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Well, well, well. The world is being bestowed, most gratefully, with a new big screen lesbian love story. Tell it to the Bees, starring Anna Paquin, is now shooting on location in Scotland. Here's what we know about it so far.
Paquin plays the role of a doctor, and her love interest is a single mother whose marriage (to a man, for obvious reasons) has fallen apart, played by Holliday Grainger.
The Director is Annabel Jankel, so it looks like we've got a strong female-dominated cast and crew coming our way!
Tell it to the Bees is s period film, set in a small 1950's British town, and is being backed by the British Film Institute. It is based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Fiona Shaw.
As always, AfterEllen will update you when we find out more, and obviously, we will share any sneak peaks. This looks very, very promising.


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By Andy Burns Posted on December 31, 2020 December 31, 2020
Andy Burns Bids A Final So Long To 2020 With A Brilliant Film Moment
And now, the end of 2020 is near. It's been a hell of a year for all of us, and we've all dealt with it in our own ways. For me, it was making sure that I wore a mask everywhere, and keeping a tight bubble. It certainly was an unusual Christmas, not the one we're used to, but if people would just respect others and the reasonable guidelines, we'd be closer to being out of this mess. But some people just don't seem to care. And so we press on.
For Biff Bam Pop!, we wound up having a fantastic year of content, thanks to the hardworking crew we have and the influx of new and in some cases returning faces. Thanks to all of them for continuing to make BBP! a destination point for so many readers. Here's hoping that 2021 will be a good year.
As for pop culture, I think I only saw three movies in the theatre this year. One of them was The Invisible Man, which I didn't enjoy on first viewing because I wanted something more horror-based. Our Sachin Hingoo felt differently, though. However, on a second viewing on Blu-ray with the expectations tempered, I really found myself appreciating the film as the thriller it is.
The only other film I remember venturing out to was The New Mutants which, like so many others, I'd been waiting to see for years. It's multiple delays because of studio issues never swayed my excitement, and not even Covid-19 was going to stop me from seeing it on a screen. Well, ok, that's not true. If Cineplex hadn't done such a strong job making customers feel safe and secure, I wouldn't have gone, but I did, and I thoroughly enjoyed the movie.
However, my favourite scene from any film I watched this year comes from Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking About Ending Things, based on the novel by Iain Reid. The film stars Jessie Buckley as Lucy and Jesse Plemons as Jake. Jake is taking Lucy to meet his parents for the first time. That's all I'm going to tell you; this is a surreal film that is worth going in blind on. But, I am going to share with you this brilliant moment featuring the poem Bonedog, written by Toronto poet Eva H.D. I've watched this scene multiple times over the last few months, and it moves me every time.
On that note, before you push play, I wish you all the best for 2021. Stay safe, wear a mask, and let's hope for a better year.
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Lakemba () is a suburb south west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Lakemba is located 12 kilometres south west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Canterbury-Bankstown.

Geography
Lakemba is in the Cooks River watershed. This river is tidal up to the edge of Lakemba. A bike and walking trail takes walkers and cyclists all the way from nearby Belfield to the east along the Cooks River, to where it flows into Botany Bay. In the opposite direction the bike and walking trail goes north to Olympic Park and Homebush Bay on the Parramatta River.

Canterbury Road winds its way high along the ridge, which is the boundary of the watersheds of Cooks River and Wolli Creek to the south. The Lakemba railway station is on the Bankstown Line of the Sydney Trains network. It is near the shopping centre on Haldon Street.

History
The area was at an early time in its colonial history originally known as Potato Hill because potatoes were cropped there. Land grants by the new colonial government began in Lakemba about 1810. Samuel Hockley was granted , which he called Essex Hill Farm, after his home county in England. The suburb was known as Belmore South until 1910.

Benjamin Taylor had a 22 hectare property in the 1880s. He named his property "Lakeba" (pronounced Lakemba) after the Lakeba island in the Lau Islands group of Fiji, where his second wife's grandparents, Rev and Mrs Cross, were missionaries from 1835. One of the original streets is Oneata Street, named after another small Fijian Island, close to Lakeba. Benjamin Taylor was variously an entomologist, town clerk, Alderman and Mayor of Canterbury Council. The railway line was built to the neighbouring suburb of Belmore in 1895 and extended to Lakemba and beyond, in 1909. The station was built on Benjamin Taylor's property and was named after his 'Lakemba Cottage'.

The first school opened here as Belmore School in April 1869 and became known as Belmore South in September 1907 until it was changed to Lakemba Public School in July 1969. The post office opened on 1 July 1920
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Population

In the 2016 Census, there were 17,023 people in Lakemba.

Lakemba has had a diverse demographic history. Like most of the rest of Australia, its first non-Aboriginal inhabitants in the nineteenth century were British and Irish settlers. By the mid-twentieth century, the suburb had absorbed large numbers of Greek and Italian arrivals. Local businesses and clubs reflected this in Mediterranean delicatessens, take-away shops and the Greek Orthodox Club.

From the mid-1970s, Lakemba became very popular with migrants from Lebanon and by the mid-1990s the area was considered a centre of Lebanese Australian life. The founding of the Lakemba Mosque and the establishment of specialised restaurants, take-away shops, grocery shops, clothing and book sellers has encouraged a general perception of Lakemba as a predominantly Arab and Muslim suburb, particularly in the media. In recent times Lakemba has seen a large increase of people with Bangladeshi ancestry.

In 2016 31.5% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were Bangladesh 15.4%, Pakistan 6.6%, India 5.0%, Myanmar 4.7% and Lebanon 4.0%.

In terms of ancestry, the largest group in 2016 were those claiming Bangladeshi ancestry with 12.9%, followed by Lebanese 7.7%, Australian 6.7%, Indian 6.6% and Pakistani 6.0%.

14.7% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Bengali 18.7%, Arabic 13.7%, Urdu 10.3%, Vietnamese 4.0% and Rohingya 3.9%.

In the 2011 census, the most common responses for religion were Islam 51.8% (8031), Catholic 13.4% (2072), Eastern Orthodox 6.2% (959), No Religion 5.3% (828) and Buddhism 4.3% (666). In 2016, the most common responses in Lakemba were Islam 59.2%, Catholic 10.3%, Not stated 8.5%, No Religion 6.5% and Eastern Orthodox 5.1%.

Transport

Lakemba railway station is located on the Bankstown Line of the Sydney Trains network. The line was opened in 1895 and electrified in 1926.

Construction of the new South West Metro rail link is to be completed by 2023 creating a train service every 4 minutes during peak hour with travel times between Lakemba and Central decreased from 28 minutes to 22

For details of bus services see Lakemba station.

