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By Kyla Lee, Vancouver Criminal Lawyer
The Vancouver Sun recently published an op-ed piece, written by Dr. Patrick McGeer. He is an emeritus professor at the UBC School of Medicine and continues to conduct research in the field of neurology. Sounds like a smart guy. In his op-ed, he claims that cannabis legalization is harmful to Canadians. And he is wrong.
Not only has Dr. McGeer overlooked the numerous social benefits that will flow from legalization, but his article stinks of reefer madness. And it's simply not supported by any scientific research. As a professional researcher and professor, I would expect more from the good doctor. But it appears that he is more interested in fear-mongering and scare tactics than publishing a reasoned and supported opinion.
So let's break it down.
Dr. McGeer claims that his direct exposure to cannabis is limited. Well, that shows. He claims that of the 100 scientists he has supervised, the only two he had to dismiss were cannabis smokers who were unable to plan and execute their experiments. But he does not indicate whether it was the effect of having smoked marijuana that led to their dismissal, or just happenstance that the two people whom he dismissed were also marijuana smokers.
Nor does Dr. McGeer indicate how many of the other 98 scientists were marijuana users. I suspect he wouldn't know, given his attitude toward it. His staff are probably afraid to speak openly about their use of the substance.
Aside from his anecdotal evidence about marijuana's cognitive effects, Dr. McGeer makes a bold and unsubstantiated claim. He claims that the unanimous conclusion that marijuana has a deleterious effect on thinking.
The conclusion is anything but unanimous. There are plenty of studies showing how marijuana can have a positive impact on cognition. There are medical fields looking into the use of marijuana to improve cognition for those who have other conditions that can lead to cognitive impairment, like anxiety or ADHD or eating disorders or chronic pain.
What Dr. McGeer claims about cognition in his article is also completely unsubstantiated by any scientific research whatsoever. There are no studies referenced. There are no links to articles or information to support these bald claims. There is no support for what is clearly an opinion cast as scientific fact.
His conclusions about impairment are also inaccurate. Studies have failed to reach consensus about marijuana impairment and driving. The impairing effects of cannabis do not last days; smoked marijuana generally wears off after two to three hours, while marijuana that has been ingested in edible form typically lasts five to six hours.
What Dr. McGeer is likely referring to here is the storage and release of THC in the body, which can last days or even weeks. However, the THC stored in and released by fat cells has not been scientifically determined to be linked to impairment. The presence of THC in the body does not equal impairment.
As as driving lawyer, I was particularly surprised by Dr. McGeer's claim that marijuana is the drug most frequently found in the cars of fatal accidents. I suppose this may be true if a comparison were done of all drugs found in vehicles. But the presence of a drug in a vehicle does not equate to the presence of a drug in the body, use of the drug, or impaired driving by that drug. And I wonder whether Dr. McGeer is including alcohol in that statistic.
Which statistic, I note, is unsubstantiated. Like the rest of his nonsensical claims about cannabis in the article.
I would have expected better from a highly regarded emeritus professor, at a top-notch university. And I would have expected better of the Vancouver Sun than to publish an article that essentially amounts to reefer madness.
Dr. McGeer suggests that Canadians just say no to cannabis after legalization. Canadians would be better off to just say no to nonsense like this.
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Kavanaugh and Blasey Ford made headlines last year after President Donald Trump nominated Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court. Blasey Ford came forward with allegations of sexual assault against the nominee from when they were teenagers, setting the stage for a showdown during Senate testimony in September.
The Senate hearings on the sexual assault accusations were broadcast live on television. People across the country tuned in as the #MeToo movement dominated the national conversation.
"Christine Blasey Ford's ambition wasn't to become a household name or make it onto this list. She had a good life and a successful career—and risked everything to send a warning in a moment of grave consequence," Harris, now a presidential candidate, wrote in Time.
"At her core, she is a teacher. And through her courage, she forced the country to reckon with an issue that has too often been ignored and kept in the dark," Harris wrote.
Despite the allegations, Kavanaugh was confirmed to fill the Supreme Court seat last year.
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Jose Franch-Ballester performs at Langley Community Music School's Concerts Café Classico Sunday afternoon series on Feb. 16. (Tawnya Wood/Special to the Langley Advance Times)
Renowned clarinetist, Jose Franch-Ballester, takes the Rose Gellert Hall stage, Feb 16
His performance is part of Langley Community Music School's Concerts Café Classico series.
Ryan Uytdewilligen
Feb. 6, 2020 6:00 p.m.
Langley Community Music School (LCMS) is welcoming multi-award-winning clarinetist, Jose Franch-Ballester, and Canadian pianist, Scott Meek, to the Rose Gellert Hall for another installment of the Concerts Café Classico Sunday afternoon series.
On Sunday, Feb. 16, at 2:30 p.m., Franch-Ballester will perform for the very first time in Langley.
Born in Moncofa, Spain into a family of clarinetists and Zarzuela singers, Franch-Ballester knew he wanted to become a musician when he began performing in a wind band in his hometown.
"Since the age of nine I couldn't see myself doing another thing," the clarinetist recalled. "I always wanted to be a musician. Music makes me happy and fulfills my life."
Heralded for his "technical wizardry and tireless enthusiasm," Franch-Ballester is often considered one of the finest classical soloists and chamber music artists of his generation.
Meek's piano career has earned him countless competition titles and prizes, not to mention soloist performances with the Edmonton, Toronto, and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestras.
The duo look forward to sharing a varied and eclectic program that ranges from Brahms Sonata to the lighter Sonata by French composer Francis Poulenc.
Also on the program are the melodies of Cahuzac's Cantilene, as well as the energetic Klezmer Dreams by Kovacs.
LCMS' Concerts Café Classico Sunday afternoon series includes a pre-concert conversation with the musicians, hosted by LCMS Artistic Director, Elizabeth Bergmann.
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"Jose Franch-Ballester and pianist Scott Meek will present a program that highlights the many tonal qualities and possibilities of the clarinet through the rich and beautiful Brahms Sonata No. 1," said Bergmann. "Jose is an enthusiastic musician who plays with incredible conviction and passion, which I am sure our audience will thoroughly enjoy."
There will be a short break with complimentary coffee, tea, and refreshments before the performance from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Tickets for the Franch-Ballester concert are $20 for adults, $18 for seniors, and $10 for students.
Call the box office at 604-534-2848 or visit langleymusic.com to purchase tickets.
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So I've got some news for you, friends! After much, much prayer and consideration of our best interest, Chris and I have decided NOT to buy a house. That's right, we are pulling our offers on both houses and staying put for a while.
I'm not gonna lie, this decision was a very difficult one for both of us, but sometimes the difficult choices are the most rewarding! I was heartbroken when we first decided this, seriously, I cried! But there were a few factors that brought us to this conclusion. The biggest being the job flexibility we have by avoiding a mortgage right now. Chris is desperately wanting a job in his field, but he may have to take a pay cut before he makes more and we want him to be able to do that and us still live comfortably, especially if it will give him satisfaction in what he does for a living. We also want to be able to accept a job that isn't local if the opportunity presents itself. I cannot express the relief we feel! Man, being a grown up is no easy task!
So now we've decided to totally revamp our apartment! We spent the entire weekend cleaning floor to ceiling, a few hours at Ikea getting our home organized and the next few weeks are dedicated to painting a few walls, adding some new touches, getting rid of old stuff on Craig's list and basically making the apartment a place that feels like home again. And not to mention we will be able to get our cars in good working condition and grow our savings in the process! I can't wait to share pictures of the place in a few weeks!
God often answers us in great and unexpected ways. The important thing to remember is to ALWAYS listen! I can't wait to see where He leads us!
A few months ago I said that home was wherever we make it and I have never believed that more!
