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namespace PHPCensor\Plugin;

use PHPCensor;
use PHPCensor\Builder;
use PHPCensor\Model\Build;
use PHPCensor\Plugin;
use PHPCensor\ZeroConfigPluginInterface;

/**
 * Composer Plugin - Provides access to Composer functionality.
 *
 * @package    PHP Censor
 * @subpackage Application
 *
 * @author Dan Cryer <dan@block8.co.uk>
 * @author Dmitry Khomutov <poisoncorpsee@gmail.com>
 */
class Composer extends Plugin implements ZeroConfigPluginInterface
{
    protected $action = 'install';
    protected $preferDist = false;
    protected $noDev = false;
    protected $ignorePlatformReqs = false;
    protected $preferSource = false;

    /**
     * @return string
     */
    public static function pluginName()
    {
        return 'composer';
    }

    /**
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    {
        parent::__construct($builder, $build, $options);

        $this->executable = $this->findBinary(['composer', 'composer.phar']);

        if (\array_key_exists('action', $options)) {
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        }

        if (\array_key_exists('prefer_dist', $options)) {
            $this->preferDist = (bool)$options['prefer_dist'];
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        }

        if (\array_key_exists('no_dev', $options)) {
            $this->noDev = (bool)$options['no_dev'];
        }

        if (\array_key_exists('ignore_platform_reqs', $options)) {
            $this->ignorePlatformReqs = (bool)$options['ignore_platform_reqs'];
        }
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        $path = $build->getBuildPath() . '/composer.json';

        if (\file_exists($path) && Build::STAGE_SETUP === $stage) {
            return true;
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        return false;
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    /**
     * Executes Composer and runs a specified command (e.g. install / update)
     */
    public function execute()
    {
        $composerLocation = $this->executable;

        $cmd = $composerLocation . ' --no-ansi --no-interaction ';

        if ($this->preferDist) {
            $this->builder->log('Using --prefer-dist flag');
            $cmd .= ' --prefer-dist';
        }

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            $this->builder->log('Using --prefer-source flag');
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            $this->builder->log('Using --no-dev flag');
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            $this->builder->log('Using --ignore-platform-reqs flag');
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Masuda, Shimane - en stad i Shimane prefektur, Japan

Chikashi Masuda - en japansk fotbollsspelare
Junichi Masuda - en japansk regissör
Kento Masuda - en japansk musiker
Tadatoshi Masuda - en japansk fotbollsspelare
Toshio Masuda (regisssör) - en japansk regissör (född 1927)
Toshio Masuda - en japansk kompositör (född 1959)

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Q: Sharepoint List, users only view their own Items I'm using Sharepoint 2010 and I have a list where I want users to only be able to see their own list items. I have already gone into the advanced list settings and set Item-level permissions so they could only read their own items, but it doesn't work.
The users are set to contribute permissions.
Thanks for the help!
Ethan

A: So I figured it out. There was nothing wrong with what I had, but under the server administration panel, all users had full read audit, or something like that so they had full read of the content no matter what the rest of the permissions where.

A: This should be done by Item-level Permissions
See this blog post for further details, http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=58

