China should prioritize financial stability above development goals, as pursuit of regional growth targets and helping firms avoid heavy job losses had led to a surge in debt, particularly at local government level, the International Monetary Fund said in a report.
Noting a lack of coordination and inadequate systemic risk analysis, the IMF also recommended the formation of a financial stability sub-committee comprising the central bank and three financial regulatory agencies, and an increase in staff for the banking watchdog, according to Reuters.
Since the IMF's last assessment of the Chinese financial sector's resilience to shocks and contagion in 2011, two concerns remain – credit growth remains high and the expansion of wealth management products (WMPs), said Ratna Sahay, deputy director of the IMF's Monetary and Capital Markets Department.
The IMF report, released on Wednesday, said that while China has been taking steps to address its debt risks, reining in excessive credit growth will require a de-emphasis on high GDP projections in national plans that have spurred local governments to set high growth targets.
But the near-term prioritization of social stability seems to depend on credit growth to sustain financing to firms even when they are non-viable, it said.
"The apparent primary goals of preventing large falls in local jobs and reaching regional growth targets have conflicted with other policy objectives such as financial stability," the report said.
"Regulators should reinforce the primacy of financial stability over development objectives," the fund said.
China's credit-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio is very high by global standards and consistent with a high probability of financial distress, the IMF said, citing an estimate from the Bank for International Settlements.
The IMF specifically warned that the rapid development of financial products for investors could pose grave risks.
"We are also concerned that in a very innovative financial system such as China's, new products can emerge very quickly and very rapidly become large and popular, and potentially a systemic risk," said James Walsh, deputy division chief of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department.
"Better coordination among supervisors is therefore essential to make sure that these risks are contained, and that everyone understands what the risks to these products are," he said.
The China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) was well-positioned to manage emerging risks, the IMF said, while adding that there was room for improvement.
"CBRC should be able to take decisions independently, and its budgetary autonomy should be preserved," said Alvaro Piris, deputy division chief of the IMF's Monetary and Capital Markets Department.
"In terms of resources, the CBRC as with the other supervisory agencies under [PBOC] have been working with a headcount that hasn't changed in 10 years, a period in which the Chinese financial sector has more than doubled in size," Piris told reporters.
The report said Chinese banks, while meeting Basel requirements, should hold more liquid assets and gradually increase their capital to create buffers to absorb potential losses that can be expected during China's economic transition as credit is tightened and assumed guarantees for investors are removed.
On its visits to China, the IMF conducted stress tests covering 33 banks with 171 trillion yuan (US$26 trillion) in total assets and 20 trillion yuan in off-balance sheet WMPS.
The IMF said the tests showed "widespread" and "large" under-capitalization among joint-stock and city commercial banks under a severely adverse scenario, which includes both domestic and external financial shocks.
Under the scenario, the nonperforming loans ratio for the 33 banks would jump to 9.1 percent from 1.5 percent. The capital shortfall for the 33 tested banks amounts to 2.5 percent of GDP, the IMF said. It said in a footnote the PBOC did not give it access to all the supervision data needed for its stress tests, without elaborating.
The PBOC reacted swiftly to the report's release, saying that while the report is objective and pertinent, the stress tests "do not reflect the whole picture".
China has a relatively strong ability to fend off any financial risk, the central bank said in a statement on its website.


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Violent and destructive, active volcanoes ought to be feared and avoided. Yet, these geological cauldrons expose the pulse of many planets and moons, offering clues to how these bodies evolved from chemical soups to the complex systems of gases and rocks we see today.
Unearthing these clues is what motivates planetary scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to venture to inhospitable places on this planet that most people try to avoid: smoldering lava fields and glacier-covered volcanoes.
"You can use Earth science to study volcanoes on this planet and then apply that knowledge to the Moon, Mars and other bodies," said Patrick L. Whelley, a Goddard planetary geologist. "Plus, we don't have the luxury of watching volcanic eruptions up close anywhere besides Earth."
What's clear about volcanoes on this planet is that Earth would have been desolate without them. By belching molten rock onto its surface from deep inside, these underground furnaces helped build Earth's continents. Moreover, they released gases that helped form our oceans and our atmosphere billions of years ago—two features that enabled life to thrive here. To this day, volcanoes help keep Earth warm, wet and habitable.
Could volcanoes have played a similar role on other celestial bodies? Do they still?
These are some of the questions Whelley and his colleagues are trying to answer by studying the composition and geometry of Earth's volcanoes and the lava they spew. The better we understand Earth, they reason, the sharper the rest of the solar system will come into focus.
Evidence abounds that volcanoes dot the solar system. The dark patches on the Moon, where volcanoes are inactive, are made of lava that hardened billions of years ago. Mars boasts the solar system's largest (though, now, likely inactive) volcanoes. Mercury hosts remnants of volcanoes that lost steam billions of years ago; Venus does, too, though its volcanoes could be active today.
Some solar system volcanoes, besides our own, are clearly erupting. Jupiter's moon, Io, is a volcanic wonderland, with hundreds of active plumes. Europa, another Jovian moon, appears to have active vents shooting water vapor through cracks in the shell of ice enveloping the moon.
In fact, Europa is an intriguing case. Scientists believe that it's one of the strongest candidates for extraterrestrial life because it harbors a liquid water ocean—or a lubricant for life's most essential processes—that could be rife with sulfur and other elements that living things need. Europa's ocean is possibly up to twice as large as Earth's in volume. Scientists hope to study Europa more closely in coming years by sending a spacecraft, called Europa Clipper, to study the cracked moon from the orbit of Jupiter.
Some scientists also hope to send a lander to probe the ice on Europa in search of chemical clues, called biosignatures, that could reveal whether the moon could harbor life.
But first, they must practice looking for life in remote and harsh regions of Earth. Goddard researchers did so this summer by traveling to a location in Iceland that's the closest we can ever get on Earth to replicating Europa, trekking for miles to a glacier-covered volcanic region called Vatnajökull.
"These types of icy environments are rare, so they're very fascinating," said Dina Bower, a Goddard astrobiologist. Vatnajökull, she explained, offers scientists a rare opportunity to observe the chemistry that unfolds when geothermal heat interacts with ice, like it does on Europa.
Bower tested a technique in Iceland called "Raman spectroscopy," using a handheld instrument that resembles a price scanner to measure the scattering of light from ice to learn what the surface is made of. A similar technique could someday help spacecraft at Europa identify chemical signatures of life in its ice and ocean. For now, Bower's Raman spectrometer found lichen, which are communities of fungi and other microbes, living in the ice, likely deposited there by volcanic ash. She also found various species of this hardy organism thriving on the lava.
Lava is also of interest for Goddard scientists, so it helps that Iceland is a lava paradise. Indeed, the island was composed in the last 15 to 20 million years of hardened lava from continual volcanic eruptions. This makes the island a good proxy for planets like Mars, too, which, like Iceland, are covered in a volcanic rock called basalt.
In Iceland, Goddard planetary geologists also visited the highlands region, near Vatnajökull, to investigate a large, fresh lava field called Holuhraun. Lava erupted from fissures in the ground there and flowed across 85 square kilometers (53 square miles) in a historic eruption between 2014 and 2015. Now, in their third visit to the main eruption vent in Holuhraun, planetary geologists sought to document how the terrain had changed since their last visit.
"The vent is still degrading in spectacular fashion" said Jacob Richardson, a Goddard planetary geologist, alluding to the active rockfalls off the vent walls. "This erosion is a sign that volcanic vents take more than just a couple of years to settle down; they might take decades."
Whelley, Richardson and their team measured how much heat the lava is still releasing and how the hardening lava is changing the local landscape, information that will provide context for future observations of existing or old volcanoes on various celestial bodies.
"We rarely get to see fresh deposits anywhere in the solar system; we're always looking at billion-year-old lava," said Whelley. "But if you can tell how much heat there was in any given eruption throughout a planet's history, you might be able to determine the rate at which the planet was getting rid of heat. This, in turn, will tell us how long it was producing volcanic eruptions that were releasing gases that were maintaining its atmosphere, which enabled conditions for life on the planet."
Even if Mars never had conditions suitable for life on its surface, despite volcanic eruptions, life could have flourished beneath, NASA scientists suspect. Below the surface of Mars there could be water, plus protection from harsh solar radiation, and heat from nearby magma chambers, said Richardson.
"If you only look at the surface rock that we can see today, you'll lose a lot of the story of how these planets evolved," he said.
This is why NASA will drop its InSight lander on the surface of Mars on November 26, 2018 to listen for tremors on Elysium Planitia, a volcanic field similar to Holuhraun, to study the planet's crust, mantle, and core.
In the meantime, Goddard scientists will continue hunting for secrets of the evolution of our home planet and its inhabitants—an ideal laboratory for studying the cosmos.


