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There are important issues on your ballot that you have the power to influence. I know it can be all sorts of overwhelming to tackle confusing ballot measures and research what's really going on, but here are some hopefully more simple ways to help you navigate.
Sierra Club Voter's Guide – a handy map where you can click on your state and see who they endorse, not saying it's good or bad just gives you some info to go off of and research who these candidates are.
If you're voting in California check out EcoVote.org, it breaks down some of the propositions and info on candidates.
Despite these non-eco aspects of the proposition, some environmental groups are overlooking them and feel like it is still a sound investment for regional water supplies and watershed restoration because things like water recycling. These are good things, but funding for them pails in comparison to water diversion and dams.
This seems like sketchy stuff. On the surface it appears ok and even somewhat beneficial for the environment (by using terminology like water conservation, restoration, and recycling) and water crisis, but as you break it down it is more about using tax payer dollars to subsidize dam construction as well as satiate big agriculture's water needs and not much at all for water resource and ecosystem sustainability. Definitely dig a little deeper to see which side feels right for you.
New Jersey- Public Question 2 will direct 6 percent of corporate tax revenues to open space preservation. This measure is way less divided than California's Prop 1, it is supported by the majority NJ's environmental groups.
Michigan- Proposal 1 and 2 authorizes the establishment of open hunting season on wolves! By voting 'no' on prop 1 and 2, you are helping protect this beautiful endangered species. Private interest groups (from trophy hunters to trapping lobbying groups) back both propositions while organizations like Keep Michigan Wolves Protected and The Humane Society are against it.
There are also some awesome local initiatives such as in Berkeley, CA, Measure D would add a one-cent- per-ounce tax on sugary beverages with the money going towards school nutrition programs. "Big Soda" (corporations like Coca Cola and Pepsi) and the American Beverage Association are against this initiative where as health, education, and community organizations (such as California Nurses Association to the YMCA of central Bay Area) support it.
Talk to your friends about what's going on in your city or do a little research! You can make an influence so join me in getting informed and voting this November!!
What's is going on in your state or local area this November? What other voting resources are your aware of?


Now Managing Director of Eindhoven365, Peter Kentie is, for Estonia, something much more than just one of its e-residents. He is the face behind "Just Estonishing", the nation branding strategy which over the past couple of years has changed Estonia's brand image for the better.
Initially released in 2016 as a pro bono and open source proposal, Just Estonishing, is, with its EST concept, a text-based tool with endless opportunities. Something to think, use, create and design Estonia from many different angles.
No better way to hear the whole story than asking Mr Kentie, Estonia's number one fan, to highlight what this whole initiative is about.
Peter, how did the "Just Estonishing" idea come about?
My fondness for Estonia is now almost 4 years old; before it was just a place to me. I needed someone to help me open my eyes and heart to Estonia, and to help me understand the country and its mentality. Estonia's unique place in the world as a leader in digital society puzzled me.
I created the so-called EST-concept to express my affection and interest in the country; to stimulate discussion about Estonia and how it could market itself to the world.
I spent more than a year researching and developing the concept, consulting fellow designers and marketers from both the Netherlands and Estonia. Then the 'Just Estonishing' idea came alive.
It is essentially based on a wordplay with the letters E S T – which are part of the word Estonia (and Estland in Dutch, Estonie in French, etc) – and are also used as formal abbreviation in passports, number plates, etc.
Interestingly, this approach also gives lots of opportunities for promoting Estonian achievements and peculiarities by using a variety of words, such as smartest, coolest, wisest, but also guest and weirdest – all containing the same letters. This makes it possible to cover every part of Estonian branding, from government to business and tourism, from social media campaigns to merchandising.
I presented my ideas to Enterprise Estonia, the state organization responsible for managing and communicating Estonia's country brand. At first, the board reacted enthusiastically, but then decided to go its own way with a brand toolkit.
In my opinion, a toolkit is not enough. You have to proactively communicate the stories and achievements of a place based on a strong and cohesive brand promotion and marketing campaign. This is why I decided to focus on the activation part of the project, while Enterprise Estonia dealt with the rest.
I really had to gain their trust before seeing it become part of the official nation branding. Finally, the chosen strategy was shared on Memokraat.ee, an influential weblog read and well-regarded by Estonian opinion leaders, IT-sector and aspiring young professionals. The interview was conducted by Kristjan Lepik from Teleport.org, and together we wrote the basic text for the publication in English on justestonishing.com. The concept was now online for everybody to see and use.
An uncommon way of doing things – you may think – but the effect of the online publication was incredible. The national Estonian newspaper Postimees republished the article the same morning, asking its readers for their opinions. The outcome was startling. After a few days, the poll on Postimees.ee's website had over ten thousand votes – basically 1% of the population had given their opinion. 95% answered YES to the question "Do you think the idea of the Dutchman should be introduced?" and the media attention exploded. Within weeks, nation branding was the biggest news topic in all Estonian media: radio, TV, print and online.
Did local stakeholders get on board with the concept right away? What did you do to facilitate their engagement?
The EST-concept gained outspoken reactions from many Estonian businesses, big and small…from the corporate world and banking to infrastructure partners like Tallinn Airport and Nordica. Even the famous former Skype community became a loyal fan on social media, and thanks to the active support of Estonian advertising, media and television, even an endorsement from Samsung Estonia arrived. The concept had equally strong support from the political sphere, with many politicians publicly expressing their enthusiasm towards it.
The likeability factor of -est has been a great asset. Not just because of the 'for free' part, but – generally speaking – I think Estonians appreciate the ease and simplicity of the concept more than anything else. Anyone can relate to it and everyone can adopt it because of the effectiveness of the idea. It just fits with the Estonian mentality. It creates pride and self-esteem.
What are the main challenges of maintaining such an initiative alive?
The key thinking behind the concept was to build an open-source and co-created place branding. What I created for Estonia is actually based on the work that I do in my daytime job for the city of Eindhoven. The city marketing there is based on creating curiosity for the place itself with no identity restrictions, no brand manual, no penalties, but just endless freedom and room for experiment.
I truly believe that involving citizens, companies and institutions alike in building and creating a brand together, i.e. collectively marketing the place, is the way forward in place branding. And what works for a city can also be applied to a region and even a nation.
Place branding should be inclusive and strive towards engaging a community and motivating people so they have to be involved in the process. After all, they are the brand.
I once received pictures of a wedding which used the EST-idea to identify the family members relations. No better proof that the idea really does fit with the Estonian mentality.
At the end of the day, a place brand can only work if it is adopted by the users. The identity is not only there to inspire other designers and advertising experts, but also to create a tool for businesses, municipalities and organizations, tourism industry and knowledge institutions alike. They are all part of the place brand and should be involved in the brand identity.
What about ROI? What kind of impact has it had so far for you?
Always a tricky question in the world of place branding. In this particular case, well: what is the ROI of a pro bono branding and marketing concept? it is a gift to a nation.
Honestly, the personal reactions I received through social media meant the most to me. The response to the poll was also very satisfying for me. A 95% positive score… How many times does one achieve such a result in a lifetime?
Winning the prestigious Estonian PR of the year award, the marketing achievement award 2016 and being runner-up at the annual Tourism award also makes me proud, and so does the Estonian t-shirt designer who sold over 2000 t-shirts with 'est'.
The real ROI though would be adequate funding for further development of the concept, which has – sadly – not yet happened. My idea was to activate the domain extension .est and monetize that domain name by selling urls like fast.est, cool.est, clean.est etc. Estonia is the only institution that can claim .est within ICANN and once it does, this could really revolutionize its place branding campaigns and itself become a source of funding.
Estonia recently held the Presidency of the EU Council. How was the nation branding strategy taken up during this time?
Initially Enterprise Estonia worked on an integrated branding strategy for the country's nation branding, intending to combine the EU Presidency in 2017 with the 100 year celebration in 2018. Due to timing though, this was not feasible for the Estonian Design Team and a design competition was held to create visual identities for both the EU Presidency and the 100 year celebration.
While the chosen design for resulting campaigns was different from the nation branding toolkit we had developed, all official presentations about Estonia as a digital nation were developed in line with the EST-concept, presented on many stages during the EU Presidency year of Estonia. Every slide in the official PowerPoint presentation has an EST-related wordplay. How cool is that?!
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Acacia alcockii
Citation: B. R. Maslin & D. J. E. Whibley, Nuytsia 6:19-23 (1987).
Derivation: The name commemorates Mr C. R. Alcock who collected plants extensively on Eyre Peninsula.
Bushy shrub or small tree to 3 m often suckering, branchlets terete but slightly angled at extremities, bark grey or brown at base, reddish on young branches.
Phyllodes narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, slightly asymmetric narrowed towards base, abruptly narrowed to acute or obtuse apices, 6-9 cm long, 8-21 mm wide sometimes interspersed with a few smaller ones, straight or a little recurved, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, dark green, midrib slightly raised, lateral veins obscure. Gland on upper margin 8-12 mm from pulvinus.
Inflorescences 1 per node, racemose, occasionally with a simple axillary peduncle or a small panicle. Racemes 2-4 cm long with 5-11 heads. Peduncles 4-5 mm long on racemes or 8-10 mm if simple, glabrous. Flower-heads globular, pale yellow, 10 mm diam. when fresh, flowers 25-40 densely arranged. Bracteoles peltate. Flowers 5-merous. Ovary glabrous or villous.
Legumes oblong to narrow oblong, not much raised over seeds, straight edged or a little constricted between seeds with occasional deep constrictions, to 9 cm long, 8 17 mm wide, up to 14 seeds per legume, finely reticulate, coriaceous, abruptly constricted at base into a thick stipe 2-3 mm long. Seeds transverse, close together, no pronounced partitions, oblong-ellipsoid 5-6 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, dull to shiny black, funicle light red-brown, to 40 mm long usually with 2-3 short folds before encircling seed in a U-shaped fold, aril clavate, and may extend 1/2-way down one side of the seed.
Distribution: The species is often found in sand over limestone, more rarely on skeletal soils or sandy soils over granite. It may form pure stands in open areas of Eucalyptus gracilis or in Eucalyptus foecunda, Melaleuca lanceolata and M. uncinata scrub. It is restricted to the south of Eyre Peninsula where two main populations occur one at Stamford Hill, Cape Donnington Peninsula and Pillie Lake within the Lincoln National Park and at Billy Light Point near Port Lincoln. In addition it occurs also at West Point, Memory Cove and near Jussieu Bay.
S.Aust.: EP.
Flowering time: The species has been collected in flower between December and February and in pod between February and June.
Related taxa: It is placed between A. anceps and A. leiophylla and it may possibly be of hybrid origin. From these two it may be distinguished by the combination of its racemose inflorescences and transverse seeds.
Cultivation: Could be useful in subcoastal sites.

