Rob Jones: Hello everyone. I'm delighted to introduce you to Robert Weaver from Property Partner who will give you a bit of background on where he has come from, what he does in property and his role in Property Partner, as well. Robert, everyone, welcome.
I started in property straight after leaving school. I moved to Knight Frank. I realised I wasn't going to get anywhere without any qualifications so I went off to college to get qualified.
Rob Jones: Were you in residential, prior to Savills?
Robert Weaver: Yes, I've always been residential.
Having spent my time at auctions at Allsop, we started the auction team at Savills and so it has grown up to be what it is today.
And then, strangely, through an unusual deal at a place called Varsity House in Cambridge, we got into student accommodation, so we set up a bespoke student accommodation team at Savills, as well. So, there were three arms to our operation there.
And then one of my clients was Bradford Property Trust, the chairman, there. He moved to a fund management role and asked me to join him in The City. So, I did that for a while and then I became the fund manager.
Rob Jones: Does that have anything to do with property?
Robert Weaver: That's all residential. It was a £500mil residential fund, primarily around London and the UK but it had a big holding in London.
Then, that's when we moved over into RBS where I was global head of residential investment. They became a very large, accidental landlord because of the recession, Europe-wide. I was global head of residential, there but my main operating area was Germany, the UK and Ireland where we had a lot of property, billions of pounds of assets.
Rob Jones: There is quite a difference between those markets, I guess.
Robert Weaver: Very different markets. Germany is very staid and has grown up as a result of the war. The building, the accommodation, as products of the war.
Ireland was a product of the global financial crisis and the crazy boom that led up to it.
And the UK, we've seen many many times, I've seen recessions a couple of times, here. So, I've seen it all. I've seen it all before. And this is a very mainstream market, here.
Germany is very different. It's a very long-term rental market, very driven by certain pricing bands and if you get out of the pricing band and people just move. A very good, secure, long-term income.
Rob Jones: And how does that play into how you are positioned today?
Robert Weaver: That is when Dan approached me, to come to Property Partner. He saw me talking at a seminar, at the RICS conference, actually. And he thought it would be great to get somebody with these skills, on board.
So, I came to Property Partner in January 2015. I was buying the first lot of properties which, one, that we did at auction, one, that I saw, failed at auction. We were buying single individual houses and flats and then we morphed into more adventurous properties, lots of flats, what I call the true investment market and layering debt onto that to make it more of an investment product.
And then, more latterly, we have moved into student accommodation, purpose-built student accommodation blocks and a little bit of commercial.
Rob Jones: Fantastic, we will touch on that in some of the future videos, as well, the different property assets that Property Partner cover. But that's great, you definitely have a very rounded background, a lot of experience in the residential property market.
Robert Weaver: Man and boy.


I love candles, scented candles in particular. From Autumn right through Winter, it wouldn't be unusual for me to have a candle burning all day. Up until last year, I hadn't given much thought to the type of candle I was burning. Then, I read an article citing the dangers that can come with burning certain candles. I did a little more research based on what I had read and decided I would be happier burning more natural candles, candles that weren't emitting carcinogens into the air in our home.
I started purchasing natural candles instead and I even reviewed some beautiful candles here on the blog.
It's fair to say candles can be quite expensive, making them more of a luxury item than a 'must have' item in any home. Bearing that in mind I started thinking to myself and decided I would have a go at making my own candles. I bought a kilo of soy wax, wicks, and cinnamon essential oil all for the price, give or take, of a couple of candles. I chose soy wax because it was cheaper than beeswax, but that is another option. Soy wax is made from vegetable oil, it burns cleaner and for longer than other candles.
Here is how I made my candles step by step.
Gather everything you need; wax, a vessel for your candle, wicks, glue gun (I think glue dots would work for this too if you don't have a glue gun) essential oils, a heatproof bowl, chopsticks/skewers.
Measure the wax into the container in which you are going to make your candle. Add the wax to the heatproof bowl, then measure out the same volume again.
Heat a saucepan of water and place the bowl of wax over it to melt slowly. Add some drops of essential oil. I added 10 to my small candle. It would have taken a few more as the scent was lovely but quite subtle.
While the wax is melting, fix the wick to the bottom of the container that will become the candle.
Carefully pour the wax into the container. Straighten the wick and hold in place with the chopsticks until the candle has set.
I have to admit, I thoroughly enjoyed making my candles. It was so relaxing. It's such a lovely hobby and I'm left with something I absolutely love at the end of it.
I have kept loads of little jars and containers for making my own little candles, but they are all still sitting in a box waiting to be used! I must take inspiration from you (I never thought of using the glue gun to fix the wick in place) and start making my own. Great post!
Oh make them Naomi, it's so enjoyable! I don't think I'll ever buy another candle again.
Thank you 🙂 I know what you mean, the long finger gets very long doesn't it?!
It certainly does. So many things I'd like to do but never have the time!
I used to do this many many years ago as a youth worker. The kids loved it as did I. I'd love to start again. The glue gun to fix the wick def would make things easier – great idea. Great post thanks.
Thank you 😊 Oh if you can it'd be something lovely to do for yourself, something so relaxing about it, very enjoyable little hobby.


