region.

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India's Climate Change Policy: Challenges and Recommendations
Relevance of Ethics for Governance, Policy Making and its Limitations
The Student Credit Card Scheme
A Future Policymaker's Perspective on Ethics in Governance
Digitalisation of Diplomacy
The Issues With the Rehabilitation Policy of Kashmiri Migrants
Revdi Culture for Vote bank: A Fact-check on Economy
Covid 19 Impact and Way Forward
Education Policy and Design
Science, Technology and Infrastructure Policy
Urbanisation and Governance
Chief of Defence Staff: Need of the hour for the forces and the Industry
Avnish Patnaik
The establishment of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), a four-star general, in India's military apparatus is poised to bring in much required internal reforms i.e. corroborating the tri-services to eventually operate as theatre commands where the Army, Navy and Air Force would operate under a single 3-star general. The corollary effect of this establishment will fall upon the industry as all revenue and joint procurement plans will be dealt with by the CDS.
Emergence of the need
Since the Kargil conflict of 1999, the necessity of jointmanship in operations was seen as a critical step in effectively thwarting future threats emanating from India's borders in the west and as well as the east. A testament to the lack of cohesion between the Army and the Air Force during Kargil was how both forces named the same operations differently: The Army called it 'Operation Vijay' while the Air Forced termed it as 'Operation Safed Sagar'.1, 2 To solve this, the Kargil Review Committee recommended the establishment of a CDS to create synergy and jointness within the tri-services.3 After 19 years of political stumbling and turf wars between the forces, the 27th Chief of Army Staff General Bipin Rawat finally took charge as the first CDS on 1st January 2020.
General Rawat has been given a timeline of 3 years to establish effective jointmanship amongst the forces, which, hopefully, should lead to the creation of theatre commands where the Army, Navy and Air Force operate under one umbrella.4 The task at hand for General Rawat is monumental as India navigates itself against the rise of China and the ensuing global trade war. India's influence in the neighbourhood with an extension to Africa and the Middle East, will be heavily determined on how our forces interact; bilateral military exchanges and defence trade can form the cornerstone of India's relevance in the region. The present charter of the CDS does empower him, amongst other things, to deal with the supply of ammunition to neighbouring countries, monitor developments in the Indian Ocean, Afghanistan, West Asia and South East Asia.5 Further, to counter, the Pakistan-China alliance, whether on border disputes or the Belt and Road Initiative, it is imperative for the services to act under one command so as to avoid another Kargil-like conflict.
As the CDS does not have operational command over each service – Army, Navy and Air Force, the responsibility of achieving the desired level of inter-operability, lies equally with the three service chiefs. In addition, considering the tensions between the bureaucracy and the military since independence, coupled with inter-service rivalry, the success of such a major reform cannot be left solely on the CDS and the Ministry of Defence needs to play a proactive role in clearing the bottlenecks for the synergizing process.
Optimization of Resources and the Industry
The operational effectiveness of a force not only lies with the men who command it but also with the equipment that that they use. Despite having a defence industrial base, dominated by public sector units, India has not been able to indigenize many of its critical platforms and still relies on imports.6 Further, the services, on numerous occasions, have raised objections against the quality and delivery timelines of the public sector units. 7, 8
To encourage competition in the sector, it was opened for private participation in 2001 and since the launch of the Make in India programme by the Indian government in 2014, a renewed zeal and optimism has emerged amongst the private sector to be part of achieving the goal of self-reliance in defence manufacturing.
In building a conducive environment, the government has been proactive in streamlining the defence procurement procedure (DPP) and the defence procurement manual (DPM) through multiple revisions whilst taking cognizance of the Industry's concerns. The announcement of the draft Defence Production Policy 2018 is also a welcome step as the policy articulates a vision to make India self-reliant and one of the top five countries of the world in the aerospace and defence sector; The policy clearly sets a goal for the sector to achieve an annual turnover of $26 billion in defence goods and services by 2025.9
Given India's external security threats, timely acquisition of military equipment is essential to maintain operational effectiveness. Coupled with traditional equipment, the emergence of Industry 4.0 – artificial intelligence, machine learning, 3D Printing et al., has led the services to expand the scope of warfare through these new-age technologies.
With big ticket capital acquisitions still under the ambit of the Defence Secretary, the CDS will have to create integrated requirements for the tri-services so that a supplier company can achieve economies of scale by supplying to all three arms in one procurement cycle. In numerous cases related to technology development and absorption, the Industry has raised concerns over research and development costs and assured acquisitions by the services. With an aggressive push by the government to boost exports and an integrated capability development plan being steered by the CDS, the Industry can look forward to attractive acquisition plans and a supportive export policy that caters to the aforementioned technologies.
The Cyber and Space Command, under the purview of the CDS, is where the real potential of the Indian Industry can be realized.10 India has already developed substantial capability in the Space domain where many micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME)'s have contributed to supplying spare-parts and components to missions of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). In addition, India has established herself as an information technology (IT) leader where major players and start-ups can contribute immensely to its defence requirements. Dr Ajay Kumar, defence secretary, has already conveyed that the IT industry is exporting goods close to $2billion in the Defence and Aerospace sector and that the Government needs a stronger partnership model with the IT industry to expand this number.11 In line with this 'digital' aspect of defence, the recently concluded DefExpo 2020 endorsed the theme of 'Digital Transformation of Defence' where a dedicated 'India Pavilion' was made to showcase indigenously developed technology to the services as well as to the global market.
Inducting indigenous equipment has become imperative to ensure secrecy and operational efficiency.12 As the United States is apprehensive of Huawei and impeding Chinese intrusion through 5G, India's forces have faced similar apprehensions while using foreign equipment, especially communication gear. Hence, the services are becoming increasingly dependent on using indigenously developed technology rather than going for imports. Though national security has been at stake, the induction of any equipment, traditionally, has progressed at a snail's pace due to a lengthy procurement procedure. Adding salt to the wound, this lengthy procedure is why, presently, the Air Force has 26 fighter squadrons as against a sanctioned number of 42 squadrons.13 The sanctioned number amounts to waging a two-front confrontation with China and Pakistan.
The combination of internal reforms i.e. establishment of the position of the CDS along with streamlining of procurement procedures can herald a win-win scenario for the services and the Industry. The following can be achieved if reforms are implemented in its full spirit:-
Quicker induction of latest technology in line with emerging requirements.
Economies of scale for the industry that will, thereby, will be incentivised to invest in manufacturing.
Increase in inter-operability of the services and the equipment they use.
Substantial increase in defence exports to friendly foreign countries.
Projection of India as a self-reliant, technologically equipped military power.
After 70 years of independence, we are fortunate to have a government which is attempting to shake the inertia of its military dormancy. With reforms in motion, hopefully, the next Indian war could be won with Indian solutions.
REFERENCES:-
1. Shaurya Gurung, "Kargil: What happened 20 years ago and why it's unlikely to happen again", The Economic Times, July 26 2019, https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/kargil-war-what-happened-20-years-ago-and-why-it-may-not-happen-again/articleshow/70371791.cms?from=mdr
2. "OP Safed Sagar", Indian Air Force, accessed February 16, 2020, https://indianairforce.nic.in/content/op-safed-sagar
3. Rahul Singh, " India's 1st chief of army staff Gen Bipin Rawat to head dept of military affairs", Hindustan Times, January 01, 2020, https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/creation-role-of-dept-of-military-affairs-notified/story-okOp7hshvV4eE6kCNhgi2I.html
4. "Cabinet approves creation of the post of Chief of Defence Staff in the rank of four star General", Press Information Bureau, December 24, 2019, https://pib.gov.in/newsite/pmreleases.aspx?mincode=33
5. "Allocation of work and staff between Department of Defence and newly created Department of Military Affairs", Ministry of Defence, January 09, 2020, https://mod.gov.in/dod/sites/default/files/AllocaDMA170120_1.pdf
6. "India is world's second largest arms importer", The Hindu, March 12, 2019, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-is-worlds-second-largest-arms-importer/article26502417.ece
7. Rajat Pandit, " Army raises alarm over rising accidents due to faulty ammunition", May 14, 2019, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/army-raises-alarm-over-rising-accidents-due-to-faulty-ammunition/articleshow/69315854.cms
8. Manu Pubby, Slow HAL impacting India's air combat strength: IAF to Govt, The Economic Times, January 24, 2019, https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/slow-hal-impacting-indias-air-combat-strength-iaf-to-govt/articleshow/67665277.cms
9. "Draft Defence Production Policy 2018", accessed on February 16, 2020, http://www.makeinindiadefence.gov.in/admin/writereaddata/upload/Draft_Defence_Production_Policy_2018.pdf
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11. Dr Ajay Kumar, " We are fortunate to have strong domestic IT Industry with defence and aerospace exports worth $ 1.5 – 2 billion; we must engage in a stronger partnership model with the IT Industry", Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers, Twitter, November 27, 2019, https://twitter.com/SIDMIndia/status/1199537815538634752
12. "Important to develop indigenous systems for ensuring secrecy: Gen Bipin Rawat", The Economic Times, November 26, 2019, https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/important-to-develop-indigenous-systems-for-ensuring-secrecy-gen-bipin-rawat/videoshow/72237920.cms
13. Ajai Shukla, " IAF to increase squadron strength; 3 more to be inducted in 2020", Business Standard, January 19, 2020, https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/iaf-to-increase-squadron-strength-3-more-to-be-inducted-in-2020-120011801028_1.html


