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No flies in Syria
April 19, 2018 Saudi Arabia, Terrorism, The new Cold War, Uncategorized, War and Peace, War in Syria, War on Terror, War with Iranantiwar, ISIS, saudi arabia, syria, terrorism, War in Syria, war on terror, western intelligence, western interests in fighting warsadmin
The recent cruise missile attack by the U.S. and its allies the U.K. and France ( former colonial exploiters in the region) raises some interesting dilemmas for Western military planners .
If we are to believe the Russian military assessment of the strike, 71 of the of 103 cruise missiles were brought down by Syrian air defence systems, particular via the Russian made Pantsir surface-to-air missile systems.
While the United States and its two allies have claimed that the missile attack was in response to their espoused view that there had been a gas attack by the Assad military in Douma against the civilians trapped there, the evidence seems to suggest that this attack was aimed at eliminating the air support threat from the Syrian Air Force for the jihadists those 3 Western governments have been extensively supporting since the start of the war to overthrow the Assad regime.
Having failed in their bid to convince the United Nations of a 'no-fly' zone in Syria on multiple occasions ( ie elimination of Syrian government aircraft from the skies above rebel-held territory) ; the use of a chemical weapons attack as a pretext for bombing airfields has become the next best option. Using The American government ( and Muslim Brotherhood) funded Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), and the largely British intelligence funded and managed White Helmets to produce videos purporting to show a chemical weapons attack in Douma, Western media has been united in showing moral outrage at 'animal Assad's" killing of his own people, and baying for more attacks on the Syrian military.
The apparent logic given by Western media and politicians for 'animal Assad" to drop barrel bombs filed with toxic chemicals on the people of Douma was to demonstrate that there was no hope for the rebels there and they should surrender. According to this logic, it was worth the risk of a repeat of the previous cruise missile attacks ordered by President Trump last year for the Assad regime to drop a few barrels of toxic chemicals on Douma to dislodge the few remaining "rebels' there who were already negotiating an exit with the Syrian government from the enclave . One assumes those politicians and the Western media think their publics are very very stupid….Unfortunately for Western intelligence, the overrunning of the last of the rebel enclaves in Ghouta and their departure in buses to Idlib came far sooner than they expected, allowing the Syrians and Russians and journalists like the respected British Robert Fisk, to enter the area where the supposed gas attack had occurred and interview civilians and medics there .
One finds it strange that neither Western media nor their governments have bayed for large cruise missile attacks on the Al Qaeda affiliate Al Nusra, or ISIS, or any of the other head-choppers supported by Gulf and Western states. And that in fact there have been no reported cruise missile attacks by Western countries on ISIS throughout this entire war. How could this be one wonders?
The chemical weapons scam is largely similar to the earlier and still ongoing farce in the Western media about Assad's "barrel bombs". "Barrel bombs' are nothing but impromptu explosives packed in drums and dropped from government helicopters and fixed wing aircraft. They are in fact, unguided ordinance, which the majority of the aerial weapons at play in Syria by the United States and its allies, as well as the Russians and the Syrian government, are. But we are somehow expected to believe that packing munitions into oil drums and dropping them on targets creates far worse dangers, chaos, injury and death than those caused by other unguided munitions. But again the 'barrel bomb' farce is one more attempt by the Western media and politicians to remove the threat to their tunnel based jihadists from aerial warfare of any kind. If the Syrian airforce can be removed and then the Russian airforce, then ISIS and the other Al Qaeda affiliates and salafists out to exterminate all Christians , Allawites, Shi-ites and other non fundamentalist Sunni sects in Syria, will have a much free-er hand on the ground.
Despite American denials, it would appear that in fact the vast majority of the cruise missiles were therefore aimed at Syrian airfields, rather than the alleged chemical weapons storage and production facilities ( which had been vetted by the OPCW as 'clean' just last October 2017). The Syrian and Russians had in fact deployed most of their more effective anti-missile stations around those airfields; and if they are to believed, destroyed the vast majority of the incoming missiles at those airfields. There is some speculation that Russian electromagnetic interference jamming systems may have played a part in the incoming missiles' lack of effectiveness, but that cant be confirmed as yet.
It would appear that the Americans ,French and British are relying on their NATO fellow members of the OPCW to influence the public statements of the OPCW in regards to the alleged Douma gas attack , whilst acknowledging that the inspectors themselves will draw their own conclusions which they can not publicly release as OPCW staff ( but will likely leak to the public or Wikileaks if they do not coincide with the political narrative) . Note that the most recent media release by the OPCW on their survey of the Dhouma site in Syria states that "On arrival at Site 1, a large crowd gathered and the advice provided by the UNDSS was that the reconnaissance team should withdraw. At Site 2, the team came under small arms fire and an explosive was detonated. The reconnaissance team returned to Damascus. "
Very clearly, the battle to partition Syria by the West and its Gulf allies using jihadists is far from over.
But -as in previous unilateral totally illegal strikes ( ie not approved by the U.N. Security Council) by Western governments on states that do not comply with the Western political and economic agenda , this latest missile attack provides ample rationale to China, as the upcoming dominant global power, that missile strikes on countries who do not acquiesce to its political and economic agenda, are a completely legitimate response, in the future.
It may not be too long before China's aircraft carrier armada are patrolling the seas off the United States, the U.K and France..
A more detailed assessment of the cruise missile numbers and targets from Joe Quinn at sott.net
https://www.sott.net/article/382908-About-Those-Nice-New-Smart-Missiles-And-The-Chemical-Weapons-Sites-in-Syria
U.S. Cruise Missile Strikes in Syria – Brief Analysis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_bomb
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/syria-chemical-attack-gas-douma-robert-fisk-ghouta-damascus-a8307726.html
http://eng.mil.ru/en/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12171300@egNews
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/04/syria-pentagon-hides-attack-failure-70-cruise-missiles-shot-down-.html#more
https://www.opcw.org/
Robert Fisk's Douma Report Rips Away Excuses for Air Strike on Syria
America First – R.I.P.
Qatari questions…
July 2, 2017 Environmental Destruction, Terrorism, War and Peace, War in Syria, War on Terror, War with Iranbrutality, Iran nuclear weapons, ISIS, qatar, saudi arabia, terrorism, UAE, war on terror, western intelligence, western interests in fighting warsadmin
As Donald Trump has announced: 'Qatar has been funding terrorism at a very high level". Trump is of course correct; Qatar has been funding training and arming jihadists across the Middle East and the Western world for many years. However, funding terrorists is not Qatar's sin for the Saudis , the Americans and the British. Qatar's crime is that they not only support Hamas to respond to Israeli terror against the Palestinians , but they also have a distant alliance with Iran promarily via their shared Pars field gas resource; and, to cap it all off, are now agreeing to sell some gas in non-US dollars!
The reality is that a few deaths on London Bridge or somewhere else in Europe are simply collateral damage; worth it, in the bigger interest of huge kickbacks from the Saudis, and Israel's backers in the States and the U.K. .. This is purely and simply about money. The festering cesspool of British/American mainstream politics and their respective 'intelligence' units , is all about money- what's a few blown-up innocent citizens compared to the billions that can be made through arms deals, oil deals and kickbacks?-with the added benefit of de-stabilising the one final disruptor to Israel's' plans to once and for good 'solve' the Palestinian question- by removing Iran and their allies Hezbollah and to some degree Hamas.
As Angry Arab notes: If Western media want to really serve their readers in their (lousy) coverage of the Gulf crisis, they would adhere to those two basic standards of professional journalism:
1) they would tell their readers while interviewing academics, journalists, or "citizens" in UAE or Saudi Arabia or Qatar that opposition the government or disagreeing with the government in tweets or in retweets would land you in jail for up to 15 years with a hefty fine. They would tell them people in those countries are not free to express views different form the government.
