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Australia's Government Data Centre Facilities Panel now includes Primus Australia, offering services from its Melbourne facilities
Today we announced that we have been included in the Federal Government's Data Centre Facilities panel! This is an exciting opportunity, and many thanks to my team who have helped secure this membership!A huge thanks to Bruce, Jason and Emily for their work on this! Oh, and to Zac for knowing how to use a printer…— Press Release Follows —MELBOURNE 16th November 2011: Primus Australia, a part of PTGi (Primus Telecommunications Group, Inc.
Today we announced that we have been included in the Federal Government's Data Centre Facilities panel! This is an exciting opportunity, and many thanks to my team who have helped secure this membership!
A huge thanks to Bruce, Jason and Emily for their work on this! Oh, and to Zac for knowing how to use a printer…
— Press Release Follows —
MELBOURNE 16th November 2011: Primus Australia, a part of PTGi (Primus Telecommunications Group, Inc.)(NYSE: PTGi), today announced it is now on the Federal Government's Data Centre Facilities Panel, offering services from its Melbourne facilities.
We fully support this significant Federal initiative and are excited to lend our expertise and resources in helping government agencies avoid costs and improve sustainability, said Primus Australia s CEO Tom Mazerski. "As a key point of interconnect and carrier services, our Melbourne facility is an integral cornerstone of the telecommunications and data sector and we are pleased to be able to extend our services and capabilities offering to the Federal Government."
The Data Centre Facilities Panel is part of the whole of the Australian Government s Data Centre Strategy. It provides agencies with an improved means to procure data centre facilities and services. When agencies use the panel to lease a data centre they will reduce procurement costs, streamline contractual arrangements and standardise infrastructure policy.
"We believe being included on the panel reinforces Primus Australia s long standing as a leader in the IT & Telecommunications sector, and demonstrates our commitment to ongoing sustainable and responsible facilities growth for cloud computing and data storage, added Matthew Proctor, Primus Australia s General Manager Data Centre & IT. Our recent integration of 'green' initiatives, such as cold aisle containment technology, provides a flexible and expandable capability for the Federal Government and other organisations.
Primus Australia owns and operates Data Centre and telehousing facilities in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane, providing traditional collocation services as well as an enterprise grade Cloud Computing platform. Primus' first Data Centre was opened in 2001 and has grown consistently to cater for customer and internal expansion. Significant upgrades were implemented in 2008, 2009 and more recently expansion of its Sydney capabilities in August 2011.
Just last month, Primus Australia announced it has completed the first stage of its fibre network transformation, introducing Optical Transport Network (OTN) capabilities to its existing High Capacity fibre rings in Australia.
In addition, Primus Australia is part of PTGi, whose global, facilities based network consists of: 18 carrier grade international gateway and domestic switching systems with 500 interconnection points; 11 data centre facilities primarily in Australia and Canada with a twelfth currently under construction in Toronto ; undersea and land based fibre optic transmission line systems; global VoIP network with interconnections in more than 150 countries; and an extensive DSLAM network in Australia and Canada to provide on net local and broadband services.
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When I was a little girl, my grandma used to say all kinds of things. She was a perpetual fountain of wise phrases: "When a task is once begun, never leave it 'til it's done." "A place for everything, and everything in its place." "Go with God, and He'll go with you." "You can't really understand what someone's going through unless you walk a mile in their shoes."
Her words still reverberate through my mind. For those of us who serve the aging and disability communities, how do we possibly "walk a mile in their shoes?" We have training. We have skills. We have therapies and devices. But do we really understand? Yet understanding our clients and their needs is crucial to our ability to provide meaningful support.
A few months ago, I had a brief opportunity to put myself in the shoes of someone with a disability, just for a few minutes. I'm still miles away from really understanding, but even those few minutes of impairment impacted me profoundly. I was enrolled in a series of courses offered by the National Association of Homebuilders to become a Certified Aging in Place Specialist. During the course, we completed an exercise that allowed us to experience three common disabilities: impaired vision, hearing loss, and limited dexterity.
First, participants' eyes were covered with screens that mimicked several conditions that affect vision, like cataracts, glaucoma, and total blindness. We were instructed to navigate our way from the conference room, across the office, to a community kitchen, to the restroom and back. In just a few minutes of visual impairment, I was made acutely aware of the incredible challenges that someone with limited vision faces with basic tasks, not just physically, but emotionally. Far from childhood games of Marco Polo, I was completely unprepared for the amount of focused concentration I had to exert in feeling my way across the room. Even though I knew that we were on a single level, and that my path was relatively unobstructed, I found myself moving painstakingly slowly, and shuffling my feet along the ground. I felt insecure and unclear. Even with partial vision, when my eyes were covered with the glaucoma and cataract screens, I moved slowly and uncertainly. I had to rely on my sense of touch, yet my touch was tentative.
Next, each participant inserted ear plugs and walked around the office building. Unable to hear, I felt surprisingly isolated. I didn't respond to a woman's friendly greeting, because I didn't hear her. I could hear deeper voices, but even those were muffled and hard to understand. The sound of my own breath was intensified as everything else around me was muted. I hesitated to enter conversation, and found that I either had to concentrate intently or disengage completely. Casual conversation was no longer a casual encounter. I was astonished at how even limited hearing, not total deafness, left me feeling incapable and alone.
For our last exercise in the series, each participant held a tennis ball in each hand, and our hands were covered with socks. These accessories were intended to mimic conditions, like arthritis, that limit dexterity. We were asked to attempt simple tasks: opening doors, turning on lamps, typing on a keyboard, plugging in a coffee maker. Once again, I was dumbfounded by how affected I was emotionally by the physical limitations I experienced. I found myself frustrated and impatient as I tried unsuccessfully to turn on a computer; I was irritated by my lack of ability. The simple had become impossible.
I'm so grateful to have participated in this short exercise in understanding a few of the challenges our friends and loved ones with disabilities face. Truth is, though, as an able bodied person, no matter how many times I cover my eyes or plug my ears or stuff my hands, I will never be able to fully comprehend what it's like to live with a disability. What I can do is listen, and invite my friends and loved ones with disabilities to let me share their journey. I can offer acceptance, support and respect. I can rejoice when they rejoice, and mourn when they mourn. I may never truly walk a mile in their shoes, but I can walk that mile alongside them.
Kindra French is a Certified Aging in Place Specialist and a blogger for 101 Mobility of San Diego.


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I was with Henry while he was filling up his car (1.89 for the cheapest gas!), and I noticed this sign for Sherwin-Williams, the paint company. Does Sherwin-Williams really advocating covering the world… with paint?
Cover the Earth with blood-red petroleum-based product!
it makes sense to paint the world red so it goes well with our neighbor, mars. only if the world is covered with the quality of sherwin-williams will it be protected from the effects of heat and weather-wear. and don't forget, the world would then be covered under a 5-year limited warranty for paint chipping and splintering.


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Congress can't be trusted to do right by feds
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Jacqueline Simon, Public Policy Department Director, AFGE, discusses the issue of trust on In Depth with Francis Rose.
Commentary by J. David Cox Sr. National President, American Federation of Government Employees
This column is part of Federal News Radio's special report, Trust Redefined: Reconnecting Government and Its Employees.
Federal employees take an oath to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution, and they carry out that mission with honor and duty every single day. Yet they are being impeded by a corrosive political environment that denigrates them and their vital...
Commentary by J. David Cox Sr.
