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WTO Trade Policy Review of the United States
STATEMENT OF DENNIS SHEA,
U.S. PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE
Geneva, 19 December 2018
Thank you and good morning, everyone.
Thank you for joining us again today for the continuation of this 14th Trade Policy Review of the United States. We appreciated the observations offered by more than 60 Members on the first day of this review, many of which we found constructive.
This morning I'd like to respond briefly to several themes, and a few comments in particular, that we heard on Monday.
We appreciated the acknowledgement from so many that the United States maintains one of the most open economies in the world. Our average applied tariff is low and nearly 70 percent of all imports into the United States in 2017 entered duty-free. U.S. service markets are open to foreign providers, and we protect the intellectual property of domestic and foreign innovators and creators alike. Our foreign investment regime is open and predictable. These are hallmarks of stability and openness, as one Member put it.
So, too, is the United States' standards development system, which is inclusive and transparent, allows broad stakeholder participation, and adheres to the principles contained in the WTO TBT Committee Decision on International Standards. We strongly encourage all Members, particularly our friends in Europe, to follow the TBT Committee Decision.
We were reminded by many Members that the United States is a key engine for global economic growth. The United States is in its ninth consecutive year of economic expansion, and, in 2017, we were the recipient of 19 percent of global goods and services exports, excluding U.S. exports and intra-EU exports. Further, 78 countries had the United States as their first, second, or third largest export partner.
We were gratified by Members' widespread recognition of our active and indispensable engagement in every facet of the WTO. Many Members noted U.S. leadership on a proposal to ensure that Members fulfill their notification obligations. We are encouraged that they recognize the problem and share our objectives, and we look forward to working with our co-sponsors and other Members on this important element of WTO reform. We also welcomed Members' recognition of the importance of our technical assistance and capacity building in implementing the Trade Facilitation Agreement.
We appreciate the warm words from a number of Members regarding our trade preference programs and the many forms of assistance provided by the United States, from trade-related capacity-building before and after WTO accession, to blood and treasure, as one Member said, in the hope of a better future. The United States undertakes these efforts because we believe in the benefits that can accrue to Members from fully implementing the global trade rules as they were negotiated by Members.
Not surprisingly, we disagree strongly with certain assertions and the premise of some comments on Monday.
We heard from one Member that the United States is at the epicenter of the deep crisis in the multilateral trading system. This Member's explanation revealed a misread of the crisis and its root causes. The crisis is caused by the fundamental incompatibility of China's trade-distorting, non-market economic regime with an open, transparent, and predictable international trading system. It is compounded by Members' collective failure over many years to address this problem.
In one respect, the United States is at the epicenter of the crisis – we are, once again, embracing the burdens of leadership to respond to the crisis. This is necessary so that stability and openness can be preserved.
A number of Members raised concerns about increased usage of U.S. trade remedy procedures during the period under review. From our perspective, these Members confound the remedy with a deeper and more worrying problem that the remedy aims to address. Injurious dumping and subsidization—and the effects that the increasing prevalence of these practices have on the trading system—are problems that should concern us all.
It is important to maintain some perspective. While the U.S. accounted for 17% of all initiated antidumping investigations during the period of review, 27% of all such investigations—more than one quarter—were initiated in response to trade from one Member - China.
To the extent Members are concerned about the trends they observe, they should consider what is actually causing the trend – state-led, mercantilist activity.
On Monday, China quoted the movie Spiderman, stating "With great power comes great responsibility." China noted that recent measures taken by the United States suggest we are acting irresponsibly. China also opined that the United States needs to implement domestic initiatives to help our people adjust to economic globalization.
Strip away the jargon, and here is China's argument: China will force technology transfer, and outright steal it when it sees fit, to become the preeminent producer, particularly in strategic industries. China will subsidize and maintain excess capacity in multiple industries, forcing producers in other economies to shut down. China will dump its products on our markets, claiming that all is okay because our consumers pay a little less. If the United States musters a response, we are abusing our power and acting irresponsibly. Rather, we should resign ourselves to nursing the wounds inflicted on our citizens.
This is not acceptable.
We also note the deep irony in China's reference to power and responsibility. China—the world's largest exporter and an economic heavyweight, insists on being treated in the WTO like a much poorer Member while maintaining a regime that is fundamentally incompatible with the rules and principles of this organization. China apparently believes its power comes with little or no responsibility. Rest assured, this is a conversation that we will pick up in the near future.
Madam Chair, the United States approaches the end of this review with sincere appreciation for the serious engagement of Members during this week, and we are grateful for the role of the Secretariat, the Chair, and our discussant in shepherding us through this process.
In closing, I would like to take the opportunity to wish all my colleagues a joyous and restful holiday season.

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VIDEO: Celine Dion tops Billboard 200 for first time in over 17 years
'Courage' is Dion's fifth album to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200
Nov. 27, 2019 8:00 a.m.
Celine Dion has topped the Billboard 200 chart for the first time in over 17 years.
"Courage" is Dion's fifth album to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200. It is her first No. 1 album since 2002's "A New Day Has Come."
The 17 years between No. 1s is the longest gap ever for a woman. "Courage," released on Nov. 15, earned 113,000 equivalent album units for the week ending Nov. 21.
Dion first topped the Billboard albums chart in 1996 with "Falling Into You."
Her last album, 2013's "Loved Me Back to Life," debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.
Dion is the fourth woman to have a No. 1 album in each of the past three decades. She joins Janet Jackson, Barbra Streisand and Britney Spears.
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I have always loved the intricate look of this classic woven fabric. Some people feel it has an old-fashioned ring to it but it can be styled beautifully and can easily be combined with modern accessories.This blazer is an original Harris Tweed from the 2010 centenary collection which I managed to snap up at Zalando Lounge last winter. It features blue velvet trims, slit pockets and a pretty paisley lining which I particularly love.
Tweed is such a classy, timeless fabric. Harris Tweed is actually manufactured in the Outer Hebrides. Fun fact is that different colours were traditionally achieved by using vegetable dyes such as lichens scraped from rocks. Nowadays, synthetic dyes are used of course. The tunic dress is a recent find from Boden. The cut is pretty simple which makes it a great casual piece. My little eelskin clutch by Becksöndergaard matches the English Pointer print's colours quite well.
These photos were shot a few weeks ago when we still had leaves covering the streets here in Berlin. It's becoming more and more of a struggle to get photos in good lighting these days. I usually shoot on the weekends nowadays because taking photos before work in the mornings would be too stressful. And once I come home in the late afternoon it's already too dark for getting good shots outside. How do you counteract the lighting issue during the darker season?
In retrospect, slippers or pumps would probably have been more authentic for this outfit but I was dying to finally give my navy blue suede boots some wear. I also liked the colour and texture match with the blue velvet details on the blazer.
That pink coat is absolutely perfect….and well paired with that dress. The boots are also a lovely choice. You look very lovely and feminine….you know as they say, pretty in pink!!!
I adore your outfit, especially your blazer. It is so cute and chic. You look stunning in all your photos! I hope you have a fantastic week!
Thank you very much :) Hope you have a great week!
Perfect colors mix and that dress print is so lovely! You look adorable!
Recently I really love this combo of bold pink and blue. It looks so lovely. I also like the dg print. Great style here.
This jacket is simply amazing. I really love the colour and the cut.
P.S. I know what you mean about struggling to take blog photos at this time of year. It's still dark in the morning when I leave home and then it's already dark when I get back.
Thank you, Izabela! Yeah, although I love fall the lighting issue is a problem.
I have a hard time saying no to cat prints :) I love the colour of your blazer, I have too much black and whites in my wardrobe!
Great look hun! You're lip shade matches your purple looks so much.
I love this colorful outfit! The dress is so cute! It looks perfect with the blazer. I love the style and details (pockets) of this blazer. You look fantastic! Have a nice day, Christina!
I'm loving the color of the tweed!
Very lovely! My favourite outfit of yours so far!
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The dog print dress is so cute.. And that color looks amazing on you. Love your style.


