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Home Nigeria Boko Haram: FG Moves to Relocate 80,000 Nigerian Refugees from Cameroon
Boko Haram: FG Moves to Relocate 80,000 Nigerian Refugees from Cameroon
Daji Sani in Yola
The Federal Government has commenced steps to receive over 80,000 Nigerians displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency from Cameroon. The location where the refugees will be resettled in Adamawa State has already been identified and inspected.
The proposed location is the permanent site of the Adamawa State Polytechnic which has been abandoned for over two decades. The site is situated at Konawaya village, a suburb of the state capital, Yola. Efforts are being made at rebuilding it, and making it conducive enough to accommodate the expected returnees.
This was revealed in Yola yesterday by the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Policy, Development and Analysis, Ibrahim Bapetel, who represented the Secretary to the Federal Government, Babachir David Lawal.
Bapetel urged the various stakeholders to prepare a comprehensive needs report for onward transmission to the Federal Government, adding that due to government's concern over the plight of the refugees, he was optimistic that the needs report will be treated with the urgency it deserves.
Bapetel noted that the number of refugees is significant and urged International donors to also come to the assistance of the Federal Government in addressing the myriad challenges that will be encountered in handling them.
The Adamawa State government also called on international donor agencies as well as the Federal Government to come to the rescue of the state, explaining that the state government cannot single-handedly shoulder the responsibilities of catering to the expected returnees.
The call came through the state's commissioner for information, Comrade Ahmed Sajoh, when he – alongside the Federal Government delegation – visited the proposed site. Sajoh said help was needed considering the number of refugees and the state of the proposed camp which he said needs complete rehabilitation.
He revealed that fencing the facility alone will cost the state enormous funds, let alone providing other basic infrastructure. According to Sajoh, the state government has serious financial constraints, especially because of the cash crunch facing the country.
Sajoh added that the state government has already constituted a committee which will liaise with relevant stakeholders to see how best to tackle the issue, including profiling of all refugees in order to ensure watertight security around the facility.
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You will learn step-by-step the process of crafting the perfect pizza pie. Throughout the class you'll make up to two gourmet pizzas and take home some dough for future pizza-making fun.
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Chef Lisa's creative recipes are very popular with Stocked Pot Cooking School students; her creative use of ingredients and delightful tasty settings will excite every palate. Join us tonight to team up with a delicious blend of flavors.
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Our Culinary Boot Camps are so popular that Chef Don is offering to spend another day with his students doing what he does best cook and tell stories. Today's Boot Camp has been requested by so many of our students and visitors that it was easy to add to our calendar. So get ready for the Ultimate day of cooking, SEAFOOD. If learning how to cook a variety of seafood dishes like a chef, or just want to add some new favorite dishes to your repertoire, then this is your class, so sign up early! All recipes are from scratch, no boxes no mixes. this is a HANDS-ON CLASS.
Class is from 9:15 AM to around 3:00 PM, stick around after class to kick back with a glass of wine with Chef Don, you will have earned it.
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Having begun working in corporate settings, I've found coffee to be a central social tool. Coffee is the beverage of choice in the corporate environment. Not just because it helps tired workers stay awake and busy, also because it's so quick and easy: You just need to turn the machine on, and it'll keep the coffee hot and drinkable all day. You can refill your cup and go about your busy work. It's easy to offer a guest or a co-worker a cup of coffee since it just involves filling another cup along with your own. In this way, you can help co-workers even more since they don't even have to get up from their work. It's an easy way to have shared social moment, however short, in the office space.
I've noticed this mostly because I don't drink coffee.
Being half-British, I drink tea. Preferably strong black tea with a bit of milk, as is the English way. But tea is difficult. You need to make it when you want to drink it, otherwise it'll turn bitter, stale, and lukewarm. Making tea takes time, and since time is in short supply in the corporate setting, it is rarely considered an option. You always end rummaging through the remaining tea-bags in a half-empty box and invariably have to choose between some horrible fruit tea or green tea. Tea is not appreciated as a worthy alternative: It's slow, messy and inefficient.
But really, that just reaffirms my staunch position as a tea drinker. I take pleasure in taking my time with my tea. So imagine my joy when I came across this short piece by George Orwell on how to make a Nice Cup of Tea. It sums up my sentiments exactly.


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Fujitsu P63XHA30E review
It doesn't much better than this
By tech.co.uk staff 2005-02-01T00:00:00.31Z Plasma and LCD TVs
A brave and impressive effort from Fujitsu - but it sure ain't cheap!
To the uninitiated, a 42in plasma screen is an impressive size, well capable of dominating a typically-sized lounge. We have been lucky enough to be in the presence of some even bigger screens, but none match up to the Fujitsu P63XHA30E, a real widescreen goliath at a whopping 63in.
It's not the biggest plasma in the world, but this tuner-free monster is the largest you're likely to be able to get your hands on in the UK for some time.
Big is beautiful
The biblically proportioned panel doesn't look as overpowering as it might, however, thanks to its light design, with a reasonably attractive stand available for an extra £230. Once you've heaved the thing into position and had a nose around, you might be surprised to discover an RGB-wired Scart socket.
Fujitsu has had a slightly snooty attitude to all things domestic in the past, so it's nice to see such a front-room-friendly connection lining up alongside the more high-end stuff. The concessions to the mass market stop there, however, with the lack of an RF jack betraying the absence of a television tuner.
Perhaps more surprising is the omission of DVI or HDMI inputs - especially at the price. You can still feed high-def material through its progressive scan-capable component video inputs (although this won't be compatible with Sky's 2006 HD service) but again, there's only one set of these, which seems a trifle miserly to say the least.
A standard VGA PC jack enables you to hook the P63XHA30E up to a computer, which has mind-boggling implications for gaming (or PowerPoint presentations, if you are that way inclined), but the socket haul is limited. The screen does however pack Fujitsu's own Advanced Video Movement (AVM) processor, which stamps out motion artefacts and flicker, improves vertical resolution and makes movement look more realistic.
Feed the Fujitsu RGB pictures from a Sky box and you'll be wowed by an almost startlingly clear and immediate picture. Edges look smoother than on just about any set we've seen of a similar size, and colours are wonderfully well saturated. Much of this - particularly the excellent colour reproduction - is due in part to the screen's awesome brightness, this has the added effect of enabling a contrast range that would eclipse that of many smaller sets.
Donnie darker
As the titular hero of our Donnie Darko DVD sits on his car and looks out at the time hole forming over his house, blacks are solid and rich, the P63XHA30E rendering just about every shade to ensure that masses of detail is retained. This is even true during gloomier scenes, such as Donnie's first trip to the golf course to speak to Frank. The result is an utterly absorbing picture possessed of a brilliantly convincing depth of field.
On the down side, the inherent plasma problems of rogue dots and colour banding do appear - but even these do little to spoil the P63XHA30E's masterful performance.
Audio is an afterthought, but Fujitsu's optional speakers (£477 for the pair) knock out a muscular soundstage. Still, a screen this majestic really needs hooking up to separate sound kit to do it justice. Our only real beef with the P63XHA30E - aside from the lack of all-digital inputs - is born of the very thing that makes it so compelling: it's just too damn big! And seriously, who's got a spare £13,000 lying around their reinforced steel-walled palace?
What we do applaud, though, is Fujitsu's pioneering instinct to approach the frontiers of plasma design and size. If 60in and above is your goal, they don't come much better, and definitely not bigger, than this.
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A pay-per-introduction service provider builds a website where individuals or businesses in search of a product or service enter a request. The service seeker pays nothing, but the vendor buys tokens or credits which must be spent each time it wants to contact one of these leads. The service seeker completes some basic information about the project such as timeline and budget. The payor-potential vendor will not see a thorough scope of work, the size of the business either revenue, customer, or employee count, and often no color on the vertical. And none have offered a guarantee on investment. Let's distil this down.
The service seeker has zero risk. The vendor makes an investment and from the above description it is fair to say she shoots into the dark. Additionally, the pay-per-introduction service provider requires the vendor to respond through by placing information into the little boxes foreclosing a sophisticated business development department to diversify how the lead is approached: essentially, vendor gets to enter an elevator pitch one-time and is going to pay to get into that elevator while seekers ride for free all day long. This is a bad system with low return on investment. If I have to pay to play, am I better off going to the casino and placing a $10.00 token on number 16? Well, there is another way.
The pay-per-introduction service provider encourages service seekers to utilize the service because this is easier than going through search engines modifying search phrases until they find what they need. Instead, utilize this zero outlay no risk service to have the vendor you need contact you. Obviously, the pay-per-transaction service provider is not aware of search engine optimization.
