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Ukraine's Power Shortages Force Millions of Refugees Into Lengthier Exile
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Russia's attacks on Ukraine's civilian infrastructure are forcing millions of Ukrainian refugees intending to return home to stay, prolonging their ordeal and straining Europe's ability to stay home. reception of one of the largest flows of migrants in decades.
Moscow's continued air strikes on power plants and heating equipment have caused intermittent power outages in Ukraine and left millions of people across the country without electricity, heating and running water throughout the country. sub-zero temperature context. While struggling to keep the lights on, Kyiv is now urging Ukrainian refugees to stay where they are now.
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The first talk I attended was presented by Mike Hoye and was titled How to Start an Internet Famous Business with Open Source Software. Hoye quit his 9-5 day job to pursue a business of his own. If you're wondering what this business is, so am I. All I was able to pick up from his presentation about his start-up was that he developed 2, maybe 3, open source products with limited resources and did so with success. Hoye's business was not the focus of his presentation and I think he spent a whole 20 seconds talking about it. The focus was on how open source software and the open source community gave Hoye the opportunity to ship a successful product with a modest amount of time and capital.
What's an FSOSS?
This was my first year attending the Free Software & Open Source Symposium / Linux Fest (FSOSS). Of course being a Senecan for over 4 years I had heard of FSOSS and knew it was something for open source enthusiasts but never had I participated nor really thought about what goes on there. With a bit of research I quickly learned that FSOSS is where new trends, new projects, and anything open source is discussed and demonstrated through a day of workshops and 2 days of presentations. This year I missed out on the workshops but attended a few presentations and have chosen to offer my analysis on two in particular that offer different perspectives on how open source has benefited them. The two presentations summarized and analyzed in this paper are How to Start an Internet Famous Business with Open Source Software and Take Control of your TV with XBMC.
How to Start an Internet Famous Business with Open Source Software
Hoye defined open source in three different ways:
1. Open source as an ASSET
2. Open source as a PROCESS
3. Open source as a CONTRACT
Starting off with open source as an asset, Hoye explained that "if you're small and nimble you can still pick your battles that make your opponent's assets irrelevant." He expanded this idea with an example of corporations vs. small organizations; A corporation may have more man power and money but realize that they probably will never be able to get a better product faster to market than a small organization would. The idea here is to not fear something that is bigger than you or driven by lots of resources but to see your open source software as something good and something that solves a problem.
Hoye's second idea of open source as a process teaches us that we don't necessarily need to start writing code. In fact he told us that writing code should be our last resort. We should start by researching and ask ourselves if we need to solve this problem or has somebody already done it for us. Hoye also explains that it is important to keep your scope as small as possible. Hoye's definition of open source as a process is probably the most important to note if you want to get your product to market fast. Say 'No' to new features because they take too long. Start with something small and make it awesome. Once you do that you will be able to build something else awesome on top of it.
Lastly, Hoye defines open source as a contract. He says open source is a social contract which is more important than any license. He says we need to give back and pay off our technical debt. If you're good at something do it for free and find value in what you do not how much you get back for it.
What we can take away from Hoye's presentation is that open source is here to help and can be the difference between your business' success or failure. Hoye knew he had limited resources when he decided to pursue his own start-up. He also knew that despite these limited resources he would still be able to meet his goals. This was done through the use of open source software and contributions from the open source community.
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Bitcoin climbed as much as 10 percent on Zimbabwe's Golix exchange on Wednesday after the country's armed forces seized power, reports Bloomberg.
The price of the cryptocurrency in the Southern African nation jumped to $13,499, almost double the rate at which it trades in international markets, according to prices cited on Golix's website. It traded at $13,010 by 3:34 p.m. in Harare, the Zimbabwean capital.
Demand for bitcoin in Zimbabwe has surged amid a shortage of hard currency. Golix processed more than $1 million of transactions in the past 30 days, compared with turnover of $100,000 for the whole of 2016, according to data on the exchange's website. Zimbabwe doesn't have its own currency, with the government adopting the U.S. dollar and South African rand, among others, as legal tender in 2009 after hyperinflation rendered the local dollar worthless.
Golix, an unregulated platform that also trades other cryptocurrencies including bitcoin cash, has been in operation since 2014. Prices for bitcoin are set by supply and demand, according to Taurai Chinyamakobvu, co-owner of the exchange. Sellers are paid in U.S. dollars deposited electronically, which can only be converted into hard cash at a steep discount on the black market
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Zimbabwe's army moved into the capital, Harare, on Tuesday after a week of confrontation with President Robert Mugabe's government and said the action was needed to stave off violent conflict in the southern African nation that he has ruled since 1980.
The events unfolded as Zimbabwe is in deep crisis. The economy has halved in size since 2000, an estimated 95 percent of the workforce is jobless and as many as three million Zimbabweans have gone into exile.
While most major currencies are legal tender in Zimbabwe, cash-strapped importers and retailers buy dollars or any currency easily converted to dollars at premium prices by paying the seller electronically.
An "electronic" dollar buys about 8 South African rand, compared with the market exchange rate of 14.32 on Wednesday.
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Venezuela's Health Crisis Will Be Long Lasting
Maduro with some of the soldiers during the military exercise and the Minister for Feeding, the Vice-President and the Minister of Industry and Commerce participate, some of them dressed in full military dress, even if they were never part of the Armed Forces.
As Maduro and some of his Minister participated this week in "military excercise" which mobilized half a million soldiers and civil militia members, at an estimated cost of US$ 20-30 million, you have to wonder what is going through these people's minds. While they spend money on this to make a show of force against a possible foreign invasion, the health crisis Venezuela is experiencing is something unheard of in the modern world.
And what is needed is resources, the same resources being used in these military exercizes and military equipment.
Wasn't the revolution all about the "people". Well, the people are dying and will feel the effect of lacks of medicines for a long time.
While we have all heard the calls for medicine xx or yy in Twitter or Facebook, what needs to be understood is that this is not only a crisis today, but something which will have an impact on the health of Venezuelans for years to come. The people above in the pictures, wasting their time and Venezuela's money are not only ignoring those that die everyday due to the lack of medicines, but they are also sentencing many others to die in the future, due to the absence of the most basic medicines for health problems that can be easily controlled or managed.
These same people, are making daily decisions in Venezuela about which pharmaceutical companies can get limited foreign currency, which are based on their own ill conceived plans for the the development of the Venezuelan economy.
Today, Venezuelans find that even the most basic antibiotics can not be found. Why? Because it is not only that the foreign currency approved is limited, but that there is no health management concept involved in deciding which products get or not foreign currency.
Any rational plan would be based on guaranteeing the basic or essential medicines contained the the lists elaborated by the World Health Organization both for adults and children that can be found here. A lot of experience and thinking has gone into these lists, which are constantly being updated and modified. These are the most basic list of such essential products. However, as you peruse the list, you realize that you know for a fact that you have seen and checked reports that many of them are missing from Venezuela's drugstores.
Take simple things, like disinfectants and antiseptics. There are a number of them which are only found in insufficient quantities thesedays, such that hospitals have to shut down areas and operating rooms, because there is no way to guarantee that patients can be held in these areas without disinfecting them first. This implies that operations are postponed, patients sent home and people simply die, because simple procedures that will prolong their life can not be provided safely.
Sometimes, not even the reagents needed to perform simple blood tests can be found and patients are turned away even before they can tell why it is they are not feeling well. Sometimes they have to wait weeks before they can have what is considered a simple exam in most, if not all, countries of the world.
And you may ask why if there is such a list, the Maduro Government does not use it? Simple, in the world of Chavismo, which ignores all knowledge and in which non-experts are put in charge of these complex problems, whether you get or not foreign currency has exclusively been determined by two factors in recent months 1) Are you importing raw materials to make the medicines or products in Venezuela? and 2) What products have significant shortages at this moment?
The problem with this criteria, is that not all medicines are produced in Venezuela. Thus, if for example, you ask to import the basic component of a drug against hypertension, which is basically all the final medicine contains, then you don't get the foreign currency. Problem is, most modern drugs against hypertension are not produced in Venezuela. The result is that, for example, the pharmaceutical I use, has not been available in the country since March 2015, about 14 months ago.
Same with antibiotics. Some antibiotics are produced in Venezuela, but they tend to be old ones that people have developed resistance against, so, yes, you can buy antibiotics, but not necessarily those that may be needed for the particular infection you have.
Ironically, blood and blood plasma products, which used to be produced by Government run Quimbiotec, have not been produced since this plant was shut down last year, as the political battle for control of the plant destroyed the technical capabilities it had. Even in Aporrea, Chavistas call this a national shame, as these products are needed today more than ever due to the presence of Zika and the related Guillian Barre syndrome.
Thus, policies are simply determined using a misguided project for the manufacture of medicines and pharmaceuticals in Venezuela. And in the middle of the implementation of this, the Government discovers something is critically absent and then it stops approving foreign currency for all products, except for one particular sector. For example, last month, I am told the Government only approved foreign currency for manufacturers of contraceptives, which have been absent from drugstores for quite a few months. (Another LONG LASTING effect in the works!)
This haphazard way of doing things is not only killing people today, but will have long lasting effects over the Venezuelan population. As an example, take the same case of medicines against hypertension. Once you start taking one, you are supposed to never stop. Your cardiovascular system will cycle back to high blood pressure and you may have problems. Well, thousands of Venezuelans have had to reduce their dose or simply stop taking these products.
And there are many cases like this.
Thus, the Venezuelan health crisis will be long lasting. It is not only a matter of the damage it is doing today to those getting sick but are unable to do anything about it, but also the damage to those that were taking substances that controlled their illnesses, but can no longer do it.
The crime committed by these people, goes beyond wasting money in useless military exercises that seem more like a parody, but also in making it difficult for humanitarian aid to arrive in the country. While it has not refused yet any aid, none of it has supposedly reached the country because of all of the permits required. This is all done under the excuse that there is no humanitarian crisis to speak of.
When this nightmare is over, if ever, epidemiologists will come to Venezuela to study the effects of withdrawing modern medicine on the population for a certain period of time and see what can be learned from the irresponsible and criminal policies of Chavismo.
Playing hide and seek during military maneuvers. Hope the guys is not allergic, there are no antihistamines either.
This entry was posted on May 22, 2016 at 7:03 pm and is filed under Uncategorized, Venezuela.
53 Responses to "Venezuela's Health Crisis Will Be Long Lasting"
Billy Says:
The soldier in the last picture looks awfully short! Does the army have a physical that a enlistee has to pass? Is the height limit one meter?
He is a Venezuelan relative of "Cousin It" from the Adams family.
This doesn't really fit into the medicine shortage, but it certainly fits into the overall shortages in Venezuela.
El Universal today said that since you can no longer buy wheat bread (or any bread for that matter), you can simply and easily make your own at home. They even gave a recipe and the first part was this. This is the GoogleEnglish translation from the Spanish:
"To prepare you need to buy yeast in a bakery. It costs about 2,500 kilo's room but pays enough. four cups of flour without leavening, a quarter cup of milk, 5 tablespoons of sugar, a teaspoon of salt, 60 grams of butter, two tablespoons of dry yeast, a quarter cup of hot (but not boiling) water are required and a deep, buttered mold.
Except for the quarter cup of water, don't these ingredients kind of make this a non-starter?
IslandCanuck Says:
El Universal speaks with the government's mouth.
There is no sugar, flour, butter, yeast or milk but to them it's all part of the propaganda.
Lee Kuan Yew Says:
Soon El Universal bribed "journalists" will write that everyone should grow they own tomatoes and potatoes in their apartment balconies, and those who have farms should raise their own cows and pigs, and go out fishing in the river for dinner.
Absolutely! And since you can't find flour anywhere, everyone should grow also their own wheat. And keep a cow or two for milk. Heck, everyone could even make their own soap and clothing!
After all, the whole industrial revolution was a product of evil capitalism. By opposition, the new socialism of the 21st century must be everyone catering to his own needs.
Right. And since you spend the entire day growing potatoes and wheat, and fishing and milking your cows, let the more evolved Europeans or American run the businesses, build cars, run the computers, and fly into space. As long as you grow your own green peppers at home, and recycle baby diapers, everything in Kleptozuela will be ok. The economy will be on a roll from the balcony personal endeavors and agriculture. Lettuce and chickens are more difficult in Catia or Petare, but hey…
Gotta love the "hide and seek" exercises. A very important military skill for "el pueblo" to learn before the Imperio army attacks with invisible drones and bombs the heck out of Venezuela, before the land invasion. I bet thousands of soldiers and millions of people still believe stuff like that..
The bulk of the military exercises are offensive in nature. The amphibious assault is an offensive military operation designed to take a hostile beach i.e. Guyana. They are wargaming Guyana and nobody noticed. Regarding Guyana, that is not on the immediate horizon. They are still short in some key equipment that is on order or in advanced discussions. They need two years to be there.
There is a very important weapon system in discussion with India and Russia. India has to be on board. Therefore they need to have their bills paid up. That new system will run them say US$3 million per missile and a 90 missile package should be around US$300 million.
JBLenoir Says:
Wasn't 500,000 participants. Real number was less than 20% of the 500K figure touted by Masburro and his costumed monkeys.
JB, you are correct. The 500,000+ figure is inflated and given to give them numerical superiority over neighbor Colombia. The actual combined number of active duty military, militia and law enforcement is less than half or under 250,000.
moses Says:
Many medicines that are OTC (Off the Counter) in Venezuela may require a recipe outside, so that is another hurdle… You may contact a relative or friend who buys expensive medicine and ships via DHL or Fedex and risk the possibility that the package is opened in Venezuelan Customs and magically dissapears..
When Hugo Chavez was dying he turned a 75 million dollar Presidential A-319 aircraft into a flying hospital. At first he added "offensive weapons" to the aircraft, then he converted it to a flying oncology center. All to save his miserable, dying life. Now THAT plane is missing, gone. Whoosh. Disappeared. France? Maybe. No one knows. Confiscated by a creditor?
According to the Herald Tribune:
"The last thing they told me was that Chavez insisted on putting offensive capabilities, armament, inside the plane, post purchase and outside of factory specifications. That apparently damaged the plane."
BROKEN WINGS?
According to Maduro, the plane was indeed damaged in one of its wings. A 2013 report from Spain's El Pais from Caracas said the plane was converted, during Chavez last months on earth, into an "air ambulance", for flights between Caracas and Cuba, where the late President was being treated for the aggressive cancer that eventually killed him in March 2013.
The extra weight of becoming a flying oncology center could have also damaged the plane, the former Air Force pilot conceded. But he sticks to the armaments theory: Putting offensive capabilities on a luxury commercial jet damaged the equipment, perhaps beyond repair."
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2412763&CategoryId=10717
Daveed Says:
It still seems to be flying, since planespotters photographed the A319(S/N 1468) in France on 12 April 2016 :https://www.planespotters.net/Aviation_Photos/search.php?type=A319&cn=1468
Daveed, in the link provided you can see the original livery, the white aircraft "el albino", and the new livery. She was scrubbed white prior to returning to lessor. The new livery has the tricolor on the top of the tail, Chavez' eyes on the tail, and Chavez' signature on the door.
Dr, the article by "Carlos Camacho" is false. Not innacurate but false. The A319CJ lease ran out in February and she was returned to lessor. They renewed the lease and repainted her. Not sure if the interior was upgraded. She's now back with new livery featuring Chave'z "eyes" and "signature"
When Maduro came into office he went to the Paris Air Show to meet with Airbus. The deal was a billion dollar package for two military transport aircraft and several military helicopters. A new Airbus VIP jet and a few regional jets for Conviasa where thrown in. The deal fell through on several grounds including veto of the military transports and lack of funding. The A319CJ was then sent to France for checkup where she spent the summer due to unpaid bills.
It was during this time that we saw Maduro flying the Cubana VIP Ilyushin. The Airbus 319CJ FAV0001 was stuck in France due to maintenance and unpaid bills.
Florian Geyer Says:
Venezuela appears to truly have become "The Planet Of The Apes." You know what you have to do.
Giordano Bruno ·
Segun estos vinculos http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0922292.html y https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_mortality en los EEUU en la decada de los 50s las muertes anuales por salud (infantil, tuberculosis, cancer, cardio, respiratorias) eran 1297 por cada 100 mil habitantes. In 2011 esas muertes anuales habian bajado a 680 por cada 100 mil habitantes. Una mejoria anual de 552 por cada 100 mil habitantes, debida casi exclusivamente al uso de antibioticos tras la 2a guerra mundial. Si hoy dia faltaran los antibioticos en EEUU se perderia la mejoria anual de 552 por cada 100 mil habitantes, y las muertes anuales subirian por una cantidad igual a: 552/100,000 x Poblacion = 1,789,136. Un efecto enorme dada la enorme poblacion de EEUU que es 324,118,787.
Ahora bien, supongamos que en Venezuela, un pais pobre que solo podia comprar la mitad de los antibioticos que necesitaba, la mejoria correspondiente fue de solo la mitad, o sea, 276 por cada 100 mil habitantes. Entonces por falta de antibioticos, el empeoramiento correspondiente (de 276 por cada 100 mil habitantes) causa un aumento en las muertes anuales de 276/100,000 x Poblacion = 86,992.
Cuando la poblacion de Venezuela en 1975 era de 12 millones ese efecto causado por la escasez de medicinas era menos de la mitad, digamos por el orden de 33,120 muertes anuales extras evitables, pero hoy dia la poblacion de 31,518,855 mas que duplica el efecto de la escasez de medicinas y mueren 86,992 anualmente que hubieran debido vivir.
Asi que, si bien en epocas anteriores habia anualmente muchas muertes evitables que sucedieron por corrupcion ahora son MUCHISIMAS mas que antes. Un genocidio, pues, casi 90 mil personasque revientan de dolor, pudriendose en su propia pus y tumores mientras el gobierno REHUSA que vengan las medicinas regaladas de Caritas por puro odio a la Iglesia.
Why does a disguised neo-dictatorship spend so much money on military equipment? They want to stay in power and continue stealing, and avoid jail time, and losing their stolen fortunes.
They have no option but to show force, apply force and intimidation, and scare "el pueblo". It's not like the Russians are invading Barlovento next week. Or the "imperio". But MILLIONS of Venezuelans are so ignorant and/or so corrupt themselvelves, everywhere, at all levels, that they believe crap like this, or simply participate in the corruption.
That's pretty much the story in a nutshell Lee Kuan.
"military excercise" which mobilized half a million soldiers and civil militia members, at an estimated cost of US$ 20-30 million, you have to wonder what is going through these people's minds."
When will people get SIMPLE things like Galactic Corruption? Why go into convoluted theories about anything that happens in Vzla?
What's in in these people's minds? $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ of course.
What's the purpose of such circuses, military or otherwise? Show fake power, and singn new recruit$$$$$$$.
Vzla is so simple to understand. Lack of real education and massive corruption.
The Military is behind this, why? Bank accounts, apartments, corruption.
Half a million soldiers? Corruption, Massive Ignorance, lack of education and moral values. Same as another few millions from "el pueblo" who are are corrupt, complicit, and poorly educated. Simple as that.
Limey Says:
I love the top picture. The only person missing from it is Private Benjamin!
20 to 30 million for these "Military Exercises" is chump change compared to the money spent on foreign military equipment. These guys are the worst criminal imaginable. I hope one day they suffer for their crimes against humanity.
By the way, the problems within pdvsa are similar to what you describe in the medical field. It's so bad I don't even know where one could start to fix the mess they have made. But I assure you, I don't believe Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world. And the longer Maduro or the Chavistas stay in power, the lower future reserves will be (current practices are devouring real reserve potential at a really high rate).
M Rubio Says:
Just for the record, there's a big difference between "reserves" and "recoverable reserves". Venezuela may indeed have the largest reserves in the world. Unfortunately, Chavismo has steadily eroded the "recoverable" side of the ledger through mismanagement and loss of talent.
When I worked the oilfield here many years ago, I had a young lady in my office who was head of human resources. That was her background, not petroleum. I ran into her years after I'd sold my company and when I asked what she was doing these days she told me she was working for PDVSA as head of perforating! If I had false teeth, I'd have dropped them.
PDVSA, as you all know, is now mostly a socialist jobs program and no longer a true exploration and production company.
Boludo Tejano Says:
Your story of the human resources person becoming head of perforating is an excellent example of the transformation of PDVSA into a jobs program and cash cow for Chavista social programs – both in and out of PDVSA.
Jean MIchel Says:
Niggling, surely, as it makes no change to the predicament Venezuelans face, but bacteriaes build up resistance to antibiotics (through mutations), not people.
Dean A Nash Says:
And a very important part of those mutations is when people don't finish a course of antibiotics. Or, they stretch out their supply of antibiotics, rather than taking the medicine as prescribed. (In Venezuela, as with many other poor countries, antibiotics have been widely available over the counter, so there are many half-dosages available in many medicine cabinets. (Half a dose is much worse for society than no dose.)
Concerning,
"While it has not refused yet any aid…"
Have a look at this: http://www.diariolasamericas.com/4848_venezuela/3788151_denuncian-que-venezuela-prohibe-ayuda-humanitaria-de-caritas-video.html
Caritas denied this was true.
Couldn't confirm this in Caritas-Venezuela web page. All I have found are some "government outlets" claiming Caritas did so.
http://laiguana.tv/articulos/26946-caritas-venezuela-patilla-ravell?fb_comment_id=1061239417256070_1063339273712751#f102d7095
You could have entitled the post Long-Term Consequences and rolled in EDUCATION, INFRASTRUCTURE, OIL EXTRACTION, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION (for starters).
Unless we all live to be at least 100, Venezuela as we knew her is finished. R.I.P.
If you still have the chance, flee, by any means possible, to basically anywhere else. Hell, Cuba will shortly be better than VZ.
Glenn Says:
About the first photo, does anyone know if those are real guns and if they have ammunition? That's a frightening thought.
Those eyeglasses are their secret weapon:
The enemy will die laughing,
Antonio Says:
If they were real guns the criminals would have killed them to get the guns. Don't worry, we are safe.
Glenn, real guns. They look like FN FALs. No ammo. Ammo is not issued for this type of event. A very heavy rifle for those ladies… they would not be able to field very effectively.
robhmcbride Says:
After meetung you several years ago, Miguel Octavio, I have followed you and your analysis of the critical situation in Venezuela.
Since moving to Venezuela in 1992, I too have watched with curiosity and wonder as several governments have struggled o keep the noble people of this wonderful country afloat.
Thanks for your valuable time and insight into the troubles, which for those who do not live here, are difficult to imagine, much less understand.
You moved there in 1992?
No offense, but your timing is terrible.
What were you thinking?
Many of us thought it was a great place to make money. As it turned out, it was mostly wrong.
eduardorivero Says:
Carnaval en Mayo?
shrilly clinton Says:
sounds more and more like an episode from The Walking Dead
I've not heard anything for the longest time on the Cuban doctors in the barrios. Anyone have any updates. Are they still there? Do they have medicines to prescribe to the patients they see?
BTW, the local pharmacy is basically bare, just like the chinese markets these days.
Tomorrow I'll make the rounds of the local open-air market to see what's offered for sale. Week by week it's getting smaller.
Revolution! LOL
M is the flat yuca bread still available at the farmers markets? Love that stuff!
Roger, it's still available though scarce at. I buy from several local producers, 200-300 tortas at a time. Latest retail price is 550 bs per torta. The casabe I've seen at the chinese market is really small. Haven't checked their prices in a while.
Roger if you mean Casabe it is generally still available in stores.
What I also suspect is that while Venezuela is providing Cuba oil and others all but free oil, when Venezuela asks for drugs which many produce, they say no problemo as long a you pay cash up front and in USD! Of course, El Stupido does not get it and his friends want their commissions too.
At this point I feel a rant coming on so I will stop will try to get my head out of SciFy. Yes MO I have been to the Coop!
According to the narratives of the Cuban regime, Cuba is an international leader in the production of medicinal drugs. Would there not be some sort of barter getting Cuban drugs into Venezuela?
Trade with Cuba is a one way street.
We give – they take.
True, and the drug is cocaine which arrives in Cuba from Venezuela.


