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Mind your marching styles
One of the puzzling things about Hong Kong is the widespread enthusiasm for foot drill, even in organisations for which it hardly seems relevant, like the Red Cross or the Auxiliary Medical Service.
No well-intentioned youth organization is complete, it seems, without the formal ritual of a passing out parade, and the consequently necessary hours of practice in an arcane military art, which passed out of practical use some 150 years ago.
This is a matter about people feel surprisingly strongly. So I was not surprised to read that the Liaison Office had met some resistance to a recent campaign to persuade youth groups and others to switch to the "Chinese style of marching".
This is apparently an obscure prong in the on-going de-Westernisation of Hong Kong. Our boys and girls are marching in a non-Chinese style! The horror!
Actually this approach incorporates a good deal of chauvinistic nonsense. There are
three "styles of marching" available in the world, and none of them is particularly Chinese.
The one which is used in China but not in Hong Kong is technically known as the Stechstritt (literally "piercing step") and is a German invention.
It is usually credited to, or blamed on if you wish, a colourful military character called Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, later known (to distinguish him from several sons who also became generals) as the Old Dessauer. Leopold married his childhood sweetheart in the teeth of family opposition and had ten children.
Leopold had a long career and by the end of it had a fine collection of historic names to drop: he was at the Battle of Blenheim with Marlborough, in Italy with Prince Eugene, defeated Charles XII of Sweden (who was heavily outnumbered at the time) in Germany and finished his career in the service of Frederick the Great.
A charming legend has it that before his last battle Leopold (a devout Lutheran) prayed: "O Lord God, let me not be disgraced in my old days. Or if Thou wilt not help me, do not help these scoundrels, but leave us to try it ourselves."
Leaving such delights aside, Leopold's lasting contribution to Prussian military culture was his work on drill. Foot drill was a matter of life and death on 18th century battlefields, where the infantry needed to move smoothly between lines (if under bombardment by artillery) squares (to resist cavalry) and columns (to move about).
Leopold adopted the Stechstritt because it made it easier for a large body of men, in different sizes, to cover the same distance with each step, and so keep whichever formation they were in. It involves the legs being kept straight, the leg being put forward swinging up before being plonked down with the gratifying sound of jackboot meeting concrete.
This is hard work and extreme versions take a lot of practice. From Germany it spread to the large numbers of countries which sought to emulate Prussian military prowess, including Russia, whence comes this picture.
The Soviet army kept it up, and it now appears in all the armies of the former Communist world, and many other places, though not in Germany where it is associated with an unhappy period.
During World War II there was a lot of Allied propaganda alleging German militarism, and the "piercing step", by its more familiar barrack room name as the "goose step", was depicted as part of this.
George Orwell wrote that "the goose step is only found in countries where the people are too frightened to laugh at their military."
The alternative used in Hong Kong does not seem to have a name of its own but it is shared by the North American, British and European militaries. The leg only becomes straight when the foot hits the ground, a more natural movement, but there is a lot more emphasis on the arms. For the sake of completeness we may also mention what is called the "high step", in which the leg is raised before coming down, but with the knee bent. It looks like this:
So the choice before us is basically this. We can have the Prussian/Russian/Chinese look, as demonstrated below by a unit which seems to have attracted a lot of internet enthusiasm for some reason:
Or can have the British/European/American look as demonstrated below by our beloved Police Force. Note big arm swing and restrained height of feet.
And the truth of the matter is that it really doesn't matter at all which is chosen, or even whether everyone chooses the same one. French military parades happily accommodate the French Foreign Legion, which marches at 88 paces a minute instead of everyone else's 120. British parades include Highland regiments, who for some mysterious reason prefer 112. Many armies which use the goose step confine it to particular occasions or elite units.
From a practical point of view the spring from which all drill flows in Hong Kong is the police force. If they change to a Chinese style then all other uniformed groups will follow sooner or later. And if not, not.
The only other thing to say about this interesting but essentially trivial matter is that it is a textbook example of the sort of thing which should be no business at all of the Liaison Office. There is absolutely no reason, in the Basic Law or outside it, why this should be a matter for anyone but Hong Kong people.
No doubt the Liaison Office would say that they were only expressing an opinion.
This will not do. This year's Liaison Office opinions have a disturbing habit of becoming next year's government policy. You boys need to learn when to shut up.
on February 16, 2018 at 6:41 am | Reply Thomas
Dear Tim,
Kung Hei Fat Choy!
Keep on your entertainment …serious or otherwise.
As for your:
" as demonstrated below by a unit which seems to have attracted a lot of internet enthusiasm for some reason"
It is good to know that you are also a "natural observer".
As for me , being German , no marching style is of my interest and has my
approval ; main reason is : "Hernia " .

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'Thumbs' Up as the Cyberpunk Thriller is Collected for Release This January
Award-winning playwright and comics writer Sean Lewis (Coyotes, The Few) re-teams with award-winning artist Hayden Sherman (The Few) for the pulse-pounding technology thriller, Thumbs. This trade paperback collects the complete series, issues #1-5, of the rapid-paced, science-fiction series and will be available from Image Comics in January 2020.
Adrian Camus, a rockstar tech designer, recruits children who excel at his games into his real-life war against the Power, a group of politicians and advocates aiming to take Camus' tech away from the people. Following a life-altering injury, eponymous recruit Thumbs finds himself torn between two sides of the muddy, escalating conflict. Heartfelt, action-packed, and forward-thinking, Thumbs is a standalone story that fans of Black Mirror, Blade Runner, and Tokyo Ghost won't want to miss.
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TONY BELLEW has been warned by the world's finest fighter that his next opponent will not only beat him, but that he will then go on to dethrone Anthony Joshua. The 35-year-old Bellew has accepted his toughest fight, against undisputed cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk on November 10, and Usyk's long-term training partner Vasyl Lomachenko – widely considered the pound-for-pound best – is "convinced" he will continue to win.
Ukraine's Usyk, 31, is already in contention to one day challenge Joshua, when even as one of the finest cruiserweights in history he will have to overcome potential physical disadvantages.
Lomachenko joined Usyk at ringside at Wembley on Saturday to watch Joshua stop Alexander Povetkin, and he told Press Association Sport: "Usyk can be very special, because he can beat Bellew and he can beat Joshua. It's going to be a tough fight for both of them.
"[Joshua-Usyk] would be a very interesting fight for the fans, and for boxing. Even for me it would be very interesting. I'm convinced [he wins both], and he still has some way to go [before he shows how good he actually is].
"He has had a very good amateur schooling, and always takes fight preparations very seriously. Today he's maybe too small, but in the next year he can gain mass and be exactly like these big guys.
He has previously been spoken of as a potential opponent for Britain's Terry Flanagan, Anthony Crolla and Luke Campbell, but while he found Saturday's occasion at Wembley to be impressive, there are presently no British fighters who tempt him.
"Why should they interest me, for me to fight them?" said the 30-year-old. "They're not the champions. If they're going to be the best ones one day I'd be interested to fight. I want champions, guys who have belts, and to unify titles.


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It takes approximately 40 liters of maple sap to make 1 liter of maple syrup. The maple sap is collected in either buckets or by way of a pipeline that brings sap from the tree to the processing area. The sap, which comes out of the tree with a sugar content of approximately 2%, is boiled until it reaches between 66% and 67.5% sugar content.
Maple syrup is a product unlike any other because its flavor and color vary throughout the season. Over a six week period, from the first major thaw of the Spring until the leaf buds burst, at which point the tree fluids begin to carry substances that give the syrup a harsh flavor, the taps remove around 10% of a tree's sugar stores, in an average of 20-60 liters per tree.
