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I asked Morgen what his thoughts were as he was researching and writing his latest work…what were the timeless insights and long-lived wisdom that he learned and that I could share you with, dear reader.
"Management from the Masters is a distillation of timeless principles that govern business today. These principles are gleaned from the 'masters', those wise individuals whose ideas remain as relevant today as ever – and will continue to be relevant through all our tomorrows.
"Some of the masters are respected business gurus. W. Edwards Deming, the master of quality, knew that quality is not just a bolt-on, it is one of the fundamental purposes of business. Peter Drucker, who defined 'management' more closely than anyone before or sense, reminds us that without customers, no business can survive. Andrew Grove's rule, that 'only the paranoid survive', stands as a salutary reminder against overconfidence. Henri Fayol's insistence that management is about coordination of the parts to achieve a greater end remains at the heart of purposive management, and Joseph Juran's 80-20 rule, or 'Pareto's Law' which shows how 80 per cent of value is created by 20 per cent of people is proven right over and over again.
"Some come from broader spheres. The physicists who developed the concept of 'time's arrow' and the law of entropy tell us that the status quo is impossible to maintain, that everything changes, while Charles Darwin and his colleagues remind us that in business as in life, those who survive are those most capable of evolution. Confucius's golden rule, that we should treat others as we wish to be treated ourselves, reminds us of why justice and fairness are so important in business, and the ancient Indian sage Kautilya shows us how management is in fact a duty, not just a set of tasks to be performed.
Share the post "Welcome – I Invite You to "Stay Tuned" To My Blog"
It's an apt description for what I do – as a researcher, trend-detector and trendwatcher, I "tune in" to things going on that could have consequences near- or longer-term. Or, I tune in to "yesteryear," to look at events and actions of the past for meaning in today's world. As historian-philosopher George Santayana (1863-1952) observed a century ago in "Life of Reason," those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
I do a lot of writing on the present and past and often in looking into the future. (No, not making any crystal ball claims.) This blog (an on-line log or "old-fashioned" journal) looks at things going on in our society that present signals worth detecting, dots worth connecting, boxes to think outside of…and so on. These are my personal views, not representative of anything more than my own thinking and writing (which helps me in my thinking).
Case in point on thinking backward and forward and connecting dots: In October 1929, investors large and small in the the U.S. stock market suffered cataclysmic losses — too much speculation and junk on sale. Hundreds of banks failed. The "Great Depression" pushed millions of families from new middle class prosperity to poverty. In response, the Congress passed the "Banking Act of 1933," which prohibited commercial banks from being connected to brokerage firms — this was "Glass-Steagall," named for sponsors Senator Carter Glass and Representative Henry Steagall. (Both Democrats in a Democratically-controlled Congress with a new Democrat in the White House – President Franklin Roosevelt.) The measure was supposed to deter speculation — and was under attack from then on by bankers and "free market" advocates.
The debate about Glass-Steagall protections going away and being a factor in the crisis a decade later is highly debated, pro and con, and in the end the matter is not so simple. Anyway, we can connect the dots…we now have "G-S Lite," in the form of the Volcker Rule, named for former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, who in 1979 helped to end ruinous inflation with his tough and courageous actions. Let's see how things work out with this "lite" rule in place. The rule is part of the package of the Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2008. (Sponsors were Senator Chris Dodd and Representative Barney Frank. Both Democrats. Both gone from Congress.) Is there a pattern here? Dunno – yet! What's ahead for G-S Lite? Dunno – yet!
As for predicting the future — of course, that was easy — the American Banking Association has now filed suit to challenges the legality of the Volcker Rule. Is this 1933…1986…1998…2008? Doesn't matter — some of the challenges posed are consistent. Do Stay Tuned to our banking system! And calls for more regulation and less regulation and oversight. So that's an example of tuning in to yesteryear and today and peering into the future as events unfold.
Your feedback on my commentaries and ramblings are welcome. Thank you for tuning in today — I will try not to disappoint.


Travelling can be uncomfortable and unsafe, especially for a pet. If you are transporting your pet without any guarantee that they would be safe and comfortable, it would put you through a lot of worries, especially if the journey is long. Therefore, it is important to take the required steps to ensure that all standards of travelling are met for your pet. To gain nothing but the best travelling experience for your pet, you should consider getting services of pet shipping.
As professionals will be taking care of the travelling experience of your pet, you should have no doubt about its quality and standards as your given the students that your pet will be safe and happy from the start of the journey to the end.
It is best that you have a proper budget for the trip. Thus, getting to know the cost for the services that you get from the professionals is a must before you decide on what your budget is. If you are having plans of taking your pet on a trip interstate, looking into flying pets interstate cost would certainly be helpful. Having an idea on the cost that you have to pay for your pet to travel to the destination under professional supervision would make the entire process easier.
Especially if you are moving to another country with your pet, you should take your time to learn about the rules and the regulations regarding pet migration. Having looked into these rules and regulations would certainly help you create a much better idea on the challenges you will have to face and how to overcome them.
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Online Marketing: How Do You Start Such a Complicated Process?
28 April 2015 | Online Marketing
Age-old, traditional marketing is a grueling process. That's a fact. It's a conglomeration of careful planning, launching, creating buzz, promotional efforts, damage control, etc. In itself, it's a competitive industry to be in. You need to be ingenious to present an advertising moment in a sea of the most wicked marketers. But how do you…	Continue Reading
The 4 Means to Review Your Website's Mobile Capabilities for Google's 2015 Update
Google announced their latest update in their mobile search algorithm today, April 21, 2015. In this most recent mandate by the world's leading search engine, they have cautioned that non-compliant sites of Google's mobile-ready guidelines will be greatly affected. Basically, the update will be affecting the wide coverage of mobile searching queries, severing the desktop…	Continue Reading
5 Ways Your Business Could Benefit From Using Twitter
Of all the social media tools available in the World Wide Web these days for business purposes, Twitter has to be the one that's mostly misunderstood and underestimated. When you wish to pursue your online marketing Egypt strategy to its completion, Twitter can be a useful tool in helping you achieve the prominence and traffic…	Continue Reading
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Headlines for September 21, 2016 | Democracy Now!
Charlotte, North Carolina, was rocked by protests overnight, after hundreds took to the street and blocked Interstate 85 to protest the fatal police shooting of 43-year-old African American Keith Lamont Scott on Tuesday. Video footage shows protesters blocking the highway, where fires were lit. Police in riot gear responded by throwing tear gas at the crowds. Police say about a dozen officers were hurt during the conflict. Protesters were also injured. Keith Lamont Scott was shot and killed around 4 p.m. after police arrived to serve an arrest warrant for another person at Scott's housing complex. The accounts of the shooting diverge sharply. While the police claim they first tased and then shot Scott because he was armed and "posed an imminent deadly threat," Scott's family says he was not armed—except with a book in hand. They say he had been sitting in his car, waiting to pick up his son after school. This is Scott's daughter speaking in a Facebook live video recorded at the scene of the shooting.
The officer who shot Scott was also black; police identified him as Brentley Vinson, who has been placed on administrative leave. Three years ago, police in Charlotte shot and killed Jonathan Ferrell, an unarmed African-American college student who was seeking help after a car crash in 2013. Officer Randall Kerrick fired 12 bullets at Ferrell. Officer Kerrick was tried and acquitted of voluntary manslaughter last year.
This comes as protests also erupted in Tulsa, Oklahoma, over the fatal police shooting of 40-year-old African American Terence Crutcher, who was shot by a white police officer, Betty Shelby, while his hands were in the air. Hundreds gathered Tuesday outside the Tulsa Police Department demanding her firing. Crutcher was shot and killed around 8 p.m. on Friday, after his car broke down. Some of the video released Monday came from police helicopter footage, in which one can hear the man in the helicopter saying about Crutcher, "That looks like a bad dude, too." Footage from police dash cam video shows Crutcher walking away from officers with his hands in the air, then putting his hands on the side of his own car, as he's surrounded by officers. The video captures a voice coming over the police radio saying, "He's just been tasered," and then a woman's voice yelling "Shots fired," as the video shows Crutcher's arms falling to the pavement. We'll have more on these shootings with Bree Newsome and Vincent Warren of the Center for Constitutional Rights after headlines.
In news from the war in Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are meeting in New York today to discuss the collapse of the ceasefire agreement and the attack on U.N. aid convoys on Monday. This comes as the United States is saying Russia is likely responsible for Monday's attack, which destroyed 18 of the convoys as aid workers were unloading food and other supplies at a Red Crescent warehouse. The Red Cross says 20 people were killed. Russia has denied responsibility.
In updates to this weekend's bombings in New York and New Jersey, suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami has been charged in a Manhattan federal court with bombing, property destruction and the use of weapons of mass destruction. He was not charged with any terrorism-related crimes. Rahami is the main suspect in the bombings. Police say they identified Rahami from surveillance video which showed him at both sites in Manhattan where bombs were planted—on 23rd Street, where a bomb did explode, injuring 29 people, and four blocks away, on 27th Street, where a bomb did not explode. Authorities also say his fingerprints were found on the device planted at 27th Street. He was arrested after a shootout in Linden, New Jersey, on Monday, in which he and officers were both injured, and he also faces multiple counts of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer. The charges filed Tuesday in the Manhattan courtroom suggest prosecutors have not been able to tie Rahami to any non-state terrorist organizations. This comes as information continues to emerge about Rahami. His father says Rahami was arrested in 2014 for allegedly stabbing a family member. He was not indicted on the charges. His father says at the time he called the FBI and referred to his son as a terrorist, prompting the FBI to open an investigation, which found no evidence to support his father's statement.
In news from the campaign trail, a new Washington Post investigation reveals Donald Trump used $258,000 from his family foundation, the Donald J. Trump Foundation, to pay off legal fees associated with his businesses—which is illegal under U.S. law. The disputes included $120,000 in unpaid fines over the height of a flagpole in Palm Beach, Florida, and a dispute over a Trump golf course in New York. In both cases, Trump reached settlements that involved him paying out foundation money to other charities. But this money should have been paid by his for-profit businesses, not the foundation. A previous Washington Post investigation showed Donald Trump has not donated any of his own money to his foundation since 2008. Meanwhile, the new Post investigation also reveals Trump used foundation money to buy advertisements for his hotels and to buy a $10,000 portrait—of himself. This is now the second documented case of Donald Trump using his own foundation's money to buy portraits of himself. The other one was six feet tall and cost $20,000.
Here in New York, the United Nations General Assembly held its first-ever Summit for Refugees and Migrants. The summit produced a nonbinding declaration detailing a more coordinated and humane response to the biggest migration upheaval since World War II. President Obama also announced the United States will resettle 110,000 refugees from around the world—a nearly 60 percent increase from 2015, but still only a tiny fraction of the number of refugees resettled in other countries. Only hours after the meeting was occurring in New York, a massive fire swept through a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. The fire at the Moria camp destroyed dozens of homes and tents, and forced thousands of people to flee. We'll have more on the Summit for Refugees and Migrants later in the broadcast.
In Brussels, Belgium, as many as 15,000 people marched Tuesday to demand the EU abandon two controversial trade deals: the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the EU and the U.S., and the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between the EU and Canada. This is one of the protesters.
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, known as TTIP, would be the largest trade deal in the world. It's faced resistance both in the U.S. and across Europe.
In a landmark ruling, a federal judge in Pennsylvania has ordered the immediate release of a prisoner from long-term solitary confinement. Arthur "Cetewayo" Johnson has not touched another human other than a guard since 1979. He is challenging his conditions as cruel and unusual. He described his isolation in a statement for the court, saying: "During my over 36 years in solitary confinement, my cell has been about 7 feet by 12 feet, smaller than many cages used to hold animals at zoos. … [M]y cell has been lighted 24-hours per day, with no break during day or night. … I have been allowed at most one hour of time outside, five days a week, in a fenced-in exercise cage that is slightly larger than my cell. … I have been forced to eat all of my meals alone in my cell. Each time I leave my cell I am forced to undergo a mandatory strip-search. … I have not been accused of any serious disciplinary infraction in more than 25 years." On Tuesday, Judge Christopher Conner called for a plan within a week to reintegrate Johnson into general population in 90 days. Johnson was convicted of homicide and sentenced to life without parole at age 18. He is now 64. While behind bars, he became politicized though the Black Liberation Movement. His case is handled by the Abolitionist Law Center and Jones Day law firm.
And in news from the ongoing movement to stop the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chairman Dave Archambault II has called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to oppose the project, saying the United States has failed to honor the tribe's sovereign rights and treaty land.
That's Dave Archambault II speaking in Geneva at the United Nations Human Rights Council.


