Americans expect broadband Internet to function like the electricity in an apartment where utilities are included in the rent — plug in a lamp or a refrigerator and, no matter how much juice they drain, the cost is the same every month. Similarly, when you connect a laptop to the Wi-Fi at home, you can view millions of videos of gamboling kittens on YouTube without paying your Internet service provider (ISP) by the minute or browsing by the byte.
By that same token, just as Frigidaire doesn't owe money to the power company for providing the electrical current and infrastructure needed for its appliances to function, YouTube doesn't fork over a slice of its revenues to Comcast or Verizon on account of its users watching videos over their ISP pipelines — at least not yet.
If this is an arrangement you enjoy, thank "net neutrality," a regulatory principle the Federal Communications Commission embraced a decade ago and formally adopted in 2010. Its Open Internet Order says that ISPs must provide equal access and speed to all Internet traffic and they can't charge customers more for visiting certain websites or for using services that eat lots of bandwidth. Nor can the ISPs make the bandwidth-hogging websites pony up.
But a recent decision by the D.C. Circuit's U.S. Court of Appeals has curdled that status quo and, some say, thrown the Internet as we know it into jeopardy. The ruling favored Verizon in a complaint against the FCC and curtailed the agency's powers, forbidding it from treating ISPs like phone companies unless it fundamentally changes how they are designated. The judge did leave open the possibility, however, that the FCC could still regulate the Internet under other reworked conditions, albeit with significantly less latitude than the agency had claimed.
Already, there's been an outcry among net neutrality advocates over this and the pending merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable, the nation's two biggest ISPs, as consumer advocates worry that the new company would be a sprawling monopoly that could gouge customers.
On top of that, after the court decision, reports grew that ISPs were throttling the bandwidth for Netflix videos, resulting in hiccups for users. Then, at the end of February, the world's largest video-streaming service announced it had reached a deal to pay Comcast for faster transmissions.
For now, the FCC is working to fine-tune its regulations to comply with the ruling while keeping safeguards in place to prevent ISPs from favoring certain content providers that pay more (a cost that many worry will trickle down to consumers). The goal is to preserve the Internet "as an open platform for innovation and expression," as the FCC's new chairman, Tom Wheeler, put it in a statement.
The flurry of developments in the longstanding legal fight has thrust the highly technical and once obscure issue of net neutrality before American consumers like never before.
Some contend that rich companies like Netflix, which reportedly accounts for one-third of all Internet traffic in North America, should have to pay extra because, after all, they are using the infrastructure and network capacity that ISPs have invested megabucks to build. But advocates of the so-called "open Internet" argue that if ISPs are allowed to extract a premium for better service from deep-pocketed outfits like YouTube and Netflix, then the nonprofit websites, news publications and the little guy who runs an esoteric blog from his living room will be outspent and may suffer or even disappear. That, they say, will render many features of the Internet that we cherish and rely on unsustainable. It's a slope they say we can't afford to slip down, for the sake of the free flow of information, creativity and competition.
Just as this debate is roiling in the United States, net neutrality also has been grabbing headlines across the pond as the European Union voted on a landmark package of regulations on telecommunications policy.
The parallel efforts to deal with the issue offer an interesting comparison of U.S. and E.U. governance and regulatory culture. And the ultimate outcomes of each will shape the Internet around the globe for years to come, as ISPs, mobile operators and content creators all look ahead to determine their business models.
There are some key distinctions in how net neutrality is being addressed on each side of the Atlantic. For the most part, in the United States, net neutrality has been a distinct issue that is being judged on its own merits. In the European Union, however, it is sandwiched together with a broader desire among many citizens and politicians to reform the telecommunications markets of the 28 member states.
To that end, Neelie Kroes, the European Commission's digital agenda chief, has pushed a "Connected Continent" single telecoms market that would integrate the member states' technologically, akin to how they have been drawn closer together economically and politically.
As is, each nation in the EU writes its own laws regarding net neutrality. In some countries, ISPs are allowed to boost revenue by cutting side deals with Google, for example, whereby YouTube's parent company pays the ISP for its websites to load faster.
For many Europeans, however, the big thorn that telecom reform promises to remove is the costly, unpredictable and ubiquitous roaming charges they experience with their cell phones. Because the countries' mobile networks are part of separate, national markets, customers can accrue international roaming charges for voice and data every time they cross a border with their devices. It can be a maddening experience for frequent business travelers, or someone living in Luxembourg, which is only 35 miles wide.
Last fall, Kroes, who hails from the Netherlands, introduced a sweeping package of legislation that sought to alleviate these irksome charges while also enshrining the principle of net neutrality across all member states. It would unify all the mobile providers and ISPs under one market, which could be regulated by a central EU authority.
In early April, the European Parliament overwhelmingly voted to phase out roaming charges across the EU by December 2015 and preserve net neutrality, restricting the ability of ISPs to charge content providers fees in return for faster Internet access. "This vote is the EU delivering for citizens," Kroes said of the decision — a big win for net neutrality supporters and consumer advocates.
Back home in the United States, there is no legislation on the horizon that's likely to clarify our policy on net neutrality. The judge who ruled that the FCC overstepped its bounds cited the Telecommunications Act of 1996, an aging bill of more than 250 pages that only uses the word "Internet" about a dozen times.
Nonetheless, the court cited this bill when it constrained the FCC's ability to enforce net neutrality in January. The judge didn't say that Chairman Wheeler could not set such limits, but he said that some other justification in the law would be required.
As the judge pointed out, the Telecommunications Act actually offers a couple of other means for the FCC to reassert its authority over ISPs.
First, it could reclassify broadband services as "common carrier" utilities, which is how phone companies are regarded. Roughly speaking, the concept says that some industries, such as railroads, provide essential services to the public that require extensive infrastructure and cooperation from the government, and so therefore the companies involved may be granted de facto monopolies in exchange for being subjected to increased government regulation.
Instead, the FCC announced in late February that it planned to exercise the other option — to justify new net neutrality rules under Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act, which orders the FCC to "encourage the deployment … of advanced telecommunications capability to all Americans" and grants it the power to "intervene" in instances when companies fail to meet this goal. However, this is considered a much weaker leg for the FCC to stand on, and it will almost certainly have to scale back its net neutrality regulations. At some point, the agency may opt to designate Internet service as a common carrier, although that would likely bring new legal challenges.
In general, Wheeler is known to support the "open Internet," although some critics have suggested that he may have an underlying pro-industry bias because of his work as a top lobbyist for the cable and telephone industries, which are the two largest providers of broadband Internet. But the ball is in Wheeler's court now, because almost no one thinks Congress is going to pass new net neutrality legislation any time soon.
In early February, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who has been one of net neutrality's biggest backers in Congress, did file the Open Internet Preservation Act, which would give the FCC more explicit power to prevent ISPs from giving preferential treatment to big companies that can cough up lots of dough. But most observers say don't hold your breath.
Even Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, seemed unoptimistic about the fate of the bill he co-sponsored in the House.
Waxman is undoubtedly aware that such a bill would have scant chance of getting out of the committee, which is chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), a frequent critic of what he calls the administration's overreach on the policy of net neutrality.
Katherine Maher, advocate director for Access Now, said there was an "inherent partisan bias" whereby many of the Republicans who control the House have often favored the ISPs in what has become a war of influence — with the tech companies and online content distributors such as Netflix on one side, and telecom and cable companies such as Verizon and Comcast on the other.
It should go without saying, however, that both sides throw lobbying dollars all over Capitol Hill, and that the span and scope of the conglomerates involved means that loyalties can become murky, such as with Comcast, which merged with NBCUniversal a few years back, or Google, which recently got into the game of providing Internet to customers through Fiber, a super-high-speed service that's available in a few parts of the country.
As such, Aaron hopes public pressure can sway Wheeler to reclassify broadband Internet as a common carrier so the FCC can exert more regulatory pressure in enforcing net neutrality.
While he is skeptical that there will be any quick movement, Aaron did add that he thinks the January court decision is the "first step toward a rewrite" of the nation's telecommunications laws.
As the parallel debate around net neutrality unfolds in Europe, Maher of Access Now said these recent developments in the United States, including the agreement between Comcast and Netflix, might actually serve as a warning to Europeans.
"The U.S. is a real indication of what can happen in Europe if the conservatives' definition of specialized services is adopted," she said, admonishing that such deals put the principle of net neutrality on thin ice and could leave the Internet resembling the gated, pruned and high-priced garden that is cable TV.


