Experience one of the most impressive areas in Switzerland. During the trip, you'll come up on mountain peaks, where the beauty of the Swiss alps really catches up with you. There is definitely something to find here.
The hiking trip "Bear trek" takes you on a long, unique route, which leads you past glaciers and spectacular mountain passes.
The route "Via Alpina" takes you past the three iconic mountains Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau; through valleys and canyons to the famous ski resort Adelboden-Lenk.
You wil probably not meet any bears on this trip, but the route has its name from the time when only the wild animals trodded the paths.
Today the trails are maintained, but that does not mean that the tour is easy.
On this trip, it is important to have a good balance and to be in a good physical shape. It is also important not to have a fear of altitude.
Parts of the trip can be shortened if the weather should be bad.
You arrive at the first hotel in Meiringen, where you will be handed out maps and route descriptions. Then you have the rest of the day for yourself to enjoy and settle in.
You will be driven by bus to the starting point of the first hike. You walk up to the "Grosse Scheidegg", from where you have a magnificent view of the mountains Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau. From here you continue to Grindelwald.
The path leads you up to "Kleine Scheidegg". If you like, you can now hike all the way to the "Jungfraujoch". Small paths lead you past the beautiful Trümmelbach waterfalls and down to Lauterbrunnen.
Note: You can also choose an easier route that goes via Wengen down to Lauterbrunnen - or even take the train from "Kleine Scheidegg".
Early in the morning, a cable car takes you up to Mürren, where there may still be snow in the early summer. You walk along a fantastic alpine view.
The hike up to Blüemlisalp is the nicest part of the whole hike.
After a long and steep climb to a height of 2843 meters (9327 ft), you can enjoy a well-deserved meal at this Swiss pasture.
The path continues down the glacier to Lake Öschinen and from here it is not far to Kandersteg.
Note: It is also possible to take the cable car down.
You start the day by taking the cable car up to the "Allmenalp" from where you walk to "Bonderchrinde". The view is magnificent. The path leads you down to Adelboden.
From the famous village of Adelboden you walk towards the Hahnenmoos Pass. Enjoy the wonderful views of Mt. Wildstrubels thaw while walking in the Simmental Valley.
You arrive in Lenk, where you spend your last night in the Bernese Oberland.
You check out of the hotel and go home or start your next adventure.
The price is based on staying overnight in a double room. It is also possible to travel alone for a surcharge. You can view the individual additional fee by selecting "1 adult" in the booking form.
The easiest way to get to Meiringen is to fly to Zurich. From here you take the train to Meiringen. The trip from Zurich to Meiringen takes about 3½ hours by train.
This may also be a convenient solution. You simply drive all the way to Meiringen and pay approximately 20 euros to leave the car at the first hotel. There is no need to reserve the parking spot in advance.
When you return from Lenk to Meiringen you can take the train, which takes about 3 hours, or you can purchase a private transfer back to the first hotel (costs about €100 per person).
On this trip we have included breakfast every day. It is generally easy to find places to eat at, as well as shops to buy lunch or a lunch pack at.
When booking the tour, you will receive all relevant "pre-departure" information. Some information (e.g. the hotel list) is only available about one month before the departure. On our individual self-guided tours, hiking descriptions, maps and other destination materials will be provided to you upon arrival at the first accommodation.


Bashford Manor Stakes at Churchill Downs. Bashford Manor Stakes is Grade III for two-year -old colts and geldings at six furlongs on dirt. Purse $100,000. Stakes.
Sir Truebadour set the early pace and out kicked Mr Chocolate Chip down the lane for a two length win.


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Q: Python script hangs in loop In one of my scripts I'm using the following infinite loop to check for an active internet connection:
def online_check():
    try:
        con = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.google.com/")
        data = con.read()
        logging.debug('{0} Reached the host. Exiting online_check'.format(time.strftime('[ %H:%M:%S ]')))
    except:
        logging.debug('{0} Could not reach host trying again in 3 seconds'.format(time.strftime('[ %H:%M:%S ]')))
        time.sleep(3)
        online_check()

I am aware that this is not a very elegant solution but the problem is that when I start my script it will sometimes call the online_check method and get stuck in the middle of it (Once in roughly 200 attempts). The script is still running and no exception is thrown; the script is just stuck. I can press CTRL+C (Even after hours of the script being stuck) and it will just throw an exception and continue with the next online_check. I also rewrote the script to check for an IP address in 'ifconfig' as opposed to pinging google, unfortunately with similar results.
What am I doing wrong? Can I rewrite the script so this never happens? Is there something I can do to find out what is happening here?
Help is greatly appreciated. Btw. I'm using Python2.7.1 and I've tried this script both on Linux and Mac.
P.S: If you have recommendations for designing a method that checks for connectivity without using bandwidth and minimal overhead, I'd be more than happy to hear it.

A: You are running into infinite recursion, a method you can do to not have this happen is pass an argument into online_check for the maximum check.
Such as:
def online_check(max_checks=10, current_check=0):
    try:
        con = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.google.com/")
        data = con.read()
        logging.debug('{0} Reached the host. Exiting online_check'.format(time.strftime('[ %H:%M:%S ]')))
    except:
        logging.debug('{0} Could not reach host trying again in 3 seconds'.format(time.strftime('[ %H:%M:%S ]')))
        if max_checks > current_check:
          time.sleep(3)
          online_check(max_checks, current_check+1)

So  you would do:
online_check(5) # for 5 maximum checks
online_check() # use the default value, which is 10

I also suggest you catch more specific exceptions, for better coding habits but also because when you do CTRL-C, Python throws a KeyboardInterrupt exception, which your code actually catches because you catch all exceptions.

A: In addition to the infinite recursion (CPython as far as I'm aware doesn't support optimized tail-end recursion), you are not closing your connection.
You might be hitting some kind of connection limit either with the OS or with Google when it retries.  This probably happens before reaching max recursion depth which is why you don't get an exception.
The connection would normally close when it get garbage collected, but I think because of the recursion the variable doesn't completely go out of scope until the recursion ends.
Also as @senderle mentioned, you should try to catch a more specific error.
Try:
def online_check():
  while True:
    try:
      con = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.google.com/")
      data = con.read()
      logging.debug('{0} Reached the host. Exiting online_check'.format(time.strftime('[ %H:%M:%S ]')))
    except urllib2.URLError:
      logging.debug('{0} Could not reach host trying again in 3 seconds'.format(time.strftime('[ %H:%M:%S ]')))
      time.sleep(3)
    finally:
      con.close()

(Warning untested code)

A: In addition to others' suggestions, you should really specify which exception(s) you're catching. Control-C doesn't work because that just raises an exception, and your except statement interprets it as being the same as all others.
Seems like the exception you want is urllib2.URLError.