2) they would tell readers when they cite "experts" at DC think thanks that those think tanks are all funded by UAE and/or Saudi Arabia (except Brookings which is funded by Qatar). These are basics.'
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/qatar-linked-terror-list-issued-saudi-arabia-allies/
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/391853-qatar-riyadh-plan-backfires/
https://wikileaks.org/saudi-cables/buying-silence
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/iraq-reinforces-border-saudi-arabia-amid-deepening-qatari-saudi-rift-video/
http://angryarab.blogspot.co.nz/
Dance of the Macabre
May 22, 2017 Uncategorizedal qaeda, ISIS, qatar, saudi arabia, terrorism, War in Syria, western interests in fighting warsadmin
We are now treated to the spectacle of President Trump dancing a sword dance with Saudi princes after signing a multi billion dollar arms deal with the Saudi regime..
We have indisputable evidence that the Saudis and Qataris are not only funding training and even providing jihadist manpower to terrorists in the Middle East ( including both Al Qaeda and ISIS), but that the Saudi regime is also the sole source of the Wahhabist ideology that drives foolish young men to commit terrorist crimes, both in the West and as jihadist mercenaries in the Middle East.
We know also that Britain (remember Lawrence of Arabia) and now the United States, have continued to prop up this brutal sectarian and misogynist regime on the Arabian peninsula for the past 100 years, because it serves their interest to do so. Interests that include oil of course and the sale of superfluous armaments , but also the capacity to combat those states in the Middle East who do not bow down to Western interests; eg Iraq, Libya, Syria, and the ultimate prize, Iran.
Thus, as academic Christopher Davidson meticulously records in his 2016 book, "The Shadow Wars"; ongoing U.K. and U.S. support for the Saudi regime and its terrorist activities is very much in their interests.
For how much longer will this macabre dance continue?
Saudi Arabia: the Useful Idiots
May 18, 2017 Human Rights, ISIS, Israel, Palestine, Terrorism, War and Peace, War in Syria, War on Terror, War with Iranal qaeda, Iran nuclear weapons, Iran US relations, ISIS, israel, palestine, War in Syria, war on terror, western intelligence, western interests in fighting warsadmin
As Christopher Davidson makes clear in his 2016 book 'The Shadow Wars'; the extremist ideology of wahhabism – an 'offshoot' of Islam, is deeply imbedded in the Saudi regime. That sectarian brutal regime could not have come to power and retained its military domination over the Arabian peninsula, without the unconditonal support of first the British and latterly the United States. Their Wahhabist dogma states that all who don't believe in their version of Islam are heretics and should be forcibly converted or put to death.
This dogma is the foundation of Al Qaeda and ISIS ; and these groups, along with fanatical wahhabist ideology promoted in many Saudi funded Sunni mosques around the world, has been actively promoted by those in power in Riyadh since they were effectively installed by the British in the First World War to counter the Turkish Ottoman Empire's reach..
As Davidson meticulously notes in his book, the support of the British and then the Americans for this fanatical regime, has never wavered; even after the 9/11 terror attack and now the genocide occuring in Yemen. The ongoing U.S. and British support for wahhabist terror to further Western agendas can be taken as a given.
As Human Rights Watch notes (2017) Saudi Arabia does not tolerate public worship by adherents of religions other than Islam and systematically discriminates against Muslim religious minorities, notably Twelver Shia and Ismailis, including in public education, the justice system, religious freedom, and employment. Government-affiliated religious authorities continued to disparage Shia Islam in public statements and documents.
And now we see a Saudi attempt to completely eliminate any Shia influence within the 'kingdom' in their ongoing brutal crackdown of the minority Shia population in Awamiya on the Arabian peninsula.
Because of the huge amounts of money flowing from the Saudis into Washington and other Western 'think-tanks' ( ie propaganda outlets) , both Western media mainstream media and the Washington and London 'intelligence' communities are largely uncritical of this despotic regime and its outpourings of hatred and violence to any Muslims and other Middle Eastern religions who do not espouse their Wahhabist ideology. As long as the Wahhabists remain useful in the cause of eliminating any threats to Israel, countering an independent Iran or eliminating other Middle Eastern states critical of the United States or the United Kingdom- then that is all good!- regardless of the loss of lives or the devastation left behind…The destruction of the Shi-ite state of Iran is a priority of both the Saudis, Israel, as well as the U.S. and U.K. The re-appropriation of Iranian assets and oil by Western interests is looked upon longingly.
Saudi Arabia funds many wahhabist sect mosques throughout the Western world; whose aim is to preach hate and sectarian discord and promote the killing of others who do not accept their extremist views. Given that this sectarian dialogue is visible open and blatant, how is it that those western mosques have not been closed and the Saudi funnelling of money towards Wahhabists has not been blocked?
Or is this 'minor' irritant of localised terrorism and hate in Western states 'worth it', when the majority of the mosques' gullible and disenfranchised indoctrinated young adherents can be shunted off to the Middle East with the assistance of Western intelligence agencies, so that Shi-ite or non secular non U.S. aligned states can be destroyed?
We have reached a rather surrealist situation where the previously hidden long term 'agreement' to divide the Middle East according to their respective spheres of influence between Israel and Saudi Arabia has now become completely visible, and now means that ISIS has needed to apologise to Israel for their unintended attack on Israeli 'Defence' forces. For many Arabs this apology is a clear signal of the betrayal by the Saudis of the Palestinians and their 60 year brutal occupation of Palestine by Israel military forces. Taken in conjunction with their genocidal war against the impoverished Yemen people by massive Saudi military forces, and with the total support of the U.K. and U.S., Saudi credibility has reached an all time low amongst Arab populations across the Middle East.
Once can only hope that the end of the brutal 'reign' of the House of Saud is nigh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2017/country-chapters/saudi-arabia
https://off-guardian.org/2015/12/10/saudi-arabia-leads-the-jihadist-nations-u-s-assists-them/
https://www.sott.net/article/308121-Investigating-Saudi-Arabias-sponsorship-of-Turkish-politics-terrorism-and-the-frenzied-conflict-in-Syria
http://intpolicydigest.org/2015/11/29/why-isis-exists-the-double-game/
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/03/05/the-redirection
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/isis-wahhabism-saudi-arabia_b_5717157.html You Can't Understand ISIS If You Don't Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia
Shadow Wars-The Secret Struggle for the Middle East, Christopher Davidson 2016
https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/christopher-davidson-ian-sinclair/christopher-davidson-interview-what-is-role-of-west-in-middle-e
http://thesaker.is/who-are-the-sunnis-a-lamentation/
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
http://www.unz.com/pcockburn/war-with-iran-seems-likely-as-trump-cosies-up-with-saudi-arabia/
Postcript Links
https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201705201053811797-abu-trump-al-amriki/
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/manchester-attack-salman-abedi-salafi-jihadism-wahhabism-isis-al-qaeda-islam-muslim-suicide-bombing-a7754301.html
The Self-destruction of Western Societies?
August 4, 2016 Environmental Destruction, Human Rights, ISIS, Suicide, Sustainable World, Terrorism, War and Peace, War on Terroral qaeda, end of civilisation, environmental destruction, ISIS, mindfulness and suicide, suicide, terrorismadmin
The recent 'terrorist' bombings in European cities may need to be looked at from a wider perspective. Is this increasing wave of violence on urban communities a signal of a deeper malaise?
The 'terrorists' who have perpetrated these attacks over the past few years ( ie not just "ISIS' inspired killings); have inevitably be enacted by dispossessed angry young men who predominantly have no clear ideology of much longstanding. While they have often attributed the rationale for their attacks to some formal ideology like ISIS, I suspect that any ideological excuse would have sufficed for them. The recent killings by those who stated their motivations were in the name of Allah and ISIS, were almost all by young men who had lacked any consistent commitment to Muslim practice; ie not regularly attending a mosque, and indulged in drinking, drugs , gambling etc.
