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Analysis of The Factors Influencing The Development of Western Civilization
Essay Topic: Western Civilization
Western civilization is a term that has been discussed by scholars and historians for decades to establish its real meaning. Western civilization is a universal term that refers to several European heritage cultures that share conventional cultural norms, values, philosophical functions, ideas, and old beliefs. The benefits of these cultures, they all have a central heritage that unites its people, which has been a significant driving force towards the spirit of cooperation and development in many federal governments. America currently has become one of the most substantial melting pots for diversification of cultures globally. Therefore, this essay focuses on significant characteristics of the ancient world, Renaissance or Reformation, middle ages, and the classical world in the formation and development of western culture.
The ancient world plays a significant part in America's cultural activities such as reading, calendars, farming technology, and feats of engineering. Farming activity and overall agricultural production which primarily involves crop farming and domestication of livestock started near east usually referred to as Asian continent and later spread to most parts of Europe more specifically in America. In America, agriculture became one of the significant economic boosters for the development of the vital national sector American nation has achieved a lot through intensive agricultural research and innovations. Besides, Americans are known for observing calendars to mark the movement of stars, moon, and the sun, which was common beliefs for Egyptians during the Ancient world. Similarly, the United States of America has brought some of the architectural designs from the ancient Egyptians and try to modify the background principles to improve their engineering principles.
The Roman Empire had a significant influence on American civilizations. The first settlers were the Romans and the Greeks, the Europeans built the Greeks the primary urban center in Europe and had dedicated their lives to Greeks philosophy, learning, and art in building and developing the current modern American society. Besides, the Romans built upon the Greeks art and philosophy through codifying and simpler logic and empirical data system and through the definition of essential aesthetic culture of the European architecture that was later distributed to the entire United States and the rest of the continent.
The middle ages period dates to the 1930s the period when the American nation was under the demanding and dynamic period of the great depression. It was the worst period of American history that lasted for ten years, when the rate of unemployment and poverty was crushing the American federal government. During this time, a new style of architecture flourished which was made in science and art. This event changed the American perceptions of pumping more money into the market without considering investing and reducing the level of employment to avoid the nation from reaching its economic peak while there is a decline in jobs and investment. It has helped America to stabilize its economy for a long time after the significant depression period; thus, middle age changed American philosophy towards the economy.
Renaissance or Reformation happened at an early period of middle age with its main goal of reforming the Roman Catholic doctrine practices which lead to the emergence of Protestant churches in Europe. Currently, America is made up of several religious denominations with different beliefs and practices that have transformed the way people worship. In conclusion, ancient cultures and civilizations have changed and influenced western culture and influenced the way of life in America and western civilization from the past and well into the future.
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View Poll Results: Holy demon dragons, Turtles!
So here we are...the final season of TMNT 2012 is starting.
Following the death of Master Splinter, the Turtles must find their way in a world where their father and master no longer exists. Fortunately, they don't have to worry about the Shredder being a threat in their lives...or do they.
Shredder's henchmen are still at large and Tigerclaw aims to summon a demonic creature known as Kavaxas. But for what purpose? And what threat would Kavaxas have upon the city?
Most copies where thrown into a landfill because they were deemed "too disturbing."
... There a possibility Not-Picard is actually voiced by Patrick Stewart?
Nah, it's old fat balding Capt. Ryan. He slaps around Crankshaw Jr.
Ha ha the illustration of Kavaxas they use. It's the Hothead action figure.
The episode seemed super short to me for some reason, like only 15 minutes long.
Wow good episode, pretty intense.
Love the family photo of Splinter and the turtle tots, so adorable.
I like that Casey is still using his new mask.
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Good start to Season 5 I loved this episode.
Leo's gonna need some new swords now.
Can't believe I called that nearly 4 years ago. Yay!
Is it just me, or did this episode seem darker then the rest of the show so far?
No Darkest Plight and Requiem are more darker than this episode.
Well, that was everything a season premiere should be.
I liked how many of the plot threads that are probably going to pop out throughout the season were explored here, and the ideas that were explored here were ones I really can't wait to see unfold.
The humor was pretty good, as well. I did like Space Heroes: The Next Generation especially, but there are some other pretty good moments here as well.
Kavaxas was a badass with a purpose. Miles better than Dregg from last season. We didn't see much of him, but I haven't seen such a hopeless fight in this show since The Gauntlet. Can't wait to see more of him.
That INTRO. Ohhhh that intro. What a step-up from the original. Instrumental and a LOT more visually interesting. Some really good stuff there.
My only real criticism (there are other minuscule things, like Kavaxas's mouth) is, as almost always, Casey. Like always, an annoying little sh*t. Not as much here as some other episodes, but this bastardized version of him is still here and I still hate it. Luckily, he's not that big a part of the episode.
Great stuff all around. If the rest of Season 5 is like this, I'll definitely see why Ciro called it his favorite.
Awesome start to the final season. So glad they have Space Heroes: The Next Generation as the new in-show. Good call, Nines and JTH. Geeky Leo is awesome and I'm so glad they kept that side of him and didn't just make him all serious after Splinter's death. Also loved the talk Leo had with Splinter though I feel that maybe Donnie is going to talk to the others and tell them that he thinks Leo is losing it. Kavaxas is an awesome character and I definitely can't wait to see more of him in future episodes. Hamill did an awesome job with that voice. Overall, an interesting start to the final season. Can't wait to see what else is in store for our heroes. I also loved the new intro and felt it was very fitting though the old one is still a favorite of mine.
So my DVR did not like the new title lol. Luckily I tuned in towards the end of the new theme song. Was there an intro scene before the song?
Yeah there was, Raph and Casey going after this new creature and got ambushed by a group of them.
I figured that's all it was, thanks.
I loved it, especially the new polished look the 2D sequences have. Interesting that only TC was there. Maybe all the other mutants died and Kavaxas brings them back first? I hope Shredder is just a mindless zombie when he comes back, his arc as an actual character is over.
Also hope Karai kills him this time.
In the series preview you can see Rahzar standing by the remains of Shredder, plus Baxter, Beebop & Rocksteady all survived the finale. I think the only henchman that could truly have died was Xever. There's no way anyone got to him before he ran out of air.
This episode was a bit hit and miss for me. It's not like I went in with a clear vision of what I expected, I was open to anything but it just... I can't explain. Maybe it'll get better after I watch it a few more times.
I like Kavaxas (Mark Hamill - divine).
I love the new intro.
I love all the little nods to things like furbies, VHS tapes, how Space Heroes: The Next Generation used the same font as Star Trek: The Next Generation.
I like how April's powers weren't enough when they're usually treated like a miracle in a bag that suddenly save the day when all hope is last.
But I find it weird that we can see a dislocated shoulder being popped back in but the creatures tried to sacrifice someone using a pipette. A PIPETTE. Bent shoulder = ok, dagger = not ok? Some Nickelodeon logic right there.
When April tried to protect the others with a psychic shield (I dunno what to call it) and they all ran for safety and let Kavaxas go at her when she clearly had no chance. They took forever to intervene as well. April could've ended up as a Kavaxas kebab.
Also, team turtle can't defeat the evil minions, let alone Kavaxas. How are they going to show the power balance evening out realistically in however many episodes?
You know that pipette had some stuff in it right, probably some sort of mutagen that was turning humans into those creatures.
Xever was actually close enough to the water to crawl in when the turtles and co weren't paying him any mind.
Seems to me that they'd just have to get that medallion from TigerClaw and then they can boss Kavaxas around.
Forgot to mention the Ghosbusters reference, love it!
Still looked funny. "I'm going to dripdrop you to death."


