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Miron Mitrea
Miron Tudor Mitrea (born August 8, 1956) is a Romanian engineer and politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), he was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Vrancea County from 1996 to 2008, and sat in the Romanian Senate from 2008 to 2012, representing the same county. In 2012, he returned to the Chamber, also for Vrancea County. In the Adrian Năstase cabinet, he was Minister of Public Works and Transport from 2000 to 2004.
He has four sons and a daughter. His third and current wife, Manuela, a notary by profession, has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2000.[1]
He was born in Sighişoara to Ion and Viorica Mitrea and, after living in Făgăraş and Braşov, moved to Bucharest, where he completed secondary studies at the city's Dr. Petru Groza High School. Following army service in Medgidia, he studied transportation at the Politehnica University of Bucharest, specialising in road vehicles and graduating in 1981.[1] From 1982 to 1983 he worked at a heavy machine factory in Constanţa, and then until 1989 he held a similar position in Bucharest, where he was a director on his factory floor.[2]
Following the 1989 Revolution, Mitrea became president of the trade union Frăţia, and after Frăţia merged with another union in 1993, he continued until 1995 as head of the National Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Romania - Brotherhood. Joining the PDSR (PSD from 2001), he was elected to the Chamber on its lists in 1996. In 2000, after the PDSR came to power, Mitrea became Minister of Transport, serving until 2004, when the party lost elections.[2] As minister, his achievements included modernising several rail stations, continuing work on the A2 motorway, rebuilding the northern jetty of the Port of Constanţa and completing Bucharest apartment blocks that had been left unfinished since 1989.[3] In April 2008, the National Anticorruption Directorate charged him with receiving bribes, instigating forgery in official documents and using forgery as minister,[4] and Mitrea resigned his Chamber seat that September after his colleagues (despite his request to the contrary) stopped the indictment (and a similar one for Năstase) from moving forward on grounds of parliamentary immunity; he wished to fight the charges and clear his name.[5] After serving as the coordinator of the PSD's successful 2008 election campaign, Mitrea won a seat in the Senate.[6] At the 2012 election, he returned to the Chamber as one of its vice presidents and a member of its European affairs committee.[7] In October 2014, Mitrea received a two-year prison sentence in a corruption case involving construction at his mother's house; in response, he vowed to appeal.[8] His sentence was upheld the following February, when he was incarcerated at Poarta Albă.[9]
Within his party, Mitrea has served as Vice President (1995-1996 and 2001-2005), Secretary General (1996-1997 and 2005-2006) and member of the General Executive Bureau (1997-2000). From 1996 to 2000, he was a vice president, quaestor and secretary of the Chamber of Deputies, also serving as a vice president from 2004 to 2008.[1] From 1991 to 1992, he served on the executive bureau of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.[2] Ideologically, Mitrea is an avowed leftist but also an anti-communist, and he has worked to distance the PSD from its image as a successor to the Romanian Communist Party.[10]
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^ a b c ‹See Tfd›(in Romanian) Who I Am Archived 2008-09-07 at Archive.today, retrieved February 27, 2009
^ a b c ‹See Tfd›(in Romanian) Profile at the Romanian Chamber of Deputies site; retrieved February 27, 2009
^ ‹See Tfd›(in Romanian) "What I Have Done" Archived 2012-07-10 at Archive.today, retrieved February 27, 2009
^ ‹See Tfd›(in Romanian) "DNA cere Camerei Deputaţilor aviz pentru urmărirea penală a lui Miron Mitrea" ("DNA Asks the Chamber of Deputies for Authorisation to Pursue Charges Against Miron Mitrea"), Mediafax, April 21, 2008, retrieved February 27, 2009
^ ‹See Tfd›(in Romanian) "Miron Mitrea a demisionat din funcţia de parlamentar" ("Miron Mitrea Has Resigned from the Office of Parliamentarian") Archived 2011-05-23 at the Wayback Machine, Realitatea, 4 September 2008, retrieved February 27, 2009
^ ‹See Tfd›(in Romanian) "Bunurile lui Miron Mitrea puse sub sechestru de DNA" ("Miron Mitrea's Possessions Sequestered by the DNA"), Mediafax, December 10, 2008, retrieved February 27, 2009
^ ‹See Tfd›(in Romanian) 2012- Profile at the Romanian Chamber of Deputies site; retrieved July 23, 2013
^ ‹See Tfd›(in Romanian) Diana Biţă, "Miron Mitrea, condamnat de ÎCCJ la doi ani de închisoare cu executare" ("Miron Mitrea, Sentenced by High Court to Two Years in Prison"), România Liberă, 15 October 2014, retrieved October 15, 2014
^ ‹See Tfd›(in Romanian) Cătălin Lupășteanu, "Miron Mitrea, condamnat definitiv la 2 ani de închisoare cu executare" ("Miron Mitrea, Given Two-Year Prison Term"), Mediafax, 13 February 2014, retrieved February 14, 2015
^ ‹See Tfd›(in Romanian) "What I Wish to Do" Archived 2012-07-11 at Archive.today, retrieved February 27, 2009
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‹See Tfd›(in Romanian) Personal blog
‹See Tfd›(in Romanian) Profile at the Romanian Senate site
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Two Yemeni Men Caught at California Border
Two Yemeni men were apprehended while illegally crossing the border at the Calexico Port of Entry. Both were transported to El Centro Processing center for immigration and criminal history screening, according to an archived Customs and Border Protection(CBP) press release published in full by The National Pulse on Tuesday morning. The primary duty of the border protection is to "enforce all applicable U.S. laws, including against illegal immigration, narcotics smuggling, and illegal importation." Immigration reform has been a focus of the Biden administration with many saying that the situation at the border is a crisis with potentially devastating economic and homeland security implications.
The El Centro Sector of the United States Border Patrol (USBP) is located in Southern California in the Imperial Valley. According to the El Centro Sector website, the border comprises 71 linear miles along the International Boundary with Mexico from the Jacumba Mountains in the west to the Imperial Sand Dunes in the east. The sector has four Border Patrol stations located in the cities of El Centro, Calexico, Indio, and Riverside, according to the website. The terrain consists of some mountains and agricultural land but is primarily desert with temperatures sometimes exceeding 120 degrees. It can be dangerous for those who migrate as well as for the border control agents. The approximate boundaries of the border can be found below.
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One man, apprehended on Jan. 29 at approximately 1:10 a.m. three miles west of the Calexico Port of Entry, was taken for processing at the El Centro border protection station. The illegal alien is 33 years old and was listed on both the FBI's Terrorism Watch List and on the No-Fly list. At the time of apprehension, agents "found a cellular sim card hidden underneath the insole of his shoe."
The other man, age 26, was apprehended on Mar. 30 at approximately 11:30 p.m. He is also on both the FBI's Terrorism Watch List and the No-Fly list. He is in federal custody pending removal. They were traveling separately.
Yesterday's CBP press release announcing the arrest of two Yemeni border-crossing migrants on the FBI's terror watch list has… mysteriously disappeared! Hmm. I've got calls in asking why. Here are the mug shots I screen-shotted from the probably politically offending presser. pic.twitter.com/bFVyFed5GK
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) April 6, 2021
Steve Bannon, on episode 853 of the War Room Pandemic podcast, interviewed veteran journalist and national security expert Todd Bensman, author of a book published in February called, "America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration."
Bensman is currently a Texas-based Senior National Security Fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). Bensman is no newcomer to counterterrorism issues. According to the CIS website bio, for nine years, through August 2018, Bensman led counterterrorism intelligence for the Texas Department of Public Safety's Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division in its multi-agency fusion center. Prior to that, he was a journalist for 23 years, covering national security after 9/11 as a staff writer for major publications.
Bensman told Bannon that it is a "high bar of danger" to get on the No-Fly list. "Just being on Watchlist is bad enough, but the No-Fly list is a big red alert, ring the bell, five-alarm national security fire," Bensman added:
"As the news began to spread on Twitter and other social media platforms, by this morning CBP removed that press release. I don't know why they removed that press release…but my guess is that the Democrats and Liberal activists have put a tremendous amount of energy into squelching the narrative that there is a problem down there with Jihadists reaching the border and crossing the border—that that's a threat issue.
We saw that most recently with Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who returned last month from the border with stories like this—that Yemenis, three Yemenis had crossed that border who were on the Terror Watchlist and the Washington Post, The Voice of America, everybody, just jumped on him, said he was a liar…and probably CBP public affairs didn't check with the bosses before they put this thing up…just naturally put up a piece of news like this and were ordered to take it down, probably from the White House. This thing was a grenade that blew up their bogus narrative."
Here's how Yemenis are smuggled to the southern border, by the way: https://t.co/xG0haSKSub
On Feb. 3, CBP reported the arrest on the Yuma Sector of a group of 11 Iranian citizens, five females and six males, who illegally crossed the border. Iran is a Special Interest Country.
As reported by The National Pulse, the press release was suddenly removed from the CBP website on April 6th after having been posted on Monday. No reason was given for the removal. Neither man has been identified publicly. The Pulse requested comment from the CBP about the removal of the press release but, as of this writing, has not heard back.
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La Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) è una decorazione militare del Regno Unito e del Commonwealth assegnata agli ufficiali della Royal Air Force e Fleet Air Arm distintisi durante il servizio in tempo di guerra per "un atto o atti di valore, coraggio o devozione al dovere mentre volava in operazioni contro il nemico" (in lingua inglese "an act or acts of valour, courage or devotion to duty whilst flying in active operations against the enemy").

