I really failed on the whole picture taking this weekend, which is a real shame because as I mentioned this will be the last time we are all together for at least 2 years. I should have been snapping pictures like crazy.
Normally I take a 6 week maternity leave from church. I know that sounds crazy since I only take 2 weeks off from the gym. But here's why, Monday through Saturday I have to get up and get moving and I go go go all day taking care of the kids. Sunday is the only day I'm guaranteed to have Chris home. Therefore, it's the only day I get to rest. So I take 6 weeks off from church and basically use that one day a week to hole up in my bedroom and do nothing but sleep and nurse the new baby.
BUT, you can't stay home from church on Easter Sunday. That's just wrong. So I got up and got everyone dressed and we headed out for sacrament. Of course, I also went cause I wanted to show off new Easter outfits. You know I love coordinating Easter outfits. Well, now that I have 2 of the same gender I get to do MATCHING Easter outfits. Yay! I'm really looking forward to when all the boys are big enough to wear matching ties. I guess I have about 2 years till then.
Cody was still not in the mood to take pictures. He was a really bo-bo head all weekend. So this is the best I could get. Oh well. Look how cute the boys are in their matching outfits!
Pete and his family needed to get home since it's about an 8 hour drive. But they were nice enough to stay for Easter lunch before hitting the road. It was a little stressful doing a big meal, I've yet to have to host a family event. But we picked an easy menu and did a ton of prep work on Saturday during nap time. We had a spiral glazed ham, twice baked potatoes, green bean casserole, honey glazed carrots, deviled eggs, and rolls. Everything was very yummy if I do say so myself!
We also had one more egg hunt for the kids. So I'll end with pictures of the kids gathering more sugar filled eggs. Yay sugar!
When I found out my parents would both be in town over Easter I emailed my brother and asked him if he would come up so we could all be together one last time before my parents leave for their 18 month mission in Bangkok, Thailand. We are not the best communicators in my family so in typical Smith form, he just never responded to my email. And I gave up.
Little did I know that while my mom was in town he contacted her and said he and his family would be up for Easter as a surprise to everyone. He arrived on Good Friday at my house and we were all shocked. But Emily wasn't at my house. So we kept everything off facebook because we were already planning on going to her ward's Easter Egg Hunt Saturday morning.
The look on her face when she walked up the driveway and saw Pete was priceless. I am so glad he made the trip! It was so nice to all hang out together at the egg hunt. I love my family. We absolutely all fit together so it's nice when we get to hang out and have fun.
Like my dad's new golf hat?
Cody and Henry loved the bubbles. I'd say that was Cody's favorite thing, but I think his favorite thing was actually throwing the balls out of the little blow up ball pit tent thing.
Cody is supposed to be listening to the devotional they had before the egg hunt. But I guess, for that matter I was supposed to be listening too instead of taking pictures. Whoops.
For reference so I can remember the idea, they roped off the egg hunt areas and decorated the rope with ombre paint chips die cut into eggs. Such a cute idea!
To make things more fair they had a 10 egg limit. Sarah didn't really understand so the more she put in her basket, I'd take out and throw back in the field. It all worked out.
Our ward doesn't do an egg hunt. Now I kind of wish they did. It was a nice social for the Germantown Ward.


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Pentagon's No.1 weapons supplier Lockheed Martin Corp announced on Tuesday has continued development of its Advanced Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS) used in the F-35 Lightning II.
The new targeting system offers crystal clear resolution, unmatched multi-spectral range and significant cost savings for the F-35 fifth-generation fighter jet, according to a company news release.
Advanced EOTS includes a larger aperture and provides pilots with multi-spectral sensing options such as high-resolution Mid-Wave IR, Short-Wave IR and Near IR. Utilizing the same volume and weight, Advanced EOTS is effortless to integrate into the F-35 Lightning II with the "plug and play" feature.
Additionally, because of increased reliability and reduced costs per operating hour, Advanced EOTS is expected to provide more than $1 billion in life cycle cost savings for users.
"We understand the importance of providing pilots with the most advanced technologies available today," said Michael Williamson, vice president of Sensors & Global Sustainment at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control.
Lockheed Martin is prepared to integrate Advanced EOTS on the F-35 should customers require the upgrade as part of F-35 follow on modernization. Advanced EOTS was funded through internal investment and was vetted through Operational Analysis against the most demanding F-35 missions. It provides enhanced performance for both air-to-air and air-to ground day and night missions.
With Advanced EOTS, customers get significantly expanded capabilities, greatly increased performance, higher reliability and sizable sustainment savings.

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The good news is that if patients and providers work together to develop a winter weather arthritis management plan, there's a way to make these cold months much more comfortable.
Healthcare providers can proactively discuss helpful topics with their patients: safety precautions, essential winter gear, and physical activity in and out of inclement weather.
Can the weather predict joint pain?
If it was clearly determined that a specific type of winter weather was associated with increased arthritis pain, then you might expect to see people living with chronic conditions migrate to warmer climates.
Therefore, while science doesn't yet understand why some people may experience more pain when the weather changes, health care providers must help patients make lifestyle and/or medication adjustments according to their individual needs throughout the year.
Getting dressed during periods of flare ups can be an exhausting struggle. During the cold winter months, having to dress in bulkier, water-resistant items can add to the stress. Arthritis patients may be better off dressing in layers which are easier to put on (and take off) and can provide just as much warmth as a single heavy sweater.
Additionally, when choosing outerwear, patients ought to think about both functionality (e.g., ease of opening and closing) and durability (weather protection). Despite keeping you warm and dry, bulky or heavy items can hinder ease of movement and even affect balance.
Besides layered clothing, another useful winter suggestion for arthritis patients is to wear warm compression gloves. According to a 2014 study[xi], hand symptoms such as pain, stiffness, and swelling improve substantially when therapy gloves are used, though improvement in hand function (with the exception of grip strength) is minimal.
Compression gloves vary in style and technology. Some have open fingers, others emit warmth via infrared heat. Note also that therapy gloves are generally meant to provide support rather than heat, which is useful all year long.
Exercise is crucial for people living with arthritis, but the colder, wetter months and shorter days can make it harder to fit in a workout. Good advice for the whole year is to stay hydrated and get a five- minute warm up before engaging in any type of exercise to prevent muscle cramps.
Low levels of vitamin D are also associated with sensitivity to pain and put someone at greater risk for osteoporosis.[xiii] If a patient is unable to go outside, vitamin D supplements and a healthy diet rich in vitamin D are suitable.