This indicates that the rationale for the killing did not come from idealogical sources, but rather from their own anger and hurt about their own life experiences. Undoubtedly however, the last few years of ISIS, Al Qaeda and other similar extremist groups espousing the glories of the killing of innocents, have provided a focus and a 'rationale' for that anger and blood-lust.
This process might be likened to the Christian crusades to the "Holy Lands" in mediaeval times, when Europeans from all walks of life joined armies to supposedly 'free" the Holy Lands from Saracen tyranny, but in fact used that license to indulge in vast amounts of rape, pillage and terror of local populations, both on their journeys to Palestine through Europe and the Middle East , but also within Palestine itself.
What is different this time around however, is that this is an internal self-immolation of societies and almost a global one: predominantly by young men who were born within European societies, but at the same time alienated from them.
What we see then, is a political response to these multiple deaths which labels them as "terrorists' attacks rather than an epidemic of murder/-suicides by young angry and hurting men.
Instead of addressing the root causes of that anger; alienation from society, loneliness, poverty, drugs and perceived inequalities and injustices; Western governments have increasingly focussed on more and more draconian responses to these murders; an action which further legitimizes the imaginary ideological fervour of more and more young men.
As in the United States, the political response is to further militarise police forces and restrict human rights and freedoms, and thereby increase the likelihood of inappropriate and unjust responses by the 'authorities' to legitimate community conflict situations. It is plain that such actions lead only to community disintegration.
One might therefore argue that the actions by both parties are symptomatic of a global community in decline; in a state of self-immolation, as it unconsciously acknowledges the multiple absurd paradoxes of our global consumer society whilst we inexorably head towards an unliveable over-heated and species depleted planet.
Obama and the Baseball Cards
April 30, 2016 Human Rights, Rendition, Secrecy, Terrorism, War and Peace, War on Terrorantiwar, brutality, Drones, ISIS, terror from the air, terrorism, war on terror, western intelligence, western interests in fighting warsadmin
Obama's legacy; and this may well be his prime legacy- and one he may remember in his older years as he stands before the International War Crimes Tribunal, (once its decisions are no longer controlled by the U.S. State Department), was his omnipotent capacity to decide who shall live and who shall die by drone anywhere in the world, based on limited pieces of information provided on baseball cards. (a kind of Roman Emperor type role: – thumbs- up or down at the Coliseum)
Lawfareblog.com notes 'This is a mock-up/depiction of what an actual kill-list baseball card looks like. It is not a real baseball card and is not based on any classified information.'
Taken together, the secret documents lead to the conclusion that Washington's 14-year high-value targeting campaign suffers from an over-reliance on signals intelligence, an apparently incalculable civilian toll, and — due to a preference for assassination rather than capture — an inability to extract potentially valuable intelligence from terror suspects. They also highlight the futility of the war in Afghanistan by showing how the U.S. has poured vast resources into killing local insurgents, in the process exacerbating the very threat the U.S. is seeking to confront. The Intercept
One might almost be forgiven therefore for coming to the conclusion that the intent of the U.S. targeted killing process is not to eliminate the sources of terror, but to exacerbate them.
Drone operator cabin- Daily Mail Australia
As we have seen in many a colonial war, those who 'hand in' terrorists to the colonial power inevitably have their own agendas; feuding families and clans, or perhaps financial or property interests, but rarely because they are in fact 'terrorists". In addition we can be certain that US military and State Dept claims of minimal 'collateral damage' (accidental killing of civilians who get in the way of a drone missile's large detonation area) are complete fabrications. And we can be certain too that drone operators have less than minimal knowledge of foreign cultural issues- e.g. the difference between a wedding party celebrating by firing automatic weapons into the air and a terrorist group in weapons training , let alone their drone "eyes" having sufficient definition to pick up who is who on the ground.
So, when dear President Obama gives the thumbs down on that particular baseball card, he really has no idea what he is agreeing to; other than that his decision will kill someone or more likely , quite a few people, out there . But of course, if that Hellfire missile with its 9kg warhead just happens to kill a few other 'military-age males' in the vicinity of the explosion, all to the good. By using remote killing mechanisms the US president can appear to take a Herod-like hands-off approach to the art of murder, with the added benefit of limited capacity of verifying what carnage has actually occurred on the ground.
In addition the United States' penchant for targeting supposed 'leaders' of terrorist groups, rather than their supply lines, infrastructure or financial backers, means that drones can be used over and over to kill the next leader who takes the deceased's place in the leadership line; or as in many cases , the United States simply 'kills' the same person over and over again; such is the usefulness of remote unverified killing.
United States government lawyers have in the past contorted themselves in all sorts of unusual positions to justify remote murder by executive order, much as their contracted psychiatrists managed to create a lofty argument that putting prisoners through 'stress positions' was not in fact totally illegal, inhumane torture and contravened international human rights on a grand scale.
President Obama has even been known to joke publicly about his life and death decision-making powers, not too dissimilar from his psychopathic Secretary of State , Hilary Clinton.
I hope I will be around to see them stand before the International tribunal.
https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-complex/
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-presidents-kill-list
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/2013.05.23_fact_sheet_on_ppg.pdf
https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-comment-presidents-national-security-speech
https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/targeted-killing
https://www.aclu.org/foia-collection/targeted-killing-foia-database
https://www.aclu.org/foia-document/joint-targeting-cycle-and-collateral-damage-estimation-methodology
https://theintercept.com/document/2015/10/14/geolocation-watchlist/
https://www.lawfareblog.com/kill-list-baseball-cards-and-targeting-paper-trail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2249252/Brandon-Bryant-Drone-operator-followed-orders-shoot-child–decided-quit.html


Here, I want to talk about the "difference" in value of some variable in a particular closed system & its significance with respect to "tolerable" or "sustainable" limit of that particular system.
Hey, are we talking about Physics here?
Absolutely NOT! Please don't leave this page.
But, yes my interpretation is based on Physics.
Let's take an example of a closed tank. Consider it being filled with some fluid at some pressure. Outside pressure will be atmospheric pressure & therefore the walls of tank will experience a differential pressure across them. When inside pressure reaches a particular threshold value (that depends on wall material, thickness & strength), then any increase in pressure beyond that may lead to rupture or explosion of tank walls. To prevent it, we use systems to vent our excess pressure as soon as we reach close to overpressure limit.
We don't want them to get troubled by our troubles.
We don't want to listen to their advice & sympathy.
We don't want them to know we are so week.
We don't want to be a burden searching for a shoulder to cry on.
We feel guilty & hopeless and want to get cut-off from outer world.
So, we end up holding all our pain & grief deep within us. Not talking, not communicating & not sharing with anyone around us. We may try to behave & act normally but our sub-conscious never gets affected by this illusion. There are times when it not just the other world from which we try to hide our feelings. We hide it from ourselves also. We try to be strong & keep manipulating our mind keeping ourselves busy & normal. This is really needed to come out of grief. But, when we sleep & as we wake up, our sub-conscious mind is more dominant & we feel the pain, depression & discomfort.
We need to be strong, we need to console emotions in our heart by giving logic from our mind, we need to keep ourselves busy, we need to adopt normal routine & we need to try hard to get out of our grief.
But, we should also keep in mind how strong we are? How much we can really hold? We need to find sometime for talking to ourselves & our near & dear ones. Healing from grief is a gradual process & adopting short-cuts can turn out to be risky.
So, it's the task of close friends & family members to closely monitor the grieving person & let him/her vent out the actual feelings before reaching a threshold limit of their tolerance level.