National President, American Federation of Government Employees
Federal employees take an oath to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution, and they carry out that mission with honor and duty every single day. Yet they are being impeded by a corrosive political environment that denigrates them and their vital role in serving the public.
When Congress enacts laws that deny federal employees an annual pay raise and force new workers to contribute more of their salary to a fully-funded pension system, that trust is eroded.
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When politicians freeze federal employee hiring yet allow agencies to hire contractors who charge taxpayers two or three times as much as federal employees cost, that trust is eroded.
When a singular goal of slashing federal deficits undermines agency missions and makes it impossible for employees to do their jobs, that trust is eroded.
The corrosive impact of austerity budgets and anti-government sentiment on the federal workforce cannot be overstated.
Financially, the impact on these working class men and women has been astronomical. Federal employees have suffered $138 billion in lost wages due to a three-year pay freeze, higher retirement contributions for new workers, and smaller pay adjustments than required under law. That doesn't even take into account the loss of up to six days in wages last summer due to employee furloughs required under sequestration.
Slashing agency budgets under a misguided notion that we can cut our way out of our economic hardships also has proved devastating to the American public. Wait times at VA hospitals and Social Security offices are increasing, depriving citizens of vital services. Federal prisons are overcrowded, endangering the lives of correctional officers and inmates. Cities and counties are receiving less federal funding for clean drinking water and sewer projects, compromising the public's health.
Agency leaders will put a positive spin on the budget cuts, saying agencies are doing more with less. But our frontline employees and many of their managers know the reality: getting less means doing less.
When the government proposes speeding up the poultry processing lines so much that chickens go by in a blur, the USDA saves money but federal inspectors no longer can ensure the safety of food that's whizzing by them.
When a veteran diagnosed with PTSD has to wait months for a follow-up appointment, the VA saves money but doctors aren't able to provide veterans with the care they deserve.
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When the military delays maintenance on weapons systems and equipment, DoD saves money but civilian employees can't do their job to make sure troops are safe and well-equipped for battle.
The sad truth is, these so-called budget cuts actually end up costing taxpayers more. On paper, restricting agencies from hiring federal employees would seem to save a substantial amount of money. However, since the work doesn't go away, agencies are forced to contract out the work to private-sector corporations, who charge two or three times more than it costs to hire civilian employees.
By the same token, last year's 16-day government shutdown actually cost taxpayers at least $24 billion in lost productivity — money that could have been used to treat more veterans, keep Social Security offices open longer, or provide training to unemployed workers.
When one political party would rather shut down the government than expand health insurance coverage to millions of uninsured Americans, it's clear we can no longer trust our politicians to do the right thing for the country.
Despite the challenges they face, federal employees come to work every day and strive to do their best, because they are dedicated to their jobs and the mission of their organization. One day I hope that the laws and policies they enforce treat them with the respect and trust that they have earned.
J. David Cox Sr. is national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents more than 670,000 federal and D.C. government employees.
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Dr. Daniel Dahle Named Staff Care's 2019 Country Doctor of the Year
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How much difference can one physician make? More than you might think.
Dr. Daniel Dahle, MD, lives and practices in a small Northern California town of just 300 people, but he has a huge reach—serving an area larger than five states. As the only primary care physician in the region, he has been keeping the local citizens healthy and safe for over three decades, sharing his medical expertise and an unflinching commitment to personalized care.
For his exceptional record of compassion and service, Dr. Dahle has been named 2019 Country Doctor of the Year.
Presented by Staff Care, an AMN Healthcare company, the Country Doctor of the Year Award recognizes the spirit, skill, and dedication of America's rural medical practitioners. Staff Care has presented the national award since 1992 to exemplary physicians practicing in communities of 30,000 or less.
"Dr. Dahle is more than an outstanding primary care physician," said Jeff Decker, president of Staff Care, "He is one of the pillars on which his community stands. The people, the health system, and the economy of his region simply could not do without him."
Returning to his roots
Raised on a potato farm near the California/Oregon border, Daniel Dahle served as a medical corpsman in Vietnam before earning a PhD in radiation biology and a medical degree at the University of Rochester in New York. In 1985, he elected to return to his home region and began practicing in Bieber, California, a frontier town of 300 people located in an isolated section of northeastern California, where he has continued to practice for 33 years.
The sole primary care physician in Bieber, Dr. Dahle is on staff at Big Valley Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) that sees all patients, regardless of ability to pay. He draws patients from a service area that extends over 7,500 square miles, larger than Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut, Hawaii and New Jersey, and to a large extent has been personally responsible for maintaining health services in the region.
In addition to seeing patients at the health center, Dr. Dahle drives 25 miles away to the town of Fall River Mills almost every day to see inpatients at Mayer's Memorial Hospital, where he also covers the emergency department and cares for long-term patients at the hospital's nursing home. Over half the hospital's inpatients are admitted by Dr. Dahle, and his presence in the community has been vital to the hospital's continued viability.
"As a rural hospital goes, so goes the community," Decker said. "Few people want to stay in or move to a place where there are no healthcare facilities. By supporting the local hospital, Dr. Dahle has done more than keep patients alive – he has kept the community alive."
Far-reaching impact, one patient at a time
Dr. Dahle has delivered over 1,000 babies in his career, often under trying circumstances. Many of the residents in the local valleys, including much of the student body at Bieber's high school (where Dr. Dahle coached track for 25 years), were delivered by him.
His skills as a diagnostician are legendary. Once, when a long-term patient and co-worker presented with pain and mental confusion, Dr. Dahle correctly diagnosed herpes encephalitis, despite encountering this rare condition only one previous time. The condition is commonly fatal, but by rushing the patient to a tertiary care center hours away and insisting on proper treatment, Dr. Dahle is credited with saving her life.
One patient recounts how he provided her dying husband with a last wish, personally escorting him on a scuba diving trip to Hawaii, while another relates how Dr. Dahle revived her newborn when the infant was not breathing. Virtually all of the town's residents (including Clint Eastwood, who has a ranch in the area) have been positively impacted by him in one way or another.
Now at the age of 70 and contemplating retirement, Dr. Dahle has made educating future care givers part of his mission. Each year he provides training to medical residents from the University of California, Davis as well as students from the physician assistant program at the University of Iowa. He is well known for sharing his "zebras" with students, which is medical slang for patients whose maladies are masked or otherwise difficult to diagnose.
Dr. Dahle is hoping to pass the torch of his practice on to a husband and wife duo who will soon be completing their medical training. Though he has seen rural physician practice evolve during his tenure, he believes the essence remains the same.
"Much has changed in 30 years," said Dr. Dahle, "but patients still respond to someone who really knows them and to someone who really cares."
As the 2019 Country Doctor of the Year, Dr. Dahle will be able to enjoy two weeks of time off, as Staff Care will provide a temporary physician to fill in for him at no charge, a service valued at approximately $10,000. He also will receive the award's signature plaque featuring a country doctor making his rounds on a horse and buggy, an engraved stethoscope, and a monogrammed lab coat.
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How R.E.M.'s Small-Scale Ambitions Came Up Big on 'Murmur'
Nick DeRiso Published: April 12, 2018
I.R.S.
R.E.M.'s debut album was perfectly titled, since they were something you first heard in passing more than really saw coming.
Moving like ghosts from a different, weirder time where jangles and hard-snapping rhythms mixed with enigmatic, often indecipherable words, R.E.M. grew up around the fading trends of synth-pop and New Romantics like Murmur's cover-image kudzu – and eventually choked them off.