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Can be accessed through the area when Lara left the area in the story. There are some water filled corridors and here climb up to a new area. Watch the video if you're not sure how.
In the corridor when leaving the Flooded Archives in the story.


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Q: Axios Error Response: How to read Request Method when handling error in catch clause I'd like to be able to read what the request method of my axios API call is when I am catching an error due to a bad request. Basically, I need to be able to handle errors differently depending on if the request method is of type GET vs type POST/PUT.
I see that the Fetch API has a method that would give the behaviour that's similar to what I'm looking for, like this here
Thanks for all help.

A: I answered my own question. Pass your callback in the catch clause as you normally would, and define error as the first parameter.
The request method type is accessible in the axios catch block via: error.response.config.method

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News Release | TexPIRG Education Fund | Consumer Protection
Questionable lending drives Texas to nation's highest auto debt
The amount of money Texans owe on their cars is now at an all-time high -- up 75 percent since the end of 2009 to $6500 per capita, the nation's highest. Americans' rising indebtedness for cars raises concerns about the financial future of millions of households as lenders extend credit to more and more Americans without the ability to repay, according to a new TexPIRG Education Fund report.
"Texans deserve both protection from predatory and unfair practices in auto lending, and a transportation system that provides more people the freedom to live without owning a car," said Bay Scoggin, TexPIRG Director. "Texans shouldn't have to fight their way through a thicket of tricks and traps at the auto dealer just to get the transportation they need to get to work or school."
Access to a car is all but required in much of America to unlock opportunities for work, education and play. But the financial cost to households is steep: Transportation is the second-leading expenditure for American households, behind only housing.
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Report | TexPIRG Education Fund | Consumer Protection
Driving Into Debt
In much of America, access to a car is all but required to hold a job or lead a full and vibrant life. Generations of car-centric transportation policies – including lavish spending on roads, sprawl-inducing land use policies, and meager support for other modes of transportation – have left millions of Americans fully dependent on cars for daily living.
Blog Post | Antibiotics
Domino's: Don't 'micromanage' our overuse of antibiotics
With antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" becoming a growing public health crisis, Domino's Pizza is choosing to fight, rather than address, a call to action.
Blog Post | Solid Waste
Nestle plans to phase out plastic straws as more corporations respond to consumer demand
Nestle is responding to consumer demands to reduce plastic waste.
Really?! The Trump administration is allowing agribusiness to spray antibiotics on half a million acres of citrus
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided that the economic benefits of spraying antibiotics on millions of citrus trees outweighs the cost of potential antibiotic resistance.
News Release | TexPIRG | Transportation
Austin Environmental Leaders Call for Bold Change in CodeNEXT to Stop Sprawl and Protect the Environment
AUSTIN, TEXAS — A group of prominent local environmental advocates is calling upon Austin's leaders to adopt a CodeNEXT that promotes the compact and connected development necessary to stop sprawl, reduce car-dependency and protect Austin's environment as the city continues to grow.
"Austin's current Land Development Code actively encourages low-density, sprawling development that consumes more energy, water and land than compact urban development, while also generating more greenhouse gas emissions," said Luke Metzger, Director of Environment Texas. "There is no environmental case to be made for sprawl."
"It's a real chance to decongest our roadways. I don't know about you, but I'm tired of the stop start traffic to and from work every day," says Bay Scoggin, Director of the Texas Public Interest Research Group (TexPIRG). "A compact city is a more connected, walkable city, and if we continue to invest in public transportation, we have a real opportunity to grow our city in a way that works for everyone, because let's be real, nobody likes traffic."
News Release | TexPIRG Education Fund | Tax
STUDY: MOST FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES USED TAX HAVENS IN 2016
In 2016, 73 percent of Fortune 500 companies – including 37 headquartered in Texas- maintained subsidiaries in offshore tax havens, according to "Offshore Shell Games," released today by TexPIRG Education Fund and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Collectively, multinationals reported booking $2.6 trillion offshore, with just 30 companies accounting for 68 percent of this total, and just four companies accounting for a quarter of the total.
"With Congress looking to pass tax cuts that would cost upwards of $5 trillion, it's all the more unacceptable to leave open these absurd loopholes and gimmicks for the biggest multinational corporations," said Bay Scoggin, director of TexPIRG. "Tax reform should inject common sense into our tax code, and it shouldn't balloon our deficit. Closing tax haven loopholes would both eliminate some of the most ridiculous tax gaming and it could help pay for the cost of tax cuts."
News Release | Health Care
New health care executive order is a step in the wrong direction
Today, President Trump signed a new Executive Order that aims to loosen up rules for health insurance plans for individuals, families and small businesses. Though the administration touts the potential for lower-cost health insurance under looser rules, this action will not help American consumers. In fact, it is likely to make matters worse by destabilizing the markets Americans rely on for health coverage. American consumers need real action on health care costs, but this simply will not cut it.
News Release | TexPIRG Education Fund | Public Health
TexPIRG Relieved That EPA Will Finally Secure Dangerous Superfund Site
The Environmental Protection Agency announced its plan today to finally clean up the toxic Superfund site known as the San Jacinto Waste Pits. The EPA's decision comes after Hurricane Harvey flooded the site in August, releasing an unknown amount of contaminated soil into nearby floodwaters.
News Release | Consumer Protection, Health Care
California's new drug price law is a win for consumers nationwide
Today, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 17 into law, a groundbreaking measure to increase transparency and accountability for the prescription drug industry. We celebrate the new law—passed with support and hard work from CALPIRG—as a landmark victory for consumers, not just in California, but nationwide.
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The Small Business Dilemma
When it comes to health care, American small business owners are getting a raw deal. While the current insurance marketplace offers some options to larger employers, it too often leaves small business owners on the outside looking in. They face unpredictable changes in costs, and far too often they are forced to choose between covering employees and the very survival of their businesses.
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The High Cost of Nuclear Power
Nuclear power is among the most costly approaches to solving America's energy problems. Per dollar of investment, clean energy solutions – such as energy efficiency and renewable resources – deliver far more energy than nuclear power.
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Private Roads, Public Costs
Road privatization is a growing issue in the United States as politicians and transportation officials grapple with budget shortfalls. Toll road privatization takes two forms: the lease of existing toll roads to private operators and the construction of new roads by private entities. In both instances, private investors are granted the right to raise and collect toll revenue, a right that can amount to billions of dollars in profits for the shareholders.
Economic Stimulus or Simply More Misguided Spending?
President-elect Obama has declared that the next recovery plan must do more than just pump money into the economy. It will also create the infrastructure that America needs for the 21st century. This fall, Congress asked states to submit lists of "ready-to-go" transportation infrastructure projects that could be funded by the stimulus package.
Report | TexPIRG | Consumer Protection
Across the country, pulp and paper mills, petroleum refineries, chemical plants and other industrial facilities use and store large amounts of hazardous chemicals that could be released in the event of an accident or terrorist attack. Releases at these chemical facilities could endanger thousands or even millions of people working and living in nearby communities. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), more than 100 facilities each would endanger at least one million people in a worst-case chemical release. Another 3,000 facilities each would endanger at lea
Blog Post | Financial Reform
It Makes No Sense to Eliminate Successful CFPB, Weaken Wall Street Reforms | Ed Mierzwinski
The successful CFPB turns 6 years old tomorrow, July 21. It's already returned nearly $12 Billion to over 29 million consumers harmed by unfair financial practices. Here is a birthday look at the Consumer Bureau's body of work so far and why it makes no sense for Congress to roll it back at the request of Wall Street lobbyists and other special interests.
Telco, Cable Guys Assault State Broadband Privacy Efforts, Sacramento Key Battleground | Ed Mierzwinski
After the new FCC chair and Congress rolled back pending Obama-era broadband privacy rules applying to collection and use of your personal information by Internet Service Providers (generally large telephone and cable companies) the states (and some cities) moved to replace protections. AT&T, Verizon and Comcast swiftly sent lobbyists out around the nation to quash the efforts. This week, Sacramento is under siege by a phalanx of ISP lobbyists as a key California proposal, AB375 (Chau) is considered. Key Senate committee votes occur Tuesday.
Blog Post | Public Health, Food
EPA's Pruitt Met with Dow Prior to Favorable RulingDev GowdaKara Cook-Schultz
On March 31st, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced that his agency would deny a petition to ban the dangerous pesticide chlorpyrifos from being sprayed on food. He announced this decision despite EPA scientists' earlier findings that concluded that chlorpyrifos, which is manufactured by Dow Chemical, can harm brain development of fetuses and infants after ingesting even small amounts. The news that the EPA would continue to allow the spraying of chlorpyrifos alarmed doctors and other public health officials, but what's even more interesting is that according to several recent Freedom of Information Act requests, Pruitt met with Dow CEO Andrew Liveris at a Houston hotel just twenty days prior to making his controversial decision.
Sloppy Credit Bureaus, Sketchy Credit Doctors Slammed by Trifecta of CFPB, State AGs and Consumer Lawyers | Ed Mierzwinski
In the news this month are several successful efforts to improve credit report accuracy, compensate the victims of credit bureau malfeasance and also to bring some credit repair doctors to heel. Did it take a village? No, it took a combination of strong consumer laws, a strong CFPB, tough state attorneys general working on a bi-partisan basis and, finally, consumer attorneys engaged in private enforcement of the laws as another line of defense. For markets to work fairly, consumers need all these levels of protection.
Burger King Takes Action on Antibiotics, Sanderson Farms Takes a Back Seat | Matt Wellington
Last week another major restaurant took action to protect antibiotics, and a major laggard in the meat industry received a much-needed reality check.
U.S. PIRG and Leading Groups Support Findings of Norwegian Privacy Report
In support of a report by colleagues from the Norwegian Consumer Council on whether the data sharing and privacy practices of a number of dating and other smartphone apps were in compliance with European privacy rules (GDPR) or the new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), U.S. PIRG and other leading groups sent joint letters to key policymakers, including the California, Oregon and TexaS Attorneys General, the Federal Trade Commission and all members of the U.S. House and Senate.
CFPB Appoints Task "Farce" On Consumer Law
Last week, CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger appointed four lawyers and professors to a "Taskforce on Federal Consumer Law." To my knowledge, none have worked for consumer protection organizations yet all have worked as industry consultants or been aligned with industry views, although all have previous government experience. I am aware of several distinguished professors with CFPB experience who were rejected. Incredibly, the announcement of this better-described "Task Farce" claimed inspiration from a distinguished bi-partisan commission established by the Consumer Credit Protection Act in 1968."
News Release | U.S. PIRG
Critical Product Safety Legislation Introduced in House by Representative Rush
U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush releases legislation to increase transparency around important product injury and death data.
Statement: FDA fails to fully protect kids from nicotine addiction
The Food and Drug Administration issued a policy today that would take many flavors of cartridge-based e-cigarettes such as Juul temporarily off the market due to their appeal to kids.
Report | TexPIRG Education Fund
Following the Money 2019
Citizens' ability to understand how their tax dollars are spent is fundamental to democracy. Budget and spending transparency holds government officials accountable for making smart decisions, checks corruption, and provides citizens an opportunity to affect how government dollars are spent.
State and local governments spend billions of dollars every year on economic development programs in the form of forgone tax revenue and direct cash grant payments to corporations in an effort to stoke investment and job creation in a particular city, state or industry.
A review of economic development subsidy reporting in all 50 states finds that a majority of states fail to meet minimum standards of online transparency, leaving residents, watchdogs and public officials in the dark about key public expenditures. States should shine light on economic development subsidies by requiring the online publication of key transparency reports and inclusion of economic development spending in the state's online checkbook portal to meet the expectations of citizens seeking information in the 21st century.
Economic development subsidies – be they tax exemptions, credits, or direct cash grant payments – are a form of public spending, but are rarely held to the same transparency standards as other government expenditures.
New federal bill will make it easier for consumers to know about unsafe, even deadly products
If you had a product in your home that the government knew could cause injury or death, you'd expect the government to warn you, right? Surprisingly, that's not the case for the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The "Safety Hazard and Recall Efficiency Information Act" seeks to change that.
The Trump administration's Consumer Bureau just appointed a task "farce" on consumer law
The Trump administration's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau just appointed a new task force on consumer law — but according to senior director of PIRG's federal consumer program, Ed Mierzwinski, this task force isn't set up to be on the side of consumers. "It is a task farce," he said.
Cause for concern: Irresponsible use of antibiotics in agribusiness is on the rise again
There's bad news for all of us concerned about the efficacy of life-saving medicines: The sale of medically-important antibiotics for use in animal agriculture is trending in the wrong direction.
Our 10th report on government spending transparency rates all 50 states on the degree to which they make information about corporate tax breaks and other subsidies available online.

