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Health DG reports 3 new Covid-19 Clusters due to Hari Raya Haji SOP breakers
Social NewsHealth DG reports 3 new Covid-19 Clusters due to Hari Raya Haji...
Yesterday (29 July), the Health Director-General, Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah had in a statement said that the Ministry had recorded 36 new Covid-19 clusters, bringing the total number of active clusters in Malaysia to 1,064.
He explained that out of the 36 new clusters, 18 involved workplaces like construction sites and factories, 7 were community infections, 3 involving high risk groups and the remaining 1 in a detention centre.
According to Malay Mail, he said that 3 out of the 36 new clusters involves non-compliance with the Hari Raya Haji Covid-19 standard operating procedure (SOP), where these individuals had visited their family members during the celebration, resulting in 48 new Covid-19 cases between them.
Source: NST
The first cluster, the Kampung Mentera cluster was discovered in Kampung Mentera in Kota Baru, Kelantan, where the 36 year-old index patient was tested positive for Covid-19 on 23 July. Since the, 20 out of the 32 people screened was found positive.
The second cluster is the Dah Kampung Pokka cluster in Padang Terap, Kedah. The index patient was being identified as a 45 year-old man who was confirmed to be positive on 23 July. Since then, 6 out of 104 people screened was confirmed positive.
The last of the 3 cluster Hari Raya Haji clusters was found in Johor Bharu and the index patient is a 35 year-old woman. After her case being confirmed, 90 people were screened under this cluster and 22 of them were confirmed to be positive.
On the other hand, the largest cluster identified involves workers in a construction site in Taman Ipoh Permai, Garden East, Ipoh, Perak. The cluster was given the name "Tapak Bina Ipoh Permai cluster" and 111 out of 193 people screened was confirmed positive.
The second largest cluster identified was the Muar detention centre, whereby a 52 year-old Malaysian man was identified as the index patient after he was confirmed to be positive on 22 July.
The third largest cluster for the day was identified among farmers in Sungai Mangga in Simunjan, Sarawak. The screening shows that 53 out of 160 people were positive.
Meanwhile, there are 3 clusters involving high-risk groups were detected in medical facilities or care centres located in Sepang and Klang in Selangor and Kinta in Perak.
The first of these cluster being the Jenderam Murni and it was being discovered after a mass testing done to residents and employees at a care centre in Taman Jenderam Murni, Sepang, Selangor. According to the statement, 10 out of 16 were found to be positive for Covid-19.
The second cluster being the Jalan Ramin Satu cluster and it was also discovered after a mass testing done among workers and patients at a dialysis centre in Jalan Ramin 1, Bandar Botanik, Klang, with one confirmed case from 61 people screened.
The last of the high-risk cluster is called the Fifth Avenue cluster, which is located in a medical facility along Jalan Fifth Avenue, Ipoh, Perak. The index patient is identified as a 45-year-old Bangladeshi who works as a janitor at the facility. Since then, 70 people were screened under this cluster and 11 were confirmed to the positive.
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Philosophy of our approach
Genotyping platform
Sharing bio-assets and benefits
Information management and services
Capacity-strengthening
Molecular Atlas
Seeds of Discovery
Unlocking the genetic potential of maize and wheat
SeeD: Mexico's contribution to global food security
The Seeds of Discovery (SeeD) initiative is a platform for utilizing maize and wheat genetic resources, with lessons that can be applied to other crops. By characterizing the genetic makeup of maize and wheat collections, SeeD generates data that will accelerate the development of improved crop varieties to meet the demands of a growing population in a changing climate.
SeeD has put together tools to facilitate the efficient use of these data and the germplasm that they describe. Together, the data, software tools, bridging germplasm and capacity development opportunities make up a free and publically available "genetic resources utilization platform." This platform ensures that breeders and researchers around the world can efficiently use the invaluable data and germplasm identified or produced by SeeD on maize and wheat genetic diversity.
SeeD achieves impact through 5 main components:
Genotyping: sequencing the genetic code of maize and wheat collections held in genebanks to identify and characterize diversity for traits that are valuable or essential to develop improved crop varieties
Phenotyping: characterizing the maize and wheat collections for their responses to stresses such as heat, drought or disease, and for quality traits such as nutritional or culinary attributes
Software tools: allow enhanced analysis of genotypic and phenotypic data generated by SeeD to select varieties with positive traits to add to breeding programs
Pre-breeding: transferring useful genetic variation from wild or exotic wheats and maizes held in genebanks into "Bridging Germplasm," types or lines that breeders can readily use to develop improved varieties grown by farmers
Capacity building: to ensure equity in the use of genetic resources, building awareness, interest and skills to utilize our products to create impact
SeeD is a multi-project initiative comprising: MasAgro Biodiversidad, a joint initiative of CIMMYT and the Ministry of agriculture and rural development (SADER) through the MasAgro (Sustainable Modernization of Traditional Agriculture) project; the CGIAR Research Programs on Maize (MAIZE) and Wheat (WHEAT); and a computation infrastructure and data analysis project supported by the UK's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

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Lewis Taylor – Satisfied
Joe Rivers	 October 16, 2015	 1 Comment
It's generally understood that self-promotion is part and parcel of being a pop star in the 21st Century. Some artists are better at it than others; while a chosen few utilise social media to their advantage and align themselves with products that seem a decent fit for their image, others will associate their name with any brand that bungs them a few quid and consequently end up with an approach to marketing that makes Krusty The Clown look like an anti-capitalist recluse. Here's looking at you, Miss TUC Biscuits 2015, Jessica J.
As much as people trot out the maxim that it's "all about the music" and authenticity-peddlers like Jake Bugg repeatedly claim, "I'm just a lad that writes tunes", it's far more than that. If the music truly was the most important thing, you wouldn't be choosing your ten favourite R&B collaborations of the 1990s on Sunday afternoon on 4Music, would you?
Lewis Taylor was an absurdly talented artist who really didn't want to play the game, which is why he only sold about twelve records during his career. Talked up as the next big thing by names such as Elton John upon his debut, his daring mix of funk, R&B, soul and torch songs never gained attention with the public. Taylor released six albums between 1996 and 2005, after which he simply picked up his ball and went home, exhausted from the pressures of trying to make it big alone.
What's remarkable about someone who was publicly active relatively recently is that he has practically no online presence. A cursory Google brings up little more than a few promo shots, a Wikipedia page and a number of articles proclaiming his genius. His back catalogue is available on Spotify and YouTube, but there are no promo videos, no live footage, no Twitter account where he enthusiastically retweets praise from ageing hipsters who saw him play The Jazz Café back in the day – nothing.
He created a body of work featuring some truly exceptional songs, and Satisfied – while highly recommended – certainly isn't his best. So why write about it?
One reason: it would make the perfect X Factor winner's song.
Having spent over 300 words fanboying Taylor's under-appreciated prowess, it may seem bizarre to suggest one of his tracks as a cog in the machine of Simon Cowell's money-making circus. However, it makes perfect sense, and the winner's song is arguably one of the biggest showcases in UK media.
Give it a listen and you can picture it. The first understated vocal floats in on a wave of wah-wah guitar as the first verse gently shimmers. As the song progresses there are plenty of opportunities for falsetto and vocal gymnastics but as things begin to build, it really gets epic. Strings, lung-busting singing, a filthy squall of a guitar solo – in your mind's eye you can already see the four judges giving this year's victor a standing ovation, blurry behind a deluge of confetti.
On the off-chance you're reading this, Lewis, I'm sorry. I'm almost certain you'd hate this idea. The possibility your lyrics and music could be interpreted by a fame-hungry wannabe and turned into little more than a cash cow is likely the kind of thing that made you run away from the business in the first place. But part of the joy of music is in the sharing. Here at Into The Popvoid, we're all about bringing music we love to a wider audience. And if this were all to transpire and you sold a few extra records off the back of it, you don't have to pay me a penny.
To this day, the lack of success of Lewis Taylor remains a mystery. Maybe he was just the wrong person at the wrong time. However, his legacy endures, and tracks such as Satisfied are testament to his abilities. Songs – especially ballads – that try to be sexy are usually fist-bitingly atrocious, but Satisfied never comes close to venturing into R Kelly territory.
More people need to hear Lewis Taylor's music, and a stint as Christmas number 1 might just be the best way to do it. Obviously, if this plan enrages him so much that he returns to the spotlight in order to make sure things are done on his terms, well, I won't be complaining about that either.
Entered chart: did not chart
Who could sing this today and have a hit? Whichever unsuspecting youngster wins X Factor this year. Christmas no.1 2015 – you heard it here first.
Published by Joe Rivers
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2000s, British Pop, Male Solo, Pop music
2000, Into the Popvoid, Joe Rivers, Lewis II, Lewis Taylor, Pop, Satisfied, Simon Cowell, X Factor
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Metal Mickey says:
I _am_ that "ageing hipster who saw him play The Jazz Café back in the day" and I claim my £5… it was actually his birthday in 2003, an amazing gig (I was right next to the stage), but it has to be said that his appearance and persona were that of a rather diffident roadie, rather than next big King Of Soul…
To be fair, Island seemed to pump a fair bit of money into his first 2 album campaigns, he just didn't "happen", despite all the great press and Elton John's recommendations – I vividly remember Reg spending fully half of a 5-minute TV spot telling the interviewer how great "Stoned Part 1" was and that everyone should be listening to Lewis Taylor… of course Robbie Williams covered "Lovelight", and even released it as a single, but as it was during his "Rudebox" commercial lowpoint, it didn't seem to spearhead any kind of rediscovery of Lewis's songs, though I love the idea of an X-Factor cover of "Satisfied".
Some of his best tracks are on B-sides – "Waves" and "Lewis III" (neither of which are on YouTube as far as I can tell) are just astonishing, and I'd recommed his eponymous debut album or the aforementioned "Stoned Part 1" to anyone, though "Lewis II" is a bit lacking in tunes for my taste, "Satisfied" aside…