Yet the goals, if they're being honest, were small.
"I thought I'd make a couple of records, then be the guy at the record store where people would come in and go, 'He made this cool record that came out in 1983,'" Peter Buck told Rolling Stone in 2016. "I didn't expect to make a living at it. I never owned a new car; I bought all my clothes used. I bought a house, but it cost $52,000. I was the first person I ever knew who owned a house. I was like, 'This isn't bad. It's got two extra bedrooms, so I can rent them out to pay the mortgage.'"
Buck never had to resort to side hustles like that, of course, though his quip about the record store didn't come out of thin air. Buck was, in fact, working at just such an establishment when he met a young Michael Stipe, setting off the first glimmers of R.E.M.'s off-beat alchemy. Mike Mills and Bill Berry eventually completed their initial lineup, as R.E.M. took full advantage of relaxed climate in sleepy Athens, Ga., to hone their sound.
"If you grew up in New York or L.A., it would change your viewpoint on just about everything. There's no time to sit back and think about things," Mills told Spin in 1985. "Our music is closer to everyday life – things that happen to you during the week, things that are real. It's great, just to bring out an emotion. Better to make someone feel nostalgic or wistful or excited or sad."
Still, that's one of these reasons these music-press darlings were initially mentioned much more often than they were actually seen.
Watch R.E.M.'s 'Radio Free Europe' Video
Musically, they led with a post-punk rhythmic attitude and Byrds-y folk leanings; Stipe's devastatingly shy, Southern gothic-sounding musings tended to wander around back. A template was set with "Radio Free Europe," R.E.M.'s first single. Originally released in 1981 before R.E.M. signed to I.R.S. Records and reworked for Murmur two years later, the song had an inscrutable wallop.
That's mostly because Stipe hadn't even completed the lyrics before the session got underway. It wasn't the only one.
"The earlier songs were incredibly fundamental, real simple, songs that you could write in five minutes," Stipe told Alternative America in 1983. "Most of them didn't have any words. I just got up and howled and hollered a lot." A few years later, he described "Radio Free Europe" as "complete babbling."
Yet Murmur, released on April 12, 1983, still connected. Even Stipe didn't know why at first, though eventually he came to understand this was his own distinct way of communicating – that he'd found an intuitive new form. "I do have something to offer," Stipe told the Guardian in 2011, "but it's just in a different dialect, a different language."
The reason R.E.M. fans rallied around Murmur can also be found right there in the album name: A murmur causes people to pull in close, to intently focus, to study for the smallest of clues. Not many did, not nearly as many as soon would. But for those who bought this mesmerizing debut, its whispered meanings became personalized, something far more specific than the sweeping statements made by the typical MTV-era band.
"Radio Free Europe" was just the appetizer. Elsewhere, "Pilgrimage" pointed to their more widely heard experiments with form; "Sitting Still" spoke to their nervy youth; "Perfect Circle" is as gorgeous a song as R.E.M. ever committed to tape. Still, things remained remarkably lean.
"Most fans may not realize that for two years before Murmur was released, we barely made financial ends meet by playing tiny clubs around the Southeast," Berry said in the liner notes for Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982-2011. "Our gasoline budget prevented us from venturing further."
Listen to R.E.M.'s 'Talk About the Passion'
The I.R.S.-released version of "Radio Free Europe" actually got no higher than No. 78; "Talk About the Passion," the second single, didn't chart at all. As a result, Murmur barely crept into the Billboard Top 40 – despite the fact that Rolling Stone snubbed the Police, U2, Def Leppard and ZZ Top in naming Murmur the best album of 1983.
More praise would follow. Much more. R.E.M. were soon hailed as the voice of a new generation – no matter their personal misgivings.
"It was something that I really, really did not want," Stipe confessed to Rolling Stone in 1994. "It was like 'Wait a minute — I'm a fucking singer in a rock 'n' roll band. I did not ask for this.' It's a lot of pressure. If Murmur or [R.E.M.'s sophomore release] Reckoning had sold 5 million copies, I wouldn't be alive to tell the tale."
Quite frankly, at this point, R.E.M. could scarcely imagine such things – and, thankfully, they didn't need to. There was little label pressure, since Murmur only cost about $25,000 to make. Still not that far removed from their days as a local band seriously considering the name Twisted Kites, R.E.M. were allowed to mature at their own occasionally desultory pace. They stumbled into superstardom, much as they had stumbled into one another.
Buck got his first record-store job purely by happenstance, before dropping out of an Atlanta college. ("I hung out so much," he told the Chicago Tribune in 1989, "that they gave me a job for something like a dollar an hour to sweep up, maybe $2 an hour in credit.") About a year after drifting into a similar job in Athens, Stipe came walking in.
"Athens is a small town; I'd have met him anyway," Buck told the Tribune. "I'd heard he was a good singer; but the first time I saw him was in a band of old hippies. They were doing Santana songs, but then Michael would get up and do Elvis [Presley] covers, or Paul Revere and the Raiders songs."
They began jamming with Mills and Berry – a pair of college friends from nearby Macon who had been in a funky band Buck says was known for doing songs by Freddie King and the Ohio Players. The story goes that this new group finally decided on the name "R.E.M." after randomly selecting it from a dictionary. The embryonic sound heard throughout Murmur came together just as quickly, even if they didn't always understand the narratives Stipe began attaching to them.
Listen to R.E.M.'s 'Laughing'
"Michael's songs were kind of even more baffling back then, because we had to get used to his take on things," Mills told the Guardian in 2001. "On Murmur, there were these references to weird statues and stuff. It only made sense to me sonically back then."
Hopeful, they made an aggressive return to the concert trail. Stipe, in a 1989 talk with Rolling Stone, compared these early years to Jack Kerouac's On the Road – calling it "harrowing, but a blast. ... Peter and I certainly had romantic ideas along those lines, and damned if we didn't do it."
Bar by bar, college-radio spin by spin, R.E.M. took the gospel of Murmur to ever-widening circles of fans. "We moved from small clubs to medium-sized venues," Berry said in the liner notes for Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982-2011, "and the additional revenue made it possible to logically pursue this wild musical endeavor."
There was nowhere, almost literally, where R.E.M. would not play. "We really soon got the reputation of 'Well, they'll do anything,'" Buck told Rolling Stone. "We were broke and we had to sell some fucking records, so, 'Yeah, sure, we'll play the pizza parlor.'"
That was the next goal, now that Murmur was behind them: To make another record. But something else happened along the way. R.E.M. ended up changing the way music was listened to, and then how it was made.
"Murmur came out at a time where it was unusual; nothing else sounded like it that year," Buck told the Chicago Tribune, pointing out that R.E.M. helped reintroduce hometown roots music to record buyers. "After the punk thing died down, everything went back to the same old synth-pop. We helped bring back the feeling of the local rock band, do-it-yourself sort of thing."
It started, like so much concerning R.E.M., with Murmur.
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Sunbeams trickled through a gap in the curtains, reaching into the once-dark room. A rooster crowing in the back yard, announcing the new day to the world. A dog sniffing her face, eagerly awaiting the master's waking. The cat yowled by the bedroom door, demanding the world. Nicole pulled the blankets up to her face again and turned over. It was weekend. She could sleep as long as she liked.
The sound of paws on carpet; travelling around the bed. A dog snout was in her face again. This time it licked her.