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Since rye releases stronger and spicier essences, this new whisky packed more flavour than common wheat whisky and almost everyone preferred it. Customers started demanding "rye" – essentially a wheat whisky with a small amount of rye grain added. Eventually, the word "rye" entered the Canadian lexicon as a synonym for whisky.
Gradually barley and corn were added to the spectrum of grains used in whiskey production and now rye is not even a necessary component in Canadian whisky. However, the terms "Canadian Whisky", "Rye Whisky", and "Canadian Rye Whisky" are legally indistinguishable in Canada and do not require any specific grain in their production. In order to be called Canadian whiskies, according to Canadian law they must be produced and aged in Canada, be distilled from a fermented mash of cereal grain, be aged in wood barrels with a capacity limit of 700 litres for not less than three years, and "possess the aroma, taste and character generally attributed to Canadian whisky"
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Through experimental installations, the digital media artist Hung Keung examines the possibilities of a relationship between human beings and Dao. At the root of Keung's work is a preoccupation with the longevity of Chinese culture. He questions: how can human beings in modern day society interact with the concept of this ancient philosophy 'Dao' ?
Two gives birth to Three. Three gives birth to thousand things.
This passage led him to explore how these 'thousand things' are created and generalised in the universe. HUNG Keung began with the notion that the number 'one' symbolizes the beginning of the universe. In this work, Keung used computer animation to create a three-dimensional character of "one," the stroke "一" which he then projected onto a white background.


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WNBA'S A'ja Wilson Wants to Know Why Female Players Aren't Paid Like LeBron James 'Must Be Nice'
Posted byBy Daryl Nelson | Published on July 5, 2018 CommentsComments (0)
A'ja Wilson, who plays for the WNBA's Las Vegas Aces, sparked what some might consider an interesting conversation on Twitter.
It started when Wilson commented about LeBron James' new contract with the Los Angeles Lakers, worth $154 million for four years.
"154 million. Must be nice," wrote Wilson. "We over here looking for a million but Lord, let me get back in my lane."
154M ……….. must. be. nice. We over here looking for a M 🙃 but Lord, let me get back in my lane pic.twitter.com/IFDZLlI53z
— A'ja Wilson (@_ajawilson22) July 2, 2018
And I love Bron not taking nothing away from him 🙏🏽
— A'ja Wilson (@_ajawilson22) July 2, 2018
One person then posted a GIF of a female basketball player shooting a layup, instead of dunking like LeBron or another NBA player. The post appears to suggest that female hoopers don't receive equal pay because they're not as skilled or don't wow the fans as much. In fact, many others on Twitter shared that same opinion.
"Lebron signs 4yr 154 million dollar deal with LA Lakers"
WNBA Player: 154M ……….. must. be. nice. We over here looking for a M 🙃
Also WNBA players pic.twitter.com/6tsnFSviAA
— follow @OMG_ItsKhairy on Instagram & Youtube (@OMGits_Khairy) July 2, 2018
"Maybe if you were 1/1,000,000th of the basketball Lebron is, you'd get paid equally," someone wrote, which Wilson replied to.
"Ohh, it's about skill set?" she asked. "Because I heard a bench player gets paid more than …nvm."
Wilson isn't the first to bring up the salary gap between players in the NBA and WNBA, the Los Angeles Spark's Nneka Ogwumike talked about it as well.
According to Ogwumike, as recently as 2017, she had to play in Russia during the off-season to make ends meet. She also said a lot of women in the WNBA have to take on side jobs or run their own businesses to earn extra cash.
Moreover, Ogwumike didn't own a home or car as of last year, even though she was the No. 1 draft pick in 2012. On the NBA side, Anthony Davis was the No. 1 Draft pick in 2012, and he signed a reported 5-year contract with the New Orleans Pelicans for over $121 million.
But as Wilson stated in her tweet, a man doesn't have to be the best player or go high in the draft to make more than female players.
According to CNBC, as of 2017, the average salary in the WNBA began at $50,000 and capped off at $110,000. Meanwhile, NBA salaries started at $560,000, which make women players earn merely 20% of their male counterparts.
Wilson didn't get deep into percentages when she tweeted, but she did bring up revenue and how much she and other players received from the league.
"We get less than 30% revenue versus [what] the guys get, 50%," she revealed.
Wilson's response only caused more debate.
Lolololol ohh it's about skill set? 🤔 because I heard a bench player gets paid more than …nvm 😶 https://t.co/Q41UsxKthZ
No one's paying to watch you play below the rim
— peter,peter (@R34LPeterPeter) July 2, 2018
In my Book you Ladies are Seriously Underrated!!!
— William D. Jackson (@CENTAUR1973) July 2, 2018
Dudes really out here talking. Can't even beat me in horse but have something to say about my bank account. I'm sleep on the hatred and disrespect of the greatest women's league in the world… y'all realize this is dreams that have come true for us right? Y'all realize this is
— Kayla McBride (@kaymac_2123) July 2, 2018
Y'all underrated asf Tbh y'all could prolly beat some NBA teams in a 7 series
— Justin Perry (@TheRealJustinP2) July 3, 2018
I'm pretty sure there's a difference between "pay us more" and "we want LeBron money."
Also *paid
— Michael H (@sunflash21) July 2, 2018
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Looking for a new kind of community living? Nanaimo's second cohousing project lifts off to meet growing demand.
The newly formed Lost Lake Cohousing is looking for members to create an intentional community in the north end of Nanaimo.
By Rae-Anne Guenther ● Nanaimo ● April 7, 2022 August 16, 2022
Community members gathered at the site of the Lost Lake Cohousing in Nanaimo's north end, which features an ocean view. Photo courtesy of Lost Lake Cohousing
With a waitlist of more than 20 trying to secure a unit at Pacific Gardens Cohousing in Nanaimo, a new cohousing community has formed to meet the rising demand.
"It's very popular, but it's very hard to set these projects up," says Yonas Jongkind.
Yonas, Susana Michaelis and Jennifer Mollins of Pacific Gardens Cohousing are organizing the creation of a multigenerational cohousing development at 5180 Universal Place in Nanaimo's north end. The site location was chosen due to its accessibility to nature, schools and shopping outlets. The intention for the Lost Lake Cohousing project is to have an even number of retired residents and young families.
An outline of the proposed site at 5180 Universal Place, Nanaimo from Google Maps. Photo courtesy of Lost Lake Cohousing
They aim to build around 30 independently owned townhouse-style units with shared indoor and outdoor spaces as well as a few rental and guest suites.
The offer to buy the three acre, ocean view lot was accepted in late February, and the goal is to gain at least 10 committed members by May 30 willing to invest $50,000 each to be able to finalize the land purchase.
Members who commit during the start of this development will have the opportunity to contribute to the design of their community. The target price for a two bedroom unit will be around $525,000. "We will have a better price estimate once we know the effect on the price of the geotechnical requirements and have the units designed so we know their size and number of bathrooms," Yonas says.
See the realtor video for an aerial view of the proposed cohousing property.
Cohousing is a community living model where residents often have their own, self-contained homes that are connected to common spaces. These shared spaces give residents opportunities to connect with fellow neighbours through communal dinners and dancing, community gardens and workshops.
Residents share in ownership of this communal environment and often are involved in the designing, planning and development of the space.
Related: During a time of social isolation, cohousing builds community
Yonas has lived in and been a part of many cohousing projects like Wind Song in Langley, Yarrow Ecovillage, and Pacific Gardens in Nanaimo. He actively organized the creation of the Vancouver Cohousing project. He says typically projects like these are designed by people with no experience of cohousing living, which has resulted in ineffective use of common spaces.