Every human is different & every grief is different so there cannot be any specific guideline on healing time & ways to heal. Coping up with grief is a unique process for every individual & no one can guide you what you should do & what you shouldn't.
You yourself will have to find a way for your healing. You have to introspect yourself with honesty. Too much differential between your sub-conscious & conscious mind is not good for your physical & mental health. As a consequence, you may have sleepless nights; lose your appetite, headache etc. degrading your health further.
You will surely have people around you who care for you. Never hesitate to take their support & express what you feel.
"TO EXPRESS AND NOT TO SUPPRESS".
"TO ACCEPT AND NOT TO FORGET".
"TO FACE THE REALITY AND NOT TO RUN".
"TO TALK AND NOT TO STAY SILENT".
No one knows you better than you yourself. You are your doctor & you have to decide your healing process. Please make sure that there is not much of difference between your sub-conscious & conscious mind. Please make sure that you are not lying to yourself.
Remember you are very important for your family & friends.
GOD also helps those who help themselves.
Hope that GOD will be kind you.
Note: It would be helpful if readers can give their suggestions on ways to cope up with grief.
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Awesome posting! I love the analogy and the figure at the end.
Thanks, May GOD Bless us All & HELP us cope up with such situations.


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Educator Spotlight: Rameka Davis, Principal, Ossie Ware Mitchell Middle School
August 4, 2014 October 1, 2014
Rameka Davis can be a hard person to get a hold of.
"Ballard! You finally tracked me down!" Davis says to Ed staffer Ballard Jones, from behind her desk in her new position as Principal at Ossie Ware Mitchell Middle School.
Over the course of a year, Jones and Davis have built an easy rapport, working together on College 101 during her time as interim principal at Woodlawn High School. Davis also played a major role in many of the successes that Ed enjoyed with other programs such as the College Prep Institute and Bridging the Gap.
Ms. Davis has been in Birmingham City Schools for sixteen years, beginning her career at Woodlawn as a special education teacher, and moving through the ranks as assistant principal, interim principal, and now principal. Davis graduated from Jackson State University with a Bachelor's in Early Childhood Education; she also holds a Masters in Collaborative Teaching and Special Education from ASU and an EDS in Educational Leadership from UAB.
When asked about what it is that she does to ensure her students are getting the most out of their education, Davis explained that partnering with outside organizations – such as Ed and Church of the Highlands – helps keep learning fresh and lessens the load on teachers by utilizing the strengths of community organizations. Davis also said that she wants her students and teachers focused on college and career readiness, which, at Woodlawn, was emphasized in the Academy of Business and Finance, and the new Academy of Arts and Environmental Science. Ms. Davis also places special emphasis on project based learning, which she says "gives students the opportunity to collaborate and push their own thinking."
As for her work with Ed, Ms. Davis said that Ed "not only talked about what [Ed planned] to do, but actually brought resources to the table to accomplish those outcomes." Davis said that working with Ed helped her accomplish her mission for the school because the "programs are consistent with what [staff are] trying to do at the school level."
Then she, pauses, shoots a glance at Ballard and adds with a laugh: "you were definitely persistent as well."
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It is very exciting with a Norwegian speaker producer that has managed to take the step out to Europe, and that also has achieved a certain level of success – and several good reviews in international magazines. This time on the other hand, Stereo+ is first out. We shall see if the rest of the world agrees.
The frame is the same as with the other speakers from Arendal Sound. An elaborate cabinet construction, the same tweeter solution as they have used with great results in all their other speakers and a very heavy midrange/bass-driver.
For being a bookshelf speaker they are pretty big boned. It has the same thick front baffle as Monitor, and the cabinet feels solid and sturdy. I think there are barely any speaker in this price range that is built similarly.
So the question is if this is a bookshelf speaker. The answer is mnyeaa, where i drag the a. It is apparent quite early that despite the name, they are best suited on a stand, but you can still put them on a shelf or table of sorts. But if your only option is to place them on the wall you may as well buy something cheaper. You will almost certainly not get great sound no matter which passive speaker you choose. There are some active speakers with compensation for placement as for example KEF LS50 Wireless, but that is talking about something completely different.
The owner of Arendal Sound, Jan Ove Lassesen, says the new speaker Bookshelf S perhaps is the most precise and accurate he has been apart of making. We will see if it is correct, but never the less you have to treat them right.
The speaker has the normal array of drivers. A tweeter sitting in a big and characteristic waveguide, which also act as a short horn. The woofer is a 6,5 inch with a very solid, casted chassis and a gigantic magnet. On the backside of the speaker you will find a couple of impressive speaker terminals that handle plugs, spades or if you are one of those liking Biltema's (Norways equivalent of your local cheap car/electronic shop) 4mm2 speaker cable without any plug at the end, you can make that one fit also.
The cabinet is mentioned, but as usual we do a knocking test to listen for resonances and box-sound. The result is zero. HDF (high density fiberboard) makes this a very dead and well damped set of speakers.
There is a lot going for this speaker, but obviously it does not play deep into the bass registers, and it can not compare with the efficiency of the floorstanding Arendal Sound speakers. So basically it has the same built-in challenges as basically all placement friendly small speakers.
There is one thing to be said about the lack of deep bass, and that is that the speaker doesn't necessarily sound thin and light-weighted. Even if you lack the weight of a hefty 12-inch or an array of 8-incher's like the biggest Arendal Sound speaker, it sounds pretty rich and with useable weight. No direct compromises here, then.
I have already mentioned the need for a pair of stands, but that will not automatically give you great sound. The speakers needs some air around them, but at the same time they should not be placed to far from the back wall. That is at least my experience after a few days with the speaker.
It also separates well between different amplifiers, but sounds fantastic together with a Marantz PM8006. Then we are talking about a set that together with a decent source, in this case a Bluesound Node2i, that ticks in at just above 30.000 kroner (around 3.000 Eur). You can make many much worse hifi-purchases at that price, and to be honest you may not get much better sound if you add another 10 thousand+ (1.000+ Eur). In addition to needing some air around them I chose to angle them slightly towards listening position (toe-in). In Arendal Sounds listening room they were placed more straight, which was quite fine. It also worked fine in my home. Still I got an even better focus and room when angling the speaker inwards something like 5-6 degrees. From being less precise in the midrange, the balance between bass and midrange and in focus and room definition, all it took was some moving back and forth before they really played music. Quite literally. For such a small speaker to have the ability for such dynamics, without being super efficient – and horn-loaded, is surprising.
Despite a very engaging and living soundstage we are not talking about a speaker with sharp edges. There is a lot of energy in the tweeter and upper midrange, and it literally parks a lot of the speakers in this range in terms of dynamic ability and freshness. Yet it sounds natural in the sense that it sounds like the sound I hear when attending a concert, or when I am playing around with a guitar or synth. Therefore I found it only natural to test it as a studio monitor, and despite being passive it is actually brilliant as a studio monitor. It has good balance, and a soundstage with high precision. A lot of what is needed when control-listening music for recording purposes. Perhaps this is a market that Arendal Sound should explore. Perhaps also put some resources into making an active model?
With normal music the speakers show great versatility, and I think I agree with Jan Ove Lassesen of Arendal Sound that these are the most precise and accurate speakers they have created – ever. That is saying something, because the more or less double sized Monitor S are not bad at all either. Sometimes a slightly slimmer bass makes the lower midrange shine even better, and that may be some of the reason here. Still I think there is an even better interaction between tweeter and midrange, and a precision in the mid-bass that is the best from Arendal so far.
