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Kelowna city councillor consulted for business behind anti-vax billboards | iNFOnews | Thompson-Okanagan's News Source
Kelowna city councillor consulted for business behind anti-vax billboards
Levi Landry
FILE PHOTO - Kelowna city councillor Ron Cannan consulted with a Kelowna business that appears to be behind new anti-vaccine billboards. He claims he has not consulted with the business in "a couple years."
(JOHN MCDONALD / iNFOnews.ca)
A Kelowna city councillor was listed as a "consultant" for the business behind new anti-vax billboards near Kamloops.
Ron Cannan said he hasn't consulted for the business in years, but his bio remained on its website until iNFOnews.ca started asking questions about it Thursday, Dec. 1.
"I don't know anything about this," Cannan said. "I volunteered as an (advisor) with him. He was working with the school district at one time."
The business then removed his bio from the website.
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"The media is going after some of out consultants," the Marketedge.Pro business consulting website reads. "Let me know if you are interested in taking a stand against this evil system by being a face on our wall of boldness."
It was removed again by Friday morning, Dec. 2.
A screenshot of the Marketedge.Pro website from Dec. 1, 2022, where Ron Cannan's bio was once listed. A message claiming "the media" is going after its consultants replaced it after Cannan was questioned about the business relationship.
(LEVI LANDRY / iNFOnews.ca)
Marketedge.Pro, owned by Andrew Lauman, appears to be behind an effort to advertise anti-vaccine messaging and COVID-19 misinformation on billboards in B.C. The business is based in Kelowna, but the billboards are, so far, only in the Thompson region.
Residents in the Kamloops area may have seen these billboards on Highway 5N or the Trans Canada Highway near Chase, with the website getawake.ca printed on it.
One appears to claim COVID-19 vaccines are causing blood clots, heart disease, low sperm count and sudden adult death "syndrome."
The other asks "what's your number?" and appears to signify vaccine syringes.
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A billboard along the Trans-Canada Highway near Chase was erected on Oct. 27, 2022, promoting COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.
Image Credit: Getawake.ca
Getawake.ca asks the public for donations to keep the billboards standing, along with requests for future anti-vaccine or anti-SOGI 123 messaging ideas (sexual orientation and gender identity). One anti-Sogi 123 billboard is also planned for the West Kelowna area.
According to the website, it's "crowdsourcing the narrative."
Ironically, the website says the group behind the billboards chose physical advertising because social media creates "silos" of information, which is commonly blamed for deeply entrenching people into believing conspiracy theories and misinformation.
iNFOnews.ca reached out to Lauman about the connection between his business and the billboards, but he refused to immediately comment.
Cannan's bio still remains on a separate healthcare-related page on the Marketedge.Pro website, which includes several links to articles skeptical about the validity of the COVID pandemic and the vaccines, then claims its consultants can help those where COVID-19 regulations are "killing" their business.
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Cannan said he worked with the business consultant company a "couple years ago." When iNFOnews.ca explained the business is connected to anti-vaccine billboards, he diverted and asked whether we had any questions about City government-related issues.
A screenshot from the Marketedge.Pro website on Nov. 30, 2022, shows Cannan's bio listed as one of its consultants.
Image Credit: iNFOnews.ca
He said he would "not be having anymore interviews with iNFOnews" until a public apology was issued for a previous editorial about him and his KelownaNow column about vaccine skepticism.
He then remained on the phone another ten minutes.
Cannan's KelownaNow column was published in November 2021, in which he questioned why doctors against COVID-19 vaccines were being "muzzled" and claimed vaccine mandates had "more to do with politics than science."
The vast majority of COVID-related mandates have since been dropped by both the provincial and federal governments.
Former Kelowna MP Stephen Fuhr later told KelownaNow Cannan made a "tactical error" by writing his column, but Cannan went on to be the top vote-getter among councillors in the 2022 municipal election.
When asked whether the politics around COVID-19 will affect his politics now, Cannan refused to answer.
"You're talking about an article that was written over a year ago. We're dealing with an issue that has all kinds of perspectives on it," he said. "I believe that people can choose how you want to read that article and interpret however you want. At the end of the day, I've said clearly that I support people to get vaccinated, but first seek professional medical help for assistance and advice from their family doctor if they have that."
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History of the waterworks industry | Pražská vodohospodářská společnost a.s.
Technical works, which conducted water to the needy areas can be traced back to the 12th century in the Prague agglomeration. Supply conduits, whether open troughs or water mains, were made of various materials (wood, stone, burnt clay, lead). These works had gravity feed, without pumping equipment. In the beginning, water pipelines for the church or royal buildings were entirely private, not serving the public. The first equipment entirely serving the municipality was the mid-14th century New Town water pipeline.
The founder of the Strahov Monastery was the Olomouc bishop Jindřich Zdík. He chose a spot on the Petřín hillside near Prague Castle and villages along an important trading route. It also had rich sources of drinkable water from the Petřín hillside. One of the remarkable features of this monastery is a complicated and technically interesting water conduit designed even before starting construction of the monastery and built together with it. The water was conducted by gravity feed from rich sources captured in a water gallery on the eastern slope of Petřín. It was distributed by several channels to the monastery buildings and a fountain. From there, it flowed into a carved reservoir and to a large trapezoidal pool in the cloister. This Roman water conduit served Strahov until the end of the 16th century. A large-scale reconstruction of the monastery, which was initiated by Abbot Lohel, also involved reconstruction of the water supply. The springs were cleared and repaired and conducted into a new water gallery and another gallery called the Zahradnická gallery was constructed. The work was finished in 1651. Although the water conduit was constantly extended, it could not secure a steady supply of water.
stribution conduit and quickly implemented his projects. The Strahov water conduit still supplies the monastery with non-potable water; it was connected to potable water of the Prague water mains in 1906.
Another one of the oldest supply conduits in Prague is the Vyšehrad water supply system. According to more or less trustworthy literature, the water flowed to Vyšehrad through an open trough from a spring known as Libuše's bath in the legends in Jezerka above the village of Michle as early as the start of the 12th century. After 1140, the Bohemian prince Vladislaus II had the open trough piped in wooden conduits and built a fountain at Vyšehrad. What is known, however, is that in 1361, the Vyšehrad chapter under the leadership of Vilém of Lestkov decided to reconstruct the dilapidated wooden conduit and lay tubes of rubbed stone. The new water conduit supplied Vyšehrad as well as vineyards above Podolí. It is not clear when this waterwork vanished, but it still worked in 1441.
In September 1333, ... a Zbraslav water supply conduit with lead pipes was completed at great effort and expense. The water collected from three sources was conducted to a lavatory from where it flowed out; the total length from the first spring is two thousand six hundred cubits of the Prague unit of measurement. Two hundred quintals of lead and ten quintals of tin were used in the construction. The cost amounted to one hundred and sixty threescore Prague groschen and twenty threescore groschen were spent on the lavatory with the aid of God, who is blessed for ever and ever. Amen. Unfortunately, this is the only record on establishment of a water conduit for the Zbraslav Monastery. The configuration of the surrounding terrain suggests that springs on the Havlín hillside were captured and conducted to the monastery. Lead as a piping material was used for the first time on our territory. It is not clear when this waterwork vanished.
From time immemorial, the Prague Castle was supplied only from the local wells and springs. These, however, became insufficient with the rising demands of the court, so the nobles started to search for new potentials. It seems that the first source came from the Brusnice stream basin. The stream springs to the surface in the Benedictine Monastery of St Margaret, which is located only four kilometres from the Castle. Its source, a spring later called Vojtěžka, appeared in a legend according to which the Slavník bishop Adalbert (Vojtěch) had a meeting with the Přemyslid prince Boleslav II that led to establishment of the local monastery in 993. The stream flowed below the Střešovice hillock, through a gorge, which made a natural northern boundary of the Prague Castle, and then into the Vltava River. Springs in the north, i.e. the Střešovice highland and the south, i.e. the Malovanka homestead, were captured in an open reservoir below Kajetánka probably under the rule of Charles IV and from there, the water was conducted to the Castle by a wooden conduit. The Brusnice stream was also conducted to the reservoir. The exact route of the water conduit is unknown, but we do know that in the final section, the water flowed through the moat to the Castle where it ran into a fountain in front of the Old Royal Palace.
The Singing Fountain in Queen Anne's Belvedere at Prague Castle. With the arrival of the Habsburgs in 1526, the Prague court was modified and extended northwards, beyond Jelení Příkop (the Deer's Dike). The Renaissance garden was established here. Consumption of potable as well as non-potable water increased with the more frequent stays of the royal family at the Prague Castle. Thus, a search for new springs on the northern slope of the Střešovice highland was initiated. The first conduit from water galleries in the Střešovice and Veleslavín area was built under the rule of Emperor Ferdinand I. Under Rudolf II, the Castle became a centre of politics not only for the Kingdom of Bohemia, but also for the Holy Roman Empire for almost thirty years. This situation increased demands for water consumption. The solution was found in establishment of a new water conduit for non-potable water from ponds near the villages of Chýně and Hostivice, about 13 kilometres away, through the so-called Royal Reservoir (today's Libocký Pond). From there, the water was conducted in an open ditch. The author of the concept was allegedly the famous Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. The ditch passed along the hillside through Vokovice, Veleslavín and Střešovice to a storage pond in Bažantnice on the castle territory. From there, the water was distributed by a wooden conduit. The potable water flowed through a burnt clay pipeline from the mentioned water galleries. Prague Castle was supplied with water in this concept until the 1920s.
