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Political Idioms for Dummies: 25 Most Often Used Political Jargon of 2010
October 12, 2010 December 10, 2016 Jeneba Ghatt
As we head into the mid-term elections, more people may be paying attention to the "political pundits" on the nightly news, listening to and watching campaign ads and tuning into broadcast and cable news shows that cover politics. In the interest to gain more news and information about candidates up for office in their respective local and state jurisdictions, audiences look to reporters and the "talking heads" on these programs to provide some insight and perspectives.
What they bump into, which may turn them off and away, is all of the jargon and idioms used by those reporting the news. To the uninitiated, it may not be that easy to figure out what all of the quirky terminology means. You hear candidates everyday referring to themselves as a "Fiscal Conservative" and a "Social Moderate." What exactly does that mean??
Many political idioms come in and out of fashion and are created by the media, politics junkies, bloggers, politicians, press secretaries, advisors and lobbyists. Several people have criticized the frequent use of these terms which they say are meaningless, vague and pretentious diction incidental and understandable only to those "Inside the Beltway" and exclusionary to Main street America.
Below is a dictionary of 25 of the most common used terms, including terms that just recently started to become used, or overused depending on your perspective, among "talking heads", political pundits and "spin doctors".
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But in the meantime, take a gander at the list of 25 oft-used-quoted political idioms in current circulation. I've included some examples of the terms used in context to help out the reader and any inference that these examples may be referencing any particular candidate or party is purely coincidental. How's that for a legal disclaimer?
Enthusiasm Gap – the difference in excitement and interest in voting between two main parties, for example. As in: It is said that the Enthusiasm Gap between the Republican and Democratic voter base could spell disaster if the Democrats do not turn out more than expected at the polls this November 2.
Fiscal Conservative – a perspective preferring that the government spends tax payer dollars in a manner that does not include too much expenditure that will further increase an existing deficit. As in: Several candidates up for elections are touting themselves as being Fiscal Conservatives who question the money earmarked for several social programs.
Gaffe – pronounced (Gaf), the term for a faux pas or a socially inadequate statement or mention. As in: Since assuming the position as chief of the party, the leader has made a series of gaffes that have made the headlines.
Ground Game – local political organization. As in: While the Republicans have a pretty reliable ground game for galvanizing support behind their issues, the Democrats are flailing as they try to come up with a theme to unify their base.
G.O.P. – stands for Grand Old Party, a euphemism for Republicans.
Drill Down – to move from summary information to detailed data by focusing in on something. As in: At some point, someone will need to drill down for the American people some of the finer points of this new legislation so they can understand better what it means and does precisely.
Hail of Criticism – a lot of negative response to an act, statement, initiative.
Inside the Beltway – a term referencing the name for the highway that encircles the geographic location of the District of Columbia and areas surrounding the Nation's Capitol. It has come to signify a clear distinction and/or disconnect between those who live and work within those boundaries and who create laws and policy; and the rest of the country, the majority that do not. As in: There is a general sense of frustration among the electorate that Inside the Beltway politicians running the country are clueless about their main concerns.
Media Firestorm – a lot of coverage, mostly antagonistic, from the media which usually includes a demand for a response from the part(ie_ or entities involved. As in: After the taped recorded conversation of the candidate using that slur was released, he came under a media firestorm and had to answer to all of the questions being lobbed in his direction.
Messaging – a term used to describe a series of short descriptive terms related to a particular policy, initiative, explanation or communications that is meant to be reiterated, recited, almost verbatim to an audience usually in addresses, letters, speeches etc. As in: That candidate was not clear in messaging his position to the voters which is one of the reasons he did not get reelected.
Obamacare – a term, usually framed in a derogatory context, to reference the Health Care Reform Act pushed by the President and the White House and passed into law in 2010.
Partisan – a fervent, sometimes militant support of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea, usually within the context of equally fervent opposition to an opposing party. As in: The governor went into office promising the people that he would be non-partisan , but as of late has been engaging in partisan politics slamming the other party and turning off the independents in the process.
Political Pundits – a euphemism for an advisor, counselor, analyst or commentator who has perspectives and insights into political campaigns and politics in general. As in: All of the political pundits on the morning talk shows were predicting the resolution would fail.
P.O.T.U.S – abbreviation for Politics of the United States or President of the United States (compare: SCOTUS referenced the Supreme Court of the United States)
Progressives – political attitude favoring or advocating changes or reform.
Read out – the analysis or interpretation of information or data on a particular political position. As in: What is the White House's read out on the public outcry from the oil spill?
Reach Across the Aisle – to make an effort to negotiate or mediate differences with those who are on the other side of the political spectrum in the spirit of compromise. It references the actual physical aisle that divides the legislative halls where members of the two parties sit on opposite sides. As in: In order to garner support for his measure, the Senator had to do reach across the aisle and work with Senators of the other party.
Social moderate – A position that is neither conservative nor liberal on mainstream social issues but represents a more tolerant position on controversial cultural debates and matters including abortion, gay marriage, legalization of marijuana etc.
Spin – can be used as a verb or noun, a favorable perspective or slant to an item of news, or potentially unpopular policy. As in: After a controversy erupts and the media gets a hold of it, there is a right and wrong way to spin it to your advantage.
Stakeholders – groups or constituencies that stand to gain or lose under a certain political initiative, law, rule, or agenda.
Stumping – campaigning or attending a political rally on behalf of and to garner support for another candidate running for office. As in: The President was in Ohio today stumping for the candidates up for congressional elections.
Talking Points – a set of briefing notes or summaries on a particular topic that are recited, nearly verbatim, whenever the topic is broached. As in: The mayor veered off his talking points and made some off the cuff remarks that were not received well when they were reported in the media.
Teabaggers – a derogatory term to reference members of the Tea Party movement. T.e.a. stands for Taxed Enough Already.
Teachable Moment – an expression that references the opportunity to convert a controversy, challenge or other political disaster into a lesson for the future.
Tsunami – a term for a wave of political victories where one particular party takes over the incumbent seats represented by an opposing power in office. As in: There is a predicted and anticipated political tsunami that is set to take place following the mid-term elections.
What else? Any thing I missed?
Jeneba Jalloh Ghatt can be heard nightly at 8pm on DCRadio/WHUR 96.3HD4 on "Coming to America with Wayna and Friends. She is an editor at Techyaya.com, founder of the Digital Publiching Academy and JayJayGhatt.com where she teaches online creators how to navigate digital entrepreneurship and offers Do-It-For-You Blogging Service. She manages her lifestyle sites BellyitchBlog, Jenebaspeaks and JJBraids.com and is the founder of BlackWomenTech.com 200 Black Women in Tech On Twitter. Her biz podcast 10 Minute Podcast is available on iTunes and Player.fm. Follow her on Twitter at @Jenebaspeaks. Buy her templates over at her legal and business templates on Etsy shop!
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Was Babe Ruth Shut Out of Coaching Because of Racism?
By Libby Coleman
Just why did the Bambino's coaching career fail to launch?
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Because you can't always get what you want.
