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World News // 5 days ago
Prince Harry seeking right to pay for police protection in Britain
Prince Harry is engaged in a legal challenge for the right to personally pay for protection from British police when visiting the country.
World News // 1 week ago
Queen strips Prince Andrew of military titles, royal patronages amid sex abuse case
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II stripped Prince Andrew of his military affiliations and royal patronages on Thursday as he continues to fight a New York lawsuit that accuses him of sexually abusing an underage girl.
U.S. News // 1 week ago
Request to dismiss Prince Andrew sexual abuse lawsuit denied by judge
A request to dismiss Virginia Guiffre's lawsuit against Britain's Prince Andrew alleging sexual abuse has been rejected by a federal judge in New York.
Royals unveil Platinum Jubilee events to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 70 years on the throne
Royal officials have unveiled plans this weekend to celebrate 70 years on the throne for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, better known as the Platinum Jubilee.
U.S. News // 2 weeks ago
Judge in Prince Andrew sex abuse case says decision to proceed will be made 'soon'
A federal judge appeared to thwart a slew of arguments by the defense of Prince Andrew seeking to dismiss a lawsuit by a woman who says the Duke of York raped her when she was a minor.
Sports News // 3 weeks ago
Flightline in U.S., Efforia in Japan -- new stars shine bright in weekend horse racing
The day after Christmas brought some glittering gifts for racing fans, including stellar performances by 3-year olds Efforia in Japan and Flightline in California, as Epicenter enters the Kentucky Derby picture.
World News // 3 weeks ago
Armed intruder arrested on grounds of Britain's Windsor Castle, police say
An armed intruder was arrested at Windsor Castle west of London on Saturday, where Britain's Queen Elizabeth II was celebrating Christmas with her family, police said.
World News // 1 month ago
British court orders Dubai ruler to pay Princess Haya, children over $700M
A British court on Tuesday ordered that the ruler of Dubai must pay his wife, Princess Haya, and their children more than $700 million in one of Britain's most expensive divorce settlements in history.
Queen Elizabeth II again cancels royal pre-Christmas lunch due to COVID-19
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has canceled a traditional pre-Christmas royal lunch over concerns about rising COVID-19 cases and the Omicron variant, news reports said Thursday.
U.S. News // 1 month ago
Attorneys for Prince Andrew ask judge to dismiss accuser's sex abuse suit
Attorneys for Britain's Prince Andrew have asked the judge presiding over his sexual abuse lawsuit to dismiss the case because, they argue, the accuser was legally past the age of consent.
This is the biggest and best gold star I've ever won in my life
Mirren 'Queen' of Oscars Feb 26, 2007
I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything
The almanac Oct 10, 2010
A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past
In my lifetime, the United Nations has moved from being a high-minded aspiration to being a real force for common good. That of itself has been a signal achievement
Queen Elizabeth addresses United Nations Jul 06, 2010
Woman checking her email spam folder discovers $3M lottery jackpot
Arthritis drugs may reduce COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, born 21 April 1926) is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. As Head of the Commonwealth, she is the figurehead of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations; as the British monarch, she is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
Elizabeth was born in London, and educated privately at home. Her father ascended the throne as George VI in 1936 on the abdication of his brother Edward VIII. Elizabeth began to undertake public duties during the Second World War, in which she served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. When her father died in 1952, Elizabeth became Head of the Commonwealth and queen of seven independent Commonwealth countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon. Her coronation service in 1953 was the first to be televised.
During her 59-year reign, currently the second-longest for a British monarch, she became queen of 25 other Commonwealth countries as they gained independence. Between 1956 and 1992, half of her realms, including South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon (renamed Sri Lanka), became republics. Her Silver and Golden Jubilees were celebrated in 1977 and 2002; planning for her Diamond Jubilee in 2012 is underway.
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"The Influence of Β-(Mg₁₇Al₁₂) Phase Distribution on Corrosion Behavior" by Surender Maddela, Yar-Ming Wang et al.
The effect of β (Mg17Al12) phase distribution on the corrosion behavior of AM50 alloy in NaCl solution was studied using scanning vibrating electrode technique (SVET) in conjunction with potentiodynamic polarization scan. The β phase distribution was modifi ed by casting AM50 alloy at different cooling rates. For all cooling rates, the following phases were present: primary magnesium (α), eutectic mixture of α and β phase, β phase and Al8Mn5 phase. In 0.17 wt%and 1.6 wt% NaCl solutions, the free corrosion potential (FCP) of the moderate cooled alloy was more noble than that for the fast and slow cooled alloy. The corrosion current densities calculated from SVET analysis at zero current potential (ZCP) were in agreement with that determined from potentiodynamic polarization method. This study clearly indicated that for a given magnesium alloy composition, the corrosion resistance of the alloy can be greatly affected by size and distribution of secondary phases.
S. Maddela et al., "The Influence of Β-(Mg₁₇Al₁₂) Phase Distribution on Corrosion Behavior of AM50 Alloy in NaCl Solution," TMS 2009, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), Feb 2009.


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Lovebites – Awakening From Abyss
By Harrison Deacon
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The explosive and extensive debut album from Lovebites, Awakening From Abyss, doesn't only flaunt the fact these five ladies from Tokyo are an extremely promising and powerful band, but that they have more than enough ability and riffs to stand toe to toe with just about any other metal band who have had a release this year. Formed in Tokyo as recently as 2015, Awakening From Abyss is the full length follow up to their 2016 debut EP The Lovebites EP, which was comprised of 4 tracks, all of which feature on the tracklist for the new album, and although the record is almost full to the brim with passion, this brings the running time to a slightly bloated 61 minutes.
The intro track, The Awakening starts the album off with some flowery, plucked broken chords alongside some bowed strings played in a Japanese fashion, with the plucked chords sounding like they could be have been played on a Japanese Koto. This serves simply as an introduction and clocks in at just 2 minutes, with no vocals until vocalist Asami brings the true nature of the album in with a singular "Lovebites", closing the second half of the song off with a hard hitting straight-forward heavy metal riff, some tight drums, and a few bars of light soloing from lead guitarist Midori. The album was mixed and mastered by Mikko Karmila and Mika Jussila in Finland, guys who are known for their work with bands such as Nightwish and Children of Bodom, and this shows on the opener for the album. Within this track, between the blossoming strings and tense keys, against the powerful and incisive metal instrumentation, there is a really well produced and refreshing contrast of sounds, somehow the Scandinavian production, Japanese elements, and western metal influence all come through quite nicely within the first few minutes. Unfortunately, this well balanced aura isn't quite captured very well throughout the record, throws experimentation out, and instead leans more towards a more traditional metal album. Thankfully these girls know how to make some serious metal music.
The first few tracks after the introduction are seriously rip-roaring, as the lead guitar slices through the mix and soars across some steady and well produced drums and basslines, they bring that epic and grand style of heavy music that radiates eastern Asian energy so well, as well as the first riff to Warning Shot genuinely sounding like something from a Japanese Hack 'n' Slash video game. Shortly after that there is the track Shadowmaker, which centres around guitar work too, bringing it in the form of a lovely harmonised and layered guitar riff introduction, sounding like something out of Avenged Sevenfold's catalogue. Besides the intro track, every other song on the record clocks in between the 4 and 7 minutes and although the metal being produced by Lovebites is some well thought out riffage that Iron Maiden would smile upon, after the first 20 minutes, it's clear they're not going for anything too unique or ground-breaking idealistically.
Through the main bulk of riffs, there are still some pretty luscious moments on the album, that give it some much needed character and change. Like the great In Flames inspired half time solo on the track Liar, the soft watery moments scattered across the track Edge Of The World with it's keys and tense bridge, and the closer of the album Bravehearted that signs the album off with a brilliantly powerful 6 minute finish rather than an elongated fade. And one thing that definitely warrants mention, is the powerful vocal performance from frontwoman Asami, across every last track, she absolutely brings the heat with her vocal delivery. From what I could hear, every lyric on the project was in English, and enunciated well, with a terrific range and lovely inflections of her Japanese accent, delivered with a real clean ferocity that keeps the album powering on in style.
That being said, even with these slightly more ear catching moments, and a solid vocal performance, the slightly stretched out nature of the project does give way for some lapses in interest. And while there's barely a minute in the project that doesn't showcase some tremendous playing, while this is admirable, it's the lack of evolving ideas or change of style that can make the hour long project drag in areas. But the general atmosphere still somehow, to Lovebites strength, doesn't stagnate quite as much as one might expect it would. Throughout the album, on the whole we're treated to some pretty fantastic musicianship and technical ability, from every member of the band.
Lovebites deliver over an hour of some sincerely hard hitting and classy metal music, with an authentic Japanese edge. With no groundbreaking sounds or lyrics on offer, and at times a formulaic, repetitive and overly clean sound, they manage to counteract this well with some serious metal shredding and sustained energy throughout. A strong, fun and potent debut album, these five young ladies are a real shining example of a great metal band, in an area of the world where pop and R&B music is seemingly taking over and where there is still big gender inequality. The shredders should enjoy this one.
Highlights: The Awakening, Warning Shot, Liar
Find Lovebites on Facebook here and Twitter here.
Awakening From Abyss is out now, available here for the UK, and here for Japan!
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Watching The Flags That Fly is een muziekalbum van de zanger Jon Anderson.

