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22 notable government cybersecurity initiatives in 2022
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Scottish government offers cyber resilience training to hundreds of organisations
Scottish Business Resilience Centre will run workshops for public services and third-sector health, housing and social care bodies to better prepare them for cyber threats.
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The Scottish government has announced a £500,000 contract to extend cyber resilience training to more than 250 organisations across the country. The grant will see the Scottish Business Resilience Centre (SBRC) run online and in-person workshops for public services and third-sector health, housing, and social care bodies to ensure they are better prepared for and protected against cyberthreats, the government stated. The move comes in the wake of increasing numbers of disruptive, large-scale cyberattacks in Scotland.
Scottish government committed to making Scotland a leader in cyber resilience, security
In a post on its website, the Scottish government said it hopes that more than 250 businesses will benefit from the scheme. Justice Secretary Keith Brown commented, "We have all seen the devastating impact of an organisation falling victim to a cyber-related incident, so extending training to make more people aware of the risks is absolutely crucial. The Scottish government is committed to ensuring Scotland leads the way in cyber resilience and security."
This extended training will help many more organisations to stave off the threat of an attack and protect against disruptive and costly data breaches, Brown added. "The workshops provide practical guidance to mitigate or respond to hostile cyberattacks. I would urge eligible organisations to take up this opportunity to ensure they are protected."
Scotland under increasing pressure from cyberthreats
Jude McCorry, CEO of the SBRC, said that there is no denying that the ongoing pressure facing everyone from a cyber-perspective has increased massively in recent years. "Just as we see one organisation recover from the grips of a cyber incident, another is targeted," she stated.
It is also now believed that cybercriminals have targeted more than three-quarters of public-sector organisations and, closer to home, we have seen this play out with disruptive large-scale attacks already in Scotland, she continued. "We don't want to see more Scottish organisations fall victim to these attacks and that is why upskilling and awareness programmes continue to be so vital."
The SBRC has already upskilled 450 organisations across Scotland since being launched in 2020. Organisations interested in learning more about the government's new scheme or registering can do so online.
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18 Free Outdoor Shakespeare Festivals Across the U.S.
By KC Wright | Aug. 12, 2014, 05:00 PM
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Summer is coming to an end, but there's still time catch an open-air showing of some of the Bard's most popular works. Check out these outdoor Shakespeare performances from all over the country and the prominent theater companies producing them. Bonus: They're all completely free!
Shakespeare in the Park (NYC)
This annual celebrity-studded event from New York's Public Theater is the father of all outdoor Shakespeare festivals. Offering free performances in Central Park throughout the summer, the festival gives New Yorkers a chance to see some their favorite actors live under the stars. Performances are held in an amphitheater built for the purpose; the Delecorte Theater was constructed in 1961 after a court battle with the park, and opened with a performance of "The Merchant of Venice" starring George C. Scott and James Earl Jones. This year's line-up included "Much Ado About Nothing" featuring Hamish Linklater and Lily Rabe, and John Lithgow in "King Lear," still playing through Aug. 17. Planners beware: Free tickets are distributed at noon the day of the performance, and eager audience members often start lining up in the wee hours of the morning.
Harlem Summer Shakespeare (NYC)
Central Park is not the only place to find free Shakespeare in New York. Pulse Ensemble Theatre is currently celebrating the 10th anniversary of their summer Shakespeare performances in West Harlem's Riverside State Park. This year they are making Shakespeare accessible to new audiences with a "visually contemporary" production of "Romeo and Juliet," presented as a Shakespearean episode of TV's "Law and Order."
The Classical Theatre of Harlem (NYC)
Another uptown option is The Classical Theatre of Harlem, presenting lively Shakespearean performances at Marcus Garvey Park. Though this year's "Romeo n Juliet" is closed for the summer, they will be back next year with another free (and fun!) production of "CTH Under the Stars."
New York Classical Theatre (NYC)
Having just wrapped their 15th season, New York Classical Theatre is committed to presenting free and accessible performances in non-traditional spaces. Productions travel to Central Park, Battery Park, and Brookfield Place, and spectators are encouraged to move around with the action. Next summer, be sure to look out for their popular pre-performance workshops led by cast members—also free of charge!
Shakespeare in the Parking Lot (NYC)
These annual productions from The Drilling Company are a slight departure from your typical grassy field or amphitheater. Performances take place in—you guessed it—a parking lot, and have been engaging audiences on the Lower East Side since 1995. Artistic Director Hamilton Clancy describes the parking lot as "an urban wrinkle." This active venue—(actors occasionally have to pause as cars drive away)—engages audiences with the grit and life of Shakespeare's text, all while enjoying a unique night out.
Shakespeare Theatre Company Free For All (Washington, D.C.)
STC's yearly free Shakespeare performances have been entertaining D.C. audiences since the summer of 1991. Performed at the scenic Carter Barron Amphitheater, the Free For All brings world-class Shakespeare to a diverse audience of families, first-timers and regular theatergoers. This year's production of "The Winter's Tale," a remount of STC's critically acclaimed 2013 production, is playing through Aug. 31.
Shakespeare in Clark Park (Philadelphia, Penn.)
Philadelphia theatergoers have been flocking to these free performances in scenic Clark Park since 2005. Audience members are encouraged to bring a blanket and a picnic and enjoy Shakespeare's plays in a peaceful natural setting. This year's production of "Henry IV" incorporated audience participation and multiple venues—including "The Pub," a pre-show glimpse into the lives of the characters at nearby Gojjo Bar and Restaurant.
Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks (Pittsburgh, Penn.)
This yearly festival offers Steel City audiences the chance to catch free outdoor performances through the end of autumn. Artistic Director Jennifer Tober formed the company in 2005 after being inspired by the natural amphitheater at the bottom of Squirrel Hill's Frick Park. PSIP currently offers free shows all over Pittsburgh; this year's production of "As You Like It" opens on Sept. 6, and will run through the end of the month at four different neighborhood parks.
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company's Free Shakespeare in the Park (Cincinnati, Ohio)
An annual tradition since 2006, Cincinnati Shakespeare offers free touring performances at over 20 locations across the area. Last year's tour reached a record breaking 7,000 Cincinnati-area audience members; this year, check out "Macbeth" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" playing in rep through Aug. 29.
Chicago Shakespeare in the Park Free For All (Chicago)
This 3-year-old event from Chicago Shakespeare Theater brings free performances to over a dozen parks all over the city, offering lively and accessible theater to the whole Chicago community. This year's family friendly production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" plays through August 17, wrapping up its 18-park run at Ridge Park, South Shore Cultural Center, and Eckhart Park. Chicagoans should be sure to look out for special performances featuring local music and dance troupes!
