When you were children, your parents used to support you with all the facilities so that you can grow up properly. The support was mental as well as physical. Similarly, when you become self-sufficient and your parents grow old and incapable of living on their own, it belongs to your responsibility to provide them with the necessary aid. When the assisted living in Edmond, OK, is available to provide such aid to your senior, you can get the peace of mind for their safety, security and well-being.
Many seniors feels awkward to start living at the assisted living homes at their age, but you have plenty of advantages to show them why this is one of the best options for them. There are also options for the in-home care where they don't have to go to somewhere else, but the support can be arranged at their respective place.
If a study of comparison is presented successfully, you will be able to get a clear idea of the two and the pros and cons as well.
The assisted living provides a proper set of living arrangement, especially for the seniors. For the seniors who are too much sick and bedridden nursing home is recommended. But assisted living is different from the nursing homes. It is basically an independent way of living under the cordial care and support of the professional caregivers. A proper meal, timely medications and well-maintained hygiene are encompassed by the friendly association and amusements like small trips, games, music and dance sessions, socialization etc. Furnished rooms, housekeeping service, laundry transportation, nutritional aid all are provided in it. Not only the physical problems, but the overall focus of this service is well-being of seniors provided by assisted living in Edmond, OK. It is noticed that many seniors with mental disorders like dementia lived happily in the assisted living homes despite having this severe issue.
The in-home care is nothing different than normal living at home. The only additions are the support of proper diet, regular medicines and maintenance of hygiene. No extra amusement is added to this type. Making of new association and socializing is not possible staying at home. This is the reason once people start availing assisted living in Edmond, OK, they don't want to get back the in-home care anymore.
You can take your senior to the place and ask for a look at the place and the people over there. The positive vibe in the environment will invite them to live the rest of the life in a different way. You can connect to Heritage Assisted Living for opting for a service your parents deserve.


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30.09.21 Which brands sell the most vehicles with manual gearboxes?
For the first half of 2021, 291.4 thousand new passenger cars with a manual transmission were sold in Russia.
The starting price for Skoda Kodiaq of local production is announced
The company Skoda Auto Russia announces the starting price for locally produced Skoda Kodiaq. The price of the car will be 1 million 339 thousand rubles for the version with the engine 1.4 TSI (125 hp), front-wheel drive and manual transmission in the basic version of Active.
Every fourth region of the Russian Federation is experiencing a drop in the secondary market
According to the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT", by the results of two months of 2018 the volume of the market of used cars in Russia was about 700 thousand units, which is approximately 4% more than the result of a year ago.
AEB in the near future will present the forecast of the Russian car market for 2018
The Association of European Businesses (AEB) is in the process of preparing a forecast for sales of cars and light commercial vehicles (LCV), plans to present it in the near future, said Frank Schauff, the general director of the association at the TIAF automotive forum in Kazan.
In Uzbekistan, it was launched the assembly of vehicles "KAMAZ"
In Uzbekistan, the production of KAMAZ vehicles began in UzAutoTrailer, located in the Samarkand region, in the city of Jambay. As the press service of KAMAZ informs, the start of a new production of cargo vehicles in the Republic of Uzbekistan was the result of a cooperation agreement signed by the parties in November of 2017.
Updated Infiniti QX80 will soon appear in Russia
Infiniti Company announced the timeframe for entering of the restyled Infiniti QX80 SUV on the Russian market. As the portal "Kolesa.ru" writes, the modernized Infiniti QX80 debuted in autumn of 2017 in Dubai. The "fresh" SUV is already sold in the US, the countries of Asia and the Middle East.
Top-10 of the most common crossovers and off-road vehicles in Moscow
According to the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT", as of January 1st, 2018 in Moscow there are 1.18 million crossovers and SUVs. It corresponds to approximately 32% of the whole car parc of the capital.
The Russian LCV market with mileage fell by 3%
According to the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT", for two months of 2018 the volume of the secondary market of light commercial vehicles (LCV) in Russia was 53.8 thousand units. This is less by 3% than the result of a year ago.
Ravon raised prices for all of its models
As a result of monitoring prices * for new cars in Russia, experts from the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT" noted an increase in prices for the whole range of the Uzbek brand Ravon. So, the sedan Ravon Nexia went up by 20 thousand rubles in all trim levels.
Chery offered a car loan at 0.1% per annum
The company Chery has developed a new credit offer for customers - installments for the purchase of Tiggo crossovers for a period of 36 months. As the press service of "Chery Cars Rus" informs, the offer provides an initial payment of 50% and more of the cost of the chosen car of the brand Chery.
Citroen C3 Aircross will appear at Russian dealers on April 12th
Sales of the new crossover Citroen C3 Aircross in Russia started in March and dealers already take orders for the car. But at the same time in the car dealers the novelty will appear on April 12th.

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Would you believe me if I told you I got rid of almost 3 garbage bags of baby stuff? I'm keeping all the special stuff...baby blankets from Grandma's and cute little outfits and sleepers...clothes for Gabby to still grow in to...I think the girls will love to go thru it all one day and see how tiny they were. So...my house is chaos right now, but it is great to finally be dealing with alot of stuff that has been put on the back-burner for too long. Kim was supposed to come over tonight to help me start on my scrapbook room but I'm just not ready. And Graham is out of town (again) so it's too much to deal with the girls at bed-time and try to pack. Oh, life. I can do this right?? I am telling myself that it is possible. Haha!! I already have a huge box of scrapbook supplies that I don't want and I have to figure out what to do with it...I'll keep you all posted on that.
For now, forgive me if I'm not around much....just imagine me in piles and piles of boxes!!!
P.S. You have one more week over at the Goodie Box to submit to this months challenge....I love all the Halloween stuff this month. So much fun!
i think you should put all the scrapbook stuff you don't want on ebay. people will want it!!
either sell your stuff or have a giveaway of some sort! I'd love to help you out there. Your baby stuff looks so cute all stored nicely. My mom kept containers for each of us and it's one of my favorite things now. the girls will love that! share pics of the new house!
i am really dreading all the same things for when our house sells. are you guys building?
you could always use it as prizes for your Goodie Box challenges.


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The Committee has been mandated to submit its final report within 15 days of its appointment.
An independent committee's probe into the alleged sexual harassment charge against Board of Control for Cricket in India's CEO Rahul Johri got underway on Thursday with the BCCI submitting 'relevant' documents to it and the panel setting November 9 as the deadline for any fresh complainants to come forward.
The three-member committee -- comprising former Allahabad High Court judge Justice Rakesh Sharma, former Delhi Commission for Women chairperson Barkha Singh and lawyer Veena Gowda -- met in Mumbai to discuss the terms of reference. It was set up by the Committee of Administrators (COA).
The committee's next meeting has been set for November 10 and 11 and it will scrutinise any information that is brought to its notice.


