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Case Comment: R (Steinfeld & Anor) v Secretary of State for International Development [2018] UKSC 32
MICHAEL ETIENNE, MATRIX Case Comments
Judgment in the case of R (Steinfeld & Anor) v Secretary of State for International Development [2018] UKSC 32 is here.
Often, the road to equality is long and arduous, just ask the same-sex couples who had to wait until the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 for recognition of the right to marry or those whose right to legal recognition will still feel a long way off. On any view, the road to equality in civil partnerships will be shorter. But that route has had its own difficulties and the significance of the success of this appeal should not be underestimated.
The appeal started out as a judicial review that was dismissed at first instance on the basis that the right of different-sex couples to have equal access to civil partnerships was not even within the ambit of ECHR, art 8. In the Court of Appeal, the Government stood squarely behind that argument. The court unanimously disagreed. Arden LJ, in the minority, went further still and found that the Claimants had been unlawfully discriminated against. However, she declined to grant a declaration of incompatibility for fear of "micro-managing" policy decisions. Beatson and Briggs LJs agreed that the Claimants had been discriminated against, warned the Government that the "the status quo cannot be maintained for long" but concluded that the discrimination was justified on account of the Government's need to "wait and evaluate" how it would remedy the situation. From that empiric victory comes a resounding one.
On the first day of the Supreme Court hearing, the Government conceded that civil partnerships fell within the ambit of art 8; that there was a difference in treatment between same-sex couples and different sex couples in relation to the availability of civil partnerships; that this difference in treatment was on the grounds of sexual orientation, a ground falling within art 14; and that the appellants were in an analogous position to a same-sex couple who wish to enter into a civil partnership. Therefore, the sole issue was whether or not that difference in treatment could be justified (para [19]).
As Lord Kerr emphasised, at para [9] the Government knew when it introduced civil partnerships legislation on the terms that it did that it was perpetrating unequal treatment. This was said to be justified on familiar themes – much was made of the "sensitive issues of social policy" that were at stake for example. The Government also relied heavily on the apparent lack of consensus which had emerged following to public consultations on the future of civil partnerships and evidence which suggested that the numbers of same-sex couples entering into civil partnerships had declined so markedly, particularly following the MSSCA 2013, that they could be abolished. But the Government said it could not decide what to do just yet because it needed to collect more data. Indeed, shortly before the hearing, the Government published its latest policy paper, referencing four areas in which it would seek further responses from the public.
One striking omission from "The Future Operation of Civil Partnership: Gathering Further Information" is any proposal to consult on the views of heterosexual couples about civil partnerships. The paper more than slightly misses the point. The steps it proposes have nothing directly to do with those who were affected by the unequal treatment. This was indicative of a critical floor in the Government's argument on legitimate aim.
The Government no longer argued that the discrimination itself was defensible. It just wanted more time to "wait and evaluate". With the help of Counsel for the Appellants, Lord Kerr resoundingly put paid to that idea. At [42] he said this (emphasis added):
"[w]hat has to be justified is not the measure in issue but the difference in treatment between one person or group and another". To be legitimate, therefore, the aim must address the perpetration of the unequal treatment, or, as Ms Monaghan put it, the aim must be intrinsically linked to the discriminatory treatment. In this case it does not and is not. The [Secretary of State] does not seek to justify the difference in treatment between same sex and different sex couples. To the contrary, it accepts that that difference cannot be justified. What it seeks is tolerance of the discrimination while it sorts out how to deal with it. That cannot be characterised as a legitimate aim."
He was similarly quick to dispatch the argument that sensitive policy issues should deter the court from issuing a declaration of incompatibility, pursuant to Human Rights Act 1998, s 4. Quite the reverse, said Lord Kerr, "in the circumstances, of this case, it would be wrong not to have recourse to that power" (para [61]).
The Supreme Court has made it emphatically clear that the status quo cannot be maintained and it never should have been (para [50]). Of course, a s 4 declaration neither requires the Government to take action nor affects the legality of the current legislation. Unsurprisingly, that has caused consternation in some quarters. After all, if there is an ideal case in which the courts ought to be able to strike down legislation it is surely one in which the Government and the legislative must be taken to have known that they were creating a "new form of discrimination" (para 46) (the cruel irony they did so whilst simultaneously offering civil partnerships in appeasement of marriage inequality will be lost to no one). Sadly, we are not in an ideal situation.
Marriage is not for everyone. Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan represent a growing number of people who are deeply opposed to what they see as the pervasive patriarchal trappings of marriage. Except where convicted prisoners are concerned, Governments of all colours have taken appropriate remedial steps to respond to a s 4 declaration. One way of doing that here would be to abolish civil partnerships altogether – as recently as May, the Government remained open to that possibility. That of course, would leave marriage as the only means of legal recognition of one's relationship, with all the consequences that would flow from that. Fortunately, and I suspect in light of the widespread public support for this appeal, that would seem unlikely.
In the last couple of weeks, the Equalities Minister Penny Mourdant MP declined an opportunity to re-affirm the possibility of abolition and has reportedly given a private assurance that civil partnerships will not be abolished, to Stonewall, who have also welcomed the success of this appeal. It is then surely a question of when, not if the law will give equal recognition to same-sex and different-sex couples; those that wish to marry and those that do not.
This appeal is another important staging post in the extension of legal recognition to those who fall outside recognised norms. The glare of this success should now shine a light on those who remain left behind.
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that results from 17 Local Government areas out of 23 in Rivers governorship election are available and in the commission's custody.
INEC disclosed this in a statement issued on Friday night by the National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye.
Okoye said that the commission made the declaration after its meeting on Friday where it considered the report of the Fact-Finding Committee set up to assess the situation in Rivers where the election process was suspended.
"That the results from 17 Local Governments out of 23 are available and are in the Commission's custody.
"That the Declaration and Returns for 21 State Constituencies out of 32 were made prior to the suspension.
"That collation centres were invaded by some soldiers and armed gangs resulting in the intimidation and unlawful arrest of election officials thereby disrupting the collation process," he said. Okoye said that consequently upon the foregoing, the Commission was committed to expeditious completion of the collation process where results of the elections had been announced.
The national commissioner said that INEC would issue detailed timelines and activities for the completion of the election on Wednesday, March 20.
He added that the commission expressed its displeasure with the role played by some soldiers and armed gangs in the state, disrupting the collation process and attempting to subvert the will of the people.
Okoye said the commission also resolve that it "will engage the security agencies at the national level and the Inter-Agency Consultative Committee at the state level to demand neutrality and professionalism of security personnel in order to secure a peaceful environment for the completion of the elections.