Connecticut Free Shakespeare (Connecticut)
Founded in 2000 by Dandelion Productions, CFS is committed to producing free and accessible classical works with 21st century flair. Performances take place in multiple venues throughout the Bridgeport area, with their most recent production of "As You Like It" playing at Stratford Shakespeare Festival and Downtown Bridgeport's McLevy Green.
Shakespeare on the Common (Boston)
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company has been producing this Bostonian performance series for the past 18 years, bringing free Shakespeare to the oldest city park in the United States. Performances are held at the Parkman Bandstand on historic Boston Common, and attract diverse audiences from all over the city.
The Colonial Theatre Shakespeare Festival (Westerly, R.I.)
Named the "Official Shakespeare Festival of Rhode Island" by the Rhode Island House of Representatives, this 23-year-old outdoor festival entertains almost 20,000 Rhode Island and Connecticut residents annually. This year fans of the Bard can catch "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)," with performances through Aug. 17 at Wilcox Park in downtown Westerly.
Heart of America Shakespeare Festival's Free Will (Kansas City, Mo.)
This free summer Festival was created in 1993 after a conversation with The Public's Joseph Papp-inspired founder Marilyn Strauss to bring "Shakespeare in the Park" to Kansas City. This year's production of "The Winter's Tale" marked Free Will's 22nd season of performances in Southmoreland Park, and featured pre-show parody performances alongside expertly curated "Show Talk" discussions.
Austin Shakespeare Festival's Shakespeare in Zilker Park (Austin)
Austin Shakespeare Festival marked the 30th anniversary of Shakespeare in Zilker Park with their production of "As You Like It" last spring. In keeping with the company's commitment to affordable theater and community involvement, productions are family-friendly and always free of charge.
Portland Actors Ensemble Shakespeare-in-the-Parks (Portland)
This west coast theater company is committed to bringing financially accessible theater to the entire Portland community. As one of Portland's longest-running theater companies, the ensemble has been producing free summer shows since 1970. Their 45th annual season included "Antony and Cleopatra" alongside "A Midsummer Night's Dream," still playing through Sept. 1 at various outdoor locations.
Shakespeare by the Sea (Los Angeles)
Founded in 1998 by Producing Artistic Director Lisa Coffi, SBTS offers free Shakespeare in rep to over 20 communities all over Los Angeles and the South Bay. A beloved tradition for many Southern California families, the festival has reached over 350,000 audience members in its 17 seasons. This year's productions of "Hamlet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" play through Aug. 16 at various parks across Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura Counties.
Independent Shakespeare Company Griffith Park Festival (Los Angeles)
This popular festival from L.A.'s Independent Shakespeare Company moved to Griffith Park in 2010, after seven summers in East Hollywood's Barnsdall Park. Growing from their 2003 audience of 14 people (and a dog) to over 43,000 this year alone, the festival includes free Shakespeare in rep, pre-show performances and workshops, and the "Salon Series," conversations about Shakespearean themes in contemporary society. Los Angeles audiences can catch "Twelfth Night" and "The Taming of the Shrew" through Aug. 31, and special events through Sept. 6.
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Q: Programmatically Getting Name of Front-most (currently running) application in Unity I am trying to write a script that executes differently depending on the currently active program, and I am wondering if there is any way to find this programatically.
For example, I come from the Mac world, and in Apple's Applescript you can do the following:
set appPath to the path to the frontmost application
set appName to the name of file appPath

and that will give you the name of the currently running application.
Is there anything similar that I can do in ubuntu-land?
Thanks!

A: xprop can tell you the ID of the window that is active
xprop -root|grep '^_NET_ACTI'

And you can use the output of wmctrl to find out the name of all windows, matched up to their IDs
wmctrl -l

wmctrl isn't in the default install, so you'll need to sudo apt-get install wmctrl of course.
Note that there's no left-padding in the output of xprop, so we need to pad it before grepping for it within the output of wmctrl. All together, something like this should do it:
$ WINID=$(xprop -root|grep '^_NET_ACTI' |sed -e 's/.*# //' -e 's/0x/0x0/')
$ wmctrl -l |grep $WINID
0x07c00006  0 my-hostname The Title of The Window

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More details have started trickling out concerning the canned Star Wars game from Visceral and, the more we hear about it, the more frustrating it is that we'll never get to play the game that Amy Hennig and Co. were developing.
A couple of weeks ago, EA announced that they would be "pivoting" the development of the Star Wars game being developed by Visceral Games. That also meant that they would be shuttering the studio itself, relocating as many personnel as possible. It was bad news for the men and women who had dedicated years of their life to developing the game, it was bad news for a great studio and it was bad news for folks who were really looking forward to playing the game that had been the source of much rumor and speculation.
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The lead protagonist was called Dodger, another fact those early rumors got right. The story refers to Dodger as a "cracked mirror version" of Han Solo, which we figure means he was a scoundrel with a lot more personal demons to deal with. We figure that also means he was going to be the type of guy who slings wisecracks around on a regular basis, something Hennig is especially good at writing after all of her years with Nathan Drake.
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The game was going to be set between Star Wars: A New Hope and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. There's a lot of room for political intrigue and high tensions between the Empire and their Rebel enemies in that period of time, which would make a great setting for a game.
The game's code name was "Ragtag," which had to do with the collection of characters that would form your adventuring party. Some of the best Star Wars stories happen on the fringes of the main storyline's major events, and it sounds like Ragtag was definitely headed in that direction.
In other words, it sounds like Visceral's Star Wars game was going to, bare minimum, have a killer premise driving it. Instead, it looks like we'll be getting a more "open" experience with whatever "games-as-service" nonsense EA can bolt on for good measure.


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The Queen 'is not a foodie' and follows a no-carb diet when eating on her own, former chef reveals
Lydia Hawken
12:46 ET, Jun 4 2020
SHE may have access to some of the world's top chefs - but it turns out, The Queen isn't too fussed by fine dining.
According to Her Majesty's former chef Darren McGrady, The Queen is not what you'd consider a "foodie" - unlike her husband Prince Philip.
The Queen isn't much of a 'foodie', her former chef has revealed
Speaking to The Telegraph, the chef said: "[The Queen] not a foodie.
"She eats to live, unlike Prince Philip who loves to eat and would stand and talk food all day."
What's more, Darren claims Her Majesty follows a strict no-carb diet when she's eating on her own.
He added: "When she dines on her own, she's very disciplined. No starch is the rule."
The Queen's former chef says The Queen 'eats to live' while her husband Prince Philip is the oppositeCredit: PA:Press Association
The monarch's meals are healthy, low-carb affairs, usually grilled fish or chicken with two different vegetables or a big bowl of salad.
That said, The Queen still likes to treat herself to something sweet from time-to-time - and Darren claims she's a total "chocaholic".