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Si tratta della prima donna italiana a essere stata insignita del titolo di Giusto tra le Nazioni.

Biografia
Nata a Sorrento, in Campania, rimase orfana di padre durante la prima guerra mondiale.

Nei primi anni '20, una volta ottenuta l'abilitazione all'insegnamento alla scuola elementare, a causa delle ristrettezze economiche e delle poche opportunità decise di lasciare la terra nata per il Veneto, spinta dalla prospettiva di ottenere immediatamente una cattedra in ragione della carenza di insegnanti in loco. Iniziò così a insegnare a Piavon, all'epoca comune autonomo (oggi frazione di Oderzo), in provincia di Treviso.

Nel 1930, a Pompei, sposò Renato De Gregorio, anch'egli sorrentino di nascita, di professione marinaio; i due si stabilirono definitivamente a Piavon. In seguito ebbero tre bambini.

Allo scoppio della seconda guerra mondiale, Renato fu arruolato nel Corpo del genio navale e aggregato all'equipaggio del cacciatorpediniere Espero. Morì il 20 giugno 1940, in occasione dell'affondamento della nave su cui si trovava mentre si dirigeva a Tobruk, in Libia.

L'incontro con Sara Karliner
Clelia, rimasta vedova con tre figli, decise di rimanere in Veneto e iniziò a dedicarsi al sostegno psicologico e all'aiuto burocratico delle altre vedove di guerra. Nel 1943, su consiglio medico, mandò la figlia con la sorella in soggiorno sulle prealpi venete, affittando una stanza in una casa del piccolo centro di Follina. Qui conobbe Sara Karliner, ebrea jugoslava fuggita da Zagabria e confinata in paese dalle forze dell'ordine a causa delle leggi razziali fasciste. Tra le due si instaurò presto una forte amicizia, al punto che, all'indomani dei fatti dell'8 settembre 1943, Clelia aiutò Sara a scappare dal suo confino di Follina, iniziando a ospitarla clandestinamente nella propria casa di Piavon.

In seguito, a causa della folta presenza di truppe tedesche di stanza a Villa Reichsteiner, edificio situato a poca distanza dal centro del paese, Clelia decise di rivolgersi a don Giovanni Casagrande, parroco di Lutrano di Fontanelle, in quel periodo attivo nell'aiuto ai rifugiati, e dal luglio del 1944 Sara fu prudenzialmente nascosta presso la parrocchia fino alla fine del conflitto. In questa fase, Clelia continuò a visitare regolarmente Sara due volte alla settimana, portandole viveri. Prevedendo inoltre possibili complicazioni e l'eventuale necessità di una immediata fuga, Clelia diede a Sara anche del denaro che sarebbe servito per agevolarne la salvezza in caso di necessità.

Dopo la seconda guerra mondiale
Al termine della guerra, con le elezioni amministrative del 1946, Clelia risultò eletta come consigliere comunale di Oderzo, nelle file della Democrazia cristiana. In seguito, chiese e ottenne il trasferimento in una scuola elementare di Napoli: nel 1948 si trasferì definitivamente insieme ai figli nella città partenopea, dove vivrà fino alla morte.

Sara Karliner, invece, prese residenza in Israele; la sua storia spinse lo Yad Vashem a conferire a Clelia il titolo di Giusta tra le nazioni. La cerimonia di conferimento dell'onorificenza si tenne a Gerusalemme il 18 ottobre 1966: nell'occasione Clelia piantò l'albero di rito nel Giardino dei Giusti.

Sabato 8 febbraio 2020 è stata dedicata alla sua memoria la piazzetta antistante alla scuola elementare di Piavon, in occasione di una cerimonia a cui hanno preso parte le figlie.

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New Black Widow Trailer Reportedly Attached To The New Mutants
Scott Campbell Aug 28, 2020 8:18 am Aug 28, 2020 8:22 am
If you can believe it, which you have every reason not to if you've been following the constant turmoil that's plagued the movie everywhere it goes, The New Mutants arrives in theaters today. Obviously, though, with the world still in the midst of a pandemic and the industry not even close to returning to business as usual, there's literally no way to gauge if the long wait for the X-Men spinoff will be worth it for new rights-holders Disney from a box office perspective.
We won't be able to get a full critical consensus, either, as many outlets are refusing to attend screenings based on their concerns about personal safety and social distancing protocols, so the jury looks to be out on The New Mutants for at least a little while longer. One major positive though is that Josh Boone's horror-tinged comic book flick has finally been released at long last, a full 30 months behind schedule.
A lot of people are still very wary about heading down to their local multiplex given the current circumstances, but former Screen Junkies boss Andy Signore has revealed that a new full-length trailer for the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Black Widow is playing before the main feature, presumably in an effort to draw in larger audiences that have been starved of MCU content in recent months.
The New Mutants has a great new #BlackWidow Trailer before it… Great shots of Task Master, more on the plot and they still have 11/6/2020 listed as the release date? pic.twitter.com/5EDCMO1DCF
— Andy Signore (@andysignore) August 27, 2020
As you can see, the release date is still listed for November, which is an encouraging sign for some given that countless movies have been delayed several more times already and in some cases even pushed back to 2021, but a disappointing one for others who were hoping that Disney would give Black Widow the Mulan treatment and send it straight to Disney Plus instead.


