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Great turmoil, wonderful situation
By Spiros Sideris/ Published on: 15/09/2016
Athens, September 15, 2016/Independent Balkan News Agency
By Spiros Sideris
Sitting relaxed in 28C of the Airbus at a height 10km dawn on July 7, Alexis Tsipras at the informal briefing for the official visit to China, was expressing the famous saying of Mao, "Great turmoil, wonderful situation".
Most of the journalists analyzed the dictum of Mao Zedong as an effort by Alexis Tsipras to cause turbulence in the political arena or in the opposition, either with changes in the electoral law with the introduction of simple proportional representation that was to be brought in the House for vote, either with the tender for the new television licenses, either by calling for early elections. These were the scenarios that accompanied the dictum with dozens of pages having been written about it.
From the result, none of what was written had any substance. The sum of the analyses empty of content, each one separately and all together fell by the wayside.
A few days after the Brexit and immediately after a highly successful visit to China for the Greek Prime Minister, the agenda had to be changed in a bid to escape from introversion and isolators and pass on to extroversion, in a troubled and shaken Europe, there was need for initiatives.
Holding a strong hand – the full disposal of China on cooperation and the divisive nagging becoming stronger within Europe – a great turmoil could have created a wonderful situation.
Potential alliances existed. Common problems, economy, refugees, security was the missing link. But there was need of an institutional framework for all this to come to fruition. Yet there was one – the Med Group – the informal EU institution which had met three times until September 9 at the level of Foreign Ministers. Nobody could blame Alexis Tsipras for acting disruptively. And behold, in this informal EU institution coexist Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Cyprus and Malta. The first meeting of the EU Med was a fact.
A great turmoil, which broke from Northern Europe and especially from Germany. Great things that can happen in Bratislava.
The agenda now exists. The Athens Declaration became an advisory text and was adopted almost in its entirety by Jean Claude Juncker. Donald Tusk on his part expresses conservatism and the logic that for Europe to move forward all the fears of the partners must be met.
What expresses Eastern conservatism relates firstly to internal security and the security of their external borders and secondly to the economic model of globalized economy the Easterners desire. Values completely differentiated by the values and logic of traditional Europe.
In the informal summit in Bratislava, Alexis Tsipras goes holding the joint statement of the Declaration of Athens positions. Dominant points for the Greek Prime Minister are according to information of IBNA:
Security: The upgrade of Europe as an international force, rather than a regional one, to become through concrete actions safe for its citizens.
Immigration/Refugee: The management of the refugee problem through European legislation. Ensuring external borders with cooperation with neighboring countries, assistance to countries that experience tensions and revision of the Dublin Treaty.
Economy: Growth, flexibility in the Stability Pact, strengthening of the Juncker package, reducing unemployment and promoting employment.
Certainly things will not be easy in Bratislava, but this time the Greek Prime Minister will not be alone.
Greece: Mitsotakis updates EPP on latest Turkish activity
Kosovo: NATO Secretary General discusses regional security with Kosovo's Avdullah Hoti
Serbia: We achieved great things in Washington, says Brnabic
Montenegro: EU expects calmness and restraint
Slovenia: Kurz and Janša spoke of a joint battle against COVID-19 and illegal migrations
Albania: Basha vows to boost the Public Health System
Bulgaria: Greece opens Ilinden-Exochi border checkpoint for freight transport
Serbia: Most important issues are ahead of us, Vucic claims
BiH: Proposal to relocate BiH Embassy sparks reactions
Cyprus: Anastasiades, Mitsotakis coordinate actions in view of the upcoming special European Council meeting


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Brexit Catastrophisation Watch, Part 11 – Neither Imperial Delusions Nor Fearful Retreat From The World
April 11, 2017 April 11, 2017 Samuel Hooper6 Comments
Replacing one slanderous Brexit narrative with another
Janan Ganesh almost gets it right (for once) in his FT column, accurately warning people away from the myth – especially popular with many foreigners – that the vote for Brexit was some kind of reflexive grasp to regain a long-gone empire and adopt a more swashbuckling, colonial-style role in world affairs.
Ganesh writes:
There is a certain kind of Briton, often educated to the hilt, who believes that sick Americans are left to writhe around on hospital floors until they show the doctors a credit card. Even sophisticated people think in simple terms about foreign countries. They just need a plausible line-to-take that sees them through a dinner party as it turns to political chat.
Americans give as good as they get. To the extent that their smartest people talk about Britain, they focus on our imperial delusions: here is a country that never adjusted to its loss of empire and does odd things to compensate. In Europe and Asia, too, exit from the EU is read as a desperate lunge for a global role, an act nearer to therapy than to statecraft. Colonial nostalgia has become the one thing the world "knows" about modern Britain.
It just happens to lack the ring of truth if you live here. Vestiges of empire survive in public life and some Conservative ministers picture a new Commonwealth trade zone that diplomats call, in what must pass for office banter, Empire 2.0. But Britain is not Liam Fox. It voted to leave the EU for reasons that differ from those that animate the trade secretary.
Quite. In Britain, the only ones who really see Brexit as a ham-fisted attempt to reclaim the losses of decolonialisation are the pants-wetting, pseudo-liberal preeners at the Guardian and satirical news site the Daily Mash, who love to portray Brexiteers as angry, curtain-twitching retired colonels outraged by the sudden appearance of brown-skinned neighbours.
Talk to the average Brexiteer on the street, however, and this is not the justification that you will hear. Neither is the glib "hankering for empire" explanation borne out through the opinion polls, which – contrary to the race and immigration angle played up by the media – proved that freedom and national self-determination ranked most highly among the priorities of Brexit voters.
Unfortunately, in the course of refuting this particular misguided Brexit narrative, Ganesh goes off the rails and embraces a fatalistic "retreat from the world" narrative every bit as presumptuous and fatalistic as the original:
The regions that shaped and were shaped by empire voted to remain, including London, the old metropole; Scotland, the source of many settlers and administrators; Manchester, not just the empire's industrial centre but its liberal intellectual heart; and the port cities of Liverpool and Bristol. Inland Birmingham voted to leave, as did the countryside and market towns of Deep England. What those communities seem to want is Nation 1.0 — the sovereign statehood that predated the globalised era —
So far, so good. Brexiteers do indeed want the United Kingdom to return to a norm which might be called Nation 1.0. In fact, this is not a dim and distant past but a present reality still enjoyed by every advanced country outside of Europe – enjoying the benefits of globalisation, but not plugged in to a supranational political entity with federalist ambitions to become the government of a united Europe.
Nobody ever argues that Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea need to be part of an homogeneous overarching political union with a shared parliament, judiciary and executive in order to thrive. Neither does anybody criticise these countries for "retreating from the world" or otherwise failing to play their full part in global commerce and cultural exchange. Only in Europe has the pernicious myth taken hold – helped along by media cheerleaders, both ignorant and cynically knowing – that to reject an explicitly political project is also to wish to sever all links with the modern world.
Sadly, this is the trap that Ganesh immediately falls into. To pick up the end of his previous sentence:
— when the population was more homogenous and the economy less exposed to foreign competition. Whatever these impulses are, they are not colonial.
[..] Since 1945, intelligent outsiders have overestimated Britain's frustrated ambition and underrated its sense of resignation, its desire for a quiet life after a draining few centuries as a player. When the American diplomat Dean Acheson said the British had not yet found a role after empire, he rather assumed that we were looking for one. Insiders make the same mistake. The least effective argument for the EU in the referendum campaign centred on its usefulness as a power-multiplier for medium-sized nations. It is not that voters disbelieved this. They just did not care enough.
History keeps forcing countries into this choice between significance abroad and retrenchment at home. Imagine that it were possible to go back in time and make sure the empire had never happened, in return for much-reduced postwar immigration from the former colonies. I suspect that some of the voters now fingered as neo-imperialists would trade their nation's record of world grandeur for what might delicately be called a more familiar population. A less extreme thought experiment is already in the news. If a UK-India trade deal were to hinge on freer migration between the two countries, would Mr Fox sign it? He must know his keenness would not be matched by his own voters.
