Ahhh, I'm so excited! The Greentom Upp Classic has arrived! The whole family gathered around to witness the unpacking, but I had to take pictures of the box first. It's funny, my two older kids roll their eyes every time another stroller appears in our house, yet they're still curious and about each one and enjoy test-driving them. I'd like to think that I'm raising little stroller connoisseurs.
Back to the new arrival. The Upp stroller required minimal assembly and was ready to go within minutes. It came in 3 parts, the frame with seat, canopy and a bumper bar. All we had to do, was pull the stroller out of the box, unfold the frame and attach the canopy and belly-bar. Everything else, the wheels, seat fabric and basket was already attached. I love gear that doesn't over complicate my life!
The Greentom Upp Classic is a unique stroller, made entirely out of recycled materials. It's easy on the planet and easy on the eyes. The stroller is very minimalistic looking with a clean, modern design. I was also impressed with how lightweight it is. I was able to lift the stroller effortlessly with one hand!
Of course Little Missy had to climb right in, which she accomplished without any assistance from us. Once in the stroller, she sat back and was very relaxed and content. While the stroller is pretty compact, the seat is very roomy.
I'm looking forward using the Greentom Upp on our Spring outings and will post a full review soon.


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Haven Spa at The Sidney Pier Hotel
Connecting with clients through stellar service and a whole lot of personality
Nestled in the southern coast of Vancouver Island is the serene yet stylish Haven Spa at the Sidney Pier Hotel. Combining elegance with affordability, this community-based spa offers aesthetic and spa services along with a salon and fitness centre to create a full service beauty boutique that will relax, rejuvenate, and refresh.
"I like to say that we're classic aesthetics with personality. Sidney is a bit of a retirement community, so we have women who come more because of that older lifestyle," says Alana Delcourt, spa supervisor and manager. "We are community-based because 85 to 90 per cent of our clientele is local."
Focused on providing key services to their core demographic, Haven Spa uses loyalty programs and special offers as a way to root themselves in the community. "We are the place to be and like to really recognize and appreciate the locals who come and visit us," explains Delcourt.
Haven Spa shows their appreciation to guests with group rates and reduced costs for those booking more than one treatment. The spa, restaurant, and onsite deli also allow patrons to collect "Pier Points" for every dollar they spend. Collecting 250 points equals $25 to be spent in Haven Spa, Haro's Restaurant, or Georgia Café.
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Sidney is a coastal getaway that has a small town atmosphere with big city amenities. Haven's menu offers a diverse collection of spa specialties including facials, massages, wraps, and scrubs. The Maintenance Boutique takes care of waxing and tinting services from a brow shaping called the 'Brooke Shields' to underarm waxing also known as a 'Janis Joplin.'
"It's just something a little different to stand out and make it a bit more fun. You see these Brazilian wax bars popping up everywhere. Here, you can still get pampered, but with that little bit of personality," describes Delcourt.
One of Haven's most popular services, The Ultimate Two Hour Facial, promotes relaxation and well-being for the entire body. Patrons start with a foot soak in the sanctuary. "That sets the tone. It's really amazing what a nice foot soak can do on its own," says Delcourt. From there, they move on to a back, neck, and shoulder massage which is followed by the facial. Extra treatment masks are applied and a complimentary brow shaping is offered. "It's all about the details. We do two different types of massage so you're relaxed head to toe."
Other options include their newly designed Facelift Facial which uses paraffin wax for an old school approach to beautification and the Men's Hot Towel Facial which is "reminiscent of the barber shop style experience," says Delcourt. Being located next to a marina in a seaside community guarantees a steady flow of boaters looking for a foot fix-up during the warmer seasons. "Nails are popular again, so we're doing lots of manicures and selling polishes. And I think it's pretty typical in most spas, but we do lots of pedicures," says Delcourt. Haven's pedicure room brings the outside beauty indoors through the large, wide windows offering guests clear views of the Olympic and Cascade Mountains across the Pacific Ocean.
Choice products to promote the spa brand
The spa continues to emphasize the outdoors in its retail selection by opting for products that are healthy and natural. "We try to get most of our products local and Canadian. We do have some that come from the States, but we are definitely on the natural, organic, petrochemical-free side of things."
The products featured in the spa are hand-picked options that are praised by spa staff as well as customers. "We have a strong retail presence and our skin care products are huge," says Delcourt. "We also have a product from Vancouver called i love my muff and we have cute little muff maintenance kits. It's a little bit cheeky."
It's this personality that has linked the hotel and spa with the community to keep clientele coming back for more. Another appeal of the hotel is its canine ambassador and resident food-thief, Dave, the English lab. Dave, who wears his Sidney Pier jacket when on-duty, wanders through the hotel and spa bringing smiles to the faces of patrons and guests. "He is such a love and I can honestly say he's a bit of an attraction here at the hotel," says Delcourt.
Focused on relaxing and rejuvenating, Haven Spa understands that it's all about the experience. By combining classic aesthetics with hints of personality, spa guests balance mind, body, and nature through the holistic approach to beauty and overall wellness.
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A Lyft passenger says her pride flag bag sent her driver on an Islamophobic, anti-LGBTQ tirade.
Posted 12:49 pm, June 15, 2019, by Amanda N. Marino
SACRAMENTO – A California woman is still visibly shaken days after she says her Lyft driver launched into a hate-riddled tirade while driving her to her hotel.
Jamie Thompson still fights back tears from the encounter.
"My driver proceeded to go on an Islamophobic tirade and an abundance of other hate speech and how members of the LGBTQ community should be offed and perish from this earth," she said.
Thompson lives in Sacramento but was on a business trip in Oakland when she hailed a Lyft back to her hotel.
Thompson said she thinks a bag featuring the rainbow flag which was laid across her lap is what triggered her driver to start spewing hate.
"He started raising his voice, and I felt very threatened. I was very scared, but I couldn't get out of the vehicle because we were on the freeway," she said. "I was very, very frightened… I felt trapped."
Thompson took out her phone and went live on her social media account.
In the video, Thompson points the camera away from the driver, but you can still hear his voice in the background.
"God said he made man… he made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve," the Lyft driver can be heard saying in the video.
"Wow, it's very unfortunate that you feel that way," Thompson responded.
The Lyft driver added that, "God has laid down a program for what he calls right and then man wants to do whatever he wants in his own corrupt rules."
Thompson reported her complaint to the ride share service immediately, but she said Lyft wasn't very sympathetic to her concerns.
KTXL reached out to Lyft for comment on the matter and received the following statement:
"Lyft has a strict anti-discrimination policy and we are committed to maintaining an inclusive and welcoming community. The behavior described is completely at odds with our values as a company. As soon as we were made aware of this incident, we suspended the driver from the Lyft platform and reached out to the passenger to offer support."
Thompson confirms the company reimbursed her for the ride with a $10 credit, but she said what she really wants is to see is a shift in training.
"I think there needs to be something done to train drivers better, something done about the culture of Lyft," she said.
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Terrified woman claimed she had food poisoning after she found thick black substance in her carton drink
As we drink beverages from the opaque carton and can, no one ever really questions how the inside would look like. As for this Singaporean woman, she got a chance to see the inside of the drink carton—but not for the best reason.
The woman shared on her Facebook that she was drinking a carton of Marigold Chrysanthemum Tea two weeks ago when she suddenly felt a 'pulp' like substance in her mouth.
Immediately spat the things out, she was horrified to see a black and jelly-like substance that came out,
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And it's not grass jelly if that's what you're thinking.
Disgusted by the encounter, she cut open the top of the carton and found the same nauseating black substance at the bottom of the carton she was drinking from. Terrified by the incident, she contacted Marigold Singapore to bring up her complaints about her drink.
However, she said that they allegedly did not take her seriously.