I am super excited about today's AIGH post! It is a special find I discovered about 2 years ago and I've been hooked ever since. For those of you who are new readers to the blog (welcome!), you should know that I am a complete magazine junkie! Seriously, it's like an addiction for me to find (and buy) several magazines a month...in addition to the five I already subscribe to:)They are mostly related to health, fitness, cooking and decorating, but this my friends is a true gem! The magazine is Clean Eating and it is a spin off of Oxygen magazine and their philosophy of eating clean. Basically, eating minimally processed, whole, nutrutious foods. As one of the colomnist frequently says, "Shop around the perimiter of the grocery store". They come out with a new issue every two months and I am always expectantly awaiting it's arrival!
As you know, I love recipes and frequently interchange where I get them, Whole Foods, Cooking Light, Epicurious and of course, Clean Eating. Well this week I decided to plan my menu around CE and, as always, they have all been fantastic!
I should tell you that of all the recipes I use (and I promise they are plenty!), I have had the most success with CE in regards to Chris loving them. There has only been one recipe that comes to mind that he actually hasn't liked. And really, I should have known better on that one...rookie mistake:) I think the biggest reason he is so fond of them is their simplicity. I mean really, when you are using fresh, whole ingredients, how can you go wrong?
The dinner I made on Tuesday night was particularly good and I feel I am obligated to share it with you! It is a spin on the philly cheese steak, but with chicken. I would not lead you astray, this is definitely a keeper!! Unfortunately, I couldn't find a picture anywhere for you to see just how scrumptious they look. You can however, check out the magazine! In the current July/August issue (pictured above), you can find the recipe on page 35. And tonight I'm going to venture to page 38 and satisfy our appetites with balsamic-marinated pork chops and grilled peaches!! I can't wait!
Man am I glad it is Friday!
I didn't have the best day yesterday and I am incredibly happy to be starting a new one, despite being really tired!
Here's how it all went down: On Wednesday, after Summerfest, I noticed some strange red spots on my stomach. Didn't think too much about it because they didn't itch or hurt and they didn't look suspicious. Decided I'd see what they looked like in the morning and if anything changed I would go from there. And the next day I forgot about them.
That was until about 1:30 Thursday afternoon when I noticed more on my chest and my arms. And by now they were starting to itch. My main concern was that I have never had chicken pox, only the shot and that I would be around kids at Summerfest. I called my doctor, who scheduled me an appointment just to make sure it wasn't some sort of bad allergic reaction. A little bummed I had to cancel my dentist appointment, but nothing too inconvenient. So I get to the doctor exactly at my appointment time only to find out I was at the wrong office! What made me mad was that I clarified with the nurse on the phone and she still told me the wrong place. Anyway, knowing I would miss the appt. time, I called to cancel and just took some Benadryl as instructed. Once we got home I immediately fell asleep and made the decision to skip Summerfest in case I was contagious. Plus, I had a bad headache. Crisis averted, right? Wrong!
About two hours later I was abruptly woken up by Abby barking like crazy, loud noises outside my window and someone ringing the doorbell. I reluctantly stumbled out of bed to see who it was and heard some random lady say, "The fire department is at your car!". What?? I ran out there to see what the problem was and found out my car has a gas leak and had started a small fire on the pavement. (I'm guessing from the heat, but don't really know how that happened) So I had to immediately call and have my car towed to a repair shop, but I didn't know where Chris takes our cars! It figures I couldn't get a hold of ANYONE!! I was starting to get really stressed out. Thankfully, the USAA rep on the phone was so nice and patient with me as I was trying to collect all the neccesary information. After an hour of humiliation (did I mention there were about 10 neighbors standing around being nosy and giving me wierd looks?) I finally got my car safetly towed away.
I kept thinking, what would have happened if I wasn't home? It would have been towed to an impound place where we would have had to pay a pretty penny to get it out! The weird thing is, my hives are almost gone and there is still no explanation for them. Talk about everything happening for a reason!
I also found out that we have a really sweet couple of neighbors. After it was all said and done, a girl we've seen around, and who adores Abby, came to say she didn't mind helping us out if we needed anything and even offered to drive me in to work at 6am! How sweet is that? My Mom had already planned on coming to work early, but I still really appreciate the offer!
I don't know what I would do without Chris, who is taking care of my car this morning and helped calm me down. And thankfully, the fireman said the problem was minor and pretty inexpensive to get fixed. Praise the Lord for that!
I am so looking forward to getting off work today because my Mom and I are going for pedi's this afternoon:) Yay!
The best finds always come from stalking my favorite blogs! Amanda of Swish and Swanky posted the most adorable piece of art from Studio Mela. How sweet are these prints?!
Okay, so I know I'm a goof! I'm not sure why this year has been so sentimental for me. Maybe it's because we're back in the place it all started, maybe it's that we're finally married, or maybe it's just because with every year that goes by, I realize how very lucky I am to have spent another year with the most incredible, loving man I have ever known! And despite our own weaknesses, God has continued to be faithful to us and grow our love for one another. With each year that passes, it just gets better and better.
Happy six years, Babe. Here's to another 66!
How many households these days do NOT have some sort of DVR capabilities? I mean seriously, it has become as common as having a dishwasher! I find it interesting how quickly we become attached to conveniences such as DVR. I mean really, Chris and I didn't even have tv for the first 6 months we were married and now it's like we have a heart attack if something doesn't record. Okay, so it's not quite that extreme for us, but I've seen people be that obsessed!
Countdown...6 days until our first anniversary!
On this day last year Chris and I, along with our parents, were in San Fransisco getting ready to leave for Hawaii...to get married!
Six days before we became Mr. and Mrs.!
Well, it's Sunday night and once again I am feeling the weekend slipping away too quickly!
Friday night, we decided on Up for our date night entertainment. Seriously, it was so stinkin' cute! What is it about Pixar movies that appeal to both young and old alike? Whatever it is, they should keep it up. This is a must see!
All ready for date night!
Yay for garage sales and great Saturday mornings together!
This afternoon I called my Mom to see if she wanted to go shopping with me. I needed to stop by Aveda for some essentials and wanted to make a stop at Anthropologie. I know I really shouldn't go there when I don't have a lot of extra money, but our anniversary is next weekend and I wanted a few new tops...and they are having a big sale. I finally made a decision on the few pieces I would buy, even though I wanted the whole store:) As my Mom was dropping me off at home she hands me a bag...? It turns out she's a real sneakster and bought me the headband I was drooling over AND a cute metal "H" (I am obsessed with H's right now). Seriously, how great are Moms?!
How adorable is this? I can't wait to wear it!
I've been dying to make these for weeks now. Talk about a hit! And paired with Chimney Rock's Elevage Blanc, it was the perfect sweet ending to a perfectly relaxing weekend!
The countdown has begun...7 days till our 1 year anniversary!!!
I don't even think we have any big plans for the weekend, which is the first in a while! We will need the rest for our upcoming festivities! Our one year anniversary is next Sunday and we are planning an awesome weekend!!! I still can't believe it has already been a year. Woot!
And on a side note, I just realized that we share our anniversary with Father's Day this year. Totally a bummer considering we won't be in town to be with our Dad's:( The first day of summer also lands on Sunday. June 21st is a big one this year!
For date night tonight we are going to the movies! It's been a while since we've gone, but we have free tickets! We haven't quite come to a decision on what we're going to see. Any recommendations?
Ooh, I made the Pasta Primavera I talked about last week and it was so yummy!! Seriously, a MUST try! I made some of my own variations that I think made the flavors a bit more rich. I also made the grilled fruit with the caramelized orange sauce for dessert. It was fantastic! But then again, how can you go wrong?
This is what my desk looks like this morning:) I've got my water, my tea from this morning and Chris brought me a skinny latte on his way to work. I think it's love!