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We had this for breakfast this morning and it is seriously the best pizza ever. It takes civilian pizza to task and wins every time!
I'm not afraid to call it #ketopizza because it's made out of cheese and other friendly ingredients!
I was so lucky to find this recipe a couple of years ago while cruising Anna Vocino's website #glutenfreeanna.com . It is truly the best and I hope you enjoy it! Thank you Anna Vocino for being on point!
Your choice of meat, veg, cheese, etc. I do a traditional margerita with fresh basil, moz and thinly sliced roma tomato.
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Microwave the mozzarella and cream cheese in a large bowl until soft and pliable, about 30 seconds. Add egg, almond meal, oregano, and basil and blend well into a dough ball. Press into a circle or square shaped pizza on a parchment lined baking sheet sprayed with a thin coating of olive oil or coconut oil. Sprinkle garlic salt over surface of pizza crust. Pierce surface with fork to prevent rising of the crust while baking.
Bake crust in oven for 8-10 mins. Pierce more holes with fork if bubbles form. Bake another 2-4 minutes if crust has not already browned. Do not over bake as it will dry out!
Add your pizza sauce and toppings, pop back in oven for 4-5 more minutes until cheese is melted and bubbly.
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Election Officials Don't Know What Happened to 15 Million Mail Ballots in 2020 Election
Real data -- from a federal agency.
Fri Sep 17, 2021
J. Christian Adams
As any casual observer could tell, the 2020 election was a mess. Now we have real data—from a federal agency, no less—that proves it.
Based on data from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, an analysis by the Public Interest Legal Foundation shows almost 15 million mail ballots effectively disappeared after election officials gave them to the U.S. Postal Service to deliver to voters.
Gone, like the Bermuda Triangle of the election.
Some of the mail ballots may have ended up on the floors of apartment complexes. Some were sent to deceased registrants. Some went to addresses where the registrant no longer lives. Some may have gone to vacant lots and businesses. Some, having never been requested by the voter, were never returned.
In 2020, we put the election in the hands of the people who regularly deliver you your neighbor's mail.
The data also shows that an additional 1.1 million ballots were sent to the wrong addresses in 2020 – the U.S. Postal Service saying they were "undeliverable." Think on that. One million ballots went to the wrong house or apartment.
This report proves that mass voting by mail leads to chaos, is ripe with opportunities to commit fraud, and disenfranchises voters.
What was the effect on the election outcome? That depends on other unknowns. What we do know is that massive numbers of lost ballots present enormous potential for abuse. The fact of untracked, nearly 15 million ballots triggers an unavoidable cascade of serious, fundamental, deeply troubling questions.
Such as, how many of those were voted by unintended recipients? This can't be known. Another obvious question is, how many people failed to vote because their ballots went astray? This too can't be known. Another question is why are the voter rolls so inaccurate that wrong addresses are so common?
Places like Pennsylvania had to be sued to be forced into correcting them. Another question is why do so many election officials not care?
To put that 15 million figure in perspective, consider this in Pennsylvania 440,000 mail ballots went missing or were undeliverable in the 2020 election. President Biden won the state by only 81,000 votes.
Pennsylvania is not the only battleground state that lost more ballots than the difference between winning and losing its Electoral College votes.
In Wisconsin, 83,000 mail ballots went missing or were undeliverable. President Biden won the state by only 20,000 votes.
In Georgia, 244,000 ballots went missing or were undeliverable. President Biden won the state by only 11,000 votes.
When states lose track of more ballots than the difference between winning and losing its Electoral College votes, that is a core system failure. It means that a genuine accurate count is impossible. We just close our eyes and cross our fingers and hope the margins are big enough to not call into question the outcome of an election.
Mass mail balloting with inaccurate voter rolls leads to chaos. That is exactly what we saw in 2020.
Many states have significant issues in their voter rolls including duplicate and deceased registrants. The Public Interest Legal Foundation's 2020 analysis of voter rolls in 42 states found nearly 38,000 people registered twice and nearly 350,000 deceased voters who were still registered.
Mail balloting also disenfranchises people. The left harps on disenfranchisement, but wholly ignores the role of mail balloting in disenfranchising voters.
The new PILF report also shows an alarming number of mail ballot rejections. Sometimes the error is the lack of a signature or other mistakes made by legitimate voters; other times it is something less innocent. Regardless, in 2020, over 560,000 mail ballots were rejected, many, no doubt, cast by legitimate voters who were effectively disenfranchised. In California alone, nearly 93,000 mail ballots were rejected in 2020.
When people vote in person, they are less likely to be disenfranchised. Election officials can help catch mistakes at the ballot box such as a forgotten signature on a ballot.
Mass voting by mail is not the way to run an election. Voting in person is supervised and transparent. It stops disenfranchisement of legitimate voters and increases confidence that voting matters and elections are honest and accurate.
It is critical that we work to clean the voter rolls before the next election, implement much-needed reforms to fix existing vulnerabilities, and do not let mass mail balloting become the new norm for our elections.
J. Christian Adams is the president and general counsel for the Public Interest Legal Foundation and a former Justice Department Voting Section lawyer. He is also a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights.


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Серге́й Я́ковлев: Яковлев, Сергей Александрович (1878—1957) — советский геолог.
 Яковлев, Сергей Ананьевич (род. 1952) — российский писатель, редактор.
 Яковлев, Сергей Анатольевич (род. 1976) — казахстанский велосипедист.
 Яковлев, Сергей Валентинович (1953 — ?) — советский хоккеистХоккейная команда «СИБИРЬ». Все сезоны. | Хоккейная история Новосибирска | VK.

 Яковлев, Сергей Владимирович (род. 1983) — российский самбист.
 Яковлев, Сергей Дмитриевич (род. 1949) — российский политик.
 Яковлев, Сергей Маратович (род. 1964) — российский журналист.
 Яковлев, Сергей Михайлович — советский генерал.

 Яковлев, Сергей Петрович (1934—2010) — российский учёный в области теории процессов обработки металлов давлением и технологии кузнечно-штамповочного производства.
 Яковлев, Сергей Тимофеевич (1887—1956) — советский военно-морской деятель и теоретик, инженер-капитан 1-го ранга.
 Яковлев, Сергей Хрисанфович (1912—1940) — Герой Советского Союза.
 Яковлев, Сергей Юрьевич (1963—1987) — лейтенант, погиб в Афганистане.

