Some believe they'll get a break on income taxes for sole proprietorships, partners and what are called S corporations. Those who buy new computers, vehicles or other equipment can take a bigger deduction.
Klaver estimates SALUS will save $500,000 to $1 million in taxes in one year, partly from the breaks on equipment purchases.
The law nearly doubles to $1 million the amount small companies can deduct up-front on equipment.
It also allows companies of all sizes to fully deduct larger equipment and property purchases during each of the next five years rather than depreciate them over years, the requirement under the previous law.
Many owners and their tax advisers, though, are still unsure of the law's impact. The wording of the law is complex, containing many limitations on a number of breaks for individuals and businesses, and the IRS has only recently begun writing the thousands of pages of regulations that will detail the requirements.
It will take months for all of that to be written, and some may be proposed or temporary, says Manuel Pravia, a certified public accountant with MBAF in Miami.
And, as was the case following a tax overhaul enacted in 1986, Congress may need to make some revisions, he says.
Gustavo Mayen, who has a solo law practice, is holding off on hiring a paralegal while he waits for regulations about that provision to be written. "It's not clear who's going to get it [the 20 percent deduction] or how many hurdles there are," says Mayen, whose practice is based in Milton, Massachusetts.


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APPIANO GENTILE – Preparations are ongoing at the Suning Training Centre: Inter, the Champions of Italy, are preparing to face Juventus at the Allianz Stadium at 18:00 CEST on Saturday. The Nerazzurri have kept the foot down on the accelerator since being mathematically confirmed as the Scudetto winners, recording two wins and scoring eight goals in their last two matches.
Ahead of the team's trip to Turin, Antonio Conte had the following to say to Inter TV:
Many of the players have mentioned that the reverse fixture against Juventus was one of the turning points of the season. Do you agree?
"Over the course of the season, you have to play the strongest sides, and these matches tell you what level you're at. Winning against the team that had won the Scudetto for nine consecutive years and to whom Inter needed to bridge a gap was highly significant in terms of confidence and becoming more aware of our abilities. From this point of view, it was a very important victory. However, the was the risk that it could have been a one-off: we could have thought that we were strong and perhaps relaxed as a result. Instead, we did very well: we capitalised on it in the right manner, correctly understood its importance and carried on following our path."
Did you expect the balance of power to shift the way it has done in the second half of the season?
"Honestly, no. I predicted it'd be very even in the league this season. And it actually has been, aside from Inter: we've gone down our own path and headed straight towards the finish line. There is a balance, but this can be found below Inter. We've achieved something unexpected, also in terms of how it was done."
It'll be an important match against Juve, but Inter play with the same determination every game…
"Every match is worth three points, and this is the only thing that the players and everyone involved should focus on. When you come up against teams like Juventus, AC Milan, Napoli, Atalanta and so on, the difficulty does increase. However, the league is won over 38 matches, all of which are worth the same."
From being behind by 23 points to holding a 16-point advantage today: this is the gap that Inter have bridged. The Nerazzurri have also achieved several records and impressive numbers: are they testament to the team's growth?
"In an even division, one team has done extraordinary things: credit to the players and everyone at Inter."
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Nanna ran out of wool! She came to stay with us, and can't get the wool she needs to finish the Jump for Joy jersey she's been working on.
So she bought some different wool, and she's started a cardigan. It's one of her favourites; she knitted one for each of us, but we're too big for them now.
Here's a picture of the wool she's using, the one she knitted for Big Brother, and pictures from the pattern of the "Asian inspired" jacket.
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Progressive magazine denies that there are altruistic men and calls them 'louts'
Feminist Supremacism Is Here: Women Are Declared 'Higher Beings' than Males
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A while ago I saw on Facebook the typical screenshot of a headline so crazy that you doubt its veracity. The headline was this: "It's Confirmed: Women are Higher Beings".
A feminist shoots and murders a girl and feminists blame 'a male system'
Avalanche of Criticism Against a Spanish Government Campaign That Demonizes Men
The progressive magazine Vice denies there are altruistic men
After so many hoaxes, I did what I have to do: check if the title was real. And what will not be my surprise when I found that it was. It was published by the progressive magazine Vice on October 20. The article, signed by the feminist Katherine Gillespie in the Spanish edition (in the English edition is signed by "Vice Staff"), takes sides with the hatred of men already in their first paragraph: "You know how women are generous goddesses who would do anything for their friends, family members, or strangers on the street? And how men are simply… not like that? New research from the University of Zurich appears to gives a reason for this: men's brains reward selfish behaviour, whereas women's brains reward generosity."
The first sentence that I have put in bold is so childish that it provokes laughter. Gillespie has a totally unreal vision of men and women, to the point of denying that there may be acts of generosity or heroism among the male sex. But reality says the opposite. History is full of cases of men who struggled to help others, even heroes who came to the point of sacrificing their own lives to save those of others. So fanatical is Katherine Gillespie to deny that truth?
Do sexual differences have a variable origin according to what suits progressivism?
On the other hand, it is curious to see these reflections in a media of the progressive environment, which has driven the gender ideology: an anti-scientific theory that denies the biological origin of the differences between the two sexes, and that has even come to deny even the existence of only two sexes. This denial has reached purely totalitarian extremes, such as the recent media lynching and dismissal of a US engineer from Google for affirming the biological origin of these differences, or the persecution launched in Spain against a campaign that limited itself to affirming the biological differences between both sexes. However, when progressives see arguments to present men as inferior beings, they do not hesitate to join biology. Is not it a contradiction?
Curiously, the study in question states that "the brains of women and men also process generosity differently at the pharmacological level". According to Vice's news, "scientists then performed a second experiment in which they neutralised the stratium using medication that inhibits dopamine release. They found in this instance that women suddenly began to behave much more selfishly, and men became more generous." Despite this, Vice's news says that "all this might have a cultural basis rather than a biological one." What they mean is that our brains work differently for mere cultural learning? Anyway…
Neither superior nor inferior: we are different and complementary
This study of the University of Zurich does nothing more than confirm what dictates the experience of centuries: the woman has a more social behavior and the man a more competitive behavior. This is what leads, for example, to more women in jobs that involve more sociability -such as education and health -, and that there is less female presence at the top of large companies, a place where that is reached through a hard competition. What this study shows, like so many others, is that men and women are different and in some way complementary, not superior or inferior to each other. But far from recognizing this complementary character, instead of assuming that men and women have respective advantages based on our biology, Gillespie insists on his misandric vision of the world: "In other words, women get rewarded for kindness, men get rewarded for being dicks. Just like in real life!" Does it seem normal to have so much hatred for men?
What would happen if a holder declared 'Males are Higher Beings'?
Imagine for a moment what would have happened if a media with as much diffusion as Vice misrepresented a study that indicated, for example, that men have more average size, stature and physical strength than women, putting in the headline something like: "It's Confirmed: Males are Higher Beings". How long would it have taken the feminist lobby to claim fines and call protests against that media? Well, this is done the other way around and instead of having protests, other media, like the Argentine digital Infobae or the Mexican Excelsior, reproduce the news as if it were a genius. And there are still people who get angry when I say that third-wave feminism - unlike original feminism - does not seek equal rights, but reshape society on the basis of hatred for men. I refer to the facts.
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One of the most hotly debated topics in the prepping world is whether it's wiser to bug in or bug out. The truth is that it really depends on the situation. Preppers who plan to bug in no matter what, or bug out no matter what, are not wise preppers.
Bugging in has many advantages: you know the area and the people, you don't need to abandon your home or your stockpile, and you don't risk making yourself vulnerable out on the open road. Yet at the same time, there are certain situations where bugging in could guarantee your death.
And if you do realize you need to bug out, it's important to do it sooner than later because otherwise, it may be too late or you might get caught up in traffic. Thus, it's important to keep an eye on the tell-tale warning signs developing around you.
In this article, we'll look at some warning signs that it's time to bug out. Pay attention, because if you see any of these things happening, it's time to hit the road fast.
The time when it's most obvious that you need to bug out is when you're ordered to by the authorities. In this case, there really is no option. You might not want to go, but if they're telling you to, then it's better to be safe than sorry.
If you hear about a mandatory evacuation, get out of dodge ASAP s you're not stuck in traffic.
If an incredibly massive storm is approaching, then chances are fairly good that you'll be ordered to evacuate by the authorities. But sometimes they won't order an evacuation, and in that situation, it's up to you to determine whether bugging out is the right move.
What you need to do is check the weather patterns in your area at least once or twice a day, until it becomes a habit. This way you won't be caught off guard when the storm hits, and you'll be able to take appropriate action before it does.
There's no denying that we are living in politically divisive times. Maybe that will change in the future, but for now, large-scale protests across the country seem to have become the new norm. A few of these protests have also been borderline violent.
If rioting is occurring in your part of town, then it's time to pack up and hightail it out of there until things calm down. Don't assume you'll be safe at home with your doors locked.
If enough people are rioting, then even a home with great home security measures could be in danger.
While you probably won't be allowed to evacuate once martial law is declared, you could try to get out before it happens. If you see strong indicators that a government takeover is imminent, then evacuate while you still can.
Signs of martial law include law enforcement and National Guard units setting up checkpoints, military planes flying overhead, and rationing, usually in response to a major crisis.
The reason it's so important to escape martial law before it happens is that you'll have absolutely no freedom once it does. The Bill of Rights will no longer apply to you. Your firearms and even your stockpile may be confiscated, forcing you to stand in long waiting lines for food.
The government will only tell the population what they want to tell them in order to keep them under control. That's just a few of several things that can happen during martial law.
If the world's top leaders begin to disappear–as in you don't see them on TV or in the news anymore–it could mean that they're retreating to their bunkers and that something major is about to happen. Such a disappearance would likely be accompanied by ambassadors returning home and other chaotic events.
Are foreign or United Nations troops starting to show up on the American border? This could be a sign that something terrible is about to go down. Granted, if this ever happens, things will likely be so bad that you'll have bugged out already. But if you haven't, foreign troops are a clear sign that it's time to get out of dodge.
A great reason to bug out is if there's a major epidemic in your town or general area. At the very least, it will be a wise idea to bug out even if it's just for a short period of time, especially if you or anyone else in your family has medical problems or a weak immune system that could increase the odds of catching the disease.
Take note that epidemic refers to a major and potentially life-threatening disease within a contained area. It does not necessarily refer to viral infections such as the flu, so be sure not to panic unnecessarily.
If there's an abrupt and massive shortage of food, water, fuel, medicine, or other supplies in your area, bugging out soon would be a good idea because it means the markets in your area could collapse completely. And once the markets collapse, societal breakdown and rioting to some degree are almost guaranteed to ensue.
A major nationwide or worldwide collapse of the markets is another huge indicator that things are about to get nasty. Once the markets collapse, ordinary and trustworthy people will start to turn on one another like savages for food and other necessities, which will signal the onset of riots and utter chaos.
You can bug in at your home if you want, but if you're not prepared or able to mount a serious defense, then retreating to safer ground outside of an urban area may be the safest option.
One of the many symptoms of a complete and utter collapse would be a massive bank run, where a majority of a bank's customers withdraw their funds all at once due to a concern that the bank will fail (which, ironically, causes the bank to fail).
Although banks are FDIC insured nowadays, a withdrawal of that much cash could cause hyperinflation, where money begins to rapidly lose its value. In this scenario, you'd be wise to spend all your cash on food and other supplies before the stores are stripped clean.
Finally, if things ever get to the point where your home is compromised or you just don't feel safe at your house anymore, then bugging out may be the most viable option.
For example, if your stockpile of food and water has become depleted and you have no means of getting more, then evacuating to a designated bug out location where you know you can resupply yourself would be wise.
Another example would be if your home has come under repeated threat from burglars, organized raiding parties, and marauding gangs and you don't believe you can mount an effective defense.
While bugging in is usually the safer option, if any of the above scenarios happens, then bugging out could be your only chance at survival.