Residential area
Lakemba is mentioned heavily in news reports in regards to its affordability compared to the Sydney market being as close to the city as it is. The area was the best performing suburb over the last 10 years  with further growth expected with the construction of the South West Metro rail link which will reduce city travel times and bring new residential and commercial development to the area. Additionally Lakemba receives media coverage as one of the last areas of Sydney where it is cheaper to buy than rent

Commercial area
Lakemba has many shops, on and around Haldon Street, where a wide range of international and local foods can be purchased. There are also commercial developments along Canterbury Road. The Lakemba Palms shopping centre, is located on the corner of Haldon Street and Lakemba street. On 3 December 2007, a fire gutted the Lakemba Palms shopping centre and faced demolition.

Lakemba Ramadan Markets
Lakemba Ramadan Markets at Haldon St is a nightly food market in the month of Ramadan. According to visitors, the Camel burger is the best dish from the Ramadan night market in Lakemba. The popularity of the Ramadan markets and its offerings throughout the year eventually attract thousands of people every week.

Places of worship

Lakemba has many places of worship to cater for the different religions of its population, including St Therese Catholic Church, Lakemba Uniting Church, Lakemba Presbyterian Church and several Mosques including the Darul Ulum Sydney, Lakemba Mosque, Ernest Street Masjid, Lakemba Musalla, and Ahl Al Sunna Wal Jamaah Association Musallah, .

The St. Andrews Anglican Church, located at the corner of Quigg and Lakemba Street, was built in 1923 as a brick building with a significant collection of stained glass windows. The original church was a wooden building, later extended to become the parish hall.

Schools
Lakemba contains multiple private and public schools including:

 Lakemba Public School,
 Hampden Park Public School,
 Canterbury Vale School,
 St Therese Primary School,
 Holy Spirit College,
 Rissalah College,
 AlFaisal College,
 AlHikma College,  .

Politics
Lakemba is the name of one of the parliamentary constituencies of New South Wales. The Electoral district of Lakemba is currently occupied by Jihad Dib, from the Australian Labor Party. The Federal Member of Parliament is Tony Burke.

Lakemba Fire Station

The fire station was built in 1921 by the Board of Fire Commissioners of New South Wales. It was originally staffed by a combination of permanent and volunteer members. The station was built for a total cost of $13,950.00. It is located at 208 Haldon Street.

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St Andrew's Anglican Church, Lakemba

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City of Canterbury-Bankstown
Muslim enclaves