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This week's new releases: Marc Almond goes retro, Luna does covers and instrumentals
Record Rack: A round-up of the week's new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted.
RELEASE: Shadows and Reflections
BACKSTORY: The former Soft Cell frontman's latest solo album features "sumptuous orchestral arrangements of iconic torch songs and '60s orchestral pop," as well as two new original compositions.
BUY: Amazon.co.uk, iTunes
RELEASE: A Sentimental Education, A Place of Greater Safety
BACKSTORY: Dean Wareham's band this week releases a 10-song covers album called A Sentimental Education (The Cure, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Mercury Rev) and a 6-song instrumental EP titled A Place of Greater Safety.
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RELEASE: Out of Silence
BACKSTORY: The Crowded House frontman this week releases, in the U.K., the CD edition of his new solo album, which was recorded live on the internet earlier late last month. The U.S. CD release will follow on Sept. 29.
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This week's new releases: Gary Numan, Lee Ranaldo, 'Gary Crowley's Punk and New Wave'
This week's new releases: Sparks, Waterboys, The Dream Syndicate, Living Colour
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MAN Diesel & Turbo and Hyundai Engineering (HEC) have completed the extension of a power plant in Pakistan for the customer Attock Refinery Limited (ARL). The plant, located northeast of Rāwalpindi, is powered by heavy fuel oil (HFO) and supplies electricity to a refinery.
Three MAN 14V32/40 gensets generate 18 MW of electrical power for the processes in the refinery plant. This equates to the electricity demand of approximately 30,000 households. Hyundai as an EPC service provider (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) was responsible for the construction of the plant whilst MAN took over the design and delivery of the engines and accessories, as well as the training of the operating personnel.
Rāwalpindi is situated in the Punjab region, only a few kilometres southwest of the capital city, Islamabad. Together, the two cities comprise one of the country's largest industrial centres. Also located in Rāwalpindi, are the headquarters of the Attock group, one of the most important businesses within the oil and gas industry in Pakistan.


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Defense Department medical staff deployed to Abbott Northwestern Hospital
BY: Rilyn Eischens - January 28, 2022
Another federal medical team is arriving in Minnesota as the state's health care system remains stressed by the most recent wave of the pandemic, Gov. Tim Walz announced Friday. The team of 23 doctors, nurses and hospital staff from the Department of Defense will arrive at Abbott Northwestern Hospital Saturday to care for patients and […]
DFL, GOP lawmakers announce different COVID precautions for upcoming legislative session
BY: Ricardo Lopez - January 28, 2022
The DFL-led House and Republican-led Senate outlined divergent approaches to how each chamber will work during the upcoming legislative session, which starts Monday. House Speaker Melissa Hortman, DFL-Brooklyn Park, issued a memo Friday saying they will continue to limit public access to the House chamber and lawmakers' offices. "Only elected members of the House and […]
Hennepin County reaches tentative agreement with social service and clerical workers
BY: Max Nesterak - January 27, 2022
Hennepin County and union leaders representing some 3,500 social service and clerical workers announced on Thursday they reached a tentative agreement on a three-year contract, averting a strike that would have affected health clinics, libraries, the medical examiner's office, and other services. The tentative agreement includes 2.5% annual raises plus the possibility of an additional […]
Minneapolis mayor disciplined former police chief Medaria Arradondo for using city resources to oppose public safety proposal
BY: Deena Winter - January 27, 2022
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey reprimanded former Police Chief Medaria Arradondo late last month for holding a press conference to oppose a public safety ballot question just days before the November election where the fate of the embattled police department was on the line.
Investigation into 'Storm the Capitol' rally was closed within a week
Last year, the speaker of the Minnesota House promised a broad investigation into a rally at the Capitol in St. Paul where pro-Trump activists lodged violent rhetoric and alleged widespread voter fraud. But the investigation called for by House Speaker Melissa Hortman petered out within a week, public documents show.
Gov. Walz proposes legalizing marijuana and spending $2.3 billion on health and public safety
Gov. Tim Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan unveiled a sweeping package of health and public safety proposals Wednesday that would cost nearly $2.3 billion over three years. Walz and Flanagan's supplemental budget recommendations include a slew of policies the governor says will lower crime rates and improve health outcomes. They include creating grants for […]
House Speaker Hortman: Hennepin County Sheriff Hutchinson should resign
House Speaker Melissa Hortman, DFL-Brooklyn Park, said Hennepin County Sheriff David Hutchinson should resign. "His conduct constituted an egregious violation of the public trust, and I don't think he can be effective as the chief law enforcement officer of Hennepin County under these circumstances," Hortman said Wednesday in an interview with the Reformer. "He should […]
Senate GOP legislative agenda: Get tougher on crime and cut state taxes
Senate Republicans on Wednesday outlined a broad vision for how they would address rising violent crime, spend the $7.7 billion projected surplus and educate children they say have had their learning disrupted by the pandemic. "We know crime rates are up, kids are falling behind and record inflation is eating away at family budgets," said […]
Reports: Supreme Court Justice Breyer to step down
BY: Jennifer Shutt, Jacob Fischler and Ariana Figueroa - January 26, 2022
WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is planning to announce his retirement in the coming days, according to multiple press reports Wednesday. The decision by the 83-year-old justice, who was nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1994, would give President Joe Biden his first chance to nominate a member of the Supreme Court, […]
Biden administration drops vaccine-or-test workplace rule
BY: Jennifer Shutt - January 25, 2022
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced Tuesday it will withdraw an emergency mandate that would have required employees at large businesses to get the COVID-19 vaccine or test regularly for the virus. The decision from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which will take effect Wednesday, follows a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court earlier […]
House DFL shares child care, education spending ideas
Democratic state representatives rolled out a multibillion-dollar wish list Tuesday that they say represents what it would take to fully fund Minnesota's major early childhood and K-12 education programs. With the 2022 legislative session just days away, lawmakers are gearing up for negotiations over how to spend a projected $7.7 billion budget surplus. Leaders of […]
Minnesota Housing announces Friday deadline for emergency rental assistance
Minnesota Housing will stop accepting new applications for emergency rental assistance on Friday at 9 p.m., having nearly depleted the $518 million the state received through two federal COVID-19 relief packages. "My heart is heavy today, knowing the hardship that households across the state are still facing," Housing Commissioner Jennifer Ho said during a Tuesday […]


I-mobile Stadium is a 32,600 seat football stadium in Buriram, Thailand. The stadium is the home of Thailand's 2011 and 2013 treble champions, Buriram United. The i-mobile Stadium is the largest club-owned football stadium in Thailand.
Each capital city of each Thai province has a 'City Pillar Shrine'. These shrines represent the centre and the spirit of the city and the province. In Thai the term is 'Lak Mueang'.
This short film—which was part of a worldwide film challenge to promote lesser-known destinations and sights in Thailand—presents the province of Buriram from the vantage point of a moving train and Prasat Phanom Rung, a temple on the rim of an extinct volcano.
Prasat Phanom Rung in the early morning light ingite your desire to travel? Don't forget to add the temple to your profile.