Even on weekends, you eventually need to get up… With a slow and placid groan, Nicole lifted herself from the bed.
Nicole's life had been just the same repeating, difficult routine ever since her parents had pulled her out of school and decided to take strict charge of her education themselves. Weekends were the only time she didn't have to be up starting her private schooling at 5:30 A.M.
She glanced toward Sadie, whose moist brown eyes indicated that she was more than ready for breakfast.
The cat awaited her just outside the door, rubbing itself vigorously against her leg.
"I'll feed you too," she added, heading toward the kitchen.
With the unsteady gait of someone still half asleep, Nicole shuffled out of her room, down the staircase, through the dining room and kitchen, and then into the scullery. She scooped food into the animal's bowls, then set them down.
Ignoring the cat, she took the bag of chicken feed out back, to the spacious chicken coop at the edge of the forest. She poured some into the bowls dotted around the coop.
Nicole shambled back upstairs. The warm bed still calling her name. She vaguely wondered why her parents were not already up and about. Then it hit her: yesterday they had told her that they would both be at a meeting most of the day. She had the house to herself!
This realisation jolted her awake with excitement as she pondered what she would do next.
Nicole started back toward the bed once again, but stopped at the door. There was no way she could waste this precious time sleeping. There were too many things she wasn't normally allowed to do.
There were only two cabinets Nicole hadn't yet gone through, the two dusty unused ones above the refrigerator. She pulled open the door, but as usual, nothing was there. Ready to search the other rooms, she pushed the doors shut and slid off the counter.
In the blink of the eye, Nicole stood in the frame of her parent's now-ajar door. She froze, feeling as if there were some invisible barrier stopping her from entering. Looking to the computer, she memorised the layout of the desk.
She steeled her nerves and pushed through the places-you're-not-supposed-to-go barrier, taking a seat on the office chair and booting up the computer. Once it had started had started, she briskly entered the password and hit enter.
Sadie padded into the room. "Shh, don't tell anyone," Nicole stroked the dog's head while she waited. As soon as the desktop was displayed on the screen, Nicole moved the mouse in an unsteady line towards the web browser's icon and double-clicked on it.
Maybe I'll start with some sciency videos on YouTube. She thought to herself. Remind me that there's a reason some people choose to spend their whole lives in science and engineering. And I'll be learning new stuff. Or should I rather do something else?
Nicole scrolled through the many YouTube suggestions, her mind telling her to watch something helpful, though deep down, that wasn't what she wanted. She had had enough of education from her parents; now that they weren't here, she could do what she wanted.
Finally settling on a music video, Nicole sat back and simply took in the sound. Since she didn't get to listen to music much at all, she wanted to know what it was really all about. The 'music' she was familiar with wasn't all that great, but maybe this would be better.
What have I been missing out on all this time?
Nicole soon found herself listening to another song, and another after that. The vast range of genres available through the internet were nothing like the easy listening junk that her parents played for her. This music flowed, changed, made her feel.
She didn't want to stop. With every song, Nicole became increasingly more entranced, ignoring the fact that this computer was not her own and gradually losing track of time.
Sadie jumping to her feet and running out of the room thrust Nicole's mind back into reality. She got up to follow the dog. Did Sadie want to go outside? As she approached the front door, she heard the sound the sound of car doors opening.
In a blur, Nicole dashed up the stairs. She tripped and hurt her shin, but pushed herself up and continued. She quickly closed what she had been doing on her parents' computer, then told it to shut down. She darted out of her parents' room, closing the door behind her, and into her room. Her parents were already in the house, merely depositing shopping bags downstairs.
She knew she had to pretend to be busy with something. She grabbed one of her favourite books – one of the very few fictional books she was allowed – from the shelf. Opening it up near the beginning and sitting on the bed, she pretended to be busy while footsteps approached up the staircase.
Nicole's mom hesitated. Her mom-senses must have told her something was up.
Nicole paled, impulsively blurting "No" before the silence grew suspiciously long.
Nicole sighed with relief once the door shut. She wasn't in trouble… yet. As she slowly closed the book, an eerie stillness began to encompass the room. It was as if the very air around her was frozen in place, waiting for something.
But nothing was happening. Nothing really exciting had ever happened to Nicole, a girl whose parents barely even let her leave their property. Yet still, an aura of suspense surrounded her. Something hadto happen.
In the next few moments, the door creaked open as Nicole's mom re-entered with that familiar 'you're-in-for-it' look on her face. Nicole would have freaked out if she hadn't already been waiting in anticipation.
All Nicole managed to do was squeak a "I'm sorry." The book was grabbed from her left hand and put neatly back on the shelf.
"You are not to leave your bed until your father and I discuss what we shall do," came the firm command. Her face was a strange mixture of emotions as she stomped out the room and slammed the door behind herself.
Nicole released a held breath, but this was not quite a sigh of relief. She knew the worst was still coming. Her father's name was called and there was talking, but Nicole couldn't hear it from her bed.
After a couple moments, Nicole got up and walked to the door, putting her ear to the metal handle in the hope of hearing anything of what was being said downstairs.
After hearing the stress on that last word, curiosity took over, and Nicole, ever so carefully, twisted the knob silently, opening the door to a tiny slit for her to listen through.
Nicole sharply inhaled at those words, barely restraining an even louder gasp.
When the downstairs conversation ceased and footsteps sounded on the stairs, Nicole came to the sinking realization that she probably hadn't restrained her gasp well enough.
Though she knew it to be futile, Nicole closed her door and hurried back to her bed. A split second later, her mom swung the door open.
Nicole's dad was now in the doorway too, his arm around his beloved's shoulder.
Nicole sat silent, absorbing the information. Her heart felt like it was bursting – like she would soon be in tears too. Yet, she commanded herself not to – at least while she sorted through the information.Why would them not being able to have their own children be this 'whole truth'? Surely they wouldn't have cared to get me if they could have their own kids.
"If I was your real child, would love me enough to let me live?" No longer able to contain herself, Nicole broke out into sobs.
"Nicole… we've done everything we can to keep you safe," her 'father' soothed, reaching an arm out toward her.
Not even raising her head, Nicole slowly wiped the tears from her face, curling up as if to shield herself from the harsh reality.
Finally perking her head up at that last sentence, the first thing Nicole saw was her mother shooting a furious glare at the one who had spoken it.
"No-" the woman that Nicole had called her mother quickly tried to interrupt.
"I…" Nicole trailed off. There was no way anything she said would be able to get anything more out of them. "I need some time." Without warning, she took off toward the door that led out of the house, and her adopted parents did nothing to stop her.
Once outside, she slammed the door shut with the power of all her frustration, shock, and stress. Sadie awaited her on the porch, obliviously wagging her tail and looking up with those soft eyes.
As Nicole sprinkled scratch grains about the field, the absence of her adopted parents allowed her to think more clearly.
The closest thing to a response Nicole got was one of the chickens pecking tentatively at her pant leg.
Nicole scattered some more grain next to the chicken and watched it begin snapping them up one by one.
For a brief moment, she was tempted to run off into the forest and leave all this behind. But, she would not let her emotions get the better of her. It be far worse to be lost and starving in a forest than to stay with her adopted parents. As strict as they were, they had fed, sheltered and cared for her ever since she could remember.
Taking a number of deep breaths in attempt to stabilise her breathing, Nicole wiped her eyes dry on her pyjama sleeve. She turned around and wandered back into the house.