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Not only was everyone in Flame City alerted to the changes, but even the people within the expanse of the dark clouds were alarmed by the sudden change in the sky. The dark clouds had arrived just far too quickly, and they were filled with extremely tremendous pulses of energy that formed a terrifying pressure that made everyone feel like they were suffocating. The situation was just too abnormal.
Within the city lord's estate, You Yue, Bi Lian, Bi Hai, and the Saint Rulers all stood outside the building, staring at the sky. They were shocked. They did not understand just what was going on in the weird dark clouds.
Fairy You Yue sat in her room within the silver-white divine hall, but her eyes suddenly snapped open. She stared out in interest. Although she was within the divine hall, her faze seemed to be able to pierce through all obstructions.
"T- this is a heavenly tribulation. Heavenly tribulations usually only occur on the Saints' World and rarely happen in lower worlds. Has this world given birth to something impressive?" She murmured as her eyes flickered in thought.
Bi Hai stared at the revolving whirl of clouds for a while before saying to You Yue and Bi Lian, "It's very abnormal there. I'll go investigate first. Take care of yourselves." With that, he flew away.
You Yue nodded before tailing Bi Hai with Bi Lian in her arms. Bi Lian was still not a Heaven Saint Master, so he could not fly, which was why she needed You Yue's a.s.sistance.
At this moment, a silver streak of light flashed by. The Bright Moon Divine Hall flew from the city lord's estate and stopped the two of them.
"My dear disciple, you cannot go. Just stay here. Those are no ordinary clouds. It's a heavenly tribulation. Once you get caught up in the tribulational lightning, even Saint Emperors will be doomed," fairy Hao Yue's voice rang out from the divine hall.
A streak of light, completely condensed from moonlight, flew out of the divine hall. It traveled at an unbelievable speed, catching up with Bi Hai in a single moment and grabbing him by the waist.
If someone else had said that, none of them would have believed it. They would have never thought that a swathe of weird clouds would be enough to kill Saint Kings. But the person who had said this was fairy Hao Yue, so no matter how exaggerated it sounded, they believed what she said. Bi Hai's complexion immediately changed, and he looked at the clouds with a mixture of fear and surprise.
At this moment, the s.p.a.ce several dozen kilometers away began to violently ripple and s.p.a.ce Gates rapidly appeared one after another. Great groups of Saint Kings emerged with a few Saint Emperors in between.
The group of experts had hurried over from Mercenary City and had arrived in the region at the same time. However, as soon as they emerged from their s.p.a.ce Gates, they quickly flew toward the tungsten alloy mine and finally stopped ten kilometers away from the central whirl of clouds. All of them stared at it sternly. None of them were bold enough to act recklessly before they understood the situation.
All the Saint Kings gathered together to discuss the weather. They talked about the weird clouds, and a few braver Saint Kings even advanced toward the whirl of clouds.
The Bright Moon Divine Hall flew over from afar and radiated clear moonlight. Fairy Hao Yue's cold voice loudly rang from the divine hall, "This is a heavenly tribulation. It's something that occurs extremely rarely here. The area below the whirl of clouds is the place affected by the heavenly tribulation. Once you set foot there, you will be locked onto by the Heavenly Tribulation, and you will die even as a Saint Emperor. That's all I wanted to say. Do what you want." After warning everyone, she moved the divine hall to another region, stopping twenty kilometers away from the center of the whirl of clouds.
"A heavenly tribulation? What's that?" All the Saint Kings were confused. They had lived for thousands of years and had heard about the various stories of the world. Some of them even possessed a clear understanding of a few matters that had happened in ancient times, but none of them had heard of the heavenly tribulation fairy Hao Yue mentioned.
Even the protector clans were the same. They found the term extremely unfamiliar because their records never mentioned anything to do with heavenly tribulations.
"Fairy Hao Yue, may I ask what a heavenly tribulation is? Why does it happen? It it a signal? And how do you know about heavenly tribulations?" A great elder of a protector clan asked. He spoke calmly and treated her as someone who stood on equal ground as him. She was just a soul now, after all, so her prestige to them was not as great as a living Saint Emperor.
Yadriam, the three Cla.s.s 9 Magical Beasts, and the path lord of carnal desires stared at the Bright Moon Divine Hall. It had been created from materials collected from the distant moon, so it was extremely rare and valuable. Not even Saint Emperors would possess a hall built of moon rocks because the moon was just too far away. They could not create s.p.a.ce Gates in outer s.p.a.ce, so the only way to reach the moon was by flying.
Fairy Hao Yue remained silent. Nothing was worth her attention, even the thousand or so Saint Kings present and the five Saint Emperors. She had come with her divine hall just to see what had invoked the heavenly tribulation.
"Oh my G.o.d, what am I seeing? Is that actually a city completely forged from tungsten alloy? It's tungsten alloy. Oh my G.o.d. Its value is measured by the weight of purple coins, and it's such a huge city. Just how much tungsten alloy went into it?" A human Saint King that had hurried back to the continent discovered Flame City in the distance and immediately sighed in surprise. His eyes lit up.
A few other human Saint Kings who had only just returned to the continent immediately looked over with that. Their eyes widened because of what they saw.
"This is unbelievable. It really is a city completely forged from tungsten alloy. As long as you possess this city, you will become the wealthiest and most respected person on the continent. Have I seen wrong? This city's not actually protected by a formation, nor does it have a barrier. It doesn't even seem to have a Saint King. It seems to be in the possession of a mercenary group," another Saint King sighed in surprise while his eyes began to burn with desire.
Although wealth was basically nothing to Saint Kings, it was still enough to interest many of them when it reached such an unfathomable level, tempting them to take it for themselves.
The two Saint Kings immediately shrank back with that. They quickly looked away and dismissed the thoughts. The other Saint Kings behaved the same. Something that even the ten protector clans dared not to touch was not something they could covet.
At this moment, the pressure in the surroundings began to abruptly increase. With a deafening boom, a huge bolt of lightning, half a meter thick, fell from the whirl. It illuminated the surroundings with its light, turning them snow-white in a single moment, and struck the mountain range below atnbelievable speed.
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Cordova City ranks relative to the other 52 Districts in Alaska.
The solid blue line indicates the score of Cordova City.
The yellow bars represent the total number of Districts in Alaska.
The blue dots represent the ranking of Cordova City.


