First season? Here are 50 nifty tips for day workers and deckhand newbies.
1. Do your homework before the season, including writing your sailing CV, registering online with crew recruitment agencies and storing electronic copies of CVs, certificates, references and passports on a USB stick.
3.	Superyachts allow you to live and work with virtually zero living costs. Grab the chance to save or pay off debt.
4.	Buy a good pair of sunglasses (plus strap) and a Leatherman.
5.	Buy a laptop before the season and Skype family and friends back home.
6.	Drink loads of water and wear sun cream.
7.	Wear in your deck shoes before you start dock walking.
8.	Take off your shoes and wipe your feet on the mat before boarding any yacht.
9.	Always ask permission before stepping aboard.
10.	Never have more than one or two people on the passerelle.
11.	Don't believe rumours or prophets of doom, always investigate for yourself.
12.	'Please, thank you, excuse me, I'm sorry' are phrases that oil the relationships of any crew.
13.	Always take the initiative by introducing yourself to people you don't know.
14.	Communicate clearly and concisely, especially when using handheld radios.
15.	Never gossip about guests, captains or crew.
17.	Always look before you step (or you could end up in the bilge with a broken leg).
19.	Anticipate (weather, guests' needs, potential hazards etc).
20.	If you open it, close, if you use, it, put it back, if you finish it, replace it.
21.	When living and working on yachts, remember the little things are the big things.
22.	Fold boxes flat and crush cans and plastic bottles to save space.
23.	Place extra bin liners at the bottom of rubbish bins.
24.	Carry rubbish bags over the side of the boat when taking rubbish off the boat.
25.	Stay drug-free and tattoo-free.
26.	Go to a yacht chandary and get familiar with marine cleaning products and materials.
27.	When washing the boat, don't nick the paintwork with belt-buckles or broom handles.
28.	Learn fast, everyone else had to.
29.	Don't make enemies; the yachting world is too small.
30.	Keep your language and the soles of your feet clean.
31.	Never turn down an opportunity to daywork.
32.	If you're given a tip-off, keep it to yourself or someone else might scoop your job.
33.	During wash downs, always work from the top down and avoid wetting neighbouring boats.
34.	Walk softly over the decks and don't slam doors or hatches.
35.	Never drag, drop or throw anything onto teak decks.
36.	Be positive, proactive, punctual and professional.
37.	Network relentlessly, it really is about who you know.
38.	Never ask about salaries during interviews.
39.	Collect as many written references as possible.
40.	Always keep your CV up to date and always have a copy with you.
41.	Lies and/or laziness will get you fired.
42. Be aware of what's happening around you, for example, the neighbouring boat that is about to leave, the chafing stern line or the person on the quay looking for the captain.
44.	If you have a safety thought, act on it.
45.	Kink hoses before removing the nozzle gun and always drain the water from the hose before coiling it and stowing it away.
46.	Be obsessive about personal hygiene and cooking hygiene.
47. When cleaning the hull from the tender or raft, attach a line to the suction cups to avoid losing them in the water (like I did!) Don't try attach the suction cups to the curved section of the hull or you'll end up in the water, like Matt did!
49.	Look after your health and weight and stock up on multivitamins.
50. Relish every magic moment (sundowners at anchor, watching the Monaco Grand Prix) because life is short and no job lasts forever.


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Pakistani Students Win Top Spots in the Huawei ICT Competition Middle East 2021
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This year marked the sixth iteration of the Huawei ICT Middle East Competition in collaboration with the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan. The competition is a Huawei annual ICT initiative, designed to nurture global ICT talent. On 23rd December, winners were announced and Pakistan's team one consisting of Sateesh Kumar, Iqra Fatima, and Bhagchand Meghwar along with their instructor Dr. Faheem Khuhawar Instructor won 1st prize of 20,000 USD. Not only so, the 2nd prize was also grabbed by Pakistan's team two consisting of Hafiz Rizwan, Adnan Ali, and Mukhtar Memon along with their instructor. Team Jordan won the third prize of the competition.
This year, the final round of the competition witnessed participation of 11 teams from countries covering the entire Middle East Region. Over the month of October, Huawei's Talent Ecosystem team carried out multiple roadshows at more than 134 universities, hitting a registration number of 10,150 candidates. The Preliminary Round of the competition was initially conducted, carried out through both online and onsite examinations that 3000 students STEM students nominated by HEC undertook. All Government issued SOP's were followed for the onsite exams.
The National Finals consisted of the top 500 students, who all had all participated in the enablement trainings prior to the finals. Interviews were taken of the top 50 students to test their skills and expertise from which 8 top students were shortlisted for Regional training.
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The next phase of the competition followed further interviews and lab tasks. 8 students were interviewed after regional training and the top 6 qualified for Regional Exam which was scheduled to be held in Saudi Arabia. The top 6 students made it to the next round. Regional Finals were conducted from 21st – 23rd Dec in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
"Every team consists of three members and was given a task to demonstrate their skill in the lab. We were assigned to make protocols to make Wi-Fi connections more secure. We completed it with the best security solutions and won first prize with $20,000 cash reward thanks to the trainings given to us by Huawei."
Fatima from Team One said:
Meghwar, who was born in Tharparkar, Sindh, exclaimed, "I come from a village where there aren't a lot of resources on hand, so it is like a dream for me to win such a prestigious competition."
In a Twitter post, the Pakistani embassy in Riyadh congratulated both the winning teams. The trainers of both Pakistani teams received excellent tutor awards as well.
The competition has always been well received in Pakistan as it promotes innovation and creativity while serving as a link between the classroom and the professional workplace. By nurturing university students' talent in Pakistan, it also contributes to increasing national ICT competitiveness while enhancing digital transformation efforts.
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Yesterday, our friends from Go West Terrain Studios put up their Kickstarter. They have done an amazing job creating a modular MDF line of terrain. The buildings all have hexagonal shapes and look great!
The line carries modular multi-story buildings, a monorail train with train station and elevated monorail track, holo-ads, walkways, bridges, planters and building extensions. So if you guys want some fresh terrain that not only looks good, but also has some rarely seen features like a elevated monorail, be sure to back these guys up!
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According to a statement from the organization's leaders, the rechristening better reflects its commitment to widespread data reform and its central mission to standardize and publish all government information in open data format.
"Our new name reflects the broad impact of open data: not only better transparency for citizens and investors, but also better management within government through analytics and cheaper compliance through standards-enabled automation," said Hudson Hollister, founder and executive director of the coalition.
Initial support for the foundation is derived from industry-leading members of the coalition, with the addition of accounting firm Kearney & Co.
Together, the Data Coalition and Data Foundation will continue to pursue longstanding initiatives such as the full implementation of the DATA Act and the passage of the Financial Transparency Act. The foundation is expected to begin research projects that include a federal DATA Act survey, a study of standardized business reporting, and a cost-benefit analysis of the Legal Entity Identifier adoption.
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On Wednesday we ventured along the cycle track in rain and wind in mass to raise money for Meningitis; saving lives, rebuilding futures. We invited our families and friends to join the fun, where we togged the children up in water-proofs and wellies to start the Waddle. We had a number of volunteers who helped us, which we were very pleased to see so thank you! This allowed all of Free Rangers to venture out, leaving Valerie behind to man the fort and prepare our well-earned lunch! Firstly the Nest and Warren set off, closely followed behind by the Burrow and then last but not least the Den. Each staff member was responsible of a little group and had discussions of trees, insects, puddles, dogs, horses and why we were doing the charity waddle!
In my group we pretended to be 'Under the Sea Creatures', as this was the theme, we were swishing our bottoms as a whale, walking sideways for a crab, star jumps for star fish and running for racing boats!! The children had so much fun, needless to say on the homeward stretch they were a bit tired! When we arrived in the tunnel for a snack and a drink the children all sat down with friends and family and enjoyed a homemade banana and raisin biscuit in shape of a Star Fish, prepared by Valerie and fruit juice, these were devoured with smiling faces!! One of the children said "this is the best party under the tunnel." Whilst we were enjoying our snack members of the public walked past saying "hello"!
Once snack had finished we headed back to FR HQ, this time not so fast! When we arrived back at base we had a head count, changed our soggy clothes and prepared for lunch and home time. The children were full of smiles and talking about the walk. Needless, to say we had a great time, Thank you for coming and supporting us.
I am still collecting donations, so if you have not yet done so please can you donate £1.00 if your child participated in the Toddle Waddle!! We will upload our event to the Toddle Waddle facebook page www.facebook.comtoddlewaddles and the Somerset Guardian. Once all donations our collected I will let you know on the weekly email, how much we raised. Free Rangers will also be donating.