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Honoured by Past, Present & Future Members of Omond Memorial United Church
Omond Memorial United Church can trace its beginning to a small group of people holding worship services in the O'Brien Street Public School in 1947. Two years later the official board decided to build a church.
Under the guidance of the Reverend M.N. Omond, of St. Andrew's United Church, funds were raised and the sod turning for the new church building took place on June 25, 1950. On Christmas Sunday 1950 services took place in the completed Dudley Street Church. Dedication of the building occurred the following September 1951.
Due to a steady increase in attendance throughout the 1950's and early 1960's, a fact finding committee was established in 1961 to advise the congregation on the wisdom of a new church building. Rev. Gerald Paul, incumbent minister, offered this motto, "In Widdifield we have the people. Let us build a church to house them." A year later, the congregation approved plans for a new church designed by architect, Gerard Cox to seat 300 people at the estimated cost of $100,000. Worship services took place in the newly constructed church located on McKenzie Avenue – Christmas 1963 and the building was dedicated to the Glory of God, May 10, 1064.
Known in North Bay as the "church on the by-pass" Omond church has offered Christ's ministry to the surrounding community in countless ways. The congregation has articulated its vision for ministry in its mission statement:
"As followers of Jesus Christ, the mission of Omond Memorial United Church is to be a Beacon of Hope reaching out to all people through involvement, ministry and fellowship."
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Q: Creating an android app from an Eclipse Java project I know that questions like this have been asked before, and I have been sifting through them. So here is my situation: I have a decent amount of experience using Java, specifically Eclipse, and I have a game ready that from my current standards, could be uploaded to the Google marketplace.
However, I have the project saved as a Java project. How do I make this project into an android app? I have attempted using the ADT plugin for Ecclipse, and changing the nature of the project file but I am beyond confused regarding how to proceed.
Right now I can click: Run < Run as < Java application.
The goal is to be able to click: Run < Run as < Android application.

A: I don't know of a streamlined way of doing it.  Is your game using Swing as a UI? JavaFX? Is it text?
Regardless, I imagine your game would need to be wrapped in an android activity in some way.  e.g. The activity can invoke the browser to run your applet (if your game is an applet).
I'd first create an android project, then copy your source from the java project into the android project.  The manifest (R) will be updated with the new resources, etc.
Then you have to finish wiring everything up.

A: It's going to take more than that.  Android has it's own UI system and lifecycle that differs from raw Java. Depending on how you've written the game you may be able to reuse a lot of the drawing and logic code but you going to need to make a lot of changes to the input and allowing multiple screen sizes.
Without seeing your code I can say exactly what you'll need to do but I can tell you it's not going to be as simple as Run As... Android Application.

A: Although android apps are written in Java code, this doesn't means that it is possible to "translate" a java program or a game in an android app simply clicking a button.
If the game are complex I suggest that you rewrite the game using a framework for develop android game!! You can reuse some logic but sure you have to create all the graphics and readapt the game to run in android devices.
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A: It is not possible. You can implement the application logic in Android in the same way that you used in Java, but you cannot simply convert the java project into Android project. Some packages used in your java project (like swing) can't be used in Android.

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America's first national park is home to an incomparable combination of natural beauty, rugged wilderness, majestic peaks and abundant wildlife, as well as the world's largest concentration of geysers and thermal features.
Established in 1872, Yellowstone is one of North America's greatest assets and utterly enthralling. Its two million acres of spectacular wilderness sprawl across the north-west corner of Wyoming spilling into neighbouring Idaho and Montana. The scenery ranges from fascinating geothermal wonders to snaking rivers and sweeping green valleys to thundering waterfalls and vast lakes.
A great way to tour is by driving the Grand Loop, a 142 mile long road that curves around in a figure-of-eight past the park's most striking natural features.
One of the star attractions of Yellowstone is the Old Faithful Geyser, named for the regularity with which it erupted. Today, it tends to erupt around 20 times a day with water soaring up to 180 feet. To see Old Faithful, along with the Giantess Geyser, Beehive Geyser, Castle Geyser and Grand Geyser, follow the two hour boardwalk trail within the Upper Geyser Basin.
In addition Midway Geyser Basin boasts the mighty crater of the Excelsior Geyser and the stunning Grand Prismatic Spring, a must-see attraction with its vivid hues of blue, green, orange and gold.
Other attractions include Mammoth Hot Springs on the east flank of Terrace Mountain; Mount Washburn, which offers various hikes; the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, which resembles Arizona's Grand Canyon; the striking mud pots of Mud Volcano; and the largest high-altitude lake on the continent, Lake Yellowstone.
Yellowstone is also a fabulous place to see wildlife freely roaming in their natural habitat. Animals you might see include grizzly bear, grey wolves, bison, moose and to the south and north east of the park, you can also see herds of wild horses.
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Call and speak to one of our travel experts who have experienced Yellowstone National Park personally.
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Deepak Nitrite Hits A Record On Higher Phenol Spreads
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Shares of Deepak Nitrite Ltd. rose to a record as economic activity continues to pick up after the government eased Covid-19 restrictions.The chemical maker's stock hit Rs 923.25, an all-time high, in Wednesday's trade, having surged threefold from its 52-week low of Rs 310 on March 19. That's aided by higher margins on phenol."Average spreads for phenol are up 37.6% year-on-year and 11.6% quarter-on-quarter," B&K Securities wrote in...
Shares of Deepak Nitrite Ltd. rose to a record as economic activity continues to pick up after the government eased Covid-19 restrictions.
The chemical maker's stock hit Rs 923.25, an all-time high, in Wednesday's trade, having surged threefold from its 52-week low of Rs 310 on March 19. That's aided by higher margins on phenol.
"Average spreads for phenol are up 37.6% year-on-year and 11.6% quarter-on-quarter," B&K Securities wrote in a note on Dec. 9. "We understand that the spreads for Deepak Nitrite are 15-20% higher as they enjoy operational efficiencies."
The company's wholly owned subsidiary Deepak Phenolics commenced commercial production of isopropyl alcohol, a key ingredient for hand sanitisers, at its Dahej, Gujarat facility in April after the Covid-19 pandemic. The facility has a manufacturing capacity of 30,000 million tonnes.
"Despite the correction in spreads from Q2FY21 onwards, the company would enjoy higher margins as it manufactures pharmaceutical grade isopropyl alcohol, which fetches a premium in the market," B&K Securities said.
In an interaction with BloombergQuint in November, Maulik Mehta, chief executive officer and executive director at the company, had said while it is natural to assume that the fourth quarter will be better than the third, and the third better than the second, improvement in performance will be subject to things remaining constant on the transportation and production front.
He was cautiously positive that the firm will look significantly different and better in 2025. It will be able to take up multiple opportunities of the size and nature of what it took four years ago when it set up the largest phenol plant in the country, he had said.
All seven analysts that track Deepak Nitrite recommend a 'buy', according to Bloomberg data. The stock is trading around its 12-month Bloomberg consensus price target of Rs 919.5 apiece.
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Events in 1983 in Japanese television.