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    public static class ModelExtensions
    {
        private const string GitDirectoryName = ".git";

        public static string AtMost(this string s, int characterCount)
        {
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"""Common application path definitions and helper methods."""

import os

from oslo_config import cfg

path_opts = [
    cfg.StrOpt('pybasedir',
               default=os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),
                                                    '../')),
               help=('Directory where the ironic inventory python module is'
                     ' installed.')),
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CONF = cfg.CONF
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def basedir_def(*args):
    """Return an uninterpolated path relative to $pybasedir."""
    return os.path.join('$pybasedir', *args)

def bindir_def(*args):
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def state_path_def(*args):
    """Return an uninterpolated path relative to $state_path."""
    return os.path.join('$state_path', *args)

def basedir_rel(*args):
    """Return a path relative to $pybasedir."""
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def bindir_rel(*args):
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    return os.path.join(CONF.bindir, *args)

def state_path_rel(*args):
    """Return a path relative to $state_path."""
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CGT union members acquitted of 'ridiculing Catholicism' with Procession of the Holy Pussy
A regional court has told lawyers for the hardline Christian Advocates Association they won't be allowed to sue the anarcho-syndicalist CGT union in Spain for "offending the Catholic religion," though a number of feminist organisers are still being targeted.
The religious group was attempting to tie CGT organisers to a "Feminist Aquelarre" (coven) gathering which took place at the same time as a CGT Labour Day gathering on May 1st 2014. The syndicalists successfully argued however that it had only convened the union gathering, and the Aquelarre was separately organised, merely coinciding on the same avenue of the Andalusian capital.
The Feminist Aquelarre gathering included an iconoclastic "procession of the holy pussy" similar to this example from April of the same year:
The Christian Advocates' Association filed a lawsuit against the CGT and a number of women involved in the procession, claiming that both the trade union group and the women's group had ridiculed religious feelings with a direct attack on the beliefs of the Catholic community.
Despite a court decision which said the two CGT were innocent of any charges, the Association of Catholic Lawyers filed an appeal arguing that the procession could be constituted as an offence.
The Seville Provincial Court however has shut down the case, explaining in its report that there are no indications of participation in acts of ridicule or offence against the Catholic religion by CGT organisers Miguel Ángel González Sevillano and Félix Juan Cervera Grajera.
The CGT is also demanding that the case against the organisers of the "Feminist Aquelarre" be dismissed, as it is unacceptable to persecute people for the simple fact of exercising their right to freedom of expression. In a statement the union said it"regrets the existence of reactionary groups incapable of tolerating positions contrary to yours." The CGT also condemned criminalisation of demonstrations and union activity by the Spanish State.
This article first appeared at Freedom News
Rob Ray
Apr 19 2017 13:57
Freedom Press


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Добринка — село, гміна Піщаць, Більський повіт, Люблінське воєводство