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Corrections Families
What's it like being a CO spouse?
Nothing can prepare you for when your spouse becomes a CO
Nothing can prepare you for what your family is about to experience, starting when your spouse attends training academy. You will feel like you're single again but your heart is still with them. If you're fortunate enough to have kids, you'll feel like a single parent. You will be going it alone for all the parenting decisions, care-taking and answering tough questions like "Is Daddy coming home today?" The first year of my husband's new career was full of startling revelations for me as a CO spouse. It took time to accept all of the changes in our family and social lives because of his new job.
In the beginning I was shocked when my husband said, "Hey, I have a great new career option." I didn't like it. We fought. I cried. I didn't want our family having anything to do with dangerous criminals, in or out of prison. At the time, we lived in a city where it was unlikely we'd run into his new clients in our neighborhood. There was some comfort in being anonymous but I was still scared to death of being targeted by former inmates. That feeling was intensified by the fact that we had an infant daughter who could also be a potential target.
I didn't realize how lonely being a CO spouse would be. I was expecting 60 hour weeks, sometimes. But that "sometimes" turned into most of the time. Night shift automatically put us on opposite schedules with different days of the week off. We never saw each other except in passing. Twelve-hour shifts and mandatory overtime, additional required trainings and weapons qualifying, being called in on his day off, rotating and unpredictable schedules – he is truly married to his job as much as he is married to me. When we did get to see each other, he was utterly exhausted with the weight of his commitment and the disturbing nature of his new duties.
"I didn't realize how lonely being a CO spouse would be." (Getty Images)
If new recruits were aware of how daunting the statistics for corrections officers are, they probably would never have applied. CO's have a 39 percent higher suicide rate than any other occupation.* Their life expectancy is only 58 years: that's 20 years less than the average American. CO's have high rates of heart attacks and alcoholism. Add to that a higher-than-average divorce rate and a higher prevalence of mental illnesses such as PTSD, anxiety and depression, and you can clearly see how job stress directly affects your loved ones and your relationship. You start to feel like the odds are stacked against you and your spouse.
Despite these statistics the hardest part for me is knowing that my spouse, this person I love as much as my children and life itself, could be assaulted at work and sustain a life-threatening injury from doing his job. Every day he goes to work with the intention of protecting staff and inmates from harm. He takes pride as a public servant who keeps the worst of the worst behind bars to keep society and his family safe. As I watch him iron his uniform and walk out the door in his boots and epaulets, I hold my breath and pray that today won't be that day.
I came from a family that didn't hunt and never owned a gun. His family didn't either. I was stunned when he started qualifying with weapons and manning a tower with a rifle at his facility. Who was this person I married? When did he learn to shoot a gun? Then the discussions started at home about owning a weapon. We debated every side of the issue in terms of personal safety. I was concerned about having a firearm in my home with young children. My other, unspoken, concern was the wisdom of mixing a dangerous weapon with my husband's mentally taxing career choice. A quick Google search will show that for some people this is a bad combination.
In other lines of work that have equally high demands such as law enforcement, fire, or military personnel there are already established support networks for families. There is also more community support for uniformed men and women that garners immediate respect, as it should. I have found that introducing my husband as a CO in a new group of friends gets one of two responses: "Oh" and awkward silence or "Wow, that's horrible." People aren't sure what to think of CO's outside of prison walls. I have never heard someone say "Thank you for what you do to keep us all safe" or "Thank you for serving your community." They don't realize that our spouses are also uniformed, have taken an oath to serve their community and protect a vulnerable population (inmates), and that their dedication to this profession takes a toll on their families and their own well-being.
It didn't take long to realize the strength it takes to be a corrections officer and CO spouse. You will lose friends along the way. You will have sleepless nights waiting for him/her to come home safe. You will answer your kids' questions while holding back tears. You will answer the door with pepper spray in your pocket. But along the way I hope you find your inner strength and resilience as a couple and family. I hope you find gratitude for the opportunities your spouse has just stepped into for a lifelong career. You are not alone. Welcome to the family.
-"Suicide Risk Among Correctional Officers", Archives of Suicide Research, Stack, S.J., & Tsoudis, O. 1997
Brandy Aldriedge is the wife of a Corrections Officer in Vermont. Her spouse has been a CO for 5 years. Brandy has previously been a Research Assistant in Biochemistry and has a B.A. in International Business. She is dedicated to strengthening communities and families through her work with the Neighborhood Watch Program and Not In Our Town initiative. She is concerned about the health and well-being of Corrections Officers and their families. She wishes to bring more positive attention to the field of corrections and is working to develop a support network for COs and CO spouses similar to those of other uniformed personnel.
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In Repose
In Repose is a site-specific collaborative multi art form project with dance, music, visual projection, sound-scapes and installation, inspired by Japanese graves in Australia from the turn of the century.
In Repose is a requiem: a work of kuyo, a Japanese term, which describes an act of ceremonial prayer or offering to respect, honour and calm the spirits of the deceased. Its origins are in Buddhism, and its practice has become a part of the Japanese spiritual culture with or without its religious connection.
THis work was a collaboration between 4 Japanese and One Australian Artist.
The team travelled throughout Australia to places of importance to Japanese migration.
These included, Townsville, THursday Island, Broom, Cossack and Roebourne.
At each location, the team created a performance at the local Japanese section of the cemetery. They also created a gallery based installation and conducted workshops with local schools and community members. Members of the team travelled to additional remote locations to create private performances for the spirits of past Japanese migrants.
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The Vapors: 'Waiting For The Weekend'
8 September 2021 Ken Shinn Music 0
❉ This comes recommended to any fans of intelligent, lovingly crafted pop music, writes Ken Shinn.
"The Vapors' songs are split obviously between pieces of more personal emotion, and pieces of an angry and political intent – in fact, Turning Japanese is something of an anomaly… The band's main thematic concerns are that the World is a terrible, often violent place, but set against this repugnant madness is the altogether more benign, joyous madness of Love."
Da da da dang dang, dang dang danggg!
They may have ended up one-hit wonders in the eyes of the British public, but it must be said that Turning Japanese is one hell of a song by which to be remembered. The Vapors' history is a strange one indeed: starting out as proteges of certain elements of The Jam (who they even supported at the Rainbow in December 1979), the band crashed into the UK singles charts out of nowhere with that mighty second single (the first being the effective but comparatively non-descript Prisoners, a song whose lyrics hinted more strongly at the major direction of the band's lyrics). Their first album, New Clear Days, was well-received and they seemed to be on the verge of international success, even changing the spelling of their name the better to appeal to trans-Atlantic sensibilities: but then a series of unfortunate events – everything from label buy-outs, to cancelled Top Of The Pops appearances, to the rise and rise of Duran Duran ('Nobody paid the least bit of attention to us when they had Duran Duran to look after…Why would they?' – David Fenton) – conspired to consign them to the 'Where Are They Now?' files at best, if not to the Dustbin Of History.
Which, on a closer study of their work, is clearly an unjust decision. Their songs are split obviously between pieces of more personal emotion, and pieces of an angry and political intent – in fact, Turning Japanese is something of an anomaly among such fellows.
There's no denying the brilliance of the song, though. Even if David Fenton's insistence that the song isn't about masturbation at all (a claim which seems as disingenuous as the Divinyls' assertion that I Touch Myself was about something altogether more spiritual than a mere bit of purely physical fiddling), the fact remains that this tale of a love affair verging on the alarmingly obsessive fits such an interpretation to the hilt, while also retaining enough good humour that any potential offensiveness is neatly defused. It's a glorious, high-speed rampage clocking in at a little under four minutes, and I defy anybody not to be swept along by the sheer, gleeful joy of it all.
It comes early on the debut album New Clear Days, almost as if to lull us into a false sense of security, as straight afterwards we're flung into a song of rather darker tone.