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Serve. Protect. Take Time. Travis Easton reaches new heights after routine physical leads to early detection
Hiking the Appalachian Trail requires strength, endurance and perseverance. Travis Easton knew that having a pre-hike physical was an important step in preparing himself for a long hike on the trail, so he visited Sarah Bush Lincoln Family Physician, Lucas Catt, MD, in April 2017 so he could mark "physical" off of his preparation checklist. Travis quickly learned that he needed to prepare for a journey much more difficult than hiking.
Travis had watched his father fight prostate cancer in 2014, so he knew it was important to visit his doctor regularly, but as a husband, father and career law enforcement officer, he didn't carve out the time. The Appalachian Trail trip was the motivation he needed to schedule his overdue physical.
During the appointment, Travis shared his family health history with Dr. Catt and asked whether a blood test should be ordered to check his prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels. While the blood test is usually performed after age 50, Dr. Catt agreed that Travis' family history justified testing him before age 50. The next day, Dr. Catt called Travis to report that his PSA levels were significantly elevated.
Travis and his wife, Jamie (a registered nurse), were shaken by the news. They have three children: Maddie, 21, Trevor, 20, and Aly, 17. "Even though we had seen my Dad fight and win this battle, it was still such a shock to be a healthy 46-year-old father and to find out that I had [prostate cancer]," Travis said. "It was almost like time stood still that day."
As is true of any cancer, early diagnosis is key to successfully fighting prostate cancer. More than 192,000 cases are diagnosed each year, and prostate cancer is second only to lung cancer as a cause of death among men in the US.
As a police officer and former marine, Travis is no stranger to difficult situations. His experience and training helped him focus on the battle at hand. "I went through the stages of grief like most people do," Travis said. "I felt angry, but then I accepted it and knew I had to make a game plan and take action."
The path through cancer diagnosis and treatment is rarely clear and easy. For the Eastons, the next two months were filled with blood tests, doctor visits, research and, eventually, surgery. "The hardest part was the waiting period between diagnosis and surgery," Travis said. "I researched my options, and even though I didn't like some of them, I had to put faith in the professionals. I knew I could deal with any potential lifestyle changes as long as I could be around to experience life with my family and friends."
Travis credits Jamie for her steadfast support throughout his diagnosis and treatment. "She was the rock," he said. "She stayed strong and focused, which helped me do what I needed to do."
As a wife and someone with medical knowledge, Jamie had a unique perspective on the diagnosis. "Sometimes knowing too much or having seen too much can be a negative," Jamie said. "I was always hoping and praying for the best outcome, yet, in the back of my mind, I couldn't help thinking about the worst possibilities."
During his treatment period, Travis' daughter, Aly, said that her parents continued to focus on their children. "It was a confusing time because you don't expect to see your parents get sick, especially your Dad," Aly said. "He's the strong person in our house, so I never saw him cry, but they didn't hide anything from us. They were honest and set a good example for us for how parents should handle a crisis."
Now, one year after his surgery, Travis is healthier than ever. He hiked a portion of the Appalachian Trail in October of 2017 and he plans to hike another 40-mile section this year. "Cancer made me appreciate life," Travis said. "I went on that hike, surrounded by my friends, and the journey that I had to take to get there made the trip even more meaningful."
Travis often reflects on how his father's encouragement to ask for a simple test saved his life. He hopes to have the same influence on other men. He encourages his friends to make time for their annual exams and to be honest with their doctors about their family histories and health concerns. "You can't be afraid to ask the important questions," Travis said. "When you think about the possible consequences of avoiding the doctor, a quick visit and some blood work is no big deal."
Jamie whole-heartedly agrees. "If my husband had not gone in for a routine physical, his outcome might have been completely different. It is so important to not only see the doctor when you're having an issue, but to be sure to get preventive care as well. It really could save your life," she said.
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The most beautiful piece of architecture in the world is a bridge. Its lines are elegant and arching; its colors are the insides of a mountain. This bridge over the River Neretva embodies the purity of functionality like few things ever built with human hands. A perennial favorite of painters and photographers, its form has the subtle flair of high art and a confidence borne of fulfilling an eternally useful purpose. Its purpose is to connect two sides of a river. The Old Bridge, the Stari Most, is simple, delicate, and so strong that it required over 60 mortars to destroy.
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You will not understand the Balkan wars by staying two nights in Bosnia for a look at Stari Most. Whole lifetimes might be lived in Bosnia without ever fully understanding what led to full-scale war in very recent memory. But the results are visible, from the WE ALL BLEED graffiti on the walls of Mostar to the broken balcony of a cinderblock apartment building, looking just as it did in Wade Davis's war photography of 20 years ago. In the Davis photo a woman sits smoking behind a railing, which is bent in from a blast. Today the balcony is empty, and the railing is still bent.
You would recognize Stari Most if you saw it—look it up, type it in—or you would feel as though you did. Smooth and pale as eggshell, a mathematically flawless half-circle jointed by sections of discontinuity. At the time of its building, Stari Most was the widest man-made arch in the world. The architect reputedly skipped town before the public set foot on his unprecedented feat of engineering, because he feared the consequences of failure under a sultan's commission. The peak was off-center by 40 centimeters, but not because the Ottomans constructed anything off-center. The bridge was built with precision by the measure of an arshin. But the bridge spanned a geologic fault line, and it adjusted to a 14-centimeter shift of ground. Earthquakes introduced enough imperfection to be called character. The bridge strained but stood.
The Ottoman empire excelled, among other things, at bridges. Naturally people were drawn to Mostar so they could cross the river. Bridges always attract traffic that way. But this one was set in a panorama of rugged cliffs and little tile-roofed houses, reflected in a deep turquoise current. It was built to be picturesque, as the sultans preferred. Tourism was a feature of life in Mostar from that time forward. Wealth pooled, overflowed, and came roaring down the river with projects that a wooden-bridged village would never have undertaken. Infrastructure meant communication, meant travelers passing through, meant money passing through, meant a rising star of importance. So the people of Mostar were called the bridge-keepers, and the bridge kept them, too.
On light poles, on mailboxes, on what seemed like every available surface along the street I walked in Mostar were death notices—of old age, usually. They were printed on white paper with green borders and crowned by stars and crescents. Their uniformity suggested they were publications of the local mosque. Photos of the deceased gazed from the top left corners—head-shots of elderly, unsmiling, gently wrinkled humans. I could not read the announcements but recognized dates, times, and lists of descendants' names. After Google Translate, with massaging:
We inform our relatives, friends and acquaintances that our mother and grandmother, M—, at 9:05 a.m., after a short illness, in her 78th year of life, passed on to the hereafter. The funeral prayer will be held on Friday. After prayer at 17:15, the deceased will be taken and buried in Sarica graveyard. She is survived by a daughter, husband, grandchildren, their families, and many other relatives.
The funeral begins on Wednesday outside the Livac mosque at 17:15h. After the funeral prayer, the deceased will be taken to the Livac cemetery and buried. The Tawhid prayer for the dead will be observed in the house of the deceased at 17:00h. Mourners: son, daughters, spouse, son-in-law, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, sisters-in-law, cousins, their families, and other relatives, acquaintances and friends.
I wondered fleetingly if this was a habit from wartime—putting up notices of the dead and missing. Though maybe it was a much older habit, and simply the most efficient way to get a message out. Memory temporarily spans the gulf between life and death. I saw a similar one much later, pinned to the wall of an American post office: "E—passed away Thursday, she is in heaven dancing with her Roy."
Though built by a Muslim sultan and situated in a Muslim neighborhood, the bridge was a source of universal community pride. It did connect a predominantly Muslim side of town to the rest of Mostar, and was a front line of conflict during the Bosnian War of 1992-1995. From the hills above, the Bosnian Croat army shelled the bridge steadily for several days in November of 1993. Shell after shell until it gave way, despite the fact that they had done their best to protect the bridge from Bosnian Serb explosives in earlier phases of the conflict. It is hard to retrace the logic of a siege, but the associations of historic architecture, a literal connector of the community, were not lost on the bombers. The bridge was no accidental casualty. It was a ligament, and it was cut.
Reconstruction has meaning in the Balkans as in few other parts of the world. It means putting the world back together, recreating the skyline you used to know or the touchstone of cultural heritage that never seemed so salient until it was gone. But reconstruction takes money, lots of it, and the efforts to rebuild sometimes took the form of a vast, bureaucratic enterprise to forcibly make this place look the way it looked before, and to forcibly stitch together a population still reeling from the rends.
When the bridge was destroyed, there were many options on the table other than replica. New designs were drawn up for a modern bridge in place of the old one, or a monument of some kind to mark the empty space where the wind now passed through. But the people of Mostar decided: make it the way it was before. Memorials are for the crimes of an outsider, to remember those bastards and what they did. But when a house is divided against itself, all the inhabitants want is to forget this ever happened. Put things back the way they were before the rupture. Monument is for memory; reconstruction is active forgetting.
Mostar's mayor Safet Orućević refused the $1 million Turkey pledged to the restoration project. He did not want this project to be construed as uniquely Muslim, or as evidence of Istanbul's lingering influence. He assembled a more international funding scheme, though he accepted the leadership of a Turkish company specializing in the care and restoration of Ottoman bridges. The Hungarian army was in town, acting as a peacekeeping force, and their divers helped hoist stones from the river, collecting pieces of the old bridge. It was a beautiful project—fun, from a conservation standpoint, despite the charged air of Bosnia. They used Ottoman building techniques, and learned quite a lot about 16th century bridge-building. They published papers. So the bridge got built pretty much as it had been before, with cramps, dowels, iron, lead, and lime. On July 23, 2004, in the presence of international dignitaries, Stari Most opened to foot traffic once more.