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One of these will be The Car Connection's Best Car To Buy 2018
The Car Connection Best Car To Buy
It's been a wild year for the new car industry. Self-driving cars are on the horizon—nearer by the day—but we're not ready to give up the driver's seat just yet.
Over the last year, our team has tested out hundreds of new cars. If it's on sale today, our staff has driven it. We've evaluated it. We've ridden in it. We've sat in the front seats, the back seats, and even the third row. We've taken them on long highway jaunts. We've hit our favorite canyon roads. We've visited shopping malls. We've towed boats home from the lake.
We've done it all.
The last two years have represented big wins for family cars: the Chrysler Pacifica was our 2017 Best Car to Buy and the Honda Pilot won the year before. But in 2015, the Subaru Legacy mid-size sedan won our staff over and in 2014 the Subaru Forester proved victorious. This diverse list of previous winners certainly makes it hard to predict just who will win the 2018 Best Car to Buy.
Here's a look at 2018's contenders:
Audi Q5: Audi's compact crossover has it all: suave good looks, a comfortable interior, terrific road manners, and loads of technology. It's as conservative as the come, however, which may be tough for our team to overlook since some rivals offer more personality.
Buick Enclave: Out of nowhere, Buick has come up with a three-row crossover that blends utility and practicality with luxury. It barely slides under our price curtain, so it'll be interesting to see if our staff is willing to present our top award to the base model Buick Enclave.
2018 Chevrolet Equinox 2.0T
Chevrolet Equinox: Chevy's new Equinox offers three engines including an ultra-high mpg turbodiesel. It's priced right and its interior offers terrific space for growing families. It may not be dripping with personality, but this little Chevy certainly belongs on our list.
Chevrolet Traverse: Chevy's biggest crossover was long overdue for replacement, but the folks in Detroit spent their time studying what made newer rivals so good without forgetting why the original Traverse remained competitive nearly a decade after being introduced.
2018 GMC Terrain Denali, 2017 Detroit auto show
GMC Terrain: GMC's twin to the Chevy Equinox brings its own style and personality to the table. It's a little dressier than the Chevy, but both share the same virtues and wide lineup of engines and trim levels.
Honda Accord: We're used to Honda Accords being good—great, in fact. This latest model takes things much further with its dramatic styling, turbocharged engine lineup, and big tech upgrades inside. It's also loaded with safety and convenience features at a great price.
Volkswagen Tiguan: VW has taken a long time to bring a compact crossover to market with the features, design, and interior space Americans want. The wait was worth it—the new Tiguan is that good. It's priced well, sips gas, and has acres of stretch-out room inside.
Volvo XC60: Volvo's transformation is nearly complete. We can think of few cars—and fewer crossovers—that manage to feel this special at every level. The XC60 takes what we love about the XC80 flagship and right-sizes things for families not in need of a third row.
How we choose our Best Car To Buy
We start by only looking at vehicles that are new or significantly updated each year, and those priced under $50,000 to start.
Next, we eliminate vehicles that aren't available for road tests by our editors prior to November 1, 2017 or won't go on sale prior to April 30, 2018.
Then we make the tougher cuts. A car might be beautiful to behold, but so-so to drive. Or it may lack certain safety features that are essential to family buyers.
That leaves us with a list of cars that we need to consider against the established benchmarks and against each other. The cars above made it through all of those cuts.
We'll announce our Best Car To Buy Winner on November 14, along with the winners from our sister sites, Motor Authority and Green Car Reports. We'll also announce the winners in our Driver's Choice awards—as voted by you, our readers—at that time.
We still don't know what car will be the winner, but we are excited to find out. We hope you are, too.
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CHINA Power storage utility to meet peak demand built in NE China
Power storage utility to meet peak demand built in NE China
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Dalian Flow Battery Energy Storage Peak-shaving Power Station. (Photo: DICP)
A power storage utility has connected to the power grid in Dalian City, northeast China's Liaoning Province, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on Friday.
With the capacity to meet one day's electricity demand of some 200,000 people, the first phase of Dalian Flow Battery Energy Storage Peak-shaving Power Station is expected to be put into operation in October.
The utility has a storage capacity of 400,000 kWh, and it will be doubled to 800,000 kWh after an extension in the future, according to the CAS.
Based on vanadium flow battery energy storage technology, which is safe, reliable, enduring, recyclable and eco-friendly, the project can store and output power from renewable energies, according to the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) under the CAS, who helped develop the project.
The station works like a reservoir of power. At electricity troughs, the batteries will be charged by renewable energy sources, and at peak-load hours, the chemical energy in them can transform into electricity for use.
"Given the volatile and intermittent generation of clean energy including wind and solar power, this project can increase clean energy utilization and ensure grid stability," said Li Xianfeng, deputy director of the DICP.


