Do you want to experience something different? Love to try wines from the area when traveling? Maui Downhill is the only bicycle tour company that offers this particular tour which includes a wine tasting at Maui's only wine vineyard, Maui Wine, Ltd. You will begin your tour as you ascend the slopes of Haleakala and head to the 6,500 ft. elevation mark, where your bicycle safari begins.
You will gently descend the 21 switchbacks, where you will enjoy bi-coastal views of Maui's central valley and the West Maui Mountains, all while taking in the beauty and fragrance of the flora surrounding you. Experience the wind in your face and the beauty Maui has to offer you. When your bicycle safari is done, your experienced tour guide will continue the tour as you are driven through the upcountry community of Kula to Ulupalakua Ranch, where you will be able to taste Maui!
Minimum age 12 years old. Maximum weight of 250 lbs.
Meet at our Kahului office located at 201 Dairy Road.
Enjoy hot beverages and snacks.
Helmets and rain gear (if needed) are fitted to each guest for their comfort.
Bicycle tour begins at the 6500' elevation mark outside of the national park.
The tour will gently descend the 21 switchbacks on the western slopes of Haleakala (the world's largest resting volcano). Riders will enjoy bi-coastal panoramas of Maui's central valley and West Maui Mountains. Riders will enjoy the scent and sights of riding through pine and eucalyptus forests.
There will be photo opportunities during the bike ride.
Brief rest stop at the Maui Lavender Farm.
Bicycle tour continues through beautiful Upcountry Maui.
Van tour continues from Pukalani to Ulupalakua Ranch and Winery.
No-host lunch at the Ulupalakua Ranch Grill, visit the King's Cottage and the Museum History Room.
Walk the winery's beautiful gardens and enjoy free wine tasting.
Van tour from Ulupalakua to Kahului with information and history of Maui's plantation days.
Tour duration approximately 6-7 hours.
Competent riders – please, no beginners.
5 feet tall guideline height.
Riders must sign acknowledgment of risk & safety form.
You will begin your tour as you ascend the slopes of Haleakala and head to the 6,500 ft. elevation mark, where your bicycle safari begins. You will gently descend the 21 switchbacks, where you will enjoy bi-coastal views of Maui's central valley and the West Maui Mountains, all while taking in the beauty and fragrance of the flora surrounding you.


Photographer, Hossam Antikka got a welcome surprise when he looked back at a group selfie he'd taken with his mates. One new friend seemed over the moon to be part of the fun – a laughing camel.
Hossam and his friends had spent half an hour bonding with the desert animal before the snap was taken. 'It was a really nice camel, so I thought it was only right we should have a photo with it," said Hossam."We had been playing with it and feeding it shortly before I took the picture so I think it was happy to see us".
It wasn't until he looked back over his photos later, that Hossam discovered just how much the camel had enjoyed hanging out with the guys. "It just happened by chance, we had no idea that the camel was smiling for the picture," he explained.
After sharing the picture on Facebook, Hossam went to bed. When he woke the next morning, the image had gone viral. Since then, Hossam's laughing camel has been seen by hundreds of thousands of people across the globe.


John Pierpont Morgan was born in Connecticut in 1837, to the New England version of the aristocracy. His father, Junius Spencer Morgan, was a wealthy trans-Atlantic banker who enrolled his son Pierpont (as he was called) at the best private schools, and at universities in Switzerland in Germany, before taking a position at one of the Morgan banks in London. Throughout the second half of the 19th century, J.P. Morgan gained power as a crafty financier involved in several industries and banks. During the Civil War, J.P. Morgan paid $300 to avoid serving his draft status in the Union Army, while serving instead as a bank-roller and war-profiteer. There was an incident, for example, in which he was responsible for the sale of 5000 defective rifles for a large profit, which was investigated by the government. Unsurprisingly, there were no charges brought against him.
In contrast with the diverse group of infamous monopolists and 'robber barons' such as Commodore Vanderbilt and Jay Gould (railroads), John J. Rockefeller (oil), and Andrew Carnegie (steel), J.P. Morgan was primarily a money-man–that is, an investor of capital rather than an industrialist. In the many conflicts between the nascent railroad and oil industries for control of resources and land, J.P. Morgan showed that the next stage in the development of capitalism was the represented by the power of finance. In the case of the railroads, he could see that the suppression of competition was the most efficient and profitable course of action, and every deal he made multiplied his profits and control over other capitalists. The watershed moment in this history came in 1901, when J.P. Morgan bought out Andrew Carnegie and took control of his steel empire, reorganized it as the US Steel Corporation. Carnegie, who was a self-made man and a pure manufacturer rather than financier, sold for $400,000,000 and became the richest man in history. He spent the next 18 years giving away 90% of his wealth to education, libraries, scientific research, and world peace.
J.P. Morgan, on the other hand, became the head of the world's largest, and first Billion-dollar, corporation. US Steel was actually worth $1.4 Billion, and it now controlled a majority of American steel production. This, however, was only one of J.P. Morgan's diverse business interests. The power he amassed through his monopolistic policies in steel, railroad, banking, and other ventures like newspapers, livestock, and ocean liners, was enough to make him arguably the most powerful man in the world from 1901 to his death in 1913. He was received as a king by Edward VII, Kaiser William, and the Pope. In the Panic of 1907, J.P. Morgan arranged a deal to single-handedly bail out the U.S. government and restore confidence in an economy in crisis. This almost directly led to the Federal Reserve System of 1913, in which politicians and rival bankers wished to prevent one corporation (in this case, one man) from having so much power in the future. In addition, public opinion gradually turned hostile to J.P. Morgan after 1901 due to his anti-competition, monopoly-building practices, and he was often at war with Trust-busting Progressive leaders like Theodore Roosevelt.
Upon his death, this erstwhile king of finance was succeeded to the throne by his son, J.P. Morgan, Jr. His biggest claim to fame came immediately as World War I broke out, when he began financing the governments of Russia, England, and France. J.P Morgan Jr.'s extensive dealings, especially his favoritism towards England, surely played no insignificant part in escalating the war, drawing the U.S. into that destructive and absurd conflict on the side of the Allies, and continuing the Morgan family tradition of war-profiteering. Post-war, J.P. Morgan, Jr.'s notable accomplishments include financing Germany's unfair reparation payments of the Versailles treaty, giving Mussolini a $100,000,000 loan prior to the Second World War, and fighting tooth-and-nail against President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal plan. Fortunately, he was largely unsuccessful in this last endeavor, and many much-needed financial reforms and regulations were enacted in the wake of the Great Depression. One of these pieces of legislation was the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. One of the main provisions of this Act was the forced separation of commercial and investment banks, which helped to mitigate risk to the national economy due to under-regulated banking conglomerates. Though this Act was imperfect and obviously not a panacea, it represented a positive step towards achieving a better balance of government regulation and free market enterprise. Naturally, it was gradually circumvented and undermined by a series of the "smartest bankers" of the day, who realized that new generations of politicians could be bought and controlled just like the old ones.
Despite 50 years without a financial crisis after the instatement of the Glass-Steagall Act, the weakening of regulation by the time of the Reagan-era 1980's led once again toward the dangerous path of the consolidation of banking power, along with increasing risk of meltdown. After the formal repeal of the Act in 1999 by Bill Clinton, it was only 7 years before the nearly-fatal event occurred. By 2000, JP Morgan & Co. was back in full force, merging with Chase Manhattan Bank to eventually become the largest bank in the United States by assets, and the largest public company in the world (as of 2011). This is the context in which we find this venerable institution leading the way in the next round of financial wizardry at the public's expense. How do we feel about this, the "best managed bank there is," still fighting against needed reforms that will keep its dangerous power in check? Should it be left to its own devices, as CEO Dimon says, or should it, and all similar institutions be broken up so that they cannot willfully cause another meltdown?
I think the answer is self-explanatory. An easy step to take is mustering public opinion toward a reinstatement of an updated Glass-Steagall Act which will force the separation of commercial and investment banks (there are many online petitions calling for this exact thing, and a few progressive politicians leading the way). Likewise for a strengthening of the recent, but too weak (due to immense lobbying pressure from Wall Street), Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act. In addition, income from financial investments should not be singled out for a preferential tax rate of 15% but should be taxed as any other income. Also, there should be some sort of public ownership and control over at least a part of the enormously powerful financial machine that has been created since the days of the original J.P. Morgan. The rich will still be rich, and no one faults them for that, but they will be prevented from amassing and exerting the type of power which tends to happen when they are given special political privileges. Then, we will have a healthier, less risky, and more sustainable balance of regulated capitalism where many can succeed, and more equal democracy for all.
I have to say this is indeed a very interesting post. The end part arguing for reforms is one I support even though I live in the UK. Unfettered power, such as banking, in private hands is dangerous on a global scale. Of course unfettered trading full stop, in my opinion, is also dangerous to global well being.
I'm happy to see we seem to share the same opinion on the matter. In the quote you cited, there is no doubt of the accuracy of the first part regarding J.P. Morgan, Jr.'s financing of those countries and his favoritism towards England. The basic facts and numbers can be found in a number of encyclopedia entries.
The second part is basically my own value judgment and interpretation, which cannot be proved, and thus is personal speculation rather than fact. All the facts point me to the belief that this most powerful banker in the world financing $1.5 Billion towards England and France, and his huge influence with US politicians, played no small part in how the war played out on a financial level. I also took some information in these cases from Bertrand Russell's 1934 historical study entitled Freedom and Organization, as well as an article from 2000 by Martin Horn in the Business History Review.
I certainly do share the same opinion as yourself. It is time we all woke up to the dangers.
Thanks for explaining your reasons behind the statement as well and I can understand your reasons.