A grand-scale reconstruction of Prague Castle into a presidential seat was calculated with a new water supply system. The non-potable storage ponds were reconstructed and the water was newly conducted to the Castle by a 300 mm pipeline; the catchment galleries were cleared and thus obtained potable water was conducted by a 150 mm water main to a new water tank, which was also used for non-potable water. Each type of water had its own section. The Castle compound received newly built water-supply piping. In the 50s, the Castle was connected to the municipal water supply system, but the non-potable water is still flowing into its gardens.
The mid-14th century is regarded as the time of the onset of supplying the capital's citizens with water from a public water supply system. Together with emergence of the New Town, a new wooden spring-water conduit was laid for fountains at the Cattle Market and Horse Market ... (today's Wenceslas Square) in 1348 ... as we learn from the 19th century literature. However, reliable written documents directly determining establishment of this water supply system are missing. The only tangible proof is an archaeological finding of remains of a wooden conduit in the centre of Wenceslas Square.
The Renaissance period symbolized a true rebirth for water distribution. The first waterworks were constructed, the water management system became stabilized and the piping technique and water offtake in public or private fountains was established. Four Vltava waterworks were gradually established in the towns of Prague over the 15th and 16th centuries. The Staroměstská waterworks for the Old Town, the Petržilkovská waterworks for the Little Quarter and the Šítkovská and Novomlýnská waterworks for the New Town. The newly-emerged method of water supply served with small variations almost until the end of the 19th century.
and was repaired under supervision of the stonecutter Giovanni Battista Spinetti. It was damaged by floods (in 1655 and 1752), a fire (in 1762) and Prussian gunfire (in 1756) and, after necessary repairs, it burned down during Windischgrätz's gunfire from Petřín together with the Old Town mills on 16th June 1848. The fire damaged the top storeys of the tower and the top storey received neogothic panelling in 1853. Its current form is a result of fourteen structural modifications and repairs.
The equipment of the Staroměstská waterworks was first mentioned in 1636 when it was repaired with wooden and lead pipelines and a new tank was installed after a fire. In 1680, the waterworks was equipped with a new pumping engine. On 23rd November 1697, a contract was signed between the Old Town officials and Václav Nigrin ... for casting two large iron cranks for the waterworks according to models and at least two large tanks. In the mid-18th century, Josef Mysliveček (later called Il divino Boemo) built a hydraulic model of the Staroměstská waterworks as his masterpiece and became a miller master. In 1784, when a weir on the Vltava River burst, the waterworks stopped working for some time because of a lack of water. According to a description from 1808, the waterworks had three pumping engines with three or four points (eleven in total) from 158 to 224 mm in diameter. The water was discharged by a pipeline from 59 to 66 mm in diameter into a 2.28 m3 tub in the tower and then it was conducted by five 59 to 66 mm pipelines to the town. Josef Božek, a machine specialist at Stavovská Polytechnic, constructed new waterworks engines in 1835 according to a design by the Polytechnic director František Josef Gerstner. The machine room was again reconstructed around 1860 when new horizontal pumps were installed. They worked until 1882. These machines were probably designed by Romuald Božek. In 1880, the tower of the Staroměstská waterworks was put out of operation and the water engines were used for supplying a new waterworks in Karlov with river water. This waterworks operated until 24th May 1913.
The first reference to laying wooden tubes connected by iron brackets on the Prague territory comes from 1489. The tubes were drilled in raw pine trunks and laid in a sand bed about one and a half metres underground. This technique was used in all towns of Prague until the mid-19th century when the wooden tubes were replaced with lead piping. According to plans of the water supply system from the second half of the 17th century, the Staroměstská waterworks used three main pipelines to supply 96 public or private fountains, and 108 fountains in 1727. Following a reconstruction of the water supply system in the early 19th century, water was supplied directly to the houses.
The first construction of the New Town Štítkovská waterworks started in 1495. It was built of wood and before long ... in the summer of 1501, on the advent of Thursday night before St Andrew, the New Town lords' tower, which conducted water in pipelines to the people, burnt down due to negligence of Matouš, the New Town lords' pipe fitter.
Two years later, ... in 1503, on the Saturday following Easter in the morning, the tower of the New Town lords that stood below Zderaz collapsed ... and they built another, plaited tower, which, however, stood only briefly, because the piping master ... set fire to it through his negligence and the tower burnt down. Then, they collected money among themselves and built a new tower.
In 1588, the waterworks burnt down again and, in the same year, construction of a new tower, which is still standing, was started. Construction of the water tower and the mills started on 8th October 1588. Its builder, the New Town citizen Karel Mělnický, was ennobled for the construction with the predicate of Karlsperk. The waterworks section was completed in 1591, the entire compound in 1599. All building and financial data were recorded in a building diary, which is deposited in the Strahov library of the Premonstratensian order. This is why we know almost all of the details about this construction. In 1648, the Swedes damaged the Štítkovská waterworks by gunfire. The repair work took until 1651, which is documented by signs on the western wall of the tower. Then, it received its characteristic dome. In 1881, the tower was to be disassembled after the end of its operation, but it remained intact thanks to intervention of Umělecká beseda (the Art Organization). Later, in 1926, the tower and the adjoining mills were purchased by the Mánes Union of Fine Arts. The mills were demolished and the tower was incorporated into the Mánes building by the architect Otakar Novotný.
Information on the development of the equipment in the waterworks and its distribution system is scarce. In 1495, ...the New Town lords laid water pipelines from the municipal mills and built two fountains; one at the White Lion opposite Obecní dvůr (Vodičkova Street) and the other in Žitná, opposite Krupná Street. In 1605, representatives of the New Town in Prague asked the Kutná Hora mint master for donation or sale of copper for a new tank and crank. In 1610, water from the Štitkovská waterworks was conducted to twelve breweries, two cloisters and municipal as well as private fountains. In total, it supplied water to 130 stands and fountains in the upper part of New Town. On 16th March, the imperial bell founder in Prague Niklas Löv from Široká Street obliged himself to the New Town town hall to cast pistons and other parts for the recently repaired water tower and deliver them in order. At the start of the 19th century, the waterworks had two engines, each composed of four single-acting pumps. The water was discharged by two 66 mm pipes into a 1.71 m3 basin located 36 m higher; from there, it was distributed by six pipes from 79 to 112 mm in diameter to 104 fountains in the upper New Town. In 1882, the waterworks except the tower was demolished and a new waterworks was built in its place. Two horizontal double-acting Girard pumps powered a Sagebien water wheel, pushing the water directly to the water supply system and the new Karlov water tank. This waterworks was in operation until 24th May 1913.
In the Little Quarter, conditions for water supply from the Vltava River were bad. Thus, the Little Quarter representatives made an agreement with the baker Jan Petržilka about construction of a waterworks in the immediate vicinity of his mill on an island by today's Smíchov embankment. The wooden waterworks was located outside the Little Quarter wall, an unusual, but the only feasible solution, on the same weir that served the opposite Štítkovská waterworks. The construction of the brick tower in this place is dated between 1582 and 1596; the upper limit is determined by a dated drawing by Petr Stevens where the tower is presented in a shape as we know it today.
The development of the Petržilkovská waterworks can be traced back to 1602 when the statutory millers testified that the machinery was very accomplished. In 1629, a new engine was built with the support of Albrecht von Wallenstein under the condition that water to his palace in the Little Quarter would be supplied free of charge. It is interesting that water for the Wallenstein Palace was still supplied free of charge in the 1920s. In 1670, five wooden pipelines ran from this waterworks basin. The same number of pipelines supplied 57 fountains and stands in 1686. In the early 19th century, the waterworks had two engines, each with three 158 to 191 mm cylinders, which discharged water by two 66 mm pipes to the height of 29 metres, where a 1.05 m3 tank was located. The water was distributed by four 66 mm pipes to the 29-metre-tall tower, where a 1.05 m3 tank was located. Then the water was distributed by four pipes 66 mm in diameter to forty fountains. In 1840, the Romuald Božek Company built the third engine with two double-acting pumps. Forty years later, the tank was removed from the tower and the waterworks stopped working in 1886. The distribution system of the Little Quarter Petržilkovská waterworks was connected to a new pipeline, which conducted water from a new steam waterworks in Podolí.
water, but now, because of the Vltava River's regulation, it is located on the edge of the former Petrská quarter. The water tower had already stood there in 1484, but it was not until 1500 that the New Town council decided to build a water supply system. In 1536, a wooden tower was built and served until the 1580s. After a fire in 1582, it was restored on 10th August of the same year. A report written by senior statutory provincial millers on 25th April 1602 comments on dilapidation of the building. A new, very impressive tower grew there between 1602 and 1606, built of stone, on oak piles in "Renaissance dimensions". It had eight storeys, the top in the form of a gazebo with twelve windows adorned by murals depicting Bohemian kings from Přemyslid to Rudolph II. On 6th February 1655, this tower was ruptured ... by a large flood with ice blocks and timber and then cracked into two parts. In 1658, a tower, which is still standing, was built. Lessons from many fires did their job, so this youngest Prague water tower was built with "hot-air heating", where the discharge and feed pipes were located in the "chimney".
entions a working engine bearing the date 1649. In 1808, the waterworks had two water wheels with two pumping engines, each with four single-action pumps, which discharged water through two 66 mm pipes into a 0.86 m3 basin located 33.5 m higher. Four distribution pipes 92 mm in diameter conducted water to 56 fountains in the lower part of New Town. Between 1877 and 1878, the existing tower was left standing and a new waterworks was built next to it. Four double-acting Girard pumps delivered by První česko-moravská továrna na stroje pumped water through two Sagebien wheels with the power of 70 to 80 HP to the water supply system of the lower New Town and Letná. The reconstructed waterworks was in operation until 2nd December 1919.
hygiene. Nonetheless, cast-iron water pipelines were gradually laid in the streets immediately after 1830, while the fountains and other extraction points had to wait for their restoration until the 60s. In the 50s, the distribution system of the four Vltava waterworks was supplemented with the steam Žofín waterworks with the performance of 950 m3 per day.