A: At some point this program is going to end up encountering the recursion depth limit for your interpreter.  Typically, a function that should continuously run would be structured like so:
def online_check():
  while True:
    try:
      con = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.google.com/")
      data = con.read()
      logging.debug('{0} Reached the host. Exiting online_check'.format(time.strftime('[ %H:%M:%S ]')))
      break
    except:
      logging.debug('{0} Could not reach host trying again in 3 seconds'.format(time.strftime('[ %H:%M:%S ]')))
      time.sleep(3)

That should give you better results.  I imagine you've already got a separate thread that's running this function (otherwise later code can't execute - this function never returns).

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10 players are in contention for the Best FIFA Men's Player of the Year, Cristiano Ronaldo, Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and more.
Liverpool's Champions League-winning trio of Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Sadio Mane have joined regulars Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi on the shortlist for the Fifa Men's Player of the Year award.
Harry Kane, Kylian Mbappe, Eden Hazard and Dutch duo Matthijs de Ligt and Frenkie de Jong have also made the shortlist.
Salah and Mane shared the Premier League Golden Boot – with Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang – each of them scored 22 goals.
For Lionel Messi, he was the leading scorer in both La Liga (36 goals) and the Champions League (12 goals) last season.
Meanwhile, centre-back Van Dijk was voted both the Premier League Player of the Season and the Players' Men's Player of the Year, and also played an instrumental role in seeing his club, Liverpool wins their sixth Champions League trophy.
While Cristiano Ronaldo won Italy's Serie A title in his debut season with Juventus and was also voted the league's most valuable player. He also led Portugal to the inaugural Uefa Nations League title last month.
Appropriately, the remaining five candidates for this award- Eden hazard, Matthijs de Ligt, Frenkie de Jong, Harry Kane and Kylian Mbappe also played vital roles for their club's last season.
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For the men's coach of the year, award shortlists, Jurgen Klopp (Liverpool) and domestic treble winner Pep Guardiola (Manchester City), alongside Mauricio Pochettino (Tottenham), head the nominees.
Portuguese coach Fernando Santos, Brazil's Tite, who led his side to the Copa America title, an Africa Cup of Nations winner Djamel Belmadi of Algeria are also part of the group.
For the women, US World Cup winners Megan Rapinoe, who won the top scorer's Golden Boot and Golden Ball for the best player at the tournament, Alex Morgan and Julie Ertz have been nominated for the best women's player award along with last year's Ballon d'Or winner Ada Hegerberg.
Hegerberg's treble-winning Olympique Lyonnais teammates Lucy Bronze, Amandine Henry and Wendie Renard have also cut.
US women's national team coach Jill Ellis, who led her side to their fourth World Cup title earlier this month, heads the list of nominees for the best women's team coach.
She is joined by Lyon's treble-winning coach Reynald Pedros, Sarina Wiegman, who led the Netherlands to their first-ever World Cup final, and Joe Montemurro who led Arsenal to the FA Women's Super League title.
The three finalists for each award will be revealed at a later date, with the winners to be announced in a ceremony in Milan on September 23.
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Harry Kane (England & Tottenham)
Eden Hazard (Belgium & Real Madrid – signed from Chelsea)
Sadio Mane (Senegal & Liverpool)
Kylian Mbappe (France & PSG)
Lionel Messi (Argentina & Barcelona)
Mohamed Salah (Egypt & Liverpool)
Virgil van Dijk (Holland & Liverpool)
Women's Player of the Year
Lucy Bronze (England & Lyon)
Julie Ertz (USA & Chicago Red Stars)
Caroline Graham Hansen (Norway & Wolfsburg)
Ada Hegerberg (Norway & Lyon)
Amandine Henry (France & Lyon)
Sam Kerr (Australia & Chicago Red Stars)
Rose Lavelle (USA & Washington Spirit)
Vivianne Miedema (Netherlands & Arsenal)
Alex Morgan (USA & Orlando Pride)
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Wendie Renard (France & Lyon)
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Many health care organizations have already deployed secure email software but don't realize that their providers are still sending sensitive patient information to each other via SMS text messages. Text messaging is king, especially in the hospital setting where highly mobile physicians need fast answers about the sickest patients and aren't always in front of a computer.
But secure text messaging solutions aren't all the same. SMS text messaging is very easy to use and everyone already has it installed on their phone, so if you expect a secure replacement to get widespread adoption, the secure texting software actually has to be better than SMS in some way. In this series, I will share some areas of opportunity that we've discovered at pMD while helping our customers deploy our secure text messaging software. If you're in the market for something like this, I hope you find this series informative and that it inspires you to seek the best solution on the market for your needs!
This scenario may sound familiar: you send someone an SMS text message about something important and you're waiting to hear back. Some time later, you realize that you haven't heard back. Maybe the recipient didn't get your message. You decide to open up your text messaging app, but it doesn't say one way or the other. You start to wonder if you should send another text message, or maybe even call the other person. Then something distracts you and you lose the thread. It could be a while before you think to check again, and your phone won't bring the unread message to your attention. The recipient might not have received your message, or might not have noticed when it arrived; either way, the thread of communication stopped there.
Most secure text messaging software on the market actually makes this problem more severe. Unlike SMS text messages, you need a data signal (WiFi or cellular data) in order to get notified about a secure text message that was sent to you. Most hospitals are riddled with dead zones where you can't find out right away that a secure text message was sent to you because there isn't enough data signal for push notifications to reach you. This is dangerous in the hospital setting where providers are sending time-sensitive clinical information and they expect it to work like SMS.
To solve this problem, seek a solution that will automatically follow up on your behalf. Replaying the scenario described above, if the recipient hasn't received or hasn't read your message after a period of time, the software should automatically follow up with an SMS text message reminding them that they have a secure text message from you. Even if they don't have a data signal, they can get this text message reminder - you don't have to remember to text them to see if they got your first message because the system does it for you.
Ideally the software should follow up again, this time with an automated voice call, if the recipient still hasn't read your message in pMD after even more time has passed. Though more intrusive than an SMS, the voice call is appropriate for time-sensitive messages like a stat consult - in other words, situations where you yourself would call the recipient if you didn't get a quick reply... if you remembered to. Automation makes this consistent and saves you the trouble.
If the recipient got distracted or was unreachable and never read your message, at a certain point you want to know that. Most secure and non-secure messaging systems require you to actively keep checking the status of the message to see if it was read. You should look for a system that instead closes the loop by actively letting you know that the recipient hasn't read it yet after more time elapsed. This way you don't have to check the status of the message and you can't forget to check it.
Putting all these reminders together, you should seek a secure text messaging solution that acts like a concierge or assistant for your communication. It should follow up for you, using different types of reminders that don't rely on data and that become increasingly hard to ignore. Finally, if your message still wasn't read, the system should let you know so you can try to reach the person a different way, or find someone else to contact. That way if your message wasn't read, you'll be the first to know.
These follow up actions shouldn't be needed most of the time, but when they kick in, you'll be relieved to know that your message isn't just sitting out there in limbo. Hospital-based physicians can find great peace of mind in knowing that their messages are not only secure, but also persistent.