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Q: Required field not working when working via Rest I have created a simple model with 2 form properties variables.
The model has a start point, to the start i connected a user task, and connected the user task to end point.
 in the user task i added 2 form properties and set them with "required" attribute:
  <extensionElements>
    <activiti:formProperty id="SomeID" name="Some ID" type="string" required="true"></activiti:formProperty>
    <activiti:formProperty id="SomeName" name="Some Name" type="string" required="true"></activiti:formProperty>
  </extensionElements>

I am sending http message to the Rest API (via C#) to complete the task.
When i send the request with no variables in json body -> only complete as "action" it is ok (get a response) and the task is removed, how could it be ? shouldnt i get error message that the required variables are not in the json body?
Thanks

A: The problem is that only the "Form" API takes the Form Property required/writable flags into consideration.
I imagine you are using the following API:
POST http://localhost:8080/brazos-open/service/runtime/tasks/22557
{
  "action" : "complete",
  "variables" : []
}
This will give you the behavior you are experiencing.
However, if you use the Form API as follows:
POST http://localhost:8080/brazos-open/service/form/form-data
{
  "taskId" : "22557",
  "properties" : [
    {
      "id" : "numberOfDays",
      "value" : 2
    }
  ]
}
You will get an error indicating the the missing field (startDate in this case) is required.
Keep in mind, the out of box Form implementation, even in the latest version of Activiti is very rudimentary. There are much better options available.
Hope this helps,
Greg

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DoE plans to impart lessons on Yamuna pollution in school morning assemblies
Lessons on how the river Yamuna is getting polluted while passing through Delhi and its ill-effects could soon be imparted to students during morning assembly sessions in schools.
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Lessons on how the river Yamuna is getting polluted while passing through Delhi and its ill-effects could soon be imparted to students during morning assembly sessions in schools. (Burhaan Kinu/HT file)
Lessons on how the river Yamuna is getting polluted while passing through Delhi and its ill-effects could soon be imparted to students during morning assembly sessions in schools. The two-member Yamuna pollution monitoring committee has asked the education department to come up with an action plan on how such lessons could be imparted to school students. The education department, in turn, is now coming up with a circular to direct all schools. Training modules for teachers are also being prepared.
"Slides, pictures and Delhi specific photographs of sewage in drains, industrial effluent being discharged into the river are all available on the monitoring committee's website. Specific parts of the website were asked to be downloaded and modified to suit the training needs of teachers so that the messages could be conveyed at the morning assemblies at schools," stated the minutes of the meeting, which the committee held with the secretary of the education department on March 19.
Although the Yamuna river flows only for 54 km through Delhi, the 22 km stretch from Wazirabad to Okhla, which is less than two per cent of the 1,370 kmlong river — from Yamunotri to Allahabad — accounts for about 76% of pollution in the river.
Binay Bhushan, director of the Directorate of Education (DoE), said the department is drafting a circular, directing all government and private schools n the city to hold awareness programmes about rising pollution levels in the Yamuna for students. "We will follow the suggestions given during the recent meeting of the monitoring committee for Yamuna," he said, adding that the DoE was already encouraging schools to impart lessons on river conservation.
Several government school principals said the DoE had, last year, asked them to hold discussion sessions to raise awareness about pollution in the Yamuna river among students. AK Jha, principal of co-ed Sarvodya Vidhyalaya in Rohini, said, "I had given a lecture on how plastic items and polythene are polluting the Yamuna. It is really good if the government is planning to intensify the awareness campaign in schools."
Even though the department has submitted an initial action plan on how they plan to educate students, the committee has asked for a modification in the plan as it mainly spoke of general garbage disposal and lacked specificity on how the river was getting polluted.
"The focus of the programmes designed by the education department was related to general garbage disposal. The campaign for keeping the Yamuna clean needs to focus on the harm that was being done to the river by discharge of sewage and industrial effluent," the meeting's minutes stated.
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CONTINUING STUDIES: UVic program connects cultures and communication
Wide variety of programs and courses available
By Felicia Santarossa
Monday Magazine contributor
Communication, problem solving and interpersonal skills are increasingly desired by employers in the modern workforce.
Since 1996, UVic's Continuing Studies' Intercultural Studies and Practice diploma program has fostered such skills in an increasingly multicultural landscape. Students bolster their communication skills regarding people of different cultures, races, genders and abilities. This is something director Tania Muir sees as a growing demand in both the public and private sector.
"We know that we're going to work with diverse colleagues and diverse communities and populations as part of our work in a myriad of different sectors," she says. "It's not just specific areas that we need to be able to bring this knowledge skill-set to our work. We're finding that employers are really looking upon this favorably that alongside similar degrees, this additional credential really gives them the leg up."
The program combines courses from gender studies, history, linguistics, and sociology, which students can take and tailor along with their current undergraduate degree.
The program isn't afraid to tackle topics like racism in Canada, privilege and gender politics. While classes on topics such as race and ethnicity in Canada already exist, says Muir, bringing all these topics together within a diploma program was new. With the Me Too movement in the air, Muir is grateful for the interdisciplinary nature of the program, saying they have faculty and sessional instructors sharing their current knowledge and ideas within these areas.
"As courses in those departments evolve, so too, does the program for our learners," she says. Such change has been happening in the Gender Studies department, and others, Muir adds.
Through the process of combining these different topics, a significant development for the Intercultural Studies and Practice programs has been the acknowledgement of intercultural communication as its own skill set, she says.
If people working in a global context lack the knowledge and skills to communicate with diverse populations, their efforts to recruit, hire and supervise people of diverse backgrounds may be unsuccessful, Muir notes.
Registration for this program and others is open for January 2020. For more information, check out continuingstudies.uvic.ca/.
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9 Things Small Biz Owners Wish You Knew for Small Business Saturday
Jenny Lelwica ButtaccioUpdated: Oct. 27, 2021
Sure, it's easy to order gifts on Amazon, but when you shop locally, you help support your neighbors and your community—and get an amazing, personal gift. Here, local, small business owners from around the country share their secrets, insights, and passions about the work they love to do.
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Small business owners care about the products they make
"My advantage over a big retailer is that I truly care about the quality of everything I make," explains Ina Melendez, creator of INA DAYLE, a line of personal care products and artistic prints. The brand's natural skin and hair care products are made locally with locally sourced ingredients in Melendez's hometown of Miami. "All my products are made with loads of love, putting the customer first," she says.
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Small businesses are committed to improving their neighborhoods
"I love being able to affect people's lives on a personal basis, whether it be making a customer laugh or providing beautiful product at a great price," says Shayna Norwood, owner of Steel Petal Press, a Chicago-based letterpress studio. "When our gift shop opened up in June of 2016, it really filled a shopping void in our neighborhood, consisting of mostly bars and restaurants. Everyone who visits our store is so thankful to have a great, fun, and affordable place to shop." By shopping local, Norwood's customers also support local artists who sell their work in her boutique on Small Business Saturday and beyond.
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Small business owners get to know their customers really well
"I interact in my shop or over email with every single customer. I know them by first name and I learn about their families and interests," says Joanna Alberti, creative director and owner of philoSophie's Stationery & Gifts in Spencerport, New York. Alberti has an ongoing relationship with her customers, and she has worked with some families year after year. "I've worked on bridal shower invitations that have led to working on wedding invitations, baby shower invitations, and first birthday party invites—all for the same customer." It's this kind of relationship and customer service that can't be found in a large business setting.
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Small business owners support causes near and dear to their hearts
For every skin and hair care product sold, Melendez donates $1 to Lyme disease research and awareness, and for every print sold, she donates 10 percent of the profits to Lyme disease and cystic fibrosis research. Melendez has goals to create awareness for invisible diseases and encourages people to love themselves just the way they are: Beautifully imperfect. This is why Small Business Saturday is so important.
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Small business owners take the utmost pride in their work
"Our work is a labor of love," says Norwood. "From printing each paper through our vintage presses, to individually packaging and sleeving each card, everything is handmade, and it's a craft we are proud to maintain." This careful attention to detail is yet another reason to shop local. Check out these holiday shopping tips for a stress-free season.
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Small business owners value the little details
Rebecca VanDeMark owns and operates December Caravan, an Etsy shop based out of Burlington, Vermont. She creates and sells unique and beautiful scrapbooks, cards, artwork, memory pieces, and family treasures out of everyday materials, like sheets of music and ribbons. "I am reminded constantly that the smallest gift can be the greatest, and so I treasure using tons of small details in my pieces," says VanDeMark. With personalized touches, she hopes to inspire joy and hope in every part of a person's life through her handmade creations.
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Their community becomes part of their family
"Everyone is welcome in our little haven," says Juliet Abeille, owner, designer, and artist at L'abeille Vintage, an eco-conscious boutique where French country meets vintage chic style in Lake Bluff, Illinois. "We have such a lovely community who love what we do and become our ambassadors. They reminisce about furniture that reminds them of the past, and they appreciate how we change it and give it new life." Currently, Abeille is transforming and old, 1940s roadhouse into the location of her new shop named Loverly Cottage. "The community is so excited to see the evolution from roadhouse to Loverly," she says. Learn about some great activities to do on Black Friday that don't involve a crazed shopping spree.
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Small business owners are experts in their respective industries
Small business owners are passionate about what they do, and they want to help you find the perfect item. "We are happy to work with our customers to create something beautiful for their home or pick out a wonderful gift. I have an innate ability to find exactly what the customer is looking for. Once they give me their inspiration, the perfect item practically falls at my feet," says Abeille. When you shop local, you have access to the owner's expertise and savvy suggestions.
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Small business owners live and die by feedback and online reviews
If you find a local product or service you love, tell your friends, write a review on Yelp, or share it on your Instagram, please! As a small business owner, Melendez says she doesn't have the budget or the time for a big public relations' campaign that would land her coverage in a magazine or TV segment. As a customer, the best thing you can do to support a favorite, local small business is to share your experience, however you can. Speaking of online shopping, read on for these tips to navigate Cyber Monday like a pro.