In the previous lesson, Arena with warriors in Java, we made an arena that simulates two warriors in battle. In today's tutorial, we're going to expand our knowledge of object-oriented programming. In the introduction of this course, we mentioned that the OOP is based on three fundamental concepts: encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism. We're already familiar with the encapsulation and have used the private access modifier. Today, we're going to be taking a look at the two remaining concepts.
We see that we've used the "extends" keyword for inheritance.
In the example above, the private fields won't be accessible to the descendant. Only the fields and methods with the public modifier will. Private fields and methods are understood as a special logic that belongs to a certain class. Meaning that, they are hidden from descendants - even a descendant is actually using this logic, it's unable to modify it. To achieve the desired result, we'll use a new access modifier - protected.
The protected modifier makes a field or a method accessible to the class descendants from any package or to any class from the same package. So the descendant is now able to access it. There can be a problem with a fact that the field is publicly accessible, therefore, we often create separated packages for classes which are not related. Protected attributes then aren't accessible from other packages.
If we wanted fields or methods to be accessible only to the class itself and its descendants, we will not provide any access modifier.
Now, if we created user and administrator instances, they'd both have name fields and logIn() methods. Java will inherit the User class and redeclare all its fields automatically.
We can ask whether an object is of a given type using the instanceof operator. The code above checks whether there is a user or its descendant, administrator, in the u variable.
Languages can support either single or "multiple inheritance". With the single inheritance, a class can inherit only from one other class. With the "multiple inheritance", a class can inherit from several classes at the same time. Multiple inheritance never became very popular. We'll discuss why and show you how to work around it later. Java only supports the single inheritance. You can encounter multiple inheritance in the C++ language.


Today marked the day of the very first "Ultimate Showdown of Content Management Systems" which occurred at South by Southwest Interactive.
This event was an attempt to pit open source content management systems against each other in an effort to determine which one was the greatest. With a presentation style reminiscent of Iron Chef, the popular Cooking television show.. Open Source CMS leaders Joomla, WordPress and Drupal were pitted against one another.
The goal? To design the same website in each system and have the audience decide which one was the clear winner.
The websites which were created are available for viewing at: Drupalshowdown.com ; WPShowdown.com and Joomlashowdown.com respectively.
event was covered on Twitter. The hashtag of choice? #cmsshowdown.
When it came time to ask the audience to pick a winner, there was a resounding 'No' and they decided that they wanted to learn more about all three projects before determining the winner. So who wins the CMS Show Down?
In the spirit of Open Source and friendly competition.. all three teams came together to remind us why we all love these projects and why they are icons for the industry. Working together, these groups created some amazing sites showcasing their respective systems in a very short time, with a lot of camraderie and a whole lot of fun!