Wonderful rest in Bukovel among the magnificent nature can be at any time of the year.
In summer, in the popular resort of Ukraine, you can go horseback riding, ride a bicycle, a jet ski, go on a jeep tour, quadrangle or a tour of the pedestrian route and enjoy the magnificent panorama of the Ukrainian Carpathians.
For active recreation you can visit sports grounds, climbing wall, extreme park.
For children in the complex there is a wonderful children's club, as well as an entertainment center.
The main summer entertainment in Bukovel is the largest artificial lake in Ukraine.
On its perimeter the beach territory is arranged, which occupies more than 2 km.
The total area of the lake is 6.8 hectares, and the depth is 15 m.
The reservoir is very popular among Ukrainian and foreign tourists.
If you plan to relax in Bukovel, then I recommend paying attention to the nearest attractions that are worth a look.
First of all, I advise you to go to the Hook Falls (Zhenzhensky Falls).
It is located 15 kilometers from the complex.
The exact address. Mykulychyn, ur. Zhenets.
Further from the Hook Falls you can continue your journey to the cozy city of Yaremche.
There are several interesting sights here, so to see everything, it will take you all day.
So, what can you see in Yaremche?
First of all I recommend going on a walking tour on the Dovbush Trail.
On the marked route you will see many interesting things: the stone works of the sculptor Darius Grabar, the Dovbush Rocks, on the viewing platforms you will have the opportunity to enjoy the beautiful panorama of the Ukrainian Carpathians, conquer the peak of Makovice, then go down to the Probi waterfall. By the finish of the route you can look at the souvenir market and buy a souvenir.
If you want to conquer the highest mountain of Ukraine Hoverla, then safely go to the village of Vorokhta at the base of Zaroslyak.
It is from this base that tourists begin their ascent to the 2,061-meter-long miracle of nature.
It should be noted that the entrance to the reserve is paid, but the payment is not high in the chapel 20 UAH.
For the ascent here are marked two marked routes, the first 4.3 km, and the second 3.7 km.
But, I strongly recommend climbing a long route, it is much easier.


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Decision : 42 COM 7A.2
Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam (Afghanistan) (C 211 rev)
Having examined Document WHC/18/42.COM/7A,
Recalling Decision 41 COM 7A.55, adopted at its 41st session (Krakow, 2017),
Notes that the Conservation Action Plan (CAP) was finalized as an outcome of the Emergency International Assistance granted under the World Heritage Fund and submitted to the World Heritage Centre in February 2018 and urges the State Party to start implementing the short- and medium-term actions specified by this CAP and to secure the necessary financial and human resources;
Also notes that the first field visit to the property in three years was conducted in September 2017, with support from the Heritage Emergency Fund, and will provide detailed scientific data to further inform the implementation of the CAP;
Further notes the capacity-building workshop conducted in Germany in April 2017 to reinforce the scientific and technical skills of national engineers in view of the upcoming conservation activities in and around the property;
Regrets that the boundaries of the World Heritage property and its buffer zone remain to be precisely defined and, recalling that a topographical map was realized for this purpose as part of a UNESCO/Italy Funds-in-Trust project in 2012, also urges the State Party to submit to the World Heritage Centre, by 1 February 2019, a proposal for a minor boundary modification, in conformity with the CAP and in accordance with Paragraphs 163-164 of the Operational Guidelines, for review by ICOMOS;
Further urges the State Party to address the following three critical issues:
The installation of a monitoring instrument on the Minaret of Jam to measure its inclination,
The emergency stabilization work for the wooden staircases, in order to prevent further destabilization of the Minaret's structure,
The construction of a footbridge over the Hari Rud River and a guesthouse at the property, in order to improve access to the property and site security;
Encourages the State Party to capitalize on the capacity-building activities made possible via international cooperation mechanisms in order to further develop and strengthen the theoretical and technical knowledge and capacities of national heritage experts and encourage their participation in the training activities provided;
Calls upon the international community to provide technical and financial support, in cooperation with the World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies, for the implementation of above-mentioned CAP, which will be part of a strategy to implement the corrective measures adopted by the World Heritage Committee at its 31st session (Christchurch, 2007);
Also requests the State Party to revise the timeframe for the implementation of the corrective measures and to submit it to the World Heritage Centre by 1 February 2019, for review by the Advisory Bodies;
Further requests the State Party to submit to the World Heritage Centre, by 1 February 2019, an updated report on the state of conservation of the property and the implementation of the above, for examination by the World Heritage Committee at its 43rd session in 2019;
Decides to retain the Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam (Afghanistan) on the List of World Heritage in Danger.
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WHC-18/42.COM/7A
Decision Code: 42 COM 7A.2
Themes: Conservation, List of World Heritage in Danger
States Parties (1): Afghanistan
Properties (1): Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam
Session: 42nd session of the World Heritage Committee (42 COM)
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2018 Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam

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4. The wealthiest person is the one who has abundance of taqwa .
1. Much may be done with those little shreds and patches of time which everyday produces, and which most people throw away.
3. Until we value ourself; we won't value time, until we value time; we will not do anything with it.
5. To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom, and he who increases his riches increases his cares, but a contented mind is a treasure hidden.
7. In seeking wisdom we are wise, in imagining that we have attained it, we are a fools.
Enjoining good and forbidding evil is one of the greatest pillars of religion and most important responsibilities for believers. It is collective (Kifaya) obligation, which means that when some Muslims do it, the others are relieved of the obligation and no blame is attached to them. However, the reward goes only to those who were engaged in it.
A ready hand is better than a ready tongue. Light is the task where many share the toil. The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
Hajj -- If the pilgrim is wealthy, let him be liberal in giving to the poor and the destitute, in helping the weak and the needy, followed by all other Muslims. Let it be done sincerely for the Lord of the worlds.
The wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous to reach heaven. To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer. Hell is truth seen too late -- duty neglected in its reason. To get to heaven, turn right and keep straight.


My clients, The L&K Group, have always gone the extra mile.
They contacted me a few years back in a bit of a panic to do a Real Estate shoot for a listing they just had to get on MLS.
I seldom shoot for Realtors and there's a number of reasons for that.
The images, if properly done, don't stay posted for very long and 90% of the individuals who contact me don't have or won't have the budget.
Nathen Legat, the 'L' in L&K always has.
He's firmly convinced that good photography makes for a proper, professional presentation.
We've been doing it so long now it's more of a 'social occasion' and I'll admit—I'm spoiled.
Most times he's swing downtown and picks me up.
Here's some images from last evening's shoot.
It was a small condo that they had 'lightly staged', which makes a good deal of difference, and was super clean and photographed quite well.
These Realtors absolutely 'get it', and I'm very happy to be working with them.
There's no iPhone photos in their listings, they post everything on their Facebook Page as well as Twitter.
I've never seen them cut any corners. Ever.
There's never any harm going the extra mile.