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Close rumble for the week, but Nine takes Thursday.
May 15th, 2015 By David Knox 10 commentsFiled under: News,
The ratings tussle for this week is currently neck and neck between Seven and Nine.
Seven has won two nights this week and is just 0.2% ahead of Nine, which has won three including last night.
That means the battle will likely go down to sports events on Friday and Saturday to decide the winner. Either way TEN will be a much stronger third than it has been for months thanks entirely to MasterChef.
Nine network was 27.8% on Thursday then Seven 26.3%, TEN 23.7%, ABC 15.8% and SBS 6.3%.
Nine News (1.02m / 970,000) led Nine's night followed by A Current Affair (950,000), Reno Rumble (765,000), The Footy Show (702,000), Hot Seat (589,000) and Anger Management (347,000).
Seven News (1.05m / 979,000) was best for Seven then Home and Away (774,000), Downton Abbey (629,000), Million Dollar Minute (592,000) and Martin Clunes and a Lion called Mugie (520,000). Mr Selfridge was 179,000.
MasterChef Australia (1.03m) easily won its timeslot for TEN. Law and Order: SVU was 580,000 / 421,000, TEN Eyewitness News was 558,000 and The Project (557,000 / 409,000).
ABC News (751,000) led ABC followed by a repeat of The Checkout (641,000), 7:30 (511,000), Budget Reply (493,000), Our Girl (397,000) and Antiques Roadshow (304,000).
On SBS ONE it was Luke Nguyen's United Kingdom (270,000), Rachel Khoo's Cosmopolitan Cook (264,000), Vikings (199,000) and SBS World News (185,000).
ABC2's Peter Rabbit bounced to the top of multichannels with 291,000.
OzTAM Overnights: Thursday 14 May 2015.
Tags: 7:30, A Current Affair, ABC News, Anger Management, Antiques Roadshow, Downton Abbey, Home and Away, Hot Seat, Law and Order: SVU, Luke Nguyen's United Kingdom, Martin Clunes and a Lion called Mugie, MasterChef Australia, Million Dollar Minute, Mr. Selfridge, Nine News, Our Girl, Peter Rabbit, Rachel Khoo's Cosmopolitan Cook, Reno Rumble, SBS World News, Seven News, TEN Eyewitness News, The Checkout, The Footy Show, The Project, Vikings
gk3 May 17, 2015 2:10 pm
I have a friend who said "I turned on the TV last night, and saw this parody of The Block, called House Rules"
Ten need to start promoting their other shows while masterchef is on! Unfortunately they aren't taking advantage of it yet. I watch it every day and I have not seen 1 promo for the living room, saw 1 for law and order but didn't see any mention of new eps returning Thursdays. The only show I constantly keep seeing promo's for is that awful show Wonderland
Pepcchio May 15, 2015 3:44 pm
There's a big gap in the numbers between MC & the rest of TEN'S content. I can't see anything else they have to offer that will give them million plus ratings after MC ends. Maybe a reboot of Australian Idol would work.
tvf May 15, 2015 3:43 pm
I think the Downton Abbey Christmas special episode lost something when 7 aired it in two episodes as opposed to movie length.
krowbar May 15, 2015 11:28 am
What utter rubbish!Channel 9 trying to denigrate other programs,watched A C A trying to do a stitch up job on the SBS struggle street doco…what a pathetic,unbalanced,biased performance by a 'reporter' who should know better or left his skills in the locker room.What's worst is they tried this stunt over 2 consecutive nights…..and boosted SBS ratings.Unbelievable!
Gaz May 15, 2015 11:57 am
I was amazed to see the couple from Struggle Street on ACA saying they would do it all over again, after trying to get the show stopped. And saying that more money and resources should be directed to people in Mt Druitt, omg, we've seen exactly what they do with their welfare payments.
digitalboy May 15, 2015 11:27 am
As John McAlpine once said "Look at the numbers that matter" – Masterchef won every key demo last night – and most of the week as well.
David Knox May 15, 2015 11:29 am
Sure, but the numbers that matter are also network share, including Timeshifted and Demos, not just one show. Masterchef has had a great week.
Bishop May 15, 2015 11:18 am
David – if you look at Fri/Sat figures since AFL started and add in the bump that Seven has been getting on consolidated vs overnights, you would think Seven will win the week on all people by a comfortable margin, say 1%. This means Seven will have won the first 12 weeks straight. It also means Nine can't beat Seven in a particularly soft period for Seven where its commercial share is tracking in the mid 30s. Nine is targeting 40% revenue share and according to SMI up to March its possible it will achieve it, and on top of that its beating Seven on SMI revenue share. How is this possible given the consolidated all people commercial share to date where Nine is in the mid 30s and Seven is above 40% and Seven has won all weeks. Is it due to 1) demographics, state factors or VOD skewing the figures so Oztam All People doesn't fully correlate with revenue share any more 2) the SMI…
Guy May 15, 2015 10:18 am
It's great to see a closer battle each night instead of one network just dominating. Masterchef is great this year and the show is going from strength to strength. Lets hope it keeps up for the rest of the season.


Alice Josephine (Cluff) Ellsworth passed away on April 11, 2018 in Mesa, AZ at the age of 88.
Alice Jo was born on December 9, 1929 near Pearce, AZ to Alfred Orval and Clea Emily (Nielsen) Cluff. She graduated from Mesa High School in 1947 and from Arizona State College in 1951. In 1951, she married Lloyd Reed Ellsworth, and they welcomed six children into their home.
Alice Jo was a devoted and talented homemaker. One of her favorite hobbies was family history work. Alice Jo was an active and dedicated member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She served in many capacities, including two full-time missions.
Alice Jo is survived by her children, Scott (Lynette), Doug (Diane), Steve (Susanna), Nancy (Kelly Hall), David, and Michael (Kimberly). She is also survived by 31 grandchildren and 44 great-grandchildren. Her posterity remembers her for her kindness, her selfless service, and her testimony of Jesus Christ.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, April 21, 2018, at 11 a.m. Aspen Ward LDS Chapel, 1249 S. 48th St. in Mesa, Arizona.
Friends may call at Bunker's Garden Chapel, 33 N. Centennial Way, Mesa, Arizona, on Friday, April 20, 2018 from 6 to 8 p.m. There will be no viewing prior to services on Saturday morning.
Interment, City of Mesa Cemetery, 1212 N. Center St, Mesa, Arizona, Saturday morning at 9 a.m. prior to services.
In lieu of flowers, consider donations to LDS Church Humanitarian Fund, LDS Church General Missionary Fund, or Child Crisis, AZ.
You used horseshoe nails to hold the tacos together? We will miss your many acts of love.
Our deep condolences to the family and especially to Reed.
A memory from Kathy: I loved Alice Jo! I was her visiting teacher when we first moved to this area and we were all in the same ward. One time when I visited her I was admiring her vast (and carefully picked) book collection. As we talked about books, she told me that one of her favorites was The Pearl. She had a paperback copy of it and gave it to me! I went home and read it quickly so that I could report back to her the next week. We had a wonderful chat and talked about it many times.
From both of us When each one of our children were given their Patriarchal blessing from her husband she welcomed the parents with WONDERFUL "fireside chats" and was just the most fun to talk to. She will be missed.
Sister Ellsworth (Alice Jo) was wonderful. So many times she would host us teenagers (Michael Ron and friends) saying I'd rather have you here than at the picture show. Liselle and I enjoyed interactions with her and appreciate her kindness and humor. One time Mike, John Duke, Nate Skinner and I were going to go fishing at West Clear Creek and planned to wake very early in the morning to leave. So we slept over at the Ellsworth home and Alice Jo woke up and made us pancakes at 3 AM to feed us before we left. Such a great example of selfless service to others, including a bunch of teenage boys. Happy reunion for Reed and Alice Jo! Nothing but happy memories and the greatest respect for her. Condolences to the Ellsworth family.
So sad to hear about Alice Jo's passing. I counted her as a very dear and special friend.
Love and blessings to all her family.