SEO is short for search engine optimization. I think it should be called Sales Engineering Opportunity. SEO is a methodology of utilizing tactics, strategies, search terms, and other meaningful elements to optimize whether your website will be found in a search and what priority it is given in a list of search results. A high-quality SEO program will not only provide great SEO but will also provide development services for your website. If web development is not a function of an SEO vendor, any credible one will at least be able to recognize the benefits of some development work and surely recommend giving the website a nice dusting.
Return on investment is always important and drives or heavily influences most business decisions. Pay-per-introduction providers, at least that I have seen, offer no guarantee. You must develop a budget, buy some tokens, and throw the dice. Vendors are not even provided analytics like open rates or provided any information about why they were not contacted. Alternatively, SEO firms can provide information about the progress of the SEO, changes in recognition of searches, and analytics about site visits. This can often be provided at an defined recurring cost.
Being found early in search results is paramount to getting service-seekers to open your door. I am doubtful many service-seekers think first to place their need onto a pay-per-transaction site. Most likely spend at least 10 minutes searching for a vendor. Why not get found in this search? Most of us have heard that many people do not scroll past the first page of search results. In my B2B sales, I mean business development experience, I have found more and more business owners who have even said they refuse to click on anyone with a paid ad. Organic SEO with a great website is the answer.
So, if your business is looking for revenue generation be wary of pay-per-click. Instead, think about how well your Sales Engineering Opportunity (SEO powered website) is doing. Does your current vendor really know SEO? Search for your business yourself, but make sure you are thinking like a potential customer who does not know. What would she type into her favorite search engine? I would be happy to speak with you about this greater depth. My name is Charles: (219) 309-6098.


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Thread: It's a bit like World War One
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The radio today said that eight US soldiers were killed in Iraq in the last 24 hrs. But added that thirteen 'insurgents' were killed. Also, eighty-four bodes were found in various parts of the country, some bearing signs of torture.
In 1916 in WW1 British forces were 'inflicting heavy losses' on German positions on the Somme. In 1917 mothers on both sides were still tarring-and-feathering' cowards on both sides. After all, the enemy were evil....
I look forward to news reports of the truth. Perhaps when US servicemen return and are de-mobbed?
Re: It's a bit like World War One
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More so than imaginable--- check out the above site
"I look forward to news reports of the truth."
"When war is declared, Truth is the first casualty."
--Arthur Ponsonby
-Don Quoteman
It's a mindless slaughterhouse now, just as it was then - death and destruction for a purpose no one can coherently explain. So sad. And appalling that we can't seem to put a stop to it....


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Who is Hiss and why was he so special to Howo?
The first technical answer is that Hiss was a Glowing Hissi owned by a friend, Miranda (or crazy4cowz - though the account Hiss was on was frozen), at a neopets guild I used to be a part of. Now on to the story part of the answer.
Having been abandoned at the dinner table on the first date she ever went on, left to hope that the boy she liked most would accept her confession before finding him with the most popular girl in class, and losing a friend to a surfer girl, Howo had a very warped perception of romantic relationships and, for the most part, teenage boys in general. Eventually, after a few more failed relationships which mostly ended in the boy leaving her for another girl, Howo decided to give up. She would no longer come to the boy; a boy would have to come to her.
In her junior year of high school, Howo got her wish; a Glowing Hissi straight out of high school, Hiss, introduced himself first and was the picture of maturity. Though he was not even two years older, she had a hunch he was not one of the teenage boys that would leave her behind. And unlike her past relationships, she was not the first to ask to start a relationship, and she was not to first to use the word "love." And to top it off, Hiss made her feel like she really mattered.
(additionally, Fiona is not an existing Neopet, and Echauffer is a character I have who would eventually be a Water Zafara.)
So when did things start going wrong?
Once Howo did find the man of her dreams... he suddenly disappeared one day, leaving her alone and confused. He would not be at home and would not pick up the phone - not even a note was left behind.
At the start of the relationship, Howo had somewhat evident signs of depression that only worsened by Hiss's absence. Finding a potions store by chance, Howo turned to Echauffer (under the pen name Wanda Whimsy) for a potion to help her think a little less negatively, and instead got a potion that gave her a horrible skin mutation. Her condition only worsened, thinking Hiss could never possibly love her with how she looked now.
Half a year later, Hiss has returned unannounced. Having apparently gone on a self-finding journey, he had turned off his phone to avoid outside involvement and felt guilty when he realized he had forgotten to leave a note. Unfazed by Howo's appearance, he asked her to marry him and things are great again (painfully cliche, yet "the power of love" cured Howo.) Enveloped in stories of the two living together as a married couple in the future by a lighthouse, Howo felt that things were back to normal. That is... until he disappeared once more.
This time, she had no contact with him until a full year passed. Hiss had honestly started the second self-finding journey to try and be a better man; but along the way, he met someone new and it ended up becoming something more. All the while, Howo has been abandoned by Hiss once more, but this time has at least the hope that they will marry once he returns home. She received a phone call from him soon after, the first contact she had with him in a year, but something seems uncertain and sullen in his voice. It was the tone of voice you'd hear someone have if they had forgotten something they should have remembered. After bombarding him in questions of his journey and when he planned to come home, Howo is responded to with a request to meet him again in order to return the ring; there's someone else.
Wow, that's awful. So how does Fiona come into play?
By chance at a book store, Howo bumped into a Gelert named Fiona, and befriended her easily. They got to know each other better, and once the question of "are you in a relationship" came up, Howo was uncomfortable in saying that her fiance had just admitted to cheating, so she instead claimed to not be in any relationship. Once Fiona described her fiance to Howo, she got suspicious, and these suspicions were confirmed when the gelert took a picture of the Hissi himself from her wallet.
Howo was battling conflicting emotions. She knew that all she had to do was tell Fiona how Hiss had left her hanging for a year and it would be over - but she didn't want to drag her new friend down with this revelation. And yet, so consumed with guilt of Fiona never knowing the truth, she spilled the beans - only for Fiona to be somehow flattered by Hiss's choice and concerned that Howo was just hanging around her out of spite.
That's when Howo, who had been relieved of the weight of guilt, was now consumed with anger and slugs Fiona in the face. Fiona was being punched repeatedly until deus ex machina Hiss appeared out of nowhere and shoved Howo away from her, causing her wayward fist to go right into a store window. The potion still lurking in her bloodstream caused a purple wrist scar once the glass cut into her. (Turns out true love didn't "cure" her after all).
How does the relationship end?
Hiss knew this had gone too far and it was his fault for not coming clean to Howo sooner, so the two had a brief "heart-to-heart." He says that the first time he left, he really was just trying to find himself, and at the start of his second journey, he left in the intention of becoming better, perhaps earning enough money to make their dream life come true. But after meeting Fiona and failing to mention the hopeful girlfriend he had left behind in Neopia Central, Hiss started to realize something about this relationship that was different from his with Howo's. It felt more natural to him.
Hiss confessed that being with Fiona made him realize that he couldn't deal with Howo's increasingly problematic and pessimistic personality, and jerk of the week tried to band-aid his selfish actions by saying that someone else would be eons better for her. No kidding.
The relationship ended with Hiss and Howo coming to an understanding that it was over. But before the two would officially part ways for their lives without each other, Hiss asked for the ring once more. So Howo took the engagement ring from off of her finger, and though it initially appeared that she'd be giving it back, she dropped it on the ground and crushed the band under the heel of her shoe, kicking the remnants into the gutter.
Howo and Fiona both apologized for their actions (Howo more so than Fiona) and the problem was resolved.
Before she parted ways with Fiona and Hiss, Fiona asked Howo if they could possibly meet up again another day, which Howo somewhat reluctantly agreed to. When she waved goodbye, Hiss only gave her an indifferent "Yeah, bye," before leaving her behind, destroying any bit of love Howo ever had for him.
That's fine and good, but why did Howo crush the ring? Couldn't she have just refused to return it or sell it or something?
She could have, and had actually considered doing one of those. But she knew she absolutely was not going to give it back, because she felt Hiss would have gotten out of the relationship with no consequences. She didn't want to hurt Fiona, but she wanted Hiss to pay for his actions. So what better way than to crush the ring to pieces right in front of him? No better way, obviously.


Blackpac maintains a blacklist of packages which is used to create a dummy package, 'blackpacdummy', which makes pacman believe it provides the blacklisted packages. This allows you to remove the blacklisted packages from your system despite other packages which depend on them. Blackpac is designed to give the user greater control over what packages are installed, and to override pacman's dependency checking. Blackpac can also remove and install blacklisted packages, via pacman, as they are listed and unlisted in the blacklist, or you can do this yourself.
WARNING: This script is for advanced users who understand the implications and consequences of removing packages that are required by other packages. It is YOUR responsibility to determine what packages are safe to remove in this manner.
All options except --show require blackpac to be run as root.
