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Red wine could reduce chances of COVID-19 infection, U.K. study suggests
By Catherine Stoddard
FILE - Freeze frame from FOX News coverage on red wine COVID-19 study. (FOX)
A recent study from the United Kingdom found certain types of alcohol could impact how susceptible a person is to getting COVID-19.
The study, published in the scientific journal Frontiers on Jan. 3, found that people who drank red wine, white wine and champagne were less likely to get COVID-19 while those who consumed beer, cider, and spirits in heavy amounts were more likely to become sick.
This study included 473,957 subjects, 16,559 of whom tested positive for COVID-19, the study authors wrote.
Researchers set guidelines for the amount of alcohol patients consumed on a week-to-week basis with four different categories which included less than 14 units of alcohol consumed, more than 14 units, less than 28 units consumed and greater than 28 units.
"Our study suggests that subjects who usually consumed red wine and white wine and champagne above guidelines, and sometimes consumed 1–2 glasses/week fortified within the guidelines appear to have chances to reduce the risk of COVID-19. The consumption of beer and cider are not recommended regardless of frequency and amount of alcohol consumption, which increased the risk of COVID-19. Furthermore, heavy drinking is not recommended for all alcoholic beverages," the study said.
The "protective effect" of red wine against COVID-19 was significant regardless of the frequency of alcohol intake, the study continued. The significant stipulation however for red wine was that it only showed protective qualities against the novel coronavirus when subjects consumed alcohol above or double above the recommended guidelines.
"Red wine provides additional benefits to other alcoholic beverages probably due to its higher polyphenolic content, by decreasing blood pressure, inhibiting the oxidation of low-density lipoprotein particles and other favorable effects on the cellular redox state, improving endothelial function, inhibiting platelet aggregation, reducing inflammation and cell adhesion, and activating proteins that prevent cell death," the study said.
The consumption of beer and cider increased the risk of COVID-19, regardless of the frequency and amount (within or above the guidelines) of alcohol intake, according to the study.
The study's authors did not condone excessive alcohol consumption and believed public health guidelines "should focus on reducing the risk of COVID-19 by advocating healthy lifestyle habits and preferential policies among consumers of beer and cider and spirits."
Similarly, a study released, also in the U.K., in September 2021, found that red wine is the only alcoholic drink that can be beneficial for overall health.
A team at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England, aimed to look at different alcoholic drinks, like beer, cider, champagne, white and red wine and spirits, and various health outcomes among those who consumed them.
The team, led by Dr. Rudolph Schutte, analyzed data of more than 500,000 people in the U.K. over a seven-year period.
They found that low-level consumption of beer, cider and spirits was associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events, coronary heart disease, stroke, cancer, and overall mortality.
The only health benefit that Schutte's team discovered was a decreased risk of coronary heart disease through the consumption of wine. But Schutte believes the benefits obtained from wine and champagne are actually thanks to polyphenols, which are antioxidants found naturally in the grapes, and not necessarily through the alcohol itself.
Separately, the World Heart Federation challenged the widespread notion that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol, even wine, can decrease the risk of heart disease.
In a new policy brief, 'The Impact of Alcohol Consumption on Cardiovascular Health: Myths and Measures,' the organization is calling for urgent and decisive action to tackle the rise in alcohol-related death and disability worldwide.
According to the WHF, globally, more than 2.4 million people died in 2019 because of alcohol, accounting for 4.3% of all deaths and 12.6% of deaths in men aged 15 to 49.
"The evidence is clear," the WHF wrote in a press release Thursday. "Any level of alcohol consumption can lead to loss of healthy life. Studies have shown that even small amounts of alcohol can increase a person's risk of cardiovascular disease, including coronary disease, stroke, heart failure, hypertensive heart disease, cardiomyopathy, atrial fibrillation, and aneurysm."
The organization said studies that claim otherwise are "largely based on purely observational research", which "fails to account for other factors, such as pre-existing conditions and a history of alcoholism in those considered to be abstinent."
Kelly Hayes and Stephanie Weaver contributed to this report. This story was reported from Los Angeles.
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Q: How to get reference to self.view and self.view.frame in NativeScript I am trying to call the UIPrinterPickerController in NativeScript on an iPad. I've tracked down the call that I need to make and it is here:
UIPrinterPickerController.presentFromRectInViewAnimatedCompletionHandler(rect: CGRect, view: UIView, animated: boolean, completion: (arg1: UIPrinterPickerController, arg2: boolean, arg3: NSError) => void): boolean;

In the examples I've seen the rect param is a reference to self.view.frame and the view param is a reference to self.view. How do I find those references in NativeScript? I've tried the ui.view module and that doesn't work. I've tried args.object from the pageLoaded event and that doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated.
// My code here
if ( ! UIDevice.currentDevice().userInterfaceIdiom == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad) {
    found = printPicker.presentAnimatedCompletionHandler(false, completionHandler);
} else {
    found = printPicker.presentFromRectInViewAnimatedCompletionHandler(view.frame, view, false, completionHandler);
}

A: You were actually very close; the UIView for the Page; would be:
var pageLoaded = function(args) {
  var page = args.object;  // Get the NativeScript Page object
  var uiView = page.ios;   // Get the underlying iOS native Control
}