Civil rights movements -- Georgia -- Cobb County.; Marietta (Ga.) -- Race relations.; Moon, Walter; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cobb County Branch -- History.; Oral histories.; Transcripts.
Reverend Walter Moon was born in Marietta and graduated from Lemon Street High School. After serving in the U.S. Navy from 1960 to 1964, Moon joined the U.S. Postal Service as a letter carrier in Marietta. He worked in a variety of positions and locations until he retired as the Manager of Customer Services and Sales for Alabama in 1999. Moon returned to Cobb County, Georgia, in 2002. He accepted a call to the ministry in 1983 and founded the Words of Faith A.M.E. Church in Mableton, Georgia, in 2003. Rev. Moon has been active in the Civil Rights Movement, working with Hugh Grogan in the gerrymandering case that lead to Grogan's election to the Marietta City Council in 1978.
Citation Interview with Reverend Walter Moon transcript, 2009-10-08, Cobb NAACP/Civil Rights series, 2009-2010, Kennesaw State University Oral History Project, 1973- , KSU/45/05/001, Kennesaw State University Archives.
Description Reverend Walter Moon was born in Marietta and graduated from Lemon Street High School. After serving in the U.S. Navy from 1960 to 1964, Moon joined the U.S. Postal Service as a letter carrier in Marietta. He worked in a variety of positions and locations until he retired as the Manager of Customer Services and Sales for Alabama in 1999. Moon returned to Cobb County, Georgia, in 2002. He accepted a call to the ministry in 1983 and founded the Words of Faith A.M.E. Church in Mableton, Georgia, in 2003. Rev. Moon has been active in the Civil Rights Movement, working with Hugh Grogan in the gerrymandering case that lead to Grogan's election to the Marietta City Council in 1978.
Subject Marietta (Ga.) -- Race relations.


The poverty is real in America, a permanent underclass of $8 dollar an hour wage earners, 13 million convicted felons and 30 million terrified illegals.
Trump didn't do it, it came from Reagan and the mob that brought us Iran contra, flooded America with illegal aliens and began the deindustrialization of the US.
An industrial America with trade unions and informed politics would be a danger to the "elites and oligarchs" that Reagan cherished. In reality, Trump has done little to make a hopeless situation worse, not yet. His plans to cut veterans benefits, gut social security and medicare and turn the country over to video poker scamsters and payday lenders is in its early stages.
To this extent, he is only following what the GOP has always done, suppress votes, prey on the ignorant and point fingers at others, "the liberals," for what they do.
The United States is a land of stark contrasts. It is one of the world's wealthiest societies, a global leader in many areas, and a land of unsurpassed technological and other forms of innovation. Its corporations are global trend setters, its civil society is vibrant and sophisticated and its higher education system leads the world. But its immense wealth and expertise stand in shocking contrast with the conditions in which vast numbers of its citizens live. About 40 million live in poverty, 18.5 million in extreme poverty, and 5.3 million live in Third World conditions of absolute poverty.
There is thus a dramatic contrast between the immense wealth of the few and the squalor and deprivation in which vast numbers of Americans exist. For almost five decades the overall policy response has been neglectful at best, but the policies pursued over the past year seem deliberately designed to remove basic protections from the poorest, punish those who are not in employment and make even basic health care into a privilege to be earned rather than a right of citizenship.6. The visit of the Special Rapporteur coincided with the dramatic change of direction in relevant United States policies.
The new policies: (a) provide unprecedentedly high tax breaks and financial windfalls to the very wealthy and the largest corporations; (b) pay for these partly by reducing welfare benefits for the poor; (c) undertake a radical programme of financial, environmental, health and safety deregulation that eliminates protections mainly benefiting the middle classes and the poor; (d) seek to add over 20 million poor and middle class persons to the ranks of those without health insurance; (e) restrict eligibility for many welfare benefits while increasing the obstacles required to be overcome by those eligible; (f) dramatically increase spending on defence, while rejecting requested improvements in key veterans benefits; (g) do not provide adequate additional funding to address an opioid crisis that is decimating parts of the country; and (h) make no effort to tackle the structural racism that keeps a large percentage of non-Whites in poverty and fear.
In a 2017 report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) captured the situation even beforethe impact of these aggressively regressive redistributive policies had been felt, stating that the United States economy is delivering better living standards for only the few and that household incomes are stagnating for a large share of the population, job opportunities are deteriorating, prospects for upward mobility are waning, and economic gains are increasingly accruing to those that are already "wealthy".
The tax reform will worsen this situation and ensure that the United States remains the most unequal society in the developed world. The planned dramatic cuts in welfare will essentially shred crucial dimensions of a safety net that is already full of holes. Since economic and political power reinforce one another, the political system will be even more vulnerable to capture by wealthy elites.9 This situation bodes ill not only for the poor and middle class in America, but for society as a whole, with high poverty levels creating disparities in the education system, hampering human capital formation and eating into future productivity.
The poverty is very real in America, a permanent underclass of $8 dollar an hour wage earners, 13 million convicted felons and 30 million terrified illegals.
Preying on them is every conceivable scam known to man, industry after industry beginning with health care engaged in systematic warfare against the public.
Worse still, generations of Americans have never learned to work. The blame there can go many places but, were one to look at the typical corporate business plan, the idea is to deliver shoddy goods and services to a confused and controlled public, subjected to something quite beyond mind control, doing so based on offshore slave labor, illegal aliens here in the US where they can be hidden away and then the nearly unpaid labor of America's underclass.
Go to the supermarket. Chose a line. Will you pick the Asian cashier or the "American?" Take a few moments and watch.
Americans gave up a long time ago, recognizing that employment is always dead end. A college education that can leave a student in $100,000 of high interest lifetime debt, debt meant to follow to the grave, can in too many cases be the only way to cross the $10 per hour wage scale into 3rd class poverty from utter poverty.
In Switzerland, workers at McDonalds make $22 per hour. It isn't cheap eating there but lines go out the door. Then again, those workers buy things actually made in Switzerland.