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WEBINAR: Native Artists as Leaders
Please join Native Arts and Cultures Foundation for a conversation between Native artists whose practices reimagine a better world and inspire and empower others to do the same. Artists offer us a platform to see the world and possibilities through a new lens, to challenge dominant power structures, to create connection and healing. Audiences will have the opportunity to explore the lives and work of Native artists and culture bearers who, through their practices, are creating positive social change, educating and uplifting others, and strengthening communities. Moderator Christopher Morgan (Native Hawaiian) will be joined by speakers Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota), Lani Hotch (Chilkat-Tlingit), and Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio (Kanaka Maoili).
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If you missed the live version of the webinar you can still watch the recording of the panel discussion below!
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota) is an author, international speaker on Peace, Indigenous and Mother Earth perspective. A survivor of the "Reign of Terror" from 1972 to 1976 on the Pine Ridge, Cheyenne River and Rosebud Lakota Reservations in South Dakota and the US Bureau of Indian Affairs Boarding and Church Missionary School systems designed to "kill the Indian and save the man," Tiokasin has a long history of Indigenous activism and advocacy. He spoke as a 15 year-old at the United Nations – Lake Geneva, Switzerland. He is a board member of Simply Smiles, and Restorative Practices Alliance. Tiokasin speaks frequently at venues such as Yale University's School of Divinity, Ecology and Forestry, Union Theological Seminary focusing on the cosmology, diversity and perspectives on the relational/egalitarian vs. rational/hierarchal thinking processes of Western society. Tiokasin was a 2016 Nominee for a Nobel Peace Prize from the International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy. He was selected for a 2016 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Artist Fellowship in Music, and was a Nominee for a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship in 2017, National Native American Hall of Fame Nominee 2018 and 2019, He also was recently nominated for "Nominee for the 2020 Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities" and 2019 Indigenous Music Award Nominee for "Best Instrumental Album" for "From the Continuum." He was also awarded New York City's Peacemaker of the Year in 2013.
Tiokasin is the Founder, Host and Executive Producer of the 29 year-old award-winning "First Voices Radio" (formerly "First Voices Indigenous Radio"), a weekly one-hour live program syndicated to over 110 public, community and commercial radio stations in the US and Canada.
A master musician and a teacher of magical, ancient and modern sounds, Tiokasin performs worldwide (over 50 countries) and has been featured at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Ruben Museum, Morgan Library, The Apollo Theatre, and the United Nations, and uncountable universities and concert venues. Tiokasin serves on boards of several charitable organizations dedicated to bringing non-western education to Native and non-Native children. Tiokasin is "a perfectly flawed human being" and a Sundancer in the cosmology of the Lakota Nation.
Learn more about Tiokasin: firstvoicesindigenousradio.org
Lani Hotch (Chilkat-Tlingit) was born in Klukwan, Alaska in 1956 and comes from a line of weavers that spans five generations. She is committed to keeping the weaving tradition alive in Klukwan and has worked hard to teach others through group projects and two apprenticeships.
Lani has helped to weave three group projects and has done many solo projects including six robes and one dance tunic. Her work is in several museums including the Alaska State Museum (Juneau AK), Sheldon Museum (Haines AK), and the Jilkaat Kwaan Heritage Center (Klukwan AK). Her weavings have also been in several international art exhibits— two in Vancouver BC- the Manawa Pacific Heartbeat exhibit 2005, and the Time Warp exhibit 2010-2011, and the Spirit Wraps Around You—Chilkat and Ravenstail Weaving Exhibit at the (Juneau) Alaska State Museum 2021. Awards/Recognition include: Community Spirit Award from the First Peoples Fund in 2011, the Alaska Governor's Award for the Arts in 2017, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation's Mentor Artist Fellowship in 2017, and a United States Artist Fellowship in 2020. In 2017 the Chilkat Indian Village proclaimed Lani as a Culture Bearer for her tribe.
Learn more about Lani: lanihotch-northwestcoasttextilearts.com/
Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio (Kanaka Maoili) is a Kanaka Maoli wahine artist / activist / scholar / storyteller born and raised in Pālolo Valley to parents Jonathan and Mary Osorio. Heoli earned her PhD in English (Hawaiian literature) in 2018 from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Currently, Heoli is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous and Native Hawaiian Politics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Heoli is a three-time national poetry champion, poetry mentor and a published author. In 2020 her poetry and activism were the subject of an award-winning film, This is the Way we Rise (directed by Ciara Lacey), which was featured in Vogue.com and at Sundance Film Festival. She is a proud past Kaiāpuni student, Ford fellow, and a graduate of Kamehameha, Stanford University (BA) and New York University (MA). Her book Remembering our Intimacies: Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea was published in 2021 by The University of Minnesota Press.
Learn more about Jamaica: jamaicaosorio.wordpress.com/
MODERATOR: Christopher Kaui Morgan (Native Hawaiian)
Director of NACF's Center for Native Arts and Cultures
Christopher Kaui Morgan (Native Hawaiian) joined Native Arts and Cultures Foundation in 2021 as the first Director of The Center for Native Arts and Cultures. A choreographer, educator, facilitator, curator, and arts administrator, Christopher served as Executive Artistic Director of Dance Place in Washington, D.C., from 2017-2021. From 2006-2021 he directed Art Omi: Dance, an annual collaborative residency for international choreographers in Ghent, New York. Teaching credits include American University (2011-14) and the BA and MFA programs at the University of Maryland (2014-17). Christopher continues to direct his eponymous dance focused multi-disciplinary performance company Christopher K. Morgan & Artists, which he founded in 2011. Christopher is on the board of the National Performance Network, the Advisory Council for the America 250 Commemoration, and has been nominated by President Joseph Biden to join the National Council on the Arts. Known as a thoughtful advocate for cultural integrity, inclusivity, and diverse representation in the studio and on stage, his Native Hawaiian ancestry and wide-ranging international performance career influence all aspects of his work.
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These are the best places to Stargaze across Australia
BY Mckenna Uhde
Last updated . 29 September 2020
By day, Australia is home to some of the most stunning natural wonders in the world, and by night, they are rivalled by our starry night skies.
Observatories and dark sky parks are popping up all over Australia to offer visitors education and events for the ultimate stargazing experience.
View the Milky Way through a NASA telescope, along a cultural tour or from the comfort of a luxury outback campsite. Whether you head to the mountains of Tasmania to view the Southern Lights or hop aboard a cruise under a canopy of stars, you can't go wrong when it comes to Australia's starry splendour.
To make sure you get the best view in the world, we've compiled a list of the best places to stargaze across Australia.
View the sky clearer than ever in Warrumbungle National Park
You're going to want your camping gear for this one – and a torch. Australia's first and only dark sky park has banned all light pollution in the area to preserve the beauty of the constellations and the animal populations that roam this outback NSW region. No night pollution means viewing the Milky Way with no obstructions, just like we did hundreds of years ago.
Warrumbungle National Park near Coonabarabran in NSW is Australia's only Dark Sky Park
By day, feel free to wander the national park in search of emus and kangaroos or visit the forest recovery centre to learn more about the region. But when the sun begins to go down, that's when this park really shines. We recommend a camp among local bushland for a night-long view of this extraordinary, 100 per cent obstruction-free sky.
Fun things to do include bushwalking, stargazing and camping
Get a closer look with the Parkes radio telescope
The moment Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope was watching from a grassy, sheep-filled paddock in NSW. This 64-metre-wide telescope stands proudly about 370 kilometres west of Sydney and now opens its doors to visitors. Known as the Dish, it's one of the largest single-dish telescope in the southern hemisphere and has assisted in thousands of scientific discoveries.
The Parkes radio telescope has been in operation for more than 50 years
Just seeing this monster up close is a thrill in itself, and exploring the universe in a high-definition 3D experience even more so. Kids will relish the telescope's sheer size and enjoy completing a scavenger hunt of the night sky. It's the perfect chance to engage in a little piece of space history.
Enjoy complete darkness in rural NSW
Outback Astronomy Broken Hill may be a 13-hour drive from Sydney, but the significant distance from the city lights makes it the perfect viewing point for stargazers. The experts at the ranch will take you on a guided tour of the sky with their Sky Shows that explain phenomena in space and tell you what to look for when you give it a look for yourself.
After your fun-filled education session, head out to the remote bushland for a guided tour to learn about constellations and spot them for yourself from the perfectly dark desert plains.
Stay a while for Astronomy Weekend at Uluru
There's no doubt about Uluru's incredible scenery, making for the perfect daytime getaway. But just as stunning as the sun-splashed landscape is the extra-terrestrial beauty after dark. Ayers Rock Resort is a must for stargazers for the annual Uluru Astronomy weekend, celebrating its sixth year in 2019.
The Australian outback is a haven for stargazers
Enjoy astronomical seminars and photography, film screenings at the outdoor cinema and a very special star-lit dinner. This out-of-this-world weekend takes place every September for perfect weather under the stars, though if you can't wait, head to the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, just 15 kilometres from Ayers Rock Resort for tours, talks and views kilometres high.
Take a night-time cruise at Yellow Water