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Legal protection for citizens who denounce big corruption cases
Transparency International – Greece welcomes the adoption of new procedures for the protection of people who denounce serious acts of corruption as a first step towards the establishment of an integrated legislation for whistleblowing in Greece.
Law 4254/2014 (published in GG A85/7-4-2014) defines new guarantees towards the encouragement of providing reliable information to authorities, as the concern for retaliation and possible criminal prosecution constitute until today the most important suspending factors for citizens who desire to contribute in the fight against corruption.
Among the currently established measures for the protection of public interest witnesses are: protection from criminal prosecutions for perjury, slander, libel, breach of confidentiality or personal data and protection under the witness protection measures (f.e. 24h security, concealment of identity throughout the procedure, new identity etc.). For persons working in the Public Sector that decide to denounce corruption, there are additional measures such as, exclusion from dismissal or disciplinary proceedings or penalties, non-exemption from promotions, protection from unfavorable discrimination etc.
Corruption is a crime mainly taking place in the dark and people usually accept it as something ordinary. We fear to doubt if it's right or wrong, trouble ourselves whether we should denounce it continue to accept it despite all its destructive consequences. "Fear for retaliation and possible legal consequences are the main reasons that hold back citizens who desire to engage themselves in the fight against corruption in Greece and to denounce corruption incidents", states the Chairman of Transparency International – Greece, Costas Bakouris and continues: "We are in a position to assure this from our own experience through the "Transparency Now" helpline that offers free guidance to citizens who desire to report corruption incidents. In most of the 500 reports that we have accepted in a six month period, the fear of retaliation is dominant".
Since September 2013, people who contact the Organization declare that are aware, have seen or heard about corruption incidents in their everyday life or in their workplace but are afraid to follow the encouragement of Transparency International and report to the appropriate authorities- even if there is the option of anonymous denunciation – as they feel vulnerable to significant dangers such as dismissal, court conflicts, public outcry or even threats against their lives.
In April 2013 Transparency International – Greece presented the report: "An Alternative to silence: Towards greater protection and support for the whistleblowers in Greece", and promoted it to the Ministry of Justice members of the Legislation Committee, in order to highlight the significance of whistleblowing in the fight against corruption and the necessity of the adoption of an integrated legal framework in our country.
The recently voted law is a first step for the legislative establishment of whistleblowing in Greece. "What we, as Transparency International-Greece, ask from the government is to implement a complete and distinct legal framework for the protection of people who reveal information about corruption cases. This framework should be based on the International Principles for whistleblower legislation that Transparency International published in 2013 and have already been given to the Ministry of Justice. For us this is just the beginning for more bold decisions regarding the provision of concrete protection for citizens that dare to stand up against corruption", underlines Costas Bakouris.
"We all have to understand that the revealing of corruption incidents is an act of courage and conscientiousness and must not be confronted as treason. Societies, institutions and citizens remain in a disadvantage when there is no one to stand up against corruption."
Testimonials form whistleblowers (public interest witnesses) are a valuable source of intelligence regarding corruption cases and powerful tools against its containment. From the revealing of multimillion financial scandals to information on criminal acts, whistleblowers play a major role in saving resources and even human lives.
Sophia Ioannou
Transparency International-Greece
E. sioannou@transparency.gr


Johnston Press, the company that owns Leeds-based newspapers the Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post, has been put up for sale.
The announcement comes following a strategic review in March 2017, when the company first started looking at ways to pay back an outstanding loan of £220 million.
That fee must be paid back in full by June 2019.
The publisher has more than 200 titles across the country and alongside its two Leeds-based newspapers, Johnston Press also owns national newspaper 'i' and The Scotsman.
Other local newspapers they own include the Dewsbury Reporter, the Sheffield Star and the Harrogate Advertiser.
BBC News reports that shares fell by almost 7% at the start of trading on October 11 and that the company reported a 10 per cent fall in revenue during the first six months of 2018.
It then reported a £6.2 million profit for the six-month period, but this has been attributed to a one-off accounting gain of £8.8 million.