"I had sent an email to Marigold and had to call them to get an update of what was the contamination about, and told them to send me an email update but no one took it seriously," she wrote.
So she decided to post about it on her Facebook. One day after her Facebook post went viral, Marigold Singapore responded to her saying that this was a one-off case.
When it comes to this, we can never really sure the next time we're drinking it again. So make sure to always be careful when drinking out of these opaque carton or cans.
Hopefully, this doesn't happen to any of us!
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Newcastle City Council Agrees Budget Cuts
6 March 2013, 22:21 | Updated: 30 March 2016, 13:50
Controversial cuts to arts funding and libraries were passed by Newcastle City Council as angry protesters gathered outside to oppose the new budget.
The proposals, entitled Fair Choices for Tough Times, have attracted criticism after the council announced they would be making 100% cuts to the arts. This included famous names such as Bryan Ferry, Sting and Mark Knopfler signing a joint letter to express their opposition.
Speaking at the meeting council leader Nick Forbes said he was "deeply angry'' that every grant the authority receives is being slashed by an "unfair Government''.
But he said no one was in any doubt about the financial crisis the council was facing and that the cuts were being made "with a heavy heart and much soul searching''.
He said the consultation process had been bruising but declared that the council would be regarded as a "civic basket case'' if the decisions were not made.
As he spoke about the proposals, which will see cuts of £100m, people shouted and jeered from the public gallery with shouts of "shame'' ringing out.
He was also accused of spin and "playing the blame game'' by the leader of the Liberal Democrats David Faulkner.
In response to the consultation, where 50,000 pieces of feedback were received, Mr Forbes said a new fund called the Newcastle Culture Fund will be created.
Along with up to £600,000 of council money the new venture will look for outside investment from individuals and organisations.
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What is a Life Worth living?
The answer to this question varies from individual to individual, depending on the value that one assigns knowingly or unknowingly to a particular aspect of life. Our perception about how we look at life is what determines 'what life is worth living' in our eyes; it conveys the important reason to live the life.
For such a person, following one's materialistic passions is the sole purpose of life. He cares deeply about luxuries in life and his focus is obsessively riveted on money, social status, dressing style, ornaments, movies, eatables, objects that please the five senses. Running behind worldly pleasures makes one weak-minded, highly-dependant, greedy, impatient and consequently unhappy; and since he is always concerned with material things and least bothered about spiritual values, it not only lands him in a state of stubborn stagnation but also creates future obstructions for him on the path to liberation.
If a person intends doing something for a noble cause, it is okay. But if this desire is to satisfy one's ego and pride, then his life is a see-saw where success elates him and failure upsets him. The fire to do something big and great is so intensely burning inside such people that no matter what amount of stress they have to undergo in life, they still feel that life is worth living and doing something really big in life. The belief of 'I am the doer' is a totally wrong belief, because everything that happens is the result of our past karmas. And also, this belief is in fact one of the root cause of binding new karmas that bring suffering in life. Not aware of this fact, one keeps running all his life, binding himself in the bind of more and more karmas, inviting nothing but suffering in future.
A person having a noble intention to help others, to him, just living for himself and his pleasures is not enough. Helping others gives him enormous satisfaction and inner content. He cannot see others suffering and feels empathetic towards them 'what if I was in his/her place? I wish I could be of some help to them'. He derives happiness when he becomes instrumental in solving someone's problems, and this holds a lot of value for him. Nature takes care of all our needs when we aspire to take care of others' needs. Having a constant pure inner intention of helping others sows the seed of karma that will bear sweet fruits of permanent happiness.
Not hurting others and not feeling hurt by others:-Positively put, being happy and keeping all happy.
Such a person feels life is worth living only when everyone is happy in this world. And therefore, at every step, he is found persevering to make sure no pain is inflicted on any living being. His deep inner intent is to not cause hurt to any living being through his thoughts, speech or action and let all be happy. And in parallel, he strives for ultimate happiness that comes by realizing the Pure Soul, which is his real Self!
One whose prime objective in life is to realize really 'Who am I?' is forever in pursuit of knowing the answer. All the scriptures proclaim unanimously, 'If you desire to realize the Pure Self, go to a Gnani.' The lighted can kindle light in others. Therefore, such a person is hunting for Gnani, and the day he meets Gnani and with His grace realizes his real Self, he indulges in increasing the awareness of the Pure Self to a point where He can always remain as the Soul and see everyone as a Soul!
A life wherein he never sees other's mistakes, and rather always tries to locate one's own mistakes and wash them off, is a life worth living in this case. This is an objective of a very high-end and life never gets dull as it always keeps one alert in understanding the science behind any event taking place.
Eg. If someone insults him, he does not get bogged down in such a situation. Rather, he tries to fathom why he was insulted. He tries to study the cause and effect relationship with respect to any event that happens in life - how do causes arise, how do effects come into being, how can causes be stopped, how are effects to be dealt with, etc.
And if he is a Self-realized being, he sorts out the puzzle with right understanding that who am I in this and who is the one who got insulted, who insulted and who is he in real, on what basis did this happen and what the function of Soul is in this entire thing. To him, life is worth it if he can remain in company of Gnani, and attain the flawless vision, whereby the entire world looks naturally innocent.
This was all about our perspective of life, as driven by a mix of worldly and / or spiritual tendencies. Now, let's take a look at Gnani's perspective – what is His life all about?
Gnani lives a life in state of samadhi i.e. the state of the Pure Self!! He is always actively alert in maintaining constant awareness of the Pure Self. The eternal Soul manifests within a person only when one's needs and desires have dissolved. Gnani is the Enlightened One who has no worldly desires, has no false pride; He is not allured by any materialistic thing in this world. Neither riches nor the objects that lure the five senses, neither veneration nor any kind of self-worship or self-pride enchant Gnani.
Being liberated, He is the liberator and the beacon light, who is living life to lift and liberate others!!
If one comes to Gnani in perfect humility and with a spirit of 'I know nothing', one is sure to be lifted and liberated on the path of salvation. Even once, if without any reservation, one surrenders all his ego in the lotus feet of the Gnani, he undoubtledly gets onto the path of liberation!!


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My favorite baseball variant was stickball. Here's the version we played. You found a suitable schoolyard wall. You drew a batter's box on the wall. You marked off a distance from the pitcher to the batter, measured so that the pitcher had a reasonable advantage, more closely resembling what we imagined to be a major league batting situation. The pitcher threw a tennis ball. The batter used a broomstick, although by the mid-1960's you could buy manufactured stick ball bats. The game was best played as a 2 on 2 or 3 on 3 matchup.
Depending on who you played with and where you played, there were different rules for hits and outs. Typically a ground ball hit past the pitcher was a single. A hard ground ball fielded cleanly by the pitcher was an out (a double play if hard hit with men in base). Fly balls caught by the outfielder were outs.
The most intriguing aspect of the game was delineating the foul lines and the extra-base hit boundaries. We searched for schoolyards that were appropriately scaled. The ideal schoolyard had a tall fence or wall in the outfield, simulating the grandeur of hitting a home run out of the ball park. Every schoolyard had unique dimensionality and boundaries which in turn determined the rules of the game.
Stickball wasn't as benign as softball, but less dangerous than hardball. Some kids could throw the ball with blinding speed, and if it hit you, it hurt! There was a dose of fear when facing a fastball pitcher. To be a good hitter you had to overcome that fear. My strengths in stickball (and in every athletic endeavor) were good eye-hand coordination and excellent game playing intelligence. I could always read situations well and then figure out with my totally average running, speed, strength, and quickness, how to accomplish what I was most capable of achieving. I was a contact hitter with modest power. As a pitcher I had sneaky side-arm speed, good control, a slow curve, an ability to assess my opponents strengths and weaknesses, the foresight to change speed and location and to never throw the ball right over the plate.
