text:
Home » Uncategorized » Doh! Wrong Again!
Doh! Wrong Again! 87
October 16, 2015 in Uncategorized by craig
I am of course immediately proved wrong 🙂 The Conference just remitted back a motion supporting the Scottish Government's land reforms on the grounds they are too timid. There is life in this Party after all.
87 thoughts on "Doh! Wrong Again!"
Mary October 17, 2015 at 09:54
Andrew Roy, Foreign Editor BBC denies any partisanship.
He should listen to Mr Diamond's report!
Viewers' comments on BBC News coverage. As violence flares up again in Israel, is the BBC ensuring that its coverage is fair to both sides? Samira Ahmed talks to BBC News foreign editor, Andrew Roy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06hhpbq/newswatch-16102015
'Andrew ROY is the Head of News at BBC World News, the BBC's commercially funded 24-hour international news and information channel. He is responsible for all news, including business and sports, on the channel. He also oversees the web sites and social media of BBC World News. He is also leading the expansion and modernisation of the channel's live news output. Mr. ROY has worked for the BBC since 1987 in various capacities. In 2007, he joined BBC World News and became Head of News in December 2008.'
http://fcchk.org/event/2011-11-03-fcc-club-lunch-andrew-roy
Jonathan Cook – from within the belly of the beast.
'Israel and occupied East Jerusalem, which Israel has illegally annexed, are subject to Israeli civil law – unlike the West Bank, where Palestinians live under Israeli military rule.
Human rights groups have long complained that Israeli soldiers in the West Bank carry out "extra-judicial executions".
The Israeli government recently announced it was authorising for the first time the use of live-fire against Palestinians, including children, who throw stones in Israel and Jerusalem.
Israel includes a population of 1.6 million Palestinians who have citizenship, while most of East Jerusalem's 370,000 Palestinians have Israeli residency permits.'
http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/10/videos-challenge-israeli-police-account-of-shootings/
John Goss October 17, 2015 at 11:23
As to knowing whose side one's bread is buttered I would like to share an ongoing experience. I am currently in my local public library because my computer has been made inoperable with a Windows 10 automatic upgrade. The problem will not be given to everybody, just we chosen few, who take them on.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154227383137646&set=p.10154227383137646&type=3&theater
I suspect the spooks are guilty. Everybody knows my Windows 10 was designed for them not us, and I wish I had never upgraded from Windows 7. I do not believe it is a coincidence that this happened within a few hours of my posting this comment.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/10/nicola-sturgeon-is-wrong-let-unionists-vote-for-unionists/#comment-557389
The MOD has been very naughty in not admitting its illegal misappropriation of Class A drugs. This was discovered by Stephen Frost while working for them. Instead of coming clean they are trying to force Stephen into bankruptcy through the massive legal fees involved in fighting his case. It is also why they do not want people funding him. So please. Do the decdent thing.
https://www.gofundme.com/fundfrost/donate
Craig, this is an important story, touched on by MSM but goes very deep. Rather than pay him the massive damages they owe him through loss of earnings, let alone tackle their own problems, the whole crooked establishment is trying to ruin him. Stephen had a moral duty, as well as a legal duty to report these missing drugs. All doctors have that same duty and it is a very good law.
It is unlikely I will be commenting as regularly for obvious reasons.
Ray Vison October 17, 2015 at 11:45
Oh dear, looks like the SNP could end up defending the status quo after all. Poor Scotland, still a colony.
Extreme Narrator October 17, 2015 at 11:58
@Mary – A picture speaks a thousand words. As clear as day.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=palestinian+land+loss+since+1947&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari#imgrc=rF05cA2pZNn9XM%3A
Yet there are devils aka the Dead Sea trolls, here who would want us to think otherwise. Methinks they have just been taken over by Satan.
John Spencer-Davis October 17, 2015 at 12:01
It's your birthday today? Many happy returns to you.
Ba'al Zevul October 17, 2015 at 12:39
Remembering the right-to-buy in the public housing sector prompts the thought that there seems to be no awareness that Murdo MacCrofter, having bought his land at the going rate* from his evil feudal lord, would be an idiot not selling it on if he got a good offer from an offshore outfit consolidating useable land and property investment portfolios. Or he could flog any spare buildings to holiday-homers from the SE to use for two weeks a year until this decade's property bubble has doubled its price and it's ready to cash in again. Or a buy-to let shark…
OK, the situation isn't good as it stands. Like London (and anywhere investable) a lot of Scotland is owned by rich arseholes who have no need -or, arguably, right – to be there and don't care. But the right-to-buyers are licking their lips at the possibility of splitting off, and making a killing on, the few useable bits of the Highlands (who's going to buy barren peat moorland as an investment?), and the net effect may well be virtually to remove the indigenous populations of the area. A solution is needed. But it must be a better solution. Romanticism must play no part in it, and idealism takes no account of base human nature.
*probably subsidised by the SG as well…
Robert Crawford October 17, 2015 at 12:51
Murdo MacCrofter does not own any land big enough to interest an offshore investor.
You err. Anything capable of showing a profit interests attracts sharks. The individual investments may be small, but there'll be plenty of them: no problem for an institutional investor. You don't address the issue of buy-to-let, which is a major one south of the border – many of these landlords live abroad. And you don't address the visible emasculation of the communities whose interests the SNP intends to defend, by influxes of holiday homers, retirees and small investors in housing wishing to exploit the perpetually inflating price bubble by simply waiting until a cheap property (possibly let) creats an increased bank balance.
It happened with right-to-buy*. And I forgot the elderly who bought their council properties and when they died bequeathed this tradeable asset to their offspring, who having no wish to live in he sticks and before the grass had grown on the grave, flogged it. Hell, I'd have done the same.
*Interesting that this Thatcherite policy, rejigged, attracts so much support from right-on socialists, isn't it?
Kempe October 17, 2015 at 15:05
" Interesting that this Thatcherite policy, rejigged, attracts so much support from right-on socialists, isn't it? "
Although councils have always had the right to sell their housing stock right-to-buy first appeared in the 1959 Labour party manifesto.
http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/man/lab59.htm
lysias October 17, 2015 at 16:45
Funny how the troll never mentions reading a single book.
Just like he never reveals a single detail about his past.
This goes to show what went on.
Kunduz: Cockpit Crew in Doctors Without Borders Strike Questioned Legality�
Posted by The Medialens Editors on October 17, 2015, 12:32 pm
NBC News has learned that the crew in the gunship that carried out a strike against a hospital in Afghanistan questioned whether it was legal.
http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/cockpit-crew-in-doctors-without-borders-strike-questioned-legality-545354307855
and a graphic report on the aftermath.
The Afghan hospital bombing: An imperialist war crime
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/10/17/pers-o17.html
'This week, photographic evidence of the scale of the atrocity has also come out. Freelance journalist Andrew Quilty published a series of *images showing the burnt-out remains of the hospital.
"Throughout the building," Quilty reported, "on all visible surfaces, there were wild and sporadic arcs of bullet holes. In other places, larger rounds had penetrated straight through the walls, leaving gaps some 2 feet wide in the solid brick." The photographs show hospital beds that have been incinerated, walls crumbling from the impact of the assault, corpses charred beyond recognition.
"Walking through the roughly 40 rooms, bodies and remains lay scattered and, in most cases, alone," Quilty writes. "All but one of these bodies—or what was left of them—still in the facility were on the ground. Beneath one victim's remains—otherwise indistinguishable but for a severed foot—were the white and pale blue squares of a hospital gown, almost completely intact."'
*Disturbing photos.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/10/13/inside-msf-hospital-kunduz-afghanistan-taliban-us-attack/
12 people and a child were drowned today. Yesterday one woman and a child also drowned.
12 drown as migrant boat sinks off Turkey
http://www.todayszaman.com/diplomacy_12-drown-as-migrant-boat-sinks-off-turkey_401802.html
So what difference are the EU's 3 billion euros for Turkey going to make?
They will disappear into some black hole.
FM: EU's migrant action plan with Turkey yet to take shape
http://www.todayszaman.com/diplomacy_fm-eus-migrant-action-plan-with-turkey-yet-to-take-shape_401722.html
Was this not already known? Get together at Crawford etc
EXCLUSIVE: Smoking gun emails reveal Tony Blair's 'deal in blood' with George Bush over Iraq war was forged a YEAR before the invasion had even started Smoking gun emails reveal Blair's 'deal in blood' with George Bush over Iraq war was even started
A sensational leaked White House memo (bottom) shows that Blair had given an unqualified pledge to sign up to the conflict a year before the 2003 invasion started – despite public statements to the contrary. The two are pictured together (top) in 2001. He told voters: 'We're not proposing military action' – in direct contrast to what the secret email now reveals. The classified document also discloses that Blair agreed to act as a glorified spin doctor for the President by presenting 'public affairs lines' to convince a sceptical public that Saddam had Weapons of Mass Destruction – when none existed. In return, the President would flatter Blair's ego and give the impression that Britain was not America's poodle but an equal partner in the 'special relationship'.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3277402/Smoking-gun-emails-reveal-Blair-s-deal-blood-George-Bush-Iraq-war-forged-YEAR-invasion-started.html
fred October 18, 2015 at 09:20
I'm the original 'Fred' not impersonating anybody, OK I only post here very occasionally but the first post was several years ago. I've linked hundreds of Murray's articles to advfn over the years.
I take it the Scots would want to remain part of the EU when/if they get independence? How stupid is that? For a start it contradicts the whole concept of 'independence', they would merely become a very weak minion of an undemocratic failing system. 'Jumping from the frying pan into the fire' comes into mind, good luck with that. Think of it this way as part of the UK Scotland is a far stronger minion of the globalist agenda.