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It's All Goode is the first studio album by Michael Carr's comedy character Buddy Goode. It was officially released both digitally and on CD in stores on 7 November 2008. The album is the first appearance by Carr's comedy character, and features the single that launched his career in 2007, "Dutchy in the Morning".

On 18 January 2013, the album was re-released into select stores as a double pack with Goode's second album, The One and Only Buddy Goode.

Track listing

References

External links
Official website
iTunes edition

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Mangar Surname Ancestry Results
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Holden's Triennial Directory for 1805 to 1807 includes this 'London Alphabet of Businesses, Professions, &c.': coverage is good; about 30,000 individuals are recorded.
MANGAR. Cost: £4.00.
Sailors and marines on H. M. S. London in the Crimean War (1854-1856)
Sebastopol in the Crimea was the great Russian naval arsenal on the Black Sea. A combined assault by British, French and Turkish troops resulted in the reduction of Sebastopol and led to the Treaty of Paris of 27 April 1856, guaranteeing the independence of the Ottoman Empire. By Admiralty Order the Crimea Medal was awarded to sailors and marines present during the campaign, between 17 September 1854 (the first landing at Eupatoria) and 9 September 1855 (when the allies secured Sebastopol). The sailors' medals were mostly delivered to them on board ship in the course of 1856; the marines' medals were sent to their respective headquarters for distribution. The remarks as to distribution in this medal roll therefore give more specific information as to the whereabouts of the sailor recipients in 1856 than about the marines. Her Majesty's Ship London, a 90-gun sailing ship, took part in the assault. Four clasps to this medal were awarded to the men present in the actions at Sebastopol itself, Inkerman, Balaklave (Balaclava) and (the sea of) Azoff, but the recipients of these clasps are recorded on separate rolls, not part of this index, but indexed on this site.
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In 1924/25 werd het zevende Pommers voetbalkampioenschap gespeeld, dat georganiseerd werd door de Baltische voetbalbond.

Titania Stettin werd kampioen en plaatste zich voor de Baltische eindronde. De club werd tweede achter VfB Königsberg. Vanaf dit seizoen mocht ook de vicekampioen naar de eindronde om de Duitse landstitel. Titania verloor in de eerste ronde van FC Altona 93.

Reguliere competitie

Bezirksliga Stolp
Na dit seizoen fuseerde de competitie van Stolp met die van Köslin.

Bezirksliga Köslin

Bezirksliga Stettin

Bezirksliga Stargard
Voorheen heette deze competitie Bezirksliga Pyrnitz, maar omdat deze stad op voetbalvlak niets te betekenen had werd de naam naar Stard gewijzigd. Na dit seizoen fuseerde de competitie met die van Schneidemühl.

Bezirksliga Schneidemühl
De eindrangschikking is niet meer bekend, hieronder de laatst bekende rangschikking.

Bezirksliga Vorpommern

Bezirksliga Gollnow
De competitie werd in twee groepen verdeeld, er werd echter beslist om geen finale te spelen tussen beide groepen maar om Blücher Gollnow af te vaardigen naar de eindronde.

Groep Oost

Groep West

Eindronde
 Deelnemers

 Kwartfinale

VfB Torgelow had een bye.

 Halve Finale

 Finale

Externe links
 Euroleagues

Pommers voetbalkampioenschap
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Credo ut intelligam (lat., "ich glaube, damit ich erkennen kann") ist eine Kurzformulierung für ein theologisch-philosophisches Programm von Anselm von Canterbury (1033–1109), mit dem er den Glauben rational begründen will, ohne dabei diese Begründung zur Bedingung für den Glauben zu machen.

Kontext und Interpretation
Credo ut intelligam ist in Anlehnung und Kontrast zum theologischen Ansatz credo quia absurdum ("ich glaube, weil es widersinnig ist") formuliert (der früher Tertullian oder Augustin zugeschrieben wurde) und setzt einen ähnlichen Ansatz Augustins fort (Credimus, ut cognoscamus, "wir glauben, um zu erkennen"). Anselms Programm credo, ut intelligam ist grundlegend für die Scholastik geworden.

Die Schrift Proslogion, in der Anselm dieses Programm aufstellt, enthält philosophisch-theologisch argumentierende Teile wie auch Abschnitte in Gebetsform. Ausgangspunkt des Werkes ist aber das berühmt gewordene unum argumentum ("das eine Argument"), mit dem Anselm zu beweisen sucht,

In Kapitel 2–4 legt er dann den sogenannten ontologischen Gottesbeweis dar, bei dem es sich um das gesuchte eine Argument handelt.