Debuts

Ongoing
Music Fair, music (1964–present)
Mito Kōmon, jidaigeki (1969–2011)
Sazae-san, anime (1969–present)
Ōedo Sōsamō, anime (1970–1984)
Ōoka Echizen, jidaigeki (1970–1999)
FNS Music Festival, music (1974–present)
Panel Quiz Attack 25, game show (1975–present)
Doraemon, anime (1979–2005)
Dr. Slump - Arale-chan, anime (1981–1986)
Urusei Yatsura, anime (1981–1986)

Endings

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1983 in anime
List of Japanese television dramas
1983 in Japan
List of Japanese films of 1983

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The "Fix": Top FBI Officials Push Silicon Valley Execs to Embrace Internet Wiretaps
by Tom Burghardt / November 22nd, 2010
In a further sign that Barack Obama's faux "progressive" regime will soon seek broad new Executive Branch power, The New York Times disclosed last week that FBI chief and cover-up specialist extraordinaire, Robert S. Mueller III, "traveled to Silicon Valley on Tuesday to meet with top executives of several technology firms about a proposal to make it easier to wiretap Internet users."
Times' journalist Charlie Savage reported that Mueller and the Bureau's chief counsel, Valerie Caproni, "were scheduled to meet with senior managers of several major companies, including Google and Facebook, according to several people familiar with the discussions."
Facebook's public policy manager Andrew Noyes confirmed that Mueller "is visiting Facebook during his trip to Silicon Valley;" Google, on the other hand, "declined to comment."
Last month, Antifascist Calling reported that the U.S. secret state, in a reprise of the crypto wars of the 1990s, is seeking new legislation from Congress that would "fix" the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) and further curtail our civil- and privacy rights.
When the administration floated the proposal in September, The New York Times revealed that among the "fixes" sought by the FBI and other intrusive spy satrapies, were demands that communications' providers build backdoors into their applications and networks that will give spooks trolling "encrypted e-mail transmitters like BlackBerry, social networking Web sites like Facebook and software that allows direct 'peer to peer' messaging like Skype" the means "to intercept and unscramble encrypted messages."
And with a new "security-minded" Congress set to convene in January, chock-a-block with Tea Partying "conservatives" and ultra-nationalist know-nothings, the chances that the administration will get everything they want, and then some, is a sure bet.
"All Your Data Belongs to Us"
Caproni and her cohorts, always up to the challenge when it comes to grabbing our personal data, much like pigs snuffling about a dank forest in search of truffles or those rarer, more elusive delicacies christened "actionable intelligence" by our minders, avowed that said legislative tweaks are "reasonable" and "necessary" requirements that will "prevent the erosion" of the Bureau's "investigative powers."
Never mind that the FBI, as Wired Magazine revealed three years ago, "has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device."
Security journalist Ryan Singel reported that the Bureau's Digital Collection System Network or DCS-3000, a newer iteration of the Carnivore system of the 1990s, "connects FBI wiretapping rooms to switches controlled by traditional land-line operators, internet-telephony providers and cellular companies."
Documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit revealed that the system was created to "intercept personal communications services delivered via emerging digital technologies used by wireless carriers." A second system, Red Hook, collects "voice and data calls and then process and display the intercepted information."
And never mind, as Wired also informed us, that the Bureau's "computer and internet protocol address verifier," or CIPAV, once called Magic Lantern, is a malicious piece of software, a virtual keystroke reader, that "gathers a wide range of information, including the computer's IP address; MAC address; open ports; the operating system type, version and serial number; preferred internet browser and version; the computer's registered owner and registered company name; the current logged-in user name and the last-visited URL."
Insidiously, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled at the time, since the Bureau's malware doesn't capture the content of communications, it can be conducted without a wiretap warrant, because, as our judicial guardians opined, users have "no reasonable expectation of privacy" when using the internet.
And with the secret state clamoring for the broadest possible access to our data, its become a lucrative business for greedy, I mean patriotic, ISPs who charge premium prices for services rendered in the endless "War on Terror."
Security Is Patriotic, and Profitable Too!
Last week, The Register informed us that privacy and security researcher Christopher Soghoian revealed that although "Microsoft does not charge for government surveillance of its users," Google, on the other hand "charges $25 per user."
This information was revealed in a document obtained by the intrepid activist under the Freedom of Information Act.
Soghoian, whose Slight Paranoia web site has broken any number of stories on the collusive, and patently illegal, collaboration amongst grifting telecoms, niche spy firms and the secret state, revealed in March that the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) system has already been compromised by U.S. and other intelligence agencies. (SSL is the tiny lock that appears in your browser when you log-on to an allegedly "secure" web site for banking or other online transactions.)
In a paper co-authored with researcher Sid Stamm, Certified Lies: Detecting and Defeating Government Interception Attacks Against SSL, Soghoian revealed that a "new attack" against online privacy, "the compelled certificate creation attack, in which government agencies compel a certificate authority to issue false SSL certificates that are then used by intelligence agencies to covertly intercept and hijack individuals' secure Web-based communications … is in active use."
The latest disclosure by Soghoian uncovered evidence that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), shelled out some $6.7 million for pen registers and $6.5 million for wiretaps. While a wiretap provides law enforcers with "actual telephone or internet conversations," a pen register "merely grabs numbers and addresses that show who's doing the communicating," The Register averred.
While Microsoft doesn't charge the government for spying on their users, conveniently doing away with a messy paper trail in the process, Google receives $25 and Yahoo $29 from taxpayers for the privilege of being surveilled. Soghoian points out that "Google and Yahoo! may make more money from surveillance than they get directly from their email users. Basic Google and Yahoo! email accounts are free. Department of Justice documents show that telcos may charge as much as $2,000 for a pen register."
That 2006 report from the DoJ's Office of the Inspector General reported that to facilitate CALEA compliance, "Congress appropriated $500 million to reimburse carriers for the direct costs of modifying systems installed or deployed on or before January 1, 1995."
Ten years on, and $450 million later, the Bureau estimates that "only 10 to 20 percent of the wireline switches, and approximately 50 percent of the pre-1995 and 90 percent of the post-1995 wireless switches, respectively, have CALEA software activated and thus are considered CALEA-compliant."
Sounds like a serious crisis, right? Well, not exactly. OIG auditors averred that "we could not provide assurance on the accuracy of these estimates;" a subtle way of saying that the FBI could be ginning-up the numbers–and alleged "threats" to the heimat posed by an open internet and wireless networks.
As it turns out, this too is a proverbial red herring.
Whether or not the switches themselves are "CALEA-compliant" is a moot point since the vast majority of ISPs retain search data "in the cloud" indefinitely, just as wireless carriers cache cell phone geolocation and dialed-number data in huge data warehouses seemingly until the end of time, all readily accessible to law enforcement agencies–for a price.
Bringing the Hammer Down
The weakest link in the battle to preserve privacy rights, as Washington Technology revealed, are the corporate grifters feeding at the federal trough. What with the "cybersecurity" market the newest growth center for enterprising capitalist pirates, why bite the hand that feeds.
Couple this with the brisk private market in grabbing online users' data and selling it to the highest bidder, as The Wall Street Journal uncovered in their excellent "What They Know" series on web- and cell phone tracking, it becomes clear that profit always trumps democratic control and privacy rights.
In light of these disturbing trends, CNET News reported that "Democratic politicians are proposing a novel approach to cybersecurity: fine technology companies $100,000 a day unless they comply with directives imposed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security."
Investigative journalist Declan McCullagh informs us that legislation introduced last week by the lame duck Congress "would allow DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano to levy those and other civil penalties on noncompliant companies that the government deems 'critical,' a broad term that could sweep in Web firms, broadband providers, and even software companies and search engines."
Congressional grifter Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the outgoing chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, claimed that the bill "will make our nation more secure and better positions DHS–the 'focal point for the security of cyberspace'–to fulfill its critical homeland security mission," right alongside the National Security Agency as Antifascist Calling reported last month.
Jim Harper, a policy analyst with the right-wing Cato Institute told CNET that "Congress is stepping forward to regulate something it has no idea how to regulate. It's a level of bureaucracy that actually adds nothing at all."
While Harper's assertion is accurate up to a point, he's missing the boat insofar as demands for expanded–and unregulated–authority by our political minders to access anything and everything even remotely connected to "national security," from email to web searches and from financial transactions to travel plans, is precisely the point of an electronic police state.
The bill, the Homeland Security Cyber and Physical Infrastructure Protection Act (HSCPIPA), has "other high-profile backers," including Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) and Yvette Clarke (D-NY), the outgoing chair of the Cybersecurity Subcommittee.
Last week, Antifascist Calling reported that Clarke proclaimed that "the likelihood of a cyberattack that could bring down our [electrical] grid is … 100%. Our networks are already being penetrated as we stand here. We are already under attack."
Clarke, who raised some $267,938 in campaign contributions during the current election cycle, according to OpenSecrets.org, including tens of thousands of dollars from defense and security grifters such as Honeywell International, Dell, AT&T, Raytheon, Verizon, Boeing and General Dynamics, not to mention that sterling citizen and beacon of financial transparency, Goldman Sachs.
With a straight face, she asserted: "We must stop asking ourselves 'could this happen to us' and move to a default posture that acknowledges this fact and instead asks 'what can we do to protect ourselves'?"
With the introduction of HSCPIPA, we now have our answer!
Hardly slouches themselves when it comes to feeding at the corporate security trough, Harman raked in $654,787 from firms such as Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Raytheon and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), while Thompson grabbed $584,938 from firms like SAIC, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, all of whom do yeoman's work, as readers are well aware, to "keep us safe."
While no Republicans have signed onto the bill, the incoming chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, ultra-rightist crazy, Rep. Peter King (R-NY), pulled down some $664,657 from his loyal constituents: General Dynamics, Goldman Sachs, AT&T, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, OpenSecrets told us.
King, an apologist for Bush-Obama "War on Terror" policies, told Politico earlier this month that the practice of torturing terrorism suspects "saved many, many lives." And, like his Democratic Party colleague Clarke, King avers that "cyber-spies from foreign countries have already penetrated our electrical system, mapped it and left behind software that caused disruptions and disabled our electrical system."
While neither representative has provided a shred of evidence to back their wild claims, both scrupulously avoid addressing the question of who the most egregious planetary perpetrators of "cyber espionage" actually are.
A Seamless Global Surveillance Web
In a sign that the collapsing American Empire will make new wiretap rules a cost of doing business with the greatest country that ever was, foreign governments and firms that do business in the U.S. were warned that overseas internet service providers "would have to route communications through a server on United States soil where they could be wiretapped," the Times reported.
That would certainly give our corporate grifters a leg up on the competition!
Considering that the National Security Agency's ECHELON surveillance platform, accused by the European Parliament in their 2001 report of filching communications from EU businesses and passing them on to corporate "friends," I'm sure they'll just smile and suck it up.
According to the report, the NSA routinely used the program for corporate and industrial espionage and that information was turned over to American firms for their financial advantage.
For example, EU investigators discovered that ECHELON spies had "lifted…all the faxes and phone calls" between the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus and Saudi Arabian Airlines. The information gleaned was then used by two American companies, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, to outflank their Airbus rivals and win a $6 billion contract. Investigators also found that the French company Thomson-CSF lost a $1.3 billion satellite deal to Raytheon the same way.
Similarly, the new communications spying regime proposed by the FBI also has a long and sordid history. In January, investigative journalist Nicky Hager reported that under terms of New Zealand's 2004 Telecommunications (Interception Capability) Act, "a basic interception warrant … allows them access to all your emails, internet browsing, online shopping or dating, calls, texts and location for mobile phones, and much more–all delivered almost instantaneously to the surveillance agencies."
Sound familiar? It should, since the template for global driftnet spying originated deep in the bowels of the UKUSA Security Agreement and the National Security Agency, the dark Pentagon entity that created ECHELON.
Hager, the author of Secret Power, first blew the lid off ECHELON in a 1996 piece for Covert Action Quarterly. He revealed that the origins of New Zealand's new system "can be traced back 10 years to when British researchers uncovered European Union police documents planning exactly the same sort of surveillance system in Europe."
That secret plan Hager reports, "known as Enfopol 98 … aimed to create 'a seamless web of telecommunications surveillance' across Europe, and involved EU nations adopting 'International User Requirements for Interception', to standardise surveillance capabilities."
Who, pray tell, was in the thick of this nasty business? According to Hager, European researchers discovered "that the moves followed 'a five-year lobbying exercise by American agencies such as the FBI'."
Hager tells us, that similar to moves inside the United States, the island nation's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) forced through legislation that empowered spooks "to catch … communications, including people using overseas-based email or other services, all the local communications networks are wired up as well, to monitor messages en route overseas."
The origin of these intrusive measures, Hager reports, are the series of conferences, first hosted by the FBI-run International Law Enforcement Telecommunications Seminar (ILETS) beginning in the mid-1990s.
According to the document posted by the secrecy-shredding web site Cryptome, international snoops averred that "Law enforcement agencies require access to all interception subjects operating temporarily or permanently within a telecommunications system," and that "Law enforcement agencies require a real-time, full-time monitoring capability for the interception of telecommunications. Call associated data should also be provided in real-time."
Fast forward a decade and we learn, Hager writes, that alongside the United States "New Zealand is integrated into the 'seamless web of telecommunications surveillance' around the globe–a system which from the start had primarily been about US agencies wanting surveillance capabilities beyond their borders."
Thus the secret state's desire, as The New York Times reported, for legislative authority demanding that foreign citizens and firms route their overseas communications through U.S. servers "where they could be wiretapped."
And with the latest push for "total information awareness"–data retention–looming ever-larger on the horizon, ISPs and wireless carriers "are forced by government to store all their customers' emails, texts, internet use and phone data…making them available to police and spy agencies to trawl for people's past correspondence and activities."
"These developments" Hager writes, "have been introduced quietly. Neither the government nor the phone and internet companies are keen to advertise their Big Brotherish activities."
Now the repressive American domestic intelligence agency that brought us COINTELPRO, targets the antiwar movement for "special handling" and gives "aid and comfort" to international terrorists like al-Qaeda triple agent, the false-flag specialist Ali Mohamed, is lobbying internet firms Facebook and Google in a bid to expand their onerous surveillance powers.
As the American Civil Liberties Union pointed out last week in their denunciation of the FBI's sought-after legislation, "this proposal isn't simply applying the same sort of wiretap system we have for phones to the Internet; it would require reconfiguring and changing the nature of the Internet."
Laura W. Murphy, the Director of the ACLU's Washington Legislative Office said they "remain very concerned that this proposal is a clear recipe for abuse and will make it that much easier for the government to gain access to our most personal information."
"Americans," Murphy averred, "should not simply surrender their privacy and other fundamental values in the name of national security."
And with a growing revolt over egregious sexual assaults and virtual strip searches by Transportation Security Agency goons threatening to break out amongst air travelers, including calls to resist being bombarded with ionizing radiation and humiliating TSA "pat-downs," are we on the cusp of a more generalized rebellion against the capitalist surveillance state?
This article was posted on Monday, November 22nd, 2010 at 7:00am and is filed under Civil Liberties, Espionage/"Intelligence", FBI, Privacy, Security.