When he stepped up to the plate in Game 3 of the '32 World Series, Babe Ruth made a bold prediction. He pointed to the sky, toward the outfield — all the way to the bleachers — and on the next pitch he blasted the ball to center field. 'Round the bases he wound.
The Great Bambino, the man who cursed the Red Sox and made the Yankees great, seemed to control everything back then. To this day, he remains an all-time leading slugger. He smashed his way to the end of the dead ball era, averaged .342, smacked in 2,873 hits and homered a crazy 714 times. "Ruth is widely credited with renewing interest in baseball following the 1919 Black Sox scandal," baseball historian John McMurray says. "Ruth began hitting home runs at a rate never before seen in the game, exceeding many teams' home run output by himself." Of course, if Ruth had had his way, he also would be known as a great manager. But that wasn't a career move he could simply point to and make happen.
Manage the Yankees? You can't even manage yourself!
At first, Ruth was wary of managing, historian Bill Jenkinson says. Speculation persists that in 1929, while Ruth was still in the Yankees lineup, he was considered for the job of managing the Yanks. "He didn't want it," Jenkinson says.
But his tune soon changed. A couple years later, when Ruth did want it, the Yankees didn't want him. Many scholars blame his troublesome personality, especially during his youth. Allegedly, Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert — a former colonel and congressman — spat fire at Ruth. "Manage the Yankees? You can't even manage yourself!" he said, according to ESPN. (Jenkinson says he has found no proof that Ruppert actually said this to Ruth.) The drama was played out in the newspapers. Throughout his career and post-career, Ruth was known for his bombast, overeating, drinking and womanizing. On the other hand, he was charitable and good-natured in media interviews, and he seemed to calm down as he aged.
Babe Ruth (1895-1948) watches a high fly ball from the coach's box at Ebbets Field during his first game as coach for the Brooklyn Dodgers, in 1938.
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After the Yankees rejected Ruth, he set out to be signed by other teams as a manager. The Reds tried to get him but were blocked by Ruppert, who did not want to release Ruth from his player's contract, Jenkinson says. The Detroit Tigers requested a meeting with Ruth, and while Ruth was interested, he was already committed to going to Hawaii to spread baseball to the big 5-0, Jenkinson says. Many teams expressed interest in signing Ruth.
But then the offers began to evaporate. Some think Ruth's downfall was his personality and boisterousness. "He squandered opportunities," McMurray says. Others have a different theory. Without definitive proof, Jenkinson is convinced Ruth "didn't get the job because [Commissioner] Judge Landis and others close to him knew, if hired as manager, Babe Ruth would have openly advocated to sign Black ball players." Ruth frequented New York City's Cotton Club in Harlem, had befriended a tap dancer named Bojangles and brought him into the Yankees' clubhouse and he played exhibition games against all-Black teams.
Shut out of managing, Ruth took a job in 1938 as a first-base coach with the Brooklyn Dodgers for $15,000 (at the time Lou Gehrig made $39,000 playing). Ruth quickly became the center of attention. In an era without television contracts, gate receipts were the main revenue stream for major league teams. The Dodgers were suffering in New York's competitive market, overshadowed by the Yankees and Giants. Brooklyn's lineup was a bunch of has-beens and never-weres, but Ruth "had a lot of name recognition in New York," McMurray says. A little more than a week into his coaching contract, Ruth made headlines when he got into a car accident. He still coached that day, drawing crowds of thousands thereafter.
Babe Ruth, third-base coach for the Brooklyn Dodgers, signals to a batter during a game at Ebbets Field in 1938.
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But his heart wasn't in it. For one thing, Ruth joined mid-season, when the Dodgers had already made their bed. "Ruth was brought in as an attraction, and he was never given serious consideration to become the Dodgers' field manager," McMurray says. "He thought it would lead to something else, and it didn't." So did the papers, which ran the AP headline "Ruth to Get $15,000 as Coach for Brooklyn: Baseball Writers Believe the Babe Is Likely to Be Manager Not Later Than 1939." And yet, Ruth reportedly struggled with the signals as first-base coach and argued with the team's players.
Ruth lasted less than one year and left the team with a record of 69-80. He never got a managerial call again.
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You're right, Mike, it is going to be a madhouse. No doubt Ras Trent and the other trustafarians will have all the tickets locked up as soon as they go on sale. But, hopefully, if there is more touring in the future, then there will be opportunities to see the phab phour again.
Well, we didn't get the simulcast I suggested, but the free mp3 downloads are a generous gift and a brilliant marketing strategy. If anyone still has doubts about buying a ticket for a summer tour stop, all the convincing they would need is just a 420 MB download away.
Seriously, get the downloads. The performance is not flub-free, but the recordings sound fantastic and the band sounds like they are committed to pushing their limits as much as ever. Phish is back and they mean business.
I'm listening to Friday night right now. Incredible. There's no sense of the passage of time at all. Like a timewarp. I agree, very generous offering the mp3's for free. I can only imagine the scene outside Hampton Coliseum. Gotta be insane. That 420 thing is bizarre, I didn't notice that.


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Why some 'hoverboards' are flaming out
Watch five videos of hoverboards catching on fire.
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Timothy Cade had owned his hoverboard for only three days when it exploded beneath him.
"Hoverboard is on fire," he says in a video taken right after he jumped off the burning piece of equipment. "What is going on, dude?"
The bow-shaped board, which doesn't really "hover" but is instead more akin to a cross between a skateboard and a Segway, flamed and popped angrily.
His mother ran out with a box of baking soda. Though baking soda is recommended for extinguishing grease fires, it didn't help the hoverboard situation. The toy hissed and boomed, then the battery pack went shooting out of it. Flames engulfed the board.
"You would not expect a fire like that to come out of a little thing like that," Cade told his local TV station, WKRG.
But they do. Not just out of Cade's board, but at least 10 others. What was once the hottest toy of the holiday season has become something of a hot mess.
[Airlines are banning 'hoverboards' after fires trigger safety concerns]
Airlines have banned hoverboards until they can figure out what's going on. Online retailers such as Amazon.com and Overstock.com will no longer sell some brands. And the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Monday that it will be investigating the trendy toys in an effort to pin down the source of reports of 29 emergency room visits and at least 11 fires related to hoverboards, according to the New York Times.
The problem, it seems, is the batteries.
More specifically, it's the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries in the foot rests of the scooters. There are hundreds of companies making hoverboards — not all of them strictly abiding by safety standards. And when it comes to lithium-ion batteries, a few shortcuts can have explosive consequences.
[Your fancy scooter is cool, but it's not a 'hoverboard.' Why don't we have hoverboards yet?]
That's because of how batteries work. A battery is essentially a high school chemistry experiment in a small metal tube: two metals immersed in an electrolyte solvent and partitioned by an all-important separator. The anode (the negatively charged end of the battery) accumulates electrons, the tiny negatively-charged particles that form an electric current. The electrolyte solvent allows ions — atoms lacking at least one electron — to accumulate in the cathode (the positively charged end).
The electrons want to balance things out by flowing to the cathode, but they have no way of getting there thanks to the separator. When you put the battery in a flashlight — or a hoverboard — and complete the circuit, a current flows. The bulb lights up. The hoverboard zooms.
