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Martini Day, Sauntering Day
June 19, 2014 June 19, 2014 / Katybeth
Today's Quote: "Martinis are the only American invention as perfect as a sonnet." H. L. Mencken
★~ National Martini Day:
In the good old days martini drinkers had only a few simple choices: gin or vodka, rocks or neat, olive or twist. But now we have appletinis, chocotinis and even cavitinis (made with caviar)! What will they think of next?
The classic martini had much more humble beginnings. Here's an early "Martinez" recipe from San Francisco's Occidental Hotel in 1887: "One dash of bitters, two dashes of maraschino, one wine glass of vermouth, two lumps of ice and a pony of Old Tom Gin, served with a quarter slice of lemon."
Today, 50% of all cocktails are served in a martini glass. Some of the most famous (historical and fictional) martini lovers include: John D. Rockefeller, Humphrey Bogart, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Clark Gable, Ernest Hemingway, and James Bond.
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★~ Sauntering Day:
The point of this holiday is to slow down & appreciate the world around you…with a Martini.
♥~ 1865 – Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston with news that the Civil War had ended. The South had lost, and all slaves were now free. Even though President Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation two and a half years earlier, it wasn't until 1865 that Texas had enough federal troops to enforce the end of slavery. Due to this historic event, June 19 was dubbed "Juneteenth" and is celebrated throughout the U.S. each year with rodeos, barbecues, parades and prayer services.
♥~ 1846 – The first organized baseball game was played on this day. The location was Hoboken, New Jersey. The New York Baseball Club defeated the Knickerbocker Club, 23 to 1. This first game was only four innings long. The New York Nine, as the winners were known, must have really studied the rules to have twenty-three runs batted in. The rules had been formulated just one year earlier by a Mr. Alexander Cartwright, Jr.
♥~ 1943 – The National Football League approved the merger of the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers (the Steagles), a team that lasted one 5-4-1 season; but turned down approval of a similar merger of the Chicago Cardinals and the Bears. The following year the Steelers merged with the Cardinals, another one season combo. The reason teams were merging in the 1940s: so many men were in the armed forces due to WWII, football players were at a premium.
♥~ 1973 – Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds reached the 2,000-career-hit plateau. The milestone came a decade after his first professional baseball appearance in Cincinnati.
♥~ 1973 – The stage production of The Rocky Horror Show opened in London at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs. It later played in Los Angeles and New York. Star Tim Curry reprised his role in the 1975 movie version, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which developed into a cult phenomenon. Fans, dressed up as their favorite characters from the film, continued to show up at midnight screenings for a decade.
♥~ 1978 – Garfield creator Jim Davis came up with the idea for a comic about a lasagna-loving cat in 1978 – and he made his first appearance 35 years ago today in 41 newspapers. The name came from Davis's grandfather, James A Garfield Davis. Since then, Garfield has become the most-syndicated comic in the world, appearing in more than 2,500 publications. It has also spawned at least two television series and two feature-length films.
♥~ 1997 – The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats became the longest-running show in Broadway history. The 6,138th performance of the musical broke the record held by A Chorus Line.
♥~ 1997 – McDonald's won a libel case in London against two vegetarian activists. The judge in the case did admit to agreeing with some of the defendants' sharpest criticisms of the fast-food giant.
♥~ 1897 – Moe Howard (Moses Horowitz) actor: one of the original Three Stooges; Dr. Death, Seeker of Souls, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World;
♥~ 1936 – Tommy DeVito singer: group: The Four Seasons: Sherry, Big Girls Don't Cry, Walk like a Man, Rag Doll
♥~ 1948 – Phylicia (Allen) Rashad Tony Award-winning actress: A Raisin in the Sun; TV: The Cosby Show, One Life to Live, Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man; dancer Debbie Allen's sister; married to football announcer Ahmad Rashad
♥~ 1962 – Paula Abdul singer: Forever Your Girl, Straight Up, Opposites Attract, Promises of a New Day; actress: The Waiting Game, Mr. Rock 'n' Roll: The Alan Freed Story; dancer: Laker Girl; TV talent judge: American Idol: The Search for a Superstar
♥~ 1983 – Ben Haggerty (Macklemore) rapper who became widely known for his song Thrift Shop, featured on his debut album The Heist.
★~ Good to Know:
It all began when a homeless calico cat made her way into the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Zoo. The stray found food in a lynx's enclosure, and the lynx accepted the cat into her life. Soon enough, they became besties. Watch the video above to see this dynamic duo in action
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I couldn't let us miss Martini Day and Sauntering day entirely. Feel free to extend today into the weekend. Hope everyone had a terr
2014, el morno, June, martini, Sauntering
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6 thoughts on "Martini Day, Sauntering Day"
I'm not sure that I know how to saunter but enjoy sipping a martini on occasion.
The Three Stooges what a classic.
Harry liked the video. He's a good cat.
Classic? A Poke in the eye is classic? Guess it's a guy thing. Cheers to Harry! The good cat.