If we are Unitarians, what do we stand for? Can we be a religion without a prescribed creed? How do we describe the key characteristics of our community? If we are not clear about what we stand for we can't complain when we are poorly described by others.
Some of us come to St Mark's because we found the dogma of other religions restricted our enquiring minds; some found they were no longer relevant for the 21st Century; while others would not describe themselves as religious, and yet are comfortable within our community. I was attracted to St Mark's because I found it respectful of my Christian heritage while encouraging me to thing beyond one perspective and to find inspiration from a range of sources. The Unitarian values of justice, compassion, respect and equity fit with my values, and allow me to grow and develop my understanding of these simple yet complex words.
• We nurture individuals in their personal and spiritual growth and respect their freedom to believe according to reason, conscience and their experience of the divine.
• We support freedom, exploration and respect for diversity in religion.
• We value insights from all faiths and world views, and acknowledge the Christian roots of our community.
• We cherish creation and respect the interdependence of the whole natural world.
• We seek to make our community relevant through public opportunities for spiritual exploration and practice; non-judgmental dialogue; and compassionate care and service to one another and to the wider community.
• We seek to maintain, preserve and enhance the church premises, which are provided for the use of our Members and the general public.
• We ask Members of our Society to share these principles.
When asked what are Unitarians these principles may hold the answer. However they do not trip of the tongue. Ida introduced a simple rhyme to the children to explain what being a Unitarian is, with actions in italics.
At time when tensions between religions are evident and there is increased discrimination of people of religious faiths, Unitarians are committed to dialogue and understanding. These principles are even more relevant. This is what we stand for and for those of us who dare to dream of a world where love overwhelms hate, our principles give us a shared template for living our lives.
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On December 17, 1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright accomplished the first successful flight of a mechanically propelled heavier-than-air craft near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. This event is considered to be a pivotal milestone in the development of aeronautics which led to breakthrough developments.
Pan American Aviation Day was declared by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was first observed in 1940 and has been proclaimed every year since then. This observance focuses on stimulating interest in aviation in the American countries. Its ultimate goal is to contribute to the development of more rapid communications and cultural ties between the countries in the Western hemisphere.
Pan American Aviation Day is not a public holiday therefore government offices, educational establishments, and businesses do not close on this day. However, schools often organize trips to aviation centers or museums and classroom activities devoted to the history of aviation.


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Groundwater is water below the surface that feeds wells and springs and maintains the level of rivers and lakes in dry weather. Groundwater domes from rain and snow that soaks into the ground and is filtered down under the surface. Groundwater can be brought to the surface using a pump or a well. Once pumped, the groundwater can be used for drinking or irrigating crops. If chemicals and pollutants are dumped on the ground they can get into the groundwater and make it unsafe to drink. The could also kill the plants and animals that might use the water.
Enforcement of government regulations which are protective of groundwater.
About 90% of the U.S. freshwater supply is groundwater.
80 billion gallons of groundwater accounts for 20% of the total water usage in the U.S.
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You can't have software without bugs. Every major piece of code is subject to extensive debugging, which is an inevitable part of the development process. But when that code controls digital assets worth millions of dollars, ensuring it's free of critical errors isn't just desirable – it's imperative. As this week's Bancor hack and this year's spate of smaller smart contract fails has shown, creating bug-free code is virtually impossible.
Cryptocurrencies, even those that don't permit smart contracts, are susceptible to bugs. Even bitcoin, the benchmark by which other coins are measured, has had its share, like the overflow bug in 2010 that created 180 billion bitcoins in block 74638. It was quickly fixed though without anyone gaining or losing coins. Ethereum users haven't always been so lucky. Incidents such as the DAO, Parity, and most recently Bancor, whose $12.5 million loss has been attributed to a permissioned backdoor in their smart contract, have pushed the amount of crypto lost to coding errors towards $1 billion.
As a turing complete blockchain, the Ethereum Virtual Machine can be used to enact smart contracts that use extremely sophisticated logic. The trouble is, the more complex that logic, the greater the likelihood of an exploitable bug creeping in. Solidity, the main language used to code Ethereum smart contracts, is notoriously tricky to master. The smart contract-enabled blockchains that have since emerged have been intent on eliminating such mistakes. This entails moving away from Solidity, and often from turing completeness, in favor of a more restrictive system with less margin for error.
While Stratis is largely focused on enterprise adoption, other blockchains are gunning for Ethereum, but have yet to reach a state of readiness where they can lay a glove on the cryptoverse's de facto smart contract platform. Tezos will use formal verification for its smart contracts in the form of Michelson, a simplistic programming language that prizes security over multi-functionality. As a result, it should be harder for coders to create arbitrary programs, which in turn means it should be harder for them to introduce fatal flaws.
Stellar provides limited smart contract abilities to cover such matters as multi-sig, batching and time bounds. Cardano's smart contracts must be formally verified to ensure they're free of bugs and run using a virtual machine called IELE. EOS smart contracts are deployed as pre-compiled Web Assembly using C/C++. Like Cardano and Tezos, EOS is still at an early stage in its development, with just a handful of developers building upon its protocol. Ethereum, in comparison, can count 35,000 Solidity developers, and thus remains the web's preeminent smart contract blockchain.
As blockchain technology permeates every industry, the role smart contracts play in executing decisions will increase dramatically. In the process, computer code will go from controlling hundreds of millions to billions of dollars of digital assets. Eliminating bugs is essential if smart contracts are to become a part of everyday business. Before that happens, costly errors caused by further flaws are inevitable. Ethereum's smart contract bugs are already out there. It's just a case of who finds them first: whitehat or black.
Do you think smart contract bugs will ever be completely eradicated? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Pregnant Woman is Murdered and Her Baby Ripped from Her Womb
A woman in New York was fatally strangled and stabbed on Friday before the killer ripped her baby from her womb.
Police arrested a woman at the scene who they believe murdered the Bronx 22-year-old before taking the child in the bloody altercation and allegedly claiming it as her own.
The child survived the attack and investigators were working over the weekend to determine how far along in her pregnancy the victim was.
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According to the Associated Press, police arrived to the scene on Friday afternoon to find the victim stabbed multiple times in the abdomen.
Authorities said the suspect, who is also 22, tried to claim the child was hers.
"When the cops arrived, the perp claimed it was her child and that she gave birth during the struggle," New York City Councilman Andy King told NBC New York.
Read: Suspect Arrested in the Rape and Murder of Girl, 7, Who Went Missing for Just 25 Minutes
The victim was taken to an area hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
I was not immediately clear if the two women knew each other.
Charges against the suspect were pending while she underwent a psychological evaluation.
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The world's most expensive pair of shoes priced at a mind blowing $ 17 million, will be launched at the world's only 7-star hotel, Burj Burj Al Arab. Created by the UAE-based brand Jada Dubai in collaboration with Passion Jewellers the glittering stilettos are made from real gold, adorned with a total of 236 diamonds; with two imposing D-Flawless 15-carat diamond on each side.
At $17 million, The Passion Diamond Shoes is the undisputed world's most expensive shoes. Any takers?