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Plaka, Monastiraki and Thissio converge at Syntagma Square, a major transport hub with airport shuttles and the metro going to Piraeus Port. Here is also the place, in front of the Parliament building, to see Evzones (Presidential Guards) in traditional uniforms participating in the Changing of the Guards ritual. MGallery could not have chosen a better hotel location, situated just steps from the Square in the cultural, economic and political heart of ancient and modern Greece.
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Dictator Erdogan decrees $20 billion Tank Factory gift to Cronies
How nice to have total power! Here's yet another little scandal to add to the 1001-crimes-of-adolf-erdogan. Not this time locking up tens of thousands or massacring the Kurds, but adding up to a fine sum of $20,000,000,000 nonetheless.
How Erdoğan rushed to gift Turkey's multibillion dollar tank factory to his cronies and Qatar
by Abdullah Bozkurt at Nordic Monitor
The government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rushed a financial agreement between Turkey and Qatar through Parliament for approval ahead of his decision to turn over a $20 billion tank and pallet factory to a company run jointly by his associates and the Qatari army.
The tank and pallet factory at 1st Main Maintenance Command headquarters in Turkey's Sakarya province.
The deal, the avoidance of double taxation agreement, came just in the nick of time before the Erdoğan government presented a multibillion-dollar national tank factory on a silver platter to Turkish-Qatari armored vehicle manufacturer BMC, a company run by Ethem Sancak, a member of the MKYK executive body of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
The rushed agreement on double taxation between Turkey and Qatar replaced one that had been in effect since 2009.
The taxation agreement was approved in Parliament.
Erdoğan issued an executive decree on Dec. 20, 2018 that turned over the rights to operate Turkey's national tank factory for a 25-year period to BMC without any competitive bidding or transparent process.
On paper, 49.9 percent of BMC's shares belong to the Qatari Armed Forces, while Sancak owns 25 percent and the Öztürk family (Ahmet Öztürk, Talip Öztürk and Taha Yasin Öztürk) owns 25.1 percent.
Rumor in Ankara circles has it that Erdoğan is the real owner of BMC and Sancak is merely a caretaker looking after the Turkish president's business interests. The Öztürk family, known to have mafia links to Galip Öztürk, a convicted murderer and head of an organized crime network, is seen close to the Turkish president.
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Author thefreeorgPosted on January 24, 2019 Categories anti fascist, crooks and liars, dictators, social revolution, Stop State and Capitalist criminalsTags ANHA, corruption, Dictator Looting Tutkey, Erdogan, Noirdic Momitor, TurkeyLeave a comment on Dictator Erdogan decrees $20 billion Tank Factory gift to Cronies
Roberto wrote 'Feed Royals to the Sharks' on Facebook before his Arrest
13 Spanish policemen broke into Roberto's home at 7.30 am, took his laptop and cellphone and dragged him away. The Canary Island activist had written "Bourbons to the Sharks" and "I Shit on the Royals, the King and his Repressive Forces" on his Facebook page.
The case comes after a long series of 'gagging arrests' especially of singers, rap artists, twitter critics, especially Catalan independentists, and even two puppeteers.
The Tenerife activist, Roberto Mesa, not only faces the imputation of a crime of insult to the Crown but also a crime of hatred to Spanish institutions and the security bodies of the State. As Cadena SER has learned, the National Police Body (CNP) had been investigating Mesa since 2007 due to its 'contestatory' activity on social networks.
Things looked black for Roberto, but then all the Canarian movements came to his rescue, picketing the police and then the court.
Almost a hundred Canarian, Spanish and South American social and political organizations – including Podemos, Izquierda Unida and Sí Se Puede – signed a support manifesto for Roberto Mesa, which was read on Friday at a rally held at the gates of the Palace of Justice in La Laguna. Continue reading "Roberto wrote 'Feed Royals to the Sharks' on Facebook before his Arrest"
Author thefreeorgPosted on April 24, 2018 April 24, 2018 Format GalleryCategories anarchist, anti fascist, crooks and liars, dictators, prison, social revolution, solidarityTags Canarias, corrupción, corruption, ley mordaza, repression in Spain, Rey Felipe, Robert Mesa, Royal Insult, Tenerife1 Comment on Roberto wrote 'Feed Royals to the Sharks' on Facebook before his Arrest
Biggest ever general Strike Sweeps Brazil
Anti-Temer strike paralyses major cities
Brazil's economy shrank 3.8 percent in 2015 ..
Nationwide strikes, led by Brazilian unions protesting against President Michel Temer's austerity measures, crippled public transport in major cities across the country, while factories, businesses and schools remained closed.
Cities were successfully closed down despite floods of Tear Gas
Unions and leftwing organisations called for the general strike on Friday to oppose Temer's plan to slash pension benefits and other austerity reforms.The strike appeared to be having greatest effect in heavily unionised parts of the economy, including transportation, schools, the post office and some hospital staff.
The CUT union estimated that at least 35 million workers went on strike. On the other hand the establishment GLOBO TV channel incredibly failed to mention the strike on its mid day news.
On the streets, police clashed with demonstrators in several cities, blocking protesters from entering airports and firing tear gas in efforts to free roadways.
Sao Paulo, Brazil's most populous city and financial powerhouse, was worst hit by the strikes.
Police used tear gas to clear highways of protesters but bus services, the metro and trains all stopped working, bringing the city temporarily to a standstill.
Demonstrators are protesting President Temer's austerity measures [Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters]
"It is going to be the biggest strike in the history of Brazil," said Paulo Pereira da Silva, president of trade union group Forca Sindical.
In Rio de Janeiro, protesters lit fires on a major bridge, disrupting commuter traffic, while police used tear gas to force a small crowd of protesters from outside the main bus station.
Buses burn in the Rio de Janeiro Demo
However, the city appeared to be less affected, with private businesses such as restaurants, cafes and shops opening normally.
In the capital Brasilia and in Belo Horizonte, another major city, the metro systems were completely closed down. Curitiba, the city where Brazil's huge "Operation Car Wash" anti-corruption investigation is based, was left without bus services.
Temer has said that without severe fiscal discipline and belt tightening, Latin America's biggest economy will not be able to exit a two-year recession.
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The most controversial measure is to raise the retirement age to 65 for men and 62 for women, up from 60 and 55 at present.
The government is also pushing for a liberalisation of labour laws and has succeeded in getting Congress to pass a 20-year spending freeze.
The struggle over austerity comes against a backdrop of worsening conditions for ordinary Brazilians.
The country's economy shrank 3.8 percent in 2015 and is expected to have contracted a further 3.5 percent in 2016, the most painful recession in a century.
The struggle over austerity comes against a backdrop of worsening conditions for ordinary Brazilians [Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters]
The miserable economic scenario is dovetailing with the country's worst corruption crisis in history. The "Car Wash" probe has uncovered a massive network of embezzlement and bribery at the heart of Brazil's economic and political elite.
Eight of Temer's ministers are under investigation and the president himself has been accused of chairing a meeting where his PMDB party negotiated a $40m bribe from the Odebrecht engineering conglomerate. Temer and his allies deny any wrongdoing.
"Temer does not even want to negotiate," said Vagner Freitas, national president of the Central Workers Union (CUT), Brazil's biggest labour confederation, said in a statement.