When Trump brought in illegal Polish workers to build Trump Tower, he recognized something Europeans knew all along. Americans, not so many anyway, don't like work. Americans are raised to consider physical labor demeaning. Poles work as do Hungarians, the founders of the steel companies, even Henry Ford, knew this and flooded America with immigrants brought in for their factories over 130 years ago.
The remains of their crumbling neighborhoods can still be seen in most American cities.
The heart of it. to an extent, is the concept that stockholder return has to be predicated on offshore labor, shoddy goods, high prices with wide profit margins and suppressed wages.
This is Walmart, Home Depot, Meijers, even Aldi.
The sad part is when there is economic growth, there aren't any workers left. A worker has to have a car, some place to live, and has to have his or her health. To do this would have required the $22 hour wage we saw in Switzerland.
Here in West Michigan we have 100% employment and a shortage of labor. Nearly all low wage occupations are given to Hispanics but their expectations, after generations in the US, have moved on. They are the new business owners and middle class.
High cost of living has kept "poor working whites" away, which leaves the factories that pay $9 per hour grinding to a halt. They raise wages to $10 or even $12, and then go to temp agencies and recruiters, but there is no way to survive here without some place to live and money for food.
The answer would be the cardboard box communities in Mexico that build our Ford F150 pickup trucks, our Whirlpool refrigerators and so many other products under the Bush/Salinas NAFTA treaty. Workers can live in the parking lot, defecate in a ditch and collect sticks to cook beans and rice, while waiting for their next shift to begin.
If they speak up, the national police will simply gun them down.
The other drain in Canada, cheap money, heavy government subsides, housing, food, health care, all financed by tariffs but more than that, a nation with no military budget, no aircraft carriers, no nuclear missiles and built on 4 million Chinese business owners invited in with their cash, just like Kushner does.
Trump didn't do it, greed did it.
China has gotten tired of playing "tariff tag" with the Trump administration. It's now playing a new game called the "devalue stock dump." It consists of China aggressively devaluing the Yuan in an effort to crash the US stock market.
Could the last name mean he's Jewish?
America has become a failed state.
Maybe so but during those interim periods a great many people perished at the hands of the workers other wise known as Marxist communists. In fact tens of millions of people were exterminated in the process of creating a "worker's paradise", which never happened.
California has now become the state with the worst level of poverty. tent cities in Anaheim, L.A. and Silly Con Valley are now the standard. It is also now the state with the lowest quality of life.
The divide between the wealthy elites and the rest of us has never been wider and getting worse by the day and California is one of the best examples of just how the rest of the country will fare.
Cities such as San Fran Cisco have a massive problem with homeless people: needles everywhere, human waste on the sidewalks, aggressive street people and that the city is also a sanctuary for even felons doesn't help matters at all. Seattle is nearly as bad. Portland has motor homes and campers lining the streets.
People are leaving California at a record rate thanks to high taxes and regulations just about every aspect of life thanks to the communists in Sacramento and Governor Moonbeam.
States everywhere are now in deep financial trouble mainly in part to pension obligations they will not be able to meet. One after another states will become bankrupt, broken and unable to deliver even the most basic of services.
When that happens, society in America will begin to break down.
The level of poverty will then be unbearable.
Since fews days i have lot of difficulties to "copy and past" your texts before translate it with "google translate app". VT website pages are frozen at the moment i need to "copy". I never have this problem before !
… and i think that's not coming from this device because is new (1 week used).
It's those darned liberals that the Foxbots scream about as their union jobs have been taken away and replaced by 8 dollar jobs as I blame my generation the boomers as they watch fox and vote in the clowns that do this to us and now it's our legacy to our children!
They can't die off fast enough as maybe the republicans will euthanize them so the country can move on to a saner place!
Great article Mr Duff as I prey for a stroke to any foxbots reading it!
Your flippin well right about greed, what happens in the US happens to OZ 10 to 15 years later. The Goldman Sachs man that high jacked the head job here has gone into overdrive selling Australia out & gutting the wealth of its citizens.
One of the original American questions in declaring ourselves independent, was how come we do all the work in the fields, and King George gets richer ? How is it possible for 30 percent of the product of whatever a community makes, to be all that is left at the end of the season ?
Trump didn't do it, but he personifies it. One of the few things he is honest about. Glorification of position, is a standard survival method instinctive in primate politics. Ultimately, it leads to war or cannabalism.
Even La Garde has said, Capitalism is a finite method. We are all back in Kindergarten. Or the Kinder Garden where sharing and participating sustains abundance. Sharing, it's what we learned today. To not do it, requires justification of who dies first.
stock exchange you will pay more… Stop buying from these companies???
Sad statistics… Anyway, the USA military budget is 3 times bigger than the whole one of Russia. But it is US locomotive.
You can always get a job at a dollar store. Or the local supermarket but don't expect a wage that will buy you a new $35,000 SUV. Maybe a used Nissan Versa.
There are lots of jobs in West Michigan but how many are full time 40 hours and how many pay a decent wage that creates more wealth for the middle class and not the elites.
At the local grocery store I buy chicken, turkey veggies like mushrooms at reduced prices as they hit their sell by dates. What I don't use immediately get vacuum bagged and frozen. The same for locally bottled milk.
The sad thing about all this is that the middle class is becoming more poor and the poor are becoming ever more impoverished while tRump's buddies make off with the farm.
Reagan did America no good. Hated the poor and even the middle class. Destroyed unions and made America safe for every shyster that came along.
And the evangelicals loved him.
The entire house of cards that is the American economy is about to come crashing down as the Fed will no longer be able to prop it up with no interest money lent out to the Wall St. banksters, who in turn, dump it into the stock market causing prices to rise and trading to go through the roof. It's all artificial, an illusion, only smoke and mirrors. Very soon the stock market will come crashing down and taking everyone's 401K and IRA with it.
The next financial disaster will hit the middle class even worse.
Get ready and be prepped.