A commission established in 1871 for "inspection of the Prague waters" had the existing waterworks inspected by 1875. According to a survey, five Prague waterworks on the Old Town, New Town and Little Quarter territory delivered water to about 500 extraction points and about 10,000 m3 of raw Vltava water per day. According to the commission's opinion, however, this was not sufficient for the 160,000 people living in inner Prague. The Vltava waterworks were reconstructed in the 1880s to increase the performance and partly the water quality. The fundamental change involved construction of the Podolí waterworks together with a new distribution system. This steam powered waterworks was built in 1885 and pumped naturally filtered underground water from three wells bored on Schwarzenberg island, mixed with the Vltava water. Four pumping aggregates pumped the water through a discharge pipeline 500 mm in diameter to the newly constructed Karlov tanks in the amount of ca. 15,000 m3 per day. This modification increased the supply for inner Prague to approximately 30,000 m3 of water per day. The length of the entire reconstructed water supply network in this agglomeration is about 400 kilometres.
We need to say, however, that even the described modifications were not progressive or economical. Prague failed to reach an agreement especially with Královské Vinohrady and Smíchov; thus, the Prague waterworks in Podolí was built pointlessly near to the working Vinohradská waterworks in Podolí, which had been built three years earlier. The Little Quarter water supply network could have been for example connected to the Smíchov waterworks without great technical difficulties. Gradually, more local water supply systems were built on various technical levels in the neighbouring municipalities, each under the local administration. For example, the Karlín waterworks was built around 1856, the Hradčany waterworks in 1859 and the Letná little waterworks called the Old Waterworks was built in 1861. There was a very modern Smíchov waterworks at the railway bridge with a water tank in Skalka, which was built between 1871 and 1872, supplemented with a pumping station in Václavka and a water tank in Malvazinky in 1886. Even as the water supply for Prague and its immediate surroundings was solved, the village of Vršovice embarked on construction of an expensive independent water supply system in 1907 with the source in Bráník and a tower tank at Zelená liška in Michle. The distribution systems were not mutually connected until Greater Prague was established in the early 1920s.
Since the 1870s, the Prague as well as non-Prague specialists had been occupied with the concept of a quality source of true drinking water. These efforts were guided by a programme adopted by the Council of the City of Prague and approved by a board of the municipal elders on 11th June 1875. A waterworks commission for issues connected with supplies of potable water to Prague was established. Even at that time it was suggested that, in addition to reconstruction of the Vltava sources, it would be necessary to search for a new source that would solve the quantitative and qualitative aspects of water supply for a longer period.
Many concepts were submitted, inspected and rejected by the end of the 19th century. For example, Ing. Kraissl's project dated 1875 involved feeding of water from the Sázava River at Kamenný Přívoz; in 1876, a German company for waterworks construction in Frankfurt am Main submitted a project for a waterworks in Braník including supply of the whole Prague agglomeration with water; the building commissioner B. Salbach from Dresden prepared a project of the Podolí waterworks including a new system of pumping stations and water tanks in the same year. In 1877 and 1878, the narrow committee for the spring and underground water researched the areas of Hostivice, Šárka and Kněževes, the right bank of the Elbe River before Mělník, the Berounka mouth, the area of Nové Zámky near Česká Lípa, the environs of Vrutice near Mělník and the Mšec and Rynholec regions. Utilization of a bank meadow on the Jizera and Elbe confluence was also considered. On 18th January 1879, the broad waterworks committee decided to pay increased attention to a region east of Mělník in the Elbe and Jizera river basin. In 1881, the Aird and Mark Company submitted a project on utilization of the aquiferous region of Mělnická and Kropáčova Vrutice created by Ing. Smreker.
More studies were finished in the 1890s. A project created by the building commissioner V. Feigl and Ing. Fleisig dated 1890 proposed extension of the Podolí waterworks; a Lahovice-Radotín project dated 1891 prepared by the Municipal Waterworks Office in Prague falls into another sphere and a study produced by the building commissioner K. Kress dated 1896 involves collection of the Vltava water near Štěchovice. In 1899, a project created by Ing. J. Vancl on utilization of the Skochovice - Vrané location was finished. In the same year, an important project by Česká spořitelna, created by Ing. Smreker and Knight Zdeněk von Wessely, was conceived, utilizing the Elbe - Jizera confluence near Káraný. An implementation project on the Káraný water supply system, which cost Česká spořitelna 250,000 guldens, was created, but as a mutual agreement with the town failed, the bank "donated" this project to the Prague mayor.
The town representatives gradually rejected all of the studies. Implementation of these mostly technically good projects was prevented by a dubious administrative and political rivalry. The discussion even made it into the newspapers, where the individual camps attacked each other. All of this happened when Prague greatly suffered from a lack of water.
Based on a land law of 7th September 1899, the municipalities of the royal capital city of Prague, Karlín, Smíchov, Vinohrady and Žižkov united for construction, maintenance and administration of the joint waterworks and the joint water supply system. The "father of new-time research into underground water" and a Europe-wide specialist Adolf Thiem from Leipzig was entrusted with finishing the Česká spořitelna project. The legal measure thus created conditions for implementation of a technical work of European standard, i.e. the waterworks in Káraný, which was referred to as Společná vodárna (joint waterworks).
The significance of the Káraný waterworks for Prague and the suburbs became clear to the whole population during the war. At the time of epidemics and general shortage, when the civilian population lacked food and infectious diseases spread from the front, water from Káraný proved greatly effective. It played a lion's share in ensuring the relatively positive health condition in Prague over this period, as we can read later, in an evaluation of this work's significance.
Following extensive analyses and studies, the building commissioner A. Thiem submitted a preliminary project on 14th December 1902. The general concept illustrates the overall layout of the water supply system in the main features. The administration board of the Joint Waterworks organized a survey for specialists in health science, geology, engineering and chemistry so that water supply for Prague could be perfectly solved. The following people were invited: Ing. Josef Bauer, the chief engineer of the city of Plzeň, Dr. Jan Horbaczewski, a university professor in Prague, Ing. V. Hráský, professor at the Czech Polytechnic in Prague, Dr. Gustav Kabrhel, a university professor in Prague, Ing. František Krátký, an engineer in Smíchov, Ing. K. C. Neuman, a chemistry engineer in Královské Vinohrady, Kristián Petrlík, professor of Czech Polytechnic in Prague, Ing. Vil. Plekner, civil engineer in Prague, Antonín Pravda, professor of Czech Polytechnic in Prague, Dr. Bohuslav Rayman, professor of the Czech University in Prague, Dr. Alfred Slavík, professor of Czech Polytechnic in Prague, Dr. J.N.Woldřich, university professor in Prague and Dr. Kraft, director of the city testing station. Except for Dr. Woldřich, all experts considered Adolf Thiem's project feasible and, after minor modifications, they recommended it for implementation.
The project proposed utilization of an exceptional area in the vicinity of Káraný with suitable conditions for acquiring the necessary amount of high-quality underground water. The suitability of geological conditions rested largely in interconnection of three important waterworks factors: the area is located on the south edge of Mesozoic and Tertiary sediments of the Czech cretaceous basin. These sediments are covered with Quaternary sandy gravel water-bearing deposits, i.e. a very suitable composition as regards the water supply, and the axis of this area consists of the lower reach of the Jizera River, which empties into the Elbe River in Káraný. In addition, artesian water was present there.
Construction of the waterworks in Káraný between 1906 and 1913 was a very demanding and complicated project, because nobody, even in the neighbouring countries, had any experience with this type of construction. Thus, the waterworks complex and the corresponding water supply networks in Prague can be regarded a peak work of its time.
on the project. In 1914, 25,990,597 m3 of water... were conducted to Prague and the suburbs; the highest daily amount was 81,358 m3, the lowest was 54,943 m3. The water was always fresh, clear and glittering... Bacteriologically, the Káraný water is perfect.
The size of the constructed source and other buildings is apparent from the following contemporary description: Two water tanks in Prague Flora, 14 km of distribution pipeline 475 – 900 mm in diameter in Prague, 23.3 km of discharge pipeline 1,100 mm in diameter, 2 inverted siphons under the Elbe River 1,100 mm in diameter, 1 breather tower, main pumping station in Káraný, administrative and residential building in Káraný, 4 pumping stations, deferrization of artesian water, 3.8 km of siding track, 29 km of feeding pipe 250 - 700 mm in diameter, 16.3 km of drainpipe 700 - 1,200 mm in diameter, 6 inverted siphons under the Jizera 400 - 1,000 mm in diameter, 10 km of breather pipe 100 mm in diameter, 10 collection points, 45 input shafts and 7 shafts on the drainpipe, 651 bore wells, 7 artesian wells, 6 breather towers and other auxiliary facilities and buildings. This construction was first funded by advance payments of the Prague municipality; then, when the building schedule was firmly stipulated and the suburban municipalities resigned on their opposing standpoints, the Joint Waterworks and the participating municipalities took out their own independent loans. The mutual proportion of contributions was determined according to water consumption in the municipalities as follows: the Prague municipality 58.4 %, Karlín 4.0%, Smíchov 8.8 %, Vinohrady 21.7 %, Žižkov 7.1%. In this proportion, each municipality contributed to the common expenses and was entitled to the proportional amount of water.
