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La Verne and Montford. Sixteen people are sunbathing, but four men are in street clothes. The man sitting on the old fashioned glider with the striped awning is wearing a suit and a hat. The sandy beach is separated from the water by a concrete curb. Up on the steep bank behind the beach is part of the bridge above the dam. The shadows indicate it is midday.
You can visit this exact location. Go to Three Groves, which today is a public park behind Stolte Grove at the west end of Homestead Valley. Near the eastern end of the park is a fairly new wooden stairway that leads from a lawn down to where the beach used to be. Sit on the bench near the bottom of the stairway on a bright sunny summer day. You will look out over a beautiful lush meadow. Even if it is noon, you will be in the shade. There is no sandy beach, no concrete curb, and no lake.
In 1930, George Sandy bought Three Groves from the original owner, Lillian Ferguson. He built a dam on Reed Creek and created a concrete lined lake for swimming, boating and fishing. He imported beach sand from Carmel. In the winter of 1965, mud from the Flying Y ranch on Sequoia Valley Road near the headwaters of Reed creek silted in the lake. The redwood trees have grown quite a bit in seventy years — the "beach" now gets no sun.


is there a simple way to let my admins see how many reports haven been submitted from which account every day?
[Olalekan Aje] We are already a subscriber of Ushahidi,since 2014 under this platform uzabe.crowdmap.com, and we have used the platform to observe elections and track funds meant for education in some regions of my country, Nigeria.
Presently, we are trying to deploy the platform to observe a State Gubernatorial Election (Anambra State) scheduled for this Saturday, 17th November, 2017.
In trying to set up the platform, we have successfully downloaded the sms applicaton (smssync) into a dedicated android phone (HTC One), but the application has failed to sync with the server after several trials and efforts, with an error message from the smssync application that says "web service doesn't seem to have the right endpoint".
[Angela Oduor Lungati, Ushahidi] Hi Ola. Thanks for reaching out to us. Are you trying to use uzabe.crowdmap.com or another deployment?
Hi, is there an open-source Ushahidi mobile app available on any platform that works with V3?


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Inside the Controversial Prayer Rally: Bobby Jindal Prays But Fails To Rally
(The featured photo credit: © 2015 Julie Dermansky)
"That belt buckle!" Robin exclaimed. "Did you see that belt buckle?"
We had spent the last several hours inside of LSU's Pete Maravich Assembly Center observing Gov. Bobby Jindal's controversial prayer rally, four of us huddled behind a fold-out table reserved for members of the press. "It said, 'Governor Bobby Jindal, State of Louisiana,' and it had a fleur-de-lis in the middle." Robin is a professional photographer, and when Gov. Jindal finally took the stage that afternoon, she made her way to the front and began snapping pictures.
His belt buckle that day was, indeed, impressive, even enviable, but that is not why it was notable, at least for those of us from Louisiana who have followed Bobby Jindal's career. When I first met Gov. Jindal, years ago at an event in the Governor's Mansion, he sported a navy blazer two sizes too big and a frumpy pair of khakis. That had always been his style. He was considered a wonk, the Rhodes Scholar wunderkind, and he dressed the part. When he was in Congress, cartoonists poked fun at his hairstyle, a nerdy butt-cut that had gone out of fashion well before his senior year at Baton Rouge High.
But when he stepped onto the stage on Saturday, it became clear that Jindal, in preparation for a likely run for the presidency, was the recent recipient of an extreme style makeover. Kenneth the Page could never pull off cowboy boots, a pair of tight-fitting blue jeans, and a gold belt buckle that would make the guys from "Duck Dynasty" jealous.
In 2011 in Houston, shortly before launching a campaign for the presidency, Gov. Rick Perry hosted an almost identical prayer rally, organized by the same controversial group, the American Family Association. 8,000 people pre-registered. 30,000 showed up that day at Reliant Stadium. The event was declared a massive success. Bobby Jindal, incidentally, was one of the first high-profile elected officials to endorse Perry, who catapulted to the top of the polls before blowing himself up on live television.
It may seem somewhat ironic that, today, Jindal is the one with the cowboy boots and the belt buckle, and Perry, who is also preparing for another presidential campaign, traded in his contact lenses for a pair of black, square-framed glasses and swapped his boots for a pair of orthopedic shoes. Today, Bobby Jindal is hosting prayer rallies, and Rick Perry is hosting roundtables with leading conservative intellectuals.
On Saturday, outside of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, hundreds of protesters had gathered. They weren't simply protesting the involvement of the American Family Association, which is recognized as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center; they were protesting Bobby Jindal.
Only a week before, the Jindal administration indicated that it may cut more than $380 million to higher education. Since taking office in 2007, Bobby Jindal has already slashed $700 million from the state's public universities, the most dramatic reductions, on a per capita basis, in the country. Louisiana State Treasurer, John Kennedy, warns that if Jindal follows through on another round of cuts, higher education would be gutted. "I don't know how they can do it without massive layoffs," Kennedy said. It's not difficult to understand why so many LSU students and faculty members were just as offended by Jindal's decision to promote himself on their campus as they were by the group he selected to organize the event.
Minutes after arriving on campus, I met Kevin Cope, President of the LSU Faculty Senate. Earlier that morning, Cope had publicly lambasted Rolfe McCollister, a member of LSU's Board of Supervisors, the head of Jindal's SuperPAC, and the publisher of The Baton Rouge Business Report. This was a political event, Cope said, and McCollister had improperly used his position with LSU to advance Jindal's campaign for the White House. He urged protestors to boycott McCollister's publications and advertisers to think twice before cutting a check. I asked him why.
"The Baton Rouge Advocate did a public records request and discovered that Rolfe McCollister is largely responsible for orchestrating this event," he explained. "So, my suggestion for people who want to make a statement is they also exercise their free rights as citizens and let merchants (who advertise in McCollister's publications) know that they'll scale down their purchases until such a time that they advertise in outlets that support the university." He then called on McCollister to resign his position on the LSU Board of Supervisors.
Jindal, however, repeatedly insisted that the prayer rally was not a political stunt. "It's a religious event," he said to members of the press shortly before taking the stage.
Peter Jenkins, the LSU graduate student responsible for organizing the protest, didn't parse words. "I think it's important to note that Gov. Jindal has aligned himself with a group that thinks Native Americans deserved their genocide because they didn't appropriate white culture, that single mothers are bad for society, that black people are more likely to be criminals, that women shouldn't be able to make their own health decisions, that the First amendment only applies to Christians, and that think homosexuality should be illegal and carry the death penalty," he explained.
I grew up in Alexandria, Louisiana. I've been to my fair share of prayer rallies, passion plays, and evangelical church services. When I was in high school, Franklin Graham came to town and packed the Rapides Parish Coliseum. I sat up in the rafters with two of my friends, and after Graham dimmed the lights and asked the audience to close their eyes while those who wished to be born again walked up to the stage, the upper deck emptied. Michael W. Smith played his hit song "Place In This World." Hundreds of born-again evangelical Christians were born yet again.
I readily acknowledge: I am cynical about events like these. I have a degree in religious studies from Rice University, and I spent four years studying, observing, and participating in all sorts of religious rituals and ceremonies. The relatively recent phenomenon of mega-church services held inside of impersonal, generic arenas- liminal spaces that are retrofitted to resemble enormous television studios- has always seemed, to me, inauthentic and absurdly theatrical. But I also recognize that the religious experience is less about the space and more about the service- the music, the prayer, the sermon, and the fellowship.
When we finally arrived at the entrance of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, we were greeted by a guy in his late twenties dressed in a suit. He'd arrived from D.C. the night before and had been hired to manage the press. That was my very first interaction at Bobby Jindal's "religious" event: a well-dressed guy who had been flown in from D.C. to handle the media.
He ushered us down a flight of stairs, pointed out a back room they had reserved for the press, and then escorted us to an empty fold-out table at the back of the floor.
I had been told that 7,000 people were pre-registered, but it was immediately obvious that less than half had actually shown up. When Rick Perry held his prayer rally in 2011, he was a popular three-term governor of a big state who was considered, at the time, a formidable candidate for the presidency. Bobby Jindal, on the other hand, is an unpopular governor of a small state whose presidential ambitions are largely dismissed as quixotic and delusional.
If he required any additional proof of his unpopularity at home, all he needed to do was look out into the stands: Bobby Jindal wants to be the next President of the United States, but he can't even fill up a quarter of a college basketball arena in his own hometown. He can't even host a rally on the campus of LSU without attracting hundreds of protestors.
There was something else striking about Jindal's prayer rally: He's a practicing Catholic, and the audience, almost entirely, was made up of non-denominational, evangelical, charismatic Protestants. In between sets of contemporary Christian pop music and fiery sermons about the decline of America, the scourge of homosexuality, and the need to elect more born-again Christians to public office, participants clustered together in small groups and prayed demonstrably; some burst into fits of glossolalia. A man next to us remained on the ground for so long that someone asked the police to check on him; he looked as if he may have passed out.
Credit: Robin May
It was like a rave without the ecstasy or Bonnaroo without the psychedelics, participatory performance theater. It's hard to imagine that Gov. Jindal worships this way when he kneels behind the pews of St. Aloysius Catholic Church in Baton Rouge.
But despite all of that and contrary to what Gov. Jindal claimed, ultimately, his prayer rally had nothing to do with extolling evangelical Protestantism and almost everything to do with promoting himself. His prayer rally was, definitively, a political event specifically designed to brandish his bona fides as a conservative culture warrior. He may have only been on stage for less than 20 minutes, but the jumbotron on stage prominently displayed his name and a pithy quotation about America and religious liberty throughout the entire, six-hour-long event.
While all of this was going on, Kyle Plotkin, Bobby Jindal's chief of staff and a young, affable guy who earned his way up the ranks, paced around the aisles. He shook hands with as many people as he could. He was all smiles. He made small talk with the press. When I asked him how many people he thought were in attendance, he answered earnestly, "7,000, but maybe check with the Louisiana State Police." It was more like 3,500.
Lamar White, Jr and Kyle Plotkin. Credit: Robin May
Plotkin was not there to pray. He was there to observe and to do whatever he could to help his boss. On stage, speaker after speaker urged America to become a Christian nation, to elect more Christians, to break laws that prohibit tax-exempt churches from endorsing candidates from the pulpit. Shortly after Jindal wrapped up his testimony, yet another evangelical preacher took the stage and delivered yet another sermon. Plotkin wasn't paying attention to what was being said on stage. He was chatting with a friend of mine.
He told my friend that he was Jewish. It almost seemed like a defiant confession, even though the fact had never been a secret or even remotely interesting. But that day, I suppose, it did seem noteworthy, because aside from various members of the media, there is a good chance that Bobby Jindal's chief of staff was the only non-Christian in the entire audience. If this had merely been a religious event for evangelical Christians, I imagine he would have no reason to attend.
But that's not what this was. They'd flown in operatives from Washington, D.C.; they promoted this thing on official state letterhead; they spent weeks working their back channels at LSU; they skipped out on a high-profile event in Iowa, and in courting the controversial American Family Association, they ensured that the event would receive at least some media coverage. This was unabashedly political, and perhaps as a result, it completely backfired. Speakers backed out. The media didn't pay much attention at all. And half of those who had pre-registered for the event didn't even show up.
Bobby Jindal prayed, but he failed to rally.
For us, the belt buckle was the bigger story.
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Fredster says:
Seems like a typical Jindal publicity thing; he missed the mark completely. But hey Lamar, was the lady from Texas there who raises the dead? I saw her on a clip on Maddow's show.
carrollton rivers says:
Good post! Keep writing. Soon Jindal will not even be worth mentioning.
Stephen Winham says:
Of the many excellent ironies here, this is perhaps the most ironic: "Today, Bobby Jindal is hosting prayer rallies, and Rick Perry is hosting roundtables with leading conservative intellectuals."
An superior, balanced report worthy of national distribution.
bucktownpirate says:
Reblogged this on The Daily Kingfish.
lambnola says:
We were there and we disagree with your every point. It's hard to believe that in America people would be so opposed to a peaceful prayer event. Tragic. Our country has deteriorated. H and L McE
First he said if you like your college, you can keep your college. Now you can't. First he said if you like your WISE fund, you can keep it. Now…. Someone please perform a quick exorcism on Louisiana. "Out, Devil, out!"