Lithium-ion batteries make doubly good on this process with the ability to reverse it. When you recharge one, the reaction flows the other way: the anode re-accumulates electrons, the difference in charges reappears. They're lightweight and reusable, which makes them appealing for electronics ranging from cellphones to electric cars.
But the electrolyte solution used in these batteries is highly flammable, Wired explains, which is why it's so important that the separator keep things, well, separate. If a current were able to flow within the battery, it would short circuit, sparking disaster.
"If there is an inherent defect in the cell, it will go off at some point," Jay Whitacre, a materials science researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, told Wired. "Small defects in the manufacturing or materials stream lead to the plus/minus sides of the batteries being shorted with each other after a small amount of use. When this happens, especially when the batteries are charged, a lot of heat is generated inside the cells and this leads to electrolyte boiling, the rupture of the cell casing, and then a significant fire."
[Hoverboard linked to fire in house in Montgomery]
Lithium-ion battery explosions are by no means unique to hoverboards. They've been sparking fires since the only person who had ever ridden one was Marty McFly (setting aside for the moment that he pretty much still is the only one to ride one). A few of Telsa's electric cars have been incinerated by them, and iPods have gone up in flames. Awareness of the problem is broad enough that one popular — if so far unfounded — explanation for the disappearance of missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, after its departure from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, is that a shipment of lithium-ion batteries caught fire in the plane's cargo-hold.
But batteries in hoverboards face problems that an iPod doesn't. For one thing, no one is standing on iPods while smashing into walls at high speeds. The wear and tear and feats of bro-iness to which hoverboards are subjected makes their batteries more vulnerable to damage.
For another, hoverboards also are pretty much unregulated, much to the chagrin of Consumer Product Safety Commission Chairman Elliot Kaye.
Speaking to the New York Times, Kaye explained that cut-rate hoverboard manufacturers, many of them in China, use irregular manufacturing techniques to circumvent intellectual property questions and other trade regulations when their boards get shipped overseas.
"They don't all look the same inside," Kaye said. "It looks like there might be overcharging, too many batteries stacked together in ways that lithium-ion batteries are not meant to be stacked."
Because there are no rules on how hoverboards must be made, it's easy for manufacturers to get away with substandard products, he said.
"People just put it out there," Kaye told the Times, "and then we're left to pick up the pieces when the injuries start mounting."
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My son Ayan was suffering from Atopic dermatitis since he was of six months. We were struggling in spite of using topical steroids and moisturizer. His whole body was covered with eruptions especially during winter.
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More clips show Khloé and Tristan singing "Happy Birthday" to True as well as the National Basketball Association player holding his baby girl in his arms. Kardashian wrote. "I am honored and so thankful to be your mommy!" The involvement of Jordyn Woods with Tristan made it unbelievable complicated not just for Khloe, but for her whole family to behave on decent terms towards Tristan.
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A Citizens' Assembly on climate change is the coward's way out
Posted on November 4, 2019 by keithsutherland
Interesting article by Melanie McDonagh in The Spectator on citizens' assemblies. In response to the demands of Extinction Rebellion, letters inviting 30,000 households across the UK to join a citizens' assembly on climate change were sent out last week by an alliance of six Commons select committees, chaired by Rachel Reeves. The author (an Irish Catholic) has some alarming claims to make regarding the citizens' assembly on the repeal of the eighth constitutional amendment (on abortion). It's a short and interesting piece, so I won't bother to post extracts.
All the comments posted after the Spectator article are critical of the design of such deliberative assemblies which (IMO) run the danger of bringing the entire sortition movement into disrepute.
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Nicholas Gruen, on November 4, 2019 at 8:12 am said:
Given that I agree with you that some good points are made in the article – tendentious though it is – I guess I can think of two ways to think about this.
Both would strive to bring about a situation in which sortition is 'fair' – or unbiased – and seen to be so. The first would be to agree to some apex principles and then to insist on them – together with the development of appropriate credentialling mechanisms. The problem with this is its replication of what I call the 'sovereignty' model of governance according to which things gain legitimacy by virtue of their correspondence with the apex principle(s).
The alternative would be a more 'embodied' approach in which we seek to cultivate a culture within and around sortition institutions that is actively defensive of the principles of fairness. The way I'd do that would be to develop a cadre of those who have participated in a sortition process using some non competitive and non-self-assertive mechanism.
There needs to be some ongoing institution(s) purporting to legitimate authority on such matters so that there's a state of the art according to which sortition based citizens' bodies can be chosen and run in some agreed way (the Belgian citizens' assembly appears to aspire to something like this as, if I understand it correctly it can appoint other citizens' juries). Building it from a cadre of those who've been involved in one and who have the confidence of others seems like a good way to do this.
keithsutherland, on November 4, 2019 at 1:03 pm said:
Nick:> a cadre of those who've been involved in [a citizens' assembly] and who have the confidence of others
Given the normal associations of cadre ("a group of activists in a communist or other revolutionary organization") that might not be the best choice of words! What you're suggesting is the polar opposite of rotation. The "others" that need to be confident in the process are the disembodied — i.e. the vast majority of citizens who have no involvement at all in the process.
Nicholas Gruen, on November 4, 2019 at 11:51 pm said:
And your suggestion to address the same objective?
tomatlee, on November 5, 2019 at 2:18 am said:
(Unfortunately, the comments for this article are behind a paywall. Can someone copy them and post them for us?)
The article shared by Keith Sutherland raises many interesting challenges and opportunities in my mind, including the following:
1. I see the article as a sign that randomly selected citizen councils are entering the mainstream ecosystem of power politics. Inevitably, the increasing use of such councils will evoke reactions from (a) existing power players who feel their dominance is being threatened and (b) any "losers" in the recommendations from any given deliberation (such as the "pro-life" side in the Ireland assembly critiqued by the article's author). These forces will try to delegitimize, co-opt, manipulate, marginalize, or otherwise undermine such councils to reinforce status quo power relations and familiar procedures. Those efforts can easily succeed, due to public (and offiicialdom's) unfamiliarity with and unsophistication thinking about sortition, deliberation, process, facilitation and a number of other dimensions of such innovations. But the attacks are themselves signs of progress. We're emerging from the margins of political culture. We're no longer "below the radar" and thus become inviting targets.
2. Articles like this beg for responses, among which might be the following:
(a) Competitive argumentation. For example, the author says, "all forums like this suffer from response bias. The people who are willing to give up six months of their lives are more likely to be activists than normal members of the public." To this, we could respond that "republican forms of democracy suffer from a different and even more important bias. People who are willing to run for office are more likely to be rich, egotistical extroverts eager to get hold of power than normal members of the public. After all, there are no criteria they have to meet to ensure they are particularly qualified to make decisions on public affairs." We could even nit-pick her claim that citizen deliberators are "giving up six months of their lives", because that's simply untrue.
(b) Reasoned argumentation. For example, the author says "One of the first decisions you'd have to make would be whether [participants would] be chosen on the basis of age/sex/geography or whether your sample would include balance on Lib/Lab/Tory/nationalist views. These are two equally valid approaches but they do affect the outcome." We could respond that in most cases all such ways of cutting the demographic pie are important and selection can ensure that as many variables as possible are included – or, in cases where they are not included, we agree with her that they should be.