When I was in high school I used to love to get in the car with three other friends, drive to a schoolyard (I especially liked number 3 school in Cedarhurst) and play stickball. Number 3 had perfect dimensions—a high fence, a reasonable distance from home plate to the fence, all neatly framed by a peaceful, tree-lined street. There were fences all around the yard so you'd never have to go to far to retrieve a ball unless you hit a home run in which case you didn't care. We literally played inside a cage yet we felt incredibly free.
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Thomashow devotes his life and work to promoting ecological awareness, sustainable living, creative learning, improvisational thinking, social networking, and organizational excellence. Currently he is engaged in teaching, writing, and executive consulting, cultivating opportunities and exchanges that transform how people engage with sustainability and ecological learning. In August, 2011 Thomashow became Director of the Second Nature Presidential Fellows Program. This new program is designed to assist the executive leadership of colleges and universities in promoting a comprehensive sustainability agenda on their campuses. Fellows provide executive consulting on climate action planning, long-range financial planning, organizational leadership, curricular implementation, and community investment. From 2006-2011, Thomashow was the president of Unity College in Maine. With his management team, he integrated concepts of ecology, sustainability, natural history, wellness, participatory governance, and community service into all aspects of college and community life. This included construction of The Unity House, the first LEED Platinum President's Residence in North America, and the TeraHaus, a passive house student residence, as well as comprehensive campus energy planning, an integrated approach to growing food on campus, and a new academic master plan. Previously from 1976-2006, Thomashow was the Chair of the Environmental Studies program at Antioch University New England. He founded an interdisciplinary environmental studies doctoral program and worked collaboratively to grow and nourish a suite of engaging Masters programs, geared to working adults. Thomashow is the founder of Whole Terrain, an environmental literary publication, originating at Antioch University New England, and "Hawk and Handsaw," a journal of creative sustainability, published at Unity College. He serves on the boards of Orion Magazine and The Coalition on Environmental and Jewish Life (COEJL). Thomashow is a founding organizer of the Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD), a national organization that supports interdisciplinary environmental studies in higher education. He provides ongoing consultation to the Sustainable Endowments Institute and their new Billion Dollar Green Challenge program. His two books have significantly influenced environmental studies education. Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist (The MIT Press, 1995) offers an approach to teaching environmental education based on reflective practice—a guide to teachers, educators and concerned citizens that incorporates issues of citizenship, ecological identity, and civic responsibility within the framework of environmental studies. Bringing the Biosphere Home, (The MIT Press, 2001) is a guide for learning how to perceive global environmental change. It shows readers that through a blend of local natural history observations, global change science, the use of imagination and memory, and philosophical contemplation, you can learn how to broaden your spatial and temporal view so that it encompasses the entire biosphere. His essay (2010), "The Gaian Generation: A New Approach to Environmental Learning" provides provocative new concepts for teaching about global environmental change. Another essay (2012) "Where You At 2.0" reasserts the relevance of bioregionalism for digital age learners. A recent essay (2013),"Sustainability as Turnaround" is a case study of his work as president at Unity College. with mandolin.png His new book, The Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus (The MIT Press) provides a framework for advancing sustainable living and teaching in a variety of campus environments. It will be available in January, 2014. Thomashow is currently working on two writing, networking, and teaching projects. Improvisational Excellence suggests that improvisation emulates the patterns and processes of the biosphere. It's a series of essays linking play, music, and observing nature to the paths of everyday living. It is the philosophical basis for Thomashow's workshops on global environmental change, music and nature, and ecological perception. Wilson's Library is a series of prose poems depicting extraordinary moments during the history of life on earth. Thomashow lives in the hill country of southwest New Hampshire in the shadow of Mount Monadnock. He loves to explore the fields, forests, wetlands, hills, and lakes of Northern New England where you can often find him on his bicycle. His recreational interests include basketball, baseball, board games, jazz piano, electronic keyboards, musical composition and recording, guitars, hiking, and lake swimming.


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Care Closer to Home – 94% Cut to Calderdale Vanguard Funding
NHS England has just told Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group that it has cut 94% of the 2016-17 funding for the Calderdale Multi-speciality Community Provider Vanguard scheme. This money was to pay for setting up Care Closer to Home schemes to replace hospital services that are to be cut as part of the contentious Right Care Right Place Right Time scheme.
Instead, the stealth-privatising quango NHS England is putting the Vanguard money into a new Sustainability and Transformation Fund – a carrot to reward areas (known as Sustainability and Transformation Fund Footprints) that eliminate the NHS deficit across their area and carry out various schemes that include – huge irony alert – requiring local partners to achieve investment in out of hospital provision.
The STP stick is that if STP footprints don't eliminate the area-wide NHS deficit, they will not be eligible for any STP funding. This so-called Transformation Funding will from now on be the only available additional funds available – no more going to the Department of Health for bail outs.
What does this mean for the proposed hospital cuts and reconfiguration, that depend on Treasury approval for an extra £490m for CHFT, including £170m for deficit reduction? At the 18th May hospital cuts consultation drop in, I asked the CHFT Assistant Director of Strategic Planning, Katherine Riley. She said,
"STP has happened to us. This Consultation started in good faith. If circumstances have changed and we can't deliver that model there'd be further consultations. Ask Matt Walsh about how the STP would affect the Treasury's backing for the Plan."
What is Care Closer to Home about?
Care Closer to Home is a scheme for the 8% or so of the public who have what's called a Long Term Condition – eg frailty (as in frail and elderly), children with complex needs, and things like chronic respiratory and heart conditions and diabetes.
It aims to provide more care out of hospital so that people's conditions don't reach a crisis point so often, and if they do, care is available for them at home so they don't have to go into hospital for emergency/acute care.
This sounds sensible and feasible. It doesn't sound as if it needs a massive upheaval – just better coordination of existing services for this small proportion of the population. So why the current massive upheaval?
Something else is going on – that this otherwise straightforward expansion and improvement of primary and community care is a pretext for.
What is Care Closer to Home really about? A skid row NHS
Bean counters in the marketised, privatising NHS talk about Care Closer to Home in the same breath as QIPP and transformation. This is code for cuts and sell offs.
QIPP – Quality Innovation Performance and Productivity – is the brainchild of McKinsey, the global management consultancy company called in by the New Labour government after it had spent £trillions of public money on bailing out the bankers in the 2008 financial crash, that was brought about through the financial sector's greed and criminality.
The government told McKinsey to come up with ways of cutting future NHS spending and McKinsey duly did so, identifying ways of reducing future NHS spending by £30bn by 2015. This became known as the Nicholson Challenge and was implemented by the Coalition Government in 2010. It is why CHFT and most other hospitals in England are now in debt.
Care Closer to Home is basically a plan to take services out of hospitals and totally reshape primary and community care in order to deliver services that were formerly provided in hospitals.
It has been in the pipeline since the New Labour government brought McKinsey and Kaiser Permanente staff into the Department of Health – around the time of its 2000 Concordat between the NHS and private health care companies. This was an agreement to open up the NHS to private companies.
Care Closer to Home – done properly – is more costly than care in hospital, as retired consultant Colin Hutchinson has explained to Calderdale & Kirklees Joint Health Scrutiny Committee:
"It takes more staff to deliver care in patients' homes, because you can only treat one patient at a time, whereas on a ward, you can be treating and supervising the treatment of a number of patients. The staff also need to be trained to a higher level, as they do not have direct access to back up from more experienced nursing and medical staff."