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Did You Know There is an Ice-Sailing Club Near Calgary?
By Matthew Coyte December 6, 2018 February 2, 2019
Dating back to the 1950s, the Ghost Lake Ice Sailing Club has around 30 members who go ice-sailing on Ghost Lake near Cochrane.
Photograph by Stefan Dalberg.
Speeding across a frozen lake at 100 kilometres per hour in a rig that resembles a bullet might sound a scene from a Tom Cruise movie. But for members of the Ghost Lake Ice Sailing Club, it's just a regular weekend.
Stefan Dalberg has been a part of the local ice-sailing community for over 30 years. His parents got him into it when he was 12 and he has stuck with it ever since. The club dates back to the 1950s and currently has around 30 members who head for Ghost Lake near Cochrane starting on the first weekend of December when the ice is typically thick enough.
Local sailors are fortunate to have Ghost Lake as their home turf. With its proximity to the mountains, favourable winds and large surface area, Dalberg doesn't hesitate to call it one of the top three ice-sailing lakes on the planet, drawing enthusiasts from across Canada and the U.S. That said, as a sport ice-sailing is ultra-niche; Dalberg estimates there are only a couple thousand ice-sailors worldwide. As such, there aren't many commercially made iceboats out there and most enthusiasts build their own using custom-ordered parts. Half the battle is getting the materials together, and with costs ranging from $2,000 to $4,000, it's certainly not cheap.
Building iceboats also takes a kind of technical know-how that Dalberg fears is increasingly rare. "Our generation doesn't really use hand tools the way our parents did," he says. "Ice-sailing is one of those sports where you have to be a bit technically adept. You have to know how to repair them."
Even though the club has seen its numbers decline over the past decades, Dalberg says the sense of community remains strong. "There is a wide breadth of people, from those who just want to go fast, to avid sailors," he says. "It's a real eclectic bunch."
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My Cutlass S was bought new by my father-in-law back in 1970. It was his first new car and my wife learned how to drive in the car at age 16.
I performed a complete body-off restoration between 2003 to 2006. The restoration has taken the car from stock to mild custom with some engine improvements, disc brakes, and larger wheels.
I still have all the cancelled cheques and paper work for the oil changes back in the 70s. My wife of 37 years still enjoys driving the car she learnt how to drive on. It drives great!


Relations between Church and State are good and there is no rift between them, Archbishop of Athens and All of Greece Ieronymos said on Tuesday.
When asked about the problems that arose with the ministry of education and the disagreement over the lesson of religion at schools, Ieronymos said that there were disagreements and problems, but not a rift. "But there are problems within families as well," the Archbishop said characteristically.


Will Personalization of Search Engines Kill the Need For SEO?
It has been a worry of many SEOs for the last couple of years. Will the fact that search engines are adding more "personalization" to the search results eventually kill the business of performing search engine optimization for web sites? SEO has become a very lucrative business and has seen many new companies as well as individuals come into the space for the last several years. SEOs fear that their livelihood may be in jeopardy as engines like Google, Yahoo and others cater to the personal searching habits of their users.
Gord Hotchkiss of Enquiro recently sat down with one of Google's most prominent software engineers, Matt Cutts, to discuss the topic of personalization and the future of SEO. Gord also provides an overview and some additional commentary at Search Engine Land. Following are a few excerpts and observations.
Gord: With Google moving towards more personalization of the search results page, there's some negative feedback that seems to be coming primarily from the SEO community.
Matt: I think that it's natural that some people would be worried about change, but some of the best SEO's are those that are able to adapt, that are able to look down the road 4 or 5 years and say, "What are the big trends going to be?" and adjust for those trends in advance, so that when a search engine does make a change which you think is inevitable or will eventually happen, they'll be in a good position.
Gord: You can't look at a page of search results any more and say "that's going to be the same page of test results that everyone's seeing." Given that, we're going to be seeing less of universal search results. Is this the nail in the coffin for shady SEO tactics?
Matt: I wouldn't say that it's necessarily the nail in the coffin, but it's clearly a call to action, where there's a fork in the road and people can think hard about whether they're optimizing for users or whether they're optimizing primarily for search engines.
Gord: A lot of SEOs are almost more engineers right now, where they're looking at the algorithm and trying to figure out how to best it. You're asking them to become a lot of things, more marketing, PR, content developers, and know more about the user, more about user behavior online. These are very different skill sets and often don't reside in the same body. What is this going to do to the SEO industry?
Matt: I think the SEO's that adapt well to change and optimize for users are going to be in relatively good shape, because they're trying to produce sites that are really pleasing and helpful to users. It's definitely the case that if all you care about is an algorithm than the situation grows more complicated for you with personalization. But it's also an opportunity for people to take a fresh look at how they do SEO.
Gord: Is there still a place for the pure SEO consultant out there?
Matt: I think there still is a place for you for a pure SEO consultant but it's also true that over time those consultants have to keep adding to their skill set. A few years ago no one would have even thought about the word Ajax and now people have to think about Ajax or Flash and how do I handle some of these new interfaces to still make sites crawlable? So I definitely think there will still be places for consulting and improving crawlability of sites and advice on keywords and personalization will add some wrinkles to that, but I have faith that, over time we'll see the benefit to users and if you make good site for your users, you will naturally benefit as a result.
What I really get out of this interview is confirmation that if you focus on building a quality site that rivals others in your niche, you will be rewarded. That has always been my philosophy of which I have seen positive results of time and time again. It is also confirmation that we should be looking more towards analytics as opposed to static ranking reports. Sure it is nice to "own" a particular phrase but what is really interesting to me is to see the multitude of search queries that a site can draw traffic from that is a direct result of simply having good and concise content. Furthermore discovering which search terms convert visitors into paying customers. This is the beauty of good web analytics which are indeed the evolution from static ranking reports.
Am I worried? To be honest with you, no. That is mostly because we have always focused on making the sites we have the privilege to work on the very best in their niches. Yes that may require a lot of hard work that goes beyond tricks, reverse engineering search results and the like. However, in my almost ten years of doing this, I have continued to see the rewards for such a practice.