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Houston Negro Hospital
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Receipt from Annin & Co.. April 18, 1931. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. January 17, 2020. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/hnh/item/979.
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Annin & Company
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CardioComm Solutions Provides Update Respecting Financial Statements
TORONTO, ONTARIO / ACCESSWIRE / May 31, 2020 / CardioComm Solutions, Inc. (TSXV:EKG) ("CardioComm" or the "Company"), a global medical provider of consumer heart monitoring and medical electrocardiogram ("ECG") software solutions, provides an update respecting its reliance on the coordinated relief provided by securities regulators, which consists of a 45-day extension for certain periodic filings required on or before June 1, 2020, pursuant to Ontario Instrument 51-502 Temporary Exemption from Certain Corporate Finance Requirements and similar exemptions in other provinces (collectively, the "Blanket Relief") (see CardioComm's press release dated April 30, 2020). As previously announced, CardioComm is relying on the Blanket Relief with respect to the requirement to file:
within 120 days of the Company's financial year end, audited financial statements, management's discussion and analysis, and certifications for the year ended December 31, 2019; and
within 60 days of the Company's financial quarter, interim financial statements, management's discussion and analysis, and certifications for the quarter ended March 31, 2020.
CardioComm and its auditors continue to work diligently and expeditiously to file the Company's annual documents for the year ended December 31, 2019, and the quarterly documents for the quarter ended March 31, 2020. CardioComm currently expects such documents to be filed on or about June 12, 2020, and June 19, 2020, respectively.
CardioComm confirms that the delays are directly related to COVID-19 impact on auditor resources and that there have been no material developments, other than those disclosed through news releases, since the filing of its interim consolidated financial statements for the period ended September 30, 2019.
CardioComm advises that, in accordance with the requirements of the Blanket Relief, management and other insiders of CardioComm are subject to a trading blackout that reflects the principles in Section 9 of National Policy 11-207 Failure to-File Cease Trade Orders and Revocations in Multiple Jurisdictions until its filings are up to date.
To learn more about CardioComm's products and for further updates regarding HeartCheck™ ECG device integrations please visit the Company's websites at www.cardiocommsolutions.com and www.theheartcheck.com.
About CardioComm Solutions
CardioComm Solutions' patented and proprietary technology is used in products for recording, viewing, analyzing and storing electrocardiograms for diagnosis and management of cardiac patients. Products are sold worldwide through a combination of an external distribution network and a North American-based sales team. CardioComm Solutions has earned the ISO 13485 certification, is HIPAA compliant and holds clearances from the European Union (CE Mark), the USA (FDA) and Canada (Health Canada).
Etienne Grima, Chief Executive Officer
1-877-977-9425 x227
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investor.relations@cardiocommsolutions.com
This release may contain certain forward-looking statements and forward-looking information with respect to the financial condition, results of operations and business of CardioComm Solutions and certain of the plans and objectives of CardioComm Solutions with respect to these items. Such statements and information reflect management's current beliefs and are based on information currently available to management. By their nature, forward-looking statements and forward-looking information involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future and there are many factors that could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements and forward-looking information.
In evaluating these statements, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements and forward-looking information. The Company does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements and forward-looking information contained in this release other than as required by applicable laws, including without limitation, Section 5.8(2) of National Instrument 51-102 (Continuous Disclosure Obligations).
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
SOURCE: CardioComm Solutions, Inc
https://www.accesswire.com/592119/CardioComm-Solutions-Provides-Update-Respecting-Financial-Statements