Eind jaren 80 van de 20e eeuw valt Yes uiteen, de ene helft gaat onder die naam verder, de anderen gaan hun weg onder de naam Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe. Nadat het eerste album ABWH binnen de symfonische rock goed is ontvangen, begint Jon Anderson in Frankrijk alvast voorbereidingen te treffen voor album nummer 2. Jon richt al studio's in en begint met opnemen, als hij verneemt dat de heren Bruford, Wakeman en Howe  liever in Londen blijven om daar het album op te nemen. Het komt er echter niet meer van. Het Yes van Chris Squire en ABWH vloeien samen en gaan verder onder de naam Yes. Ze creëerden daarmee eenzelfde situatie als het dubbeltrio van King Crimson later.
De composities op dit album werden naderhand niet meer gebruikt, noch in Andersons solocarrière, noch bij de voortzetting van Yes. Het is duidelijk te horen dat de muziek bestemd was voor de groep ABWH, het is veel minder zweverig dan de muziek van de soloalbums van Anderson.

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Jon Anderson – alle instrumenten

Composities
Hold you in my arms
Take the water to the mountain
After the storm
Watching the flags that fly
Touch the heaven
We make believe
To the stars
Instrumental I
Is it love?
Axis of love
Instrumental II
Santa Barbara
Tall buildings
Looking for the words
Try it again
Autumn
Earth and stone
Indian summer
Amnesty
Landfall
Sunlight on leaves

Alle composities van Anderson.

Trivia
 Het album maakt deel uit van een te zijner tijd uit te komen box met meer opnamen die op de plank zijn blijven liggen.

Muziekalbum uit 2007

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'Tis the season of giving in Seaford
Hours Donated: 10
Sport: Schools
Students in the Seaford School District made it their mission to spread joy this holiday season by collecting toys for children across Long Island.
The Seaford High School student council held its annual toy drive with participation from the entire community. In addition to placing toy donation bins at the high school and middle school for students and staff to make contributions, the student leaders dropped off letters to homes in Seaford shortly after Thanksgiving seeking toys. Then on Dec. 15, volunteers from the student council and National Honor Society drove around on their assigned routes and picked up the donations.
Student council members spent two days wrapping toys afterschool before visiting Head Start facilities in Hempstead, Wantagh and Westbury. At those three spots, they dressed up as Santa, Mrs. Claus and elves to fulfill wishes for young children.
Hailey Galison, vice president of the student council, said every child received a toy, a stuffed animal, a book and a trinket. Extra toys were provided to a half-dozen other child care facilities on Long Island.
When she was in middle school, Hailey made would donate to the toy drive, but she said it is more meaningful now that she gets to go to the Head Start facilities, meet the children and personally hand out gifts.
Added student council president Katelyn Winter, "You get to see where your donations are going. It shows us how much of an impact we can have, not just in Seaford but in the surrounding communities."
Seaford Manor Elementary School's student council also held its annual toy drive in December for the John Theissen Children's Foundation in Wantagh. Donations of new, unwrapped toys benefitted less fortunate kids on Long Island as well as those spending the holidays in the hospital.
Photo captions:
1: Seaford High School student council members, from left, Vice President Hailey Galison, co-adviser Shari Raduazzo, Secretary and toy drive coordinator Kate McClernon and President Katelyn Winter were very pleased with the amount of toys collected this year.
2: The Seaford Manor Elementary School student council held a toy drive for the John Theissen Children's Foundation.
Photos courtesy of the Seaford School District


If you are as business exporter in the U.S. the powerful dollar can affect your business. The dollar has appreciated over 18% in the last nine months versus other currencies. This means that a strong dollar causes for non U.S. importers to have a weaker purchasing power thereby causing U.S. exports to slow down. If the U.S. dollar continues to stay strong globally, this means less profit margins and less sales for U.S. exporters. If your sales are still strong, this is the time to obtain business financing rather than waiting for earnings to drop. If your earnings drop and you need to get some cash to change your sales strategy or wait for the dollar to become weaker you may not qualify for financing. It's better to come up with a game plan now and change your sales strategy. At the same time it's better to obtain financing now before you don't qualify.