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The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway Owns Susan Page on Kavanaugh Smear Campaign
Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway has long been an undisputed authority on the matter of Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation process and the liberal media's lies and obfuscation of the facts. So, it should come as no surprise that she completely dominated USA Today D.C. bureau chief Susan Page when she tied to defend the latest New York Times salvo of poorly sourced and discredited accusations against the Associate Justice.
After anchor Bret Baier gave the rundown on what was going on with the story during Monday's Special Report, Hemingway rightfully boasted of how she broke the story of The New York Times's willful omission of key facts (click "expand):
HEMINGWAY: I think I actually broke the news that they had not included what was in book. Which is that the alleged victim of the incident had said through several friends that she does not remember any such thing. That was not included in this explosive New York Times story. It seemed relevant. And they finally added that correction late last night.
BAIER: Do think that they would have added it, had you not found that in that book?
HEMINGWAY: I think it'd be absurd to think they would have added it. It seems intentional.
One of those facts that seemed intentionally left out was that "the person supposedly making the allegation was yet another Clinton-related attorney [Max Stier]."
Despite admitting that she wasn't aware that Stier was a Clinton flack, Page actually defended him as a reputable source:
There is one element of this that I think does deserve getting explored. And that was why there was no follow up interview with Max Stier, who's a respected person. I didn't realize he worked in a – in a- on a – for a Democratic presidents. A respected bipartisan person now, who tried to tell the FBI about somethings he saw at Yale and a U.S. senator encouraged the FBI to follow up and they didn't.
Page also seemed to defend the shoddy reporting from The Times as the paper just publishing something before it was ready. "And, you know, presidential candidates, like reporters should be sure they have all the information at their disposal before they make an assertion....There is one -- This is a mess. And The New York Times, which is a great newspaper, made a mess of this," she said
When Hemingway countered Page's defense of Stier, she reminded viewers that the accusation was known by a senator and was not part of the package of accusations sent to the FBI for further investigation:
That there were all sorts of allegations that were swirling about and Democrats brought them to Republicans' attention. This one, we're told, was told to two Senate Democrats. They didn't even find it as credible as though Julie Swetnick gang rape cartel allegations or the Rhode Island rape boat allegation. So, if it were something that did need investigation and the Senate Democrats didn't think that, that is really saying that it didn't even meet a lower standard.
"Senator Coons thought it needed a follow-up," Page declared as if that meant something. "He wrote a letter saying that, I would like the FBI take a look at this." She would go in to argue that an accusation pushed by a senator needed to be followed-up on.
"Actually, no, Chris Coons knows how the FBI investigation was set up and he was part of the discussions about that," Hemingway shot back. "In fact, you don't want to make any allegation no matter how lacking in credibility. No matter if there's a victim who denies any knowledge it."
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BRET BAIER: The New York Times with this bombshell piece. Another allegation against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. BUT, The New York Times adding an editor's note: "An earlier version of this article, which was adapted from a forthcoming book, did not include one element of the book's account. The book report said that the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say she does not recall the incident. That information has been added to the article." Good thing to add.
The President added to his comments earlier, just tweeting moments ago: "I call for the resignation of everybody at The New York Times involved in the Kavanaugh smear story, and while you're at it, the Russian witch hunt hoax, which is just as phony. They've taken the Old Grey Lady and broken her down, destroyed her virtue, and ruined her reputation. She can never recover and will never return to greatness, under current management. The Times is dead. Long live The New York Times." The president of the United States tweeting just moments ago.
Back at the panel. Mollie Hemingway has a book called Justice on Trial that deals with the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, and was active on Twitter as this all developed this weekend. Mollie.
MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: I think I actually broke the news that they had not included what was in book. Which is that the alleged victim of the incident had said through several friends that she does not remember any such thing. That was not included in this explosive New York Times story. It seemed relevant. And they finally added that correction late last night.
BAIER: Do think that they would have added it have you not found that in that book?
HEMINGWAY: I think it be absurd to think they would have added it. It seems intentional. They obscured a lot of information, including that the person supposedly making the allegation was yet another Clinton related attorney. And they tried to -- The whole thing is just a re-litigation of last year, where they tried to take these allegations that were made by Deborah Ramirez, which at the time, were considered so lacking in credibility that even The New York Times said that they couldn't confirm them. But now, a year later, we are supposed to believe that they are somehow credible.
BAIER: It's almost exactly a year later. Meantime, Susan, 2020 Democrats – immediately, when the story comes out, call for Kavanaugh's impeachment.
SUSAN PAGE: And, you know, presidential candidates, like reporters should be sure they have all the information at their disposal before they make an assertion that, for instance, impeachment is needed.
There is one -- This is a mess. And The New York Times, which is a great newspaper made a mess of this. I think that would probably acknowledge that. There is one element of this that I think does deserve getting explored. And that was why there was no follow up interview with Max Stier, who's a respected person. I didn't realize he worked in a – in a- on a – for a Democratic presidents. A respected bipartisan person now, who tried to tell the FBI about somethings he saw at Yale and a U.S. senator encouraged the FBI to follow up and they didn't.
BAIER: Let me – Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.
PAGE: I think that does raise a legitimate question.
BAIER: I have something that goes to this point. Senator Chuck Grassley, who obviously ran the Kavanaugh hearings, addressed this very point.
SEN. CHUCK GRASSLEY (R-IA): My team spoke to 45 individuals and took 25 written statements. [Transition] We laid out the information we received, including some of the ugliest of claims. In the end, there was no credible evidence to support any of the allegations. [Transition] My office never received anything from Mr. Stier or his unnamed friends. [Transition] After interviewing eight people related to the Ramirez legations, not once was Mr. Stier's name mentioned.
BAIER: Okay. You were going to say.
HEMINGWAY: Exactly that. That there were all sorts of allegations that were swirling about and Democrats brought them to Republicans' attention. This one, we're told, was told to two Senate Democrats. They didn't even find it as credible as though Julie Swetnick gang rape cartel allegations or the Rhode Island rape boat allegation. So, if it were something that did need investigation and the Senate Democrats didn't think that, that is really saying that it didn't even meet a lower standard.
PAGE: Senator Coons thought it needed a follow-up.
HEMINGWAY: He has never said that he's talked to the actual majority that was handling the investigation.
PAGE: He wrote a letter saying that, I would like the FBI take a look at this. I don't know whether they would've found something credible or not, but if you are vetting a Supreme Court nominee, you ought to follow up on an allegation that a U.S. senator says this is worth doing.