But Care Closer to Home is planning to run on far fewer qualified doctors and nurses, and far more less qualified, new grades of staff like physician associates, unpaid family carers and voluntary sector organisations. This is what NHS England's Five year Forward View calls a "modern workforce". The Right Care Right Time Right Place Pre-Consultation Business Case calls it:
"Enhancing generalist and collaborative skills for the Trust's workforce across primary and secondary care to support delivery of the Commissioners' QIPP requirements"
QIPP requirements are to cut spending or deliver more services for the same money, so this means there will be new grades of jobs that will be cheaper than the current ones.
Dr Bob Gill says this is about down-skilling. GPs will have a new title of consultant generalist and be supervising a less qualified team so the system will need fewer GPs. Those GPs prepared to work in the system will be providing medico – legal cover for a vastly lower quality service.
Dr Bob Gill calls it,
"A skid row NHS to drive us to take out private health insurance."
So if Care Closer to Home is about cutting costs – but if properly delivered, it would cost more to deliver than existing hospital-based care, what is it really, really about? Beyond QIPP/cuts?
What Care Closer to Home is really, really about – Goodbye NHS – Hello USA Medicare!
Care Closer to Home is really, really about chopping up the NHS into organisations modelled on American private health insurance organisations called Health Maintenance Organisations – or their more recent version, Accountable Care Organisations. These health insurance organisations provide limited, cost-cutting health care for the publicly-funded Medicare/Medicaid system that covers Americans who are too poor or old to pay for private health insurance.
This comes right from the top – as Jeremy Hunt MP told the House of Commons Health Select Committee on 9 March 2016:
The Government's 2015 Spending Review settlement for the NHS committed the government to encouraging long-term partnerships with the private sector in a number of key areas – including development of new models of care including Accountable Care Organisations.
Here are Jeremy Hunt and Hebden Bridge GP Dr Mark Davies, in his other role as clinical lead at the Health & Social Care Information Centre (since renamed NHS Digital), visiting one of the main American companies that operate through Health Maintenance Organisations/ Accountable Care Organisations – Kaiser Permanente
The promotion of Kaiser Permanente models of 'integrated care' as a template for the NHS has been going on at least since the late 1980s. When Thatcher's 1990 NHS and Community Care Bill was introduced to Parliament, Kaiser Permanente's contribution was explicitly acknowledged. Once the New Labour government took over, it introduced Kaiser Permanente pilots in four areas of England.
Health Maintenance Organisations (HMOs) were promoted by President Nixon through the HMO Act of 1973, before he resigned in 1974 to escape impeachment for obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of Congress. John Ehrlichman – later imprisoned for his role in the Watergate scandal – persuaded Nixon that HMOs were the future for American healthcare on the grounds that:
"All the incentives are toward less medical care, because the less care they give them, the more money they make."
This seems to chime with Dr Judith Parker's statement at Greater Huddersfield CCG's 2015 AGM, about
"…realigning patients' and carers' mindsets towards…a different way of health services – enabling and empowering people to take care of themselves and control of their health needs."
Why should the patients, carers and health workers who are going to be affected by Care Closer to Home need their "mindsets" "realigning" to its "vision"? Particularly since the CCGs are at pains to say that Care Closer to Home is giving patients what they've told the CCGs they want.
But "resilience" and "enabling and empowering people" are Big Society code words for cutting public services, making patients and carers take the burden of care, and radically downgrading clinicians' working practices, terms and conditions.
New organisational forms based on Accountable Care Organisations
Care Closer to Home is meant to "wrap" community and social care services around GP practices – but the GP practices will be almost unrecognisable when the CCGs' new primary care strategy kicks in.
This is all about delivering GP services "at scale" based on large GP Federations covering very large populations. This is despite the fact that the General Practice Committee deputy chair Dr Richard Vautrey says this isn't going to solve the problems facing General Practice. He told Pulse Online:
"The bottom line is that there is only three-quarters of the historical investment left in general practice and working at scale won't help solve this problem. We need to get back to 11% of NHS funding spent on general practice to have any chance of addressing the current crisis."
A Multispeciality Community Provider (MCP), to be set up by the Calderdale Vanguard scheme, is a large scale, GP-led company – designed to serve a population of around 300K – that is a "lead provider" of:
primary care (GP services, dental care, pharmacy, eye care)
specialised hospital care
some urgent care
Being a lead provider means it provides most services itself and subcontracts out the rest.
In Calderdale, the GP -led company that is intended to become the Vanguard Multispeciality Community Provider is Wainhouse Healthcare Ltd, a private shareholder limited company also known as Pennine GP Alliance.
I asked Dr Nigel Taylor if Calderdale CCG sees Wainhouse Healthcare Ltd as a private sector organisation. He said,
"No – Pennine GP Alliance is not private sector, it is a GP Federation."
All the GP members of the Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group governing body are also GP member practices of Wainhouse Healthcare Ltd – aka Pennine GP Alliance. This presents the interesting prospect that the commissioner and lead provider for almost all Calderdale's health services – bar some specialist acute hospital care and A&E – would be one and the same.
At the 18 May hospital cuts consultation drop in, I asked about the conflict of interest involved in Calderdale CCG awarding a lead provider contract to its own GP members, and whether this is ethical.
Dr Nigel Taylor said that there is an inevitable conflict of interest to deal with in everything the CCG GP Governing Body members do. So GPs would have to excuse themselves from that decision about awarding any contract to Pennine GP Alliance.
According to what Calderdale CCG told the March 2016 Calderdale Health & Wellbeing Board, the contract to "enhance community services" though the Care Closer to Home Vanguard scheme, will involve:
"creating an alliance model…built around the principles of Accountable Care Organisations , supported by new payment and contracting models. We will set out our high level milestones in the STP [Sustainability and Transformation Plan]."
An article by staff at Candesic, a management consultancy that advised the Department of Health on the £200m sale of our publicly-owned Plasma Operations to Bain Capital, says that as a result of alliance contracting:
"…great progress has been made in bringing the free market into the NHS…and…greatly increased the private sector's involvement with (and income from) the NHS."
Cherry picking patients
Health Maintenance Organisations like Kaiser Permanente provide less healthcare and make more money by cherry picking patients who are relatively healthy, and denying care to those who are likely to prove costly to treat.
The process that drives this cherrypicking is that Health Maintenance Organisations/ Accountable Care Organisations are paid on the basis of capitated payments. This is an average amount per patient, depending on their estimated level of need, and then the HMOs/ACOs have to provide managed care for them – in other words a set type of care that is taken to be appropriate for that patient's condition and level of need.
Calderdale CCG plans to pay for the MCP Vanguard contract through captitated payments. Governing Body member Dr Nigel Taylor described this as:
"The Calderdale MCP lead provider will be given a cash envelope to provide the service and that this shifts the emphasis from commissioner to provider."
This proved unworkable for the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG Lead Provider contract for Integrated Care for the Elderly – worth £800-900m over 5-7 years. After a torturous procurement process, it was awarded to Uniting Care Limited Liability Partnership of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
In December 2015, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG and UnitingCare LLP issued a statement that their contractual relationship had ended, because:
"Unfortunately both parties have concluded that the current arrangement is no longer financially sustainable…"
The idea of the capitated payment/"cash envelope" is that this will drive "efficiencies", as doctors find ways to deliver the prescribed, controlled care more cheaply than the capitated payment, so they can make a profit.
In fact what has happened in HMOs like Kaiser Permanente, is that they've made money by denying patients care.
Calderdale GPs are aware of this risk – in 2014, when Calderdale CCG Governing Body was discussing whether to go to the next stage of the Right Care Right Time Right Place hospital cuts proposal (which was for the hospital Trust to produce a Strategic Outline Case), one of the GP members said that a risk of the proposed Care Closer to Home scheme was that it would have to avoid cherrypicking patients.