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County settles sexual harassment lawsuit against treasurer
LAS CRUCES - Doña Ana County officials confirmed Thursday that they've settled a sexual harassment lawsuit for $68,000 against Doña Ana County Treasurer David Gutierrez.
County settles sexual harassment lawsuit against treasurer LAS CRUCES - Doña Ana County officials confirmed Thursday that they've settled a sexual harassment lawsuit for $68,000 against Doña Ana County Treasurer David Gutierrez. Check out this story on lcsun-news.com: https://lcsun.co/1SN6RtG
Diana Alba Soular, Las Cruces Sun-News Published 8:24 p.m. MT Jan. 28, 2016 | Updated 8:54 p.m. MT Jan. 28, 2016
Former deputy treasurer, fired earlier this month, considering lawsuit against Gutierrez
Treasurer David Gutierrez is shown in this undated photgraph.(Photo: Courtesy photo)
The settlement will be paid to Luz Nunez, a former employee of Gutierrez's. Gutierrez had admitted during a personnel investigation to offering the employee $1,000 if she'd spend time in a hotel room with him, which he later on acknowledged was a sexual proposition.
It's the second settlement made in Gutierrez's behalf, with another potential lawsuit in the offing from former deputy treasurer Rene Barba, who's resignation was forced this month by Gutierrez.
Nunez filed a lawsuit against Gutierrez in December in state district court. While it was directed at Gutierrez specifically, Doña Ana County administrators said county government as a whole is liable for such lawsuits.
The $68,000 settlement with Nunez was signed on Jan. 18, according to Doña Ana County Attorney Nelson Goodin. He didn't yet know whether a check had been delivered, "but if not, it will be shortly."
Of the overall amount, Doña Ana County government will pay its deductible — $10,000 — while the county's insurer, the New Mexico Association of Counties Insurance Pool, will have to pay $58,000, according to Goodin.
Renewed call for resignation
Doña Ana County commissioners voted unanimously in late August 2014 to censure Gutierrez, a formal reprimand, for admitting to offering money to an employee for sex. However, they don't have the authority to force an elected official out of his or her post.
In spite of the scandal, Gutierrez has refused to step down from the elected position of treasurer. He's maintained he has support in the community.
Earlier this week, County Commissioner Ben Rawson asked county staff to draft a resolution for the commission to vote on that would renew the call for Gutierrez to resign.
Such a measure would reflect the commission's stance publicly but also wouldn't have any power to force Gutierrez to step down.
County Commission Chairman Wayne Hancock also asked this week that the county's legal staff look into ways to recoup from Gutierrez the $10,000 deductible paid out because of the recent lawsuit.
Attempts by some members of the public to oust Gutierrez from office haven't gotten off the ground.
Second settlement
The recent settlement becomes the second the county has paid out in connection to Gutierrez.
Former Doña Ana County Chief Deputy Treasurer Jill Johnson filed a whistleblower lawsuit in state district court in September 2011, alleging Gutierrez began treating her differently after she confronted him for improperly approving vacation time for an employee.
Also, Johnson claimed Gutierrez blamed her for other allegations someone made to county administrators regarding his use of a county vehicle and the running of a Super Bowl pool within the workplace. After that, Gutierrez asked for Johnson 's resignation, which she submitted in February 2011, court documents stated.
The county signed a settlement with Johnson for that lawsuit on May 12, 2012, according to Goodin.
Asked what the dollar amount was for the settlement, Goodin replied: "All I can say about that settlement is the matter has been fully resolved to the satisfaction of all parties."
Johnson recently announced her intent to run for county treasurer in the 2016 primary election, set for June 7.
Johnson had been chief deputy treasurer since January 2009, when Gutierrez took office after winning an election. Johnson in 2008 initially challenged Gutierrez for the Democratic Party's nomination for treasurer. But Gutierrez prevailed in the primary election and afterward invited Johnson to join him as his pick for deputy treasurer.
After two, back-to-back four-year terms, Gutierrez is term-limited and can't seek re-election this year.
The most recent chief deputy treasurer, Barba, claims he was forced to resign his position earlier this month in retaliation for reporting Gutierrez to the county's Human Resources Department – and for saying he would not hire Gutierrez as his chief deputy if he was elected treasurer in November.
Barba, who worked as the county's chief deputy treasurer for about four and a half years, said he has been considering a run for treasurer, but has not yet made a final decision.
Barba said he was asked to resign on Jan. 8 by a county attorney.
"(Gutierrez) had the county attorney do it for him. He said David has asked me to ask you to resign," Barba said Thursday. "I asked him: 'What if what if I don't resign?' And he said: '(Gutierrez) is going to terminate you.' So it was either resign or get fired."
Both Gutierrez and Goodin declined to comment when contacted Thursday.
In August 2014, Barba said he learned Gutierrez had offered Nunez money in exchange for sex. On Aug. 21, Barba said he contacted Nunez and told her report the incident to county's HR department, prompting the county to hire an investigator to look into the allegations.
Sometime late last year, Barba said Gutierrez approached him, asking Barba if he would hire him as his chief deputy if he were elected county treasurer.
"I told him no," Barba said. "I thought about it a lot, and I really can't have you as my chief deputy because of everything that has gone on. I can't have that baggage on me if I were to run for the election."
On Jan. 6, Barba said, Gutierrez made the same request. "I told him that my decision hadn't changed since the last time you asked me," Barba said.
Two days later, Barba was asked to resign.
"I never did anything wrong in that office," he said. "I feel like it was because I reported him to Human Resources for the sexual misconduct and because I wouldn't hire as my chief deputy."
Barba said he has not ruled out the possibility of filing a lawsuit against Gutierrez.
Carlos Andres López contributed to this report.
Diana Alba Soular may be reached at 575-541-5443, dalba@lcsun-news.com or @AlbaSoular on Twitter. Carlos Andres López can be reached 575-541-5453, carlopez@lcsun-news.com or @carlopez_los on Twitter.
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Cory Morgan ranting and raving
Political and Personal
ImagineCalgary, Naheed Nenshi's blueprint for Calgary's future.
Imagine Calgary document dissection part 1
ImagineCalgary document dissection part 2
Podcast episode with Josh Groberman & Terry Etam on the mad rush to transition from fossil fuels
Posted on August 31, 2020 by Cory Morgan
This was the most fun episode to record yet. Josh Groberman and Terry Etam are interesting characters with some fantastic insight to share on where our energy is sitting and how we can counter some of the misinformation and insanity surrounding it.
Josh is the publisher of the BOE Report which is a publication focused on Canada's energy industry.
Terry is a columnist and author who has written an excellent book tearing into the challenges and outright bullshit Canada's energy industry is dealing with. The title "The End of Fossil Fuel Insanity" Clearing the Air Before Cleaning the Air is perfect and the book is outright jam packed with energy information and a solid basis of common sense.
Near the end of the episode, Josh offers the most bizarre yet unique proposition to get energy projects completed in Alberta. He feels we need to open the abortion issue.
It is a fun and informative listen.
This is what a police free world looks like
Kyle Rittenhouse is no hero. The 17 year old from Illinois heard of the budding riots in Kenosha Wisconsin, packed up his firearm and headed on down in search of adventure. Perhaps his intentions truly were to head down to help protect citizens and property from rioters but he was terribly naive at best. The kid went searching for trouble and he found it in spades.
The folks who found themselves shot by Rittenhouse were no heroes either. They were violent rioters who idiotically felt that attacking and chasing an armed kid with a rifle was a good idea. That lack of judgement led to two dead rioters and one with the better part of his right bicep blown off. It does appear that those who Rittenhouse shot had violent criminal histories but lets not pretend that he knew that at the time. He was attacked by armed rioters, he feared for his life and he did what most of us would have done in that situation; he defended himself.
What is questionable is why Kyle Rittenhouse put himself into that situation in the first place.
Maybe Kyle truly felt that it was his civic duty to stand up and protect his neighbor's property. In light of police forces standing down in the face of riots for months, he believed that this was the only way to keep homes and businesses from being burned and looted. That rationale makes perfect sense in a police free world does it not? Is this not what community policing is all about?
The problem is that Kyle Rittenhouse was not a trained law enforcement officer. Oh I don't doubt that he has spent plenty of time on the range and played endless hours of Call of Duty, but at his age I think it is pretty safe to assume that he hasn't been trained and prepared to keep a calm demeanor while in the middle of a dangerous riot.
While the North American trend has been to shit on police officers lately, it simply can't be forgotten how important trained police officers are. Yes, there are some issues in policing that need to be resolved but when it comes to dealing with dangerous situations such as riots, they are the best tool that communities have in dealing with them. Officers are trained and equipped. They are less likely to lose composure and end up harming themselves and others. Can they screw up? Of course they can. They are far less likely to end up shooting a number of people in a tense situation than a 17 year old kid with a rifle is though.
Dangerous people are drawn to these lawless zones. Look at the crimes and killings committed in Seattle's short-live CHAZ experiment. Look at the number of pedophiles who were found to be residing in the past "Occupy" camps, It is no coincidence that the folks that Rittenhouse shot all had criminal pasts. They were criminal losers drawn out to take part in a riot and looting. They couldn't care less about black lives.
It is well past time to dismiss these moronic calls to massively de-fund or even abolish police forces as being the extreme and ridiculous demands that they are. If anything, we should be investing more into forces so that they may be better trained to deal with these terrible situations which we expect them to deal with.
Do we expect community guidance counselors to restrain the puke and feces covered drunk who is assailing people on the sidewalks and put him in their car? Will community based policing deal well with an armed robber high on meth? Do you really think he can be talked down? On top of all of that, these officers have to deal with being called bastards by BLM extremists and screamed at through a car window by furious Karen's receiving speeding tickets.
Police have a tough, dangerous and lately, thankless job. They may be flawed, but they are the best we have. Instead of trying to get rid of them, we should be seeking to improve upon them.
We got a taste of a police free world as we saw an untrained 17 year old kid kill two and injure one violent rioter. As we see forces further de-funded, demoralized and even abolished, expect to see more of those kind of scenes.
This is what a world without police looks like.
Calgary's war on cars is killing downtown businesses
It has been over a decade since Naheed Nenshi was elected and his ideological agenda with the support of most of council has taken a terrible toll on Calgary's downtown. Grand plans, massive spending and slush funds for CED have led to a city center which boasted a 30 percent commercial vacancy rate even before the COVID-19 lockdown hit. Office vacancy is now likely closer to 50 percent today.
While the price of oil and the impacts of the pandemic may be beyond the control of Calgary's city council, the management of traffic in the city core is well within the control of the Mayor and council. Empty parking lots brag some of the highest parking rates in North America thanks to a parking supply oligopoly which is essentially controlled by the city parking authority. City subsidized condo units which bragged about their lack of parking spaces remain unsold while street parking has vanished due to a constant proliferation of bicycle tracks which sit unused for the better part of the year.