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1. Mental suffering caused by loss, disappointment, or misfortune, or an instance of this: tried to assuage her sorrows. See Synonyms at regret.
2. A source or cause of sorrow; a misfortune: "I must struggle through my sorrows and difficulties as I can" (Jane Austen).
3. Expression of sorrow, or an instance of this: I listened to his sorrows.
1. distress caused by loss, disappointment, etc.; grief.
2. a cause or occasion of grief, as a misfortune.
3. the expression of grief: muffled sorrow.
4. to feel or express sorrow; grieve.
broken heart - devastating sorrow and despair; "he is recovering from a broken heart"; "a broken heart languishes here"
mourn - feel sadness; "She is mourning her dead child"
1. grief, sadness, woe, regret, distress, misery, mourning, anguish, unhappiness, heartache, heartbreak, affliction It was a time of great sorrow.
1. grieve, mourn, lament, weep, moan, be sad, bemoan, agonize, eat your heart out, bewail She was lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances.
n. pena, aflicción, pesar, dolor.
There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more?
You are not forgotten or uncared for, but others need our care more than you, and to those who take cheerfully the pain and sorrow sent, do we most gladly give our help.
He foretold that great sorrow and evil should come upon the land because of this child, and so he called her Deirdre, which means trouble or alarm.
I think, if ever any great sorrow came to me, I would come to the pines for comfort," said Anne dreamily.
We may state the question thus:--Imitation imitates the actions of men, whether voluntary or involuntary, on which, as they imagine, a good or bad result has ensued, and they rejoice or sorrow accordingly.
As soon as she heard his voice a vivid glow kindled in her face, lighting up both her sorrow and her joy.
It was on one of these days, when my cottagers periodically rested from labour--the old man played on his guitar, and the children listened to him--that I observed the countenance of Felix was melancholy beyond expression; he sighed frequently, and once his father paused in his music, and I conjectured by his manner that he inquired the cause of his son's sorrow.
At first it was a heavy sense of loss and sorrow, wherein I could distinguish little else.
ud ha' gone near to spoil my work for me, if I'd seen her brought to sorrow and shame, and through the man as I've always been proud to think on.
Earlier in life, Hester had vainly imagined that she herself might be the destined prophetess, but had long since recognised the impossibility that any mission of divine and mysterious truth should be confided to a woman stained with sin, bowed down with shame, or even burdened with a life-long sorrow.
I dare say I shall in some degree: it was not without sorrow I parted with her sister.


Simon Williams Comic Artist: The Hulk, Death's Head... and the Doctor?!
The Hulk, Death's Head... and the Doctor?!
The cover to the above comic strip... cover inks by comics legend Joe Rubinstein.
FANTASTIC!!! Unexpected and awesome crossover!
great stuff, loving your version of the hulk im going to be attending the cardiff comic convention this year hoping i can get the oppertunity to get a sketch by you.
i was wondering when you do work for panini comics do you do any colour yourself or do they set up some one to colour your work?
Vicente.. thank you! Had a lot of fun putting these characters together!
Dylan... thanks for the very kind words, and BIG apologies for the late reply! To answer your question, when I worked for Panini, my art was always coloured by someone else... usually by the amazingly talented Jason Cardy. You can check out Jason's work here.


NEW Chiropractic Solutions! Issue #02 -- Build Your Own Orthotics – with Band-aids!
Build Your Own Orthotics – with Band-aids!
Orthotics are Big Business! In fact, buying an orthotic is like buying a TV, at $225 each it is a major purchase.
Now... Why do you think they come in pairs?
BECAUSE YOU HAVE TWO FEET. (Not because there is something wrong with each or both).
And… 2 x $225 = $450.
People are told they need orthotics because their foot or feet hurt.
But… What we know about how the body works is that the thing that hurts is the place the weight or pressure is shifted to keep the weight or pressure off the real area that the body cannot deal with because of the real problem.
Therefore, if your feet hurt, unless you just had an impact to those parts of your feet, the problem is somewhere else in your body!
This real problem area is causing the entire body to twist. If your foot or feet hurt, it is because the weight is shifted to the foot or feet to keep the pressure off the real area that is having a problem.
The orthotics may take the twist out of your feet enough to feel better but then the rest of your body has to twist to compensate for the orthotics.
You have not fixed anything – you just took the pressure off one area and shifted it to some other part of the body. No wonder people chase around their body, hurting in one place and getting it shifted. Then hurting somewhere else... and so on.
You can read more about how this works on our web site here. The point is that ONE foot is often somewhat collapsed while the other foot is compensating. Therefore, your body may do better EVERYWHERE if you put a LITTLE support just under that ONE arch.
If you are an Advanced BioStructural Correction patient then find out if you are a "right" or a "left" from you doctor.
Here is how you test to see if a little support at your arch makes your body better.
Place a band-aid in the center of your arch on your right foot if you are a "right" and under the left arch if you are a "left".
Stand again and see if you are more stable.
Place another band-aid EXACTLY ON TOP OF The first one and then stand again.
Most people are most stable and do best with 2 band-aids under the one correct arch.
Try three band-aids if you want. You will probably notice you can now feel the support under the arch. That means it is too large and it is also less stable. Three band-aids is usually TOO MUCH for people and causes them some pain or discomfort after a while.
To test it, try three, try two. With two you do not miss the support but usually do not feel it either. Now try two then take it down to one. You still do not feel it, but now it feels like something is missing. Unless you have had surgery on your foot or fractured it, you will usually find two is ideal.
Now… You can either put new band-aids on your foot every day or put them on the inside of your shoe, right under your arch, and ONLY IN ONE SHOE! BUT, you must take everything else out of the shoe so it is flat on the inside. You might have to replace the insoles with a flat ones – which you can get at the Total Comfort Store.
These are things you use all the time that can mess up your body and cause pain. You can read about these in future editions of this e-zine.
Visit our NEW Sport Injury page. Find out why some sport injuries never heal all the way and what you can do about them.


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Gabriel Eduardo Marín Sánchez (23 mei 1994) is een Costa Ricaans wielrenner.

Carrière
In 2017 werd Marín nationaal kampioen op de weg. Drie dagen eerder was enkel Bryan Salas sneller in de tijdrit. Tijdens de Ronde van Costa Rica van dat jaar testte hij positief op Cera, waarna hij door de UCI voorlopig werd geschorst.