18 Types of White Stones for Jewelry Do you like white stones in jewelry? White is an elegant color that matches any other, and white gems, whether as pendants or beads, give your overall look the desirable glints and highlights such as only the color white can give.
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Nutritional Bonus: A generous helping of bell peppers and tomatoes in this cacciatore means just one serving contains 74% of your daily vitamin C. The immune-boosting vitamin is a powerful antioxidant, and may help protect your body from the harmful toxins associated with the metabolism of fat.
Sprinkle salt and black pepper on all sides of chicken, dividing evenly. In a large nonstick skillet, heat 1 tsp oil on medium. Add one-third of chicken to skillet in a single layer and cook for 1 to 2 minutes per side, until lightly browned. Transfer to a 4- to 6-qt slow cooker. Working in batches, repeat with remaining 2 tsp oil and chicken.
To slow cooker, add onion, bell peppers, mushrooms, tomatoes, broth, tomato paste, vinegar, garlic, oregano and pepper flakes. Stir to combine and nestle rosemary on surface. Cover and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours.
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An opportunity for anyone to get in touch with others for buying and selling items related to canoe-sailing, cruising and camping.
Please be aware of scams where interest is shown in buying an item (without even seeing the merchandise), promises made that payment has been sent, including shipping costs - and that the over-payment should be returned, by instant money transfer such as by Western Union. These scams are common with internet trading and you should be very wary of any deal that sounds too good to be true, as it usually is!
I have reluctantly decided to sell my Snake River sailing canoe. She is not getting the use she deserves and is too good to lay idle. I bought the bare hull from Mel and Snake River and lovingly built her up 2 years ago. She has ash gunnels and seat, cherry deck plates and a paracord sliding seat. All other fittings are ash. All screws/bolts are stainless steel. I have fitted fore and aft buoyancy bags. I did not lace these in as I did not want to drill the hull. Link to build. Link to build. Link to video.
The sail was made by Freeman Sails of Padstow and is approximately 20 sqft and based on the scaled down dimensions of a Solway Dory bermudan sail. The mast is made from marine grade anodised aluminium tubing and splits into 2. The boom is from an Optimist dinghy. I custom fitted all of the rigging components based on a Solway Dory Avocet I used to own. A lot of thought has gone into making her fully functional. The sail reefs around the mast as per Solway Dory bermudan rigs. The leeboard and thwart and rudder are from Solway Dory. The mast thwart is drilled for a Solway Dory outrigger beam. She sails surprisingly well and I have had her out in some strong winds without capsizing, but even though she is only a small, narrow boat she could probably handle a bigger rig. I do have a 44 sqft Solway Dory bermudan rig I could also sell, if someone was interested.
I have made a ply, removable deck to make her more seaworthy. She can be easily carried and car loaded, which was my main reason behind building such a small canoe. I would prefer to sell her with the sailing rig, but will consider selling the hull on its own, if she does not sell as a whole. She has only had light use and is pretty much as new. She is fully sorted and ready for the water. I will include single and double bladed paddles and a trolley.
Turn your sailing canoe into a trimaran with these two outrigger floats and beams. Something to play about with this spring. Each float is 10 feet long and the beams are 8 feet. The beams are modelled on ones in Gary Dierking's book "Building Outrigger Sailing Canoes."
Picture of a completed boat - but this sale is for just a kit made by Jordan Boats for building a 14.1 foot boat.
Have realised that I am not going to be able to commit enough time to complete the build.
Price - £325 for all the above. Will need to be collected from near Basingstoke, Hampshire.
My Father-in-Law built this canoe about 8 years ago. Rig and sails bought from designer.
Has been sailed in the sheltered waters of the Firth of Forth and Linlithgow Loch, but not for a few years.
The second prototype "Avocet" built by Solway Dory to my requirements. Cedar strip with epoxy/glass cladding. I wanted a safe craft suitable to teach my grandchildren the joys of canoeing and sailing, and also a boat that I could sail single handed, primarily on inland waters. It has a Gaff Ketch Rig, which offers the choice of sail configurations and has a low tipping moment. There are watertight lockers/buoyancy tanks fore and aft with extra inflatable buoyancy bags attached within the hull. There are 3 seating positions, with custom made woven cane seats and standard-type tiller steering. The hull is approx. 16 ft. in length and approx. 40 inches wide. Excellent condition – always stored inside.
It is car toppable and I have the "Side Loader" to facilitate this, single handed. I also commissioned a launch/recovery trailer, again to facilitate single-handed use of the canoe. There are two paddles, and 3 "Life Jackets" 2 are adult size and one child size. There is also 44 ish. sq.ft. Gunter sail rig; home-made but works well. There is also a stainless steel portage trolley with pneumatic tyres, which breaks down to carry aboard.
The canoe is a Wenonah Adirondack 16ft Kevlar composite with wooden gunwales and seats.
The sailing rig is built from the Cheasapeake plans and adapted to fit the open canoe, (the plans show fitting to a sea kayak but allow for alternates). I built the sailing rig myself from marine ply, cypress, spruce and mahogany. The attached pictures tell the story. Both canoe and rig have hardly been used. I'd like to sell canoe and rig together but would consider splitting. Located near Wroxham, Norfolk. Asking price for both is £1800 but I'll listen to offers.
This foil has been specifically shaped for canoe sailing to give high lift at reduced speeds. Manufactured in GRP and then foam filled, it is approximately 8 inches wide and 48 inches long and very stiff. It weighs 1.15kg and due to the foam it floats!
Price in GRP construction £100 each. Other construction materials are available, to produce lighter and stiffer versions, but obviously at greater cost.
Built Oct 2015 and only used a few times. White hull and wooden decks. Complete with trolley and cover. 4 sqm sail.
Solway Dory balanced lugsail with anodized alloy mast.
The sail is 44sq foot with two reefing points and comes with a kicking strap. The sail is quick to raise and lower and is fairly easy to reef. With its lower centre of effort the boat will heel less. The sail is white and the mast is red. In good condition.
Pyranha Prospector 16 foot royalex canoe fitted out for sailing with the addition of Solway Dory gull-wing outriggers, leeboard, leeboard thwart and rudder with push-pull tiller, Solway Dory bermudan sail rig (44 sq foot), side buoyancy bags and original seats (not fitted).
The leeboard thwart clamps onto the canoe gunwhales with the leeboard clamped onto a threaded bolt on the leeboard thwart. The rudder attaches easily to two permanent unobtrusive mounts on the stern of the canoe and there is a long tiller pole that works on the push pull principle. The rudder blade is pulled up or down with lines from the helmsman's position. The outrigger beam mounts onto the gunwhales by two bolts and the fibreglass outriggers are easily attached to the beam. The bermudan mainsail is 44sq foot and is easily reefed by twisting the alloy mast. The boom is also alloy. The sailing rig also comes with kicking strap and mainsheet. All the components are easily attached and detached from the canoe to leave a fairly basic canoe to lift onto a vehicle's roof bars.
Canadian Canoe I made this rig from a bamboo pole and an old Fireball sail (well cut down) many years ago and now want to find a good home for it. The boat sails really well and with the leeboard hung out on the leeward side will go to windward efficiently, especially with a bit of weight in the bow. It has a push and pull rudder which flips up and a primitive seat. Its dimensions are 15 ft 10 by 2 ft 10. Not sure of the weight but it is easily car top-able and can be carried short distances by one person. The hull is well scratched with one small epoxy repair to the gel coat. It might be a good idea to give it a 2 part paint finish but the hull is sound and. has built in buoyancy bow and stern. The boat is very adaptable. I have been canoe camping with my son in it and have even mounted an outboard on it once or twice.
14'6" GRP Hull with ply deck. In good condition. But not being used much hence sale. Included in sale, Outriggers, 2 x paddles, trolley, breathable boat cover, ratchet block and cam cleat. All ropes have been replaced and a new boom has been fitted. Great condition throughout.
Dedicated sailing canoe with high aspect 44 sq ft sail and 1m sq jib. Rudder, leeboard, launch trolley etc included. Finished with ash gunnels and rosewood seat and hiking benches. Front,rear and side fitted airbags make this craft exceptionally seaworthy for an undecked canoe. A home built fully detachable marine ply bow deck is also included.
Large rig. With outriggers, SD paddle and SD split double paddle. SD trolley with foam filled wheels. Self bailer fitted.
Well-built clinker marine ply/epoxy construction. Hard wood gunwales and keel. Includes rudder, dagger board, rig as pictured + mast extender and old laser 4.7 sail, cover, outboard engine mount, Fyne boat kit outriggers with 2 pairs of crossbeams to allow use as a trimaran or proa. Also includes masts and spars to fit out as a lug sailed ketch.
Varnished ply decks and light blue fibreglass hull with her name "Slithy Tove" professionally sign-written. Hull and decks in good conditiona few light scratches to the bottom from beaching. She comes with a 4m2 rig with a mast bag, outriggers, launching/portage trolley and everything needed to get sailing. Easily car-toppable, she's stable and swift with one or two people aboard. Well suited for racing, camp cruising (vast easily accessible lockers fore and aft), or just messing about. Only selling due to lack of use and other projects on the go.
16 feet long version and has had the following fitted by Solway Dory: side buoyancy bags, ash lee board and thwart and a 35sq ft expedition bermudan sail. It also come with two rudder assemblies one from a dinghy and one a diy ali version. Its got all the rigging too so its ready to sail. I have some great days with the kids sailing this and of course its still a canoe at the end of the day for just simply paddling.
13 feet long by 28 inch beam. Built from Gaboon marine ply and epoxy giving a bare hull weight of just 45lbs. It is single chined with a V bottom. There are sealed chambers at either end with hatches. Also two different outrigger beams which give a choice of how high you want the outriggers out of the water. The rig is a 25 sq ft Solway Dory Expedition and there is a kick up dagger board. The boat is in very good condition.
The Osprey is a Cruising Beach Trimaran. Osprey is seaworthy, comfortable, and easy to sail. It can be assembled and disassembled in about 10 minutes without tools. With twin mainsails, it is self tacking and as each float give 250lbs of flotation, there is little chance of a capsize.Osprey is a comfortable expedition boat. . It has logged speeds of around 12 knots and can be paddled at 3 knots with a double paddle. Providing you have a helper it is very easy to carry over rough ground. With the portage trolley it can be moved and launched by one person.
Previously owned by Dave Poskitt, it is the red canoe that can be seen in pictures in blogs and articles published on the http://www.solwaydory.co.uk site. Owing to my location and circumstances since owning the boat it has had little use, all on fresh water. It is the standard decked Shearwater: LOA 16ft. With the 5sq m. Bermuda rig, complete with outriggers; two sliding seats; two paddles; all standard rigging and fittings, and a trolley (one of Solway's original design). There is a sleeve for the mast/sail and boom, but no boat cover. The boat is in very good overall condition.
44 square feet, fully battened sail, complete with alloy mast, boom, kicker, sheet and block.The sail was made professionally by Goacher Sails and the mast/boom fitted by Solway Dory: sail number OC 121. It has two sets of reefing points which enable the sail area to be reduced. The rig requires a mast thwart and mast foot to fit to a canoe.
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I have made several modifications and it comes with combination road trailer and launching trolley. The main modification is the addition of the optional flat sections either side of the hull. These give a far greater sense of security when sitting in the boat and are very useful for putting stuff on when at anchor (there is a 2.5kg danforth with warp and chain which is quite adequate) These side pieces are lightweight and not adequate to stand on.This is a fantastic sailing boat. One of the best aspects is that my wife really enjoyed it (she is generally not too keen on sailing) because she has nothing to do and does not feel she is going to be pitched into the water at any moment. With twin mainsails, it is self tacking and as each float give 250lbs of flotation, there is no chance of a capsize unless you happen to be in 6 foot breaking waves. Reefing is easy, the sails just roll round the mast to whatever size you want, they stow away like this too - left on the mast. The boat is light, even fully assembled two people can pick it up and carry it to the water if required. My wife and I can easily carry the main hull between us and put it over a wall or whatever to get on the water. Thefloats (outer hulls) can be picked up and put under your arm, the whole thing takes maybe 10 minutes to assemble, the masts are unstayed and simply drop into the hull. As the boat is so light it only draws 3 or 4 inches. Performance is very lively, I have had 12 knots and it will go really well in light airs. The rudder can be raised or lowered from the helm's seat and there is a daggerboard at the side of the hull. Under sail it goes about really easily. Running downwind is easy and feels secure. It doesn't make much leeway and I would say it points reasonably well but I couldn't tell you the angles.
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Q: Extract one GPS fix per day from data? I am in the fortunate position of having 2 years worth of animal movement data. With such a large amount of data I would like to extract only one fix per day to make it easier to work with.
Data = 14 hourly fixes per 24 hours. GPS fixes recorded on the hour between 0500 - 1900
Would like to take the midday fix (1200) from each 14 hour period. Currently, data and time are in the same column but i would need to use the date to extract the midday fix...for example:

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How do I go about this in QGIS? Is there a code that can search each date then take the 12:00 timestamp...is it a problem that the minutes change  ie 12:00 or 12:01? Would it be good to separate the date and time into different columns?

A: You should be able to do a simple 'select by expression' where

DATECOLUMN like "% 12%"

This is assuming your date is a string column.
Essentially; the query is using the 'pattern' that is formed, and saying "Find me every record where there's a space, followed by 12, follow by a colon. Since your data is in 24h format, the only records criteria that will fit this criteria are those that are somewhere between 1200 and 1259 hours, so you can ignore the minutes entirely.  Note that this doesn't work if you ever have the record captured at 11:59, and the next one at 13:01--in this case you may miss a day. From your sample data, this does not appear to happen.

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Analysis and news about of political negotiation of the armed conflict in Colombia, and peace proposals
Renegotiating the Accord: The silence of the Left.
Colombia Peace / 19 November, 2016
By Gearóid Ó Loingsigh
Photo by Manu Txakon Encuentro Nacional de Comunidades Campesinas, Afrodecendientes e Indigenas por la tierra y la Paz de Colombia
Renegotiating is in fashion. The President-Elect of the USA, Donald Trump, threatens to renegotiate everything, o just simply burn all the agreements signed by the country. But the Colombian Right beat him to it. After their victory in the plebiscite, Uribe and the evangelical pastors, amongst others, did not waste any time in demanding to renegotiate what had been agreed upon. The salient themes were the rights of the LGBT community, impunity for Uribe and his lackeys and of course, as part of that, the land question. The Left, however, remained silent on the content of the agreements and raised its voice to defend them in their entirety.
Almost all of the Left came out to ask the population to mobilise in defence of the Final Peace Accord, including those who had rejected or disagreed with various parts of the text i.e. those who campaigned asking the people to vote, Yes, but..
Not that the accord has been renegotiated, they could have taken advantage of the moment to do the same as the Right; demand changes to the text. But no, they didn't ask for anything. Is there nothing they would like to change? What was that But? It is worth looking at where in the text they could have asked or proposed changes. There are many very reformist changes that could have been made, but the Left did not even propose them. They opted for defending an agreement, which in many cases they had criticised severely. Here we aim to take at the Agreement in terms of the agrarian proposals.
When the Accord was signed it was supposedly a final agreement i.e. unchangeable and the FARC stated at their X Conference that:
The agreed upon Agenda reflects the minimum conditions under which we are prepared to put an end to our armed uprising against the state and the existing capitalist social order without renouncing our strategic aims for the structural transformations that Colombian society requires in order to overcome the imposed domination of the most wealthy classes, the absences of real true democracy, the misery and exploitation that flow from the economic model and the dependency on imperialism and trans-nationals and their varied forms of intervention in national life.[1]
But is plain to see, now that important points of the Accord have been renegotiated that this did not reflect the minimum conditions for giving up their arms. Minimum does not exist, not even after the deaths in combat of two members of the FARC in the midst of a supposed bilateral ceasefire. It resembles Ireland in that regard, where the IRA and Sinn Féin announced time and again red lines, till such time as they ran out of red ink and the definitely shut up, without any major attempt on their part to continue to deceive their social base. Nothing in the accords in Ireland was definitive and they were renegotiated over and again. Nothing in the Colombian process is definitive either, despite both of the accords being titled Final Accord. In Ireland, at least they had the decency to give the agreements different names. Here in Colombia, it looks like a cowboy and western film and we are only missing Humberto de la Calle announcing the Final Accord Rides Again, and then later presenting the Son of the Final Accord. Everything was up for negotiation and only the Right decided to take advantage of that.
First, we should be clear that the Accord does not promise or propose at any stage un real Agrarian Reform. The FARC in the X Conference acknowledged this in their internal document.
What has been agreed in relation to a Comprehensive Agrarian Reform is essentially designed to improve the living and working conditions of the peasantry in general and particularly the poor peasantry and disposed, as well as the peasant communities and addressing the needs of the indigenous peoples and afro descendant communities; without having achieved the aims of a revolutionary comprehensive agrarian reform, which overcomes the scandalous concentration of land and the current model of large-scale agribusiness…[2] (emphasis not in the original).
So, we will leave that particular criticism aside, for the moment. We will look at some other points first, where even the most reformist, the NGO, and the corrupt politician could be in agreement, although they don't say so.
When one looks at the text, one sees a long list of initiatives where the State commits itself to setting up commissions, committees and spaces etc., to strengthen, promote, diagnose and monitor. If they come through with even half of what they say, they will have to set up an unparalleled bureaucracy for peace. Of course, the NGOs are drooling. Broad swathes of the Polo the lived off of and robbed (just like the Right) the public purse in Bogotá are also drooling, thinking of the posts they could get in these new bodies given that they already lost the gravy train of the Bogotá's Mayor's Office. But there are many examples of where the Left could have made concrete proposals, including with the desired lucrative commission. But they didn't dare.
Healthcare for the Peasantry
Point 1.3.2.1 of the Accord deals with the problem of healthcare for the peasantry. The government and the FARC propose:
To strengthen the infrastructure and the quality of the public network in rural areas and improve the availability and relevance of the service supply a National Plan for Rural Healthcare will be set up and implemented. In order to develop the Plan the following criteria will be taken into account.
Amongst the criteria mentioned are the construction and improvement of the infrastructure, a differential and gender based focus and a "special model of public healthcare for low density rural areas, with an emphasis on prevention". So far, there is nothing objectionable, they are points that should be included in the programme of any government. But we are not talking about a programme or technical proposal on healthcare. We are talking about an Accord that boasts about bringing to an end the causes of the conflict and they don't mention any of the causes of the problems in the countryside regarding healthcare. The peasantry, like the rest of the population are victims of the legislation in force on the topic i.e. Law 100. But it is not mentioned at any point. They didn't even propose a revision of that law, not even one of the lucrative commissions that they like so much in order to analyse the situation.
Something similar happens with education. There are laws, decrees etc. that affect not only the peasantry but all of the poor, both urban and rural. But FARC remained silent. The Left, which has convened many marches and protests against public policy on healthcare and education, and which will surely do so again, said absolutely nothing and when the new Final Accord came out, they praised it with even having read it, just like they did with the first agreement.
If we take the issue of native seeds, an issue which directly affects the peasantry, we find something which could be clarified, modified, specified. In point 1.3.3.2 the Accord states:
The promotion and protection of native seeds and seed banks so as the communities – men and women – may have access to the best material for sowing and in a participatory manner, contribute to its improvement, by incorporating their own knowledge. In addition, the strict socio-environmental control and regulation of genetically modified organisms, favouring the common good.
It is somewhat ambiguous when it talks of promoting and protecting native seeds. There is legislation in place that obliges the peasantry to use the so-called certified seeds or improved seeds. Could they not mention the laws that have to be changed? At least give us an idea of what it is about, of what they are thinking. But no. However, it does include one general, though positive thing on genetically modified organisms and the common good. So it remained for the Left, something imprecise which left many doubts. The Colombian ultra Right, did not stand idly by and obtained a more precise and reactionary transformation. On this point the new Final Accord reads as follows:
The promotion and protection of native seeds and seed banks, without restricting or imposing other seeds such as the improved, seeds, hybrids or others so as the communities – men and women – may have access to the best material for sowing and in a participatory manner, contribute to its improvement, by incorporating their own knowledge. In addition, the strict socio-environmental control and regulation of genetically modified organisms, favouring the common good (emphasis not in original).