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To avoid the abuses of the antichrist
We are forewarned about the antichrist, the great trouble-maker. But we are told little else. Our force, is with the truth. This is pointed out both in a hadith of our prophet, Muhammed (s.a.s.), and it is inferrable, too, when we notice that even the very name, "ed-deccal," (ad-dajjal) which corresponds to the antichrist, in Islamic terminology, means the un-credible, the fake.
This suggests that, the "prowess" of antichrist, beyond anything else, is his lies. The way he tells his lies. The way he clashes people against each other, with his lies. The way he even claims to be the God (Allah).
The especially troublesome is the cases of "calling"s which may urge a person to do things, as if it were a religious service, although the very thing-to-do is something exactly forbidden by the religious texts. A noticeable example, is the case about the suicide-bombers. It involves suicide, coupled along with killings of innocents. Religiously speaking, it is a lose-lose situation.
If Allah, the God, had not sent the religion that way, if you invented yourself new acts, such as suicide-bomb-attacks, "in the name of God" although it is very opposed to the faith we hold, how could you claim it is "ordered by the God?" That is satanical, and quite probably, the antichrist's "calling."
Fake-Legitimacies, quite Anti-Christ'ish
It fits the pattern, suggested by Islam, about the anti-christ as a world-wide trouble-maker. When the "puppets" die willingly, the antichrist would not even need a single bullet, to effectively conqueor the world. It is an empire, unless we notice.
That suggests the infamous empire-builder's tool, divide-and-conqueor, as the antichrist's calling, which is to install fake-legitimacies with his lies, through witchcraft, to beget chaos, through escalation of mutual atrocities. That is, the antichrist team, with subliminal-suggestions through witchcraft, could take their cheapshots at your neighbors/citizens/enemies through yourself - if you buy it.
A few known examples of fake-legitimacy claims, is pointed out, on the page THE Culprits, or "only Fool Generals?"
We should reflect about any motivations we find in our minds, and filter them with truth. This avoids falling prey to a fake "calling."
The truth has two fronts. Both of these fronts are very favored by Islam. These are, the revealed-truths, and the yaqeen. Yaqeen, is what we witness and/or research, in our worlds. (e.g: science)
We must resist any other "urged-conviction," even if we find that urge within our very own minds. Such subliminal suggestions, is the satan's approach, any way. With anti-christ, the strict anti-religious satanical pursuits, is now to be coupled with the aspirations to build an empire through witchcraft (which divides, to conqueor), which is to benefit the antichrist, along with his associates.
Q: Who is the deccal (the antichrist)?
Let's discuss the signs about the anti-christ, to guess/spot where he may be, and what he may be involved with. What is his purpose, possibly? An empire through witchcraft? Is the chaos, a divide-and-conqueor tool? Any birthmarks, or special pointers about him?
ed-deccal, the antichrist
The word deccal (daj-jul), in Arabic means, "fake, a charlatan." A gold-plated copper coin, is not worth, what it appears to be. Similarly, ed-deccal (the deccal) is somebody who claims to be, what he is not. In particular, Islam tells us that, ed-deccal's claims is to be the God. The warnings tell about the chaos to be beget by him, too.
There is a possibility that, people may be expecting wrong signs, because they interpret the hadiths about ed-deccal, through very limited translations. I present examples, next. To verify some of these interpretation-possibilities, I need the original Arabic texts of all the hadiths, yet. Take these as pointers. A knowledgeable person should find it very easy to verify, or refute, any of these interpretation-possibilities.
crossed-eyed, or increasingly-blinded? The Arabic word "Oawer" is interpreted as crossed-eyed, but it also means increasingly-blinded. That means, the sign about his left-eye may be a worsening blindness. The news about the blindness of his right-eye's, may be as a contrast to the left eye's ongoing process, not as a contrast to "crossed-eyed"ness. Both interpretations being possible, we should not concentrate on only the crossed-left-eyed people.
(The hadith about "Oawer"ness, exists in "sahih-i buhari.")
Why don't everybody see the sign at his brows? The visibility of the sign at the brow of the antichrist is also an issue. There, it is written, with Arabic text, "This is the non-believer." But we are informed that, only some people would see it. Why? I found a photo of a person, on a web-page. It suggests an answer. Both the view-angle, and the light-intensity, may be important. It is the simple physics case of mirrors. There might be metal- or glass-particles there.
In the case of this clip, the sign is traceable, only at the angle where a strong light hits it, and next, the reflected-light hits the camera. The photo shows the left-cheek (to the right of the photo). The "This is ..." part of the text is traceable, but to call the shot, the other side must be readable, too. That needs a centered photo, to show both cheeks, with a strong-light focused at the brow.
In any case, the possibility I suggest here, is a simple physics-based, very general explanation. Other such explanations may be possible, too.
As a point to note, I have seen, and spoke him, in real-life, but I had not noticed any such logo, there. If it is there, the photo-flash is the key.
(The photo was (lossy?) JPEG. The clip is PNG.)
command the evil side? Or control/manipulate, the good? When people talk of armageddon, it is as if they expect forces of two sides clash in battlefields. That may occur, too. But until we find them, the all-evil crew of the antichrist would not be possibly, in any of the wars we know, out there. Instead, the expectations of chaos to be started/spread by the antichrist, suggests that, the antichrist might stealthily control/manipulate most or all of the leaders of the many wars, throughout the world, to weaken all of them. (The public opinions may be controlled, too, by stealthy soul-attacks to control media-persons, and/or by indirect-manipulations through soul-attacks at, or conspiracy with, advertisers/ad-people.) The hypothesis I stated, about the witchcraft of the antichrist, the mind-control, fits this overall picture.
animate the death? The news that ed-deccal would animate-the-death, may be interpreted as a conspiracy with the deadroids, instead of expecting ed-deccal to enliven the dead people out of their graves. Although Jesus (a.s.) is reported to enliven the dead, I think it is more fitting to find that, that who is nicknamed ed-deccal, the charlatan, would not be able to produce any such miracles, but only would tell lies. The deadroids do it, any way. They present themselves as "the spirits of dead people." He may conspire with the deadroids, to corrupt, and to corrupt/abuse/control the people, to gain material advantages, and/or to hurt them. Yet other possible applications may exist. e.g: To compare&contrast the kept knowledge of deadroids, to that of the targeted victims. e.g: A deadroid, which was a transgressor, to learn private lives of now-dead (or, alive) people, may look-up what the new victim knows/thinks. This combines the knowledge of that other (possibly dead) person, with the new attack to the new victim. A sort of expert-thieves which can breach minds. (e.g: Do not get surprised, if you find yourself "impersonating" Elvis, or Einstein. The very genies/deadroids who were there, may have carried the way they felt/acted, to you, too.)
There also exist their technological equivalents, although the kept-data may not be as huge as deadroids have in their memories. e.g: To capture/control brain-waves was patented in 1976. (USPTO: 3,951,134) e.g: The many motion-picture technologies - including manipulations of dreams, now avalable through technology, as satan was able to do, any way - maybe since the initial human existence. These suggest an alternative interpretation - where the antichrist may be only an evil, all-evil, and nothing else. No miracles, but an extreme willingness to exploit, to grab, to control everything.
Is it an overt claim to be god? If a claim to be "the God, Himself," were openly stated, even a kid would trivially reject him. This is enough evidence for muslims, to unqualify such a claimant. Next, we would immediately look at him, to see the other signs. The christians, would not probably have any hesitation, either.
((But a possible problem would be that, if the antichrist attempts to claim to be Jesus (a.s.), the claim to godship would not alert the christians, because maybe the majority of christians believe in trinity.))
incest baby? In Islam, I have not heard any claim about it, but it appears, the Christian sources expect him to be an incest-baby. Unfortunately, today, with so wide-spread adultery, that is possibly unverifiable, even if the news is true. (Many siblings may not know their siblings, at all. A new generation may start at a one-night stand.) An incest could be a sign, but the lack of it, is not a sign. Both the lack of any such news in Islam, and its possible secrecy/unknowability makes it less worth to care.
Is this the time?
Let's look outside, to formulate "conspiracy theories." If we assume that the antichrist (the deccal, ad-dajjal), has appeared, we may guess that, he (along with his associates) manipulates/suggests the minds of both the suicide-bombers, and the torture-justifiers/ideologues. We are justified in making such guesses, because neither side appears to follow even their own faiths, and/or their nation's true heritage, when they commit to such excesses.
Think about the suicide-bombers. Is it Islamic, at all? It is a thing of last century. (Even less than 30 years?) Islam forbids suicide, and forbids murder except for self-defense. It was Japanese kamikaze expectation, with their culture of suicide. Not Islam. But something appears to convince such people to kill themselves, without any gain for those who they leave, either.
The Ebu Garib toturers were reported to mention Jesus (a. s.), when they pressed the prisoners, as if that were motivated by christianity. Is torture any traditional American interpretation of Christianity? Or does it imitate Inquisition?
The Christian faiths come in many varieties, and appear more prone to sway to extremes - while still considered as valid christianity. (A social psychology textbook suggests psychological research, when both extremes exist in the bible, e.g: "turn the other cheek" vs. "an eye for an eye"). But for example, the traditional American interpretations, would not possibly let much sway of people to extremes. (e.g: Rights and tolerance towards other faiths, instead of torture.) People become prone to the antichrist's fake callings, when they leave their forefathers' faiths/paths, without moving to the Islamic ranges/ranks - whether as a muslim, and/or as a well-thought philosopher.
The soul-jams may have operated in such cases, too.
By contrast, think about Yavuz Sultan Selim, an Ottoman sultan, who attempted to order the non-muslims (or, christians) to convert to Islam. Mainly, he was tired of the crime rate in the non-muslim sections of the city - possibly because alcoholic drinks drunk there. But the sheikh-ul-Islam, the master-of-fatwas, run and told the sultan that, such forced conversions were not doable. Islamic religious-tolerance is compulsory, and if the sultan insisted, he would issue the fatwa for the execution/death of the sultan. The story ended there. The non-muslims lived with their religions for centuries.
The ethnic tension was a later, ultra-nationalist thing. It was never Islamic. In fact, even Arabs and Turks, if you buy the words of tyrannical ultra-nationalists at both sides, were turned to be enemies against each other. Such uppets, at both sides, even today, may wear western suits, profess westernism, along with a dash of ultra-nationalist speak. Next, as the only point to tell which side is Turk, and which side is Arab, you should notice that, the Turkish puppet brushes against the Arabs, in their absence, while mythifying Turkness. And it is vice versa, about the Arab-puppet.
The Anti-Christ's Associates
Who would conspire with the anti-christ? Who would insist, even when the signs become obvious? To a conscientious person, that is possibly the most surprising point. But there exist people, who commit evil, with or without the antichrist. They were to meet each other, to be together, to meet the evil-potential they were always inclined to. Meat and bone, can get separated only by death.
A gathering of All-Evil