He told HELLO!: "She is absolutely a chocoholic. Anything we put on the menu that had chocolate on, she would choose, especially chocolate perfection pie."
But, the Queen won't entertain any old chocolate - in fact, it has to be dark.
"She likes chocolate, but only dark chocolate, the darker the better," he added. "She's not a big fan of milk or white chocolate."
While it's no surprise that the Queen is partial to a little chocolate, Her Maj's former pilot has claimed that the Queen would enjoy a tinned Fray Bentos pie on long-haul flights in the 90s.
In more Royal Family news, The Queen developed a 'good left hook' when she was young after having fights with Princess Margaret, a royal expert claimed.
And Meghan Markle has been secretly working with animal charity as it battles funding crisis during coronavirus lockdown.
Plus Princess Diana used to take Prince William and Prince Harry on 'secret' trips to McDonald's for Happy Meal toys.
The Queen developed a good 'left hook' when she was young after having punching and biting fights with Princess Margaret despite being close


Jakob Nielsen's clearly in the holiday spirit, since his latest Alertbox is an exposé of the 10 biggest User Interface bloopers in films, which we'll all see countless times over the next few weeks.
I'd forgotten all about Jurassic Park, where a 12-year-old girl saves the day and stops the usual rampaging dinosaur hordes through her knowledge of Unix. Gripping stuff, I'm sure you'll agree. However, there is one Jakob missed: noughts and crosses as an allegory for Mutually Assured Destruction. WarGames, of course.
Admit it, you've seen it. But, if your memory isn't so fresh, WarGames sees teenage hacker David (Matthew Broderick) poking around WOPR, your typical global nuclear defence mainframe. Sadly, sloppy information architecture (seen above) causes poor David to inadvertently trigger global thermonuclear war – although, in WOPR's defence, it does at least offer a confirmation dialog.
Realising his rather egregious error, David quickly stabs away at Ctrl-Z, but WOPR is having none of it. He can't even shut it down through Task Manager. In the end, he has to rely on a cunning hack. By forcing the computer to play noughts and crosses against itself repeatedly, David causes WOPR to realise (in a flash of logic that somehow drains electricity from surrounding appliances) that the Nash equilibrium for global thermonuclear war is to not start it. WOPR smugly declares "the only winning move is not to play" and cancels the missile strike.
A close call indeed. And that, kids, is what happens when you don't do user testing.


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class Help(Plugin):
    @command
    def help(self, command):
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Preface – how this book came about
Note, Feb 21 2017: while we think Credo is still within its use by date it is probably now slightly past its best before date. However, updating takes time and research. If and when Brian has time he may start changing and updating the text. If he does this, a date will be given at the time of changes and a brief note to say where in the text the last changes were made.
You can download a pdf of the entire book here.
We're also gradually uploading chapters of the book for online reading in web format. Those already uploaded are underlined below and can be accessed by clicking on their titles.
How this book came about.
Part One – The Evolution of the "theory"
On faith, keeping it and losing it
This book opens with an explanation of the term "faiths" used in the book and goes on to discuss the inertia of established ideas. It describes economics as an orientation system for a market society and argues that bad economics has become a source of disorientation which serves the elite well.
Chapter 2 Economics and economists . . .
This chapter connects economic theory to the role that economists play in society and the kind of people that they are likely to be given their social role as part of the elite. It explores themes such as elite psychopathology, the way that observation changes that which is observed while that which is observed changes the observer.
Chapter 3 Early economic thought from Aristotle to the "invisible hand"
The chapter covers the early history of economic thought as slave owning classes reflected upon "self-actualisation" and on the management of their households and estates. Medieval economics was a branch of moral philosophy taught by monks and yet the subject subsequently evolved to justify robbery and enslavement in service to the rising merchant class. Economics became, in effect, a quasi-religion. The new original sin was "scarcity" while the new chief virtue has become "efficiency".
Chapter 4 Economics in Darwinist mode – the competitive struggle for existence
Nineteenth century economics is described in this chapter as a subject used to train a psychopathic imperial elite – this is illustrated by the policies recommended by economists to manage famines in Ireland and India. The poor had only themselves to blame for their desperate state.
Chapter 5 Specialisation and trade – David Ricardo vs Frederich List
What Schumpeter called the "Ricardian Vice" was a mode of reasoning in which the required conclusions are buried in the assumptions of an argument. The free trade argument of David Ricardo are described in these terms and unpicked. The ideas of the German-American economist Frederich List challenged Ricardo's view.
Chapter 6 Calculating Pleasure and Pain
Micro-economics has a philosophical foundation – preference utilitarianism. Jeremy Bentham's clunky one dimensional understanding of human beings and human society still underpins the thinking of economists. (TEXT BOX: Jeremy Bentham's Rational Punishment)
Chapter 7 Isn't it time to bury Jeremy Bentham? Utility theory deconstructed . . .
Mainstream micro-economics works from a model where consumers are imagined choosing between just two commodities. The theory is unworkable in a multi-product world. The "prospect theory" of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky is contrasted to utilitarian thinking. People are loss averse in an uncertain world. Kahneman's and Tversky's ideas open a can of worms for mainstream micro-economics.
Chapter 8 Economists as a priesthood – theologians for the love of money
Some of the ridiculous assumptions on which much of mainstream economics is constructed are explored in this chapter – for example the methodology that stresses individual decision-making, the assumption that decision-makers have the information that they need, the assumption of honesty, the default assumption of competition. (TEXT BOX Labour market competition as an alternative to corporal punishment according to Hayek).
Chapter 9 "Rational economic men" in love, politics and everyday life
This chapter explores the assumptions about human nature on which mainstream economics is based. The description of "rational economic man" ignores most psychological and psychotherapy understandings of people.
Chapter 10 Consumerism, collective psychopathology and waste
This chapter about the power elite on display and the economics of Thorsten Veblen covers topics like conspicuous consumption and the consumer society, branding and the manufacture of wants. The role of advertisers is explored as well as the way that attention grabbing has become an economic sector that affects the quality of life radically and for the worse.
Chapter 11 Happiness or Authenticity? To have or to be?
The chapter draws on the ideas of Erich Fromm and, more recently, Oliver James, to describe the problem of Affluenza. It critiques the recent enthusiasm of some economists like Richard Layard for a theory of "happiness" and "positive psychology".
Chapter 12 The attention seeking economy, information and the manufacture of ignorance
Information is lost as well as gained during the processes of economic development and change. There is a great deal of difference between direct knowledge and knowledge that is taken in through a variety of media. Much of what we take for granted is actually better understood as "consensus trance". To orientate to the world properly we need to have a proper feel for the huge amount of what we don't know – and there are multiple categories of unknowing.