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Another Wasted Year
Economy/Featured
Posted on December 5, 2011 April 3, 2012
The year 2011 comes to a close with the Trinidad and Tobago economy no better off than at the end of 2010. Our economic performance can be summarized very simply as disappointing stagnation. The promise of a return to positive growth in 2011 remains unfulfilled and the outlook of highly uncertain times endures in the face of recent events. The popular inclination to blame the international economic environment for our condition would have little basis in fact as it relates to 2011. But the culture of blame is well entrenched in this society, where politicians in particular, seem averse to introspection. The challenges we face have little to do with the external environment but with the choices we have made with the resources with which we have been blessed. So many have done so much more with so much less than we have. Regardless of the pros or cons of the external environment, it is our own resourcefulness and self belief that will launch us into a future.
At the start of the year and for most of the first half, the general consensus was that the economy was poised for growth. This view came not only from the Government quarters but from the "independent" authorities as well. The IMF in its Article 4 report noted "growth is expected to pick up in the second quarter of 2011 and is projected to be 2.0 percent for the year." In its October 2010 Monetary Policy report the Central Bank forecast a 2-3 per cent GDP growth, based on the resumption of private sector confidence and the contribution of fiscal stimulus. By March however, the Central Bank had tempered its growth expectations to a slower 1-2 per cent.
Both institutions warned of possible downside risks including delays in capital spending on infrastructure projects, settlement of the Public Service wage despite, resolution of the Clico debacle and payment of arrears to contractors and for VAT.
In some ways the Government successfully navigated these troubled waters. It found an ally in the PSA and settled several public servants' pay dispute, firm proposals were made to the Clico policy holders and some if not all received payment of VAT refunds. Capital spending on infrastructure projects commenced in earnest in the second half of the fiscal year. .
By the end of the fiscal year however the picture had changed. It had become clear that the economy had slowed. The official Review of the Economy noted that "the economy is projected to decline by 1.4 per cent in real terms in 2011 as a result of flat growth in petroleum coupled by lower levels of economic activity in the non petroleum sector." Consecutive quarterly declines indicated that, by definition, a recession had set in. Not surprisingly, the Finance Minister cast the blame on the global uncertainties stemming from the European debt crisis and the stuttering US economy.
"Mr. Speaker, these uncertainties were transmitted to our economy through the impact on oil and gas and other commodity prices, the performance of the Caribbean region and the falling markets for our exports."
The evidence does not however support Mr. Dookeran's claims. Far from being depressed, oil and petrochemical prices soared to levels not seen since 2008, while LNG exports benefited from significant cargo diversions to alternative markets yielding netback values well in excess of the budgeted well head price of US$ 2.50/MMBTU. Notwithstanding lower production, both Government revenue and export earnings were boosted by higher commodity prices. Government revenue in 2011 fiscal was actually in excess of $1 billion more than budgeted , supporting growth in expenditure to $50.1 billion, excluding contributions to the Heritage and Stabilization Fund.
We need to therefore look elsewhere for the root causes of this strange phenomenon of an enduring economic slump, during a period of high commodity prices larger than anticipated revenues and export earnings.
Several related and contributory factors may be identified. The first is certainly the delays in kick-starting the public sector investment programme. The Government's capital spend is typically the means through which Government stimulates economic activity. In fact one of the major reasons for changing the fiscal year from a calender year basis to that of October to September was to facilitate the advantage of the dry season to commence major capital spend on infrastructure. The Government for various reasons seemed slow to get off the mark. A related factor was the inexplicably long delay in appointing new Boards of Directors of state enterprises. Even after Boards were appointed, the extended period of settling in resulted in further delays. The PSIP and the expenditure of the State Enterprises represent the most significant elements of the Government injections into the non-energy sector of the economy. Thirdly, any positive impact of a late surge in expenditure from these sources would have been muted by the State of Emergency and curfew imposed in August . To date, no official estimates of the economic impact of the SOE are available but anecdotal evidence suggests that it took its greatest toll on the entertainment, restaurant and small scale business sectors. Hundreds of people were put on the breadline if only temporarily. Restaurants reported a 25 over cent drop in business. A host of small night-time entrepreneurs, including taxi drivers, peddlers, vendors, entertainers would have suffered severe losses in income.
An often overlooked factor is the Government's tardiness in defining a clear macro economic framework within which its priorities would be determined. Private investors, local and foreign, are more likely to make long term capital investments within a context of clear macro-economic policy framework Michael Porter makes the point that "successful countries exhibit consistency and stability in national macro-economic development policy over time.".
In Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean a change of Government usually is characterized by changes in institutions, strategies and people, most of which are merely cosmetic. In this case there was a heavy cost to the delays. It took the PPG over fifteen months and two ministers to develop its Medium term Planning Framework, which at the end of the day, has much in common with Vision 2020, notwithstanding the Government's posturing to the contrary .
Perhaps the most notable feature of this Government's fiscal stance has been the use of the purse as an appeasement mechanism. It began with the increase in certain social benefits in the Budget 2010-11, which was followed by the hefty prize money for Carnival activities. When the Finance Minister sought an increase in the Budget allocation for 2011 of $ 2.7 billion, some 17 per cent was allocated to the Ministry of the People and Social Development, while the ministries tasked with economic transformation, innovation development and nurturing entrepreneurship – collectively received 1.5 per cent of the supplement. The policy of appeasement has culminated in the $300 million boost to CEPEP reloaded as " Colour Me Orange". The fiscal impact is registered in the burgeoning share of transfers and subsidies in the national budget now approaching 56 per cent. But while these populist programmes may quell some voices temporarily, everybody knows that they are not sustainable and do not yield increases in output and productivity.
The factors identified above have more to do with economics. What we have witnessed over the last 18 months is a Government determined to retain power by any means necessary, while at the same time ensuring that there are adequate returns for political investors. Populist measures continue to trump economics every day. Long term transformation effort has been sacrificed at the altar of the short term expediency. Mr. Dookeran's "new politics" appear to be dead on arrival.
It is not surprising therefore that such a deep sense of distrust of the Government persists. This in turn feeds the lack of confidence on the part of investors and consumers alike. The economy is in a vicious cycle. Private investors wish for clarity, transparency and consistency in Government policy and processes before committing to major investments. On the other had Government continues in extempore mode responding to successive crisis with cash and promises, often in contradiction to previously stated goals. In the meantime, the economy and society continue to spiral downwards. We collectively hope and pray for a more productive 2012
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The Water Keeper - by Charles Martin (Hardcover)
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Dimensions (Overall): 9.3 Inches (H) x 6.4 Inch (W) x 1.3 Inch (D)
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Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Author: Charles Martin
Street Date: June 4, 2020
A riveting new story of heroism, heartache, and the power of love to heal all wounds.
Murphy Shepherd is a man with many secrets. He lives alone on an island, tending the grounds of a church with no parishioners, and he's dedicated his life to rescuing those in peril. But as he mourns the loss of his mentor and friend, Murph himself may be more lost than he realizes.
When he pulls a beautiful woman named Summer out of Florida's Intracoastal Waterway, Murph's mission to lay his mentor to rest at the end of the world takes a dangerous turn. Drawn to Summer, and desperate to find her missing daughter, Murph is pulled deeper and deeper into the dark and dangerous world of modern-day slavery.
With help from some unexpected new friends, including a faithful Labrador he plucks from the ocean and an ex-convict named Clay, Murph must race against the clock to locate the girl before he is consumed by the secrets of his past--and the ghosts who tried to bury them.
With Charles Martin's trademark lyricism and poignant prose, The Water Keeper is at once a tender love story and a heartrending search for freedom.
"I'm telling you, it's an action-packed, classic Charles Martin romance novel unlike anything I've ever read. And remember . . . the day you pick up this book is the day you become temporarily unavailable to the world." --Charlie Martin, son of Charles Martin
"Charles Martin fans rejoice, because he's done it again . . . a multilayered story woven together with grace and redemption, and packed tight with tension and achingly real characters." --Lauren Denton, USA TODAY bestselling author of The Hideaway
"In The Water Keeper Charles Martin crafts a compelling story with skill and sensitivity. Open the pages of this book and you'll enter the world of characters caught up in a real-life drama that grips the heart. As with all of Charles's books you never finish it--you continue to live there in your own imagination. Current fans won't be disappointed; new readers will understand why Charles Martin is on the short list of contemporary authors I recommend above all others." --Robert Whitlow, bestselling author
The first story in a new series from Charles Martin
Full-length novel (c. 110,000 words)
Includes Discussion Questions for Book Clubs
Also by Charles Martin: The Mountain Between Us, Send Down the Rain, Long Way Gone, When Crickets Cry