"He just wants to meet the demands of the businessmen who financed the coup precisely to end social security and legalise the exploitation of workers."
Temer's spokesperson Marcio de Freitas rejected the union's criticism, saying the government was working to undo the economic damage wrought under the Workers Party government, which had the backing of the CUT.
"The inheritance of that was 13 million unemployed," he said. "The government is carrying out reforms to change this situation, to create jobs and economic growth."
Author thefreeorgPosted on April 28, 2017 April 29, 2017 Categories social revolutionTags Brazil, corruption, General Strike, workers1 Comment on Biggest ever general Strike Sweeps Brazil
Brazilians Revolt: Post-Coup Politicos to pass 'Social Massacre' Package and block Anti-Corruption
>> Parlamento de Brasil aprueba enmienda que congela inversión social por 20 años
Brazil's Congress voted by 400 to 1 to reject an anti corruption bill signed by 2.5 million citizens, and gave themselves more immunity. Now they vote through massive cuts and sell off public assets to foreign corporations at bargain prices.
Amid massive protests, neoliberal government installed after coup aims to lock 20-year spending freeze into constitution
Brazil's anti-corruption prosecutor: graft is 'endemic. It has spread like cancer'
by Nadia Prupis, 12 Comments Brazil's new neoliberal government has pushed through the most socially retrogressive austerity package in the world, as a United Nations official had warned on Friday, calling the proposed 20-year freeze on social spending a "radical measure, lacking in all nuance and compassion."
see also: Brazil Spring:. Who are the Boys and Girls occupying 961 Schools and Universities
Under President Michel Temer, who seized power after a coup ousted the democratically elected Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's first female president, the spending freeze will be locked into the country's constitution.
The senate held a final vote on the measure Tuesday 13th and it was passed by the servile corrupt politicians.
In response to the news, Philip Alston, the U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, decried the bill known as PEC55.
"This is a radical measure, lacking in all nuance and compassion," he said in a statement, calling the package an attack on the poor. "It is completely inappropriate to freeze only social expenditure and to tie the hands of all future governments for another two decades. This amendment will place Brazil in a socially retrogressive category all of its own."
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Author thefreeorgPosted on December 13, 2016 December 13, 2016 Categories collapse capitalism, social revolution, Stop State and Capitalist criminalsTags Brasil Coup, Brazil, corruption, Protests, TemerLeave a comment on Brazilians Revolt: Post-Coup Politicos to pass 'Social Massacre' Package and block Anti-Corruption
Spanish State forces Bullfighting on Catalans
Corrupt Court to cancel Ban on Bullfighting in Catalonia
Children are bloodied in the "cultural heritage" of public animal torture
Public Killing and Torturing bulls will be legalised again in Catalunya by order of the central government. This is the latest of a series of blatantly anti Catalan orders by the Spanish Constitutional and Supreme Courts.
The Courts are politically controlled and have always supported dubious, self serving and even openly fascist proposals instigated by the far right 1% and the Catholic Church. The ban on bullfighting in Catalonia is seen as a traitorous way of asserting that 'Catalonia is not Spain'.
Brave anti animal torture demonstrators
Bullfighting is defined (by them) as "common cultural heritage" of Spain and can not be vetoed by a regional law, says the court, due to a clause in the Constitution which gives cultural heritage to the Central Government.
Bullfighting is the cultural heritage of the Conquest, in Spain it represents the exaltation of torture and legitimation of authoritarian male abuse and violence. Continue reading "Spanish State forces Bullfighting on Catalans"
Author thefreeorgPosted on October 14, 2016 Categories ALF, crooks and liars, social revolutionTags Animal Torture, corruption, femicide, machismo5 Comments on Spanish State forces Bullfighting on Catalans
Spain doing Fine: There's No Government like No Government
Spain Hasn't Had a central Government for the Last 9 Months — and People Love It
"Only 2.3 percent of respondents in a July poll by Spain's Center for Sociological Investigations considered the lack of government the country's major problem, and the figure is getting even smaller."
adapted from a Derrick Brose post in TheAnti-Media.org.. with thanks
For more than nine months, Spain has existed without a traditional national government. In the face of this lack of central authority and planning, Spaniards have done "the impossible": they have thrived without a government.
Spanish politicians warned the people that allowing the national government to fade away could have disastrous effects. However, as the New York Times notes, "the crisis seems to have offered a glimpse of life if politicians simply stepped out of the way. For many here, it has not been all that bad."
"No government, no thieves," Félix Pastor, a language teacher, told the Times. Pastor said the people of Spain were better without a government because the politicians were unable to cause any more harm. Rafael Navarro, a 71-year old pharmacy owner in Madrid, told the Times that "Spain would be just fine if we got rid of most of the politicians ..." Continue reading "Spain doing Fine: There's No Government like No Government"
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Gang of Rightwing Robbers Steal Brazil! : to destroy Rights and Biosphere: Huge Resistance!
Leaked Tapes Show Michel Temer's Henchmen Led Dilma Rousseff Coup in Brazil Michel Temer and his Horrible Henchmen
#DilmaRousseff Recordings released on Monday tell the world what Brazil already knows in revealing that the political establishment orchestrated a plot to overthrow the democratically elected leader.
On Monday, Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo revealed audio recordings of a conversation between the country's planning minister, Romero Juca, and Sergio Machado, former CEO of state-owned oil company Petrobras subsidiary Transperto, calling to oust Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, as part of a bid to derail an ongoing corruption investigation under which the two are involved.
The high-ranking Juca serves as the president of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), the same political party as interim leader Michel Temer and other leading impeachment figures, including deposed lower house leader Eduardo Cunha and senate leader Renan Calheiros.
Juca immediately stepped down from his government post a few hours after the recordings were released, but the ever-unraveling threads of the coup plot threaten to completely dismantle the Temer government.
The Impeachment Coup
The impeachment proceedings against Rousseff are not a matter of corruption, but rather for borrowing from the federal savings bank to preserve social welfare programs facing short-term budgetary shortfalls caused by an international recession. The effort to impeach was initially led by Eduardo Cunha, who then served as the leader of Brazil's lower legislative chamber.
US BACKED RIGHTWING 'COUP' TO DESTROY AMAZON Ecocide in Brazil: new laws to devastate Amazon by Jan Rocha … via the ecologist with thanks.. Amidst the turmoil of the presidential impeachment, right wing members of Brazil's Congress are set to quickly pass new laws that would build new roads across the Amazon, open up indigenous reserves to industrial exploitation, and … Continue reading HERE
Brazilians suspect that Cunha, considered the country's most corrupt politician, bribed his parliamentary colleagues to advance a vote in favor of impeachment. The politician was featured in the Panama Papers and is known to have several dozen Swiss Bank accounts. Continue reading "Gang of Rightwing Robbers Steal Brazil! : to destroy Rights and Biosphere: Huge Resistance!"
Author thefreeorgPosted on May 27, 2016 May 27, 2016 Categories crooks and liars, social revolution, solidarity, Stop State and Capitalist criminals, workersTags corruption, Gang steal Brazil, resistance1 Comment on Gang of Rightwing Robbers Steal Brazil! : to destroy Rights and Biosphere: Huge Resistance!