By default, the blacklist is stored in /etc/blackpaclist. The best way to update the list is to use blackpac to do so. The list may also be edited directly, in which case you will need to run "blackpac ––update" to recreate blackpacdummy.
blackpackdummy is a dummy package, built and installed automatically by blackpac, which installs no files. It simply tells pacman that it provides all of the packages you have blacklisted, giving them a version number of '999', so that you may then remove them without being told other packages depend on them, or on later versions of them. This is similar to using "pacman -Rd packagename" to remove a package regardless of dependencies, except that method does not prevent future updates from reinstalling the package, whereas blackpac's method should.
Blacklisting a package through blackpac will add the package to the list of what blackpacdummy provides, reinstall blackpacdummy, and update the blacklist. It will not remove the package unless the "––remove" or "––removes" options are also included.
>>> pacman --noconfirm -U "/tmp/blackpac.tmp/blackpacdummy-1.0.0-1-any.pkg.tar.gz"
In just this one example, blackpac allowed me to remove 68MB of packages from my system, not to mention packages I simply don't want installed, without breaking anything I use. And it allowed me to un-blacklist them and reinstall them with one command.
As demonstrated above, unlisting a package and installing it will generally undo any changes. Nevertheless, remove blacklisted packages with caution as removing the wrong packages can cause system failure. In all events, it never hurts to be prepared with a recent system backup.
Or, follow the standard Script Installation Instructions.
This seems quite an interesting script. However, if packages actually run fine without their given dependencies, it may be possible to get them listed as optdepends instead. If that seems reasonable, open a feature request on the bug tracker.
Thanks – I'll look that over. In this case it's tricky because kmail does require kdelibs, and in some situations kdelibs does require akonadi and soprano (probably), which in turn requires mysql. But kmail may indeed not require the dependencies of kdelibs. So this chain of dependencies is the problem. OTOH it's also possible that kmail does require akonadi when used in an integrated way with KDE's Contact, etc. But in general I think the KDE packages overdo the dependencies – they would have you install all of KDE. So I may take your suggestion. I also may look at the kde-mod situation to see if that handles it differently.


This Sunday was fast Sunday. I remember as a young boy, asking my parents, "Why do they call it fast Sunday when it goes by so slow?" I can imagine my parents trying to instil some understanding of fasting into a young boy who thought he was dying of starvation. But I guess it worked because now I have at least a basic understanding of fasting. It is one of the principles I have the strongest witness about.
But alas I did not fast this Sunday. I actually find it more effective to fast on a day that I feel I need to fast. Instead of on a once a month schedule. I was considering going up to give my testimony, but I just couldn't get my feet to move. And since I didn't I want to share it with you.
I want you all to know of my witness that Jesus Christ is the Saviour of the world. Through Him and only Him can we get salvation. It we obey His commandments to us personally we will not be lead astray.
Our daughter needed a diaper change so I went out and changed her. When I came back our Stake President was speaking. He was speaking about, of all things, fast offerings. He explained a little bit about the history of fast offerings. Basically that the food we don't eat while fasting we are to give to the poor, or the bishop. I will be researching the history of fasting here so I might have a future post about that topic.
By, intentionally or unintentionally, telling us to pay our fast offerings to the Church, it implies that our fast offerings is money owed to the Church. We owe it to them and we must pay it. But If it is money owed then it is not really an offering then is it? An offering is something not required but given or offered of owns own will.
Now I also wondered about if the offering should be given in currency or in goods. The church no longer accepts -in-kind offerings. I wonder what would happen if I showed up at the bishop's office with a box of cereal and some other food products. Or maybe if I left them anonymously at the Bishops house. If an can't make in-kind donations, and I don't trust the church to use my fast offering money correctly, could I just go out and give my food so someone I see on the street? These are questions I have that I need to study more.
Our Stake President further told us that our Ward has the lowest ratio of fast offerings to tithing in the Stake. What was cool though is he asked a brother a question from the pulpit. Instead of us all sitting there like sheeple, we actually had some interaction.
Our Stake President then went on to describe the City of Enoch and their Zion society. He read from Moses, in the Pearl of Great Price. I don't have that on my laptop right now so I just quoted the same verse from the Inspired Version of the Bible.
23 And the Lord called his people, Zion, because they were of one heart and of one mind, and dwelt in righteousness; and there were no poor among them.
1. The were of one heart – This meant that the hearts of their children were turned to their fathers and the hearts of their fathers were turned to their children. Meaning they did genealogy.
2. There were of one mind – This means they did missionary work(Yeah I don't get it either).
3. They dwelt in righteousness – They did their Home Teaching and Visiting Teaching(It gets better).
4. There were no poor among them – They paid their fast offerings.
I don't want to dismiss the teachings of my Stake President outright. It's very possible he has some spiritual insight that I don't have. But it seems to me that his interpretation of this verse is way off. And it's more of an effort to get the members of our ward to do modern church "duties," by wresting the scriptures and saying if we want to be Zion we must do those things.
To me being of one heart means that all the people were emotionally unified. They were not just unified geographically, but they loved each other. They cared about each other. They had each others best interests at heart.
As far as doing genealogy, I wonder if this was even important or possible until after the Saviour was resurrected. Wasn't it the Saviour who made work for the dead possible? I'm not ready to discuss the ability the people of Enoch to do genealogy. I have some slight musings that the people during Enoch's time may have been much more advanced than we give them credit for. But I haven't really formulated any theories yet. When I do you'll see them on my God Species blog.
But Being one mind means not necessarily they all thought alike but that for the most part they were on the same page. They worked together, had the same goals in mind. They learned together. Just some thoughts.
I really don't believe that the City of Enoch had the Home Teaching program. They probably had some from of knowing and meeting the needs of people. But it was probably closer to the community just being and existing together. They walked and talked with each other. They communicated freely and hence understood each others needs. I doubt there were once a month visits, where they read the monthly message from Enoch and his two councillors.
I don't think they had a Relief Society to do Visiting teaching. They may have had a similar organization but it was probably very different. And then maybe even unnecessary when they got closer to being lifted to heaven.
This seemed the closest one. But I think this would have primarily been towards the beginning of the Enochian Zion. After everyone's needs were met through consecration there would be little need to give fast offerings, since there would be no poor. The people of Enoch's Zion would have given all they had to each other. Thus they would have all received the bounty of all their property.
A poor person can only exist in relation to someone who has more than them. Likewise a rich person can only exist in relation to someone who has less than them. If all people have everything in common there are no rich and no poor, because all are equal. Does that mean that everyone is middle class, not quite rich or not quite poor? No, In fact a society like Enoch's that could successfully live the Law of Consecration would eventually become very wealthy. The society would gain increases, and riches from the earth. Wealth and fine things would abound yet no one would be rich and no one would be poor. They would all share the riches equally with no one having more or less than another person.
After sacrament meeting I went to Sunday School. And we received the Stakes of Zion Enlarge your tent lesson. I wished I had paid more attention when I read WeepingforZion's A Thought On Timing post.
I commented that originally Stakes of Zion were Cities. For example the Stake of Kirtland was the City of Kirtland. The Stake of Nauvoo was the City of Nauvoo. Etc. We are supposed to gather to these Cities. Today we no longer do that. The actual City of Zion must be built before the Saviour returns.
Together they will make the desolate Cities inhabited. Together Zion, Jerusalem, and the Stakes of Zion will be cleansed and purified. They will be rebuilt according to the patterns God has given. They will before this have been considered desolate and after their redemption will be inhabited.
My comment was largely ignored. But our teacher did comment that the cities being desolate mean that they were desolate with the Gospel. This means that the Church would send missionaries to the cities with out the Gospel and they would inhabit the cities.
Towards the end of the lesson my wife can in with our daughter. Our daughter had been crying and my wife needed to teach nursery. I took her and we went out. I realized later why she was crying. It was because of daylight savings time. So my daughter's internal clock was an hour ahead and it was her nap time. Eventually she calmed down and we went back inside.
Only a white man would think he could cut a foot off the bottom of a blanket, sew it on top of the blanket, and think he had a longer blanket.
So it is with Daylight savings time in my view. Benjamin Franklin did have a lot of good ideas, but Daylight Savings Time was not one of them.
Anyway, we went into Elder's Quorum and stood in the back. Our Stake President was giving the men who hold the Priesthood a strong rebuke. At least I think it was a rebuke. Apparently at some point the duties of the Priesthood had been compared to football. And for those of you who know me, what I know about football you could probably fit into a thimble. You could probably even put your finger into that thimble and not even get it wet.
So I managed to catch a few things, mostly about how we are not doing our home teaching. But I'm not really sure, most of what I got was about how we are left-field-right-handed-block-tackle-runners. And we aren't making our blocks to defend the single adults and widows who are the back-field-pass-jumpstart-kickers. And they can't make the over-the-shoulder-boulder-holder-left-handed-tackle-pass because we aren't doing our job right. But since we are left-field-right-handed-block-tackle-runners, we get paid the most and have already signed the contract.