Cold War opens with an ominous mutter of Dead Kennedys-style guitar and a peremptory, near-military drumbeat, before spinning an un-nerving tale of lies, deceit, and violence building from the purely personal into the vast arena of international realpolitik, forming a nasty story of global manipulation and assassination, and of the untruths that we all tell to justify our actions in that story. To people expecting easy, jolly good times, it must have come as something of a shock, and a good thing too in my opinion. The Vapors, musically adept as they were, were also – lest we forget – supported whole-heartedly by the Jam, and their political fervour and fury will fuel many more songs on the Vapors' two albums, as we'll soon learn.
There's an altogether more jaunty, bouncy feeling to the tune of Bunkers, a more personal tale of how, no matter where we may live, our essential problems will remain the same in a society which always has room to improve. Under that bumptious, swaggering riff lies the sour reflection that, whether we live in the country or the town, the small indignities and terrors of life anywhere will be ever with us. A plea for understanding and communication struggling against the banal evils of existence, it's a deceptively cheerful song about social ills.
News At Ten is a tune which provides evidence that, rather than being the purely power-pop band of public perception, the Vapors were also swimming in the same Mod revival waters as the Jam for at least part of the time. An intensely personal song about the idealism of Youth when compared with the cynicism of Experience, it weaves its themes of the quiet hope for young, optimistic rebellion when set against the workaday drudge of just getting by and not rocking the boat without hectoring or harassing, instead opting for small-scale determination for something better for everybody. Sometimes the impassioned doesn't need to shout at the top of its lungs.
Suddenly darting into a far more intimate, personal realm, Waiting For The Weekend – the follow-up single that didn't quite hit home – shows the other important side of the group's lyrical concerns. A light, joyous song of a long-distance relationship where every encounter, no matter how brief, always counts, there's a bubble gum pop quality to its slight but resonant narrative which captures fully the giddy delight of being in love at whatever age, and in whatever time. For all the band's frequently weighty preoccupations, the effervescent, sparkling happiness of this track can't help but echo in the hearts of any listener.
There's a surprising delicacy to Letter From Hiro, the song which was chosen to close the initial release of New Clear Days. A moving historical narrative of a pen-pal friendship which crossed the globe, until the outbreak of World War Two fragmented it, the song, for all its wispy, almost ethereal quality, touches on issues of separation and madness both personal and planetary. It comes across almost as a requiem for reason, a canto on companionship. Unexpectedly sombre and reflective, it's the sort of tune which lingers long and uneasily in the thoughts of the listener.
Two years after that debut album, in 1981, the Vapors kicked off the follow-up, Magnets (which came complete with cover art by Martin Handford, later of Where's Wally? renown, of a similarly crowded image of assassination), with the last track of theirs that almost got them back triumphantly into the charts – and it was a song with decidedly chart-unfriendly origins. Jimmie Jones – once more, with deceptive bounce – casts an eye on the horrors that lay beneath the surface of Jones's seemingly idealistic Guyana-based cult, horrors that encompassed gang killings and an ultimate mass suicide in 1978 which shocked the World. Whatever the intervening years had done to the Vapors, they clearly hadn't made them any more compromising, and this coldly furious song bears powerful witness.
If the opening track and sleeve art hadn't convinced listeners that the band's concerns had, if anything, become darker than their debut album's, then Spiders should surely have done the trick. Its chirpy orchestrations form a stark contrast to its uneasy mixture of concerns – in this case, the narrator's genuine love for a girl who's suffering from equally genuine mental issues. Passion and paranoia collide head-on in this narrative of an affair going steadily, alarmingly, more wrong. From global concerns, the focus shifts once more to the personal stab at the heart.
With shades, again, of the Jam, the cod-reggae jauntiness of Civic Hall details events taken from personal experience – and, unlike the threatening yobs of Down In The Tube Station At Midnight, Dave's assailants here operate with the full approval of the nation's Law – policemen who, rather than the outright thuggish menace of those yobs, approached him with a seemingly affable 'What's goin' on here, then, Sonny?' and a 'Hello, hello' before proceeding to casually brutalise him on no firmer grounds than that they believed he could be carrying something more suspicious than a pot of jam in his carrier bag. The Kinks-like vocal chirp is underlaid by genuine fear and loathing.
After such grim subjects, it's perhaps not surprising that Silver Machines charges in triumphantly to lift our spirits again. Another tale of long-distance relationship, this drives along with never a moment of doubt, reflecting both the bemusements and amusements of being in love without a cynical bone in its body. 'Loved up' is a descriptive usually aimed at such drug-happy genres as Acid House, but this is a purer kind of love, needing no artificial stimulant. Instead, it captures perfectly the simple, pure hit of a joyful endorphin rush. Glorious.
Closing the album on its initial release came the title track. Magnets takes its initial inspiration from the assassinations of John F Kennedy and Robert F Kennedy, and in its six-and-a-half-minute length weaves a deceptively hazy musical spell counterpointed by sharp, hard lyrics which anatomise each aspect of the killings – victims, murderers, bystanders – with uncompromising clear-sightedness, before widening the focus of the lens to encompass all of History. The assassinations will continue, it states, and we'll all watch with cold, unblinking gazes as the horrors unfold – unless we learn differently. It makes a stark, powerful ending: a dose of singularly unpalatable but necessary medicine.
And perhaps such a harsh dose required a suitable spoonful of sugar to help it go down – thus, possibly, why the album's CD re-release ended with a new track. Galleries For Guns is perhaps the perfect synthesis of the Vapors' main thematic concerns: the World is a terrible, often violent place, but set against this repugnant madness is the altogether more benign, joyous madness of Love. This is the essential dichotomy of the band's work, and in the end its redemption: that, for all the Evil that Humanity can engender, so, too, it can create great and enduring Good, and in this case does so with delighted, and delightful, aplomb.
And now, Cherry Red has brought us both New Clear Days and Magnets, as just two CDs of a comprehensive 4-CD box set which comes recommended to any fans of intelligent, lovingly crafted pop music. As well as the two albums, you'll find alternative rough and instrumental mixes of key tunes from both, in addition to the band's 3 December 1979 performance at the Rainbow, and an interview with the ever-eloquent Dave Fenton, as well as exhaustive and enthusiastic sleeve notes by Ed Piller, and even three never-before-officially-released tracks!
Yes, the Vapors – who still aren't done yet, and will be touring this October playing all New Clear Days, plus selections from Magnets and their third album, Together – are undeniably a bit of an odd fish, as bands go. But one thing remains marvellously clear: for a band which is remembered for a musical nob gag, they've proven – triumphantly – that they were never just dicking around.
❉ The Vapors – 'Waiting For The Weekend: The United Artists & Liberty Recordings' (CRCDBOX113) is available as a 4-CD box set from Cherry Red Records, RRP £24.99. Click here to order directly from Cherry Red Records.
❉ Due to popular demand, a second online screening of the Vapors film 'We Lived Off Words That No One Heard – Live from The Factory' has been confirmed. The second screening takes place on Saturday 9th October at 8pm BST. To book your viewing of the film or for more information visit http://www.thevapors.co.uk
❉ Ken Shinn is a lifelong fan of all things cult and is a regular contributor to We Are Cult. His 55 years have seen him contribute to works overseen by the likes of TV Cream and the British Horror Films Group, as well as a whole batch of short stories of the fantastic, with his first novel on the way. Whatever the field, he intends to enjoy Cult in all its forms for many years to come.
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This new In-Depth lesson defies everything you know about CP!
Would you believe these luscious berries were drawn with just SIX colored pencils?
That's right - you'll learn how to create your own range of hues with just 6 Polychromos - red, yellow, blue, brown, white and black. Ekaterina's secret to achieving insanely realistic, vibrant paintings is a secret no more - you can make stunning colored pencil art that you'll want to frame and display proudly - with only a handful of supplies!
The clear instruction will guide you from start to finish with 32 step by step images. Bursting with Berries is a great way to try out Faber-Castell Polychromos without having to invest in a whole set.
Mixing and Creating Colors: The magic of Ekaterina's technique lies in how she layers primary colors to achieve richly colored berries that are just dripping with maximum realism.
Wood Grain: You will use all 6 colors to create the smooth wooden bowl and the wooden table it sits upon. Ekaterina simplifies the process of achieving natural wood grains. You won't believe how easy it is!
Blurred Vignette Background: This background method really draws all the attention to your delicious looking bowl of berries and makes you want to just reach out and take a bite!
Ekaterina has a lovely style. I especially like her use of few pencils. This is quite unusual for CP artists! This tutorial only used 6 pencils and the paper was smooth...also not the norm for CP. The tutorial has wonderful photos to follow and the directions are adequate. It is NOT a tutorial for a beginner. I have added the photo of my completed piece.
Loved the tutorial. Would loved to have had suggestions of other brands of pencils to substitute.
Hi Ann I haven't had time to do this one yet it looks wonderful and I will do it as soon as I can.