Activation of the Kárané waterworks started an era of the modern Prague water supply system.
The emergence of Greater Prague demanded connection of the new Prague locations to higher-quality central sources of potable water and gradual cancellation of the local sources. It also necessitated creation of new water tanks and pumping stations to cover the complicated configuration of the Prague terrain relief on which the new neighbourhoods were established and, of course, led to construction of a new water supply network and reconstruction of the old system.
In 1921, the main source of potable water came from the Káraný waterworks, a supplementary source from the Braník waterworks (the former Vršovice waterworks) and the new source from 1929 was the Podolí waterworks.
Between 1919 and 1928, the capacity of the Káraný waterworks gradually increased by approximately 90 l/s through boring of 68 new wells. The Benátky, Kochánky, Skorkov, Sojovice and the artesian water-withdrawal flanks were supplemented with the Polabsko and Zahrádky flanks. The first major reconstruction started in 1932 and finished after twelve years. It involved modification of pumping water to Prague; four piston steam pumps were replaced with two centrifugal pumps supplied by the ČKD company. Construction of the second discharge mains for Prague with the diameter of 1,100 mm and building of a bridge over the Jizera River between Káraný and Nový Vestec was also demanding. Between 1941 and 1944, thanks to construction of four artesian wells in Kochánky and 25 wells in Káraný, the potable water sources increased by ca. 50 to 70 l/s. In 1946, after the end of World War II, another reconstruction, which almost continuously followed the first reconstruction, took place. Work on intensification of the Káraný source culminated with finishing of artificial filtration in 1968, when, after filtration on sand filters, the Jizera water was pumped to open soakage tanks situated in an area of sandy gravel sediments. The soaked water enriched natural deposits of underground water through the permeable bottom of the tanks and, artificially filtered, it was collected about 200 m from the inflow area.
The former Vršovice waterworks in Braník was gradually connected to the Prague water supply network during the first half of the 20s. The only thing we know about the 1930s reconstruction is the fact that a hall with tanks and active coal and a new deferrization plant for improvement of the filtered water was added and that the steam drive of the pumps was replaced with electric drive. The waterworks served as a supplementary source until the 50s and as a reserve source until the late 60s.
The described water sources were not sufficient for the life of Prague, so it was decided to build a new waterworks in place of the Prague waterworks in Podolí. Thus, a new waterworks for filtration of the Vltava water with the maximum output of 35,000 m3 of potable water per day was constructed between 1924 and 1929. The water treatment was based on a multi-level Puech-Chabal filtration system. During the treatment, the water was aerated, filtered three times and purified on slow biological filters. The general project was created by the H. Chabal et Cie. Company in Paris, the implementation project was created by the project office of Waterworks of the Capital City of Prague in collaboration with the Chabal company, attended by Prof. Ing. F. Klokner and Dr. B. Hacar who worked as consultants. The architectonic design was entrusted to Prof. Dr. Antonín Engel. The need for more water in the expanding metropolis was solved by supplementation of equipment for dosage of aluminium sulphate to raw water and subsequent filtration of impurities bound in floccules on the existing slow filters. This equipment was put into operation in 1932. The last step in modifications over this period involved replacement of a three-stage filtration with rapid filters WA-BAG in 1942. It increased the output to ca. 1,000 l/s, but the potentials for intensification were practically exhausted.
As prognoses of potable water consumption suggested an enormous increase, it was decided to reconstruct the plant in the 1950s, which meant not only changing the equipment, but also the shape of the Podolí waterworks. The new part, which was built south of the existing objects, was equipped with Binar-Bělský clarifiers, new pumping stations for raw and treated water, storages of chemicals, new laboratories and other objects. The output of the waterworks reached 2,200 l/s. The reconstruction was complicated by the fact that the waterworks could not be completely shut down. Thus, it lasted for almost twenty years. Interestingly, it was designed once again by Antonín Engel together with the project office of Waterworks of the City of Prague.
This was the end of further development of the Podolí waterworks for a long 35 years. There were even voices suggesting termination of this water purification plant in connection with construction of the Želivka waterworks. It was not until the late 1980s that keeping it in operation was seriously considered. The obsolete waterworks was threatened with a failure, which would mean a collapse in supplying Prague with water. At long last, a major reconstruction started in 1992.
From the creation of Greater Prague until conduction of the Želivka water to Prague, the Prague water supply system was based on three sources, i.e. Káraný, Podolí and Braník. The main reservoir consisted of water tanks in Flora to which the Káraný water was flowing. From there, the potable water was distributed to the whole eastern part of Prague and water tanks in Karlov from which it flowed to the Smíchov water tanks and the newly constructed plant at Bruska. The water from Podolí was conducted there too. From Bruska, the potable water was pumped to the Andělka and Vyhlídka water tanks, which were used for supplying of the north-east part of Prague. The key point for the south part of the city was a waterworks compound at Zelená liška. It received water from Podolí and Braník. After finishing the Podolí waterworks, the Braník source was disconnected.
The Želivka waterworks is not only the most modern and largest water purifying plant for our capital, but also the largest waterworks in the Czech Republic and one of the largest waterworks in Europe. It was put into operation in 1972 with the output of 3,000 litres of potable water per second. In 1987, the output was increased to 4,000 l/s. The basic technology in the water purification is direct filtration incorporating destabilization, aggregation and single-stage separation on open rapid sand filters. The raw water is extracted from the Švihlov water-supply reservoir and conducted to a pumping station located at the foot of the dam. Raw water from this station is conducted by discharge mains to three separate water-purification lines. The suspension is prepared on the 1st line by dosage of aluminium sulphate, rapid mixing in a rapid mixer and slow mixing in a flocculation tank. The suspension is conducted to 32 filtration units. On the 2nd and 3rd line, the destabilization is achieved by dosage of aluminium sulphate. It is immediately followed by aggregation, which is ensured by rapid mixing during a flow of a layer of flocculated material. The next process involves separation on open rapid sand filters. Each line has twelve of them, each with the area of 99 m2. After filtration, a pipeline conducts the water from each line to ozonization, where the amount of purified water, its alkalization with dry hydrate and securing with chlorine is measured. From there, the water is conducted to regulation tanks and to a supply conduit. It is over 51,000 metres long, has a diameter of 2,640 mm and is terminated in a water tank compound in Jesenice near Prague.
Conduction of water from the Želivka fundamentally changed the method of water transport to the consumers. From the Jesenice reservoirs, Prague was "besieged" from the east and west by feeder pipelines of large diameters and the water enters the inner city from the edges, contrary to the previous transport when the water was conducted to the centre and from there to the suburbs.
At present, 65 water tanks, 48 pumping stations and about 3,500 pipelines are used for water distribution in Prague.
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"One look at the Kodak Hall stage at Saturday's Percussion Rochester finale told you all you needed to know about the balance of power.
"With conductor Neil Varon at the podium, the percussionists extraordinaire of NEXUS – Bob Becker, Bill Cahn, Russell Hartenberger, Garry Kvistad, and honored guest John Beck -occupied large amounts of space in back with vast arrays of instruments. In between were the 55 student musicians of the Eastman Philharmonia.
"There was plenty of melody and harmony for the youthful strings and horns to play, but the key to this piece was rhythm; the men in back were the rock stars.
You can read the review in its entirety by clicking here. Michael Burritt's new Duende Concerto for Percussion and Wind Orchestra was premiered on drums, hand drums and a new marimba that he has co-designed, and Netsky calls it "a tour de force in both composition and performance" saying "Burritt was a whirling dervish" and that his technique was "breathtaking". The Eastman Wind Ensemble under the baton of Mark Davis Scatterday also performed "a superb rendition" of Leonard Bernstein's Overture to Candide.
Congratulations to all the performers on these wonderful accolades!


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Q: Return to same view after starting workflow I've created a custom action to start a workflow created with SharePoint Workflow Designer. When use the action, the workflow's initation form appears.
Problem is when I click "Start" in the initiation form, I'm redirected back to the lists default view. And not the view I activated the action from.
What can I do to make the workflow intitation form return to my current view, and not the lists default view?
Larsi

A: Appending the ReturnURL query string parameter to your URL should take care of it.
http://site/someurl.aspx?Source=http://site/sub-site/default.aspx

A: I have the same issue, only I'm starting the workflows within EasyTabs from the list item menu. I have about a dozen views, so a tabbed presentation makes the most sense.  The content editor web part that houses EasyaTabs is on the default.aspx page of the subsite.  After a workflow finishes, I am sent to the default VIEW for the list:
//site/sub-site/Lists/list_name/allitems.aspx (or whatever is named as the default view)
Where I really want to be is
//site/sub-site/default.aspx
It happens that EasyTabs remembers which tab I was last on, so simply returning to the page is enough.
Options:

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*Redirect from default view (using a dummy view) - can't figure out how to make this work

*use source parameter in url - can't find an opportunity to set this, was hoping I might be able to attach it to the Start button in infopath form, but no luck there.  Also nowhere to set it in List Item Menu action.

Does anyone know where in Sharepoint (what class, xml, etc) the behavior to return to default view is defined?

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Lotsa WAWA and Vitamic C, too.
The water's fine - at least, the water I'm drinking. I woke up this morning with the beginnings of a bladder infection. Haven't been drinking enough, apparently. As much as I'd like some of that beer I know MOM has stashed in her Igloo cooler on the porch, I'd better pass.
Shouldn't that be El Pueblo del Río de Nuestra Señora La Reina de Los Ángeles de Porciúncula?