Hey, your guess is as good as mine.
P.S. And don't worry, my concluding post to Plural Marriage Month is almost done.
It's encouraging for me to see your eyes wide open when it comes to the church leadership using the scriptures as they see fit, instead of just letting the plain sense speak. I believe this is the biggest source of spiritual blindness in the church today…they can't see the scriptures past the "corporate teaching manuals".
I am hopeful that you will eventually see what I learned, that Christ's church has been here all along.
I'm actually hoping that the fall of Babylon (t-minus only a couple of weeks and counting) will force the Church(tm) back into it's rightful place – the background.
Tom, when exactly is the November prediction? What are the dates?
Tom, likewise I want to know about this t-minus date you spoke about.
That interview is only free/available until Friday, at which point it enters the subscribers section (which I am not a part of). It's a good 4+ hour interview, so make some time for it. After that, you'll get my t-minus reference, should it prove accurate.
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G7 Countries Prioritise Primary Health Care At Health Ministers' Meeting In Paris
Health, Climate & SDGs 17/05/2019 • David Branigan
Health Ministers from G7 countries wrapped up a two-day meeting today in Paris that focused on strengthening primary health care, health inequalities for developing countries and the elimination of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
Entitled "Ensuring Health Care For All: A G7 Priority," the meeting of the Group of 7 (G7) most developed countries also announced the launch of a new primary health care initiative – which will seek to improve primary health care through knowledge sharing.
The meeting, hosted by the Government of France, included G7 Health Ministers from Japan, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Agnès Buzyn, French Minister for Solidarity and Health (center) with other G7 Health Ministers at the meeting in Paris.
"More than half of the global population do not have access to all the health service they need. In many countries, health systems fail to address the diverse health issues encountered by individuals over the course of their lives," the French Government noted in advance of the meeting.
"To combat this inequality, France intends to promote strengthening of primary health care, which is the cornerstone of health systems and a prerequisite for socio-economic development benefiting populations," it said.
"Access to health care is a fundamental right without which stability and development are threatened. Investing in health care is an absolute necessity to ensure populations have access to prevention and quality health care," Agnès Buzyn, French Minister for Solidarity and Health, said in the lead-up to the meeting.
"Merci beaucoup Agnès Buzyn, Minister of Health of France, for welcoming us today at the G7 Ministerial Meeting. WHO is grateful for France's strong leadership and efforts to put Health For All firmly on the international agenda," Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, said in a tweet.
Also present at the meeting were representatives from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
"Great to have an opportunity to present to the G7 Health Minister's meeting hosted by the wonderful French Minister Agnès Buzyn on the importance of PHC [primary health care]. Really positive to have the ministers focusing on global issues including developing countries," Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, said in a tweet.
"At the G7 Health Ministers meeting in Paris. Great discussion on knowledge-sharing for primary health care, and the imperative of a successful Global Fund replenishment to Step Up The Fight," Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund, said in a tweet.
France will also host the Global Fund Replenishment Conference to be held later this year in Lyon on 10 October 2019, which will bring together representatives from donor countries, civil society and the private sector to raise the US$14 billion needed to combat the three pandemics.
Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) were also key topic discussed at the Ministers' meeting, with a presentation by Katja Iversen, President and CEO of Women Deliver, a global advocacy NGO.
Women 7, a movement for a truly feminist G7 in 2019, said in a tweet: "Worldwide, 1 woman dies every 8 minutes from unsafe abortion. The Women 7 calls on G7 Health Ministers to change that by supporting SRHR for women and girls."
Image Credits: G7 France.
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Loss Means Storm Finish In 7th
The Grande Prairie Storm found out on Saturday night they will finish in seventh place in the North Division of the Alberta Junior Hockey League.
They will have to wait until the final game of the regular season Sunday to find out what team they will be playing in a best-of-five quarterfinal.
A 3-0 loss on home ice in their final regular season game, combined with a Drayton Valley Thunder 6-5 upset win over the first place Fort McMurray Oil Barons, relegated the Storm to seventh place, a point back of the sixth place Thunder.
The Storm finished the regular season with 15 wins, 38 losses and seven overtime losses while the Thunder ended up 17-39-4.
The 37 points the Storm collected this season is their highest total since the 2013-14 season, when they had 45. Last year they had 26 and the year before that 34.
They are making a playoff appearance for the first time since the 2012-13 season.
And when the final game of the season is played Sunday in Whitecourt between the Wolverines and Oil Barons the Storm will likely be hoping for a MOB win. The Storm play the second place finisher in the first round.
Fort Mac leads the Wolverines by a point heading into the finale and the Thunder hold the tie-breaker edge if there is a tie in points.
The Storm lost all six to the MOB over the regular season scoring just four times. They had a win in six games against the Wolverines – a 5-4 victory in the last game between the two clubs.
Saturday night against the Pontiacs Storm head coach/general manager Matt Keillor was able to rest some regulars opting to give midget-aged defenceman Clayton Nevil and forwards Eric Sorenson, Austin Schellenberg and Logan Moon some Junior A experience. Midget netminder Ashton Abel dressed as the backup.
As a result the offence sputtered managing just 13 shots and few quality scoring chances.
After a scoreless first the Pontiacs, who finished 41 points ahead of the Storm in the North standings, scored twice in the second and then salted it away with late-third tally.
Bonnyville netminder Robert Jacobson recorded his fourth shutout of the season while Mitchell Oliver, Zach Ashton and Brendan Holterhus scored the goals. Xavier Burghardt got the Storm start looking at 37 shots.
It wasn't all bad news for the Storm. One of the largest crowds of the season – 1,673 – showed up for the game and the 50/50 was $5,680.
While they don't yet know who they will be playing, the Storm do know their first home game of the playoffs in four years will be on Sunday, March 12.
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Y6923: a season of breakthroughs
2 Comments	 June 13, 2019 whitmanic
Last time I wrote about E-Y6923/Y6938, the Y-chromosome lineage carried by one in every 17 or 18 Ashkenazi Jewish males, signifying one shared early medieval ancestor, I had no idea when we'd be able to report back with any new findings.
As it turns out, not all that long. An early trickle of new data from Family Tree DNA's Y-700 customers, read against some previously inscrutable data, has helped to shed light on several of the unknowns I spelled out in January. Among them:
Where did Y6923 originate, and what are its closest relatives?
As of the beginning of this year, as far as we could assume, the common ancestor of all Y6923 men, Ashkenazi and non-Ashkenazi, could be dated to roughly 400 CE, give or take a few hundred years—that is, the tail end of the Roman era in Western Europe.
But what about Y6923's deeper origins? Unfortunately, the common ancestor of Y6923 and its closest relative, Y4972—found among Romaniote Jews, Mediterranean Europeans, Russians, Armenians, and Gulf Arabs—dates back to 3500 BCE, give or take, that is, right before the first pharaohs of Egypt and the first city-states of Sumer.
One day, population movements in the proto-historic Near East will be interpretable using contemporary Y-chromosomes, but until then, what about the gap between 3500 BCE and 400 CE? In the received history of Canaan, Israel, and the Jewish Diaspora, most of this period is surprisingly well-accounted for—but in the phylogeny of E-Y6923, this span of eras constitutes a yawning chasm.
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to announce the first step in the closing of the gap. FTDNA has identified a marker downstream of Y4971 (Y6923's most recent identified ancestor, until now), and upstream of Y6923, called Y6926. Someone who tests positive for Y6926, but negative for Y6923, could be said to be the 'closest cousin' of all Y6923 carriers.
Unfortunately, only one individual has been positively identified as Y6926+ and Y6923-, and he hasn't included any information (even a name) to hint at his origins.
But! In examining the Y-STR data of potential distant Y6923 cousins in the E-M35 project on FTDNA, I caught a real break: it turns out that our unidentified Y6926+ Y6923- individual clusters—apparently within just a few hundred years—with a group of Emirati and Omani men from the same extended clan, along with a few other unidentified individuals.
An informed correspondent backed my assessment: this group of Gulf Arab men is very likely to be Y6926+ (we already know that they're Y6923-; if they were Y6923+, we would have known by now). They are our closest cousins, and assuming that Latin American Y6923 is of converso origin, Y6923's closest non-Jewish connection.
First of all, this link strengthens the case for a Middle Eastern origin of Y6923. Inferring beyond that is tough at this stage, but based on a preliminary account, Y6926 essentially 'splits the difference' between Y4971 and Y6923 in terms of distinguishing mutations, which suggests a common ancestor for Y6926's Y6923+ and Y6923- descendants somewhere very roughly around 1600-1500 BCE, or in Levantine archaeological terms, the end of the Middle Bronze Age.