New Richmond, WI - GEICO Powersports Honda rider Blake Wharton made an appearance at the second round of the Winter MX Series at the AMSOIL Sandbox Arena on November 14, 2009. Along with signing autographs, Blake rode a 2010 Honda provided by CedarCreekMotorsports.com. Blake was very comfortable on the track and took no time to clock in some very fast lap times.
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Ahmadinejad Says Iran Hijab Rules Should Follow Views Of the Majority
Friday, 27 Nov 2020 14:10
Former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has suggested that rules over hijab should reflect the views of a majority of Iranians. In a video debate with conservative commentator Mehdi Nassiri, Ahmadinejad said: "If parliament has passed a law and the majority of the people reject it, can you say I will enforce it no matter what?"
Compulsory hijab has been enforced without formal legislation since the 1979 Revolution. In recent years, many women have been defying 'proper hijab' with ever loosening head coverings and tighter manteaus. Some have removed their headscarves in protest against the rules, and social-media clips show women confronting clergymen and religious conservatives in public when told to fix their 'bad hijab.'
Ahmadinejad was the first – and so far, the only – president in the Islamic Republic not to be a cleric and had at times a difficult relationship with senior clergy, who regarded him as an upstart. Against the wishes of many ayatollahs, Ahmadinejad championed the right of women to enter sports stadiums. While Ahmadinejad known as a foreign-policy hawk partly through his enthusiasm for Iran's nuclear program, his closest associate Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei floated notions of reconciliation with Israel. In his second term, Ahmadinejad openly defied Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and once he left office in 2013 he issued still more critical video messages.
The Guardian Council, a constitutional watchdog barred Mashaei from the 2013 election, when Ahmadinejad was ineligible to stand for a third consecutive term, and in 2017 it barred Ahmadinejad himself. There has been speculation that the former president may try again for the presidential election in June 2021 when President Hassan Rouhani will be ineligible.
Iran Imported 80 CT Scan Machines With World Bank Loan
Thursday, 21 Jan 2021 23:53
Iran's Deputy Minister of Health announced that the ministry has bought 80 CT Scan machines with the loan that it received from the World Bank. Kamel Taqavinejad said these machines have been imported and installed in Iranian hospitals during the past four months.
He did not reveal the amount of the loan, but last Summer Iranian media had reported that after 15 years, the World Bank has given a $50 million loan to Iran.
In February 2019, Iranian officials announced that Iran has requested a $5 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). There is still no report on the approval or disapproval of the IMF, but the United States had disapproved of the loan, and Iran has not received any loan from the IMF yet.
The United States explained its objection to the loan, saying the US believes these loans are never spent on the Iranian people: "Their background is clear, they will put this money in their own pocket, and also spend it on their proxy terrorist groups in the Middle East.
In response, Iran accused the IMF of politicizing the matter, and President Rouhani accused the US of "financial terrorism and medical terrorism."
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are two global financial institutions connected to the United Nations.
Saudi Minister Optimistic US Ties Will Be 'Excellent' Under Biden
DUBAI, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's foreign minister has voiced optimism that relations between Riyadh and Washington will be "excellent" under new U.S. President Joe Biden, Al-Arabiya TV channel cited him as saying on Thursday.
Appointments made by Biden show "understanding of the common issues" by the new U.S. administration, Prince Faisal bin Farhan added, according to Twitter posts by the Saudi-owned, Dubai-based TV channel.
"The Biden administration will find that our targets regarding Yemen are the same," Al-Arabiya quoted him as saying.
Biden pledged during his election campaign to reassess ties with Saudi Arabia, demanding more accountability over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 and calling for an end to U.S. support for the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen.
Rights Groups Say Kurdish Arrests Continue, 50 Detained In 11 Days
The Hengaw Organization for Human Rights on Thursday [January 21] reported that Iranian security forces had arrested more 50 Kurds in 11 days in various Iranian cities. Three had been released and 47 remained in custody.
On Tuesday, Hengaw reported that Intelligence Ministry agents had arrested at least eight people, including two women in the mainly Kurdish city of Bukan, West Azarbaijan Province, and seven others in other Kurdish cities in the same province, including Naghadeh (Naqadeh) and Piranshahr.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), which has published the names of some of the detainees, said a wave of arrests of Kurdish activists in various cities including Tehran had begun on January 9. Security forces had carried out the arrests without warrants, KHRN reported, had used "strong verbal and physical violence," and had confiscated detainees' phones and laptops.
"Most of the detainees are civil, cultural, environmental and student activists and a number of them are ordinary citizens," said Kaveh Kermanshahi, a KHRN official. "This approach of the regime is not new. [These arrests] had never stopped during recent years, to say they have started again. It's just that occasionally they increase in number."
Kermanshahi warned over possible psychological and physical torture of detainees, and urged rights organizations and activists to appeal to Iranian security forces and judiciary to release them immediately. The judiciary and intelligence bodies have not announced the arrests, nor any charges against those detained.
Iran Government Managers Reported In Line For 50% Pay Rise
Government managers are in line for at least a 50 percent pay rise despite a huge budget deficit and the increasing hardship facing ordinary Iranians, the conservative Mehr news agency reported on Thursday. Quoting "an informed source," Mehr suggested that new legislation would boost government monthly salaries above 250 million rials to 600 million, or just under $3,000 monthly based on current market exchange rates.
Most wage earners in both the public and private sectors currently receive 25-35 million rials monthly.
In 2015, the salaries for senior managers were limited by law to 200 million, equivalent at that time to around $7,000 a month. Since then, the Iranian currency has lost its value sevenfold and most senior bureaucrats and managers of state companies officially make less than $2,000.
The salary of ordinary workers has not kept pace with three consecutive years of inflation above 30 percent and the ensuing hardship is a potential source of unrest. The government has run budget deficits since United States sanctions after 2018 substantially reduced Iran's oil exports, which traditionally financed at least half of the budget. The government has resorted to expanding the money supply, fueling more inflation.
Comparatively high salaries for government managers have been a bone of contention in the past five years, highlighted by both politicians and the media. Iran has a large state bureaucracy due to public ownership of major companies and banks.
Korean Official Says Biden May Help Free Korean Tanker Held In Iran
A senior South Korean official on Thursday [January 21] said the country expected the new United States administration of President Joe Biden help resolve the issue of Iran's seizure of a Korean tanker in the Persian Gulf on January 4. "We believe that there will come a situation in which we can find a swift resolution of the issue regarding the seized vessel," said the official, quoted anonymously by Korea's Yonhap News Agency.
Tehran denied any connection between the impounded vessel and $7 billion of Iranian funds frozen in Korea due to fear of US secondary sanctions. Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Navy on January 4 said the ship had been detained after "repeated violations of environmental protocols" at sea. The IRGC reported the MT Hankuk Chemi, carrying "oil-chemical products," and its 20 crew were held at Bandar Abbas on Iran's southern coast.
The expectation in Seoul appears to be that the Biden administration will ease sanctions.
"The frozen asset issue is not because of a lack of our will, but of the structural factor vis-a-vis the U.S. sanctions environment," the South Korean official said, responding to a suggestion from Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi that a "lack of political will" rather than US sanctions explained Korea's freeze on Iranian funds.
Araghchi met Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong-kun in Tehran on January 10, but the ministers failed to agree a solution. Negotiations continue, with Korea reportedly trying to involve Qatar. Tehran has pressed for the funds' release to finance humanitarian imports related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Food Prices In Iran Rose By 60 Percent Last Month Amid High Inflation
The high rate of inflation continued in Iran in December-January, with food prices rising 60 percent compared with the same period last year, Statistical Center of Iran (SCI) reported on Thursday.
The SCI reported that during the Iranian month of Day (December 21-January 20), overall inflation was 46.2 percent compared with the same period last year, but food prices accelerated much faster, putting even more pressure on ordinary people.
Iran's relatively manageable inflation took off in 2018 when the United States imposed tough sanctions after former President Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 nuclear agreement. The currency rial began to lose value and its fall continued in 2019 and 2020. At one point in August 2020 the rial had lost its value more than tenfold.
However, the reason for such a steep rise in food prices remains unclear. The government supplies dollars to importers of essential goods at a much lower rate, similar to pre-sanctions days, and government prices for electricity and fuel have not changed much. There have been serious accusations of corruption and profiteering for rising food prices.
In 2019, bloody nationwide protests erupted when the government raised gasoline prices. The high rate of inflation remains a constant political threat to the government. SCI reported that the average rate of inflation excluding food prices was 40 percent. SCI reported in October that certain foodstuffs experienced triple-digit inflation.
The purchasing power of workers has fallen drastically with the high rate of inflation. An ordinary wage earner or office worker earns between $100-150 a month, while in 2017 salaries were equal to at least $400 a month.
Biden Intends To Lengthen & Strengthen Nuclear Constraints On Iran: White House
In her first press conference, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, said President Joe Biden intends to discuss the nuclear deal and other issues of concern regarding Iran with world leaders and US allies.
According to Psaki, the Biden administration intends to lengthen and strengthen the nuclear constraints on Iran through diplomacy, and Biden will discuss the matter with other countries involved.