Angry Birds creator Rovio Entertainment turned the late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury into an honorary character on Monday, just in time for the rocker's Sept. 5 birthday.
The Angry Birds flock is taking a break from flying and toppling enemies to ride Mercury's bicycle — the animated video below is set to Queen's "Bicycle Race." Absent from the clip is Pink Bird, the bubbly character Rovio introduced in August.
Rovio's gesture supports the annual Freddie for a Day campaign, which celebrates the singer and raises funds for HIV/AIDS charity Mercury Phoenix Trust.
Mercury, who died in 1991 from complications stemming from AIDS, would have been 66 on Wednesday.
"'Freddie for a Day is such a great way to honor Freddie's fun and flamboyant spirit while delivering an important message," Rovio's CMO Peter Vesterbacka said in a statement. "Queen's music has endured for a reason, because its creativity and contagious fun appeals to fans of all ages, and we're happy to help keep Freddie's memory and music alive for new generations of fans."
People can join the cause Wednesday by purchasing a Freddie Mercury Angry Bird T-shirt online at the Angry Birds and Bravado stores. Meanwhile in London, bandmates Brian May and Roger Taylor gathered with friends Monday for a Freddie for a Day fundraiser.


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After some serious holiday, New Year, engagement, and all-around overindulgences, I found myself, like many, feeling sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I actually haven't been legitimately sick (fingers crossed, knock on wood, praise the Lord), but that didn't mean I wasn't struggling with feelings of constant bloat & stomach pains, headaches, dehydration, persistent insomnia, reoccurring acne/breakouts, crazy sugar cravings, energy dips and mood swings, lack of motivation, and the ever-annoying squeezing into all of my clothes. Woof.
…and even my favorite three: coffee, sugar, and wine/alcohol.
Yes, seriously. But before you stop reading, I didn't think there was a chance I could do it either!!
I did plenty of research trying to find the best (for me) sort of cleanse/detox out there. After searching every corner of Google + social media, I was reacquainted with Arbonne and remembered why I fell in love with the company about a year or so ago.
Everything Arbonne makes is vegan, plant-based, botanically sourced, "pure, safe, and beneficial". That applies to the nutrition, the skincare, and even the makeup.
The company's '30 Days to Healthy Living' program (which is actually only 28 days, and also known as the Clean Eating Challenge or the Arbonne Detox) met all of my requirements and then some.
It was certainly a bit of an up-front investment, but at roughly $10 a day, I took the plunge and said a little prayer that it would be worth it.
Well, 'worth it' is an understatement.
For starters, no before and after picture can fully capture the way clean eating and dietary lifestyle changes can truly make you feel so much better from the inside out.
What I loved about this program is that I was never hungry and I never felt deprived. I just felt like I was giving my body what it needed. These three factors were huge for me, especially as someone who underwent a period of restrictive eating. I knew I had to be fueling my body, mind & soul.
What I didn't think was possible, became extremely enjoyable. I looked forward to my morning smoothies (which I always turned into a bowl with cleanse-approved toppings).
Lunch was either another shake/smoothie or a whole foods meal. Dinner was also a plate of lean, clean & green foods like chicken, quinoa or sweet potato, and lots of veggies. Snacks varied (think green apples with almond butter, carrots & hummus, mixed nuts, etc.).
i.e: AM Coffee -> Detox Tea. // PM Coffee -> Fizz Sticks.
It's all customizable based on whether you're trying to lose, maintain, or gain; but a little shed is a natural part of ridding your body of those heavy-metals and deeply embedded toxins.
I woke up with more way more vibrancy and energy without coffee and a nighttime ritual of red wine.
Since I was eating so many plant-based, whole foods, my cravings quickly dissipated. The toughest week was Week 3, where you also drink the gentle '7 Day Body Cleanse', for you guessed it – 7 days. It actually tastes pretty good at that point (as your body has reached a more alkaline vs. acidic state), but that's just when I started having a few cravings. It was more so just the feeling of wanting to dine out and order what sounded good or was convenient versus what was detox approved.
Mind you, this is just with dietary changes! I wasn't able to get to the gym near as much as I'd of liked to. That will be my focus this month! I plan to slowly add back in certain foods, one category at a time, assessing how they make me feel. Ultimately it's about reaching an 80/20 balance of the foods I love and that make me feel good. Because nothing tastes as good as it is to feel good!
I also believe life is meant to be lived, celebrated, and enjoyed with one another – and that quite often includes food. Even the 'less healthful' food at times. And that's ok – heck, it's more than ok!
At the end of the day, we eat to live, not the other way around!
Self-care ain't selfish, and there are no finish lines. It's about finding your lifestyle for the long haul.
I loved my experience and everything the company stands for so much that I decided to take it one step further by becoming an Independent Consultant. When you truly love and believe in something, you can't help but want to share it.
If you'd like to learn more, or find out how you can sign up for yourself, get in touch, or send me an email to connect@kaitlynhiltz.com. I would love to help coach and encourage you through a Clean Eating Challenge of your own. A new Facebook support group starts next month and there's room for y-o-u!
Prioritize your health. You're worth it.
Disclaimer: All opinions are solely my own, as a resulted of everything I've personally tried and tested. They are in no way endorsed by Arbonne or associated with corporate marketing.


Nanotechnology involves a new and broad science where diverse fields such as physics, chemistry, biology, materials science, and engineering converge at the nanoscale.
It is also important to understand that nanoscale materials are found in nature. For instance, hemoglobin, the oxygen-transporting protein found in red blood cells, is 5.5 nanometers in diameter. Naturally occurring nanomaterials exist all around us, such as in smoke from fire, volcanic ash, and sea spray. Some nanomaterials are a byproduct of human activity, such as bus and automobile exhaust and welding fumes.
You may recall from the Size of the Nanoscale page that the nanoscale is about 1 to 100 nanometers. Working at the nanoscale requires an understanding of the various types and dimensions of nanoscale materials. Different types of nanomaterials are named for their individual shapes and dimensions. Think of these simply as particles, tubes, wires, films, flakes, or shells that have one or more nanometer-sized dimension. For example, carbon nanotubes have a diameter in the nanoscale, but can be several hundred nanometers long or even longer. Nanofilms or nanoplates have a thickness in the nanoscale, but their other two dimensions can be much larger.
The key is to be able to both see and manipulate nanomaterials in order to take advantage of their special properties. As mentioned earlier, the invention of special microscopes gave scientists the ability to work at the nanoscale. The first of these new discoveries was the scanning tunneling microscope. While it's mainly designed to measure objects, it can also move tiny objects such as carbon nanotubes.
IBM logo written with 35 xenon atoms on a copper substrate.
The earliest example of this type of process was accomplished by IBM on November 11, 1989, when researcher Don Eigler and colleagues spelled the company logo in atoms. He and his team were able to literally move 35 xenon atoms on a background of copper atoms to spell out IBM.
More recently a team of Stanford University researchers led by Hari Manoharan were able to encode 35 bits of information per electron and write letters so small they are composed of subatomic bits of matter only 0.3 nanometers wide, or roughly one third of a billionth of a meter. In other words, they beat the record set by IBM, writing Stanford's initials in letters smaller than atoms. These exercises demonstrated the precision with which it is possible to manipulate matter.
Today, research scientists in universities and companies around the world are manufacturing nanomaterials to make new products and applications, from medical devices and drugs that may treat disease, to strong and lightweight materials that reduce fuel costs for cars and planes. For more information about these discoveries and inventions, see Benefits and Applications here on the Nano.gov website.


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Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter is a 2014 American drama film co-written and directed by David Zellner. The film stars Rinko Kikuchi, Nobuyuki Katsube, Shirley Venard, David Zellner, Nathan Zellner, and Kanako Higashi. Alexander Payne and Kikuchi serve as executive producers.

The story is based on the urban legend surrounding Takako Konishi in search of the fictional ransom money seen buried in the snow from the 1996 film Fargo.

Plot
Kumiko is a twenty-nine year old office lady who lives in utter solitude in Tokyo. She works a dreadful, dead-end job under a boss she hates (who in turn, hates her), unable to connect to her fashionable peers, and nagged by her overbearing mother to find a man and get married. The only joys in her life come from her pet rabbit, Bunzo, and treasure hunting – which leads her to find a VHS copy of the film Fargo in a secluded cave on the shore. Convinced the film is real, Kumiko obsesses over the film, focusing on the scene in which a character played by Steve Buscemi buries a satchel of ransom money along a snowy highway, obsessively detailing and noting each aspect of the scene and the film overall. Kumiko even attempts to steal an atlas from a library, only to be caught by the security guard, who pities her and allows her to take the map of Minnesota.

Under threat of being replaced, a failed reconnection with an old friend, and her mother's increasing nagging, Kumiko abandons Bunzo on a train and boards a plane to Minneapolis using her boss's company card. With a hand-stitched treasure map and a quixotic spirit, Kumiko embarks on a journey over the Pacific and through the frozen Minnesota plains to find the purported fortune. Once there, she quickly finds herself unprepared for the harsh winter, and unable to communicate due to her weak grasp of English beyond "Fargo". She is sheltered by an old lady, but sneaks off when the lady tries to convince her to stay at her home.

A sheriff's deputy picks her up after passersby report her wandering through the streets, believing her to be lost. She shows him the film and he attempts to understand her, gaining her trust, but repeatedly attempts to tell her that the film is not real – later driving her to a Chinese restaurant in hopes of finding a translator, unaware that Chinese and Japanese are not mutually intelligible. While at the restaurant, Kumiko calls her mother from a payphone hoping that she would be able to wire her money only for her mother to disown her after being told she stole her boss's credit card. This leads to Kumiko breaking down in front of the officer. While buying her winter attire, Kumiko kisses the officer, but he explains that he is married and tries again to explain to her that the treasure isn't real; upset, Kumiko runs from the store and leaves in a taxi, where she plots a course to Fargo. En route, she suddenly demands the taxi to stop, then flees into the wilderness, unable to pay. She soon comes across a frozen lake where, while looking through the ice, she sees what appears to be a suitcase. Convinced that this is the treasure, she spends a long time attempting to break the ice, only to find a badly decayed oar.

That night, during a snowstorm, Kumiko wanders deeper into the forest, the storm growing more and more violent until she is buried. The next morning, Kumiko emerges from the snow, and wanders through a hallucinatory landscape until she happens upon what appears to be the setting of the Fargo scene and sees the marker indicating the location of the treasure. She finds the satchel containing the money. Overjoyed with her triumph, she exclaims "I was right after all". Bunzo appears, and with him, she proudly walks into the distance.

Cast

 Rinko Kikuchi as Kumiko
 Nobuyuki Katsube as Sakagami
 Shirley Venard as Older woman
 David Zellner as Policeman
 Nathan Zellner as Robert
 Kanako Higashi as Michi
 Ayaka Onishi as Chieko
 Mayuko Kawakita as Ms. Kanazaki
 Yumiko Hioki as Kumiko's mother
 Brad Prather as Brad

Release
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter had its world premiere on January 20, 2014 at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival as part of the US Dramatic Competition. It later made its International Premiere at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival on February 8, 2014. The film has gone on to screen at South by Southwest, BamCinemaFest, Maryland, Karlovy Vary, and Sydney Film Festival.

Reception

The film received largely positive reviews upon its premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an 88% rating based on reviews from 138 critics, with an average score of 7.2/10. The critics' consensus reads "Powerfully acted and lovely to look at, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter offers a treat for cinephiles with a taste for the pleasantly peculiar." Metacritic gives the film a score of 68 based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "Generally favorable."