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US consulates in Kiev and Lvov have been evacuated amid Russian shelling →
Emerging G8 has bypassed G7 in terms of GDP
Col. Richard Black (ret.) was former head of the US Army's Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon and served in the Virginia legislature first as Representative and then as a State Senator and recently, 18-19 June, he addressed the topic "There Can Be No Peace Without the Bankruptcy Reorganisation of the Dying Trans-Atlantic Financial System."
PM Anthony Albanese is terrifying analysts by supporting NATO's expansionist policies and demonstrating the ALP Government will be an American clone. Albanese has not repeated his support for Julian Assange since becoming PM.
He said: "The sanctions war has failed. The entire financial might of the Western World was unleashed against Russia. The Biden administration swore that the Russian ruble would be crushed into dust. But today, the ruble is stronger than before the war. This year, it has been the strongest of all currencies. Russian inflation peaked around 15 per cent and is expected to subside. But as their inflation tops out, Europe's and America's have just begun skyrocketing dangerously. The price of bitcoin dropped 5,000 points just overnight. The stock market is becoming extremely erratic and rocky. The Economist reports that Russia is generating a record trade surplus, with a billion dollars a day flowing in from oil and gas. Russia's US$250 billion trade surplus more than doubled its surplus in the year before the war. Despite sanctions, Russia has forged stronger ties with China, India, South Africa, Iran, Brazil, Saudi Arabia; all of which continue trading at enhanced levels with Russia."
Other voices are speaking too.
"According to [Russian State] Duma President Volodin, the emerging G8, of Russia, China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, Iran, and Turkey, already has bypassed the G7 in terms of the GDP. Other organisations and nations are working toward a new model of a global order, such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Collective Security Treaty Organisation, ASEAN, and many nations in the Global South. What all of these countries are aiming at, is the wish for common poverty alleviation, real development of their physical economies, national sovereignty, the right to choose their own model of social and economic development, and cooperation in their mutual interests…."
"So, the 'democracies' are really only the US, Great Britain, the EU (which, however, is divided), Japan, Australia, and South Korea. So when, at the end of this month, the annual
NATO Summit meets in Madrid to present a plan for a Global NATO and a new security doctrine, without a real economic development plan, naturally, which it certainly will not have,
it will fail to address the actual needs of a world faced with famine, pandemic, and economic chaos."
The Australian Alert Service 29 June states: "Anthony Albanese has taken the reins of an Australian government apparatus that is tied closely into the Anglo-American war machine, and the failing City of London-Wall Street financial system.
While the new PM hasn't had a chance to do much yet, the early signs on foreign policy are alarming. His participation this week in the NATO summit in Spain, the alliance that deliberately caused the current Ukraine conflict, and his rhetoric pledging Australia will work with its NATO "allies and partners, globally and in the Indo-Pacific", combined with his refusal to repeat the public support he expressed as Opposition Leader for releasing Julian Assange, "demonstrate the strength of our bonds," he was reported as saying.
Source: CEC Australian Alert Service, 29 June 2022, Vol. 24, No. 26.
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Posted on July 5, 2022, in NATO, NWO, One World Government, political spin, Putin, Russia and tagged Julian Assange, NATO. Bookmark the permalink. 13 Comments.
Mit | July 13, 2022 at 12:36 pm
Why Mr Priminister are you refusing to help Julian Assange and bring him home.Why is he being condoned for speaking the truth.
daviddd2 | July 9, 2022 at 4:18 am
I doubt that the Money Changers are unaware of the effects of their actions. They are obviously foreseeable to most people so it can't be that their thousands and thousands of "experts" are oblivious to their consequences.
As I said, the first world countries are getting a haircut, the 2nd and 3rd world countries are getting a blow wave. All in the name of "bridging the gap" and the reset to the globalist controllers agenda.
Our pain, their gain. It's just a matter of profit taking and a shake up they stage through crises engineered as "global financial crises", eg. the Depression, etc. Wholesale asset stripping, from the poor to the rich. 🙂
CATACLYSMIC DUCK | July 7, 2022 at 12:55 am
Mexican President Calls for Statue of Liberty Removal amid Assange Prosecution.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) called for the removal of the Statue of Liberty in New York if the U.S. proceeds with the extradition and prosecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
The Mexican politician made the comment during one of his morning news conferences on July 4.
"We need to start the campaign to remove the Statue of Liberty that the French gave and is in New York because it is no longer a symbol of freedom," Lopez Obrador said.
In his news conference, AMLO said that he would be bringing up the issue in an upcoming meeting with President Joe Biden.
"It's a matter of humanism," he said. "If they don't do it, they will be stained."
The Mexican politician has been a fierce defender of Assange and his work to release classified documents through Wikileaks. In the past, Lopez Obrador called Assange "the best journalist of our time" and his prosecution "an embarrassment to the world."
Referenced from an article in Breitbart by Ildefonso Ortiz & Brandon Darby 5 July 2022
I reckon there would be more chance of Albanese sitting on Biden's knee to feel which way the wind blows than putting his mouth, let alone his body on the line for a fellow Australian.
Vote 1 Lopez Obrador for Australia's 1st President.
crisscross767 | July 6, 2022 at 9:21 am
The Khazarian Mafia and their marionettes want to rule the world
"It was only after September 11 that the Plan [for world domination] emerged in full."
"……….Back in the 1980s, the Khazarian Mafia—more specifically the Neoconservatives—took over the Reagan administration and put a different cast in the political landscape.[1] Jewish legal scholar Stephen M. Feldman begins his book Neoconservative Politics and the Supreme Court: Law, Power, and Democracy by saying that
"For more than twenty years, starting in 1980, the neoconservatives stood at the intellectual forefront of a conservative coalition that reigned over the national government. Neocons earned this prominent position by leading an assault on the hegemonic pluralist democratic regime that had taken hold of the nation in the 1930s."[2]
Feldman is not alone here. Other Jewish scholars and writers have come to the same conclusion.[3]
Ever since the Khazarian Mafia took over the US foreign policy, America has been looking for dragons and monsters and goblins to destroy in the Middle East, which is totally contrary to what the Founding Fathers had envisioned. Irving Kristol, one of the founding fathers of the Neoconservative movement, declared back in 1996:
"With the end of the Cold War, what we really need is an obvious ideological and threatening enemy, one worthy of our mettle, one that can unit us in opposition."[4]
"……..The Khazarian Mafia's plan to dominate the world through "unilateralism" was leaked to the New York Times in March of 1992, and both the left and the right reacted with horror. Bill Clinton's deputy campaign manager, George Stephanopoulos, said that the Pentagon was trying to "find an excuse for big defense budgets instead of downsizing."[26] Even President Bill Clinton was petrified by the plan.
"…….But if people in places like Germany are angry about what's happening to their country, they need to start attacking the real snake. And this has been one of my biggest problems with people like Alex Jones. They never tell us who has been pushing perpetual wars in the Middle East, despite the fact that they know all the facts.
Moreover, if president-elect Donald Trump wants to implement "America First," then he needs to cut the head of the snake, which we all know is the Israeli regime. This snake has been crawling around politicians in the West for years, and it is high time that we stop this unconditional alliance with that snake.
Trump can talk about "America First" all day, but until we deal with the root of the problem, we're going back to perpetual wars because "America First" and an unconditional support for Israel are antithetical. Not only that, they are at war with each other. Over the next four years, one will prevail over the other, and let us hope that it is not the snake that prevails……………."
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/12/23/the-khazarian-mafia-and-their-marionettes-want-to-rule-the-world/
Laughing on the Way to Armageddon — Paul Craig Roberts
"…………..The United States has an ambassador to the world who shows no signs of intelligence, who behaves as if she is Mike Tyson or Bruce Lee to the 5th power, and who is the total antithesis of a diplomat. What does this tell about the United States?
It reveals that the US is in the Roman collapse stage when the emperor appoints horses to the Senate.
The United States has a horse, an uncivilized horse, as its diplomat to the world. The Congress and executive branch are also full of horses and horse excrement. The US government is completely devoid of intelligence. There is no sign of intelligence anywhere in the U.S. government. Of or morality. As Hugo Chavez said: Satan is there; you can smell the sulphur.
America is a joke with nuclear weapons, the prime danger to life on earth.
How can this danger be corralled?
The American people would have to realize that they are being led to their deaths by the Zionist neocon nazis who, together with the military/security complex and Wall Street, control US foreign policy, by the complicity of Europe and Great Britain desperate to retain their CIA subsidies, and by the harlots that comprise the Western media.
Are Americans capable of comprehending this? Only a few have escaped The Matrix.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/09/08/laughing-way-armageddon-paul-craig-roberts/
H. | July 5, 2022 at 7:02 pm
One more thought to add to David's: it's those tangible assets beneath the steppe and tundra, – their magnetism is simply too irresistible.
It's Baku or bust said Adolf, problem was, the Brits were there first, robbing and massacring the locals.
daviddd2 | July 5, 2022 at 6:10 pm
"Now I must have missed something,What did Russia do to America, to have them go after them for years and manipulate so many countries, into joining NATO and hounding Russia ?"
A couple of thoughts…
It's a well established tradition since Napoleon in 1812. He was followed the British in the Crimean War, by the Habsburgs in WW1, and by the Nazis in WW2.
Seems Russia is a popular military graveyard for the Western powers. So maybe the US is hoping to be the first to break the jinx!
But first, like the Nazis and the previous belligerents, they obviously know they need to get together yet another major coalition of the fascists in Europe if they are to have any chance of success.
comeinspinner | July 5, 2022 at 4:03 pm
How did Albo get to be PM ? t do not mean to be nasty , but…. A hopeless case I am afraid. What he is doing spells disaster. NATO has gone into full takeover mode. It seems where ever they go , the country ends up a bigger mess. Let us not forget NATO had 33 BIO-Labs in the Ukraine.. It wants to control the world. .And just to mention, Germany had at least one.
Now I must have missed something,What did Russia do to America, to have them go after them for years and manipulate so many countries, into joining NATO and hounding Russia ? I need education..
I thought NATO was a peacekeeping force. but obviously I was mistaken. I get a feeling Elbo is getting us in over our necks..
crisscross767 | July 5, 2022 at 2:13 pm
JPMorgan analysts warn: Fuel price to 5 euros – Russia counter-sanctions push the oil price to 380 dollars?
Given increasing pressure from the West, Moscow could retaliate and push the oil price up to $380 a barrel in an extreme case. Experts are now warning about that. This would plunge the world into a massive crisis and push fuel prices in Western Europe to around €5 a litre, Report24.news writes .
The escalating spiral of sanctions against Russia by the US-led West is already causing increasing economic and financial disruption around the world. Although most countries in the world do not participate in Western sanctions against Russia's SMO in Ukraine, they too are suffering from the sanctions against Moscow. However, analysts at JPMorgan Chase have now warned that world oil prices could hit a "stratospheric" $380 a barrel if US and European sanctions incite Russia to retaliate , Bloomberg reports ………………
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patriciaptursi | July 5, 2022 at 12:10 pm
The world is aligning. The spirituL war continues. Each day brings new sadness and atrocities.
H. | July 5, 2022 at 11:25 am
The West's sanctioning of Russia has done absolute wonders for the Russian economy, and through extension China and India, whilst simultaneously destroying the West's, – and especially Europe's economy.
The latest heat flow chart [see below] shows that capital is withdrawing from Europe at an astounding rate. German fuel bills have already risen by around 85%, and the smart money knows what's coming this winter,- no escaping the Great Reset here.
On the contrary, India is lapping up Russia's surplus energy, giving a boost to its already thriving economy [no downtrend here], whilst Indian investment trusts are showing good potential for capitalising on the positive outcomes of the Russian sanctions, etc, – certainly a promising place to dodge the Great Reset.
Another unseen variable, concerns the steep rise in fuel shipping costs, where for example, shipping to Japan formerly cost $61 per day, – and now costs a staggering $50,000 per day!. How can Japanese companies expect to compete with the G8 Asian nations supplied with cheap Russian energy? [time to dig out those rusty Katanas].
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/world-trade/fuel-shipping-costs-soar/
And then we have the G7's sanctioning of imported Russian gold, which will only backfire as with their other sanctions, if the rest of the World moves to a gold supported economy.
Looking at the heat map above, I'm wondering how long before Thailand and Malaysia ditch their G7 advisors and realign themselves with the rest of the G8 ASEAN nations?
As a primary exporter of commodities, one cannot remove Russia from the global economy without destroying one's own economy. The G7 are on the wrong side of history.
tonyryan43 | July 5, 2022 at 10:58 am
Here is an insight into Albanese, the man.
As the convenor of the Australian Independents Alliance, which linked a dozen independent candidates with a plan to force an alliance with one of the major parties, an organisation with its own hard-copy newspaper, I approached Albanese to seek his response to the prospect of coalition.
Politically, this was the time for such a move, when joint policies could be negotiated and compromises thrashed out. Clearly, this could be a coalition that could work well for decades and reintroduce a grassroots element to Labor. But the time for action was now, with Gillard holding the reins but with no idea which way to go except to serve her Zionist owner, Albert Dadon the Melbourne developer.
This move would have forever sidelined the LNP and Greens, and to some extent, pulled Labor back towards its worker base.
Albanese's sole response was "I will be interested to see what happens". No commitment at all and, of course, acknowledging the numbers game, Gillard and her cronies simply approached each independent candidate and promised them a cabinet position if they won. The rest is history. Chaos and nothing achieved.
Today, we have the same indecisive fencesitter; a man of zero vision and nowhere principles, who could not even execute the obvious and demand Assange, a man who had committed no crime, who merely reported US war crimes, be sent home to Australia. Any Australian of integrity would have made this his first move, guaranteed to be successful and to put Albanese's name in the history books.
With his arse on the fence and his hands in his pockets, fumbling compulsively, he keeps his eyes on the ground even while giving Klaus his BJ.
With the world's peak military and geopolitical strategic minds all calling out the WEF and Biden as catastrophically failing in their stated objective, actually destroying the west, economically and militarily, Albanese continues to grovel to the losers.
It's sickening.
Ydonu Farkov | July 5, 2022 at 10:35 am
Albo, the political hack deserves nothing but contempt. Never held a real job so all BS and giggles. On the Assange issue, I'm hoping but not holding my breath that maybe they are trying hush hush diplomacy and as such no public statements from Albo which will let the Seppos save some face.