So, they will promote native seeds but without restricting or imposing other types of seeds. At the stroke of a pen, the native seeds are placed in competition with the improved ones, without any possibility of real incentives for these seeds. Of course, some will say that are no restrictions like the ones that exist at the moment, but the legal restrictions are no the only ones that count. The can restrict native seeds, limiting not the seed but the loans available for such seeds or removing subsidies etc. It maintains the regulation of GMOs. However, even where they are allowed in the world, they are regulated, it is like saying the strict regulation of pharmaceuticals, something which is obvious but has no impact on their widespread use in relation to treatments other than the pharmaceuticals. After many years of persecution, native seeds compete once more, but with the damage already done and no measures to remedy the situation. They couldn't even ban GMOs, they just regulated them.
If the Left had nothing to say regarding relatively simple issues, such as seeds, they could say nothing, or didn't want to say anything regarding the agricultural model. The Peasant Reserves are to be limited to currently existing ones, the concept of "good faith" is introduced for the criminals who bought the displaced people's land. In less than three months a group of experts will recommend changes to the legislation that "when possible: will regulate the property rights of owners, occupiers and holders acting in good faith, as long as there has been no theft or bad faith" (emphasis not in original).
This last point is important, as in many areas the businesspeople did not act directly, but rather sent the paramilitaries into action and bought the land later having passed through the hands of peasants before reposing in the dirty but distant hands of the landlords. It is difficult to prove bad faith in such circumstances. The agrarian counter-reform of the paramilitaries is to be legalised. There are no exact figures on the amount of land taken from peasants, but rather calculations that are more or less accurate, but it is beyond doubt that the figure is far in excess of the three million hectares that will form part of the Land Fund mentioned in the Accord, i.e. the thugs who bought in "good faith" have in their hands more land than the Accord will share out and they can hang on to it.
Furthermore, according to the recent publication by the National Centre for Historic Memory, Tierras y Conflictos Rurales (Land and Rural Conflicts), between 1995 and 2012, 253,262 hectares were awarded to 85 people in plots exceeding 2,500 hectares. In the same time period 109,435 hectares were given to 13 people in plots exceeding 5,000 hectares.[3] State lands are supposed to be only given to peasants and furthermore, plots that large are no permitted. Could these people claim "good faith" in the acquisition of state lands? Of course they could. What's more, the Accord does not contemplate recovering those lands and preventing the hand over of such large plots to people who are not from the countryside. In fact, current state policy goes in quite the opposite direction. It is no secret that Santos wants to hand over large tracts of land to multinationals such as Cargill and the sugar barons. The Accord is just one more example of these policies, this time with the support of the FARC and the silence of a Left undeserving of the name.
The agro-exporting model remains in place. Into the principles of the Accord they inserted (page 12) the following gem.
Comprehensive Development of the Countryside: the comprehensive development of the countryside requires an appropriate balance between the different forms of production in existence – family based agriculture, agribusiness, tourism, large scale commercial agriculture-; competiveness and the need to promote and encourage investments in the countryside with an entrepreneurial vision and productive purposes as a condition for development; and the promotion and encouraging in fair conditions of linkages between small scale rural production with other models of production, that may be vertical or horizontal and on a different scale. In any event, the peasant based, family and community-orientated economy will be supported and protected and its development and strengthening achieved.
It is clear that the new Accord clarifies that Peace goes hand in hand with the current policies of the Santos government and there is no contradiction between it and the ZIDRES [4] law, nor any other initiative of the state. To finish off, it is clarified to the businesspeople and paramilitaries that "Nothing set out in the Accord should affect the constitutional right to private property".
The new Accord not only reasserts the current situation of land ownership and use but also the production model in rural areas. In various parts it talks about associate work, i.e. where the rural work sets up an association that tenders for work, no longer as an employee, but as a "small businessperson". It is worth pointing out that all of the lefities, including those that earn their salaries keeping seats warm in Congress have denounced this form of employment time and again. The sugar cane cutters strike laid bare the nature of this piecework. Yet here it forms part of the peace agreement and the uribistas managed to add a very important paragraph on associativity and the peasants in point 1.3.3.6
Associativity: the government will encourage and promote associativity, linkages and productive alliances between small, medium and large scaled producers as well as processors, traders and exporters with the guaranteeing competitive scale of production inserted into value added producing chains that contribute to improving the living conditions of the inhabitants of the countryside in general and particularly small scale producers. To this end, it will afford technical, legal and economic help (loans or financing) to the small-scale producers in order to guarantee balanced sustainable family based associative projects.
This production model where the peasant carries all the costs of sowing and ties their future to an agro-exportable product in "association" with the large companies is the old dream of the Colombian oligarchy and is the model applied in many countries. In the 1990s, it experienced its greatest impetus in Colombia through an alliance between the Jesuit priest Francisco de Roux, the Programme for Development and Peace in Magdalena Medio, the European Union and the so-called social component of Plan Colombia (lets not forget this last element). Nowadays it is the official policy of the state and the World Bank, the IMF and the business associations, such as Fedepalma, amongst others. Hundreds of peasant leaders lost their lives fighting against that model at the end of the 1990s and beginning of this century., one of the most notable cases being the 500 leaders murdered in Southern Bolivar after the Peasant Exodus in 1998. They may have died for nothing now that the Left and the human rights defenders praise an agreement that implements the model they fought against. Such ignominy! Time will tell what the peasant organisations that carried out these struggles do in relation to the Accord and a cosy Left that wants to betray them.
As a palliative they announced at the end of the Accord:
In addition, the provision of conditions and incentives for produce and its commercialisation, including when necessary, direct support to the strengthening of production, with the aim of avoiding or minimizing the negative impacts that arise from the internationalisation of the economy and the liberalisation of trade on peasant, family and community based economies (emphasis no in the original)
That is to say, they will try to avoid the impacts of the model they want to implement. It is great that they have thought about the negative impacts at the end, but it is unlikely that they will implement this part as it is improbable that the direct subsidies to production will comply with WTO rules. Later on the government will say that its hands are tied and I don't even want to think about what they FARC and the unarmed Left will say.
With this agreement, the FARC and the unarmed Left give their support to all that they criticised for years. Their comrades struggled and were murdered by the paramilitaries in order to impose this model and now it is the model for peace. But the Final Accord, does not have the last word. Further on, there will be more and worse changes. The Accord no longer forms part of the Constitutional Corpus, so a simple legislative act can change any part of it. We will have the Final Accord Rides Again Over the Peasantry, but unlike those cheap films from the 1960s and 70s there will be no hero arriving at the last minute to save the small town, or at least such people will no arise from the silenced Left. The peasants and workers will have to reorganise, many of their organisations are no longer of use and almost no human rights organisation is of any use; they handed over the communities, their dead and the political demands in exchange for nothing and in various cases they managed to convince the communities that it was the correct path.
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CNMH (2016) Tierras y Conflictos Rurales: Historia, Políticas Agrarias y Protagonistas, Bogotá, CNMH. Page 222.
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Maharishi Institute is pleased to have signed agreements to facilitate access to two highly respected South African educational institutions. Both these South African institutions are accredited in South Africa to offer specific higher education qualifications and are registered private higher education institutions.
Regenesys Management (Pty) Ltd. is registered as a private higher education institution by the Department of Education of the Republic of South Africa in terms of section 54(1)( c) of the Higher Education Act, 1997 (Act no. 101 of 1997), and Regulation 16(4)(a) of the Regulations for the Registration of Private Higher Education Institutions, 2002.
The Da Vinci Institute is registered with the Department of Higher Education (registration certificate no 2004/HE07/003) and will offer their own Certificate, Diploma, Masters and PhD programmes in the Management of Technology and Innovation accredited by The Council on Higher Education.
Regenesys is registered with the Department of Education as a private higher education institution, and offers the higher education programmes that appear on their certificates of registration.