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PDS Biotechnology closes merger with Edge Therapeutics
Author Mirza Salam Ahmed
Immuno-oncology company PDS Biotechnology Corp. completed a stock-for-stock merger transaction with Berkeley Heights, N.J.-based biotechnology company Edge Therapeutics Inc.
The merger was completed after Edge's shareholders approved the deal March 14.
According to a March 18 filing, Princeton, N.J.-based PDS Biotechnology's stockholders will own about 70% of the combined company and Edge stockholders will own about 30% of the combined company.
Edge will now operate as PDS Biotechnology Corp. and the company's stock will trade on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker PDSB starting March 18. Meanwhile, PDS Biotechnology changed its name to PDS Operating Corp.
Following the closing of the merger, Edge implemented a 1-for-20 reverse split of its common stock. The combined company's cash and cash equivalents were about $25 million after the deal's completion.
Completion of the deal resulted in the resignation of Edge's directors. Edge's board appointed Frank Bedu-Addo, Sir Richard Sykes, De Lyle Bloomquist, Gregory Freitag and Andrew Saik as board members of the combined company.
The board appointed Frank Bedu-Addo as CEO and president, Andrew Saik as CFO, Gregory Conn as chief scientific officer, Lauren Wood as chief medical officer and Brad Middlekauff as chief legal officer.
Bedu-Addo said the combined company plans to begin two phase 2 studies and a potential registration trial for its lead product PDS0101 — a treatment for human papillomavirus-related cancers — in the fourth quarter of 2019.
The studies are evaluating PDS0101 as single-drug therapy for high-grade cervical dysplasia and in combination with Merck & Co. Inc.'s Keytruda to treat head and neck cancer. Cervical dysplasia is a precancerous condition in which abnormal cell growth occurs on the surface lining of the cervix.
PDS Biotechnology and Edge are portfolio companies of NetScientific PLC, a venture capital firm specializing in healthcare technology and digital health.
In a separate March 18 release, NetScientific said the directors of its portfolio companies WANDA Inc. and Vortex Biosciences Inc. have decided to wind up the operations of the companies. London-based NetScientific is seeking shareholder permission to delist its ordinary shares from the AIM market after failing to find buyers as part of a strategic review.
NetScientific will allocate the company's remaining cash to managing its stakes in Glycotest Inc., ProAxsis Ltd. and PDS Biotechnology, which it believes will provide the most realistic prospects of delivering shareholder returns within the anticipated lifespan of the company.
The board of NetScientific resolved that it was not in a position to continue to provide financial support to Vortex and Wanda without prejudicing its ability to allocate sufficient cash resources to Glycotest, ProAxsis and PDS Biotechnology.
NetScientific also said it has received a proposal from a third party regarding the sale of its stake in Wanda and Vortex. The company's board believes that the consideration offered is not sufficient to justify the company continuing to provide the necessary financial support to Wanda and Vortex and has decided the sale was not in the best interests of the company.
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Kavanaugh's 'Judge As Umpire' Metaphor Sounds Neutral But It's Deeply Conservative
The reference to America's national pastime may sound politically neutral, but it is not.
By The Conversation — September 9, 2018
William Blake, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh invoked baseball to explain his judicial philosophy at his confirmation hearing.
"A good judge," he said in his opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 4, "must be an umpire – a neutral and impartial arbiter who favors no litigant or policy."
This is not the first time a Supreme Court nominee has employed the judge-as-umpire analogy. Chief Justice John Roberts told senators at his 2005 confirmation hearing, "Umpires don't make the rules; they apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. … But it is a limited role."
As a scholar of judicial decision-making, I recognize that this analogy reflects the conservatism of Kavanaugh's and Roberts' judicial philosophies.
Originalism - getting the call right?
Conservative jurists and legal scholars believe that judges must interpret the Constitution according to its framers' original understanding, just as umpires must call a strike on any pitch in the strike zone. There is only one answer, grounded in observable facts.
This judicial philosophy – called "originalism" – says that if judges spend enough time studying the facts of a case and American history, they will find the one correct response to a constitutional dispute.
In a 2016 speech titled "The Judge as Umpire: Ten Principles," Kavanaugh extolled the virtues of rule-following and consistency in law and sports.
Aspiring umpires in training schools spend dozens of classroom hours poring over the baseball rule book. To apply their knowledge, they do drills on the field, practicing their footwork and learning how to react to different situations.
They strive for military precision so that strikes and outs are called correctly every time, just as the baseball commissioner intended when writing down the rules.
Originalists similarly believe that judges must interpret the Constitution precisely as the Founding Fathers did. To ignore the framers' intention, they say, would effectively be rewriting the rules in the middle of the game.
Subjectivity in the law
Judge Kavanaugh is a Washington Nationals season ticket holder. If confirmed, he would join several other die-hard baseball fans – including the conservative Justice Samuel Alito and Justice Sonia Sotomayor, an Obama appointee – on the Supreme Court.
But if these three justices umpired a baseball game, conservatives Alito and Kavanaugh might make some calls differently than Sotomayor.
Liberal justices think judges will disagree about how to solve legal questions, based on each judge's worldview. Advocates of this "living Constitution" theory think it is healthy for the 250-year-old Constitution to be reinterpreted as American society – and the needs of its citizens – change over time.
In speeches before she joined the Supreme Court, Justice Sotomayor explained that a judge's particular life experiences as a "Latina woman," say, or a "white male" bring important intellectual diversity to the bench.
Sotomayor clarified in her 2009 Senate confirmation that she was not arguing that judges are or should be partisan. Rather, she believes that objectivity is an aspiration no judge can fully achieve because the law itself is not neutral.
The court's jurisprudence on abortion, for example, affects women differently than men.
What if the rules aren't clear?
Umpires, too, have acknowledged their job is also somewhat subjective.
They strive for consistency in their calls. But as the 24-year Major League Baseball veteran Gary Cederstrom once said in refuting the comparison between baseball and originalism, some umpires may create a strike zone that is slightly larger or tighter than the rule book's standard.
Officially, the strike zone goes from roughly the batter's knees to the letters on his jersey. Cederstrom says flexibility in applying that rule is appropriate because each umpire has a slightly different view of what pitch a batter can reasonably hit.
The strike zone is "like the Constitution," he said – "a living, breathing document."
The baseball rule book even uses phrases like "in the umpire's judgment" over 80 times, by my count.
And its contents are sometimes incomplete or indeterminate. Take the very first rule, 1.01, which states that, "Baseball is a game between two teams of nine players each."
Baseball fans know that in the American League, but not the National League, a designated hitter may bat for the pitcher. Isn't he a 10th player?
Recapping the final score
Neither umpiring nor judging seems to me to be a wholly objective enterprise.
But I don't want to take Kavanaugh's sports analogy too far, because ultimately it glosses over significant differences between the Constitution and the rules of baseball.
As University of California, Berkeley law professor Erwin Chemerinksy wrote in a recent Los Angeles Times opinion piece, "The Constitution was written – intentionally – in broad, open-ended language that rarely provides guidance for issues that must be resolved by the Supreme Court."
Most Americans are aligned with Chemerinksy's view.
Polling shows that, on average, 52 percent of people believe the Constitution should be interpreted in light of "changing times and current realities." Just 42 percent believe, like Kavanaugh, that "the Supreme Court should only consider the original intentions of the authors of the Constitution."
The "judges-as-umpires" analogy is unlikely to change their minds.
According to research by political scientist James Gibson of Washington University in St. Louis, people generally believe judges try to be as impartial as possible while making decisions that are ultimately subjective.
As evidence, residents of states with elected judges do not lose faith in the courts, even when judicial candidates tell voters where they stand on controversial issues like abortion.
Kavanaugh tried to transform abstract debates about legal theory into the more familiar context of sports. But ultimately his baseball metaphor reveals less about American justice than it does about his own judicial conservatism.
William Blake, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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What do being pregnant and being a writer have in common?
I made the mistake of doing a Google image search for the word CRAVINGS. Apparently there's a big demand in the stock photo market for super contrived and/or inappropriately sensual food photos.
Now that I see this question written down, I'm tempted to answer it with a punch-line. What do being pregnant and being a writer have in common? Either way, you're fucked. Ba, dum-bum.
But seriously, folks. It hit me today that the cravings I have for certain books and movies when I'm writing (deep into my writing) and the cravings I had for certain foods when I was pregnant—and let me clarify I AM NOT CURRENTLY pregnant—are quite similar. Same with the revulsions. There are specific books and films that I suddenly need to read or see that relate to my writing and will hopefully inform my writing, yet are not too similar to what I'm writing, just as there are other books and movies that could taint my work, and thus, must be avoided like the plague.
Both the cravings and revulsions are exasperatingly transitory. When I need them, I need them RIGHT NOW. But when I don't, I shun these books and movies like Superman does kryptonite. It's like the time I was pregnant and I spent all day long fanaticizing about a very specific chicken parm sandwich from a very specific Italian restaurant, then, just as the waitress placed it before me, the thought of taking a bite made me want to hurl.
It is not coincidence that the word craving and the word crazy share the first three letters.
After all, how can you NOT go crazy knowing there's a mystery growing inside of you that you don't entirely control? And yet, I enjoy being at the beck and call of my own weird cravings and revulsions, trusting my gut to steer me toward what I need (and away from what I don't) as I continue to wrestle with the One Big Question That's Not Yet Ready to Reveal Its Face.
Which is why I believe that the ephemeral state of mind that gives birth to ideas feels so much like it does being preggers.


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San Antonio boy riding bike killed by suspected drunk teen driver
Police: Luis Landin, 17, charged with intoxication manslaughter; Victim ID'd as Brandon Abrams
A 17-year-old driver identified Friday morning as Luis Landin has been charged with intoxication manslaughter in connection with an accident that left a 6-year-old boy dead Thursday, San Antonio police said.
Landin's truck jumped a curb on the 9300 block of Autumn Sunrise on the Northwest Side and struck the boy who was riding his bicycle along the sidewalk around 6 p.m., police said. The child victim was identified Friday morning as Brandon Abrams, who was a first-grader at Nichols Elementary in the Northside Independent School District.
"The little boy went flying, shoes went everywhere. The bike went everywhere - landed up on the fence over there," said Jane Withers, who witnessed the accident. "When he got out, I said, 'What were you doing?' And he said, 'I dropped my phone and I just reached down to get it.'"
Abrams was taken by Airlife to University Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
A police report stated Landin was found to be intoxicated and was taken into custody. Police said the case remains under investigation.