(c) Address legitimate concerns. For example, when people like her complain that it is unclear how the participants, leaders, experts and briefing materials are selected, we can and should respond that these are legitimate concerns about transparency and fairness, and that we will make – and are making – special efforts to ensure that future councils and assemblies make it clear and public how those decisions are being made.
3. Beyond RESPONDING, we should be actively innovating, enhancing and transforming practices like sortition and citizen deliberation. Examples might include:
(a) Organizing an independent public association to promote and oversee standards of sortition and citizen deliberation. Ideally this would be made up primarily of diverse previous participants in citizen councils and assemblies who are excited about seeing the potential of such exercises realized in political culture and governance. They could be advised and trained by diverse experts like ourselves, but care should be taken to ensure they are – and are SEEN to be – a fully independent "we the people" voice for quality citizen deliberations. I see no other type of organization that could claim the kind of legitimacy, neutrality and common-good perspective that would hold up under public scrutiny. And, as I noted above, we NEED a legitimate body to police these councils and assemblies because as they grow in power they will be attacked and manipulated with increasing intensity and sophistication. The general public is too ignorant to do the oversight job and public officials, experts and process practitioners are too easily manipulated or seen to be self-interested.
(b) Doing research that provides evidentiary backing to our claims or that guides the evolution of the relevant fields. For example, who has researched the differences between people who agree to participate in such forums and those who don't? And where have parallel citizen assemblies been organized independently (on the same subject, drawn from the same population) to demonstrate the similarity (and thus trustworthiness) of their findings and recommendations – or, if the outcomes are significantly different, where those differences came from and how we plan to address that in future forums to support the legitimacy of such outcomes?
I've written proposals regarding both (a) and (b), but for the purpose of this response, I just want to point out the R&D dimension as something relevant to the issues raised by challenges presented by critics like Melanie McDonagh, the author of the article shared by Keith Sutherland. We'll surely see many more like it in the near future, given the increasing use of such citizen deliberative forums.
I was proposing a simple shortcut towards the kind of thing you're suggesting – with which I agree in spirit. Do you want to point to where you have written proposals for a) and b)?
keithsutherland, on November 5, 2019 at 8:54 am said:
My approach to fairness is dialectical — advocates exchanging insults under the guidance of a judge.
Here are the comments:
Katy Hibbert • 3 days ago
Citizens' Assemblies are just another way of achieving lefty-remoaner-econutter domination without a democratic vote. The lefty Remoaners' pet Tory Rory Stewart was in favour of them. Nuff said.
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Charloch • 3 days ago
These are just Soviets by another name.
Della Cate Charloch • 3 days ago
I was going to say the same!
lms2 • 3 days ago
Tony Heller: The Big Switch
The warnings of global cooling and a coming ice age that were prevalent before 1980, because there'd been a couple of decades of cooling, which suddenly changed to warnings of a runaway greenhouse effect almost overnight, because of a couple of years of warming.
This is nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with control and destroying the Western standard of living, to make the world's population equally poor.
The UN and XR have admitted that this "climate emergency" story is nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with destroying capitalism.
Reborn lms2 • 2 days ago
In the strike ridden 1970s there wasn't much TV around, but BBC Two devoted a whole evening to the
threat of the upcoming Ice Age.
A decade later it was Anthropic Global Warming.
That didn't emerge as planned so the theory/scam was rebranded as Climate Change.
Meaningless in terms of what can be done to change it, but the promoters of this rubbish think
the "cure" for warming and/or cooling is much the same.
wibbling • 3 days ago
The entire point of the Left wing 'citizen's assembly' is to ensure that 100 specifically chosen people who will all agree with one another to control the establishment for their own benefit.
That's the single, specific point. The green fanatics have absolutely no consideration that it would actually be representative – demographically or politically because such people would be bored rigid at the pointlessness of such a gathering and close it down. No, it'll be chock full of troughers, wasters, the unwashed fanatics. Their problem is they think everyone is like them. The idea they're not is anathema to their narrow minds.
Rousseau wibbling • a day ago • edited
Also, even if you were not, can you imagine the "drip,drip" pressure brought to bear on you every time you disagreed with the shreikers in the crowd (no doubt egged on and allowed to voice their "concerns" at every possible occasion by the manipulator-in-chief at the front of the room). Forget six months of that, most people putting up objections to the eco-fascists line would be worn down from speaking out in a matter of weeks.
It is a totalitarian idea in what is rapidly becoming a totalitarian country.
AtilaTheHen • 3 days ago
Is this the end of democracy?
GKahnesq • 2 days ago
Name one organisation which includes the words "citizens" or "peoples" that is not infested by lefties.
Fraser Nelson's Underpants • 3 days ago
I would have no problem with a citizen's assembly if it were something akin to jury service: compulsory and random, bringing together a broadly representative sample of the population from all walks of life.
If it were, we would end up with a reversal of vast swathes of establishment idiocy, including initiatives to "combat climate change," which do nothing of the sort other than raise energy bills.
The problem is that it would be another establishment stitch-up, and ensure that only certain sorts of people could sit on them and that they could only reach certain sorts of conclusions.
Benny Factor Fraser Nelson's Underpants • 3 days ago • edited
No, that's not the only problem with them. Even a truly random selection of people can still be persuaded by a biased chair. And even if you tried to find one, you couldn't find an unbiased chair. And they won't try, of course.
Here be Bod Fraser Nelson's Underpants • 3 days ago
Indeed. The self-selecting aspect as the first filter is alone horrific. Only an authoritarian cretin (such as Rory Stewart) could possibly think this acceptable.
Ken Bishop Fraser Nelson's Underpants • 2 days ago
Jury service is not compulsory, it is extremely easy to duck out of it.
what a load of old toffee. Who will decide who should be invited? What will be the criteria? Will this initiative be on a party's manifesto?
Turning_Tide AtilaTheHen • 3 days ago
It's already happening. BBC is reporting letters have been sent out to 30,000 households. 110 people will be selected from those who respond.
I do hope we get one of those letters, as Mr Turning Tide – who has degrees in physical/environmental science – has been saying climate change is bullocks for about 30 years now.
Bob of Bonsall Turning_Tide • 3 days ago
And Jeremy's brother, Piers, is very adamant the Climate Change Emergency Panic is a scam.
Zero Sugar Turning_Tide • 3 days ago
Should she attend, she can be expected to be sidelined.
There are plenty of consultants who are experts in managing such a forum to get the output the sponsor wants. The device is used in corporations all the time, to give employees the impression they have input to corporate policy.
mmac1968 • 2 days ago • edited
Citizens assembly, the Peoples vote are all Lefty socialist terms which infact do the opposite of representing the citizens or the people. Lefties like them as it gives them powers they'd otherwise be denied by the electorate. Our present crowd of Westminster cowards like them, like they like Qangos, it allows them to pick those who will determine the outcome they already wanted.