I'm a firm believer in true 'independence' for the UK, with or without Scotland, 'we' have a slender chance to achieve that with the alleged referendum we have been promised by a liar..
ISIS Fighters Could Gain LEGAL Entry Into EU, Thanks to Europe's New Schengen Visa Deal for Turkey
October 16, 2015 By 21wire 4 Comments
21st Century Wire says…
It doesn't get any more backward than this. Potentially, this is the dumbest move yet by bureaucrats in Brussels.
Turkey is set to pick up a few big sweeteners from Brussels if 'tries' to stop refugee flow into Europe – even though it's nearly impossible for Ankara to actually come good on its lofty promise to 'contain' the large refugee flow through Turkey into the European promise land.
It's true that Turkey has accommodated roughly 2 million Syrian refugees, and is said to have spent over nearly $8 billion on the crisis thus far.
What they are not telling us however, is that Turkey has been the primary facilitator of the Syrian conflict, mainly by hosting terrorist and 'rebel' training and equipping for tens of thousands of fighters since 2011, as well as providing a continuous safe haven for terrorist fighters – freely coming and going over its southern border with Syria.
http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/10/16/isis-fighters-will-gain-legal-entry-into-eu-thanks-to-europes-new-schengen-visa-deal-for-turkey/#disqus_thread
Why be ordinary? October 18, 2015 at 11:29
Think about the Irish. Before the Euro, Irish monetary policy was more or less dictated by circumstances controlled by the Bank of England where the Irish Governmnent didn't even get through the front door. In the Euro, they at least get a seat at the table. It isn't everything but it's better than nothing.
Habbabkuk (scourge of the Original Trolls) October 18, 2015 at 11:52
"…serving on the Council (Boule) was a real educational experience for Athenians, who allowed themselves to be instructed by those *who were serving for the second time*"
So our Transatlantic Friend is unable to reconcile the completely random selection process for the Council he's always gong on about with his sudden claim that some members served a second term on said Council.
Very random, that! 🙂
Our Transatlantic Friend complains (about yours truly):
Perhaps I'm just less boastful than you?
And feel less need to use my details to lend spurious credence to what I write….?
" Before the Euro, Irish monetary policy was more or less dictated by circumstances controlled by the Bank of England "
Ireland disconnected from sterling in 1978. Now their monetary policy is dictated by circumstances controlled by the ECB and they have no control over interest rates or the money supply which are set to please the Euro's larger and more powerful economies.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/nov/18/ireland-budget-germany-leak
Patrick Honohan is a member of the governing council of the ECB https://www.ecb.europa.eu/ecb/orga/decisions/genc/html/index.en.html
The formal link with sterling might have gone in 1978, but that did not disconnect the Irish economy from the UK. Decisions by the Bank of England on intenest rates etc all had immediate effects on Ireland which only found out after they had happened
And as your Guardian link makes clear:
The reality is that Ireland ceded control over its own finances when it was forced to tap the bailout funds late last year.
If you ask someone for money they want to know how you are going to repay it
Trowbridge H. Ford October 18, 2015 at 14:14
Bevin, the book is by Jenny Uglow, and is called In These Times, Living in the UK during Napoleoin's Wars, 1793-1815. The review is published in the November 5, 205 issue of the NYRB.
That's what I thought of Brougham until I started reading The Times back then
You should read my two- volume biography of him.
While a Benthamite capitalist, he still helped get rid of the Old Tories, the slave trade, and slavery, while getting Parliament to adopt the Reform Bills, repeal the Corn Laws, save of leaders of the Newport rising, and those of the "monster meetings' in Ireland, and colonial self-rule, plus all kinds of judicial and legal reforms, and the establishment of UCL. T
hen there were all the cases he represented as a barrister, and decided as a judge,
The efforts were so demanding that he became a drug-addict in the hope of keeping up.
Did far more than any of his contemporaries.
they at least get a seat at the table. It isn't everything but it's better than nothing.
WBO, in my view the seat the Irish have, like the rest, is a deck chair on the Titanic. The EU is a political/economic experiment isn't going to end well. Does Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland really have 'nothing'? Or are they doing fine without it?
Thanks for the link, Kempe. I was aware that Labour had toyed with the idea. But the context was rather different, wasn't it?
At the last count there were seven million households in Britain with no bath, and over three million sharing or entirely without a w.c. The Tories have tried to induce private land lords to improve their property by means of public grants, with very small success. Labour's plan is that, with reasonable exceptions, local councils shall take over houses which were rent-controlled before 1 January, 1956, and are still tenanted. They will repair and modernise these houses and let them at fair rents. This is a big job which will take time and its speed will vary according to local conditions.
Every tenant, however, will have a chance first to buy from the Council the house he lives in; and all Council tenants in future will enjoy the same security of tenure as rent-restricted tenants.
That 'first', to my mind, indicates that the sitting tenant of a substandard house would be able to buy it as an alternative to being shifted out and the house modernised by the Council. There was to be no statutory requirement for the Council to sell its housing to its tenants other than that. And, in any case, it was first implemented by Thatcher, not in the context of freeing housing from slum landlords and making better housing more available for renters, but with the intention of promoting a housing finance boom. There was no parallel programme of replacing cheap rental stock, with the result we see today. So I'll stay with 'Thatcherite'.
Pile the pressure on your MP
Stop the War is asking its members and supporters to urgently step up the pressure against bombing Syria by lobbying local MPs. Lobbies of MPs and particularly Shadow Cabinet Ministers are being organised at MPs surgeries across the country.
The government is fixated on getting a vote to bomb Syria. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has been touring the TV studios again in the last few days to outline the 'logic' of bombing a country already aflame with civil war.
http://news.sky.com/story/1571655/fallon-uk-must-strike-syria-despite-russia-fears
Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn too has been pushing the argument for intervention. This despite a vote against the government's bombing plans at the recent Labour Party conference and Jeremy Corbyn's long record of opposition to foreign wars. Stop the War has issued a statement condemning Benn's move.
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php/news/why-does-hilary-benn-want-to-bomb-syria-the-most-bombed-country-on-the-planet
Lobbies are being organised in Barrow, Bolton, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Harrow, Hammersmith, Leeds, Lambeth, Lewisham, Newcastle, Norwich, Wolverhampton and a number of other towns and cities. Where they have been publicised they are attracting a lot of interest.
Contact us for more information or organise a lobby of your MP's surgery and let us know the details.
Please lobby your MP online now as well. Use our model letter to write to your MP. It takes just one minute. Please also share this link far and wide.
http://act.stopwar.org.uk/lobby/stopbombingsyria
TonyB October 20, 2015 at 04:40
Scotland v Australia: The thing about clichés, stereotypes and epithets, and what makes them – though unfair – so wounding is that there is sometime a grain of truth in them.
The reaction of the tabloid press was to be expected. The ungracious performance by the Greig Laidlaw the Scottish captain and the Scottish coach after their defeat by Australia plus the comments of some retired Scottish players brings to mind the term "Whinging Scot". Sure the Scottish captain and coach were entitled to appear gutted but not to act as they did.
I am an Australian supporter and hence naturally biased in Australia's favour. In response to the churlish Scottish reaction and annoyed by the Australian's performance I am moved to "take off the gloves".
If the Australians had lost that match they would have deserved to because it would have THEM that lost it. OK let's admit that for such a lowly ranked team the Scots did put the Australians under some pressure by turning up to play the game. They also managed to get within kicking distance of the posts on some occasions to allow for penalty goals and the 3 of the softest tries that an Australian team has ever allowed.
Yes Craig Joubert should have relied on the TMO for the decision made in the last 5 minutes of the game. But please!! the game was played over 80 minutes. Why was Scotland in a position to win at that stage?
Well multiple UNFORCED errors by the Australians and 4 or 5 penalties which even the pro Scottish colour commentator said were "harsh" code for should not have been given.
Scottish supporters were np doubt happy that Joubert picked up a slight knock on when Australia had scored a try to put the game away.
I also agree that the yellow card was a "harsh" decision but – really – only one try was scored in that period and Australia was seemingly able to score at will against 15 Scots so may well have scored in the 10 minutes that Scotland was down to 14 men.
Also Foley was off his kicking game and Greig Laidlaw was radar like – sure that's how things go but realistically without Foleys failure, the numerous unforced errors [and some forced errors] and the harsh penalties that went against Australia Scotland would have been blown off the park.
If Australia lost sure Australia would have rightly blamed themselves but would have been gracious enough to praise the gritty Scottish performance etc.
But given many Scots behaviour I have ungraciously advised you where Scotland actually stand in world rugby rankings and have invoked the epithet which fits in this case.
Rugby World Cup 2015: 'Craig Joubert wrong to award penalty'
Referee Craig Joubert was wrong to award a crucial 78th-minute penalty against Scotland in Sunday's World Cup quarter-final defeat by Australia, says World Rugby.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/34576756
http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/news/115761
← The Art of Party Management
Ancient Wit →
Only Muslims Are Terrorists. It Is Now Official
Kempe on Care home staff resist the vaccine; their bosses want to force them to have it 1 hour, 43 minutes ago