Chapter 13 Inequality, epidemiology and economics
Public health is an alternative indicator of well-being and is strongly correlated to levels of equality or inequality. Greater equality means greater well-being for everyone and a smaller need for the state – yet inequality has been increasing dramatically.
Chapter 14 The centrality of externalities
What economists call "externalities" are not unusual or a special case, they are ubiquitous. They are rooted in private property and the relationships of market society. The way in which non market societies protect bio-diversity through totem arrangements is described.
Chapter 15 Ethical disconnections and re-connections – corporations and NGOs
Externalities involve ethical choices. The mechanisms that allow corporate actors to distance themselves from responsibility from their anti-social and anti-environmental choices are described – for example the role of corporate personhood and evasions of regulation, taxation and control. NGOs and Civil Society Organisations have evolved to counter unethical corporate choices. Unfortunately they are often co-opted and neutralised.
Part Two – Economics, Land and Nature
Chapter 16 Indigenous Economics
Mainstream economics regards environmental protection as a matter of finding the "right price" for environmental preferences. This is not how indigenous people think about environmental issues. The chapter contrasts the mentalities of people that belong to places vs the mind-set of the population when places belong to people. There are differing epistemes in different societies and "traditional environmental knowledge" is a totally different way of knowing to that taken for granted by economists.
Chapter 17 Colonialist economics – the contrast with indigenous land care principles
Many, though by no means all, indigenous peoples practiced sustainable land care and used concepts that contrast strongly with modern economics thinking. Much economic thinking is intrinsically ecologically destructive.
Chapter 18 Concepts for a fenced off world
Private property in land means enclosure and exclusion. Economists typically assume that economic choices involve inevitable trade-offs. However, it is not true that alternatives must always be forgone. There is often a potential for sharing and mutual accommodation that is being ignored. Not all choices are rivalrous.
Chapter 19 Commoning
This chapter explores the features of sustainable commons and the extent of commons today. It describes the practice of commoning as a possible response to the ecological crisis.
Chapter 20 "Improvement" through biodiversity collapse
Ricardian development involved not just specialisation of labour but specialised uses for land. Specialised uses for land have destructive ecological consequences and are only possible with much energy consumption. The increasingly destructive impact on ecological systems is approaching a global tipping point.
Chapter 21 Releasing "improving farmers" from community constraints – the Physiocrats
The Physiocrats were early exponents of the idée fixe of laissez faire economists – that by freeing up markets "improvement" will occur. The assumption here was that production increase should take priority over security for poor and vulnerable parts of the population.
Chapter 22 Agricultural empires, public works and the protection of the peasantry
In contrast, agricultural policy in India and China at the time of the Physiocrats protected the peasantry.
Chapter 23 Who are the parasites? The radical implications of classical economics
Henry George and Karl Marx developed alternative radical theories out of the ideas of Adam Smith and David Ricardo.
Chapter 24 Marginal Productivity Theory
This chapter describes the "marginal revolution" of neoclassical economics. The idea of marginal productivity and payments to "factors of production" was developed for ideological reasons to counter thinkers like Marx and George. The theoretical framework learned by generations of students is contradicted by the evidence. The ideas of capital and land in neoclassical economics are incoherent.
Chapter 25 Georgist Macro-Economics and the Land Value Tax
The ideas of Henry George are still very relevant for economic theory. A site value tax would help to stabilise property market cycles and promote greater spatial efficiency. However, while helpful, market mechanisms like a site value tax will not, on its own, fully resolve the environmental crisis.
Chapter 26 "Illth" rights for sale
Anthropocentric views of nature are very different from the "nature as kin" viewpoint of many indigenous societies. In the anthropocentric view nature is converted it into "environmental goods" for which people have "preferences" of varying strengths.
Chapter 27 Contingency valuation – what it tells us about economists
Environmental economists "value nature" in whole or in parts using techniques designed to find out how much people are prepared to pay to protect it, or prepared to accept as compensation if it destroyed. There are many flaws in this approach. Cost benefit analysis is an undemocratic process rigged by economists and there are better alternatives.
Part Three – Households and Lifestyles
Chapter 28 Household economics
Do households exist to service the economy or vice versa? The composition of different kinds of households will depend on demographic structures which have profound political and economic consequences. Household arrangements can become out of balance and re-creating efficient habitats can be seen as a legitimate economic goal. The time spent in households versus the time spent in paid work time is a central feature of any pattern of economic arrangements.
As John Maynard Keynes put it: "In the long run we are all dead". Economics has to include consideration of the long run trends of births, deaths, migration and of the age composition of societies. As we reach the limits to economic growth the death rate may start to rise. Globalisation may make the spread of diseases very rapid. Preventing novel diseases like Ebola may prove expensive and the health and well being of the population at large may become dependent on some of the most exploited and devalued people in our society – cleaners, carers and grave diggers.
Chapter 30 Allocating time
Temporal inequality is a little noticed feature of our society. Poor people wait for things – the well-off are waited on. Temporal inequality is crucial to understanding people's time choices.
Chapter 31 Life Management, stability and life transitions
Lifestyles and routines can be considered as "packages" of elements which must be held in balance one with another like income, habitat, relationships and activities. Lifestyle transitions involve moving from one "package" to another. There are different kinds of transitions including downshifting and upshifting. Downshifters can sometimes be part of a pioneering minority in a society that is facing the limits to economic growth.
Part Four – Production in the Paid Work Sector
Chapter 32 Energy in the Economic System
The production economy is embedded in the physical world and thus, subject to the laws of physics. Concepts like "entropy", "sources" and "sinks", are useful to help us understand the embedded and embodied character of economic activity. Energy is converted through our bodies and through technical devices. The idea that economic development has meant a movement from an "empty world" to a "full world" is useful – but we must take care to acknowledge that we label the earlier state of an "empty world" which was often a sustainable low impact way of living by an indigenous society.
Chapter 33 Using Energy to Extract Energy – the dynamics of depletion
The "Limits to Growth Study" of 1972 was deeply controversial and criticised by many economists. Over 40 years later, it seems remarkably prophetic and on track in its predictions. The crucial concept of Energy Return on Energy Invested is explained and the flaws in neoclassical reasoning which EROI highlights.
Chapter 34 Convivial Technology versus Granfalloons
Technological innovation is considered the source of 'salvation' in economics. However, there are different kinds of technology and in recent years "convivial technology" has been developed to conform to more people and environmental friendly principles than those of the technological mainstream. Unfortunately, even convivial technologies are often developed in hybrid and mixed conditions using infrastructure platforms from the economy of the corporations, as well as sometimes reflecting consumerist values. At the same time, the "green technology" in the economic mainstream is not at all that it seems. The increasing complexity of products and societies leads to increasing unpredictability. There is actually no such thing as a sustainable company or product because sustainability is society-wide. Rebound effects often render environmental innovation futile. Efficiency improvements have limited effectiveness in a growing economy. Granfalloons are vested interest coalitions formed around illusory and futile innovations like bio-fuels which are sustained by the optimism bias of techno-enthusiasts.