Not much for sauntering. Always seem to move with purpose.
A Martini will always remind me of Bond, James Bond. That's a nice picture!
The Four Seasons were among the groups who provided the soundtrack of our family.
Glad the calico found a fast friend & survived it. Feel sorry for strays.
James Bond is a nice picture!
Nice to have a friend! The Four Seasons plays great songs.
Playing catchup. Again! Spent Friday in Champaign, so I didn't even turn on my laptop.
Don't saunter much. I generally am more like ^Irene^ and move with purpose. But I'm very familiar with sauntering — Southerners tend to do it more than folks from other regions, probably because of the heat and humidity.
Can't say as I've ever had a martini. Nor do I feel left out!
Nice to unplug once in awhile.
I love the idea of a Martini. Made well (and Joe made them very well) they are a beautiful drink. I've had two–I was trying to impress a guy (Joe and I had our first real date at a Martini bar) and I should have stopped before I finished one. But he did say I looked good drinking a Martini and married me eventually.


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Harvey Prize for Professor Immanuel Bloch
On 5 June 2016, Immanuel Bloch will receive the "2015 Harvey Prize" in Science and Technology from the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) in Haifa.
Professor Bloch, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Professor for Experimental Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich is honoured "in recognition of his fundamental contributions in the field of light and matter interactions in quantum many-body systems." This year's Harvey Prize is awarded also to the Harvard biochemist Prof. Marc Kirschner.
Prof. Immanuel Bloch
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The prize committee recognizes Professor Bloch "for his pioneering experiments realizing quantum simulators using cold atoms trapped in crystals of light, thereby establishing a new research field at the interface of condensed matter, atomic physics, and quantum optics." In his research, Professor Bloch investigates how the microscopic interplay of many atoms leads to new collective properties of the whole quantum many-body system. To this end, he has set up a variety of experiments in his laboratories both at the MPQ and the LMU.
Ultracold atoms trapped in such crystal of light – so called optical lattices – play the role of the electrons in solid states crystals, however with lattice spacings about 10.000 times larger than the ones in real materials. Thereby, high resolution optics makes it possible to produce direct snapshots of all atoms in the system, and to precisely control the atoms down to single lattice sites. By working with these artificial quantum systems, Prof. Bloch's group succeeded in realizing new states of matter and investigating fundamental questions in various fields of physics, ranging from condensed matter physics and statistical physics, over quantum optics to high-energy physics.
Since 1972, the Harvey Prize has been awarded annually for breakthroughs in science, technology and health. Among former prize winners are Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, who received the Harvey prize for his pioneering work on laser cooling, or Reinhard Genzel, who was honoured for the detection of black holes last year.
Professor Bloch will receive the Harvey Prize during an award ceremony at the Technion on 5 June 2016. On this occasion he will give a lecture on his research which will later on be published in the Harvey Prize papers.
Information on Immanuel Bloch:
Immanuel Bloch began his studies in physics at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn where he received his diploma in 1996. After having spent one year of research at Stanford University he joined the Laser Spectroscopy Division of Professor Theodor W. Hänsch (MPQ and LMU). In 2000 he obtained his doctoral degree from the LMU. He continued his research in the Hänsch group until he became appointed as Professor at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Since 2008 he has been Director at the MPQ and leader of the Quantum Many-Body Systems Division, and since 2009 Chair of Quantum Optics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich.
Immanuel Bloch has been awarded with several highly renowned scientific awards. Twice he has won the Philip Morris Research prize (in 2000, together with Prof. Hänsch, and in 2007). In 2002 he has received the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society, in 2005 the Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the German National Merit Medal, and the International Commission of Optics Prize. In 2011 the European Physical Society (EPS) has given to him the "2011 Prize for Fundamental Aspects of Quantum Electronics and Optics". 2013 he has been awarded with the Hector Science Prize 2012, the "Körber-Preis für die Europäische Wissenschaft" and the Senior BEC Award. Olivia Meyer-Streng
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Stinson's skis malfunction
December 14, 2018 by General Aviation News Staff Leave a Comment
The private pilot reported that, shortly after takeoff from a snow-covered runway in Ionia, Michigan, he heard a "thump" and saw that the left main landing ski tip had rotated up, past vertical, and was in contact with the left wing strut. He was unable to reposition the left ski into a normal position.
Upon landing, the ski separated from the axle, the left gear leg dug into the snow, and the Stinson 108-3 rapidly decelerated before it nosed over.
As designed, the main landing skis are supported by two 5/32″ braided steel cables and bungee/shock cords. Both ends of the steel cables terminate with a thimble-eye and a compressed/swaged nicopress sleeve.
On the Stinson, the forward and aft support cables had pulled through their respective nicopress sleeves where the cables attached to the left ski's tip and tail. The nicopress sleeves for the left ski tip and tail attachments were not located during the investigation.
However, a post-accident examination of the remaining nicopress sleeves established that they were likely improperly formed with a 3/16″ swage tool instead of a properly-sized 5/32″ tool. As a result, the steel support cables were able to pull through the inadequately-formed nicopress sleeves during the accident flight.