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Q: Pinch interface that connects the displays of multiple devices simultaneously I want to implement Pinch interface that connects the displays of multiple devices simultaneously
here is the concept video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRGLkj-PsCc
I am unable to get any clue to start. Is there any one that can help me to implement for Android Devices.


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Eight-year-old with alopecia defies bullies to embrace being bald
Marie Claire Dorking
·Contributor, Yahoo Life UK
9 March 2022, 10:33 am ·6-min read
Niamh Lewis, 8, has alopecia but is defying her bullies and embracing her baldness. (Caters)
An eight-year-old girl with alopecia has defied her bullies by ditching her wig and embracing her baldness with pride.
Niamh Lewis from Glyncorrwg, South Wales started to lose her hair when she was just three years old and now has no hair, eyebrows or eyelashes.
Despite being taunted by cruel bullies at school Niamh refuses to let her condition dent her confidence and has instead chosen to celebrate her unique looks.
"I am so proud of how she has dealt with comments from other children and strangers who stop her in the street," says her mum, Amy, 43.
"Niamh is confident in her own skin and is an inspiration to us all."
Though she was born with a full head of hair and went on to have long hair as a toddler, at the age of three Niamh's hair started falling out in small patches.
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Niamh was born with hair, but it started coming out in patches when she was three. (Caters)
Niamh started to lose her hair when she was just three years old and now, she has no hair, eyebrows, or eyelashes. (Caters)
By the time she was five, the hair loss had rapidly increased until Niamh was left with no hair, eyelashes or eyebrows.
"It started as three patches," her mum, an events manager, explains. "Niamh didn't notice and it grew back.
"We tried different styles to cover the patches, but the hair was becoming very fine and tangly.
"When Niamh turned five in December, it became more noticeable and by the summer holidays it was all gone.
"It took only four months to go from having hair to no hair at all," Lewis continues.
The condition can be genetic and experts are unsure if Niamh's hair will ever grow back.
"Niamh said to me, if my body needs hair it will grow it," Lewis said. "So now we only speak positively about hair loss.
"The terms 'suffering with' or a 'survivor of' are not words we use."
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Niamh has recently decided to leave off her wig. (Caters)
Despite Niamh's positive outlook, her mother admits she has sometimes struggled to come to terms with her daughter's hair loss.
"As her mother, I grieved for her hair and found the loss hard to deal with," she explains.
"I worried about her future, especially as a female with no hair.
"I always worry how she will be treated by others who don't understand."
When Niamh first started to lose her hair, she was donated a wig from The Little Princess Trust, but she has decided she doesn't want to wear it anymore.
"It was too much for her tiny little features and it would get hot and itchy," her mum explains.
"She loves to swim and hang upside down outside like a typical child and the wig got in the way so she said no.
"We tried head scarfs and sometimes she wears accessories for fun, but normally she prefers not to wear anything."
Niamh is determined to focus on the positives. (Caters)
The family say they are determined to look on the bright side.
"Face paint can go everywhere and she is the first to get ready for swimming, and of course we never had to brush out painful tangles," Niamh's mum says.
Remaining positive, doesn't always help when having to deal with strangers staring and cruel comments about Niamh's appearance though.
"Kids would call her baldy and some of the girls wouldn't play with her," Lewis says.
"Wherever we go people stare. They assume she has cancer or a terminal illness.
"I've had strangers hug me and cry and give her money or sweets."
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Thankfully, now that she is older Niamh is able to explain that she isn't ill at all and that her hair loss is not cancer related.
While there are some potential treatments available, such as steroid injections, which may help to reduce the hair loss, the family has decided against it, feeling it was a lot to put Niamh through.
"You can also buy steroid-based creams, but I chose not to try that as it may irritate her eczema," Lewis adds.
"It's about weighing up what's best for each person."
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Determined to embrace her beauty, Niamh has recently joined a number of modelling agencies and is loving the experience so far.
"She hasn't lost her confidence in front of the camera," Lewis smiles.
"I'd like alopecia to be seen in mainstream modelling."
Niamh also has an Instagram page to connect with others who have the condition.
"Niamh started to question what she might look like as she gets older so we follow women and children all over the world with Alopecia and it's great to have that support," her mum says.
Niamh and her mother are also supporting the charity Alopecia UK and are hoping to set up the first support group in Wales.
Niamh has recently signed up to a model agency and is loving being in front of the camera. (Caters)
Alopecia is a physical health condition that causes hair to fall out.
According to Alopecia UK, Alopecia Areata is thought to be an autoimmune condition, which often starts with isolated patches of hair loss on the scalp and/or across the body including the beard, eyebrows, eyelashes or body hair, including pubic hair.
"In Alopecia Areata, cells from the immune system (a specific type of T cell, known as NKG2D+ T cells) gather around the hair follicles," the site explains. "These cells attack the follicle, stopping it from producing more hair. The exact way in which this happens is not yet understood."
Sometimes Alopecia Areata can develop into either Alopecia Totalis (hair loss across the entire scalp) or Alopecia Universalis (hair loss affecting the whole body), but in most cases the hair loss remains patchy and eventually regrowth occurs.