Yonas hopes his personal experience and knowledge of cohousing will produce a community focused building design that can serve as a model for other cohousing cooperatives across British Columbia. "The most important cohousing design pattern is that you have a kitchen positioned a certain way. The noise in the kitchen doesn't come in, but it's very connected to the dining room. On the other side of the dining rooms, you would have a lounge space," explains Yonas.
Jennifer Mollins, Yonas Jongkind and Susana Michaelis (left to right) of Pacific Gardens Cohousing are helping create a new cohousing community in service of rising demand. Photo courtesy of Lost Lake Cohousing
Pacific Gardens Cohousing features an outdoor common space for residents to gather. Photo courtesy of Pacific Gardens Cohousing
He also adds that instilling a sociocracy decision-making model could create the best community environment, where residents discuss topics in small groups that connect to a larger discussion to make decisions based on consent.
Once built, Lost Lake Cohousing will be among 18 cohousing projects across British Columbia. The hope is to move residents in by 2024.
Lost Lake Cohousing is hosting site tours, cohousing information sessions, "getting it built" workshops and social events throughout the upcoming months to members of the community interested in learning more. [end]
Rae-Anne Guenther


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At my age, after multiple experiences, I think I pretty much know what works for me .
Maybe, but I'd be willing to bet that 20 years from now you'll be saying, "what did I know about love back then?" Lol. I could be wrong though :)
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The one thing you must have
I think the most important thing in a relationship is knowing the other person genuinely cares about you. And I believe that is the easiest way to know if you're in a good relationship, or a bad relationship.
And in my experience I've been in relationships that were annoying for that reason alone. People either do, or they don't, or they aren't capable. And the people that do are really the only acceptable breed of people that can handle long term relationships/marriage.
BelleAtlantic
Being original, that's what's most important to me. I cannot picture myself with someone who follows what other people choose to do, just to fit in. I rather someone who have their inherent likes and dislikes.
funchesf
FUNCHESF SAID
that she popped out of her Mother's womb as a female ....hey...call me old fashioned
Funchesf, that's what I think too! I had it on my profile one time LOL.
my request perhaps was a result of when I use to watch Jerry Springer
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A bikini worthy body?!?
Hahahaha!!!
gtomustang
speaking of bringing in prior posts...:)
The notion that what we looked for 20 yrs ago isn't what we seek now...I'll hazard a guess that for some, their body has changed over 20 years ,so they're less picky about what they seek in a partner's body. Oh, they may want a gym body, but they'll take someone who's "close enough", since they let their own self "go". For example, the odds of finding a woman who worked her abdomonal floor muscles before having kids and therefore has the flat belly of an 18 yr old, well, they aren't great (and that shouldn't be a problem, either--with children come "mommy boobs" :) ). Finding an Adonis who's knees haven't blown out by middle age from all the sports he played, and still can get an instant erection, is also rare in many parts of the country.
Two decades ago, we may not have known the difference between confidence and c0ckiness. We may have wanted a partner who was the "complete package", except we wouldn't have really known what that was, and likely didn't offer it in return--the best way to know what character is, is to see it in the mirror for comparison. So, 20 years later, we may seek more, and overlook more as a result, since we've matured. Or we have accepted that we've changed, we've gotten older, and what we need now isn't what we needed two decades ago, still living with Mom.
Posted: 11/10/2014 10:01:37 AM
I must be in an alternate universe. I don't doubt that many men really do believe what they are writing. But, from the age of 15 my sisters and I could turn off your brains and turn you into blabbering Jello.
I get all fuzzy when I think about when I first met my boyfriend. His confidence and warmth are what I craved as essential in a man. I know he loves me but I also am aware that when I ask him what he first felt when we met that he isn't just kidding when he says he wanted to ravish me. Men are visual. I certainly have a 'bikini worthy body' and will make damn sure I still do at 80 for my guy. Men lust after us and I want my guy to lust after me. Most of us know we have to turn that switch on in a man or he is just floating out there easily distracted by another woman.
bamagrl68
InnerGorilla- Being mature doesn't mean that you are serious ALL of the time.
I think a LOT, but I also chill out and laugh, every day.
To me, maturity means that you understand when to be serious and that it's also ok not to be sometimes.
It's the best of both worlds :)
I look at some of these threads..........issues with cheating, jumping in and moving in and/or falling in love quickly, fights and misunderstanding due to lack of communication, the overriding common thing that isn't there in almost all of these things is maturity.
There is no reward without risk, so you are right, you can't stop living, that's where balance comes in.
There CAN be a happy medium, but I still stand by what I said, maturity is key.
CynthiaSM
My first thought was "kindness" but I changed my mind. The one thing that is non-negotiable is compassionate.
When I peel back all the layers of reasons for why I stayed hooked on the 'one who got away' it comes down to he was compassionate.
moonbeamlover
Openness...
to me this by default would include honesty, since a person who is open does not have secrets or misdirection, vulnerability; because a person with openness does not hide behind a mask even if a mask is convenient because they are strong enough to show what some people would perceive of as weakness (but don't understand that the best kind of strength is strength in the face of weakness), and love, because a person who is open to love is not afraid of giving OR receiving love.
platypus_man
She needs to be pretty and have a sexy body.
This isn't shallow. It's what a well adjusted male looks for as shaped by thousands of years of evolution. What is shallow are all the guys who pretend otherwise. Give Mother Theresa all he characteristics they claim as priorities. Wouldn't make an iota of difference. They would still be catering to the hot gal in the slit skirt and heels.
Bottom line...must be physically attractive.
And then,
I completely agree with what you are attempting to say, but I don't think you quote got there. Given that what every person finds physically attractive is different, I think there is a word missing there. Must appeal to me. I look at my guy and like what I see and some others don't.
The question asked by the OP then makes sense as in:
'After you are physically attracted to a woman, what is the most important variable she should have?'
Substitute man for woman, and in the above and it is completely true for me. Nothing shallow about it, if there is no physical attraction, nothing else matters. Yes gentlemen, for the vast majority of woman, that does include money.
I'm glad that at least two people were honest with this, here; the guy admits it's looks, the girl admits it's money. What people of the opposite sex really need to know here, is the deal breakers. For most guys, we consider all women potential mates EXCEPT if they have something about them that turns us off. Yes, that's right. As long as there's nothing about you that sexually turns us off, everything else becomes negotiable to a certain degree, which is why you see men with extremely hot women who in all other ways, really suck. And the same with women, if the guy has enough money (and enough does vary, for some, it's enough to take her to McDonalds, others want enough for a house, etc.), everything else becomes negotiable to a certain degree, but if he's dirt poor out of work, he's NEVER going to be a potential mate for 99% of females.
And we MUST accept that about each other. To do otherwise, is simply to ignore reality.
So the answer to the question, the ultimate deal breaker is pretty much always going to be reduced to these: For men, it's looks. For women, it's money.
And it's never been a secret. People just don't want to admit that those are the top items, all because they don't want to appear shallow. Wake up. It's in our genes. Those are the two things that got your dna to where it is today, in the result of successful couples who mated and kept their offspring alive long enough to reproduce in the next generation.
And the same with women, if the guy has enough money (and enough does vary, for some, it's enough to take her to McDonalds, others want enough for a house, etc.), everything else becomes negotiable to a certain degree, but if he's dirt poor out of work, he's NEVER going to be a potential mate for 99% of females.
Except that you totally misunderstood the woman you were quoting. She wrote:
She said that if she's not physically attracted, then NOTHING else matters (which includes money - even money DOES NOT make up for lack of physical attraction).
She did NOT say that money trumps everything, including lack of physical attraction.
But nice try slamming all women as gold diggers.
JoeBnD
The one thing I must have?