But this seems already to be happening in the Calderdale Support and Independence Teams' work last year (2015). These Teams – one of the Care Closer to Home schemes – are a hospital Trust/Calderdale Council working arrangement to look after elderly people who need "reablement" after being in hospital, and who make then need further home care after being "reabled". The S&I Teams' 2015 Report says,
"The targetting of Reablement resource to people who are more likely to benefit – that is to say, applying clear referral criteria – is seen as highly beneficial to the outcomes achieved."
What is this, if not cherrypicking?
Speeding up patients' transfer from free NHS services to means-tested privatised social care
Another characteristic of this Care Closer to Home scheme is that it aims to speed up the progress of patients from free NHS care to means-tested, privatised social care – it seems that an important part of Calderdale Support and Independence Teams' work in 2015 has been figuring out how to accelerate patients' progress from NHS – funded reablement to an "independent sector provider".
They have been putting more staff to work on services that patients have to pay for – "post-reablement home care waiting" and "rapid access homecare for people who would not be appropriate referrals to reablement". Their report notes that the more patients who move quickly from reablement to an independent-sector provider, the more money the Council would save.
However, there are problems with "the capacity of the home care market." – which Calderdale Clinical Commissioning Group's Quality Committee have been worrying over copiously. As a result,
"Vanguard partners are progressing the development of a new care homes model."
This will be led by Head of Commissioning Continuing Care from CCG and Head of Quality and Safeguarding from CMBC. (Calderdale CCG Governing Body, 14 April 2016 Quality and safety report and quality dashboard.)
As well as this so-called 'integration' of health and social care that funnels people as quickly as possible from the NHS to means-tested social care, Care Closer to Home also plans to 'integrate' a wide range of other public services like the Department of Works and Pensions, housing associations and leisure and recreation – along with voluntary sector organisations – in Care Closer to Home 'hubs'. GPs (not in Calderdale or Kirklees, so far) are already protesting at having the DWP in the same premises as them, and at being expected to prescribe getting a job as a treatment for patients with long term conditions. The coercive powers of the neo-liberal state, reaching out into areas of people's lives through bio politics, seem to be central to Care Closer to Home.
New care models – intrusive, controlling and corrosive of the idea of social solidarity
These new care models rely on shared access by all partners in the Care Closer to Home scheme to patients' personal confidential medical data, in order to stratify patients into categories of being at risk of unplanned hospital admissions. (This is why Jeremy Hunt was accompanied on his visit to Kaiser Permanente by Dr Mark Davies in his role as clinical lead at the Health and Social Care Information Centre.)
The new care models also involve creating a managed care plan for these categories of patients.
Then they put these at-risk patients into "virtual wards", where their medical records are scrutinised on a regular basis, to see how their managed care is working out.
There are serious implications for patients' privacy – but no privacy impact assessment in the Right Care Right Time Right Care pre-consultation business case.
There is evidence that this doesn't achieve the stated objective of reducing unplanned hospital admissions. Where this scheme has been carried out through a GPs' Direct Enhanced Payment Scheme for patients with long term heart conditions, it has been found to increase unplanned hospital admissions – not reduce them.
The care plans in this new care model involve the use of behaviour change techniques to get people to improve their health. Care Closer to Home calls this preventive care – but it bears no relation to real preventive care which identifies and deals with the social, economic and environmental determinants of poor health.
For example, one of the long term conditions Care Closer to Home wants to tackle is respiratory problems. We know that air pollution in Calderdale kills scores of people each year and is the cause of respiratory problems in many other people who don't actually die of the illness. Preventive health care that aimed to tackle respiratory problems would require regulation of vehicle emissions, as well as government and local authority investment in air quality monitoring and transport infrastructure that would bring Calderdale's air pollution within legal limits.
All the main long term health problems except fraility and some complex children's conditions are susceptible to public health measures – such as:
restoring the requirement -abolished in 1984 – for schools to provide meals to specified nutritional standards
regulating the food industry to outlaw processed foods that are high in sugar and saturated fat
improved public transport combined with improved walkability and cyclability
the eradication of poverty by creating decent, green skilled jobs and skills, enforcinga living wage and providing a basic citizen's income
But because there is no such thing as society, according to Thatcher – or if there is, it's Cameron's Big Society where the rich take it all and the rest of us have to scrabble around shoring up the cracks and showing resilience – Care Closer to Home puts the responsibility for preventive care on the shoulders of the people who are ill – ignoring the social, economic and environmental determinants of ill health.
In its reliance on unpaid care by family and friends, Care Closer to Home is another form of privatisation.
In its used of capitated payments, Care Closer to Home opens the door to another form of privatisation – Personal Healthcare Budgets.
And the personal confidential medical data that Care Closer to Home mines is of great interest to private health insurers and digital tech companies. The whole data mining exercise of Care Closer to Home extends to the use of digital apps and websites like mystrokeguide.com
For which CK999 has awarded the Calderdale MCP Vanguard partners a Regional i-Arse+ award.
This website, which Calderdale CCG has commissioned to help stroke patients self-manage their care, states that:
"My Stroke Guide has…been designed to capture user data and information which gives service providers and commissioning bodies valuable information…"
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1988 BOOK PRIZE WINNER: BIOGRAPHY : The Real Molly Bloom Stands Up
By CAROLYN SEE
A long-standing, gentle, ethnic joke states that a lawyer is a nice Jewish boy who can't stand the sight of blood. In the same vein, it might be said that literary scholarship, traditionally, has been practiced by aggressive bruisers who can't catch a football. Few people read scholarship except scholars, but as a pastime, it's about as refined as ice hockey. More than that, it is still, to a remarkable extent, a white man's game.
Imagine, then, the temerity of a woman, without even a Ph.D., daring to tread on sacred James Joyce territory! Imagine Brenda Maddox, going to visit Richard Ellmann, whose monumental biography of James Joyce had been widely praised for its thoroughness, meticulousness and accuracy. Maddox, an American journalist who had lived in London for 30 years, thought she might like to write a biography of Nora Joyce. What did Ellmann think about that? " . . . He was skeptical. There were few letters, he said, Joyce and Nora having so rarely been apart, and their friends were dead. There was not even material, he ventured, for a feminist treatise."
Of course, from his point of view, he was right. Joyce had written "Ulysses," the great novel of the century; Ellmann had written "James Joyce" the great biography of the great novelist, and in this "Great Man" view of things, Nora, the chamber maid who eloped with Joyce when she was only 20, venturing off to a life totally unknown and unimaginably alien to her, seemed of little importance. Indeed, in some works, Nora had literally been edited out: Maddox, in her scorching introduction, scores Arthur Power's "Conversations With James Joyce." In his original manuscript, Power wrote, "After going to the theater, they often call in on the way home at the cafe. . . ." Power changed this to read, "After Joyce goes to the theater, he. . . ."
Nora Joyce, linked to the great man, was consigned, over time, to relative invisibility; her jokes, for instance, in Ellmann's biography, relegated to footnotes. The reasons for this were probably twofold: First, she didn't play by intellectual rules. She never got past Page 27 of "Ulysses." She teased Joyce, suggesting he write books other people could understand. She wasn't in awe of Ernest Hemingway. She wasn't in awe of any of the great writers in her life. Second, she seemed--on the surface, at least--to fit perfectly into a much-loved female stereotype, one that's been around since Mary Magdalene. Pretty and dumb, and so much in love that you don't have to talk to her.
It took a woman, one with as little respect for conventional "rules" as Nora herself, to shake that adventurous Irish girl, Nora Barnacle, loose from her stereotype, find new sources, talk to new people, and present us with this dazzling biography.
Nora, according to Maddox, was not the primitive, uneducated chambermaid from the lower classes that we've been led to believe. Her education was less than Joyce's but perfectly standard for any Irish girl of the time. Her family was upwardly mobile, while Joyce's family was headed in the opposite direction. (Nora's widowed mother, ironically, left more money in her estate than Joyce himself would.) Nora worked as a chambermaid in that Dublin hotel because she'd run away from Galway after a thrashing by her uncle. Working as a maid was the only way an independent, tainted teen-age girl could support herself at the time.