Chapter 35 Unconventional Gas Granfalloons – Long Case Study
The drive to develop unconventional gas sources illustrates multiple concepts developed in this book: the centrality of energy, the limits to economic growth; the interpenetration of economics and politics, the use of PR and deception by corporate actors. Technologies for "unconventional gas" extraction like shale gas fracking, coal seam gas de-watering and underground coal gasification are granfalloons pushed by a coalition of economic actors. The evidence is beginning to come in that the public health and environmental costs of these innovations will exceed their benefits.
Chapter 36 Regulating Unconventional Gas
It is unlikely that regulation will make technologies for unconventional gas extraction safe. The development of unconventional gas appears to be comparable to a number of industries and products where early warnings about public health and/or environmental dangers were downplayed because the industry had powerful allies in government.
Chapter 37 Resilience or collapse?
Will a failure in hub interdependencies lead to economic and social disintegration? The connection between the energy and finance institutions, as well as the state of public health are explored to examine whether there might be a "cross contagion" of cascading collapse between some combination of a public health crisis, difficulties in the financial economy, the energy sector and supply networks which run into and reinforce each other. (Text Box. The Eurozone Crisis)
Chapter 38 Employment in Theory and in Real Life – Services and Government in a world in difficulties
The economic theory of the labour market bears little resemblance to what really happens in the labour market. Workers don't just make material products, they arrange things and attend to people. As society has evolved and become more complex, the office has becomes the more common workplace and work is largely conceptual and intangible. Mainstream economic theory has little to say about intangible work in bureaucratic empires. As the economy becomes more unstable, paid work becomes a nightmare for many people and the temptation to work longer hours for little extra return is great.
Part Five – Entrepreneurs – Anti-social and Social
Chapter 39 Entrepreneurs in the for profit economy
In the religion of economics, the entrepreneur is a hero engaged in a narrative of destructive creation. Entrepreneurs are tragically noble figures on a treadmill of competition – but who is really making the sacrifices? Often it is the entrepreneur's family or other "stakeholders" who are carrying the costs and risks. What motivates entrepreneurs and what are "animal spirits" anyway? As their organisations develop, the role of the entrepreneur changes and, at their most powerful, they seek to co-opt officials and politicians for their agendas. Management can be exercised through over centralised control freakery or via distributed decision-making systems. Many entrepreneurs and managers are psychopaths, and criminals are entrepreneurs too. In the modern world, control fraud i.e. looting your own company is not uncommon. The City of London as tax haven and secrecy jurisdiction is one of a number of places to hide out.
Chapter 40 Entrepreneurs in the Social and Solidarity Economy
Co-operatives have been described as freshwater fish in a saltwater environment. In the 1930s, the co-operative sector in many countries was very powerful but it was destroyed by fascist and communist regimes. What was it that the authoritarians found so threatening in co-operation? Alternative economic models like co-operatives and social enterprises are explored, together with the arrangements that can help sustain them, like co-operative federations and support networks. However, there are no panaceas – co-ops and social enterprises fail too.
Part Six – Money and Finance – Credit Discredited
Chapter 41 Money, finance and time
The history of the financial sector goes back a long way. Usury was long regarded as ethically unacceptable but both Calvin and Adam Smith tried to justify it with arguments that are still suspect. The finance sector played a role in financing wars and it evolved, strongly linked to the real estate market. This chapter looks at the functions of money and how bank credit creation creates debt money. It explores risk management and the tendency of the finance sector to turn into a casino. When collective confidence goes too far, prudent lending standards go out of the window, and there is a great deal of criminal activity. In the modern world the financial sector is on a collision course with ecological reality. (TEXT BOX – Discounting – Financial Logic misapplied to sustainability)
Chapter 42 The psycho-dynamics of the financial markets
Mental health problems and debt finance are strongly linked. People in debt have a higher incidence of psychiatric problems, and there is a higher rate of psychiatric symptoms among the people working in the finance sector too. During a bubble, egos are pumped up with asset values – and, when the bubble bursts, reputational collapse occurs with corresponding psychological effects.
Chapter 43 The reform of the financial system and techniques for debt cancellation
Money experiments took place during the financial crises of the 1930s. Although these were repressed by central banks, the need to control the finance sector during and after the world war was recognised so that the 1940s and 1950s was an era of "tamed banks". It would be possible to write off debts and clip the wings of the banks without collapsing the financial system in today's world too. In the absence of a political will to do this, other reforms and DIY financial initiatives are possible. Community finance needs to be part of a solidarity economy
Part Seven – Climate Economics
Chapter 44 Climate science and the market in delusion
Vested interests who wish to deny the climate crisis have created a dishonest PR sector fostering delusion about a huge threat to humanity. This chapter presents a thumbnail sketch of climate science and then explores issues of civic epistemology – how to handle public debate about a complex controversial issue where most people lack the expertise to assess the facts. The chapter explores why climate science upsets the market faithful and whether a production and finance system collapse would be terrible but might actually save humanity from an even worse climate catastrophe.
Chapter 45 The Climate Crisis as seen by the economics mainstream
Mainstream economics frames the climate crisis in a particular way but this approach is not at all helpful. There have been a variety of controversies which show clearly how economists think – like the "price of a life" controversy. The findings of the Stern Review were widely quoted but how were they calculated? Much of the controversy about the Stern Review among economists was about the discount rate to be applied to future projections. These issues are explained.
Chapter 46 The Climate Crisis and Economic Policy Choices
A major issue in climate economics is whether it is possible to halt the growth in carbon emissions and to achieve, instead, a rapid reduction. It concludes that carbon emissions will never fall at a sufficient rate in a growth economy. Unfortunately, the EU operates a climate policy framework, the EU Emissions Trading System, that was designed by BP and it doesn't work. Policies that might work were the political will there are described. However, the fossil fuel industry still has a stranglehold on policy.
Chapter 47 Economics, Land use and climate change
Land use and land use change are also major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. There are climate threats from emissions that arise as a result of corporate forestry and large scale agribusiness. A technology like biochar, which could be used to sequester carbon in soils, is not likely to be helpful if applied by giant corporations – only if developed by small local actors.
Part Eight – Politics and Economics
Chapter 48 Co-opted States – Politics and Economics
Most economics textbooks include a little homily about the difference between facts and value. Economics is supposed to describe the world as it is, rather than as economists think it should be. This homily is deconstructed. Power asymmetries in the political process mean that there is no clear separation between politics and economics and there never has been. Powerful economic actors have always had a predominant influence in the political institutions. In current conditions – of crisis at the limits to economic growth – dystopian politics are on the rise.