There is the possibility of such associates to include a varieties of groups which were ever known to be inclined to abuse the human societies. The secret services of tyrannical third-world countries meet this expected profile. Similarly, the secret services of ex-colonial masters, which were pushed to dormancy upon the rise of USA, in twentieth century, may also conspire. It is almost certain that such conspiracy-cliques would exist in such empire-inclined, tyrannical/colonialist secret-services.
Such a group of tyrants, is a carved piece of bigotry - they may bash both the Americans, and the muslims. Such exercises of the tyrants, appear to be inspired by their self-interests, and/or by baseless self-importance, to promote their own tyrannical-or-colonialist, corrupt states/groups. The all-evil opportunity of "calling"s through souls, let such attackers to even drive people to death - as in such cases of puppetized suicide-bombers. Allah would not order it, as both suicide, and to kill innocent people, were forbidden by Islam. But the antichrist's fake callings may suggest it - if you buy it.
Given that they were always so willing to manipulate the establishment, through secret lobbies, the other groups which got listed on my anti-abuse strategies main page, may be inclined to be other natural-allies, to conspire with the antichrist, too. What would keep them away? Their almost-existential, born-and-bred inclinations provide the bridge. They would be natural partners, with the antichrist - through some "branch office," someone they know, close to them.
In summary, it is a gathering of all-evil, out there. This is the armageddon, then. Such all-evil, expand/network through their own all-evil links, while we should network in a framework of truth, anti-abuse.
A bunch of "homo-god"s?
Instead of "homo-sapiens" as a term of biology, they appear to imagine and impose themselves as a bunch of "homo-gods," once they get involved with witchcraft.
They may be losers, with no way to satisfy their exaggerated aspirations. Even without awful educational histories, they may be losers, stuck at a corner of life, with "not enough" success, "not enough" dominance, "not enough" whatever. The witchcraft, and bigotry may be to meet their queer needs, unsatiable complexes. The turmoil they spread throughout the world, and the game-player atrocities they commit, may be used to annoy people whom they want to hurt and/or to virtually enslave.
Freedom would "harm" such people, for it does not provide illegitimate dominance over free-people.
Why "third world" may be catastrophical
A third-world country, most often, if not always, is a nation lead by tyrants. The tyrants might be the elected, too, but probably a power-elite. The people may be poor, but the elite need not be. The especially problematic is their "fingers," as such fingers both poke at the citizens and neighbors, in a variety of provokations, and they always keep pointing at "external enemies," hegemonies, etc. - without themselves to provide goods and services. Their "services" appear to be torture and slogans.
Most such tyrants scoff at the local-religion, too, that is, mostly Islam. The history of middle-east, in the last two centuries, contains a lot of ultra-nationalism, and a variety of sects, such as wahhabis, which were supported by mainly the British, to promote their own imperial/colonial expansion.
I had thought, since many years, especially tipped by the Saddam case, that, although such great-separations may help imperialists, what if any of those little countries obtained some super-potential weapon? Such tyrant, show you how cruel they can be, when they torture their own people? What would save the rest of the world? Or to quote, Sir Thomas More "If next, the devil turned around against you, what would save you, when all the laws being dead?"
Maybe Saddam was not the type to have any such super-potential weapon, but some other, someday, may. I point out the unfair attacks at the American legitimacy, in past decades on another page. Such attacks, when not confronted by truth, can hurt both even the self-images of the Americans, and the next time, at a critical moment, a needed scientist, for example Fermi, would not go to the USA, after many years of having heard of bad words about the USA. Who wins?
The antichrist might be such a thirld-world'er who has some capabilities, to take his cheapshots through the brains of the unsuspecting victims - until we notice.
The jealousy/chauvinism explanation is almost a tautology about the conspiracy-theory about codename:antichrist against USA, because we already know that, around the world, USA-bashing is always a popular sport. In this case, though, it may not be the street-demonstrators, but somebody who is both anti-Islam, and who also objects to the American hegemony, even when that is well-earned, and even if himself has benefited out of its gains, a lot. This suggests, to me, some clique, possibly some military officers, and so-called "intellectuals," of the third-world, who may seldom, if ever, care to produce/invent anything, except absurdly bashing against both Islam and against the USA.
what motivates the transgressions of the antichrist and his associates?
The antichrist need not be alone, though. A variety of other cliques, as mentioned, may conspire. We may imagine conspiracy-theories which involve clerks in imperial-ministries of those ex-colonnial masters, and/or some secret-services eager to meet their supremacy wishes, and/or even pro-Israel people who may want to urge USA, to fight against Islam. It is a network of opportunist-crooks. That is certain. But the particular-fingers must be individually unearthed. That is where we guess about the conspiracies. If any reader of this/these page(s) thinks of any names, after what I write, it may serve as a seed for him/her, to go on to chase.
If a "psychic warrior," as a review of such book informs, may suggest Gorbachev to change the Soviets, some other, the antichrist, may attack, both the USA, and Islam. It is simple deduction.
imperial wars, as a possibility?
Remember the British empire? This is always a possibility. As a conspiracy theory, especially, when a wahhabi caused USA to enter Afghanistan, and carried the British, along, the British imperial machinery was noticeable, too. (Whether or not any prime-minister is indicated, some cliques persist, and they have their visions.) In fact, when you mention "third world," how could you ignore the imperial/colonial masters, the British, and the French, who first caused it. Next, they lost primacy to USA, but resumed their seat, it appears, when USA stepped back, after Vietnam, where USA had, in fact, acted as French-legionaires, essentially - although USA never identified itself, as such. cf. Other uprisings, in French colonies, in the 1960s. They were all very bloody. Enough was enough. USA intervened in a naive way, and assumed all the bad labels for itself.
A recent neo-con article, when "justifying" torture, carries such sort of mis-identification to WorldWar II, when it refers to the Royal Air Force's killings of tens of thousands of German children, as "theirs," not to mention that, the argument may be faulty, any way. cf. Yogi Berra "It is not over, till it is over." Germans wer working with high-tech bombs, in fact, as we read. In any case, even within his own words, "if that is something after the war was won", then how could it be a reason why the allied-forces won? I have always maintained that, USA acts were good, even if not necessarily optimal, but that neo-con apparently attempts to paint it as an unethical-wins concept.
In short, the antichrist's groupings may include such, now stealthy, empire-machineries, too. And, as a second point, such deccal-teams might be manipulating such suicide-bombers, and neo-cons, against each other.
A caller, but of course, not Allah, to "call" in such people, with imposed scenarios of mutual-hostilities, built out of collapsed instances of a variety of historical atrocities. Next, possibly with social-psychological processes, step by step, they tune the victims (the jammed targets), against each other (social-perception, cognitive dissonance). The games at both side, become puppets of those evil game-players.
The US-Afghanistan war, analogous to USA-Libya war. Lockerbie case, started Libyan. World-Trade-Center case, started war against Afghanistan. Simple copycat scenarios?
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To The Future and Beyond !
by Laurence Gale MSc
in Industry News
on 03 Feb 2006
1 To The Future and Beyond !
For eighty years, the National Playing Fields Association (NPFA) has been working to protect and conserve playing fields in the United Kingdom. It's been a constant battle, but they have had some big successes - and to celebrate their 80th birthday, they've set themselves a new and ambitious target.
The "Acre a Day" campaign aims to preserve a minimum of 365 acres of public green space a year by the year 2010. "It's a tough challenge, but we believe we can meet it." says NPFA Director Alison Moore-Gwyn.
The NPFA was granted a Royal Charter in 1933. Its purpose then, as it is now, was to ensure that everyone had access to quality recreation space close to where they live. Since those early days, the NPFA has campaigned ceaselessly for national funding for sport and recreation. It has also championed children's play and the improvement of safety on play facilities.
Its core work remains, as always, the protection and improvement of playing fields. The fields which came into its stewardship in 1925 remain protected for the communities they serve. This is the NPFA's distinctive contribution to play, sport and recreation.
At present, there is no statutory protection for our playing fields so the country's irreplaceable recreational heritage is constantly at risk. The NPFA believes they deserve better protection.
Play, sport and informal recreation environments are the focus of the NPFA's action, and its Council works to safeguard facilities for commun
But NPFA experts also work to ensure that the fields which are available for the public are maintained and looked after. One of them is Technical Manager Alan Penn, whose role is to advise and oversee construction and maintenance projects for both NPFA owned fields and outside parties such as schools and Councils.
"I spend a lot of time out on the road, visiting and advising a number of customers and clients," he says. "This often leads to the NPFA being employed to carry out specific inspections and surveys. Usually, the clients are looking to improve the condition of existing pitches, and we help them to draw up appropriate specifications, drawings, and plans of the necessary work.
Alan takes considerable skills and qualifications to his job - ten years' experience at the NPFA for a start, along with formal qualifications in turf grass management. He has recently passed his Master Degree in Sports Surface Technology at Cranfield University.
"The main problem I have to deal with is a lack of maintenance or understanding of what is needed to maintain natural grass pitches. Once people have the advice and the knowledge, they are generally very keen to take the right steps," he says.
But there are also new construction projects to be managed - such as a recent project to create a new school playing field in Jersey. Alan was called out to inspect and make recommendations to help the School maximize the playing space available and go for the most effective construction - while keeping within their budget.
"The school ended up with a new grass football pitch with both primary and secondary drainage schemes," he says. "The job was an interesting project, carried out during the summer by White Horse Contractors - all the materials had to be imported from the UK mainland because the quality and quantities of material were not available in Jersey."
Projects like the one in Jersey are vitally important for the health of the nation - the very fields that the next generation of sportsmen and women will come from. Protecting them, maintaining them, and promoting the use of natural turf pitches are vital steps for Britain in ensuring sporting success in the future.
Such recreational space is a vital part of every community - but an average of one playing field every day still comes under threat from building development. Once this land is built on, it's lost forever.
The 'Acre a Day' campaign is aiming to keep the house builders and developers at bay - but at the same time, the NPFA's teams of technical specialists like Alan are struggling to see that the fields we have are kept in the sort of condition which gives young sportsmen the bet possible chance. It's a worthwhile job - and it never ends.
Fields Office
Mercia Business Village
Torwood Close
Westwood Business Park
Coventry CV4 8HX
Location via Streetmap
Fax: 024 76 466555
Email: fields@npfa.org