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Prevalence of Hypertension in Homeless Adults: An Interprofessional Education Community‑Based Health Fairs Cross‑Sectional Study in Urban Long Beach, California.
Albert Nguessan Ngo, PhD 1,2*. Mohammed Amirul Islam 1 . Judy Aoyagi 1 . Zsuzsanna Sandor 3,4 . Szabo Sandor 3,4
1 Pharmaceutical Science, School of Pharmacy, American University of Health Sciences, 1600 E. Hill St, Signal Hill, CA 90755, USA
2 American University of Health Sciences Foundation, Signal Hill, CA, USA
3 Veteran Affairs Long Beach Healthcare System, Long Beach, CA 90822, USA
4 School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine,CA 90822, USA
Received: 26 October 2020 / Accepted 3 December 2020 and published in High Blood Pressure & Cardiovascular Prevention (2020)
Italian Society of Hypertension 2020
To determine the prevalence of hypertension in a homeless community during an interprofessional education (IPE)-based health fair.
Homeless participants were recruited between August 2019–September 2019. Faculty, nursing, and pharmacist students, educated 477 participants, aged 18–80 years, on the risk factors associated with untreated hypertension. Then, participants self-completed the consented demographic survey questionnaire. Finally, the sitting blood pressure (BP) was recorded three times based on a standardized procedure, using Omron BPN monitor with cuff.
Seven pharmacy students, nine nursing students, two registered nurses, five registered pharmacists, and two medical doctors collaboratively provided health education to the homeless community and screened their sitting BP. 390/477 (81.8%) of participants satisfied the inclusion criteria. Participants (54.7%) of the reported education level was at the high School level or less. More than the half of the participants (average age of 51 ± 13 years) had hypertension (median SBP/DBP ≥ 130/82.7 mmHg), respectively. The prevalence of hypertension for the overall cohort was 61.52% (95% CI, 56.59–66.35). Age (p value = 0.000) was significantly associated with hypertension based on the binary logistic analysis.
This study demonstrated a high prevalence of hypertension in the homeless community in Long Beach, California with high risk of cardio-vascular events or strokes. This works sheds new light on an issue of major public health significance and points to the need for fostering IPE community-based health fairs intervention program for the US homeless population.
Full article https://rdcu.be/ccssg
Principal Component Analysis of Morbidity and Mortality among the United States Homeless Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Albert Nguessan Ngo, PhD 1,2* and David Joseph Turbow, PhD 3*
1 Pharmaceutical Science, School of Pharmacy, American University of Health Sciences, USA
3 Institutional Research and Assessment, American University of Health Sciences, USA
Homelessness is a modern social and economic problem of major public health significance. In the United States of America (USA), several studies have identified different leading causes of morbidity and mortality among homeless populations.
For this systematic review, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), a multi-variate technique is applied to elucidate the strength of association of comorbidities and mortality among the U.S homeless population.
A search was conducted for published data for the 20-year period between 1/1/1998 and 12/31/2018. The keywords consisted of the terms: homeless, mortality, morbidity, United States, and health disparities. Data were drawn from cohort studies, observational studies and surveillance reports. Data were then extracted from eleven studies for meta-analysis using PCA.
The first principal component analysis (PCA1) revealed a strong correlation between the co-morbidities of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and psychoactive substance use. By contrast, PCA2 and PCA3 were strongly correlated to respiratory disease, and transportation-related injuries, respectively. Diseases correlated to PCA1, PCA2, and PCA3 were the major causes of mortality and morbidity of US homeless people with a prevalence of 53.88% (95% Confidence Interval, Bartlett's test, Chi-square (χ) = 228.941, degree of freedom (DF = 41.924)); 26.03% (χ = 176.27, DF = 176.274) and 19.85% (χ = 131.266, DF = 131.266), respectively.
Based on the Principal Component Analysis (PCA), homeless people in the U.S. die mainly from heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and psychoactive substance use. Thus, there is a need to address health disparities and to further promote health education and intervention programs.
Full article https://clinmedjournals.org/articles/iaphcm/international-archives-of-public-health-and-community-medicine-iaphcm-3-025.php?jid=iaphcm
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A: If you don't want to repeat the code you have in the loop elsewhere - then you need to give the loop something to loop over, if you want that code inside to execute, simple as that.
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This would also do the job, if one considers that any "nicer" looking.
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When Open Source Is Not All That Open – InApps 2022
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Back in 2001, when the U.S. Department of Justice was prosecuting Microsoft on antitrust claims, newspapers and state officials started to receive an influx of letters urging leniency. While the letters attempted to be authentic pleas from average people concerned about the government involving itself in a business matter, many turned out to be written by an umbrella organization called Americans for Technology Leadership which counted Microsoft as one of its members.
Even worse for optics, a handful of the letters appeared to be "written" by deceased people. Faced with overwhelming evidence, the Americans for Technology Leadership Executive Director admitted organizing the astroturfing campaign. Rather than a true grassroots movement inspiring people to spontaneously speak out in defense, Microsoft and its allies attempted to control public sentiment and the direction of the case through less than pure means.
Fast forward a decade to our current world of vendor-driven open source projects. While not as insidious as the Microsoft gambit, open-source projects, and foundations controlled by a single company fall into the same category of using a less than genuine "openness" to advance the goals of a single organization. They use many similar mechanisms – quietly hiring influential people, seeding blog posts in visible areas, etc.
Before reading any further, it's extremely important to understand that I have no intention of vilifying open source. I'm a big believer in open source software when it's delivered in an authentic way. What I do want to do, however, is to dig into the authenticity of many modern open source "projects" (read companies) as measured by contributions.
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In the ideal case, open source is about collaboration, the free exchange of ideas, and accepting innovation, no matter the source. In the real world, people and companies need to make money, so these ideals become diluted. Instead of someone building and sharing an operating system as a hobby, companies figure out their core product, open source it, and use that as a foothold to gain market share, appreciative press, and, ultimately, funding. While opening the code base allows anyone to view and modify the software, how open can software be when a single organization drives the majority of the contributions?
And lest you think this is picking on competitors of Apprenda, let's look at some other open source projects.
The table below, published by InApps last week, shows how several of leading open source projects that are associated with one specific company, along with a few, Linux and OpenStack, that remain largely community driven:
Project Top Contributor Secondary Contributor
Docker Docker 58% Red Hat 7%
Cloud Foundry Pivotal/VMware 77% IBM 11%
Mesos Mesosphere 49% Twitter 14%
Kubernetes Google 72% Red Hat 15%
OpenStack HPE 18% Red Hat 17%
Linux Intel 11% Red Hat 8%
In four of the projects above, a single company is leading the majority (or near-majority in the case of Mesos) of development.
The other two can increasingly be seen as anomalies. Linux has less than one-third of new commits from the top two companies, according to an estimate provided by the Linux Foundation. OpenStack is another project that has a rather diverse set of contributors, but even there, the top five companies account for 56 percent of contributions.
Having a small number of major contributors may allow a project to better focus its efforts on strategically meaningful enhancements (Oracle offers no apologies in using this model for developing MySQL largely in-house). Lack of clear focus is often cited as a concern for projects with many contributors.
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But a small number of major contributors also allows for those companies to drive the project to their exclusive benefit. Consider a scenario where the leading company is open core and bases its business on proprietary extensions to the open-source product. Let's say a developer reverse engineers one of the more popular proprietary features and submits a pull request to the original product. Will the driving company potentially compromise its revenue stream by accepting the pull request? Or will it try to find a reason to reject the recommended change, even though it improves the project?
The obvious response to these concerns is to compare to proprietary software and argue that closed-source companies have the same concerns around tight control and protecting their revenue paths. From a technical perspective, this is undeniably true, but these companies are not promoting themselves as open, nor are they promising the benefits of an open ecosystem. There are no illusions of altruism, which allows all parties to better calibrate expectations around a company's motivations.
There's nothing inherently wrong with controlled open source, but the system should call into question the marketing message of a pure, shared kinship of innovation creating technology for the betterment of the world. Most company driven open-source projects are open for the same reason proprietary ones are closed: someone decided this was the best way to make money.
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UK Defence Secretary Accuses Russia of Planning to Kill "Thousands and Thousands and Thousands" of Britons
By Robert Stevens
Global Research, January 28, 2018
World Socialist Web Site 27 January 2018
Region: Europe, Russia and FSU
Theme: Media Disinformation, US NATO War Agenda
Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has ratcheted up Britain's threats against Russia.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, published as its main front-page story Friday, Williamson said that Russia was spying on Britain's critical national infrastructure and claimed, "The plan for the Russians won't be for landing craft to appear in the South Bay in Scarborough, and off Brighton Beach.
"What they [Russia] are looking at doing is they are going to be thinking 'How can we just cause so much pain to Britain?' Damage its economy, rip its infrastructure apart, actually cause thousands and thousands and thousands of deaths, but actually have an element of creating total chaos within the country."
The newspaper wrote,
"Gavin Williamson told The Daily Telegraph that Moscow had been researching the UK's critical infrastructure and how it connected to Continental power supplies with a view to creating 'panic' and 'chaos.'"
Williamson added that Russia was willing to take actions "that any other nation would see as completely unacceptable."
Without citing any evidence, he posed the question,
"Why would they keep photographing and looking at power stations, why are they looking at the interconnectors that bring so much electricity and so much energy into our country."
The newspaper noted this was a reference to "energy lines that link the UK to continental supplies and allow Britain to trade and share electricity and gas with neighbours."
The UK, it said, "has four undersea interconnectors for electricity and three for gas, which provide energy to three million homes—a figure which will rise to eight million when further connections are built."
Williamson's comments come just days after General Sir Nick Carter, the chief of the general staff of the armed forces, declared that Britain must actively prepare for war with Russia and other geo-political rivals.
Williamson's interview was aired the day after British Prime Minister Theresa May met US President Donald Trump at the Davos summit for talks, after which they held a joint news conference. After stating that the media were circulating "false rumours" about their relationship, Trump said he and May "like each other a lot."
Trump emphasised above all that the US and Britain were at one on military issues:
"We are working on transactions in terms of economic developments, trade and maybe most important, the military. We are very much joined at the hip when it comes to the military. We have the same ideas, the same ideals."
Looking directly at May, he continued,
"There's nothing that would happen to you that we won't be there to fight for you. You know that."
Gavin Williamson meets with US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis in London in November 2017 (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
May, who had been signalling general agreement with Trump's views, by that point resembled a nodding dog as Trump spoke in favour of the US/UK military alliance. She responded, "We continue to have that really special relationship between the UK and the United States. We stand shoulder to shoulder because we face the same challenges around the world. And as you say we are working together to defeat those challenges."
On Tuesday, General Carter declared that virtually any activity carried out by another state in defence of its political, economic and military interests could now be deemed an act of war.
No longer were there "two clear and distinct states of 'peace' and 'war,'" said Carter. "[A]ll of these states have become masters at exploiting the seams between peace and war…"
"What constitutes a weapon in this grey area no longer has to go 'bang.' Energy, cash—as bribes—corrupt business practices, cyber-attacks, assassination, fake news, propaganda and indeed military intimidation are all examples of the weapons used to gain advantage in this era of 'constant competition.'"
Williamson's Telegraph interview came after his lobbying secured, this week, a delay in defence spending cuts due to be discussed in the Cabinet as part of the National Security Capability Review. Instead, a five-month review into military spending was announced by the government—which will be led by the Ministry of Defence itself.
Williamson's push for increased military spending was backed by senior serving generals, including Carter and the chief of the general staff, Sir Stuart Peach, who is the senior military adviser to the government. In November, Peach claimed, without citing any evidence, that Russian naval forces were developing a capacity to sever undersea fibre optic cables.
Williamson was also backed by his predecessor as defence minister, Sir Michael Fallon. In a major intervention, Fallon used his first public speech since his resignation two months ago, amid allegations of sexual misconduct, to demand a substantial military spending increase. Speaking Monday to the Defence and Security Forum think tank, Fallon demanded that the defence budget be allocated an extra £1 billion immediately and proposed that the UK move to spending 2.5 percent of its GDP on defence, as opposed to its current 2 percent—the minimum recommended by NATO.
Failure to do so would mean a "retreat from our vision of a confident, outward looking Global Britain standing up for our people, our values, our allies; then we will drift downwards to being a bit-part world player, a part-time champion of democracy and freedom."
It "would mean walking away from our international obligations, letting down our allies, and in the end leaving us less safe."
Fallon upped the ante in a Daily Telegraph opinion piece on Thursday, the day before Williamson's interview with the same newspaper. He wrote that he warned May a year ago that "depreciation of sterling and cost escalation in nuclear were putting severe pressure on the budgets for 2017-18 and 2018-19. If we wanted to play a leading role in NATO, with our troops and Typhoons defending its eastern flank; to counter the Russian submarine threat to our deterrent and our cables in the North Atlantic; to go on bearing the second biggest load of air strikes and army training in Iraq… then we had to put the defence budget onto a more sustainable footing."
He added, "The new review must recognise that the threats to our country have significantly increased. Before the invasion of Crimea, Russia seemed innocuous. Now we see its threat to western democracies. And Russia is spending not 2 percent but 5 percent of GDP on modernising its conventional and nuclear forces, on hybrid and electronic warfare."
The Labour Party is playing a critical role in escalating tensions against Russia. In response to Williamson's comments, Lord West, a former chief of the naval staff and Labour government security minister, said he was "absolutely certain Russia was looking at how to get into our critical national infrastructure."
On January 11, Parliament debated a motion, introduced by Labour backbencher Vernon Coaker, demanding that the size, equipment and training of Britain's armed forces be maintained at least at current levels and that no further cuts to defence spending and capabilities be imposed.
In another debate just four days later—in response to Conservative chair of Parliament's Defence Committee, Julian Lewis, raising concerns about possible cuts under the National Security Capability Review—Labour Shadow Defence Secretary Nia Griffith insisted on defence spending increases.
Labour MP Luke Pollard reminded everyone where the main threat to the UK was coming from:
"With Russia on the rise, our allies under threat and our northern flank vulnerable from Russian naval power, the threat from the Russian great bear is clear. Does the Defence Secretary understand that there is no support from any part of this House for any further cuts to our Royal Navy and our Royal Marines or for mergers that reduce the capabilities of our armed forces?"
The original source of this article is World Socialist Web Site
Copyright © Robert Stevens, World Socialist Web Site, 2018
Articles by: Robert Stevens