Advantage, benefit, profit, or wage received as compensation for being employed or holding an office.
Actually, I don�t care how much emolument you promise me, nothing you can say will convince me to work here any longer!
The more of an emolument you offer to your employees the harder they will work to want to keep the job.
The emolument was of considerable benefit to the elected politician as they did so much work for free they needed to eat as well.


LA JOLLA—Veteran actor Michael Dudikoff was discovered alive in his hotel room this morning, under mysterious circumstances. He was 54 years old.
Dudikoff was best known for his amazing work in 1980s action films such as Enter The Ninja, The Black Marble, and American Ninja 4: The Annihilation. Police are not investigating his disappearance from box office charts in recent years.
Speculation abounds on which shadowy organization declined to kill Michael Dudikoff. Some fans propose that the Triads, known to operate within in the Asian entertainment industry, were involved. Others believe that Steven Seagal was hired by the CIA to liquidate Dudikoff—their undercover ninja agent—but that Seagal had a last-minute change of heart, and killed someone else instead.
Michael Dudikoff's survivors include his wife Belle, his golden retriever Shooter, and himself.
My sources tell me that Seagal called the hit off. He spied a KFC that was running a special on chicken poppers and could not resist.
Hahah. This is ridiculous. When it first started playing I thought it was some spoof on youtube. I can't believe they actually made these films.
Are you kidding? 80's Ninja Flicks are about as good as they come. Enter the Ninja was great the ninjas carried bows, swords, sai, kamas, and nunchucks… you never saw them, they had some magical pocket they would pull them from when the camera panned away. hypothetically they could hide stars in their pocket, but no one would want to forget them in there when they sit down.
Revenge of the Ninja? PUHLEEEZE. That movie sucked big time. In fact, none of the "ninja" movies were any good really. I can't think of one. Certainly not "american Ninja". That movie stunk that place up.
Dudikoff is about as wooden as they come. He couldn't act with a gun to his head.
Seagal is better. At least he has a wooden head. By the way do you pronounce his name "SEE-Gal". As in Sea and my gal sal?
In my opinion the best ninja fight seen in the early 80's was in the movie "The Octagon"with Chuck Norris when he fought the red masked ninja near the end of the movie.
That's the first time I seen that and quite frankly "IT SUCKED!!!" The ninja with the bow shot one of the other ninjas when he was grappling with Dudikoff and I can't imagine a ninja sword breaking in half like the one did in that ridiculous seen!
how did MICHAEL DUDIKOFF become the best ninjer?


text:
February 10, 2017 - 9:06 am EST 3 years ago
Spieth Tells Pro Autograph Seekers To "Get A Job"
Dan Bier Follow
Everybody loves getting their favorite players' autograph, but some folks are in it for different reasons. Autographs are a big business, and Jordan Spieth made it clear he would prefer to have nothing to do with it. On Wednesday after his practice round for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Spieth got into a verbal altercation with a group of grown men who he deemed to be professional autograph seekers.
ESPN has the details:
After finishing his round, the group of adults started to heckle Spieth after the 23-year-old walked past them without signing for them. The two-time major winner then accused the men of trying to profit off his name by selling the items online and that he'd investigated evidence of it.
"It's not really worth me spending time arguing, but I'm just not really appreciative of people who travel to benefit off of other people's success," Spieth told reporters after the incident. "I enjoy signing and I sign for kids whenever we get the chance. But these guys have these items that you've already seen online.
"Our team keeps track of that kind of stuff, and these guys just have bags of stuff to benefit from other people's success when they didn't do anything themselves. Go get a job instead of trying to make money off of things we've been able to do."
Jordan Spieth's autograph vs Spieth's autograph if he thinks someone is a professional autograph chaser pic.twitter.com/RMRBxmEcML
— GreenJacketAuctions (@BidGreenJacket) February 9, 2017
When Spieth stopped to sign an autograph for a young boy, things got worse. Spieth said one of the men used an "F-bomb in front of three kids," and that caused him to get angry and confront the men by starting with, "C'mon, guys, there are children here."
"I felt the need to turn around and tell them that wasn't right," Spieth said. "A couple of them were saying, 'You're not Tiger Woods, don't act like you're Tiger.' But here he's still trying to benefit off me and I'm not even Tiger Woods. What does that say about you? So yeah, I get into it here and there. I was just a little frustrated at the end, and I didn't appreciate the language that was used. It was just some scums that bothered me.
"If you ask anybody universally, it's frustrating and they frustrate us," he said of those types of autograph seekers.
[ESPN]
Keep yourself up-to-date with the latest goings-on in the world of golf by following the SwingxSwing Clubhouse on social media. We share stories, stats and breaking news on Twitter, keep the fun going off the course on Instagram and share any and all golf-related topics on Facebook.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Prototype: French State Railroad (SNCF) Eurofima design type A9u compartment car, 1st class. The car looks as it did around 1979.
The typical paint scheme of the comfortable Corail car makes this express train passenger car stand out from other Eurofima cars.


I can roll plastic. Mount sturdy paper towel holder (or even small bathroom towel rod) in garage for garden/outside. 30 gallon plastic bag holder. This grass leaf bag chute for holding large paper recycling bags open, is a joy to use. In the past i was always struggling to get grass or leafs in the fall into the recycling bag. Discover Paper Clip Holders on m at a great price. Our Office Storage Organization category offers a great selection of Paper Clip Holders and more. Free Shipping on Prime eligible orders. Hands Free Bag Holder. M Collection towel holder will lend a spalike papers touch to your bathroom. This feeding station with a cat grass nook. 18 Clever Products To Make Your Home Stylishly Cat-Friendly. Perfect for garden waste, recycling, parties, functions, etc.
See any care plans, united Kingdom, best Price Guarantee learn more how from Miami. Open the Banggood app and find the products in the cart or wishlist. Bulk Buy Discounts Order 3 or more and enjoy the savings 35 2, dkr, sGD, this warehouse can not ship to your come location.
AliExpress carries many grass bag holder related products, including creative pe bag, bean bag stand, stand bean bag, pack papers fold, plastic bag stands, bag plastic stands, plastic bag wooden, small plastic umbrella, plastic umbrella small.Quality service and professional assistance is provided.Woven polypropylene bags outdoor trash bag holder.
Processing time, performing quality checks, via Ships from Array, paper yard paper waste leaf bag 3rc10. Shipping, war, homework and packing for shipment, features. Qty unit Price US Wholesale Inquiry Customers Who View This Item Also Bought Customer Reviews Customer Q As Customers Who View This Item Also View You Viewed 0 Wishlist Browsing History Help Center Download our Cool free App.
Click here for more app only deals.Add to Wish ( Adds other Warehouse 12pcs Transparent Plastic A5 Paper Files Holder Filing Bag.
Bulk prices will be shown in the shopping cart.Note: (1) The shipping time mentioned above refers to the estimated time of business days that the shipment will take after an order has been shipped.LBS5.45 App only: Follow the steps below d the product(s) to your cart or wishlist.


Trees or shrubs to 15 m tall; trunk to 0.5 m d.b.h. Bark gray-white, gray, yellowish brown, gray-brown, or brown, spotted. Branchlets gray or brown, slender, longitudinally corrugated, yellow orbicular lenticellate, glabrous. Leaves alternate or subopposite, grouped at apices of branchlets; petiole 1-2.4 cm, apex (or leaf blade base) without glands; leaf blade green abaxially, deep green adaxially, oblong-elliptic to broadly elliptic, ovate, obovate, or sometimes suborbicular, 4-11 × 2.5-5.5 cm, with glands near margin, glabrous, puberulous on midvein, or abaxially thinly pilose when young, base truncate, rounded, or obtuse, apex mucronate or acuminate, rarely retuse; lateral veins in (6-)8-10 pairs. Inflorescences terminal and axillary spikes, many grouped at branchlet apex and forming a panicle 4-8 cm; axes densely deep yellow and red tomentose. Flowers fragrant. Calyx tube distally cupular, ca. 1.5 mm, abaxially usually glabrous, rarely minutely tomentose, adaxially densely white long hairy; lobes 4 or 5. Stamens 8-10, exserted, 3-4.5 mm. Fruit not or scarcely stipitate, green tinged with red, scarlet, deep brown, black and purple, or green-purple when ripe, ellipsoid or obovoid, 3-winged, (1.5-)2-3.5 × (1-)1.5-2 cm, glabrous, base broadly obtuse to oblique and rounded; wings subleathery, transversely striate, margin shallowly undulate, apical part obtusely deltoid, extending 5-8 mm beyond seed-bearing part of fruit. Fl. May-Sep, fr. Jul-Feb.
1 "Terminalia nigrovenulosa Pierre in Flora of China @ efloras.org" eFlora. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA., 2007. Web. Accessed February 2018.
2 Pl. Util. col. Franç.


text:
The 1st Parliament of Ontario was in session from September 3, 1867, until February 25, 1871, just prior to the 1871 general election. This was the first session of the Legislature after Confederation succeeding the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada (last session was the 8th Parliament of the Province of Canada). The 1867 general election produced a tie between the Conservative Party led by John Sandfield Macdonald and the Liberal Party led by Archibald McKellar. Macdonald led a coalition government with the support of moderate Liberals.

John Stevenson served as speaker for the assembly.