HEMINGWAY: Actually, no, Chris Coons knows how the FBI investigation was set up and he was part of the discussions about that. In fact, you don't want to make any allegation no matter how lacking in credibility. No matter if there's a victim who denies any knowledge it. You don't want to slow down the working of a nomination process just for a delay tactic that is lacking in credibility.
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(Natural News) Is 5G to partially blame for coronavirus deaths? Can 5G cause the blood that's circulating in your body to be unable to carry oxygen?
What's especially horrifying about the critical care of coronavirus patients is that they aren't suffering from "viral pneumonia," but rather from an inability to absorb or carry oxygen in the blood.
This has been confirmed by NYC ICU emergency physician Cameron Kyle-Sidell, who has released several videos detailing how coronavirus is not a kind of viral pneumonia. "We're treating the wrong disease," he says. And the ventilators are damaging the lungs of patients. He explains:
COVID-19 lung disease, as far as I can see, is not a pneumonia and should not be treated as one. Rather, it appears as if some kind of viral-induced disease most resembling high altitude sickness. Is it as if tens of thousands of my fellow New Yorkers are on a plane at 30,000 feet at the cabin pressure is slowly being let out. These patients are slowly being starved of oxygen.
Watch him explain how coronavirus patients are dying from oxygen starvation, not from a viral pneumonia lung infection:
What this emergency room physician makes clear is that coronavirus patients are dying from oxygen deprivation, not a classic scenario of viral pneumonia. The patients' lungs work fine, in other words, and the ventilators are actually damaging their lungs by forcing excessive pressure into them.
How does blood transport oxygen in the first place?
How, exactly, can all these patients be starved of oxygen when their lungs are technically working just fine? To understand one possible answer, you have to first understand how the blood carries oxygen. It's way more fascinating than you might have supposed.
When functioning normally, 1 molecule of hemoglobin binds with 4 molecules of oxygen, using iron (Fe2+), forming oxyhemoglobin. But this binding is only achieved because of something called "partial pressure" which means the concentration of oxygen in the lung tissues is higher than the concentration of oxygen on the hemoglobin molecule (roughly stated, this is simplified somewhat), so the oxygen "leaps" to the hemoglobin in order to equalize the partial pressures across the chasm.
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But 5G radiation alters the porosity of cell membranes, allowing some molecules or ionic elements to move more easily across those members, displacing other molecules (or soluble gasses such as carbon dioxide) that might normally make that leap. For example, it is well documented that 5G radiation causes "Voltage Gated Ion Channels" (VGIC), specifically with calcium ions (VGCC), causing cellular toxicity due to too much calcium entering the cell walls and poisoning the cells.
The research on this was published in Environmental Research — here's the link — and reveals that 5G exposure not only alters cell permeability (porosity), but also releases peroxinitrites in the body. These are inflammation-producing molecules that ravage other healthy molecules circulating in the blood.
As described by Natural News:
A thorough review of the available published science on wireless (WiFi) and electromagnetic frequency (EMF) exposure has identified at least seven different ways that WiFi and EMF microwave pollution actively harms the human body.
Published in the journal Environmental Research, the peer-reviewed paper explains that exposure to WiFi signals, which are everywhere these days, can lead to: oxidative stress, sperm and testicular damage, neuropsychiatric effects including EEG (electroencephalogram) changes, apoptosis (programmed cell death), cellular DNA damage, endocrine changes, and calcium overload.
Note that coronavirus patients are already being observed with neuropsychiatric effects, testicular damage and oxidative stress, three of the symptoms of 5G exposure.
We just created this simple chart to point out the similarities between 5G exposure and coronavirus symptoms. Feel free to share everywhere, and link back to this article if possible:
Mass insanity due to psychiatric effects of cellular poisoning
We also know that 5G radiation and its effects on the cells of the body can lead to symptoms of insanity, hallucinations and even powerful personality changes. Interestingly, CNN's Chris Cuomo already described bouts of hallucinations as he was battling the coronavirus, living in a high-5G city (NYC). As I wrote on Natural News last December:
5G radiation causes "neuropsychiatric" effects through a mechanism described as ion potentiation poisoning of brain cells, according to research published in Environmental Research.
This results in behavioral changes and even personality changes among those who are routinely exposed, researchers found. In other words, 5G is a weapon system that doubles as a telecommunications infrastructure, but the real impact is to damage human brain function and destroy rationality, reason and civility, especially among those who live in high population cities where 5G towers are becoming ubiquitous. That's why you may have noticed increased insanity and widespread mental derangement in those areas.
Part of this effect may also be due to the production of peroxynitrites, which are generated in the body's cells upon exposure to the voltage emitted by 5G radiation, which is beamed at your body in a narrow cone of high-intensity energy. (5G antennae focus energy in a tight beam that follows you around.)
We are already observing the coronavirus causing psychiatric effects, including zombie-like violent, aggressive behavior such as deliberately spitting and coughing on people.
How 5G radiation exposure alters the ability of red blood cells to carry oxygen
Getting back to the oxygen question, the answer to why 5G radiation exposure may alter the function of hemoglobin is found in understanding the protein structure of hemoglobin itself.
Hemoglobin relies on something called the "heme group" which is a complex molecule with iron (FE 2+) in its center. This is surrounded by something called a "porphyrin ring" which is a cluster of unique structures (made of oxygen, carbon and hydrogen) that has a special affinity for other oxygen atoms. The ability for oxygen to "leap" onto this molecule in the lungs depends entirely on the structure (which also implies the ionic charges) of these complex molecules.
One thing to note in all this is that without the presence of histidine, a special protein, this heme group would have higher affinity toward carbon monoxide than oxygen, meaning the entire heme group would be occupied by carbon monoxide, blocking the absorption of oxygen. Thus, the histidine presence is critical for allowing the heme group to bind with oxygen. If you mess with histidine, you end up forcing hemoglobin to carry CO instead of O2, effectively creating oxygen deprivation in the blood.
This heme group, by the way, has special affinity for carbon dioxide, which allows the same molecule to carry CO2 out of the body's cells and transport CO2 back to the lungs. Remember: The same hemoglobin molecule must carry both CO2 and O2 but at different times, and it must attract and then release those molecules at opposite times in order to rid the body of CO2 and nourish the body with O2. This is all accomplished with a delicate balance of proteins and protein folding.
The hemoglobin molecule itself is a miracle of nanotechnology. It transmorphs into two different structural states based on whether it's carrying oxygen or not. In what's called the "R-state," this molecule is like a magnet for oxygen. When four oxygen atoms are bound, it becomes a highly stable structure (and appears red). Technically, the binding of a single molecule of oxygen (O2) increases the affinity toward oxygen on the three other oxygen sites, making the hemoglobin "mop up" four oxygen molecules very quickly. When it lacks oxygen, it changes to a "T-state" and appears blue, which is why low-oxygen blood has a blue color.
The important thing to understand in all this is that any alteration of the delicate structure of hemoglobin will impair its ability to bind with oxygen.
Take a look at the hemoglobin molecule representation above, from APSUbiology.org, and note the heme groups which are positioned in four places across the molecule. The polypeptide chains are part of the transmorphing structure of the molecule that allows it to carry and release both CO2 and O2, depending on the partial pressures of the gasses at different locations in the body (lungs vs. other cells). Note carefully that any change in the structure of hemoglobin will cause it to stop functioning:
Increasing the permeability of the hemoglobin molecule — i.e. its affinity toward other soluble gasses such as carbon dioxide — will "occupy" the hemoglobin molecule with the wrong substances, making it unable to absorb oxygen because it is not presenting in its "R-state" by the time the heart pumps the blood back to the lungs.
Stated another way, anything that significantly alters the affinity of hemoglobin toward other soluble gasses (carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, or even ionic minerals in the blood) could "shut off" the ability of blood to carry oxygen by altering its atomic structure.
If you change the structure of the heme group, it no longer functions to transport oxygen. Because in the case of the heme group, the structure is the function. Perhaps this can only be appreciated by organic chemists, but this heme group is truly a miracle of nanotechnology.
Here's a diagram of how iron, histidine, the heme group and O2 oxygen molecules interact with hemoglobin, which alters its structure depending on the "oxygenated" vs. "deoxygenated" forms: (via Biology.Kenyon.edu)
Can 5G exposure alter the structure of hemoglobin by increasing its affinity toward other molecules which are not O2?
The real question in all this is best phrased as I have asked it above. I doubt that we are dealing with a phenomenon where 5G radiation exposures blocks the ability of hemoglobin to carry oxygen, but rather occupies the hemoglobin molecule with other elements that alter its structure and therefore its function, inhibiting its ability to bind with oxygen.
This is very likely happening all across the world wherever 5G is currently functioning, it's just that the coronavirus is now exacerbating the symptoms and conditions to the point where mass death is occurring.
In other words, the coronavirus pandemic would likely not be nearly as bad if 5G exposure / radiation pollution wasn't already compromising the structure and function of hemoglobin cells in the bodies of people who live in 5G cities.
This doesn't mean the coronavirus isn't real, of course; just that these two attacks on the human body have a synergistic effect of toxicity and mortality.
Conclusion: Humanity is committing suicide with 5G
While I strongly disagree with those who are claiming there's no such thing as a virus or that the coronavirus is a hoax, I do agree that the widespread deployment of 5G antennas is a kind of suicide pact for the world.
Just as the Romans built their aqueducts out of lead linings and thereby poisoned their own citizens, driving them insane with load poisoning, the modern world of Big Tech and telecommunications is mass poisoning humanity with electropollution.
Right now, a lot of people are talking about the book, "The Invisible Rainbow" by John Kaminski, who believes coronavirus is an "electrical disease" and that 5G alone is causing all the mass deaths, not the virus. He writes things like, "The flu is not contagious" and "the quarantine is all a terrible hoax."
Surely he is wrong on those claims, but he may not be wrong at all about the toxicity of electropollution and how 5G is actually a kind of "suicide system" that's destroying humanity.
This all deserves a tremendous amount of additional study, but because we live in a world where Big Tech controls all the narratives and censors all those who question the safety of 5G, it now seems impossible for humanity to extricate itself from this mass suicide mission that has already been unleashed.
And that doesn't even cover the topic of vaccines. What if Bill Gates' vaccines are being deliberately engineered to contain toxic substances that 5G exposure will push into the cells, causing widespread death from "binary" exposure and subsequent cell toxicity?
It sure would be a simple way for Bill Gates to achieve his global depopulation dreams, all while administering a global IQ test that finds out which people are stupid enough to line up and be injected with a euthanasia weapon system.
Watch my video here on how we can end this pandemic and end the lockdowns, too, by turning to nutrition and masks:
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8 big reasons why Packers missed the playoffs in 2022
Zach Kruse
The Green Bay Packers finished 8-9 in 2022 and missed the playoffs for the first time since the 2018 season. Matt LaFleur's started 3-1, slogged through a 1-7 midseason stretch and finished 4-1, but the final loss – in Week 18 at Lambeau Field to the Detroit Lions – eliminated the Packers.
What went wrong? It's never just one thing for a disappointing football team.
Here are the top reasons why the Packers missed the playoffs in 2022:
Defense failed against top teams
The highly touted Packers defense just wasn't good enough against the top teams. Over eight games against playoff teams, the Packers gave up 24.3 points per game, including four games giving up 27 or more (finished 1-3 in those games). Despite massive investment in Joe Barry's group, the Packers ended the year ranked 17th in points and 28th in yards per play. An evolving offense needed the defense to lead the way, especially early, but the Packers got lit up by Justin Jefferson and the Vikings in the opener and were exposed far too often during the 1-7 stretch.
Inconsistent scoring offense
The Packers were 7-1 when scoring at least 24 points and 1-8 when scoring 22 or fewer in 2022. The inconsistency hurt, especially early on. By the time the Packers were 4-8, Green Bay had scored 20 or more points in back-to-back games only once (Weeks 4-5), and even those two games produced a split (win over Patriots, loss to Giants). The killer blow: Matt LaFleur's team scored 25 total points in two losses to the Lions, who finished 28th in points allowed in 2022. In a must-win game at Lambeau Field in Week 18, the Packers managed to score only 16.
Situational offense
The Packers offense finished the regular season ranked 17th on third down (39.5 percent), 28th on fourth down (38.7 percent) and 24th in the red zone (51.9). It's really hard to win in the NFL when extending drives is a challenge, the risks taken on fourth down don't pay off and trips inside the 20-yard line don't consistently result in seven points. Poor situational play on offense killed the Packers in losses to the Vikings, Giants, Jets, Commanders, Titans and both games against the Lions.
Aaron Rodgers wasn't an elevator
Aaron Rodgers has covered up more than a few problems and elevated more than a few teams over his Hall of Fame career. The 39-year-old just couldn't do it in 2022. He lost his All-Pro receiver, dealt with a shuffling offensive line, broke his thumb, threw to an underwhelming skill position group and lacked the consistent greatness of his back-to-back MVP seasons. It all factored into one of Rodgers' worst statistical seasons. He threw 12 interceptions, averaged 6.8 yards per attempt and had a passer rating of 91.1. The Packers lacked the talent and coaching to make up for Rodgers not playing at an immortal level.
Home and division woes
The Packers were 5-3 at home (one loss in London) and 3-3 against the NFC North in 2022. Over the first three seasons under Matt LaFleur, the Packers were 24-4 at Lambeau Field and 16-2 against the division. How's this for unordinary? Green Bay lost three home games to non-playoff teams and was swept by the Lions. During the Aaron Rodgers era, the Packers have usually paved the playoff road each year by winning most games at home and most games against the division.
Three-game October losing streak
Sure, the Packers lost five-straight games, but the three-game losing streak to kick it off especially hurt. The Packers gave up a 20-10 lead and lost to the Giants in London, got run over by the Jets at Lambeau Field and then gave up a 14-3 lead and lost to the Commanders. Over a three-game stretch against quarterbacks Daniel Jones, Zach Wilson and Taylor Heinicke, the Packers gave up 77 total points, including 54 in the second half. This was the haunting string of losses as the Packers tried to claw their way back into the playoff hunt late.
Unfortunate Christian Watson injuries
Would the Packers have finished 8-9 if rookie Christian Watson had opened training camp healthy and avoided all the injuries he dealt with during the first two months of the season? It seems unlikely, given how impactful Watson was to the offense over the final two months. The offense could have been better early and possibly more consistent late had Watson been the go-to guy right away. His numbers over the final eight games extrapolated over a 17-game schedule equal out to 66 catches, 1,111 yards and 17 total touchdowns. Watson played 121 total snaps between Weeks 1-9 and 386 between Weeks 10-18.
Keisean Nixon's (too) late emergence