If ice has made the streets and sidewalks too risky, a gym membership might prove prudent, especially if the gym includes an indoor pool to permit a low impact exercise option. Before starting an exercise program, arthritis sufferers should spend some time with the fitness director to explain their goals and challenges and determine if there are any low impact group exercise classes available.
To get and remain motivated, arthritis patients might find an exercise buddy, possibly another person in their community who faces similar concerns about their health condition. This may facilitate a well-matched exercise partner and accountability for both. Generally, people are more inclined to try a new form of exercise, such as yoga or water aerobics, if they attend with a friend.
As with any exercise program, arthritis patients should consult with their healthcare provider for advice before beginning. Encourage them to start slow and let their body adjust to the change, increasing their workout time and intensity according to how their body feels and how well they adjust to the routine.
Work, chores, outside play, and errands do not stop when the weather turns cold. Driveways, stairs, and sidewalks need to be de-iced and shoveled, and early winter often includes a hectic holiday schedule.
While taking children out to play and scattering salt to de-ice the driveway are smaller challenges, shoveling snow can be a daunting task. If paying someone to shovel is not an option, there are ways to ensure that this chore is tackled safely.
Wood stacking, chopping, and carrying.
Another common winter weather chore is stacking and bringing in wood or kindling for the fire place. Fortunately, there are plenty of inexpensive items healthcare providers can recommend that are available for purchase to make this chore much easier.
There are a plethora of wood racks for proper stacking, light-weight fabric slings, and carriers for easier lifting, and even rolling log carts for hauling larger loads of wood indoors with ease. For smaller splitting jobs, there are splitters available designed for ease of use and reduction of back pain.
Use your resources. As with all exercise and activity, patients should check with their healthcare provider prior to starting. In return, healthcare providers should be prepared with modifications to suggest to their patients.
Arthritis patients can also seek information and support from CreakyJoints, the go-to source for more than 100,000 arthritis patients and their families world-wide who are seeking education, support, advocacy and patient-centered research. Often other people living with RA and other forms of arthritis are the best sources for innovative and original problem-solving.
W. Benjamin Nowell, PhD, is Director, Patient-Centered Research for CreakyJoints. After graduating with a BA from Gonzaga University in 1994, Ben served as the Pacific Region's regional team leader for AmeriCorps*VISTA Integrated Training and consulted as a core curriculum writer to redesign AmeriCorps*VISTA training across the U.S.
He co-founded a leadership program for AmeriCorps members in Washington and Oregon that recently graduated its twelfth class of service leaders.
Prior receiving his PhD from Columbia University School of Social Work in 2014, Ben earned his Masters in Social Welfare Management and Planning (M.S.W.) from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004.
He spent the next three years helping develop the Regional Stroke Centre at The Ottawa Hospital in Ottawa. Since moving to New York City in 2007, he has been involved in the community as a New York City chapter leader of AmeriCorps Alums and a partner with UN representatives to train staff on HIV policy and preventive health.
[vi] Ferreira, M. L., Zhang, Y., Metcalf, B., Makovey, J., Bennell, K., L., March, L., Hunter, D. J.


An estimated 29.2 million viewers tuned-in to the May 19th televised wedding of Britain's Prince Harry and his American bride, Meghan Markle.
I'll guess that number diminished during the 13 minutes the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, preached about the power of love.
In my view, those who tuned-out the bishop, for whatever distraction, missed the most compelling 13 minutes of the gorgeous ceremony.
With that in mind, I encourage you to watch or re-watch Bishop Curry's wedding homily.
I was particularly impressed with the bishop's noting the language of the spiritual There is a Balm in Gilead, one of many songs I learned in the Baptist Church that nurtured me.
Bishop Curry grew up in Western New York and learned countless gospel songs from his devout Episcopal parents and grandmother.
The bishop has immortalized his hymn-singing legacy in a 2015 book, Songs My Grandma Sang,(1) and he is known to break into song frequently while preaching.
In that book, Bishop Curry demonstrates the power of song and poetry to reach beyond our minds to our spirits and touch what the writer Maggie Ross (2) discusses as our "deep mind" that often learns when we experience true silence.
I have often thought and suggested to others that I learned more theology from hymn books with their poetic renderings than from the many scholarly tomes I was encouraged to read.
Bishop Curry's scriptural texts for the royal wedding came from The Song of Solomon and the Epistles of John, both focussing on love.
Prince Harry and his bride, the new Duchess of Sussex, chose as their wedding song, the top-hit song "Stand By Me," recorded in 1961 by Ben E. King. They'll probably listen to it often.
(1) Curry, Michael. Songs My Grandma Sang. NY: Morehouse Publishing, (Church Publishing Inc.) 2015.
(2) Ross, Maggie. Silence: A User's Guide: Vol. I: Process. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books (Wipf & Stock), 2014.
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nation on various levels. The list that comprises more than one hundred notable days is just short. I have heard that the long list might go as far as two hundred components and even more. And I am not talking about the Christmas and the New Year, about Easter and St. George's Day, about the National Day of Georgia and the Rose revolution Anniversary. This is all taken for granted by all of us and I have a zero comment about them, setting aside any whimsical remarks. Let's take Tbilisoba (the city of Tbilisi celebrations in the streets of our capital city in the fall of every year) as the most vivid sample on the list of merriment days, which is followed by the name-days of various cities, towns and villages as well as the festive dates connected with numerous Georgian proper names given to people when baptized. Those might be biblically warranted or historically justified names, thus having enough value for special celebration. Except Tbilisoba, among those would be: Rustavoba, Goraoba, Chiaturoba, Qvareloba, Bidzinaoba, Dushetoba, Apkhazetoba, Iliaoba, Shotaoba, Vazhaoba, Lomisoba, Mta-Tushetoba, Pirosmanoba, Qutaturoba, Mtskhetoba, Tianetoba, Cotneoba, Lasharoba, Vardzioba, Telavoba, Shuamtoba, Alaverdoba, Zedazenoba, Samasaragveloba, Sameboba, Bakurianoba, Borjomoba, Aspindzoba, Berikaoba, Khinkali-Festival, and what not. These are just most famous ones, and the names are quite known and commonplace. In the mentioned long list there are myriad unlikely names of places and people which we have never heard of. The list means no harm at all. What bothers me though is the amount of time and energy and money it presumably takes to put together and go through all those festivities. Well, these might be samples of national and local pastime and they might be to the liking of many, but asking a question about the rationality of noting all of them on annual basis also might make a lot of sense. All of them (duly and properly celebrated) might mean tens of thousands of hours if each celebration multiplied by the hours we need to first prepare for and then celebrate and then clean up the remaining mess. The number of hours might even grow if we multiply them by the number of participants in the events. I am not even talking here about the used amount of food and drinks (a huge portion of it simply discarded!), and fights and frays, and all kinds of unwise wastes. OK, let's celebrate as long and as much as it makes sense, but why overindulge? Moderation, moderation is what we have to learn how to practice.