We are please to announce the Dr. Geo release 18.06. It follows the release 17.07 in July 2017.
A large part of the effort was to port Dr. Geo from the Pharo 3 to Pharo 7 Smalltalk development environment.
In addition to usual bug fixes several features were added.
Dr. Geo is always looking for volunteers to translate its user interface.


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This week's hare-brained alternative to Real Accountability
May 27, 2016 By Mark Heffernan in Bail, bail bond, Bail bond forfeitures, Financially secured bail, fugitive apprehension, private secured bail No Comments Tags: Hare-brained alternative to Accountability
Just ask the fugitives to pretty please come to court.
The preface: What we do is simple. We secure the pretrial release of accused defendants by entering into a written agreement with the State. This agreement (called a bail bond) guarantees the State that we will have the accused defendant in court each and every time as required in order for their criminal case to be adjudicated. If the defendant fails to appear and becomes a fugitive, we go out and locate, apprehend and surrender him or her back to the jurisdiction of the court. If we fail in this obligation, we pay a substantial cash penalty to the State, usually an amount equal to 1,000% of what we grossed for writing the bond. We are excellent at what we do, since bondsman who fail in their obligations quickly go out of business. In summary:
We secure their release from jail and pledge real money to the State to secure their appearance.
When a defendant fails to appear we locate, apprehend, and surrender them to jail.
In the rare cases where we are unable to arrest and return the fugitive, we pay a substantial cash penalty to the State.
We do this quietly and efficiently and at no cost to the taxpayers. We don't bill the State for all the days that our defendants are not taking up jail space, nor do we bill taxpayers for routinely arresting and returning our bail skips. We play a vital role in the criminal justice system.
When you remove real accountability from pretrial release decisions, the results are predictable.
For example, in Philadelphia, where the courts routinely utilize government-run bail schemes instead of financially secured pretrial releases, defendants fail to appear in great numbers and no one is held accountable.
In December of 2009 The Inquirer reported that Philadelphia's court system was in complete disarray. In an outstanding special report titled Justice: Delayed, Dismissed, Denied, they reported that some 47,000 wanted fugitives were on the street:
"The court's bail system is broken. Defendants skip court with impunity, further traumatizing victims who show up for hearings that never take place.
There are almost 47,000 Philadelphia fugitives on the streets. Philadelphia is tied with Essex County, N.J. – home of Newark – for the nation's highest fugitive rate. To catch them, the city court system employs just 51 officers – a caseload of more than 900 fugitives per officer.
In a sign of the system's disarray, court officials had trouble answering when The Inquirer asked how much fugitives owed taxpayers in forfeited bail. At first, they said the debt was $2 million. Then they pegged it at $382 million. Finally, they declared it was a staggering $1 billion."
The solution to having so many fugitives would seem obvious. Hire additional officers to go locate and arrest these criminals. And stop releasing defendants on unsecured fantasy bail bonds where no one is held accountable for their appearance in court. Instead, Philadelphia officials had a better idea. They simply erased 19,400 warrants from the system. Seriously. From the Inquirer:
"But in a sweeping move to lower Philadelphia's staggering tally of 47,000 fugitives, top court officials have quietly dropped criminal charges against Sanchez and more than 19,000 other defendants who skipped court.
At the urging of Pennsylvania Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille and District Attorney Seth Williams, Philadelphia judges closed criminal cases and canceled fugitive bench warrants for thousands of accused drug dealers, drunken drivers, thieves, prostitutes, sex offenders, burglars, and other suspects.
"They were clogging up the system," said Castille, a former Philadelphia district attorney. "You're never going to find these people. And if you do, are you going to prosecute them? The answer is no."
Of course the Inquirer was able to find some of these fugitives.
"I'm ecstatic," said Reginald Newkirk, who had been facing two drunken-driving charges. Reached at his current home in Watha, N.C., Newkirk was told that the charges had been withdrawn. "I'm glad to hear that."
In Newkirk's 1991 arrests, police determined that his blood-alcohol levels were 0.273 and 0.277 – almost three times the legal threshold for intoxication at the time. Asked whether he had been drunk at the time, Newkirk, now 61, replied, "More or less."
Another fugitive, Alfred Carter, who fled in 1989 before he was sentenced for a strong-arm robbery, is now living in Washington.
His conviction was set aside in an attack in which he admitted he left his victim dazed, weeping, and bleeding on a sidewalk in West Philadelphia.
"That's good," said Carter, 60. "I'm glad it's dropped."
And what about the nearly $1 billion owed by bail jumpers and their families who signed? Like the warrants, Philadelphia officials just pushed a button and made the problem disappear.
"In a single act, nearly $1 billion in debt owed to Philadelphia by onetime fugitives has disappeared.
Philadelphia's court system, at the request of the city, wiped off the books longtime debt owed by tens of thousands of criminal defendants who failed to appear for their court dates."
The order follows extensive reforms that came after The Inquirer published a series of articles in 2010 that shed light on widespread systemic problems in the city courts, including an ineffective bail system that for decades imposed no consequences for skipping court.
Criminal defendants are required to post 10 percent of bail in cash to earn release. Before recent court reforms, many routinely fled – on paper forfeiting the remaining 90 percent owed – but in practice little was done to catch them or collect the debt."
In summary, Philadelphia has tens of thousands of fugitives because they are released from jail on unsecured bonds with no financial incentive to appear in court and no real accountability. Their solution to this horrendous problem was to purge the warrants and pretend that it never happened. Score one for the criminals; the accused defendants who actually went to court were saps. The same environment created $1 billion in uncollected (and unsecured) bail forfeitures. Philadelphia officials had a similar solution. They pushed a button and made the $1 billion in fantasy bail forfeitures disappear. Score another win for the criminals.
In Florida, where I live and write bail for a living, I have 60-days in which to timely satisfy a bail forfeiture, either by producing the fugitive defendant or by paying the forfeited bail amount. If I fail to do, I am prohibited from writing additional bail. I am literally put out-of-business for failing my obligation to the State. In addition, a civil judgment is entered against me and against the insurance company that backs my bail. If the insurance company fails to pay the judgment timely, they are prohibited from writing any bail. This is called accountability.
You would think that Philadelphia — in the light of the consequences of their experience with unsecured bail with no real accountability — would be open to instituting a pretrial release system with secured, financially accountable bail. You would be wrong.
Which brings us to our whack-job of the week. Cherise Fanno Burdeen. Cherise Fanno Burdeen is the Executive Director of an outfit called "Pretrial Justice Institute". Ms. Burdeen is a staunch detractor of "money" bail. (Her position on "money" grocery stores and "money" police officers is unknown at this time.)
Cherise Fanno Burdeen,
Just say "pretty please!"
Cherise Fanno Burdeen has a better idea than secured pretrial releases and real accountability. She thinks we are missing the point if we have the nerve to actually jail criminals who fail to appear for court. Here is what she told the Inquirer:
"The vast majority of people who fail to appear in court are not . . . trying to evade justice. For the most part, these are people who the courts don't provide robust reminder systems, much like you or I get for haircuts or doctor's appointments. The courts didn't provide practices that doctors' offices and salons learned a long time ago can nearly eradicate failure to appear."
So if you are a bondsman who can't celebrate Memorial Day Weekend with your family because you are busy chasing down a wanted fugitive, keep in mind that it's your own fault. According to this dingbat Cherise Fanno Burdeen, you should have sent your client a friendly reminder and simply asked him respectfully and politely to "pretty please" go to his court date.
Amazingly , according to the Inquirer, Philadelphia now intends to actually use this mild-mannered lame-brained and naïve approach.
When the number of open felony warrants sky rockets once again, city officials will know exactly what to do.
Having your cake and eating it, too.
Jan 7, 2016 By Mark Heffernan in Bail, Bail bond forfeitures No Comments Tags: FBAA, Florida, Florida Bail Agents Association, Private bail, The state wants your cake
The literal meaning of this shopworn expression is that you cannot both retain your cake and yet still eat it, too. If you eat the cake, it's gone. You cannot have two incompatible things. The meaning of "having your cake and eating it, too" is similar to saying, "you can't have it both ways."
Yet more and more often lately, that's precisely what the state seeks in bail bond forfeiture matters. The purpose of a bail bond posted by a surety bail agent is to have the defendant appear as required in court. If the defendant becomes a fugitive and fails to appear, the bail agent must locate, apprehend and surrender the fugitive defendant back to the jurisdiction. Failing that, the bail agent must pay a substantial penalty to the state — the full penal amount of the bond forfeiture. So the bail agent either produces the body in court, or pays the penalty for failing to do so. It sounds simple, correct?
The state wants to eat your cake, and have it, too.
But what happens when the state doesn't want the body? Common sense would tell you that if the state doesn't want the fugitive, then the bail agent should not have to pay a penalty for failing to deliver. More and more often though, this is precisely what is happening. The state determines that it doesn't want the fugitive yet still pursues the collection of the penalty from the bail agent. The state wants two incompatible things. Actually, they want one thing: revenue. But revenue to the state has never been the purpose of a bail bond. The purpose of the bail bond is to ensure the appearance in court of the accused.
Laws governing bail vary greatly from state to state. In some jurisdictions a bail agent is prohibited from lawfully apprehending his or her fugitive. For example, if I write a bail bond returnable to Miami-Dade County, Florida and the accused flees to Kentucky, it is illegal for me to enter Kentucky and apprehend him. The only lawful way for me to fulfill my obligation in this case would be to have Kentucky law enforcement take the fugitive into their custody on the Florida warrant and to extradite the fugitive back to the jurisdiction of Miami-Dade County. I would then be liable to the state for the costs incurred by them in transporting my bond principal back to Miami-Dade, Florida.
All-too-often, though, in cases such as this, the state refuses to seek nationwide extradition of the defendant — even though the bail agent is on the hook for the costs of transportation. The warrant will specify that it is for Florida only or otherwise geographically limited. The reality is that the state often in actuality does not want to prosecute or deal with the defendant, but they do want the proceeds of the bond forfeiture. They want to eat your cake.
To help remedy this situation in Florida, the Florida Bail Agents Association is seeking to pass HB 731. The complete text of the proposed legislation is here. The pertinent language in the proposed bill reads as follows:
(d) A determination that the state is unwilling to seek nationwide extradition of the fugitive defendant within 10 days after a request by the surety to do so, and contingent upon the surety agent's consent to pay all transportation costs incurred by an official in returning the defendant to the jurisdiction of the court, up to the penal amount of the bond.
If you are a Florida bail agent you should join the Florida Bail Agents Association and support these efforts. Don't sit on the sidelines while the state tries to change your bond into a revenue stream. Don't allow the state to eat your cake for breakfast.