This was a time of upheaval in the region, and if we assume a Levantine, rather than Arabian, origin for Y6926, our tree would seem to correspond with the theory that it was also a time of proto-Arab migrations out of the Levant and into North and East Arabia. Again, this part is highly speculative.
How about Y6923's big internal split?
In my last post, I wrote about the emerging picture of a split within Y6923 along pretty clean lines: Y6938 (now considered interchangeable with Y6940) characterizing all Ashkenazi members, and Y102667 being the signature of non-Ashkenazi members. We now have a few more data points, and in the broad sense, they appear to strengthen this paradigm.
First, one new individual of Tunisian Jewish origin has appeared on the YFull tree as Y102667+. His direct patriline, however, is said to be from somewhere in Turkey, having arrived in Tunisia in the early 19th century. This new cousin's surname is attested in two different places: among Kurds in Turkey, and in elongated form, among Maghrebi Jews.
I am doubtful, however, about a Kurdish/Mesopotamian/Eastern Anatolian link: first of all, I don't think Kurds had standard surnames 200 years ago, second, I don't believe Jews were ever known to take on Kurdish clan names, and third, Jewish communities that far east were not part of the Sephardic network that would have linked, say, the Jewish communities of Istanbul, Izmir, and Tunis.
In addition, FTDNA has turned up a Y6923+ individual of Algerian (most likely Algerian Jewish) origin in its Y Haplotree; the individual does not appear on the list of Y6938/Y6940 downstream members (Y102667 doesn't appear on the tree).
Finally, the E-M35 project has identified a Mexican and a Peruvian who are both estimated to be Y6923+, but Y6938/Y6940-, which would seem to make a pattern out of the one Puerto Rican individual who's been known for a few years to be Y6923+ (now confirmed Y102667+). Given that all other known Y6923+ Y6938/Y6940- / Y102667+ individuals are Sephardic or North African Jews, a converso origin for these Latin American patrilines seems more likely than not.
While none of these new downstream findings changes the possibility space of the Y6938 / Y102667 split much, I'm inclined to say it slightly strengthens the case for an explicitly Sephardic origin of Y102667, and an identification of the split with the early branching of the late classical Western Roman Jewish community into proto-Ashkenazim and proto-Sephardim. That said, North African Y102667 might not have come from Spain, leaving other, less immediately legible possibilities open.
What we're waiting on
More confirmed Y6926+ Y6923- individuals, for better ethnogeographical and chronological insights
Identification of sibling branches to Y6923, under Y6926
Confirmation of the Algerian individual's Jewishness
Confirmation of the Peruvian, Mexican, and Algerian individual as Y102667+
Politifact rates your symphony false
Leave a comment	 April 3, 2018 whitmanic
This is one reason I respect Jordan Peterson's pragmatism on a pragmatic level, even as I think it's a crappy theory of truth. I can imagine a version of him saying (I don't know if the real one does) "Look, I'm giving you all of these inspirational slogans. You can pick my science and philosophy and mythography apart if you really want, but are you sure you want to do that? You'll just ruin my attempt to inspire you, and go back to lying on the couch all day wishing you had a reason to get up in the morning."
Maybe aliens would view it as a tragic quirk of the human psyche that we have to conflate inspiration and truth. Maybe to them, inspiration is just another genre, closer to art or poetry than to an attempt to describe the world as it is. Maybe to them, if there's an intuitively satisfying explanation of the meaning of life, asking "Is that really the meaning?" or "Is that really true?" would be just as stupid and annoying as nitpicking the lyrics of Ode To Joy. "Ode to Joy says 'all creatures drink of joy', but some creatures are unhappy, and joy is not a liquid! Politifact rates your symphony FALSE."
— "Highlights from the Comments on Twelve Rules", Slate Star Codex
You notice that vibrating soundless hum in the Socco? That means someone is making archetypes in the area and you'd best evacuate right now.
– "Lee's Journals", William S. Burroughs
Best Evacuate
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Rules for "taking the wheel"
Leave a comment	 September 7, 2017 whitmanic
1. Leave irony and cynicism at the door.
2. Allow for maximum human enquiry.
3. Exit as first priority.
4. Rhizomatic conservatism.
5. Don't be pathetic.
This from Meta-Nomad—a site with which I'm unfamiliar, but which I'll need to start following. Sincerity and (meta)system-building are underrated these days.
The Litvak-Galitzianer divide: confirmed by genetics
5 Comments	 September 7, 2017 whitmanic
Writing about something I haven't covered at Whitmanic yet: the intersection of population genetics and history. If you know me, you know this is one of my favorite niche passions—and what a time to be passionate about it! We're already at the point when pretty much all cultural and linguistic mysteries with population-level implications can be resolved with the help of genomic tools.
As my friend Razib Khan has lamented, despite the boom in published research and cumulative knowledge in this exciting, interdisciplinary space, very few people have joined him in blogging its discoveries.
Sometimes this means that an amateur like me will pick up on connections that no one in either a) the research field or b) semi-popular writing has pointed out. In these occasional cases, I'm going to do my best to communicate what I notice.
It happened a few months ago in the realm of Ashkenazi Jewish population genetics—one of those topics that's been done to death, and yet still almost never done right.
I won't rehash discourse or facts, but one new consensus opinion among people familiar with this field is that Ashkenazi Jews do not genetically differ along geographical lines. That is, as groups, German Jews, Polish Jews, Lithuanian Jews, Ukrainian Jews, etc., are not genetically distinguishable from one another.
This somewhat defies intuition: Ashkenazi Jews have been migrating out of their urheimat in Germany for at least 700-800 years, and there's reason to believe that Eastern European Jews have other, minor sources of ancestry—both Jewish and non-Jewish.
But in fact, there's good evidence from both Behar et al 2013 ("No evidence from genome-wide data of a Khazar origin of Ashkenazi Jews") and samples provided by commenters on Anthrogenica that suggests that German Jews are on average distinct from Eastern European Jews—notable for their relative lack of Eastern European ancestry, which causes them to fall somewhere between European Sephardim and Italian Jews on one hand, and Eastern Ashkenazim on the other.
More research is needed to shore this up, but no one should be surprised.
What I haven't heard people suggest, though, is the possibility of population structure among Eastern Ashkenazim. But a few months ago, I found it.
Let's back up for context. In March, Ancestry rolled out "Genetic Communities", a feature that makes use of information about DNA testers' geographical origins and assigns them to ethno-geographical clusters of distantly related people. To my surprise, unlike component-based features employed by other DNA testing companies, "Genetic Communities" wasn't totally uninformative for Ashkenazi Jews.
In fact, it revealed a hidden population structure that matches known patterns in Eastern European Jewish cultural and linguistic geography.
People familiar with Yiddish culture have surely heard yarns about "Litvaks" and "Galitzianers"—two subgroups of Eastern European Jewry set apart by geography, cuisine, dialect, and supposedly, temperament.
"Litvaks", you might have guessed, are Lithuanian Jews—a well-defined group with a well-attested Yiddish dialect, with roots in Greater Lithuania, a territory encompassing modern Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, and the northeastern corner of Poland.
"Galitzianers" are Jews from Galicia, the portion of southeastern Poland and western Ukraine ruled up until World War I by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. However, there's no such thing as "Galitzianer Yiddish", nor was Galicia a sovereign, well-defined cultural-political realm like Greater Lithuania. Instead, Galitizianers spoke either "Polish Yiddish", a dialect common to Jews from most parts of Poland (save for its northeastern corner) or its very close cousin "Ukrainian Yiddish", spoken in Western Ukraine, Moldova, and Romania.
Once we've dispensed with the mythology of Galicia (the part of Poland-Ukraine that happened to have the highest concentration of Jews in the early modern period), we can see that the main cultural divide among Eastern European Jews actually fell along a well-known non-Jewish boundary—the internal border within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth between Greater Poland (which included core Ukraine) and Greater Lithuania (which included all of Belarus).
Back to genetics. In Ancestry's published research, it identified three very closely related, but distinct, clusters of Ashkenazi Jews. One was much smaller than the other two, and exhibited no particular geographical pattern. As for the two major clusters, take a look for yourself.
Ancestry calls this one "Jews in the Russian Empire":
And this one's "Jews in Central Europe":
The fact that each is divided into 3 subgroups is beside the point for now. What's notable is that the distribution of the first cluster corresponds almost perfectly to "Litvak territory" i.e. Greater Lithuania, whereas the second cluster comprises all Eastern Ashkenazi territories other than Greater Lithuania—including the former Austro-Hungarian territories of Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Austria, as well as Greater Romania (Romania and Moldova, whose Jewish populations, I recently learned, were mostly supplied by 18th-19th century migrations from Galicia and the Ukrainian region of Podolia).