At this point, a Taylormade Burner 2.0 S-Flex steel-shafted right-handed standard length sand wedge. They come up on eBay every so often.
Relationship wise? Nothing anymore.
Halcyon_Skies
A bikini worthy body?!? ...at least that's what I read somewhere.
I've decided to switch my term to "bikini-friendly" body. Apparently some other women objected to the "worthy" part.
The one thing I must have? That his choice of username doesn't contain the word, "blue".
mike11091
That his choice of username doesn't contain the word, "blue".
Oh...whiskey spray on my monitor is bad....
but lol @ the above.
SambaDeUmaNotaSo
The ability to negotiate and compromise.
I want there to be "win-win" outcomes in the relationship, based on mutual decision-making as equal partners.
If the woman doesn't have that ability, there isn't anything that could possibly make up for that.
Vannili
Msg.# 1 :
I would go for someone who is comfortable in life and he adores and cherish me.
Someone may choose "rich" but then they are taking a chance of not getting other things they like ,such as
athleticism or great personality.
No Comment, hehehehe.
I need two things,one so I will be ineterested in seeing if the other is there.
BLoNDeANGeL845
A man with all these great character traits but with stinking breath from black rotting front teeth would be instant turn off for every woman here. A 400lb bald female with Mother Theresa's personality would be a turn off for every male here.
Without the physical attraction, shaped by millions of years of evolution, there would not be anything to take things to the next non physical level. A human male is attracted to a human female...not a female crocodile or hamster. A female hamster is not attracted to a male chicken. In our genetic make up are hormones that are triggered by physical variables.
Wow, honest & smart!
hotdogshop100
Mine would be respect.
oldfashmntman
'After physical attraction, what is the one thing you must have'?
I agree there has to be physical attraction, but I suspect unlike many if not most men, I find MOST women "physically attractive" in one way or another.
Therefore I can very easily "bypass" the physical, and focus on the "mental" connection I refered to in my original post on this thread.
Without the physical attraction, shaped by millions of years of evolution ...
The only part of physical attraction that has evolved over eons is male humans are attracted to female humans and female humans are attracted to male humans. There are, of course exceptions to both of those criteria.
What physical characteristics any particular man finds attractive is based on culture, not evolution. What physical characteristics any particular female finds attractive is based on culture, not evolution. That's why some men find grossly obese women attractive (yes, it's true - a single google search will prove it), or women with big ears (insert: hands, feet, boobs, booty, etc), or only women of a certain skin color, or eye shape. You only need to read a few threads in the forums to learn that not all women find the same male characteristics attractive - some like broad shoulders and narrow waist/hips, some could care less about that ratio but swoon over big hands, or strong arms, or bald heads, whatever. I may not find black rotting teeth attractive but then I also don't find holes in a man's ears the size of plates attractive but that is the height of beauty and virility in other cultures - i.e. their 'Brad Pitt'.
While there's some scientific/statistical support for a male's subconscious attraction to a female's particular breast/waist/hips ratio as a sign of health and fertility, that is not the attraction we're talking about in these posts.
So, yes, the vast majority of folks (male and female) must find the other person physically attractive before considering any other trait. Let's just take that as a given and move on from there. Or at least cut the BS about evolution dictating what people find attractive.
Dee4166
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yup..... THIS is actually correct....and there is, I believe a tribe that actually removes and reshapes their teeth as a sign of 'beauty' as well...NOT attractive!
But then again, I was brought up in Canada.... :-)
Eternityboresme
Just read your profile, eternity. Your list is very unrealistic. And it's unrealistic for the very reason I created this thread. Too much. But that's just my opinion. I'm no expert.
No, you're not an expert, not of what I (basically) seek, not about the realism and sensibility and simplicity (in its complexity) to which I apply to my profile, not generally about anything (nor do you have a right to make this determination for me and everybody else). The profile may not be agreeable to most, but it's honest and clear. (People are free to pass it along and ignore me. I don't complain about not getting attention -- because I do get my modest share of it. I don't complain when people just look and don't write. It's their right to decide what's best for themselves.)
What I do see, and it's realistically painful, is an original written and posted to undermine the sensibilities of people who know what they want, Too bad for the likes of you that I and other similar to me, have minds of our own. Once you accept this, you'll gain the maturity to understand that we are self-determining people, as are you, to decide responsibly what's best for our respective circumstances, even if you don't like that others are self-determined.
And, yes, I'll go on searching as I've been searching, my own fashion -- and I take responsibility for it, 100% -- your permission isn't required.
Msg: 100
I have to agree with alot of the other women, if I can't trust someone, I can't have a relationship with them no matter what they are to me.
That's right; and it must be earned. There are reasons why boundaries and restrictions must be applied to ourselves, as so we don't irresponsibly agree to relations that are terrible for us.
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MAJORITY LEADER ATKINS JOINS ADVOCATES TO ASSESS PREGNANT PRISONER SHACKLING ONE YEAR AFTER PROHIBITION
(Sacramento) Assembly Majority Leader Toni Atkins joined advocates for pregnant women who are incarcerated in releasing a report on compliance with Atkins' legislation prohibiting the most dangerous forms of shackling. The report states that while 21 of California's 58 counties have fully complied with the law, the remaining counties have either not fully complied, not complied at all, or did not respond to inquiries.
"I am proud to be the author of legislation that protects both public safety and the health and welfare of pregnant prisoners and their newborns. I applaud the counties that have fully complied with this new law," says Atkins. "Having said that, in almost two-thirds of our state's counties, pregnant prisoners are still being put at risk. It is my hope that in the very near future that will no longer be the case."
AB 2530 became law in January 2013. It prohibits the use of behind-the-back handcuffs, belly chains, and leg irons on pregnant prisoners. These practices endanger the health of the woman and the outcome of her pregnancy. A little more than one year later, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC), one of the sponsors of Atkins' 2012 legislation, contacted each county to determine the extent of compliance with the new law.
Thirty-two counties continue to have written policies that do not comply with the law, either because they permit the prohibited restraints, do not acknowledge that a woman's doctor has authority to order the restraints removed, or do not inform prisoners of their rights. Two counties have not complied at all with the new law and three counties failed to respond to inquiries. LSPC will continue to work with state and county officials to bring all facilities into compliance.
Shackling makes pregnant women unsteady on their feet. They also make it extremely difficult to treat a woman in a medical emergency. Women in correctional facilities are more likely to experience miscarriage, pre-eclampsia, pre-term birth, and low birth weight than other pregnant women.
The Majority Leader and LSPC were also joined at the news conference by a physician representing the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, District IX, which also sponsored AB 2530, and a representative of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners
California Assembly Majority Leader Toni Atkins was joined by Jesse Stout, Policy Director, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, at a news conference to discuss compliance with Atkins' legislation to prohibit shackling of pregnant prisoners.
The report "No More Shackles" is attached.
Audio clips from the news conference may be accessed at the following links:
Opening remarks from Assembly Majority Leader Toni Atkins. (2:55)
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Assemblymember Atkins says its clear shackles are dangerous for pregnant women. (:16)
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Assemblymember Atkins says many California counties are already complying with AB 2530. (:18)
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The big story in Albany these days is the corruption trial of Joseph Bruno, the retired majority leader of the state Senate, and among those testifying this week was Betty Little, the state senator whose district includes most of the Adirondack Park.
State Senator Betty Little
The New York Times reports that the trial has shed light on the inner workings of the state legislature, including the doling out of pork. The following excerpt from the Times describes Little's testimony on Tuesday. Both she and Bruno are Republicans.
In the Senate, as in the Assembly, the largest shares of this pork budget are awarded to the most senior members, like Mr. Bruno, who dole them out to nonprofit groups at home.