'Beware of seeking judgment amongst yourselves from oppressors. Rather, try to find a person among you who has some knowledge about our legal edicts and make him judge between you, for I have made such a person [with these qualifications] a judge, so seek Judgment from him.?
Praise be to Allah! Who made me such that I have not died nor am I sick, nor have my veins been infected with disease, nor have I been hauled up for my evil acts, nor am I without progeny, nor have I forsaken my religion, nor do I disbelieve in my Lord, nor do I feel strangeness with my faith, nor is my intelligence affected, nor have I been punished with the punishment of peoples before me. I am a slave in Thy possession, I have been guilty of excesses over myself. Thou hast exhausted Thy pleas over me and I have no plea (before Thee). I have no power to take except what Thou givest me, and I cannot evade except what Thou savest me from. O' my Allah! I seek Thy protection from becoming destitute despite Thy riches, from being misguided despite Thy guidance, from being molested in Thy realm and from being humiliated while authority rests with Thee. O' my Allah! let my spirit be the first of those good objects that Thou takest from me and the first trust out of Thy favours held in trust with me.
O' my Allah! we seek Thy protection from turning away from Thy command or revolting against Thy religion, or being led away by our desires instead of by guidance that comes from Thee.


Sufferer was one of the classic tunes from the skinhead or boss reggae era of the late sixties, with its popularity, along with a number of subsequent follow-ups, leading to a debut album of the same name by the vocal trio who had burst upon the Jamaican music scene in 1967.
Sufferer was one of the classic tunes from the skinhead or boss reggae era of the late sixties, with its popularity, along with a number of subsequent follow-ups, leading to a debut album of the same name by the vocal trio who had burst upon the Jamaican music scene in 1967:The Kingstonians.
Showcasing a dozen of the group's best known works to date for esteemed Kingston-based producer,Derrick Harriott, the LP features a number of sizable Jamaican hits, including"Singer Man","Hold Down","Nice Nice",as well as the best-selling title track.
Soon after its release, the group moved on to work with other Jamaican producers of note, but unable to sustain their popularity, all but disappeared from the local music scene by the late seventies.
Meanwhile, this, their one and only long player, continued to attract interest and today is regarded one of the finest ever vinyl collections of boss reggae sounds, with original copies now highly prized, not to mention, extremely valuable collector's items.


New York, N.Y., January 21, 2014 – Following the great success of HBO's first of its kind Game of Thrones international exhibition that traveled to five cities in 2013, HBO is extending its global reach by visiting Mexico City, Mexico; Austin, Texas at South by Southwest® (SXSW®); Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Oslo, Norway; Toronto, Canada; Belfast, Northern Ireland and Vancouver, Canada in 2014. The exhibition will also be featured as a part of Time Warner Cable Studios in New York City. Specifically created to bring the enchanted world of Westeros and its characters directly to fans, the traveling exhibit is presented by HBO and international partners.
Game of Thrones is an epic series whose storylines of treachery and nobility, family and honor, ambition and love, and death and survival, has captured the imagination of fans globally and made it one of the most popular shows on television.
For continued updates and details on the exhibition, visit www.GOTExhibit.com. The official hashtag is #GOTExhibit.


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Monomorium barbatulum — вид мелких муравьёв рода Monomorium из подсемейства мирмицин.