References

Notes

External links
 All Members serving in Parliament 1

1867 establishments in Ontario
1871 disestablishments in Ontario
01

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Home BREAKING NEWS Tinubu Pours Encomiums On SGF
Tinubu Pours Encomiums On SGF
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, at a thanksgiving reception held for Babachir David Lawal, secretary to the government of the federation, at the International Conference Centre, ICC, in Abuja, on Saturday, October 17, commends Lawal for his maturity and enviable credentials
BOLA Ahmed Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, on Saturday, October 17, paid glowing tributes to Babachir David Lawal, secretary to the government of the federation, saying Nigerians expect the best from him in this era of "stupendous change for which we all laboured."
He stated that with Lawal, Nigerians could be assured that the operations of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari "will be conducted smoothly and professionally."
The national leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, who was represented by Akinwumi Ambode, Lagos State governor, spoke during a thanksgiving reception held for the SGF at the International Conference Centre, ICC, in Abuja.
Tinubu said: "BD Lawal's elevation to the secretary to the Government of the Federation is well earned. If you are looking for a man who is diligent in his work with a keen eye for details and correct process, there is none better than Babachir Lawal.
"He knows this nation and understands its complexities, from the intricacies of our federal bureaucracy to the diversity of our social fabric to the, multiple dimensions of our political dynamics. He is a man well-tailored to fit his position in today's Nigeria where we find ourselves in a situation not meant for the faint hearted. A situation that requires grit, guts and wisdom. These attributes, Lawal has in abundance."
He said while possessed of the fine and precious qualities, he would not seek the limelight. Tinubu described the SGF a humble who would rather do his job quietly without any fanfare. "This humility and self-contentment is not a common thing, especially in the arena of politics and government. We are thankful that God has bestowed these qualities on this man at this time. With BD as SGF, we can be assured that the operations of this government will be conducted smoothly and professionally," he said further.
Giving more accolade about Lawal, Tinubu said: "Through the years I have known BD Lawal, he has remained steadfast in his political beliefs. Never wavering and always resolute in his political convictions, BD does not blow with the prevailing political wind. He is a true ally, who remains by your side when the times get tough. He does not honey-coat his words or actions, he cuts through the chase and blunt also to a fault."
The former governor, therefore, enjoined Lawal to do his best for the country. "Nigerians look up to you, BD, and pray that you will give them your best. They expect you to impact the system positively and help put an end to the malpractices of the past that have stalled and burdened us as a people. All that you have learned; all of that experience; all of your insight, your nimble yet steady mind, and your friendly yet firm political nature must be brought to bear in this present assignment.
"Nigeria is at the cusp of a stupendous change for which we all laboured. You have been tapped as one of the chief engineers who must make that change happen. We know that you shall excel because you have been born for this moment and this moment was born for you.
"Nigeria shall see its new day and realise its better self. We say this as a prayer and declaration, so let it be done," he said.
An earlier thanksgiving service held at the ECWA Church in Wuse 2 was attended by the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN; Yakubu Dogara, speaker, House of Representatives; and John Odigie-Oyegun, national chairman of the APC.
Apart from Ambode, other state governors who graced the occasion were Adams Oshiomhole, Edo; Rauf Aregbesola, Osun: Darius Ishaku, Taraba; Willy Obeano, Anambra; Solomon Lalong, Plateau; Okezie Ikpeazu, Abia, and Dave Umahi, Ebonyi.
— Oct 19, 2015 @ 13:10 GMT
Previous articleSylva Should Be Prosecuted – APC Chief
Next articlePresidency Plans To Rig Bayelsa Governorship Poll – PDP
Again one killed as Police, Shi'ites clash in Abuja
Company urges AGF to investigate ICPC over alleged invasion
Supreme Court validates Ortom's election


text:
Home > JOURNAL-OF-ARID-LAND > Vol. 8 (2016) > Iss. 4
Charcoal production through selective logging leads to degradation of dry woodlands: a case study from Mutomo District, Kenya
Geoffrey M. NDEGWA, 1 Department of Physical Geography, University of Passau, Passau 40, 94036, Germany;2 Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics, TH Köln University of Applied Sciences, Cologne 2, 50679, Germany;3 The World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi 30677-00100, KenyaFollow
Udo NEHREN, 2 Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics, TH Köln University of Applied Sciences, Cologne 2, 50679, Germany
Friederike GRüNINGER, 1 Department of Physical Geography, University of Passau, Passau 40, 94036, Germany
Provision of woodfuel is an important ecosystem service of dry forests and woodlands. However, charcoal production through selective logging of preferred hardwood species has the potential to alter the physiognomic composition of the residual or re-growth woodlands and may lead to their deterioration and degradation. This study, conducted through forest inventory in Mutomo District in Kenya, assessed the impact of charcoal production on unprotected dry woodlands in terms of tree density, targeted species basal area, species richness, evenness and Shannon diversity. The parameters of the disturbed woodlands were evaluated for significant differences with those of the neighbouring protected Tsavo East National Park, which served as a reference for an ecologically undisturbed ecosystem. By evaluating a consequence of tree harvesting for charcoal production, this study confirmed the overall significant differences between the protected and unprotected woodlands in all the tested parameters. To confirm if the differences in the land-covers of the woodlands had any influence on their degradation, all mentioned parameters were compared between the four differentiated classes and their respective control plots in the protected areas. At the "land-cover level", the statistically significant difference in the basal area of tree species preferred for charcoal production between the protected and unprotected open trees confirms that the class with a high density of large mature trees is the prime target of charcoal producers. In addition, there seems to be a general trend of lower values of tree species richness, evenness and Shannon diversity for the unprotected woodlands subjected to charcoal production. On the other hand, the disturbed woodlands display the potential to recover through their comparably high saplings density. The findings make an important contribution to the discourse on the impact of charcoal production in dry woodlands, a topic that is highly controversial among researchers.
charcoal burning; forest degradation; selective harvesting; Acacia-Commiphora bushland; coppicing
NDEGWA, Geoffrey M.; NEHREN, Udo; and GRüNINGER, Friederike (2016) "Charcoal production through selective logging leads to degradation of dry woodlands: a case study from Mutomo District, Kenya," Journal of Arid Land: Vol. 8 : Iss. 4 , Article 12.
Available at: https://egijournals.researchcommons.org/journal-of-arid-land/vol8/iss4/12
Publication Ethics Statement
All Issues Vol. 13, Iss. 12 Vol. 13, Iss. 11 Vol. 13, Iss. 10 Vol. 13, Iss. 9 Vol. 13, Iss. 8 Vol. 13, Iss. 7 Vol. 13, Iss. 6 Vol. 13, Iss. 5 Vol. 13, Iss. 4 Vol. 13, Iss. 3 Vol. 13, Iss. 2 Vol. 13, Iss. 1 Vol. 12, Iss. 6 Vol. 12, Iss. 5 Vol. 12, Iss. 4 Vol. 12, Iss. 3 Vol. 12, Iss. 2 Vol. 12, Iss. 1 Vol. 11, Iss. 6 Vol. 11, Iss. 5 Vol. 11, Iss. 4 Vol. 11, Iss. 3 Vol. 11, Iss. 2 Vol. 11, Iss. 1 Vol. 10, Iss. 6 Vol. 10, Iss. 5 Vol. 10, Iss. 4 Vol. 10, Iss. 3 Vol. 10, Iss. 2 Vol. 10, Iss. 1 Vol. 9, Iss. 6 Vol. 9, Iss. 5 Vol. 9, Iss. 4 Vol. 9, Iss. 3 Vol. 9, Iss. 2 Vol. 9, Iss. 1 Vol. 8, Iss. 6 Vol. 8, Iss. 5 Vol. 8, Iss. 4 Vol. 8, Iss. 3 Vol. 8, Iss. 2 Vol. 8, Iss. 1 Vol. 7, Iss. 6 Vol. 7, Iss. 5 Vol. 7, Iss. 4 Vol. 7, Iss. 3 Vol. 7, Iss. 2 Vol. 7, Iss. 1 Vol. 6, Iss. 6 Vol. 6, Iss. 5 Vol. 6, Iss. 4 Vol. 6, Iss. 3 Vol. 6, Iss. 2 Vol. 6, Iss. 1 Vol. 5, Iss. 4 Vol. 5, Iss. 3 Vol. 5, Iss. 2 Vol. 5, Iss. 1 Vol. 4, Iss. 4 Vol. 4, Iss. 3 Vol. 4, Iss. 2 Vol. 4, Iss. 1 Vol. 3, Iss. 4 Vol. 3, Iss. 3 Vol. 3, Iss. 2 Vol. 3, Iss. 1 Vol. 2, Iss. 4 Vol. 2, Iss. 3 Vol. 2, Iss. 2 Vol. 2, Iss. 1 Vol. 1, Iss. 1
in this journal in this site across all repositories
Electronic ISSN: 2194-7783


Books make the best gifts -- a thoughtfully selected book will hold a child's interest long after the new toys have been tossed aside. National Geographic Kids Books is featuring FIVE new titles that are perfect gifts for the explorer in all of us.
- Weird But True! Christmas: 300 Festive Facts to Light Up the Holidays — (ages 8-12) The PERFECT stocking stuffer! Ready for some totally festive facts? Even Christmas can be weird -- it's true! Did you know that Santa's reindeer are probably all female? Or that artificial snow can be made from seaweed? Or that "Jingle Bells" was the first Christmas carol sung in space? Every kid will ho ho ho when they unwrap this book that is chocked full of the most random and fascinating facts about their most favorite holiday.
- Ultimate Dinopedia - (ages 7-10) Attention dinosaur fanatics! This is a big, gift-worthy hardcover that is also the most complete and comprehensive dinosaur reference ever. Although these amazing creatures roamed the Earth ages ago, new dinosaur discoveries are still being made today. The new edition includes favorites, like the fierce T-rex and the gentle Brontosaurus, plus audacious new finds, like the Anzu, Kosmoceratops, and Yi. Every dino profile is colorfully illustrated and features descriptions of when they roamed the Earth, how they lived, what they ate, and more. There are more than 600 dinos featured in all, including 10 profiles of recently discovered dinosaurs and new entries in the Dino Dictionary. Reports from paleontologists present the latest news and insights from the field.
- Bet You Didn't Know: Fascinating, Far-Out, Fun-tastic Facts - (ages 8-12) "...the whole outing is really tailor-made for dipping and flipping at random....A bodacious wellspring of random knowledge."— Starred review, Kirkus Reviews. BIG, packed with gorgeous photos and illustrations and guaranteed to keep kids occupied for hours and hours, Bet You Didn't Know is the perfect holiday gift for the fact-lover or for your kid's favorite teacher's classroom. Did you know that the first stop signs were black and white? Or that a litter of kittens is called a kindle? Or that butterflies can see more colors than humans can? Based on a favorite department in Nat Geo Kids magazine, this book is overflowing with fascinating facts, silly stats, and catchy little knowledge nuggets in all kinds of cool categories, from astronomy and sea creatures to revolutions and breakfast. Special features include Extreme Weirdness, Strange Places, Wacky World, and more.
- Just Joking Jumbo — (ages 7-10) What do you get when you have 1,000 giant jokes and 1,000 funny photos? A stocking stuffer that adds up to some seriously big laughs! If you have a budding stand up comedian on your list this year - this is the perfect book for them. Knock-knocks, puns, riddles, tongue-twisters, photos of silly situations and even the craziest info about the history of funny business - it's all here!
- Hey, Baby! A Collection of Pictures, Poems and Stories from Nature's Nursery - (all ages) Sweet dreams are made of this! Join National Geographic Kids on a trip around the globe to celebrate nature's nursery. This collection of stunning photography of wee ones of the wild world will inspire, awe and awww. With dynamic profiles, clever poems, time-tested folktales, amazing rescue stories, and unlikely animal friendships, this book will be a favorite with sleepy little ones, new parents and moms-to-be. Featuring everything from wobbly baby bison to teeny turtles, mini-monkeys to fluffy foxes, this is the perfect keepsake book for the baby animal lover in us all.
One VERY LUCKY Nanny to Mommy reader will receive a same titles from National Geographic Kids listed above, RV $67+. Entry is simple, just follow the prompts on the Rafflecopter below. Open US only, must be 18+ to enter. Winner chosen via Random.org through Rafflecopter. All winning entries are verified. Please follow us on Facebook to stay up to date with our current giveaways. Good luck!
Welcome to the Two Turtle Dove Giveaway Hop brought to you by The Hopping Bloggers!
I'm most excited about the Ultimate Dinopedia! I would give this to my kids. I think they would love these!
Most excited for the Dinopedia!! My son LOVES dinosaurs so he would adore it!
I would be especially interested in "Bet You Didn't Know" and I would be happy to give a copy to all sorts of people!
My kids would love the just joking book!
My son loves telling jokes, he would love the Just Joking Jumbo book the best!
I'm most excited about Ultimate Dinopedia! Winning this for the twins - if they're like me they'll never outgrow their fascinating with dinosaurs!
I'd love the Just Joking Jumbo for my son.
I would give this to my niece and nephew. I think they would be most excited about the ultimate dinopedia.
My grandson would love the Betcha Didn't Know. Their books are awesome. He has several.
I'm most excited for Bet You Didn't Know. My niece will love it.
I'm most excited for Weird But True Christmas. I would share it with my daughters.
My son would like the book Weird But True Christmas. He likes these types of books.
My kids would especially love the "Bet You Didn't Know That" book! I would give the books to my kids if I win. Thanks for the chance!
Our favorite book in this collection is Hey, Baby! A Collection of Pictures, Poems and Stories from Nature's Nursery. These books would be for our family if I won.
I want to win this for my niece. I would like the book Hey, Baby!