"The president has made clear that he believes that through follow-on diplomacy, the United States seeks to lengthen and strengthen nuclear constraints on Iran and address other issues of concern. Iran must resume compliance with significant nuclear constraints under the deal in order for that to proceed," Psaki said in the press conference.
Biden said during his campaign that if Tehran resumes compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Washington will also return to the deal.
"We would expect that some of his earlier conversations with foreign counterparts and foreign leaders will be with partners and allies and you would certainly anticipate that this would be part of the discussions," Psaki added.
President Trump unilaterally exited the nuclear deal in 2017, calling it the worst deal that the United States has made. Since then, he implemented the 'maximum pressure' policy, by imposing harsh sanctions on Iran's main industries and exports. In response, Iran has increased its uranium enrichment speed.
Biden To Appoint Robert Malley As Special Representative For Iran
It was reported that President Biden intends to appoint Robert Malley, former Obama administration's national security advisor on the Middle East as the new US Special Representative for Iran. Malley, born in Egypt, is the son of a Jewish Syrian citizen.
In November of last year, Malley had criticized the assassination of IRGC's nuclear official Mohsen Fakhrizadeh and said the attack would make returning to diplomacy with Iran difficult for Trump's successor.
Robert Malley also in 2019 met with the Islamic Republic of Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who was in New York to attend the UN General Assembly.
In 2008, Malley was removed from President Obama's election campaign after reports of his meeting with members of Hamas surfaced, but later in 2014 he was appointed as President Obama's senior advisor on Middle East affairs.
In the last year of Obama's administration, Malley was the coordinator on the affairs regarding the ISIS terrorist group.
Robert Malley will replace Elliott Abrams, who last year replaced Brian Hook. Brin Hook was in charge of President Trump's maximum pressure campaign for the majority of its implementation.
The maximum pressure campaign was implemented by the Trump administration to coerce the Islamic Republic of Iran to renegotiate the nuclear deal. The campaign consisted of imposing heavy sanctions on Iran's oil and metal and mineral industries which crippled Iran's economy.
Prince Reza Pahlavi Asks President Biden To 'Stand In Solidarity' With Iranians
Wednesday, 20 Jan 2021 21:48
Iran's exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi has written to President Joe Biden on the day of his inauguration wishing him success and asking him to "stand in solidarity" with the people in Iran.
The last heir to Iran's monarchy who lives in the United States expressed his optimism that Biden during his campaign pledged a commitment "to advancing democracy and human rights abroad."
"In light of the growing strength and momentum of the movement for democracy and human rights in my country, Iran, I wish to convey my compatriots' hope and expectation that you and your administration will stand in solidarity with them as they continue their struggle against a brutal, medieval dictatorship," he wrote to Biden.
The new president has indicated his willingness to return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which would mean an end to former President Donald Trumps' maximum pressure against the clerical regime in Tehran. Opponents of the Islamic Republic are concerned that the Democratic administration will reduce economic sanctions and relieve pressure from a government they hope to see overthrown.
While the monarchy was overthrown in 1979 with an overwhelming majority in a referendum, the mood has changed among Iranians, many of whom look back with nostalgia to the pre-revolution era when the country enjoyed economic progress and social freedoms. The clerical government has not been able to manage Iran's economy and has imposed religious restrictions on the population.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Says Iranian Arrested In US Is A Hostage
Saeed Khatibzadeh, spokesman of Iran's foreign ministry, on Wednesday [January 20] called the arrest of an Iranian citizen living in the United States an act of hostage taking.
Kaveh Lotfolah Afrasiabi, 63, was arrested Monday by the FBI at his home in Watertown, Massachusetts. The US Justice Department announced in a statement Tuesday that it had filed a criminal complaint in a federal court charging Afrasiabi with acting and conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of the Iranian government, in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (Fara).
The Justice Department said Afrasiabi had been secretly employed by Iran and paid by its diplomats assigned to the UN. Its statement said that Afrasiabi has been paid around $265,000 in checks drawn on the official bank accounts of Iran's Permanent Mission at the UN since 2007 and that he had received health insurance through the permanent mission's benefit plans since at least 2011. Khatibzadeh rejected the accusations against Afrasiabi as "false," and said he hoped the problem would be "resolved as soon as possible."
For over a decade, Afrasiabi "pitched himself to Congress, journalists, and the American public as a neutral and objective expert on Iran," said John C Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security. "However, all the while, Afrasiabi was actually a secret employee of the Government of Iran and the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations (IMUN) who was being paid to spread their propaganda." Lawyers representing Afrasiabi are yet to comment on his arrest.
Iran Covid Spokesman Apologizes For Criticizing Unmasked Religious Gathering
Dr Alireza Raisi, spokesman of Iran's National Coronavirus Combat Taskforce, has apologized for his comments over a failure to apply Covid-19 public-health protocols in a religious ceremony. Raisi had drawn criticism from Friday prayer-leaders and media affiliated to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).
In a recorded message released on social media on Wednesday [January 20], Raisi said his statements earlier this week about a ceremony in Qom, home to Iran's leading seminary schools, had been misinterpreted and that he had meant no disrespect. At a taskforce meeting on Sunday attended by President Hassan Rouhani, Raisi had displayed a picture of the ceremony in Qom and criticized its organizers for not requiring social distancing and masks.
"Those who carelessly organize [such ceremonies] are undoubtedly responsible for the death of our people in the next peak [of the pandemic] and must be punished," Raisi had said. "This is not virtuous, they are killing people."
While the state broadcaster (IRIB) simply ignored Raisi's remarks in reporting the taskforce meeting, the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency on Monday published a piece headlined "Coronavirus Taskforce Spokesman's Expression of Contempt for the People of Qom." The commentary said the taskforce has failed to take effective action in other cities but its spokesman had accused the people of Qom of ignoring health protocols and suggested they were responsible for further Covid deaths.
Iran became in February the second country to report Covid after China, with Qom the first Iranian city where people died. The city has many seminaries and is considered the most important center of the Iranian clerical establishment.
Iran Central Bank Chief Claims Credit For Rial's Rise, Attributed To Biden
Abdolnaser Hemmati, chief of Iran's central bank (CBI) has taken credit for the recent rise in the value of Iran's currency, saying that he prevented "120 percent hyperinflation".
Iran's currency has regained some of its steep losses in 2020, rising 30 percent from its lowest point last August. The rise the began after the US presidential election is mostly attributed to optimism related to the presidency of Joe Biden who has indicated he might rejoin the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran that Donald Trump abandoned in 2018.
After Trump imposed harsh sanctions, Iran's already inefficient economy battered by years of international sanctions took a turn for the worst, with the currency losing most of its value and inflation reaching 40 percent, triggering nationwide protests.
Hemmati, who was speaking in a television program Tuesday acknowledged the "pressure on" ordinary people who he said are enduring hardship, but he claimed the CBI prevented hyperinflation, saying he never gave up despite many officials being hopeless about the situation.
However, Iran's currency has lost value twofold since Hemmati assumed the leadership of the central bank two years ago, when the US dollar traded for 110,000 rials. The US currency is now trading at 220,000 rials.
Despite sounding victorious, Hemmati refused to endorse President Hassan Rouhani's prediction that the rial would rise further, saying it will depend on Iran's blocked funds being freed. At the same time he acknowledged that counties such as South Korea and Iraq refuse to unlock funds blocked in their funds, fearing US sanctions.
Prince Reza Pahlavi: Khamanei's Ban On Vaccine Is Murder
Banning Western Covid vaccines "is murder…justified by ignorance", Iran's exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi has said in a video message released January 19, lambasting a decision by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei who has banned the government from importing American and British vaccines.
The last heir to Iran's monarchy who lives in the United States, also called for the medical community to be the decision maker about critical health issues and accused Khamenei of having ulterior financial reasons for banning Western vaccines.
Khamenei in a speech on January 8 banned Western vaccines arguing that they "cannot be relied on and trusted", promising that Iran is developing its own Covid vaccines. But the company in charge of developing a vaccine, the Barakat Foundation, is a charitable entity and business group controlled by Khamenei, leading to suspicions that the ban is to monopolize the market for the local vaccine for financial gain.
Officials have said it will take months until an Iranian vaccine becomes available and some medical officials have cast doubt on th country's ability to mass-produce a vaccine.
Prince Reza Pahlavi said, "Everyone knows that a vaccine approved by the world's highest medical authorities is not created to hurt the Iranian people."
"This corruption had never clawed at the lives of Iranians in such a brutal manner. This crime is too blatant to cover up," he added.
Khamenei's decision has politicized the vaccine issue and many Iranians have attacked the Islamic Republic and Khamenei for endangering thousands of lives by delaying vaccination.
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Wiara (psychologia)
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Ok so, does LinkerState get JITConfig? It will be needed to get the pointer and link sizes and such.
Ok so, PackageIdentifiers is kind of bad. It really should just be instead be Packages and then Package. The two classes can still be managed the same without having a layer of indirection.
In this case then, the classes can be stored in the packages.
But, classes are unique and not to a set of packages. So the extra indirection does not really exist. I just need to make sure packages have a unique ID assigned to them. So I can just remove some notes.
So classes can be called Unit and be managed by Units. Classes will be in a package and will also be part of a cluster (for resources).