Chapter 49 Degrowth – Economics "in the lifeboats"
The chapter draws together themes for an alternative narrative for the future of society many of which have already been explored through the book. The chief focus is on household and local level community arrangements managed through distributed and federated arrangements that are democratic. Linked themes like what to do about land and human resources; the need for debt cancellation, money and tax reform are explained. If sufficient change can be brought about it will also be necessary to drive decarbonisation with an upstream cap on carbon emissions.
Chapter 50 – But what if it is too late?
Without sufficient action a time may come when we have to admit that it is too late to prevent runaway climate change and/or that other forms of collapse has become inevitable, indeed that we are in the middle of a collapse. Then what?
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Good Practice: Children's Society support for refugee young carers
By Personnel Today on June 5, 2009 in Asylum and refugees, Children
The Children's Society has created a toolkit to help services meet the needs of young refugee carers, reports Louise Tickle
Nadifa,* 17, is from Somalia. From the age of 10, she has been looking after her mother, who has epilepsy and profound hearing loss.
Because Nadifa's mother is deaf, it has been almost impossible for her to learn English. This means Nadifa, who is now fluent, has had to translate in all the family's interactions with officialdom, including organising medical appointments, dealing with doctors and nurses and arranging for prescription renewals.
If a crisis occurs, as it did two years ago when their tenancy came to an end, it falls to Nadifa to make the calls and find a solution. "I was doing my GCSEs at the time, and I rang the council [the landlord] and said it would be good if we could stay," she says. "I called and called, and finally it was sorted. But in 2010 we will have to go through it all again. And this time I'm worried about whether we'll be able to keep the house."
Isolation is a particular problem for young carers, but at least if you're originally from the UK you may know someone who can share the load. If you're an asylum seeker or refugee coping with chronic illness or disability in your family, such networks are more scarce.
"If something happens, other children have uncles and aunties," says Nadifa. "In my case, it's just me and my mum. It can feel quite lonely sometimes. I would prefer it if I had family around, because there are some situations where you need help, and you can't really deal with it on your own."
To give the right kind of support to young carers in refugee and asylum-seeking families so they are not left to struggle alone, the Children's Society has launched its Refugee Toolkit, a free online resource for all adults' and children's services developed as part of the Children's Society's Family Health Inclusion Project.
Smooth access
The idea is to help practitioners ensure help is accessed smoothly without the child having to search for it. Asylum seekers and refugees, for example, have different entitlements to healthcare and social support. A young person negotiating their way through the system has no way of knowing this, so the person they care for may miss out on help, financial support and medical treatment if their immigration status changes.
Helen Joyce, project worker at the Children's Society's Newcastle office, says that asking a child to translate can be highly inappropriate – particularly in medical appointments – and can also compromise the parent's care and future health if they choose not to communicate fully in front of their son or daughter.
"We need a real push to encourage authorities not to rely on children, and to take advantage of services such as the telephone interpretation system Language Line if there is no time to organise a local interpreter," Joyce says.
Of course, it's not always easy to identify someone as a young carer if they're from a culture in which it's seen as normal for small children to work hard in the home. There remains a strong imperative, however, to ensure that children are not placed under the unbearable strain that can ensue from years spent supporting dependent family members.
"If a young person is the carer, it turns the whole parenting dynamic on its head," says Malcolm Hazleton, Nadifa's support worker and Newham Carers' Network's young carers' services co-ordinator. "Depending on the illness and the pressures they live under, it's more likely that these children will go on to develop their own mental health problems.
"Refugee children are even more prone to that because they may not have the normalising factors of community and feeling secure in school."
In an ideal world, healthcare, social and education services would work seamlessly to anticipate needs so that asylum-seeking and refugee children don't become carers in the first place. In the meantime, the Toolkit offers comprehensive advice and information on linking services that can help alleviate the frustrations and pressures many young refugee carers struggle with daily.
*Not her real name
Points for practice
● Make a translation service available from the outset. Avoid relying on children as interpreters and never ask them to interpret for a family member when it involves conveying a person's health or social care needs, an experience of torture, or a human rights abuse.
● Provide psychological and counselling support to family members who have been the victim of torture including individual counselling for adults and children or family therapy.
● Ensure young people know their entitlements may change if their family's immigration status changes.
● Work closely with practitioners from other agencies to improve young people's experiences of accessing services.]
Published in the 11 June 2009 edition of Community Care under the heading Lone Battles
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I almost can't keep up with all the new dolls. I need to do an article about all the Fashionistas and all the Dreamtopia dolls that were released in past few days, but right now here are the latest releases.
By far the most DISAPOINTING line EVER! Recycled dolls for the 60th anniversary. WHY?!
There still are listings on Amazon for other fashion packs and playsets so hopefully we will see images of them soon.
I'm struggling to find some of these on Amazon. Do they not all have links yet?
No words! Barbie is spectacular no matter what anyone says!
Not just disappointing but a shame, especially for the 60th anniversary. I'll tell you why they did it, b/c Mattel has become lazy and cheap. The quality of dolls including the collector line has gone down hill and putting a sticker on dolls that they haven't sold is cheaper and easier for them then being creative and coming out with new ones. Have you noticed how few new dolls they come out with the last few years. Very sad. I've started going into the past and getting dolls that I once passed on.


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Everything You Need to Know about Westminster Dog Show 2020
Laura Reeves | February 4, 2020 | Breeds | No Comments
Westminster Kennel Club dog show is the dog world's Superbowl, Academy Awards and State of the Union, all rolled in to one glittering, historic and dramatic event. This year from Saturday, Feb. 8 through Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020, the best of the best dogs from around the world descend on Manhattan to compete in agility, obedience and conformation contests.
Westminster Dog Show 2020
Westminster Kennel Club's dog show was established by sportsmen arguing about which of their hunting dogs was the prettiest. And every year since 1877 it's been held to settle the same basic question. Every one of the 2608 dogs entered is judged against a written breed standard. The "standards" of excellence were originally written and are fiercely guarded by the breeds' enthusiasts. The American Kennel Club (AKC) administers the show held under its rules.
The AKC divides its 193 recognized dog breeds into seven "groups." Sporting dogs are the breeds that were developed to point, flush and retrieve birds. Hound dogs are breeds designed to track or capture furred quarry from rabbits to wolves. Working dogs are the guardians and protectors, the rescuers and the sled-pullers. Terriers are the vermin-dispatchers and go-to-ground hunters of the canine world. Toy breeds represent the diminutive lap-sitting, couch-snuggling, pillow-hogging companion dogs descended over centuries in every nation of the globe. Non-sporting dogs are sort of a grab bag of breeds from the Standard Poodle to the French Bulldog.