We love Kakadu for its hikes and waterfall wonders, but perhaps an overlooked NT favourite is the night-time tour of Yellow Water billabong. The Algohgarrng Experience (Yellow Water under the stars) is a beautiful cruise led by an Indigenous guide where nocturnal animals and Dreamtime Aboriginal stories abound.
The 90-minute tour will teach you about the sky's spiritual and cultural connections with the landscapes while you float through starry reflections in the beautiful waterway. You may even meet eyes with a crocodile going for a float himself.
Sleep under a canopy of stars at Arkaba Conservancy
No tents? No problem. Luxury camping at Arkaba Conservancy means perfectly dry weather and unobstructed views of the Milky Way. Arkaba's almost 25,000 hectares of conserved bushland offers endless opportunities for helicopter rides, safaris and animal spotting, but it's the night-time offering that really stands out.
With the vast bushland excluded from light pollution, you can view the night sky like it was intended – completely clear and bright – and not to mention, from the comfort of a specially constructed raised timber deck, between crisp cotton sheets in the heart of the Flinders Ranges.
Take a themed tour at the Perth Observatory
Just 35 kilometres east of Perth awaits the heritage-listed Perth Observatory where a team of astronomy buffs will teach you everything you need to know about spotting constellations and the history of the night sky.
Their extensive list of tour options means there's something for everyone, with bus tours, Doctor Who-themed tours and New Year's Eve tours among the most popular. Passionate tour guides will give you a glimpse into historic and modern telescopes as well as into the world of space science.
View 360 degrees of stars at Wave Rock
You may be surprised to find that this Australian landmark, famous for its daytime tours through colourful granite cliffs, truly comes to life at night. On a dark night you'll be amazed at the wondrous sky that fans out around you.
One of Australia's biggest waves is also the furthest from any ocean
The area is known for limitless views which makes for unobstructed sky. This may be a bit of a trek from Perth's city centre, but the remoteness of Wave Rock makes for the clearest of night skies, away from any pollution. A stargazing lounge is even in construction, planned for completion soon. So get ready for a luxurious and relaxing stargazing experience at one of Australia's most beloved monuments.
View the Southern Lights from Mount Wellington
It's no secret that Tasmania is the best place to view the stunning Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights, as they make their appearance year round. Though it's important to be mindful of anything that may come in the way between you and this colourful light spectacular – mountains, buildings, trees and light pollution.
It's no secret that Tasmania is the best place to view the stunning Aurora Australis
You may be able to experience the phenomenon from all over Tasmania, but we recommend a trek up Mount Wellington in the heart of Hobart for those unobstructed views. Remember to wait for a dark, clear night, preferably winter when the lights can last until as late as 10pm. The higher you climb, the more beautiful your view will be, so ascend high up the beautiful hillside to your awaiting front row seat. For other viewing spots, follow the Tasmania Astronomical Society calendar for meet-ups all around this miraculous island.
Experience astronomy by day at Cosmos Centre
Who says it has to be dark to explore the constellations?
The Cosmos Centre in Charleville holds its iconic Astronomy by Day events where visitors can hold meteorites, experience space travel in the Cosmos Theatre and look at the sun through a filtered telescope. Get to know the wonders of the sun and see it up close at this extraordinary star-gazing experience – the sun is just a big star after all.
If you get the chance to stay after dark, have a look through the telescopes in the observatory and learn something new from an Aboriginal night-time story session.
Step into history with the Melbourne Observatory
The historic old Melbourne Observatory has resided in the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria since 1862 and continues to delight visitors with astronomical tours and roof-top stargazing adventures.
The Starry Southern Skies program, put on by the observatory, gives a glimpse into the movements of the Moon, stars and distant planets, while guides can take you to the roof for a further look around a rotating room that opens up onto the Australian night sky on all sides.
The Melbourne Observatory is one not to miss, but if you'd like to take your astral knowledge further, head over to the Melbourne Planetarium for an interactive and digital starry-sky experience.
Stargaze your way through the Great Ocean Road
If you're making your way along the Great Ocean Road, you'll see some amazing natural wonders, but let us be clear that stargazing is an absolute must. Visit the Alkina Lodge where the vast skies of rural Victoria strike all of those who view it.
These quaint lodges are nestled among 40 hectares of Australian bush and make for the perfect spot for clear views of the Milky Way. Grab a blanket and a hot chocolate and take in the boundless views from the lodge's telescopes and lounges on the back patio.
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There has probably never been a greater political watchman than Winston Churchill. Still, the Western world hates the message and scorns the messenger. But the biggest tragedy is that we didn't learn from that shameful and near-fatal disaster!
The danger was intensifying in 1936. Still, only Churchill was playing the watchman role. On reading one of Churchill's speeches, Sir Clive Morrison-Bell wrote to him: "It is quite one of your best I think. You are so right about not being mealy-mouthed just now; the tone everywhere is far too apologetic, and you seem to be almost the only person who ever speaks out" (Gilbert, op. cit.).
Isn't the tone in Britain and America apologetic and "mealy-mouthed" today? Who is there that speaks out with a strong voice in foreign policy?
Loren Thompson, chief operating officer of the Lexington Institute, a public-research organization headquartered in Virginia, says that during the Clinton era, the money spent on weapons procurement fell below one-fifth of the defense budget for the first time since 1950. By 2002, according to Thompson, the resultant ageing and wearing-out of equipment had caused a shortfall of 83 percent for armored vehicles and 86 percent for army helicopters. The Navy fleet shrank by half from its almost-600-craft peak in the 1980s. The Navy News Week reported in August 2002 that the number could continue to slide to fewer than 200 if budget priorities don't change. Despite military budget increases under the Bush administration, proposed U.S. defense spending for 2003 was still only at 3.5 percent of GDP as compared to 6.2 percent in 1986.
Churchill wrote on April 9, 1936, "It seems a mad business to confront these dictators without weapons or military force, and at the same time to try to tame and cow the spirit of our people with peace films, anti-recruiting propaganda and resistance to defense measures. Unless the free and law-respecting nations are prepared to organize, arm and combine, they are going to be smashed up. This is going to happen quite soon. But I believe we still have a year to combine and marshall superior forces in defense of the League and its Covenant" (ibid.).
The leaders and people had become their own worst enemy!
On April 13, 1936, he wrote his wife: "We are really in great danger" (ibid.).
Does it make sense to think we can confront dictators without weapons, or, if we have weapons, without the will to use them?
The British leaders lacked the will to even prepare for war. They certainly lacked the will to lead in such dangerous times. Weak men will never face the brutal facts until it's too late.
A few more people were beginning to see that Churchill was right. "Three months later, at an Independent Labor Party summer school, Eleanor Rathbone declared: 'I have described Winston Churchill as a new recruit to pro-League forces. Watch that man carefully. You may feel distrustful. So did I. I'm not certain yet. But I ask you to dispel prejudice and consider facts. Churchill for three years has pointed out extensive German rearmaments. Later facts have justified his estimates" (ibid.).
Those people who listened closely to Churchill's message and watched the terrifying events unfold knew he was right about Germany.
"At the end of his speech Churchill called for a Ministry of Supply, or a Ministry of Munitions, to provide the necessary armaments in good time. As he told the House of Commons: 'Surely the question whether we should be working under peace conditions depends upon whether working under those conditions will give us the necessary deliveries of our munitions—upon whether the gun plants and the shell plants and, above all, the airplane factories, can fulfill the need in time. If they can do so, then peace conditions are no doubt very convenient; but if not, then we must substitute other conditions—not necessarily war conditions, but conditions which would impinge upon the ordinary daily life and business life of this country. There are many conditions apart from war conditions—preparatory conditions, precautionary conditions, emergency conditions—and these must be established in this country if progress is to be made, and if Parliament and the nation are not to find themselves deluded in the future bymere paper programs and promiseswhich in the result will be found to be utterly unfulfilled" (ibid.).
What a deep lesson in this statement! If only we would so examine every phase of our individual lives and the life of our nation today, we would not be easily deluded. You can tell so much about people by how easily they are deceived. Deceit is our main enemy. The whole world is deceived about true leadership and God (Rev. 12:9). But who really believes that today?
America and Britain are deeply deceived about leadership today. And we are facing a greater crisis now than World War ii! The very same nation—Germany—is going to trigger that crisis—just as they did in World Wars i and ii!
War is ready to explode in Europe and the Middle East. The global economy is on the verge of collapse!
The time for polite words is past. It is time for the blunt truth.
Churchill said, "Something quite extraordinary is afoot. All the signals are set for danger. The red lights flash through the gloom. Let peaceful folk beware. It is a time to pay attention and to be well prepared" (ibid.). And so it is today. The danger signals and the red lights are flashing. But people are prone to ignore their watchmen until it is too late.
Churchill was accused of having a "strong anti-German obsession." Sometimes we are so accused. But some of our own members are German. We believe in facing the truth. Those who fail to do so are going to learn by the sledge hammer of events!