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Grodsky performed all mechanical work on this project. It was a very fast-paced job, with approximately 12 days to rough and test each floor and working on multiple floors at any one time. This, in addition to a lack of space on the jobsite, created some unique challenges for the team. Our expertise at coordination, ability to prefabricate and provide just-in-time deliveries, and the expertise and diligence of our field staff were all instrumental in the success of the project and our ability to meet, or in most cases beat, all scheduled turnover dates.
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Partiot Act II- Bush's Secret Police Powers
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I happened to catch NOW, with Bill Moyers the other night on PBS. It was about a secret draft bill from The Dept of Justice which was leaked to The Center of Public Integrity. It proposes police powers only found in totalitarian regimes. Here is a partial transcript of the show-http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript206_full.html
ANNOUNCER: From our studios in New York, Bill Moyers.
MOYERS: Welcome to NOW, there's an important story developing tonight at the Justice Department. We've obtained a closely-guarded document that shows plans for a sweeping expansion of the government's police powers.
Until now, few people outside of the department, not even members of key congressional committees, have seen this draft legislation. It could lead to increased surveillance and greater secrecy all in the name of the war on terror. It raises questions about how we balance liberty and security, the rights of individuals versus the rule of law.
The document was obtained by journalists at the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity.
Here's more on the story from our senior Washington correspondent, Roberta Baskin, and NOW producer Brenda Breslauer.
BASKIN: In Washington, the big scoop often begins with a simple phone call.
LEWIS: I got a phone call from someone who said, "are you interested in legislation involving national security and surveillance and secrecy and those kind of issues?"
BASKIN: When you got it and read it what went through your mind?
LEWIS: I got it. I read it. Holy moly. I was incredulous really about the document. I realized this is a pretty historic piece of legislation. This isn't just another bill.
BASKIN: What surprised Chuck Lewis was this document, leaked to him by a confidential source and shared exclusively with NOW. It's a Justice Department draft of a law called the Domestic Security Enhancement Act. It has enormous implications for everyone's civil liberties and for national security. Yet only a few in Washington have even laid eyes on it.
LEWIS: The reason the Justice Department I think wants to keep it under wraps is, they know it's a hot potato. They know it's controversial and they want to keep it quiet for as long as possible until the right precise moment.
BASKIN: And that moment is when?
LEWIS: When we're at war with Iraq.
BASKIN: In wartime, public opinion often favors national security over civil liberties - which is what this draft legislation appears to do - expanding law enforcement and intelligence gathering, reducing judicial oversight of surveillance, even authorizing secret arrests.
To understand the importance of this draft bill, we need to look back at the Patriot Act, rushed into law just weeks after the September 11th attacks.
BUSH: This legislation is essential not only to pursuing and punishing terrorists but also preventing more atrocities in the hands of the evil ones.
BASKIN: In the name of the war on terror, the Patriot Act of 2001 allowed the government to use secret searches, wiretaps and other covert surveillance with less oversight. It broadened the government's ability to access email and monitor the Internet and it authorized the Attorney General to lock up foreign terror suspects without a hearing.
COLE: Principally what the Patriot Act did was to expand the government's ability to conduct surveillance on U.S. citizens and foreign nationals alike without the same kinds of judicial oversight that had previously been in existence. But much of that surveillance is conducted in secret.
BASKIN: David Cole teaches law at Georgetown University. He says in the fall of 2001, he and other advocates of civil liberties were ignored in the haste to pass the Patriot Act.
BASKIN: The Patriot Act moved through Congress with unprecedented speed. There were few public hearings and very little debate and some members now have questions about the very legislation they approved overwhelmingly. Nevertheless, the Justice Department has now drafted an even tougher sequel. Insiders are calling it, "Patriot Act II."
BASKIN: This draft legislation has been a closely guarded secret. Cole reviewed the confidential draft at Georgetown Law School and gave us his evaluation.
COLE: I think this is quite a radical proposal. It authorizes secret arrests. Never before in this country have we authorized secret arrests. Arrests have always been public. And that's for a good reason. To take someone off the street and lock him up is the most serious thing that a state can do to its citizenry, short of executing them.
BASKIN: And Cole says the draft legislation is worrisome because it is so broadly written.
COLE: It would give the Attorney General essentially unchecked authority to deport anyone who he thought was a danger to our economic interests. It would strip citizenship from people for lawful political associations.
BASKIN: Cole says the proposed changes in the powers of government will be very controversial.
COLE: Many of these provisions I think will trouble Republicans. Will trouble conservatives. Will trouble people who are concerned about too much government.
BASKIN: But very few people outside the Justice Department have even had a chance to see the draft bill. NOW has obtained a cover letter for the draft that shows only one member of Congress has received it: Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.
Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley is a senior member of the Judiciary Committee which would oversee this type of legislation. But when we caught up with him yesterday at Union Station, we were the first to show it to him.
BASKIN: What do you think of the Justice Department's new proposal, it's being called Patriot Act II?
GRASSLEY: I'm going to be very cautious about that legislation. Quite frankly I'm not going to be for dramatic expansion of it even knowing the environment of terrorism I know is now a threat to Americans. I think we need to move very cautiously. And I think we've had about enough expansion as we should have for a while.
BASKIN: Grassley says before Congress even considers any new type of terror legislation, he wants answers from the Justice Department about the law already passed in 2001. For months, Senators with oversight over the Patriot Act say Attorney General John Ashcroft has refused to answer key questions.
LEAHY: We really do want answers to the requests that we send. We have 23 outstanding requests to various parts of the Department of Justice dating back a year, July of last year.
SPECTER: How do we communicate with you? And are you really too busy too respond? And as I've already said, I'll accept that as an answer.
GRASSLEY: You know, it's just like pulling teeth to get information out of a lot of bureaucracy. But where it comes to this issue the Justice Department has been very difficult.
BASKIN: The Justice Department declined NOW's request for an interview, but confirmed in a statement that additional anti-terrorism measures are under active review.
Professor Cole says if lawmakers do receive new legislative proposals, they should recall that none of the provisions of the draft bill, or the 2001 law, would have prevented the 9/11 attacks.
COLE: There's been no showing that if the Patriot Act had been on the books, September 11th wouldn't have happened. In fact, the evidence that we have about the failure to stop the September 11th plot indicates that it was not through an absence of ability to gather intelligence. It was rather through a failure of analysis.
BASKIN: Given that we're in the aftermath of a terrorist attack, wouldn't these proposals help us fight the war on terror and protect American lives?
COLE: They might. It's always been a balance between keeping us secure and keeping us secure from the government. Our liberties are most tested in times like this. But they were put into place precisely for times like this. So if we give them up at times like this without very careful consideration, without a very strong showing, then we've given up what this country stands for.
MOYERS: Chuck Lewis, whom you just saw in that piece is with me now. He is the Executive Director of the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity, the organization responsible for obtaining that document. Chuck Lewis, thank you for joining us.
LEWIS: Thank you.
MOYERS: The Patriot Act was passed six weeks after 9/11. We know now that it greatly changed the balance between liberty and security in this nation's framework. What do you think - what's the significance of this new document, called the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003?
LEWIS: I think the significance is it just deepens and broadens, further extends the first Patriot Act. That act in 2001, they had six weeks, which was not a lot of time to throw something together. Now there's been 18 months of all kinds of things that have happened and court decisions that have tried to roll back some of the Patriot Act.
And other concerns, law enforcement, people have, and so they've had time to sift and sort what they want. And it's arguably might be a more thorough rendering of all the things law enforcement and intelligence agencies would like to have in a perfect world. It's sort of how I look at it, and I think it's a very tough document when it comes to secrecy and surveillance.
I understand the concerns about fear of terrorism. And it certainly...
MOYERS: We all have those...
LEWIS: We all have those and there are things in the legislation that make sense, and that are reasonable, I think for any American. But there are other things that really take some of the Patriot Act civil liberties issues that folks were concerned about and go even further. And I think it's gonna be very controversial. Some of these sections are gonna be debated for weeks and months.
MOYERS: So many of these powers latent in this draft legislation were powers that were taken away from the intelligence community some years ago because they were abused.
LEWIS: That's right.
MOYERS: Do you see any protection in here against potential abuse?
LEWIS: I don't think there's very much - there's a lot more authority and power for government. There's less oversight and information about what government is doing. That's the headline and that's the theme. And the safeguards seem to be pretty minimal to me.
MOYERS: I just go through here, you know? It would give the Attorney General the unchecked power to deport any foreigner... LEWIS: Right.
MOYERS: Including lawful permanent resident aliens. It would give the government the power to keep certain arrests secret until an indictment is found never in our history have we permitted secret arrests. It would give the government power to bypass courts and grand juries in order to conduct surveillance without a judge's permission. I mean these do really further upend the balance between liberty on the one hand and security on the other.
LEWIS: Well, they do. They reduce judicial oversight with the secret intelligence courts instead of saying the court may do this now it's the court will do this. They can have ex parte conversations where they go into the judge without anyone else around. In terms of information about detainees, not only can they detain anyone they'd like to detain, there is no public information about it.
Journalists cannot find out the names, so we detained over a thousand people after September 11th because we thought they might all be terrorists. Not one of them was really found with any criminal charges to be a terrorist. And we don't know the names of almost all those people, still. And so it does appear that everything that folks might be concerned about with the Patriot Act, this is times five or times ten is what I look at it. I see it very serious.
MOYERS: You and I have had this kind of discussion often, we go back a long way together. The foundation that I serve on has been a big supporter of yours and you've been a big supporter of our journalism. If we were fighting terrorists instead of being journalists, wouldn't we want this kind of power in our hands?
LEWIS: Well, we would, but we operate in a democracy and there's other considerations. I mean I think, you know, there's no question, if you're in law enforcement, this is gonna make it easier for you to do your job. The problem is, we have a history in our country, just in our lifetime, in the last quarter century, where we've seen FBI and CIA abuses of ordinary citizens. Where mail has been opened, where homes have been broken into. Where infiltration has occurred in political groups. Informants have been used, misused. People's lives have been ruined. People have committed suicide because of the pressures brought against them by the government, by these kinds of secret intelligence agencies.
This is not a completely crazy idea to worry about the power of the government. And it was curbed and rolled back in the '70s. And there is something obviously occurring here in the public space around the whole issue of liberty and security right now.
And it is clearly changing and it's moving towards security. And the question for us as a people is what is the right balance. And I think my biggest personal concern is that there ought to be a debate about this. So the Patriot Act jammed through Congress in six weeks.