Everyone who's taken an English class knows the story of James Joyce: his amazing prose; his quarrel with the Catholic Church; his whirlwind courtship of Nora ("the illiterate" chamber maid); their elopement to Zurich (though they would not marry for another 27 years); their peripatetic existence on the Continent--Trieste, Zurich, Paris. Everyone has, filed hastily in their minds, mental photographs of the Joyce's dining out with their two children, Lucia and Giorgio; most people remember that Joyce drank too much, and that Hemingway said their apartment in Paris was gloomy. . . .
No one has known, until now, the story of Nora. Maddox builds a narrative of a girl sent off to her grandma, because in "priest-ridden" Ireland, there were always too many children. A girl who was fondled by a priest, and then blamed for her sexuality in the confessional. A girl so intent to get out of Ireland that she had the idea to leave, and sold her timid, near-sighted boyfriend on the idea. A woman who made the first physical moves in their relationship but kept her virginity until they were safely out of Ireland. A woman all alone in a foreign country with an unemployed man who drank too much, but who was extravagant with her, and made her laugh. A woman so dead-game that she took in laundry only three weeks after the birth of her first baby. A woman who didn't bother with punctuation in her letters. (Her lover made fun of her for it, but in his hands it turned into "stream of consciousness.")
Nora, who, when she sensed Joyce might be slipping away, sent him a pornographic letter which unleashed in him a mountain of embarrassingly scatological correspondence--the "dirty letters" that Ellmann had scarcely mentioned in his book. Nora, who kept her family clothed and cheered up; who nursed her husband when his eyes hurt; who put up with it when her daughter went crazy and hit her with a chair; who must have suffered every possible snub known to man; who bravely lived through a long widowhood; whose last act was to pat her son on his cheek.
That Joyce could not have written what he did without Nora is obvious, but not belabored, here. The point is, it's her story. And though Maddox never says a word against Joyce, she uses the reporter's trick and lets him hang himself through his own action. As an author, Joyce was a great man, but as a companion, he left a little something to be desired. Nora's bravery in running away with him was exceeded only by her bravery in staying.
To paraphrase Maddox on Nora, I began this book liking Maddox, and ended in awe of her. In awe for four very personal reasons:
--Having been snubbed myself in Richard Ellmann's living room, I love her nerve for standing up to him, finding those "dirty" letters, using them.
--As an Irish Catholic, I love her for taking Ireland and using it as metaphor: "Whatever problems women have, Irish women have them worse."
--I love her for apologizing for so many footnotes, and then nailing down her work with hundreds of them.
--I love her most for making Nora the subject, not the object here, forcing the reader to rethink dozens of questions about modern literature, and modern life.
BIOGRAPHY NOMINEES
FREUD A Life for Our Times by Peter Gay (W.W. Norton) REBECCA WEST This Is What Matters by Victoria Glendinning (Alfred A. Knopf) RODIN A Biography by Frederic V. Grunfeld (Henry Holt) NORA The Real Life of Molly Bloom by Brenda Maddox (Houghton Mifflin) TIMEBENDS A Life by Arthur Miller (Grove Press)
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PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome back to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay. And welcome back to Reality Asserts Itself. We're continuing our series of interviews with Max Blumenthal.
Max is an award-winning journalist, best-selling author of the book Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party. And his new book coming out soon will be Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, published by Nation Books.
MAX BLUMENTHAL, AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST: Thanks for having me.
JAY: So in the last segment, I ended by saying we're going to talk about is criticism of Israel anti-Semitic. And I think for most of our audience, I think we all know that, that it's not. You know, inherently, critiquing Israel is not anti-Semitic. And the fact that some of the Israeli leaders and Zionist leaders want to claim it is, it doesn't take too much to know that that isn't the case.
But there's something, I think, in this that doesn't get talked about very much and should. Some is. Some criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic.
BLUMENTHAL: Well, some who criticize Israel are anti-Semitic.
JAY: Yeah. I mean, I know when we put up stories on–you know, where we do stories about Israel on YouTube, we actually had to turn comments on Israeli stories on YouTube off 'cause it was so filled with racist filth, and that much of criticism–it's not whether the substance is anti-Semitic or not, but much of people who are criticizing Israel, there is a real trend there, there is a pool of people there that are thoroughgoing haters of Jews and thoroughgoing racists. And I don't think that gets talked about enough, because for Jews that went–you know, that have the experience of genocide in World War II and had the experience of being ostracized, you know, they have to know that we're not unaware that there is this kind of racist current within those people that critique Israel. Of course, I don't think it's the majority. But what you make of that?
BLUMENTHAL: There's a minority among–I wouldn't call them critics of Israel, but there are anti-Semites out there who happen to be neofascists and racists, who are building connections with a larger movement of Islamophobes, and who are sort of preternaturally or viscerally Islamophobic. They're just–and racist and afraid of the other. And Jews, of course, have been otherized, European Jews have been otherized for centuries. So, they're–you know.
And, you know, I've covered white supremacists, white nationalism, neo-Nazis. I've interviewed, you know, leaders and rank-and-file. And I remember I interviewed–I forget his name now, but I spoke to the publisher of the Institute for Historical Review, which is the leading publisher of historical revisionism or Holocaust denial, and I said, why do you–what do you have against the Jews? He said, you know, essentially, in a nutshell what he told me is that they're responsible for liberalism.
So this kind of anti-Semitism flows from il-liberalism or anti-liberalism. And a lot of the Jews who are attracted to Palestine Solidarity come from liberal backgrounds and are very, you know, tolerant. Many of them are queers. Many of them are, you know, anarchists. Many are standard liberals or leftists. But they're all people who would actually be hated by these kind of figures, these anti-Semites. And so what we've been witnessing in the Palestine solidarity movement–and I've been an active part of this–from Palestinians and from, you know, Jewish supporters of Palestine Solidarity is an effort to completely clean the movement out of these kind of people.
And one person–I think one of the leading anti-Semitic critics of Israel–you couldn't even call him a critic of Israel. He's an ex-Israeli who pretends to be an anti-Zionist but is actually just a pure anti-Semite and who believes that all of the problems of Israel flow not from colonialism but from Judaism, is Gilad Atzmon. And I signed a Jewish letter denouncing him and basically telling him to get lost. There's been a Palestinian letter organized by Ali Abunimah and, you know, a who's who of Palestine solidarity activists who say anti-Semitic freaks, get the hell away from us; we don't want any part of you. And there have been other efforts to castigate people who have advanced anti-Semitic critiques of Israel and of Jews in general.
So, I mean, that's how I would respond is just judge the Palestine solidarity movement, which is an organized movement advancing, I think, a principled form of anti-Zionism, judge them by what they're doing. And they don't need pressure from pro-Israel groups. They don't need to be shamed to do this. This is how they feel and this is how I feel. It's just we're genuinely disgusted by any form of racism. It's why we're disgusted by the Israeli government and by the structure of Israeli apartheid.
JAY: Okay. Let's jump to some current politics. Can you understand why John Kerry wants to restart these peace talks? I mean, they seem doomed. One would think everyone would know they seem doomed. What the heck does Kerry get out of this, and what does the Obama administration get out of another round of failed talks?
BLUMENTHAL: I want to talk about what Israel gets out of it first, because AIPAC has endorsed–AIPAC, which is the, you know, key arm of the Israeli lobby, has sort of endorsed these talks, endorsed Kerry's trips, his constant trips over to Israel, Palestine, and Jordan. And, you know, then you have groups like J Street, sort of a liberal Zionist group, like AIPAC lite, which is enthusiastic about these talks. So you have pro-Israel groups that are really into these talks.