[..] It is easy for foreigners to read imperial nostalgia into something much more parochial. The terminal point of empire is introspection, not a restless desire to do it all over again. Introspection is bad enough but the British cannot be guilty of that and the opposite at the same time. Outsiders are free to fault us, if they pick the right fault.
We now appear to be caught in an imperial / introspective false dichotomy where Brexit can be explained (especially to anxious faux-liberals like New York Times readers) only as a racist country's dying grasp to regain imperial greatness or a shrunken, scared and insular country seeking to retreat from the dangers of the world.
(We'll ignore the fact that it was America, not Britain, who just elected as president an authoritarian strongman who promised not to enhance citizens' liberties but rather to keep them safe from any danger – particularly from China, Mexicans and Islamist terror – and free from all anxiety. But by all means, tell us again how Britain is supposedly the country in decline and fearful of the world).
In reality, neither of these two absurd characterisations get to the truth of Brexit. At its heart – and this is borne out by opinion polls which clearly showed "self determination" to be the key issue for Brexit voters – Brexit is about wanting to normalise Britain and cease participating in a federalist experiment which almost nobody wanted and for which even its loudest champions failed to properly advocate.
British voters simply did not understand – with good reason – why Britain's participation in a modern economy and a globalised world requires us to dissolve our sovereignty into an explicitly political union, when other advanced countries around the world are not under any similar obligation. And the Remain campaign could give them no good answer, for they have none. The EU is a political project whose economic activities are but a means to the ultimate end. Knowledgeable Remainers could say nothing to the contrary without perjuring themselves.
But rather than admit the truth about the European Union, how much easier it is to sit at a keyboard and invent ever more daft reasons explaining away the vote for Brexit. How much easier for Remainers to use weak satire or hysterical doom-mongering to distract themselves from the vacuity of their own case and the failure of their campaign.
Janan Ganesh is right – Britain did not vote to secede from the European Union through some misguided attempt to timewarp back to the days of empire. But it is not good enough to refute this silly idea only to promulgate another equally lazy explanation, as Ganesh unfortunately also does.
Remainers have long tried to paint Brexit as some kind of aberration, an inexplicable and harmful departure from international norms. But in fact it is the European Union which is an aberration and which flies in the face of human instinct and history. It is the European Union which attempts to force on member states a model of supranational government for which no meaningful democratic consent was ever sought, which reliably becomes less popular the more it is understood and which no other countries or regions of the world have ever sought to emulate.
Brexit was a vote to return to Nation State 1.0, not because we never want to reach Nation State 2.0 but because the EU's status quo (Nation State 1.5) is buggy, full of defects and leading us in the wrong direction. The European Union is the Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition of political governance systems, and deciding to uninstall it and wait for something better neither means that we are hankering for the past nor giving up as a country. It's just the smart thing to do.
It may be difficult for self-regarding members of the political media establishment to accept, but Brexiteers were right to vote as they did. Remainers were wrong. And columnists would do better to analyse the failings, inconsistencies and non sequiturs in the Remainer case – the timidity, the tedious declinism, the remarkable ability to ignore the example of any country in the world outside the European Union – than continue to invent imaginary flaws in the case for Brexit.
Brexit, UK Current Affairs, UK PoliticsBrexit, Britain, British Empire, Catastrophisation, Empire, European Union, Globalisation, Janan Ganesh, Remain Campaign, United Kingdom
Brexit Catastrophisation Watch, Part 10 – Less Lamentation, More Outreach Required From The Church
April 3, 2017 April 3, 2017 Samuel Hooper6 Comments
If the Church wants to survive as a truly national institution rather than amplifying the already-inescapable voices of anguished middle-class Remainers, it had better come to terms with Brexit
Displaying a complete lack of self-awareness and a fierce, proud disinterest in the lives and opinions of her fellow brothers and sisters in Christ who happened to vote in good conscience for Brexit, Alison Elliot – Associate Director of the Centre for Theology at the University of Edinburgh – wails into the Church of England's Reimagining Europe blog:
The Church has many resources that are not available to politicians. Politicians are practitioners of the art of the possible: they keep the show on the road, nudging it in varying directions; they fix things; they make promises within a limited horizon.
But the Church has permission to sing songs – songs of lament, songs of confession, songs of hope. I submit that all are necessary today. Lament that is unrecognised expresses itself in anger and accusation; lack of confession leads to mistakes being perpetuated; and hope gives direction to our decisions and our action.
Songs of lament? Oh boy.
Lament names the ache and the void we carry around with us. For me, that involves the pain of a fractured European identity, where my claim to the rich heritage of our continent is being attenuated; where our neighbours continue to shape their future, painful as that may be, and we watch from the side-lines. It involves lamenting the drabness of a world diminished by limited freedom of movement, as multi-lingual chatter disappears from our high streets, we lose the efficiency and enthusiasm of European tradesmen, and our universities struggle to keep a vibrant exchange of ideas alive. And I mourn the rejection of the great insight of the European Project whereby economic activity and social values go hand in hand.
There's no point in refuting any of this – the fact that Elliot remains every bit as "European" as ever she was, that identity never having been contingent on Britain's membership of a supranational political union; the risible idea that the remaining EU27, paralysed by indecision and self-interest while currency and humanitarian crises rend them asunder, are in any way proactively "shap[ing] their future"; the hysterical belief that the "world" has been "diminished by limited freedom of movement" when most of the world was excluded from the arrangement and before we know the outcome of the Brexit negotiations; the unsubstantiated notion that Britain's world-class universities are struggling to keep the torch of knowledge alight in this new Brexit dark age; the tremulous fear that foreign voices will now disappear from our high streets in a puff of smoke as Britain drifts gently away into the mid-Atlantic.
There is no point arguing any of these points with Alison Elliot, for if she is still repeating these tropes now then she is clearly impervious to reason, her mind closed to any argument that could be made by a sane Brexiteer while the gates of her credulity remain opened wide to the most fatuous and cataclysmic of Remainer myths and assertions.
To ache and carry around a "void" because of Britain's secession from the European Union is quite simply to misunderstand what the EU really is – unless you are a closet euro federalist, which despite her misty eyed despair at the thought of Brexit, Elliot has given no indication that she identifies as such.
Confession follows on easily from lament. I confess that I missed opportunities to share with people at home the excitement and the depth of reflection from meetings with church partners in Europe, acquiescing too easily with the view that Britain isn't interested in Europe. I confess to leaving it to others to support refugees and to publicise the contribution our migrant communities have made to the country. And I confess to having done too little to engage local communities in the decisions that affect them.
Yes, if only there had been more head-in-the-clouds theologians waffling on about the benefits of European ecumenism (as though the doggedly secular humanist EU played any real role in forging and facilitating such exchanges) then Stoke-on-Trent might not have voted so overwhelmingly to leave the European Union. That was the Remain campaign's real problem.
Elliott confesses to "leaving it to others to support refugees", which is a self-criticism applying to most of us, who do little beyond support the government's efforts with our taxes. But she displays no such introspection about failing to support her own countrymen, particularly those who found themselves at the sharp end of globalisation (as in being made unemployed and unemployable rather than enjoying the kind of back-slapping church conferences in Barcelona and Bruges that perhaps characterised the church's more positive experience of European integration) and whose votes ultimately helped to push the uninspiring Leave campaign over the finish line in the EU referendum.
And this is a criticism I direct not only at Alison Elliot – who seems to belong to that well-intentioned-but-dim group of academics and theologians who automatically believe everything good they hear about the EU and everything bad that the Guardian tells them about Brexiteers – but at the church in general. The church (or vast swathes of it) are in grave danger of being seen as brimming over with love, time and compassion for everybody – minorities, economic migrants, refugees – but the vast majority of ordinary Britons, particularly the working and lower middle "striving" classes.
That's not to say that the church is wrong to devote a large proportion of its efforts to help the most vulnerable; of course they should do so. But clearly they are not spending enough time ministering to people like the Leave voters of Sunderland and Stoke, or to people like me and other principled EU opponents. Because if they were, then bishops and theologians would know more about the arguments for Brexit and the motivations of Brexiteers, rather than continuing to portray us as two-dimensional Guardian caricatures. They would recognise the cultural dislocation and economic disruption rending their own parishes, diocese and communities rather than fixing the full extent of their gaze on problems beyond our shores.