But it turns out that Mr. Bruno, who resigned from the Senate in 2008, might have doled out other people's pork, too. In testimony on Tuesday, prosecutors asked Elizabeth O'C. Little, a Republican state senator whose upstate district abuts the one Mr. Bruno represented, how she became the named sponsor of two job-training grants to Local 773 of the Plumbers & Steamfitters Union, one of the many unions that invested pension money with Wright after being approached by Mr. Bruno.
Looking sheepish, Ms. Little confessed that she had no idea. In fact, she conceded, no one at the union had ever asked her for the two grants, which were for $100,000 in 2006 and $150,000 in 2007. Instead, aides to Mr. Bruno told her that the senator was interested in dispensing the grant and offered to bring her on as a co-sponsor.
Though a public disclosure form for the first grant is dated April 2006, the grant does not appear to have actually been executed until December — some months after Local 773 invested $4 million of pension money with Wright. And though Mr. Bruno and Ms. Little were both listed as sponsors of the grant, only Ms. Little signed the disclosure form.
Ms. Little was asked when, exactly, she signed it. "I don't know," she said.
Do you know if it was backdated? "No, I don't," she replied.
And why didn't Mr. Bruno sign it? "I don't know," she repeated.
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Powassan Honours NBMCA's 50th Anniversary
Municipality of Powassan, NBMCA and Powassan Summer Program kids plant Sugar Maple at Fire Hall
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(Powassan, August 25, 2022) The past, present and future of watershed management met Thursday when the Municipality of Powassan, youth from their summer program and the North Bay-Mattawa Conservation Authority (NBMCA) came together to plant a sugar maple tree at Powassan's firehall in honour of NBMCA's 50th anniversary.
"I would like to congratulate the North Bay-Mattawa Conservation Authority on their 50th anniversary. 50 years of leadership in environmental protection to area communities is a tremendous milestone," said Powassan Mayor Peter McIsaac.
Prior to the tree planting, 40 local youth took part in environmental games and activities lead by NBMCA staff to help them understand where drinking water comes, the importance of wetlands, and the flow of water in a watershed. They also received a red pine seedling to take home and plant.
"Recognizing the conservation authority's half century of watershed leadership, planting this sugar maple today, and giving our youth an opportunity to be active and discover what it means to be environmental stewards are all good things for the social, economic and environmental health of our community," said Powassan Councillor and NBMCA Chair Dave Britton.
NBMCA's focus when it began in 1972 was the protection of people and property from natural hazards including flooding, creating flood plain mapping and science-based watershed management studies, advising municipalities on consents and plans of subdivision, as well as the opening of conservation areas for public appreciation, conservation and protection of natural hazard and heritage lands.
"We are grateful to the Municipality of Powassan for helping us celebrate our 50th anniversary and proud to be planting this sugar maple together in honour of Powassan's respect for the watershed. We're looking forward to continuing to work with Powassan to protect municipal drinking water and the local and upstream waterways for another 50 years," said Chitra Gowda, NBMCA's CAO.
Today NBMCA's programs also include water quality monitoring, flood prevention and forecasting, drinking water source protection, development permitting around wetlands, watercourses and steep slopes, on-site sewage system permitting, stewardship and outreach.
Learn more about NBMCA 50th anniversary activities including the Boardwalk of Champions fundraiser and Watershed Heroes at www.nbmca.ca.
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By: Scot Blythe
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In a world where markets turn on a dime, the underlying economic fundamentals are often shoved to the side. "Diamonds are forever," noted Avery Shenfeld, senior economist with CIBC World Markets, in an economist panel at the Benefits Canada Benefits & Pension Summit. "But when it comes to global economies, nothing else is really forever."
Since the economic crisis, governments that ramped up speed in stimulating the economy are now pulling back "to seven lean years of activity," he said, "as both governments and consumers de-leverage." The global economy will return to a more normal state, he asserted, but "slow growth will be with us for a while."
Emerging markets are the bright spot, noted Douglas Porter, deputy chief economist with BMO Capital Markets. While growth is flat or negative in developed markets, thanks to the emerging economies, global GDP growth is expected to hit 3% this year.
But "the European problem is a very long-term problem," said Beata Caranci, deputy chief economist with TD Bank Financial Group, as more countries come up against Greek-style lending limits. In Canada, consumers worry that their debt could knock half a percentage point off GDP growth, she added.
Shenfeld thinks that while Chinese growth may slow, it has the capacity to spur growth, unlike European central banks. Added Porter, while "the Bank of Canada is warning of higher interest rates, pretty much the rest of the world is going in the opposite direction."
More locally, the U.S. election cycle is creating a dilemma for the Bank of Canada, added Shenfeld. While it could be poised to raise interest rates as early as September, "the Bank of Canada will have to make a tough call." The problem, as he noted, is that no one knows what U.S. politicians will do during the "lame-duck" period after November.
In a "multi-speed, multi-differentiated world," diversification is far from a panacea, said Rumi Masih, senior investment strategist with BNY Mellon Asset Management. Risk management should proceed instead from an analysis of how and why a portfolio is positioned.
Masih described five macroeconomic regimes that will affect portfolio assets differently: perfect, warming, cooling, too cold (deflation) or too hot (stagflation). Yet these investment regimes don't succeed one another like the seasons of the year. Rather, knowledge of these regimes "should give an appropriate idea of the asset allocation from a risk management as well as a return standpoint," Masih argued.
But is risk worth taking in the first place? A lot of actuaries once thought so, said Malcolm Hamilton, a principal with Mercer. All of the asset/liability modelling in the 1980s seemed to point in the direction of a 60/40 portfolio "for no apparent reason." The modeling skipped two basic questions: Whose risk are you managing? and Why are they taking on risk?
Economists provided a partial solution: the lifecycle retirement savings model for individual retirement savings. In other words, assuming that people smooth their capacity to consume over their lifetime, saving when employed to draw down those savings in retirement. DB plans attempted to build on this—but, said Hamilton, "they got it wrong." Plans assumed that the returns that investments earned were largely independent of interest rates and that pension funds could be treated like individuals with infinite investment horizons (i.e., they didn't grow old and didn't need to cut back their exposures to investment risk as they matured).
Unfortunately, at least in the private sector, they forgot about the shareholders. Economists had proven that the cost of a DB plan was essentially independent of the investment policy pursued by the pension fund. Guaranteed benefits should be priced using guaranteed interest rates, not the expected return on a pension fund heavily invested in risky assets. On the other hand, actuaries believed that taking on more risk would reduce funding costs and that short-term risk washed out in the long term. "Unfortunately, things didn't work out," Hamilton explained.
In the end, he argued, risk exists and must be shifted from the shareholders to the beneficiaries. "We're in a very different state than what we thought we would be in, in the 1980s," he noted. Clearly, risk-taking has a cost. It isn't free.
Investing for mid-size plans
Over the past decade, Canada's biggest pension plans have shifted out of public equities and into alternatives such as real estate, infrastructure and private equity. Can mid-size plans imitate this exposure?
Jason Campbell, an investment consultant with Eckler Ltd., says no. The big plans "have structural advantages that can't be replicated by a mid-size plan," such as access to deal flow, the ability to command lower investment fees and even access to cheaper financing.
He believes mid-size plans can get alternative asset exposure but will benefit from "heavy lifting upfront," which involves finding the right managers. But that's the outcome of a much longer process that entails identifying both objectives and organizational roadblocks, as well as timing and positioning the transition to a new asset allocation.
Mid-size plans must pick their spot in selecting alternative strategies. Should it be diversifying assets or return-enhancing assets? It's also important to assess a plan's capacity to tolerate illiquidity. Some assets require decade-long lock-ups—which also means that the plan is married to its manager—underlining the need for due diligence. Finally, there are the fees.