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Senators 6, Bruins 4: Slumping B's playoff position in peril
Mar 19, 2015 at 10:27 PM Mar 19, 2015 at 10:28 PM
The Bruins' push for the playoffs just got a whole lot more uncomfortable. Dropping their third straight game, the sloppy Bruins gave up a half-dozen goals and couldn't keep the Ottawa Senators at bay.
The Bruins' push for the playoffs just got a whole lot more uncomfortable.
Dropping their third straight game, the sloppy Bruins gave up a half-dozen goals and couldn't keep the Ottawa Senators at bay. A 6-4 loss in Ottawa on Thursday pulled the Senators within two points of the Bruins for the Eastern Conference's final playoff spot.
The Bruins are at 83 points, the Senators at 81. Making the collar a little tighter for the Bruins is that Ottawa has 12 games remaining to just 11 for Boston, and three of the Senators' remaining matches are against the free-falling Maple Leafs.
The good news for the Bruins is they prevented Senators sensation Andrew Hammond from breaking a record held by one of their own. The rookie goaltender hadn't allowed more than two goals in his first 12 starts, matching the NHL record set by Bruins goalie Frank Brimsek in 1938-39.
The rest was ugly for the Bruins, who fell behind four times, the decisive goal coming when Bobby Ryan's wrister from the right boards deflected off a defenseman, popped up, and settled in the back of the net with 8:32 remaining in regulation.
Since a five-game winning streak, the Bruins are 0-2-1, their goal-scoring issues bubbling to the surface in back-to-back losses to Washington and Buffalo earlier in the week, and on Thursday some of their other bugaboos proved costly.
Matt Bartkowski and Dennis Seidenberg, who compose the second defensive pair, were on the ice for Ottawa's first three goals. Seidenberg also picked up a 'hand on the puck' delay-of-game penalty with 4:02 to go.
Reilly Smith, scoreless in 12 straight games, had two costly turnovers that led to goals and was essentially benched for the last half of the game. With his confidence plunging, Smith could be a candidate to come out of the lineup this weekend if David Krejci is cleared to play.
There were four goals scored in each of the first two periods, two for each team in each frame for a 4-4 tie after 40 minutes.
Kyle Turris gave the Senators a 1-0 lead on the first shift of the game. Taking advantage of a Smith turnover, the Ottawa center scored on the rebound for his 18th goal of the year just 19 seconds into the action.
Then the Bruins went to work on Hammond, who moved his career record to 12-0-1. Carl Soderberg quickly tied the game 40 seconds after Turris' goal, scoring on a wrister through traffic after carrying into the offensive zone. It snapped a 24-game goal drought for Soderberg, his first goal since Jan. 17.
Ryan Spooner gave the Bruins the lead at 4:04 of the first period, the culmination of a pretty play by his line. David Pastrnak made a drop pass to Milan Lucic, who fired a wrister than was tipped in by Spooner.
It was the first of two goals on the night for Spooner, who has scored five times in 12 games since his recall last month. Four of Spooner's goals have come in his hometown of Ottawa.
At 15:03, the Senators pulled even on veteran Milan Michalek's snap shot
David Legwand gave Ottawa the lead at 3:11 of the second. It was the third straight Ottawa goal scored while the Bruins' second defensive pairing of Bartkowski and Seidenberg was on the ice.
That advantage stood until a wild three-goals-in-35-seconds run.
The sequence was set up by back-to-back Ottawa penalties on Turris (hooking) and Eric Gryba (high-sticking) that gave the Bruins an extended 5-on-3 power play. Spooner scored on a one-timer from the right circle nine seconds into the two-man advantage off a quick pass from Torey Krug.
Spooner's five goals in the 12 games Krejci has missed is tied for the team-high with Loui Eriksson and Brad Marchand.
The Bruins remained on the power play when Smith again turned the puck over in the middle of the ice to Erik Condra. A quick feed to Jean-Gabriel Pageau and the Senators scored short-handed to take a 4-3 lead.
It was essentially the end of Smith's night; he played one shift the rest of the game and was replaced on the top line by Max Talbot. Smith, who signed a two-year, $6.85 million contract two weeks ago, had his goal drought extended to 12 games.
Krug ended the wild spree with a goal of his own at 13:17, scoring on the backhand from the slot. It was the defenseman's 12th goal of the season.


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(supervising directors: Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen; screenwriters: Ted Sears, Webb Smith, Joseph Sabo, Otto Englander, William Cottrell, Erdman Penner and Aurelius Battaglia; story adaptation: Aurelius Battaglia, William Cottrell, Otto Englander, Erdman Penner, Joseph Sabo, Ted Sears & Webb Smith/based on the Novel by Carlo Collodi; animation directors: Arthur Babbitt, Fred Moore, Ward Kimball, Eric Larson, Woolie Reitherman, Milton Stahl, Franklin Thomas & Vladimir Tytla; art direction: Kenneth Anderson, Hugh Hennesy, John Hubley, Dick Kelsey, Kendall O'Connor, Charles Philippi, McLaren Stewart, Thor Putnam, Terrell Stapp & Al Zinnen; music: Leigh Harline, Ned Washington and Paul J. Smith; cast: Voices: Dickie Jones (Pinocchio), Cliff Edwards (Jiminy Cricket), Christian Rubb (Geppetto), Evelyn Venable (Blue Fairy), Mel Blanc (Cleo/Figaro/Gideon), Walter Catlett (Honest John/J. Worthington Foulfellow), Frankie Darro (Lampwick), Charles Judels (Stromboli/The Coachman); Runtime: 88; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: Walt Disney; Walt Disney Home Video; 1940)
"Can be enjoyed by both the young and old for its fine detailed craftsmanship and pleasing fairytale story."
Disney's second cartoon, after the 1937 "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," is a terrific piece of animation that can be enjoyed by both the young and old for its fine detailed craftsmanship and pleasing fairytale story.
The bubbly and impish Jiminy Cricket sneaks into the warm household of a kindly woodcarver named Geppetto, and admires his musical clocks, toys and wooden boy puppet he names Pinocchio. The bachelor lives comfortably with his cute goldfish Cleo and fun-loving kitten Figaro. Geppetto is so pleased with his puppet, that when he retires for the night and observes the first star, he wishes that the puppet would be a real boy. That same night the Blue Fairy comes into his workshop and passes her magic wand over the puppet and brings him to life. She tells Pinocchio that to be a real boy he must possess the following virtues: bravery, honesty and be unselfish. To help the naive boy choose between right and wrong, she appoints Jiminy to be Pinocchio's conscience. Pinocchio's misadventures start when his father sends him off to school and the lad meets troublemakers who take advantage of his gullibility. Honest John and his partner seduce him to be an actor and sell him to a greedy and mean-spirited traveling circus showman named Stromboli, who locks him in a birdcage and forces him to leave home to perform. After his escape, the Blue Fairy questions him and when he lies why he didn't go to school, his nose grows longer. Heading to school again, the same two villains tempt Pinocchio with a day of fun and sell him to an evil coachman. The coachman takes a bunch of captured truant boys and promises them a day of unsupervised fun at Pleasure Island, where they shoot pool and smoke cigars. At night, the coachman transforms them into donkeys and sells them for slave labor. Pinocchio escapes, and this time begins to learn to listen to his conscience. Upon his return home, he finds Geppetto and the pets missing and learns that while searching for him, even in the sea, a giant whale called Monstro swallowed them. It concludes with Pinocchio's valiant rescue of his family.
The animations are stunning, while the story had reminders of a Dickens-like Victorian children's tale. The wonderfulvirtues of the Disney production still hold up, even after some 65 years. It's based on the imaginings of the 19th century Italian author Carlo Collodi.
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Politics, religion, and now COVID vaccines: How to avoid conversational landmines at holiday gatherings
WGLT | By Ryan Denham
The COVID vaccine joins a long list of thorny topics—religion, politics, et al—that have served as conversational landmines at holiday gatherings for decades.
The COVID-19 vaccine is making it possible for families to gather once again this holiday season. And it's also one of the reasons those get-togethers could get uncomfortable.
The COVID vaccine joins a long list of thorny topics—religion, politics, et al—that have served as conversational landmines at holiday gatherings for decades (centuries?). It won't be long before you're splitting a wish bone with Uncle Bob or Aunt Alice as they share unsolicited opinions about Dr. Anthony Fauci, vaccine mandates, or Aaron Rodgers.
We checked in with two experts for their advice on COVID vaccine etiquette: Erin Osborn, social service coordinator at UnityPoint's behavioral health service line in Peoria; and Matt Mollenhauer, chief clinical officer at Bloomington-based Chestnut Health Systems.
Before you go: Are you vaccinated?
Before attending a family gathering, it's "completely appropriate" to ask about the vaccination status of your host or other attendees, said Mollenhauer.
"The unfortunate part is that the second you ask the question, it's labeled, it's judged, it's critiqued. You must think I'm wrong if I'm not, or depending on how I answer," he said. "I think it has to be a fair topic. Who's bringing stuffing? Who's bringing pie? Who's got vaccine should be right on that list of questions. It shouldn't be treated any different."
It all comes down to personal judgment, Mollenhauer said.
"We're all at this stage of the game-making decisions on a daily basis on what we're comfortable with. And the dynamic of family adds a wrinkle to this, but it's not much different than the decision to go to the grocery store, or out to dinner, or a kid's sporting event," he said.
If you're worried about the conversation turning political (or vaccine-y), don't leave it to chance. Set boundaries in advance. That could be as formal as a pre-gathering disclaimer.
"It may be worth the extra step of saying, 'The following topics are off-limits during this event. We're not going to talk politics. We're not going to talk COVID,'" Mollenhauer said.
Or you could just be prepared should the conversation take a turn, such as rehearsed responses, Osborn said.
"Or you can redirect the conversation and steer it away from the sensitive topic at home. You could say, 'Instead of talking about that, what did you do over this past year to stay fit, healthy, and calm? What is on your bucket list for next year?'" Osborn said.
A little empathy goes a long way. It's important to remember that people have been through a lot over the past 20 months, and you might not be privy to all of that—even if you're relatives.
A natural reaction to the trauma of the pandemic is for people to become self-defensive—looking to keep themselves and their family members safe physically, Mollenhauer said. That defensiveness also applies to protecting their belief system.
"That's the trap we're all falling into right now," he said. "What is their perspective that drives this? When you take the time to understand it, I think you'd find you don't have to agree with it but you understand why it's valid for that person. We're really quick to judge. We're very quick to politicize it, we all know that. The second you start down that path, it implies the other party is wrong, inept, or doesn't have the facts. You're not going to have any healthy conversation over turkey with that mentality."
Being grateful
UnityPoint has seen an increase in mental health diagnoses, including depression and anxiety, during the pandemic. They've also seen some psychosis with prolonged long-haul COVID survivors.
"It's been very difficult to find balance when your world and your structure that you were used to was thrown out the window," Osborn said.
You should use these holidays to "surround each other with love and lift each other up," she said.
"If anything I've learned through COVID it's that I took a lot of things for granted. So, this holiday season, this is not something I want to take for granted. I want to spend it with you intentionally, connecting with my loved ones, showing appreciation and saying thank you. Thank you for sharing that. I know that that was incredibly challenging. This has been a really difficult year but I'm just so happy you're here with me today. Being grateful," Osborn said.
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All we're hearing about nowadays is how cold it is. But we here at CT Indie were melted today by the warmth of kind words from the front person of a beautiful minimalist folk project. Thomas Nystrom happened upon our site one sleepless night, and was compelled to send a message of gratitude after finding the site "actually useful as hell". Well, thanks, man!
Nystrom's project Able Anchors is set to play The Space's Open Mic night on February 16th, 2010. He says that there really aren't any set members and they freely swap instruments, but the recordings on their bandcamp page belie this relaxed approach with delicate and deliberate compositions.
Their three track "Paper Demo" is free for download here: CLICK. Enjoy!