Dabei betont Anselm eine starke Einheit von Glauben und menschlicher Vernunft. Die Vernunft ist dabei eine Wahrheitsquelle neben anderen. Es wird noch kein theologischer Rationalismus oder eine natürliche Theologie wie in der Neuzeit als Erkenntnisquelle gegen bzw. neben den Schriftglauben gestellt, sondern umgekehrt wird der Glaube um die Vernunft bereichert.

Die vom Glauben beschenkte Vernunft sucht nach Einsicht und Begründung, aber es liegt damit noch kein Zweifel am Glauben vor, wie etwa bei der Formulierung des ontologischen Gottesbeweises bei Descartes.

Das vollständige Zitat aus dem Proslogion lautet:

Siehe auch

 Apologetik
 Credo, quia absurdum est

Literatur
 Anselm von Canterbury; Franciscus Salesius Schmitt (Hrsg.): Proslogion. Untersuchungen. Lateinisch-deutsche Ausgabe, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1962.
 Eadmer: The Life of St Anselm Archbishop of Canterbury / hrsg. von Richard William Southern. London u. a. 1962.
 Karl Barth: Fides quaerens intellectum. Anselms Beweis der Existenz Gottes im Zusammenhang seines theologischen Programms. Karl Barth-Gesamtausgabe Abt. II, Bd. 13, Zürich (Theologischer Verlag) (1931) 2. Aufl. 1986, ISBN 3-290-16206-0.

Weblinks

 thelatinlibrary.com

Einzelnachweise

Religionsphilosophie
Christliche Theologie
Christentumsgeschichte (Mittelalter)
Lateinische Phrase
Anselm von Canterbury
Natürliche Theologie


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Q: EPPlus Tabs become grouped using MovetoStart I use EPPlus (current version) to create a new ExcelPackage using an existing template file that has several other tabs. I add a new tab, which gets added as the last tab, and populate the data. If I perform a MovetoStart function on the worksheet, it successfully moves the worksheet, but groups it with what was previously the first tab. While it's pretty easy to ungroup with a right-click, I'm trying to highly automate a process and a workaround is not what I need. Suggestions?