Описание
Мелкие муравьи длиной около 3 мм. От близких видов отличается следующими признаками: голова широкая с псаммофором на вентральной поверхности; окраска тела от тёмно-коричневой до чёрной; метанотальная бороздка глубокая. Усики 12-члениковые с 3-члениковой булавой. Усиковые бороздки отсутствуют. Стебелёк между грудкой и брюшком состоит из двух члеников: петиолюса и постпетиолюса (последний четко отделен от брюшка), жало развито. Включён в состав видовой группы Monomorium salomonis species-group.

Распространение
Средняя Азия (Казахстан) и Ближний Восток: Израиль, Оман, Саудовская Аравия, Турция.

См. также
 Аргентинский муравей

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Литература

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Monomorium
Насекомые Азии
Животные, описанные в 1877 году
Таксоны, описанные Густавом Майром

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OK, so, at this stage the main thing this blog is for is to find out how to import existing blog posts into Blogger. Brief summary: my existing blog uses a blogging engine I wrote myself back in 2000; it's quite a good blogging engine but it's not used by very many people because I didn't promote it enough back in the day, and so it's time to end-of-life it and migrate the existing users to something else.
Blogger has a mechanism for exporting and importing blogs. So, I thought, it ought to be possible to generate the export format, which is documented here, from my existing data and then import that. From the documentation it was clear that the format was slightly bizarre - a well formed XML wrapper around data which is actually XML and presumably also well formed but is represented as text. However, I generated stuff that looked right to me according to the documentation, and it failed to import.
Worse, the error message given was terse to the point of unusability, and there's apparently no documentation of the error codes available on the web.
So the next thing to do was to export this blog from Blogger, and see whether the export file format looked anything like the documentation. And, guess what, it sort of doesn't. Which is to say that while the file format shown in the documentation is a very small subset of what's actually generated, it is such a noddy example that it doesn't even nearly represent what one needs to generate.
And, of course, there's no guarantee that even if I did succeeded in generating all the cruft that's in the format as generated by Blogger, I'd get my data to reimport - since the format includes magic identifiers which may represent objects in Google's persistent data space.
So it may be time to think of other ways to work around this.


African football fans may recognize the name Badou Ezzaki from his days as former Morocco national team goalkeeper. Since his retirement, the 56-year old has since moved on to become manager of the national side, but lately, he has been using his spare time to support another sport...boxing. Ezzaki not only got involved with the local boxing association, but has also helped establish a tournament in Dar Bouazza.


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Kettleers Win Cape-Best 11th Game
By: Nick Solari, Writing Intern, Quinnipiac University
(Kettle Talk by Alexa Galloway PREGAME and POSTGAME)
(Video Highlights by Connor Sullivan HERE)
(Podcast by Greg Mroz. To listen, CLICK HERE)
(Greg Mroz interviews Tim Kiene. To listen CLICK HERE)
COTUIT – Life has been simple so far for the Kettleers in 2013. When they are solid defensively, they win games. When they aren't, they struggle. In games that they have made two errors or fewer, prior to Tuesday nights game against Brewster, they are 9-1. In games where they have made more than two errors they are 2-4 thus far. They had not played a complete game without making an error.
Tonight was much different.
The Kettleers, for the first time all season long, did not make a single error in the game and defeated the Whitecaps by the final score of 8-2.
The reason? Kettleers head coach Mike Roberts had an unexpected answer to that question.
"A lot of prayer, I think," Roberts joked. "We have emphasized defense a ton lately. I told they guys the starting lineup will come down to who's the best on defense."
The season-low zero miscues on defense was not the only record worth noting, however. With the win over Brewster, Cotuit now has the most of any team in the Cape League with 11.
Logan Ratledge has made a big impact to the roster. Photo by Joe Cavanaugh
Logan Ratledge (North Carolina State) paced the Kettleers offense, and continued his hot start. He was 2-for-3 with a homerun, his second in as many games.
Ratledge's long-ball came in the bottom of the eighth inning off of Brewster reliever Aaron Brown (Pepperdine). He launched a first pitch fastball that just sailed over the left field fence.
"The wind must be blowing out for him," Roberts joked. "I'm happy for him, though. He's made a big impact, and is just a really solid addition to our roster."
After coming to Cotuit late due to his team making a College World Series appearance, Ratledge is now 4-for-8. He has also provided the Kettleers a solid defensive second baseman, an area that has been a struggle at times.
Kevin Bradley got the start behind the plate tonight, and moved to third base in the sixth. He was 1-for-4 with an RBI double, and threw a runner out trying to steal second base in the fifth.
"I haven't caught in awhile," Bradley said. "It was fun. It's something I've never done a whole lot of, and I enjoyed it."
Roberts was happy with his play.
"He did a pretty good job, considering he hasn't caught in awhile," Roberts said. "I liked what I saw, and I'm glad he wanted to go back there. He made a great throw to second base."
Patrick Corbett earned the win. Photo by Joe Cavanaugh
Rhett Wiseman (Vanderbilt), Yale Rosen (Washington State), Jake Fincher (North Carolina State), and Galli Cribbs Jr. (Clarendon) each added a hit and an RBI. For Cribbs Jr., it was his first run driven in on the season.
Tim Kiene (Maryland) walked three times, tying him for a team-high of nine free passes with Hunter Cole (Georgia) and Mike Ford (Princeton).
Ben Smith started on the mound for Cotuit. He went the first 4.1 innings, giving up five hits, two runs, and striking out seven.
He was replaced by Patrick Corbett (Coastal Carolina), who earned the win. Corbett went 2.2 innings and didn't give up a run, extending his season-long scoreless streak to 8.1 innings total.
Brian Miller (Vanderbilt) threw the last 2.0 innings. He retired the side in order both times, and struck out one.
The Kettleers take on Falmouth tomorrow at home. First pitch is at 5 p.m.


For customers in arrival rooms are available starting at 2 p.m. On the day of departure the room must be vacated at 10. There is available, however, luggage storage for guests arriving before or intending to leave Florence later.
No but in the apartment we leave for you: cookies, cornflakes, jam and fruits.
Does the apartment have a washing machine?
Does the apartment feature an internet connection?
Does the apartment have a parking lot?
The apartment has an agreement with a garage in the same street.
Can I reach the apartment by car?
The licence plate will be registered by garage upon arrival at the apartment.
The nearest railway station is the main station of Santa Maria Novella (SMN) which is about 15 minutes walk, 5 minutes by taxi or bus.
The nearest airport is the Amerigo Vespucci at Peretola. It takes some 20 minutes by taxi to reach our hotel.


Kanu has announced plans to revamp by reconstituting party branches nationwide in order to comply with the new constitution.
Kanu Executive Director Joseph Towett on Wednesday said the party has embarked on the process to reconstitute itself and put in place structures in order to comply with the new constitution.
Mr Towett said Kanu Chairman Gideon Moi who is also the Baringo Senator had given the nod for the reconstitution of fresh Party organs for the party.
Speaking in Kiambu during the launch of Kanu Women Congress, Mr Towett said the restructuring of the party will see the party have representation and membership in all the 47 counties.
"With the promulgation of the 2010 constitution, all party branches countrywide were dissolved and we now have to reconstitute them afresh a move that has the blessing of the party national chairman," said Mr Towett.
To start with, the independence party has launched Kanu Women and Youth Congresses which will be bodies representing women and the youth in the party.
Kanu Women Congress national Chairperson Elizabeth Kimkung said the launch was a sign of the two party organs was sign of things to come.
She said the party leadership was committed to strengthen the party through recruitment from the grassroots to the national level.
Ms Kimkung said the party will launch women congresses in all the 47 counties countrywide.
"From now on, Kanu will go places. We are going back to our roots to the party of our fathers and fore-fathers," she said.
She said about 75 percent of the country's population were comprised youth and women who they wanted to target in their recruitment.
Rose Boit the national women congress Vice-Chairperson said the party was keen to strengthen itself ahead of 2022.
This,she said will help the party to gather high number of MPs, senators, governors and Members of County assembly(MCAs) in the forthcoming elections.
"We can only have high number of elected leaders if we have a strong party," she said.
Kiambu County Kanu Women Congress Chairperson Gladys Chania told other political parties to brace for tough times ahead.
"This is tsunami in waiting and we do not want to leave any one behind. From now on, the party will become a force to reckon with," said Ms Chania.
He called on the locals to rejoin the independence party since that is where they belonged as the party was founded in the county by founding father Mzee Jomo Kenyatta.
Ms Chania joins Kanu from Jubilee Party which she has used to vie for Kiambu Woman Representative but was floored by Gathoni Wamuchomba in the party primaries held on April 25,2017.
Kanu National organising Secretary Geoffrey Njihia said the party also launched the youth congress in Kiambu with plans underway to venture in to all the 47 counties.
He said as start, the youth congress had got 24 representatives which are two from the county's 12 constituencies.
In addition, Njihia said 60 officials each representing a ward has been have been selected.
"From now, we are going to embark on a rigorous recruitment of new members. We are targeting to have enlisted more than 50,000 new members by mind next year," said Mr Njihia.
Former Kikuyu town MCA Binary Wainaina termed the launch of party's women and youth congresses in the county as a great and timely move.
"We are tired of briefcase parties that are normally owned by individuals who are the ones who call the shots. It is high time we political parties that are owned by the people and not individuals," said Mr Wainaina.
Among those who attended the launch included aspirants ho vied in other political parties for various seats but lost in last year general election.