Overwinningen

2017
 Costa Ricaans kampioen op de weg, Elite

Costa Ricaans wielrenner


Elizabeth Frances portrays the role of Prairie Flower on AMC's latest hit series 'The Son' along with Zahn McClarnon.
Perhaps you have seen one of Indian country's latest rising Native stars, Elizabeth Frances, who is currently portraying Prairie Flower in AMC's latest hit series, The Son, starring Pierce Brosnan and Native actor Zahn McClarnon.
Born on a military base in Okinawa, Elizabeth Frances (Cherokee) is the daughter of a Marine Corps father who taught her the value of hard work and discipline. Her family eventually settled in San Diego, where she began doing local theatre and youth plays.
After receiving her degree from Cal Arts, Elizabeth Frances began working with such notable theaters as Center Theater Group, La Jolla Playhouse, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Native Voices and the Kirk Douglas Theatre.
Accolades for her work stacked up as she was selected for an ABC Network talent showcase, and starred as Angela Maryboy in Drunktown's Finest, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival and was produced by Robert Redford and directed by Sidney Freeland. Elizabeth Frances has also appeared in the Emmy®-nominated series Her Story, in NBC's Heartbeat, and as Lilly Rowan on Netflix's Love.
In a conversation with ICMN, Elizabeth Frances discussed how hard work has its payoffs and how she feels as a Native woman succeeding in a tough film industry.
I got really really lucky with this cast and crew, we really all became like a mini family. Laughing with people at the end of an 18-hour day working outside in the summer Texas heat, you KNOW that you are surrounded by not only extremely talented folks, but by genuinely good humans, and that is all to the credit of AMC and our producers.
Have you had many interactions with other Native actors on the set such as Zahn McClarnon or Tatanka Means?
Most of my time was spent working with fellow actors Jacob Lofland, Zahn McClarnon and Tatanka Means, as well as Richard Ray Whitman, who I knew from Drunktown's Finest.
After intense scenes, you can watch the dailies of all of us high-fiving between takes and giggling. Yes, those boys giggle! Being the only female regular on the 1849 set of The Son, I felt like their sister. I just have so much respect and love for them, and I learned so much watching them work. They all made my job easy.
I would say I'm very humbled, and this is just the beginning. I have the best job. I get to transform, create characters, research and play for a living. It's a lot of hard work, but when you love what you do, hard work is the best work. The hardest work is getting the chance to do the work in the first place.
How much do you see as an actor in terms of the glitz and glamour of the acting world versus intense behind the scenes hard work?
I think the glitz and glamour, or smoke and mirrors, as I call it, is a very different beast than actually getting to do the work itself. I think in a world of social media, the glitz can seem a lot more glamorous than it actually is. I've found it important remind myself and surround myself with good people who help me check myself.
As a Native woman, what are your thoughts of a growing recognition of multicultural talents in the industry?
Representation is definitely improving and it's incredibly encouraging, but we aren't there yet. This couldn't be more true for multicultural women, Native women and women of color. We have to keep striving to not only be present in tv and cinema, but also to be at the forefront rather than a detour or accessory.
There is a ripple effect our youth will feel the repercussions of, positive or negative. We are part of an inclusive and contemporary landscape of storytelling and celebrating. We need to encourage our writers and filmmakers more than ever such as Sterlin Harjo, Sydney Freeland, Mary Katherine Nagle, Taika Waititi and Chris Eyre.
AMC, in coordination with the Comanche Nation and the cultural advisor, Juanita Pahdopony (who we could NOT have done this without), bussed in Comanche youth from Oklahoma to be extras on set and work with us. Those were the best days.
I was able to interact with all these kids who had never even been on a TV film set before. They were such a huge part of that set. We were accessible to them. They sat with us, asked us questions, ate lunch with us, and our producers Kevin Murphy and Julia Ruchman would point things out on the monitors to them and I really thought, 'this is the next generation and they are seeing that great things are possible.
Whether they go into TV or anything else, I hope that they were able to see that whatever they want to achieve is not as far away as it may seem sometimes.
Any advice for young actors?
There are a lot of gifted and talented people, but be true to your specific voice. Cultivate and learn your craft. Don't let anyone outwork you, because that's what you can control. Find your community and the people that support you, motivate you, challenge you and understand you. They are the ones that will be your cohorts and friends for life.
What's to come for Elizabeth Frances?
In addition to getting married, my other show Love releasing on Netflix and some possible projects along the way, I'm putting my producer hat on and I'm in the process of developing a few scripts that we are looking at for 2018. So there's more to come!
Follow Elizabeth Frances on Instagram www.instagram.com/efrances03 and Twitter www.twitter.com/efrances03.