A: I just ran into this. I don't know why it occurs, but a workaround that worked for me is to select the tab after you reorder the sheets:
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Opinion: UKIP are a blessing in disguise for pro-Europeans
By Stuart Bonar | Mon 28th July 2014 - 10:54 am
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Liberal Democrat MEP Catherine Bearder works harder than nine UKIP MEPs put together. She speaks more sense than their entire delegation, of course, but in terms of turning up to vote, it's official: the number of European Parliament divisions she's taken part in since the election is more than the combined total of nine of their lot.
Since the new Parliament started at the beginning of July, MEPs have faced 39 roll-call votes in the plenary. This is where all MEPs come together to speak and vote, usually in Strasbourg. Catherine, our sole representative in the European Parliament, has voted on all 39 occasions. She has a perfect 100 per cent record.
Contrast that with UKIP. Amongst their MEPs, Louise Bours, Nigel Farage, Raymond Finch, Nathan Gill, and Paul Nuttall have each voted five times, Mike Hookem four times, Jane Collins three times, with William Dartmouth and Jill Seymour registering no votes at all, not even against Lithuania adopting the euro. That's nine MEPs who, between them, have voted just 32 times, seven fewer than Catherine has clocked up on her own. All voting information here is taken from VoteWatch.eu.
The records of all 24 UKIP MEPs show us that since the election they have, collectively, missed a combined total of 335 European Parliament votes. That's excellent news for pro-Europeans: 335 opportunities for UKIP to express its hard Eurosceptic position have been squandered. Good.
Their performance gets even shakier when you look at some of the MEPs to whom UKIP have handed policy portfolios. Take their MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber, Jane Collins. She now speaks for the party on employment, but earlier this month she missed 17 votes in the European Parliament on youth unemployment. Her colleague for the same region, Mike Hookem, has just been given the defence brief, yet missed seven parliamentary votes on Ukraine.
In the first Nick v Nigel debate, Farage said, "But, Nick, the rules change every week… yet another small chunk, albeit small, and it's incremental, yet another small chunk of our ability to govern our country goes to the institutions of Brussels."
So, how have the parliamentary foot soldiers of the self-proclaimed People's Army fought against this relentless Brussels onslaught? Take just one example: the resolution on youth unemployment, mentioned above. This resolution, passed by the European Parliament, calls for common, EU-wide minimum standards for apprenticeships and for increases in EU spending on employment programmes. This is precisely the kind of incremental accumulation of power (as Farage would see it) that he was warning about.
Yet, where were his MEPs when it came to voting this through or voting it down? Where was Farage himself? The record shows that nine UKIP MEPs, including Farage, did not take part in the vote.
With the British media now having forgotten that the European Parliament exists, all this will go unreported. That doesn't mean however that they can't make the news. In an act of wantonly obnoxious rudeness, typical of the British right-winger coming face-to-face with Johnny Foreigner, UKIP's MEPs childishly and theatrically turned their backs on an orchestra playing the European Anthem at the opening of the newly-elected Parliament.
Their antics are an embarrassment, and when we think about the superb Liberal Democrat MEPs who were defeated in May – in the case of Sir Graham Watson by just 0.4 per cent of the vote – it can be hard to stomach. Let us be thankful however for small mercies. We are lucky to have the anti-European opponents that we do. I would far rather have this ineffectual bunch more interested in childish theatrics than exerting influence. Their collective indolence is a blessing for pro-Europeans. Just think of what damage they could do if each of them worked as hard as our own Catherine Bearder.
* Stuart Bonar was the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate in Plymouth Moor View.
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jedibeeftrix 28th Jul '14 - 11:14am
"with William Dartmouth and Jill Seymour registering no votes at all, not even against Lithuania adopting the euro."
Why would they want to do that in particular?
Where UKIP will have a problem is in their equivalent of the scots cybernats; ugly, relentless trolls who will put people off the very cause they seek to promote.
Kay Barnard 28th Jul '14 - 12:00pm
I just checked Julia Reid's record as a UKIP MEP for the South West and it was 100%. Whether or not the votes were sensible is another matter but we can't fault her attendance record.
david 28th Jul '14 - 12:07pm
Presumably their position is that it doesn't matter to UK voters whether Lithuania joins the euro. On Ukraine, they would probably argue that the EU had no business interfering there in the first place.
Alex Macfie 28th Jul '14 - 12:19pm
The poor attendance record of UKIP MEPs doesn't seem to have bothered voters in the election just gone. So why should it bother them next time?
More important than whether MEPs attend or not is what they vote for and against when they DO attend. Our national Euyro election campaigned said NOTHING about the voting records of our or any other party's MEPs in terms of what EU policy they did or did not support. Instead we vetted Farage's plan to turn the election into a referendum on UK membership on the EU (something that MEPs do not decide) by agreeing to the Clegg v Farage debates (which were a mistake in principle). We are reaping what we have sown, and I hope that our future Euro election campaigns will focus on the issues, regardless of what anyone else talks about.
jedibeeftrix 28th Jul '14 - 12:20pm
"On Ukraine, they would probably argue that the EU had no business interfering there in the first place."
[if] that were their argument, they might have a point insomuch as the potential for EU accession has caused enormous strain within Ukraine as it pulls against the opposing influence of greater Russian alignment.
i rather thought their argument was more immediately populist in opposing british involvement, which would of course be foolish given that we are supposed to be a guarantor of the ukraine agreement alongside the US and Russia.
Dai 28th Jul '14 - 12:51pm
Pretty much every vote (apart from the single vote on Lithuanaia and the Euro, which has very little to do with the UK) has been non-legislative. Because the EU 'parliament' can't intiate, start to amend, or begin repeal legislation (only unelected EU Commissioners can do that) it has loads of these kind of votes which mean absolutely nothing and are of no legislative/binding consequence.
So well done on trying to create propaganda for the Lib Dems and bash UKIP, but you really need to put some prespective on what was voted on.
Stuart Bonar 28th Jul '14 - 1:49pm
@Kay: On the other hand, William Dartmouth, the other UKIP MEP in the South West, hasn't voted once.
@david: UKIP's position was against expanding the euro to Lithuania, but those UKIP MEPs I name didn't turn up to the vote. On Ukraine, if your position is that shouldn't "interfere" then vote against, don't just skip the vote.
@Alex: I don't suggest this should be a campaign theme on the doorstep. I make the point that we're lucky that UKIP MEPs have little interest in actually influencing policy.
Giles Goodall 28th Jul '14 - 2:36pm
Well done for highlighting the hypocrisy at the heart of the Ukip narrative. Yes, people still voted for them after they failed to turn up and vote for British interests in the last Parliament. That's not a reason to not make people more aware of the charades they play out in Brussels and Strasbourg at the cost of the taxpayer and Britain's interests. The European Parliament is the EU's law-making body. We fail to take that role seriously at our own peril.
RC 28th Jul '14 - 2:49pm
To quote Churchill: "If it's a blessing in disguise, it seems quite effectively disguised"
UKIP may be hypocritical, negative and a waste of space, but people didn't vote for it positively. They voted for it as a two fingered salute to the EU. And at present they have one in ten of our 2010 voters and one and a half times our support in the national polls.
This is a very thin silver lining for a very large, black cloud.
john barnett 28th Jul '14 - 3:00pm
The European Parliament is not the EUs law making body it has no power to make law whatsoever it only exists to give the appearance of democracy and does not deserve to be taken seriously.
Peter 28th Jul '14 - 4:19pm
Now that over 75% of our laws are made in the EU and UK politicians are left to debate unimportant trivia, why does the BBC not report on the multitude of directives emanating from Brussels?
The much discussed loss of interest and confidence in politics is, in part, a consequence of our governance by the EU going almost totally unreported. Is this deliberate policy, I wonder?
Perhaps if the LibDem aim is to get the UK electorate more engaged with the EU, this would be a good place to start.
andy 28th Jul '14 - 4:40pm
Used to vote LD now vote UKIP. Used to be pro Europe now edged towards against it. Couldn't care what you say about UKIP, I'll always hate Nick Clegg more .
wg 28th Jul '14 - 4:41pm
I hold no candle for UKIP being present in a parliament they, and I, don't want to be represented by, but I don't understand why the LibDems get so upset about it.
If anti-EU residents in this country were not to vote in EU elections at all the credibility of the Brussels mafia would fall through the floor.
You should be thankful that UKIP is available for voters.
John Dunn 28th Jul '14 - 4:42pm
We need a referendum so that UK voters can get the attendance record of ALL, our MEP's down to zero.
jedibeeftrix 28th Jul '14 - 5:11pm
they get upset because they used to have sole-outsider legitimacy as the point-five party in a two-point-five party system.
regardless of all else, the lib-dem's were a 'serious' party, with a 'noble' history, and felt secure that they were above the raucus squabble of minority interest politics.
the arrival of UKIP didn't really matter in this context, they were just another fractious group of noisy bores that could largely be ignored.
UKIP overtaking the lib-dem's in opinion polls, consistently over a period of months, did matter. it was at this point that one can see the desperation set in, along with a desire to lash-out.