It is well revealed on music like Diana Krall's The Girl in the other Room. Where I honestly am wondering what is happening when I hear the opening of the song. The instruments are very believable, natural sounding and are delivered with complete calmness. When Krall's voice enters I can only give in. This is simply fabulous. There is unusually little restraint in the sound, and everything lets go of the speaker with an unusual ease. Good times!
What the speaker somewhat lacks is weight, but no other bookshelf speaker in the price range has it either. Most speakers at this size need some help. I therefore hooked up a subwoofer to test it out, and although it is not really big or expensive it worked above all expectations. Despite the subwoofer being adjusted to play so low that it barely gave any addition in the deep end, the soundstage completely changed. It became larger, more powerful and heavier, and was at once ready for new challenges like heavy electronica and movies.
Even if I think this is a very good speaker it is not without its competition. Focal Aria 906, Vienna Acoustics Haydn, Bowers & Wilkins 706 S2 or the "original" KEF LS50 or PMC Monitor DB1 Gold, just to mention some of the competitors, all have their own qualities and characteristics that surpass Arendal Sound Bookshelf S on some points. For example there is no one in the price range that can match the focus and perspective of KEF LS50, or the musical magic from PMC Monitor DB1. So it boils down to what you like, how you appreciate the different characteristics and what kind of amplifier and equipment you have. Yet I still hold Arendal Sound Bookshelf S as one of the most complete and versatile speakers in the price range.
If you on the other hand go up a price range to between 18.000 and 20.000 Kroner (1800-2000 Eur), to for example KEF R3, or Sonus Faber Sonetto 2, which both are tested in this edition of Stereo+, the music is played very convincingly, and with a quality level that challenges Bookshelf S on several points, and surpass it on some.
Arendal Sound Bookshelf S is an impressively good sounding, lifelike, competent and engaging compact speaker.


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By Anna Gustafson and Rebecca Henely Posted on January 5, 2011
Five MTA buses were stuck on 39th Avenue in Woodside Tuesday morning from the blizzard that fell on the city and the northeast Sunday and Monday. Photo by Christina Santucci
By Anna Gustafson and Rebecca Henely
Sunday's blizzard sent the borough into a tailspin, making it impossible for emergency vehicles to reach sick residents, slowing fire trucks trying to reach a five-alarm blaze in Elmhurst and leaving people stranded in buses and homes with no passable roads.
While Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the city Department of Sanitation had deployed more than 1,700 plows and 2,000 workers to clear buried streets, borough legislators said the city's response to this blizzard has been one of its worst responses to a disaster yet.
"The amount of complaints we've been receiving is unbelievable," City Councilman Mark Weprin (D-Oakland Gardens) said Tuesday. "The response to the storm has been shockingly inadequate. This is the worst response I've seen. I just drove around the neighborhood and most secondary streets have been plowed once or not at all. We have a pregnant woman who's afraid she'll go into labor, a kid on a respiratory who can't get to get to a doctor's appointment and people who just want to get out and go to work."
Bloomberg said plows have had a difficult time maneuvering around vehicles left in the road.
"Today our No. 1 challenge is stuck ambulances and abandoned cars and buses," Bloomberg said Tuesday. "These abandoned vehicles are making it very difficult for our plows to move as quickly as they usually do, and that is one of the real differences between this storm and past ones that we've dealt with."
The NYPD and tow trucks had removed about 1,000 abandoned vehicles from the Van Wyck, Gowanus and Cross Bronx Expressways, according to Bloomberg. More than 1,000 buses throughout the city were stranded during the storm that began around midday Sunday, a MTA spokeswoman said.
"Hundreds of Amalgamated Transit Union members were stuck on their buses for hours, some for more than 24 hours," said Daneek Miller, president of the ATU Local 1056. "Riders waited for buses much longer than reasonable, even in these difficult weather conditions."
Lisa Horner of Middle Village, whose 14-year-old daughter Carly Nieves has leukemia, said her block on 58th Avenue and 76th Street had not been plowed on Tuesday, blocking her daughter from getting to her chemotherapy treatment. Ambulances have not been able to reach her house.
"I'm just shocked," Horner said. "I can't recall any time we've had snow that this has gone on as long as it did."
As of Tuesday evening, Horner said she had been able to reschedule Carly's appointment for Wednesday, but she has heard of others who have had chemotherapy or dialysis that cannot wait a day.
Response times have been hampered by unplowed streets, stranded vehicles, snow and ice, said Jim Long, spokesman for the Fire Department. Long said on a normal day the FDNY averages 3,200 to 3,400 calls a day citywide, but on Monday the department received 6,000 calls.
These response times turned one fire in a 66-unit apartment building on 41-72 Judge St. into a five-alarm Monday at 6:30 p.m. Long said an accidental space heater fire set the top floor of the apartment ablaze, and because of the weather the firefighters took longer to get set up.
Yoselin Genao, chief of staff for City Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras (D-East Elmhurst), said the majority of tenants were evacuated into PS 89. Four residents and four firefighters were hurt in the blaze, she said.
"People are very upset about the initial response from the Fire Department because it took them a long time to get through," Genao said.
Many residents were unable to use their own cars, and even when they turned to mass transportation things were not much better. Buses are moving slowly because of the snow, and six bus routes in Queens were not running as of Tuesday evening, according to the MTA.
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My art is sometimes a place to hide in plain sight, to feel safe expressing deeply personal emotions. In each one in this series, Journal Entries, an actual, personal, private journal entry is written, but in Yiddish, and then written over, so that it's out there and totally obscured at the same time. Vessels, objects of containment, accompany the journal entry, all drawn with colored pencil on an obscure photo-lithograph derived from a linear sculptural work of mine. (Soft Grids, found at "Constructions/Installations – Lines").


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Heart-Shaped Ivy Identification
By Diana K. Williams Updated November 25, 2019
Will an Ivy Plant Last Through the Winter?
Plants That Grow Over a Rock Retaining Wall
Do I Need to Bring in the Potted Ivy in the Winter?
Looking After Variegated Ivy Indoors
How to Remove Ivy Remains From the Foundation of My House
Ivy (Hedera spp) adds beauty to the home landscape, or it can be put in a hanging pot to bring the outdoors inside. There are hundreds of different ivy cultivars, boasting a huge array of leaf shapes and sizes around the world. Perhaps one of the most prized kind plant in the group is a vine with heart shaped leaves. This trait can be found in various species
When identifying an ivy with heart-shaped leaves, some key features to note are the color and shape of the petiole (the stem that attaches the leaf to the vine) and the size of the leaf. Also not all all leaves considered heart-shaped are like a valentine, some have lobes that distort the heart shape.
Large-Leafed Ivy
Algerian ivy (Hedera canariensis), also called Canary Island ivy, has giant heart-shaped leaves 4 to 8 inches in length with five to seven lobes. These thick, glossy green leaves alternate on the vine, meaning they do not grow directly across from one another, and are attached with red stems, a distinguishing characteristic in identifying the ivy. Algerian ivy is used as a house plant and grown as a ground cover in warmer zones of its U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 6 to 10. Its variegated cultivars as less hardy, growing in USDA zones 7 to 10.
Non-Invasive Ivy
Crush the large leaves of Persian ivy (Hedera colchica) and you'll release an aroma similar to celery. The smell helps distinguish this dull green-leafed ivy. Its leaves are moderately lobed and reach up to 8 inches in length. Hedera colchica grows in USDA zones 5 to 9, and its cultivar Hedera colchica "Dentata Variegata" grows in USDA zones 6 to 9. "Dentata Variegata" has robust, somewhat heart-shaped leaves with yellowish leaf margins and gray-green centers. Left unpruned, this vine reaches 50 feet long. It is frequently used in hanging baskets and is used effectively as a ground cover. Hedera colchica is not considered invasive in California.