"What woke them up was a series of horrible shocks, and intelligence from every quarter streaming in. … If I read the future aright, Hitler's government will confront Europe with a series of outrageous events and ever-growing military might. It is events which will show our dangers, though for some the lesson will come too late" (ibid.).
He read the future beautifully. But most people still didn't listen to his words and awaken until it was almost too late!
Prime Minister Baldwin publicly accused Churchill of a serious lack of judgment. But events eventually revealed who had good judgment.
Ezekiel is an end-time prophetic book. God prophesied that He would send a watchman (Ezek. 33:6-7). That is the good news. But there is also some very bad news. "And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them" (v. 33). The people don't recognize the watchman until it is too late physically. They ignore his words until they are in the midst of a nuclear disaster.
Churchill once said, "There is a purpose being worked out here below." He sensed that God was working out His plan. And so He is. God even used Churchill to lead the Western world to victory.
But there is no Winston Churchill to lead us to safety this time. God is not going to save us again unless we repent (v. 11).
We can't hide and escape from the series of shocking events that are about to bombard America and Britain!
"Churchill was one of the speakers at a Ralegh Club dinner, telling the assembled students and dons: 'When I came to Oxford to make a speech, five years ago, I said you must re-arm. I was laughed at. I said we must make ourselves safe in our island home, and then laughter arose. I hope you have learned wisdom now'" (ibid.).
Did Oxford learn a lasting lesson from Winston Churchill? No! Has higher education today learned from Churchill's World War ii experience? Mostly they scorn his political views today. Would they listen to a Churchill today? The answer is no! They would treat him just as they did in World War ii—only worse! If he were alive he would have some strong views on what is happening today in Germany, and other monstrous problems facing the world.
Some people also laugh at our warning today. But God prophesies that the laughter is about to be totally silenced!
Only fools laugh at God's warning message!
"Also on June 12, Ralph Wigram sent Churchill copies of three further Foreign Office dispatches dealing with different aspects of Nazism. 'Will you kindly destroy them when you have read them,' he added. 'I have marked the important passages.' Six days later the Duchess of Atholl sent Churchill the transcript of a speech Hitler had made to the League of German Maidens. One paragraph, she pointed out, had been deleted in the broadcast version. In it Hitler had said that if war came, 'I should fall upon my enemy suddenly, like lightning striking out of the night'" (ibid.).
These words had a great impact on Churchill's mind. He also remembered Germany's history in warfare.
"Churchill … was convinced about the possibilities of surprise in the German organizational framework. Commenting on the 1,200 machines and 1,114 pilots for whom the Air Staff had located no specific squadron and only non-first-line duties, he wrote, 'This would be amply sufficient to duplicate every one of the 88 squadrons now believed to have been identified. When we remember the fondness evinced by Germany in history for this particular form of surprise, and note the large number of machines and pilots which seem to have vanished into thin air and the hundred-odd aerodromes which have been constructed, this possibility cannot be excluded'" (ibid.).
Still, the British government rejected what "might come as a great shock to the country and result in an upheaval of industry." They refused to do what the crisis demanded! Time was running out.
"At any rate my conscience is clea," Churchill said. "I have done my best during the last three years and more to give timely warning of what was happening abroad, and of the dangerous plight into which we were being led or lulled. It has not been a pleasant task. It has certainly been a very thankless task. It has brought me into conflict with many former friends and colleagues. I have been mocked and censured as a scare-monger and even as a warmonger, by those whose complacency and inertia have brought us all nearer to war and war nearer to us all.
Many authorities agree that the Western world probably would not have survived without the warning and leadership of Winston Churchill. It is hard to imagine a greater service than that. Yet he was castigated even by many of his friends and party members as a scare-monger and warmonger. A thankless service indeed.
Yet I perceive that Churchill's warning is being pushed aside more and more by some scholars today. It is to their shame and our terrifying danger that they do so.
The British people continued to seek the comforts and pleasures of life. They wanted the easy way of self-indulgence.
Churchill commented, "I must say that I am astounded at the wave of optimism, of confidence, and even of complacency, which has swept over Parliament and over public opinion. There is a veritable tide of feeling that all is well, that everything is being done in the right way, in the right measure, and in the right time" (Gilbert, op. cit.).
The Labor Party refused to even support rearmament in spite of Churchill's warnings. Most people had convinced themselves that there would never be another war after World War i. Nobody who understands human nature could reach such a conclusion. Such naïve reasoning always leads into dangerous deception.
Our being deceived before World War ii also reveals a greater potential danger. Many people also thought World War ii was the war to end all wars. Because we don't understand our evil human nature (Jer. 17:9; Rev. 12:9), we are easily deceived, which puts us in much greater danger today. We can ill afford such deception in this age of potential nuclear destruction.
Martin Gilbert wrote: "On October 3 Churchill was present at the Oxford High School for Boys, for the unveiling of a memorial to T. E. Lawrence [Lawrence of Arabia], who had been killed in a motorcycle accident in May 1935. 'All feel the poorer that he has gone from us,' Churchill said. 'In these days dangers and difficulties gather upon Britain and her empire, and we are also conscious of a lack of outstanding figures with which to overcome them'" (ibid.).
Lloyd George, one of Britain's most prominent leaders (prime minister in World War i), praised Hitler as the greatest German leader of the age. This was said in 1935, after Hitler had murdered political opponents and instituted racism. Such statements were criminal—the opposite of what a great leader should have said.
It takes great men to lead us to face huge problems. That is a sobering truth which also escapes us today. Today, as before World War ii, politics and the press often keep outstanding leaders out of office.
Winston Churchill didn't get a leadership role until after the war began. He was kept out of office by politicians, educational institutions and the press. Today, nations have nuclear weapons and the power to deliver them in minutes. If we make the same mistake Britain and America made in World War ii, our nations will not survive!
That is why I keep saying we must learn from the horrendous mistakes we made before and during World War ii—or we will wake up too late. And just as Churchill warned Britain before World War ii, we are experiencing the same lack of will against strong dictators today. History warns about this disastrous kind of retreat. Churchill said, "Parliament is dead as mutton." The leaders and the people had no real sense of the approaching danger of World War ii. They didn't see the danger, so they didn't prepare for it. And they drifted into this precarious condition. They were moving "towards some hideous catastrophe." Today Britain and America are drifting toward a far more hideous catastrophe! That is why the World War ii lesson is so vital.
If we drifted so recently (World War ii), is it alarmist to think we could do it again? "I feel our country's safety is fatally imperilled both by its lack of arms and by the government's attitude towards the Nazi gangsters," Churchill said. "It is fostering in them the dangerous belief that they need not fear interference by us whatever they do. That can only encourage those savages to acts of aggression and violence of every kind. I have, therefore, chosen to go my own way and to act independently in order to further the safety of our country and of the civilization without which we cannot survive as a nation" (ibid.).
Churchill knew that if Britain fell, Europe would also fall and perhaps the whole of Western civilization, including America. Some people may have forgotten how close we came to destruction in World War ii. It will be to our own deadly peril if we fail to remember.
Neville Chamberlain tried to make friends with Mussolini and Italy. One of Chamberlain's strongest cabinet members, Anthony Eden, resigned. This was one of Churchill's blackest moments. "I must confess that my heart sank, and for a while the dark waters of despair overwhelmed me. From midnight till dawn I lay in my bed consumed by emotions of sorrow and fear. There seemed one strong young figure standing up against long, dismal, drawling tides of drift and surrender, of wrong measurements and feeble impulses. My conduct of affairs would have been different from his in various ways; but he seemed to me at this moment to embody the life-hope of the British nation, the grand old British race that had done so much for men, and had yet some more to give. Now he was gone. I watched the daylight slowly creep in through the windows, and saw before me in mental gaze the vision of death" (ibid.).
Churchill believed that Britain's great empire, built over centuries, would be destroyed suddenly. He was in deep sorrow, fear and despair as he watched his beloved nation drift toward disaster. But that was a mild crisis compared to the one we face today. We first must experience some of Churchill's sorrow and fear to be motivated to change. There is hope only if we face reality and have the vision of what is on the horizon.
Most people today believe that when Germany seized Austria, only 25-35 percent of the Austrians supported Hitler. "Within 24 hours of the German invasion of Austria, all the brutal apparatus of Nazi tyranny was put into effect. Throughout Sunday, March 13 , and in the days and weeks that followed, all those suspected of hostility to the new order were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Many hundreds were shot. Others, fearful of Nazi terror, committed suicide" (ibid.).
"'Is our system of government adapted to the present fierce, swift movement of events? Twenty-two gentlemen of blameless party character sitting round an overcrowded table, each having a voice—is that a system which can reach decisions from week to week and cope with the problems descending upon us and with the men at the head of the dictator states? [He was wondering if a democracy was adequate in times of war. He was making a case for stronger rule from the top.] It broke down hopelessly in the war [World War i].