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Universal Infant Free School meals are available to all children in Years R, 1 and 2. For all other children (unless eligible for Pupil Premium) a meal cost £2.20. Approximately 50% of our children take a hot school meal at lunchtime.
For further information on school meals please see the School Food website.
Information on eligibility and an application form for free school meals is available from Leicestershire County Council.
Alternatively children may bring a healthy packed lunch to school. Please do not send sweets, chocolate or hot foods such as flasks into school. Healthy lunchbox ideas can be found at Change4Life and Livewell.
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Connectivity must include rights
22 April 2016 | 9:15 am
You know that connecting the next billion to the internet has become a big deal when both U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim sit down in the World Bank board room in Washington D.C. to announce their ambitions.
Well, the good news is that Access Now was also invited to the table last week when the discussions took place. It was pretty clear that they — and the world finance ministers in the room — are taking this effort seriously: the Global Connect Initiative, which aims to coordinate overlapping efforts worldwide, has the laudable goal of connecting 1.5 billion people by the year 2020.
Besides the U.S., developing countries such as India and Nigeria are showing their own support, and aid agencies and development banks are looking to make up the gaps through targeted financing in countries like Ethiopia and Myanmar.
However, as these world leaders spoke about opening wireless spectrum to improve access or "digging once" to efficiently install fiber lines, they left a gaping hole in their recommendations: human rights.
As I argued last year with U.N. Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression and opinion David Kaye, connecting people to the internet is important but it matters what kind of internet they connect to. Will the internet in 2020 support innovation and the free flow of information, or will it be censored, blocked, or even shut down completely?
At Access Now, we fight for the digital rights of users at risk every day. Our free 24-hour Digital Security Helpline helps people who are threatened for their online expression, and last year we supported more than 1,000 cases across 70 countries from South Sudan to Syria to Myanmar. On the policy front, we're campaigning for our privacy by supporting encryption worldwide, fighting for digital rights in Latin America, and promoting business and human rights in the tech community.
We therefore know first hand that this is not just a question of connectivity but the type and quality of connectivity that's on offer. And with the Global Connect initiative emerging with Facebook's Internet.org and other connectivity initiatives from the International Telecommunications Union to the World Economic Forum, we need to make sure that we get it right.
Here are our three recommendations for making sure Global Connect — and other connectivity initiatives — foster a rights-respecting internet.
Firstly, bake in human rights by design. Many of these projects, such as the roll-out of broadband internet in Nicaragua, are occurring at a massive scale, and involve numerous partners. They also can involve hundreds of millions of dollars. Therefore funded projects should include a Human Rights Impact Assessment before approval, similar to the Environment Impact Assessments conducted before the construction of large finance projects such as hydroelectric dams. Is this an initiative that is going to deliver a censored, monitored, throttled, surveilled or even militarized internet, or one that enables free expression, privacy, and association online? Connectivity is not enough, and when public money is involved and the stakes are so high, due diligence requires proper assessment.
Once approved, the project might undergo periodic human rights audits and also proactively issue transparency reports. Annually, the president of the World Bank could receive and approve a public report on the bank's ICT-related projects, their progress, and their impact upon human rights — whether positive or negative.
Secondly, the role out of connectivity must support Net Neutrality. Net Neutrality not only enables competition and the growth of local innovation and content, but free expression on the internet. From the U.S. to India to Europe, we've seen important gains in protecting the free and open internet that support both human rights and business. We may need to build the capacity of governments to appreciate the economic and social importance of Net Neutrality protections. Regulators can support the three pillars of Net Neutrality — innovation without permission, best efforts delivery, and end-to-end access — rather than letting dominant market players and gatekeepers stifle competition and the free flow of ideas.
Importantly, Global Connect and other connectivity initiatives should not fund programs that undermine Net Neutrality, including "zero rating" programs that don't count certain data usage against data caps. Connectivity is a development issue, and the poor and discounted should not be offered a degraded subset of the internet — they should get all of it, like the rest of us.
Thirdly, don't just turn on the internet. #KeepitOn. Internet shutdowns have become an early warning mechanism for human rights violations around the world. We're seeing shutdowns ordered by governments at crucial moments in the democratic process — during elections, when they shut off mobile internet, communications platforms, and mobile banking services. Access Now recorded at least 15 shutdowns in 2015, and it looks like that record will be broken in 2016 unless we act now.
Connectivity initiatives must consider their policies around maintaining connection, not just creating connection. It is not okay for governments to turn off connections when the going gets tough. Even over the past few weeks, Access Now has recorded shutdowns in Chad, Ethiopia, India, and Pakistan. Each shutdown is unique, but they all harm people, violating human rights and often damaging the local economy. In Chad, the government blocked internet services for at least 48 hours during its presidential election, echoing a similar shutdown in Uganda in February. A recent shutdown in Gujarat, India cost local banks as much as $22.6 million dollars per day — and that does not include other externalities such as the effect on emergency services and journalists.
Policy makers can consult — or better, join — the #KeepitOn initiative we launched at RightsCon to fight shutdowns worldwide. Any partner of Global Connect should explicitly commit to keeping the internet on by pushing back against shutdown orders in the design and make up of the program.
An important effort
We believe the internet can enable human rights around the world, and support the ambitious goals of Global Connect, as well as the larger push toward the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. But as we argued in this joint letter with civil society groups from around the world, connectivity is not enough. Let's promote and protect human rights from the outset so that we create an internet that the world deserves.
Brett Solomon@solomonbrett
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Goldman Sach's Gupta found guilty of insider trading
Jun 16, 2012 1:02 AM PHT
Rajat Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs board member and pillar of the US business community, was found guilty in New York on insider trading charges in big victory for prosecutors probing Wall Street corruption
NEW YORK, United States of America – Rajat Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs board member and pillar of the US business community, was found guilty Friday, June 15, in New York on insider trading charges in big victory for prosecutors probing Wall Street corruption.
The guilty verdict on four of six counts came after less than two days of deliberations at the end of a three week trial in Manhattan federal court.
The 63-year-old faced up to 25 years in prison if found guilty on all charges. The Indian-born businessman's attorney, Gary Naftalis, said afterwards that he plans to challenge the verdict.
Prosecutors say Gupta, who also headed the renowned consultancy McKinsey & Co, fed private market-moving information to his former friend and hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, sentenced last year to 11 years in prison for insider trading.
"Rajat Gupta once stood at the apex of the international business community. Today, he stands convicted of securities fraud. He achieved remarkable success and stature, but he threw it all away," chief Manhattan prosecutor Preet Bharara said in a statement.
"Having fallen from respected insider to convicted inside trader, Mr Gupta has now exchanged the lofty board room for the prospect of a lowly jail cell," he said.
"We said that insider trading is rampant, and today's conviction puts that claim into stark relief."
The defense tried to argue that Gupta was innocent and that the government had failed to back up its case with hard evidence.
However, the circumstantial evidence, amassed in wiretapped phone conversations, telephone records and trading data, clearly left the jury with little trouble in reaching a conclusion.
One of the key episodes in the prosecution case was Rajaratnam's 2008 purchase of Goldman Sachs shares only seconds after Gupta called him in the wake of a Goldman board meeting.
It was during that board meeting, at the height of the 2008 banking crisis, that Goldman members secretly discussed the decision by investor Warren Buffett to pump $5 billion into the bank — a huge boost in a time of uncertainty.
There was no wiretapped conversation proving that Gupta tipped Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon hedge fund, on the Buffett deal. But the phone and trading records presented a damning picture.
"The government's case, albeit circumstantial, was a carefully drawn chronology that left little or no room for the belief that it was anything other than Gupta tipping off Rajararatnam," said Michael Sabino, a professor at the Peter J. Tobin College of Business at Saint John's University.
"The fact the jury turned around on it so incredibly fast demonstrates they had no trouble connecting the dots on the government's charges."
The FBI, which is part of the huge investigation into Galleon's activities, welcomed the conviction.
"Gupta used his exclusive access to the board room to violate his fiduciary responsibility, repeatedly sharing confidential, inside information with his friend Raj Rajaratnam," FBI Assistant Director Janice K. Fedarcyk said.
"Today's verdict is the latest milestone in an FBI initiative undertaken in 2007 to zero in on illegal conduct in the hedge fund industry." – Agence France-Presse


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XUP has seen a seismic shift in payments and the pace of capabilities has significantly advanced quicker than organizational capabilities. As a result, we are seeing that the true cost of payments can exceed 10-15% of the cost of goods sold, when you include inefficiencies and their impact on customer service and payments reconciliation.
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@TEKMI - Sorry maybe I wasn't clear enough. The route params are fine on other routes. There is something in Laravel stipping them out in the route group I have posted above.
I can now hit this page to show the Index method on the \Admin\UserController http://localhost:8050/admin/users this works fine and gets the users in a paginated form. When I click the pagination links the page refreshes but the data stays the same.
After some digging my GET params are empty, even when I pass the page key directly in the URL like so: http://localhost:8050/admin/users?page=2 my GET params are empty so that's why the pagination isn't working but whats blocking the GET params from getting through?
My Google skills seem to be failing me, I can't find anything on the subject. We have loads of applications on Laravel and use socialite and love it.
Problem is we have lots of legacy apps as well which aren't feasible to switch to Laravel in the foreseeable future. Has anyone ever used socialite outside of Laravel? I can't find any information on it?
If not, doe's anyone know of a similar package that isn't so tightly coupled to Laravel that can be used stand alone?
This writes to the log file with no issues, so PHP/Docker combo can find and write to the log file but something in Laravel is not able to find it. Any suggestions?
So this is a pretty common issue and it's usually down to permissions not being set correctly, only this time... they are. Everything was running on my local machine (Elementary OS) and remote machine (Ubuntu 16.04), the entire LEMP stack is running inside of docker containers but then I started getting the above error message both locally and on the live server and I have no idea why.
On my local system everything is running and owned by my own user, I have even set the entire storage folder system to 777 recursively yet I still get the above message. The laravel.log file and the folders all definitely exist.
On the remote machine all files are owned by one user and the docker containers are run by that same user. I have set-up the file permissions as per documented on other sites (mostly 775) but still no luck.
After 777 the entire directory locally and it's still not begin able to find the file I can only conclude it's something else that's causing the error but what is it?
I need to create a pretty basic app with a few classes and something to route the requests to those classes. I really like Laravel's routing more than everything else but it seems all of Laravels components are very tightly coupled and require each other to work.
Has anyone else managed to get Laravel routing working as a standalone package without the need to include service containers, support helpers, events etc? If so how did you manage it?
This does limit the number of images to 3 but it limits the total count of images to 3 but I want to limit each album to 3 images. So the first album will show 3 images as expected but all the other albums have no images.
Do I need to build vuejs with webpack as well? At the moment I'm just including it via the CDN. How do I get webpack to include lodash so I can access it in my other JS files?
I've been following the webpack video series and all is working brilliantly :) thank you Jeff!
Has anyone gotten bootstrap working with SASS and webpack?
I've built a mock API using Laravel 5.3 and authorising via a token (not oAuth) but every other request takes 3times as long as the previous one. I'm simply authorising the request and returning a string, no ORM, Database or caching system is being accessed simply returning a string. Has anyone experienced this before?
Nope no error are thrown or recorded in the error log, auth just fails. The problem is with DateInterval('P100Y') as pointed out. This must be a Windows issue, I don't get the error on Linux. Changing to DateInterval('P10Y') works fine.
@doublep can you please explain why P100Y fails and why your fix P1Y (I did P10Y) works?
A few people have asked about this using the oAuth implementation but I'm trying to use the personal access tokens not oAuth. One suggestion was to remove the auth middleware but obviously this leaves the application wide open so anyone can make requests.
This is a fresh install with no changes, am I missing something from the install process?
@primordial ah that makes more sense, I was missing the link between Passport and JWT I couldn't see how to implementing it without setting up the oAuth or Token part.
I would like to stick with Passport if possible I just need to know if oAuth or Token would be best for my situation. The JWT part of Passport would be fine for the Vue frontend to use I just need advice on which option is best for the backend.
@soury thank you, I will have to have a go at this because I'm struggling to get my head around how the application knows its a valid token, how to get a token etc etc.
Are there an good resources about implementing the JWT with Laravel Passport?
@primordial how does passport handle JWT? Do you simply add the middleware and everything just works? Or does it still need oAuth or an access token to work? The passport documentation isn't clear on this matter.
hello @soury I'm un-sure how passport implements JWT, after activating the middleware won't the middleware still require either oAuth or a access Token to work?
I'm creating an API using Laravel, this API will be consumed by 6 front ends built in Laravel. The API will not be publicly accessible, only accessible via my own front end apps.
What would be the best authentication method for this set-up? From my reading simply issuing them a Token rather than going through the entire oAuth process is the way to go. Is my thinking on this correct? Are there any disadvantages or reasons not to do it this way?
@jlrdw although I agree some what with what you're saying but if your site is on shared hosting it probably isn't big enough to be need/benefit from a CI/CD set-up and to my knowledge (I've not had a shared host in over 10 years) you do not have SSH access so CI/CD would be near impossible with its current tool set.
Hi @bashy I've looked at gitlab a while back but didn't give it ago, this looks really useful. Are there any good tutorials on integrating it with Laravel? When I say tutorial I actually mean a overview of how the process flows from developing, to pushing, to deployment.
@BartHuis yes I realised this after I posted, Taylor is a friend of Geoff's that's why hes promoting a propriety, closed source system that causes a vendor lock in. I was quite disappointed when I found this out.
Hello, I love Jeff's work, many years back when I first seen him on tuts+ I've loved all his videos since. I'm looking at getting a subscription here but a few things are bothering me that I would like cleared up.
Are there any series about deployment of Laravel apps, in particular continuous integration? (I understand there's a course on Forge but I'm extremely surprised Jeff has recommended a proprietary, closed source system you have no control over that has vendor lock-in) Is there anything about industry standard open source tools like Jenkins? If not are there any planned?
The testing series looks in depth but there are no free videos to see what the quality of the content is like. What are your experiences wit this course? Doe's it cover everything you need?
Are there any courses or videos aimed at creating API's and authenticating them? Or a selection of videos from different courses that would teach the techniques of building and securing an API?