So population structure among Eastern Ashkenazim (perhaps among all Ashkenazim, given the assignment of German Jews to the second cluster) falls along the lines of Litvak vs. non-Litvak. For a better illustration of the correspondence, and the cohesiveness of the Litvak concept, I refer you to two maps from Dovid Katz's exceptional Atlas of Northeastern Yiddish.
The first is of Litvak cultural territory, which, you'll notice, includes the northeastern corner of Poland and some border regions of northern Ukraine.
The second is of Litvak linguistic territory, which, you'll notice, adds to the picture a swath running all the way down to the Black Sea through Ukraine's midsection, supposedly the result of late settlement patterns.
Having studied those maps, let's revisit Ancestry's map of Litvak genetic territory:
The match is uncanny. The only real difference is that the "Litvak cluster" seems to spill over to include most of northeastern and north-central Poland (or rather, almost the entire north of historical Poland), as well as the entirety of northern and central Ukraine.
But: if you'll take a look once again at the map of the non-Litvak cluster, you'll notice that it also covers these very areas—which would suggest an overlap of the two population networks in these two regions. In the case of northeastern Poland in particular, this is interesting—the "Litvak cluster" predominance extends much farther west than someone would've guessed based on cultural and linguistic data. Perhaps this points to an origin of the Litvak population in northern Poland and an expansion into Greater Lithuania (in addition, all three Litvak sub-clusters extend into northeastern Poland).
As for historical explanations, I'm not familiar enough with the literature on Yiddish dialectology or medieval Ashkenazi migration patterns to offer a hypothesis. All that seems clear is that Litvaks (defined broadly), among all Central/Eastern Europeans Jews, have a distinct population history. I'd be curious to know if anyone can offer support for this.
Note: I would guess that the majority of present-day Ashkenazi Jews in America, Israel, and other parts have ancestors from multiple Eastern European Jewish cultural sub-regions. This means that individual-level PCA-based support for this cluster-driven analysis might be impossible.
Meeting George Harrison exactly where he is
Humans cannot be fully human if their focus is purely inward. It is not a question of choice, it is the way we are made. We always are in relation to the Other (which may be singular or plural.) If that relationship is one where we reject every possible Other it still remains the thing which defines us and dominates our thoughts and actions.
The most perfect form, however, which that relationship can take is to love the Other for its own sake.
Via Tom Holland on Twitter, a lovely reflection on George Harrison's "What Is Life" at Thoughtfully Detached. "What Is Life" is one of the better-known songs off All Things Must Pass, the most earnest collection of popular music that I know of.
Harrison's knack for exuberant spiritual-romantic songwriting is all the more impressive given his ironic, dry, "bitch-wizard" manner.
1/Pyrrhic victory
Sunakkhatta left the order in disgust because the Buddha failed to defuse the crisis with Kosala and was forced into a humiliating retreat. Why, Sunakkhatta may have wondered, did he not multiply his bodies in a display of supernormal power before the awestruck troops? … On reaching his homeland, he spreads the news of the Buddha's defeat and denounces him to the assembly: "The wanderer Gotama doesn't have any superhuman states, any special knowledge or vision worthy of the noble ones. What he teaches is just hammered out by reasoning, following his own line of inquiry as it occurs to him. And all it leads to is the end of reactivity!"
— Stephen Batchelor in After Buddhism, quoting The Great Discourse on the Lion's Roar
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If you're interested.
So far:
Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark
The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs
Fooled By Randomness by Nassim Taleb
One Way Down (Or Another) by Calder Lorenz
The Map And The Territory by Michel Houellebecq
In progress:
After Buddhism by Stephen Batchelor
The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
On deck:
The Enigma of Reason by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber
Mindful Tech by David M. Levy
Ulysses by James Joyce
Perennial online favorites:
Meaningness
Qualia Computing
And—summer listening:
Offa Rex
Kacy & Clayton
Basement Signal
Morrison Hotel by The Doors
No Blues
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions
Zeca Afonso
A Supermarket in Portugal
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When you're marveling at the prices of wine and produce, and examining the peaches, and suddenly it smells like death—and you realize you're walled in on three sides by open-air stacks of salt cod.
Soul Technocracy (2015)
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June 25, 2019 / 3:27 PM / 24 days ago
UK PM contender Johnson challenges rival to commit to Oct. 31 Brexit date
LONDON, June 25 (Reuters) - Boris Johnson, front-runner in the race to become British prime minister, has challenged his rival Jeremy Hunt to commit to leaving the European Union on Oct. 31, whether he has agreed a Brexit deal or not.
"For my part, I have been clear that, if I am elected leader, we will leave on 31 October with or without a deal," he said in a letter to Hunt, which Johnson published on Twitter. "Will you join me in this commitment to leave on 31 October come what may?"
Reporting by Paul Sandle; editing by Stephen Addison


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Manchester-UK- The Perfect City Getaway
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Looking for the perfect UK city break? Manchester is a great place. In the past decade, the thriving city at the heart of Northern England has broken free from its gloomy industrial past and emerged a vibrant, confident and forward moving city with plenty to entice and fascinate any visitor. Well-known for its strong sporting culture and state of the art museums and art venues it also boasts fantastic shopping and a buzzing nightlife, the perfect ingredients for a fantastic city break. A good place to start your discovery of this great city is the cultural treasure trove of The Quays, a fifteen-minute tram ride from the city centre. You are sure to find something for everyone in this square mile of architecturally amazing waterfront attractions.
History buffs will enjoy wandering through the Imperial War Museum North. It houses memorabilia from both World Wars, multimedia exhibitions, interactive displays to delight the kids and a viewing platform with phenomenal views over the city and best of all, entry is free! Close by, The Lowry will keep culture enthusiasts entertained. This arts and theatre powerhouse is home to two main theatres staging a variety of productions including opera, drama, musicals, music concerts and comedy acts as well as art galleries, a restaurant, cafes and bars.
Sports fans are also catered for as The Quays are close to the homes of two of Britain's most renowned sporting clubs, Manchester United and Lancashire Country Cricket Club. Football fans the world over will recognize the historic Old Trafford Stadium, one of Manchester's most popular tourist attractions, found nearby. Catching a game at this grand complex is a once-in-a-lifetime experience but if you can't get tickets, the Museum Tour is good for an insight into the magnitude and quality of the famous stadium.
Back in the city centre, the Manchester Art Gallery houses an impressive collection of works by British and European masters and kids will love the Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil on display at the Manchester Museum. If it's retail therapy you are after, Manchester has one of the most diverse shopping districts in the UK. The Arndale Centre is Europe's largest city centre shopping mall where serious shoppers could easily spend the whole day whilst St Ann's Square, the Triangle and surrounding roads offer something for the more luxury shopper, as does the popular Deansgate and The Avenue.
When the sun goes down, Manchester's eclectic, buzzing nightlife comes to life. The bohemian Northern Quarter is the liveliest hotspot, with an array of independent bars, traditional pubs and live music venues favoured by students, while the swanky bars in The Locks and Deansgate attract a more sophisticated, stylish crowd. Oxford Road and the colourful Gay Village around Canal Street are also nocturnal favourites with plenty of great bars, pubs and nightclubs to enjoy a great night out in.
To grab a bite to eat, the city has plenty of options to suit any budget. Head to bustling Chinatown or Rusholm's Curry Mile for something cheap and cheerful or splurge in the boutique restaurants of Manchester's top city centre hotels including several Michelin Starred outlets. With such a myriad of things to see and do, plus an international airport and good connections to the UK's rail network, Manchester city breaks really are the perfect UK getaway.
Disclaimer: The information contained within this article is the opinion of the author and is intended purely for information and interest purposes only. It should not be used to make any decisions or take any actions. Any links are included for information purposes only.
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The Somerset cider trail: from orchard to glass
Down in England's West Country lies the old county of Somerset, a patchwork of meadows, quiet villages and an orchard around every corner. It is a land of pigs snuffling fallen apples, old farmers telling tales in crumbling pubs, and field after field of wondrous English countryside.
Where it all begins: the orchard
At five o'clock each afternoon, Somerset slips into soft-focus. As the sun readies itself for the day's end, the light turns hazy and golden, coating every scene with the warm graininess of a Super 8 home movie. Stand in an orchard as the glow of late afternoon is filtered through the laden branches, sending a lattice of pale shadow onto the fruit-covered floor, and it is easy to understand why the orchard holds an elevated place in British mythology. From inspiring Newton's theory of gravity to the wassail ceremonies that drive evil spirits from the trees each January, the orchard has long been a place of quiet contemplation and a very British kind of magic.