Scott Foundas, in his review for Variety, gave the film a positive review by saying that "A beguiling fable of buried treasure and movie-fed obsession" and added that "At every turn, we can sense what's going on behind Kumiko's doleful, downcast eyes; Kikuchi pulls us deeply into her world." Todd McCarthy in his review for The Hollywood Reporter called the film "A work of rigorously disciplined eccentricity, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter is at once entirely accessible and yet appealing only to a rarified crowd ready to key into its narrow-bandwidth sense of humor." Eric Kohn of Indiewire praised the film and said that "Striking a complex tone of tragedy and uplift at the same time, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter both celebrates the escapist power of personal fantasies and bears witness to their dangerous extremes. It's the rare case of a story that's inspirational and devastating at once." David Ehrlich of Film.com  gave the film 9.1 out of 10 and said that "Less of an homage to Fargo than the next appendage of the same exquisite corpse, Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter plays like a dryly hilarious riff on Don't Look Now" but ultimately said that "[it's] one of the best films to ever premiere at Sundance."

Accolades
The film went on to be nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards: Best Director and Best Female Lead. For his work on Kumiko and other films, producer Chris Ohlson received the Spirit Award's Piaget Producers Award.

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2014 films
2014 independent films
Asian-American drama films
American independent films
2010s Japanese-language films
Films set in Tokyo
Films shot in Minnesota
Films shot in Tokyo
Sundance Film Festival award winners
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1990s English-language films
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The Ontario government has taken down Ontario Place Statement of Heritage Value from its website. Description of the property Ontario Place is located off the shore of Lake Ontario on Toronto's western waterfront. The 63 hectare land and water lot property (28 hectares land, 35 hectares water) is located...
Letter from Richard Longley
Close to a thousand of you have sent letters to Premier Ford and the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Recreation opposing their plans for the possible destruction of Ontario Place. One of the supporters of Ontario Place for All, Richard Longley, sent us a copy of his letter, and...
Let's Turn Ontario Place into a 21st Century Park
by Ken Greenberg, Urban Designer, Author of Toronto Reborn and Member of Ontario Place for All Over the past few decades, we have learned that the sharing of green spaces in dense cities is essential to our well-being as human beings and social creatures. This has increased the desire for public parks...
Ontario Place for All says it is going to fight any attempt by the Ontario government to turn Ontario Place over to private business interests. The community group says the Development Proposal released today by the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport will allow developers to ban the public...
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Tourism Toronto has released a Tourism Test that it says should guide any future redevelopment of Ontario Place. The test has six elements, that Tourism Toronto says are key to developing an exceptional visitor experience. An iconic new landmark Year-round destination Embrace the waterfront Retain heritage elements. Multi-modal access. Jointly planned...
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Last week, Toronto City Council unanimously endorsed the fight to keep Ontario Place as a publicly accessible jewel on Toronto's waterfront. Every Councillor at Tuesday afternoon's meeting supported a motion by Mayor John Tory that established a strong City policy on the proposed revitalization of Ontario Place. The good news is the...
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Q: in range loop skipping through     salary=0
salaryArray=[]
loop=0
noYears=int(input("How many years do you want to do salaries for? "))
for i in range(0,noYears):
    while loop==0:
        print()
        print("You can add multiple sources of income, one at a time")
        salaryType=input("Do you want to put in your salary hourly or yearly? (h/y) ")
        if salaryType=="y":
            salarySection=float(input("What is your salary? "))
            salary=salarySection+salary
        else:
            salaryHourly=float(input("What are you payed per hour? "))
            salaryWeekly=float(input("How many hours per week will you work? "))
            salaryYearly=float(input("How many weeks per year will you work? "))
            print()
            salarySection=salaryHourly*salaryWeekly*salaryYearly
            salary=salary+salarySection

        repeat=input("Do you wish to add another source of income? (y/n) ")
        if repeat=="n":
            print("This year's anual salary is", salary)
            salaryArray.append(salary)
            loop=1

For some reason the for i in range(0,noYears) isn't working?
It just moves on to the next line of code after doing it through once - even though I put the answer to noYears as 3.
Anyone know why this might be as I cannot see what is wrong?
:)

A: The code isn't working because the while loop never executes. You could solve this two ways.

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*Use a break statement instead of setting loop to 1:
 #previous code

 repeat=input("Do you wish to add another source of income? (y/n) ")
 if repeat=="n":
     print("This year's anual salary is", salary)
     salaryArray.append(salary)
     break

*Reset the variable loop to 0 inside of the for loop:
 for i in range(0,noYears):
     loop = 0
     while loop==0:
     # remaining code

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OH YES! Your old dad has hiked and climbed into many of those places, carrying way to much weight in camera gear. I have screwed up knees to prove it. They don't call this area "The Cascades" for nothing.
See? If you'd put your photos on the internet, then you'd save me a trip!
I have a giant map of the world in my office and love to look at everything I want to explore. It's motivating.


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from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
import numpy as np

class Mineral_Water(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=200)

    def average_rating(self):
        all_ratings = map(lambda x: x.rating, self.review_set.all())
        return np.mean(all_ratings)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.name

#imdb style
class Review(models.Model):
    RATING_CHOICES = (
        (1, '1'),
        (2, '2'),
        (3, '3'),
        (4, '4'),
        (5, '5'),
        (6, '6'),
        (7, '7'),
        (8, '8'),
        (9, '9'),
        (10, '10'),
    )

    mineralwater = models.ForeignKey(Mineral_Water)
    pub_date = models.DateTimeField('date published')
    user_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    comment = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    rating = models.IntegerField(choices=RATING_CHOICES)

class Cluster(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    users = models.ManyToManyField(User)

    def get_members(self):
        return "\n".join([u.username for u in self.users.all()])

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for example i want put this number(8001) in Queue but whene i do it, all the callers connect the 8001 agi and no body did'nt stay in queue!
How can i set the 8001 like a Extension ?
I want the 8001 seams like a Extension !
I am not sure about multiple instances of your java.agi but I if you create an extension via FreePBX then you can use FollowME feature along with CustomDestination (unembedded FreePBX) to run your java and also to see it working in FOP. However, I believe you can do java multi-threading.


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Płynny kurs walutowy (ang. floating exchange rate) –  rodzaj kursu walutowego. Jest on wynikiem gry sił rynkowych. Kształtuje się pod wpływem równoważenia podaży i popytu na waluty. Zmiany popytu i podaży danej waluty powodują odpowiednie, tzn. równoważące zmiany poziomu ceny jednej waluty wyrażonej w drugiej, zachodzące nieustannie z dnia na dzień, a nawet w trakcie jednej sekundy. Jego okresowe wahania nie powodują interwencji ze strony państwa lub banku centralnego.

Osłabienie (deprecjacja) waluty jest tożsame ze wzrostem kursu (spadkiem wartości), zaś umocnienie (aprecjacja) waluty oznacza spadek kursu (wzrost wartości). W ramach kursu płynnego możliwe są interwencje banków centralnych motywowane np. ograniczeniem nadmiernych wahań kursu. Popularność kursu płynnego na świecie wynika m.in. z dylematu Triffina, zgodnie z którym nie jest jednocześnie możliwe posiadanie sztywnego kursu waluty, niezależnej polityki pieniężnej oraz swobody przepływów kapitałowych.

System płynnego kursu walutowego w Polsce został formalnie przyjęty 12 kwietnia 2000.

Do czynników determinujących płynny kurs walutowy zalicza się:
 parytet siły nabywczej powstaje gdy wartość nominalnego kursu równowagi jest równa relacji cen w rozpatrywanych gospodarkach wówczas możliwe jest pełne wykorzystanie czynników wytwórczych oraz zrównoważony bilans obrotów pieniężnych
 transakcje spekulacyjne czyli porozumienia wypływające z możliwości osiągnięcia dochodu powstającego ze zmian kursu.