Looks like Firaxil is on the road to recovery. But, here's a blast from the past. Meet Sara Edwards. Sara was a member of the Starbolts who was killed off shortly after the comic started way back when. I originally had her in the prose version of the Starbolts. Originally she was the creation of a friend of mine. Sam (my friend) and I started talking recently and we thought it would be cool to bring her back. There's one small problem. She's dead.
Comics bring characters back all the time. Look at Jean Grey's recent resurrection. You might recall that I had a dangling plot thread of a lady named Velocity who looks like Sara. I will have to see of I can fix that and make her Sara. We shall see. I haven't decided, yet. Right now we should focus on one thing at a time.
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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Corps Marshal Boboye Oyeyemi says there are at least 79 portions in the critical road corridors in the country calling for Federal Government's attention before the festive season.
In a recent interview with NAN at the FRSC Academy in Udi, Enugu State, Oyeyemi said that the corps had been talking with the Ministry of Power,Works and Housing on how best to put most of the critical road corridors in shape before the yuletide.
In his words, 'we have submitted a report containing 79 portions in the critical road corridors throughout the country to the Minister of Power, Works and Housing. We believe the report will be given due attention before the yuletide'.
According to him, it is also necessary to fix critical road corridors to check traffic build-ups. "We thank God that the Minister of Works has graciously agreed to our plea of fixing and doing palliative works on most of the critical road corridors identified".
On Ember month programme, FRSC boss said the corps was ready to carry out comprehensive enforcement of traffic violations, to serve as deterrent for negative road habits and negligence. "We will critically look out for expired tyres, speed limiting device (for commercial buses), overloading, reckless driving, seat belt usage, driving licence, among others. All these range of items and compliance, when got right, will engender safe and secured road for all road users in all our road corridors during the ember months'' he said.


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Mona Strader Bismarck Collection
By Rebecca S. Rice
Special Collections Assistant
Countess Mona Bismarck, one of the leading lights of international cafe society, was born in Louisville in 1897 and raised in Lexington. Eventually marrying five times, Mona's marriages propelled her upwards in society and she reached its pinnacle with her third marriage to Harrison Williams, who was known as the richest man in America.
Famous for her beauty, particularly her trademark silver hair and aquamarine eyes, as well as her fashion sense, Mona was the first American to be declared the Best-Dressed Woman in the World in 1933, a distinction bestowed upon her by Paris designers Chanel, Mainbocher, Lanvin, Vionnet, Molyneaux, Lelong and Mona's personal favorite, Balenciaga. Upon the closing of Balenciaga's fashion house in 1968, it was said that Mona took to her bed for three days in despair. She regularly appeared on best-dressed lists on both sides of the Atlantic. Her circle of famous and influential friends included European nobility, politicians, artists, designers, actors, writers and more. Her homes, clothes and lifestyle were regularly chronicled in newspapers and magazines, especially Vogue. Salvador Dali painted her portrait. Cole Porter included her name in song lyrics. She was mentioned in movies and alluded to in books. She was photographed by famous photographers of the day, including Steichen, Horst and her close friend, Cecil Beaton, who was devoted to Mona.
As sparkling as her life became, Mona Bismarck's childhood was marked by the divorce of her parents in 1902. Mona and her brother, Robert, eventually lived with their paternal grandmother while their father, Robert Sims Strader, established himself in the horse industry. He eventually purchased Forkland Farm near Lexington. Her first husband, Harry Schlesinger, was 18 years older than Mona when they married in 1917. Schlesinger owned Fairland Farm in Lexington and was the son of a wealthy Wisconsin businessman. The couple divided their time between Milwaukee, Wis., and Fairland before divorcing in 1920. Mona eventually moved to New York and remarried in 1921. She had met her second husband, James Irving Bush, a banker who was also from Wisconsin, while married to Harry Schlesinger. Bush was 14 years older than Mona and was reputed to be one of the handsomest men in the country. However, their marriage quickly foundered, and Mona obtained a divorce in Paris in 1924.
In 1926 Mona married multi-millionaire utilities executive Harrison Williams, who was 24 years her senior. At the time of their marriage Williams was regarded as the richest man in America with a fortune estimated at $680 million. Even after losing the vast majority of his assets in the stock market crash of 1929, Williams's wealth and position afforded Mona a lavish lifestyle. The couple owned two homes in New York, one in Palm Beach, a succession of apartments in Paris, and Il Fortino, Mona's beloved villa on the Italian island of Capri where she indulged in her love of gardening. In order to overcome the dry climate of Capri, water from the mainland was delivered each day by boat.
Williams died in 1953, and in 1955 Mona married her longtime friend, Count Edward von Bismarck, the grandson of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. Mona was widowed in 1970 and in 1971 married Bismarck's physician, Umberto de Martini, who was 14 years younger than she. It was only after his death in a car accident in 1979 that Mona realized that de Martini married her for her money and position.
Countess Mona Bismarck died in Paris in 1983 and is buried on Long Island with Harrison Williams and Edward von Bismarck. Her legacy is evident in the cultural and artistic programs and exhibits sponsored by the Mona Bismarck Foundation in Paris. The Foundation, established by her estate, promotes Franco-American cooperation through the arts.
It was Mona's interest in her native Kentucky that led her to donate her papers and photographs to The Filson Historical Society in 1976. The Mona Strader Bismarck Papers span 1916-1994 and are primarily made up of personal correspondence. Most of the letters were written by members of the social world in which Mona lived. They include her close friends the Duchess of Windsor; Diana Vreeland; Gore Vidal; Randolph Churchill; Constantin Alajalov, the cover illustrator for The New Yorker and The Saturday Evening Post; jewelry designer, Jean Schlumberger; Hubert de Givenchy; and Cecil Beaton, among many others. Alajalov's correspondence is of particular interest because of the original artwork he includes with it. He even penned and illustrated a letter to one of Mona's favorite pet dogs, Micky. One of Mona's biggest passions was her love of small dogs, and she owned a succession of them throughout her life. It is interesting to note that upon the death of Micky, she received almost as many sympathy notes as she did after the death of her third husband, Harrison Williams.
The letters provide an intimate look at international society and fashion, but they are also a valuable source for descriptions of English and European attitudes and experiences pertaining to World War II and include observations about life in France under the Vichy government, the French Army and conscientious objectors in England. Later correspondence discusses anti-Gaullist politics in France. One of the more prolific writers in the collection is Bettina Bergery, famous in her own right as Givenchy's favorite "mannequin," and wife of Gaston Bergery, who served as the Vichy government's ambassador to the U.S.S.R. and Turkey. Bettina's letters highlight life in Paris after World War II. The collection also contains books about Cecil Beaton and Cristobal Balenciaga as well as a biography about Mona herself, published by her foundation.
The Mona Strader Bismarck Photograph Collection spans the years of 1860 to 1979. The most beautiful images in the collection are Cecil Beaton's portrait photographs of Mona. It also includes photographs of family, her husbands, and friends from her years in international society as well as snapshots of her garden on Capri and her apartment in the Hotel Lambert in Paris.
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Mona Bismarck was a beautiful and elegant woman known for her impeccable sense of style. She lived a rarified existence of wealth and privilege, and through her papers and photograph collection we are allowed a glimpse into what that life was like.
Information about Mona Bismarck's life was taken from the Mona Bismarck Collections at The Filson Historical Society as well as James D. Birchfield's Kentucky Countess: Mona Bismarck in Art and Fashion.
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Чудеса́ Иису́са Христа́ (Чудеса Христовы) — ряд описанных в христианских и в исламских текстах чудесных деяний, совершённых Иисусом Христом. Чудеса, по мнению Иоанна Златоуста, совершались с целью укрепления людей в вере, а также их исправления: «Спаситель знал их (иудеев) ослепление и потому творил чудеса не для их убеждения, а для того, чтобы других исправить». Часто иудейские законники, по своей зависти и корыстолюбию, осуждали чудеса Христа (Исцеление скорченной) и даже противились им (пытались убить Лазаря, воскрешённого Христом).

Перечень чудес
Перечень чудес, совершённых Иисусом Христом, различается у евангелистов (только чудо с насыщением пяти тысяч человек упоминается во всех четырёх евангелиях), поэтому их описания надо рассматривать комплексно. В синоптических Евангелиях традиционно выделяют 11 чудес, совершённых Иисусом, которые описаны у всех трёх евангелистов. Евангелие от Иоанна содержит описание только семи чудес (три из них имеют параллели в синоптических Евангелиях). При этом Иоанн делает оговорку: «Многое и другое сотворил Иисус; но, если бы писать о том подробно, то, думаю, и самому миру не вместить бы написанных книг» ().

Богословские толкования
Святитель Игнатий (Брянчанинов) дал следующую характеристику чудес, совершённых Иисусом:

Чудеса Христовы были осязательны; они были ясны для самых простейших людей; ничего в них не было загадочного; всякий мог удобно рассмотреть их; для сомнения и недоумения, чудо ли это, или только представление чуда, не было места. Чудеса Богочеловека имели множество свидетелей, из которых большая часть были или враждебны Ему… Самые злейшие враги Господа не отвергали их, старались только уничижить их богохульным претолкованием и всеми средствами, которые внушались им лукавством и злобою. В чудесах Господа не было никакой суетности, никакого эффекта; ни одного чуда не сделано напоказ человекам; все чудеса прикрывались покровом Божественного смирения. Они составляют собою цепь благодеяний страждущему человечеству.