When it comes to your health there are quite a few areas in your life that may need attention: the food you eat, the exercise you do, the hours you sleep and how you manage your time so your mind and body are in peak condition.
If you are reading this post you are probably on top of your fitness regime. You understand the importance of staying active. You also appreciate good quality fitness gear that helps you to feel good when you are taking part in whatever sport and fitness activities you love.
I am guessing you are also a person who considers the food you put into your body. Do you check the ingredients in a product before buying it?
What about your skin care products?
Have you considered how the ingredients in the products you use may affect your health?
There are almost 13,000 chemicals used in cosmetics and only about 10% gave been evaluated for safety ̂. This is a scary statistic and one that really hits home when you think about how many products we use on or skin on a daily basis!
So what can you do to get the chemicals out and the good stuff in?
Sodium Lauryl Sulfate or SLS . is a widely used and inexpensive chemical found in many mainstream personal hygiene products such as shampoos, toothpastes, mouthwashes, bodywash, soaps, detergents and body wash. Whilst unsubstantiated rumours abound that it is a carcinogen these have not been proven. What has been proven is that it is known to cause skin irritation. So should definitely be avoided for children and those with sensitive skin at the least.
Fragrances, over and above annoying hayfever from fragrances, many people develop skin irritation from fragrances, especially those containing alcohol. Alcohol also tends to dry the skin so rather opt for either natural fruit based fragrances that have real names (and not chemical ones)or go for fragrance free. You can always use a natural alcohol fragrance free oil on top if you want to smell pretty.
Please note: also do your research, there is a lot of misinformation (similar to the anti vac campaigns) that is incorrect about certain chemicals causing cancer and other side effects, but these have never been proven by someone with a medical degree, don't fall for the hype!
It's great to have products that are free from chemicals and although it doesn't necessarily have an impact on your skin, to be the kindest to our planet, ensure products are not tested on animals. A great product that is 100% pure and natural Australian certified organic, vegan and not tested on animals is Rosehip.
Another thing to consider is microbeads. These are used in exfoliating personal care products, toothpastes and in biomedical and health-science research. Microbeads can cause plastic particle water pollution and pose an environmental hazard for aquatic animals in freshwater and ocean water. They are essentially polluting out oceans and these have now been banned in America and other countries. You can find out more and Campaign for Safe Cosmetics if you find you are passionate about this.