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American idol: Why time is running out for the old-school Chevrolet Corvette
Chevrolet has spent more than 65 years refining the front-engined Corvette, and this is the star-spangled result. But ever-tightening emissions regulations, plus the imminent arrival of a new, mid-engined model – much to the consternation of the Corvettes loyal fanbase – mean time is almost up for this iconic sports car.
The UK has just one official supplier for Corvettes: Ian Allan Motors of Virginia Water, Surrey. Its the custodian of the last few seventh-generation Corvettes for British buyers. Stock is limited, so youll need to be flexible on options if you want one.
Do not mistake this Corvette Grand Sport for a one-off personal import. It was built to comply with European legislation and tailored for the UK market. It also comes with a three-year pan-European warranty and breakdown cover, so owning one should be no more stressful than any other sports car.
A bellowing 6.2-litre naturally aspirated V8 engine is not something you see in many sports cars, however, certainly not in 2019. Grand Sport specification means this veteran Vette produces an impressive 466hp, along with 465lbft of muscular torque. It sends power to the rear wheels via a seven-speed manual gearbox or eight-speed automatic with paddle-shifters.
It also makes the Grand Sport seriously quick, with 0-60mph sorted in just over four seconds. Find enough space and a top speed of up to 180mph is possible. You can choose from five different driving modes, including a Weather setting tailored to driving this thundering brute in the rain.
Engaging Sport mode stiffens the ride from the magnetically adjustable suspension and adds weight to the steering. It also helps deliver a pleasing amount of growl and bark from the four exhaust tailpipes. Even Eco mode is available, saving fuel by shutting down some of those eight cylinders when not theyre needed. It helps nudge fuel economy into the low-20s, compared to mid-teens (ouch!) when pushing on.
You dont need to go fast, though; just cruising at normal speeds with the roof down is a joy. Let the auto box do the work and watch other motorists gawp at this fulsome chunk of Americana. In Grand Sport trim the Corvette certainly stands out, with widened bodywork plus extra air vents and spoilers. The inside is similarly purposeful, with the centre console angled towards the driver. Sports seats grab you in the right places and a flat-bottomed steering wheel is finished in suede for the full race car effect.
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3 pouches based on various finds, but not slavish copies of any one piece, but what is notable is the way two of the three are fastened using the strap passing through a bracket and the large amount of metal work involved on the front panels.
The seaxes are also based on various finds, though again not slavish copies. The blades in all cases are by Owen Bush and all other work is by myself.
The second seax is based loosely on the Aachen seax and has a piled edge with a thin band of wrought and then a pattern welded back. This has been fitted into a simple horn grip finished with a brass cap. The sheath is decorated in carved patterns and has custom sculpted brass plates along the top and decorated brass suspension rings.
The third seax is more of a brute and has a heavily pattern welded blade and has been fitted to a laburnum and horn grip with some silver inlay. The sheath to match this is based on one from Durbheim and is held together completely with studs and rivets.
I hope you like them and of course and questions or comments; please fire away.
Damn you Tod, that Aachen seax is lovely but the sheath work is brilliant, especially the fittings.
These seaxes are all fabulous.
Great job and beautiful inlay.
The labumum and horn handles is especially attractive.
Those pouches are fantastic, Tod! Maybe I am biased, but they look better than any modern purse design I have seen in awhile. The way you signed that first seax is too clever.
I have a question which is tangentially related to the topic.
Why is some horn black and other horn gray to translucent? I've wondered about this.
What is approx. size of each sax?
Excellent all around (including the purses), thanks for sharing.
Buffalo horn is black and was easily available in Europe and ox horn near the tips is black and then as it gets further from the tips becomes a sort of 'tortoise shell' and more translucent with browns, golds, creams and greys.
They are now in Canada, so can't measure but the bigger two were almost exactly the same and were around 14" I think and the Aachen was around 10" I think, maybe 11"
This wasn't really a collaboration as such, I ordered 1 blade specifically for the inlay and the client ordered the other two from pieces Owen had. I would say a collaboration is when we both set out on a project and develop it together, but in this case he just supplied the blades. We are good friends though and ocassionally do work together and usually it is just that we would both like to work on.
Tod, those are all great, but I really love the last two. The horn handle is a great feature, very nice to see the historical method. The last one really speaks to me. Thanks for sharing.