Friday, June 15 – Private Members Bills.
Monday, June 18 – remaining stages of the Mental Health Bill [Lords] – Day 1; there would be another debate for debate on the Bill.
The Leader also pointed out that Government debates scheduled for Westminster Hall were: Thursday, June 21 – a debate on the Shipman Inquiry; Thursday, June 28 – a debate on the India country assistance plan; Thursday, July 5 – a debate on the report from the International Development Committee on development assistance and the occupied Palestine territories.


Experts argue bond ladders can work in a rising rate environment and across a variety of unpredictable macroeconomic scenarios—allowing investors to continually readjust their fixed-income exposure.
There is something of a false conception among investors that bond ladders are by design rigid and inflexible investment vehicles.
Jeff Klingelhofer, portfolio manager on Thornburg Investment Management's global fixed-income strategies, speculates this may be at least in part because of the image conjured up by the naming convention. Investors hear of "five-year ladders" or "10-year ladders" and they imagine locking their money away the better part of a decade, but this is not accurate, Klingelhofer warns.
When he is describing the handful of laddered fixed-income portfolios he oversees, he advises investors to focus more on the stacked rungs of the ladder and how they build on top of one another, rather than on the approach's rigidity.
"Frankly, people often overlook the benefit of having a laddered portfolio in this current market context," he explains. "They don't know much more than the basic structure is to have, in a limited-term ladder, roughly 10% of the portfolio in bonds in each of the first 10 years of the yield curve." That means 10% of the bonds in one-year bonds, 10% of the bonds in two-year bonds, 10% of the bonds in three-year bonds, and so on. For longer-term bond ladders, it's the same concept, but rolled out further along the yield curve—perhaps one to 20 years with 5% of the portfolio invested in each year.
This is the sense in which having a diversified rate exposure leveled out over five or 10 years (or longer) can be very helpful, in effect smoothing the ride and smoothing expectations.
The recent environment certainly underscores the importance of durability and flexibility. With the 10-year Treasury sitting at 1.5%, as it was in the middle of 2016, risk and reward by anyone's estimation was significantly skewed toward risk. "But here we are today at 2.5% and the picture is more balanced, so we have been rebalancing our ladder as well," Klingelhofer says.
Again, when it comes down to it, if one knew for sure that rates were going to rise and they knew the timing, it would be the correct argument to go shorter with everything.
Looking ahead, Klingelhofer and others have speculated that markets are still pressured upward on rates, but there are a number of constraints that he thinks will prevent the U.S. from seeing a 4% 10-year Treasury note during 2017. And, he observes, these factors could combine with unexpected difficulties to reverse the picture entirely.
NEXT: What does 2017 have in store?
Important to note, market research published so far this year shows equity returns alone will likely not improve the funded status of pension plans or the outlook of other long-term investors who have to carefully control risk. Thus a rethink of the fixed-income portion of the portfolio may be timely.
PLANADVISER has received a lot of commentary on the question of whether rates will in fact rise during 2017 and beyond. One interesting observation comes from the portfolio managers at Osterweis Capital Management, an investment provider focusing on wealth management and institutional investors.


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Title:Dietary Interventions for Diabetic Neuropathy & Nephropathy: A Review
Author(s): Onkar Bedi, Gagandeep Kaur, Harjeet Singh and Pawan Krishan*
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Research, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab,India
Keywords: Diabetic neuropathy, diabetic nephropathy, dietary, intervention, nerve conduction velocity, oxidative stress.
Abstract: Background: Diabetes and its associated complications like nephropathy and neuropathy have been identified as a worldwide problem. The epidemiological data revealed that there is up to 60% of patients suffering from diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) which is associated with significant morbidity, including gait disturbances, amputations, anxiety and depression. The various dietary interventions play a significant role in the prevention of these chronic ailments. The therapeutic investigation of new dietary interventions for the management of diabetes and their related complications are evidently proved by numerous animal and human studies which further help in translating these nutritional improvements for the betterment of healthcare system.
Objective: Various scientific researches demonstrate that dietary therapy and their interventions prove to be beneficial and therapeutic for the management of diabetes and their associated chronic complications. The aim of this review is to describe the various aspects of diet restriction or diet therapy for the management of diabetic neuropathy and nephropathy.
Method: The systematic bibliographical research was done with the help of PubMed, Google scholar and MedLine literature survey to identify all suitable association between diet restriction and diet therapy with diabetic neuropathy and nephropathy.
Results: Our searches yielded approximately 180 appropriate citations, from which we included 35 relevant scientific pieces of evidence in the present review.
Conclusion: It is clearly stated that inappropriate and unbalanced dietary habits cause devastating effects on the progression of diabetes and associated complications. However, dietary supplementations and interventions act by normalizing the nerve conduction velocity, brain oxidative stress and by repairing the damaged neuronal cells and maintain the normal conduction pathways of the brain. The focus of the current review is on the various preclinical evidences with reference to various dietary modifications for the management of diabetic neuropathy & nephropathy. Still, there is a need to explore new insight mechanisms of dietary supplements for the treatment of diabetes-associated complications of human health.
Bedi Onkar , Kaur Gagandeep , Singh Harjeet and Krishan Pawan *, Dietary Interventions for Diabetic Neuropathy & Nephropathy: A Review, Current Psychopharmacology 2018; 7(2) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/2211556007666180420142729
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Nicaragua: The War of 2018
by Roger Stoll / May 16th, 2019
Nearly all US regime-change wars (Venezuela, Syria, Honduras, Ukraine, Libya, Yugoslavia, etc.) are wars of deception, fabrication, propaganda, coups and false flags. Sometimes there is a direct US military assault, more often not. These wars are waged by proxies, media puppets, hired hit-men, torturers, rapists, vandals, saboteurs, death squads and criminal gangs, through mock or pretextual social protest movements, denunciations by "human rights" organizations, and by internal and external economic assaults on the country's people, transportation, commerce and communications. These were the methods of the 2018 war against Nicaragua, for which the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) alone, a well-known US regime-change shop, has spent 4.1 million USD on Nicaraguan NGOs since 2014.
There is little mystery why the US would take pains to overthrow the government of little Nicaragua (population 6 million). In addition to Nicaragua's current and historical geo-strategic importance, President Daniel Ortega's administration greatly improved people's lives, presenting what is often called "the threat of a good example."
Prior to the war and during the Ortega administration, poverty and extreme poverty were halved. Basic healthcare and education were free. Illiteracy fell from one-third of the population to nearly zero. Access to electricity went from a little over half the population to 90%. Through state subsidy programs, small and medium agricultural producers had achieved near-complete food sovereignty for the country. In defiance of the dictates of the US and the global neoliberal order, Nicaragua failed to privatize essential public services, and kept friendly relations with Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, China and Iran.
Also notable, in light of the events of 2018, Nicaragua built a national police force recognized by the UN for its humane, community policing, headed until mid-2018 by Aminta Granera Sacasa, former nun, mother of three and Sandinista revolutionary, who during her tenure was among the most popular politicians in the country.
In the eyes of the US, these achievements are capital crimes.
Pretextual student protests covered the launch of the war on April 18, 2018. The protests came following announced changes to the country's social security programs, falsely presented by the media as austerity measures. In fact, the changes avoided the austerity plan sought by the Nicaraguan business lobby (COSEP) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). COSEP called for student protests, which were led by relatively well-to-do students from the private universities but directed toward the Polytechnic University (UPOLI) campus, one of the two main public universities that serve poor and working class students.
The police killing of a student protestor was mis-reported on the first day of protests (the student later turned up alive and unharmed). The next day, three more killings at the UPOLI were wrongly attributed to the police.
The UPOLI was taken over by armed opposition forces (not UPOLI students) demanding the government resign. The daycare center, reproductive health center and women's dormitories were vandalized. The leader of the UPOLI student union, Leonel Morales, publicly denounced the armed opposition, and was tortured and nearly killed.
Directing operations at the universities and elsewhere was Felix Madriaga, US raised and Harvard trained, and funded by the NED. Madriaga's role was revealed by gang leader "Viper," whose criminal organization was enlisted by the opposition.
By April 22nd the government withdrew the announced social security changes, but opposition forces continued widespread destruction and assaults, now concealed under pretextual protests against police repression.
Opposition tactics included 100s of roadblocks across the country meant to wreak havoc on the country's transportation systems and economy. These roadblocks, called tranques, became opposition paramilitary bases, terrorizing the population with killings, beatings, torture, rape and extortion. A 10-year-old girl was kidnapped and raped at the tranque in Las Maderas, and the opposition attacked and set fire to public buildings as well as homes of Sandinista loyalists.
The Catholic Church hierarchy, ostensibly mediating between the government and the opposition, played a leading role in organizing the tranques, something Bishop Silvio Baez was caught on tape bragging about, as well as calling for President Ortega to be put before a firing squad.
Yet the government agreed to opposition demands to withdraw the police from the streets. For nearly two months the police were confined to barracks while the war continued. This controversial, pacifist move may have saved lives by avoiding police confrontations with opposition forces while they were fresh and well-supplied with money, food, hand-held mortar-launchers, guns and other weaponry. Meanwhile, organized civilian self-defense forces mitigated the violence of opposition forces, even managing to remove many tranques. Eventually the police returned to the streets, and after three months of war, relative calm had returned to Nicaragua, although opposition killings of police continued.
Over 250 people were killed and many more injured. More than 250 buildings were burned down or ransacked, with public sector property losses of over $230 million USD. GDP fell nearly 4%, a loss to the economy of nearly 1.5 billion USD, with job losses of up to 300,000.
Not conceding defeat, both houses of the US legislature unanimously approved presidential authority for sanctions barring Nicaragua from receiving aid from international financial institutions, a virtual economic embargo, illegal under the UN Charter.
From the very first day of the war, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the media spun a relentless and knowingly false "human rights" narrative of police repression by a dictatorial state, uniformly attributing to police the injuries and deaths inflicted by the opposition or from accidents. Aiding this propaganda effort were a tiny political party and grouplets of former prominent Sandinistas, who claim left status but lack popular support and have long been part of the US-backed rightist-led opposition.
Yet Nicaraguans have waged an heroic struggle against the most powerful empire in history. The peoples of the world owe them an incalculable debt of gratitude.
Roger Stoll is a Latin America/Caribbean solidarity activist with the Task Force on the Americas, a three-decades-old anti-imperialist human rights organization. He has published articles, book reviews and political poetry in Dissident Voice, Resumen Latinoamericano, MintPress News, Black Agenda Report, Popular Resistance, Orinoco Tribune, Marxism-Leninism Today, Counterpunch, San Francisco Examiner, ZNet, Jewschool, and New Verse News. Read other articles by Roger.
This article was posted on Thursday, May 16th, 2019 at 2:06am and is filed under "Regime Change", Daniel Ortega, Disinformation, Media, Militarism, NGOs, Nicaragua, Propaganda, United States, Violence.