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import baseStrategy

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	#自定义初始化函数
	def customInit(self):
		self.name = "baseSingal"
	#行情数据触发函数
	def onRtnMarketData(self, data):
		print self.name, "onRtnMarketData", len(data)
	#逐笔成交触发函数
	def onRtnTradeSettlement(self, data):
		print self.name, "onRtnTradeSettlement", len(data)
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	def onRtnOrderQueue(self, data):
		print self.name, "onRtnOrderQueue", len(data)
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We present a new class of statistical deanonymization attacks against high-dimensional micro-data, such as individual preferences, recommendations, transaction records and so on. Our techniques are robust to perturbation in the data and tolerate some mistakes in the adversary's background knowledge.
We apply our de-anonymization methodology to the Netflix Prize dataset, which contains anonymous movie ratings of 500,000 subscribers of Netflix, the world's largest online movie rental service. We demonstrate that an adversary who knows only a little bit about an individual subscriber can easily identify this subscriber's record in the dataset. Using the Internet Movie Database as the source of background knowledge, we successfully identified the Netflix records of known users, uncovering their apparent political preferences and other potentially sensitive information.
Robust De-anonymization of Large Sparse Datasets, Arvind Narayanan and Vitaly Shmatikov, The University of Texas at Austin, March 8, 2008, http://userweb.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak08netflix.pdf.


In the summer of 2009, at the young age of 13, Megan Sherow began experiencing double vision. Her mother took her to an ophthalmologist believing that she might need glasses, but instead they discovered that her optic nerve was inflamed. The doctor requested that she go and have a CAT scan right away that revealed a large area of inflammation on her brain. She was immediately transported by ambulance to another hospital to have an emergency MRI that revealed that she had a plum-sized brain tumor.
Megan was given steroids to reduce the inflammation, and met with a surgeon the following day who felt that he could remove the tumor with clean margins. Following the surgery, a second MRI revealed that a portion of the tumor was left behind. Six days later, she had a second more aggressive surgery but a small portion of the tumor remained.
Stage 3 Glioneuronal brain tumor was the diagnosis, which is a rare form of cancer that didn't have a specific protocol for doctors to follow in order to treat it, and because of this, they also couldn't provide her with a prognosis either. Megan and her mother consulted with three different specialists at three different hospitals, including St Jude's in Tennessee which decided to take Megan on as a patient because she had such a rare form of cancer. All three specialists recommended three different treatment protocols that might include aggressive chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery, with one even suggesting that she was terminal. St Jude's suggested that Megan have a third surgery which they scheduled for 9/11/2009, but when the time for surgery came, Megan refused to have it on such an ominous date so it was postponed for an additional 3 months.
Megan's mother decided to use these extra three months to make some major changes to Megan's diet because she believed that the tumor was a result of her eating habits and lifestyle and felt that she needed to build up her immune system. Megan's mom began this task by eliminating sugar and dairy from Megan's diet because they are both inflammatory to the body but she continued to eat lots of meat products and fats (Megan described herself as a meat eating machine). They also removed the toxins that Megan was being exposed to such as chemicals that are commonly found in personal care and household cleaning products. Megan also got out in the sun every day (about 20- 30 minutes of high noon sun without sunscreen) so that her body could produce vitamin D, she minimized stress and got daily exercise. When Megan's mom called St Jude's about the surgery three months later, they said that a recent scan showed that the tumor was no longer growing and the doctors felt that the surgery could be postponed for now and that she should go back to the local hospital in Pennsylvania for continued monitoring.
Megan took the time to read Arnold's book titled 'The Way of Arnold: Experiencing Your Full Potential While Turning Back the Clock With Every Loving Raw Moment, which she said was filled with nutritional facts and testimonials from those who had used similar diets to heal from various illnesses. She also read 'The China Study' which convinced her that she had to change her eating habits.
Megan says that she was able to change her diet relatively quickly but then spent the first few months "binging on kale chips that were smothered in a cheese-flavored coating." After awhile, she was able to control those cravings too and found that she was feeling better than she had in a very long time. The raw vegan diet that Megan started eating contained a lot of seeds and nuts. She reports that she continued to be troubled by migraines, so she went back to Arnold and he told her to stop eating the nuts and seeds because they might be too high in fat for her. She stopped consuming them and the migraines stopped.
She now eats about 2 pounds of raw fruits and vegetables everyday and says that she is full of energy and doing great with this more restrictive raw vegan diet (with no added salt or fat). It took about a year and a half of eating this very strict vegan diet for the tumor to disappear entirely and she has continued on with her specialized diet ever since.
For Breakfast – she typically eats a banana whip made with frozen bananas, mangoes and strawberries…..see the video below on how to make a banana whip.
For Dinner- she eats 3-6 heads of romaine lettuce. She says that she likes to eat the lettuce by rolling up the leaves burrito-style.
For snacks – she likes to eat dates, mangoes, cucumbers, banana whips, and making fresh fruit smoothies.
A raw vegan diet is a very versatile and varied diet which has fruits and vegetables at its core. Megan chose to eat a very simplified diet, but don't be misled, there are many cookbooks available to help guide you in making satisfying meals. See the raw food pyramid below for more food ideas. Megan is about to turn 18 and says that she is proud to be a raw vegan. On a more personal note she has an associate's degree in theater, loves to sing and dance, as well as photography.
An interview with Megan Sherow and her mom.