I just finished reading Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us by Avi Tuschman, an appropriate topic for this election year. While well-written, this heavily-researched, scientific analysis of where and why individuals fall on the political spectrum of left to right might not be everyone's idea of summer reading, so I will give a very brief summary of its main points.
Conservatives are extremely concerned with protecting their in-group from all those who are in the out-groups, which is the vast majority of the rest of the world. Fear drives their ideology, leading them to want to build walls, both metaphorical and actual, to protect their in-group from 'invasion' and change.
Liberals are open to new experiences and groups. They are drawn to those who are different from themselves and don't really see the world in terms of in-groups and out-groups. Rather, they see everyone's humanity. Because of their desire to connect, liberals build bridges. They view change as a virtue rather than as something to fear.
As with all traits, physical and behavioral, genes and environments interact to produce a bell-shaped distribution curve. Most individuals fall in the middle: they are conservative in some ways and liberal in others. In political terms, this means that compromise is possible. However, as one moves towards the tails (i.e. 'right-wing' and 'left'wing'), individuals become more ideologically rigid and less compromise is possible. In fact, at the extremes, compromise is disdained and vilified.
The ideologies of the extreme right (rigid hierarchies, extreme inequality, little individual freedom) and the extreme left (extreme equality, much individual freedom, little hierarchy) are utopian in nature: both believe that they are creating the perfect world. However, both become authoritarian regimes where the rulers are treated as semi-divine. Tuschman considers communist regimes as exemplars of the extreme left. Although he does not explicitly state this, it appears that he would place the social democracies of Europe more within the liberal section of the curve than the extreme left.
Our Political Nature was published in 2013, well before the current election cycle, so I am extrapolating from Tuschman's analysis for the remainder of this essay. While the US has yet to devolve into either extreme form of authoritarian control, the current US House of Representatives is under the sway of individuals who express an extreme right-wing ideology. Compromise is evil and their patron saint is the semi-divine Ronald Reagan whose name has been plastered everywhere.
Until this election cycle, the US has not had an extreme-left candidate who managed to obtain national prominence, but this changed with the candidacy of Bernie Sanders who has a utopian, leftist ideology of revolution leading to extreme equality. As with right-wing extremists, left-wing extremists are unwilling to compromise. Their ideology is right and just; therefore, compromise is not possible. I imagine this is why Sanders and his staunchest followers are finding it almost impossible to accept defeat. It also explains the cult of personality Bernie has engendered. If he somehow became president, I would expect that his name would be plastered everywhere. Fortunately for the US, Bernie Sanders will not be president as, according to Tuschman, the extremes always lead to an authoritarian government no matter what their utopian intentions were.
Compromise is not a dirty word. It is what enables liberals and conservatives to work together to create a functioning, democratic government; one where there can be tariffs (walls) to protect the country while also having treaties (bridges) to bring differing groups closer together.
I recently read a book that presents a disturbing analysis of the criminal justice (actually, injustice) system of the United States. Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice by Adam Benforado is extremely well-written and well-reasoned. It can also be viewed as the companion volume to Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy which I reviewed in a prior post. This post will include a number of direct quotes from Unfair.
Research has shown that stereotypes and bias affect views of guilt and punishment. Study participants read a story about a boy with prior juvenile convictions who committed a violent crime. "The texts given to the groups were identical, aside from one word: for the first group, the defendant was described as black; for the second group, he was described as white. Participants who had read about the black teenager express more support for the severe sentence and for the notion that kids are as blameworthy as adults." p. 198 That is: white boys are boys, but black boys are men.
Slavery existed in what became the United States since the 1600s. The US is still dealing with the effects of enslaving millions of its residents. "A country that abolished slavery 150 years ago now has a greater number of black men in the correctional system than there were slaves in 1850 and a greater percentage of its black population in jail than was imprisoned in apartheid South Africa." p.209 The US prison system is essentially a continuation of slavery.
"There's a reason that this book about unfairness hasn't talked about white-collar crime: those who engage in corporate self-dealing, illegal accounting schemes, and securities fraud get more than a fair deal.
There are a number of methods that are being used in some jurisdictions to ensure that crimes are properly investigated and that negate reliance on faulty witnesses, intuitions, and biased memories. These methods include cameras that are triggered by gunshots and record the scene. Panoscan which records a complete view of the crime scene that allows detailed inspection even months after the fact. Smartphone apps that give responding officers details about any prior incidents at that address. To reduce deaths, officers should have trauma kits and know how to use them. This could save thousands of lives each year.
Benforado proposes a radical, but sensible idea: trials should be virtual with neutral avatars representing all involved individuals. This would eliminate all biases based on an individual's behavior or appearance. If juror's don't know what a person looks or sounds like, their focus is then directed solely to the evidence. Lawyers and judges wouldn't know anything about the jurors and so would also have to focus on the evidence and witness statements. Witnesses wouldn't have to worry about their safety. Trials would be more efficient, rapid, and cheaper. Therefore, more cases could go to trial rather than being pleaded out, which would benefit poor defendants, many of whom, although innocent, plead out in order to avoid remaining in jail, sometimes for years, until their case is tried. The current system may make for high drama, but with limited justice.
Each year, I read dozens of books. The Wisdom of the Shire: A Short Guide to a Long and Happy Life by Noble Smith was the final book I read in 2015. As it happens, Hobbit wisdom provides us with advice which makes for great resolutions for 2016 and every year beyond.
Smith first read Tolkien as a child and adored the books so intensely that he re-read them all many, many times. Therefore, it shouldn't be any surprise that he took life advice from the Hobbits who seemed generally happy and content. While living a Hobbit lifestyle may seem odd, Smith does a great job of detailing how Hobbits take pleasure in life and what this can mean for us non-Hobbits if we follow their advice.
Since I want you to read the book, I will present just a smidgen of the Shire Wisdom here.
Eat well of a wide variety of good food when you are hungry while also taking pleasure in your meals. It is hard to feel content or to think clearly when you are hungry.
Get plenty of exercise, especially by walking everywhere you can. Walking a wooded trail is a great source of contentment.
Grow a vegetable garden. This provides you with good food along with exercise. Pulling weeds can be quite meditative.
Sleep is vital to well-being. After hard work, it is necessary to sleep long, dream-filled hours in order to process the day (through dreams) and recuperate and refresh your spirit along with your body.
Be open to new ideas and great adventures. As my grandmother used to say when we were lost or something unexpected happened, "We are having an adventure!" This puts a positive spin to life's events.
In addition to his advice, Smith also includes in each chapter relevant tidbits from the Tolkien lore. He concludes the book with a 'quiz' to determine how much of a Hobbit you are. This quiz is really for the deep-dyed Hobbit and LOTR fans who've read the books multiple times and seen the movies over and over. I've seen the movies (once) and read the books (once, when I was 14), so I do not qualify. But we can all use the Wisdom of the Shire to make 2016 a year of happiness and contentment.
*Advice in another book I read recently will help increase contentment in your home: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.
As an anthropologist, I've read a few ethnographies. They are generally fairly dry and academic. I've also read a few ethologies of primate behavior, which tend to be much more entertaining. I recently finished a book that manages to successfully blend both ethnography and ethology: Primates of Park Avenue by Wednesday Martin.
Martin does an excellent job of incorporating the data gleaned from participant-observation (she moved into the habitat of Park Avenue East and interacted on a daily basis with the women there) with the behavioral insights informed from research done by primatologists on the other great apes (humans are a type of great ape) and monkeys. Her scientific study of New York City women in the 0.1% shows that even the wealthiest women living in one of the wealthiest cities in the world are really not far-removed from our primate cousins.
Primates of Park Avenue is an enjoyable, fast read that demonstrates how an anthropologist with an interest in primatology views her fellow humans. Frankly, there is a little chimp/bonobo in all of us.
You've seen it. You may have done it yourself. Someone cuts in front of you while driving. How rude! You yell at them, maybe cussing at them. Behavior that probably wouldn't happen among friends happens easily among strangers. Why is this?
For around two million years, humans lived in small foraging groups of around 25 to 50 individuals. When food was plentiful, the groups would gather together to exchange news and to find a mate. A variety of research studies by anthropologists has found that humans can form optimal connections with no more than about 150 others. Beyond that number, others tend to be viewed as strangers and, therefore, as potentially dangerous.
This data forms the basis of Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*uck, a book on manners for the 21st century written by Amy Alkon whose advice is informed by solid scientific research leavened by pointed and humorous personal anecdotes. Our brains are optimized for small-group living, but most of us live in cities and suburbs surrounded by strangers. The group size we now have to deal with is too big for our brains. This makes it difficult to behave well towards strangers. But an effective society requires that we figure out how to do just that.
Failures of empathy tread all over another person's dignity and may cause that person also to behave rudely. A negative cycle ensues.
In this holiday season where the focus is on peace and goodwill, use empathy to break down walls and build bridges. View others as potential friends rather than potential dangers. Turn strangers into neighbors.
A few years ago, I wrote a blog post about the book The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith. I won't repeat what I said in that post except to note that humans are not meant to be vegans. We need to eat animal protein (fish, shellfish, eggs, poultry, some red meat) in order to be healthy. Fatty fish and eggs are especially important for proper brain growth, development, and health. Refusing to eat them could result in decreased mental ability as one ages.
Another recent fad is the raw food movement. Now, I am not against eating raw foods. However, I am against the concept that one should eat only raw foods, especially if that means only vegan raw foods (i.e. no sushi).
As neuroscientist Susanna Herculano-Houzel notes in her TED talk, cooking food allowed our human brains to expand in neuronal number and connections far beyond what would be expected for a primate our size. If our ancestors had not begun cooking th eir food, especially meat, we would not be advanced much beyond chimpanzees in brain capacity and ability.
Vegan/vegetarian diets will also not save our planet from destruction. Keith covers some of the reasons for this in her book, but ecologist Allan Savory's TED talk provides yet another reason that humans need meat in their diets: in order to reverse climate change and desertification, we need to have large herds of animals mimicking the herds that once roamed the savannas and grasslands .
Savory's thesis seems counter-intuitive. Even he thought that before he tried it. The results are amazing.
1] We need cooked animal protein for healthy brains and bodies.
2] Managing herd animals correctly can save the planet.
3] Grasses (wheat, corn, rice, etc.) are for herd animals to eat, while the herd animals are for us to eat.
See you at the barbecue!
Thomas Piketty's book, Capital in the 21st Century, has received a great deal of press. Having just finished the book, I believe that most of the commentators skimmed/skipped the first two parts and just read the last two parts. Unless you are an econ geek (I am not.), the first two parts are pretty tedious and difficult. However, they do provide Piketty with his bona fides. Anyone who criticizes Piketty on the basis of his credentials probably hasn't read/understood Parts 1 and 2.
Income inequality is increasing in all the OECD (economically-developed and democratic) countries.
Wealth/capital inequality is even worse than income inequality.
The United States is the most unequal of the OECD nations.
A progressive tax on income is good, but a progressive tax on capital/wealth would be much, much better.
Billionaires can hide most of their wealth so that they end up paying taxes on their much lower level of income.
In order to implement a progressive tax on capital, banks must provide governments all data on their depositors so that wealth cannot be hidden.
Excessive accumulations of wealth/capital actually depress economic productivity.
If steps are not taken to reduce income and wealth inequality, levels of inequality will worsen and revolution of the increasingly-strapped lower and middle classes is probable.
Piketty explains his ideas in this TED video.
I recently finished The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi. Instead of paraphrasing Taibbi's words, I've decided to post a number of what I consider the most pertinent quotes from this extremely important book.
"If they turned life in the projects into a police state, they turned life on Wall Street into its opposite. One lie in San Diego is a crime. But a million lies? That's just good business." (p. 352).
If you read all these quotes, you should now be furious at a system that ignores wealthy criminals, evens rewards them, while actively harassing and jailing the poor, quite often for simply being poor. While disgust of the poor certainly plays a role in their harassment, so does a tax policy that favors the rich. When local governments do not receive enough money from taxes, they have to make up the loss somehow. What better way than harassing the poor with nuisance arrests? It's a giant scam.