Some of the breeds in this group were developed to serve a purpose that no longer exists, such as the Dalmatian's job of trotting alongside a horse-drawn coach. Others, such as the Lowchen, have historically filled only the role of "man's best friend." Finally, the eponymous Herding dogs, whose long history working with mankind to move livestock helped define our species as much as their own. Best of breed winners compete in their respective groups, with the seven group winners going on to compete for the coveted Best in Show award.
Anyone who has tickets will be able to interact with dogs at their "benching areas," organized by breed, each day from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Pier 94. Different breeds will be shown each day over the course of the event.
Westminster Dog Show 2020: schedule
Agility competition takes place Saturday, Feb. 8 as 330 of the nation's fastest, most accurate running dogs compete for $5000 in prize money.
Precision obedience work and creative "freestyle" competitions take place Sunday, Feb. 9. Best of breed judging for hounds and herding dogs will kick off the runup to Best in Show the same day.
Monday, Feb. 10 Terrier, Toy, and Non-Sporting breed judging takes place along with the start of Junior Showmanship competition for children ages 9 to 18.
The glam kicks up a notch Monday night when group judging begins at Madison Square Garden with the hound, toy, non-sporting and herding best of breed winners.
The final judging at Pier 94 is Tuesday, Feb. 11 for working and sporting breeds, along with more junior showmanship competition.
And the big finale at the Garden that night kicks off with juniors finals, followed by sporting, working and terrier groups and the long awaited, Best in Show.
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Guest writer: Laura Reeves, Host of Pure Dog Talk Podcast.
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Marine Corps Officer Warns Congress Against Classifying Christians in Military as 'Religious Extremists'
Members of the National Guard walk through U.S. Capitol grounds in Washington on Feb. 13, 2021. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
By Mark Tapscott
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Mark Tapscott is an award-winning investigative editor and reporter who covers Congress, national politics, and policy for The Epoch Times. Mark was admitted to the National Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Hall of Fame in 2006 and he was named Journalist of the Year by CPAC in 2008. He was a consulting editor on the Colorado Springs Gazette's Pulitzer Prize-winning series "Other Than Honorable" in 2014.
March 24, 2021Updated: March 24, 2021
A slide used in a Department of Defense (DOD) training manual identifies Catholics and evangelical Christians as "religious extremists," along with members of the Ku Klux Klan, al-Qaeda, and Hamas, according to a Marine Corps officer.
"First Liberty also obtained a screenshot of an unclassified slide from a U.S. Army training manual. The slide is entitled 'Religious Extremism' and it purports to identify religious extremists," Michael Berry told the House Armed Services Committee, during a hearing on March 24 titled "Extremism in the Military."
Berry is general counsel to the First Liberty Institute (FLI), a Plano, Texas-based public interest law firm that specializes in First Amendment and religious freedom cases. Berry is also an officer in the Marine Corps Reserves, although he presented his testimony in his capacity as a civilian.
"Included among those listed are al-Qaeda, Hamas, and the Ku Klux Klan as groups that use or advocate violence to accomplish their objectives and are therefore rightly classified as extremists," Berry told the committee.
"But also included are Evangelical Christianity and Catholicism, who most assuredly do not advocate violence. Surely, the fact that Evangelical Christians and Catholics hold fast to millennia-old views on marriage and human sexuality does not make them extremists who are unfit to serve.
"At a time of turmoil and instability, during which our nation faces many external threats, [this] message is inappropriate and offensive to our service members and those they defend."
The training manual that Berry referred to is used in Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's recently ordered "stand-down" to identify and root out extremists in the U.S. military. Austin's order came in the wake of the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol, in which some of the participants were military veterans.
Austin said, in a DOD video explaining his reasons for the stand-down that all military members in each of the branches are required to view, that "there is not a single doubt in my mind that you take seriously your oath to the Constitution and that you serve this country with honor and dignity and character."
Even so, according to Austin in the video, the stand-down is needed because of "extremism and extremist ideology, views, and conduct that runs counter to everything that we believe in."
Austin claimed in the video that the presence of extremist views "is not new to our country and, sadly, it's not new to our military." He didn't provide in the video any examples of such individuals.
The training materials used in Austin's stand-down and presented by Berry during the hearing purported to present credible descriptions of extremist ideologies, conduct, reasoning, and identifying characteristics.
Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) told the hearing in his opening statement: "If you serve in the military, you pledge an oath to the U.S. Constitution and to the laws of this country. If you disagree with that Constitution and you disagree with the laws of this country so strongly that you no longer think our government is legitimate, then you have no business serving in the U.S. military and you should get out now."
Two issues were particularly prominent in witness testimony and committee members' comments, the lack of credible data about the extent of any extremism in the ranks, and the lack of what constitutes impermissible expression of views and actions on behalf of those views.
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), the panel's top Republican, told the hearing at the outset that "it is important to point out that we lack any concrete evidence that violent extremism is as rife in the military as some commentators claim."
Rogers said "extremism was a factor" in the separation of only nine soldiers from the U.S. Army in 2020, and he noted that "since 2018, 17 Marines have been separated for extremism, gang or separatist activities."
"That's 17 out of 200,000. While I agree that this number ought to be zero, this is far from the largest military justice issue facing our armed services," Rogers said.
"Earlier this year, 151 overwhelmingly liberal organizations, including Human Rights Watch, the ACLU, and SPLC Action [Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund], urged Congress not to expand domestic terrorism charges.
"The organizations said, 'We urge you to oppose any new domestic terrorism charge, the creation of a list of designated domestic terrorist organizations, or other expansion of existing terrorism-related authorities.'"
The committee heard from only two other witnesses, Audrey Kurth Cronin, an American University professor of international security, and Lecia Brooks, chief of staff for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a liberal advocacy group often criticized by conservatives for defining "extremism" so broadly as to include conventional political groups that clearly are not.
The newest Republican member of the committee, Rep. Pat Fallon of Texas, pointed out that "recently the Washington Post, the New York Times, Politico, NPR, and the New Yorker magazine, just to name a few, skewered the SPLC for, among other things, corruption, harassment, racism, and a widening credibility gap."
Fallon also noted that Cronin claimed 37 of those arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol were either U.S. military veterans or reservists.
"There are 18 million U.S. military veterans. Thirty-four were rioters. This means that 17,999,966 of us were not. That's one out of 529,000," Fallon said.
Smith rejected Fallon's comments, however, as "logically absurd" because veterans arrested during or after the Jan. 6 riot don't represent the full scope of the problem.
"We don't know how large a problem this is. That's why we're having this hearing," Smith said.