"'Now, after Austria has been struck down, we are all disturbed and alarmed, but in a little while there may be another pause. There may not, we cannot tell. But if there is a pause, then people will be saying, "See how the alarmists have been confuted; Europe has calmed down, it has all blown over, and the war scare has passed away." The prime minister will perhaps repeat what he said a few weeks ago, that the tension in Europe is greatly relaxed. The Times will write a leading article to say how silly people look who, on the morrow of the Austrian incorporation, raised a clamor for exceptional action in foreign policy and home defense, and how wise the government were not to let themselves be carried away by this passing incident'" (ibid.).
The Times was considered by many to be the greatest newspaper in the world. It had thundered many accurate warnings in the past to build its reputation. It was recognized as the voice of the British government. Now, it had descended to this: rebuking the Czechs as being "obstinate," since they would not voluntarily give a large portion of their country to the vile Nazis! They labeled the Czechs as the obstacle to peace—not Hitler! How could a revered institution pollute the truth so badly? And their reports grotesquely distorted Austria's image in a dangerous way. They were a powerful support to Hitler's people-enslaving and people-destroying war machine! Their own weakness and fear stained their reputation for years to come. Much of their reporting in the 1930s was a crime against humanity!
Because they were consumed with fear, the truth was cast aside. Such powerful institutions must be held more accountable. And we trust them at our own peril!
Has the press learned from their shameful mistakes of the 1930s?
The press deceived themselves about what was really happening. But not Churchill. He kept writing and speaking against this tragedy.
Most of the newspapers which had printed his speeches and articles stopped doing so. Even the people, on average, were more inclined to agree with Winston Churchill than the press.
Churchill was great enough to rise above the press, educational institutions and politics. Do we have any such leaders today?
Churchill kept encouraging America to support the defense of Europe. "'America's attitude is vital to morale,' Colville noted in his diary, 'but America is the slowest to act of all the democracies'" (ibid.).
Even some of America's news networks were against Edward R. Murrow's strong cbs broadcasts condemning Hitler. They feared that America's neutrality would be compromised.
But neutral is a heinous word under those conditions! Being neutral between Hitler's Nazis and Britain was a shameful evil. And when would we have stopped being neutral if Japan hadn't bombed us into the war at Pearl Harbor?
Our press often fails to make strong judgments against evil deeds committed today. They too often behave as though God and the devil should have equal time. This lack of judgment and courage allows the political leaders and their "spin doctors" to play the press like a fiddle. They are used and abused by politicians. As a result, many people become confused and deceived.
America should be ashamed of this history, before and during World War ii. Not just in words. A radical lesson must be learned, or we are destined to repeat the history—which will mean a deadly calamity!
Many authorities say World Wars i and ii were the greatest tragedies of our century. I disagree. The worst catastrophe is that we failed to learn a lesson from Churchill's warning! That means we have retained our deadly capacity for deception into the nuclear age. That is why we are destined to experience a nuclear holocaust unless we wake up!
"'What price have we all to pay for this?' Churchill asked. 'No one can compute it. Small countries in Europe will take their cue to move to the side of power and resolution'" (ibid.).
Other nations did move closer to Hitler because of his power and strong will. At the same time, they were turning away from Britain because of its weak will.
That is exactly what is happening today with the U.S. Though we have a greater military than any nation on Earth, we lack the will to use it. That is a major reason why other nations hate us and fail to support our policies.
"So they go on in strange paradox," Churchill continued, "decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent. So we go on preparing more months and years—precious, perhaps vital, to the greatness of Britain—for the locusts to eat" (ibid.). America shared that deadly pacifism.
Winston Churchill's own Conservative Party was turning against him. "The House of Commons listened to him with what he later described as 'a patient air of skepticism.' There were frequent, angry interruptions, and his criticisms of Chamberlain were widely resented by his fellow Conservative MPs. Bitterly he told them: 'You are casting away real and important means of security and survival for vain shadows and for ease'" (ibid.).
The people wanted to continue in a peace-time atmosphere. Churchill tried to get them into an emergency posture, in tune with what Hitler was doing. Churchill served as an outstanding watchman for the whole Western world. But they hated the messenger and rejected the message!
The people wanted to believe they were living in ordinary times. "On June 8  Brigadier-General Edmonds, his former literary assistant, wrote from the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defense: 'Providence looks after us and confounds our enemies, but expects "works" as well as faith. To ensure peace we must be strong.' But many people took it for granted that Britain was already strong, and even the News of the World, which had on May 1 published Churchill's major warning, began to assure its readers that all was well" (ibid.).
"On June 24 George Harrap published the selection of the speeches which Churchill had made on defense and foreign affairs in the 10 years since 1928. Entitled Arms and the Covenant, the volume had been both suggested and edited by Randolph, and was welcomed by his friends. … The South African writer Sarah Gertrude Millin, whom Churchill had met during her visit to England that summer, wrote on 15 December, 1938, 'The book reads like a toll and knell of doom. All that heartens me is that you yourself, as I saw, have still more heart than any other person I have met in England'"(ibid.).
This book helped those who would listen to see how accurate Churchill's prophecies and warnings were! Anybody who sought the truth could find it. But the people didn't want to hear the truth. That was at the heart of the problem. The people wanted to hear "smooth things" and "deceits" (Isa. 30:10). They wanted to be deceived! That is the biggest challenge each one of us must always face: Do we really want to hear the truth?
Sometimes hearing truth can be the most painful experience of our lives. It often means ripping wrong ideas from our proud minds. But the truth sets us free and greatly enriches our lives.
Hitler soon demanded that the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia be given to Germany. He said it was because many Germans lived there. But most of the Germans there did not want his rule!
Here is a shocking statement only now available to the public. "Unknown to anyone outside his secret circle, Hitler was already contemplating a dramatic outcome. 'I will decide to take action against Czechoslovakia,' he had informed General Keitel on June 18, 'only if I am firmly convinced, as in the case of the demilitarized zone and the entry into Austria, that France will not march, and that therefore England will not intervene'" (ibid.).
Hitler was going to take action onlyif he was firmly convinced that France and Britain would not intervene!
This statement greatly exposes the mind of a tyrant, which America and Britain generally refuse to understand. It is not complicated. It's very simple. But it also reveals a lot about our nations. It clearly shows that we are weak and fearful nations when facing tyrannical dictators.
It was vastly different in much of America's history. Theodore Roosevelt, for example, never backed down from a tyrant!
There is a very strong and clear message in all this: Tyrants always prey on weakness. All they ever understand and respect is superior force.
Why can't our well-educated people understand this? Because they reason out of vanity, weakness and fear. That means your greatest enemy is yourself! Until we face our own weaknesses and fears, we are condemned to repeat our past mistakes.
Germany started and lost World War i. The Allied powers imposed upon them the Treaty of Versailles, which prohibited them from entering into a demilitarized zone in their own nation. In the 1930s Germany broke that treaty in every way. They took military control of the demilitarized area. The world watched and did nothing, fearful that opposing the Germans would lead to war. Then when Hitler seized Austria in 1938, again the world watched and did nothing. They feared it would cause a war if they stood up to the Nazis.
Hitler marched into those areas because he saw how weak Britain, France and America were. The same evaluation was being used with Czechoslovakia.
Now we can better see why Churchill called World War ii "the unnecessary war." He believed it could have been prevented if the democracies of Europe had stood up to Hitler in the beginning.
"As the German troop movements grew, with over 11/2 million men under arms, Hitler announced that he was holding the usual peace-time maneuvers. His announcement was widely accepted by the British and French public, for, as Orme Sargent noted in a Foreign Office minute on August 15, the French press had probably received the same 'hint' as the British 'to write down the German mobilization as much as possible so as not to create a sudden panic.' Churchill, however, in an article in the Daily Telegraph on August 18, warned that 'if the optimists were proved wrong,' the governments who shared their views would find themselves 'at an enormous disadvantage in the opening stages of a world war.' His article continued: 'It would be only common prudence for other countries besides Germany to have these same kind of maneuvers at the same time and to place their precautionary forces in such a position that, should the optimists be wrong, they would not be completely ruined'" (ibid.).
What logical and practical advice. But it was rejected. Of course, the democracies ended up getting war—and shame!
Churchill thought America would come in sooner than they did in World War i. "The feeling in the United States against Germany is now far stronger than it was even in 1914," he said. "In fact, there never has been in time of peace so fierce a feeling against any European country. It seems to me very likely that the United States would not wait so long this time before coming in themselves" (ibid.).
But the U.S. again waited a long time before entering, as they did in World War i.