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Liz Ellis on her IVF struggle: 'You think you're going to get a baby, but it's not like that at all'
By Natalie Oliveri| 1 year ago
'I was 42 and I thought it was all over'
When Australian netball champion Liz Ellis decided to have a baby after her retirement from professional sport, she couldn't believe how easy she found the process.
"We fell pregnant within about six weeks and thought, 'This is amazing, how easy is this?'" Ellis tells Deb Knight in this week's Honey Mums podcast.
"We fell pregnant easily, it was a really easy pregnancy and when I look back now to how naïve I was about all the things that can go wrong – either falling pregnant or being pregnant or through the birth – I just laugh at that 38-year-old me."
She gave birth to daughter Evelyn and a few years later, she and husband Matthew Stocks started thinking about having a second child.
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Ellis and Stocks, who have been married for 18 years, thought it was the right moment for another baby.
But this time, they were in for a shock.
"We fell pregnant very quickly and then we miscarried and that really, to me, was the start of nearly five years of dealing with infertility.
"I miscarried early but I got up and got on with it – lots of my girlfriends had had miscarriages – and then about six months later nothing had happened."
Ellis and her husband began IVF but it was not successful.
LISTEN: Liz Ellis talks to Deb Knight about her infertility struggles, Jody Allen from stayathomemum.com.au gives her tips on how to deal with fussy eaters, Jo Abi has a 'Tuscan dilemma', and Sandy Rea explains why kids lie.
"It took three to four years to really understand that I was infertile, by which time I was 42 and thought it was never going to happen," she says.
"We did fertility treatments, drugs, we did acupuncture, saw naturopaths, we did five rounds of IVF and then we went, 'You know what, we're spending so much time focusing on the baby we don't have, we're not looking at the baby we do have'.
"Evelyn by that point was nearly four and we thought, 'Right, let's stop this, we've spent enough money' but it wasn't even the money.
"It just got to a point where it was just about the emotional time – falling pregnant, miscarrying, the devastation that goes with that – and we just thought, 'Right, we'll just pull up stumps and get on with our life with our little girl'."
But Ellis began feeling "mum guilt" because she couldn't give Evelyn a sibling.
The family lives on a farm in regional New South Wales 20 minutes out of town and Ellis didn't want her daughter to grow up without a brother or a sister, so far away from friends.
Her sister offered to donate an egg to give Ellis one last chance of having a second child.
Ellis quickly agreed and the two families began the long process of genetic testing and counselling.
But when her period didn't arrive as planned, Ellis missed her opportunity.
"[My sister said] 'You've missed your window, you better do a pregnancy test'.
"The fact that I was late hadn't even occurred to me and sure enough I did the test, and it was two pink lines, and I was like 'Oh my god'.
"I was 42 and I thought it was all over – you don't fall pregnant naturally at 42.
"We had date night, we went out and drank champagne and then we fell pregnant – I was like, 'Oh we should have done that all along'."
Her son, Austin, is now two years old.
Ellis has written a book, If At First You Don't Conceive: Your Friendly Guide to Tackling Infertility, sharing her experiences to help other women experiencing similar struggles.
"You go into IVF and think you're going to get a baby and it's not like that at all," she says.
LISTEN: To hear more about Liz's journey to have a second child, including her choice words to the endless stream of people who wanted to give her advice, listen to the Honey Mums podcast below.
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State v. Katrina Morrison
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As some may remember shortly after the primary in June 2022, Horry County Council Chair candidate Katrina Morrison was arrested by Animal Control officer Thomas Roesch.
It is possible the public has been unaware that the arrest of Ms. Morrison was at the request of Animal Control.
This animal control officer obtained warrants out of Myrtle Beach for trespass and malicious damage to property occurring in Little River-the basis for these warrants seemingly unsupported by any evidence submitted to the court.
According to Ms. Morrison, she had explained to the officer prior to the issuance of the warrants, the purpose of the staged photo was to prove in kind contributions from Benji Hardee to both Jenna Dukes and Mark Lazarus.
These in-kind campaign contributions were not reported by either candidate and provided by A.O. Hardee and Son, a company which had already given both candidates the allowable maximum contribution of $1,000.00.
According to Ms. Morrison, prior to the jury trial she was offered a plea set forth by Attorney George Redman, attorney representing the victim- Benji Hardee/A.O. Hardee.
If she, Ms. Morrison, were to refrain from speaking publicly about George Redman in a negative manor (it was alleged Ms. Morrison may have called attorney Redman an "Asshole and a liar") that the charges currently pending against her would be dropped.
Ms. Morrison also asserted that during a challenge to the re-zoning of Coquina Harbor attorney Redman intentionally made false statements regarding a consent order as was the case when fraudulent misuse of that document was made during the planning commission meeting May 6th 2021.
Ms. Morrison, feeling as if this would be an infringement on her 1st amendment right to free speech, declined the offer and proceeded to trial.
The jury trial ended in guilty verdicts on both counts.
It seems fair to ask, was this prosecution about criminal activity or was it about preventing a person from telling the truth?
A similar arrest occurred in 2021 where Dawne Dunton of Island Green was arrested for having trespassed while photographing what she believed to be extremally dangerous conditions in her neighborhood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DFOuuSKxJQ
In this video the road and bridge collapsed after 3 inches of rain. Ms. Dunton posted this video on a public site. While Ms. Dunton's charges were later dropped, her attorney entered an agreement on her behalf- a restraining order preventing her from walking in her own neighborhood. The street owned by Sunnyhanna Corporation/Robert(Bob) Williamsen was always a contentious issue for those in Island Green.
At the present, those trying to protect Island Green and making issue of the extremely dangerous conditions of the community are being denied access to the storm water documents of Horry County. A FOIA request denied recently under the auspice of "Copy Right". It is the stance of Horry County at the present time that storm water plans for Island Green are private, "copy right protected" documents owned by Venture Engineering and G3 Engineering.
The video used to prosecute Ms. Dunton should have been evidence enough to show there were no "No Trespassing" signs and in fact her efforts were intended to protect the people in her community.
Similarly, in Ms. Morrison's case she suggests that the issues of criminal intent were never met. The issues of "Notice", meaning there were signs giving clear notice of private property, were not met. A flashing sign on highway 17, intended to warn of road construction, was being used for politics. As to damages to the sign, Ms. Morrison says there was no evidence of this either. She is appealing the courts decision.
It is and should be the right of the public to address issues and speak about them, especially when they effect others. After all, we do live in America.
Ms. Morrison has set up a GO FUND ME page to take on entrenched colluded powers in Horry County
https://www.gofundme.com/f/freedom-of-speech-has-a-price?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1
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The beauty ideal: 3 Props to Include in your Blog Photography.
3 Props to Include in your Blog Photography.
Despite what people may think, blog photography is hard work.
There are times when I truly struggle with taking a decent picture - the natural lighting's either crappy or non-existent, my camera starts being sassy and won't focus or just generally bad angles of all products involved.
Another thing I've also been focusing on recently is background imagery. A white background is always a winner since it's non-confrontational and makes everything else stand out. The top of my Malm Dressing Table is my prime photographing location.
However, sometimes just having your products on a plain background can look a little, well, boring.
Don't get me wrong, basic backgrounds are great for photographing alot of products (A 'What's in my Makeup Bag' or 'Hauls' for example) but I always find that if I'm taking a photograph of a single/few product(s), it needs something else in the frame with it.
My go-to for this kind of dilemma is a Magazine. I tend to use fashion mags (Vogue is my favourite) since they have more visually appealing pages, but anything goes really. It's just to make your photo a little more eye-catching to the reader. Visit this post here, here and here to see how I've styled mine.
Another option is Flowers. I have a small selection of fake flowers that I picked up cheap from Wilkos but real flowers would work too - you just wouldn't get as much mileage out of them. Flowers are definitely something I should use more in my photography, I love the look of other Bloggers' pictures when they contain some sort of foliage but I can never seem to get it right in mine. See this post here for how I use flowers in my photography.
Another prop would be general Bits & Bobs relevant to what you're blogging about. I don't tend to use these as often unless I'm actually blogging about them since I can usually get the picture I'm looking for with either a magazine or flowers. If money's tight though these are perfect since it's things you already own. A well placed lipstick or perfume bottle can do wonders for your photography.
I hope these give you some suggestions next time your photography sesh isn't exactly going according to plan (Lord knows I have plenty of those) and you're looking for a little inspiration.
Couldn't agree more. Not as easy as it looks like. Photography it's hard work, yeah:). Totally get you.
I understand you. I'm so pick about pictures for my blog all the time!
Magazines are the best ones for me!