Reconstruction is everywhere in the broader region. The beautiful Church of St. Panteleimon, for example, overlooking Lake Ohrid in Macedonia, where new-hewn stone comfortably associates with toppled pillars of the Roman empire. The medieval abbey on the island of Lokrum, shelled mercilessly in 1991, but still arching its entryways over young families of tourists or peacocks, who trail their respective mothers. There is comfort in the buildings resting where they always have, although something about them always made me look twice. Something too clean about the stone and mortar, lacking a patina of age and experience that can't quite be replaced. In that sense, reconstruction is more like time travel than preservation—taking us back to when the building was new, rewinding past the harshest of the intervening years.
At first glance, reconstruction has all the indulgence of peace. Mostar rebuilt its Old Bridge when its apartment buildings are still crumbling, after all. Every city has its abandoned architectures, but Mostar's are strikingly visible: bombshell-shaped holes in white cinderblock walls, and patches bricked in different reds. Sunlight off sleek, curved windows in a new office complex. Sunlight through yawning holes in a square edifice from another century, and sun in the eyes of crane operators as construction continues apace. Despite the fact that office buildings are far cheaper to rebuild than Ottoman stone bridges—despite the fact that there were other bridges easier to rebuild and there was no pressing infrastructural need for this one—Stari Most topped the priority list. The bridge is a symbol of connection, an international joint effort of historically Christian and Muslim nations, and the physical evidence of a possible future here. Mostar needed to rebuild, but what it needed most urgently was a reason to.
My relatives looked at me in horror when I told them I was going to Bosnia. They had images of the Balkans flashing in their brains that I, so young at the end of the 20th century, did not. Nothing about the atmosphere of the Balkans felt threatening in 2016—not stable, perhaps, but businesslike. My friend and I found our whitewashed hostel tucked behind other buildings on pleasantly confusing residential streets. The hostel was fairly new, and the proprietor hadn't yet listed himself on major backpacker websites like Hostelworld or AirBnB, but relied successfully on word of mouth. "We are small hostel, with big heart," he said as he poured me a glass of vivid pink beet juice. He was serving us hurmašica, a traditional syrup-soaked sweet made by his mother in the apartment upstairs. Small speakers on the table discharged a whiplash playlist of elevator jazz, dance music in unrecognizable languages, and Anglophone country and western.
In the Balkans, I thought constantly about peace. It was hard for me to imagine intense, confused violence there. Sometimes war seemed like a disease, and the rest of the world stood back from the suffering, not knowing the causes or cures. Afraid to catch it, and yet somehow still half-believing that these people were just naturally predisposed to this particular horror.
But Susan Sontag famously argued against using war as a metaphor, specifically a metaphor for illness, and against using illness as a metaphor for war. "Only in the most limited sense is any historical event or problem like an illness," she wrote. Figurative speech is not just harmless, she argued, but has its own feedback loops. To think about war like an illness inevitably oversimplifies both: "an invitation to self-righteousness, if not to fanaticism." In other words, metaphor is a symptom that can become a cause.
Balkanization entered English (and German, and French) political vocabulary as a term for irredeemable fragmentation. Before 1914, a speaker of English might have said that one country or movement broke into many smaller ones, and after that, the same speaker might say that it Balkanized. The connotation is negative, or at least casts some doubt about whether independence from the whole was a good idea. This beautiful little peninsula experienced the rise and fall of multiple empires and many local disturbances, and the shifts were never bloodless. There is no better illustration of this word than the tiny clip of video, just a minute or two taped by local news media, of the Old Bridge falling into the river. "Balkanized" in English doesn't mean bravely independent. It means broken.
For war and suffering to become the object of international attention they must represent something more than the local conflict. They must be a metaphor. The Bosnian war, Sontag wrote, represented "the stand of a small, fledgling southern European country wishing to remain multicultural as well as independent against the dominant power of the region and its neo-fascist program of ethnic cleansing." Through international journalism, the Balkans became a theater for the world's thinking about violence and responsibility. Politically, it became the type site for a particular kind of unraveling.
Proximally, what the bridge connects are two sides of Mostar's central tourist warren of gelato and coffee pots. The vast arch has stone rib-steps protruding from the surface, as the original did, to keep pedestrians from slipping. To cross the bridge involves a far more dramatic uphill and downhill than I was expecting, and with the mass of grade-school field-trippers pushing against the rest of the crowd, the stone steps are a relief. The whole structure is made from limestone, fine-grained and locally quarried. Below is the river: a fast, cold, geologically deep division.
The trouble with symbols is that they are malleable, and not always in predictable ways. A bridge is a function of language. A symbol of peace and reconciliation should be followed by the actuality of peace and reconciliation. A symbol of connection should be accompanied by actual reconnection. There is no more literal way to connect people across chasms, as the international community recognized when they rallied to rebuild the Stari Most. Language can and does change the way people think. Symbols can and do kick-start the processes they represent. But the international community set so many hopes on Mostar that it's difficult to strain out hype and hypocrisy here. The New Old Bridge has many concrete effects: Like its predecessor, it brings tourism to Mostar that might otherwise stay on the coast, and concentrates foreigners in historic quarters along the river among clean tablecloths on shaded terraces. It allows people to cross the river without having to walk quite so far up- or downstream. But no bridge, no matter how faithful to the original, can ever make people forget about war.
I struggle with language as a tool that is inherently symbolic, making it difficult to talk about a bridge as just a bridge. Just the slickness of polished stone under soles, just the climb, descent, and toes meeting the other side. Just walking on air. You see temptation is too great. I bend towards metaphor, and the bridge strains but stands. In truth, I don't even want to avoid twisting this thing into symbol. It is a perfectly good symbol, just as it is a perfectly serviceable bridge. I would like the symbol to do its part in holding the world together.
In 1938, between wars, Virginia Woolf wrote about standing on a bridge across the Thames and watching men move from their homes to their work in the centers of influence. Her essay asked how we are to prevent war. Preventing war, she decided, depends very much on who crosses that bridge and what happens on the other side in churches, parliaments, and universities. The view from the bridge is the realization that preventing war depends largely on how we organize our peacetime.
Stari Most is not a place where reconciliation takes place in the day-to-day. It is crowded with visitors from both near and far. The shops sell souvenir gas masks and pens made from bullet casings. To implement the peace agreement, Mostar was divided administratively along roughly the lines the fighters defined, and the city remains politically turbulent. In that sense, the combatants had their way after all, bridge or no bridge or bridge again.
The distance from the crown of the arch to the river below is almost 80 feet, and for the past 400 years, people have been jumping off. This is how locals use the space. I would not be surprised if the tradition of leaping from the peaked arch of Stari Most dates to the moment it opened to foot traffic the first time. At any rate, the Mostar Diving Club touts a long heritage. I stood next to a young woman, teenaged, who busked for the Diving Club and chatted fluently in English about her aspirations. She had been practicing on one of the shorter bridges just downstream. The Neretva runs deep in this section, turquoise darkening to teal. You fall for a long time, she said, and then the river is shockingly cold and swift. Occasionally people die.
I don't want to talk about the river, you know, don't want to call this conflict deep or wild or natural-springing. Peace is both a beautiful and practical thing. I thought constantly about peace as I got on and off busses, as my passport was stamped and my luggage was searched, as I curved down valleys and ate ice cream from the magazine stand. Every day brought a new city in a different nation with yet another unfamiliar language, a refreshed feeling of vulnerability, and overarching amazement. Outside the bus windows people were growing lavender, selling shoes, cutting the weedy grass of a public park with a curved farm blade. The graffitied domes of bunkers rested in fields. People sold mulberries in season alongside dry tobacco out of a plastic sack, young teens smoking and elderly couples resting on park benches. Everywhere I saw the new faces of uninsulated cinderblock buildings with curtains blowing at the window holes. In between, older walls were pitted and gapped. A tree perched on a second story ruin, covering the holes with its leaves. Everywhere I could see the remains and the rebuilt, the New Old Bridge.
Every metaphor has its limits: brokenness, reconciliation, and jumping off half-way. There is a town with residents and tourists and the paths they all take across the river. There is old stone, newly quarried, that holds together despite the shuddering earth. The bridge was never built to connect two sides of a river—the river does not care. People do. People decided to keep the bridge. And it is only a bridge, believe me, I know, but that decision seems significant. Sometimes it's not possible to know what to build or leave empty, or what metaphors count as true symptoms of peace. Who's to say how much the outward expression means: your smile, an upside-down arch, the symbol of a bridge.
Abby Dockter spent a few years following field and lab science jobs up and down the Rockies, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Weber–the Contemporary West, Essay Daily, and deep in the Mesa Verde National Park website. She enjoys long, dry archaeological reports, and usually hikes with poetry.
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La basilique-cathédrale Notre-Dame de Québec est l'église primatiale du Canada et le siège de l'archidiocèse de Québec. Elle est située dans l'arrondissement historique du Vieux-Québec à Québec, accolée au Séminaire de Québec, face à l'hôtel de ville de Québec et bordée par la rue De Buade. Elle a été classée monument historique en 1966.