Proparco is the private sector financing arm of French Development Agency (AFD), whose mission is to strengthen the private sector's contribution to achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
The German Investment Corporation (DEG) is the German development bank, whose mission is to finance direct investments and long-term investment capital within developing and emerging markets, contributing to sustainable economic development and expansion of the private sector.
The Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO) is the Dutch development bank, which serves to support sustainable private sector growth in developing and emerging markets by investing in businesses, projects, and financial institutions. Headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands, FMO investments extend to various countries around the globe and span several sectors, including energy, financial institutions, agribusiness, infrastructure, and manufacturing.
Mission: Strengthen the private sector's contribution to achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Mission: To promote business initiative in developing and emerging market countries as a contribution to sustainable growth and improved living conditions of the local population.
Mission: To contribute to healthy, long-term, responsible development in the business sector in developing countries, in the interest of the economical and social advancements.
Proparco investments are subject to multiple guidelines and policies, including the IFC Performance Standards.
DEG's environmental and social standards and practices include the application of the IFC Performance Standards.
FMO investments are subject to multiple guidelines and policies, including the IFC Performance Standards. FMO additionally employs the FMO Sustainability Policy Universe, which forms the framework for FMO's approach to environmental, social, and governance issues.
Together, Proparco, DEG, and FMO operate the Independent Complaints Mechanism (ICM). It is designed to enable affected parties to file a complaint regarding Proparco, DEG, or FMO-financed projects.
Dispute resolution – this function is aimed at addressing issues raised in a complaint through a voluntary process. Dispute resolution may include information sharing, facilitated discussions, or mediation in order to reach appropriate solutions.
Compliance review – this function investigates whether Proparco, DEG, or FMO complied with their respective policies relevant to the project.
You have been or potentially will be negatively affected by a project financed by Proparco, DEG, or FMO.
Complaints may be submitted in any language. More information may be found at the Proparco, DEG and FMO ICM websites.
Accountability Counsel is working with partners to ensure that the Independent Complaints Mechanism (ICM) is accessible and effective.
In January 2016, the ICM announced a review of its policy and released a draft revised policy for public comment. Accountability Counsel contributed to a joint submission of recommendations to strengthen the functioning of the mechanism. Our submission included recommendations to remove barriers to accessibility to the mechanism, including restrictions on a person's ability to submit a complaint in their own language.
Communities and individuals may now submit their complaints in any language.
The ICM no longer automatically bars requests for dispute resolution that are already being handled by another accountability or judicial mechanism. This change recognizes that a case-by-case approach should be utilized to determine whether a dispute resolution process would be possible under these circumstances.
The revised policy includes more concrete deadlines for the complaint process, increasing complainants trust in the process.
Under the revised policy, the ICM will now monitor the project until it is satisfied that Proparco's, DEG's, or FMO's actions are addressing the project's non-compliance with Proparco's, DEG's, or FMO's policies.
The policy still allows the ICM to enter into confidential side agreements with Proparco, DEG, or FMO clients prior to obtaining their participation in the complaint process regarding projects that were approved prior to the ICM's creation. This practice weakens the transparency, legitimacy, and predictability of the ICM.
The revised policy fails to include a formal advisory function for the ICM, which limits the ICM's ability to provide pragmatic, evidence-based recommendations gleaned from the ICM's dispute resolution and compliance casework, shedding light on gaps in Proparco's, DEG's, and FMO's policies and their implementation.
Accountability Counsel will continue to work with our partners to ensure that the ICM is an accessible and effectively addresses complaints related to Proparco, DEG, and FMO financing.
Dec 2016 – DEG and FMO complaints offices' response to the joint submission, including information on changes implemented in the revised policy.
Feb 2016 – Accountability Counsel, and 9 civil society organizations, submitted joint recommendations for improving the draft revised ICM policy.
Jan 2016 –Draft revised ICM policy was released for consultation.


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Canadian Social Science
Keywords Canadian Characteristics China Corruption Countermeasures Culture Democracy Development Economic growth Education Innovation Jordan Nigeria Poverty Religion Social Science Strategy Sustainable development Translation Urbanization Youth
Peter Bisong Bisong
Apologun Sylvester Sunday
Department of Philosophy, University of Calabar, Nigeria.
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The Noetic Propaedeutic Pedagogy as a Panacea to Environmental Degradation
Peter Bisong Bisong, Apologun Sylvester Sunday
The phrase, 'sustainable development' has in recent times become a household phrase, thanks to the works and agitations of the environmental philosophers, scientists, animal right activists and other concerned bodies and groups. However, in spite of these campaigns, environmental degradation still goes on apace. This shows that the popularity of the phrase 'sustainable development' has remained only in theory and has not been translated to actions. The researchers believe that the problem of environmental degradation persists because of the divisive and polarising mindset with which man operates with. The moment this divisive mindset is converted to egalitarian one, humans would begin to see the environment as an important aspect of their life, without which their existence would be negated. An egalitarian mindset sees other beings as missing links sharing the same complementary framework of existence. Because they share the same framework, negation of the other becomes negation of the self. Negation of the environment is negation of the self. This kind of mindset according to Asouzu, could be attained through the process of noetic propaedeutic pedagogy. This is a kind of education of the mind that is geared towards converting the mind from its divisiveness to egalitarianism. This work is therefore, aimed at showcasng the noetic propaedeutic pedagogy as a profitable way to tackling the environmental crisis.
Sustainable development; Environmental degradation; egalitarianism; Environmental crisis
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It is very common for human resources to encourage management to write honest performance reviews, and/or to utilize a performance plan, before terminating a long-term employee based on poor performance. We encourage management to utilize these tools primarily because it is the right thing to do from a values perspective – an employee should be given adequate notice of deficiencies and an opportunity to correct the deficiencies before termination becomes necessary.
It is also helpful to tell management, however, that there are good economic reasons to utilize performance reviews and performance plans. In a wrongful termination case, if a judge or jury finds there was unlawful discrimination, an employer's liability can often reach $1 million. An employer's chances of winning a wrongful termination case – and avoiding the $1 million liability – go up dramatically if it can show the employee was "warned" about poor performance on a performance review, or through a performance plan. Under that circumstance, a jury will be far more likely to think the employer was "fair," and therefore, that it did not wrongfully terminate the employee.
So, if you are encouraging a manager to write an honest review, or to consider a performance plan, and the manager argues that the business simply cannot afford to keep the employee on the payroll while it undertakes those actions, ask the manager which cost is higher – the cost of keeping the employee on the payroll while you go through performance counseling, or the cost of losing a lawsuit because you were not "fair" to the employee.


Voters in Texas received a mysterious text message on Wednesday, one that purported to be from a campaign volunteer for Beto O'Rourke, the Democrat who is running against Ted Cruz for Senate this fall.
"That was not an approved message by the campaign," said Chris Evans, a spokesman for Mr. O'Rourke. Mr. Evans added that the campaign was looking into how the unauthorized message was sent. The person who sent the text was "not a Beto volunteer," Mr. Evans said.


Discussion in 'Server Operation' started by sinjab, Aug 26, 2007.
How can I make Postfix prevents outgoing spam by scanning every outgoing message using SpamAssassin? This will be very useful if a defected site is sending spam from the server.
Can this tutorial work along with ISPConfig already installed on the system? Can they coexist with each other without any problems?
Yes, but I'd then disable SpamAssassin and ClamAV for each mail account in ISPConfig.
Can't I just use the SpamAssassin that is already installed with ISPConfig to scan outgoing messages, or use it to scan ingoing messages while use the other one to scan outgoing messages?
I think you can tell amavisd where SpamAssassin is installed (take a look at the amavisd configuration). So there's no need to install a second SpamAssassin.
Follow this guide http://advosys.ca/papers/postfix-instance.html and run a second copy of postfix and this will allow all functions of ispconfig but remove the need to change anything already existing!