And then you have Netanyahu's pretending to be sort of reluctant. But Netanyahu early in his career was an aide to Yitzhak Shamir, who was the prime minister of Israel during the late '80s and early '90s from the Likud Party. And Shamir openly admitted that he had a ten-year plan to continue perpetual negotiations, making interim agreements while building settlements as rapidly as possible, because as long as you have then the PLO, now the Palestinian Authority, at the negotiating table locked into all these timelines and frameworks, there's nothing they can do about the fact that you're expanding settlements at a rapid rate.
And so in the last–well, going into these talks, the State Department announced there will be settlement growth during these talks, which, you know, goes back to our discussion of the paradox of grace. Like, we can't go into these talks without doing harm. And the Palestinian Authority has, you know, complained, but they're continuing to go along with the talks. They're meeting with Kerry. They're meeting with Martin Indyk, the former AIPAC staffer who is the manager of these talks for the U.S.
And Netanyahu has authorized at least 2,000 new settlement units, including outside the major settlement blocks, which according to a plan for a two-state solution, or what I would consider a bantustan solution, remains part of Israel. He's building these settlements in settlements on hilltops outside the blocks. This is remarkable. And the U.S. has been able to do nothing about it, and the Palestinians are locked into a nine-month framework of talks. So, you know, what we're going to see is just a rush on settlement building.
And then the U.S. has set it all up to blame the Palestinians again, as it did after Camp David, which will be a disaster and will give Israel the justification to annex Area C, which is the 60 percent of the West Bank. It was granted under the Oslo Accords, where most of the settlements are. I don't know if they'll do that, but that seems to be the plan to me. And they already exercise full control over that area and allow no Palestinian building there. So it's all heading towards disaster.
And you asked, why would Kerry want to do this?
JAY: Yeah, I can understand the Israelis wanting to do it, including to appease–it looks good in terms of Israeli domestic public opinion that Netanyahu's doing this again. But, yeah, what's in this for Kerry to have a–to be able to say, I started the talks and failed?
BLUMENTHAL: Well, I mean, yeah, the way out is, of course, as I said, to blame the Palestinians.
But Kerry, I don't know if he completely understands what's going to happen or–and he has a real vision. The U.S. doesn't have a policy beyond these talks and beyond the idea of two states, even though there's never, in my opinion, been a plan for a real Palestinian state where they control their own borders, can raise an army, control their airspace, control their water like any normal country can. So what they're doing is just providing Israel with cover, with diplomatic cover through these talks.
Kerry gets to appear on the world stage. The Washington pundit class, the Beltway class, is cheering Kerry on, because they desperately want to see this kind of thing succeed. And I think he's let it get to his head.
So the insanity of these talks is really a reflection not just on John Kerry, who spent the last two decades in Washington hanging out with all these think tankers at the Wilson Center and Brookings, and just how hollow his vision is, but on the entire structure of the Washington intelligentsia, which has been advancing this for over 20 years.
Then you have people like Martin Indyk, who said–Martin Indyk is Kerry's choice to manage these talks. And he said–I reported this recently for Mondoweiss–that he moved–he was volunteering in Israel during the '73 War, and he saw the carnage of war and worried about Israel, and he said, I made aliyah to Washington to protect Israel's security. Aliyah is the Hebrew term for immigration. So he really sees himself as a pro-Israel operative. And so this is the guy that you're appointing to be the honest broker. It really says it all.
JAY: Now, you were in the Middle East recently. You spent lots of time in Israel, you spent a lot of time in the West Bank. When I was there a couple of years ago, my experience was is most Israelis, when they think about it, 'cause most Israelis don't even think about it, don't even really want a two-state solution. And when I was in West Bank, I found most of the young Palestinians don't want it either. In fact, other than the official classes on both sides, nobody wants it. And the Palestinians, I think ordinary Palestinians rightly think it's going to be a bantustan fraud, and the Israelis, I mean, I found–I don't know your experience. My experience was Israel's gotten so racist. They would just, like, throw all the Palestinians, Arabs out of Israel and let it be whatever it's going to be.
BLUMENTHAL: A majority favor that.
JAY: Yeah. So in terms of the population, neither side really wants it. But in the end, the great fear of the Israeli official class is that there's going to be a demand at some point–and I think, you know, some of the Israeli leaders have said this–a South African style, you know, one person, one vote. You know, you're going to have to. If you're going to not have two states, you're going to have to say it's one state, and all these people are going to have to be part of it, which is even a bigger threat. Or do they think they can just go on forever like this?
BLUMENTHAL: Israel's trying to buy time, and that's with these talks are about. That's what its attacks on Gaza are about. And they can only buy so much time. But the U.S. is determined to buy it as much time as possible.
Right now it is a one-state reality. Israel controls every person between the river and the sea and dictates their lives. And it will never relinquish that control. It never will.
That's–and so the plan is to keep the illusion of a temporary occupation going, to preserve the hope that this kind of system will end, and therefore the occupation will end, and Israel won't become an apartheid state. So you consistently hear this rhetoric from Israelis out of the Labor camp or, you know, out of–you know, from the center of Israeli politics, like Ehud Olmert, that Israel, if it doesn't make a deal, could become an apartheid state. And that's a way of denying the current reality, which is that it already is. But they don't want to have to be–to have the control they exert over all Palestinian lives be recognized and be forced to either say we are an apartheid state or we give them full rights. So that's the agenda.
When you talk about two states, I get so–you know, when I hear the rhetoric of two states and a two-state solution, it irritates me, because as I said before, no two-state solution has ever been proposed in any negotiations led by the U.S. Never. The proposal never allows the Palestinians to control their own borders, doesn't give them full water rights. The settlement of Ariel is built on top of the Palestinian aquifer. They don't control their own airspace. They don't get to raise an army. No Israeli who's been prime minister during the peace process has ever supported giving the Palestinians any substantial part of East Jerusalem. No one in the current Israeli government does. And the Israelis want the Jordan Valley as well, which is where all the arable land is in the West Bank. So you're talking about a bantustan state. And they're continuing to build settlements in Area C. And if you go to Ramallah and just hang out at a coffee shop, you get up to a high enough floor, you're going to see settlements that practically look like they're inside Ramallah, which is, you know, this city in the heart of the West Bank. Nablus, the largest city in the West Bank, is absolutely surrounded with settlements. It's actually, like, strategic that they build settlements to keep people in and ghettoize them.
So it's finished. There never will be two states. There never has been a proposal for it. There never has been a real peace process. And in my opinion, the peace process ended when the right-wing terrorist Stern gang assassinated Count Folke Bernadotte in Jerusalem, who was dispatched by the United Nations during the Nakba, during Israel's project of ethnic cleansing in 1948, to try to prevent the Palestinian refugees from leaving and bring those who had left back. His assassination ensured that that would never happen. And since then, there's never been a proposal to bring them back in order to preserve Israel's ethnocracy. They can't do that. In fact, the peace process is an effort to consolidate the exclusion of millions of Palestinians from not just their ancestral homeland, but from a place where they have legal titles and where they hold property.
So let's just–the illusion has been exposed for a long time. But with Kerry's talks, I think it's really starting to be exposed before people who are unwilling to acknowledge these facts on the ground before, like, people like The New York Times editorial board.
JAY: Now, when I was there, there was a fair amount of activity going on amongst the Palestinians in the West Bank, which were a fight for civil rights. And one would think that leads to this demand that it's one person, one vote, if you're going to have this single state, which essentially is really what it is. It's just several million people can't vote. When you were there, what's going on in terms of the Palestinian movement, apart from Fatah, the PA, or Hamas?
BLUMENTHAL: It's hard to address it apart from Fatah or the PA, because the PA suppresses a full-scale civil rights–I wouldn't use the–.