...to post pictures of the whelping box set up. Pixie tried it out for size. BTW, it is in my family room right next to the computer/desk. I started taking temps a few days ago to get an idea of her baseline. She is running in the high 99s in the am and 101+ in the pm. Normal temp for dogs is 101 - 102. It is normal for them to be in slightly below 100 during pregnancy. What I am looking for is a significant drop in her temperatures. Below 99 even as low as 96+ often indicates impending whelping within 24 hours.
Sorry about the glowing eyes. Left on the flash.


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High fixed power, ok wait until the mirage is going full bore, all you'll see is a bouncing target bull, wishing you could lower the power down.
Editor: Except that did NOT happen either at the week-long nationals or at the Long Range Regional (which Jay won). His comment: "At all three matches, and even in a medium-heavy mirage situation, I never found myself wishing I could dial down the power. In fact, I never thought about variable power at all — the scope was excellent in all of the different conditions." Jay wouldn't contest that in a super-heavy mirage maybe you want less power — but remember you have a spotting scope which can operate at 25X or so. At my local club I've rarely seen a need to crank below 35X at 600 yards (our max target distance). YMMV.
One thing not often talked about that we have learned with scope testers is the rather large poi changes that can occur when changing power. You should NEVER change power during a record group or string. Unless you have tested your scope and its one of the rare ones that does not move poi.
Agree with Mr T. Buy an IOR 35x for half the cost. I have one on an F-Open Surgeon .284. Excellent combination.
A lovely article and some very valid points made. Noting the quickest way to start a bar brawl in cyber-space is to "like" a brand, let me just say the findings presented replicate my experience in F-Class. I tend to run my March 10 – 60x at between 45 – 50 power.
What the nay-sayers tend to ignore is glass quality. March glass is great, better than most, in the standard fitting. The High Master racks it up several notches. Add an MD disk and you can see the target more clearly than other brands.
Oh, one final point, re-read the paragraph about reticle focus then go out and check your equipment. Your scope has probably never been focussed.
I use the 10-60 March and usually have it set at 52X. I shoot through all mirage conditions and in "bouncing" target mirage as well, without changing the power. I would rather see the bounce than hide it and pretend it does not exist by trying down the power. On an F-open gun, your return to battery is usually good if your set-up is good and so bounce or no bounce, you need to have a good set-up.
Wish this comment section had a "review post" button so you can check your post properly before submitting.
Seems this is a very context specific discussion and I'd like to see a poll of international shooters, not just USA. The reason this is key is when shooting single string, meaning one shooter per target, as opposed to how most of the rest of the world shoot f class in squads of 3 that share the target and shoot one shot at a time per shooter then repeat.
Single string shooting leans toward chasing the spotter, but you cant do that in a squaded match.
If you expect to shoot outside the greater USA, you better have the ability to dial it down especially when the wind kicks up over 40 MPH like it did a Ottawa last year. That's a lot of wind at the 900 meter firing point.
Very true – but squadded shooting relies on solid record keeping at the firing point – which benefits from watching your squad shoot.
Not sure what "dialing it down" achieves.
Just spit-balling here, another advantage I see is that with a fixed scope there is less to go wrong, fewer moving parts to get out of alignment, as mentioned less glass to look through making the the sight picture clearer. It seems to align with 'Ockham's Razor'.
Responding to Richards comment above I suppose in my efforts to remain brief I suppose I was also vague.
I relatively calm conditions and when shooting single string you have the luxury of shooting quickly and to a large extent you can chase the spotter. Under these conditions a high power scope may have some advantage.
I think there may be an advantage at 300 yards/meters since the target is close and less washed out by mirage and is usually shot early in the day before wind and mirage kicks up. Here you are shooting for the bull and at ½ minute, you need the resolution to pick and place.
As we move later in the day and wind and mirage tend to run, and then add to that the variable talent and speed of other shooters in your squad chasing the spotter is more often the road to the bottom of the pack.
In such conditions, (unlike at 300 when calm) a precise aiming point is of limited value. Once in the general area many shooters no longer change the dial unless really large changes are going on. Either way on the Canadian side, few shooters run more than 32x. I myself have never used more than 20 and seem to do very well.
I suppose the main point here is that we are aiming all over the target to compensate for WAG changes and sometimes 2 targets over when conditions are bad enough. When the duration between shots is extended, (as is the case during a squadded event) so does the size of the change and in my opinion that negates the value of such high magnification which may even act as a handicap in such conditions.
Rule 2: Have a look at what you are doing – I think there is a bit of group think that needs shaking up. The flags are there for a reason. Ottawa was an aberration, something to prepare for, but not something seen every other shoot.
Rule 3: Never chase the spotter.


Playing out over the course of one day, The Major is a gripping drama that sees screenwriter-director Yuri Bykov deliver an indicting criticism of police corruption and the collateral damage it leaves behind.
Speeding down a rural road on a cold, snowy day, towards the hospital where his wife is giving birth, Sergey Sobolev (Denis Shvedov), a police major at a small city precinct, runs over a boy — with the boy's mother, Irina, standing helplessly nearby. Now the major has only two options: go to prison or conceal the crime. In a split-second decision, he locks the fainting mother in his car and calls in fellow officer Kroshunov (played with dutiful determination by Bykov himself).


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Xavier Loyá: Marilyn's Mexican Actor Friend
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Actor Xavier Loyá has died aged 92, Infobae reports. He was born in Mexico City in 1927, and raised in Yucatán. Son of the acclaimed bullfighter 'El Güero Hernández', and nephew of the poet and musician Agustín Lara, Xavier began studying theatre aged sixteen at the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico City. In 1949, he starred in a stage adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's Dead Without Burial. After he joined the National Association of Actors in 1950, the Cuban actress and writer Marta Elba asked him to take over the lead in another Sartre play, The Respectful Prostitute.