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Combating Bacteria: A New Approach to Multi-Drug Resistance
BY YUSHA SHUN
Over the last decade, antibiotic-resistant bacteria have proliferated; according to the CDC, at least 90,000 deaths a year in the U.S. are due to bacterial infections, with a majority of these infections being resistant to some antibiotic. Alarmingly, hospitals and other health-care facilities have been the epicenter for the outbreak of drug-resistant bugs, simply because these places allow for bacteria to enter the bloodstream and open wounds most quickly. Bacterial infections caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria are a serious threat to public health because of their virulence and resilience to many forms of treatment.
There are two major types of MDR bacteria — gram-positive and gram-negative, distinguished by how these bacteria stain on a Gram test. Although gram-positive MDR bacteria such as the well-known methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are still a major threat, there have been many developments of new antibiotics that should work effectively again them (at least for the time being). However, gram-negative MDR bacteria are much more concerning; these bacteria have an additional outer membrane that has effectively halted progress in drug development that can kill them. For this reason, there is currently a lack of drug candidates for this type of bacteria, posing a huge threat to global health.
Last month, though, in a study published in Nature Microbiology, researchers have described a new tool that has great potential in tackling these MDR gram-negative bacteria. They describe a new class of antimicrobial agents called structurally nanoengineered antimicrobial peptide polymers (SNAPPs); these so-called SNAPPs are engineered by a special type of peptide synthesis process. Two SNAPPs, S16 and S32, mimic naturally occurring anti-microbial peptides and have shown great results when tested against a range of MDR bacteria.
Specifically, researchers incubated SNAPPs with bacteria in a lab setting, and S16 and S32 were equally effective against strains of MDR gram-negative species, as drug resistance was not detected even after 600 generations of bacterial growth. They made sure that these peptides were not harmful to mammals by mixing the SNAPPs with human red blood cells and consequently observed no undesired interactions. The researchers also tested S16 and S32 in mouse models infected with MDR A. baumanii: treatment with S16 enabled survival of all mice for 24 hours, while 50% of the control mice died.
The scientists also ran experiments to determine what exactly in these SNAPPs can cause the death of MDR-resistant gram-negative bacteria. They found that the polymer peptide disrupts the outer membrane of these MDR bacteria because it can cross the membrane and the layers below that, leading to unregulated movement of ions across the membrane. SNAPPs can also cause the bacterial cell to spontaneously lyse (high concentrations) or cause the cell to follow programmed death (low concentrations).
This new research is crucial in facing this new global threat of multi-drug resistant gram-negative bacteria. For the first time, a suitable class of drug candidates that can not only destroy these bacteria but are also compatible with the mammalian body has been proposed. These SNAPPs may be the key to eliminating these unwanted pests that are resistant to any conventional method of antibiotic treatment. Hopefully, SNAPP-based drugs will be quickly developed and undergo clinical trials in the near future.
http://www.nature.com/nrd/journal/v15/n11/full/nrd.2016.224.html
http://aac.asm.org/content/52/3/813.full
http://www.nature.com/articles/nmicrobiol2016162
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/321/5887/356.full.pdf
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An Ancient Solar System...: Where is the most distant statue?
Human beings love to put up statues, effigies, busts, and monuments. They're such a feature of modern civilisation that we don't even see them really. But we also use them as markers, and place them out in the wilderness to show that well, we've come out here.
So... have you ever wondered where the furthest statue from civilisation is?
The teeny statue is a memorial to the astronauts and cosmonauts who died during the space race. Sculpted in aluminium by Paul Van Hoeydonck, the Apollo 15 crew placed it on the Moon's Hadley Rille on August 1, 1971 without fanfare.
It's only 8.5 centimetres long, but as memorials go it is spectacular for its location alone - and it is truly alone: The next nearest human structure is the remains of the Luna 2 probe, hundreds of kilometres away.
Above: A map of all th landngs onthe Moon's near side, courtesy of Forbes magazine.
So, next time you look up at the Moon, remember the fallen astronaut looking back at you for eternity – I wonder when it will see a close up visitor again....?