There was a Congressional - there was a Senate hearing that lasted an hour and a half, there were no questions to the Attorney General by the senators. This is too important for our country. Whatever anyone's point of view, this should be a conversation that the country should have.
And I'm afraid they're waiting for a war or something and then they're gonna pop this baby out and then try to jam it through.
MOYERS: You mean that if it were not rolled out and discussed publicly until the United States is at war in Iraq, people might not pay as much attention to it as they would now.
LEWIS: They wouldn't pay as much attention and you know, our worries and our fears are gonna be different than they are now. And there will be less of - all these things will melt away. These are nice concerns about liberties but we'll be at war. And we'll have Presidents and attorneys general and other government officials telling us things. And I just see a - I see that it wouldn't work quite as easily for them if it comes out in the next few weeks as opposed to then.
MOYERS: Congressman Burton, Dan Burton, of Indiana, a very conservative congressman, who is Chairman on the Committee on Government Reform. He said recently, "An iron veil is descending over the executive branch."
Now your forte is moving information around in Washington trying to find out what's going on. Would you agree with what Congressman Burton has said here?
LEWIS: I absolutely agree with what he's saying. I mean there have been 300 roll-backs of the Freedom of Information Act since September 11th. All over America, at the state and local level, as well as the federal government. The Attorney General sent a message to every federal employee: "when in doubt, deny any Freedom of Information request."
We have other things like presidential papers being sealed off. We have reporters trying to cover things in Afghanistan being locked in a warehouse and not able to file their stories. Even before September 11th, we had one reporter's home phone records seized by a grand jury without telling him or his news organization.
There's a lot of things happening with information, access to information, and efforts to stop journalism that I have not seen in 20 plus years of watching Washington and journalism and government interact. And it's not just information. It's not information for information's sake. This is about health, safety, lives...
MOYERS: What do you mean?
LEWIS: Well, you have this whole thing in this current draft legislation that there's a worst case scenario type requirement that every company that is making hazardous or toxic materials has to make that information available to the public. So if something terrible does happen they know that it's possible that it could happen and there's some sort of assessment about it. Well now that is not gonna be required. Chemical companies will not have to tell the world about these problems.
And they will - the citizens in that community will not have access to that information in an easy accessible way. And that's new and that affects their life. If some problem occurs, they're unrelated to the terrorism. Something just goes wrong, they will not know anything about that in their community.
So we're rolling back health and safety and environmental and other considerations and sensitivities that have been in our culture now for decades. Are melting away because of - all in the name of fighting terrorism.
MOYERS: What would be the Attorney General's justification for wanting to restrict access to information about toxic chemicals?
LEWIS: Well, the - I haven't heard one. But I think the rationale is that terrorists could get information about a chemical plant and its security, bad security, inadequate security and somehow then bring about a threat.
But the problem is sunlight is the best disinfectant. If these plants have bad security or they're not being well run and they're actually unsafe it's usually exposing it and talking about it and the public being aware of it that ends up improving the plant or the facility or whatever it is.
I actually find that that's how change occurs usually. And so the ostensible rationale is to keep it away from terrorists. But I think it's also a rationale to protect companies frankly in this instance. Well I happen to know that's been the chemical lobbyist's dream for a long time.
A long time before 9/11. They did not want this information made available.
LEWIS: I see a lot of opportunism here around the fear and paranoia in the wake of September 11th. And taking advantage of the insecurity that we all feel today. And that is, to me, incredibly offensive. And that's why a conversation about it, there's 40 sections in this thing. The public needs to have a sense what exactly are we getting here. There needs to be a chewing over. This should not jam through Congress. This should be out there and being - be talked about. I mean the realm between public and private, between foreign and domestic, all these things have morphed into the citizen against all of this out there - this morass of regulations and rules and intrusions. And at the same time they can come after you, get your credit card data, your library records, your Internet searching, everything. And they'll decide whether or not you're a suspect or not.
Whether or not they like you. If you're a disfavored political group, or from the wrong ethnic background, then you might become on the radar screen of some folks that you don't know about, you can't find out about, and they can do things. They have - this is incredible power.
MOYERS: One of the provisions in here as I understand it is that the government could actually strip citizenship from someone if - for example, if you were found, according to this, if you were found making what you thought was a legitimate contribution to some non profit organization.
LEWIS: Right.
MOYERS: Foundation. And months from then, that foundation were deemed by the government or that organization were deemed by the government to have been in some way supporting terrorists, you could lose your citizenship because of your contribution, even if you didn't know...
MOYERS: ...that you were contributing to an organization like that.
LEWIS: No, that's absolutely - they have that power. They can also extradite all over world, even if we don't have treaties. I mean, some of the things in here are - strain credulity for legal scholars. They're not sure, they've never seen these kinds of provisions trotted out. I mean, a lot of the question is if it does pass Congress, what would the courts do with it later.
I mean I think there are some legitimate issues there.
MOYERS: What do you make of this? This is the document that went from the Department of Justice with this draft legislation to certain very key people in government. Among them, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert and Vice President Richard Cheney for their comments on this obviously confidential document.
Why the Speaker of the House and the Vice President and not the committee chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the Senate or the appropriate committee in the House?
LEWIS: It's a way to say you've consulted Congress to some extent by sending it to the Speaker and not really consulting Congress.
As far as I can tell, and we have not polled every member or anything like that, but it appears that virtually no one on Capitol Hill, except for the Speaker, has seen this legislation. I'm talking about the people at the judiciary committees in the House and Senate don't have this legislation. And have even been kind of yanked around a little bit for months about whether there will even be legislation.
MOYERS: The House Judiciary Committee actually asked the FBI a few months ago how it had used the new powers that had been given to it under the Patriot Act. And the Justice department said, "We can't tell you that information, it's classified."
And this prompted then-Congressman Bob Barr from Georgia - another conservative, by the way - he said the attitude of the Justice Department seems to be that even Congress isn't entitled to know how they are using the authority that Congress gave them.
LEWIS: It's incredible. I mean, if Congress doesn't have oversight over the Justice Department and these programs, who does? That's how it's supposed to work in our constitution and in our set up for government.
MOYERS: That's one of your real concerns, isn't it? That there's no oversight when secrecy is this tight.
LEWIS: Absolutely. The Congress is the people's chance to monitor the executive branch. That is the only... it is the closest branch of government to the people. The House members are up for election every two years. If the House of Representatives and the Congress in general cannot keep a watch on the executive branch and cannot be informed about their activities, there's something very serious here.
MOYERS: Chuck, I hear people out there in the audience thinking, you know, I'm scared. We're - this is a new ballgame, to put it trivially. War on terrorists, they came on 9/11, we keep getting reports they're coming again, who knows where it'll happen. Everybody's scared.
You guys are living in Lotus Land, you journalists talking about this sort of thing. Because we really want the government to protect us from another World Trade Center attack on the Pentagon, which is not far from where your office is in Washington.
MOYERS: What about that?
LEWIS: Look, I wanna be protected by the government as much as anyone.
But actually, in some ways that's beside the point. There are also freedoms and rights and liberties that, you know, millions of Americas have fought for over 200 years to make sure that this is a special kind of country. And isn't it possible to be secure and have liberties?
Why give all the power and authority and have no oversight and accountability? What are the safeguards? And that's the question.
MOYERS: When someone inside government, inside the Justice Department, presumably, gives you a confidential document marked, "Not For Distribution," The Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, knowing that this administration has been cracking down on watchdogs and leaks from inside government, do you consider this person a patriot?
LEWIS: I really do. I think it takes incredible guts to take something that bothers someone, and for whatever reason, they feel they must give it out. And they know they're gonna be polygraphed, they're gonna be questioned. There's gonna be a clampdown, there's gonna be a witch-hunt after this occurs. They could very likely not only lose their job but maybe worse.
MOYERS: Be sued by the government?
LEWIS: Be sued by the government and otherwise ruined professionally. That is the most incredible kind of courage. And I have an incredible respect for anyone who does that.
MOYERS: I should make this clear this is not marked "Top Secret" - this is not a classified document. It is stamped "Confidential" but nobody is betraying the Secrets Act.
LEWIS: Yeah, that's right, I mean, I've - I'm glad to say that that's right.
MOYERS: There was a story this week in Congressional Quarterly, which is a very respected non-partisan journal in Washington. It says "Pentagon's Proposed Changes Strike Some as Difficult, Dangerous and Destabilizing." And one of the things Donald Rumsfeld wants is wavers of environmental laws so that troops can conduct more "realistic exercises."
And then this magazine, which is non-partisan, says "this is part of the administration's broad campaign to run the federal government more like a private business." And with private businesses you have more control over employees, you have more control over information. Do you see that developing as a syndrome of this administration?
LEWIS: I think it's incredible what's happening. I see a wholesale assault on access to information in this country that has not really been seen, I have to just say it, since Richard Nixon.
When you look at the roll-backs of Freedom of Information, when you look at things like meeting of energy companies with the Vice President. It's simple things though in government property with government officials getting paid by taxpayer money and it's not available to the public.
When you see some of the things that we have talked about earlier with reporters from detainees to military actions not being able to see things. I see a lot of very aggressive behavior by government officials towards the act of getting information out and information itself. I think that we're in a very unusual situation right now. And it really worries me actually.
MOYERS: Chuck Lewis, Center for Public Integrity, thank you very much.
Here's NOW's website where you can read the leaked documents- http://www.pbs.org/now/
Curt Leatherbee
Unfortunately after 9-11 the Citizens of the United States lost a lot of the Freedom we once had. I dont think that will change until we rid terrorism throughout the world and I dont think that is going to happen anytime soon.
"Life is about how you
respond to not only the
challenges you're dealt but
the challenges you seek...If
you have no goals, no
mountains to climb, your
soul dies".~Liz Fordred
Curtis,
Terrorism will never be eliminated, only contained.
Giving up the freedoms which this country was founded on, and untold numbers have fought and died for is not necessary. Allowing Bush and Ashcroft to have powers that are not subject to congressional review will have dire consequences down the road.
Well, if the people dont like it, they have the option to vote him out in a year and half.
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The People did NOT vote him into office. He was appointed. And furthermore, ridding the world of "terrorists" is the same stupid, abstract notion as ridding the world of "communists." Pretty soon we'll all be pointing fingers at our neighbors "terrorist! terrorist!" Except for now, the totalitarian Bush regime will have the power to imprison and execute at will. Bye bye, checks and balances.