Nenshi and his fellow ideologues on council feel that if they can make the use of personal vehicles as inconvenient and expensive as possible, that Calgarian drivers will choose to stop driving and walk/bike or take the bus to work. What happened instead has been an exodus from Calgary's downtown as residents and businesses relocate either out of the city or at least to suburban development areas such as Quarry Park in order to escape the expensive and awkward to navigate city core.
The few businesses that remain in downtown Calgary are hanging by a thread. Having lost the downtown office and residential crowds, they now rely on people driving out to visit them specifically. Chinatown has many specialty restaurants and shops which draw customers from all over the city. It is one of the few remaining commercial hubs in downtown Calgary which are still somewhat thriving.
Nenshi and council now have a plan to turn 3rd Avenue into a ridiculous and unnecessary bicycle/pedestrian route and to ban cars. This avenue is the lifeline of Calgary's Chinatown as it runs right through it. If the fools on city council follow through with this plan, a cultural and business hub in downtown Calgary will be seriously damaged if not wiped out and all because of an almost obsessive anti-car mandate in Calgary's city hall.
The Chinatown business association is already loudly speaking out against this absurd plan and long established businesses such as the Silver Dragon restaurant are saying that this plan would force them to close. Sadly, this will fall on deaf ears with Cagary's Mayor and city council.
One only needs to walk down 8th avenue and count all the "for lease" signs to see how well downtown pedestrian zones are doing. A trip through the ghostly and nearly empty Eau Claire Market demonstrates how well being placed in the middle of a no car zone pays off as well. It is utter insanity for Calgary to close yet another important road downtown without any real need or demand. Unfortunately Calgary is not guided by a Mayor and city council who are bound by concepts such as economic reality.
Nobody is going to ride a bike to patronize these businesses in January. People will not continue to pay $20 to park in an empty parking lot and they won't walk 10 blocks to a business due to the lack of street parking. They simply will shop elsewhere.
Nenshi's plan to turn downtown into an automotive free zone may pay off in the long run as tourists come to morbidly observe a ghost town of skyscrapers. Aside from that, nobody is going to benefit from this obsession with battling automotive use in a city which sits under a blanket of snow for half of the year.
Fire Nenshi and city council in 2021!
There is no other way to fix that gang.
Chrystia Freeland's virtue signalling budget will bankrupt Canada
In day one of her tenure as Finance Minister, Chrystia Freeland is saying all the wrong things.
Yes, I understand that she has only just replaced disgraced Finance Minister Bill Morneau in the portfolio and don't expect a detailed budget. Freeland's speech in accepting the position lays out where she wants to take things in a broad way and her words are chilling to anybody with a sense of fiscal reality.
In Chrystia Freeland's words:
"The restart of our economy needs to be green," she said. "It also needs to be equitable, it needs to be inclusive "
OK I am glad that she understands that the economy has been devastated and needs a "restart".
Clearly Freeland doesn't understand that in a resource based economy such as Canada's "green" is a goal but can't be priority number one.
Loaded ideological terms such as "equitable and inclusive" in her maiden speech are concerning as well.
Yes, it is nice to try and be equitable and inclusive in general principle but in our current economic state, these are distant legislative priorities.
What is Freeland talking about? More pipeline and shipping shutdowns? Gender and race quotas? More wealth redistribution?
Canada is already a terrible nation to invest in right now due to years of ideological rule which was punitive towards most of the nations main economic drivers. We need investment and enterprise and nobody in their right mind is going to invest a nickle in this nation when the Finance Minister is more concerned with social justice virtue signalling than in dealing with the reality that the government is nearly broke.
We have a mounting debt and projected deficits at levels never seen before. Our unemployment levels are huge and countless businesses are going bankrupt daily. Trying to be "green, inclusive and equitable" is not going to do a damn thing to ease this crisis. We need a strong, smart and reliable hand at the helm of our finances and instead we have gotten a former journalist who is guided by social justice idealism rather than fiscal reality.
Canada is broken and will only get worse under this latest Finance Minister.
Podcast episode with Marcel Latouche
This week I had a fantastic conversation with Marcel Latouche on municipal politics as we head into an election year.
This could finally be a watershed election in municipalities as citizens realize that we are entering a new era where fiscal responsibility is going to be a necessity.
Marcel Latouche is the CEO of the Institute for Public Sector Accountability and has long been an outspoken advocate on behalf of citizens in a world increasingly becoming controlled by growing government bureaucracies.
Marcel has authored a number of books including: Take Back City Hall,
Leadershift: Collaboration in the 21St Century,
I Said What?: A Collection of Columns, Articles, Blogs, and Speeches
Conservatives: Dead or Alive?
We spoke at length on issues of transparency, term limits, taxation, service delivery monopolies and accountability in local politics.
Municipal governance is the closest to the citizens yet we often don't pay attention to it. It is vital that citizens stand up and take back their local governments in the 2021 election.
It was a fantastic conversation. Listen below.
City of Calgary spending $120,000 tax dollars to promote Black Lives Matter
The term "black lives matter" is innocuous enough.
The activist group "Black Lives Matter" is anything but. They are extreme, intolerant, violent and Marxist. No tax funded body should be spending a nickle to promote that form of divisive extremism yet the City of Calgary has decided to spend $120,000 on a series of murals which will promote Black Lives Matter.
Here are some examples.
Yusra Khogali is one of the founding leaders of Toronto's BLM chapter. One of the largest in Canada. She is a vulgar racist who refers to white people as being "sub human" and openly mused about struggling to keep herself from killing white people.
Edmonton's Pride Parade was canceled due to threats and ongoing blockages of their celebration from Black Lives Matter. They were too afraid to confront the BLM thugs so they simply canceled their parade.
Black Lives Matter has routinely shown a gross streak of anti-Semitism in their protests and in the words of their leadership.
Black Lives Matter has and continues to incite violent riots which have led to deaths and massive property damage. We can't pretend that this group is not extreme and pandering to them does not help anybody.
People can be appalled with the racist actions of some police officers without supporting BLM.
People can oppose racism without supporting BLM.
It is not racist to distinguish the difference between anti-racism and the extreme actions of BLM.
To add insult to fiscal injury, one of the BLM murals that the City of Calgary plans to put up will be covering a mural which was anti-poverty and graced the CUPS building for 25 years.
We are losing valued public art (a rare thing in Calgary), in order to pander to and promote an increasingly violent and extreme movement.
If BLM supporters want to promote their movement, let them raise funds and buy advertising space just like any other lobby group. Taxpayers should not be forced to cover with.
For those who think that this kind of pandering will immunize the city to extreme actions from groups such as BLM, think again.
We need to be calling out extremism in all its forms whether with racism or the extremists who purport to be rioting in order to end racism.
The City of Calgary has stepped well out of bounds with this move.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last." ~W. Churchill
Thank Sweden for continuing to prove pandemic doomsayers wrong
Sweden has taken a lot of international flak for daring to buck the trend and refusing to get onto the COVID-19 panic bandwagon.
While nations castrated their local economies through sudden and ill-planned lock downs, Sweden kept things voluntary. Restaurants, hair dressers and schools remained open while social distancing was encouraged,
Sweden was scolded and condemned by the international Karen community. It was foretold that Sweden would surely become the next Italy within two weeks for the last four months. Sweden was condemned as a heartless nation which surely would kill a quarter of its population.
Even today, Sweden infuriates the world busybodies by refusing to get on the obsessive mask bandwagon.
So with months of this having passed, how has it all turned out?
Sweden's pandemic numbers look just like those of nations which shut down and have imposed mask laws.
The world needed a control group for pandemic reactions and Sweden provided it. The world should be expressing gratitude as Sweden is proving rather clearly that the lock downs appear not to have accomplished a damn thing.
Look at the curves in the image showing deaths and new infections of Canada right next to Sweden. The trend is strikingly similar. The infections rose, deaths rose, they peaked and both have fallen to tiny levels currently. In the last week Sweden has had four COVID-19 deaths. While indeed tragic for those four families, out of 10 million people that is essentially what the flu would normally kill.
Instead of looking to Sweden for inspiration, panic porn aficionados continue to try and pick at Sweden's success. They point to neighboring Norway and howl "Sweden had higher deaths per million than Norway!! Murderers!!". The omit that Belgium had far more deaths per million than Sweden however and Belgium had a lockdown. Sweden fared better than many nations in deaths per million and that number will continue to improve as Sweden's deaths appear to have flatlined while other nations still have deaths rising.
If the doomsayers were to be believed, Sweden should far and away have been the worst nation on the planet as far as pandemic numbers go. They should not be residing in the middle of the pack. The deaths should be exploding and the infections should be raging. It simply isn't happening and it clearly won't.
Sweden simply ripped off the band-aid faster than the rest of us. The pandemic swept through their nation as with any other and the curve looked the same. As we see growing evidence that asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 are very common, it is getting clear that far more people caught and shed the virus already than was previously suspected. Sweden is approaching herd immunity while nations which locked down actually managed to put that off. It looks like we are all getting to the same numbers in the end but some countries will have done a hell of a lot more damage to their economies on the way there than others did.
Nobody likes to admit that they are wrong. Those of the apocalyptic pandemic set who demanded and managed to get crushing lock downs imposed do not want to have to face the increasingly evident reality that the lock downs didn't accomplish a damn thing. They rage, they shame, they shout down and they deny. They have gotten cult-like in their belief that a virus can be stopped through state intervention and no amount of evidence to the contrary will convince them otherwise. Thus the hatred directed at a nation like Sweden which had always been considered rather innocuous on the world scene. "How dare you!"
Sweden didn't do nothing in reaction to the pandemic. They encouraged social distancing. Many people voluntarily reduced interactions and stayed home. Many large events and activities were postponed or canceled. Their economy still slowed and they had to adjust their daily living habits. The big difference though is that Sweden didn't use the heavy hand of the state to try and quarantine the healthy and it has paid off.
We should be studying Sweden rather than picking on them. We should be emulating Swedes rather than shunning them.
Most of all we should be thanking Sweden. Without them, the pandemic panic crowd would have been able to falsely claim that their lock downs stopped COVID-19 in its tracks.
It is looking more and more evident that this virus is not nearly as deadly as the "experts" hysterically claimed it would be and that letting it run its course is our best course of action.
The numbers don't lie.
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Governor General Julie Payette is a disgrace.
Posted on August 7, 2020 by Cory Morgan