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China set to lead...
China set to lead Bioscience market
Data from leading antibody search engine CiteAb suggests that bioscience research in China is set to overtake the United States within the next five to ten years.
CiteAb spun out from the University of Bath in early February 2014. The company has a database containing over 1.8 million antibodies from suppliers all over the world, and uses academic research citations to rank antibodies which gives the company an overview of the amount of research being carried out in over 100 different countries.
The knock-on effect of this activity is the generation of data that provides a unique insight into the state of the bioscience sector - which antibody suppliers are growing and claiming market share, and which countries are most active in research in this field, for example.
Founder of CiteAb, Dr Andrew Chalmers, said: 'The data we've pulled from CiteAb clearly shows that China is the big winner at the moment. The United States has been the most productive nation in bioscience research for a long time, but has seen a gradual decrease in output since 2010.
'Conversely, China's output has been growing enormously since around 2009 and if current trends continue we expect to see China overtake the USA by as soon as 2020. To counter this, the USA will need to increase investment in bioscience research.'
Speaking about research in the USA, Neal Kitchen, product manager at bioscience product company Thermo Scientific, said: 'The general outlook is that the budget position in the US is mostly stagnant. NIH funding is showing a slight increase this year, but it isn't enough for labs to feel comfortable with expanding and taking on the more aggressive or ambitious projects. "Caution" seems to still be the theme, which limits the amounts of money labs are willing to spend.'
Data published by the company also suggests that Japan's share of the world's bioscience output has gradually fallen since 2009.
Chalmers continued 'A continued drop in Japanese bioscience research output is likely to cause the country to fall from second in the world in 2009 down to fifth. Germany and Britain appear to remain stable, so they are likely to become the third and fourth most active bioscience research nations as Japan drops down.'
It was recently announced by the Economist that bioscience research spend is moving East, with China's funding increasing by 33 per cent a year between 2007 and 2012, whereas the United States saw a decrease of 2 per cent a year.
Chalmers said: 'We know that China's most recent five year plan makes research in this sector a priority for the country, and the data we're extracting from CiteAb demonstrates that this policy is having a direct impact on the quantity of research we see coming out of the country.' He continued: 'The quality is also there - we can see that an increasing number of papers from Chinese researchers are being published by top journals. Cell now runs a number of spotlight articles focused on China's research and a number of Nature's 2013 research highlights were focused on Chinese work.'
http://www.citeab.com/


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Hamish and Susan's story
Hamish and
Susan's story
"Cancer has completely ripped through the family."
Susan and Sam had everything; a happy family, with two beautiful children.
In 2011 their world turned upside down when their youngest son Hamish was diagnosed with cancer. After multiple treatments, Hamish very sadly passed away in February 2017. He was aged just eight.
After Hamish passed away, Susan, Sam and Lily continued to raise awareness to help others affected by cancer. But in October of the same year, Susan, who had been treated for breast cancer before, discovered that it had returned and was incurable.
Susan very sadly passed away in May 2020, having bravely shared her family's story for Stand Up To Cancer. Sam said: "I take consolation in believing that Hamish has now been reunited with his Mummy to send us rainbows together forever."
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Biografia
Figlia di un industriale tedesco, Gundi Busch nacque in Italia, ma durante la Seconda guerra mondiale la sua famiglia si trasferì prima nei Paesi Bassi, ad Haarlem, poi si stabilì definitivamente in Germania. Iniziò a pattinare a quattro anni e mezzo, quando ancora viveva in Italia. In Germania, si allenava sotto la guida di Thea Frenssen, quattro volte campionessa nazionale tra il 1913 e il 1918, integrando la preparazione sul ghiaccio con lezioni di danza. A ciò si aggiunsero diversi periodi di perfezionamento nel Regno Unito.

La sua carriera agonistica si concentrò in quattro stagioni, dal 1951 al 1954. Il primo anno, non ancora sedicenne, fu terza ai campionati nazionali, sesta agli europei e decima ai mondiali. Nel 1952 fu settima agli europei, ottava alle Olimpiadi di Oslo e sesta ai mondiali. Subito dopo le Olimpiadi o dopo i mondiali, molte delle pattinatrici di vertice si ritirarono, lasciando così spazio alle atlete più giovani. Non ancora diciottenne, nel 1953 Gundi Busch diventò campionessa nazionale e campionessa europea, mentre ai mondiali fu argento dietro alla statunitense Tenley Albright. Il 1954 fu il suo anno d'oro: si riconfermò campionessa nazionale ed europea, e vinse anche il titolo mondiale, complice la caduta della sua rivale sportiva Albright che era in testa dopo gli obbligatori.

Al termine di quella stagione lasciò le competizioni, a soli diciannove anni. Accettò l'offerta della famosa rivista sul ghiaccio Holiday on Ice, e pattinò come professionista per due anni. Nel 1956 lasciò lo spettacolo e si sposò con il giocatore di hockey su ghiaccio Gösta "Lill-Lulle" Johansson, medaglia di bronzo con la Svezia alle Olimpiadi di Oslo. Si trasferì poi con il marito e il figlio in Svezia, dove in seguito lavorò come allenatrice.

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Bibliografia
 Comitato Organizzatore, Oslo 1952 De VI Olympiske Vinterleke - VI Olympic Winter Games (versione digitalizzata )

Palmarès
 Campionati mondiali di pattinaggio di figura: 2 medaglie
 1 oro (1954)
 1 argento (1953)
 Campionati europei di pattinaggio di figura: 2 medaglie
 1 oro (1954)
 1 argento (1953)
 Campionati tedeschi di pattinaggio di figura: 3 medaglie
 2 ori (1953, 1954)
 1 argento (1952)
 1 bronzo (1951)

Collegamenti esterni

Allenatori di pattinaggio su ghiaccio tedeschi

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Does anyone know what times Garth is on GAC with 30 days of Garth. I caught it once. It doesn't say on the site for GAC.
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Former House Representative Richard Ottinger and his wife, June Ottinger, filed a John Doe lawsuit in New York state court over anonymous comments posted on a forum on LoHud.com. In a special proceeding for pre-action discovery, the court ordered The Journal News, publisher of LoHud.com, to turn over the commenter's identifying information. The Ottingers then amended the complaint to name Stuart Tiekert as a defendant.
According to court documents, Tiekert's comments related to a renovation project the Ottingers were carrying out on their home in Mamaroneck, New York, for which they sought various building permits. Some of the Ottingers' neighbors and local activists attended meetings held in connection with approvals and permits that the Ottingers needed, and one neighbor — Susan McCrory — stated her belief at a televised public meeting that the deed for the Ottinger property was "invalid" and "fraudulent." The next day, Tiekert posted comments on LoHud suggesting that the Ottingers' deed was fraudulent, and that the Ottingers had used political pressure and bribery to obtain the requisite permits for the project. The Ottingers sued, maintaining that these statements were false and defamatory.
Tiekert filed a motion for summary judgment and attorneys' fees under New York's anti-SLAPP statutes, N.Y. Civ. Rights Law §§ 70-a, 76-a and N.Y. C.P.L.R. §§ 3211(g), 3212(h). He also filed a counterclaim alleging that he was entitled to damages based on the Ottingers' filing of a SLAPP.
In August 2009, the court granted Tiekert's motion for summary judgment, finding that the action "involves public petition and participation brought by a public applicant, and which action is materially related to the defendant's efforts to comment on, challenge, or oppose said application," thus triggering the New York anti-SLAPP law. The court further held that the Ottingers "failed to demonstrate that their action has a substantial basis in fact or law, or is supported by a substantial argument for an extension, modification, or reversal of any existing law" and therefore dismissed the action.
The court's precise reasoning on the latter point is not clear, but it may relate to the Ottingers' inability to prove by clear and convincing evidence that Tiekert made the statements in question with knowledge of, or reckless disregard for, their falsity, particularly in light of McCrory's public statements the previous day.
The court determined, however, that Tiekert was not entitled to compensatory or punitive damages because it found that the lawsuit was not "brought to harass, intimidate, punish, or otherwise maliciously inhibit the free exercise of speech." The court also declined to award Tiekert attorneys' fees and costs.