Super_Slav • 3 days ago
When they say "citizen's" assembly, what they mean is "green lefty" assembly. The same way that "people's" vote actually means "remainer's" vote
Skaldmaer • 3 days ago • edited
It's utterly disgraceful. The argument over Climate Change is so one sided and is pushed in a single warming direction by the MSM, BBC, UN, global establishments.
Yet there are other expert opinions out there and some posit we are not warming but entering a cooling period.
As this is so complex a subject 100 people taking up the latest Greta Thunberg pronouncements won't give us any serious solutions. – it is a recipe for chaos.
P.S. I see a good chunk of the funding is coming from an EU environmental organisation. Why are they funding this when we're leaving? Allegedly.
Pancho the Grey Skaldmaer • 2 days ago
You have been told that the science is settled, so the substantial number of scientific papers (estimated 65-100 this year) that say in one way or another it is the clouds (or lack thereof) wot done it can't really be anything to do with science.
Beatus Vir Skaldmaer • a day ago • edited
Yeah – looking at the warming trend through the first half of the 20th century ("Glaciers melting!", "Arctic ports ice free by 1940!", "Record wildfires" "We're doomed" etc.) followed by a period of 30 years or so of cooling ("New ice age", "Crops failing", "Arctic ports frozen up", "We're doomed") followed more recently by a period of warming (repeat warnings)…
… I reckon that by 2050, when we're all freezing our nuts off again, we'll be getting served up some new garbage to worry about.
No HS2…No EU Skaldmaer • 2 days ago
We ain't going anywhere, as long as the Lib/lab/Con run us.
plainsdrifter • 3 days ago
Cowardice underpins the manipulations of politicians in modern democracies. They will reap as they sow.
"The people who are willing to give up six months of their lives are more likely to be activists than normal members of the public."
Europe may yet become the mainspring for another global conflict. Alarmist? Go read a child's history book.
Here be Bod • 3 days ago • edited
It's a terrible idea.
Leaving aside the dreadful broad principle, any such selection approach would lead to a gathering dominated by wildly-unrepresentative nut-jobs.
In other words, an 'assembly' very similar to today's Parliament. So why bother?
The Masked Marvel • 3 days ago • edited
The only time anyone since the ancient Greeks wants a 'Citizens' Assembly' is when they have a specific outcome in mind.
maresuke • 3 days ago
For years the Home Office has been influenced by single issue pressure groups claiming both a representative status and a degree of specialised knowledge , and of course politicians will jump at opportunities to avoid accountability by passing responsibility for controversial decisions elsewhere, especially if they can still shape the result.
That is the reason so many of them favour a second referendum or PV.
alw • 3 days ago • edited
Indeed that is why NICE came into being courtesy of the Blair government….passing the buck. In Camden the Citizens Assembly wants to ban all cars on all roads for 3 months of the year every year.
Ken Bishop • 2 days ago
We have already got a Citizens' Assembly. It is called the House of Commons. We have got them at various other levels of governance too.
Rebecca • 2 days ago • edited
I'd love to know precisely how thick "the establishment" think taxpayers are.
But I'm guessing it's pretty thick.
If we are in essence to be ruled by banks and big business, could we please at least be spared this kind of nonsense, along with the flailing, wailing morons of the HoC, their salaries and the salaries of their vast retinues.
Zen Priest Rebecca • 2 days ago
Extremely.
enoch arden • 3 days ago
I wonder who of this entertaining crowd of activists would be able to comprehensibly explain the difference between weather and climate. The society we live in is steadily getting mad as the number of idle idiots increases. Tomorrow we can expect a demonstration of the same loonies requiring that the government should interfere with the changes in the solar activity.
Della Cate • 3 days ago
So, letters go to 30, 000 households. How are they identified? Electoral register? Walking round the streets and deciding to send a letter to number 16? In all parts of the country or just certain areas? And who is deciding on all this?
I expect that a large number of these letters will go in the bin. The only keen people will be those who already have an axe to grind. And who is choosing how the final 110 will be picked? Interview? Names in a hat?
Or will it just be the good comrades who will sit on this Soviet?
nearhorburian Della Cate • 3 days ago
If they are randomly selected from the adult population we would expect 43/44% to be heterosexual white males.
I bet they won't be.
Mark B nearhorburian • 20 hours ago
And if they are expect the usual suspects to cry foul.
frank davidson • 3 days ago
Oh dear, so we get a few people who are probably without knowledge on a highly technical issue and they are going to guess
Turning_Tide frank davidson • 3 days ago
It's even worse than guessing: they'll just regurgitate all the alarmist (and inaccurate) headlines they can recall about melting ice, dying polar bears, increased flooding/droughts.
Here be Bod frank davidson • 3 days ago
Like 'economists', then? :)
Squire Western • 3 days ago
This gerrymandered nonsense will carry no weight at all. If politicians hope to evade scrutiny in this manner they will be disappointed.
keithjowitt • a day ago
The writer misses the big issue here. Unlike on the issues of abortion and electoral reform, a citizen's assembly on climate change is a very bad idea because its claims will always be unfalsifiable and its urgencies will never be satisfied. All sorts of bad things will be almost inevitable: very young people will demand to be on it, there will be clamour for it to reflect whatever diversity demands are fashionable that week, a bureaucracy and funding apparatus will be created around it, and it will be held up by media types (Guardian and BBC, anyone?) as an exemplar of virtuous decision-making. It will, through the media, have power without responsibility and it will become a tyrannical, bullying thing which businesses up and down the land will be encouraged to placate. And, because its urgencies will never be met it may never be disbanded, unless a politician one day has the courage to say no to its incessant bleating.
morebeerplease • 2 days ago
Having spent 30 years in the corporate IT world, I know a buck-passing exercise when I see one.
'Management Consultants' charge huge fees to produce 'reports' under the instruction of the board.
The board then implement the stupid ideas in the report, and when it all goes belly-up, can point the finger of blame at the report's recommendations.
Here, the Government are simply doing the same. They haven't a clue, (PPE and Law grads almost to a man/woman) and would like someone else to work out the details.
As others here have already pointed out, we have a representative assembly of a sort in Parliament.
The lefty/anarchist lot want to by-pass the hard graft of getting their schemes adopted through the agreed mechanisms.
As regards the 'climate change' issue I have the advantage through an earlier academic career of being trained in geochemistry, and that is a stout antidote to the claims of the alarmists that we're all going to fry if we don't stop using coal etc..
The whole XR thing is ignorant misguided ideologically motivated authoritarianism.
No 'conservative' government should have anything to do with their schemes.
Benny Factor • 3 days ago
Everyone should google for Andrew Neil's demolition of Stella Creasy's plan for a citizens' assembly to determine Brexit. It was on in February on the much lamented This Week.
Turning_Tide • 3 days ago
If a Citizens' Assembly on climate change served the purpose of making the Extinction Rebellion nutters think they'd achieved something while the government just got on with governing, it would probably be money well spent. The problems would come if/when a government attempted to implement the inevitably bonkers and impractical "solutions" coming from such a body.
Mark B • 20 hours ago
The Citizens' Assembly was a way to get people to do what parliament didn't want to be seen to do.