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Trump clump #1
Earlier this summer I received a series of comments and emails from readers asking that I stop writing anti-Trump posts. Surprisingly, those comments came not from pro-Trump supporters, but from progressives and non-residents who indicated they were getting enough Trump news from other sources and were seeking a little "fresh air" at TYWKIWDBI. (the sentiment reflected in this comic):
FWIW, here are the political metrics for readers of TYWKIWDBI, as monitored by Quantcast:
(I'm not sure how Quantcast determines these affiliations; I suspect part of the large proportion of "independents" comes from readers in other countries.)
I've been holding back on writing posts about Trump, but I've continued to bookmark the material, and some of it is definitely worth sharing, especially for those readers who don't range as widely on the internet. I've decided the best compromise is to cluster all the Trump material in a series of "Trump clumps" - basically one-topic linkdumps. That makes the material available for those interested in it, while allowing the pro-Trump readers, the news-weary, the callous, and disinterested foreigners to zoom past all of it with a quick flick on the mouse. Here we go...
There is now a Donald Trump "presidential commemorative coin" (image embedded at top). It's not issued by the U.S. Mint. It's gold-plated, with an "authentic look, weight, and feel" in a "plastic collector case."
Greenpeace devised a clever way to put graffiti on the U.S. embassy in Berlin without touching the building.
International tourism to the United States has been falling ever since the election of Donald Trump.
J.K. Rowling tweeted"Very much enjoying the German press at the moment. "Earth to Trump..." (explanatory image at the link).
Crawler on CNN: "President's spokesman says he can't speak for the President."
Canadian supporters of Donald Trump tried to organize a "Million Deplorables March." Right-wing media claimed thousands attended. The local police said the number was in the hundreds. Photos show more participants in a morning yoga class held at the same location.
Donald Trump's ancestors changed their surname from "Drumpf" to "Trump."
Video of that iconic incident when Trump's cabinet members were invited to praise him.
"While President Trump berates Qatar for sponsoring terrorism at the highest levels, he is simultaneously authorizing the country to purchase over $21 billion of U.S. weapons."
Michael Gerson, top aide to President Bush, describes Donald Trump.
There seem to be an endless number of tweets of "Trump criticizing Trump." Also this one.
"The Washington Post and Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, are tracking more than 500 key executive branch nominations through the confirmation process. These positions include Cabinet secretaries, deputy and assistant secretaries, chief financial officers, general counsel, heads of agencies, ambassadors and other critical leadership positions." As of August 17, 364 of those positions don't even have nominees yet.
"President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida has asked permission to hire 70 foreign workers this fall, attesting — in the middle of the White House's "Made in America Week" — that it cannot find qualified Americans to serve as cooks, waiters and housekeepers."
Scaramucci is already gone. One of his tweets was interesting. Also his mimicry of the president.
Ivanka Trump tweeted a quote "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts," attributing the quote to Albert Einstein. Here's the perfect rejoinder.
A thoughtful essay by George Will posits that "Trump is something the nation did not know it needed: a feeble president whose manner can cure the nation's excessive fixation with the presidency. Executive power expanded, with only occasional pauses (thank you, Presidents Taft and Coolidge, of blessed memory), throughout the 20th century and has surged in the 21st... Fortunately, today's president is so innocent of information that Congress cannot continue deferring to executive policymaking... Furthermore, today's president is doing invaluable damage to Americans' infantilizing assumption that the presidency magically envelops its occupant with a nimbus of seriousness..."
"Cohen, who is also a top Democratic ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, announced on Thursday that he would be filing Articles of Impeachment against Trump."
"Ghostwriter Tony Schwartz, who spent over a year with Trump and was the co-author of the memoir, Art of the Deal, has predicted that Trump will resign, maybe as early as by the end of summer."
Tina Fey demonstrates "sheetcaking" as a response to the events in Charlottesville. She suggests that all sane people deal with the upcoming white power rallies by not showing up because the counterprotest gives them a sense of legitimacy.
This is the "anti-45" symbol (Trump being the 45th president):
"Mitchell explained that he realized the number, when presented in a block-type font, looks eerily similar to a swastika. So, the artist moved the numbers closer together and tilted them by 45 degrees [and overlaid the numbers with the international symbol for "no"], creating a symbol that would be shared thousands of times on social media following the Charlottesville riots."
I'll close with some excerpts from an op-ed piece in The Guardian:
Like some kind of Shakespearean villain-clown, Trump plays not to the gallery but to the pit. He is a Falstaff without the humour or the self-awareness, a cowardly, bullying Richard III without a clue. Late-night US satirists find in this an unending source of high comedy. If they did not laugh, they would cry. The world is witnessing the dramatic unfolding of a tragedy whose main victims are a seemingly helpless American audience, America's system of balanced governance and its global reputation as a leading democratic light.
As his partisan, demeaning and self-admiring speech to the Boy Scouts of America illustrated, Trump endlessly reruns last year's presidential election campaign, rails against the "fake news" media and appeals to the lowest common denominator in public debate. Not a word about duty, service, shared purpose or high ideals was to be found in his gutter-level discourse before a youthful gathering of 30,000 in West Virginia. Instead, he served up a sad cocktail of paranoia and narcissism. It was all about him and what he has supposedly achieved against the odds.
Which, for the record, is almost precisely nothing. After more than six months in office, and despite full Republican control of Congress, Trump cannot point to a single substantial legislative achievement. The bid to repeal the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, which finally went down in flames in the Senate last week, was the most spectacular and telling of Trump's failures. His executive orders, such as the racist ban on Muslim travellers and last week's bigoted attack on transgender people in the military, have mostly run foul of the courts or been pre-emptively ignored by those charged with implementing them...
The common factor in all these situations is Trump's self-induced powerlessness and ignorance, his chronic lack of credibility and presidential authority and consequent perceptions of US and western weakness. And in the case of all three actual or potential adversaries – North Korea, Iran and Russia – these perceptions are highly dangerous. Precisely because US responses, actions and reactions can no longer be relied upon or predicted, by friends and enemies alike, the potential for calamitous miscalculation is growing. This uncertainty, like the chaos in the White House and the extraordinary disarray of the American body politic, stems from Trump's glaring unfitness for the highest office. As is now becoming ever plainer, this threatens us all.
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Regardless of why you voted for him in the first place, is it not completely apparent he is ill-suited to do the job? His tweets, pathetic need for adulation, his need to lash out or resist the controlling actions of handlers and the media all point to sings of extreme narcissism. That by itself is not an automatic disqualifier for some people. OK. Combine it with his efficiency - no major legislation signed in first 6 months in office. Not enough? Campaign promises? Drain the swamp, build the wall, MAGA, ..... sigh. If you STILL support this man/child, you are going out of your way to delude yourself. You probably also believe that the Earth is flat and the rest of the Milky Way revolve around us and that the lunar landing was faked. At some point, you're going to have to face the fact that the so called fake news is the real news and whatever you've been trolling for news is utter garbage designed to divide and create fear.
Speaking of fear, I fear for our country that this orange huckster was able to fool so many citizens. My hope is his legacy will be a renewed focus on diversity, sustainability, integrity, and justice. I don't know how I can endure 3.5 more years of this, but know that I must.
IronHorse August 19, 2017 at 6:50 AM
You and Minnesotastan both appear to be repeating the same mistake that got him elected in the first place. That is, an over-focus on how horrible Trump is with no comparative argument for why one should vote for the other side of the aisle.
The above litany of criticism, while not inaccurate, may ultimately be irrelevant. Nobody voted for Trump because he was a consummate politician. They voted for him because it was either him or the walking personification of the Washington machine, and voters were just angry enough to burn the house down.
I'm still hard pressed to understand why I would vote for any Democrat when the entire party seems to have embraced extremely hard leftism. This Washington Post poll that shows that the Dems are the most out of touch party in the country (https://www.washingtonpost.com/page/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/04/23/National-Politics/Polling/release_466.xml). You don't change something like that by attacking Trump, you change it by rebuilding your brand. And I don't see that happening.
I'm not happy I voted for Trump, but the way things are going with the Democrats, it looks like I'm going to be unhappy about having to vote for him again in 2020.
not securely anchored August 19, 2017 at 11:15 AM
I'm afraid that David and IronHorse are both correct. What's to be done?
Stan B. August 20, 2017 at 12:00 AM
Sorry, but if you think today's Democratic Party is... "extremely hard leftism," you have little clue of what a real Left is. Fellow Republican Chris (below) is directly on target. Today's Democrats are center Right, afraid of their own shadow to embrace any real cohesive Leftist ideology- to the point where they kneecapped their own strongest candidate.
How Far... Right has this country turned? When you have a POTUS and several of his chief advisors praising the "good people" on the side of self professed White Supremacists and Neo-Nazis- you shouldn't need me, or anyone else, to point the way!
Bulletholes August 20, 2017 at 11:12 AM
I was a big Hillary supporter, but Ironhorse makes a valid point.
"Our brand is worse than Trump,"
Democratic Congressman Tim Ryan on why a Democrat cant even win an election for Second Grade Class Janitor these days.
and back in march they asked Pelosi who the leaders of the Democratic Party were.
Her answer?
Obama and Clinton.
We better get us a candidate. It may be tougher than beating Trump in 2020.
It could be worse. It could be Hillary in the White House.
bobbie August 18, 2017 at 10:17 PM
Dump the dump {the orange enema}
Hillary2020 August 19, 2017 at 3:11 PM
Thanks for presenting the Trump news this way.
Chris August 19, 2017 at 4:40 PM
Those of us who were card-carrying members of the Republican party for decades can tell you that the current Democratic party is to the right of the Republican party of the 1960s and 1970s.
The Dem party right now is not cohesive or brave, but that's a far cry from being fascist and authoritarian extremists. The parties are not equally bad: one is mediocre, and one has proven itself to be dangerous to American citizens and the rest of the world.
Stan B. August 19, 2017 at 11:41 PM
"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."
-Barry Goldwater
And ya could say, we are now... in the post-evangelical era.
Barbwire August 19, 2017 at 9:25 PM
Chris is right on. Everybody in my family was a Republican, going back to the formation of the party Now even my daughter the banking executive is a Democrat. I can't believe that the President of the United States would celebrate Nazism and white supremacy. I only hope he is removed from office before he can destroy the world by his incompetence.
Democrats have devolved into modifying bathrooms and removing statues. Issues that do not affect 99.9% of average, ordinary Americans on a day to day basis. This is really your platform in 2018? RIP Democrat party.
Poignant photo from the "Harvey" disaster - updated
"Optical sorting" of food
Some reasons for the recent naval accidents
Honey display at the Minnesota State Fair
Socialism vs. capitalism
A modern stonecarver
Why you can't take mercury on an airplane
Telling it like it is
"Fake news" about coal
Babylonian trigonometry
In praise of Hmong farmers
Rube Goldberg would be impressed
Maybe it should be called "tempafrost"
Selections from "The Aztec Treasure House"
White nationalists with ancestral surprises
Gus and Ethel
Philippine prisoners sleeping in a stairwell
Episiotomies and "husband stitches"
"Signs, signs, everywhere there's signs..."
Solar evaporation ponds
Late summer
Gravity waves + airglow
Did a "false flag" draw the U.S. into WWII ?
"Eat! Eat! Eat! & Always Stay Thin"
"Crowdcasting" explained
Percentage eclipse
Buying apartments "en viager"
Republicans should listen to Ronald Reagan
Unrepentant
Tropea, Calabria, Italy
Crewless electric cargo ships
An excerpt from The Epic of Gilgamesh
Cut paper
"Total Eclipse" (Annie Dillard, 1982)
Recreating a 70-year-old photo
Nice work if you can get it
"Accidental impressionism"
Nocturnal light pollution hinders pollination
"Structural color" in butterfly wings
Problems from breeding "fashionable" German Shepherds
A detailed discussion of p values
There is more than one way to map an eclipse
A remarkable 9th-century swan
Basic color categories
"It Walks By Night"
Confronting one's fears
Apparently there is "bird-friendly coffee"