Notre-Dame de Québec est le plus ancien siège diocésain en Amérique au nord du Mexique. C'est aussi l'église de la plus vieille paroisse d'Amérique du Nord. Elle est la première église à être élevée au rang de basilique mineure par le pape  le 28 août 1874.

C'est la deuxième église la plus vaste de Québec après l'église Saint-Roch, mais l'église Saint-Jean Baptiste et l'église des Saints-Martyrs Canadiens qui sont plus vastes que la basilique ont dû fermer leurs portes.

Histoire

17e - 19e siècles
La première construction à l'emplacement actuel de la cathédrale date de 1647 sous le nom d'église Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix, la première messe y est célébrée en 1650. En 1664 est érigée la paroisse Notre-Dame-de-l'Immaculée-Conception.

Après la création du diocèse de Québec (recouvrant alors toute la Nouvelle-France) en 1674, l'embellissement de l'église devenue cathédrale est effectuée selon les plans de l'architecte  (1635-1698) à l'époque de l'évêque François de Montmorency-Laval. Un nouvel agrandissement est ensuite effectué sous la direction de Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry de 1744 à 1749.

La cathédrale est ensuite détruite deux fois. Elle est tout d'abord ravagée par le bombardement des Britanniques lors du siège de Québec de 1759 et est reconstruite à partir de 1766 selon les plans de Chaussegros de Léry tout en allongeant le sanctuaire. Le clocher, auquel s'ajoute un second lanternon, est reconstruit par Jean Baillairgé vers 1771. Jean et son fils François Baillairgé réalisent de 1787 à 1793 les éléments intérieurs: retables, baldaquin, statues et trône de l'évêque. Le maître-autel (1797) et le banc d'œuvre (1799) sont réalisés par François.

La façade principale est refaite en 1843-1844 sur des plans de l'architecte Thomas Baillairgé, fils de François, présentés dès 1829. De style néo-classique, elle est cependant restée inachevée ; des deux tours prévues, seule la tour nord est construite, mais amputée de son clocher en raison de la faiblesse des fondations. Une restauration majeure est réalisée de 1920 à 1922 par les architectes Georges-Émile Tanguay et Raoul Chênevert.

20 - 21e siècles
Cependant, le  l'église est à nouveau dévastée par un incendie. Il ne subsiste que la maçonnerie. On débute la restauration et la construction de l'église actuelle dès 1923 à partir des plans originaux et de photographies anciennes, sous la direction de Chênevert et de l'architecte Maxime Roisin. Les travaux sont terminés en 1930. La crypte est réalisée en 1959 par l'architecte André Gilbert. Les sépultures de la plupart des évêques de Québec et de quatre gouverneurs de la Nouvelle-France y sont réunies.

La basilique-cathédrale est classée Monument historique le . Elle est désignée lieu historique national du Canada le .