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MID-HUDSON VALLEY BREWERS
by Jessica Brush and Melissa Orozco-McDonough photos by Matt Petricone
With acres upon acres of lush farmland, it's no surprise that the Hudson Valley is known for fresh produce and farm-to-table foods. The valley could easily be called a foodie's dream come-true, but it's also a fascinating place for drink lovers.
The verdant land makes it the perfect location to grow hops, grains, and apples used to make beer and hard cider.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT TWO
HUDSON VALLEY BREWERS:
THE BREWERY AT BACCHUS
Owner Wayne Bradford first opened Bacchus in 1974 as a bar, but it has since expanded into a restaurant, billiards room, and—you guessed it—a brewery.
"We started offering more craft beers quite a few years ago," says Linda Bradford, co-owner of The Brewery at Bacchus, "but then, about four-to-five years ago, we had a couple of employees that were very into making beer. They were doing home-brewing, and their beers just got better and better."
So, Linda and her colleagues asked the employees to start a brewery at Bacchus. Bacchus, a New Paltz staple, is well-known for offering nearly 400 beer varieties, but now it is also known for the beers it produces.
In addition to being served on-tap at Bacchus, the house-brewed beers are distributed in small quantities to many craft beer bars, from New York City to Albany.
The brewery's current brew master, Conor Webster, moved permanently to the area this past winter and conveniently found that the establishment was hiring. His interest in brewing began, however, back in Massachusetts with a love for good craft beer.
"I've always enjoyed good beer, but I hadn't really brewed much until one of my good friends opened up this brewery in Western Massachusetts and needed help," says Conor. "So, I started working with him over at the Stoneman Brewery, and he really took me under his wing and taught me everything."
Conor was introduced to many breweries and brewers through his friend. "Everybody had some sort of insight to pass on, and I was just a willing student," he says. When Conor first started at The Brewery at Bacchus, he immediately put beer into barrels so it could age.
"Now they're just starting to get funky enough so that I can blend them and
have my first Berliner Sour coming out of here," he says. "I have been talking with the previous brewer...and if he thinks it's good enough, then we'll put it out."
Conor has produced beers using his own recipes as well as a few of the Bacchus favorites, including the Double IPA and several revamped recipes from the previous brewer.
The brewing process Conor uses begins with the creation of a good wort—a sugar-and-water mixture that is put into a fermenter along with yeast. The yeast eats the sugar, creating
alcohol after about two-and-a-half to three weeks. "Each brew…from kettle to keg, takes three weeks to a month," Conor says. Total turnaround time depends on the level of alcohol being created and on the vitality of the yeast itself.
"There's this old saying in every brewers' book that says, 'The good brewer makes good wort, and yeast makes good beer,'" Conor says. "So, I'm basically just doing whatever I can to make the best situation for the yeast." Bacchus now offers an app, named Bacchus New Paltz, where you can view a menu and tap list, place an order, and collect reward stamps. Be sure to check the app and website for information on where to find Bacchus beers, upcoming specials, and events.
BACCHUS New Paltz,
thebreweryatbacchus.com
BROOKLYN CIDER HOUSE
The Hudson Valley is home to some great cider breweries as well. Fairly new to the area is Brooklyn Cider House, run by owner Peter Yi and his team.
"Originally, Peter and his sister were born in Korea, and then they emigrated and grew up in Brooklyn," says Lindsey Storm, project manager and Brooklynite transplanted from Massachusetts.
She says that Peter worked in the wine industry for over twenty years, travelling the world and developing his palate. Along the way, he fell in love with cider and the energy it creates.
The team openly invites customers to "join [them] in a toast to tradition, friendship, and, of course, to Brooklyn."Particularly, Peter found Spain's Basque region to produce the best cider, and he felt that it paired better with food than any wine he'd tried.
"Every spring the cider there flows like water from casks the size of tanker trucks," they affectionately say on their website.
So, Peter brought the concept home, and the company placed an order in 2014 with Wafler Nursery in Walcott, NY for about 8,000 cider and heirloom apple trees.
"We knew that, to make cider, you need to have it really balanced," says Lindsey, "and therefore you need those cider apples."
In the fall of 2014, the team started making cider out of a rented space at Ravines Winery in Geneva, NY. Then, in May of 2015, they purchased land in New Paltz to start growing at the now Twin Star Orchards.
Lindsey says that Brooklyn Cider House has a goal of producing five ciders consistently on an annual basis. "And in the future, we might do some small-batch experimental ciders," she says.
One can sample three ciders in the Brooklyn Cider House tasting room at the Twin Star Orchards: the Still Bone Dry, the Kinda Dry, and the Half Sour. Another two ciders—the Bone Dry and the Raw—are on their way. "And all five are only apple," says Lindsey. "So, there are no added flavors,
other fruits, or irregular ingredients."
The shortest cider fermentation process takes about two months from harvest to bottle, but the Still Bone Dry variety—which is more like a wine—takes about 18 months to make. The Raw variety was harvested last fall but is still in the fermentation process.
"Different ciders take a different amount of time based on how you want them to evolve and what your end-goal is," says Lindsey. "In certain cases, what you can do is control fermentation with temperature." Cold-crashing the cider causes yeast to go dormant.
"Then, you would probably—depending again on the type of cider—filter out the yeast," Lindsey says. "Or, you would rack the cider out of the tank for a second fermentation and make sure to filter out the yeast afterwards." Raw cider, on the other hand, is a bit different because the yeast stays in. It's almost always evolving, so Lindsey compares it to Kombucha. "That's sort of like a live cider," she says.
Aside from the three bottled ciders, Brooklyn Cider House also has a beautiful pavilion that houses a wood-fire pizza oven and a wood-fire grill. In addition, it carries an assortment of local farm products and produce, and Lindsey and the team plan to install tap lines for their ciders over the winter months. Plus, Twin Star Orchards operates as a u-pick orchard, offering families the opportunity to pick their own apples when in season.
Brooklyn Cider House's ciders can be found in their tasting room at Twin Star Orchards as well as in various other locations throughout the Hudson Valley.
155 North Ohioville Road, New Paltz
845-633-8657 brooklynciderhouse.com
HUDSON VALLEY BEER AND CIDER BREWERIES
2 WAY BREWING COMPANY
18 West Main Street, Beacon
845-202-7334 2waybrewingcompany.com
Currently producing five brews that rotate on-tap, 2 Way Brewing Company is a craft microbrewery and bar founded in 2014. It uses the Hudson Valley's unparalleled resources to produce unique local beers in a location where everyone is welcome to relax, hang out, and participate in the craft beer experience.
ARROWOOD FARMS
236 Lower Whitfield Road, Accord
845-253-0389 arrowoodfarms.com
Arrowood Farms is a craft microbrewery that opened this year. Their motto is "beer from the ground up," and most of the hops and rye used in their brews are grown on-premises. The farm uses a solar-powered, three-barrel system and is NOFA-certified organic. All beers are handcrafted and brewed in small batches, with six-to-seven brews available on-tap in addition to rotating seasonal beers.
4 South Chestnut Street, New Paltz
845-255-8636 thebreweryatbacchus.com
The Brewery at Bacchus began when two employees, Jason Synan and Michael Renganeschi, started home brewing in 2013. Now a three-barrel brewery housed at the back of Bacchus Restaurant, the brewery has been distributing its own beers since 2015. Bacchus brews many types of beer, with three-to-four of them served in-house, seasonal and specialty brews available on rotation, and others made for distribution.
SLOOP BREWING COMPANY
1065 County Route 19, Elizaville
518-751-9134 sloopbrewing.com
Founded in 2011 by Adam Watson and Justin Taylor—two friends who met in college and bonded over their love for good beer—Sloop Brewing's motto is "grounded roots, open waters." Sloop Brewing has forged a partnership with Vosburgh Orchards in an effort to revitalize the farm and expand it as a farm-brewery. The blend between a farm rooted in tradition and Sloop's original craft beers offers the Hudson Valley a unique tasting room. They currently produce five year-round beers and eight seasonal and special-release brews.
BLUE COLLAR BREWERY
40 Cottage Street, Poughkeepsie
845-454-2739 thebluecollarbrewery.com
Blue Collar Brewery started as a father-and-son home brewing team in the late 80s, and they decided to finally open their own brewery in 2013. Blue Collar Brewery describes itself as having a "blue collar atmosphere, free of pretention." They currently have five brews on-tap, with two new ones on deck for the near future.
4076 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park
845-229-8277 hydeparkbrewing.com
Established in 1996, Hyde Park Brewing Company is known as the Hudson Valley's original brewpub. Located directly across from the FDR Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park Brewing Company is also a restaurant that uses fresh and seasonal local ingredients. It currently produces 14 brews, eight of which are on-tap at the brewery. It also offers four beer cocktails as well as catering service.
MILL HOUSE BREWING COMPANY
289 Mill Street, Poughkeepsie
845-485-2739 millhousebrewing.com
Mill House Brewing Company opened in 2013 and started distributing beer in 2015. They produce 21 brews that rotate on-tap, 10 of which are available all year long and 11 of which are offered seasonally.
NEWBURGH BREWING COMPANY
88 South Colden Street, Newburgh
845-569-2337 newburghbrewing.com
Newburgh Brewing Company honors its ingredients by working hard to make natural goodness shine through every sip of beer. Currently producing between 40 and 50 brews with 12 rotating on-tap, Newburgh Brewing Company has become a Hudson Valley favorite and a force to be reckoned with. Many beers are available for distribution, and the company also offers a full kitchen and a locally sourced menu.
PEEKSKILL BREWERY
47-53 South Water Street, Peekskill
914-734-2337 peekskillbrewery.com
Peekskill Brewery is a brewpub located on the beautiful Hudson River waterfront. Open daily for lunch and dinner, it offers 10 house brews on-tap and three canned beers.
ROUGH CUT BREWING COMPANY
5945 Route 44/55, Kerhonkson
845-626-9838 roughcutbrewing.com
Rough Cut Brewing Company is run by brothers and co-founders Jesse and Bart Cummings as well as third co-founder and brewer Kayne Konecny. They have dedicated their lives to crafting good beer, good food, and good times. Serving up fresh, quality ingredients paired with seriously crafted brews, Rough Cut currently has six brews on-tap ranging from a pale ale to a stout, with 13 rotating and seasonal beers.
WESTTOWN BREW WORKS
236 Schefflers Road, Westtown
westtownbrewworks.com
Westtown Brew Works is a farm-brewery and hop yard, with a tasting room and weekend food trucks. It produces handcrafted, small-batch beers brewed with its own hops as well as ingredients from neighboring farms. Westtown strives to use the best local ingredients, and its hops are hand-harvested. It currently produces five brews and is growing eight kinds of hops, which are for sale as well.
YARD OWL CRAFT BREWERY
19 Osprey Lane, Gardiner
845-633-8576 yardowlcraftbrewery.com
Kristop Brown and James Walsh—two friends with strong backgrounds in creating tasty beverages—founded Yard Owl Craft Brewery together. James had previously established the Mudd Puddle Café in New Paltz with his wife, Michelle, and Kristop is an award-winning Hudson Valley wine maker. The friends began their brewing journey by experimenting with recipes in the kitchen and, after shaping their recipes, attending professional brewing courses at UC Davis Brewing School. Yard Owl currently produces six brews that can be found at various locations in the New Paltz/Rosendale/Kingston area. The new brewery and tasting room is open on weekends.
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All BCH ciders are born out of traditions from Spain, France, and America and are made as naturally as possible from apples that are hand-picked at BCH's own Twin Star Orchards. The apples are simply crushed, and their juice is left to ferment in a European traditionalist method. Brooklyn Cider House currently produces five ciders. The tasting room and food pavilion, which serves wood-fired pizza and burgers, is open on weekends.
KETTLEBOROUGH CIDER HOUSE
277 Route 208, New Paltz
845-255-7717 kettleboroughciderhouse.com
Founded in 2011 by Tim Dressel, whose family has been growing apples in New Paltz for four generations, Kettleborough began producing cider in 2012. Kettleborough Cider House creates small-batch hard cider made from 100-percent Hudson Valley apples. It has recently begun planting nearly extinct varieties of apple trees on its over 350-acre orchard. Every apple that goes into Kettleborough cider is grown on Dressel soil within just three miles of where it is pressed. The orchard produces 20 varieties of apples devoted to hard cider. Four ciders are available.
WESTWIND ORCHARD
845-626-0659 westwindorchard.com
Westwind Orchard dates back to the 1930s, was owned by the Schoonmaker family in the '70s, and was purchased by the Chizzola family in 2002. A certified organic and holistic community apple orchard, Westwind only uses ecologically sensitive products like neem oil, effective microbes, seaweed, kelp, and compost teas to produce healthier soil, trees, fruits, and vegetables. This is their first year making hard cider, and they currently produce two varieties: Classic and Raspberry.
BAD SEED CIDER
43 Baileys Gap Road, Highland
845-236-0956 badseedhardcider.com
Founded in 2011, Bad Seed creates handcrafted hard cider using apples grown on a sixth-generation family farm with no alchemy used—whatsoever. Bad Seed currently produces six kinds of cider on their 60-acre Wilklow Orchards, with a taproom open on weekends. Cidery tours run September through October.
FARMHOUSE CIDER
Breezy Hill Orchard, Staatsburg Stone Ridge Orchard, Stone Ridge 845-266-3979 hudsonvalleyfarmhousecider.com
Hudson Valley Farmhouse Cider utilizes two orchards: Breezy Hill Orchard in Staatsburg and Stone Ridge Orchard in Stone Ridge. Together, the orchards produce over 100 varieties of ecologically grown apples, and they've recently planted a number of traditional cider apple trees, including Dabinett, Bedan, Binet Rouge, Kingston Black, Chisel Jersey, and Ashmead's Kernel. Hudson Valley Farmhouse Cider currently produces five ciders, which can be found at the Stone Ridge Orchard market as well as at various local farmers markets.
NAKED FLOCK CIDER
Applewood Winery: 82 Four Corners Road, Warwick
845-988-9292 applewoodwinery.com/naked-flock
At Applewood Winery, cider maker Jonathan Hull uses fresh Hudson Valley apples to produce three varieties of hard cider: Original, Draft, and Pumpkin. The ciders are naturally fermented and un-pasteurized with no added colorants, malts, spirits, or grape alcohol. Curious about their name? Check out the story behind it on their website!
WAYSIDE CIDER
High Meadows Farm: 865 Webster Brook Road, Delhi; waysidecider.com
Founded in 2014, Wayside Cider uses hand-picked apples to produce its final product. Utilizing a blend of wild, heirloom, and dessert apples, it has created three uniquely Delaware County ciders: Catskill (the flagship cider), Dry Town, and Half Wild.
YANKEE FOLLY CIDER
69 Yankee Folly Road, New Paltz
845-255-1155 yankeefollycidery.com
Yankee Folly Cider creates small-batch, artisanal hard cider using its 215-acre orchard and over 40 varieties of apples—and it all started on the Jenkins and Lueken Orchard over 50 years ago with just five apple varities. The orchard has been expanded to encompass thousands of trees. Yankee Folly is an off-dry cider, so it's not too sweet. Learn more by visiting the website and orchard.
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In surgery, a sling is an implant that is intended to provide additional support to a particular tissue. It usually consists of a synthetic mesh material in the shape of a narrow ribbon but sometimes a biomaterial (bovine or porcine) or the patients own tissue. The ends are usually attached to a fixed body part such as the skeleton.