It is likely that the aft support cable pulled through its nicopress sleeve during takeoff, which allowed the ski to rotate into a vertical position. The forward support cable likely pulled through its nicopress sleeve when the left ski separated from the axle during the subsequent landing.
According to the pilot, the plane was typically equipped with snow skis during the winter. He purchased the main landing skis in used condition, with an undocumented service history, from an individual about eight years before the accident. The forward and aft support cables were already fabricated and installed on the skis when they were purchased.
Additionally, the pilot reported that the support cables had not been repaired or replaced since he owned the skis.
The pilot, who was also an aviation mechanic, installed the main landing skis for the winter snow season two days before the accident. The accident occurred during the first flight since the skis were installed for the season.
Probable cause: A failure of the aft support cable on the left main landing ski due to an inadequately formed nicopress sleeve, which allowed the ski to rotate into a vertical position shortly after liftoff, and its unavoidable separation during the subsequent landing.
NTSB Identification: CEN17LA057
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I have been pondering on the nature of the "Kingdom of God" or in other words, the attributes that describe God and what he wants his people to value and reflect. Basically, how does God order things. What is most important? What is less important? If God could ask you to do one thing, what would it be?
Christians have VERY different answers to this question. We all have proclivities. Different comfort levels with different commands of God. But if we attest to follow Christ, and be "Christ like" our proclivities and the aim of our heart should reflect that of whom we follow. We should adopt the values and nature of our King that we serve. Similar to when you believe in an organization or company, you want to take their "mottos" or "agenda" and make that your own and spread them to others because you believe they work… Except for God's kingdom is ultimate and higher than any made of man and deserves all importance. It is all together true, holy and trustworthy.
As I was thinking about this, God reminded me of the parables and the beatitudes that Jesus taught.
Have you heard a sermon like this in a while. . .
When was the last time I felt blessed to be reviled? How does one even do that? Or "poor in spirit". I spend most my time trying to be "good" and "all together". When was the last time I was even ok with being "poor in spirit", much more finding it a blessed or good thing!
Man, does frustration rise up inside me when I don't get the honor I believe I deserve. And to be seen as "meek" by others, even worse! How many people can relate to my feelings?
Jesus laid down his life to save us. To be with us. Immanuel. Jesus' love for us required humbling himself from his throne of power to become a baby and live a hard and "unglory-filled" life for our sake. By the time he died on the cross, all his disciples basically left him. He fulfilled the prophecy in Isaiah 53:3, "He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces. He was despised, and we esteemed him not." His disciples followed suit. Are we willing to follow?
The plan of God's redemption was never that we would be the answer. That our glory and performance would usher in the Kingdom. John the Baptist who paved the way for Jesus said, "I must become less, so that Jesus could be made much of" (John 3:29-30) The is also our call. We are not it. Jesus is. So as we die to ourselves and be made alive to Christ, we can walk with him in full freedom, not holding on to any pride or need for glory, but entrusting it all to the one who does deserve it – Jesus.
In the gospel of John, Jesus says that the world will hate you, because it first hated me. You cannot be above your Master or expect to have a different experience. What feelings do you think Jesus felt when betrayed, devalued by his closest friends, tempted, debated, pursued to be murdered out of hatred and utterly despised by so-called 'godly' leaders? Could it possibly have felt something similar to "poor in spirit", "meek", "reviled"? Being honest in experiencing these attributes doesn't devalue God's glory if he himself says these things are "blessed". And it does not impact joy either. The Bible also says, "Jesus counted as joy to go to the cross…." He joyed in his death. Why? Knowing he would get us. Knowing he was doing the Father's will, in which he utterly trusted. He had his sights on the God's redemptive plan: he saw the end zone. He knew God was making all things new, and using his sacrifice to reconcile man to God forever. The end was enough for him.
Two of Jesus' parables say basically the same thing (Lk. 14:11, 18:14). The greater you are, or think you are the higher chance God will humble you or possibility you might not be his child or in his kingdom. And the more humble, and dead to your sense of self-righteousness you are, the more he will glorify you. I think part of this has to do with the less you glory in yourself, the more you will be free to glorify him. In another parable it says, he who is faithful with little, will be faithful with much. If in small ways you honor the Lord, when unseen, then God can trust with you, knowing his message will not be tainted by pride or deception with greater places of glory and honor.
It is our gift to give God glory, and be made less of and him be made more of. Why? Because we inherit the Kingdom of God. Is that enough for you? Is that enough for me? It was enough for Jesus. Jesus had God's ultimate glory and goodness in mind for our salvation, when he found it joy walking toward the cross.
If it is to God's glory and goodness to make me less, my prayer should be so be it. If it reveals the truth of grace to have me reviled by others, I want follow. If my shame is God's glory, I want to trust. This is the prayer of my heart. That I would truly die to myself and fully entrust myself to God's goodness and purposes, no matter where the road takes me… Even if it takes me lower.