According to a newly published report from CBRE and USGBC, as Chinese builders move in accordance with the nation's 13th Five Year Plan, green building space is expected to reach two billion square meters by 2020, up from current estimates of 600 million square meters of green building space spread across more than 300 cities.
Between 2006 and 2016, LEED-certified projects had a compound annual growth rate of 77 percent, making China the global leader for LEED projects outside of the United States.
The "2017 China Green Building Report: From Green to Health" notes, additionally, that as of August 2017, more than 48 million square meters of projects across 54 Chinese cities have been LEED-certified.
In the past four quarters, the average occupancy rate of LEED projects in China was 81.7 percent, which is 1.5 percent higher than that of traditional offices. By comparison, the average occupancy of LEED Platinum projects in China was 86.7 percent, 10 percent higher than traditional offices. This indicates a significant increase in occupant demand for LEED Platinum structures.
Since 2014, LEED Platinum spaces have grown more than 200 percent and now account for 22 percent of all LEED-certified space in China, up from 14 percent.
As of Q2 2017, over 2.22 million square meters of quality office space had earned LEED Platinum certification.
The report is the third in a series of studies conducted by CBRE and USGBC. In 2016, "Towards Excellence: Market Performance of Green Commercial Buildings in the Greater China Region" found that LEED-certified Grade A office buildings exceeded 5.6 million square meters across 10 major cities in greater China, an increase of 7.4 percent from the previous year, accounting for 28 percent of the total market.
The 2016 report built upon CBRE's 2015 report, "New Era of China's Green Buildings," which found that rental premiums for LEED-certified Grade A offices in key mainland China cities—including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Chengdu—enjoy a higher average rental performance ranging from 10 to 30 percent, and are better positioned to weather a downward commercial real estate market.
In China's tier two cities, such as Chengdu, Tianjin, Hangzhou and Wuhan, LEED-certified Grade A office buildings cover a floor area of nearly one million square meters, accounting for an estimated 18 percent of the total Grade A office area in those cities.