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6th October, Dire Straits bass guitarist John Illsley live in Murcia
The concert will include various of the best known Dire Strait songs
John Illsley, founding member of Dire Straits and bass guitarist with the group until they disbanded in 1995, is playing live in the Sala REM venue in the city of Murcia on 6th October as part of a 12-date tour of Spain, heading a group which also contains form Pretenders guitarist Robbie McIntosh.
In the mid-1970s John Illsley was sharing a flat in London with David Knopfler, and early one morning arrived home to find David's brother Mark asleep on the floor with a guitar over his legs. They quickly decided to form a band, and over the course of the next 20 years Dire Straits became one of the biggest groups in the world, leading eventually to Illsley's inclusion in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year.
During this tour of Spain this autumn John Illsley and his band will be performing various of the best known songs of the band, such as Sultans of Swing, Money for Nothing, Walk of Life, Romeo and Juliet, Tunnel of Love, Private Investigations, Latest Trick, Calling Elvis, On Every Street and Telegraph Road, as well as other from Illsley's most recent album Long Shadows.
The concert at Sala REM on 6th October begins at 21.00 (doors open 20.00), with tickets priced at 25 euros if purchased in advance (plus costs: online booking here) or 28 euros on the door.
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When it comes to leadership experience, Devon Mathis said his is different from the other six candidates running for California's 26th Assembly seat.
During two tours in Iraq as an Army National Guard soldier, then Sgt. Mathis led platoons of up to 60 vehicles through dangerous terrain.
"Every decision I made, including whether they turned left or merged, I had the lives of everybody behind me riding on the decisions I made," he said.
But he couldn't foresee every risk in the field. Injuries he suffered from two roadside bomb encounters caused brain injuries that forced Mathis, a 31-year-old divorced father of three from Visalia, to separate from the military in 2008.
Still, that didn't stop him from attending Porterville College the next year and graduating from Fresno State last year. During that time he also worked unpaid as an advocate for veterans.
And thanks to determination and cognitive therapy, Mathis said he's fully capable to serve as the assemblyman representing most of Tulare County, along with all of Inyo County and part of northern Kern County.
"My plan is to rebuild California's infrastructure," with a particular focus on increasing water storage in the state, said Mathis, a Porterville native who grew up in various parts of the South Valley before signing up for the Army in high school.
He said California needs a water plan fast and supports the water bond proposal with an emphasis on paying for above-ground storage and groundwater recharge, co-authored by the current 26th District assemblywoman, Connie Conway.
Mathis said he also would like to see the state promote and possibly help pay for development of county-wide water-treatment plants to clean up contaminated groundwater and provide clean water for communities, along with smaller treatment systems for outlying communities that can't connect to larger plants.
To help pay for that, Mathis said the money could come from dismantling California's plan to build a high-speed rail line and using that money to fix state roads and highways as well as to pay for water projects.
He declined to discuss specific types of water projects he would support, saying only that, "What scares me is when people think there is one cure-all answer. There is never a cure-all."
Mathis, who is engaged to be married, said he first got involved in the assembly race while volunteering to help the campaign of fellow Republican Esther Barajas, now one of his opponents.
"I saw things I didn't like," said Mathis, who wouldn't discuss what made him walk away from helping Barajas.
He said he also concluded that his military experience, combined with the degree he earned at Fresno State in public administration with an emphasis on policy for government and nonprofits, makes him better qualified to serve in the Assembly than any of the other 26th District candidates.
Mathis said he also wants to be an assemblyman who can work with Democrats to get things done without being bogged down by party posturing.
"It's a juvenile attitude. It's what children do," he said. "The every-day nuts and bolts things, we have to work as a team — for our people."
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Time for a big push to smash the disease's hold on humanity, maybe eradicate it. Are you in?
No, DDT is not the answer, not even much of AN answer.
How can you help, right now?
Send $10 to Nothing But Nets. Bednets are dramatically more effective than just insecticides, in preventing malaria infections and saving lives. Your $10 donation will save at least one life.
Write to your Congressional delegation, and urge them to increase funding to the President's Malaria Initiative. Malaria does well when people in non-malaria regions turn their backs on the problem. Malaria declines with constant attention to nation-wide and continent-wide programs to prevent the disease, by diminishing habitat for mosquitoes, curing the disease in humans so mosquitoes have no well of disease to draw from, and preventing mosquitoes from biting humans, with window screens, education on when to stay indoors, and bednets.
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31 Responses to World Malaria Day 2014 – How can you help beat the disease?
Black Flag® says:
There is -obviously- no issue stopping a cure when the cure has cured.
The issue is in your statement: "No DDT is not an option". You dismiss the best cure when the disease is still rampant.
Ed Darrell says:
BF, after we banned DDT use in the U.S., malaria deaths started to fall, and have continued to fall each year to today.
Same with malaria infections. Half a billion malaria infections in 1972, fewer than 225 million today.
Stopping the use of DDT on cotton in Alabama didn't cause an increase in malaria.
Ending the WHO malaria eradication campaign didn't cause an increase in malaria.
Malaria declines. Not so fast as we'd like, but it still declines. You can't take a decline, and claim it's not — not and be considered a worthwhile, honest human.
Yes, in your illiterate economic world, where it is a zero-sum game, you can't imagine that roads and medicine are two different things, independent of the other.
Yeah, they do breed in standing water, but the more modern the city and the more civilization, the less that happens, Ed.
Yeah, so you deny the facts that stopping DDT causes more malaria!
You must be glad you aren't South African, so to suffer your cause, huh?
Since the US "banned" DDT, seven years AFTER WHO stopped the eradication campaign based on DDT, malaria infection totals fell by more than 50%, from 500 million a year to 225 million per year; malaria deaths fell from 4 million per year to 700,000 per year.
Stop DDT, malaria infections and malaria deaths fall dramatically.
But you gotta keep fighting malaria, and forget about snark against environmentalists.
It pays to study the issue before coming up with ham-handed solutions that either don't do the job or do more destruction that good.
Human development is. Cities do not have malaria issues – the marshes are paved over.
Malaria is no respecter of the urban/rural dichotomy. Cities have malaria just as rural areas do. Mosquitoes that carry malaria don't need swamps to breed (a common, but often wrong-headed and damaging assumption). They breed in potholes in cities. They breed in rain gutters. They breed in the piles of old tires in cities. They breed on improperly-pitched rooftops where puddles form after a rain.
Pavement is not a solution, and often damages predators of mosquitoes that would keep them in check, especially meadow birds and bats.
DDT on the other hand is not to be sprayed in the out of doors, period. That was NEVER the use of DDT to fight malaria, nor is it now.
To beat malaria, we need to cure malaria in the humans from whom the mosquitoes get the disease in the first place; and we need to prevent mosquitoes from biting infected persons, and prevent infected mosquitoes from biting uninfected people.
That is achieved effectively by barriers, like bednets, during the hours the malaria-carrying mosquitoes bite (evening to about midnight); good access to health care so there can be quick diagnoses of which type of malaria, and so proper treatments can be given in full course so victims have a cure. Bednets alone cut malaria rates by 50% to 85%; DDT alone (in indoor residual spraying) cuts malaria rates by 25% to 50%.
Improving housing helps; screens on windows make dramatic reductions in malaria, if housing is up to snuff otherwise.