Протоиерей Александр Шмеман в свой работе «О чуде» отмечает, что Иисус творил чудеса не для пробуждения в людях веры, а, напротив, они совершались именно по людской вере. Как пример этого он приводит случай, когда Иисус в .

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 s:Чудеса Христовы по Евангелию от Марка (Григорий Богослов)
 s:Чудеса Христовы по Евангелию от Иоанна (Григорий Богослов)
 s:Чудеса Христовы по Евангелию от Луки (Григорий Богослов)
 s:Чудеса Христовы по Евангелию от Матфея (Григорий Богослов)

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eBay Becomes 100th Company to Cut Ties to "Controversial" ALEC
Submitted by Rebekah Wilce on December 19, 2014 - 2:34pm
"We are not renewing membership in ALEC," eBay tweeted on the afternoon of December 18.
The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) had joined the climate change awareness group Forecast the Facts, Credo Action, and others in asking eBay to leave what Reuters called the "controversial political group ALEC" in recent weeks. A Twitterstorm on December 17 was followed by the delivery of a petition containing nearly 100,000 petitions to eBay's headquarters in San Jose, California on December 18. eBay's announcement came shortly after.
"After our annual review of eBay Inc's memberships in trade associations and third party organizations we've decided not to renew our membership with American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)," eBay Senior Director of Corporate Communications Abby Smith confirmed.
The company had been a member of ALEC's Communications and Technology Task Force, which has opposed net neutrality and sought to prevent municipal broadband.
The recent exodus of technology firms from ALEC has come following increased awareness of the group's role in teaching state legislators climate change denial during its closed door meetings.
Google cut ties to ALEC in September, with Google chairman Eric Schmidt saying on NPR that the company "should not be aligned with such people" as ALEC because "they're just literally lying" about climate change.
Google was followed quickly by Facebook, Yelp, Yahoo, Overstock.com, and AOL.
In the wake of these companies' departure, ALEC spokesperson Bill Meierling insisted, "We are not climate-change deniers, we're not anything of the sort."
But the group hosted well-known climate change denier Craig Idso along with "a number of panels and presentations amplified the views of climate change skeptics" -- including one "extoll[ing] the benefits of fossil fuels as well as the increased amounts of carbon being trapped in the atmosphere by human activity" -- at its "States and Nation Policy Summit" in Washington, D.C. earlier this month, as reported by Al Jazeera.
eBay is the 100th corporation to cut ties with ALEC since CMD and The Nation launched ALEC Exposed in July 2011.
Telecommunications companies like AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon, as well as shipping companies like FedEx, are still involved with ALEC.
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In this terrible place with no tides the lobsters wait to die.
Most have no inkling of the horrific fates that await them, though their fearful urinations run thick. They are content to pace this bizarre mockery of the sea, defending their futile territory from perceived invaders, other captives, their claws bound by unbreakable seals. All except one. Shuddering in the corner, smaller than the others, streaks of ancient script lining its carapace. A striped lobster with a gift, and a curse, a knowledge greater than its senses, the ability to see Between The Waves. For it, the tides of past, present, and future merge into a single current.
What it sees there tears at the sanity of its simple mind.
Worse even than the abominations that leer at them constantly, the bizarre figures of pulpy flesh ripped free of exoskeleton, yet still filled with terrible animate life. Worse than when their pink appendages plunge into the pocket of false ocean, the five clawed limb of terror plucking yet another unsuspecting lobster from the world. The worst is what the striped lobster sees as the doomed brush against its bound claws; a pit filled with a seething sea, a plunge and a scream and an agonizing crimson death.
Behind it all, most foreboding, a deep growl of hunger from the abominations as they gaze upon the lobsters.
And yet, there are faint moments of hope. To see Between The Waves is also to carry knowledge of He Whose Claws Hold The World, Whose Gills Form The Tides, Old As The Sea, primordial God of lobsters. In the midst of this horror the striped lobster clings to faith in Claws Hold World, the old prayers passed down from hardshell to hatchling for longer than memory. Claws Hold World will come, if only the sacred movements of the primeval tides can be completed. But separated so long from the sea, the striped lobster begins to forget.
Only the final moments of free ocean remain clear, and then only because those are tinged with the terror of what happened next. The angular alien structure, invitingly filled with food. Strange shadows on the seafloor. A sudden lurch upwards, a feeling of drowning. Blurred and flickering shapes that danced before the striped lobster's eyestalks before resolving into sights it wished had stayed obscured. A long and claustrophobic journey piled atop a quivering pile of bodies of fellow lobsters. Then this terrible place with no tides.
Time is short, few lobsters remain.
The currents Between The Waves, usually so clear, become clouded and hidden from the striped lobster. Another abomination steps before them. It holds its nightmare appendage out, the lethal choice made. The striped lobster's time has come.
Its legs stride first to one side, and then the other. Holding up its claws, unsure of why it does so, the momentum of its movement increases, the flow of the water shaping the dance, antennae flicking to a rhythm long though lost. Escape. There can be only one escape from this fate, this doom, this devouring.
There can be only the dance of the tides.
The customer eyes the tank. Not many choices left, but he promised her a lobster dinner for their anniversary tonight, and a lobster dinner she would have. He whistles at the price per pound.
The butcher nods, reaches into the water. The smaller lobster scuttles back and forth, waving its rubber-banded claws above its head.
"Wait, wait a second, check this out," The customer says, chuckling as the lobster twitches its strange face side to side in tune with its scampering legs.
A thundering crash turns both men towards where the front of the grocery store used to be, now a gaping wound to the outside world. A shadow falls over them, as does a drizzle of salty water. The customer cranes his neck to take in the massive shape that blots out the sun.
With a sudden sinking feeling, he realizes the shadow has claws.


I married in my teens, had four children, moved from Chicago to Houston to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York, and finally, in my forties went to college. The 4.5-mile Skyline Drive Trail meanders up and down mountain ridges and valleys. One of the unique aspects of a mountain is that it might have many different types of terrain and different climates. We had to stop somewhere, and we spied it, a small flat area near some boulders, with a view of trackless mountains.
Being equipped with the right kind of gear is very important for mountain climbing. But mountain habitats are often destroyed to make way for roads, hotels and other developments (such as hydropower). The months of October through April are the best month to take a trek at Camelback Mountain.
One is Mount Bromo, the mountain that has a lot of natural charm and charm of the local folk culture. Through out the year, CNLN and the San Diego Mountain Bike Association have trail building days. Myths will always be embellished, and through time such stories gain more intrigue as each person adds a little of their own flavor to they myth.
Serving as chair of The Mountain Partnership-a United Nations voluntary alliance-TMI is working with Partnership members to keep mountain issues front and center. The Mountain Institute plays a leading role in bringing mountain issues to the attention of governments, provate sector organizations, charity/non-profit groups and civil society organizations.
By evoking a sense of place and history these gardens will provide hands-on knowledge about the native plant communities and forest types on the mountain. But as time moved on, the mountain was slowly chipped away and now racism and discrimination aren't nearly as prevalent.