Another hypothetical: What if Keisean Nixon, the newly minted first-team All-Pro kickoff returner, had been the team's primary punt and kickoff returner all season? That job first belonged to Amari Rodgers, who fumbled five times – creating a few devastating turnovers – before he was released and Nixon got a turn. While Watson jolted the offense to life, Nixon sparked the special teams and became a legitimate game-breaking weapon as a returner. The first half of the season featured a lot of wasted opportunities – and avoidable mistakes – in the return game while Nixon sat on the bench.
Story originally appeared on Packers Wire
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Akdeniz Chemson
The story of the company began in 1942 Cookson from Wallsend near Newcastle-upon-Tyne in England starts producing lead salts as stabilisers for flexible PVC. Shortly after, Cookson opens a production plant in Sydney/Australia.
In 1976, when Akdeniz Kimya was incorporated in İzmir, Türkiye as a company to manufacture and market PVC stabilizers and other industrial chemicals.
In 1986, the German stabiliser manufacturers Chemetall and the English Cookson Group merged their activities into a single joint venture as Chemson with headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The company began operating from sites in Germany, England and Australia. In 2000 Chemson Polymer-Additive AG is founded in Arnoldstein/Austria as a part of a management buy-out.
In 2012, Akdeniz Kimya joined Türkiye's OYAK Group of companies. One-year later, the Chemson Group became part of the OYAK Group as well. With its robust corporate structure, its dedication to transparency, its strong financial infrastructure and growth commitment in chemistry, OYAK supported both companies to develop and produce innovative solutions.
In September 2020, these two strong brands merged into Akdeniz Chemson, one of the leading producers of polymer additives, and the world market leader in the field of PVC stabilizer products. Focused on quality, innovation and sustainability, the company works as a "one-stop-shop" for clients around the world, in order to supply all their needs in formulation.
Parent Company Name : Akdeniz Chemson
Web Site : https://www.akdenizchemson.com/
Location : Kemalpaşa OIZ
Origin Country : England
Sector : Chemicals
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There's Even a Cameo from the Commodore 64
"You're in the iWorld, Bill… and I am a god here."
This video comes with a big heap of JobBiasTM but it really made me laugh. The dark ballad of the Finder might be the best part.
Digg it if you're the sort of person who does that.
Oh brave new world,
That has such vidoes in't!
I wish I was a God of the iWorld. Then the finder could sing me to sleep every night. Then, every morning when I woke up, my icon-self would magically leap from the Dock, made more beautiful than I am in reality by Quartz-animation.
And anytime I wanted: I would be in the Spotlight! (Find: ME!)
Taking the longer view, you could take it as a good sign that people are beginning to push back against Apple a little bit. It shows that like Windows, Apple is being taken seriously as a dominant force in many of our lives, not just those who have chosen to be its acolytes.
To make a political analogy, Apple is a real opposition party now — and like the Democrats, they have their problems, especially when they're in power.
That said, I think both Jobs and Gates are handled gently here, and in good spirit. It's revealing, too, what's being pushed back against is the equation Windows=nerd=lame=sucks. (Cf. this MacWorld UK article on how the "Get a Mac" ads have backfired.) A lot of Mac users think of themselves as nerds, too. And we don't like to be picked on.
The more Apple becomes not just a mainstream product, but a "cool" one, and not a nerd-cool, tech-cool, or art-cool one, but a jock-cool, chick-cool, slick-cool one, the more you can expect this to be a problem, especially for the marginalized constituency that used to be prime evangelical targets for the Mac faith.
As to whether this sort of video indicates a real shift in power: that's hard to say. Obviously Apple's dominance of the iPod-like market is clear, but when it comes to computers things are not so certain.
Apple has long been given props for taste, ever since the first Mac and its accompanying ad. And since cultural producers are more likely than most other groups in the rest of the population to be Mac-users, the platform has generally enjoyed high public currency. Which is to say, this video is encouraging for those who want Apple to stick around, but Apple may still be more of a libertarian or Green Party (or, better, late 19th century socialist) than the Dems.
The other thing to note about that comic is how carefully it avoids real politics, and real power: Its been a couple days since I looked at it (so my claims could be off), but there are no mentions of the actual power that a company like Microsoft has b/c of its monopoly on the PC OS, or the problems (discussed on this blog)of the Apple model of Digital Rights Management, linking play-back device to purchased songs (Jobs now says that this isn't a problem b/c most songs are not DRM, but if this model actually took off and replaced CDs, there would be real issues). By portraying Gates as a harmless geek, we also miss out on the fact that he may be the single most influential person in the world when it comes to setting an agenda for global public health, and that he made Microsoft a behemoth though saavy business, and not just geeky code. Jobs, on the other hand, has always been master of his own iWorld (see the famed "reality-distortion field") and this video just amplifies his image of power in a way that may be misleading.
As for losing its core constituency: it's hard to say how the US ads might work. Of course, the PC character is much more fun and more interesting than the Mac character, but I'm not suddenly more attracted to the the PC. It just makes me appreciate the spirit of Apple in putting out clever ads. (Just like _Paradise Lost_ did not put me in Satan's camp by its wonderful portrayal of that character, but rather made me appreciate human creativity– particularly Milton's–and the humanist poetry of existence. Granted Milton would have said the hero ought to be God, but, well, not everything can be targeted perfectly)
What struck me about the reception of the Apple Mac vs. PC ads in the UK is how delicate that balance of sympathy and interestingness can be.
The ads in the UK used different actors, for one thing — and the Mac character came off as "smug." The Mac character in the US ads doesn't come off that way at all, at least to me — what's driven home is that these two characters are friends, but one of the friends is a little more ridiculous than the other.
As for the "real politics" discussion, while DRM is a nuisance, global health is a LOT more important than DRM. I think this entry from The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs says it all.
Sorry. This post says it all. My bad.
My placement of questions concerning the direction of global public health and the fate of various kinds of Digital Rights Management systems in the same paragraph was not meant to imply they were of a similar kind or import. I'd say, without blinking, that Bill Gates and Microsoft are more important than Steve Jobs and Apple, just because they have so much more money, and such a larger installed base of users who have made themselves captives to their technologies by building their businesses around Microsoft products.
Plus, as we've seen, Bill Gates' philanthropic foundation can command the attention of other billionaires and will, hopefully, provide an incentive to develop good solutions to health problems that are not normally addressed by GlaxoSmithKline. One can only hope this can be done in a way that supports fair local governance and doesn't force dependence on the products of the US and Europe.
Having said that, the kind of argument that "Fake Steve Jobs" offers seems a bit disingenuous, coming from a person who apparently thinks its worth his or her time to write only about Apple. If that is an okay use of time, then thoughtful (or not) critique of a near-monopolist's strategies (in the online music/portable music player business) seem well within the bounds of proper discourse priorities. And of course, one can be upset about DRM (which, in truth I don't care much about) and also be upset about other issues (things that I would consider more important: decreased carbon/methane emissions, eliminating poverty, preventing apparently paranoid presidents of world powers from invading more Middle-Eastern countries…) Useful outrage may come in limited supplies, but this isn't all just one big zero-sum game built on massive mutual-exclusivity.