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1. Are you a parent with children that were young in the last decade?
2. Are you a science fiction fan?
If you answered yes to both questions (1), then I guarantee you that there is something that has been gnawing at your subconscious, tearing away at your concept of reality. Have you been cranky with a co-worker lately? Finding some of the habits of your better half or close friends irritating? Catching yourself snarling back at the local cat who everyone says is an institution, providing the neighbourhood with a delightful dash of much needed character, but whom you suspect is actually an entity of pure evil hell bent on world destruction?
If all this sounds familiar then you, like me, have been snared by the Peppa Pig syndrome (2).
If you've hung around sci-fi for a while, you'd be familiar with the trope of "uplifting" animals to sapient status (3). Clearly people that write children's television are, because it seems like every second kids TV show has talking animals in it. Given we don't have talking animals now, and given these shows don't feature any people, I can only assume that they are set in some far-future world where the human race has died out.
But here is the first of my gripes – these shows seldom put any effort into basic world building. How did the human race die out? Some kind of catastrophe? External, or generated ourselves? What mechanism was used by animals to gain sentience? Did humanity perform the uplift? The operation of evolution over millions of years? Some freak combination of mutating viruses and the alignment of planets?
And then there is the question of how these animals built the society they are living in. Most of the represented species lack opposable thumbs, making it hard to see how they developed the toolset to create the worlds they live in. Further, their civil structures invariably seem to be modelled on human-equivalent societies, which implies that they've got access to records of the human civilisation that came before them. Have they maintained some semblance of our society out of a sense of misguided loyalty to their creators? Or did they find a cache of television programs from our time which they used as a template for creating their own community? Perhaps they turned in desperation to the human example when recovering from some kind of inter-species war that threatened to annihilate them all (4). Even to the extent of primarily speaking English as the linga-fraca of these new worlds (presumably everyone speaks their own language – Lionish, Gazellish etc but learns English from an early age to allow inter-species communication).
And who decided which animals were uplifted? There seem to be some pretty arbitrary decisions made in that arena, with breathtakingly dubious ethics. What makes pigs inherently more sentience-worthy than spiders? What's with the subjugation of goldfish? These selections, they haunt me. Are the non-uplifted animals some kind of under-class? Was it our decisions about who got uplifted that caused their persecution? And worst of all, was "cuteness" our primary selection criterion? Oh, humanity. We have so much to answer for.
Modern science tells us that intelligence is a thin veil holding back a seething mass of primeval emotions and instincts. These impulses threaten to tear groups of humans apart, even as our higher consciousness attempts to pull us together. And that's when we have a fundamentally compatible sub-conscious infrastructure. Imagine a world where even the base instincts of the sapient beings were in stark opposition. Predator vs prey, mammal vs reptile, ground vs air. And this points to a darker issue. Did we do more than provide intelligence? Did we alter these creatures more fundamentally, to bring their sub-conscious drives into alignment? Is the crocodile no longer a predator? The possum-rat no longer prey? Has peace been bought at the price of individuality and diversity?
And were those changes also made at a biological level? At times I find myself consumed by concerns of food security in this animal utopia. Some of the uplifted creatures are carnivores, whose systems would not be able to tolerate a plant-based diet. Either there is a very disturbing underbelly of activity, where carnivorous creatures continue to eat their historical prey even when those animals are themselves sapient, or basic biology has been changed to tolerate either non-sapient creatures or non-animal food. Perhaps these societies have invented meat-substitutes, but that would require a level of technology beyond our own.
Can I answer all these questions? Clearly not. But next time you sit down with your little munchkins and you hear the opening strains of their favourite theme songs, try to hold onto your lunch as your stomach heaves in response to your reflections of what we are responsible for.
The behaviour that you watch as quality children's entertainment is the behaviour you accept. At least have the common decency to be sickened by what you have done.
(1) If you answered yes to question 1, but not question 2, then I suspect you've landed on the wrong blog. If you answered yes to question 2 but not question 1, then you're probably on the right blog but this may not be the article for you. Or who knows, it could be exactly the article for you. I mean, I don't know you. Categorising what you may or may not like based on two questions is a bit rich. You have every right to be offended. Feel free to leave a comment at the bottom of the post expressing your righteous indignation.
If you answered no to both questions, then get you're probably my mum (the only older, non-SF person likely to be looking at this blog). Hi Mum!
(2) Or at least some of it. Look, if I had to guess I'd say that if approximately 30% of it or more sounds familiar then you've probably been snared.
(3) Like being sapient is all that. When is the last time you saw a budgerigar that was worried about credit card debt? Or a porpoise that had alienated its friendship circles by a misjudged social media post? I could go on, but this article isn't designed to question the whole "sapient = good" premise of uplift.
(4) In which case more fool them. Have you looked at human society lately? Not example a good model to base yourself on. Still, perhaps I'm being unfair. Maybe they take the good bits, and modify the rest.
Yes, Yo Gabba Gabba has evil-scientist-creating-hideously-disfigured-lifeforms-for-his-own-amusement-while-dressing-like-a-demented-dj written all over it.
Oh yes and yes! You could have extracted these exact thoughts from my mind! Don't get me started on the size of the Ninky Nonk. There is no way that thing complies with CASA regulations either.
I must admit that on more than one occasion I have been tempted to report Shaggy to the RSPCA for feeding Scooby Doo an inappropriate diet.
At least we have Marvel to thank for providing totally plausible explanations for how their superheroes came to be. I do, however, have to keep a keen eye on my boys who frequently attempt to shoot spiders with lasers in order to get bitten by them so that they can scale tall buildings!
I too worry about the work health and safety implications of super hero origin stories for today's youth.
What Marvel and DC don't show in the comics is that for every person who gains super powers through a freak accident, there are 1,000,000 others that just got severely hurt!
You forgot one major point. Peppa Pig is pure evil, the slightest whisper of her voice is enough to induce the monster of all headaches and the snorting… I preferred The Night Garden but when you think about how Iggle Piggle only had friends when he fell asleep on his little boat in the middle of the ocean.
Don't get me started on In the Night Garden – way too trippy. My dreams are haunted by the eternal question – just how big is the Ninky Nonk?
I don't think I've seen Animalia, but any cartoon that provides a more realistic depiction on the inter-species tensions that arise from the original dietary requirements of their non-uplifted predecessors is OK in my book.


Peter LePage from the Cornell Physics Department joins us on our extra special 50th episode to talk about active learning pedagogy. He shares his first teaching experiences, his introduction to physics education research, and why he believes students benefit from problem solving and discussion in class. We also talk about the Active Learning Inititive, a program Peter started at Cornell that was inspired by Carl Wieman's Science Education Initiative. Both programs aim to change the culture of teaching in higher education by giving departments large grants to radically overhaul how they teach their undergraduate courses.
0:39 ⏯ Introducing Peter LePage. Peter's first teaching assignment at Cornell. What active learning in physics meant back then: Demonstrations.
6:27 ⏯ Wiring a Cornell classroom with an audience response system back in the 70's. Engaging students in a large auditorium-style classroom, rather than a special purpose 'studio.' Learning from Eric Mazur.
13:27 ⏯ Modifying a traditional lecture with one or two activities per class meeting: incremental vs. whole hog. LePage's mental model of how students learn: learning from Arnold Arons. Identifying students' misconceptions through multiple choice questions, and measuring progress.
21:01 ⏯ The FCI (Force Concept Inventory) and the TUCE (Test of Understanding College Economics). There are more modest ways to measure learning outcomes. Measure soon after your intervention as possible. You can measure in the humanities, too.
26:55 ⏯ Rewriting in the humanities is a way of promoting expertise through directed practice.
29:54 ⏯ Being a dean was "different, very different" from teaching. Peter's recipe for dealing with faculty.
33:10 ⏯ The Active Learning Initiative at Cornell: what it is, how it started. Carl Wieman's role, what he was doing at UBC and Colorado. A plausible model for institutional changes in teaching. A competitive grant program targeted at departments and groups of courses to provide time and support to the motivated.
41:27 ⏯ Going beyond STEM teaching and changing the culture of the institution. Making teaching experimentation public. Doug's department (Economics) is a recent winner of an ALI grant, and he's pretty excited.
47:55 ⏯ More incremental and individually-focused paths. Being negative about lecturing can shut down interest. Active learning is fun!
50:02 ⏯ Bumps along the road. Peter's teaching mistakes? Making mistakes every day. Just be trying things all the time. Transforming teaching in the humanities and learning from folks outside your discipline.
56:55 ⏯ The humanist's method of looking into how students are thinking.
59:33 ⏯ Thanks and sign-off.