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namespace starboard {
namespace nplb {
namespace {

constexpr int kVideoResolutions[][2] = {
    {kSbMediaVideoResolutionDimensionInvalid,
     kSbMediaVideoResolutionDimensionInvalid},
    {640, 480},
    {1280, 720},
    {1920, 1080},
    {2560, 1440},
    {3840, 2160},
};

constexpr int kBitsPerPixelValues[] = {
    kSbMediaBitsPerPixelInvalid, 8, 10, 12,
};

constexpr SbMediaVideoCodec kVideoCodecs[] = {
    kSbMediaVideoCodecNone,

    kSbMediaVideoCodecH264,   kSbMediaVideoCodecH265, kSbMediaVideoCodecMpeg2,
    kSbMediaVideoCodecTheora, kSbMediaVideoCodecVc1,  kSbMediaVideoCodecAv1,
    kSbMediaVideoCodecVp8,    kSbMediaVideoCodecVp9,
};

constexpr SbMediaType kMediaTypes[] = {
    kSbMediaTypeAudio, kSbMediaTypeVideo,
};

// Minimum audio and video budgets required by the 2020 Youtube Software
// Requirements.
constexpr int kMinAudioBudget = 5 * 1024 * 1024;
constexpr int kMinVideoBudget = 30 * 1024 * 1024;

std::vector<void*> TryToAllocateMemory(int size,
                                       int allocation_unit,
                                       int alignment) {
  int total_allocated = 0;
  std::vector<void*> allocated_ptrs;
  if (allocation_unit != 0) {
    allocated_ptrs.reserve(std::ceil(size / allocation_unit));
  }
  while (total_allocated < size) {
    // When |allocation_unit| == 0, randomly allocate a size between 100k -
    // 500k.
    int allocation_increment = allocation_unit != 0
                                   ? allocation_unit
                                   : (std::rand() % 500 + 100) * 1024;
    void* allocated_memory =
        SbMemoryAllocateAligned(alignment, allocation_increment);
    EXPECT_NE(allocated_memory, nullptr);
    if (!allocated_memory) {
      return allocated_ptrs;
    }
    allocated_ptrs.push_back(allocated_memory);
    total_allocated += allocation_increment;
  }
  return allocated_ptrs;
}

}  // namespace

TEST(SbMediaBufferTest, VideoCodecs) {
  // Perform a check to determine if new codecs have been added to the
  // enum, but not the array. If the compiler warns about a missing case here,
  // the value must be added to the array and the switch case.
  SbMediaVideoCodec codec = kVideoCodecs[0];
  switch (codec) {
    case kVideoCodecs[0]:
    case kVideoCodecs[1]:
    case kVideoCodecs[2]:
    case kVideoCodecs[3]:
    case kVideoCodecs[4]:
    case kVideoCodecs[5]:
    case kVideoCodecs[6]:
    case kVideoCodecs[7]:
    case kVideoCodecs[8]:
      break;
  }
}

TEST(SbMediaBufferTest, MediaTypes) {
  // Perform a check to determine if new types have been added to the
  // enum, but not the array. If the compiler warns about a missing case here,
  // the value must be added to the array and the switch case.
  SbMediaType type = kMediaTypes[0];
  switch (type) {
    case kMediaTypes[0]:
    case kMediaTypes[1]:
      break;
  }
}

TEST(SbMediaBufferTest, Alignment) {
  for (auto type : kMediaTypes) {
#if SB_API_VERSION >= 14
    // The test will be run more than once, it's redundant but allows us to keep
    // the test logic in one place.
    int alignment = SbMediaGetBufferAlignment();
#else  // SB_API_VERSION >= 14
    int alignment = SbMediaGetBufferAlignment(type);
#endif  // SB_API_VERSION >= 14
    EXPECT_GE(alignment, 1);
    EXPECT_EQ(alignment & (alignment - 1), 0)
        << "Alignment must always be a power of 2";
  }
}

TEST(SbMediaBufferTest, AllocationUnit) {
  EXPECT_GE(SbMediaGetBufferAllocationUnit(), 0);

  if (SbMediaGetBufferAllocationUnit() != 0) {
    EXPECT_GE(SbMediaGetBufferAllocationUnit(), 64 * 1024);
  }

  int allocation_unit = SbMediaGetBufferAllocationUnit();
  std::vector<void*> allocated_ptrs;
  int initial_buffer_capacity = SbMediaGetInitialBufferCapacity();
  if (initial_buffer_capacity > 0) {
    allocated_ptrs =
        TryToAllocateMemory(initial_buffer_capacity, allocation_unit, 1);
  }

  if (!HasNonfatalFailure()) {
    for (SbMediaType type : kMediaTypes) {
#if SB_API_VERSION >= 14
      // The test will be run more than once, it's redundant but allows us to
      // keep the test logic in one place.
      int alignment = SbMediaGetBufferAlignment();
#else  // SB_API_VERSION >= 14
      int alignment = SbMediaGetBufferAlignment(type);
#endif  // SB_API_VERSION >= 14
      EXPECT_EQ(alignment & (alignment - 1), 0)
          << "Alignment must always be a power of 2";
      if (HasNonfatalFailure()) {
        break;
      }
      int media_budget = type == SbMediaType::kSbMediaTypeAudio
                             ? kMinAudioBudget
                             : kMinVideoBudget;
      std::vector<void*> media_buffer_allocated_memory =
          TryToAllocateMemory(media_budget, allocation_unit, alignment);
      allocated_ptrs.insert(allocated_ptrs.end(),
                            media_buffer_allocated_memory.begin(),
                            media_buffer_allocated_memory.end());
      if (HasNonfatalFailure()) {
        break;
      }
    }
  }

  for (void* ptr : allocated_ptrs) {
    SbMemoryDeallocateAligned(ptr);
  }
}

TEST(SbMediaBufferTest, AudioBudget) {
  EXPECT_GE(SbMediaGetAudioBufferBudget(), kMinAudioBudget);
}