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My retirement sentiments are best expressed by describing my emotional farewell to work, and my last day at the office. I was prompted to write this retirement story after seeing the 5 star movie for retirees...About Schmidt.
The final few weeks before retirement are a bit surreal. I wonder if I might awaken to find that I was dreaming, and that I'm only fifty, not sixty.
I must be stoic, optimistic, and even cheerful. There are lots of practical things to attend to, interesting things to occupy my mind. So much to be grateful for, and so much to look forward to. And all the while, being the diligent person I am its business as usual, or is it?
There are retirement letters to write, final emails to send and phone calls to make. It's time to think about my retirement speech. Do I tell a retirement joke, or use a retirement quotation?
I have several lunches to attend, hosted by soon to be former business contacts. Everybody congratulates me, says how great it's been working with me. "It won't be the same without you Greg." I appreciate those sentiments. They all insist I stay in touch, and some of them say they envy me.
I have the final retirement financial planning meeting with our pension provider and taxation advisor. The tax free lump sum, part of the pension arrangement, represents more cash than I've ever had in my life! Why wouldn't I be cheerful?
And I have the dream holiday to look forward to. That holiday will be unique because I won't be checking my text messages or emails and there will be no reason to call the office. And best of all, when it over, I won't be returning to hundreds of emails, voice mails and unopened post. Yes indeed, why wouldn't I be cheerful, my retirement sentiments exactly!
I wonder when I'll wear the suit again. It's too formal for my future plans. I'll not miss the tie. I hardly need the briefcase today, but I bring it anyway. The route to work is well established. I could almost drive it with my eyes closed, and it hasn't changed much in 26 years. I remember the notorious Kinsale roundabout before they built the flyover, spaghetti junction we called it. I recall some days bringing my children to school, and if it rained the traffic slowed, and maybe I was under pressure to make that important 9 am meeting. I got impatient when they switched the radio from Morning Ireland to Hits and Memories. There were sunny mornings when I thought it would be nice to have the day off, and ...now I can have every day off.
My office looks bare and already there are few traces of my presence there for 26 years. I have already removed all my photographs, certificates and testimonials. The walls will need repainting. My desk, which was always neat, is empty now.
I have disposed of most of my files; they would be meaningless to my successor. In fact I had kept many of them beyond their usefulness to myself. And yet they were records of my life's labour-trade negotiations, strategic plans, creative marketing ideas, budgets and accounts.
I change my voicemail to announce that I am no longer with the company, "Please press 9 to return to the operator." I redirect emails to my private email address or to the company address info@..., as applicable.
Because I'm going to lunch with some close work colleagues, and meeting a larger group after work for drinks and snacks, we can avoid the formal farewell as I leave the office.
I switch off the lights for the last time, holding my emotions in check and I know that this is a scene I will run over in my mind in years to come.
My retirement sentiments are elaborated on in My Retirement Story which offers retirement advice and expresses my retirement wishes.
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Tea Tephi Defended
by Steve Phillips (8 May 2017, 12 Iyar, 5777)
Shalom Yair
 Baruch ben Neriah. Tea Tephi and a Royal Cup of Tea!
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/bible/jeremiah/baruch.html
[In which we express severe reservations concerning the story of Tea Tephi]
I agree that the British Israelites are poor at giving references. In referring to Tea/Tephi, they are, however, quoting Frederick Glover's work "England, The Remnant of Judah, and the Israel of Ephraim", a copy of which can either be read online or be downloaded (pdf, ePUB, Kindle) free of charge from: https://archive.org/details/englandremnantj01glovgoog. You do not need to open an account, but if you do, that also is free.
Glover is not wrong in what he says and his arguments stand the test of time, although his knowledge of Hebrew was somewhat lacking. Glover's work is actually well-referenced, though, to be fair, whilst the material on which he was relying was well-known at the time, they have since fallen into obscurity, and have as good as been 'buried', as though they did not exist.
When these people talk about Tea Tephi, they actually mean Tea aka Tephi, the two names being used interchangeably by different bards. The best discussion of the subject (there are others) can be found in an article written by the renowned Irish archaeologist, George Petrie, entitled, On the History and Antiquities of Tara Hill in Vol. 18 of The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, issued 1 Jan 1839. See in particular the comments starting on page 130, Â see http://archive.org/stream/jstor-30078991/30078991#page/n107/mode/1up. Be aware, however, that Tea's 'marriage' to a fictitious Heremon is an allegorical association. Heremon is usually dated around 500 years later. (See comments by Edward Gwynn on p.59 of the Todd Lecture Series Vol. 8 referenced below.) According to my research, Heremon actually dates to around 700-800 years after Queen Tea, who was in reality married to someone called Gede Ollgothach, whose existence is confirmed by the Greek writer Plutarch who called him Geder. (NB: I am keeping the source to myself fttb.) The name Ollgothach will have been pronounced Oliyata and appears to be Hebrew. The name seems to mean 'raised/elevated/promoted by G-d' (ayyin lamedh yod vav tav yod hay). The letter 'g' in Gaelic was often silent, so that, for example, Tigernach was pronounced Tierna (The History of Ireland Vol. 1, p.71, fn. , Thomas Moore in the 1843 copy but p.138 in the 1858 copy), Lugaid as Lowaye (Four Masters, Vol. 1, p.68, fn.p) etc. As for Queen Tea, when we follow the route the Irish bards say the first Milesian party took after leaving Egypt, we find that two cities have been named in her honour, thereby giving credence to the story. I can assure you that dolmens and megaliths are not the only waymarks left by the Ten Tribes of Israel.
For further discussions on Queen Tea aka Tephi, you might like to refer to the notes and corrections to Petrie's work contained in Royal Irish Academy, Todd Lecture Series Vol. 8, The Metrical Dindshenchas,Part 1, p.59, Edward Gwynn, Dublin 1903. Follow link: http://archive.org/stream/toddlectureserie09royauoft#page/n179/mode/2up. See also the article entitled The Hill of Tara in Journal of The British Archaeological Association, Vol. 1, p.272 ff, R. H. McDonald, London 1895. Follow link: http://archive.org/stream/journalofbritishns01brit#page/271/mode/1up. I find it worrying when people claim that they cannot find any mention of Tea/Tephi. It makes me wonder what sort of research they claim to be doing, especially in this digital age when it only takes a few key words typed into an internet search engine to produce results. It is also worrying that, like sheep, people perpetuate those errors without checking the original source material.
My research indicates that Queen Tea aka Tephi arrived in Ireland during the time of Nebuchadnezzar II. She arrived with the FIRST Milesian invasion which comprised the Tuatha de Danann, Firbolgs, Gadelians and Nemedians all of whom are said to be 'sons' of Seara, son of Sru, son of Easru. (General History of Ireland, p.75, Geoffrey Keating, Dublin 1861, Â see http://archive.org/stream/keatingsgeneralh00keat#page/75/mode/1up.) The arrival of 'Niall Noigiallach' aka Mil Espagne aka Niall son of Fenius Farsaid marked the SECOND Milesian invasion, but the Irish historians have confused the two invasions so that the people involved in the first invasion have become part of the second.
The Tuatha de Danann arrived in Egypt during the time of Psammetichus I. From Egypt, they brought with them the famous stone known as Lia Fail (Stone of Destiny). I would point out that the stone phallus which today stands at Tara is NOT Lia Fail. The phallus is associated with Baal worship, and all the Irish historians are unanimous in telling us that Baal worship was introduced during the time of Tuathal Techtmar, at a much later date. Lia Fail has been identified from an early period as being the stone which was until recent times kept in Westminster Cathedral on which many of the kings of England were crowned. (pp.28 & 66-67 in Ogygia Vol. 1, Roderic O'Flaherty Dublin 1793.) In one ancient text, mention is made of "Onaoi, a harper who came with the sons of Milidh to Ireland". (General History of Ireland p.103 in Vol. 2, Geoffrey Keating, translated by Rev Patrick Dinneen, London 1908, Â see https://archive.org/stream/historyireland03keatgoog#page/n144/mode/1up.) The Irish did not realise that onaoi is the Hebrew word for ship, nor that the harp was brought over to Ireland with the Tuatha de Danann in the first Milesian invasion.
Allegory goes way above most people's head. They either dismiss the stories as fantasy and consign them to the bin labelled 'mythology', or they turn the allegorical creations into actual personages. Cuchulainn and Dagda (var Daghda) are examples of the former and Heber, Heremon and Niall Noigiallach are examples of the latter. I have already demonstrated in a previous email that Cuchulainn, "the bright shining hero", who was renowned for his wisdom, was not a person, but a tribe of people named after Calchol son of Zerach. Dagda, the mythical king of the Tuatha de Danann (Early Irish History & Mythology pp. 320 & 469), who was "the god of wisdom" as well as other names "which reveal him as the sun-god" (i.e. 'bright and shining' - the same meaning as Zerach), is well-known to us as the tribe of Darda son of Zerach. 'He' again was a tribe of people.
Ptolemy's Geography provides us with a snapshot of the world in the middle of the second century CE. The problem is that Ptolemy's map of Ireland does not represent the Ireland which one would expect if Heber and Heremon had already arrived. Unable to cope with this realisation, Thomas F. O'Rahilly tried to push back Ptolemy's map of Ireland to some earlier date. Of course, although he would have liked to have pushed it back to some even more remote period, he realised that he could not fix a date earlier than the time of Pytheas (fourth century BCE):
"The conclusion is that Ptolemy's account of Ireland is considerably older than his account of Britain, which (at any rate so far as Roman Britain is concerned) probably REFLECTS THE BRITAIN OF THE EARLY SECOND CENTURY A.D. Ptolemy's Irish names, in fact, must be derived, directly or indirectly, from some geographer WHO LIVED SEVERAL CENTURIES BEFORE Ptolemy's time. Â No such detailed account of Ireland could have been composed by any Greek earlier than Pytheas; nor do we know of any later Greek traveller to whom it might be attributed. Accordingly it is not rash to suppose that Ptolemy's account of Ireland is based on that of Pytheas, whose voyage took place ca. 325 B.C., a date which would harmonize very well with the antiquity of the account as proved by internal evidence." (Early Irish History & Mythology pp.40-41, Dublin 1999, first published 1946. Emphases mine.)
Bear in mind that the works of Pytheas have not survived. Pytheas has become a convenient 'hook' on which academics can hang their theories. Having made this claim that Ptolemy's map of Ireland was based on the works of Pytheas, O'Rahilly then proceeds to well and truly shoot himself in the foot by admitting that Pytheas could not possibly have been responsible either for the lines of longitude or the lines of latitude used by Ptolemy, hence these must have been added at some later date: "either by Ptolemy himself or by one of his predecessors" (Ibid.) This later geographer, whoever he may have been, was not only able to recognise the names used by Pytheas, but FAILED TO UPDATE THE MAP WITH THE MORE MODERN NAMES! Is it not much simpler to accept that Ptolemy's map of Ireland represents Ireland of the second century CE? In which case, even as late as this, Heber and Heremon had not arrived in Ireland!
Also, the reason why the city of Emania is not mentioned in Ptolemy's map is because these descendants of the tribe of Heman son of Zerach had not at that time arrived. (These are the people who gave their name to the Amanus Mountains in Cilicia, the region of Emania in northern Greece, the city state of Iamonem on the island of Minorca etc.) According to Pliny, who called them Aemenienses, they were at that time (i.e. middle of the first century CE) located in Portugal somewhere to the east of Lisbon. The suggestion that Emania was built around 300 BCE is therefore also shown to be false.
I would like to stress that Scota originally only had two sons: Heber and Heremon. (Early Irish History op. cit. p.195.) The Irish academic, Roderic O'Flaherty, quoting John Colgan, an Irish Franciscan Friar, records the fact that:
"our historians every where say that Scota the daughter of Pharaoh, was rather called Scytha by her own people, BECAUSE she was given in marriage to a Scythian, contrary to the custom of her country." (Ogygia Vol. 2, p.258, Roderic O'Flaherty, Dublin 1793. (Emphasis mine.)
Quite simply, this is an ALLEGORICAL story of Iberian Scythians (i.e. Heber) and Armenian Scythians (i.e. Heremon) who arrived in Ireland from Scythia (i.e. the 'mother' Scota) via Spain in the third and fourth centuries CE. This mass exodus of the Scythian tribes (Heber and Heremon) from Armenia coincides with the rise of the Sassanid Empire, which occurred at the beginning of the third century CE. (This was sometime around 224 CE, which explains why Ptolemy's map does not represent the Ireland of the time of Heber and Heremon.) Whether they were forced out by the emerging Sassanids, or whether the Sassanids came to power because of the vacuum created by their departure is difficult to say, but I would suggest that the latter was most likely the case. When we realise this, we can begin to correctly piece together the Irish history.
According to the legend, Scota died on arrival in Ireland. This death of the queen on arrival is a recurring theme amongst these allegorical tales and seems to represent the casting off of the old life for the new. In the case of Scota, who is said to have been the 'daughter' of Pharaoh Cingcris according to the one legend, and 'daughter' of Nectanebo according to another, will have been well over 500 years old when she arrived in Ireland. I should imagine that, at that ripe old age, she must have fallen flat on her face! Even Abraham was only 175 years old when he died. But, of course, this story of Scota and her two sons is allegory!
In the case of Niall Noigiallach, an Irish bard has written an allegorical tale of enmity between the indigenous Errain (represented by Mugmedon's first 'wife' Mongfind, a name which means 'SLAVE OF PHOENICIA'!!) and the newly arrived, great powerful federation of tribes known collectively as 'Niall Noigiallach', who emerged from the region between Corunna and the River Deva in northern Spain (represented by Niall's 'mother', Cairren Chasdub). In Gaelic, Cairenn Chasdub means 'Cairenn the black-legged'. It is actually a play on the words 'Corunna and casa Deva'.
In Gaelic, Noigiallach (pronounced Noyala) means 'nine battles' or similar. It is a play on the word 'Nelead'. For the benefit of those who are not familiar with Greek history, the Neleads were a powerful family who at one time ruled from Miletus in Anatolia. Niall's son's name is given as Loegaire, this being a play on 'G-d of Eire'. His father's name is given as Mugmedon, a name which means 'Slave of Medon'. Now, who in their right mind would call their son 'Slave of Medon'? The same goes for Mongfind, a name which means 'Slave of Phoenicia'? When we look at the Greek records, we see that Medon ruled from Athens, whilst Neleus (i.e. Niall), who refused to accept Medon's rule, instead ruled from Miletus in Anatolia.
"A few years afterwards MEDON and NEILUS [i.e. Niall Noigiallach], the oldest of the sons of Codrus, quarrelled about the rule, and NEILUS refused to allow MEDON to rule over him, because he was lame in one foot. The disputants agreed to refer the matter to the Delphic oracle, and the Pythian priestess gave the kingdom of Athens to MEDON. So NEILUS and the rest of the sons of Codrus set out to found a colony, taking with them any Athenian who wished to go with them, but the greatest number of their company was composed of Ionians." (Pausanias, Description of Greece vii.ii.1, emphases mine.)
Niall Noigiallach is the person other Irish bards have decided to call Mil Espagne, a king who supposedly lived around 1,000 BCE! He is also the person another Irish bard has decided to call Niall son of Fenius Farsaid who supposedly lived around 2,000 BCE! This, however, is how allegories work, but the Irish historians have not understood what they are playing with.
The names Er, Ir, Ire and Eire are all variant spellings of the same name. Er was the husband of Tamar who was smitten by HaShem, but Judah fulfilled the Torah commandment to raise up 'seed' to the house of Er. People generally have difficulty with these multiple spellings of the same name, but this practice was commonplace in ancient texts. For example, in Gaelic, the city of Tamar in Ireland was variously written Temur, Temrach, Teamrach, Temraidh, Teamhuir, Teamhair, Temoria, Tara or Taragh to name but a few variations. The suggestion that Teamhuir in its various forms means 'house, palace or town of Queen Tea', 'wall of Tea' or, as suggested by the Irish historian George Petrie, 'house with walls', is all highly contrived. In an old Irish book known as The Four Masters, it is said by John O'Donovan that: Teamair: "was very common in Ireland as a woman's name". From this, we can be assured that all of these spellings of the name are variations on the name which is otherwise written Tamar. The River Tamar in northern Israel was called Tamyras by Strabo (16.2.22) and is even today known as Nahr Damur. It takes its name from the tribe of Calchol who at one time dwelt there. The River Nelo (now the Ulla), which, according to Pliny, was known to the Celts as Neri (both names being variant spellings of Niall), was called the Tamar by Ptolemy. Whilst Ptolemy and Strabo called the inhabitants of this region Arrotrebae, Pliny called them Tamarci (i.e. Tamarites) and Iadovi (i.e. Jews). The Domnian (Tuatha de Danann) who settled in Devon built the city of Tamar, on the River Tamar. They will also have been responsible for naming the River Isaca (= Isaac, now the River Exe, note the metathesis). These Domnians are understood to have come from Leinster in Ireland where the city of Tamar once stood. In my opinion, it is no coincidence that the flag of Devon is the same Emerald Green as the flag of Leinster.
I could add a lot more, but this should hopefully give you some idea of what you are playing with when dealing with the Irish records. In 1 Kings 4:31 we read that Solomon's wisdom was greater than that of the sons of Zerach. It seems that, even today, the wisdom of these sons of Zerach is beyond most people's comprehension.