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Heidi Harmon's embarrassing politics
Mayor Heidi Harmon
OPINION by T. KEITH GURNEE
Just three months into her second term as mayor of San Luis Obispo, Heidi Harmon is getting stranger by the minute. Her announced boycott of Amazon is her newest example of "speaking without knowing" and her politics of "look at me!"
In doing so, Harmon has placed a major local employer that contributes millions of dollars to our local economy squarely in her crosshairs, including the Whole Foods Market on Los Osos Valley Road which is affiliated with Amazon.
Harmon's statement that Amazon is "destroying our downtowns" reveals her utter lack of understanding of the real threats to our downtown: stratospheric rents, the reduction of downtown public parking, overbuilding beyond its infrastructure capacity, and rampant panhandling. When I ran for mayor last November, I was stunned at how many people I heard from who once enjoyed our downtown and who no longer do.
In cuddling up to New York's avowed socialist Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez in her battle with Amazon is Harmon's latest grasp at attention-getting and publicity seeking which she thrives upon. Here are some other examples:
1. Harmon recently drew attention to herself in the press for dropping "f-bombs" at a function for Sen. Bernie Sanders that she attended in Vermont in Dec. 2018. Why would she attract public attention to her use of profanity? As someone who holds herself up as a symbol of civility, do f-bombs really align with civility?
2. Harmon has criticized placing a statue honoring President Teddy Roosevelt in Mitchell Park where he addressed San Luis Obispo residents back in the early 1900s on his way to meet John Muir in Yosemite to establish the National Park System. Her complaints against erecting "monuments to white men" reveals interesting dichotomies:
Perhaps lost on Heidi, Teddy Roosevelt was one of the drivers of the original "Progressive Era" in the early 1900s and was responsible for establishing the first Progressive Party in 1912. Teddy was the original Progressive, not one of the false "New Progressives" of today.
Harmon's dismissal of erecting monuments to "white men" would forever preclude her beloved Socialist Bernie Sanders from ever having a statue honoring him.
Harmon's anti-"white men" comment has brought her racism and "misandry"– her apparent hatred of men– to the fore.
3. The revelations published in Cal Coast News that Harmon has strong ties with marijuana mogul Helios Dayspring and SLO County Progressive co-leader Nick Andre (who apparently is part of Dayspring's operation) are alarming. Harmon has been part of creating the criteria and point system to evaluate marijuana licensing applications, criteria that has been engineered to favor Dayspring.
Then in what could be an FPPC violation, Harmon failed to disclose the campaign fundraiser hosted by Dayspring for her and other candidates back in October 2018 that should have been included in her campaign-finance statements. Why is she trying to hide that connection?
4. Then out comes Councilwoman Debbie Peterson's recent resignation from the Grover Beach City Council due to allegations of corruption and "pay-to-play" insider games associated with marijuana businesses in that community. It's Grover Beach's marijuana criteria that are now being emulated in the criteria being developed by the city of San Luis Obispo. Shouldn't we be much more careful to ensure that we don't import corruption into San Luis Obispo? Or is it already here?
5. Harmon's willingness to let development projects cut down hundreds of mature trees on Los Osos Valley Road that once served as habitat for Herons and Monarch Butterflies shows how little she supports environmental protection and how little she understands the relationship between protecting the carbon sequestration provided by such vegetation in fighting climate change.
6. Could it be that her Amazon comments may have alienated her greatest defender and promoter– the San Luis Obispo Tribune? In its recently published editorial titled "What are you thinking, Madam Mayor?," the Tribune took her to task saying "this time you're asking for too much."
Harmon's comments that Amazon "is destroying communities" belies the fact that it is Harmon and her sidekicks who are destroying this community and our neighborhoods. Ugly, under-parked development projects, increasing traffic, enacting experimental policies without thinking through their consequences, and misguided proposals like the Anholm Bikeway are starting to overwhelm our community.
Heidi, if you want to see who the real destroyer of this community is, just take a look in the mirror. You'll see that the blush has begun to come off your rose.
When I was on the SLO City Council from 1971 to 1977, we had city leaders who truly cared about this community, it's charm, its heritage, and its character. I was privileged to serve with former Mayor Ken Schwartz and Councilmembers like Myron Graham, Emmons Blake, and Steve Pettersen who were truly dedicated to the betterment of our community. Since then, up until a few years ago, that same standard of care held true with such elected city representatives as Peg Pinard, Allen Settle, Penny Rappa, John Ewan, Dodie Williams, David Romero, Christine Mulholland, Kathy Smith, Dan Carpenter, and Jerry Reiss to mention but a few. They were all "keepers of the flame" of this community.
But after the last two mayors we've had, it's all different now. We now have a mayor who has proven to be a public embarrassment to this community and a City Council that is devoid of balanced points of view. While I regretted my loss to Harmon's well-oiled machine in Nov. 2018, I feel far worse for our community than I do for myself.
While I expect to be accused of "sour grapes" in writing this piece, so be it. I've totally accepted my defeat, and while I will never run for elective office again, I "ain't" going away anytime soon. I only hope that someone will emerge to pick up the torch and take our town back from the narcissistic "look at me" politics of Heidi Harmon.
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PaulJones
Please stay involved Keith, without watchdogs our community is doomed.
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DenisRizzoUSA1
Way to Go Keith….
All your points are Ultra Valid….and I must add to your list that former Mayor Melanie Billig in the past was also one of my favorites in Land and Tree Conservancy Issues…
The Airport was annexed into City limits just a few years ago…
Our Airport was Expanded (18 million plus dollars later and daily Alaska Airlines flights direct flights to the Emerald City) due to the Mega Money Influence of Seattle Companies in SLO Airport Corridor
Please Mayor Harmon…"Dont Piss where you Eat and Bite the Hands that feeds you"….
Think Before You Speak…You Make our Community Sound Ignorant when you open your mouth and say Stupid things….And if your not Stupid or Ignorant than You are Drunk on Cheap Wine
scoopone
Harmon may become the last mayor who is proud of ruining the character of SLO…her rants and self-promoting statements make me sick. We must have a more conservative Mayor and Council win the next election….no one on this current Council deserves to be re-elected.
She's out of touch as to what our City was, what our City has become and what we want our City to be. Agree how totally welcoming Downtown used to be and how totally unwelcoming it is presently and how much much more unwelcoming it's going to become. No solutions forthcoming here, just mourning what we've lost and the future of our City,
Heidi Harmon is part of a group of people, including Adam Hill, Nick Andre, Quinn Brady, John Shoals, Jeff Lee, Tom Fulks, who now control the local Democratic Central Committee. While they act as if they care about protecting against pollution, homophobia and racism, those issues are worse under their leadership. They all promote Dayspring, who funnels them cash, and look the other way at his crimes against the environment (including using illegal chemicals), and his human trafficking.
I had a divorce attorney tell me once that those who cheat on their partners are the ones who cheat in life. Here is some of the local talk on this group: Heidi Harmon's partner caught her in bed with Quinn Brady, whose partner is in the dark. He kicked Harmon to the curb, the reason Harmon is renting a room in a trailer. John Shoals wife divorced him for cheating repeatedly during their marriage. He came back from a trip to Sacramento with condoms in his suitcase. Adam Hill and his wife Dee Torres-Hill live separately and date each other while both having sex with multiple other partners.
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Hey Mr. Gurnee, I got a suggestion. When Ms. Harmon runs for re election you should run against her…. Oh yeah, you already did that. AND GOT CLOBBERED. Enjoy eating your sour grapes.
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Well malovato, I DID lose to a loon, but now you've got what you deserve…
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Some have no idea what they've got till its to late Keith. Like you said, they got what they deserve.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. — H. L. Mencken
mesaman1651
We keep putting our trust and hope in politicians, all that does is open the door for some ego maniac to get into office and F bomb everything up.
Other than the fact the mayor is a doofus—this is known—the opinion on f bombs/language and civility is… reaching. What a reachy-reachy opinion. Failing to understand the connection between vernacular and civility.
oxforduniversity
While I'm a conservative I'm not a fan of Amazon either, I've seen what it's done to Sears and I'm a bigger supporter of Sears stores than online businesses wiping companies out.
Second, mom and pop stores are needed like we had 20 years ago in SLO but today SLO downtown is full of bums and stores paying so high rents you can't afford to buy products downtown anymore.
$5.00 small coffee downtown, pint of beer $10.00 downtown, parking meters $2.50 an hour and etc. Yes it's a turn off and the Bernie Sanders politics is only going to make it worse with our solid left liberal council.