Faced by a threat, your body responds with a complex cascade of chemicals. The hypothalamus, alerted by the brain, pumps out a specialized hormone that ultimately prompts the two adrenal glands (perched atop the kidneys) to release the energizing hormone known as adrenaline. The result--faster pulse, higher blood pressure, sharpened awareness--is the "fight or flight" response to fear and anxiety.
Not everyone who is depressed has all depression's symptoms, but everyone who is depressed has at least some of them, co-existing, on most days. Depression can range in intensity from mild to severe. Depression can co-occur with other medical disorders such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and diabetes. In such cases, the depression is often overlooked and is not treated. If the depression is recognized and treated, a person's quality of life can be greatly improved.
Symptoms of this disorder are often mild, and do not interfere with work or social situations. If symptoms are severe, however, they can disrupt daily activities. Because people with generalized anxiety disorder often have another physical or emotional disorder, such as depression, there has been much learned debate as to whether anxiety disorder exists on its own. But recent studies indicate that there really is such a disorder, and that it can be helped by diagnosis and treatment. The symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder usually begin in youth and may go untreated for decades. However, they tend to diminish with age. One study found that only 3 percent of cases of generalized anxiety disorder began in those 65 and over. The problem is more common among women than men and often runs in families.
If you have been excessively worried about a number of everyday problems for at least six months and have at least six of the common symptoms of anxiety listed earlier, you may have generalized anxiety disorder. Check with your family physician or mental- health professional. Generalized anxiety disorder is highly treatable.
Biochemical theory suggests that biologic imbalances, perhaps among the neurotransmitters in the brain, may be the primary cause of anxiety disorders. Indeed, in one study researchers were able to trigger a panic attack in some people simply by infusing certain chemicals. Many scientists involved in anxiety research now argue that correcting biochemical imbalances with medication should be the first goal of treatment. Other studies suggest that biochemical changes can also be achieved through the psychological and behavioral changes produced by psychotherapy.
There's little doubt that all our thoughts and feelings are rooted in transmissions between nerve cells in the brain. These signals are passed from cell to cell by chemical neurotransmitters released at the synapse (tiny gap) between one cell and the next.
1. Remember that though your feelings and symptoms are very frightening, they are not dangerous or harmful. 2. Understand that what you are experiencing is an exaggeration of your normal bodily reactions to stress. 3. Do not fight your feelings or try to wish them away. The more you are willing to face them, the less intense they will become. 4. Do not add to your panic by thinking about what "might" happen. 5. Stay in the present. Notice what is really happening to you as opposed to what you think might happen. 6. Label your fear level from zero to 10 and watch it go up and down. Notice that it does not stay at a very high level for more than a few seconds. 7. When the fear begins to trigger "what if" thinking, focus on and carry out a simple and manageable task such as counting backwards from 100 by threes or snapping a rubber band on your wrist. 8. Notice that when you stop adding frightening thoughts to your fear, it begins to fade. 9. When the fear comes, expect and accept it. Wait and give it time to pass without running away from it. 10. Be proud of the progress you make, and think about how good you will feel when you succeed this time.
It is not entirely clear why psychotropic medications work; yet, it appears that they reestablish balance within the chemistry of the brain. Behavior is determined through messages transmitted within the brain from one nerve cell to another through various chemicals. These chemicals are called neurotransmitters. Through the millions of nerve cells within the brain, chemicals trigger memories, sleep patterns, perceptions, feelings, moods and thoughts. The electric current that carries the messages are received by nerve ends, called synapses, which then release the neurotransmitter. These chemicals, in turn, propagate the message by stimulating the next nerves in line to send on the electrical message. Once used, the neurotransmitter chemical is returned and stored in the nerve end. This recycling process is called reuptake. When this signaling process goes askew, the effects are seen in a person's behavior and experienced in his emotions, perceptions, sensations, and ideas.
Information in this document about Antidepressants named Fight with anxiety is for End User's use only and may not be sold, redistributed or otherwise used for commercial purposes. The information is an educational aid only. It is not intended as medical advice for individual conditions or treatments of Antidepressants. Additionally, the manufacture and distribution of herbal substances are not regulated now in the United States, and no quality standards currently exist like brand name medicine and generic medicine. Talk about Antidepressants to your doctor, nurse or pharmacist before following any medical regimen to see if it is safe and effective for you.