One way to gain access to an important alternative asset class—real estate—is through a commingled fund approach, suggested Katherine Giordano, a portfolio manager with Aberdeen Asset Management. It's sufficiently attractive that one of Aberdeen's U.K. clients has reallocated its capital from directly held properties to a commingled fund approach. The investor made this decision to achieve greater diversification and to harness the benefits of professional management over a more global portfolio—all without boosting fees. She estimates that a commingled fund can be had for 30 to 50 basis points, for someone making a sizable commitment.
Fixed income opportunities
Interest rate risk can freeze pension plans like a deer in the headlights. Yet, as Canadian DB plans continue to de-risk their assets and hedge their liabilities, they'll need to face it head on.
While Canadian interest rates are not far off their long-term average, noted Dany Lemay, a senior investment consultant with Towers Watson, they have wreaked havoc on plan liabilities. Combined with increasing life expectancy and early retirement, these components have made DB plans two to three times more costly than they were in the 1970s.
How can plans create a safety net to protect against funding fluctuations? Most consider their bond allocation their safety net, but it can be a very thin net.
Lemay gave two examples, assuming a pension liability of $100 million. With a plan that is 80% funded and has a 60/40 stock/universe bond allocation, a 1% interest rate fluctuation changes the bond returns by $2.1 million but changes plan liabilities by $15 million (assuming a bond duration of 6.5 and a liability duration of 15). But if the plan, when it was better funded (e.g., 90%), had shifted its fixed income portfolio from 40% to 50% of total assets and into long bonds, a 1% interest rate fluctuation would change the bond portfolio by $6.3 million, with the liability fluctuation remaining at $15 million. The first case has a 14% interest rate hedge ratio; in the second, it's 42%. Clearly, the first plan, and to some extent the second one, has a fairly thin safety net—yet many Canadian pension plans fit one of these two examples.
As a plan moves to match liabilities, there's no sense in letting money go to sleep, said Patrice Denis, vice-president with PIMCO Canada Corp. If sponsors want to keep their bond duration low, expecting that rates will soon increase, there are ways to exploit the yield curve.
One way is a swaption, which is a customized derivative that commits the buyer to buying at the long end of the curve when rates do go up. In the interim, for the same duration, the investor receives a 3.39% yield instead of the current 2.27%.
There are also opportunities beyond the DEX Universe, particularly in emerging countries. "I want to be exposed to a country that can aggressively cut rates," said Denis, adding, "If I'm going to lend money, I want to lend it to someone who has the ability to pay it back."
Scot Blythe is a freelance writer in Toronto. rsblythe@hotmail.com
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Joy Clarkson is teaching "How to Reference Well in a Divinity Exam." She is a second year PhD candidate at the Institute for Theology, Imagination. Her project aims to demonstrate that popular art is morally formative because it teaches audiences not only what to think about moral issues, but how to feel about them. In addition to her research, she is a mentor for young women pursuing degrees in theology through Logia's mentorship initiative, a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, and she hosts a podcast on theology, art, and popular culture that boasts over 64,000 downloads. Her broader research interests include popular art, secularism, and the role of affectivity in moral formation.
Mitch Mallary is teaching "How to Develop Effective and Efficient Study Skills. Mitchell Mallary is a second year Ph.D. candidate in the School of Divinity at the University of St Andrews, studying under the tutelage of Professor N. T. Wright and Dr. A. B. Torrance. He previously received a Bachelor's degree (Honors) from Judson University, where he majored in both Christian Theology and Biblical Studies. Currently, he is serving as a research assistant to Professor Wright and planning a forthcoming interdisciplinary conference on Christology.
Joel is teaching "How to Manage Your Time Well." He is a pastor, theologian, and film critic. The author of three books, he's a PhD candidate at the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA) researching theology and ethics in the cinema of Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. A member of the Online Film Critics Society, he watches way too many movies; you can read his film reviews at www.cinemayward.com. Joel is married to Katie, and they have three young children.


This year, all social workers are required to renew their registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) by the 30 November 2016, with renewal opening tomorrow (1 September 2016).
There are set HCPC standards for continuing professional development (CPD) that social workers must meet. With 2.5% of those renewing expected to be audited, we thought we'd cover some of the key elements your profile should contain to meet the council's standards.
It's always best to start writing your profile as soon as possible. Try not to leave it until the last minute and diarise 30 November 2016 as the deadline day.
Try and cover a broad range of different activities/training you have undertaken and describe exactly what you have learned from each one. You should be aiming for between four to six examples.
Make sure you are able to evidence your points – this may be in the form of reflective logs, case studies, presentations, training certificates or feedback from service users or peers you have worked with.
Remember though, your statements should be focused on quality rather than quantity and try to use examples that show exactly how you have met the standards.
Put your professional development activities into date order – you'll need to make sure there are not any gaps of three months of more. If there are any, you will need to provide an explanation of why.
It's always advisable, especially if you are a locum social worker, to keep a personal log of your CPD, so that as and when you change roles, you have access to it.
The key thing to remember is that the Council will focus on the outcome of your activities and how they have benefited service users as well as enhancing your skills as a social worker.


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What Is the Relationship between the Environment and Economic Development?
Esther Ejim
The relationship between the environment and economic development may be accessed from two different points of view. One point of view is that factors like political climate, governmental policies and culture in the environment affects economic development. A second viewpoint is the manner in which the activities associated with economic development affect the environment.
Environment and economic development are linked in the sense that the factors in place in the environment have a huge impact on the rate of economic development for a region. A country with a politically unstable reputation will not be able to attract necessary investors and businesses from interested investors both within and outside the country. A local investor with the resources to establish a business may prefer to take his or her money elsewhere, to a country with a reasonably stable government. This lack of investment by entrepreneurs is due to the fact that there is no guarantee of any security for their investments. Lack of security also means that the business will not flourish in the way it would in a country with a stable government.
Green economic development planning considers the environmental impacts of new infrastructure.
Another way in which environment and economic development are related is due to the fact that a country with unfavorable government policy will not attract as much investors or foster economic development as much as a country with favorable government policies. Such policies may be in the form of taxation, import quotas or other forms of regulation. The taxation policies may be favorable or unfavorable. In some cases, the government in some countries may reduce the taxes paid by organizations in certain industries with a view to attracting investors, while also encouraging the development of certain sectors. An example is the solar energy and other green energy sector that routinely receives various tax concessions from different western governments as a form of encouragement.
Runoff from fertilizers used on large-scale agricultural farms can create negative environmental and economic impacts.
Certain types of culture help foster the relationship between environment and economic development. Some cultures are more receptive and open than others. Such open cultures are quick to embrace new ideas, new technologies and other facets that will help in the economic and social development of countries. The negative link between these two concepts lies in the way in which the byproducts of economic development affect the environment. Such a link includes issues like emissions from industrial plants, the runoffs from fertilizers used on large scale agricultural farms, and the various emissions from vehicles used to transport both raw materials and finished goods.
What Is the Relationship between Culture and Economic Development?
What Is the Relationship between Technology and Economic Development?
What is Sustainable Economic Development?
This is a very intelligent idea to analyze the relationship between economic development and environment in two ways.
@pleonasm - That factor still has a huge impact on economies. I know in some places the introduction of a single foreign animal can disrupt whole industries.
New Zealand and Australia are still battling the rabbits which were introduced there over a hundred years ago. With no natural predators, they cost farmers billions of dollars in control and lost revenues.
Likewise in the United States introduced diseases have had huge impact on the forestry sector, for example elm disease and the disease that affected all the native chestnut trees.
And that's not even mentioning environmental disasters. The environment has a huge and complex affect on economy really, even in big countries. And in smaller or developing countries it can be an absolutely crucial influence.