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The Middle Class Wealth Boom Has Ended And Is Now Declining Fast
EDITOR'S NOTE: Once upon a time, there was this common aspiration that many Americans shared—it was called the "middle class"; remember that term? Middle class wealth signified a comfortable level of upward economic mobility; a transitional space from "some wealth" to "wealthier," or from possessing "money" to activating "capital." What happened to it? It's not that the specter of the middle class has gone completely absent, but its image has been fading for quite some time. From a policy perspective, the notion of a middle class has been under threat as if it was being operationally decimated. As we head toward the midterm election, what's left of the middle class is facing its biggest economic blow in a generation. Many middle-class Americans are expressing extreme anxiety about their future economic prospects; inflation being one of their greatest fears. Will their collective anxiety turn the tide when the media frenzy leading to the final votes subsides?
The American middle class is facing the biggest hit to its wealth in a generation going into the midterm election, although it is also entering the vote richer than it has ever been thanks to a decade of cheap money and the wealth boom it fed.
That's the conclusion of a Bloomberg News examination that paired new wealth data with an exclusive Harris Poll of attitudes of the 100 million adults who sit at the core of the US economy and its politics ahead of the election.
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Middle-class fortunes have long determined the political fate of US leaders. The group is responsible for half of consumption expenditures in the US and its members are more likely to vote than people further down the income ladder, the data show.
In interviews, middle-class Americans—from retirees in Ohio and Michigan to first-time homebuyers in Wyoming—expressed anxiety about the future of the economy and the impact of inflation, but also optimism about both their own finances and the future of their children.
Middle Class Wealth Peaked in March and Is Now Declining
Falloff follows unprecedented five-year rise.
To be middle class in America is about more than salary or wages: real economic security is driven by wealth and the ability to both access it and pass it on to the next generation.
And in March of this year, the average real wealth of the American middle class—including home equity and other physical assets as well as retirement and other savings—peaked at $393,300, the highest it's ever been, according to data assembled by economists at the University of California, Berkeley.
The upshot is a US economy, and a core consumer class, that's better placed to absorb the shocks of a looming recession and yet, as polls show, also more nervous about that cushion and the economy than it has been in years. Those anxieties also come at a crucial time for US politics, as President Joe Biden's Democrats seek to defend thin majorities in Congress.
The March pinnacle for middle-class wealth capped a five-year period of accumulation—spanning two presidencies and made possible by historically low interest rates—that has been the most remarkable in the past half-century.
The average middle-class adult in America at that peak was more than $120,000 richer than they were when Donald Trump took office in January 2017, the data show.
Those gains fueled a pandemic boom in things like home renovations, and helped families weather rising consumer prices.
But that era is fading, if not over.
The average wealth of adults in what the Berkeley economists call the "middle 40%"—the population whose wealth falls in the 50th to 90th percentile—had by the close of business Oct. 25 fallen about 7%, or by more than $27,000 to $366,100, since that March peak, they estimate. That's already the biggest hit seen since the 2007-09 global financial crisis.
There's also good reason to think a slide is just getting started. That could have significant implications for the economy as well as elections not just this year but in 2024 when Democrats will try to maintain their hold on the White House.
Consumers are likely to cut back purchases as financial circumstances become more perilous. And even in a year when momentous social issues are on the ballot, economic anxieties and realities will shape plenty of votes.
The Harris poll of middle-class voters conducted in the leadup to the midterms for Bloomberg News found that while 86% said their personal financial situation was good right now, one in five expected it to get worse in the next year.
Twice as many said they felt either stressed or anxious about the current state of the US economy as those who felt calm. Only 26% said they felt optimistic.
Though there is a partisan divide. Going into this election middle-class Republicans are more stressed and less optimistic about the economy than their Democratic peers.
The problem confronting middle-class families is that while inflation is eating away at their incomes and purchasing power for everything from food to vacations, the wealth that many could draw on to cushion the blow is now being hit too. That's thanks to the Fed's efforts to fight inflation by raising borrowing costs to slow the economy.
Already, the S&P 500 is down 19% this year on fears of a looming recession. The average rate on a 30-year fixed rate mortgage, the foundation stone of middle-class wealth since the 1940s, has more than doubled in a year to its highest level in two decades with existing home sales tumbling to 15-year lows.
That backdrop isn't lost on the middle class. Speak to its members around the country and you run into a tension between the build-up of wealth that many have enjoyed in the past five years, and their anxiety and stress about the economy.
All of which will be on the minds of voters when they go to the polls Nov. 8.
Housing Wealth is Paper Wealth, Isn't It?
Tom Maley, 71, retired as an optometrist just before the pandemic and like many in the US middle class who responded to the Harris poll, he and his family have benefited from the surge in home prices. His home in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio today is worth considerably more than it was when he bought it. Over the last 5 years, the average homeowner in the Columbus area has seen their equity position increase by almost $108,000, according to data compiled by analytics firm CoreLogic.
But he is also more conservative than most when it comes to thinking about that wealth.
"There's only two times when the value of your home is meaningful: The day you buy it and the day you sell it," Maley says.
He got a reminder of that when one of his three adult sons was relocated from Maryland to Ohio for work earlier this year and went from a sub-3% mortgage to one with a 6% interest rate as a result. "That wealth effect is negated real quick when you have to move," Maley says.
The reality is that much of the wealth in the American middle class is tied up in property, which also means it's not as easy to access as that held in more liquid forms. In the past five years the middle 40% has seen the value of its equity in homes rise by $5.7 trillion to almost $17 trillion, or roughly 60% of America's total housing wealth, according to Fed data.
That surge in housing wealth helps explain a growing social divide and tensions between US homeowners and renters for whom owning a home has grown even more unlikely even as rents soar, says Gabriel Zucman, one of the Berkeley economists.
He also sees something bigger on the horizon.
"We might be at the turning point" for wealth accumulation, Zucman says—the end of a 40-year period in which that growing wealth insulated much of the American middle class from the effects of stagnant incomes, rising inequality and, lately, inflation.
Then again, even in normal times few people move and housing wealth can act as a shock absorber for the economy.
Mischa Fisher, an economist who specializes in housing and teaches at Northwestern University, argues that the property wealth that the American middle class is sitting on now is a cushion in a recession, not just for them but for a consumption-driven economy.
In the five years through June of this year homeowners in sunbelt metro areas like Lakeland-Winter Haven, Florida and Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, Arizona have seen gains in excess of 200% according to data from CoreLogic. In more than half of states, the CoreLogic data show, equity gains added in excess of $100,000 to homeowners' wealth, led by a massive $298,000 gain for the average Californian homeowner.
Housing wealth has become even more important to this middle class cohort. Five years ago, the middle 40% held one-third of their wealth in real estate. This year, that share increased to 36.2%, by far the largest asset component for the group.
While Maley's been a beneficiary, he's bracing for tougher times and plans to vote Republican in the midterm election with the state of the economy the most important issue to him, he says.
He and his wife have already cut back on spending.
"This is not the first rodeo that I've been in with double-digit inflation," he says.
Thirtysomethings and First-Time Home Buyers
For millennial families who got on the property ladder more recently, the combination of high inflation and rising interest rates is being felt differently.
Brandi Romero and her husband moved to Casper, Wyoming, from Louisiana three years ago looking for a better quality of life and their own version of the American middle-class dream. They bought a home last year in which they are looking to raise their five children, ages three to 15.
"So that part we got," says Romero, a veteran and former police officer who now stays at home with the kids and declined to talk politics or reveal who she planned to vote for Nov. 8. "But then kind of everything else has gotten expensive since we moved here."
The US Mountain states, which include Wyoming, continued to see the highest inflation in the country last month, with a 9.6% annual rise in consumer prices that's well above the national average.
To help pay bills and for the gas she needs to ferry the kids to school each day Romero drives for Uber and Lyft. She still worries about being able to afford visiting family in Louisiana or sending her kids to college one day. She and her husband made the difficult decision to pull their children out of school sports because they couldn't afford the travel involved.
They're not alone. Nearly 80% of middle-class respondents to the Harris poll said they were cutting back their spending.
"It's hard to be optimistic because there's been no stability behind anything," Romero says. But "optimistically, I hope that they get better."
Millennial members of the middle class like Romero, who is 36, are actually more optimistic about the year ahead than older middle-class Americans, the Harris poll found. More than half of those millennials thought their financial situation would be better a year from now than they are now versus just 37% of Generation X respondents and 18% of baby boomers.
The Kids Are Going To Be Alright, Right?
The progress of the American middle class is often measured in generations. People like to know they have done better than their parents—and that their children will do better still.
For all the dislocation that the pandemic caused and all the gloom out there about a looming recession, people in the American middle class are remarkably optimistic about the long-term, believing that their children will land well.
Two-thirds of middle-class adults polled by Harris said they expected to be in a better financial situation a decade from now than they are today and 81% thought their children would be better off than their parents. Though there was a modest partisan divide. Just 77% of middle-class Republicans felt optimistic about their kids' future versus 85% of Democrats.
To Gale Benington, a retired psychologist who lives outside Lansing, Michigan, with her husband, a retired high-school teacher and basketball coach, coping with rising prices has just been a continuation of the austerity the couple embraced during the pandemic.
They still drink a glass of wine with dinner each night. They just don't go out for dinner or movies as much as they used to. Coping with inflation is something she sees as her patriotic war-time duty given she blames Vladimir Putin more for rising prices than President Biden. She plans to vote for Democratic candidates in November's election.
If you want to gauge the resilience of the American consumer, her daughter may be the better example, Benington says, which gets at why she's so optimistic about her child's future.
The 24-year-old biomedical engineer already earns more than Benington's husband ever did as a teacher and spends more freely than Benington ever could or would.
"She's constantly telling us 'I'm so rich, I'm so rich'," Benington says. "She's actually at a place where if she wants something, she gets it. I've never been at a place like that."
The strong financial position of the middle class may help explain why they feel more optimistic than most about the attainability of the American dream, with 60% seeing it as achievable versus 49% of the general population. That, too, is a matter of partisan disagreement: Half of Republicans in the middle class see an attainable dream, compared with two-thirds of Democrats.
And yet while Grice is comfortable he is also among the disillusioned, a Black man in a country still waking up to its racism. He's contemplating a permanent vacation outside of the US, a move to Mexico perhaps. He may be a comfortable member of the middle class. He's just concerned the country is too divided to fix.
"I don't want to live the rest of my life in a country of conflict," Grice says.
To Grice, being a member of the middle class carries less meaning in a country that he sees as economically divided into "the poor, the working poor, the comfortable and the wealthy."
He will vote for Democrats in this midterm election. And yet he's not convinced the result will matter. Even if he's optimistic about his own economic present and future, he isn't confident about where America or its economy is going.
Which in 2022 is what many middle-class voters seem to be thinking going into this election.
Originally published on Bloomberg.
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Le Dossin Great Lakes Museum est un musée maritime historique à Détroit dans le Michigan. Situé sur The Strand sur Belle Isle Park le long de la rivière Détroit, ce musée accorde un intérêt particulier au rôle de Détroit dans l'histoire maritime nationale et régionale. Le musée de 1.500 m² présente des expositions telles que l'une des plus grandes collections de maquettes de bateaux au monde et l'ancre avant du SS Edmund Fitzgerald, qui a coulé dans une tempête en 1975.