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Warriors' Davis opts out of contract
Golden State Warriors guard Baron Davis, front, works the ball inside past Denver Nuggets guard Anthony Carter in the first quarter of an NBA basketball game in Denver on Saturday, March 29, 2008.
By Bay Area News Group and Geoff Lepper |
PUBLISHED: July 1, 2008 at 2:28 am | UPDATED: August 14, 2016 at 4:41 am
What promised to be a tumultuous off-season for the Warriors was kicked into overdrive Monday when point guard Baron Davis left $17.8 million on the table and opted out of the final year of his contract.
Davis becomes an unrestricted free agent, throwing Golden State's immediate plans into confusion.
"I'm surprised, because $17 million is a lot of money for a year of basketball, but that's his prerogative," Warriors Coach Don Nelson said. "He talked to me a couple days ago and said he was coming back. . . . Opting out of a $17 million contract, that's (bold)."
Davis had maintained for months that he wanted to remain a Warrior and was telling members of the organization last week that he would not opt out, but with mere hours to spare, the man most responsible for breaking Golden State's 12-season playoff drought reversed course.
With talks on a contract extension going nowhere, he played the last major piece of leverage he had. Although he is unlikely in the short term to recoup that $17.8 million – the final piece of a six-year deal he signed with the New Orleans Hornets in 2002 – he can negotiate a long-term deal with another team to try to set up a sign-and-trade situation.
Or the move might spur the Warriors – who allowed their $10 million trade exception to expire Monday – to sweeten their contract proposals. It is believed that Golden State has been offering more than $11 million as an average salary but the sides were far apart in terms of total guaranteed compensation. This despite Davis' impressive 2007-08 statistics. He played in all 82 games, averaging 21.8 points, 7.6 assists and 2.3 steals.
"Baron is hopeful to remain a Warrior, and he continues his commitment to winning a championship," Todd Ramasar, Davis' agent, said Monday in a prepared statement.
Only two teams – Memphis and Philadelphia – are likely to have any significant room under the salary cap, but the Grizzlies have a plethora of point guards and the 76ers have Andre Miller pulling down $10 million this season.
There is, however, an intriguing landing spot: A league source said Monday that Davis, a Los Angeles native, is angling for a hometown return with the Clippers, whose veteran forwards Corey Maggette and Elton Brand also opted out Monday. The Clippers don't have room to sign Davis outright, but if they renounce the rights to Maggette and sign Brand to a relatively inexpensive deal, they could free enough space to make a run.
Golden State has only six players under contract – starters Al Harrington and Stephen Jackson, plus untested youngsters Marco Belinelli, Kosta Perovic, C.J. Watson and Brandan Wright – although it holds matching rights on three restricted free agents, including Andris Biedrins and Monta Ellis and the draft rights to forwards Anthony Randolph and Richard Hendrix.
The team does not have room to maneuver under the salary cap, however. To retain the ability to sign and trade Davis, the Warriors need to carry him on their cap at 150 percent of his 2007-08 salary, or $24.7 million.
But if the Warriors were to take Davis off their cap – either by renouncing him or by him signing directly with another team – and renounced their sign-and-trade rights to their other unrestricted free agents, they would have roughly $41 million on the books. That would leave them probably upward of $15 million to spend on an unrestricted free agent such as Brand or Washington guard Gilbert Arenas while handing over the reins to Ellis.
Nelson said last season that Ellis wasn't ready to handle point-guard duties full time, but he sounded a different tune Monday.
"That'd be a possibility," Nelson said. "I think he's ready for the next step. He's going to play as much as he can regardless. He'll just play more point."
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Richard Haas: 'We Have Lowered Our Foreign Policy Game To Everyone Else's'
In the old days, values used to prevent commercialism with rogue nations. None of that matters now.
1 year ago by Susie Madrak
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The Morning Joe gang wasn't too happy about the sheer amorality displayed by the Orange Cheeto during last night's 60 Minutes interview with Leslie Stahl.
TRUMP: I deliver for you, so don't throw all your moralism at me. I'm a New York real estate guy, all these people in Washington are savages, I'm a savage back to them and this is who we are right now.
"Richard Haass, we've heard business owners, we've heard CEOs, we've heard others talk about how over the past decade or so it's been difficult to compete with China because there were always -- well, with the United States -- values attached. Yes, we will do business with you, but you can't produce twice the pollution that the United States and the EU produce. You can't just go around and murder journalists on one day and expect us to come to your conferences the next day. whereas, China has been operating in a valueless zone," Scarborough said.
"It appears now that we are in the realm of what we criticize China for being just two years ago."
"For a long time, one of the big debates about foreign policy was American exceptionalism, that somehow we were different, we were going to be the shining city on a hill, we were going to stand for different things, we were going to do things differently. we didn't always live up to it, but that was the idea," Haas said.
"So much for that. We have basically jettisoned American exceptionalism, we are now just like everybody else, we have princelings working in positions of power, commercialism is the guiding light, the lodestar, shall we say, of American foreign policy. John is right, it's amoral to the point of being immoral, but now we are -- we've joined the pack and instead of them coming to us, which was the whole idea of American foreign policy, we were going to raise everybody's game to ours. Guess what, Joe, we have now lowered our game to theirs."
"Here is the president in the interview about the trustworthiness of the North Korean dictator."
STAHL: Do you trust him?
TRUMP: I do trust him, yeah, I trust him. That doesn't mean I can't be proven wrong.
STAHL: Why would you trust him?
TRUMP: First of all, if I didn't trust him, I wouldn't say that to you. I do trust him, but we will see what happens.
STAHL: Is it true that they haven't gotten rid of a single weapon and they may actually be building more missiles with nuclear --
TRUMP: I will tell you that they're closing up sites.
STAHL: But if what I said true, that they haven't --
TRUMP: Nobody really knows. People are saying that.
STAHL: Yeah.
TRUMP: I've actually said that and --
STAHL: That they're still building missiles, more missiles?
TRUMP: We don't really know. We really don't know. But I assume --
STAHL: Do you suspect that?
TRUMP: Let's say the answer is yes.
She plays the tape of Trump saying they "fell in love."
STAHL: I want to read you his resume, okay? He presides over a cruel kingdom of repression, gulags, starvation, reports that he had his half-brother assassinated, slave labor, public executions. This is a guy you love."
TRUMP: I know all of these things. I'm not a baby.
STAHL: Why do you love that guy?
TRUMP: Look, look, I like -- I get along with him, okay?
STAHL: But you said I love him.
TRUMP: Okay. that's just a figure of speech.
STAHL: No, it's like an embrace.
TRUMP: Well, let it be an embrace. let it be whatever it is --
STAHL: But he is a bad guy.
TRUMP: Look, let it be whatever it is. I get along with him really well, I have a good energy with him, i have a good chemistry with him.
Let's not mince words. Trump loves this guy because he's jealous. He wishes he could banish people, too! Remember, this is a man who cut off the health insurance for his own nephew with cerebral palsy to get back at his parents for contesting Fred Trump's will -- largely believed to have been coerced by DJT.
He loves thugs because it's a no-judgement zone.
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Trump: Pence 'Entitled To Make A Mistake' On Iraq, But Not Clinton
So nice to see Donald Trump has one set of standards for his running mate and another for his opponent.
Trump-Pence Tell Lesley Stahl They're All For Waterboarding
In the train wreck of a 60 Minutes interview, this exchange on torture just reinforced the ideas that our media is ridiculous, and the candidate is a fascist.
Mike Pence's Comical Attempt To Turn Trump's Flailings Into Great 'Leadership'
In an uncomfortable CBS 60 Minutes interview, Gov. Mike Pence tried his best to make Trump seem rational. It was embarrassing.
By John Amato
Facebook Embeds In Trump's Campaign Is A BFD, No Matter What Silicon Valley Says
This interview is everything that's wrong with Silicon Valley. This IS a big deal. A very, very BFD.
America No Longer Stands For Anything Other Than Getting What We Want
The 60 Minutes interview made it clear: Morality has no place in American leadership anymore.
Betsy DeVos Flunks 60 Minutes 101
Why even agree to an interview when you don't know what you're talking about? Because no one will ever hold her accountable.