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"I Feel Fine" é uma canção da banda britânica The Beatles, lançada em 1964. Foi escrita por John Lennon, mas creditada a Lennon/McCartney. Chegou ao topo da parada britânica em 12 de dezembro do mesmo ano, desbancando o single "Little Red Rooster" dos Rolling Stones, e ali permaneceu por cinco semanas. Também chegou ao topo da parada americana Billboard Hot 100.

Créditos

John Lennon: vocal principal, guitarra base

Paul McCartney: vocal de apoio, baixo

George Harrison: vocal de apoio, guitarra solo

Ringo Starr: bateria

Covers
 Em 1967, Alma Cogan lançou uma versão da canção no álbum Alma.
 Em 1988, Sweethearts of the Rodeo lançaram uma versão country da canção.
 Em 1998, The Punkles lançaram uma versão punk da canção no álbum de estreia deles, The Punkles.
 Em 2002, Take That incluíram "I Feel Fine" na "Beatles Medley".
 Em 2003, Curtis Stigers fez uma versão de balada no álbum You Inspire Me.
 Em 2005, Les Fradkin lançou uma versão instrumental no seu álbum While My Guitar Only Plays.

Ver também
 Lista de singles número um da década de 1960 no Reino Unido

Canções gravadas por The Beatles
Canções compostas por Lennon/McCartney
Canções produzidas por George Martin
Singles de 1964
Canções de 1964
Singles lançados pela Parlophone


Welcome to Feature Friday! We had some pretty amazing projects linked up to this week's Inspire Me Monday link party. As spring is arriving, it looks like a lot of people are wanting to get their home in order! If you are looking for some clever ways to get organized and make you life a little bit more simpler then you will love these 5 Organized & Space Saving DIY Projects for the home. Click the links in above each pic to be taken to the full tutorials.
Kristen from My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia wanted to save and maximize the space in her laundry room so removed the existing door and replaced it with new DIY Sliding Barn Doors.
Are your earring piling up? Display them and keep them organized in a pretty way with this DIY Earring Organizer ~via C.R.A.F.T.
Emily from My So-Called Blog tackled an akward wall of her bonus room and built some awesome Built-in Bookshelves. You need to see the before pic!
Pretty impressive projects aren't they? I hope they inspire you!
Kim, Thank you so much for including my project in this great round up!