En 2014, ce lieu a reçu une Porte Sainte, la première à l'extérieur de l'Europe, en l'honneur du  de la paroisse Notre-Dame de Québec.

L'intérieur ressemble à celui de la basilique Notre-Dame-des-Victoires de Paris.

Porte Sainte

La basilique-cathédrale Notre-Dame de Québec est le lieu de la première Porte Sainte en Amérique, soit la première hors de l'Europe et la septième dans le Monde. Elle fut inaugurée en le dimanche , jour de la solennité de l'Immaculée Conception, lors de l'ouverture des fêtes du  de la paroisse Notre-Dame de Québec : église-mère et première paroisse catholique d'Amérique du Nord, au Nord du Mexique et des colonies espagnoles, et siège primatiale de l'Église catholique qui est en Canada.

Personnalités inhumées dans la crypte

De nombreuses personnalités, ecclésiastiques et laïques, sont enterrées dans la crypte située sous la basilique-cathédrale :

On y trouve notamment les sépultures de quatre importants gouverneurs de la Nouvelle-France :
 Louis du Buade, comte de Palluau et de Frontenac (1622-1698), gouverneur de 1672 à 1682 et de 1689 à 1698 ;
 Louis-Hector, chevalier de Callières (1648-1703), gouverneur de 1699 à 1703 ;
 Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de La Jonquière (1685-1752), marquis de la Jonquière, gouverneur de 1749 à 1752 ;
 Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil (1643-1725), marquis de Vaudreuil, gouverneur de 1703 à 1714 et de 1716 à 1725.

Les évêques de Québec sont aussi inhumés dans la crypte.

Parmi eux, le premier évêque de la Nouvelle-France et saint catholique, François de Laval (1623-1708) (en poste de 1674 à 1688), repose à l'intérieur de la basilique-cathédrale.

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 Liste des lieux de culte de Québec
 Liste des cathédrales du Canada
 Arrondissement historique du Vieux-Québec
 Liste des lieux de culte de la Nouvelle-France au Québec
Jean Lemire, maître-charpentier de métier, on lui commande en 1684 un clocher de chêne pour la tour sud de la cathédrale

Liens externes

 Historique de la basilique-cathédrale Notre-Dame de Québec, La Porte Sainte de Québec
 Description sur Églises de Québec
 Orgues au Québec La cathédrale compte trois orgues Casavant.

Notes et références

Notre-Dame
Basilique au Canada
Lieu patrimonial de Québec
Immeuble patrimonial classé du Québec
Lieu historique national au Québec
Quebec
Religion en Nouvelle-France
Quebec
Architecture néoclassique au Canada
Archidiocèse de Québec
Architecture du XVIIe siècle au Québec
Québec
Église néo-classique
Lieu historique national en 1989
Cathédrale catholique au Québec
Bâtiment détruit lors d'un incendie au Canada
Monument reconstruit
Église détruite au Québec
Cathédrale détruite
Bâtiment de Thomas Baillairgé
Bâtiment de Georges-Émile Tanguay
Bâtiment de Raoul Chênevert

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Joe Biden: Make America Hate Again
by Peter Lemiska / 11 January 2022 11 January 2022
With only one year into his presidency, it's probably too soon to be talking about Joe Biden's legacy. But from the very beginning of his administration, Biden has shown a willingness – no, a commitment – to foment division and hatred. Unless he somehow acquires the skills of a real leader, it's likely that his …
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How Many More Capitol Police Present on Jan 6th Are Going to "Commit Suicide"?
by Steve MacDonald / 3 August 2021 3 August 2021
The Washington Times is reporting that a fourth Capitol Police Officer present during the brief January 6th occupation of the Capitol Building by protesters has committed suicide. Is it just me or is that just a little bit suspicious?
Socialism Is Cancel-Culture at the Point of a Government Gun in a World You Allowed to be Disarmed
by Steve MacDonald / 11 July 2021 11 July 2021
A few years ago, the University of New Hampshire (UNH) had a riot. Some uptight social justice warriors were triggered by students culturally appropriating Mexican attire.
Does Your Government Suffer From Insurrection Dysfunction (ID)?
by Browncoat / 24 June 2021 24 June 2021
Left-Wing Democrats are not the stupidest people in American because there are people who believe what they say, which makes them dumber. And they are not all Dems. Case in point. The January 6th Capitol Building Protest.
Serial Liar AOC Lied About Capitol Breach Threat to Her Life – She Wasn't There
by Steve MacDonald / 5 February 2021 5 February 2021
How many Democrats shared Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's harrowing tale of the US Capitol breach. She feared for her life, a tale with more than 6 million views. It is a story that grew to attempted assassination/murder, except she wasn't even in the Capitol Building when it was breached.
Condemning violence doesn't address the other threat to our republic.
The response to the recent rioting at the U.S. Capitol was immediate, unequivocal, and bipartisan. Democrats were all too eager to condemn the participants as insurrectionists, to blame Donald Trump, and condemn him, too, as an unhinged provocateur. It must have given them some measure of satisfaction after the criticism they faced for ignoring and …
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Democrats Had a Reason to Storm the Capitol Building
by Browncoat / 12 January 2021 12 January 2021
From the throngs of Trump supporters who made the trip to DC to the Republicans in House and Senate to the President himself, the completion of the congressional challenges to electors was the last stand. That testimony and evidence was everything to their case. Only Democrats could benefit from its disruption.
Rasmussen: Trump's Approval Rises After Capitol Hill Calamity
by Steve MacDonald / 10 January 2021 10 January 2021
The Media's new irresponsible riot narrative is having difficulty sticking outside the ruling class dojos in DC. That might be because the summer of riots was nothing like that. As minority businesses burned and cities lost control, Democrats who were egging them on got, not condemnation, but air-time to do more of the same.
Trump "Supporters" Storm the Capitol Building – Electoral Dysfunction Postponed (Video) [Update]
by Steve MacDonald / 6 January 2021 6 January 2021
I'm not sure whose bright idea it was. Stupid. I object. I strenuously object. Having said that, thousands of rally attendees have pushed through multiple layers of security in an effort to "occupy" the US Capitol building.
City of Detroit Sues BLM Protesters for A Coordinated Civil Conspiracy
by Steve MacDonald / 27 December 2020 27 December 2020
BLM Protesters were not all peaceful. Many of those found themselves confronted by cops trying to protect the public and public property. This professional victim class has decided to sue the city of Detroit, and the city has said thank you. We're suing you back.