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2018 Read Across The World – #OurGlobalClassroom #Whatif Take a look at the week that broke all @Flipgrids records, 4137 Ss sharing books Globally.
After a massive week watching students from around the world share so many amazing books this is a video showing classrooms using the Our Global Classroom Grid. What a amazing week of learning.
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$1,000 Phone Sex Bill For An 86-Year-Old Woman
February 21, 2009 By Ivo
Sometimes, when people try to pull off a scam, they do not pay much attention to the details, do they? Take this latest scam which borders on the ridiculous. Someone, somewhere out there, stole the identity of a man who has long passed away; created a credit card account in that man's name, and then managed to charge over a $1,000 in phone sex bills.
Unfortunately – or fortunately, as the case may be – the bill went to the widow of the "card holder." Arlene Hald, 86 years old, received a credit card bill from Preferred Platinum Plan. The bill was addressed to her husband Sylvester, who passed away about 20 years ago. Hald declares that they never had a credit card.
Naturally, the family took action and contacted Preferred Platinum Plan. To be fair to them, they immediately agreed to "remove the charges." Then again, there should be no question about that, right? The company was probably still non-existent when Sylvester passed away!
Peggy Rytych, Arlene Hald's daughter has stated that it was probably a case of ID theft and she may very well be right. While they were satisfied that the phone sex bill incident was taken care of, they had another surprise coming. Not long after that matter was resolved, another bill arrived – this time for $70.
These companies do not seem to get it, do they? I think that it is time for someone to take a closer look into this Preferred Platinum Plan entity. You would think that they were stricter on these things.
Filed Under: Family, People, Technology
Hottest News at the click of a mouse
February 4, 2009 By Ivo
Brain cancer cases are on the rise and the search for a cure is one of the most pressing undertakings of our generation. We have grown by leaps and bounds in our quest to understand the human brain and how it functions but it is still not enough to answer all our questions. Some of the best sources of information might be the most unlikely ones for as individual we are as our fingerprints, so does the manifestation of the disease and the best defense is access to the latest news and developments. Technology has greatly improved our access to information, through our computers, mobiles and portable computers we have with us each and everyday. On the road, we can get the latest information on diseases other news by simply logging into our preferred sites handing us information where ever, whenever you need it. You get the latest news about just about anything, even as you wait in line for the bus. Need the latest news on just about anything anywhere, then the internet is the place to go, so log on and start searching.
Filed Under: Family, Health, Nature, New Media, People, Technology, Website Tagged With: Futuristic news, Internet
Will Life Be Worth Living in 2000 AD?
October 24, 2008 By Ivo
Ok, so this isn't exactly what you'd call news, but I just had to share this amusing article written in 1961.
Some things slightly ring true, the bit where kids learn from TV (not entirely, but which parent hasn't bought and educational DVD, CD rom or system like Leapfrog?), indoor swimming pools and tv telephones, juice powders (Tang), tablets for energy and overall healthier people (the eco-friendly organic craze worldwide).
But largely, the article proves to me that scientists really can't predict the future after all, or we would have floating roofs on our houses by now!
The article was the the July 22 issue of Weekend Magazine (printed where? I have no idea, I doubt it still exists) found on the web in the Pixelmatic website.
What sort of life will you be living 39 years from now? Scientists have looked into the future and they can tell you.
It looks as if everything will be so easy that people will probably die from sheer boredom.
You will be whisked around in monorail vehicles at 200 miles an hour and you will think nothing of taking a fortnight's holiday in outer space.
Your house will probably have air walls, and a floating roof, adjustable to the angle of the sun.
Doors will open automatically, and clothing will be put away by remote control. The heating and cooling systems will be built into the furniture and rugs.
You'll have a home control room – an electronics centre, where messages will be recorded when you're away from home. This will play back when you return, and also give you up-to-the minute world news, and transcribe your latest mail.
You'll have wall-to-wall global TV, an indoor swimming pool, TV-telephones and room-to-room TV. Press a button and you can change the décor of a room.
The status symbol of the year 2000 will be the home computer help, which will help mother tend the children, cook the meals and issue reminders of appointments.
Cooking will be in solar ovens with microwave controls. Garbage will be refrigerated, and pressed into fertiliser pellets.
Food won't be very different from 1961, but there will be a few new dishes – instant bread, sugar made from sawdust, foodless foods (minus nutritional properties), juice powders and synthetic tea and cocoa. Energy will come in tablet form.
At work, Dad will operate on a 24 hour week. The office will be air-conditioned with stimulating scents and extra oxygen – to give a physical and psychological lift.
Mail and newspapers will be reproduced instantly anywhere in the world by facsimile.
There will be machines doing the work of clerks, shorthand writers and translators. Machines will "talk" to each other.
It will be the age of press-button transportation. Rocket belts will increase a man's stride to 30 feet, and bus-type helicopters will travel along crowded air skyways. There will be moving plastic-covered pavements, individual hoppicopters, and 200 m.p.h. monorail trains operating in all large cities.
The family car will be soundless, vibrationless and self-propelled thermostatically. The engine will be smaller than a typewriter. Cars will travel overland on an 18 inch air cushion.
Railways will have one central dispatcher, who will control a whole nation's traffic. Jet trains will be guided by electronic brains.
In commercial transportation, there will be travel at 1000 m.p.h. at a penny a mile. Hypersonic passenger planes, using solid fuels, will reach any part of the world in an hour.
By the year 2020, five per cent of the world's population will have emigrated into space. Many will have visited the moon and beyond.
Our children will learn from TV, recorders and teaching machines. They will get pills to make them learn faster. We shall be healthier, too. There will be no common colds, cancer, tooth decay or mental illness.
Medically induced growth of amputated limbs will be possible. Rejuvenation will be in the middle stages of research, and people will live, healthily, to 85 or 100.
There's a lot more besides to make H.G. Wells and George Orwell sound like they're getting left behind.
And this isn't science fiction. It's science fact – futuristic ideas, conceived by imaginative young men, whose crazy-sounding schemes have got the nod from the scientists.
It's the way they think the world will live in the next century – if there's any world left!
Filed Under: Humour, Media, Mystery, Science, Technology, Trends Tagged With: 1961, Futuristic news, magazine articles, news, Sci Fi
The Magic of Computer Graphics in Movies
July 10, 2007 By Ivo
A lot of criticism has been made with the use of computer graphical enhancements in most movies that we see today, but people are still at awe on how such technology has magnificently complemented movies in the manner to which they have been seen today. Such has been the critics review for the expected movie release of the movie 300. The movie �300� dates back towards the time of Greece�s medieval times. With the setting based on the early rule of swords, arrows, spears and shields, such excitement has been in the works, especially for people who love a good historical adventure story.
While there have been feedbacks of too much graphical imagery for the movie, the response on the expected release of the movie is still at an all time high. The trailers have been wonderfully done and this is something that has caused excitement to most people, especially the followers from earlier flicks such as �Gladiator� and �Lord of the Rings�.
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Olivia Newton-John's 'Grease' outfit could fetch up to $200,000 at auction
Updated 29th October 2019
Credit: Fotos International/Moviepix/Getty Images
Written by Rory Sullivan, CNN
The iconic black leather jacket and skin-tight pants worn by the singer and actress Olivia Newton-John in the film "Grease" will go on sale at an auction house in Beverly Hills on Saturday.
The outfit, made famous in the 1978 film's final song,"You're the One That I Want," is estimated to fetch between $100,000 and $200,000, according to the auction house selling it along with hundreds of other items from Newton-John's career.
Kurt Cobain's green cardigan was sold for a record-breaking $334,000
The actress, now 71, starred opposite John Travolta as Sandy Olsson. Ahead of the auction, Newton-John revealed that she had to be sewn into the high-waisted pants. "The pants have a broken zip and I had to be stitched into them because they were made in the '50s," she told Reuters Television.
After being diagnosed with breast cancer for the third time since 1992, Newton-John decided to sell more than 500 items from her career to raise funds for her cancer wellness center in Australia.
Olivia Newton-John's famous black leather jacket worn in the blockbuster film "Grease." Credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images
She told Reuters Television that it had taken months to sort through boxes and storage containers, but that it had been "a fun venture."
"I've realized over the years, especially when you go through stuff, that stuff isn't what's important," she added.
The call sheet from Two of a Kind, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, on display during a a press preview in New York on October 16, 2019. Credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images
Other items on sale include the original "Grease" script and the pink dress she wore to its premiere in LA, which are valued at $4,000 and $3,000-5,000, respectively.
A custom Pink Ladies jacket given to her by the "Grease" cast and crew will also go under the hammer and is expected to fetch between $2,000 and $4,000.
Film still from "Grease" (1978). Credit: Alamy
The auction includes pieces outside of the "Grease" realm, for example, dresses Newton-John wore during the tour of her double platinum 1981 album "Physical," the title track of which spent 10 weeks at No. 1 in the US charts, the longest of any song in the 1980s.
Remember when Madonna's cone bra made its debut?
Martin Nolan, executive director of Julien's Auctions, said in a statement the company was "honored" to host an auction to celebrate "one of pop music's greatest talents and treasured icons."
He added: "Her extraordinary career -- that includes her starring role in Grease, one of the most successful Hollywood films and soundtracks of all time -- and her recordings of some of the biggest pop singles of the 20th century, makes her more than just a star but a pop culture phenomenon."