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Exclusive: An ICE Detention Center's Struggle With 'Chronic' Staff Shortages
Elly Yu • May 31, 2018
This 2009 photo shows a detainee at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, returning to the facility's living units. An investigation from WABE and Reveal shows widespread issues existed at the center, including drug smuggling and staffing shortages.
Credit Kate Brumback / Associated Press file
One of the country's largest immigration detention centers had no psychiatrist on staff, "chronic shortages" of almost all medical positions and was described by its own staff as a "ticking bomb" because noncriminal detainees were mixed with high-security offenders.
Federal records obtained by WABE and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting show the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General found widespread problems at Stewart Detention Center in southwest Georgia, including drug smuggling and staffing shortages that employees said endangered detention officers and detainees.
Illegal drugs were "continuously coming into the facility," federal inspectors wrote after speaking with the facility's internal inspector. The inspector said that the DHS Office of Inspector General recently arrested "multiple employees for smuggling drugs into the facility." The inspector and other officials interviewed as part of the investigation are not named in the records.
Some of those problems were mentioned in a report by the DHS Office of Inspector General released in December 2017. The report came after federal investigators looked into conditions at immigrant detention centers across the country, including Stewart Detention Center. The report concluded there were "problems that undermine the protection of detainees' rights, their humane treatment, and the provision of a safe and healthy environment."
However, striking details not included in the Office of Inspector General's 19-page report are revealed in the inspection's work papers. Those work papers — 88 pages of notes from interviews with Stewart Detention Center staff, detainees, and other documentation that went into the production of the report — were released to WABE and Reveal in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
Two detainees who were being held at Stewart died within the same 12-month period. Jean Jimenez-Joseph, a 27-year-old from Panama, hanged himself with a bedsheet in May 2017 while in solitary confinement. Yulio Castro-Garrido, a 33-year-old from Cuba, died in January of this year after officials diagnosed him with pneumonia.
Staff Shortages 'Pose A Risk'
Stewart Detention Center is operated by the private corrections company CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America. The detention center can hold nearly 2,000 people. (Kate Brumback/Associated Press file)
Stewart Detention Center is in Lumpkin, Georgia — about 150 miles south of Atlanta. This U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility is operated by the private corrections company CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America. The detention center can hold nearly 2,000 people and, at the time of the investigation, was near capacity.
Multiple employees at the facility brought up the issue of staffing shortages to inspectors. One CoreCivic manager said his biggest concern at Stewart Detention Center "is staffing shortages which pose a risk to the staff's safety."
Another CoreCivic employee said the facility has a shortage of detention officers "which makes it dangerous for the DO's [detention officers] and the detainees," and that "housing units are understaffed for the number of detainees on the units at the time," the inspectors wrote.
The DHS Office of Inspector General also identified a shortage in the facility's medical staff. According to federal records, ICE is responsible for detainees' medical and mental health care at the facility. According to the inspector, Stewart's health services administrator noted "chronic shortages of almost all medical staff positions." As of February 2017, the facility had no psychiatrists and about one in four registered nurse positions were vacant.
Stewart's health administrator told inspectors the facility covers its shortage of mental health professionals by "leaning heavily" on remaining licensed clinical social workers and on video-conferencing calls with psychiatrists. He also noted the lack of mental health treatment centers in the local area.
An ICE supervisor at the center told inspectors there weren't enough ICE deportation officers and said there was high turnover. Records show there were 13 unfilled ICE officer positions, and for three years, there was no detention service manager on site — the person whose job it is to ensure that detention centers are safe and humane.
Bryan Cox, an ICE spokesman, told WABE that the staffing ratios at Stewart were "compliant with agency policy." However, when asked about the staffing requirements, he said, "The staffing ratio is an internal policy that is not releasable."
"'Shortages' is a somewhat editorial term," Cox said. "Under ICE policy, there are staffing ratios that are required in various aspects, and so the opinion of 'a short staff' is a nontechnical term."
Mistakes With Housing Detainees 'A Ticking Bomb'
The facility also misclassified detainees, inspectors found. It categorizes and houses immigrants based on their criminal record. But a CoreCivic classification supervisor told the DHS Inspector General's office that detainees are often misclassified because transfer records don't always arrive at the Stewart Detention Center with the detainee.
Because of these delays, the CoreCivic supervisor said Stewart has housed felons with noncriminal detainees. She said this happened several times a week and called the delays "a ticking bomb." She also said the facility was "often out of compliance" with processing detainees in a timely manner.
In another example of not receiving paperwork on time, an ICE supervisor told the DHS Office of Inspector General that the mailroom at Stewart was so hectic, it caused "delay in receiving some of the consular documents." He said one Mexican detainee who was "easy to remove" stayed at Stewart for 87 days because some paperwork needed for deportation was lost in the CoreCivic mailroom.
The Office of Inspector General recommended in its 19-page public report that ICE improve its detention oversight procedures. ICE "concurred" with that recommendation.
CoreCivic spokeswoman Amanda Gilchrist said in an emailed statement, "CoreCivic cares deeply about every person in our care. Our immigration facilities are monitored very closely by the government, and each and every one is required to undergo regular review and audit processes that include ensuring an appropriate standard of living for all detainees."
Gilchrist also said, "the issues identified by the December report were quickly and effectively remedied."
Meanwhile, immigrant-rights advocates say there are ongoing issues at Stewart.
In April, civil rights groups, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, filed a lawsuit against CoreCivic, saying the private corrections company forces immigrant detainees to work at Stewart for less than $4 a day to pay for necessities including toilet paper and toothpaste.
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In Madison, Cruz says Roe v. Wade should be overturned
Jason Stein and Patrick Marley
Madison— In the last day of campaigning in Wisconsin's GOP presidential primary, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said that the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark abortion decision can and should be overturned and that states should be able to ban abortion even in cases of rape and incest.
In a town hall meeting moderated by Fox News host Megyn Kelly, Cruz said that the high court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade should not be considered settled law.
"I think it was a classic example of (judicial) activism," Cruz told Kelly here at the Masonic Temple.
States should be free to prohibit abortion in cases including rape and incest, said Cruz, who noted that he had been involved in prosecuting such crimes while serving as solicitor general under the Texas attorney general.
"Rape is a horrific crime against the humanity of a person...but at the same time as horrible as that crime is, I don't think it's the child's fault," Cruz said.
The Texas senator also said here Monday that only one of the current candidates could and should win at a potential contested GOP convention in July.
Cruz said if neither he nor real estate mogul Donald Trump win a majority of delegates before the convention, the Republican establishment shouldn't be able to hand the nomination to an outsider who didn't run or isn't a candidate now.
"It is nothing less than a pipe dream. It ain't going to happen," Cruz said, speaking to reporters before the town hall.
Trump appeared Sunday at a similar town hall event with Fox News host and Wisconsin native Greta Van Susteren as the billionaire fights for a state that the polls have seemingly promised to Cruz.
A veteran dealmaker, Trump has struggled as front-runner to seal an agreement with Republicans for the nomination and needs a win to quiet doubts. Cruz also craves a victory in Wisconsin, something he hopes would show the tide for Trump has crested and now is on the ebb.
Both men are campaigning hard Monday and contending with Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who is seeking to carry off a few delegates of his own.
In Milwaukee Sunday, Trump predicted an upset while visiting Miss Katie's Diner in Milwaukee, a longtime stop for politicians.
"I would tell you, I think this has the feel of a victory," Trump told reporters Sunday.
Also over the weekend, a white nationalist group flooded Wisconsin with robocalls supporting Trump.
The businessman "will respect all women and help preserve western civilization," the narrator says on the call. "If you vote for Donald Trump, he will be a fine president."
The call says it was paid for by William Johnson, "a farmer and a white nationalist" and mentions two groups affiliated with Johnson, the American Freedom Party and the American National super PAC.
Johnson said Monday he spent about $6,000 on the call, which went to all Wisconsin landlines starting Saturday. He provided his cell phone number at the end of the call and said he took "hundreds and hundreds of calls" — both positive and negative — in response to the robocall.
He said the reaction was not as negative as it has been in other states, largely because the message was less controversial and the script was read by someone with a "sweet, grandmotherly voice." The robocall makes only a brief mention about white nationalism, which Johnson said he felt was important.
"I want people to hear, to feel comfortable with, the term 'white nationalist,'" said Johnson, a Los Angeles lawyer and persimmon farmer.
Audio of the call was provided to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel by Jerry Bader, a Green Bay radio host who opposes Trump and recently emceed an event for rival Ted Cruz. Two Democrats — one in Milwaukee and one in Madison —told the newspaper they also received the robocall.
Speaking to reporters after the town hall in Madison, Gov. Scott Walker, a Cruz supporter, denounced the robocall.
"That's outrageous. I hope the people of this state are smart enough to see through that and denounce anything related to it," Walker said.
As Walker joined Cruz on stage for the town hall, someone in the audience yelled that Cruz and Walker looked like president and vice president candidates. The governor told the audience that Cruz was the only conservative candidate who could defeat former secretary of state and Democratic contender Hillary Clinton in November.
The Democratic primary in Wisconsin is, if anything, even closer than the Republican race. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is rallying supporters in Janesville, Green Bay and Milwaukee on Monday, and former President Bill Clinton is speaking to supporters of his wife on Monday afternoon at Turner Hall in Milwaukee.
"Our job is to think outside the box, to think outside the status quo, to ask the hard questions, like why not?" Sanders told a crowd of several thousand Sunday in Madison.
A poll Sunday showed Cruz and Sanders ahead but left space for doubts about the outcome of Tuesday's elections.
The survey by CBS News and YouGov showed Cruz with 43% to 37% for Trump and 18% for Kasich, and it gave Sanders a 49% to 47% lead over Clinton. The poll, which followed a week of other surveys showing similar leads for Cruz and Sanders, had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.
Trump on Sunday called on Kasich to drop out of the Republican presidential race, acknowledging he had raised the issue in a meeting Thursday with Republican National Committee head Reince Priebus. Trump said that Kasich, who's only won his home state of Ohio so far, has no chance of being the nominee.
Kasich hit back that Trump is the one who should step aside.
— Daniel Bice of the Journal Sentinel staff also contributed to this article.