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I have updated the new release 2.10. And it works better in VR mode now!
1. What's the different between "walking" and "sitting or standing" in enter VR mode puzzle.
2. When I run the "Industrial Robot" demo, gaze-based reticle pointer works.But the HTC vive's controller dos not recognized. It's the same in a new project with Legacy VR mode.
What's the different between "walking" and "sitting or standing" in enter VR mode puzzle.
According to the specification, these are supposed to setup different controls – moving or stationary. In the current browsers' experimental implementation there is no difference.
But the HTC vive's controller dos not recognized.
It should create a virtual ray (line) for a controller. Only one ray is supported. Can you see it?
This reply was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by Yuri Kovelenov.
This reply was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by zjbcool.
and i am using HTC vive pro in firefox brower.
Firefox is not working with controllers for some reason that we don't understand. Please use Chrome with HTC Vive if you want to use the controllers.


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Posted on July 19, 2020 by Ofer Abarbanel
A scrip (or chit in India) is any substitute for legal tender. It is often a form of credit. Scrips have been created for payment of employees under truck systems, and for use in local commerce at times when regular currency was unavailable, for example in remote coal towns, military bases, ships on long voyages, or occupied countries in wartime. Besides company scrip, other forms of scrip include land scrip, vouchers, token coins such as subway tokens, IOUs, arcade tokens and tickets, and points on some credit cards.
Scrips have gained historical importance and become a subject of study in numismatics and exonumia due to their wide variety and recurring use. Scrip behaves similarly to a currency, and as such can be used to study monetary economics.
A variety of forms of scrip were used at various times in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Company scrip
Company scrip was a credit against the accrued wages of employees.
In United States mining or logging camps where everything was owned and operated by a single company, scrip provided the workers with credit when their wages had been depleted. These remote locations were cash poor. Workers had very little choice but to purchase food and other goods at a company store. In this way, the company could charge enormous markups on goods in a company store, making workers completely dependent on the company, thus enforcing their "loyalty" to the company. Additionally, while employees could exchange scrip for cash, this could rarely be done at face value. This kind of scrip was valid only within the settlement where it was issued. While store owners in neighboring communities could accept the scrip as money, they rarely did so at face value, as it was worth less than that.
When U.S. President Andrew Jackson issued his Specie Circular of 1836 due to credit shortages, Virginia Scrip was accepted as payment for federal lands.
In 19th-century Western Canada, the federal government devised a system of land grants called scrip. Notes in the form of money scrip (valued at $160 or $240) or land scrip, valued at 160 acres (65 ha) or 240 acres (97 ha), were offered to Métis people in exchange for their Aboriginal rights.[1]
During the Great Depression, at the height of the crisis, many local governments paid employees in scrip. Vermilion, Alberta was just one example. [2]
In the U.S., payment of wages in scrip became illegal under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.[3]
The expression "scrip" is also used in the stock market where companies can sometimes pay dividends in the form of additional shares/stock rather than in money.[4] It is also a written document that acknowledges debt.
After World War I and World War II, scrip was used as "emergency money" or Notgeld in Germany and Austria.
Scrip was used extensively in prisoner-of-war (POW) camps during World War II, at least in countries that complied with the Third Geneva Convention. Under the Geneva Conventions, enlisted POWs could be made to work, but had to be paid for their labor, but not necessarily in cash. Since ordinary money could be used in escape attempts, they were given scrip that could only be used with the approval of camp authorities, usually only within the camps.
Poker chips, also referred to as casino tokens, are commonly used as money with which to gamble. The use of chips as company money in the early 19th century in Devon, England, in the Wheal Friendship[5] copper mine gave its name to a local village: Chipshop.
Stamp scrip
Stamp scrip was a type of local money designed to be circulated and not to be hoarded.
One type of this worked this way: Each scrip certificate had printed boxes; every month a stamp costing a certain amount (in a typical case, 1% of the face value) had to be purchased and stuck in a box, otherwise the scrip lost all its value, providing a great incentive to spend it quickly. It was used successfully in Germany and Austria in the early 1930s, after national currencies collapsed. National governments considered themselves threatened by the success of stamp scrip projects, and shut them down; similar misgivings discouraged their later use elsewhere.[6]
The Alberta Social Credit Party government in 1937 issued "prosperity certificates," a form of provincial currency, in an effort to encourage spending. This scrip had boxes in which a stamp equal to 2% of the value had to be affixed each week. Thus, the value of the certificate was covered by the cost of the stamps at year's end when it matured. It is said there were literal showers of dried out stamps cascading to the ground when these certificates were pulled out of pockets in payment for something. But they did give a boost to the provincial economy.
Modern usage
Scrip survives in modern times in various forms.
Community-issued scrip
The use of locally issued scrip accepted by multiple businesses within a community has increased during the Late-2000s recession. Community-wide scrip usage has begun or is on the rise in Ithaca, New York; Detroit; The Berkshires; Pittsboro, North Carolina; Traverse City, Michigan; Lamar, Colorado; Calgary, Canada, Bristol, UK and Hagen, Germany.[7][8][9][10]
Thailand's township Amphoe Kut Chum once issued its own local scrip called Bia Kut Chum: Bia is Thai for cowry shell, which was once used as small change, and still so used in metaphorical expressions. To side-step implications that the community intended their scrip as an unlawful substitute for currency, it now issues exchange coupons called Boon Kut Chum.[11]
Company-issued customer scrip
Some companies still issue scrip notes and token coin, good for use at company points of sale. Among these are the Canadian Tire money for the Canadian Tire stores and gasbars in Canada, and the Disney dollars (no longer printed, but still accepted), used at Disney resorts.
Scrip gift cards and gift certificates
A scrip card from a babysitting group
In the retail and fundraising industries, scrip is now issued in the form of gift cards, eCards, or less commonly paper gift certificates. Physical gift cards often have a magnetic strip or optically readable bar code to facilitate redemption at the point of sale.
In the late 1980s, the term scrip evolved to include a fundraising method popular with non-profit organizations like schools, bands and athletic groups.[12] With scrip fundraising, retailers offer the gift certificates and gift cards to non-profit organizations at a discount. The non-profit organizations sell the gift cards to member's families at full face value. The families redeem the gift cards at full face value, and the discount or rebate is retained by the non-profit organization as revenue.[13]
Commercial gift cards
Main article: Gift card
VISA, MasterCard and American Express gift cards are initially funded by a credit card or bank account, after which the funding account and gift card are not connected to one another. Once the predetermined funds are consumed, the card number expires. A gift of a gift card, maybe in an attractive wrapper, may be seen as more socially acceptable than a gift of cash. It also prevents the gift being spent on something the giver views as undesirable (or used as savings).
However, unless the gift card is obtained at a discount (paying less than the actual value of the card), buying scrip with ordinary money is arguably pointless, as it then ties up the money until it is used, and usually it may only be used at one store. Furthermore, not all gift cards issued are redeemed. In 2006, the value of unredeemed gift cards was estimated at almost US$8 billion.[14]
Another disadvantage of gift cards is that some issuers charge "maintenance fees" on the cards, particularly if they are not used after a certain period of time; or the card will expire after a given period of time.[15] Some provinces and states in North America (e.g. California, Ontario, Massachusetts, Ohio, Washington) have enacted laws to eliminate non-use fees or expirations,[16] but because the laws often only apply to single-merchant cards[17] buyers have to review the gift card conditions prior to purchase to determine exact restrictions and fees.[18] Additionally, if a retailer goes bankrupt, gift cards can suddenly become worthless. Even if stores do not close immediately, the company may stop accepting the cards.[19] This became a significant issue during the global financial crisis of 2008–2009, prompting the Consumers Union to call upon the Federal Trade Commission to regulate the issue.[20]
Land scrip (United States)
Land scrip was a right to purchase federal public domain land in the United States, a common form of investment in the 19th century. As a type of federal aid to local governments or private corporations, Congress would grant land in lieu of cash. Most of the time the grantee did not seek to acquire any actual land but rather would sell the right to claim the land to private investors in the form of scrip. Often the land title was finalized only after the scrip was resold several times utilizing land agents also called warrant brokers.[21] These grants came in the form of railroad land grants, university land grants, and grants to veterans for war service.[22][23]
^"Free Land!" in Moving Here, Staying Here: The Canadian Immigrant Experience at Library and Archives Canada
^Chatters, Charles H. (March 1933). "Is Municipal Scrip a Panacea?". Public Management: 323–325. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8292.1933.tb01317.x.
^"29 CFR 531.34 – Payment in scrip or similar medium not authorized". LII / Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
^List of companies paying scrip dividends
^Crying-fox.com
^"A maverick money scheme from the 1930s could save the Greek economy". The Guardian. 18 February 2015.
^Homegrown Stimulus
^Detroit cash keeps hometown humming Detroit News, Detnews.com
^In Hagen you can pay with local currency, WDR.de
^Overview of Hagen′s Notgeld, the Volmetaler, Volmetaler.org
^A Boon to Kut Chum archive
^Santa Rosa Press Democrat, "Following the Scrip: How an SR-Based Group Revolutionized the Hottest Method of School Fundraising"
^PTO Today, "Managing Your Scrip Program"
^Eckberg, John (December 2, 2007). "Gift cards popular, unused". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved January 16, 2014.(subscription required)
^"Gift cards may bear unwanted fees", Post-Gazette, February 11, 2007
^"State Gift Card Consumer Protection Laws" (PDF). Consumers Union. July 19, 2011.
^"Keeping the change", December 29, 2007Press Democrat
^"Card games: Read the fine print on gift cards", Republican-American, November 4, 2007
^"But what happens when the store files for bankruptcy? Instead of a gift you may be stuck with a worthless piece of plastic. Earlier this year, when Sharper Image filed for Chapter 11, people holding its gift cards were told that they could not get their money back or use the card to make a purchase." "Gift Cards: The gift that can stop giving", Defend Your Dollars, Consumers Union, September 12, 2008.
^"FTC: Protect Gift Card Holders When Companies Go Bankrupt", Consumerist, September 12, 2008
^"Scrip Warrant Act of 1855". The Spokesrider. 12 July 2009. Retrieved 20 September2018.
^Gates, Paul W. (May 1961). "California's Agricultural College Lands". Pacific Historical Review. University of California Press. 30 (2): 103–122. doi:10.2307/3636696. JSTOR 3636696.
^Gates, Paul W. (Summer 1969). "Frontier Land Business in Wisconsin". The Wisconsin Magazine of History. State Historical Society of Wisconsin. 52 (4): 306–327. Retrieved November 1, 2013.
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In 2012, the Minister for the Department for Social Development (DSD) announced a Fundamental Review of social housing allocations in Northern Ireland. The review was carried out by the Universities of Ulster and Cambridge who conducted discussions with a number of stakeholders and reviewed best practice in the allocation of social housing in the UK and Republic of Ireland. The final research report contained the recommendations in this briefing (though these do not necessarily represent the views of DSD) The Department is inviting feedback on the recent reports following a review of social housing allocations in Northern Ireland. It will publish a summary of the responses and its final proposals. These proposals will be subject to full public consultation. It is expected that this will take place late in 2014. The deadline for comments on the reports is 4 March 2014.
Housing Rights Service has contributed evidence to a recent consultation exercise on the Housing Executive's community involvement strategy. Although we have a number of concerns with this draft strategy we nevertheless believe that by involving tenants and listening to what they have to say, social landlords can make better business decisions; create excellent services; save money; and encourage customer loyalty and satisfaction. Resident involvement in social housing is therefore about how tenants, or others living nearby, can influence and improve a social landlord's activity. The remit of such an influence can range from contributing to decisions on local service delivery to membership of the landlord's governing body. We believe community involvement is an aspect that should be high on the agenda of the current Social Housing Reform process and the future governance of social landlords. Involving tenants in running their homes is now an established principle in social housing and we look forward to further discussions with NIHE in taking forward this strategy.