While being symbolically important, the office of Governor General is really of little use for Canada. Governor Generals are appointed to the role by Prime Ministers to essentially serve as chief ribbon cutters and speech deliverers to parliament. They are a remnant of the Monarchy which we could really do without. At best, they spare elected officials from duties which call for pomp and circumstance rather than material importance. If a modern day Governor General ever actually exercised their theoretical power and tried to override the will of parliament, it would truly bring about the end to the office of Governor General.
Most who serve in the role of Governor General take the plum they were handed and manage the role with dignity. Julie Payette however has gone full Marie Antoinette with the role and is embracing the luxuries of the role while abusing what she sees as commoners around her and dodging official duties whenever possible. The role has truly gone to Payette's head and she thinks she is royalty. This happened rather quickly as she has only perched on the throne of Governor General for a few years now.
It has been reported that Payette screams at and humiliates staff at Rideau Hall. Payette's secretary and friend, Assunta Di Lorenzo, is also accused of harassing employees and calling some "lazy" and "incompetent." Payette has been burning through staff at an unprecedented rate. It is little wonder that she has to have her personal friend in the role of secretary and that her friend appears to be as snotty and belligerent as she is.
Payette has been reported to bring staff to tears during ongoing berating sessions when staff are trapped on planes with her. Apparently, travel brings out the worst in Payette which is rather ironic in an astronaut and idiotic in one who chose to accept a role that includes frequent travel.
Despite a base salary of nearly $300,000 plus numerable benefits and having pretty much every life expense covered for her by the taxpayer, Payette has not shied away from bitching about and refusing to do her job when called to.
In her first year in office, Payette caused a fuss when she balked at signing a bill for Royal Assent in June because she didn't want to have to rearrange her June schedule. Signing bills is literally her damn job and how hard could it be??
Rideau Hall is the official residence for the Governor General. It is essentially a 102,000 square foot palace on acres of property with 27 outbuildings. To date, Payette has still refused to move into Rideau Hall as she feels that it isn't good enough for her.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent on Rideau Hall under the direction of Payette on renovations since Payette became Governor General including an absurd $140,000, spent studying and designing a private staircase that was never built! You see, Payette has been trying to find ways that she could navigate her palace without actually being exposed to the commoners who pay for it and the staircase was a problem for her.
This all paints a picture of an elitist of the grossest kind who wants all of the benefits of being appointed to one of the top positions in the land while not actually having to follow through on the obligations that come with it.
Apologists for Payette (and they are dwindling) try to explain that she is a private person who doesn't care for all of this spotlight and exposure to people. In that case, why the hell did she accept a role which is nothing but spotlight and exposure to people?
While millions of Canadians are unemployed and we face a fiscal crisis like none other seen before, Governor General Julie Payette is leading a life of luxury and excess while having the temerity and gall to actually bitch about it. What a slap in the face to the people who work so hard to pay taxes in order to fund the palace which apparently doesn't meet the standards of Payette.
I guess it's hardly a shocker that Trudeau chose Payette to fill this role. It's not as if Pierre Jr. has much experience with the challenges of the peasant class himself. Unfortunately, accountability isn't one of Justin's strong points either and it is unlikely that he will show the courage to call out Payette's abhorrent behavior.
Once a Governor General is appointed, they are pretty much impossible to remove before the end of the term.
One thing that can be done though is to sharply cut the budget of the office. Take away Julie Payette's servants, limousines, private jets and chefs. Let her do her own damn laundry while living in a Motel 6 while eating at Denny's. I assure you that the problem will suddenly take care of itself.
Until Julie Payette leaves the office of Governor General, she will remain an embarrassment in Canada second only to the Prime Minister who appointed her.
Podcast with comedian and actor, Daryl Makk on challenges to his industry due to the pandemic & cancel culture.
I sat down for a great conversation with Daryl Makk.
Daryl has been an actor and comedian working in the entertainment industry for over twenty years now.
Entertainers in general are having a terrible time as the pandemic lockdown shuts down their venues while cancel culture shuts down their acts.
Daryl speaks to those challenges and gives some suggestions on how we can ease the pain for people in the entertainment industry.
This was my first outdoor interview and unfortunately, we did pick up much more outside noise than I anticipated. It is still a learning experience.
It is a great listen even with those extra, unintentional but natural sound effects.
For more information on Daryl Makk head to his website here.
Cancel culture turns it's eye towards the Calgary Flames
Don't dismiss this. Don't assume that just because it is petty, ridiculous and bizarre that it won't go somewhere.
We are in a world where even the most innocuous of things get attacked by the swarming, self-righteous, social justice mob and the mob usually wins.
Now anything even remotely considered to be referencing the American South is considered to be an unforgivable trigger to the world of activist snowflakes who are constantly on the lookout for something to be outraged about.
Sound exaggerated? How about the band "Lady Antebellum?". They changed their name because folks found the term "Antebellum" to be offensive. "Antebellum" is simply Latin for pre-war but because it is considered a southern term, cancel culture rules came into effect.
The band "Dixie Chicks"? Yep. "Dixie" was too much to bear so it was dropped.
Well, the insane social justice mob is running out of things to cancel and they are starting to set their sights wider.
This genius of a Professor from Indiana has decided to post an article linking the name of the Calgary Flames to American civil war battles and Yahoo "news" happily gave him a platform.
The article refers to the name and speaks to a "wound that still burns". It speaks to how the team was "named for calamity".
Inflammatory is indeed an apt term for the crap this fellow wrote.
Nobody is feeling that a wound is still burning here. Nobody cares about the winding and distant path with which the name of the Calgary Flames may have a tiny link to a battle of 160 years ago.
No, this clown doesn't call for the name of the Flames to be changed. He is simply trying to set the stage for that and is hoping that the social justice mob will take up the torch from him. It is no coincidence that he chose the day before the NHL playoffs in order to drop this story.
It seems unlikely that this will grow legs but as can be seen, the social justice set is hoping it does.
We need to stop cowering to the mob. We can't let the cancellation spread. It is just an article now, but it could be protests against sponsors and lobbying of cowardly local politicians next. Never underestimate how far these idiotic initiatives can get.
Calgary can set an example by telling Christopher J. Young and any other fool who tries to imply that the name of the Calgary Flames is inappropriate in any way.
If we don't, rest assured they will get there way in the end and when the team name is lost, we will deserve it.
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I always forget what it's like to be able to smell.
I can smell things! And taste them. O frabjous day!
This has the decidedly unpleasant benefit of letting me notice that my tea smells and tastes of .... sweat socks. Mmm-mmm. Glad that's the last of the Tazo Earl Gray, then. I hope the green and Oolong teas I've had sitting around aren't subject to the same problem.
Respect for Others' Property in the Workplace?
I just discovered that some enterprising soul had stabbed the gel wrist rest I purchased (with my own money, because I am lazy and can't be bothered with finding out what the appropriations/expensing process is around here) with a disposable fountain pen (also mine, for more or less the same set of reasons) while I was gone.
I suspect that somebody's kid was loose in the office over the holiday and was left to their own devices a bit too long. I don't really get it. I hope they'll bring something to keep the kid occupied next time. I don't really like the idea of having my stuff vandalised just because somebody couldn't find a babysitter.
I have some code that's due on Monday, plus maybe a bit more later that week (details forthcoming?). Busy at work, and the normal workday only gives me a few uninterrupted hours to actually get anything much done. On the upside, I just need to test it before I call it done right now. Woo!
While doing that, I've been rifling through monsters' pockets for elite skills. The bosses in the missions in the Crystal Desert each have one, though, and there's one elite skill for each class of boss in the area. As it turns out, one of the mission has a boss of each class type, so I guess I'm going to spend some time capturing the four I don't have yet (having already grabbed the ones for my primary and secondary classes before completing all of the Ascension missions).
I'm going to try to spend some time in FFXII this weekend, though. Made it to Archades, got me a Sandalwood Chop, but haven't actually taken the taxi, yet.
In news not related to my being a gigantic dork, I went to a housewarming party last weekend.
0. Ascended characters can change secondary classes. At-will, now, since changes to the game system allow class changes at any town or outpost. I have, in fact, completed the Ascension mission in Nightfall, but it doesn't provide the option for un-Ascended characters from other campaigns. I'll still need to poke around to see what's required to open up the Nightfall and Factions classes to my character.
1. Guild Wars lets you pick up computer-controlled hencmen at every town, mission, and outpost in the game to fill out your party. Henchmen are pretty stupid, even with the AI upgrades that came with the Nightfall release. Henchmonks, in particular, are dumb as bricks. Heroes are sort of like super-henchmen, with better AI, and some control over their weapons, skills, attributes, and general behavior. You can only take along three per real person, though, and they're still inferior to a decent player.
2. Elite skills are 'better' than normal skills. I guess. (The ones I have are pretty swank, but they're not that awesome.) You can have one in your skill bar at any time, but no more than that, except in a couple of special circumstances. Elite skills have to be captured from bosses/named mobs, though, and yield a large chunk of experience in the process.
I bought Final Fantasy XII on launch day (Oct 31), had cracked it open that night, was ten hours in by the end of the week.
I am now ninety hours in, and barely progressing the story (I think I was around 50% through the story at 40 hours, and I might be at 55-60% now: have been to Mt. Bur-Omisace and am on my way through the Salikawood). I actually still enjoy poking around and grinding out levels and licenses, tracking down marks and so forth. My characters are all a stunningly low level 40, but I've got nearly the entire license board filled out (less the espers, some quickenings, and the 55+LP licenses on the armor and weapons section).
I still have a handful of hunts open, so I'll probably finish those I can get to before proceeding further with the story. Maybe I can be done with the game by the end of the year.
This is the sound of one hand not getting anything done.
I may start working from home once a week, if only I can make it clear to my parents that I am working and don't, in fact, wish to be disturbed to take out the trash, help haul in wood, etc during that period. It's not hard-heartedness, I'm just pretty sure that not drawing the line will eventually make that time completely useless to all involved.
The major advantage of working from home? Climate control. I swear, this place is just enough warmer that I can't actually focus. It's uncomfortable, and distracting. Not to mention that it makes me feel like I'm trying to think with a ... a thing. That doesn't think very well.
Unfortunately, my workspace at home is actually worse, otherwise, than the one at the office. It has to share space with my bedroom, into which is stuffed roughly one half of the furnishings of my last apartment. It's getting hard to get around in there.