You may also add some natural color if you like.
Grate the beeswax with a cheese grater or with a peeler.
Take a small pan filled with half of the water and let it boil on a stove top.
Take the coconut oil in another vessel which is smaller than the 1st pan.
Put this vessel inside the 1st pan in the boiling water.
Let the coconut oil melt.
Meanwhile poke the vitamin E capsules and add the oil to the coconut oil.
Add beeswax also to the coconut oil.
Then add glycerin to the coconut oil.
If you prefer to add any natural essential oil, this is the time to add. I did not add any in mine.
Turn off the stove when the beeswax is melted.
Take the vessel out of the boiling water.
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Then store this in a container.
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You may apply this to your skin, hands, legs even on your hair.
Glycerin is a good moisturizer.
Anything you put on your skin goes into your blood stream.
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Tag: South Asia
Nepal blasts: bid to reboot Maoist insurgency
Four people were killed and three others injured in three explosions in Kathmandu, a grim reminder of the Maoist insurgency the shook Nepal for a decade before a 2006 peace agreement. A dissident faction that has remained in arms since the peace agreement claimed credit for the blasts. The Netra Bikram Chand-led "Communist Party of Nepal" had declared a nationwide general strike for the following day. And in fact many businesses and transportation services were shut down, seemingly more due to fear of attack than support for the strike. The Netra Bikram Chand faction broke from the Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M) when it laid down arms and joined the government. (Photo: Libcom)
Sri Lanka dissidents reject Buddhist fascism
As Sri Lanka marks the 10-year anniversary of the end of its long internal war, a new wave of communal violence has erupted following the Easter Sunday terror attacks. In days of anti-Muslim riots, mobs have ransacked mosques and attacked shops with petrol bombs. The Buddhist militant group Bodu Bala Sena, which has been repeatedly linked to such pogroms since its founding in 2012, is named as having instigated much of the violence. But just as many Sri Lankan Muslims have held peace vigils to repudiate the Easter attacks and declare their solidarity with Christians, some Sinhalese Buddhists have repudiated the pogroms and declared their solidarity with Muslims. (Photo via SriLankaTweet)
Pakistan: Taliban target Sufi shrine —again
At least 10 people were killed and 25 others injured in a suicide blast that targeted security forces guarding a famous Sufi shrine in the Pakistani city of Lahore. The attack, which came during the holy month of Ramadan, was apparently aimed at a police vehicle, and five officers are among the dead. The Data Darbar shrine, where Sufi saint Ali Hajveri is buried, was the target of a 2010 suicide attack that killed more than 40 worshipers, and has since been under heavy security. The new attack was claimed by the Hizbul Ahrar, a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban. (Photo: Wikipedia)
Muslim leaders had warned of Sri Lanka terror
ISIS claimed responsibility for the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka that left over 300 dead, and released a video purporting to show the militants behind the attacks pledging allegiance to the terror network's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. But Sri Lankan authorities had named a little-known militant group called National Thowheeth Jama'ath as behind the attacks. Leaders of the Muslim Council of Sri Lanka said they had warned military intelligence officials about National Thowheeth Jama'ath three years ago, saying the group was planning attacks on non-Muslims. (Photo: Sahad Shady via Twitter)
Separatists claim Baluchistan massacre
Gunmen killed at least 14 passengers after forcing them off several passenger vehicles on the coastal highway through Pakistan's restive Balochistan province. Some 20 militants apparently stopped vehicles, checked passangers' identification papers, and shot selected ones to death on the roadside. A statement later issued by a previously unknown militant group said those targeted were determined to be members of the military or security forces. The attack was claimed by the Baloch Raji Aajoi Sangar, or Baloch People's Liberation Coalition, which is believed to have emerged from factional rivalry within the Baloch separatist insurgency. Pakistan has filed a diplomatic complaint with Iran, accusing it of giving the Baloch militants harbor on its territory across the border. (Map via Atheer)
Kashmiris under attack across India
As India and Pakistan exchange military strikes in the wake of last week's massive suicide blast in Kashmir, many cities across India report cases of targeted violence against Kashmiri students and businesses by right-wing groups. Members of Yuva Sena, youth wing of the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena, attacked Kashmiri students in Maharashtra. Colleges in Dehradun and Bhopal expelled Kashmiri students for posting objectionable content on social media about the suicide attack. A video surfaced on social media showing a Kashmiri man being beaten in Kolkata, West Bengal, by a mob which forced him to chant patriotic slogans like "Vande Mataram" and "Bharat Mata ki Jai" ("Mother, I praise thee" and "Victory to Mother India," two phrases appropriated by the Hindu-nationalist right). (Photo via KashmirWatch)
Himalayan glaciers could be mostly gone by 2100
Rising temperatures in the Himalayas will melt at least one-third of the region's glaciers by the end of the century even if the world's most ambitious climate change targets are met, according to a new report. If those goals are not reached, the Himalayas could lose two-thirds of their glaciers by 2100, according to the Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment, released by the Kathmandu-bsed International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development. Under that scenario, the Himalayas could heat up by 8 degrees Fahrenheit (4.4 degrees Celsius) by century's end, bringing radical disruptions to food and water supplies, and mass population displacement. Glaciers in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region, which spans over 2,000 miles of Asia, provide water to nearly a quarter of the world's population. (Photo via Nepali Times)
Pakistan overturns blasphemy death sentence
The Supreme Court of Pakistan overturned the 2010 blasphemy conviction and death sentence of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Catholic woman, citing failure to proffer enough evidence that Bibi indeed committed the offense. Bibi's conviction stemmed from an altercation with her Muslim co-workers at a farm in Punjab province, who said they would not drink water fetched by Bibi after she sipped from it because she was impure. Heated words were exchanged, and the account of the incident was later apparently exaggerated to incriminate Bibi. The trial court convicted her of blaspheming the Prophet Muhammad. Bibi initially made what the high court called an "extra-judicial confession" to the crime at the scene, but claimed at trial that the confession was made under coercion and threat of death. The Asia Bibi case has polarized Pakistan over the past years, leading to waves of protest and even deadly violence. The Supreme Court decision has triggered angry demonstrations across the country. Prime Minister Imran Khan has appealed for calm. Bibi, a mother of four, has spent most of the past eight years in solitary confinement. (Photo: Pakistan Express-Tribune)
China expands Indian Ocean military footprint
In addition to stationing troops on the disputed islands it claims in the South China Sea, Beijing is rapidly expanding its network of commercial ports across the Indian Ocean. This comes as China is sending warships into the Ocean with growing frequency, leading to fears that the commercial ports could presage military bases, The latest addition is the port of Hambantota in Sri Lanka, acquired in a debt swap deal—the Colombo government was forgiven $1 billion in debt to Beijing in exchange for the Hambantota facility. China has also gained access to facilities in Burma, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the Maldives, Seychelles and Oman as part of the maritime component of its Silk Road trade and infrastructure initiative. While the Silk Road is an ostensibly civilian project, China has also established its first foreign military base at Djibouti, leading Western wonks to warn that Beijing is seeking a "string of pearls" network of bases across the Indian Ocean. (Map via CIMSEC)
ISIS terror targets restive Baluchistan
A suicide bomber killed at least 130 at a campaign rally in Pakistan's Balochistan province— the deadliest attack in the country since 2014. A local candidate with the Balochistan Awami Party was among the dead. The local franchise of the Islamic State took credit for the attack. Radio Free Europe portrays the BAP as part of the Pakistani military establishment's plan to undermine Baluch ethno-nationalist groups. Balochistan province is part of the larger region of Baluchistan, homeland of the Baluch people, long divided between Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. There are movements for Baluch independence in each of these countries, but they have been unable to unite across the nation-state boundaries. The attack may point to an ISIS strategy to disrupt electoral ethno-nationalist initiatives, and co-opt the Baluch struggle across all three borders, wedding it to Sunni extremism. (Map via Atheer)
Bangladesh: UN condemns deadly 'drug war'
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein condemned the government of Bangladesh for the killing of suspected drug offenders by security forces. The High Commissioner responded to reports that 130 individuals had been killed in three weeks and thousands arrested after the government proclaimed a "zero-tolerance" policy on illegal drugs. He especially expressed concern over the government's public message claiming that the individuals killed were not innocent and that "mistakes can occur in an anti-narcotics drive." He also raised concerns that "already vulnerable communities living in slums were particularly being targeted," and that drug users may fear being arrested or killed for seeking treatment or just accessing health services. Zeid called on the government to review the incidents and hold human rights violators accountable. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Pakistan: death penalty in slaying of Sufi singer
Pakistan's army high command approved the death penalty for 10 condemned jihadists who were convicted by a military tribunal of attacks that claimed over 60 lives—including the assassination of Amjad Sabri, one of the country's most revered singers of qawwalii, traditional Sufi devotional music. Sabri was on his way to a televised Ramadan performance in Karachi when his car was attacked by gunmen, and his many followers hailed justice in the case. But in the two years since Sabri's death, attacks on Sufis in Pakistan have continued, with suicide blasts and horrific massacres at shrines and mosques. (Photo via PTI)
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Due to the exposed bedrock, the water has a very high salt content, and the wide shallow water become very warm during the summer. This gives the waters considerable therapeutic value, and many healers may recommend a trip to the lake to heal aching bones or sore muscles.
The therapeutic properties of the lake, as well as the generally agreeable climate of the region make the lake of colors a sought after destination for the rich and well-to-do from across Eramii lands, and indeed the world. The shores of the lake are spotted with country villas and the cities of Seianti, Faltusa, and Cantella along its shores are renown centers of culture and decadence.
The light from the triple suns hitting the waters of the lake on a clear fall or spring day is said to be one of the most striking views one will ever see.