There are so many types of daisies, and this one is called blue eyed daisy according to the stake that comes in the container. The heart is blue, with purple streaking around it.
I often see this blue eyed daisy at the market early in spring, and in many different colors such as purple, yellow, deep pink, and red! Yes, the heart is still blue like this one photo.
I know, summer is over, and we are getting ready for winter, but my flower archives will help the cold months feel less rigid. I'm sure somewhere around the world, people will still have blooming flowers to share.
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That is a beautiful flower! I'd never seen a blue eyed daisy before!
wow - what magical shots!
I've never seen a daisy like that. And I would love to put some in my kitchen!
GORGEOUS!!!! I am in love with the Blue Eye Daisy!!! :) Happy Tuesday!!
Gorgeous! Some of the best flower captures I have seen this year.
That top one is very pretty. I've never seen one like that before. You know, I tried to follow your blog (networkedblogs) but it doesn't work for me.
I've never seen one before, it's beautiful and unique.
What a nice progression of images. I have never seen the blue version before, lovely capture.
Such a beautiful flower and lovely photos!
I've never seen a daisy like this before it's very pretty.
Wow, that's so pretty! Love the colored center against the white leaves!
How cool is that! Amazing photos, thank you for sharing!
Such an elegant yet sweet and lovely flower. You've captured it so beautifully.
beautiful shot Icy, the brilliance is outstanding.
Lovely shot with such a calming shade of blue!


Cut each square into four petals that are joined together at the middle. Leanne likes to cut curves from corner into the center like a windmill, then turn the plastic piece the other up and cut the other direction to complete the petals.... Whether fresh or faux, these DIY flower ideas will bring the botanical beauty of a spring garden into your home all year. From seasonal floral wreaths and gifts (hello, May Day and Mother's Day !) to decor and more , here are some of our favorite flower craft projects for spring .
It's ok if your flower petals stick over the edge a little bit. Next, place the glass frame on top and line up the tabs to secure it to your shadow box. All done!
Bouquet & Arrangement Flower Quantities D-I-Y Floral Design Classes "How many flowers do I need for my wedding bouquet and arrangements?". After more than 20 years of providing bulk flowers to customers, that is the question we hear most often at Blooms by the Box.
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Think of a flower like a straw, with roots or the cut stem at one end, and the flower petals at the other. In this way, the water moves up the straw-like stem to the petals. The dyes clearly highlight how the water moves from the stem as it shows up along the flower's stem and veins, right to the tips of the petals.


There have been major concerns on the use and availability of potable water long before the international bodies deemed it fit to educate people about water and celebrate the importance of water in our immediate society. As the world therefore, celebrates water, Oxfam in Nigeria announces that safe water and sanitation by Nigerians is a major issue that is affecting the country. Therefore, concerns were raised over impending water, sanitation and hygiene crisis.
This year's celebration is centred on the role water plays in creation of jobs and supporting good jobs -Better Water, Better Jobs. The day was therefore, devoted to carrying out UN's recommendation for promoting activities regarding water in different countries.
The Head of Programme, Oxfam in Nigeria, Mr Constant Tchona, at a forum to mark the Day said that about 39 percent of Nigerians still lacked potable water and many things have gone wrong as a result of this. He blamed poor governance and weak policies. Also Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary General urged everyone to reaffirm their commitment to the management and protection of water resources.
The Water-To-Thrive, a non-governmental organization, says that the answer to this water crisis has to be urgent and the crisis will end if all stakeholders work hand in hand with the communities. The body charged everyone to "spread the word".


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Trump's Win Changed The Game For Publishers On The Left And The Right
By Lynn Neary
Former House Speaker and 2012 Republican Party presidential candidate Newt Gingrich autographs a copy of his book at a campaign event in Georgetown, S.C., in 2012. Gingrich published with conservative publishing house Regnery Publishing.
There's a role reversal underway in political publishing. For years, conservative publishers have thrived as their readers flocked to buy books aimed directly at taking down the party in power. Now, with Republicans in control, they have to rethink their strategy. Left leaning publishers meanwhile are hoping to take advantage of the new political landscape.
Regnery books — which marks its 70th anniversary this year — is the grand old dame of conservative publishing. Dinesh d'Souza, Newt Gingrich, Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham have all published with Regnery.
"For many years we would say what was bad for the country was good for Regnery," says Marji Ross, Regnery's president and publisher. "And by that we meant that when the opposition was in power that made our job a little easier and our books more successful."
When Donald Trump was elected President in November, some conservative book publishers were caught off guard. Rolf Zettersten, head of Center Street Books, the conservative division of Hachette Publishing, was expecting Hillary Clinton to win. His company was poised to publish several books critical of her presidency.
"We had to pivot and say: What are we going to do with these books that were going to be anti-Hillary?" Zettersten says. "Instead we developed new approaches that talked about the Trump agenda."
But Trump's presidency has exposed some deep divisions on the right, and conservative publishers have to reflect those differences.
"You have social conservatives, you have economic conservatives, you have people who are more libertarian," Ross says. And a Republican in the White House brings all of those divisions into sharper focus, she says — "because then all the different factions are lobbying for their version of what's right for the future."
If you are a polite voice in this market you really don't get listened to. We've certainly published our share of polite conservative books and they just don't sell as well.
There is one almost surefire route to success in conservative publishing — Zettersten says books by well-known personalities on Fox TV or talk radio, with a "take no prisoners" brand of politics often end up the best-seller list.
"If you are a polite voice in this market you really don't get listened to," Zettersten says. "We've certainly published our share of polite conservative books and they just don't sell as well."
Center Street already has new book on the New York Times best-seller list: It's called Trump's War: His Battle for America, written by conservative talk show host Michael Savage, who is not exactly known for politeness.
But provocateurs can go too far. Threshold Editions, the conservative wing of Simon & Schuster, canceled its contract with Milo Yiannopoulos after it decided remarks the right wing commentator made about pedophilia were too controversial. Of course, Yiannopoulos built his reputation on inflammatory rhetoric.
"I love flame throwers," says Marji Ross, who was offered the Yiannopoulos book but chose not publish it. Now Yiannopoulos is shopping it around again and it's been reported that Regnery might pick it up this time. Ross declined to confirm or deny that rumor. She says she has no problem with provocative political books, but not everyone agrees.
"Some people gravitate to certain radio talk show hosts who are really bombastic, and other people just can't deal with that," she says. "They want the more soft-spoken. And our job is to try to reach as broad of an audience as we can without watering down the essence of an author either in their message or in their style."
While conservative publishers are getting used to a new political reality, those on the left are realizing they've got a new advantage. Andrew Hsiao, an editor with Verso Books, is in that situation.
"I feel a bit sheepish saying this," he admits. "I am so deeply opposed to Trump — but let's face it — opposition is often good for political publishers. And our sales have already taken off. People feel hungry for criticism, analysis, knowledge and inspiration."
Verso Books has a history of opposition to the status quo in both the Republican and Democratic party. Hsiao says Verso comes out of the socialist tradition and publishes a wide range of progressive thinking. He sees their mission as two-fold: To open people's minds to new ways of thinking and to support the resistance.
"In a way, movements call up the literature that they need," Hsiao says. "And our fortunes in the last decade have exploded. I think it's unquestionably because of a new movement, especially among young people, to look for more radical alternatives, radical solutions to American problems."
Hsiao says the country is engaged in an intense political throw-down which he thinks is better than complacency. And publishers — on the right and the left — are in the middle of the fray.