Elliot concludes:
Hope names a future that is at odds with the one we seem to be embracing. Let us hope for a future of international cooperation, where nations put their resources and fortunes at the disposal of others rather than hugging them to themselves. A future where citizens engage with politics at a deeper level than being observers to a soap opera and where they reconnect with each other to construct a rich tapestry of social relationships. A future where economic opportunism is kept in its place and the quality of life of our suppliers and their families is part of the equation. A future where we value the intrinsic worth of strangers as well as friends and recognise the part they can play in realising our dreams.
Tomorrow we will put our technocratic hats on again and plan and envision and mobilise for outcomes and scenarios, but first we need to connect with our grief and our fears. From that we will be liberated to face the challenges ahead.
When half of one's community is celebrating and the other half mourning, a church leader or theologian worth their salt would quickly turn to asking whether there isn't some deeper misunderstanding at play – confusion with regard to motives, for example. Most Remainers are not the self-hating, anti-patriotic drones that they are sometimes portrayed as by Brexiteers. And most Brexiteers are not the snarling, selfish, little-Englander xenophobes that they are painted by Remainers.
The trouble is, by talking about "connect[ing] with our grief", singing songs of lament and donning the sackcloth and ashes in response to Brexit, the church (well represented on this subject by Elliot) firmly takes the side of one half of the country over the other half. Rather than seeking to find those unifying strands – acknowledging the EU's real flaws and legitimate reasons for departure while seeking out ways to preserve and strengthen that which was good outside of the supranational union – the church becomes an introverted talking shop for Remainers who have made their contempt and dislike for Brexit Britain quite clear, and who have nothing to say to the 52 percent who voted Leave.
Put it this way: if the tide turned and you finally got to have your say in the running of the country after someone else (the pro-Europeans) had had things their way for forty years straight, and then the church planted itself firmly (by roll call of senior figures if not official policy) on the side of your opponents, weeping at the supposed injustice and ruin of your moment of triumph, would you be inclined to listen to them about anything else? Would you feel valued and respected in their eyes?
Perhaps that might not matter if the church were a business, free to choose its target demographic and focus its efforts on appealing to a lucrative niche market. But such behaviour – as we are essentially now seeing from too many church leaders – is entirely antithetical to the universal mission of the church.
There are many reasons why the church (particularly the Church of England) faces an existential threat in this country – secularisation, changing social norms and the increasing criminalisation of traditional beliefs and speech all play a part. The blame cannot be laid at the foot of any one single cause.
But deliberately scorning and misunderstanding half the country while effectively turning the church into a therapy group for devastated middle-class Remainers certainly will not help matters.
Now is not the time for garment-rending and tedious songs of lament. Now is the time for the church to put down the smelling salts, roll up its sleeves and redouble its outreach and ministry to Brexit Britain.
Brexit, Religion, UK Current Affairs, UK PoliticsAlison Elliot, Brexit, Catastrophisation, Christianity, Church of England, European Union, Europhilia, Mourning, Reimagining Europe, Remoaners
Brexit Catastrophisation Watch, Part 9 – Another Song For Europe
December 2, 2016 December 2, 2016 Samuel Hooper7 Comments
The long-awaited follow-up single is finally here…
Madeleina Kay, an almost Vera Lynn-like character among disappointed Remainers, has released another classic ode to the EU, following up on her first hit, "All I Want For Christmas Is EU".
This one is an adaptation of the Elvis Presley classic "Can't Help Falling in Love", re-engineered as a tearful plea from a contrite Britain for the European Union to take us back.
The immortal lyrics:
Only fools Vote Leave
'Cause I can't help falling in love with EU
Shall we stay
Would it be a sin
If we can't help falling in love with EU?
Every Remainer knows
It's a catastrophe
But Brexit rest assured
It's not meant to be
Accept this apology
As the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has been co-opted to serve as the European Union's anthem, let this effort – sung here with the sweet innocence of a child – become the EU equivalent of Parry's "Jerusalem", etched into the hearts of every European citizen and fondly sung on all those many euro-patriotic occasions which we have in common across the continent, and which are so important to us all.
Deep breath.
Think about the European Union for a moment. Think about what the EU actually is, how it was founded, how it deliberately grew by stealth, its deliberate corrosion of member state democracy and the impact that the outsourcing of government to a supra-national level has had on political engagement across an entire continent.
Think about the harm that the EU's protectionist trade policies have wrought on developing nations without and on economic competitiveness within.
Think about the way that this hulking relic from the post-war era, totally lacking in popular legitimacy and unable to meet the challenges of the 21st century without inevitably making them immeasurably worse, grinds ever-onward towards its pre-ordained federalist destination, deaf to all opposition.
Then imagine writing not one, but two love songs to that organisation.
Just think about it for a moment.
The more I see of Kay's output, the more I am starting to suspect that she may actually be a cunning Brexiteer, trolling the pro-EU Brexit-deniers from deep behind enemy lines.
If so, then she is doing an absolutely masterful job.
Brexit, Music For The Day, UK Current Affairs, UK PoliticsA Song for Europe, Brexit, Catastrophisation, Elvis Presley, EU Referendum, European Union, Europhilia, Madeleina Kay, Remain Campaign, Remoaners
Donald Trump Victory Reaction: The American Left Struggles To Regain Perspective
November 23, 2016 Samuel HooperLeave a comment
Rather than following through on their much-publicised threats to leave the country in the event of a Clinton defeat, Donald Trump's most vehement left-wing opponents are now making plans to stay in America and become completely insufferable instead
There is something to admire in Michael Krikorian's instruction to his readers to rediscover their courage, stand and fight against the incoming Trump administration for what they believe in, delivered in his latest LA Times Op-Ed.
I particularly like the acknowledgement – largely missing among the mass hysteria – that America has indeed been through "far worse" before, and survived:
No one's moving anywhere. My friends Dahlia and Chris aren't going to Mexico, and Alexis is not going to Copenhagen. My gal Nancy's not permanently packing up and moving to Umbria, and Duke is not moving to Thailand with his cousin Jake.
And you? You aren't going wherever the heck you say you are moving to now that Donald Trump is going to be president of the United States of America.
What we all do is this: We stay and fight.
First, we wait and see. Even Hillary Clinton said Wednesday, "We owe him an open mind and a chance to lead."
But if we don't like what happens, we fight it. We take to the streets and rekindle memories of the anti-Vietnam War protests and civil rights marches. We don't run and hide. We don't abandon America.
This is all good. Yes, there will likely be much that is objectionable about the coming Trump presidency, for conservatives and libertarians too, as well as those on the Left. But there is no need to sit under a coffee table and cry like you are five years old and still scared of monsters or fireworks or loud noises. Rediscover some backbone and composure. We are all adults here.
But then just as Krikorian is on a roll of common sense, he goes on to remark:
I feel, strangely, not what I thought I would "the morning after." I'm more patriotic than I was yesterday. More in love with my country than I have since, I guess, Sept. 11, 2001.
Oh dear. A tacit suggestion that the outcome of this election is the worst thing to befall America since 9/11. To be fair, Krikorian does temper that comparison with this observation:
Yesterday, a guy I know from the streets showed me a knife he had in his waistband. A killing knife. It made me think of "Saving Private Ryan"and a brutal, achingly sad scene: room-to-room fighting, a German soldier slowly pushing a killing knife into the chest of an American soldier.
When I went home, I Netflix'd "Saving Private Ryan" with the intention of forwarding to that scene, but instead I started watching from the beginning. The first 25 or so minutes show the first wave of Allied forces landing on the beach at Normandy, D-Day, 1944. It's one of the most powerful movie sequences ever filmed, and it ends with a panorama of bloody corpses washed along by the tide.
What happened Tuesday doesn't compare to those days. Everyone walking around like it's the end of civilization now that Trump is in? It's not. We've been through far worse. A perceived threat is not as bad as a punch in the face.