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Gujarat, News
Gujurat earthquake – No 'natural' disaster
February 9, 2001 CWI-India	Leave a comment
IN THE worst ever earthquake that India has seen in the last two centuries, Ahemadabad, Bhuj, Bhachau and the entire Kutch district have been devastated.
Ten days after the disaster the most conservative estimate puts the body count at 100,000. The final toll will be at least four times that number as the day of the earthquake was a holiday and people mostly remained home.
"The more we tried to run, the more we stayed in the same place. There was a sound like a screaming train, and then, the silence", said Syed Husain Miya of Bhachau village, who lost his entire family. Ironically, his village Bhachau means "save us" in Hindi.
Gujarat, which was India's second most developed state, has been reduced to ruins. It had a growth rate of 10% a year throughout the 1990s, and industrial growth 22% a year. 11% of India's GDP (national wealth) came from Gujarat.
Ahemadabad, which is one of the most affluent cities in India, had seen rapid urbanisation and a real estate boom in the 1990s. The concentration of buildings in prime areas had sky rocketed the land value of some of the suburbs.
"An earthquake itself never kills people. It's the badly constructed buildings that do", says V Suresh, chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO). Proving his point, are the 30,000 Gujarat Housing Board flats which were designed and built by HUDCO, still standing, with very little damage.
Almost all the high-rise buildings and skyscrapers built by flouting the building bylaws and architectural specifications have been reduced to rubble.
The clique of 'land mafia', corrupt politicians and the government bureaucracy are the real culprits behind this 'natural disaster'.
Two ministers of the Gujarat's right-wing BJP government, Vajubhai Wala and Narottham Patel are also leading property developers.
Earthquake zone
The Gujarat earthquake came as no surprise. The Rann of Kutch has been marked as an extremely high risk earthquake zone since the first seismic hazard surveys in 1935.
Earthquake-resisting designs have been known to structural engineers since the 1960s, and the National Building Code of 1983 clearly identifies structural designs in terms of earthquakes and cyclones. But the profit-driven, corrupt capitalist system makes the innumerable laws and statutes ineffective.
The district of Kutch in Gujarat is cursed in one more way. The underground water tables are shifting and disappearing very fast, (according to one independent survey, by 2020 the entire Kutch region would become a desert). Many fingers point towards the secret and many not-so-secret nuclear bomb tests that were carried out in the neighbouring Pokhran village of Rajasthan.
For the capitalist government the calamity of Gujarat has come as a blessing in disguise. Already facing a huge fiscal deficit, the prime minister has warned that people will have to be ready for harsher times. It is certain that direct and indirect taxes will soar when the budget is announced later this month.
The Gujarat earthquake shows that capitalism is too corrupt and incompetent to save the lives of the people. In fact, it breeds destruction through its greed for quick and more profits.
Make the builder-land mafia pay. Seize their ill-gotten wealth and assets.
No new taxes: tax the rich. Public ownership and control of land and building.
Put massive investment in affordable, safe and modern government housing.
Re-house the migrant labourers, who were living in appalling conditions even before the disaster.
End the corrupt capitalist system.
Jagadish G Chandra, New Socialist Alternative, CWI – India.
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Cameo Orchestra
February with the Girl Guides
Back in February we played a concert at a new venue. This presented some initial challenges with setting up but were soon overcome and proceeded to be one of the most popular concerts of the year, creating a real buzz in the hall and a programme which catered for all ages. We were lucky enough to have Bradley Stoke Radio attend and record the event for playback on their classical spot.
Thanks to Hayley (member of the audience) for writing the following summary of the evening:
"On 27th February I had the privilege of attending an evening of popular show tunes and classics performed by Cameo Orchestra and hosted by Holy Trinity church, Bradley Stoke in aid of Concorde Division, Bristol and South Gloucestershire County guides.
Over £500 was raised throughout the evening, and by ticket sales, to boost the Senior Section's funds for their August 'Centenary Celebration' trip to Vienna, Prague and Poland. Around 100 audience members enjoyed some rousing performances by the orchestra which included two personal friends of mine who are both cellists.
After a slow start due to poor lighting in the main church area, conductor Andrew Foister kept a grip on proceedings with his own blend of wit and engagement! Often at the expense of orchestra members!
Guides were on hand to serve tea/coffee and home-made cakes during the interval and a raffle was held.
Amazing, young soloist Molly Cheesley added her voice to some of the tunes and was rewarded with enthusiastic applause. Definitely a talent to look out for in the future. The evening concluded with some audience participation in the form of a 'sing-a-long'.
What a fantastic event! I am a Cameo convert!
Hayley Thomas"


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1. Combined results of all current polling suggest that the Gillard Labor government is now in a worse position than any past winning government - in terms of the amount by which it trails for the time remaining to the election - except for Howard's in 2001.
2. If Labor does not have a 2PP position better than 46% by late March, it will fall behind Howard's 2001 recovery curve.
3. It is also possible that very bad polling in the next few weeks would cause Labor to reach a position worse than that Howard recovered from in 2001.
4. Being in a position from which recovery is without precedent or has few precedents does not mean a party cannot win an election. However, it suggests they are unlikely to do so.
5. This article also includes subjective waffle about Labor's current leadership and direction problems and the difficulty finding a clear and competitive way out of the mess the government has got itself into.
Update (25 Feb): It is now debatable whether even Howard's 2001 recovery is a valid precedent for recovery from the Gillard Government's current situation.
Note to Tas or other interested readers: if you haven't already done so please vote in my not-a-poll for Best Tasmanian Premier of the last 30 years on the sidebar. Looks like the only poll Tasmanian Labor can still be confident of winning!
The new EMRS poll is out with a headline rate of Liberal 55 Labor 23 Greens 18 Ind 4. This is very similar to results polled in late 2011. The Greens have recovered some of the seven points lost last time (a loss which I suspected at the time was caused partly by sample anomalies) but it is still their equal second-worst result in this term of government. The EMRS headline figure habitually overestimates Green support and the figure from the table with undecideds included (Table 2) tends to provide a much better reading of Green support.
The very helpful trend tracking on the EMRS website shows that this is the Liberals' equal highest headline reading in this term, matching the 55 in August 2011 and the same in November 2012. But it is actually better than that for the party because their figure including undecided votes (46 - Table 2) is now at its highest level in EMRS history, compared to the 44 in Aug 2011 and the 43 in Nov 2012. This suggests the party is increasingly "locking in" the votes it needs to win majority government. Labor, on the other hand, is if anything shedding votes from the firmer end of its support base, with its Table 2 figure back to a miserable 17%, one point above its all-time low. The gap of 29 points at the firm end of the parties' support bases is the highest it has been and about twice the size needed for majority government. While I have assumed in my "interpretation" figure above that the voters who are undecided even after being asked what party they are leaning to will split evenly between the major parties, it is possible it could be even worse than this for Labor. If the remaining undecided voters break to the Liberals as well then a Liberal vote in the high 50s becomes possible.
I've just added a subjective two-party-preferred vote (2PP) estimate feature on the sidebar. The reason I have added this feature is that I commonly get involved in discussions on various sites in which someone is making claims about the likely state of the national 2PP that aren't even remotely credible, or just getting confused about all the different polls and the strange range of values they spit out. I think a fair few people will from time to time be interested in my view of where things are at, especially when having those kinds of debates while I'm not around. There are some handy formal aggregators about, but they often take a few days to update and I often find my view a little out from theirs (and usually somewhere in the middle of them all), typically because everyone has slightly different views on the best underlying assumptions. When I can, I'll be aiming to update this estimate quickly.
Admin note for Tas readers especially: this month I am running Not-A-Poll: Best Tasmanian Premier of the last 30 years. Please vote (on right) if you have an opinion! Readers may be surprised to see the Premier of one of Tasmania's least popular governments ever (ie the current one) challenging for the lead, as well as the big lead for the Labor premiers over the Liberal ones, but there are actually quite a few reasons why this might occur. When the not-a-poll is finished I'll post some comments about the exercise and what it means. Of course, the results are not representative of the general population - and that's even assuming nobody stacks the thing!
1. Following a very turbulent week in federal politics, this week's polls on average show a small move to the Coalition.
2. The Newspoll showing a result of 56:44 to the Coalition is unrepresentative and probably exceeds the real figure by at least 2 points.
3. The Newspoll reading is probably not, however, a "rogue poll".
4. Over-calling of supposed "rogue polls" is a very common problem in the online poll-watching community. This article provides many cautionary notes about use of the term "rogue" to describe a poll result.
5. The Government's polling position is now worse than that of the Keating Government in 1992-3 was at the equivalent or any later stage.
6. There are possibly still as many as six cases of governments recovering from worse polling positions than Labor's current position (with the time to go until the election factored in), however in three of those cases the data are very limited and at least one of the others is probably an invalid comparison.
7. Claimed evidence that either the declaration of the election date well in advance, or the chosen election date itself, are bad portents for Labor is not valid.
8. This article concludes with some discussion of contradictory voter attitudes to the economy, which may be posing a major problem for Labor at the moment.
What's Green, Tasmanian And Probably Isn't Endangered?
The MJB: Giving extinction rumours the finger since 2004!
It's only tenuously related to politics, as a classic case of threatened species being considered firstly extinct and then endangered when in practice hardly anything is known about it - a problem which pads threatened species lists (especially Tasmania's) with unjustified or exaggerated listings, creates "green tape" and distorts conservation priorities. The problem is, of course, that many of these species do not even become the focus of serious research attention until they are listed. And even so, much of the research is done on an amateur basis, as it was in the recent first known find of the species in numbers, in which I was involved. In fact, I found the first one of several found by our group faster than I could spot an 11% swing to Andrew Wilkie in the Sandfly Polling Booth! You can see a rather low quality camera-video shot by me and read some more text about it here. More pictures (by people who know how to use a camera!) on the Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club Flickr page here.
This post represents my own opinions facts only.
Update (1 Mar): See the ABC TV news item here. Further searches through February have continued to reveal good numbers. I can add that there was one other live sighting in recent times - by a very experienced entomologist who seems to have never drawn any public attention to the sighting or logged it, but fortunately, he did one day casually mention it to me. It was at that site where we first found the species, but we've found it to be quite widespread in the area.
Admin note: Following the farcically misinterpreted Galaxy poll of "best" Prime Ministers of the last few decades (in which a huge lead for Howard based largely on him being the only Liberal in the sample while the Labor vote was split four ways was supposed to prove he was the best), I thought it would be fun to have a "Not-A-Poll" opt-in for "best" Tasmanian Premier! It's on the right. Vote early stack often! Results are almost totally meaningless and for amusement/interest purposes only. Ballot order random.
1. The regular online pollster Essential Report has recently polled figures that lean to the Coalition compared to other pollsters (by about 1 point or slightly more) and that change very little from poll-to-poll.
2. Essential's two-party preferred results became much less volatile from early to mid 2010 onwards. Prior to that they had been very bouncy and tended to have a large house effect in favour of Labor.
3. The current lean to the Coalition is a more recent development.
4. It would be expected that Essential would bounce less from poll to poll compared to other polls because of its use of a two-week rolling average, which gives it a larger effective sample size and reduces the impact of random factors on the result.
5. However, even with sample size taken into account, Essential polling in 2011 and 2012 was 30% less bouncy than a simulated "random" poll of similar size, even after assumptions are made that make the random poll less bouncy than such a poll normally would be.
6. This suggests that (i) Essential's scaling system is remarkably effective in reducing poll-to-poll bounce, or (ii) there is a problem with the underlying subsampling methods that is causing overly repetitive results, or (iii) both of these things are happening. At this stage I think (ii) is most likely.
7. It would be easier to trust a poll that produced remarkably constant results if it did not drift off the 2PP average of the other pollsters.
Disclaimer: These are provisional findings relating to a complex modelling question. They may be amended based on any feedback received. If so, significant edits will be noted at the bottom of the post. Oh, and this post comes with a Level Three Wonk Alert. You have been warned!