While the condition is often associated with stress and anxiety, it still isn't fully understood what triggers the immune system to attack healthy hair follicles when people have Alopecia Areata.
At the moment there is no cure for the condition, but treatments are available to slow down the loss of hair.
Common treatments for Alopecia Areata include corticosteroids (designed to dampen down the immune response) and topical immunotherapy (to distract the immune response).
Additional reporting Caters.
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They take the attitude of "UConn against the world, I love it." In that thread about Hurley. They have no idea that part of the reason they're not in a conference is that no one likes them. They take that us against the world attitude to the extreme and upset literally everyone that can help you.
No best coach list is complete without Frank Haith and Kelvin Sampson.
Um...you guys have four titles. How's THAT working out vis a vis your Power Five aspirations?
I'm sure you can say this about any board but there are legitimately complete morons on that one. I don't understand it. Who are some of those people? Serious question. Not all, but a scary large amount.
That's what is so great about that place. Every message board cross section has a certain percentage of pessimists and Pollyannas.
But over there the percentages are waaaay out of wack and the number of people who are just simply untethered to reality is just amazing.
You guys had better be careful. They could start putting on the foil!
I feel for their hoops fans.,I cant imagine the hysteria over here if we didn't get the ACC invite and were in their shoes.
Their FB fans? Meh. A school that waited until this century to finally go big time can't complain if the adults wanted to send them back to the kiddie table after less than 10 years of d-1 competition.
I had to google Frank Haith as I knew I knew him but was drawing a blank...oh yeah, the old "crappy ACC era"(IMO) Miami coach, and the guy who wasn't buying into Hurley's "drunk guy who almost got into a bar fight's" sarcastic trying to save face handshakes few weeks ago. LOL!
Stop overthinking this. We didn't care about the rest of the C7 when they were in the Big East. Why should we care about PC now?
OOC serves one and only one purposes. Quality win opportunities and big TV games.
You guys remember those, the one's that don't start at 9:13 because the Old Dominion game ran long on Thursday night?
Some of their fans are absolute trash about JB's accident.
Yes, but to be fair, most were not.
13-12 (4-8) uconn in a real close road nailbiter tonight against 12-12 (4-8) SMU.
Well, some of their fans are absolute trash.
File this under sun rises in east.
Hurley's boys were plucky and gutty and gritty and cut that lead to 9 at one point, but in the end they were overmatched against that SMU juggernaut.
i didnt really see a problem with the boneyard thread on the car accident.
akok akok watching from the bench thinking "what in the hot fuuq did i get talked into here?"
Other than a few try hard dorks trying to get their corny jokes off, it was fine.
But Hurley is so PASSIONATE!!!
He's showing them how to care about winning.
Once they're back in the top 5 every year, he will stay seated and lead the team in TM sessions during time outs.
That's how you turn around a program !
Uconn flirting with three straight losing seasons. Cuse hasn't had one since the Johnson administration.
I'll take 3>0 over 4>1 any day.


This was...boring. Tyler Jacob McCandless entered the front gates of Beata was a clean air of indignation provoked by the very idea of having to transfer schools. Sure, he would have been starting high school later in the year anyway, but having to move all the way to North Dakota to do it? It was preposterous that his parents thought there was a purpose for this. A good reason. Learning the gift he had been given? Who care? So what if it acted out on occasion, it wasn't like he could hurt anybody with silence. Of course, he was unaware of the sheer power of his gift, and that was the very reason they had sent Tyler to Beata, so he could learn the power of the gift and then master said power. But Tyler didn't know this, and walked into Beata as if he already owned the place, ready to turn around and walk home, if he had to. Which, he decided after a few minutes of standing, was a good idea.
So he promptly turned around, running instantly into someone behind him.
Snap. Snap. Snap. Celeste's camera took 3 steady pictures, each of a different thing: the academy, the clouds, and her shoes on the pavement. It was a brand new camera, so she might as well test it out. Her 1982 glasses hung on a string around her neck, and a silver barrette clipped her hair back. The sleeves of her big sweater flopped over her fingers unless she tugged them, and she wheeled two big suitcases behind her. A backpack hung from both shoulders.
As she gazed down at her camera and looked through her pictures, she found herself not paying attention. Celeste gasped as someone bumped into her. "Woah! Excusez-moi, monsieur!" she giggled softly. "Eh, sorry. I forgot who I was talking to. You don't mind if I take a quick picture of you, do you? I want a picture of everyone I meet... Well, except my papa, mum, or three sisters." She jiggled the camera as emphasis, a pleading smile gracing her face.
What a surprise. He had run into a bubbly person. Tyler hated bubbly people, they were so often annoying and oblivious to the horrible world around them. He hated them more when they were bubbly even after learning how horrible the world could be. Instantly he cringed, but it likely looked more like a flinch, taking a step back from her to make space. But she was French. Or, at least, spoke French. It was charming in the very slightest way, but not enough to be enjoyable.
Suddenly, he knew her whole family. Not by name, maybe, but he easily knew she had three sisters and both her parents. Ty scoffed. "Pardon me. And yes, I do mind. I prefer not showing up on a complete strangers camera, thank you." He commented, pulling back further and half turning away from her. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get to the main office." He maintained a firm air of indifferent during the whole exchange, expecting to be done with her with his last words.