Fixing potholes in roads — a problem in cities as well as rural areas — is a huge factor in reducing malaria infections.
It's simple, really. Even when DDT worked, most of the fight against malaria involved other methods. That's still true.
Paving over marsh lands means fewer new drugs to cure heart disease. It would mean that the people who now live in mud huts would have nowhere to get mud, and they'd be left without housing.
That's what you're really calling for, BF, is the degradation of human beings.
Humbug.
Paving over the marsh lands improves human life. Instead of living in a mud hut, these people would live like you.
But you don't want that. Yet, you do not -yourself- want to live in a mud hut.
Just going to ignore the ad hominem filler.
You might want to re-think the idea of paving over wetlands. That practice tends to have nasty consequences over the long term. We need new and better ideas.
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"Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
'Til it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot" –Joni Mitchell
Methinks, Debra, you do not know the extent of geography, nor the extent of human establishments to make your claim.
Absolutely agree with Ed that pesticides alone are not the answer.
DDT solves the problem today so that human establishment solves the problem tomorrow.
Already shown in reality, as already provided here.
Stop DDT, malaria rises. Use DDT, malaria falls.
I care not whether she is dead or not. She being dead does not resolve her specious presentation, nor improve it. She was dead wrong about DDT then and now.
You willingly trade human lives to support your cause, Ed.
Prior to 1945, yes.
Show us the science, BF. Where are the scientific studies that say DDT is both as effective as it once was, AND safe? None.
Studies that show it's well worth the risk? Nope.
Your attempts to kick a dead woman's reputation are repugnant. Carson was right about malaria and DDT in 1962, and still is.
Medical care, preventing bites, is the way to beat malaria. If DDT could contribute, it could be a tool, and is in fact still used by WHO — but it's decreasing in effectiveness, while still a nasty, deadly environmental poison.
If DDT or any of the other pesticides were effective at solving the problem they wouldn't need to be sprayed over decades of time. What they are effective at doing is selecting mutant insects that are stronger and even harder to kill. That sounds like a poor solution to the problem to me.
In fact, pesticides aren't actually intended to be a solution to the problem of pests. They were developed out of a desire to use up post war time surpluses of chemicals. A kind of deadly scam because by their nature they tend to create a perpetual market for the product. When consumers find that the pesticide doesn't work they try using more or switch to something even more potent. What they really ought to do is see the truth: pesticides don't work. So, try something else.
"South Africa is one country that continues to use DDT under WHO guidelines. In 1996, the country switched to alternative insecticides and malaria incidence increased dramatically. Returning to DDT and introducing new drugs brought malaria back under control.
According to DDT advocate Donald Roberts, malaria cases increased in South America after countries in that continent stopped using DDT.
Research data shows a significantly strong negative relationship between DDT residual house sprayings and malaria rates. In a research from 1993 to 1995, Ecuador increased its use of DDT and resulted in a 61% reduction in malaria rates, while each of the other countries that gradually decreased its DDT use had large increase in malaria rates."
The fact that DDT is effective demonstrates that -unlike your rhetoric to the contrary – it should be used.
I absolutely agree that human development, eliminating the breeding grounds of the insect – ultimately is the best solution for it solves TWO human problems at the same time – better human living as well as eliminating malaria.
But you can't get human development whilst living under the scourge of malaria. Eliminate the latter, then the former expands rapidly.
When it was first introduced in World War II, DDT was very effective in reducing malaria morbidity and mortality.
The WHO's anti-malaria campaign, which consisted mostly of spraying DDT, was initially very successful as well. For example, in Sri Lanka, the program reduced cases from about 3 million per year before spraying to just 18 in 1963 and 29 in 1964. Thereafter the program was halted to save money and malaria rebounded to 600,000 cases in 1968 and the first quarter of 1969.
The fact is, Ed, DDT is astoundingly effective.
To campaign on the headstone of the shrill Carson to not use the most effective means to eradicate a human disaster is down right evil.
DDT wasn't discovered to be effective as a pesticide until 1939; it was not deployed "broadly" until about 1942, and not really used against anything but typhus in Europe until 1946, after the war.
You can look this history up, and see. Muller, the guy who discovered DDT kills insects, won the Nobel for his work. Read the citation — no mention of malaria. The presentation speech MENTIONS malaria, but the Nobel Committee looked at typhus, and that is usually cited. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1948/press.html
Maybe more to the point, Sonia Shah's book The Fever documents how DDT was NOT the chief method of malaria eradication in the U.S. The chart you cited earlier shows almost all of the progress against malaria in the U.S. to have been done by 1942, and the disease all but eradicated by 1946 — when DDT was first available for any use in the U.S.
WHO's campaign to eradicate malaria, under the direction of Fred Soper (who had great success against malaria WITHOUT DDT earlier), ran from 1955 to 1965. Soper devised campaigns that required that 80% of homes in an area be treated with indoor residual spraying (IRS), with DDT; then when the mosquito population was knocked down temporarily (and ONLY temporarily), medical care would cure the disease in humans. In six months or a year, when the mosquitoes came roaring back, Soper reasoned accurately, there would be no pool of malaria parasites (humans) to infect mosquitoes, and the disease transmission cycle would be broken.
Soper's methods worked well for an entire decade. Soper thought he could defeat malaria completely by 1975 . . . if mosquitoes didn't become resistant to DDT. WHO's campaigns, under Soper, ran successfully around the Mediterranean, and in other more temperate nations. In 1964, Soper took the campaign to central Africa.
Two years earlier, Rachel Carson warned in Silent Spring that if DDT overuse were not curtailed, target insects, especially mosquitoes, would develop resistance and immunity, and DDT would be rendered useless in the fight. Soper thought Carson was a bit alarmist.
But when Soper's troops tried the campaign in central Africa, they discovered that mosquitoes were resistant and immune to DDT, bred that way by widescale DDT use on crops in fields.
With no pesticide to replace DDT, and with DDT not working to knock down the local mosquito populations, Soper suspended the eradication campaign in 1965, hoping for a quick invention of a replacement for DDT. By 1969, with no chemical alternative on the horizon, WHO officially ended the eradication campaign. DDT abuse killed the campaign to eradicate malaria.
Turned out Carson was right. Sadly. We should have listened then.
Today, malaria is on the run due not non-DDT methods of beating the disease. In fact, one of the few places malaria seems NOT to be on the run is India, where most of the world's DDT is made and used today, more DDT in India than the rest of the world combined. Were DDT a panacea against malaria-vector mosquitoes, India should be malaria free. We see the opposite.
DDT leaves significant destruction in its wake. It's a persistent pollutant, and it kills indiscriminately. Even in a few places where DDT might work against mosquitoes in Africa, locals don't want it. In the 1950s and 1960s, DDT abuse in fields led to massive fish kills, which meant starvation for local people who depend on fish for food. Memories of disasters are long.
DDT left a legacy of polluted sites in the U.S., now all Superfund cleanup sites; and it left a legacy of pollution in Africa. Health studies show long-term effects of DDT, including endocrine disruption that promotes and may cause cancers, far outweigh benefits of DDT.
Wise malaria fighters ask for money for nets, money for better health care, money to distribute preventive tools and substances — but they don't ask for more DDT. Been there, been harmed by that, now know it's not very effective, want to concentrate on what works, not what libertarians call politically correct.
Additionally:
"DT was used extensively during World War II by the Allies to control the insect vectors of typhus – nearly eliminating the disease in many parts of Europe. In the South Pacific, it was sprayed aerially for malaria and dengue fever control with spectacular effects"
Sorry, Ed, DDT was in use broadly during the war and after … it is your timeline that suffers distortions, not mine.
No, "we" didn't win the battle in 1939, as the graph absolutely demonstrates.
Absolutely, the choices of confining people indoors – 1939 style with no airco – would be the choice SANS DDT.
Additionally, as development (ie: good old capitalism) filled in marshes etc. improved the lot of life to be sure, doubly.
But pretending these measures – confinement and development – are effective in under-developed, government ruined nations is bizarre.
Great chart, there, BF. You notice, it ends in 1946, before DDT was used.
I said "essentially controlled." Yes, "eradicated" in 1951. DDT spraying started in earnest in 1952. You're still wrong.
But, we defeated malaria by 1939 in the U.S., with three initiatives that are still effective today:
1. We had a national campaign to improve housing, to be sure homes were sealed to mosquitoes, and had good windows on which screens could be hung. Turns out malaria-spreading mosquitoes bite mostly evening to midnight, and window screens alone prevent most of those bites. Especially the TVA had official charges to fight malaria, by improving housing.
2. The U.S. Public Health Service worked to beef up public health services in malaria-endemic counties across the U.S., to speed diagnosis and effective treatment of the disease; turns out that curing humans of the malaria parasite means mosquitoes can't draw the disease to spread it.
3. Several federal and state agencies banded together to education people on how to drain mosquito breeding places near homes, to prevent contact, to prevent bites. Mosquitoes rarely move more than about 50 yards in a lifetime. If raingutters on houses, old tires, cans, and potholes in roads near homes are drained, mosquitoes simply don't come into contact with humans, and the spread of the disease stops.
Basically, that's what the President's Malaria Initiative, the Gates Foundation, and WHO advocate today — with the addition of bednets, especially where housing can't be upgraded quickly enough to make the whole house an effective mosquito screen.
Rachel Carson urged the use of "integrated pest management" as the smart-effective way to beat malaria. WHO adopted that method worldwide in 2000, under the name "integrated vector managment" (IVM). Since then, malaria has seen radical, permanent declines worldwide, even faster than before.
http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/uscurves.html
Oh, and it wasn't until 1951 that the US that it was declared "eradicated". Good try tho.
It was initially used with great effect to combat malaria, typhus, and the other insect-borne human diseases among both military and civilian populations and for insect control in crop and livestock production, institutions, homes, and gardens. DDT's quick success as a pesticide and broad use in the United States and other countries…
Even the EPA shows that is it responsible for success, Ed.
Go back to living under Carson's ignorance.
The bed nets project sounds like a great idea. Thanks for sharing this.
Malaria was essentially eradicated in the U.S. by 1939. DDT was first available to use against mosquitoes in the U.S. in 1946.
A bit calendar challenged, there?
BF, read the materials carefully. If you do, you'll see that worldwide, malaria fighters who spend their lives fighting the disease ask for better medical care, and bednets. They ask for money to help educate people on how to avoid the disease.
The malaria fighters do not ask for DDT. DDT's time is past, if there ever was a time for DDT. There is no shortage of DDT — WHO and other NGOs and national groups use DDT when and where it's appropriate, but ONLY in conjunction with a dozen other pesticides, because DDT speeds mosquito evolution to be resistant to ALL pesticides.
So, DDT is not so effective as bednets alone (though bednets impregnated with insecticides are used as most effective, once upon a time including DDT); DDT in indoor residual spraying (IRS) is increasingly expensive; DDT causes environmental problems; and DDT is increasingly useless against mosquitoes at all.
Give $10 and save a life, or turn your back on the people dying of the disease by calling for more DDT. You choose.
DDT IS the answer, as it solved the problem in North America.
None of these other methods have proven effective, since they have not solved the problem.
Demanding more from failure, and arguing against success does not turn a problem into a success.
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And it's all because of the word 'diaper'.
After an Instagram post was shared by Duchess Meghan and Prince Harry's page @sussexroyal on Tuesday, the wording of the post has some royal reporters convinced that Meghan has been writing the Instagram captions herself.
The post thanks well-wishers and fans of the royal parents-to-be who donated to various charities in lieu of sending gifts and touches on the incredible impact those donations have made.
"Just one week ago, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex asked that you kindly consider supporting various organisations around the world in lieu of sending gifts for the upcoming arrival of their first born," the post begins.
"Not only did many of you lend your support, you took action.
"Their Royal Highnesses wanted you to know the impact of your support – the direct effect your donation, energy and action made!
"YOU chose to be part of the collective good, and you have made a real difference," the post continues.
"Whether a $5 donation, £1000 contribution, offering to volunteer, or spreading the word – you've played your part.
"And on behalf of The Duke and Duchess (and Baby Sussex), we thank you very much."
The post then went on to list the four organisations the couple had spotlighted – The Lunchbox Fund, Little Village HQ, WellChild and Baby 2 Baby – along with the impact the donations have made for each, but it was the use of one word in particular that has royal commentators convinced that Meghan's writing the posts herself.
The word in question? Diaper.
"@Baby2Baby have received over 5,000 products to disperse to children in need," the captions says, "including cribs, books, backpacks, diapers and have received monetary donations from around the globe – from Guadalajara to Italy."
The use of the word 'diaper' has many royal commentors wondering whether it's Meghan writing posts because of its use of the American English word for nappies.
Supposedly if it had been written by someone in the couple's press team (who would most likely be from the UK), they would have used the word 'nappy', as it would be more natural for them, the commentators believe.
Royal commentator Patricia Treble suggested the idea in a tweet, adding the informal style of writing also suggests she may have written the thank you post herself, with ITV News royal editor Chris Ship replying, "I think that is a given…"
Town and Country and Tatler magazine reporter Victoria Murphy also tweeted about the informal and personal tone many of the social posts use with respected royal reporter for Hello! Emily Nash tweeting back, again mentioning the use of the word diapers.
Chris Sharp also chimed in again tweeting in response, "I think Meghan has written many of those Insta posts. And good for her.
"Why should we not expect the principals to do thinks [sic] directly and personally."
Since Harry and Meghan's split from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's household, the couple have now moved their office out of Kensington Palace to Buckingham Palace and have since acquired their own press team and launched their own separate Instagram account, which broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to gain one million followers on the social media platform.
It's perhaps important to note that Meghan and Harry's head of communications Sara Latham is also from the US, so if she had written the post it's not unlikely that she'd use American English words too, along with the fact that the charity Baby 2 Baby is also a US-based charity, so if the press team had written off of a statement from the organisation, they would have also used American terms.
So while it's still unclear whether Meghan really is writing her own posts, if she is she won't be the only royal doing so.
Princess Eugenie has her own Instagram account and regularly posts personal images and messages.
And with Meghan's history of a successful personal Instagram page and lifestyle blog, it's definitely a high possibility that the Duchess has taken the social media account under her wing - and if that's the case, we've got our fingers crossed for some adorable baby pics taken by Meghan when Baby Sussex finally arrives!