TEST(SbMediaBufferTest, GarbageCollectionDurationThreshold) {
  int kMinGarbageCollectionDurationThreshold = 30 * kSbTimeSecond;
  int kMaxGarbageCollectionDurationThreshold = 240 * kSbTimeSecond;
  int threshold = SbMediaGetBufferGarbageCollectionDurationThreshold();
  EXPECT_GE(threshold, kMinGarbageCollectionDurationThreshold);
  EXPECT_LE(threshold, kMaxGarbageCollectionDurationThreshold);
}

TEST(SbMediaBufferTest, InitialCapacity) {
  EXPECT_GE(SbMediaGetInitialBufferCapacity(), 0);
}

TEST(SbMediaBufferTest, MaxCapacity) {
  // TODO: Limit EXPECT statements to only codecs and resolutions that are
  // supported by the platform. If unsupported, still call
  // SbMediaGetMaxBufferCapacity() to ensure there isn't a crash.
  for (auto resolution : kVideoResolutions) {
    for (auto bits_per_pixel : kBitsPerPixelValues) {
      for (auto codec : kVideoCodecs) {
        EXPECT_GT(SbMediaGetMaxBufferCapacity(codec, resolution[0],
                                              resolution[1], bits_per_pixel),
                  0);
        EXPECT_GE(SbMediaGetMaxBufferCapacity(codec, resolution[0],
                                              resolution[1], bits_per_pixel),
                  SbMediaGetInitialBufferCapacity());
      }
    }
  }
}

TEST(SbMediaBufferTest, Padding) {
#if SB_API_VERSION >= 14
  EXPECT_GE(SbMediaGetBufferPadding(), 0);
#else   // SB_API_VERSION >= 14
  for (auto type : kMediaTypes) {
    EXPECT_GE(SbMediaGetBufferPadding(type), 0);
  }
#endif  // SB_API_VERSION >= 14
}

TEST(SbMediaBufferTest, PoolAllocateOnDemand) {
  // Just don't crash.
  SbMediaIsBufferPoolAllocateOnDemand();
}

TEST(SbMediaBufferTest, ProgressiveBudget) {
  const int kMinProgressiveBudget = 8 * 1024 * 1024;
  int audio_budget = SbMediaGetAudioBufferBudget();
  for (auto video_codec : kVideoCodecs) {
    for (auto bits_per_pixel : kBitsPerPixelValues) {
      int video_budget_1080p =
          SbMediaGetVideoBufferBudget(video_codec, 1920, 1080, bits_per_pixel);
      for (auto resolution : kVideoResolutions) {
        int progressive_budget = SbMediaGetProgressiveBufferBudget(
            video_codec, resolution[0], resolution[1], bits_per_pixel);
        EXPECT_LT(progressive_budget, video_budget_1080p + audio_budget)
            << "Progressive budget must be less than sum of 1080p video "
               "budget and audio budget";
        EXPECT_GE(progressive_budget, kMinProgressiveBudget);
      }
    }
  }
}

TEST(SbMediaBufferTest, StorageType) {
  // Just don't crash.
  SbMediaBufferStorageType type = SbMediaGetBufferStorageType();
  switch (type) {
    case kSbMediaBufferStorageTypeMemory:
    case kSbMediaBufferStorageTypeFile:
      return;
  }
  SB_NOTREACHED();
}

TEST(SbMediaBufferTest, UsingMemoryPool) {
  // Just don't crash.
  SbMediaIsBufferUsingMemoryPool();
}

TEST(SbMediaBufferTest, VideoBudget) {
  for (auto codec : kVideoCodecs) {
    for (auto resolution : kVideoResolutions) {
      for (auto bits_per_pixel : kBitsPerPixelValues) {
        EXPECT_GE(SbMediaGetVideoBufferBudget(codec, resolution[0],
                                              resolution[1], bits_per_pixel),
                  kMinVideoBudget);
      }
    }
  }
}

TEST(SbMediaBufferTest, ValidatePerformance) {
  TEST_PERF_FUNCNOARGS_DEFAULT(SbMediaGetBufferAllocationUnit);
  TEST_PERF_FUNCNOARGS_DEFAULT(SbMediaGetAudioBufferBudget);
  TEST_PERF_FUNCNOARGS_DEFAULT(
      SbMediaGetBufferGarbageCollectionDurationThreshold);
  TEST_PERF_FUNCNOARGS_DEFAULT(SbMediaGetInitialBufferCapacity);
  TEST_PERF_FUNCNOARGS_DEFAULT(SbMediaIsBufferPoolAllocateOnDemand);
  TEST_PERF_FUNCNOARGS_DEFAULT(SbMediaGetBufferStorageType);
  TEST_PERF_FUNCNOARGS_DEFAULT(SbMediaIsBufferUsingMemoryPool);

#if SB_API_VERSION >= 14
  for (auto type : kMediaTypes) {
    TEST_PERF_FUNCNOARGS_DEFAULT(SbMediaGetBufferAlignment);
    TEST_PERF_FUNCNOARGS_DEFAULT(SbMediaGetBufferPadding);
  }
#else   // SB_API_VERSION >= 14
  for (auto type : kMediaTypes) {
    TEST_PERF_FUNCWITHARGS_DEFAULT(SbMediaGetBufferAlignment, type);
    TEST_PERF_FUNCWITHARGS_DEFAULT(SbMediaGetBufferPadding, type);
  }
#endif  // SB_API_VERSION >= 14

  for (auto resolution : kVideoResolutions) {
    for (auto bits_per_pixel : kBitsPerPixelValues) {
      for (auto codec : kVideoCodecs) {
        TEST_PERF_FUNCWITHARGS_DEFAULT(SbMediaGetMaxBufferCapacity, codec,
                                       resolution[0], resolution[1],
                                       bits_per_pixel);
        TEST_PERF_FUNCWITHARGS_DEFAULT(SbMediaGetProgressiveBufferBudget, codec,
                                       resolution[0], resolution[1],
                                       bits_per_pixel);
        TEST_PERF_FUNCWITHARGS_DEFAULT(SbMediaGetVideoBufferBudget, codec,
                                       resolution[0], resolution[1],
                                       bits_per_pixel);
      }
    }
  }
}

}  // namespace nplb
}  // namespace starboard

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Truex Jr. speeds way to Busch Pole Award at Auto Club Speedway
Reid Spencer
FONTANA, Calif. With the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series qualifying field thinned significantly by inspection issues, Martin Truex Jr. won his second straight pole of the season in Fridays knockout qualifying session at Auto Club Speedway. Avoiding the trouble from the seams between lanes that tripped up first- and second-round leader Kevin Harvick in …
FONTANA, Calif. — With the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series qualifying field thinned significantly by inspection issues, Martin Truex Jr. won his second straight pole of the season in Friday's knockout qualifying session at Auto Club Speedway.
Avoiding the trouble from the seams between lanes that tripped up first- and second-round leader Kevin Harvick in the final round, Truex covered the two-mile distance in 38.592 seconds (186.567 mph) in the No. 78 Furniture Row Racing Toyota, edging fellow Camry driver Kyle Busch (186.437 mph) by .027 seconds for the top starting spot in Sunday's Auto Club 400 (3:30 p.m. ET on FOX, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
RELATED: Qualifying results | See every car in the field
During time trials that saw only 24 of the 37 cars entered pass inspection and make qualifying attempts, Truex won the first Busch Pole Award of the season under sponsorship announced this week. The pole was Truex's second of the season, following last week's at Phoenix, and the 17th of his career.
"I felt really good about our chances after practice," Truex said. "We opted to stay on one set of tires the whole practice and ran our fastest lap on scuffs… I felt like that was a big advantage for us. We ran the fastest lap of anyone on scuffed tires and felt like that would bode well for us in qualifying.
"We really just had to put it all together."
Harvick, who will try for his fourth consecutive victory on Sunday, posted the fastest lap of the day in the first round, running 188.744 mph (38.147 seconds), eclipsing Denny Hamlin's track-record 188.511 mph (38.194 seconds) set in March 2016. But the handling of Harvick's No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford deteriorated, and he fell to 10th in the final round.
"We were just tight as we went through every round," Harvick said. "We had the same thing in practice, where the second round was just so much tighter than the first round. We tried to adjust on it and we made it better entering the corner and through the middle of the corner.
"But as we got to the exit, right at that three-quarter mark, I just kept getting tighter and tighter, and then I got up the race track and got hung on the seam and got loose and kind of screwed it up."
RELATED: Harvick 'extremely confident' No. 4 team has shot at history
Kyle Larson qualified third, followed by Erik Jones, giving Toyota's three of the top four starting spots. Austin Dillon earned the fifth position on the grid, followed by Joey Logano, Kurt Busch and Ryan Blaney.
None of the four Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolets made it through inspection in time to make a qualifying attempt. Two of Harvick's teammates — Clint Bowyer and Aric Almirola — were sidelined for the session by inspection failures after posting top-five speeds in Friday's opening practice.
The silver lining for the cars that will start 25th on back on owner points, led by Denny Hamlin in 25th, is a tire advantage. Cars that took laps in qualifying will start on their scuffed qualifying tires. Those who didn't take times will start on new tires, and Truex considers that a significant advantage.
"It's a huge advantage on that first run, especially if it goes long," Truex said. "In my mind, if you're not probably in the top four, you're better off being 25th. It's going to be a big deal. For us, hopefully we can get out front and get a big lead early in clean air and kind of get separated…
"I know in Atlanta we started on stickers, and it was like a video game those first five laps, because you had so much more grip than everybody else."