It is ironic that, they are happy to allow 110 people to make a decision, providing it is the right one, yet, are not happy to listen to, and abide by, the decision of 17.4 million people.
As the article alludes to, it allows politicians to implement that which they want, but do not have the political guts to make and take ownership of the decision themselves. Which begs the question. Why do we need politicians at all ?
toneekay • 2 days ago
Genuine citizen's assemblies would grow from the citizenry itself as challenges to the legitimacy of prevailing political structures, not from a lottery organised by a committee within those structures. They would be hostile to having their agendas and powers dictated by outside forces.
The irony is that the politicians advocating such assemblies are driven by concern that growing numbers of citizens view their authority as illegitimate. It's more akin to the window-dressing schemes that authoritarian regimes sometimes set up in an effort to lend dictatorial power the appearance of being responsive to popular sentiment.
Pancho the Grey • 2 days ago
The terms of reference of the assembly are apparently to look at what members of the public can do to reduce CO2. So it is an attempt to find which of the CO2 saving impositions on the public will cause least grief to the politicians.
jeremy Morfey • 3 days ago • edited
What does a citizens' assembly do that Parliament with its Select Committees isn't supposed to be doing?
I have this to say to the Climate Change sceptics (and I am glad to hear dissident voices whenever there is a near-consensus) – could this be a cover for a far more serious problem with overpopulation and deforestation? Any normal changes in weather patterns, or even abnormal ones, would not be catastrophic were a lot fewer people were less mobile and less rapacious than they are today. Now, if there is a dustbowl in Oklahoma, where do they move to? California? Nice and toasty there right now.
Does anyone remember Paul McCartney (world human population at birth about 2.3 billion), in 1971 (world human population 3.8 billion), releasing a song 'Too Many People'? I (world human population at birth 2.8 billion) remember at the time being disappointed that instead of being a polemic about overpopulation (when it was about half what it is now, which is 7.7 billion), it was a trite little ditty that offended John Lennon.
DourPresbyterian • a day ago
This is a dismal and depressing development. I agree with the article entirely: it recreates nationally the same mechanism and dynamic that buck-passing politicians found so useful in the EU: outsourcing unpopular decisions.
Thanks Keith, but I was trying to be serious.
keithsutherland, on November 5, 2019 at 12:37 pm said:
so am I !


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Divas Luck Casino offers two contact options to its players — live chat and email ([email protected]). Despite not being available 24/7, the support team responds relatively quickly.
Unfortunately, there's no phone support at the moment. You'll also have access to a simple FAQ section, but I think you'll get better answers by contacting customer service.
Conclusion — Should I Play in Divas Luck?
My first impression of Divas Luck is neither here nor there. I can't say it's an excellent online casino simply because it lacks proper licensing. However, if you disregard that for a second, you'll see that the operator does offer some exciting gambling options.
You won't find just the most popular options in the game lobby, which can be refreshing. Besides traditional casino games, Divas Luck also hosts a comprehensive collection of lotto and bingo titles, giving members more gaming options.
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Announcing the 2018 Holiday Stashdown Crochet Along!
The Holiday Stashdown Crochet Along is the annual year-end crochet along hosted in the CAL Central Facebook and Ravelry groups. We've brought together fifteen of the top crochet designers out there to bring you free crochet patterns for winter holiday gifts and decorations. Sixteen of our favorite companies are providing prizes for our end-of-CAL giveaway. Join us to make great gifts, chat with other crocheters, and enter to win fabulous prizes!
Enter the 2018 Holiday Stashdown CAL End-of-CAL Giveaway.
Every Monday from September 3 through December 10, 2018, we'll share a free crochet pattern that's perfect for a winter holiday gift or decoration. You can make these projects to keep or to gift while chatting with other crocheters in our groups. LoveCrochet generously provided yarn support to all participating designers, so all of our patterns are made using up to 3 skeins of Paintbox Yarns.
Now in its fourth year, the Holiday Stashdown CAL is hosted by the CAL Central groups on Facebook and Ravelry. And, because crochet alongs are more fun with prizes, we've reached out to some of our favorite brands to get some amazing end-of-CAL giveaway prizes. Don't forget to share a picture of each of your completed projects in this post (scroll to the end to enter) by 11:59 p.m. on January 7, 2019 to enter for your chance to win!
The Holiday Stashdown Crochet Along has always been a mystery CAL where projects are kept secret until the date of release. This year, we decided to change things up by providing a yarn list ahead of time. Each pattern uses up to 3 skeins of Paintbox Yarns from LoveCrochet. Exact colors and yarns are listed next to each designer's date, but you'll still be surprised when the pattern is released. This will give you time to order yarn before the CAL starts, or, if you're working from stash, to find a substitute. This list will be updated during the CAL to include links to each pattern as it is released.
Show your support by following Carolyn on Craftsy | Instagram | Facebook | Pinterest | Ravelry.
January 7, 2019: Deadline for entering the end-of-CAL giveaways (see below for more details and to enter).
Everybody knows that CAL Central gathers up the best crochet along prizes from around the web. This year will be no different! Some of our favorite companies are providing sixteen prizes for sixteen different winners! Read on for more details about the prizes and how to enter for your chance to win.
One winner will receive 60 (!) shades of Paintbox Yarns from LoveCrochet. Show your support by following Paintbox Yarns on LoveCrochet.com | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter | YouTube.
One winner will receive a large, personalized crochet project bag from Kelly Connor Designs. Show your support by following Kelly Connor Designs on Etsy | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter.
One winner will receive a customized set of sew-in twill labels for their handmade projects from Mountain Street Arts. Show your support by following Pam on her Website | Etsy | Twitter.
One winner will receive a choice of crochet hook with polymer clay covered handle from Polymer Clay Shed. You can see samples of Carola's crochet hook handles below. Show your support by following Carola on Etsy | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter.
One winner will receive a selection of new crochet books from Search Press North America. One of my recent favorite titles is 200 Stitch Patterns for Baby Blankets by Jan Eaton. You can read my review here. Show your support by following Search Press on their Website | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter.
One winner will receive a 4-ounce set of Unicorn products, including Power Scour, Fibre Wash, and Fibre Rinse with a unicorn plush and gift box. (You can read about how I rescued a scarf with tomato sauce stains on it using Unicorn Baby here.) Show your support by following Unicorn on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter.
One winner will receive an Amour Hook Gift Set and a Pom Pom Maker Bundle from Clover USA. Show your support by following Clover USA on their Website | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter | YouTube.
One winner will receive a 1-year membership to I Like Crochet's all access Gold Club. This includes access to the Magazine Club, with 6 brand new bi-monthly issues and access to a library of 600+ patterns and tutorials; the Collections Club with 11 pattern collections with 7 patterns each; Crochet Along community events; and more. Show your support by following I Like Crochet on their Website | Facebook | G+ | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter.
One winner will receive a choice of any two skeins of in-stock, hand dyed yarn from Handmade Home Fibers. You can see an example of the type of beautiful yarn Ashleigh dyes below. Show your support by following Ashleigh on her Website | Etsy | Instagram.