Xavier made his screen debut in Traces of the Past (1950), playing the estranged son of Argentine star Libertad Lamarque. The great Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel gave him supporting roles in Daughter of Deceit (1951) and A Woman Without Love (1952), under the name Javier Loya. His resemblance to the handsome French actor Alain Delon did not go unnoticed, and Xavier would appear in thousands of fotonovelas, as well as Unbridled Youth (1956), the first Mexican film to address juvenile delinquency.
Xavier tried his luck in Hollywood, playing small parts on television, before moving to New York in 1956. He worked as a dancer in Broadway, and took classes at the Actors Studio. "I fell madly in love with Susan, the daughter of Lee Strasberg," he told Quadratin's Alberto Carbot in 2018. "Susan was a beautiful girl and I taught her Spanish; we were engaged for more than six months … On many occasions we met Marilyn Monroe in and out of the classroom, above all because of the great friendship between her and Susan, to such an extent that Marilyn became almost part of the family."
In 1960, he returned to the big screen in The Caudillo's Shadow, a movie tracing the politics of post-revolutionary Mexico, banned for decades but now considered one of the greatest Mexican films ever made. This was followed by a cult horror flick, The Curse of the Doll People, and The Happy Musketeers, an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel, in 1961.
In early 1962 Xavier worked with Buñuel again in one of the director's most acclaimed films. Starring Silvia Pinal, The Exterminating Angel told the bizarre tale of a dinner party in Franco's Spain, where the upper-class guests find themselves unable to leave.
While The Exterminating Angel was in production, Marilyn Monroe was enjoying a short break in Mexico and buying furnishings for her new home in Los Angeles. In the second volume of his two-part biography, Icon: The Life, Times and Films of Marilyn Monroe, Gary Vitacco Robles describes her visit to the set, where she was introduced to Buñuel and reunited with Xavier, her Actors Studio friend – much to the envy of his fellow actors. ("I greeted her, moved, at the Churubusco Studios," Xavier said.)
"In a geometric-patterned Pucci sheath, Marilyn next visited an estate home where Spanish director Luis Buñuel was filming El Angel Exterminador … The cast included a baby bear rented from a circus that chases several sheep into the house … Silvia Pinal later said Marilyn arrived 'impeccably groomed' and contrasted glaringly with the cast. who were covered in honey and dirt so they appeared unkempt and grimy. For 23-year-old actress Jacqueline Andere, Marilyn's arrival rivalled the entrance of a live bear on the set. 'We saw her come in with a glass of champagne,' Andere remembered. 'First the bear, and now Marilyn Monroe. It was too much for me, at the age I was.'
Marilyn stood behind the camera as Buñuel took over from an animal handler and taught the bear to emit a growl while it perched on a swinging chandelier. The director seemed more patient coaching the beast than his human actors. Marilyn told Buñuel the scene was superb and jokingly asked if he had whispered into the bear's ear for motivation for the scene. He found humour in her questions. Then Marilyn asked, 'What does it mean?' (Marsha Kinder published their dialogue.) 'What does it mean to you?' he countered.
'It means that the growls a bear makes while hanging on a chandelier makes more sense than all the noise of the tiresome, uncaring people trapped in the room,' she replied. 'Exactly what I intended,' Buñuel replied, applauding her astute interpretation. They embraced; it was a meeting of the minds. 'Now tell me,' Buñuel said, 'how do you see life?' 'I see life as long, meaningless …' Marilyn began as the sound of a plane roared overhead. 'Talking, everybody just talking …. obviously.' In another version of this conversation, Buñuel quipped, 'Yes, the bourgeois are always walking.' The interaction inspired Buñuel's 1972 film The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie about interruptions that prevent six Parisians from dining.
Buñuel included a recurring, surrealistic sequence of the dinner party guests dressed in formal attire continuously strolling along a barren country road."
Considering the wonderful films Buñuel would go on to make with Catherine Deneuve, one wonders what a future collaboration with Marilyn might have produced. But this was not to be, as six months later, she took a fatal overdose at home in Los Angeles.
Later that year, Xavier made his television debut with a recurring part in the Mexican soap opera, Greed. He played a leading role in Guadalajara in Summer (1965), and appeared in Westerns like Juan Miranda and Capulina Speedy Gonzales (1970), and the biblical epics Jesus, Our Lord (1971) and Jesus, Mary and Joseph (1972.)
In later life, Xavier co-wrote and starred in Mistress of the Night (1991), and appeared in several TV movies. His final screen credit was in A Boy Undone (2017), a gay love story. He remained active until shortly before his death, writing and supervising scripts.
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DEFEAT OF HANNIBAL (1937/1960) Annibale Ninchi, Camillo Pilotto, Fosco Giachetti, Francesca Braggiotti. A sprawling epic about the Carthage-Roman war. Lots of cool sword & sandal intrigue with big, awesome, battle scenes. Braggiotti almost steals the show as the beautiful, mystical queen. The lighting of her closeups is remarkable. The entire film is a top example of B&W cinematography at its atmospheric best. Likewise, the battle scenes' choreography is superb, with thousands of extras (along with a plethora of elephants) all engaged in the structured battle formations of the time. Released here on TV in 1960. Cool! 16mm. PLUS: HERCULES AGAIN MACISTE IN THE VALE OF WOE (1961) Kirk Morris, Frank Gordon, Bice Valori, Liana Orfei. In this wacky sword and sandal movie, a couple of boxing promoters use a time machine to travel back to ancient times. They end up needing Hercules to save them from Genghis Khan and his Hordes. Nice color and print, 16mm.


A family day out to show solidarity with with the campaign to stop the sell-off of public forest harvesting rights. A sell off that may, in reality, create a loss to the taxpayer?! Bio-diversity will be crushed.
There will be songs, poems, and words from prominent artists, musicians and activists. Bring raingear and suitable footwear.
In fairness, if AIB has its way, that's where some of us will soon be living!
There will be songs, poems, and words from prominent artists, musicians and activists.
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My season 2011 in 3 sentences: A slow start after our move, the new start in France. Then I picked up my fitness and had a top-race in Ironman Klagenfurt, which made me very happy. But finally there was the disappointment about my bad performance at the Ironman Hawaii World Championships. When we came back we took some weeks of rest and did some other things, like this nice long walk in the forest in the French Burgundy region (see picture). And we made nice plans as well for the race season 2012. I didn't like the slow start of 2011 at all, so in the meantime I am back in training and will prepare for racing the Ironman 70.3 South-Africa for the 3rd time in my career in January.
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My preparation went perfect. I had no reason for doubt. I had a good training camp and physically I was as good as last year before Hawaii, I thought.