So the election of Donald Trump is traumatic enough that it provokes the same resurgence of shock-induced patriotism as 9/11, but bearable enough that watching thousands of British, American and allied soldiers being mown down by machine gun fire on French beaches in Saving Private Ryan puts things back into perspective. Okay, got it.
Do these people ever stop to listen to themselves? Do they ever pause to wonder how those who do not share the same political views are likely to react when they openly declare "I consider you getting your way in a national election to be the worst man-made disaster to befall this country since 9/11", or "the temporary prevalence of your worldview reduced me to the brink of despair, until I watched a man being bayonetted to death and realised that things could be worse"?
I shouldn't snipe. Krikorian's is one of vanishingly few voices from the American Left to tentatively suggest that America still has a future and that the end of the world was in fact likely not set in motion on November 8. And by and large, Krikorian is counselling against hysteria and self-pity, which is an admirable thing to do.
But when some of the coolest heads on the American Left are reacting to Hillary Clinton's defeat at the hands of Donald Trump by counting themselves fortunate not to be storming the beaches on D-Day then it seems we still have some way to go before the two Americas are in a position to talk to one another respectfully or productively.
US Current Affairs, US Election 2016, US Politics9/11, Catastrophisation, Donald Trump, LA Times, Michael Krikorian, Presidential Election, Saving Private Ryan
Donald Trump Victory Reaction: Nicholas Kristof Compares Surviving President Trump To Suffering From Mental Illness
November 18, 2016 November 19, 2016 Samuel Hooper8 Comments
No, processing Donald Trump's election victory is not like recovering from addiction
One of the more painful aspects of Donald Trump's shock election victory, for me, has been having to watch journalists and commentators whom I have previously respected gradually lose all sense of perspective and become almost offensively hysterical in their overwrought catastrophisation of the election result.
This blog was also very much against a Trump victory, but much of the mainstream media commentary seems to have descended into a nationwide, mutually-reinforcing panic attack, like a group of young kids watching a scary movie at a sleepover and then seizing on every nighttime creak or rustle to convince one another that they are being haunted by the monster from the television.
Godwin's Law is now being proved with such regularity – by supposedly serious journalists writing above the line, and not just the online commentators beneath it – that cataloguing individual instances of Donald Trump victory catastrophisation has become pointless.
And we are not just talking about the more sensationalist, web-based outlets here. One expects little better from the Huffington Post, Buzzfeed or the likes of Everyday Feminism. But now even the New York Times has fallen victim to the great national hysteria – star columnist Nicholas Kristof can presently be found comparing the forthcoming suffering of American leftists under the incoming Trump administration to the pain of people suffering from addiction and mental illness.
I'm not joking – Kristof has just published a column in which he outlines his own patented "twelve-step program" for coming to terms with a Donald Trump presidency.
Kristof begins:
Traumatized by the election results, many Americans are asking: What now? Here are steps that any of us can take that can make a difference at the margins. Onward!
Traumatised? Really? Isn't that a word that might be better reserved for veterans who watched their friends killed in action or had their own limbs blown off by IEDs, or the victims of sexual assault and other violent crime? Do we really want to extend that term to encompass the tears and frustration of Hillary Clinton supporters as Donald Trump made a mockery of the opinion polls and won a four-year term as US president?
Some highlights from the Kristof 12-steps:
2. I WILL try to do small things in my own life, recognizing that they are inadequate but at least a start: I will sign up on the Council on American-Islamic Relations website, volunteering to fight Islamophobia. I'll call a local mosque to offer support, or join an interfaith event. I will sign up for an "accompany my neighbor" list if one exists for my area, to be an escort for anyone who is now in fear.
Because in the blink of an eye and before Trump has even taken office, America has become such a seethingly dangerous place that minorities can no longer walk the streets unaccompanied? Has Nicholas Kristof given absolutely zero thought to how this alarmist, apocalyptic language might be contributing (or indeed be the largest contributor) to the fear which he describes?
3. I WILL avoid demonizing people who don't agree with me about this election, recognizing that it's as wrong to stereotype Trump supporters as anybody else. I will avoid Hitler metaphors, recognizing that they stop conversations and rarely persuade. I'll remind myself that no side has a monopoly on truth and that many Trump supporters are good people who want the best for the country. The left already has gotten into trouble for condescending to working-class people, and insulting all Trump supporters as racists simply magnifies that problem.
Credit where it's due. Kristof manages something close to magnanimity here, but his call for fellow progressives upset at the election to avoid demonising Donald Trump supporters would be all the more convincing if it didn't come in the middle of a hysterical article comparing a Trump presidency to living with serious mental illness.
5. I WILL support groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center that fight hate groups, and back the center's petition calling on Donald Trump to disavow bigotry. Depending on my interests, I'll support an immigration rights group, the A.C.L.U. or Planned Parenthood. And I'll subscribe to a newspaper as one way of resisting efforts to squelch the news media or preside over a post-fact landscape — and also to encourage journalists to be watchdogs, not lap dogs.
That would be the same Southern Poverty Law Center which has utterly capitulated to ideological leftist Islamism-deniers, and which has the nerve to place tireless fighters against extremism such as Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali on a list of supposed anti-Muslim bigots, in a desperate bid to placate and appeal to goodness knows who.
The ACLU of course does some vital work defending civil liberties, but it too has started to crumble under pressure from the Cult of Social Justice and Identity Politics, and is now just as zealous about protecting non-existent positive "human rights" as defending genuine civil liberties and Constitutional protections. One can still make an argument for joining the ACLU in an attempt to change it from within (it is less far gone than, say, the UK's Liberty) but somehow I don't think that this is what Kristof has in mind.
7. I WON'T let it slide if a friend makes degrading comments about a minority or women. Even if it's over Thanksgiving dinner, I'll push back and say something like: "Come on! You really think that?!" Similarly, I may not be able to prevent a sexual predator from reaching the White House, but at events I attend, I may be able to prevent a sexual predator from assaulting a drunken partygoer.
8. I WILL resist dwelling in an echo chamber. I will follow smart people on Twitter or Facebook with whom I disagree. I will also try to enlarge my social circle to include people with different views, recognizing that diversity is a wonderful thing — and that if I know only Clinton supporters, then I don't have a clue about America.
Again, credit where credit is due. We should all have the courage to take a stand where we see overt racism or sexism occurring in front of us. Confronting these bad ideas and exposing them to the unforgiving light of public ridicule is one of the best means of defeating them. But Kristof has clearly attended one "rape culture" seminar too many, and would have us all patrol every party we attend with a pocket breathalyser, pouncing on amorous couples to ensure that no alcohol has been consumed and that the appropriate consent forms have been signed.
It is also laudable that Kristof encourages people to look beyond their own ideological echo chamber and acknowledge the legitimacy and fundamental decency of those Americans who hold sincere political differences. However, one gets the feeling that this "step" might be the stumbling block for many leftists, just as some recovering addicts pause when confronted with Steps 8 and 9 (making amends to those they have harmed). It does not come naturally to many people to expand their social circles to incorporate those with different viewpoints and values – indeed, many people assiduously prune their social circles to achieve the precise opposite in the quest for ideological homogeneity.
11. I WILL take on sexism and misogyny, which in forms like domestic violence, sexual assault and sex trafficking affect women and girls across the country. Even today, Republicans and Democrats should be able to work together to get funding for women's shelters or to prosecute pimps.
Even today? What is that supposed to mean? That however bad Donald Trump and Republicans may be, with the right outreach it may just still be possible to convince these heartless conservatives that sex slavery, rape and domestic violence are bad things? Well, I should hope so. This wouldn't even need saying, were it not for the fact that many people who read Kristof's column have been fed a steady diet of propaganda suggesting that Donald Trump is about to make his own unreconstructed attitude towards women compulsory for all men in the country.
12. I WILL not lose hope. I will keep reminding myself that politics zigs and zags, and that I can do more than shout in the wind. I can fight for my values even between elections, and even at the micro level I can mitigate the damage to my neighbors and attempt to heal a social fabric that has been rent.
"A social fabric that has been rent" – a nicely passive way of describing the division in America, as though the Kristof-reading American Left had absolutely nothing to do with the rending of America's social fabric.