Cronin told the committee in response to a question from Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) that recruitment efforts by extremist groups targeting active and retired military individuals "is indeed becoming an increasing problem."
Asked by Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) for his view on the use of lists of prohibited organizations, Berry said: "They can be dangerous. Labeling evangelical Christians and Catholics as 'extremists' is opening Pandora's box."
Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.) expressed concern that a DOD effort against extremism will play into the hands of Chinese Communist Party efforts to damage the U.S.'s image overseas.
"There is an active propaganda campaign being prosecuted by the Chinese Communist Party right now attempting to portray our country as an evil racist hellscape with no authority to lecture them on human rights. I worry that we may be playing into our adversary's hands, and I do worry it will undermine our ability to fight and win wars in the future," Waltz said.
Smith concluded the hearing by saying "there are demagogues on both sides" and that he "is very concerned about over-reactions."
"If we are targeting people and shutting them off from jobs and everything for something they said 20 years ago. There's no reference point, no structure to that and it becomes just this excuse to shove your point of view down somebody's throat," he said.
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It's easy to become too obsessed by ideas and be carried away in everything that could and should be done.
In the beginning of this year I decided that trust and truth would be my focus, especially trust. Lately I've focused a lot on truth, art and inspiration but it's time to focus on trust again.
So I'm shifting my consciousness towards trust, even that takes hard work and hours of intention. It's so easy to get sidetracked or fall back to old habits which in my case is to stress out.
With that said I'm super thankful for all the fruit and inspiration lately, it's been a bliss to see new colours in new light, but trust is my number goal for this year. Just peace and inner bliss.
When I focus on trust is like going through layers and layers of fear and negative thoughts before I can land in a state of peace. We hear so many fear based news every day, plus the negative thoughts from all kinds of sources, the inner peace lies beyond those things.
God is the reason I can trust in the first place, my personal experiences of Him has always been intense love, passion and peace. With His help I can get to a state of inner bliss.


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To Diagnose Crohn's Disease, Swallow a Camera
Diseases of the digestive tract like Crohn's and ulcerative colitis can be difficult to diagnose. Tiny cameras are solving the problem.
Sanjay Gupta, MD, Everyday Health: Russell Smith and his girlfriend, Olivia, are spending their last weeks together before Russell heads off to college. It's going to be a lot easier leaving home now that doctors have figured out why he's been sick most of his life.
Russell Smith: I was very worried about having this condition. I wasn't ready to start school. I was still very sick.
Dr. Gupta: Russell suffered for years with severe digestive problems. A year ago, he was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and put on medication.
Russell Smith: I didn't get any better whatsoever.
Dr. Gupta: The reason he didn't get better was because he doesn't have ulcerative colitis. He has Crohn's disease. The two diseases have similar symptoms, but different treatments. Now that he's getting the right medication . . .
Russell Smith: . . . I feel incredible. I'm in clinical remission.
Dr. Gupta: This tiny blinking camera is the reason Russell is finally well. By swallowing it, Russell's doctor was able to make the right diagnosis.
David Hudesman, MD, gastroenterolotist: If you suspect somebody has Crohn's disease, it can affect anywhere from the mouth to the anus, so you really want to map out the entire bowel.
Dr. Gupta: But that is not so easy. Traditional tools like colonoscopy and endoscopy only show the two ends of the digestive tract.
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Dr. Hudesman: But there's a lot of small intestine in between that we're not seeing at all. So that you need to take a look at somehow.
Dr. Gupta: Once cameras got small enough to put into a phone, they also got small enough to swallow. So now a gastroenterolotist can get a good view of the entire 30 feet of our digestive tract, including the 20 feet of small intestine, which has traditionally been so difficult to see.
This is what the pill camera shows -- a healthy gut, and a gut damaged by Crohn's disease.
Russell Smith: I came in here, had to swallow a pill and had to wear a belt which displayed the battery life on the camera.
Dr. Gupta: It takes pictures for about eight hours, which are then transmitted to a device Russell wears on a belt. And, no, the doctors don't need this camera back.
Dr. Hudesman: No. Although I do get calls sometimes that they don't see it and they're worrying. You don't have to retrieve the capsule.
Dr. Gupta: Russell will probably want to pay more attention to what he eats than a typical college freshman. And he's going to need to get checked now and then as well. But since it was caught while he was so young, chances are there is no serious damage to his intestine, and he shouldn't have to think about Crohn's disease any more. With Everyday Health, I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Be well.
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Home Headlines & Breaking News Israelis Evacuated From Italy, Earthquake Struck Croatia, Ghana, Ethiopia, Ukraine & Romania
Israelis Evacuated From Italy, Earthquake Struck Croatia, Ghana, Ethiopia, Ukraine & Romania
Israir Airlines announced on Motzei Shabbos that it will be operating two rescue flights from Italy on Monday, one from Rome and one from Milan.
The flights will evacuate the employees of the Israeli embassy in Italy and other Israeli citizens who want to return to Israel.
Due to the severe outbreak of the coronavirus in Italy, the flights require special permits and protective clothing for the flight crew. Water and sandwiches will be placed by the seats before the flights begin to minimize contact between the passengers and staff. The planes will also be thoroughly disinfected following the flights.
Israir Airlines is also operating a flight from Zagreb, Croatia on Sunday night to rescue 50 Israeli students following a 5.3 magnitude earthquake there on Sunday. There will also be flights on Sunday and Monday from Odessa, Bucharest and Kyiv.
About 40 Israelis were evacuated from the West African country of Ghana on Sunday afternoon after the country announced it was closing its borders by Sunday night to combat the spread of the coronavirus. Many of the Israelis had already planned to leave later in the week. Over 30 Israelis in Ethiopia are leaving on Sunday as well.
Israel's Foreign Ministry has repeatedly called for all Israelis abroad who wish to return home to travel back immediately as more and more borders close and flights are canceled.
"Due to the decrease and cancellation of flights all over the world and the decision of many countries to close their skies and borders due to the coronavirus outbreak, we call on all Israelis abroad to come back to Israel as soon as possible," the Foreign Ministry stated.
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KShomron March 23, 2020 3:28 am at 3:28 am
This is why I – who (in normal circumstances) fly TLV-JFK-TLV every two weeks – will only fly El Al.
We can kvetch about their level of kashrus being not as super-Glatt as ours, we can kvetch if they sit us next to a woman, we can kvetch if their staff are sometimes rude or short tempered, but they are our national, Jewish airline which when push comes to shove will fly around the world to bring us home when no one else will.
EinOdMilvado March 23, 2020 5:26 pm at 5:26 pm
@KShomron. I agree the post is confusing bec the pic shows an ElAl plane but the article says its IsraAir thats bringing all these people back home. Just sayin…