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Jimmy Buffett- and Sean Parker-backed Stageit, an online platform where people pay to see live music, is seeking Series B funding to help it move into other areas of live online performance, chief executive Stephen White told Insider.
Eleven-year-old Stageit has had extraordinary growth as the pandemic has closed much of the live music business dominated by Live Nation and AEG. The company processed more than 850,000 credit cards and hosted 6,000 events online in 2020. Stageit paid out $6 million to artists last year, the company told Insider. In 2019, the company made just $500,000, according to Variety.
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Stageit is just one example of a growing sphere of celebrity direct-to-consumer self-serve platforms that give fans access to their favorite actors, musicians, and other creatives.
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After having a pear, a banana, and a very green juice for breakfast, I broke fast for real by having this for lunch. A BKT--bacon, kale, tomato sandwich. I almost forgot to grill the whole thing in the bacon grease. Almost. Yum.
That there is my boy Deacon. As he told some pedestrians: "today was my first time riding my bike in action!" Which means, of course, that he started, went, and stopped on his own steam. He just looked his fears square in the eye and slapped them upside the head. And this after he burst into tears earlier in the day when Ellie removed his training wheels. We celebrated with FroYo. Which is another great reason that this day was good.
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Q: Which linearly ordered sets have the property that their completion is equipotent with their powerset? As is well-known, ZFC proves the equipotency of $\mathbb{R}$ and $\mathcal{P}(\mathbb{Q}).$ Is there a nice characterization of those linearly ordered sets $L$ which, like $\mathbb{Q}$, have the property that their completion by Dedekind-cuts $\mathcal{C}(L)$ is equipotent with their powerset $\mathcal{P}(L)$?
Edit. At the risk of introducing a non-standard concept into a perfectly standard question, I am especially interested in the case where $L$ is unbounded and "locally homogeneous," in the sense that for all $x,y \in L$ and all $x',y' \in L,$ we have that if $x<y$ and $x'<y'$, then the interval $(x,y)$ is isomorphic to the interval $(x',y')$. (The purpose of this condition is just to cut out all the crazy mish-mash orders involving mixtures of scattered and dense linear orders with complete and incomplete segments all smashed together into some crazy pattern. See Arthur's answer here for an example of a homogeneous order different from $\mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{Q}$).

A: For countable linear orders, there is a nice characterization, which I see is conjectured in the comments.
Theorem. The following are equivalent for a countable linear
order $\langle L,\lt\rangle$.

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*The Dedekind completion of $L$ has size continuum.

*The Dedekind completion of $L$ is uncountable.

*$L$ contains a copy of $\mathbb{Q}$.
Proof. Clearly $3\to 1\to 2$, so it remains to see that $2\to 3$.
Suppose $L$ is countable, but has an uncountable Dedekind
completion. Let's build a copy of $\mathbb{Q}$ in $L$ directly.
Since the completion of $L$ has no
increasing or decreasing $\omega_1$ sequence, there must be two
nodes $a_0<a_1$ in $L$, such that the interval between them has an
uncountable Dedekind completion. Continuing, we may find
$a_{\frac12}$ between them, such that both intervals
$[a_0,a_{\frac12}]$ and $[a_{\frac12},a_1]$ have uncountable
Dedekind completion. Thus, by induction, we may construct a
countable dense suborder of $L$, and so $\langle L,\lt\rangle$
contains a copy of $\mathbb{Q}$. QED
In the uncountable case, things are little more complicated. For example, there are complications caused by GCH-type issues. If
$2^\omega=2^{\omega_1}$, then already a countable suborder of a linear order $L$ of size
$\omega_1$ is sufficient to make the Dedekind completion have size $2^{\omega_1}$, since if $\mathbb{Q}$ is there the completion will have size continuum. In
general, for orders of size $\delta$, one should look at the
smallest $\kappa\leq\delta$ for which $2^\kappa>\delta$. There are some basis theorems for uncountable orders that will probably be useful.
Edit. I removed the previous second, alternative, proof of the theorem, which had appealed to the Cantor-Bendixson derivatives, because it doesn't actually work the way that I had claimed. For example, if $L$ is $\mathbb{Q}$ copies of $\mathbb{Z}$, then every point in $L$ is isolated, cast out on the first step, yet the Dedekind completion is still uncountable and there is still a copy of $\mathbb{Q}$ in $L$.