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Dynamic spaces for children in libraries – Play Pod at State Library Victoria, Australia
Connecting with our youngest visitors, State Library Victoria's Play Pod offers a range of activities for children to read, create and play. Our Play Pod space is seasonally inspired by a children's book, transforming narratives into tactile learning experiences, which support children to develop a love of books and storytelling. As part of increasing our offer and outreach for this audience, State Library Victoria's redevelopment project, Vision 2020, will include the construction of a purpose-built dedicated space for children and families.
Australian State Library Victoria's Play Pod offers an interactive and inclusive space for children to discover the joys of books, stories and illustration. Our space is seasonally based on a children's book, designing a range of activities which allow children to form a deep connection with storytelling whilst supporting their early literacy skills. Our current theme, Mr Chicken Arriva a Roma, is inspired by Australian Children's Laureate Leigh Hobbs's newest release in the Mr Chicken series. Mr Chicken's Roman adventures are brought to life as children aged up to 8 years participate in a variety of activities, such as hopping on a toy Vespa, dressing up as Mr Chicken or tour guide Frederica, playing with strings of giant spaghetti, using blocks to build a mini version of the Colosseum, making a wish in the replica Trevi Fountain and taking tourist snaps.
Previous book-based themes in the Play Pod space have included A River by Marc Martin, Are We There Yet? by Alison Lester, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton's New York Times best-selling Treehouse series.
Mr Chicken Arriva a Roma has already received an incredible response from families, highlighting the important role that libraries have in connecting children with the joys of narrative and illustration. Families are able to observe and contribute to collections of children's artwork in the space, developing new ideas as other contributors add their artwork. As part of creating an inclusive and engaging space for children, Play Pod aims to support literacy in playful and creative ways. Children can explore aspects such as dramatic role play, object play and social play as part of developing a lasting and positive relationship with books, reading and storytelling.
Most importantly, Play Pod offers a balance of self-directed activities that place children at the centre of their learning. It also encourages families to share the enjoyment of reading together. The space provides an interactive opportunity for children to engage with State Library Victoria's incredible collections (for example, replicating heritage and rare images onto magnet boards), highlighting that the Library is a place for everyone.
From December 2016 to February 2017, we are very much looking forward to transforming Play Pod into New York City! Inspired by Gus Gordon's Herman and Rosie, children will be swept away by the sweet sounds of jazz, able to explore the hustle and bustle of the Big Apple, swing by the toy hotdog stand and experience the delightful tale of friendship and music.
Library activities and development
Play Pod hosts our popular early years programs, Baby Bounce and Storytime. These sessions offer shared reading of themed books, rhymes, songs and craft activities, all of which support pre-literacy skills and model ways for parents to embrace their role as their children's first teacher. These programs receive the largest multicultural audiences across the Library's programming and can see up to 400 attendees each week! The Library achieves significant outreach to many families from CALD communities and supports their bilingual language and literacy development.
The redevelopment project, Vision 2020, will see the construction of a dedicated space for children and families within State Library Victoria. The South-west Courtyard, which is off the main information centre and currently known as Experimedia, will be transformed into a purpose-built space for children, their parents and carers. Construction will begin in 2017 and is due for completion in 2020.
A dedicated space for children is part of a commitment by the Library to become an institution with no barriers – accessible to everyone and welcoming to all. Building on the success of the Play Pod space, the new children's courtyard will contain zoned areas for children up to 12 years of age, expanding on the current offer for 0–8 year olds. Complete with a new family room and accessible toilets, the courtyard will be a haven for children and their families. An area for sensory play is planned for the youngest visitors, aged 0–2, while 2–5 and 5–7 years olds will have their own areas with furniture, books and toys that appeal to their age groups. Children aged 7–12 years old will be able to find refuge in their very own mezzanine level, which will house a maker space underneath for creative activities.
The focus on extending the Library's services to young learners and families will also result in an increased browsing collection in the new courtyard space. Being the state's premier reference library, State Library Victoria's current children's collections are tailored for research purposes – containing a number of heritage items and intended mainly for use by adults. Having books on hand in the new space for children to read is key in supporting them to develop a love of books and storytelling, and will help provide essential foundations for early literacy.
We will continue to run our popular Baby Bounce and Storytime programs in the new dedicated children's space, with a corner specially earmarked for storytelling. Co-design workshops were conducted with current Play Pod users to inform the Vision 2020 redevelopment, and while we can't promise that everything on the wish list will be included (the fire truck and elephant to ride on may be out of scope!), there have been some wonderful suggestions of how we can create a space that will be of most benefit to this key audience.
Emma Baker
Family Programs Officer, State Library Victoria, AUS
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Turkish Family Minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya told a UN session Wednesday she recently endured "inhumane treatment" from the Netherlands government, in contravention of diplomatic protocols.
"The Netherlands violated several European and UN conventions by restricting the freedom of speech and movement of a woman minister who has diplomatic immunity," Kaya told the session on the status of women.
Kaya was barred Saturday from meeting the Turkish community in Rotterdam, and was barred entry to the Turkish mission building, considered a part of the Republic of Turkey in line with diplomatic conventions.
She said special operations officers who surrounded her vehicle were authorized to use deadly force and Turkish citizens waiting to welcome her were attacked by police dogs and horses.
"On behalf of my country and all women, I strongly condemn this biased, racist and xenophobic treatment," she said, adding that the world should not "remain silent" to the Dutch government's actions.
Tensions remain high between Ankara and Amsterdam after the incident. Turkey has suspended high-level ties and announced the Dutch envoy would not be allowed to return from a current leave.
Kaya also condemned a decision by the EU Court of Justice that bans headscarves in workplaces.
"This decision clearly plays into the hands of extremists," she said.
The ban would make it more difficult for Muslim women to be active in social and business circles if they are compelled to choose between their faith and their careers, she added.


Why is everything so cute?
Will anyone think about the kids? Apparently Square-Enix heard the demand of children everywhere (maybe they were silent demands) and realized the wonderful world of Final Fantasy should be loved by children just as much as obsessed adults. Why? Because Christmas is coming.
As Lann and Reynn, players will travel to Grymoire to recover their memories, gradually mastering their powers and becoming involved in the conflicts consuming the world — basically fighting between rival factions within the native Lilikins, and the impending threat of the Bahamut Army.
Returning to the original traditional gameplay style fans loved from the earlier Final Fantasy titles, World features turn-based battles which utilizes the series' recurring Active Time Battle system. In this installment, players will also use an augments stacking mechanic where stacking allied characters and monsters affects stats and turn numbers. Sounds complicated, right? Don't worry, it is.
Despite the confusion, World's RPG game style is easy to master, but tutorials are needed for those unfamiliar to the Final Fantasy world. Once the battle style is mastered, players can choose between the old-fashioned command system from the series or input commands. Fights will also include random battles and battles that are required to progress the story.
This can prove to be taxing and exhausting, especially if you accidentally make a wrong turn which results in fighting the same battle. Unless a player is a fan of turned-based style combat, this game is really not going to be fun. However, if a player is able to look past this, World of Final Fantasy is truly addictive even with its repetitiveness.
Throughout the game, players will collect creatures which can be stacked while in combat for more powerful attacks. Each monster has its own specialty attack and together can make for some nifty spells, which does come in handy when you might be losing.
World is delightful and at any age. Players will appreciate the Chibis art style that will invoke "awwws" from even the most cold-hearted of gaming bastards. Carefully layered colors burst off the screen, filling players with a sense of child-like delight. It feels and looks like the Fantasy world of yesterday just with more cuteness.
For those not sold on the Chibi-style, fear not for the game includes two different worlds – one for full-sized characters and the other for the Chibi characters. Each world has its own look, feel, uniqueness and battle styles for even more creativity.
World of Final Fantasy is a perfect addition to the series and a great way to introduce children to the series. It has swift gameplay, and the design is a joy. It's basically Final Fantasy in a happier and relaxed form. This is perfect for anyone who want to take a break from all the seriousness that life has to offer.


Umi Selah, a native of Chicago, Ill., found his voice as a community activist while a student at Florida A&M University.
In 2005, he helped to organize students from FAMU, Florida State University and Tallahassee Community College in the creation of the Student Coalition for Justice, which was formed in response to the murder of Martin Lee Anderson in a Florida boot camp.
In 2012, he co-founded the Dream Defenders and now serves the organization as its Co-Director.
His "movement role-model" is… Bob Marley.


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Should pharma marketing guidelines be different when they're using social media (such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, forums, etc.)? The world of social media is so new and different. In this world, we get two-way interaction and although you can moderate certain elements, people can (and will often) say whatever they want to say.
How well do the folks at the FDA understand the use of social media?
When (if ever) will the FDA release guidelines on how pharma/biotech should use social media to communicate with consumers vs. healthcare professionals?
Will the PhRMA Code come out with some type of guideline first?