"Often our lives become so driven that we are moving through our moments to get to better ones at some later point. We live to check things off our to-do list, then fall into bed exhausted at the end of the day, only to jump up the next morning to get on the treadmill once again," writes mindfulness expert Jon Kabat-Zinn. I couldn't think of a better way to describe how activity driven we have all become.
Do You Have A Mantra To Keep Calm?
We certainly need ways to keep calm in the midst of our hectic lives. In our constant pursuit of perfection, we often put pressure on ourselves. We think we have the day all planned and set up and then something will come up that puts us off course! Someone irritates us and all hell breaks loose. The electricity goes off and all our plans to complete some work go awry.
Then there are special days – job interviews, pitching for a contract, undergoing a surgery, writing an exam, waiting for test results…Days when we need to keep calm.
Most mornings I start with gratitude and surrender. I can't tell you how much of a difference they make to the way I look at the day ahead!
I am grateful for this day and all that it will bring.
I'm open and receptive to all the joy and abundance of the Universe.
This day will bring only good things my way.
Everything works for good in my life.
I'm learning something from this experience.
Thank you (to the 'Great Being Upstairs') for this situation. I know you are in control.
True Corrine! For me too gratitude is the mantra to keep me going calmly.
I think the only mantra to keep calm is to know yourself and then do things that work towards pacifying the turmoil within. I don't have check lists. There is one small one which is so that I don't forget to pay bills and helps. But other than that, I ensure that I do things that are important. Work out, eat healthy, staying focused at work and spending time with family. Every other thing will find a way to fit into the schedule but I don't push myself to check things off the list. Like cleaning, house hold chores etc. I end my day with my gratitude list for the day.
I like that you start with positive energy. That's a beautiful way.
My keep calm mantra is look inside and see what makes me happy.That always works for me.
I also do some grounding techniques and aura cleansing when I can. And yes, chakra healing too.
I like your morning mantra. I do my gyatri mantra chanting. It fills my day with postivity.
Very cool one Corinne – I somehow have not been able to find the surrender yet. I am pursuing yoga, pranayam and meditation in the morning hours and hoping to calm myself down with that eventually!!
Thanks for sharing the calmness mantra in a life driven by madness and indulging in a slugfest with someone over something or the other that can rob us of mental peace. I try practicing mindfulness and meditation to help me out. Love the idea of being in Control, Corinne.
I loved your morning mantra.. I also chant almost similar things.
Your morning mantra is pretty much like the traditional Sanskrit prayer that most of us say in the morning . Starting the day with gratitude does set the tone for a good day. As for me , when things are going wrong I calm myself by saying that nothing lasts forever!
At the end of the day, I try to practice winding down by reviewing the events of the day with gratitude and then turning each thing over to God in preparation for a new day. I very often am asleep before I finish, and I don't think God minds this one bit.


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Q: Excel VBA Iteration Copy and Paste I'm trying to create a macro that declares a range of cells and copies and pastes each cell 1 at a time  in to cell "A2". This should only happen if the cell in column have data present.
The error I'm getting is a Run-Time error '1004' Application-defined or object-defined error.
I'm more from a C# background so I'm hoping its just a syntax error but this is what I have so far.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Sub Update1()
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' Update1 Macro
' Update
'
  Dim PartListRange As Range
  Dim PartListCell As Range

  Set PartListRange = Sheets("Query").Range("C2:100")

  For Each PartListCell In PartListRange.Cells
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     End If
  Next PartListCell

End Sub

A: This is a slightly different way of doing the same thing, using .Cells(row,col) and setting the values using a loop.
Using lastRow, instead of row 100.  You can change that if need be.  I'm including it, because most times that's needed.
What this does:

*

*Loop through the range of 2-100 or 2-lastRow, depending on your choice.

*Check the value in column "C" to make sure it isn't empty.