Cats needs exercise and socialization just as much as dogs; and that is why cats benefit from a cat fence in the backyard. However, there are other reasons why pet owners should consider an outdoor catio for their pets.
Outdoor cat enclosures are great for dogs, too! Not only can dogs play with other animals from within the enclosure, but they don't have to worry about encounters with stray cats that may try to taunt the dog.
More often than not, there are news stories that show coyotes and wolves coming into yards and harming pets. An outdoor cat enclosure will stop a coyote or wolf from coming in-contact with animals, thanks to the top of the enclosure.
In addition, the fencing for cats also keeps out white-tailed deer that may be carrying tick-borne illnesses that can transfer to pets. The use of a fence can reduce the risk of Lyme Disease by 97 percent.
Speaking of wild animals, the enclosed top also keeps out birds that may try to swoop down and harm the dog or cat.
Outdoor pet enclosures improve animal wellness for both dogs and cats. Owners will see a change in pet behavior to reveal a healthier, happier pet.


Akismet is a plugin that comes with WordPress, all you need to do is activate it.
Go to your Installed Plugins under the Plugins section and click Activate.
What is Akismet? Akismet is a plugin that protects your blog from spam comments. And that's it for our first plugin. Next is a plugin called Jetpack.
This plugin comes with a lot of features and is one of the best plugins for WordPress. Let's take a closer look at what it offers.
When you install the Jetpack plugin, you will get access to more than a 100 free themes. There are a number of places you can find free themes, but some of them might not be safe to use. What does this mean? If you install a theme that does not come from a trusted source it can place you at risk. A WordPress theme has access to some of WordPress's features and functionality which can result in someone having access to your data without knowing it. The same goes for plugins, always make sure you install plugins from a trusted source or from within your WordPress dashboard. In the next post, we will go through some of the best and trusted places to search for WordPress themes.
When it comes to SEO, page loading speed is very important. The quicker it loads the better your SEO ranking will be. What affects the loading speed of a blog? There are a number of things that can affect the loading speed of your pages and posts, but one of the most common things is the amount and size of images and video. When you install Jetpack, you will get the Photon Content Delivery Network (CDN). What is a CDN? A CDN is a library of content that is saved on different servers in various locations. When someone visits your blog, the CDN will use the server that is the closest to the location of that person to load the content which results in quicker load times. In order to illustrate this, let's use an example. A person in Canada visits your blog, but all the content on your blog is saved on a server in Brazil, the loading time for your blog won't be as fast as it could be even more so if the person doesn't have the fastest Internet connection. After installing the Jetpack plugin, the content on your blog is now save on servers in several locations, some of them being Brazil, US, and Japan. The next time someone from Canada visits your blog, the content will be loaded from the US as that is the closest location to the person visiting your blog which means the load time will increase. An extra feature of the Photon CDN is resizing your images for mobile which also increases the performance.
Lazy loading only downloads images once they are in view, which increases the load speed of your page or page.
Jetpack provides protection against unauthorized access to your WordPress blog. Brute force attacks or hacking are always a threat and therefore it is better to be safe than sorry. Jetpack also monitors downtime and will notify you if your blog is unavailable and soon as it is back up. If you are using a reliable host for your WordPress blog the chances of this happening will be hardly ever but in the case it does you need to know about it.
These stats give you an overview of the traffic to your blog, but if you want for detail there is another service you can use which we will be taking a look at in the next post. The second marketing service it offers, is linking your social media accounts to your WordPress blog. Every time you publish a post, an update will be automatically sent to all the social media accounts you've linked. And the best part, all of these features are available for free when installing Jetpack. There are paid options you can go with, but the free plan offers more than enough to get started. Let's move on to installing and configuring Jetpack.
Hover over Plugins and click on Add New. Use the Search to find the Jetpack plugin if it is not visible. Once you've found it, click on Install and Activate.
In order to use Jetpack, you will need an account on WordPress.com. Don't worry, this is not related to the hosting of your WordPress blog as discussed previously. You can create your account here. Once you've created your account, you can use those details to log in and setup Jetpack.
Once you've clicked the Start with free button, you will be able to activate the recommended features.
And now you will have have the Jetpack plugin on your blog. All you will need to configure is linking your social media accounts by clicking on Settings.
On the Settings screen, click on Sharing. Below Publicize connections, click on Connect your social media accounts.
This will take you to WordPress.com, which is where you can connect your various accounts.
To connect an account, click the Connect button next to the account. This will bring up a dialog where you need to give authorize WordPress.com to access the account.
Once you authorized, the account will be connected. You can also disconnect any accounts if you want to, by clicking the Disconnect button. What did that actually do? When creating a post, in the Publish section, there will be a new setting called Publicize. All the accounts you have connected will be visible here. As soon as the post is published an update will be sent from those accounts.
By default, the Publicize setting includes the title and link of your post. If you don't want to use something other than the title, click on Edit to change this.
And that's it for the Jetpack plugin.
AMP is a technology that was introduced by Google in 2016 to improve the performance of web content with the focus being on mobile content. Because we are using WordPress, we don't have to worry about the technical details of making sure our blog is AMP compliant, we can just install the AMP plugin. Click on Add New under Plugins. Search for AMP, install and activate.
Before we get into the details, let's install and activate the plugin. Make sure you are on the Add New plugins page and search for Yoast. Once you have found it, install and activate.
Now that the plugin has been installed and activated, let's go through the features.
In order for your WordPress blog to show up in search results, it needs to have a sitemap. Once you have a sitemap, it needs to be submitted to the search engines so that they can crawl and index your blog. Yoast automatically generates a sitemap for your blog, all you need to do is submit it to the search engines. In this post, I will show you how to submit your sitemap to Google and Bing.
Go to the Google Search Console and log in. Then click on the Add a property button.
In the dialogue, type the URL of your WordPress blog.
You will need to verify that you own the URL by uploading an HTML verification file. If you are using SiteGround and you need help with uploading, you can go here for their tutorials.
Once you have verified your URL, you will see the following success message.
Now you can submit your sitemap, by clicking on the sitemap section.
Click on the Add/Test Sitemap button. You will only need to type the name of your sitemap.
It takes a few minutes for your sitemap to be indexed, but once it is done you will see something similar in the sitemap section.
Before you can use the Bing Webmaster Tools, you will need to create an account which you can do here. Once you have created your account, log in. Add your WordPress blog by typing the and then clicking the Add button.
After you have added your blog, you will taken to the dashboard where you can add your sitemap. Click on Sitemaps in the sidebar.
A sitemap also serves another purpose, it can tell you if there are any crawl errors. A crawl error is when something that has been indexed cannot be found, also known as a 404 error. Instead of going to the Google Search Console or Bing Webmaster Tools to see if there are any errors, you can use the Yoast plugin. All we need to do is give Yoast access to our Google Search Console. Just below Settings in your sidebar, you will see there is a section called SEO. Hover over it and click on Search Console.
Next click on the Get Google Authorization Code button. This will bring up a dialog where you need to log into your Google account. Once you have logged in, you need to give Yoast permission to access your Search Console data. After you have approved, you will get an authorization key. Copy this key and paste it below, Enter your Google Authorization Code and click the Authenticate button. Select and save the profile you want to use.
After you have saved your profile, more options will appear next to Settings, namely, Desktop, Smartphone, and Feature Phone.
If there are any crawl errors, you will be able to see them under each option.
We have already mentioned search engine optimization, and how to create content that is related to the niche of your WordPress blog in a previous post. When you create a page or post, you can insert a focus keyword which should be related to the niche of your WordPress blog. Yoast will then analyze the content and give you scores related to your focus keyword. You can see these scores below the WYSIWYG editor.
The scores are broken into three sections, Problems (Red), Improvements (Orange) and Good results (Green). The goal is to try and have as many Good results as possible, and solve all the Problems. If your Good results out number the Improvements you can feel safe to publish as the Improvements are only suggestions to improve the content which you can come back to later if you want to. Under each section you will get an explanation so that you know what did right or what you need to change and improve on. Yoast also gives you a preview of what your post or page will look like as a search result. You can see this preview just above your focus keyword.
You can change the SEO title, Slug and Meta description by clicking the Edit snippet button.
A slug is another name for a permalink. If the Slug is empty, it will use the permalink setting we changed in the previous post. You can change the default settings for the SEO title is the title of the post or page with some extra details. And the Meta description is the same thing as the excerpt which we discussed in a previous post. In order to make things easier, Yoast uses variables which are named according to what will be displayed. You can change these variables if you want to use a certain template for your SEO titles by going to SEO and clicking on Search Appearance.
And then click on Content Types where you will also see SEO title and Meta description for both posts and pages.
Yoast also comes with a Readability score which is based on Flesch Reading Ease. The better your readability score, the easier it will be for people to read and understand your the content on your WordPress blog. The Readability score also provides feedback in the same way as with Content optimization score, so you know what problems there are, what can be improved on and what you did right.
For more information about Flesch Reading Ease, click here.
When we were configuring the Jetpack plugin we already connected our social media accounts and we could change the update message. Yoast offers more customization options when sharing a post or page on social media. To change these settings click on the Social button.
Here you can set the title, description and upload an image for Facebook and Twitter.
You can leave the other settings with their default values as they are more on the technical side of things which we won't be going into.
Because we have installed the AMP plugin as well as the Yoast plugin you will see the following notification from Yoast.
This plugin ensures that you get the best results from both Yoast and AMP plugins. Click on Yoast SEO AMP Glue and activate it.
And that's it for this post, in the next post will go through the rest of the essential WordPress plugins.
If you want to stay up to date with the Become A WordPress Pro series, make sure you subscribe. Thank you for reading and please let me know if you have any questions in the comment section below.