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Obdurate Beavers, Trees, Intrusive Signs and Hydrant Woes
By Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong, Contributing Editor | May 15, 2015
Cold Spring Village Board's full agenda
By Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong
Dam-building beavers gnawed their way onto the Cold Spring Village Board agenda Tuesday night (May 12), joining trees, questionable signs, the governmental role in maintaining private streets and numerous other items that demand attention.
Convened at Village Hall for its formal monthly meeting, the board also got an almost-year-end financial update that showed revenues exceeding expenditures by $207,219 so far for fiscal 2014–15, which concludes May 31. As of April 30, the village had spent $1,628,931 of its $2,730,190 budget. It had received $1,836,150 in revenue, according to a financial spreadsheet provided in the meeting materials.
In other activity, the board appointed former Mayor Anthony Phillips as chairman of the Parking Committee and Ruth Elwell as a member of the Code Update Committee. It postponed action on two agenda items, involving a request for proposals for consultant services and a separate grant-related agreement. "Both are not ready for Village Board review," Trustee Marie Early announced.
Obdurate beavers and leaks
Covering Water Department developments, Greg Phillips, the water and wastewater superintendent, told the board that "we have dam issue on Fishkill Road. We have a beaver problem." Phillips said the beavers had constructed a dam on Foundry Brook near the water treatment plant. "What you take out one day, they put back. It's hilarious," but frustrating, since the animals' chosen location hinders easy access by equipment, he said. Sounding determined to have human ingenuity outwit beaver obstinacy and industriousness, Phillips said the Water Department pursues a solution. The brook carries water to the treatment plant from the village's uppermost reservoirs.
If the beavers represented bad news, a device called an Aquascope brought good news, of a sort. Phillips said that the Aquascope, an underground microphone, recently allowed the department to detect and fix two water system leaks. Before the discovery and repairs, daily water-flow averaged 334,000 gallons; afterward, it fell to an average of 284,000 gallons a day, thereby saving 50,000 gallons every 24 hours, according to Phillips. "That's significant," he observed.
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Phillips likewise briefly discussed the unexpected tapping into a water hydrant in Nelsonville. To wash down its streets, the Village of Nelsonville hired a contractor, who opened the hydrant on Tuesday, using the water stream for the cleanup. Tinkering with the hydrant stirred up the system and caused discoloration in tap water, Phillips explained, adding that he had spoken with Nelsonville Mayor Tom Corless about the incident. "We'll make sure it doesn't happen again," he assured the board.
Village trees
Tree Advisory Board Chairperson Jennifer Zwarich provided a draft set of goals for a village tree management plan, which her group is preparing. They include:
Promoting efficient and cost-effective management of the village's "community forest";
Reducing the village's exposure to liability by eliminating sources of tree-related hazards through improved tree care and maintenance;
Maintaining all public trees in a healthy and attractive condition; and
Establishing an optimal level of age- and species-diversity of village trees.
"It's a lot of work but we're happy to do it," she said of her board's efforts in developing the tree management plan.
Building Inspector Bill Bujarski raised issues related to signs, citing a proliferation of commercial sandwich boards as one concern and neon signs on Main Street, part of the village's Historic District, as another. "All of a sudden we have an abundance of neon on Main Street," Bujarski said. "That is absolutely not permitted." To address the clutter of sidewalk sandwich boards advertising businesses, he recommended more clarity in the Village Code. "It's unclear under the law, especially without a good sign ordinance, how we could deal with it," he said.
Trustee Cathryn Fadde wondered about the level of funding remaining from approximately $1 million in grant funding for the Main Street improvement project, pending since 2005, involving street, sidewalk and lighting upgrades. Efforts to date have focused on design work and limited public outreach (for example, a 2012 forum at the Cold Spring firehouse on a design scheme).
"Are we done with the designing, because we don't have a lot of money [left]?" Fadde asked.
Early, who became a trustee in April, has been reviewing aspects of the project. She responded that the design stage often consumes 20 percent of the money on such infrastructure projects. "We believe there are sufficient funds left for construction," she said.
Private roads
The written Highway Department report revealed that, along with other chores undertaken, village employees had "graded Hamilton and Belvedere Streets," using equipment loaned by the Philipstown Highway Department.
That caught the attention of Trustee Michael Bowman. "Aren't those private roads?" he asked.
Early told him that the two streets are indeed privately owned and that she understands that the village has provided an annual "scraping" for some time.
Private streets or roads belong to property owners with lands bordering them, not to a municipality such as the village. Cold Spring contains several private streets; at least some receive varying degrees of public services, such as garbage pickup and road maintenance.
Photos by L.S. Armstrong
About Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong
Armstrong was the founding news editor of The Current (then known as Philipstown.info) in 2010 and later a senior correspondent and contributing editor for the paper. She worked earlier in Washington as a White House correspondent and national affairs reporter and assistant news editor for daily international news services. Location: Cold Spring. Languages: English. Areas of expertise: Politics and government
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One of my favorite things about blogging is that is provides me with a good excuse to do all of the nerdy, quirky things that I've secretly always wanted to do, but was too embarrassed to admit to anyone else. For example, I've always wanted to stop at one of the many souvenir stores that dot Wisconsin's roadsides, selling things like cheese and moccasins. So, on my my way to visit a friend in Green Bay on Monday, I stopped on a whim at Schutlz's Cheese Haus off of Highway 151. Schultz's is everything you'd ever want in a roadside cheese store. It looks like a little house you'd find in the Swiss Alps, except that there's a neon Miller Lite sign in the window and Packer paraphernalia on display. Inside, they have samples of many of their locally-made cheese, sausage, and other edible goodies. I walked away with a tub of spreadable port wine cheese–a fatty favorite I haven't had in years–and half a pound of white Apple Jack. I had to sample at least half a dozen, though, before I made up my mind. If you ever find yourself on Highway 151 in Wisconsin, I highly recommend a stop at this adorable little shop.
Ha! I love road trip food — I'll stop anywhere for stuff like that! Beats a 7-11, right?