*If not empty, copy to Range("A2").  (note, each iteration that the conditions match will over-write)

*Pause in the action to run a macro or call another sub, using a MsgBox, in this example as a placeholder
Code:  Un-comment lines related to lastRow to utilize it.
Sub conditionalCopy()

'Dim lastRow As Long
Dim lRow As Long
Dim sName As String

    sName = "Query"
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        End If
    Next lRow

End Sub

A: If Cel.Value <> "" Then

you spelt Cell wrong
ParListCell

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Amazon's Rings of Power
Racist Harfoots?
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ArnoleIstari
So I read an article from the Irish Times, link below, where the author had real concerns that the Rings of Power were being racist towards Celtic people, the Irish in particular because of the accents of the Harfoots. Is there anyone in Ireland who felt similar?
Rings of Power: The new hobbits are filthy, hungry simpletons with stage-Irish accents. That's $1bn well spent
After 20 minutes of this Lord of the Rings spinoff I'm having flashbacks to that EastEnders episode with the fightin' villagers and donkeys walking the streets
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Haerangil
They are filthy, hungry simpletons. But some too fake seeming accents i noticed too...
From the other points, what should i make out of it? That tv should not show people who are poor, live under poor conditions, suffer from hunger and have no or little education?
That would be some strange conclusion.
Ilana Mushin
I have to say I was surprised at how the accents all sound so familiar to parts of the British Isles. But I don't see the Harfoots as 'filthy, hungry simpletons'. They have a sophisticated society and culture that is related to the way they live in the world. I think the need for distinguishing accents is part of how the show is trying to keep each race separate, but also because all of the actors have different natural accents (the actress playing Nori is Australian, but Lenny Henry isn't). Still, I reckon if one of the races were speaking with Australian accents, I'd be having a hard time not thinking that the makers of the show were drawing on Australian stereoypes in their choice. So I can see the concern from Irish people. But I really would push back on the Harfoots as simpletons.
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They are not very clean.That is because they hide in the wilderness and because they cannot change their clothes every day and probably do not have so many different clothes after all.They are hungry.This is because they are a poor people, most likely gatherers and smalltime hoe-farmers, and well, because Hobbits are supposed to have the trait of loving to eat, maybe because their forefathers were a poor folk their descendants still enjoy the good sides of life and eating is part of that. They are a simple folk, they are not really stupid or retarded or anything like it, but they are not a learned people, not a high culture.Most of them most likely can not write and read, they do not seem to know any metallurgy,,they are stoneagers i believe, Sadoc is seemingly the only one who can decipher the ancient glyphs, and we don't know their origins. Outsiders would have seen them as filthy, hungry simpletons, excwpt for maybe the hunters who by themselves were an even more primitice culture. Even their later descendants were seen as stupid farmers by the dwarves...
I am not a native speaker so i do not know what to think of the accents. If they spoke various german accents i'd find that quite odd... hence german syncronisation usually doesn't do that.Our accents are too closely associated with our own regional stereotypes so such a thing could never work.
But i'd also like to challenge that definition of racist.It is not like they say the irish are a biological race and are by nature and genetics determined to always be filthy, poor and dumb. I know certain historic stereotypes did and do exist but racism imho is another thing.
Actually... now that i defended the proto-hobbits culture ,i'll have to say i like how they painted their culture and gave them lots of depth without explaining anything at all. That is pretty good worldbuilding in this field!
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Eryn Lasgalen
Ireland itself has many, many different accents. At least 10 by some counts - many more if you include the gradations of one accent into another as you travel from region to region. The accent of the Harfoots is, indeed, a means of distinguishing them and their culture from the other races. It's sort of Irish, but since none of the present day Irish accents existed in the Second Age, one cannot say it's an Irish accent per se, nor reasonably take offense from it.
Samwise Gamgee had a kind of West Country accent in the PJ LOTRs. You could take offense at that & complain that the Hobbit of 'lower' social class (as compared with Frodo, Merry & Pippin) was made to speak such. Or you could take pride in a protagonist - some would say 'the' protagonist - speaking with the West Country accent.
The situation is the same here. The Harfoots are simply earlier in their evolution that other races and so have not yet attained a certain sophistication. But to focus on that would be to miss their intelligence, resilience, loyalty, love and purity of heart. Better attributes, I would argue, than riches and glitter.
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Was just waiting for someone to draw the racist card.
Rob Harding
Urgh. Do we have to use 'drawing the racist card' as a phrase when someone expresses offence or discomfort? People are allowed to express opinions without being gaslit, no?
Eryn Lasgalen said:
I felt it was more of a melting pot accent. There were blends of different Irish lilts and a little West Country and some Birmingham in there (though that may have just been Lenny Henry's true Brumminess leaking through). I felt it was similar to hearing Original Pronunciation Shakespeare which is very hard to pin down but has a sort of Cockney, West Country, Brummie, Irish, with some American in the blend. Since it comes from a much earlier time when those voices were thrown in the stew and before some even split off to become their own thing. Felt fitting.
Rob Harding said:
Just as one can use Irish accents without being racist. I will say no further on this topic.
Makar said:
But the Irish happen to be sentitive about being portrayed as uneducated lower-class by Anglo-Saxon mainstream. And despite the Irish being factually the most fair-skinned of all Europeans, the English did not count them in as "white" historically. So the Irish do feel to have been racially discriminated against by the English. As such a little sensitivity towards their vulnerability in this regard would not be ill-advised (have had the luck to have lived in the Republic of Ireland for several years).
There certainly is a culture in Britain of denigrating the Irish. But not to cast an entire country as victims, I would say that I don't think most Irish viewers would have taken offense. Regardless, people are allowed to be offended. People are also allowed to offend. And in response, other people are then allowed to express their opinion in the face of that offense. If there is freedom of speech, it goes in all directions. So does the freedom for people to respond in kind and for minds and choices to be changed and actions taken.
Again, I didn't personally see much racism in the hobbits. Perhaps a level of classism and the proliferation of the idea of the 'noble poor'. The working class being dim but with hearts of gold. Maybe? But also, this is a primitive culture and not analogous to any one group, so I don't think there's too much substance to the argument, other than the choice of Irish accents. Which I suppose one could argue as in the cultural milieu, the Irish accent holds a place as being indicative of those stereotypes fore-mentioned. I don't think it's an outright offence but I also don't think there is zero substance to the complaint.
Let's have the kind of robust discourse we enjoy on this site. But to just disregard entirely and gaslight those expressing their concerns and genuine hurt is really unpleasant and not something to be promoted.
The idea of a 'race card' is a horrible terminology proliferated largely by groups who don't want to engage in issues of racial identity and sensitivity and thus try to trivialise the issues but mocking those who raise them. To be clear, I am not saying that is at all Makar's direct personal intent. But that is where the language is rooted and how it plays out. I just think let's put that all to one side and continue the considered conversation that normally goes on around these parts.
I felt it was similar to hearing Original Pronunciation Shakespeare which is very hard to pin down but has a sort of Cockney, West Country, Brummie, Irish, with some American in the blend.
Occurred to me also. For those who haven't heard it, here's a sample, using Hamlet's soliloquy:
. The older long e is the most obvious thing we don't have ('sleep' sounds closer to a drawn-out 'step'), but there's a lot of twists and turns that sound familiar.
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Ben Crystal is an absolute legend. I watched some of his lectures/training sessions and he does a great job of showing how the jokes and puns really hit if you just perform them with original accents.
Having now seen Episode 3, I can understand these concerns better. In the first two episodes, we are introduced to this culture and their way of life. It's fairly idyllic, if also simple hunter-gatherer as well. So, yes, the characters are dirty, and have baggy clothes, and messy hair with stuff stuck in it. They also come across as simpletons, to some extent. But...overall, the portrayal is strongly positive. So, it doesn't seem as though there would be much to complain about, if there is a real-world connection. Who wouldn't like these Harfoots?
My impression of Episodes 1 and 2 was that the leader (Sadoc) was perhaps the only literate character. Now, we know that Nori also is expected to be able to read. So, literacy may not be universal among them, but it's more widespread than just one person. We still don't know the origin of the book and scrolls, though.
But Episode 3 shows the migration happening, in a caravan where each family must pull their own cart. It is also the case that if you fall behind...you are left behind. There is an ominous ruthlessness to their approach of 'no one left behind'. It is also revealed that the punishment for breaking their many secrecy rules is ostracization/exile. So, maybe not so idyllic after all, and maybe not so entirely likeable. Which is fine - no actual culture is beyond reproach or criticism, so it makes sense that there may be aspects of this one that are...not so great.
But that is where it becomes tricky if the audience is being invited to make real-world parallels. The accent may be pointing Irish (I wouldn't know), but the caravan method of travel could point to the Roma. And there are a lot of existing stereotypes and prejudices there as well.
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Irish Traveller community is large in Britain and very much faces prejudice and misunderstanding. HOWEVER most of the stereotypes and common insults levelled at the community are not present here. I think it has a distinct flavour as a nomadic tribe. From what we have seen so far anyway.
I am quite acquainted with the stereotypes commonly associated with gypsies and travellers...
I do not see them in the proto-hobbits.