Stilly - MOM says it's too hot to run, but thank you, she will stroll through the sprinkler at a comfortable sedate pace, suitable to both her dignity (HA!) and the heat.
Sorry I haven't been around much today. It's just to hot and muggy for words. And has been and will be up around 100 every day for the next week or so. Yuck. So dry I have to water, and that makes it even muggier.
Tell MOM the sprinkler she likes is up now so she can go run through it in the front yard.
If you talked down like that to your own Thesaurus its no wonder he left home.
He also has antonyms and homonyms*. He's a talented young feller.
*This is not a proscribed word. It means a word that sounds like another: to and two and too, for example. Or (sometimes) "the" and "thee".
No worries. Like Humpty Dumpty I shall simply remind of who it is that pays his wage and threaten to cash in all his synonyms.
Ah, Amos, he's busted his chain and seems to be heading southwest. Well, I won't miss LA, except for the La Brea tar pits. I always was kinda fond of them.
Anyway, if you see him (and he's kinda hard to miss, being 97 feet at the shoulder last time I measured and kinda reddish-grayish-green) please tell him he's being a bad boy and to git back home. Of course, he may eat, devour, consume, masticate you first. But please try or attempt it anyway.
A rude thesaurus, a crude blue-collar version, a dipsomaniacal concatenation of persiflage and chaff, without a sober thought in its lizard brain. I am not impressed.
Amos, I too have a thesaurus. He's been a pet since he hatched out of the egg and he's big enough now to eat San Diego AND El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula. He's been chomping at the bit, so to speak, to gobble to you up. I've only been able to hold him in check by reminding him that we attempt to eschew gobbledegook, jargon, and that we try to avoid polysyllabic disasters such as "bombilate" and "amphibological." He replied, and I quote, "Tell him I said that he should attempt to mictruate up cordage."
My fingers merely echo what my tongue has voiced, good Sir.
Just repeat after me and you will soon be superliterate too!
But can they pronounce it? It takes more than glib fingers, Amos, far more than just glib fingers.
Oh, sure. Anyone can see that.
I conclude from my vast exposure to his most inventive, articulate, and deeply literate flights of fancy, that yon Rapaire is indeed an antiquarian deipnosophist, and a pleasant addition to any gathering of aspiring aristologists.
"The residents of quiet, tree-lined Bowker Street were a peaceful lot as a rule, but their feathers got a bit ruffled when the local ice cream truck man refused to lower the volume of the horrid wheedling music his vehicle constantly emanated. And so when the deranged war veteran from the next block destroyed the truck with a bazooka one fine spring morning, they all felt the warm glow of epicaricacy spreading through their veins."
1.(rare) Rejoicing at or derivation of pleasure from the misfortunes of others.
I don't know how you can say QED to such a proposition. It was not what erat demonstrandum, and certainly was not ὅðåñ ἔäåé äåῖîáé and I don't see that it ended up being demonstrandum at all!
You know what they say, Amos: the family that lays together stays together. AND we're related to a neat-o extinct group of marine animals belonging to the cephalopod subclass Ammonoidea. They are excellent index fossils, and it is often possible to link the rock layer in which they are found to specific geological time periods.
THEREFORE and BEHOLD and QED: All of Mom's children are cousins to the the Giant Squid!!!
30 ¦ And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
.36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
.38 And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
So you see, it began badly; but the end is not yet and we may yet all be redeemed.
Might be the same judge who, when he was told that "Here we go by Bowie on knives!" and one was stabbed into a table, replied (while suiting the action to the words), "Overruled by 'Colt on Revolvers'!"
One of the locals opined that "We settle our own affairs around here and don't need none of Sam Houston's law."Three Legged Willie placed a shotgun on the bench, laid his pistol beside it and announced, "Oyez, oyez, oyez! .... Court for the sixth district of The Republic of Texas is now in session or By God Somebody's Going To Get Killed."There was no further objection. He held court, settled some disputes and rode off next day to the another county."
Where were you, MOM? Aunt Hank, Sum Yung Sun and I waited for hours at the last Virginia Rest Stop on the way to the family reunion in eastern Kentucky, but you were a no show.
Odd. I could have sworn...well, as I get older I start to give up on some of my creations, the ones that didn't turn out even remotely like the spec sheet. Well, it's getting harder and harder to find good help these eons, what with the Unions and EIS and all. Sometimes I'm sorry I thought the whole thing up.
That hairy egg really does look like the Little Hawk yet to be, but I doubt he had taken over the body yet in any case. Amazing likeness.
Is it this one? If it is you DO look a lot younger.
One of my "before" photos is in the member section. Have a look.
Oh, darn, I shoulda took "before" photos, but I can take some "after" photos.
I don't know what Little Hawk's "before" photos would look like. Prrobably much younger looking before he crossed trails with out friendly neighborhood obsessive compulsive Divinity solipsist.
Not of Little Hawk, no.
Do you have before and after photos?
The red-oak flooring is all in, with neat trim around and only a couple of little flaws in the fine carpentry, which I shall fix today. I was so worn and weary by the end of Sunday I just threw all my tools into the workshop and didn't clean up. But I gotta tell you after living with mustard yellow-green tile by that back entrance for 14 years it is just a HUGE improvement to the music room. Y'all should come see. This is a BFD, as our Veep would say. I like a man who doesn't mince words.
Well...I was pretty drunk and my memory is really fuzzy about that. But I'm certain that the reason seemed like a good one at the time, if I could just remember what it was. Seem to kinda vaguely remember it either had to do with Universal Enlightenment or cleaning really foul septic tanks. Could have been both because I was going through an "enlightenment by having them do nasty, nasty work" phase at the time. That 151 proof rum will git to ya, lemme tell ya! Anyway, here you are, such as you are.
Why did you create me, Rapaire?
Well, it's a rare success story. Most people who start out on that career path end up going bust.
Well, she don't drink. Water, that is. Any thing else, from apple juice to rotgut to battery acid that's had chewin' tobacco soaked in it, is used to quench her thirst. I remember once she wondered what was behind a wall surrounding a staircase. So she just hauled off and punched a hole in that reinforced concrete wall and found a place for a new closet. A kid was actin' up once and she remonstrated with him a couple time without any good behavior resultin', so she hung him by his belt from one of the ceiling girders for the whole danged story hour. Kid'd still be hanging there today iffen his belt hadn't busted -- his ma and pa thought it the best thing ever happened to him, and today that very same kid has a very lucrative career as a pinata -- all thanks to Eiseley.
Just so you know, I think we won't see Eiseley this evening. I think she and MOM are out eating tamales and drinking dark Mexican beer. Her tamale lady came by today and since she didn't have to drive to Salt Lake City or cook, she's probably hanging out on the porch swing.
Amos is not doing anything immoral or illegal (in California) with Chingo, LH. I know; I created all of you.
Really? Not like the rich and rewarding friendship I have with Chongo, then?
My sole relationship with that immoral chimpette is one of Creator to his Createes.
Yes, and that's why Amos's clandestine affaire with Chinga isn't really all that surprising, when you stop to think about it.
LH, it's not an "either-or" situation out there. It's more like "and-and-and-and...".
Out hyar, podnuh, hard whiskey is a mere murlimewe.
Ah heared that in Southern Calyforny they takes whiskey as a hard drug an' herywin gits sprinkled on their corn flakes.
DUnno about you, but I don't always drink beer--but when I do I prefer Dos Equis.
"That stuff" is the beer of SoCal.
The rug didn't last long on Craig's List. The group that runs the place are a bunch of idiots. But that goes without saying - it is Craig's List. Seems there are some really lala land laws in California that make them all leery of approaching a 100-year old bear skin rug. I found an online place for an auction coming up, though, so who knows.
Amos, don't you give MOM that stuff. You know she's not used to it. Just keep the Igloo cooler full of iced down beer and she'll be just fine today.


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Children of the dragon nimbus
September 5, 2015 Book reviewsbook recommendations, book review, Children of the dragon nimbus, Fantasy, Irene Radford, readers advisory, The silent dragonmaistrechat
The silent dragon / Irene Radford
The silent dragon is the first book I read by this author, but it's actually the 11th book set in this world. As a result, I had an experience kind of similar to when I read the Traitor spy trilogy. There was a lot I didn't understand right away, but that actually served to make me enjoy the series more as it presented a more real seeming world.
Glenndon is an apprentice magician who has never spoken aloud. Throat injured by a childhood illness, he refuses to speak and communicates solely via telepathy. Growing up at the Forest University among dragons and other magicians meant that it was always possible to communicate with those around him without speech.
When Glenndon discovers he is actually the illegitimate child of the king and gets taken off to the capital, everything changes. Finding himself in a world where magic was until recently viewed with distrust at best he is forced to learn to function in a completely new society.
Things are further complicated by the reappearance of the dragon's hated enemy, the Krakatrice. Bent on turning everything around them into desert, the krakatrice can only be fought by magicians. Glenndon and his half-sister, the princess Linda, must team up to discover who has been smuggling in the krakatrice eggs and stop them.
I really enjoyed reading Irene Radford's Children of the dragon nimbus series. In every installment there are situations where, in a movie or TV show, people would let their petty squabbles create drama, but instead things get resolved reasonably. The evil seductress doesn't suddenly become tempting to the young prince who has just left his love behind. The angsty teen, resentful at his parents and his more talented, more handsome older brother doesn't fall prey to the temptations of easy power, but instead realizes that they're doing this to themselves and it's better if they just let it go. It's never played for laughs, either. Not every emotional beat has a significant impact on the main plot. Chekhov's gun is only rarely fired. The thing that distinguishes the "good guys" from the "bad guys" is more often than not that the "bad guys" are unable to forgive. They nurse their psychic wounds until they fester and lash out. Many of the "good guys" have very similar experiences to the "bad guys". The distinguishing factor isn't that they are better (as is standard for genre fiction) but that the good guys learn from their negative experiences and decide that they don't want to inflict those experiences on others.