Ivy Identification
Probably the best known of all the ivies is English ivy (_Hedera helix and cv_s). It has been bred into hundreds of cultivars that grow in USDA zones 5 to 11. Leaf shapes vary widely, range from 1 to 3 inches long, and commonly have five lobes. The leaves of Hedera helix "Teardrop" are an elongated heart shape and are attached to the vine with a flat stem. Leaf veins are light colored and pronounced. "Gold Heart" leaves are variegated with yellow in the center, giving the cultivar its name.
Invasive Qualities in Ivies
Ivies add beauty to a cottage garden or the outer wall of a house, but being natives to Europe, most are aggressively invasive outside their home range. Hedera canariensis, Hedera colchicum and Hedera helix are listed as invasive species in some parts of the world. English ivy has been known to escape into the wild, where it completely covers trees and brings them down from the weight of its vines and leaves.
Clemson Cooperative Extension: Indoor Ivy
Missouri Botanical Garden: Hedera Colchica Dentata Variegata
University of Illinois Extension: Climbers and Twiners – Vines for the Home Garden
The American Ivy Association: Ivies
Fine Gardening: Hedera Helix and Cvs
Oregon State University: Hedera Canariensis
Missouri Botanical Garden: Hedera Colchica
The American Ivy Association: Hedera Helix Teardrop
Diana K. Williams is a certified Master Gardener, has more than a decade of experience as an environmental scientist, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biology and environmental studies from the Ohio Northern University. Williams is a winner of Writer's Digest Magazine's annual writing competition.
Beautiful houseplants that also repel mosquitoes, cockroaches and other pests
Types of Ivy Vines
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How Much Does English Ivy Grow in a Year?
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How to Plant Ivy Vines
How to Grow Ivy on Walls
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1 Beautiful houseplants that also repel mosquitoes, cockroaches and other pests
2 Types of Ivy Vines
3 Fast Growing Ivy for Groundcover Under Trees
4 How Much Does English Ivy Grow in a Year?


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Chevy Chase plays Andy Farmer (seen here enjoying lamb fries), a former sportswriter in the movie Funny Farm who moves to rural Vermont to write a book. (Warner Bros.)
Speak Your Piece | Go for the Vacation, Stay for the Worker Subsidy
By Christopher Chavis
Vermont is offering $10,000 to workers who move with their remote job to the state. It's part of larger efforts in Northern New England to attract more young people.
A young New York City sports writer moves with his wife to a small town in the rolling hills in central Vermont. His ambition is to be a professional freelance writer, and he even has an advance from a publisher to write his first book. The young couple eagerly looks forward to their life in their new community and set out to put down roots. The writer's friends warn him that he will be right back in New York after getting a taste of rural life, but the writer is adamant that he is in it for the long haul. While this scenario is straight out of Hollywood — it is the premise of the 1987 Chevy Chase film, "Funny Farm" – Vermont's government hopes it also occurs in real life. Last year, Vermont announced plans to pay up to $10,000 to people who move to the state on or after January 1, 2019, and work remotely. Vermont's decision comes on the heels of what I have called Northern New England's demographics crisis.
When measured by median age, the three Northern New England states (Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine) are the three oldest in the country. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the median age in the United States is 37.8. In Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, it is 42.8, 42.7, and 44.3 respectively. The problem is even grimmer in their most rural areas where the median age is often over a decade higher than the national median. In Essex County, Vermont, in the state's northeast corner, the median age is 50. In Carroll County, New Hampshire, situated in the state's Lakes Region, the median age is 51.4. And in Piscataquis County, Maine, home to Mount Katahdin, the median age is 50.7. The consequences of the demographics crisis are real. Industries across Northern New England are facing labor shortages. Local news stories discuss a lack of electricians, plumbers, health care professionals, and other skilled professions. In an upcoming publication in the University of Maine Law Review, I will be talking about how the demographic crisis is affecting access to lawyers in the region.
The existence of the demographics crisis has not been lost on the leaders of the region, and actions have been taken to alleviate it. In addition to the monetary incentive to work remotely in the state, Vermont also announced an initiative that would attempt to tap into the state's large tourist market to find new residents. In 2018, the state held three weekends where tourists were invited to three cities (Brattleboro, Rutland, and Bennington) to meet with business leaders and get a sampling of the professional resources available. The program, while not rural focused, did focus heavily on small cities in the state that are employment hubs for the surrounding rural communities. In 2017, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu issued an executive order that created a millennial advisory council that will advise the governor on how to attract millennials to the state. Maine recently expanded a program that allows college graduates to use their student loan payments as a tax credit. Introduced in 2008, it formerly only applied to graduates of Maine colleges. Thanks to a recent expansion however, it can now be used by recent graduates of any college in the country. Before leaving office, former Governor Paul LePage had proposed a tax credit for businesses that assisted employees with paying student loans. However, the proposal was not acted upon.
To continue to combat the problem, the region's leaders will have to be creative and thoughtful in how they approach it. They will also have to utilize their existing resources. For example, Northern New England has a natural magnet that already attracts young people to the region. Most notably, it is home to many top-tier colleges. After all, Dartmouth, Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, and Middlebury colleges all call the region home and attract a population that is largely not from there. In fact, according to the Boston Globe, Vermont has more colleges per capita than any other state. Within these colleges, there already exists a captive audience of young people who could potentially be enticed to remain in the state. To prevent the crisis from becoming worse, leaders will have to continue to explore new initiatives and ways to address it. The future of Northern New England depends on the ingenuity of its leadership and their ability to stem a demographics crisis that threatens the future of the broader region.
Christopher Chavis is a native of Robeson County, North Carolina, and currently lives in Virginia. He is a contributing writer for Legal Ruralism, a blog that covers legal issues facing rural America. He holds a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and a Juris Doctor from Michigan State University College of Law. He is also a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.
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C³ Receives Company Innovation Award
Apr 8, 2022 | Heather Calnin
Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services. Innovation defines C³, who's CEO & Founder, Joe Van De Hey, saw a need in their industry and built a team to fulfill it.
"I knew there was something missing in the industry. When I looked around manufacturing facilities, I saw people doing the bare minimum. They're not being creative, trying to help, nor trying to understand. We're here to change that."
- Joe Van De Hey | CEO & Founder
The Fox Cities Chamber of Commerce Company Innovation Award seeks to recognize those companies who are successfully driving innovation in their company and the Fox Cities community. BLC Community Bank was honored to not only nominate C³ Corporation, but to celebrate with them as they received this award at the annual Celebrate dinner.
"I'm so thankful that C³ has been chosen for this award, as they are so well deserving," states Adam Lange, Senior Vice President and Chief Lending Officer of BLC Community Bank. "They have completely revolutionized the mattress manufacturing industry, and have done it in a way that has benefitted consumers, retailers, and the environment. C³ has grown almost 5x since 2016, and they continue to invest in innovation and product development. I'm very excited to see what's next!"
Bigger Thinking. Better Ideas.
Founded in 1994, C³'s original business model was centered around the design and engineering of custom manufacturing machinery. In 2016, the decision was made to narrow the company's focus to foam mattress manufacturing equipment – tapping into a niche in the industry that hadn't previously been explored.
"There's a lot of work that goes into developing and creating the processes that allow us to roll out new innovations."
– Brady Van De Hey
While some companies keep one foot on the brake, Joe and his team take a progressive approach to avoid becoming complacent. At C³, they strive to redefine what it means to work in manufacturing – not just with the machines they create, but also in how they create them. The company continues to grow and expand its product lines and service department, creating complementary revenue streams keeping them a step ahead of the competition. By keeping innovation at the forefront, they're able to design new products before the market even realizes the need for it.
"Nothing is ever done, it's never accomplished or complete. We're always chasing what could be better and how we can keep going."