Corrected: April 12, 2017 at 12:00 AM EDT
Previous audio and Web versions of this story gave an incorrect title for Michael Savage's book. It is Trump's War: His Battle for America, not The Trump Agenda.
Lynn Neary
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I am currently busy with a new book directed specifically at white Americans. It will start with a brief overview of the racial demographic problem facing the United States of America, but is mainly focused on a solution rather than restating the obvious.
The solution, the book will argue, lies in real political participation.
For too long, pro-white activists in America have been led down the garden path by a bunch of psychopaths, losers, and do-nothing cranks.
I have identified these groups as "cancers" in the so-called "right wing."
Only once these cancers have been firmly expelled or closed down, will there be any chance of realistic political action.
In fact, I will argue, one of the primary reasons why America sits on the edge of a racial catastrophe is because of the malignant influence of these cancers.
The Nazi-costumed freaks, the mentally ill-Christian Identity adherents and the disgraceful skinheads have all allowed the enemies of white America to smear anybody who opposes the destruction of that country as crackpots.
The irony of this is not lost: those groups are indeed crackpots. But why then is there no "sensible" white American political movement?
Why did the Ron Paul-type politics not emerge twenty years ago, like it should have?
The answer is because the majority of people who understand the issue of racial demographics have been sucked up into the dead-end politics of the cancers listed below.
The chapter headings of the new book are as follows:
1. The Extent of the Problem: Demographics
This will deal with the extent of the Third World immigration invasion into America and how that country has less than twenty years left to avoid total submersion.
2. The Extent of the Problem: The Failure of White Politics in America
This will deal with the reasons why white political activity to date in America has been a failure.
It will discuss how white American politics has been led down the path of inactivity by people who have no grasp of reality and who, when stripped down to the core, are certifiably mentally insane.
3. The Solution Part I: The Need for Real Political Action
This section will discuss how the only way to deal with the huge problem outlined in chapter 1 is for sensible, reasonable, democratic electoral political action, stripped of the cranks and crackpots who currently infest the American "right wing."
The Cancers Part I: Expunge the Madmen–Christian Identity
This section will deal with what is possibly the most utterly deranged group of vermin ever to infest white politics in America: those who claim that the European people are the "true Jews" and that the "Jews are Satan's spawn" etc. etc.
Christian Identity (also known as "British Israelism") adherents are severely mentally deranged people who need to be utterly exterminated from white political activity.
There is no compromise with these rabid madmen: they poison every political organization they enter with their insane theology and there is literally no end to their madness.
It is the reason why any political organization which wishes to succeed, must expel all those dribbling lunatics who spout this drivel, or bar them from entering in the first place.
Let them go and mutter about "Christ killers" somewhere else where all sane people can just laugh at them.
5. The Cancers Part II: Get Rid of the Weirdos–The KKK and the Confederacy Hobbyists
This part will deal with those pathetic weirdos who think that by running around in white sheets, burning crosses, and behaving like white trash they are somehow "contributing."
In fact, they are childish fantasists who play into the hands of those who would portray all pro-white political activists as nuts.
Once again, anyone who is serious about effecting real, viable, modern nationalist democratic politics, needs to distance themselves from this bunch of sad pathetic losers.
The Confederacy hobbyists are also a millstone that needs to be shaken loose.
First of all, the Confederacy was not a "white racist super state" like the KKK and the hobbyists would like to think. There were American Indian Confederate generals in the southern army, and secondly, the Confederacy actually wanted to keep blacks in slavery.
Quite apart from the moral opprobrium (what type of lunatic wants to keep slaves?) the reality is that the American south has a large black population precisely because of the antebellum slave owning society.
Any ideology which (a) endorses slavery as a "good thing" and (b) resulted in the overrunning of the south by the descendants of black slaves, cannot form any part of a rational debate.
Modern democratic white nationalism demands a rejection of the concept of slavery and all that it entailed.
6. The Cancers Part III: The Necrophiliacs Must Go–The "Nazis" and World War II Hobbyists
This part will deal with those people who are obsessed with World War II, Hitler, and the Nazis.
These people who cannot get out of their childish retro uniforms and grow up, need to be expelled from any modern democratic pro-white political movement.
Those who think they are "contributing to the cause" by huddling in a hotel room with a money-sucking, time-wasting crank like David Irving discussing what Herman Goring said on August 29, 1942, are equally delusional.
If they must persist in that sort of activity, they must understand that they are making no contribution at all to solving the most urgent problem of our time, as outlined in chapter 1.
The Nazi-obsessionists fail to understand that this period happened eighty years ago in Germany. The Nazis are not coming back; they are history.
It has no relevance to us today and there is no time to look at it now in any way other than a historical occurrence which is dead and gone.
Those who fail to understand this, and cannot get over wearing silly uniforms and marching round like lunatics, need to either find another obsession to focus on–or at the very least, get their necrophilia out of white politics.
7. The Cancers Part IV: The Do-Nothing Obsession–William Pierce and the National Alliance
In retrospect–and I did not realise this until much later–the malign influence of the "do-nothing" mentality created by William Pierce and the National Alliance type of organization has possibly been the single most damaging influence in pro-white politics in American history.
In fact, if America does go down before the Third World, one of the major contributing causes will have been this mentality which prohibited participation in the political process.
William Pierce taught all of his followers that participation in the ordinary democratic process was pointless.
Instead, he said that all they had to do was "wait for the system to collapse and then seize power."
Of course, not Pierce or anyone else could ever say exactly how they were going to "seize power" or when–because they had no idea.
The reason why they had no idea was because it was all fantasy island stuff.
This blind refusal to become involved in the democratic process became the norm, so that the political process became totally dominated by those seeking the destruction of America.
One can only wonder how many potential Ron Pauls were sucked up into this nihilistic mindset and burned out in the negativity of the "do-nothing" camp. I suspect it is far too many.
The National Alliance and its assorted spin-offs have been going for more than thirty years. What do they have to show for it? What political power do they have? Nothing. Zip. Nada.
In fact, America is now considerably worse off.
The time has come to close down the National Alliance and all its spinoffs.
This sort of "politics" has proven itself a failure and America does not have the time for indulging this sort of nonsense any more.
8. The Cancers Part V: A Sick Aberration–The Skinhead Disgrace
The Chinese philosopher general Sun Tzu, in his book The Art of War, pointed out that a general who enters a battlefield which has been set up by his enemy is at an immediate disadvantage.
So it is with the skinhead phenomenon. The media has successfully created the image of the skinhead racist thug, beating up old ladies and full of mindless violence.
And what happens? That is exactly what the "skinheads" do–falling precisely into the stereotype trap that the enemy have set for them.
The entire skinhead culture and appearance is a gift from heaven for those who seek to smear and malign real political activists.
Once again, one has to ask: what has this "skinhead" movement ever achieved? Once again, the answer is nothing.
The skinhead phenomenon needs to be closed down. Those adherents who cannot grow up must be barred from participating in modern democratic nationalism.
9. The Solution Part II: The Only Way Forward
The only way forward for white American politics is for participation in the democratic electoral process by normal, decent looking, moderate political activists.
Those who would swagger around in costumes, cling to long-dead ideologies or adhere to crackpot religious views, are part of the problem, not the solution.
America's unique situation–and the shortness of time left for its existence as a majority European nation–makes two things inevitable:
1. There is no time to start a third party. Forget the "American National Party" type ideas. By the time any sort of national consciousness is achieved by such an organization, it will be too late.