The Kingdom of God is a "narrow door", and not many want to go through it the way Jesus is leading. And Jesus is asking, will you follow?


The guests from 1Z25 left the train to grab their photographs of this momentous occasion whilst the all important power car change took place. This gave people the chance to see a powercar swap, something that they wouldn't normally have the chance to see. Their was a real sense of expectation as the passengers and special guests waited for 41001 to awake. Then much to everyone's delight the old girl was started up and gave us all the much missed sound of a Paxman Valenta. At this point 43045 uncoupled from the set and pulled forward into the headshunt. The powercar then reversed into the relief road enabling 41001 to reverse out onto the relief road before moving forward (in rather spectacular and loud fashion) into the headshunt to enable the prototype to move onto the awaiting East Midlands Trains set. As 41001 coupled up to the set the power car was shut down and crowds gathered around the gleaming prototype power car to enjoy hearing some words from those involved in the project in many ways.
125 Group Chairman Gary Heelas was the master of ceremonies and started off with a few words thanking everyone for their support in attendance for the special occasion. We then heard speeches from, Sir Kenneth Grange the designer of the HST's iconic shape, David Horne the Managing Director of East Midlands Trains, Tim Shoveller the Managing Director of South West Trains (Managing Director of East Midlands Trains at the start of Project Miller) and finally Andrew McLean the Head Curator of the National Railway Museum.
Following the speeches Sir Kenneth Grange was given the opportunity to start 41001 up prior to its departure on the maiden voyage. The passengers the reboarded the train and 41001 left Ruddington Fields Station on its journey. The journey was a wonderful trip with 125 Group and Project Miller volunteers getting the chance to talk to the invited guests and 125 Group members about the project giving everyone the opportunity to ask questions and have them answered by the people directly involved. A brief photo stop took place at Rushcliffe Halt giving people the chance to get more photos to remember this wonderful day. Upon departure from Rushcliffe Halt 41001 then headed south to Loughborough pausing round the back of the famous Brush works and within view of the Midland Main Line. 41001 then returned up the GCRN heading to Ruddington Fields. Upon arrival back at Ruddington Fields 41001 was removed from the train and 43045 placed back onto the set for the return run to Derby, this time via Leicester.
Keep your eyes out for news of 41001's first run open to the public in 2015!


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Dershowitz shows the way
Jamie has already opened our eyes to the truth this weekend, with an old Joan Peters interview which reminds us to be more careful when considering sources and evidence. Well quite. Following this, I thought i'd post this Alan Dershowitz interview from earlier this year, which warns against the anti-Israeli bigotry of Jimmy Carter, and consigns to the hard-left anyone who doesn't subscribe to the 'universal admiration' of Yithzak Rabin. See the pathway, my friends.
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Tagged as Alan Dershowitz, Blog Review, Israel and Palestine, Jimmy Carter
Blaming Russia
Condoleezza Rice has insisted that the interceptor missiles the US is installing in a silo on Poland's Baltic Coast are "defensive" and "not aimed at anyone". Russia argues that, in reality, the system serves to undermine its own strategic deterrent. Whilst the US may, with some ease, paint a programme designed to halt incoming missiles as defensive, we should consider the wider strategic implications of such a move. The point of a deterrent is to make any potential aggressor think twice before attacking; a missile attack by the US on Russia would currently be unlikely because Russia can counterattack and cause comparable damage to the US. If the US has moved to neutralise the potential of Russia's deterrent system, by blocking any missiles from Russia, then it has given itself a significant strategic advantage; it may attack with relative impunity, and therefore affords itself a significant power-advantage.
Russia would appear to have some reason to feel defensive at this point. The blame for the conflict earlier this month was laid almost wholly at its feet, despite the reality being both more complex and more balanced (on this, see Gary Leupp and Charles King). NATO's continuous move eastwards, likely eventually to encompass Georgia, challenges Russia's self-perception as a Eurasian power and may see it attempt to boost its support in other regions of the world. Dmitry Medvedev's wish to deploy Russian missiles in Syria is perhaps the latest example of this attempt by Russia to expand its influence, and to escape the corner into which the US seems determined to push it. The Syrian deal is comparable with the US-Poland system, although such comparisons escape a media which is able to publish the stories side-by-side without addressing the hypocrisy of a mixed reception.
Russia is far from a benign power, and surely harbours its own imperial ambitions (as does any state with the capacity to enact its plans). The danger is that western aggression (and the missile shield system can only reasonably be seen in this light – imagine a Russian plan to station boats around the US laden with interceptors) will force Russia to seek more extreme methods of preserving its deterrent; a situation which could see the weapons falling into the 'wrong' hands (not that there are ever 'right' hands for weapons to occupy). The US's manipulation of Europe (which Obama's chief foreign policy advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski argues is crucial if the US is to maintain its global primacy) is forcing Russias hand. Condemning Russia, and painting it as dangerous when it speaks out against 'defensive' measures is not productive, and distracts attention away from the real imperial danger.