Maybe it were the dreams I had beforehand. Normally I don't dream about races. One dream told me that our flight to the USA was cancelled. It was not possible to get to Hawaii. In another dream I missed the start of the World Championships. They were all nightmares from which you wish they are not coming true. Unfortunately reality was such a dream as well.
It started already during the swim. I couldn't catch the feet before me, so I ended up swimming the whole course by myself without seeing anyone. My swim has improved last year, but I didn't show that in this race. It was the worst swim I ever did in Hawaii. I tried to push on the bike, but it didn't work. Doing an Ironman you have to be as well physically as mentally fully prepared. And I started to loose the focus. This is not why I'm here, I thought several times. But my body could not go faster. So at the end of the bike I decided to go for the finish and not to quit because DNF is no option for me. I hoped for good run legs, but during the bike leg I had already stomach problems. These bothered me during the run, so I was not able to run fast. In the final 5 km I was just in time for a Dixie. I made it to the finish line (with a little bit a of shame). This result is not where I worked for so hard.
At the moment I have mixed feelings. I would like to show that I'm able to finish a good race, but at the other hand my brain tell me that it is better to take a short break. So I decided that this was the last race of the season. Now I take a little rest to fuel up for the next season. And I will come back very motivated.
After 2006, 2008 and 2010 it will be already my 4th start in the IM World Champs Hawaii. In 2009 I unfortunately had to watch the race from the sideline due to my back-injury. All-in-all, this is the 5th time on this beautiful island.
My preparation went well. Like last year I did my final training camp in the Spanish Sierra Nevada on altitude. An ideal location since you can train in the heat near Granada and the climbing is good for increasing bike-power which you definitely need on the windy course in Hawaii. This time I went alone, but fully motivated to complete my training sets. Sometimes it is an advantage for an Ironman athlete to train alone and prepare yourself mentally. Especially for me since I will be behind after the swim, so not riding in a group and forced to work my way up into the field alone in the aerobars. I like it this way.
After the training camp I have been home for 2 days to re-pack, before leaving to Kona via Amsterdam and LA. We are here now for one week, the jetlag is gone and the climate feels "normal" again. I have been doing some nice last training sessions, f.e. in the ocean together with some dolphins. Very nice experience! Then I went to Hawi last Thursday on my new TT bike: The ISAAC Muon TT. You can see how proud I am of it on the picture taken along the Alii Drive. Yesterday I did my last long run out and back to the Energy Lab, so now I think I am ready. Just rest and prepare to be full of energy at the startline on Saturday morning.
It has been quite a while that I put an update on my website. But I will tell you know what I did in the meantime. After Ironman Frankfurt I took a little break to recover from the 2 Ironmans. After the rest period the road to Hawaii has been started. First two basic training blocks of 12 days with a short rest in between. During the rest days I finally found the time to visit some family and I picked up my new bike, the Isaac Muon, at my sponsor Tehava. I already tested a prototype in previous months, but the real one is race-ready now and I will ride this bike during the Ironman in Kona.
After the second block of 12 days I started in the half Ironman distance in Cambrai, France. I tested my new bike and it passed the test. I was too tired to ride really fast after a training week of 30 hours, but the bike was awesome. I ended as second female.
The week after I started in the triathlon of Gerardmer. This is also a race in France and it is known for it's very heavy course. The 90 km bike course contains almost 2000 altitude meters. And the run course isn't flat as well. I suffered during the bike and run, because it was a very hot day and I was not good. I think I still wasn't recovered from my training blocks. But I'm glad I did this race, because it is a very cool course and it was a good training for me.
At the moment I'm on altitude in the Spanish Sierra Nevada. This will be my last preparation for Kona. I will do some hard sessions to become top fit. Stay tuned!
It's the morning after the race. As usually I slept only a couple of hours, so what can you better do then writing a story for your website. It started as an experiment to see how I would perform in an IM race just 3 weeks afther another IM race. And the second reason that I signed up for Frankfurt was that I didn't know before hand if I would have enough points to go to Kona. After Klagenfurt I was already sure, so this reason wasn't a valid one anymore. The 3 weeks in between, the focus was on recovery, some key sessions and tapering. I felt great and was ready to race again.
I like to race in nice and warm weather. But nothing of that we had yesterday. It was rainy, cold and very windy. That made the race really though. My swim was ok, not great, still my 2nd best split ever. During the bike I felt that although I felt well in training, my muscles weren't fully recovered. I lacked some power, so although it felt that I was pushing really hard, the result was a lousy bike split. But I still had the motivation to race as fast as I could for the moment. So the run was reasonable good. I passed a few girls and came in 9th.
The result of the experiment is that I'm not fully recovered from an IM after 3 weeks. But I'm sure that I'm going to Hawaii!
A great day yesterday: for the first time in my career I swam below one hour (58.54), I already had a good feeling in training, but it's more satisfying if you also can show it during a race. The bike was fast, as expected on this course which is designed for fast racing. But then I also ran a sub-3h marathon (2.59.40), the fastest run-split of the day in the womans-field. Overall, the sum of the swim-bike-run was a sub-9h time, a fantastic personal best. If I counted well, there are only 14 ladies worldwide who ever were faster. Including the 3 woman who finished on the podium yesterday. It's unbelievable that this race wasn't good enough to finish top-3, but that reflects the high level of the race yesterday. That's a little bit a pity, but well, something to forget really fast since now I only am very happy with my own performance!
Last week I did a small Europe-tour and at the end Ironman 70.3 Austria in Sankt-Polten: A week ago I was on the island of Mallorca. In the meantime I have been in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and now Austria. Yesterday I participated in the IM 70.3 of St. Polten. It is a beautiful race with 3000 participants. I also did the race 4 years ago so I could remember the course more or less. The swim is divided in 2 parts in different lakes with a 200m run in between (see picture), very special and fun. The bike has some climbs and descends, but also a fast flat section on the highway. For me the race went a little bit better than last week, especially on the run. Step by step I will improve towards my top form for this year. It was the first time ever I did 2 half Ironman races in consecutive weekends, but the recovery was good enough. I think that is due to the fact that I couldn't race at full speed yet, I simply lack some power in the legs and overall fitness at the moment. But it is coming, I feel it. Next a training camp on altitude is planned. There the important parts of the puzzle should be added. Like last year, after this camp I hope to be ready for the first full distance Ironman of the season: the 3rd of July, Ironman Klagenfurt.