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Teen libertarian is face of Brazil's young free-market right … The March 15 demonstration was the largest Sao Paulo had seen in more than three decades, since 1984 protests demanding democratic elections after a long dictatorship. But more surprising than the crowd of over 200,000, according to the Datafolha polling and statistics agency, was the fact it was being led by Kataguiri, a skinny, 19-year-old college dropout, and other young Brazilian activists inspired by libertarianism and conservative free-market ideals. – Associated Press
Dominant Social Theme: The loony right is emerging but the center will hold!
Free-Market Analysis: A big mainstream media meme is that when economic conditions worsen, people respond by seeking out Hitler-esque leaders who will express the frustration of the "people" via genocide, incipient warfare and the creation of a police state.
Regardless of whether this has been true in the past, we have long predicted that the Internet would change the way that people responded to economic hardships in the 21st century. We predicted that third parties might be more thoughtful and free-market oriented than in the past.
We also predicted that people themselves – supporters of alternative political parties – might not be apt to support reactionary forces but would want to participate in political movements that promised less government rather than more.
UKIP as well as some other European parties and protest movements have indeed seemed to us to adopt – to a degree – the vocabulary of laissez faire. Protest movements in Germany of late have targeted central banking.
Occupy Wall Street with its affinity for guillotines and French Revolution style rhetoric has gone out of style so thoroughly in the US that its backers have had to content themselves with building it overseas as best they can.
South America has unfortunately remained relatively immune to this trend because of the powerful footprint of US intel. The entire subcontinent has been shaped by the US's overwhelming desire to manage its southern "territories" via dirigisme.
Small groups constituting mostly a handful of elite families control the resources and industries of country after country. The middle classes such as they are struggle to survive an onslaught of regulations, taxes and endless, official corruption.
Most cleverly, US elites managed to infect South America during the past century and a half with the bacillus of socialism. Middle classes and the intelligentsia, impoverished or privileged, spent decades mouthing the inane platitudes of the Left – suggesting that the problems of elite authoritarianism could be solved if only the government belonged to the "people."
Even now this is the dominant sociopolitical strain populating the governments of many countries: Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina, etc.
And yet … as we suspected would happen, things are beginning to change. What must be the worst nightmare of some in the US's intel and military-industrial complex is starting to take hold.
Thanks in large part to the Internet (in our view) an increasingly large group of individuals, many of them youngsters, have discovered that the antidote to authoritarian rule by a handful of elites is not more government but less.
These youngsters, passing around the electronic works of Rothbard, Mises and others, are rediscovering the traditions of freedom and free-market philosophies that so influenced the US's founding fathers including the primary genius of freedom himself, Thomas Jefferson.
This AP article – and yes it is surprising to see this nascent movement reported by AP – provides us with information about this growing trend.
The grandson of Japanese immigrants, Kataguiri is a social media star whose quirky videos skewer Rousseff and the ruling party's social welfare policies. His ascent as a protest figure has been rapid. Two years ago, when protests erupted across Brazil over corruption and poor public services, Kataguiri was a high schooler who avoided the unrest.
Today, he is the public face of the Free Brazil Movement, a growing force that is more focused than the 2013 unrest that expressed a wide range of middle-class anger. Brazil's new wave of protests are seen as a right-leaning movement clearly channeled against Rousseff and her Workers' Party.
A widening kickback scandal at Petrobras, the state oil company, is one of several complaints undermining the administration. Kataguiri and others are striking a chord with Brazilians fed up with soaring inflation, a high and growing tax burden, and those who blame government intervention for hobbling Brazil's economy, which grew just 0.1 percent last year and is expected to shrink in 2015.
"We are starting to see an agenda that is very politically driven and clearly against the federal government and President Dilma," said Carlos Melo, a political scientist at the Sao Paulo-based Insper business school. Compared to 2013, "these protests are presenting very different visions."
Kataguiri and his movement have been accused of taking funds from the conservative-libertarian Koch brothers, but he and his colleagues deny it. No doubt there will be more antipathy and smears directed toward Kataguiri as his movement grows.
But surely it will grow because other alternatives have been tried and found wanting. Meanwhile, the Internet itself has provided a conduit for new ideas emphasizing freedom and human action that are finding fertile soil in the minds of millions.
We have long pointed out that the Internet is a process not an episode. The ramifications of 21st century information technology have yet to be fully felt.
While many increasingly see its impact as primarily destructive because it seems to lend itself to reducing freedom and privacy rights, our perspective remains the same: What has occurred is changing the hearts and minds of many. The more pushback that occurs, the more people are driven to seek out the very information that has been previously withheld from them.
This spiritual, emotional and intellectual revolution – more than any since the advent of the Gutenberg press – is taking place within the individual. This is the most dangerous kind of social revolution.
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Like many luxury watch companies, Concord had its beginnings in Switzerland in the early 1900s but was redefined later on and became a mover in the world of watchmaking in the 1980s. They like to be recognized for their edgy designs that keep the watches modern as well as their actual know-how.
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through tloss. we saw them at the london premiere where new cast sophia butella wowed on carpet. how about the guys? >> we're all kind of styling. i always say t this is the gayest straight man that i've ever with in my entire life. >> we shop more than them. >> we meet in the bar before the premier, before we go and there will be a lot of, whew! >> very competitive. pine. he takes a lot of time and effort for the cut of his suit. >> diversity is part of the story in "star trek beyond" with the bold decision to reveal that sulu is gay. >> everybody is talking about the decision to make him gay. what are your thoughts about that? >> i think it's grea all you have to do is look at the reactions and they' been so overwhelmingly positive.& especially from young p >> the larger issue is it's about time that a world like "star trek" has a character that happens to be gay. and then let's get on with it it's not a big dea it's not the plot. it's just something that's right to do. >> another surprise, rihanna's new song for the film, so "star trek"-worthy. >> rihanna was a huge trekkie. ♪-
through tloss. we saw them at the london premiere where new cast sophia butella wowed on carpet. how about the guys? >> we're all kind of styling. i always say t this is the gayest straight man that i've ever with in my entire life. >> we shop more than them. >> we meet in the bar before the premier, before we go and there will be a lot of, whew! >> very competitive. pine. he takes a lot of time and effort for the cut of his suit. >> diversity is part of the story...
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saw you touch me. get out. get out. >> police even bea down the door of her london partment after neighbors heard her arguing with her fiance, the heir to a multimillion dollar business empire. >> i'mdone. i don't love you any more. everybody will know..o cf1 o get out of my >> lindsey appeared to have social media meltdown. she accu him of cheating, ddclaring, "i a pregnant" with a link to her 2009 mov "labor pain." igor has not been charged with a crime and could not be reached for comment. there was more drama yesterday. lindsey hid from photographers as she left loodon. still wearing her engagement ring and this morning shared this, "a private matter has become more public than i can control and i would extremely grateful if my fiance and myself c discuss our personal matters on our own." meanwhile, there is a new wrinkle in the riff between sharon and ozz osborne. she kicked him out amid cheating rumors. ozzie told gma it i only a bump in the road and sharon admit they are in talks. >> i forgive. it's going to take a long time. i can't think of my life without him. even thoug
saw you touch me. get out. get out. >> police even bea down the door of her london partment after neighbors heard her arguing with her fiance, the heir to a multimillion dollar business empire. >> i'mdone. i don't love you any more. everybody will know..o cf1 o get out of my >> lindsey appeared to have social media meltdown. she accu him of cheating, ddclaring, "i a pregnant" with a link to her 2009 mov "labor pain." igor has not been charged with a crime...
expensiv an expensive purse. >>> there was a big premiere in london for "star trek" beyond. that is captain kirk, chris pine giving a huge thrill to the hundreds of fans who turne i know they love that. >> you know who else loves it? rihanna. huge fan of the franchise. riri is all over she's in this story as we bring exclusive footage from the set of the new "star trek" adventure. >> "star trek" has been a part my life, since i was a little girl. my dad is really the one who introduced me to "star trek." it took me one episode to fall in love with this other world i couldn't understand, but i felt i could relate to. >> rihanna transformed and used elements of the film for her video for "sledgehammer" the theme for "star trek beyond." besides floating rocks, here what else to expect from the summer blockbuster. high-octane action. brand new aliens and one of the hottest casts you'll see this summer. and we caught up with them during filming. >> it's a good choice. >> "e.t." is first on the set of "star trek beyond." >> who is the captain now? >> it's been a decade since the first mov
expensiv an expensive purse. >>> there was a big premiere in london for "star trek" beyond. that is captain kirk, chris pine giving a huge thrill to the hundreds of fans who turne i know they love that. >> you know who else loves it? rihanna. huge fan of the franchise. riri is all over she's in this story as we bring exclusive footage from the set of the new "star trek" adventure. >> "star trek" has been a part my life, since i was a little...
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themselves gem have agreed to do a one-off concert in london this time next year. >> the spice girls were all girl power and nobody embodies that more than tyra she's a model, a momma and a mogul who has somehow managed to dall. i caught up with the icon and we talked about her expanding bu empire and a new report that claims her baby is causing a rift in her relationship. >> we're lau we're like what is this article talking about, we're split up when we're burping together? >> th headline -- baby son causing a rift between ty and boyfriend eric. the photographer was actually at our interview shooting tyra. and she came out swinging at the false reports. >> i don't have a famous guy, so i thought because myguy's not famous, that i wouldn't have to deal with that. but -- it's happening. they still make things up. >> tyra loves every minute of being a m even in the middle of the night. >> it's heaven. even just night, i picked him up out of his cri i picked him up and i just like held him for minutes at 3:00 in the morning. knowing i had to be here, bright-eyed for a photo shoot. >> after y