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Landbay, one of the UK's leading buy-to-let lenders, has achieved 5,520% growth in revenue from 2016 to 2020, lending over £0.6bn during that period. This massive growth has landed Landbay at number six in the Deloitte UK Fast 50. Landbay is the top ranked mortgage lender and is listed as the third fastest growing FinTech business in the country.
Over the past three years Landbay has been building momentum with 2020 marking the third year in a row it has featured on the UK Fast 50. Reaching number 20 in 2018, number 28 in 2019 and now number 6 in 2020.
The Deloitte UK Fast 50 is one of the UK's foremost technology awards programmes. The ranking is based on revenue growth over the last four years and recognises the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in the UK. The UK Fast 50 awards are all about growth driven by leading intellectual property and are a celebration of innovation and entrepreneurship. Reaching the top ten in the Deloitte UK Fast 50 is a major achievement and shows Landbay clearly outstripping the rest of the buy-to-let market in terms of growth.
Last week Landbay also announced a major additional funding deal with a leading international asset manager worth £300m a year which will enable it to expand its lending further still. This deal is in addition to thebank funding deal that Landbay announced in July and the £1bn funding deal it announced in mid-2019. This makes Landbay one of the most diversely funded buy-to-let lenders in the UK, with funds from an investment bank sponsored securitisation programme, as well as from deposit taking banks.
Landbay has ambitions not only to increase lending but to also change the way that buy-to-let lending is carried out. It uses cutting edge technology to streamline the lending process. Landbay's origination process is all online via its bespoke platform and is 100% paperless with e-signatures and micro services. Landbay'sprocess is all cloud-based and scalable, allowing it to turnaround every enquiry in under 72 hours, significantly faster than many of its competitors, while still offering highly attractive pricing.
Landbay was Amazon Web Services' first case study as the first 100% cloud-based firm to be fully FCA authorised. Despite this online approach, Landbay still provides a bespoke, flexible service with personal interaction with clients and intermediaries.
Julian Cork, COO of Landbay, said,"The huge growth we've achieved is a testament to how hard our team has worked over the past four years and the excellent intermediaries we work with. We set out to become the leading customer services company designing better ways to buy-to-let and this recognition from Deloitte shows we are well on the way to achieving this.
"The key to our success is our scalable, technology enabled and service-focused lending platform. We designed process and systems that means we can do things faster and more efficiently and crucially, provide a better experience for intermediaries and their clients.
"While the growth of Landbay is incredibly important, we also want to help change the shape of the whole buy-to-let industry providing intermediaries with a vision of what lending could and should look like."
The Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 is part of an international programme run by Deloitte and qualifying entrants of the UK Fast 50 will be put forward to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) programme. Previous winners have come from across the UK, are both large and small, and included some of the most dynamic players in all areas of technology, from internet specialists to biotech, digital media technology to life sciences, computers to semiconductors and software to telecommunications.
Brokers can visit the website at: Landbay.co.uk or phone: 0207 096 2700