One winner will receive three hand-turned crochet hooks in sizes H, I, and J made from three species of natural, exotic wood from HenPeckedHooks. You can see an example of Bridgette's hooks below. Show your support by following Bridgette on Etsy | Facebook.
One winner will receive an LED Bluetooth Speaker Lamp from Ottlite. Show your support by following OttLite on their Website | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter.
One winner will receive a crochet love enamel pin set from You Silly Duffer. Show your support by following Jodie on her Website | Etsy | Instagram.
One winner will receive a set of teapot enamel locking stitch markers from Ida Herter. Show your support by following Ida on Etsy | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter.
One winner will receive a digital copy their choice of 3 patterns from the forthcoming Autumn Glory Collection from Annie's Signature Designs. This collection features more than 25 beautiful crochet patterns. You can see a sampling in the picture below. Show your support by following Annie's on their Website | Facebook | Pinterest | YouTube.
One winner will receive a choice of a handmade crochet hook case from Epidendrom Designs. You can see an example of Lydia's crochet hook cases below. Show your support by following Lydia on Etsy.
One winner will receive a bundle of crochet books including Shrugs & Boleros, Shawls & Vests, and The Prayer Shawl Ministry Volume 1 and Volume 2 from Leisure Arts. Show your support by following Leisure Arts on their Website | Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter | YouTube.
This is the end-of-CAL giveaway for the 2018 Holiday Stashdown Crochet Along. The Crochet Along is hosted by CAL Central and the giveaway is organized by Underground Crafter.
To enter the end-of-CAL giveaway for one of the prizes described above, share one picture of each project you completed using a 2018 Holiday Stashdown Crochet Alon pattern by 11:59 p.m. Eastern on Monday, January 7, 2019. Each completed project will count as one entry into the giveaway.
If you do not wish to share a project picture, you may also enter by mailing a letter with your name, the name of the CAL, and your email address (so we can contact you if you win) to Underground Crafter, Planetarium Station, P.O. Box 340, New York, NY 10024 USA. The letter must be received by Monday, January 7, 2019 to be eligible to win this end-of-CAL giveaway.
Sixteen winners will be chosen from the entries at random. Each will win one of the prizes listed above.
Sounds like fun! I already have the owl blanket pattern and want to make it.
I just ordered some yarn for a few of the projects.
I searched and searched for 302, Champagne White, but it was listed under 102… hope it's the same thing!
Anxious to try this Paintbox Yarn and the CAL's!
What a wonderful idea! Everything sounds exciting and I hope I can join in!
Hola!!! Que genial , me encantaría participar!!!


We shopped at Target at least twice during this time period and used a credit card for our purchases, so I am 99% sure that our information is included in the credit card numbers that are now in the hands of data thieves.
So what are we doing about it? Nothing.
2. When lists of card numbers are stolen they are often traded around on the black market and may not be used for weeks or months or years, if ever.
3. Target's early announcement of the theft means that a lot of people will be changing their credit card numbers, so part of the data will be useless. It may have even affected the value of the list on the black market, meaning it's less likely to be used.
4. We check our credit card statement frequently (at least once per month, usually more) and check it carefully against our spending log. We would notice fraudulent activity quickly.
5. Credit card users are protected from fraud, so if we do start seeing fraudulent charges, we can dispute them and there will be no real consequence for us.
Your card information is not secure, period. Every time you use the card, you are opening yourself up for the information to be compromised. Every time you buy something online, you risk it. Every time you use it at a cash register, you risk it. Every time you send it off with a waiter in a restaurant, you risk it. That's why there's such a strong consumer protection aspect to using a credit card - at some point it is almost certain that your information will be stolen, so there are stopgaps and protections built in. The companies themselves are watching for it, that's how much they expect it to happen.
This is not necessarily true of debit cards - because the money will come right out of your bank account, you are at risk of losing money immediately. That's why we don't use a debit card ANYWHERE unless we are required to do so (Aldi doesn't accept credit cards, Costco only accepts American Express. We use a credit card for almost anything else.) Anyone who used a debit card at Target during the compromised period should absolutely cancel the card and get a new number. But for credit card users, I'm not sure what all the fuss is about.
Would I shop at Target again using my credit card? Heck, yes. I'd do it today if I needed anything. My concern with using a credit card at Target has nothing to do with security, and a lot more to do with marketing: Target uses credit card information to track shopper spending and study their habits. I agree to this kind of tracking when I sign up for a store loyalty card, but I find Target using my credit card information for this to be creepy. Not enough that I always remember to stop at the ATM before I go shopping there, but enough that there are certain purchases I've made in cash just to avoid adding to my shopper profile.
Aside from the potential fine that Target may face for being hacked, probably the biggest downside to this for Target is that if people change their credit card numbers, all of their marketing data is useless.
I agree with this completely! I very rarely shop at Target (usually only if there's a home decor item I want, because their stuff is more stylish than Walmart). Like you, I use credit cards for 100% of my purchases these days. I don't even keep a balance in my checking account because it gets a lower interest rate than savings. So, even if I had shopped at Target, it's not something I'd have to worry about until my card was used, and then reporting the fraudulent charges and getting a new card is pretty simple.
A friend of mine only has a debit card and used it at Target a lot, so I absolutely encouraged her to get a new debit card. I once used my debit card at a restaurant, and our waitress accidentally charged another table's meal on my card, noticed her mistake, and charged our actual meal to my card. Even though they issued a refund, the money for both charges was out of my checking account for over a week. So it's absolutely a bigger hassle to have a debit card compromised than a credit card, even when the error is eventually fixed.


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Mohammed Polo Appointed New Hearts Coach
Former Ghanaian international, Ahmed Polo, has been appointed the new head coach of Accra Hearts of Oak as David Duncan�s successor, Ghanasportsonline.com can reveal.
Grapevine source from within the team has revealed that an official letter will be handed to the former Hearts talisman by close of day today.
In a telephone chat with Ahmed Polo he conceded that he has been spoken to by some top guns of the club to take over as head coach but they are yet to give him an appointment letter to that effect.
�Some top board members have spoken to me to take over the club as head coach but no official letter has been given me yet so I can not say I have been appointed,� Ahmed Polo told ghanasportsonline.com.
As a player Polo played youth football with Auroras in Accra before signing for Hearts of Oak. Along with Mama Acqua, Anas Seidu, Peter Lampteyand Robert Hammond, they were known as the �Fearsome Five� and formed the backbone of the team.He was invited into the Black Stars at the age of 17 years.
Mohammed Ahmed Polo popularly referred to as the soccer professor was appointed the Technical head of Great Olympics in January 2004.He now owns a soccer academy. He considers himself a better player than Lionel Messi.
Source: Ghanasportsonline.com


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Have you seen this clip that aired on Channel 7 in Sydney on the 20th of June 2017 that shows how Acupuncture has been proven to be just as effective as pain medication. This is ideal for those who can't tolerate drugs for pain. Acupuncture is certainly a lot less of a load on the liver as compared with pain medication.
The clip explains how an Australian clinical trial conducted in a hospital setting demonstrated that Acupuncture is just as effective as drugs when it comes to relieving pain.