What it hasn't been is a stomping ground for sex-crazed llamas. But that is what I'm confronted with as I explore the orchards of Burrow Hill Cider Farm, near Stembridge village. Two man-sized llamas – one brown called Louis, one white called Rupert – unnervingly stare me out as I wander past a Gloucester Old Spot pig snuffling among the apples at the base of a tree. Barrelman Stephen Ward is quick to issue a warning: 'Watch your back around Rupert,' he says, as we walk towards the truck that has pulled into the farmyard, its bed piled high with freshly gathered apples. 'He thinks he's human. He has a habit of leaping onto your shoulders if you turn away too fast.'
The truck tips the red-and-green Kingston Blacks – just one of 40 varieties used – onto the courtyard. As a stream of water washes the fruit along an apple-clogged trench towards the mill, Stephen tells me how Burrow Hill has rejuvenated cider making in this corner of Somerset. The early 90s were a dire time for cider devotees – the drink was out of fashion, and local farmers were competing to sell off their orchards. Twenty years on, the same farmers are selling Burrow Hill their apple harvest, and seeing it turned into top class cider brandy. The man responsible for this turn of events is Julian Temperley, owner of Burrow Hill.
A cross between Boris Johnson and Wurzel Gummidge, Julian's rumpled exterior belies a sharp business brain and penchant for mischief. 'You fall into cider making by mistake, or by default. It's not a logical decision,' he says. 'Cidermaking is the last bastion of the peasants. We're an anarchic lot.' But Julian is in no doubt of the importance of cider to Somerset. 'If we lose these orchards, the landscape of this part of the world changes entirely. The cider tradition needs to be protected.'
I stroll through the orchard, serenaded by the thwock of apples falling to the floor (cider farmers don't pick apples from the tree; they wait for them to fall). Across the road from the farmhouse is the steep hill that gives the farm its name. The climb is short but sharp and I am struck by the sheer immensity of the Somerset Levels. Standing under the sky here is a full 360° experience – it feels like being in the centre of a child's snow globe. The horizon is a circumference, not a straight line, and the land below unrelentingly flat, divided only by orchards lined up like military regiments. The leaves on the trees have begun to smoulder, not yet set alight with full autumn colour. On the breeze comes the sound of a tractor in an orchard, collecting the windfall for the next batch of cider – the sound of an ancient tradition surviving, adapting and prospering.
The ciderhouse
The track down to Wilkins Cider Farm is dotted with handwritten signs, the disparate clues of a rosy-cheeked treasure hunt. Every so often there is a break in the hedge and an instant panoramic of the Somerset Levels surges through the gap, but for most, this is a head-down, no-nonsense trip – it is not the views they have come for.
Inside the breezeblock ciderhouse, the air is cool and damp. The atmosphere is anything but. Six ruddy-nosed Scotsmen, down for the week, merrily poke fun at each other around a Formica table, a tankard in each hand and a few crumbs of cheese in front. Next to them, four large barrels of cider – two sweet, two dry – sit in a row, hissing out the day's cider to any pilgrim who turns up with an empty glass. The wall opposite is covered with photographs and cuttings, including an interview with the late Clash singer Joe Strummer. Encircled is his description of happiness: 'chilling in Somerset with a flagon of Wilkins' Farmhouse Cider'. No-one here today would disagree.
At the centre of it all is Roger Wilkins, a burly, gregarious, faded Teddy Boy in overalls and wellies. He purposefully strides around his farmhouse, making sure that every visitor is welcomed and quenched. He has been making cider here for some 50 years, after learning the trade from his grandfather. 'I was weaned on this stuff,' he says, raising his ever-present tankard of green-yellow cider to his lips. 'I've been drinking it since I was five years old. And I've never had a bad head.'
The reason why Roger does not know the meaning of the word hangover is the same reason why his cider is so revered, why people will travel 400 miles to sit in his draughty farmhouse. It is just apples. He adds nothing bar a teaspoon of saccharine in the sweet barrels. 'I test everything by taste,' he says. 'I know exactly what it should taste like at every stage.' Wilkins Cider is how cider used to be before the big brands cleaned it up – rough and ready, with the occasional piece of floating pulp and a sharp tang. The head might be fine, but after a couple of pints, the unsuspecting punter won't be able to work their legs.
Three times a day, the hubbub in the farmhouse falls silent as Roger begins a pressing. Bags of apples are poured into the mill and ground into a pomace. Roger spreads it over a lissom, a wooden board covered in a rough, porous cloth, and repeats the process until he has made up a 'cheese', eleven lissoms in total, which is wheeled on rails to the press.
The large vice squeezes down upon the cheese, and the apple juice drips to the trough below. Roger scoops up a palmful, slurps it down and nods, satisfied. There is a murmur of approval from the congregation as he begins to build the next cheese. 'I've been coming here every day for 40 years,' whispers the man next to me. 'I never get tired of watching this.'
The sign on the wall of the Tuckers Grave Inn leaves visitors in no doubt as to the primary purpose of this tumbledown country tavern: 'Drink hard cider as much as yer please. Loose yer teeth an bow yer knees. Sours yer gut an makes yer wheeze.'
Perhaps not the most inviting prospect for recent converts, but for the hardy souls crammed into this front room-disguised-as- a-pub there is nothing better than a tankard of gut-souring cider, and nowhere better to drink it than Tuckers Grave Inn.
A ring of seats is arranged around a flickering fireplace, the air filled with the chat of the regulars – Roger 'Cravat' Bonsall, resplendent in synonymous neckpiece; Graham Clylee, proud veteran of 'every cider pub in Britain and Brittany'; Stuart Delbono, young farm hand. Each holds a tankard of the near-fluorescent orange Thatchers cider that landlady Glenda Swift pours from the barrels piled up under a window. There is no bar here; that would signal a divide between punters and owners. Rumour has it this room was once the lounge of Glenda's house, adjacent to the bar, but she would get so many people popping in for a drink and a chat that she turned it into the main room of the pub.
'Doesn't matter who you are or where you come from,' says Graham, roasting a handful of chestnuts on the crackling fire. 'People will always talk to you in here.' Glenda nods her approval. 'No subjects are barred in this room,' she says, looking around at her customers with a tenderness that belies someone whose job it is to get them royally drunk. 'We know everything in here – where the skeletons are hidden, where the babies are conceived.'
For all the reverence and ritual that surrounds the making of cider, it is this, the final stage in the apple's journey from the orchard to the glass, that is the reason why Roger Wilkins and Julian Temperley have dedicated their lives to what is, in effect, squeezing fruit juice.
The next day, it is clear that cider's value to Somerset is appreciated far beyond the pubs and pressing plants. Barrington Court, a grand National Trust property, is hosting its Apple Day celebration. A crowd of Somersetians has descended upon the sprawling, orchard-laden grounds, joining in with the apple pressing, picking up the windfall, paying tribute to the humble fruit that defines their homeland. In the central building, there's a display of the varieties grown here; the names sound more like dashing World War II pilots than fruit – Broxwood Foxwhelp, Ribston Pippin, Harry Masters, Tom Putt.
It may not quite be the Battle of Britain, but in a strange way the resurgence of cider, and Somerset, owes a similar weight of gratitude to the persistence of these wholesome balls of juicy goodness – forever the heroes of the West Country.
Trains to Yeovil Junction run direct from London Waterloo, Exeter and Salisbury (from £14.10 return; thetrainline.com).
Buses do not cover the whole of Somerset. Hire a car from Vincents Daily Rental in Yeovil (from £29 a day; vincentrental.co.uk).
Original Article By: Matt Bolton Lonely Planet
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Experts and academics from the institutions are available to advise on these key areas, which are central to economic development, job creation and growth across the West Midlands.
The universities have a strong history of connecting organisations with students for jobs and work placements, as well as training and development opportunities for existing workers.
With knowledge of the skills gaps currently facing the region, the institutions are ideally placed to provide tailored training to fulfil business needs and connect students and jobseekers with vacancies.
The institutions already boast long-held links with organisations across the region who have benefitted from the work in plugging hard-to-fill vacancies, expanding their workforces and supporting the region's growth.
Combined universities are at the leading edge of the mental health movement, offering dedicated degrees in the discipline and providing students from a range of other courses the opportunity to study in this important area.
The Universities also have significant research expertise in the field, delivering projects and interventions on a range of issues including substance abuse and addiction; the role of health psychology in public health policy; post-conflict trauma; and the mental wellbeing of older people and patients living with long-term health conditions.
Through links with leading-edge organisations and a longstanding culture of business support, the universities have earned a strong reputation for enterprise and innovation right across the region.
They work proactively with key stakeholders, including Local Enterprise Partnerships and the Chambers of Commerce, to advise on economic plans and the needs of businesses.
With dedicated research centres across business and social relations the universities offer expertise in subjects including housing policy and social care; local government and the governance of public services; neighbourhood renewal strategies; and the socio-economic impact of business on society.