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A mum who's brave enough to let go
THREE cheers for Seb Clover! And three cheers for his mum! Seb, who is 16 today, has just sailed the Atlantic single-handed - the youngest ever person to do so. It is a terrific achievement, a real boy's own adventure.
And it was his mum who dared him to do it.
True. Seb's dad is a sailing instructor and the boy has been sailing since before he could walk. He had satellite navigation and all that. But the Atlantic is very big and his boat was so very small.
One wave could have done for him, killer whales escorted him - any one of which could have come up beneath him and holed the boat - he had to do major repairs on the mast.
No wonder his mother lost more than half a stone and came out in a rash as she waited for him to arrive safely in Antigua.
But she encouraged him to go for it, to stretch himself to extremes, to face real danger, not to mention the misery of three weeks totally alone. In those weeks he has doubtless grown up and gained enormous confidence in himself and his abilities.
"People think teenagers have a 20 minute attention span but he has been focused non-stop for 25 days," says his mother. Yet how many other parents would have the courage to let their children tackle anything similar?
Our instinct is always to protect our children, to keep them close to us and safe. But ultimately that might be the worst thing we can do. Cosseting them teaches them nothing, gives them no experience, no independence, no practice at coping. Young people need adventures. Boys, especially, need physical challenges. They need to test themselves as a way of maturing. And if they can't test themselves against the elements, then they are quite likely to test themselves against drink or drugs or fast cars instead. Dolores Clover was very brave to let her son go, and maybe - despite the risks - very wise as well.
Meanwhile, many 15-year-olds are barely allowed to cross town on their own, or to go from one side of the country to the other - and certainly not cross an ocean. And they may well be the poorer for it.
We underestimate our children because we never give them the chance to prove themselves.
Crossing the ocean alone is dangerous. But possibly not as dangerous as being wrapped in cotton wool by over-protective parents.
ANYONE else had problems with the Christmas post? A package from here to Texas arrives safely in four days. But a card from Shildon to Middleton Tyas took two weeks. Other cards - correctly addressed and posted in time - were still limping in up to New Year's Eve, and some cards still haven't made it at all.
Of course, the overwhelming mass of cards arrived safely and promptly. But this year there do seem to have been some very strange blips
MEANWHILE, boys have been beaten around the head and thank you letters written and received.
Favourite was from a young man to his - still youthful - granny.
"I hope you'll be here next year," he wrote cheerfully.
So does Granny...
SO who's going to get Safeway then? Asda would be cheaper... Sainsbury's would be posher... And Morrisons's would clutter up the aisles.
Morrison's always performs well in our Shoptalk surveys - good quality, good value - but I hate shopping there.
Why? Simply because the aisles are an obstacle course of weird planning, oddly-placed special offers and sudden mid-aisle displays of things you don't want.
All that research, all that quality control, all that financial wizardry... and none of it any use at all if you can't actually get your trolley round the store.
GREAT news - more people are training to be plumbers. These include former chartered surveyors, accountants, scientists and graduates of all sorts, enticed by the good money plumbers can earn and the prospect of being loved and appreciated by desperate householders.
For when water is pouring through the ceiling, who would you value more? Someone who can give you the linguistic derivation of "water"?
Or someone who can stop the leak?
"WHEN I am an old woman, I shall wear purple," says Jenny Joseph's famous poem.
The prime minister turned up in purple last week, or fetching shades of plum and berries, depending on the colour reproduction of different newspapers.
Let's just hope he stops there.
Otherwise it's the "red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me."
Not to mention the summer gloves and satin sandals...