– Josh Vande Hey
Ingenuity Impacts the Community
In a time where many companies have struggled to attract talent, C³ hired 47 people in 2021 alone. The values and culture at the company are as important as the customers they serve, enabling them to acquire passionate driven team members. Today, the company employs 96 individuals here in the Fox Valley, many of whom are just starting their careers. New employees are a quickly given the opportunity to take on complex and challenging projects. Rather than investing several months into overly detailed training, C³ empowers new employees, embracing a fail-fast mentality, which certainly creatives an environment of innovation.
Joe and C³ also do a great deal to give back to the community. They partner with local organizations in the Fox Cities to give back through donations, sponsorships, and volunteer hours. Bedding products, mattresses, and pillows are routinely donated to support the residents of Harbor House, a shelter for women and children of domestic violence. The team adopts a family in need every year in hopes of creating a brighter future for them. They also host local school and technology-related youth organizations for tours and presentations.
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In his recent State of the Union speech, President Obama introduced a new program of retirement saving for the 50% of Americans that do not currently have employer-funded retirement plans. This MyRA, as it is called for "My IRA", allows workers to contribute up to $15,000 in a starter-saving plan that exclusively uses government Treasury Bonds. The accounts offer guaranteed principal, tax-free withdrawals of principal and no fees. Couples with an adjusted income of $191,000 or less and individuals with $129,000 or less may contribute after-tax a maximum per-year of $5,500 or $6,500, if older than 50. Once the account reaches $15,000, principal can be transferred to a traditional IRA or withdrawn without penalty for other uses. Any growth earned in the account will face a 10% withdrawal penalty if taken before age 59.5. Self-employed workers are not candidates for these accounts.
As a way to encourage saving for those workers who currently are not offered another vehicle, the rates of return on the bonds are running at an average of 3.6%, which is superior to standard bank savings accounts or CD's. Other incentives for using the MyRA as a short-term saving plan include the fact that the principal is guaranteed, there are no fees and no withdrawal penalties on principal. This could encourage workers to get in the habit of automatically deducting contributions directly from a paycheck for savings or used as a potential way to accrue a home down-payment or emergency fund. It requires little to get started – $25 initial minimum, and then allows deductions of as little as $5 per paycheck. Also, because the Treasury Bonds are the only investment, there is no education or decision-making required. Workers can easily transfer their account from employer to employer, either for full-time or part-time jobs.
The detractors maintain that this is simply a new market for buying Government bonds to fund overspending and to unload the Treasury Bonds purchased under the Obama administration's recent policy of "quantitative easing", where the Fed has purchased large amounts of Treasury bonds to help contain interest rates and encourage growth. Also, rising interest rates would have a major negative effect on the value of 30 year bonds. Others point out that this program is inadequate to overcome the estimated $6-8 trillion in retirement saving shortfalls and that concentration should instead be on fixing Social Security. There are no tax deductions for these contributions and the government gets to use your money and keep it from being invested in higher-earning choices. Also, employers are not required to offer this plan and it is unclear how the program will launch at its predicted start-date at the end of 2014.
There appear to be some benefits to using this as a short-term savings plan and it may act as an incentive to encourage personal savings, but it falls far short of the intended fix for under-funded retirement accounts and is an unlikely fit for most DWM clients. It provides little tax benefits and the only investment option, long-term treasury bonds, is not a good one. Further, it can certainly be argued that the spotlight should be on fixing the other government-sponsored and non-voluntary retirement savings program – Social Security.
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To describe the upper eyelid changes of a patient who presented with Graves' disease and myasthenia gravis.
Digital image processing techniques were used to quantify palpebral fissure images.
Upper eyelid position shifted FROM ptosis to frank retraction in both eyes. Eyelid elevation was not coordinated between the eyes and it was more significant laterally than medially.
Fibrosis of the lateral horn of the levator muscle is not a valid explanation for the enhanced lateral upper eyelid retraction presented by the patient.
Multiple autoimmune diseases are a well known phenomenon and 5% of the myasthenic patients also present with dysthyroidism.1 We have examined a 63-year-old woman who had myasthenia gravis and Graves' disease. The patient reported that she could not control her eyelids. Examination disclosed bilateral external ophthalmoplegia and Hertel measurements of 30 mm OU. Because the interpalpebral fissure heights were extremely variable, several pictures of her palpebral fissures with different upper eyelid positions could be taken within minutes of consultation. The pictures showed that the upper eyelids were moving independently FROM each other. Complete ptosis could quickly become retraction (figure 1).
Using a slide scanner, images of the pictures were transferred to a microcomputer and processed using the public domain NIH Image program 1.55. Three variables were then analyzed: a) the displacement of the peak of the upper eyelid contour relative to the palpebral fissure midline, b) the palpebral fissure area and c) the ratio between the temporal and nasal areas of the palpebral fissure (T/N ratio).
The palpebral fissure area of the right eye increased 639% FROM figure 1A to IF. This increment was mainly due to the expansion of the lateral part of the palpebral fissure. The T/N ratio more than tripled increasing 210 % FROM figure 1A to IF. At the same time, the peak of the upper eyelid contour moved FROM 8.62-mm medial to midline to 4-mm lateral to the midline (figure 2). The left eye showed similar changes but in a different temporal order.
The typical laterally enhanced retraction seen in Graves' disease is displayed in figure 1 FROM D to F (right eye). This sign, also called "lateral lid flare", is assumed by some authors to be an indication of eyelid inflammation and fibrosis of the lateral levator horn.2 This explanation clearly is not true for our case. The upper eyelids moved freely FROM ptosis to retraction without any sign of restriction. When the upper eyelid was ptotic, the upper contour was almost flat, with its peak displaced medially to the midline. However, when the levator muscle started to work, the extreme elevation of the lateral part of the eyelid caused the peak of the upper contour to be displaced laterally FROM the midline. All of this took place, probably, just because the levator muscle is stronger laterally than medially.
2- Ceisler EJ, Bilyk JR, Rubin PAD, Burks WR, Shore JW. Results of Mullerectomy and levator aponeurosis transposition for the correction of upper eyelid retraction in Graves Disease. Ophthalmology 1995; 102:483-492.


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Social Update: Nicole Gibbs - Week 3 of Rehab
For Nicole Gibbs, the past week of rehab has been a busy one as she continues to rehab her injured shoulder.
She gave us a glimpse of her brand new "at home recovery center" where she's hooked up to a Marc Pro Plus device to help her shoulder get back to health.
"It sends electrical current through your body that stimulates your muscle to fire, and it flushes out areas of your body that might be problem areas and stimulates blood flow," explained Nicole about the Marc Pro Plus device.
To help flush out the legs after a tough day at the gym, she's been wearing a NormaTec PULSE daily.
"This is just flushing out the legs, making sure my circulation is really good," she said. "And whenever I use this, I feel a lot less sore."
The first week or so of rehab was just resting but now she's transitioned into building her body.
"I've transitioned from an emphasis on rest to an emphasis on building my body back up to peak fitness," she wrote in her blog.
She also spent time playing tennis with the RAMP kids, doing tennis drills with them. This way, she killed to birds with one stone -- optimizing her recovery and also giving back to the community.
In February of 2017, Tennis Channel launched its first multi-platform content series My Tennis Life featuring two professional tennis players, Nicole Gibbs (USA) and Sam Groth (Australia), as they traverse the globe in search of valuable ATP and WTA points. The series gives you a behind-the-scenes look of the professional tour. Tennis fans across the globe will witness Sam and Nicole's efforts to break through respectively on the ATP and WTA Tours, and the challenges they face while trying to improve their game and career earnings.