I don't blog too many non-wedding events, but last night I helped out a friend, Roxana Muzzammel, with her fundraising efforts for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in memory of her father. She had coordinated a fashion show and silent auction featuring Hoss Intropia, Haute Heritage, and menswear label Christopher Schafer Clothier. Paul Wharton, host of Paul Wharton Style, was the emcee for the event and did an amazing job! If you're interested in contributing to her campaign and a worthy cause check out this link: Roxana Muzzammel's Fundraising Page.


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King's Table - The Legend of Ragnarok is a video game version of the viking board game, Hnefatafl, also known as King's Table. King's Table consists of two unequal sides, with the Forces of Valhalla, who set up in the middle of the board, attempting to move a slow-moving Odin to a board corner, while the Forces of Darkness, who set up on every board edge, try to capture Odin. Both sides exclusively use (aside from Odin) soldier pieces ('Einherjar' or 'Giants' in the game) that move like a Rook in chess, and take opposing pieces by moving such that the opposing piece is trapped directly between two of the moving player's pieces.
In addition to a recreation of Hnefatfl, the game includes a campaign of sorts, called 'Ragnarok', played against increasingly difficult opponents. Ragnarok differs from basic King's Table by allowing each player to replace four of their basic soldiers with unique pieces chosen from a list of six. While the pieces available to each side are functionally identical, they are named relative to the side that they are on, (Tyr, Thor and so on for Valhalla; Loki, Garm and so on for Darkness). The object of moving Odin to a board corner remains the same.


WASHINGTON, D.C. — It's impossible to overstate the nightmare that Puerto Rico faces right now.
3.4 million American citizens are grappling with hunger, thirst, and lack of fuel, electricity or shelter.
Almost half the population lacks potable drinking water and the situation could worsen before it gets better.
The airport is broken down, sharply restricting the amount of aid that can come in and, conversely, the number of stranded passengers who can get out.
But Puerto Rico was already facing a nightmare before Maria even showed up — an economic one. The territory has been in recession since 2006, having never recovered from the Great Recession. It is also mired in a long-standing debt crisis that culminated in a historic bankruptcy over $US70 billion in bonds, in May.
I asked Brad Setser, the former economic advisor to President Barack Obama who led the federal response to Puerto Rico's debt crisis, about what the combination of economic and natural disasters means, and he put it in stark terms: There's a chance Puerto Rico will never recover from this.
When President Trump, who has already been criticised for his response to the crisis — because he was busy feuding with professional football players instead of rallying the country to help — finally turned his attention to the island he was quick to point out that its economy was in poor shape to begin with.
I read that as the President saying Puerto Rico's not getting off the hook — no matter what.
And this is where the Trump could see Hurricane Maria turn into his very own Hurricane Katrina. Airlifting food and generators is, of course, vital at this point, but not also immediately considering what the US can do to rebuild Puerto Rico's economy will be devastating in the long-term.
Debt relief, Setser says, may be out of the federal government's hands because Puerto Rico's government owes money to private bondholders and some distressed debt funds.
There are things that can be done about it though. "What I do expect is that the oversight board will adjust the fiscal plan so that there is essentially no money for debt service in the next few years," Setser said.
Even outside of the debt, Puerto Rico needs a long-term economic plan from the federal government, now more than ever. The catastrophe will require a concerted response likely lasting several years and the island must become an integral part of any infrastructure package proposed by the president or Congress.
Puerto Ricans pay dearly for this protectionism, which reduces competition and raises costs. A 2012 Federal Reserve Bank of New York report said the Jones Act helps explain why household and commercial goods cost roughly double to ship from the East Coast to Puerto Rico than to the nearby Dominican Republic or Jamaica. Food and energy costs are far higher than on the mainland.
And there are countless other ways the federal government can consider the Puerto Rican economy as it rebuilds — like investing in solar and wind technologies appropriate for an island territory so it doesn't have to haul in its fuel.
The president can keep telling himself, as he told reporters Tuesday, that "we're doing a great job" in Puerto Rico.
But if a serious economic response is not forthcoming, this catastrophe will eventually catch up with an already troubled White House.