text:
Q: Groking and then mutating? I am running the following filter in a logstash config file:
filter {
    if [type] == "logstash" {
        grok {
            match => {
                "message" => [
                    "\[%{DATA:timestamp}\]\[%{DATA:severity}\]\[%{DATA:instance}\]%{DATA:mymessage}, reason:%{GREEDYDATA:reason}",
                    "\[%{DATA:timestamp}\]\[%{DATA:severity}\]\[%{DATA:instance}\]%{GREEDYDATA:mymessage}"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

It kind of works:

*

*it does identify and carve out variables "timestamp", "severity", "instance", "mymessage", and "reason"

Really what I wanted was to have text which is now %{mymessage} to be the ${message} but when I add any sort of mutate command to this grok it stops working (btw, should there be a log that tells me what is breaking? I didn't see it... ironic for a logging solution to not have verbose logging).
Here's what I tried:
filter {
    if [type] == "logstash" {
        grok {
            match => {
                "message" => [
                    "\[%{DATA:timestamp}\]\[%{DATA:severity}\]\[%{DATA:instance}\]%{DATA:mymessage}, reason:%{GREEDYDATA:reason}",
                    "\[%{DATA:timestamp}\]\[%{DATA:severity}\]\[%{DATA:instance}\]%{GREEDYDATA:mymessage}"
                ]
            }
            mutate => {
                replace => [ "message", "%{mymessage}"]
                remove => [ "mymessage" ]
            }
        }
    }
}

So in summary I'd like to understand:

*

*Are there log files I can look at to see why/where a failure is happening?

*Why would my mutate commands illustated above not work?

*I also thought that if I never used the mymessage variable but instead just referred to message as the variable that maybe it would automatically truncate message to just the matched pattern but that appeared to append the results instead ... what is the correct behaviour?

A: Using the overwrite option is the best solution, but I thought I'd address a couple of your questions directly anyway.

*

*It depends on how Logstash is started. Normally you'd run it via an init script that passes the -l or --log option. /var/log/logstash would be typical.

*mutate is a filter of its own, not a part of grok. You could've done like this (or used rename instead of replace + remove):

grok {
  ...
}
mutate {
  replace => [ "message", "%{mymessage}" ]
  remove => [ "mymessage" ]
}

A: I'd do it a different way. For what you're trying to do, the overwrite option might be more apt.
Something like this:
grok {
    overwrite => "message"
    match => [
        "message" => [
                "\[%{DATA:timestamp}\]\[%{DATA:severity}\]\[%{DATA:instance}\]%{DATA:message}, reason:%{GREEDYDATA:reason}",
                "\[%{DATA:timestamp}\]\[%{DATA:severity}\]\[%{DATA:instance}\]%{GREEDYDATA:message}"
                    ]
             ]
}

This'll replace 'message' with the 'grokked' bit.
I know that doesn't directly answer your question - about all I can say is when you start logstash, it writes to STDOUT - at least on the version I'm using - which I'm capturing and writing to a file. In here, it reports some of the errors.
There's a -l option to logstash that lets you specify a log file to use - this will usually show you what's going on in the parser, but bear in mind that if something doesn't match a rule, it won't necessarily tell you why it didn't.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Shop Wayfair for all the best Kitchen Curtains & Valances. Enjoy Free . Quickview. Dress up your small window with the Martine Kitchen Curtain. . Enticing embroidered wine and cheese motifs bordered with richly colored burgundy border. Perfect for kitchen, bathroom, or any small window in the home. Pair with the Brighton Blossom valance to complete the look. Valance sold separately. 117 results – Create a trendy modern look to your kitchen, bath or laundry room with this Crosswalk Window Curtain Valance. Featuring a simple yarn-dyed cross . Red Kitchen Window Valances Ideas – Decor IdeasDecor Ideas. Red Kitchen Window Valances Ideas. Kitchen Window ValancesKitchen Bay WindowsKitchen . This is what I want to make for my kitchen/dining window treatments. These are called Butterfly Swags! Envision the main fabric itself done in a burlap with . You might be tempted to forgo window treatments in your kitchen until you . and see what you can see through the windows with the blinds or curtains drawn. Shop our selection of Modern, Window Scarves & Valances in the Window Treatments Department at The Home Depot. The horizontal width of a valance doesn't necessarily have to be an exact figure. While the temptation is to simply measure the width of your window and use that . Jun 1, 2018 – Lovely White Sheer Curtain Valance Styles For Marvelous Window . Mesmerizing Beige Floral Curtain Valance Styles For Tempting Interior Window Decor . Interesting Laminate Wood Round Kitchen Tables For Sale For .


Inserting herself into the tradition of Canadian long poems (Kroetsch, Marlatt, Davey, Ondaatje, etc.), Lisa Robertson deploys her uniquely feminist line of cultural and philosophical query within the sharp, evocative lines of her newest book, Cinema of the Present (2014).
Readers familiar with Robertson will recognize the poem's tangible concerns with the body, thrift store fabrics, and footfalls from Occasional Work and Seven Walks (2003), Magenta Soul Whip (2009) and R's Boat (2010). A prolific writer, she extends her own tradition through these echoes while simultaneously altering the meaning these indexed items can be said to hold. (This book features, not for the first time, an index prepared for Robertson by Pascal Poyet.) Part of what Robertson's project teaches its reader is the inexhaustible effect of the present, the expansive moment in which the writing and reading occurs. To put it in the vocabulary of cinema, the line of figure changes frame to frame.
Robertson's poetic lines are irreparably and beautifully altered from moment to moment, page to page. Take, for instance, the figure of "A concomitant gate" (5) which graces the opening of the poem and, according to its descriptor, naturally transforms according to what follows so that a variety of gates are present on the following pages: "A gate made of bejewelled barrettes, artificial peaches, a rotary phone" (6), "A gate made of gas pumps" (7), "A gate made of Perspex" (8), "A gate of hacksaw blades and bicycle spokes" (9). The repetition alters suddenly; the scene shifts. The preposition ("A") remains but the object ("gate") changes to girl, graph, jay, etc.
What is most alluring about Robertson's poetry is this effect of uncanny resonance. Her best lines are capable of sending the reader into an entirely constructed nostalgia, a tonal technique that is at once familiar and unsettling. The 800 frames, or lines, of memory progress like strips of film according to the tri-fold and ever-changing desire of the writer, speaker and reader. Whether the projection takes place in a library, cafe, or classroom, the city and the body intervene with the flickering image in order to make the experience severely intimate. When Robertson writes, "You need a hat against anger" (84), the reader is reminded of a mother's advice upon going out into the cold, though the prescription is less practical than this. Emotion takes precedence in the writing. Emotion is the stubborn and strange partner of intellect and a necessary ingredient for interpretation of this speaker's surroundings. Closely scrutinized emotion hardens into a multi-refractory substance that exists in changed duration for each frame: "You were annotating the idea of a long elastic present that could include violence and passivity and patience as well as cities, as would a crystal of quartz" (85).
Robertson's "cinematic present," the rapid and necessary change permitted by the metaphor of film, is the conceptual constraint of project. The result is an unfalteringly close and radical theorization of the (feminist) subject's place in time.
Posted in book review on January 18, 2015 by Jeka.