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Movie nerd and consultant helping entertainment businesses
Hello! I am Sam
Filmmaker & Business Consultant
In the beginning, I was the kid who spent too much time drawing cartoons. Life lead me to study business and design, and eventually to co-found an ad agency that still lives on today in the form of ThreeSixtyEight. A few years later I stumbled into the film industry. I headed into a meeting thinking I was about to lock down a new advertising client and I walked out with a new career. While working in the film industry on projects like Blue Ruin, Star Trek Into Darkness, and the television series Sleepy Hollow I soon found myself teaming up with companies like Marvel and Universal Pictures.
In recent years, I teamed up with cinematographer Matt S. Bell to start the Louisiana based production company Fable House. I've produced about a dozen feature films, a number of commercials, and consulted on a range of other projects for entertainment businesses.
I love making movies and want to work with people who share my passion for visual storytelling and artistry.
If you're lucky enough to know Sam, you know he's a great colleague. Always generous with his time, expertise and skill. I have been fortunate enough to hire him as a producer and also sit down and pick his brain for tips on filmmaking. It's always a pleasure working with him.
Linda Midgett
Director/Producer, Midgett Productions
Fable House is a Louisiana film finance, development, production, and distribution company co-founded by me (Sam Claitor) and cinematographer Matt S. Bell. The short answer: we make films and we love doing it.
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Let your wine charms show your love of the sea. This set of 6 silver plated nautical wine charms features glass pearls in shades of ocean blues. Approx. 1" diameter hoop will fit virtually all stemmed wine glasses. The price shown is for the MOQ of 6 sets of wine charms.


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Novo Apps is an app development company based in Canterbury, Kent, UK.
We specialise in creating bespoke, applications for the iOS, Android and Windows platforms. Whether you're a global company or a start-up with the next big idea, we can deliver the best possible mobile app to transform your business.
We can build mobile apps for all business sectors, including education. If you can think of it, we can build it for you!
We work closely with each of our clients to ensure we capture the look and functionality required to get the most out of your mobile app, all perfectly monitored and delivered with our dedicated Project Management team.


Chaya (Cnidoscolus aconitifolius), sometimes called the spinach tree, is a fast-growing perennial shrub native to Mexico that produces lots of attractive, large, dark green leaves. It can grow well on a wide range of soils in both hot, rainy climates and areas with occasional drought. It grows easily and quickly, especially at higher temperatures, and new leaves grow quickly after harvesting. Leaves have lower moisture content than most other green leafy plants like spinach or lettuce.


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UK Spoof News and Satire
Tuesday 16 January 2018 by Geoff Kerr
Woman who magically found £1bn to save her own job unable to find anything to save 20,000 jobs
A woman who magically found £1bn of taxpayer money in order to save her own job has admitted she's struggling to find the government money required to save 20,000 jobs.
With a Carillion bailout looking unlikely, 20,000 UK jobs are now in jeopardy, though the government claimed it was doing everything it can to help, shortly after redefining the phrase 'everything it can' to mean 'whatever is politically expedient'.
Prime minister Theresa May has admitted privately that there is no longer any magic money tree, after she ripped off every single leaf last summer in order to secure the support of the DUP and keep her job.
She told reporters, "There are some tough decisions to be made, and we in the government recognise that the taxpayers of this country cannot keep throwing money around to secure jobs because a small number of people made some very bad decisions.
"Unless those bad decisions involve losing your parliamentary advantage in an election you didn't need to call – then the taxpayer can throw around lots of money."
Workers for Carillion have taken comfort in the prime minister's words, safe in the knowledge that she is doing what is in the best interests of the country as a whole.
Construction worker Simon Williams told us, "It would be extremely unfair of us to ask her to bail out the company just so we can keep our jobs, it would put her in a very difficult position.
"When it comes to simply chucking money at a problem to make it go away, I'm sure she will do the right thing.
"The right thing for Theresa, obviously."
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The wind was a moderate northerly, the surf high and we put out one 20 hook set baited with squid over the high tide.
The gear set out straight.
The snapper, weighing in at 21 pounds was caught on the last (trailing) hook.
Left : Photo of the 21lb snapper we reported a couple of weeks ago.
The fish was taken on 8/6/03 on our kite powered dropper rig from 90 Mile Beach.
We were around two kilometres north off Waipapakauri ramp.
There has been a growing numbers of kitefishers down here of late. I have heard of good catches of kahawai and spotty sharks from Wainui Beach.
From the western lakes - kahawai, red cod, spotty shark and gurnard.
Seatoun has been producing good numbers of elephant fish, gurnard, kahawai and red cod. In fact one dude caught a 20lb snapper off Seatoun Beach this year. He did email me the photo but my computer got stolen and its gone. Will be in touch again soon.
We arrived at the Rimmer Road access to Muriwai about 9.30am on June 28th. The winds were a moderate south easterly and high tide was at 9:00am. I used a rolling weight with three wheels on my Flexiwing Rig with Skyhook. The rig was baited with mullet and went straight out to 1000 metres offshore on the dropping tide with six hooks in tow.
We ran five sets in three different positions on the beach, approximately five kilometres north of Rimmer Road. There was a trawler working just off shore maybe two kilometres out. In conversation with another kite fisherman, he stated that two trawlers had swept down the beach earlier close enough to make him concerned about the safety of his rig. I presume the relatively calm sea would encourage the closeness of the trawlers.
Due to plenty of sharks breaking our traces we only caught one shark but it was a terrific day. Even though I am a new kite fisherman I found it thoroughly enjoyable and interesting.
Editors Note: Just a couple of tips for newcomers to kitefishing. Generally, if trawlers are working an area, it is because there are fish there. It does pay to keep an eye on where they are travelling however in order to avoid any mishaps.
When kitefishing the west coast at this time of year it pays to keep your first set short, a stationery fishing time of just 15 minutes to see if the sharks are around. If your gear returns to shore with no broken traces, few fish, and no half eaten fish, then you can leave it out up to 30 minutes on the next set.
Fishing my bottom longline rig last Sunday, the winds were a light south westerly and the seas were calm. One set of 25 hooks was set dead straight out over low tide. I baited up with a combination of salted blue mackerel and squid. We only set the gear for 20 minutes before bringing it back in. The mackerel was definitely flavour of the day as all fish were taken on this instead of the squid. The set returned six snapper and no gurnard, which surprised us.
I had some trouble getting it out in the light winds, but once the kite was off shore in the clear winds it was good.
Last Friday was a good kitefishing day with plenty of wind, it was cold but that was okay. We sent out 3 sets for the day and caught 24 fish. Six snapper, 18 gurnard and one kahawai which was sent back out as bait. All the fish were good sizes.
The wind was about 25 knots southerly meaning the kite went straight out and took only took about 15 minutes to get out to the full 1000 meters. One thing I can't understand is that for the first time since I started kitefishing, this was the first time there were no other kite fishers on the beach and plenty of fish available.
Photo's have been taken and will be sent in soon. Any tips on targeting kahawai would be appreciated as it seems they are probably getting caught while the gear is moving, either going out or coming in.
Ed : Floating bead traces with a two hook pilchard rig baited with a whole small baitfish will catch any kahawai in the area. Some kitefishers do very short sets 200-300 metres out to catch fresh kahawai for bait or smoking.
Back in Mokau where I usually fish our reliable morning offshore winds have been scarce in the last month. Big seas and onshore winds mostly. My girlfriend lives in Tauranga, so while visiting I did a set off Papamoa Beach.
For the first time ever, I used the rolling weights that Paul makes. After sorting out the correct weight for the amount of wind it was away, rolling along the sand and out to sea along the seabed.
A great device for the kitefishing kit. I left the bottom rig set for an hour with salted mackerel baits and caught nine good gurnard. I was very pleased and will set there again on future trips.
On July 6 I used my kite powered bottom longline rig and set 25 hooks baited up with squid. The winds were a light southerly and the sea was calm during the outgoing tide. I only had time for one set but was pleased with the results of four snapper. A seven pounder came in first! The other three snapper were pan sized, but just as welcome.
The Manukau Harbour has been fishing really well. The trevally seem to have moved out over the past few weeks but the good news is the gurnard are there in numbers. For the past couple of weeks we have been putting the boat longline out and catching some good sized gurnard. Cutting the trevally into small pieces and putting them onto the Target 5/0 hooks resulted in 16 gurnard from three sets last weekend.
The previous weekend we had a similar return. Small baits seem to be the key and the longline doesn't have to be out for more than half an hour.
Interesting to see a lot of the gurnard had small flounder in their guts. I hope this signifies a great flounder season coming up. Hopefully we'll get out again this weekend and have another crack at these mouth-watering fish.