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Talon Series: Assassination in Al Qahirah Is A Riveting Adventure In Crusade-era Egypt
This is my fourth post in the "Talon Series". To read my other posts so far, more information on the other books, and upcoming posts in the series, please visit my "James Boschert's Talon Series" page at the top.
James Boschert's first novel, Assassins Of Alamut, takes place in the 12th Century. Set in the time of the Crusades, it is the story of Talon, a young Frank who is captured by the Ismaili Muslims, themselves hunted by the Sunni and Shi'a. He is raised as a Ismaili, and trains to become a Hashshashin (Assassin), the protectors of the Ismaili.
In the second book in the series, Knight Assassin, Talon, with the help of his uncle Phillip, makes the trek back to his birthplace (and true home): France. When Talon returns, his homecoming is celebrated, but a dark threat looms over the reunion of the de Gilles family. Greed and treachery plague the French countryside, as claims to inheritance are fought for to the death.
Now, in the third installment of the series, Assassination in Al Qahirah, Talon is finally able to return to the Holy Land. In pursuit of the friends he lost in the first book, Talon is especially diligent in his hopes to be reunited with his love, Rav'an. As much as he tries, however, Fate has a different path prepared for him.
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Upon rescuing Lady Khalidah and her children from a band of masked bandits, Talon, along with sidekick Max, find themselves being incorporated into life in Egypt. Al Fayoum, a city on an oasis 60 miles south of Giza, is where they make their home until they are able to trek to the Holy Land. While in Al Fayoum, they are the company of Lady Khalidah and her husband, Emir Abbas Faisal, where Talon instructs their children on mathematics, foreign languages, and cultures. He also advices the Emir on how to better the security on the walls of the family compound, all while following the trail of why Lady Khalidah and her children were attacked in the first place. Is the Emir also a target? Why them?
As the Nile River flows along, water rushing, so does blood. Can Talon stop it in time before it reaches its true target? Using the dual skills of a knight and an assassin, stealth and devastating combat, Talon is the only one to solve the mystery and root out the conspirators.
Assassination in al Qahirah is, like the first 2 Talon books, a true tale of adventure and bravery. Talon's sense of fighting for good makes readers love him as a hero, and Boschert never writes a book without an intelligent, engrossing plot. The setting of Egypt was well-received with me, as I both love reading about it and a portion of me is ethnically Egyptian. The action is enough to make for an exciting adventure, but not enough that it becomes numb.
Overall, Assassination in Al Qahirah is an achievement, combining a historical conspiracy in Egypt with an adventure that never lets up. The characters are crafted with careful precision, making for a truly one-of-a-kind novel series.
Next will come my review of Greek Fire by James Boschert.
James Boschert~ Author Bio:
James Boschert grew up in the then colony of Malaya between the ages of four and eleven. The Chinese communists were active in the jungles at the time threatening the entire country with a cruel insurgency. His school was burned down and the family survived the ambush of a food convoy, saved by a patrol of Gurkha soldiers. He joined the British army as a boy soldier and later served in remote places like Borneo, Oman and other countries of the Middle East, eventually spending several years in Iran. While there he explored the castles of the infamous sect known as the Ismaili or Hashashini. It sometimes took a few days hard walking or driving to find these remote deserted fortresses high in the mountains of the Alborz in northern Iran. They eventually became the subject matter for his first book "The Assassins of Alamut" Escaping from the turmoil of Iran during the revolution he went to college and now lives in the USA.
He has developed a fascination for medieval history in general but in particular the history of the Middle East, Andalusia, Egypt and all the way to India. His books are historical novels about the medieval history of the same region but seen from both perspectives, that of the Crusaders and the Muslim world. "I believe that in order to put some depth to the Crusades one needs to look at what was going on all around them at the same time. I find the world at that time incredibly rich in every aspect."
"The four legs of civilization as we have recorded it, Andalusia, Europe, Byzantium and the old empires of Persia and the Islamic world of Syria and Egypt make a rich backdrop for any novel."
"The politics and under currents of the Middle East continue to hold my attention as they are always in flux and are never still."
Posted in Fiction, History	| Tagged Adventure, Books, Conspiracy, Crusades, Egypt, Fireship Press, Giza, Historical Fiction, Holy Land, James Boschert, Novel, Talon Series	| 1 Reply
Ukrainian Crisis: US Official Confirms Russia Supplied Missile Launchers To Separatists
The SA-11, or Buk, missile launchers used to shoot down Flight MH-17 as it flew over Ukraine were supplied by Russia, the United States confirms Saturday.
"We do believe they were trying to move back into Russia at least three Buk [missile launch] systems," the official said. US intel was "starting to get indications…a little more than a week ago" that the launchers had been moved into Ukraine by Russia, the official said.
The official gave this statement on the basis of anonymity, and it comes after President Barack Obama said that separatists only had the ability to shoot down the plane with outside training or help. The United States is operating on this intelligence, using the belief of Russian involvement to build a response.
This statement is backed up by photos released by Ukrainian intelligence that show 2 Buk missile systems moving into Russia from Ukraine. One has all 4 of its missiles, but the other is lacking one. Officials around the world are pointing to this as the smoking gun, implicating direct Russian involvement in the attack. Some are calling this a state-sponsored terror attack, some a direct act of war by Russia on their nations, and others even calling for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be tried as a war criminal.
The official list of the casualties has also been released, and is as follows:
Netherlands: 1921
Malaysia: 45
Australia: 27
Indonesia: 12
United Kingdom: 102
Germany: 4
Belgium: 4
Philippines: 3
Canada: 1
New Zealand: 1
South Africa: 12
United States: 11
As most of the casualties in the shooting down of the plane were Dutch, the leader of the Netherlands was outraged. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said he had told Russian President Vladmir Putin "that the opportunity is fading to quickly show the world that he is serious about wanting to help." Dutch officials had previously not commented on the crisis.
Reports also say that Russia is in possession of the black boxes on board the plane, and that the separatists are restricting access to the crash site, hindering investigators.
If these reports of direct Russian involvement prove true, this would be the worst state-sponsored terror attack in history. An example of this kind of terror that many know would be the Lockerbie bombings by Libya's Moammar Gadhafi.
Most frightening is the facts that many are pointing out about how wars have started for much less. World War 1 began due to the assassination of a single man, and that assassination helped create the culture that started WW2.
Ukrainian Crisis: Scene Where Plane Was Shot Down Shows Intl. Diversity In Casualties
Main Points Of Article:
1. Items Ranging From Bali Travel Guides To Children's Coloring Books Found In Crash Site
2. Human Remains Strewn For Miles In Donetsk Region
3. Investigators Met With Hostility From Separatists At Crash Site
The site of the downed MH-17 Boeing 777 airplane spans an area of over 9 miles in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine. Journalists on the ground report how horrific the scene is, and what items have been located in the sunflower field the plane came down in.
"It's a gruesome scene," journalist Noah Sneider told CNN. "There's bodies splayed out through the fields. People said the plane kind of exploded in the air, and everything rained down in bits and pieces, the plane itself, the people inside."
Bodies are being marked with sticks tied with white cotton ribbons. Sources report that the local morgue does not have the capacity to handle all 298 of the bodies. In fact, they report that the scene is even more gruesome due to the bodies already beginning to decompose.
Over 100 of the people on the flight were AIDS researchers, on their way to a conference that now will have a hundred empty seats. The conference the researchers were traveling to, the 20th Annual International AIDS Conference, released condolences. "The International AIDS Society (IAS) today expresses its sincere sadness at receiving news that a number of colleagues and friends en route to attend the 20th International AIDS Conference taking place in Melbourne, Australia, were on board the Malaysian Airlines MH17 flight that has crashed over Ukraine earlier today," the statement read. "At this incredibly sad and sensitive time the IAS stands with our international family and sends condolences to the loved ones of those who have been lost to this tragedy."
Items that were also on the plane have been found in the crash site. A tour guide to the popular oceanside vacation spot of Bali was found, along with books in Dutch, children's coloring books, and passports. Ages of the casualties range from infants to elderly citizens from at least 9 nations, including the United States, Australia, the Netherlands, and Malaysia.
International investigators into the crash arrived to hostility from the pro-Russian separatists in the region. President Obama called for the crash site to be left alone by the separatists so that those responsible can be deciphered and brought to justice.
The downing of the plane, if the United States's working theory that Russia supplied the SA-11, or "Buk," missiles and how to use them to the separatists, would be one of the worst state-sponsored terror attacks in history. This is already the 6th deadliest plane disaster in history.
Most devastatingly of all, this is the deadliest intentional plane crash in world history.
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The Location Of Ancestor's Home In Modern World Is Remarkable
Posted on July 7, 2014 by Seize The Moment
Castello Plan of New Amsterdam
I have been at work on my debut novel, tentatively titled Bounded Destinies. It is about 2 of my ancestors: Resolved Waldron and Christian Fast, and how they were pivotal in the birth of democracy in North America. Resolved Waldron was born in Amsterdam, lived in Recife, Brazil (written about here), and was Governor Petrus Stuyvesant's right-hand man in Dutch Manhattan. In my novel, though, he is a secret fighter for democracy, working to establish a democracy in North America where all are free.
When Waldron moved to Manhattan, he lived in a house on the present-day West Street. The house location is in section B, house 4:
Basic Version of Castello Plan
He lived in this home for 22 years, from 1645 to 1667, with his wife and children. The modern location, however, is very amazing, at least to me. As someone who plans to move to NYC when I am an adult, I especially love the buildings of the Financial District. Well, the land the Waldron house sat on is now part of the 16-acre World Trade Center plaza, just slightly south of the South Tower Memorial Fountain. See for yourself, 1776 feet in the air, from the One World Trade Center:
Credit to TIME.
Awesome, right? It is cool to know that my (multiple-greats) grandfather lived where the financial work that runs our nation occurs. It is because of Resolved Waldron and the other democracy-seekers and free-market believers that New York is the capital of the world economy, and One World Trade Center is a true testament to both him and all the Americans who have worked to make a more perfect Union.
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Good Morning, Mr. Mandela By Zelda la Grange Tells The Human Side Of The South African Icon
Nelson Mandela…Madiba…was a truly great man. He had the strength to not cower away when things got bad, and did not allow himself to fall into despair even after 27 years imprisoned on Robbins Island. His soul was not overwhelmed with evil, even though so many others were. He righted a wrong, and freed many people in his own nation of South Africa, along with many people's souls around the world. There will never be another like Madiba.
The sad fact is, we only see Madiba as a towering icon instead of a real person, with love and loss, success and pain…until now. Good Morning, Mr. Mandela is a remarkable achievement by Madiba's honorary granddaughter Zelda la Grange. la Grange is a white Afrikaaner, bred believing that Mandela was a "terrorist." Growing up in apartheid, she was raised believing that the system was correct.
But, as the nation changed, so did she. In 1994, she became an employee at the office of President Mandela as a senior ministerial typist. As South Africa transitioned from a poverty-stricken nation to a developing one, la Grange also changed, realizing that Madiba was not the man that his haters told her and countless others. She found a man full of compassion, courage, and love for all people, and someone who was willing to make her, a white Afrikaaner, an aide, even after all the things the Afrikaaners did to the black Africans.
Zelda la Grange and Madiba.
In 2002, la Grange became Mandela's personal assistant at the Nelson Mandela Foundation. This is where the book gets really interesting, where we see how Madiba reacts to all the international places he traveled as a humanitarian. Everything from dining with the King in Saudi Arabia to visiting celebrity friends like Bono, President Bill Clinton, and Oprah Winfrey, la Grange was there, right by his side. For over 2 decades.
One of the funniest stories Zelda la Grange told was the fact that, due to their great friendship, when Madiba visited Buckingham Palace, he called the Queen "Elizabeth."
"I think he was one of the very few people who called her by her first name and she seemed to be amused by it. I was entertained by these interactions," La Grange writes. "When he was questioned one day by Mrs. Machel and told that it was not proper to call the Queen by her first name, he responded: 'But she calls me Nelson.' On one occasion when he saw her he said, 'Oh Elizabeth, you've lost weight!' Not something everybody gets to tell the Queen of England."
Good Morning, Mr. Mandela is a testament to both of the main figures in the memoir: to Nelson Mandela's pure heart and trustworthiness, and to Zelda la Grange's benevolence to the man she called Khulu, or "Grandfather." la Grange writes with precision, expertise, and vigor that make the book informative and at the same time exciting to read. la Grange reveals the human side of Madiba like none other.
Nelson Mandela may be gone from this world, but his vast legacy remains. Did he ever really die, then, if his deeds still live on through leaders like President Obama? In any event, I believe that we all can agree with Zelda la Grange's words of goodbye:
"Tot weersiens Khulu!" – "Until we meet again, Grandfather."
Zelda la Grange~ Author Bio:
Zelda la Grange was born in 1970 in Boksburg, South Africa, and began working as a secretary for the South African government in 1992, in the Department of State Expenditure. In 1993 she moved to the Human Resources division, and in 1994 she joined the office of the first democratically elected president of South Africa as a senior ministerial typist. She became one of President Mandela's three private secretaries in 1997. In 2002 she left government and became a full-time employee of the Nelson Mandela Foundation. She lives in Pretoria, South Africa.
Praise for Zelda la Grange:
"In Good Morning, Mr. Mandela, Zelda la Grange recounts her remarkable life at the right hand of the man we both knew and loved. It's a tribute to both of them—to Madiba's eye for talent and his capacity for trust and to Zelda's courage to take on a great challenge and her capacity for growth. This story proves the power of making politics personal and is an important reminder of the lessons Madiba taught us all."
—President Bill Clinton
"President Nelson Mandela's choice of the young Afrikaner typist Zelda la Grange as his most trusted aide embodied his commitment to reconciliation in South Africa. She repaid his trust with loyalty and integrity. I have the highest regard for her."
—Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu
"Zelda la Grange has a singular perspective on Nelson Mandela, having served as his longtime personal aide, confidante and close friend. She is a dear friend to both of us and a touchstone to all of us who loved Madiba. Her story of their journey together demonstrates how a man who transformed an entire nation also had the power to transform the life of one extraordinary woman."
—Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary, actor, producer of Invictus
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Woman held on suspicion of murder after man shot
A woman was arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was shot and killed in Stanwell Moor, near Heathrow, on Monday night.
Officers from Surrey Police together with emergency crews from South East Coast Ambulance Service were called to Lower Mill Farm at around 10.10pm following reports of a firearms incident and a "concern for safety".
Court appearances following police drugs bust
More than 20 people appeared in court accused of a range of drugs offences following a police operation in Surrey, Sussex and London last week.
Operation Austen saw officers taking part in a series of co-ordinated dawn raids on Thursday, January 26.
Train man's nose broken in 'unprovoked attack'
A Weybridge man suffered a broken nose and bruising and swelling to his face when he was attacked at Surbiton railway station.
The 33-year-old victim was on his way home from London on a Waterloo to West Byfleet service.
X Factor's Frankie excites clubbers at Dusk
Guildford was awash with reality TV stars as Frankie Cocozza, another Celebrity Big Brother contestant and a Geordie Shore star made appearances at the town's nightclubs.
Cocozza, who was thrown out of The X Factor last year, was at North Street venue Dusk along with Kirk Norcross, his former housemate from Celebrity Big Brother who earlier appeared in The Only Way is Essex.
Man exposes himself to woman in Walton
A young woman was flashed at by a man who was stood next to her car in Walton.
The indecent exposure incident took place in Manor Road at around 6.30pm on Monday, January 23.
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By Chelsey Perkins on Jul 19, 2015 at 10:15 p.m.
A new mobile app available from Crow Wing County puts access to trail and land maps, online permits, highway maintenance requests and several other features in one place.
The free app, available for download in the iTunes and Google Play stores, provides direct links to 25 separate areas of the county's website and social media sites. Jay Sikkink, county IT director, said the app features both the most visited and other mobile-ready portions of the website. The app is a natural extension of a newly revamped county website that went live the beginning of 2015, Sikkink said, built for a better mobile presence.
The app includes icons to access information from numerous areas, including county board meetings, the county jail in-custody list, active warrants, criminal case data, property documents, a government calendar, election results and general county news. A county staff directory is also available, along with information on employment opportunities and resources for employees. A sign-up for notifications for anything from emergency alerts to construction projects to Master Gardener news is another feature.
Beyond access to information, the app offers users the ability to conduct business with and provide feedback to the county. Links to pay taxes, apply for numerous permits, find forms or applications for community services and even to bid on highway projects are among the offerings, along with a place to submit general questions or concerns.
An array of maps are available through the app, including those of recreation trails, public water accesses, recycling drop-off locations and county highways. Information on lakes is among the offerings, including water quality maps and those showing aquatic invasive species infestations. Cindy Benedett, project leader for developing the app, said maps are one area the team will likely expand upon in future versions.
One feature Benedett is excited to offer is a way for residents to request highway maintenance. The app allows users to submit a description of the requested maintenance, a photo and an exact location on a map.
"It's to help us get that communication with the public," Benedett said. "So maybe if they see something on the road ... maybe something they normally wouldn't call about by the time they got to their destination, they can just pick up their phone and do it quick."
The goals for the app, developed in conjunction with website vendor Civic Plus and local advertising agency Red House Media, are to provide easier access to the most common ways residents interact with county government and to streamline communication, Benedett said.
"We're really striving for a more user-friendly (app)," Benedett said. "We didn't want to put an app out there that only had a couple options on it."
Benedett was unsure of a number, but said just a few other counties are utilizing a mobile app and most of those are more limited in scale.
The more information is accessible through the app, the less time residents will have to spend making phone calls or stopping by the courthouse, county officials hope. It's a more user-friendly approach, Sikkink said, that has the potential to benefit the county as well by freeing up staff time once used for assisting people in these areas. For those who prefer calling or doing business in person, the option remains.
The new app for residents and visitors is not the only way the county is using mobile technology. An app introduced last September for Crow Wing County Community Services social workers is improving communication with the families they serve, according to a new study released by Northwoods, the app developer.
The app, called Compass CoPilot, is a document management program for iPads allowing social workers to update documents while in the field, a process once marked by time spent on paperwork. The app also offers social workers the opportunity to record audio of interviews, take date- and time-stamped photos, access documents while in court and email documents to community partners, according to a news release.
County social workers are saving four to six hours a week on paperwork as a result, the study reported, allowing more time to spend with the individuals and families they are working with. Because paperwork is submitted electronically from the field, supervisors have access to case documents as they come rather than in one batch at the end, the study reported, saving 15-30 minutes per case.
"You have more time at the onset of a case to build a rapport with the families so that in subsequent visits they are more receptive to talking with you," said Jason Ost, a children's mental health social worker, in the study report.
Social workers using the app reported feeling less stressed and more able to complete work central to their mission. Reduced staffing and workload increases have contributed to increasing stress in recent years, the study reported, noting county officials sought the app as part of a solution to strain on workers.
"We are not unique in that we face budget constraints and hiring restrictions," said Kara Terry, community services director, in the study report. "We came to the point where we needed to figure out how best to give our folks the tools they needed to do really great work without hiring more staff."