After two weeks of training on the beautiful island of Mallorca I participated last weekend in the 70.3 race which started in Alcudia. It was great training here and the race was also really nice. The race was organized for the first time and there were a lot of participants. The swim was in the Mediterranian see. The bike course had some flat parts but also a climb of 8 km. I'm not a good climber (as you could learn from my bike split of that section of the course), but I really liked this course. At the end we had to run 4 laps on the boulevard of Alcudia. It was the start of my triathlon season and I placed 11th in the race, not spectacular but at least it felt good. I know that I need these kind of races to become better. Next week I will do another 70.3 race in St. Polten, Austria. Hopefully my level is a little bit better there.
Last two months there were a lot of new experiences for me. In the contrary to the last couple of winters, I did not travel to warmer places for nice training camps. I stayed in France to get used to my new environment here: try to learn the language, find the most convenient shops in Compiegne, train with my new clubs, discover new running and cycling routes, etc. Luckily the weather was not too bad. Yes, we had some cold and rainy days, but there were also sunny and even nice and warm days in March. All in all, I like our new home here in France. Although training is progressing, it went slowly and with some ups and downs. It was difficult for me to see the other girls racing in Abu Dhabi, knowing that I am not there yet. But if you want to perform in triathlon, you also have to be mentally strong. That's what counts the next few weeks. I am still working on buiding a base. Because of the changes that take time, we decided not to do an early long distance, but only race my 1st Ironman early July in Klagenfurt. Then I have to be ready. Now, I will stay in France for 5 more weeks before travelling to the Island of Mallorca in Spain to do some work on the bike and race the IM 70.3 over there.
It has been quiet for a while on my website. This doesn't mean that I didn't do anything, in the contrary: we were very busy. Quite some changes in life for me in the last 2 months, so it's time to tell you all about it.
The second week of January, we moved to France. Rob is working for the DSM location in Compiègne. Compiègne is located 70 km above Paris and is the starting place of the cycling race Paris-Roubaix. There is a nice castle and a very beautiful forest near this small city. It's a very nice area for sports, so a perfect place for me. I'm also lucky, because there is a triathlon and swim club which I already join.
For a perfect preparation we followed a french language course in the first week of January. Now we can speak some little words of french to help ourselves here. But hopefully within half a year it goes much better. We still follow a french course 2 times a week.
The last 2 weeks I started my training again. I decided not to go to the warm weather this winter, but instead prepare for the season in my new hometown. The facilities are perfect. I've already found a swimcoach, Stephane Lecat. Stephane is a former long distance open water swimmer. He was european champion on the 25 km in 2000, won 3 worldcups and the bronze medal on the world championships in 2001. He surely can swim! I believe that we can do something on my swim together and that I can swim 5 minutes faster on my 3,8 km time at the end of the season.
The area of Compiègne is a great cycling spot. I did already some rides and it is still not boring. Also the facilities for the run are perfect. There is a very new track on which everyone can run for free. Unfortunately it is almost not used during the day, but for me that is perfect. The forest is only 5 minutes running from our house. It is really big, you can run there for a whole day without using the same path. Enough to discover the coming months. I hope that the weather will be not that cold this winter and then I really like it to prepare for coming season in this nice spot of the world. Besides there is a sauna in my new gym if I want to warm up a little bit.
My race schedule for coming season is almost ready. In next updates I will tell more about that. The wintersleep and the moving are over, the training for 2011 started for real. Let's go!
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Should we prohibit fireworks?
Every year during New Year's Eve a lot of fireworks are being fired. Even though this is a very old tradition and brings many people great joy, it also brings us nuisance, injuries, and damage costs. This year, the government decided to prohibit all fireworks during New Year's Eve 2020-2021, due to the circumstances around Covid-19. It is not yet certain whether this prohibition will be continued for the years after 2021, but more and more people are becoming an advocate of prohibiting fireworks. In this article, I will explain both arguments for and against this new rule of the government.
Public properties
Each year, fireworks cause a lot of damage to public properties. Not only bus shelters, street lights, and the sewerage are broken down by fireworks, but also many private properties are the victim of New Year's Eve. Dutch insurance companies claim that last year at least 15 million euros of damage has been done to cars and houses due to fireworks.
Firework victims
New Year's Eve is one of the busiest nights for the First Aid branch of the hospital. Many people come in with damage to their hands, fingers, hearing, and eyes. Last year, almost 400 people arrived at First Aid in the hospital. Most people tend to think that this is their own fault. However, it turns out that 38% of those people is a bystander. Besides that, it is estimated that approximately 800-1600 people get permanent ear damage during New Year's Eve. All of these hospital 'visits' also bring a lot of medical costs.
Fireworks bring us three kinds of environmental damages: air pollution, soil pollution, and water pollution.
At first, air pollution: each year, the concentration of fine particulates on the 1st of January is about seven to eight times as high as on a normal day. Breathing in these fine particulates can cause health problems. In particular people with a low immune system and people who have weak lungs will suffer from this.
Then, soil pollution: the harmful substances in unburned fireworks residues will end up in the soil. This includes harmful heavy metals, such as copper (which is with high concentration toxic for plants and water animals), barium, strontium, and antimony (which is harmful to both humans and animals).
Lastly, water pollution: in a while, the pollution will find its way to the surface of the water. In this way, the fireworks make a great contribution to the accumulation of heavy metals in the environment. These metals cannot be broken down by biological processes. About 18% of the copper in surface water originates in fireworks.
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Fireworks are already well regulated
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More illegal fireworks
Since firing fireworks is an ancient tradition, the chance is very big that some people will fire fireworks anyway. There is a high chance that this will be more powerful illegal fireworks, which will lead to more injuries. Besides that, the trade in illegal fireworks will increase. This is very unfavorable since the storage and transport of these powerful fireworks brings a lot of risks.
Firework shows
In a non-covid year, the private fireworks could be replaced by big firework shows, which are financed by the government and sponsors. However, most people do not see this as a replacement for the big New Year's Eve party with their friends or family. Those people do not want to go to special places in the middle of the night to see fireworks.
Unsold fireworks
Fireworks sellers will go out of business when no firework can be sold anymore. This year the entrepreneurs get compensation for their unsold fireworks, the safe storage, and safe transport of their unsold fireworks. A total of 40 million euros is reserved for this.
There are probably more arguments to make up for both sides. However, the big question after this year remains whether we are yet again allowed to fire fireworks on New Year's Eve 2021-2022. But one thing is sure, this year we will have to live without fireworks for the first time in history.