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Short talks and quiz
Reading Branch meeting 12th December 2019
Speaker: Members
There were two short talks by members, a Berkshire dialect quiz from Vicki and the traditional non-alcoholic mulled wine and mince pie courtesy of Rosemary and Angie.
Angie Catt spoke about her great-grandfather John Gibbons (West) born in Bath who enlisted in the 12th Prince of Wales Lancers in 1849 in Reading. At his attestation he was stated as being eighteen and a half, and five feet nine inches tall. He was involved in the 8th Kafir War which was the longest military action in Africa lasting 100 years. It was actually nine wars in the Eastern Cape where Smith was disgraced and dismissed. He survived the sinking of HMS Birkenhead where the first use of the command "Women and Children first" was issued in 1852. His military career took him from battles with the Xhosa in Africa; Crimea 1845, Sevastopol 1855 and his last campaign was in the Indian Mutiny 1857. Retiring after 12 years' service he married Frances Caroline Abbott in 1861.
Peter Caton spoke of a re union with an old college friend Ian Rodwell Dixon who had researched the Luddites. Sadly, the friend died shortly after and Peter has taken up the story with an idea of publishing it. It revolves around lace making in Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire which was a traditional industry carried out by women. Industrialisation by way of power looms in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Ned Lud has been associated with destroying machinery in the name of the Luddites so who was he? A prime candidate had been identified by Peter's friend as Edward Ludlam b1735 d1776 son of William who had died when he was young. The background to the story revolves around the Poor Law Guardians, lace frames, and Edward not being able to bring home the bread from a factory in Anstey Leicestershire, due to possible autism. Records show he was "slow" and had marks on his back from being lashed. Further research found that damage had been caused in the factory where Edward worked and he was blamed, later the factory foreman was charged with the damage which he had received payment from a rival factory in Nottinghamshire. Peter intends to do more in this excellent piece of detective work in which no one has identified the mysterious General Ned Lud.
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lol buckeroomama! you are a mom! relish in that! even though the heidi klums of the world look like they did when they were 25 that is their "job" and "if" they didn't look like that it would be someone elses job! lol so don't beat yourself up, i'm sure they are killing themselves with unhealthy diets and tons and tons of over exercise! lol, well let's just tell ourselves they are... hahaha hope you have a great fathers day weekend!
So, if you want me to ship you one, just let me know:). Seriously though, I think coming to like the not perfect me shape much more than I liked the more perfect me shape is one of the great gifts of middle age. I like my shoulders. And my feet. Everything in between did its job with the babies:).
Oooooooh, you're good -- much nicer to yourself than I am ;) I need to take note!
I was just thinking about this the other day. What I would like to trade in: my skin, as it is too oily and my calves, as they also appear disproportionate to my thighs (maybe I am the only one who sees this). What I like most: my eyes, hair, hands, body shape, teeth, and ears.
Well, if we had personal trainers like those celebrities do, then I think we'd be in shape quickly too.lol.
It is hard to accept how our bodies change after pregnancies. I'd take a new belly or just my pre-pregnancy belly. I try to appreciate what my body has done and what it still does. I can run 4 miles and I made 2 beautiful babies.
Fortunately, my three childbirths have not done too much to "expand" me. OK, I can't fit into me honeymoon Guess jeans anymore, but I'm almost as slim as Brooke Burke in that picture ;-P When Narelle stops breastfeeding, I may even get my breasts back in shape... have a blessed weekend!
It is great that you list the things you like about your body, instead of focusing only on the negative.
I wish my thighs were thinner. I am grateful that my eyes and ears work well. I'm glad that my head is a nice size. My ankles are nice and thin. Let's not mention my stomach. Baby #4 murdered my ab muscles.
Uh oh, now we're in dangerous territory. I'd pretty much trade it all in for a newer, updated model.
Yeah, it's all about the personal trainer. Since, I'm 5'3" and 4 sizes bigger than I was 8 years ago, I try to never compare myself to a super model. Ghack!
I'm in my late 30's and it seems that 40 is right around the corner :( So, I have a belly pooch - but can I hate it when it is a result of 3 beautiful children? I try not to.
I also like my dimples.
You are gorgeous! That's what life is about. There are no perfect body types. I figured that out years ago.
I watched a video in which Heidi Klum talked about her strenuous workouts to do the VS show. It was really hard work! No kidding! I don't think I have that stamina to do all those exercises.
My best feature is my nose. Many people think I had a nose job. I like your positive take on your body image. I wish all women realize that every one of us has good and bad physical features.
Someone told me once that, in college, I was the "best I would ever look." I...didn't believe them. I thought, "yes, but I have the REST of my life to lose this weight I don't want around!" I didn't realize how much popping out two babies would CHANGE my shape!
Hrm. So.....I just try to play up my favorite features. I love my eyes, and my hands, and Lo Gung loves my neck. Easy enough!
Brooke Burke is one of those people... if I could look like anyone.. I think she is beautiful and exotic looking.
But then again, just think how good we would look if we had personal trainers and stylists and make-up artists. I mean do you remember the before and after pictures on my wedding day? those people can work magic.


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Sports Betting Futures Odds: Fournette Hot on Boykin's Heisman Trail
by Ricky Dimon - 9/23/2015
Rarely do any future odds fluctuate more wildly than those regarding the Heisman Trophy. So is there even any reason to discuss them? Well, yes. It makes things especially entertaining with contenders emerging and disappearing by the week. Speaking of contenders, all four teams in the NFC East appear capable of winning the division-but not necessarily because any of them are looking good.
All odds provided by MyBookie.ag .
Trevone Boykin, TCU (+500) - The schedule will eventually get tougher, with three of the Horned Frogs last four regular-season contests coming against teams currently in the top 25. At the moment, Boykin is dominating and TCU is cruising. He has accounted for 12 total touchdowns (10 passing).
Leonard Fournette, LSU (+550) - Nobody is more of a physical, athletic freak than Fournette. After just two games, both his and his team's resumes are arguably the best in the nation. LSU boasts wins over Mississippi State and Auburn, and Fournette has rushed for 387 yards and six touchdowns.
Nick Chubb, Georgia (+550) - If Boykin stumbles in the near future, the top two-or more-Heisman favorites could be SEC running backs. Chubb is part of a more crowded backfield than Fournette, but he is doing his best to keep pace. The sophomore has 468 yards (averaging 8.4 per carry) and four scores through three outings.
Cody Kessler, USC (+800) - Unlike the three players ahead of him in the race, Kessler has a team loss that is hurting his stock. Despite USC's loss to Stanford last week, the senior QB has 10 touchdowns and no interceptions on the season. Alabama running back Derrick Henry and Baylor quarterback Seth Russell are also +800.
Dallas Cowboys (Even) - Under normal circumstances, a 2-0 team would seemingly just about have this otherwise moribund division wrapped up. But Dez Bryant was already out with a foot injury, and now Tony Romo will be sidelined for approximately eight weeks with a broken collarbone.
Philadelphia Eagles (Even) - No team has been more disappointing than highly-touted Philadelphia. Chip Kelly's squad is 0-2 following road losses to Atlanta and Dallas. On his current pace, highly-paid running back DeMarco Murray would not rush for 100 yards in the entire season.
New York Giants (+360) - The Giants definitely should have beaten Dallas in Week 1. They probably should have beaten Atlanta in Week 2. On the bright side, Odell Beckham Jr. is a beast, and fellow receiver Victor Cruz is nearing a return. The schedule over the next seven weeks is extremely favorable.
Washington Redskins (+500) - Washington looked like an afterthought heading into the 2015 campaign, and Week 1 did nothing to change that notion. But last Sunday could not have gone any better for the 'Skins. While they upset St. Louis, the rest of the NFC East dealt with significant problems.
Jason Day (+280) - Odds of +280 to win a golf tournament are just about unheard of, even when a field consists of just 30 players. After all, the 30 making the trip to Atlanta this week are arguably the 30 best in the world. Day has won four of his last six starts, including twice already during the FedEx Cup playoffs.
Rory McIlroy (+550) - McIlroy has been consistently decent in three appearances since the start of August: 17th at the PGA Championship, 29th at the Deutsche Bank, and fourth last week at the BMW. Unfortunately for the former world No. 1, decent has been nowhere near good enough to compete with Day.
Jordan Spieth (+650) - Despite two consecutive missed cuts to begin the playoffs, Spieth is still second in the cup standings behind Day heading into East Lake. The two-time major champion finally has some confidence back, too, after his 13th-place showing at the BMW included rounds of 65 and 66.
Henrik Stenson (+800) - At No. 4 in the standings, Stenson controls his own destiny this week: win the Tour Championship and he wins the FedEx Cup. The Swede finished runner-up at both The Barclays and the Deutsche Bank Championship before placing 10th last week. Current form suggests Stenson is one to watch in Atlanta.
Next James Bond
Tom Hardy (+150) - Daniel Craig is reportedly retiring from his run as James Bond after "Spectre," which hits theaters worldwide on Nov. 6. Hardy, a 38-year-old, who stands at a modest 5'9'', is best known for breakout performance in Inception (2010). He was also Max in Mad Max: Fury Road.
Henry Cavill (+200) - Is Superman the next Bond? It's certainly not out of the question, with Cavill a close second favorite behind Hardy. The 32-year-old Brit played Clark Kent in Man of Steel (2013) and is assuming the same role for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, coming out next year.
Idris Elba (+250) - Pierce Brosnan went out on a limb this week saying the next Bond cannot be a woman. He added that the next Bond can, however, be black-although he is not predicting it. Elba would be the first such Bond. The 43-year-old Londoner is best known for HBO's "The Wire" series and the film Mandela.
David Beckham (+15000) - The only athlete currently listed in the Bond odds, Beckham is aware of the rumors that have him running to be the next guy. He assured on Tuesday that he will not be the one, despite admitting that it was nice to be linked to the discussion. Maybe Ronaldo will be the next rumored soccer player?
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There's been much talk of dating rumors and musical collaborations between Drake and Taylor Swift, but they haven't actually been seen together lately—until now, that is. The Toronto rapper (known on Instagram as "champangnepapi") just posted a photo of himself and the pop star.
The shot appears to be from his 30th birthday party last week—which is where gossip of a Drizzy-TSwift romance started budding—and it vaguely shows Drake and Swift from behind, socializing with guests. The singer is even sporting a couple of flash tattoos (maybe she just came from Coachella?) with her black-on-black outfit, while Drizzy went for a luxe velvet blazer, hence the caption.
Now, nearly two weeks after the party, it turns out the two artists might actually be making music together, rather than pursuing a new romance.


Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC) are promising power generating devices that use an electrochemical reaction to convert the energy from hydrogen fuel into usable electricity. One cell produces a small voltage so many cells are combined in series in order to produce a useful voltage, this configuration is referred to as a stack. Hydrogen is supplied to the anode of the stack in amounts greater than the electrochemical reaction requires to guarantee that enough hydrogen is available for every cell in the stack and to provide enough pressure throughout the cell flow channels for good mass transfer. For reasonable fuel efficiency, the anode outlet gas containing unconverted hydrogen is recycled (or recirculated) back to the anode inlet. PEMFC performance is highest when pure hydrogen fuel is supplied, however, nitrogen at the cathode will permeate through the membrane and accumulate in the anode gas with recirculation. Nitrogen buildup dilutes the hydrogen gas which adversely affects fuel cell performance at the anode. Also, in practical applications hydrogen-rich gas produced from reformed methane, called reformate, is used as the fuel. Reformate contains impurities such as, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and sulfur compounds. This thesis will focus on trace levels of carbon monoxide entering in the hydrogen fuel stream, and the impact of contaminant build-up due to anode recirculation. Carbon monoxide adsorbs readily onto the platinum catalyst sites, called poisoning, thus decreasing PEMFC performance. In efforts to minimize the buildup of impurities and crossed over nitrogen, a portion of the anode outlet gas is periodically and continuously purged to the exhaust. How often the outlet gas is purged depends on a variable called the purge fraction. The purpose of this research is to study the effect of purge fraction on PEMFC performance, measured by the average cell voltage, for a Hydrogenics 10 cell stack. The operating parameters used for testing and the experimental apparatus were designed to mimic a Hydrogenics 8kW Hydrogen Fuel Cell Power Module. A pump connected between the anode outlet and anode inlet form the anode recirculation loop. In Phase 1 of the test program the effect of purge in the absence of carbon monoxide was studied to see if hydrogen dilution from nitrogen crossover and accumulation would cause significant cell voltage degradation. In Phase 2 the effect down to 0.2 ppm carbon monoxide was evaluated. The results showed that nitrogen buildup, in the absence of carbon monoxide, did not significantly penalize the cell performance in the range of purge fractions tested. However, for the same purge fraction but with as little as 0.2 ppm carbon monoxide present, the voltage loss was significant. A discussion of the effect of purge on the impurity concentration and the associated cell voltage degradation is detailed with particular emphasis on carbon monoxide poisoning.