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This news should not surprise you if you've been reading TPM over the last year. It's something I've discussed a number of times in different contexts. But we're now getting the first comprehensive studies showing that Russian propaganda campaigns played a major role in spawning and in other cases simply spreading "fake news" stories aimed at damaging Hillary Clinton and aiding Donald Trump.
This Washington Post piece does a nice job in explaining some of the patterns which have emerged.
But what I really want to flag to your attention is this article in Buzzfeed which notes that the German intelligence services are concerned that "fake news" and Russian hacking could disrupt the federal election scheduled to be held in Germany next year. On the one hand, they should be concerned. It would be odd if Russian hybrid warfare agencies didn't mount the same kind of effort in Germany that they did over the last two years in the US.
But this article – and the concern it documents – is helpful for another reason. It's illuminating to see the just concluded US election through foreign eyes. To them it's clear that our election was significantly disrupted and affected in its outcome by a hostile foreign power. Any domestic intelligence agency would be on guard in the face of that kind of threat.
But while they are on their guard, here in the US people are already starting to forget. We're on to worrying about Trump's latest outrage, taking up our preferred position in the internecine warfare within the Democratic party, cursing the pollsters and a lot else. Indeed, it's not just that many of us are starting to move on. All along the reality of what happened – that our election was manipulated by a highly effective Russian subversion campaign – is difficult to fully process or accept. So there's been a tendency to bracket it off as just another weird oddity of the 2016 cycle, some offensive mischief making that was galling but now behind us. But it is hard to see the German reaction and preparations and not get jolted back into a more honest view of the sobering reality. The Germans are preparing to counter and defeat electoral subversion we were unable to prevent and to which we fell victim. When you see that they are preparing to prevent what happened to us it gets a bit harder to sweep under the rug or forget that this really did happen to us.