Another thing I really liked was that it's a story that's not about killing the bad guys. All this was enough to make me overlook some of the hokier aspects of the worldbuilding and the plot elements that didn't totally make sense to me (although I hadn't read the previous ten books set in that world so that's not exactly Radford's fault). In other books the characters react the way they do because the plot requires them to do so, even if it defies the characterization or motivation and the idea that violence has really serious consequences is addressed very well. It's also a series that includes a great many characters who are vegetarians but doesn't come down as a polemic on either side on the ethics of meat-eating.
I also liked that, for a "dragon story" the dragons themselves didn't overwhelm the plot. I think this is partially due to the previous books in this world establishing the nature of the dragons, etc. more fully. I really appreciated that as it resulted in a story that rejected both the mythology of Tolkien and the grim pessimism of Martin or Abercrombie.
There are some cool portions that are written as a first-person narrative by the villain of each book. In the first book it's not initially enough to identify them initially, but it provides interesting clues that build up gradually and help lend the antagonists more depth.
But as I said, there were some hokey elements. Sometimes it slipped into the stereotypical epic fantasy obsession with naming things that are similar enough to names for real-world things while being only slightly different. It's something I find mildly annoying as the way it shows up here feels a little bit too much like name-dropping. Also, there are some weird things about the world that seem kind of pointless; in one country, wheels are forbidden.
There were a couple moments where things happened that didn't really make sense to me. The appearance of Death personified in the third volume didn't seem consistent with anything that had happened previously. I'm willing to chalk this up as a disadvantage of not having read the earlier series.
The thing that bothered me the most about the first volume, though, was that once Glenndon overcomes the various (mostly psychological) barriers to speaking out loud, there's a huge shift in his character. My spouse picked out the book for me specifically because it promised a silent protagonist, and midway through that promise was broken. Still, there was enough going for it that I stuck with it and continued to read the series. It's good and special in a way that's really hard to explain or define.
In some ways, Children of the dragon nimbus is the fantasy novel exemplar of Steve Gaynor's essay on legitimizing video game violence. Violence is there, for sure, but it is always significant and meaningful.
The children of the dragon nimbus series has a couple things going for it that will really attract some readers and put others off entirely.
It's a series about magicians whose magical abilities don't include the ability to shoot lightning or fireballs or spears of ice. Magic doesn't exist for fighting, and the destruction wrought by magic are almost entirely side-effects of some other purpose.
As far as I can tell, the dragons are vegetarians, as are many of the main characters.
None of the main characters are "fighters". The protagonists go to great lengths to avoid killing anyone and there are no fights with generic soldiers, thugs, or other bad guys. This is because, shockingly, the soldiers are human beings capable of forming their own judgments and asking themselves (to quote Mitchell and Webb) "are we the baddies?"
There are many, many moments that appear to foreshadow something sinister that then go unfulfilled.
Occasionally, words like "Tambootie" and "Yampion" show up in the text.
So it's not something I'd recommend to non-genre readers, and it's not something I'd recommend to someone who is looking for more Game of thrones or Sword of truth. In some ways, this series is the polar opposite of Goodkind's work in that many of Richard's characteristics that are presented as strengths by Goodkind are exactly what make the villains here villainous.
For fans of Trudi Canavan or Miranda Klasky or those who want to see what the genre can do when it's not obsessing over endless war this is a perfect recommendation.
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"DEMAND PRESIDENT TRUMP FIRE JEFF SESSIONS FOR NOT PROSECUTING HILLARY CLINTON!"
DEMAND PRESIDENT TRUMP FIRE JEFF SESSIONS FOR NOT PROSECUTING HILLARY CLINTON!
The former chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform, ex-Congressman Jason Chaffetz, said that Attorney General Jeff Sessions told him, in a personal meeting, that he would not pursue any of the major cases against Hillary Clinton.
Please sign this petition to President Trump asking that he fire Sessions and appoint an Attorney General willing to enforce the law.
Chaffetz said he visited "with Attorney General Sessions and it was one of the most frustrating discussions I had because whether it was the IRS, Fast and Furious, the email scandal that we went through, I did not see the Attorney General willing to just let Lady Justice administer justice and then follow through." "He basically let me know he wasn't going to pursue anything on the major cases," Chaffetz said.
Chaffetz added, concerning Hillary's email scandal: "We had Bryan Pagliano. I issued a subpoena for him to appear before the Committee and he said "No". He didn't even show up. We issued another subpoena. The US Marshals served it. And you know in my world, if you're in court, I guarantee you that a subpoena is not an optional activity. We wanted the Attorney General to prosecute him and he said 'No'," Chaffetz said.
WE cannot accept "NO" as an answer from the Attorney General of the Trump Administration.
WE, the Undersigned, call on President Trump to act immediately to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions in light of his stated refusal to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her email scandal, the Clinton Foundation, and other criminal acts during her tenure as Secretary of State. WE call on the president to appoint an Attorney General who will prosecute these crimes.
Your signature will count! We will send an email in your name to President Trump telling him of your position!
Sincerely, YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS


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Friday Talking Points [129] -- Incrementalism Wins Big
Chris Weigant, Contributor
Chris Weigant is a political commentator.
Jun 25, 2010, 08:43 PM EDT | Updated Dec 6, 2017
We're going to begin today with the news that a popular New Jersey beach is considering allowing women to sunbathe topless. And then move right on to the financial reform bill, by way of a neck-snapping segue. Just to warn you up front.
Asbury Park, New Jersey, will soon address a request from a woman who owns a yoga studio to change the rules for their beach by allowing gender equality in their blue laws -- specifically, allowing women the same freedom men have, to remove their tops while on the beach. Believe it or not, men had to fight for the right to appear topless in public long ago. It wasn't until 1937 that men won the right to appear bare-chested on beaches, helped along by Johnny Weissmuller (of swimming and Tarzan fame). Now women are fighting for the same rights, at least in Asbury Park. After all, it's a simple question of equality, right?
Well, yes and no. This is where journalists traditionally succumb to the urge to get cute. For instance, I could start this paragraph with "There are two big reasons why women going topless is different than men..." but I will, of course, refrain from doing so. The AP, in reporting this story, immediately gave in to such sophomoric language themselves:
Once among the top seaside resorts on the East Coast, Asbury Park is keeping abreast of vacationers' changing tastes: It is considering letting women go topless on a city beach.
Cue Beavis and Butthead: "Heh heh heh... he said a breast... heh heh." At least they didn't call the story "titillating."
But since we're on the subject of boobs on display for all to see, we now turn our attention further south to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. (see, I warned you it'd be a drastic segue...), to see what's going on with the efforts to rein in the abuses regularly practiced on Wall Street.
The newly-named "Dodd-Frank Bill" has emerged from the House-Senate conference committee, as yet another exercise in seeing things as "glass half-empty" or "glass half-full." In other words, incrementalism has won a big victory.
Now, getting anything this large done in this political climate can indeed be seen as a legitimate victory -- especially in an election year, when the long-standing D.C. tradition is to do absolutely nothing in fear of the voters' wrath at the polls. So I do give credit for the fact that a conference committee actually got their job done, and even on the schedule they set for themselves (although they had to work 20 hours straight to do so -- the final vote happened around dawn this morning, after an all-night negotiating session). This means Congress may actually put a bill on President Obama's desk to sign by July Fourth, as planned. That is no mean feat -- meeting such a schedule (remember how many of these deadlines were broken during the health reform battles?).
As for the bill itself, well, it's stronger than it could have been in places and weaker than it could have been in many other places. Meaning there's something in it for everyone to dislike -- which is one convenient way of defining "incrementalism." The "Volcker Rule" survived... kind of. Blanche Lincoln's derivatives reform survived... kind of. An independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency will be created... kind of independent, that is. Banks will no longer be able to gamble with publicly-backed deposits... kind of. Auto dealers won a free pass from having to deal with the consumer protection agency. Some credit and debit card reforms were adopted. Ending the concept of "too big to fail" wasn't even seriously considered, and so did not make the final cut (to no one's surprise). But many of the strongest reforms will gradually take place over the next two years... so here's hoping Wall Street doesn't crash and burn in the next two years. Everyone cross your fingers and hope!
Reactions to the bill are, predictably, all over the map. Progressives are calling it a watered-down piece of garbage that won't go nearly far enough to prevent future crises. Realists are calling it a good first step. The Right is... well, I have to admit I haven't bothered to find out what they're saying about it yet (but it's easy to guess, since Obama's for it: "This is the end of the United States of America as we know it -- Doomsday is approaching, folks!").
The main thing, at this point, is that the Democrats seem to be confident that they've got the votes to get it quickly passed by both the House and the Senate. Which will, substance of the bill aside, give President Obama another huge political victory. But, much like his previous huge political victory on health reform, the incremental nature of the beast is going to cheapen the victory itself, leaving many to bemoan "what might have been" due to weak-kneed Democrats.
In other words, the boobs -- in Washington, at least -- are definitely on display this summer.
The Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week this week was an easy call to make. President Obama fired General Stanley McChrystal as commander of United States forces in Afghanistan, and replaced him with General David Petraeus.