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Of liberality. To whom it must chiefly be shown, and how men of slender means may show it by giving their service and counsel.
68. But if it is praiseworthy to have one's soul free from this failing, how much more glorious is it to gain the love of the people by liberality which is neither too freely shown to those who are unsuitable, nor too sparingly bestowed upon the needy.
69. There are many kinds of liberality.479479 Cic. de Off. II. 9, § 32. Not only can we distribute and give away food to those who need it from our own daily supply, so that they may sustain life; but we can also give advice and help to those who are ashamed to show their want openly, so long as the common supplies of the needy are not exhausted. I am now speaking of one set over some office. If he is a priest or almoner, let him inform the bishop of them, and not withhold the name of any he knows to be in any need, or to have lost their wealth and to be now reduced to want; especially if they have not fallen into this trouble owing to wastefulness in youth, but because of another's theft, or through loss of their inheritance from no fault of their own, so that they cannot now earn their daily bread.
70. The highest kind of liberality is, to redeem captives, to save them from the hands of their enemies, to snatch men from death, and, most of all, women from shame, to restore children to their parents, parents to their children, and, to give back a citizen to his country. This was recognized when Thrace and Illyria were so terribly devastated.480480 This was in the year 378. These provinces were invaded by the Goths, who after the defeat and death of Valens at Hadrianople ravaged the whole country, and carried away with them a vast number of captives and afterwards sold them into slavery. St. Ambrose busied himself in redeeming all he could. He tells us himself how his efforts were met by the Arian party. How many captives were then for sale all over the world! Could one but call them together, their number would have surpassed that of a whole province. Yet there were some who would have sent back into slavery those whom the Church had redeemed. They themselves were harder than slavery itself to look askance at another's mercy. If they themselves (they said) had come to slavery, they would be slaves freely. If they had been sold, they would not refuse the service of slavery. They wished to undo the freedom of others, though they could not undo their own slavery, unless perchance it should please the buyer to receive his price again, whereby, however, slavery would not be simply undone but redeemed.
71. It is then a special quality of liberality to redeem captives,481481 Cic. de Off. II. 16. especially from barbarian enemies who are moved by no spark of human feeling to show mercy, except so far as avarice has preserved it with a view to redemption. It is also a great thing to take upon oneself another's debt, if the debtor cannot pay and is hard pressed to do so, and where the money is due by right and is only left unpaid through want. So, too, it is a sign of great liberality to bring up children, and to take care of orphans.
72. There are others who place in marriage maidens that have lost their parents, so as to preserve their chastity, and who help them not only with good wishes but also by a sum of money. There is also another kind of liberality which the Apostle teaches: "If any that believeth hath widows let him relieve them, that the Church be not burdened by supplying them, that it may have enough for those that are widows indeed."482482 1 Tim. v. 16.
73. Useful, then, is liberality of this sort; but it is not common to all. For there are many good men who have but slender means, and are content with little for their own use, and are not able to give help to lighten the poverty of others. However, another sort of kindness is ready to their hand, whereby they can help those poorer still. For there is a twofold liberality:483483 Cic. de Off. II. 15, § 52. one that gives actual assistance, that is, in money; the other, which is busy in offering active help, is often much grander and nobler.
74. How much grander it was for Abraham to have recovered his captured son-in-law by his victorious arms,484484 Gen. xiv. 16. than if he had ransomed him! How much more usefully did holy Joseph help King Pharaoh by his counsel to provide for the future, than if he had offered him money! For money would not have bought back the fruitfulness of any 55one state; whilst he by his foresight kept the famine for five years485485 Gen. xli. 53–57. from the whole of Egypt.
75. Money is easily spent; counsels can never be exhausted. They only grow the stronger by constant use. Money grows less and quickly comes to an end, and has failed even kindness itself; so that the more there are to whom one wants to give, the fewer one can help; and often one has not got what one thinks ought to be given to others. But as regards the offer of advice and active help, the more there are to spend it on, the more there seems to be, and the more it returns to its own source. The rich stream of prudence ever flows back upon itself, and the more it has reached out to, so much the more active becomes all that remains.
479 Cic. de Off. II. 9, § 32.
480 This was in the year 378. These provinces were invaded by the Goths, who after the defeat and death of Valens at Hadrianople ravaged the whole country, and carried away with them a vast number of captives and afterwards sold them into slavery. St. Ambrose busied himself in redeeming all he could. He tells us himself how his efforts were met by the Arian party.
481 Cic. de Off. II. 16.
482 1 Tim. v. 16.
484 Gen. xiv. 16.
485 Gen. xli. 53–57.