"What would you do if instead of me from the moment you were born, every day they told you that you are less than another person, that you deserve less, that you don't know enough to talk, that you have half the brains of another human? What would you do if you had to watch what you say, wear, do every moment of your life out of fear that someone might call you a name and the whole world might see you as "bad" so you could never be comfortable in who you are? What would you do if you were banned from going to school or harassed brutally on the way to school every day? You would not be as strong as me. You would give up. But I won't give up. I will keep fighting no matter what the society hands me." -Meetra Alikozay, a member of Young Women for Change, a rights based group in Kabul run by young Afghan women.
Through their work i have learnt about issues affecting women in Afghanistan. I hope to one day watch This is my City too.


Editor: On behalf of the 4th, I want to make this statement.
Editor: The hypocrisy in the guest editorial titled "Anyone's Guess" published June 22 is obvious.
Editor: Thanks to "Willie" for coming through with an answer on the status of the property nuisance bill H.3896.
I think that most Americans recognize "common decency" when they see it.
It is with a sad heart and tearful eye that I ask you to join me in remembering the passing of an American icon.
Now that I have won the primary for Oconee County Council's District 1 seat, I believe it is time to speak to the 22 percent who voted for my opponent.
Now that the president has ordered a stoppage of the separation of children from their migrant families, I guess we're supposed to thank him for his compassion and give him homage.
As the third-party candidate for the 3rd Congressional District, I would like to comment on the recent articles and television coverage of the separation of children from illegal aliens.
Editor: Even though I've lived in this area for 12 years, I'd never heard of the Utica community until about two years ago.
Editor: "Good ole boys" politics are still alive and well in the city of Walhalla!
Willie: I just want to give a huge thanks to the counselors at OMH.
So a few of the guys were sitting around the table enjoying wine, cheese and crackers while doing our best to make sense of the world we live in.


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Kaitlyn Farrington
Kaitlyn Farrington Clark
Kaitlyn Brooke Farrington
(1989-12-18) December 18, 1989 (age 30)
Hailey, Idaho, United States[1]
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States[2]
5 ft 4 in (163 cm)[3]
Coached by
Elijah Teter[4]
Women's Snowboarding
Representing United States
2014 Sochi Halfpipe
2011 Aspen SuperPipe
Kaitlyn Brooke Farrington (born December 18, 1989) is an American former professional snowboarder who grew up on a cattle ranch near Bellevue, Idaho, and now lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.[2] She won the gold medal in the women's half-pipe competition at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.[1] Prior to her Olympic debut, she competed in the 2010 European Winter X Games and won the gold medal.[5]
Farrington was born to parents Gary and Suz Farrington; she has an older sister. The Farringtons own a ranch near Sun Valley, Idaho, and Kaitlyn grew up riding horses. Suz Farrington credited her daughter's smooth style with good balance from riding horses. She was skiing by age three and barrel racing at age five. "She was skiing on a tether for two days, then said, 'I'm done with this stuff,'" remembered Mr. Farrington.[6]
By high school, Farrington was competing as a snowboarder, and her parents had to sell the cows on their ranch to pay for expenses.[6]
Farrington is left-handed and uses a goofy stance. She became the first women's rider to perform a backside 1080. She goes about 9 feet high above the edge of the half-pipe, but considers herself as a more technical rider in order to make up for her height. Farrington has had five wrist surgeries.[7]
2014 Sochi Olympic Games - Half pipe women - gold medalist
2013 FIS Snowboarding World Championships – Women's halfpipe, 4th place, behind Arielle Gold, Holly Crawford, and Sophie Rodriguez.
2013 World Cup Sochi, 5th place[8]
2013 World Cup Park City, bronze medalist
2013 World Cup Copper Mountain, 5th place
2012 U.S. Grand Prix overall champion
2012 Dew Tour Breckenridge, gold medalist
2011 X Games Aspen, silver medalist
2011 Dew Tour, silver medalist
2010 X Games Europe, gold medalist
2010 Dew Tour, overall champion
2008 Junior World Championships, silver medalist
On January 16, 2015, Farrington announced via Instagram of her retirement from professional snowboarding at only 25 years of age. In October 2014, Farrington was involved in a fall in Austria while trying to execute a frontside 360 off a small jump. Once returning home to Salt Lake City, Farrington went to get an MRI, to find that she had been diagnosed with congenital cervical stenosis, a congenital spine condition. Doctors told her that competitive snowboarding would put her at great risk of extreme injury due to the condition. Farrington has said "I can walk. I can still snowboard, I just have to keep my feet on the ground".[9]
Farrington has a cat named Zilla, after Godzilla.[10] She collects refrigerator magnets from her travel stops and loves running and music.[7] Farrington said she was listening to Ghostland Observatory's Give Me The Beat when competing in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.[11]
She recently picked up Frisbee golf and tries to surf, which she calls "drowning".[12]
A snowboarding area on Sun Valley's Bald Mountain was renamed "Kaitlyn's Bowl" in her honor.[13]
^ a b "Kaitlyn FARRINGTON | Snowboard | United States – Sochi 2014 Olympics". Sochi 2014 Olympics. Retrieved February 12, 2014.
^ a b "Idaho Olympic star Kaitlyn Farrington 'can't wait to come home'". Idaho Statesman. Retrieved February 15, 2014.
^ "Kaitlyn Farrington". teamusa.org. United States Olympic Committee. Retrieved February 13, 2014.
^ Ben Boyd Pro snowboarder transitions to coaching Olympians – Lake Tahoe NewsLake Tahoe News
^ "Results: Women's Snowboard SuperPipe". espn.go.com. ESPN. Retrieved February 13, 2014.
^ a b Kaitlyn Farrington "Cowgirls Up" For Gold
^ a b Kaitlyn Farrington
^ http://www.teamusa.org/us-ski-and-snowboard/athletes/Kaitlyn-Farrington
^ "Kaitlyn Farrington forced to retire". espn.go.com. ESPN. Retrieved February 1, 2015.
^ "Gold Medalist Snowboarder Kaitlyn Farrington – Sochi Winter Olympics 2014". Elle. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
^ David Letterman – U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist Kaitlyn Farrington – YouTube
^ "GQ+A: Kaitlyn Farrington, Snowboard Halfpipe Gold Medalist on Partying in Sochi and More". GQ. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
^ Michael Locklear (March 1, 2014). "Gold medalist brings 'surge of energy' to Sun Valley". KBOI-TV. Retrieved March 5, 2014.
Team USA profile for Kaitlyn Farrington
Olympic champions in women's snowboarding
2018: Anna Gasser (AUT)
1998: Karine Ruby (FRA)
1998: Nicola Thost (GER)
2002: Kelly Clark (USA)
2006: Hannah Teter (USA)
2010: Torah Bright (AUS)
2014: Kaitlyn Farrington (USA)
2018: Chloe Kim (USA)
Parallel giant slalom
2002: Isabelle Blanc (FRA)
2006: Daniela Meuli (SUI)
2010: Nicolien Sauerbreij (NED)
2014: Patrizia Kummer (SUI)
2018: Ester Ledecká (CZE)
Parallel slalom
2014: Julia Dujmovits (AUT)
2014: Jamie Anderson (USA)
2006: Tanja Frieden (SUI)
2010: Maëlle Ricker (CAN)
2014: Eva Samková (CZE)
2018: Michela Moioli (ITA)
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American female snowboarders
Medalists at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for the United States in snowboarding
Olympic medalists in snowboarding
Olympic snowboarders of the United States
People from Hailey, Idaho
Snowboarders at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Idaho
People from Bellevue, Idaho
X Games athletes
Use mdy dates from February 2014


240 volts; Like the UK, sockets are 13 amp square pin type.
In tourist areas special branches provide afternoon service.
Cyprus adopted the Euro from 1 January 2008.
Currency exchange is available at Banks and some shops. You will generally get a better rate locally than in the UK. To check the current exchange rates click Here.
Shop opening hours are usually 8am - 6pm but with half days on Wednesday & Saturday. Most shops are closed on Sunday with the exception of most kiosks.
There are supermarkets, chemists, clothes shops (including Debenhams and Next) etc.
Medical facilities are provided through the national Health run general hospitals in all resort towns. Emergencies for tourists are free. In addition there are private clinics which cater for all medical needs, at a charge.
Make sure that you carry your insurance policy with you. Some chemists remain open all night on a rota basis.
The Cyprus telephone and postal system are highly efficient. Local English language newspapers as well as those from Britain and other European countries are widely available.
Public holidays for 2016 and 2017 are shown below.
* Western (Catholic, Anglican, and Protestant) Easter as normally celebrated in the UK, is on 1 April 2018 and 21 April 2019.