This time of year, our bodies crave heartier foods and a soothing beverage to comfort us after being outdoors. This red wine concoction is perfect on one of those crisp fall nights. Served warm, this drink is subtly laced with Fall spices such as cinnamon, anise and cloves. The tart pomegranate gives this mulled wine bright flavors that pair well with oaky red wine.
Rhubarb is all abounty at the farmer's market in early spring and is too often overlooked by home cooks. The crisp texture and the tart flavor of rhubarb lend itself perfectly to spring and summer appetites.


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February 1, 2018 - Compliance, Defense
Millennials Outraged Over GAO Decision Upholding DoD Determination that Millennials Won't Keep a Job
By: Rachael Plymale
(Editor's Note: The author of this post is millennial, though she does not admit it and we don't hold it against her.)
"Outraged" may be a tad dramatic, and the Department of Defense (DoD) didn't actually make any determinations about millennials and their work ethic, but nevertheless millennials took center stage in the Government Accountability Office's (GAO's) recent decision in IPT Associates, LLC, B-415277, B-415277.2, in which GAO upheld a DoD evaluation raising concerns about the recruiting and retention of millennials.
In June 2017, DoD's Washington Headquarters Services issued a Request for Quotations (RFQ) seeking administrative, analytical, and program management services to support the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics to small business holders of the Technical Engineering Analytical Management Support blanket purchase agreement (TEAMS BPA). The RFQ anticipated a best-value award based on several factors, including the offerors' Management and Staffing plan, which included a risk evaluation of the offerors' plan for staffing and ensuring continuity of operations. Under this factor, offerors would be evaluated against a variety of subfactor requirements, including retention incentives, recruiting strategies and processes, and hiring.
IPT Associates, Inc. (IPT), a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, submitted a quotation in response to the RFQ. Although IPT's quoted price was slightly lower than the awardee's ($47,406,023 to the awardee's $48,717,137), IPT received a Medium Risk rating on the Management and Staffing Factor while the awardee received a Low Risk rating, which DoD ultimately determined to be worth the small price premium.
DoD evaluators noted two concerns with IPT's Management and Staffing plan. Relevant here, according to DoD, IPT's "active" recruiting efforts (as opposed to passive efforts via job postings) were limited to recruiting from a single college and employee referrals. DoD stated that this raised concerns due to the "lack of diversity in the vendor's approach to active candidate outreach." According to DoD, IPT intended to largely retain the incumbent staff, three-quarters of whom were millennials. GAO's helpful footnote (complete with a citation to GAO's own "Federal Workforce: Lessons Learned for Engaging Millennials and Other Age Groups," apparently cited by Protestor's counsel) clarifies that "'millennial' generally refers to individuals born between the early 1980's and 2000." According to IPT's own proposal, these millennials had the shortest retention span of any employee demographic group. Thus, according to DoD evaluators, IPT's backfill recruiting plan would be very heavily reliant on referrals from the very employees it would most likely need to backfill. IPT protested.
Despite IPT's arguments that there is no clear connection between employee retention and the demographic of the group referring those employees, GAO found DoD's evaluation reasonable, noting that DoD's evaluation was based on the information IPT itself had included in its quotation (why IPT included employee demographics in its proposal in the first place is unclear). GAO found that DoD reasonably assumed that a proportional number of referrals would come from each demographic group employed, and thus concerns about millennial retention that would impact this referral process were reasonable.[1]
Accordingly, despite our headline, the GAO's focus appears to be far more on the added demographic information IPT included in its proposal rather than the millennial status of the proposed workforce.
[1] GAO similarly rejected IPT's arguments regarding the agency's other concern with its Management and Staffing plan and the awardee's Management and Staffing plan.
Rachael Plymale
Rachael Plymale represents both large and small government contractors in a wide variety of litigation including bid protests, contracts claims and disputes, size determinations, and False Claims Act cases. More ›


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Study: Listen to 78 Minutes of Music Each Day for Mental Health Benefits
Graham Hartmann Published: November 18, 2019
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A new study by the British Academy of Sound Therapy (BAST) suggests that listening to 78 minutes of music each day is recommended for maintaining good mental health. Furthermore, it can only take an average of five minutes of music each day to feel happier.
Slayer each day keeps the doctor away — it's science. The new BAST study, which was commissioned by Deezer, shows what music lovers already know — that music is essential for maintaining one's mental health.
The study documented the affects of music on 7,500 people globally. Based on individuals' experiences with music and mental health, BAST suggests a "balanced diet" of different moods of music is key, including sounds which make you feel uplifted, relaxed, motivated and even sad.
Ultimately, a recommended intake of music each day includes:
14 minutes of uplifting music (user's choice) to feel happy (18% of your musical RDA)
16 minutes of calming music (user's choice) to feel relaxed (20.5% of your music RDA)
16 minutes of music (user's choice) to overcome sadness (20.5% of your music RDA)
15 minutes of motivating music (user's choice) to aid concentration (19% of your music RDA)
17 minutes of music (user's choice) to help manage anger (22% of your music RDA)
The most common emotional benefit for listeners was relaxation, with 90 percent of participants reporting their music choices helped them relax. 82 percent reported greater levels of happiness, while 47 percent claim music helped them overcome sadness, 32 percent report better concentration and 28 percent successfully used music to deal with anger.
Though 78 minutes seems to be the optimal amount of listening time, an average of just 11 minutes per day can deliver therapeutic benefits. To boost feelings of happiness, just five minutes of music can do the trick.
"There are certain properties of music that affect the mind and body. Dedicating time each day to listen to music that triggers different emotions can have a hugely beneficial impact on our well-being. Listening to happy songs increases blood flow to areas of the brain associated with reward, and decreases flow to the amygdala, the part of the brain associated with fear," says BAST researcher Lyz Cooper.
As for rock music, 28 percent of respondents say the genre helps process feelings of anger, with AC/DC's "Highway to Hell" being the top song choice for such a reaction. Eighteen percent of people even claimed to feel relaxed after just 16 minutes of rock 'n' roll.
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