David Howarth, MP for Cambridge, has today expressed his surprise at Gordon Brown's snub to UK business schools.
Yesterday's budget announcement included funding summer bursaries for British students to study at American business schools but included no similar funding for business schools based in the United Kingdom, such as the Judge Institute of Management in Cambridge.
"Investment in education is crucial but if the Government has money spare to invest in American business schools, they should spend it here where higher education is in dire need of new cash. We have a perfectly good business school right here in Cambridge."


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The history of Halloween
Damen Padilla, Staff Writer|December 13, 2022
Photo by Benjamin D. Esham
A shot of a pumpkin, focused on its stem
Halloween is a holiday with a colorful history going back to the ancient holiday of Samhain. Over time, traditions associated with Samhain have been incorporated into the modern-day Halloween culture, such as pumpkin carving, wearing costumes and trick or treating.
The ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, which marked the end of the harvest season and the coming of winter, is the first trace of what would eventually become modern Halloween. The Celts believed that during this time, the line between the living and dead worlds was the weakest, so the dead could travel back to the living world. The spirits of loved ones were expected and welcomed, but there was also a possibility of a spirit of a person one might have wronged showing up. To deceive spirits, Celts would cover their faces with ash or masks, according to worldhistory.org.
"They were disguising themselves from the dead, trying to look like them, and that is exactly what costumes are today, disguises," U.S. history teacher Elizabeth Noonan said.
Pope Boniface IV set May 13 for All Saints Day (All Hallows' Day), a day to honor Christian martyrs. Then during the 8th century, Pope Gregory III moved the date to Nov. 1. Some scholars claim this was done to Christianize Samhain by turning it into All Hallows' Eve.
"In my opinion, the Christians took the Pagan holiday and made it their own, something they did a lot back in the day," Noonan said.
All Hallows' Eve became a night of vigil, prayer and fasting in preparation for the next day when the saints were honored at a far-tamer celebration. Although some practices were still around, such as bonfires being lit and the turning of the seasons, they were still observed, only now to honor Christian heroes, according to worldhistory.org.
"Typically, when cultures collide, traditions get blended," history teacher John Cunningham said. "Seemingly, this could explain the beginning of the change of Samhain and All Hallow's Eve until the modern Halloween emerged."
The origin of trick or treating can be traced back to Guy Fawkes Day, a holiday celebrating the capture of Guy Fawkes after his failed assassination of protestant King James I of Britain. Guy Fawkes Day was celebrated on Nov. 5. On this holiday, people drank, feasted and lit off fireworks while also vandalizing Catholic homes and businesses and burning the effigies of the pope. During the celebration, children and the poor would go door to door, often wearing masks begging for money or treats, and threatening to vandalize the house if they refused, while pushing an effigy of Guy Fawkes in a wheelbarrow, according to worldhistory.org.
"I think people were originally trying to find ways to entertain kids but also celebrate this holiday," Noonan said. "Once candy got involved though—I believe in the 1920s—companies found a way to market [and] make money off of this holiday."
When the British came to North America they brought these traditions with them, which were celebrated until the American Revolution. Samhain would find its way to the United States after the displacement of the Irish in 1845-1849 during the potato famine. Although Guy Fawkes Day was no longer celebrated, some of the traditions still continued through October holidays, especially vandalism; only this time, vandalism became indiscriminate and anyone's house could be vandalized around Oct. 31, according to worldhistory.org.
"Pranking got particularly bad during WWI or WWII, I can't remember which, when many dads were off at war," Cunningham said. "People started to give candy and treats to stop the mischief. I think candy bars or maybe even the fun size candy bars were partly developed/came about for this purpose."
One woman in the town of Hiawatha, Kan., Elizabeth Krebs, grew tired of her town being vandalized every year, so in 1914 she organized a huge party for young people. She hoped the party would tire them out enough, so they would have no energy for vandalism. Krebs hired a band, held a costume contest and put on a parade; her plan worked as kids had less energy after the party to vandalize anything. News of the success traveled outside of Kansas, and soon, Halloween parties became a staple of the holiday, according to worldhistory.org.
"I would say that she helped contribute, but like many current holidays, we have taken traditions and ideas from several people and have made them our own," Noonan said. "So I would say Halloween today in our country, just like a lot of things, is a combination of a number of historical traditions and people."
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Ahead of her time: Regan Marsh '99 ›
Ahead of her time: Regan Marsh '99
Tuesday, Jan 2, 2018
by Erin Wispelwey
On Wednesday September 27th, the first class of emergency medicine residents graduated from the Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais in central Haiti. I heard the pride in her voice as Regan Marsh '99 described the program and these students. Regan was the first (co-)chair of emergency medicine at this hospital opened by Partners In Health (PIH) in 2013. She marveled at the upcoming festivities as she reflected on the program's inauguration in fall 2014, three years earlier. Days after the residency program began, leaders at PIH had called and asked her to leave for Sierra Leone and PIH's Ebola response there. It was an "overwhelming ethical crush," she explained: she felt that while she didn't want to leave these interns or the dire need at the teaching hospital, she couldn't watch Ebola ravage countries with no health infrastructure to stop the disease either. In this Spotlight, we catch up with Regan's journey through (a pre-GHP) Princeton, medicine, and this moment in her career.
Regan graduated from Princeton in 1999 with a degree in ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB). Her first year at Princeton was also the first year that "HAART" (now called ART, multidrug antiretroviral therapy for HIV) became commercially available. These drugs catapulted the ideas of "global health" into the national and campus dialogue, she says. Though no formal structures around Global Health existed before GHP was established in 2004, she remembers being drawn to ideas around health justice and access to care at Princeton, throughout her P55 fellowship, and then at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Around the time GHP was being created at Princeton, Regan read Tracy Kidder's Mountains beyond Mountains as she applied to residency programs. A biography of Paul Farmer and his organization, this book introduced her to PIH and piqued her interest in the Harvard emergency medicine residency program. Her interest in PIH grew at Harvard: her residency program had a strong global health focus (unique for the time), and her early mentors had or were actively working with Partners In Health or other global health organizations. After finishing her residency, she wanted to use her skills in a global health setting. She joined the PIH team in Malawi in the summer of 2008.
As an emergency medicine doctor, she was a good compliment to Malawi's team of one pediatrician, one infectious disease specialist, and one internist. She described her time there as "an incredible experience for me understanding the fundamental tenants of the PIH model." She worked in a rural area with virtually no health system, focused on HIV and TB care, and worked in/built capacity in the public sphere. She loved the work. "I really saw how [health system development] can work and, frankly, how it doesn't work if done poorly." Her experiences in Malawi brought her back to Harvard, this time for a Master in Public Health.
Regan followed her love of emergency medicine and health systems development to become an attending physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital; an instructor in emergency medicine at Harvard; and director of clinical operations planning and then co-director of emergency medicine at the Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais. She was balancing these roles when asked to drop everything and go to west Africa.
As she described it, the moral obligation in West Africa was two-fold: she wanted to help the patients suffering in overcrowded, understaffed, dangerous hospitals, and she want help public health leaders use this opportunity to build up a stronger, more sustainable health system moving forward. She explained that "PIH's strength in emergencies is to recognize the underlying potential and social determinants of disease." The work she was doing in Haiti was needed in west Africa and the situation was dire. After much debate, Regan left for Sierra Leone. As the medical director of PIH's work, she played a crucial role in the Ebola response and then in PIH's work with the government to rebuild the health system after the epidemic. She returned to her previous responsibilities in June 2016, but PIH remains in Sierra Leone and Liberia with over 800 Ebola survivors still in their care.
Today, Regan is based in Boston as PIH's Director of Clinical Systems. She says that she's found her niche in health systems delivery. Her advice to GHP students reflects her own story: "love what you do, and figure out how to use that enthusiasm, passion, and training to think about justice and access." She may not realize how perfectly these words reflect the goals and guiding principles of the Global Health Program today. I'd like to think of Regan as a GHP graduate, simply ahead of her time.