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require 'spec_helper'

module MessageQuickly

  describe CallbackParser do

    context 'with a optin request' do

      let(:optin_json) { JSON.parse(File.read("spec/fixtures/optin_request.json")) }

      subject { CallbackParser.new(optin_json) }

      it { expect { |b| subject.parse(&b) }.to yield_with_args(Messaging::OptinEvent) }
      it { expect(subject.parse).not_to be_empty }

    end

    context 'with a delivery request' do

      let(:delivery_json) { JSON.parse(File.read("spec/fixtures/delivery_request.json")) }

      subject { CallbackParser.new(delivery_json) }

      it { expect { |b| subject.parse(&b) }.to yield_with_args(Messaging::DeliveryEvent) }
      it { expect(subject.parse).not_to be_empty }

    end

    context 'with a message request' do

      let(:message_json) { JSON.parse(File.read("spec/fixtures/message_request.json")) }

      subject { CallbackParser.new(message_json) }

      it { expect { |b| subject.parse(&b) }.to yield_with_args(Messaging::MessageEvent) }
      it { expect(subject.parse).not_to be_empty }

    end

    context 'with a read event' do

      let(:message_json) { JSON.parse(File.read("spec/fixtures/message_read.json")) }

      subject { CallbackParser.new(message_json) }

      it { expect { |b| subject.parse(&b) }.to yield_with_args(Messaging::ReadEvent) }
      it { expect(subject.parse).not_to be_empty }

    end

    context 'with a message request with attachment' do

      let(:message_json) { JSON.parse(File.read("spec/fixtures/message_request_with_attachment.json")) }

      subject { CallbackParser.new(message_json) }

      it { expect { |b| subject.parse(&b) }.to yield_with_args(Messaging::MessageEvent) }
      it { expect(subject.parse).not_to be_empty }
      it { expect(subject.parse.first.attachments).not_to be_empty }

    end

    context 'with a postback request' do

      let(:postback_json) { JSON.parse(File.read("spec/fixtures/postback_request.json")) }

      subject { CallbackParser.new(postback_json) }

      it { expect { |b| subject.parse(&b) }.to yield_with_args(Messaging::PostbackEvent) }
      it { expect(subject.parse).not_to be_empty }

    end

    context 'with an account link event' do

      let(:message_json) { JSON.parse(File.read("spec/fixtures/account_link.json")) }

      subject { CallbackParser.new(message_json) }

      it { expect { |b| subject.parse(&b) }.to yield_with_args(Messaging::AccountLinkEvent) }
      it { expect(subject.parse).not_to be_empty }

    end

    context 'with a change notification event' do

      let(:message_json) { JSON.parse(File.read("spec/fixtures/change_notification_request.json")) }

      subject { CallbackParser.new(message_json) }

      it { expect { |b| subject.parse(&b) }.to yield_with_args(ChangeUpdateEvent) }
      it { expect(subject.parse).not_to be_empty }

    end

  end

end


When a couple, or one of them, seeks marriage restoration, it is an encouraging sign that the marriage could still be revived. This exercise does not refer only to divorced, separated or about-to couples only. Every challenged couple, particularly where healthy communication is rare, needs help.
The need to save a marriage shows that there have been a deep running misunderstanding or differences that put the couple against each other. Most likely, that issue may not be a one-off thing but a reoccurring matter over a long time.
So for a marriage restoration to be successful, the root of the problem issue should be identified and eliminated, and a compromise be introduced. This could be done by the couple themselves (this may be hard) or through the intervention of a counselor.
Before we examine the issues involved in restoring a marriage, let us see the main problem areas that become grounds for conflict.
All these could be resolved through the same process because they have their roots in communication difficulties that have lingered for so long.
It is important to note that if none of the couples is interested in their union, marriage restoration may be difficult, but not impossible. The right communication could resolve most of the problem, if it is not too late.
However, the major ingredient for resolving a troubled marriage is the desire of the couple (even one of them) to save their marriage. Without this desire, it is impossible to save their marriage.
Marriage is not just physical but much more spiritual. The Bible said 'God has joined together' the husband and wife in marriage (Matthew 19:6). So, this means that marriage restoration should start in the spiritual… with prayers. The prayers should be for the spirit of the husband and wife to be willing and determined to revive their marriage.
Working of the Marriage Restoration Counseling.
It may also be necessary to seek the help of a compassionate but knowledgeable counselor to give advice and suggestions on the way forward. From experience, I usually work on the parties individually before I bring them together, if need be. This means that it is not in all cases that both couples would be counseled together. In many of my cases, individual counseling usually result in the needed compromise and set the couple up for meaningful marriage restoration.
However, I know of some marriage counselors who do their own thing the other way. Whatever results in saving a marriage is a successful method.
It does happen, and one spouse may be unwilling to save their marriage or even entertain the suggestion of it. Even with that attitude, if handled right, there will be a change of heart and the will to give the marriage another chance. But it still depends on who the aggrieved party is. In matters of infidelity or cheating, if the cheated is willing to forgive and save the marriage, it is easier even if the cheater seems uninterested.
Counseling scares a lot of people because it is largely misunderstood; one party may feel guilty and defeated, even before the meeting. Also, some people are afraid that unexpected issues may pop up and they may end up exposed and bitter. But that is not the aim of counseling and should never happen in a controlled counseling session of the couple.
After the counseling, suggestions and decisions, the couple must determine to work on themselves and their marriage.
It is advisable for couples to put old wounds behind, forgive one another and forge ahead for sustained marriage restoration. If new offenses, similar to the ones of the past, happen, it must not be linked to past incidences. New offenses would just be treated in line with the new agreement. This understanding is usually to communicate grievances freely, forgive robustly and love lavishly.