2. Because of that fact, political activism will have to take place within the two party Republican/Democrat pea-in-the-pod system.
The first step in setting this up must be the creation of a European-American Political Action Committee (EUPAC).
This lobby must first draw up an electable political platform. This must be devoid of all the crankery which has so typified the cancerous groups outlined above: obsessive blaming of Jews, the Illuminati conspiracies, Satan, racial pejoratives, World War II and Civil War re-enactors, and thuggish racism in general.
A modern democratic nationalist platform contains none of this and does not fall into the trap of "blaming" anybody as its main focus.
Indeed, the reason why white Americans have no real political power is not because other groups have "plotted" to steal it. The reason why white Americans have no power is because there has never been anyone to vote for. As simple as that.
A EUPAC must, therefore, focus on developing realistic policies and programs which can actually be implemented AND sold to the voting public.
A EUPAC program might, for example, contain the following principles:
– America was founded as a majority European nation and has a right to remain so;
– Unrestricted Third World immigration presents social, economic, and demographic problems which will destroy the Founding Fathers' vision;
– Government interference and the abrogation of the Bill of Rights is a fundamental threat to the freedom of its citizens;
– America must return to the foreign policy laid out by George Washington when he warned against foreign wars; and so on. You get the idea, I am sure.
The next thing this lobby must do is select sensible, reasonable, appealing candidates as either Republicans or Democrats (depending on local traditional preferences). These candidates can be "endorsed by EUPAC."
The loose nature of the political process in America makes this sort of thing possible. (It is almost incomprehensible to political activists in Britain or elsewhere who are used to a much more centralized and controlled party structure.)
I have no doubt that Ron Paul-type clones, spread throughout the United States of America, can effect massive political change almost overnight.
I have long speculated that if sensible candidates ran in each state's senate elections, a huge breakthrough would occur.
Ron Paul type campaigns–run in senate seats in each state–could easily generate turnouts of hundreds of thousands of votes each.
Even if each senate candidate gets only 25,000 votes (and I am sure many will do better–look at what Ron Paul did) this would be 50,000 in each state.
That figure, multiplied by 49 (I grant Hawaii won't do this), gives an instant tally of 2,450,000 votes. This can be done without even winning a seat, and probably with a first time out campaign.
It is a fantastic kick-off basis, and with a bit of work and fine tuning, could easily be improved upon within a very short space of time.
More importantly, it would send a shock wave through Washington DC.
It is about time Americans who understand that the way forward is not through more crankery, but through democratic participationist populist politics, step forward.
They must pick up the reins from the failures, oddballs, and cranks who have led them up the garden path for the past forty years.
The alternative, as was once told to me many years ago, is too ghastly to contemplate.
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Re: Arthur Kemp's New Book; Can America Be Saved?
« Reply #1 on: 27 November 2009 at 15:10 »
Although I agree with much of what you say and your plan for the future is most admirable and sensible, I would disagree on two things,first off,William Pierce. He woke up alot of white people into seeing the light. Maybe he was wrong on how things would "go down", but then again, he was simply and honestly speculating on how he thought it might happen. Your plan for a party makes sense but the media would be all over it for being racist,etc.,etc.....As an example, look how they portrayed and have portrayed Patrick Buchanan over the years when he ran for President and later spoke the truth on such issues as race,U.S. imperialism and immigration. But the real reason such a party would not make it is because the majority of Americans lack the courage and desire to make the hard choices.That reason, coupled with the media having such an influence on the people,would doom any party.With that said,I'd be interested in buying your book when it comes out.
David, I am not Arthur Kemp. Sorry if I made it look that way. I should have put the article in quotes. I will change it.
What he is talking about, is exactly what the BNP is dong now. They arn't waiting, they are playing the Jog's game, and when they succeed, I'm shure they will change into a more pro White party. But for now they are just taking it easy, and one of the big reasons they are as mainstream as they are is because they allow 'Jews' in their ranks, for now. And as long as Arthur Kemp is part of the BNP, we are safe.
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« Reply #3 on: 06 December 2009 at 17:52 »
Kemp's not from around here, is he?
Quote from: Private on on 24 November 2009 at 05:02
We should be grateful that Kemp didn't mention Creativity.
I couldn't agree more with him on some of his criticism, especially that the current National Alliance should be shut down. But he is talking out of his ass when he writes of what Dr. Pierce supposedly "taught his followers" about participating in the electoral process. He has no idea what he's writing about.
Former Hasta Primus for P.M. Ben Klassen with the Church of the Creator at North Carolina, and later the right-hand man for Dr William Pierce with the National Alliance. Currently the Chairman of the National Alliance.
Buy Nature's Eternal Religion by Ben Klassen
Dissecting Harold Covington's so-called "Brief History of the White Nationalist Movement"
http://www.noncounterproductive.blogspot.com
Covington's Civil Suit against Ben Klassen, Will Williams, and the Church of the Creator
https://creativityalliance.com/setting-the-record-straight-about-will-williams
So what did Dr. Pierce teach his followers?
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Jacquie Maria Wessels was born in Vlaardingen, the Netherlands, and presently lives and works in Amsterdam. She graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in photography in 1990, and studied social psychology (BA) at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) in Amsterdam. Wessels has developed into an autonomous/documentary photographer who prefers to delve deeply into a subject over a long period. The work of Wessels has been exhibited at various locations in the Netherlands and abroad at amongst others: Surinaams Museum in Paramaribo Surinam, Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen (NL), Museum IJsselstein (NL), Museum of Photography Thessaloniki (GR), PhotoBiennale Greece (GR), Noorderlicht Photo Festival Groningen (NL), New York Photo Festival (US), Gallery Carte Blanche San Francisco (US), Naarden Photo Festival (NL), Corcoran Gallery Washington (US), Galerie Baudelaire Antwerp (BE), Municipal Museum Arnhem (NL), Amsterdam Municipal Archive (NL), the Historical Museum in Amsterdam (NL) Wessels has received commissions from the Amsterdam Fund for Art, the Province of North Holland, the Photography Foundation in Utrecht (SFU), Municipal Archives of Amsterdam and others.
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Finally I found the solution from the Telerik's link. As I understand the problem is ; In my first Query telerik's components having trouble about sorting. Because my query method running on Server side is a IQueryable. Interestingly if I query 3 times it runs :)
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After serving in the United States Army as a combat medic, Marcus Pryor was honorably discharged in August of 2012. Upon his discharge, he applied for unemployment compensation through the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) and was granted benefits. However, seven months later the Director of ODJFS issued a redetermination and ordered Pryor to repay the benefits already received. Then, as allowed under Ohio law, Pryor decided to appeal the determination to the Unemployment Compensation Review Commission and when the Commission ruled in the Director's favor, again sought to appeal the decision with the court of common pleas. Pryor was unfortunately not granted the appeal because he failed to list the Army as an interested party in his appeal, which meant that a small clerical error limited his access to a fair hearing.
Pryor subsequently appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court. The Legal Aid Society of Columbus (LASC) and other Legal Aid organizations across the state filed an Amicus Brief in support of Pryor. The Ohio Supreme Court allowed LASC attorney Kathleen McGarvey time during oral argument. In May 2016, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled in Pryor's favor, explaining that Pryor had completed his duty to ensure he was granted an appeals hearing by simply filing the appeal on time. This decision by the Ohio Supreme Court provides a step in the right direction to ensure that all individuals tackling important legal issues will not be sidelined by administrative nuances that only those well versed in the law can understand. LASC is proud to have assisted Pryor in his case, and commends his hard work in front of the highest court in the state. Moving forward, we remain strongly committed to justice and our mission to advocate for equality in a complex legal system.