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Vince Cable writes: Lib Dems will be at the forefront of political realignment
By Vince Cable | Fri 20th July 2018 - 4:07 pm
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It is a year today since I became party leader, and a great deal has happened since.
Thanks to the efforts of so many of our members and campaigners, we had the best set of local election results of the three main parties in England in councils gained and the best overall for us in fifteen years. We have every reason to hope that next year will be better still – we are already preparing.
The by-election in Lewisham East was our best against Labour for a decade. Local council contests each week continue to reinforce the positive message our surveys are giving us.
Whatever toxicity attached to the Lib Dem brand after the Coalition has substantially dissipated. Large numbers will vote for us if they think we have a chance of winning and if there is an effective campaign
As well as winning elections, we are setting out big ideas to change the country. A few weeks ago, I detailed an ambitious but realistic approach to house building, describing what could be achieved without the impediment of ideological prejudice.
I have also launched a series of initiatives to confront the issues thrown up by the new digital economy and deal with the 'data giants'; a group is looking at how best to support lifelong learning for people whose future is potentially subject to the upheavals of technological change; another will soon look more broadly at the impact of new technologies like AI and how best to respond to them.
On the core economy, I have set out a revised approach to fiscal and monetary policy which builds on, but does not destroy, existing structures. We have carried out serious work on land value taxation, which will come before Conference in the Autumn. And I have described how in practice we create a corporate structure which is best described as 'responsible capitalism'.
On public services, Liberal Democrats continue to lead the argument about the mechanics for funding health and social care with the advice of leading figures in health policy. The Federal Policy Committee has recently set up a new health working group to take forward their work, and to continue our leadership role in mental health policy pioneered by Norman Lamb. Layla Moran, our education spokesperson, has published proposals to address the concerns of parents, teachers and schools, which we endorsed at conference.
The politics of Brexit is moving slowly but substantially in our direction. Where our calls for a final say on the deal for the public were once derided, more and more people are now joining with us in that campaign. A highlight of my year was addressing the 100,000 people amassed in Parliament Square for the People's Vote march. We remain the leading political force arguing that whatever the parliamentary wranglings over detail, the best course for Britain is to stop Brexit altogether. Giving the people a choice at the end of this dismal negotiating process is the best way to obtain an exit from Brexit
Politics itself is evolving quickly, with movements becoming as important as parties. I see that as an opportunity not a threat. An opportunity for us to grow, and to become the vehicle for millions of voices across the country. I have taken advice from the experts who worked with Justin Trudeau in Canada and Emmanuel Macron in France to see how we can replicate their success
This summer I will be carefully considering that advice and I know that the Federal People Development Committee is already looking at a range of options for party reforms aimed at broadening our tent and building a movement for change. You will be hearing more on these plans in the coming months.
The first year of my leadership has taken place against the backdrop of extreme political volatility. The government is unstable; the principal opposition is not speaking even for its own supporters. A political realignment remains a real prospect during the coming, second year of my leadership – and I'm determined Liberal Democrats should be at the forefront of it
* Sir Vince Cable is MP for Twickenham and was leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2017 until 2019.
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William 20th Jul '18 - 5:16pm
Dear Vince,
you write: "A political realignment remains a real prospect during the coming, second year of my leadership – and I'm determined Liberal Democrats should be at the forefront of it".
It's a little bit galling to read an update like this with no mention of where you were for the vote you missed on the ERG amendments. This would be the case anyway, but there are 2 additional features:
a/ you told radio4's today programme that you were at a meeting on "relevant subjects";
b/ the Times reports the meeting was with members of a different political party.
Surely we could have some honesty and clarification here. You are calling for us to be at the forefront of political realignments while missing votes in the Commons to meet with other parties.
I would also like to take this moment to remind you that all our members of parliament were elected on a pledge that we would form no coalitions in the parliament following the 2017 general election; I would hope that we all remember this before thinking about coalitions or governments of national unity.
Dave Page 20th Jul '18 - 5:30pm
I am personally concerned by talk of "political realignment", because it usually means "like the Lib Dems, but without the pesky membership deciding our policies" or "properly centrist mush, not at all radical or liberal".
When Vince, in his Business Insider interview, says "if they're aligned with us on basic values, we can work with them", and his enthusiasm for a "registered supporters" scheme of people who fund the party but do not influence its policy, makes me worry that the Lib Dems will fall further into the Coalition trap of pre-compromise, triangulation and capitulation rather than presenting radical, liberal policies.
Richard Underhill 20th Jul '18 - 5:46pm
The Times has reported that Donald Trump has withdrawn the USA from the TPP, consistent with his dislike of everything his predecessor achieved, thereby leaving Japan in the leadership role in the TPP. (China is not a member).
Japan has done a deal with the EU, which will gradually reduce the EU's tariff on cars, over a period.
There is also a mention of green tea.
Competition from Japan has greatly improved the reliability of cars available for sale in the EU, including the UK.
I did not notice any reporting of non-tariff barriers.
If the UK were to leave the EU we might find ourselves outside this agreement for most of the stages of its implementation.
The "voluntary" agreement under which Japan limited the number of cars imported into the EU each year was made under pressure from the EU.
The real cost of car ownership is not reflected in the price of AA/RAC/etcetera membership. Try adding a hotel bill for 2 people and some taxi fares after a breakdown on the M6. The car was a BMW MINI made in England.
Another failure preferably avoided on the way to work was in a VW made in Germany.
When the RAC man arrived he offered towing to a garage or trying to fix the problem by the roadside, which he tried and failed to do.
For the first customer to pay more is not a simple solution. A BMW 7-series is more likely to break down than a BMW 5-Series, because there are more things to go wrong.
Michael BG 20th Jul '18 - 6:26pm
It seems Vince is not living in the same world as me; we are still under 10% in most opinion polls. This does not mean as Vince thinks, "Whatever toxicity attached to the Lib Dem brand after the Coalition has substantially dissipated." After the 1987 general election our opinion poll rating declined to 5% and held around 15% from 1991 onwards. We will only have recovered our core vote once we are back at 15% in the opinion polls again. It is disappointing that Labour has benefited from the drop in popularity of the Conservatives since the Chequers deal but we haven't.
It is not clear from this article if Vince and the party is doing enough for those who voted to Leave the EU because they feel left behind. And of course there is no mention of reforming the EU to reduce the forces driving economic migration across the EU.
Michael 1 20th Jul '18 - 6:29pm
Be bolder, please Vince!
Michael Cole 20th Jul '18 - 7:28pm
Wiliam and Dave Page,
I think you are reading too much into into this.
Vince has ruled out coalitions; he can do little else, following our experience of a few years ago.
Perhaps you believe that we should retain our 'purity' and only work with LDs.
nvelope2003 20th Jul '18 - 8:43pm
Michael BG: The Liberal Democrats offer worthy policies but they are too dull for many voters who are looking for the modern equivalent of storming the Bastille. Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn provide this depending on your political standpoint. The Bastille had just a few elderly aristocrats living in comfort and the Winter Palace in Petrograd was "stormed" by about nine people not the thousands shown in that film but myths have resonance.
Tristan Ward 20th Jul '18 - 8:50pm
Politics is changing from a contest between social democrats and Conservative/neoliberals. To a contest between fact/research driven internationalists and liberals on one hand and emotion driven nationalist/illiberal protectionists
It ought to be easy to see where the Lib Dems stand in this continuum, but there are plenty of people in the Tory and Labour parties who ought to be able to sign up to it. (David's Cameron and Milliband for example). Brexit ought to drive this: if it does not we will be trapped in the dreadful contest between Tory nationalist neoliberalism and Corbyn's neosocialism. I cannot think of anything worse for the country.
Andrew Hickey 20th Jul '18 - 10:13pm
"Vince has ruled out coalitions"
He has also repeatedly called for a government of national unity and talked about working with Labour and Tory centrists. He has also shown a willingness to go against his own previous statements and the party constitution.
OnceALibDem 20th Jul '18 - 11:16pm
"we had the best [local election results] overall for us in fifteen years."
Well not if you scratch the surface. Net losses in the north of England, net losses in 'remain city' London outside of Richmond and Kingston, vote share falling to the 2011/12 levels.
Dave highlights another interview by Vince, he is trying to move the party to be part of a moderate, centrist, but not really Liberal, party (see also the complete absence of civil liberty type issues). Where will that leave Liberals?
Katharine Pindar 20th Jul '18 - 11:55pm
I can't see the joined-up thinking in this article, or how its content relates much to the headline. Still, with Parliament in deadlock and M Barnier having no key to unlock, I think 'Steady as she goes' is all right for our party this summer, if we show calm unity against Brexit and determined campaigning for another referendum. Hopefully then the September Conference can shape our public profile, developing a coherent and persuasive platform which melds progressive policy development with the Leader's ideas and initiatives, and shows us ready for the severe challenges ahead.
Sandra Hammett 21st Jul '18 - 2:36am
What a wasted opportunity which could have been used to explain to errors, provide a clear framework for the future, pop the Lib Dem bubble and show some real leadership.
"The first year of my leadership has taken place against the backdrop of extreme political volatility. The government is unstable; the principal opposition is not speaking even for its own supporters." And it would be naive to believe we are exempt from it, who would have thought for example that our two most prominent MPs would miss ANY vote on Brexit? Or that WE have spent two years saying we oppose Brexit but have nothing to show for it, despite an unstable government.
Unless something spectacular happens like the government actually agreeing to a vote on the deal or a general election, I can't help but feel that we will continue to squander our opportunities and advantages.
David Evans 21st Jul '18 - 6:51am
Vince – We did not have "the best [local election results] overall for us in fifteen years." We recovered slightly from a period when we had the worst series of results in the previous thirty – i.e. coalition. In those five years we lost over 1,900 councillors. The previous time the 2018 seats were fought we lost 310. In 2018 we gained only 76 of them back.
We have to stop pretending these are great results and face up to the full facts.
William Fowler 21st Jul '18 - 7:43am
There have been no development of policies that would make staying in the EU acceptable to a large chunk of leavers (10-20 are hardcore who won't be moved but the rest are open to persuasion). Reliance on fear and panic assumes people believe politicians!
No policies, such as phasing out council tax, that would grab voters' attention, just a promised possibility of Land Value Tax that will be so complex to implement that the bureaucracy will eat deeply into the revenue.
No recognition that the job of the next govn, post Brexit, will be to work out how to share out a much smaller tax revenue cake more fairly.
No radical reform of tax/NI/benefits, now necessary to increase tax revenue post Brexit that would lower taxes for those on 20k or under and increase them for others,
Basically just croaking along in the hope that something turns up.
Peter Watson 21st Jul '18 - 10:13am
@OnceALibDem 'we had the best [local election results] overall for us in fifteen years.'
"Well not if you scratch the surface."
Even on the surface, the projected national equivalent vote share dropped from that achieved under Tim Farron the year before.
It often looks as if the plan is to grow the Lib Dem recovery outwards from some Richmond-Oxfordshire axis, and perhaps in the last couple of years the party has taken its eye off the ball in other parts of the country.
Paul Reynolds 21st Jul '18 - 12:13pm
Peter, William, David and Sandra. You are certainly right and your words of wisdom should be heeded. There is a tendency for misplaced self-congratulation, no doubt. However LDV is a public forum and you can't blame the leadership for trying to point out signs of progress and for putting a positive gloss on things. More privately, though, we do look to the relevant institutions to be realistic about the problems faced; in internal organisation, with overall narratives & policymaking, and with public perceptions of the Lib Dems more generally.
James Baillie 21st Jul '18 - 10:13pm
Others have already said their piece on the idea of a "political realignment" – I share concerns about what this means, I hold party democracy in very high regard and would like the leadership to be more vocal in presenting it as a feature, not a bug, of the Lib Dem system.
I also think that, whilst there's some very good stuff in some of Vince's economic pronouncements, we need more to catch the eye and build more of a vision. It feels sometimes as if Vince is still working to a ministerial, not an opposition leader's, brief with his approach to policy; there is good detail, especially on tackling the tech giants, but we lack the sense of vision and direction that is needed to tie that together into an appealing package for the people who should be the Lib Dems' core vote. This is not for lack of party members who want to build more ambitious liberal policy or who have the ability to give powerful and coherent explanations of our ideology – our leadership don't seem to be making use of the people in the party as well as they should do in areas of policy and vision.
Neil Sandison 22nd Jul '18 - 11:24am
The old tribalism and blind loyalty to one party is becoming increasingly unpopular . ,Politics is becoming more and more issue based and less class based. In terms of realignment you may well see new alliances form on core issues like the NHS ,housing ,The environment ,transport ,infrastructure .devolution and yes Brexit. As a party born out of one alliance should we dig our heals in and object to a new reforming alliance ?reject the Jenkins /Steel legacy that shaped the Liberal Democrats that helped put us back on the agenda ? An alliance of reform and renewal willing to promote change with new heart may have the emotional appeal to electors tired of the dogmatism of current politics of the Westminister bubble.
Peter Hirst 23rd Jul '18 - 1:34pm
Could members of other Parties be supporters of the Liberal Democrats? We might borrow their support to reverse Brexit. How much appeal would such an approach have?
I am always disappointed when one of our MPs or members of the House of Lords writes an article for LDV but they don't then respond to the comments. It is like they just wish to tell us things and not engage in a conversation. (I wonder what their thinking is on why they will not engage with the comments section.) And I am always pleased to see when ex-MPs (I can't remember when a serving MP has commented on LDV) or members of the House of Lords actually do engage with comments made on LDV articles.
Peter Watson 24th Jul '18 - 3:05pm
@Michael BG "I can't remember when a serving MP has commented on LDV"
I do recall being hugely impressed by Ed Davey doing that a few times, commenting in the thread below an article that bore his name.
Simon Banks 17th Sep '18 - 1:59pm
Yes to co-operating with people outside the party, including groups within other parties with whom we share something important. No to coalition with Corbyn or the Tories as they are, but not no to any coalition forever. No to losing a Liberal identity in a new Centrist party.
Polls change. Parties that struggle to get national media attention generally score low in the polls before an election is called. If we want to assess the health of the party, we should look at how many councillors we're electing and how many local elections are contested: these are signs of how strong the party organisation is and how motivated the activists are.
Yes, we need to reach out to far more people whose views roughly coincide with ours – about 30% of the electorate. But Vince's presentation of proposed party reforms as something largely driven by the Federal People Development Committee with him presumably waiting to see what they come up with, is disingenuous. He has very specific ideas which need careful examination one by one, not accepting on the grounds that the only alternative is more of the same.
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Joan Greenwood to James Handy
Jonathan Hales Biography (1937-)
Born May 10, 1937, in London, England; son of James Alfred and Dorothy May (Broadbent) Hales; married Mary Jane Cherry (divorced); married Gillian Diamond; children: two sons. Addresses: HOME--117 Canfield Gardens, London NW6, England.
Credits; PRINCIPAL STAGE WORK; DIRECTOR
The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, U.K., 1966.
Danton's Death, Galileo, The Three Musketeers, all Phoenix Theatre, Leicester, U.K., 1967-68.
The Foursome, Royal Court Theatre, then Fortune Theatre, both London, 1971.
The Lovers of Viorne, Royal Court Theatre, 1971.
The Centaur, Royal Court Theatre, 1972.
Brussels, Royal Court Theatre, then Greenwich Theatre, London, 1972.
The Sea Anchor, Royal Court Theatre, 1974.
Mrs. Grabowski's Academy, Royal Court Theatre, 1975.
Judies, Comedy Theatre, London, 1975.
The Entertainer, Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, Wales, U.K., 1975.
Epitaph for George Dillon, Young Vic Theatre, London, 1975.
Old Flames, Bristol, U.K., 1975, then Arts Theatre, London, 1976.
The Sanctuary Lamp, Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland, 1976.
The Family Dance, Criterion Theatre, London, 1976.
Mecca, Open Space Theatre, London, 1977.
The Morning after Optimism, Abbey Theatre, 1977.
Wild Oats, Abbey Theatre, 1978.
Writings;PLAYS
(Adaptor) The Three Musketeers, Phoenix Theatre, Leicester, U.K., 1968.
The Centaur, Royal Court Theatre, London, 1972.
Brussels, Royal Court Theatre, 1972.
co-writer, Alice's Boys, Savoy Theatre, London, 1978.
Writings;SCREENPLAYS
The Mirror Crack'd, American Film Distributors, 1980.
High Road to China, Warner Brothers, 1983.
The Shipkiller.
Writings;TELEPLAYS
The Comic, Places Where They Sing.
Diane.
The Chelsea Murders.