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Proposition 22 Challenged in Oakland State Court Today
Topics: Wage & Hour Issues
By: Mark S. Spring
Last November, California voters convincingly (almost 60% supporting) enacted Proposition 22. This Proposition was a well-funded effort that allows gig drivers working for companies like Uber, Lyft and Doordash to avoid the statutory requirements of AB5 and allows them to continue to have legitimate arguments that they are working as independent contractors.
In mid-January, the SEIU petitioned the California Supreme Court to rule that Proposition 22 is unenforceable on the grounds that it violates section XIV of the California Constitution because it removes drivers from the workers' compensation system. The SEIU also made other ancillary arguments in opposition to the constitutionality and enforceability of Proposition 22. On February 3, the California Supreme Court declined to take up the petition, without explanation. This denial of the petition was mostly a jurisdictional one and was done without prejudice. This means that the SEIU, or any other plaintiff with standing, can bring the same challenge at the trial court level.
Earlier today, that is exactly what happened. The SEIU and three rideshare drivers filed a complaint in the Alameda County Superior Court challenging the constitutionality and the enforceability of Proposition 22, arguing that rideshare drivers should be subjected to the ABC test and therefore should be properly classified as employees, notwithstanding the enactment of Proposition 22. We expect that the plaintiffs will move quickly to seek a statewide injunction from the Alameda County Superior Court that Proposition 22 is unconstitutional and unenforceable.
We will continue to keep you updated on developments on the lawsuit and overall battle between the unions (who want drivers to be employees so they can have more rights and be subject to union organizing) and the rideshare companies (who desire to continue to employ their drivers as independent contractors) on this hotly contested issue.
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Forget about your traditional wedding fair. Not Just A Wedding Fair breaks the mould by bringing you an eclectic mix of UK wedding specialists, with products and services, that have been inspired by the world. We really want to celebrate and embrace various cultures. Not Just A wedding Fair therefore encourages you to think outside of the box when designing your perfect wedding.
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Grab a modern looking Carnelian crystal gem tree to add to your collection. The best way to own crystal gem trees is to have a whole forest. Collect all the different coloured crystal gem trees.
The crystal gem tree stands up perfectly on the amethyst base and is ideal for zen gardens or sitting on its own. You decide how you want to bring a smile to your face with this little beauty. The leaves are made from polished carnelian pieces.
Carnelian is a stone of action, that can help give you the courage and confidence to move forward on a new path in life. Carnelian is also an energy booster. It helps the insecure person to find strength within them so they can come into their own.