Berlinbased agency for live communication Jeff Berlin GmbH approached xoio to conceptualize and create a future urban scenario for staging the smart vehicle study smart vision EQ fortwo. The rich 3d-illustration took part as a core element of an internal event. Visual focus is an urban street scenery of an european metropolis displaying futuristic multimodal transportation concepts.
Like in our other future scenarios plenty of little narratives are part of this new created smart-world. A lean mobilityhub situation – in line parking autonomous "smart vision EQ fortwo" – connects an innercity hyperloop station. Further various versions of the smart study are displayed in individual scenes, e.g. as logistic, ridesharing or private vehicle. Future technology meets in some extend historic urban architecture embedded in an attractive and worth living impression of the city of tomorrow.
A big thank you goes to Jeff Berlin and smart for the great cooperation!


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Q: rails singular_collection_ids validation I have a form in rails app that allows to update singular_collection_ids attribute (relation type is has_many through). And I also need to validate it before update.
The problem that is validation requires previous value of object, but there is no method singular_collection_ids_was to provide this value. Also singular_collection_ids method works directly with join table with no temporary values, so
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inside validation did not help.
Is there any way to get previous value in stage of validation?

A: Not sure it works (and it's definitely quirky) but you could try this :
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according to the doc, if the callback raises any error, the record is not removed. However, something does not really feel right about this... I'll try to think about a better solution.

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1,000 consultations carried out during the six-day ophthalmologic mission:
90 cataracts operated on during the same time:
16 pterigion surgeries performed:
A medical expedition to Senegal with the aim of carrying out both ocular surgery and eye examinations for the population of Richard Toll. Barraquer Foundation. Senegal
Ocular diseases, which are very frequent and varied in Senegal, can lead to irreversible blindness with grave socio-economic repercussions.
Every year there appear a large number of supplementary cataracts to be operated on which signifies a serious problem for the public health system.
To alleviate this situation the Barraquer Foundation carried out an ophthalmologic mission in 2015. One of the objectives of the mission was the diagnosis of cataracts, and posterior surgery in the most serious cases, in the city of Richard Toll in the north of Senegal.
Ophthalmologic health is neglected in large areas of sub-Saharan Africa and Senegal is no exception. In Richard Toll, a city in the north of Senegal with more than 100,000 inhabitants, there is no ophthalmologic surgeon in the public hospital.
Due to climatic and genetic factors, in addition to the nutritional and hygienic conditions related to the lack of resources the population suffers from, there is a high incidence of ocular pathologies in the region.
Many mild ocular pathologies if not treated in time can become serious ones which can undermine the patients' visual capacity and even lead to blindness.
To alleviate the lack of human resources and the accumulated disease load of ocular pathologies in the zone's population, the Barraquer Foundation carried out an ophthalmologic mission at the end of October, 2015.
Thanks to this mission hundreds of individuals received an ophthalmologic diagnosis. Some were given glasses as treatment for their ocular condition, others were operated on for cataracts, and finally a reduced number had pterigion surgery.
The team of the Barraquer Foundation is made up of 3 ophthalmological surgeons and 2 nurses all of whom have experience in similar missions in developing countries.


Today i was exposed to a term often feared, often misguided, and often mentioned; COLD FEET i know not everything is perfect but there's a lot of learning to be had hearing other peoples troubles and tribulations. then i find myself hoping that the man i plan to spend the rest of my life with doesn't coward themselves out. it hurts to think that most relationships end up being misguided and loses their sparks.
you gotta know how important that spark is, and ensure that they are there for the right reasons. sparking with someone else for me is considered trouble. in my opinion, you should never feel the need to gain sparks for someone else. keep the spark within your own relationship. worry about that 1 and you should be fine. & obviously if you're stuck in a rut, it takes 2 to tango but someone always needs to lead. get over that pride and just do what needs to be done to get that spark back. it's hard but at least you tried.
question; do you still feel the passion? the sparks?
then the hardest question you should really think about is does he/she?