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NEET : Tamil Nadu students fair better but lags behind other states
Tamil Nadu students have spoken. Even as politicians bicker over the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), those writing it have given it the green signal. Burying the ghosts of NEET for now, 59,785 students from the state cleared the examination this year, taking up the qualifying percentage from 39.56% to 48.57%.
Also, from just two students who got above 600 in last NEET, the number soared to 135 this year. NEET is a 720-mark exam. Likewise, the number of students scoring above between 500 and 600 went up five-fold from just 213 last year to 1,194 this year.
"Overall, 14,297 students from Tamil Nadu have scored 300 and above this year," an official from National Testing Agency told.
Tamil Nadu topper Shruthi K scored 685 and secured an all-India rank of 57; she is the 10th among female candidates.
"I expected good marks, but this has surprised me. I prepared for the exam for two years. Any student with hard work and dedication can crack NEET," she said. Shruti also wrote entrances for AIIMS and JIPMER. "My first preference is JIPMER," she said.
Many students from state board schools have scored above 600 this year.
"In our school, two students secured more than 600 and 18 students have scored above 500," said P Swaminathan, secretary, SRV schools in Namakkal and Trichy.
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Asked about the reasons for the improved performance, Swaminathan said many state board schools hired experts from other states to train students and introduced NEET coaching for old students.
"Tamil Nadu is already competing with other states in terms of performance. This year, from our institute alone, 30 students scored above 600. Due to availability of more seats, students with above 450 marks will get admission in good colleges," said Chandan Chand, deputy director, Aakash Institute, Chennai.
At 1.23 lakh, Tamil Nadu had the third highest applicants for NEET this year and it has the sixth highest number of students who qualified the exam.
But educationist Prince Gajendrababu said though the performance of Tamil Nadu students has improved, a vast majority of students still missed the bus. "Only students from affluent background were able to perform well. It does not represent the entire state as students from government schools and rural areas could not perform well in the entrance exam," he said.
This year, around 20,000 students from government schools wrote NEET. Officials from the school education department said they could not see the full results since the server was down.
Courtesy: TOI
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Threatened Jokes
My girlfriend threatened to leave unless I stopped being delusional and admitted that I am not a Transformer
But I told her "Babe, I can change!"
My wife threatened to divorce me when I said I was going to give our daughter a silly name...
So I called her Bluff...
My wife minored in psychology. She's always using all her amateur psychology when we argue.
When I fired the pool boy, she said, "Well, you know, you're only firing him because he's so young and good looking, and you feel threatened and insecure, because it reminds you of your own mortality, and you're projecting all these insecurities onto someone else in a very passive/aggressive way, be...
What did the pushpin say when threatened?
The Mandalorian was my waiter, and I think I angered him because he threatened to tamper with my food.
"I can bring it in warm...or I can bring it in cold."
My stalker just threatened to kill herself, if I didn't love her back.
It's really nice when problems resolves themselves like that.
When my wife threatened a divorce because of my obsession with the Shrek soundtrack, I thought she was joking.
But then I saw her face
What was the name of that Pixar movie where a non-human duo is forced to go on an adventure after the Status Quo gets threatened?
Google: "Could you be more specific?"
A group of dwarves get jobs as coal miners
After a week or so, one of the workers really stood out and was getting special treatment from the supervisor, Moe. The other dwarves complained to HR and threatened to go on strike.
The supervisor was called into the office and reprimanded. He explained that he was only trying to keep the harde...
I think the girl at the Airlines check-in just threatened me
She looked me dead in the eye and said, "Window or
aisle?" I laughed in her face and replied, "Window or you'll
what?"
My wife threatened to leave me if I couldn't stop correcting her about Russian Communist terminology.
I told her Soviet.
My wife told me to stop teasing our neighbor about his infertility after he threatened me with gun.
But I'm not scared because he's shooting blanks.
A California ranch that was once owned by Ronald Reagan was being threatened by a wildfire
Firefighters attempted to save it by pouring water on a nearby hill and hoping it would trickle down.
When I was 13, I hoped that one day I would have a girlfriend with big tits.
When I was 16, I got a girlfriend with big tits, but there was no passion, so I decided I needed a passionate girl with zest for life. In college I dated a passionate girl, but she was too emotional. Everything was an emergency; she was a drama queen, cried all the time and threatened suicide. So I ...
The beautiful woman next door came around complaining about items going missing from her washing line and threatened to call the police...
I nearly crapped her pants!
My girlfriend threatened to leave me if I didn't stop pointing out random exits and entrances
I said: "There's the door"
An astronaut lands on an alien world.
Once upon a time an astronaut landed on an alien world. The world was full of trees and plants and wildlife. But one species in particular caught his eye. Short and round with huge feet, they were kind. They sang songs all day, drank, and made merry. After observing them from afar for many days, the...
My girlfriend has threatened to leave me for being lazy.
I think she's being unfair, it's not like I did anything.
His wife minored in psychology in school.
She was always trying to use her tiresome amateur psychology on him. When he wanted to fire their pool boy, she said, "Well, you're clearly threatened by his youth and attractiveness, and this gives you intimations of your own mortality which you are sublimating into a hostile and inappropriate resp...
My girlfriend threatened to break up with me
She said, "You act so childish whenever I'm around. Now, it's either 'your mom' jokes or me."
I said, "And I, like so many men before me, will eagerly choose your mom."
My girlfriend threatened to leave me over my reliance on herbs...
But I said I needed thyme to think.
Two prawns...
..Justin and Kristian were swimming around in the ocean, continually being chased and threatened by the sharks that inhabited the area.
Eventually Justin had had enough. He said to Kristian, "I'm fed up with being a prawn. I wish I was a shark, and then I wouldn't have to worry about being ea...
A Lady Threatened to Sue Her Husband's Doctor
A lady threatened to sue her husband's doctor because after he recovered from surgery he had performance issues in bed. She claimed that he could no longer get it up and therefore could no longer please her.
The Doctor responded with "How's that my fault? I only removed his cataracts."
On March 27th, our math teacher burst into class and threatened to cancel Spring Break unless the one who's cheated on all their tests reveals themselves before next month
How are we supposed to catch a cheater in eight days?!
Somebody once threatened me...
"I'm about to demonstrate to you how kneecaps are a privilege and not a human right."
I threatened a cop and then he cut my electricity
It was a real abuse of power
My girlfriend threatened to break-up with me if I didn't stop acting like a Transformer...
I said "but baby, I can change!"
Where does a Mexican go when they feel threatened?
Hispanic Room
I tried to build a car out of spaghetti, my wife lost her temper and said it would never work and threatened to leave me, anyway, you should have seen her face when I drove pasta. After a while my obsession got the better of me and she walked out..
Now I'm feeling cannelloni.
My wife threatened to leave me due to my sexual fetishes.
I said "fine, just slam the door on my cock on your way out".
A friend and I were travelling through Alabama when a guy threatened to get his Dad, Uncle and Brother to beat us up.
We were relieved when we found out they were all the same person.
My wife found "golden showers" in my search history and threatened to leave.
I let her go.
Gotta look out for number one.
My wife threatened to leave me
Because of my 'filthy and disgusting habits'. I was so shocked I nearly choked on my toenails.
Tom had this problem of getting up late in the morning and was always late for work. His boss was mad at him and threatened to fire him if he didn't do something about it. So Tom went to his doctor who gave him a pill and told him to take it before he went to bed. Tom slept well and in fact beat, th...
My son threatened to hold his breath until he got ice cream
He passed out on the floor.
I don't negotiate with terrorists.