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Devil May Cry is back. The combat is a blast, the dialogue is irreverent and snappy, and the game looks terrific. Best of all, Dante is in top form.
The setting of Devil May Cry 5 is based on London, with the city turned into a demonic hellscape. Dante and Nero arrive on the scene, ready to hunt demons in style. This time around, you get to play three different characters: Nero, Dante and a third known as V.
As Nero, I could use my Red Queen sword, revolvers and a variety of robotic arms known as Devil Breakers. Different Devil Breakers have different properties. For example, this being Devil May Cry meant that I could surf around on the robotic arm known as Punch Line.
When I found myself stuck in a room full of demons, that Devil Breaker came in handy. I fired the robotic arm, which grappled onto enemies, pulling them towards me so I could pound them into dust.
During a boss battle, however, there was no way to pull a massive enemy towards me, so I fired the Devil Breaker and then used it as a zip line for close-quarters attacks.
You can carry four Devil Breakers at a time, but the downside is that it seems you cannot select which one you want to use on the fly. Instead, you have to use them in order. Bummer.
As Dante, I didn't have a robotic arm, but I had plenty of havoc to wreak, thanks to the characters' new Devil Arms.
One is the fiery Devil Arm known as Balrog, which let me unleash powerful kick and punch combos. It was effective and fun, but nowhere near as interesting as the other new Devil Arm, known as Cavaliere. This is a motorcycle that Dante can do donuts over enemies. The bike can also split into two deadly buzzsaws. They're heavy and slow when I swung them around, but they are effective at clearing clusters of enemies.
The bike is awesome. I just wanted to do donuts over and over again.
I would not have thought a motorcycle Devil Arm would be such a satisfying weapon. It sounds ridiculous, even for Devil May Cry, and unwieldy, but it's so smooth and so easy to use that it overshadows the other new Devil Arm. Why punch and kick demons with fire when you can motorcycle over their faces?
The gameplay experience isn't only different for Nero and Dante, but noticed that I also played differently.
For Nero, I felt more calculated and less improvisational. I also felt like I'd need more time with Nero to truly appreciate the character in DMC5. For Dante, though, it was good times right away. I was using ranged attacks, using the Trickster style to teleport dodge around and then get up close with my motorbike, guns and fists. Nero was fun, sure, but Dante was more so. Dante made me feel cool. Nero less so. But perhaps nothing better sums up those two characters?
But I wouldn't want a Dante-only DMC5. Each made the game a different experience. Playing Devil May Cry 5 is like driving a modern sports car with multiple engine and suspension settings. The car might have a natural mode, a dynamic mode and a race mode. You're driving the same car, but based on the settings, it's like owning several different vehicles.
With Devil May Cry 5, it's like slightly different games. Honestly, I can't wait to see how V will play, because during my demo I was told it was not the same style.
In the trailer, V is carrying a book, so I'm assuming his style will be magic-based, but I look forward to finding out once it's revealed. Maybe a tattoo special attack?
Whatever it is, that motorcycle will be hard to top.


I would like to dedicate this newsletter to three members of the Armstrongs Corner committee who passed away this year. They were active with the gathering of information and will be missed greatly. They are Thomas Anderson, Vincent Laskey and Mildred Queen. Mildred (Howe) Queen, my mother, was the reason I became involved with the Base Gagetown Community Association.
Our condolences to all the families.
You will find a membership application form, which can be used for renewal as well as new memberships. The mailing label on your envelope will show your membership status above your name. The first two digits are for the year, for example, 00 for 2000, and the last two digits are for membership type -- 10 for single and 20 for family. If there is a middle digit, it would be the month of renewal. The association depends on membership revenue to finance our general expenses and would encourage those who have not renewed recently and non-members to use the attached membership form.
Also, we are getting down to the wire and if you have not already done so, please forward addresses of people you think would be interested in receiving general information on the 2003 activities.
We are looking for people who have computers and are willing to volunteer their time for data input as well.
Our next meeting will be held at the WI Hall in Jemseg on March 16th with a storm date for March 23rd beginning at 2:00 PM.
A Remembrance Day service was held at the New Jerusalem Cenotaph on November 11th. A reception follows the service hosted by CFB Gagetown. There was a business meeting for BGCHA the afternoon at 1:30 pm at the Queenstown Community Hall with their community supper at 4PM sponsored by the LOBA Lodge.
An information meeting was held for various levels of government, businesses and all people interested in the 2003 reunion in Fredericton on October 10th to give an outline of the association's goals. There were attendees from the Queens County Fair Association, Base Gagetown, the Provincial Archives, Gagetown Chamber of Commerce, the Queens County Museum & Historical Society, as well as Andy Scott, Member of Parliament.
Publications will be made of community and family histories that are currently being collected and transcribed. The decision was made each community committee would be responsible for publishing the information of their individual area.
Mary Queen for further information.
The following is a tentative schedule for the 2003 program.
tc \l2 "UPDATE ON FUNDRAISINGOnce again, we had a very successful fundraiser holding a benefit jamboree in Sussex in May.
The draw of the tickets sold on the Alaska cruise was held at the jamboree. The winner of the cruise was Carolyn Glenn and the $1,000.00 second price went to Chris Acker.
In August, we participated at the Sussex Flea Market.
In September, we had an information booth at the Queens County Fair held in Gagetown. The booth attracted a great many people. The old photos and other items from the Base Gagetown area interested many.
At this time, a special thanks to all volunteers who made the above activities possible and successful. Without the help of these dedicated members, it would be impossible to achieve the level of success of the above efforts.
We are looking into the possibility of producing a calendar with photos of the Base Gagetown communities in the coming year. Therefore, if anyone has photos that could be used, we would love to have a copy. You can send them to our P.O. Box or bring them to a meeting.
A committee has been set up to look into the possibility of having a memorial monument erected dedicated to the families that once lived in the Base Gagetown area communities.
At the executive meeting held in Queenstown last November, the committee presented a proposal to erect a granite monument at the Queens County Courthouse in Gagetown. This would be to remember the people and the area expropriated for the establishment of Camp Gagetown in 1953.
been done. The following proposals will be submitted and discussed at the next executive meeting being held on March 25th.
The monument would consist of one large stone measuring 7 to 8 feet long by 4 feet high and 2 feet thick. It would have a map of the area engraved in the center showing existing communities and roads at the time of expropriation.
The cost estimate for the monument, concrete base, site preparation, moving and the set up would be approximately $11,000.00.
Financing of the project would be accomplished through the sale of engraved bricks that would create a walkway of sorts to the monument. Doubts about the bricks were expressed with regard to durability. In addition, unless the bricks were imbedded in concrete, they could easily be removed. Cleaning the bricks on a regular basis would also be necessary.
This proposal involves the erection of a structure similar to those used by the Trans Canada Trails Foundation. The photo is one that is located at the end of the old railroad bridge in Fredericton.
This design is from Inlay Creations Inc of Haggersville, Ontario. At the Fredericton site, there are three structures on a concrete slab with a roof. We would require one structure measuring approximately 8 feet by 6 feet supported by two concrete pillars. The face would consist of 9 separate panels measuring 30 inches by 21 inches by ½ inch thick mounted on a concrete wall to hold them in place.
Inlay Creations guarantee the panels for 10 years. They are supposed to be UV stable and will not peel fade or blister.
It is not clear what the long-term durability is, and if major maintenance is required in say 20-30 years, this could create a problem.
Financing of the structure probably could be achieved by selling memorials, names and corporate donations.
It is not clear at this time whether the Queens County Historical Association would approve this structure.
Another option would be to only erect the stone as per Proposal 1 without the walkway. This could be done through donations only. The stone would have the map of the area along with a dedication.
The hall was rectangular in shape with a gable roof and decorative architecture under the eaves. The front had a small vestibule with double panel doors and a round window. Above this was a tall narrow window and along the sides were several double sash windows. The walls were painted white with a blue-gray trim. The building was dedicated to be used for religious services of the Church of England, Presbyterian and Methodist (later United) Churches.
Inside the building it had hardwood flooring, and wainscoting and sheathing on the walls and ceiling. A wood burning cast iron stove provided heat when needed. There were long benches with turned dowels and arm rests plus hardwood chairs. At the front, the organ sat on the right side, a desk or table on the left, and on either side, a few steps led to the stage where a pulpit and upholstered chairs sat. On the back wall was a Memorial for two boys of the community who were killed in World War 1, namely William Smith and Kenneth Woods, as well as a plaque designating that a Temperance Group once met here. From the stage two doors opened to a back room. Brass oil lamps hung from the ceiling and along the side walls and stage were bracket oil lamps with reflectors.
Regular Church Services were held on Sunday at 3 p.m., with the ministers coming from Welsford. In the nineteen-thirties, the United Church minister was the Rev. Christopher Graham; the Church of England, the Rev. R.E.J. Brittain. Mrs. Audrey Francis and Mrs. Eva Hasson were the regular organists.
Sunday school was held before the church service. Mrs. Annic (Bill) Lyon was the superintendent about this time. Sometimes her daughter Ethel played the organ. Later, Mrs. Annie Mitchell, her daughter Eva, and son Everett, very devoted people, walked several miles each Sunday, whatever the weather, to hold Sunday school.
The hall was also used as a community hall where many activities were carried out. To mention a few - there would be variety concerts of dialogues, recitations and songs. The young people had special gatherings. No dancing was allowed but with Audrey Francis at the organ, there could be lively games. Elections were always held there with voters coming from Welsford, Clones, Dunn's Corner, Olinville and the areas in between. Many came early in the morning by horse and wagon, staying all day until the polls closed, having meals at Max Charlton's or Perce Howe's. A day of crowds and excitement! The winners went home happy, the losers with sad faces.
On this property, at the left of the hall, was a large wagon shed, built of large timbers with archways in the front of several stalls, where the horses and wagons were kept during activities. The Armstrongs Corner School sat just above it.
A sad ending in 1953, the Armstrongs Corner Hall along with the farms and dwellings were taken over by the Camp Gagetown Training Area. I understand the money derived from the sale of the building was donated to the Protestant Orphanage in Saint John, N.B.