A: This is a complement to Joel's answer. For uncountable orders, I don't think there will be a nice characterization in terms of embedding a canonical suborder, at least without some assumption about cardinal arithmetic, even if one only considers orders that are locally homogeneous. I'll argue that it's consistent that there are locally homogeneous orders $L_1, L_2$ of size $\aleph_1$ whose completions are of size $2^{\aleph_1}$ but that have the property that no uncountable order $X$ embeds into both $L_1$ and $L_2$.
First we need some preliminary facts. In general, if $L$ is uncountable, it falls into one of three categories:
1) $L$ embeds a copy of either $\omega_1$ or $-\omega_1$ (or both),
2) $L$ does not embed either $\omega_1$ or $-\omega_1$ but embeds an uncountable suborder of $\mathbb{R}$,
3) $L$ does not embed $\omega_1$, $-\omega_1$, or any uncountable suborder of $\mathbb{R}$.
The first is the broadest of the three categories, and I don't have much to say about it. The second and third have been widely studied, however. Lines of type 3 are called Aronszajn lines. They exist in ZFC, and it's relatively straightforward to show they necessarily have size $\aleph_1$. It follows that since they do not embed either $\omega_1$ or its reverse, that all of their gaps can be approached by countable sequences, and consequently their Dedekind completions always have size $[\omega_1]^{\omega}=2^{\aleph_0}$. Thus their completions will have the size of their powerset if and only if $2^{\aleph_0} = 2^{\aleph_1}$.
Lines of type 2 in general can be of size larger than $\aleph_1$. Yet it's possible to show, by a slightly more complicated argument, that their completions must also have size $2^{\aleph_0}$. So again, they will have the desired property iff $2^{|L|} = 2^{\aleph_0}$.
Now, as to the original claim: assume MA + $2^{\aleph_0}=\aleph_2$ + ``all $\aleph_1$-dense sets of reals are order-isomorphic." It's a result of Baumgartner that this is consistent relative to ZFC. Then $2^{\aleph_0}=2^{\aleph_1}=\aleph_2$. Let $L_1$ be any $\aleph_1$-dense subset of $\mathbb{R}$. Then in particular, since every open subinterval of $L_1$ will also be $\aleph_1$-dense, $L_1$ will be locally homogeneous.
We let $L_2$ be a particular type of Aronszajn line, called an $\aleph_1$-dense nonstationary Countryman line. The actual properties of such lines are irrelevant for our purposes except that they are Aronszajn and, by a result of Todorcevic, are isomorphic under MA$_{\aleph_1}$ to their restriction to every open interval (and so locally homogeneous).
Then $L_1$ and $L_2$ are as claimed. Both have size $\aleph_1$, and their completions are both of size $2^{\aleph_1}$. Further, there can be no uncountable order $X$ that embeds into both $L_1$ and $L_2$, since that would yield an uncountable suborder of $L_2$ isomorphic to an uncountable suborder of $\mathbb{R}$, contradicting the definition of being Aronszajn.
The relevant references are:
Baumgartner, "All $\aleph_1$-dense sets of reals can be isomorphic," Fund. Math. 79 (1973) 101-106;
Todorcevic, Walks on ordinals and their characteristics, Vol. 263 of Progress in Mathematics, Birkhäuser (2007).

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Travelers Today By JC Santos
Updated: Mar 22, 2017 06:21 AM EDT
Every country has its amazing plethora of delicious cuisines made for five-star star hotels and restaurants. But on the other end is the cheaper and adventurous street food adventures or homemade dishes by locals travelers could partake in the form of snacks in the afternoon, including convenient ones that could be brought into parks or beaches while enjoying the view.
Here are some of the different ways on how people snack around the world.
In New Zealand, nothing is simpler than having a cheese roll for an afternoon delight. According to Traveler Australia, this simple post-lunch delicacy is served only in Dunedin and Invercargill with bakeries and cafes offering this dish made of grated cheese and evaporated milk, and served with authentic French onion soup.
In a typical Japanese afternoon, neighborhoods steam or microwave soy beans for snacking. Japan's Edamame has a rich amount of vitamin K and folate. These pods are then salted or even boiled with garlic to taste. If not eaten for the afternoons, most Japanese restaurants serve them on the side.
The best appetizer in any Persian or Arabian restaurant is a good serving of hummus. A combination of chickpeas, olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, and tahini is something only a five-star restaurant -- and a great local household -- could offer. In most Middle Eastern homes, hummus is served with lightly-grilled pita bread to afternoon visitors
When visiting Vietnam, street hawkers will attract travelers due to the scent of their summer rolls. Authentic cooking is found in Vietnam's streets. It is healthy, too! According to Huffington Post, the typical summer roll contains lettuce, carrots and cilantro. The mint also adds to the thrill and unique characteristic of this Vietnamese dish.
In New York, pizza will always be a favorite. The city has plenty of hot dogs but pizza is the true winner of an afternoon snack in the Big Apple. The Internet memes were right -- who could resist pizza if its tomato sauce, mozzarella and other cheeses were staring?
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>There's nothing quite like being cooped up in your mom's place after 5 months of solo travel. I returned to Minneapolis on the 10th of April. It didn't make sense to get an apartment of my own until June, so I've been staying with my mother in her downtown condo. Between old habits and the cable TV, I've been completely out of sorts. I don't feel like myself here. The late spring hasn't helped either.
During my first week back in the USA, I spent half my time freaking about business development logistics and spent the other half of my time figuring out how to leave Minneapolis.
My second week back, the biz dev logistics freakout got the best of me, I celebrated my birthday, reconnected with some friends and discovered (again) why I love this city.
On week three I was bowled over by the JA-SIG conference, which happened to be in St Paul this year. I gave presentations on three days out of four. The info was good and the conversations were great, but my presentations could have been better.
It's now week four and I've finally started meditating again. I think this is my first moment of reflection since leaving London. As I sit here and look at the midnight skyline, I'm trying to call up a bit of perspective. These past month's travels are like a dream. This moment is like a dream. Why do I always forget to pay attention?
>Glad you had a good time at JA-SIG — sorry I missed your particular presentations.
>This sounds incredibly familiar; I am in my first week home, freaking out about finding a summer job and how to get back to berlin.have no concrete plans and the past semester feels like a dream. Did get to talk to my art mentor and at least now I am thinking. Maybe that will get me somewhere.