Description
Le musée présente des artefacts et des expositions sur l'histoire et les navires des Grands Lacs. Il a été fondé en 1949 sous le nom de City Maritime Museum à bord de la goélette en bois J.T. Wing, le dernier voilier commercial sur les Grands Lacs. Le musée a fermé en 1956, moins d'une décennie plus tard, en raison de la détérioration de l'état de la goélette.

Grâce à des dons de  de la famille Dossin de Détroit et à une subvention de la commission historique de la ville, le Dossin Great Lakes Museum a inauguré le 21 mai 1959 à Belle Isle, près de l'ancien mouillage du JT Wing. Il a été ouvert le 24 juillet 1961.

Le musée Dossin a subi une rénovation de 10 semaines se terminant le 24 mars 2007 après plus de  de rénovations, a ajouté quatre nouvelles expositions.

Expositions permanentes
Le Miss Pepsi, l'un des bateaux de course d'hydroplanes les plus rapides de tous les temps, et le premier bateau à se qualifier pour une course à une vitesse de plus de 100 milles à l'heure, détenu et parrainé par la famille Dossin, l'un des plus grands embouteilleurs de Pepsi-Cola aux États-Unis.
L'ancre de proue massive du SS Edmund Fitzgerald ; le Fitzgerald avait perdu l'ancre dans la rivière Détroit
La timonerie du , où les visiteurs peuvent « être le capitaine » de l'un des cargos les plus célèbres de la ville
Le fumoir restauré du SS , qui transporte les visiteurs à l'âge d'or des bateaux à vapeur sur le lac
L'une des plus grandes collections connues de maquettes de bateaux au monde

Galerie

Voir aussi

Notes et références

Liens internes
 Liste de musées aux États-Unis

Liens externes

   Site National Museum of the Great Lakes

Musée maritime au Michigan
Fondation en 1949
Musée à Détroit (Michigan)

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Facebook recently announced its biggest ever change to its News Feed, with Mark Zuckerberg announcing on January 11 there would be a major change in "how we build Facebook".
Mr Zuckerberg said instead of focusing on "relevant content", Facebook would now focus on "helping you have more meaningful interactions". This meant, according to the head of Facebook's News Feed, Adam Mosseri, meant promoting posts which are more likely to create real conversations between real people.
On top of this News Feed algorithm change, both stated users would be seeing "less public content like posts from businesses, brands and media".
UH OH, could this change affect the way businesses use Facebook?
Well, they aren't "devaluating" this content, but pointed the finger at these sources creating very little "meaningful interaction". Cue panic attacks.
Social media expert Mark Schaefer released an article soon after the media release.
"The fact is, this letter from Zuckerberg is cryptic and we truly have no idea on how this is going to impact businesses long-term. But I'm going to provide an argument as to why I think this "apocalyptic" vision of the Facebook marketing future is a vast over-reaction," he said.
Let's look at the data. Organic reach is already dead.
The problem is, there are so many brands pumping content onto Facebook, the company has no choice but to ratchet it back to make the news feed usable. Ultimately, this is not a Facebook problem. It is a spammy marketer problem.
Another Facebook marketing expert, Jon Loomer, was in agreeance.
"Marketers have only themselves to blame for the change. They seek to abuse and game any free opportunity and they cry foul when the platform owner changes the rules to exclude their valueless ploys," he said.
Therefore, in conclusion, we don't need to freak out. Smart digital marketers have known the algorithm change for some time. It is no big deal and they will just have to work harder to provide quality content.
At the end of the day, Facebook is one channel, if you're using all channels (email, SEO, PPC etc.), build, and reach your audience this way. In short, it's time to embrace the paid advertising side of Facebook.