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Another on my keep-missing-it list was Cafe Mirabelle at Carterton. I'd never managed to go past when it was open, but finally, success! Twice in fact, go figure.
Mirabelle is run by French husband and wife team Megan (the magic in the kitchen) and Olivier (the FOH maestro) Rochery. The food philosophy is simple, hearty and unpretentious, like dining at home in France. And what would French dining be without wine, beer and liqueurs? You'll never need to find out here.
One visit was for a light brekkie, so I made a beeline for the pastries. They all looked delightful and beautifully hand-made, and in fact the apple danish I settled on might be the best one I've ever had. The pastry was light and crispy, the apple generous and beautifully layered, and both the custard beneath and glaze on top just the right hint of sweetness without overkill. I'm still revelling in the memory.
The other visit was lunch so I decided on the macaroni cheese with bacon from the menu board. It was a close run thing with the goat cheese salad, but since it was a slightly cool day, and I was interested to see how Mirabelle would deliver the dish, the mac cheese won. And yes it did arrive French style, topped with cheese, pepper (noticeable), a dose of melted butter, bread for dipping, and bubbly hot grilled top.
A delicious and unctuous dish (love that word!). All for $12.50. Excellent value.
A place not to be missed if you can time it right.
Wednesday to Sunday daytimes (9-4 weekdays, 10-3 weekends), dinner Friday and Saturday nights (bookings recommended).
To begin our carbo loading for a Sunday half marathon vines walk, we decided on the Clareville Bakery for Saturday breakfast (followed by a Poppies lunch and a Medici dinner of course!).
These guys have won a number of awards in recent years (2014 pie of the year with their lamb and kumara pie, joint 2015 rural cafe of the year, and 2015 overall VWOAP Mindfood Producer winner for their lavash-style crackers), and just keep on creating.
10am was a bit early for pie, so I made a beeline for the hot cross doughnut (seasonally appropriate and delish), while others had a banana custard donut (delightful but very squirty) and chicken walnut blue cheese turkish (also rated highly).
Rosie and Michael and their team are super hot on fresh, hand made and artisan methods, and make all their own pastries, breads (own natural sourdough starter), jams, jellies, sauces, the aforementioned lavash-style crackers, and more (check out their gallery pics here). As well as cabinet and counter food, you'll find a range of brunch and lunch menu options Monday through Saturday daytimes.
On Wednesday evenings they do dinner and live music, and they also cater events (do these guys ever sleep??). There's a range of nooks and crannies both inside among the simple white and timber decor (check out the building history on the wall), or out in the garden if a nice day.
I've found some of their goodies on the counter at Poquito in the CBD recently, and shall keep my eyes out for where else they might supply, but if you're in the Wairarapa Monday to Saturday daytimes, you should definitely head straight to the source.
For a luxurious experience without the need for a second mortgage, a long Sunday lunch at Wharekauhau is a feast for all the senses.
complimentary salmon amuse bouche, quality settings and service, in a private dining room overlooking Palliser Bay, was $105 each after the entertainment card discount (the starting point was $110 each before extra wines and discount).
shorter timeframes and not dissimilar costs, it stands head and shoulders above as value for money.
The wines were all of excellent quality, with the Foleys (owners) having ownership in Te Kairanga and Vavasour, and those wines featuring prominently beside a nice range of other NZ and Californian wines. I see in the media recently the Foleys are looking to acquire a few more Marlborough vineyards to add to the stable.
The menu provided three choices for each course, focused on locally grown or caught, and seasonal – their own vegetables, beef and lamb; Palliser Bay octopus and snapper. The soup (butternut pumpkin, apple, parsnip with fresh horseradish) was crisp and refreshing, the lamb (roasted, with coffee, eggplant and jus) was tender, and the creme brûlée (vanilla with shortbread) rich and filling.
We also scored a complimentary cheese board by virtue of some mix-up in the kitchen. Again, very good quality and well presented (and no dinner required for us that night!).
We were invited to explore the lodge and surrounds (indoor covered pool with bathrooms of elegance, fully equipped gymnasium, all weather tennis court, groomed croquet and petanque lawn, shady and pleasant pathways) and did so between mains and dessert (good suggestion!).
The lodge has a number of upstairs rooms for games, reading, leisure and socialising, all with different moods and decor, so one could easily find a spot that resonated.
Oh, and year on year on year lamb and beef award winners. What more can one say?
Three hours of feeding the senses for a delicious birthday treat -simply divine.
Turn south down Western Lake Road at the southern end of Featherston, and keep going for about 40km.
A weekend with no obligations, no children and no plans. Yippeeeee! Ergo opportunities to eat out. So I will be selective in which ones I blog about to save your eyes from falling out.
Friday night ended up being Zibibbo in Taranaki Street. I have posted before about their tapas, and still didn't get to the desserts this time, but suffice it to say they are one of the best for classy food, very good service and a nice ambience. A wood roasted portobello mushroom herb gnocchi with goat cheese sauce for me, and the special pork belly, blue cheese and mushroom mousse gnocchi for him (Zibibbo is Italian influenced after all!). The group next to us had the ice cream cone sorbets for dessert and they looked truly impressive. Zibibbo also do a range of wood fired pizzas in the early $20's, so it doesn't have to be an expensive night out there.
Saturday was looking the finest of the weekend, so a ride was required, and a (long-desired) jaunt to the Gladstone Vineyard via Martinborough (for coffee and access to the nice winding Longbush road ensued.
A meandering driveway to a picturesque garden beside the old homestead, with chunky garden tables and brollies, and even a kids play area on sand under the trees (and built from wood not modern glaring brightly painted steel or plastic). Which seemed to do the trick nicely for the kids present.
There was a large family group there for a celebration at one big long italian-lunch style table, so we could only choose a platter for lunch (presumably the kitchen was fully occupied dealing with the big group), which worked just fine. The choices were a ploughmans platter (very substantial we discovered!), a seafood platter or simpler pate, breads and dips offerings. The menu is not large and looks like it changes every couple of months, but did include things like courgette, mint and feta fritters, a pork belly salad, and a fish daily choice dish.
All wines on offer were their own (we had a wee sample of Sophie's Choice, being a barrel fermented sauvignon blanc, yummo), and they are developing the vineyard towards biodynamic principles. They had about 8 of their wines on offer by the glass – a riesling, sauvignon blanc, vigonier, pinot gris, Sophies choice (named for their golden retriever Sophie), pinot noir, auld alliance red and a dessert wine. So pretty much a full range.
Again, we didn't get to desserts, but the descriptions had me deciding to come back during a Wairarapa weekend (also on the planner sometime) for a full tasting session, and dessert and wine some afternoon under the trees.
They open Thursday to Sunday mid morning through to mid-late afternoon, and can be found in the pleasant countryside out behind Carterton.


An interesting challenge this – a comment from Chris Young from the the Real Bread Campaign on my post on "how much does it cost to bake your own bread".
Apparently I can make delicious bread without the sugar or milk – Chris gave a link to this Real Bread recipe. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but will do next time I have a chance to play again. I think the main issue may be the small amount of yeast combined with the rapid cycle I tend to use, which produces a loaf in under an hour. We'll see!
Unless your machine's instructions say otherwise, pour the water into the loaf pan and, if you are using it, add the fresh yeast. Disperse the salt in the flour and then sprinkle this over the water. If you are using dried or instant yeast and/or butter or oil, place them – not touching each other – on top of the flour. Secure the pan in the machine, close the lid and press the start button.
I'll post a picture once I've tried it.
A strange mid-winter warm spell has me feeling ridiculously springlike. In contrast to the -10c we were experiencing before Christmas, it's now a balmy +12c. It's not just me noticing the change – the garden is awakening. The broad-leaved sorrel is the first of the perennials to re-emerge from the softening ground, and the ivory shoots of our new bulbs show that our ever-hungry squirrels have failed to eat all of them and that my dreams of woodland drifts of snowdrops and bluebells may yet come to pass!