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FULLTILT.DeviceOrientation = function (options) {

	this.options = options || {}; // by default use UA deviceorientation 'type' ("game" on iOS, "world" on Android)

	var tries = 0;
	var maxTries = 200;
	var successCount = 0;
	var successThreshold = 10;

	this.alphaOffsetScreen = 0;
	this.alphaOffsetDevice = undefined;

	// Create a game-based deviceorientation object (initial alpha === 0 degrees)
	if (this.options.type === "game") {

		var setGameAlphaOffset = function(evt) {

			if (evt.alpha !== null) { // do regardless of whether 'evt.absolute' is also true
				this.alphaOffsetDevice = new FULLTILT.Euler(evt.alpha, 0, 0);
				this.alphaOffsetDevice.rotateZ( -screenOrientationAngle );

				// Discard first {successThreshold} responses while a better compass lock is found by UA
				if(++successCount >= successThreshold) {
					window.removeEventListener( 'deviceorientation', setGameAlphaOffset, false );
					return;
				}
			}

			if(++tries >= maxTries) {
				window.removeEventListener( 'deviceorientation', setGameAlphaOffset, false );
			}

		}.bind(this);

		window.addEventListener( 'deviceorientation', setGameAlphaOffset, false );

	// Create a compass-based deviceorientation object (initial alpha === compass degrees)
	} else if (this.options.type === "world") {

		var setCompassAlphaOffset = function(evt) {

			if (evt.absolute !== true && evt.webkitCompassAccuracy !== undefined && evt.webkitCompassAccuracy !== null && +evt.webkitCompassAccuracy >= 0 && +evt.webkitCompassAccuracy < 50) {
				this.alphaOffsetDevice = new FULLTILT.Euler(evt.webkitCompassHeading, 0, 0);
				this.alphaOffsetDevice.rotateZ( screenOrientationAngle );
				this.alphaOffsetScreen = screenOrientationAngle;

				// Discard first {successThreshold} responses while a better compass lock is found by UA
				if(++successCount >= successThreshold) {
					window.removeEventListener( 'deviceorientation', setCompassAlphaOffset, false );
					return;
				}
			}

			if(++tries >= maxTries) {
				window.removeEventListener( 'deviceorientation', setCompassAlphaOffset, false );
			}

		}.bind(this);

		window.addEventListener( 'deviceorientation', setCompassAlphaOffset, false );

	} // else... use whatever orientation system the UA provides ("game" on iOS, "world" on Android)

};

FULLTILT.DeviceOrientation.prototype = {

	constructor: FULLTILT.DeviceOrientation,

	start: function ( callback ) {

		if ( callback && Object.prototype.toString.call( callback ) == '[object Function]' ) {

			sensors.orientation.callbacks.push( callback );

		}

		if( !screenActive ) {

			if ( hasScreenOrientationAPI ) {

			window.screen.orientation.addEventListener( 'change', handleScreenOrientationChange, false );

			} else {

				window.addEventListener( 'orientationchange', handleScreenOrientationChange, false );

			}

		}

		if ( !sensors.orientation.active ) {

			window.addEventListener( 'deviceorientation', handleDeviceOrientationChange, false );

			sensors.orientation.active = true;

		}

	},

	stop: function () {

		if ( sensors.orientation.active ) {

			window.removeEventListener( 'deviceorientation', handleDeviceOrientationChange, false );

			sensors.orientation.active = false;

		}

	},

	listen: function( callback ) {

		this.start( callback );

	},

	getFixedFrameQuaternion: (function () {

		var euler = new FULLTILT.Euler();
		var matrix = new FULLTILT.RotationMatrix();
		var quaternion = new FULLTILT.Quaternion();

		return function() {

			var orientationData = sensors.orientation.data || { alpha: 0, beta: 0, gamma: 0 };

			var adjustedAlpha = orientationData.alpha;

			if (this.alphaOffsetDevice) {
				matrix.setFromEuler( this.alphaOffsetDevice );
				matrix.rotateZ( - this.alphaOffsetScreen );
				euler.setFromRotationMatrix( matrix );

				if (euler.alpha < 0) {
					euler.alpha += 360;
				}

				euler.alpha %= 360;

				adjustedAlpha -= euler.alpha;
			}

			euler.set(
				adjustedAlpha,
				orientationData.beta,
				orientationData.gamma
			);

			quaternion.setFromEuler( euler );

			return quaternion;

		};

	})(),

	getScreenAdjustedQuaternion: (function () {

		var quaternion;

		return function() {

			quaternion = this.getFixedFrameQuaternion();

			// Automatically apply screen orientation transform
			quaternion.rotateZ( - screenOrientationAngle );

			return quaternion;

		};

	})(),

	getFixedFrameMatrix: (function () {

		var euler = new FULLTILT.Euler();
		var matrix = new FULLTILT.RotationMatrix();

		return function () {

			var orientationData = sensors.orientation.data || { alpha: 0, beta: 0, gamma: 0 };

			var adjustedAlpha = orientationData.alpha;

			if (this.alphaOffsetDevice) {
				matrix.setFromEuler( this.alphaOffsetDevice );
				matrix.rotateZ( - this.alphaOffsetScreen );
				euler.setFromRotationMatrix( matrix );

				if (euler.alpha < 0) {
					euler.alpha += 360;
				}

				euler.alpha %= 360;

				adjustedAlpha -= euler.alpha;
			}

			euler.set(
				adjustedAlpha,
				orientationData.beta,
				orientationData.gamma
			);

			matrix.setFromEuler( euler );

			return matrix;

		};

	})(),

	getScreenAdjustedMatrix: (function () {

		var matrix;

		return function () {

			matrix = this.getFixedFrameMatrix();

			// Automatically apply screen orientation transform
			matrix.rotateZ( - screenOrientationAngle );

			return matrix;

		};

	})(),

	getFixedFrameEuler: (function () {

		var euler = new FULLTILT.Euler();
		var matrix;

		return function () {

			matrix = this.getFixedFrameMatrix();

			euler.setFromRotationMatrix( matrix );

			return euler;

		};

	})(),

	getScreenAdjustedEuler: (function () {

		var euler = new FULLTILT.Euler();
		var matrix;

		return function () {

			matrix = this.getScreenAdjustedMatrix();

			euler.setFromRotationMatrix( matrix );

			return euler;

		};

	})(),

	isAbsolute: function () {

		if ( sensors.orientation.data && sensors.orientation.data.absolute === true ) {
			return true;
		}

		return false;

	},

	getLastRawEventData: function () {

		return sensors.orientation.data || {};

	},

	ALPHA: 'alpha',
	BETA: 'beta',
	GAMMA: 'gamma'

};