Look: the offensive thing here is not necessarily the content of Kristof's article or the sentiments he expresses. As I have acknowledged, many of the points are actually very laudable calls for all of us to be better, more engaged citizens – something that this blog heartily approves of, and has long called for. What is really offensive is the fact that Kristof felt it in any way appropriate to compare the disappointment of losing an election with the torment of addiction, that he packaged this collection of decent advice and condescension in the guise of a 12-step program.
Imagine for a moment that Nicholas Kristof had written an article encouraging disappointed Clinton supporters to view the next four years as a painful course of chemotherapy. Imagine the outrage which would rightly be prompted by comparing the pain of electoral defeat with the ravages of cancer. But when it comes to addiction and mental health, apparently everything is fair game. It is perfectly acceptable for wealthy, pampered Manhattanites to compare their suffering to that of people suffering from mental illness.
Or imagine that the positions were reversed and a right-wing columnist had compared the suffering of conservatives under a Clinton administration to people trying to recover from addiction. Again, that columnist would immediately be hauled over the coals by the perpetually outraged Left.
This is another one of those occasions where the decadent metro-left grants itself a waiver from the outrage and opprobrium it would rain down on anybody of more conservative persuasion who dared to do the same thing. It's fine for Nicholas Kristof to talk about processing a Democratic electoral defeat as though it is in any way similar to working through mental health issues, because he does it for the Greater Good of the leftist cause, but heaven forfend that anybody else speak too casually about a "traditionally marginalised group".
Do these people have any conception of how hysterical and arrogant they sound?
Go back to Step 3 and do it right this time. Because this is NOT how America will knit back together after the election. Nicholas Kristof should be heartily ashamed of himself.
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On Tuesday 4th of August I gave a concert called 'Imagined Landscapes'. It was a collection of music I have composed, most new, some revisits of older stuff. Lots of multimedia things, and some multi-sensory elements exploring smell and taste.
Some video footage of this concert is coming!


principles are followed without further ado. There are also other festivals with exemplary waste management such as Universo Paralello in Brazil. At the Universo biannually held on Bahia's Pratigi Beach the contents of the toilets are collected in a watertight pit and removed by tank truck. The dancefloors are always clean and the bordering nature preserve underlies strict ruling. More and more organisers find it important to have a carefully considered ecological concept not just because it is demanded by the requirements of the authorities, but because it is an increasingly important principle of a good Psytrance festival. This kind of ecological understanding and behaviour should be naturally also to all fraggles on the dancefloor.
accordance with stringent ecological criteria and has to fulfil certain requirements. Organic food, vegetarian dishes, local and fair-trade products are mandatory. Even the way that people get to the festival is calculated and taken into consideration to minimise the ecological footprint. Lectures on ecology, holistic and sustainable life concepts such as permaculture and other forms of organic farming can be visited in the so-called "Liminal Village". Interdisciplinary approaches and intercultural learning are central elements. The whole festival – and it's with the Ozora festival the biggest Psytrance festival in the world – seems to be a mix of the old hippie dream of a new society, an alternative university and an arts and culture event with the intellectual housing of a holistic future age.


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Page 5 of my computer coloured pictures.
My very first attempt at drawing a skunk character. My very first attempt at drawing a zebra character.
A new character: Argus Rex, a bull and a space bounty hunter. A red dragon cyborg.
My very first attempt at drawing an anthro-dinosaur character, a Tyrannosaurus Rex. A muscular lizard guy.
Blue Torch from 'Furry Guardians'. Fastlane from 'Furry Guardians'.
Shadow Knight from 'Furry Guardians'. Enforcer from 'Furry Guardians'.
Superfur from 'Furry Guardians'. Steel Tiger from 'Furry Guardians'.
Brute from 'Furry Guardians'. Connor from 'The House of Lazarus'.
Dexter from 'The House of Lazarus'. Eddie from 'The House of Lazarus'.
Master Lazarus from 'The House of Lazarus'. Butler from 'The House of Lazarus'.
Always be wary of possible unexpected side-effects... A big tiger Master is giving a little hypnotic programming to his two slaves.
A wolf has hypnotised a few guys for some fun... A bear fully encased in leather gear.
A sci-fi style tiger warrior. A special Furry Guardians promo image I created to advertise the fact that series has been nominated for Best Comic Book in the 2007 Ursa Major Awards.
A fun little joking pic here. A recruitment poster for The Corps. Lieutenant Harker, main character of my 'The Corps' web comic.
A simple pic of a black bear playing with a wolf... A character concept pic. Raknar is an axe-wielding barbarian warrior who lost an eye in battle, which he then replaced with a magical gemstone that has the power to hypnotise and enslave others.
A page torn from the 2008 Thurman Industries Catalogue, offering a rather interesting item... Coldfire, a character who appeared in the back-up story of Furry Guardians #1.
A new pic of Lord Omega, the main villain from my 'Furry Guardians' comic series. A simple pic of a muscular badger.
A naked canine showing off his physique. My lovely BF's Riot Bunny fursona indulging a bit of skateboarding.
A white tiger lord commands his two cyborg slaves to fight to the death for his entertainment. A brown bear finds himself being brainwashed and milked.
A new pic of my Kuman the Barbarian character. A black-furred muscle bear.
A racoon in chains. A very muscular fox.
A wolf wrestler. A polar bear bodybuilder.
The adult version of the Captain Carrot picture, in which he appears to have removed some of his costume. My interpretation of Captain Carrot, star of comic series 'Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew', which was published by DC Comics.
Another picture of Fastlane, from my 'Furry Guardians' comic series. Kryn, a character from my 'Furry Guardians' comic series.
A canine with a leather collar. A muscle bear with a difference: He's blue!
A nice and muscular German Shepherd dog named Jack. A very simple animation of a hypnotist.
Dress the Leather Tiger! A simple flash game. Simply click on the options to dress the tiger in whatever outfit you wish. Click on an option again to rermove. A fox in chains and leather.
You don't see many ligers (a lion/tiger cross breed) drawn in furry art, so I drew one, and he's rather muscular. A big, muscular fox.
A pic of Master Alpha, a character who has appeared in my 'Mitchell & Michael' story. The Furry Guardians, from my comic series.
A captive tiger getting ruthlessly 'milked'. A big wolf bodybuilder.
Lord Omega, the central villain from 'Furry Guardians'. Shadow Knight, the wolf vigilante from 'Furry Guardians'.
Superfur, as seen in my 'Furry Guardians' comic series Another character from 'Furry Guardians', this time Fastlane, the super-speeding badger.
A newer and more improved pic of my Enforcer character, from 'Furry Guardians'. A new pic of Blue Torch, from my 'Furry Guardians' comic series.
A mysterious advert cut from a magazine, advertising something rather interesting. Unfortunately, someone had already cut out the contact number for themselves... A simple character pic of Steel Tiger, a character from my 'Furry Guardians' comic series.
A simple character pic of the Brute, a character from my 'Furry Guardians' comic series. This is Emperor Gragor III, supreme ruler of the Feline Space Empire, a character from a furry sci-fi story I may get around to writing one day.
A quick a simple character pic of Enforcer, a character from my 'Furry Guardians' comic series. A rhino leather slave, all chained up and awaiting his Master.
Bernard Thurman, a character from my 'Servus Inc' story. A naked bear, playing with himself.


Walk through creating permanent and temporary access tokens using the Tokens API.
Using Turf.js, you can add some spatial analysis to your map to solve problems. This guide walks through an example of Turf.js and Mapbox.js in a real-world context.
Using Turf.js, add spatial analysis to our map to solve problems. This guide walks through an example of Turf.js and Mapbox GL JS in a real-world context.
Learn how to find satellite raster data, process it using the Rasterio command-line tool, and publish it on a webpage.
Create a timezone finder app with Mapbox Tilequery API.
Use expressions in Mapbox Studio to alter a single label.
Join data with v2 of the Mapbox Enterprise Boundaries tileset.
Extend the Mapbox Enterprise Boundaries tileset.
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Add custom HTML markers, style them, and add tooltips with Mapbox GL JS.
Learn how to export OpenStreetMap data to be used in your Mapbox project.
Query data in v2 of the Mapbox Enterprise Boundaries tileset.