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Tagged as Barack Obama, Charles King, Condoleezza Rice, Dmitry Medvedev, Gary Leupp, Georgia, Interceptor Missiles, Missile Defense System, NATO, Poland, Russia, Syria, US, Zbigniew Brzezinski
The Gaza Peace Boats
I haven't posted in a week or so, largely because I'm on holiday in the South of France, and because I'm working on a longer post about the Climate Camp. This said, I have to flag up the incredible voyage of the Gaza peace boats, as well as the delightful hypocrisy in the response from the defence ministry, who claim that
"You can demonstrate, that's OK with us. But you are not allowed to break international law."
The beauty of this project is that it shows the alternatives to waiting around for a lull in government inertia. The response of the international community to the crisis in Gaza has been a mixture of general approval and mild criticism, but the countries that matter have supported Israel wholeheartedly. Earlier this year we were shown that the citizens of Gaza have the power to tear down the walls of their oppression. Here, we see that citizens of the world can take part in this mass struggle against oppression.
Filed under Direct Action, Israel and Palestine, Politics and Power
Tagged as Civil Disobedience, Direct Action, Gaza, Gaza Blockade, Gaza Peace Boats, International Law, Israel, Israel and Palestine, Palestinians, SS Free Gaza, SS Liberty
Book Review: Patrick Cockburn – The Occupation; War and Resistance in Iraq
I've finally found the time to read Patrick Cockburn's wonderful book, which brings together his invaluable observations from the last five years in Iraq. I strongly recommend it, not least because the bravery which goes along with reporting from this part of the world deserves some reward. Cockburn's personal and accessible narrative showcases the courage required of anyone who has voluntarily travelled to Iraq to bring back the real story of the US and UK-sponsored occupation.
One of the principle features of the book is its personal and anecdotal flavour. Cockburn constantly ensures that all levels of the conflict – from international politics, to internal sectarian divisions, to personal experience – are covered. Without all of these angles, the situation cannot be fully understood. He also shows how the rhetoric of the US and the UK has been doctored to tie in with their domestic political situations. This is how Prime Minister Allawi was forced on several occasions to retract what he had said previously; it did not tie in with the more positive story the coalition of the willing wished to present.
Cockburn's story is carefully nuanced; he does not heap blame on the US and absolve all other parties. He is particularly critical of the Sunni insurgency, and its destabilising war against the Shia population. His connections with Sunni, Shia and Kurdish Iraqis, as well as foreign journalists and US bureaucrats, help him paint a very moderate picture of a radical situation. Nonetheless the critical situation is ultimately laid at the feet of the West. Cockburn, who has long covered Iraqi affairs, seems particularly concerned with the fact that the invasion was designed by elites with little knowledge of the complexities of the country. The imperial clique in Washington was of the opinion that such luxuries were not necessary or even desirable. The reader is shown that such arrogance inflamed an already catastrophic situation; important figures were ignored and marginalised, whilst long-term expatriates, who no longer had sufficient connection to their country, were pushed into positions of power. The arrogance has also translated into a prevailing opinion within the US that there is an elusive ability on the part of the coalition forces to 'get it right'; however as Cockburn shows in the book and pointed out in last Monday's Independent, "the US does not control the political weather in Iraq". Cockburn also criticises the US for its preoccupation with the insurgency, which, whilst understandable, meant that the growing crime and day-to-day instability in the country was ignored. Roadside bombs affect the political situation in America, but it is the kidnappings, robberies and corruption which tear apart Iraqi society and delegitimize the occupation.
Cockburn's book provides a much needed wide-angle view of the situation in Iraq; a perspective which can be hard to come by, overwhelmed as it is by the daily news of death and destruction. Whilst it is occasionally a little light on the sources, and devoid of the statistics that would add weight to his recount of the terrible situations with which he has become all to familiar, this can be forgiven. It is the human touch that makes this such an important book. To understand the insurgency, and to understand where the country may turn next, it is important to understand the mood, mindset and motivation of the Iraqi people. Cockburn provides this in droves.