This article is written by Deirdre Westenbrink
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Q: Adding date to label in QGIS Atlas composer? I'm trying to add the current date into a label for use in a composer for colleagues to run on a daily basis. The label is currently;
Bins to be delivered: [% "Count" %]

All I need to add is the current date, but when I make the label this;
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nothing happens.
Do I need to enter something in the 2 end brackets to bring the date in? Or is it something else I need to do?

A: Just tried it out, for me (QGis 2.18) format_date(now(),'dd.MM.yyyy') works.
/edit: You need to put the [% %] around your whole expression, then it should work, like: [%'Datum: ' || format_date(now(),'dd.MM.yyyy')%]
Note the pipes (||) between the parts of the expression, they are necessary.
/edit2: now() gives you the full date, incl. time, which is a bit much, isn't it?

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Twitter Can't Solve Abuse Because Twitter Has Never Solved Anything
The only thing that made Twitter good—and the only thing that has solved its problems in the past—is the one thing the company won't consider to solve its existential crisis.
By Eric Limer
Josh EdelsonTwitter
Yesterday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey openly acknowledged the obvious truth: Twitter is a pit.
We have witnessed abuse, harassment, troll armies, manipulation through bots and human-coordination, misinformation campaigns, and increasingly divisive echo chambers. We aren't proud of how people have taken advantage of our service, or our inability to address it fast enough.
— jack (@jack) March 1, 2018
This is good! Identifying and naming your problem is a key step on the path toward solving it. But even as Dorsey outlines the issues without sugarcoating them, he conspicuously ignores the obvious solution: Users have the answer—and they've always had it—but Twitter has long since abandoned the idea of letting them fix anything, including the cesspool problem.
Twitter is directly responsible for almost none of the things that have made it great.
A funny thing about Twitter is that the company is directly responsible for almost none of the things that made it great, including most of its iconic features. The now-gone 140-character limit was a foundational element of Twitter, but it wasn't an idea so much as a reflection of real-world constraints. Retweets, hashtags and @replies were all born as hacks, clever tricks dreamt up by devoted users to communicate with their friends and flag trends for easier discovery.
Even the official app Twitter has today started out as a third party application called Tweetie, which literally invented pull-to-refresh and beat Twitter to features like geo-tagging. Twitter scooped it up in 2010 to reel in confused potential users who were baffled that Twitter did not already have an official iPhone app amid the dozens of third-party options. In the meantime, robust desktop apps like Seesmic, Nambu, and Tweetdeck experimented with the overwhelming notion of displaying columns of tweets side by side, an idea Twitter signed onto when it bought Tweetdeck for $40 million.
This is the point when Twitter started its slow, concerted slide toward becoming the social network we know and resent today. Having bought out the most promising independent apps, Twitter quickly took to scaling back its API—the collection of software tools that gave third-party developers the ability to create an ecosystem of competing apps that shared Twitter's infrastructural backbone.
Twitter became less supportive of—and more openly adversarial to—apps that would threaten its control of the broader "experience." Twitter shifted away from its roots as practically an opens standard like email, which has no official client by its very design, to a closed platform. It's not the first time a story like this has played out on the modern web.
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In 2011, Twitter platform chief Ryan Sarver took things a step further, explicitly warning developers against making apps that competed with Twitter's. "[Developers] ask us if they should build client apps that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter consumer client experience. The answer is no."
In 2012, the company tightened the screws, limiting apps it deemed guilty of replication to a cap of 100,000 users, a restriction that remains in place today despite clever attempts to weasel out of it. This move culled dozens of ascendant Twitter client apps, particularly the popular ones—the apps that might have been doing Twitter better than Twitter was. Third party clients still exist, but they must be blessed by corporate if they wish to expand beyond the limits baked into the API.
With the competition mostly out of the way, Twitter has been free to self-aggrandize and atrophy. Its most adventurous move of late has been the meaningless extension of tweets to a new and even more arbitrary limit of 280 characters. This follows such daring moves as changing the star into a heart and swapping around mostly useless tabs in its navigation bar. And that's to say nothing of Twitter's myriad abject failures, like the execution of the only social app that brought anyone actual joy, its inexplicable decision to water down the "block" feature, and its continued clogging of your feed with non-chronological tweets "you may have missed." All of them have made the service actively worse while doing nothing to confront the service's real, existential threats. Like, say, the growing presence of self-avowed Nazis who openly use the service as a vector to intimidate and harass.
With this context, we can see how Dorsey's belated acknowledgement of the harassment issue makes an accurate analysis. But he follows it through to a frustrating conclusion:
We simply can't and don't want to do this alone. So we're seeking help by opening up an RFP process to cast the widest net possible for great ideas and implementations. This will take time, and we're committed to providing all the necessary resources. RFP: https://t.co/SFb3e8joLl
It's true that Twitter absolutely cannot do this alone. But the solutions won't be found in an RFP, and Twitter should know this. Its most effective tools yet for helping users proactively deal with trolls—shareable blocklists and advanced muting tools—were already hacked together by troubled users or existed in third-party apps long before they were wrapped into Twitter proper. Corporate's primary contribution to the effort was to hem and haw for a bit and then water down the result. Twitter's "shareable" blocklists, for instance, are still embarrassingly primitive compared to what users built for themselves. Just imagine what tools an open field of third-party apps might have developed by now.
Not every part of Twitter's rampant abuse and harassment problem can be solved on the client side—that is to say, on the app that lives on your phone. The network-wide removal of offensive content, account-level blocking, and account verification are all centralized tasks Twitter itself must tackle. There are plenty of good suggestions out there, only some of which Twitter has acted on. There's still plenty of room for experimentation. User interface tweaks could make buttons for "block" and "mute" as visible and accessible as those for "share" and "follow," or institute more granular muting features.
Twitter has the power to enable this new wave of innovation. But it won't. It won't because it's grown from a borderline open standard to be shaped as its users saw fit to a self-serving platform with its own distinct interests to protect. It's not just that it won't listen to its users. It can't. Twitter's job now is to strike the delicate balance between continuing to exist and managing to be profitable, no matter how much Dorsey suggests that isn't the case.
On its journey away from the utility it once dreamed of being, Twitter has not only stumbled into new, bigger, and more serious problems than it has ever had to deal with before. It has also closed off the only solution that had any hope of saving it.
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KEYWORDS: managerial practices, knowledge-based management, masculinity, femininity, organizational culture.