That wasn't the impressive part, though. In fact, the change in generals itself is beside the point, at least as far as this award is concerned. You can make a pro-McChrystal as well as a pro-Petraeus argument, in terms of which would help us achieve the objectives set out in Afghanistan, but we're avoiding that debate entirely here.
Because what was impressive about Obama's decision wasn't the decision itself, but rather the blinding, lightning speed of the decision. From the time the Rolling Stone story broke to the time Obama was announcing Petraeus was taking over, the only apparent delay was flying McChrystal halfway around the world so he could personally hand in his resignation to his Commander-in-Chief.
And, to be blunt, Obama usually doesn't operate this fast.
Regardless of whether you think Obama's decision was an excellent one or monumentally stupid, you've got to admit that the president was swift and decisive, and showed leadership. The entire crisis rose like a firework, exploded high above the heads of Washington, and then dissipated so quickly that the media barely had time to react. Much less the Republicans. Obama himself reportedly came up with the brilliant idea of naming Petraeus, since this particular general is so revered by Republicans that there will be the smoothest of all possible confirmation hearings for him in the Senate. And, within hours of Obama's announcement, Republicans from John McCain on down were praising the president's decision.
Stop and think about that for a moment -- Republicans praising President Barack Hussein Obama's decision... on any subject.
But the politics of Obama's decision, while impressive, wasn't the real reason he's winning the MIDOTW for the second consecutive week. Because what was really impressive was how fast it all happened. Within two days -- two days! -- the story broke, the firing happened, the reaction happened, and then the story was deemed "old news" and the media moved on. When is the last crisis or scandal in Washington you can remember that followed such a cycle in two days' time? "Never" is the only answer we here could name.
So, in the spirit of rewarding good behavior that this award was created for, Barack Obama is hereby awarded his nineteenth Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week award. Please, Mister President, please show this same swiftness of action and refreshing leadership the next time any such drastic action is needed.
[Congratulate President Obama on the official White House contact page, to let him know you appreciate his efforts.]
There was certainly enough disappointment on the Wall Street reform bill to spread around this week. President Obama, in his victory statement, said almost exactly the same thing about this bill as he said on health reform: "I got 90 percent of what I asked for." But the problem with that is perhaps he needs to ask for a bit more in the first place, or (to put it another way) be a whole lot more specific about what exactly it is he's asking for.
Obama, as with all politicians, likes to present himself (at least 90 percent) on the side of the angels in any political fracas. What this is ignoring is that his administration actually fought on the side of watering several things down considerably from the original proposals. In other words, if Obama himself had got in there and fought hard, perhaps he could have wound up with 120 percent of what he asked for, rather than fighting to water it down to 90 percent. Hmmph.
But Obama is a realist, and the truth of the matter is that a coalition of Democrats in Congress were the ones who demanded such watering-down, or else they weren't going to vote for it (meaning nothing would have passed). This coalition consisted of the Blue Dogs (familiar villains to the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party), and New York congresscritters who have mortgaged their souls to Wall Street for the crass coin of campaign donations. Any Democrat within a silver dollar's throw from Manhattan was apparently bought and paid for in this debate, and they delivered the goods to their financial overlords.
This entire group -- the Obama administration, the Blue Dogs, and the sold-out New Yorkers (whom we are going to christen the "Greenback Pigs" for wallowing at the Wall Street trough, in the hopes it'll catch on) -- is awarded a special Disappointing Democratic Group Sell-Out award, which we also just made up on the spot. For shamefully standing firm with the banks against the interests of Main Street, they certainly deserve all the scorn that can be humanly heaped.
But the real Most Disappointing Democrat Of The Week award goes to Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska, for being the sole Democrat who voted with the Republicans this week to kill the jobs bill which would have extended unemployment payments and aid to the states (so they wouldn't have to fire policemen and teachers) in the midst of the Great Recession. Thought we had forgotten about you, Senator Nelson? Thought you slid beneath the radar, with so much else going on? Well, think again.
The whole story is disappointment embodied, and we uncharacteristically find ourselves at a loss for words to describe how we feel about Senator Nelson's vote. The only thing which can be said at this point is:
For shame, Senator Nelson. For shame, indeed.
[Contact Senator Ben Nelson on his Senate contact page, to let him know what you think of his actions.]
Volume 129 (6/25/10)
We admit that we had to react rather quickly to the Wall Street reform bill news, so the talking points which have emerged from our feverish brains are not as specific as they could be. We'll likely rectify this next week, when specifics are going to be more available.
Also, that bit about "feverish" isn't just the usual hyperbole you've come to know and expect from this column. I spent the first part of this week fighting off a 48-hour sickness (which turned into a 72-hour thing) which caused me to sleep more than my cat (which takes some doing). So I had to struggle to even stay aware of what was going on, through about Wednesday evening.
If this week's talking points reflect this daze, I apologize in advance. Everything's back to normal here, so the week ahead will likely be a bit better. With this blanket apology firmly in position, let's begin the talking points part of the program.
Wall Street reform
This is a repetition of an old talking point that I've been hammering for a while now. Hey, I said I've been sick. But, repetitious though this may be (actually the first three are semi-recycled), I do believe such a reminder is important as we head into the home stretch in Congress. The bill will likely be one of the main political subjects of the next week, as both houses vote on it, so Democrats everywhere need a little refresher course in how to talk about the subject, I feel. And first on the list is what to call it.
"Actually, we like to call what we're doing 'Wall Street reform' because that is what is at the heart of the Dodd-Frank bill. The reason such a huge step forward can even be taken politically at this point is that Wall Street lost America's trust by acting worse than a gambling addict betting the rent money. The rampant greed and recklessness Wall Street displayed, and the fact that the American taxpayer had to clean up the resulting mess is why this legislation exists. We promised to reform Wall Street, and that is exactly what we have done -- which is why the only honest thing you can call it is: 'Wall Street reform,' don't you think?"
Reining in Wall Street
Wall Street, after all, is not very popular right now. Democrats need to use this to their advantage, heading into the election. Remind the voters over and over again what this fight is about, in the most negative language you can come up with.
"Democrats have shown we stand firm in reining in the abuses on Wall Street. Much like a runaway team of horses, a firm grip on the reins was what was needed, and that is exactly what the Dodd-Frank bill will provide. It's coming up on two years now since the American economy collapsed as a direct result of the foolish and destructive behavior of the biggest Wall Street institutions, and the rules they operate under are to this day the exact same rules which were in place the day everything fell apart. Democrats promised to fix the irresponsibility Wall Street showed to the taxpayers of this country, and the Dodd-Frank bill is an enormous first leap in that direction. Wall Street cannot regulate itself. Wall Street cannot be trusted to "do the right thing." The federal government needs to re-regulate the financial industry to prevent the destruction which followed the de-regulation of this industry. Luckily, Democrats were in charge to do just that -- even though almost all Republicans have so far stood in our way."
Democrats stood for Main Street
Don't just point out what the fight is about, but also point out who you're fighting for. In this case, the media's already framed the issue for you, so all you have to do is use their idiom. Don't forget, also, to point out who you're fighting against in this political battle. Don't be afraid of saying "Republican," in other words.
"You know, throughout this whole debate, the media used the phrase 'Main Street versus Wall Street' and I think that's a good way to describe it. Democrats stood firmly on the side of Main Street. By doing so, Democrats have created a Consumer Financial Protection Agency which will be on the side of every American consumer in the future, Democrats have ended some of the worst abuses banks regularly impose on credit and debit card holders, and Democrats have battled Wall Street to impose some common-sense restrictions on their reckless behavior. In this fight, while Democrats stood with Main Street, Republicans stood firmly on the side of Wall Street greed. Republicans have fought us every step of the way, and we expect them to continue fighting us next week -- on the side of Wall Street, once again. We think the American voters are smart enough to decide this November which they'd like to see more of in Washington -- Democrats standing on the side of Main Street, or Republicans standing up for Wall Street excess."
Is the BP escrow fund a good thing or not?
These next three are offered up because -- astonishingly -- some "thinkers" on the Right have actually been defending Representative Joe Barton's apology to BP for the president's "shakedown" -- that is, for BP to pay for the damage they created. Republicans have rediscovered their love of "the rule of law," since the framers of the Constitution didn't explicitly say what a company who creates a drilling accident a mile underwater should do (lack of foresight on the framers' part, I guess). That this is all the sheerest nonsense seems to have escaped many in the media. Which leaves Democrats a wide opening to keep the issue alive, which they should indeed do. The main criticism Democrats should make, at this point, is to change the focus entirely by asking detractors of the fund a very simple question.
"Republicans have been criticizing how the BP escrow fund came into being, and criticized President Obama for coming up with the idea and making it happen. But all this can be chalked up to knee-jerk anti-Obama-ism which emanates from the right just like oil spewing from the ocean floor. In all their garment-rending and chest-beating, though, these detractors are conveniently silent on a key point. So I'd like to ask you: do you think -- no matter how it was created -- that the BP escrow fund is a good idea or a bad idea? Do you think holding BP accountable for all damages, instead of just the $75 million they are legally liable for, is a good thing, or not? Do you think people and small businessmen on the Gulf Coast should get compensation money now -- when they can use it to save their business or their livelihood -- or much, much later, which is how it would happen without this fund? Because if you think the fund's a good idea, then you are merely quibbling that President Obama was too effective and decisive in his leadership for setting it up. BP could have set such a fund up any time they felt like it, but they didn't -- until President Obama challenged them to. The fact that President Obama was successful at doing so is really what annoys the critics, I think, because even they have to agree the fund is indeed a good idea and a good thing."
Even Haley Barbour likes it...