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Friends express concern for British actor Julian Sands after he goes missing
Friends of Julian Sands said they hope he is found to be "OK" after the "awful news" the British actor was confirmed to be missing after a hiking trip in southern California.
The 65-year-old was reported missing in the Baldy Bowl area of the San Gabriel mountains on Friday evening, with searches by local authorities continuing over the weekend.
After the news was reported, All Creatures Great and Small actor Samuel West wrote on Twitter: "Please, please let Julian Sands be okay. A friend and an inspiration. Awful news."
Film producer Cassian Elwes also wrote on Twitter: "I've known since Friday that my friend Julian Sands has been missing on mt baldy. I'm devastated.
"A very close family friend who was an adventurer in everything he did. I've said many prayers."
In reply to this post, actors Rufus Sewell, Barbara Crampton, Frances Fisher and Elizabeth Perkins also shared their hope that Sands is OK.
Sewell, known for The Man In The High Castle, wrote: "God, I really hope he's ok."
Sands is known for his breakout role, the period drama A Room With A View, in which he starred opposite Helena Bonham Carter, Sir Daniel Day-Lewis, Dame Judi Dench and Dame Maggie Smith.
He has also starred in Leaving Las Vegas and Warlock, as well as TV appearances on 24, Smallville and Banshee.
A spokesperson for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said in a statement shared with the PA news agency: "On Friday January 13, at about 7.30pm, a hiker, identified as 65-year-old Julian Sands of North Hollywood was reported missing in the Baldy Bowl area.
"Sheriff's department search and rescue crews responded and began a search. Because of avalanche risks and trail conditions, the ground crews were pulled off the mountain on Saturday evening.
"However, we continue to search by helicopter and drones when the weather permits."
The spokesperson added that additional ground searches would be scheduled when the weather improves and conditions were safer for rescue crews.
Previously, the department urged hikers to "think twice and heed warnings" following treacherous weather in the region.
The force said its search and rescue teams had responded to 14 calls on Mount Baldy and in the surrounding area over the last four weeks.
Sands, who most recently played the chief medical officer in the 2021 Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi-led drama Benediction, was born in Yorkshire.
He has lived in Los Angeles since 2020.
From 1984 to 1987 he was married to future Evening Standard and Today editor, Sarah Sands, with whom he shares a son, while he also has two daughters with journalist Evgenia Citkowitz, whom he married in 1990.
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Jelly of the Month Club Release!
No, this is not a monthly subscription for jelly that you would order your grandmother. This is the name of the newly formed band right out of Long Beach, CA. The immense amount of talent this band has is far from amateur.
Band Lineup:
Bert Susanka (The Ziggens) – vox/rhythm guitar
Mic Dangerously (Zen Robbi) – vox/bass/lead guitar/banjo
Mr. Crumb – vox/keys/accordian/spoons/ukulele
Bud Gaugh(Sublime/LBDA) – drums
Todd Foreman (Sublime) – sax/clarinet/keys/aux percussion
The band formed when Todd Forman and Bert Susanka decided to combine the talents of different members from the reggae scene they had played with into one super group. The next addition to the band was Bud Gaugh, Mic Dangerously and Mr. Crumb, completing the group.
Todd Foreman explains "Bert and I were dying to collaborate with Mic as we'd been fans of Zen Robbi for years; Bert, Bud and I had daydreamed about making a kid's record one day, Mic and Crumb couldn't wait to play with their 'idols' from Sublime and the Ziggens, and once we all heard what Crumb could do, we all became instant fans"
Once the band solidified, they began writing with a focus on some good, clean,
G-Rated music for all ages. Mic Dangerously adds in "Yes Jelly of the Month Club is a band that plays music for children, but trust me when I say it is fun for the whole family, I promise you'll dig it too Mom and Dad!"
The variety of topics in their material ranges from the deep perceptions of the hardships in life, to a lighthearted song about waffles.
Recording for the new full-length album took place at Mic's home Hollywoodstock Studios in Long Beach, CA. Bud Gaugh tells The Pier, "Even with never playing with Mic or Crumb, we all gelled together well. The recording went flawlessly. 10 songs in 5 days, and I must admit, I didn't spend much time with pre-production as I should have, but this way I didn't pigeon hole any songs by their demo tracks, kinda kept that more live feel."
Todd continues by explaining "Another goal was that we did not want to "baby down" our music. We feel we've been successful at creating songs and music that are universal and will be enjoyed by all."
So for all you longtime Sublime, Ziggens & Zen Robbi fans that grew up with their music, why not play your kids some child friendly music from the guys that contributed to the soundtrack of your own youth?
Stay tuned for more updates as they're made available to us!
Jelly of the Month Club Links:
Jelly of the Month Club Facebook
Article By: Erin Walsh


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Warhammer 40,000 Battlesector
Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector (PC) REVIEW – Baal Humbug
Not quite there.
Maxim Klose-Ivanov· July 16, 2021
Black Lab Games
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Despite the current and ever-expanding popularity of Games Workshop's Warhammer franchise, most video games from both the fantasy and science-fantasy versions of Warhammer have struggled to truly reach breakthrough status. Only a select few adaptations have come close to being timeless, though there are no signs of the franchise slowing down in its attempts to hit that high mark. Will Black Lab Games' Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector be one of those successful attempts and establish its legacy?
Battlesector is a turn-based tactics game where players take command of a company of Blood Angels Space Marines, essentially power-armored super soldier vampires, as they engage in a cleanup operation on the moon Baal Secundus after a massive and devastating invasion by the extragalactic everhungry Gigeresque Tyranids. Players can take part in the linear single-player campaign story where they will compose their forces, unlock upgrades, and equip powerful weapons. To spice the story up, the Sisters of Battle make an appearance to support their Space Marine brethren in their bloody mission.
In addition to the fairly lengthy single-player campaign, players can also engage in multiplayer tactical battles, playing as either the Space Marines or Tyranids (Sisters of Battle are currently campaign exclusive). For playing against others, the developers graciously included a fair number of modes, such as live matches, play-by-email, and hotseat, as well as plenty of customization options and battle maps. Altogether, the decently lengthy single-player campaign and varied multiplayer offerings provide plenty of content for players to sink their teeth into (pun very much intended).
Battlesector review
Hands down, the biggest highlight of Battlesector is its presentation. Though certainly not a AAA budget game, the graphical detail, unit models, and choice of color gives the game a sense of vibrancy that effectively realizes the Warhammer 40K setting, with a flexible and neat photo mode tool for players to capture their most glorious and goriest moments of battle. It must be mentioned, however, that unit animations are a bit janky, especially moving Space Marine infantry or large entities dying, but overall it's not too distracting.
The audio design of Battlesector is also quite notable with top notch voice acting delivering setting-appropriate dialogue and solid weapon effects. The battle music is fitting with plenty of operatic and pathos-filled themes and melodies that give each mission a sense of energy and dynamism, even if the main menu track is quite abrasive. Just like with the animations, there's some minor audio mixing jank, especially for the Tyranids, but nothing too egregious.
However, the rest of the game is either unimpressive or mixed in its execution. As a major component of Battlesector, the narrative of the single-player campaign doesn't really tread any new ground in developing the Space Marines as characters, but does, at least, provide an intriguing mystery about the Tyranid activities on Baal Secundus. As one of the first major 40K video games to prominently feature the newly-introduced Primaris Marines (bigger, better, badder than non-Primaris), it's absolutely baffling that the developers elected not to include a major or supporting Primaris POV character from the start of the campaign for players to better understand this brand new addition to the franchise.
The core tactical gameplay loop has all the components necessary to make it a compelling experience, yet somehow leaves much to be desired. Don't get me wrong, the tactical combat works and is far from the worst system out there, but it's simply unimpressive and borderline shallow.
There are definitely enough weapons, abilities, and troop types for players to experiment with different builds and approaches, but the Space Marines unfortunately haven't been implemented in a compelling manner. It comes down to any individual Marine unit being able to do too many things at once, which treads on the tenuous unit variety already in the game.
As an example, I found myself hard-pressed to justify taking the Bolt Rifle-armed Intercessors over the similarly priced Plasma Incinerator-armed Hellblasters, despite the latter lacking a grenade and clearly designed for anti-armor roles. On top of this, the campaign doesn't include any clear unit limitation or resource system, meaning players can simply spam out a single unit and not really care about losses, incentivizing unchecked exploitation of optimal unit choices.
The Tyranids as a faction definitely feel far more compelling in their design, which only points out the missed opportunity of including a Tyranid-focused campaign. They have many more elements to consider, a wider array of weaknesses, and greater variance in unit roles, requiring not only engaging combined arms tactics, but also formation fighting and effective use of map geography. The Tyranids' propensity for close quarters combat makes their tactical challenge far more involved and multi-layered compared to their power-armored counterparts.
Black Lab Games attempt to innovate traditional turn-based tactical tropes by adding a Momentum mechanic, where units will build up a meter from fighting and performing actions and, once filled, will have the option to empower an active ability or gain an additional action point. On paper, it's a neat idea, but in practice while playing as the Space Marines, I rarely found myself using or needing the system to gain a critical advantage, whereas it seems like a vital mechanic for the Tyranids, which only adds to their compelling design and emphasizes the game's uneven faction design.
There are also some tactical design letdowns that don't accurately reflect the game's own lore, which in turn stifles the game's combat design, specifically for the Blood Angels. The game's cutscenes and dialogue refer to the Red Thirst, a kind of ravenous thirst for human blood, and the Black Rage, an uncontrollable rampage from insanity, both of which provide ample ground for interesting risk versus reward tactical design. However, the former is represented solely as an uninspired positive effect, while the latter is absent altogether and has no explicit gameplay effect. In addition, there's no clear significant effort made to tactically distinguish non-Primaris and Primaris Marines in a meaningful way, aside from obvious hit point and weapon loadout differences.
The available army lists are also a bit of a disappointment for both Space Marines and Tyranids with several glaring omissions of iconic units and a glaring lack of customization options. While the current rosters are serviceable, just like the gameplay, they're uninspiring and only raise more questions about the quality of the game's tactical design. Sanctus Reach, another similar game set in the same universe and also published by Slitherine, approached its army rosters and unit implementation in a more complete and compelling manner.
By far the biggest offenders for Battlesector, though, are the uneven mission design and the inefficient and unclear UI. The campaign missions are the definition of a mixed bag which include several exciting missions with interesting map designs and victory objectives, but also a number of bland and unimpressive scenarios as well.
The worst element of Battlesector's mission design is the obsessive reliance on the "eliminate all remaining units" clause for the mission to end, which makes them feel repetitive, grueling slogs, especially in the last third or quarter of any given mission, and severely limits the campaign's replayability (Black Lab Games' previous title Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock had similar issues with replayability and repetition). I understand that the overall mission of the Blood Angels is to wipe out the Tyranid threat by engaging in glorious combat, but the narrative's premise shouldn't be an excuse to avoid creative mission design.
What makes the tedium of the campaign missions even worse is the lack of a player animation speed-up option, dumb AI, and map design. It's quite odd that the player is allowed to speed up the Tyranid turn while waiting, but they can't do so for their own troops. The AI is unimpressive at best and downright stupid at its worst and makes the Tyranids quite an uncompelling foe when not in the hands of a player.
The map design favours large, sprawling maps, which are a double edged sword for Battlesector, as on one hand they are quite big with a decent variety of terrain, which allows for creative use of geography and maneuvering. On the other hand, the large size of maps make the latter portion of missions hunting down remaining enemies a frustrating chore.
The UI definitely doesn't do the game's tactical combat any favors, either, which is most prevalent in lack of tooltips and inability to easily check stats and abilities when players should clearly be able to do so. For example, when clicking on an enemy unit in battle, players can read the characteristics and status effects the selected unit has, but for some reason they can't check the stats of the unit's weapon as there is no tooltip associated with it.
Luckily, performance fares much better in Battlesector with only occasional and brief frame drops from quickly shifting camera perspective while multiple units are moving. It does mean that systems that meet recommended specs should be able to run the game without much of an issue, but lower-end systems may encounter issues. The options menu is minimalistic, though covers most of the important customization options, including rebindable keys. I also didn't encounter any major bugs (aside from the Tyranids themselves) or crashes.
Unfortunately, while Battlesector isn't a terrible game, it's definitely not a timeless experience. Essentially, the game feels too safe for its own good and the elements that should've been an absolute surefire win are also suspect in their quality, like the tactical combat and elements of faction design. There are plenty of other better tactics games, such as the previously mentioned Sanctus Reach, as well as Black Labs' own Battlestar Galactica game. Warhammer fans should definitely check the game out at least for the voice acting and interesting Tyranid tactics, while strategy fans might want to wait for significant content updates before jumping in.
A Steam key was provided by PR for the purposes of this review.
Battlesector may attempt to give Space Marines a human face, but the game ends up being an incomplete suit of power armor.
Maxim Klose-Ivanov
A Russo-American caster, streamer, writer, and critical thinker focusing on analysing strategy, tactics, and decision-making. I love all sorts of strategy and tactics games, especially those rooted in history.