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Police have reassured the public they are tackling dogging at Maidenhead Thicket after PCSOs found a 60-year-old man naked from the waist down.
According to a statement from Thames Valley Police, the man, from High Wycombe, was given a £90 fixed-penalty notice for a public order offence after being discovered on a routine patrol.
Over the past weeks, officers have stepped up patrols in the area of Maidenhead Thicket following reports of 'sexual activity' at car parks in Henley Road and Pinkneys Drive.
Inspector Mike Darrah said: "We are aware that there is illegal sexual activity occurring in two car park areas of Maidenhead Thicket.
"We are also aware that there are concerns within the community about the type of activity that is occurring.
"I would like to reassure the community that we have recently increased the number of patrols in these areas and we are working with partners including the National Trust, which owns the land, and Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead council to address these issues.
"This site is used by a lot of different people and groups, including children, and illegal sexual activity of this kind will not be tolerated.
Contact police on 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 with any information.


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All double ensuites have a comfortable double bed, TV and tea and coffee making facilities. The modern ensuites have shower or Bathtub/shower combined facilities. A full English breakfast is included in the tariff
All twin ensuites have comfortable twin beds, TV and tea and coffee making facilities. The modern ensuites have shower facilities. A full English breakfast is included in the tariff
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All family ensuites have a comfortable double bed and a single bed, TV and tea and coffee making facilities. The modern ensuites have both bath and shower facilities. A full English breakfast is included in the tariff
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The Saracens Head Hotel Information
The Saracens Head offers accommodation with 12 comfortable bedrooms, each with en suite bathrooms, televisions, telephones and tea-making facilities. Though the archway at the front of the building which led to the yard at the rear has now been replaced with an imposing doorway, it is not difficult to imagine how it must have been a century or two ago when it looked out across a busy scene in Market Square. The Saracens Head was certainly in use as an inn of some kind in 1825 and is probably much older. Just how old has sadly not been recorded, but it has been suggested that it was once part of the local manor and stands on the site of an old monastery. There is also believed to be a tunnel (now bricked up) which leads from the cellar, under Market Square and towards St Michael's Church.
We have a disabled toilet and there is a widened level backdoor allowing easier access for those in wheelchairs.
Road from M4 Junction 16 (4.0 miles)
As you leave the M4 follow the signs for Highworth, it's a straight road into Highworth and at the first roundabout in Highworth turn right and we further along on the left hand side.
Train from Swindon Station (6.0 miles)
We would advise getting a taxi from the taxi rank outside thi should be between £10-15.
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Today though, anything darker and maltier can generally speaking be classified as a seasonally appropriate brew. Meant for sipping fireside, winter beers are typically higher in alcoholic content than their summertime counterparts, and may incorporate mulling spices or sweet flavours such as vanilla or chocolate. Bottom line? They're designed to keep you nice and warm in the coolest of months.
Here's your guide to winter warmers from some of Canada's best craft breweries.
Name aside, the sleigh on the label gives away this beer's true purpose. An English-style barley wine with a dark brown colour, this beer has a strong aroma of toffee, chocolate, and spices. It's available from November to March in Eastern Canada from the Fredericton craft brewery Picaroons.
Developed over a warm cabin fire, Winterweiss (pronounced "winter vice") is a dark wheat beer with notes of clove and banana. Seasonally brewed, Muskoka Winterweiss partners the yeast and wheat character of a Hefeweizen with the malty richness of a Munich Dunkel. It's perfect for cozy, winter nights with friends.
Whistler Brewing took the gold medal at the 2017 Canadian Beer Awards for its Chestnut Ale. Inspired by fall's autumn colours, roasted chestnuts impart a unique nutty character, which is rounded off by robust caramel and crystal malts.
First crafted in 1998, this beer was no doubt inspired by Montréal's frigid wintertime temperatures. A deep brown winter ale, it's sure to warm you up with its aroma of fruit, hints of burnt caramel and a hoppy finish. Get it quick though—as one of Dieu du Ciel's "Momentum" beers, it's only available for limited-time during the month of December.
Nabbing first place at the 2017 BC Beer Awards in the "British Stout" category, this chocolate milk stout is craft brewed in North Vancouver. Heathstone says it's "perfect to cuddle up next to a fire with" and we can't disagree.
Brewed by those who know firsthand the need for a winter pick-me-up—particularly when the sun rarely barely above the horizon—Yukon Beer's Lead Dog continually tops lists of "best winter warmers." The very definition of a "winter warmer," this Olde English Ale has malt flavours and a dark chocolate appearance.
Gruit technically isn't a beer, since it traditionally doesn't include the use of hops. Originally brewed by monks as early as the 10th century, this alcoholic beverage instead relies on herbs for flavour. In the last couple of years, craft breweries, including Ottawa-based Beau's, have started to make their own versions. The Lamb's Wool does use hops, but it's spiced with the most festival of flavours, including apples. It's meant to be "paired with singing, visiting friends and mid-winter celebrations meant to bring good fortune to homes and harvests in the year to come." Cheers to that.


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