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Estero Parkway upgrades in the works
The new plan would add 7-foot bike lane and reduce driving lanes to 11 feet at a cost of $1.5 to $1.9 million.
Estero Parkway upgrades in the works The new plan would add 7-foot bike lane and reduce driving lanes to 11 feet at a cost of $1.5 to $1.9 million. Check out this story on naplesnews.com: https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/local/communities/the-banner/2017/05/18/estero-parkway-bicyclist-pedestrian-upgrades-could-cost-nearly-2-million/327079001/
Thaddeus Mast, thaddeus.mast@naplesnews.com; 239-263-4764 Published 5:19 p.m. ET May 18, 2017
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Estero could Village Council is considering a two-phase improvement plan for Estero Parkway.
The pedestrian-friendly upgrades could cost between $1.5 and $1.9 million, according to estimates presented to the council on Wednesday.
Estero Parkway roadway resurfacing, the creation of bicycle lanes and the installation of sidewalks or multi-use paths have been village goals for years.
Lee County, which owned the road until the village took it over in January, agreed to pitch in $509,000 for resurfacing and $1.7 million for sidewalk installation.
Estero approves road deal with Lee County
Estero Parkway to be first big road project for the village
The council is leaning toward splitting those projects into phases.The first would handle roadway and bicycle-pedestrian improvements, and the second phase would involve landscaping and sidewalks, said Village Manager Steve Sarkozy.
"This is low-hanging fruit," said Danny Nelson, vice president at Tetra Tech, an engineering consulting firm with offices in Estero. "People who do asphalt and repaving do not do landscaping. It also allows you to do the work this year.
Approval a Phase 1 within the coming weeks should allow for full completion of milling the roadway, repaving and striping, the village said.
Council is considering a reduction of Estero Parkway to 11 feet, from 12 feet, to have space for a seven-foot-wide bike lane as opposed to the current four-foot shoulder.
The estimated is $1.5 to 1.9 million.
By comparison, Three Oaks Parkway, which is a popular route for bicyclists, has 11-foot lanes with a four-foot bike lanes.
Councilor Howard Levitan asked if bike lanes were a necessity if a large, 12-foot shared use path would be created in the second phase.
Councilor Nick Batos said both are crucial for the road to be useful for everyone.
"I understood there are two types of cyclists — those with spandex suits going 40 miles an hour and — a lot of us ride a bike at a slower speed and don't feel comfortable at that roadway speed," Councilor Nick Batos said.
Doug Saxton of BikeWalkLee said splitting the roadway portion from the overall landscaping and pathway design was a poor idea.
"I really believe this is one project," Saxton said. "You don't build a foundation and wait for the house. We need to know the total cost in advance and not be surprised later with how much Phase 2 costs.
"For cyclists, we're talking about safety, not just for bikes and pedestrians but also drivers," Saxton continued. "We need to calm the traffic down. There's rarely anyone out there doing less than 55 mph."
The roadway would include outlets for power and irrigation of any lighting or landscaping in the median designed in Phase 2.
A public hearing is set for a future Village Council meeting.
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Q: Hyperlinks in thunderbird don't work I recently upgraded from 12.04 to 13.10 and links in Thunderbird don't work, i.e. don't launch or open in Firefox. I have double checked that Firefox is still the default browser:
>> sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
There are 2 choices for the alternative x-www-browser (providing /usr/bin/x-www-browser).
Selection    Path                           Priority   Status
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  0         /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable   200       auto mode
* 1         /usr/bin/firefox                40        manual mode
  2         /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable   200       manual mode

I have checked it is not an add-on by running Thunderbird in safe-mode. In the config editor of Thunderbird I have checked that 'network.protocol-handler.external-default' is set to 'true'. I have also added 'network.protocol-handler.app.http' to the config (linking to /usr/bin/firefox) to no avail.

A: I remember I was having that issue, too.
The first thing I did was try to unset the value network.protocol-handler.app.http to let Thunderbird prompt me for the application. I don't remember if that worked or not.
I do remember that I eventually just created a new thunderbird profile (on the command line enter thunderbird -P to enter the profile prompt...pretty basic from there) and copied my settings from the first profile over to my second. Problem solved. ☺

A: I had the same problem after upgrading my system. Instead of creating a new profile, first tried to go to Preferences --> Advanced --> Config editor and set
network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http;true
network.protocol-handler.warn-external.https;true

This didn't help, so I then went and moved mimeTypes.rdf from my profile directory. I restarted Thunderbird, and now it asked which application I would like to use to open URLs.
Just letting TB to recreate mimeTypes.rdf would have probably been enough, since my default browser was set up correctly. The old mimeTypes.rdf had settings from old environment, which obviously weren't working anymore.


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Remix Project #3: I Gave It All
November 15, 2016 Frederick Kelly
Written by Christina Horn and Performed by Hudson K
Recorded by the Kelly Bros. at FLRS in 2010, Remixed and MFI 2016
Fred Kelly:
For "I Gave It All" we recorded similarly to how we recorded several of the other songs on Hudson K's "Shine": we cut scratch vocals and fake piano at FLRS, overdubbed real drums onto that form/scaffolding, then Christina went home to record several passes of grand piano. Then we overdubbed strings, a lot of Jeff Christmas guitar, and then Jonathan and I added odds and ends (percussion, horns, more guitars and keyboards, etc) here and there.
We put a lot of overdubs on "Gave", and we had trouble getting a mix to work. Track after track of really cool ideas did not equal a sum greater than its parts. We ran many rough "in progress" mixes, and none of them really worked. So in the end, we went with a stripped-down version of the song---pretty much just Christina playing piano and singing, with a backward guitar solo played by Jonathan.
Recently we began playing with different variations on the arrangement of "Gave" and we hit upon a combination of parts that we think works really well. This new version uses only about half of the overdubs we originally attempted, but this particular combination of sounds sits and plays together nicely. Nate and Jeff's backing vocals are great, as are Nate's drums (two different passes of it, one Left and one Right), and the strings. I'm really enjoying everyone's parts in this mix.
Jonathan Kelly:
This was one of those songs that, as you added new elements, the older elements just kept sounding worse. It happens from time to time. The arrangement was just getting more and more complicated, but not in a cool way. By the end of the project, we were tired, and we just couldn't find clarity with this song. We would have figured SOMEthing out, but as luck would have it, about two weeks before were were due to be finished with the recording, Christina wrote "Fade." It was a strong song, and we really wanted to include it on the album.
So a deal was struck: we'd strip "I Gave it All" down to its essence (which worked better than anything we could come up with at the time), and use all the extra time, energy, and sanity we'd save by not having to wade through that mix to record and mix "Fade." We knew we could do it. In the course of a recording project, if it's going well, you develop a shared language and understanding what everyone needs to do. By the end, we had a shorthand for putting it all together, and "Fade" went from zero to done in about two weeks.
We always felt there was a cool arrangement of "I Gave it All" in there somewhere, and the remix project happened to be a good time to revisit with some fresh ears and see what we could do. I think it came out really great.
In Remix Project Tags I Gave It All, Hudson K