Create a web app that uses the Mapbox Tilequery API in concert with the Mapbox Geocoding API to show all stores that sell food that are located within one mile of a query point.
Create a new dataset containing points.
Integrate navigation into any Android application.
Create a web app that uses the Mapbox Map Matching API to allow users to specify their own driving route.
Add routing capabilities to your application with the Mapbox Directions API.
Integrate navigation into any iOS application.
Use the Mapbox Optimization API to generate a duration-optimized route between several points.
This guide walks you through all the code that you need to build a store locator which lets you search for the nearest location.
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Add a 3D building layer to a map style in Mapbox Studio.
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Publish your style with Mapbox GL JS, create a legend, and add interactive elements.
Alter a template style to create a custom map style.
Upload a floorplan to create an indoor map.
Learn how to write expressions in Mapbox GL JS.
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Find and upload open source data to style in Mapbox Studio.
Create a map for Android that styles a circle based on a data attribute.
Display a Mapbox map on an Android device and receive updates on the device's current location.
Change various properties of a map based on user interaction and other "runtime" situations.
Build a store locator to integrate into an Android application.
Walk through installing the Mapbox Maps SDK for Android, getting a map on the screen, and changing the map style.
Walk through installing the Mapbox Maps SDK for iOS, getting a map on the screen, and placing a pin on it.
Create a map for iOS that styles a circle based on a data attribute.
Build a store locator that can be integrated into any iOS application.
Take your non-georeferenced aerial image or historical map and get it onto a Mapbox map with the help of QGIS.
Add your map as a basemap to ArcGIS Online.
Add your map as a basemap to CARTO.
Add Mapbox maps as layers in ArcGIS and QGIS with WMTS.
Learn how to use the Mapbox component to add a map to a prototype in Framer X.
Create a choropleth data map with the Mapbox Visual for Microsoft Power BI.
Use Microsoft Power BI to create a custom data visualization.
Add a Mapbox style as a basemap in Tableau.
Use the Mapbox Maps SDK for Unity to create a visualization of 3D buildings on top of a 3D terrain map for use in a Unity application.
Use a custom map style from Mapbox Studio in a Unity application.
Learn how to use the Mapbox Uploads API.
Add popups when markers are clicked using Mapbox GL JS.
Build a map application with Mapbox.js. This guide walks you through all the code that you need to build a store locator.
Build a map application with Mapbox GL JS. This guide walks you through all the code that you need to build a store locator.
Meet Mapbox.js - the toolset for creating interactions and greater customization of your map and data.
Are you using the Google Maps API? This guide walks you through how to convert a Google web map to a Mapbox web map using Mapbox GL JS.
Add custom, interactive markers to your map with Mapbox.js.
You can add markers, style them, and add tooltips dynamically with Mapbox GL JS. This overview samples all the ways to add custom, interactive markers.
Build a map application with Mapbox GL JS to visualize changes in data over time.


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With only 3 ingredients this cake was pretty easy to put together and made our house smell heavenly. I'm serving it to company tomorrow so I haven't tried it yet. I will update my post after we eat with the verdict (but after having licked the bowl I have a pretty good feeling about the outcome!). My camera is having issues, so please forgive the photos!
Although the cake looked and smelled delicious, I was disappointed in the flavor and texture. I have another flourless chocolate cake recipe that is more complicated but well worth it so I'll continue using that unless I happen upon something better.
put into two medium/large bowls.
8. Pour batter into prepared pan, the batter should fill the pan 3/4 of the way full, and bake at 375F/190C9. Bake for 25 minutes until an instant read thermometer reads 140F/60C.
For the ice cream I did a Chocolate Chip cookie Dough ice cream using cookie dough from my sour cream M&M cookies because it does not call for eggs. Because of my schedule this month I was not able to make these at the same time.
I've always wanted to make a red velvet cake, but once I was diagnose with Celiac Disease, even though I'd had some excellent gluten free baking opportunities, I was scared to go for the double layer cake that I wanted. Needless to say, I let this prevent me from taking that double layer leap...until now! For Valentine's Day I decided to put my fears aside and go for the gusto. I did a bunch of research on red velvet cake recipes (gluten free and glutinous), found a recipe that I could work with and adjusted it to my preferences. Most red velvet cake have 2 Tablespoons of cocoa, but if I'm having a chocolate cake I want to taste the chocolate so I added 4 Tablespoons. I also omitted the vinegar since I was using the red food coloring (I didn't need the chemical reaction it would cause to give my cake a reddish hue). And I used a cream cheese frosting which many would say is non traditional, but I love cream cheese frosting and use every excuse I can to use it! The cake was a huge success! It was moist and flavorful with a soft texture that surprised some of the non-celiac tasters. Yeah! This cake will now and forever be included on our Valentine's Day menu and it might even show up at a birthday or two!
Grease and flour two 9 inch round pans. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Make a paste with the cocoa and food coloring (add some of the buttermilk if you need more liquid to form a paste). Set aside.
In a large bowl, cream together the oil, sugar and eggs until light and fluffy. Stir in the cocoa mixture. Beat in the buttermilk, salt, vanilla, xanthum gum and baking soda. Add the gluten free flour blend, mixing just until incorporated. Scrap down the bowl and than mix on medium for 3 minutes.
Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake in the preheated oven for 30-35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool 10 minutes before removing from pans and then cool completely before frosting and assembling. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
Assembling the cake - Check out that color!


Components from this natural environment give rise to textile technology which marked the first major technological milestone in Lurbel: Regenactiv.
To keep the skin properly sterile allowing an optimal skin environment. To do this, it fights factors that destabilize its natural protective barrier by excessive sweating, irritability, friction, appearance of fungi, etc.
Cellulose-based fibre treated with ionic particles of marine origin provides the technology with its protective qualities.
The "silver-based layer" exerts its antibacterial power transversely across the entire garment as a guarantee of durability and anti-odour properties.
It absorbs 50% more than cotton garments.
Cellulose-based fibre has a structure similar to that of sponges, with many porosities and a spectacular absorption capacity.
Ionization of natural particles of marine origin extracted from crustaceans and molluscs.
It is located mainly in the cell wall of fungi or moulds, yeasts and invertebrate exoskeletons such as prawns or crabs.
The fabric is formed by the interaction of the Silver Base Layer grid, which constitutes the central structure of the fabric as a skeleton, and the Regenactiv fabric.
It prevents infection of skin lesions and the appearance of bad odours.
It absorbs excessive moisture helping to create an optimal environment for skin, acting as mechanical barrier that absorbs moisture improving skin recovery.
Fighting bacteria and fungi is one of the main missions of Regenactiv fabric.
Results of the analysis performed show some surprising figures.
The absence of dermal irritability of Regenactiv fabric shown by analyses reflects that its ability to protect the skin is substantially even greater than that required by the established standards that are taken as a reference in the study.
A high concentration of Regenactiv at 92% can act to its full potential on possible erosions afterhigh intensity sport.
The properties of the Regenactiv technology guarantee optimal protection even in the most affected and/or sensitive skins.
Maximum adaptability to the foot to apply all properties.
Thanks to their clever design, Regenactiv recovering socks can be used with any type of footwear.
Among conventional models of post activity Regenactiv, there is the Tabi version, which has a separation between the big toe and the other toes so it can be comfortably used with flip-flops.


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F1 teams banned from testing old cars at new circuits
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By Daniel Herrero
Thursday 27th August, 2020 - 9:07am
Formula 1 teams are no longer allowed to test old cars at new circuits on the 2020 calendar.
The ban is included in the most recent changes to the championship's Sporting Regulations and applies to circuits which have been added since the pre-pandemic version of the 2020 calendar was confirmed last year.
It refers to what are formally known as 'previous cars', which currently applies to cars built to 2016 to 2018 regulations, and 'historic cars'.
"TPC and/or THC is not permitted on any track that has been included in the 2020 Championship calendar after 4 October 2019, save for where an Event has been completed at that track in 2020," reads the new regulation.
As such, Ferrari's test of a 2018 car at Mugello and AlphaTauri's at Imola, which both occurred before those circuits were added to the calendar, would not be allowed.