Annette Needham, Rainworth, Quoted in Joan Witham (ed.), Hearts and Minds: The Story of the Women of Nottinghamshire in the Miners' Strike 1984-5.
E. P. Thompson, preface to The Making of the English Working Class, 1963.
In March 1984 an announcement by the National Coal Board that the Cortonwood Colliery in Yorkshire was shortly to close was followed by an admission Ian MacGregor, the Chairman, that the closure of another 20 pits was envisaged over the next year at a cost of 20,000 jobs. Confidential Cabinet documents released in 2014 confirmed the existence of secret plans to close up to 75 pits with the loss of 64,000 jobs. The national strike called on March 12 by Arthur Scargill, President of the NUM, ran throughout 1984 and the long cold winter of 1984-5 until the following March. It was the most prolonged and significant in post-war history and destined to change the face of industrial relations in Britain beyond recognition.
Much of the intensity of feeling that the strike generated lay in the fact that this stoppage, unlike the miners' disputes of 1972 and 1974, was not about pay. On the contrary, it was widely understood at the time that the cause of the striking miners was intertwined with the importance of close-knit communities and that they were fighting for basic rights; the right to work (resonant in the slogan 'coal not dole'), the right to be consulted about job losses, for an energy policy not reliant on nuclear power, and for the welfare of people rather than profitability to be at the forefront of economic planning, restructuring and change.
In 1984 these issues appeared to be of concern to large sections of the population who had a stake in a sustainable future. What emerged was not only an extraordinary mobilization of the men and women in the mining areas in their own defence but also a historic humanitarian relief effort to the beleaguered coalfields on a scale that had arguably not been seen in Britain since the Aid for Spain movement in the 1930s.
The strike witnessed new forms of solidarity, new forms of self-help and new forms of sustenance including a network of miners' support groups that worked with the mining communities and raised millions of pounds to stop the miners being starved into submission. At the centre of the resistance to pit closures were working-class women whose lives were transformed as they fought to save their own communities. As the literary critic Raymond Williams put it: "...the 'miners' strike is being represented as the last kick of an old order. Properly understood, it is one of the first steps towards a new order."
Why was this support necessary? Striking miners and their families were not eligible for security benefits and their dependants were prohibited from receiving 'urgent needs payments' under the Social Security Act of 1980 although £15 was nonetheless deducted from benefits to cover 'notional strike pay': the NUM did not make strike payments although they did issue a small allowance to active pickets. Family incomes had been depleted by the previous year's overtime ban. Poverty therefore became endemic once household savings had ran out with some strikers and their families finding themselves perilously near to destitution.
To understand why the struggle to save jobs, communities and the industry was so hard fought it should be remembered that collieries were often in remote places with few alternative jobs. Moreover, because mining was an inherently hazardous occupation - the monument to the Six Bells Disaster at the Six Bells Colliery in Abertillery speaks movingly of the lives that it had claimed in recent memory - survival underground depended on co-operation and trust between men. The values of solidarity and loyalty that mattered down the pit were also those that were replicated outside it in the mining areas. The NUM commanded the kind of support and loyalty among its members which had long made the miners the corps d' élite of the organised labour movement.
It is difficult for us today to envisage the kind of loyalty to a trade union that would make working people suffer a year without money to buy their children shoes or to put food on the table; to be prepared to lose their home, risk marital breakdown, and burn furniture to keep warm rather than return to work, but that is precisely what happened in the mining communities in 1984-5.
The first distinctive feature of the strike was its longevity. Neither the NUM strike of 1972, which started in January and ended in February, nor the strike of 1974, which started in February and ended in March, had produced hardship of this magnitude or demanded so much of its participants for so long. The very longevity of the strike accounted for its second characteristic: the aggregation of the strikers and their families who refused to separate their own well-being and happiness from the well-being and happiness of their dependents.
But the strike inevitably impacted on children's lives in ways that nobody could had anticipated, although everything possible was done to mitigate the suffering of the children in whose name it was being fought. The rhetoric of the strike emphasized that coal was a communal resource to be held in trust for a future generation. The organisers of countless benefit concerts, 'bucket collections' in high streets and shopping centres, and trade union appeals to the public and their membersship, all stressed repeatedly that money went to the miners and their families; a strategy that optimised support from the general public and successfully raised many millions of pounds.
The strike witnessed an unprecedented level of women's activism. Women Against Pit Closures enjoyed remarkable success in drawing hundreds of working class women into political action for the first time. Accentuating their credentials as miners' wives and daughters and demanding the right to speak for their communities, women fought alongside the miners while simultaneously presenting a substantive challenge to the chauvinistic old labourist attitudes of the coalfields.
Women's activism drew on traditions of protest in the coal fields going back to 1926. Strengthening one another's morale, supporting isolated women, fund-raising and campaigning, women fed and clothed entire communities. Women's action groups acquired expertise on all strike related matters from DHSS claims to mortgage repayments and international solidarity. They also provided the strike with many of its most respected and sought after public speakers.
Finally, the strike saw a radically new development: a network of some 300 miners' support groups. These extended the length and breadth of the country from Aberdeen, to Belfast and from Ipswich to the Isle of Wight in response to the NUM's call for fundraising on behalf of the beleaguered mining communities. The miners' supporters included the young, the poor, student and inner city radicals, peace activists, and the unemployed, for whom trade unionism had hitherto had little meaning as well as lesbians and gays and ethnic minorities in inner city areas such as London, Birmingham and Bradford. Liverpool raised a million pounds with Catholic and Protestant churches fundraising side by side.
Many of these groups were run by members of the Labour Party, the Communist Party, and non-aligned trade unionists. The strongest were large, efficient, and formidably well-organised: others were small, informal, and extemporary in nature; many were set up by constituency Labour Parties or local trades councils. Members of CND were also very active. Virtually every TUC affiliated trade union had members fundraising with women trade unionists often working directly with women in the coal fields. NUPE's successful 'Fill a Bag and Feed a Family' campaign was supported by Belfast's lowest paid workers; school cooks, council employees and cleaners. It was these prodigious fundraising efforts that extended the duration of the strike and stood between the miners, penury and capitulation for so long.
As the harsh freezing winter of 1984-5 set in it became evident that the strike had been lost and that some kind of return to work was inevitable. Like the "utopian" artisan of whom E. P. Thompson writes, the 'poor stocking maker', and the "obsolete" handloom weaver, whose lives and livelihoods had been destroyed by modernization, mechanization and the pursuit of profit in earlier centuries, the miners should not be regarded as the helpless victims of social change.
On the contrary, their year-long resistance in the face of the terrible hardship and adversity that Annette Needham, a miner's wife from Rainworth in Nottinghamshire, so vividly describes, demonstrated the meaning of the values of solidarity, collectivism, loyalty and mutuality to the rest of the world. The miners lost the strike but they had made history. Their struggle to defend their industry and their communities had earned them their place alongside the Chartists, the Levellers, the demonstrators at Peterloo, and the Jarrow marchers of 1936 in the annals of English radicalism.
In 1984 there were 181 working coal mines employing 180,000 miners. The closure of Thoresby, the last working pit in Nottinghamshire, in July 2015 leaving Kellingley in Yorkshire, which closed in December 2015, as the only deep mine in the country effectively brought the British coal mining industry to an end. While there has been some social renewal in the smaller mining districts (Leicestershire, Warwickshire and Staffordshire, in particular), exceptionally high unemployment across the coalfields as a whole - there are now 50 jobs for every 100 residents of working age and 41 in South Wales - and the prevalence of welfare benefits, mental health problems, and alcohol and drug dependency where there was once social cohesion, reveals the significance of the miners' struggle anew.
Britain in the twenty-first century and before the strike are two very different places; not least because of the haemorrhaging of trade union membership after the miners' defeat.
Mary Joannou of the Anglia Ruskin University Labour History Research Unit.