The dark presence of the knight in black armor terrified the patrons of the inn. And he was sulking at the bar, clearly worried as he down the pint of ale.
He towered over the others who were also in the inn's bar, his armor covered in jagged spikes that were as lethal as the man-sized swords that hung from his back. His eyes glowed blood-red and a sickening black miasma poured through the small cracks in the plate armor. He even had a large pair of ho...
Yugi: Kaiba! How come Your card grabbed my card's groin and threatened to deport it...
Kaiba: You fool! You've activated my Trump card.
When I refused to buy her concert tickets for the weekend, my 15 year old daughter broke down and threatened to cry a river.
I told her to go ahead, but remember that she's so self absorbed the tears won't even make it to her cheeks.
A lot of people in Iran think that president, Hassan Rouhani went way over the line when he threatened the US with the mother of all wars in his latest speech.
In fact they are so concerned about the angry Twitter response from president Trump that they are going to set up their own 'Mullah investigation' to look into the matter.
My wife threatened to call the cops if I didn't start checking the pockets of our clothes when I did laundry.
I asked "And what exactly do you expect them to charge me with?"
She said, "Money laundering."
In romance, I'm like a wild stallion
I'm not well groomed, look somewhat malnourished, don't want anyone to ride me, am threatened by eye contact, and if approached I'm likely to run away before anyone's close enough to touch me.
My wife and I were laying in bed watching a contortionist perform on a talent show.
As the lady went through her routine, I suggested to my wife that she should try becoming a contortionist. Without hesitation, she shouted "NO!"
I asked her to reconsider, suggesting ideas as they entered my creative mind. She immediately began yelling at me, calling me a pig, a dog, and even...
A soldier was standing guard next to a river in a remote area
A man trekking through the wilderness saw the soldier.
Surprised to see anyone, he called across to ask what he was doing there, but the soldier didn't respond.
It was a wide river, so maybe the soldier couldn't hear him. He decided to try using hand gestures to communicate instead.<...
I Am The Viper! (Long)
A young man inherited a stately manor from his uncle after his untimely passing. The man's uncle was in reasonably good health, but was found dead in his library. His body bore signs of poisoning, but there was no one else with him the night of his death and no poison was found in his system or on t...
At a party, Bob was flirting with a girl
The girl's boyfriend walked over to Bob and pushed him. "What the hell do you think you're doing?"
Bob said, "I didn't know she was taken. I'm sorry." The boyfriend raised his fist and threatened, "If you touch my girl again, you're fiction."
Bob was confused, and asked, "Uh, don't yo...
After Israel threatened to take the Security Council vote as an act of war, the New Zealand Ambassador called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu....
...Picking up the phone, he spoke "Hebrew."
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I'VE SEEN THE SIGNS
When the Europeans came to North America, the natives did not own the land. They felt the concept to be silly. Land was like the air – ever and unending. Groups might squabble about who could live or hunt on some portion of it, but The Great Spirit had put it there for all to share.
The White Man soon taught them about ownership and possession. Corporations and governments, which also didn't "own" the land, sold chunks of it to groups and individuals. Soon, the walls went up, and then the fences – first stone, then split rail, and finally, wire fences.
After the fences came the signs – signs meant "to keep all the other people out, and to keep Mother Nature in." Click to hear the Five Man Electrical Band decry the restrictive commercialization of our land and society.
Tagged challenge, fences, government, land, Mother Nature, music, natives, ownership, pioneers, restrictions, sharing, short story, signs, trivia
December 2, 2015 by Archon's Den
Noble Savage
I recently read an American Thanksgiving-related post about the candy-coating of the Pilgrims/First Thanksgiving story, bemoaning the ill-treatment of the Indians (We're indigenous – and it's not India.), by the White Man.
"They robbed graves, stole our land, enslaved us, murdered our children, forced their Christian religion upon us and gave us smallpox."
I already question, and have problems with most of these claims, but the argument is adversarial. If the Whites are portrayed as 'Bad', then the Indians must be 'Good.' I simply do not believe that.
The stereotype of the Red Man as friend to Earth, steward of Mother Nature's glories, is bullshit. This tale comes from White Man's Guilt and media, and has been eagerly accepted and rebroadcast by the Natives.
Some years ago, there was a 'Give A Hoot, Don't Pollute' TV ad, showing a bag of garbage being flung from a car onto a highway, and a proud Indian, complete with feather, weeping at the spoliation of the pristine landscape. Problem was, the 'Indian' was really an Italian actor.
When the white man arrived, the Indians didn't own the land. They had freehold use of it by right of occupation or right of conquest. This was the law of the land at that time. The Whites didn't steal it. When they took it, they did it exactly as the Indians had been doing for centuries.
A tribe of Indians would settle in a fertile area, and begin to rape Mother Nature. It might take several years, but, like a colony of army ants, they would strip it clean. They would over-hunt and over-fish, until there were no deer, moose, bear, geese or fish. Population would go up and available food would diminish, until children and old folks were starving, then they would pack up their teepees, and move to (literally) greener pastures.
If there was another tribe where they wanted to resettle, war would break out. Men, women and children would be tortured and slaughtered, till one group or the other moved on. The Hurons ousted the Eries. The Iroquois forced the Hurons out, and they all took slaves from those they conquered.
In exchange for smallpox, the Indians gave the Whites syphilis, a disease unknown in Europe at that time.
Preserving culture and heritage is a great thing, but the world will move on, with, or without you. My small hometown abutted an Indian reservation. Back when there were still manufacturing jobs in Southern Ontario, we had four small factories in town. Indians with sufficient pride and initiative got jobs in them, to purchase food, clothing, TVs and cars.
This was not a matter of 'the White Man's way' versus 'the Indian way.' This was "The Canadian Way!" Those who didn't take jobs didn't dress in buckskins, and hunt and fish, or gather roots and berries from the forest. They sat around in dirty, worn clothing, on the front stoops of decaying hovels that Mississippi Negroes wouldn't live in, waiting for their next Government cheque, so that they could buy booze. They weren't enslaved, or prevented from working, and most of them weren't Christian.
One proud young Indian joined the Canadian Army, and served in Cyprus, keeping Greeks and Turks from each others' throats. He felt he'd like to come back to retire, and began building a house. Every time he came home on leave, he and his friends and family worked on it, first an excavation and foundation, then framing and roof, later, walls, plumbing and wiring.
After about three years, he came home, and entered his little jewel. While he had been away, a bunch of the stay-at-home thugs had broken into it and partied – hard! – several times! They had built a campfire on his unprotected living room rug, burning a hole in the floor, to the basement. At least they didn't burn it down.
Beer bottles were smashed. Broken glass was everywhere. Holes had been kicked in the wall boards. There was a large pile of excrement in one corner, but it had been smeared, by hand, on most of the walls. He threw up his hands, said, "I don't want to live here anymore." and never came back.
A mile offshore in Lake Huron, there was a particularly rich area where fish fed. For years, 3 or 4 fishing boats went out every day, set nets, and brought back hundreds of pounds of fresh fish to sell. Finally the white man completely fished out this 'mud hole.'
When the White Man signed a treaty with the Indians, a clause was included allowing them to hunt and fish. Since fish boats didn't exist here 200 years ago, it seems clear that the intent was for personal or family use. The Indians drove a loophole in the contract. A group of them bought one of the now-retired boats, and proceeded to scrape up the last few surviving fish.
The history of European immigration does not always show the White Man in the best of light, but a close look reveals that the Indians are neither the heroes nor the victims that many would have them be. Because of population pressure, white men did wholesale, what Indians did retail.
Tagged actors, Armed Forces, Christian, culture, disease, fishing, heritage, Indians, Mother Nature, Pilgrims, pollution, Thanksgiving, trivia, vandalism
Spring Forward – Fall Back