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Jamaican Chess Federation Vice President Peter Myers reports on summer activities in Jamaica including the 2008 Wheeler Open, 2008 Western Open and the Olympiad qualifier. The latter two are still in progress with Sahir Abbas (3/3) and Shane Matthews (4/5) leading respectively. Below is his report on the Wheeler tournament.
Seven-time National Chess Champion, National Master Shane Matthews (pictured right) and Montego Bay Community College student Oneil Hall walked away winners of the Open and Amateur sections respectively, of the 2008 staging of the Robert Wheeler Chess Open held at the Campion College Auditorium from April 19-20, 2008.
The Amateur section for players with a Jamaica Chess Federation (JCF) rating below 1600, was won by Montego Bay Community College student Oneil Hall, who scored an unbeaten five and half points from six games. Second place was shared by Wolmer's Boys' Chad Lawrence and Campion College's Jevonne MacIntosh who each ended on 5 points.
This, the sixth staging of the tournament, was sponsored by Axis Jamaica Limited and the JCF. The tournament is held each year in honour of National Master Robert Wheeler, for his outstanding contribution to the sport of chess in Jamaica on and off the chess board. Wheeler acted as Arbiter for the 2-day event.
Please be advised that the 40th Annual General Meeting of the Jamaica Chess Federation, will be held at 1.00 p.m. Saturday, June 14th, 2008. The venue will announced at a later date.
Matters to be dealt with include the Election of the Nomination Committee for the 2009 Executive Council. See attachments for further details.
The awards ceremony for 2007 will follow the AGM at approximately 3 p.m. and will recognise the winners of tournaments and other top performers during 2007.


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Northern Ireland provides just one of many loopholes for dark-money to flow into British elections
It's not just Northern Ireland's dodgy party donation rules that need an overhaul - across the UK, privacy prevails.
Alexandra Runswick
Gregory Campbell MP, treasurer of the Democratic Unionist Party, who accepted a £425,000 donation through an unincorporated association, from unknown sources. Image: BBC.
The revelation on openDemocracy that loopholes in Northern Ireland's party donation rules were used to anonymously channel hundreds of thousands of pounds into the Brexit campaign via the DUP is alarming, but unsurprising. Wherever political donation loopholes exist – and they do in abundance – individuals and companies are quick to exploit them. Political parties have shown themselves to be willing to accept donations that come through front organisations, in the form of a loan, or as smaller donations from numerous connected family members and friends – at least until they get caught out. The latest data from the Electoral Commission has shown that far from Northern Ireland being an exception to the rule, wealthy individuals, corporate interests and trade unions dominate the political donors list. Donation rules need to be overhauled, or we risk a further corrosion of public trust in political integrity.
Although the identity of the anonymous donor has now been revealed as the Constitutional Research Council (CRC), this has only raised more questions. The CRC are not a registered company or an unincorporated association, nor are they a registered charity. They have no website, and virtually no information is available about the group online. The CRC's Chairman, Richard Cook, is the former vice-chairman of the Scottish Conservative party and holds a range of directorships. Who else is behind the CRC and their £425,000 donation that funded the DUP's Brexit campaign, remains a mystery.
In Northern Ireland, unlike in the rest of UK, donations to political parties are anonymised under rules outlined in the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (PPERA). For years, the government has pledged to bring Northern Ireland in line with the rest of the UK, which would require simple secondary legislation, and yet reform has never materialised.
Northern Ireland's donations loophole is hardly an exception to the rule. Dark money runs throughout our political system. Existing rules that are meant to promote transparency are simply not comprehensive enough, and so long as loopholes exist, they will continue to be exploited, exploit them and political parties will be happy to help them along.
Conscious of avoiding a potentially reputation-damaging activity, like offering cash for an honour, there are a plethora of avenues open only to the wealthiest, which facilitate stealthy donations to political parties. These are detailed in a satirical guide, 'How to be a Dodgy Donor,' published by Unlock Democracy this month. For example, individuals can pay £50,000 to become a member of the Conservative party's 'Leadership Group.' Alternatively, setting up an Unincorporated Association enables donations of up to £24,999 to be made to a dinner club which can be passed on to a political party of choice without your name being published by the Electoral Commission. If a dodgy donor wants to disguise their identity, there are many ways to funnel cash into a political party – no questions asked, no names revealed.
To robustly scrutinise the decisions being made by the government, the public needs to know whether they are being subject to undue influence. Transparency measures around party donations are in place to make this scrutiny possible. However, the measures in place do not go far enough to eradicate opacity. Whether it's setting up a limited company through which to channel funding to a political party, or splitting up donations so that each individual transaction is small enough to avoid the Electoral Commission's registration requirements, what's clear is that if you have the money, the rules are easy to circumvent. Those seeking to leverage their wealth to influence a political party should be accountable to both Parliament and the public, and yet existing rules do not enable this scrutiny process to happen.
Existing political donation rules create a system that inclines parties towards pandering to wealthy donors. In a healthy democracy, every citizen should be able to equally participate, and yet the current system enables the wealthiest in society to purchase political influence. If we want to stop the influence of big money in our politics, we need to introduce a low level cap on donations. By capping donations at £5,000, single donations could no longer have an overwhelming influence on campaigns. Politicians would have to appeal to a broader and more diverse audience to source their campaign funds rather than simply pleasing a few multi-millionaires.
The cap would need to be the same for everyone: individuals, companies, unincorporated associations and members' associations. The only exception being affiliation fees from membership organisations. This would diminish the opportunities for getting round the rules. The low cap would mean that using tricks, like splitting donations or setting up companies, require more effort that the potential benefits. (You would need to find a lot of people to donate on your behalf to accrue any significant donation). While banning corporate donations would open up new loopholes – individuals making donations and then being repaid by the company for example – the thresholds for company donations do need to be strengthened. The definition that's currently applied – "carrying on business" – is as broad as to be virtually meaningless.
The Brexit vote was in part motivated by a deep-set distrust of the political establishment and a dissatisfaction with the way politics is conducted. A perception prevails amongst at least some voters that those in Westminster work on behalf of the interests of the establishment elite, and not their constituents. The way we fund political parties only works to reinforce the perception that politicians are working in the interests of the privileged few, and not the many.
A lack of transparency and dodgy donor scandals corrode the public's trust in politics, giving rise to the impression that influence over policy and access to politicians can be bought. Closing Northern Ireland's donations loophole is only a starting point: we need to overhaul political donation rules, and bring an end to donor leveraging their wealth to determine policy. Capping donations is the single biggest change to our party funding system that would take big money out of politics and force parties to work in the interests of everyone not just the privileged few.
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