My trip to the capital of Laos had been planned for more than a year, thanks to acquiring some ultra-cheap tickets in an AirAsia seat sale. As a country though, I had wanted to visit Laos for some time, but never really found the right opportunity. Most tourists head north to Luang Prabang, which seemed like a good reason to stay and explore Vientiane, or Vieng Chan as it's known locally.
I don't like making an early start to my day.
However, with a 7:35am flight time, I had no choice but to be up before 5am. That wasn't my original plan, but AirAsia changed the flight times after I'd booked … reducing what should have been a three day vacation into little more than a day and a half.
The state of KLIA's Low Cost Terminal did nothing to improve my mood. There is now a new international departure lounge, with just two gates. It's wrong to call it "new" because it seems to have been hastily converted from a garbage dump! It doesn't even have its own washrooms.
And from there I had to walk in unlit outdoor corridors to the plane. I asked the poor girl who was trying to check boarding cards in the dark if this was the "bring your own candle flight" but her response made me realize she was no more of a morning person than me. You'd think AirAsia could afford a few flashlights, but maybe the airline's headed in the same direction as India's Kingfisher.
Things improved once on board.
The cabin crew had a sense of humor, and the safety announcement was full of chuckles. Like … "If you can't find your seat belt, you're probably sitting on it." That raised a giggle or three. The comment "Please put on your own mask before assisting children, or any adults acting like children" seemed to go over everyone's head, but being advised "This is a non-smoking flight, so if you need to smoke, please go outside" seemed to amuse everyone. Luckily no one took their advice!
Vientiane's International Airport is small, but clean and modern. Not handing out landing cards during the flight caused minor chaos, as everyone had to complete those, and Visa application forms in the small Arrivals Hall. The US$42 Visa fee sort-of takes the edge of the "Welcome to Laos" greetings. The hotel thoughtfully met me at the airport, and the 4km ride to the city center was completed in minutes.
My first impressions were that Vientiane is very similar to a small Thai city. Come to think of it, my lasting impression is no different. As capital cities go, this must be one of the smallest. You can cover most of it in one day, leaving you wondering what to do with the rest of your stay – but I'll come back to that later.
The place is kind-of grubby, but caused more by the climate than the people. In fact just about every establishment seemed to have a trash can outside on the sidewalk, and as far as I could see, everyone used them. But; I'd chosen to visit in the dry season, which meant dead leaves and dust everywhere. The latter seems to rise up into the air, making the sky very hazy at all times.
I enjoyed my two-night stay at the AV Hotel. It's clean and pleasant, has helpful and courteous staff, and is centrally located. But I probably wouldn't choose it again, as it's quite short on facilities. The restaurant only serves breakfast – a reasonable buffet, with freshly-brewed, delicious Lao coffee – but some days, after a lot of walking, it's easier just to wander to your hotel's Coffee Shop, for a simple meal and several muscle-relaxing beers.
My plan for Day 1 was to walk around the city and see as much as possible, as I had something different planned for Day 2. I started with a 1km hike to something called Patuxai, roughly meaning Victory Gate. It's Vientiane's equivalent to Paris' Arc de Triomphe. Let's just say, it's worth seeing, but from a distance.
The monument was built using American funds, and in the 1960s cement actually originally intended to build an airfield during the Vietnam War, was used in the structure. The United States had given Laos money to build a new city airport. However, the Laotian government of the day used the money to build the monument instead. As a consequence, the monument is sometimes referred to as the "vertical runway".
Patuxai, Victory Gate, or Vientianne's Arc de Triomphe.
From there, I wandered back towards the hotel, in search of lunch. En route, I stopped off at the Talat Sao Mall and a Morning Market, but couldn't find much of interest. Wikitravel actually warns that it is a place for "dumped products from Thailand" most of which are fake.
Later, I found a pleasant-looking restaurant, just a stone's throw from my hotel, and next to a large stupa, known as That Dam, or Black Stupa. It's believed to house a seven-headed snake, or naga, which supposedly tried to protect the Lao people from the invading Siamese back in 1827. I can't find out how old it is, but apparently it used to be covered in gold. That would be an improvement.
After a very cheap meal of salmon fried rice I began to realize how tired I was, and how hot it was becoming. While I was there the skies were cloudless, and the temperature hit 36 degrees each afternoon. With low humidity and dust in the air, it was like walking around in a furnace. So, I did the obvious thing, and slept through the hottest part of the day.
So many wats that I can't remember what wat is which!
The wats (or vats in Lao) are everywhere … two or three to every city block. Most are worth visiting, as they can be quite differently decorated, but a few are kind-of drab. Most seem to feature a large covered entrance hall, which apparently distinguishes them from Thai wats.
The Mekong turned-out to be a disappointment. In the dry season, the water is almost non-existent. It looks like it could be half a kilometer wide in the wet season, but at this time of year, that half-kilometer is just sand. Some years ago, I looked across from the other side, in Thailand, and it was the same vast expanse of sand.
No matter. I wandered some distance along the not-much-waterfront, visiting more wats, a street market, and a statue of Chao Anouvong, the Lane Xang kingdom's last monarch.
After watching the sunset over the Mekong puddle, I headed back to the hotel.
Following a much needed shower to remove the many layers of dust, I was ready to eat. I'd seen several restaurants near the Black Stupa, just half a block away, and found a nice outdoor, casual place, attached to the rather pretentiously named "Château du Laos" hotel. It was plain wooden benches and tables, which was just fine with me. Fried egg noodles with pork and a variety of vegetables was sandwiched by a pair of large bottles of Beerlao, the local brew. This is good beer! I could live on the stuff.
By about 9pm, it was much cooler and pleasant, almost a Mediterranean climate. It seemed I was lucky to pick a restaurant that didn't close at nine, as most other places were winding down, and the quiet back street became almost silent. I wandered back to the hotel at around ten, just before they rolled up the sidewalks and packed them away for the night!
An interesting, hot, dry, dusty, tiring, but rewarding day. Day 2 was supposed to be quite different.