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Thanks to Frolic Weymouth, the colorful sport of carriage driving keeps rumbling along.
By Geraldine Fabrikant
Perhaps the most sought-after invitation in the rarefied world of carriage driving is to George "Frolic" Weymouth's annual six-mile run, from his house in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, to Winterthur, the Delaware museum created by Weymouth's late cousin Henry Francis du Pont in what had been one of the largest private residences in the United States. The occasion is the Winterthur Point-to-Point, the steeplechase event held on the museum's expansive grounds every May, a focal point of the equestrian season.
Weymouth has been a carriage aficionado ever since he bought his 1755 stone farmhouse, in 1960. "I decided I did not want to see a car in front of it," the dapper Weymouth recalled, as he donned a top hat for the ride, in which he would pilot his rare 1894 Brewster three-quarter-size park drag. "So I bought a carriage, and I loved driving, and then I got a pair and I kept buying more." At one time Weymouth had 100 carriages.
On May 5 more than 200 guests came for a weekend of driving elaborate coaches and carriages. The opening event was a leisurely drive through Weymouth's 250-acre farm to a luncheon at the adjacent property of his cousins Jeffrey and Anne Nielsen. Some drivers had been at it for decades, but Herbert Kohler Jr., president of the manufacturing company of the same name, brought the four English piebald coach horses and carriage he bought last year from the artist Jamie Wyeth and his wife Phyllis, a member of the du Pont family. (The horses got their black-and-white coloring (from Oberon, a stallion owned by Queen Elizabeth II.) "Jamie did a painting of my wife, and Frolic did one of me," Kohler said happily. He flies in (from Kohler, Wisconsin, every few weeks to drive.
The highlight of the Point-to-Point weekend was the hearty ride along roads lined with well-wishers and gawkers, as 39 carriages made their way to Winterthur. There, a crowd that included Henry Belin du Pont, Harry Tower, Regis de Ramel, and Michael Mattson had gathered to watch and listen as the annual Parade of Carriages grandly entered the grounds, with each participant announced over a loudspeaker and grooms blowing coach horns. As the men removed their top hats, the champagne and wine flowed. Louis Piancone's grooms popped open the hind boot of his British road coach, Tantivy, to reveal a buffet of fresh shrimp, fruit, and cookies served on a three-tier tray.
After the tailgate lunches and a very full program of steeplechase racing (the main event here since 1978), the carriages left as they had arrived, in a stately line. It was back to Chadds Ford, where Weymouth was throwing his annual pig roast along Brandywine Creek for owners, friends, grooms, and coachmen, including Robert Longstaff, who has worked with Weymouth for more than 30 years. Among the humorous laurels the host bestowed was the Fickle Finger of Fate Award, which went to Dr. Andrew Fiel for driving his carriage into a fence. Thanks to Weymouth, Chadds Ford's maze of paved and unpaved byways retains its pristine 18th-century charm; it also remains a sportsman's challenge.
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