In stress incontinence

In stress incontinence, a sling is a potential method of treatment, and is placed under the urethra through one vaginal incision and two small abdominal incisions. The idea is to replace the deficient pelvic floor muscles and provide a backboard of support under the urethra.

For this purpose, Pelvicol (a porcine dermal sling) implant sling had a comparable patient-determined success rate with TVT.

In female genital prolapse
Slings can also be used in the surgical management of female genital prolapse.

Chin sling
A chin sling is a synthetic lining used in chin augmentation to lift the tissues under the chin and neck. The sling is surgically implanted under the skin of the chin and hooked behind the ears, giving a more youthful appearance, and reversing the effects of aging such as accumulated fat, lost skin elasticity and stretched muscle lining, all of which cause the neck to droop and sag.

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Tony Blair Memoir Becomes Political Battle
The former prime minister's blockbuster memoir has thrust him into a political battle over the future of his own Labour party with Conservatives praising him. Pete Hoskin on the fight for Blair's legacy.
Peter Hoskin
Tony Blair (Chip East / Reuters)
What a difference thirteen years make. In 1997, Tony Blair strode into No.10 to the applause of voters lining the streets of Westminster. Earlier this week, he had to cancel a book signing only half-a-mile away from Downing Street, in fear of the disruption and violence it could provoke. His wariness is understandable. At a similar event in Dublin last weekend, a gaggle of protestors hurled spittle, slogans, eggs and shoes in the former Prime Minister's direction. Blair hate thrives. And it needs a police cordon to keep it in check.
It is a seismometer for the shifting ground of British politics. Conservatives praising their old adversary; Labour repudiating him.
The ruckus in Dublin was a decent approximation of the overall reaction to Blair's memoir. According to bystanders, the people queuing to have their copies of A Journey signed outnumbered the protestors by two or three to one. The books themselves are pouring from the shelves, with one high street chain commenting that, "Dan Brown and JK Rowling are the competition here." Among British political figures, only Blair could rouse such a response. But the adulation for him still exceeds the hatred, which is admittedly louder and better organized.
Blair would be advised to forget the streets though as the most interesting reaction to his memoir has come not from the egg throwers but from other politicians, foes and allies alike. And it's not his memories that has them so excited as it is his what is the most insightful part of A Journey: its postscript. This is where Blair attacks his successor and one-time ally Gordon Brown on a political, rather than personal, level—eschewing a statist response to the downturn, and pushing for policies that sound awfully like those now being enacted by David Cameron and his coalition government. As Blair himself puts it, "We should have taken a New Labour way out of the economic crisis: kept direct taxes competitive, had a gradual rise in VAT and other indirect taxes to close the deficit, and used the crisis to push further and faster on reform." When Cameron taps out his own memoirs, he may be able to boast that he did just that.
The Conservatives have leapt on these comments as eagerly as if they had just captured the enemy's standard. The day the book was published, two of their ministers hit the airwaves to claim that Blair had "endorsed" their approach to fixing the nation's public finances. Another Tory MP boasts that, "Tony Blair is now fighting the good fight. Our fight." His delight is indicative of the esteem in which some Conservatives hold the former Labour leader. Only this past week, the schools minister Michael Gove has been pushing a bolder version of Blair's own Academies program. He once confessed, "Tony Blair really got it on education."
By sharp contrast, the main contenders in the Labour leadership race have slunk away from the Blair memoir and its prescriptions. It is, they feel, a handicap to be linked to a figure who attracts so much vitriol from leftwing quarters. So, when Blair's implicit criticisms of him are brought up, Ed Miliband now quips that, "I must be doing something right." And even David Miliband, a former Blair adviser, is stressing that, "I am my own person. I look forward to the day when Tony says he is a Milibandite rather than people asking me whether I am a Blairite." Gordon Brown has had to restrain his attack dogs, preferring, for now, the moral high ground to chunks of his predecessor's flesh.
Now that Westminster has sifted through all 700 pages of Blair's memoir, its abiding use is clear. It is a seismometer for the shifting ground of British politics. Conservatives praising their old adversary; Labour repudiating him. The reformers using his book as a how-to manual; the wreckers forcing it through their office shredding machines. In a newspaper interview at the weekend, Blair said, "I feel a great urge to participate in my country's political life."
But, at least for the time being, his country is betraying mixed emotions about its former prime minister. In the British newspapers for every reviewer extolling the virtues of Blair and his book, there has been one giving both a vociferous beating. And so The Times observed that, "Tony Blair's memoir is a fascinating reminder of why voters were not wrong to award him three election victories," and in the Guardian Polly Toynbee lambasting the book as, "a historic act of treachery." Some are even peddling the same innuendo about "guilt" and "blood money" that greeted the news that Blair would donate his royalties to a British veterans' charity.
The most vicious anger comes from the left—and, as with the protest in Dublin, much of it is inspired by Iraq. As one pundit put it to me, "it would have been better if he had apologized for the war in Iraq. We would probably still have gone hard on him, but that would have tempered what we could write." Yet Blair does not apologize for Iraq.
Instead, he makes a pointed request of his opponents: "I ask you to reflect as to whether I may have been right."
Loathe and praise—these will be familiar to Tony Blair after a decade spent as Prime Minister. None of his detractors or supporters will have sloped across to the other side because of the contents of this book. But there is one dimension to the critical response that is less familiar: the outright mockery of a figure who managed to win three general elections.
Perhaps most savagely criticized has been the prose of his book. Blair shunned the services of a ghostwriter, and penned the book himself in between various political and business engagements. Writing for The Spectator (where I am a columnist), Bruce Anderson called it, "the worst-written memoir ever twittered by a serious politician." And he is not alone in thinking that. One Blair-supporting Labour MP admitted to me that, "[Blair] has made himself look a bit silly, to be honest."
Plus: Check out Book Beast, for more news on hot titles and authors and excerpts from the latest books.
Peter Hoskin has been in and around the worlds of politics and journalism since graduating from university in 2006. He currently runs the Spectator's political blog, Coffee House, and writes about cinema, literature and culture as much as he can.