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From March 2012 to March 2013, the Australian Bureau of Statistics recorded that migration was the major component of population change in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia.
Western Australia had the highest population growth, at 3.4% to hit 2,497,500. Victoria's population was recorded at 5,713,000 and New South Wales was recorded at 7,381,100.
Overall, the number of migrants arriving through the year (502,600) outnumbered the number of migrant departures (264,300), netting an increase in Australia's population of 238,300 people due to incoming migrants.
These statistics show us the significance of migration to the Australian economy and the number of applications which migration agents and the Department of Immigration and Border Protection have to contend with. With half a million migrants arriving into the country over the course of a year and with 4893 registered MARA agents (assuming they all used a migration agent), it would mean each MARA agent got roughly 102 clients over that year.


Mr. Berry K. Tucker graduated Loyola University of School of Law in 1972 and was hired as assistant counsel to the State of Illinois Department of Mental Health. This position was followed by several years as Assistant Chief Counsel to the Illinois Department of Transportation, where he served as an Administrative Hearing Officer for the Departments' Lake Michigan Water Allocation Section.
Mr. Tucker followed that by his appointment to the National Railroad Adjustment Board, where he served as both a carrier member and Chief of the Fourth Division.
Mr. Tucker then co-founded Berry K. Tucker & Associates, Ltd. in Oak Lawn, IL in 1978, in cooperation with an adjunct professor of law at the Illinois Police Training Institute and an Assistant Public Defender for DuPage County Illinois. The family law firm eventually grew to 8 offices located throughout the Chicagoland area.
Mr. Tucker also has served as a member of the Park Forest Youth Commission, the Village of Flossmoor Water Commission and as Board President and General Counsel of Aunt Martha's Youth Services Center, an area wide provider of health, medical, and social services throughout northern Illinois.
He is also a member of the Chicago Bar Association.
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Q: Data Binding - Failed to copy full contents My app has a structure with many modules. When I'm building the app I usually get this error and I cannot determine why...
Failed to copy full contents from
'D:\Projects\MyCompanyName\myproject\build\myproject\module1\intermediates\data_binding_base_class_log_artifact\debug\out\com.mycompanyname.myproject-binding_classes.json'
to
'D:\Projects\MyCompanyName\myproject\build\myproject\module2\intermediates\data_binding_base_class_logs_dependency_artifacts\debug\out\com.mycompanyname.myproject-binding_classes.json'

This happen with different modules. Before, the project was built normally when I relaunched it 2-3 times. But with more modules this error started to appear more often. I've even tried to change a build directory:
allprojects {
    buildDir = rootProject.buildDir.path + "/${project.name}"
}

But it didn't help :/

A: In my case, clicking on Build and then Clean Project on Android Studio solved the problem.

A: I've found the reason. In my project Gradle, I have a code that applies some common values in modules' Gradle files.
Besides everything I was enabling data binding there:
afterEvaluate { project ->
    if (project.hasProperty('android')) {
        android {
            dataBinding {
                enabled = true
            }

            // Other stuff here
        }
    }
}

But not every module had data binding implemented (especially persistence layer modules). So, the answer is that you should put the line to enable data binding only in those modules, where data binding is implemented, and in the app module.

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Q: How to get API answer with an API key using the requests package in Python How to get http request from API organized around REST,  JSON is returned by all API responses. All ressources have support for bulk fetches via "list" API methods
Here is what I have as documentation:
# With shell, you can just pass the correct header with each request
curl "https://www.api_url.com/api/dispute?page=1&limit=5"
  -H "Authorization: [api_key]"

# Query Parameters:
# page  1   The cursor used in the pagination (optional)
#limit  10  A limit on the number of dispute object to be returned, between 1 and 100 (optional).

I don't know how to interpret this in python and to pass api_key to extract the data from this object dispute
import requests
import json
response = requests.get("https://api_url.com/")

A: The -H option in curl sets a header for the request.
For a request using requests, you can set extra headers by passing a keyword argument headers.
import requests
import json

response = requests.get(
  "https://www.api_url.com/api/dispute",
  headers={"Authorization" : "<api_key_here>"}
)

You can also add your parameters easily if needed
response = requests.get(
  "https://www.api_url.com/api/dispute",
  headers={"Authorization" : "<api_key_here>"},
  params={
    "page": 1,
    "limit":1
  }
)

If you want to make multiple requests, you can look into using a requests.Session. Session Tutorial
It will allow you to set the header centrally.
You can also use an Auth Handler to manage authentication.

A: You can use the curlconverter tool to simplify the translation to Python code:

For the provided curl input:
curl "https://www.api_url.com/api/dispute?page=1&limit=5" \
  -H "Authorization: [api_key]"

Here is the result in Python. Note that I've changed params to a dict object, as it's easier to work with dictionaries in Python. It doesn't matter if the values for any of the query params are a type other than str, as they will simply be concatenated in the URL string when making the request.
import requests

headers = {
    'Authorization': '[api_key]',
}

params = {
    'page': 1,
    'limit': 5
}

response = requests.get('https://www.api_url.com/api/dispute',
                        headers=headers, params=params)