Sydney is located on the south east coast of Australia, on the Tasman Sea. Sydney was the site where the British set up their first colony in the country.
Tourism is one of the most important aspects of the economy in the city. Some of the better-known attractions in the city include the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House. Furthermore, you will find other features like the Luna Park, the Royal Botanical Gardens, the Sydney Tower, and obviously, the most fabulous beaches in the world.
When visiting Sydney, the Sydney Harbour Bridge offers you the opportunity to climb it. This is a unique experience that every visitor to Sydney should think about taking part in. Climbers are secured to the bridge with a lifeline wire. Climbs take place all day and are only cancelled during lightning storms. There are night climbs available as well. The bridge climb takes three and a half hours to complete.
The city of Sydney has much to offer all those who visit. The area known as The Rocks has a historic area and a tourist precinct. The area is located on the southern shore of the Sydney Harbour and is next to the city centre. There are many craft and souvenir shops and several historical pubs. Each weekend the Rocks Market is opened with approximately 100 stalls. Additionally, there are plenty of walks in the area that visit some of the historic buildings in the city such as Sydney Observatory, Cadman's Cottage, and Dawes Point Battery.
The beaches in Sydney offer a great way to spend a relaxing day. Bondi Beach is one of the most famous beaches in the area. The beach offers restaurants, hotels, popular cafes as well as some of the finest views of the surrounding headlands.
The city offers public transportation, but there are also plenty of tours from which to choose that will give you the option of visiting some of the greatest attractions that the city has to offer. Car hire in Sydney Airport is a rather popular way to get around as the roads are often quiet.


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I've been involved in a large scale community production by York Theatre Royal and Pilot Theatre, based at the National Railway Museum in York. It tells the rise and dramatic fall of George Hudson, 'The Railway King' (George Costigan) who built the East Coast main line. It's been a terrific project starting with the auditions back in January at the NRM, through to rehearsals at various sites in York, costume making, choir rehearsals, cast portraits and finally the Dress & Tec
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Jim Stanley here presents some information on the difference between the scriptural calendar and the gregorian calendar. Jim does not yet see the Sabbath day as a part of the scriptural calendar, but does see the other Moedim.


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The Last of Us Part II would be shown again at E3 2017 on June 13th?
By Faheem Haydar	 On Dec 4, 2016
Yesterday, on December 3, during the PlayStation Experience 2016 event the highly anticipated sequel to one of the most important games of the last generation, The Last of Us, was finally presented. After letting us know that there will be improvements to the technique and that we will play in the role of Ellie, the creative director has also reported that Sony had planned to wait until next E3 2017 for the further announcement of the game.
In the last clip of the trailer, just when Joel enters the room where Ellie is playing guitar, you can see that on the wall there is a series of posters. Recall that in this type of trailer the developers care to show the very last details, reviewing each of the frames to make sure everything is correct before leaving to see the highlight. This is where it is surprising to find a writing in one of these posters dated to June 13, especially if we consider that probably far from being a fluke, the fair of the E3 2017 could take place between 13 and 15 of that same month.
Does this mean we will know more about The Last of Us Part II on that day? For now we can only speculate and wait, time will tell. Although, again, it would be strange if it was just a random date. What do you think about this news? Tell us your opinion in the comment section below.
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Critics Of Big Sis/Wal-Mart Spy Campaign Branded Insane
Category: War on Dissent
According to the driving force behind Big Sis' creepy Wal-Mart spy campaign, if the state encouraging Americans to report each other to the authorities causes you unease, you're insane, similar to how critics of informant programs were also branded mentally ill and persecuted in the former Soviet Union.
In what has been dubbed "the battle of Wal-Mart" by The New York Observer, the controversy over Big Sis Janet Napolitano's announcement that Homeland Security messages encouraging shoppers to "report suspicious activity," without telling them what constitutes suspicious activity, will play at Wal-Mart checkouts, has "set off a rebellion among the conspiracy-theory crowd, a number of whom are among the store's core customers," writes Aaron Gell.
But the man behind the creepy slogan, "If you see something, say something," claims that the likes of Matt Drudge and Alex Jones' opposition to the campaign is "ridiculous".
"That's absurd. The whole reason for doing it was to save lives, and I think the sane people of the world see it as a positive slogan," said Allen Kay, of Korey Kay & Partners, implying that anyone who perceives the state encouraging citizens to report on each other as a negative move towards an authoritarian society is insane.
Kay's glib justification that the campaign is about saving lives can be demolished from two angles.
Firstly, even if you believe that Muslim terrorists are creeping around every street corner with bombs in their underpants, and it's a legitimate concern given the fact that the FBI is so keen on providing such dimwits with all the explosives they need, then why has the federal government and Homeland Security instead labeled politically aware, patriotic Americans to be the number one domestic terror threat?
As we have seen from the MIAC report, DHS spying on tea Party and second amendment activists in Pennsylvania and a host of other examples in recent years, the federal government has little interest in Muslim extremists and has instead targeted Americans knowledgeable of their rights and critical of big government as the primary domestic terror threat. The feds have defined "terrorist propaganda" as any material critical of the state. The Department of Defense characterizes peaceful protest as "low level terrorism" in its own report.
Given the fact that rhetoric identifying conservative and libertarian Americans as domestic extremists has saturated the news media, don't be surprised when ignorant Wal-Mart shoppers begin to report people who wear t-shirts with political slogans or ones that carry an image of the upside-down American flag, or merely individuals who talk about the Constitution, since federal authorities have identified all these as examples of terrorism in numerous cases over the last several years.
Secondly, no matter where you look, from East Germany, to Communist Russia, to Nazi Germany, historically governments who encourage their own citizens to report on each other do so not for any genuine safety concerns or presumed benefits to security, but in order to create an authoritarian police state that coerces the people into policing each other's behavior and thoughts.
As Robert Gellately of Florida State University has highlighted, Germans under Hitler denounced their neighbors and friends not because they genuinely believed them to be a security threat, but because they expected to selfishly benefit from doing so, both financially, socially and psychologically via a pavlovian need to be rewarded by their masters for their obedience.
At the height of its influence around one in seven of the East German population was an informant for the Stasi. As in Nazi Germany, the creation of an informant system was wholly centered around identifying political dissidents and those with grievances against the state, and had little or nothing to do with genuine security concerns.
Even if you subscribe to the notion that Americans should be spied on, which is completely unconstitutional in and of itself, should that role be entrusted to untrained Wal-Mart shoppers?
If Americans are going to be policed by a 21st century KGB, can the watchers at least be professionally recruited and trained? No, because having fat slobs report on "suspicious activity" that is defined by what they were told on ABC News last night or what they saw in a plot of 24 or CSI Miami makes it a lot easier for Big Sis to chill free speech and frighten Americans away from exercising their rights.
Every example in recent history of a government enlisting its population as a swarming army of spies leads to, at the bare minimum, the evisceration of freedom and the creation of an autocratic dictatorship, and in the worst case, mass political oppression, assassination of political dissidents or outright genocide.
And Allen Kay has the temerity to imply that anyone expressing concern about a similar program arriving in America is insane and that their worries are "ridiculous," ironically echoing how critics of the state were also branded mentally ill and sent to psikhushkas – mental hospitals – in the former Soviet Union.
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Judging by Wal-Mart's response in refusing to acknowledge the scale of the backlash they have received in reaction to the announcement on Monday, and their slavish repetition of the glib Orwellian rhetoric that the spy campaign is about safety and security, Americans are outraged, and until Wal-Mart kills this un-American insult to everything that the country stands for, their Christmas is going to be a lot less profitable than expected, with numerous boycotts already on the horizon.
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Q: Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Shared.AnalyzerBase+CollectAction failed I'm not able to install Microsoft Dynamics CRM EMail Router 2015 on my machine. I had an earlier version but however needed to re-install this.
I get an error as: "Action Microsoft.Crm.Setup.Shared.AnalyzerBase+CollectAction failed"
How can I resolve this? Please help. Thanks.