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Saint Canna was a sixth-century mother of saints and later a nun in south Wales.

According to the writings of the unreliable Iolo Morganwg, Canna was a daughter of the Breton King Tudur Mawr, and widely held to be related to Saint Illtud.

She married her cousin Sadwrn, and in his old age, Sadwyn accompanied Saint Cadfan to Britain where he founded two churches, one in Anglesey and one in Carmarthenshire. Canna accompanied her husband, with their son Crallo. After the death of Sadwrn, she remarried and became the mother of Saint Elian Geimiad.

Canna founded a church in West Wales and then became a nun. She reportedly founded a church in Llangan in the Vale of Glamorgan, where there is a church dedicated to her, built on the site of at least one previous. Near the west wall of St. Canna's Church is a 9th-10th century disc-headed cross slab,  high, depicting the Crucifixion. There was a well below the old church called Ffynnon Ganna, {Canna's Holy Well}, whose water was believed to have curative properties and was a site of pilgrimage for many centuries.

Her name also appears as part of two Cardiff districts: Canton (English translation of the Welsh Treganna, Saint Canna's Town); and Pontcanna (Welsh for Canna's Bridge). St. Canna's Close is located in Canton.

Canna's Feast day is celebrated on 25 October.

A Masonic Lodge No. 6725, within South Wales Eastern Division, is named after Saint Canna.

St Crallo's Church is dedicated to Canna's son, the 6th century Celtic saint, Saint Crallo, whose feast is August 8. The village in which the church is situated, Coychurch is known in the Welsh language as Llangrallo; Llan – Church, Grallo – Crallo, the church of Crallo. It is believed that the saint founded a church on the site before the construction of the present medieval building.

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PSU celebrates opening of Pan-African Commons and PIAAA Cultural centers
On Wednesday, Nov. 2, the Cultural Resource Centers held their Grand Opening Celebration for both the new Pan-African Commons and the Pacific Islander, Asian & Asian American Student Center. Students, faculty, staff, administrators and community leaders gathered for a celebration that included speeches and performances from those whose diversity reflects the broad coalition that made the creation of these centers possible.
Among the speakers at the event was Melika Belhaj, one of the student organizers for last year's "Students of Color Speak Out," an event which has been credited as the catalyst for the urgency behind the creation of the two new Cultural Resource Centers. Being a student of color as well as working and studying full-time to earn her degree, Belhaj had some advice for students who may be struggling to find time to take advantage of the campus resources, including these new centers.
"Even though I worked full time, and I was going to school full time, I made the time to go to those events because they fed me, they lifted me up," Belhaj said. "My advice would be to really be cognizant about, as individual students, how do we feel, how am I feeling on a day-to-day basis as I move through school? Does this provide me with some serenity? Does it provide me with some strength? Because that's what it provided me with, and that's how I was able to move through the rest of my education."
Many of the speakers lauded the new centers as physical manifestations of the administration's commitment to diversity and reiterated the importance of having safe spaces where students could come and simply be themselves. They also emphasized the fact that while these victories are important, there is always further work to be done.
CRC Executive Director Cynthia Gomez discussed the importance of having students involved in this work. "Regardless of who you are, regardless of how you want to get involved, these centers are a great place to go because they're student-centered organizations," Gomez said. "We have professional CRC staff to plug students in and help them be successful at whatever it is they want to do."
Gomez also stressed that these centers are open to everyone and encouraged any student who doesn't necessarily identify with or represent a particular group but wants to be an ally or to simply better understand their fellow students to visit these centers and be part of the environment and dialogues that take place.
The CRC's five-year plan also includes a student center for Middle Eastern and Arab students.
Last year, the CRC hosted more than 375 events and had over 64,000 staff, students, faculty and community members visit the centers. Prior to the opening of the two new centers, the CRC included the Multicultural Student Center, the Native American Student and Community Center, and La Casa Latina Student center. The creation of the Pan-African Commons and PIAAA center was announced by President Wim Wiewel late last year, in response to increasing concerns voiced by students about discrimination and the lack of cultural spaces.
Anyone interested in learning more is encouraged to sign up for the CRC's weekly newsletter, which shares information about upcoming events, as well as available leadership opportunities and ways to get involved in the ongoing process of shaping the missions of these new cultural centers. You can sign up on the Cultural Resource Centers web page or in person at any of the CRC student centers. The Pan-African Commons and PIAAA center are located in Smith Memorial Student Union 236 and 235.
Cynthia Gomez
Pan-African Commons
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Over a Dozen Museums Go Free for a Weekend
Over a dozen museums will waive admission for a weekend
By Alysia Gray Painter	• Published January 19, 2013 • Updated on January 26, 2013 at 9:49 am
January is Los Angeles Art Month, don't you know (we're quite sure you do). But Los Angeles Art Month, like an elaborate gallery exhibit, doesn't necessarily put all of the good stuff up front.
Oh, sure, there is some good stuff near the front of the gallery -- er, the month -- but one is sure to find some of the best surprises near the end. Exhibit A? The Museums Free-for-All, which is preparing to mark its eighth annual outing over the final weekend of the first month of the year.
What does "Free-for-All" mean, exactly? Just that: A dozen-and-a-half museums will kiss admission prices goodbye for an entire weekend, or mostly.
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"Mostly" meaning the museum will be free either on Saturday, Jan. 26 or Sunday, Jan. 27. A good deal, still, if you plan your visit accordingly.
The single-dayers include the Craft and Folk Art Museum, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and the Pacific Asia Museum. The both-dayers include The Autry, the Hammer Museum, and the Annenberg Space for Photography.
Note that if there's usually a charge for parking, you'll still need to pay for that. Also note that special exhibits that are ticketed separately aren't in the "come-in-for-free" mix. Don't be disappointed when you find that out at the ticket window.
But truly, it's a good deal, and a fine way to round out Los Angeles Art Month *and* the traditional month of the year when we all try and stick to a budget, with the resolutions and holiday bills and all. Thanks, cultural institutions of LA, for thinking of us.
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Fish native to Grand Canyon, from left to right: humpback chub, razorback sucker, bluehead sucker, flannelmouth sucker, speckled dace, and the three extirpated species: Colorado pikeminnow, roundtail chub and bonytail.
For information on fishing licenses, visit the Arizona Game and Fish Department website.
The Colorado River running through Grand Canyon once hosted one of the most distinctive fish assemblages in North America. The wild Colorado River presented fish with a challenging and variable aquatic habitat: very large spring floods, near-freezing winter temperatures, warm summer temperatures, and a heavy silt load.
As a result, only eight fish species were native to Grand Canyon. Of the eight species, six are endemic, meaning that they are only found in the Colorado River basin.
Many of these Colorado River specialists share distinctive physical characteristics-large adult size, small eyes and skulls, thick leathery skin, and a distinctive hump or keel behind the head.
Based on anecdotal reports from early researchers, it is likely that native fish populations in Grand Canyon began to decline as early as the 1890s. Today, only five of Grand Canyon's native fish are still found in the park. The humpback chub, a large and unusual-looking member of the minnow family specifically adapted to the deep swift reaches of the Colorado River, is listed as an endangered species. Razorback suckers, also listed as endangered, are very rare within the park.
Native fish in Grand Canyon face a myriad of threats today, including non-native fish and the alteration of their river habitat by Glen Canyon Dam. National Park Service Management Policies require that native species and natural ecosystems are preserved, and that recovery actions are taken when park resources have been damaged or compromised.
Furthermore, a variety of laws, including the Endangered Species Act, require the protection of threatened and rare species.
Fisheries biologists at work during the translocation.
The National Park Service and its cooperators have initiated a multi-faceted program to restore native fish in Grand Canyon.
This program includes translocating humpback chub to Shinumo and Havasu Creeks, which are Grand Canyon tributaries that provide suitable habitat for the species.
Park biologists are removing non-native trout in Bright Angel Creek and Shinumo Creek in an effort to restore native fish and habitat to these larger perennial tributaries.
Grand Canyon's native fish are an integral and unique part of the canyon's natural ecosystems. Robust populations of native fish are important indicators of an aquatic system's overall health.
Restoring native fish to the extent possible in the Colorado River and its tributaries in Grand Canyon is essential to maintaining and enhancing the ecological integrity of Grand Canyon National Park.
Grand Canyon National Park and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, in coordination with the Arizona Game and Fish Department, propose to develop and implement a coordinated plan for fisheries management in the face of threats related to non-native species, habitat alteration, and other potential environmental impacts.
The plan will provide an adaptive management framework for fisheries management decisions in all waters between Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Mead, including tributaries, over the coming decades.
An Environmental Assessment (EA) was released to the public in June, 2013, for a 30-day review and comment period. Over fifty comments were received, with most in support of Alternative 2, the preferred alternative.