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Gary Horton | Have Americans Lost Our Minds?
Let that sink in for a moment. You mean, all those 30-odd years I worked away in the tough parenting trenches was mere thoughtless goofing off?
You mean all those Democratic school teachers slaving away nurturing our kids – don't really care? Even when they use their own salaries to buy school supplies?
Boy, I sure care about kids. I bet you do, too – regardless of your political affiliation. So why would Gwendolyn post such an inflammatory title for her column, regardless of actual column content? The title was, in and of itself, offensive, simply for offensive-ness' sake.
I don't think "Dems" eat babies for lunch. At least, I've never actually witnessed it.
But we do seem wanton to politically eat one another up, don't we? Our blogs, websites, Facebook posts and partisan news sites are forever at each other's throats, in the most uncivil and essentially un-American way. Any drive for unity and consensus is essentially out the door these days.
That's the plague that's plaguing our still great nation more than anything. More than deficits, Supreme Court picks, immigration. Our great flaw is our infighting and intense partisanship.
Our company's controller just got back from a long trip in Spain. All lot of Spaniards talked with them about America. They watched a lot of Spanish news covering America. The upshot? Spaniards think Americans have lost their minds and the country itself isn't long for the world – at least the country as we now know it.
So bad has our internal strife become, so bad has our international reputation become, folks overseas are seriously thinking we've lost our moorings and are fully adrift.
We'll soon forget all about caged kids and separated families at the border and walls not being built (or are they?) the same way we've forgotten about Stormy Daniels. We might even forget that Robert Mueller is closing in on Trump by the day, securing indictments further and further up the ladder… maybe to the Big Guy himself.
As to Kavanaugh himself, I think Democrats lucked out that Trump didn't pick anyone a more conservative than he did. By all appearances Kavanaugh is super well educated, a decent man, a Beltway insider, and just moderately right of center.
Given that Trump got the manipulated gift of a second court pick, for progressives, this could have been much worse.
What a ploy and it worked! Now, with just four months remaining until mid-terms, and with this president very much under suspicion of election collusion and financial misdeeds – this same potentially indictable president is afforded his pick – one that truly could shift the U.S. for a decade or more – and perhaps even grant him some immunity for crimes during his presidency.
Nevertheless, get used to even louder outrage and ever more rash accusations and even more heightened rhetoric, especially as Roe vs. Wade takes center stage in this Supreme Court drama.
More stupid, overblown, inflammatory rhetoric will soon be blasted your way, every which way.
And yes, the Spaniards are right to think us nuts.
Gary Horton is a Santa Clarita resident. His column, "Full Speed to Port!" appears Wednesdays in The Signal.


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Pak Song-chol est un footballeur international nord-coréen évoluant au poste d'attaquant au sein du club d'April 25 SG à Pyongyang.

Biographie
Pak émerge sur la scène internationale lors de la Coupe d'Asie des nations des moins de 19 ans 2010, compétition qu'il remporte et au cours de laquelle il marque trois buts : deux lors du premier tour contre l'Irak et le Bahreïn, le troisième contre la Chine en quarts de finale. Ce succès permet à la Corée du Nord de se qualifier pour la Coupe du monde de la catégorie. L'attaquant d'April 25 SG est parmi les 21 joueurs nord-coréens appelés par Yun Jong-su afin de partir en Colombie pour disputer la phase finale de la Coupe du monde des moins de 20 ans. Le parcours des jeunes Chollimas s'achève dès le premier tour où ils sont éliminés sans remporter un match ni même marquer un but.

En 2012, il fait partie du groupe nord-coréen engagé dans l'AFC Challenge Cup, compétition que la Corée du Nord remporte pour la deuxième fois consécutive, après le titre de 2010.

En parallèle des sélections en équipe A, Pak est toujours sélectionné en équipe de Corée du Nord espoirs, qui est engagé dans la toute nouvelle Coupe d'Asie de la catégorie. Il brille ainsi en ouvrant le score contre la Thaïlande. La Corée du Nord obtient sa qualification pour la phase finale, prévue à Oman en 2014.

Palmarès
 Vainqueur de la Coupe d'Asie des nations de football des moins de 19 ans 2010 avec la Corée du Nord
 Vainqueur de l'AFC Challenge Cup 2012 avec la Corée du Nord

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Footballeur international nord-coréen
Naissance en mars 1991
Naissance à Pyongyang