Do you feel like either side should apologize?
The top Minnesota House Democrat is standing by a remark she made during a debate Monday as Republicans demand an apology.House Minority Leader Melissa Hortman said she hated "to break up the 100 percent white male card game in the retiring room," as she urged colleagues to listen to speeches from women of color on the House floor.
to those who were the focus of Rep. Hortman's comments and complained I say this, "When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression"
For them to be absent from the speeches because it shows their priorities and who they want to include in the conversation. Her reaction may not have been the "correct" option according to the rules, but sometimes you have to make some minor trouble to effect change.
I'm tired of the "disrespected white men" refrain. They are ignoring people of color so they deserve to be called out for it.
Hortman's colleagues should apologize. The disrespect of people with a great amount of privilege, given the topic of this debate, to simply not listen, brings the need for the right to protest into sharp relief. If elected officials literally close their ears to the opinions of other elected officials when they are from disadvantaged groups, how can anyone from those groups get heard? By protesting, even if that means jail, if this bill is signed.
As a woman of Hispanic descent, I say it is more disrespectful for Rep. Hortman to bring up race and gender. Respect and equality needs to be applied across the board -- not just demanding one group shows it to all other groups, and yet accept it when that group is slammed by others. Let's stop the hypocrisy NOW.
Rep. Hortman is right on. The truth hurts - power in MN rests in the hands of white males, not only at the legislature, but throughout the state.
I completely agree with Hortman's sentiment, but I disagree with her words. It would have been more effective to ask colleagues to look around and to observe who was in the room and who was not, and to ask for support to bring colleagues in to be sure they heard all perspectives. I must admit, however, that her sentiment would not have gotten the attention its getting had she done that.
Not much detail has been provided in the reports as to whether it is customary and acceptable not be present during speeches, so it is difficult to comment. I have observed a lot of empty seats during speeches. What I find troublesome is the application of a double standard. What if another speaker called out a minority group in a similar fashion? But, frankly white males seem to be the newly acceptable punching bags. And when it is challenged, the thinking seems to be, "Yeah, well they deserve it." I find this alarming and troubling.
Clearly much more disrespectful for House members to be playing cards in the back room rather than listen to fellow members and women of color speak from the heart.
Legislators have a responsibility to be present when the legislation is in session. And in Minnesota, a vast majority of those folks are white, male, and privileged. Playing politics with every nuance of words only shows that these men thought that cards was more important than their duty as state representatives.
Before dissecting the minor parts of the comment, focus on the intention and ask if her point if valid: people were ignoring a debate/presentation in the Minnesota State Capitol House of Representatives, not in a bar. Second, this happens more and more often. Deal with her intention, not sideshows. As a citizen, skipping any debate/discussion is not appropriate behavior for elected officials. Who was playing cards Representative Hortman? Well done no matter how you say it.
What I want to know is the names of the people who thought it was ok to play cards during working hours. I take OFFENSE to Rep Greg Davids statement! " Davids said. "Now, what happens in the retiring room is nobody's business." It most certainly is our business as we hired these representatives.
Are you kidding me? Why in 2017 are we still apologizing for pointing out white male privilege, and decision-making that excludes POC and women?
Rep. Hortman was very disrespectful to the House of Representatives. There is a much more professional way to address her personal displeasure of Retiring Room use during a debate. What is ironic is that she is complaining about debate disruption when she believes it is right for others to disrupt traffic and safty for "free speech/ protest" rights. What a hypocrite... Oh but wait, she's a democrat. That's typical behavior for people like her.
Hortman. Stop the grand standing and get to work.
I think it was EXTREMELY disrespectful for the white men not to listen to the speeches by women of color! To blame someone for calling this out is simply to blame someone for calling out the REALITY of US History -- for centuries ONLY WHITE MEN MADE THE SPEECHES -- MADE THE RULES! This is the TRUTH of our history and it NEEDS TO BE CALLED OUT AND CHANGED!
I believe that the disrespect was by the GOP who were making the statement that "information from minorities and women are not worth taking time out of their break time to listen to. These "isolationists" need to be open to other opinions and not just to their own.
Rep Hortman was disrespectful. Members wander in and out of session since much of the speechifying on both sides isn't going to change the outcome of a vote. What about members who were at their seats goofing around on the internet or playing games or fooling with their phones? They aren't listening either. Simply asking to have the absent members brought in would have sufficed. Adding a snarky stereotypical anti-white male bias comment to her request was churlish. TERM LIMITS are what is needed at the Capital.
Rep. Hortman called it as she saw it, and the white males did their usual PLM response: "Poor Little Me syndrome" reaction. This culture has ALWAYS held being a white male to be a superior position. It's the MEN who displayed a demeaning attitude toward their estrogen counterparts. And bravo to any men who showed courtesy to the women by staying and listening, no matter their political persuasion.
It was more disrespectful for her colleagues to not be present during the mentioned speeches. Leaving the floor to go to the washroom, grab a refreshment, or just take a brief break to attend to some other business, perhaps a personal need requiring attention is one thing. To sit and play cards, obviously not paying any attention to the presenters, is outrageous. It is even more outrageous if there is a pattern of doing it specifically when women and other minority groups in the chamber are speaking. The representatives are there to conduct the people's business. The issue of whether to make protesters pay for safety is an essential question in our democracy. To charge for it is to virtually ban freedom of speech, because only the wealthy will have it. I am very disheartened to learn that this type of behavior is going on.
The reference to race and gender was disrespectful. The fact that colleagues were not present on the floor to hear the speech is not even unusual, since most of the time, speakers are talking for their constituents back home and don't have any serious expectation of influencing other members during floor debate. The other members act accordingly.
Rep. Hortman was correct in pointing out the disrespectful behavior of her peers. Playing cards in another room is not what we pay our representatives to do. However, she could have gotten more people to pay attention by wording her admonishment appropriately. Pointing out their race and gender only made her comment controversial and did little to put the spotlight on their irresponsible and discourteous behavior. Plus, I'm not sure what race and/or gender had to do with the behavior. Yes, the speakers at the moment were minority women, but they shouldn't be heard because they are minority women. They should be heard because they have something valuable to add to the conversation.
I think it's very disrespectful to not be present during the speeches. People with privilege very rarely see their own privilege or how their behavior subtly maintains that privileged status for themselves. Perhaps Rep. Hortman could have used a different tactic to push the men into appropriate action but I do not think on the face of it calling out a gender is negative. I feel fairly certain it's been done to highlight women in different contexts and not acknowledged for the double standard.
Colleagues should be present for the speeches. This is not like CSPAN, where speeches occur when the House is not in session. And, white men should be more sensitive to how it appears when they are hanging out together playing cards while their colleagues are trying to influence the debate. The bill being debated is import to Minnesotans' sense of democracy and the right of free speech. I would expect my legislator to be in his/her seat listening carefully to the debate, no matter how long the debate had been going on. Proud to say that my legislator is not a white man - and was listening to the debate.
She was totally correct to raise the issue. Justice is never supposed to be "nice", but to speak courageously to power. Those who have been ignored and disrespected for so long must have a voice!
I have spoken to a city council meeting before, NO ONE listens. It's disrespectful to not listen . . . is it better to be out of the room so the speaker doesn't know? Maybe, but either way, it is indicative of the level of disrespect we have as a country, and as a House! Maybe they need to get locked in a room together and have their phones and cards taken away so they HAVE to listen to each other. Maybe take a class on basic respect for your fellow human beings?!?
Rep. Hortman was not being disrespectful. She was exercising her privilege as a white woman in a position of power to call out oppressive behavior. Her colleagues, on the other hand, chose to exercise their privilege as white men in positions of power by disrespecting the people of color trying to be heard. Their behavior is absolutely more disrespectful.
Because we are living amidst systems of sexism and racism, it is important to name their concrete manifestations. The fact that white and male folks have a practice of not listening to women of color in the legislature is one of those manifestations. Explicitly naming things is one way to help transform those systems of racism and sexism.
It is more disrespectful for House members not to be present during the mentioned speeches. For Greg Davids to claim that Hortman's comment made the House a "hostile workplace" is particularly hypocritical, given the measure under discussion at the time - which would increase the penalties for "disruptive protesting". Who protests? Those disproportionately subject to hostility in the workplace and in society at large. People whose voices are disrespected - not coincidentally, precisely those people who the House members ignored, in favor of their card games.
And that's not even addressing the fact that in no other job can an employee sit around playing cards and get paid for it.
She was blunt but not disrespectful, and her comments were an appropriate response to their behavior. I'm shocked that it's a "new thing" for members to gab, play cards, or other wise check out in another "retiring room" during debates or other important sessions. As my representatives, I expect them to be fully engaged at all times -- no excuse. Walking out isn't good either. Bottom line, unless they have pressing business elsewhere, then they should be engaged. Even their motivation wasn't race or gender bias, by behaving disrespectfully they gave that very perception which is just as harmful and worthy of rebuke. Given the nature of what those women were speaking about and the perspectives they brought, everyone should have been 100% engaged.
In an age when the president can openly lie to the American population with impunity, when Democrats and Republicans work against each other; not for public good, but for their own agenda, I"m not sure respect is something that matters to anyone other than the person who feels disrespected.
I believe Rep. Hortman has a valid point, and being a woman myself, get the frustration with the ol' boys club. I wouldn't call it disrespect. I'd call it getting their attention. As far as the Republicans feeling disrespected, well, if you aren't all in to listen to speeches by colleagues when they are female or persons of color, I don't think claiming disrespect when you're called out on the discrepancy is respect-worthy.
Maybe the Republicans should apologize to the women and minorities they dissed. Seriously, politicians need to get over themselves and work for the good of the people, not their egos. I'm fed up with our elected officials.
Which is a greater hypocrisy - the MN republicans lambasting a colleague for being disrespectful (when what she said was true) or their unfailing support for a president who is epitomizes disrespectful commentary? Republicans have no moral standing when speaking about disrespecting fellow politicians (their shameful treatment of President Obama, candidate Clinton, and their support of the most disrespectful president in my lifetime are examples of why they can claim no moral high ground).
This statement, and the tone in which it was delivered, gave me pause.
"Now, what happens in the retiring room is nobody's business."
Listen to Davids when he is speaking, and tell me that there isn't a haughtiness of entitlement and disregard for the common citizen in his words.
Nobody's business? You're working on MY dime, Mr. Davids, and in the house that MY DIME pays for. What goes on is EVERYBODY'S business.
It was disrespectful for her colleagues to skip the testimony and she was right to call them out on it. The push back isn't about calling people out for disrespect. The push back is about describing the gender and race of the people she's calling out. That's absurd. People of color and women get identified by their race and gender all the time. Identifying that it was white men who were skipping the testimony is only offensive to people who have the privilege of being the majority in power.
The men displayed their up till now permitted pattern of ignoring nonwhite women and most women voices. History texts indoctrinate white men early into believing the white colonial male narrative is the most important. Many reflexively choose a card game and male bonding if they are not called out. They were skipping class and petulant about being called out.They have most the power as our eyes and ears plainly show us. Calling out is the new norm as female non white voices rise and join. The Fox carnage is a case in point. Men need to run the show equally with women. Men and women make great partners as many couples can attest to. It's ok to be a snowflake. It hurts to be called out. now I hope they can all go back to work. The US is a hot mess.
What Rep. Hortman did is called "speaking truth to power.". Democracy requires it in large doses.
It was far more disrespectful of the colleagues to not be present to in the chamber and if what Rep Hortman said is true then she was totally valid in pointing that out.
Both were wrong, but I do think it is more disrespectful for legislators to be playing cards instead of doing their job.
It is disrespectful for ANY members of the House or Senate to be playing cards in the back room during debates. Every member deserves to be heard, even if opponents have made their minds up. We expect our elected representatives to show up for work.
It was clearly much more disrespectful for members of the most privileged class in the US, white men, to dismiss the thoughts and ideas of Rep. Hortman's colleagues than it was for the Representative to point out their disrespect while emphasizing their membership in a group that OWES minority and female legislators their full attention, given how they've marginalized such people in the past.
Is it too much to ask for these guys to sit in the chamber and do their damned jobs?
Davids and others...there were no rules broken here. when you respect all Americans, you sit in the room and listen to every voice around the debate. when you don't like the debate, you sure as hell don't go the retiring room and play cards. you might actually LEARN something if you take the time to listen. when will privileged white men come to learn that coming to work means listening to floor debates?
On this day of Women's Equal Pay day and women's equality in the work and political world, I find it distasteful and disappointing not to mention disrespectful for these men to be playing cards during a debate about taking away the right to protest. And to top it off, these same men attacked Rep. Hortman for calling them out for their behavior and have the nerve to demand that she step down. I can barely contain my disdain for them. Women and minority women need to have more seats in our legislature so these kinds of things don't happen. You can bet that women like me are watching this in disbelief and will be active in the next election to make sure we elect people of integrity who take the issues of women and minorities seriously.