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Time for Scouse rap to step up
on	 14th October 2009 News, Opinion
Getintothis' Nick Peet on why it's time for someone to take Scouse rap overground.
This week marks the anniversary of one of music's most popular genres – hip-hop.
On October 13 1979 rap music went mainstream when the Sugar Hill Gang's Rapper's Delight became the first hip-hop track ever to hit the US Billboard charts.
Shame then that Liverpool's history in the noble art of hip-hop could be scribbled on the back of a matchbox.
The city that spawned four boys that would go on to change the face of popular music forever has the kind of rap back catalogue that would make even Vanilla Ice wince.
The banks of the Mersey have absorbed every other sound from stars of soul and folk to classical and country developing their style with a Scouse twang.
But the hip-hop influence, has for almost three decades now, passed Merseyside by.
The highlight of Scouse rap remains Liverpool's FC's 1988 FA Cup final anthem the Anfield Rap, while John Barnes is the nearest thing to Jay-Z that we've produced after his stint on England's 1990 World Cup anthem World in Motion.
During last year's Capital of Culture celebrations Toxteth rapper Riuven took to the stage at the grand opening of the ECHO Arena but he's little more than a comedian at heart portraying the parody of Scouse Rap, unlike the many others taking their lyrics much more seriously.
Over the past few years British rappers have suddenly begun to emerge as genuine marketable money-making artists for cash hungry studios, no more so than Dizzee Rascal, the London rapper who is arguably the most popular musician in Britain right now.
But is Scouse Rap about to go mainstream too?
Spend half an hour on YouTube right now and you'll discover that the genre is exploding at an almost uncontrollable rate.
The likes of Mr Bang On, Kev Teezy, Renegade and DyNamic are laying down freestyle raps almost as quickly as they can be uploaded.
Kev Teezy: This is Merseyside
www.myspace.com/kevtl20
And back in August The Picket hosted a Scouse hip-hop night when names like Skech and Crude Craig spat well thought through lyrics of tales of life growing up in the real Liverpool.
Unlike a lot of British rappers there's no forced American accent it's all Scouse and straight from the streets of Croxteth, Bootle and beyond.
And it really should come as no surprise that Liverpool would be a hot-bed for hip-hop music.
After all, like New York and Los Angeles, Merseyside is a working class city with its fair share of mean streets and tough living.
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The big question now is how long will it be until the Scouse rap scene is given a genuine platform to truly become recognised?
After all, 30 years ago in back street parties in the Bronx district of New York nobody imagined then that they were creating a new sound and collective that would lead to a multi-million dollar empire.
Surely now the time has come to upgrade Liverpool's hip-hop soundbite from, "Alright Aldo', 'sound as a pound', 'I'm cushty la, what's going down?'"
Mr Bang On: Scally Thugs
http://www.myspace.com/mrbangon
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Twitter Makes Following Accounts Easier With New Connect Tab
May 4, 2016 1 min read
A new Connect tab on Twitter Inc.'s mobile app makes it easier for people to find accounts to follow, the social network said on Tuesday as it launched the new feature to attract more users.
The tab suggests a list of accounts based on those already followed, as well as popular ones in the area, product manager Ricardo Castro said in a blog post on the company's website.
Users can choose to automatically sync their address books to connect with friends and family with the tab, he said. The feature is available in Twitter's latest app on Apple Inc's iPhones or smartphones running on Alphabet Inc's Android.
Twitter, led by co-founder Jack Dorsey, has been striving to improve its interface as its growth has lagged those of social media rivals Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google.
Twitter's base grew modestly to 310 million monthly active users in the quarter ended March 31 from 305 million in the fourth quarter.
The stock fell 2.7 percent to an all-time low of $14.01 on Tuesday.
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Building Up Parents: Healthy Start's Janelle Vanderah
They say parenting is the toughest job in the world.
Thankfully, EveryStep's Healthy Start & Empowerment Project and the program's roster of dedicated case managers lend a helping hand for families in the Des Moines area.
In recognition of Parents' Day, July 28, EveryStep wants to recognize the programs and employees who work to ensure caregivers in the metro have the tools to be the best parents they can be.
Janelle Vanderah is one of those case managers, working to connect her clients to resources and services to support their families.
Vanderah, who has been a Healthy Start case manager with EveryStep for a year and a half, studied social work in college and knew early on that she wanted to work with families.
When Vanderah was 12, her brother passed away after battling cancer. She remembers the comfort she received, being surrounded by people who supported her.
"That support from family and friends was so important," she says. "That situation was very difficult, but I also knew that there were many people who have been through bigger battles than I could imagine and didn't have the support that I did. That was really when I knew I wanted to go into social work."
With both her mother and aunt working in the social work field, Vanderah was familiar with the challenges of the job.
"They were honest about the difficulty of the jobs but were also honest about how rewarding it could be," she said.
After working with the Department of Human Services' Family Safety, Risk, and Permanency Services, Vanderah was looking for a change of pace. That's when a former college classmate suggested EveryStep's Healthy Start & Empowerment Project.
The program provides case management to families in need in Polk County who are pregnant to have a child up to the age of 6.
Case managers, like Vanderah, provide visits to pregnant and parenting women who would like extra support to ensure a healthy child and family, as well as their own health. The program offers free personalized one-on-one education and health screenings for clients, and it connects them to resources and services in the community.
"Ultimately we're there to say there are things in the community for you, maybe you didn't know about them before," Vanderah says. "Sometimes there's a language barrier and they wouldn't know these resources are options."
To help these families, Vanderah relies on EveryStep's interpreters, who often make home visits with her. The EveryStep Interpretation program employs nearly 30 interpreters who speak more than 33 languages and dialects.
"When I first started the one thing I liked the most was getting to see the diversity in the area," she says. "I'd worked with interpreters before, but that was mostly in Spanish. Here we rely a lot on interpreters when visiting with clients. We rely on them to be that cultural guide, what do we do, what's acceptable."
During home visits, Vanderah and other case managers build relationships with the families and determine their immediate needs, whether that be connecting them to transportation resources for appointments or to ESL (English as a second language) classes.
"It really depends on their needs," Vanderah said. "A lot of what we do are screenings to make sure their kids are on track developmentally. If they aren't then we connect them to resources that help get them on track."
Vanderah recalls a client who scored low on a developmental screening. Vanderah was able to provide a referral for Early ACCESS, a state program that provides early intervention services.
Because of the early intervention, the family began to see improvements in their child's speech.
"It's good for the parents to realize that it's not their fault," Vanderah says of supporting parents when their child needs additional resources. "They didn't do anything wrong."
EveryStep's Healthy Start & Empowerment Project also offer several groups for clients, including parenting and prenatal classes that offer strategies for parenting and walk participants through the pregnancy and childbirth process. Other groups include a consumer meeting, which happens every three months. Parents receive a provide a meal and education, transportation and childcare.
Finally, there's a parent/child group, as well. The group focuses on activities parents can do with their children to help with development.
"These groups are important because they provide our clients with a way to connect with each other," Vanderah says.
Vanderah, who sees anywhere from three to four clients or families a day depending on their schedule, says the first month she'll likely visit a client once a week to assess their immediate needs. After that, the schedule will vary, sometimes seeing them once every other week or once a month, depending on the family's needs.
Later visits consist of educational opportunities. For instance, this month, Vanderah is discussing home safety with her families. The Healthy Start & Empowerment Project curriculum also includes topics such as safety sleep, car seat safety, and domestic violence.
"If a client has a question or shows interest in a topic, we'll bring information to them," she says. "Healthy Start does a really good job. We're there to advocate for clients, to be that support, especially those that maybe don't have that support around them."
The support EveryStep offers families extends beyond connecting them to resources and programs in their community. Sometimes employees lend a personal hand.
Earlier this year, a family who has just begun working with the Healthy Start & Empowerment Project program and Vanderah experienced a fire and lost everything in their home. Vanderah quickly reached out to her team and the entire EveryStep organization for help.
"I reached out and asked employees to donate to the family," Vanderah notes. "EveryStep Giving Tree [thrift store] even stepped in to help. It was really cool that our agency was trying to help, that employees who are trying to get through their own days took the time to give back to a client family."
While Vanderah says she enjoys building relationships with her clients, she knows the ultimate goal is to say goodbye.
"The goal is self-sufficiency," she says. "We want them to be able to do things on their own, we are there to ensure they have the resources to do that. Eventually, they don't need us anymore. It's a good thing."
To learn more about the Healthy Start & Empowerment Project program, click here. To join the EveryStep team, visit our career page.