Teams would also not have the option of testing previous or historic cars at the Nurburgring, Portimao, or Istanbul.
To the extent that any teams still have 'promotional events' left of the two they are allowed for the year, current cars could still be run for up to 200km (100km per promotional event) at those tracks.
In another change to the Sporting Regulations, teams are also allowed a total of 90 people at 'Closed Events' (no spectators) from this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix, an increase of 10.
The limit of 60 people "within the confines of the circuit (and) associated in any way with the operation of the cars" remains.
There now also exists the option of a variation from the tyre allocation of two sets of hards, three sets of mediums, and eight of softs which was mandated this year for logistical reasons.
Any such decision will be left to the FIA and supplier Pirelli, with the wording "Unless otherwise determined by the FIA and with the agreement of the Supplier…" added to the start of the regulation which defines the above mentioned dry weather tyre allocation.
Ordinarily, teams would have some latitude with respect to tyre selection so long as they met certain requirements around mandatory race and Q3 compounds.
Opening practice at the Belgian Grand Prix commences tomorrow at 19:00 AEST.


Black potatoes : the story of the great Irish famine, 1845-1850 / Susan Campbell Bartoletti.
Material type: Book; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Juvenile; Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2001Availability: Items available for loan: University of Texas At Tyler (1). Location(s): CML Dewey Area 941 B2925BL . Log in to add tags.
Insanity and the insane in post-famine Ireland / Mark Finnane.
by Finnane, Mark | American Council of Learned Societies.
Source: ACLS Humanities E-Book.Material type: Book; Format: electronic available online ; Literary form: Not fiction Publisher: London : Totowa, N.J. : Croom Helm ; Barnes & Noble Books, 1981Online access: Click here to view this ebook. Availability: Items available for loan: UT Tyler Online (1). Location(s): Online RC450.I73 1981.
The great famine in Ireland [microform] : and a retrospect of the fifty years 1845-95 : with a sketch of the present condition and future prospects of the congested districts / by W.P. O'Brien.
by O'Brien, William Patrick, 1824-.
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of the bursa (subacromial bursitis) commonly occurs.
– A fall or blow to the shoulder or a supraspinatus tendon rupture can cause bleeding into the bursa resulting in inflammation.
– Repetitive movements can cause bursitis which, in turn, causes accumulation of fluid in the bursa. The effusion causes tension in the tissues and pain in the anterior (front) and upper part of the shoulder and a thickening of the bursa.
– Inflammation in an adjacent tendon can easily spread to include the bursa.
– Pain occurs in the anterior, upper part of the shoulder.
– Impingement testing is positive.
– Tenderness is found on palpation.
– Sometimes the bursa feels 'spongy' on palpation.
– Examination using an arthroscope and/or bursography can confirm the diagnosis.
– Aspiration of the bursa can also be diagnostic.
– use arthroscopic surgery to remove the bursa in chronic cases.
When bursitis is treated promptly, symptoms usually resolve in 2–3 weeks, after which sporting activities can be resumed.


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Commission reports up to $60 billion lost to waste and fraud in war contracting
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Between $31 billion and $60 billion has been lost to waste and fraud in contracting for US contingency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan according to the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan. In its final report issued last week, the Commission warned that "much more [spending on contingency operations] will turn into waste as attention to continuing operations wanes, as U.S. support for projects and program in Iraq and Afghanistan declines, and as these efforts are revealed as unsustainable."
After more than two years of study, the Commission said waste and fraud had undermined the effectiveness of contingency contract spending. It maintained that agencies were forced to "over-rely" on contractors to perform mission-critical functions. And, because agencies do not have the necessary acquisition personnel and contracting structures to oversee the contractor force, the report said contracting extended into activities government personnel should perform. As a result, "unreasonable risks to mission objectives and other key U.S. interests" were created.
The Commission also found that "inherently governmental" rules proved insufficient to guide contracting for contingencies making it difficult for government managers to apply a "systematic consideration of operational, political, and financial risks" in determining the appropriateness of performing work under contract.
The Commission listed process deficiencies at all phases of the contingency contracting process that led to "massive waste, fraud, and abuse." These included: a lack of understanding of local conditions and capabilities; insufficient integration at the program and project level; and a failure to define requirements in a timely manner at the contract level.
The report also asserted that efforts to manage and enforce competition in war-related contracting proved ineffective. Often long-term contracts were not recompeted, contracts were extended beyond expiration dates, and cost-reimbursable contract types were used instead of using fixed-price contracts to expand the competitive pool, the report stated.
To fix these problems, the Commission recommendations include: using risk factors in contracting decisions; developing and deploying acquisition management and contractor oversight personnel; phasing out private security contractors for some functions; improving interagency coordination; creating a permanent Inspector general for contingency operations; setting annual competition goals for contingency contracts; and strengthening enforcement tools.
Congress must also do its part to aid efforts to manage and oversee contingency contracting, the Commission said. It urged Congress to provide or reallocate funding for contingency contracting reform and require regular assessments of agencies' progress in implementing contracting reform.
Daniel Gordon, Administrator of OMB's Office of Federal Procurement Policy, generally applauded the report. "We welcome the report and commend the Commission for shining a spotlight on waste in contracting [and] on the need to strengthen the contracting function at agencies," he said in an OMB blog. Gordon said progress is already being made on many of the Commission's recommendations citing success in reducing improper payments and "cracking down on nonperforming contractors."
The Professional Services Council (PSC), which represents government professional and technical services contractors, said while the report "contains valuable lessons from contingency operations," it ignores "the dynamic and complicated realities of contingency operations." PSC disagreed that the government "over relied" on contracting and the use of contracts in place. The "messy" and unstable nature of contingency operations often requires that immediate support be made available for success, it said. This means, PSC emphasized, that individual task orders that make sense for routine needs during stable conditions are not a "viable means of ensuring that immediate support and services are available to the warfighters and diplomats in the most timely manner."
The Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, created under Section 841 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-181), was directed to assess contingency operations contracting and examine the extent of waste, fraud, and abuse in such contracting. It is co-chaired by Christopher Shays (former republican congressman from Connecticut) and Michael Thiebault (former Deputy Director of DCAA). Commission members include former Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) Dov Zakheim and former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) Robert Henke.
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Methods: We modified and extended a single-genome and de Bruijn-graph based assembler, Velvet, for de novo metagenome assembly. Our fundamental ideas are first decomposing de Bruijn graph constructed from mixed short reads into individual sub-graphs and second building scaffolds based on every decomposed de Bruijn sub-graph as isolate species genome.


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Mosley/Mayorga...on PPV?!
no dice nate
It's most likely going to be set for October 11 at Staples Center. Sure, it could be an interesting fight. I always love to watch Shane and Mayorga definitely comes to fight, but HBO thinks I'm going to pay $50 for this one? I wasn't keen on paying that for the Mosley/Judah fight that was nixed by the shower door, so how do you think I feel about this one?
SugarShane
Yeah I read this a couple days ago. They better stack the undercard.
The Champ Is Back
NFFC
Calvarez
It definitely should not be PPV UNLESS it has a very good undercard. Then again Mosley-Judah shouldn't have been PPV either
BoxingForum HOF
March 2009
NFFC said:
We'll probably get it free anyway.
Another freebie indeed.
Who needs Showtime and HBO when we get all there fights free. :laugh:
Then again Hatton-Malignaggi will be free in the US. It definitely won't be over here :laugh:
Thats only one fighter bro.
That could be PPV over there too.
That last Hatton fight was on VS because HBO didn't want to pay for that shitt! Hatton-Malignaggi might as well be a Telefutura fight over here.
SugarShane said:
HBO were all over the fight :laugh:
They wanted it prime time states though which Ricky refused point blank. :laugh:
Backpedal time. LOL!
Yeah man, it seems that anything can be made PPV over there. Still, lets not turn it into a US vs. UK PPV debate. We know how sensitive they get :thumbsup:
If they were all over the fight and it was going to do great numbers they would have paid. They didn't. Nuff said.