Nasty old Verna Equinox – AKA Mother Nature – has been toying with us this year. She's promised us since March the 21st that it's Spring, but, like a drunken bar pickup, it's a lot of talk, and very little action.
Despite Verna's claims, it's not really Spring until it warms up, and she just keeps teasing us. Hold out a little sunshine and warmth – and then snatch it back with an icy hand. Hold out a little….well, you're living through it; you know what I mean.
We all want the warmth of real Spring. We need it. We hope for it. Some of us pray for it – except in California, where they're praying for rain. They'd even take the forty days and forty nights, and out there, where Sodom meets Gomorrah, they might get it.
I think we all have those 'It's Really Spring When….' benchmarks. I know I do. This year, every time we reached one, and hope began to blossom, Frau Nature took the proctology scope out of the refrigerator and said, "Bend over and cough – Bitch."
It's really Spring when all the snow finally melts – and two days later, I'm sprinkling the last of my urea crystals to melt the ice on my driveway and sidewalk.
It's really Spring when you see your first robin. The first one I saw was in a clothing store in the mall, buying a North Face insulated parka.
The 'really Spring' point for the gardener wife came a couple of weeks ago, when the nearby supermarket assembled their outdoor garden center. We might as well buy plastic plants. They're just as hard, and they won't wilt when they thaw out.
I thought I'd finally reached the 'really Spring' point Sunday night/Monday morning. The 'warm Spring rain' had been coming down steadily for hours, and had finally melted the permafrost that is my front lawn. The grass was so sodden that the poor earthworms were drowning, and were crawling up and out of the dirt to breathe.
Monday being garbage day, I was taking out the trash at 3 AM so that the neighbors would not be blinded by my sartorial splendor. It's really Spring because the earthworms are out of the ground, and all over my driveway.
Here I was, lugging two bags, and daintily pirouetting down the driveway, avoiding worms, in a pair of fleece shorts and slippers. It's not that I believe in the Hindu/Karma thing. It's just that She Who Must Be Obeyed doesn't take kindly to having worm guts all over her floors.
Two days later, BrainRants could have used the worms like frozen spikes to hold down the planks on his rebuilt deck.
The above photo of my deck was taken at 3 AM Tuesday April 22nd, Earth Day. Really, snow?? Again?? C'mon Ma Nature, over a month since you claimed it was Spring? Have a hot flash or two. I am so looking forward to putting away my ice scraper and snow shovel…. Wait, that means I have to get out the rakes and lawn mower. 🙄
Tagged ballet, California, earth day, flowers, garbage, garden, humor, karma, Mother Nature, robins, snow, spring, trivia, weather
I know it's April! I'll get to that.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana
Of all the things I wanted to be when I grew up, a wrinkled sack of aches and pains wasn't on my list.
I can't brain today. I have a bad case of the dumb.
It's finally Spring here in Southern Ontario. I know this, not because the robins are back. I've heard them for almost a month, but actually saw one on March 31. Not because the little kids have their skateboards and bicycles out, and the bigger kids, me excluded, finally have their motorcycles out, but because, on March 31, as I saw my first robin, I was on my way to the supermarket two blocks away – and they have their Garden Center set up in the parking lot.
And just to show how pissed Mother Nature can be when you don't get her a nice enough card for Earth Day…. After a week of 60s and even 70s F temperatures, last night she put a big cloud over my total Lunar eclipse, and dumped an inch of snow on my driveway and deck.
The Ode to CWC6161 post, which I published last August 10th, was found by her younger sister, who left a lovely comment on April 11th, thanking me for my friendship and concern for Candice, as well as the tribute I posted. While not a happy thought, she provided closure, and confirmation of The Kindly Hermudgeon's death. As a sad irony, she died on September 21, 2012, my 68th birthday. The sister must have informed friends/family. By the end of day, I had had 4 views of that post.
The grandson phoned to ask for a ride the other day. On Saturday, May 10, he and his fiancée have a chance to enroll in a one-day Introduction to Falconry seminar. This will be a full day, from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM. Not being a driver, he thought it was near Hamilton, ON, an hour drive. Actually, my research shows that it is just off the main highway, about halfway there – only a half-hour drive, so I won't have to get up quite as early.
Falconry??!….WOW. They may never use what they learn, but still, a very interesting day. It's way out in the country. I may catch up on my sleep in the car, and might have to drive somewhere to score a lunch, but I just couldn't deny them this opportunity.
At the recent Detroit gun/knife show, one of the exhibitors had an old, original movie poster as part of his decoration. From the days when the western was king, this 1951 movie was titled "Snake River Desperadoes." It was populated with never-really-made-it, C-list actors.
The only name I might expect even my older readers to recognize and remember, was Smiley Burnette, who went on to fame and fortune as the engineer of the train that pulled into Hooterville, on the Petticoat Junction TV show.
The name on the poster that caught my eye, was Tommy Ivo. Tommy was a showboating, California drag racer in the '50s and '60s. He helped form the sport as it was becoming organized and sanctioned. I thought that his nickname, "TV Tommy" had been because his fame got drag racing televised.
Research shows, however, that he was a teen actor, as taken with racing as he was by the silver screen and the new boob-tube. He used some of his acting income to hire expert mechanics to build engines and bodies, which he and his youthful reflexes piloted.
He was a showman, and a forward thinking racer. Understanding the Power to Weight Ratio idea, he was one of the first to install two smaller engines in one car, while others were striving for bigger power-plants. He first placed them one behind the other, and then in subsequent vehicles, learned how to synchronize them side by side.
Despite the death of James Dean, most studios didn't have forbidden-pastimes contract clauses. His employers didn't seem to realize what dangerous ways he was spending his off time. Finally, just as he was 20, they caught on. That was the year he produced the aptly-named "Showboat" race car.
Taking the power to weight thing to the max, he built a 4-engine, 4-drive wheel dragster, with big drag slick tires on all four corners. Sadly, the initial thrust of acceleration torqued the front two off the pavement just enough to lose traction and spin the front tires uselessly. Instead of getting added traction and speed, all he got was a crowd-pleasing cloud of smoke, and slow times.
The studios ordered him not to race anymore. The racing body were afraid that his crazy contraption would injure him or someone else, and refused to let him compete in it, and only allowed single-car, display runs. His racing year ended when a small-block, Pontiac-engined, single-motor dragster defeated him for the top prize.
Its top speed was 179 MPH. The same scientists who mathematically "proved" that the bumblebee can't fly, insisted that the theoretical top speed in the quarter mile was 177 MPH, and dismissed it as an optical illusion, or equipment failure. When it happened again and again, they learned about "directional friction."
Tommy did a few more resoundingly forgettable movies and TV shows. Unlike many, he wisely invested his income, and used the dividends to become a racing developer and sponsor, helping to make drag racing into the profitable spectator sport it is.
Oh yeah, why March Madness in April?? Because it's a great title. Because I'm fractured and forgetful, and because, as usual, I'm late and behind on things. "Scuse me, I gotta go have a talk with the Easter Bunny about some more of those Easter Creme eggs.
Tagged aging, drag racing, Easter, falconry, guns, knives, Mother Nature, motorcycles, movies, robins, television, tribute, trivia


Previously, Professor Harayda was the Director of Information Technology at the Massachusetts School of Law. He is now currently teaching Case Prep and Factual Investigation. He also coaches the Massachusetts School of Law Black Law Student Association (BLSA) and the American Association for Justice (AAJ) Trial Advocacy Teams.


An American flag that was stolen back in April. Has been returned to its rightful place. According to the article from the Yakima Herald. Shawn Marcea of White Swan. Went to go visit his sons headstone. And found the flag folded next to the headstone.
Marine Lance Cpl Joe Jackson served in Afghanistan. Was killed in April of 2011. Shawn had kept the flag. But was stolen from the back of his truck.
You can replace a lot of the things. But you can't replace this. Especially since the flag was signed by everyone in Lance Cpl Joe Jackson's Platoon.