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Abby and Tabby Alone in the Desert
by Jessica Martin
Abby is escaping her abusive husband. Tabby was abducted by aliens and is now on the run from her obsessive cult. Together they find strength to escape their abusers. This is a comedy, BTW.
Abby and Tabby features two female leads. It passes the Bechdel test. One of the lead characters is queer (and she doesn't die). Over 75% of the crew are women.
Abby and Tabby Alone In the Desert is a celebration of female friendships and the strength women find together.
Why is it that women will selflessly help each other just after they've met? I'm constantly blown away by the generosity and altruism seen in fellow women. I wanted to make a movie about that. We too often see women competing with each other. Let's take a break from that narrative.
This is also a movie about abuse. How can women help each other out of an abusive situation? How can we tell a story about abuse without answering the problem with more violence? I hope this film will start that conversation.
Abby and Tabby is also a comedy. Because laughter is always needed and we can have fun sometimes, right?
-Jessica
We think you're swell. Get your name in the credits and a shout out on social media!
Love to the Ladies
Give some love to the ladies in your life. Abby and Tabby is about the power of female friendships and women helping women. We will send a postcard to an awesome lady in your life letting her know just how cool she is. Choose from two designs:
Get a digital postcard of YOU in the desert! We'll use our mastery of photo editing software to put your face on a postcard. Make all of your friends jealous.
[Includes name in credits and social shout out]
Lip-synch Battle
The cast will create a Dubsmash of your choice!
[Includes name in credits, social shout out, and digital postcard]
Ultimate Playlist
Get digital downloads of the 3 original songs from the film by Brina Palencia! Perfect for YOUR roadtrip!
Come party with us at the LA screening of the film! (Only in LA, travel not included)
[Includes name in credits, social shout out, digital postcard, and song downloads]
Original Artwork... of Your Face
Similar to the missing posters of Tabby in the film, AJ will draw one with YOUR face on it!
Personal Portrait
Jess will paint a regal interpretation of you or your pet. A perfect addition to your gallery.
[VIP] Party Time
Come to our LA screening as a VIP! Reserved seating. Drinks with cast and crew. And maybe some pleasant surprises. (LA only, travel not included)
Ticket to Private Concert
Grab your spot at a private concert where Brina and Jess will serenade you. Candlelight and wine may also be present. (LA only, travel not included)
[Includes name in credits, social shout out, digital postcard, song downloads, and VIP LA screening]
Need/Want a custom voice message? Brina and Jess can help you out. You'll get to choose from a cast of characters that they'll record for you! (Sorry, no Metroid)
Need a little guidance when it comes to your acting career or your acting chops? Jess can help you out! This reward will get you 60 minutes with Jess for an in person (LA or Seattle) or Skype coaching session.
Escape Room!
Escape the room with the cast! Did you know that we regularly do escape rooms together? Well now you do! Join us for our next one and be part of our puzzle solving posse! (LA only)
Private Screening
No, not like that! If you can't make it out to the screening, why not have one come to you? Gather friends, family, neighbors, cats, and have your own screening and Q&A of the film with the filmmakers.
Become an Associate... Producer that is. Welcome to the team.
[Includes name in credits, social shout out, digital postcard, song downloads, VIP LA screening, and private screening]
You know who you are. Get EP credit with this bad boy.
Crafty and Meals
We eat very little. But we do eat.
Because stop motion was too expensive.
The desert is far away and we need to get there.
Don't need anything fancy, just a roof over our heads and running water (Jess insists).
Because accidents happen.
Our data needs to live somewhere, and we only trust the best.
Car Mount Kit and Case
Because 1/3 of the movie takes place in a moving vehicle. #safetyfirst
The most important part.
Oddly enough, these characters don't dress like we do.
Jessica Martin // Producer/Writer/Director/"Tabby"
Jessica Martin is an award-winning actress hailing from Seattle, Washington. After graduating with degrees in Drama and Psychology from the University of Washington, she started her career in regional theater and has performed on stages across the country (Indiana Rep, Arizona Theater Company, ACT Theatre Seattle, among others). Now located in Los Angeles, Jessica works in commercials, independent film, and television (Z Nation, Criminal Minds, The Last Ship, Grimm). She is best known for providing the voice for Samus Aran in Nintendo's Metroid: Other M. www.jessicaerinmartin.com
Ashley Lenz // Producer/Writer/"Abby"
Ashley Lenz is the daughter of a Swiss immigrant and a Midwest native and grew up in the small farm town of Lamar, Missouri. At an early age she was involved heavily in multiple athletics, but equestrian sports eventually won out. From the age of 7 Ashley traveled the country showing American Saddlebred horses with much success. Her interest in acting was solidified after a friend invited her to the set of the acclaimed TV show 'Friday Night Lights'. She eventually sold her successful fashion company she started right out of college, packed up her entire life, and headed to New Orleans. Ashley spent her time there acting, writing, directing, self-producing, and absorbing everything she could about the art & the industry. She is described by those around her as an old soul with an Elizabeth Bennet spunk. Ashley currently resides in Los Angeles, where she is applying her trademark gusto and curiosity to the art of acting & filmmaking.
Aaron Jay Rome // Producer/Writer/Actor
Aaron left his hometown of Fort Collins, Colorado shortly after high school to pursue acting. His career is currently on the rise with supporting roles in big films such as The Campaign, Hot Tub Time Machine 2, Get on Up, and TV Shows like The Vampire Diaries and Bonnie & Clyde. At the age of 19, Aaron finally made the move to Los Angeles. He spent 5 years there, learning as much as possible about both sides of the camera, but kept a strong passion for acting. At the age of 25, Aaron, tired of waiting for other people's projects, moved to newly founded and thriving film industry in New Orleans, Louisiana and trained under good friend and coach Dean J. West. (2017) After successfully jump-starting his career, he again resides in Los Angeles frequently writing, directing and producing. With 3 features in various stages of completion (Sulfur, Go Crazy Go Mad, and URYDE) and 3 more slated for this year, a promising indie film career is on the horizon.
Brina Palencia // Actor
Brina Palencia is an actor/musician living and working in Dallas, TX and Los Angeles, CA. She is mostly known for her extensive voice over work in anime (Chopper in One Piece; Ciel in Black Butler) and video games (Moxxi in Borderlands; Paige in The Walking Dead: Michonne). She has also done her fair share on camera starring in the CW series Star-Crossed and guest starring in episodes of The Walking Dead and Castle. On the music side Brina has served as the primary music director for Funimation for almost a decade, adapting anime theme songs from Japanese into English and has sang for numerous anime and video games. She performs her original music at conventions and coffee shops all over the US and plans to release an album by the end of the year.
Benjamin McFadden // Actor
Benjamin is a very recent transplant from Seattle, where he was a regular in regional theatre scene. Most recently, he was the titular role in the feature film Colton, which will be heading to festivals this year. On stage some of his favorite credits include: Max in Where the Wild Things Are (Seattle Children's Theatre), Paul Lazzaro in Slaughterhouse Five (Book-t Repertory Theatre), Hamlet in Hamlet (Seattle Shakespeare Company) and Kurt in The Art of Bad Men (MAP Theatre.) To see more, visit www.benjaminmcfadden.com
Krishna Smitha // Actor
Krishna Smitha is a Los Angeles-based theatre, televion, and film actress originally from Texas. Favorite roles onstage include Rosalind in "As You Like It" and Ariel in "Tempest." Yup, she's a Shakespe-nerd. On television she's gone from daytime soaps, "Days of our Lives," to primetime soaps, "Dallas." But her most favorite thing to do of all is making movies with her kickass, creative, crazy-talented friends. Let's play! www.KrishnaSmitha.com
Nick Shoemaker // Actor
Born and raised in a small town near Annapolis, Maryland, Nick grew up with a strong interest in the art of film making and TV. Ranging from impromptu school plays to the conventional family camera probing, he's always pursued acting as a hobby since his focus was primarily into sports and tinkering with whatever car lied in his father's garage. After sustaining a career ending football injury, he lost his scholarship and went into the work force committing several years to the Department of Homeland Security. In between the long arduous hours and unpredictable work schedules, Nick would escape to New York City to view plays and enjoy the artsy demographic of the nearby creatives. It wasn't until he saw the Broadway play, 'Once', did he decide to shift 100% focus into the realm of acting. With bags in tow and head in the clouds of inspiration, he made his way to Los Angeles.
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The Cavemen get together to break down the question of culture and gun control. I am not sure even we can figure out the answer, but we try. In Caveman Recipes we try a Caramel Latte Blondie. Ooh so good. Al returns for a classic does of "The News You May Have Missed".