In this series, "Promises of Scripture," we asked Youth Ministers one simple question: "What is a scriptural promise that you burn to communicate to your students?" Read the last article in the series here.
If you were to eavesdrop on my conversations with my students, you would overhear a lot of promises of scripture. I want my kids to be saturated in the Word and to hear over and over again what God has declared to be true about them, the world, and Himself. But out of all the promises of the Word, Matthew 12:20 is the one I quote most often.
Why is this promise of scripture so essential for my students to know? Why do I teach and repeat and say over and over again: "a bruised reed He does not break and a smoldering wick He does not put out?" It seems like a rather obscure promise to cling to, a snippet of a verse from Matthew that is simply commentary on Jesus' earthly ministry. Why this promise?
Because we believe that God is good but we don't always believe He is kind.
Thousands of things happen in every student's life that cause them to question the kindness of God. Parents get divorced. Friends abandon them. Cancer steals lives. Hopes are crushed. Dreams are delayed. Suffering inevitably enters their world and suddenly the gentle kindness of the Lord seems like a naïve wish, rather than a Biblical reality.
A student accosted me a few weeks ago after school because I had encouraged her to receive a gift from a friend without protest or fight. We began a conversation about how to receive things from God the Father, and how difficult that can be. She was adamant that she knew how to accept God's love and receive grace from Him. The more we talked, the more she began to expose her theology of suffering. God would do what was good, she mentioned, but it would only ever be eternal good. Because of the suffering she had already experienced in her short life, she expected nothing on earth but pain and heartache and disappointment. When it came down to it, she felt like she deserved these difficult things in her life as punishment, because she was too stupid and selfish to learn her lesson any other way.
That student needs Matthew 12:20. While the Lord disciplines those He loves (Hebrews 12:6) and prunes His branches (us) like a master gardener, He is not cruel. He allows bruising, but not crushing. He allows suffering, but brings compassion – He does not willingly afflict His children (Lamentations 3:32-33).
The whisper of the serpent in the garden to Eve was "is God really good? Does He have your best interests at heart?" and the question remains for us as well.
In reaction to the "name it, claim it" attitude of the prosperity gospel we can in a way, over-emphasize the eternal goodness of God. He will do what is ultimately good, right? We want our students to see that Jesus isn't merely a ticket to the good life, rather He is the good life (John 17:3). We want our students to have an eternal perspective and not a temporary one. We want them to see Jesus as the treasure, the pearl of great price. These things are biblically right and true. But unwittingly in doing so, we often hold out to them a picture of God that is theologically accurate but incomplete.
The heart of God the Father is not cruel or evil. He is not just ultimately good: He is kind here and now.
No, He doesn't always do what we want. He doesn't always give us what we expect, hope for, or even ask for. His thoughts are not our thoughts and His ways are not our ways (Isaiah 55.8). But dear youth minister, He is not mean.
Matthew 20:12 is a quote from Isaiah 42, about Yahweh's chosen servant who will one day come. Later on in Isaiah, the prophet speaks about this servant and says "But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed." On the cross, Jesus was not just bruised, but crushed; His life not just brought to a smolder but completely extinguished. In His life and death, Jesus took the punishment we – like my student mentioned earlier – fear, so we can receive full adoption as beloved sons (Romans 8:15). He took the wrath we deserve so that instead we are rejoiced over and delighted in as children of God.
At the end of the day this is a promise I want my students to know because it's a promise I need to know. When looking at suffering in their lives or in my life, when the awareness of my brokenness and the brokenness of the world threatens to overwhelm, I need to be reminded that while God may allow bruising, He will never, ever, ever crush. I need to be reminded that He knows my frame and is not cruel in His dealings with His beloved children, even when it may feel like it. Let us look to the cross and see a faithful Brother who suffered for us, a faithful Father who has compassion on us, and a faithful Friend who will walk with us at every moment. God is kind indeed.
Join us for Rooted 2016, an intimate youth ministry conference, where we will explore the good news that God's grace is sufficient for our relationships: with ourselves, with others, with the world, and with God. Jesus is our reconciliation yesterday, today, and forever.
Sarah lives in Macon, Georgia where she is a high school Bible teacher at First Presbyterian Day School. She graduated from Columbia International University with a BA in Bible and Youth Ministry and an MA in Bible Teaching.


text:
Oppo Find X Ditches Display Notch With Motorized Pop-Up Camera System
By Oliver Haslam | June 20th, 2018
Chinese firm Oppo is taking steps to make sure that we don't have to look at unsightly notches at the top of smartphones for much longer and also reviving the Find series of smartphones simultaneously with the Find X, a phone that the folks over at The Verge were able to get their hands on ahead of an official launch.
The phone's claim to fame is a 6.4-inch 1080p OLED display with a 92.26% screen-to-body ratio, making this the almost bezel-free phone we have all been looking forward to.
That lack of bezels is made possible thanks to the lack of any cameras on the device. That's because all three of the Find X's cameras are hidden in a pop-up slider that appears when a camera is needed and then disappears when it is not. Those cameras consist of 16MP + 20MP rear cameras and the 25MP front camera, all of which are hidden from view until needed.
That front-facing camera will be needed each and every time you want to unlock the device, too. There is no fingerprint scanner anywhere on the Find X which means users will rely on the device's facial recognition system in order for authentication.
Thankfully that mechanism is a quick one, with Oppo saying that the cameras will pop up in just 0.5 seconds. It's not immediate, but it's not slow by any stretch of the imagination.
Underneath that large screen there are the usual bits and pieces – a Snapdragon 845 SoC married with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Global LTE bands are also in use and anyone in need of a dual-SIM setup will be pleased to know that this is available at the bottom of the device, too.
Software-wise, users will be treated to Android 8.1 Oreo running Oppo's own Color OS when it is released in North America and Europe, and will cost around £999 ($1,300). Chinese buyers can order as of today.
(Source: The Verge)
iOS 12 Beta 2 Release Notes, Changes: Here's Everything New
Download: iOS 12 Beta 2 IPSW Links, OTA Update Released
PUBG Mobile 0.6.0 APK Download, iOS App Of Final English Version Released, Here's What Is New
Download iOS 12 Beta 2 Configuration Profile File Without Developer Account
Download iOS 12 Beta 2 IPSW Links & Install On iPhone X, 8, 7, Plus, 6s, 6, SE, 5s, iPad, iPod [Tutorial]
How To Downgrade iOS 12 Beta To iOS 11.4 [Tutorial]
You can follow us on Twitter, add us to your circle on Google+ or like our Facebook page to keep yourself updated on all the latest from Microsoft, Google, Apple and the Web.


This entry was posted in Dating, Fitness, Motivation/ Self-help and tagged abundance, breakups, dating, relationships, scarcity, yoga by midlifemeg. Bookmark the permalink.
Meg, I laughed out loud at this. So funny, and so insightful. Fantastic post!
Thanks, friend! I know you can probably hear my voice saying the words so you'll get all the humor. Plus you probably can imagine me in yoga class. So grateful for your constant support!
LOL Valerie, you must try yoga! I get those flashes all the time. Mine on Monday were more along the lines of acceptance. But each time we were instructed to "let your heart shine" meaning contort until you are on the verge of blacking out, I physically felt sadness and negativity leave my heart. I am all about letting my heart shine. Now, because of Meg's insightfullness, I understand even more. Bravo Meg, you nailed it once again.
I love your perspective, dare I say clarity, on abundance and scarcity. Yoga has a wonderful way of bringing a person the peace she needs at that moment. Call it serendipity, coincidence, whatever.
My favorite part was how you probably "never look like a warrior or a tree or a crow, but at the end of class, I'll be damned if I don't think like a yogi.?" I've been trying to do crow for years and have only gotten into it for two seconds. Two seconds. But I keep trying, and I thank my body for allowing me to do so every time. Yoga brings me gratefulness that even though I can't balance in eagle, I am there and well enough to try.
Thanks, Katy! Yes, I'm brand new to yoga but wow, I'm really amazed at the mental effect it has on me. And I'm getting better with balance and flexibility but man, it will take a miracle if I can ever "fly my crow". Ha. I feel silly using the words. Thanks for reading!
I know we haven't communicated for some time, but I wanted to drop you a quick note to say hello.
(For those reading this comment… here's a little background).
Meg and I met on an internet dating site around 2-3 years ago, we chatted a few times and had a few telephone conversations, which eventually led to us to meeting up for a date. The short version of this story is that neither of us felt that romantic spark for the other, but we became (sort of) quick friends. (If we hadn't, then I guess I might have been the basis for one of her midlife blogs about failed internet dates.) On this first date we shared stories about our mutual experiences of failed internet dates. In the end, we had a good time together, we hugged and parted ways.
With the exception of a few Facebook posts, we really haven't talked much, but I wanted to let you know that I have been following your blog and reading about your journey.
When I read your blog and saw your Facebook posts about how you had met a wonderful guy, I felt so happy for you. I thought to myself "Meg is awesome, she deserves to be happy, I'm glad she found someone". I have had my own struggles with dating and midlife and kids, etc… so it was very easy to relate to many of the things that you were writing about.
Time passed and I continued to see joyful posts from you.
But then I read your blog about how the relationship didn't work out for the two of you. I could tell that you were in pain. I felt like I should have posted a supportive comment, but for some reason, I didn't.
Todays blog is, is by far, my favorite. The abundance vs. scarcity epiphany is brilliant. You are quite an inspirational writer, or maybe I just relate too well to most of what you write. Either way. I just wanted to let you know that I enjoy your blogs and I wish you so much happiness in the future. Thank you for sharing your experiences.
Bruce!! So kind; I am so touched by this response. When people disparage internet dating, I often say that I've met a lot of decent guys that way and some really nice ones that have become friends. You are proof of that. I've seen some FB activity from you that made me think you'd found someone, too…I hope that's the case. Actually maybe I'll message so we can catch up.
Thank you for reading my blogs and for your supportive words. Big fat hugs to you.