JAY: But I mean a movement that isn't led or organized by Fatah.
BLUMENTHAL: The PA suppresses deliberately any kind of full-scale uprising against apartheid and occupation. And Hamas is increasingly doing that in Gaza. And we saw that when they crushed the May 15 movement, which was a youth movement demanding a unity government and some kind of strategy of resisting occupation. Both of these groups are, you know, at war with each other. The situation in Egypt has, like, increased factionalization in Palestine. And they're concerned with their own power.
But there are hundreds of thousands of young Palestinians who are eager to engage in some kind of protest movement, I think. Many of them are. And what I saw with the popular struggle, which was based in villages along the Green Line, which had their land annexed by the Israeli separation wall and inaugurated a sort of unarmed protest struggle against the Israeli army and against Israeli settlements, and, you know, it's been featured in movies like the Oscar-nominated 5 Broken Cameras, this movement has been kind of spreading out and getting more creative.
So the last time I was in Palestine, they erected a protest village called Bab al-Shams, or "the gate of the sun", in land that was soon to be taken for an Israeli–an expansion of the Israeli mega settlement Ma'ale Adumim. And that land would complete the encirclement of Jerusalem and it would end a two-state solution, which never began. But when I went there and, you know, met with the mostly young Palestinians who had set up these tents, they said, we're not fighting for a two-state solution; we're fighting for our right to live on our own land. That's what this is about. And they were swept away by Israeli riot squads, who brought twice as many soldiers to the scene as young people. And, you know, they're sort of defenseless against the Israeli army without the Palestinian Authority, you know, engaging more openly in this kind of struggle.
And, you know, I'm not Palestinian, so I have to recognize that after the Second Intifada, there was a level of exhaustion and trepidation about confronting the Israeli military directly. It's not for me to tell them what to do, because I'm not going to suffer the consequence, and the consequence is going to be harsh. I think Moshe Ya'alon, the current Israeli defense minister, said that the violence that they used to suppress the Second Intifada was designed to sear into the Palestinian consciousness a sense of defeat, so that, you know, when they did approach the negotiating table, it would be like Native Americans after the Wounded Knee massacre, just a completely defeated people. And so if there's one thing that we can, you know, give the popular struggle credit for, it's demonstrating that the Palestinians are not going to be defeated by even the finest, most aggressive military in the Middle East.
JAY: And just sort of quickly, to end up, what do you think North Americans, and particularly North American Jews, what should they be saying to, demanding from their governments in relation to Israel?
BLUMENTHAL: They should be demanding a complete cessation of aid to Israel until Israel abides by international law and ends the occupation and stops speaking on behalf of world Jewry, because it's corrupting world Jewry and provoking a moral freefall. And we can see that. We don't need to look to Israel to see that. We can see that in our own–you know, we'll see that in 2016 during the presidential campaign. And we saw that during this last campaign with the role of Sheldon Adelson and the kind of hatred and racism that he injected into the campaign. This is a guy who's acting completely on behalf of the state of Israel. And it should outrage and repel any Jewish-American who holds liberal values.


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There are so many standout ingredients that we adore, sometimes it's hard to keep track of our obsessions. But you'll see them in our recipes, the incredible ramen noodles that inspire a whole dish, the heirloom tomatoes that must be sliced into a BLT. One of our latest food preoccupations is with labneh.
What is labneh? The thick, creamy substance is made from strained yogurt. Depending on how long the yogurt has strained for, labneh can range from just barely thicker than yogurt to an almost cream cheese-like texture. The tanginess of yogurt remains in labneh though it's balanced by the creaminess (good labneh always starts with full-fat yogurt). That combination of rich and tangy make labneh a wonderful topping for stews, salads, or sandwiches with a Middleastern flair; labneh is made and eaten almost everywhere that includes yogurt in their cuisine.
In the interest of including labneh in as many dishes as we can (remember: obsession), we use labneh as a base, like mayo or yogurt, to make a simple sauce. In our Lamb & Beef Sliders, the spice paste harissa combines with labneh to top the little burgers.
And here labneh is, plain, on top of heirloom carrots and farro, the bright, creamy counterpoint to a nutritious and beautiful grain-and-veggie salad.
Have you tried labneh? What are your favorite pairings?


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Foshan rated as one of the 2020 Top 10 New Economic Cities for Entrepreneurs
On December 8, the Where Innovation&Startups Emerge (WISE) 2020 King of New Economy Conference kicked off at the Beijing International Conference Center, releasing the list of "36 Outstanding Contributors to China's New Economy 2010-2020" and "Top Ten New Economic Cities for Entrepreneurs". Foshan was rated as one of the Top 10 New Economic Cities for Entrepreneurs 2020.
The list of the Top Ten New Economic Cities for Entrepreneurs 2020 is based on the comprehensive policy support, capital fever, the number of new economic enterprises, talent reservation of each city and other data dimensions by 36Kr, a science and technology innovation and entrepreneurship integrated service group. 25 new economic frontier cities were selected, and the top 10 cities were finally selected by the majority of entrepreneurs, which represents the most dynamic new economic cities in their opinions. In addition to Foshan, Beijing, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Chongqing, Xi'an and Shenyang were shortlisted as well.
Qiao Yu, Vice Mayor of Foshan, delivered a speech at the conference, introducing that the definition and scope of the "new economy" are constantly changing in the changeable era and situations. However, Foshan people's minds of reform, opening up, and development remain unchanged. Foshan always has the spirit of "being the pioneer", along with a firm determination to reform, an open and inclusive mind, and actively embraces the new economy. The award of "Top Ten New Economic Cities for Entrepreneurs 2020" is the recognition and praise of Foshan's work. He also invited guests to visit Foshan to feel the integrated symbiosis of tradition and modernity, and open up infinite possibilities for the future.


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Wild Prospects
Checking in on the Wild's 2021 Draft Picks
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As I'm now a Beauty Pie subscriber, I thought it might be a good idea to follow up my un-boxing posts with a look at what I actually liked most from each order; so kind of mini reviews of each product to hopefully help you decide what you grab for yourself if you're a subscriber too. Check out my intro post here.
The Unbeatable Concealer: unfortunately I picked the wrong shade of this as I went for shade 50 which is very pale and too pale for me – it's rare I can say that, so at least Beauty Pie products go nice and pale!
Everyday Great Skin Foundation: I went for shade 100 in this which is a much better match. I like this foundation – not so much so that I've reached for it regularly, but I think it'll come into it's own when the warm weather leaves. At the moment, I'm going for very light textures because it isn't too obvious when they slide off in the heat!
Superbrow Pro-Sculpting Powder: I got the shade Ash Brown which is a fabulously, deep, cool brown. The product itself is quite heavy, so again, I think this is something that'll get more use when the weather cools down. It is a bit of work getting it to look natural, but it's great for achieving those typically "Instagram" brows.
Future Lipstick Luxe Shine: I love this lipstick! It's a really gorgeous, flattering colour and finish – I went for shade Naked Pink, but I'll definitely be adding more shades to future orders.
Moonlighting Radiance Powder: this is my favourite of the products I purchased. It's a really lovely, natural glow-giver that warms skin just enough, whilst adding a touch of radiant glow without looking sparkly. I went for shade Supernova, but based on how much I like it I might have to get the other shades too.
One Powder Wonder: I think I mentioned in my intro post that one of the main reasons I decided to place a Beauty Pie order was because of this powder, and thankfully I wasn't disappointed – this is the perfect powder for setting make-up and reducing shine without dulling any radiance or looking matte or dry. I use this lots and will replace when I run out.
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It's month #2 time soon so I'll be sharing my purchases when I get them – I'm thinking one of the palettes, a couple of lip products and I might dip into the skincare line too. Do you have any recommendations?