and why not, their world view has been upended; the great unwashed masses have not seen sense to recognise the inherent parity of worth between them and tories and labour.
every ukip success is more salt jn the wound, and yet the choking despair must continue until the party realises rule #1 of politics in an adversarial system:
You must do as the electorate pleases, and it must be seen to be done.
Alex Macfie 28th Jul '14 - 5:37pm
I would have a lot more respect for UKIP MEPs if they behaved similarly to SNP MPs in the UK Parliament, by working constructively with like-minded MEPs towards a looser EU. They do not do this, and so the British people have a large number of MEPs representing them who have no interest in influencing EU law or policy in any way. This matters to those of us who do actually care about what EU law and policy should look like, and about what MEPs actually do. Unfortunately, the majority of the British people do not, because they have been encouraged by the media and by politicians of all sides to treat EU elections as an irrelevance, or as a way of sticking two fingers up at the present national government, or as a referendum on the UK's involvement with the EU. Our party did little to encourage people to think about the election in terms of what MEPs actually do and have done to make the EU work better for them. Our campaign just went on about how brilliant the EU is, without making any attempt to explain how Lib Dem MEPs helped make it such a great thing. It was just generic, technocratic pro-EU stuff, but it gave voters no understanding of what MEPs actually do, and gave them no reason to vote Lid Dem as opposed to another party. And by doing the Clegg v Farage debates, we were basically supporting the media narrative that MEPs don't matter, and that the only possible options for the EU are uncritical support or withdrawal. In other words, we allowed the debate to be conducated on Farage's terms, not on ours.
None of this encouraged voters to think that what MEPs do is important. But until they do start to think that what MEPs do is important, they are not going to give a **** that their MEPs aren't doing their jobs and are only there for the beer. And they will continue to vote UKIP regardless of what UKIP MEPs do
T-J 28th Jul '14 - 6:01pm
@John Barnett
Your critique is out of date and obsolete. The large majority of European law now originates from requests made by Parliament to the Commission, and most of the remainder originate from requests made by member states to the Commission.
Your number is plucked out of thin air, or possibly out of Nigel Farage's mouth. It isn't accurate and only has any credibility thanks to the amount of legislation that is concerned with creating common trading standards across the single market. But, that said, there needs to be much more coverage of the European political process in British media. During the May elections, the huge gap in coverage and in the debate as a whole between Britain and Ireland was staggering. Over there, the debate was over which political bloc would deliver what, and which of the candidates would be best for Ireland. Here, tired old In or Out rubbish.
@Jedibeeftrix
Wrong, sorry. UKIP wins don't bruise Lib Dem egos – UKIP supporters self-descriptions are diametrically opposed to the way Lib Dem voters and former supporters describe ourselves, we never really had much overlap to mention anyway.
Its Green wins that sting. Luckily for the Liberal Democratic ego, the media doesn't generally see fit to report on Green successes. Don't fit the narrative, might as well not happen.
Also, again with 'adversarial politics'. What you're defending though is a system where both adversaries try to find out what the 30% of the vote most likely to turn out wants, and then competes to be most credible offering it. Its not a battle of ideas, its a battle of personalities for the support attached to whatever pre-existing idea might happen to be present: 'Oh Lord, tell me where my people are going, that I may lead them there'.
It lands us with the kind of spineless focus group 'leadership' that characterises post-Thatcher British public life.
Tim13 28th Jul '14 - 6:09pm
Alex I could even take them more seriously if they acted like Sinn Fein MPs and did not take their seats (nor presumably draw any money??). They are making a particular point. UKIP are not – just getting elected under false pretences.
Caractatus 28th Jul '14 - 6:22pm
This is such feeble stuff, no offense meant but no one cares.
AH 29th Jul '14 - 8:48am
On the other hand, is it any wonder that Catherine Bearder hs a 100% attendance record? Afterall, she is a party of one!
What a silly, pointless article.
Nick Tregoning 29th Jul '14 - 8:48am
Ah no, sorry Peter – 75% of our laws are not made in the EU. That's a UKIP-fact – the relationship between a UKIP-fact and a normal fact is that a UKIP-fact isn't actually true.
Matthew Huntbach 29th Jul '14 - 9:40am
If that is the case, then the MEPs we elected have a very important job to do, so why aren't the UKIP ones doing it? Why aren't they there telling us of all the things going through the EU that are so much more important than anything done by Cameron, Clegg etc here, and telling us what they are doing to scrutinise these things and draw attention to bad aspects of them? I suspect because they don't want their fantasy world to come into conflict with reality, which it might if they actually got down to the job they are meant to be doing and actually had to deal with what is REALLY coming out from the EU.
T-J
You said, "Your number is plucked out of thin air, or possibly out of Nigel Farage's mouth,". (For the benefit of others, the number refers to the amount of EU legislation affecting the UK.)
I notice that although you scorn my opinion, you do not offer an alternative. The >75% is a current estimate, reasonable in my opinion, and supported by many observers. Eleven years ago, a long time in politics, the estimate was about 50% according to one MEP and it is very likely that the level has increased significantly since then.
"Probably half of all new legislation now enacted in the UK begins in Brussels."
Nick Clegg MEP, The Guardian, 8 December 2003, 09:26 GMT.
Perhaps you would like to offer your estimate, just to complete the discussion?
Matthew, your turn as well.
Nick Tregoning.
I think you owe someone an apology, perhaps your leader?
Remember that Clegg thought it was 50% 11 years ago, so 75% today is not unreasonable, given all the extra areas that have been handed over to EU control since 2003.
Stuart Bonar 30th Jul '14 - 10:40am
Here you go Peter: https://fullfact.org/europe/eu_make_uk_law-29587
Of course the numbers game is of limited value anyway – is one regulation about something like the energy efficiency of fridges (a Europe sort of thing) as important as the law on same-sex marriage (a London/Edinburgh/Cardiff/Belfast kind of thing)? If you're just dealing in numbers then both are as important as each other.
In any event, if Brussels is so important and makes so many of our laws, as UKIP maintain, why are they not turning up to vote?
Alex Macfie 30th Jul '14 - 10:44am
There is a difference between laws "beginning" in Brussels, and being "made" in Brussels. The "75% of laws are made in Brussels" assertion implies that EU laws are diktats that national parliaments have no choice in how to implement. In fact member states have considerable flexibility in how they incorporate EU directives into their own bodies of law, based on their individual legal systems. It is unfortunate that the UK all too often chooses not to take advantage of this flexibility (not implementing easements or exemptions, often even when its own ministers sought to get them put into the law), but that is a separate issue.
So Peter, stop crowing.
Malcolm Todd 30th Jul '14 - 11:14am
Coming up with numbers or percentages for how much law is made where is of course stuff and nonsense. Pick the number that suits your narrative, shout it over and over, and then claim that "many observers" agree with you.
what matters is whether any particular body has legitimacy in making the rules that it makes, and whether it does enough, too much or too little in the areas in which it has competence. After all, if it were true that the EU accounted for 75% of British law (and presumably that the British parliament was responsible, therefore, for 25%), then Westminster could just multiply ninefold the number of laws it passes and thereby reverse the relative proportions attributable to Brussels and Westminster. Problem solved? Of course not.
Please stop bandying about silly, meaningless numbers and engage in meaningful argument about the legitimacy of institutions and the appropriate level at which decisions should be made.
If you do want to use numbers to assess the relative power of the EU and national governments, incidentally, there is a much more meaningful measure: control of public money. The EU's budget is €142bn in 2014 or about 1% of the total GDP of Europe: http://europa.eu/pol/financ/index_en.htm. That's equivalent to about £114bn, covering the whole of the EU of course.
The British Government, meanwhile, is responsible for spending of £546bn (excluding local authority spending), or about 33% of British GDP: http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/year_spending_2014UKbn_14bc1n#ukgs302. That is, Westminster is directly responsible for nearly five times as much spending as the EU, though it is responsible for barely one-eighth of the population.
Ruled by Brussels, indeed. Pish and nonsense.
Malcolm: that point about spending power is a very good one.
I think a better way of assessing rule by Brussels is to look at the areas where Brussels claim competence.
Do not forget that the project is a long term transfer of powers. They do not have the bureaucratic capacity to grab all powers overnight. They have it all in the bag eventually and they have taken decades to get this far, estimated to be about 75% as discussed earlier.
Peter 30th Jul '14 - 10:03pm
Gentlemen, one other comment. I do not take part here on behalf of UKIP. I am not in any way affiliated to UKIP.
I have a number of major criticisms of UKIP. It is rather tiresome to be labelled as UKIP on this site. To remind you, The LibDem policy on the EU is to engage. The BBC policy on the EU is to pretend that none of the EU Directives affect us, because they studiously avoid mentioning any of them. What is the LibDem position on that? Was the attack on me designed to avoid dealing with that important issue?
Alex Macfie 31st Jul '14 - 12:25am