The Air Force Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) program office is providing nearly $750,000 to further mature a portable micro-discharge ozone generator, capable of purifying and decontaminating water.
The generator, developed jointly by Physical Sciences Inc. in Andover, Massachusetts, and Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, is expected to offer maintenance and system voltage improvements over conventional ozone generators.
"Maturation of this technology is expected to result in portable water purification systems for remote air fields, as well as portable biological and chemical agent decontamination devices," said Dr. Steve Adams, the Air Force Research Laboratory researcher managing the project.
An associated rare-gas microplasma laser effort will scale the power up to demonstrate the potential for meeting weapons-grade power objectives.
"We'll also apply the technology concepts to an effort that replaces corrosive gas lasers with innovative inert gas lasers. The ability to replace those lasers will greatly reduce laser operational maintenance requirements and the logistics associated with those systems," Adams said.
In addition to the STTR funding, this program leverages more than $300,000 in funds from the High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office. As the technology matures, the investigators plan to seek additional funds from other Department of Defense agencies for scaling devices to field applications. These funds will help to ensure the Phase II project graduates into a Phase III program that successfully transitions its technologies into military or private sectors.
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World Australia says Mozambique debris most likely from MH370
Australia says Mozambique debris most likely from MH370
SYDNEY - Thursday, March 24, 2016 09:20 Email Print
A piece of debris found by a South African family off the Mozambique coast in December 2015, which authorities will examine to see if it is from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, is pictured in this handout photo released to Reuters March 11, 2016. Photo: Reuters/Candace Lotter/Handout via Reuters
Malaysia to inspect debris in South Africa for possible MH370 link
Second possible MH370 plane part found in Reunion
Possible MH370 plane debris sent to Australia
Australia to test debris found two years after Malaysian jet disappeared
Missing Malaysia jet MH370 weeks away from keeping secrets forever
Australia said on Thursday that plane debris recovered earlier this month from Mozambique was highly likely to have come from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which was carrying 239 people when it went missing more than two years ago.
A Malaysian government investigation team has found that both pieces of debris are consistent with panels from a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 aircraft, said Australia's Minister for infrastructure and transport, Darren Chester.
"The analysis has concluded the debris is almost certainly from MH370," he said.
"That such debris has been found on the east coast of Africa is consistent with drift modelling ... and further affirms our search efforts in the southern Indian Ocean," Chester said.
Flight MH370 disappeared with 239 passengers and crew on board shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing in March 2014.
A white, meter-long chunk of metal was found off the coast of Mozambique this month by a U.S. adventurer who has been carrying out an independent search for flight MH370. It arrived in Australia for testing earlier this week.
The debris was examined by investigators from Australia and Malaysia, as well as specialists from Boeing, Geoscience Australia and the Australian National University in Canberra.
Malaysia said this week it would send a team to retrieve a piece of debris found along the southern coast of South Africa to check whether it could also belong to MH370.
The jet is believed to have crashed in the Indian Ocean and an initial search of a 60,000 sq km (23,000 sq miles) area of sea floor has been extended to another 60,000 sq km.
A piece of the plane's wing washed up on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion, on the other side of Madagascar, in July 2015. So far only that piece, known as a flaperon, has been confirmed to belong to the missing plane.
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Duchess of Cornwall is awarded highest honour by the Queen
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Camilla wins the highest approval the Queen can bestow: Duchess of Cornwall joins the elite Order of the Garter 'for services to the sovereign' after years of loyalty and discretion
Camilla is to be made a Royal Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, the oldest and most senior of Orders of Chivalry in Britain, バッキンガム宮殿は言った
Appointment will be seen as a royal seal of approval for loyalty and discretion Camilla has shown since her marriage to Prince of Wales in 2005
It will spark renewed speculation that the 95-year-old monarch may yet endorse Camilla to be Queen when she dies and Prince Charles accedes to the throne
女王 is personally awarding the コーンウォール公爵夫人 the highest honour possible thanks to her 'service to the sovereign', it was announced last night.
Camilla is to be made a Royal Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, the oldest and most senior of the Orders of Chivalry in Britain, バッキンガム宮殿 前記.
The appointment will be seen as a royal seal of approval for the loyalty and discretion Camilla has shown since her marriage to the Prince of Wales in 2005.
The Queen is personally awarding the Duchess of Cornwall the highest honour possible thanks to her 'service to the sovereign', it was announced last night
Camilla is to be made a Royal Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, the oldest and most senior of the Orders of Chivalry in Britain, バッキンガム宮殿は言った. The appointment will be seen as a royal seal of approval for the loyalty and discretion Camilla has shown since her marriage to the Prince of Wales (上記) に 2005
Clarence House says the 'intention' is for the duchess to become Princess Consort, showing sensitivity to previously negative public opinion over Camilla's role in the breakdown of Charles and Diana's marriage
起きなさい, Sir Covid!: Government scientific advisers Chris… Former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair is made a Sir in the…
It will spark renewed speculation that the 95-year-old monarch may yet endorse Camilla to be Queen when she dies and Prince Charles accedes to the throne.
Clarence House says the 'intention' is for the duchess to become Princess Consort, showing sensitivity to previously negative public opinion over Camilla's role in the breakdown of Charles and Diana's marriage.
Tony Blair gets the call, あまりにも (and becomes a Sir)
The decision to ennoble the former prime minister – or Sir Tony, as he will now be known – has been much debated in recent years
Tony Blair has been appointed to the Order of the Garter as a Knight Companion.
The decision to ennoble the former prime minister – or Sir Tony, as he will now be known – has been much debated in recent years.
All but one of the prime ministers before him were appointed a few years after leaving office. But Sir Tony waited over 14 年.
It had been suggested that the Queen's strained relationship with him during his ten years in power may have contributed to the 'snub'.
But Charles has never made any secret of his desire for Camilla to become queen by his side.
And it is known that the Queen has been impressed by the way in which her daughter-in-law has embraced her public role and shown quiet and respectful dedication to both her husband and the institution of the monarchy.
It was also revealed that Baroness Amos is to be made a Lady Companion of the Order of the Garter – the first person from an ethnic minority to be appointed.
She is a Labour politician and diplomat who has served as UN Under-Secretary-General for humanitarian affairs and British High Commissioner to Australia.
She was also Leader of the House of Lords and the chief executive of the Equal Opportunities Commission.
The Order of the Garter was established by King Edward III in 1348 after he was inspired by the tales of King Arthur and the chivalry of the Knights of the Round Table.
The number of Knights and Ladies Companion is limited to 24 in total at any one time.
There is no limit to the number of royal members, しかしながら. 最初は, the order's members were limited to the aristocracy but they are now men and women chosen from a variety of backgrounds, in recognition for their public service, their contribution to national life, or their personal service to the sovereign.
The honour is personally bestowed by the monarch, with no interference from the Government.
The patron saint of the order is St George and the spiritual home is St George's Chapel at Windsor.
Its motto is 'Honi soit qui mal y pense', Old French for 'shame on him who thinks evil of it'. Vacancies are announced on St George's Day and only occasionally at New Year. It is thought that the Queen wanted this year's announcement to tie in with the New Year's Honours.
Prince Philip was appointed a Knight of the Order of the Garter by King George VI in 1947 – and it is believed that the Queen also wanted to ensure that both her son and his wife were members before her own change of reign.
A Garter Day procession is held each June before a short service in St George's Chapel, at which any new companions are installed.
It was also revealed that Baroness Amos (上記) is to be made a Lady Companion of the Order of the Garter – the first person from an ethnic minority to be appointed. She is a Labour politician and diplomat who has served as UN Under-Secretary-General for humanitarian affairs and British High Commissioner to Australia
ロバート・ハードマン: Camilla being made a Lady of the Order of the Garter is a strong hint that she could be named Queen instead of Princess Consort
By ROBERT HARDMAN for the Daily Mail
Even in royal circles, there is no more exalted honour than being a Knight or a Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. Look at the official title of the Prince of Wales, 例えば: the first letters after his name are 'KG'.
Being a member of the Garter trumps everything else.
And from today, anyone writing to the コーンウォール公爵夫人 will need to put 'LG' – Lady Companion of the Order of the Garter – after her name.
Even in royal circles, there is no more exalted honour than being a Knight or a Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. Look at the official title of the Prince of Wales, 例えば: the first letters after his name are 'KG'. And from today, anyone writing to the Duchess of Cornwall will need to put 'LG' – Lady Companion of the Order of the Garter – after her name
The fact that the Queen has now bestowed it on the Duchess of Cornwall is the greatest recognition to date of the role that the former Camilla Parker Bowles now plays in the life of the monarchy. The honour, 結局, even eluded Diana
The order goes back to Edward III and the days of knights in shining armour.
There are three tiers of membership, starting with the Knights Companion and Ladies Companion: 24 eminent public figures hand-picked by the Sovereign.
Then there are 'Extra' Knights and Ladies, an honorary membership for foreign monarchs.
Most senior of all are the Royal Knights and Ladies: traditionally restricted to a sprinkling of family who were born royal, plus the Sovereign's consort.
The fact that the Queen has now bestowed it on the Duchess of Cornwall is the greatest recognition to date of the role that the former Camilla Parker Bowles now plays in the life of the monarchy. The honour, 結局, even eluded Diana.
The Queen is making a clear statement. She has been deeply impressed by the good-natured way in which the duchess has supported the Prince of Wales as he has shouldered more duties on the Queen's behalf.
The order goes back to Edward III (上記) and the days of knights in shining armour. There are three tiers of membership, starting with the Knights Companion and Ladies Companion: 24 eminent public figures hand-picked by the Sovereign. Then there are 'Extra' Knights and Ladies, an honorary membership for foreign monarchs
'It's an indication of the Queen's total confidence in the Duchess of Cornwall,' says Hugo Vickers, author of Royal Orders and an authority on the Garter.
The Queen knows how important it is to have a dependable soulmate. She said as much in her Christmas Day tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh. The only person more proud of this award than the duchess will be Prince Charles himself.
It also points to a decision that will need to be made sooner or later.
今のところ, the official position is that the duchess will be styled the 'Princess Consort' in the next reign, a position set at her 2005 wedding to Charles. It is an increasingly incongruous title given that the wife of a King is always Queen.
The Royal Family do not want to go near this subject since it invokes memories of the prince's divorce from Diana and the dark days after her death. It is an issue for another day.
This honour, でも, makes it pretty clear what the current Monarch thinks.
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