A Bolivian chemical engineer poses with plastic containers with brine at a lithium plant in Bolivia's Uyuni Salt Flats, which has one of the biggest reserves of lithium in the world.
Everyone wants more of lithium, the shiny, soft, and highly reactive mineral that powers the battery inside your smartphone and Prius (or Tesla, if you're one of the lucky ones).
Annual sales of electric vehicles are forecast to jump from 1 million last year to 9.2 million in the middle of the next decade. These cars are major consumers of lithium (see chart).
Morgan Stanley analysts just revised their supply estimates upward by 35% over the next 8 years. That's going to crush lithium prices--in the most bearish case by more than 50% by 2025.
That's a good thing for the cost of your Prius and iPhone, but not at all a good thing for lithium mining stocks such as Albemarle, Galaxy Resources, SQM, and Tianqi Lithium Industries. Look out below.


The Systems Design and Implementation (SDI) / Intel Science & Technology Center (ISTC) seminar series is an informal gathering of the SCS & ECE systems community. The range of talks is broad, covering the structure, implementation and performance of substantial systems. Typically, talks are on operating systems, application systems, communications, databases and language implementations, and are given by both Carnegie Mellon researchers and outside visitors.
SDI seminars may be advertised with only a day's warning through the SDI mailing list. If you would like to subscribe to this list to receive information on upcoming seminars, send mail to Karen with "subscribe SDI-list" in the subject line.
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We encourage students to give presentations, especially as practice talks for conferences and thesis work. If you would like to give a talk or recommend a speaker, please contact , (412-268-6716), to check the availability of your preferred date.
NOTE LOCATION: 12:00 p.m. Hamerschlag Hall 1107 Refreshments served at 11:30 a.m.
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CFCC leadership concerns make state, national headlines
State community college officials confirm they've asked CFCC to take action
By Ann McAdams
Updated: Mar. 10, 2020 at 11:28 AM EDT
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - A story WECT first broke in January about leadership concerns at Cape Fear Community College (CFCC) is now making state and national headlines. Former CFCC Human Resources Director Sharon Smith and former Information Technology Director Kumar Lakhavani were the first outgoing employees to speak publicly about their concerns, immediately after they resigned from the college.
Both shared similar stories of what they describe as a hostile and retaliatory work environment, as well as poor management skills and a general lack of professionalism at the highest levels of the college.
"It was at the point where I felt like I could no longer influence the right thing to do...." Smith explained at the time. "I got to the point there where I felt like they just wanted someone who would do whatever they needed to have done. And I did feel like it was going to affect my reputation as an HR professional to continue to work there, and be dragged into that juvenile type of conversation, those types of situations where they would just end up wanting me to be the axe if they wanted to get rid of someone."
More than 30 current and former employees contacted us to share stories of workplace bullying and favoritism at the public institution, that in numerous cases prompted experienced employees to retire earlier than planned. Common denominators in the complaints: CFCC President Jim Morton and his notably well-paid executive assistant, Michelle Lee.
"I just didn't agree with a lot of what was going on and I took a lower level, much less paying job in Winston-Salem," Lakhavani said of his own departure. "I would've rather stayed at Cape Fear but the environment was just too toxic."
On Monday, the James G. Martin Center, an education think tank in Raleigh, published a story on the topic after hearing similar complaints from current and former CFCC employees. As WECT experienced, most of the employees and former employees were unwilling to go on-the-record over fear it would cost them their job, or hurt their future employment prospects.
The Martin Center's managing editor Anthony Hennen learned that Peter Hans, president of the North Carolina Community Colleges System (NCCCS), has asked leadership at CFCC to take action in response to employees concerns. NCCCS confirmed this to WECT Monday evening:
"It is difficult to respond to an anonymous allegation," Hans wrote in a statement. "However, the State Board of Community Colleges is aware of concerns raised by some former employees at Cape Fear Community College. I have advised the college to undertake a climate survey of faculty and staff confidentially administered by an independent third-party."
When asked if CFCC had taken the state's advice and hired a firm to conduct the climate survey, the state told us we'd need to ask CFCC. Since WECT broke the story in January, numerous CFCC trustees have refused to answer our questions about the alarming number of employees and former employees who had spoken with us, raising extremely similar concerns about poor leadership and retaliation. Long-time employees told us Morton "reorganized" their departments, and they were forced to reapply for their own jobs, sometimes without success.
Despite the fact that these complaints were coming from some of the college's top executives, board members flatly dismissed the concerns at the one board meeting when this issue this was publicly discussed, two weeks after WECT's first report.
Chairwoman Ann David read a statement the board prepared during an hour-long closed session, elaborating they feel the college is moving in "a positive direction."
Board Member Jimmy Hopkins said "he'd never been more proud to serve on this board and serve with Jim Morton," while Mary Lyons-Rouse added Morton was doing "great things" in his role.
Board Member Pat Kusek even blamed WECT for publishing the concerns about Morton that she felt were without merit.
"It's unfortunate that we have one network and one reporter" pushing this agenda, Kusek said. She added Morton was doing the job the board hired him to do, and people are "resistant to change."
In addition to the Martin Center report, the New York City-based National Review Online has now picked up on the story, calling the situation at CFCC an "abuse of power."
"The root of the problem seems to be that the Board of Trustees, rather than exerting independent oversight of the president, is in league with him," George Leef wrote for the National Review.
"Cape Fear has two trustees who are also county commissioners. That has the potential to concentrate local power. For oversight to be effective, boards need trustees willing to stir the pot and ask uncomfortable questions, without an eye to whether they'll remain in the good graces of local powerbrokers," the Martin Center article added.
Jim Morton has declined multiple requests for an on-camera interview, instead sharing a four-page written response denying some of the allegations against him.
"I prefer not to keep engaging with you about false accusations," Morton wrote to WECT after we sent him a follow-up email requesting clarification on the written statement he provided. "The College is a wonderful place to work, and numerous employees tell me this on a regular basis. There is no 'police state.' There is no preference in hiring based on friendship/family/politics, but, instead, we diligently follow our procedures and go out of our way to avoid any appearance of impropriety in hiring."
Since the publication of the state and national reports, WECT has reached out to CFCC again to ask if they have hired a third-party consultant to conduct the recommended climate survey, where faculty and staff will be able to share their concerns in a confidential way without fear of retaliation. We are awaiting their response and will update this story when we learn more.
In the meantime, the state says it will be closely watching the situation at CFCC.
"It is important to note that state law and policy mandate that local boards of trustees oversee the operations of the colleges, including personnel matters such as performance reviews of college presidents. With that local authority, comes responsibility and accountability," Hans said. "The State Board of Community Colleges continues to monitor the situation and has been in active communication with the Cape Fear Community College trustees. As always, the State Board will support all of our 58 colleges in their critical mission of serving 700,000 students in the community college system."
There have been at least two cases in recent years where outside officials have intervened because of local issues at North Carolina community colleges. In 2017, the state threatened to withhold funding from Martin Community College because of leadership concerns there. It's worth noting those issues came to light after a group of anonymous students, staff and faculty wrote a letter to the state's community college system.
Roanoke-Chowan Community College in Ahoskie remains on probation with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). Some of the recent problems there involve issues with nepotism and failing to enforce a distinction between the Board of Trustees at the college and the administration.
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Body pulled out of water near Fort Fisher Aquarium
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Two business routes previously connected with Interstate 82 in Washington state.
Partially a locally maintained route, the business route for I-82 through Yakima followed 1st Street (old U.S. 97) south from the interchange complex (Exit 31B) joining Interstate 82 with the U.S. 12 freeway toward the Yakima city center. The route circumvented downtown as a truck route using the couplet of Lincoln Avenue (west) and Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard (east) to North 8th Street. 8th Street led the route south to Yakima Avenue for the return to Interstate 82 at Exit 33.
Some signs were still posted along the route in May 1999. A lone overhead remained as of 2012.
Business Loop I-82 traveled 6.5 miles east through Sunnyside from Exit 63 near the community of Outlook. Sunnyside Road connected the business loop west end with Yakima Valley Highway (old U.S. 12) leading east into the city. The eastern section of the former route constitutes a commercial boulevard from Mid Valley Mall southeast to Washington 241 (Waneta Road), which returned the loop to I-82 at Exit 69.
One or more Business Loop I-82 shields were still posted along old U.S. 12 in the Sunnyside area as of summer 1997. A lone marker remained through at least 2012.
Page updated August 26, 2016.
Long since removed, this Business Loop I-82 directed motorists onto North 8th Street from Yakima Avenue west. Photo taken by Mark Bozanich (2000).
A remaining shield for Business Loop I-82 east along Yakima Valley Highway as it entered the city of Sunnyside. Photo taken by Mark Bozanich (2000).


In Lyon, there is an inquiry going on at the moment into the future of the long-criticised C3 trolleybus line.1 Many want it replaced with a tram. The Greens in particular call the trolleybus "un projet du passé, un projet dépassé" (a project from the past, a project that is out-of-date).2 Where have we heard that before?
Everywhere you look, the trolleybus is seen as an inferior choice. Do some Leeds councillors still really think it reflects "cutting-edge technology" and would improve the image of our city?