You will be informed with Fun Facts about Malawi. This landlocked country is situated in southeast Africa. It has the official name of Republic of Malawi. In the past, the country was called Nyasaland. It shares border with other countries such as Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia. According to an estimation made in July 2013, it was a home for 16,777,547 people. It spans on the area of 45,560 square miles or 118,000 kilometer square.
The largest city in Malawi is Lilongwe. It also serves as the capital of Malawi. Blantyre and Mzuzu are the second and third largest cities in Malawi. The old capital of Malawi, Zomba is the fourth largest city.
The name of the country is taken from the old name of the people who occupied in the region. They were the Nyanja people called as the Maravi.
Malawi is a not a big country. In Africa, it is the smallest one. Almost a third area of Malawi is occupied by Lake Malawi.
In 10th century, the Bantu groups migrated to Malawi. The British people colonized the area in 1891. It earned the status as a protectorate of UK known as Nyasaland in 1953.
The protectorate status had not been applied anymore since 1964 for Malawi earned their independence.
Talking about its politics and government, Hastings Banda became the president until 1994 with its one-party state. The current president is Arthur Peter Mutharika. Today, this country has multi-party government and applies democracy.
The economy of Malawi is centered on the agriculture for those who inhabit the rural areas. There is no need to wonder that Malawi is included in the least-developed country in the world.
The government of Malawi tries hard to have improvement in the environmental protection, healthcare and education.
Do you know the high infant mortality and low life expectancy occur in Malawi? The cases of HIV/AIDS in the country are high.
Lilongwe is a home for more than 500,000 individuals.
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Load shedding has cost all of us over the past few weeks, but do you know exactly how much?
Neither did we, until we did a little digging.
According to Chris Yelland, load shedding costs SA approximately R1 billion per stage, per day. Those Stage Four blackouts… they cost about R4 billion for each 24 hour period. That's more than the national police service receives every year from government.
Investec's Annabel Bishop says it's even more dire than that – she estimates that it could have cost the country R2.4 trillion by the end of 2019's first quarter, which is half of SA's GDP, according to The South African.
Load shedding this year has been nothing short of brutal for business owners, with many struggling or even failing to keep their doors open in the tidal wave of load shedding-related costs and losses.
Among the chief things plaguing businesses are cost of business interruption, operating hours and the profit with them being lost, perishable stock damaged or expired and damage to electrical outputs when power surges and dips occur. Another newer trend is the rise of 'load shedding burglaries', in which criminals watch the schedule and hit workplaces during hours when security measures like electric fences are likely to be offline.
This obviously creates a negative feedback loop for both economy and enterprise. The less South Africa produces across various sectors, the less money is made and the more the rand weakens. The more the rand weakens, the harder it is to turn a profit as a local business and enough local business closing affects the rand further.
The hardest hit are undoubtedly the SMEs. The last time load shedding rolled around, SMEs voted load shedding the number one risk to small businesses in the 2015 SME survey. We can see why – numerous businesses have had to close down or scale back on operations due to loadshedding. They are the least likely to have generators and adequate insurance cover and the most dependent on the customers and vital profits likely to leave when the lights go out.
Because it affects the rand, long term savings vehicles like your investment portfolio or retirement fund is also almost definitely affected by load shedding – and for those very near retirement that can be a bitter pill to swallow indeed.
Food and steel-related products may also become more expensive, as manufacturers and farmers are feeling the pinch just like every other industry and may be forced t ratchet their prices up accordingly.
Large companies facing crippling increases in the cost of doing business may also roll out mass retrenchment if load shedding is not put to rights.
Remember, despite any short-term problems in the market like load shedding and its effects, it is still not wise to make financial decisions which may affect your portfolio based on impulse and emotion and without the advice of a trained financial advisor.


In the course of five years, the Sounding Rocketry Team (SRT) has designed, built, and tested four different flight-ready hybrid engines. Flight-ready engines have been designed from the start to be integrated into existing or developmental vehicles created by SRT. Additionally, each engine is tested in its flight configuration at a team-maintained vertical test cell. All engines built by SRT are pressure-fed. Propulsion team members go through a rigorous design and testing (hydrostatic) process to ensure these engines are safe to operate as well as meet the performance specifications outlined by overall team goals.
Scroll down to learn more about our current engine Nova and our past engines Icarus, Helios, and Alpha.
Nova is the latest development engine to be designed, constructed, and tested under SRT-5. The engine features a modified injector housing, standardized aluminum plumbing lines, an upgraded sensor suite, an additive-mixed fuel grain, an improved regression rate, and an optimized thrust profile over the NP-915 Icarus II engine.
Icarus was the largest and most powerful hybrid engine built and tested by SRT. There are two versions distinguished by the injector design used. The engine features a light-weight composite tank (Luxfer), custom ball-valve actuation system, removable coin injector system with vortex injection, and a cubic graphite nozzle. All fittings are 304/316 Stainless Steel, while the injector and combustion chamber are made from 6061-T6 Aluminum.
Helios was the second engine developed by SRT in two years. There are two major versions of this design distinguished by the oxidizer flow control and injector design. The oxidizer flow control is directly interchangeable with the NP-915 Icarus engine system. The engine features a light-weight composite tank (Luxfer), custom ball-valve actuation system (Vers. II), removable coin injector system, and a cubic graphite nozzle. All fittings are 304/316 Stainless Steel, while the injector and combustion chamber are made from 6061-T6 Aluminum.
Alpha was the first engine designed, built, and tested by SRT during its first year in existence. Many of the sub-systems tested on this design were optimized and incorporated into later designs. Alpha featured a light-weight composite tank from Luxfer (tested with aluminum tanks), chain-and-sprocket actuated ball valve, and cubic graphite nozzle. All fittings are 304/316 Stainless Steel, while the injector and combustion chamber are made from 6061-T6 Aluminum.


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Pat interviews Delegate Erek L. Barron, Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates.
Pat interviews Judith Noemí Freidenberg, P.hD, Author and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Maryland at College Park.
Interveiw with Wanda Whiteside, Artistic Director of LIve Garra Theatre to discuss "A Matter of Perspective."
Charles Gould, Director-General and Chief Executive Officer of the International Co-operative Alliance, (ICA), appears on Everything Co-op.
Vernon interviews Dr. Martin Lowery, Executive Vice President of Member and Association Relations at NRECA.
Diane Gasaway, Executive Director of Northwest Cooperative Development Center appears on Everything Co-op.
Margaret Lund, advocate and independant consultant appears on Everything Co-op.
Vernon interviews Kali Akuno, co-director of Cooperation Jackson.
Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Author of Collective Courage and Prof. of Community Justice & Social Economic Dev. appears on Everything Co-op.
Vernon interviews Ms. Judy Ziewacz, Interim President of the National Cooperative Business Association.
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Book Reviews & Essays
Attitude Adjustments
Jessica Lamb-Shapiro's Promise Land: My Journey Through America's Self-Help Culture
Originally published Dec/Jan 2104 in Bookforum
In Promise Land, Jessica Lamb-Shapiro recounts her efforts to conquer one of her multiple phobias by attending a support group called Freedom to Fly. The group's course, led by a psychologist, met at the Westchester airport and culminated in a round-trip flight to Boston.
The Repurposed PhD
Finding Life After Academia--and Not Feeling Bad About It
Originally published November 3, 2013 in The New York Times
ON a recent Sunday afternoon, a monthly meeting convened around a long table in a Whole Foods cafeteria on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. As people settled in, the organizer plopped down a bag of potato chips and tackled housekeeping matters, like soliciting contributions. But she did not insist.
How to solve America's childbirth cost crisis
A middle ground between hospital and home birth could save America lots of money. And yes, it's safe.
Originally published July 5, 2013 in Salon
Almost two years ago, pregnant with my daughter, I paid my first visit to the Cambridge Birth Center.
Cli-Fi
Birth of a Genre
Originally published Summer 2013 in Dissent
Makepeace Hatfield, the heroine of Marcel Theroux's 2009 novel Far North, is one of the last survivors of a Siberian settlement. Her father was an early settler: an American Quaker who fled a decadent world for a frontiersman's life.
I Change, You Change
Self-help memoirs take on not the exceptional challenge, but the everyday one.
Originally published January 20, 2013 in The New York Times Book Review
About halfway through her new memoir, "Data, a Love Story," Amy Webb pauses to address the reader. Up to this point, the author's online hunt for a husband has yielded little but farcically bad dates.
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