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Tagged as Ayad Allawi, Book Review, Foreign Policy, Iraq, Kurd, Occupation of Iraq, Patrick Cockburn, Shia, Sunni, United States
Investment Bankers are Stupid
I'm sure I'm not alone in being irritated by Polly Toynbee. It's not her intent I have trouble with – her tireless fight for a fair, just and equal world is to be celebrated. My gripe comes from her moderation. Whenever one reads her articles, there is a sense that she is hoping for a slightly more benevolent government, who will realise the sins of the past and kick the minimum wage up to £6. I agree that governments can help to alleviate the problems of the world, but they cannot be the ultimate solution, for reasons that will make up another blog post I'm sure. This is all really just a drawn out introduction to me recommending her article in Monday's Guardian, which is really a condensed version of her new book, Unjust Rewards. The book and article see Toynbee interviewing Lawyers, Bankers and other such parasites, to examine their opinion on society, taxes, and the poor. The results appear to go beyond what were already pretty low expectations:
How much, we asked our group, would it take to put someone in the top 10% of earners? They put the figure at £162,000. In fact, in 2007 it was around £39,825, the point at which the top tax band began. Our group found it hard to believe that nine-tenths of the UK's 32m taxpayers earned less than that. As for the poverty threshold, our lawyers and bankers fixed it at £22,000. But that sum was just under median earnings, which meant they regarded ordinary wages as poverty pay
One banker, bearing a distinct resemblance to Mr Scrooge, said: "People don't starve in this country – it's OK. Compared with other countries, here you don't go hungry because you can just go and get money for free." Some thought benefits already too high. One banker said he thought a family of four receives "say, £3,000 a month in their hands, and they're somewhere miles up north. They're not going to earn that sort of money, so where's the incentive for them to go out to work?" In fact, a family of four would in 2008 receive a net total of £1,328 a month.
Whatever, the poor didn't deserve it. Masters of the universe our groups might be, but their outlook was pure Daily Mail: "Single people . . . get pregnant and get a flat and more money. You just see everybody pushing prams, then they'll get more income and a little flat that they can stay in for life." There was much talk of the perverse incentives for single parenthood, with one banker complaining that the 18-year-old mother on benefits "doesn't get that much less money than another 18-year-old working in a shop". It didn't seem to occur to this speaker that the shop worker's pay might also be too low. They were contemptuous of anything that gave extra money directly to poorer people: "This thing of giving pregnant women £200 for dietary supplements. Like, as if they'll really spend it on fruit." Most were adamant, along with this banker: "We don't think just chucking money at the welfare state is the answer."
I'd like to think this Victorian and ignorant attitude was merely a statistical anomaly, a sampling accident which meant that Polly had accidentally ended up interviewing Patrick Bateman. However after three years at Warwick the views expressed sound only too familiar. As with Hard Times, it looks like Toynbee has again done us a favour in exposing in detail a murky and despicable aspect of modern British society.
Filed under Politics and Power
Tagged as Guardian, Investment Bankers, Investment Banking, Lawyers, Polly Toynbee
The Problem with the Police – Time for Climate Camp
The police are insisting that their raid on the Climate Camp at Kingsnorth, in which they confiscated rope and board games, was carried out in the name of preventing lawbreaking, and that they are only too keen to police lawful protest. They have no desire to intimidate and scare people off. Whilst this may be true for some of them, the reality is that their actions are likely to mean that some people are less likely to turn up, particularly if this were to be their first time at an event like this. The actions also point to a broader structural problem with the police at such events.
Whilst the confiscation of items like rope was probably carried out to look effective (it's a camp site, there's rope there!) it is highly likely that the law will be broken this week, with or without the disabled access ramps which have been seized. I am of the opinion that, if the law favours those who pump carbon dioxide into the air at unsustainable levels, then the law is wrong and should be ignored. More to the point, if the state authorities aren't going to prevent companies and corporations from pursuing projects which cause great harm, as a new coal plant from E.ON would, then it is the responsibility of citizens to do so.
The problem with this is that if the police are only ever going to uphold the strict word of the law, then they will become tools of the state and of the unjust laws that state is pursuing. The police will stop us from shutting down the Kingsnorth power station because, whilst they support lawful protest, they do not support unlawful action. I realise that they are not allowed to do anything else, their task is enshrined – hence it being a structural problem.
Laws which fail to ensure security and quality of life are not worth following or upholding. A few protestors might be unsettlling in the short term, but they are nothing compared to what the effects of allowing E.ON to (legally) build their coal plants would be. Nazi Germany gave us a stark example of how ignoring the law can be an absolute moral duty (a duty which many sadly failed to carry out). Whilst I'm not saying that we are in such a situation, it does help to remember that the law is not immutable, and that the rule of law is not an absolute concept. Breaking the law won independence for the colonies, it carried the Civil Rights Movement forward, and it ended the Vietnam War. Unjust laws should be ignored – how else can we ever build respect for proper laws? If they have no moral and utilitarian content, then they have no purpose beyond testing our subordination.
If the government won't shut down E.ON, then ordinary people have to do it. If the government decides to renege on it's duty to protect its citizens, then its laws cease to have relevance and purpose. The police will insist that they are 'only doing their jobs', but this is an argument with little real content. The Evening Standard will scream that we are terrorists, and fabricate stories to show the world that we can't be trusted, but they will, as usual, be wholly wrong. We are simply people who have recognised that their government is failing to protect them, and that if they do nothing about it, then it is up to ordinary citizens to take over the reins. Come join us!
Edit: My girlfriend, trying to enter the camp at the moment, has just told me that the police have formed a line across the entrance, and are not letting people/food/bags in. I'm sure they will soon stop this particular distraction. Like so many other small irritations, it forms part of the project of making it harder and harder for us to camp and to act. What they will realise, as they did with Faslane, is that our resolve to make life harder for their system goes far beyond anything they've got!