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$ 86 million road contract for Vinci in Australia
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Seymour White, an Australian subsidiary of Vinci Construction, won the contract to upgrade the road axis in the southern industrial zone of Dandenong (in the Melbourne metropolitan area). In particular, it provides for widening the road and setting up new viaducts for 2×2 lanes over 2 km.
Seymour White, an Australian subsidiary of Vinci Construction, has been awarded the contract to renovate a major highway in the Greater Melbourne area.
The project aims to reduce traffic by connecting the South Gibsland Highway and Abbots Road, which will facilitate access to the Dandenong South employment area, thus increasing the productivity of the industrial zone.
134 million Australian dollars (86 million euros), The contract provides 2 km 2 lanes wide, 2 km wide., Pound Road West and Remington Drive and Construction of a new crossing viaduct From the Cranbourne railroad.
Is scheduled Reinforcement of another viaduct, rearrangement of four intersections, creation of new shared bicycle-pedestrian lanes and installation of guards.
Work will begin in October 2021 for a two-year temporary period, Major Road projects in conjunction with Victoria after a design phase, local authority Transportation.
Reducing environmental impact
In order an important system is used To reduce the environmental impact of the project, Seymour White aims to get the "best" label for it. Presented by the Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia (ISCA).
It specifically includes:
Direct recycling of materials, including mills and other materials from Ren Renovated Roads;
Of at least 30% reduction in cement quantities for the construction of non-structural components of the project;
Australia Application on unbound geotextile grip green roads made in Australia from recycled polymers;
Setting up a pavement in E emesh, reinforced concrete with 100% recycled plastic fibers instead of wire mesh;
Environment Measures to reduce erosion and sedimentation, and conservation of biodiversity to protect the natural environment.
Finally, the site Creating jobs for the indigenous people of the state of Victoria.
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While harshly treated by critics on release, of Pedro Almodóvar's work Kika is perhaps the one that benefits most from re-viewing and re-assessment. The story concerns Kika (an astonishing Veronica Forque), a Madrid makeup artist whose relationship with Ramon (Alex Casanovas) leads to criminal schemes involving Kika's maid Juana (Rossy De Palma), Juana's amorous, criminal brother Pablo (Santiago Lajusticia), and Ramon's youth-obsessed father Nicholas (Peter Coyote). Overseeing it all, is the muckraking, reality tabloid television show presided over by the formidable Andrea Scarface (a uniquely attired Victoria Abril). The film attracted controversy because of a scene in which Almodóvar depicts Kika's rape at the hands of Pablo with humorous detachment, however the moment has since come to be more popularly viewed as further evidence of the director's tribute to the power of women.
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Mother of Manchester bombing victim speaks out against Eminem's 'vile' new freestyle
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More than 800 mourners attended a memorial ceremony to mark the one-year anniversary of the attack on a Manchester arena
A mother who lost her daughter to the Manchester bombing last year took aim at Eminem (Marshall Mathers) for "freestyling" about the terror attack.
The 46-year-old was Not Afraid to stir up some trouble last week when he released an 11-minute track entitled Kick Off. He boldly and unnecessarily called out Ariana Grande by referring to the tragic event that took 22 innocent lives at her Manchester Arena concert last May.
After hearing the song. Charlotte Hodgson, mother of the late 15-year-old Olivia Campbell-Hardy, said the rap was "disgusting."
In an interview with Manchester Evening News, she branded Mathers as a "vile human" for being so disrespectful to the victims and those affected by the attack.
(L-R) Eminem and Ariana Grande, 2017.
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In the track, Mathers raps from the perspective of the assailant Salman Ramadan Abedi, claiming he was "lost" and "brainwashed" to commit the horrific crime.
He says, "Squashed in-between a brainwashing machine, like an Islamic regime / A jihadist extreme, Radical suicide bomber that's seeing / Ariana Grande sing her last song of the evening / And as the audience from the damn concert is leaving / Detonates the device strapped to his abdominal region"
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Hodgson was shocked by the sheer amount of disrespect. "Why would people want to make money out of such an horrific event?' she asked.
"Why would anyone compare themselves to a Jihadist or a bomber?" she added. "I think he needs help if he sees himself like that."
Mathers ended the verse with, "I'm not gonna finish that for obvious reasons," as if he were doing the listeners a favour after already reminding them of that fatal day.
Charlotte and Paul Hodgson, mother and stepfather of victim Olivia Campbell-Hardy, prior to the 'We Are Manchester' benefit show on Sept. 9, 2017.
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As a "prologue" for his new video, Mathers said "I've always looked at battle rap as competition or war and the main objective is to destroy… Completely f**king obliterate your opponent by saying whatever the f**k you can, to get a reaction from the crowd."
His remarks certainly got a reaction as thousands (including Arianators) cried outrage over Twitter after seeing the video.
Eminem is my favourite artist in music, but I felt like mentioning what happened in Manchester was to far.. maybe because I was personally affected by it I'm not sure
— Adam Robson (@Rob3on777) December 1, 2018
I have never and will never understand why Eminem is so famous and praised. His lyrics are trash, as well as disturbing, sexist, homophobic, and misogynistic. His lyrics about Ari and Manchester are just the lowest of low. Him and "musicians" like him are why I hate
— brandon | rt pinned (@buteras_crown) December 2, 2018
One of the Campbell-Hardy's closest friends added: "The fact that no one's gonna say how much disrespected the Manchester bombing is making me want to shoot myself," she said.
"My best friend's mother is f**king raging due to this," she added. "Eminem does not have the right to rap about her daughter's death."
"Do the U.K. a favour and delete this," she concluded.
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For the most part, it seems Eminem fans are either confused or unfazed by the matter.
"Can someone please point out what Eminem did wrong," asked one Twitter user.
Many are sure that Kick Off was just a political statement and that the Rap God is just not afraid to shine a light on such taboo topics.
even though eminem said nothing bad about ariana or manchester i knew people would get offended anyways lmfao i'm really so over everyone being way too sensitive
— trina (@stankonia313) December 1, 2018
what's wrong with Eminem's freestyle? He just mentioned the Manchester attack. Didn't say anything mean or joked about it. Am I missing something?
— lilliana✨ (@clickbaitsign) December 1, 2018
Join me in helping Manchester victims & their families, Make a donation to the @BritishRedCross and @MENnewsdesk https://t.co/JchJtYOdMU
— Marshall Mathers (@Eminem) May 25, 2017
Following the attack, Mathers actually reached out to his fans pledging for them to donate to the families of the victims through the British Red Cross.
He helped raise more than $4 million for those affected by the Manchester bombing, which some believe gave him the right to rap about the horrific events.
A sign of support for Manchester set up in the wake of the Manchester Arena bombing in central Manchester on May 22, 2018. PAUL ELLIS/AFP/Getty Images
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Hodgson showed her gratitude towards Grande for organizing the 'We Are Manchester' benefit concert last September. "Ariana did a very respectful song in memory of everyone there and that was lovely," she said. "A fantastic gesture."
As of this writing, neither Mathers nor Grande have commented on the matter.
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TWO men who used stolen bank notes in a Birmingham casino could help police solve a major robbery.
These CCTV images, taken at the casino in the Star City complex, show two men inserting the notes into a slot machine.
Staff became suspicious and called the police when they saw the notes – stained with red dye – as they cashed-up at the end of the night.
An initial examination of the notes by officers suggests that the dye is a special anti-theft ink used by banks when transporting cash.
The security dye is placed in cash boxes and packets of cash and is set off in the event of theft or robbery. The notes are stained with ink rendering them worthless in over-the-counter transactions.
A total of £345 was recovered and officers believe the men may hold vital information surrounding the serious robbery.
PC Frances Le Fevre, from Nechells Police Station, said: "There is no suggestion at this stage that the men we wish to speak to were involved in a robbery.
The slot machines used were in an area of the casino which is open to the public and the men are not believed to be members.
The notes, seized after the February incident, are currently undergoing specialist forensic examination.
* Anyone who can identify the men are urged to contact police station on 0345 113 5000 or call the anonymous Crimestoppers hotline on 0800 555 111.
* In a similar incident, four Birmingham men were arrested at a motorway service station allegedly trying to launder stolen money through an automatic change machine.
Police found a number of bank notes covered in security dye had been fed into an automated machine that swaps notes for coins to be used in slot machines or arcade games.
Four men, aged 21 to 24, were arrested on suspicion of theft and money laundering in the swoop at Knutsford Services on the M6, in Cheshire, at about 6.30pm on Saturday May 8, Cheshire Police said. Officers had been alerted after people raised the alarm after a group of men were seen "acting suspiciously". When police searched them they found a "large quantity" of £1 coins.


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Using Intel Technologies to Create a Wireless Sensor Platform for Hospitals
One of the latest technological advances in medical electronics is wireless patient monitoring, says an ENP Newswire report.
During a patient's stay, hospitals monitor a variety of vital signs using sensors attached to the body and connected to monitoring and other equipment. Legacy systems use wired connections that in many situations can result in a tangled mess of sensor wires that restrict the patient's movement and present obstacles that medical staff must contend with, the report says. Replacing these wires with Bluetooth communications makes it easier for the staff to provide care and increased patient mobility can lead to a speedier recovery, ultimately resulting in enhanced healthcare.
Intel, LynuxWorks, and Portwell have combined efforts to deliver a proof of concept wireless reference platform that incorporates an Intel Architecture-based COTS board from Portwell and LynuxWorks' separation kernel and hypervisor software, says the report. The solution can connect more than 25 wireless biometric sensors and supports rich graphics display. In addition, it leverages hardware-assisted Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) to isolate and partition two different operating systems with their data and resources, and controls information flow between these partitions to ensure data integrity.
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Concoction |kənˈkäkSH(ə)n| a mixture of various ingredients or elements. A spectrum of light provides this musical painting derived from a palette of greys, blues, reds, greens and yellows. The colors and their radiant themes blend together to generate a dominant and beautiful achromatic conclusion. Originally Commissioned By Northwestern H.S. — Jeremy Snyder, Director.
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Owen Wilson – Celebrity lovers changes
Speaking about the celebrities' personal life it ought to be mentioned that sometimes it is quite hectic. Owen Wilson is one of such people who can boast by a stormy personal life. Frankly speaking he changes girlfriends like a woman changes clothes!
Owen Wilson is one of the top comedy actors, scriptwriter and producer. He was born in 1968 in Dallas. By the way early in life he couldn't even think that he would become an actor quite apart from the fact that both his brothers were actors. After school he entered the military academy.
All in all craving for art overweighed and later he graduated from university with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. By and by Owen became well-known and popular actor, who played the leading parts in the films.
Great amount of women liked this handsome fair man, so he mustn't grumble. But not every woman could bear his addiction to alcohol and drugs and his melancholic nature. One must admit that to vanquish temptation to date with such a handsome man is not an easy task.
Speaking about his lovers it worth mentioning that he dated with Sheryl Crow, Gina Gershon, Demi Moore, Angel Boris Reed, Caroline Lindqvist, Jade Duell. But the most emotional relationships were with Kate Hudson. This list is certainly not full, we do not mention the others, not so popular actresses and top models.
One of the most long lasting love story was with Kate Hudson. They met during starring in the film "You, Me and Dupree". Firstly they tried to conceal their relationship. The woman even cut loose from her family but one should, however, not forget the fact that later she ran away from Owen too.
However that may be, in August 2007, he was found after not successful suicide attempt in his flat. The actor took an overdose and slashed wrists after the latest in a series of breaks in relations with Kate. During a long period of time they broke up and started dating again but they finally broke up.
His first serious and in public eye relationship was with Sheryl Crow and lasted for two years. The relationship was so romantic! They split up and Owen blames only himself.
Nevertheless they remain friends till nowadays. While the actor still was with Sheryl he committed adultery. He started dating with Gina Gershon, but this relationship didn't last long.
Our famous ladies' man also was to be under an accusal of relationship with Demi Moore but Owen refused this and insisted on the fact that they were only friends and nothing more.
Caroline Lindqvist
Caroline Lindqvist became the first woman who bore him a child. They were not in serious relationship. In one of the interviews the lady announced that they were just friends, who decided to have a child.
Owen Wilson with his older son Robert
Another woman, who became a mother of Wilson's baby, was . But unfortunately this relationship was in no way different from the previous. But all the same our Romeo promised to stay a good father and help Jade financially.
Owen Wilson and Jade Duell
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