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@umbra21 - Environment has historical significance as well. I've heard the theory that the reason Europe and Asia were able to develop such strong economies (and, in turn spawn the USA and other related countries) was because they had just the right environment to nurture them.
Not only did they have relatively mild weather, they also had the kinds of animals which could be domesticated available. Horses, in particular, were responsible for people being able to travel and spread.
Because most of the large mammals in other countries were made extinct before they could be domesticated (if indeed they ever could), those countries were always relying on manpower, and rarely made it past the tribal stage of hunter-gathering.
umbra21
This goes both ways when you are thinking about the affect of the economy on the physical environment.
It's no coincidence that most developing nations are in very hot or very cold environments. When you are having to battle the elements all the time, it's difficult to really get a foothold.
And there are other factors to consider, such as disease and food shortages. If a country which is primarily desert happens to have a drought they can't rely on other areas of the country to make up the shortfall with food, the way different places in the United States might.
And hot countries often have to deal with mosquitoes carrying disease as well.
An economy is directly dependent on real human workers, something that is often talked about in abstract terms, but it really does come down to whether or not the guy who makes the products to be sold is well enough to get out of bed in the morning.
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Our $5 entry fee is cash only but we have an ATM conveniently located on site. Most vendors accept all major credit cards inside the show but it's always a good idea to bring cash.
Parking is free! Dallas Market Center and Market Hall have thousands of parking spots surrounding the complex.
Yes! Our restrooms are also wheelchair-friendly.
Yes! Bring your furry friends!
Of course, we love kiddos (we have several vendors hawking gear just for babies and children)! Strollers are allowed and the women's restrooms are equipped with changing stations.
Of course! We have several food options as well as beer and wine.
Yes! We list details on our Events Page and social media outlets a month prior to each show.
Any perks to getting to the show early?
Yes! Early bird gets the worm (some of our vendors are known to sell out by early afternoon). Plus, there's ample parking and the first 100 shoppers receive a free tote bag.
Do you provide delivery services for large items purchased?
Do you hold items purchased for pickup another day?
Sorry, our event breaks down the evening of the event. We cannot hold any items.


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Flint water crisis radicalized locals
Benjamin J. Pauli
Hickenlooper discusses campaign shakeup
Stranger Things 3: A good cop goes toxic
Melanie McFarland
Ronald Reagan; Donald Trump; Richard Nixon (AP/Reuters/Eric Thayer/Photo montage by Salon)
Trump's conflicts are unprecedented, but not unique: A short history of Republican corruption
Donald Trump's level of shameless corruption is something new — but he fits into a longer Republican story
Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/2017/02/08/trumps-conflicts-are-unprecedented-but-not-unique-a-short-history-of-republican-corruption-tk/
February 8, 2017 5:59PM (UTC)
President Trump's conflicts of interest are so vast and ubiquitous (and transparent) that it has almost become a platitude just to mention them at this point. Everyone with common sense knows that Trump's separation from his multi-billion dollar business — currently being run by his children, who are in regular contact with their father — is a charade. Yet only Democrats (and a tiny handful of principled Republicans) seem to care in Washington.
Trump's dissociation from his business is analogous to the farce of modern campaign finance law, in which political campaigns are technically prohibited from coordinating with corporate-funded Super PACs, yet do it with impunity because Republican commissioners on the FEC refuse to enforce the law. In a speech at the Brookings Institution last month, Walter M. Shaub Jr., director of the Office of Government Ethics, asserted that Trump "stepping back from running his business is meaningless from a conflict of interest perspective," and that "limiting direct communication about the business is wholly inadequate. … There's not supposed to be any information at all."
According to a recent New York Times report, however, it turns out that Trump isn't "limiting direct communication" as much as he had suggested. The president will "receive reports on any profit, or loss, on his company as a whole," write Times reporters Susanne Craig and Eric Lipton, and can revoke the authority of his eldest son and his CFO, Allen H. Weisselberg, "at any time." In addition, the purpose of the "Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust is to hold assets for the 'exclusive benefit' of the president."
So Trump's separation from his business empire is even more of a farce than previously thought. It would be naive to expect Republican politicians to change their tune in the near future. The GOP's attitude towards corruption was made clear last month when Shaub's uncontroversial remarks cited above, which only stated the obvious, prompted Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, who chairs the House Oversight Committee — and who never flinched at investigating the exaggerated misdeeds of Hillary Clinton — to threaten an investigation of Shaub himself, rather than the president. It should be obvious by now that opposing corruption has become a partisan issue in Washington, and that the vast majority of Republicans simply do not care about people in power breaking the law — unless, of course, such people happen to be Democrats.
Some liberals and Independents have been shocked at how shamelessly Republicans appear to disregard the endless conflicts of interest and open corruption of the new president. They shouldn't be. Republicans have long been tolerant of powerful elites breaking the law — in government and the private sector — just as they have long been receptive to "alternative facts." A politician who lies as blatantly and frequently as Trump does could only succeed in a party where falsehoods have become the rule, just as a politician as openly corrupt and hostile to the rule of law as Trump is could only succeed in a party that has become completely tolerant of corruption and unethical behavior by those in power.
With all this in mind, it is hardly surprising that the most corrupt and unscrupulous presidential administrations in modern history have all been Republican. Whenever political corruption is mentioned, of course, most Americans think of Richard "I am not a crook" Nixon, likely the most corrupt and unprincipled man to ever sit in the Oval Office (although the competition is fierce). What most Americans don't know is that Ronald Reagan's administration was just as corrupt, if not more so, than Nixon's. As Haynes Johnson reported in his 1991 book, "Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years":
By the end of his term, 138 Reagan administration officials had been convicted, had been indicted, or had been the subject of official investigations for official misconduct and/or criminal violations. In terms of numbers of officials involved, the record of his administration was the worst ever.
Reagan's customary response to instances of wrongdoing by aides was to criticize those who brought the charges, or to blame the media that reported them.
That serves as a useful reminder that Republicans have been scapegoating the media for decades, which has now culminated in Trump's war against press freedom and objective truth.
Reagan, the man who perfected Nixon's race-baiting "Southern strategy," and who is now worshipped by Republicans as a political saint, helmed one of the most corrupt administrations in modern history — with the most notorious scandal obviously being the Iran-Contra affair. The widespread corruption of the Reagan administration was largely due to the incompetent leadership of the president — who was likely suffering from early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease toward the end of his second term — along with the general ethos of his administration. The Nixon administration's criminality, on the other hand, always had the president's fingerprints on it. The unscrupulous and vindictive Nixon called the shots, from the Watergate burglary to the subsequent coverup to the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist.
Those two administrations, though led by men with very different temperaments, shared many of the same characteristics (besides corruption). Both Nixon and Reagan sought to exploit racial tensions and cultural fears, and made "law and order" the staple of their platforms. And while Nixon launched the disastrous "war on drugs," it was Reagan who vastly escalated it a decade later, leading to unprecedented growth in the prison population. (The number of nonviolent drug offenders in prison increased from 50,000 in 1980 to more than 400,000 in 1997).
There is an obvious irony in the fact that the two most corrupt administrations in modern history were elected on the promise of "law and order" — and it is hardly coincidental that our current Republican president, who revamped this law-and-order rhetoric for the 21st century, seems well on his way to surpassing both Nixon and Reagan in unethical behavior. This reveals something fundamental about Republican philosophy. While conservatives are ever eager to fill our prisons with nonviolent drug users and poor people of color (and, occasionally, political opponents), sending a rich, respectable Wall Street executive, a powerful politician or a corporate billionaire to prison for breaking the law is almost unthinkable. Powerful elites simply don't belong in a penitentiary, locked up like lowly animals. And when the crime is beyond doubt, a big fine, personal ruin or a few years' probation, at most, is adequate punishment.