A: I would ensure you are following the steps in the Upgrade CRM 2013 Email Router to CRM 2015 Email Router documentation.

If you plan to upgrade both the Email Router and Microsoft Dynamics CRM, perform the upgrade tasks in the following order:
  1.  Stop the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Email Router service. To do this, on the Start menu, type services.msc, and then press ENTER; or click Run, type services.msc, and then press ENTER. Right-click the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Email Router service, and then click Stop.
  2.  Upgrade Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server 2013 to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server 2015.
  3.  Install the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Email Router:
  If you already have the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 Email Router installed, upgrade to the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Email Router, as described below.
  If you don't have the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013 Email Router installed, install the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Email Router, as described in Install Email Router and Rule Deployment Wizard.
  4. You might need to restart the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Email Router service after the upgrade to the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Email Router finishes. To do this, in the services list, right-click Microsoft Dynamics CRM Email Router, and then click Start.

The other thing I'd review if you haven't already is that you are meeting the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Email Router software requirements
If you have done those steps already, I'd probably reboot the workstation/server and restart the install to ensure that there is not anything left in the temp files that could be conflicting with it (making sure to stop the CRM Email Router Service first if you are upgrading).  I would also review the Windows Application event logs for any errors related to the CRM Email Router Service and/or installation for additional details, although typically the installer is pretty good about being clear with regards to what is not working or is not expected.
One other item I'll call out is that you need to be running as a Domain user with local administrator privileges in order to install or to upgrade the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Email Router.


Despite last month's major victory in the prosecution of trading abuses at the New York Stock Exchange, the U.S. Justice Department continues to beat a retreat.
On Tuesday, the U.S. attorney for Manhattan dropped charges against five specialists, two from Bank of America (formerly Fleet) and one each from Bear Wagner, Van der Moolen and Goldman Sachs' Spear Leeds & Kellogg.
The U.S. attorney, Michael Garcia, said in a statement that after looking at the evidence, "continued prosecutions in these cases are not in the interests of justice."
Last year, 15 specialists were charged with fraud for trading ahead of customers and positioning trades for their companies between open investor orders. Last month, David Finnerty, the specialist for Fleet who handled trading in shares of General Electric , was found guilty of three counts of securities fraud. The government has also gotten two other guilty verdicts and two guilty pleas.
But the government has been less than successful in other cases. Two have been dismissed in addition to Tuesday's dismissals. Another two cases have ended in acquittal.
Civil charges by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are still pending, but news that the government has dropped the felony charges was welcomed. "We're overjoyed today," said Walter Mack, the attorney for Robert Johnson, who traded Verizon Communications and Bell Atlantic shares for Spear Leeds.
Attorneys for Thomas Murphy and Scott Hunt from Fleet, and Frank Delaney from Bear Wagner, said they were pleased also. An attorney for Gerard Hayes from Van der Moolen could not immediately be reached.
The specialists system on the Big Board's floor has been under attack in recent years as antiquated and fraught with the potential for abuse. Under the floor's auction trading system, specialists play a role in orderly trading by filling buy and sell orders for their assigned stocks.
On days when there are many sell orders, the specialist can step in and keep things moving by buying the shares with his company's capital. Likewise, he can sell shares from his company's inventory to accommodate heavy buying.
But the world has increasingly moved to electronic trading, and so has the New York Stock Exchange. Last year, NYSE Group bought Archipelago Holdings, an all-electronic exchange, and earlier this year it floated shares to the public for the first time. NYSE is pushing more trading to the electronic system, particularly the large, liquid stocks that trade without much of a hitch each day. And it is close to completing its purchase of all-electronic Euronext.
Electronic trading is increasingly popular with hedge funds and other large institutional clients that want to get transactions done swiftly at a lower cost. New SEC regulations will force trades to be executed at the best price across the national exchanges, meaning NYSE could lose orders to rivals like Nasdaq if it doesn't get its electronic systems up and humming before then.
Front-running under the new regulations will be harder because electronic systems capture more data about trading and make it easier to spot problems.
Auction trading using specialists will continue but at a much reduced level, and many firms have been moving floor workers off the exchange. NYSE is even in the process of closing the trading room where its own shares are traded at the Bear Wagner post, and laying off 500 workers.
The specialists trading scandal has not done much to bolster the profession's image. But regulators and prosecutors have been raising scrutiny of the middlemen in other areas of the markets.
Unrelated investigations into so-called stock loan "finders" continue, for example. A finder literally helps companies find stock to borrow or loan out to short-sellers. NYSE's regulatory arm has brought disciplinary actions and fines against the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce , Van der Moolen and other companies in recent months, allegedly for using finders who added no benefit to the transactions but instead merely existed to skim fees off borrowers.
Earlier this month, a former broker for Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein was disciplined for failure to supervise the firm's stock loan activities.
In the specialist cases, prosecutors accused the brokers of trading ahead of pending orders. Specialists are prohibited from buying or selling stock for their proprietary accounts at prices that are more advantageous than the prices they would then give to existing public orders.
The U.S. attorney said in March 2005, when the charges were announced, that illegal trading profits ranged from $150,000 to $4.4 million, and customer harm ranged from $400,000 to $5 million.