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The FDA has just done us all a favor, exposing fifteen diabetes scams at once. I will tackle a brief review of all 15 here. The FDA's listing is available at their website, at Illegally Sold Diabetes Treatments.
Most of these products can be found at their company's websites. Sometimes it can be seen that the companies have already cleaned up their offending descriptions. Using a little-known trick, archived versions of some of these webpages can be found at Archives.org at their "WaybackMachine" and then compared to the current versions. All internet searches for this essay were done on July 25, 2013.
Anastasia Marie Laboratories, Inc.
Diabetes Product Name(s): Anastasia Diapedic Foot & Leg Treatment
FDA accusation: unapproved and misbranded drug
FDA Warning Letter is at
http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/2013/ucm361849.htm
Current status: At their website, they discuss "FDA Approval" and imply that they have it: "FDA validation of composition, formulation and manufacturing is your assurance that Anastasia products are completely safe, therapeutically reliable and fully tested to meet rigorous government standards."
This company's website also indicates that a past president of the ADA is a "co-founder and Chief Medical Advisor." http://www.amlab.com/about/executive-team/ Wonder if he'll advise them on what to say in their response letter to the FDA, or if he was hired as a figurehead?
www.bestcheapmedsonline.com
Diabetes Product Name(s): Exermet GM, Galvus, Nuzide, Triexer, and unapproved versions of Januvia
FDA accusation: Internet Marketing of an Unapproved and Misbranded Drug
FDA Warning Letter:
Current status: As of today the website is described as a "suspended domain" by Whois
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=bestcheapmedsonline.com
If you go to that domain name today, you'll only see a generic advertisement for other websites. But if you want to see their website in its former glory, you can use the Wayback Machine to take a partial peek, where they bragged that "When it comes to healthcare - compromise is not a solution! We offer proven Canadian medications Quality"
http://web.archive.org/web/20130512221331/http://bestcheapmedsonline.com
(unfortunately, the Wayback Machine doesn't retain graphics reliably). Looks like they sold just about everything, not just diabetes medications.
Glytain Internal Remedies, Inc.
Diabetes Product Name(s): Glytain
FDA accusation: product is being promoted for the prevention and treatment of diabetes.
Current status: Their website is still there, and today it still claims "if you have been diagnosed with Pre-Diabetes, Type 1 Diabetes or Type 2 diabetes, you can still turn your health around by eating right, exercising and taking Glytain to help lower your blood sugar." Sounds like a drug to me, and obviously the FDA thought so.
Health Care Products, Hi-Tech Pharmacal Co.
Diabetes Product Name(s): Zostrix Diabetic Foot Pain Relief Cream, Zostrix Diabetic Joint & Arthritis Pain Relief Cream, and Diabeti-Derm Antifungal Cream
FDA accusation: As presently formulated, labeled, and promoted, these products are unapproved drugs
Current status: As of today, their website no longer has the word diabetes (per Google searches), and the three products the FDA was concerned about are no longer listed on their product webpage.
Health King Enterprises & Balanceuticals Group, Inc.
Diabetes Product Name(s): Sugar Balancer
FDA accusation: products are intended for use as drugs -- because they are intended for use in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease.
Current status: Their website's description of their "Sugar Balancer" product has been cleaned up, and no longer states that "Chinese Use: Diabetes" (which can be found at the version at the Wayback Machine) and now weasels around the FDA regs by avoiding the word diabetes, and instead saying "Chinese medicine uses this time-honored formula to supplement the Qi and Yin and to support healthy blood and urine sugar level." I didn't spend the time to check what they might have done to clean up other webpages that the FDA was concerned about.
The Magni Group, Inc. dba MagniLife
Diabetes Product Name(s): Diabetic Neuropathy Foot Cream, Diabetic Foot Cream, and Diabetic Hand & Body Cream
FDA accusation: marketing of these products violates the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
Current status: Their website still claims that their creams do what the FDA says they shouldn't be claiming to do.
Naturecast Products
Diabetes Product Name(s): Eradicator
FDA accusation: promoted for the treatment of diabetes, which causes these products to be drugs
FDA Warning Letter
Current status: "Eradicator" seems to be gone from their website. For instance, Google shows a page for it at www.naturecastproducts.com/eradicator/ but clicking on the link now goes to their homepage.
Which is a shame, as that's the most innovative name that a product has been given since the movie Terminator spawned the neologism, "the Governator."
Nature's Health Supply, Inc.
Diabetes Product Name(s): Diabetes Daily Care
FDA accusation: intended for use in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of a disease.
Current status: The webpage for this product has been drastically rewritten compared to the version at the Wayback Machine that was archived October 21, 2012. The author of the webpage has deleted many phrases that the FDA objected to. For instance, the phrase "Many men have also reported increased or restored sexual function" is gone.
Neuliven Health
Diabetes Product Name(s): Glucocil
FDA accusation: intended for use in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease.
Current status: As of today (July 25, 2013), it seems that their website's text that the FDA was concerned about has not been changed. The interested reader is also asked to see my previous essay on this product, An OTC "Glucose Stabilizer"
Nutrient Synergy
Diabetes Product Name(s): Nepretin
FDA accusation: the product is a drug because it is intended for use in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease.
Current status: The website cannot be accessed.
PharmaTerra
Diabetes Product Name(s): ProBeta
FDA accusation: this product is a drug because it is intended for use in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease.
Current status: The website is "Down for Maintenance."
Amrutam Life Care Pvt. Ltd.
Diabetes Product Name(s): Diexi
FDA accusation: your products "Diexi" and "Zoom" contain undeclared ingredients, metformin [a drug for diabetes] and sildenafil [a drug for ED], respectively.
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/EnforcementActivitiesbyFDA/CyberLetters/UCM361549.pdf
Enhance Nutraceutical
Diabetes Product Name(s): Diaberex
FDA accusation: you market products that are unapproved new drugs and misbranded drugs
The webpage for this product has been drastically rewritten compared to the version at the Wayback Machine that was archived on May 21, 2012. The author of the webpage has deleted many phrases that the FDA objected to. For instance, the following phrase is gone: "Advanced Nutraceutical Stops This Silent Killer Before It Destroy You... And those You Love!"
Although it's not an FDA issue, there's an ethical issue on this webpage: the date that it is purported that a letter addressed to "Dear friend with Diabetes" was written. It's today. Even the version at the Wayback Machine (from May 21, 2012) was written today (July 25, 2013). The HTML coding for the webpage can be accessed, and it clearly shows that a script was used when generating this webpage, so the date will always appear to be the date that the webpage is displayed.
INS Bioscience Berhad,HLS International Sdn. Bhd.,Easy Pha-max
Diabetes Product Name(s): Insupro Forte
FDA accusation: your product "Insupro Forte" contains the undeclared ingredient, glyburide
One of the websites the FDA referenced as owned by this company still has the text that the FDA objected to, such as "It can replace medicine in the treatment of diabetes "
Zhengzhou Thousand Economies Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
Diabetes Product Name(s): Jiang Tang Yi Huo Su Jiao Nang (translated – anti-diabetic pancreatic capsule)
FDA accusation: The product contains three active pharmaceutical ingredients, including one that was removed from the U.S. market because of the risk of serious side effects.
FDA Drug Alert
http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm361618.htm
Current status: FDA has posted a webpage about this product,
FDA alerts consumers of undeclared drug ingredients in over-the-counter diabetes product
Two companies with supposed supplements that contain active but undeclared drugs.
Several with websites that have vanished.
Some websites that have changed their wording to weasel around the FDA's requirements.
Some websites that seem to have done nothing.
Altogether, a pretty tawdry crowd.
Dr. Bill Quick began writing at HealthCentral's diabetes website in November, 2006. These essays are reproduced at D-is-for-Diabetes with the permission of HealthCentral.
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