Edit edit: Maybe they're keeping them out because Arthur Scargill's speaking this afternoon? They don't want a whole new generation of trade unionists to fight.
Filed under Climate Change, Direct Action
Tagged as Civil Disobedience, Climate Camp, Climate Change, Direct Action, EDO, Evening Standard, Government, Kingsnorth, Law, Nazi Germany, Police, Rule of Law, The State
Corruption and Leaders – Why Commentators Miss the Point
Obama too thin?!
During the slow news period which characterises the British summer, we're treated to an increase in the amateur Kremlinology that passes for journalism in today's news-on-demand culture. A quick glance at today's Times shows up articles on how Obama may be too thin for US voters,* on how to interpret the books that Tory MPs are reading on their holidays, and on Boris Johnson's distant blood relation to the royal family (not online yet). This fascination with the lives and personalities of our politicians is perhaps symptomatic of the representative system we live in. What is interesting is how it translates into a facination with personal scandals.
Political conversations have become dominated by shock and outrage at the latest corruption or sex scandal. Whole books and careers are dedicated to exposing and condemning such activities. There's nothing inherently wrong with condemning politicians (or indeed anyone) for blatant disregard for moral conduct. However, when we focus on the personalities, there is an implication that our political system would be fine without these corrupt politicians. Such thinking obscures the fact that such problems are a natural sympton of the society we live in.
The latest scandal is always shocking. Commentators are appalled that Blunkett used ministerial privilege, and that Ian Blair gave the contract to a friend. When it happens constantly (as it has over the past fifteen years) the problem is presented a downturn in moral conduct in modern society, and poor delegation by those appointing the offenders. Boris Johnson, who has been involved in his fair share of scandals, was quick to fire Ray Lewis because of "financial misconduct", to show that there can be no impropriety under his watchful eye. This is highly misleading; if the likelyhood of being found out were a sufficient deterrent, then corrupt practice would be a thing of the past. Instead, malpractice, ranging from a councillor skimming a few quid, to Berlusconi rearranging a country's legal system to suit himself, is endemic.
This is not because of a few bad eggs. New Labour, and the Tories before them, have shown that payoffs and privilege can corrupt an entire government. To find the answer we have to go back to Lord Acton and his observation that "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely", and to the namesake of this blog Percy Shelley, who said that "power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whate'er it touches".
When individuals rise to the top of the hierarchy, there is a feeling, well explained by C. Wright Mills in The Power Elite, that they occupy a higher plain than those below them. Their actions are inherently justified. Those around them are doing it anyway, it's the way things are done at the top, why get left behind? Such arrogance peaked with Richard Nixon, who famously insisted that "when the president does it, it's not illegal". We can criticise these people all we like, but the reality appears to be that they are products of an elite plateau which teaches its members that they are special, and that they are powerful. Power corrupts, and people start believing their own myths.
Barack Obama was criticised this week for being arrogant. Assigning such a term to any man who believes they have the capacity to be President of the USA is an impressive way to understate a situation. If we insist on having humble, loyal, honest and moral leaders, then we are begging for deception. The powerful are rarely any of these things, and never all of them. Our political system elevates some individuals into positions of great power, and from here they can and will do terrible things. Whenever we are shocked at the individual, we have missed the point. The focus should not be on achieving a system of pure leaders, but on abolishing the hierarchies which produce corruption and contempt for the voters. Anything else is a waste of time, a red rag which directs attention from the structural problems of modern society. It creates an obsession with personalities that has little or nothing to do with making the world a better place. We should criticise corruption, but through a broader critique of the system which produces it.
* The Andrew Marr show assured us that all may not be lost; he's a heavy smoker, which apparently plays very well.
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Q: how to update just the year in Teradata Date Column I have a Teradata table with delivery dates:-
Delivery_Date
24-03-2018 07:34:00.000000
29-03-2018 07:34:00.000000
30-03-2018 07:34:00.000000

I just want to update the YEAR (from 2018 to 2019) in the Delivery_Date
Delivery_Date
24-03-2019 07:34:00.000000
29-03-2019 07:34:00.000000
30-03-2019 07:34:00.000000

DateAdd - i think works in SQL Server. Is there any function in Teradata for this

A: got the answer after some R and D
update tablename set delivery_date = delivery_date + interval '1' year

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Omarosa Releases New Tape of Eric Trump's Wife Offering Her $15K-a-Month Job After Firing
Omarosa Manigault Newman has released another recording from her stash of secret tapes — this time of campaign official Lara Trump offering the ex-White House aide a $15,000-a-month job on President Trump's re-election campaign
By Tierney McAfee
Credit: Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan/Getty; Bobby Bank/WireImage
Omarosa Manigault Newman has released another recording from her stash of secret tapes — this time of campaign official Lara Trump offering the ex-White House aide a $15,000-a-month job on President Trump's re-election campaign.