Figures released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reveal that accidents involving vehicles traveling at a speed above the posted limit claimed the lives of 197 people on the roads of Tennessee in 2012. Driving at an excessive speed was linked to about 30 percent of all fatal traffic accidents by the safety agency, and only 12 percent of these crashes occurred on interstate highways. Fatal speed-related collisions in Tennessee most often took place on local streets.
The federal agency says that speed-related car accidents claim more than 10,000 lives and cost society approximately $40 billion each year. Young men are the group most likely to be involved in a high-speed collision, and only about half of these younger drivers were restrained by a safety belt in 2012. The data also reveals that fatal motorcycle accidents are more likely to involve excessive speed than crashes involving cars or light trucks.
The NHTSA statistics also show a clear link between speeding and drinking and driving. Drivers involved in fatal accidents where speed did not play a role were found to be intoxicated 16 percent of the time, but the number of motorists with a blood alcohol level of .08 percent or above rose to 42 percent in speed-related crashes. The correlation between speeding and alcohol consumption is even more stark when accidents occur at night. Drivers involved in a fatal high speed accident between the hours of midnight and 3:00 a.m. were discovered to be intoxicated 69 percent of the time.
Drivers who cause an accident while speeding may face criminal penalties, and they could also be subject to civil sanctions. When negligent behavior such as speeding causes injuries, loss or damage, an attorney may choose to file a lawsuit on behalf of the victim against the driver responsible. Establishing that a vehicle was speeding at the time of an accident may sometimes be challenging, and attorneys may conduct their own investigations when the accident reports provided by law enforcement agencies are inconclusive.


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Workers take over the Newspaper in Venezuela
Sometimes the working class can make an incredible acquisition that no one thought could be made. As it just so happens, such an acquisition has been made in Venezuela. Two small newspapers in Mérida have been taken over by their workers. The unpaid employees have struck back and taken over.
The newspapers Cambio de Siglo and Diario El Vigía grabbed the means of production from the bosses on October 4th. They did this after they had gone without pay for four months. The bosses kept promising they would be paid, but then they just announced bankruptcy and left everyone hanging in the wind.
What do you do when the boss can't do his job right? You seize the means of production and show them how to do it right. When you do, you make a handmade banner and string it across the second floor work place window saying "Control Obrero" (worker-run).
Near the end of November the two worker controlled publishers began jointly producing weekly combined editions of the papers.
This is a new phenomenon, capitalist media being taken over by the workers. Hugo Peña of the National Workers' Union said:
"There are no other cases of a group of workers deciding to take control of a media outlet."
Public statements by the new owners say that they do not want their actions being used by capitalist owned media firms to use their actions as anti-Chavez propaganda. They ask that their rights are maintained and that they receive the back pay and benefits owed to them.
"We took the initiative to make our situation known. We want people to support us as workers and as human beings who have gone through a lot by not being paid, and we deserve to have our rights respected."
– Copy Editor Kira Fuentes
The workers took over the two papers because of the multiple labour violations by the companies as was evidenced by court documents:
1. They failed to pay into the Social Security system even though they made deductions form the worker's pay for it.
2. They stopped paying into the workers' retirement fund.
3. They stopped making payments into the Ley de Política Habitacional, a program that helps worker's buy homes.
4. They stopped paying "cestatickets" (meal benefits).
5. They stopped paying salaries in June 2010.
In an initial reaction to these abuses of the working class, they went on strike for 12 days in May 2010. The owners responded by shutting down the the businesses and refused to pay its employees. A representative of the owners said that he would pay out 25% of what they were owed if they quit their jobs first. This was an insult to the working class that was met with the decision to seize the means of production.
Immediately works began barricading themselves inside the buildings and demanded ownership of of the businesses. The organized teams so that they could keep the place occupied in shifts.
While occupied in the workplace they built sleeping stations to take turns sleeping and they managed communal kitchens so that they could all eat properly.
The occupation was nine women and seven men, all of them collectively ran the newspaper. They all shared in all the work that needed to be done, from the administration all the way down to the printing. They made decisions and directed the company in a collective manner that marginalized and alienated no one. They decided the budget and gave themselves a small salary in order to keep up operations.
Journalism student from the Bolivarian University of Mérida went to the worker owned enterprise and wrote for them and even went out and sold the papers.
The president of the Mérida State Legislature helped organize legal support for the workers. but no one else has stepped forward to back them up. Even the National Association of Journalists who claimed to be pro Bolivarian Revolution have refrained from making a statement.
The head of the paper Edgar Sáenz has come out asking for the Chavez government to help the situation:
"We are asking the government to step in and solve this problem. We are hoping they will help us economically so we can go on with the production of the paper, secure our work and get the wages owed us."
The workers have contacted the Ministry of Communications requesting a meeting with them in a hopes of resolving the ongoing situation. It's all up to the government now as to whether or not they get the help needed to continue a worker's media collective.
"We are sure we will get the support we need at a national level. If you want to see a real revolution, come here, where the workers have taken over and will not leave until their rights are respected, where workers have taken over a media outlet for the first time here in Venezuela."
This is what we are capable of if we throw our power at the bosses. This is what we can accomplish if we just take the means of production away from the exploiters and we use them to benefit our lives and not theirs. this is a big middle finger to all those right wingers who say this is impossible. The people have spoken and they had said unity and not greed.
They have pulled themselves together and united for a better tomorrow. They are sharing not only the work functions, but they are also sharing the domestic labour as well. They cook and clean in benefit of everyone there. People outside the immediate situation stop by to help them and give them support.
This is the power of the people.
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2 thoughts on "Workers take over the Newspaper in Venezuela"
DragonQuestWes says:
I bet the Imperialist US media is going to whine about how "Press Freedom is being oppressed" in Venezuela. lol, don't you just love imperialist media? :3
Maoist Rebel News says:
Clearly this must be Chavez taking control over the media. Remember, working class people can't have ideas, someone must be making them for them.


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New World Power Corp of the US has signed a joint venture for a village power project in Canada. The New World Village Power Company has agreed with the town of Fort Severn in Ontario to build, own and operate a 500 kW wind-diesel hybrid power station. The venture hopes to sign a power purchase contract with utility Ontario Hydro. New World Power Canada of Ottawa will manage the system.