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Die Nikolaikirche ist das zweitälteste Kirchengebäude in Freiberg. Seit ihrer Entweihung im Jahr 1975 befindet sie sich im Besitz der Stadt.

Geschichte

Die Nikolaikirche wurde zwischen 1185 und 1190 in romanischem Stil erbaut. Wahrscheinlich ist sie in den Jahren 1375, 1386 und 1471 bei Stadtbränden stark beschädigt worden. Fast vollständig zerstört wurde sie am 21. Juni 1484, als um 4 Uhr nachmittags ein Feuer im Haus eines Kupferschmiedes, neben dem Pferdestall des Dominikanerklosters, an der heutigen Prüferstraße, ausbrach. Große Teile der Stadt fielen den Flammen zum Opfer, von der Nikolaikirche blieben nur die beiden Türme und die Seitenmauern erhalten. Infolgedessen gewährte der päpstliche Nuntius all denen einen Ablass, welche sich an der Wiederherstellung der Nikolaikirche beteiligten. Während des Wiederaufbaus erhielt die Kirche ihre zwei Glocken. Sie wurden 1487 und 1498 in der berühmten Glockengießerei Hilliger gefertigt. Um die Finanzierung der Arbeiten zu sichern, ließ Bischof Johann VI. von Meißen ab Juni 1512 Kollekten sammeln. 1518 war die Kirche größtenteils wieder hergestellt, doch noch bis zum Jahr 1578 ist das Langhaus als gotische Hallenkirche erneuert worden. 1630 erfolgte eine Aufstockung der Westtürme und von 1750 bis 1753 ein barocker Umbau der Kirche unter der Leitung von Johann Christoph Knöffel und Johann Gottlieb Ohndorff. Im Zuge der Bauarbeiten erschuf Johann Gottfried Stecher im Jahr 1753 eine Taufe, die am 25. Januar 1754 geweiht wurde.

Eine Orgel wurde von Johann Gottlob Mende in den Jahren von 1842 bis 1845 erbaut. Sie verfügt über zwei Manuale und 28 Register. 1888 erfolgte ein Umbau der Orgel durch die Firma Jehmlich in Dresden.

Entwidmung der Kirche 1975
Die Sächsische Landeskirche verkaufte im Jahr 1975 das baufällige Gotteshaus für 28.000 DDR-Mark, zu zahlen in zehn Jahresraten, an die Stadt Freiberg. Von diesem Verkauf waren Orgel, Altar, Kanzel und Taufstein sowie die Glocken und der Glockenstuhl ausgeschlossen. Die Kirche diente nun kurze Zeit als Obstlager und später als Requisitenkammer des gegenüber liegenden Theaters; ein baulicher Unterhalt fand nicht statt. Nachdem die 1845 erbaute Mende-Orgel Ende Januar 1976 an die Nikolaikirche in Wismar für 20.000 DDR-Mark verkauft worden war, verzichtete der Kirchenvorstand der Petri-Nikolai-Gemeinde am 31. Januar 1976 auf das Inventar. In diesen Verzicht waren die Glocken und der Glockenstuhl nicht mit einbezogen und sind bis heute Eigentum der Petri-Nikolai-Gemeinde. Durch den Verkauf wurden Restaurierung und Ausbau der Petrikirche zum Gemeindezentrum mit Mitteln aus einem Programm des staatlichen Außenhandelsunternehmens Limex möglich.

Der Vorsitzende des Rates des Bezirkes Heinz Arnold hatte am 18. November 1975 an den Rat der Stadt geschrieben: "Ich habe Informationen darüber erhalten, dass das o.g. Objekt in politisch nicht vertretbarer Weise genutzt wird und dass es dazu mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit die foto-dokumentarische Kenntnisnahme durch einen Bürger Westberlins gibt".
Die staatlichen Stellen hatten auf die Entfernung des Inventars bestanden. Nur die Glocken waren von dem Verzicht ausgenommen. Das Taufbecken erhielt später die Frauenkirche in Dresden, wo es heute besichtigt werden kann.
Entgegen ihren Ankündigungen hatten die staatlichen Stellen nicht die Absicht, die Nikolaikirche zu erhalten. Am 31. März 1975 schrieb Bürgermeister Ullmann (LDPD): "Sowohl Bauzustand, Lage, architektonischer und kultureller oder baudenkmalwürdiger Zustand rechtfertigen in keiner Weise, dieses Gebäude grundlegend zu erhalten". Weiter betont er, "dass mit der Fortsetzung des Baugeschehens in der Stadt Freiberg mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit etwa Mitte der 80er Jahre dieses Gebiet zum Bebauungsgebiet erklärt wird. Dann wird der Übergang des Grundstücks in Volkseigentum kaum mehr vermeidbar, aber mit höheren Ablösungskosten als dem gegenwärtigen zu erreichenden Kaufpreis verbunden sein".

Nach der politischen Wende wurde die Kirche grundlegend saniert. Sie wird seitdem als Konzert- und Veranstaltungshalle genutzt und kann beim Amt für Kultur - Stadt - Marketing der Stadtverwaltung Freiberg gemietet werden. Vom romanischen Ursprungsbau ist heute nur die Doppelturmfassade erhalten. Seit einigen Jahren wird über die Neuanschaffung einer Orgel nachgedacht.

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Literatur (Auswahl)

 Richard Friedrich: Die St.Nikolai-Kirche zu Freiberg. In: Mitteilungen des Freiberger Altertumsvereins. Band 24, 1887, S. 1–48.
 Mathias Haenchen, Martin Ziermann: Bemerkungen zur romanischen Kirche St. Nikolai in Freiberg/Sachsen. In: Stefan Amt (Hrsg.): Festschrift für Günther Kokkelink. (= Schriften des Instituts für Bau- und Kunstgeschichte der Universität Hannover). Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-931585-09-3, S. 21–30.
 R. Steche: Nicolaikirche. In: Beschreibende Darstellung der älteren Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler des Königreichs Sachsen. Drittes Heft: Amtshauptmannschaft Freiberg. Dresden 1884, S. 67 ff. (1999, ISBN 3-89557-118-0)

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Weblinks

 Nikolaikirche Freiberg – Website der Stadtmarketing Freiberg

Bauwerk in Freiberg
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Bauwerk der Romanik in Sachsen

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Q: 2D FFT with unit stride data access? I am trying to design a large 1D FFT by splitting N into two smaller FFTs of sizes N1 and N2. This is common approach stemming from the Cooley Tukey Algorithm. My FFT is taking time sampled data in order, remapping into a 2D matrix and then computing the 2D FFT as 1D FFTs of the columns and rows, before remapping back into a 1D output sequence. All of this is targeted at an FPGA with external memory.
My problem is that at each stage (before the first FFT, between the two FFTs, and at the output) The data that needs to be presented is not the order it is generated in. The input time samples for instance, are present N2 samples apart into the 1st FFT stage. This means that that the time ordered input N samples need to be buffered in external memory so that they can be read back in the right order. The mid-stage transform values are also generated in a different order to that required by the 2nd FFT stage. The final output transform is also not naturally ordered.
Doing external memory access is bandwidth intensive. I have tried to research alternative algorithms and mappings that would remove at least one of the 3 memory accesses but cannot find any, basically by allowing a stage to access data in it's time generated natural order Is this possible?
Thanks

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We recommend a name for the subdomain, such as signicat.yourdomain.com, secure.yourdomain.com or eid.yourdomain.com.
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Common name (CN) of the certificate must be equal to the name of the subdomain.
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You order an SSL certificate from your preferred certificate issuer using the CSR from Signicat. The certificate could be an ordinary high encryption certificate or an EV certificate. The certificate will be installed on an Apache platform at Signicat. If your integration with Signicat is running inside an iframe, the certificate should be equally as strong as the certificate of the web page that hosts the iframe. Note that it is important that the certificate issuer and the certificate are well known and included in the standard installs of the most commonly used browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer etc.), as well as in the newest Java installs.
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London Independent Producers was a British film production company. It was founded in 1951 by Sydney Box and William MacQuitty. Box had recently been head of production of Gainsborough Pictures, part of the Rank Organisation. After Gainsborough was closed down Box left Rank and chose to produce independently. Box's wife, the director Muriel Box, acted as a third partner.

In spite of the founder's ambitions to have greater independence from the big studios, the need to secure good distribution led to greater dependence on the major companies.

Selected filmography
 The Happy Family (1952)
 Street Corner (1953)
 The Beachcomber (1954)
 Forbidden Cargo (1954)
 Above Us the Waves (1955)
 The Prisoner (1955)
 Accident (1967)
 The Man Outside (1967)
 Theatre of Death (1967)
 The Long Duel (1967)
 The Limbo Line (1968)
 Amsterdam Affair (1968)
 Taste of Excitement (1970)

References

Bibliography
 Spicer, Andrew. Sydney Box. Manchester University Press, 2006.

British film studios
Film production companies of the United Kingdom