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package org.dozer.functional_tests;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
import java.util.List;

import javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.datatype.DatatypeFactory;

import org.dozer.util.MappingUtils;
import org.dozer.vo.TestObject;
import org.dozer.vo.jaxb.employee.EmployeeWithInnerClass;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;

/**
 * @author dmitry.buzdin
 */
public class JAXBBeansMappingTest extends AbstractFunctionalTest {

  @Before
  public void setUp() throws Exception {
    super.setUp();
    mapper = getMapper("jaxbBeansMapping.xml");
  }

  @Test
  public void testTrivial() {
    Class<?> type = MappingUtils.loadClass("org.dozer.vo.jaxb.employee.EmployeeType");
    assertNotNull(type);
  }

  @Test
  public void testSimple() {
    TestObject source = new TestObject();
    source.setOne("ABC");
    EmployeeWithInnerClass result = mapper.map(source, EmployeeWithInnerClass.class);
    assertNotNull(result);
    assertEquals("ABC", result.getFirstName());
  }

  @Test
  public void testNestedInnerClass() {
    TestObject source = new TestObject();
    source.setOne("Name");
    EmployeeWithInnerClass.Address.State result = mapper.map(source, EmployeeWithInnerClass.Address.State.class);
    assertNotNull(result);
    assertEquals("Name", result.getName());
  }

  @Test
  public void testDateToXMLGregorianCalendar() {
      TestObject source = new TestObject();
      Date now = new Date();
      source.setDate(now);
      EmployeeWithInnerClass result = mapper.map(source, EmployeeWithInnerClass.class);
      assertNotNull(result);
      assertEquals(now.getTime(), result.getBirthDate().toGregorianCalendar().getTimeInMillis());
  }

  @Test
  public void testXMLGregorianCalendarToDate() throws DatatypeConfigurationException {
      Calendar cal = GregorianCalendar.getInstance();
      EmployeeWithInnerClass source = new EmployeeWithInnerClass();
      source.setBirthDate(DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendar((GregorianCalendar) cal));
      TestObject result = mapper.map(source, TestObject.class);
      assertNotNull(result);
      assertEquals(cal.getTimeInMillis(), result.getDate().getTime());
  }

  public static class ListContainer {
    private List<Integer> list = new ArrayList<Integer>();
    private List<StringContainer> subordinates = new ArrayList<StringContainer>();

    public List<Integer> getList() {
      return list;
    }

    public List<StringContainer> getSubordinates() {
      return subordinates;
    }

  }

  public static class StringContainer {
    private String value;

    public StringContainer() {

    }

    public StringContainer(String value) {
      this.value = value;
    }

    public String getValue() {
      return value;
    }

    public void setValue(String value) {
      this.value = value;
    }
  }

}