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Apple acquires worldwide rights to "The Elephant Queen"
by DocumentaryNews | Sep 8, 2018 | Animal Kingdom
Apple has acquired the worldwide rights to Victoria Stone and Mark Deeble's documentary "The Elephant Queen" about Athena, a giant matriarch elephant who when faced with a drought must decide whether to lead her pachyderm family away from the water hole they call home or into the badlands in search of food and water.
The risk? The smallest elephants may not be strong enough to complete the trip.
Deeble and Stone immersed themselves with the elephants during the course of four years, living up close and personal with Athena and her herd, highlighting the striking similarities between elephants and people.
The film is narrated by Oscar-nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor ("12 Years A Slave," "Doctor Strange," the upcoming "Lion King"), and screened today at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Read the story at Deadline.
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In the Region Focus series of articles we focus on different regions of the world and provide tips for auditors thinking about working in these areas. If you have a particular region you would like us to investigate, please let us know here.
We have so far covered Russia, Greece, France, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, the Cayman Islands and Spain. If you would like to know more about working in these regions, please see the appropriate articles.
Is there anyone working in finance who doesn't know at least one person who has spent some time in Australia? A secondment to Australia has almost become a rite of passage for many newly qualified UK accountants, most of whom are drawn towards the country on the basis of its excellent work/ life balance, and the almost universal positive feedback of others who have worked there.
Most UK accountants will be aware that salary levels are lower than they are in the UK, but are equally likely to be aware of the fact that the cost of living is also lower. Greg Haskins, an ex-Big 4 Director and now a Director of the Australia recruitment specialist My Departure Lounge, advises that those wishing to move to Australia should, "gauge local salaries based on cost of living and real purchasing power rather than try to convert back to Sterling." Salaries for newly-qualified accountants can be up to AUS$70- 75,000 and you can expect to lose approximately 20- 32% in taxation, subject to your personal circumstances. Expats can benefit from an additional tax incentive known as the Living Away From Home Allowance ('LAFHA'), which can significantly reduce an expat's tax liability and provide more disposable income for other items such as housing. For those looking to move to Australia for the long term, it's also worth pointing out that there are a number of incentives to establish a permanent base in Australia, including a first time home owner's allowance.
The short term benefits of working as an accountant or auditor in Australia are pretty well documented, but these would certainly include excellent career prospects, unique tax incentives for expats and a lifestyle that is particularly well suited to those with an interest in sport and outdoor pursuits.
Naturally, there are variations between the major cities and people may find that one city is better suited to them than others. As a general rule, auditors and accountants looking to work in financial services will head towards Sydney and Melbourne. Those with an interest in areas such as mining and natural resources will gravitate towards Western Australia. Brisbane and Adelaide tend to be the most popular among those with families, whilst Sydney and Melbourne offer the standard city slicker package.
However, there are as always a few cautionary points to consider. For example, those who qualify for the LAFHA tend to gear their lives based on the relatively high level of disposable income they receive. If they decide to remain in Australia beyond the terms of the LAFHA, they can be caught out by living expenses that are simply too high. It's also worth pointing out that accountants are generally more highly regarded in the UK than they are in Australia. Law enjoys a far higher profile than accountancy and employers are less likely to see the wider commercial skill set and business acumen that a qualified accountant or auditor can provide. This means that the content of roles available outside the world of public practice is not as interesting as it would be in the UK. Thirdly, whilst the international community is a draw for many from the UK, it can also be a hidden trap. Those who do not make enough effort to integrate themselves socially and professionally with Australians may suffer in the short- medium term as they see their social life struggling to cope with the constant comings and goings of a transient expat community.
However, those relatively minor points aside, Australia looks likely to be the location of choice for many UK accountants for many years to come.
This special Region Focus was written by CareersinAudit.com with the help of Greg Haskins, ex-Big 4 director and now director of My Departure Lounge in Sydney.
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Tyler Ramsey, formerly lead guitarist for Band of Horses, is performing songs from his new album at Horizon Records on April 13. Photo provided.
Tyler Ramsey is as surprised as anyone that it's been almost eight years since his last solo album. But there are some pretty good reasons for that gap, most notably that for six of those years, Ramsey served as lead guitarist for the folk-rock sensation Band of Horses.
Part of the reason that Ramsey can work a little faster on his own music now is that he left Band of Horses in 2017 after several intense cycles of touring and recording.
There are moments in Ramsey's songs that are reminiscent of Neil Young in his folk-music phase, and others that bring to mind the chiming country-rock guitars and rich vocal harmonies of bands like The Byrds or the Eagles, and he explores those sounds to the fullest on his just-out album "For the Morning." The idyllic arrangements were inspired by the bucolic scenery around his home in the mountains outside Asheville, North Carolina, but the album itself has more restless origins.
In fact, some of the songs were written when Ramsey was still part of Band of Horses, most notably "A Dream of Home," a harmony-drenched midtempo rocker about being on the road and thinking of home.
Even though Ramsey is happier as a solo artist on a smaller scale than Band of Horses, he still struggles with the conflict of pursuing his music and spending time with his wife and young daughter.
The "For the Morning" album is rich with intricate, layered, full-band arrangements, which will make things interesting when Ramsey plays the material solo in a show at Horizon Records on Saturday.
The show is part of Horizon's celebration of Record Store Day, a day that recognizes independent brick-and-mortar record stores around the country.


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Le Forze di difesa territoriale (in serbo-croato Teritorijalna odbrana, TO) erano una delle quattro forze armate della Repubblica socialista federale di Jugoslavia. Costituivano una milizia di riserva indipendente dagli altri rami e autonoma nell'addestramento e nell'organizzazione, che era affidata a ciascuna delle Repubbliche federate.

Storia
Nel 1948, in seguito al dissidio tra Tito e Stalin la Jugoslavia restò un paese socialista, ma si rifiutò di entrare nel Patto di Varsavia e di sottomettersi al dominio di Mosca, adottando invece una politica di neutralità e di equidistanza dai blocchi e diventando uno dei fondatori del Movimento dei Paesi Non Allineati. Nel 1968, in seguito all'invasione sovietica della Cecoslovacchia, la dirigenza jugoslava temette la possibilità di un'aggressione sovietica, che le forze convenzionali di un piccolo paese non sarebbero riuscite a respingere. La minaccia era concreta, dato che la posizione della Jugoslavia era strategica sia nei confronti del Patto di Varsavia che della NATO e dunque sarebbe stata sicuramente invasa nel caso di un nuovo conflitto mondiale.
La nuova dottrina militare formulata nel 1969 con la Legge di Difesa Nazionale si ispirava al massiccio movimento di Resistenza partigiana che si era sviluppato in Jugoslavia durante la Seconda guerra mondiale e che era riuscito, caso unico tra tutte le Nazioni alleate, a liberare il paese quasi esclusivamente con le proprie forze (questo fatto risultò poi importante nel mantenimento dell'indipendenza politica del paese).
La dottrina militare di Difesa Totale Nazionale si basava sulla trasformazione, in caso di invasione, della popolazione sia maschile che femminile in un monolitico esercito di resistenza che avrebbe combattuto l'aggressore con tattiche di guerriglia. Le forze di difesa territoriale sarebbero state organizzate con piccole compagnie di stanza in ogni Comune, formate dai residenti dello stesso, equipaggiate con armamento leggero di fanteria, che avrebbero sfruttato la conoscenza del terreno, mantenendo nel frattempo la produzione bellica nelle fabbriche. Le unità di difesa territoriali più grandi erano equipaggiate con cannoni antiaerei e artiglieria, mentre quelle di stanza sulla costa con cannoniere e altre piccole imbarcazioni e squadre di sommozzatori per azioni di sabotaggio.

Scioglimento
All'inizio degli anni '90, con la dissoluzione della Jugoslavia e l'emergere del nazionalismo serbo all'interno dell'Armata popolare jugoslava (molti ufficiali e soldati non-serbi abbandonarono l'esercito), le Forze di difesa territoriale, grazie alla decentralizzazione della struttura di comando, parteciparono alle guerre jugoslave, aiutando con successo Slovenia, Croazia, Bosnia ed Erzegovina, a secedere dal governo centrale. Dopo lo scioglimento della Jugoslavia la difesa territoriale fu sciolta e i suoi membri integrati negli eserciti nazionali dei neonati paesi balcanici.

Voci correlate
 Armata popolare jugoslava
 Resistenza jugoslava
 Titoismo
 Guerra dei dieci giorni

Collegamenti esterni
 Library of Congress Country Studies- Yugoslavia: Territorial Defense Forces
 Library of Congress Country Studies- Yugoslavia: Military Doctrine

Armata Popolare Jugoslava