As Republicans continue their crusade to make legal bribery great again by gutting campaign finance law, and make Wall Street fraudulent again by deregulating the financial industries, the Trump administration will likely escalate the failed drug war with Jeff Sessions as attorney general and imprison many more people for drug use — or for simply being poor. If someone has money or power in America, or if someone is the right skin color, he or she can generally avoid going to prison for committing a crime, barring major felonies like murder. If a poor person or a person of color is arrested with a bag of pot, on the other hand, he or she will likely end up behind bars.
President Trump, of course, is one of the richest men in America (or at least claims to be), and has always had top-tier lawyers by his side. In a sense, then, he has always been above the law. He will surely continue to govern that way, and to disparage judges and the courts when they rule his policies unlawful. Trump has the unethical and vindictive nature of Richard Nixon, the shallow and incurious intellect of Ronald Reagan and the autocratic temperament of a man who has ruled his privately-held business with an iron fist. Time and again the president has shown himself to be an unethical con man, and he has already been named in more than 50 lawsuits since becoming president, compared to just three filed against Obama at this point in his presidency.
Trump's fellow Republicans have already made it clear that they will not hold the president or his administration accountable. Like their wealthy donors — and like past Republican presidents — President Trump is understood to be above the law. By contrast, the hundreds of thousands of people in prison for nonviolent drug offenses, and the African-Americans incarcerated at rates six times higher than whites, have played by the rules. We know who wrote those rules.
Conor Lynch is a writer and journalist living in New York City. His work has appeared on Salon, AlterNet, Counterpunch and openDemocracy. Follow him on Twitter: @dilgentbureauct.
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"The 'Game of the Century' Byrne v Fischer New York 1956.
The 'Game of the Century' was not Smyslov v Pachman 1956.
Look at the cover again and in particular this bit.
The Byrne - Fischer game actually appears on page 374.
'Game of the Century'. Smyslov -v- Pachman was a cracking game.
Position after 16 moves. The full game is at the bottom of this piece.
anyone. However his opponent on that day was Donald Byrne (1930-1976).
opponent is sometimes given as Grandmaster R. Byrne (Donald's brother).
loser or a chump for playing on and on and finally getting checkmated.
a kind of tribute to the fine game he played. They said, 'Sure, why not?' and so I did"
(a game - by the way - Fischer himself left out of his 60 Memorable Games.).
last century. It was the best game played by a child prodigy in the last century.
all over the world. Fischer said it was the first time the Russians notice me.
In 1972 Time Magazine (the pun!) had the Fischer - Spassky match on their cover.
I did toy with the idea of not giving the 'Game of the Century' but that would be just too silly.
Now we look at what could have happened if White took the Knight.
The Trick. Set this up and ask someone to play the mate.
A Red Hot Pawn game with the mate that could have appeared in the Fischer game.
The trap set by an RHP player that I mentioned in the main game.
(2326) rsand2 - Brian Bartholomew RHP 2006.
The final position of the Fischer - Byrne game. Any RHP mates like it?
Actually there are quite a few with the same pattern. Here are three of them.


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CallTower, a global leader in delivering cloud-based enterprise-class unified communications and collaboration solutions, announced today a modernized and streamlined White Label Program. This enhancement delivers both a new and innovative white label exclusive website and a newly established reseller administrative control portal. CallTower enhanced their white label program to empower resellers further to own their brand and expand their scope. CallTower's program emboldens white label partners to sell the most advanced, enterprise-grade, native Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams, Cisco HCS, and/or CT Cloud Voice communications solutions, through a vetted turn-key program.
According to CallTower's Director of Wholesale, Brad Nichols, "Over the past two years we have worked very hard to deliver a full-service white label program to our resellers, and today we are proud to announce that our program now fully empowers our resellers with all of the tools they need to be successful in today's rapidly growing UCaaS marketplace."
CallTower recently announced additional enhancements to their white label program through their Billing as a Service (BaaS) platform, which enables partners to build a predictable monthly recurring revenue base they own. BaaS makes it easy for white label partners to sell their brand of Unified Communications with a built-in quoting, billing, reporting, and tax management platform.
CallTower exists to enable people to easily connect to transact business communications. Since its inception in 2002, CallTower has become a leading provider of cloud-based, enterprise-class Unified Communications solutions for growing organizations worldwide. CallTower provides, integrates and supports industry-leading, cloud-based, Unified Communications and Collaboration solutions, including Cisco® Unified Communications Manager, Microsoft® Skype for Business, CT Cloud, CT Cloud Boost, Office 365 and Zoom Video Communications for business customers.?
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How to Build a Medieval Castle out of Bricks for a Project
By Tad Cronn ; Updated September 15, 2017
Medieval castles were not the brightly lighted domiciles depicted in fairy tales. Most of them were squat, square and formidable, as might be expected of buildings that often served as fortresses for the only forces of law that might exist for scores of miles around. Capture the feel of a genuine medieval castle for a school project by building a model out of Styrofoam bricks.
Mark the 20-by-12-by-1-inch Styrofoam sheet with the pencil. Using the straight edge, draw 12 rows of 10 2-by-1-inch bricks. Cut out the bricks by using the craft knife and straight edge. Repeat as needed during construction.
Glue the bricks for the castle foundation to the cardboard in an 8-by-4-brick rectangle. Leave a 2-brick gap in the middle of one of the long sides for the gate. Build up the walls by gluing on an additional seven layers of bricks.
Cut seven of the Styrofoam bricks in half so that you have 14 1-inch cubes. Stack seven cubes on each side in front of the gate opening, gluing the cubes to each other and the wall to form the gate posts.
Glue two 2-by-1-inch bricks on top of the gate posts, allowing 1 1/4 inch of each brick to hang over the inside of the gate. Glue one more 2-by-1-inch brick centered on top of the gate. The top of the gate should be higher than the walls.
Cut out six 3-by-3-inch squares from a Styrofoam sheet.
Glue together two stacks of three squares each. Glue 1-inch cubes to the four corners of each stack. These will be your tower roofs.
Glue each roof to a corner of the front wall, the side with the gate. Let each roof overhang the edges of the walls about 1/2 inch.
Paint your castle with water-based latex. Do not use oil-based enamel or regular spray paint because it will melt your castle.
Tad Cronn is a professional journalist living in Los Angeles. His columns have appeared in the "Los Angeles Daily News," the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer," the "Orange County Register" and other publications. He is an award-winning illustrator, author of "The Lynx," and an experienced handyman, model builder and gamer.
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The Culturama Secretariat in the Ministry of Culture on Nevis will hold its keenly anticipated reveal of the Culturama 44 contestants at the Charlestown Waterfront on Friday, June 15, 2018.Mr. Abonaty Liburd, Executive Director of the Culturama Secretariat told the Department of Information.
"We will be revealing all of the senior pageant contestants and we have a full slate of contestants this year, Mr. Kool, Miss Culture and Miss Culture Swimwear. We will also be revealing, probably for the first time in many years, our Mr. and Miss Talented Youth Pageant contestants and probably for the first time, we will also be revealing our junior calypsonians.


Anti-Immigrant Suburban County: Closed for Business?
In May, the median price of a home in the county was $256,124, compared with $375,000 in May 2007, according to Metropolitan Regional Information Systems. Three hundred more homes were sold this May than a year ago.
[Resident] Katherine M. Gotthardt said she thinks it's a waste of time and money for police to check the legal status of arrested criminal suspects. She would rather see the county invest in fire department staffing, affordable housing and schools.