Of course, if they answer "no" to the above question, then you've got to be ready with something to fling in their faces.
"Really? You really think the BP escrow fund to compensate their victims is a bad idea? Even Republican Haley Barbour -- who is not only governor of one of the states affected on the Gulf Coast, but actually a Republican Party leader -- changed his tune pretty quickly when he heard from his voters. After initially badmouthing the compensation fund, here's what Barbour had to say about it on last week's Meet The Press -- 'I think the president was smart, and I congratulate him and BP that they reached an agreement.' He went on to say several times that the fund was 'good for BP' or 'a good deal for BP.' So are you saying you disagree with Governor Haley Barbour that the fund is a good thing for everyone concerned?"
Escrow fund a Libertarian's dream
When you get right down to it, you can make a very Libertarian argument for the fund itself. So why not do so?
"You know, this escrow fund is really in keeping with the libertarian or conservative ideal. BP is being forced to pay every dollar of damage -- which they would not have to do under current law. If BP didn't pay, you know who would wind up paying? Every American taxpayer. And true free-marketers always tell us that companies will self-correct their behavior, because if they don't they will lose all their customers and go out of business. Ponying up the $20 billion is a good business decision for BP, even if it did take the president to make them see the light. Government's not going to have to pay a dime -- again, a conservative principle -- and BP is going to voluntarily pay for their damage. And, finally, why are conservatives so against this fund when the alternative is to let everyone sue BP in court -- which could take decades -- and which would serve to enrich a group that conservatives normally love to hate: trial lawyers. No government money spent, the free market paying for their damage, and no trial lawyer gets a dime out of it... so please explain why this isn't a Libertarian's dream come true?"
Rand Paul's underground electric fence
Speaking of the dreams of Libertarians this week... we come to Rand Paul and his fantasy (which he refuses to give details about) for how to fix our border problem with Mexico.
"Rand Paul's solution to people crossing our southern border is -- and I quote from his campaign website -- 'an underground electric fence, with helicopter stations to respond quickly to breaches of the border.' But he refuses to answer questions about what, exactly, an 'underground electric fence' is. Aren't fences -- whether electric or unplugged -- normally constructed above the ground? Paul won't say. Perhaps it's something like those 'invisible fences' to keep your dog in your yard, that's the only thing I can think of. Except Paul is silent on how, exactly, he's going to convince all the fence-jumpers to wear an electric dog collar before they attempt to trek through the desert. The whole idea is just one more example of how bizarre Rand Paul's thinking truly is."
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Chapter 1 presents a concise introduction to porphyrins, especially on the synthesis of meso-tetraphenylporphyrins, which were synthesized during the course of my research and were used for further purposes in the following chapters. Chapter 2 describes the synthesis of a series of cobaltacarborane-porphyrin conjugates for the boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) of tumors. Using an efficient and high yield ring-opening reaction, N-substituted porphyrins were also synthesized. The spectroscopic and structural properties of these compounds are presented. These high percentage boron and amphiphilic compounds are promising boron delivery agents for BNCT (prelimary cellular studies using some of these compounds have been performed). In Chapter 3 a new efficient route to synthesize a series of novel carboranylporphyrins is successfully developed, using Suzuki couplings on either the β or meso positions of porphyrins. Furthermore, efficient one pot syntheses of carboranylporphyrins and carboranylchlorins are reported. Chapter 4 reports the development of a new efficient synthetic route to a series of novel carboranylpyrroles and carboranylthiophenes. Those novel monomers were found to form polymers with extremely high thermal and electrochemical stability. Chapter 5 introduces oxacalixarene as a novel spacer to efficiently build cofacial bisporphyrins and higher oligomers. This is a general method to build a variety of cofacial architectures. The spectroscopic and structural properties of these new compounds are presented. The resulting porphyrins and their metal complexes are good models for studying energy transfer mechanisms and can also find application in the area of multi-electron redox catalysis. Chapter 6 reports a new efficient synthetic route to carbohydrate-porphyrin conjugates.
Hao, Erhong, "Syntheseses [sic] and evaluation of porphyrin derivatives for applications in medicine and in material science" (2007). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 501.


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From the archives: Fascinating history of famous Surrey faith healer Harry Edwards revealed
Shere resident Harry Edwards would often sell out the Royal Albert Hall with his faith healing exhibitions
Harry Edwards Faith Healer at the Royal Festival Hall in London
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An internationally renowned faith healer, who was based in Shere for many years, had originally set out to expose spiritualism as a fraud.
Articles in the Surrey Advertiser archives reveal the fascinating history of Harry Edwards, who claimed he had the power to heal people from disease and illness.
Mr Edwards, born in London in 1893, set up the Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary at Burrows Lea Country house in 1946 before founding the National Federation of Spiritual Healers in 1957.
However, in a Surrey Advertiser article published in December 1976, Mr Edwards admitted he originally wanted to prove that faith healing was a fraud - but ended up becoming an international star in the movement.
Harry Edwards set up the Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary at Burrows Lea Country House in Shere
The article read: "Famous people from all walks of life, including the Royal family, benefited from his remarkable gift – the ability to heal."
The faith hailer's popularity was such that he sold out London's Royal Albert Hall.
Mr Edwards told a reporter he discovered his "unusual powers" during the First World War, when he served in the army in Persia.
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A Surrey Advertiser report read: "He was in charge of a gang of labourers building a railway. It was a hard life and medical treatment primitive. Yet, with only bandages and ointment he found terrible injuries healed quickly under his care.
"He was unconvinced of his special power and after the war set up a print business in Balham.
"He then set out to prove that spiritualist feats could be accomplished by sleight of hand but was dubbed a healer by mediums and people involved in the movement."
Mr Edwards is said to have performed his first "miracle cure" in 1935 when a patient dying of tuberculosis in Brompton Hospital made a "remarkable recovery with his help".
A report in June 1976 read: "He insists he has no power. Healing is carried out through him – he is a channel through which healing can come. 'I have a gift of attunement' he said."
Mr Edwards told the Surrey Advertiser of several cases where he helped people who were apparently dying.
See Guildford Lido and Woking outdoor pool as they were in the 1960s and 1970s
He said he had laid his hands on one man suffering from tuberculosis, and within days the man got up and made his wife a cup of tea.
On another occasion the wife of a man with cancer of the liver went to his shop to seek his aid. Within a month the man was cured.
At the peak of his fame, he received around 10,000 letters a week from people across the globe seeking help. Even at the age of 83 he was receiving up to 1,000 letters a day.
A Surrey Advertiser report said of when he moved to Shere: "People write to him from all over the world. Others come to the simple sanctuary where he lays his hands on their bodies to feel for the root of their troubles."
Mr Edwards was quoted as saying: "People are so full of frustrations today. They suffer tensions and anxiety, and worry is the underlying trouble of most mental and physical illnesses."
Mr Edwards died aged 83, not long after the article was printed. He had conducted a healing service at the sanctuary in Shere only hours before his death.
He left the country house to the Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary which still operates at the estate, holding healing sessions, with people still coming from all over the world looking for help with various ailments.
In fact, the estate is holding a wellbeing and therapies day on Saturday July 30.
Were you a patient of Harry Edwards? Tell us your story by email or write to the Surrey Advertiser, Stoke Mill, Woking Road, Guildford, GU11QA.


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The G20 is evolving into a dynamic institution making complex, yet distinctly valuable, contributions to the burgeoning system of global governance. Two years after the outbreak of the global financial crisis in 2009, the Asan Institute for Policy Studies invited a group of distinguished policymakers and scholars to a conference in Seoul to discuss the politics of the G20. Entitled "Middle Powers and Caucusing in Global Governance: Do Middle Powers Need Their Own Summit?" the conference was an attempt to better understand the internal politics and dynamics of the G20 so as to articulate a path for its future development.
This volume reflects the diverse perspectives presented on each of the major governance groups that contribute directly and indirectly to the G20 political process. It examines how the various groups interact and what the outcomes have been of such interactions. A fresh conceptualization of a G20 system composed of groups of nations that can both balance against, as well as support, one another is presented. Of particular importance is the role of middle-power nations such as South Korea, Canada, and Australia as bridge-builders between the North and the South, the G7/8, and the BRICS.
Mo Jongryn is a professor of international political economy at the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University and the director of the Center for Global Governance at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Prior to joining Yonsei, Professor Mo was an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. His areas of specialization are international political economy, East Asian development, political economics, and political bargaining. He received his B.A. in economics from Cornell University, M.S. in social science from the California Institute of Technology, and Ph.D. in political economics from Stanford University.
1.) Richard Gowan, The G8''s Minor Comeback and the Real Politics of the West
2.) Pang Zhongying, China and Global Governance: Will China Finally Take the Lead for the New Globally Governable World?
3.) Stephen D. Krasner and Mo Jongryn, Regime Building in the Competitive World Order: The Case of the G20
4.) Andrew F. Cooper and Mo Jongryn, The Middle 7 Initiative
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Mo Jongryn
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Dr. MO Jongryn is a visiting research fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Dr. Mo also serves as vice president for International Affairs at Yonsei University and maintains non-residence affiliations with the Hoover Institution and Stanford University. Previously, Dr. Mo was an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Korean Political and Economic Development: Crisis, Security and Institutional Rebalancing (with Barry Weingast, 2013), The Rise of Korean Leadership: Emerging Powers and Liberal International Order (with John Ikenberry, 2013), and editor of Middle Powers and G20 Governance (2013). Dr. Mo received his B.A. in economics from Cornell University, M.S. in social science from the California Institute of Technology, and Ph.D. in political economics from Stanford University.
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