themselves gem have agreed to do a one-off concert in london this time next year. >> the spice girls were all girl power and nobody embodies that more than tyra she's a model, a momma and a mogul who has somehow managed to dall. i caught up with the icon and we talked about her expanding bu empire and a new report that claims her baby is causing a rift in her relationship. >> we're lau we're like what is this article talking about, we're split up when we're burping together?...
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about my work if it's all rig >> in london, bradley cooper had one awkward double date. there he is with supermodel irina shayk sitting next to benedict and his wife. watching the men's final. twitter seemed mo captivated by the match between bradley and irina. were they in a fight? seemed to be dabbing tears out of her eyes and crossing her arms avoiding all contact. what could have made this model meltdown? how abouttthis blast sitting seats away? that's cooper's younger model ex suki waterhouse, the one he was with before dating irina. she was happy to tweet after the championships, irena, not so much. they were spotted later and seemed as if they up. >> another couple, jennifer lopez were among the stars taking in the emotional last performance of "hamilton." lin-manuel and j. lo are getting tight these days. thousands crammed into the plaza to see the two sing their anthem of love and compassion. "love makes the world go round" is number two on itunes and all proceeds go to the people affected by the tragic shooting in orlando. >> the world really needs the message of love bein
about my work if it's all rig >> in london, bradley cooper had one awkward double date. there he is with supermodel irina shayk sitting next to benedict and his wife. watching the men's final. twitter seemed mo captivated by the match between bradley and irina. were they in a fight? seemed to be dabbing tears out of her eyes and crossing her arms avoiding all contact. what could have made this model meltdown? how abouttthis blast sitting seats away? that's cooper's younger model ex suki...
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beginning of so we'll be in london next year. >> javier munoz will take over full-time when miranda departs but in the future, just might be in return. >> the part i can't age out of. even if i take a break, i come back. this is not tend of anything. i built a house i can come back to anytime i want. i'm excited about that. ♪ alexander hamilton >> it is a good time to be lynn manuel miranda because he's a hot property in hollywood, a busy guy. still ahead here -- >>> our "top gun" 30th anniversary flashbacks and stories from the set you never heard. >> it's a walk in the park. >> it's a walk in the park. >> even though we celebrate independence from england today, why we can't help but give love to the royals. >> oh, really? please. >>> hitting the roller coaster listerine® kills 99% of bad breath germs. >>> hitting the roller coaster this is 100% useful for a 100% fresh mouth. what's it like to not feel 100% fresh? we don't know. we swish listerine®. as do listerine® users. the very people we studied in
beginning of so we'll be in london next year. >> javier munoz will take over full-time when miranda departs but in the future, just might be in return. >> the part i can't age out of. even if i take a break, i come back. this is not tend of anything. i built a house i can come back to anytime i want. i'm excited about that. ♪ alexander hamilton >> it is a good time to be lynn manuel miranda because he's a hot property in hollywood, a busy guy. still ahead here --...
, it and london. it's been crazy. but you know they're not alone. it's summer. let's go around the world with more stars, starting with the brand-new bride and groom. the wilsons on the move. just hours after their fairy tale uk wedding, ciara and russ were spotted leaving their pecfordton castle. on their way to a secret honeymoon. for her first day as mrs. wilson, the gorgeous bride was still donning wedding white under her coat. while the mister was snapped fidgeting with his new wedding ring. getting used to the new hardware, perhaps? >>> next up, capri. where mariah carey and james packer's hdaoliy. it was supposed to be a celebratory dinner, but this diva is not one to disappoint. watch as she turns the dessert course into a photo shoot while packer patiently waits to bloo out candles. no shame in her game. in fact earlier in the day the singer was seen unwinding on a yacht with music playing from -- who else? mariah. oh, honey. >>> moving over to mexico, for carrie underwood's cabo getaway. soaking up the rays in beachwear brighter than the sun, the singer and her husband go
, it and london. it's been crazy. but you know they're not alone. it's summer. let's go around the world with more stars, starting with the brand-new bride and groom. the wilsons on the move. just hours after their fairy tale uk wedding, ciara and russ were spotted leaving their pecfordton castle. on their way to a secret honeymoon. for her first day as mrs. wilson, the gorgeous bride was still donning wedding white under her coat. while the mister was snapped fidgeting with his new wedding...
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we'll be in london next year. >> javier munoz will take over full-time when miranda departs but in the future, just might be in return. >> the part i can't age out of. even if i take a break, i come back. this is not tend of anything. i built a house i can come back to anytime i want. i'm excited about that. ♪ alexander hamilton >> it is a good time to be lynn manuel miranda because he's a hot property in hollywood, a busy guy. still ahead here -- >>> our "top gun" 30th anniversary flashbacks and stories from the set you never heard. >> it's a walk in the park. >> it's a walk in the park. >> even though we celebrate independence from england today, why we can't help but give love to the royals. >> oh, really? please. >>> hitting the roller >>> welcome back to our fourth of july special show. you know, 240 years ago, we declared our independence from england, and that has given us more than enough time to get over that little spat we call the revolutionary war. as a matter of fact, these days, we can't get enough of britney's royal family. so why are the windsors more popular than
we'll be in london next year. >> javier munoz will take over full-time when miranda departs but in the future, just might be in return. >> the part i can't age out of. even if i take a break, i come back. this is not tend of anything. i built a house i can come back to anytime i want. i'm excited about that. ♪ alexander hamilton >> it is a good time to be lynn manuel miranda because he's a hot property in hollywood, a busy guy. still ahead here -- >>> our "top...
suit in one hand and pizza box in the other. more composed than this interesting look in london. >> look at those lips. yeah. in my spare time i do a little artwork. just putting in the finishing touches there. >> jasonbourne's vegas premiere, damon's wife upstaged him again. >> do you have any say in hat she gets to wear for the red carpet? does she even you? >> no, that's way above my pay grade. i consult her. >> 45-year-old damon has been playing this role since his early 30s. >> you look like a baby in some of those shots. >> it's kind arresting now, i remember in the third movie, seeing what i looked like in the first, i'm getting older. now i go, who is that kid. >> his co-star was without her man, but brought the sexy, quick changing from this outfit earlier. >> thank you so much. >> did you have to run back and change zm. >> i ran through the corrido it was almost as action packed as any of the bourne mo >> no, she didn't. she was hanging out with friends, having fun. >>> we talk movies and money at the poker table in las vegas. >> it turns out you're quite the card is s
suit in one hand and pizza box in the other. more composed than this interesting look in london. >> look at those lips. yeah. in my spare time i do a little artwork. just putting in the finishing touches there. >> jasonbourne's vegas premiere, damon's wife upstaged him again. >> do you have any say in hat she gets to wear for the red carpet? does she even you? >> no, that's way above my pay grade. i consult her. >> 45-year-old damon has been playing this role...
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. >> she may be new to the galaxy far far away, but at the london star wars celebration, she told us she was nervous. >> i kept walking around my house trying out the lines. so i'd be in the bathroom, like, may the force be with you. you know, you go over and over again because i knew it was such a momentous moment. >> this is a rebellion, isn't it? >> have you talked about being a female in this universe? >> it's just -- it's just a fantastic time, and i would hope that we're in a world now where we have an equal amount of male leads and equal amount of female leads. legendary opening. >> they've been talking about it but i don't think these films will have an opening. >> i rebel. >> you have to wait and see, i'm afraid. >> but you won't have to wait to see who will play a young han solo. >> alden erin wright. >> from los angeles and single. >> sometimes i amaze even myself. >> alden was the very first out of 3,000 to audition for the millennium falcon with chewbacca himself. >> i've never acted with a wookiee, so that's a whole different thing, which was pretty -- yeah, it's amazin
. >> she may be new to the galaxy far far away, but at the london star wars celebration, she told us she was nervous. >> i kept walking around my house trying out the lines. so i'd be in the bathroom, like, may the force be with you. you know, you go over and over again because i knew it was such a momentous moment. >> this is a rebellion, isn't it? >> have you talked about being a female in this universe? >> it's just -- it's just a fantastic time, and i would...
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. >> thank you. >> and just this week in london john spilled even more on his new family. >> they live on the base that's in danger. it's a bit of a personal journey for him this time. >> other changes within the franchise, the powerful theme song from rihanna. >> "star trek" has been a part of my life since i was a little girl. my dad really is the one who introduced me to "star trek." it just took me one episode to fall in love with this other world that i couldn't understand but i felt like i could relate to. ♪ i hit a wall >> rihanna transformed and used elements of the film for her video for "sledgehammer." ♪ i hit a wall >> besides swarm ships and floating rocks -- >> action. >> high-octane action. brand new aliens and one of the best-looking casts you'll see this summer. still feeling the love after nearly a decade since the first movie, something they all mentioned when we hung out behind the scenes. >> we really have grown to love one another. >> i literally feel like we are morphing into the orange many cast and we've really grown close and we're like a family. >> we missed
. >> thank you. >> and just this week in london john spilled even more on his new family. >> they live on the base that's in danger. it's a bit of a personal journey for him this time. >> other changes within the franchise, the powerful theme song from rihanna. >> "star trek" has been a part of my life since i was a little girl. my dad really is the one who introduced me to "star trek." it just took me one episode to fall in love with this other...