No, the BBC policy, like the policy of most of the media, is to pretend that the only permitted positions on the EU are uncritical support for everything that all EU institutions do, or withdrawal. So the concept that there are different political positions on policy for the EU as a whole, as in liberal, conservative and socialist ideas of specific policy for the EU is completely beyond them. And the BBC, like the rest of the media, expect the people who are "pro-EU" to justify every outlandish claimed EU law proposal in a have-you-stopped-beating-your-wife-yet way. The Lib Dem leadership's mistake was to go along with this false narrative instead of challenging it by talking about what we asw LIBERALS would to do change the EU.
T-J 31st Jul '14 - 1:19am
'I notice that although you scorn my opinion, you do not offer an alternative. The >75% is a current estimate, reasonable in my opinion, and supported by many observers.'
Alright then, I'll give you an estimate. But first, you need to be made aware of where your 'reasonable estimates' come from.
The 75% 'estimate' is not a current estimate by anyone other than Nigel, is totally unreasonable and rests on a (deliberate) misunderstanding of what the European Parliament has been saying -The number comes from an interview with a senior MEP in around 2009, where said MEP was told by his interviewer that the European Parliament is unimportant, a powerless talking shop that doesn't have any say over law at all.
This MEP responded by asking, if the Parliament is so unimportant, how is it that 75% of European Union law now originates within the European Parliament? Note, *European Union law*, not 'laws within Europe'.
The 75% was a claim made by someone putting down the 'undemocratic unelected eurocrats' line the phobics like to throw around. An estimate for the influence of Parliament on the Union, not of the influence of the Union on its members.
By the way, the remaining 25% is law originated by the Council, made of the elected heads of the European Union member countries, so also democratic there.
The other major UKIP figure bandied about is 84%, which relates to a question asked by UKIP's Daniel Hannan to the German federal parliament, the answer to which he claimed showed that five times more German law originates in Brussels than in Berlin. This figure relied on wilfully misunderstanding the German federal system and totally failed to count any law passed by the parliaments of the Lander, the constituent states of Germany. Although they legislate in cohesion with eachother and the federal government, they are in fact responsible for the significant majority of all German law. So, never mind that the 84% figure for Germany is totally irrelevant to the UK, comparing a eurozone apple with a non-euro orange, the basis on which it was calculated was dishonest from the start.
Based on their fundamental factual errors if nothing else, Nigel's claims should be discarded by any non-partisan observer.
So, what's the real figure?
Well, leading eurosceptic thinktank OpenEurope believes that the number may rest somewhere around 43%, although it admits difficulty in picking apart laws passed on the instructions of directives from the European Parliament and Commission, and laws that just happen to be the same because it would be silly to have them be different. Still, a thinking, rational person who is hostile to the EU can reference OpenEurope and say 43% without looking stupid.
Personally, I consider this figure to be unreliable because it doesn't consider how much one-off legislation comes from Brussels in the interests of lining up new members' systems with the EU-wide one, nor does it explore the difference between euro and non-euro members.
Factchecking organisation FullFact.org estimates that between 10-14% of UK Parliamentary Acts and 9-14% of UK non-Act regulation comes about either directly as a result of the European Parliament and Council legislation process, or under the influence of the European Parliament more generally.
They also estimate that up to 53% of binding regulation applicable in the UK is down to the European Union and the rules governing the single market, but they also note that this figure overstates the influence of Europe, as it includes all regulations that are binding across the Union, regardless of whether it is relevant to the UK or not. For example, the EU rules on olive plantations are binding throughout the Union, but irrelevant in the UK where olive plants simply won't grow.
If you absolutely insist, then I would say that I consider 25% to be a reasonable figure for how much influence the European Union has over UK law. This is quite a bit higher than the figure for actual acts and regulations implemented by our Parliament due to Brussels, but I think it deserves to be weighted a bit higher anyway, to recognise the non-legislative influence European institutions have on states in the neighbourhood, be they enthusiastic members, non-members or halfway-house maybes like the UK.
Raddiy 31st Jul '14 - 12:45pm
@ T-J
" The other major UKIP figure bandied about is 84%, which relates to a question asked by UKIP's Daniel Hannan to the German federal parliament, the answer to which he claimed showed that five times more German law originates in Brussels than in Berlin. "
You really have your finger on the pulse of matters EU..
Dan Hannan is a Conservative MEP for South East England,
I would have thought a member of the EU good, UK bad brigade would be aware of the political affiliation of one of the most senior, most published and most well known MEP's. Does this lack of attention to detail apply to the data in the rest of your response.
Malcolm Todd 31st Jul '14 - 12:57pm
Raddiy
Absolutely unable to find fault in any of the serious, substantive points made by T-J then, I take it?
T-J 31st Jul '14 - 1:25pm
@Raddiy
I do apologise, the last time I paid direct attention to Hannan, he was being expelled from the European Parliament group to which he belonged for comparing his German party colleagues to Nazis, with the intent of disrupting proceedings rather than highlighting imminent genocide.
At the time, UKIP were making advances and I assumed he might have had the courage to stand on his convictions and accept the offer. As it happens, I have overestimated him.
Raddiy 31st Jul '14 - 1:58pm
@Malcolm Todd
I was questioning the integrity of the analysis, based on a basic absence of rigour, especially in light of the fact the comment was one of a number of comments attacking my party for apparently using spurious facts.
Perhaps I should have kept quiet and allowed UKIP's Daniel Hannan and his 84% become another urban myth for similar can't be bothered to check the facts LibDems to drag out as gold plated.
You know the sort of thing, just like the discredited 3million jobs will be lost if we leave the EU, which despite being completely discredited, is still one of the most common myths used by LibDems when debating the EU.
But Raddiy, your facts aren't just spurious, they're outright lies.
I might occasionally fluff on exactly which political vanity project a given liar might belong to, ECR, UKIP, same diff, but I admit when that happens. Can you say the same for when your side is caught out plucking statistics from thin air?
I'll take it that the answer is no, and that you don't have anything relevant to respond with.
I refer you to your own leader, who has quoted Hannan's number as gospel in the past but chose to tone it down to the 75% figure for the purposes of television, perhaps understanding that people think 3/4 sounds credible while 84% sounds wonkish.
Also, on Hannan, it looks like he's the Tory who's been making all those calls for an electoral pact with UKIP. So, not a card carrying Kipper, but definitely Nigel's man at Millbank.
jedibeeftrix 31st Jul '14 - 2:48pm
Ah yes, those three million jobs. Always good for a laugh. Proof positive the party of evidence based policy making sometimes strays into lala land.
@Jedi
And yet, when the Scottish Question is raised, the same sort of estimate is regarded as absolutely credible by the British establishment.
The main problem with the 3m jobs estimate is that it assumes that a given percentage increase in the costs of doing business across the border will be compensated for by that percentage of jobs being lost.
Obviously, not the case. Britain's recent record suggests that our economy tends these days towards pay restraint, reduced conditions and increased flexibility when faced with trouble.
But, the increase in costs does have to be absorbed somehow. Personally I would prefer we just work out a decent estimate of the savings made by business, in terms of tariffs removed, regulation harmonised and so on, rather than try to use the language of 'politician speaking to normal person', distilling everything into jobs gained or lost. That narrative assumes that the voter can't understand the real situation, and inevitably runs into trouble when it gets put under the spotlight.
Still, I don't run the campaign, and perhaps that's just as well while I stay in the habit of posting comments at two in the morning without a proofreader.
john barnett 31st Jul '14 - 5:21pm
@TJ Yes the EU parliament can make "requests" to the commission but that is not the same as actually making laws It is certainly not a parliament in anything like the sense that Westminster was and I think that by using the word "requests" to describe what the parliament does you really made my point for me.
John barnett,
Yes, the Westminster parliament tells Whitehall to write up bills and acts about this or that, but its not the same as actually making laws.
The request element comes about because the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union are equal co-legislators, with Parliament being a population proportional democratic assembly and the Council being formed by the elected leader of each state. Neither body can 'instruct' the Commission unilaterally, although either can make a unilateral request of it, the results of which then goes through the process of debate, amendment and voting until both Council and Parliament are satisfied.
Still, the point is that you seem to be complaining that the European Parliament isn't powerful enough. Somehow I doubt that you would appreciate it becoming any more powerful, especially since making the Parliament more powerful would mean that the member states would lose legislative initiative at the EU level.
That's why the European Parliament isn't supreme in the sense of Westminster – it represents a coming-together of several equally sovereign members, and so must share legislative initiative with them in a structure that at least tries to balance the common interests of the Union with the individual needs of each member. Whereas Westminster claims to hold that absolute sovereignty in Britain, so can send out absolute instructions if it so desires.