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March, 09 2010, 01:03pm EDT
Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)
Contact: Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
Afghanistan Withdrawal Debate in Congress
The Washington Post reports today: "House leaders will allow three
hours of formal debate, probably Wednesday, on an antiwar resolution
written by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (Ohio), one of the leading antiwar
voices in Congress. The resolution, which has 16 co-sponsors, calls for
the United States to remove all of its troops from Afghanistan in 30
days -- or by the end of the year, if it is determined that trying to
do so in a month would be too dangerous."
Author of the book Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy,
Fein was a Justice Department attorney in the Nixon administration. He
said today: "Congress has been continually deferring to the president
on war. That stands the Constitution on its head. Congress needs to
decide about war."
ROBERT NAIMAN
Naiman is policy director of Just Foreign Policy. He just wrote the piece "Kucinich Forces Congress to Debate Afghanistan,"
which states: "The Pentagon doesn't want Congress to debate
Afghanistan. The Pentagon wants Congress to fork over $33 billion more
to pay for the current military escalation, no questions asked, no
restrictions imposed for a withdrawal timetable or an exit strategy.
"Ideally, from the point of view of the Pentagon, Congress would
fork over that money right away, before the coming Kandahar offensive
that the $33 billion is supposed to pay for, because you can expect a
lot of bad news out of Afghanistan in the form of deaths of American
soldiers and Afghan civilians once the Kandahar offensive starts, and
it would sure be awkward if all that bad news reached Washington while
the $33 billion was hanging fire."
A nationwide consortium, the Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) represents an unprecedented effort to bring other voices to the mass-media table often dominated by a few major think tanks. IPA works to broaden public discourse in mainstream media, while building communication with alternative media outlets and grassroots activists.
Analysis Warns 'Deep' Spending Cuts Pushed by GOP Would Severely Harm Key Programs
House Republicans' effort to cap spending at 2022 levels would impact "a wide array of public services," including healthcare programs, education, and much more.
After a private meeting with President Joe Biden on Wednesday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reiterated his support for steep federal spending cuts as part of any deal to raise the debt ceiling, upholding his commitment to the far-right Republicans who threatened to deny him the top leadership post.
"I was very clear that we're not passing a clean debt ceiling," McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters following his conversation with the president. "We're not spending more next year than we spent this year. We've got to find a way to change this and I want to sit down and work."
While some members of his caucus have vocally singled out Social Security and Medicare, McCarthy has declined to explain precisely what and how much he wants to cut. But as part of a deal with the far-right flank of his caucus, McCarthy agreed to push for a cap on federal spending at fiscal year 2022 levels.
According to an analysis released Wednesday by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), such a cap would entail significant cuts to "a wide array of public services that the federal government provides and that people and communities depend on, including public health; food safety inspections; air traffic control operations; the administration of Medicare and Social Security; housing and other assistance for families with low incomes; education and job training; and scientific and medical research, to name just a few."
"Moreover, many of these programs are still feeling the effects of austerity imposed largely by the 2011 Budget Control Act," CBPP's Joel Friedman and Richard Kogan wrote, pointing to a law that the GOP forced through following a damaging round of debt ceiling brinkmanship. "Even with a recent boost in 2023, funding for non-defense programs outside of veterans' medical care is about 2% below its 2010 level, adjusted for inflation, and 9% below when adjusted for both inflation and population growth. Funding for these programs needs to rise to meet national needs, address shortfalls that hamper the delivery of government services, and help create an economy in which everyone has the resources they need to thrive."
CBPP's estimates suggest that a federal spending cut of $146 billion across military and non-military programs would be required to meet House Republicans' demand to cap fiscal year 2024 spending at 2022 levels.
But Friedman and Kogan stressed that cuts to non-military discretionary spending—a broad category that includes healthcare and education programs—would have to be even larger if the Pentagon budget is shielded, as some House Republicans have proposed. Military spending represents more than half of all federal discretionary spending.
"Reducing defense funding to its 2022 level in 2024 would require a cut of $76.2 billion from its current level," Friedman and Kogan noted. "If instead one assumes that defense funding is frozen in 2024—that is, held at its 2023 level rather than being reduced to the 2022 level—but that House Republicans still press to return total discretionary funding to its 2022 level, then those additional cuts would need to be absorbed by non-defense programs. If that comes on top of protecting veterans' medical care, then the remaining non-defense programs would need to be cut by 24.3% on average."
"The cuts the House Republicans are calling for, whether achieved by reducing non-defense programs categorized as discretionary or mandatory, are deep," Friedman and Kogan concluded. "Claims that they are designed merely to root out 'wasteful spending' are highly misleading and distract from the policy implications of these proposals and the harm they would cause."
The White House has insisted on legislation that raises the debt ceiling without any attached spending cuts or other conditions, a message it reiterated after Biden's meeting with McCarthy on Wednesday.
"President Biden made clear that, as every other leader in both parties in Congress has affirmed, it is their shared duty not to allow an unprecedented and economically catastrophic default," the White House said in a readout of the meeting. "The president welcomes a separate discussion with congressional leaders about how to reduce the deficit and control the national debt while continuing to grow the economy."
As McCarthy prepared for his discussion with Biden, the Republican Study Committee (RSC)—the largest House GOP caucus—convened on Capitol Hill to discuss their priorities for time-sensitive debt ceiling negotiations.
According to a presentation slide obtained by Politico's Olivia Beavers, RSC chair Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.) offered a broad outline of the GOP's group's priorities, including a reversal of recent discretionary spending increases. Last year, the RSC called for gradually increasing the retirement age and partially privatizing Social Security.
Aaron Fritschner, communications director for Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.), criticized House Republicans' continued refusal to put forth a budget detailing their specific demands.
"Wow what a disaster," Fritschner tweeted in response to the RSC presentation. "They truly have no idea what to do."
house gop
Advocates Cheer Revival of Bill to 'Restore Critical Protections' to Arctic Refuge
"We need a law on the books that will affirm these lands are not for sale, preserve the wilderness of the Coastal Plain, and uphold the sovereignty of Arctic Indigenous peoples," said Sen. Ed Markey, one of the bill's lead sponsors.
Indigenous, climate, and conservation advocates on Wednesday welcomed the reintroduction of congressional legislation to restore protections and prevent fossil fuel development in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), along with Reps. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), reintroduced the Arctic Refuge Protection Act, the continuation of legislative efforts dating back to the 1980s to protect the critical wilderness and its inhabitants.
The lawmakers said in a statement that their bill "will restore critical protections to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—home to the Gwich'in people and the nation's largest national wildlife refuge—by designating the Coastal Plain ecosystem as wilderness under the National Wilderness Preservation System."
If passed, the bill "would permanently halt any new oil and gas leasing, exploration, development, and drilling on the Coastal Plain, and would safeguard the subsistence rights of the Arctic Indigenous peoples who depend upon the unique ecosystem within the Arctic Refuge," the statement explained.
As Huffman's office noted:
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge covers 19.6 million acres and is the largest unit in the National Wildlife Refuge System. The 1.56 million-acre Coastal Plain, the biological heart of the refuge, contains the calving grounds for the Porcupine caribou herd and is home to denning polar bears, musk oxen, wolves, and more than 150 species of migratory birds. The 9,000-strong Gwich'in Nation, living in Alaska and Canada, make their home on or near the migratory route of the Porcupine caribou herd, and have depended on this herd for their subsistence and culture for thousands of years.
"The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a national treasure and a cultural and spiritual home for Arctic Indigenous peoples," said Markey. "The traditional relationship that the Gwich'in and Iñupiat have had with the refuge for generations, as well as the singular ecosystem on the Coastal Plain, should not be put into harm's way because of old failed promises of a fictional financial windfall."
"We need a law on the books that will affirm these lands are not for sale, preserve the wilderness of the Coastal Plain, and uphold the sovereignty of Arctic Indigenous peoples—who must be consulted regarding the use, management, and conservation of the Coastal Plain," he added.
"The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a national treasure and a cultural and spiritual home for Arctic Indigenous peoples."
Karlin Itchoak, Alaska regional director for the Wilderness Society, stated that the bill "recognizes not only the importance of protecting wildlife and public land, but also shows respect and concern for the Indigenous peoples who live in and near the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge."
"The Coastal Plain of the refuge is sacred to the Gwich'in Nation, and the Iñupiat people have stewarded this land since time immemorial," Itchoak added. "Protecting the Coastal Plain from oil drilling is essential to their cultures, food security, and ways of life, as well as to the global climate."
Some Indigenous and conservationist activists expressed their deep disappointment last year after congressional Democrats excluded Arctic protections from their $430 billion budget reconciliation package. Protections including a measure to end the Trump-era mandate for oil and gas leases on the Coastal Plain were included in the Build Back Better package that made it no further than passage by House Democrats in 2021.
The lawmakers said the reintroduced bill "would enshrine the protections sought by President [Joe] Biden on his first day in office, which were reaffirmed last June when the administration temporarily suspended drilling lease sales in the Arctic refuge."
However, they stressed that "the Coastal Plain ecosystem remains at risk due to oil and gas lease sales mandated by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act"—also known as the Republican Tax Scam—signed into law by then-President Donald Trump. Such lease sales ultimately generated little interest.
The reintroduction of the Arctic Refuge Protection Act came on the same day that the Biden administration's Bureau of Land Management infuriated climate advocates by publishing an environmental assessment recommending partial approval of ConocoPhillips' Willow Project, a major drilling initiative on Alaska's North Slope, which contains much of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
arctic refuge protection act
Warren Calls For 'Landing the Plane Not Crashing It' After Fed Hikes Rate Despite Cooling Inflation
Another critic warned that "while the Fed continues to stick to their obsession with job-killing interest rate hikes, the livelihoods of working families are on the line."
Progressive economists and advocates on Wednesday blasted the U.S. Federal Reserve for hiking the federal funds rate an eighth consecutive time despite fears of a recession and impacts on working people.
"With today's rate hike, the Fed is pushing us dangerously close to an unnecessary recession that would spell disaster for low-wage workers, workers of color, and vulnerable communities," the Groundwork Collaborative declared. "Workers and families shouldn't have to pay the price for inflation."
The Federal Open Market Committee rose the benchmark interest rate to a range of 4.5%-4.75%. The 25-basis-point increase was the smallest hike since March and came amid signs that the U.S. economy is cooling off.
"Chair Powell should pause his interest rate hikes and remember his dual mandate: Fight inflation without throwing millions out of work."
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said that "while recent developments are encouraging, we will need substantially more evidence to be confident that inflation is on a sustained downward path," so "we expect ongoing hikes will be appropriate."
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a major critic of the wave of increases, tweeted that "we want to bring down inflation, but that means landing the plane not crashing it. Chair Powell should pause his interest rate hikes and remember his dual mandate: Fight inflation without throwing millions out of work."
University of California, Berkeley professor and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich explained in a recent video that "the Fed is wrongly obsessing about a wage-price spiral—wage gains pushing up prices—when it should be worried about a profit-price spiral—corporate profits driving up prices."
\u201cThe Federal Reserve is continuing to raise interest rates in an effort to slow the economy. \n\nLower-wage workers and the poor bear most of the pain of these rate hikes.\n\nMeanwhile, corporate executives, Wall Street, and the wealthy get away scot-free.\u201d
— Inequality Media (@Inequality Media) 1675280125
Longtime opponents of the Fed's strategy on Wednesday renewed calls for not only the U.S. central bank to halt its hikes but also federal lawmakers to get to work battling corporate greed.
Liz Zelnick, director of the Economic Security and Corporate Power program at Accountable.Us, warned that "while the Fed continues to stick to their obsession with job-killing interest rate hikes, the livelihoods of working families are on the line."
"Key indicators show inflation is slowing as our economic recovery remains fragile, which means the Fed's higher rates are only pushing the economy closer to a recession," she said. "Meanwhile, Fed economists have admitted corporations are the real culprit of high costs yet have still refused to relax rate hikes. It's time for the Fed to back down and let policymakers rein in corporate greed rather than risk it all on another rate increase."
\u201cRoses are red \ud83c\udf39\nThe Fed wants a recession \ud83d\udcc9\nJerome Powell's gotta stop \ud83d\uded1\nWith this job loss obsession \ud83d\ude29\n\nSlower rate hikes are not enough - the Fed needs to hit pause before we tip over the edge and put millions of workers at risk of joblessness.\u201d
— Rakeen Mabud (@Rakeen Mabud) 1675280991
Patriotic Millionaires chair Morris Pearl, former managing director at BlackRock, offered a similar critique of Fed policy.
"Today's interest rate hike by the Fed is bad news for the American economy. It's true that raising rates is meant to solve inflation, but that doesn't mean it's the correct course to take right now. Raising rates may cool inflation, but it does so by making everything from mortgages to credit card payments more expensive, which hurts those already suffering the most in today's cost-of-living crisis," he said. "In this case, the cure may be worse than the disease."
"If the federal government is truly committed to slowing inflation without heaping extra pain on the vulnerable, they should go after greedy, ultraprofitable corporations and their C-suite executives," he argued. "Many corporations have used the hype over inflation in recent months to raise prices on consumers and line their pockets. Why else would corporate profits be at a 70-year high?"
"Many corporations have used the hype over inflation in recent months to raise prices on consumers and line their pockets."
Pearl pointed out that "everyone's been complaining lately about how expensive eggs are. The fact that Cal-Maine, the largest egg producer in the U.S., experienced a 10-fold increase in their profits over the last year might just have something to do with it."
As Common Dreamsreported last month, Farm Action raised concerns about "apparent price gouging, price coordination, and other unfair or deceptive acts or practices by dominant producers of eggs" and urged the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the sector, "prosecute any violations of the antitrust laws it finds within, and ultimately, get the American people their money back."
Pearl said Wednesday that "the Fed raising interest rates won't do anything to stop corporations like Cal-Maine from exploiting American consumers, unless they raise them so much as to cause a massive rise in unemployment."
"It is hard to see a scenario where this kind of action does not cause immense pain to the worst off in America," he added. "The Fed needs to back off, and let Congress step in to tackle corporate greed."
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A month has passed since I did my last Simplefit workout.
So it was not surprising to be totally wiped out after finishing today's workout.
And had a very bad timing to boot.
Need to perservere and be more consistent.
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