The universities have invested millions of pounds into regenerating their local areas through a range of schemes including the redevelopment of brownfield sites into major campus facilities.
Through long established partnerships with the business community, education experts and construction specialists, the universities can advise on construction, housing and development projects as well as providing specialist training and development courses.
With research projects spanning a range of business sectors the universities have a strong reputation for using digital and creative technologies to support organisations' needs.
Working with partners such as the NHS experts have helped overhaul services through the use of services such as augmented reality, computer programming and cyber security.
Several projects are already underway after securing investment from a range of sources to help support business growth and boost productivity.
The collection and evaluation of data are fundamental aspects of research. Capturing and analysing information generates insight, leading in to turn to new and better ways of doings and identifying opportunities for innovation.
Joining academic expertise with commercial knowhow and working with partners across a range of key sectors, the three universities aim to establish a Driven Research and Innovation (DDRI) Programme to deliver interventions and innovations to support the combined authority's public services reform agenda and meet the challenges of its strategic economic plan.
The UK Government has prioritised reducing carbon emissions, balancing the grid and generating more energy from renewable sources.
Aligning with the low carbon agenda, the combined universities are pooling their resources to develop a centre of excellence to support areas of need including sustainable construction methods and materials, low emission transport and fuels, and renewable energy generation.
This project will address the huge opportunities for economic growth identified in the low carbon sector - particularly within the West Midlands which is regarded as one of the critical regions for gains in this area - through continued investment in enterprise, R & D, and knowledge transfer.


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HIGHTOWER v. UNITED STATES
HIGHTOWER v. UNITED STATES.
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Rehearing Denied March 8, 1937.
Robert L. Fortune, of Phœnix, Ariz., for appellant.
F. E. Flynn, U. S. Atty., and George E. Wood, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Phœnix, Ariz.
Before WILBUR, GARRECHT, and MATHEWS, Circuit Judges.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
This is an appeal from a conviction on a charge of violating the Harrison Narcotic Act, as amended (26 U.S.C.A. §§ 1040-1054, 1383-1391). The appellee moves to strike out the bill of exceptions on the ground that it was not filed or settled in time. The judgment was rendered March 3, 1936. The appeal was taken March 6th. The bill of exceptions recites that it was filed within the time allowed by an order dated June 8, 1936. The thirty-day period fixed by rule 9 of the Rules of Practice and Procedure in Criminal Cases had expired. 28 U.S.C.A. following section 723a. It follows that the motion to strike out the bill of exceptions must be granted. St. Charles v. United States (C.C.A.9) 86 F.2d 463, decided November 25, 1936; Cary & Williams v. United States (C.C.A.9) 86 F.2d 461, decided November 16, 1936; Slade v. United States (C.C.A.) 85 F.2d 786; United States v. Ray (C.C.A.2) 86 F.2d 942, decided December 21, 1936.
No other question remains save the sufficiency of the indictment to charge an offense. A similar indictment was upheld by us in Du Vall v. United States, 82 F.2d 382.
It should be added that a motion to quash is contained in the transcript and that certain extensions of time also appear in the transcript. Neither can be considered as a part of the record. To become a part of the record they must be incorporated in the bill of exceptions.


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Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker "Sneak Peek" Included With Upcoming Mandalorian Episode
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One upcoming episode of the Star Wars TV show The Mandalorian will carry with it a special look at the next Star Wars movie. Collider has confirmed that the show's upcoming seventh episode will feature a "sneak peek" at The Rise of Skywalker.
The episode is being released on Wednesday, December 18, instead of its usual Friday premiere. That's because The Rise of Skywalker launches on a Friday–December 20. Disney has yet to confirm what time exactly Episode 7 of The Mandalorian will release.
Episode 7 was directed by Deborah Chow, who also directed Episode 3, "The Sin," and the upcoming Obi-Wan TV show. This episode may introduce Breaking Bad actor Giancarlo Esposito's character, as images of the actor were included in the press materials obtained by Collider.
Esposito plays the character Moff Gideon. The Episode 7 synopsis alludes to his arrival. "An old rival extends an invitation for The Mandalorian to make peace," it says.
The Mandalorian Episode 5 premieres on December 6, with Episode 6 coming December 13.
The Rise of Skywalker premieres December 20, and it's expected to be a box office juggernaut. The film also wraps up decades' worth of storytelling, and some of the main cast recently discussed what to expect from the film.
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Your customers are seeking high value content every day. How they find it and who delivers it is up to you.
Recently I shared a post about how to find high value content worthy of your prospects and customers. In it, I provided seven tools and tactics that when deployed correctly will provide just the information that your customers will appreciate.
By using the following tools and techniques, you will not only deliver the desired information but also establish yourself as the "go-to" person for this information. It will not only open additional opportunities with your existing customers, it will open the doors of opportunity for prospective customers that you have not yet met.
Not only should you use Scoop.it to gather useful content, it is one of the most effective ways to distribute that information. Scoop.it organizes the information you have gathered and formats it into a professional, easy to read online service delivered as often as you choose. Here is an example of what Scoop.it looks like, this one is on the topic of LinkedIn for sales.
Notice that your name and the title are fully customizable and that there is a "follow" button on the upper left of the screen that your customers can select. By sharing quality, relevant content using this tool, you are able to save your customers significant time having to search for all of it themselves. This approach will gain effectiveness over time, as you become more adept at finding relevant content and your customer becomes accustomed to seeing your Scoop.it publication.
Similar in function to Scoop.it with additional options for customization and branding if desired, Paper.li collects information automatically based on the keywords and URL's you provide and then formats information that it discovers into a news-type format. A key difference with Scoop.it is that Paper.li can become overwhelming to customers. It is more difficult to be selective in the information that you present. If you have customers that prefer a "fire-hose" of information that they can sift through, or if you have an extremely narrow focus of keywords and URL's, Paper.li might just be a good solution.
LinkedIn is the preferred social platform for business with the vast majority of B2B professionals maintaining a presence on the platform. With the content that you have gathered with the tools and practices in the earlier How to find high value content worthy of your prospects and customers post, it should only take a few mouse clicks or taps on your tablet to share the most relevant link each day as a status update on LinkedIn. I recommend you stick to no more than one update per day. It will help you show up in the news feed on their LinkedIn page and continue to build your reputation as an expert in your industry that they need to connect with.
This might just be one of the most effective ways to connect customers to the information you are now sharing. By editing one of the websites you have available in your profile, you can provide the URL/link to your Scoop.it, Paper.li or even your blog if you are ambitious. Just select "Other" from the pull down menu under Websites, enter a descriptive name for your publication, and then enter the link in the appropriate space.
Twitter provides an effective way to share a few of the other links that you have gathered each day. Ideally you should use a tool like Hootsuite or Buffer to enter them in all at one time and schedule them to go out throughout the day. You can quickly become a source of information for your industry if you are diligent in your efforts.
By offering an easy subscription link to those that have an interest in what you have to offer, one of the many Email Service Providers (ESP's) will give you the ability to deliver focused, relevant information in an automated way. Email is still one of the most effective communications tools and there is no learning curve for your customers. I have used most of the ESP's out there and after much trial and error I heartily recommend AWeber or Mailchimp. AWeber will provide more functions and automation when you need it, but MailChimp is a reliable service that some feel is easier to learn. For Base customers, MailChimp integrates seamlessly.
I am on record as saying that every sales person should have their own blog/website. WordPress is the biggest, best-supported and most flexible platform on the planet. It will serve as your home base, the central source of all of your content, contact information, source for your downloads, AWeber sign up form, and your other social media activities. Many of the most successful sales superstars in each industry are using a WordPress blog with tremendous success. The learning curve can be very short and the results will pay for the efforts for many years to come. Note that the link is to the "self-hosted" version of WordPress. If you are going to be using this for business do not use the free WordPress.com service, it will just cause you frustration and you will have to start over when you move to the .org version anyway.
One of the unexpected benefits of providing information this way is that it is easily sharable. It is very convenient for your customer to forward your Scoop.it to other members of their team, executives and even peers in other companies. Your WordPress blog can be bookmarked and referenced. Remember that every share includes your name and the "Follow" button. It can and will open doors you were not even aware of. It has also been helpful to help me identify additional decision-makers that I was not aware of in the early stages.
The excuses have been removed; you can become that trusted source of information without ever writing one word of it yourself. The process can be automated and on auto-pilot and once you have selected the tools and tactics best suited for your purpose, will take up only a few minutes out of your work schedule.


The Transformative Power of Empathy" for healthcare workers at West Anaheim Medical Center, California. Lorraine Aguilar, CEO of Working Harmony, shares insights and techniques to compassionately connect to what matters without sacrificing efficiency. The results are meaningful human connection and deeper, more accurate understanding of what is wanted and needed in any situation.