Acupuncture was offered by researchers at Emergency Departments to 500 people presenting with pain. The types of pain involved in the trial included back pain, sprains and migraines. 80 % of those who received the Acupuncture treatment said that it worked slightly better than drug therapy.


To download the Dianella Heights Primary School Behaviour Management and Discipline Policy 2018, please CLICK HERE.
The aim of Reflective Behaviours is to change, not manage, student behaviour. It adopts a process to reduce conflict between teacher and student, and to develop relationships, resiliency and the capacity of students to deal with conflict.
Reflective Behaviours provides the student with the language and strategies to deal with conflict. It provides the students with the language of conflict resolution. Importantly it develops a platform for teachers to build a culture of changing behaviour – not managing behaviour. Many potential conflict situations can be solved by the students.
The classroom environment must be safe and conducive to risk taking. Students must be confident that they will be supported in their efforts to solve conflict. The students are made aware that all class members must be treated fairly and with respect. Students are given the opportunity to discuss personal differences and establish a collaborative set of guidelines that all students are expected to abide by. The classroom teacher will initiate discussions that look at behaviours of students and not individuals. Students are made aware that the focus is on assisting them to change their behaviour in a supportive, inclusive and caring way.
The development of appropriate and acceptable behaviour is a staff, parent and student responsibility. Its success is based upon the recognition of the dignity and worth of all individuals.
Behaviour management should develop resiliency and build students capacity to dealwith conflict.
In a social organisation like a school, building, maintaining and repairing relationships is critical.
To change behaviour we must have a clearly define acceptable behaviour in the context of the learning environment. Desired behaviours will be rewarded. Inappropriate behaviour will be addressed and this will be seen as a learning opportunity to teach the desired behaviours. A focus on the behaviour rather than the person will help in maintaining a relationship that is potentially at risk.
The school promotes a restorative approach to behaviour management. Restorative practice in schools aims to manage conflict by repairing any harm caused by behaviour and by focusing on strengthening relationships. Restorative practice values the individual and encourages learning from behaviour mistakes by taking responsibility for repairing any damage done by them. It is about redefining behaviour management as relationship management.
Restorative processes allow all those involved to have a say, think about what happened and suggested ways that the harm can be repaired. This allows the student the opportunity to learn from their mistakes by encouraging empathy with those who have been affected by the behaviour.
Are preventative in nature and focus on early intervention.
Create a caring school environment where the rights and responsibilities of all individuals are recognised and respected.
Establish a set of whole school rules.
Establish individual classroom rules that protect the rights of all school community members.
The following procedures are implemented by all teachers. The purpose of this is to promote a consistent, whole school approach to behaviour management. Classroom teachers will establish their individual practices with their own class at the commencement of each school year.
A reflection must be done at the end of the day or first thing in the morning. If a student's behaviour has not improved they remain on their current card.
In the case of severe behaviour the student will be referred to the Deputy Principal or Principal.


1.) ALL customers are required to complete & sign a credit application for our records. Orders will be shipped prepaid by Visa, Mastercard, or COD until credit for terms is approved. This is a REQUIREMENT for all accounts, whether or not you are requesting terms.
2.) Our minimum opening order is $100.00. We have no minimum reorder amount. Patterns, however, must be ordered in a quantity of three (3) or more. Initial orders will be shipped prepaid by Visa, Mastercard, or COD in the form of CASHIERS CHECK or MONEY ORDER for the entire amount of the invoice. Subsequent orders will be shipped NET 30 to those accounts with approved credit applications. (Please note: The process of approval may take a few weeks.) An interest charge of 1.5% per month (18% per annum) will be charged to all account balances that are 30+ days past due. Returned checks are subject to a $20.00 NSF charge and suspension of credit privileges.
A) Soaps (Eucalan & Soak), Mats, Wires, Swifts, and Lamps are SHIPPED & BILLED separately from needle orders. This helps ensure the safety of your product during shipping.
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All claims MUST be reported within 10 days of receipt of order. Please call 1 (800) 544-8992 to see if your return requires a Return Authorization number. We will promptly correct any errors that we made in your shipment. Damaged goods will be replaced free of charge. Please call and let us know what the incorrect/damaged item(s) are and we will let you know if we need it returned. We will send you a replacement once we receive the item. All other returns will REQUIRE a Return Authorization number. Please call with a detailed list of what you will be returning and you will be issued a Return Authorization number at that time. No returns will be accepted without this number. Please include the number on the OUTSIDE of the return package. All returns (even damaged) MUST be free of PRICE TAGS, or price tag residue. All returned merchandise must be in good condition, or no credit will be issued. Refused orders or UNAUTHORIZED returns are subject to a 15% restocking fee. Customers will pay ALL incurring shipping charges on refused orders.


Is The Toronto Uber Debate Reaching A Boiling Point?
At least 99 UberX drivers now face 198 bylaw violations as the City of Toronto fights to rein in the California-based ride-sharing giant.
The city says it will keep charging private vehicle owners trying to make some extra cash by connecting with passengers through the Uber app. Cheering on the city is the traditional taxi industry, whose representatives say unlicensed "bandits" are putting passengers at risk and could bankrupt those who follow the city's rules.
Having lost their initial challenge of Uber X, the City of Toronto is now trying to wear down the weakest links in the piece—the independent contractor drivers. By-Law enforcement officers are now out writing up a storm of citations against the little guy. Again, time will tell to what, if any, extent it will be successful. Perhaps more energy should be spent trying to figure out what a new taxi or limo registration machine should look like.
Toronto cab drivers block an UberX driver from accepting a passenger and threaten to take his GPS device in a video shared online.
The video, shared by Justin Burrows, an UberX driver himself, shows the altercation which took place near the Fairmont Royal York hotel on Front Street West last week. Burrows says it's video evidence of the growing hostilities between traditional cab drivers and those who drive for Uber, a battle that's being fought at city hall and in the streets.
The last thing we need is violence in the streets over hailing a ride. City Hall needs to solve this issue, and quickly.
I recently had my first Uber ride while in Manhattan. It was a black car service. The driver had a registration as a limo driver ($350.00 approx.) and insurance as a vehicle for hire. His arrival was prompt; his demeanour was professional; his music playlist was excellent; and the fixed price fare was affordable going from lower to mid-town Manhattan. The only thing that he did not have was a New York city taxi medallion that costs about $50,000. As a customer, I was more than satisfied. As far as I could tell, my driver was pretty happy with the way things were going, too.
The world is changing and Uber is filling a need that the old traditional forms of passenger livery are not serving. If that weren't the case, Uber would be failing as opposed to spreading around the world.
There won't be stopping this tide in Toronto for long. Cool heads need to prevail in making this transition as peaceful and convenient as possible.


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The last report dated 25/08/99 is on the wrong site and should be for ST. Margarets golf club. Sorry for any confusion caused.
Played this course last year and can honestly say it is without doubt one of the best courses i have ever had the pleasure of playing. Some absolutely fantastic holes especially the 18th. What a way to finnish a round of golf!. The clubhouse and ammenities were superb and friendly staffed. Can't really ask for a better day out and very reasonably priced green fees.
Where is The Open Golf Centre?


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