They would have taken the fight, but only prime-time. So they dropped it. They weren't all over it but they did want it :thumbsup:
Ricky Hatton snubs big money fight offer for sake of Manchester fans
May 2 2008 By Frank Haines
RICKY HATTON yesterday admitted he has given up a fortune to ensure his next fight is staged at a time when his fans can see it.
The world light-welterweight champion will fight in England for the first time in two-and-a-half years when he takes on Mexican Lazcano at the City of Manchester Stadium on May 24 in his return to the ring after being beaten by Floyd Mayweather in December.
More than 35,000 British fans travelled to Las Vegas despite the vast majority being unable to capture tickets for the Mayweather fight and Hatton is keen to show his appreciation, with 55,000 people having the chance to see him at the home of his beloved Manchester City later this month.
Fans in the UK usually have to stay up until the early hours to watch high-profile British fighters due to the demands of American television but not on this occasion.
Hatton has opted to disappoint American TV giants HBO and promoters Golden Boy in order to ensure his fight, being shown live on Sky Box Office, is at the right time for fans on this side of the Atlantic.
He said: "It's always nice to be home. My last four fights have been in America and the support I got over there has been phenomenal - with 35,000 going over. I can't see that being bettered by a British fighter. It makes me feel so proud.
"And not only that, it's also for the fans who have supported me from day one back in England, Great Britain and Manchester, who thought they had lost the chance to see my fight again here live.
"Not everybody can afford to fly to the US for every fight, so all my fans are going to get the chance to see Ricky Hatton, not just the ones who came to America.
"It's at a fan-friendly time, an English time. I put my contract with HBO and Golden Boy on hold so that I don't have to have it at two in the morning just to coincide with TV.
"I could have made a fair few extra quid for having it at two in the morning.
"But I chose to put it on hold because I don't like the idea of 55,000 people coming to watch me at 2am. It's my way of saying thank you really."
Amir Khan will be trained by promoter Frank Warren's matchmaker Dean Powell for his next fight.
The Bolton star has confirmed his split with Manchester's Oliver Harrison, who trained Khan for all of his 17 professional fights
Ricky Hatton snubs big money fight offer for sake of Manchester fans - The Daily Record
Backpedal?
Like I said if they wanted the fight and were convinced it would do big numbers they would have got it. They didn't. Nuff said.
What it actualy was was HBO have programe slots to fill and the one they had open for the fight was primetime. They offered Hatton a rediculous amount of Money to fight at that time but he wanted to give his fans something back. :thumbsup:
HBO never wanted it. :laugh:
They never wanted it but they offered Hatton a load of cash to change his plans. :laugh::laugh::laugh:
It's quite obvious HBO wanted the fight. It's also obvious they weren't desparate for it. Man it don't take much working out does it :laugh:
Matty The Ghost
Yea Im pretty sure HBO wants just about every fight made but its just what they are willing to pay for it.
If they had made no offer then yeah, he'd have a case but where i come from when an offers made for something it pretty much means somebody wants something. LOL!
MattyIceVA said:
Hatton = $$$$
They'd be stupid not to want a peice of the action.
no dice nate Jul 18, 2008


Post Your Stolen Or Lost Items!!!!
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Re: Post Your Stolen Or Lost Items!!!!
Back at the 1983 National, a person still active in the hobby today (although not universally loved nor respected) was showing off by flashing $1500 in hundred dollar bills at a table when he set the money down on the table to look at a seller's jersey. Needless to say, while he was inspecting the potential purchase, some anonymous attendee grabbed the wad of bills and slithered off before anyone noticed. Of course, if someone's flashing cash and trying to play high roller publicly, they're kind of bringing this on themselves.
Not lost in the traditional sense, but in 1985 I sold a large group of game used bats for about an average of $10 each. Though many great players were included (Ozzie Smith, Dave Winfield), I'd sure like to get my 1969 Jose Arcia autographed gamer back one day.
Former Penn State star and Heisman Trophy Winner John Cappelletti had his house recently broken into.
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. -- Southern California authorities are investigating the theft of sports memorabilia and jewelry from the home of former football star John Cappelletti, the 1973 Heisman Trophy winner from Penn State.
Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino said Tuesday that the burglary occurred on or around Jan. 20 at Cappelletti's home in Laguna Niguel.
Amormino says he cannot say specifically what items were taken but they do relate to Cappelletti's playing days at Penn State and NFL years with the Los Angeles Rams and the San Diego Chargers.
The spokesman says Cappelletti released a statement describing some of the items as irreplaceable and saying he would consider offering a reward for their return.
Burglaries are not common in Laguna Niguel, an upscale community about 50 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
Actively looking for a Brad Lidge Philadelphia Phillies Game Used Cap!
This weekend a Johnny Damon home white Rays jersey was lost/stolen from my collection. There are only 3 home whites of his that i know of so if one hits the market please let me know. Thanks.
Not a biggie, but a FedEx Ground package containing a Phillies GU #3 cap (post-Dale Murphy) that was delivered to me never got in my hands. Apparently the driver chose to leave the package by the front door (no signature) and take off. Not totally surprising...of the delivery companies that bring parcles here, FedEx Ground is the worst.
After 8 days, the mystery has been solved....error on the FedEx Ground driver.
A woman rang the bell and handed me the package...she opened it thinking it was hers, and then saw the address and realized it wasn't. The contents were just fine, and the woman explained that her son was a cxollector, and she realized how I might be looking for this.
The woman, as it turns out, is a former down-the-block neighbor of mine. The package, clearly addressed by the seller as 1925 Grove, was instead dropped off at 1925 Kenilworth...not even the same street, and the street I moved from (at a different address nyumber) almost 2 years ago. Thank God that the woman was honest and realized the nature of the contents.
I have a strong hunch that these were swiped by a non-collector Cubs fan who stayed with us for several months, but was jailed for something unrelated. The jerseys are Cubs (Cuba-front) blue mesh Majestic BPs from 1995 (no year tags) of #35 Bob Patterson and #45 Kent Bottenfield. Reward is offered, and jerseys are likely still in the Chicago area. Thanks.


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How Bad Is It to Drink Diet Soda?
Our expert weighs in.
By Jaclyn London, MS, RD, CDN
As long as you're sticking to one diet soda per day — it's not too bad, actually!
Now, hear me out. Diet drinks are not without controversy, and some people are especially concerned that fake sugar may cause cancer. But before you land on one side or the other, consider all the facts. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has said that all of the artificial sweeteners and sugar substitutes (a.k.a. "non-nutritive sweeteners") on the market today are safe for the average person, and the National Cancer Institute supports that artificial sweeteners do not cause cancer. These evaluations came after a comprehensive review of the scientific evidence.
Then there's the other worry: Does drinking diet soda lead to weight gain? This question is more complicated. When you drink sugar substitutes found in diet soft drinks, research shows that they may cause you to crave more sweet stuff, rather than satisfy your urge, because you aren't rewarding ourselves with the real thing (actual sugar). The theory is that this might lead you to reach for more soda or, even worse, candy and other foods high in real sugar — then you up your calories for the day and, poof, may sabotage your diet. Additional research has found that there may be another, more complicated link between artificially sweetened beverages and long-term weight gain.
Experts would call the connection between diet soda and weight-gain is almost a "chicken or egg" phenomenon: With obesity at its peak, it's impossible to really know if overweight and obese individuals are drinking diet beverages to lose weight but then sabotaging their diets in other ways, or if they are overweight because they drink diet beverages. Think about it: How many times have you — or someone with you — ordered a double cheeseburger and fries with a Diet Coke?!
But, still, I wouldn't tell you to cut diet soda out completely. I would still rather you drink the diet version over the real thing. Calories from added sugars — especially those found in beverages like soda, juice, and even coffee drinks — are linked to a slew of chronic diseases as well as obesity. In my opinion, everything is okay in moderation, and diet beverages are no different.
Jaclyn London, MS, RD, CDN, is the nutrition director for the Good Housekeeping Institute.
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Jaclyn London, MS, RD, CDN A registered dietitian with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern University and a Master of Science degree in Clinical Nutrition from New York University, Jaclyn "Jackie" London handled all of Good Housekeeping's nutrition-related content, testing, and evaluation from 2014 to 2019.
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