Collegiate Culinaire | Eating well and snubbing Ramen since 2011.
Eating well and snubbing Ramen since 2011.
Perfect for parties or a fun dessert idea to try with kids, building a caramel apple dipping bar is a light dessert that lets guests create the dessert they want.
-Prep all the toppings and apples first. The caramel needs to be made directly before serving, so focus first on dividing the toppings into bowls, laying out the skewers and finding a cute matching dish for the apples.
-When it's time to serve, melt your caramel bits according to package directions (they'll all be different).
-Bring the caramel over to guests on a serving tray with small serving plates and the topping bowls, and let them have fun creating their own desserts.
Fall is all about pumpkin. Last year I was trying every pumpkin dessert recipe I came across. This year, being busier with my doctoral work, I've slowed down a bit and tried my hand at savory pumpkin recipes this season.
On Halloween, I had a small dinner party with close friends as part of our weekly supper club. We call it "Lovely Ladies Supper Club," and it's a blast. Every Thursday we visit a different friends apartment or home, get to see how they live, who they live with, what fuzzy family members they live with, and how they like to cook.
I love soup–and you already know I love pumpkin–so my Harvest Pumpkin Chili seemed perfect. The problem is I have this not so awful habit of always wanting something new. I hate trying the same restaurant twice, and the same goes for recipes.
So I came across this Curried Pumpkin Soup from Better Homes and Gardens online. They said it would only take 30 minutes, and they were right. Very fast, very tasty. No complaints from me (and I might even try this one again!).
Make it. Save the leftovers for your lunches. That's what I did, of course, because life moves fast. Packing lunch is my least favorite thing to do in the morning. So fresh, homemade soup that's ready to heat and serve is perfect for my busy lifestyle.
-In a large sauce pan, heat your oil and add in the veggies to sauté them. Add in seasonings and continue to cook for another 2 minutes until softened up.
-In the same pan, add in half of the chicken stock. Set the soup to boil, and then add in all of pumpkin, mixing well. Add in remaining stock + 1/2 cup water if you want a thinner soup. Mix well.
-Let boil just a few minutes and then return to a simmer. Simmer for 15-20 minutes if you have the time for fullest flavor. If you don't, grab a slice of cornbread and dig in.
A front door says a lot. Mine is the ugliest. Really, really, U-G-L-Y because it has no alibi ugly. Worn dingy green paint job finds door with no structural character, topped with a silver number plate that makes it look more like a motel front than a home.
So I wanted something to jazz it up. A wreath I could make, and the pinecones I found while hiking the Lincoln National Forest Trails in New Mexico in October inspired me to move on this endeavor.
I went to pinning. I found plenty of ideas, most of which featured wire bases with burlap wrapped around the outside. But it takes a lot of burlap to build a big, full wreath as well as a lot of patience–once you find out that burlap falls apart quickly and leaves little strings everywhere. When I went to Hobby Lobby, I found an alternative I liked much better.
Here's the easiest little wreath you can make and one you can accessorize every season. Come Thanksgiving I'll be adding some red, orange, and yellow ribbons. Christmas might be more green and red by removing the ribbons and pinning on ornaments, but who knows. Go where the wreath takes you, right?
Note: I chose pine cones, a wooden J, and a faux white branch, but you can play around with this as much as you like, as noted above.
Start with your burlap. Cut the burlap into 2.5 inch-wide strips that all link together by alternating the sides you cut down. So you don't want your burlap to look like one large tasseled end. Instead, cut down the first strip, stopping about 2 inches from the end of the first row. Flip sides and cut from the other end; continue to alternate until you have a longer, connected fabric that almost snakes or zigzags.
Wrap the burlap onto the base. To secure the first part, use one of the pipe cleaners, sliding it through the twigs on the backside of the wreath to secure the fabric. Continue wrapping upwards to cover the entire wreath, but you might leave out a few twigs or gaps to show the twigs, if you like. Secure the final end with another pipe cleaner.
Next, I attached by white sprig branch by wrapping the wire stem around one lower part of the base. That wrap around stem I used to attach my other baubles. So I used the extra burlap strings to tie the pinecones onto the sprig branch's wire, and did the same with the J.
Depending on what you use, yours could be very different, but as it stands, this might be the easiest wreath you could put together, and I think it's lovely. I'm glad to have a chic, country touch on my ugly motel-esque front door. My only piece of parting advice might be this: In picking your baubles or even burlap color, consider the color of your front door and the colors around it. White works well to distract from mine without clashing, but if you've got a white door, you might want something different.
When my friend Amelia mentioned her pumpkin pizza in a Facebook post, I was perplexed.
Pumpkin puree for sauce? Pumpkin pulp as a topping? Can that really taste good?
Yes. I'm always surprised when sweet-savory combinations work so well. I'm not sure why I always forget this little culinary truism, but I'm always pleasantly reminded.
Pumpkin as a topping, and a sauce that's part pumpkin, part marina is oh so sweet, and it gets an herb-y fresh kick from our good friend parsley. I mean, really good. If you live pumpkin, you really should try this pairing.
And where'd I get the "pumpkin pulp"? The jack'o'lantern I carved all by myself (first time!) this year.
-Add flour and salt to the yeast mixture and stir 'til a soft dough forms. Turn out on a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic.
-Punch down and work in seasonings. Roll into a circle or square shape. Place on lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake for about 8 minutes. Remove from oven and begin topping process.
-In a small dish, mix the 1 T marinara and 1 T pumpkin puree to make the suance. Rub sauce evenly over the dough in a thin layer, and then sprinkle cheese on, too. Arrange pumpkin pulp evenly on top. Sprinkle parsley on top.
-Place back in oven for about 5 more minutes or until cheese is bubbly. Slice and serve warm.
The one time I tried to carve a pumpkin by myself, I found out it was hard. Scraping and scratching out the stringy insides took forever; carefully carving the thick pumpkin walls took longer.
Patience: a virtue I've never known well and can't summon for the art of pumpkin carving.
But I can make meals FAST! Thats what I'm good at. I've been eating a lot of fast meals recently, to my regret, because this first semester in my PhD program at TCU has been full of studying, events, making new friends, studying, writing everyday, all the time, and studying some more. I've gotten good at having some standby ingredients on hand all the time so when I am home I get a wholesome, nutritional meal with "real" ingredients, but I'll admit that my creative cookery has fallen way by the wayside.
One of the ingredients I always have on hand are sweet potatoes–been eating them like a fiend! I've found that if you microwave the sweet potato fries for a bit, then crisp them up in the oven, things go much, much faster.
Imagine my delight when I saw Apronstring's Yam'O'Lanterns recipe. A few more minutes added to my sweet potato prep gave me a fun food-craft to try on the fly. Here's my make-it-fast variation of this festive fall food.
-Preheat oven to 375. Lightly grease a cookie sheet. Set aside.
-Using a sharp knife, slice your sweet potato into rounds as you usually might (mine were about 1/5″ thick). Then, use a sharp paring knife to carve in the faces you like. When ready, transfer to a microwave-safe plate and microwave on high for 5 minutes.
-After that, transfer to prepared sheet. Spritz on some cooking spray and sprinkle with sea salt or other seasonings you like (rosemary would be a delicious one to use for these). Toss them up a bit for good coverage and pop in the oven for about 12-15 minutes, longer if you made thicker slices. Remove when cooked all the way through and crispy around all the edges.
Way, way back, I got on a cabbage kick. And since then I really haven't put the kibosh on cabbage.
Friends, especially Derek Smith, have noticed that I'm a sucker for veggie+protein+pasta combinations. Usually, there's red sauce in the mix. But sometimes I shake things up, literally. Shake a little lemon, a little EVOO, red wine vinegar, and herbs for a fresh alternative.
Some more veggies and sauteed shrimp make this delightful. Plus, cabbage is a fab mix-in because it gives a bulk to the pasta that's very, very good for you.
Veggie and seafood lovers, you will definitely want to give this one a go.
Bring 5 cups water to boil in a pot and add in wheat and cabbage noodles. Boil until cabbage is tender and wheat noodles almost cooked all the way through–a little al dente is good for controlling the blood sugar levels, in case you're wondering.
Meanwhile, slice tomato up and sauté with onion and herbs in a medium to large skillet. Then add in shrimp.
In a small container you can seal, add in liquids: olive oil, vinegar, and lemon. Add in grated parmesan if you like that, too. Shake well. Set aside.
In skillet, add in the noodles once they've boiled and have been strained fully. Turn up the heat for a minute or so (medium to medium-high) to extract out any remaining water. Let sauté for a few minutes, tossing occasionally.
Transfer to one large bowl. Serve warm as is; but I of course had to have a little red sauce under my pasta. I still can't resist a good marinara.
And honestly, this recipe is probably big enough to serve two people, but it's so good and healthful there's no shame in eating it all yourself, I think.
I will never be able to say jicama correctly on a first attempt.
The J always gets me.
But I will always be grateful for this oddly sweet fruit and how well it pairs with spicy seasonings.
And for a foodie blogger I've never met, Annalisa from Annalisa's Organic Kitchen, for sharing this recipe idea. I've tweaked things a bit, per usual, but it's very similar and very easy to make.
-Peel jicama and cut into sticks that are similar in shape to a French fry.
-Mix the jicama sticks up on the greased cookie sheet. Squeeze the lime over the top, and toss, and squeeze again.
-Sprinkle the coconut oil over the fries, and then the remaining seasonings until fries are well coated.
-Bake for about 30 minutes, flipping every 10 minutes or so. For an extra crisp fry at the end, turn on the broilers for about a minute–but don't do this if your cookie sheet is not "broiler safe" or won't be able to stand the heat.
-Remove from the oven and ready yourself to enjoy one heaping serving of jicama, crispy, spicy, and sweet.
I really enjoy crafting. That being said, don't take that to mean that I'm good at crafting… The two really are different.
I'm a drive-by crafter. My inner perfectionist gets a kick out of small projects that are easy to do. It helps me relax and feel like I've accomplished something.
Dealing with fabrics happens less frequently. This is because I'm a novice sewer with a mild phobia of sewing machines–those stitchers look like they could really take a few fingers off!
But I can do this fabric craft. Seen on Pinterest, accomplished in my own study, no sewing involved, and fingers remaining in tact.
Lay out your fabric on the ground or a large flat surface. Place canvas on top. Cut around this leaving about 3-4 inches extra fabric around the edges for folding.
Iron the fabric so it's nice and smooth and will lay flat. Place the canvas evenly in the center and beginning folding your corners, wrapping as you would the edges of a present with gift wrap.
Pin down each corner lightly but not all the way. Why? you may need to make adjustments if the fabric pattern appears crooked or is laying too loosely over the canvas.
When you've gotten the fabric to lay as you like, push your pins down.
Hang and bask in your craftiness. Or folding abilities. Or just your abilities to choose aesthetically-pleasing fabric patterns that add to your interiors.
And if you're feeling crazy–or need a visual change next month–do it all over again with another fabric pattern!