Pumpkin season has arrived! It's time to put that crop top in your summer storage and pull out your coziest sweatsuit because it's officially pumpkin season. Since we're transitioning into breezy nights and shorter days, your friends might want to stay in their houses more often. As we all know, this season for college students is a time of extreme focus due to midterms, keeping up with your class readings or lab reports, maintaining your overall health, and other issues us college kids endure. It's up to us to keep things flowing to break up the repetition of a school week. Let's get into some fun activities, shall we?
Have you ever wondered what else you could possibly do on a chilly Friday night? (Besides staying in the house, of course.) No need to think too hard. I'm here to give you some of the best off-campus activities for a night like this! As a college student living on campus, I understand the struggle of making plans and questioning if your friends will actually go through with them. These activities will ensure that they will.
First, our community knows you can't do all of these festivities without a rad outfit. Throw something cute on while remaining comfy. We all know that comfort is key! I know being in college sometimes makes you care less about how you look, but you'll probably want to document the good times. Style a sweater with a pair of trendy leopard print flats. Or rock a pair of culotte-style jeans with a teddy jacket. The options are endless. Fall weather can be feisty, so dress in layers. The mentioned activities are also great places to find Insta-worthy backgrounds. Take plenty of pictures and videos. Just thank me later.
Indoor skydiving. Tap into your inner daredevil! This is dependent on your location, though.
Hit up a lounge for music, drinks, and food with your crew.
Paint balling. This is especially cool for college students who attend a school in a rural or "woods-y" area.
Movie night at a theatre with the lounge seating OR iPic Theatre. I suggest iPic if you're near one in the city.
Have a game night at a friends house. Uno, What Do You Meme?, any game will do really.
Night drives. These are always chill friend dates to go on. Open the sunroof and blast some music.
Research any upcoming college events. A fashion show? Banquet? Performances? Getting extra beautified with your girls and going out is always a good time. Don't forget to take pictures.
Restaurant hop around your college town. You're bound to like something.
Pumpkin and apple picking. This is always a cool way to ring in the brisk weather!
Exercise class. Try yoga or dancing. I recommend a "Soca 'n' Sweat" class if it's available in your area.
Spa day. A relaxing day of being pampered is always essential. Go treat yourself!
Acrobatics excursion. Some malls, depending on your location, have acrobat sessions with a professional in the mall.
Dave & Busters. A classic.
Open Mic Nights. If you're into the arts such as slam poetry, singing, rapping, etc. this is the activity for you.
There you have it. A few things to get you going this semester to unwind after a strenuous day of classes. We're all trying to stay warm on a cold night, but these activities will keep you entertained if they're what you're into. To the community members reading this while saying, "I don't know, I've never tried that before," I challenge you to take a huge step out of your comfort zone! Grab your crew and try something brand new.
Opening photo by Hadley Robinson.
How are you celebrating the start of fall off campus? Tag us in all your autumn pics @cfashionista!


You're invited to a free informational session about planning for senior care on April 7 at 6:30 p.m. located at 4107 Central Ave. Kearney, NE 68847.
This one-hour panel will help you create a strategy to take control of the board and set your loved ones up for a winning game. Hear from keynote speakers and families who have figured out their move. Refreshments will be served.
Space is limited. Please RSVP to [email protected] or 866.631.8291.


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Arkane - Enraptured Serene Mesmerism
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Hypnotic, darkly beautiful and ritualistic, 'Enraptured Serene Mesmerism' is professionally written, recorded and presented material from Greece's Arkane. Lush neo-classical with ambient and deep symphonic elements, a must for fans of most Cold Meat and Projekt label artists.
Arkane enchant the world with eight new compositions, all which are filled with an atmosphere that's dark, gloomy and occult, and so very beautiful. Enraptured Serene Mesmerism is the first release of the newly risen Greek label Seduction Prod. (2008) The concept of this album revolves around the nereid, which are in old Greek mythology the nymphs of the sea.
This also makes the two tracktitles with 'sirenia' understandable, as these nereid were frequently pictured riding a plethora of sea animals.
The tracks are basically build up in a rather similar way. Slow, dark and deep neoclassical and dark ambient soundscapes with female recitations that have no words. Though this concept sounds like it can become boring relatively soon, nothing could be less true. The different musical compositions are crafted wonderfully, and combined with ArkanumX' voice it brings forth pictures of beautiful old gothic buildings, in which such music would be simply perfect. On three tracks however, there's more to please the ears.
On tracks two through four, Sibelian's Stephen Svanholm (who we all know from the track "The Sin Eater" from CMI's Flowers Made Of Snow sampler and his track on Radio Rivendell compilation vol. 2 - The Book of War) adds his voice in reciting some lyrics, adding more depth to the tracks. Wonderful! Also, on the third track there are whispers added by a woman that goes by the name of Arcanstra M.
The release comes in an esthetically pleasing four panel DVD sized digipack with a simple and clean layout.
According to the Heathen Harvest review of this album it should be pleasing for people who enjoy acts like Encryption, Acnocto and Valley Lord.


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