Good morning fellow scrappers & bloggers. It's reveal time over at Sketchabilities! Today's sketch contained multiple pictures. Something that I haven't done in some time. Let's just say that I'm a little rusty! I started, stopped & restarted this page several times until I was finally happy with the end result.
This page is about my husband. He's a country boy born & bred. Whenever I take him into NYC he always & I mean ALWAYS looks lost. Typical tourist look! He's always looking up at the sky scrapers--carrying his little backpack & in Times Square (which is where these pics were taken) he literally bumps into every other person milling around the place. It's as if he loses his gravity & sense of direction in the city! On one of our trips into NYC this past summer, I finally took pics of him as he looked around Times Square in awe for about the 100th time.
Being that it's a page based on my hubby--I leaned more towards a grungy look. When I plan on being grungy/masculine I always go for my Tim Holtz goodies. So about 90% of this page is Tim Holtz.
Here's the fab sketch by Karan. As I already mentioned I especially enjoyed this one since it made me use multiple pics/elements.
A closeup of the masking, distressing, layering & some of the small squares. I stamped an image of New York on two of the four squares & added two brads to further decorate them. For the flourish--I used the negative part of Tim Holtz's flourish mask along with Walnut Stain distress ink.
The title is an embellishment made by me. I created the sign post out of arrows from Tim Holtz's grunge board elements & the post itself I cut out from grunge chipboard & then embossed it with the tree bark embossing folder by Tim Holtz titled Alterations . I then inked the arrows with a couple of distress inks in shades of red, green & brown. Finally I heat embossed the arrows with clear Kaleidoscope embossing powder by Stampendous. I finished up my sign post by adding the title with tiny alpha-letter stickers from my stash.
This is one of the two masked compasses. I used white acrylic paint for the masking. The compass mask itself is also by Tim Holtz.
Finally I used a journaling ticket by Tim Holtz to add a few sentences about my husbands usual behavior in NYC.
A big thanks to all of you who take the time to visit my blog & to comment. Your comments are always very much appreciated!
Please do drop by the Sketchabilities blog to play along & to check out the other talented DT's interpretation of sketch # 59.
Very cool layout of your husband in NYC....I love all the little elements that are New York City and getting lost. Several of my family members have gone ...and I think you just gave me an idea of how to scrap their photos of their trip for Christmas:) The sign has got to be my favorite! It's genius!
Hi Kay!! I love your page is Fabulous!! love the different techniques, textures and dimension here. when I visited NY I'm always looking to the sky,too...lol!!!
love your take of the sketch...Beautiful work!
Great masking on the patterned background. Love the arrows!
great layout ! love all the details !
Love the "grunge" look and need to try it myself more often! I love the look on your husband's face...New York brings that look out for lots of folks!
Fabulous! I love the arrows!!
Absolutely GORGEOUS, Kay! As always, your creativity amazes and inspires me!
This is gorgeous! Masking is lovely!
Hola Kay! vi tu post en facebook y capto mi atencion, realmente se ve fantastico!me encanta tu atencion a los detalles! , yo creo que hace mas de un ano que no visitaba un blog !!!! Espero estes bien! Abrazos!


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Barclays Is Talking to Clients About Opening a Crypto Trading Desk
A person with knowledge of the situation said all major banks are likely to be weighing the same decision.
By David Floyd
Apr 16, 2018 at 9:35 p.m. UTC
Barclays, the second-largest bank in the U.K. by assets, is weighing the launch of a cryptocurrency trading desk.
A person with knowledge of the process told CoinDesk on Monday that the bank is gauging how interested clients of the bank would be in a crypto-specific trading desk. Bloomberg was the first to report that Barclays is talking to clients about a cryptocurrency service.
As it stands, the bank doesn't have any concrete plans to begin trading cryptocurrencies, the person said, adding that the majority of – if not all – major banks are likely to be exploring that option. The person added that Barclays is considering whether to extend the trade offering to its entire suite of clients, including institutions and hedge funds.
When reached for comment, Barclays spokesman Andrew Smith told CoinDesk:
"Barclays has no plans at this time to build a cryptocurrency trading desk. We constantly monitor developments in the digital currency space and will continue to have a dialog with our clients on their needs and intentions in this market going forward."
Other banks have reportedly been weighing a similar launch, most notably Goldman Sachs, which was the subject of speculation back in December. Yet weeks later, CEO Lloyd Blankfein shot down the rumor, though he left the door open to opening a crypto-focused trading desk during remarks in January.
Hedge funds are increasingly interested in trading cryptocurrencies, providing a growing client base for investments banks carrying out cryptocurrency trading.
Around 245 crypto-focused funds are currently operating, according to data provided by Autonomous Research. Despite an intense drawdown in cryptocurrency prices, only around nine of these funds have reportedly closed in 2018.
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