The tape — which Manigault Newman says she recorded on December 16, 2017, just days after she was fired by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly — reveals Lara, who is married to Trump's son Eric, saying, "It sounds a little like, obviously, that there are some things you've got in the back pocket to pull out.
"Clearly, if you come on board the campaign, like, we can't have, we got to," she continues, before Manigault Newman cuts in, "Oh, God no."
Lara continues, "Everything, everybody, positive, right?"
Manigault Newman released excerpts from the call during an interview with MSNBC's Craig Melvin on Thursday, claiming that the recording was proof of "an attempt" by Trump's team "to buy my silence, to censor me, and to pay me off."
She added that she "absolutely" saw the offer as "hush money."
Manigault Newman also describes the phone call in her explosive new tell-all, Unhinged, about her time in the Trump White House, claiming that the job was offered on the condition of signing a non-disclosure agreement. Manigault Newman says she didn't accept the job.
Lara responded in a lengthy statement on Thursday, saying:
From the beginning of my father-in-law's campaign, Omarosa was welcomed into our family as a trusted friend and confidant. On the Women for Trump tour, including Omarosa, we formed a sisterhood bond that is unlike any I have experienced in my life. We toured together, laughed together, and worked really hard towards a common goal. We never would have imagined that one of our own was secretly recording all of our private conversations.
When Omarosa was fired by the White House Chief of Staff in December of 2017, my entire family was concerned for her because we had no idea about the basis of her dismissal. We still wanted her on our team because we cared so much about her personally. That's why I reached out to offer her a position with the 2020 Trump Campaign before we knew anything about the gross violations of ethics and integrity during her White House tenure. Another one of Omarosa's 'bombshell' tapes is a fraud. The discussions about a position with the campaign took place in numerous phone calls over the course of several weeks.
Woman to woman, I shared a connection with Omarosa as a friend and a campaign sister, and I am absolutely shocked and saddened by her betrayal and violation on a deeply personal level.
I hope it's all worth it for you, Omarosa, because some things you just can't put a price on.
Manigault Newman did not play the full recording of the call on MSNBC, instead sharing four excerpts. NBC News said it listened to the full conversation and that "the clips are in context."
In another excerpt Manigault Newman released on Thursday, Lara is heard saying that "the only thing that we have to consider, where we're talking salary as far as the campaign is concerned, is that, as you know, everything is public.
"And that all the money that we raise and that pays salaries is directly from donors, small-dollar donors for the most part. So, I know you, you were making 179 at the White House. And I think we can work something out where we keep you right along those lines," Lara continues, later adding, "So that's $180,000. Does that sound like a fair deal for you?"
The former Apprentice star, who is in the midst of a media blitz promoting her new book, has claimed that she also secretly recorded private phone calls with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, Politico reports, citing two sources familiar with the matter.
According to Politico, one of the secret recordings is of a condolence call Manigault Newman reportedly received from the couple the day after she was fired by chief of staff John Kelly last December. On the call, Ivanka and Kushner reportedly wished Manigault Newman the best and claimed they had no idea that she was being fired.
Politico says that the alleged new tape could serve as proof that Kushner and Ivanka, both senior advisors to the president, were not in the loop on important staffing changes.
"And it would show them offering emotional support to Manigault Newman even after Kelly pushed her out for ethical breaches — capturing on tape the power play between the family and the retired four-star general that has played out in the White House since Kelly joined the administration," Politico writes.
Manigault Newman transcribed the call in her book, but did not mention having a recording of it. Asked about the alleged tape of Kushner and Ivanka, Manigault Newman's attorney, John M. Phillips, said in a statement to PEOPLE, "We cannot comment on that other than saying what our client has said. She stands by every quote in Unhinged."
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has saidManigault Newman's book is "riddled with lies and false accusations."
In the past week, Manigault Newman has released recordings of conversations with Kelly and the president that she claims prove Trump "has no idea what's happening in the White House."
On Sunday, she took to NBC's Meet the Press to release a tape of Kelly firing her last year in the Situation Room.
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At one point on the recording, Manigault Newman asked whether Trump was aware that she was being fired, and Kelly responded, "Let's not go down the road," adding that "the staff and everyone on the staff works for me, not the president."
Manigault Newman told NBC's Chuck Todd that she believed that statement showed that "Donald Trump has no idea what's happening in the White House" — although she went on to admit that after having "subsequent conversations" with Trump, she learned that he did in fact know she was being fired.
She also released a tape of a phone call that she says Trump made to her one day after she was fired by Kelly.
In the audio tape, a voice purportedly belonging to Trump sounds surprised to hear that Kelly had given Manigault Newman the axe.
"Omarosa? Omarosa what's going on? I just saw on the news that you're thinking about leaving? What happened?" Trump is heard saying on the tape.
He goes on to say that "nobody even told me about it," adding, "You know they run a big operation, but I didn't know it. I didn't know that. Goddamn it. I don't love you leaving at all."
Trump has also accused Manigault Newman of lying in her book, calling her a "dog" and a "lowlife" in a series of vicious tweets this week.