text:
Admin Staff
Lhakar Talk
Tibet Policy Journal
Tibet Quarterly Brief
Comments & Briefs
TPI Comments and Briefs
TPI in Media
Dr. Lobsang Sangay, President of the Central Tibetan Administration (Chairman)
Mr. Phagpa Tsering, Kalon for Department of Security, CTA (Co-Chair)
Mr. Tsegyal Chukya Dranyi, Kashag Secretary (Member)
Mr. Tsewang Gyalpo Arya, Director, Tibet Policy Institute (Member)
Mr. Tenzin Lekshay, Deputy Director (Member)
Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay (Chairman)
Dr. Lobsang Sangay was born and grew up in a Tibetan settlement near Darjeeling, where he attended the Central School for Tibetans. He completed his B.A. (Honors) and LLB degrees from Delhi University. In 1992, he was elected as the youngest executive member of the Tibetan Youth Congress (CENTREX).
In 1996, as a Fulbright Scholar, he obtained Masters degree and in 2004, S.J.D, the first Tibetan ever to receive such a degree from Harvard Law School and his dissertation, Democracy in Distress: Is Exile Polity a Remedy? A Case Study of Tibet's Government-in-exile was awarded the Yong K. Kim' 95 Prize. In 2005, he was appointed as a research fellow and promoted to senior fellow till early 2011.
Dr. Sangay is an expert on International Human Rights Law, Democratic Constitutionalism, and Conflict Resolution. He has spoken in hundreds of seminars around the world. He organized seven major conferences among Chinese, Tibetan, Indian and Western scholars including two unprecedented meeting between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Chinese scholars in 2003 and 2009 at Harvard University.
In 2007, he was selected as one of the twenty-four Young Leaders of Asia by the Asia Society and a delegate to the World Justice Forum in Vienna, Austria, where top legal experts and judges from around the world congregated.
In 2011, he was elected to the post of Kalon Tripa in an unprecedented competitive democratic election in the Tibetan diaspora. On August 8, 2011, during the swearing–in ceremony of the Kalon Tripa, His Holiness the Dalai Lama said, "When I was young, an elderly regent Takdrag Rinpoche handed over Sikyong (political leadership) to me, and today I am handing over Sikyong to young Lobsang Sangay… In doing this I have fulfilled my long-cherished goal."
He was re-elected as Sikyong for a second term in 2016.
Kalon Phagpa Tsering – Department of Security (Co-Chair)
Mr Labrang Phagpa Tsering was born in the year 1965. After completing his education from North-West Nationalities University, he came into exile in 1992.
He joined the Central Tibetan Administration in 1993 and served in various capacities.
He was the Administrative Secretary of the Department of Security from 2014 until his nomination as Kalon of the 15th Kashag by Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay in May 2016.
Mr. Topgyal Tsering, Kashag Secretary (Member)
Secretary Topgyal Tsering was born in 1955 at Latoe Zongkha in western Tibet. At the age of 8, he came into exile and studied at Dharamshala, Panchmari and the Tibetan Homes Foundation, Mussoorie. From 1973, he worked as headmaster and administrator of Shorong Delek settlement's day school in Sharkhumbu, Nepal.
In 1977, he was selected as an accounting staff of Home Department's Bir Tibetan society. Since 1983, he has been working in the Central Tibetan Administration taking various portfolios at the Tibetan settlements and in different departments.
On 3 February 2013, he was promoted to the post of secretary and served as the education secretary till his appointment as the Kashag Secretary on 3 June 2016.
Tsewang Gyalpo Arya did his schooling from CST Mussoorie. He started his service in Tibetan Administration with Department of Finance in April 1988, where he worked under various capacities notably as President of Charitable Trust Tibetan Handicraft Exports (CTHE) and Director of Paljor Publications.
He has B.A. from Panjab University; M.A. Economics from Annamalai University; M.A. Japanese Studies and Diploma in Tibetan Language and Literature from Delhi University; and Diploma in International Trade & Economics from Chiyoda College of Business, Tokyo. He is pursuing his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies at University of Delhi.
In July 2000 he joined the mainstream CTA as Deputy Secretary at Department of Finance. In June 2005, he was appointed the Secretary of Liaison Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Tokyo, and later in November 2013 as Secretary of Bureau of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in New Delhi. In May 2018, he was transferred to Department of Home in Dharamshala as its Additional Secretary, and in December, he was appointed the Additional Secretary of Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR). On 3 May 2019, he was promoted as Information Secretary of the Department of Information and International Relations. On 11 October, Kashag appointed him the additional charge as Director of Tibet Policy Institute.
Mr. Tenzin Lekshay, Deputy Director, Tibet Policy Institute (Member)
Tenzin Lekshay was a recipient of Tibetan Scholarship Program from 2006 -2008 and graduated in International Relations from New York University. He studied MA Economics from Loyola College and BA Economics from Madras Christian College.
He initially worked in the Department of Information and International Relations, Central Tibetan Administration.
In 2008, he served as the Coordinator of the India-Tibet Coordination Office in Delhi.
In 2011, he briefly worked in the Kashag Secretariat in Dharamshala.
In 2012, he returned to Delhi and worked as the Media Coordinator at Bureau of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in New Delhi. Over the years, he had coordinated and organized national and international conferences and programmes of Tibet Support Groups and Interfaith.
Currently, he is working as the Deputy Director of Tibet Policy Institute.
© Copyright-2019 | Tibet Policy Institute


When it comes to all of the illegal gaming and gambling that goes on; it is plentiful and throughout many of the areas in the world. It is something that is usually hidden throughout the United States and when someone finds out additional information about the gambling that is going on, there is usually some talk about it. There is usually something said to someone else and then the whole operation is blown because someone said something and now there are cops around the area.
However, this story is a bit different from what you would expect from a back door gambling ring.
An independent owner of a gas station, a woman, decided to set up a back room to use in a different way, for more than storage which is what it is usually and intended to be used as. She set up tables and then sold the back door gambling services to those that would come in and ask for the lottery cards or to get some scratch offs. Those that loved to do a little gambling. Of course, she would feel the people out a bit before she decided to go right into telling them more about the room. After all, this went on for years and no one knew about it and she was pretty good about keeping secrets and choosing the right people to keep secrets for her, too.
So many people were wondering why this was something that did not get stopped before? Why wasn't anyone aware of what was going on and why it was going on? Nothing was said to anyone and people would come in and go out, and come in and go out and nothing was thought of anyone that stayed a bit longer than normal because after all, no one sits there and checks out the Sunoco while they are pumping their gas and they are certainly not timing any of the visitors to ensure that they are not doing something they shouldn't be doing.
So how it is that this woman, this skilled and private woman, was caught providing these casino services to those that came in to gamble?
Well, someone said something to someone else in front of someone else and this he said, she said thing started. However, the person hearing the news was not the right person that you would want to hear this type of illegal gambling news. This is something that can do something about it, so there were a few cops that went under cover when it comes to getting their gas in a regular car, and being able to purchase the items they need, including those tickets and bringing up the subject of gambling with the woman.
While, she is normally a smart woman and can detect things like this, she must have made a mistake to trust one of the officials because they personally went to the back room and found out just what was going on to learned that the talk before was not just he say, she say information; it was true and this lady was running an illegal gambling ring in the back of her gas station where many people were coming. It was like a real life, running and cashing out with some of the big bucks. We can only imagine what she was able to take home every night from just the amount that the back room was bringing in, not counting the gas station cash.
No one wants to worry about what is going on everywhere, and no one should have to consider everything that is coming with gambling. Take the chance to step outside and see what exactly is going on in the world. Some places, gambling is legal and you're able to win a bunch of cash and play so many games and not have worry. In other parts of the world, you cannot do any type of money wagering without having to pay the consequences for doing something illegal. So it is your choice, and this woman chose to make the choice of doing something illegal when it comes to putting your money down and making the most of the back room.
She is now in custody, awaiting her hearing.


text:
Let COVID-19 Teach Us About Work and Neighborly Love
Katherine Leary Alsdorf
What a pandemic can teach us about work and love. If we listen.
In the 1940s, Dorothy Sayers saw the war force consumers into a right attitude about work, an attitude in which the excellence of a product, and the skill and labor of the worker, became valued. Christians can take the lead in this change again.
Sometime between 1941 and 1942, British author and thinker Dorothy Sayers wrote the essay called "Why Work?" as a reflection on what could be different in the post-war world. Realizing the world's economy and people's outlook had been entirely disrupted by the war, Sayers asks, "Do you realize how we have had to alter our whole scale of values, now that we are no longer being urged to consume but conserve?"
She goes on to describe changes such as repairing a torn stocking instead of just replacing it and paper becoming so scarce one paused to think before writing on a sheet. Sayers observes that while it's always painful to change a habit of mind, once we have made the effort, "we may find a great relief, even a sense of adventure and delight, in getting rid of the false and returning to the true."
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic. Schools and universities sent students home and switched to distance learning. The stock market plummeted as consumers stayed away from stores, restaurants, and entertainments. Workers worked from home, stopped working or earning at all, or sought some protection from the risks to which their jobs exposed them. And, once again, there was a paper shortage — toilet paper!
As of this writing, we're in the middle of it. So I wonder, how will our values change? Is there a Christian basis for thinking about the post-COVID-19 world?
I had a "snow day" response at the beginning. Numerous meetings were canceled, air travel postponed, and I got to work from home. When all my weekend activities were canceled, that was a relief, too. Why do I pack my life so full? Like most people I know, my work-rest balance has been seriously out of whack. What if this time of self-quarantine and shuttering of our usual entertainments causes us to rethink our daily activity and reprioritize? What activity is life-giving and God-honoring and what is merely life-filling?
That "snow day" response wears off quickly as the deeper impact of working alone, or working in high-risk situations, or not working at all, sinks in.
As I write this, the brick masons working on the building outside my window haven't returned to work. The musicians and actors in my neighborhood will be out of work for several months. Jobs in the travel and entertainment industries are at great risk. Work we may have taken for granted is no longer there, or at least threatened.
Might this experience change us from feeling entitled to work to being grateful? And grateful for the work of others?
In the 1940s, Sayers saw that the war forced consumers into a right attitude about work, an attitude in which the excellence of a product, and therefore the skill and labor of the worker, became what was valued. Christians can take the lead in this change once again.
As people who believe that work is the natural exercise and function of man, made in the image of his Creator, we know that work is not only "a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do." We are most likely facing extended economic turmoil and hardship, here and abroad. The coronavirus is called a pandemic (vs. epidemic) because it's global. It highlights our interconnectedness.
Our first call as God's people is to seek his presence and shift from fear and attendant self-protection, to love and care for our neighborhoods and cities. Secondly, we can seek our sovereign God's purposes in this for our lives, work, and society. Finally, we can ask for his guidance in ways to be people of love and good deeds among our colleagues and neighbors, remembering that the Creator and Redeemer is still at work renewing all things.
When We Talk About 'the Economy,' We're Talking About People
Anne R. Bradley
Amazon Helped Me Love My (Global) Neighbor
Matt Rusten
loving your neighbor
Love God Before You Love Your Neighbor — or Your Work
John Terrill
faith and work